Bill Maher Checks Hunter Biden, Dems are Ready to Impeach, & Mark Cuban Backs Talarico | PBD #848

Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team react to Bill Maher challenging Hunter Biden over the Iran war, explosive testimony putting Diddy's name back at the center of the Tupac murder case, and Mark Cuban backing James Talarico in Texas. Plus, Ray Dalio's debt crisis warning, Trump's Canada trade war, ghost jobs, Karmelo Anthony, and Democrats preparing investigations if they retake the House. ------------- 🎟️ SECURE YOUR 2026 VAULT TICKETS: https://bit.ly/4xU2SCW 👞 GET THE FLB1's: https://bit.ly/4mC4uf6 📕 GET LINDY'S BOOK: https://bit.ly/4qCO0Wb 🦁 SPONSOR THE VAULT 2026: https://bit.ly/4mFBPpw Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 🇰 KALSHI: http://kalshi.com/pbd SUBSCRIBE TO: @VALUETAINMENT — https://youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENT @ValuetainmentComedy — https://youtube.com/@ValuetainmentComedy 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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  My handshake is better than anything I ever signs, right here.

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  You are a one of one? My son's right about you.

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

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  So, Tom, you good? Audio check, everything good? By the way, your hair looks fun. Look at Tom's hair. That's why Lindy hit him. In the back, in the back, you have to put it on.

• 0:38Speaker 01

  Come on. Yeah, you're good. This is why you don't do it. Anyways, hey, I hope you had a good weekend. We got a lot of stuff to cover here today. We have our friend Lindy Lee here with us. A new book coming out, which we cannot wait to share with all the audience. You got a couple of stories you've never talked about. We saw an interview, I think the best interview so far with Hunter Biden was done by Bill Maher. Bill Maher pushed him on everything. Good. And you know Bill, you know Hunter Biden, you've done stuff with him. So it's good to kind of get your insight on from him that we'll talk about. And then we had, Trump posted a tweet about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker and... Taylor Brown. And Joe Kent and Taylor Brown, which I know you got a few things you want to say about that. Yes, Talarico. Mark Cuban on one minute goes and says he doesn't like what's going on in California.

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  And then the other minute, on the same exact show, says he likes Talarico, that is in the state of Texas. But he says, well, I'm not going to be directly impacted by it. So I'll vote for something like that, but not for something bigger. That's going to be a direct impact. The moment you think there is logic with his positioning, similar thing with Scott Galloway as well, who does a lot of good work for young men. But he was on Bill Maher, he went and asked, he was asked about who he sees, and he said Newsom. And then he just went to a place, he still believes America is sexist and America is racist. Very weird. We'll get into that. And then Trump, Canada, EU, the tariffs, back and forth. Tom's got a whole point of view. J D Vance said, Mark Carney is trying to act like he's tough until he negotiates with somebody

• 2:04Speaker 01

  that knows how to negotiate. We'll address that. Couple of stories. This ghost job story, Tom, I really want to hear your thoughts. I think it's important for us to talk about companies that apparently are posting jobs online, but they have no desire to hire.

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  It's a PR trick.

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  It's a PR trick. It's kind of like, hey, we're hiring, we're growing, look at this. But then there is no interview, there is no follow up, no one's getting a job. And so we'll talk about that. And then the functional unemployment right now, where it's at, which the functional unemployment is different than the regular unemployment, which is around 4.1%. Functional unemployment is how much people make under a certain amount of money, living wages, how it's dropped. I think four months in a row, Tom, if I'm not mistaken, and we'll get into that as well to discuss. Then Hassan Piker said, they did a song about, what do you call it? Charlie Kirk. Right? And you guys were on Pierce, both of you guys were on Pierce, having a conversation with, I think it was Jen, not with Hassan.

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  And there was a couple of clips of him saying, I'd like to kill Charlie. He says, not really kill him, you know, I'd like to do this. And so these things are going back and forth. Just, you got to be very careful with these things you're doing. Then Polly Market, a lot of people are talking about Polly Market versus Calciyan. So what's the difference? And it's very important for people to realize, because there's a guy that's got a 97% accuracy on wages he's made on Polly Market, who's in the military. 90, you know what 97% is? Imagine you betting 97% of all the sports bets you do, you win. It's like you have the sports almanac from back to the future too. Impossible. Yeah. It's called the rig system. But the reason why he can do that with Polly versus being able to do that with... Calci.

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  Calci is because Calci is regulated by the CFTC, the Commodity Federal Trade Commission, and Polly is not. So Polly, you have to go through a, you know, VPN here to bet over there because they're not regulated. I mean, we dealt with this closely when we were going back and forth. So we'll talk about that. 97% is, something's really going on there. Then Tom brings up one of his favorite people he leans on for investments. Because whatever this guy says, Tom typically does the opposite, Kramer. So Kramer, two weeks ago, said, you know, I'm selling all my Bitcoin. And the next two weeks Bitcoin has a massive growth. Bought more. And so then Ray Dalio is worried about what's about to happen. And him and Biden are kind of on different sides on why, you know, Biden is making certain moves.

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  And Ray Dalio is saying, time to buy gold and hang on to your Bitcoin. Who's right? Vinny's got entire analysis on it. So we'll definitely go through that, hang tight for that. And then a couple of other stories that we got that we'll get into. One of them is with Enes Kanter, decides to go to a wonderful WNBA game and he gets kicked out. She, hey, she got kicked out.

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  Please don't deadname.

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  I'm sorry, I don't want to.

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  I swear to you, I will walk out of this.

• 4:51Speaker 01

  Minding his own business, enjoying his weekend. I got a couple of clips I got to show you. I got a couple of clips I got to show you. One of them is by Fat Joe. Okay, you know who Fat Joe is? I love Fat Joe. Okay, I love Fat Joe too. He's lost a lot of weight. He's like Dad bought Joe. Kind of like Giancarlo. Giancarlo looks like a little model right now. Shout out to Giancarlo. But he's having a hard time financially, Giancarlo, just bought two Ferraris, but he's like, really? Oh, God. Yeah, he's really going through right now, two Ferrari. Giancarlo is a freaking stud and a half man is what he is. But we're not going to talk about Giancarlo because he's a low key handsome, good looking guy. So Fat Joe tells a story.

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  Actually, a very interesting story, and I want to get all your reactions on. What happens when he has a baby with his girl? And the kid comes out with Down syndrome, his girl says, I'm out, leaves. Wow. And what Fat Joe's mom said in that moment is unbelievable. Wow. You don't know the story. I did not see that story coming. It's a phenomenal story of what happened. Then there's another story for everybody that loves their moms. I want to play this video for you, for all the moms out there, because I think the moms deserve this clip. And I think everybody else is going to be a great reminder, but it will be an emotional clip. We got to watch this together. Don't make us cry today. We'll do this at the end. Don't make us cry today.

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  Don't cry for me, Argentina. We'll do it all the way at the end. So you don't have to worry about it at the beginning. But with that being said, before we get into it, there's some big news today. You know what it is? Do you know what was the color of the year in fashion? Blue. Can you say what was the color of the year in fashion? Brown. Chocolate. Chocolate. Was the color of the year in fashion. So what did we do? We went to Tuscan, Italy, and we chose the exact color that we're talking about with the chocolate. And it's officially out. It's the new FLB Chocolate Edition. I want you to watch this. By the way, this shoe, I've worn it with so many different outfits, I get more compliments with this brown than I do with the black. I want you to watch this clip

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  Dude. How sick is that?

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  Does this come in female size six?

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  No, it doesn't. It does not. Lindy, take these. People are asking for it. But the latest chocolate FLB shoes are out. You can go to vtmerch.com to place your order. Again, a limited number of sizes that we have. So whoever gets it, you get it. If you don't, you have to wait four months, five months for the next shipment that we have. You know how this works. And if you haven't yet had these, these brown chocolate FLB shoes, go to vtmerch.com to place your order. And it's got the, you know, super foam technology on the bottom, super, super soft, comfortable. This is all I wear every single day. Again, go to vtmerch.com, place your order before these things sell out. With that being said, let's get right into it.

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  Believe it or not, the first story I want to get into is the Fat Joe story. I want to start off with a family story. I don't want to do a business story, political story. I want to get into this story because I really, really love this story. Now, the team in the back, before I preface this, it's very important for the guys in the back, go to the story that I'm sending to you. And then I want you to start off with the video first of him explaining what happened. So here's what it is before he explains it to you. Fat Joe has a kid. And when the baby is born, the doctor tells him and the baby's mother that the baby has Down syndrome. And then here's what happens next. If you go a little bit lower, there's a video down there, you can play that he explains it. Go a little bit right there. Click on that video.

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  Let's have the audience watch this. It'll say a lot about Fat Joe and his character. Go for it.

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  He shows us his hands, this way he said he got Down syndrome. He's going to be a big challenge. I'm there with my mother, my father, and his mother. And his mother was like, yo, I can't do this. I'm going to have to give him up for adoption. And my mother was like, you crazy bitch? Like, you ain't giving up my fucking, like, and so we raised him. I never seen his mother again, is what I'm trying to tell you. It was that.

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  So she dropped.

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  Born, yeah, she never visited him again. I'm not here to, to, to, to kick and watch, you know, she never, she abandoned a kid.

• 9:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, so we raised him by ourselves. He don't know no other family. He don't know it's not because we didn't allow that. His mom's just, you know, is crazy. She has never seen him again. And, um, you know, and it wasn't like I, I kept the door closed where she can't see her son.

• 9:55Speaker 01

  Right.

• 9:55Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying? It was always available for her to see her son. But you know, we got wicked people out there, whether man or female. You know, it's usually the other way around. You know, baby come out down syndrome, the man run away.

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  Right.

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  You know, shame on you. You know, fathers gotta be a father. I don't know how to be a fake father. I don't know how to be a fake father. So I gotta take care of my kids regardless, um, and do everything I can for the, you know, uh, I don't know how to give.

• 10:25Speaker 01

  How, how, Vinny, how do you process that? Because think, think about it this way. Have you ever known this story about Fat Joe?

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  No.

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  Is that not amazing that stuff like this happens? And unless if he goes on Club Shay Shay, talks to Shannon Sharp, shares that story, no one will ever know that that family, you know what you learn? You learn the character of who? Not only him, but who raised him? You learn who his mother is.

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  Oh, man.

• 10:50Speaker 01

  You learn the values and principles. What a powerful story for a guy like Fat Joe, let alone imagine how many times, you know, you hear stories about fathers, even for any kid. Then think about the kid is Down Syndrome and you know the responsibilities that comes with that. You say, no, our family is going to take care of this child tilted and go to the top of the picture where it's him and, uh, his son right next to each other. Look how cool that is. You know, look how cool that is that it's sitting right next to each other and he's still giving him love. How do you process this story?

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  Well, shout out to freaking Fat Joe. I mean, I, I've always loved Fat Joe, followed his music. I had no, I, I didn't even know he had a son that has Down Syndrome, but God bless him, Pat. God bless the mom for raising him like this. And I know, you know, a lot of people today just think, ah, it's just a life. I don't like it. As if like, like they're buying something that they could just return and cancel it. But I'm telling you right now from experience, one of my best friends, his name is Arthur, he has Down Syndrome. And I'm telling you right now, Pat, the most positive, yes, it's a challenge. I understand because there's different, like, there's some people that have Down Syndrome that have to have 24, you know, seven, you know, their parents have to be, they have to have somebody watching them. But then I've seen, there's people with Down Syndrome that can actually work, get on a bus, go and, you know, there's Down Syndrome people that get married and there's different, you know, kinds of Down

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  Syndrome. But the fact that people don't understand unless you've been around people with Down Syndrome. A lot of people are like scared and they're kind of standoffish.

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  Yep.

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  The most loving, I, I've never seen somebody with Down Syndrome complaining, worried, you know, conspiracy theorist, hate. It's all about love. It's all about positivity. It's, I, I'm so freaking happy that you showed me this because I had zero idea, but good for him and good for the mom because she raised a freaking good son. That's amazing.

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  Fat Joe's mom. By the way, you ready? You know, you know how old he was when, uh, baby was born?

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  Huh.

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  He was 19. No.

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  Fat Joe.

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  Yes, because his son is 35 years old.

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  Get out of here.

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  Yes, this is a great story.

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  Also 19.

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  So it's not like he was 32 years old with money and finances. He was only 19 when this happened.

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  That even makes it better.

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  And they still chose.

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  Wow.

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  This is some major props to Fat Joe. How do you process this story?

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  Um, the Christian cross that he was wearing was no coincidence. That was the first thing that jumped out at me. I've been wearing this for like 25 years, every, unless I'm showering. But, um, it's just, it's just a example of Christ's love. It's just incredible. And this is, think about it. This is before his song, What's Love? This is with Ashanti. It's before his like Lean Back. Remember that?

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  Yeah.

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  And so before the money came in, he still chose to raise a son. This is, I mean,

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  I just, I just feel like it's such a great positive story. You know, Adam, I think you can probably have a story with, with your father because your father was, he would only hire, why don't you share how you hear this story?

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  Yeah, well, I have a newfound respect for Fat Joe. So shout out to him. Uh, yeah, my father was born with cerebral palsy, which like the best way to explain it, if you ever saw Forrest Gump, the scene where he's walking with the, with the, with the knee braces and they're throwing stuff at him. That was like my dad with his gait was all weird, but his brain worked. So my dad was a businessman. He was a, he started an advertising agency. This was one door to door, uh, flyers were a thing. And, uh, he was locally famous because he would only hire people with mental disabilities and mental challenges. So just picture my house, growing up, um, my dad would have what I would call the, you can't say the R word these days,

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  the R word farm at my house for dinner. It'd be me, my sister, my mom, my dad, and four or five handicapped individuals. Oh, just, and chaos ensued.

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  I love it.

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  These guys are eating ketchup packed. They don't know shoes on the wrong feet. They're using this as a telephone. And like, how do you think you get into standup comedy? Because it comes from pain. And I saw what was going on here and I said, wow. Shout out to my mom. She was like the most, oh, how you doing? Everybody should treat it, everybody equally. You know, my mom, but you, when you're around these people, you have a new zest for life. I talk about because of my dad, I volunteer at the Special Olympics every year. And you, you know, they say it's better to give than receive.

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  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:53Speaker 06

  The love you give is so much greater than, than, than, than anything you could possibly ask for. So shout out to Fat Joe.

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  You have so many of these stories that you listen to. That's like this about a bam. We're gonna talk about some of these stories that are just like fear, negative, all this stuff. You hear a story like this with Fat Joe, you're like, dude, just let the world hear that there's so many wonderful human beings behind closed doors that do so much great that nobody ever hears about. No one. That a 19 year old young, but what was this guy worth at 19 years old? I don't even know if he was a player yet.

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  This was back in the day, you know, Fat Joe's always in Miami. I'll just add this. This was when he started Terror Squad and he was with Big Pun. When you think of hip hop, New York, yo, what's up? Terror Squad. But little do you know that he's raising a Down Syndrome kid and it's, it's incredible. You know who else, you know who, nobody knew this. You know who else also talks about this a lot? Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis has Down Syndrome in his family and he, he normalizes it. The end of the day, my point is this, it's part of life. You can either embrace it and get better for it or.

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  At 19 years old, he had no hit, no hit record, no established recording career. First time he, he signed with Apollo at 2021 and he got his first million dollar check with Flo Joe, hit number one on the billboards, hot rap singles at 23 years old, 1993, got his first million out that time. 19 years old, they made a decision to take this kid with nothing.

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  And the mother left.

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  Freaking amazing story.

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  And now you're ready for this?

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  Newfound respect.

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  At 19, that means no nannies, no help, no nothing. It's you and your mom while you're building it up.

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  Final thoughts before we go to the next story.

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  You know what? In a world where celebrities sometimes take things like this and they put them out there and they wear it like jewelry.

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  Yep.

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  I admire a man regardless of what he was worth that just quietly did the right thing. And I want to underline something that you touched on and we haven't talked about it yet, which is praise God for his mom who put the foundational elements in his heart.

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  I agree.

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  To say the value of life is this, this is my son and we're walking from here. And I'm, I'm happy that we didn't know about this because it means that he was just quietly living and doing the right thing.

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  Yeah.

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  And, um, I admire that. Man, mega props.

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  And the son 35 years old.

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  35 years old.

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  So meaning he lived, lived longer than typical life expectancy or whatever they may be.

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  Shout out to you, Fat Joe.

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  35 years old, 35 years old Joey Cartagena. Great man.

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  Joey crack.

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  Yeah. So, okay. All right. Let's go to the next story. Next story is a different story. Okay. It's Hunter Biden on Bill Maher. Okay. And believe it or not, I was actually very impressed with Bill Maher because Bill Maher asked the questions that everybody else was thinking about that maybe others like Tucker didn't ask Hunter for whatever reason. And you know, everybody that does certain interviews, there is a motive that people have in an agenda that's their show. They can talk about whatever they want, no judgment. But I like that Bill pushes no matter what, if you're left, right, or center, he doesn't care who you are. He'll call you out, right? And he's gotten to this phase a lot more lately. So here's a couple clips. I want to show a couple of the clips that we have. Here's one of them. Go forward.

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  A reasonable person who's not filled with hate would say, you both took advantage of some of your privileges by being the son of a president and vice president. And you also were a target in a way that a normal person would not admit. Is that fair?

