Trump Mail-In Ballot BAN, Joy Reid RACIST Take, Ketamine Queen GUILTY & Digital Guilt TIPPING | PBD
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick cover Trump’s push to ban mail-in ballots, Joy Reid’s racially charged attack over Elvis, the “Ketamine Queen” pleading guilty in Matthew Perry’s overdose case, and how digital guilt tipping is reshaping culture.
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1:10:49 - Joy Reid calls Elvis' nickname was racist.
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I feel I'm so excited to take sweet victory I know this life meant for me Adam, what's your point?
The future looks bright.
And Jay, goodness, better than anything I ever saw.
It's right here.
I don't think I've ever said this before.
I think it's a parole.
Welcome, everybody.
NFL preseason.
We're talking Parodi.
Yeah, what you missed today prior to this was eight men standing here watching Colin Farrell perform a song called Crazy Heart in this movie called, you know, you're going to lose.
You know, strong.
And everybody for a second forgot about it.
And I said, no, we're getting started at 8.59 and we got started on time.
I said, get out.
And everybody ran out.
And Adam went out there, finished the song with Colin Farrell.
And came back in because he wanted to hear what he had to say.
Colin Farrell, 20 years ago, something like that, I'm at a spa in Melrose called Voda.
And I would go.
There was a great Russian spa that I would take my guys to.
One day I'm sitting there.
That's the one, right?
That's it.
Yeah, they would have good, what do you call it? Caviar and they would make good borscht.
Believe it or not.
Borsch.
Phenomenal Borsch, if I remember it correctly.
And I took him there.
I didn't take him down there.
And these guy starts talking to me to my left with an accident.
I'm like, who is this guy?
I'm like, oh, shit, it's you.
Are you who I think?
Yeah.
So we did a survey this morning.
If anybody remembers his first movie, first big movie that he was a star, nobody could get it.
But some of you guys, if you can get it without Google and comment in the comment section, no chat GBT, no Google, no perplexity, no Grok, nothing.
See if you can get it.
Anyways, we're going to continue.
Stories we got today.
Okay.
Stories we got today.
Ketamine Queen takes plea deal in case that shock Hollywood.
Tom's got a lot to say about this one.
Trump tells Fox News he believes Zi won't act on Taiwan.
Trump pushes for eliminating use of mail-in balloting and voting machines.
And let me tell you, Newsom and others have lost their mind.
Michigan City Councilman Colin Camera stuffing election Dropbox with absentee ballots days before primary.
Uh-oh.
Chris Pratt comes out and says, be reasonable.
Roast anti-Trump Americans so my root in hatred, they reject his success.
After White House talks on Ukraine, Trump says he plans to set up a Zelensky-Putin meeting.
Zelensky funding Ukraine military with $90 billion weapons package.
Security guarantees discussed, which, by the way, the way he did it is actually very interesting.
He got the EU to buy $90 billion of weapons to give to Zelensky.
Finally, somebody is negotiating on the behalf of American people, which is great to see that.
I think moving forward, nobody should be able to become a president without being a good negotiator.
Like, you know how you think about what values you want the president to have.
They better know how to negotiate, Tom, don't you think?
Oh, absolutely.
And we're seeing it.
We need bureaucrats out and a businessman in.
And guess what?
Look at the results, America.
We need more than Sniffers to become presidents.
We need the ability to, yeah, that's right.
So Democratic Texas lawmakers spend the night on state house floor after refusing GOP demand for law enforcement escort.
That's an exciting story.
Workers are now job hugging or clinging to their positions for dear life.
You could have said workers are now job spooning.
Okay.
They don't want their jobs to go away.
Adam does this every day before podcasts.
I tell him to move away.
America's tipping culture spirals from 15% to 30% as digital guilt trip kicks in.
You know how you go to a regular store?
They sell shoes.
You buy the shoe.
Would you like to tip 22%?
I just bought a shoe, buddy.
You didn't bring me an Arnold Palmer.
I didn't get balsamic glaze.
I didn't get anything else.
You want me to tip you for 30?
And Vinny loves doing it.
Vinny says, why only 22?
Can we go 30 or 40?
It's just Vinny's culture.
It's a Middle Eastern world.
It's unbelievable.
It is what it is.
Unintended consequence of technology.
Housing starts climbed unexpectedly in July.
Wall Street Journal story.
Young adults say friendship is getting too expensive.
Folks, we can't be friends.
I lost three people today.
News survey finds 44% skip major events due to cost.
So that old song member, why can't we be friends?
Because I'm broke.
Why can't we be friends?
That's it.
We can't do it anymore.
Yeah.
Christian revival.
Believe in God triples amongst 18 to 24-year-olds.
And a 45-year-old allegedly is going to Christian.
I'm sorry.
Christian revival and belief in God triples amongst 18 to 24-year-old Britons.
I thought there was like a Jewish guy that was going to go to Christian churches.
MSNBC changed the name, folks.
I don't know if you saw that or not.
Unbelievable change.
Is that official?
It looks like they went to Hillary Clinton's marketing team with a new name.
I mean, you just got to see how it looks.
MSNBC to change the name to MS Now.
So they could have said MS13 Now.
I don't think the marketing is that small.
You know what it is?
All of a sudden, their Mara Sabatrucha ratings went up.
What channel do you want?
Hey, Vato, what do you want?
I watch MS Now Mara Sabatrucha Now.
In upcoming Comcast spin-off deal.
All right.
Joey Reed is upset at Elvis.
And listen, I'm going to play a clip.
If people forgot the greatness of Elvis, I'm going to show you something that maybe 95% of you haven't seen.
You're going to get the chills all over your body.
And if you do get the chills all over your body, just go say something to Joey and say, Joey, go do your podcast and go after other singers.
Leave Elvis alone.
But Joey Reed launches finger-jabbing rant against Elvis and says, nicknaming him the king was racist.
So now it's racist to call Elvis the king.
By the way, did you ever hear what Elvis said when they asked him about politics?
His answer, it's beautiful.
Rob, let's find that as what's an awesome, awesome answer.
What did he say?
Brandon and Alicia have it.
He said it's all Jesus' fault.
He just went straight to Mossad.
He says it's, I don't, he had strong opinions, but he went away from it.
So we'll talk about that.
Ashley St. Clair.
I don't know if you guys know about this girl.
Ashley St. Clair claims she's broke and facing eviction from New York City apartment.
I don't know how did she ever end up getting money from Elon or no, Rob?
I don't know if she ever got the money from Elon.
According to reports, there was a large upfront settlement.
I forget how much, but it was, I believe, in the millions, and then it was $500,000 a year annually for the child.
Oh, so she's trolling, is what she's doing.
She may be trolling.
Okay.
Andrew Tate sues TikTok and Meta, apparently $100 million.
He said $400 million in a video, but apparently $100 million, alleging the platforming collusion.
Apple expands iPhone production in India for U.S.-bound new models, which we'll see what's going to happen there.
I think I have a theory of what happened with that $600 billion that Apple raised from $500 to $600.
Tom brought up a story about Target versus Walmart.
Tom, I knew you just showed me that.
It's not in the stories.
We have to talk about that.
We absolutely have to talk about that.
That's a brilliant story.
I'm going to come to you.
It may even be one of the first three stories I'll come to you with.
Bad leadership.
That's right.
Carney left out a White House meeting with Trump Zelensky and European leaders.
It was an illegal trucker behind fatal U-Turn failed English language sets.
Oh, that video that everybody sees.
Yeah, it's not.
Russia open to bilateral or trilateral talks with Trump and Zelensky.
Putin, foreign minister.
Amanda Seals takes on 20 black conservatives in a debate bound to make your blood boil.
Anthony Weiner predicts Zorhan Mamdani will secure Democratic endorsement in a New York City race.
Well, you know, I mean, if Anthony Weiner says it, it's done.
Okay, so I don't know about Quran.
He is reading.
Eric Adams slams Zorhan Mamdani over prostitution stands.
Questions religious values.
Okay, so we'll see what happened there.
Now, today, a couple of things I want to share with you guys.
One, do you guys know what day today is?
Does anybody know what day today is?
Today happens to be the National Lemonade Day.
Okay, today.
It's actually the National Lemonade Day.
Okay.
So when you think about the National Lemonade Day, we launched this campaign a few months ago.
If you remember, the, Rob, if you can go to it, it was the zested forward lemon box, which ended up becoming a hit.
And we got so many awesome stories and testimonies.
The other day, I was reading all the reviews at the bottom of what stories people were saying and the reaction they got from folks.
It's absolutely awesome.
I'm going to read this to you.
Imagine someone's having a bad day.
Things are not going the way they wanted.
This box shows up, Valutain.
They open it up and there's a message there, okay?
An inspirational message there that they hear.
And then outside of the inspirational message, there's a few items.
A zested forward hat, Future Looks Bright hat, a few other items.
And it's a way.
What is that audio, Rob?
Is that Adam?
You?
Okay.
So I want to read some of these stories to you of people who use this and send it to others and what their experience was from the people that received it.
So here's one.
Hello.
Yes, yes, yes.
Amazingly zest.
Help me surprise.
Help me to surprise gentlemen who has everything and more for his 90th birthday.
That's awesome.
He was looking and listening to Patrick, never seen anything like that.
Whispered, great idea, touched the heart.
Me too.
Thank you.
My appreciation is going out to you, Lilia.
Okay, so that's one right there.
Next one.
My sister-in-law is going through chemotherapy.
She was very surprised and blessed by the gift.
Thank you for thinking of such a lovely gesture.
God bless you.
Here's another one from Eric Stewart.
My customer is going through some hard times with business and family.
The VT lemon box put a smile on his face with a heartfelt thank you.
Great idea, guys.
I can go on and on and on with these stories.
Folks, if you know a friend or family that's going through challenging times, go to vtmerch.com, place the order, zest it forward to somebody, make someone's day.
Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't receiving the gift.
Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't you getting the promotion, isn't you getting all of that?
Sometimes it's just doing it for somebody else.
So if you want to start your day, you know, for me, anytime I was having a bad day in sales the last 25 years, the first thing I would do when I would go through a lot of rejections, I would call five of my clients or five of my guys and I would tell them how amazing they are.
I would find a way to make somebody else's day.
Then my spirits would come up.
Then I would perform and go out there and, you know, make my calls and meet with my clients that I needed to.
So if you want to be able to do that for somebody else, send this to someone.
Not only will you bless someone's day, but it's going to come back and do the same thing to you.
So that's one.
Number two, August 27th, I want to remind you guys of what's happening here on the campus.
August 27th, we're given private tours of the entire campus.
Right now, we're building a soccer field here.
Literally, we're building a futsal field here, one of the biggest futsal fields in all of the state of Florida that's being built right behind me as we speak.
Every time people come and see our campus, they're like, we had no idea you guys had nearly 200 employees and you guys are doing all this stuff.
Yes, this is what we do.
Really?
Yes.
So if you're somebody that wants to come and get a private tour of what we're doing here at Valutainment, line holding, all you need to do is have a ticket that you bought to go to the Vault Conference.
So if you're somebody that's going to the Vault conference, if you get a general ticket, you can come here to network in the hangar.
There'll be a lot of surprises there.
But if you're somebody that gets a platinum or an executive, our guys will give you a tour of the entire operation.
Obviously, no cameras when you come to the executive floor.
And if you get a founder and a CEO ticket sold out, but if you get a founder ticket, and even if you're an existing CEO ticket holder, you come through, I'm going to give you the tour of the entire property multiple times with all the other people that are coming down.
We've already had hundreds of people that have registered.
This is limited to a certain amount of people because we're going to have security all over the place.
If you want to go out there and get registered, get yourself a ticket, Rob.
How does somebody register to put their names on the list?
I'm putting the link in the description right now, and it'll also be pinned in the chat.
Okay, perfect.
So he's going to put in the link in the description and it'll be in the chat.
So those two things: either make someone's day or get yourself a ticket to go to the Vault conference, come and get a tour of the office here, and network with nearly 400 other people that will be here as well.
It'll be a fun time.
Having said that, let's get right into the story.
All right.
So have we, what part of the stories, Rob, have we not covered with what happened?
Monday, the meeting that they have, we've not covered any of it, right?
Talking about Alaska at the summit in Ukraine and Russia.
We just had, I mean, the flyover we talked about with the B2 bombers.
That's a pretty gangster.
But the Europe, Zelensky, that meetings, that conversation we haven't had yet.
So let's go through that.
So at first, you see Zelensky posts a video of a meeting, some of the guys, of what he was going to wear.
And everyone's like, dude, this guy's not going to show up.
Are you freaking?
I was myself annoyed saying, are you kidding me?
What a terrible diplomat this guy is if he's not showing up with a suit.
He showed up like this at first.
Look at this.
The pre-meeting.
The pre-meeting.
The t-shirt, all this stuff walking through.
Still disrespectful.
Look at everybody's dressing like the rehearsal dinner.
But this is the rehearsal.
He's meeting everybody and still got a t-shirt on.
So then all of a sudden, Trump is doing his waiting to see what the guy is wearing when he gets out of the car.
And here's what it looks like when Zelensky shows up.
Okay, show this clip.
Watch this one here.
Go ahead, Rob.
For the cameras, watch it.
Yeah, there you go.
I dare you not to wear a suit.
