ICE Shooting & Protests, Trump Homebuying BAN + Iran's Regime On The Run? w/ Rob Schneider | PBD Podcast | Ep. 715

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick are joined by Rob Schneider to break down the deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting and protests, Trump’s proposed ban on corporate homebuying, and mounting signs that Iran’s regime may be on the brink of collapse. ------ ✝️ FAITH OVER FEAR COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/3MIFOUu 🎙️ SEE ROB SCHNEIDER ON TOUR: https://bit.ly/456tEel 🎙️ 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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• 0:01Speaker 00

  Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here. You are a one of one? My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before.

• 0:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, we are officially live, folks. The reason why we're at this set, not our usual set, is because the last episode was a final episode we did in the old set. A new set is being built. When we're ready to reveal it, we'll let you know what the date's gonna be. We're excited about it. Our guest today... Why do I get the old set? Our guest today... How did I get screwed on this? Intentionally, because... It's retro. Our guest today fully believes you can do it. Just so you guys know that. You can. You can do it. You can do it on the old set, not the new set. No, not for Rob. You can't do it on the new one built. You have to do it on the old one. We're... The temporary one. Look what we did here, Rob. We gave you a nice little place that can fit a couple hundred people. They're not here right now, but we gave you a nice... I got nobody.

• 1:00Patrick Bet-David?

  You got an audience of seven people that are watching this. They're protesting in Minnesota. They'll be here soon. So I was telling, I told Tico, I said, "Tico, Rob Schneider's gonna be on the podcast." And he says, "Dad, I don't wanna go to school. I wanna come see him." I said, "No, you're going to school, buddy. We'll go on and do the podcast, but..." That's like a half-good story. Yeah. I thought he was gonna say, "And here he is." No, he's not. No, he's at school. He's at school. But anyways, okay, so we got a lot of stories to cover. Rob, of course, some of the stuff that we'll cover... Yeah. With things that you got going on. It's gonna get serious, I guess. We got the late-night hosts. Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert Fallon, all pushed conspiracy theories that Trump captured Maduro to distract from the Epstein files. I'm gonna get your thoughts on that here in a minute.

• 1:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Conan O'Brien says, "The F-Trump comics have been co-opted by anger just screaming." This is Conan O'Brien. By the way, credit to him for saying something like that. Yeah, no, I appreciate Conan. I've always appreciated Conan. My first job was with Conan O'Brien. With Conan. Well, my first job, well, it's my first real job at Saturday Night Live.

• 2:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Was there a live audience or was it like it was an audience with not like this stuff that we do for you?

• 2:14Speaker 02

  No, I mean, they had a real set. They didn't give me like the secondary. They go, we're gonna, Rob, let's bring Rob out, but let's not bring him until, not after we finish the new beautiful set. Let's bring him to the old place. Stick him in there. No, but I really appreciate Conan O'Brien saying that because it's true.

• 2:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I'm gonna get into it. I'm gonna get into it in a minute when we get into the story. I wanna read all of them. I'm gonna tee it up and then I'll tee you up. Trust me. We'll get into it. So let me just read all the stories. We got a lot of stuff going on with Iran. There was some stuff that happened yesterday. I think they're saying some reports public are 50 plus that have died, but people I'm hearing from Iran on the streets, it's hundreds of people have died. Internet was cut off yesterday. Reza Pahlavi allegedly was supposed to, there was tweets about he's gonna meet with Trump and then there wasn't. And then now he is complimentary of Trump. I got very direct feedback on that community will respond to the Iranian thing, Venezuela with what's going on there. Bunch of different new things that are

• 3:11Patrick Bet-David?

  formulating and then Trump says he's banning institutional investors from scooping up single family homes. Big deal, very big deal.

• 3:21Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 3:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Marco Rubio making moves on Greenland as Trump extremely serious about buying island valued at 3.3 billion dollars.

• 3:30Speaker 02

  Let me make an offer first.

• 3:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 3:32Speaker 02

  You can't, you can't just take the first 3 billion dollar offer. You gotta ask around.

• 3:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Take another one. Well, maybe you can make a public offer today. Trump and Colombian president speak by phone for the first time amid escalating tensions, which is good that they talked. Denmark will shoot first and ask questions later if the US invades Greenland. Think about the way you're talking.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  From their dog sled.

• 3:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, they'll shoot first.

• 3:55Speaker 02

  Shoot what?

• 3:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Exactly. Rand Paul, I will do everything to stop any kind of military takeover of Greenland. So that's Rand Paul.

• 4:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:03Patrick Bet-David?

  And then LA Mayor Bass brushes off Palisades fire protests. Claims the locals are profiting. Gavin Newsom confronts 18 billion dollar budget disaster he helped create.

• 4:15Speaker 02

  What, what more can these LA people want? I mean, yes. 17,000 homes gone, but 1,700 homes, but they've built back four. And you have to look at the positives. They were able to cut through the red tape and in one year, two of the homes are back.

• 4:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, exciting news. We'll definitely get into that because I don't even think that's his biggest problem. There's allegedly a 250 billion dollar fraud that they're looking into. The billionaire, more strategic move out, make strategic moves out of California ahead of the proposed wealth tax, Larry Page.

• 4:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Just about 173 million dollar, two Miami homes right next to each other. They moved to Miami, they left California.

• 4:58Speaker 02

  Two bedroom.

• 4:59Patrick Bet-David?

  To come, yeah, it's a two bedroom, two bedroom, one bath. They moved out here with protests held in Minneapolis.

• 5:03Speaker 02

  No garage.

• 5:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, no garage.

• 5:06Speaker 02

  You're gonna have, you have to share the garage.

• 5:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, after shot, a woman shot, we'll talk about the shooting with ICE video. There's a lot of commentary there, even make the mayor Jacob Frye tells ICE to get the F out of Minneapolis. You gotta see this video. Another article came out saying is the American, is this the end of American capitalism? Warner Brothers, something funny is going on with Warner Brothers. I'm curious to know what you're gonna say about this later on. Warner Brothers tells shareholders that Larry Ellison, who's worth roughly 300 billion dollars, give or take, his wealth isn't enough to beat out Netflix's bid. Tom thinks something's going on behind closed doors, that they want Netflix as the buyer, but not Larry Ellison. Nobody knows why, we'll talk about it.

• 5:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Of course Iran will talk about Maduro is gone, but repression in Venezuela intensifies. China expected to replace Venezuelan oil with Iranian crude. And then we got a couple other updates here with stories to cover as well.

• 6:04Speaker 02

  That's like eight minutes right there.

• 6:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, that is eight minutes, but we're gonna go two hours. I hope you're ready and your bladder can handle next two and a half hours.

• 6:10Speaker 02

  Oh, man.

• 6:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, Vinny, tell us what's happening with the stuff you've been doing. By the way, Rob, just so you know, Vinny, his gear, Faith Over Fear, tens of thousands of pieces, sold out in a couple of weeks. Tell us about Faith Over Fear, Vinny.

• 6:25Speaker 03

  Well, um, just letting everybody know, I appreciate everybody that's getting on board. I saw a guy at the airport that was wearing the Faith Over Fear. I was at a diner and some guy patted me on the back and was like, hey, what is that all about? And he wanted to know what Hebrews 11, chapter one was, and we got into a really good conversation. And I know I always talk about faith over fear. Being like in in the Bible with a centurion soldier whose kid was healed where Jesus just said, "Go because of your faith, it's going to be healed." And the woman that had the bleeding issue that pushed through the crowd, that just touched Jesus's edge of hem of his clothing and he was healed. So I want people to know that that's back in the biblical days. Faith over fear still applies today. It's, you know, it's what's starting a business when the numbers scare you. Speaking the truth when silence feels safer. Fear waits for comfort and faith moves with conviction.

• 7:09Speaker 03

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• 7:17Patrick Bet-David?

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• 7:18Speaker 03

  VTmerch, go to VTmerch.com. Guys, we have hoodies, we have hats. Uh, rock it and let people know where you stand.

• 7:26Patrick Bet-David?

  I love it. Go to VTmerch.com, place your order by it for yourself, your friends, your peers. Having said that, let's get right into it. I want to start off with you, Rob. Okay, so late night host Jimmy Camel Fallon, all pushed conspiracy theory that Trump captured Maduro to distract from Epstein files. Rob, if you got the clips, play it. We'll react to it. Go for it.

