Is Netanyahu Dead, The Socialists Are Going To Cuba, Two Attacks In One Day | Weekly Recap

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• 1:07Speaker 01

  Domestically, there were some things that hit back home. A synagogue was attacked. There was a school shooting. Walk us through what happened yesterday at home.

• 1:16Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, terror found its way into one of the largest synagogues when a man drove an explosives laden truck through the front doors of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, in what is a blatant anti-Semitic terrorist attack. So I know that people are gonna say other things, but dude drove his truck like down the hallway. It's pretty wild. Male suspect steered his truck around the security bollards, the things that they put out front to block cars from doing exactly this. Drove through the front doors, drove down the hall, all the way into the building. Thankfully, the temple was expecting something like this, which is sad. But they had security guards, armed security guards. They were waiting and gunfire was exchanged between the security and the gunman.

• 2:01Tom Bilyeu?

  And the suspect that crashed his vehicle in was killed before he could even get out of the vehicle. The car ends up catching fire. Ultimately, the whole building catches on fire as well. In fact, 30 law enforcement officers were hospitalized for smoke inhalation after clearing the building. One security guard was actually struck by the truck. He was knocked unconscious, taken to the hospital. He's expected to recover, but damn, when you get hit by a car and knocked out, it's not ideal. Thankfully, every one of the 140 kids that were inside got out safe. So did all the teachers and staff. Now, investigators found mortar-type explosives loaded in the back of the vehicle. So clearly, this guy had intent to go buck wild. And the question is, why?

• 2:45Tom Bilyeu?

  Obviously, targeting Jews. And it's being widely reported, though it is still unconfirmed, so I don't know that this is true, but true or not, it's a powerful reminder. So what's being widely reported is that the suspect had children. They were in Lebanon, I believe, and they were potentially, if this is all real, killed in Israeli airstrike in the last couple of days. Now, again, that detail hasn't been officially confirmed, but if it's true, it serves as a powerful reminder of how war radicalizes virtually everyone that it touches. If we think that we're going to be able to go to war with Iran, drop bombs with good

• 3:26Tom Bilyeu?

  intentions or otherwise, and get out of this without people being radicalized, that is really a miscalculation. I want to be very clear, nothing justifies what the man did. But if this is confirmed, this becomes a story that is very different than just being an anti-Semitic terrorist attack. It is that, but if this is also about a guy that's seeking revenge because his kids were killed, you can expect more things like that. The FBI has taken over the investigation and is treating this as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community. Authorities have not officially released the suspect's name, so we'll circle back as more information comes out. But this is one of those, I'm not saying you should break our will to see this through or anything like that, but powerful reminder that you're not going to get out of this cleanly.

• 4:11Speaker 01

  There's a tweet I want to pull up that, to me, was like hilarious. "I'm not a political expert, but if you eliminated Hamas but killed my whole family in the process, my first move would be to..." To start Hamas too.

• 4:20Tom Bilyeu?

  Yep.

• 4:21Speaker 01

  Now, this is of course, talking to the Gaza Israel war, but there is something that we have to talk about. The blowback of this war. We are going into Iran. We're dropping bombs. We're still investigating the 175 schoolchildren bombing. If that was us, who it was, how did it start? All those things would happen. But out of 175 people, conservatively, you just created 350 more people that will hate America.

• 4:43Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah.

• 4:43Speaker 01

  And I know they don't hate American citizens. I know that they don't want to come to California and fight us, but they hate Trump and ipso facto, anybody that's connected to them.

• 4:52Tom Bilyeu?

  Here's the thing that we have to think about, and it's fascinating in the age of infinite information, for us to have to contend with the way that war actually works. So when you really start looking at the motivations for it, it can often feel, not feel, it is grotesque, certainly from a moral perspective. And yet, the other side, the things that they're doing are often grotesque and immoral as well. I think it is very wise for people to understand that when you do something like this, that you create enemies. I also think it is very wise for people to understand that in life, you're going to create enemies, and you can't not do something because you're afraid that somebody is going to respond.

• 5:32Tom Bilyeu?

