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All right.
Episode 627.
First time we're going Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
We're going to test this out, folks.
I think we're earlier than many of you today, which is great.
Fathers, I want to read something to you today at the beginning of the podcast before we get into the stories that I think you need to hear specifically to fathers and mothers you can listen up to, but specific to fathers.
We'll get into that.
Adam, Vinny, Tom, great to be with you guys.
Hope you had a good weekend.
Hello, hello.
Let's get into some of the stories that we got.
I think there's something going on in Alaska right now.
And that is a meeting.
Rob, when is that meeting supposed to be, by the way?
Friday.
Friday, that's going to be taking place with Putin, Trump, and possibly a guy that doesn't like suits.
And we don't know whether that guy's going to show up or not.
I think the meeting doesn't make sense without him to negotiate without him.
But if I'm Putin, I probably don't want him to be there because of the way he handled himself at the White House.
And if he handles himself that way in the White House, what's he capable of doing in front of Putin?
And Putin doesn't like things like that.
So we'll see if that's going to happen or not.
But major, major victory for Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Trump embraces a role of peacemaker in Azerbaijan and Armenia deal.
Andrew Como calls on socialists.
Zohran Mamdani, they got it.
The Rob.
There's a correction here.
It just calls on socialists.
That's a communist.
He wants to seize.
Did you write that?
Was it supposed to be?
I just want to make sure we get it right.
Didn't he say seize of production, sir?
The means of production.
I would be offended if I didn't.
Why would you ever call me a socialist if I'm a communist?
He's probably upset that they titled it that way.
So let me read it again.
Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo calls on communist Zorhan Mamdani to move out of his rent-stabilized apartment.
Donald Trump confirms Putin's flying out.
Florida Attorney General proposes legislation to stop sexual predators from pursuing surrogacy, adoption, and foster care.
Rob, I don't know if you saw that story about a family in L.A. that had 21 kids in surrogacy, and they kept saying it's going to be going to a family, but they kept it and they got caught.
If you want to pull up that story, disturbing story.
Trump puts 50 million bounty on Venezuelan president for helping terrorists bring deadly violence to U.S. Trump spectacularly ousts the head of the IRS and puts in one of his closest loyalists.
Trump confirms the Putin meeting.
Putin reportedly willing to end war if he gets eastern Ukraine.
And then at the same time, G tells Putin he's kind of glad he's seen an attempt at improving ties with the U.S. Mexico rejects U.S. forces and the country.
Trump approves military actions against cartel terrorist organizations.
So Trump's trying to help clean up the streets of Mexico.
And the president there says, no, no, no, we like our cartel.
Leave them alone.
I mean, we'll get maybe into the story a little bit more.
This is another reason why New York City is just crushing it.
You ready for this?
New York City is spending $65 million on homeless shelter for who?
Specific transgender people.
Let me say it one more time.
New York City is spending $65 million on homeless shelter, not for homeless people, just specifically for transgenders.
Okay?
Transgender homeless people?
Transgender homeless people.
Princeton eliminates tuition for families making $250 a year.
I think that's Princeton's way of saying, please don't find us.
Exactly.
Socialist mayoral candidate Mamdani claims he will be Trump's worst nightmare and hires private security after calling to defend the police.
He's defund the police.
Yes, what did I say?
He's not defending the police.
Defund the police.
That's my English.
Defund the police.
How scrubbing your social media could backfire and even hurt your job prospects.
Besson says market expects Fed to cut race this year, substantial probability.
And a couple Epstein stories we may get into.
JD Vance wants to get a little bit to the bottom of the Epstein story.
I found another video of Michael Cohen talking about Epstein and Trump.
Furious Rosie O'Donnell says ABC is preparing to cancel her old show, The View, and she's devastated by it.
WNBA bets on sex toy stunts at the WNBA games, fuel polymarket critics.
So people are now betting saying if it's going to be thrown in or not.
I mean, that's just some words.
Now I want to watch.
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Are you willing to go to a game?
Yes.
And I might bring a backpack.
Al Jazeera journalist.
Anas Al-Sharif killed in Israel attack in Gaza City.
White House is considering inviting Zelensky.
Jennifer Welch has had it with Trump supporters who eat at Indian restaurants.
Take your ass to Cracker Barrel.
That's the Hindustan Times.
Jimmy Kimmel admits repulsive liberal scolds are driving people away from the Democratic Party.
Jimmy's something else.
I think it's something else, and I'll talk about it.
I'm sure you got a lot of stuff to say about it as a comedian.
Whistleblower drops bombshell.
Did Bill Barr and Fannie Willis team up to sabotage Trump's comeback?
And Texas prison camp where Jolaine Maxwell was moved.
Steps up security.
All right.
So we got a lot of stuff to go through.
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Fathers, I want to read something to you.
I want to read something to you.
I think sometimes we don't give fathers enough credit in what they deal with.
Last night, you know, I had a conversation with a couple fathers last couple of days.
I came back from the event last year at the event that we had and, you know, nearly 8,000-something people in the room.
Incredible event.
Ray Lewis was there.
Coach K was there.
Jabba Wakis put on a performance and all these stories about fathers, right?
All these stories about fathers and what's going on.
And I wanted to read something to you.
And fathers, mothers, listen to it whatever way you want to listen to it.
Statistically, you know, it's easy to always put every blame on men and put it on my fathers.
You see stats about Titanic.
I don't know if you guys saw the Titanic stats.
One of the most interesting stats about Titanic.
You know what it is?
75% of men on the Titanic were the ones.
20% of men survived, and 75% of women survived.
So the Titanic's going down.
75% of women on the Titanic survived.
Only about 20% of men survived.
We automatically know our role.
My job is to protect you.
You know your role.
Your job is to protect Kim, Brooke, and Bailey.
We know our role, what role we played.
You had an event that happened yesterday.
You know the role you got to play with your mom today.
And, you know, my condolences goes out to you as well with what's going on there.
But as men, we have this burden, this responsibility.
But fathers, I want to read this to you.
Put a quote yesterday on Twitter, Rob, if you want to go to it, if you don't mind.
I read this.
I'm like, you know, what a powerful, what a powerful statement.
One of the toughest things about being a father is when you realize you're raising the ones you can't live without to live without you.
Let me say that one more time, because sometimes you have to hear this twice.
One of the toughest things about being a father is when you realize you're raising the ones you can't live without to live without you.
You're teaching these guys to learn how to live without you, even though your favorite moment in life was when they're around you.
There's nothing like it.
It's magical for you to do that.
So let me read this to you.
A dad can lose friends.
He can be misunderstood by his own family.
He can carry the weight of criticism and still sleep just fine at night.
You know why?
Because his mission isn't to be liked by the crowd.
His mission is to be respected, trusted, and loved by the only audience that matters, his children.
One day, those kids will look back and realize why dad said no when everyone else said yes, why he stood his ground when it would have been easier to bend, why he took the long road, even when the short one looked tempting.
A father doesn't measure success by applause.
He measures it by the way his children see him when the world is quiet and by whether they know without a shadow of doubt that's my dad and I'm proud he's mine.
There's nothing like that, folks.
If your father listened to this and you're doing everything in your power to raise great kids in the future, those of you guys that go above and beyond, you know who you are.
And a lot of our listeners, this is something you take very seriously or else you wouldn't watch this podcast.
Because if you're somebody that's not important to you, you'd be very annoyed listening to us.
We would actually be very annoying to people that are not trying to be the best fathers to their kids.
But for those of you guys that are doing your best, I want to start off the week by telling you, you matter, you're important.
Keep doing what you're doing.
The future of America and the world is safer because of men like you.
Society, taxes, economy, prisons, crime, all of it, you're very important.
And sometimes we just need to hear it.
This message goes to two or three men that I spoke to over the weekend.
You know who you are.
I just wanted to kind of give that shout out to you guys before we get the podcast started.
Keep leading the way, no matter how challenging and annoying things may be.
And even though nobody knows the whole story, we know the story.
Having said that, let's get right into it.
First story I want to get into, Rob, I think it's the Russia story, right, with Alaska, which is where, you know, Trump and Putin have a meeting this Friday that's coming up.
So Donald Trump confirms Putin is flying into U.S. soil for showdown meeting.
And again, that is this Friday in Alaska.
Let me read this to you, and then we're going to go to the video.
Okay.
So this says page nine, but I don't see it on page nine.
Let me see this here.
Boom, Donald Trump confirms Rob.
And here it says.
Try page five, Pep.
No, on here on the notes, it says page nine.
Oh, it's not five.
Rob, do you know what page that's page four?
Donald Trump confirms Putin is flying to U.S. soil for showdown meeting.
Okay, do you see it where it says nine?
Look at the notes at the top.
It says nine.
I don't know if you see that or not, but I'll just read it.
President Trump announced on Truth Social that he'll meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on the 15th in Alaska, stating the highly anticipated meeting between myself and President of myself as the President of the United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia will take place next Friday, August 15th in the great state of Alaska.
Trump told reporters the war between Ukraine and Russia lasting three and a half years is complicated.
Rob, if this is the clip, go ahead and play this clip.
Does Putin have to meet with Zelensky in order and before you and Putin have to meet?
Or are you hopeful?
No.
Are you hoping?
So you're willing to.
That's actually important because the president, President Putin said this morning he was pretty dismissive of this idea of meeting with President Putin President Putin was.
I don't know.
I didn't hear it.
No, he doesn't.
No, no.
So when do you think that means they would like to meet with me and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing?
So last month, they lost 14,000 people killed last month.
Every week is 4,000 or 5,000 people.
So I don't like long waits.
I think it's a shame.
And they're mostly soldiers.
They're Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.
And some people from the cities where, you know, missiles are lobbed in and you lose 35, 40 people a night, which is terrible.
But no, mostly it's soldiers.
And you're talking about on average 20,000 a month.
20,000 people are dying a month.
Young, generally young people, soldiers.
Okay, so this was supposed to be the president of war.
So this sounds like the president of peace, but they invited Zelensky.
Okay, just to kind of give you a little bit more context.
They're thinking about inviting Zelensky to the summit.
Okay.
It's being discussed.
And another saying it's absolutely possible, adding everyone is very hopeful that would happen, a senior White House official clarified.
The president remains open to a trilateral summit with both leaders.
Right now, the White House is focusing on planning the bilateral meeting requested by Putin without Zelensky being there.
And at the same time, Zhe says to, is this the clip of him, by the way?
Yes.
The translation's just a little off.
We used AI to translate it, but this is Zelensky saying that Ukraine would not surrender territory.
That's what's important.
So if you want to play this clip, Rob, because this is the part that matters.
Go ahead.
The Ukrainian territorial issue is already in the constitution of Ukraine.
Nobody will be able to deviate from this.
Ukrainians will not give their land to the ecupent.
Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can give peace.
Udi Kurishny, who are against us.
Uda Kurishny, who without Ukraine, they are ones against us.
Oh one, give nothing.
It's Dudrishnin.
They will never work.
And we all need a real living peace here, which people will respect.
Okay, so when you hear that, then you hear the response Putin reportedly willing to end the war if he gets Eastern Ukraine.
And Zelensky flat out telling you, I'm not interested.
Here's Putin.
In our conditions, to start such a conversation simple and come down to the following.
Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from Donetsk.
Lugansk People's Republics.
Kherson and Zaporozh High for regions.
And I draw attention precisely from the entire territory of these regions, the limits of their administrative borders, which existed at the time of their driving in Ukraine.
As soon as I'm Kaiv, they declare that she is ready for such.
The resolution will begin the real conclusions of the troops from these regions, as well as officially notified of the rejection of plans to enter.
In NATO on our part, immediately, literally in the same.
A minute will follow the order to cease the fire and begin the negotiation.
I repeat, we will do it immediately.
Naturally, at the same time, we guarantee an irresistible and safe discharge of Ukrainian units and formations.
Of course, we would like to count on what a decision is and about the withdrawal of troops and about outside the bloc status.
And he began dialogue with Russia from which to declare.
From the future existence of Ukraine and Kaiva will be accepted.
Okay, so Tom, what do you think is going to happen here on Friday?
You think Zelensky is going to show up?
You think he's not going to show up?
You think Zelensky is going to eventually give Eastern Ukraine?
What do you think is going to end up happening?
I think Zelensky has to show up.
And he's playing a little bit of a game now.
But the advisors and people that are around Zelensky are like, hey, this is serious.
You need to go to this.
And you need to go to the table.
And what Russia is asking for is, you know, is basically the Russian-speaking region of Ukraine that long ago was part of Russia.
Now you can make your own conclusion about where you say, well, you don't bully yourself back into it.
But also there was, you know, the, it was triggered because of the threat to enter, you know, NATO after being told they weren't.
So I think Zelensky, for all the reasons, for the NATO reason, for the territory reason, and for the war reason, he can't not show up.
I think if he doesn't show up, it's just like a really bad look.
So you want to continue this war?
You're not going to show up.