• 7:48Speaker 04

  If you're wondering how bad these Epstein files are for Trump, turns out they're invade Venezuela bad. This is literally the plot of the movie Wag the Dog. The president gets caught a sex scandal, so he attacks a smaller country to distract us. And here we are, distracted. On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured by Delta Force at their home in Caracas and brought to New York. Trump watched the operation unfold in real time from the bunker in his basement at Mar-a-Lago. You can see there he is with Hegseth and Marco Rubio. This mission was called Operation Absolute Resolve, which is a title that was definitely generated by ChatGPT.

• 8:30Speaker 02

  I'll tell you, the, uh, my response to that is it's a really good, um, warning to comedians and other hosts and other people who shows that if you go too far in down the, you know, conspiracy rabbit hole, or if you just get too politicized and then all of a sudden you're not, um, You know, you're not in the funny business anymore. You're just in the, uh, it's, it's, it's politics and it's, uh, you know, it, it's really propaganda through comedic imposition. They're imposing their views. And, uh, it's just, it wasn't funny and it wasn't particularly, uh, interesting. And it's also, it's just factually, uh, incoherent.

• 9:15Speaker 02

  Because, believe me, if there was anything in those files, uh, about Trump, the Democrats had it for years, they would have released it. But you think they would have, they would have hid that stuff to protect Trump? No, it would have been out.

• 9:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Billboards.

• 9:28Speaker 02

  So, I mean, look, uh, obviously, it, all that stuff should come out. But, uh, the, the, the presumption that there's stuff there, it's just, each, uh, how much more of this is like, it's like, it's, it's, people see that Russia was all, the only two people not involved in the Russia-Trump collusion was Russia and Trump. Everybody else seemed to be colluding. So, I, I think the American people see through that. It's just like when you watch the news, depending if, if you're watching CNN, you know, you have to go, okay, what aren't, okay, what, if, if politics is war by other means, this is war. So, it's, it's, it's just a political warfare. So, what are they not telling you? And so, and this thing is just, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's treating your audience

• 10:12Speaker 02

  like they're stupid, or like they're just in your own political echo chamber. And it's like, he listens, I mean, I, I think he's affected by, uh, the head writer, who's his wife, who's a, who's a liberal that's-

• 10:22Patrick Bet-David?

  The head writer is his wife?

• 10:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's way out there. Jimmy Kimmel's wife? Jimmy Kimmel.

• 10:26Patrick Bet-David?

  No, I know, but the head writer for what? For the show?

• 10:28Speaker 02

  For Jimmy Kimmel's show, yeah.

• 10:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Is this wife?

• 10:30Speaker 03

  Did you see the podcast where she, he looked like he was a hostage by her over-liberal, white anger and bitterness?

• 10:36Speaker 02

  Oh, of course. I think it's, I think, um, I think it's obviously, look, Jimmy Kimmel's certainly capable of being funny. I mean, I remember doing, um-

• 10:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Really?

• 10:45Speaker 02

  Yes, no, I remember doing a, um- The show, he was the emcee while we did the Hugh Hefner roast eight days after 9/11. And, you know, and he was funny. He can be funny. I just, I think when you get so emotionally vested in something, and I just think it's, I will tell you this right now, there's no way Disney's picking him up after his contract expires in April. They will let it expire and that's it. Disney doesn't want this. Disney shareholders don't want politics. They just want, they want entertainment. And why would you want to allow 50 automatically, you know, take, okay, there's 80 million voters that we don't want watching our show? It's crazy, I'm sorry.

• 11:26Adam Sosnick?

  Let me ask you a direct question. He was funny after 9/11, so 24 years ago. When's the last time Jimmy Kimmel was actually funny?

• 11:33Speaker 02

  Well, I will tell you, you can't really come up with like, well, that was a really good zinger. I mean, like, you know, Jay Leno, you can remember, I mean, I remember his jokes, you know, when he was on, he's just like, hey, you know, remember when Starbucks is, you know, Starbucks is opening up another 600 Starbucks? And where can they open it up? The only place I can think of is inside of the Starbucks, you know? He would have, um...

• 11:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Leno was the best.

• 11:56Speaker 02

  I mean, he was really the best comedian of his era, and, you know, and he was...

• 12:01Patrick Bet-David?

  But he was fair, though. That's the thing about Leno. He'd call out all sides.

• 12:04Speaker 02

  All those guys, I mean, Carson and Letterman, they, they, let me finish. They, um...

• 12:10Speaker 02

  They, um...

• 12:11Patrick Bet-David?

  He will do that often, and you, you, you're fine constantly doing that. Keep going.

• 12:15Speaker 02

  No, but they, they, they, obviously, whoever's in power, should, they should, they should go after, but with jokes. And, and I think, um, yeah, I mean, traditionally, Trump has been thin-skinned about any jokes, but I also think those weren't jokes.

• 12:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam Carolla was here, he was very complimentary of, uh, Kimmel. Like, he wouldn't say anything bad about Kimmel because he said Kimmel's the reason why he came up and all this other stuff, so...

• 12:38Speaker 02

  No, but I know that him and they, they diverge. But we have to move, we all have to, uh, we can have divergent views without demonizing each other. And the problem with what Jimmy Kimmel does and what I just saw, is it's just a continuation of the demonization of half of America. And, well, who's that getting, why was that getting us anywhere?

• 12:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Right.

• 12:58Speaker 02

  I just think it's, um, again, it's just politics for political gain. It's some sort of, you know, propaganda with comedic imposition. This is, and, and the idea that the audience is gonna laugh, they're not laughing. They're applauding, you know, in the little political echo chamber. That's, I'm telling you, he won't be there after April.

• 13:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, let me read this. Let me, let me read this, Rob. Is this Colbert? Let's see Colbert, but I want to go to, I want to go to Conan right afterwards. And I want to get his thoughts on Conan. So go ahead and play this one here.

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• 14:28Speaker 07

  Know what this means? Those Epstein files must be crazy.

• 14:35Speaker 07

  I mean.

• 14:40Speaker 07

  How about.

• 14:44Speaker 07

  Bomb something. Bomb anything.

• 14:49Patrick Bet-David?

  To me, he's not funny. To me, he's not funny at all. I can't laugh. I don't think I've ever laughed at anything.

• 14:55Speaker 08

  You can stop it. And this is true. Trump's New Year's resolution was.

• 14:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me read Conan's and I'm going to come to you. So Conan O'Brien says, F Trump comics have been co-opted by anger, just screaming. Comedian late night show Conan O'Brien criticizes comics who are more focused on screaming about Trump. Rob, was there a clip on this or was this? Okay, go for it. Play this.

• 15:19Speaker 09

  Comics go the route of... Can we raise the audio a little bit, guys? I'm gonna just say F Trump every, all the time, or that's their comedy. And I think, well, now, a little bit, you're being co-opted. Because you're so angry, you've been lulled, it's like a siren leading you into the rocks. You've been lulled into just saying, "F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, screw this guy." Um, you know, and I think you've now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you've exchanged it for anger. And that person, or any person like that, would say, "Well, things are too serious now. I don't need to be funny." And I think, well, if you're a comedian, you always need to be funny. You just have to find a way.

• 16:02Speaker 02

  Bingo.

• 16:02Speaker 09

  And you just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way that is... Because good art will always be a great weapon. Will always be a perfect, uh, weapon against power. But if you're just screaming, and you're just angry, um, you've lost your best tool in the toolbox. Rob, what do you say to that?

• 16:26Speaker 02

  Well, I think that's wonderful. And, you know, Conan's very logical, rational, and a good guy. And also, when he was, did his show, his monologues were about getting laughs. It wasn't about some political indoctrination through comedic imposition. I keep coming back to that. Um, so it, um, he's 100% right. We have to be there to entertain. I mean, when I go, and, you know, tonight, I got two shows, I'm there to entertain them. And if I don't make them laugh, I mean, yeah, oops, I gotta call my kid, she's on her way to school. Um, the, uh, we're there to entertain. And, and so, yes, I think you can have a political opinion, but it's just like, you know, Jerry Seinfeld was saying the other day, and we had a, I mean, I talked to him about that at the Saturday Night Live anniversary, 50th anniversary.

