US Pilot RESCUED + Trump's BRUTAL Iran Warning | PBD #771

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down the rescue of a U. S. pilot after an F-15E was shot down, Trump’s 48-hour Iran warning and “open the strait” threat, Rubio revoking visas of IRGC family members, and the economic and political fallout from Iran war taxes, impeachment calls from Ro Khanna, and Newsom’s $19M PR controversy. ------- 💰 WORK AT VALUETAINMENT: https://bit.ly/4ungnZZ Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 🇰 KALSHI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠ 💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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• 0:13Patrick Bet-David?

  My handshake is better than anything I ever signs, right here. You are a one of one?

• 0:18Speaker 01

  My son's right there.

• 0:19Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think I've ever said this before.

• 0:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, so guys, hope you had a fantastic Easter weekend, spending time with the family. I know we did, we did this, what do you call it, when you put the egg? Egg hunt? It was so weird, I've never seen this, where we put the eggs all over the place, and you know, normally when we do this, we would put ten and twenty dollars, this year we said, let's put fifteen hundred dollars. I've never seen so many adults show up. It was like affordability, I'm like, hey, you're at least forty years old, bro, this is for kids. This is for kids, and it's like, no, no, I'm gonna compete, I'm gonna come in, this one guy had like eighty-eight of them, he doesn't even, I don't even know this relative, I don't know who this person is. That one guy was me, thank you, Pat, I appreciate it. Walked in with two hundred and eighty dollars, in the span of seventeen minutes, it was a record, so... Turned out just a neighbor said he was a cousin.

• 1:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine that? But anyways, hope you guys had a good weekend, we had a wonderful weekend with the family. Nothing like it. While that was going on, I got a question for you, what were you doing this morning at one twenty-one AM? So let's just think about it. How old are you, and what were you doing today at one twenty-one AM? How old are you? Okay? Were you, are you thirty-eight, and at one twenty, you're like, Pat, I'm sleeping? I was. Are you twenty-seven, and at one twenty-one AM, maybe you and your girl, well, you know, I don't know? What were you doing today at one twenty-one AM, right? Were you, were you up at the club, were you asleep, getting ready for your week, is it a four-day weekend for you? There's a seventy-nine-year-old man at DC, who at one twenty-one AM, what he had on his mind is endorsing a governor candidate for the state of California, Steve Hilton.

• 1:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine that? And his tweet wasn't a short tweet, he's like, dude, it's late, let me just kinda post a smaller tweet. Nah, it's like, I have known and respected Steve Hilton, who's running for governor of California for many years, he's truly a fine man, one who has watched as this one great state has gone to hell. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats have done an absolute horrendous job, people are fleeing, crime is increasing, and taxes are at the highest in any state, the country, maybe the world, Steve can turn it around before it's too late, and as the president, I will help them do so with federal help, and governor, great governor Steve Hilton, California can be better than ever before, Steve Hilton, he's still going. He's still going, at one twenty-one AM, this morning. Now, a couple days ago... Less than 48 hours, obviously, because that 48 hours is coming out. He put a threat on Iran.

• 2:34Patrick Bet-David?

  And on Easter, the words he used, like, you have to be about that life. You know what I'm saying, Vinny? Yeah. Like, it's thug life. He's there. I sometimes wonder if he listens to Tupac when he wakes up. Can you imagine, low-key, if the president's a Tupac guy? And you just walk in? All I need in a cypher sin is Melania. Like, it's just, you know, imagine like he's a hardcore, hardcore DMX, like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, like hardcore rap guy, before he makes his decisions, right? I mean... So here's what he tweeted, and then we'll talk about this as well. He called me right after this. We had a 10-minute conversation. I'm with the kids at the, uh, what do you call it? Safari? At the safari, and all of a sudden, the president calls. We had a full-on 10-minute conversation about a bunch of different things.

• 3:19Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm asking myself, what does your schedule look like? Hold on, what? Yeah. What are you doing, right? What are you up to? And Jennifer's there, Brooklyn screaming in the background, sent us in my lap, we're getting past giraffes, and the president's on the phone with me. What a timing. What a timing, right? Are you saying that he called you this weekend? Saturday, Saturday he and I had a call. I saw you were doing giraffes, lions, the lady... Oh, my! Exactly when he called. President Trump called you, you're trying to say, it's Lion Country Safari. Yes. And the giraffe was even like, is that the president? On Easter, or the day before Easter. The day before. And what was the premise? I mean, it's, we talked about a lot of different things. He definitely talked about you, Adam. Great conversation. That was great, thank you for the shout-out. We talked about Iran, we talked about a lot of different things. We talked about, you know... Pat, let, please, let's just not, yeah, the president called me this weekend, let's, because I know it's happened before.

• 4:04Patrick Bet-David?

  We may get into it. Yeah, but I mean, we're here now. Yeah, no, I understand that, but... But like, I just think, just for the sizzle, people want to know. I will tell you. Well, then let him tell the people, dude. You have to also think about it. This is a... Very pressured type of a weekend.

• 4:22Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 4:23Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, for you to come out on Easter, Tuesday will be a power plan day and bridge day, all wrapped in one, in Iran, there'll be nothing like it. Open the effin straight, you crazy bastard.

• 4:34Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 4:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Or you'll be living in hell, just watch. And the best part of this tweet is praise be to Allah.

• 4:40Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, true.

• 4:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine like this guy, what is the, what, you know, so I'm telling you, he's about that life.

• 4:47Speaker 03

  But you know why, like, can we be honest? He's so unpredictable. I'll be honest, did you grok it and say, is this real? I had to do it three times and be like, did he really post that?

• 4:58Adam Sosnick?

  Yes.

• 4:58Speaker 03

  Praise be to Allah. It sounded like my.

• 5:00Adam Sosnick?

  But by the way, he posted it after he spoke with PPD. I don't know why, if there's a correlation.

• 5:04Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, I just, anyway, so let me just say this to you. Let me, let me go through some of these stories on what we have. ICE arrests relatives of Salim, Iranian general Soleimani, living in US after Rubio revokes their green card. This is the niece and the daughter, if I'm not mistaken.

• 5:19Speaker 03

  The niece and her daughter.

• 5:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Niece and her daughter, yes. So we'll, we'll talk about that. White House hits out. Deranged liberal conspiracy theory claiming that Trump is in a hospital. He was definitely not in the hospital. Trump unveils one and a half trillion dollars of defense surge, deep domestic cuts. What's on a budget chopping blocks? We talked about that. Uh, uh, uh, Trump's request, $152 million to reopen Alcatraz. Can you imagine like? Everything's going on. Let's reopen Alcatraz. And you take the worst of the worst and you put him on Alcatraz. Maybe he wants Heat 2 to come out. I don't know, like a sequel. Because with somebody else, it was a great movie.

• 5:52Adam Sosnick?

  He needs a place for Gavin Newsom.

• 5:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Not Heat 2. What was it called? Not The Rock?

• 5:55Speaker 03

  The Rock.

• 5:55Patrick Bet-David?

  The Rock, the movie, right? The Rock with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage.

• 5:58Speaker 03

  Ed Harris. Ed Harris, Nicholas Cage.

• 6:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Nicholas Cage. That's a very, very good movie. Very, very good movie. Very, very good.

• 6:05Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, Sean Connery.

• 6:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Um, March job report came in, looks very good. We talked about the Iran escalation, the rescue, oh my God, the rescue that they did. Unreal, surprise, shocking, confusion, unpredictable. Credit to the military that we have in the US is just absolutely something else. For them to have the job that they have and do what they did and then we'll talk about some of the other stuff from the past. Which was a failure that caused him to get good at this. We'll talk about that as well. US Iran war tax begins to at American business consumers. Tom's got some thoughts on that. Gas prices, oil is right now still at 110. Tom, if I'm not mistaken, I think it's at 110 as of right now.

• 6:46Tom Ellsworth?

  Yep, pre-op, 110, hanging too high.

• 6:49Patrick Bet-David?

  That's right. So, Amazon tax on 3.5% surcharge. You buy a hundred dollar product, on top of tax, on top of shipping and handling, they're adding an additional 3.5 dollars, 3.5% for fuel surcharge. Amazon just announced that. Supreme Court, one of the Supreme Court justices experienced a medical incident. It was undisclosed, but apparently some people are saying he's not doing too well. I think we just checked his age this morning. He's 75, 76, if I'm not mistaken. Mistaken. California's got a hot mess. They're spending 17 million dollars with a PR firm to make California look better. You can spend a billion dollars and you can, I don't care how much money you hire. The greatest PR firms in the world cannot save California right now with the mess that they have. Cause there's a guy that wants to be a president so bad.

• 7:34Patrick Bet-David?

  And we'll see, we'll see what angle they're gonna take. New York, Vinnie, homelessness, Mumdani, gun violence comments. After killing of seven-month-old baby, Spark outraged, absolute disgrace. And what else we got here? Epstein victims demand meeting with King Charles in Washington. Elon Musk asks SpaceX IPO to buy Grok as well on the subscription side. And Oracle faces backlash over H1B visa and a LeBron James backlash after revealing the city he would never play in. And telling an NBA team to move. And that city, we'll definitely talk about. I think the coach of that city said, why don't we build him at Ritz Carlton and ask him to move here? And that coach is a championship winning coach in the past before Trump says Kurds kept

• 8:16Patrick Bet-David?

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• 9:00Patrick Bet-David?

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• 9:41Patrick Bet-David?

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• 10:27Patrick Bet-David?

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• 11:12Patrick Bet-David?

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• 11:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Miracle what these guys did. You gotta respect the hell out of the military that we have. Okay. You gotta respect the hell out of what they do. Just, we're watching the news. You see the two pilots, you know, there's no way we're going to get them. It's over, it's going to be a hot mess. It's going to go back to what happened back in the days when under Khomeini, when he took over after the Shah, 66 Americans were held, you know, at the embassy and then 52 of them were held hostage and we had to do an operation Eagle Claw. And it was a hot mess, you know, C 130 crashed into a helicopter, eight people died. It was nasty. So it's like, wait a minute, do we want, by the way, that's the last time we did an operation like this before, last time.

• 12:20Patrick Bet-David?

  And obviously, the military, you gotta give a lot of credit because Delta Force was involved. Back then, nobody knew about Delta Force in the early 80s. It was Navy, it was everybody involved. Rangers were involved. Air Force was involved with the pilot of the C-130. It's like, are we gonna do this again? Not 453, not 466, but just for 2, and this time the CIA is gonna be involved? Yes. You're kidding me. Not at all. And so while we're all watching the news, Rob, if you want to play one of the clips, I don't know which one you have. We were told, this is it. It's done. Nothing can happen. And all of a sudden, these are some of the news reports that we get. And Avini, I'm gonna come to you first. Go ahead, Rob.

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• 14:11Speaker 09

  So we've just gotten a Truth Social from President Trump on all of this. It's a long one, so bear with me here. The president wrote, "We got him. My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue operations in U.S. history for one of our incredible crew member officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel and who I am thrilled to let you know is now safe and sound. This brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

• 14:54Speaker 09

  of Staff, and fellow warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day and diligently planning his rescue. At my direction, the U.S. military sent dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons in the world to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine. The miraculous search and rescue operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave pilot yesterday, which we did not confirm, because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is the first time in military memory the two U.S. pilots have been rescued separately, deep in enemy territory. We will never leave an American warfighter behind. The fact that we were able to pull off both these operations without a single American

• 15:38Speaker 09

  killed or even wounded just proves once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment that all Americans, Republican, Democrat, and everyone else should be proud of and united around. We have the best, most professional, and lethal military in the history of the world. God bless America. God bless our troops."

• 15:59Speaker 03

  Okay, Vinny. Well, first, I just, you know, because you know the Democrats, I remember when it first happened. What day did it get shot down? Was it Friday? I think it's Friday. I think it was Friday, right, Rob? I'm, I'm, I'm pretty sure, but do you remember Democrat, the left was losing their mind? And people like, you have to understand, I get it. It's an award and we all have our opinions, left, right, whatever, down the middle, I don't care. What, none, none of them, because people are like, oh, we lost a plane, it's, you know, 25 million, 30 million, whatever the, the price is top. Did you hear one peep when Obama was sending 1.7 billion dollars in planes? That they had to gut out the seats? Just to send Iran this money?

• 16:39Speaker 03

  Or when Joe Biden removed, um, all the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan and 13 of our service members died and how much money did they leave behind on, on? Did you remember that, that video that we saw of all the, all the weapons, all the machinery? 83 billion is the number, I don't know what the number was. Something insane, okay?

• 16:54Tom Ellsworth?

  It was big. They, they left basically two full battalions of full equipment.

• 16:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, and then apparently when, when we were fighting them, they were finding on the dead bodies, it was United States military weaponry that the Afghan, Afghans were holding and some, uh, some Iraqis as well. But anyway, from the mission standpoint and being in the air force, this was an air force colonel. So the first guy landed, you know, in, in a safe spot. The other guy was alone, like he said, for two days. I don't think people understand, two days, you don't have food, you don't have water, you just have your uniform and you have the, apparently Pat, the helmet and everything is tracking. They know exactly where you are, Tom, they know, they know everything. He had a sidearm, IRGC is coming after you. The, the militias, local bounty holder, just citizens are trying to come out there because they know how much the IRGC, I'm talking about the people that are, that are loyal to the IRGC.

• 17:40Speaker 03

  And then, Pat, he's in the, he's hiding in a mountain ridge, 7,000, 7,000 feet up. He finally gets to hide. The CIA runs a fake operation, they're giving Iran bad intel. So Iran's going somewhere, the opposite way, and then all of a sudden SEAL Team Six shows up with the, a JSOC, which is a Joint Special Operations Command Package. That's drones, gun shift, uh, gun ships, fast movers starting line up every, Pat, they start bombing the convoy that's going the wrong way. They grab him at night, mission, that's how we roll, stabilize him and they get him out. And I get it, it's a war, but you have to understand, this is what. America is about. Everybody was like, they're gonna leave him. He's gonna be a prisoner of war.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  He's gonna be get tortured. We, America does not leave anybody behind. And I think that's a message for everybody else watching. You hit one of our freaking guys, you hit one of our birds. We don't care what the outcome, we're gonna go in there, we're gonna grab him, we're gonna take his butt out of there. Period.

• 18:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom.

• 18:39Tom Ellsworth?

  I think that this is a testimony of how we value life versus how the rest of the world values life. And our guys get trained on, I'm gonna mispronounce it, I think it's called SER training. Survival of evasion, resistance, escape. SER. That says, hey, step one, survive. Step two, evade. Then if cornered, resist. And then put yourself in a position to be rescued, because we're coming for you, because we value. And so, one man's life is worth the risk. But this was phenomenal to me. This was like, look how much better it's got since Jimmy Carter. Maduro, they expected, and I've said this before, we can't say who, but Department of War, I sat in on a meeting that Pat was invited to.

• 19:21Tom Ellsworth?

  Thank you for that. And I'll tell you what happened. They said, they thought they were gonna lose 10 guys, extract him as early. And they had one pilot that had gotten shot and survived.

• 19:31Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 19:32Tom Ellsworth?

  And so, when you think about, we're willing to pay the cost to go get one man. And we put the training. That is the testimony, I think, to the training and what the US Armed Forces is all about. And the value of life. This is not just, oh, you're just sending our boys off to death. No, no, no, no, no. That's not the way this country does it. We know war is dangerous. We know we're gonna lose. But look at the recent missions where they haven't lost anybody. And this is amazing. And they had the whole thing programmed. At the end of the runway, I guess there was sand or mud that was deeper than anticipated. And the front landing gear of the C-130 gouged in the mud at the end of the landing. So they're like, well, crap, we can't take this car home. And so, they had Plan B.

• 20:17Tom Ellsworth?

  Extracted all of them, nobody left behind. And they said, yeah, now go hit, and then we hit our own plane. It says, you know, we're not gonna let you go take radios and all the things out of this. And I just thought it was just amazing to the training. You said it well, Vinny, and I just.

• 20:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine, can you imagine this? Adam, I'm gonna come through last here in a minute, but can you imagine? You sent 200 people to save two lives.

• 20:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Two hundred to save two lives.

• 20:45Speaker 03

  It's America.

• 20:45Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm at my army unit, September of ninety-seven, I've told the story before, they tell us there's a movie being coming out here very soon, that is about your unit, you guys gotta get in there watching, and we watched Saving Private Ryan. They went to save one guy.

• 21:00Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 21:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine the pride America has to go save one person? One person, okay, to do something like this, and, and, again, I, I, I, I, Seer School, I remember Seer School was one of the schools that, when I was getting ready to re-enlist and go to the fifth group, eighteen Delta, this is one, I asked for everything, I said, I want to go to DLI, because I speak a lot of languages, I want to go to Seer School, I want to go to Airborne, I want to go to fifth group, and then I want you to send me to, uh, Vicenza, Italy, there was a military unit, I wanted to go there. Last minute, I decided to get out to get into business, and, and, and the rest is history, but, uh, my orders were all of these jobs that I asked for. And this is not an easy program to go through, Tom, this is not an easy program, but part of this program, if I'm not mistaken, they teach you also,

• 21:46Patrick Bet-David?

  in case if you get caught as POW, and how to handle that. It's a very, very, you know, like, survival, evasion, resistance, and escape, like, what do you do if you're a prisoner of war? They trained you to what to do when they're asking you questions, all this stuff. It's one of the toughest trainings to go through, we have such a great military, this is part of it where, you know, one of my kids comes up to me and says, Dad, I want to, I want to go to the military, I'm like, hey, you know, you remember this conversation, we were at dinner, I said, I said, we gotta go to dinner, you gotta talk to Vinnie about it, she was asking, Dad, what if we go, you know, what if I, I said, Vinnie, what do you want to tell him? He wants to go in the military, so Vinnie's Air Force, I'm Army, and it's like, look, it's not like the guy needs to go for money.