They're trying to have a peace.
And peace treaties like this, this is how they happen on neutral soil with an intermediary.
Can you do this, Tom?
Can I ask you a question?
So argue it.
Let's play a game, okay?
Argue it from Zelensky's standpoint.
This goes to everybody.
Argue it from Zelensky's standpoint of, you know, what do you mean give up Eastern Ukraine?
I don't have to show up.
You know, if you guys want to do this without me, you can't negotiate.
Argue it from his standpoint.
If I'm going to show up and all you're going to tell me is I got to get back Dornbos and all that historical part of Ukraine that speaks Russian, I didn't draw the line.
The line was drawn by the international community decades ago.
And then you bullied your way across the line.
You can tell me that you thought we were going to join NATO and it pissed you off, but you bullied yourself across the line.
And, you know, the U.S. Biden basically winked at you and said if it was a small incursion, he wouldn't go after you.
So the U.S. kind of winked.
President Biden kind of winked and got this thing started.
And now you want me to come sit in front of a U.S. president with Putin and Putin saying he wants land given back.
You want me to go sit for that?
And that was great.
Would you add anything to the Ukraine-Zelensky argument?
No, because he made a great point.
That's one of the main ones I would have said, listen, the previous president said it's okay if Russia comes in and does a small attack, a small incursion.
So not flip it.
So you guys asked this.
So not flip it, Vinny, to you.
Be Putin.
Give Putin's argument.
Yeah, listen, I'm willing to come and, you know, do you want him there?
Do you not want him there?
Play Putin.
I want him there because at the end of the day, I told all of you, don't put, don't, what was it, one inch of NATO.
I don't want any expansion.
Biden, the previous president, told us, you know, told us that we could come in and told us that we could attack.
We just, you guys gave us a green light, so we're doing it.
Time and time again, this guy is showing that he has zero respect.
Okay, he comes into the White House.
He disrespects all of you.
I want peace.
I was told not to, you guys not to push.
You guys push.
I'm just sticking up for my people.
That's it.
Adam, where are you at?
So playing Putin and playing Zelensky, every war in the world comes down to two things.
Whose land is it?
And what is the identity of the people that want the land?
So if you're Russia, the land that you're fighting for, you believe is Russian land and Russian identity.
If I'm Putin, there's a couple of things that I'm majorly concerned about.
Number one, and first and foremost, is NATO encroaching east and east and east and east.
He wants niet of this.
They also want sanctions removed.
Don't forget about it.
Economic sanctions are a major part of this, selling their Russian oil, everything that's going on around the world.
Politics fixed the pipelines.
That's true.
The Nord Stream too.
And then obviously territory.
As far as Zelensky goes, he wants first and foremost a cessation of aggression.
Stop bombing our land.
Stop trying to take our land.
We'll debate whose land that is.
He also wants security guarantees.
So when this war eventually does stop, Putin stops attacking.
You know, you talked about NATO and GDP.
It's always been 2%.
There's countries like Poland and other countries that are closer to the border who are saying, no, We're going to give four.
We're going to give 5% in many cases.
Putin is the bully here, let's be clear.
And Zelensky, as weak as he seems, his major message is: leave us alone.
We'll see what happens.
Yeah.
So essentially, if I'm Putin, they're talking about, do you think Trump would want Putin and Zelensky in the same room?
Or do you think Trump would want just an isolated bilateral meeting with Putin and then an isolated bilateral meeting with Zelensky?
I think at this point, let's take what we can get.
I think the world in the reality TV show that we're all living in would love to see Trump and Putin and Zelensky in there.
That's not what I ask.
Let's take what we can get.
I get.
What would Trump prefer?
Would he prefer both in the room?
Yes, or does he not want Zelensky to disrupt a meeting so he can just have a meeting with Oslo?
Well, think about it.
If you're doing a negotiation, if you were, if Vinny and I were fighting, which we always do, I love you.
Would you want to have a conversation with Vinny first?
Would you rather have a conversation with Adam first?
Or would you want us both there?
I don't know the right or wrong reasons.
You've dealt with many of these things.
Let's just say, let's go a little bit deeper there.
Let's just say the last time I tried to have a meeting with you publicly, you took advantage of the limelight and the camera and you embarrassed me and my company.
That's what you did last time.
In front of my entire company, you embarrassed me, right?
Let's just say that was the case.
Does Trump still want both people to be there?
Does Trump just want Putin to be there?
You know what I'm asking?
More than likely, he wants Putin there for sure.
He wants Putin.
Meaning, if Zelensky's there, a little bonus, but he wants to want Trump, especially after all that.
I would want them.
Obviously, they're going to have their handlers or whatever and their people, their security, and just be like, hey, listen, guys, enough is enough.
You're doing what you're doing.
We know with his attitude, especially.
And we know where you're at.
Let's just end it.
Just stop it.
And then the negotiation.
He has to have him in there.
But seeing his attitude, going back to your initial question, Pat, I don't think he's going to show up.
I don't think, did you see Zelensky's interview there?
I don't think Putin's going to show up.
I have a feeling Zelensky's not going to show up.
If I'm Trump, I want them both in the room.
But there's back channeling going on.
Look at Witkoff, the White House announced.
The White House announced that last Thursday, Friday, I believe, Witkoff had highly productive meetings with Putin that they said sealed the deal for him to come over here and to be part of a summit.
And so the back channel is working.
And if we don't think that there's also a back channel to Zelensky right now, it's got to be.
It's like, hey, man, you're going to look terrible and this is going to be a shade.
But if I'm Trump, I want them both in the room, but I want to make sure I'm back channeling some rules of engagement.
What do you think, Paul?
Okay.
If they were negotiating this deal, how would you want to see that?
Yeah, so let's go through one by one by one.
If I'm Trump, I want everybody in the room.
If I'm Zelensky, I want to be in the room because I know I can get under the skin of both of them if I'm Zelensky.
Zelensky, that is that guy that is going to take advantage of this opportunity to make himself look good and try to embarrass both of them.
And he knows how to get under Putin's skin.
And by getting under Putin's skin and disrupting the meeting, he's directly going under Trump's skin.
Okay.
And then Trump behind closed doors just did a minerals deal with Zelensky, which means if that got done, he almost has to, in that minerals deal, I'm assuming there was some kind of an exchange that you can't increase tariffs on us for the next five years or three years.
And I don't know the details of it, but whatever the minerals deal was, Ukraine would be dummies to negotiate a, what do you call it, a minerals deal without a guaranteed you not increasing tariffs on me for at least five years.
And a reason why I would negotiate five years is because I would want the tariffs deal to be after Trump is out because I don't want somebody like Trump to be in president so he can increase it.
So in this place, believe it or not, Zelensky has a little bit of control because if he got that insurance, if he didn't, he's an idiot if they didn't.
But so then you go to Russia to Putin.
He's the only one that I think just wants it to be him and Trump.
I think Zelensky's, Trump's the Putin's the only one that doesn't want Zelensky to be there at all whatsoever because he doesn't trust him.
He doesn't trust him at all.
He doesn't trust the fact that he's going to be behaving.
And in a strange, unique way, Zelensky here is the linchpin because he's the most unpredictable.
You know what Trump's going to do.
You know what Putin's going to do.
You don't know what Zelensky's going to do.
So he's the disruptor in this instance, in my opinion, in my opinion.
And who's asking?
Who has to give?
Putin's asking.
Zelensky has to give.
He doesn't have to give.
But in this case, you know, I don't know.
Those are the dynamics right now.
If there's anybody that can broker a deal, Trump has to have some kind of a leverage behind closed doors that it could be as simple as allowing Putin to join NATO.
If he allows Putin to join NATO, guess who doesn't want that?
Ukraine doesn't want that.
Zelensky doesn't want that.
NATO doesn't want that.
So imagine if he's coming out there playing aggressive, saying, no, I know Bill Clinton or Bush, those guys said no to Putin about joining NATO.
I'm actually going to have him on NATO.
So I think there's an element of knowing Trump's capable of doing anything, but he's going to have to poke in the NATO way.
I don't think he can do it.
Can I give you one more piece of the puzzle?
Absolutely.
So one thing that we got to think about, you know, you're always talking about who's in your ear, who's in your ear.
Well, in a meeting like this, it's almost who's in your corner.
So in Zelensky's corner, you have the EU, you have NATO, you have Poland, you sort of have the Eastern European states, you have the United States to a capacity, Western allies, Canada, and then who's in Russia's ear?
Well, you have China, you have Iran, or what's left of what's going on in Iran, you have North Korea, you have Belarus, which is the only country in that region that is sort of full support of Russia.
So they're going to play a role in basically negotiations.
These people in Putin's ear and in Zelensky's ear.
And Zelensky, who's more of a puppet?
Zelensky or Putin?
Zelensky.
You know, everyone said, Trump is Putin's puppet.
I think nobody believes that he's a puppet to who, though.
Zelensky is a puppet to the world.
And the Western allies of the world.
Just so you know, in this instance, he's a puppet to nobody.
In this situation, he's not a puppet to anybody.
Why do you say that?
He's not a puppet to Trump or he's not a puppet to a Putin.
Well, he's a puppet to his financial back.
Well, look, he's going to the establishment.
Sure.
And under Biden, yes, because they kept giving him stuff.
In this instance, this is a very different scenario.
Very different scenario.
So the Warhawks, Pat, the Lindsey Grahams, the Mitch McConnell's, were the contractors, the weapons, and all the defense contractors.
They're all, you were talking about back channeling.
How many people are in his ear, Pat, behind the scenes going, hey, you still want these billions?
Don't you freak?
Because the goal is to what?
Not have any, don't give in.
People don't have control right now.
No control.
What I'm saying is, can they be in his ear?
Like when Lindsey Grammar's in the middle of the year, what is the likelihood he's speaking to the establishment in the U.S. government right now?
Pretty high, I think.
Yeah.
100%.
And I think the key there is Starmer, because remember, Starmer cut the deal that for every UK pound of aid, there was like another pound of debt.
Remember, it was actually debt.
And that's what the criticism came from.
You're not giving him aid.
You're permanently indebting Ukraine to you and you're taking advantage of it because they're upset at the USA.
I think there's a lot of people in the back there right now.
Yeah, and listen, we can move on to the next story.
The one thing people don't want on the left is the following: Trump sits down with Azerbaijan and Armenia and brokers a deal.
Do you realize nobody thought this was possible?
Just a couple years ago on this podcast, we're talking about what's going on between Nagorno-Karabakh and Artzak and Armenia and Azerbaijan and Aliyev, and it's not pretty.
And then this is what takes place.
Rob, go ahead and play this clip.
Can you put some audio?
Yep.
President of the United States.
This is impossible.
The president of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia will now sign the joint declaration on the outcomes of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity Summit.
That's true.
They will sign three copies in English.
The President of the United States signs as a witness to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia affirming their path to peace, stability, and prosperity.
I love that.
We kindly ask that all guests remain seated for the signing of the documents.
I love that.
I love that.
Look, do you know how big of a deal this is while he's doing things like this?
My mother's family is from Baku, okay?
Baku, Azerbaijan.
But they're Armenian from Armenia and, you know, they lived in Baku because there are a lot of Armenians living in Baku, Azerbaijan.
For this to happen.
Now, the question becomes: is the media going to give him the credit that he deserves?
I don't know how many countries have now nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize.
I think it's eight is what the number is today.
Can you verify that, Rob, if I'm correct or not?
Eight countries have now nominated this guy for Nobel Peace Prize for actually creating peace, not just for being black and being a motivational speaker.
I'm talking about actually doing something that's getting him a Nobel Peace Prize.
Tom, how much do you think this is a big deal?
Specifically, that it happened a week before the meeting he's having with Russia and Ukraine, and Armenia and Azerbaijan are both directly and indirectly tied both to Russia and to Ukraine.
I think this is a giant deal all by itself.
How many decades did we go where U.S. governments wouldn't even acknowledge that there was a genocide in Armenia?
How many decades did we go?
Or a U.S. president wouldn't even say that.
It was the Armenian-Turkish conflict.
And now, sitting at the White House, we've got, you know, Armenian, Azerbaijan sitting together doing this.
This is historic just by itself.
It doesn't, the calendar doesn't matter.
First, it's historic.
However, it's so historic that coming in to what's happening in Alaska, it causes, I believe, the rest of the world to go, he's getting it done.
He's getting people to the table.
He's getting it done.
And a week ago, he's Southeast Asia and says, you two little guys, knock that crap off.
You don't want this.
Our Navy is everywhere in the South Pacific.
You don't want us to come help.
So you guys knock it off.
Don't get into this.
Just a week ago, he did that.
And just to piggyback on what you said, Pat, kind of like under the radar, Barack Obama, do you guys know what he got a Nobel Peace Prize for?
The definition?
For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
What the hell does that even mean?
No meetings, no sit-downs, no peace.
Trump, on top of everything else, the tariffs, the border, economy, you name it.