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  There's a part of that that is fair. I would, one of the things that people I think don't understand is that when my dad was president, I didn't do any business. I sold paintings and I sold paintings to people that then had to testify before Congress under oath. I made an average of $225,000 a year.

• 18:26Speaker 08

  But would you have been working for an energy company out of Ukraine? Was that really the thing you studied in school? And you got that job?

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  I went to Yale Law School.

• 18:35Speaker 08

  You got that job because you were.

• 18:37Speaker 09

  Okay. Just did. Yeah. A hundred percent. As I've said on a million interviews.

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  Good for Bill Maher.

• 18:42Speaker 09

  You know, I'm incredibly privileged. I mean, beyond, uh, beyond anyone's wild imagination, not only because of who my dad was, but because of the father that he was. And so a lot of it, a lot of privilege comes from that. And, and I don't deny that in any way.

• 18:58Speaker 08

  And also a target on your back.

• 19:00Speaker 09

  Yeah. And by the way, and also a target on your back. And also.

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  Okay. So how do you feel about that? How do you feel about that exchange? I'll come to you first, Lyndy. You know Hunter.

• 19:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, I do. And it makes me very frustrated. I just, um, he's not being held accountable sufficiently. I mean, Bill Maher, Bill Maher is doing a great job right here. But this is a guy who lived on the Biden name for decades and used his kids' college tuition money to pay for prostitutes and. Hookers, basically.

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  His college, his kids call it.

• 19:28Speaker 04

  His kids' college tuition to pay for his own drug money and to pay for his hookers. This is a guy whose privates were broadcasters around the world, and there's no shame. And I used to host events at which he would go and glad hand billionaires and business titans, not for the sake of the United States, but for himself. He went to all of these donor events in order to ingratiate himself, looking for exit opportunities. And that is why he forced his senile and cognitive declining father, who had no business running for president, he forced him to run for the presidency, run for reelection. This guy has so much responsibility and culpability on his hands, and I wish more people were

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  like Bill Maher.

• 20:14Speaker 01

  What, okay, so let's just say if he sits down with you, what three questions do you ask him? You sitting with Hunter, what do you ask him?

• 20:20Speaker 04

  When are you going to apologize for the fact that you hoisted a man who very likely 99% had terminal prostate cancer? You forced this man to run for reelection? How dare you? This is not only a dereliction of duty to our country, but to your own family. You claim to love your father? Is this something that you would do to a man that you love? We just talked about Fat Joe raising a child with Down syndrome. Now we're talking about an 82-year-old man who is dying of cancer. Had he, God forbid, had he won the presidency, he would have been dying in the Oval Office right now. The cancer is now spreading across his body. Can you imagine? They lied to the, you know, they lied to the world, telling us that he was sharp as

• 21:05Speaker 04

  a tack, running circles around everybody. In fact, I was on a phone call with General Malley Dillon, the chairman of the Biden campaign, with a small select group of donors. She had the gumption to look us in the eye and say, Biden is healthier than all of you. I'm a marathon runner. Okay, I run five miles a day. You want to tell me that Biden, Joe Biden, is healthier than us? And so Hunter Biden has a lot of explaining to do because he is one of the primary reasons that Biden chose to run for reelection. Again, there's another reason that we haven't addressed. It's his own fate. He didn't want to land in prison. He needed his father to pardon him.

• 21:43Speaker 01

  What else? What else would you ask? Because that's very good. What else? You're an insider. What else would you ask?

• 21:47Speaker 04

  Um.

• 21:48Speaker 01

  By the way, what was he like when he hung out with him? What was his energy like?

• 21:52Speaker 04

  I have questions about his sobriety, frankly.

• 21:55Speaker 01

  He's been sober for seven years.

• 21:57Speaker 04

  That's what he claims. But I was invited to the White House on February 24th, 2024. This was months after the cocaine situation, the Cuban. Do you remember that?

• 22:05Speaker 01

  Yep, of course.

• 22:06Speaker 04

  And no one was ever held accountable. There were no investigations.

• 22:08Speaker 06

  This was recently. You're saying less.

• 22:09Speaker 01

  One and a half years ago.

• 22:10Speaker 04

  Two years ago, yes. I, I, my guests and I went to the Oval Office a few months before the 2024 election. And I remember being in the Cuban area and wondering, wow, there is no security in this room. You would think after an incident like that, they would put proper precautions in place. No security. There's nobody there other than me and my guests. The Cubbies weren't locked, and so people could take things out at will. There were no cameras to speak of. I remember looking around and thinking, this is really strange. And I don't know if the American people realize this, but not a single interview was conducted in the aftermath of the cocaine, cocaine gate. And so I have serious questions about this. To this day, we don't have answers about that. And Hunter Biden is very trigger happy when it comes to lawsuits, and we can talk about that later.

• 22:54Speaker 04

  There's a member of the Biden family who threatened to sue me. Actually, um, my lawyer, Tim, one of my lawyers, Tim Polittori, is like, you want them to sue you because discovery is going to be beautiful? Everybody knows you're telling the truth.

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  Did they ever do that or no?

• 23:08Speaker 04

  No, it's been.

• 23:09Speaker 01

  They never follow.

• 23:09Speaker 04

  They know that I'm telling the truth. They know I was in a position to know. I have the receipts. It's been two years.

• 23:15Speaker 01

  If you're, if you're a betting person and you were able to go to Polymarket and a VPN to bet, that Hunter Biden, okay, that's a different, that Hunter Biden has used crack the last seven years. How?

• 23:27Speaker 04

  Oh, for sure. I would, yeah, I would totally. And I'm not a betting woman. I'm, you know, I'm an index fund girl, but if, yeah, exactly.

• 23:35Speaker 01

  I respect. So you would say yes?

• 23:38Speaker 04

  Oh, for sure. For sure. And he's not the only member of the family with serious substance issues.

• 23:44Speaker 01

  But Lindy, he is so charming. He is so charismatic. I got to tell you, like, the way he knows how to do this. You watch him like, yeah, I just, I just admit it. But Bill, I, you know, I just did. But Nick, why would you say that? Nick, why would you say that? And, you know, he has this thing that he does. You can tell, you know, I got four kids, so I watch which one of my kids can get things from me better than others. You see the childlike side of him, and you can tell why this guy's good with girls. You can tell. Like, you can tell why he was able to, I had one of his baby mamas on the podcast. We had a great conversation. The girl that was the stripper that had a baby that he never wanted to be around? A phenomenal conversation with her.

• 24:23Speaker 04

  The one whose daughter he wouldn't claim.

• 24:24Speaker 01

  That's right. They didn't want to claim. Yeah, but it was a very good conversation. And she told the story of one day, they're in the hotel room, and they're a Heisekite. And she says, the father, Joe, comes and knocks on the door and sees both of us. And he says, I looked at the father. The father looks at Hunter, and he says, I've never seen this much pain in a father's eyes, when he made eye contact with his son and knowing what his son is going through. He says, I felt for the dad. And this is the, the kid that they had together. So, and by the way, I want to go to another clip. But before I do, Lindy just came out with a book. It's coming out. It's, it's, and I want you to pull up the link if you can. Uh, she's got a ton of these stories in the book that if you guys want to hear it from an insider, go place the order, Unburden.

• 25:08Speaker 01

  A Former Democrat Insider: Shocking Accounts of Political Power, Betrayal, and Party Collapse. If you want to see more of these stories come out, and again, this comes out September 22nd, but preorder, go get the copy, whatever. Yeah, let's put the link below as well for folks to be able to preorder this. Let's go to the next clip. The next clip I want to go to is one where, again, Bill is going back with them, and they're talking about different things. And he says, well, we never talked about addiction. And Bill shoots back pretty quickly. Watch this. Go for it.

• 25:37Speaker 09

  But everybody, everybody has a brother who's suffering from addiction. Everybody, including themselves, has, have gone through periods in their life in which they've struggled.

• 25:48Speaker 01

  Everybody?

• 25:49Speaker 09

  And not just with addiction, but with grief and loss. You know, I was speaking about my dad's health. And, you know, the thing that is the most astonishing to me is all of the things that we all experience, these painful things, are things that everybody's gone through, but we never speak about it. And nobody ever comes on a, on a show like this and openly talks about it.

• 26:10Speaker 01

  Well, I don't know about that. This is America. We talk about it a lot.

• 26:13Speaker 09

  Well, I don't know. I don't know.

• 26:14Speaker 01

  Come on, let's be real. We talk about it a lot. We talk about addiction. We talk about grief.

• 26:18Speaker 09

  Yeah. I don't, but you know what? But I, I think that we talk about addiction and grief, but not in terms of our own personal experience in which the, the vivid, um, technicolor pictures have been released to the entire, entire world.

• 26:29Speaker 01

  I think.

• 26:30Speaker 09

  And there's that piece of it. That's what I'm talking about.

• 26:32Speaker 01

  Well, I, I think a fair. Okay, this is one of them. Now, can you go to the next one of him asking him about running for president? And then we'll get a couple of thoughts and move to the next story. So here's asking about whether you run for president or not. Watch this.

• 26:43Speaker 08

  Don't be nervous. We only have like.

• 26:45Speaker 09

  Nervous.

• 26:46Speaker 08

  We only have like.

• 26:47Speaker 09

  I'm ready.

• 26:48Speaker 08

  10 or 12 minutes.

• 26:49Speaker 09

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:49Speaker 08

  I, I'm so sick of all the things that we get into the weeds with, and I see you with another, your, your, your laptop, your obituary, the third word will be laptop.

• 26:58Speaker 09

  Yeah.

• 26:58Speaker 08

  I don't, you know, I, I know everything about the laptop, more things than I want to know. I, I've seen you with your dick out. I've seen, I've seen you with a, with a crack pipe in your mouth. My question, are you running for president?

• 27:10Speaker 10

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• 28:23Speaker 01

  See the smile? Look at the charm?

• 28:29Speaker 01

  Looking like his dad, young dad.

• 28:33Speaker 09

  I'm here to announce. Exactly.

• 28:36Speaker 08

  Have you thought about that?

• 28:37Speaker 09

  No, I haven't.

• 28:39Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, sure.

• 28:39Speaker 09

  Here's my thing, if I announce for president, then somebody should check and see if I relapsed.

• 28:47Speaker 01

  Okay, pause.

• 28:49Speaker 04

  Oh, my gosh, I have to say this. I have to say this because I'm jumping out of a chair. This guy got hair plugs, for sure. I know Hunter, I've seen him. I'm sorry.

• 28:56Speaker 06

  And also new teeth.

• 28:58Speaker 04

  He's got new everything. I don't know if you guys are aware of this, but Joe Biden got major surgery. And I don't mean like health-wise, but cosmetically. There's not a doubt in my mind.

• 29:07Speaker 06

  Joe Biden got major.

• 29:08Speaker 04

  Absolutely. Everything.

• 29:09Speaker 06

  Oh, really?

• 29:10Speaker 04

  Absolutely. I mean, just look at Joe's face, the evolution over the years, for sure. It's not a surprise Hunter Biden got hair plugs, some sort of hair procedure.

• 29:18Speaker 06

  What's wrong with that, though?

• 29:19Speaker 04

  No, it's great, I'm just saying, that is a more, that's a better indication of his political aspirations than a lot of other things.

• 29:25Speaker 01

  Well, this is a perfect toss-up to you for your latest business you started in Turkey with hair transplant. If you want to share, you know, in Istanbul.

• 29:33Speaker 06

  Well, Hunter and I started multiple businesses. We started a laptop company, we started a lap dance company.

• 29:38Speaker 01

  What do you think?

• 29:39Speaker 06

  We did anything with lap.

• 29:40Speaker 01

  Do you think he runs for president?

• 29:42Speaker 06

  No.

• 29:42Speaker 01

  Do you think he's doing this for anything?

• 29:44Speaker 06

  I'll give you three little takeaways, I watched the whole interview. Number one, the biggest takeaway I had was at the end of the interview,

• 29:51Speaker 06

  Bill Maher goes, well, send your best, our best to your dad. He goes, he's watching right now, he's alive, he's watching right now. They're like, yeah, okay.

• 29:59Speaker 02

  I don't think Joe Biden's paying up for nine months.

• 30:01Speaker 06

  But one thing he said that struck out to me goes, listen, I think you did some bad things, but I don't think you're a bad man. In the day of reinvention in America and reinventing yourself and starting over, I'm sure there's a lot of people that look at Hunter and they're like, what a mess, I hope you clean it up. And it looks like he is, whether it's physically, whether it's emotionally, whether it's religiously. He did some dumb things, you know, on his tombstone, it's gonna say three words, it's gonna say laptop, it's gonna say crack, and it's gonna say corruption. So right now, he's basically out there sort of putting lipstick on a pig. And, you know, to your point, if you just take the numbers they're saying on the surface, he's saying 50 million Americans are still sick and suffering every day from addiction.

• 30:45Speaker 06

  I don't know if that number's accurate or not, but that means one out of every five or one out of every six Americans is dealing with addiction. So when they say a lot of people understand what Hunter's going through, we joke, ah, you're a crackhead. But there's a lot of people that do understand what he actually went through. The difference with him is, he was in the limelight for 20-something years doing crack on the low.

• 31:06Speaker 02

  Well, I feel, I genuinely feel sorry for him, because I mean, if you go back to the story, okay, besides the political aspirations or whatever, the Democrats will take anything at this point. Look at where they're at with DSA, they have no real leaders. AOC's their frontrunner and Gavin Newsom's number two. But if you guys go back to his past, his mother, Neela, Neelia, a Hunter, her last, her maiden name was Hunter, that's where he gets his name from. She died in a car accident and the 13-month-old.

• 31:32Speaker 04

  Sister also died.

• 31:32Speaker 02

  Also died as well. The brother, Joe Biden's fourth, yeah, that's his mom. Yeah, Jill, Dr. Jill. But I can only imagine, you know, what type of pain that comes and, you know, you become, you know, your father's not there, you lose your mother, the addiction starts. But then that addiction turns into crazy stuff where we had John Paul Isaac over here talking about what he really saw on this laptop. And the most disturbing thing was him allegedly naked, smoking crack in front of his niece. And by the way, the getting the stripper, whatever her name is, pregnant, not seeing like his character, put all that aside. I genuinely feel bad for him and I pray for him to get over whatever he's got. I don't believe he's been sober for seven months, but that's me.

• 32:13Speaker 02

  But Pat, this is the type of attitude where you could go out and have fun and be nonchalant, when you know you've got a pardon and nothing's gonna happen to you. And getting $225,000 for a crackhead to make a painting, you mean, where do you think, who was giving him that money, Pat? Did they ever trace, he goes, people testified and, and what does that mean? People lie in court all the time.

• 32:33Speaker 04

  I can tell you exactly who that's painting.

• 32:35Speaker 02

  Go ahead, please.

• 32:35Speaker 04

  There's a lawyer who paid upwards, I think, $7 million. He paid all of Hunter Biden's legal bills.

• 32:42Speaker 02

  Weird.

• 32:43Speaker 04

  There's, I forget his last name, but there's one lawyer who paid for everything.

• 32:47Speaker 02

  And was it connected to any China or all the people that he was hooking up and hooking up with the big guy?

• 32:53Speaker 04

  It's a lawyer who has business with politically involved clients. So no one is doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Everybody wanted something out of Joe Biden.

• 33:02Speaker 06

  You mean, it's not Picasso, Rembrandt, Hunter Biden?

• 33:06Speaker 04

  Let me tell you why Joe Biden is currently on his charm tour.

• 33:09Speaker 06

  Yeah, Hunter Biden, you mean?

• 33:11Speaker 04

  What did I say?

• 33:11Speaker 06

  Joe Biden.

• 33:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's all good.

• 33:12Speaker 04

  Well, I mean, he is too, you know, Joe Biden's out with a book that he didn't write. He claims, actually, his first, he came out with a video saying, guys, I wrote a book. No, that's lie number one, you did not write a book. You did not write a sentence, you hadn't written anything in a number of years, at least, you know, for a while. They are doing this, Jill Biden just came out with a book, Joe Biden came out a book purportedly for $10 million. They're doing this because the family is flat broke, flat broke. They're having financial problems, guys, that is the truth. They couldn't raise any money for their so-called presidential library. Usually when successful presidents raise money for libraries, people are throwing money at you. Especially with, you saw with the Monstrosity. Exactly, that's the ugliest building I've ever seen in my life, putting that aside.

• 33:58Speaker 04

  They can't raise any money for the presidential library. In fact, candidates in the Democratic Party are saying, please don't show up at my events, we really don't want you here. Do us a favor and just go away. When Jill Biden was going out on her book tour, rehabilitation tour, everyone was telling her to shut up. There were people in Biden world saying, please just go away, but they need the money that badly. Think about it, their patriarch is not making any money. In fact, James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, just had a hospital network that fell apart, actually based here in Florida. They were in, wait for it, they were in business with the same doctor who went out before the American people,

• 34:38Speaker 04

  Kevin O'Connor, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who said Joe Biden is fit to run for another four years. This doctor who said that was in business with the Biden family. So where do you think his incentive is?

• 34:49Speaker 02

  Of course.

• 34:51Speaker 06

  That's a famous quote, never look better.

