Patrick Bet-David argues that modern politics prioritizes charm over qualification, citing JFK's 1960 debate and Trump's wall strategy as pivotal shifts. He warns against misidentifying enemies, stating the true adversary is the globalist establishment including Larry Fink, Wall Street, and George Soros, rather than men or religious groups. Drawing on Lawrence Miller's "Barbarians to Bureaucrats," he urges America to find synergists to challenge entrenched bureaucracy like Mitch McConnell. Ultimately, Bet-David emphasizes that winning requires strategic enemy selection, personal resilience, and challenging the status quo to fulfill childhood dreams like minority ownership of the New York Yankees. [Automatically generated summary]
And then I go to the Army, I get out in the Army, I start wearing BDUs, and I started falling in love with ironing my clothes with starch from PX and shining my boots for a couple hours.
I love doing that.
And then when I got out and started working in business, and one of my guys at Morgan Stanley Dean Wooter said, you got to get a nice suit.
And then I put it on.
I said, I kind of like this.
And then, you know, the rest is obviously history.
And everything, well, everything that we're going to talk about is sort of, I would say, a congrats to both of us, because we both moved our lives and operations to this free state, and it has pretty much worked since then.
No, but obviously your house is a beautiful house, what you've got here.
Congrats to your success on what you've done.
Going from where you were at, I love you, I'm asking you, what are these VHS, you know, from stand-up to now being one of the most powerful voices out there, man, it's great to see what you've done.
You know, I was, well that's, truly that's why I wanted to have you in for this first show, because your dedication to success and trying to replicate that for other people, I mean, those days when I was doing that, I was broke.
I mean broke, I didn't have 50 bucks.
I was borrowing change to get a cup of coffee at Zabar's on the Upper West Side
so I could do a little standup at night to pray for the dream.
I had a buddy, this is totally true, I had a buddy who worked in food service for restaurants
who would drop off industrial-sized cans of tuna that I would survive on for weeks.
Most likely I'm gonna die of mercury poisoning, you know?
But that thing, like that thing, the struggle to the success.
Tell me, I know your story, Can you give me like the brief like struggle
When I was in the army, I would get the tuna because it was disgusting, but the can was like 49 cents at PX, and you would mix it with mustard, because at least mustard would make it tolerable, and throughout the day, I would have three, four, five of these cans.
W2 you have the option to fire and coach and send him to places, but 1099, you're working with these guys, right?
It's like you're running an insurance office and real estate office.
So he says, what do I do with him?
I said, well, let me tell you what I do in these types of situations.
I said, for a guy like me, I joined the army at 18, April 15, 1997.
I get shipped to Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
My ASVAB score wasn't high, so I only could be infantry or mechanic, so I became a Hummer mechanic.
I had 13 Hummers to myself.
I had a couple FMTVs and LMTVs, these are the bigger trucks, and I had a Hotel 8 certification, which means I can tow cars out of the mud, trucks out of the mud, and that's what I did for a living.
I thought I was going to do 20 years.
Literally, I'm going to be in the Army for 20 years.
Then I'm going to get out, I'm going to get an additional 10 points on my score to be working at the post office or cop or firefighter, because if you're a former military, you get that 10 points on the test.
So if somebody scores 75, but you're in the Army, you get 85.
If you do 82, you do 92, right?
So I had that advantage.
Then one day I get a call from a friend of mine, Kogan.
He says, hey, Pat, what are you doing?
I said, tomorrow I'm reenlisting for six years.
Really?
Yeah, I'm going to enlist tomorrow.
They got me everything I wanted on my orders.
I'm going to go Special Forces, Delta, Sears School.
You know, I speak five languages, so they're going to help me out to sharpen my language, and then I'm going to go to Vicenza, Italy, which is where I wanted to go to.
There was a beautiful unit there.
And then from there, you know, I'm going to do this for 20 years, and I'm going to retire at 38 years old, and then I'm going to go be a cop and firefighter.
He says, Pat, you've got to get out.
I said, I'm not getting out.
I'm signing my contract tomorrow for six years and I'm getting my Army Accommodation Medal.
I had gotten an Army Achievement Medal.
Tomorrow was a celebration.
Lieutenant Colonel Peacock was going to give me an Army Accommodation Medal.
He says, can I convince you otherwise?
I said, you can.
My dad already sent me a $250 camera as a gift for committing to reenlist.
He said, just give me an hour.
And this guy was the only guy that ever came and visited me in the Army out of my friends
And when you're in the army, you're alone, you remember all the letters.
I kept every letter.
Every single letter.
Anybody ever wrote me while I was in boot camp, I have all of it till today.
All of it.
You know like who's a friend and who's thinking and who's not.
All of them.
The people you thought that you're best, they never wrote you a letter.
The people you thought were like, they were okay, they wrote you 50, 60 letters.
So I'm sitting there, an hour later, it's now 1 o'clock in the morning, I've got formation early in the morning, I can't sleep all night, I've already promised my dad I'm going to re-enlist, he wants me to stay in uniform, be in the military, I get out in the morning, go to Lt.