• 22:25Patrick Bet-David?

  He's going because he is, he loves America so much, like, he, he wants to say, this is what I want to do, so we're taking him to a military unit for him to, uh, uh, make a decision whether he wants to do this or not, as a, he said, the only thing for me is, he's like, he wants to do it as a career. Now, as a kid, as a father, you want your kids to be, you know, closer to you, but look, if he's got that kind of a pride.

• 22:44Speaker 03

  Well, you know how much I want, I want, I hope people understand and realize, because I already know, I already know the people, I'm like, oh, but, send your own kids! Yeah, yeah, guess what, I, I was there for the conversation, and when he brought it up, there wasn't one second when you said, hell no, you said, if that's what you want to do, that's what you're gonna do, and it was that, because you nailed it, take, none of them ever have to do anything, if that was the case, he literally said, I want to go, and I want to do this for the United States, that kid loves this freaking country.

• 23:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam.

• 23:08Adam Sosnick?

  Well, this was an Easter miracle. And the pilot that was found, allegedly, the three words that he said is "God is good", which basically preempted when Trump basically said "Praise Allah". This was more important than we're even making it, and I'll tell you why. What if he was actually caught? What would that scene look like? What would this regime do to this hostage? You know, we've said this before, this is a terrorist organization that's basically holding not only the Middle East hostage, the entire world hostage, if they had a nuclear weapon. They started off their reign in 1979 by taking how many hostages? 500 hostages, I want to say?

• 23:47Patrick Bet-David?

  66 for 444 days.

• 23:49Adam Sosnick?

  Oh, okay, it was only 66?

• 23:50Patrick Bet-David?

  66 for 444 days, of which...

• 23:53Adam Sosnick?

  444 days is what I'm thinking.

• 23:54Patrick Bet-David?

  13 were kids, 13 were women that they released, and then one was ill. So it ended up being 52 that stayed for 444 days.

• 24:04Adam Sosnick?

  444 days was the days I'm thinking about the people. But dozens and dozens of people for over a year held hostage at this regime. Do you know what this world would look like right now if this pilot and the two pilots were actually caught? Do you know what they would do in parading this person around? Do you know what they would say to the "no boots on the ground" crew? What they would say? "I told you!" So thank God, thank Allah, that these people were found. They said it was the first time in 20 years we've had a rescue mission?

• 24:30Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, at this...

• 24:31Adam Sosnick?

  Mission like this, at this level?

• 24:33Patrick Bet-David?

  No, it's 1980, 46 years ago.

• 24:34Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, even that long.

• 24:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 24:36Adam Sosnick?

  Unbelievable.

• 24:36Speaker 03

  Basically, the same amount of time as these guys came into power.

• 24:38Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, by the same country, by the same regime.

• 24:42Adam Sosnick?

  Really?

• 24:43Patrick Bet-David?

  By the same people.

• 24:44Adam Sosnick?

  Got it.

• 24:44Patrick Bet-David?

  So 1980 was Khomeini. Now it's the new Islamic Revolutionary Guard, post Khomeini, Khomeini's son. So it's not like the level of hate and animosity hasn't changed. The only different thing that's different, Adam, is the president. Back then it was Carter, today it's Trump. The only difference.

• 25:01Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, I mean, look, I was watching a video this weekend about... And it showed clips of every president since Reagan, Bush, okay, Clinton...

• 25:10Adam Sosnick?

  Bush number two, Obama, Biden, Trump, every single one was saying the exact same thing. What was it? We have to deal with Iran. We cannot allow them to have nuclear weapons. We have to take this regime head on. Every single president for the last 40 years has been saying this. Trump is the only president with the courage and the, and the balls to actually pull this off. Thank God they found this guy because it'd be a lot worse of a scenario optics wise if he was actually caught.

• 25:37Patrick Bet-David?

  It is. And by the way, again, this part about life that's very hard to, because most of us in life, we're going to make mistakes. And most of us don't learn about it, learn, learn from it. You're like, ah, it's a good job. I'm just going to move. No, like the other day we had a meeting, Tom, you remember it's me, you, uh, I think it's RJ and Paul. Okay. And we're sitting down and something happened we're not happy about. Okay. And it's like, well, what do we do now? The guy said this and da, da, da, da, da. I said, look, here's where I'm at. What could we have done differently? One guy says, I don't think anything. I said, that's never the case. What could we have done differently? And we came up with two things, if you remember that.

• 26:12Adam Sosnick?

  And one, one we already knew about, we felt we missed.

• 26:15Patrick Bet-David?

  That's right. We missed and we're like, okay, that's our mistake. I don't care what the guy did. What can we do? Think about this, Vinny. 1980, you have 66 hostages, 52 you're trying to get out. Carter's the president. They come up with this project called Operation Eagle Claw. Rob, if you want to pull it up. Okay. So they combine Delta, SEAL, Ranger, Air Force. Let's go get these 52 hostages that are in Iran, held by Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Khomeini at the time. Let's go get them. They go out on the way there. I think it's eight helicopters, one C-130. Of the eight helicopters, one of them has hydraulic issues. He comes back. The other one, the pilot's getting, you know, he's getting confused.

• 27:00Patrick Bet-David?

  He's kind of not feeling well, so he comes back. So now we're left with six helicopters, right? Of the six helicopters that we're left with, one of the helicopters starting to have major, major hydraulic issues, heating up like it's almost on fire. It's not, but it's super hot. He decides to get up and flies right, because it's so dusty, it's desert, they're not used to this. I'm, oh my god, how are we gonna handle this? He flies right into the C-130.

• 27:23Speaker 03

  Oh damn.

• 27:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Five people get killed, I think three on the helicopter, five on the C-130 or the other way around, but it's eight total that get killed. The pilot of the helicopter makes it, I think his name is Schaefer, if I'm not mistaken. He makes it, he, till today, he believes all those eight people died, he takes the blame, till today. He has severe burns, these guys get out of the helicopter, and guess what, what ends up happening? It's a failed mission, publicly, failed, it was 130, 150 people that were deployed to this. For 52 people, this time around, if we don't learn from those mistakes, the military's been preparing for this for decades. To not, so the credit goes to our military servicemen of how they, can you imagine, you get a call?

• 28:06Patrick Bet-David?

  You, by the way, you know how many guys that are service guys are like, man, I wish I would have gotten this job, you know, this, I wanted to go back, I wanted to be able to something like this. Can you imagine what kind of an opportunity, there's guys that truly wanted this job to be deployed with. Guys that are hardcore gunko, but major, major shout out to our military leaders who used a massive, embarrassing crisis. Some say this could have been the reason why Jimmy Carter didn't get re-elected, by the way.

• 28:33Speaker 03

  Really?

• 28:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, because the moment Reagan won it, immediately, Khomeini dropped the 52 prisons. He gave them back. Immediate, 444 days that we read about. So it was so embarrassing, but the military sat down and said, when the next time this happens, we're gonna do it right. And this time around, they brought the CIA in. And why they bring the CIA in, just to throw, throw the enemy off. And then it's like, wait a minute, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Boom, it's gone, boom, we're out of here. And you know, when I talked to the president on Saturday, he said, I said, uh, uh, Mr. President, how, what's happening with the two, what are we gonna, he says, Patrick, 10 to 12 hours, we'll make, obviously I can't say anything, but it's like 10 to 12 hours, everyone's gonna hear about what we did. You'll hear about it in about 10 to 12 hours.

• 29:13Speaker 03

  Hey, sir.

• 29:14Patrick Bet-David?

  He says this, in about 10 to 12 hours, the world's gonna find out how we got both of them back. Can you imagine this guy? Can you imagine? So anyways, that's, that, listen, whatever you do, if you're walking in the airport, you see these military servicemen, we have to tip our hat and say, hey, thank you for your service. Anybody that's wearing the uniform or wore the uniform, major salute to you, especially the 200 people that went out there to save. These two lives, one of them being a Colonel. Anyways, let's go to the next story. While this is taking place, the President comes out and puts out a threat 48 hours to Iran. He writes another one of his love letters, on Easter by the way. He got all these other days to write this. Was it Easter or day before? It was Easter.

• 29:57Patrick Bet-David?

  It was Easter. And he says Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open to the, open the effing straight, you crazy bastards. Or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. Okay, at least he's being respectful and he's, you know. Saying praise to God. At least he's saying praise to God. Allah is truly the meaning of Allah is God. Like if you think about the word, the meaning of Allah is God. So while they're doing this, then all of a sudden you see some clips coming out. By the way, one thing with Iran, you gotta give them credit for their Lego videos. Have you seen these Lego videos they're making to make fun of the President or Hexet or all that stuff?

• 30:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Anyways, we don't need to get into the Lego video, but Rob, did you see the video of them targeting the $30 billion plant that OpenAI has in, is it in UAE? I think it's somewhere that they have a $30 billion plant. Rob, I can text it to you. It's a data center, Vinny, that they built. Yeah, not in Iran, not in Iran. It's in one of the Gulf states that they have. And they're like, oh, really? Let us show you what we're gonna be doing. So if you just type in OpenAI Iran $30 billion, okay? OpenAI Iran $30 billion, data center. I just found it. I'll find it. I'm gonna text it to you right now. Oh, it's in the notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:20Patrick Bet-David?

  It's in the notes, Rob. If you, if you look at the notes, I have it in the notes, all the way at the top. You should find it. So I'm gonna text it to you anyway, so you have it. So what is Iran saying? Iran is saying, uh, just go through the notes. I texted to you as well. Iran is saying, really? You guys wanna play this hard? We're gonna go after all your, you know, infrastructures that you have. So now what this means, we don't know. Both sides are threatening. Which threat you gonna trust? Watch, zoom in a little bit here. The guy behind this history photograph does a phenomenal, phenomenal job. The Islamic regime released a video threatening to bomb OpenAI's $30 billion data center in Abu Dhabi. Watch this, Vinny. Go ahead. Go ahead, Rob.

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• 33:48Patrick Bet-David?

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• 34:01Patrick Bet-David?

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• 34:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, that wasn't David Solomon.

• 34:21Patrick Bet-David?

  They screwed up David Solomon. So, hey, the AI guy that you guys have, he sucks actually. He's not that good.

• 34:26Tom Ellsworth?

  He was a tall bald white guy.

• 34:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, that's not David Solomon. So, Tom, you see this message from the president on Easter. Then you see Iran not, not holding back. They're like, and then you see the report comes and saying Iran is willing to have the conversation about the nukes, that, hey, we're willing to not do anything with it. I think, what is the number? 440, at 60% enrichment? Is it 440? What is the number?

• 34:53Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, it's like 400 kilogram at.

• 34:54Patrick Bet-David?

  I think it's 440 kilogram at 60% enrichment is, is, that could, 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, enough to develop 11 nuclear bombs, is what they said they have.

• 35:06Tom Ellsworth?

  That's 1,000 pounds, because a kilogram is 2.2.

• 35:09Patrick Bet-David?

  2.2. So, Vinny, they said, they said this is what we have.

• 35:12Tom Ellsworth?

  They're admitting it.

• 35:12Patrick Bet-David?

  460, at 60%, that can develop 11 nuclear bombs, is what they're saying. So now there's rumors of maybe they want to negotiate, maybe they don't want to negotiate. What do you think's really going on here, Vinny? I'm gonna come to you right after, Tom.

• 35:25Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, first of all, I separate the statements they make from the true intent of the regime. The true intent of the regime has shown time and time again, and Vinny, we've been watching this together, that they're full of crap. And they have, they, they don't negotiate as a standard actor. A standard actor usually wants to protect something. These people are like North Korea. They don't care what happens to their people. With whatever's left, they will rule and they will do it their way. And so they, they lose people. They don't care. They killed 3,000 of their own people and just hand waved over it. But it sounds, there does appear to be

• 36:02Tom Ellsworth?

  a crack in the door, what they're talking about here on this. Because remember, if they tell us, here, you take the 1,000 pounds, and then we're gonna consent to this monitoring and stuff.

• 36:16Tom Ellsworth?

  You know, that would surprise me because their ultimate goal, Pat, this current regime, the ultimate goal is just pure death. That's all they want. And they are trying to attack their neighbors to get the neighbors to convince Trump to stop. And so this is, this is consistent. This video is consistent with their threats and activity, Pat, that we've been seeing for the past two weeks. Attack the friends and get the friends to be whispering to Trump, "Please make this guy stop. Just stop on your side. Make this guy stop." And then that's their strategy. So I see it as sort of unchanged in their strategy, but I see a, I see a little bit of light. I see a crack in the door. Benny?

• 37:00Speaker 03

  And by the way, because at the end of the day, as much as you love it or you hate it, wherever you stand on this thing, we are at war. Full stop. Okay? Propaganda is going to be played on either side. I mean, they're putting out those videos. Rob, can you play the video that I just sent you? I sent Rob a video right now of their, apparently they sent out, who's the new guy, Pat? The new Khomeini?

• 37:22Tom Ellsworth?

  Khomeini for three.

• 37:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Majab Khomeini, the grandson.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  They put this video, and apparently it's him, Rob, walking into like a nuclear facility. Did you guys see this one?

• 37:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Of course.

• 37:30Speaker 03

  Rob, yeah, go ahead, Robbie.

• 37:35Speaker 03

  He's not wearing glow sticks. Normally, because he party like that, he should have glow sticks. But that's him. The Mona nuclear reactor.

• 37:41Patrick Bet-David?

  So what point are you making?

• 37:42Speaker 03

  So no, what I'm saying is-

• 37:43Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, what I'm saying is-

• 37:44Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 37:44Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm asking him. I'm asking him. What are you saying, Khomeini?

• 37:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly what you think that they're saying. So now, like, listen, war is ugly. I, we, we understand. What drives me crazy is that we're at a point right now where I feel like people are literally, Americans, literally are hoping that we lose. I've seen it, I've heard it, and it's like, love it or hate it, again, and by the way, there's never going to be a war that we ever fight, that we ever fight, that every single American is like, "Yay, go." I remember when I was in after 9/11 and George Bush and all the lies that we had about, about that. Yeah, everybody, bro, the majority of us were like, "Yay, let's go." And then we found out that it was a lie and things shift. But in this situation, Pat, with these guys, with what they're doing, like-

• 38:28Speaker 03

  There's no internet. You can't even hear what the people are saying, but the leaders, their leaders are basically saying, hey, listen, we will freaking nuke everybody. We will kill everybody. This is how the war is going. So Trump, by the way, who do you believe more? The IRGC or do you believe Donald Trump? Tom, I believe Donald.

• 38:48Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, I believe Trump. If the IRGC is speaking, you know, if they told me what time is it, I'd audit it.

• 38:55Speaker 03

  Yeah. And then one thing, Pat, the one thing that I saw, because apparently Trump spoke with Trey Yangst, he's the chief foreign correspondent for Fox News. Rob has this clip, which I'm saying about, like, by the way, that video that I showed, the earlier one that you showed, they're showing all the other people that they're willing to strike in UAE and all that. Like, is anybody else gonna help, Pat? Is anybody going to do their part? Or do you think that they are doing their part? All the UAE people, all the people over there that, I mean, our assets are at all these bases. Are they helping at all?

• 39:28Patrick Bet-David?

  They don't have a choice, Vinny. Because they're the neighbors.

• 39:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:32Patrick Bet-David?

  You know how it's like, whoa, I'm on neighbor watch. If you live in the neighborhood, you best make sure the neighborhood is safe. If you're on neighbor watch.

• 39:40Speaker 03

  And how, is it militarily for them or would it be monetarily coming from them, Pat? Because I remember you said it, pay the 200, give us some money, do something.

• 39:48Patrick Bet-David?

  If you're behind, what leverage do these Gulf states actually have? Actually, ask yourself, what leverage do the Gulf states have? What?

• 39:58Speaker 03

  The Gulf.

• 39:58Patrick Bet-David?

  What leverage do the Gulf states have?

• 40:01Speaker 03

  Leverage to get involved?

• 40:02Patrick Bet-David?

  To US, like to US. Like, what do they, what do we need from the Gulf states?

• 40:07Tom Ellsworth?

  They got one thing, man, oil.

• 40:08Speaker 03

  Oil.

• 40:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, do we need their oil?

• 40:10Speaker 03

  No, not really. We have our reserve.

• 40:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Oil for our allies.