  You want to take that into your calculus. You want to make sure that you understand whether you're willing to face that response or not. But at the end of the day, the person who is willing to inject the most violence into the world, if they don't meet sufficient force to push them back, they become the de facto ruler. And so if you look at Mexico, the cartels gain power because they're willing to do something that most other people aren't willing to do. Same thing with the most successful leaders of all time. They were just willing to kill more people than the next person, and they were better at it. They were more efficient military tacticians, and then they just didn't show mercy, and it works. And I get why we find that horrifying.

• 6:12Speaker 01

  And then we got to jump over to Virginia and ODU, where a former official ISIS supporter did a school shooting as well. That seemed like that should have been flagged or something, but you know, who am I? I'm not justice.

• 6:24Tom Bilyeu?

  Before we begin, I'm just going to confess my bias. This touches something.

• 6:30Tom Bilyeu?

  In my soul, to me, this is the world's most aggressive game of FFO. So you've got a convicted ISIS supporter, already that kid, storms into an ROTC classroom in Virginia and opens fire. And by the way, like, the first question out of his mouth was, is this the ROTC class? So it's where he wanted to be. And the students were like, yes. Opens fire, manages to kill a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, and then the students promptly beat that motherfucker to death. Now, it's unclear whether the students stabbed him to death or killed them with their bare fucking hands. But guess what?

• 7:11Tom Bilyeu?

  Challenging a room full of military hopefuls is not a smart strategy. So a couple more people ended up getting wounded. This all happened in Old Dominion, the university in Norfolk, Virginia, if I didn't cover that. And the now deceased killer was 36-year-old Mohammed Baylor Jalo. Not sure exactly how you pronounce that. He was originally born in Sierra Leone, but immigrated to the US and became a naturalized citizen. Unfortunately for him, obviously, he went into the wrong classroom. Now, the crazy thing is, he wasn't unknown to law enforcement. He was a former Virginia Army National Guard specialist who pled guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to ISIS. He had told a government informant

• 7:55Tom Bilyeu?

  that he wanted to carry out an attack modeled on the 2009 Fort Hood attack. He ends up buying an AR-15. He tries to send $500 to ISIS. He's then sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. This is back in 2017. But he was released in December of '24, more than a year early. And at his sentencing, he lied and told the judge he was disgusted by ISIS and deeply regretted his actions. But clearly, he was just biding his time. Now, the victim, the guy that he killed, was Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw, who's a retired Army officer, serving as the ROTC professor of military science. He was killed at the scene, then two other ROTC members were wounded and hospitalized. Now, the FBI's special agent in charge put it plainly.

• 8:35Tom Bilyeu?

  The ROTC students showed extreme bravery and courage, which I agree with. They subdued the guy, and, this is in the FBI's own words, rendered him no longer alive. We've got to show this clip. Watching her try to say what happened without saying what happened was hilarious.

• 8:52Speaker 02

  There were students that were in that room that subdued him. And I...

• 8:58Speaker 02

  Kredrkin no longer alive. And they basically all were able to terminate threat.

• 9:06Tom Bilyeu?

  Rendered him no longer alive. That, that is like the weirdest way to say that ever. Now, beyond that, authorities aren't saying exactly what happened. I'm not sure why they're being coy, but the students have made it clear that homeboy had picked the very wrong classroom. I'm, I'm here for that. I'm here for that. If somebody comes in with a gun, bro.

• 9:27Tom Bilyeu?

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• 11:57Speaker 01

  Headed over to Cuba, it seems that there's been eight consecutive nights of protests. There's been unrest rising in the streets and an unlikely visitor is heading over there. The Democratic Socialists of America are getting around to-

• 12:07Tom Bilyeu?

  Are they likely? Are they exactly who you expect to head over to Cuba? As you might imagine, this one has my panties in a bunch, as my mom would say.

• 12:17Speaker 01

  You know, they have been without food, they have been without water. So humanitarian aid, I think is nice. So I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt before I'm going forward.

• 12:25Tom Bilyeu?

  Think about how many humanitarian crises there are in the world. And the one that they're going to support is the one run by a communist dictatorship.

• 12:33Speaker 01

  It is the one that we're directly causing though, so.

• 12:35Tom Bilyeu?

  Are we Drew?

• 12:36Speaker 01

  We cut them off.