He's sitting down with them.
He's scheduled to meet with these guys on Friday.
He's trying his hardest to freaking, you know, help with, he's speaking up about freaking Gaza and Israel.
Like, what more does he need to do?
Give me, like, the bloods and crips.
Does he need to stop the bloods and crips from fighting to get something?
You know what I mean?
Adam.
What else?
He may do that.
He's going to send the National Guard to LA.
By the way, here we go.
Cambodia, Pakistan, Israel, Armenia, Azerbaijan nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Adam, your thoughts on this before we move on to the next one.
He had a beautiful picture.
Look at these guys holding these things up.
Those documents are going to be sitting like in the Smithsonian and in world museums.
This is so huge.
Do you know how many presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize?
United States presidents.
Take a guess.
How many throw a number out real quick?
Two.
Two?
One?
Four.
You're right, PBD.
Ding, ding, ding.
The number is four.
Teddy Roosevelt was the first one to win in 1906 for mediating the Russia-Japanese war.
Woodrow Wilson, 1919, he founded the League of League of Nations.
There you go.
Thank you, Tom.
That was after World War I. That's college.
Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize 20-something years after he left office for his humanitarian work.
But those are all tangible things.
Like Vinny mentioned, Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize one year after his presidency for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy.
Nothing accomplished.
Nothing speech at the Brandenburg gate of the Berlin Wall.
So if we didn't think the Nobel Peace Prize was sort of like a cool kids club, there's Exhibit A right there.
Do you think it's going to happen?
You know what?
I actually don't think it's going to happen.
And here's my guess.
Trump's going to go around for the next three years solving more international conflicts and ceasefires.
We just went down the list.
Azerbaijan and Armenia, the latest thing.
But wouldn't it be great if Trump just solves the world's issues, world's peace, but that never gets credit for it?
And then just says, look at the Nobel laureate peace prize over here.
Sham.
I'd rather you get stuff done than get a fake award.
So this is about the just really fat.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee is in Norwegian.
Does Norway him?
Like, who are they?
What are they doing?
They're those Norwegians of Norwegia.
Yeah, what are they doing?
I never know what they're doing out there.
Yeah, they got 7 billion barrels of oil.
Mm-hmm.
More peace deals.
7 billion barrels of oil.
What do you think, Pat?
Do you think he's going to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
He's going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Why are you so confident?
Because he's going to put sometimes in life, one of the most beautiful things about life is where I remember one time an enemy of mine, old enemy of mine, and this guy played so many games.
He would call insurance carriers to drop contracts on me.
He would pay people to write negative things about me.
And I knew it was him because those guys eventually became fans of mine because of Valetayman.
One day, I told him, I said, I'm going to turn your kids into valuatainers.
One day, his son has a school project that he's going up to speak at school about business and entrepreneurship.
And his son goes in front of his class.
He's 15 years old.
And he says, I want to talk about Patrick B. David and what I've learned from him.
He says, how we went from being enemies in his own way to then you converting my son into becoming a fan of Valetamin.
And then eventually me saying, I'm going to turn your kids into valuetainers, right?
Sometimes you go up against certain people that the way they beat you, they put so much pressure on you by having so many different victories that you have no choice but to give it to them.
The amount of peer pressure the Nobel Prize organization is going to get from so many countries, they're going to be forced to give it to this man.
Now, will they give it to him while he's alive or dead?
I don't know.
Will they give it to him like they gave Hall of Fame to Pete Rose after he died?
I don't know.
Are they going to do to him what they did to Pete Rose, what they're going to do to Barry Bonds, what they're going to do to a lot of these guys?
I don't know.
I hope it happens while the man is alive.
And because what he's attempting to do right now is such a complete opposite of what everybody said he was going to do.
He was going to start a world war.
He was going to do this.
He was going to do that.
And the guy that ended up getting the Nobel Prize before him was the guy that empowered ISIS.
And ever since Trump took office, when's the last time he heard about ISIS?
You haven't heard about ISIS.
You haven't heard about any of that stuff with ISIS ever since he took over.
So who knows?
Who knows what's going to happen?
But I'm more optimistic on it happening because the amount of pressure he puts on them.
All right, let me get to the next story here.
Next story I want to get into is about New York City.
So finally, Andrew Cuomo goes on the offensive.
He writes a tweet, whether he wrote it, team wrote it, whoever it is, gets 30-something million views.
Rob, do you mind just going to the tweet?
Because I also want to see the commentary and the criticism that comes with it.
So if you can go to X, go to Andrew Cuomo, perfect.
And if you can go to that tweet, he finally decides to aggressively go after Mamdani and he exposes him to the point that de Blasio had to respond.
A bunch of people had to respond to what he had to say.
And I think this is the one.
Here we go.
Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman Mamdani, are occupying her rent control apartment.
You grew up rich and married even a wealthier woman.
You've had weddings on three continents.
You own property in LGBTQIA plus murderous Uganda.
You make $142,000 a year plus stipends.
Your wife works too, meaning you together likely make over $200,000 a year.
No matter which way you cut it, Mamdani is a rich person.
You are actually very rich.
Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month as you have bragged for a nice apartment in Astoria that should be housing for someone who needs it.
We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis.
Millions of low-income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it, yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don't need it.
Today I'm calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who needs a leaders must show moral clarity.
Time to move out.
Rob, if you can play the clip of what he says about his rent, I think that's when he's saying that.
Go for it.
Pay $300 for my one bedroom in Astoria.
Pay $300 for my one bedroom in Astoria.
$300 for my one bed in Austin.
So you can pause this, Rob.
De Blasio responds back, okay?
I don't know if you can find that or if you can't, Rob.
Just go back to Andrew Cuomo's video up to up top and it will go to de Blasios.
Go back up one more.
I think it's keep going, keep going, keep going.
That's the one right there.
So then in this one here, he announces that he's going to be doing something.
If you can make that bigger, go for it, Rob.
Rent stabilized units when they're vacant should only be rented to people who need affordable housing, not people like Zoran Mandami.
You don't need to be renting rent-stabilized units to wealthy people.
Otherwise, what you're doing is you're abusing the system.
I'm going to propose not rent that apartment by law except to a person who actually needs affordable housing.
And I'm going to call it Zoran's law because it's an abuse of the system.
You can pause the red.
So, Tom, your thoughts on the story here.
Well, first of all, whoever Mamdani's advisors are, that was not a talking point to me because you're sticking your chin out there against Mike Tyson.
And I think Andrew Cuomo reacted the way an opponent's going to react in New York saying, are you crazy?
We have affordability crisis.
It was like a fastball.
And Andrew Cuomo hit it so hard the ball hasn't landed.
And he's also coming back and saying, and by the way, we need to make a law because New York is famous for the rent control laws.
And much as I don't like the rent control laws, he's making a point here.
If we have rent-controlled housing and it's supposed to be for people like this, then let's make a threshold so that the people that it's intended for can get it.
It doesn't become a cost benefit to other people that may get into it.
And I think he's putting out a proposal for Zoan's law that suddenly gives him something really to run against this guy.
What Andrew Cuomo was missing, I think, for the last week was he was kind of out there.
You know, what do you go with, Pat?
I'm the old guy.
Hey, I'm the guy you remember.
You remember me?
I was your governor.
Remember me?
So he's kind of running on remember me.
And then everybody were going, yeah, I remember a little bit about COVID too, dude.
And now I think he actually has a plank to run on.
To be fair, to be fair, Tom, Rob, if you can go to that tweet of Cuomo, the first one, we'll come back to the deblasio one.
If you can go to the first one that he put up and yeah, go down a little bit and let's just read the comments because the comments is what matters the most.
Go to this and read the comments, zoom in a little bit.
Okay, so that's obviously the campaign.
Go a little bit lower.
I want to read the criticism.
Mandani is more corrupt than I realize.
He's an expert socialist fraud, rich and title hoarding.
Housing to take.
Okay, good.
Disgusting is right.
I came to the comments expecting you to be getting cooked on some version of the story.
Sounds like you may have actually uncovered something here.
Congratulations.
Okay, cool.
Keep going, little run out of platform means test renting, cigars are throwout.
Okay, interesting idea.
It's good to see you fighting.
Good.
Flauke, preach.
Yes, 100%.
Amen.
Go a little bit lower, Rob, to see if there's any criticism of what's being said.
I guess what's happening here, and they figured something out with what do you call it, algorithm.
If you comment, you automatically bring up the comments that are most favorable of you.
Do you understand what just happened right there?
I don't know if you understand.
Every one of them.
Shameful.
I'll be darned.
Look at that.
Those are the quick responses from Cuomo.
I commented there and him and I exchanged messages.
I like Joey and Marinario, by the way, right there.
I just think that that just captures it.
One of the things I said to him yesterday was the following: I said, if you roll up your sleeves and play offense like this daily, November 4th will be a good day.
Your opponent is young, nimble, energetic, and shameless.
You have to match that and beyond.
Running for mayor is very different than running for governor.
Keep playing offense, right?
What's the point there?
Running for governor is different than Congress, than Senate, than mayor, than president.
It's a very different game.
Like, you know, DeSantis was good for running for what?
Governor.
And it was Congress, I think, before, right?
But president was very different.
Yeah, Daytona District.
He was a Congressman.
Right.
So it's a very different game nationally versus this.
But the more central it is, the more smaller it is, the more it's grassroots, the more it's shaking hands, the more it's going there.
So Andrew Cuomo has to act like he's 30 years old, drinking his coffee, drinking his energy drink, whatever he goes, energize, keep the diet down, maybe no breakfast in the morning, go a little bit with energy where you're hungry throughout the day, have your first meal at lunch, maybe have dinner early at five o'clock and still go back at it and play offense.
Because the reality of it is this guy's not going to be slowing down.
Having said that, here's what de Blasio said, and then I'm going to come to you.
De Blasio, the former mayor, who is probably, I don't know, some will say the worst mayor New York's had in our lifetime.
He said, I did a rent freeze and almost 2 million hardworking New Yorkers benefited.
Mamdani wants to do a rent freeze.
You know who doesn't want to do a rent freeze?
Andrew Cuomo.
And he thinks he can trick us into forgetting that.
Can we see the comments section below what people are saying about de Blasio?
Go a little bit lower.
Rob.
Okay, Zoroza.
Oh, actually, you didn't go to the comment section.
Click on the comment section.
Yeah, right there.
So let's see what people are saying.
Go a little bit lower.
Go a little bit lower.
The former governor is hypocrites.
How do apartment owners continue to run business if you deny them the rent that they deserve for the property?
Thank you.
I am John Galt.
In fact, Mamdani wants to improve lives, hardworking or the rest want to pamper the rich and rent freeze.
No problem.
Push those billionaires out and see what happens.
I heard reports that 123 billionaires may leave New York City if Zorano is elected.
I strongly suggest that 90% of their wealth be extracted via, oh my God, an exit tax.
Here's the hint.
If working people don't get a break soon, they're going to come take their shares the hard way.
Wow.
The next year that New Yorkers benefited during the excruciatingly ideological and practical term is laughable.
New York City survived you.
It didn't thrive under your confused and egocentric leadership.
Adam, your thoughts on this?
Well, you know, this argument about rent freezes, let's play the pros and cons.
So what are the pros?
All right, people that are renting, they basically protect vulnerable people from massive rent increases in expensive cities like New York City.
Let's play the con.
So landlords will then become slumlords because if you cannot increase the rent and pay your mortgage or pay your expenses, what are you going to do with the properties?
You're just going to let them rot and you're not going to maintain them.
You're not going to fix them and the properties will go to crap.
We all know that.
But as far as Andrew Cuomo goes, which is what's happening.
Very good point, which is what's happening in Corona right now.
Yeah, exactly.
But if you're Cuomo, as much as I'm a believer in Chris Cuomo's shift to the middle and being reasonable, it is way too late for Andrew Cuomo to do anything here.
Remember the song from One Republic, Rome Republic that goes, it's too late.
It's too late to apologize.
It's too late for you, Andrew Cuomo.
It ain't happening.
By the way, if you look at the polymarkets right now, Zoran Manani is 80% likely to win.
Cuomo and Eric Adams are combined, I think 16, 17%, 8-8, 9-8, whatever way you cut it.
There it is right there.
80, 90, and 8, and then Curtis Slowa, 1%.
Here's the bad news, guys, or good news for some of you.
This guy Mandani is going to win the New York City mayoral race.
And let's just be prepared for a communist Islamist to take over.
And let's see what happens in New York City.
I think a lot of them are going to be moving to Miami.
And don't discount that smile.
Look at that smile on Mamdani.
Forget about policy.
9%, 90%, Andrew.
Not.
This guy's got a smile that is infectious.
Like Kansas.
But let me explain something to you how politics works.
Explain.
I'm going to explain something to you and I'm going to educate you.
Please, sir, Molly.
I'm a different friend here.
No, man.
I'm just going to give you what's going on here.