Col.
Peacock, disappointing news for you, I can't re-enlist, I've got to get out, but David, what are you doing?
We got you the orders, you have no clue how much I respect you, but I'm getting out.
So I get out, they don't give me the Army Accommodation Medal.
And I like the predictable aspect, but I also have an uncertainty aspect.
The unknown fires me up.
There's an element of unknown that's exciting, that the level of curiosity, I want to know
what the possibilities are.
So then I get out.
I get out of the military.
I come out to be a Hummer mechanic and there was one shop at Camarillo and it was Thousand Oaks Camarillo that had a Hummer dealership.
So I go and I said, listen, I'm the best Hummer mechanic in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
And the guy says, listen man, we sell maybe one or two Hummers a month, each one.
We have one mechanic, if we're lucky, we don't need a second one.
And I said, I'm very good at shooting.
He says, listen, we don't need a hitman here.
You know, you're not going to use it in private.
So at that point, I went and took the test to be a cop.
I had 16 speeding tickets, so I couldn't be a cop.
And then firefighter, there was a hold.
And then boom, five year freezing, being a firefighter.
Then I get out and start making money in the financial sector, Morgan Stanley, Transamerica.
Then I started my own insurance company.
And the rest is history.
The point I was making with this meeting was, The level of grace God has on us, when you go back and think about the people you met in your life, some of them were, they made such a big impact in your life, but they're a five minute person in your life.
You're at Nordstrom's.
Your son is wrestling with you.
A woman over here who's 65 years old is looking at me for 10 minutes while me and Dylan are wrestling.
I said, ma'am, how are you doing?
She said, I'm doing good.
She said, do you know why I'm looking at you?
I said, why are you looking at me?
She said, because I remember when my kids were that age.
I said, tell me about your kids.
I have three sons.
How do they do?
What do they do?
One's a doctor.
One's an engineer.
And one's a lawyer.
Really?
All successful?
All successful.
All married with kids?
All married with kids.
Give me three secret sauce.
What was it?
I said, I'll only give you one.
I said, what's that?
She says, if you ever threaten to discipline your kids, follow through.
I was like, out of all the advice you can give, you give me this?
If you threaten them, always follow through because your word can't lose weight.
You got certain people that are one day, certain people that are a month, certain people that are a year, certain people that are a decade.
But if you think, like, if you have a relationship with the man upstairs and you say, how did this person come into my life?
What is the chance of me meeting this person or that?
What?
I'm the luckiest man alive, so when you look at it from that perspective, and then now when I wake up in the morning at the beginning, you and I were, you know, joking about poison in the drink, and I told you, I said, if God takes me today, man, I've lived the most incredible life.
I am so grateful.
Everything from here is dessert and bonus, and, you know, that's a brief element of the story I haven't told before.
I sense that you do, from watching your show and just watching what you're doing on Instagram, because I've noticed for me, and maybe this is partly just being a new father, I really am like, things have been good.
I don't want anything else.
It's good.
It's really good.
I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
I have the family I'm supposed to have.
I'm unbelievably humbled by that, and I don't know what to do with it sometimes, in a way.
Oh, I mean, listen, let me tell you, I can't tell you how ridiculous this movie is.
The vault conference we held with Brady two weeks ago, I talked about Meet Joe Black for two, three days.
Because the scene opens up with Brad Pitt shows up and Brad Pitt is death.
I'm not going to give you the whole story, but he says, I'm death and he keeps rubbing his chest.
You know, Anthony Hopkins, one of the greatest actors of all time, because he's having a heart attack.
And death comes and says, your time is here.
You're about to die.
He's 65 years old.
His oldest daughter is putting together the big party.
Presidents are showing up.
Senators are showing up.
Billionaires are showing up.
And here's a businessman that's a billionaire, gets in a helicopter from Hamptons, goes to Manhattan, does business, comes back, and you know, that's the life he's living.
And he's so close with his daughters.
They love him.
Youngest daughter is kind of like his right-hand person that's doing stuff with business.
And she's dating the other right-hand guy.
And this house is like a behemoth, 60,000 square foot house.
And impact, investments, board.
And I'm watching this movie.
Oh my God, it fired me up because it gave me urgency because my dream was always to have the family live close.
I want all my kids close to me.
Obviously, they don't have to.
They get to do whatever they want to do.
But I'm going to bust my tail to have so many different opportunities where if you want to be a realtor, you can manage our real estate portfolio.
If you want to be a lawyer, we need lawyers.
If you want to go do movies, let's go fund your movies.
If you want to go be a teacher, let's build a school together.
So in a way, if I'm teaching this to my kids, And I'm watching what's going on in America, what's going on with, you know, these guys telling Rumble what to do from House of Commons.
Hey, you guys better take this guy down and consider what YouTube did to them from UK's telling Rumble, a Canadian company based out of... Who the hell are you to say something about what they're doing to parents?
And you got 30 different cities who are in Canada protesting right now against indoctrinating kids and have so much respect for these parents that are willing to do the fight.
