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Okay, so you know when your name is Tucker Carlson, you go to Russia to interview Putin, which apparently it's already done.
The interview's already been done.
And you get reaction from media in the strangest way where a Hillary Clinton had to be asked the question.
And wait till you see what she had to say about it and what she called Tucker and what career she claims that Tucker's going to have next morning.
Joe responded to it.
Everybody responded to it.
And seems to be that a lot of these people in media forget what they used to once celebrate, which Tom will show you guys here in a minute.
But that's one of the issues we'll definitely talk about.
It's no longer speculation.
Tucker just came out and said, you know, I am with Putin.
I did do the interview or I'm doing the interview.
And he gives his reason and why.
And he has a message for Zelensky, which is important for the people that are Zelensky folks to hear what he has to say about that.
So we'll talk about that.
Majorcas, Border, we'll talk about that.
Joe Buck from the NFL that he does, I think he does Monday night football with, maybe he does Sunday with Troy Aikman.
He did all the playoffs for MLB.
Yep, Joe and Troy.
He said something about Super Bowl that is very weird.
Why would a guy who does football say that's probably he says something big is probably going to happen during the Super Bowl?
That's probably not a guy.
A person would say that maybe it's an NBA announcer.
Maybe it's a different sport or not.
Maybe somebody who hates football would say that.
But why would somebody in the football space say something like that?
We'll play that clip for you and we'll talk about that.
On the border side, there's a few other things in regards to record-breaking 57% of voters saying U.S.-Mexico border is in crisis.
Christie, big news for those of you guys that are diehard Chris Christie fans, the 13 of you guys that aren't listening to this.
Chris Christie, not ruling out independent bid.
However, there's a key number, folks, you got to pay attention to.
And some are saying he's already hit it.
He said he would need to see a path to 270.
Some are saying he's already across and beyond the path of 340.
But that's a different kind of a path he's on that maybe we'll address here shortly.
Democrats block requests to strip tech companies of legal immunity related to child pornography.
Okay.
Democrats, the Hill covers that.
South Carolina, you guys ready for this?
For some people, listen to this.
I don't know if this attracts you to that place or not, but maybe it does.
Can you imagine if like 2.8 million people move to South Carolina next month?
South Carolina wants to start, restart, not start, meaning they used to do it.
Wants to restart executions using firing squads.
Yes.
An electric chair.
True story.
We'll cover that.
New York NYPD, I think four months ago, Eric Adams introduced those RoboCops.
Did you guys see those RoboCops in New York they introduced to?
Four months later, they're not working.
$12,500.
They're getting rid of it.
There's sports about guys, stories about guys pushing these cops over and they don't retaliate.
Can you imagine how funny that is?
Friggin' New York, bro.
All right, we'll talk Vegas to see who you got.
Wait to see who gets paid more money than Brock Purdy.
It'll definitely surprise you.
And 30-second commercials for Super Bowl.
Ready?
$7 million.
Highest ever.
$7 million for 30-second commercial.
Super Bowl bets could hit a record-breaking $23.1 billion this year.
And I think there's going to be a small little bet here being made as well shortly.
Disney, ready for this?
Who wins the battle over billionaires on Disney's board?
It's actually a very interesting story.
Tom, I actually want to get your take on this.
And did you guys hear about Disney announcing who may replace Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean?
Have you seen this, Rob?
No.
Have you seen who this is?
Let Padaya.
No, I see.
I just want to get your reaction when you see it.
And it's not who you think it is, but obviously you're not going to know who it is, but we'll cover that shortly.
More Americans are getting a second job to offset the sting of inflation.
Business bankruptcy surge to 58%.
Chase will open 500 new branches over the next three years.
Wonder why.
Guns, abortion, and LGBTQ laws are affecting where home buyers are moving to.
Redfin says, I've never thought Redfin would have said gun abortion and LGBTQ laws, but that's exactly what's going on.
Outrage as five trans students dominate women's volleyball.
You know what that really means.
Yeah, boys beat the girls.
Good job, feminists.
New York Community Bank Corp stock falls nearly 25%.
Credit card delinquency loans are at the highest they've been in a decade.
Retailer sound alarm over shipping delays, price spikes.
And then Super Bowl Usher won't be getting paid for it.
Zoom cuts DEI.
Think about it.
Zoom was like the main name during COVID.
They've cut the DEI focus team as corporate America retreats on diversity initiatives, except for one person who's a devout DEI guy.
Very famous guy.
Mark Cuban.
Wow.
Legendary Big Sea.
For those of you guys that love DEI, Mark Cuban's your guy.
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Having said that, let's get right into it.
Tucker Carlson, okay, goes to Russia to sit down with Vladimir Putin.
Rob, did you find a shorter version of the clip of what Tucker says?
If you can find a shorter version of it, the world lost their minds when this man announced that he's going to Russia to sit down with Tucker Carlson to sit down with Vladimir Putin.
The amount of reaction that people gave is absolutely wild.
Let me read the Newsweek story.
And some people don't even want him to come back to America, by the way.
Here we go.
Tucker Carlson could face sanctions.
Sanctions over Putin interview Newsweek story.
European Union lawmakers such as former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt are contemplating sanctions against Tucker Carlson following his revelation of an upcoming interview with Russian Vladimir Putin.
He characterized Carlson as a mouthpiece for Putin and former President Donald Trump advocating for potential travel bans within EU countries.
Can you imagine this?
That he cannot travel to EU countries.
The EU's External Action Service, EAS, would require concrete evidence to present to the European Council for any sanctions against Carlson, a process that could be prolonged due to the balance of direct sanctioning authority for individual parliament members.
Critics highlight concerns over Carlson's sympathetic portrayal of Russian policies and his platforming of Putin, accused of war crimes, suggesting that such actions could compromise journalistic integrity and warrant sanctions.
Now, Rob, if we can play a part of the clip of what Tucker is saying while he's in Russia, go ahead and play this clip in and we'll react to it.
And they do that mostly by omission.
For example, since the day the war in Ukraine began, American media outlets have spoken to scores of people from Ukraine, and they've done scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zelensky.
We hope he accepts.
But the interviews he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews.
They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky's demand that the U.S. enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it.
That is not journalism.
It is government propaganda, propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people.
At the same time, our politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a foreign leader like he's a new consumer brand.
Not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin.
Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now.
They've never heard his voice.
That's wrong.
Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in.
And we have the right to tell them about it because we are Americans too.
Freedom of speech is our birthright.
We were born with the right to say what we believe.
That right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House.
How do you debate that, right?
But they're trying anyway.
Okay, you can pause it right there.
You can pause it right there.
By the way, while you're seeing this, can you play the Hillary Clinton one?
I just want to kind of give the contrast of what the Mohieres Hillary Clinton on, I believe it's MSNBC or NBC, whoever it is.
Go ahead and play this real quick.
Go for it.
Carlson is in Moscow right now interviewing Vladimir Putin, right?
The first American, I'll say, journalist to interview Putin since the war in Ukraine began.
What does that tell you about Tucker Carlson and right-wing media and also Vladimir Putin?
Well, it shows me what I think we've all known.
He's what's called a useful idiot.
I mean, if you actually read translations of what's being said on Russian media, they make fun of him.
I mean, he's like a puppy dog.
You know, he somehow has, after having been fired from so many outlets in the United States, I would not be surprised if he emerges with a contract with a Russian outlet because he is a useful idiot.
He says things that are not true.
He parrots Vladimir Putin's pack of lies about Ukraine.
So I don't see why Putin wouldn't get it.
She won a straitjacket pack.
She has buckles on her chest.
So how do you process this, Tom?
What are you at with this hero?
Well, first of all, remember the first rule of liberal attack in the medium, accuse the other guy of what you're already doing.
100%.
She's quoting useful idiots, which was the people that were in Hollywood in the news media when communism was trying to infiltrate in the 1950s and 60s.
That's a phrase Karl Marx would use a lot.
Philidius.
So, isn't it interesting?
Excuse me, let me back up, back up, red line, back up.
Intriguing and ironic that Hillary Clinton would use the term useful idiot, number one.
And number two, I marvel at the way the left, you know, derives the opportunity to hear another viewpoint, even if you think that other viewpoint is full of crap.
And by the way, we used to call that a presidential debate where your guy would be on stage, you thought the other guy was full of crap, right?
But we wanted to hear it just the same, didn't we?
As Americans, we wanted to hear both sides.
We wanted to see what they have to say.
And going back to 1977, they had a hero in media.
Her name was Barbara Walters.
Let's take a look at this, Rob.
Look at what Glamour says when Barbara Walters passed away in 1977.
Barbara Walters boldly went to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro, who was this dangerous communist dictator that we were all upset about.
And this is Barbara Walters' interview.
Clips are going viral in honor of the broadcast icon.
These were clips of her interviewing Castro.
What is the difference between Barbara Walters going to interview Castro during the Carter administration on the eve of Jimmy Carter getting fired and replaced by Ronald Reagan and Tucker Carlson go okay?
On the eve of her retirement, Barbara Walters recalls a history-making interview with the Cuban president.
These are, this is Harper's Bizarre.
These were quality publications going out and just absolutely lauding Barbara Walters, who was an icon of the one-on-one interview before Larry King.
She was the goat of a one-on-one interview, and there's a lot of interviews she did that were really good.
She dove down and asked the question: she's a hero for against U.S. government wishes, sneaking into Cuba and interviewing Castro.
And now here we are these years later, how quickly we forget.
And suddenly Tucker Carlson is the useful idiot interviewing Putin.
Well, first and foremost, like, why won't she just go away?
I don't know about everybody else out there.
I am sick.
What is her point of like, who wants to hear what Hillary Clinton has to say about anything?
Nobody cares about you.
Anything that wants, if we want to talk about Russia and Putin, how about you being the problem?
Because people are still talking about it today, seven years later.
Russian collusion.
Trump was a what?
You ruined, single-handedly ruined friendships, families, fighting pilots.
Everything was Russia, for the entire presidency.
So I can care less what she's saying, let alone what she's wearing with her freaking straitjacket.
But think about this, Pat.
60 Minutes interviewed Puyin, it was journalism.
Megan Kelly, it was journalism.
Bloomberg interviewed Vladimir Putin.
Journalism.
Oliver Stone interviewed Putin.
Journalism.
Tucker Carlson goes, it's treason.
And you know why?
Because during all those times, we weren't at war with Putin.
Right now, they are begging to fight with this guy.
And if we have somebody like Tucker that's going to actually talk to him and find out reason and stuff like that, they can't have that happen.
And again, and I always say this: thank God for Elon Musk, Patrick, because if it wasn't for Elon, because this is Tucker on X, you would never ever see this or hear this.
And they are going crazy.
And I absolutely love it that this guy spent billions for us to be able to hear this guy so people can make up their minds either way.
I think it's a great thing.
Great point, Adam.
Thanks, brother.
Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, people have to do their job.
Financial advisors, they manage money.
CPA, they handle your taxes.
Whether you're an editor, you edit.
Whether you're a coder, you code.
If you're a basketball player, you shoot the ball.
If you're a journalist, you interview people.
That's just what your job is.
He said specifically, I watched that whole five-minute clip.
It's our job as journalists.
Megan Kelly weighed in.
She said, it is our duty as journalists to inform people.
So this is doing your job.
Second thing, the truth.
People want to know the truth.
He talks about this in his five-minute clip a ton.
They want to know the truth that they're paying for this.
The American people are paying for this.
Two years later, most Americans are not informed of what's actually going on in Ukraine and Russia.
Not that I'm rooting for Russia.
We want to know the truth.
Number two, they want to know the truth about the human disaster, the long-term effects of this.
The post-World War II economic order.
What's going on with that?
What's going on with NATO?
Are they paying their 2%?
Everything goes on with that.
He goes on to speak more about the truth.
The mainstream media, they're corrupt.
They're omitting everything.
They may not lie, but they'll omit.
So plenty of journalists have interviewed Zelensky.
We've seen Zelensky how many times do an interview?
Dozens.
All the time.
He won't shut up.
So if Time Magazine.
Yeah, there you go.
Man of the Year in 2022.
And by the way, speaking of man of the year, you don't have to agree or they don't have to be a good guy or a bad guy.
I think Hitler was man of the year of Time magazine in the 40s.
So I'm not saying that Putin is Hitler, but the last thing that Tucker talked about was love.
Love.
He says, I'm not here because I love Putin.
I'm actually here because I love the United States.
And I'm not encouraging you to agree with Putin.
I'm encouraging you to watch this.
Yeah, so it's important.
And then last but not least, he gave a shout out to Elon Musk for not suppressing or blocking the interview.
And he promised to put it up.
But he said Western governments will do their best to censor the video.
And then he ended it with, don't be a slave.
Watch the video.
Think for yourself.
What do you think?
So a couple of things.
You know, you make very good points, Tom, when you're talking about Barbara Walters.
Mike Wallace, I don't know if you've seen the documentary about Mike Wallace, phenomenal documentary on what he did, his life, the people he interviewed.
And then, you know, he interviewed Khomeini.
Have you ever seen, can you pull up Mike Wallace interviews Khomeini?
Just type in Khomeini.
It's a very easy name to spell.
Just Mike Wallace interviews Khomeini.
K-H-O-K-H-O-M-E-I-N-I.