Okay.
Dude, if he walked out with T-shirt and shorts, Trump would have slapped him right in the face.
We love him.
We love them.
Oh, wow.
We love them.
Roger continues to attack you and the telecars.
So, that's the visit.
Good.
They go in.
Johnny Cash.
It looks like me standing on the porch waiting for a guy to come take one of my daughters out.
You know, and you just stand on the porch and wait there.
He walks up there and you compliment the kid.
He's like this tall.
He taps him a little bit.
You know, it's just like, because who was the alpha there?
That was Trump's body language.
Everything's sitting there.
Trump didn't move an inch.
Zelensky had to move out of the car toward him.
Pat, if you were there standing and some young man came to pick up Senum, you'd probably have a gun or what would you have?
I don't even want to go there.
I mean, I'm going to have it.
Oh, you know, I'm going to be in the bushes.
Make the move.
Let me show you guys how to stay on.
Let's stay on this topic.
Let's not get distracted.
Rob, can you do me a favor?
I just want to show you guys what it was like the last time they had a meeting.
I want to remind you, Rob, if you can show this clip here, this is a clip of how heated it got last time.
In the Oval Office.
In the Oval Office.
And by the way, I'm telling you, we've not even reacted to this clip.
We've not seen this clip.
This was a very different clip.
No, we've not even reacted to this a couple months ago.
Yeah.
Okay.
I want you to see how heated it got the last time, where Trump pushed him in ways where you can really tell he was not happy and you can tell diplomacy lacked from the other side being entitled, coming in with what America's done for him.
So just listen to the exchange.
This is the last time, folks.
This is not just a couple days ago.
Go ahead, Rob.
I don't want to ceasefire.
I don't want to ceasefire.
I want to go and I want this.
Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you take it so the bullets stop flying and you meant stuff getting killed.
Of course, we want to stop the war.
But you're saying you don't want to ceasefire.
I want a ceasefire because you'll get a ceasefire faster than it agrees.
Ask our people about ceasefire.
What are they thinking?
That wasn't with me.
That wasn't with me.
That was with a guy named Biden who was not a smart person.
That was with Obama.
It was your brother.
Excuse me.
That was with Obama, who gave you sheets, and I gave you javelins.
I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks.
Obama gave you sheets.
In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins.
You got to be more thankful.
She's asking, what if Russia breaks the ceasefire?
What if anything?
What if a bomb drops on your head right now?
Okay?
What if they broke it?
They broke it with Biden because Biden, they didn't respect him.
They didn't respect Obama.
They respect me.
All I can say is this.
He might have broken deals with Obama and Bush.
And he might have broken them with Biden.
He did, maybe.
Maybe he didn't.
I don't know what happened.
But he didn't break them with me.
He wants to make a deal.
I don't know if you can make a deal.
The problem is, I've empowered you to be a tough guy.
I don't think there's a tough side without the United States.
You people are very brave.
You don't have to be able to do that.
We're going to make a deal or we're out.
And if we're out, you'll fight it out.
I don't think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out.
I mean, that is Biden.
You don't have the cards.
We heard this.
That's the part.
Paul's right there.
It's like yelling at your cards.
So just want to put this.
That's the last meeting.
We only got a clip of that.
That's the last meeting, guys.
You want to know how this meeting goes?
Rob, if you can go to the clip of what happens with this meeting, right, when they're together.
This time around, he's got everybody sitting in front of his desk.
He's got all the guys there.
That's him.
Macron is sitting in front of him.
Everybody's sitting there.
Go ahead and play the clip, Rob.
This is actually an interview that he did with Fox News where he confirms that the U.S. will provide air support for Ukraine if they come to a peace deal.
Go for it.
When it comes to security, they're willing to put people on the ground.
We're willing to help them with things, especially probably if you could talk about by air, because nobody has the kind of stuff we have.
Really, they don't have.
But I don't think it's going to be a problem.
I think if a deal is made, you know, famous last words, right?
But I think if a deal is made, I think Russia's had it.
They've all had it.
And for a very extended period of time, I don't think there'll be a problem.
But there'll be some form of security.
It can't be NATO because that's just not something that would ever, ever happen.
They couldn't do that.
So who would want that?
I mean, if you were Russia, who would want to have your enemy, your opponent, sitting on your line?
You don't do that.
So it was always thought that Ukraine was sort of a buffer between Russia and the rest of Europe.
And it was.
It was a big, wide buffer.
Everything worked out well until Biden got involved.
Okay.
So, Tom, your thoughts on this meeting, the visit, the videos, the clips.
What are you thinking?
Well, I love the fact how the meeting ended.
And it ended without any of the Europeans going to the newspaper and saying stuff.
You remember when the fight happened in the Oval Office, what you were showing there.
And remember what happened?
Starmer popped off to the newspapers and the first place that Zelensky went.
Remember this, Vinny?
Yeah.
Zelensky is now shaking hands on a going around Europe with a pat on the head tour.
That didn't happen.
I love point one.
I love the fact that didn't happen.
Zelensky says no to the American media, specifically Fox.
He said, nope, I'm going home.
I'm not going to do any interviews.
Thank you very much.
So everybody left the negotiation table, not leaking or popping off.
They went back to their respective corners.
That tells me that the moderation that Trump provided got people to talk and then not leak and go home.
Point one.
Point two, it says you suddenly had Putin from afar saying something halfway positive about coming together to talk.
So guess what?
Whatever you did, Putin is suddenly not over there.
Oh, we'll never do this.
Forget it.
Never mind.
You know, no, you didn't get that from Putin.
So what I'm seeing, the word trilateral is working.
And people are going to understand what this means.
Trilateral.
I am here and I will try.
And the triangle is the two people that are fighting.
And I believe this is a masterclass in negotiation.
He got everybody in the room.
He got Zelensky there.
Nobody leaked.
They all went back to their corners.
And then Putin speaks up and says, well, maybe in the next step, we will get together.
We will have the meeting, which is what Trump said he thought would happen after he met with Putin.
So it's coming true and it's not falling apart.
The thing that I don't like is the way the American media is trying to kill it.
I feel the American media, MSM, is like actively trying to kill it.
Well, what about this?
And what about that?
And this didn't happen.
And that didn't happen.
It's like, and you've got people like Rubio who are speaking back.
No, You don't know what happened.
You don't know.
You know this, but you don't know the other five things we did.
That's what I think.
Yeah.
And it's funny because when you're talking about media, the fact that Zelensky's like, I'm not going to Fox.
I'm not doing any interviews.
I wonder how much of that is Trump saying, don't even do any interviews with anybody.
I don't want anybody to talk about it.
Go home.
I'm going to call Putin.
I have one request from all of you guys.
Don't talk to media.
Go home.
Let me call Putin and handle this.
And then I'll follow up with you guys and tell you what's happening next.
I don't know whether that was the exchange or not, but that's the vibe I got.
And now the conversation becomes.
Would you have said that?
You negotiated.
I would have said that.
I totally would have said, it's just going to work, folks.
We all got to shut up.
I would have said that.
But the, you know, mainstream media talking about, well, I can't believe it was like a friendly thing.
And then clips came up.
President Bush invited Putin to go with his younger, older son to go fishing together.
Clintons met with them laughing.
Obama's, there's all these meetings with other people that they had these, you know, Obama went and sat down with a communist at a baseball game for a couple of days and they're laughing and the media celebrating, oh, look what's going on over here.
But no, no, no, if this guy wants to come in and create a peace deal, no, he is a guy that's, you know, totally owned by Putin and all the other guys.
But this is the part where I'm at.
I don't think it works anymore.
He's destroyed mainstream media so bad that MSNBCs officially changed their name to Mara Sabatrucha now.
It is officially MS Now.
Did you see this?
Can you imagine?
MS, they're so afraid of MS-13 that they changed their name to MS-13 Now.
I thought it was a little bit.
The only thing it's missing is the 13 in the middle.
If I was Mara Sabatruch, I would actually sue them for using our name.
This is like a, you know, what do you call it?
Patent law.
You should go out and say, what are you doing using our organization?
Copyright.
Yeah, where is that trademark on the bottom right?
What's this one here, Rob?
Right for Rachel Maddow.
I'm going to come back to all of you.
It's as if MSNBC thinks that that's going to change it.
Like the people are going to go, oh, this is a new network.
Nobody's going to forget.
The numbers are all time low.
And then, Pat, in regard to Russia, what people don't understand and all these morons on the left with the media.
Bush in 2008, that's during Bush, Russia went to Georgia, right?
Invaded Georgia.
Obama in 2014, that's when Russia seized Crimea.
And then Biden in 2022.
None of this has to do with Trump.
He's trying to fix it.
And that first meeting was like the arrogant kid Tom that spoiled that comes in.
And the father who's been away is like, hey, listen, we're not playing that crap anymore.
The old guy who doesn't even know what the hell day it is or what his name is or who his son is, he's out.
And I'm the new guy.
And this is a great example of a freaking alpha.
He's back.
He's back in charge.
And that's what the hell we need.
And that's what we've been lacking.
And as much as they can say, Pat, it's not going to do anything.
It's not going to change anything.
Change the name of your network.
Yeah.
And by the way, a part of this, a part of this was the fact that he agreed to sell $90 billion of a weapons package.
And the way he apparently brokered this deal, which is brilliant, Rob, I think you got a clip on this.
The way he brokered this deal is he got, I believe, EU to buy $90 billion of weapons from U.S. to send it to them.
So guess what, taxpayers?
You didn't pay for it.
EU paid for it the way they structured this deal.
So yes, he's getting the weapons, but now it's like, hey, EU, if you guys want me to keep sending stuff, you guys want the war to end?
Well, guess what?
Spend your money.
No, no, no.
We don't want to spend anymore.
Well, then let's get a peace deal here.
Yeah, we do want a peace deal.
Then great.
Then, because you don't mind spending our money.
Everybody spent some money, but he's now putting more the onus on them.
Adam, your thoughts on this?
There's a lot to cover, but Zelensky dressed up in a suit for one person and one person only.
It's Trump.
If Trump didn't have an issue with the suit, the guy would have showed up in a t-shirt.
We all know that.
As far as MSNBC, one of the main reasons they probably changed their name is because how many times does Trump go MSDNC?
All right, we don't like that.
They're very sensitive over there, the snowflake mentality.
It's worse now.
That's true.
MSMS now.
As far as Vinny goes, you said that, you know, I'm not trying to pick on you or anything like that.
You said that, you know, Trump had nothing to do with Ukraine, what have you.
However, he was impeached over Ukraine.
It was a perfect call.
I swear to God.
It was all BS.
Exactly.
It was all BS.
But my point is he was almost impeached over it.
He technically was.
Quid pro-crow.
That's why I learned that.
I'm not getting into all that.
I'm just letting you know there is some history with that.
But probably the most important thing that Trump said, and this is a global thing, not just Russia and Ukraine.
He goes, why would you want an enemy at your gates?
Basically, you need to have a buffer.
Talking about almost putting yourself in Russia's position when it comes to NATO.
And that is very true.
You don't want an enemy at your gate.
Why do you think we want a wall put up between the border of the United States and Mexico?
Why is the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea?
Why does India and Pakistan fight over the little piece of land right there?
Why is this land in Israel and Gaza need to have a buffer between Sinai after the war with Egypt?
Exactly.
So when you have enemies at the gate, you better have a freaking buffer, whether it's a wall, whether it's a DMZ zone, whatever it is.
So Trump is absolutely right.
Putting yourself in Putin's position, I totally understand why you wouldn't want Ukraine as a part of NATO.
So last point.
Could you imagine if Kamala was negotiating this deal right now?
Could you just picture Kamala in the Oval Office meeting with Putin, with world leaders, Zelensky, Kirstarmer, Macron, Georgia Maloney?
Could you just, how much would she fumble the bag if Kamala was in office?
Thank God we have to.
Go ahead, Vinny.
Well, I just want to say, that fake impeachment with Vinmin and all that, that has nothing to do with them going to war.
It was a, by the way, it was someone who heard from someone else that they heard him on the call saying something.
It was all BS.
And they even released the transcript that it was a perfect call.
So I don't know how you're correlating that with an actual invasion and Joe Biden saying, yeah, they could do a minor incursion.
He was inviting them to attack.
So that's what I'm saying.
You weren't picking on me because it doesn't correct.
Well, my point is, that's why I gave you the disclaimer.
I'm just saying he did have something to Ukraine.
He got impeached over Ukraine.
Yeah, but Adam, that's my point.
Whether it was a perfect call or horrible call.
He got the gate.
Russia, it's all bullshit.
Everything about that is BS.
Correct.
Everything is BS.
Well, no, and with his impeachment.
I mean, also BS.
Is all this stuff?
No, that's not.
Don't get him started on that.
No, what I'm going to say.
I had Michael Wolf on a couple days ago.
Two days ago, yeah.
I spoke to him.
And I was expecting him to go hardcore Trump all this other stuff.
He actually didn't.
This is the first time I saw him where he wasn't fully, it's all his fault.
What he did say is he says they were friends in the 90s and whatever, 2000s, they had a 15-year friendship because they would spend some time together.
But I was expecting more to come from Michael.
Instead, a lot of other things came up about other folks.
But let me stay back on this because I went off a little bit.