• 34:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, and if you're, yeah, $250,000, as if, by the way, real artists don't get paid that. So it's all, to me, it's a pay-for-play. And that attitude, Pat, like, I know people that, I used to party, I used to do drugs, I used to drink. That attitude is somebody that's part, those are fun people, to be honest, they have stories, they have that charisma. But in his soul, like, in his soul, I think what his father put them through, even Ashley Biden, she was in rehab in 2019, she's the one that left a diary that somebody finally gave it to Project Veritas, where she even says, my father would shower, this all goes back to Joe. My father would shower me, probably at inappropriate ages. I think these kids are all in pain, Pat, I feel sorry for all of them. But this whole parading around, doing the rounds, trying to make everybody feel like, ah, he's a cool guy,

• 35:37Speaker 02

  this just shows you what the Democratic Party has, and it's nothing. That's what the Democratic Party has, it's zero. Who's buying crack paintings?

• 35:44Speaker 06

  I'm just gonna push back a little bit, I'm not gonna defend Hunter or Joe Biden. But I'll just ask this question, is it such a bad thing that they're broke? In the day of age of that everybody's enriching themselves, selling stock, getting rich, getting rich off the government, you come in, you're broke, next thing you leave, you're leaving, you're worth $100 million. You're telling me this guy's been in politics for 50 years and he's broke? So there's a lot of things we can say about this.

• 36:05Speaker 04

  Not that he didn't try.

• 36:05Speaker 01

  But let me say this, I like what Humberto said today, and I want to give a quick shout out to him. I like what he said today. He said, you know, there's a part where he says Don Jr. made a billion dollars. I don't know if you guys have that clip or not, if you want to, is this the clip of Don Jr. making a billion dollars? If it has, just play the clip, watch this.

• 36:22Speaker 09

  In the last 500 days of this administration, Don Jr.'s company has made, has taken in over $3.4 billion in Department of Defense contracts. He got a $640 million loan pushed through by the White House, the largest single loan to any private company ever given out by the Department of Defense. And that's just a fraction of it. Forget about what they've done with cryptocurrency now, which is a bank in which they are able to go and launder their money. It is an abomination, and that doesn't even include what Jared is doing and Ivanka are doing. He gets paid over $100 million in fees by the Saudis, the Saudis alone,

• 37:04Speaker 09

  for a $6.5 billion fund that he controls, which is all Gulf State money. And he is our unelected, unappointed emissary to the Middle East for war that nobody asked for. It is absurd, it is literally absurd.

• 37:21Speaker 01

  Not nobody.

• 37:22Speaker 09

  Well, that's true, Bibi Netanyahu asked for it, and he was 100%.

• 37:26Speaker 08

  Your father, your father, among every other Democrat, excuse me, every Democrat said Iran can't have nuclear weapons.

• 37:35Speaker 09

  And every single Democrat and every president said Jimmy Carter refused what the Israelis wanted. Refused what the Israelis wanted was to bomb Iran. Every single one of them. The only person who fell for it was Donald Trump.

• 37:48Speaker 08

  Yeah, true.

• 37:49Speaker 09

  Yeah.

• 37:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, so when you hear this exchange, and then Humberto says, the difference is that Trump's camp, they're business owners. So they're growing their business, they had business before, and their business dealings is doing better now. Of course, as a president, now, don't get me wrong, I will tell you, openly, I'm not a fan of these meme coins, I'm not a fan of this crypto stuff, I'm not a fan of any of that stuff. You know why? There's a story in here that says, what's gonna happen, that the moment Democrats own the majority, what their plans are next. I don't know if you saw that story or not.

• 38:26Speaker 02

  Launching all the investigations.

• 38:27Speaker 01

  Democrats put Trump's corruption front and center as they plan possible 2027 probes, political. Let me read, let me get this to you, and I'm gonna kind of tell you what I think's gonna be happening here, and how big of a mistake it could be. So Democrats haven't won the House majority yet, but top party leaders are already preparing an overnight campaign, oversight campaign targeting President Trump and his family and his administration. Should they flip the chamber in November, at the center, California Representative Robert Garcia poised to lead the Oversight Committee and Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin in line for Judiciary. Both are planning to use their potential families, gavels on controversies like Trump's acceptable of a Qatari jet

• 39:10Speaker 01

  for use as Air Force One and his family's massively profitable cryptocurrency investments.

• 39:16Speaker 01

  And both say they have a long list of administration officials to probe. The theme is deliberate put Trump's corruption front and center rather than relitigating the old impeachment grievances. Committee leaders say they're staying focused on the president and the family. Tom, I have a lot of thoughts on this. Do you think this is a good strategy? And do you think they're actually going to do that if they gain power?

• 39:36Speaker 07

  So if they gain power, the first thing they're going to do in, what's it, February 4th? We have the date. When they all get sworn in, right? When they all get sworn in and they officially have the gavels, as they say. So they'll get sworn in, have the gavels. Do I think they're going to do this for a year and a half going into the election because they want to win the election? Yeah. I don't think they can help themselves. I think this is where they're going to go. I don't think they give a damn about the average American voter. Honestly, American citizen, if they did, they wouldn't have the, set up the immigration that they did. And I think it's terrible because it's going to start a perpetual pendulum.

• 40:16Speaker 07

  Every one of our presidents is going to get investigated left, right, and center for anything they've done. You know, you burped without saying, excuse me, when you were in college, we're going to investigate that, you know? And then at the end of it, you know what's going to happen? They're all going to pardon their entire families and all these preemptive pardons. You know, Peru, how many of the last six presidents of Peru have been indicted for corruption and gone to jail?

• 40:44Speaker 01

  Peru?

• 40:45Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 40:46Speaker 01

  All of them.

• 40:47Speaker 07

  Six.

• 40:48Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 40:49Speaker 07

  So it's like, and I think, and I'm not being funny, Pat, we can look this up. I think we're heading toward that kind of a thing where suddenly the debate in the barber shop has been replaced by absolute, you know, anger at each other and absolute ire. And now we're going to have politics where it's a game of, okay, my turn. Ah, I got the house. I've got the committees. I've got the gavels. Okay, my turn. And we're going to go back and forth and back and forth. I think it's terrible. Lyndy, please.

• 41:16Speaker 04

  There's something that has never been said in this coverage and explains why they're doing this. As James Carver, in the spirit of James Carver, it's some money, stupid. These people are massively in debt. When I came out and said in 2024 that they were tens of millions in debt, they actually issued a press release saying that I was a liar. Turns out, months later, when they had to file the FEC report, guess what? They said they were $20 million in debt. I was telling the truth, obviously. And they are so in debt, I kid you not, they put their own headquarters up as collateral for a loan. They are hundreds of millions of dollars behind the Republican National Committee. These people desperately need money in advance of 2028. And that's where they're going to do this because otherwise their base will not give.

• 42:01Speaker 07

  That's the DNC.

• 42:02Speaker 04

  They are addicted to Trump. I don't know what they're going to do when Trump leaves the scene because frankly, Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance, they don't incite the same type of anger. And Orange Man Bad is their entire fundraising machine. You think that Kamala Harris is such a talent that she somehow managed to raise $2.5 billion in seven weeks? Let me tell you, no, I know the woman, she's not talented, she's a mid, all right? She's a mid. She raised 2.5 billion.

• 42:28Speaker 07

  What's a mid mean?

• 42:29Speaker 02

  She's, she's eh.

• 42:30Speaker 04

  She's like eh.

• 42:31Speaker 02

  She's an average. Oh, yeah, okay. I think she's lower than mid, but yeah, please go ahead.

• 42:34Speaker 04

  I was being generous.

• 42:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're being very generous.

• 42:36Speaker 04

  Very nice today. Today I'm feeling generous.

• 42:38Speaker 07

  Keep going, I'm with you on this, especially what Tim brought from US subsidy money that funneled right to her campaign.

• 42:44Speaker 04

  Exactly. And now they're hurting because USAID has been gutted.

• 42:48Speaker 07

  Oh, they shut it down?

• 42:49Speaker 04

  Well, I mean.

• 42:50Speaker 07

  Oh, wow, whoops.

• 42:51Speaker 04

  Well, you know, Trump, Trump, you know, did the entire country a service by slicing that funding. But these people are desperate for money and Ken Martin right now is a clown. The chair of the Democratic National Committee is a clown. And after I exposed the celebrity payments to people like Beyonce and Cardi B, the big donors are not giving. There are donors behind the scenes who are still calling me saying, we still have no answers for why they spent $350,000 a night slapping Kamala Harris's mug on Las Vegas Sphere, thinking that was a good idea. How many votes do you think that got her? And frankly, I think negative votes because people obviously saw through that. But they, these people have nothing without Trump. They're addicted to him.

• 43:36Speaker 04

  They pretend to hate him, but they're actually hooked on him.

• 43:38Speaker 01

  Let me ask you a question. So for me, when I go to a restaurant, let's just say it's a restaurant I love. Like I went to a restaurant the other day, I won't say the order of what I ordered, but I didn't like it.

• 43:49Speaker 04

  Casa de Angelo?

• 43:50Speaker 01

  Well, I won't say what I ordered because if I do, people will know what restaurant it is. But it wasn't good. And I would score a three out of a 10. And it's usually at least an eight. But I'll forgive them and I'll go back because it's one time. But what happens to donors, major donors on the Democratic Party, when they give a half a million, or they give a million, or they give 2 million, or they give real money, or Robert, you know, Downey Jr. hosting a meeting and then all of a sudden it's like, what the hell happened? And he writes the op ed, you know which one I'm talking about. How often is there buyer's remorse in raising money and going to these rich billionaire, millionaire, celebrity Democrats?

• 44:32Speaker 01

  How often is there buyer's remorse and saying, I'm not doing it next time?

• 44:36Speaker 04

  They all have that right now. They're like you, super wealthy. They view things as a business proposition. They're not donating because they're generous or they care about our country. They don't give a blank card or, they don't care. It's about their company and it's about who can serve their interests the best. Let me tell you, the going rate for an ambassadorship nowadays is you either raise 10 million or give one to 2 million. There's a difference between giving and raising, you know what I mean? Like you can personally write a check for 2 million and that's about the equivalent of raising 10 million of somebody else's.

• 45:07Speaker 01

  Because it's your own money.

• 45:08Speaker 04

  It's your own money. And there's actually abbreviation for that. It's OPM.

• 45:11Speaker 01

  Other people's money.

• 45:13Speaker 04

  Do not ever use your own money. Always raise OPM.

• 45:17Speaker 07

  Let me take that note.

• 45:18Speaker 04

  I mean, that's just good business sense in every sphere of life.

• 45:21Speaker 01

  Right.

• 45:22Speaker 04

  But these people, a lot of them, you know, I'm in, you know, I'm in touch with Hollywood actors and actresses. George Clooney was the one who went public and said.

• 45:30Speaker 01

  I said Robert Downey Jr. I meant to say George Clooney, my apologies.

• 45:33Speaker 04

  He said that getting involved in politics was one of the biggest miscalculations of his life.

• 45:40Speaker 01

  He said that.

• 45:41Speaker 04

  Jennifer Lawrence said, I finally realized that Americans don't care about celebrity endorsements. So I'm not going to say.

• 45:48Speaker 01

  When did she say that?

• 45:49Speaker 04

  She said that.

• 45:50Speaker 01

  Recently, really?

• 45:51Speaker 04

  In the past year, absolutely.

• 45:52Speaker 01

  Phenomenal, okay, good for her.

• 45:53Speaker 04

  These celebrities are finally realizing.

• 45:54Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 45:55Speaker 04

  That they have no power and they've become laughing stocks.

• 45:57Speaker 02

  Taylor Swift was one of the main, you would think, I always remember we were kind of, I was.

• 46:01Speaker 01

  Oh, it's going to make a shift, it's going to be this.

• 46:02Speaker 02

  Oh, it's going to be a shift. And then it's like, yo, if Taylor Swift.

• 46:04Speaker 01

  Negative, 149,000 votes or whatever it was, yeah.

• 46:06Speaker 02

  Negative. If Taylor Swift can't even move the needle that much in a positive direction, you're absolutely right, it doesn't matter at all. Like nobody cares about you. Just give us, make the movies. Make me laugh, make me cry.

• 46:18Speaker 04

  Have you heard her MAGA-coded music recently? I want to have kids, I want to, you know.

• 46:22Speaker 02

  Oh, weird.

• 46:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. She's definitely changed a lot.

• 46:25Speaker 01

  Tom, your thoughts on this? And then we'll move on.

• 46:27Speaker 07

  This has been going on for a while and God rest their souls, but I used to love to listen to Hunter S. Thompson and P.G. O'Rourke debate. Remember P.G. O'Rourke, conservative libertarian, then Hunter S. Thompson? Hunter S. Thompson said, if you're trying to get kids to vote with celebrities and musicians, you're making a mistake. We put so much effort into rock the vote because we wanted to go after Bush, but the little bastards didn't know they were supposed to go home and do something about it. And he said, they held all these concerts with Bruce Springsteen and everything and it was so funny. I'll say it again. He goes, those little bastards didn't know they were supposed to go home and do something about it. And it's because celebrity largely doesn't work because celebrity is not purpose, it's

• 47:12Speaker 07

  not vision, it's not visceral.

• 47:13Speaker 01

  Right.

• 47:14Speaker 07

  It's not visceral because if you had a celebrity that had been through something horrible, now you have visceral, you have vision, you have connection, you have, oh my gosh, I could see this, we need to fix this. Celebrity with cancer, things like that, there's believability.

• 47:26Speaker 01

  Well, the good news there is, who typically gets celebrities? The left or the right?

• 47:30Speaker 07

  The left, that's what I'm saying. It's actually good. Remember, remember the Taylor Swift actually had a negative effect in certain swing states.

• 47:38Speaker 01

  She did, yeah.

• 47:39Speaker 07

  Had a negative effect in Georgia.

• 47:40Speaker 01

  I remember it was minus 149 is the number I remember. Beyonce showed up, they got everybody.

• 47:44Speaker 02

  Wait, you mean, Tom, you mean to tell me you of all people, Megan Thee Stallion twerking for Kamala's rally didn't do nothing? You didn't vote Kamala?

• 47:52Speaker 07

  Well, I had a Jones for Megan, but I'm telling you, it just didn't get to the voting booth.

• 47:57Speaker 02

  Like think about it, twerking in front of everybody, they're like, people are going to go out and vote because of that. They're so out of touch, they're so out of touch, it's insane. It drives me crazy.

• 48:06Speaker 04

  By the way, Beyonce, to be clear, she showed up but did not perform, not once.

• 48:11Speaker 02

  Nope.

• 48:12Speaker 04

  But twice.

• 48:13Speaker 02

  Yes, and got paid.

• 48:14Speaker 04

  They effed up twice.

• 48:15Speaker 07

  And they paid her.

• 48:16Speaker 04

  And they paid her.

• 48:17Speaker 01

  50 million, whatever the number was.

• 48:18Speaker 04

  And remember Cardi B struggling to read English?

• 48:19Speaker 02

  Oh my God.

• 48:20Speaker 07

  What you talking about? Lyndy Lee, you don't even know what you're talking about.

• 48:24Speaker 04

  I have to say, I enjoy, I mean, I'm going to stop right there, but like Jennifer Lopez breaking out in tears.

• 48:30Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 48:31Speaker 04

  These people were clowns. They undermined their own celebrity, their own brand by going out there.

• 48:36Speaker 07

  The thing, I remember the Megan Thee Stallion thing and I remember her coming out on stage and thinking, oh, what's Megan Stallion going to do? Twerk.

• 48:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:45Speaker 07

  Work. You know what would have been a better idea? Giving an actual speech, saying, hey, here are my positions, this is why I'm voting for Kamala. And then people would have been like, wow, what a, what a delightful lady, she actually had something to say. She's not an idiot.

• 48:57Speaker 02

  But, but.

• 48:58Speaker 07

  But they use them as just political pawns and it backfired.

• 49:01Speaker 04

  There's a reason why they, I have to say this, there's a reason why they use them, guys.

• 49:05Speaker 01

  Well, then let me ask, let me ask you, you think a Nicki Minaj works for the right?

• 49:09Speaker 07

  Yes, because it's counterintuitive.

• 49:11Speaker 04

  Exactly, the novelty factor. But guys, this is something that they haven't reported. The reason why they needed the celebrities there is Kamala couldn't draw a crowd. In the primary, in.

• 49:21Speaker 07

  She can't move merch.

• 49:22Speaker 04

  She can't, she can't. And during the primary, I remember speaking with party leadership and everyone is freaking out. I even have a photo. Joe Biden couldn't get like five people there. So we had to move the back wall of buildings to push everyone together to make it seem like the room was full. And the cameras are trained to the front row, not to the back, to make sure that it seemed like that people were actually there. So they overlearned the lesson. That's why they got people like Christina Aguilera and Usher to fill up the room, to get them out first.

• 49:55Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 49:56Speaker 04

  And they made a mistake of. They made the mistake of having Beyonce come out at her Texas rally first because as soon as she did, everyone started pouring.

• 50:05Speaker 06

  And by the way, isn't this ultimately a good thing? Meaning you could throw all the crap at the wall and it still doesn't.

• 50:11Speaker 01

  But remember, remember that this conversation was prompted by the corruption. Are they gonna go after him? Here's what I think is gonna happen. I hope they do. There's two things that's gonna happen. Remember what happened when they did.

• 50:22Speaker 06

  You're talking about go after Biden?

• 50:24Speaker 01

  I hope they go after Trump's family again.

• 50:27Speaker 06

  Trump's.