Come on, Rod.
That's easy stuff.
Khomeini.
Okay, go to images.
Yeah, right there.
Just go to images.
Okay.
He's sitting right there interviewing Khomeini.
Wow.
You know how many people that man killed?
Yeah.
Do you know how many people he killed?
And by the way, Mike Wallace was worried for his life till last minute.
And some of the questions that they're asking, they're like, I'm not going to ask the question.
I'm not going to ask him that question.
I need you to ask.
I'm not going to ask him that question.
And he was celebrated.
Mike Wallace also interviewed, I believe, Mike Wallace.
Go type in Mike Wallace interviewed KKK.
What was the guy's name that he interviewed?
He was Ilden Wallace or something.
Right there.
Look at this.
Mike Wallace is sitting there interviewing the main wizard, you know, or imperial wizard of KKK.
And you're learning about this person.
You want to learn about the enemy.
Now, having said that, the one thing Hillary Clinton said where she's wrong, because she's just a lot of lip service.
When you've had a career where the catalog is that big and you can draw lines that you just give lip service to, sometimes senior pastors do that.
They no longer prepare for their speech.
They're no longer prepared to preach because they've given 3,000 messages, right?
So what do you do?
You just give the same story of the same this and the same that, and then a new 32-year-old comes in, fires up the crowd as a new pastor.
Church goes fired up because he's kind of saying the same thing.
She doesn't know how the Russian people are reacting to it.
Let me tell you, a guy who cannot stand Putin, a Russian man who can't stand Putin, cannot stand the fact that what he did to Zalvani, what was his name?
What is the guy that was running against him?
Alexey Novani.
Navalny.
He's like, they wanted him to win.
Guy that's Pro Novomy guy.
A reporter says, yeah, you know, he's probably going out there to do the interview with Putin, because Putin' you know he, you know Tucker is for Trump and Tucker is for This.
And he's going out.
And then the guy says the interviewer asks him, so how is the Russian media treating Tucker being there?
He says I don't know why, but they're celebrating, they're loving Tucker, they're treating him so well, they're treating them royally, they're they're commenting on every single move he makes.
He just bought this, he just went here, he just ate here and they're celebrating the fact that a person from us is coming to interview him.
Because one thing about many of the Russian people, they actually admired the American way because of capitalism and all this stuff.
This is a guy that cannot stand Tucker and this is a guy that cannot stand Putin.
And then he says the following, to hold uh Tucker accountable, he says, here's the thing, we're gonna see if this is gonna be a real interview or not.
We're gonna see if Tucker's gonna ask about the journalist that uh, that uh Putin killed.
We're gonna see if he's gonna ask about eliminating his opponents.
We're gonna see if Tucker asks a tough question.
I think Megan Kelly also said this when she was commenting.
So so listen is a concern.
By the way guys here's, here's how the market works.
The market works in a following way, the other day we uploaded a video on on UH Vagatami Comedy right, and oh my god, do we take it down?
Look at the comments, all this.
I said no no no, I wanted to leave it.
I said leave all the videos.
Why?
Because we our talent, we need to see that the audience hates it.
Say it, and then we sit and we feel like and we improve.
Right, that's called capitalism.
Sometimes you gotta lose publicly and have that humiliating loss that destroys your ego and you go home and you either become a little female dog you know there's a word for it.
I don't know what the word is, but you know or you come out and you do something about it, right you, you either become this one.
So for Tucker, Tucker said something very interesting.
Right there, he held himself accountable.
You know what Tucker said.
Tucker said something very powerful, and when you say something like that, that is revealing that you're going to do a tough interview.
What did he say about Zelensky?
What did he say about all the media outlets that interview Zielinski, what was the word?
To use propaganda.
He says all they're doing is just doing basic, easy interviews and propaganda.
Right, yeah.
So guess what Tucker, if you say something like that, you better do a tough interview with Putin, because you can't say that and then not do that.
So if he says that, that tells you he's asking the tough questions.
Now Putin's a what Putin's a?
At this phase, when you get to that point, you're a professional communicator, of course.
You've sat down with killers.
You've sat down with people that want to take you out kgb.
You've sat down with bosses.
You don't think that guy has done some heavyweight sit-downs where he knows?
The guy understands optics.
The guy understands eyeballs.
The guy understands his own opponents internally, the people that hate him in Russia, the people that hate him in America.
The guy understands election year 2024.
The guy understands how much Biden's gonna.
The guy understands all of that because Putin is a gangster.
Gangsters understand this stuff.
His life has been on the line for many, many years.
People internally wanted to kill this guy.
Morning Joe, can you play this clip on what Morning Joe's reaction has been to this?
By the way, because again Karine Jean-pierre was even asked about it.
Watch this one here.
Go for it, rob a Republican Party that is now doing Vladimir Putin' spiding.
Donald Trump always did yeah uh, but but.
But the Republican Party now in the House is doing Vladimir Putin's bidding and somebody that we know uh, that we used to know, uh going over doing Vladimir Putin's bidding, attacking western journalists, saying if only western journalists would have come over here and repried to even report fairly on the war.
Well, There have been Western journalists that have gone over and tried to report fairly on the war.
And they're in jail.
They're in gulags right now with the person because Vladimir Putin doesn't want really Western journalists going over and asking honest questions, fair questions.
He'll let puppets talk to him, but nobody else.
You can pause.
Yeah, he'll let us.
Okay, by the way, good point.
It's a good point that, you know, going out there asking questions.
He has to ask about this guy, Evan Gerskovich.
Let me ask you a question.
Would you consider Morning Joe a journalist?
At this point, he's more of a pundit than a journalist.
I think was he at one point a journalist?
No, he was a congressman.
I think he's a former congressman, Republican.
I came in with the Tea Party back in the day, and now he's a political federal on MSNBC.
So he's somebody just comments on it.
He's not a journalist.
He's not reporter.
Well, let's type in Morning Joe and see how Wikipedia defines who this Joe guy is.
Let's go to Joe Scarborough.
By the way, I think he's I actually like some of the stuff he says.
So if you can go to Joe Scarborough and read his Wikipedia, is he categorized as a journalist or a pundit?
He's an American television host and political.
Attorney, commentator, and former congressman.
He's a host, Pat.
He's a host.
So he's a commentator.
Yeah.
Okay.
Can you go to Tucker for a second and type in Tucker Carlson and see what it says about Tucker Carlson?
Yeah, go to Tucker Carlson.
How does it define who Tucker is?
Just go to his Wikipedia.
There you go.
How does it define Tucker Carlson?
Conservative political commentator.
Again, commentator.
So neither one of them are.
So they see this same thing.
Okay, here's the difference, Morning Joe.
Got a question for you, brother.
You're a good-looking guy.
You're well-spoken.
You were a conservative who went to a liberal school and you were destroyed the entire time and you kept debating and fighting and getting better at it until all of a sudden you just became a mouthpiece yourself.
Hey, have you at all decided to travel out of that behind your desk and go sit down with some other people in other countries and maybe kind of give your angle the story?
Have you done that?
Or is it just comfortable going to the same restaurants, the same clubs, the same places?
Are you willing to get on a plane and go interview some of these people?
I don't know.
Did Joe go to the border?
Has Joe gone to Maduro?
Has Joe gone to Zelensky?
Has Joe gone to Russia?
Has Joe gone to different places?
So maybe you're a glorified podcaster is what you are.
Cool.
On mainstream media, and that's what you're doing.
Meaning, you're just kind of giving your opinions and thoughts.
Why don't you do something about it?
If you think the Western journalist isn't doing it, why don't you go approach these guys?
And by the way, maybe he has.
Can you type in people Joe Scarborough's interviewed?
People Joe Scarborough has interviewed.
Scarborough has interviewed.
I'm curious.
Maybe I'm wrong.
And he's interviewed some interesting people.
Adam, would you know who he's interviewed?
I haven't watched in a little while, but he used to have a whole host of experts on the show, historians, admirals, generals, chief of staffs.
He's had everyone.
But it's not a lot of international coverage.
Does Tucker have, how many kids does Tucker have?
Is it three kids?
Three or four.
Rob, how many kids does Tucker have?
You know how many kids does he have?
Zoom in.
Is it four?
Four?
Buckley, Hopi, Dorothy, Lily.
Tucker's such a type of guy that has a kid named Buckley.
Well, William Buckley, maybe that's why.
I don't know why it's Buckley.
But think about it from this standpoint.
Okay.
When you got a wife and kids and you make your millions, you know what most don't do?
They don't want to leave anything within a 50-mile radius and they don't want to go on the road.
This guy's going on the road.
Okay.
This guy's going on.
But like we were the first one to sit down with, what do you call it?
Tate after, you know, the canceled all this stuff.
Yeah.
We went to Romania.
You think it's okay?
Okay, boom.
And what was it like?
You know what it was like?
It was like, you ready?
Boom, let's go.
Everybody was waiting.
Let's go.
Family, all this stuff.
I respect a guy like Tucker, who's got a wife and four kids that's willing to pause everything and go to Russia.
You don't know how safe you are at all.
And by the way, he's doing it while the administration doesn't like him.
Like, it's safe if you go talk to Putin, if Trump's president.
Do you know how risky it is to go while Biden's president?
Because watch this.
Let's just say, let's just say, let's play, you know, a devil's advocate.
Let's say he asks a question that pisses Putin off.
He's keeping it.
Let's say there.
He's staying in Russia.
Okay.
And let's just say Putin says, you know what?
F you.
Grab it.
I told you, don't ask those three questions.
You ask those three questions, arrest his head.
100% could do it.
Let's just say the chance of that happening is 1%.
Let's say it's 5%, whatever the number is.
He arrests him.
Putin can say, screw you guys.
Watch what you're doing with NATO.
You never kept your word, America.
Let's say he does that.
Do you think Russia's going to release Tucker in 2024?
You think Biden's going to go out there and do his best to release Tucker?
Hell no.
Hell no.
No.
So the fact that he did this, good for him.
Now let's see how tough of an interview it's going to be.
That's what it's going to come down to.
It's tonight.
It's tonight at six, right?
I don't know when it is.
I'd love to know what security concerns were implemented here.
Well, that's a good question.
Adam, that's a great point you make up.
As of right now, though, think about this.
Tucker's wife, those four kids, the house, everything.
Tucker's communication is all under surveillance.
You know, everybody out there should know that.
And it's going to be for a while.
They're going to be watching his ass and he's tapped because they already tapped him twice.
They were monitoring him.
Tom.
God bless us.
Well, and by the way, note to Joe Scarborough.
You know, congratulations in the ratings through December 30th, 2023.
You are holding on to 124th place in the total ratings.
Are you joking?
Shows on American television.
Are you joking?
And you are only the number ninth most popular show on MSNBC.
I am not.
Where's that data?
I just went to it.
I went to Deadline, which is a source of ratings.
And the United States television database that says Morning Joe barely garners 967, 967,000 viewers on an average day, 1,067 average on Fridays is the ninth most popular show on NBC, currently trailing in third place.
Can you send that to Rob, Tom?
And number 124 overall on TV.
Tom.
Joe, maybe go out someplace and get something that people want to watch and it would actually help your ratings.
Tom, can you send that to Rob Gargugo?
Go ahead.
And you know what's crazy, though?
Because you know why, right?
Because Trump, when Trump was in, that's all they did.
All these people only existed because of Donald Trump.
It was just Trump and Russia and SPY and the phone call and Zelensky and all that crap had.
They're dying because they have nothing to talk about.
Nobody wants to listen to Joe.
By the way, so check this out.
This thing is going to get more views on one podcast than Morning Joe will get in your and nine months.
I agree with you.
Let me say that one more time because if he averages 900,000 times five and a half.
Yeah.
Four and a half times 52 weeks is what?
Roughly 220 million, 220 million times one and a half is around 330 million.
The interview on Twitter is going to get probably 400 million views.
Bananas.
So he's going to get more views on one podcast, Tucker Carlson, Mr. Joe, than Joe's going to get in 19, 20 months.
Wow.
Yeah, that's what it is.
So you're right, but the market is going to decide really if Tucker can keep it.
He's fighting to maintain that, Pat.
Look at that.
Those flat ratings.
Morning Joe fighting to maintain his place.
Well, the market is going to decide whether Tucker is really who he is or if he just talks about it.
With all with the backdrop of what's going on with journalists, this guy, Evan Gerskovich, if you ever look at the Wall Street Journal, there's not a day that goes by that they're not talking about this journalist or giving a tribute to Evan Gerskovich because he's been locked up in Russia.
We saw what happened with Jamal Ghashogi with MBS and Saudi Arabia.
Journalist hacked to death.
In Tucker's last interview with Donald Trump, it was labeled a softball interview that was interviewed during the debates.
So Tucker has a chance to show that I am the biggest, baddest, most credible journalist on the planet.
And I'm going to sit face to face with Vladimir Putin and the market will decide.
And you'll know whether he is or not.
The one thing I hate, Peck, I don't want to stand this.
I know you want to move on.
The one thing that I hate that everybody that's on the left always says, Putin's this murderer and he kills.
And hold on a second.
Guess what?
We kill too.
I don't know if you guys remember that guy, George Bush Jr., killed over with that war, a million Iraqis, everybody altogether.
There was no war.
Does Putin have that many bodies under his belt?