The point you were making here, Vinny, is on what happened there.
It's true when you're thinking about the timing back then.
But today, now, if they hold this meeting with everybody, where do they do it?
Because some places, if he travels to those countries, can arrest them on crime.
What do you call it?
Crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity.
I don't think he can go to Germany.
I don't think I think Putin cannot have the meetings in certain places.
They're talking about, you know, I think Putin wants UAE or Russia.
They're talking about back to Alaska again.
I think there was Budapest, Geneva, Switzerland came up.
So this next meeting for them to be had, you know, could be a lot of different places.
But there's a few other things in the visit.
Rob, can you pull up the clip of when they're standing there and he says, wow, look at that picture right there.
Bad day.
Bad day.
Remember that?
That's a bad day.
You know which one I'm talking about?
You want to see this?
Oh, this is a great clip.
So watch this, what he does.
He's pointing to the Butler pan.
So watch this.
Go back a little bit.
Watch this.
That was not a good day.
That was not a great day.
I got shot in the ear.
It was not my name.
He just stands.
By the way, let me tell you, that moment was 12 seconds.
That probably got 50 million, 100 million online views, right?
He understands that's 12 seconds.
That's what you call a brilliant marketer and a negotiator in one.
That's what he's got for everybody looks at him like, ah, shit.
A good day for a lot of us.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So it's interesting when he's playing all of those things.
And then afterwards, there was the hot mic moment that was released on both sides.
Did you hear this hot mic moment?
Hot mic.
So there was two hot rots.
Hot route.
Hot route.
There was a couple hot mic moments that took place.
One of them was with European leaders.
The other one was with Trump.
Which one do you have, Rob?
This is where the European leaders praise Trump for dealing with the press.
Okay, go ahead.
That's all we ask for is fairness with the media.
Thank you all very much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
Where's the hot mic?
Right.
here.
Oh, thank you for being so fair.
Thank you, Donald.
Watch this.
But he loves it.
He loves it.
He was saying that, Georgia Maloney.
Ah, the moment she says it, you speak.
This guy, go back a little.
You speak Italian now?
I never want to speak with my friend.
He's a very good friend.
I know.
I never wanted to speak to my press.
She doesn't.
That was Georgia Maloney.
Yeah, she hates me.
Because they see the issues with the press, right?
But then there's another hot mic moment, Rob, right?
Where, you know, Trump is talking.
Is this the one?
Go ahead, Rob.
Go ahead.
Sit down, everybody.
He wants to make a deal with me.
Trilateral.
Yeah, he wants to make a deal with me.
Can I show a question about?
Honestly, how much of a percentage do you think, because I think he'd be safe.
Putin's not stupid, okay?
Trump going to meet him in Moscow, how much of a statement would that be?
Like, listen, the guy is cool.
He's going to treat me with respect.
I came to Alaska.
I'm going to go there and show everybody, like, this is the respect that he's going to show me, and I'm going to show him.
What do you think, Pat?
Listen.
To go into the belly of the beast.
Yeah, so when you think about that, there's a couple things.
In negotiation, you want the other person to come to you.
Yes.
That's a power, you know, sign of strength.
And the part here that Trump doesn't have to think about that, he still may, they all came to you.
Putin came to Alaska, came to you.
Zelensky and the leaders came to you.
I think it would be wild if this was done in Russia.
I think that would be epic if it was done in Russia.
I don't think the EU leaders would agree.
No.
And I don't think Zelensky would agree.
Because the same way Putin wouldn't go to Germany, Zelensky wouldn't feel safe going into Russia.
He wouldn't want that.
But if I'm Trump for optics, dude, I'd love this thing to be in Russia.
It usually happens like at a neutral foreign site.
The Camp David Peace Accords gave a place for Egypt and Anmar Sarad and Chakenbegen to come together.
And then the Helsinki Accords.
And then Reykjavik, where the U.S. and Reagan and Gorbachev met to talk about salt and salt too, I think it was called.
So it's pretty traditional to pick a place that's sort of like a neutral field.
Go play the Super Bowl in a separate city where nobody has their own fans there and nobody claims favoritism or power moves.
Well, Reagan was West Berlin, right?
When he announced tear down that wall.
Oh, yeah, that was a speech he made there, but it was in Reykjavik when he said to Gorbachev, Gorbachev's, what did you want me to say?
And he turns to him and he said, you should have said yes.
That's right.
That's right.
Pat, you're absolutely right.
Don't forget, who's the big boss right now?
It's Trump, and it ain't even close.
Every world leader is coming to the United States, whether it's D.C., whether it's Alaska, to meet with Trump.
U.S. is still the world's number one superpower.
And you know who's conveniently just like not involved in this whatsoever is China.
China, I mean, they're not invited.
We don't need them around.
They're not involved in the war.
The whole world is trying to figure out this peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and China is over there sort of excommunicated, doing their own communist thing over there.
Let's leave them be.
Yeah, and by the way, there's a reason, but I promise you, you know, I had Ray Lewis here yesterday.
We did a couple hour podcasts.
And he was telling me when one time, you know, Bernie Sanders, the running back, okay, obviously Barry Sanders.
I said Bernie Sanders because that lady on ESPN didn't even know when Druski was wearing Barry Sanders jerseys.
And she clinched Doris Sanders.
So he tells me one time that Barry Sanders is coming in at a game where he's fighting for a record or whatever.
He says, listen, we watched him.
We knew he was coming.
You know what we did?
We said to the team, nothing's going to happen.
And the guy ran for 41 yards, 2.2 yards of carry.
He's telling the story, right?
You know who's watching every single clip as if a team that's sitting on the sidelines that they're about to have a bye week because they got another game coming up next week, but they're studying the tapes.
China's watching everything.
China's watching every, they've watched that thing, the mic, what do you call it, the hot mic?
They've watched that probably 600 times, and they have probably used AI technology to hear other conversations from 20 other people with 60 different screen studying, everybody's body language, how people reacted.
That's probably how in-depth they've gone.
That's my assumption because they have a target on what they need to go after, and that's Taiwan.
And they almost need to do that because what you see with the numbers that are coming up with China that they really were affected by tariffs.
And now the story comes about with Apple moving their expanding their production to India.
That's 60 million iPhones per year away from China to India.
What?
That's a lot of phones.
That's a lot of jobs.
China's losing a big account of a $3, $4 trillion company that's going away from them.
What if people all of a sudden realize that we no longer need to go to those guys?
If Apple's leaving, who else is leaving?
Who else is watching?
And so when you got Taiwan that's got 61% of the semiconductor chips with TSMC, which it stands for Taiwan Semiconductor Chips, they know there's a monopoly there.
Not a monopoly, but they have a lynch.
They got control.
You got to go through it.
China's not happy about it.
But Tom, I'm going to come to you with a story from Bloomberg is Apple expands iPhone production in India with U.S. brands, U.S.-bound new models.
Okay.
And there was some issue with U.S. and India as well, but this is a complete separate issue.
Apple is expanding iPhone production in India at five factories, including two recently opened plans to reduce reliance on China and U.S.-bound models with operations scaling up to produce all four iPhone 17 models ahead of their September debut.
This marks the first time all new variations, including pro-level versions, will ship from India from the outset per people with knowledge of the matter.
The more move aligns with Apple's strategy to diversify its supply chain amid U.S.-China trade attentions, with India now accounting for 10% of global iPhone production per Reuters.
Tom, what's the story here?
So what's been going on is Apple has been preparing for the China situation for about five years.
Apple has sensed very clearly discontent from the GOP side for years.
And they have also been, remember, the last thing you just said, 10%, 10% of iPhone production.
So it's not everything.
Moving 10%.
So they went to India so that they could get cheap labor rates in a country that got them less heat.
And that's politically.
And, you know, logistically, now if something does happen in China, like what if China attacks Taiwan and we put the hammer down and say, okay, embargo, no ships to any ports coming from China right now, no exports.
We would do that.
Like if they invaded China, they invaded Taiwan and just went there.
In addition, we'd be worried about chips, but we'd put the hammer down and say, economic embargo right now, nothing moves.
And then Apple would be like, oh, crap, I can't get phones.
So they had a political side of it and then a practical side.
The practical side was it's never good to have all your manufacturing in one place.
Something happens.
Could be the environment, could be a war, could be all these things you're talking about.
And so they were already doing that.
The punchline was Tim Cook telling Trump, well, we've been planning to move stuff out of China for a while and we're moving stuff to India and expecting Trump to be happy because it's hurting China.
But Trump moved your next five moves straight down.
Why don't you build them here?
Bring them here.
Why don't you bring it here to the USA?
I appreciate that you're helping that.
That helps me with China.
Thank you.
He didn't say it like that, Tom.
He wasn't friendly about it.
No, he wasn't.
He says, I'm not happy.
His key words were, I'm not happy that you're moving them to India.
What does that mean to me in states?
And I think that's the reason why he raised it from 500 billion to 600 billion, that additional 100 billion.
Apple thought that he'd be Apple thought that, okay, enemy of my enemy is my friend.
So Apple thought, hey, I'm moving some stuff out of China.
It gives you, it's going to help the bargaining chip.
And you get the response from him: no, that's, you know, one side that may be okay, but you know what?
Where is it here?
You know, I'll be right back.
You know, printers moving and everything.
Next day, Tim Cook, ah, this just in $500 billion.
I mean, $600 billion.
I'll be building chips.
I'll be building all the things here.
And that just shows you, again, the power of negotiation.
Because by the way, moving to India does help Trump, but he's not going to give that to Apple.
He's going to say, no, no, no, I want the next steps.
I want it here.
Let me tell you this: moving to India may help Trump, but don't forget this.
Here's what you never forget.
And people tend to consistently forget, my opinion.
So, how many years ago did the U.S. not worry about China's power and they were worried about Japan, right?
You go to the 1980s, 1980s with the auto industry.
The ping pong, the Xi Jinping, or, you know, the not Xi Jinping, what was the guy's name?
Ping Pong Diplomacy.
Ping Pong Diplomacy, but what was the guy's name that did the whole thing?
He brought this up in California the other day.
So when you think about it.
What was his name, Rob?
Was his buddy's name?
Zhang.
Anyways, you really got to practice your underwear.
But let me go with this.
The part to be thinking about here is nobody, Nixon didn't think China was going to end up being this powerful and this ambitious to want to beat America when he did the deal.
That was in 1972, 71, when he brokered the deal with China, the ping pong diplomacy.
Everything that Kissinger talked about was like low-cost manufacturing.
And Japan taught China how to have 5,000 banks with 35 loan officers each, with 35 locations, you know, taking 5.25 loans, all the stuff that they had in place.
That was at a time where China was not well respected.
And then all of a sudden, they're number two, about to be number one.
So you know what India is at right now?
Number four.
They're about to pass up and be number three.
India's about to be number three.
And guess what happens if you keep strengthening India?
India becomes China 2.0.
Now, they will say India is not one that wants to do war and India gets along with all their enemies.
They get along with China and U.S. and Russia and everybody.
They don't want to have a war with anybody.
That's India's, what do you call it, identity.
Except Pakistan.
Except until when you all of a sudden get a new leader in that maybe is not Modi and realizes that, hey, maybe we can beat China and U.S., let's go for everything.
And then India starts using the leverage.
So the way to fix it long term is to make sure you don't have 100% of your iPhone production being in China and India.
Why don't you bring 30% of it in the U.S.?
Why don't you bring 30% of it in U.S. and allow some people in America?
Guess what?
What if we did this?
What if Apple did this?
How do you think this would work out?
Just a thought.
What if Apple decided to sell 25% of their iPhones in America, numbered that says made in America?
Oh, wow.
You think people would pay $500 more for it?
I would do it.
Believe it or not, I actually think there are Americans that would pay the premium to get a Made in America phone.
And they would brag about it.
And that would be a test.
So what if you go do a small number of tests?
You don't need to do a big one.
Do 5%.
Do 10%.
Go do a small production of your phones made in America.
Pass the cost down to some American buyers.
See if they'll buy it.
Maybe they will.
Maybe they won't.
But I think that's what Trump is trying to say.
I didn't tell you to take the stuff to India.
I told you to bring this stuff to America, Tim Cook.
Why are you moving to India?
I'm not going to feel it.
So that's what I see happening here.
But, you know, there's still some feud going on with India in America.
Adam, do you have thoughts on the story?
Well, as far as far as India goes, as far as Apple goes, as far as China goes, there's plenty of companies in America that operate out of China.
I think Apple's the number one company.
McDonald's is expanding.
Yum Brands, that's KFC.
Starbucks operates there.
It'll be interesting to see how many of these companies basically maybe stop trying to make their way in the Chinese market right there.
As far as India goes, as far as India versus Pakistan goes, I'm on Team India.
But at the same time, India is two-faced.
They're friends with everybody.
Oh, we'll be friends with Russia.
We'll buy this.
Yeah, we're friends with America.
Modi is India first.
He's trying to make India great again.
They're trying to basically compete with China.
They're kind of like your friend that you don't trust.
That's your friend, but they're kind of a fake friend.
They're not a friend of me.
India is an interesting, interesting country, but I'd rather be seeing American operations operate in India, not China, that's for sure.
Yeah, I get that.
By the way, you just ran the poll, Rob.
A thousand people voted.
Watch this.
