Maduro CAPTURED! Venezuela, China & Iran Respond + Walz Drops Out & Khamenei's Escape Plan | PBD Podcast | Ep. 712

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick discuss the dramatic capture and U. S. indictment of Nicolás Maduro, speculation over Tim Walz dropping out of Minnesota's Gubernatorial race, Mamdani’s NYC bus fare increase, and reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has a Russian escape plan. ----- 📕 VT CULTURE BOOK: https://bit.ly/4aL3Rw6 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4g57zR2 Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! ABOUT US: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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• 0:06Speaker 00

  Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright?

• 0:10Speaker 01

  My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.

• 0:14Speaker 02

  You are a one of one? My sundries, man.

• 0:16Speaker 01

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

• 0:20Speaker 01

  My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.

• 0:24Speaker 02

  You are a one of one? My sundries, man.

• 0:26Speaker 01

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

• 0:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright folks, hope you had a good weekend. Obviously, top of the line story, Maduro. How they got in, how they took him. And I saw one of the best memes yesterday. The meme said, it's showing a picture of Dick Cheney. It says, "Iraq has oil. I need eight years, 500,000 troops, and $2 trillion to go get it." And on the bottom is a picture of Trump. Tom, please turn that off, Tom.

• 1:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay. And then on the bottom is Trump, and it says, "Venezuela has oil. All I need is three hours and a few helicopters to go get them." Can you imagine? Like, all this criticism, and they did it in three hours, and the way they went and got him was an incredible thing. And Khamenei in Iran is apparently playing hide and go seek. He's running around. He may be going to Russia. They're trying to find out where he's at. Tim Walz is doing a press conference today. And Tim Walz may be, possibly, saying that he is not running again for governor, and he's now blaming Nick Shirley. He's going after a 23-year-old after he exposed all the stuff that was going on out there. Anyways, there's a lot of stories to cover here. Tim Walz is not a fan of Nick Shirley, and guess what?

• 1:44Patrick Bet-David?

  We love what Nick Shirley is doing to go out there and leer about what's going on in Minnesota. I think we are leering a lot, and hopefully, Tim Walz is as well.

• 1:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Couple other things. Trump suggests that US use cyber attacks to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes. Shout out to the Delta Force by the way of what they did. Uh, and if you're in New York, listen, whatever you do folks, I don't know what else to tell you. If you're in New York and you're trying to buy gold or sell gold or don't use Trax's name while you're messing with them. The guy, he tends to expose you and you know, there's, if you haven't seen this video yet, it may be the most viral video on Instagram this weekend. I have to show it to you on what happened, the sequencing of it. Very interesting story of the gold issues that happened there. Uh, General Dan Cain describes Thailand of Maduro's capture. We'll talk about that. China slams US hegemonic acts after strikes on Venezuela. China's not happy about it.

• 2:39Patrick Bet-David?

  World leaders largely express concern. Some praise about US capture of Maduro. Venezuelans in South Florida celebrating Maduro's capture. Iran denounces US act of aggression against Venezuela, demands UN intervention for peace and security. And apparently President of Mexico, Scheinbaum, also made a call to UN to say, hey, can you get involved? Because she's worried something may happen to her. Joe Biden mocked for very unfortunate X post that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. If you haven't seen Pete Buttigieg, nice guy, sweet guy, sweetheart of a guy. Rough weekend, truly a rough, I'm not talking his personal life, rough weekend with what happened on X to him. Not a good situation.

• 3:23Patrick Bet-David?

  You guys got to see this, it's pretty bad. We're supporting his recovery from this weekend on X. But Harvard professor calls out university exclusion of white males and scathing public resignation. Tom has some commentary on that, it's incredible. Minnesota government whistleblowers claimed they were electronically surveilled. Had promotions denied. Canadian snowbirds flocking to sell their Florida homes amid Trump feud, face huge losses at market tanks. Iran's Khamenei lashes out at protesters as nationwide anti-regime unrest grows. He came out and tweeted something saying, we're gonna bring the enemy to its knees. I said, you are the enemy. Forget about bringing the enemy to its knees.

• 4:04Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, apparently he is running off, hiding somewhere in Russia, allegedly. Let me put that word allegedly in there. And then no future for us, this affected Iranian states now or never to topple the regime, powerful image of Iran lone Iranian protester in front of security forces draws parallels to Tiananmen Square, uh, Tank Man, which we'll show you here in a minute. Reports say forty-one percent of Netflix shows on, uh, for children contain LGBTQ content in twenty twenty-five. Megyn Kelly, she's not done with Barry Weiss, declares CBS News legacy media dead as Barry Weiss feud escalates. Former CBS reporter Catherine Harris reveals how executives delayed her reporting on Hunter Biden laptop.

• 4:49Patrick Bet-David?

  We may talk about that and then just, it's gonna be a lot of stuff with Maduro. It's not a pretty sign on what happened down there, but the way they did it, what a freaking amazing way of going out there and doing it. By the way, Trump ends support for fringe theory that Venezuela rigged the twenty twenty election. Obviously, there's some talks there as well that people are not happy about. And then subway bus fees in, in, in bus fares rises to three dollars in New York City on Sunday. And they're like, wait a minute, I thought you were gonna make everything free. And then Mamdani, when he's telling me this, says, I, I told you I'm gonna make buses free, but not subways. So you had to raise the fee by what, ten cents?

• 5:28Speaker 04

  Even Maduro was complaining because when he got to New York. Maduro was like, why am I gonna do that?

• 5:34Patrick Bet-David?

  They made him pick up the tab. Yep, that makes sense. California banned the claw and how you can manage your cats claws now. Is that really a story?

• 5:42Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 5:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Stop it, Benny.

• 5:44Speaker 04

  I'm dead serious, they passed the law.

• 5:46Patrick Bet-David?

  A declawing law?

• 5:48Speaker 04

  If you cut their nails, it's illegal.

• 5:51Patrick Bet-David?

  In California?

• 5:52Speaker 04

  Cause cats are.

• 5:52Adam Sosnick?

  De-claw.

• 5:53Speaker 04

  De-claw.

• 5:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Like remove the nail.

• 5:55Speaker 04

  Clip them.

• 5:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Clip them or remove them?

• 5:58Adam Sosnick?

  No, not clip them.

• 5:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Remove them?

• 6:00Adam Sosnick?

  Let the cat guy handle this.

• 6:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, well, we'll talk about that.

• 6:03Adam Sosnick?

  It's removing the nail, not cutting the nail.

• 6:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, so before we go into all them, I'll do those stories. And one thing I will tell you is I've been getting a lot of my next about people talking about what they want to do with their culture in twenty twenty-six, going into twenty twenty-six. And for us, it's very clear, if you want to find out how specific our culture is at value taming, we went from having nine employees just a couple of years ago to now have a nearly hundred sixty, hundred seventy employees, full-time employees here on our campus here. Our culture deck is public available, you can go purchase it to read through it. It tells you exactly how we do everything, how we do our calibration. What we stand for, what we do, what it takes to get promoted here. If you've never had one of these, uh, you can go pick one of these up. Last time we did this, it sold out literally in minutes when it was gone.

• 6:48Patrick Bet-David?

  It's 1999. Go get it. Read it for yourself. We even went to a company the other day in Arkansas. We were looking at them. Their entire code of honor was pretty much every single thing that we said, except for one of them. And they had it in their front lobby. You can obviously go out there and change it up and do it for whatever you want to do with your company. But this could be a way for you to get some ideas for your business going into 2026. So go to VTmerch.com, Rob. We can put the link below as well for people to order. Culture deck available for anybody to purchase. We'll ship it to you all over the world. Okay. Having said that, let's get right into it. Rob, let's start off with Maduro from Venezuela. So, General Dan Kane describes timeline of Maduro's capture. Rob, if you have that clip, let's start off with

• 7:34Patrick Bet-David?

  the capture and how it was done of Maduro. Go for it, Rob.

• 7:38Speaker 06

  At 10:46 PM Eastern Time last night, the President ordered the United States military to move forward with this mission. He said to us, and we appreciated it, Mr. President, good luck and Godspeed. And those words were transmitted to the entire joint force. Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea across the Western Hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, rotary wing were in the air last night. Thousands and thousands of hours of experience were airborne. Our youngest crew member was 20 and our oldest crew member was 49.

• 8:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Wow.

• 8:22Speaker 06

  And they're simply no match for American military might. As the night began, the helicopters took off with the extraction force, which included law enforcement officers, and began their flight into Venezuela at 100 feet above the water. As they approached Venezuelan shores, the United States began layering different effects provided by Spacecom, Cybercom, and other members of the interagency to create a pathway. Overhead, those forces were protected from aircraft, were protected by aircraft from the United States Marines, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, and the Air National Guard.

• 9:00Speaker 06

  The force included F-22s, F-35s, F-18s, EA-18s, E-2s, B-1 bombers, and other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones. As the force began to approach Caracas, the joint air component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela, employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area. The goal of our air component is, was, and always will be to protect the helicopters and the ground force and get them to the target.

• 9:42Patrick Bet-David?

  In other words, guys, over 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, and reconnaissance, launched precision strikes on Venezuelan air defenses, military sites, to throw them off, by the way. And then, 201 helicopters of Delta Force reached Maduro, fortified compound, forced face fire, one helicopter hit, but flyable, responded with overwhelming forces, Maduro and wife, Celia Flores seized Maduro reportedly, tried fleeing to a safe room but failed, no US fatalities, minor injuries reported, extraction completed, 4:20 local time, Maduro couple flown out abroad helicopter to USS I-O, Jima, then to New York for change, for charges,

• 10:27Patrick Bet-David?

  narco-terrorism. And by the way, if you can show the picture of him getting, what he looked like with the, he, his eyes, they had to shut his eyes so he couldn't see where he was going, look at that right there, that's what he looked like, drinking water, having his, you know, workout suit, middle, can you imagine middle of the night? And by the way, there's a bunch of different reports, again, shout out majorly to Delta Force, when you see the amazing work they do, and how low-key it was, going in, in, backdoor, by the way, do you know they've been working on this project since August? They've been working on this since August.

• 11:00Speaker 04

  Rehearsing and everything, right?

• 11:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Since August, they've been gathering intel to know exactly how to do this. And it was officially done. Tom, I'll come to you first. What was your reaction when you saw this? The markets reacted in a very different way. Some people are saying, I cannot believe you're doing this to Venezuela. We are being involved. We shouldn't be doing this. You know, Rachel Maddow, you know, what are we doing? Why are we now running against Trump himself? By the way, if you got the clip of Trump, is this the one where he says, "Come for me, you coward"? Rob, is this the one? Go ahead and play this clip. So he's instigating you.

• 11:28Tom Ellsworth?

  That's my favorite.

• 11:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob.

• 11:36Speaker 08

  I just got three things to say. God bless our troops. God bless America. And gentlemen, start your...

• 11:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Don't you just love it? Don't you just love it? Don't you just love it?

• 11:53Speaker 04

  If we're gonna be honest, if we're gonna be honest, he, Tom, I'll give it to you. He requested the president to come get him. If he didn't do it, the left would complain at him. They'd be like, "Well, how dare you ignore a minority? You asked for it? Come get it? You got it. Period."

• 12:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, go for it.

• 12:11Tom Ellsworth?

  The first thing that, you know me, I break down everybody's words very carefully. And so I was listening to the general there, and he said, "We began layering in effects, and we began disabling and dismantling the anti-aircraft systems." Supposedly Venezuela, and I dove into this a little bit, but supposedly Venezuela has the China anti-stealth technology. Well, apparently it didn't work. Apparently it didn't work. The layering effects they're talking about were electronic countermeasures and potentially cyber to create, as they said, the corridor for rotary wing. When you hear him say rotary wing, that's helicopters. And then disabling...

• 12:49Tom Ellsworth?

  is cyber or other electronic means dismantling is, you know, noise where you saw the bombs and everything that were hitting any aircraft targets and hitting also their radar installations. And so this was, the layer effects was just tremendous. The more I read about this and the more you set back is that the mainstream media has got a defense analyst out there. I know CNBC has one, but they didn't talk about it. I am reading secondary sources like Jane's on armament and everything to say just how amazing it was to go in there, shut everything down. They call it closing their eyes. They say, okay, close their eyes and

• 13:32Tom Ellsworth?

  that's radar and everything. So that was number one that that kind of was very inspiring to me, the way Delta Force did it so well and the technology that was underneath there that creates this overwhelming multi-layer effect where we basically go in and out and what was really good that was preserved was the was the people that Maduro doesn't care about, his own citizens. His own citizens could have been in the middle of a firefight, could have been secondary casualties, but they weren't. They got in, they got their target, got out. The other thing I found very interesting as I went to the political side is it was not lost on me that the rest of the world is upset because they lost a Marxist country and they lost a Marxist leader. That's on the side of the globalists that

• 14:16Tom Ellsworth?

  want the socialist Marxist. They lost one of their guys and that's their funding. There's a Chinese gentleman that's funding protesters in America, put Maduro back, put Maduro back. They just took an L. Marxism took an L. They lost one of their guys. Think of it as a monopoly board. They just lost one of their key properties and

• 14:36Patrick Bet-David?

  There's a couple of clips, Tom.

• 14:38Tom Ellsworth?

  Those are the two things that I was thinking about.

• 14:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Good point. So there's a couple of clips of people being asked who are there for protesting and I have no clue what to say, but before we go there, Rob, let's go on the clips that you have for the president. Let's start off with this one and we'll go to the other one, Robin and Adam Vinny. I'll come to you guys. Go for it.

• 14:53Speaker 09

  Maduro in the dead of night. It was dark. The lights of Caracas were largely turned off. Due to a certain expertise that we have, it was dark.

• 15:13Speaker 04

  He just layman's terms.

• 15:14Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, go back, go back. I cannot, listen, I have so much respect for people that can hold it together and not laugh. It takes every single one of his abdominal muscles to not laugh right there. Marco Rubio, look at his face. Go back five seconds, Rob. Go back, but we have these lights we can turn off. Look at Rubio's face. You know he's looking at friends and he's getting ready to crack a purse play, Rob.

• 15:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Look at him. Look at him. He looked at somebody that he wants to laugh. He's holding it together.

• 15:44Speaker 09

  Expertise that we have, it was dark.

• 15:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so listen, we gotta give props to Rubio. We have to give props. Okay, so here's him on the phone. Go ahead, Rob.

• 15:57Speaker 10

  Incredible job. These men and women that went out there last night, the courage they had going into an area where, you know, all the lights were turned off. We turned off almost all of the lights in Caracas. I mean, this thing was so organized and they go into a dark space with machine guns facing them all over the place. And then you hear from a guy that I'd never even heard of him, but you hear from some congressman saying, oh, this is so terrible. We're saving lives. And by the way, the boats, every boat, because that's sort of related to this, every boat that we hit saves 25,000 lives.

• 16:33Patrick Bet-David?

  I love it. I love how it's being broken down into what they're talking about. Every boat we hit saves 25,000 lives. And by the way, here's some of the protesters. Okay, so check this out. Let's show some of the protesters on how they're reacting to this. Go ahead, Rob. I love this one.

• 16:49Speaker 11

  What brings you out here today? Um, we're, I'm organized with the Revolutionary Communists of America. We're out here to say, hands off Venezuela. Um, and we, uh, unequivocally stand with the people of Venezuela against US imperialist aggression.

• 17:03Speaker 12

  What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets?

• 17:06Speaker 11

  What?

• 17:06Speaker 12

  What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets today?

• 17:10Speaker 11

  Um, I saw images of Venezuelans being bombed after the US bombed Caracas, so I'm not sure what you're talking about, but um, yeah, I think you should definitely-

• 17:19Speaker 12

  Can you show me the bombings that you're talking about? I didn't see any-

• 17:22Speaker 11

  I don't know, I just saw it on Reddit, it was on the front page of-

• 17:24Speaker 12

  Oh Reddit, okay. But what do you think about the people celebrating? The hundreds of thousands of people that are in the streets celebrating?