• 40:14Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 40:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Because you can't have your allies getting their asses handed to them, because then you lose your ally. So you need not, Trump's, the president's gonna say, we have enough oil to give it to anybody, because we got Venezuela and we got, again, sequencing wise. If they did it the other way around, Iran first, Venezuela next, issue. He does Venezuela first, Iran next, which means what? If you need oil, we're in control of Venezuela right now. So strategically, it was a brilliant move to do Venezuela first. It's like, don't worry, we got enough oil to give you, right? Now, that's gonna be the argument. But what leverage does Gulf states have, Tom?

• 40:46Tom Ellsworth?

  They don't. You be the Sultan of Oman, okay?

• 40:49Speaker 03

  Okay, hold on.

• 40:50Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm Trump. How are you doing this morning? Very good. I saw that the missiles hit the desalination plant in the hotel. Everybody OK? Everything good? Not good, but OK. OK. So what's going on? Nothing. What? No, Vinnie, honestly, what do you say to me at that point? Yeah, what are you doing to help? What am I doing? I need your help. What do you want?

• 41:11Speaker 03

  Are you guys trying to do an accent? Just lean into the accent if you're gonna do it or not.

• 41:14Tom Ellsworth?

  No, you see, what I'm gonna say is, Mr. President, what do you need us to do? We need this guy to stop, but he's been doing this forever. He's fearlessly doing it. Now he's attacking us. Says, we gotta take it. And you hear what they've been saying. They've been saying, and the Saudis have been saying, you gotta finish the job here. That's what they've been saying for the past three weeks.

• 41:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, but define finish the job.

• 41:35Tom Ellsworth?

  Thank God nobody was killed at the hotel. That's very, very good. Is your water OK? Good. And he said, Mr. President, we gotta finish the job. That's what they've been saying to him.

• 41:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:42Tom Ellsworth?

  So the Gulf states, not only do they have no choice, but they've been looking toward economic future. What have they been doing for 10 years in Saudi Arabia? Building. They built an amusement park. They've attracted three F1 races. They have leave golf. They have all these things. They had the World Cup over there. You see, they're desperately trying to connect more to the West. That can't stop. So you're gonna lean back, cross your arms over your chest and say,

• 42:05Speaker 03

  Better or not?

• 42:05Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, good luck with Iran. Let me know when it's over, Mr. Trump.

• 42:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, no.

• 42:09Tom Ellsworth?

  No, they're gonna say, hey, you gotta finish the job. That's what the Gulf states have been saying. They're saying, how can I help in some way?

• 42:15Speaker 03

  Got you. And the clip that I was talking about, I think you saw it. Trey Yang is the chief foreign correspondent for Fox News. He said the president sent guns to the Iranian protesters earlier this year, and I'm assuming it was when the protest started. And remember the Kurds that we were talking about? The Kurds were getting armed and they were gonna go and fight? Look at what the president told Trey.

• 42:38Speaker 12

  Now, the president also provided new details on what happened earlier this year as the Iranian regime took to the streets and slaughtered what the president tells me is 45,000 civilians in their own country. After that took place, President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters. He tells me, we sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds. It says he thinks the Kurds kept them. He went on to say, "We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them." And so, a number of headlines here from my conversation with President Trump. All of this taking place more than a month into Operation Epic Fury, and in the aftermath of that successful US operation over...

• 43:18Speaker 03

  So that, I mean, Pat, that's pretty... But Adam, that's pretty, like, I remember we were talking about, "Should we send guns?" Because we were thinking about options. Apparently, from the president to him, "We sent guns to the Kurds to give to the Iranian people to fight for themselves." And he's saying that the Kurds never gave them the guns. And they're supposed to be allied with them. How do you feel about that, Pat?

• 43:38Patrick Bet-David?

  How do you maneuver through that? Because you need them to pass the weapons down.

• 43:42Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 43:43Patrick Bet-David?

  And so, do the Kurds really want to be against the president? I, I don't understand that move right there. That's a very dumb move. So now, you don't pass it down to the people? Because what, you don't trust anybody? Did they promise that they were going to, and they didn't?

• 43:58Speaker 03

  That's a great question.

• 43:59Patrick Bet-David?

  What a double dumb move, if that was the case. You need the pres... Do you not want the IRGC to fall? Like, what, what is the next request you're gonna make that he's gonna trust you now? So now, the problem is, who does the president have an outlet to give the weapons to? If he chooses to do so, that gets to the people, who?

• 44:16Speaker 03

  Now you can't, no, who?

• 44:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Now who you do with?

• 44:17Speaker 03

  Now, nobody.

• 44:17Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the point.

• 44:18Speaker 03

  Now, nobody.

• 44:19Patrick Bet-David?

  So, I don't understand the logic behind, and, and I, I don't know all about the details of the Kurds' stuff, but I don't understand the logic behind it. Adam, your thoughts?

• 44:26Adam Sosnick?

  Well, listen, there, there's one key word that summarizes everything that's going on, and that is this concept of hell. So what did Trump say exactly? "Open up the damn Strait of Hormuz, or, uh, all hell will rain loose." Right? Using the F-word. Glory to be to God. And there, there was multiple quotes like that. Do you happen to have the quote of what, uh, the leaders of Iran had to say? They basically said, "Open the gates of hell. If, if you mess with us, we're gonna open the gates of hell." This whole concept of hell. Why am I saying this word "hell"? Because we think that this is a military war, or a strategic war to end their nuclear ambitions. We think this is possibly an economic war. Now they're talking about, you know, obviously, we know sanctions and banking,

• 45:11Adam Sosnick?

  and taking out their oil, Strait of Hormuz. But at the end of the day, here's what's really going on. Whether you believe it or not, whether you want to say it or not, this is a religious war. This is at its core, a deeply, deeply ideological war. This is a class of civilizations. So if you don't think that this is history repeating itself, go look up the Crusades. And of course, Israel and Jerusalem are caught in the middle of this because it's all started this go around on October 7th. So here's what I know about the Islamic Republic of Iran. They are willing to die for this cause. And this is why I respect the enemy. They will die. They will go to their death. They will become martyrs. They will practice jihad.

• 45:54Adam Sosnick?

  They will go to see Allah for this, and I respect that. At the end of the day, we just talked about how we are going to save our boys' lives. The pilot that went down. There's a famous phrase in the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. And it's this, they said, "There will be peace when you value life more than you value death." And this is who these people are. That's why you constantly hear they're a death cult. My final point is this, and I'll keep harping on this. This is the number one most theocratic regime in the world. What does that mean? There's zero separation between church and state or mosque and state in Iran. You know, in America, we say, "Well, we get the First Amendment."

• 46:36Adam Sosnick?

  You know, you know, freedom, the freedom to join, freedom to do this, freedom to preach. We have all our freedoms. In Iran, everything, every decision, every economic decision, every social decision, everything that is made comes from Allah. How do you defeat that? How do you defeat an ideology? I don't know. But here's what I know. They think they're the good guys. We know that we're the good guys. All their neighbors know that they're the bad guys. But they think that they're the good guys. So how do you defeat them?

• 47:04Speaker 03

  But these, but the, but the leaders, the people that are in charge in Iran, think about it, they can play this game, Adam, because you know what? We know that there's, like, this is civilian casualties that we're talking about. You blow up all these things that we're talking about, the bridges, the infrastructure, all that desalinization, whatever. It's the people are going to suffer. The guys, you think the guys on top are going to suffer? These are military people. They have bunk, they're chilling. Those guys are good. They know that they're using the civilian population as leverage. And that's what I don't care about. And the worst thing is, Pat, we can't hear. And I'm being, I'm being genuinely inquisitive. Have we heard anything from the people? I hear people in L.A. like Iranians, like, you know, shut up. We need to, we need to be, you know, free and all that stuff. We need to be liberated.

• 47:49Speaker 03

  But boy, I haven't heard anything from civilians at all in Iran. Have you?

• 47:53Adam Sosnick?

  You bring up a very good point.

• 47:54Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 47:55Adam Sosnick?

  And I'll ask this question. Who cares about the people of Iran more? The United States and the Western world? Or the Islamic Republic of Iran?

• 48:05Speaker 03

  They don't give a, they don't give a damn.

• 48:06Adam Sosnick?

  But here, but there's nuance there. Pat, what percentage of the people in Iran are done with this regime? Sick of this regime? Regime, 80%?

• 48:15Patrick Bet-David?

  The number, the, the study done by GAMEN in Netherlands is 81% who are done with the IRGC. There's a video of a young lady, Rob, if you want to play this. Agree or disagree? This is a video that's been going viral. Did you verify if this was a real video, Rob? Can you go down to see if Grok asked the question?

• 48:35Patrick Bet-David?

  While Adam gives us response, just verify to see if this video is a real video or not. Go ahead, Adam, continue.

• 48:41Adam Sosnick?

  No, I mean, ultimately, what I would assume is that 20% of the country wants this regime to stay intact. Right? The loudest, most vocal 10% of the country are want this regime to stay intact. Or you have 80 to upwards of maybe possibly 90% of the country that is basically like, we are so done with this. So what's the opposite of theocratic, right? Secular. The fastest growing religion in Iran is completely agnostic, atheist, or even Christian. mosques are closing down. It's just testament to this. The people are done with this regime. And at the end of the day, and this is why I keep saying this. You know who's going to pay the price? The biggest price?

• 49:18Speaker 03

  The people.

• 49:19Adam Sosnick?

  The average people in Iran.

• 49:20Speaker 03

  Obviously.

• 49:21Adam Sosnick?

  Whether it's economic, whether it's military, or whether it's jihad internal, this is going to end ugly somehow.

• 49:28Tom Ellsworth?

  And it kind of underlines just how bad this is when you have to turn to the Kurds. And if you know anything about the Kurds.

• 49:34Patrick Bet-David?

  It's stupid. That's such a dumb move by them. The hell are you doing? What are you doing?

• 49:38Tom Ellsworth?

  Yep.

• 49:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Like. The Kurds hate the IRGC. They don't want the IRGC, but then you don't pass the weapons when the president's telling you? Whoever the leader, if the story is true, and that actually happened, whoever the leader is, you're an absolute moron.

• 49:55Tom Ellsworth?

  Yup.

• 49:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Moron. If you told him that I'm gonna pass it and you don't, you're a moron.

• 50:03Tom Ellsworth?

  And they keep the weapons?

• 50:04Patrick Bet-David?

  You're a moron. Or you're a supporter of IRGC, that's who you are.

• 50:07Tom Ellsworth?

  They have this saying.

• 50:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Again, I don't know the whole, we don't know, but if that's exactly what happened, that the president is saying this?

• 50:17Patrick Bet-David?

  What are you doing?

• 50:18Tom Ellsworth?

  The Kurdish military guy, he has this saying that I looked up, and I think what he said was, "I have no friend but the mountains." Right? Where they live, and...

• 50:26Patrick Bet-David?

  No shit, Sherlock, but in this situation, you need friends.

• 50:29Tom Ellsworth?

  Exactly. And they've been isolated.

• 50:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Right? Are they 10%, 8 to 12%?

• 50:35Tom Ellsworth?

  Something like that.

• 50:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you pull up what percentage of, you know, what percentage of Iranians are Kurds?

• 50:41Tom Ellsworth?

  Remember, these people have been abused on three sides. Turkey doesn't, has betrayed them. Turkey betrayed them. Remember Saddam Hussein, what was that city, Halabja? The chemical, right on the transition between Bush Senior and Reagan?

• 50:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 50:58Tom Ellsworth?

  This is what started the problems for the Kurds. Where Saddam Hussein, I believe is Halabja, Halabja, something like that. He used chemical weapons as a test and killed all these people in this village towns. "How'd it go? We have a new weapon, sir." Really? It was the Kurds that he tested it on. And it was the...

• 51:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I don't understand this move.

• 51:17Tom Ellsworth?

  So you would think that they would, with that history, you would think that they would have some favor to assist and to be part of a solution. I don't get it either, Pat.

• 51:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I don't know. And by the way, in the interim, five hours ago, a report came from Wall Street Journal that apparently Israel just killed the number two guy in the IRGC.

• 51:34Tom Ellsworth?

  Strategist?

• 51:35Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't know if you guys saw this or not, the head of intelligence, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Major General Brigadier General, reports say he's a high-ranking guy, he's the number two guy. They just took him out. His name, Rob, if you see it. Do you see it, Rob? Yeah, that guy right there.

• 51:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Sayed Majid Khademi?

• 51:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Khademi. Majid Khademi, Brigadier General, they just took him out. And a few hours ago, in the heart of Tehran, Sunday night, it's military set. So this is another guy that they're taking out. One by one by one, they're going. You know, one by one by one, they're going. You know who hasn't been taken out? The two guys that are negotiating on behalf of Iran, one of the guys Abbas, if I'm not mistaken Abbas, if they take him out, how the hell you gonna negotiate? Because he's the lead negotiator. Abbas Arghchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, there was a video of him showing when he was mourning the loss of one of his best friends that was going viral. I don't know if you guys saw this or not.

• 52:34Patrick Bet-David?

  And, you know, he has become a hero in Iran. Like this guy's become a hero and, and loved in Iran. Like the more and more war continues, this guy's gonna, this guy's right now becoming

• 52:50Patrick Bet-David?

  slowly the face of Iran. I, I, if this guy stays alive, he could end up having a very, very, he already has a very powerful position. But I think his upside, he can go all the way to the top with the way he's doing things. So I'm surprised they haven't taken him out.

• 53:04Adam Sosnick?

  I was gonna say, it's very lonely at the top if you're the Ayatollah.

• 53:07Speaker 03

  Well, here's my question though.

• 53:08Patrick Bet-David?

  They who, Pat? Tom, if they take like Israel, when I say they, if Israel takes them out, how the hell are you supposed to negotiate?

• 53:15Speaker 03

  I was gonna say, they could, I mean, they can get to him, by the way, he's on video every single day. If they want to, Pat, they can kill him.

• 53:23Patrick Bet-David?

  But you know what though, let me just say this right now.

• 53:26Adam Sosnick?

  What evidence do you have that Israel or allies can take out any of their top leaders?

• 53:31Speaker 03

  Are you being facetious?

• 53:32Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, of course. I'd be, whoever I am in Iran, for whatever reason, I'd have a very hard time. Adam, for the last three weeks, we've been seeing hits.

• 53:40Patrick Bet-David?

  But here's what I would say.

• 53:41Adam Sosnick?

  It's sarcasm, Tom.

• 53:42Patrick Bet-David?

  He's joking, but here's what I would say to you. What I would say to you, Adam, is the following. If they take him out, just saying this right now, you don't have any desire to negotiate.

• 53:53Adam Sosnick?

  From Iran?

• 53:55Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, from Israel.

• 53:56Adam Sosnick?

  From Israel.

• 53:56Patrick Bet-David?

  If Israel, like let's just say if I, if I, the US, you saw the tweets, Rob, that Iran has agreed to, to the nuclear request from America. We sent it in a group text, I sent it last night and then Humberto started verifying my messages. Do you remember that last night? Right there, Rob. I just put a thumbs up on it if you found it. Yeah, Iran has conceded that they will not acquire a nuke, per Fox News. And this is not April Fool's, that's April 5th. Okay, and then others started retweeting that as well. Rob, can you see on the bottom of that if Grok verified that or not? Just go to the bottom and see if there's any kind of a verification on that, on what's going to say.

• 54:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's, here's what you do that while you're doing, I'll give my thoughts. And you can just check the story and verify. Thanks, Rob. So, you know what it makes me think about, Tom? This is the part, if they kill Abbas,

• 54:54Patrick Bet-David?

  if they kill, there's no interest in negotiating. That's simple. So if you kill, you're going for all the marbles. So now, if Whitkoff and Kushner are actually negotiating with them, and he's the lead guy, you take him out, you never wanted to negotiate in the first place. Which, by the way, guess what? Now you know where they're at.

• 55:17Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 55:18Patrick Bet-David?

  So then, so then the criticism becomes, look, you really, wink, wink, you're not trying to negotiate, you're trying to take them out. And by the way, fair, there's a lot of, there's a lot of Iranians in Iran that are like, stop saying for them to stop and end the war, we want this, the Iranian people say, we want this. We want, we want you to come and, even if our lives are on the line, we want you to come and take this out, etc., etc. I think there was somebody that tweeted something saying, take out the power plants, and everyone was like, what are you talking about, take out the power plants? You know, who was it that said, take out the power plants? Iran's power plants?

• 55:53Speaker 03

  I think Trump tweeted that he's gonna, they were gonna give him a warning and then bomb

• 55:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 55:58Speaker 03

  the bridges, the power plants, which was earlier, it was earlier.

• 56:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so, so again-

• 56:03Speaker 03

  I'm sorry, Laura Loomer.

• 56:05Patrick Bet-David?

  That's right.

• 56:05Speaker 03

  Laura Loomer said-

• 56:06Patrick Bet-David?

  That's who it was.

• 56:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, Rob.

• 56:07Patrick Bet-David?

  That's who it was. And so, you know, Laura's been getting, you know, she's saying a lot of stuff and-

• 56:11Speaker 03

  She's gonna take out their grid.

• 56:12Patrick Bet-David?

  I mean, look, the Gassam Soleimani niece and the daughter and whatever that is, that's a part of her reporting that came out, and all of a sudden, it went all the way to the top, and Rubio's like, hey, you guys gotta get out.

• 56:20Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 56:21Patrick Bet-David?

  So, you want to go to that story, Rob?