Would you pay 500 extra for a Made in America phone?
Look at what it is.
50-50.
By the way, that means yes.
Yes.
That means yes.
People would.
That means I would pay for it.
I do believe that's how you sell it.
You literally, here's what Apple does.
Think about the Apple box that's got American flag on it.
Oh, man.
Okay.
And it's only made for America.
You only got to do 5% of it just to test it.
There is a market of people.
You know what would happen?
Let me tell you what would happen.
There would be thousands and thousands of influencers that would buy the Made in America phone and post it all over social.
You wouldn't need to spend a single penny of doing a commercial on it.
You would gain a loyalist customer coming to Apple that 2,000 votes.
It's still at 53.47.
They're saying yes.
I would pay that additional 500 bucks.
We're up to something here, guys.
I would pay it.
Because guess what?
I'm saying we're supporting American jobs, American workers, Vinny.
Would you rather do it that way by paying more for an iPhone?
Or would you rather wait for the government to tax you and eventually give somebody a nickel?
I'm for that.
What year did Nixon go to?
71, 72.
So we're talking so.
How close was that to Mao's great leap forward and the cultural revolution?
That was right around that time, right?
Where are you going with this?
No, I'm just wondering.
I mean, it's interesting how China and America at this point are competitors.
Some might call them enemies.
We conveniently forget that 25 to 40 to 50 million people, million people just died in China.
How they die?
You killed them.
I mean, there was famines, there was communism.
We forget about all the deaths in communism.
But, you know, we get cheap iPhones.
So let's see what we can do with that.
Okay.
So Trump tells Fox News he believes Xi won't act on Taiwan.
Rob, if you got this clip here, on a Fox interview, news interview at a summit Russian accident, Vladimir Putin, President Vladimir Putin's ceasefire, told him he would not move on Taiwan as long as Trump remained in office.
Trump argued that world leaders, including Xi, would not attempt.
Is this someone wrap?
Yes.
Go for it.
You know, you have a very similar thing with President Xi of China and Taiwan.
But I don't believe there's any way it's going to happen as long as I'm here.
We'll see.
He told me, I will never do it as long as you're president.
That's President Xi told me that.
And I said, well, I appreciate that.
But he also said, but I am very patient and China is very patient.
Say, well, that's up to you, but it better not happen now.
Okay, Adam, thoughts on this?
Well, deterrence is a hell of a viable option.
You don't think China, you mentioned earlier, you don't think China's looking at exactly what's happening going on with the EU leaders and Ukraine.
If we let Russia invade Ukraine, what kind of signal would that deploy into China's mentality?
Do you think that if we didn't do anything, if we didn't fund Ukraine, if we didn't basically help our allies, whether it's Israel, whether it's Ukraine, whether it's whatever allies around the world, whether it's NATO, you don't think that's a telltale sign to China?
All right, now's the time.
So things are heating up under Biden.
How much do we hear about Taiwan under Biden?
We don't really hear much about Taiwan under Trump right now.
Here's a perfect reason why, because Trump is basically like, not on my watch.
Yeah.
Again, these are more things that when you see, you think about and say this is why they're watching it.
But guess what he just said?
If what the president is saying is true, and he's not adding 20% of what he calls it.
Which he probably is.
If he says, I mean, that's a campaign for the third term.
Somebody can listen to that and say that's a third term type of a campaign, which there's a lot of Americans that wouldn't mind having a third term with him.
Constitution doesn't allow, but a lot of people wouldn't mind having him for a third term.
But if he says that, and it's true, and China's patient, that means eventually they're going to go there.
You're one week leader away from that happening.
One week leader away from that happening.
And assuming Xi passes away, you don't think whoever takes over the leadership is going to be having the same level of ambition to go out there and take over Taiwan.
That's not.
Do you think that's ever going to go away, Tom, with the ambitions of wanting to go and attack Taiwan?
No, there isn't.
And I have something to add really quick.
This is buying time for the semiconductor companies to be building their fabs in the United States.
Check this out.
TSMC is building a fab in Arizona that's equal to 25% of what they have in Taiwan.
Intel is building in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, expanding their fabs.
Samsung is expanding.
These are all things that have started since 23, Pat, that are going to be done by 27.
Texas Instrument, 30 billion fabrication, 30 billion fab factory in Sherman, Texas.
Micron is in New York, but a large memory fab.
And Bosch is in Roseville, California, which is outside of Sacramento.
And there is an article that was in Satista, but I couldn't find the link to send it to Robin Time.
But it talks about this, this map that they've got.
Vinny, look at that map.
They're building everywhere.
So if Trump serves the 28 and then hell freezes over and a Dem is elected, it changes the Taiwan dynamic because we've got the fabs in place here to build the chips.
So because it'll still hurt, it'll still hurt.
But we're bringing chips back here to mitigate the risk of China and Taiwan in future administrations if they don't happen to have the same policies as Donald Trump.
And Pat, Trump's buying this time.
It was interesting in your conversation with Andrew Bistamante, the CIA guy.
It's interesting when you go multiple layers deep to figure out what happens if you don't make certain moves.
So, for instance, who is the access of evil, the accents of resistance they talk about right now?
Well, there's like five countries.
It's China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and maybe you want to throw Venezuela in there.
I mean, they're a little bit different.
But all those countries are sort of trading together.
They're operating together.
And then it's obviously the rest of the world, the democratic world.
When one thing happens, so for instance, Russia is embroiled in a conflict of war with Ukraine.
When Iran is trying to do their thing and they go, hey, Russia, we need some drones.
We need some warheads.
They go, sorry, bro, we're preoccupied.
Iran goes, and then what happens to Iran?
They fall.
And then all of a sudden, Syria, who was backed by Iran, when they're getting taken over by terrorists, they go, hey, Russia, Iran, can we have your back?
Sorry, we're at war with Israel right now.
So all these things have ramifications.
It's a domino effect.
So it's one, you know, people are like, why are we funding Ukraine?
Why are we funding Ukraine?
It's more than just funding Ukraine because there's multiple layers deep because Ukraine is embroiled with Russia.
Now, China has to basically step in.
And they don't want to do that because they don't want to help invade Taiwan without knowing that all these multiple layers basically happen because we're doing one thing.
You know, it's been really quiet.
Like, North Korea, have you even heard of anything from Kim Jong-un?
I haven't heard.
He hasn't had electricity for a while.
They don't have power.
That's what it's been.
I haven't heard a peep from that one.
They're trying to get their power back on.
Oh, I'm being sarcastic.
He has been no testing nukes.
Quiet.
And there was some news that health-wise, he wasn't doing the best, but that news comes along.
Can we say it?
He looks like a healthy guy.
His barber is like the guy that cuts your hair.
He definitely doesn't look overweight.
He's good.
He hasn't fancy.
Look how, I mean, the bottom one is a little weird, but he has some clean face.
No, that's my favorite, though.
Click on that one, Rob.
What do you mean that?
That's the best.
Well, yeah, he's had a long day here.
No, you got the backbone.
That's the nightclub.
That's the nightclub.
It's called the Moses.
Can you imagine his barber?
They'll pad the fire.
Him and Andrew Schultz cut that same barber.
Oh, my God.
No, no, no, no.
I cut his arm.
I'm going to come back.
Do you know the lies that he tells his people?
Yeah.
He's like, I played golf.
I shot an 18.
I did a whole bunch of people.
Yeah, that's right.
His dad did.
His dad published an article every single time.
Let's go to the next story.
First one should be a perfect score of 18.
Let's go to North Koreans.
He's the best-looking guy in North Korea.
I want to go to the next story.
The next story I want to go to is the story with Trump pushing to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines.
Okay.
Rob, if we can go to this one here.
And this is obviously not popular for a lot of people.
He announces on Truth Social that he will lead a movement to eliminate mail-in balance and voting machines, stating, Rob, if you have the tweet, I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, seriously controversial voting machines.
If he can zoom in a little bit, which costs 10 times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark.
By the way, can you tell Mateo to just have one of my glasses here?
We're there, guys.
I'm 46 and I need glasses.
Oh, wow.
10 times 100% of the sophisticated paper, which is faster and leaves no doubt.
At the end of the evening, as to who won and who lost the election, we are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.
All others gave it up because of massive voter fraud encounter.
We will begin this effort, which will be strongly opposed by Democrats because they cheat at levels never seen before by signing an executive order to help bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections.
Remember, the states are merely an agent for the federal government accounting and tabulating the votes.
They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them for the good of the country to do with their horrible radical left policies like open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender, and woke for everyone, and so much more.
Democrats are virtually unelectable without using the completely disproven mail-in scam.
Elections can never be honest with mail-in ballots voting, and everybody in particular, the Democrats know this.
I and the Republican Party will fight like hell to bring honesty and integrity back to our elections.
The Mail-in-ballots hoax using voting machines that are complete and total disaster must end now.
Remember, without fair and honest elections and strong and powerful borders, you don't have a semblance of a country.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump.
Tom, your thoughts on the story.
Well, you know what?
He's right.
And people have been talking about it.
In the back rooms of discussions of Bitcoin, there's also discussions of blockchain.
And blockchain technology would make one person, one vote.
You got to be alive.
All those things set up.
And guess what?
It would also increase turnout.
So all of the, by the way, there's a guy in Michigan that was just caught.
Stephanie Muslim back.
Just caught.
And it keeps going on.
So the elections were 99.8% correct.
No, they weren't.
They're not.
The media is covering that up.
It's been covering it up.
We've seen it.
We've seen pictures.
Now we got councilmen coming in there, stuff in the ballot box.
Trump is right.
The current system is broken.
And the only people that don't want to fix it is the people that benefit from it being broken.
That's it.
The Democrats.
Correct.
And so he's, he's, what he's saying is correct.
But what I'm pointing out to people is if you also, and Peter Thiel talks about it in the big book, oh no, not Palanter, not Theo, not those guys.
No, Blockchain technology across the board.
If you used it for our elections, you would basically one person, one vote, that's it.
And turnout would go up.
And Trump is right.
You get rid of this.
You get rid of, remember, when you ever announce to get rid of something, the louder they scream, the more you're right.
Exactly.
And I, and listen, I get what was the, what was the settlement with Dominion?
Dominion.
Oh, there was the big one, and then there was the one that was just like, 75% of 900 million.
Yeah, 900 million.
And at the end of it, 75, anyway.
Who was the guy that was on the show, Rob?
That said any computer can be hacked.
Any computer.
Harry Hursty.
Hari Hursty.
Okay.
So in that sense, I mean, you're right.
COVID's done.
There's no excuse for everybody to just sit home and do it.
Get your ass up.
Go stand in line and vote.
That's the American way.
And that's how we do it.
I know with instances of people that are abroad or whatever, that's a different case.
But for the majority of it, it's always going to be the Democrats.
It's always going to be places like California that have made it illegal to even ask for identification to vote.
What is that saying?
What is that saying to you?
You don't need an ID.
Don't even ask for it.
Okay.
Bring your, just like we did.
And California will give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
Oh, yeah.
We're going to get a nice man that made a U-turn in a truck.
Yeah.
I love it.
I absolutely love that he's doing this.
And guess what?
Play fair.
Level the playing field and we'll see.
They're panicking, Tom.
They are panicking because they know what this freaking momentum that Trump is doing, it's a wrap.
Republicans are going to be in there for a while, bro, unless something crazy happens.
Yeah, I think we need a Doge for our voting systems in America right now.
It's crazy that we can do anything on our phone right now.
I can open up my iPhone right here and get access to the entire world.
I can't vote on my phone.
What's going on here?
So if we learned anything from Doge, you know, dealing with waste, fraud, and abuse, how much, how many terms did we learn during COVID?
Absentee ballots, mail-in ballots, ballot fraud, ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, dead people voting, voter IDs, what states you have to have IDs, what states you don't.
I fully agree with Trump about bringing back honesty and integrity to our voting systems right now.
We saw what happened with Dominion and that lawsuit and Tucker Carlson and his not-so-nice words about Trump.
But, you know, at the same time, let me give credit to America.
Do you know what percentage of the world has free and fair elections?
40% of the world.
40% of the world has democratic, fair, and free elections.
Yes, there's problems, waste, fraud, and abuse.
United States, Canada, the EU, Japan, South Korea, certain countries, Democratic elected countries, 40%.
Another 40% of the world has what is called flawed elections or fraud elections.
Turkey, Mexico, India.
You don't even know what's going on over there.
Who won, who didn't win?
But then there's 10 to 15% of the world where it's just complete sham, fraudulent elections, or there's no elections whatsoever.
Russia, Iran, Venezuela, sham elections.
And then you have countries like Saudi or monarchies, EAU, and all that, that it's just there's zero elections right there.
So as much as our election system does need to be held accountable for the infractions that definitely happen during voting, let's not forget living in America, you still have a voice, much like unlike other countries.
Yeah, but we got to fix it.
You know, that argument that says, oh, it's so bad, all these other things here.
That's kind of like the mainstream media.
Oh, it could be so worse.
It could be like this.
Be like they just declare the results on North Korea.
He wins again.
No, I want to fix the one we got.
And if we're the greatest country in the world, we got the technology to do it.
Let's fix what we got.
Hey, Tom, I agree with you.
I feel like that we just went through COVID.