I'm sorry, some people maybe don't have a platform.
Like, you and I, who am I to want to sit here and just celebrate all this money I've made, the house I have, the relationships I have.
I feel like this is an era where God is looking for the flag carriers to rise up and we feel we want to earn the right to be one of them.
Did you have to do work to not feel guilty over success?
Because the mainstream idea of success, everyone wants to pretend it's only worthwhile if you came from nothing.
It's only worthwhile if you have nothing.
If you're always struggling.
But if you came from anything or you have anything, you should be guilty about it or feel bad about it.
And I actually remember the first time that I went to your show, which was soon after moving to Florida, and it was so, you guys loved success so much.
And obviously the last couple of years have been good to me, and it has been a shift in my mind to not feel any shame around it.
I feel pride over it.
I mean, I built this, I work with great people, I talk to people like you.
But it's like, you have to do work to do that, because you have to overcome what society's telling you about success.
And he's like, wow, that's pretty wild on what, you know, Kobe did to get to where he's at.
So then he's teaching my son.
Hey, if you really want to go there, you're going to have to pay the price because this guy paid the price.
I can't feel guilty for my son having to pay the price.
So, if others don't want to do it, I don't feel guilty for you.
So then the next phase becomes for us is you came from nothing, you're broke when you're
doing this comedy stand-up, and now you're living in an incredible home here and your
voice carries weight where people want your endorsement, people want to see what Dave
has to say.
You've spoken to some of the most powerful names around the world, and you are many people's
dreams.
One day people want to follow your footstep.
Well, they've got to pay the price for it, but the challenge is going to be for our kids.
Our kids are going to go through the other part.
Well, listen, you're a rich kid, and you're this, and you're that, and you're this.
I'm reading this book by Joseph Kennedy, and Joseph Kennedy in his book, when you read
it, one of the things he didn't want to do is never want to give credit to his parents,
because he wanted to say, I did it myself.
So, you know, as you go into this phase, our kids' challenge is going to be different than ours.
Last night, I'm really challenging one of my kids, hardcore right now, and my wife and I are having a conversation because we're reading Musk's new book.
Phenomenal book, by the way.
I don't know if you've gone through it yet or not.
It just came out, the story with him, Kimball, sister, two hours he would walk to this and how he would get into fights and bullied and the way his dad was and why he lived with his dad and Kimball, which is a very interesting story.
And it's like, babe, you know, I said, babe, you need to listen to this book because you have to know one of our kids wired this way, so we have to understand him better.
And she says, but you know, you think we're being a little bit too tough?
I said, babe.
If life is going to be, everything is going to be easy and perfect and no challenges, we need to create a little bit of challenges for our kids to be tougher.
And that's the element of as a parent, we need to be creative.
And that's not easy to do because we have the resources to make their lives very easy.
It's going to be very challenging for us and we at the same time need to have them have their own identity.
But one of the lessons I learned is we can't feel guilty for the price others have to pay.
Because, I mean, you were an insurance guy, and a business guy, and you were giving business talks, and now it's like you're talking to presidential candidates, and all the people I'm talking to.
I was a comedian, like the idea of fame was like built into the, I never was doing it to be, maybe subconsciously I was, I wasn't consciously doing it that way, but like fame was gonna be an extension of what I did.
You go into insurance, You're not going, I'm going to be famous one day.
There is no like sports, Patrick B. David, watch the way he signed his insurance policy.
There's no such thing like that, right?
It's kind of weird.
But I think what I like about it is the evolution of it, where it wasn't sudden.
What is very tough is no one knows who you are, and boom, here we go.
Like, Deion's son right now, you're seeing the amount of fame he's getting, but he's had the best mentor to coach him for, Deion, because Deion was, you know, the face, you know, the greatest athlete, I would say of all time, what he's done, just athlete, not winner, athlete, the greatest.
I put him number one, I put Bo two, I put LeBron three, the greatest winners of all time.
I got MJ and Brady at the top, then it's a couple other guys.
Can I tell you the wackiest one of those that I saw was a guy that you've interviewed and met many times, Jordan Peterson, when I was touring with him for a year and a half.
And think about it, this guy's a clinical psychologist, so he spent most of his life, he was teaching also, but spent most of his life helping people get off drugs, one-on-one like this, privately.
Then he becomes basically the most famous person in the world overnight.
And everywhere we went, we'd get to airports in Sweden and there'd be 200 people waiting for us because they got their life in order.
And he would talk to every single one of them.
I never saw the guy be rude or ignore or walk away from anybody.
We talked about it one other time when you were on the show.
So you basically did the last, was it the last interview with Kobe?
It was certainly the last big interview with Kobe.
Kobe were both basketball guys.
We picked our top fives.
I still think mine beats yours, but we'll do that later.
But Kobe, the day, I think, maybe I told you this privately, I can't remember, two or three days before he died, I was watching, just flicking the channels, and I flicked past, I lived in LA at the time, and I flicked past Comcast Sports or whatever the Lakers are on, and I saw Kobe, and I hadn't seen him in a while.