• 17:29Speaker 11

  I have yet to see it, can you show me that?

• 17:32Speaker 12

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:33Speaker 11

  Sure. US imperialism, oh yeah.

• 17:35Speaker 12

  People celebrating on the streets here.

• 17:40Speaker 12

  What do you think about that?

• 17:41Speaker 11

  I mean, at the end of the day, I stand with the people of Venezuela against US imperialism. The US has no right to bomb the people of Venezuela. The US has no right to kidnap another-

• 17:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Put to the other one, Rob, if you get the other kid. There's another one that's very funny. The other one I sent you as well, uh, on, uh, not that one. There's one, that's the one right there, go ahead, watch this one.

• 18:03Speaker 13

  What do you know about Nicolas Maduro?

• 18:05Speaker 14

  Um, I don't know much, bro.

• 18:08Speaker 13

  I don't know, fool.

• 18:09Speaker 14

  But I'm here with Central CSO, and we fight against all this, um, with like the, with Trump administration, um, ICE, police brutality, so we're just here in support of all that.

• 18:21Speaker 13

  Just make a list. What does Maduro have to do with all that?

• 18:25Speaker 14

  I don't shit it, bro, you know, but-

• 18:27Speaker 13

  I don't know, fool, the Dodgers, eh? I mean, it makes sense, you know, Nicolas Maduro is responsible for almost 8 million people leaving Venezuela-

• 18:34Patrick Bet-David?

  That's Dodger fans for you.

• 18:34Speaker 13

  Like a quarter of their population over the last decade. I mean, he's contributed a lot, right?

• 18:40Speaker 04

  Take that hat.

• 18:41Speaker 14

  But, um, you know, we're just here supporting, you know what I mean?

• 18:46Speaker 13

  Yeah, go Nicolas Maduro, can we do that? Let's do it. Go, no?

• 18:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 18:50Patrick Bet-David?

  He realized, he realized by then-

• 18:52Speaker 13

  What do you know about Nicolas Maduro?

• 18:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, Vinnie, thoughts?

• 18:54Speaker 04

  Well, last year we talked about signal versus noise, and I think the noise of the left is falling on deaf ears. Nobody cares. You know what the signal is? The people of Venezuela, okay? I have yet to see one Venezuelan, Tommy, one, be like, "What are they doing?" It's all leftist, white liberal women, and people that are getting paid- To do it. And by the way, this noise is paid for by the enemy. Okay, the hands off Venezuela protest that was happening in New York. Supporting Maduro was organized by the People's Forum. That's an NGO that received over 20 million dollars from a billionaire who lives in China FYI with ties to the CCP.

• 19:35Speaker 04

  The NGO's primary funding is from Neville Roy Singum. Singum's residence is in Shanghai. His business ties with the CCP, attends CCP related events, and he funds media outlets echoing Chinese state narrative. None of these people know what they're there for. All their signs are bought and paid for. It's the same as the No Kings. It's the same as all that paid and inorganic protesting. It's all horse crap. And the most important, I think, is with everything that happened, China, we talked about this before, was visiting while this was happening, the day before. Maduro met with Xu Shinki, I can't even say the name, representative of the Chinese government on Latin American affairs at the Miraflores Palace, where he asked Trump to go, uh, come get him.

• 20:17Speaker 04

  Maduro said, "I had a pleasant meeting with this guy, special envoy to President Xi Jinping. We reaffirmed our commitment to strategic relationship that is progressing and strengthening in various areas for building multipolar world and development of peace. Okay? Let's not play games. China is our biggest threat. They're not an adversary. They are our enemy. Look what they did with COVID, zero accountability, and they're laughing in our faces. Okay? We have to deal with them, Pat, I think, head on. Okay? If not, what's to stop them from doing another COVID or a cyber attack and all that stuff? I think the, the, the drugs and all that stuff is the cherry on top. But I think this strategic thing with Tom, China, Russia, it's such a great move that I think that he did because now

• 21:01Speaker 04

  it's ours. Okay? And guess what? Yes, we're gonna get money from the oil. Good. They're gonna make money as well. But why, why is China and Russia over there? Stay on your own side of the hemisphere. We don't want you, Adam. If you think about it, why, why are they here? Why are they letting them get close? This is a great move, I think, by President Trump. And if I hear one more person go, "We're, we're going to war." He did this, this attack was in one hour. That's an episode of Friends with commercials in our... I love it. I absolutely love it. Now, America is back. We're back.

• 21:34Adam Sosnick?

  Adam.

• 21:36Adam Sosnick?

  F around and find out. Shout out to the US military, shout out to Delta Force. Wow, we are some gangsters out there. So I'm from Miami. I have so many Venezuelan friends. They're such amazing people. So the happiest people in the world today are Venezuelans. Second to that are the Cubans who understand the struggle of Venezuelans. The cheering going on in Miami, all over Miami, all weekend was profound. This is the biggest, like, on-the-street protest parade excitement since 2021, when there was the Libertad Free Cuba Movement. 2021, since then the biggest parades since Fidel Castro died in 2016. Because the people of Miami, who've had to flee socialism and flee communism, understand.

• 22:20Adam Sosnick?

  Juxtapose that with insane white liberals cheering for Maduro. Imagine how far your head has have to be up your ass to be cheering against Donald Trump, against the Venezuelan people cheering for Maduro. These are the people that shout "No kings." These are autocrats that have hijacked countries like Venezuela, like Cuba, like Iran, and the people of their country want freedom, Libertad. So shout out to Trump, shout out to Pete Hegseth, shout out to Marco Rubio, and major respect to the Venezuelan people.

• 22:58Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, you know how bad it is when Ana Navarro, who hates Trump, I mean, there's certain people you can tell that literally that cannot stand a person, she would be on that list. But look what she had to do. It was so tough for her to do it that even her dog in the background was upset, saying, "Please don't do it." Okay? Watch, watch her here giving praise to the president. Go for it.

• 23:22Speaker 00

  Today for me is a good day because Maduro is out. He is a son of a bitch. I hope this sends a message to the other sons of bitches in the region. You may disagree with the way Trump did it. But it's done.

• 23:37Patrick Bet-David?

  You're not pissed.

• 23:39Speaker 00

  There was no way that it was going to end any other way. Because once he started bombing boats. And we have, we've, uh, we've bombed boats and alleged drug boats and killed over a hundred and fifteen people. I think Trump thought getting rid of Maduro was gonna be easy. And Maduro was gonna scare easily. He didn't. It took, uh, him, uh, doing this. So, yeah, he did it without congressional authorization. This was an act of war, all of these things. But it's now done. I think it doesn't escalate from here because the objective of this was to get Maduro out. So, um...

• 24:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Anyway, while you're seeing that, I just wanted to show that. But you know what's my favorite clip out of all of them? What is it? Can I tell you what's my favorite clip out of all of them? Because you realize, the president said they're running the show right now. Through the vice president that became the president, who was acting all tough on TV. But behind closed doors, she's following orders and Trump said, I think she is.

• 24:38Patrick Bet-David?

  This reporter here, that, uh, uh, uh, Marco Rubio goes on. She's asking the question, saying, how come you didn't get more people? Why did you only get Maduro? Why did you only do this? And just watch, this is why Rubio, to me, is slowly becoming the number one draft pick for 2028 election for president. I just want you to see this. Go ahead, Rob, please play this clip.

• 25:05Speaker 15

  Curious, because you, you just described the regime as still in place, essentially. I mean, I'm, I'm curious why the Trump administration decided to leave it intact and only arrest Nicolas Maduro and his wife, the person who controls the police, the chief thug, Díaz-Cabeo. He's the interior minister. He's been indicted by the United States. He was in that indictment the administration released. He's a narco terrorist. There's a $25 million price on his head. He's still in place. The defense minister, who has deep ties to Russia, $15 million price on his head. He is still in place. I'm confused. Are they still wanted by the United States?

• 25:47Patrick Bet-David?

  His response.

• 25:48Speaker 15

  Why didn't you arrest them?

• 25:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Have you seen this?

• 25:49Speaker 15

  If you are taking out the narco terrorist regime?

• 25:52Speaker 16

  You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing to you.

• 25:56Speaker 15

  They're still in power.

• 25:57Speaker 16

  It's very simple. We're not gonna go in and wrap up. You're gonna... But yeah, but you can't go... You're gonna go in and suck up five people. They're already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to capture four other people. We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not. Who wrote that question? And he was arrested, along with his wife, was also indicted. And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation.

• 26:25Speaker 15

  It was.

• 26:25Speaker 16

  It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country. The guy lived on a military base. Land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter, and leave the country without losing any American or any American assets. That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time? Unbelievable. I mean, that's absurd. I do think this is one of the most, you know, daring. It's maybe the worst state. Complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous credit to the US military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable. And tremendous success. And today, an indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela,

• 27:08Speaker 16

  who we don't recognize, the Biden administration didn't recognize, 60-something countries don't recognize, the European Union doesn't recognize, and many countries in Latin America don't recognize. He was a convict, he was an indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested, his wife was arrested, also indicted.

• 27:23Speaker 15

  Right, but the others, the others who are also indicted are still...

• 27:26Speaker 16

  And they are now facing justice in an American system of courts.

• 27:27Speaker 15

  The others who are also indicted are still in place, so that's the point of my questioning there. But you talked about not being the legitimate president.

• 27:35Speaker 16

  So you wanted us to land in five other military bases?

• 27:37Speaker 15

  No, I'm asking why you chose that this was the limit of the military operation.

• 27:42Speaker 16

  The limit?

• 27:43Speaker 15

  But to your point that you just made, that Maduro was not the legitimate president.

• 27:47Speaker 16

  He was the guy who was claiming to be the president.

• 27:48Speaker 15

  Right. Um, well, I'm curious.

• 27:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Can I just say one thing?

• 27:52Adam Sosnick?

  Is this not like? Does she think the US military, Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man? What planet are you living on? There is no winning. That you can't just give praise to the US military? It's a Delta Force saying, wow, what an unbelievable operation. Why didn't you take out every single bad guy in the world? Because that's not how life works.

• 28:10Tom Ellsworth?

  She got up in the morning, took a shower, slipped and fell, hit her head, and woke up as Lindsey Graham. So it's like, why didn't you get more people? Why didn't you attack more things? This, to me, the irony here is you have a liberal media outlet in the mainstream media actually calling for more military intervention.

• 28:30Speaker 04

  Weird, weird.

• 28:31Adam Sosnick?

  No matter which way you put it, this is the best thing. The hypocrisy that is seeping from the left right now. Okay, so we're gonna object to anything that Trump does. Okay, so now you're defending Maduro?

• 28:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 28:42Adam Sosnick?

  Now you want more escalation? You're criticizing what he did in Iran? So now you want the Ayatollah power? This is the hypocrisy that's happening there. Trump can cancel your income taxes and leftists will be like, I wanna pay taxes.

• 28:57Speaker 04

  They're gonna complain.

• 28:58Adam Sosnick?

  It's so stupid.

• 28:59Speaker 04

  And we're talking about hypocrisy. Bush and Obama spent $3 trillion. I'm gonna say that again. $3 trillion on the wars, 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. We lost almost 2,500 United States military soldiers fighting the damn Taliban. And the whole time Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. Okay, wrap your head and congressional approval? How many strikes happened under Biden with no congressional approval? Do you guys know? Ready for this? 165 strikes. 85 in Iraq and Syria, 10 in Syria and Iraq combined, 70 in Yemen.

• 29:32Tom Ellsworth?

  Don't forget Yemen.

• 29:33Speaker 04

  The same with Obama. Obama killed Osama bin Laden, zero congressional approval.

• 29:38Adam Sosnick?

  And George W. Bush got congressional approval and invaded Iraq? Retarded.

• 29:42Speaker 04

  He and Obama invaded Libya, killed Gaddafi, no approval. In 2016, Rob, do you have that chart? How many bombs did this guy drop? Mr. Black Jesus? How many? 26,171 bombs in one year. So when I say, I love that you came with the signal versus noise. Nobody's hearing your noise on the left. Nobody cares. Who the hell gives a damn what Harry Sisson thinks about this whole geopolitical stage? Nobody gives a damn, all right? And Pat, just, I have a chart.

• 30:10Tom Ellsworth?

  And Obama killed a US citizen abroad and knew that he was going to do it.

• 30:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, oh, 1,000%. Pat, did you see the chart about, um? Poland and Venezuela. Look at, go to that chart Robbie. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

• 30:25Tom Ellsworth?

  Was this the change in fortunes?

• 30:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, look at this chart Pat. Did you see this? Zoom in Robbie. Venezuela, per capita countries gross domestic product divided by population. Look at that and go back up. Once they become socialist, look what happened. Once Poland said, no, we're not gonna do it. Look at what happened. Isn't that weird?

• 30:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Poland versus Venezuela. Who would have ever thought this was gonna happen?

• 30:45Speaker 04

  Who would have thunk? But I have a different angle. I wanna see what you guys think about this. Immediately when the bombing happened, immediately on the 3rd, right after Trump started posting stuff on Truth Social about the 2020 election and Dominion, okay? And one of them was Robbie, I think is one of these Rob. Pat, look at this. This was a Venezuelan military intelligence whistleblower confirmed the CIA outsourced election rigging technology like Smartmatic and Dominion from Venezuela, okay? So maybe, just maybe, alright, Trump and Maduro, this is just allegedly, maybe, whatever. They made a deal. Maduro says, okay, I'll let you guys capture me, come and do the whole thing. In return, I'm gonna drop dime on every single one of the voting cheating thing that happened in 2020, okay?

• 31:30Speaker 04

  And if you remember Pat, Lou Dobbs in 2006 had a whole thing, I'm not gonna have Rob play it, about cheating Adam and all that stuff. And then Sidney Powell, Robbie, can you play the one on Sidney Powell? She's been talking about this for years. She got in trouble and everything. Listen what she talks about.

• 31:45Speaker 17

  I can hardly wait to put forth all the evidence we have collected on Dominion. Starting with the fact it was created to produce altered voting results in Venezuela for Hugo Chavez. And then shipped internationally to manipulate votes for purchase in other countries, including this one. It was funded by money from Venezuela and Cuba and China has a role in it also. We have staggering statistical evidence. We have staggering testimony from witnesses, including one who was personally in the briefing.

• 32:19Speaker 04

  I'm just saying, you never know what's gonna come out of it. Trump, every time I think I know what he's doing, there's always something underneath it that he's doing.

• 32:28Adam Sosnick?

  By the way, and people want to talk about affordability. Is this oil that we're gonna get, is that gonna help the affordability in the United States? Are we gonna get lower gas prices?

• 32:35Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, you know what I love about, there's another clip about Rubio, Western Hemisphere, which I think was brilliant, that both he and Trump said, they said, wait a minute. What are you talking about? So the oil that China and Russia and Iran are coming to take, this is on the west, that's the one right there, Rob. This is on the Western Hemisphere. No, you're not gonna come and take it. This is on this side. Go ahead and play that clip, Rob. This was brilliant.

• 33:01Speaker 18

  If the purpose of the operation was to capture Maduro and bring him to justice, why does the United States need to take over the Venezuelan oil industry?

• 33:14Speaker 16

  Well, we don't need to. First, let me go back up. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we're not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States. You have to understand, why does China need their oil? Why does Russia need their oil? Why does Iran need their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. And we're not gonna allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States. Have specific oil companies? We also want to see that oil and the proceeds from it. Hold on. We want to see the oil proceeds of that country benefit the people of Venezuela. Why have 8 million people left Venezuela? 8 million, the single largest mass migration probably in modern history, left Venezuela since 2014?