• 12:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Yes. Do you actually presume that these guys just somehow weren't aware of all the other humanitarian crises that have happened? And therefore did not touch those? Or do you see them trying to campaign the American people that the DSA are the good guys? And American capitalism writ large are the bad guys? And they want to go help the good guys in Cuba who are the communists?

• 13:01Speaker 01

  To your point, yes, I think that this is a way that they can rally the American people to get more support. They say, hey, Trump and Cuba are beefing right now. Trump is cutting Cuba off. We're going to help Cuba and we're going to be anti-Trump.

• 13:13Tom Bilyeu?

  Yes.

• 13:13Speaker 01

  And as the left has been, that's been their campaign strategy for the last 10 years, so.

• 13:17Tom Bilyeu?

  Perfect.

• 13:18Speaker 01

  I'm aligned with that.

• 13:18Tom Bilyeu?

  So, nothing crazy there. The DSA is headed to Cuba right now, but they are going to Cuba to defend a regime that is absolutely drenched in humanitarian abuses. Okay? Freedom House classifies Cuba as not free and notes that Cuba is the only country in the Americas that consistently makes its list of the worst of the worst, the world's most repressive societies. Now, they got that title for widespread abuses of political rights and civil liberties. Now, remember repression is required when you want to take people's things. I've said this many times and I will keep banging this drum. This is how the human mind works. People work hard for the things that they do and when the government tells them that you ought not be doing that thing, you should be doing

• 14:02Tom Bilyeu?

  this thing, or you should be giving me the results of proceeds from your labor and I will decide how to give them. Eventually, somebody says no. And what I want each and every one of you to answer is, what do you do when the farmer says, I don't want to plant corn, I want to plant this other thing? Do you take a gun out and tell them that they're going to make sugar? Because that's what Cuba did. We'll get to that in a minute. The DSA's trip is part of a broader international initiative called the Nuestra America Convoy. It's organized primarily by progressive, international, Code Pink and allied groups. The convoy is set to converge in Havana on March 21st and the DSA's co-chairs, Megan Rahmmer and Ashik Siddique, have formally endorsed the mission. Now, please keep in mind, Castro once bragged that Cuba had 20,000 political prisoners. Okay?

• 14:47Tom Bilyeu?

  Let's look at Cuba before the communist revolution. Pre-revolutionary Cuba, it was one of the most developed economies in Latin America. Before the revolution, Cuba was one of the richest of the Spanish-speaking societies. In 1958, they had a higher GDP per capita, PPP adjusted, than Ireland or Austria, and almost double that of Spain and Japan. Despite only 6.5 million inhabitants, Cuba was the 29th largest economy in the world. Then came the revolution. What happened to you, you ask? The productive class fled and the economy collapsed within four years. When Castro came up with the

• 15:27Tom Bilyeu?

  Brilliant idea to force the country to focus on sugar production to revive the economy. Now, when he did that, not only did it not work, it collapsed most other major industries in the country. Because everyone had been forced at the end of a fucking gun to focus on sugar. That's what you have to do when you're not relying on market forces. You, the supposed genius running the country decides, hey, I know because our sugar industry used to be the best thing ever. We're just gonna force everybody to focus on that. And it absolutely cratered the country to the point where Cuba was forced to turn to Russia for charity. And they have been stuck ever since then in a cycle of international dependency.

• 16:09Tom Bilyeu?

  We should want them to discover the free market the way that China discovered the free market. I'm not saying they have to become democratic. If that's not what they want, fine. But they need to discover an economic principle that actually works. And the one that they're running now does not.

• 16:24Speaker 01

  There is a running narrative in socialist circles. How capitalism has reigned supreme is that when there is a country anywhere that becomes independent and wants to break off of the traditional capitalist structure, they get embargoed, they get sanctioned, they get tariffed, they get trade restrictions.

• 16:41Tom Bilyeu?

  Let me say it a real, a different way. Whenever a country decides that they're gonna do that, they so weaken themselves that they end up getting slapped around by everybody around them.

• 16:49Speaker 01

  But I would go the other way because I was trying to build up like first principles type thing. Like for a country to thrive, it needs trade partners. Could we start there? Do you think trade is necessary for a country to thrive?

• 16:59Tom Bilyeu?