He had a beard.
And he looked like a million bucks.
That was my thought.
He looks like a million bucks.
And I stopped and I watched, and just the way he spoke, that calmness that he spoke with, and always licking his lips like he was just ready to chew the world.
And I watched for about five minutes, and I swear to God this is true.
I remember thinking, this is a guy who has done life right.
That was either the day or two days before he was dead.
And then the day he died, I saw it on Twitter.
I immediately began to tear up.
I was on tour with Jordan at the time.
I was about to get in an Uber.
I get in the Uber, and it's a young black guy as the driver.
He's hysterical crying, because he must have just found out at that moment.
Hysterical crying.
I said to him, I know, I know, it's Kobe, I know.
And it was very early, so I said, we don't have to go anywhere for a while, you wanna just talk about Kobe for a while.
Him, Christie, and all those guys, you know, Stojakovic, great team.
You know, it was like, I'm going to go this place, I'm not an athlete, you're going to go this place, but listen man, I'm going to bring the Mamba mentality in my own way in the insurance space.
And boom.
And then later on in 2019, there's a video of me dressed as Doc from Back to the Future.
And it's a video, I'll show it to you afterwards because it's not public.
And I'm saying one day, this is 2011, I have Doc's here, I'm wearing the whole thing, this event we're running, I brought the DeLorean, I'm doing a whole skit from stage with myself and a couple of our guys, John, Fred Terras and all these guys.
We're doing what we're doing.
I said, one day, 2011, I haven't even started a YouTube channel yet.
And I said, one day, the great Kobe Bryant will be on our show and we'll be having an interview and da-da-da-da-da.
So that vision was casted eight years later.
Kobe's at the event.
Our guys can't believe this is happening.
And he comes in.
Hour and a half we spent in a conference room together before he hits the stage.
He talks to Dylan for 15 minutes.
Dylan at the time was 5 years old.
He talks to Jen for 15 minutes.
They have the best conversation together.
Then a 70-year-old woman, 75-year-old woman comes in, very nicely put together, and he runs up to her.
They hug each other and they have the nicest conversation where you can tell the level of respect and love he has for her.
I don't know who she was, but there was a certain level of relationship towards each other.
And he says, so?
Pat, do these types of interviews live make you nervous?
I said, nah, I'm good.
He said, nah, me neither.
I played in front of 20,000 people.
I said, nah, I totally get it.
I mean, you're Kobe.
I don't see you, but I'm good at this point.
Then we hit the stage.
A thousand people run up.
We had to call the security.
The benefit we had, because the president was coming, we had 100 secret service, so everything was pushing them out.
And we sat down, we did the interview.
And obviously the rest is history, but the day when he passed away, we were at Seasons 52 in Dallas, in Plano.
That's the whole concept where you have to enjoy the process, even when you're in the grind driving.
To know that at any point this can be taken away from you, just enjoy it.
Because in some ways, people take that message and say, that's why I don't work that hard.
Why is the purpose of working that hard?
If I know I'm going to die one day, why am I doing all this stuff?
That's also not the right way of thinking.
I want to work hard with the people I love, and using the talents that God gave me, but if he takes me today, I'm good as well, because at the end of the day, you have no clue what that day is going to be.
It was more like, why did these guys, why'd you guys get married in the first place?
And thank God you did, but why'd you get married in the first place?
What was the whole purpose behind it?
So then I go to Germany and then we come to the States.
And when I come to the States, I go to the Army, and that was the first time where military stuff was going on, President Bush and Clinton and all this kind of stuff was going on.
And I'm like, interesting what's going on here.
Then I went into financial services and started competing, and then I realized politics is involved in insurance, Department of Insurance.
Politics is involved in being a cop, being a firefighter, running a business, regulation, financial industry, SEC, NASD.
It's involved everywhere.
And then when we were a small insurance company, politics doesn't do anything for you now, you're small, nobody cares who you are, you're tiny.
Then when we got bigger, and then all of a sudden we have a business that's national, we're appointed in 49 states, and we have offices all over the country, a few hundred offices, then you notice there's a lot of politics involved.
All the guys that were all nice to you, now they're like, you know, oh, you can build anything you want, you can be as big as you want, and then they're like, oh shit, he actually became as big as they wanted.
Now it's like you took business away from us and you're this and you're that.
I'm like, oh, so there is politics.
Then you go and you start studying.
I had dinner with George Will in 2009, March, with Claremont Institute, and I go to this event
and I watch what he's talking about with Larry Arnn and Larry Greenfield and all these guys.
And I'm going to these events with the owner of Public Storage at Malibu,
and I'm having these meetings with John Voigt and Dennis Prager is coming.
Then I launch a show in 2009 with KKLA, KRLA called Saving America.
A year later I shut it down because my San Francisco office closed down.
They said, I cannot believe you started a show and, you know, how dare you do this?
I'm like, wait a minute, what's going on with politics?
Then one day I'm in my office in Woodland Hills.