I don't think.
I know he's a burden.
He kills people, but we're bad too.
Way to embrace your inner Donald Trump, Vinny.
What?
He's a Republican.
What?
George Bush Jr.?
The famous, you think we're so innocent too?
Oh, I honestly don't even remember that, but guess what?
Don't remember that one?
No, I don't.
I'm being genuine.
No, but I love the, he's a killer.
Yeah.
So are we.
We're really good killers.
That's literally what Trump said.
Thank you, Bob.
I'm sorry, why don't we transition into something more subtle?
South Carolina wants to restart executions using fire squads, firing squads, and electric chairs.
Okay.
So they're tapping into their inner Russia, some of the names you're talking about here.
So South Carolina wants to restart executions using firing squads and electric chairs.
This is a daily mail story.
South Carolina is pushing to reintroduce firing squads, prompting legal challenges from death row inmates.
Grayson Lambert, representing Governor Henry McMaster's office, argues that courts have never mandated executions to be instantaneous or painless.
Despite 33 inmates awaiting execution in South Carolina and no executions conducted since 2011 due to drug supply issues, the debate over capital punishment intensifies alternative methods like nitrogen gas employed in Alabama face criticism for potential cruelty with experts cautioning against its use.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall defends the use of nitrogen gas and executions, labeling it a proven method.
Marshall's remarks come amidst controversy over its efficacy and ethics, highlighting ongoing debates surrounding the implementation of capital punishment methods.
Tom, thoughts on this well, first of all, apparently South Carolina is concerned that Nikki Haley's coming back.
So interesting announcement comes out at that time.
So there's a couple of things going on here.
I think you've got overcrowded prisons and you've got career killers.
Remember, these are not necessarily single incident killers.
These are career murderers, multiple murderers, multiples, or have been recidivation rate and then committed another murder.
These are people on death row that are basically serving double life terms.
And people like South Carolina are saying, hey, you know what?
Maybe it's time to start the executions again.
Will this be a deterrent?
And it makes a headline where he says, hey, nobody said, you want to talk about painless?
Let's talk about the victims.
Let's get the coroners in here and the medical examiners and say, how did the victims die?
Was that painless?
And so maybe it's time.
And then we talk about cruel and unusual punishment.
But let's face it, you're going to be killed.
It's not necessarily pleasant.
And I finally resolved in my mind that I think too much time is spent trying to pacify a bunch of people.
You're implementing an execution.
Rob, can you look up what states do electric chair or executions, stuff like that?
We'll pull that out while I'm going to, Vinny.
Go for it.
I mean, well, excuse me.
Tom, great point.
The fact that you said Nikki Haley's from South Carolina, there must be something in the water there.
Like people are just angry, bitter, warhawk attitude.
But I don't know if you guys mold over this, but look, the governor, Henry McCaster's, Grayson Lambert, who's representing the governor, basically the governor is arguing, hey, they never said these deaths had to be instantaneous or painless.
They want them to suffer, which is kind of crazy.
But guys, and this is one more thing that jumped out at me, Pat.
There's no executions conducted since 2011.
You know why?
Drug supply issues.
They can't get the drugs to kill these.
Wait a minute.
Let's just go down to Eagle Pass and get fentanyl.
We have more than enough fentanyl coming from China at Eagle Pass.
I know a guy that can get you guys just fentanyl.
Just a hit.
I need eight ounces of fentanyl by Monday.
Exactly.
No problem.
EG, but I do.
The one positive thing I do see about this is if you're in South Carolina and you're thinking about doing some crazy shit and killing and murdering people, just know, like, these guys are trying to kill you, but not in a humane way.
They want to shoot your ass or they want to electrocute you guys.
And I don't know if you guys have ever seen, because I have, and I hate it to this day.
Have you ever seen somebody in an electric chair?
Like one of these videos that it's not good.
You ever seen the ones when they don't work?
Yeah, it was in the green model.
I saw it.
It's not good, but maybe that could stoke a little bit of fear in these people before they go murder a family.
Florida's electric chair was known for malfunctioning.
And a governor of Florida, you can look this up, nicknamed the electric chair Old Sparky.
Oh, yeah.
He says, we'll just get him a seat in Old Sparky.
And the hood apparently, and I don't know if this is, yep, old Sparky and Florida, apparently Florida was the one that introduced the hood because, you know, they have eyes and stuff pop up.
Yeah, there's bad things that happen with your head when you put a lot of heat and volts into it.
By the way, do you know how?
They said, ah, we'll cover him with a hood.
Do you know how many states allow firing squads?
Rob, Google this, please.
Very weird.
Legal executions firing squad.
Google that.
Oh, there you go.
Look at this.
As of 2023, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah used the firing squad for the death penalty.
In 2023, Idaho and Tennessee were debating about using the firing squad.
That is.
That's.
I don't.
They just tie on.
Hang on.
Let me see if I can.
I'm wondering if this is going to come out of the BizDoc hard drive here.
I've not been looking at anything here, but I think the last firing squad execution in the United States was Gary Gilmore in Utah.
Rob, can you look that up?
And while he's looking that up, how do you know that, Tom?
Because Tom's a bizdack.
But you know what?
Oh, Utah, but it was Utah.
Give Utah credit.
A different guy.
There's actually.
I don't know if the United States does this, but I think for some of these firing squads, guys, so they don't have to have PTSD or the stuff, like be conscious.
Some of the, like say there's five shooters, three of them have blanks and only two guys have actual bullets.
So nobody at the end of the day can say for a fact that I'm the one that killed this person.
So it actually helps the shooting officer so they don't have to, you know, there's always that question of, did I do it or did Janet?
Well, the previous conversation we had, you know, the difference between, you know, American values or Western values or what Putin or something would do.
You know, at least we're having this conversation in America of what is appropriate cruel and unusual punishment.
What is considered the right way to implement the death penalty?
What is the right conversation to have around capital punishment?
Where in Russia?
You'll just end up throwing out the window.
Yeah, yeah.
You just end up being poison drink.
You end up bullet back of head.
Like something's going to happen.
They sprayed polonium vapor on the back of a dissident.
You look this up, Rob.
They sprayed radioactive vapor in a bar on the back of the guy's head and on his neck, and he died in a hospital.
It took weeks for the guy to die.
And there's no investigation.
It just happens.
You know, what speaking of this.
The biggest news in the world was six months ago or so when the Wagner group guy basically had to try to do a revolt against Russia.
What happened?
What was his name again?
Anyone?
I don't forget.
We remember his name at this point.
Radioactive Rob.
Okay.
This guy.
Yep.
There he is.
Yeah, this.
Livnanko.
No, this is a different guy.
This was a dissident.
He had mercury poisoning.
This guy just ends up dead.
His plane is shot down.
The Wagner group guy.
Progosion.
So the difference between America and Russia is at least we can have this conversation.
What's cruel, what's not cruel?
Each state can decide for themselves.
That's the beauty of America.
Well, you know, look, you know, South Carolina might be a firing squad here, but in Russia, you might just be poisoned to death with zero accountability.
So at least in America, we still have this conversation of what is cruel and what is unusual and what is the appropriate amount of punishment.
It's crazy that you're saying that because you know that because Mississippi stopped doing one of these methods that was way too cruel and unusual.
They would tie up the person that was on death row and just to torture them and ruin them.
And some of them winded up killing themselves, they would put on the show The View and they would watch it and they would want to kill them.
Torture.
Is this a true story?
I think I heard something like that where they were just like, I'd rather talk to Whoopi.
That's what a way to go, though.
That's tough.
Could you imagine being tied up and your eyes stuck open and you have to watch Whoopee and Joy?
That's that is cool and unprofitable.
You're totally disgusting.
Totally channeling Stanley Kubrick's The Clockwork Horn.
That's exactly it, Tom.
Did you ever see that?
Of course I did.
And they held the eyes open and made him watch that.
Imagine that.
Don't kill this guy.
That's the worst torture in America.
That's the worst part of it.
By the way, what do you think about it?
What do you think about firing squad death penalty?
You know, death penalty executions.
What do you think about that?
It's supposed to be a deterrent.
BizTalk out.
What do you think about that?
Yeah, I mean, I actually believe in the death penalty.
If you're like the mass shooters, don't get me started on these people, these kids.
We're going to get there at some point.
The people that go in and murder innocent people and mass shooters, school shooters, these people should be held accountable to the highest level.
Well, that's a good level.
That's a great question because I want to ask you, Tom, and you.
In the Bible, I know people always misinterpret the eye for an eye, but if this person is out there and they're killing and they kill a family, okay, and then we have them, Tom, are we supposed to let them live out their life, pay our tax dollars to keep them alive till they die peacefully?
Or do you think we take action and we actually end this person's life eye for an eye?
Do you take them outside?
They talk about the trial.
They talk about judging.
They talk about witnesses.
They talk about evaluation.
Then they talk about take them outside the camp and stone them.
Oh, so well, because Adam, because I'm telling you, a lot of people have all these opinions until it happens to you.
Until your family gets killed and you see this person in court, you're like, I don't just have them killed once in a blue moon.
You see the parent want to hug the killer, which is.
Well, you saw what happened with Jennifer Crumbly.
You saw that, right?
Are you following that story?
I followed it.
So, jury finds Jennifer Crumbly, the Michigan school shooter's mother, guilty of manslaughter, okay, of manslaughter.
This is the killing of four students in 2021, making her the first parent in the U.S. to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass shooting, a school attack.
Vinny, I know you got into this one.
By the way, this is one of those stories, Pat, like at the beginning, where we're like, finally, because me and that, we talked about this on many, many podcasts before.
Adam, what do we do with people that are shooting?
People said that I was crazy because I said you should hold the parents or the family accountable.
No, they got mad at me.
Parents are accountable for a 14-year-old kid breaks your window next door.
You have to pay for it.
Yeah, so prosecutors say that, excuse me, Jennifer Crumbley had a duty under state law to prevent her son, who was 15 at the time, mind you, from harming others.
She was accused of failing to secure a gun and ammunition at the home and failing.
Are you ready for this?
This is, I love this, guys.
To help to support Ethan Crumbley's mental health.
Meaning, Adam, the signs were there.
The kid was crazy.
And you let him go out there and kill everybody.
So I think this is great news because it'll give people in that state a wake-up call.
Look after your kids.
Don't just give them an iPad and just go in the other room.
Pay attention, get involved.
And I mean, paramount, first and foremost, lock up your gun.
If you have a kid in the house and they take that gun and they go shoot somebody, you belong in jail 100%.
And here's the thing, Adam, the maximum for manslaughter is 15 years.
So prosecutors have not said if they're going to ask for consecutive sentences of all four convictions, which could mean 60 years in jail for her.
This is, again, like we're talking about like death penalty for these killers.
How about parents?
You better, guess what?
If your kid's wearing a trench coat and writing manifestos and going, one day people are going to find out, you better check his ass.
Wait, Vinny, we need gun control in the country.
We don't need this.
It's all that.
But wait a minute, what was she failing to control with her child?
Hold on one second, Tom.
We're supporting his mental health.
Oh, it is a mental health issue.
Yeah, we are.
Oh, I thought it was the gun climbed out of the drawer, and that's why we need gun control.
Oh, no.
And we need all kinds of things like this.
So now it is mental health.
We do need to look at America's youth.
We do need to support them, identify what's going on, and find ways to help moderate their condition.
Gosh, I was so confused all this time.
And great, you just made me think of that too.
That same monitoring with the mental health.
Guess what?
Same, like monitor, look at them just with this whole, with the whole trans movement with all these young kids.
It's like, hey, talk to your kid.
Let them know that what they're going through might be a phase.
They might grow out of it.
You're confused.
Talk to them.
And then you have like that father in New York.
He wrote in a journal.
I'm sorry, finish.
No, no, no.
But you know what I mean, Pat?
Like, for instance, get involved with your kids.
I know that father is trying to stick up and God bless him for his five-year-old trans kid.
And then this mother, it's a different situation.
But talk to your kids.
That's why, because they're disconnected.
They're on TikTok and they're on these apps.
And they're like, gay, you know, trans, trans, trans, this guy, could be a boy, could be a girl.
That's, you have to get involved because things like that.
Crumbley tells the juror that it was her husband's job to keep track of the gun.
She also said she saw no signs of mental distress in her son.
We would talk.
We did a lot of things together.
I trusted him and I felt I had an open door.
He would come to me about anything.
He's saying this in a journal found by police.
Ethan Crumbly wrote that his parents wouldn't listen to his plea for help.
I have zero help.
This is the kid saying.
I have zero help for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up the school.
Oh, he wrote in his journal, prosecutors introduced evidence that even Ethan Crumbley texted his mother in spring of 2021 about demons throwing bows and other hallucinations, but she told the juror that it was just Ethan messing around.
I have asked myself if I would have done anything differently.
I wouldn't have.
I wish he would have killed us instead, is what the mother said.
This is denial.
But what a great find though.
Denial is a powerful drug.
Yeah, if your kid is saying demons, I'm seeing demons and I want to shoot up things.
You have to get involved.
And you can't say, oh, we thought he was joking.
Nobody kids around.
Like, what's that saying?
If you see something, say something, even if it's your kid, you got to admit that in the blood.
Get him help him.
Get him admitted if he has to.