• 50:27Speaker 01

  I hope they do. I hope they do. This is different.

• 50:31Speaker 06

  Gotcha.

• 50:31Speaker 01

  Yesterday, I'm having a conversation with Van Jones and I told him, I said, listen, the more the DNC gets socialist to be the face, the more Republicans are winning. Americans are not socialist. Most Democrats are not socialist. They're pro-choice, they're no war, they're, they're, they're a very different, they're confused lately, like even some of them are like Jews are like, wait a minute, what's happening? A lot of, most Jews are Democrats, not like they're Republicans, I don't know what the percentage is.

• 50:59Speaker 06

  It was like two thirds.

• 51:00Speaker 01

  But 64%, yeah, 64% of Jews. But it's, so now Democrats have to sit there and realize, who are you losing? So if they go after Trump's family, which I think they will, number one, I think it's gonna give them even more rigor, more face, and then Eric Trump, that one time he was on Cuomo, and Cuomo called him out, and Eric just went, I was 111 times and no one's ever been in America. Let me tell you what this does. Crazy prediction. If they go after Trump's family, I think Eric Trump will suddenly move up on the list of presidential candidates.

• 51:38Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 51:39Speaker 01

  I think if they go, again, I haven't said this, if they go after Trump's family, Eric Trump's the number one candidate in the Trump family to run for office more than Don Jr., and I like Don Jr., Eric goes. Stable wife, solid wife, Laura's a monster, Laura's an incre, she could be a, she is like a first lady type. I think Eric, if they do that, they're handing Eric Trump the presidency. I'm just telling you, I think Eric Trump, let me just finish my thoughts. So that's one. Number two, I will say the other part, the counter argument to this, is the following. They're also giving, the Trump family is giving enough argument for the left to say, hey, you're using favors to do this. So they also have to be careful.

• 52:24Speaker 01

  You know, this whole thing about being untouchable, sometimes when you win, win, win, win, win, you think you're untouchable and you train less. And, and you're like, I don't need to train for Buster Douglas, who is he, I'm Mike Tyson. Boom, his mother passed away 40 days ago, he knocks you out, you're no longer Mike Tyson, no one fears you anymore because they know after six, seven, eight rounds, you can't hang, you were exposed. So I, I hope that level of cockiness doesn't go to a point of being untouchable, cuz that can backfire on you no matter who you are. Yesterday, I watched the movie, The Brink of War, Angel Studios got like six, seven movies that's coming out. These guys are stacked with a massive pipeline of movies with phenomenal actors, I was so impressed with the lineup they had. This was a story between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev that met in Iceland, I want to say,

• 53:09Speaker 01

  and they're going back and forth in the negotiation of the war, they're trying to prevent the war. You know, you could tell that moment of you're not untouchable. So I hope the Trump family's not going with this untouchable thing, cuz that's not gonna end well. And then, last but not least, I'll add this to it, if they do, Biden's handed Trump the biggest thing that I wish they wouldn't have done, which is what? They're gonna self pardon the entire family. They're gonna be giving away preemptive pardons to the family, left and right, and guess what they can say? Anything they want and Democrats can't say anything. You know what clip's gonna go viral? All the DNC Democrat pundits that were like, what's the big deal? What's the big deal?

• 53:52Speaker 01

  All of those clips of the Biden family giving these pardons to their own families, gonna replay, it's gonna be the most viral clip the day Trump's, matter of fact, if Trump's camp, and you know they're ready on the marketing side, they've already cut up, their editors have already cut up all the clips, and they're waiting for the day when they're gonna self pardon everybody? That clip's gonna drop so quickly, people are gonna be like, how quickly did you cut this? Trust me, we've been waiting for this for 18 months, cuz we know this was gonna happen. So to me, if they do go after Trump, that Eric Trump name, where is he on the list, by the way? Is he anywhere on the list?

• 54:26Speaker 06

  Yeah, he's right in the middle.

• 54:27Speaker 01

  By the way, that 0.3% will be 4, 5, 10% in no time. You'll see. If they go after Trump's family, so to the DNC and the leftists, if you want Eric Trump as your next president in the next few years, maybe 2028, maybe 2032, maybe 2036, please go after Trump's family, go ahead and do so. See what happens to you. You just officially produced a George W. Bush and his name is Eric Trump. He'll be your president in the next four to eight years. Cut this clip and keep it for the future. When we talk about this, it'll be the dumbest mistake Democrats make.

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• 56:14Speaker 06

  And they're still gonna make it.

• 56:15Speaker 01

  And they're still gonna do it. And they're still gonna do it. It's here. Hey, silver platter, Mr. Eric Trump, congratulations, you're our 49th president, you're our 48th president, watch when this takes place. By the way, both him and Don Jr. are formidable, so things can change.

• 56:30Speaker 06

  Of course.

• 56:31Speaker 01

  Cuz you know, people have to see a stable wife that's a little bit long-term, and he's kinda working through it. Eric's wife is super, we know who she is.

• 56:39Speaker 06

  And you're right, but you don't remember that photo that Eric is sitting there with a Trump 2028 hat? It's like, come on, bro, just little, little breadcrumbs.

• 56:48Speaker 01

  People are not watching Eric, let me tell you.

• 56:51Speaker 06

  He's quiet, he's running the company.

• 56:52Speaker 01

  He was there at the 250 race, he's smooth, he's good, he's battle tested, he's a stud. I saw his high school pictures the other day, I'm like, this guy was a little bit of a, you know, you could tell he was a troublemaker, he has that look in it. Can you pull up Eric Trump's high school picture? You can tell this guy was like, you know, you know, he has his own thing as well that he wants, can you pull it up? Let me see what he looks like, high school photo? There's a couple rebellious pictures, yeah, top left, not that one, there was another one I saw. Both of them, Don Jr., you know, had a little bit of a flair, but we'll see, we'll see.

• 57:23Speaker 06

  Well, I think ultimately what you're saying is like what Justin Timberlake said, what goes around, comes around. Oh, I love that song. I think what they're gonna, what they're gonna do is, is.

• 57:29Speaker 01

  He works out to it.

• 57:30Speaker 06

  That's what goes around, goes around. But, well, I'll ask you is this, and I'm not with you on the Eric Trump thing, I think he's a formidable guy, I think Rubio's head and shoulders the best candidate we've seen in decades, but that's, that's for neither here nor there.

• 57:43Speaker 01

  Who is more for, who?

• 57:44Speaker 06

  Rubio. I think he's the best candidate with the Republicans I've seen in decades.

• 57:48Speaker 01

  I don't disagree with you. And by the way, I don't think Trump's father believes 2028 is the right time for Eric. I will tell you as an advisor, I am not, but if I was an advisor, we've got a lot of weird calls this weekend, very weird calls this weekend of trying to coordinate a meeting between a president and, yes, but if I was an advisor, I would tell Eric, Eric, get in there. Let them see you.

• 58:14Speaker 06

  Oh, God.

• 58:15Speaker 01

  Get in there, let them see you. Similar to how the president ran in all four. When did the president run for president? Did he run in 2000 or 2004? Can you pull up the first time President Trump ran for office?

• 58:25Speaker 06

  He flirted a lot with it.

• 58:26Speaker 01

  No, no, but he ran, no, I think he, what, what's the first, did he run, like, did he say he's running 2000, right? Is that what it was? Yeah, first president run was in 2000. I say do it, Eric, and do it for a few months. I say you go and just scare the shit out of them. I'm telling you, and I, and I know they're gonna go after the corruption. And so this is the type of stuff that, sometimes you watch your enemies and, and you sit there and you say, you're really dumb.

• 58:54Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 58:55Speaker 01

  You're just, you're just really, really dumb. Please make this dumb mistake against me, I'm begging you. You don't think Trump's family is sitting there saying, please make that mistake?

• 59:04Speaker 06

  Well, it's almost like we know where the movie's gonna end, he's gonna part of himself at the end, so it's like, we, we know the ending here.

• 59:09Speaker 01

  You know how confident I am with this?

• 59:11Speaker 06

  Really?

• 59:12Speaker 01

  The, the way.

• 59:13Speaker 06

  Know something we don't know, so.

• 59:14Speaker 01

  I'm not gonna tell you, I know something I don't know, all I'm saying to you is.

• 59:16Speaker 06

  I can't confirm or deny.

• 59:17Speaker 01

  No, no, no, but in this part, I've no, I've had no conversation with, this thought just came out, I don't have notes prepared for the Eric Trump thing. If they go and try to get corruption, you have what happened with Bush Senior and GW, you're gonna have Eric Trump for, you have to hear the word Trump for.

• 59:38Speaker 02

  Oh my god, oh, he's gonna be in the back row.

• 59:41Speaker 07

  I only have one objection to what you're saying. You keep using the word if as if it's uncertainty.

• 59:45Speaker 01

  It's just definitely gonna happen.

• 59:46Speaker 07

  It's going to happen.

• 59:47Speaker 01

  Well, you're hoping a Carville, a somebody on the Nancy, somebody's gonna be like, let's move on with Trump and not give that name anymore. They can't.

• 59:56Speaker 04

  They are addicted. Their entire industry is hinged on Trump. It's not just politics. It's the MSNBC, CNN, entire apparatus, the New York Times, Washington Post, they don't have subscriptions without this man.

• 1:00:10Speaker 07

  Right.

• 1:00:10Speaker 04

  They don't have eyeballs without him. They need him and his family, anything with his last name. And I have to tell you guys, in 2024, one reason why they didn't work so hard during the primary with Biden is they were counting on Trump going to prison. They didn't work so hard to find a successor for Biden because they figured the lawfare would work.

• 1:00:30Speaker 02

  Or the assassination attempt.

• 1:00:32Speaker 04

  Well, I mean.

• 1:00:33Speaker 02

  I'm just saying, they wanted to kill him, they tried to, lawfare, they did everything to, yeah, please continue.

• 1:00:37Speaker 04

  No, no, no, you're right. You're right.

• 1:00:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, they're gonna kill him too.

• 1:00:39Speaker 04

  So, they didn't even bother finding a successor. What's the point? Because, you know, Trump's either gonna be gone one way or another, right?

• 1:00:45Speaker 02

  One or one way or another, great freaking money.

• 1:00:47Speaker 07

  But you can't, I think all of this is correct, but there's something I want to point out. I've been watching the money. On the national level, the national committee levels, RNC has got so much more money than DNC. DNC is actually in debt, except for an $18 million slide that they pushed across in Q2. The Republicans have more in the war chest on the National Committee for the, you know, RNCCC, which is the congressional committee. They have more than the Dems, they have more than Dems for SEM. But you know what happened in Q2 of 2026 that just ended, a month ago? ActBlue raised $586 million, which is the largest quarter ActBlue ever had with an average gift of $39.

• 1:01:31Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:01:31Speaker 07

  So, the average people that are out there giving, and you know what the two triggers were there?

• 1:01:37Speaker 02

  Trump.

• 1:01:38Speaker 07

  War, no, no, war, economy. They raise that money on war economy. You're worse off, and we're spending money on the war, you're worse off spending money on the war. Sure, there was some orange man bad in there, but I think you can't discount what's going on at the grassroots level with the American voter. Pat, I defer to your point about the, it's gonna be a bad thing. If they want to energize the other way, they have it on war, they have it on economy. If they turn it into investigations, you know what they do? It's almost like giving up that advantage you got right now, in my humble opinion.

• 1:02:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, okay, we'll go to the next story and we'll see what happened here. We could be totally wrong, but I'm just saying, their reputation is for going after them, and I think they will, and let's see what happens. By the way, for the people that, for the people that love political stories and they really are watching closely on what's going on with, you know, Reagan and Gorbachev, go watch that movie, The Brink of a War. I took my son, my oldest, my youngest went and watched Spider-Man for the second time. I actually suggest watching this. I actually really like, what's the guy's name, Jeff Daniels, Jeff Bridges? Is it Jeff Daniels? He's the guy from that news show, whatever it was.

• 1:02:45Speaker 04

  He's from the show Newsroom.

• 1:02:46Speaker 01

  Newsroom, that's what it was, that one clip that went viral. He crushed it, it was great. And I learned about George Schultz, who was the Secretary of State for Reagan.

• 1:02:56Speaker 04

  Also one of the biggest funders of Elizabeth Holmes.

• 1:02:58Speaker 01

  Was he?

• 1:02:59Speaker 04

  The blood test company.

• 1:03:01Speaker 01

  Very, very interesting.

• 1:03:02Speaker 02

  Ex-Secretary of State on a biotech board. Yeah, that makes sense.

• 1:03:06Speaker 01

  Well, you know, he died five years ago at 100 years old. This guy was a former Princeton grad. He says he got a tattoo of, he's such a proud Princeton guy, they got a tattoo on a place that nobody ever saw. And he went to MIT, got his PhD there, then he became a professor. Then he went and, he was in the Marines, then he went and became a CEO, then he became eventually the Secretary of State. So, pretty heavyweight guy.

• 1:03:26Speaker 04

  You know who blew the whistle?

• 1:03:27Speaker 02

  That tattoo that nobody ever saw.

• 1:03:29Speaker 01

  Kind of like, yeah, you can see Roger Stone's tattoo, but you couldn't see this guy's tattoo. Let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get to has to do with jobs. And by the way, I still want to go into Sam Piker, Charlie Kirk, the Trump tweet with Tucker. We got a bunch of things to get into. But let me get into this one. Ghost jobs. Why is this important? People who are looking for jobs, I didn't know what this concept was until, you know, we started seeing more this being talked about. Ghost job ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them. So, this is companies that want to show to the world that we're hiring so many people, but because we're hiring so many people, you know, look at us, we have so many job openings, but they're fake job openings. So, let me read this to you, Tom, and then I'm gonna come to you.

• 1:04:12Speaker 01

  This is a Wall Street Journal story that's out there. Okay. "The cycle of heartbreak is familiar to job seekers. A great ad, a customized cover letter, nothing but nothing. But in many of these, as many as one in five cases, the company never intended to fill the opening. Months later, the ad is still up, the job remains a phantom. Ghost jobs are a long time frustration, and that anger is now spilling into state legislators. Lawmakers in New York and Pennsylvania proposed bills this year requiring employers to list hiring timelines and removing ads once roles are filled. And Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Senate candidate, opened investigations to LinkedIn last month, saying it advertised and profited from fake jobs. When people are putting the time and effort into applying,

• 1:04:54Speaker 01

  there's a reasonable expectation that there's a job out there, said Pennsylvania State Representative Jim Prokopiac." Tom, why is this such an important story?

• 1:05:05Speaker 07

  So, this is PR spin, and this is why it's important. I'll make this really, really quick. When you advertise jobs, first of all, Vinny, what makes a stock go up? Growth and profits, right?

• 1:05:15Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:05:15Speaker 07

  You are, man, we're growing. You hear the word guidance. Every four times a year, you hear all the stories, MSNBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Bloomberg, everywhere. Guidance. Company guides growth in the future. Company guidance is positive. Company guidance on this. One of the ways you guide on growth, you never want to say things with your lips. Sometimes you let other things say it. Well, guess what? The number of jobs that are open is one of the ways that analysts used to gauge growth for companies. So, you're putting external PR out there, showing a bunch of open jobs. Adam and Tom, the analyst goes, well, we have what the CEO said, Adam, but have you seen the number of jobs? My gosh, or look at the number of sales jobs, look at the number of engineering jobs.

• 1:05:59Speaker 07

  My goodness, they must be growing. We add that to our calculus when we say, we're gonna give the Vinny Co. a buy rating. Actually, no, we'll just go accumulate it. Adam says, no, no, no, no, no, strong buy rating. So, number one, it's manipulative PR that analysts are using. Number two, they use it in a nefarious way to create employee morale. They lay off a bunch of people, which the stock market loves because it reduces OpEx. And then they say, but it's different jobs we need and we're posting them. So, the jobs get posted, so now the employee, it's used as a retention tool because you feel like you're working your butt off, but then you say, well, no, no, they're gonna be hiring more people. We're gonna split the department in half, we're gonna do all this.

• 1:06:39Speaker 07

  Second, and then lastly, LinkedIn comes to them and says, hey, you want these job posts to look legitimate? Yeah, okay, 400 per post per month, we'll take care of it. And that's the money that goes into LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the unwitting or winning partner to legitimize all the postings that are out there and show the growth and things that are going on. And so, now you've actually got, the focus of this article is going the wrong way, Pat. The focus of the article was saying, oh, and the job seeker pays for all of it. With what? Disappointment. They put in for a job, there's no job there. Nobody responds to them. How is a job seeker paying for it?

• 1:07:20Speaker 07

  No, no, no, no, no. The shareholders are paying for it, of people, the retail buyers of stock that are buying it, and one of the perceptions they have is that there's growth based on these, and I agree that it should be regulated.

• 1:07:35Speaker 01

  Well, a couple of things here. We just got on a call with LinkedIn. We've been doing business with LinkedIn for a long time. They're one of the best players in the game. There's some other competitors out there. There is a lot of money on the backend of how LinkedIn's making money right now. I think Microsoft bought LinkedIn for like 17 to 30 million dollars. It's a 200 billion dollar enterprise right now. It's a 200 billion dollar enterprise right now. It's not even a question. But their business model's completely changed. It's not a social media site. It's these companies that have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not a multimillion dollar contract, because that's where you have, you have the opportunity to hire people. So, the cost is there. Number two, if you guys, one of our guys, Connor, right now, sent me a text, he says he applied for 97 jobs

• 1:08:16Speaker 01

  and received a response from three, and he got the job. He's been with us for three years, we love him. But, so that's a real thing, because for every one of these guys you hear on Jubilee, if you want to play this clip, I'm sure you guys remember this one guy on Jubilee. Can you play this, please? How about I introduce you and I give you a job? Would you move to Fort Lauderdale?