• 33:57Speaker 16

  Because all the wealth of that country was stolen to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime, but not to the benefit of people of Venezuela. You know how destabilizing 8 million migrants is? The number one fear that Brazil has, that Colombia has, that all these countries in the region have about what's happening in Venezuela and our involvement, is they're afraid of another mass migration event. That's what they fear. This is deeply destabilizing stuff. It's not gonna continue to happen. They are not going to come from outside of our hemisphere, destabilize our region in our own backyard, and us have to pay the price for it. Not under President Trump.

• 34:30Adam Sosnick?

  I got this one, God. So, there's an article here that talks about that China doesn't want US hegemony. Do you understand what hegemony means? Hegemony means you run the world. So, what do you think that Russia, Iran, and China are doing in Venezuela? Do you think they're looking for arepas and big booty Latinas? No, they're interested in the oil that comes from Venezuela, which has the largest reserve oil in the world. So, we need to start acting like grownups here. China wants to take over the world. Do you want to live in a world that China runs the world? Or in a world that the United States run the world? That's what this all comes down to. Do you want US running the world? Or China running the world? Look at who's praising the actions with Maduro.

• 35:15Adam Sosnick?

  Look who's looking out for the people of Maduro. Iran made a statement. Russia made a statement. China made a statement. Cuba made a statement. These are all enemies of the United States.

• 35:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, but there's another thing that's brewing here behind closed doors, which is very weird. You're making-

• 35:32Adam Sosnick?

  The Monroe Doctrine, which they talked about, if I could just say this. Monroe Doctrine is this, James Monroe said, basically, US runs the Western Hemisphere. Now, he said that before we had nuclear weapons. I'm not old enough to remember this, Tom, you might remember this. There was something called the Cuba Missile Crisis in 1960 something, whatever.

• 35:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, when JFK was-

• 35:51Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, so when JFK was president. So, why were we so against Cuba having missiles? Because they're 90 miles off the coast of Miami. Why do we want these foreign adversaries, enemies you may call them, having access to a country on our hemisphere where they can set up camp and attack the United States? To me, this is sending a message. We're not playing around. This is grownup stuff. You might not like Trump interfering. He gets in, he gets out. He takes out Maduro. He removes the nuclear capabilities of Iran. He gets in and out. Soleimani, in and out. He's not starting foreign wars. The whole argument that Trump's starting foreign wars. What foreign war? You're making them- He's in, he's out, he's precision.

• 36:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, but this is, again, yes, I saw the whole thing with Iran, with China, with, you know, who's responding to, oh my God, what's going on? Who's criticizing it, right? This one is mainly to the far-right, the woke-right community, that they said, you know, I didn't vote for this. I didn't vote for this. You didn't vote for what? I didn't vote for war. What war? The guy at the top, he voted for war. Dick Cheney, okay? Iraq has oil, weapons of mass destruction, need eight years, 500,000 troops, and $2 trillion. The guy at the bottom is like, "No, no. Venezuela has oil, but all we need is three hours and a few helicopters to go do it properly."

• 37:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Remember the criticism when Biden got elected and the way we left Afghanistan? Now you realize how lack of precision that was directed with the way Biden did it? Imagine if Trump was leaving Afghanistan, what things would have happened? These are things that people have to pay very, very close attention to when they see how he's doing it, under his watch, under his regime. Yes, now let's talk about the other side. Let's play devil's advocate a little bit. What's the devil's advocate? You know, Rubio said, "This has got nothing to do about oil. You know, we have all the oil in the world." Yeah, we're probably producing the most oil in the world. If you pull up the chart, Rob, on X,

• 38:02Patrick Bet-David?

  on how much oil we produce against all the other countries in the world, yeah, we're definitely producing a lot. But the reserves, Venezuela's number one, more than Saudi. So let's not get it twisted. They got oil, they got gold, they got... Look at that right there. Look at that right there, where we were at. Saudi, look at from 1900, move forward, look at Saudi. Saudi's been dominating for god knows how long, and then they dropped off from 1970 down to 2010. Saudi, no, Saudi is... Yeah, that's Saudi right there, yeah. US was doing the most, and then we dropped off a little bit from 70 to 2010, and then Saudi kept getting going, and then US is all the way to the top, right? And by the way, even if you look at producing, look at where Venezuela's there.

• 38:47Patrick Bet-David?

  You don't see Venezuela there, right on that list. So yes, it's strategic. Yes, it could be because of the gold. Yes, it could be a lot of different things. Now here's a question.

• 38:58Patrick Bet-David?

  The question becomes who's next? Because Claudia Scheinbaum calls the UN and says, hey, maybe we need to step in because this is getting a little bit out of control. Okay, Claudia Scheinbaum, Mexican president. Why is she calling the UN? Because Trump broke two, Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations. So she is worried about what could happen. Now, she's speaking on her behalf or the cartel? No one knows. What's Cuba thinking right now? What's Iran thinking right now? What are a lot of countries? What is Colombia thinking right now? The president was asked about Colombia because remember what the Colombia said to the president? If something happens, we'll take them out. Remember when the Colombia president will take them out? Put me in your little orange pajamas. That's right.

• 39:43Patrick Bet-David?

  No, but he said, we'll take them out. Right, Rob, do you have that clip when he said, we'll take them out? There's a clip, Petro, just put Petro, take them out on X. Couple of months ago. And I said, I said, there's no way you can talk like that about another person. There's no, that's the interview right there. Look what he says here. Fast forward, Rob, if you can, to the last 30 seconds. Right there, from right there is fine. Go ahead. Watch this.

• 40:14Speaker 19

  It is to change Trump. In various ways. It's easy way. La más fácil.

• 40:22Adam Sosnick?

  Makes a gun noise.

• 40:23Speaker 19

  Saca la cromia.

• 40:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay. Oh, really? Okay, okay. I wonder how he's sleeping tonight. All right, so here's the president. Go forward.

• 40:31Speaker 20

  Mr. President, so Colombian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple of weeks ago, he said he's got to watch his ass. And today, he said he's not concerned about anything happening to him in the aftermath of this operation. So just what your message is about that?

• 40:43Speaker 09

  Well, he has cocaine mills. He has factories where he makes cocaine. And yeah, I think I stick by my first statement. He's making cocaine, they're sending it into the United States. So he does have to watch his ass.

• 41:00Patrick Bet-David?

  So, so you're seeing this. By the way, look at the president's energy. You know what is the best about how he's speaking right now? Zero emotion. Flow state. It's not even flow state. It's zero emotion. He used to be. Cold as ice. He used to like when he had to win everybody over. He was so animated, so energized, loud, fighting. Today, nothing. Guess what? Ice cold. Here's what we're doing. Yep. He is the coldest I've ever seen him be. He is as ice cold as ever before. But the reality of it is, what do you think Petro is doing right now? What do you think the Mexican cartel are thinking about right now in Mexico?

• 41:44Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think Cuba's thinking about right now? What do you think Iran's thinking about right now? If, if we want to go into Iran, this next story here, uh, uh. They are all on notice, Pat. They're all on notice. But if you want to go to Iran next, so here's what is taking place in Iran. By the way, the count now of protesters getting killed in Iran. The report says 16, some say 20, some say a lot more than that. But they are not slowing down, but what's taking place with Iran. Khomeini, Rob, if you want to pull up his tweet. I'm so proud of Rob. Now he knows how to, you know, type out Khomeini, like he knows how to do the rhonymy. There's like this, we're getting so much better in spelling right now on the team. So much spit on his microphone. Look at this here. He says, we will bring the enemy to its knees. I love what you responded, Pat.

• 42:28Patrick Bet-David?

  We will not give in to the enemy. Rob, if you want to go on Twitter. So he's saying this, right? Acting all tough. And I responded to the guy and I said, let me see what I said to him. I don't know if someone in there, Rob, if you can't find it, it's fine. Uh, uh, is it right there? Yeah, you are, uh, he says, uh, we will bring the enemy to the knees. And I said, you are the enemy of your people, right? Well, what he's got going on to Iran. And then reports have it that he is on the run. Reports have it that he is allegedly going to Russia to hide. Oh, weird. Okay, he is going to Russia to hide. Really? Yeah, that's alleged reports. If you type in, is, is the report in here, Rob, or you don't have it here?

• 43:08Speaker 21

  I don't believe it's in there.

• 43:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so why don't you just go out on Google and type in Khomeini, Russia. Khomeini, there you go. Ayatollah Khomeini plans to flee to Moscow. This is the Times. If Iran unrest intensifies, the Republic Supreme Leader has plotted an exit route out of Tehran. Should his forces fail to quell dissent and intelligence report reveals. Go a little bit lower, Rob.

• 43:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Khomeini has a backup plan to flee the country. Should his forces fail, 86 years old, plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 28 and family. Should he see that, the army and security called on Quel, the unrest and deserting. The plan B is for Khomeini and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Moch Tabah, an intelligence source, Ben Sapti, who served for decades for Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime after eight years after Islamic revolution, told The Times that Khomeini would flee to Moscow and there's no other place for him. Where else is he gonna go? What other place is he gonna go? China may not even want the guy. He's gotta go to Moscow because Moscow's the place that Russia owes him. Because Iran's been selling him so many drones that they're like, I'm your number

• 44:17Patrick Bet-David?

  one customer. Listen, then I'm gonna come and stay over there and feel safe about it. So Iran's not looking too good. And the chaos is continuing. I'm trying to see which video was trying to go to. Tom, I'll come to you on this because you look like you have some thoughts. Go for it.

• 44:31Tom Ellsworth?

  Excuse me. I actually have a question for you based on history. Didn't Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, right? If I said that correctly, I have to identify him. Wasn't he exiled in France before the 78, 79 revolution?

• 44:47Patrick Bet-David?

  He was.

• 44:48Tom Ellsworth?

  So we've kind of seen this playbook before, right? They escape and go someplace and then they wait until maybe it's safe to come back. It's like we've seen this history before, but it doesn't look like this time the Iranian people are having it.

• 45:01Patrick Bet-David?

  The only difference is the first time Khomeini went to France, he was in his 50s, if not 60s. This guy's 86 years old. His time is up. So it's not really him that we're worried about. It's his son. That could be the replacement. That's right. Yeah. So the whole thing that...

• 45:18Tom Ellsworth?

  Who's his son?

• 45:18Patrick Bet-David?

  His son is the one that right now the wealth is probably gonna go to and a lot of people right now are fighting to see who gets... It's like the Game of Thrones. Okay? It's like the Game of Thrones.

• 45:29Tom Ellsworth?

  It really is.

• 45:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh my God. It's like the Game of Thrones scene. Who is about to get the power? Who's gonna be... They're all fighting for it, right? Which son is gonna be getting the power? But with Iran, Rob, do you have that clip? The one clip over here that says, Iran's Khomeini lashes at a protest that makes sure the anti-regime unrest grows? Do you have that one clip from page 16?

• 45:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you know which one I'm talking about?

• 45:52Speaker 21

  Yep, it's unfortunately, I believe it's in.

• 45:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Watch this.

• 46:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Pause it right there. I thought it was the translation for Americans to see. No, no, no, have we said him? Yeah, we're talking.

• 46:18Speaker 21

  I have a translated version of it. I don't know, but it's AI, so I don't know how good it's gonna be.

• 46:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it.

• 46:22Speaker 21

  Okay, John.

• 46:23Speaker 22

  It's a different day, but this day is different from riots. We need to prune our hair after we prune it. It is useful to be disturbed by spam. Put the troublemaker in her place. Put the troublemaker in his place. The eruption of the century to the east of Harry. For rent, me luxury, Sinjim and Rekesh are the beginning centers. This is a certain amount of money. Beyond the destruction of the body of the country of Posh Tisser. Let the faithful and healthy and Anglo's be free from it resumes and fight from the basket.

• 46:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 46:51Speaker 22

  Sloan is not acceptable before. You can't destroy the enemy's work by knowing the enemy's name, not by any means from the basket. Here, Dan, me Fardisus, from Kisson, from Swada, from bait, the CD Nemo. The most important thing is that when a person is an enemy, he is a creditor. Do you impose something on the drawer, on the Muslims, on the government, on the nation?

• 47:12Speaker 21

  Yeah.

• 47:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, he's speaking, you can pause it right there.

• 47:14Speaker 21

  How old is he now? He's in his eight?

• 47:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Eighty-six. He's eighty-six years old.

• 47:17Speaker 21

  He's done.

• 47:17Patrick Bet-David?

  He's eighty-six years old, but it's again, it's not him that you're worried about. It's his son that you're worried about. And right now with everything that's going on over there, there's stories about, here's a story from The Guardian. No future for us. This affected Iranian states now or never to topple the regime. A sudden nosedive in value of Iran's currency was the final blow to the population growing tired of being patient under an ailing economy. Protesters soon began in Iran and spread kicking off the countries. Biggest protest in years, at least ten, and now it's twenty people killed. Despite my mother's fears, I joined in. Do you have, oh my God, you have to see this video. Rob, do you have this video of the son crying, pleading, oh, you have, folks?

• 48:03Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm gonna send this to you, Rob, if you have it.

• 48:05Speaker 21

  This one right here?

• 48:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, let me see, that's the one. Ravini, watch this. You have to watch this. Go for it.

• 48:09Speaker 02

  No, no, you better get the fuck out of here.

• 48:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Don't go. Why shouldn't I go?

• 48:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Working like a dog from morning to night, like a dog. Can't be done. I have nothing left to lose.

• 48:26Patrick Bet-David?

  My parents are all apart before my eyes.

• 48:30Patrick Bet-David?

  I can't do damn thing. I wished, my mother wished for me to get married.

• 48:37Patrick Bet-David?

  I wished it would wrap me in a blanket tomorrow and bury me.

• 48:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Why shouldn't I go? Let me go.

• 48:43Speaker 02

  But at least I didn't sleep with a guilty conscience at night.

• 48:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me go, but if my child asks me, "What did you do?", I won't say I couldn't do anything. I just got the chills all over me.

• 48:56Speaker 02

  Every night, the thought that it gets too late to act.

• 49:02Speaker 02

  Why shouldn't I go?

• 49:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Why shouldn't I go? It's way too late. We've endured so much. We've had it up to here, I can't.

• 49:11Speaker 02

  I'm going.

• 49:12Patrick Bet-David?

  If you join me, you're appreciated. And if you don't, wanna come, just don't forget me. Are you kidding me? Are you seeing where it's gotten to in Iran?

• 49:25Speaker 04

  And when I hear people, when I hear people, and we're all gonna hear the same noise over and over and over, they have no idea what the hell they're talking about, okay? They're just sitting here, talking crap, and they don't, they don't understand. By the way, first of all, I am so proud, it's come to a point of that, okay? And when people are like, "Oh, Israel and America, shut up", okay? Do you understand what it's like to be ruled by these people? Okay? Like, first of all, you gotta cover your face, ladies, or they'll beat your ass in the head and kill you. Remember that girl, I forgot her name? It was just hanging off her head, they beat her ass to death, okay? If you're, if you're a protester, they will find you and they will kill your ass, okay? Public hangings, women are worth half of a man in court. So when I hear these liberal women talking about that,

• 50:10Speaker 04

  you're not even worth half of a man in Iran, okay? Homosexuality, they're throwing your ass off of buildings. Girls can be married as young as nine. And I know liberals, you guys are okay with that, because all your transgender and all your, you guys don't give a damn about children, but, enough, nobody gives a damn about your, "Oh, America", they, they're doing it on their own organically, but they're gonna need help. They're gonna need help. And I'm telling you right now, good for them. I'm so freaking happy for the people because I think it's not going back from here. From this point on, Adam, it's not, you can't undo it. They're, the citizens now have guns. They're firebombing places that are of the military. There's no turning back now. They're done. And I'm proud of them. Good for them.