It's ridiculous.
Just from a bigger standpoint, you know, a lot of words have been thrown around, especially over the last few years, about the weaponization of the Justice Department and how corrupted it is.
We're lucky that we still live in America and we still have the jewel of the world when it comes to human rights and trial by jury and a trial by your peers and basically everything that encompasses the Sixth Amendment.
Now, you can criticize it all you want, but where else in the world where you can basically actually not be in other parts of the world poisoned, thrown off roofs?
We saw what happened in Andrew Tate in Romania, just held without cause.
What's going on there?
In Hamas land, you can just be stoned or thrown off a roof for allegedly cheating on your wife or husband, sorry, on your husband or your gay, whatever it is.
At least in America, we have a justice department that is the jewel of the world and you can criticize it all you want.
But believe me, if you're accused of something and you're arrested, you'd much rather be in America than anywhere else in the world.
You're dealing with our justice department.
100%.
Let's not forget.
As messed up as it gets, what that's behind everything, I still would rather get.
So, Tom, are you also for the mother going to jail for the amount of years that she's going to for this?
I think under appeal, the number of years is going to come down.
I think up to 60 years.
That's a headline.
And then, you know, good behavior and stuff.
But you're good.
This is the first time in U.S. history ever.
Because I got to tell you, so question.
What's scarier?
What's scarier?
Fire, squad, execution, or parents going to jail for a stupid thing, a crime like this, a crazy crime that Ethan committed.
What's scarier?
What is going to scare the world more?
Okay.
Populist more.
This or firing squad?
Yes.
I think so as well.
Because listen, parents are accountable, folks.
People don't know it.
But wait till your kid is involved with five other kids and went out and tagged the house, broke windows and everything, and he's 13 years old.
And then the police say, by the way, you don't have to worry about the police.
You have to worry about the homeowner's insurance and something called subrogation.
And subrogation means we go after the guilty party.
Your insurance company, let's say somebody hits you in a parking lot.
You're walking out from Target and see somebody bash into your car.
And then your insurance company is going to take care of your car.
But your insurance company has got people that are going to move heaven and elf hell to go after that person that ran into your car.
It's called subrogation.
It also happens.
You go to the doctor and you have an injury.
They will call you and interview you about where the injury occurred.
And the insurance company will go after.
So those insurance companies are going to go after the kids that broke up a house and things like this.
And then it's going to go after the parents.
They're responsible.
So you have to pay for it.
And so this is just the logical end of that.
This makes me think about like if you're Trojan condoms as a company, right?
This has got to increase people buying condoms, right?
Number two, if you think about it, this is also the perfect example of the wrong people having way too many kids and the right people having way too few kids.
We're having irresponsible people that should not be parents who don't have the right values to teach their kids, having too many kids.
And we're having people that are responsible, that can teach the right values, afraid of having kids.
That is a big problem that we're facing today.
And why is that?
Because our incentive program incentivizes the wrong people to have way too many kids.
It's just our incentive.
And it goes all the way back to back to LBJ.
I talked about this with Pierce on the show yesterday, Pierce Morgan, when he asked me about, you know, kids, parenting, all this stuff.
By the way, to the wrong parents who have kids, I know a lot of people who have kids like this.
This should scare the crap out of those parents.
Rob, this is in what state?
This is Michigan.
So is this going to be...
This is a blue state.
But, Tom, is this something a law in one state doesn't necessarily apply to another state, right?
That other state has to have a first case for people to say, you know, this is what happened similar to such and such case, right?
Right.
But a district attorney, say, in Indiana, actually, it doesn't even have to be Indiana.
It can be freaking Florida.
Can the state attorney generalize?
Can he use that as what happened in Michigan?
Well, they can't use it as a legal precedent direct, but they can use it and say, look, folks, they just did it in Michigan.
We think it's a good precedent, and I'm going for it here.
And so the state attorney general can do go with the state attorney general of Florida in this case, to answer your question, could say, you know what?
I think what happened in Michigan was good.
Bring me the first case in Florida.
I want what's called a landmark case in Florida.
Bring it to me.
Put it on my desk.
We're going to charge them.
If they make that a nationwide thing, Pat, I guarantee you, the mass shootings are going to drop.
You know how you say, don't say 100%?
100% it would drop because that means the parents of those kids now.
I'm going to be like, wait a minute.
He's wearing a trench coal weight.
What are you talking about?
They're going to get involved.
So then here's my other question.
So here's my other question for you, Tom.
So you know how in New York, when they came out with that four-month window or whatever it was that you can go back and me too, and then Eric Adams got hit up.
And then, you know, Jamie Fox got hit up.
And all these guys, and P. Diddy got hit up like 28 times.
And all these guys are like going back.
Can people now use this to go back to previous mass shootings to go get their parents to go to jail?
Wow, good question.
Well, New York has set a look back precedent, haven't they?
And so if we're going to allow look back responsibility in New York in that case, then hell yes, some court may test the look back provision.
Remember, you can't be tried twice.
Our Constitution guarantees that.
You can be tried once.
And then if the statue of limitations is moved and they decide to go back and try people under a look back provision, look out.
I guarantee you right now, okay, parents who have lost a child to a mass shooting just made a phone call a minute after this was finalized that she's going to jail.
They all called each other.
There's a WhatsApp group me going on with all those surviving, the parents who lost child to a mass shooting.
They're texting each other in a group me saying, let's do a class action and let's go put all of these guys behind jail because they're responsible for it.
How many of those phone calls are being made right now?
Think about that.
Great point.
So this Columbine shooters were young men.
People are about to get some very interesting knocks.
Hey, you knew.
Hey, you knew you didn't do anything about it.
This could set the precedent for a lot of weeks.
Do not be surprised if in the next 30, 60, 90 days, throughout the rest of the year, more stories like this come out of previous events that's sick.
Good.
Yeah.
So anyway, interesting.
Well, we'll see what happened here.
Next story.
Let's go to Mallorca's.
Okay, so House votes on Mallorca's impeachment as U.S. Senate border deal collapses.
Rob, if you want to put up the video, I don't know if you have it on.
It's like three seconds, not a big deal.
It's like 15 seconds of him losing.
What clip is this, Rob?
The one that you have with News Nation?
That was a different one.
Let me grab it.
All right, let me just read the story here, and then whatever you find, we'll show it to you.
I didn't ask you about that prior.
So, House votes on Mallorca's impeachment as Senate border deal collapses.
This is a WSJA story, Wall Street Journal.
House Republicans narrowly failed in their bid to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mallorcas with a vote of 214 to 216 against by two, highlighting the party's struggle to unite a contentious issues amid a slim majority and fierce immigration policy debate.
Despite Mallorcas being a primary target of Republicans for the search in border crossings, including record-high levels, the impeachment effort faces challenges with only four Republicans joining Democrats in opposing it.
The attempt underscored the intense politics surrounding immigration and the consequences of policy disagreement within the party while Mallorca's defends his record calling the impeachment effort false and arguing that border enforcement can be both tough and humane critics within the GOP, such as Representative Kim Buck, highlighted that behavior, while deemed incompetent, did not meet the threshold for impeachment under the Constitution.
Vinny.
Well, first off, the four Republicans that are just staying on the sideline, this is just more proof to everybody out there that it's a uniparty.
There's no left, there's no right.
This guy, Mayorkas, the bureau, I'm sorry, bureaucrat, has done the worst job of securing our most important thing, which is our border.
He is let in by the end of this administration.
There's going to be at least, what, 20 to 22 million is the real number.
And guess what's going to happen?
Nothing to him.
Zero accountability.
You're seeing right now, they can't even impeach him.
And he's going to have Secret Service protection, just like the other guy, Dr. Fauci, the other rat, for the rest of his life.
Our tax dollars are going to pay this guy to be protected because the people know what he's done and what he's doing.
And I cannot stand when he's been in front of him.
And you guys can all YouTube all the congressional hearings that he's sitting there.
Holly's grilling him.
Graham is grilling him.
And he's just sitting there with a smug face laughing at all of us because he knows nothing will happen to him because he's protected.
Okay.
He did his job.
Say what you want.
He did his job.
He did just like Biden's doing his job.
He did his job.
And I think it's absolutely ridiculous.
And I'm going to, once Tom says his thing, Pal, I'm going to go into another thing that Mayorkis has been up to this weekend.
The part of the quote that I loved from Rep Ken Buck is his behavior, while deemed incompetent, you know what that means?
Did not meet the threshold for impeachment.
Unbelievable.
So it means he's hiding behind a splitting of a hair is what he's doing.
But he, hey, the guy's incompetent.
And he's incompetent about what?
About our border.
And he's Secretary of what?
Oh, gosh, you know, Homeland Security?
So Homeland Security guy is incompetent.
And you're splitting it.
Well, it didn't meet the threshold for impeachment.
You just said he was incompetent.
What the hell?
That's a very good point.
You're making.
By the way, before I come to you, record-breaking 57% of voters say U.S.-Mexico border is in crisis, okay, as a top priority.
And on top of that, Alaska National Guard planning deployment to U.S. border with Mexico, the Alaskan Army National Guard, has been notified by National Guard Bureau that it is authorized to begin training in preparation for possible mobilization to support the federal Southwest border mission.
In early fiscal 2025, Major General Torrance Sachs of Alaska National Guard said the memorandum directs the Alaska Army National Guard General Support Aviation Battalion to be prepared to deploy two LU-870 to Lakota helicopters and 20 guardsmen consisting of air crew, maintenance specialists, and other personnel to the border.
So it's not just something right now that they're sitting around saying, well, it's not really a big deal.
Americans are not happy about it.
57% Alaska National Guard being asked by National Guard to go to it.
Adam, your thoughts on the story, the whole thing.
Well, we know that the situation at the border is a freaking disaster.
Our immigration system is completely broken.
This is nothing new.
But if we learned anything from the Trump administration, if we're talking about this guy, Mayorkis, and getting impeached, for how many times was Trump tried to impeach him?
Two, three times, whatever it was.
We had to learn something from that, though, guys.
What did we learn?
We learned that in order to impeach somebody, you must fit the crime of high crimes and misdemeanors.
That's what it comes down to.
You've heard this a million times: high crimes and misdemeanors, high crimes and misdemeanors.
What the hell does that mean?
So, what they, one of the guys who actually, one of the House Republicans that actually voted not to impeach Mayorkis, his name is Mike Gallagher.
He's a Republican out of Wisconsin.
He actually wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal as to why he didn't want to impeach Mayorkis, who's nobody's saying that he's doing a great job.
Great.
He's not doing his job at all, Adam.
Well, period.
But here's where you're wrong.
Go ahead because he actually is doing his job.
And this is what it comes down to: it's not high crimes and misdemeanors because he's actually enforcing the Biden policy.
So here's where it gets into the nuance of why he did not impeach him.
Because you're like, oh, he sucks.
He sucks at his job.
His job is to follow policy, is to follow the law.
At the end of the day, the law of the land is an open border policy implemented by the Biden administration.
So the biggest person that we should be yelling at, that we should be, you know, shouting our fists at in the air is not Mayorkis.
He's actually following the policy.
He could quit, Adam.
If he has a conscience and a soul, he should quit.
Listen, hold on a second.
Because he's been with Biden since the beginning where he was sitting in Congress.
And there's a famous speech where Biden's like, you know, hey, bring everybody in.
He goes, I want everybody to be of Eastern European stock.
And Mayorkis sitting in there smiling with him.
But just another fun fact.
I want everybody to know this.
You know, the Eagle Pass, where those thousands and thousands are coming every single day, and the government was suing, you know, that Biden, fists in there, Biden was suing them to take it down.
Guess what?
Since the barbed wire has been up, it went from a couple thousand.
Guess how many has been crossing since then?
Three.
Think about this, everybody.
A little razor wire stopped the entire migration people illegal crossing.
So you know what?
Instead of that $118 billion that they want to send to Ukraine and all this shit, time out, spend a couple hundred million, put razor wire everywhere.
The hell with the wall.
Put razor wire on top of razor wire, on top of razor wire.
It's working.
Look at this.
Eagle Pass border crossing dumped to thousands per day to three.
Guess what?
You don't need to be a freaking rocket scientist, but to know the government is suing Texas because it works.
So Mayorkis, as much as Adam, I get what you're saying, though.
Guess what?
If you have a conscience, if you have a soul, guess what?
I'm stepping down.
I can't do the dirty work for you guys anymore.
No matter how much of a bureaucrat, no matter how loyal he is to the party, get the hell out of here.
Dude, I'm with you 100%.
What's happening at the border is a freaking disaster.
I'm just giving you the rationale from the Republican congressperson why he did not vote to impeach him.
I basically said they used a term that I've never heard before called maladministration, basically bad policy.
So can you impeach somebody from bad policy?
Essentially, no.
You can call them an idiot.
You can call them a moron.
You can basically say you're a bad person, but you actually followed the law, which is ridiculous and redundant at this point.
But you're right.
Now, shout out to Governor Abbott because basically he has nationalized what's happening in Texas.
Now, the people in New York, you see Eric Adams comparing himself to Jesus at this point.
You see what's going on there.
He's shipping him off to Chicago, sanctuary cities.
This is the number one issue in America right now.
It's no longer inflation.
And the only problem is it's not going to be solved.
Why?