Yeah, who is this?
Yeah, you owe a tax assessor.
We're here.
You owe us $85,000.
I said, for what?
You're in the district.
You have to pay.
You're grown.
Your business is grown.
This is how much money you owe.
I said, what are you talking about?
I call my accountant who's downstairs under our floor, 8th floor.
I say, what is this all about?
He says, well, if they catch you and they're coming around, they knock on doors that are grown, it's hit and miss.
If they don't come to you, you don't have to pay it.
But if they come to you and they know you're a grown business, they can tax you.
You're in this district.
I said, are you serious?
So we have to pay this check.
Then I said, what districts don't they have this?
13 of them.
Victorville, Santa Monica, Burbank, blah, blah, blah.
I said, okay, I'm going to go to Burbank, Glendale.
So we move our headquarters to Burbank, Glendale, so I don't have to worry about this.
And we're in Glendale at the New York Life building.
And then all of a sudden I'm like, nope, we're not staying here.
Time Magazine comes out with the article, United States of Texas.
Then we go to Texas, we have a meeting with Governor Perry, with Mayor Masso from Frisco, it was the fastest growing city in Texas.
Then we go to a Rangers game with Nolan Ryan and we watch how these guys are recruiting businesses to Texas.
This is when Rick Perry would go to California, he would do radio shows, if you don't like the business, they're taking care of you, we're going to take care of you here in Texas.
And we're like, okay, great.
So then we moved to Texas, we fell in love with Texas.
And then COVID happens, politics goes to a whole different level.
My content was always around business, mafia, interviews.
It was not a political thing.
Then all of a sudden, politics becomes relevant on what we're doing with COVID.
So your politics were probably, you were kind of right-leaning in that you were probably for small government.
Less regulation, less taxes, blah, blah, blah.
Then COVID hits.
That's what basically drove us both here.
I had a pretty freaking good life in LA.
And then on whatever that day was, March 17th or whatever it was, two weeks to stop the spread, day two.
I was like, this place is never coming back.
And you know, I fought very hard.
I campaigned with Larry Elder for the recall, and I don't know if I've told you this, you know that three days after the recall, you know what happened?
You talk about getting a knock on your door from the taxman?
I got audited by the state of California after I publicly was backing Larry Elder in campaigning.
I would say for me, it's either in your DNA, it's either you've gone through losing things in the past, or you've had a moment in your life where you weren't paranoid and you lost it all and you're like, damn, I should have been paranoid, or you were too tolerant and Things were taken away from you or you were kind of like,
yeah, he's gonna be here all the time and then boom He's no longer he dies or she dies
So you have a different level of parent like when you read Musk's book you realize why he's doing what he's doing
because the pain He's gone through some of us have lived a harder life where
we you know We we are willing to use that pain to do something about it
but what I am saying is the fact that the So I used to pray for four things, right?
For the longest time, it's always been, as the David family, we lead, respect, we improve, we love.
We don't get bullied and we don't bully.
And we pray for four things, courage, wisdom, tolerance, understanding.
Courage, because if your vision is big, you're going to do something big, you're going to face certain things that you don't know how to handle, you need courage.
Wisdom, if you're planning on leading everybody, you're going to sometimes lead people smarter
than you and older than you, you need wisdom.
Tolerance because people are annoying at times.
You've got to tolerate them.
And last but not least, understanding.
Everyone's dealing with something, so it's good to have some understanding, right?
But the tolerance part, I'm not praying about it anymore.
I skipped through it.
I said, God, I ask you to give me courage, wisdom, and understanding.
I don't want tolerance.
Why not?
The reason why I don't want tolerance is because tomorrow I have a big show on PBT Podcast.
By the way, we've been working on this for months, and it got ugly, but we finally pulled it off.
I have two Muslims coming on the podcast, and I have two Christians coming on the podcast.
Till this morning, it wasn't happening.
Both camp, Baghdad and Baghdad, and we had to change some names because they couldn't get their passports, but we finally got them to be here tomorrow.
So we're doing this conversation together.
My goal is we can have a friendly conversation.
What do Jews, Christians and Muslims have in common?
That's my interest.
We can have the religion debate.
What about this with Christians, this and what about this, and what about this, and
what about this?
No problem.
What do Jews, Christians and Muslims have in common?
That's my interest.
We can have the religion debate.
Let's do it.
Great.
By the way, everybody could be wrong and everybody could be right and only one person could be
And we don't know.
That's why it's called faith.
Faith is believing in something that we have not seen, right?
It's faith.
Now, I'm a man of faith.
I believe in God.
The risk I'm taking is being non-denominational Christian.
I could be wrong.
But that's what I'm banking on.
I will not know until I die.
Now there's been many moments in my life to validate that I've chosen the right faith, but that's one on one.
I can't simply tell my testimony, you can say, you know what, what a powerful testimony, let me consider it as well.
But it's one on one.
Look what's going on.
When I study numbers, I'm like, how are 74% of Muslims voting Democrat?