• 56:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 56:23Patrick Bet-David?

  You want to go to the story of the, and Vinnie, I'm gonna come to you. So, Vinnie, what happened here? Gassam Soleimani's niece and daughter, apparently- Who, Hassan Soleimani is the one that the president killed on his first term. And now the niece and the daughter are in the US, hanging out, and all of a sudden we get a report that Rubio is going after them. What happened with that story?

• 56:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, his niece and her daughter are in Los Angeles and their green cards were revoked because she originally came in the country in 2015. She got asylum in 2019 and then permanent residency in 2021. Uh, then they found out that she had gone back to Iran four different times after claiming she couldn't safely return there, which is, it was a lie. Then on top of that, she says that, um, they're saying, and they have proof, that there was online praising while she's here, uh, of the Iranian regime and celebrating the attacks on Americans while living comfortably here. So, uh, and there was one other report, Pat, and I told Tom about it. There, there's a physician daughter of Iranian official that was booted from the UNS, uh, her and her, her husband, Dr. Fatima

• 57:23Speaker 03

  Ardeshir Lahrajani, uh, whose father is Ali Lahrajani. He served as the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council before being killed in the US airstrikes. So they're, they've been, uh, kicked out. But here's my thing, Tom. Why are we letting, and Pat, I want to ask you too, the niece of a guy we literally had to kill, stay in America in the first place. We're talking about Hossam Soleimani. He's the, he was the head of Iraq's coupes force, I believe, um, and then one of the most anti-American terror figures in the world. He, he had, you know, blamed the death of hundreds of American troops in Iraq through proxies and roadside bombs and attacks carried out by the forces funded. So what, why would you leave, I, I, I'm so confused, Tom.

• 58:06Speaker 03

  Why would you leave them here after all these years and he's a freaking, he hates us? Do you think they have a positive side? Yeah, they're in Los Angeles. They're probably shopping on Rodeo Drive. Why would you keep them there? I think that's bigger than, than one immigration lie. That shows the system is broken. If, if the, the guy who has blood, American blood on his hands, their family got asylum and then a green card and living a life and they're cheering against us when Americans are dying. I'm so confused.

• 58:34Tom Ellsworth?

  I don't, I don't get it either. I don't understand why she would still be here. And when, you know, when Soleimani finds out we're messing with his niece, he's gonna be pissed.

• 58:40Speaker 03

  He's dead.

• 58:41Tom Ellsworth?

  But, um, oh, that's right.

• 58:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's gone.

• 58:43Tom Ellsworth?

  All right. Yeah. Gosh.

• 58:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Actually, good. That was funny.

• 58:46Speaker 03

  That was good.

• 58:46Tom Ellsworth?

  The, um, no, I, I look at it like this.

• 58:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Don't drive by yourself.

• 58:49Tom Ellsworth?

  I look at it like this. By the way, do you know who some of the greatest informants for the CIA have been?

• 58:55Speaker 03

  Who?

• 58:56Tom Ellsworth?

  Says relatives of dictators who don't want to die. Relatives that were part of families. Marcos, when Marcos lost his marbles and then he left the Philippines and then, you know, Imelda Marcos was crazy, had buried men alive in concrete while trying to build a, you know, concert hall that, which was to herself. It was just terrible, terrible, terrible. There were people in, when, uh, when it was all overthrown, Pat, they were over there like, "Hey, man, I may be his nephew, but I'm not about this." And they provided assistance. So, did they provide assistance and then they stopped providing assistance? That's Manuel Noriega. Manuel Noriega, which was working with the US CIA and then stopped

• 59:40Tom Ellsworth?

  providing assistance. What did we do? We went down and invited him to come spend the rest of his life in a Florida prison. And we did. So you never know what's going on.

• 59:48Patrick Bet-David?

  What are you saying, though? Are you saying that these guys may be giving us intel?

• 59:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, you never know what's going on. Were they helping and now they're not helping?

• 59:55Patrick Bet-David?

  They've said some very bad things about America. So that's the thing. So, so to me...

• 1:00:00Tom Ellsworth?

  That's what I'm saying. Is that the flip or were they always like that? If they're always like that, then why the hell are they here? To your point, Ben.

• 1:00:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, oh.

• 1:00:06Tom Ellsworth?

  Was somebody providing some information? I, I don't know.

• 1:00:09Speaker 03

  You know what this reminds me of? After 9/11, Pat, when I was in the United States Air Force, every flight was grounded, period. Nobody is flying. But a couple of days after, the United States let 13 to 26 of Osama bin Laden's extended family to get on a plane and fly to, to, back to, to Europe. I think they flew out of Logan International Airport. Wait a minute. The number one terrorist guy that we were told was a terrorist, his family is just chilling on the East Coast? Like, it doesn't make sense. And then you fly them, no questioning, no nothing, you make them leave? I don't like that at all, Pat. Like, they know that these people are here. They know. What are we doing? Get them the hell out of here. You, your father, your uncle, your whatever, has killed Americans?

• 1:00:51Speaker 03

  I'm sorry, the hell with all this immigration ice, whatever. Get them the hell out of here. You can't. You can't be here. Who knows who they're communicating with? Who are you talking to? Are you passing information? Are you talking to other people?

• 1:01:01Patrick Bet-David?

  So, so this is the problem. I just found it.

• 1:01:04Speaker 03

  Go ahead.

• 1:01:04Patrick Bet-David?

  So the problem with this is, Rob, what I'm about to send to you, because what I saw as I was looking into this... Is a lot of people are saying, why would you arrest? Why would you arrest? Why would you arrest? And that's a good question. Why would you arrest? Like, don't we have freedom of speech? Don't we have that? But in reality, Rob, if you want to pull up this ABC report that came out, they were praising Iran's leadership, the niece.

• 1:01:23Adam Sosnick?

  Praising them online.

• 1:01:24Patrick Bet-David?

  And they supported the IRGC and celebrated attacks on Americans.

• 1:01:28Adam Sosnick?

  Bingo.

• 1:01:28Patrick Bet-David?

  She referred to the US as the great Satan. Then why are you here?

• 1:01:32Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:33Patrick Bet-David?

  See, that's so to me, I don't think this is CIA intel. I think these are two relatives deceased, blah, blah, blah. The two are amongst a number of Americans who have had their legal status in the US revoked for allegedly supporting the terrorist regime. And Iran's Secretary Marco Rubio talked about the niece. The State Department says Soleimani's niece and grandniece were living in a lavish lifestyle in LA. At least one of them promoted propaganda from Iranian regime and celebrated attacks on Americans. Until recently, Hamid Soleimani, Afshar, and her daughter were green card holders, living lavishly in the US. Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Soleimani. She is the outspoken supporter of the Iran regime, celebrated attacks on Americans. So, the great Satan. And is this, go a little bit lower on Rubio? Is there anything else that they have this week? No, Rob, stay on that story, please, if you could. Uh, go a little bit lower.

• 1:02:18Patrick Bet-David?

  This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter. Okay, so that's the tweet. I got it. Maybe if you want to go back to the tweet that you had, uh, let me see if he says anything else here. This week, I terminated... They are now in ICE custody pending removal from the US. The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

• 1:02:35Adam Sosnick?

  Bingo.

• 1:02:35Patrick Bet-David?

  I mean, dude, if that's what you're gonna be doing, you got a lot of other people to go get. That's just too dumb.

• 1:02:40Adam Sosnick?

  Exactly. Yeah, I mean, look, everything you said, I completely echo. The reality is this: the enemies inside the gates.

• 1:02:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, they're here.

• 1:02:48Adam Sosnick?

  Straight up. So, they're talking about the Trojan horse. Pat, you talked about the, and I'll reference it's the video you did a couple of months ago, but which immigrants contribute the most to America? So, look, they're talking about removing and revoking their green card. This is the niece and family members of the slain General Soleimani, the sworn enemy of the United States. So, they basically gave a red card to their green card. Sorry, you gotta go. Which is basically apropos for this complete understanding of what this strange bedfellows of this red-green alliance actually means. When the communists...

• 1:03:24Tom Ellsworth?

  And the Islamists get together, it gets very ugly and it usually starts on the college campuses, just like it did in 1979, this revolution, and look at the college campuses now for the past couple of years. They've been taken over by these pro-Palestine marches. The most, most kids could not tell you the history of Palestine, much less the history of the IRGC in Iran. Yet, they're willing as useless idiots to get out there and basically do encampments and do marches, screaming for an intifada, which basically means killing people. Screaming, river to the sea type mentality, and this is the whole purpose.

• 1:03:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's a question back to you and Tom. So, Tom, where does that fall under? If, if a person is a green card holder, and they're saying the great Satan, and they're defending IRGC, if you're the lawyer of those two girls, how do you defend them in America with our constitution that we have? Because the argument on the other side, some people are making on social, they're like, wait a minute, you can't do anything to them. That's the part of American freedom of speech. So what do you say to that? Play lawyer.

• 1:04:27Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm sorry, you're not Americans. You're here on a green card granted by our government, under the Department of State, rolling up to the Secretary of State. You have proven to be a, and, and by the way, we have certain laws that we have here about incentive, about creating riots and discord and civil disobedience. But you're not a citizen. You're not a citizen. And you're, you're being very difficult and you're being an absolute jerk. Why did I give you, why did the State Department give you a green card? If this is how you're going to behave here. And you do not have the rights and privileges of a US citizen in the, under the constitution, because you ain't one.

• 1:05:12Tom Ellsworth?

  And, and that's why, listen to how Rubio said it, Pat. "I am revoking." He's using the authority of the issued green card to say, you're being a complete jerk. And you're, and this is just, you know what? We give you a green card to people to come here and attempt to go through the process of making a life. Goodbye. What people mistake and people want to get on their soapboxes, and here comes the heat I'm going to take for this. You forget the difference between real citizens and guests. And under a green card, you're a guest. And Rubio just said-

• 1:05:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Play the video, Rob, of the, the, the two girls that was going viral. This is them, right? Yeah, that's them and that's Soleimani's. Look at this. That, by the way, that car is a hundred and fifty thousand dollar truck. That's anywhere between one forty to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If that's an Alpha.

• 1:06:00Tom Ellsworth?

  Maybe they could just take a lap around a airport access road.

• 1:06:03Speaker 03

  But, okay, can I, can I say something? Do, first of all, her uncle killed American citizens. Put that, put that to the side, okay? Killed, gave orders, American people, soldiers, dead. Or, I don't know, dead. Fact. Fact. Do you not think she still has relationships with the people that her uncle was working with? Are you guys, like, not you guys, I'm saying, are people stupid? And I'm gonna tell you right now, if my uncle, who was killing us, people of a, of a country, and I'm in, and you kill my uncle, one thousand percent, I'm gonna be giving information. And, and, Adam, you wanna talk about the Trojan horse?

• 1:06:45Speaker 03

  I'm in the belly of the, and I'm hating you, and I will do anything to hurt you guys because you guys killed my uncle, who I love dearly. That's a, that's a no, I don't even know why the hell we let this guy stay in there. From back then, she's been here, living that life, posting stuff like that. And now all of a sudden, it, it, it's a, it's a bad idea? Give me a freaking break, bro. I'm sorry.

• 1:07:05Adam Sosnick?

  The reality is, we're the number one country that has this problem. I don't know of many other countries that have this exact problem. What's the problem? Is that we're a country of immigrants. We welcome everybody from all over the world, and we say, come be a part of our great nation. Just make it better. The problem is, a lot of these people come here, and they want to live a good life. They don't wanna go back to the life they had before. They want all the benefits of America, the life of luxury, especially if they're wealthy. And then they wanna sort of cling on their moral high ground that, yes, of course, I stand for the supreme leader. It's like, well, why are you here? Oh, cuz I wanna live my life. I know this one girl, let me tell you how confusing this is. This girl, she's a Muslim, she's a friend of mine, she's a friend of a friend, I'm not gonna name her name, and she's a party girl in Miami.

• 1:07:50Adam Sosnick?

  This girl parties. I'm telling you, when I say party, she drinks, she smokes, she does this, she does that. She's out there in the scene. But she praises Allah and she wears what looks like a stripper outfit although she's not a stripper yet she will basically give the moral high ground and sort of cite the Quran as if it's like the moral aptitude test of why she's right and morally superior to all of us and she basically praises the IRGC and says that she loves the Ayatollah. I said, "Why the hell are you living here?" "Oh, because I love my life here. Why don't you go back?" "Oh, I go back sometimes." I go, "Why don't you stay there?" "Well, no, my family has businesses here." What's my point? It's very frickin' complicated. My

• 1:08:33Adam Sosnick?

  response is, "Get the hell out of here. Stop doing drugs. Why are you on your moral high horse where you think you can look down at Americans yet you have your superiority complex with your Quran that you're talking about?" Which one is it? By the way, if you live this life, anywhere in the Middle East, what would they do with you if you look like this?

• 1:08:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Gulf states won't tolerate this life.

• 1:08:54Adam Sosnick?

  Exactly. They'll be head. But they'll tolerate it.

• 1:08:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. And by the way, the difference, the risk with what you have in America is freedom of speech. That's the risk because freedom of speech allows people to gaslight and confuse the hell out of people and most people fall trapped for that. You do. Eighty percent of people have fallen trapped for, you know, some of the propaganda that's taking place and that's not going to stop. But I want to get to the next story. I want to get to the next story because we've got a lot of other things to go through as well. Now, while this is happening, economy-wise, Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one here. So, US-Iran war tax begins to hit American businesses and consumers. And I'm going to go to two of these stories combined together, Tom, and then I'll turn it over to you. So,

• 1:09:40Patrick Bet-David?

  number one, Nick Friedman, co-founder of Tampa-based Call of Junkers, Hall & Junkin' business, has been facing multiple headwinds. High mortgage rates have dampened the real estate market while rising insurance premiums are eating into operation costs. Now there's a US-Iran war and surge in diesel fuel prices that is eating into profit margins, yet he doesn't feel like he can raise prices. We are in a bit of a catch-22. Our fear would be if we start raising prices, it'll hurt the customers. Bigger companies, he says, can probably get away with adding fees, such as Amazon just added the 3.5% or United Airlines or JetBlue, both. Raise their prices and one airline in UK apparently is no longer, they're shut down. I don't know what the airline was, Rob, in UK if you want to check that.

• 1:10:22Patrick Bet-David?

  One airline just said, "We are not even doing anything right now because we just can't afford it." Tom, how is this tax impacting businesses and customers today from the war? What do you see in it?

• 1:10:33Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, they're calling it a war tax. And a tax is something you don't want that takes money from you, right? That's the colloquial they're going after. And what they're saying is, is that with, um, today, where's fuel today? Let me look it up real quick. Oil, you know, West Texas Intermediate is sitting here, market just opened and it's sitting at 112 right now. Ouch. Um, is that right? Yep, 112.65. So, oil is a commodity and now you got oil up. And so what do you do? Um, he's absolutely correct. A larger company with more, uh, longer arms and more profit. Vinnie, think about it. It's like if you operated a company and you're bigger than me and you have a little bit more profit than me,

• 1:11:14Tom Ellsworth?

  you might be able to wait it out a little longer before you ultimately raise prices. And what this guy is saying is like, hey, the, we're coming to the point where we can't do it anymore. We gotta raise prices a little bit. Unfortunately, larger national companies are gonna have it. And so what we're seeing here is the effect of commodity priced oil. Because the oil in the US has come up and this is now the impact. They've waited and what also it means is that everyone on Wall Street has been running on sentiment. You know, Pat, like, president says something positive and the market responds. Then they hear something else and then the market goes the other way. So, right now, the best thing that the market could hear is positive message.

• 1:12:00Tom Ellsworth?

  We had a positive message on the rescue. We got a 48-hour, um, uh, you know, till deadline. We gotta find out what's there. What the market wants is to have line of sight to certainty of finish. And you can't come out in the middle of a war and just say, "I'll be done at 8 o'clock on Tuesday" because it'll all be done that day. Because then there's nothing to negotiate.

• 1:12:22Patrick Bet-David?

  But isn't there some good news that just came out? Trump told unexpectedly high March jobs report as economy rebounds from week, uh, February. And, uh, you know, a very happy and blessed Good Friday to all, especially to the 186,000 Americans who gained private sector jobs in a month of March alone. My economic policies have created an enormously powerful engine of economic growth and nothing can slow it down. Trump added that factory construction jobs. Are soaring as a result of a rapid onshoring and surging investments that tariffs have generated. All the while, the trade deficits have shrunk by 52% in a year. U.S. added 178,000 jobs in March, which included 8,000 government jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this figure is about three times what most economists forecasted, three times, Tom.

• 1:13:05Patrick Bet-David?

  This gain comes after country lost 133,000 jobs in February. Unemployment also dipped from 4.4 to 4.3 percent. The average person who is not following the economy the way, you know, experts are, would say, how is this even possible? With the war going on, what prices going up? But we added this many new jobs? Why is that, Tom?