Because Donald Trump doesn't want them to solve it right now because this is a campaign issue.
This is the biggest campaign issue for him.
This is going to what's going to allow him to say, I told you so.
I alone can fix it.
What was his latest tweet?
He talked about this.
He said, if you want a really secure border, your only hope is to vote for Trump in 2024.
They don't want this fixed.
Trump wants to run on this issue.
It needs to be fixed, but his political talking point and it'll be the number one talking point in the election is 2022.
He's 100% right.
Go to Twitter, Rob.
Go to Twitter.
I fully agree with what he's saying here.
Me?
Yeah, of course.
Zoom in.
So zoom in, go to the bottom one right there.
Click on that one right there.
That tweet.
So I tweeted this yesterday.
Republicans got pissed in.
Why are you giving a strategy?
I'm like, this is exactly.
So watch it.
Why call it a border bill when 20 out of 118 is going to the southern border?
Meanwhile, over 50% is going to Ukraine, 60 billion.
Just call it the Ukraine bill.
By the way, tip to Democrats.
This is where I want to go to who really want to be Trump in 2024.
Watch this.
A six, seven-step program.
Actually, use 100% of it towards protecting the bill.
It'll shock the Republicans.
Number two, suspend all asylum and immigrants coming to America for the rest of 2024.
Number three, build even a bigger ball with the $118 billion to make it nearly impossible to cross.
Number four, double down on border patrol and actually arrest those who disrespect America.
Number five, send military personnel to the border for the rest of the year.
Number six, send your most influential Democrats to the border and document it.
Invite every single media outlet to record it all.
Obama's, Clintons, Pelosi, just Nancy, keep Paul at home.
Newsome, Kamala, AOC, even Biden's, and last but not least, Haley.
Yes, Haley, she's a Democrat.
Invite celebrities as well to the show to show how much you care.
I have three other items.
I'm not going to cover those three.
If you do that, you'll actually show the people you're putting America first instead of Ukraine.
The question is, will you do it?
That's strategy.
If they do this, the campaign for Trump changes immediately.
But the chance of them doing this is slim to none.
Slim to none.
You're giving them the recipe, but they're not cooking enough immediately.
There's no way they're going to do it.
By the way, let me show you a couple other things on what's going on with Oakland.
Did you see the video that came out about Apple Store?
It just was released a couple hours ago.
Have you seen that?
It's crazy because yet.
Okay, so check this out.
Let's go through California and let's go through Newsom.
What a phenomenal job he's doing for the state of California.
And before I get into telling you what's going on with California, this is just another day in Oakland.
This is yesterday.
Go out and play this, Rob.
Oakland, California.
The mall they're not doing nothing.
And by the way, in front of everybody, boom.
He's by himself.
He ain't even wearing a mask.
And no one is doing nothing.
By the way, that's already, I think, 14, 16, 18, 19.
Look at it.
19.
That's 23.
Right?
There's $35,000 right there.
$40,000.
Oakland and the hot.
This guy's efficient.
Watch what the other guys are doing.
Nothing.
She's just making a phone call.
Hey, babe.
Hey, babe.
What do you want to eat lunch?
Yeah.
Boom.
I'm out.
And then the cop outside.
There's a cop car out there.
Oh.
What the heck?
Dude.
Gets in his car.
Oh, got him.
I'm recording it.
Document.
Double park.
Watch this.
Watch this.
He's going to get caught.
Newsom sending 120 California highway patrol officers to Oakland to crack down on alarming crime surge.
Okay.
Alarming crime surge.
I wonder why.
Maybe because it's okay to do so in many parts of California.
It's called bad policies have consequences.
So California Governor Newsom responds decisively to the surge in crime, Oakland, by deploying 120 highway patrol officers in what's happening in this beautiful city and surrounding area is alarming and unacceptable, right?
This deployment signifies a monumental increase in state law enforcement presence, constituting a 900% surge in personnel, aiming to address the significant rise in violent crime, robbery, vehicle theft rates observed in 2023 with increases of 21%, 38%, and 45% in robbery, vehicle theft rates, respectively, significantly surpassing other urban centers in California.
By the way, on top of that, Oakland locals saddened, disappointed after Kaiser warned staffers to stay inside at lunch over crime worries.
Okay, I'm not going to read all of these for you.
I'm just going to give you the headlines, okay?
I mean, California is shocked by electric bill rate hikes like you're getting punished, California.
Many California residents, such as 90-year-old Dorothy Lovell and Rebecca Gallegos, expressed shock over soaring utility bills, with Lovell describing it as almost like you're getting punished and Gallego stating she was blown away by her $162 increase.
She's increase.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company implemented a $35 monthly, $35 monthly increase for customers approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, totaling to over $400 annually, aimed at wildfires, according to PGNE spokesman Lindsey Paolo.
PGE offers assistance programs, relief assistant, et cetera, et cetera.
So California, a mess.
Oakland, a mess.
Prices, a mess.
Gas prices, a mess.
Electric prices, a mess.
Safety, a mess.
Yet.
Bill Maher loves.
He's a winner.
His hair is good.
Bill Maher loves.
His hair is good.
And you forgot the crap in the streets, which is another.
So, by the way, Tom, you see stuff like this.
We're all Californias, right?
You see the stuff at, you know, Apple store.
The guy steals $50,000 of phones, give or take.
I don't know what they sell those phones for nowadays, $2,500, $2,000.
And no, no, he's nothing.
You know, cops outside, not arresting, not doing it.
That's a cop right outside of Apple doing nothing.
What the hell is going on with California, Mr. Thomas Elsa?
Well, I'll tell you what's going on.
First of all, it's election year, and this is not the first time that Newsom is.
And by the way, did you see the word that got dropped into the story there on behalf of Gavin Newsom?
Acted decisively to do this.
And so basically, he knows his policies have created problems.
And now he's trying in election year to look decisive.
He also, about four or five months ago, remember he had the folks from England on the show that were talking about recovery from trans, how he had come back.
And one of the things he pointed out was that Newsom had recently passed a bill that enhanced sanity and with regard to custody in the courts.
Remember that?
He came sweeping in and did that.
And he came sweeping in and said, driverless trucks need to have a co-driver for safety on the roads.
This guy is creating problems.
And then in election year, sweeping in to make the guy make himself look like he's solving them.
That's what's happening, California.
The thing on the electric bill tax, how long the state of California has been in bed with PGE and didn't have them upgrading all that equipment with those long high-tension wires that go through the forest that were arcing and creating the fires.
That was aging equipment.
Guess what?
Now everybody in California gets to pay for it.
You know, this is a failed leader.
This guy is coming out here feigning that he's out there trying to help and be your hero.
He's not.
He's created the problems.
He's perpetuated the problems.
And now, oh, it's election year.
I'm sending 120 highway patrol guys to come help you.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
This is not Somalia.
Oakland has a police force.
Greenlight them to do their job rather than handcuffing them and not allowing them to stop what they regard as petty theft.
Petty theft, remember in California, that if it was under $1,000, it's okay.
So when they break a window in San Francisco, break a window in San Francisco, grab a backpack.
Hey, that's only $1,000.
That's petty theft.
And what do you get?
You get rampant crime.
This guy, that's not petty theft.
This guy just committed grand theft, which even in California is five grand.
That's grand theft.
Five iPhones is $5,000.
That's grand theft.
Just greenlight the Oakland Police Department to do their job rather than handcuffing them in a state that still has this underlying, you know, defund the police thing.
And now Gavin Newsom is sending highway patrol people from Sacramento to go help Oakland.
Just let the police department do their freaking job.
Well, my question to you is Tom.
Going all the way back, Adam always says follow the money.
So I'm trying to follow what in your right mind as a governor, I get to defund the police, but what is the like, why are you trying to let it so okay for them to steal and no security kick checks?
I mean, remember that Zoom that he had?
It's redistribution.
It's socialist redistribution.
They want them to steal.
They're incentivizing them to go and do it.
And you're not going to get in trouble.
I feel like California is the epitome of your feelings matter more than facts.
I feel like California is just this.
It's the most beautiful state in the union.
We get it.
It's gorgeous.
The mountains, the oceans, the beaches, the highways, it's so beautiful.
But then when you peel back the curtain, so to speak, and you look at the actual data and the facts, it's a freaking disaster.
Everyone I talk, I'm the only one here who's never lived in California, right?
I've spent time there, but I'm a Florida guy.
I didn't really realize, I tell this story all the time about how me and Ricky would always argue about politics, what have you, because I didn't fully understand what an absolute shit show it is, literally, out in California.
I had no idea.
You know, if it's different if you go on vacation for a week or two, you go to LA, you see what's going on.
Yeah, you're not at the beach.
I'm big to you, to a couple parties, go to Tillabu.
You're not living there.
You're not stepping over homeless people.
You're not getting robbed.
Mike Malika was over here the other day.
He showed us a video of a guy in his house that day robbing his house privately.
He showed that after.
Okay, sorry.
I don't know if that was a private thing, but he talked about it.
He basically said California is like an ex-girlfriend that you can't escape.
It just seems like a slow drip of stories of, see what they did here in California?
See what they did here in California.
You see what's going on here?
See what's going on here.
And then at what point are people just be like, if someone pushes you and pushes you and pushes you and puts you, at what point are you going to be like, dude, get the fuck off of me?
And you know, and you want to trip out too?
Because I have conversations with, because I lived there for almost 20 years, right, Adam?
I still, I'm getting texts in the group text with me and Brady of liberal, like, you know what they're saying to me?
California is getting better.
It's not that bad.
New York is getting better.
These are delusional people that can't admit when something is broken, bro, because they're going to look like crap because they're so like dedicated to this point.
You know, I used to think, I used to think when I ran my insurance company, in every insurance company, in every business you run, you have people that you can never win them over.
Ever.
They're delusional, they're complainers, and they're always going to complain and bitch about the fact that it's not fair.
I can't believe you did this and da-da-da-da-da.
And I spent first, God knows how many years of my career trying to convert those people until I finally realize they're chronically crap magnets and they've been like that their entire lives and only they can change themselves.
I can't.
Crap magnets, there is 80% of the world that are crap magnets.
They attract bad shit to their lives.
They attract drama.
They attract issues.
There's always bad things happening to them.
If you try to subscribe your life to trying to convert crap magnets into independent people, you will live a very miserable life.
I was miserable for many years until I sat there and I realized, hey, leave these guys alone because if you're trying to convert them over, they're eventually going to baptize you into being a crap magnet.
You have to be very careful with them.
Spend time with people who have hope, who are reasonable, who are willing to have conversations.
And if you can show improve with data and a decent argument and a good argument, and within time, eventually they go and do their own independent research.
They're eventually going to say what?
This makes sense, man.
Yeah, it makes sense, man.
When I first started talking about Texas to my guys, they're like, this guy's out of his mind.
I'd never live in Texas.
You're out of your freaking mind.
Every one of my original guys, Vinny, when I tell you, Tom, yes or no, 100% of the original guys that started with me that were making less than 100K per year with us, 100% of them, Vinny, are all in Texas.
Not in the same city.
They're all in Texas.
And they're chilling.
Austin, Houston, Dallas, you name it.
San Antonio.
And I'm telling you, San Antonio, they're all in Texas.
And by the way, they're not there just for the taxes.
These people, and they move their organizations there, are thriving.
They're all.
And by the way, they're great human beings.
They're great leaders, phenomenal parents, incredible parents, multi-millionaires, financially free.
And eventually, because they could reason, okay, because they were able to understand the argument being made, they eventually said, yeah, of course this makes sense.
What the hell am I doing living in California?
Yeah.
Okay.
What am I doing living in California?
Going to deal with dealing.
And by the way, we still have a massive presence in California.
The people that don't want to leave, they're like, there's no way in the world I'm going to leave California.
I'm here.
What was it?
Ride or die, whatever.
Maybe they live in some good conservative counties that they kind of leave them alone to each a zone.
Totally get that.
What's the moral of the story here?
The moral of the story isn't you're going to convert everybody.
You don't need to convert everybody.
There's people that will never leave that place.
Why don't certain people live certain countries that are just absolutely terrible?
You can't leave the 80% of people that see themselves as that.
They have an identity issue.
But enough people are sitting there and saying, damn, I can't do this anymore.
This is getting crazy.
And these are not liberals, Republicans, or independents or libertarians.
These are just reasonable people that are saying, logically, I can't live in California anymore.
And they're leaving.
Enough of them are going to do that in New York, in DC, in all these different places.
Even DC right here, D.C. supermarkets turn to high-tech security gates as crime continues to search.
New York NYPD ditches its $12,500 Times Square subway police robot after only four months.
Pull up this.
By the way, actually, go to the video when Eric Adams introduced the robots.
There was a video to it.
Go on Twitter and type in Eric Adams, New York robots.
Just type that in the search.
You know it's bad.
The robots are leaving.
You know New York has lost it.
When the robots are like, we're out of here.
See if you can find this clip.
Yeah, right there.
Watch this.
Okay.
Zoom in a little bit, Rob.
My God.
Pull it back.
He said, this is four months ago.
Big deal.
Press play.
Devices like the K-5 have the possibility to serve as a deterrent to crime or at least learn best practices while using technology going forward.
$12,500 a piece.
Guess what?