So here's my opinion.
Don't forget what happened with the great legendary apple-eating Canadian named Pierre Polyev.
Don't ever forget the greatness of his, how he got cocky.
And I'm like, I'm going to, not only did he think he was going to be the prime minister of Canada, it felt like he believed he was going to be the leader of the free world.
Pierre Polyev.
Yeah, misery for, you know what I'm saying?
And last minute, two to four weeks before election, he gets destroyed by a freaking World Economic Forum guy named Mark Carney.
And it becomes the worst political loss of our lifetime with a guy that had that big of a flipping lead.
Embarrassing, right?
What does this mean?
If Andrew's your brother, if Andrew's my brother, you have to go on a podcast and address your F-ups.
You have to.
And I know in that family, neither one of them want to.
And that has to be an Italian thing, something their father told them many years ago.
Because they believe if you do, the other side's going to do what?
Trash them.
Double down on you, right?
And just going to trash you.
But if he wants to go and address that and clear it up and go past it, you have to be straight up.
But in the last four weeks of New York City, you don't know who's going to come out and support.
You still don't know.
Apparently, Trump and Andrew Cuoma had a conversation together where Trump is wanting to help Andrew Cuomo win.
If you put up a story, Andrew Cuomo, type in Andrew, Trump, Andrew, yeah.
And Trump, yeah.
If you put, and then go to news, there's a story of Trump called them or something happened.
Did Trump and Coma actually talk on the phone three days ago?
Yeah, can you click on that?
So zoom in a little bit.
There's no story, it's just a video.
Let's see what the video says, Rob.
Sure.
Go on that and click on the video if you could.
Yeah, go ahead.
Okay, we got a commercial.
So apparently these guys spoke, and you think Trump's going to want Mamdani to win over Andrew Cuomo?
Don't forget, the moment Trump saw that Pierre Polyev was being cocky and arrogant, what did Trump do?
I kind of like the Carney guy who ended up winning.
Carney won!
Carney won.
Is this it, Rob?
Can you play this clip is doubling down on his denials of reports that he spoke with President Trump regarding the election.
But the Democratic nominees are on.
Mom, Donnie does not believe him and is lashing out at the former governor.
Robert Moses joins us now with the very latest on this.
Robert.
Curtin Rosanna, who says the summer is the quiet time leading up to the election?
Far from it.
With 88 days to go until the election, the candidates are still sparring over that New York Times report claiming that President Donald Trump and former Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke by phone in recent weeks.
Cuomo says the president actually prefers state assemblymen Zaran Mamdani and Mayor Eric Adams over him for different reasons and denies the New York Times reporting.
I can't remember the last time I spoke to President Trump.
I've never spoken to him about the mayor's race.
Mamdani doesn't believe that.
He accuses Cuomo of, quote, conspiring with President Trump to the detriment of the press.
Positive, pause it, pause it.
Okay.
I don't understand the strategy.
What?
I don't understand the strategy behind it.
So you think it's a good idea for you to rally the troops to get behind you to claim that you're not a Trump guy?
You think that's the better strategy?
You don't think New Yorkers who The Israel community of New York, the logical community of New York, the billionaires of New York, the Christians of New York, the Republicans of New York, the Libertarians of New York, the independents of New York.
You don't think Trump can help you get that vote and beat Mamdani?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't understand the strategy.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
I understand exactly what you're saying.
There is a certain arrogance that went with Pierre Polivé and that goes with Mandami.
Forget their positions, but there is a certain arrogance that goes with people that are up in the polls.
And sometimes it doesn't make you much of a fighter.
And then to sit there and say you've conspired with Trump.
Conspired with Trump?
Why don't you just come out and say you're anti-everything that the United States stands for?
Why don't you just come out and say that?
I don't know.
That's just not the play.
I don't know if that's the right play, especially after, like, you got so many easy things to go after.
That was great, by the way.
And that got tens of millions of views just on X, let alone how many views it got of people talking about on podcasts.
Here's another story that came out with Mamdani: the fact that he hired private security after calling to defund the police, Adam, not defend the police.
I mean, he called to defund the police.
Totally different opposites.
Totally different opposites.
I don't know if you got a clip on that, Rob, or not.
I do.
This is the actual clip from 2020 where he made the claim to defund the police.
That's the security he hired?
No, no.
Yes, that's who it is.
Seriously, Rob, that's a security.
Look at that guy right there.
No, play the clip.
There's no way that's a security.
Are you for defunding the police?
Are you for a serious reform that people can see on the ground?
I am in favor of defunding the police.
Yes.
Can you elaborate?
Yes.
What that means is that right now in New York City, we have a budget of close to $6 billion for the New York City Police Department.
And that is an astronomical figure.
Wow.
And I think that what we need to do is not chip away a million dollars or five million.
I think in this first year, we need to take a billion dollars out of that budget.
Okay, so he said that.
Now, he openly, you know, the Mamdani spent $33,495 in June and July on advanced security and investigations, making three payments ranging from $8,000 to $13,000, despite his 2020 statements like queer liberation means defunding the police.
The company advertises itself as a proud employer of cops in the New York Police Department, which Mamdani has personally called to defund following a Manhattan shooting where an off-duty NYPD policy was a police officer was murdered.
Mamdani faced backlash for his anti-cop stance on X. I'm heartbroken.
And, you know, we've read that tweet before.
But there's many opportunities to go up against this after he had a massive wedding.
I just think I don't know who is Cuomo's campaign manager and who he's talking to about strategy.
I don't know.
I hope it's somebody that isn't the same as usual because you're not going in a typical traditional same-old campaign as you have in the past.
This is a case study nobody can give you advice on.
I don't know if that makes sense.
Nobody can give you advice on this case study.
There's nothing off the ship.
There's never been a time that you can go and look at a campaign like the one today where Trump said where Mamdani's at, where America's at, where New York is at.
There's never been, and where you are at.
So I don't know.
I don't know if I'm taking counsel from the typical guys that are like, here's what you're doing.
James Carl, let me tell you what I'm going to say.
I think this is a very, very different.
It's a mistake to take advice from anybody on politics right now that's above 60 years old on this campaign.
My opinion, Vinny?
I mean, well, first off, I want Adams.
I think Adam's right.
And if I had to bet, if somebody gave me $100,000 and said, you have to bet this, what are you betting on?
Momdani's gonna win and good.
I want New Yorkers to feel and see what the hell you want it.
Like, it's by the way, he's not hiding.
He's letting you know, defund the police.
He's pro-Islamic, whatever the hell he's doing.
He was talking about he said something along the lines of uh, he argued that suicide bombers need to be understood as a political category.
His father said that his father, his father said that, not him.
So, so thank you for clarifying.
Who's Mamdani's father?
My bad.
So, that's what you're dealing with, and that's what you want.
You're going to get what you want.
And you made a great point.
I don't want to give away anything, Pat, what you recently said.
In four years, when we come back, because the elections win, is it April?
No, November, November.
Watch what's going to happen to them.
But in fairness for the people, I said that to all the guys at Jubilee.
I don't want to give it away.
You said that.
And here's at the end of the day, I think I mentioned this once too.
Look at the pool of people.
They have Eric Adams, okay?
Andrew Cuomo, yo, with all due respect, what he did during COVID, there's no coming back from that.
What he did with all the old people and all the deaths, nobody's going to forget that.
So you have Eric Adams, you have him.
This is their best choice, is a freaking communist.
Okay, so good, good.
And the people that are backing him, the people that they're interviewing and the man on the street, they think he's the savior.
Oh, he's going to, you know, no police.
You know what that means?
With the amount of crime in New York, you know what that means, Adam?
That they're not going to have cops.
They're going to have social workers.
When you get stabbed, a social worker is going to come up to you and be like, to the stabber, hey, how do you feel?
What's making you stab that guy?
Why are you stabbing him?
What's it like at home?
They are doomed.
I'm telling you right now, it's the modern-day Gotham City, and I don't feel bad for them.
You keep voting for these people?
Good for you.
They're just coming from a New Yorker.
Amen.
There's two angles here.
The first angle is the one that Pat asked.
And I think that Cuomo needs to be talking to the core independents that are in Portland.
Portland, Oregon.
Remember, they defunded the police.
They had that little zone that was downtown.
I don't remember the name of it.
They gave it a name.
It was the zone that was downtown.
Chas?
Yeah, yeah.
Whatever it was.
And guess what?
Now they've come back, and the people of Portland, Oregon are like, you know, this defund the police thing didn't work.
We want, and it's ridiculous the percentages you see in polls of people that want them to please fund the police in Portland, Oregon.
I think it was a poll that was done that we covered on the podcast about three weeks ago.
It was over 65%.
Over two-thirds of all voters were like, yeah, you know, a few cops around here would be helpful.
Yeah.
Come in handy.
Real cool.
So I believe that they need to be talking to Cuomo's campaign.
I agree, Pat.
Nobody over 60 that's the usual suspect.
They got to go get to some people that are running these successful campaigns back against it in places like Portland and bring it back.
And George Will, our friend George Will, was on Bill Maher, and he sums it up at the end.
Great.
Go forward, Rob.
I was about to get started.
One of their leading lights was a socialist named Nurian Bevan.
He said, What could go wrong?
He said, We have a nation bedded on coal, surrounded by fish.
It would take an organizational genius to have a shortage of either.
In three years, they had a shortage of both.
That's socialism.
And by the way, what George Will said here, I think yesterday or on Friday, I don't know when this was.
He said, I hope they win.
Yes.
I want him to win because every 20 years we need a conspicuous confined experience with social media so we can crack it up again.
I am so on the same page with this one.
I can't wait to see that happen.
But there's a part of me that doesn't want to.
There's the other part of me that wants a case study for.
Well, those of you that don't know George Will, I think he was one of the first people that got you the first political game.
He was the first guy.
He was a very smart guy.
And definitely made his way in the world.
Regarding New York City and the potential mayor, Zarn Mandani, people think that this is sort of a bug.
I can't believe that they're going to vote for this communist, this socialist.
I can't believe it.
What people don't understand is this is not a bug.
This is a feature.
The people of New York City are voting for him because he's a communist, because he's an Islamist, because he's a socialist.
That is the reason that they're voting for him.
This whole social experiment that we're doing where the taxpayers will have to pay for all this.
Here's a guy who's basically the anti-Zoran Mondani explaining how it works.
You got this, Rob?
Zoran is going to pay for free child care, free buses, when he's going to step into office on the first day and he's going to realize actually the mayor doesn't have any power to raise money on the rich and that was his plan to pay for all this crap to begin with.
I'll tell you how he's going to pay for it.
He's going to pay for it by raising property tax, raising other taxes in any way that he can.
The thing you have got to understand is I'm from South Richmond Hill.
People in the outer boroughs over there, they don't have these big fancy corporate tech jobs.
They're not celebrities with fat salaries.
The way they make their money is they own maybe a deli across the street or they own a spice shop or they work there.
And those people are the ones that are going to absorb these higher taxes that he's going to use to generate income for his ill-conceived ideas that won't need to be.
Yeah, I understand what he's saying.
And by the way, while we're on New York City, let me tell you how many bad ideas New York City keeps coming up with.
This is another one for me.
Look at that guy right there, by the way.
Yeah, go back to that one, Rob.
See that picture?
Look at that guy.
That's stupid.
Look at a young man.
Let's go and a young PBD.
That is March of 09, 16 years ago, when I heard him give a speech.
And from that moment on, I'm like, man, this makes a lawyers are ruining America.
He talked about stories about all this stuff.
And I came back, I gave a 90-minute talk the following day Saturday morning.
And it was this was Clermont Institute event with Larry Arne.
I think Pat Boon was on my table.
I met John Voigt.
I met a bunch of guys.
This is Frederiba, all these guys.
This is right around the time you started PHP, no?
This is right before I started PHP.
A part of this meeting was why I started PHP.
Believe me.
Wow.
Thank you, George Williams.
This is the day it happened.
But let me tell you this.
Folks, pay attention to this.
Only in New York City and California they'll come up with ideas like this.
New York City wants to spend $65 million on homeless shelter for transgender people.
Do you hear what I just said?
$65 million just for transgender people, as if there's like so many of them.
Overnight, apparently there's like a massive increase of people that are transgender.
So New York City opens ACES Place Homeless Shelter in Long Island City, the nation's first city-funded shelter exclusively for transgender identifying individuals, costing taxpayers $65 million over five years to provide 150 beds.
That's it.
You ready for this?
Equating to $87,000 per bed annually through 2030.
Sean Ebony Coleman, CEO of Destination Tomorrow, Bronx-based LGBTQ center running the facility, said the shelter is named after his mother, whose nickname was ACE.
Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasov said ACES Place will offer transgender New Yorkers a safe place to heal and stabilize in trauma-informed settings with the support of staff who are deeply invested in their growth and well-being, Park told everybody else.