• 50:51Adam Sosnick?

  Well, time is up.

• 50:53Tom Ellsworth?

  And not all the IRGC, IRGC, right?

• 50:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, IRGC.

• 50:58Tom Ellsworth?

  Not all the IRGC, they have the equivalent of a National Guard, which is like a police level.

• 51:04Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 51:04Tom Ellsworth?

  And apparently, these guys did not show up in the numbers that were dispatched.

• 51:08Speaker 04

  Good.

• 51:09Tom Ellsworth?

  And that did not, because you go back 10 years ago, they would, how many of my history here, Pat? They would just fire into the crowds.

• 51:16Speaker 04

  They drove over them with trucks.

• 51:17Tom Ellsworth?

  There would have been a couple hundred casualties when you have 10,000 citizens out there protesting. But there is, we're still counting casualties, which are tragic, in tens. We're not counting them in hundreds. And what's interesting to me is that when you hear that the military doesn't show up, that is usually, historically speaking, one of the big signs. When the government can't get the military to do it, the citizens that are in the military are usually saying enough to the government they serve.

• 51:52Speaker 04

  That's awesome.

• 51:52Adam Sosnick?

  So that video of that young man, basically pleading with his mother, "I have to go protest. I have to go protest."

• 52:01Adam Sosnick?

  Number one, salute to him. But the question is, how many more young men feel exactly like that? My guess is it's millions. Imagine your mother saying, "Don't go. I don't want you to lose your life." He says, "I have to." What am I going to tell my children? That I stayed at home?

• 52:17Adam Sosnick?

  I have so much respect for the people of Iran. Not just because of my CEO and boss and friend PBD right here, just because I know a lot of Persians in this country and beyond, who want more than anything, a free Iran. So if we think that we're seeing amazing protests in Venezuela, if we're seeing that we're seeing amazing protests when Syria's liberated, I can't wait to see the parades that happen in Tehran, Iran, when the Ayatollah falls and the people of Iran can be free. It's coming. It's inevitable. The momentum is there. And I feel like whether it's now, whether it's next year, the time is now.

• 52:59Adam Sosnick?

  The, you know, MLK famously said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Forty-six years have been living under this oppression. How long has Venezuela been dealing with this? Twenty-five years?

• 53:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 53:12Adam Sosnick?

  Almost double what's going on in Iran. And you know who the Ayatollah fears the most? His own people. And they're coming for him. He's hiding. And he might be fleeing. We're gonna see what's happening there. The people are miserable. They're unemployed. The inflation is rampant. The economy is plummeting. They're focusing on nuclear weapons and funding terrorism rather than feeding their people and providing them with drinking water. His time's up.

• 53:36Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, if you want to play this clip, Khomeini has advice for you. This is a speech he gave in 1979, Iranian people. Advice from Khomeini. Ruolo Khomeini, one of the top five most powerful figures in Islamic religion. If, well, if you play this, they won't understand it. I want to read up top. So Rob, if you can get out of it, and then play it while having that. So in this speech, this is somewhere around October of 79-ish, when he's giving the speech to the Iraqi people. But we can turn this message around and play it for the Iranian people. Go ahead, Rob. Play the clip. What he's saying here is, "Blow up places that belong to the government. Paralyze its economy. Don't pay taxes to it.

• 54:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Don't pay for water and electricity. Don't give it, don't give it the other things it wants. Hold demonstrations. I know that everyone has a bleeding heart from this regime. Stab it in the back. Go on strike. It cannot stand against the nation." Pause it. Khomeini is giving you that advice. Khomeini is giving you that advice. Okay? So if Khomeini is giving that advice to a regime that's destroying its people, flip it and do it to that, to, what do you call it? To that government right now in Iran. That's doing it to you. The level of bravery and courage that has taken place with these guys, it's absolutely insane. So many people all weekend, like, "Oh, my God, why can't you just get behind a Reza Palavi? And why can't you just do this?

• 55:05Patrick Bet-David?

  And why can't you just do that?" I don't know how many clips you guys have. Iranians are starting to finally share and say, "What the hell are you talking about?" Here's what Reza Palavi said to all your Iranians that are so, you know, infatuated and have the, you have this romance, like, "Oh, but no, but you don't understand." Here's what Reza Palavi said. "Why don't you take his word for it, Rob? I just sent you the clip. It's all over X." And I have multiple clips like this to ask him, "Do you want to go back to Iran?" "No." "Do you want to take your family back?" "No." He has said it now, and it's all over the place, and you guys are still romanticizing with this. Watch this clip. Go ahead, Rob.

• 55:45Speaker 23

  You keep asking one question. Whether or not I'm going to take my family back there. Because in a way, you are thinking whether or not you can take your family back there. We would all like to be able to go back home and be able to live there, if possible. And I see in a realistic sense that we can keep flowing and going back and forth. We don't have to be pinned in one place. We cannot divest because, honestly, my life has been for the past 40 years here in America. My children live here, my friends live here, everybody that I know is here, so...

• 56:20Patrick Bet-David?

  It's almost unfair to them.

• 56:22Speaker 23

  If I was to go back, what do I go back to? But you keep asking one question.

• 56:27Patrick Bet-David?

  If I go back to Iran, here's a line. "What do I go back to?" Do you know what's the criticism he's gotten over the weekend? Over the week, while this is happening? Where are you? People are saying he was on vacation, he's doing what he's doing. Rob, I'm going to send you this clip here. I don't know if you want to accept it on your phone, too. If it's not coming through, I can text it to you as well. He doesn't want the job and, and all this, you know, chanting, "You guys better find another person. He can play a very important role." I hope he does. But all this chanting you're doing, the Iranian, it's not letting you, Rob, to come through? No, sir. Okay, so I'll try to text it to you to play it. And, and this, this is, this is again, from your guy that you guys want,

• 57:12Patrick Bet-David?

  who doesn't want the job, doesn't want the job. I said something last Friday night on the podcast. I said, have you, I'm gonna post it on X and direct it at him. Probably I'm gonna post it right after this and say, a, a message, a question for you, Reza Palavi, a message for Reza Palavi. And, and see, um, what the audience will say about it. Rob, are you getting the text or no? I just came through. Okay, so i- if, if you, if you look at this video, this is from the other conversation that we had together. Very point blank question, "Do you want this job? Do you want to go back and be the CEO?" He says, "No." He says, "No."

• 57:53Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, for the people that are judging, there's three people in that community. Those of you guys that are judging, those of you guys that are celebrating, Rob, it's not come through yet? No. Okay, I, I just sent it to you in the video. It should be up there. If you don't have it on your phone, I don't, typically, I text it to you, Rob. So can you just translate, transform it from there to your, uh, to your thing? So you're saying the three groups? Yeah, the three groups are following. One group is the one that is romanticizing to go back to the Shah. It's not gonna happen. He's not his father and he's not his grandfather. That's not gonna be coming. Fast forward, okay, you can play the clip, Rob, and,

• 58:34Patrick Bet-David?

  "But I have no desire to be the CEO, moving my entire family to Iran, running Iran, putting the crown and being the third king that represents to do this for my family. That's not my interest." Am I reading that correctly? Yes. Okay, so do you know this is the first time I've heard you say this? And this is the first time I've heard you, you have, you say this, and for me, What it does to me as a viewer? He just said, he does not want to go back and be the CEO, running it. So that whole Shah and Shahi and all this stuff, that whole Bandar Pahlavi, or that whole Parke Shah and Shahi that we used to go to as kids, and it would snow, it was awesome. I would go play soccer there and I would go biking

• 59:15Patrick Bet-David?

  that one circle that they had, and we would eat balat, we would eat, you know, what do you call it, corn and on the water and the salt and how delicious that, you remember that, how amazing? Or you would eat jiggad with the green on top of a log me kebab, or you would do the jiggad and you would eat it. It was so flipping delicious with the salt on top of it, on the skewers, that they would do kebab. It was so amazing, and the dur you would drink in Al Bali or Al Begaram, wasn't that awesome? I have some of the best memories of my life in Al Begaram. Al Bali, we would go to this place. If you went underwater, the water was gas, Vinnie. You couldn't breathe, you have to come back. Dad, what do you mean? He said, "Go underwater." My dad was like, "Try to go under the water." "Look dad, the water's gas. Let's just go see what happens."

• 59:59Patrick Bet-David?

  You go under the water, you go, "I can't breathe." Boom, you come back up. We'd go to a place called Al Begaram. The place smelled like hot water. Al Begaram, warm water. You would go and be in the warm water. Those days, under Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlavi, are not here. We will forever romanticize about those days, about the way he carried himself in interviews, and everything that he was doing. Those days are not here today, but he can play a very important role. So one group is a romantic group, the other group that's the hating group of him, that that also needs to stop, and the third group is the group that is just saying,

• 1:00:41Patrick Bet-David?

  "Man, I just want to see Iran be free again. Fantastic." If you're part of the third group, go find a candidate that's willing to do the job. Go find a candidate that's willing to do the job in Iran. That's what you guys need. Iran needs, but by the way, it's, if you think about the sequencing on the way that it's going, here's what's common. What's common is what? In US, what do they do to Venezuela?

• 1:01:10Patrick Bet-David?

  You needed US's help, okay, what's gonna happen with Cuba? By the way, can you imagine if Cuba is also goes through it and we start going to Cuba and visit? You need US's help. What do you need for Mexican cartel to be done? Shine bomb is not cleaning house, you need Americans help. Well, what do you think's gonna happen with Iran? Okay, all of these things, this is Iranians biggest opportunity. Don't screw it up. Look at that young man is pleading for freedom in Iran. I hope he gets his wish and it becomes a reality. But I hope the Iranian people are finally using some logic, any motion combined,

• 1:01:51Patrick Bet-David?

  realizing you gotta move on of the Mohammed Reza Pahlavi coming back to Iran because he does not wanna do that. His son does not wanna do that.

• 1:01:59Adam Sosnick?

  So every movement needs a leader, needs a figurehead. I mean, here at ValueTainment, we rally behind you. Marina, Karina Machado, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. We'll see what happens with her and Venezuela. You've been very outspoken, you don't think the Shah is that guy, he said it himself.

• 1:02:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Not the Shah, the Reza Pahlavi's son.

• 1:02:16Adam Sosnick?

  His son, that's what I'm talking about, the Shah's son. Who do you think is the figurehead of Iran?

• 1:02:21Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the problem. The problem is nobody is vocal enough to know who it is. And of the people that are, you know how many candidates they've imprisoned? You know how many candidates in Iran are in jail right now? You know how many candidates that are potential people that could run the place are in prison silenced? You know how many? A ton. So they're also hiding it where they can't be as vocal. So there could be a few people on the inside that they know of, Iranians know of, that they want, but they don't have the mic, like you got the mic in America. They don't have the mic to go around and do things. What are they gonna do, leave Iran and go campaign out of Dubai? Are they gonna leave Iran and go camp? By the way, you know what's the biggest thing that Iranian people are saying? Hey, Reza Pahlavi, why don't you go to Azerbaijan?

• 1:03:03Patrick Bet-David?

  And say few words from there, come closer to Iran, show some stuff, he's not doing it. The one thing about Trump, let me tell you what was very crystal clear about Trump, about Millet, about Bukele. You know what it was? They're willing to do the like work, they're willing to go out there, they're willing to pay the price, they're willing to drive, they're willing to work their tails off. It's very obvious, we, the market said, who is this crazy Elvis looking guy from Argentina? There is no way he'll ever win making out with people on stage. Guess what? He won. Who is this Bukele guy that's in his early mid 30s? He thinks he's gonna be the leader and clean up El Salvador? Yes, oh shit, maybe he's right, he won. Who is this, you know, TV guy, billionaire, real estate guy, he's just doing a publicity stunt? No, no, he won and he's cleaning house.

• 1:03:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Who is Reza Pahlavi? Somebody that can help Iranians, but not the guy that's gonna play the role.

• 1:03:53Adam Sosnick?

  He doesn't have the fire in his belly, he doesn't have the will, he doesn't have the voice, he doesn't have the presence.

• 1:03:57Patrick Bet-David?

  I got four kids, you think all my kids wanna go out there and do something big with their lives? You know, a father wants every one of his kids to wanna have the fire to do something big with their lives. Trump's got five kids, who's the most successful one?

• 1:04:11Adam Sosnick?

  Eric, Junior, Ivanka, they're all doing great.

• 1:04:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Who would you say?

• 1:04:14Speaker 04

  Eric to me is, I think, number one.

• 1:04:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, who knows if it's gonna be Eric, or it's Don, or Ivanka.

• 1:04:19Adam Sosnick?

  It'll be Baron.

• 1:04:20Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, maybe it's Baron, but Tiffany, guess what? What's Tiffany doing?

• 1:04:23Adam Sosnick?

  She's a wife.

• 1:04:23Patrick Bet-David?

  She's to herself. Everybody has to live their own life. Okay, everybody has to live their own life, so.

• 1:04:30Adam Sosnick?

  How old was he when he had to leave Iran?

• 1:04:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, he left before the revolution. They got him out before the revolution to be safe.

• 1:04:36Adam Sosnick?

  And he's lived a pretty comfortable life in America.

• 1:04:39Patrick Bet-David?

  He's lived a very comfortable life, he's never really had a real job.

• 1:04:41Adam Sosnick?

  He's had the silver spoon effect, he's never had to deal with what most Iranians lived in Iran have had to deal with.

• 1:04:47Speaker 04

  I know this is gonna be random and outside of the box, and whoever they pick, like, I think bringing, geez, like, a Christian into the mix, because hear me out, I'm not, I know it's a Muslim nation, whatever, but every country out there that lost Christ, okay, is a constant state of war, crime, terrorism. I mean, Mhamdani's a Muslim and he's in New York, why can't it happen over there? I think, I think, me personally, Tom, A Christian leader there would be impartial and I'm telling you from experience it'd be a whole different game. There wouldn't be any of this throwing people off of buildings, women wouldn't have to cover their heads. Every time Christ was taken out, look at the outcome. Go ahead. Look at Syria.

• 1:05:31Adam Sosnick?

  I don't care what religion this leader turns out to be.

• 1:05:36Adam Sosnick?

  As long as they can galvanize the people. Look, the Persian Empire was never Islamic. It was never Christian. It was Zoroastrian.

• 1:05:45Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:05:45Adam Sosnick?

  If you're familiar with that.

• 1:05:46Speaker 04

  Yes, of course.

• 1:05:47Adam Sosnick?

  For me, the religion is obviously important. It's a major component. But it's, it's, it's, who can the people get behind? What is this? I'm not Muslim. I am Persian. I hate Islam.

• 1:05:58Patrick Bet-David?

  I am not Muslim.

• 1:06:01Speaker 04

  But if they put somebody else in, Adam, that has that same attitude, it's going to become Syria.

• 1:06:04Adam Sosnick?

  Well, Shahrazza Pahlavi was Muslim.

• 1:06:08Tom Ellsworth?

  What are the people? People are saying, make Iran Persian again.

• 1:06:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Not necessarily the...

• 1:06:13Adam Sosnick?

  It wasn't Islamic or Islamist. But what was his religion? Was he Zoroastrian?

• 1:06:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was. Tom, go ahead.

• 1:06:20Tom Ellsworth?

  Now, I said, the people are, people have spoken. People have spoken in Venezuela. People are speaking right now in Iran. And that, that, that, that video, that young man really touches my heart. It's, it's because what he's saying is, what do I have to live for here? And you look, look at the risk all those people took in Venezuela on the last election. Their guy won in a landslide and then the people that supported him, his political advisers, people were in prison. You look at what Maduro did. And so now Maduro's out and you see the people celebrating. But now what's in the void? What's in the void? The one thing NBC reporter is right about is there's still some bad guys in Venezuela.

• 1:07:00Tom Ellsworth?