• 17:11Speaker 02

  Because he said, "I don't believe that there's a woke thing," and blah, blah, blah. And I said, "There is woke," and he said, "Absolutely." And he said something like this, "There's no woke canceling stuff." And he corrected himself, I think, uh, and he said to me, "No, I'm saying that there is, but..." You can just use, you can find a way around it and still find a way to be funny, which is absolutely true. And he's one of the masters of all time. I mean, for, for, you know, his, his skill and acumen is, you know, he's absolutely brilliant. I mean, he literally is a genius of comedy. And, but he's right. You have to find a way to get to it. And so you have, it seems like, you know, Jimmy Kimmel's just in a war.

• 17:52Speaker 02

  And before, you know, the, he's, his contract expires, he's just gonna continue to try to burn down as much and just, and have a fire going. And I just said, like, you know, Conan's right. Your biggest weapon is come up with something funny. Mm-hmm. And I think there's absolutely, you have to go after the people in power. And Trump's in power and the Republicans are in power. But find a way to do it. I find a way to do it that's, that has a surprise to it. And certainly, you know, it's just illogical just to, to think that, you know, somehow the Democrats would withhold, um, you know, really, uh, evidence that was, um, you know, showing Trump in a bad light.

• 18:33Speaker 02

  If, if they, if they had it, believe me, it would be everywhere.

• 18:38Speaker 03

  Rob, here's my thing, as, as a, as a fellow comedian, that's just hack. That's just the joke that everybody, and by the way, it's been going on for almost 10 years. It's a hack, he's a hack, the other guy's a hack. My question to you is though, Rob, this is a studio decision. I know his wife is doing the writing and he's in there and they're patting each other on the back and they're, and they're loving each other. But from a business standpoint, we, we saw the numbers a couple of weeks ago, they are, they've been hemorrhaging tens of millions of dollars. Nobody's watching, they haven't changed any course. He keeps spitting the same rhetoric. So my question is, is it the donors that are behind the Democratic Party that just want to just, it's just anti-Trump?

• 19:18Speaker 02

  Disney, as of this point, does not want the political backlash and will continue the bleeding until the contract's up in April. And then there, there is no reason financially or a business decision will be to not.

• 19:34Speaker 02

  To not bring him back. And that's just, I mean, I'm not saying personally, I, I, it doesn't have anything to do with me. I'm just saying as if, if they make a decision to keep him and to, to make, redo his contract or give him a contact, contract extension to Jimmy Kimmel. That's going to be a purely, uh, political decision based on not wanting any crap from, uh, you know, the, the, the violent, uh, or should say, the virulent, um, and loud, uh, liberal intelligentsia. But that, that same liberal intelligentsia isn't watching the show anymore. Cause even they ain't go like, ah, it's not funny. What, what am I getting out of it? They, they watched it for like the first week or the first couple, first show.

• 20:15Patrick Bet-David?

  First show.

• 20:15Speaker 02

  When he came back. But, um, if, if they do make that decision, it's going to be, it's not a business decision. They'll be telling their stockholders, we're not making business decisions. And I just think, you know, it's a business, you have to make a decision. And you have to make a decision based on what is going to benefit your stockholders. If you, if you're in a money, a business to make money. It's just like, if they had a boat, if Disney, Disney has seven cruise lines. They got the seventh one that they, that they, uh, released last year. If that wasn't making money, then you take the boat off and you don't do that anymore. So this boat, the Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Show is not making money. And they gotta bring it back to Doc and figure out how to make money in that spot. That's it. It's a business decision. It's nothing personal.

• 20:57Speaker 02

  I mean, if, I, I think it's just, those shows are going to go away anyway. I just think that that's a form that people, I mean, most people.

• 21:04Patrick Bet-David?

  You're saying it's going to go away, like the late night show is going to be gone.

• 21:07Speaker 02

  I'm saying late night shows are going to all be gone. They're not going to have them.

• 21:09Patrick Bet-David?

  What's, what's going to replace it? Anything? Is it going to be like podcasters and YouTubers like Kill Tony?

• 21:13Speaker 02

  Yes, you're going to have people that are watching specific shows for them. I mean, Kill Tony is way bigger than all those shows.

• 21:18Patrick Bet-David?

  That's right.

• 21:19Speaker 02

  To, you know, uh, exponentially to the 10th power, bigger than them. They have 10 million people will watch each, uh, episode. And, uh, and, but Tony's there to get laughs. And he's also, I mean, I would say he's more Johnny Carson than any of these late night hosts. And he's a great man. I gotta tell you, I've never had anybody in this business kinder to me than, than Tony Hinchcliffe. Out of the blue, didn't know me, never, never really met me. He invited me on his show and thank you, Tony, for having, you know, uh... The balls to have me, because I don't get invited to the late night shows. But it's like, I'm a comedian, I'm there to get laughs. And, but I'm not going to give in to the, you know, I want to go the other way. And I have gone the other way because it's more interesting.

• 22:04Speaker 02

  You want to be, you want to go against the tide. But then I had against the tide, you know, being a conservative, you know, in 2020 was not easy. I had as much as 30 people would get up and walk out for a joke about COVID at that time. Or about Biden or something. People would just, and so I had to literally, I talked to John Cleese, who was also, you know, who's a Legend. Extremely a legend, but also crazy, over the top, anti-Trump liberal. But he's a great man. I don't give a crap of what his politics are. But he said, Rob, I think we should give a warning before your shows. And I went, no, just say, you know, for those of you who are feeling extremely, you know, exceptionally sensitive.

• 22:45Speaker 02

  Those who are trapped in their own political echo chamber, those who, who's, um, when they hear ideas separate than their own make calls their emotional collapse, this and that may not be the show for you. And so I did a version of that and I, and I did it for like two years, uh, just before it was just a warning. You know, before, because it's like, hey, this is a comedy show. You're going to hear jokes and they're not going to be what you, you need to be challenged your audience. Otherwise you're a bore. So you got to challenge, and you got to challenge both sides. So I think that's, that's what's going to make it, make it interesting.

• 23:15Patrick Bet-David?

  And Rob, how's your relationship with Adam Sandler right now? So I think there was something I read that he was, you know, he goes out of his way to always include you.

• 23:23Speaker 02

  That was an AI thing.

• 23:24Patrick Bet-David?

  So that's not a real thing?

• 23:25Speaker 02

  It's all AI. It's so funny because even people like yourself who are pretty savvy, really savvy. That it's still like, you believe it because, you know, there's just, there's these bot farms. That's why it's very important that Elon Musk and Zuckerberg hopefully will put, uh, this is made in India by AI. You know, on the thing. So, well, then not just community notes, but it should say where the country of origin. Because, you know, India has like, literally like an AI machine to just throw stuff out there. If they get enough YouTube, um, views, they get money on that. So it's like, whether it's China or whether it's Pakistan or whether it's India, it's all fake shit. But no, Adam supports me. He's my buddy. He's my friend, you know, and, um, but at the same time,

• 24:08Speaker 02

  I, I think it's, it's a, it's a good business decision to. Stay out of it. Stay. Why would you want to? It's like, you know, Michael

• 24:17Patrick Bet-David?

  So Adam is good to you. So you and Adam are good.

• 24:19Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, Michael Jordan is like.

• 24:20Patrick Bet-David?

  So that AI was right that you guys are good.

• 24:22Speaker 02

  Well, no, yeah, yeah, we are. But like, Michael Jordan is like, right, you know, Republicans buy shoes too. And it's true. It's like, I think, why would you want to limit your audience? However, I, I think it's, for me, it was important during the last few years to, there's something more important than your comedy career or your, your, you know, getting movies, was that this culture was under attack. And I believe, you know, being friends with Charlie Kirk was quite an education. And just, you know, it was indisputable that our culture and Western civilization is under attack. And I would just ask your viewers and listeners to get the book, Douglas Murray's book, War on the West. There's a, there's a real attack on Western civilization.

• 25:05Speaker 02

  And the idea that the United States is just going to continue without our assistance, this incredible experiment in freedom, is, is an illusion. We need to step up and, and it may cost you some money. But when I think about like, well, I'm not going to probably, you know, studios don't want to hire me now because I've been so conservative. I, I would say like the Bill Maher thing, I would say, hey, I've been a liberal, they moved, I didn't move. And then you realize there's an attack on the culture. It's time to step up and, and protect it. And, and, and I really feel like it really was. I mean, when they're, when the Biden administration, day one, day one, first thing they did was to contact the White House,

• 25:45Speaker 02

  to contact the social media outlets, Zuckerberg and Facebook and Twitter, and demand that Robert Kennedy be censored. I mean, that's, that's, that's a fact. And that just goes to show the political, the politicization of, of, of our, you know, body politic now. Was not one Democrat stood up and said, hey, that's wrong. But the only guy kind of that would step up and go against his party is, is Fetterman. And he has a, he has a brain injury. So God bless him. That part of his brain that died was a very, should happen to the rest of the Democratic Party.