During COVID, we found out all the different ways that elections can be flawed and ballots can be stolen and stuffed in this country.
It's like the Center for Disease Control saying, Let me tell you about the nine new cancers we just found.
But by the way, everybody's healthy.
That's baloney.
That's kind of the way I feel about it.
During COVID, we found out all these ways.
Ballot harvesting.
What's that?
I'm with you.
And I agree with Tom.
If we've identified all these ways, why don't we go fix it?
So here's the part.
And that's what he's trying to do.
I think that's what he's trying to do, of course.
I'm with him.
But the part with this that's super scary, if he does pull this off, you know what America could finally see?
I don't know if you noticed.
There was a story that came out from maybe it's MSNBC.
I think it's MSNBC.
MS. MSNBC.
Oh, forgive me.
Mara Sabatrucha.
So it just came out from Mara Sabatrucha now.
Stands for more.
So when it came out, what they talked about is, Rob, if you can pull up the story, it was a picture of AOC Newsom, the new way of attacking.
Just go to their YouTube channel if you could.
Go to their YouTube channel, MSNBC.
You'll see this.
They're trying to say that everybody is going to the way that Trump campaigned.
Go to videos if you could, Rob.
Just go to videos and go down.
You'll see right there, all the way to the right.
Don't play it.
Just go to the zoom in a little bit.
Zoom in a little bit.
Look what it says.
Democrats are getting a MAGA-like makeover to take on Trump.
This is an Axios clip, right?
And you're seeing Newsom attacking.
You're seeing Mamdani attacking.
You're seeing AOC attacking.
They're planning on 2028, right?
Obviously, Mamdani is not going to be a part of that.
AOC could be a part of 2028.
So could Newsome.
But the reality of it is, if Trump is able to do this with Mailin ballots and Americans are witnessing how embarrassing the Democratic Party is, this is either going to be a dominant next decade of the Republican Party or the best opportunity ever for a third party, ever, for a third party that we've had.
It's truly one of those two things.
It's not like they're sitting around saying things that makes no sense.
If you go to go to Newsom's Twitter account, if you could.
This is Newsom's Twitter account.
You know, he recently, he's saying this.
Is this you?
You know, I don't know if you guys see this.
Go to his account, his personal one, Rob.
And he says, this you?
Yeah, this you.
Okay, this is how long ago?
This is how long, if you can go to it?
That was this morning, 1.55 a.m.
Okay.
So 1.55 a.m., he tweets this.
Matter of fact, I'm about to tweet something right back at him right now as we speak.
And I'm going to say, this you.
Rob, can you type in Newsom favorable, unfavorable ratings?
You can tweet it anywhere on, you know, X or Chat GBT or any of that.
Let's look at the numbers.
As of yesterday, okay.
Just go as of yesterday.
If you can type that in somewhere, okay, watch this, what everybody is telling us.
Okay.
According to one from yesterday, that's Julian Polly.
I want from yesterday, Rob.
Just go to Google.
Just go to Google.
I think it's the Lesource Pad is leading report by YouGov.
Okay, if you look at this, I have it right here.
If you can't find it, Rob, I'm just going to airdrop it to you so you have it.
And you'll see what it says.
His approval rating right now is in shambles.
Yep.
Okay.
Numbers just came that show Newsom has a 27% favorability rating based on 30 polls.
Let me say that one more time, folks.
Yes.
27% favorability rating on how many polls?
27 30 polls.
Great.
Unfavorable.
Great.
Horrible.
So underwater.
No, no, Adam.
Great.
Tom.
You guys follow this stuff closely.
Tom, can you tell me how horrible this is?
This is bad, as in very bad.
And this is why I keep trying to point out to people: I believe Pritzker is the choice of the DNC.
He may not have the power on a national stage, but I think he's the choice of the DNC, the establishment deep down underneath.
Because of this, this is like legendary.
Now, you'll find other politicians at times when, you know, that they may see this, but for right now, this is bad.
And I believe it's because the average voter sees behind and sees all the things going on in California.
And how can they not?
Now you ask yourself a question, Pat.
Why are they so unfavorable?
Well, guess what?
All you have to do is go look at them.
You can go look at the fires.
You can go look at what's going on.
You can look at the homelessness.
You can look at the unemployment.
You look at the drugs in the street.
You can find everything happening.
Rational people see this and go, that guy's not a very good leader.
And they don't have to live in California.
And you end up 27%.
Yeah, so where I'm going with this with the polls, and Vinny, I'm sorry.
No, no, no, go, go.
The point I'm trying to make is if he does this mail-in ballot and is gone, guys, this could be like the biggest expose of the Democratic Party ever that most of Americans didn't agree with you on your policies.
You just had a massive monopoly and control in so many different states.
Rob, how many states in America do I not need an ID to vote in?
Remember when we go through this number?
Come on.
Oh, probably didn't need to have a state.
It was dozens of states that I don't even need to show an ID.
What do you mean I don't need to show an ID?
Some states, it wasn't even a photo ID.
I think it's only 16 states that you actually require a, what do you mean?
I can't provide a voting.
Of course you can provide a provider passed before.
Chad GPT is now saying he can't provide a vote.
Yeah, go to another one and ask him.
I think it's only 16 states you don't.
So my point here, with this is Vinny, if this happens and they get demolished and he goes back to common sense, what the hell is the Democratic Party going to be doing next?
That's a great, I have no, there it is, there it is.
More importantly, New York, Illinois, and California, which is 11, Pat, or non-photo?
11 is non-photo.
And just photo and no ID required, period, is how many?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12 or 13 states.
You don't even need an ID to go vote.
Are you kidding me?
In what country?
A third world country?
No, in the greatest country in the world.
So if he pushes this and this leads to, Rob, just save this one because we're always going to come back to this.
Put it in your save stuff.
If he goes to the common sense route, it's just going to be a bad next couple of decades for Democrats.
And I hope so because at the end of the day, guys, we have to understand like people like Gavin.
And I know a lot of people are like, whoa, he has a family.
They look healthy.
Okay, family aside, he is the enemy.
That type of attitude, that type of leadership, that type of the transgender stuff in the schools, the way that he's, by the way, his resume, Gavin Newsome's resume is California.
Look no further, Americans.
And people are like, yeah, but he knows how to speak and he's tall.
And it's like, I don't give a damn about any of that crap.
And the biggest problem that he has, Tom, is him and AOC and they need to fight MAGA.
What are you talking about?
Or fight Donald Trump?
You're not going up against Donald Trump.
2026, 2028.
It's not about Trump.
It's about you.
What is your message?
And I'm telling you right now, Tom, they don't have anything, Adam.
It's zero.
And you know who's going to be the runners?
The Rubios, the JD Vance.
And then all of a sudden, you're going to be fighting this way, Orange Man Dad, Hitler.
And then you turn and it's JD Vance and it's Marco Ruby.
That's such a good point.
Things Adam who are going to tear your ass apart because those guys are locked in and they're waiting for you.
They're in the bushes like a lion.
They're just sitting there waiting while he's up there.
And it's like, give me, name me one thing, Adam.
And I know we can't.
Name one thing that he's doing positive, Tommy.
Give me, give me one thing where you could go, I'm proud of you.
Trans California.
Yeah, give me a freaking break.
And you nailed it, Pat.
Once that happens, it's a wrap.
Can I tell you how bad Newsome's approval ratings are?
How much they're underwater?
And Tom destroyed him.
And Tom was actually even being too nice to him.
On Trump's worst days, lowest approval ratings ever, Charlottesville, find people both sides.
That was misconstrued.
Russia, Russia, Russia, all the impeachment stuff.
COVID, George Floyd.
Gavin Newsom's approval ratings are still worse than Trump's worst days.
Wow.
That's how much Gavin Newsom is underwater with his approval ratings.
So you mean the podcast didn't help?
Him sitting there with his legs.
He didn't feel the podcast anymore.
You know, he did it like two or three times, and that was it.
Because turns out the podcasting thing is pretty tight.
And the way that he, by the way, and again, we give credit where credit's due.
The BSing and the professional lying character politician that he is and Trump.
And it's Trump and it's he's doing this.
And he's always not working.
Bro, none of these people.
And I don't care what they're doing to shift.
Change your title to MS Now.
And people are to, by the way, if you take a bag of poop and you just put it in another bag of poop and just label it different, it's still a bag of poop.
And that's what they are.
That whole freaking party.
By the way, the Democratic Party is finished.
It's done.
Let's not forget.
We covered this a couple weeks ago.
This is the lowest the Democratic Good Party has been good in our lifetime.
And wow.
I hope they improve because we need to do that.
We need two parties that actually are doing something for you.
I do agree with that.
Other than just complaining about how bad I do agree with that.
They need to get their crap together, but unless they do major shifts and change the gender ideology or the or the IDs or the open border, because at the end of the day, Adam, what scares the hell out of me is when I call him the enemy and you know, choose your enemies wisely, I'm being dead serious.
Gavin Newsom is the enemy because the moment he gets in, the border's going to be open.
Who's to stop him?
Yeah, the border's going to be open.
You think he's going to have conversations with Putin and all these people?
Hell no.
They want war.
When she comes, he'll clean up the streets for you.
Yeah, exactly.
And don't forget what Pat always brings up.
They're taking the 20% on the 80% issue.
Exactly.
I8020 issues.
They reap what they sow.
And by the way, what was we were complimentary when Newsom was trying to go to the center?
Yes.
Do you remember this?
Yep.
Everybody here was complimentary.
But guess what happened?
He went back.
He can't help himself.
Well, no, he can't help himself.
He's in California.
He's owned.
He's owned by them.
So he still campaigns as if he's running for California instead of running for the states.
And it's actually great.
Running for the United States.
It's actually great because the world, everybody is seeing what the guy's all about.
Fantastic.
But numbers don't lie.
Just like when he likes to go after Trump, unfavorable ratings of as bad as it is today, it's pretty bad.
It's pretty bad when you're looking at those numbers.
But let's continue.
Let's continue with a couple of the stories that we got going on here.
I want to go to the story of Joey Reed and Elvis Presley.
This one just really, I don't understand it.
I don't understand, you know, to go after something like this.
Like it's almost like she wakes up in the morning saying, How can I be viral for the dumbest idea ever?
And thinking, guess what?
I'm relevant.
They're talking about me and not realizing this is definitely not the way of doing it.
But maybe she thinks she is.
So, Joy Reed launches finger-jabbing rant against Elvis and says, nicknaming him the king was racist.
I don't even want to go through this.
Rob, do you want to just play this clip and let the audience see you?
Go for it.
They can't fix the history they did.
Their ancestors made this country into a slave, a slave hell.
But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian.
They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.
They got PragerU that can lie about the history to the children.
They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
We black folk gave y'all country music, hip-hop, RB, jazz, rock and roll.
They couldn't even invent that, but they have to call a white man the king because they couldn't make rock and roll.
So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.
Oh, her?
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Look at her hat.
By the way, just look at her hat.
The fact that her true colors, remember, she was on MS Now.
I'm sorry, it was MSNBC.
It's either changed soon.
The FDT hat.
It's like, that's your true colors.
That's a political activist talking her crap.
And like, I don't understand.
Like, how you nailed it.
How do you wake up in the morning?
And that's what you're talking about.
That's what it's talking about.
Mind you, it's 2025.
And people like Joy Reed, Pat, that's all they want to keep bringing up is racism and slavery.
And guys, we're not trying to erase history.
It's history.
It happened.
Okay.
What year was it, Adam?
What was the height?
Of what?
Of slavery.
I mean, the Civil War.
Civil War in the 60s.
60s.
And then guess what?
Like, think about it.
When slavery was abolished, when?
Yeah, when Abraham Lincolnshire was.
We've made and it happened.
So when you hear, it happened.
But when you hear people like this, when you hear white supremacy and white this and racism and slavery, it's as if it was yesterday.
Okay.
It's been done for a long time.
We're nowhere near where the hell we used to be.
Okay.
I hate that attitude.
It's divisive.
It makes people want to hate.
It just keeps reminding you of shit that happened in the past.
I'm not saying forget it, but can we move on?
Did you guys see the Jillian Michaels clip on CNN?
How's our girl doing?
When she said 2% owned their minds.
You go to this clip with Jillian Michaels.
Jillian Michaels, again, same thing.
She's on there.
They're talking about what percentage of Americans own slaves.
Watch this.
And they've been trying to target her since that day till today.
Go ahead, Rob.
Aga base, right?
So we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture to make sure it comports with Dear Leader and what the MAGA community does.
Some of those things that are out there.
Because have you looked at some of the things that slavery?
Yeah, slavery was a bad thing that we should talk about.
Okay.
He's not whitewashing slavery.
He's not.
He's not.
No.
He's not.
And you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty much what every single exhibit does.
Well, let's talk about the fact that when you can't tie slavery, you can't tie slavery.
Slavery in America was.
Do you know how much less than 2% of white Americans own slaves?
But it was a system of white supremacy.
You know how that slavery is thousands of years old?
White people were slavery.
Do you know who the first race technology end slavery?
Well, what's culture that's surprised?
I can't stand this.
I'm really surprised.
Do you realize Jillian?
I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery and in the context of American history.
In the context of American history, what are you saying is incorrect by saying that it was white people oppressing?
Every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad.