  And so there needs to be a synergist come to the front to control things and to move it forward in Venezuela. Because Argentina had a stable, a relatively, they had a stable country, a stable government, but a horrible set of economic policies and they had an unstable economy. But on that stability, Malay was allowed to stand. And then say, "I'm getting rid of this, I'm getting rid of this." "Afera, afera, the whole chainsaw, I'm cutting it all down." Well, he only was able to do that because he had the stabilization of the country and relative stabilization of the government. The government is just run by a pack of loons that ran the economy into a tree.

• 1:07:42Tom Ellsworth?

  And so, what Iran needs is, let's look at the last two years. Iran's political primary system is really kind of rough. You don't win Iowa in Iran, you win a sentence in a cell, is what happens in the political primary. There needs to be a synergist that comes forward that can bring all of this together. Because Iran and Venezuela have two things in common. They have a lot of natural resources and oil, and that money can be used to restore the country for the benefit of the people and to make it run. And you have the people there have had enough in Venezuela, the people have had enough in Iran, but both places need a synergist to come to the front to bring it together.

• 1:08:24Adam Sosnick?

  And the overarching narrative is you have the Islamists and the communists teaming up to do what they're doing.

• 1:08:30Patrick Bet-David?

  So, let's move forward, let's go to the next story. So, Tim Walz, Governor Tim Walz goes after Nick Shirley. Calls him a "delusional conspiracy theorist." So, Tim Walz accused Citizen Journal's Nick Shirley, who has expressed alleged widespread human services fraud in his state, of being a "delusional conspiracy theorist." Here he is. So, Nick Shirley tweets, "Why was she killed after speaking out against illegal migrants? Was she a threat to you and your fraudster scheme? Rest in peace, Melissa Hortman." Right? Tim Walz retweets, "My opponents have been celebrating this far-right YouTuber as a groundbreaking journalist." Here he reveals who he really is, a "delusional conspiracy theorist." Now, while this is going on, Nick Shirley just tweeted an hour ago saying,

• 1:09:14Patrick Bet-David?

  "I destroyed Tim Walz's career," or something like that. I think he literally just tweeted that, Rob, if you want to look it up, go to Nick Shirley. Boom, boom, boom, I think he just said that and Elon even commented into, "Yeah, I ended Tim Walz." Musk tweeted and said, "Thank God." And apparently, Rob, you said Tim Walz is going to be doing a press conference today at Rununish? He just did?

• 1:09:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:09:39Patrick Bet-David?

  When? Right now?

• 1:09:40Speaker 04

  It's official, he's dropping out.

• 1:09:42Patrick Bet-David?

  It's officially dropping out?

• 1:09:43Speaker 04

  No, I just sent it to the group. Tim Walz drops out of the Minnesota governor's race.

• 1:09:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you have that, this literally just happened?

• 1:09:50Speaker 24

  Right here.

• 1:09:53Speaker 24

  So, um, this is what happens when your own federal government wages war against you.

• 1:09:58Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:09:59Speaker 24

  This is what happens when they target communities for their own benefit. This is what happens when they scapegoat.

• 1:10:03Adam Sosnick?

  The poop eater.

• 1:10:04Speaker 24

  And this is what they happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy. When you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about now white people won't have to apologize for being white. That's never happened once in my whole damn life. And I think everybody in this room knows what they're doing. So we're here today to say enough of this. We're here today to stand that Minnesota will protect their neighbors.

• 1:10:25Patrick Bet-David?

  What does that mean? Did he say he's stepping out?

• 1:10:27Adam Sosnick?

  He didn't drop out, I don't think so, Vinny.

• 1:10:28Tom Ellsworth?

  He's not resigning, supposedly he is dropping out of the governor race.

• 1:10:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Plagued by Somali fraud exposed by independent journalists like Shirley.

• 1:10:38Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, that's him blaming white people.

• 1:10:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Good riddance, now lock up, lock the traitor up. Tim had the gall to pin the fraud on white people instead of taking accountability for what the Somalis have done? He can't leave office soon enough. What a, what a dummy. Tom, your thoughts?

• 1:10:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Uh, Tim Walz did not drop out of the race. Let me tell you what just happened. The machine that's around Tim Walz fired him. Uh, Tim Walz just got fired. Uh, he no longer has the support of the people and the mechanisms that have been part of this entire machine around him. And he just got fired by the people that he's in cahoots with, with all of this fraud and everything going on. Because they know that the spotlight just gets hotter if he wants to run for this election. And they know they risk losing the Minnesota governorship in the process of it. And they don't want people talking because people are starting to talk. You've got people that supported him, people that were part of it, that are starting to talk.

• 1:11:34Tom Ellsworth?

  You've got the federal government dropping in. Uh, last Thursday afternoon was it? The federal government, um, froze any transfers of federal funds, uh, to the welfare programs in Minnesota, I believe. They've been frozen, pending full review. Um, and so I believe what you, we are just seeing here is that the gig is up and the people that are around him is like, Tim, we gotta get you out of here because we gotta, we gotta do a little. extraction because we can't have you running this and being a lightning rod for criticism and attention on the rest of us. Tim, you're fired. You need to drop out of this race. And I believe the machine fired Tim Walz.

• 1:12:16Speaker 04

  And when we talk about accountability, this makes me so, the fact that a 23 year old exposed their entire state and my opinion, Vincent O'Shaughnessy's opinion, if you think Ilhan Omar didn't know, all the crap talking that she talks about to her beloved Somalis and everybody and her attitude is like, I could go back to Somalia because yeah, I made all the money that I did and there's no way that this guy didn't know. Okay, there's absolutely no way. Even the president posted something that you reported on first, Pat, that 72% of these people of Somalis are on welfare. Okay, it is a big freaking scam. And that's the reason that they picked him to be the vice president, to keep that money funneling, to keep these freaking leftists elected, him in this tampon in the bathroom

• 1:13:01Speaker 04

  attitude, him being friends with school shooters, his, his disgusting demeanor, his waving on stage like he was like a, like a savior. And there was a clip that I sent Rob, Pat, that there was a daycare in Minneapolis. We wanted, because I don't want, and I love the fact that we're not forgetting, like, yes, the Venezuela thing is huge, it's taken over the news. Let's not forget about the trillions and trillions of dollars of fraud. There was a daycare, oh, this, this is the first one. This is a Somali restaurant that they paid 20, 12 million dollars in federal child meal funds after they claimed to feed four to 6,000 kids a day. The FBI watched the restaurant for six weeks, an average of 40 people showed up. Rob, you don't even have to play the clip, just as long as we have it till people know it.

• 1:13:45Patrick Bet-David?

  What is the show? What is the show in the clip?

• 1:13:46Speaker 04

  This is, this is them doing the investigative work. Play for a little bit, Rob.

• 1:13:52Speaker 25

  In December of 2021, the FBI installed a surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake Street in Minneapolis. At the time, it was Safari Restaurant, which overall took in 12 million dollars in federal child meal payments through feeding our future. Safari's former co-owner, Saleem Said, is on trial. alongside Amy Bach, feeding our future executive director. Safari claimed to feed four to 6,000 kids a day. Its invoices and meal counts shown to the jury alongside the video. An FBI agent testifying that an average of 40 people came and went during the six weeks it was surveilled. The FBI set up a total of 12 cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers of meals.

• 1:14:36Speaker 25

  Another was at a deli in St. Paul, also registered by-

• 1:14:39Speaker 04

  Like, I don't understand how they've let it keep going for all this time. I don't understand it when it comes to this much money and this much fraud. And also, because you know, since Nick Shirley and all these guys have been going to all these daycares. I don't know if it's legit or not. Rob told me that it was taken down, but there's a daycare in Minneapolis that was looking for child actors to pass as the vetting process to gain state funding. This was, because they deleted it. Daycare hiring actors, three day for a contract. My family runs a daycare here in the city and have over five years. Until Monday, the funding was cruelly ripped away without cause. Due to the insane poor decision, clear and white supremacy, I wonder where they got that from. We have to close our doors immediately. We must prove that we are a functioning daycare to get the fundings back.

• 1:15:23Speaker 04

  The issue is the entire client base has already found new daycare services. So we need to find new clients based quickly to help this state vetting process. We're looking to hire 20 actors for three days while state is present on site.

• 1:15:36Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, so if you look at the right, it shows if you go to $1,500 per day, up to three days, 4,500 bucks contract, no experience required, just actor, right? Go look at the Grok, because somebody asked Grok right there on the right. Third one, zoom in if you can, Rob. Okay, Grok, is this real? Yes, Craigslist at Israel, it was posted on January 2nd, 2026. It's given the ID number, it seeks 20 children, under five, for three days, 1,500 bucks to simulate vetting after funding loss citing white supremacy. This aligns with Minnesota daycare fraud probes federal holdstone. Unbelievable.

• 1:16:10Speaker 04

  Like just hey, bring your kids.

• 1:16:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Forty-five hundred bucks for three days, actors.

• 1:16:15Speaker 04

  Do they have to be Somali and could they be white? I think they have to be Somali at that point.

• 1:16:18Tom Ellsworth?

  See, this ties it up in a, in a bow because the allegation is this, and this is my conclusion as well. The allegations are out there. Tim Walz was selected as the VP because he could be the bag man for tremendous financial resources to bring into the campaign at a time when, check this out, the DNC's big money and Obama himself were not on the Kamala page. Remember how late he came to the Kamala? Oh, all right, she's the candidate. Remember that?

• 1:16:50Speaker 04

  Of course.

• 1:16:51Tom Ellsworth?

  So, and remember they set this record, what was it, thirty-two million dollars in ten days or whatever it was? Guess what? The allegation is that Tim Walz was presiding over this machine that was federal money, just coming to Minnesota, they could do whatever they want with it, and they all knew what was going on. And so there are people there that said, and remember, it was a fractured summer. It was a completely fractured summer. You had people in the Biden group saying, no, no, let's keep him going. Anthony Blinken wants to be president again. Let's just keep this going, number one. Number two, you have Kamala Harris, you owe it to me, damn it. And then the next one was, what about Michelle or what about others? So it was a fractured group. They needed money and they went, and guess what?

• 1:17:34Tom Ellsworth?

  They apparently, allegedly, got it with Tim Walz. And so I read all this stuff, I'm not reading the loony stuff, I am reading things A, B, C, D, and I'm just waiting for someone. I said it when we were in Aspen, this is the biggest campaign finance fraud in the history of our republic.

• 1:17:53Speaker 04

  I hoped, I pray, that they go after Ilhan Omar. They, he, his disdain towards America, this guy and Trump, she's the worst of the worst. You notice how the other squad, Adam? They're kind of quiet. The, the Talib, what's her name? I haven't heard from her. Everybody's kind of silent. Ilhan Omar has been now getting silent, but there's no way, there's no way she wasn't, she didn't know what was going, there's, there's no way, period. And I hope they're going after her.

• 1:18:21Tom Ellsworth?

  Rob, do you have Nick Shirley's tweet again?

• 1:18:24Adam Sosnick?

  So.

• 1:18:25Speaker 04

  America hater. Go after her. I ended Tim Walz.

• 1:18:29Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, so if he didn't tweet that, I probably wouldn't put this out there, but I was texting with Nick, uh, Nick Shirley a week ago before he came on the podcast. We met, uh, in person for the first time at James O'Keefe Citizen Journalist event at Mar-a-Lago, uh, a couple of months ago.

• 1:18:44Speaker 04

  Oh, and he got that award, right?

• 1:18:45Adam Sosnick?

  Young guy, he won the Citizen Journalist Award. So I say to him, because I'm going online, this is a week ago, as his story is basically blowing up. I go, dude, you're blowing up all over the internet. He has 66 million on that, his initial video. Now it's well over 100 million. He goes, bro, I think it's the biggest video of the year. So he's excited. Good for him. I'm telling him, listen, my mom's from Minneapolis. Respect to what you're doing. He goes, this is what the funniest part is. He goes, we lit them up. I bet Tim Walz resigns. He goes, can you imagine that me, Nick Shirley, is who gets Tim Walz to resign? I said, this is why what you do is so important. And the message to all the young people out there is, look at this, guys, 23 years old, making a massive difference. You can

• 1:19:30Adam Sosnick?

  too. Number two, uh, could you imagine, just in a hypothetical horrible, bizarro world, imagine if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won the election and they were president and the vice president of the United States? Do you know what kind of chaos their administration would be in right now if they were in power? Do you know what kind of cover up they would be doing? Do you know what Tim Walz would be doing in Minnesota if this video came out there? Could you imagine if Kamala was president right now? Borders still open. Iran's still making nuclear weapons, hostages still in Gaza, Maduro's still in power, DEI's still in place, gender-affirming care everywhere. We got they, thems running the government. Thank God, President Donald J. Trump.

• 1:20:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep, exactly. And, and, and this continues, and we'll continue following this story. This is not going to be done. Uh, I, I think this is, uh, just the tip of the iceberg, but to get the former VP candidate to drop out, this is, this is a lot of winning. This is maybe a little too much winning going into 2026. And by the way, folks, you know who had dinner with who at Mar-a-Lago? Just you had dinner with who at Mar-a-Lago?

• 1:20:39Speaker 04

  Elon?

• 1:20:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Elon and Trump had dinner together. They had dinner together. And you know who tweeted about the dinner? Who do you think tweeted about the dinner? A guy named Elon Musk tweeted about it, okay? And he said, "Had a very nice dinner with the president." That's them right there, if you look closely.

• 1:20:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Them having dinner together, right there, the president.

• 1:20:59Speaker 04

  What do you think they're talking about?

• 1:21:00Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, look at the guy in the middle right there. The guy in the middle that somehow got into that picture.

• 1:21:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly, good for you.

• 1:21:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, he's in there, but who is that all the way in the back? All, is that Dan Bongino? All the way in the back. Zoom in a little bit, Rob, or you can't? Can't zoom in? No, it's not. Oh, okay, Secret Service. Okay, well, that's Secret Service somebody. No, no. But Musk and Trump are speaking, which is great to see them reunited now.

• 1:21:24Speaker 04

  Imagine you're at Mar-a-Lago, just dining, or just looking at these guys.

• 1:21:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, but, but the point is, this is, that was a massive breakup that the left needed. Desperately, a massive breakup that the left needed. Now you're going into 2026 on the same page? Now you're going into 2026 with what happened with Maduro? Now you're going into 2026 with what's going on with Tim Walz? Now you're going into 2026 with, you know, inflation going down? Now you're going into 2026 with GDP growth higher than expected? Now you're going into, 2026 is gonna be the greatest years of our, of our lifetime. World Cup, 250 year anniversary. It's gonna be a very, very weirdly special year. But at the same time, I think the enemy is aware of it and they're gonna try to ruin the party.

• 1:22:11Speaker 04

  Hundred percent.

• 1:22:12Patrick Bet-David?

  You know how you try to put a good party together? And everybody knows you're about to put a record-breaking party? Everybody wants to go, "You don't invite somebody?" And they're like, "Wait a minute, you don't want to invite me? I'm gonna ruin your party." So the party poopers are also gonna be there. But I have a feeling he, they're gonna get way ahead of it to make sure the partying goes on.

• 1:22:29Speaker 04

  Just really quick, because I know you want to go to the next story. What do you think that they're talking about? What do, what do you think that conversation? Because, because, because think about it. Besides calling him a...

• 1:22:38Speaker 04

  Basically, a pedophile, basically. He, because Trump promised, I think the taxes, the tax cuts for SpaceX. Pat, if you had to guess what the meat, the crux of that conversation was, because to me, in Elon's eyes, I think he felt like he got kinda shafted. What do you think that conversation's like?

• 1:22:55Adam Sosnick?

  Can I give you my opinion first?

• 1:22:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead.

• 1:22:57Adam Sosnick?