Times Square Subway Police Robots, after four months, they're ditching this $12,500 idea despite costing only $9 an hour and being part of a seven-month pilot program.
The 420-pound, 5-3-inch egg-shaped K-5 police robot failed to justify its expense.
Now parked in an empty storefront gathering.
Thus, public opinion on the robot's effectiveness was largely negative, with MTA passengers and residents criticizing it as a waste of taxpayer money and resources, highlighting its inability to climb stairs and the need for human officers to supervise the.
But you know what the point is?
The point is, common sense prevails.
Yeah.
People are sitting there saying, What are we doing with these damn robots, right?
What was the intention of this thing anyway?
It's supposed to detect.
And all the cameras had a speaker and a bunch of cameras.
You want to observe it?
Actually, had a very good sound system.
It was playing some real good hip-hop.
It plays big small, but yo, you ready for this?
The robot costs the taxpayer $9 an hour.
But guess what?
It had to be chaperoned by at least one or two cops.
So we're paying the cop to stand there next to it so nobody messes with it.
Bro, I don't know if you guys know that there was an interview, Rob.
I don't think you're going to find it.
But they asked to interview the robot, like, what's wrong?
He's like, the mayor sucks.
And it just, that's it.
It's finished.
The mayor's not good.
I'd like to see the reaction to New Yorkers as they pass by the robot.
This is good.
Yeah.
The hell out of my face.
What is the volume?
Get the F out of my face.
I'm going to follow you.
Bullshit.
Do you have any weed?
Do you have any weed on you?
Wait, wait a minute.
Get out of my face.
I'm a cop.
Put your hands on the wall.
Get out of my face.
But there was a story where a couple of guys grabbed it robot and threw it in front of a train.
They were trying to push it off the edge onto the tracks.
I have a wife and kids.
Don't do it.
I have a microwave at home.
I wonder if that's a crime, by the way.
Oh, yeah.
Is it killing a kid?
Because you know, dog, it's a salt.
Oh, this is my girlfriend, the microwave.
Yeah, my wife is at home, but the microwave is like, no, she is a microwave.
And again, going back to my point, how much bad crap can New York do anything right?
Can this mayor do anything right?
Okay, nothing's working.
Public service announcement for Eric Adams.
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Yeah.
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And it's legal to take this in your luggage when you go on trips to Central America.
Beautiful.
What's the story with Eric Adams that he compared himself to Jesus?
Yeah.
We have that story.
He said something that play the clip, Rob.
It's the second half.
It's a minute clip, and in the second half, he compares himself to Jesus.
He starts going into kind of a downhill.
The guy is just go to 27.
That's where Tom said he got right there.
No, listen.
That's why people are hating on me.
Great start, Rob.
You trying to figure out why they're hating on me?
They're hating on me because those are.
How many of you go to church?
Man, this is a Matthew 21 and 12 moment.
Jesus walked in the temple.
He saw what I'm doing wrong in the temple.
He did what?
He turned the table over.
I went to City Hall to turn the table over.
First woman police commissioner of color.
First Spanish-speaking police commissioner.
First diversity, diversity.
Correction Commissioner.
Commissioner.
Go through the line of what we're doing.
$300 loafers.
Oh, by the way, not just three.
Did you see him in the vest with the Fendi scarf?
No.
This is the best.
He's pulled him.
Adams.
He's just.
By the way, you're female.
Tom, hang on one second.
Watch this.
Watch this under the bulletproof vest, under the bulletproof vest, bro.
That's where your money is going.
That is the worst of Fendi vest.
Under his bulletproof.
Is there a video?
Oh, bye.
Oh, my God.
By the way, go to the price point of it to the left.
They show how much it is.
Right?
No, no, no.
No, the right there, bottom right.
Yes, it's $700.
$100 scarf.
He's really channeling his inner hip-hop rapper.
No, Tom.
Everything that he's talking about.
Do you remember when Nas used to have that song with Diddy?
You could hate me now.
Yeah.
But I won't stop now.
You can hate me now.
Great stuff.
He's trying to do a rap video of 50 cents.
Everything's basically 25 cents.
That's what Peeper said after the taxes.
He's an actor.
And now he's just sort of channeling his inner Kanye.
Remember Kanye a month ago when he went on his rant?
He goes, it's Jesus Trump.
Yay.
Yeah.
Add Eric Adams to all that.
Unbelievable.
No, no, no.
And by the way, he didn't pay that.
I've been to New York and at you can go to 6th Avenue and 59th, which is right on the edge of Central Park.
I saw a guy selling these on the corner for 10 bucks.
Yeah.
Tom, they're on every corner in New York.
Yeah, but I don't drink.
I don't think the mayor is rocking a fake Fendi.
I think he's going for the ghost.
How do you know?
He just got rid of the $12,000 run.
And by the way, he said the first female police commissioner.
Man, we want to buy a robot.
That seems reasonable.
Yeah, exactly.
That's where your DEI hire gets you.
Yeah, and by the way, talking about DEI, this leads me to Zoom.
Zoom at one point was the stock during COVID.
When you remember, everybody and their mothers wanted to be like, oh my God, where's the Zoom stock going to be going to?
Is it going to go to this?
Should I buy some of the stock?
Well, Zoom cuts DEI-focused team as corporate America retreats on diversity initiatives.
And by the way, this is not a story from Fox Business.
It's a story from Bloomberg.
Even Bloomberg had to write this because of how much of a hot mess this has turned into with this DEI costing all these companies a bunch of money.
So let's talk about this.
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has disbanded its teams dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives amidst recent layoffs, opting to engage external consultants for a broader approach to inclusion with chief operating officer Aparna Bawa noting Zoom needed to change its approach to DEI as revealed in a memo while refirming, reaffirming the company's commitment to Devi and endeavors.
This move reflects a wider 10 trend of corporate America scaling back on diversity initiatives in the face of conservative scrutiny with companies like Pfizer, BlackRock, revising their policies and Tesla removing the language supporting minority workers from regulatory filings, driving by criticism from prominent figures, including Elon Musk and investors like Bill Ackman, amid a contentious debate surrounding the effectiveness of DI strategies.
First of all, Bill Ackman is not a conservative.
This is not a conservative scrutiny.
This is called common sense scrutiny.
It doesn't make any sense.
Rob, what is the one that you have here?
Tesla Chief Elon Billion Amar Cuban has spoken out supporting it.
The Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action from college admissions emboldened the conservative group to lodge complaints against dozens of complaints, including American Airlines, Macy's, McDonald's.
Proof is in the pudding, and more and more companies are starting to realize this was a bad idea.
Tom, thoughts on this it is an amazing thing when public companies that have to file quarterly reports and show earnings and show progress suddenly sit back and go, you know, maybe we just want to do this based on merit and kind of close your eyes during an interview and just ask people and interview them and find out if they know how to do the job, find out through references if they did a good job at their last job.
I don't care if they're a four foot five Martian.
If they can do the job, let them do the job.
Merit has never gone away.
It's been there, but it's been just covered up by this whole DEI movement.
And this was a political movement that gained steam and it doesn't work.
And it doesn't matter that the Supreme Court ruling only was talking about colleges and they got their problems.
You saw the hearing in front of the Congress and how that worked.
Cuban is still defending you, though.
You still got islands.
I call Cubans like the rock in the stream.
He's the guy, the rock sticking up in the middle of the stream.
The water's going by.
He doesn't seem to care and it didn't work.
And he's trying to make his point and he's trying to do all that.
And you still have those things, but there is common sense is coming back.
If you know how to do your job, you're good at doing your job, then I don't care who you are, what you look like.
Don't impose it on other people.
Just do your damn job.
We've got an earnings report.
And I think the common sense is coming back, but it's being led, Pat, by the winds of capitalism blowing toward merit and ability and accountability.
And you can't erase the sins of the past by implementing sins today.
That's something that we need to take note of.
That's a t-shirt.
Thank you, buddy.
I like that.
I think, you know, we can acknowledge what happened in America prior to 1964 and say, all right, we definitely had some systematic stuff that needed to be addressed.
Why do I say 1964?
Because that's the year the Civil Rights Act basically came out, okay?
1964 landmark civil rights case basically said that you can.
It prohibits and i'll read it word for word here, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color religion, sex or national origin.
It prohibits it.
That is systematic.
You talk about systematic racism.
It stopped in 1964 Vinny talks about all the time.
You can't erase racism, people are going to be.
Whites are going to be racist, blacks are going to be racist, Asian people, Latino like people are going to be people, but systematically, there's nothing in place mandating this.
So Dei is basically trying to reverse the patriarchy.
Who's the patriarchy?
White men that started the country?
Oh, you mean white men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and uh, John Adams, people that basically started our country.
Yeah, those guys yeah no no, no big deal about those guys.
But the, the whole conversation, that Dei is the exact opposite of this, because this is this is basically saying prohibiting discrimination.
This is encouraging discrimination on the basis of race color religion, sex.
It's just encouraging not hiring straight white men.
Yep, and you know yeah Tom, you're screwed, you're.
You're screwed, buddy.
Um, so let's just go back to to to what this Civil Rights Act was for and start living that kind of life.
And i'm based on meritocracy.
You're absolutely right.
Well listen, more and more, uh of these stories come out.
More and more validates common sense prevails, but for a few years, dumb ideals fool tens of millions of people until common sense people Who are relentless, keep pushing back.
Okay, do we want to go into let's go to the Disney story?
Let's go to the Disney story.
So, who wins the battle between the Disney board?
There's a lot of stuff going on here with Disney, and it's not slowing down, and it's just more and more drama for Bob Iger.
So, who wins in the battle over Disney's board?
Try on fund manager, led by activist Nelson Peltz, has nominated himself and former Disney CFO Jay Rossollo to Disney's board, aiming to shake up the Disney's direction after years of underperformance.
Tryon holding nearly 2% of Disney's shares seeks to replace two current board members, Maria Elena, Lago Massino, and Michael Foreman, with Peltz and Rossulo replacing them.
Blackwell's Capital, another activist investor, has proposed its own slate of three new directors in response to Tryon Mitt campaign, alleging that Tryon motives stem from hostility towards former CEO Bob Iger rather than genuine concern about Disney's performance.
The outcome of the proxy battle will largely depend on institutional investor as they hold the majority of Disney's shares, while individual investors and company investors, insiders have a smaller stake.
Their vote could still influence the final decision and the ongoing struggle over Disney's board compensation, composition.
Disney activist Black Walls, Blackwell's proposal splitting up the company in proxy.
Again, same story.
Black Wells floated the idea of Disney separating its own real estate, which it says they represent about 44% of its market cap cost into independent publicly REITs or series of investment vehicles in which the shares can interest can be distributed to shareholders.
Anyways, with all this stuff that's going on here, you would think Disney's learned from all these flops back to back to back on what they're going to do.
And by the way, if Disney really wants to make a big comeback, guess what they would do?
They would go get on their knees and beg, beg a man named Johnny Depp.
Johnny will give you $300 million.
Do you remember when they asked Johnny the question, can you pull up Johnny Depp's response when asked about Pirates of the Caribbean?
Have you seen his response?
Oh, brother.
Dope.
Oh, my.
Rob, you've seen it before, right?
When Johnny Depp responds to Pirates of the Caribbean, if they paid him $301 million, would he take the job back?
His answer, tell me you find this, Rob.
This is.
And when was this, Patrick?
Oh, this is two years ago.
Johnny Depp, Amber, this is the Amber Heard.
Oh, man, Rob, if you, the reaction when they asked him, Johnny Depp questioned, maybe it's Johnny Depp questioned.
Well, Tom, before I go into that, Tom, can you give some thoughts on what's going on here with the Disney's board?
Because obviously, Tryon, I think they're the sixth largest institutional holder of shares in Disney, and he's a multi-billionaire.
There's two guys that are fighting for this.
This guy's a one and a half billion dollar guy.
I believe another guy's a four and a half billion dollar guy.
He could be the one.
Can you kind of pull that up and give your thoughts on that?
So let me pull it back for America.
This is your favorite sports team has missed the playoffs by missing the shot at the end of the last game of the regular season.
They missed the playoffs.
You're upset.
All of these private equity ones you hear on the board, they're the players.
The players all want to win.
All these investors in Disney want to win.
They are not winning on the stock market.
They are not winning on profits.
And so now the players are in the locker room.
They've got the old coach has come back to coach them, Bob Iger.
And now the players are saying things to the media.
What we need is more discipline.
What we need is a different free agent.
You've seen this, Pat, right?
The players, players, at the end of the season are unleashed.
And that's what these, so think of it that way, America.
Think of it as our world, the world that's listening, as this is a bunch of players on the team that want to win.
These private equity people all have big investment.
They want to make money.
They all agree on one thing.
Disney is messed up.
And they had to bring Bob Iger back to see if it could lead it out of the ditch.
And everybody wants to improve performance.
And they're all saying that they have an idea to do it, but they need control.
So they're all arguing about having enough votes to get control.
That's what's going on here.
When they say, I want to put directors here, they want to have an election and vote on what the direction of Disney is.
Then one of them has gone public and Blackwell's Capital and said, listen, we've got theme parks, we've got hotels, we've got TV, and a lot of the cable stations aren't doing well.
Hey, ESPN is doing so terribly.
Why don't we join voices with all of our enemies and just make a super cable station?
Good idea.