  If the country can't sustain itself, it is physics necessary, yes.

• 17:03Speaker 01

  So do you think that countries can sustain themselves without trade?

• 17:06Tom Bilyeu?

  There are some. You won't have the lifestyle that you have in a globalized world, which is far better for everybody. It just doesn't last forever. But in a world where everybody was peaceful and you could just trade across borders, it would be ideal for sure.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  Copy. So a lot of times the downfall of the country is then put on the backs of the system and not on the backs of the trade restrictions that then would happen. So that's what I think gives a lot of these far-left communist socialist policies validity is because every country that they have their downfall, they switch over to a different economic system. All the capitalist countries ice them out and then they fall, they just kind of spiral down below.

• 17:42Tom Bilyeu?

  This is where we have to talk about Singapore. Singapore gets essentially booted out of their own country and they're like, oh, what are we gonna do? He goes to the communists, I'm not joking, effectively grabs them by the lapel and is like, if you with what I'm about to do, I will kill every one of you. And then proceeds to go, okay, listen, we're gonna build an economic structure that actually and works and you guys are all gonna be in on it. And so I, the person giving birth to this country as the leader, my house is gonna be just like your house. But I want my house to be fucking dope. And so we're all gonna build this, you guys aren't gonna fuck me up and I'm not going to isolate myself in a palace and be away from you. And we're gonna build this thing from the ground fucking up.

• 18:24Tom Bilyeu?

  And now Singapore is the place, whatever, 80 years later, that the entire world goes to for capital. Like, if you wanna know where, where will Tom go check out if the US and continues a pace towards socialism, communism, my first stop is in Singapore. So, uh, it has Chinese vulnerabilities, that's the only thing that scares me, it's full disclosure. But that is, uh, when you think about somebody that literally built a country out of the fucking marsh, this guy does not play around. You have to understand how if you're being betrayed by, at that time, literally their country kicked them out and said, you guys can't be a part of this. And I forget what the thing was that made them all lump up, but anyway, they were like, you're not a part of this.

• 19:06Tom Bilyeu?

  He understood, we're on our own, no one is coming to save us. Oh my God, I'll give you another example, Booker T. Washington. We're around a bunch of people that wanna kill us, we were just their slaves, we just got freed, they all want us dead, what do we do? He was like, I'm going to teach people how to build bricks, how to make bricks, man. Now, as you can imagine, they did not have a whole lot of friendly trading partners. So he's gotta now hustle that up, he's gotta figure out, I'm gonna build this school, but I'm gonna do it by teaching these guys how to be reliant on only themselves. They get so good at making bricks that they end up exporting, it was to surrounding people in the south. But nonetheless, you can think of them as like their own little startup country and having to make a product so high quality that they could export. The way that you deal with the world is go-

• 19:47Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm going to motivate and inspire. I'm gonna get rid of a K shaped economy, not by telling people that they can't succeed, not by telling people that they can't pull away. I'm going to get rid of the K shaped economy by making sure people understand if you can bust ass and you do a thing that matters to this group, you're gonna get paid. And so then if somebody doesn't bust ass and they don't contribute to the group, they can get the fuck out. Now you don't get a K shaped economy because everybody's going hard and they're trying to build something that matters. And you focus on the thing that nobody can take away from you. And so if people are like, you can't have a school, fuck you. And you go, no, no, no, I'm gonna teach these guys how to make bricks, dude. This is one of the most inspiring stories ever in human history and somehow it gets shit on. I just can't see that. That's crazy to me.

• 20:28Tom Bilyeu?

  Cuba should have been like, alright, fuck them. Like, we're gonna really build this industry, but we're gonna do one thing. We're gonna be honest about what people are like and we're gonna understand intelligence is not evenly distributed. And so we're going to reward the people that murder it. We're gonna make sure that they can rise. And any wit that doesn't contribute, they get little to nothing. Fuck those kids. They get like extreme social pressure to contribute or get out and we are going to get strong. And in times of like desperation, struggle, war, whatever, dude, you better find in you that real ability to buckle down

• 21:04Tom Bilyeu?

  and get all Sparta on that shit because you're gonna have to find a way to defend yourselves, to be strong, to get your economy, your supply chain, all of that in order so that nobody can fuck with you. But we've got this weird fucking globalized mentality of like, we're owed everything. That is not how the world works. And so every time these countries decide to act like somebody's just gonna hand them some shit, that people are gonna roll up on a flotilla and that they don't have to go, I accept that I have to motivate my people, that my people are motivated by outperforming and getting their just rewards for that. That there will be inequality and our goal is to make sure that there's no intolerable inequality, which has to be engineered into the system.