  So, Pat just said party pooper, right? So, my opinion, Elon Musk, when he left in a glorious fashion, in a blaze of mean tweets, he said he's gonna go start a third party. And I forget what it was called, because nothing ever transpired whatsoever. So, in my opinion, Elon Musk sort of came in with his tail between his legs and said, "Look, my bad, dog. I'm not starting a third party. I've realized you're the guy. And let me come and help you again. And let me do a mea culpa and give you a my bad." And Trump goes, like he always does, "If you say nice things about me, we're good. You say bad things about me, you're my enemy."

• 1:23:40Adam Sosnick?

  Elon Musk, listen, if you're getting invited to Mar-a-Lago, you're not coming there to talk shit to Trump's face. He came in with the sole purpose of saying, "My bad. Let's get on the same page and let's do this." Because if there's anything that Elon is against, is whatever's going on on the woke left and on the woke right. So, to see those two aligned is a massive, massive victory for Trump and the country. That's my opinion.

• 1:24:05Patrick Bet-David?

  I think it's a little bit of business. I think it's a little bit of, uh, let's figure it out. And, and, and remember, the way Trump did it, in, when you run a company, let's bring it to a much smaller scenario. When somebody in a company I'm running, all of a sudden flipped and publicly came after me, negative, trash, whatever. You have to stand your ground and put them in their place, but then you just give them their space. They eventually either come to you, or they don't. For the richest man in the world to set aside his ego and go to Trump at his place and realize what's going on? You know what's been very clear the last nine months? Here's what's very clear the last nine months, and it's not even close.

• 1:24:47Patrick Bet-David?

  The biggest alpha of every room in the world is Donald Trump.

• 1:24:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:24:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me say that one more time. There are many alphas. The biggest alpha in any room in the world.

• 1:25:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Is Donald Trump. Everyone has to go to him. Period. DeSantis learned the hard way. Pierre Poliev learned the hard way. Canadians learned the hard way. He learned the hard way. You know, Bezos eventually had to come to him. Uh, Zuck had to eventually come to him. Everybody who thought they're bigger alpha than him. It took time, it took 78 years. To realize. Alpha is not just about being the richest man in the world. Alpha is not just about. Being the tallest, the richest, the wealthiest, the best looking, the famous, the, nope. There's alpha quality that he has that none of these other guys have. And Elon has probably sat on the sidelines saying, damn, you gotta give this guy respect.

• 1:25:49Patrick Bet-David?

  And he said it so many times. So let's see what's gonna happen here. By the way, uh, uh, JD Vance just tweeted something, apparently somebody. Uh, broke into his house or something, something happened over the weekend that they're reporting and. That he had to tweet about it, uh, Rob, is that the one, we hope he's safe, we hope his family is safe. I know he said they weren't home when this happened. Man arrested after allegedly damaging Vice President, uh. Uh, Vance's home. And Vance also tweeted it, Rob, I don't know if you have it or not, there's a tweet about it, but he didn't like the fact that reporters are posting pictures of his house. All over the place saying something happened to the window. Zoom in, I appreciate everyone else, uh, uh, well wishes about the attack at our home, as far as I can tell.

• 1:26:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows, I'm grateful to Secret Service and Cincinnati Police who responded quickly. We weren't even home as we returned already to DC. One requested immediate, we try to protect our kids as much as possible from our realities. Of this public, uh, life of a public service, in that light, I'm skeptical of the news. Value of plastering images of our home with holes in the windows. Anyways, okay, so we're glad they're safe. How'd he even get that, I thought, I heard it was gunshot. Listen, it could be, uh, uh, this hammer situation, so, you know, San Francisco, there was a hammer. Hammers are becoming a popular thing with, with stuff like this, but. Anyways, we're glad he's safe. What I will say to you, I'm telling you guys right now, can you run a poll right now with our audience, Rob? Right now, folks. You have a choice.

• 1:27:16Patrick Bet-David?

  For 2028. Presidential candidate. And it's only two people I'm gonna give you a choice of. Vance or Rubio, who do you pick, right now? When I mean right now, today's what, January 5th? 2026, who do you want as your president? If it's right now, Rob, did you run that poll? Rubio or Vance? Which of those two would you pick? I am so curious to know what direction the voting goes. I'm gonna say it's gonna be super close, as close to 50/50 as possible. Going back and forth, look at that, Vinny, right there. It's 54/46. To be fair, Rubio just had a massive victory, so it's probably gonna be him. Uh, uh, nearly 2,000 votes.

• 1:28:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Rubio is ahead of Vance at this point, okay? Rubio is ahead of Vance at this point. And, uh, gotta love competition like that. Gotta love competition like that. When you're a president and you're a leader, you wanna be able to have multiple people that are competing, so it's not a definite frontrunner. And this is a pure reflection of Donald J. Trump.

• 1:28:21Adam Sosnick?

  100%.

• 1:28:22Patrick Bet-David?

  This is a pure reflection of Donald J. Trump.

• 1:28:24Adam Sosnick?

  What do you think these numbers would look like a few days ago before the Venezuelan thing?

• 1:28:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Flip it, just flip it 55/45 Vance, is what I would say.

• 1:28:30Adam Sosnick?

  By the way, Rubio is, is, is showing himself to be the adult in the room. Capable, efficient. He's been through the wringer, he's run for president. You know, he did the whole little water thing, little Marco. And now, just like JD, he was against Trump. Now he's on Team Trump. Something about these people that weren't on MAGA 1.0, on MAGA 2.0. They came to their sensibilities.

• 1:28:55Speaker 04

  But isn't it?

• 1:28:55Adam Sosnick?

  I don't know many people like that.

• 1:28:57Speaker 04

  But is it refreshing that the future doesn't write that this is our bench? Like, how about this? I'll take either one of them. Who would the other side have? Gavin Newsom. Good night, ladies and gentlemen.

• 1:29:08Adam Sosnick?

  Who would you take, Vincent?

• 1:29:10Speaker 04

  Out of these guys? I'm not gonna front. I like Marco Rubio. I'm being honest. JD, if he shaves his beard, then I would consider it. But I would go, I would go Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio's been in the game for a lot longer, and he has a lot more credibility.

• 1:29:25Tom Ellsworth?

  I'll give you two words, uh, leadership and poise. I think Marco Rubio is showing leadership right now. And I think he was very poised and even-handed when he addresses the media. And people can hear the strategy that's in there, and it's very clear. And that is leadership.

• 1:29:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, it's, it's early to tell. But Rubio, with that job that he has, sometimes it's better to be the Secretary of State than the VP.

• 1:29:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Especially during times like this. Because VP, it's kinda like, you know, go work on the border. Make the building nicer, okay? Go make sure our emails are clean, right? Sometimes kinda like VP is, you know, if you've ever seen the movie, uh, the, the Vice movie, it's like, what's VP? Like, who wants to be a VP? That VP was a different story because Dick Cheney wasn't really VP.

• 1:30:14Adam Sosnick?

  He was running the show.

• 1:30:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Dick Cheney was running the show. Vance is not running the show. Trump is running the show.

• 1:30:19Adam Sosnick?

  I gotta tell you, I'd pick Rubio in a heartbeat. Yeah? Now, listen, their, their optics, you know, he's only five foot nine. Vance, I wanna say, is probably over six feet.

• 1:30:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Is Rubio five nine?

• 1:30:29Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, he's not, he's not the biggest dude.

• 1:30:31Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think he's five nine.

• 1:30:32Adam Sosnick?

  No, I'm just saying, like, people, optics matters, but experience, capability, yeah, what is he, five eight? My boy right there, five eight, homie. Marco Rubio, listen to me, and just say it. Talk to DeSantis's people. You gonna get them boots?

• 1:30:45Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, no, no, no. That'd be the worst thing you could do.

• 1:30:48Adam Sosnick?

  Guys, it's a joke, guys.

• 1:30:49Patrick Bet-David?

  That'd be the, no, you were actually being serious. That'd be the worst thing you could do.

• 1:30:52Adam Sosnick?

  Uh, Pat, do you, I know you probably don't wanna maybe-

• 1:30:55Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm a fan of his. I like what he's doing. I like what he's doing. I like what he's doing, but it's early to tell, but I like what he's doing. So, we'll see. We'll see what's gonna happen. We'll see what's gonna happen. We're fifty-five, forty-five. And this is a very fair, uh, uh, six thousand people voting, and they have it fifty-five, forty-five as of right now.

• 1:31:13Adam Sosnick?

  What would that debate stage look like? It's, it's interesting.

• 1:31:16Patrick Bet-David?

  It is gonna be interesting on how they're gonna go. Can we completely change some of the stories to, uh, complete different story here? Let me, let me get to this story. Harvard professor calls that university's exclusion of white males in scathing public resignation. Rob, I believe you have a clip on this. If you do, please go to it. Watch this, folks. Very, very interesting on what's going on. Rob, of course, we won't play the whole clip, cuz it's- 3 minutes and 54 seconds, we'll play some of it. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:31:45Speaker 26

  Harvard professor says he is leaving the university after 40 years claiming its focus on DEI is doing more harm than good, writing, quote, "In the fall of 2020, I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years, this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that that, meaning admitting a white male, was not happening this year." Harvard alumnus Shabos Kestenbaum joins us now. Happy New Year, Shabos. Thanks so much for being on with us.

• 1:32:22Speaker 27

  Happy New Year. Good to be here.

• 1:32:23Speaker 26

  So the professor writes about this seemingly open, anti-white, anti-male environment that has really been growing in Harvard. As an alumnus, is this something that you have experienced? Do you agree with what the professor wrote?

• 1:32:37Speaker 27

  Certainly, I agree with what the professor wrote. It's shocking, but it's certainly not surprising. I mean, a country that does not teach about its own history is certainly a country that does not have much of a future. But honestly, my greatest concern is the greater societal implications and the greater societal ills, particularly the demoralization of young people in America. So when you have cultural elites or professors who insist and instruct young people that their culture is not worthy of preservation, that their race is something to be apologetic over, that their history is not worthy of scholarship, then of course, those young people, particularly young men, will become disillusioned and disassociated with the society they're meant to be interacting with. And we need to be very clear, now that we're in 2026, that-

• 1:33:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, thoughts?

• 1:33:16Tom Ellsworth?

  So this is a professor, Dr. James Haddinkins, who had been at Harvard for 40 years and who finally had just had enough. And 40 years, and if he was 24 when he got his doctorate, so he's probably late 60s, maybe 70, and he's saying, "We've had enough." And one of the things he said is he talked about DEI and he says, "We've abandoned merit in favor of diversity quotas, which changes the way we conduct our affairs and the qualities that we deliver." He's saying it. He's now saying it out loud, saying, "Guess what? You know what?" We get away from merit, this is where it goes. And what's interesting today, there's a Wall Street Journal story that is today on the

• 1:34:01Tom Ellsworth?

  front of the Journal that talked about that merit is making a comeback as we come into the, what will be the spring recruiting season, is that there are companies that were saying, it does matter where you go to school and we'll be recruiting and looking for merit. And we're looking for kids on merit. And actually, there is McKinsey gentleman that was quoted in the article, talking about looking for merit, not just at Ivy League schools, at other schools, but actually stepping back from the schools where DEI does not give them, you know, hey, we're going to come on campus to recruit. They want to recruit strong people based on merit. And so I think this is a, I think this is a tip of the iceberg moment.

• 1:34:45Tom Ellsworth?

  Harvard's going to circle the wagons and they're going to shut everybody down and they're going to tell everybody to knock it off because Harvard is still doing this. The Supreme Court case that was against Yale has teeth, but they're still doing it because you've got generations of these DEI leaders, Vinnie, that are still in there. Just like Venezuela, you got to get rid of a few guys and you need to put new leadership in. It's going to be one step at a time, but what's interesting is this actually got play from the mainstream media talking about it and then it's actually being set out in the open and I'm glad to see it, but it's only one small step. There's, there's a long walk.

• 1:35:28Tom Ellsworth?

  There's going to be a battang death march to rid the halls of the DEI and get higher education truly back to

• 1:35:37Patrick Bet-David?

  What's going to happen to James Hankins? How will the market treat somebody like a James Hankins?

• 1:35:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, if he's, if he's

• 1:35:45Adam Sosnick?

  Put himself in a place to retire, then the market can't do anything to him. He can just retire and he doesn't need it. But I believe there's going to be folks out there that want to hear from him. I believe you're gonna have a publisher will ask him to write a book about his experience. I don't think he's gonna be welcomed with open arms and there's a lot of people that are gonna want to stab him in the back for what he did. But I think there is gonna be some people out there, a few of them, that are going to try to help him. But I think, obviously, as he walks away from Harvard, he's done with that. But I think it's gonna be, there's gonna be some islands out there. Someone, I think, will want him to tell his story.

• 1:36:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I mean, for him to be able to say what he's saying right now, you gotta applaud him. Respect to him on what he's seen taking place. For someone at his caliber, Adam, if you have any thoughts on this, I'll come to you and I'm going to the next story.

• 1:36:37Adam Sosnick?

  Well, it's been no secret, there's been an attack against straight white men in America for over a decade, you know, AKA the patriarchy. It's all a farce. So, you know, back in my days when I was doing a lot of Manosphere content, we talked about the red pill versus the blue pill.

• 1:36:54Patrick Bet-David?

  I thought you were gonna say something else.

• 1:36:56Adam Sosnick?

  What do you think I was going with that?

• 1:36:57Patrick Bet-David?

  No, I thought you were gonna say like, you know, there's been a major attack on straight white male. And I thought you were gonna say, back in the days when I was a...

• 1:37:04Adam Sosnick?

  Back in the days when I was a straight white male.

• 1:37:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I thought you were gonna go somewhere. Go on, keep going.

• 1:37:08Adam Sosnick?

  All right.

• 1:37:08Patrick Bet-David?

  But is this an announcement? He made it a long time ago, but keep going.

• 1:37:12Adam Sosnick?

  So, my girlfriend will disagree. But the reality is, can we stop...

• 1:37:24Adam Sosnick?

  Can we stop with the nonsensical frickin' debate of what's better, capitalism or communism? Is the fact that we're still having this debate in life, in campus, are we really playing this game? Is this really what we're doing? How many times have you talked about, you know, the campus, we're having a debate, guys? What do you think is a better economic, socioeconomic system? Capitalism or socialism? Which one is it, guys? I don't know. Can we stop the frickin' nonsense? Meanwhile, capitalism might not be the prettiest system. What did Churchill say? It's just, it's the... The second best out there is better than everything else? So yeah, it might be ugly, it might be messy, but at least it's in your face, it's competitive, and it's example of how countries thrive.

• 1:38:09Adam Sosnick?

  What examples do you have of socialism, Marxism, or the warmth of collectivism? Put a nice little communist blanket all over you that have worked? Why are people fleeing Venezuela? Why are people fleeing Cuba in rafts? Right, Mikey? Why are people doing this? Why are people fleeing these Islamist nations? Because it's not good to live under. And the fact that Harvard still indoctrinates their kids under this Marxist, critical race theory, DEI bullshit downstream of Marxism, it's just, they're still doing it. And it's just different languages. In some cases, it's economic communism. Sometimes it's social justice warriors. You're producing nothing. You're producing people that just want to destroy the system.

• 1:38:53Adam Sosnick?

  The greatest country that's ever lived were indoctrinating these young kids to go out there and protest on behalf of Maduro, on behalf of Hamas. It's so stupid. This is why, when I was arguing with Stephen A. Smith, he goes, "You can't call them stupid." I go, "Yes, I can." Because they're stupid. They might be able to read and write and do arithmetic, but they're stupid. That's why they call them useful idiots. So I'm so sick of what's happening in the institutions of higher learning, indoctrinating our kids to hate America. That's what this all comes down to. How many of these people come out and graduate and be like, "I love the USA, they hate America." And let's just stop with the fucking debate. Sorry about the language.