Why are Christians so critical of the Muslim religion, yet, just so you know, Christians, by 2060, The world is going to have 10 billion people, 3 billion is going to be Muslim, that's 31%, and most of the Senate and the House will be Muslims.
How could you say something like that?
Because they have 2.9 kids per woman and you don't.
Because they have more kids than you.
Because they're more vested in their faith and more intolerant about disrespecting their faith.
That's my whole purpose, the premise of what I'm trying to do with these guys tomorrow.
I trust it's going to be fiery, but I'm going to ask questions and I'm going to say, look, if religion is where you want to compete, then go have more kids.
You're not doing it.
You're going to lose.
Just so you know.
You're going to lose.
Because they don't tolerate disrespect to their religion.
You do.
They have more kids.
They believe in having more kids and spreading their values and principles.
You don't.
You're going to lose.
It's just going to happen if it goes this way.
Now, that's one part.
Set that aside.
What's the other part?
Muslims.
Why 74% Democrat?
Why?
Just because of one policy?
Just because of one policy?
What's the one policy?
Just because Republicans are a little bit more pro-Israel?
Because the scariest thing that's going to happen to globalists And the establishment, if all of a sudden they see Jews, Christians, and Muslims being on the same page, they're going to be like, wait a minute, guys.
No, no, no.
You guys can't get along.
We've worked so hard to make sure you guys hate each other.
We have to keep these guys hating each other.
Spread a rumor.
Bring an old tweet.
Did you see what he said about Jews?
Did you see what he said about Muslims?
Did you see what he said about Christians?
And it's like, yeah, and stoke more fire, and that's why we can't like this guy.
I'm trying to get these guys because of Christians, Jews, and Christians.
Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
come like this, I think they're going to be shivering, saying, how the hell do we go up against these guys now?
Can I give you a good one that maybe you can drop with these guys tomorrow, is that I took my whole team, we did a week in Israel, and then we went to Hungary, and we went to Jerusalem, first four days in Jerusalem.
Guess what the most surprising thing about Jerusalem was to me?
Did you ever see, I haven't thought about this in 20 years, did you ever see, there was an interview that Mike Tyson did after one of his fights, he beats somebody senselessly, you know, at the peak of Tyson when he was just, six second fights, like, he beats someone senseless, I can't remember who it was, and remember Jim Gray was the NBC sports guy at the time, and they would just throw him out there, and Jim Gray was this little, like, little kind of frail white guy, and he'd get in the ring with all these big guys, and he looked afraid all the time, and he'd get there, and he'd be like, what do you think of the fight?
Hey, Michael, no one's going to remember us, they're going to remember you, but you're going to go through just like you go up, you're going to fall, and we're going to be here for you.
What a freaking speech, right, when he gave me that movie.
I got the chills.
I watched the movie three times in the first week.
I mean, look at this, you know, a lot of times when, you know, the establishment of sports wants to criticize the current players, right?
And they defend themselves from the past because it's easy to do that and they never want to give credit to the newer guys, right?
That one video of Elon Musk crying when he's doing a 60-minute interview and he's like, hey, does it hurt you the fact that these men were your heroes and now they're criticizing you?
So does it hurt you that these are men you respect and you admire?
Yes.
It hurts a lot.
That they're saying what they're saying about you?
Yes.
And then you're like, dude, look what he's built.
Look what he's doing, right?
So for me, I think I'm not surprised that that's taking place, but we need changes and we need some bold leaders to have the audacity to go out there and do the fight.
So that's actually a great segue to a little of the Trump-DeSantis thing that I wanted to do with you because you've mentioned, you mentioned before, DeSantis, they've moved it on you a couple of times.
I have no doubt it's gonna happen.
You've met him privately.
Okay, fine.
My sense with you and DeSantis is that you like him a lot on policies.
You moved here because of Florida.
You seem to think he has some kind of marketing thing, and I think that's probably right.
I think that's probably right.
Trump is a brilliant marketer, and it's kind of messy below the hood.
And DeSantis, the policies are below the hood, it's all great, but there's a marketing issue there.
Is that what you're seeing?
Is that kind of like a rough estimation of kind of where you're at?
So Nixon didn't sleep, he had a 4 o'clock shave, and John F. Kennedy went tanning, he slept 10 hours that night, had a good meal, looked good, calm, came, crushed it, right?
Well, guess what?
It changed.
It went from needing a voice, because everybody's like, Listen to the radio, to now, radio in your face, oh my God, he looks, Nixon, right?
Who's probably more qualified to be president?
Nixon.
Nixon was more qualified to be president, but he lost, because the game changed.
So America wanted to see somebody that was young, eccentric, attractive, well-spoken, calm, you know, carried himself very well.
Okay.
Versus then, if you go back and study what percentage of the campaign they funded, the top people that put the most money in their campaign, Trump is at the top, I believe.
Then I want to say it's John F. Kennedy.
His dad said he would spend all the money he has to do the campaign.
He ended up spending like 40% of the entire campaign with his own money.
Reagan spent like 9% or 7%.