And that's just not the truth.
Like, for example, every single exhibit, I have a list of every single one.
Like, people migrated from Cuba because white people bad.
Not because of past.
Yes, no, it's in there.
That's what I'm saying.
You don't actually know what's in there.
Do you know that when you walk in the front door?
What exactly is that?
The first thing you want to do is that you're going to have to do that.
Jillian, you have a lot of stuff.
Yeah, I do because I don't think you're talking about.
Okay, I'll give you an example.
Yeah, please.
There's one called Change Your Game, right?
This has been an installation there.
Is gender testing fair in sports?
Does that, and then it goes on to talk about how it's complex to do gender testing in sports.
It's not complex.
It's basic science.
That's untrue.
It's XX chromosome, XY chromosome.
That's sports.
Is it fair to have biological men competing against biological women in sports?
No, but why is this in the Smithsonian?
So it's look, it's been completely captured.
First of all, it's totally practical.
And if you notice, I'm kind of the part I'm surprised with is when she's going through it.
Scott Jennings is sitting there.
By the way, I don't know if you know or not.
Scott's sitting right across from him.
He's quiet.
He hasn't said a single thing.
He's letting her go.
He's letting her go.
Can he keep going, Rob, to see if he says anything at all?
Or he's letting go, Keep going.
Keep going, keep going.
Yeah, I'm surprised Scott didn't say anything because normally in a situation like this, he would have jumped in and maybe he's waiting for them to come to her and he's just kind of giving her the floor.
But the reality of it is when they broke down the numbers and you keep going, she opened up the Pandora's box.
I love it.
She opened up the Pandora and they're losing their absolute mind when she opened this up.
Wait, don't say that only 2% of whites own slaves.
All whites were slaves back in the day.
That's what they want people to believe.
But no, it's not, Tom.
You look like you want to say something about it.
Yeah, as a matter of fact, this is why people will start to freak out when you bring numbers screens to it.
Because it's the step they don't want to talk about.
And you know what that step is?
What's that?
It's a boat trip back to Northern Africa when the tribes enslaved each other and they sold their prisoners for profit.
Slavery started with blacks enslaving and imprisoning blacks tribe by tribe in Northern Africa and selling them to people that then traded them elsewhere.
That doesn't make it right.
That doesn't mean we didn't need Abe Lincoln.
We needed Abe Lincoln.
That doesn't mean we didn't need 1864, 1865 and legislation.
We needed that.
That doesn't mean we didn't need civil rights in 1968.
We needed that.
But it also means no one wants to talk about the scope of the problem because it's their blankie.
Of course.
They can use that to keep doing things and to keep pushing things and to keep punishing and going back in retribution because their feeling is says reparations and retribution is forever.
I want that forever.
And I want to use it forever and I want to beat you with it forever and I want to get stuff forever.
We're not going to let it let it die.
It should never die in the pages of history incorrect or edited or change ever.
But we need to have the full story.
There was a very famous video that was a British teacher going after in, I think it was BBC, absolutely going after the newscast and saying, you know, slavery started in Northern Africa when tribes enslaved tribes after wars and they deliberately didn't kill their prisoners so they could sell them for a profit.
Of course.
This is their history, not our history.
It's what they wrote.
It's what's there was there.
And so it's like, no, no, you're not changing history.
No, we're not.
That's the record of what was there.
They kept records of it.
They were proud of it because they conquered other people.
They were proud of conquering.
And then they sold them to explorers and traders.
And so nobody wants to talk about that.
Nobody.
They want to take, remember, take a small percent, give them victimhood, make them a voting block, and then make them see bigger than everything else.
That's trans.
That's all the things you see.
That's the Democrat playbook.
We should never, ever walk away from the horrors of slavery or the need for it to be changed or the brave people or the fact that it was the Southern Republicans that had to get it through because the Southern Democrats wouldn't work for it.
That history has been changed, ladies and gentlemen.
We should never forget what happened and how it changed for the good.
But to go back the way Abby and those are trying to do it now and getting in Jillian's face when Jillian is bringing receipts.
And just you want me to do this?
I'm going to come to you.
Meanwhile, Rob, can you go up on ChatGPT and type in the following question?
Okay.
I'm going to text it to you if you can just literally type this in.
Exact question, and I'm going to give you follow-up on it.
It says, Jillian Michaels recently talked about only 2% of whites were slave owners.
Can you show where most of the white slave owners were?
What percentage was part of the South versus the North?
If you can just take that copy, paste, put it in there, and we'll go through it.
Go ahead.
Yeah, and just, and Tom, I love that you're saying that.
Nobody is saying, I'm saying they're acting as if we're going to forget.
Nobody forgets it was a horrible part of our history, but it is our history.
But it drives me crazy is people like that with the attitude that America was built on slavery.
Okay.
The truth of the matter is America took a very small percentage when it came down to it.
Okay.
Out of the 12 million Africans that were shipped across the Atlantic, guess how many came to the United States?
Less than 400,000.
Okay, you know where the majority went to?
45 million went to the Brazil and the Caribbean islands.
Okay.
Correct.
So to act like you're talking about numbers, scream, how much more screaming?
And again, horrible horror history part, but that victim, that whole, like, like it's happening, still happening.
That white supremacy, that slavery.
It's like, move on.
My favorite, my favorite interview, Pat, was with Don Laman and he was with Morgan Freeman.
And he goes, so you mean to tell me that slavery?
He goes, how do you fix it?
He goes, stop talking about it.
He goes, you're a black man.
I'm a black man.
Look at us right now.
Look where we're at.
He goes, who's holding you back?
He goes, you find that thing that you want and you go get it.
That's that non-victimhood mentality.
Rob, you have that one little clip?
Yes.
It's like it was such a beautiful moment.
He's like, what excuse?
Yeah, this is it.
Can you play it?
Plays a part in wealth distribution or either a mindset that you can't.
Yeah.
No.
You don't.
No, I don't.
I know.
Hey, you and I, we're proof.
Why would race have anything to do with it?
Put your mind to what you want to do and go for that.
It's kind of like religion to me.
It's a good excuse for not getting there.
Yeah.
You know, I said, probably get me in trouble, but I said to some of my colleagues recently, I know that it's an issue.
But I've been, it seems like every single day on television, I'm talking about race and it's because of the news cycle.
It's in the news.
But sometimes I get so tired of it.
Oh, no, you're not.
Oh, no, he doesn't.
No, you're not.
I want to just go, this is over.
Can we find if you talk about it?
It exists.
Right.
It's not like it exists.
I'm going to refuse to talk about it.
So let's come back to this.
Rob.
Can you do me a favor and go to that, Chat GPT, what the question answers?
Okay, so here we go.
Good question.
Julian Mike has collected only small minority Americans own slaves, about 1.5 to 2% of population in 1860.
And then if you go a little bit lower, the U.S. population, 31, enslaved people, 4 million.
White slaveholders, 385, 8 million.
Families, that's 1.5 to 2% overall.
Okay, so that part's accurate.
Now let's continue.
South versus North.
Almost all slave owners, holders, were concentrated in the South.
About 25 to 33% of white families in the South owned slaves.
This varied by state, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia.
Ownership was highly unequal.
Northern states, by 1804, all northern states had enacted gradual emancipation laws by 1804.
By 1860, slavery was virtually extinct in the North, not the South.
Okay, so now here's the next question I want you to ask.
I want you to ask, were most of the South Democrats?
That's all I want you to ask.
Were most of the South Democrats?
Okay.
Yes.
This is Chad GBT.
This isn't Grok owned by X. Weird.
Elon.
This is Chad GBT.
Let me read it to you.
Yes.
The South in the 1800s was overwhelmingly Democrat.
Southern politics before and during Civil War, the Democratic Party was dominant across the South.
Democrats on the South were the party of slavery and state rights.
They defended the institution of slavery as essential to their agricultural economy.
By contrast, the Republican Party, founded in 1854, was based in the North and opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
The opposition has triggered Southern succession after Lincoln, a Republican, was elected in 1860.
In the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln got almost no votes in the South.
Wow.
Southern states mostly voted for Southern Democrats John C. Breckinridge or constitutional unionist John Bell after the Civil War during the Reconstruction.
Republicans briefly gained influence in the South thanks to the freedom of Norton carpetbaggers, but this ended by the 1870s.
The South then became the solid South, voting almost exclusively Democrat for the next 80 years.
The Democratic Party in the South was deeply tied to segregation and Jim Crow law.
So, I mean, this is the part where Jillian kind of goes in, not on Fox, on CNN, boom, drops the bomb.
And then what happens?
By the way, you want to talk about the amount of hit pieces she's going to get?
It's just the beginning.
She's going to get so many more hit pieces of people coming after her, trying to defame her, say whatever they want to say about her.
But good for her for doing that.
And then showing the receipts afterwards, because even a Chad GBT that some would say is more left-leaning defended the argument of what Jillian presented, Adam.
Yeah, I used to be obsessed with the Civil War.
If you looked at it, when I was a kid, I saw a movie called Glory.
And if you've never seen the movie Glory, oh my God, you talked about Morgan Freeman.
He was actually in that movie, Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick, Kerry Elwes.
What a freaking movie.
I watched this movie.
I think I was like nine or 10 years old.
I was like, what is this all about in America?
Right?
And it was just so shocking and so crazy and just such an emotional roller coaster.
And you're like, this happened here in America?
Oh, my, I'm a kid.
And it was so interesting.
If you came into my bedroom when I was a kid, I had Pamela Anderson posters, a life-size cutout of Isaiah Thomas basketball, and the glory poster talking about the North versus South Civil War.
Very weird sort of dichotomy going on there.
But here's what I understood about the Civil War.
You know, racism, America, what's going on here?
Jillian Michaels, great point about only 2% of Americans or even the Confederacy owned slaves.
Flip it.
Do you know how many Union soldiers fought to free the slaves?
Two million soldiers.
Do you know how many Union soldiers died?
White people died to free the African-American slaves?
400 to 500,000 deaths to free the slaves.
So, Joy Reed, spare the racist drama because it was white people that died to free black people from crappy white people that wanted to run and operate their business in the South.
So it's so easy to be like, slavery, racist.
You know, the least, the word that has the least meaning to it these days is racism.
That's true.
You're racist.
You're racist.
Okay, now what?
I'm racist.
Okay, now what?
Can you show the poll?
Can you show the last three polls?
Can you show all three polls or no?
When you run on the podcast, or does it just show the recent one?
It'll just show the recent.
Okay, so go to the recent one.
Think about how our audience is today.
Before you pull it up, Rob, I hope they don't see.
Don't look, guys.
Don't look.
Tom, don't look, Tom.
So, the poll is: is Joy Reid right that White's calling Elvis King is racist?
What percentage of our audience do you think said yes?
35%.
Our audience, our audience, 10% of the time.
You looked at it.
You looked at it.
I swear to God, it's not.
Okay, Tom, what do you think?
You didn't even put it up.
I think it would be like 17, 20%.
10% said that.
We would look at this and say, oh, my God.
So, Adam's right again, Tom.
10% said that he is racist, right?
With the poem.
By the way, 5,000 people voted for this.
By the way, he didn't call himself the king.
People called him the king.
Oh, by the way, James Brown is a godfather.
So, oh, now we're racing.
But I want to do this, guys.
Guys, if there's a clip that I'll be with my kids, Vinny, I've showed it to you as well.
Rob, do you have this clip or not with Elvis?
If there's a clip, I'll send you the last performance.
It's specifically the one I like.
Yeah, this one right here.
So, this is a couple months before he dies.
This is the first time ever he performs Unchained Melody publicly.
The world hasn't seen this song.
It's coming out in two weeks.
You can tell he's either inebriated, he's either on drugs.
He is not doing well until he opens his mouth and you realize the magic of this guy, no matter how drunk he was, no matter what was in his body.
I feel like he still just watch this.
And you tell me if you would call this guy king or not.
Go ahead, Rob.
This is a song that I just recorded.
It's an old song called Unchained Melody.
I had to play the piano, so it'll take you a second.
Look at that.
I don't know all the chords.
If you hear me get my fingers caught in the keys back here, you know, not doing well.
Look how big he was.
You're going to make it your mind, son.
Get a hold of the microphone, put your scarf on, hold up, hold the ring, show him the right keys.
Breathing heavy.
Yeah.
Well, watch.
There's a reason why they call him King and never performed internationally because of his manager.
Yeah, that's funny.
I just recorded it and it, I don't know.
Listen to the way he talks.
Is it out?
Two weeks.
Got two weeks.
Two weeks to be on.
This song's been in so many movies.
Gokes, goes.
Brace for impact.
Sit down.
You'll see why.
I'm going to cry.
It's going to make you sit down.
I'm telling you.
You're going to have the chills all over your body.
I'm going to stay quiet and just listen.
How do you like it so far?
You like it so far?
Listen.
Listen.
Oh, my God.
Oh, I've hungered for a touch alone.
Wow.
No auto tunes.
Time goes by so slowly.
And time can do so much.
Are you still with?
I need your love.
I need your love.
Godly rivers flow to the sea.
Watch.
To the above Mr. King.
I'll be coming home.
I We can pause it right there, Rob.
Listen, I can listen to you.
The ending, though, when he goes, he goes all in.