• 1:13:23Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, because what's going on in the background that the president put in place has been continuing. So, I was on record for January, February, and Vinny, you remember this. I said, hey, after Christmas, you get a lot of seasonal workers get laid off, or that's the end of their contract. And so they're off. So, and I expected to be flat jobs, but then February came in even worse. Now, this is coming up, and you gotta be careful because the Department of Labor tends to come back and and adjust these. But if this is traction on springtime hiring and stuff, on construction, then this is really good news, and it points to manufacturing, which is, which would also be good news. So it says that some of these things, it was going to take time, because remember last year, we said,

• 1:14:06Tom Ellsworth?

  hey, you got all these jobs to build data centers. So I said, well, first you need a permit, then you need a foundation, then you need all those things that have to happen, then the jobs can come there for all the army of people it takes to build these data centers. And if that's what's coming up here with springtime hiring, this is really good news. So both could be true at once, Pat, is that fuel cost is hurting businesses because now they gotta think about raising prices a little bit. But that should be a temporary thing that after the war, those come back down, and the market wants line of sight to an endpoint. On the other hand, it's very positive that if these are manufacturing jobs, because this is exactly what the president was talking about, that he wanted to incentivize, and he was driving last year.

• 1:14:49Tom Ellsworth?

  So if this comes true, and this doesn't get revised down, I think it's good news today, and if it doesn't get revised, I think it's great news.

• 1:14:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Right, Adam.

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• 1:16:13Adam Sosnick?

  Look, I don't know how to tell you guys this, but everything's gonna be okay. You know, there was the phrase that we keep saying, short-term pain and long-term gain. Look, I have the beauty of understanding how the markets work. Because at one point, I had no clue what a 401K was. I had no clue what a Roth IRA was. I, believe me, I had no clue what Bitcoin was, but eventually I learned what all these things are. And at the market, if you look at the market every single day, it goes like this, Pat, right? Every day, it's up, it's down, it's green, it's red, it's bulls, it's bears, it's up and down. But if you look at the market over years or a 10-year span, the market's always up. What's my point? We've been through way worse than this Iran conflict. Guys, we're not the ones getting bombed every single day. We're not the ones getting our leaders decapitated.

• 1:16:57Adam Sosnick?

  We're not the ones that are basically gonna go bankrupt if they, if they bomb our energy supply. We're sitting pretty here in America. What's the worst that we have in America? We pay a couple of extra bucks for gas? That sucks. I get it. Maybe you have to cut down your vacation for a day or two, or maybe your travel plans get, get a little interrupted. The travel plans in Iran right now? For the Ayatollah and his crew, they're nonexistent. So it, like, right now, in sports right now, Luca's injured. Right? He'll be back in a few weeks. So the Lakers, oh my God, what are we gonna do? Oh my God, we might not get the third seat. Don't worry, you're making the playoffs. Everything's gonna be okay. Do you remember the guy, what's the guy? Damar Hamlin? That basically two years ago, all of a sudden faints and basically goes in a coma?

• 1:17:42Adam Sosnick?

  He's playing again. So if you look at the news, just in terms of what's going on today? Oh my God, oil price. Okay, calm down. You know, what's the fear greed index? We talked about that or the VIX? Where's the VIX right now? The point is that's the volatility index? Things go up and down and up and down, but we have the beauty in America of having stability and calmness and peace and prosperity. And yes, there's some short-term pain, but I guarantee you there's gonna be some long-term.

• 1:18:08Speaker 03

  Okay, I say one thing, just to push back a little bit. We have the luxury to say that here, you're successful, you're in LA, but the average American that's in middle America, Adam, that's going paycheck to paycheck, paycheck, this is hurting them. This short-term pain?

• 1:18:22Adam Sosnick?

  Thank you.

• 1:18:23Speaker 03

  To them, they're like, wait a minute. This sounds short-term. And let me finish it, because I'll get back to you. Because Adam, gas, groceries, these people are actually struggling and they just want to know, Adam, give us, and I get this. We're giving them five days, we're giving them 10 days, we're giving around this thing. They want a clear, and I get it, it's war, it's unpredictable. I understand, I'm not being that guy. But for the regular, average Joe, American, this is kicking their butt.

• 1:18:48Adam Sosnick?

  Is it though?

• 1:18:50Speaker 03

  Yes, it is, Adam. Adam, gas.

• 1:18:52Adam Sosnick?

  Let me ask you a question.

• 1:18:52Speaker 03

  Let me finish, because Adam, they're in their head, they're like, okay, the short-term, how long is the short-term? They don't see an end in sight. The majority of them, because Adam, if you're just seeing this from like a, take a couple steps back and look at it on a global type thing, these people don't seem like they're gonna stop. You think the RG, they're willing to literally, they're basically saying this, go ahead and bomb the bridges, go ahead and bomb our oil, we're not gonna stop. And they're putting out videos of their new leader walking into a room, okay? Basically saying, yo, we'll nuke Israel. That's, I mean, that's where they're at. So the average American, Adam, here's what you're saying, and I guarantee you, they're like, bro, because we have those viewers, they're out there. I feel for them because in their mind, they're like, wait, what do you mean?

• 1:19:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Feel short term. I don't think that they think it's short term.

• 1:19:36Adam Sosnick?

  Well, the, the average American, and believe me, I feel for the average American. I feel for everybody because how much, how many questions do I answer on my neck about personal finance and saving money? And being smart with your money. But I'll use some case examples, shout out to Tom, in terms of recent memory, recent history. That things were way worse in the economy than they are now. Do you think that the economy wasn't as worse? As it is today versus COVID in 2020, or when inflation hit all time highs or next to all time highs? In 2022, not too long ago, economy was real bad. How did they survive? You buckle down and you survive. You cut costs and you basically trim the fat and you live your life. 2008, I remember when the recession happened. That affected America. That wasn't going on halfway around the world in Iran. That was people losing their houses. That was foreclosures.

• 1:20:19Adam Sosnick?

  That were basically your, your, your house is being taken away. People survived. In 2001, the dot com bubble busted. Oh my God, what's gonna happen? Right after Y2K, everything was okay. So yes, there's gonna be some short term pain. But there's gonna be long term gain and, and I feel for the average American. But I would feel a lot worse for the average American if there was a nuclear Holocaust happening anywhere around the world. God forbid, America.

• 1:20:43Tom Ellsworth?

  You can say that, but people are suffering. People are really suffering. So donate money to them.

• 1:20:48Patrick Bet-David?

  No, but, but, but the point is, that's the debate.

• 1:20:50Tom Ellsworth?

  We can't hand wave over it like that. They got 1.3 trillion dollars in credit card debt. BNPL delinquencies are up. Car loan delinquencies are up. And the America, to, to put words, talk with numbers scream, has not replaced the savings that they had in 2019. Eight years ago, those savings rates were never fully replaced. They got a little bit of relief from government checks. But American is, America is in a tough spot, you know, right now. And so you gotta look at it right now for where the, right now. Why do you think Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen come out over the weekend and, and don't even sound like Democrats? They're asking about, should anybody pay income taxes if they have $75,000 or under? And they're talking about a tax cut. Cory Booker, talking about a tax cut. Why is he doing that?

• 1:21:34Tom Ellsworth?

  Cause the election's coming and he knows Americans are hurting, hurting, hurting. And you know, I, I just think.

• 1:21:40Patrick Bet-David?

  The long term issue we have with this.

• 1:21:41Tom Ellsworth?

  You can draw comparisons to history, but right now, people are hurting.

• 1:21:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Issue we have on this is the following. Here's the long term issue we have on this. I, I, I think affordability is not a political topic. Set it aside.

• 1:21:53Tom Ellsworth?

  I agree.

• 1:21:53Patrick Bet-David?

  I think affordability is a real issue. You know, and, and, and the fastest way to look at it, last time we're at the house, and we're having a conversation about, you know, this, this, this fatherhood book that we're talking about. And I played three clips for everybody. And it was one of the clips I played is the logic clip, which I played here. Then I played the Gene Hackman clip about his father when he left at 13. And in the interview, he says, it's only been 65 years and he's, you know. And then the Dana White clip, when Dana White says, "Yeah, my parents died, but I don't have any sorrow, anything, because they were not good parents." I don't know if you've seen this clip. It's a very, very heavy clip. And it's like, well, why are we where we are today? We made some very bad decisions back in the days with Lyndon Johnson.

• 1:22:34Patrick Bet-David?

  When we changed the entitlement programs and we started giving single mothers free money for nothing. And we went from single mother households being from 4% in America in 1964, to now being at 41%. We, we, we made some mistakes when in 1970 or so, only 35% of women worked in the workforce. Right now, it's 70%. Not because they want to, because they don't have a choice. You have, you need dual income. If you have dual income, what happens? If you have dual income? You have 1.58 childbirth rate. If you have 1.58 childbirth rate, what is the replacement? 2.1. If this continues, then what happens? Then we become like some of these other countries that,

• 1:23:16Patrick Bet-David?

  you know, you have a bigger, older population and a smaller, younger population. And you see India's average age is 28 and we're at 36, 37, 38. I don't know what our age is today. It's getting older because we're not having babies. Affordability is a very real issue. Not for Trump, not for Biden, not, I'm not putting it as a political thing. It's a real thing. And this war isn't helping the average guy out who's out there. This is why my hopes are for this thing to be done quickly. There was something I came out today in the morning, I don't know if you guys saw this, that they were, they're wanting to talk about a 45-day, uh, uh, what do you call it? Ceasefire. Did you see that, Rob? I saw something about this morning, a 45-day ceasefire. For what? You know, for what?

• 1:23:57Patrick Bet-David?

  The Iran mediators making the last ditch push for a 45-day ceasefire? No. If, if you do a 45-day ceasefire, what, what is Iran really saying? Give us 45 days to get stronger and get some more help from Russia and China and all this other stuff. Get it wrapped up. I don't know if you go a little bit lower on this Rob to see how these conversations are going. Why it matters. Sources said the chances of reaching a partial deal over the next 48 hours are slim. But this last ditch effort could be the only chance to prevent a dramatic escalation in the world that will include massive strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure, retaliation, energy against energy and water facilities in Gulf states, driving the news President Trump's 10 day deadline to Iran was expected to expire on Monday and now you get 48 hours. I don't know how many hours he's got left Rob. How many hours does he have left?

• 1:24:41Speaker 13

  Uh, it's 8 o'clock tomorrow night, so.

• 1:24:44Patrick Bet-David?

  8 o'clock tonight or tomorrow night?

• 1:24:45Speaker 13

  Tomorrow night. It was supposed to be Tuesday at 8pm.

• 1:24:47Patrick Bet-David?

  So Tuesday at 8pm.

• 1:24:49Speaker 13

  Yeah.

• 1:24:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, you know, uh, uh, Jay came in and Humberto, they're like, hey, you know, when he says two days, he may do it in a day or not do it at all. So he may still do something today to surprise. But going back to affordability, that's a real thing that people are going through. So I, I want to get to the next story because we got a few other stories.

• 1:25:04Adam Sosnick?

  And I'll, I'll be 10 seconds. Affordability is never, uh, going away. There's always, uh, every year there's, they say one half to two thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That never changes. What's my point? Yes, the government has a role here.

• 1:25:18Patrick Bet-David?

  10 seconds buddy. That's 10 seconds.

• 1:25:19Adam Sosnick?

  But it's also on you. It's called personal finance.

• 1:25:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Nobody disagrees with that.

• 1:25:23Adam Sosnick?

  Called personal responsibility.

• 1:25:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, but this is a.

• 1:25:25Adam Sosnick?

  Called self-worth.

• 1:25:26Patrick Bet-David?

  This is a real thing that they're going through today and, and they didn't do anything about it.

• 1:25:31Adam Sosnick?

  Sure.

• 1:25:32Patrick Bet-David?

  So the Iranian, the American people.

• 1:25:33Adam Sosnick?

  Just like in, uh, 2008, did the American people do anything about it? But that was part of the economy. Just like the dot com bubble. Just like COVID.

• 1:25:40Patrick Bet-David?

  The affordability issue is a real long-term issue. That is, has to be addressed no matter, unfortunately, for the people to be able to address this. It's a very hard thing to do because you have to make some changes that are going to be disruptive. And I don't know if any politician has the audacity to do it. I don't think, and do you remember when that story came out about us cutting entitlement programs? How could that 41 million people that are taking entitlement programs and we have to cut, you know, uh, welfare and food stamps and then how long did that story last? One week? Why? Because they're like, you're gonna lose elections over this. To do what's right for the American people financially,

• 1:26:24Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think any president will do it because you'll only be a one-term president.

• 1:26:27Speaker 03

  It's tough.

• 1:26:28Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think any president will do it because you're a one-term president if you do it. So anyways, by the way, here's what Rokana is saying. Rokana comes out and says if the Democrats win the midterms, guess what they want to do? They want to impeach the president. Listen to this one here, go for it.

• 1:26:42Speaker 14

  Win the House and possibly the Senate in November. There's a better than even chance Donald Trump gets impeached again.

• 1:26:51Speaker 15

  Absolutely. He should be impeached now. I mean, he's taken us into a disastrous war, threatening war crimes in Iran in terms of knocking out people, plants and knocking out electricity. And the Democrats will impeach him once we take back the House and should impeach him for all the things he's done. And depending on the Senate, he may face conviction if we get to 60, especially if the, his numbers keep going down. The Epstein issue continues to be a vulnerable.

• 1:27:20Patrick Bet-David?

  They're leaking it.

• 1:27:22Speaker 03

  Are we surprising guys?

• 1:27:24Patrick Bet-David?

  And by, by the way, on Calci, if you want to go to Calci, man, can you imagine without these, these markets for you to be able to see what's going on with the markets?

• 1:27:32Speaker 03

  What's the temperature? What's the pulse?

• 1:27:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Calci is saying he will be impeached.

• 1:27:38Speaker 03

  He will.

• 1:27:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Before June 1st, 2028, it's 80% almost. Okay? If you go before January 1st, it's 13%. Before June 1st, Vinny, even before June 1st, okay? It's 4%. Now, the reason why June 1st is not a likely one, that's a pure gamble, is because they don't have control to be able to do it. The reason why the January 1st is a good position is what? When is midterms?

• 1:28:05Speaker 03

  November.

• 1:28:06Patrick Bet-David?

  November. So 12.9, those are pretty good odds right there to be looking at that, but they got 70% chances of him being impeached before January 1st of 2028. So your thoughts on what Rokana just said? Are you surprised?

• 1:28:21Speaker 03

  Absolutely not, and that's why it drives me back, Pat, which, which the Pam Bondi firing and all this stuff. The accountability. ...factor of the other side, we have gotten none of it. Absolutely none. And the only two people, I said this last week, were Jim Comey and Letitia James, and they indicted them, and in one week, they were like, oh, this person did this, and the judge, and they're done. Zero. They're not even hiding it anymore. He's telling you, what was that, CNN or MSNBC, Robbie? MSNBC. MSNBC. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about MSNBC. They're telling you exactly what they're going to do, which they have been doing for the past eight years. Okay? And this is what

• 1:29:02Speaker 03

  the Republican Party needs to understand and wake up. All the auto pen, all these people, Ilhan Omar, they keep launching and writing letters. If you don't start going after them, they're gonna come after you. And this is not even hiding that. And the way that it's looking, Kelsey's no joke. I've been doing some research, they don't, they don't miss. The people that are doing all the volume, they know what they're talking about, and it's not gonna look good for him. Okay? At all. So I hope that it's worth it. Because they're all there laughing. Ilhan Omar, they're all laughing. They're like, yeah, yeah, launch another investigation. Gavin Newsom, billions of dollars. No, we don't know nothing. And they come to Congress, Pat, and they laugh in their faces. They laugh in their faces because that's all they do. Comer and all these guys, and I love Kennedy, but he's

• 1:29:45Speaker 03

  a comedian in there. What are you guys actually doing? If this was the other way around, everybody and their mother, they would arrest your dogs. Your dogs would be in jail. Like, what are we doing? And they're gonna come after him. But this isn't a threat. Rokana, that's promising. He's promising you. They get 60 in the Senate, it's a wrap. They're gonna convict him.

• 1:30:03Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, the Senate, they also have on Kelsey. It just flipped. So if you go look at what Senate was, it was supposed to be, like, not even close, but right now, they're officially up on Senate as well. So they take House, they take Senate.

• 1:30:17Speaker 03

  And the presidency?

• 1:30:18Patrick Bet-David?

  You know what happens next.

• 1:30:19Speaker 03

  It's over.

• 1:30:20Patrick Bet-David?

  You know what happens next. So, Tom, thoughts?

• 1:30:22Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, the risk is that it'll be, right now, with the races that are out there, I'll just do the math for you. The risk is 52-48. Which means they only need eight Republicans to vote for impeachment. Because remember, the Senate, the way it will work, the House impeaches. And what that really means is that the President's been indicted. And it's horrible and it's political. We've been now using impeachment just to say we're mad. It's complete BS. But, when you take that to the Senate, then the Senate holds the trial. The Senate votes 60-40, you're done. And so that's why the midterms are so important. And it makes me very nervous, Pat.

• 1:31:04Tom Ellsworth?

  Because 52-48 on Election Day, they only need eight Senators from the Republican side to walk across. And there's like four of them that they have, that they know would vote that way. So I see 56 votes right now, based on now. Which is why it's so important for, you know, economic things to happen this summer. It's so important to get a ceasefire and get the war done on our terms with the right outcome. It's so important for that to get done, so Americans can sit back and say, wait, look at the manufacturing jobs. I see the point of what happened here. They don't have to like it, just like you don't like chemotherapy. But you have to get through it. And I think we're being led.