Bring me a proposal on that.
And they're trying to say this is the way to fix it.
They just want to make money.
All these folks just want to make money with Disney's amass.
Check this out.
Watch the stats.
October of 2005 is when Bob Iger becomes CEO of Disney.
October of 2005, which is what, roughly 19 years ago, 18 years ago, becomes CEO, right?
At the time, Disney's worth $47 billion.
He becomes chairman in 2012.
Company's worth $90 billion.
Wow.
He steps down as CEO and executive chairman February of 2020 at the top, $328 billion.
Crushing it.
Absolutely crushing it.
This is Disney Plus era, right?
Then 2021, he steps down as executive chairman, returns as CEO in November 2022.
2014 valuation of Disney was $160 billion.
10 years later, 2024 valuation of Disney is roughly $170 billion.
In 10 years, valuation increased only $10 billion.
Okay.
That's not a good thing.
That's 5% increase of the company's valuation in 10 years.
By the way, that's like putting your money in a savings account out of bank.
That's the kind of returns Disney brought.
Is that correct or no?
That's exactly right.
And that's why all these investors are pissed.
So then Nelson Pelt, who owns Tryon Partners, his net worth is around $1.5 billion.
He's a number six institutional holder.
There's another guy, also, Ike Perlmutter, who is a $4.5 billion guy.
He sold Marvel to Disney.
He's one of the biggest shareholders.
He owns a ton of equity.
He's a pro-Israel guy, conservative guy himself.
At this point, you know who owns the most Disney shares?
Institutional.
Vanguard's number one.
Really?
They own 8%.
Weird.
BlackRock is number two, 6.6%.
State Street is number three, 4%.
But the biggest owner in the last couple months of Disney.
No, not at all.
It's actually South Park, is what the biggest owner is.
They've owned Disney and Bob Outberg with the clips that they've done on them.
So now all this going on, you're like, okay, maybe they should go give, bring Johnny Depp back.
Hey, Bob, you know you've lost so much money the last couple years.
The valuation went from $328 billion to $170 billion.
You've lost $160 billion of valuation the last two and a half, three years, give or take.
Guess what?
Go pay Johnny Depp.
Pay him a half a billion dollars.
Beg him to come back.
Beg him to come back.
Drop the press release.
Okay.
This guy's going to be worth this half a billion dollars will take Disney from $170 to $220 billion because guys like us are going to be like, thank God they're bringing him back.
They make an announcement.
There is no DEI LGBTQ stuff going on here.
Give Johnny this.
They asked Johnny the question in court.
Here's what Johnny had to say.
Go ahead, Rob.
Mr. Depp, if Disney came to you with $300 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you to go back and work with Disney on a Pirates of the Caribbean film.
That is true, Mr. Roddenborn.
That is true.
By the way, give him 500 million.
So guess what Disney announces?
What?
So what's his name in the movie?
What's Johnny Depp's name in the movie?
Jack Sparrow.
Jack Sparrow.
You want to know the new Jack Sparrow?
Go ahead and show him, Rob.
You're joking.
No, no, go ahead and show the new Jack Sparrow.
Go show.
No, no.
It's better than a black guy.
The new Jack Sparrow.
No, it's not.
The woman.
The black woman upcoming female-led pirates of the Caribbean movie.
It's still in making that.
Dizzy.
Ayo.
Edebiri is being eyed to star as a character named, and they want a younger cast of pirates looking for hidden treasures.
Can I ask you a question?
Can I ask you?
Tom, you two are going to know better.
All three of you guys are going to know better than me.
You see the writing on the wall.
You've lost half your money.
I know Vanguard, they all have an agenda, but at what point are you like, guys, enough is enough?
Tom, if you're on the board and you're seeing this and you're not as woke DEI, but you're losing everything, how much power do you have to go?
Guys, you are absolutely not putting away to take the pirate.
Do you think she's straight or she's lesbian?
I don't know.
She's a lesbian.
Okay, she was in January 10th of 2024.
There we go.
While discussing her role as lesbian character, Jossie and Bottoms Eddeberry told, I don't know if she's a lesbian.
She played Senator Rachel's talks lesbian fight comedy.
I mean, listen, do you understand what direction they're going right now?
Yeah, of course.
But here's the thing.
The one thing that they have in common, though, whether it's Johnny Depp or the lesbians, the pirates, they want that booty.
We know that.
But here's the thing, though.
It's like, no, listen, we don't.
I don't care.
Gay and all that.
The character is Jack Sparrow.
End of story, bro.
Without him, you're not.
I'll bet anybody right now, $10,000 for your $1,000, that is going to flop.
Rob, Rob, do me a favor, Rob.
Go to Google and type in the following.
Is Ayo Edeberry a lesbian?
Just type that, please, and see what comes up with a Wikipedia.
Wait till you guys go zoom in, please.
Let's read this.
During her junior year of college, Eddie Berry began pursuing a career in comedy and interned at Upright Citizens Brigade.
Eddie Berry has canvas for the Democratic Socialists.
And she identifies as queer.
All you're going to do is alienate 50-plus percent of the country.
Most men are going to be like, dude, you know, all those gay lesbian black pirates running around back in the day?
No.
It was white dudes.
I don't remember.
But hear me out.
Did you see the new Mr. Mrs. Smith?
Did you see that?
We're going to make that evasion lately.
If you're talking about Brad Pitt if Bob Iger came out and they announced a press conference, he's standing next to Johnny Depp and they announce $500 million, no DEI, no LGBTQ.
We're going back to old school Pirates of the Caribbean.
What would happen to the Disney stock the next day, Tom?
Tom, what would happen if they announced Johnny Depp come back?
We're giving him a half a million, half a billion dollars.
We begged him to come back.
He agreed to do so.
We apologize for the treatment of Jumping to Conclusion on what happened with him with the Amber Hurt case.
He's one of the greatest actors of our lifetime.
We want to give him and the fans the opportunity to see the next one being made with him.
We don't see the brand Johnny, you know, Pirates of the Caribbean without him.
What would happen to the stock?
I'm actually curious, Tom.
What would happen?
I'll tell you what would happen because the stock market doesn't care if you're straight, gay, whatever.
They only care if you're going to make money.
And that would be a move that's going to bring people to the theaters and is going to make money in the face of this horrible slate of failures.
The stock would pop.
That day, the stock would pop because you know what?
Money is agnostic.
They don't care about your, and money is culturally blind.
Money is blind to lifestyle.
Money wants to know that money is made.
That's how the stock market works.
And guess what?
The stock would pop because investors everywhere, behind the cover of darkness behind their computers, would be like, hey, well, I'm buying because you know what that means?
That means they're going to make revenue on that movie.
I can't wait.
But if you want a real, like, a real life view of what DEI looks like, this is the most antithetical, ironic.
You know, the new Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
Oh, don't even say that.
Have you seen what the Seven Dwarves look like?
Yeah.
No, no, just show this first, Rob, if the audience is missing instruments of Semit.
Okay.
So this isn't like, dude, I don't care what it is, as long as it's a good movie.
They're basically saying, I mean, is there a more marginalized acting group than the dwarves?
How many roles do they possibly have?
Right?
That many.
You got Willow.
You got Willy Wonka.
You got Opal Lumpas.
Right.
Now go to Seven Dwarves Newcastle.
They got one dwarf.
One dwarf.
They got a black guy.
They got a random white gay guy.
They got a fat guy.
They got a couple of.
They're not even hiring dwarves.
They can't even have seven dwarves anymore.
Let's get some lesbians.
Let's get an Asian dwarf in there.
Let's just get the color of the rainbow.
Even the dwarf is an amputee.
Take a look at it.
His arm is one arm.
He's a wharf.
He's making me.
I liked the old seven dwarves where it was just metaphor for drug use.
You had Sneezy.
He was a cook freak.
You had Sleepy.
He was into Downs.
Grumpy.
He was a drunk, bashful, complete Kwalued kid.
And then you had Doc.
He was the connection.
I liked it when the Seven Dwarves were all about drugs.
That's it.
The connection.
Speaking of the connection, why does the biz doc, aka Doc, know so much about the drug paraphernalia game?
He's had a good conversation.
This is the line that Kirk Lazarus said, right?
I know who I am.
I'm the dude dressed as dude in disguise as the other dude.
Wait a minute.
That's what DEI is.
That's what DEI is.
Here you go.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go to, do we want to go Super Bowl?
Do we want to do one business?
We got to do some Super Bowl screen.
Let's go to Super Bowl.
How do we get to the bottom?
Here we go.
All right.
Super Bowl.
Quarterback, Brock Purdy.
Ready?
This is the starting quarterback of the 49ers.
The guy made $870,000 this year.
You know how much money that is?
Some of you guys may say, well, that's a lot of money, Pat.
He's rich.
Well, guess what?
16 college football players made more money from NIL than this guy's making and he's going to the damn Super Bowl.
Imagine what that feels like.
He goes to college campus.
A college campus quarterback says, How's it feel being broke?
I make more money than you, right?
And NIL kids, 16 of them, are making more money than Brock Purdy.
So let me read this story to you.
So Brock Purdy, despite his role as starting quarterback, earns a relatively modest salary of $870,000, notably less than his counterpart, Patrick Mahomes.
Ready?
He makes $44.5 million this year.
$44.5 million.
Patrick Mahomes.
No.
Illustrated a significant disparity in NFL player ratings.
Surprisingly, Purdy's salary is eclipsed by 16 college football players who capitalize on name, image, and likeness NIL deals with top earners such as Shador Sanders and Arch Manning making millions showcasing the financial opportunities available to college athletes since the NCAA policy change in 2022.
While Purdy supplements his income with undisclosed off-field endorsement from companies like Alaska Air, Alaska Air, Toyota, Buffalo Wild Wings, his average annual contract is $943,000, places him 89th amongst NFL quarterbacks, underscoring the financial disparities within the league.
They're not going to call this racist, are they?
Because Mahomes is, you know what I'm saying?
And he's like white.
Are they being racist towards white quarterbacks now?
I don't know.
Is that what's going on here?
I hope that's not what the case is.
Anyways, 870, 16 other NIL Adam thought.
Well, let me tell you something.
You know, he was the last pick.
I'm sorry, let me just say this.
Shador makes 4.7.
Archie Manning makes 2.8 while in college.
Travis Hunter makes 2.3.
Quint Ewers makes 1.7.
Alabama's Jalen Millro makes 1.5 million.
Go ahead.
These were all the biggest names of college.
Obviously, everything that Deion Sanders did.
By the way, Archie McManning.
Let's take a look at a football family there, baby.
Yeah.
That's the oldest man.
It's their nephew.
It's Peyton and Eli's Nefrani.
Cooper's son.
So the nephew to Eli.
But here's the deal with this kid, Brock Purdy.
He's going to go potentially from Mr. Irrelevant, right?
He was the last pick in the entire 22 draft.
2022 draft, the last pick is always known as Mr. Irrelevant, to in three days' time, potentially being the most relevant, talked about name on the planet.
If he can single-handedly, with his teammates, bring down the cabal of the side hoppies, Taylor Swift.
Ain't going to happen, brother.
And Travis Kelsey have put together, he's going to basically become the most talked about name on the planet.
We're going to bet at some point before this.
What do you mean, right now?
What do you want to bet?
You said $1,000.
Wait, because we're doing the spread.
What's the spread of the Chiefs and what's it called?
I think it's a point and a half, right?
Oh, now we're doing a $1.
No, no, hold on.
Why am I going to go ahead and do that?
Now we're doing a spread?
Why would I go a dumb bet?
What's the spread?
A point and a half is really.
Oh, it's minus two.
Okay, minus two, $500.
Well, I got to see what line this is.
The CBS sports is a line.
No, you got to go Vegas Insider.
Go to Vegas Insider.
It's like one or one and a half.
There's no way they put this much effort into Travis and Swifties for them to lose.
Well, the reason I'm placing this bet is because you're going to be rooting for Taylor Swift.
100%.
Okay, I'm going to be rooting for San Francisco.
What is the spread?
One and a half, I believe.
Rob?
Where is it?
No, it's minus two.
Okay, so guess what?
You're giving me two points.
Let's do 500 bucks.
500 bucks?
That's a hell of two points.
I know what it is.
What I'm saying is like.
The last time I looked, it was one and a half.
Are we doing two?
$500?
I thought we're doing $1,000.
Let's just do $500.
$500.
$500.
You guys saw here at first.
Okay, that's it.
So you're saying Chiefs are winning no matter what.
But I want one and more.
Vinny, Vinny, Vinny, you got to make it $1,000.
You're playing with house money.
I gave you $500.
No, I don't.
Because I love you.
Adam.
Why did Tom give you $500 again?
For shoes for my suit.
But why did he give you a $50?
Because $500 into my neck.
But why?
Because he used my name in the likeness.
Because he's a shady politician.
Oh, but that was without even getting your permission.
Let me hear it.
If I got the two points.
No, I couldn't.
I got an endorsement.
I had a curse, Miami boy.
There's only no way they put that much effort into her.
But Pat, are we going to, did you see the Alejandro Mayorkas?
He's in Vegas.
No.
Okay, so our friend, Alejandro Mayorkis, was in Vegas, and he was fielding questions about Taylor Swift, Adam's favorite, safety and the Super Bowl.