You know, obviously Al Gore, not Al Gore, Ross Perot spent a lot of his own money, whatever, 50%.
Hillary Clinton, 0% of her own money.
Biden, 0% of his money.
And Obama, pretty much these three, it's 0% of their own money.
Those that are zero, they're establishment.
Okay, that spends 0% of their money because they owe the most favors.
Okay, so today's profile to be a president.
Let's take a look.
Number one, America, we are very close to the majority not wanting a pro-establishment candidate.
So to be an anti-establishment candidate, you need to have a few money.
That's number one.
Bloomberg had a few money, more than any other candidate that ever ran.
What was he missing?
Charm.
Okay, so you need to be able to persuade and charm.
Which is that I, and I said this to Trump the night that I met Trump.
That I believed from day one and I really think I'm right that Bloomberg only ran as a decoy for Biden.
That Biden was number one at the time and they needed Biden to get through the debates and they knew he couldn't debate and he was crumbling and all that and they needed to deflect so they threw Bloomberg up there.
He willingly did it.
Because you remember those two debates that he was in?
But it was all about whether he sexually harassed a secretary, and that's what they spent the entire debate.
So instead of Biden having to defend himself, I truly believe that.
You know what Trump said to me when I said it?
Trump goes, he goes like this, he goes, he goes, ah, you know, actually, that's pretty good.
And then he turns to Melania, he says, Melania, can you tell him, he says to me, he says, can you tell her, tell the first lady what you just said?
I said it to Melania, and she kind of nods, and then he goes, ah, Bloomberg just hates me.
We've got to build a wall to keep these rapists and all this.
What the hell is he talking about, we've got to build a wall?
I'm going to build a wall and I'm going to make Mexico pay for it.
Dude, this just got even crazier now.
When are you going to build a wall?
Mexico's going to pay for the wall.
Like, you know, you sit there and you're like, alright, let me see, what are we going to campaign on?
Healthcare, you know, military foreign policy, the war, or taxes, or economies.
No, we're going to build a wall and Mexico's going to pay for it.
No one's even thinking about that, right?
So, the average candidate that runs, they hire some bullshit, you know, political consultant, and here's what's resonating with the audience, and here's what you've got to do.
Okay, great.
So, I think some of these guys just listen to those consultants too much and it screws the whole thing up.
The more you study history, and whether you like this or not, you can rip this argument apart as much as you want, some of the best people that fought for our freedom were complicated human beings.
Period.
Misunderstood, complicated, complex personalities, weird upbringing, difficult to be around, strange people, weird habits, weird obsessions, strange vices, just Purely complex people who saved the world.
These are very weird people.
Then you can look at the people that were proper people, the people you like, the people that all the things you and I value, that what a sweet man, what a this, what a that.
They don't have the dog fight.
I'm sorry.
History doesn't favor perfection.
The people that go out there and are willing to do the fight, they're not going to fit the profile that everybody is looking for.
Is Donald Trump one of the most complicated, complex, strange people?
You support him one day and the next day you're like, what are you talking about?
I'm sure your kids are going to grade schools and all that, but is it like just stuck in the culture that it even has to come up for your kids, who are obviously insulated from I'm still running an insurance company in 49 states and we
They've made a few million, but they've not made money money.
So they're kind of like looking for their first hundred million or first two hundred million.
And I understand that.
You've got to go through making that first million, then first ten, then first hundred, and then maybe you go add the additional zero and two additional zeros.
Then you have the ESG community.
There's Larry Fink, there's Wall Street, State Guard, Vanguard, Soros.
He's giving the fund back to his son and he's running it now.
This Open Society Foundation that Soros has given $32 billion to the last 30 years or so, that's a very powerful non-profit organization, Open Society.
You've got to watch these guys.
So then you've got Hollywood and what they're doing, so we've got to find a way to make movies to compete against Hollywood and what they've got going on, but there's a lot of enemies.
You know, you have to be very intentional in choosing the right enemies.
The wrong enemies bring out the worst in you.
For example, let me give an example.
Women who chose the feminist movement, they chose the wrong enemy.
Men are not the enemy.
What are you doing?
How many 65-year-olds today who are single with no kids are coming out saying, I made the biggest mistake of my life?
Would you realize that Christians are thinking Muslims are the enemy, Muslims are thinking Christians are the enemy?
They're not the enemy.
It's the establishment and globalists that are pinning against each other.
We're choosing the wrong enemy.
We have completely, most of us, missed the mark on choosing the wrong enemy and it's destroyed people's lives.
We've lost decades of our lives.
Some years, some decades, some of their entire life it's gone with.
So, you know, the reason why I wrote this book was more for people to realize that we all make the mistake.
You know, sometimes you're like, I'm going to do it to prove that guy wrong.
That guy doesn't bring out the best in you, but the other guy does.
But the other thing does, or the other institution does.
So for us, we got enough of the right enemies right now where the driver, what we wanted, again, God willing, if God keeps me around for 40 years, oh my God, and we're healthy.