• 1:39:29Tom Ellsworth?

  Let's wrap it up really, really quick. There's something got updated on Wikipedia that was not in my research. He is going to the University of Florida, where he will be the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the U of F. And that's where he is going to go, apparently.

• 1:39:46Adam Sosnick?

  The free state of Florida.

• 1:39:48Tom Ellsworth?

  That was not in the research earlier. The nice thing about it, Harvard takes an L and somebody else comes to Florida.

• 1:39:56Adam Sosnick?

  Think about that. Imagine going from Harvard to University of Florida.

• 1:40:01Tom Ellsworth?

  What's wrong with University of Florida? It's the number seven public university in the United States.

• 1:40:06Adam Sosnick?

  I'm born and raised in Miami, I went to Florida State. Half my friends went to UF. It's a great school, but it's not Harvard. But it just shows what the professor goes, "I can't take this woke DEI nonsense. Let me go to the free state of Florida, where there's this rational, moderate people." That's what this comes down to.

• 1:40:21Patrick Bet-David?

  I had a call with a senior partner the other day at BCG. And they do around 15 billion a year in engagements, whatever the number is. It's a big company. Top four, would you say top four? Somebody would even say number two behind McKinsey, right?

• 1:40:37Tom Ellsworth?

  Exactly.

• 1:40:37Patrick Bet-David?

  And I said, so what is your recruiting process? Is it still the same process of wanting Harvard, wanting all these guys? He says, man, we're having more experience recruiting some guys that are coming from smaller schools that are competitive, top of their classes. They're more scrappy, they're willing to work harder. Some of these guys that are coming from Harvard and C D schools, some of them are more entitled. They're expecting out to eat this, they want this, they want that. It's changing, the market's changing. It changes in a long time and let's see if Harvard's gonna be able to maintain their prestigious name that they've had all these years. We'll see, we'll see what's gonna happen. Let me get to the next story here. Next story I want to go to is Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly declares CBS legacy media dead as Barry Weiss feud escalates. And it doesn't look like this is gonna be slowing down.

• 1:41:21Patrick Bet-David?

  So here's Megyn Kelly talking about CBS. Let me get to the story, Rob. I think it's on page 18. Megyn Kelly dismissed CBS News' efforts to reignite interest in its evening newscast, declaring legacy media dead as she escalated her feud with network's editor-in-chief Barry Weiss. "Nothing will happen at CBS," Kelly declared on X, responding to a post about incoming CBS News anchor Tony DocuPill. "Nothing. Legacy media is dead and evening news has totally been irrelevant for a long time. CBS has not had evening viewers in any competitive way in over a decade." The blunt assessment came ahead of DocuPill's, who's this person by the way? Is that the person that went over there? Is that the guy, the guy's face right there?

• 1:42:04Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah.

• 1:42:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so he goes.

• 1:42:06Tom Ellsworth?

  That's Barry Weiss's choice for the chair of the evening news.

• 1:42:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Monday night debut anchoring CBS News' flagship. Now, he's pledged to rebuild trust with viewers as Weiss has taken controversial steps to shake up the network since becoming head honcho in October. He has echoed longstanding conservative critiques of the press, acknowledging that newsrooms have often missed the mark by privileging elites over ordinary Americans. On Too Many Stories, the press missed the story. DocuPill said on Thursday, can we figure out how the hell to pronounce his name so I don't keep butchering this guy's name over and over again? Arguing that media relied too heavily on advocates, academics, rather than viewers themselves. He promised that under his watch, you come first, not advertisers. Here's the clip, go ahead, Rob.

• 1:42:51Speaker 28

  Too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you. And I know this because at certain points, I have been you. I have felt this way too. I felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life. And that the most urgent questions simply weren't being asked. So here's my promise to you, today and every time you see me in this chair. You come first.

• 1:43:33Speaker 28

  Not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests. And yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS. I report for you. On too many stories.

• 1:43:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so there you go, Tom, thoughts on this? Are you with Megyn Kelly? Are you with Barry Weiss? What do you think's going on there?

• 1:43:52Tom Ellsworth?

  So, I'm not with Megyn on her feud, but I am with Megyn on her conclusions. It is really gonna be difficult to reverse what's happened to the evening news. And partly because it's not the same playing field anymore. The evening news now is not what it used to be. There are choices. People, look, people are coming to us to get their news. People run into you in a restaurant and wanted to know, are we running a special segment? You read that was on the weekend, right? So the gentleman comes up to you and says, hey, love the podcast. Are you doing a special segment on Maduro? Because they're coming to other places such as us to get their news.

• 1:44:32Tom Ellsworth?

  And so, I agree with her that with the technology, the deterioration of the cable subscriber, number one. Number two, over the top is everywhere. People, so it's no longer over the top, it's just internet comes to your house and you choose wherever you want to get your news. You know, Vinny, you don't, do you have a cable subscription? Nope. No, we have, we have a Hulu one, but that's it. We don't have all of this. So, technology, it supports what Meghan Kelly is saying, and the, um, the, the public trust has been so destroyed over the last 15 years on what they feel about mainstream media to the point that MSM, even my mom knows what MSM is. When I texted her something

• 1:45:15Tom Ellsworth?

  a couple of months ago, I noticed she knew exactly what I was talking about. So, on that count, I think Meghan is right. It's gonna be very, very hard to turn around CBS. Now, that said, the Ellison's have a hell of a lot of money, and Barry Weiss is really putting her shoulder to the wheel to do it. So, I won't say it's impossible, but it's gonna be tough. It's a new day.

• 1:45:38Patrick Bet-David?

  To turn CBS around?

• 1:45:39Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah.

• 1:45:40Speaker 04

  I, I agree.

• 1:45:41Patrick Bet-David?

  You think she'll win or she won't win?

• 1:45:43Speaker 04

  I, I think it'll do okay, but like, just even the way that he talks, the demeanor, the, the stage is set, nobody's, you've lost all credibility. I'm sorry, it's a ship that's going down, like, it's, it's, it's the Titanic, and you put a new captain on, like, "I could do it." No, you can't. Nobody believes them anymore. The, uh, nobody believes CNN. MSNBC could change it to MSNBC Now, or MSNBC We're Never Gonna Lie Again. Nobody believes you. Government, the trust in government's down. I think that it's gaining a little bit of, of credibility back with the Trump administration, but nobody listens to these people. Nobody's gonna ever forgive them for what they did to COVID. Nobody's ever gonna forgive them for the lies that they did, um, with Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, everything.

• 1:46:27Speaker 04

  It's gone. It's, it's totally gone. Those days of Walter Cronkite and old-school Bill O'Reilly and all these guys, it's, I'm sorry, I, I-

• 1:46:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam.

• 1:46:36Speaker 04

  It's not gonna happen.

• 1:46:37Adam Sosnick?

  Well, it's Darwinism 101. It's a failure to adapt. You know, a month ago or two, we, uh, here at ValueTainment, we had to read the book, Who Moved My Cheese? The cheese got moved. The industry got disrupted, and they failed to adapt. You know, you adapt or die. By the way, this is not unique just in media. What happened to Blockbuster Video? They failed to adapt. Netflix took 'em over. What happened to the taxi industry? They used to have this monopoly on medallions. Now Uber and Lyft take over. So, what percentage of the S and P 500 or the Fortune 500 companies from 50 years ago are still in the top 500? Like, 10%? Failure to adapt. What happened to Kodak? What happened to all these companies? By the way, same for cities. New York City.

• 1:47:19Adam Sosnick?

  LA, Chicago, there's no guarantee they're gonna be the greatest cities in America anymore. If you fail to adapt, you will die. It's a dying industry, they're trying to do this the right way and try to basically be relevant. And they're coming in and giving an apology letter. But the reality is a lot of these media companies failed to adapt. Their journalists turned into activists and now they're paying the price when podcasters are now the most watched people in the country.

• 1:47:46Speaker 04

  And I don't think it's, I don't think it's a failure to adapt, Adam. I think it's, there's no way that stain is going to disappear from the American public's eye.

• 1:47:54Adam Sosnick?

  Well, Stephen A. Smith said, "I don't give a shit what you think, Benny."

• 1:47:57Speaker 04

  Well, guess what? Well, Stephen A. understands that I was making a bunch of very, very valid points. But going back to the COVID thing, we're supposed to forget what every single one of these people were like. "You're the enemy. You're not getting this experimental drug in your body, take it." And now kids are freaking dying, people are dropping dead, turbo cancer's up. Now all the truth is coming out and now we're supposed to just forget about it? That's one of the biggest travesties that this, besides all the 9/11s and the JFK assassination. They, China unleashed the virus that I think Fauci and all them, they're not stupid, okay? Then they sold us on this freaking vaccine and they told us that we were anti-American and that we were the terrorists. Chris Cuomo said it, all these people said that the number one threat was us.

• 1:48:40Speaker 04

  CBS, MSNBC, all of them. And now we're supposed to go, "Oh, Barry Weiss is in and there's a new white guy that says, 'I'm not gonna lie, nobody's gonna believe it.'" There's no, this is a failed industry and it's over, done.

• 1:48:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's what I will tell you, here's what I will tell you before we go to, I got two more stories to wrap up and then we'll move on. To me, I believe in Barry Weiss. I believe it's tough to be a, in NBA they call them two-way players, guys that play offense and they play defense. I also believe it's very tough to be a talent and to be an operator. Barry Weiss is a talent operator. By the way, in all of media, there's not a Barry Weiss, period. There's not a Barry Weiss that's talent and operator. Talent sometimes hate when there are people like Barry Weiss. When there are people that know how to operate and they know how to garner attention.

• 1:49:38Patrick Bet-David?

  She worked at New York, uh, uh,

• 1:49:40Adam Sosnick?

  New York Times.

• 1:49:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Times and then she called them out and she went out and did her own thing and did a bunch of great interviews and she was actually fair and she did a bunch of different things. Yes, uh, is she, uh, is she Jewish? I think she, she is Jewish. So she's gonna get,

• 1:49:52Adam Sosnick?

  She built the free press.

• 1:49:52Patrick Bet-David?

  She's gonna get criticized for being Jewish and working with Ellison and you know, she's pro-Israel and all this other stuff. Uh, that's a debate. You guys can have that all day. Go for it. It is what it is. I'm a Christian. I'm gonna favor Christianity. Okay. Uh, if I'm talking to a person that's Muslim, they're gonna defend their religion of Islam. If someone's Jewish, they're gonna defend what it is. It's kind of how it is. You're, you're protecting and respecting your family and the tradition that you came and typically whatever faith you came from, if you respect your parents, you're gonna respect that faith. So it's a way of saying she respects her parents. You can say Jews are this, Jews are that. Go ahead and do that all day long. It is what it is. You gotta respect game. Megyn Kelly, uh, to me, I think she is

• 1:50:36Patrick Bet-David?

  talent wise, I think she's up there, maybe even number one on the list today, who is willing to be fair and talk to anybody and I, I'm a big supporter of what she's doing. But I think Barry Weiss is a power player. There's a big difference. Uh, Megyn Kelly's an incredible, uh, journalist, lawyer, talent, communicator, not afraid, you know, great with words. Barry Weiss is a business woman and an operator and a talent and is trying to do something to turn a company around with the backing of a last name like Ellison with the amount of wealth that they have. Uh, I don't know. I, I, I, I hope they succeed. I hope they succeed. I'm not saying they're going to. It's gonna be very hard. I hope they succeed. I would like to see one of these guys succeed.

• 1:51:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, uh, and, and if they do succeed, it's not a succeeding for 50 years. It's succeeding for a decade and a half is what it is. That's what it is. Cause the reality of it is, it is going the direction of podcasting. It is going in the direction of independent journalism. It is, by the way, Nick Shirley, go ahead, ABC, sign him. CBS, sign him. Fox, sign him. What are you gonna sign him for? Like, hey, you know, we're gonna go sign him. For what? Go ahead. What, what do you, you understand what I'm saying? Like, go ahead and sign him. The other day, you know what shirt he's got on while he's doing his stuff? Polly Market. Do you think it's because he loves Polly Market sweater brand? And quality? Did you see this go on images? You know, right there.

• 1:52:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Why do you think he's wearing a sweater with Polly Market on it?

• 1:52:07Adam Sosnick?

  It's cold, Pat.

• 1:52:08Patrick Bet-David?

  You think it's because that sweater has the highest quality of density to prevent the snow from coming in? No. Guess what? He does not need you CBS. He does not need you CNN. He does not need, that's, that's the disruption. Of what is going on here. People are choosing to team up. Those are two different things. Of teaming up versus doing something like this. Young cats are coming up saying, I want to be the next Nick Shirley. I want to be a YouTuber. I want to be this. I want to be that.

• 1:52:36Patrick Bet-David?

  So these bigger. Companies. Have to find a way to be a little bit more, what's the word I'm looking for? A little bit more.

• 1:52:43Adam Sosnick?

  Flexible, adaptable.

• 1:52:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Flexible, adaptable, understanding what's going on while creating their own. Set of, so again, I'm rooting for both Megyn Kelly to succeed. But I'm definitely also rooting for Barry Weiss to succeed. Uh, because I do think there's still a. Audience of people above 60, 65 years old that still consume their content on TV. So I'd like to see her win. Hopefully she wins. And, uh, we'll see where it goes from here.

• 1:53:08Adam Sosnick?

  Flip it, Pat. Imagine they don't hire Barry Weiss. Imagine they don't do this thing, whatever, uh, David Ellison is doing with, what is it, Skydance? Imagine if, if they just sit there and they have, uh, CBS. And, and just in third place behind. ABC and NBC.

• 1:53:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, what point you gonna make? Cause I'm going to the.

• 1:53:24Adam Sosnick?

  The point is, they, they had to do something.

• 1:53:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Of course they did.

• 1:53:27Adam Sosnick?

  They adapted.

• 1:53:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:53:28Adam Sosnick?

  And that she's the figurehead, so she's gonna get.

• 1:53:30Patrick Bet-David?

  So what, what are you gonna say that hasn't been said already? Go ahead.

• 1:53:34Adam Sosnick?

  I'm saying that imagine they did nothing. What are you, what would we be saying now? You're, you're still have Stephen Colbert. Plummeting. That all these things is downstream of when they took over. So yes, she's now the latest victim of what they're doing right now.

• 1:53:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, let's go to the next story.

• 1:53:50Adam Sosnick?

  But they had to do something.

• 1:53:51Patrick Bet-David?

  I get it.

• 1:53:52Adam Sosnick?

  Third place, can't stay third place forever.

• 1:53:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get into is the following. So if you, Rob, if you can pull up, let me see what I got here. If I have nothing here, then I'll go to that story. Boom, boom, boom, uh, boom. Let's just go to the story here. So, gold, folks, you ever bought gold? You ever been ripped off by somebody telling you it's 14 karat, but it's 10 karat? You ever bought gold and on it they type in the 14 karat and then somebody else said, "This is actually not 14 karat gold, this is 10 karat gold." Well, in New York, a guy by the name of Trax, he's got a different name, but they call him Trax, who is a very, very well-known guy, I think it's on the 57th or whatever that main street is with all the gold diamond district.

• 1:54:31Patrick Bet-David?

  He goes out there and one of the guys that used his name, this is the most viral video of the last week. If Nick Shirley was a, two weeks ago, this was the most viral video last week. It got 70 million views, 617,000 shares on Instagram. Rob, go ahead and play this clip. Watch this.

• 1:54:55Speaker 08

  Where's my [bleep] money, motherfucker? Where's my [bleep] money?

• 1:55:04Speaker 08

  Where's my money? I got this [bleep] bracelet. Where's my [bleep] money? What are you gonna do? What are you gonna [bleep] do?