• 1:31:44Speaker 03

  Could I ask you a question, Tommy? By what date does it need to turn around before it's over for the midterms? What, give me a date, Tom.

• 1:31:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Pre-World Cup. Pre-World Cup.

• 1:31:54Speaker 03

  Pre-World Cup.

• 1:31:55Patrick Bet-David?

  You know why? You know why it's pre-World Cup? Because World Cup's gonna be the biggest distraction for the American people to forget about what happened.

• 1:32:01Tom Ellsworth?

  Hmm, when is that, July?

• 1:32:02Patrick Bet-David?

  June, starts in June, July. The championship, I think, is at 17th or the 19th. It's pre-World Cup. Pre-World Cup, if you can pull it off pre-World Cup, America's gonna move on. If you can. If it's post-World Cup, it's gonna be a shitshow. So to me, whatever World Cup is, pre-World Cup, you have to be done with Iran.

• 1:32:23Tom Ellsworth?

  Got you.

• 1:32:23Patrick Bet-David?

  You have to be done with it. This is my opinion on what I think it's gotta be, pre-World Cup. So, we'll see, we'll see what happens with that.

• 1:32:30Adam Sosnick?

  Regarding the impeachment, look, there's one thing that's the guiding light of the far-left Democratic Party, and that is Trump Derangement Syndrome. There's two major things going on in the world right now. Tell me if you agree or not. That's shaping the world and shaping America. On one hand, you have hardcore Trump Derangement Syndrome. The people can't think straight. And on the other hand, you have Israel Derangement Syndrome, where they can't think straight. You want to free the people and you want to have social justice, but you're silencing the people of Iran? Everywhere you look, it's double standard, double standard, double standard hypocrisy, double standard hypocrisy. And then you get so emotionally triggered that when you see Trump,

• 1:33:10Adam Sosnick?

  whatever he says or does, you want to do the opposite. And you want to know why I know this? Because it happened to me. I remember when I looked at Trump, I was like, I can't, I can't even make sense of what he's saying, because I can't even hear the words he's saying. Guys, I'll say this to my core. Have you ever disliked Trump? Like genuinely disliked Trump?

• 1:33:33Speaker 03

  Never.

• 1:33:33Adam Sosnick?

  Ever? You ever disliked Trump?

• 1:33:36Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:33:37Adam Sosnick?

  You ever hated Trump?

• 1:33:38Speaker 03

  No. I'm gonna be honest, though, when he was on Apprentice, I wasn't like a fan. Like, I would look at him like, oh, what is this show?

• 1:33:44Adam Sosnick?

  You weren't a fan, but...

• 1:33:45Speaker 03

  Oh, once he ran?

• 1:33:46Adam Sosnick?

  You never disliked or hated, did you?

• 1:33:48Speaker 03

  No, I don't hate anybody.

• 1:33:49Adam Sosnick?

  There was a point where I was like, oh, my God. I was watching Russia, Russia, Russia every single day. There was a point where I literally thought, in 2016, 2017, this guy is compromised. He's a Russian ass. He is a Russian puppet. I fell victim to this. I know what it's like to genuinely be like, oh, my God. And then I came out of it.

• 1:34:06Speaker 03

  Thank God.

• 1:34:07Adam Sosnick?

  And look at me now. I love America. I love Trump. I love what's going on. I've always loved America. If I still felt the power of this TDS, do you not understand how insane these people are at this point?

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• 1:35:56Adam Sosnick?

  There's no coming back from him.

• 1:35:57Speaker 03

  But I'd imagine it's, these are governors and senators that have it, that are gonna go after him.

• 1:36:01Adam Sosnick?

  Bingo, that's my point.

• 1:36:02Speaker 03

  That's scary.

• 1:36:03Adam Sosnick?

  It doesn't stop just because you're a regular citizen or you're watching on YouTube, or whether you're a government official. Trump is in your brain. TDS is a real thing. IDS is a real thing. People can't act logically. And that's what's going on here. And he, apparently, will be tried to get impeached again.

• 1:36:21Speaker 03

  Adam, they-

• 1:36:21Adam Sosnick?

  But it won't work.

• 1:36:22Speaker 03

  Adam, they, and really fast, not even 30 seconds. They've been cheat, since 2016, he won. Russia collusion, impeachments, destroy his name, take all his money, his whole family, ruin his thing. Letitia James, Comey, all the, dude, how many forces around this guy? Then they shoot him in the head, then they try to kill him, the freaking Ukrainian guy, and he's still going. And these are the, this is, hold on, this is past Trump, the Ranger Syndrome. This is, he is the enemy. He, Donald Trump is the enemy to the left, and that's why everything that they are about is just get him. Gavin Newsom is a frontrunner. All he talks about is Donald Trump.

• 1:37:03Speaker 03

  And it's not, it's not the TDS, Adam. It's, he is, he thinks that that's the guy that he's running against. And it's past that.

• 1:37:09Tom Ellsworth?

  Let me just, let me just, they can say a lot of things about Trump and be angry at Trump and things. I say erase Trump's name and look at the things he's trying to do. Those are the things the left is trying to destroy.

• 1:37:20Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 1:37:20Tom Ellsworth?

  And one of the ways they're trying to destroy it is by painting him as the implementer as this great Satan. And so I'm, I'm not on that page, you know, with just, you know, accepting that, well, maybe it's a personality leader. It's a leader with the guts to put these policies and these programs on the table that are necessary. And we're seeing in the jobs report that some of them are getting traction. You know, you can be upset about the war and things like that, but we just rescued a guy. Right? And, you know, say what you will, you know, it's a leadership right now that has been driving through. There's a lot of things that need to be corrected and I'd love to see it all happen.

• 1:37:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, let me do this.

• 1:37:55Tom Ellsworth?

  As Pat said.

• 1:37:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. If they get it before World Cup and it's so important to do before, after World Cup.

• 1:37:59Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm happy you said that because now you put it in my head.

• 1:38:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Screwed. You are so screwed after World Cup. If there's any counsel I would give is finish this thing up before World Cup. You can't have it continue. World Cup's going to be the best thing that happened to Trump's administration if this is over with. It has to be show amazing because there's going to be something big that's going to happen in the World Cup that we're all going to get distracted with. Ronaldo and Portugal's going to win their first World Cup. He's sitting on, Messi's going to win a second one. You know, a event where one team beats another team and it's the enemy and it's so political. It's going to be stuff that's going to happen that we're all going to be distracted.

• 1:38:37Tom Ellsworth?

  Spain loses in the quarter.

• 1:38:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Distraction. It's, World Cup is the best positive distraction.

• 1:38:41Tom Ellsworth?

  And then you know the icing on the cake? July 4th, 250.

• 1:38:45Patrick Bet-David?

  250.

• 1:38:46Tom Ellsworth?

  So just when you're doing the World Cup.

• 1:38:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:38:48Tom Ellsworth?

  Distraction, having fun.

• 1:38:49Patrick Bet-David?

  So let me, let me do this.

• 1:38:50Tom Ellsworth?

  Then July 4th.

• 1:38:51Patrick Bet-David?

  While this is going on, guess who decides to spend $19 million of taxpayer money in the state of California? To hire a PR firm to make them look better. Guess who?

• 1:39:02Tom Ellsworth?

  No, tell us.

• 1:39:03Patrick Bet-David?

  A guy named Gavin Newsom.

• 1:39:05Tom Ellsworth?

  You wouldn't say. I don't believe.

• 1:39:07Patrick Bet-David?

  $19 million of taxpayer funds on a New York PR firm to polish California's image. The Governor's Office of Bureau Business and Economic Development awarded PR powerhouse Edelman a contract up to $19 million to, uh, uh, uh, burnish the Golden State's reputation.

• 1:39:27Patrick Bet-David?

  KCRA reported Edelman, which also does work on behalf of mega companies like Dove, Starbucks, eBay, and Heineken, will be asked with combating, will be tasked to combat negative narratives amplified online and partisan media about California while promoting the state's economy and tourism. The company considered one of the largest PR firms in the nation, also has offices in LA and San Francisco. The contract begins on April 6th and will run through then, uh, end of the year, which nearly coincides with the end of governor's term in 2027. The Office of Business of Economic Development, known as GO Biz, posted their request for proposals last month, stipulating the small businesses be considered for their first contract. Vinnie thoughts?

• 1:40:08Speaker 03

  So basically, instead of fixing California's reality, they're spending millions to polish California's reputation, which is abysmal. Okay? Forget about the speed rail. All I've been seeing is documentary after documentary on, on the speed rails and the reporting in California, billions, the homelessness, 24 billion, which made it go up. And I'll talk about New York, uh, if we get to that, Pat, but it's like positive $19 million. So you mean to tell me the Californians who are struggling, you want to talk about struggling? They, they don't trust the fire departments, especially in these rich, uh, Malibu and the Palisades and all these people. The, the, the mayor is over, where was she? Was she in Cuba doing some event when all the fires were happening, Tom?

• 1:40:47Tom Ellsworth?

  No, no, no. She was all the way over in Africa, you know, where a, there was a transition of leadership or something was going on and she went anyway with all the crisis was there.

• 1:40:56Speaker 03

  Knowing that it was coming. So, and I'm telling you right now, Pat, and you said it perfectly at the beginning. There is no amount of money to change the reputation of what's going on in California, but it still baffles my mind. And I think you said it last week. I haven't heard one person say, "Yeah, dude, I've got a place in California." And I feel bad for the people there because they have to pretend everything is okay. You know how many conversations I've had with my sister and my mom? And we have other reasons that they want to stay. You know, my brother's there and my nieces and my nephews, but what are you doing? And I get it, people have lives, but don't even think, I told my sister, don't even think about buying a property there. Nothing's changing. Nothing is changing. And for the people there, if you're gonna vote and this next governor

• 1:41:38Speaker 03

  isn't a Republican, I am done. I will, I promise you guys, I will stop talking about them. If that happens, it's one, once Gavin's done and you guys bring in another Democrat, I'm done. If you say, "Hey, Vinnie, what are your thoughts?" I'm gonna say, "Pat, move on." I'm done with California.

• 1:41:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, here's the thing. At 1:10, 1:12 a.m. this morning, the president tweeted something endorsing Steve Hilton. Who I like. Steve Hilton. Yes. Who is running for governor, state of California. He was very complimentary. I've known him for many years, he says. He's running for governor. Truly a fine man, one who has watched as this once great state has gone to hell. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats have done an absolute horrendous job. Anyways, he's going through this. And if you pull up the CalSheep with Steve Hilton, Rob, I don't know where he's at with the odds, the odd market, what they're saying. It's not looking bad. Okay, it's not looking bad, but this is a small volume. It's not a big volume right now. As of right now, Hilton's at the top.

• 1:42:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Since last night's CTA, he went above Swalwell. If you look at what happened because of the tweet, look how much he bumped up. He went from 60 to 65 to all of a sudden after the tweet, to what number is it, Rob? 81%. 81% at the power of a tweet to the market, how they react. And obviously, Tom's on that list as well, Tom Steyer, but he's a different story. Tom, your thoughts on this with California?

• 1:42:56Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, with California, what I dove into, and I'm not going to repeat what Vinnie said. I agree with every syllable of what you just said.

• 1:43:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Thank you.

• 1:43:03Tom Ellsworth?

  And more. Tasked with combating negative narratives. So that's your job. We need some help with the negative narratives. It's like a guy sits in his front yard, you know, slaughtering pigs as children are walking to school and then holding a barbecue. And he wants to combat the negative narratives that slaughtering a pig is such an ugly job. Well, then stop it. Stop it. You want to combat negative narratives? How about turn the state? How about do things for the people? How about build the rail? Or say, you know what? You're not going to hear about the rail anymore. It's not going to happen. That's what's going on here. They think it's a narrative game.

• 1:43:44Tom Ellsworth?

  They think if you just change the narrative, you just spin the narrative. Because, and if you look at it... Gavin Newsom is a narrative machine. He can't run on leadership without a narrative. He can't run on numbers. He can't run on success without a narrative. And you look at the two things they said, economy and tourism. So you're gonna see, we're now the fourth largest, fifth largest economy in the world. And look at all the tourists are still coming to Disneyland. And look at all the number of people who come to visit, you know, California. Well, it's also a dirty little secret that sometimes, Pat, they count in the tourist things. Like if you and I went back to California and went to a wedding or a funeral, Pat, which, you know, we do from time to time. Do you know that they would count us in tourist stats?

• 1:44:27Speaker 03

  Really?

• 1:44:27Tom Ellsworth?

  California, yeah. Look at the, you can look at the corruption of numbers and the way you count these things. So you don't have any numbers to talk about. You don't have things. So they're gonna talk about tourism, they're gonna talk about fourth largest economy and combat negative narratives. It's not a negative narrative. Nobody's rebuilding their homes and all the things you talked about. It's not a negative narrative. They're closing hospices that don't exist that were stealing money that was meant for truly people that needed it to get back on the horse so they could ride off into a career and into some sort of, you know, contributing member of society. This is just astonishing to me. You don't need a PR firm to combat narratives. You need leadership to make change.

• 1:45:10Speaker 03

  Thank you. And Tom, $19 million, Pat, that's not like a, just a drop in a bucket. $19 million from taxpayer money. The people that are suffering the most are paying for him to lie. Like make me look good. Make me like, you have blood all over you. You've killed every, you're like, yeah, yeah, no, no. I didn't kill, make me look like, like blood fell on me from the roof. No, no, you killed this person. Like it just drives me crazy. And I hope this gets to people that are voting, man.

• 1:45:37Patrick Bet-David?

  They're only doing this for one reason, because this guy's running for president. They're not doing it for the governor election.

• 1:45:41Speaker 03

  For sure.

• 1:45:42Patrick Bet-David?

  They're doing it for presidential campaign. And Gavin is using the California's taxpayer money to fund this 2028 presidential election. That's what he's doing with this because the better California looks, the higher likelihood he wins presidency in 2028. Adam, thoughts?

• 1:45:56Tom Ellsworth?

  Look, you know, I don't got a lot of love for California, but I'm gonna give Gavin Newsom credit right now.

• 1:46:01Adam Sosnick?

  He's an incredible politician. I'm just gonna say it what it is. He says all the right things. He looks the part. He's a great communicator. He looks presidential, you know? But then reality hits and you realize that it's just complete lipstick on a pig. Because as much as he's a great politician, he's one of the worst executors you can possibly find. He's an incredible governor. Horrible CEO. No accountability. You know, they have the super majority in California, so nothing, whatever he wants gets done. It's all looks and no results. And I respect that. Why get stuff done if you look like you're getting stuff done? Respect to you, Gavin with the good hair. It reminds me of this. You remember

• 1:46:40Adam Sosnick?

  when I think she came to visit San Francisco, which is like a literal shithole? Sorry for cursing. Poop maps everywhere. And what did Gavin Newsom do, the governor of California? For that one week, San Francisco looked immaculate. You remember when they cleaned up the whole city? Oh, of course. They got rid of the homeless people. They got rid of the homeless people. Xi Jinping was coming through. Xi Jinping shows up, Chinese flags everywhere, bing, bing, bing, ching, ching, ching. And then, there you go. Then she leaves. Back to corruption, back to homelessness, back to crime, back to rampant ridiculousness, back to the cost of living. But it was all lipstick on a pig. That's Gavin Newsom. You have no idea Gavin Newsom, how much I respect that. Why act good when you can just pretend like you're acting good? It's incredible. He's

• 1:47:25Adam Sosnick?

  one of the most gifted politicians I've ever seen. He's pretending that he's doing a great job. Respect to you, Gavin Newsom.

• 1:47:31Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, I think he's actually executed very well. I think he's executed, put to death opportunities for middle-class Californians. I think he's executed, put to death, a sensible budget. So if you want to talk about true execution, I think he's doing a pretty good job.

• 1:47:47Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah. It's one of those things where it's a great state to visit. You get in, you get out, and ain't nobody trying to live in California, unless you have to.

• 1:47:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's go to the next story. By the way, the other governor in the gubernatorial race that is in Florida, James Fishback, that we had on the podcast, actually like some of the ideas that he had. He had a moment. Something happened. A guy approached him, and apparently he told him you should be lynched. I didn't even, I didn't even believe this story at first when I saw it. So I want to play this for you. By the way, he's doing a very good job going and shaking hands, so. Marketing wise, he's good, but this was, this was a terrible moment. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:48:22Speaker 17

  Why is he not answering the question, bro? I'm happy to answer the question, dude. Did you smash, was it missionary, backshots, what was it?

• 1:48:28Speaker 17

  I don't want you ever, I don't want you ever speaking about women in our state like that ever again. I mean, I don't want you ever smashing girls, teenage girls, in our state ever again. So, promise me, never smash a minor again? Why haven't I been arrested? I don't know. Why haven't I been arrested? I don't know. You should be lynched. Why hasn't Trump been? You should be lynched, smiling about me like that. I should be lynched? Yes. Yo, lynch all pedophiles! I agree. I will lynch every single Epstein criminal in this country. Start yourself tonight. Start yourself tonight, sir. Why haven't I been arrested?