Yeah, I mean, listen, there's a reason why they call this guy the king.
He was asked about his political views.
Look what he said.
This is what he had to say when they asked him about his political views.
Go ahead, Rob.
Mr. Presley, what is your opinion of war protesters?
And would you today refuse to be drafted?
I just tend to keep my own personal views about that to myself because I'm just an entertainer, and I do not say that.
You think other entertainers should also keep their views to themselves?
No.
It's their business.
No, it's their business.
Remember, he joined the military.
He served in the U.S. Army.
When his career was taken off, he was like, I'm going to go serve.
America.
Yeah, he did.
Let me tell you, he loved America.
And guess what?
If they called him the king and a market wanted to call him a king, good for him that they called him.
He did want to be called king.
Want to be called Clay?
So, anyways, by the way, just how you're saying that Elvis loved America, I don't think this is a shocking statement.
I actually don't think that Joy Reed loves America.
I think she doesn't.
Actually, she hates America.
She can go back to where her family came from.
I don't think you're wrong, but you know what she is doing?
She tried to job hug and she lost her job.
Oh, yeah.
So workers are job hugging or clinging to their positions for dear life.
This is according to the New York Post.
Folks, let's read this story.
Okay.
So the quits are among U.S. workers dropped to 2% in June, 3.14 million people quitting compared to 4.5 million in November of 2021, reflecting a shift from the great resignation to job hugging.
As consultants at Corn Ferry Road, employees are holding on to jobs for dear life.
Ultra Ulrich, Laura Ulrich, a director for economic research at Indeed, there is the stagnation in the labor market where the hires quits and layoffs rates are low.
Job growth has slowed with the hiring rates at its lowest in over a decade, excluding early pandemic days, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Matt Bowen, an executive search consultant at Corn Ferry, said there's quite a bit of uncertainty in the world, economic and political global.
And I think uncertainty causes people to naturally remain in a holding pattern comparing workers to skittish investors.
A conference board poll found 34% of CEOs plan to shrink their workforce in the next 12 months versus 27% planning to hire the first such imbalance since 2020.
Tom, thoughts on the story?
You know what?
The word that comes to mind, appreciation.
So now we're not printing money.
We're not just giving you stimulus checks.
And there were some bad things that happened there and some people needed those checks.
I get it.
But you know what we have now?
We have people looking around and they can't just, on a whim, flip off their employer and go across the street at lunch and say, and I want 20% more and I want to bring my dog to work.
And never mind, my work will be in my living room.
I want to bring my dog to work.
I'm going to work from home.
And all of this went over where, you know, there was a certain arrogance in the American workforce about it.
And now people are appreciating what they got.
And now maybe AI taking jobs, maybe not.
And maybe it's just we're coming to an adjustment in the economy or maybe not.
Or maybe people are just, take a look at the stock market.
There's profits.
So evidently CEOs are making good decisions because people's retirement funds are doing well.
And they're saying, well, Main Street's different, Tom.
Yeah.
I think what we have here is people are realizing that it's not easy or automatic.
Great people can go.
Vinny, think about it.
Who do you know that's really great at their job that couldn't go find another job right now?
That's really great.
That can't?
No, nobody.
Whoever's kicking butt at their job anywhere can go get a job somewhere.
Exactly.
Never struggle with finding a job if you create out what you do.
That's exactly right.
And go look at Indeed and go look at ZipRecruiter and go look at LinkedIn.
There's tons of jobs that are out there.
But for the people that are on the edge that maybe have a little bit of attitude, and now I disagree with this, oh, they're hanging on to their job for dear life.
Wait a minute.
I'm hanging on to my wife for dear life.
I don't want to lose that.
I don't want to lose my kids.
I don't want to lose a great job.
I don't want to lose a great opportunity.
So why is that so bad?
I think that what we're seeing is appreciation and it's harder for people on a whim to trade jobs right now.
And so they're not.
That's the headline.
It is harder to change jobs on a whim.
So some people are not changing jobs, but great people that reach milestones in their careers are able to find that next job because there's tons of jobs that are available.
And I love these, you know, these headlines that are just made to create clicks.
And the underlying message is the economy is just fine.
And great people that invested themselves with great attitudes and great skills are finding good careers.
And maybe people that are on the edge of that have to keep the job they got and maybe appreciate what they got.
By the way, you know what's the one thing about this story, Tom?
Who are the two people that they quote?
From what company?
Cornferry.
Corn Ferry.
What does Cornferry not like?
Your job.
Job huggers.
You know why?
Because Cornferry wants you to quit your job and go elsewhere once every other year.
Because the more you quit your job and go elsewhere, it's a new 25% commission they're making.
And they want you to go and stay at a company for one year.
So they get 100% of commission.
Two years later, they want you to quit to move you to another company again because that's how they make their money.
They can have one executive that changes jobs five times and they get paid five times on the same exact employee.
That's their business model.
I don't know if you understand what I just said to you.
Their job is to call you to be open-minded so they can move you five times.
They don't care about your, let me stay there and, you know, what do you call it, stay with a company for 20, 30 years.
If people stayed at companies for 20, 30 years, Corn Ferry doesn't exist.
Just so you know that.
They don't want that business model.
They sell moving.
So during COVID, when I was like, dude, they don't appreciate you.
You should do this.
That was the script.
They would call and say, do you ever feel like you're not appreciated?
Underworked.
Look, I mean, I've heard a lot about the company, but Vinny, you know, there's just, it's becoming where I'm not trying to say these companies are becoming, they take their employees for granted.
Really?
Yeah, they take their employees for granted.
And look, if you were ever open, I have three qualified jobs that they're willing to pay you bonus, that they're willing to do this and they're willing to do this.
And I know these guys, they would appreciate you.
And let me know if you're open to it.
Maybe simmer on it.
Let's you and I talk on Monday.
I know you're at work right now.
That's the script.
Simmer.
That's the screen.
By the way, now watch this.
You want to see part two?
Part two.
So that's Pat from Corn Ferry get you to move value attainment.
Okay.
And let's present Adam's the CEO.
Hi, Adam.
This is Tom from Corn Ferry.
I appreciate that you've got some job openings.
I'd love to help you find some people.
Go right ahead.
Corn Ferry makes a double.
Double dip in Corn Ferry.
Yeah.
Did you get it?
So then they move you.
By the way, they're not bad people.
It's a multi-billion dollar company.
We've seen their economy.
They're very good at what they do, by the way.
They're very, very good at what they do.
But that's the business model.
How does a divorce attorney make money?
Divorce.
You think, imagine a divorce.
statistic came up and said 99% of marriages are living staying together 30 plus years there is no divorce attorneys no they're done divorce attorneys got to be like hey I'll throw a focus your way come here well you seem really nice maybe hit us so you bring up the word appreciation I think there's another word that comes down when you're talking about employees employers and it's loyalty I've been with the company I worked Welcome Funds 18 years I'm a pretty loyal person.
Every time I would go to NALBA, I would get recruited by some insurance company, some carrier.
I said, listen, they treat me fairly.
They compensate me well.
I'm staying here.
It always weirds me out when I hear people, I said, you know, are you friends with anybody from high school?
Nah, I don't talk to anybody from high school.
What about from college?
I don't talk to those people.
I'm still friends with people from elementary, middle, high school.
I'm loyal to a fault.
I have friends for 20, 30, 40 years.
Do you know how hard it is to stay at a job for over a decade?
The average person in America, do you know how many jobs they have in their lifetime?
A dozen.
A dozen.
I've been at the same job 18 years.
And if Pat will have me, I'll be here another 18 years.
Sorry, guys out there.
They tried to fire me the other day.
I showed up the other day.
I said, I don't even work here, guys.
That's what makes this thing so difficult.
Shout out to Seinfeld.
But if you're compensated fairly and you're treated well, it's a two-way street.
And appreciate the opportunity and also appreciate the employee.
All right.
Let's go to the next one here.
This next one.
Vinny, I'm coming to you first.
Uh-oh.
A tip.
I'm going to give you a quick tip here.
Oh, corn fairy.
America's tipping culture spirals from 15% to 30% as digital guilt trips kick in.
Rob, can you run a poll?
Is this about molecular?
How people actually treat these things?
Because I see it now.
I'm buying clothes.
They're asking for tips.
I'm like, I just bought clothes though.
So the traditional U.S. tipping went from norm of 15 to 20% for goods and services has escalated from 25 to 28.
And 30%, driven by point of sale systems like Square, Clover Toast, which Flash, preset tip buttons, the rationale behind this is the most people emotionally don't want to feel cheap, so they won't pick the lowest option.
These systems often hide the custom option, creating pressure as the person who just rang up flips a screen around and stands there watching while you make your choice.
This shift term guilt tipping is fueled by technology, inflation, and pandemic era habits, pushing consumers to tip out out of shame rather than appreciation.
Vinny, your thoughts on this?
Well, it's crazy that this story came up yesterday because right before the podcast prep meeting, I was at Starbucks and I'm not even joking.
I just went in for a buffin.
The girl went a muffin.
A banana, banana.
Right there, Tom grabbed it, gave it to me.
Swing the thing wrong.
And the options were 25, 28, and 30.
And I was like, and they're looking at you like a puppy.
And I was like, listen, you didn't do any.
If you grab the muffin, because I like it warmed up, if you grabbed it and you threw it to some other barista, like, you know, the fish vendors and you grab it and they slam to the microwave, I'll give you 25%.
But 30%, it's absolutely ridiculous.
And you know what it makes me feel like?
Like, you know, that awkward, uncomfortable moment?
Rob, have you guys been to Publix in like the past couple months where you're standing there checking out, getting your groceries?
And then loud as hell, the girl that's running it goes, would you like to donate to the children's hospital?
And it's just a moment because everybody looks at you and you're standing there with ice cream and lottery tickets.
You're like, I can't, I can't afford it.
It's just that.
It's a cheap skin.
Yeah, everybody hates you, but it's just putting me in that awkward situation.
If I want a tip, I'm going to tip, but you have to do something for it.
You literally can't grab something.
You got to dance.
You got to do something.
You know, somebody told me the other day, too?
They went to go strawberry picking in California.
I'm not joking.
You know, when they go to check out the thing, it was 25.
I think it was somewhere like Bakersfield.
25, 30, 35% on the thing to tip for you going to pick your own strawberry.
I went into the field here.
I picked my own berries.
Oh, Tom, but listen, but I was sitting here watching you, giving you that good positive energy for you to pick the right ones.
Remember when I told you, no, stay to the right, stay to the right?
That's 30%.
It's unbelievable.
Adam, your thoughts on this tip here.
Yeah, well, you ever go to a store and you order Starbucks, whatever it is, and they flip the thing around, and then it's just like, you feel like Clint Eastwood and the good bad.
All good.
For 10, 20, or 30%.
I'm like, dude, all you did was hand me a sandwich.
You provided no value.
You turned around and did this.
I'm not tipping you $7 because you gave me a sandwich.
It's not happening right here.
So I feel you on this.
It's making things very awkward.
You know, Trump talks about no tax on tips.
We're not going to have any tags on tips.
How about no tips for no value?
If all you did was flip this, I'm not going to do a Russian roulette standoff with you right now to give you $7 for handing me a sandwich.
Save that money.
So, I mean, you Uber, you Uber, that's something like the guy's driving me somewhere safe.
You know what I mean?
You tip.
Correct?
Safe?
Be careful out there, buddy.
But you know what I'm saying?
Like, you tip, like, what, what are the topics?
Wait a minute.
Uber driver is performing a service, number one, and there's a fee for the service.
And you know that the service fee goes mostly to Uber and there's a part for him.
But when you get into Uber and they say, is the temperature okay for you like this?
Yes.
Okay.
He's giving me a service.
Would you like music on?
I've got in sometimes serious satellite radio and they'll say, would you like, and I'll say, no, thank you.
You can just, I'm going to make a call and everything.
But they're being very nice and they're polite.
And there's a bottle of water and then there's some mints and it's clean.
Yes.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
This guy's working and so now he's going to drive 30 minutes from the airport for me.
You know what?
I'm going to give him a tip.
Yeah.
Especially if he's a safe driver and it's a safe ride and it was clean and everything.
Now you're tipping for experience and effort above neutral.
Yeah.
The only time I give a tip when I'm doing an Uber in Miami is if they speak English because no drivers speak English in Miami.
Zero, none.
If you speak English and you're driving Uber, no offense, you need to find a better profession because you get paid on the amount of value that you can provide.
Why do they not pay maids a lot of money?
Because anybody can clean a floor.
Anybody can drive a car.
And I know that I'm coming at the English-speaking mijente out there, but anybody can drive an Uber.
I don't even know how these people, these people are probably not documented.
If I needed to, I would like to see what Uber's doing in their hiring process.
Not one Uber driver in Miami.
Habras English.
Well, they say ablas Esmaño, which I do.
How do we go from tipping to racial professionals?
I'm just letting you know.
Adam, what's your point?
I'm just letting you know, Tom.
You've probably been an Uber twice in your life.
Let the expert handle this.
They need to handle it.
Actually, how many times do you think you've been in an Uber or Lyft?
Oh, I mean, I can give you the number.
Thousands and thousands of thousands.
Give me a number.
Like, what is it?
5,000 times.
Okay, got it.
It's 5,000 times.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's, that's a, so 5,000, the average amount is what?