• 1:08:34Speaker 14

  Ooh, we have Florida. Sure, why not?

• 1:08:36Speaker 01

  Would you move to Fort Lauderdale?

• 1:08:37Speaker 14

  Sure, why not?

• 1:08:38Speaker 01

  How about you and I document this after this? You come, I do an interview with you and I give you a job. And let's see what you do 90 days later.

• 1:08:44Speaker 14

  Okay, let me, and I'll, I'll look up your company and all that kind of stuff and I'll see it.

• 1:08:48Speaker 01

  But you see what just happened right there?

• 1:08:49Speaker 14

  Regardless, my-

• 1:08:49Speaker 01

  Watch what you just did.

• 1:08:50Speaker 14

  Sure.

• 1:08:51Speaker 01

  You just said you applied to 477 companies who's not gone back to you.

• 1:08:56Speaker 14

  Yeah.

• 1:08:57Speaker 01

  A business owner who's hiring aggressively just made an offer to you. You said you're willing to move. Then you said, I'll look at it. You became selective.

• 1:09:05Speaker 14

  I didn't say, I'll look at it if you'd let me finish my sentence.

• 1:09:08Speaker 01

  I want to hear it.

• 1:09:09Speaker 14

  I would like to look into your company to see exactly what you guys do.

• 1:09:13Speaker 01

  You would like to-

• 1:09:14Speaker 14

  Because I don't know what you guys do. So as far as I'm concerned, I may be wasting my time going, if you guys are a finance company, if you guys are a bank or something like that.

• 1:09:22Speaker 01

  You guys believe in capitalism or to love America?

• 1:09:24Speaker 14

  So even interviewing me would be a moot point.

• 1:09:27Speaker 01

  What if I gave you a job, period, to work 80 hours a week? Would you take it? And I paid you a reasonable wage?

• 1:09:32Speaker 14

  Are we talking a livable wage or a reasonable wage? And whose version of reasonable are we talking about? Your version of reasonable or my version of reasonable?

• 1:09:39Speaker 01

  So now for me, what I'm noticing from you is-

• 1:09:42Speaker 14

  Is I need specifics?

• 1:09:43Speaker 01

  No, no, not necessarily. No, most of the people I hired need specifics. The difference is I'm trying to hire them. In this instance, you're trying to get a job and you're being selective. It's going to work against you.

• 1:09:53Speaker 14

  I mean, I'm not trying to get a job. Originally, I was trying to ask you where the moral fell.

• 1:09:58Speaker 01

  You're fired. And he was unemployed. But you know what's, you know what's bad? Here's what's bad. He makes those people who are truly unemployed trying to look for a job, he makes them look bad. And this is not America. Just so you know, the same way this ghost, what do you call it? Ghost job ads are not all companies. This is 5% of companies that are doing it. This is not 100% of companies. 5% of Americas like him, 5, 10% of Americas like him. 5 to 10% of companies are like the ghost job. Because they have to pay a lot of them. If you, I'm paying these LinkedIn companies hundreds of thousands of, of course, you're not going to put fake ads. Like, why would you do that? It's a cost every single time you do it. Take those people out.

• 1:10:42Speaker 01

  The ones that are making the rest look bad. The people in the middle, they're looking for jobs. There's a story that follows up saying nearly 25% of US workers are functionally unemployed. Economic analysis says, this is CBS News. What does functionally unemployed mean? I'll have Tom explain it to you in a minute, but let me just read this to you. The US job market is less robust than it looks. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in July. Well within the healthy range, but the metric only counts for people over 16 without a job who are actively looking. An imprecise picture. So again, remember, they're trying to bash Trump's economy as well. So they're going to write something like this, but a part of it is real. Check this out. The true rate of unemployment captures the functionally unemployed,

• 1:11:26Speaker 01

  those out of work and looking, plus people in voluntary work in part-time, and those earning poverty level wages, which is what? Under 26,000 a year before taxes. By that measure, functionally unemployment has climbed four straight months and stood at 24.9% in July, down from 25.2%. We shouldn't read too much into a single month, but four months begin to tell a story. Tom, is this a concern when you see numbers like this?

• 1:11:50Speaker 10

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• 1:13:01Speaker 07

  Um, yeah. It means that the labor market is not as, as hot or as we think it is. We already know that, um, right now, that, that layoffs have led to more corporate efficiencies. So when you look at the K-shaped economy, you've got the stock market with much more efficient companies in terms of profits per employee in certain sectors. And you've got, you know, instead of the magnificent seven, now we've got, you know, the AI crowd driving it. But what, what this talks about, functionally unemployed, talks about those people that are out of work, plus people that are voluntarily working part-time

• 1:13:44Speaker 07

  away from their full-time capabilities. So it'd be like, Vinny, like you're an accountant and you work part-time for a tax prep company because you can't find a full-time accountant role. We would call you functionally unemployed. You would take a full-time accounting role if you could find one in your town and you're like, crap, I can't. So you take like a part-time seasonal tax prep role for now. Additionally, they, they include the poverty level wages. Well, you know, I have a hard time with that one because what they do is, you know, sometimes, you know, Dems are very, very eager and to, to count, you know, teenagers. And it's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, but they're not-

• 1:14:22Speaker 01

  They don't do that under Biden, but they'll do it under Republican. I get that. But, but, but the reality of it is, people are having a hard time with affordability right now. We can't, we can't hide around that, Tom. That, that is really happening. They, they got, they got to find a way to address that, Lindy. Go for it.

• 1:14:36Speaker 04

  I want to say I have to give a plug here from Minect. There have been a number of people who've reached out to me on Minect for this very reason. They tell me they're applying for jobs on LinkedIn or through the company websites and they can't hear back. They don't hear back for months. I have one guy, one dear friend on Minect. His name is Matt and he's applied to hundreds of jobs and has never heard back. But he said, you know, I reached out to you. I've written him recommendation letters. I got him jobs. I've opened doors. This is all through Minect. Because you know you're actually going to hear back.

• 1:15:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, and by the way, one of the things about Lindy, shout out to Lindy. Lindy is phenomenal on Minect. 8,629 conversations she's had on Minect. So anybody watching this that wants to Minect with Lindy, send her a message. She is so active. She's got hundreds of conversations with people.

• 1:15:24Speaker 04

  I love you guys so much. I deeply care about you like my family. You guys are the best, I have to say.

• 1:15:29Speaker 01

  And, and a quick shout out to Vinny. He just crossed 10,000 Minects. He's in the 10,000 club. The award's going to go to her.

• 1:15:36Speaker 01

  All right, okay.

• 1:15:38Speaker 06

  I was just going to add one thing.

• 1:15:39Speaker 01

  Go ahead.

• 1:15:39Speaker 06

  I think there's one component that we, we should add. Looking for a job is a deeply emotional thing, especially if you don't have one. Like, it reminds me of the scene of Friday when he says, you know, you messing with my money is like messing with my emotions. He's like, I don't like me messing with my money or my emotions. So when you can't find a job and you're searching out there and you're getting upset, what, speaking of Minect, I, I got back to Mac, Minects yesterday. One was the most optimistic, future looks bright message. I'm figuring it out. I got this. This is what I'm doing. This is what I'm doing. And the next message was like, life sucks, life's tough, I can't figure it out. The economy, the economy. And I told him, buddy, your message just came at the wrong time. Because I just told this guy, amazing, your optimism. And now you're just like wallowing in self pity.

• 1:16:23Speaker 06

  Nobody's going to feel bad for you, especially as a dude. So what I've realized is, when it comes to getting a job, it's not where you start, it's where you finish. Whatever you're looking for, find a job. Get a part-time job. Get experience. Get an internship. That's only temporarily. At the end of the day, if you actually have what it takes and you have the skills to pay the bills, you'll keep moving up. You'll keep finding the right thing. I was a jack of all, all trades until I was 27. Broke as hell, but I made connections and relationships that still serve me. So focus on what you can do, not what you can't do.

• 1:16:52Speaker 01

  I agree. I think that's a good message for people to consider as they're going through it. Now, let's talk about something. Earlier, we talked about, you know, the poly market story, you know, where, no, the ghost job posting. And you heard Ken Paxton talk about the fact that, hey, if you do that in the state of Texas, they're going to come after you. You can't post things like this. Mark Cuban is on Kara Swisher and she's being interviewed. And then they talk about two different things. One, they talk about the wall tax in the state of California. Then they bring up Talarico. And then the audience is like, make up your mind, Mark. Where are you at with this? And Mark actually, one thing about Mark, he responded to a lot of the criticism on X, which maybe we'll read some of them. But here's how Mark switched within seconds from California's bad to Talarico's great. Go ahead.

• 1:17:36Speaker 15

  My daughter just graduated from college and she was asking about living in LA. I'm like, you can't afford it, right? The taxes are insane. But going back just to the billionaire stuff, I think it's ridiculous. I think it's going to cost them more. They'll say, and look, people say, well, you're a billionaire, right? Well, look, you're already getting people moving. You're getting companies moving. You could be cutting off your nose to slice your face. Everybody wants my money. And, you know, fortunately, usually they say they'll eat me last. James Talarico, let's go. Oh, okay, tell me. Yeah, I'm a big fan. I'm a huge fan. Yeah, I know you are. Oh, God. I think he's honest. He's trustworthy. He cares. What do you say then to those red voters? Do what's best for the state of Texas. Do what's best for your, your wallet. Do what's best for you, right?

• 1:18:19Speaker 15

  There's nobody in, the same thing, my, my buddy who voted for Trump in 2016, I say the same thing to all these voters. You've been voting for Republicans all these years. What have they done for you?

• 1:18:30Speaker 01

  Tom, thoughts?

• 1:18:31Speaker 06

  Same thing could be said for both parties.

• 1:18:32Speaker 07

  So, yeah, I don't understand the Talarico part. Talarico, there is polling that came out that showed that he was struggling with black voters. And the DNC, for Texas DNC, was saying, we think that this election is going to hinge to the over-index of the black voters. Because Hispanics are becoming increasingly conservative. Not a majority conservative, but increasingly conservative. We've seen it in Texas. And so Talarico comes out a week ago and what does Talarico say? Well, I think the problem with the, you know, the, the whole Carmelo Anthony case was that there wasn't enough black jurors. Wait a minute. At the same time, we find out that text messages came out that showed that it was actually a premeditated murder.

• 1:19:17Speaker 07

  Absolute unequivocal text messages and they were worried about civil unrest. And so they didn't go after the, the death penalty and they just denied the guy's request. A liberal judge denied the guy's request for a new trial. So Talarico is out here talking about this, trying to pander to the black vote using a horrible premise. Mark Cuban is smart. How can he not see that and see the pandering that's going on? And why does he believe that what Talarico wants to bring is actually economically good for the state of Texas? That confused me about Mark, the things that he's doing on drugs and his own company, the startup company on drug prices, which I applaud and I think are great.

• 1:19:58Speaker 07

  And I love the fact that he wouldn't let himself be, you know, manipulated all those years as an NBA owner. There's so many things I like about Mark, but this take, this angle on the backside of the Talarico confused me and I think it's wrong headed.

• 1:20:11Speaker 01

  Can you pull up the clip? Can you pull up the tweet with him responding back? Not this one. This is when he says there's racism and all this stuff, not Talarico, the one I just texted you about the tweet and him responding. I just literally send you the tweet.

• 1:20:23Speaker 07

  Oh sexism in America.

• 1:20:24Speaker 01

  Guys, I just send it to you right now. Can you pull up this tweet? Yeah, there you go. Go a little bit lower. So if you go lower, just look at the comments, him responding, go to the comments section, please. Okay. So he responds back, hey Mark, hope you're doing well. Question for you, which state laws do senators vote on? Okay. So Geiger Capital, who does a good job with the content out there, he says, so you know, the policies are bad and admit you won't want them in Texas just at the national level. Go to the show replies, because I think he responds back to it. Yeah, so Mark responds back, he says, if it was a state representative that wanted a wealth tax in Texas and I lived in their district, I would vote against them. That's how our system works. Different jobs have different responsibilities and impact. I vote accordingly.

• 1:21:04Speaker 01

  So then another guy responds back saying, the problem is Talarico still wants to raise taxes on billionaires through federal rules, closing loopholes and loopholes and making the wealth pay more, which would hit people like you in Texas just as hard or harder, since you can't just move states to escape national taxes. I don't mind paying more in taxes, bigger concern is debt we have and how much interest we are paying now. No one in the office is doing anything about it. You good with all the spending? Then he responds, so a part of while you're watching this, he's saying, no, I'm voting selfishly because him becoming a senator does nothing to me on a national level in the state of Texas. I don't care if he wins. It's a, it's a, it's a very weird way of voting. Like where is your conviction at? What's your position when you see Mark Cuban doing this?

• 1:21:46Speaker 04

  I can't believe he's flip flopping so quickly. Just a couple of months ago, he was condemning the Democratic Party. He seems to go with the poll numbers are. This guy is just like a weather vane. He's like Talleyrand, remember that French diplomat? He's famous for just following the political winds. And suddenly he's backing Talarico, who says there are six genders? This is the same guy who in Texas says a God is non-binary?

• 1:22:07Speaker 07

  Oh yeah.

• 1:22:08Speaker 04

  I don't think so, man. And he's vegan, apparently in the great state of Texas known for beef? This is such a, I can't, as a Christian, I am offended.

• 1:22:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, but Mark Cuban may say, well, that's not my position. I'm, I'm just voting with my pocket and I don't care what positions he's got. I'm, I don't care where he's at spiritually. Can they, there's two conversations. By the way, I think he's ahead right now, 52 to 48. I don't know what the numbers are, if you want to pull it up. Uh, Greg Abbott said, there's no way in the world, if there's a choice between Talarico and Paxton, it's easy. Paxton's the one to go with. But again, Talarico went on Rogan, Rogan likes Talarico. There's an audience for it that in Texas who are somewhat independent. They're like, well, we wouldn't mind testing out somebody like this. Adam, where are you at with this?

• 1:22:51Speaker 07

  Look, I've actually been following this race and to me it's pretty simple. It's in Texas, do you want to vote for a cowboy? Or do you want to vote for a boy? That's really what this comes down to. Ken Paxton is not the best candidate because actually as a candidate, who you are actually matters. This guy's got some corruption issues, he's got some baggage. So we, we get that. Talarico, Talarfrico, get your freak on. This is like the most soft feminine man, woman, child I've ever seen. He makes Dylan Mulvaney look like a tough guy in Texas? Like I'm actually genuinely asking this question. Is Texas getting so rich that they're just becoming soft? Is Texas getting so rich? Because all the Fortune 500 companies are moving there.

• 1:23:35Speaker 07

  They now have more, more 500, 500 companies than I think New York. So I'm wondering, speculating, is what's going on in Texas? DEI, ESG, is this kind of taking over everything? Is immigration coming in there in Texas? I'm wondering there because the Texas that I know likes barbecue, likes cowboys and doesn't put up with this Talarico soft stuff.

• 1:23:55Speaker 04

  Muslim feet washing?

• 1:23:56Speaker 07

  Cuban has had a long running feud.

• 1:23:58Speaker 04

  Muslim feet washing? I'm sorry.

• 1:24:00Speaker 07

  Cuban has had a long running feud with Ted Cruz, Senator. He also did not have a feud, but Cornyn, John Cornyn, who got beat by Paxton in a primary, refused to get behind Cuban. And so Cuban has had a, had an absolute war. You're saying there's some personal beef going on. Yeah, I believe so. Texas grade A beef. With the Republican senators, he has had, you know, he's been at war with one of them, frustrated with the other one. Tom and say, I'm a fan of Talarico? That's not saying he's okay, I like him. I'm a fan, what's he also saying?

• 1:24:36Speaker 01

  That's Mark Cuban though. Mark Cuban is a wishy washy, flip flopping, back and forth, no backbone, like where he wants to be.

• 1:24:42Speaker 07

  He was just with Trump, touting his drug, his drug prices.

• 1:24:45Speaker 01

  Unfortunately.

• 1:24:45Speaker 07

  But then he's calling out the Democratic Party.

• 1:24:47Speaker 01

  Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately, that strategy does not work. You have to take a position. It's unattractive. It's like make a damn position.

• 1:24:58Speaker 07

  Middle of the road gets run over.

• 1:24:59Speaker 01

  Middle of the road is kind of where he goes, dude, where are you at? Take a position. Yeah, nobody knows.

• 1:25:04Speaker 07

  I don't think Cuban knows.

• 1:25:05Speaker 01

  He's like a John Kerry billionaire is who he is. Always like goes one way or the other because he wants to make friends.

• 1:25:11Speaker 07

  A lot of us respected Mark Cuban and so, but I still have respect for the guy, but I don't really have respect his opinions.