• 26:17Patrick Bet-David?

  It's true.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  But I know, but I mean that I think you have to, um, you have to step up and I, our culture was under attack for sure. And I feel like, you know, the idea that they're saving democracy, they did Democrats weren't saving democracy. They just got rid of Biden because his brain didn't work and everybody knew and everybody in the media knew that his brain, he was basically a, you know, a corpse attached to a car battery for four years. And to just get rid of him and just without the vote, just put Kamala in. And as I said, you know, replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris is like changing your shirt because you shit your pants.

• 26:52Adam Sosnick?

  Well, sir.

• 26:53Speaker 02

  You know, so it's pretty obvious.

• 26:55Adam Sosnick?

  Um, I'll just say this, Adam Sandler is a living legend, respect to him. Number two, The War in the West, Douglas Murray is one of the best books I've ever, I've ever read.

• 27:03Speaker 02

  He's a genius, yeah.

• 27:04Adam Sosnick?

  Because it's so true. But to this point about what late night comics are doing with this F Trump whole phenomenon, what I would say is it goes deeper than that because it's pretty much what's going on with half this country. Uh, it's not just left to comics. The problem that we have right now is that everyone's so firmly entrenched in their sides and they have, they feel like they need to defend their team. I got this great question on my neck by this kid Dylan. He's a young Republican and I, but he goes, Adam, I've seen your evolution because I used to not be a fan of Trump whatsoever. I was, uh, had the, the whatever Trump syndrome, Trump DDS, I had that four years ago, five years ago.

• 27:42Speaker 02

  Trump told me to my face that he hated me. To my face. I just laughed, you know? But I, I love the guy.

• 27:49Adam Sosnick?

  But he, I, and I have an amazing appreciation, but he asked me this question on my neck. He goes, I've seen your evolution. Why don't you just come out and say that you're a full on Republican now and register as a Republican in Florida? I go, I've always been an independent and I just thought like a Democrat. Now I think like a Republican and the reason that I want to stay an independent is because I want to be able to be fair and balanced and unbiased.

• 28:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, but Adam, don't you know, no, no, no, let me interrupt you.

• 28:14Adam Sosnick?

  Everyone these days is so in their echo chamber.

• 28:15Speaker 02

  Let me interrupt you like you interrupted me. Adam, let me tell you something.

• 28:18Adam Sosnick?

  Well, let me interrupt you.

• 28:19Speaker 02

  No, Adam, here's the problem with that. That is, what Adam just said is rational and completely a pro-American approach. I'm going to be an independent. Independent and vote for what makes sense, but don't you understand just saying you're an independent, the Democrats are gonna throw you into the, under the right wing bus and run over you, you know? Oh, I have zero fear of that because... No, no, but I'm telling you that, so they're not playing fair. So just because you're saying you're an independent, if you're not 100% behind all their radical crazy shit, then you're gonna be thrown into that, oh, he's a right winger, just like they say them about... They're the fascists, that's the thing. Yes, okay, so, but I'm saying, so, but, so you have to, that's, that's the area that we're in. So, you know, whether you consider yourself a conservative or not, they're gonna call

• 29:04Speaker 02

  you a right winger. Who cares? Yeah, exactly, but who cares, what I'm saying, that, that's, that's what we're dealing with, that's, that's how they, that's the interpretation. So, you know, the interpretation is, is the, is the reality that people carry with them. And, um, is they make their own reality, unfortunately, it's not accurate. So we have to, you know, that, that's something that needs to be tackled and gone back to, you know, to calming down. You know, where was the sympathy when Charlie Kirk got murdered? When you had people celebrating that... They were dancing on his grave. They had, you know, so you have, anybody outside your tribe doesn't get any sympathy or empathy, uh, but people in your tribe get an overarching ridiculous amount of empathy. And it was a terrible tragedy that, that, I, I wish that ICE officer would not have shot, I really do, you know?

• 29:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's get into that story, let's get into that story, Rob, if you wanna pull it up. So, story comes out, uh, protests held in Minneapolis after woman shot dead by US immigration agent. Rob, I, I think you probably have a few different clips, is that the protesting going on right now in Minneapolis, yesterday or two days ago? So, this, this story, when it first came out, you know, J.D. Vance said it best, I think there's a clip on it, because, i- is there any clips that we have of the cars? Well, of course, we're not gonna maybe show, uh, uh, the main clips, but do you have any clips, Rob, to show what happened? Is this the one? Okay. So this is the clip that we all saw, actually, no, this isn't the clip that we saw, the clip

• 30:31Patrick Bet-David?

  we saw was the other one, showing the fact that the ICE agent was, you know, you know, defending himself and shooting, and then this clip gets shown, go ahead, Rob, from a different angle.

• 30:44Speaker 02

  That's real time, speed, yeah, that's real time, boom, what are you doing? Whoa?

• 30:49Patrick Bet-David?

  So she drives over the ICE agent.

• 30:51Speaker 03

  She's trying, oh, she's trying to.

• 30:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, she drives over the.

• 30:54Speaker 02

  I'm gonna say, she was in a crazed.

• 31:01Speaker 02

  She was not in the right frame of mind, number one. I would say, anybody who.

• 31:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, let me go to Vinnie first. I'll come to you. Go ahead, Vinnie.

• 31:08Speaker 03

  Well, and Rob, I get where you're coming from. I just want, I want everybody to know first and foremost, okay? If she hadn't been committing a crime.

• 31:15Speaker 02

  She'd be alive.

• 31:16Speaker 03

  She would still be alive. Interfering with federal law enforcement and obstructing a federal officer is a crime under law. And let me tell you where it is. Under eighteen USC one one one, it's a federal crime to forcefully assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any federal officer while they're performing official duties. That's number one.

• 31:34Speaker 02

  Absolutely. Well, she hit five out of seven. It doesn't take away from the tragedy. What I want to dig into, you're a hundred percent right, a hundred percent. But however, you, you gotta know that in any tragedy, there's a confluence of, of, of things that are combined to, to set the stage for this tragedy. I mean, the fact that there's been this over, overwhelming rhetoric against, you know, federal officers in this nation, this hateful rhetoric, the demonizing, the calling them Nazis and fascists. And it creates this, um, the situation where people who are vulnerable will put themselves in harm's way, which is what happened.

• 32:15Speaker 02

  And it's very similar to like the social contagion, which is thankfully shrinking now of transgenderism, where these kids who are vulnerable and, and a high percentage of them, upwards of eighty percent of these kids who identify as trans are vulnerable kids on the spectrum of autism. So you have, um, a social contagion there. You had the social contagion of fear of during COVID. So you just have these people that are being manipulated through emotion to not make decisions that are in the best interest of themselves. And put themselves in harm's way. So while I say, I agree with you a hundred percent, it doesn't take away from the fact that it's a tragedy. It doesn't take away from the fact that that was a preventable tragedy. And I mean that. I mean.

• 32:58Speaker 02

  Yes, he was hit and yes, he's not gonna be convicted, obviously. But this is an officer that already got into a situation where he got injured by a car. And had stitches in his legs and stuff.

• 33:10Speaker 03

  Tracked 300 feet by an illegal that they were trying to arrest for, guess what? Assaulting a nine-year-old minor, like sexually assaulting. So that's why this guy is, by the way, I'm not saying it's gonna make him a little on edge, but first, like, if you think about it, Rob.

• 33:26Speaker 02

  I think that guy should not be in the field after that. I just do.

• 33:29Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, think about it. He loves his job so much that even after that.

• 33:32Speaker 02

  He loves his job so much, but I think at a certain point, you have to make decisions that are, that the individual officers don't get to make.

• 33:38Speaker 03

  Let me ask you a question. Where's the accountability? I'm gonna pick one guy. Tim Walz, calling them ICE Gestapo.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  I'm saying that that's insane.