Because I will tell you this, something that I've been thinking about lately, like, again, I have the things that I want right now, and I have had a thought lately that I've never had before, which is, I have, like, it seems to me like the shoe has to drop at some point.
Like, if you have the things that you want, if you're living the life you're supposed to be living, like, that doesn't last for very long, right?
Like, something always is gonna happen.
You know, a death in the family, whatever it might be.
I've been thinking about my dad dying since I was 18 years old when I joined the army because my biggest goal in life when I was six, when my teacher asked me, what do you want to be when you grow up?
I said, I want to be a dad because I wanted to be him.
He's a great father, very good father.
I wouldn't be who I am right now if it wasn't for him.
He lives with me and I'm the happiest now that he's in my house.
First time we're going there, so we're going to go there and take him to the game and go
to the Jets game, Patriots game, and all this stuff that we're doing.
He can't go.
He just told me yesterday, I can't go.
I said, what do you mean you can't go?
Right?
We're just talking about this.
Today he's trying to convince me to convince my dad.
He said, I can't go.
I said, if we go, I'm not feeling good.
He was in the hospital for five days a couple weeks ago.
He's 81.
He's had 13 heart attacks.
He drank and smoked for 35 years.
He smoked two packs a day for 35 years.
You know, 30 years until he had his heart attack.
So the fact that he's still here, super lucky.
Of course I'm greedy.
I'd love to see him go to 100, but I have perspective.
And you know, a long time ago I realized when I would debate as an atheist, I was an atheist
for 25 years, and then I eventually realized.
Hey, PBD, the bigger your vision, man, the more you need as much support as possible, and God's going to be your biggest support when you're alone and nobody believes in your vision.
You're going to need to talk to somebody that's going to make sense of this vision of yours.
You better get close to the man upstairs.
So, a lot of things that I'm never going to have the answer for, I have to rely on a source that's bigger than me, and that's the only thing I can give my faith and comfort in.
I'm going to cry.
I'm going to be in pain.
I'm going to be emotional.
I'm going to have to go to a lot of walks by myself and kind of break down and go through it.
But, you know, the grace that he's given me, man, you have no idea how big of a role that the man upstairs plays in my life.
So, the reason why I'm saying this is, I fear those things are going to happen, but the way I know I'm going to go through it is the one source.
We should probably end there, except you mentioned the Yankees.
And you are now a minority owner of the Yankees, which when I saw you tweet about that, I was like, that's basically the coolest thing I've ever heard.
Lifelong Yankees fan.
I saw Jeter just a couple weeks ago in West Palm, had a great conversation with him.
The guy couldn't have been nicer.
And June 26th is both of our birthdays.
So for many of my birthdays, I used to go to Yankee Stadium on our birthday and blah, blah, blah.
But you're a minority owner of the Yankees, which, I mean, is that just like... That's basically as good as it gets, right?
So wait, does that mean you're in the owner's... Are you in the owner's box?
There's one owner's box for all the guys that are the owners.
So you need to understand, you're going to be forced to tell me to sell my shares, and I'm telling you, I'm not going to be quiet.
It's the only thing you guys got to know.
He said, we don't care where you are.
Totally fine with us.
We're comfortable with that.
But we have one rule.
I said, what's that rule?
He said, house the boss.
We don't want your opinion.
The only time we want your opinion is if we ask for it.
And I look at him, he says, I'm the boss.
I said, how?
You're the boss.
So I left, and we were in Bermuda celebrating, you know, family, you know, we go once a year, family vacation, summertime, I get the call.
What are you doing, Pat?
I'm sitting down reading a book.
Congratulations, you're officially a minority owner of the Yankees.
I couldn't freaking believe it, bro.
I'm like, are you serious?
Yeah, yeah, you got to keep doing it.
Yeah, yeah, you know, of course.
You know, you go in there, wife, the kids, all this stuff.
I'm like, oh my God, my kid was watching one of the greatest documentaries of all time.
One of the greatest, he won 10 World Series.
Why am I forgetting his name?
Yogi Berra, Yogi Berra's documentary.
By the way, one of the best documentaries of all time, ever.
Good luck watching it without breaking down crying.
Literally, Yogi Berra documentary.
So my son watches it.
I'm seeing Dylan, he's emotional.
I watched the documentary, then I get the announcement, then we're going to the Yankee Stadium, and we're going to go there and show them around, and they're going to get a tour of the entire thing.
It's a great experience, but again, it's a dream, right?
There's an element of, I'm 44, but the people I always liked and respected the most, they had an element of being childlike.
I don't want to lose the ability of being childish, childlike.
That childlike element is creative, it's spontaneous, it's curious, it's in pursuit of something.
I love looking at my baseball cards and I become that 13 year old kid that was dreaming about one day having a Mickey Mantle card.
Like, oh my God, what if one day?
So, this brings me back to the 14 year old Pat, who's just a kid.
I mean, there's no way this is ever going to happen.
Your dad works at a 99 cent store.
So, super grateful.
Incredible dream.
One of the items on the bucket list, but it was a great experience.