• 1:48:59Patrick Bet-David?

  What, what does lynch mean?

• 1:49:01Speaker 03

  Hanging by a rope. Like old, like KKK lynch.

• 1:49:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Maybe there is different definitions for lynch. Am I the one that is confused here?

• 1:49:11Speaker 03

  Of a mob.

• 1:49:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you pull up the definition?

• 1:49:13Speaker 03

  There is no way.

• 1:49:14Patrick Bet-David?

  To kill someone, especially by hanging for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial?

• 1:49:18Speaker 03

  With or without a legal trial. That's what they used to do in the South.

• 1:49:22Patrick Bet-David?

  So, he said to the black guy?

• 1:49:23Speaker 03

  To a black guy.

• 1:49:24Patrick Bet-David?

  You, you should be lynched?

• 1:49:25Speaker 03

  Un-freaking-believable. Yeah.

• 1:49:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Is this the end of, is this the end of it?

• 1:49:30Tom Ellsworth?

  I, I have no words for this. This is, you can't use that word. That is just the most horrifying word that goes back to the, to the South and what happened to innocent people. You can't use that word. You can't say, "Oh, I meant like the old..."

• 1:49:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, is this AI or is this, can you check to see if that's real?

• 1:49:48Tom Ellsworth?

  No, this is real.

• 1:49:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Check it to see if it's real. There's no way this is real.

• 1:49:54Speaker 03

  It's real.

• 1:49:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Are you positive?

• 1:49:56Speaker 03

  He definitely said that. Yeah, he said it.

• 1:49:58Tom Ellsworth?

  This isn't AI.

• 1:49:59Speaker 03

  No, that's real. What the hell is he thinking?

• 1:50:03Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, there's probably one thing on his mind. I think he got triggered because the guy came after him and what he said about young girls.

• 1:50:09Patrick Bet-David?

  He's typically very quick with it, right? You know, he's typically very quick with it, but...

• 1:50:13Speaker 03

  No, he's good. He knows how to speak, but like, what, what are you even, what, where did your brain go? It's like the Michael Richards at the Laugh Factory. Like, what the hell are you doing?

• 1:50:20Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, that was painful.

• 1:50:22Speaker 03

  Well, that's where he's going.

• 1:50:23Tom Ellsworth?

  That man is a bad person. Bad person. Bad person.

• 1:50:27Speaker 03

  This is a horrible look.

• 1:50:28Tom Ellsworth?

  It's horrible.

• 1:50:28Speaker 03

  That's gonna haunt him. That's gonna haunt him.

• 1:50:30Tom Ellsworth?

  Look, I, I, I, I'm just gonna be like, normal and sensible. I think, uh, his chances of becoming governor are completely in the basement now. They're crumbling. He had a 10% chance a week ago. Now it's down to 5%. But bigger than anything...

• 1:50:45Adam Sosnick?

  More than likely, we're about to have our first black governor in Florida history, Byron Donalds, who we know. And by the way, I like Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, I'm just not sure of his chances right now. But the most likely governor is going to be Byron Donalds. And James Fishback is trying to take Byron Donalds' job. And here you have a black man who's a capable person endorsed by Trump, says and does the great things. Some people might disagree, a lot of people agree. And now you're gonna announce your candidacy and try to basically tax women and do this whole thing he talks about? And then he allegedly has these stories with his women? Where you're gonna look at a black man who supports Byron Donalds, I assume, and tell him, "You're gonna be lynched?" That's not only the end of his governor chances, this might be the end of his career.

• 1:51:30Adam Sosnick?

  Who says that to a black man? Lynched? Are you kidding me?

• 1:51:33Speaker 03

  And then shifts it and goes, "I'm gonna do it to every single Epstein." What do you talk?

• 1:51:38Adam Sosnick?

  You can have all the greatest talking points, you can have all the debate statistics.

• 1:51:41Patrick Bet-David?

  How old is he?

• 1:51:42Adam Sosnick?

  I think he's in his early 30s.

• 1:51:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, you can't.

• 1:51:45Adam Sosnick?

  But this to me is gonna haunt his career for the rest of his life.

• 1:51:49Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, that could haunt him in his business career. You can't talk like that. That's...

• 1:51:57Adam Sosnick?

  He's not saying, "Hey, I'm gonna kick you out of here, I'm gonna beat you up, I'm gonna get you." You told a black man to his face, "I'm going to lynch you"? Have you ever used that word in your life?

• 1:52:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen, I...

• 1:52:08Adam Sosnick?

  That to me is disgusting.

• 1:52:09Patrick Bet-David?

  He interviewed with Pierce Morgan on that OnlyFans girl.

• 1:52:12Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 1:52:13Patrick Bet-David?

  That they were going back and forth, 50% tax, and he had some of the ideas, which were creative ideas, but you can't talk like that. To me, this is the part where some of the guys on social get so out of control with the way they talk, they don't realize the consequences with that long-term. You know, they don't realize it. But anyways, okay, sounds good. Next story, M'Donny's gun violence comments after killing of a seven-month-old baby sparks outrage. I don't know, Vinny, if you saw this one or not?

• 1:52:38Speaker 03

  I saw the actual, you know, I saw the surveillance inside the CT cam of inside where the mother realizes that her kid was hit with a stray bullet from a gang shooting outside. It's in the care... Oh dude, it was hard to...

• 1:52:52Patrick Bet-David?

  M'Donny is facing criticism from local politicians and onlookers on social media after comments he made that critics say places blame on gun rather than criminals in an incident involving the shooting death of a seven-month-old child in Brooklyn. And this is what M'Donny had to say.

• 1:53:09Speaker 18

  This is not the first family in our city to know this pain. Too many children have never grown up into becoming adults. Too many parents have had to bury those that they love the most. We cannot accept this as normal in our city. We cannot grow numb to this pain. And today is a devastating reminder of just how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city. I send my deepest condolences to all those carrying the weight of this enormous loss. As we grieve this loss, I am grateful for the NYPD's continued work to find all those responsible for this murder and to bring them to justice.

• 1:53:49Patrick Bet-David?

  So, New York City Republican Councilman Vicky Palladino said the following: "Literally anything but blaming the criminals who our system releases onto our streets repeatedly over and over and over again with no consequences." She said this on X. Tom, thoughts?

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• 1:55:23Tom Ellsworth?

  Excuse me. So you can look at this and say, "Well, that's a very nice thing that the mayor said. It was, appears to hit all the right tones," until it stops short of condemning the criminal. And I think that's exactly what they're pointing out. And it's like, you can be made, because you look at that, that wasn't coming from the heart. He's reading prepared comments. And it's the difference between reading a prepared comment and coming to the microphone. And if you look in the history, people like, you know, Andrew Cuomo were just phenomenal. Ronald Reagan were phenomenal. Clinton, of coming to the microphone and being able to speak from the heart about things. He's sitting here reading prepared comments that leave out, "Why is this happening? And what are you doing about that?" He praises

• 1:56:06Tom Ellsworth?

  the police. That's a good thing. He gives condolences to the people at their loss. That's a good thing. But the city councilwoman, she's right. You know, he stops short of, you know, condemning criminals, because that is not what the Democrats, or especially a Marxist, are in the business of doing.

• 1:56:22Speaker 03

  Tom, like, this is the same guy that went to the hospital to visit the crazy person that ran after a cop in an apartment with a knife, and the cop shoots the crazy person. Mumdani doesn't visit the cop. He visits the crazy guy with the knife in the prison, like, in the, in the hospital.

• 1:56:40Tom Ellsworth?

  So this is on-brand?

• 1:56:41Speaker 03

  This is 100% on-brand. This is, by the way, he's not blaming the gangster. He's not blaming the, by the way, we don't know the immigration status of these people. This is the guy that defund, that loves defunding the police and doesn't give a damn about New Yorkers. This guy, he, out of all of them, Pat, the smile that he does, you want to talk about the Trojan horse? It's him. It's this Mumdani, and it's the beginning. And shame on him. Shame on you. Don't, it's not the gun. They would have, they would have stabbed each other. This is New York, bro. If they want you dead, they're gonna kill you. Okay? And if there's any bystanders, you're gonna get it too. So I think it's shameful that this guy doesn't even have the decency to say, "Hey, listen, God rest his soul, this poor seven-year-old kid who was shot," and I saw the video. It's freaking

• 1:57:24Speaker 03

  disgusting, and it's horrible. The mother lost it, obviously. You knew it was gonna happen. But the, oh, the gun. Doesn't mention the gangsters. Doesn't mention where they're from, or what the hell they were doing, what they're doing, drugs. Was it just a turf thing? Shame on him, bro. He, he cares more about the freaking criminals than he does with the law enforcement or the deceased. Plain and simple.

• 1:57:43Tom Ellsworth?

  If it was a drunk white guy, you would have heard about his race. You would have heard about it.

• 1:57:46Speaker 03

  Thousand percent, Tom.

• 1:57:47Tom Ellsworth?

  Adam.

• 1:57:48Adam Sosnick?

  Well, New Yorkers love him, straight up. We're obviously very critical of Mom Donnie on this show. Uh, but this is exactly what they voted for, and this is what they want, they're gonna get it. So, do you know Mom Donnie's favorability ratings in New York? I wanna say he's above water at least a dozen points. I wanna say his, uh, favorability rating is somewhere around forty-eight. And unfavorable rating is in the, uh, low thirties, which puts him at probably around plus fifteen. Rob, you can fact-check that. Here's the reality, New York, there it is, right there. He's loved by Democrats, especially progressives. He has a net favorability of, uh, somewhere in the double digits. This isn't the modern-day New York, whether we like it or not.

• 1:58:32Adam Sosnick?

  New York is no longer the home of capitalism. New York is no longer, "If you can make it, there, you'll make it." Anyway, it's no, "Get free stuff, get free stuff, rent control, rent freeze, tax the rich." We have to stop pretending that this is the New York we've always known. The modern-day New York is crumbling, and they're electing progressive, communist, Islamist mayors, and you know what, Vinny? They love it. They want more of it. He's the highest-rated Democrat, he's the face of the Democratic Party. This is the modern Democratic Party, especially in New York. So, do they care if some random baby got killed? Of course not, that's not their concern. They wanna tax the rich, they wanna eat the rich.

• 1:59:17Adam Sosnick?

  The new New York, you wanna know where the new New York is? It's called Miami Brickle, Miami World Center. Cause this is where reality lives these days. You can keep the progressive fantasy land up in New York and California.

• 1:59:28Patrick Bet-David?

  So, let me get to the next story. This next story, none of you guys marked off, I wanna go to, and I think it's something we should talk about. The young couple choosing financial freedom over having children. Telegraph story on page twenty, if you wanna go to it. So, Ally and Charlie Higgins, Rob, you got a clip on this one, I believe, right? Are simply not willing to give up the financial independence they have, spend years building to have children. Ally, thirty-three, recruited for Uber, and Charlie, thirty-seven, works for a technology company. The couple moved to US to, uh, uh, moved from the United States to Amsterdam for work four years ago. And had built up a combined household income of three-hundred-ten, uh, thousand, uh, two-hundred-ten-thousand, what is it? Is that, uh, what is that, Tom? Is that pound?

• 2:00:05Adam Sosnick?

  These are pounds.

• 2:00:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, pounds. "In the last couple of years, we've created a lifestyle that we've enjoyed living." We saw, is this it, Rob?

• 2:00:11Adam Sosnick?

  It is.

• 2:00:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, just play the clip, go, I, I can't play a four-minute clip, Rob.

• 2:00:14Adam Sosnick?

  It, she gets to it right off the bat.

• 2:00:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, go for it.

• 2:00:17Speaker 19

  Cannot have a single alcoholic drink. They cannot go out. They cannot have any fun. No, I think we have to get our ducks in a row here, though. And one of the things that I notice, if you open any newspaper, bar The Telegraph, bar GB News, they portray family and motherhood as a complete negative. They say it ruins your looks, it ruins your finances. Nothing's going to be the same again. But actually, we have to look at the economic side of it.

• 2:00:50Patrick Bet-David?

  This is not them, Rob, in the story.

• 2:00:52Speaker 19

  Workers, we need children.

• 2:00:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, it's okay, I can skip this. I thought they were speaking. So the couple are a part of a growing group of so-called DINKs, which stands for Double Income No Kids. While the term was first coined in the 80s, it has surged in popularity on social media in recent years, while couples posting online about the disposable income laws and how challenging it is to live today financially. So there are 4.1 million DINKs in America. Single income, no kids, and DINKs in the UK, according to insurance provider Legal and General. Fertility rates in UK, England and Wales are languishing at their lowest level since record began in 1938. We know what the number is right now. They're at 1.41, okay, and 2.1 is replacement.

• 2:01:36Patrick Bet-David?

  We're at 1.58. They're choosing financial freedom over having kids. Tom, there's hundreds of stories like this that we see. How do you process this when you hear stories like this?

• 2:01:49Tom Ellsworth?

  So I go back and I look at the truth. I think, Pat, this could be something you do a deep dive, one of your how-tos on, and go into the data, because it'll show you that, historically speaking, in Western civilization, it's the affluence of society that leads to people having less kids, not long-term. I'm talking about long-term for society, not simply wars or affordability. It's not. They can find people that'll say it's this, but on a macro scale, Pat, when you back up and you look at a society, as that society becomes affluent... Less kids come out of that society. I saw last week a poll that said it was like 55% of people surveyed, why don't you have kids?

• 2:02:34Tom Ellsworth?

  55, and they gave multiple answers, but 55% of them said, one of their, their answers was, I just don't want to have them. You know, I think I have more freedom. And so what's very interesting is I see things like this, and I think it's terrible for people who want to have kids, who feel like they can't afford to do so, that's real. But long-term, it's an affluence of society that leads people to be selfish, as simple as that. Because it's happening in Korea, it's happening in Japan. And every country's got its different issues. So how is it all happening at the same time that the affluence and the development of those countries is leading to less kids? It's not unaffordable to have kids, all of those countries.

• 2:03:13Speaker 03

  Tom, what do you say? Because I've, I've heard that they're saying that some of the excuses were that the girl doesn't want to lose her figure. And if you think about it, Tom, now they're making this money, they're like, hey, we don't want to lose any of this money. So how much of it is, is greed? Greed, not, not, I don't want to say necessarily greed, they, they want to save money and they don't want to spend it on a kid. And they're, guess what?

• 2:03:32Tom Ellsworth?

  Affluent society putting self ahead of the joy that you have with the creation of family. We were designed to have families.

• 2:03:41Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm. Got you.

• 2:03:42Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, in 2024, here's an interesting stat that kind of goes into this. In 2024, about 31% of Americans were part of the upper-middle class. Upper-middle class in America, okay? Up from 10% in 1979, according to a report released this year by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. Okay, this is from Wall Street Journal. More Americans are breaking into the upper-middle class. It's kind of goes together what we're talking about. There's no single standard definition of middle class or upper-middle class. The AEI report classified a family of three earning $133,000, Vinnie, to $400,000 in a year, 2024, as upper-middle class. So if you make between 133 to 400.

• 2:04:27Patrick Bet-David?

  They're considering that upper-middle-class, the rise in influence is powering an American economy built on consumer spending and transforming the types of products that's being used. So if you think we went from upper-middle-class 10 in 79 to now 31, that means what happened to middle-class? Not upper-middle-class, middle-class. So again, affordability is a real, real issue. Whichever candidate can come up with some creative, I have so many creative ideas. Whichever candidate can come up with creative ideas for 2028 campaign, you're gonna have a very favorable outcome. If you know how to deliver the message to the audience, you're gonna have a very favorable outcome because Americans are thinking about this today.

• 2:05:11Patrick Bet-David?

  They're choosing career over kids. Vinny, this is, if anybody cares about America long-term, not just 26, 27, 28, if you care about America for 2050, this may be the top issue to be thinking about, of Americans not wanting to have kids. Adam, thoughts?

• 2:05:27Adam Sosnick?

  Look, this is the conversation of our times. And you know, like, I ask all my married friends the exact same question. I said, "Give me the good, the bad, the ugly of marriage." And I've told this joke before, the one guy goes, "My favorite thing, I love, my wife, she's always there. My least favorite, my wife, she's always there." But here's the reality, I'm at the point in my life where, obviously, you know, I'm in a relationship now, I'm looking at the market, and I'm seeing my friends who are somewhat happily married, a lot who are seemingly fake happily married, miserable, sort of, and then there's people who are loving their life, I get that. Then I have friends who are in their 40s, some in their 50s, and these guys are some

• 2:06:08Adam Sosnick?

  of the biggest studs that I know in life, and they've been with more women than we even know about. But I always ask them, like, "Where does this end?" Where does this end for you, bro? You're the biggest player, you're the biggest man, you know all the women in Miami. You're the man. It's like, you don't want to ever have kids? I don't know, man. I know one guy who got a, what's it called when you snip your stuff as a man?

• 2:06:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Vasectomy.

• 2:06:33Adam Sosnick?