And then the shelter operation, Destination Tomorrow, includes a full-time psychiatric nurse, social workers, and holistic mental wellness, programs like yoga, meditation, plans for culinary programs, offering hands-on kitchen experiences.
I would not be eating that food.
But when you read a story like this, okay, with what's going on in New York City, and you wonder why people are leaving New York City, because they're sitting there saying, my taxpayer money is going to this?
Yes.
So all this tax that I pay in New York, you're spending it for this?
Yes.
Now imagine if Momdani wins, New York.
If Momdani wins and the 123 billionaires, say half of them leave, say 60 of the 123 billionaires leave and they go to where?
Palm Beach, Miami, Manalapan, Lantana, someplace, Brentwood, Tennessee.
They pick a place to go anywhere but New York.
They go.
This is the most important question you got to ask yourself.
You ready?
This is by far the most important question you got to ask yourself.
Rob, can you play the clip of Elizabeth Warren?
This is by far the most important question New Yorkers got to ask themselves.
Just go to my X account and you'll see it, Rob, all the way.
It's like five clips down.
There's a clip of Elizabeth Warren with CNBC.
They're having a conversation and she gets challenged on the billionaire stuff and watch what she says about billionaires.
And Rob, you can probably fast forward the stuff that he's saying at the beginning.
Go until she comes up.
Okay, right there.
Start it from the moment she starts talking.
Go back a little bit and start it from right there.
Go ahead.
And doing that by raising the most revenues possible without chasing businesses and the high-income taxpayers out of the city because they can go to Austin.
They can go to Dallas.
They can go to Atlanta.
They can go to Nashville.
This is your issue.
It's a national issue, not a local issue.
The issue is affordability.
Do you know how many working families are chased out of New York City?
This is the most important thing.
They can't afford housing.
They can't afford groceries.
They can't afford children.
And it's the billionaires' fault.
What Zorhan is saying is I want people to be able to afford to live in New York City.
That's what keeps it a vibrant city.
That's what makes people want to live.
Nobody disagrees with that, Steve.
But raising taxes in order to do it?
Why is that the answer?
Oh, dear.
Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
No, I'm worried that they're going to leave and spend their money elsewhere.
You know, they've threatened to do that over and over again.
They have.
They've left.
But here's the thing.
And Goldman Sachs, when they create new jobs, they do it in Dallas.
And Blackstone won't build a new headquarters.
Hold on.
You want to have a workable city?
You want to have a city that's vibrant.
You want to have a city where the streets are full, where there are things for sale 24 hours a day.
Then you need people who can live here and work for you.
We got that right now, by the way.
I would point out New York is New York is thriving.
So right now, it's doing pretty well.
I'm glad you think they're doing well because a lot of people are struggling to pay for housing.
You can pause that right there.
So check this out.
Folks, here's the question you got to ask yourself.
Vinny, I'm going to ask you this as well.
I know you're a math guy, so I'm going to come to you probably for this.
Let me get my pen right.
So check this out.
Check this out.
Do you think if the 60 billionaires leave, Rob, can you put a number in and ask Grok or Chad GBT if half of the 123 billionaires of New York City leave and move to Florida, how much tax revenue will New York City lose?
Good question.
Okay.
How much tax revenue will New York City lose?
And I don't even know if that's the number because if the 123 billionaires leave, imagine how many people worth 100 million will leave.
And imagine how many DECA millionaires will leave.
Look at that.
The 123 billionaires in New York are estimated net worth $759 billion.
The top 1% of New York City pays 48% of city's taxes.
Up from 40%.
Used to be 40 in 2019.
It's now 48%.
That's a 20% increase in two years.
Okay.
If they leave from 2017 to 2022, they lost $13.8 billion in adjusTedros income due to residents moving to Florida.
From 2021, the state lost $6 billion in AGI, over 60,000 residents moving.
Coleman Sachs estimated that similar out-immigration has led to a 3% drop in tax revenue in the city, but we're not even talking about that time.
We're talking about now.
Given New York City's extensive budget, even a 1% to 2% drop off could equal 700 over even a few billion dollars.
Here's a question I got to everybody in New York City that's excited about Mamdani.
All the socialists, all the Democrats, all the liberals.
You ready?
Say the billionaires leave.
Say they leave.
Say you lose billions of dollars of tax revenue.
Do you think the government's going to adjust the spenditure they have in the city because they lost all that tax revenue?
Hell no.
No.
They're not lowering any of the spenditure.
Guess what they're doing with all that spending?
They're still spending, but guess who's paying for it?
You low-middle-income families.
You know why?
Because now jobs are not there.
And now your city's spending $65 million of your money on 150 transgenders.
Let me say this one more time.
The city is spending $65 million of taxpayers' money in New York City on only 150 transgenders.
That's the amount of beds that they're creating.
$87,000 per bed is what they're spending.
So the reality of it is, you guys can get excited about this.
You guys can get excited about all this stuff.
These people, when they leave, which they will, many of them did, it cost $14 billion of adjusTedros income.
Meanwhile, taxes went up on the top 1%, 20% from 40% to 48%.
You don't think there's other places that are, you don't think Florida is going to be knocking on the door saying, hey, guys, we'd be more than happy to have you in Palm Beach.
You don't think they're talking to Ken Griffin?
You don't think they're talking to all the other people?
How do you like Florida?
How do you like Florida?
They're saying, I freaking love Florida.
Really?
Yeah.
What do you love about it?
I love Florida.
I love Tennessee.
I love Texas.
You're losing them.
And the Goldman Sachs headquarters that they're building in Dallas is going to be a monstrosity.
And they're slowly moving everybody out of huge.
Slowly, Adam, thoughts.
Well, people think that whatever has worked in the past, as far as what has made America great, New York City, LA, as examples, are always going to be the greatest cities in America.
What we've seen since COVID and what we'll continue to see as socialism and wokeism take place in certain of these cities is they won't be great forever.
You know, Trump says, make America great again.
Those cities are going to basically use those catchphrases in the next five, 10, 20 years because those cities are crumbling.
Everyone I talk to in LA, it's like, LA just ain't it anymore, dude.
I'm moving out of New York City.
How much tax revenue left during COVID?
I think $20 billion.
That will continue to happen.
Here's what I've learned.
I don't know how much we're able to talk about it, but when you were debating those socialists and communists in LA over the week, over the weekend, a lot of them were openly saying I'm not going to be able to do it.
Only, openly.
Here's what I've learned.
They're not idiots.
They're not stupid.
They're actually very smart, but their energy is funneled into the wrong ideas.
And when you have very smart people focused on very dumb things, very bad things will happen.
Here's what I realize.
This socialism stuff, the free stuff, the free stuff, the free stuff.
It's just basically a sugar high.
It's having dessert for dinner.
It's great.
I want to eat.
But what's going to happen is your stomach's going to feel bad.
Your teeth are going to decay.
And basically, you're going to have to live in a dentist's office.
Capitalism is the exact opposite.
It's eating healthy.
It's being disciplined.
It's eating your vegetables.
It sucks now.
But damn, a couple months, year down the road, you're going to be looking great.
You have a six-pack.
The reality is the sugar high people are working, are winning, and the capitalists are basically going to move out of town.
In New York City, the trans people are the good guys, and the billionaires are the bad guys.
Grapple with that.
And question, has it ever worked in the history of the city?
No, they just haven't done it right.
Oh, that's what it is.
They just haven't killed enough people to get it done.
Really quick.
Be honest.
What did California look like when we were there?
Just the area where we shot.
Be honest.
What did California?
By the way, that was not a safe place where we shot the whole thing.
Not at all.
Downtown LA, because we're on the bus, Rob.
You saw the shade open?
I looked outside and I was like, there's no homeless people, crackhead.
Homeless.
Somebody was somebody, there was a Mexican family selling like, you know, they had a food stand.
There's just a homeless guy laying there in his underwear and they're acting as if he's not even there.
Like it's like it's normal.
I'm telling you, New York, as bad as it is now, wait.
Just wait.
And it's going to be all your fault because you're like a guy that smiles and wants to give you a chance to get away from the story.
You're missing one major component.
What?
The weather, bro.
Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right.
I'm sorry.
I mean, come on.
Next story I want to get to is the following.
And while we're talking about California and New York, Florida Attorney General proposes legislation to stop sexual predators from pursuing surrogacy adoption and foster care.
Okay.
So let me read this story to you, Rob.
Is it a video?
Yes, sir.
Go forward.
This is Attorney General James Uthmeyer.
By now, you know, my goal is to make Florida the safest state to raise a family.
As a father of three little ones, my wife Gene and I know that there is no greater blessing from God than to have children.
There's also no greater responsibility than to bring up good citizens.
I know there are many couples out there that are unable to have kids, and many are turning to technology and various resources in the hopes of aiding their quest for parenthood.
Surrogacy being one of these options.
That said, in Florida, we have a responsibility as leaders to protect families.
And we've seen situations lately where surrogacy has exposed kids to dangerous harm.
In Pennsylvania, we recently saw a homosexual couple, including a registered sex offender, celebrate bringing home a newborn.
In other states, we've seen situations where parents have obtained children through surrogacy or adoption, only to then subject them to repeated sexual abuse.
This cannot.
Okay, so do you see the sensible ideas to protect kids and families?
Do you see that?
Do you see the sensible, complete opposite of trying to protect transgenders in New York with your taxpayer money?
That's the difference.
If you have a family and you got kids, and this is the story I was talking about, oh, you found it, yes.
This is two weeks ago.
Bizarre discovery of 21 children in L.A. home raises questions about lack of regulations for surrogacy.
What?
Let me read the story and I'll come to this one, Rob, if you can keep this one up, because they kind of go together.
So you heard what story he talked about, right?
Highlighting what is going on here.
The removal of 21 children from the custody of LA area couple has put a spotlight on the practice of using surrogacy to build a family.
Surrogacy has no federal regulation, leaving it up to the states to set the rules if they choose to allow.
What?
The kids 15 at the couple's mansion and six more living elsewhere were taken by an LA County child welfare agency in May after the parents were accused of failing to intervene in the abuse of a baby by nanny.
Police in Arcadia said the children range in age from two months to 13 years old, with most between one and three.
Police said the FBI won't comment, but agents are investigating Sylvia Zhang, 38, and Gierjeon Won, 65, Swan, have not responded to emails seeking comment.
Police have Zhang, believe Zhang gave birth to one or two of the children while the rest were born by surrogates.
Some women who were paid surrogate for the couple now say they were unaware that the couple was accumulating a supersized family, raising questions about their intentions.
What were they going to do with these children?
Ask the lawyer in San Francisco.
So, Tom, your thoughts?
Florida versus LA madness.
Well, the Florida attributes.
I'm sorry.
Let me go to Vinny first.
Go ahead, Vinny.
Okay, yeah.
Sorry, Tommy.
But I think, and I'm pretty sure Tom's going to agree, this should be a federal law yesterday.
Okay, remember last week we talked about that gay couple that adopted the baby.
One of the fathers was, well, Brandon Keith Riley Mitchell was convicted of childborn, sexual abuse of a minor.
Pay attention to what he was in trouble for.
Endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors.
Okay.
And I did some research, and guess what, Tom?
They still have that baby who is a boy, remind you, in their home, okay?
Which to me, that's criminal negligence by the system.
The child isn't their blood, so that means there's zero natural protection.
We're talking about a predator.
Think about this, guys.
A predator is alone with the baby.
He's changing him.
He's bathing him and he's tucking him in at night, all right?
And it's just one day, the stranger, the stranger baby, because it's a stranger, is going to grow up and become the same age as the people that this guy freaking abused and sexually assaulted.
Okay.
And we shouldn't be waiting for the headline of what went wrong.
We know what the hell is wrong.
It's that the system at this point is just as much to blame as a freaking predator.
Why is this even an issue, Pat?
This should be not just a Florida thing.
The whole freaking nation.
And you should see how much flack I got online meeting people messaging me, gay people like, how dare you?
You're homophobic.
You're blah, blah, blah, blah.
Bring that shit on.
No gay couple should have, especially one that was in trouble for, I'll say it again.
Let me say it one more time.
What was he in trouble for?
Child porn, sexual abuse of a minor, and endangering the welfare of children.
And you guys think that guy should have a freaking boy, a baby in his house.
We're kissing him and he's changing him.
Get the hell out of here with that noise.
Keep coming at me.
Go ahead, Tom.
There's laws in the United States.
When there is a live birth, there has to be a birth certificate.
And that birth certificate is your path to a social security number and path to recognized citizenship.
So let's just look at the legal stuff.
And I'm just as emotional as you are about the fact that there's uncorrected things going on out there with sexual predators.
When a surrogate has a child, the birth certificate first recognizes who is the legal individual that had that baby.
This is the mom.
She can decline to state the father, or I don't know, or I don't recall, or, you know, there's another bizarre things that she can say.
Then they have to go to court and say, it's called the post-birth order, where you go to court and you basically adopt the child on the birth certificate.