And he was asked about Taylor Swift Super Bowl safety.
He's in Vegas right now, chilling.
By the way, the border, a mess?
He's in Las Vegas.
San Francisco is going to be running through that offensive lineup, Kansas City like it's open border policy in the Super Bowl.
Yeah, let's go.
Incredible threats that are related to Taylor Swift.
We are extraordinarily vigilant when we bring 65,000 people together in a stadium, when we have 330,000 people visiting a city for a major sporting event, and when we have millions of people around the world watching it.
Our priority is the safety and security of everyone in attendance, and that is what we are focused upon.
And when there's an additional celebrity who will bring more attention, we are already at a heightened state of vigilance and fulfilling our responsibility just as we do.
And every single day.
By the way, so first of all, it's funny how he's talking about Vegas security.
So 65,000 people are going to be in the stadium, and there's 330,000, which I think that number is pretty low.
They're saying it might be a little bit higher, like at 400,000 that are visiting the city, but he can literally care less about the millions that he let come into the border illegally, which some are, as we've learned, terrorists.
Like, remember that friend of ours, the guy from Azerbaijan, the terrorist that did, what did he do, 12 years?
And he came to the board and he said, soon, you guys are going to know who I am.
Where is that guy?
Nobody knows, right?
Which leads me into what I told you before we came in here.
Joe Buck made a statement, which should kind of bother people, Patrick.
He said, there will be a Vegas-related mess of a Super Bowl story.
He said, and I quote, this is a quote: there's going to be some story.
There's going to be something that happens because it's Vegas and it won't stay in Vegas.
He's not talking about herpes, okay?
He goes, it's going to be a big something that happens.
I don't know what it is.
I have no idea.
I just think that is going to be a mess in my mind.
And by the way, he won't be in Vegas for Sunday's rematch, though.
He said he had no desire to be there.
Oh, really?
He won't be there.
He said he won't be there.
I do not have any desire to be there, says Buck.
What?
Yep.
Keep going.
Yeah, Patrick Hush.
Go ahead.
And he goes, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not that way.
I'm not looking for the backson party and going out online.
I'm just going to do my thing and then combine that with Vegas.
There's going to be some.
So wait, why would he say something like that when all that we've been hearing from all these pundits on MSNBC and there's going to be a black swan event?
Remember, let's not forget.
I'm not saying something's going to happen.
Buck or something.
Buck is not a party guy.
That part is true.
Joe Buck is absolutely.
I know people in baseball that know him very well.
Buck is not a party guy.
What is he talking about, though, Patrick?
Maybe he's just talking about he doesn't want to party.
Like there's who said it, but he's not a party guy.
When have you ever heard of him staying in Vegas and partying?
There's going to be some story.
There's going to be something that happens.
That's a weird prediction.
You're looking for something that doesn't exist.
No, I'm not.
I'm reading the word.
I understand.
Is that partying?
I don't think that Joe Buck is talking about something.
Well, let me ask.
Do you want to make a prediction?
Majorcas would know.
He barely missed impeachment on a two-point line.
That's weird.
Myorcus is more worried about the Vegas border than the southern border.
That's what he's worried about.
Bango.
He's trying to protect the Vegas border.
All right, what's your bet?
Tom, who do you have?
Kansas City or San Francisco?
You better give the right one because you're going to go home tonight.
Yeah, in my house, I'm Raider Nation to the bone.
And so I have a natural anti-Kansas City part of my heart because Kansas City and Denver have always been the enemies of the Raider Nation.
And I've had nothing to cheer about over the last couple of years.
San Francisco is Kim's team to the bone, absolutely to the bone.
My heart hopes that I see her cheer for her team and they win.
My mind says that this team, you know, what's this now fourth Super Bowl in five years?
And Andy Reid, I deeply respect him.
I think Kansas City is going to find a way to do this.
Adam, Pat, what's yours?
Because I have something funny to add.
Go ahead.
I want to know.
Listen.
Would I like to see Purdy?
Purdy be a great story, be all that?
That'd be a great story.
Yeah, I think Pat Mahomes is trying to be overdoing everything Brady ever did.
I think Mahomes coming for the throne.
I think he wants it all.
And I think Kelsey got momentum in the last game.
He was fired up.
He is angry.
He's going to play angry.
He's going to play agitated for the way they're treating him because he is wanting to prove a point.
Because remember, when he started dating Taylor Swift first, what happened to him?
Nothing for no to lizard.
One touchdown and seven games or something like that.
But they were down.
They were like losing horribly.
And all the headlines said he was being brought down by Drew Tucker's, what do you call it?
The kickers, a holder, you know, off.
And he's like, you know, playing aggressive, talking smack to the line.
You could tell he had a chip.
And by the way, here's what you have to realize.
What do you think opponents are saying to Kelsey?
Actually, think about it.
What are opponents saying to Kelsey when they're trying to get under his skin?
Think about it.
Hey, Mr. Swift.
Hey, Mr. Swift.
Whatever.
I wouldn't say that as a Pfizer boy, Mr. Swift.
If he's an NFL, they're not going to say Pfizer boy.
Hey, Mr. Swift.
So I think KC, if he wants to have that kind of a legacy, he has to win this one.
I do believe there's a camp that believes Purdy is the next Brady.
I don't know why.
When I talk to guys that want to find the next Brady, not Mahomes, when they want to find the next Brady, they say Purdy is a closer story to Brady because he's what?
Mr. Irrelevant, right?
You're coming from being that.
So they want to have somebody to root for.
And to me, Mahomes gives the vibe of somebody you root against.
Purdy is somebody that comes across as you root for.
But I think in this instance, KC has way too many weapons.
Weapons.
And you want to try to.
You think KC has way too many weapons?
San Francisco has a lot of weapons.
Of course, I understand who they are.
You know, what they're doing, their defense.
But they have a guy on the other right.
His name is Mahomes.
Yeah.
He's been there, done that.
That's a big stage.
And by the way, just randomly, Mike just sent me a clip.
I mean, a link.
Did you guys know that besides all the betting, you know, coin toss, Gatorade, color, all that stuff, there's a crazier prop bet offered by Bovado.
And guess what it is?
There's apparently, I sort of got a 0.1% chance that aliens will invade Las Vegas, leading to the game, ending in a tie, and you could make a bet on it right now.
This is a Bovado bet.
Other bets, I'm dead serious, Patrick.
But that's not crazy to you.
How about this one?
Chiefs win.
Taylor accompanies the team to the White House where she endorses President Biden.
He sniffs her hair, and there's a 2% chance of that.
Or how about these Chiefs win?
Travis and Taylor announced they're expecting a baby.
That's a 4.8% likely bet on Bovado.
Wow.
You could bet on an alien landing.
You can bet on anything.
You know, it's really interesting.
For all the football guys out there, I dive into this, and I should do more of this on BizDoc and talk about it.
But Kyle Shanahan had in training camp Jimmy Garoppolo and Purdy and Trey Lance.
And you know, they were, Garoppolo was getting hurt a lot.
I mean, he was just a guy that couldn't keep the ankles healthy.
Remember, there's always a foot injury.
You're really, really getting in here.
I love it.
And then Trey Lance got hurt.
Trey Lance was the future.
He was a running quarterback, similar to the running quarterbacks that we have in the NFL.
And Trey Lance got hurt.
And that's how Purdy got his chance.
Now, Trey Lance hadn't elevated himself up and wasn't nearly as capable as Bledsoe, but Purdy.
Because Bledsoe got hurt and Brady came up.
But it was Trey Lance was the guy with the contract, the big signing, the big draft pick.
He was supposed to be the guy, and he got hurt.
And that led to Purdy's opportunity.
So there's a lot of things here.
But Kyle Shanahan said this.
I always thought that Purdy was the best of the three of them.
And the assistant coaches were there said that he said, you watch.
Two years from now, I think that will be our starter.
It just happened earlier because of the injury.
This to me comes down to two things: the better team versus the better storyline.
Everyone's rooting for the storyline.
Travis and Taylor Swift, what's going on there?
Is he going to help electron?
I don't want to hit him up.
Is he going to help elect Joe Biden?
Is she going to come down?
She's not even performing there.
What's his name?
His father going to be?
Usher's performing.
Is Mahomes' father?
He got a DWI for DUI.
Listen, that guy likes to party, bro.
He'll be there for the Super Bowl.
And his brother, by the way, is going to be floating around that entire stadium because his brother is not bad.
He's definitely not straight.
So you and I have a bet.
Guys, everybody else.
I got San Francisco.
You got Casey Swift.
I got Casey plus.
Run a pole, Rob.
Well, we're about to be done, but guess what?
They know.
Taylor Swift, is she going to the game?
She'll probably be there.
She'll cancel the whole tour because she's going to the game.
Well, she has a tour date.
She has a tour date on the day of the Super Bowl.
She'll figure out a way.
She's like in Japan or something.
Yeah, she's supposed to be in Japan, but she's going to Tokyo.
So she will not be at the Super Bowl?
She's going to go.
She'll take a private jet.
They might delay the game a little bit for Taylor Swift.
You'll never know.
There's reports that she can make it in time if, from the end of her concert in Tokyo, I think it was like she's going to cross half a dozen time zones in order to get there in time.
But they've cleared a spot for her private jet.
She just sold a private airport.
She came off.
She doesn't need a private job.
She sold one of her jets.
One of her private jets, but the other, they saved a parking spot for her.
And those in Vegas, when you have the Super Bowl, they sell out months in advance.
So they held a parking spot for her.
All reports indicate she's going to go.
Yesterday, Travis Kelsey said she may not be in attendance, just heightening the drop off.
Let me tell you something.
Rob, that's exactly what she's in a penny.
You know what?
Hang on.
But she doesn't need to be there.
Wait a minute, wait a moment.
She just needs to be there at the end.
I'd love to see her at the halftime show walking in.
While Usher is performing, she's up there holding up her new Grammys.
No, what do you mean?
She's in a parachute in and be like, baby.
Hopefully, she crashes into the field.
She starts singing and does her own Super Bowl show.
I'm just saying, but guess what?
Now, because I can care less about sports, now I'm in it for the Chiefs, baby.
Well, now you're rooting.
Now you're rooting for everything you stand against.
Now I can't wait for this.
This is why you're a hypocrite.
Adam, this is why you're a hypocrite.
For $500, you're bought and sold.
You're rooting for everything you stand against.
PBD.
Kelsey, PBD, restore order.
Buy the home.
Taylor Swift and the PSYOP, you're now rooting for that.
$500.
Money is green.
I don't care about none of that.
Me, me.
Takes a lot of heat on this podcast.
Rooting for San Francisco.
Guys, money, Rob.
Steve Young.
Rob, do you have the winners for here?
Let's do the gear real quick.
We got to honor some viewers here, baby.
Future looks bright gear for those of you guys that did what you did.
Today, we're going to give two tickets away to those who ordered it.
Is this all the order numbers, right?
Correct.
So we have all the order numbers in there.
So if you order, that's all the people that place an order.
Oh, that's the only way we can do it.
And Rob, if you want to go, two winners, go ahead and give the order.
Can I say the names or no?
It's just going to be the order number winners.
We'll get you the names in a second, but it's just going to show order numbers and then the sales team will get us the.
And then they'll text the name.
Okay, so go for it.
Let's do the first raffle.
One ticket to the ball.
Oh, God.
That's a lot of orders.
Wheel of Fortune right there.
How many was that?
Let's see who this is.
That was the first one.
Order number.
13404.
Okay, order number 13404.
Whoever's in the back, write it down.
If you're watching, it's your order 13404.
Just say, I'm order 13404.
Rob, keep going.
Do another one.
Do it, baby.
Congratulations, 13404.
That's one.
Come on, baby.
Another one, go for it.
Here we go.
15-501.
What?
I'm just guessing a number, Adam.
Damn it.
13063.
13063, Rob.
If you got the names, if you can give it to me so I can announce it.
Wow.
That's a lot of orders, huh?
Yeah.
If you got the name, send it to me.
Rob will announce them.
They're getting them now.
So again, if your order is 13,404 or 13063, you are the winners.
We will contact you and I'll get those names in just a minute.
Nice, Rob.
Okay, got it.
And meanwhile, remember, for anybody that places an order today on this podcast, any two gears, a future looks bright, a hat and a shirt, any color hat, any color shirt.
We want a million people in the world wearing this gear to shock the hell out of everybody to say, why are a million people so optimistic about the future?
That is what the value attainment line represents.
We believe the future looks bright.
Buy a hat, buy a shirt.
Next Tuesday, this is going to last by next Tuesday.
Next Tuesday, we'll announce the raffle on this podcast.
We'll give away signed gloves of Ryan Garcia, sign balls of Trevor Bauer, and five sign books of Choose Your Enemies Wisely.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
I think we do have a podcast that'll come tomorrow.
And that podcast tomorrow is going to be with, I believe, Rappaport.
So if you know who Rapaport is, I have the names.
Go for it.
Alessandro Kansian.
Okay.
13404.
That's the winner.
Aljandro.
Adam Singer, 1306.
I love it.
Adam Singer and Alejandro.
Congratulations, guys.
Reach out to the team.
We'll get the stuff over to you guys.
So you have the tickets for the vault in Cambodia to spend three days with you guys at Palm Days Convention Center.