• 21:44Tom Bilyeu?

  You don't end up with intolerable inequality unless you fuck up your system. Central banks, debt, money printing, a government that can spend into the red. That is how you engineer a system designed. To steal from the people who don't understand economics, which is fucking evil as far as I'm concerned.

• 22:04Speaker 01

  Everybody who's Democrat is not marching down a long path to socialism. Everybody who's Republican is not MAGA. So I understand the DSA is a very specific sect on the left. So I'm not going to other them stuff like that. However, the criticism here was although Trump is more capitalist than the DSA absolutely and the left, we can't also act like Trump is running a free market capitalism administration. There's still, Intel is a government owned company. We have been not seizing the means of production, but owning a portion of the means of production for certain companies that we invested in. He just gave an $800 billion tax break to India. He's re-flipped the switch on H2, uh, H2A visas, which are for migrant farm workers.

• 22:46Tom Bilyeu?

  Clapped on for that.

• 22:47Speaker 01

  So, so yeah, so, so at the same time, it's not like we're running a pure capitalist system for us to now judge other people like that. So is it just because we already have the Fed? That's why it's too big for us or can America still move closer to pure capitalism?

• 23:01Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm going to put a hat on that I hope is just pure encouragement for the American people of what we need to do to reclaim this. So one, having everybody get to the point of functionally understanding the rough swag of how an economy works. And I will just give them the easy one. Inflation is theft and you should immediately get your government to stop stealing from you. The easiest way to do that is just insist on a balanced budget. It's not exactly that, but that's a close enough swag for the conversation. So get your government to be very clear headed about what it's going to spend money on. And then, yes, we need to acknowledge that both the left and the right spend completely irresponsibly. Now, I would much rather see a fiscal conservative Democrat who understands the market

• 23:45Tom Bilyeu?

  than a fiscally irresponsible Republican who still believes in growth. So this is not me saying it's Republican or bust. I just need to get everybody behind the idea that when you're looking at a candidate, don't worry yourself at all about Republican or Democrat. Look at their level of understanding of economics. And if they have a good understanding of economics, then that's almost certainly the right way to go. Obviously, as always. We need to know more about the candidate, blah, blah, blah. But that's question number one. Do they actually understand how economies work? And are they going to move us forward? We don't need to lump everybody into a bucket and say Democrats, bad, Republicans, good. That would be a blatant lie and will lead you down a garden path of death and destruction if you just blindly vote for either party.

• 24:27Tom Bilyeu?

  But yeah, you need to insist that your candidates show a desire for growth, a desire for capitalism, an understanding of why central banks are so dangerous. They don't have to say that they plan to get rid of it, but they need to understand why it's dangerous. They need to say how they plan to address inflation. They need to say why you can't deficit spend. That is the thing that creates the K-shaped economy. They need to show that a K-shaped economy is not only a terrible idea, it is morally repugnant. And so getting into all of that, again, you have to be so careful. There is natural inequality, which is not only always going to persist, it's desirable, but toxic inequality must be manufactured into the system and is ultimately the death of every empire.

• 25:09Tom Bilyeu?

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• 26:17Tom Bilyeu?

  Thanks for staying tuned. Now, let's get back to it.

• 26:20Speaker 01

  Bibi Netanyahu posted this picture saying, hey, they say I'm what? Look at me. Look, I have five fingers. I took a sip of coffee. The coffee shop in Israel also posted on their Instagram behind the scenes photos and things like that. It set the internet on fire. A lot of people are saying it's AI. The coffee didn't move. The sip on his lip disappeared. His zipper disappeared. People were zooming into the cash register and all these other types of things.