• 1:25:16Speaker 02

  I have respect for what? Because he was a basketball guy and he made money? It's like, by the way, I think that there needs to be a study and I'm being, I'm not even being funny right now, with liberals with the vaccine and how many boosters, because it makes you stupid. It, all the Scott Galloways, whatever cares? All these people, as smart as they are, you know what we're saying? Like these are the smartest dumb people. No, it's just dumb. And I think something chemically with your fifth booster messes your head. And the Bible warned us in Matthew, chapter seven, verse 15, about people like Talarico. That's my, the, the false prophets, okay? Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, Pat, but in really they're raving wolves. Okay, this guy, like you said, he talks about if you don't let a kid transition, a child, Adam, he said, that's child abuse.

• 1:26:00Speaker 02

  He said, trans children are made in God's image. God, oh really? God's creation is male and female. You want that to happen? He's against voter ID. He's in there pandering to the freaking black vote. And it's like, at this point in, in society, can you not see it? Like I, I really hope.

• 1:26:16Speaker 07

  Maybe Texas is going trans.

• 1:26:17Speaker 02

  No, no, well, Texas, you were talking about the mosque situation. Did you ever think Texas would be the biggest mosque building place where they have cities with mosque and the Muslim population in Texas? You didn't believe that?

• 1:26:29Speaker 07

  Texas has got to toughen up. Talarico is looking for votes, guys. It's simple. He wants power and he will be a pawn of the left. To get there, he is not showing any authentic viewpoint.

• 1:26:39Speaker 02

  At all.

• 1:26:39Speaker 07

  He says God is non-binary. He wants the trans vote. He said there weren't blacks on the jury. He wants the black vote. He is trying to gobble up, this is Democrat politics at its worst. Simply trying to get groups of victims all under the tent to have enough to win and then he will be a pawn of power. It's very predictable to me. It's, and that's why I recognize it and it doesn't surprise me. Does it infuriate me and I get emotional like you, you right now? My passion?

• 1:27:06Speaker 02

  It drives me crazy.

• 1:27:07Speaker 07

  Not emotional, but passionate. I do, I do, but guess what? He's being the hyena that a Dem hyena is.

• 1:27:14Speaker 04

  And guys, this is also a money play because there aren't that many Democrats, big money Democrats in the state of Texas. He has to cater to the national donor base and that he is currently saying what they want him to say. Basically that mutilation is actually a good thing. Guess what? And that, you know, Muslim feet washing stations in Texas are God's gift to earth. That, um, yeah, we should definitely, the men can be women and, you know, and hijack women's sports and hijack our futures. This is exactly what the coastal progressivism dictates. And that is why the DNC is dying. I don't know if you guys realize this, but the Democratic Party is dying.

• 1:27:53Speaker 04

  This is, I declare that 2026 or 2028 is going to be the last time that they have a modicum of control over their own presidential election. After this year, it's going to be the DSA all the way, especially if AOC takes over.

• 1:28:08Speaker 07

  Can I hone in on one thing you just said? You said that there's no donor, Democratic donor base in Texas. So they got to go to a national east coast, west coast.

• 1:28:15Speaker 04

  California is doing as a wallet of the Democratic Party, the Hollywood base and also New York and Martha's Vineyard and the Upper West Side. I mean, I've hosted, I've hosted Governor Shapiro at my own home twice. I've had Tammy Duckworth at my home twice. People come to Philadelphia, they saw me as their Philadelphia wallet. And, uh, yeah, so they go to the, the two coasts, they skip over, fly over, they consider it fly over.

• 1:28:37Speaker 07

  To Lindy's point, Pat, here's a quick chart. Look at this chart. On the left-hand side, that's the national money. Look at the Republican lead over the Dems. Then in the middle is the Senate money and then on the left is the House money. The money comes to the conservatives. So he can't find the senate money in Texas. Where will a liberal Democrat find big donor money in Texas? George Soros doesn't live there. He's got to go outside and get it. And how does he do it? He picks the position to reflect, to get the money to him. You've got my vote, once we get to senate, you've got my vote on these things. But I gotta get to the senate to do it, you gotta help me.

• 1:29:16Speaker 06

  But even if they have money, how is this flying in Texas? How is it even close? How bad of a candidate is this, um...

• 1:29:23Speaker 07

  Talarico.

• 1:29:24Speaker 06

  Not Talarico. Ken Paxton. How bad of a... This is just begging the question. How bad of a candidate is Paxton if he isn't running away with this Talarico guy? In Texas?

• 1:29:33Speaker 01

  Well, Paxton is not the... He's not a guy that's gonna get on a podcast or an interview and light it up. Talarico is more charismatic than Paxton is. Paxton is a fighter.

• 1:29:46Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:29:46Speaker 01

  He's a lawyer, he's a dog, he's a fighter, but he's got some controversy in the past that he's maneuvering through. But, you know, it is Texas. It is Texas, and Ken Paxton is one of those guys that you want on your side as a lawyer. He's a tough guy.

• 1:29:58Speaker 06

  You've had him on the show?

• 1:29:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, he's a tough guy.

• 1:30:00Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 1:30:00Speaker 01

  He's a tough guy.

• 1:30:00Speaker 06

  And what was your biggest takeaway with him?

• 1:30:01Speaker 01

  He's a tough guy, and to me, the way he spoke off camera was better than the way he spoke on camera. I'm like, dude, talk like this.

• 1:30:07Speaker 06

  Come on, Ken.

• 1:30:08Speaker 01

  The way you were answering with the camera being on, talk the way you did off camera. And he was like more trying to be proper on camera. I think he needs to kind of...

• 1:30:15Speaker 06

  So be a cowboy.

• 1:30:16Speaker 01

  He has it in him to be it, but he's got a... Now, again, his advisors are gonna say different things, but we'll see what happens here. Let me get to the next story. By the way, before we go to the next story, we have to get into the Hassan Piker, the Charlie Kirk story. I want to get into the Ray Dalio gold Bitcoin, but I want to do a reminder again with some chocolate, because I'm seeing how many people are ordering the shoes.

• 1:30:32Speaker 06

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• 1:31:20Speaker 01

  By the way, when I tell you...

• 1:31:21Speaker 06

  Sexual chocolate.

• 1:31:22Speaker 01

  When I tell you, you wear that with a nice blue suit, or you wear that with white pants. It is ridiculous.

• 1:31:29Speaker 06

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• 1:31:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, that's...

• 1:31:36Speaker 06

  The lighter...

• 1:31:36Speaker 02

  Well, the lighter brown's a different... That's a different suit.

• 1:31:38Speaker 01

  Listen, no shout out to lighter shade of brown. You pick and choose whether you like lighter shade of brown, or you like chocolate.

• 1:31:43Speaker 06

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• 1:31:46Speaker 01

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• 1:31:48Speaker 04

  You gotta come out with a female line.

• 1:31:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, well, listen, we... Maybe, maybe one day, there's gonna be some announcements being made. But, okay.

• 1:31:56Speaker 06

  Email line.

• 1:31:56Speaker 01

  All right, let's continue. Let's go to the next story. Do we want to do Bitcoin? Do we want to do Hassan? Which one do we want to go to next?

• 1:32:03Speaker 02

  Well, me and Lindsay.

• 1:32:03Speaker 04

  Yeah. Vinnie always has...

• 1:32:05Speaker 02

  Me and Lindsay, I love him.

• 1:32:06Speaker 01

  Let's go into that. So here is Hassan Piker. They're having an event, and they're singing this song, which apparently this song was a song that went viral. I think it was an AI video they made, and it went viral on the Facebook boomer side, is what Connor was telling us earlier. And at their event, they're singing this song mocking the great Charlie Kirk. Go for it.

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• 1:34:49Speaker 01

  Vinnie.

• 1:34:50Speaker 02

  Oh, and I... And I love... Because you know he's gonna go on whatever, kick Twi... What is he on?

• 1:34:56Speaker 06

  Twitch.

• 1:34:56Speaker 02

  Whatever the hell he's on, he's gonna sit there in his room while he's probably zapping his freaking dog in the neck and the back. But this is what really drives me crazy. Well, number one, it's not about Hassan Piker. We're talking about him because he's doing stupid stuff. It's not about him. It's about all the people behind it that he's campaigning for, and all these... All the, you know, hugging AOC and all these... Abdullah, whatever, Asad. He says, "If you can't say my name, say it. I don't care about you."

• 1:35:23Speaker 06

  Is that Arnold Schwarzenegger?

• 1:35:24Speaker 02

  Whatever the hell his name is. But it's like, bro, like Hassan knew Charlie. You know what I mean? Like, you shared the stage with him, you debated with him, you disagreed about everything, but you still... Charlie treated you with respect, okay? And now he's gone, and you're on stage mocking him and doing all this. And then, mind you, um... This is what... Because me and Lindsay were on Piers Morgan. Trank was on there, and, you know, he has to stick up for his nephew. I understand that, but at one point, because he's like... He apologized about the 9/11 comments. He's a... Come on, guys, he was a kid, he was a streamer. He... On that same stage, he was saying, "Yeah, guys, I kinda..." Like, he was being so fake about, "Yeah, you know, I don't mean the 9/11." And they all booed.

• 1:36:08Speaker 02

  The audience booed that he was kind of walking back his comments, which are absolutely nonsense, okay? He doesn't care, all right? He doesn't care. He talked about that. He talked about the capitalist blood. He tried to say, you know, "I'll kill... If I want to kill Charlie, I don't... And I'm tired."

• 1:36:22Speaker 01

  Can you play that clip?

• 1:36:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, play that clip, yeah, while I'm talking about this.

• 1:36:25Speaker 01

  No, no, this is the one, him saying 9/11. He was joking about 9/11. Go back a little bit.

• 1:36:30Speaker 02

  Go back? Look at his smirk.

• 1:36:33Speaker 01

  Can you go back? Yeah.

• 1:36:38Speaker 01

  Go for it.

• 1:36:44Speaker 02

  Look, look, look at his smirk. He's laughing in all of your freaking faces.

• 1:36:49Speaker 01

  Well, no, he's saying that, but the reaction to the audience is they're booing because they're like, "America did deserve 9/11."

• 1:36:55Speaker 02

  It deserved it, yeah, but his smirk is... He's just saying that because he has to say it. He doesn't want to say it. Guys, enough of this, like, his family and people apologizing for him. He's not apologizing. He's not young, he's not stupid. He's a grown-ass person that hates this country. And when I joined the United States Air Force, when you join the Army, any veteran that's out there, when you raise your right hand and you swear to protect this country against enemies, foreign and domestic, I really never knew what the domestic was. In my head, I'm like, foreign, okay. This is the enemy that they were talking about. These are the domestic... These people that want to destroy this freaking country, they want to bring in all this nonsense socialism. If you're... Listen, if you're trying to come to this country and bring in socialism and destroy this,

• 1:37:38Speaker 02

  and brag about terrorism, and put out, you know, mosque and to take over, you're the enemy. I don't... All this funny streaming, you want to be cool? You are the enemy, okay? And I know, like, these people hate the freaking country, they hate America, and they hate you. And mind you, this is always coming from a Hassan Piker. By the way, there's a photo of him. There's a photo of him on a pony. He comes from a rich family. Could you look up him on a little pony that his family owned? He's a chubby, fat kid that comes from money. He's a champagne socialist and makes three to four million dollars a year. But guess what? The country's... Look at him. Look at this little guy. Look at the little guy with his pony and a family, but he's a communist. He wants none of you to have money. He wants the government to control your life, and he comes from money. He's a phony.

• 1:38:22Speaker 02

  He's a phony, and I hope he plays this on his dumbass show with all those freaking losers watching him. This is the greatest country in the history of the world, but he wants to take it away from everybody and destroy it. To hell with him.

• 1:38:32Speaker 01

  Play this clip. Play this clip, and then, Lindsay, I'm coming to you. Go for it.

• 1:38:35Speaker 19

  What about Democratic mayors? It's like, what the [__] are you talking about, dude? We're [__] talking about socialized medicine, and you [__] turn around and you [__] ask a question about murderous cities and their Democratic mayors. I will [__]... I want to [__] kill him, dude. I want to kill...

• 1:38:52Speaker 06

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

• 1:38:53Speaker 19

  In a video game. I meant, not in a video game setting. I want to own him in a video game setting.

• 1:39:01Speaker 02

  You noticed that? That's your initial rage, your initial thing, especially when he did... Lindsay, I know you want to talk. When he did the... Make the streets in there, "Kill them! Kill them all!" Talking all that shit, then do it! It drives me crazy when people like Hassan Piker... All you do is bark, bro. Are you gonna bite? It's always them saying, "Do this, or do that, or I'm gonna kill it." Then go do it! I know your side did it. You know, the leftist side, and I know he's bragging, "Oh, they're taking the spotlight away from the left." No, it's people like you. It's people like you, and if you're gonna talk the talk, walk the walk. And he's not. He wants other people to do his fight.

• 1:39:39Speaker 04

  Vinny, I want to point out, Cenk lied to us when we were on

• 1:39:42Speaker 01

  Hundred percent.

• 1:39:44Speaker 04

  He completely lied to our faces. He said that Hassan Piker immediately apologized for his remarks, saying that America deserved 9/11. No, I actually looked at the timeline, it took him three days.

• 1:39:53Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:39:53Speaker 04

  It doesn't take you three days to realize it's not something you should ever say, let alone contemplate.

• 1:39:59Speaker 01

  Yup.

• 1:39:59Speaker 04

  Like, my goodness. And by the way, I want to thank you for your service to our country. America's the best thing that's ever happened to me. I give thanks to God that I am able to wake up in this country every single day. It brings tears to my eyes that somebody would denigrate and lambast our country like that and elevate someone like Mao Zedong.

• 1:40:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:40:20Speaker 04

  Give me a break. This guy who killed tens of millions of people, you hold him up and dare to blame our country for 9/11? Like, what is wrong with you? And now he's telling the Democrats, "Please defend me. Why aren't you defending me?"

• 1:40:36Speaker 01

  Yup.

• 1:40:37Speaker 04

  Like, don't apologize for me. You should be embracing me. And frankly, a lot of Democrats are.

• 1:40:42Speaker 01

  Yup. And by the way, this is a great problem for Republicans because Democrats don't know how to handle Hassan Piker. Every time the conversation comes up, they fumble. They think this is a good idea. You have to realize, there is the young social media kids that follow someone like him that are not happy, they don't have a job, they're not creating jobs, they're miserable, they're part of that, "It's not my fault, it's America's fault." There is those guys. And then there is the middle-aged or older who see something like this and they say, "Wait a minute, Democrats, you're for this? This is turning me off." So, you know, there was a couple of times that, you know, you have to realize, people have to

• 1:41:24Speaker 01

  voter turnout is a very big thing. Just as much as people may not like, some of the Democrats may not vote for Trump or may not vote for Republican, but some of them sat out. Well, you know, you know what causes people sitting out? People like this. Take the position. "Hey, you know, we like him, we just want to hear him out." No problem. See what happens when it's time to vote for it. Tom, either one of you guys can go next. Go for it.

• 1:41:47Speaker 06

  I actually disagree with Vinny. I'm actually a huge fan of Hassan Piker these days. Nobody is doing more to motivate the Republican MAGA base to get out and vote than this character right here. And when I think of Hassan Piker, I'm not worried about him and dressing up as Mao or basically praising communism. And I want to know who's showing up at these events cheering for him? Who are the politicians that says, "I need more votes. Get me Hassan Piker over here to come motivate my base." That's who I got a problem with. This random commie comedy tour that he's doing, which is like their version of Kill Tony, instead it's Kill Charlie, "Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha." While they're singing and dancing on Charlie's grave, they're doing more to motivate common sense

• 1:42:29Speaker 06

  people to say, "Look, I might not approve of certain things that maybe is going on with Trump right now, or with Iran, or with gas prices, but this is America, damn it. This is Texas, damn it. I'm not supporting this nonsense." So Hassan Piker, respectfully to Vinny, huge fan, buddy. Keep it up. Love what you're doing to help America stay the greatest country in the world.

• 1:42:51Speaker 07

  I agree with Adam. I have nothing more to add to this.

• 1:42:55Speaker 06

  Wow, I just mic'd Tom?

• 1:42:56Speaker 07

  No, I have nothing more to add to this. Keep it up, Hassan. Keep it up. Because when they start seeing real polling and they start seeing what real people think, the Republicans do have an affordability problem, but they do not have a common sense problem on the core Americans. And the core Americans do not like that.

• 1:43:13Speaker 02

  And it's crazy, though, that, but we talked about this before the show, the left, you know, that big tent that we keep hearing about by Chuck Schumer and all these people? They will, say what you want about them, they will freaking stay behind their people no matter what, from Eric Swalwell with all the freaking allegations, all the girls, all the stuff, to, you know, Plattner, bro, Plattner literally, allegedly, girl beating, whatever, Nazi tattoo, they're still like, "Yeah, but come on. We have a big tent." And this guy falls in that big tent. And I understand the angle that you guys are taking, but at the end, I'm gonna call out the enemy, and I'm telling you, don't sleep on these people. Because people like that with their big fat ass mouths, they talk, it's a dog whistle. Not a dog shocker like he has. It's a dog whistle where people are like, "Yeah."

• 1:43:57Speaker 02

  Listen, all it takes is one motivated idiot to hear his mouth and go, "You know what? I'm gonna, hold on, Adam, I'm gonna go see Vinny, or Pat, or whatever, and try to kill them."

• 1:44:06Speaker 06

  Oh, you mean like they did with Charlie Kirk? Literally?

• 1:44:09Speaker 02

  That's, that's, that's.