• 33:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, what I'm saying is, but this group.

• 33:49Speaker 02

  That is, that is a body, that is a political warfare.

• 33:52Speaker 03

  No, no, but there's no accountability for them. How many times have they been calling these people?

• 33:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you have the JD Vance clip?

• 33:58Speaker 02

  Well, absolutely. I mean, I'm not saying that's not wrong.

• 34:01Patrick Bet-David?

  I think JD Vance puts it clearly, and then Rob, respond to this. Go ahead, go ahead, Rob. No, no, the other Rob, Rob.

• 34:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob, you.

• 34:09Speaker 02

  Well, no, I'm saying you have to acknowledge the tragedy. We also, we have to be, when there are citizens that are not in a right frame of mind, we have to, just like in Los Angeles, I mean, this is crazy. But like, literally, they let people at Home Depot, they'll just, people who were stealing stuff, they let them go. Why? Because they don't want to deal with the insurance hassle if the person pretends to fall down and hurt themselves. They just don't want to do it. That's how screwed up our legal system is and the scummy attorneys that would represent them. So, I think when you know that there's something like this, they have to calm their heads after prevail. And I just, it just, it is.

• 34:49Patrick Bet-David?

  So you're saying he shouldn't have shot?

• 34:51Speaker 02

  I'm saying, he obviously defended himself. I'm saying he should not have, in my opinion, I'm not a police officer, I've never been in the armed services. I'm saying that it was preventable, that I wish that in situations like this, just like in Los Angeles, or just like when there's car speed chases, you gotta let them go. Don't get in front of the car. And I think that's, that's dangerous for everybody involved. Yes, if there's somebody speeding, you know, you could, it's more dangerous in a speed chase to interfere and then just let them go.

• 35:26Patrick Bet-David?

  That wasn't a speed chase though, that was a parked car.

• 35:28Speaker 03

  She did on purpose, when she came and set up with her wife, her wife, her wife or whatever got out of the car and she said, "Rob, because I was..."

• 35:34Speaker 02

  Her wife?

• 35:35Speaker 03

  Hold on, I was a, I was a security forces member in the United States Air Force. When it comes to that type of thing, you're doing a convoy, and somebody's blocking you off, the, the, the fear of an ambush, meaning people coming from the side, and you can't be a stationary target. So what she's doing, and mind you, I want to say one thing, this girl, Renee Good, she was an ice watch warrior. She was trained to do exactly what she was doing, to resist, to get in their way, to blow whistles, and do all that stupid stuff that she's doing. I understand 100%, it's avoidable, but can I show, can I show one, one thing really quick, Pat? Rob, show the video of this police officer. This is an army, a military veteran from Baltimore, this older video of Amy Caprio, who was run over, and

• 36:19Speaker 03

  by the way, this is, this was on the news, Pat, so they're gonna show it. Look at how fast this situation, she stood beside, goes from, "Hey, get out of the car," to she is dead, and her audio was live of her dying on, on this call. So look how fast this happens. Go ahead, Rob. This person in the car, they get in the car, check this out. Boom, done, she's dead. She's dead. So in this situation, again, the blame goes to the Democratic Party, who has been pushing this rhetoric for years.

• 36:48Speaker 02

  I agree.

• 36:49Speaker 03

  Nazi, Gestapo and everything.

• 36:50Speaker 02

  I agree.

• 36:50Speaker 03

  And then, and Rob, to be honest with you, this is what they wanted. This is what Tim Walz, this is what Elon Omar, this is what David Newsom, when they say, "Get in the street, get in their face, resist, take off..." Your mask, what do you have to hide for?

• 37:02Speaker 02

  Hundred percent.

• 37:03Speaker 03

  This is a direct result.

• 37:04Speaker 02

  I'm agreeing with you. However, I'm agreeing with all that.

• 37:07Tom Ellsworth?

  They want their body, they want their name.

• 37:08Speaker 02

  I agree. Yeah, they, they wanted somebody to, to, um, they wanted a martyr that they could use for, for, because they don't care about people. None of those, none of those, none of those politicians.

• 37:19Speaker 03

  The cops should have let her go because, by the way, if they drive over your foot, you're.

• 37:22Speaker 02

  I'm saying, look, I'm saying in what they did by that officer firing and getting in front of the car, gave them what they wanted. They gave them, they, they gave them the shift of the narrative to the unbelievable graft and corruption and fraud by the Democratic Party to the tune of nine hundred billion dollars potentially, as Elon Musk said. It could be anywhere from three hundred to nine hundred billion, literally. It could, if, if you take away the, the corruption and the fraud from the Democratic Party, it could lower our taxes, literally. Um, anyone under five hundred thousand dollars making that, anyone five hundred thousand or less would pay zero taxes. That's the kind of, uh, corruption that Elon Musk thinks we have, those, those numbers.

• 38:07Speaker 02

  All I'm saying is simply this, I agree with you a hundred percent. And the fact that there is nobody, uh, that the same people have certain, um, zero empathy for an officer who was killed in the line of duty, exposes them for their hypocrisy and, and, and that this is just all politics.

• 38:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's do this. Let's listen to what JD has to say. Let's see, because I've been trying to play this JD clip, G. Go ahead and play the clip.

• 38:31Speaker 02

  And I agree with JD.

• 38:32Speaker 08

  I was actually walking out here, um, somebody sent me a photo of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis. And this is the headline, I'm just going to read it. Outrage after ICE officer kills US citizen in Minneapolis. Well, that's one way to put it, and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally, because this was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media by and large has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace. And it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.

• 39:15Speaker 08

  What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very off ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile? What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman has is part of a broader left wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.

• 39:49Speaker 02

  Thousand percent right.

• 39:50Speaker 08

  If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws. The President stands with ICE.

• 40:09Speaker 02

  Impossible right there, Rob. Thousand percent agreed with everything he had to say. And it doesn't take away from the fact that it's a tragedy. And he also said it, I think he also said it's a tragedy. We have to know that a human life here was manipulated and is lost. And all what I'm saying is absolutely the officer was defending himself, but I wish he didn't fire. And I also think that we have to and we have to do everything we can in a situation to not put yourself in harms way. What she did was putting herself in harms way. And I'm not an officer, this is just my opinion, is that we you cannot give fuel to to.

• 40:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, what are you thinking with this? You're a reasonable guy?

• 40:51Tom Ellsworth?

  What I think is, Rob, maybe that's that's true, but let's back up a second. Who was in harms way? The officer first was in harms way. And then she.

• 41:05Tom Ellsworth?

  Didn't put herself in harm's way. She suffered the consequence of interfering with a live law enforcement engagement. That's what happened. And J.D. Vance is right. They want the mainstream media is still run by liberals that hate Trump. And as Conan O'Brien said, it's F Trump, F Trump. So guess what? Now they have their body. Now they have their George Floyd t-shirt.

• 41:31Speaker 02

  And I'm saying, all I'm saying is that I think that was avoidable, no matter what.

• 41:35Tom Ellsworth?

  They've got their George Floyd mural now. Now it's a, and now it's a woman. Fantastic. Now they got a little equal opportunity in their martyr cast.

• 41:45Speaker 02

  I'm saying that you're dealing with people that are manipulated.

• 41:47Tom Ellsworth?

  And I think we need to support it.

• 41:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:49Tom Ellsworth?

  Sheriff in Florida came out yesterday, Pat, in the afternoon and said, let me just say something, folks. If you're going to interfere with law enforcement in Florida, this is exactly what you're going to have here. Because we are going to ensure that our law enforcement feel safe on the job and supported. There he is. So that they stay on the job and they don't quit or retire early.

• 42:11Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 42:12Tom Ellsworth?

  Because we need law enforcement to protect you, the public.

• 42:15Speaker 02

  And the degradation and the demonization from the left attacking ICE officers verbally and physically is beyond disgraceful. And it's created this dangerous situation. But I'm saying, since we know that it's a dangerous situation, I guarantee you that the ICE officers have to adjust accordingly. Because you're not, and I agree with you. I'm not disagreeing. I'm saying that you have people here like this woman, who's clearly not in a frame of mind. You got to know that they are, the officer didn't know that. He doesn't know who this person, he doesn't know if there's a person armed. He doesn't know if there's a person, if there's other people that could be in the vehicle that are armed. He does not have that information.