• 26:42Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, among many, many other things. All right, to understand this one, you guys are gonna have to start at the beginning. The weekend played out something like this. Netanyahu's dead, but probably alive with six fingers. No wait, it's seven. But this is in 2024, or maybe it was during COVID. I promise, if you just heard me say all that, I'm not having a stroke. If you were online this weekend, you know exactly what I mean. And if you weren't, you are in for a treat because it all started with an Instagram account with 13.5 million followers. It dropped a post claiming Benjamin Netanyahu was dead because he appeared to have six fingers in a video. Now, I encourage you aggressively to check out the video for yourself.

• 27:24Tom Bilyeu?

  You'll see the supposed six finger is a part of his palm. When I first saw it, I was like, wait, what? Like, are people trolling? This is obviously part of his palm. If you look at it closely, if you just pause the video and look at his finger. The region of his finger even has a name. It's called the hypothinner eminence. So there you have, for the nerdy kids in the crowd. Now, if you ran that original video through a deep fake detection tool, according to Grok anyway, the rating comes back at 0.1% chance of being AI-generated. And I have to say, looking at it with my own eyes, and there's no doubt AI is getting very, very good. But it seems pretty normal and was not the kind of thing that I expected the internet to go absolutely haywire over.

• 28:07Tom Bilyeu?

  The video showing Netanyahu getting coffee was also just absolutely mohucive. With a bunch of supposed smoking gun videos zoom-ins showing one aspect or another being obviously quote-unquote AI-generated. Again, some of it, the takedown video, the smoking gun video, is faked. And so you get- All of this stuff going on where if you're just looking at the takedown videos, the smoking gun videos, some of which are AI generated, many are zoomed in past the point of intelligibility. You could easily walk away with the conclusion that this is all AI generated. But if you go back to the original source videos, because I'll admit, I flip flopped this weekend. When I saw the pocket video, it's so funny talking about this stuff.

• 28:50Tom Bilyeu?

  Like if you guys weren't online this weekend, you really did miss a treat. He puts his hand in his pocket. Now, I didn't notice it in the full video. So I saw, I'd seen the full video, but now I'm watching all the smoking gun videos. And I see this one smoking gun video of his pocket seeming to violate the laws of physics. And I was like, oh, snap, like this is a hundred percent fake. Like, oh my God, he really is dead. I was like, holy, I can't believe it. And then I was like, hold on, hold on, go back, watch the original video again. It's not that hard. So I went back, I watched the original video again. And if I'm honest, the way his pocket reacts when you watch the full video at normal speed was more convincing that it's not AI. Because how would the AI know to, the momentum of his hand stops because he hits the zipper?

• 29:35Tom Bilyeu?

  And then he pauses because it's like, how hard is this going to be? And then he decides, oh, it's just a zipper, I'm going to push through. He pushes through, that releases the snag of the pocket, the zipper on his skin. And then it moves rapidly because tension had built up with his hand. I cannot believe, I have to take time to explain this. This is so wild. We are living in a totally different dimension. Nothing is provably real anymore. And that's where all of this gets crazy. When you've got a video, it was posted on March 15th on Netanyahu's official X account, by the way, where he's poking fun at the rumors of him dealing with like, I'm dying to get coffee, all of that stuff. And having to point out that he's got 10 fingers, you just know that we have completely lost the plot.

• 30:18Tom Bilyeu?

  And so, looking at all of this from that perspective of, we can't believe if his hand going into his pocket is real, if the sip that he's taking, because it doesn't disturb the foam in his drink, if that's real. People are going crazy over these details. When we can't use that and the tons of subsequent videos to decide if something is real, even if asking AI to estimate the likelihood that the video is AI generated, if none of that proves to people that this stuff is real, then we are really in trouble. And that is exactly where we're at. Whether these anomalies come from video compression, whether they come from just the coffee being bizarrely resilient in real life or from something else.

• 31:03Tom Bilyeu?

  We are in a period where nobody can decide on what is real. Nobody is convinced by what they see that something is real. Nobody's convinced by the fact that it comes from his own account that this is real. And because we're living in a world now where, believe me when I say this is wartime propaganda that is being spun to confuse people, that there are reasons why Netanyahu probably doesn't even mind that much that some people think he's dead. Because if the Iranian people think he's dead and he's really not, yes, you take a morale, a morale hit on your side and you give them a bit of a boost. But if you're really still alive and are back channeling and keeping everything moving, then they're not going to focus as hard on trying to hit you.