• 1:55:14Speaker 08

  Motherfucker. You saved VVS, I3, 14 karat, and you're using my name? You [bleep].

• 1:55:24Speaker 08

  Yeah, 6447. Thief? You [bleep] thief?

• 1:55:30Speaker 02

  Stop. Take him out. Take him out.

• 1:55:33Speaker 08

  No, no, no, no. Hands off of me, bro. Hands off of me, bro.

• 1:55:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, so this happens. This gets 60 something million views. Now, Rob, go to his Instagram account because in another, but wait till you see what happens next, by the way. But in another video, this one's tough to watch, so I want to tell you in, in advance to, to be careful before we watch this. Go to his Instagram account, Rob, because he explains what happened here. This is the whole thing with the issue on this. Okay, if you go to the account... Go to the third video, right there. Watch this and put the audio on.

• 1:56:17Speaker 08

  ...seat from this disgusting company that pretends to be me. Says they're Traxxyc. Sells my customer a bracelet, rips him off and rips him off on the gold. Shit, they're saying it's 14 karat gold? Well, we're gonna test this bracelet right now. Start the test. 10 karat gold. So did they say they were Traxxyc?

• 1:56:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, he uh, he tried to portray, uh, he tried to sell one of your products. He said that he ran out.

• 1:56:48Speaker 08

  Right.

• 1:56:49Speaker 01

  One of your rings that you purchased.

• 1:56:51Speaker 08

  Right, that you, so that we sell. So you came with a picture of Traxxyc.

• 1:56:55Speaker 01

  Yep, I opened up the website.

• 1:56:58Speaker 08

  And then he said he ran out, even though he has nothing to fucking do with me other than to steal my fucking customers all day long. These rats have done this over and over and over again. And I tolerated it. And now they fucked them over on the carrot as well. Yo, Akai, you are fucking thieves, bro.

• 1:57:18Patrick Bet-David?

  You wanna know what happens? Now go to the main clip. Guys, I'm telling you right now, Brace for Impact, cuz this one's tough to watch. Watch what happens here, go ahead.

• 1:57:27Speaker 08

  Fucking little bitch, you fucking...

• 1:57:32Speaker 04

  Look at Windex.

• 1:57:36Speaker 16

  Oh my god.

• 1:57:39Speaker 18

  Yeah, get that girl.

• 1:57:41Speaker 04

  How much spit did he have in his mouth?

• 1:57:46Speaker 08

  In the end, they tried to kill me. Strangled me with my own chain. Uh, to get out of this hospital. Traxxyc.com.

• 1:57:55Patrick Bet-David?

  He's always ready for it, right? Now watch. Go to the last video of them getting arrested. Did you see the video?

• 1:58:00Speaker 04

  Oh, I haven't seen this one.

• 1:58:01Patrick Bet-David?

  You haven't seen this video?

• 1:58:02Speaker 04

  They went after him?

• 1:58:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, no, no, no, no. You haven't seen the video? Like, that's the main video, what happened. By the way, this is the gold, you have to be, uh, uh, uh, you have to be ready, uh, because, yeah, if you type that, "The guys getting arrested", go to the, go to the video of them handcuffed. No, them handcuffed with cops, right there. That's the one right there, watch this. Make it bigger, Rock, go back, okay, watch this.

• 1:58:26Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, the music.

• 1:58:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Music, rap, music, music. Okay, there you go.

• 1:58:29Tom Ellsworth?

  Wow.

• 1:58:29Patrick Bet-David?

  That guy got arrested. That's assault.

• 1:58:31Tom Ellsworth?

  Spit in my face.

• 1:58:32Patrick Bet-David?

  And look at this.

• 1:58:33Tom Ellsworth?

  This guy's smiling.

• 1:58:33Patrick Bet-David?

  They came in, they took him, they arrested him.

• 1:58:36Tom Ellsworth?

  All three of them. Oh, good for him, bro.

• 1:58:38Patrick Bet-David?

  He's not handcuffed. He's just leaving because he scored away. So,

• 1:58:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Good.

• 1:58:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Gold. Tom, how do you process this yourself? I mean, you know, gold, because when you think about, you know, I'm Middle Eastern. So jewelry over the years, you buy stuff in LA. There's that one district in downtown that you go buy all the gold and I'm, you know, and, and people would get caught. Well, this is a V-cut. This is a Dac cut diamond. This is this. And it's not, it's a lower level, but they sell it to you. And the average person doesn't have the equipment to go take a look at it to see if it's real or not. Your thoughts on this, Tom?

• 1:59:09Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, um, I bought an engagement ring and a wedding band in LA. And in LA, there is so much fraud. You had to know somebody or know somebody's father who was legitimate and that you would go in and you would take care of it. And that's how I, I found it. But this goes on everywhere. The, the scamming that goes on in jewelry is horrible. If you don't know somebody and you can't validate it, you know, you're probably not getting the fair price and you're probably not getting the fair quality. They've gotten to the point where diamonds now have, um, laser, um, serial numbers

• 1:59:51Tom Ellsworth?

  that are very, very, very, very, very tiny, but they're actually on the stone. And so that you can, you can get validation now, but you gotta be so careful with it. Um, I knew people that got ripped off in LA and things like this. I, I know a guy, this is a true story. Um, earlier in my career, I was in sales at IBM. He got a gold Rolex. At least he thought it was a gold Rolex. Remember on the back of a Rolex, there's no serial number. They're all smooth on the back. So you, you have to know somebody that can remove the bezel, can look at the serial number underneath. Pat, in three weeks, all of a sudden there's this, it's turning his wrist green.

• 2:00:25Adam Sosnick?

  Oh no.

• 2:00:26Tom Ellsworth?

  Because it was completely fake, you know, and it's for its rubbing and his body oil. It's actually because it's like copper substrate or something. It's there and so, but I'll say this, it's not just that. You gotta be careful everywhere and if you're buying VT merch is not a commercial. This is a caution, only go to our website. We spend hours each week doing audits and we find our stuff with cheap material, cheap clothing and then, and not only is it, is it our trademarked, you know, logos and slogans and stuff, but then it's really junk stuff. And people think it's us because a lot of times you sell through distribution. We sell through ourselves, go to VT.com, VTmerch.com, only buy it from ourselves.

• 2:01:10Tom Ellsworth?

  So just like jewelry, you better know somebody. And if you want the future to look bright for your dollars, for the hats and stuff that you bought, that you're supporting faith over fear and all the stuff that we do, only go to our website. But you just, you gotta know somebody.

• 2:01:25Adam Sosnick?

  Well, I know Max very well. We've hung out a bunch, he's been on my show. I'm with Max Trax on this one, by the way. Yeah, he's loud, he's brash, he's in your face, but you know what he is? He's honest and he does his business. I was actually with Trax recently and I was with Moshe Heimoff, who's the watch king of New York. He's there on the left with my friend Rabbi Benny. And I went to 47th Street, it's the diamond district. If you've ever seen the movie Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler, right there, if you saw, if you show that picture right there, they're all in this room, right here. They're all together. All your competitors are in the same freaking place. By the way, I think 90% of the diamonds in the entire United States that are sold, come from this one block in New York.

• 2:02:06Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah.

• 2:02:07Adam Sosnick?

  So talk about money on money on gold on diamonds. It's all right here. So the story goes from what I understand, because Moshe Heimoff, the watch king, I said, dude, what's going on here? He goes, what you don't know is this, this is all over $22,000. So the guy that spit in Trax's face, by the way, pussy move. Spitting in someone's face, you can go to jail for that, which he did. Apparently, he's the landlord. And he's been in business since the 70s and he's been around forever. You're telling me, you know, they say that, you know, you can work on your reputation for 40 years, and in one day, you ruin it.

• 2:02:40Patrick Bet-David?

  That's it.

• 2:02:40Adam Sosnick?

  That's what happened with this guy. Apparently, he's been in business for, since the 70s. Here in the, the diamond district, then on 47th Street. And one viral video of Jack saying, "Where's my money? Where's my money?" That guy's now arrested, in jail, legacy ruined. So we're about to see what happens with this. Grimy business, stealing each other's customers, ripping people off, and you're gonna ruin your entire reputation? Over $22,000? Save that money.

• 2:03:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, dude, I, I just Googled, I wanted, cause I know, I saw a video where he's saying he's half Jewish. Apparently, and I asked Google, the AI overview, he's Azerbaijani-American. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, moved to Queens, and his parents in 1993 at the age of seven. But yeah, Adam, he's, oh, every time I see him, but he walks around on the streets of New York, asking questions and giving gold, giving silver. He actually loves people, he loves giving away stuff, and I think, I mean, that's, dude, that's what you get.

• 2:03:41Adam Sosnick?

  This is what happens, you find success when you're good at something, and then you can promote it. There's a product and there's marketing. His product is watches, diamonds, jewelry, but he's also a marketer. You talked about being a talent and being an operator? He's an operator, but he's also a talent. So it's, uh, it's not easy to do, and, and it's a rough and ugly business, and this is sort of, uh, why people appreciate authentic people, cause this is who he is. If you've ever met this guy, he's in your face like this, he is what he is.

• 2:04:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I mean, that, that's the gold world. You got, you, certain jobs is not for everybody. You have to be ready to go to war and, hey, if, if for somebody that's watching this, say you don't know him, say you just watch this for the first time, like, holy shit, I had no idea what happened here. Do you trust him more? Would you buy from him? Would you do business with him? Would you not? That's, think, think about the level of conviction in that space. And Rob, do we have any stories that we haven't gotten into that we need to before we wrap up? Is there anything we have left that we should get into?

• 2:04:39Speaker 04

  The Mamdani price raising.

• 2:04:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, okay, let's go into that one, we'll wrap up with that one here. So Mamdani. Is claiming, uh, let me read this story. Rob, you got a video on this as well. Subway and bus fare rises in New York to $3 on Sunday. And some people are like, wait a minute, what's this all about? Go ahead, Rob.

• 2:05:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, music.

• 2:05:03Speaker 04

  Why do they always do that? Mayor Mamdani, he promised us a free ride, but guess what? We're got instead, higher bus fares. Yes, that's right. Today, the price of this bus went up to $3. You know why? Because even with this price increase, New York City buses and subways are barely able to function. The mayor of New York City has actually never had control over the transportation that is controlled by the state. Yes, that's right, the governor. Mamdani, he lied to all of you and guess who's paying the price? All of us, literally.

• 2:05:35Patrick Bet-David?

  There you go. So on Sunday, prices went up to $3 from $2.90, 10%, 10 cent increase. Uh, a cost of weekly, monthly, monthly tickets on Long Island Railroad and Metro North Railroads, which are based on distance travel, will increase by 4.5%. One-way fares will climb up 8%. But a company in minor 17 and under, Kenara Two Commuters Railroads, for $1. Previous limit was 11. A trip using Access A Ride, uh, para-transit service will also cost $3 starting next year. Tolls, uh, at the authority bridges and tunnels will increase about 7.5%.

• 2:06:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Most vehicles using the Queens Midtown Tunnel, for example, will climb 7 from 7:46 to 7:46. From 6:40, 6:94. The MTA expects the changes. You ready for this? To raise an additional $350 million a year in additional revenue. Mamdani, what happened?

• 2:06:37Patrick Bet-David?

  You said you were gonna fix this. What happened? Vinnie, thoughts?

• 2:06:40Speaker 04

  Well, first of all, I think, how many times did we warn you? This is exactly how a con artist works. They sell the people the fantasy. Everything's gonna be free. And remember, the day he won, the next day, he made the video like, "Remember I didn't want any money? I need your money."

• 2:06:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 2:06:59Speaker 04

  Two weeks later, Adam, "Remember I told you I was done asking you for money? I need some more money." So, and again, this is with that young generation that was like, "Free!" And you got sold. Just like with Obama when they're like, "I remember those videos of those, of those black ladies in the street going, "He's gonna pay for my cellphone. He's gonna pay for my rent." Did he do any of that? Didn't do any of it. He's constantly asking for money. Like, just think about everything that he's done. He's hired, uh, ex-cons that have been convicted for kidnapping and, and robbery and, and all that stuff. He's lied to everybody's face. He keeps asking for money. And then one of his best picks, by his housing official, uh, Cia Weaver, top housing advisor for New York City Mayor Mamdani. Look at what she says about people and your housing and white people.

• 2:07:42Speaker 04

  She's saying that we've treated property as something personal for centuries. Now it's time to see it as a collective. Here you go, New York City. There you got it. Go ahead, Rob.

• 2:07:53Speaker 29

  I think the reality is, is that for centuries, we've really treated, um, property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are gonna, and transitioning to treating it as, um, a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that, um, families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, um, are gonna have a different relationship to property than, than, than the one that we create.

• 2:08:27Speaker 04

  Ready for that? "Hey, Tom, you just bought a house. When are we moving in?" That's what's gonna be. White people collectively. Run! Yeah. Run! And it's, I, I, I don't understand how stupid people can be, I mean, I see it, to vote for this. It's never worked. It's how many case studies, how many examples from different countries? The guy, it just, that stupid smile that you guys all fell for, New Yorkers. I'm sorry. You, you-

• 2:08:58Adam Sosnick?

  We warned you, and it's happening in front of your face.

• 2:09:00Tom Ellsworth?

  It's all collective. Can I ask you some questions? In a collective, who built that building? Who put the couch in that? Who paid for the couch?

• 2:09:07Adam Sosnick?

  The capitalists.

• 2:09:08Tom Ellsworth?

  Who put the stove in there? Who put the fridge in there? Who built the building next to the building? Who built the store that's on the corner where they got their stuff? Where did this all come from? It's amazing to me that in a collective, we suddenly, we all own everything in a collective. That's what she's saying. You'll have a different relationship with your property. Wow, hmm, interesting. You'll have a different relationship with your property. So at least she acknowledges that once upon a time it belonged to somebody. But once she stopped this, where does it all come from? Where's it come from?

• 2:09:41Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 2:09:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Where does tomorrow's house come from? And tomorrow's couch? And tomorrow's fridge? And tomorrow's little grocery store? Where?

• 2:09:48Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, well, to use a famous phrase from the Biz Doc, you know, words talk, actions scream. Stop listening to what these socialists say, and just watch what they do. Judge them by their actions. Of course, they're gonna tell you that the warm comfort of collectivism is like a blanket on a cold wintery night. They're seizing the means of production like Karl Marx wanted to do, and Joseph Stalin did, and the Mao people did. I mean, how many times do we need to hear this? I said this earlier. Can we stop it with a nonsensical debate over what's better? Capitalism or communism? Free market enterprise capitalism or social? Why are we still doing this?

• 2:10:32Adam Sosnick?

  And the stupid people of New York fell for it. And now this white lady gets on there and goes, "So yeah, we're gonna have to come after your houses, and especially the white people, you know, because you're white, so you need to have white guilt and white shame, and you obviously are colonizers, because, you know, you were born in Brooklyn. So seizing the means of production, we forget we're one generation from..."

• 2:10:58Adam Sosnick?

  Tyranny. And unless people stand up and start doing something about this, stop believing the speeches and start focusing on the policies. Yes, Mom Donnie lied. Now you fell for it. Are you going to vote for him again? Are you going to keep him in power? Let's see what happens.

• 2:11:11Patrick Bet-David?

  There you go, New York.

• 2:11:15Patrick Bet-David?

  We're watching very closely to see what's going to be taking place with your incredible city. A lot of weird clips are coming out, but this is just a week into it and it's already up. $350 million. Imagine what it's going to look like a year into it, two years into it. So, New York, I hope you guys are able to protect that beautiful city that I love so very much. Thank God there's a guy named Trex that's making sure at least gold people are going to be honest. And diamond people are going to be honest. I hope the rest of you guys do the same as well. Having said that, God bless. We will do this again on Wednesday, Rob. I believe we're back at it again. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye bye, bye bye.

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