And they say, this is a surrogate adoption we're doing.
And they don't call it adoption.
It's surrogacy.
And then the court order, like Florida's Department of Vital Statistics, has to, under a court order, then change the names on the birth certificate.
So now that these are the legal parents.
Now, there's something now.
The name of the surrogate is removed and sealed.
So that's how these kids that grow up have to go through all this stuff to somehow find out who their birth mom was, if they were so interested.
So you have a process to review surrogates.
And it's a failure of the system, Vinny.
It's a failure of the system.
If you're on parole, you can't buy a gun.
And if you go in and you buy a gun because the background check, you missed something, that's a failure of the system.
Likewise, if you're a sexual predator, what the Florida Attorney General is saying, hey, in Florida, we're going to check and double check.
And if you're a sexual predator, when you go in to get the post-birth order to adopt the child who's been born to the surrogate, where you have the legal birth certificate, because you got to have that, guess what?
We're going to put the hammer down and say no.
And I think the Florida Attorney General is doing something very sensible.
Meanwhile, in California, you can basically, and who knows what these people were doing.
You can accumulate an army of children through surrogacy for who knows what.
It could just be, I want to have a lot of kids, but there also could be other things going on.
And apparently, they couldn't watch after them because a nanny was abusing the baby and the older child turned him in.
So I'm not, to me, I don't think anything weird is going on here.
Okay.
I think the chance of that being the case here is 10 or 20%.
I'm actually not going to, they did something.
But the fact that we have no federal laws for surrogacy and it's bi-state and it allows for some person who wanted to abuse a child, they can go to a state that's got lenient surrogacy law.
So Rob, can you pull out which states in America have the most lenient surrogacy laws?
Which states and which states have the most, which states have the most lenient and the most, what's the opposite of lenient?
Strict.
Lenient and strict surrogacy laws.
Laws.
Yeah, let's see in America.
In the United States.
Yeah, perfect.
I'm curious because to me, that's more my concern.
My concern is on what they did.
They could have been very innocent and it led to something else.
Okay, most lenient states.
California, a leader in surrogacy permits commercial surrogacy and routinely grants pre-birth parentage.
Okay, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., New Hampshire, Maryland, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Rhode Island, Vermont.
All considerate surrogacy.
Michigan recently updated its April 25-year print transitioning from restrictive to progressive by legally recognizing surrogacy arrangements as well as New York.
Now, most ambiguous, restrictive, or ambiguous are what?
Louisiana only allows altruistic, just remote surrogacy.
A married heterosexual couple using their own.
Nebraska compensated surrogacy is not considered legal here, making any paid arrangements effectively unbanned.
And Arizona surrogacy contracts are expressly prohibited through at least you know where it goes to heterosexual couples.
Okay fine, I get that.
Go a little bit lower.
Is there anything else strict as our Louisiana Nebraska, Arizona?
Yeah, I think the fact that we're bringing this up is to bring awareness for people to be paying attention to it.
It's a very open.
If you're, if you're somebody that's dirty and you want to abuse the law, you got a few states you can go to to handle that.
Okay, if all of a sudden, a gay couple wants to go get 10 kids, is there limitations on that in some of these states?
I don't know, there's too many opportunities for abuse then just really, really fast.
And I I have to say this again, the Brandon Keith Riley Mitchell guy they still have that baby he is a convicted freaking child abusing freaking.
Yes yes he, he was convicted of rock.
You make fact, check me.
Brandon Keith Riley Mitchell was convicted of child porn sex offenders until today.
So he, so they was never let go and he was never innocent.
He was convicted.
He was convicted, am I right?
Right, he's a registered sex offender.
Registered sex offender.
And then Pat, how is that kid still in their house?
I mean, that's Michigan.
Oh my god, like there's a.
Oh my god, like I don't understand Adam, go ahead, sure?
Well, we're looking at exhibit a of why Donald Trump Uh won the presidency.
Um, it's just common sense.
At this point, the reason that you're freaking out here is because there's cities and states around the country who are not practicing common sense.
All Trump had to do was expose to crazy.
What Trump did was say, I prioritize uh citizens over illegal immigrants.
I know the difference between a man and a woman.
I love America, you hate America, and I have morals and values that align with the average American.
You know?
On uh bill Bill Maher this past weekend.
Did you see who was on?
It was our friend Stephen A. Smith and Dr. Phil.
And they argued about whether the 10 commandments should be in school.
And Stephen A. Smith and Dr. Phil were on the side of, yeah, I think there should be a little introduction of morals and values and principles.
Whereas Bill Maher, who does not believe in God, was me saying, why do we even need that?
The Ten Commandments is all BS, but that is leading to the degradation of society.
Now, I believe in the separation of church and state.
To what extent, though?
Judeo-Christian values, the Ten Commandments, is what this country was founded on, right?
But we've seen, I don't know if you have that chart from the Wall Street Journal that I sent you, the decline in all these values that America was basically founded on.
The decline of religion, the decline of patriotism, which very much bothers me, the decline of having children, and then community involvement.
Americans pull back from the values that wants to find us.
That's what's going on here.
So my prediction is this pendulum will swing one direction into the other, and it'll be 10, 20 years before LA and New York City and some of these psychopathic woke agenda have to recognize that.
Final for Tom, and then I'm going to the next story.
Yeah, the question from Pat was national laws and national precedent.
And when you, you know, Roe v. Wade, that was a national law that was governing abortion.
And then Aubergfell versus Hodges.
That was a national case in 2015 that gave that legalized same-sex marriage for all 50 states.
And of course, remember that was Kennedy, Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, and Breyer, the liberal five at the time.
That won't happen now.
But to Pat's point, if we're going to have Roe v. Wade on a national level and we're going to have Augrafell versus Hodges, John Roberts dissented, although, and that gives us same-sex marriage on a national basis, why shouldn't we have national laws governing surrogacy for continuity's sake?
Because you're talking about citizens.
You're talking about protecting those citizens.
So I agree with Pat.
There should be national laws and the precedent is there with the Supreme Court in so many ways.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go to the next story.
Jimmy Kimmel admits repulsive liberal scolds are driving people away from the Democratic Party.
He admits.
And here's what he had to say.
And he's on the podcast with Sarah Silverman, right?
That's the other girl.
Yeah, go ahead, Rob.
It's the loud voices that scare people from saying what they believe and make you think twice about a joke or whatever, you know, these things.
And, you know, a lot of their points are valid, but a lot of them are also just repulsive.
And I mean, they were in that they repel people from, they go like, oh, you're no fun.
I don't want to be around you.
And I think that if you had to boil it down to like one thing, that's kind of what it is.
It's like, oh, you're no fun.
I don't want to be part of your group.
Yeah.
You know, it's funny.
First of all, Sarah Silverman needs a better audio person that's working for her.
Horrible is that.
That was pretty pathetic.
Maybe she needs to maneuver a couple of our guys here.
But I would tell you this, when I'm hearing that, I responded back to Kimmel, and this is what I had to say.
I have no problem with Kimmel having opinions about any of these things.
But here's what I said.
I said, some unsolicited advice for you.
If you wanted to be a pundit, go to CNN or MSNBC and share your opinions.
But your job as a late night host is to entertain Americans who are burnt out with divisive politics.
You failed miserably.
People don't have a problem with Jimmy Kimmel's opinions.
People don't have a problem with Stephen Colbert's opinions.
They have a problem that your job wasn't that.
And that's why you failed miserably.
You failed.
I watch A. Leno.
I found a picture the other day of me going to a Jay Leno show.
And luckily I was able to get him because they thought I was 16 while I was only 14 years old.
And I took a picture with the guy.
And, you know, they said, who's here?
We screamed out.
We came here from Vancouver.
We have no clue where Vancouver is.
We went up on the stage and we took a picture with Jay Leno.
We're like, oh my God, we met Jay Leno.
It was so funny.
I wouldn't, we were one of those guys that would go stand online to listen to Leno.
Maybe I got to bring the pictures next time to show it to you.
What's the point here?
Their job is to entertain.
Their job is to make us laugh.
Their job is to make us sit there and be like, oh my God, that's so funny.
Ah, that's hilarious.
That's good.
And all of a sudden, if you don't take the vaccine, if you don't do this, if you vote for Trump, if you do that, you know what?
Just go work at MSNBC and work with Madow.
Just go to CNN.
It's okay.
Nothing wrong with that.
But your job wasn't that, Jimmy.
Neither one of you.
Your job wasn't that, Colbert.
That wasn't your job.
Tom, your thoughts on this whole thing with Jimmy Kimmel.
Well, Jimmy, you bought into it.
You made it your own, but you got used, buddy.
You are responsible for who you are and who you became and what you did, but you got used because the whole ABC network was 100% behind Kamala, 100% anti-Trump in 2016.
And you bought into it and you guided that.
If you had held a little bit of your independence, buddy, you know, you could have been a different guy.
But look at all of them that became better.
Kimmel, so bitter.
Colbert became so bitter.
And he had the dancing COVID things.
My gosh, you were a propaganda machine for the government that's now been widely discredited.
You know, I just think it's so ironic.
And Rosie O'Donnell, too, this past weekend.
It's so ironic that everybody now is saying, wow, it's not the party.
It's the loud voices that scare people.
You were one of the loud voices.
What are you talking about?
You were a loud voice that was on a prime time, prime time, a prime network in that late night zone where people were watching.
Not very many now, but at the time there was initially.
And now you're like out there saying these things.
Dude, you did it to yourself.
You didn't have enough spine.
At a point where you had an audience, you could have had a little bit of spine, but you went with it.
You made it your own.
You became bitter like Colbert.
And now you sit and you say, oh, you know, it's allowed voices.
You were one, dude.
It's your fault.
And by the way, him and Sarah Silverman apparently used to date it for like seven years.
Adam, your thoughts on this?
Well, it's almost like people forgot what the hell their job was.
A journalist's job was to report the news.
They turned into an activist.
An actor's job was to do movies and do shows.
They turned into activists.
Entertainers, make us laugh.
Comedians, entertain us, make us laugh.
Activists.
Musicians, play music.
People think we joy.
Activists.
It's almost like all these people forgot what the purpose of their job was and they became political lecturers.
And half the country was like, dude, I'm done with you.
Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern.
And what happens is we're going to see one by one, bing, Stephen Colbert gets canceled.
Howard Stern's going to be off the air.
Jimmy Kimmel, you're next, buddy.
And we'll see who the next man is up.
This country is coming back to normalcy.
And I mean, Adam, great points.
Tom, you talk, and I'm going to piggyback.
And I think these guys, especially somebody like him, they sold their soul.
Like Jimmy, honestly, Kimmel used to be on the opposite.
He was on the man show.
Disgusting, perverted.
You know, that whole, you know, you want to talk about MAGA?
That, in their sense, you were that guy.
That was the good.
By the way, racial comedy face.
Come on, let's bring that back, Jimmy.
Listen, when you sell your soul and you're a shill for the other side, you can get away with everything and anything.
Notice if it was anybody else on the other side, all that stuff would have surfaced.
He made fun of Oprah.
He literally was black body.
The hell with just face when he did, was it Carl Malone?
He did Carl Malone right now.
No, no, it wasn't Shaq.
It was Carl Malone.
Yeah, Carl Malone.
And that's the thing.
And you made it.
One of the greatest rebounders of all.
Then on top of that, I mean, he works for ABC.
Who do you think runs ABC?
Those are those people that were pushing that nonsense.
And listen, he has to do it.
Guys, you sign the contract.
You sell your soul.
He has to.
Remember what he said about people with not taking the vaccine?
He's like, if you go to the hospital, he said, next, go like die, Weezy.
He basically said tonight.
Let me have 30 seconds with Vinny real quick.
When they sell their soul, what do they get in return?
Not a damn thing.
What do you mean?
They get fame.
He gets fame and money.
He gets fame and money.
Yeah, but he's never going to get that back.
You're done.
I'm going to tell you a quick story for now.
We were in L.A.
Yes.
The last night there, I snuck off like an outdoor cat and went to a little house party.
I will not say the name of the influencer whose house it was because he was an awesome guy.
And I don't want to put him out there.
But the house was incredible.
I walk in.
Hey, how you doing?
You know, there's 20, 25 people there.
It's not a big thing.
Goats.
And our old friend there, the boxer, I won't say his name was there.
I walk in and greeted very nicely.
Hey, how you doing?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
I walk in and it's the exact opposite type of conversation that I was expecting.
The argument was amongst people, black, white, that who should be able to use the N-word?
Oh, God.
They go, hey, we got a famous podcaster here.
Walk in.
What do you think?
I'm like, I ain't getting involved in this conversation.
The owner of the house is sitting there.
And I say to him almost jokingly, like, you might want to leave for this conversation.
You don't want to get canceled.
He goes, you know what?
I'm out.
Goes upstairs.
He goes, I got way too many brand deals on the table.
I got way too much going on to get caught up in this nonsense.
What's my point?