• 42:59Speaker 02

  All he knows is there's somebody now impeding his job. However, all that in mind, I guarantee you, the ICE officers, they have to, you know, they also, part of that training has to be, they're not dealing with rational, normal people, which I has to, at the same time, heighten their awareness in a ready, extremely difficult job, where you have-

• 43:20Patrick Bet-David?

  I really don't know what you're saying, Rob.

• 43:22Speaker 02

  The demonization-

• 43:23Patrick Bet-David?

  I have no clue what you're saying.

• 43:24Speaker 02

  I'm saying that they have to train, they, officers, they have to be like, they're crazy people-

• 43:29Patrick Bet-David?

  So get out the way and let the guy go and, and, and, and have to stop the person again at another place, and then let him go again, and then stop him at another place. Let's play that logically. This makes zero sense to me. So, feel free to push back, because you're a reasonable guy. I, I can't comprehend your, your reasoning.

• 43:46Speaker 02

  Don't be in front of the car, because they can go forward. Don't be in back of the car, because it back up.

• 43:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Don't drive over a cop.

• 43:51Speaker 02

  Absolutely. Get out of your car when he says get out of the car.

• 43:53Patrick Bet-David?

  So that's, that's breaking the law. It's like saying, it's like saying, hey, you know, when these guys are coming around, uh, coming, uh, uh, crossing the border illegally, guys, let's not hurt them. Let's not like-

• 44:02Speaker 02

  No, that's, that's different.

• 44:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's just tell them, please go back and do that. I mean, it just-

• 44:06Speaker 02

  No, no, no. But if it's a truck that's coming over the border, get out of the way.

• 44:09Patrick Bet-David?

  If it's a truck coming over the border, I'm bombing the truck.

• 44:12Speaker 02

  Get out of the way, and then wait, and then-

• 44:12Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm blowing up the truck.

• 44:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, I-

• 44:14Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm being serious with you. If a truck is coming, if I'm a job of being a cop-

• 44:18Speaker 02

  Don't stand in front of it. Yeah, blow it up and stand at the side.

• 44:21Patrick Bet-David?

  And that's exactly what he did.

• 44:22Speaker 02

  I agree with you. I agree. If there's a truck coming across the border, absolutely, you gotta fire. You gotta protect your country.

• 44:27Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm trying, I'm trying to really, so Adam, where are you? You haven't said anything about this yet.

• 44:30Tom Ellsworth?

  Let me just give a different perspective, if, if you may.

• 44:32Speaker 02

  And I, and look, I'm not, I'm not disagreeing with anything you guys are saying, with J.D. Vance. I'm saying, now, you have to know you're dealing with mental people. You have to know you're dealing with people that are not in right frame of mind. You have to know that going in. And you have to, yes, officers have to protect themselves, that comes first. But at the same time, I just, I just think, I guarantee you, the ICE officers-

• 44:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, let me do this. Let me go to Jacob Fry, and then I'm gonna come to you guys. Rob, play, play a clip from Jacob Fry. Here's what he had to say, uh, uh, the mayor of, uh, Minneapolis. Go ahead.

• 45:01Speaker 02

  This guy's a piece of shit.

• 45:02Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, friggin', Nobel Prize laureate, there is.

• 45:04Speaker 11

  There's little I can say, again, that'll make this situation better. But I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE.

• 45:17Speaker 11

  To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.

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• 46:29Speaker 02

  Well, that guy is a lunatic. And we have lunatics who are running our cities. That exposes so many things. They would rather have their city fall apart. They'd rather have it overrun by people who are not citizens. They don't care about the safety of their particular citizens. It's all a political show. And that guy is a disgrace. And I think you see that. I mean, you... Adam, your thoughts?

• 46:58Adam Sosnick?

  Sure. So, I'll give you a different perspective. Is anybody surprised that this is occurring in Minneapolis, Minnesota at this point?

• 47:07Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 47:08Adam Sosnick?

  To me, this is just an ultimate failure of leadership, whether it's this mayor Jacob Prey or Tim Walz. Every major incident that we've seen in this country, for the most part, in the last five years, has occurred in one city, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This ICE thing is just the latest thing. Whether it's George Floyd, whether it's the Somali fraud case, whether it's the BLM protests, whether it's the Catholic school shooting just a few months ago, how much fraud needs to take place in this sanctuary city for this gentleman to take a look in the mirror and say, "Maybe it's my weird, woke, weak policies that have caused this." And then ultimately, what's the reward for all this chaos in Minnesota?

• 47:49Adam Sosnick?

  Let's take tampon Tim Walz and make him almost the second most powerful person in this country. To me, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota is the tipping point for chaos in this country.

• 48:01Speaker 02

  Let me tell you, Minnesota, I remember when I was a kid in Minneapolis, when I was a young comedian, and I remember going, I remember getting, it was with another comedian, we were driving to a gig and we stopped at a gas station, and they took a check from the other comedian. They take a check? How gullible are these people? You have the nicest people. I just ran into a bunch of them from Minnesota. Nice, really, really good people. I ran them to the airport, and believe me, they don't want this, they don't want to be run over by people coming in from other countries, they don't want them to be the ones choosing their elected leaders. They don't want crime in there, and they prefer ICE to come in and take out illegals. And that's ICE's job.

• 48:43Speaker 02

  But you're dealing with a group of people, and they're being manipulated by people who are not good faith actors. These are not people, this guy, this Mayor Fry, he is a bad faith actor. He doesn't have what's best in mind, he's not trying to calm down the situation, he's using political, he's using this as a time to drum things up, to make things more difficult, because it's just a political warfare, that's what we're dealing with.

• 49:07Adam Sosnick?

  But here's my thing, Rob.

• 49:08Speaker 03

  Where is the accountability going to go to? Because if you as a leader, or if I tell you guys right now, "Hey Rob, go to that house and break into it right now, break the law." You know who's gonna get in trouble? Me. I sent you. My favorite show's The First Forty Eight. If people tell you to go somewhere like Charles Manson, he got in trouble. He didn't kill anybody. He told people to go kill. So when's the accountability gonna come to these morons? Because at the end of the day, let's go to the beginning. Number one, you broke the law. The, ready for this? George Floyd, who was a scumbag, drug addict, who held a gun to a pregnant girl's stomach while his friends robbed the house. If he wasn't a dirtbag, law-breaking, drug addict, who was trying to pass a $20 bill at a gas station, he never meets Derek Chauvin. Period.

• 49:53Speaker 03

  Their paths never crossed. And the mental state that you're talking about, about this girl, she wasn't out of her mind. This is the Communist Directive from 1943, Rob. Can you play it? They've brainwashed these people. They're not out of their mind. It's purposefully, Rob. It's purposeful. So my point isn't... I'm saying the same thing. They're brainwashed. Let me finish my point, though. Is out of your mind. Where's the accountability for the person telling you to go and break the law? If he's... Tim Walz is saying, "Go and do this." Get in front of their faces. They're the Gestapo. It has to fall on you. And isn't it? Adam made a great point. It's ironic. The biggest fraud in the history of the country is happening there. Any distraction these people want, not for you to look. But this is my point. I want, this is from, what, how old, Rob? This 1943 Communist Directive.

• 50:38Speaker 03

  Listen to how the Democratic Party, because at the end of the day, Rob, this all, I used to call the whole party evil. It's not the whole party. Please let me finish my point. These people have lost the plot. They have, they have no God. Name me one Democrat, and I'm not saying be as proud as I am, or as Pat, or as Tom with our faith. Where, where are the people that believe in God? Where are the God-fearing, Christian people that have any backbone, any faith? They lost it, Rob. It's all LGBTQ, open the border, fraud. Name me one thing that this party stands for. It's enough playing pussyfooting Iran and going, "No, there, there are some good ones." There aren't. Play, please play this, Rob, of how this is the mentality of what they do to your brains, if you're watching this and you're a Democrat. Go ahead.

• 51:21Tom Ellsworth?

  1943, 82 years ago. Where it started.

• 51:25Speaker 12

  In 1943, the following directive was issued from party headquarters to all communists in the United States. It read...

• 51:35Speaker 12

  When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them after suitable buildups as fascist, or Nazi, or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of anti-fascist intolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell. The association will, after enough repetition, become fact in the public mind.

• 52:02Speaker 03

  Bull.

• 52:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, let me speak.