• 1:44:10Speaker 06

  You mean that?

• 1:44:10Speaker 02

  So what I'm saying is, don't.

• 1:44:11Speaker 07

  I agree with that. I was talking about, to Pat's question about, what do I think about Hassan Piker? I think, I think they're gonna have to pay a price for it.

• 1:44:19Speaker 02

  I agree, but, and I'm with you. Playing that whole, "9/11, no, I'm joking, clowning Charlie." But, Adam, one idiot, you know how stupid people are? One idiot to be like, "You know what? Hassan is right." Or whatever his name is right. "I'm gonna go and kill one of these people." And then guess what? Zero responsibility that they're gonna take. Zero.

• 1:44:40Speaker 06

  I still believe in free speech in this country.

• 1:44:42Speaker 02

  So do I.

• 1:44:43Speaker 06

  I radically believe that this guy should say whatever he wants. Let's not forget who he is. He's a radical leftist, his uncle is Cenk Uygur, and a radical leftist, you know, killed Charlie Kirk, and they're singing and dancing on his grave. How much you want to bet this? Charlie's gonna get the last laugh. That's my opinion.

• 1:45:02Speaker 01

  What do you mean?

• 1:45:03Speaker 06

  Charlie's gonna get the last laugh. I think the radical left is being exposed. And do you have that clip of what Charlie just said, not just said? There was a clip in our chat. Do we have that?

• 1:45:11Speaker 01

  If you're saying Charlie's gonna get the last laugh.

• 1:45:13Speaker 06

  Charlie's gonna get the last laugh.

• 1:45:14Speaker 01

  Are you publicly announcing that you're becoming a Christian because you're gonna see him in heaven with Jesus and is that?

• 1:45:21Speaker 06

  I walk in the footsteps of Jesus. He was Jewish, you know?

• 1:45:23Speaker 04

  Ironically, I think Hassan Piker made it more difficult for Republicans to win Wisconsin. Because it's a, part of the reason why Francesca Hong lost the primary was her association with Hassan Piker. Democrats wouldn't, there were some moderate Democrats who saw the light and wouldn't have it. So they elevated the moderate to win that race. So the Republican is now going up against the moderate, which would have been, you know, now it's gonna be tougher to beat. I'm just saying.

• 1:45:48Speaker 01

  Well, let's do that. You said Tucker, right? So, did you say Tucker right now?

• 1:45:52Speaker 04

  Tougher to beat.

• 1:45:52Speaker 01

  Tougher. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I heard Tucker.

• 1:45:54Speaker 06

  There's that clip of Charlie.

• 1:45:55Speaker 01

  Let me, let me, let me show this transition because I do want to, remember I told you guys, I'm gonna show a clip at the end as well that I want to share with you. But let's go into how, out of the blue, the president tweeted something about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Kent, and a few others. If you want to pull this up.

• 1:46:13Speaker 04

  Tom.

• 1:46:13Speaker 01

  So Tucker Carlson just met with the lightweight former congressman, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trader Greene, losers all. Tucker's views have fallen through the floor and will only get worse. Nobody cares about him any longer, in that he has become totally irrelevant and happens to be, surprisingly, a very low IQ individual. He could barely get out of college, and maybe he didn't, but only real dumb people can make it through that wonderful four-year time in life. Tucker wants to run for political office, but he should be required to take a cognitive test. He's got no chance, but could probably take a couple of points away from whatever the Republican tickets happens to be. Tucker's a loser and always has been. Marjorie Taylor Brown, like,

• 1:46:54Speaker 01

  a highly neurotic young woman, went from ultra-conservative to a liberal fool, all in a matter of weeks because I refused to return her phone calls. Not because I didn't like her, just because I had no time. She was way down in the polls in Georgia because I took away my endorsement and would have to, have no chance of winning. So she, just like everyone else, quit. Thomas Massey has turned out to be a failed politician and a real jerk. He thought it was wonderful to vote. No on everything, no matter how good, strong, and proper the legislation would be. What a team this would be. Three losers and a pocket full of change. The only chance they have is to join the radical left Democrats and try breaking into the primary system. To all of them, I say, praise to Allah.

• 1:47:34Speaker 01

  Baby, I can't even read that. Praise be to Allah, Donald J. Trump. Lindy, where do you stand with this?

• 1:47:40Speaker 04

  That's amazing. And I, Marjorie Taylor Greene, man, she is really embracing the CNN, the view, the Kool-Aid. This is frankly unbelievable and a little bit disappointing. You know, I, I thought she was a maverick, but she is completely selling out to the liberal media complex.

• 1:47:56Speaker 01

  Do you agree with what the president is saying? Do you agree that they're gonna take a couple percent away from somebody because some of the Republicans on the woke right may join Tucker if he decides to run?

• 1:48:06Speaker 04

  In the United States, a third party just flat out doesn't work. It just doesn't work. They just play a spoiler. And I don't know, this sounds like a vanity project, and frankly, it's deeply selfish because he's basically handing

• 1:48:19Speaker 04

  You know, it's an open question as to which side is gonna hurt most because some people could say they're taking away from the liberal base, right? Or are they taking away from the Republican base? It's really up in there. What do you guys think?

• 1:48:30Speaker 02

  I think run as a Republican. If you want to freaking do it, do what Trump did. Trump didn't run as an independent. Trump said, I'm going to do change. I'm going to make change. And I don't care what anybody says. There's a bunch of disappointments, especially on the second term with the war and all that stuff. But Trump was exactly what the country needed in 2000. I don't care what anybody says. We needed him. He came in and he exposed the hell out of everybody. All the lawfare, the shooting, they're trying to take his money, they're trying to put him in jail. Him saying your fake news to Jim Acasa. We needed him at that specific moment. Okay? We needed him. So if you want to come in, and he ran as a Republican, Tucker and all them Marjorie Taylor Greene, come in and run. Like get in, you nailed it.

• 1:49:12Speaker 02

  There's no third party that's gonna do anything but be a disruptor. That's it. That's it. You're gonna hurt the Republican Party.

• 1:49:18Speaker 06

  Look, there's a famous phrase, and you go for the king, you best not miss. And Tucker missed. And Tucker has his gun, and he's just pulling out his foot and just boom, shooting himself in the foot constantly, constantly, constantly, as his credibility, his authenticity, and any basket of credibility he ever had is completely out the window. Speaking of baskets, this collection of basket of losers with Marjorie Taylor Brown, Thomas Massey, Joe Kent. When I say losers, I'm not giving like an actual like, they literally lost. Nobody voted for Joe Kent. He basically stabbed Trump in the back after getting run out of town in every election. You're gone. Marjorie Taylor Greene, she owes everything in her life to Trump.

• 1:50:02Speaker 06

  How ungrateful are you because you disagree with the policy or two? You walk out the door, Thomas Massey, Loserville, and then Tucker, he's the king of the losers, literally. So here he is, he can do what he wants to do. So I don't know what is gonna happen with Tucker. I'm speculating, he ain't running for nothing. He doesn't have the work ethic, the stamina, nothing to get out and do what Trump has done. Trump does it, Tucker talks about it. Tom?

• 1:50:27Speaker 07

  Well, I've been trying to find the Trump endorsed candidates that lost in 2026. And I think there's like two. It shows who still has the weight and the gravitas with the voters on the Republican side, with GOP voters, and with the candidates that are acceptable to Trump. And they say that of all the hundred and... Okay, Trump has made 312 primary endorsements in 2026 with a 96% win rate, which is remarkable. It's not like he just picked the 10 he liked, Pat. Oh, I'm 10-0. Really?

• 1:51:11Speaker 07

  Because you, you know, because you picked Ted Cruz in Texas. Wow, you're way out on a limb on that one. No, he's out there, you know, giving, giving weight and giving support to them. And this is amazing. And so this is an epic rant, I called it that. What an epic rant. But it was, he's making a point. I mean, he carries the weight. And you know what? In politics, they call it about, you know, there's the red meat speech. Why would that person give such a speech? Well, it didn't make sense to you, sitting in Florida, you know, watching that speech on CNN, but it made a hell of a sense to the ranchers that were in Dallas when he was there.

• 1:51:55Speaker 07

  And they call it in politics a red meat speech, a red meat to the base. And so he just threw red meat to those people that wanted to see him be tough, be resilient, and not back down. And that's what this did.

• 1:52:10Speaker 06

  You know the name that actually should be worried about this tweet? There's one name, J.D. Vance. Because J.D.'s cool with Tucker. This is J.D.'s people. So Trump just sent out a warning shot saying, oh, you want to disrespect me? J.D., like indirectly, this was like a stray bullet coming his way. What do you think about the J.D. component?

• 1:52:34Speaker 01

  I don't know. I mean, listen, when I had Ben Shapiro on, he said he doesn't think Rubio's gonna run. And I hope he does. I hope Rubio definitely considers running, because the way he said it is, you run, you lose to J.D., you're done. You run, you lose under general, you're done. You don't run, wait till J.D. runs, then you run afterwards, you win, you become president. I don't agree with that, but that was Ben's position. But going more to this year with where Tucker's at, I love that people want to run. I hope, you know, Mark Cuban runs. I hope The Rock runs. I hope a lot of people run. And go present your ideas to the market and see how they react to it. But the challenge here is one thing you have to be very careful with is the following.

• 1:53:17Speaker 01

  And this one, the hardest thing to do in life, one of the hardest things to do in life. It is so flipping difficult to do. When you win, and you start getting some people around you that are saying, man, let me tell you, dude, I think you could do it. You're freaking sick. I think you can beat them. I think you're just, I think you're better than this. I think you're better than that. And you hear it so much from people, and you don't have the self-awareness to be like, yeah, I think there's levels to this game, and I'm not there yet. No, bro, you got it, bro. No, oh, really? Yeah. Okay, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, you know what? I can do it. And then you're like, yeah, boom. And then you're like, sure, what was that all about, right?

• 1:53:57Speaker 06

  Drinking your old Kool-Aid.

• 1:53:58Speaker 01

  I think, you know, there is levels to this game. And if Tucker wants to go do it, great, test it out. But to think that Trump's base is gonna leave him for you, you're not that guy. You're not. You're not that guy. You're talented, you're capable, you run a very popular podcast, you've done a great job with a lot of interviews with, you know, what do you call it? Putin and others. And credit to you as an entertainer, charming, charismatic, that you have that and you have a certain following. But are you a kingmaker? I don't know. You know what a kingmaker is? Like a kingmaker is when the guy says, this could happen. And there's moments where whatever that guy says things, things happen.

• 1:54:43Speaker 01

  How many times has he made predictions? How many times? Or is he a, you know, secondary one? Like his position with Israel, he followed Nick Fuentes. Like in that topic, Nick's the leader of Tucker, not the other way around. So if it's like, well, let me tell you, it's really Israel. Well, a 22-year-old is the guy that led you at that time. And now you're what, 28? I don't know how old Nick is. So Nick Fuentes is Tucker Carlson's leader in my eyes.

• 1:55:08Speaker 06

  That's his daddy.

• 1:55:09Speaker 01

  No, no, I don't want to say you're being funny about it, but what I'm saying is, he's leading him. What has he taken a first position on that's a risk? You know, say what you want with Candace, she took a position, and she's the first. Now, whether she ends up being right or wrong, that's a different story with, but that's a risk. No, I understand what you're saying. But what has he taken that is the first? Trump took first. They're sending rapists, they're sending their worst. What? He's crazy. He is racist. Let me go make my argument why. So Tucker is, believe it or not, Tucker is like, ah, ooh. Ah, ooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I, you know, I don't know if I'm making sense or not, what I'm saying.

• 1:55:52Speaker 06

  Tucker doesn't have fans, he has followers. People listen to Tucker, but nobody's marching to the Pied Piper of Tucker. Let me ask you a very specific question.

• 1:56:00Speaker 01

  Go for it.

• 1:56:01Speaker 06

  If Tucker Carlson was a stock right now, where is his stock? In 2020, he was the number one guy, he was, and then he got fired, Dominion. Where's his stock right now? Because I have speculation. Where would you say his stock is? Is it at an all-time high? Is it at all-time low?

• 1:56:16Speaker 01

  The way to say it is.

• 1:56:17Speaker 06

  Sell off, and the stock...

• 1:56:18Speaker 01

  No, no, I think, put it in basic, that's a good question. Put it in three categories. Buy, sell, or hold. Like Ray Dalio said, buy gold, hold Bitcoin. Am I holding Tucker right now with the games and relationships he's building? I don't know. I don't know. And I think a part of it is really predicated on what J.D. does with Trump. Because if J.D. gets in his head that he does what a Pence does, like, let's just say that Tucker's, remember, whoever Tucker gets a hold of, if people spend a lot of time with Tucker, he baptizes you into his way of thinking.

• 1:57:02Speaker 01

  That's Tucker. If you get close, look at what Megyn Kelly, look at all these guys, they go, oh, yes, but Tucker's right, but Tucker's this. So he knows how to do that well. It's a very important skill set. Like, you know, I ran an insurance company, and I'm, you know, as of September 30, it's my last day that I'm there, and there are some people that are going behind closed doors, like, but let me tell you what PBD did and what he didn't do, and what he didn't do, and don't know. And then I watched, we had a conversation, Ricky Aguilar sends me a question, he says, Pat, who do you think are the most grateful people that you ran with in the company? And I say grateful. Took me a week to respond, and by the way, I never told them the list of names, but I actually made a list of names myself. And then I said, who do you think? He gave me the list of names.

• 1:57:44Speaker 01

  I said, to me, gratitude is different than the best builder, the best performer, the best, the most competitive. Because sometimes the moment people, gratitude is when you no longer have anything that that person can give you, are you still grateful to that person changing your life? Right? And you're like, ooh, I don't need him anymore. Screw him. Let me see what's over here. And they forget all the things you did for them. That's kind of what gratitude is in my eyes. And people get to pick and choose. This is not judgment. Everybody decides, and be around long enough, you'll be, you know, you'll experience that. To me, in this sense is, you know, when you look at a situation like this, those people that are good at going and converting people into the negative or dividing, it's a very powerful skill set. And Tucker's got that. He's very good at that.

• 1:58:29Speaker 01

  Because this question's like, well, what do you think about his relationship with his wife? It's kind of weird, don't you think? What do you think about it? What do you think? It's a little weird, don't you think that?

• 1:58:36Speaker 04

  I saw a clip of him saying, as long as you tell her she's always right, you're gonna have a wonderful marriage. Did you see that?

• 1:58:42Speaker 01

  Yeah. And by the way, I've heard that from Christian pastors, you know, and stuff like that. So I'm Middle Eastern, we have a different way, and I married a white girl, and we've made it work. But to me, you know, that's the part. That's the part of what's gonna happen. I want to see what, the reason why Mark Cuban can go run and be formidable is because he's won in business, he's won in sports, he's very famous, and he's actually smart, and he's a good salesperson. So he's won, and won, and won, and won. The reason why Trump went and did what he did is because he won in media, he won in real estate, he comes from a family, he's won, and he's been an A-lister for how long? 40 years, 30 years? He's won, he's won, he's won. I don't know where you're gonna put Tucker in that list.

• 1:59:26Speaker 06

  Where would you put him on the buy, sell, hold?

• 1:59:29Speaker 01

  I'm gonna hold to see what JD is doing. I'm not buying.

• 1:59:32Speaker 07

  Well, can I give my answer?

• 1:59:33Speaker 01

  I know you're selling.

• 1:59:34Speaker 07

  Well, I sold a year ago. But you know what stock he is to me? I don't know if you guys can pull this up. Have you seen Nike's stock lately?

• 1:59:42Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:59:43Speaker 07

  Unbelievable.

• 1:59:44Speaker 06

  You know when it started? Colin Kaepernick.

• 1:59:46Speaker 07

  Colin Kaepernick.

• 1:59:47Speaker 06

  Weird.

• 1:59:47Speaker 07

  Because Nike's stock, guys, I sent it to you in a text. Nike's stock has plummeted over the last handful of years. Why? Very common to what Tucker's doing. They completely forgot who their customer is and they forgot who their base is. Tucker's base is the MAGA audience.

• 2:00:04Speaker 01

  Go five years.

• 2:00:05Speaker 07

  Tucker's audience is who MAGA is. So you think you're gonna come in and try to usurp Trump's credibility and audience?

• 2:00:14Speaker 01

  Guess what?

• 2:00:14Speaker 07

  And then, and then steal it away?

• 2:00:15Speaker 01

  If you do?

• 2:00:16Speaker 07

  You're gonna end up looking like a fool.

• 2:00:17Speaker 01

  If you do, great underdog story, and I like competition, but you better be right.

• 2:00:23Speaker 07

  You think Tucker's built like that?

• 2:00:24Speaker 01

  No, he's not.

• 2:00:25Speaker 07

  You think Tucker's built like Trump? I know you don't.

• 2:00:27Speaker 01

  What, what are you talking about?

• 2:00:28Speaker 07

  Of course he's not. Of course.

• 2:00:30Speaker 01

  Of course he's not. But to me, you know, if he believes that, show it to the market. Let's see how the market reacts.

• 2:00:36Speaker 07

  I'm sure the market will.

• 2:00:37Speaker 01

  Show it to the market. Let's see how he reacts.