He just left the room.
He didn't have to say anything.
But a lot of times people sell their soul for money, for fame, for this, for that.
It's a wild world out there.
And people like Jimmy Kimmel basically, they do not want to lose their money.
Was that no adrenaline?
Does anybody have a problem with this?
Adam just wanted to tell us that he was a little bit more than a month.
I'm like, I'm doing shots of adrenaline.
Let me get to the next story here.
Let's get to the next story here.
I'm going to get to the next story here.
JD Vance wants answers over Epstein files.
Rob, if you have that clip.
So JD Vance did an interview this past weekend with Maria Bardaramo.
And when she was asked about Epstein, this is what he had to say.
Said very clearly, because we've had other meetings about that, is that he wants us to be fully transparent and he wants the credible information out there.
So we're working to compile the thousands and thousands of documents that are out there.
30 seconds before this, she asked, did you guys have a meeting just about Epstein just yesterday at the White House or something?
We did have a meeting, but it wasn't about Epstein.
And if we did have a meeting and if we had, but we had a meeting in the past, so she was trying to push him because there's rumors that there was a meeting about Epstein.
This is literally 30 seconds after that.
Go ahead.
For full transparency, but I have to say, Maria, I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested in the Epstein files.
For four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats did absolutely nothing about this story.
We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires.
And now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this.
And yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years.
Was it the right move for Comer to send subpoenas to the Clintons?
It absolutely was.
And it drives home how while the Democrats have tried to make this Epstein thing about anything but the fact that Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein Island all the time.
Who knows what they did?
But it's totally reasonable to ask these questions.
What you saw in the House's subpoena is they are trying to investigate all of the things related to this particular case.
I know a lot of Americans want answers.
I certainly want answers.
Rob, I just sent you another clip.
By the way, while this is happening, Texas prison camp where Jalay Maxwell has moved, steps up security.
There's a bunch of different stories that are coming up here, right?
But there's Michael Cohen.
We showed one about three, four weeks ago, if you remember that when I showed this year.
This is a very different way he takes it here.
And watch what he has to say.
He can totally double down and trash Trump, but he doesn't.
Why not?
Play the clip.
Don't believe that Donald Trump was on Epstein's island.
Why?
He said it more than five, six times, and he says it very openly.
Now, Donald Trump says many things openly.
I was going to say.
This is different.
He doesn't always split with the truth.
That's true.
But I know Trump, and I know that he's saying it for a purpose.
Now, is he in the file?
Absolutely.
Why?
He's in the Black Book.
He took free flights with Epstein down to Palm Beach.
If he turns around and says that he was never on the island, rest assured, he's going to use that as the basis for why this whole thing, again, is a witch hunt against him.
He'll take the grain of salt and he'll make it into the entire, into the entire, you know, absolve himself.
Vinny, thoughts.
Listen, unless something really major happens, this is going to go down for Trump's second term as the biggest scandal.
This entire situation, I get what JD Vance has to do, Pat, and say, you know, the talking point is blame the Dems, blame the Dems, but the Dems weren't the one promising that all this stuff was going to get released, okay?
He didn't have people like Bongino and Kash Patel and everybody promising out the wazoo that this was going to get released.
And now the complete BSN lies.
And just say, just FYI, Gillain Maxwell, who's convicted, convicted of child sex trafficking, okay?
On top of conspiring to recruit and groom underage girls and all that stuff.
Okay.
She sat down for nine hours with Todd Blanch.
Okay.
Do you guys know who Todd Blanch is?
He's a deputy attorney general now.
Guess who he used to be?
Donald Trump's personal lawyer.
So, okay, so you sent Donald Trump's old lawyer to go sit down with her.
No cameras, no lie detector, no, just a closed-door conversation.
And we're supposed to believe that she just said Donald Trump wasn't on there.
Okay.
Like that, does that, is anybody even going to take that as truth?
It's just all this keeps, I don't even know what to think anymore.
Okay.
For him, guess what?
Okay, Trump wasn't at Epstein Island.
I don't think he was on the island, but there was many other instances where you could be hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and something crazy could have happened.
The guy lived in New York.
You live in New York.
Okay.
God forbid, Trump was somewhere and hanging out.
All these, what were all the teen model U.S., what was that?
What was the thing that he bought to Douglas?
Miss America.
Miss America.
Who knows who's around, who's young, and then they record you?
I don't know.
Did he ever hang out at Epstein's house?
Or was he at a party where Epstein are there?
And maybe they recorded something?
So you're fully at the place where you're speculating that Trump might be tied to it.
You're not saying, well, Michael Cohen's saying that this is another thing that they're using against him as the next witch hunt that they're trying to go after him.
You don't believe that.
You believe there's some credibility to the story?
Pat, because of the way that Trump and the administration and everybody's acting right now, you're acting guilty.
You know what I mean?
You're acting guilty.
All the footage of the thing that they released that has three minutes missing.
It's like the biggest bot, they botched the whole thing up.
Okay, Trump should have just came out initially and said, you know what?
Bongino and Castratel, they're all full of crap.
That's what he should have said.
Instead of saying, no, it's the Democrats, just like how they did with Russia collusion.
It has no correlation to Russia collusion.
Okay.
And the reason the Dems didn't release anything, PBD, because Bill Clinton is one of the biggest ones.
His name is plastered all over it 26 times on the freaking Lolita Express.
And even Kevin Spacey, do you remember what Kevin Spacey said, Tom, when they were traveling to Africa or whatever?
And he goes, they had young girls on the plane and he didn't want nothing to do with it.
Obviously, it's Kevin Spacey.
He admitted it.
He goes, I didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was.
But yeah, there was young girls on there.
And FYI.
And this is a fact.
Fact, check me, Rob.
Bill Clinton, when he flew on Lolita Express, he didn't have Secret Service on there with him.
What does that mean?
You don't have Secret Service?
Isn't that a breach of protocol, presidential protection?
Tom, why wouldn't you want to have them on there?
So maybe they could be witnesses later on.
Can you fact check that, Rob?
If when he was flying, did he add Secret Service not be on the plane?
This stinks to high heaven, okay?
I just want the truth.
By the way, we were promised JFK.
What do we find out?
CIA was involved.
Maybe Israel was involved.
No clear evidence.
What?
Did you not read any of the because JFK wanted to go check if they have nuclear weapons and they probably the Masada?
They killed me.
But Adam, I'm just saying.
Well, no, what I'm saying is this is what was all that released.
No definitive answers.
We were promised MLK stuff, nothing.
It's all smoke and mirrors, and we never get the answer.
I'm going to ask you a question, my emotional angry friend.
I'm not angry.
I'm not angry.
I'm just speaking facts.
You are angry.
It says it on your shirt.
But I'm not angry right now.
I'm going to give you two options.
I actually feel great.
Option A. Donald Trump figures out the world, solves all these wars, peace deals, economy, tariffs.
Everything goes according to plan, shuts down the border, immigration, everything.
But you never figure out what happened with Epstein and on Epstein Island.
Or the world falls apart.
Everything goes to shit.
The tariffs don't work.
There's wars.
But you find out every single piece of information about Epstein and that black book.
Which one do you pick?
Very interesting.
Which one do you pick?
Hold on, real, hold on.
Option A. Hold on really fast.
Adam, Trump, tariffs, world, war, Israel, everything.
And you find out he was with an underage girl.
What do you think?
Hold on, hold on.
So you're answering.
I'm answering the question.
Because your question is, if and what if.
No, no.
If you found out that there's footage of the president of the United States sleeping with an underage girl, how do you feel?
How does the rest of the world do?
What do you mean?
How does it do?
Does the rest of the world?
I'm saying, does he get accountability?
Because it doesn't mean that.
Let me answer the question.
I would pick option A a million times out of a million and let the theorists conspire of whatever they want.
Whatever they want to figure out.
It's a fact.
I want signal versus noise.
You want the noise.
And that's cool.
Adam.
You asked me if you had a question.
If you didn't want the noise entire situation, no, no.
Adam, how many times do I have to say accountability?
So I asked you the question.
You dodged it and flipped it on me.
You said answer option A or B. You said a maybe.
I don't want you to.
Is it option A or B?
I don't want to.
Do you want the world to do incredible, but you don't find out about Epstein?
Or you find out everything about Epstein, but the world falls apart.
What do you pick?
If finding out the answer, Adam, the world falls apart.
I want, if B means, if this is where you fail to completely or B, but you're still keeping the talk.
This is what boggles your mind.
This is what boggles your mind.
Go ahead, boggle your mind.
Accountability.
How many times do I have to say it?
If you've done the deed, you have to pay the price.
Plain and simple.
I don't care.
That's what you fail to understand.
You pick option B and you want to govern a city or in a world of ashes.
Adam, because if the city was built on pedophilia, let it burn.
I'm sorry, Adam.
That's how you, you don't think the way that I do.
I still love you.
I'm not advocating for pedophilia.
I'm advocating for those in the million other things that are more important than Epstein.
But this is your number one thing.
I get it.
I care about kids getting raped and murdered, Adam.
That's my thing.
You just went totally.
No, I didn't, because that's what we're talking about.
Over here, if you need me, Pat Tom.
Tell me.
By the way, what would you pick?
Option A or B?
Tom, could you help us out?
Option A or B?
I'm simply showing what Michael Cohen said.
And Michael Cohen is the number one guy that would want to go after him.
The number one Trump hater.
That would want to destroy him.
He says Trump is innocent.
And why is he not doubling down?
And he spent more hours with him than any of the guys that are with him on the administration right now, except for a couple people.
Okay?
And he knows all his dirt.
It's your lawyer for 20 plus years that flipped on you.
You don't think he talked to the lawyer about, hey, how do we handle Epstein?
How do we do this?
How do we do that?
Why is he not saying anything?
I don't know.
It's in the weirdest way.
Cohen has a lot of credibility.
But we'll see.
We'll see what's going to happen there with this story.
All right.
What else do we have before we wrap up?
Is there any other story, Rob, that we haven't covered?
Do you want to discuss the WNBA or no?
Let me see if I got another story before I go to the WNBA.
Tom, is there any other stories you guys got before we go to that?
About the Israel Al Jazeera.
Yeah, let's go to that.
Okay, let's go to that.
Let's end on a light.
By the way, I'm going to end on a light video I saw last night that made me laugh that I'm going to share with you guys.
What a funny prank.
I think the rest of you guys are going to enjoy as well.
Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif killed an Israel attack in Gaza City.
And so a 28-year-old well-known Arabic correspondent who reported extensively from northern Gaza was killed in what appears to be a targeted Israel attack on a 10-four journalist outside the main gate of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City as confirmed by the hospital direct Al Jazeera media network denounced the attack,
stating it was yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom amid the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing Israel assault on Gaza, which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, forced starvation, and the obliteration of entire communities.
The Israel military admitted targeting al-Sharif, claiming in a statement he served as the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas terrorist organization and was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israel civilians and IDF troops.
Tom, your thoughts on the story.
Well, there's a lot of sources that came out overnight.
IDF made a post about it on X. You would expect people are going to say, oh, of course the IDF says that he was there.
You know, that's their propaganda.
But there are other sources that were in here too that maybe they're just repeating the IDF.
But there's information and people appear to be publishing receipts here of databases and things where he had been identified.
And by the way, regardless of how you feel about this and journalists in war, which is a different topic, on this particular one, they're pointing out that in the dirty trick department, Hamas has got quite the resume.
And hiding behind civilians, hiding in hospitals, under hospitals, posing as doctors and posing as media, Hamas does this.
And so would it surprise me that this journalist was actually a leader of a minor cell?
And when his cover got blown, then people are saying, oh, it's a smear campaign by Israelis.
It's a smear campaign.
He really was this.
Well, maybe his cover got blown.
He got outed.
And so, what I mean, outed as a member of Hamas.
You know, puts that picture, Rob.
Yeah.
Well, here's what I was going to say.
Where is he?
He's the guy in the middle.
That doesn't look anything like him.
That's the guy?
I don't think that doesn't look like the guy to me.
The guy that just we just saw that Rob showed, that doesn't look like that guy.
No, yes, it does.
It's a couple of years different.
That's him.
A couple pounds different.
Well, regardless.
Here's what's happening right now.
I just went on Amazon and I just bought a nice little journalist press kit for $19.99.
What I've realized is this is I don't emotionally react to stories that come out good, bad, or ugly.
I wait for the facts to come out.
Do I want to see actual journalists reporting actual real news die?
Hell no.
We report stories here.
We know journalists.
I do not want anybody dead, innocent journalists whatsoever.
But what I've realized is that there's a lot of propaganda and there's a lot of people who are embedded in society here who are honoring the Hamas.
This guy right here after a cover, honored to stand with our crowns.
So whether it was this journalist or the journalist you're speaking about or any other journalist, this is who they are.
I remember a story of a journalist was found in Gaza and they were like, oh my God, we captured this guy.
They went and found his house.