• 52:05Speaker 03

  Does Tim Walz get held accountable for her life? The blood is on his hands. You can't tell people, "Go fight, go be illegal, go break the law," and then she dies, and nobody says anything to him.

• 52:15Speaker 02

  Well, you have, that's an incitement, any incitement to violence is prosecutable. I mean, it's, uh, he could be prosecuted for an incitement for violence. But you have, it's just become normalized in the Democratic Party. You can just, you can just go like Democrats being violent and look it up on YouTube, and it's just that all of them are just saying, "Get in the streets, get in their face, don't let them eat at a restaurant, don't, don't give them no peace." So you have it, it's just, you know, it is, uh, it's evil, and it's awful, and it's, uh, it's something, but how do you fight it back? I mean, you have to, first of all, we're, we're in such a bad sh, we're such, I mean, as far as the prosecutions are, we're in bad shape.

• 52:55Speaker 02

  When I go to my local Walmart in Arizona, and, uh, there's a lot of things that are behind glass, and they told me they had 1.2, this one particular store in Scottsdale, Arizona, 1.2 million dollars of theft in 2024. And that's, and I said, "That's ridiculous." And they said, "What's down from 3.1, uh, no, from 2.5 million in 2023." So eventually, they said, "We're gonna put everything behind glass." So, at what point do you, when you do not, um, have the police arrest and have prosecutors, and this is Arizona, a pretty purple state. Conservative legislator, not governor or senators unfortunately.

• 53:40Speaker 02

  But you have so, we have to make a shift. We, this cannot continue. This is not the, you know, the good times of the 70s, 80s and 90s. I didn't realize that like, the whole culture would be under attack like this. Yes, if you're an incitement to, um, to violence, you need to be prosecuted. But you have an entire Democratic Party that is feeding off of that. And they're raising money off it. And what it's doing is it's creating brainwash. And I know what you, you have a problem with me saying mental problems. This brainwash and mental problems, they get, they get whipped up into this, let's just go to another term.

• 54:20Speaker 02

  They're being emotionally driven to do things that are dangerous. And that's exactly what's happening. So, but, but at the end of the day, like the police officers and ICE officers specifically, they gotta look out for their own safety, absolutely. And all I said, and all I mean was like, there, there has to be a protocol. And there is protocol. Uh, you gotta protect yourself, but also just, you know, it's, it's a damaged person and I just wish it wouldn't have happened. And I don't know all the facts on the ground.

• 54:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. Next story, Marco Rubio making moves on Greenland as Trump extremely serious about buying island valued at $3.3 billion, sources say. Rob, I think you got a clip on this as well? $3.3 billion.

• 55:05Speaker 02

  That's a lot of money for ICE.

• 55:06Patrick Bet-David?

  I, that's, that's, that's actually not a lot of money if you think about it, right? To not, for the resources that they have. Remember, we bought Alaska for 7.2 million and they called it the dumbest deal of all time until later on, America found gold and oil and then they said, oh my God, what a great deal. So, Rob, if you got the clip, go ahead and play it. Go for it.

• 55:24Speaker 13

  Sir, Mr. Secretary on Denmark. Why is the administration not taking Denmark's offer to discuss the situation in Greenland?

• 55:32Speaker 14

  Oh, I'll be meeting with them next week.

• 55:33Speaker 13

  But will you take military intervention off the table?

• 55:36Speaker 14

  I'm not here to talk about Denmark or military intervention. I'll be meeting with them next week. We'll have those conversations with them then. And, uh, but I'm not adding anything further to add to that today.

• 55:45Speaker 02

  Well, I think it's a simple, um, I think it's a treaty that we can have.

• 55:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me go to Tom first, and then I'll come to you. Go ahead, Tom.

• 55:53Tom Ellsworth?

  I think what people are missing here is, uh, we have an aggressive Russia that's in the middle of a war, and they're, and this is the part, this isn't too far below the surface, no pun intended, but their major submarine base and their naval is on the north side. Greenland becomes a strategic listening post, and NATO has been quietly talking about Greenland as a strategic place to, um, you know, observe Russia and to have military installation there as part of Northern Atlantic. Remember NATO, North Atlantic, this is the area. And so Greenland has been a topic for a while. The Brits and the, um, uh, Germans have been all talking

• 56:37Tom Ellsworth?

  about who's gonna foot the bill. When Greenland comes up, there's big bills in NATO, and guess what Trump has been doing? He's been forcing Europe, you know, Pat, he forced Europe to pay their fair share of those NATO bills.

• 56:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Everybody increase slowly, yes.

• 56:50Tom Ellsworth?

  That's exactly. And so what's going on in Greenland, it, the US strategically, below the surface, wants to turn Greenland into Puerto Rico. It'll have its own independence in this, but it's gonna be like Guam, some, uh, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico. That's what's gonna be there. And then it's gonna get military installations there. And then, second, China is already there, cutting contracts to dig up half of Greenland to get to rare-earth minerals, which belong to, in the eyes of Washington, to a, a security narrative on a global security basis. You don't want China there doing that. So it solves China and

• 57:31Tom Ellsworth?

  the rare-earth minerals, it provides protection. If you figure out who's going to pay for Greenland and the NATO protection, which is gonna be us. And the news media wants to call it an invasion, like we're gonna take it over, like China's about to take over Taiwan. No, that's not what's going on here. It starts with security and keeping China out of our backyard. That's where it starts.

• 57:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, where are you at with this?

• 57:56Adam Sosnick?

  To me, this is such a Trump move. I can just see Trump sitting in a meeting one day. And they're being like, "Trump, what are your thoughts on Greenland?" It's like, "It's green. I love green. It's money, land. I love real estate. It's the world's largest island." I don't know if you know that. It's the world's... We're gonna make Greenland great again. I just see Trump being obsessed with Greenland. Yes, there's geopolitical notions with this. Yes, there's assets there. Yes, there's minerals there, whatever it may be strategically. I think just knowing Trump, at the lowest common denominator, he's like, "Love me some Greenland." And he's now obsessed with Greenland. That's my assumption.

• 58:34Speaker 02

  Rob, your thoughts? All right. I got a couple of things to say. I think that Denmark has to negotiate something that benefits the people of Greenland. And I think they could... Absolutely. I just think, in the same way, I think Canada could have a good negotiation. But specifically with Greenland, it is a... I was way, way more dovish than any of this stuff. But I think, when you think geopolitically, and you have to work out some sort of situation. You cannot have China taking over Venezuela in that oil. You just can't do it.

• 59:14Speaker 02

  And expect to still, you know, have, you know, to have your dominance in this region. And, you know, and we need to do that. I would never have thought I would have gotten there. And the same thing with Greenland. They have to work out some accommodation. But they will. And it's a treaty. At the end of the day, they'll come up to Denmark and they'll have some kind of treaty. It's just that Trump comes off to these people as uncouth and bombastic in the way he talks. And I think if it was like Clinton, they would have figured out a deal already. You know, seriously. Because, you know, the Democrats... And it's all the media that just, you know, just like how the headline that J.D. Vance read. They manipulate. They just manipulate. It's just political warfare.

• 59:55Speaker 02

  And of, you know, to undermine this conservative, this anti-establishment president. So I do think that we're not gonna have it. What we'll say... As far as Greenland's concerned, they're gonna have to have a treaty. And if they won't do the treaty, I think that there's another way to make that work. I do think, though, if you look at our constitution, it has to be Congress has to approve any military action, no matter what. There still has to be through Congress. Unfortunately, after 9/11, the Congress has just given all the powers. We no longer have a legislature. We just have an emperor that we elected.

• 1:00:31Adam Sosnick?

  PBD, can I get your opinion on this? Because, you know, we saw what the late-night comics did. They said that just a diversion, him going after Maduro is just a deflection after the Epstein files. If you're putting yourself in Trump's shoes, you have so much going on in the world. You just did the Mideast peace deal. Maduro, where is Greenland legitimately on his list of priorities, in your opinion?

• 1:00:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I don't know where it's on his list. Here's what I will tell you. If you study history, America, for the longest time, we were all about expansionism. So we had the 13 colonies originally. And then we buy Louisiana for $7.2 million from Napoleon because he was fighting everybody in Europe. So then America doubles in size, Rob, if you want to pull up the map. When we bought Louisiana for $7.2 million. And then from there, we buy Florida for $5 million bucks for nothing. Literally, we bought Florida for $5 million bucks. And then we go to, the only one that we had to go to war for land was against Mexico, which we got California, Arizona, New Mexico, all of that. Texas actually wasn't war. Texas became its own country from 1836 to 1845.