• 2:00:38Speaker 04

  I also just want to point out the media, the leftist media loves playing up the Republican divide. They love playing up the fact that Meghan Kelly and Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene are going off to the side and doing their own thing. They need that. But if you look at the actual numbers, I think it's like, what, 5% to 10% of the Republican base actually agree with them? If that, I think that's a generous assessment. So they make it seem like this, there's this huge schism, but it's actually not that big at all.

• 2:01:03Speaker 01

  I think Meghan will adjust. I think Meghan will adjust and come back, but I think a lot of people are in too deep and they won't be able to flip.

• 2:01:10Speaker 07

  You think Meghan will adjust?

• 2:01:11Speaker 01

  I think Meghan will adjust.

• 2:01:11Speaker 07

  That's all she does is adjust. She's, she's the Mark Cuban of female politics. Where does she stand for at this point? And I'm not even crapping on her. I think she's attractive. I think she's smart. Is she a fan of Trump or is she not a fan of Trump?

• 2:01:23Speaker 01

  Believe it or not.

• 2:01:23Speaker 07

  She a Republican? She a Democrat? What is she at this point?

• 2:01:25Speaker 01

  I, I don't know, but here's what I will tell you. I, I thought, I thought when I made a list of names of a handful of people after Charlie Kirk, who I thought could play a role to unify, I had her as one of them.

• 2:01:38Speaker 07

  I know.

• 2:01:38Speaker 01

  I had her as one of them.

• 2:01:39Speaker 07

  Her stock has plummeted.

• 2:01:40Speaker 01

  I, I had her as one of them. But again, you know, people can, people can adjust and say, listen, I made a mistake and here's where I'm going. Who knows? Uh, let me do, uh, uh, this last story here and then we'll wrap up. Maybe we'll do two more stories. We got 14 minutes left. Can you, can you do me a favor and go to the story with Kramer on Mad Money two weeks ago? Folks, you have to, here's, here's the thing with investments and money and finances and how much money is lost. I got a call yesterday. There was an auction going on with the Hand of God of Maradona, who was at $2.5 million. You know the Hand of God that Maradona is?

• 2:02:12Speaker 07

  Gold, famous gold, yeah.

• 2:02:13Speaker 01

  That ball sold yesterday for $3.3 million, $3.2 million on auction. The ball itself. But here's, is this the clip of Kramer? Do you have which one it is of Kramer? Go to the Kramer clip one of two weeks ago. He says, I sold all my Bitcoin. This is it. Watch this here, folks. There, there's a lot of people that say, anything Kramer and Drake say, do the opposite.

• 2:02:33Speaker 07

  Drake?

• 2:02:34Speaker 01

  Yes. Whatever Drake bets on, bet against him. Okay? So here's Kramer on what he said about Bitcoin. Go for it.

• 2:02:42Speaker 10

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  Arvin, Arvin Krishna knows quantum incredibly. He knows, he knows Bitcoin and quantum. And I'm gonna sell mine. You are? Yes, absolutely. Really? Just on what he said? Well, I, I, he's, he's the man.

• 2:03:54Speaker 02

  The man.

• 2:03:55Speaker 20

  He's the man. Three, four years. David, you know when three, four years is, that happened? By the way, did he? Like tomorrow. Did he give you any reassurances in terms of what happened last quarter? I felt, yes. I don't know if we have a little sound about how things are going since then, but yeah. Okay.

• 2:04:11Speaker 01

  Okay, can you, so this is two weeks ago. Can you go to how Bitcoin's done since? Is this the clip that says surges to 78,000, three weeks after Kramer said, go ahead and play this clip. Go.

• 2:04:21Speaker 07

  Unbelievable.

• 2:04:22Speaker 01

  Surges to $78,000, three weeks after Kramer said he has sold over quantum fears. So I, I'm gonna come to you, Tom, then I want to read what Ray Dalio said about gold and Bitcoin. Go for it. Tom?

• 2:04:35Speaker 07

  Oh, we're not gonna watch these guys.

• 2:04:36Speaker 01

  No, go ahead.

• 2:04:37Speaker 07

  No, I think it's shocking. Once again, I mean, if you go to autopilot, autopilot is great. You can get yourself an autopilot account, link it up to Schwab, link it up to Robinhood, whatever, and take that amount of money and, and pick a proxy. Like, uh, I, you know.

• 2:04:51Speaker 02

  Pelosi.

• 2:04:51Speaker 07

  We've, we've given, like, last year, we gave money to Wounded Warriors on the profit I made on, um, on the Pelosi. Well, you can also get inverse Kramer. It's so funny. And the logo is his head upside down. Um, or you actually are buying all the value. This is just yet again, there he is. There he is. Inverse Kramer.

• 2:05:10Speaker 02

  Is up 218%.

• 2:05:11Speaker 07

  Wow. Exactly right. And then here he is. Two weeks ago, he's like, yeah, yeah, I'm out of here. And all of a sudden Bitcoin went from, I believe, 62.5 to 77. Am I right, Pat? Over the last two weeks?

• 2:05:22Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:05:22Speaker 07

  Something in that range. And it's just, uh, it's shocking. But there you have it. And look at this. It's been flat for so long. Wait, wait, this is, go back like one month. This is one day. Go to one month.

• 2:05:32Speaker 04

  It's been flat for about a year because I lost money on IBIT.

• 2:05:36Speaker 07

  Oh, my gosh.

• 2:05:36Speaker 04

  Index fund. And suddenly Jim Kramer comes to the rescue.

• 2:05:39Speaker 07

  There it is.

• 2:05:39Speaker 04

  I need him to talk about my other.

• 2:05:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly.

• 2:05:42Speaker 07

  It's like, it's, look at it. The red line's where it was for a while, Vinny, and all of a sudden he's like, yeah, I'm tired of this. I'm out.

• 2:05:47Speaker 01

  You gotta realize though, here, here's the part. The argument is, how's gold doing? Can you go look at what gold's done the last three weeks? I'm actually curious what gold has done the last three weeks. Uh, uh, not Goldman, just gold price. Yeah, can you, can you just get out of it and go to gold and type in gold price?

• 2:06:01Speaker 07

  Gold's been up.

• 2:06:02Speaker 01

  Yeah. So if you go to gold, uh, three weeks, this is the part, go to one month. Yeah, go to one month. Okay, so look at gold and, and, and maybe go to six months. Cause gold went up to 5,100 and it came back up, right? Do you notice a pattern the last three weeks with gold and Bitcoin? They're all up. Why? Why are they up? Typically, when gold is up, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's got, it's not always a good thing that gold is up. So let me read what Dalio was saying about this, because Dalio comes out and says, look, the whole thing that's going on right now, he is on, I believe, hold on Bitcoin and buy gold because he believes things are about to hit the fan.

• 2:06:43Speaker 01

  So Treasury Secretary Scott Beson, uh, debt buyback announcement this week fit a broader pattern that can signal a forthcoming crisis, said Ray Dalio, billionaire Ray Dalio. Recommending gold and Bitcoin, the Bridgewater associate founder said Beson's plan to increase government debt purchases, coupled with Japan's reducing its US bond exposure and surging long-dated American deals suggests investors should prepare portfolios for increased risk. I'm confident that the government's financial condition is at an inflation point, Dalio wrote on LinkedIn Friday. If this is not dealt with now, the debt will build up to levels where they can't be managed without great trauma. He noted Treasury has only limited capacity to buy back bonds against the scale of issuance

• 2:07:27Speaker 01

  and that the pattern authorities intervening to surpass long-term rates while deficits grow historically precedes debt crisis rather than resolving. His prescription, own the things government can't print. Tom, do you agree with him?

• 2:07:40Speaker 07

  I agree with him on, in times of great monetary crisis on a sovereign level, and that would be US dollar sovereign, owning alternative assets that are, uh, of limited supply, that's what he says can't print, usually turns out to be right. So when gold is going up, to your point, Pat, and Bitcoin is going up, why is that? Because people are worried about the regular, you know, fiat currency and all the stuff that fiat buys, and they run to the alternative which supposedly stores of value because of their limited quantity. And so that's where it's going. And Beson is, something's going on between Beson and Warch.

• 2:08:18Speaker 07

  You mean, you know, Beson's going this way, Kim Warsh going this way, and Beson is out there trying to help bonds and buying up back, you would think we'd have the price would go up, but it slipped. So which gives credence to Ray Dalio saying, hey, is the market about to make a correction? That's really what Ray Dalio is saying. Is the market gonna make a correction because of debt? And I don't think it's just because of government debt, and I'll tell you why. What, what's been happening with the owner of the Lakers who sold and with these guys? You are finding out that it's not just them. There are other insurance carriers that are carrying alternative assets

• 2:08:58Speaker 07

  that have a little bit more debt and uncertain debt, uh, debt targets, in other words, what they're putting their money in, where they're building the debt. And so, you know, Dalio's been wrong before and he's been a bit of a nervous guy for the last two years.

• 2:09:12Speaker 01

  He's been calling a depression. He wrote a book about depression. So, you know, he's.

• 2:09:15Speaker 07

  For the last two years, I'm saying, he's been really.

• 2:09:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, not principles, another one.

• 2:09:19Speaker 07

  He's been really a nervous guy for the last two years.

• 2:09:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:09:21Speaker 07

  And so, but it, we've managed to kind of grow, you know, our way out of it. I'm, I'm never one that's gonna say, oh, don't worry about the debt. This is no problem. I worry about government manipulating it and inflating the way out, which crushes everybody's savings. That's what I worry about.

• 2:09:36Speaker 01

  Adam, 30 seconds if you have anything to add.

• 2:09:37Speaker 07

  Yeah, of course. The number one thing you could do is own assets. Listen, everyone gets fooled by Kramer. Everyone gets fooled by Dalio. These people aren't here to serve you. They're not here to serve the common man. Jim Kramer is an active investor, basically gambling and trying to just figure it out. Don't do that. Ray Dalio is a hedge fund guy worth, oh, what, $100 billion? Whatever he's doing, 50 billion, whatever the numbers. These people aren't here for you. It's actually pretty simple. And, and Lindy pointed it out. She's a buy and hold investor.

• 2:10:04Speaker 04

  Always.

• 2:10:05Speaker 07

  You think I'm smart? You think I know what I'm doing? No, I do four things. I work.

• 2:10:09Speaker 06

  I earn, I save, I invest, and I've done that year after year after year after year. And luckily, I have a lot of money in the bank. It's not because I know what I'm doing. It's because I believe in two things. I believe in America and I believe in capitalism. And if I keep pouring money into my 401K, to my Roth IRA, to my index funds and just saving, investing and buying Bitcoin, buying assets, voila, a multimillionaire now. Nothing unique, but I just put in the work. These guys are just throwing you off base. Do what you gotta do, what you can.

• 2:10:38Speaker 01

  Okay, so the last thing before we wrap up. Moms, I made a promise to you, I was gonna play this clip. So there's an actor named William Fitchner. If you guys don't know who he is, this is him. He's been in a lot of movies. He's been in The Dark Knight, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Perfect Storm, Longest Yard, Heat, Black Hawk Down. He's been around, okay? He's the guy that you say, "That guy." Well, in a podcast, he said this, Vinny, I think you're gonna love this. I think, Adam, you're gonna love this. Look what he had to say here recently. Go for it.

• 2:11:07Speaker 01

  It's gonna be good with audio.

• 2:11:09Speaker 21

  I would call my mother about everything. I had a good day at work. I would call my mother, "Hey, Mom, I had a good day at work. It's raining out." "Hey, Mom."

• 2:11:18Speaker 01

  His mom's no longer with him.

• 2:11:20Speaker 21

  We'd talk about anything. And I pretty much did that my whole life. Now, some people believe that when you leave this world, that, you know, you see all those people or they're waiting there for you. We've heard the expression, you know, somebody passes away and everybody says, "Well, you know, they're reunited with, you know, their loved ones." So if that's true, which is a pretty cool dream in and of itself, that would be great.

• 2:12:03Speaker 21

  I miss, I miss my closest friend when I was a kid. I miss one of my closest friends when I was in college. There's so many people that are no longer here that I miss. Some, some you just had a moment with or some you were really close with. But can you imagine if you leave here someday and you get to see all of them at once? That's quite a dream. That's, that's, that's pretty amazing. So I dream that someday I'll get a chance to see them and see my mother. And I'll get a chance to talk to her again.

• 2:12:49Speaker 01

  You can pause it right there.

• 2:12:50Speaker 21

  "Hey, Mama, how's it going?"

• 2:12:54Speaker 02

  He used to go to the, the car wash right by my Toluca Lake.

• 2:12:58Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 2:12:58Speaker 02

  He'd be in there all the time. And then one time I went up to him, I was like, "Hey," just, I go, "No autograph, no, no," because he's, he's in there just chilling, like, like pajama clothes. I go, "You are freaking amazing." In The Dark Knight, he's the one that was with the shotgun in the, in the thing. But that's freaking awesome, Pat. I, I, I've never even seen this clip, but like, you could tell, you could tell.

• 2:13:16Speaker 01

  Sincerity, right?

• 2:13:17Speaker 02

  Just sincerity and the love for his mother and how amazing she, she must have been as a woman. Because, listen, as, as a Christian, as, as, you know, heaven and, and everything that Jesus did for us, that's absolutely what, what's gonna happen. That's absolutely what's gonna happen. And look who posted it. Snoop Dogg.

• 2:13:33Speaker 01

  That's right. That's what made it special.

• 2:13:35Speaker 02

  You know what is that? Snoop Dogg is posting that.

• 2:13:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's a phenomenal message.

• 2:13:39Speaker 02

  That is such a freaking great.

• 2:13:40Speaker 01

  Phenomenal message.

• 2:13:41Speaker 04

  Vinny, I have to tell you about my mom. She's incredible. She's a traditional East Asian mom. She watches almost every one of your episodes because you've been so good to me. She's not a podcast girl. She's not. She's, again, an East Asian mom who has, she's involved with the church, she tutors and everything. And, you know, my parents speak broken English because they're immigrants, but she watches you religiously because all you've done for me. And I don't know if, if that's not a mark of love, I don't know what is. And the fact that she's somebody that I've called at 3:00 AM in the middle of the night, I'm sure everyone here has done that as well. That is just incredible love. There's nothing like a mother's love.

• 2:14:26Speaker 04

  I think it's, it's the love that most resembles Christ's love, to be honest.

• 2:14:29Speaker 01

  Well, I will take that as a compliment because I'm the only podcast that speaks with a broken English, so maybe her and I understand each other.

• 2:14:37Speaker 06

  I think, not to be sentimental, I think.

• 2:14:39Speaker 01

  Mom, we love you, you're the best.

• 2:14:41Speaker 02

  We love you, Mom.

• 2:14:41Speaker 06

  Mrs. Lee, I, I think honestly, that's why I think we have such a, a great audience is because when you come here, you think you're coming here for business or news or politics or entrepreneurship or whatever it is, but a lot of times what you're learning here is family, it's kids, it's friends, and, and I think that's what, what, what makes this podcast so unique.

• 2:15:01Speaker 04

  She loves you too, Adam.

• 2:15:02Speaker 06

  Thank you, Mrs. Lee. But I just, we bookending this, we started the podcast talking about Fat Joe and what he did with his son that has Down Syndrome and we're ending it on Snoop Dogg of all people, showing this clip of, what's the actor's name?

• 2:15:18Speaker 01

  William Fitchner.

• 2:15:19Speaker 06

  He's like one of those famous guys, like, "I know you, but I don't really know you." I, I think that just sort of encompasses this episode. That's great.

• 2:15:26Speaker 01

  Tom?

• 2:15:27Speaker 07

  Well, I, I think the assurance that you have in Jesus Christ of salvation and being reunited with the saints who are there is, is precious. And it's what can lead you to this really emotional thing. As much as I want to see my dad, I know that I'm gonna be so enthralled at seeing the Lord and I'm gonna be in this permanent sense of praise. That's what makes me really emotional. And it also gives me, you know, hope here on earth because that compass is what guides me trying to do things for other people. And what he was having a moment there that was just so touching and so real and so human. And I, I, I hope he's a believer.

• 2:16:11Speaker 07

  I, I don't know him, but I, I hope that this is coming from, from the Holy Spirit and the joy of Jesus Christ that gives us, as they say, "The hope of, restore unto me the hope of my salvation."

• 2:16:23Speaker 01

  But listen, that song makes sense, right? "Reunited," and it feels so good. Right? I'm gonna finish on that. So folks, if you're watching this, Lindy, great having you on. Your book, Unburdened, coming out here September 22nd.

• 2:16:39Speaker 04

  You're in it.

• 2:16:39Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:16:40Speaker 04

  You guys are all in it.

• 2:16:41Speaker 01

  I read it. It's, it's phenomenal, the stuff that you're in. A lot of stories that are, "A former Democrat insider shocking account of political power, betrayal and party collapse." Go, click on the link below, order the book, Unburdened, of Lindy Lee, support her message. And we're gonna put it all over the place. But with that being said, Lindy, great to see you again, as usual. We love seeing you.

• 2:17:01Speaker 04

  I love you guys more than I can say.

• 2:17:03Speaker 01

  And Mom, you're amazing. Hopefully one of these days we'll get a chance to see you, to everybody else. God bless, we will do this again.

• 2:17:09Speaker 06

  Love you, Mom.

• 2:17:09Speaker 01

  Are we doing a podcast on Friday? I think we are, and then next week we won't be because we're at the vault. We may, who knows? I'll tell you more on Friday. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.