10 bucks, 20 bucks, 30 bucks?
No, for me?
I live in Miami, Pat.
What's average?
40 bucks?
Okay, so 200 grand on 5,000.
So 200 grand spent in how long?
10 years?
It's been about 10 years, Pat.
10 longer.
If you had an $800 monthly payment, so it's cheaper to own a car than Uber.
100%.
Well, here's the interesting thing.
100%.
This guy could have bought a bent.
I could buy it.
With a chauffeur, with a chauffeur.
What does a car run on?
Gas?
Don't you need insurance?
Don't you have a car?
Oh, wow.
Don't worry about it.
Keep opening.
Didn't you have a flat tire the other day?
I got you, buddy.
I got you.
You keep doing that.
Yeah, but you keep doing it.
Doing there was no way speaking English, Adam.
So for, you know, listen.
Yeah.
So let's go.
I feel like a rich limousine ride, but it's a Toyota Corolla.
That's good for you, buddy.
You keep doing that.
We're proud of you.
I appreciate you.
Next story, I'm going to go with your sarcasm.
This is not sarcasm.
I'm actually proud of you that you're not be drunken plea in case that shook Hollywood.
This is actually a terrible story, folks.
Ketamine Queen.
When you think about the story with Matthew Perry, this story was just dropped.
Okay.
Rob, do you got a clip on this or no?
I do.
Jasveen Sanga, also known as the Ketamine Queen, accepted a plea deal admitting she supplied ketamine that contributed to Matthew Perry's death in 2023.
With court documents stating she admitted to maintaining a drug-involved premises, distribution of ketamine and distribution of ketamine resulting in death and serious bodily injury, federal agents raided her North Hollywood home in March of 2024, seizing 1,700 grams of metamphetamine pills, 79 vials of liquid ketamine, MDMA counterfeit Xanax, cocaine, and $5,723 in cash.
With prosecutors noting she ran a drug trafficking operation catering to celebrities, Sanga sold 50 vials of ketamine to Perry via Eric Fleming and Kenneth Iwamsa, including ketamine laced through lollipops.
Jeez.
And after Perry's death on October 20, 2023, instructed Fleming to delete their signal messages per court records, Sangha faces up to 75 years in prison and $2.5 million in fines with her plea requiring forfeiture of seized cash and restitution to Perry's estate and other victims.
And she admitted selling ketamine to CM in 2019.
Who is CM?
Is this what is this?
C.M. 29, who died from an overdose per court documents.
Rob, is this the clip from it?
Tonight, the accused drug dealer known as the ketamine queen has agreed to plead guilty to charges connected to the death of actor Matthew Perry.
Prosecutors say she illegally sold him the drug leading to his fatal overdose.
The fifth and final plea in the case.
Here's ABC's Trevor Ault.
Nearly two years after the fatal overdose of friend star Matthew Perry, the so-called ketamine queen is now expected to plead guilty for supplying him with the dose that ultimately killed him.
According to court documents, accused drug dealer Jasveen Sangha offered Perry a sample of ketamine through a friend, and within weeks, 50 vials would follow.
The actor had been open about his longtime struggle with addiction, speaking with our Diane Sawyer a year before his death.
Addiction, the big, terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone.
But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.
Yeah.
Your disease is just outside, just in one arm push-ups, just waiting, just waiting for you, waiting to get you along.
Court documents show after Perry's death, Sangha tried to destroy evidence of her involvement, texting their mutual friend, delete all our messages.
Sangha is the fifth and final person charged in Perry's overdose, all of them pleading guilty.
In the end, these defendants were more interested in profiting off Mr. Perry than caring for his well-being.
Mary Sangha was just weeks away.
Pause it right there.
Vinny, thoughts on the story.
I mean, drew finally, justice served.
I mean, it was still a horrible thing with him with, you know, the addiction part of it.
And, you know, a lot of people were going to say, well, if it wasn't her, it was going to be somebody else.
And it was only going to be a matter of time.
I, you know, before, you know, before I've, I've, God had me find you, Pat, I was, I was in that, not the ketamine in this crowd.
By the way, I lived in North Hollywood right next to this girl, apparently.
I had no idea in Doho.
But, you know, hanging out, partying and doing all that Hollywood lifestyle stuff, everybody, especially in the hills, people had, there was dealers that would come to the Hill Pound Time, high-ranking, big, huge, A-list celebrities that had these people that would come in the hills and serve them all the time.
And then it was only until, you know, I lost two friends.
Because I don't know, like, again, did he OD or was it accidental or was it too much?
Because, like, when my friends passed, people automatically were like, oh, they, they, you know, they OD'd.
And they were poisoned because the cocaine that they did, they both did one little thing of cocaine.
Both of them died right there.
And then one of their girlfriends.
So, I mean, I think it's good that he has finally they're coming clean.
She's admitting what she did.
I don't know what.
So if she was facing 75, what is if you plea, what does it come down to?
That she's not going to spend the rest of her life in prison?
I don't know what it is, Rob.
Probably what, 20 years, 20, 20 or 30 years, but I don't know.
I'm just happy that finally they came out.
And they found him.
So that's all five people now.
So justice is going to be done.
How old is the girl, the ketamine queen?
How old is that?
I want to say 40, Rob.
Where is she?
42 years old.
And she's from the United Kingdom.
So she's not, she wasn't even born here.
There were so many guys like this, man.
There were so many guys like this in LA.
Guys that would buy 100,000 ecstasy pills at the time.
Guys that this is this is a very, very sad story of something like this happening.
But you know what Matthew Perry said, which was tough?
Waiting, because if let's just say that's a friend of yours, and you're like, I want to be around him all the time.
You have a life.
I had a friend of mine that we had an accountability deal.
And I would say, you got to call me because he would take 10, 20 vikidens at a time.
Die taking 50 at a time.
And he would call me.
And I would call him four or five times a day.
And I knew when he was on something, because this is how we talk.
He got into two or three accidents in a week of him just hitting people.
Driving?
Driving, hitting people.
So eventually I'm like, let him stay in prison for a couple of weeks so he can get it out of his system because he has to agree to go to a rehab facility.
You can't force somebody to go to it.
You can't put somebody in there.
But he said the most magical thing, couldn't wait until he was alone.
He couldn't wait until he was alone to manage his temptations while nobody else is around.
And the reality of it is, you're eventually going to be alone.
And when you're alone, what do you do?
Boom.
The dark energy shows up and you're like, hey, man, I'm going to take something.
That is the this leads me to the next story.
Unless a fan of you want to say something about this.
I mean, I've literally lost a handful of friends to drug overdoses.
I mean, I'm born and raised in Miami.
I've been in the nightlife scene.
I've owned bars.
I've been to clubs.
I mean, it's all fun and games until lights out.
So speaking of ketamine right here, this ketamine queen lady, in my experience, there's three different types of tiers of people that end up using the drugs, whether it's ketamine or other drugs.
Ketamine specifically.
So, you know, you're using it.
It's trippy.
It's euphoric.
You're hallucinating.
You're having a good time.
You're in the club.
The lights.
You're having fun.
All right.
You're having an out-of-body experience.
Okay, cool.
That's one option.
Second thing is you end up in what's called a K-hole and you're off in another dimension.
You disassociate.
It's about out-of-body experience.
And that can last a long time.
And I've seen people in clubs.
I've seen people out there in a K-home like, what's going on?
Leave her alone.
Let's go.
She's okay.
And then the third thing is you don't wake up and you overdose and you're gone.
And what happens is you build up a tolerance.
Oh, I used to take just one little thing.
Now it's two.
Now it's saying you said there's a guy who took 50 at a time.
This is insane.
So if you manage it, which I don't necessarily recommend, you know, I think Elon Musk has been on record allegedly saying that he's been prescribed ketamine for whatever, allegedly.
But you do too much.
I mean, you're not showing up to work the next day.
Here you go, Elon, right there.
But it's a sad thing.
And if you have friends that are doing this, just be like, I love you, man.
Please just relax with that kind of stuff.
Because you never know when they're going to be alone.
And they hit that thing one time and the cops show up and they drag their body out.
Yep.
This is a business model that people need friends.
They need the depth of friends around them and they need the Lord and they need faith because otherwise you end you end up in these dark places.
Who's George Nicopoulos?
Dr. Nick, Elvis Presley's doctor, who was put on trial and acquitted, lack of sufficient evidence, but he was prescribing Elvis Presley.
He had this big white haircut and everything.
Who's Conrad Robert Murray?
Mike Murray.
Dr. M. Right.
Dr. M. Mike Jackson.
Following Michael Jackson around and prescribing to him.
And then they all know it.
The celebrities and the athletes, they know what's out there.
Athletes at least have to pee in the cup and get tested.
And it kind of helps keep them and their entourage kind of at bay a little bit.
But Nickelback said it in their song Rockstar.
They'll get you everything with that evil smile.
Everybody's got their drug dealer on speed dial.
And I'd be like, now gonna be a rock star.
Yeah, and you hear that and you realize there is a business model that's just preying on these people.
And she's just the latest, you know, leech preying on people.
There was the, I'll never forget the interaction because we had another friend who I met him and his sister when they were 18, 19 years old.
And I went to one of his games that he was playing.
He'll remember this.
I'm not going to say his name.
I went to his game because he was using the same thing that the other guy was using.
And I went to him and I spoke to him.
And I told him, you know, I talked to the other guy, the guy that was doing, because I found out who he was and I want to spoke to that guy.
I told this guy, I said, I swear to God, if you continue with this stuff, it's going to be a bad situation for you.
Two years later, that guy stopped.
And he does very well now in real estate, wife, kids, beautiful sister, beautiful family.
I love that family.
I love being around the family.
He did some things that I chose to not do business with him 18 years ago.
Dumb mistake he made 20 years ago, 18 years ago.
But there are these guys that go around that sell these pills and they don't know what they're doing, but you're going to destroy someone's life.
And that person is someone's son, someone's daughter, someone's family.
I've told the story so many times where this one will wrap up on the story.
One of my friends one time is on PCP.
And he in the middle of the street, there's a basketball tournament going on.
He gets out of the car, goes up to an innocent kid, didn't do anything, just punch him in the face with the brass knuckles.
Oh man.
Shuts the guy's jaw.
30 days, he's eating through a straw.
By the way, this is a guy that was never a Christian.
He was like one of the crazy kids that I knew from high school.
And he says, you have no idea what happened to me.
The father of the son shows up to the house.
Have I told you this story?
Of the father of the son that he shut the jaw, punched him in the face with a brass knuckle, shows up to his house, knocks on the door.
Somebody else opens the door and says, I want to talk to your son.
He then comes to the door, looking at the fire.
He has no clue what this man is.
He says, Yes, hope out.
Uncle, what can I help you with?
He says, You know who I am?
I have no clue who you are.
Shows the son's picture.
So this is who I am.
You did this to my son.
He says, I'm not here to do anything to you.
I just wanted you to see my pain.
Wow.
Because one day you're going to have kids.
And I would never want you to have the pain that I have right now as a father.
But I wanted you to remember this face.
Jeez.
And the father's in tears.
He says, I can't talk to my son for 30 days.
Listen, I'm not sitting here telling you I walk on water and the dumb mistakes that I made as a kid and stupid, all this other stuff because some friends are doing you.
So you kind of want to be part of the cool camp as well.
That guy ends up becoming the reason why the guy that stopped and became a Christian.
Yeah.
He's the person that influenced me to go to Bible studies Friday nights from six o'clock in the morning to two o'clock in the morning.
Give you other Friday night.
Because I never thought he could change.
Wow.
He was the one guy that I never thought he could change.
And we went to Bible study together for a year and a half.
Year and a half later, I'm the guy at Pasadena in Colorado at 25 years old holding up sign John 3.16, Jesus is coming.
And the one guy that I told the story of took the 50 Vicodins, me and that guy invited him to Bible study.
He came one day.
He cried so loud, most painful.
We took him to a restaurant called Shaky's in Glendale.
We just drove past it the other day.
And in Shaky's, it was when at one o'clock in the morning, he steps out to go out to the car to get some Vicodin, and we followed him.
And he opens the black Mustang and he opens it up and I took it away from him.
And I'm like, dude, you can't do this.
Don't do this to me.
No, no, you can't.
No, that's not that one.
It's a different one.
They actually just shut down.
We drove by the other day.
We just drove by five days ago.
You told a story a week ago.
This is that story.
That's crazy.
That's the story, bro.
Right across from Conrad's that just shut down.
That's right where you said that.
Anyways, man, this is this is, and by the way, this is, this was one of my favorite people in the world who died.
And I miss him every day.
So anyway, sometimes the role that we play as friends is to ask, encourage, challenge, push, get involved as much as you can.
But at the end of the day, man, they got to want to do it as well.
They got to want to.
The good solution is just never get involved.
Just never get involved.
Anyways, gank, great spending time with you guys.
Again, reminder, August 27th, for those of you guys that want to come see the campus, you want to see the podcast that you want to see the studio, you want to see the hangers, you want to see everything that we got going on here.
For those of you guys that are going to the Vault Conference, go to vaultconference.com.
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Get your ticket.
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If you're general, you'll be at the network anywhere with 400, 500 other people.
If you're a platinum executive, you'll get a tour.
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