  Vasectomy. I go, you got a vasectomy, you don't even have kids? He goes, yeah, I made that decision. And that's really ultimately what it comes down to. Like what Pat always says, who do you want to be? I've made the decision that I definitely want to have kids. And that's something that I'm working through and working on right now. Is because, listen, I like, you know, these younger people you're talking about, these dinks and sinks and all these things? I know what it's like to have money and have a bunch of women, but not have the real fruit of life, which is kids. And obviously you have Pat out there that's encouraging everybody to have more kids. And this is something that I process. So I ask all my friends these exact same questions. Do you want to have kids? What age do you want to have married? Get married and have kids?

• 2:07:16Adam Sosnick?

  And you know who the most important people that need to answer this question? Women. Because in my belief, this might offend somebody, feminism, modern feminism has been sort of the worst curse that's been put on women. Because it allows them to believe that their job is more important than a family and that they have more time that matters. So whether you're a dink, dual income, no kids, sink, single income, no kids, a Henry, there's a thing called a ninja, a Henry, which is a high earner, not rich yet, or a ninja, no income and no assets. The last thing that you want to do, whether you're a man or a woman, is become a sal. Single and lonely. It's the last thing you want in life. So figure out who you want to be and solve for that.

• 2:07:56Patrick Bet-David?

  There you go. By the way, the best thing you can do in your life, find the right person, have as many kids as you can have. It's the best thing you'll ever do in your life. Nothing comes close to it. Nothing. Yesterday Mario and I were at the house with Barbie. We're having conversations. And Barbie's his wife and he's holding his son in his arm, Gabriel, knocked out. And we're talking about all these things with parenting. And Mario's saying, you know, Easter was making me think about something. He says what? He says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only...

• 2:08:27Adam Sosnick?

  God and son.

• 2:08:27Patrick Bet-David?

  He says, there's no way in the world I could ever do that. He says, there's no way in the world, I can't even imagine life without this guy, right? There's something very, very unique of what happens to a man. Man matures in a very different way when he has a kid. In a very different way when he has a kid. And it's different when it's a boy and it's a different when it's a girl. Very, because you look at the lens in a different way and, and, you know, whatever God gives you is because what God believes that's, uh, you're supposed to lead. So, and anytime somebody's pregnant, the prayer is, God, give me what you think is what I need. And I'm gonna do my best to raise whatever kid you end up giving me and I'm grateful for it.

• 2:09:04Adam Sosnick?

  What are you saying the prayer is?

• 2:09:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Whatever you give me, just give me a healthy child. I'd never ask for sex, never ask for, you know, just give me a healthy child. Whatever you think I'm the one to raise, give it to me. I'm gonna take on that responsibility seriously and I'm gonna do the best I can do. Whatever you think is right for me, I'm gonna do it. So, and then from there, you know, if he gives you all boys, there's a reason. If he gives you all girls, it is what it is. If he gives you boys and girls, it is what it is. But that is a, that is a blessing to anybody that comes out. I'm gonna go to one story here and then we can wrap up. So Rob, do you have that New York Times story? There's a guy out of nowhere that New York Times does a story and maybe I'll, I'll release, uh, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll go a little bit more, but this is a very interesting story.

• 2:09:47Patrick Bet-David?

  A guy out of nowhere, New York Times does a story of a fellow who with him and his brother and $20,000, he built a business worth 1.8 billion dollars. In somewhere around two years, that New York Times went and interviewed him to see if this is real or not. So Matthew Gallagher took just two months, 20,000 and more than a dozen AI tools to get a startup off the ground from his house in LA, 41 years old. Used AI to write the code for the software that powers his company, produces the website, generates the images and videos for ads, handle customer service. He created AI system to analyze his business's performance.

• 2:10:33Patrick Bet-David?

  His startup Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight loss drugs, got 300 customers its first month, second month a thousand customers more. In 2025, Medvi's first full year in business, the company generated $401 million Wow. in sales. Wow. This year, they're on track to do 1.8 billion in sales. Vinnie, in sales, with how many employees? Two employees, him and his brother. Him and his brother with two employees is doing something like this. And by the way, you're going to hear so many more stories like this of guys who understand what AI is doing, understands the power of it,

• 2:11:17Patrick Bet-David?

  and they're going to build behemoth companies that someone's going to come up and pick up. Tom, your thoughts on this story here with, you know, this fellow who built this, Matthew Gallagher that built this company that could do 1.8 billion this year?

• 2:11:30Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, I have two sets of thoughts. The first is, I'm going to set aside, anybody wants to send me the things, because Medvi has also been criticized. It said it was a compounder of drugs. So I'm going to set aside all that. The fact is, he built a business that was selling. And then in GLP-1, you have to say the right things with the cell, just like we had in life insurance. It was a regulated industry and you have to do it right. So that first point, I'm not going to get into. I'm just going to leave that there. But what this shows is that with AI, he created what? He created ad creators and then the agents did A B testing. He used AI to create a customer service response. So where anybody responded, you immediately got an email back. Now, thank you, Vinnie, for your interest. Here's the information you were looking for.

• 2:12:12Tom Ellsworth?

  So it shows that you can use these agents to do chores of the basic stuff to build a business. Now, here's what AI doesn't do. It's not going to select an industry for you. It's not going to make you incredibly smart about that industry, diving in to understand exactly what you're going to do. It's not going to tell you, oh, here's the gap, Vinnie. Go do this right here. Here's the gap. You know, you may get some sort of analysis or things on that, but ultimately, the human's got to make this decision. But what it does show, Pat, is that AI can be used to do these chores so that you could open this online. Here's what he did. He was an online reseller, basically, of GLP-1 weight loss. Telehealth, hey, I want to use GLP-1. Fill this out, do this, and we'll get your drugs and they get shipped.

• 2:12:58Tom Ellsworth?

  From the, um, from the company. And so I think it's a, it's a success story on AI. Even if it's a cautionary tale of always be sure you know the regulations of the sector you get into.

• 2:13:08Patrick Bet-David?

  If I was a school teacher, Tom, if you were a school teacher, how would you use the story with your kids? Okay. How, how would you use the story with your students and how would you use the story with your kids? Because I, I have plans with this. I wonder what you think about that.

• 2:13:23Tom Ellsworth?

  I would say, hey, let's take a look at a case study here where they were using AI to quickly get something off the ground.

• 2:13:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Hmm.

• 2:13:28Tom Ellsworth?

  Now, second of all, and let's go see the things that they could do and I would show all the good in that. And I would say also, this also shows that wherever you start a business, you better be fully researched and know all the regulations and things that go into that business. Cause you gotta do business right. You don't wanna have AI help you build the business like this and all of a sudden get shut down. So number one, I would show, this is how AI can be positive using the tools. Number two, you gotta know it. But number three, first and foremost, it takes a human to lead it. You have to decide what you're gonna get into business to do. And you have to decide what is the character of you, how you're gonna lead and what you're gonna put your company, whether you're one person or you have 10 humans working for you. And those would be the three points I hit.

• 2:14:09Patrick Bet-David?

  I hope, I hope parents are watching this and sharing these stories with their kids. I, you know, I had kids over at the office the other day and I said, hey, what, what do you guys, what are you guys looking at? Not my kids, some kids from a school. I said, what are you guys looking at? What are you guys paying attention to? What do you guys listen to? What are you thinking about with career? What do you wanna do? What tools are you guys using? How do you guys process AI? How do you guys process politics? What do you think about this? I, i- i- if parents are not too involved right now, your kids have an advantage with certain tools that wasn't around for many of us. Okay? Many of us. Sometimes all you need to do is say, hey, son, I want you to watch a story. Look at what this guy did. Why can't you do it? Hey, honey, come look at the story, what this guy did.

• 2:14:50Patrick Bet-David?

  And, and I would be sharing these types of stories with, and by the way, maybe your kid does anything with them. Maybe they don't, they don't. But these are the types of stories that you can just sprinkle and let the kid decide for himself or herself. If they're gonna do something, if they're not, they're not gonna go, oh, okay, I don't care, dad, boom, I'm gone. Oh my God, really? How? Hey, and then. They go talk to their friends, hey, did you hear about this one guy named what he did, Matthew Gallagher? Did you hear about, what if we did something like this? What if we did something like that? I mean, it's, it's really, really interesting stuff to see what's happening in 2026. Adam?

• 2:15:22Adam Sosnick?

  I really, I, I, I would be happy if you can kind of break down how this all kind of works. Meaning the, they made a, projected to have a billion dollars in, in sales, AKA revenue.

• 2:15:32Patrick Bet-David?

  So he, he, he used AI software to produce ads for him.

• 2:15:36Adam Sosnick?

  Okay.

• 2:15:36Patrick Bet-David?

  That perform. He used AI software that works as customer service to get back to all customer complaints, issues, deliveries. He was AI that works with delivering the products to the customers. Copywriting is all AI. Everything he's doing, it's all AI that him and his brother are driving.

• 2:15:55Adam Sosnick?

  Perfect. So totally understand that component, but you know, one of the things I've learned hardcore is, you know, your, your net, your gross sales is not your net revenue. What is that? What, what type of revenue is a company like?

• 2:16:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Dude, if you're doing 401 million dollars in revenue, just do this. At 10% EBITDA, that's 40 million.

• 2:16:13Adam Sosnick?

  40 million, right?

• 2:16:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. At 20%, that's 80 million.

• 2:16:15Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 2:16:16Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm gonna say it's probably in the 20% range.

• 2:16:20Adam Sosnick?

  Gotcha. So if he does a billion dollars, his, his net revenue is 200 million dollars.

• 2:16:24Patrick Bet-David?

  If it's 200 million dollars.

• 2:16:25Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 2:16:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Someone's probably gonna cut a multi, multi billion dollar check to this guy here if this continues.

• 2:16:30Adam Sosnick?

  That's what I want to understand. Okay. So you, how many years do you have to do it for?

• 2:16:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, no, no. A buyer, a buyer may come in and they may buy this company at the valuation of 2028. Like today, a buyer may come in and buy this at a 2028 valuation, not at a 2026 value.

• 2:16:46Adam Sosnick?

  What does that mean exactly?

• 2:16:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Because like, okay, so one time we're on, it's me, Greg, Cher, Tom, uh, some of our guys were on a boat. We're having a conversation together and we were talking about a company that does 50 million dollars a year in revenue versus one that does a hundred million dollars in revenue.

• 2:17:03Adam Sosnick?

  Got it.

• 2:17:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Which one's valued more? They both have 20% EBITDA. One profits 10 million a year, one profits 20 million a year. But if the 50 million dollar company, the last five years has grown at 50% and the 100 million dollar company has been flat for five years.

• 2:17:20Adam Sosnick?

  Sure, Jack.

• 2:17:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Even though it has a bigger EBITDA, the 50 million dollar company is worth more than the 100 million dollar company. So right now, someone is buying this company, if he chooses to sell. If he chooses to sell this company, this is going to be a multi, multi billionaire company.

• 2:17:37Adam Sosnick?

  Are you worried that it doesn't have a long enough track record? Only two years?

• 2:17:40Patrick Bet-David?

  That's not about what I worried.

• 2:17:41Adam Sosnick?

  I'm just saying with the market, the buyer?

• 2:17:43Patrick Bet-David?

  No, if the buyer comes in, if a big GLP-1 company comes in and sees the machine you've built, and the machine is bringing profits, you're not even hesitating. You're like, hey, all I'm going to do is transfer that or either buy the GLP-1. I don't know if it's a, you know, if it's a white labeling, I don't know what the model is on how this works out. I don't know if it's like using somebody else's, but he has built a machine that's worth billions.

• 2:18:09Adam Sosnick?

  It's a sales machine too.

• 2:18:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Of course.

• 2:18:11Adam Sosnick?

  So he doesn't make the drugs, he just enabled them to go.

• 2:18:14Patrick Bet-David?

  And this skill set, you know what he can use a skill set for? Any product.

• 2:18:17Adam Sosnick?

  Right.

• 2:18:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Any product. So forget about the product. You could do this with any product that he's got.

• 2:18:21Adam Sosnick?

  Remember Groupon?

• 2:18:22Patrick Bet-David?

  It's a very, very interesting era we're living in today.

• 2:18:25Adam Sosnick?

  And there's two companies you give an example of when you're on the boat, one that's, you said?

• 2:18:29Patrick Bet-David?

  50 million, 50% growth, 10 million profit, 100 million, 20 million in EBITDA, but hasn't grown for five years.

• 2:18:34Adam Sosnick?

  Did any of those companies sell or those are just?

• 2:18:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh yeah, we were the 50 million going towards 100 million and we sold more than the company that was 100 million doing more than us.

• 2:18:43Adam Sosnick?

  Interesting. So it was, it was?

• 2:18:44Patrick Bet-David?

  It was us. Because we were, what was our CAGR five years in a row, Tom?

• 2:18:48Adam Sosnick?

  You were over 30?

• 2:18:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Over 30, five years in a row.

• 2:18:50Adam Sosnick?

  What is that?

• 2:18:51Patrick Bet-David?

  CAGR. Like our, our growth?

• 2:18:53Adam Sosnick?

  What is a CAGR? I know what a CAGR is. One of those.

• 2:18:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom?

• 2:18:57Adam Sosnick?

  A CAGR is cumulative annual growth rate. So it's like, they look at it and they say, C A G R.

• 2:19:02Patrick Bet-David?

  No, but that's not what I'm asking. I'm not asking CAGR. What was the amount of quarters that we beat the prior quarter in revenue? Do you remember the quarters?

• 2:19:11Adam Sosnick?

  Going into the?

• 2:19:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Was it 13 quarters, 14 quarters?

• 2:19:14Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, I believe it was. It was almost, I think it was, it was almost four years. And then we went in and you had a little bit of COVID in there.

• 2:19:21Patrick Bet-David?

  And Mark is like, what the hell are you guys doing? So, so?

• 2:19:24Adam Sosnick?

  I actually understand that because it, it's like a free agent, if I can just kind of sum this up. It's a guy who scores 18 points, 20 points, 24 points. It's like, all right, this guy's improving. But the guy who goes 10, 15, 20, now he's at 30. You're like, dude, this guy's?

• 2:19:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's sign him at 17.

• 2:19:41Adam Sosnick?

  And you recognize that early because of the trajectory.

• 2:19:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. Can you pull up Yanis's stats? Just type in Yanis NBA stats. Okay, and watch his first seven seasons.

• 2:19:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, he went from like five point seven points and then boom, thirty points.

• 2:19:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Go down, go to the NBA one. No, no, go to the basketball reference. Go to the basketball reference.

• 2:19:58Speaker 03

  Come on, Rob. This is our world here, buddy.

• 2:20:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Zoom in. Go a little bit lower, Rob, if you could. Go a little bit lower, lower, lower, lower, lower. Go lower. Right there. Look at this. Go back out. Okay. So zoom out a little bit, zoom out a little bit more. Look at the points.

• 2:20:11Speaker 03

  Points.

• 2:20:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Season one.

• 2:20:12Speaker 03

  Six point eight.

• 2:20:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Six point eight.

• 2:20:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:20:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Season two, twelve point seven, sixteen point nine, twenty-two point nine, twenty-six point nine, twenty-seven point seven, twenty-nine point nine. Seven seasons in a row. He beat his prior best. And if you look at his rebounds.

• 2:20:28Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:20:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Look at the rebounds. Four point four, six point seven, seven point seven, eight point eight, ten, twelve and a half, thirteen point six. You don't see stats like this.

• 2:20:35Speaker 03

  Got it.

• 2:20:36Patrick Bet-David?

  You don't see. So to me, that's what this guy's doing.

• 2:20:38Speaker 03

  The key is signing him in his second year, third year, right before he lift off.

• 2:20:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Nobody did. So now, I mean, the guy's miserable being where he's at and, you know, I'm not saying, I'm not speaking on his behalf, but this guy deserves a championship. He's won one already. He has one. I'd like to see. I think he's the type of guy that could win a few. Anyways, there you have it. Parents, share that story with your kids. I think, you know, let's inspire these kids to be thinking bigger. With that being said, Rob, do we have anything tomorrow?

• 2:21:02Speaker 13

  Uh, we do.

• 2:21:03Patrick Bet-David?

  We do have something. Is it a surprise?

• 2:21:05Speaker 13

  I have to talk to you about it after, but we will have something at nine AM tomorrow.

• 2:21:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Really?

• 2:21:08Speaker 13

  Yes.

• 2:21:08Patrick Bet-David?

  And it's a surprise?

• 2:21:10Speaker 13

  Yes.

• 2:21:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay. Well, listen, Rob is the surprise guy.

• 2:21:13Speaker 03

  Rob, the surprise guy now. Okay, Rob G.

• 2:21:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Ooh. Hey, Vinnie, Vinnie, you know what our surprise? We're going to a kegger later.

• 2:21:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:21:19Patrick Bet-David?

  With Tom. He's drinking the beer. Gang, we will do this again Wednesday and Friday and today on Hot Cakes and Hot Takes, which by the way, last week Stephen A's was phenomenal. Vinnie, who do you have today?

• 2:21:31Speaker 03

  Uh, James O'Keefe is on today. We're going live at eleven thirty and he's going through it, Pat, but he's such a, like, you just wait till you hear his background, his story, his upbringing, why he does, why, what he does and how important he is to the, to the marketplace. And we had some hotcakes while we were doing it.

• 2:21:47Patrick Bet-David?

  There you go. All good. Take care, everybody. God bless. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

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