Three hostages were in his house.
This was a journalist.
So just because you're a journalist doesn't mean you're immune from accountability.
And they weren't being interviewed about the horrors of war.
Can you ask Grock if that's actually him?
I'm just curious.
Okay, whether it was him or whether it was his best friend, the reality is this.
Oh, so just kill him if that's his best friend.
Well, here's what I love about Israel at this point.
They're not even denying it.
They're like, no, we went after this guy.
We believed that he was a terrorist.
So we took him out.
That's clarity to me.
I don't want to see innocent people die at all.
Unfortunately, it's killer be killed in the Middle East.
And some people just can't understand that.
And the woke West and the woke right just don't understand these people are coming to kill you and it's killer be killed.
I'm sorry.
That is what it is.
Go for it, Vinny.
What's the thing that you said right before about the corporate cards playing as journalists?
What I'm asking is, did they say that they were targeting him after the fact?
Like, oh, yeah, we're going after Frederick.
I don't know if you're expert on this.
An accident.
No, Adam, I actually read the news.
I don't sit in the car and watch the news on the way here.
I actually stay up till one o'clock in the morning and actually do my research and I did a bunch of people.
That's freedom fighters.
They're good talking points.
Very good talking point.
What'd you find?
I love the fact that when you're just asking questions, I'm either a Hamas supporter or I'm going to be anti-Semitic.
But go ahead and make your point.
It's the neither.
What I'm saying is they bring up that.
You can't even.
They banned reporters from even being in Gaza.
They banned international reporters.
How are you supposed to know?
Why are you banning them?
If you have nothing to hide, let us see what the hell.
The reporters work for a company called Al Jazeera.
Where's Al Jazeera based on the inside of?
But Adam, bomb every you don't just bomb the tension people next to a hospital and then just go, yeah, he worked for Hamas.
And I'm not saying, listen, I don't know the facts, Adam.
But what I'm saying is if you're not clip shit and who has killed the most?
Who has killed the most reporters, Pat?
Did we do that on Syria?
Tom, what is that?
Syria did.
Yeah, this is.
Do we have that?
We can just, you can search for it.
There's Israel Defense Forces, Tom.
That's like there's others too.
There's another media outlet that was Maya TV or everything, and it may be parroting the IDF thing.
But there's people that are out there publishing receipts on this that appear to be receipts.
I don't know the validity of it, but you know what?
There's a heck of a lot going on here.
Look, is this the first?
Just do this logically, Vinny.
Is this the first reporter to die in the arm com an armed engagement over there to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?
In the wrong place at the wrong time?
No, no, no.
Let's assume they're a reporter, not the first.
Then why is there so much static on this one?
What do you mean?
That's what I'm asking.
Why is there so much fuzz?
Because it only killed five reporters.
It only killed five reporters reporting on what's happening on the ground.
It kind of bothers me that there's so much buzz on this reporter.
No, Tom, it shouldn't be.
I don't think it's just about this reporter.
I think it's just for the past two weeks.
All I've been hearing and seeing is.
Are you saying like this is a George Floyd thing they're capitalizing off of?
Yeah, or something.
And why is there so much buzz on this guy to say it was so many sources?
Unless the IDF is just doing the most amazing marketing between Saturday and Sunday, pushing out all these fake receipts and everybody else is posting them, Pat.
That seems weird to me.
Why is it so important to say this reporter?
Vinny, I think, do you trust Muslims more than Israel?
Do you trust the report coming out of Gaza, Palestine, more than reports coming from Israel?
I don't think you believe anything Israel says.
I'm not saying I don't believe that.
I don't believe, hold on.
I don't believe anything unless I'm shown the evidence.
Okay.
And what I've been saying.
I don't know about that.
I think there's also, like, I've never heard you make a pro-Israel argument ever.
I've never heard you make a pro-Israel argument.
So to me, the reason why I'm going with this is the following.
I don't know.
So for me, if you came in, notice what I said when we were prepping.
I said, is it true that Israel the last two years has killed the most journalists?
I'm the one that asked that question this morning, pre-getting started.
So it's not like I'm coming in on fire.
For sure.
Because this is what I saw.
Let's look at it.
And I had Rob pull it up.
Then Syria came up.
But Syria was since 2011.
But the last two years was Israel.
U.S. was on the list as third place.
Top three countries were Syria, Israel, and us, right?
Okay, great.
But I think the part that you lose is when it's no matter what, it's all one side.
We're at dinner.
This guy's defending Nick Fuentes.
I'm like, what is Adam defending Nick Fuentes on?
He's, I got more respect for Nick Fuentes than anybody else that's saying stuff that they're saying about Israel, right?
You have to be very careful.
No respect for Nick versus Tucker, I think what I said.
Right.
No, specific that community.
It was what?
Fuentes, Candace, and Tucker.
And Nick has been saying what he's been saying a lot longer than they have been saying it, right?
Okay.
And what was his premise on the respect?
He says what he believes in.
That's Adam's.
He hasn't shifted.
Yeah.
I think the biggest thing here is, you know, it's almost become like if a white man is killed by a black man, CNN won't report on it.
But if God forbid Jussie Smollett, anything George for oh my god, Boems goes on, right?
You have to find a way to, because if I look what's going on right now in Europe, how bad do you think Europe's about to get?
Very bad.
Europe is going to fall apart.
And you know what's after Europe?
We're after Canada.
No, they're going to come here surrounding it and then they're going to try to target here.
What is Mamdani doing?
What is another guy that I think one I was watching this video?
This is UK right now.
I don't even know if we want to play this clip.
A lot of profanity.
It's just a lot of stuff like this that you can see.
But to me, it's you have to be very careful that you only follow accounts.
Like when I wake up in the morning, what account do I go and watch to see what they're saying?
I go to CNN because I want to see what counter arguments are being made there.
Blind spots.
But if you wake up and you just go to a couple things of guys you follow, because that's what you want to hear because it validates what you believe in, you'll end up having a lot of blind spots.
And I don't want to stop blind spots.
And that includes myself.
I have my own bias as well.
So I'm not sitting here telling you I don't have any biases.
But if I have to choose between the two, it's not even close to conversation of what's going to be happening.
It's not even close.
And even yesterday, Trump said that they're going to take over Gaza.
I don't know if you saw that.
That happened yesterday.
Trump just said, yeah, how are you going to take over Gaza?
We're just going to take over Gaza.
How are you going to do it?
We're just going to take it over.
How can you do that?
Under what jurisdiction?
Under the U.S. jurisdiction.
I don't know if you saw that or not.
I don't even know what he's doing behind closed doors.
We don't even know what things are taking place.
But we have to be very careful that the only thing we ever, ever see, is this the one Rob?
Yes, sir.
Yeah, can you play this rock?
You don't want to leave the land.
Some people say this is ethnic cleansing.
You won't be able to force them to leave the land.
This way.
We're moving them to a beautiful location where they have new homes, where they can live safely, where they'll have doctors and medical and all of those things.
And I think it's going to be great.
Yeah, any questions?
You said before that the U.S. would buy Gaza, and today you just said we're not going to buy Gaza.
We're not going to have to buy.
We're going to have Gaza.
We don't have to buy.
There's nothing to buy.
We will have Gaza.
What is that?
No reason to buy.
There is nothing to buy.
It's Gaza.
It's a war-torn area.
We're going to take it.
We're going to hold it.
We're going to cherish it.
And Mr. Brandon, take it under what authority?
Under what situation?
One authority?
Under the U.S.
So with so many opinions out there, I mean, if you asked me 10 years ago, if I would just trust Trump's instincts, I would say, hell no.
At this point, if there's one person who has all the information, whose instincts that I trust, it's one person and it's Donald Trump.
I'm sorry.
I didn't feel that way before.
I feel that way now.
And that's on most issues, if not all.
So including the Gaza one.
Yeah, I think you just, you know, it's very, very hard.
Like on my Instagram stories, I'm tagged.
You know how you go to see what stories you're tagged on?
Stories, videos, You don't even know what's going on over here, what they're doing.
I'm like, yeah, you're going to only send me one side.
None of the videos are easy to watch.
And then I get messages from Israel.
You don't know what's going on over here?
And I got it yesterday.
I won't give any names, but, you know, these are people that are in Israel saying, you don't even know what they're doing to the Christians and to this of this.
I'm also not fully there.
But I have the ability to watch both sides.
And I understand why you're sending me the clips to say what, you know, Palestinians are doing to Christians and Jews.
And I understand why you would send me the clips to say what Jews are doing to Gaza and Palestinians.
You have to find a way to not be emotionally caught up because then you are a victim of propaganda and they got you.
Hook, line, sinker, you're done.
And all you see is that.
And I'm seeing, believe it or not, more and more people now kind of stepping away and saying, oh, shit, I got a little bit in too deep here.
Let me step back a little bit and see what happened.
Neither side is innocent, but this side is definitely not innocent with the history that they have.
If they're so great, why isn't nobody else from the other side taking them?
You keep coming back more this way.
And I get that, you know, the motive of the other side, where they're at, what they're up to.
But you have to be very, very careful that you only see and hear and read what you want to see and read that validates your point.
Because then you have so many blind spots, so many.
And you can't be reasonable.
Now you're just fighting to be right.
Now you're just fighting to be right.
One of the best things about this exercise of sitting with the guys last week, this whatever you, not last week, Jubilee.
You know what was great about it?
To sit and talk to a bunch of 20-year-olds.
One guy was probably 45, 50 years old.
I don't know why he was there.
But to sit and talk to all these other guys that are students, it's also to see, oh, okay, that's an interesting argument.
Let me go look into that.
Like, I myself have things to go look into after the conversation with them to say, why did they say this?
What was this?
Okay, got it.
This one.
Well, this got a good point here.
One of the guys had a good point that I brought him back at the end to debate it.
But I can't just go thinking, I'm going to beat everybody in this.
No.
Because then you'll never learn.
You'll only be one-sided.
Can we finish with a laugh?
Yeah.
And then, Rob, can you play this clip here?
So let me tell you guys what this clip is.
This is a guy.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, if you got kids, this is not the part for them to hear because there's some profanity.
This guy decides to call his friends and tell them sweet dreams.
And his friends are like, what?
So good.
Have you seen this?
Not at all.
Of course.
It's so great.
Have you seen this time or no?
The fact that you haven't seen this is going to make it even better.
Go ahead, Rob.
Yo, what's good, bro?
What you got going?
No, no, I'll just call and tell you good night, bro.
Sweet dreams.
Hello?
What?
Yeah, what do you mean, good night?
I'm about to lay down, bro.
I'm about to get into bed.
I just want to call and tell you good night, bro.
Sweet dreams.
99, baby.
Why are you telling me good night?
I hope you sleep tight, bro.
Nigga, what?
What you mean?
You want me to sleep nuts?
All right.
All right, bro.
I'm going to talk to you tomorrow, man.
Sweet dreams.
Sweet dreams.
What's going on?
Are you good?
Are you good?
Yeah, bro.
I can't wish that you sleep good tonight, bro.
Nigga, when in the hell have you ever wished, bro?
I'm going to sleep tight, so I'm going to holler at you.
All right, bro.
Nighty night, bro.
Don't call my phone doing this.
You know what?
Of course the red bang on this.
Hold on.
So then he calls another guy.
Look at the tone.
What a great prank.
He calls his other friends.
Brother, there's multiple of these that are going on fire like this.
One more.
He's in.
I'm going to do one more.
He's having so much fun with it.
What's good, bro?
What you got going on?
Yeah, bro.
I just want to call and tell you good night, bro.
Sweet dreams.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I'm about to lay it down, bro.
I just want to call and tell you good night, bro.
I hope you sleep tight tonight.
I love you too, money.
It's been so many nights since I've seen you.
You haven't called me to say goodnight, but tonight, you're the fucking night.
Bro, call me and say goodnight.
What's happening there?
You alright?
Yeah, bro.
I just hope, you know, I hope you have sweet dreams tonight.
I'm going to have sweet dreams, so I hope you do too.
You want to hug, nigga?
You're going to hang up, Rob.
You're going to hang up.
It's hilarious, man.
These pranks that they pull, that guy had going randomly.
Anyways, sweet dreams.
Guys, do me a favor, Rob, can you run a quick poll on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday?
Okay.
We're going with this for a couple weeks.
See what happens between now and the vault.
But which do you prefer?
Monday, Wednesday, Friday model or Tuesday, Thursday model?
Because after today, we're not going to do podcasts tomorrow like we usually do.
We're going straight to Wednesday.
And if we won't do Thursday, we'll go to Friday.
But run the last poll.
I'm curious, guys, if you can comment on it.
And aside from that, gang, it's been great spending time with you guys.
We will do this again on Wednesday, 9 a.m.
Add it to your calendar.
We're trying to get started as close to 9 o'clock as possible.
Today we went 904.
And hopefully we'll get Wednesday right off the bat at 9 o'clock sharp.