• 31:47Tom Bilyeu?

  It's the same reason why I thought it was brilliant that the Iranians have promoted to Supreme Leader, somebody who is either in a coma, missing legs and/or already dead. Because now it's like going on to strike that person you know doesn't really do you any good because they're already out of commission. And so now you've sort of defanged the opposition's approach to coming and getting that person because it won't matter to what's really happening inside the country. So if he's alive, then they still have to worry about it and go after him. If he's dead and the country is still moving forward, yes, they have to manage the expectations of their own people and that could be problematic. And if they're slowly unraveling because there's no longer a center of gravity, then you have a problem.

• 32:29Tom Bilyeu?

  But ultimately, the big win is that the public is just confused. The public is paying attention to all kinds of other things and they're not paying attention to the things that really matter. What are the economic consequences of this? Are the allies coming to our defense? Who's actually winning the war? And so if you Look at this from the perspective of what happened in Vietnam. So Vietnam is the first living room war and the American public turned against it very quickly. We no longer had the appetite to prosecute the war. It all fell apart. We end up backing out total cluster. Now, this is the first social media war. And what I'm seeing is that you can confuse the public so much that they just in fight. And then you go do whatever the hell you want.

• 33:12Tom Bilyeu?

  And so that's where this is going to get wild. Like, how do we get everybody on the same page? How do we get the American people pointed in a singular direction to either be behind the war or not behind the war, or at least have an intelligent debate? But we're not having an intelligent debate based on the merits of the outcomes of our actions. We're spinning up. I even, because I knew I was gonna need to report on this, was like, this has become a far bigger story than by just volume of interaction. Then the economic impacts of this, or a story we're gonna cover later. The fact that China is surrounding Taiwan as presumably a military drill for, hey, while the US is distracted, let's go just snatch this bitch up. Nobody's paying attention to that. Like, that was measured in like the hundreds of thousands of views.

• 33:57Tom Bilyeu?

  Whereas the stuff on a single pocket video, coffee sip video, was millions of views. Boys and girls, there is a thing happening right now. This is a new form of entertainment. World affairs as bread and circus, because I can influence it the way that I could vote on American Idol. If you get what I'm saying, like, you can actually influence what part of all of this people are paying attention to. If you can write the viral tweet about the coffee gate, the pocket video, the zoom in on the cash register, you can actually sway which way people are looking. If you can write the next bot that enrages people and they just fall for the entertaining

• 34:42Tom Bilyeu?

  value of rage bait. Remember, people want to be rage baited. They love that. And this is becoming a new form of entertainment. Even I find myself, because I'm covering this stuff, I'm like, this is occupying a certain amount of my time that otherwise would have gone to. Insert thing that I would have done instead of this. And so when you take a populace that is desperate for distraction and you give them like real life geopolitical warfare as video game, it is wild.

• 35:12Speaker 01

  To that point, there was that TikToker that was giving out coordinates to certain Israel targets.

• 35:18Tom Bilyeu?

  So you have a US TikToker speaking directly to the Iranian regime via TikTok. It's not like he's Tucker Carlson. He's got back channels, but he's talking directly to them, showing them coordinates, saying, these are the places that you should strike.

• 35:31Speaker 03

  Iran, all we need is a few missiles and we can wipe out the entire Israeli electrical grid. This is the Rothenburg power station. It's coal powered in Ashgolan, Israel.

• 35:40Speaker 01

  These are coordinates.

• 35:41Tom Bilyeu?

  At up top, these are coordinates. Coordinates. There are people out there putting out information that will be beneficial on both sides of the equation. Iranians giving us information that we will end up using for nothing else other than propaganda and then vice versa. So even just doing this, I know that the Iranian state media has been replaying some of our biggest influencers saying, see, look, these guys don't even like what's going on. Everybody's with us. Everybody's on our side, dear Iran. And all of this stuff matters. This is why when a country takes over another country, the first thing they do is they go after the media. When a dictator comes to power, the first thing he does is take over the media to try to map out for the enemy what they should be doing. I will just tell you, if the war escalates like that will not be tolerated.

• 36:25Tom Bilyeu?

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