• 1:01:36Patrick Bet-David?

  And they even had their own embassy. If you pull up, Rob, Embassy of Texas in London and France. Type in Texas Embassy, London, France. And go to images. If you go to images, take a look at this. This is Texas's embassy, right there, Rob. Click on the one you had, right there, on the first one you had. No, no, on the first one you had, Rob. On the first one you had, Rob. You had on that, on that. Rob, you just had, yeah, zoom in on that one if you can. Yeah, Texas.

• 1:02:06Patrick Bet-David?

  That is their embassy in London and we had it also in France. So Texas chooses to come in and be part of the union, but we had to pay Mexico 3.4 million dollars. We collected, we rolled the debt and we paid Mexico 15 million bucks. And then Hawaii was known as their own kingdom across a lot of different countries. Hawaii comes in and we're expanding and then the last biggest expansion, a president that we had was a guy named James Polk. James Polk draws a line, which he was brilliant by the way. If you see James Polk's line, Rob, can you type in James Polk borderline Cuba, Mexico? If you just type in James Polk borderline Cuba, Mexico, go to images, you'll see it.

• 1:02:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's what he said should be the line. Go a little bit lower. Uh, yeah, you can just use that one, Rob, the one you have up. Make it bigger. His line was Mexico needed to be a part of America, Cuba needed to be a part of America. And he was expanding and then Congress is like, no, no, no. If we bring Mexico to be a part of it, we're gonna get too many Catholics and and then we're gonna have to give them, it's gonna confuse the nationalists that we have in America. So then afterwards, World War One happens. And after World War One, when that takes place, you know, everybody was like, this is gonna be the last war. We're not gonna have another war after this one and then we're gonna be fine. And they're like, wait a minute, we became isolationist. We kind of like, look, don't mind anybody's, but we became a little bit scared.

• 1:03:36Patrick Bet-David?

  God forbid, next war happens because some of these things that we had, we didn't have a lot of weapons. We were not a strong military yet. Then comes the next phase, which is by far the phase that is, is not the good phase. Post 1950, World War Two, when that comes, we decide to intervene in different ways. So we go to coups or sanctions or proxy wars and that's what we start. We start poking and getting involved in 200 elections.

• 1:04:06Adam Sosnick?

  Communism.

• 1:04:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, that's because of the whole, let me finish, Rob. So this is the whole thing because of communism. But then guess, when that happens after 1950, guess what started in 1947? The CIA started in 1947. So we start, so now, since Polk, the first time ever, we're getting a president that's thinking about expansionism without killing anybody. It's like he just, hey, we're gonna go in. Maduro's out, here's what we're doing, 30 to 50 million euros. Quite frankly, if you're American. How do you think America became America? You think all these lands were just handed to us? You say, "Let me have this land, take it." No, you go on and say, so to me, a part of me is thinking, saying, if, if, if Trump can go and say, Panama Canal, we're doing this deal, China, you're not getting involved, period. I'm putting this here, it's gonna come through, and if you don't,

• 1:04:51Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm gonna come out here and take all the oil from you from Venezuela. If you want to come to the Western Hemisphere, this old Monroe Doctrine, we're gonna turn it into a Donald Doctrine. The Western Hemisphere's priority is ours. You guys go deal with everything else. So I like that he's expanding and thinking long-term because forget this term, go next president. And think if China decides to do the next COVID, what is the next COVID thing that China could do? So imagine if, one, they shut down the Panama Canal and food and supplies not coming here. Two, China has all these minerals that you need. If they have control of that and we don't have, so now he goes and says, "No, no, we need Greenland because I can't..." The way he's sequencing this out,

• 1:05:35Patrick Bet-David?

  if people are not following this, so I support this. I know a lot of people are saying, "This is not what I voted for, this is not what I did this." I voted for this. I like the fact that he's playing offense and thinking 40 years. And the more we study history, you'll realize, long-term, this is going to protect Americans. Is this gonna be beneficial for everybody around the world? Maybe, but I know it's gonna be beneficial for America, so I support it.

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• 1:06:59Speaker 02

  Well, if you take a look at Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, those places are not better off with American intervention. I will say that, and that was mentioned by Congressman Thomas Massey, who I like a lot, and I know Trump doesn't like him now, but he's wrong about Venezuela, and I'll tell you simply this: All those countries had one thing in common. They had tribes who hated each other, and when the dominating force, whether it was Saddam Hussein, whatever, was taken out of power, then it became this killing field.

• 1:07:41Speaker 02

  And that's what happens when America interferes in that region. I will say, it's not going to happen in Venezuela, because you've got Catholics there. Here's what you never hear: "Hey, a group of Christians went on a train the other day and stabbed a bunch of people." You don't hear that. So I think it's, you know, we have to be wary of just going in and replacing other leaders around the world. If this guy's a drug pin, it'll be brought out in court? I mean, I think the people who are protesting against this are these white liberals, but

• 1:08:23Speaker 02

  anybody who has any Venezuelan experience and any Venezuelan, they're all celebrating for a reason. And I have to listen to that, because I don't know as much as them.

• 1:08:33Adam Sosnick?

  Well, I know a lot of Venezuelans in Miami and not one is upset about Maduro. And by the way, that goes for anyone that has any affiliation with Latin America. My Colombian friends are happy about this, my Mexican friends about this. Anyone who hates communism and fascism and socialism advocates for this. I'll say one thing that I agree with you on. We don't understand that side of the world as well as they thought they did. Something that I always think about is that every country wants the same two things. Peace and prosperity. So in Venezuela, they want that, in Greenland, they want that, Mexico, they want that. On that side of the world.

• 1:09:08Speaker 02

  They don't want that.

• 1:09:08Adam Sosnick?

  They don't want peace and prosperity.

• 1:09:10Speaker 02

  They want global domination.

• 1:09:11Adam Sosnick?

  A lot of what they want is jihad. So we went in there trying to give them peace and prosperity and democracy. They're like, not so fast. We're jihadists. We're trying to take over the world in our frame of worldview. So to me, it's completely different what we tried to do toppling these regimes decades ago versus what's happening now.

• 1:09:29Patrick Bet-David?

  I can tell you about Thomas Massey and some of these guys on not being, not wanting to be involved. And I get that. I get the whole conversations of not wanting to do that. But I don't mind expanding. I don't mind thinking long term. I don't mind strategizing our next moves. I totally get that part of, I will not want military to go into Greenland like Rand Paul. Is this the clip with Rand Paul saying, go ahead and play this clip where, and Tom, I'm going to come to you next on this one. Go ahead, Paul, go ahead, G.

• 1:09:58Speaker 15

  It won't happen under my watch.

• 1:09:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, today your name is G, just so you know that.

• 1:10:01Speaker 15

  ...military takeover of Greenland. What I can tell you though is if you want to purchase Greenland, the best way would be to try to have goodwill with the people. So first, it would probably require a vote of the people to be independent of Denmark, which I think the people of Greenland are inclined to do. And then it would have to be some sort of offer of something that makes it better to be part of the United States. We have acquired territory. I mean, half of the United States came to us through the Louisiana Purchase. Alaska came to us through a purchase. But you didn't get to those purchases like any deal or diplomacy by insulting your opponent. You get there by actually trying to please.

• 1:10:36Patrick Bet-David?

  He can pause it. So he's, Tom, your thoughts on this?

• 1:10:38Tom Ellsworth?

  So getting back to what you were talking about, about American expansion. Yeah, that's not about. Military intervention and blood on the floor, not at all. Most Americans don't know about a couple of things because our news media refuses to talk about it. But the GIUK gap, some people call it the JUK gap, GIUK which stands for Greenland, Iceland, UK, is a gap in the North Atlantic that is strategically important and over the last five years has had tremendous increase in Russian sub-activity. And so in September of last year, what was Operation Arctic Light? That wasn't in the headlines.

• 1:11:17Tom Ellsworth?

  It was a major naval exercise by NATO that was on the coast of Iceland, the west coast of Iceland and the east coast of, there it is, Arctic Light, major military exercise. Because NATO came to Denmark and said, man, we got to do this, this exercise here, we're going to do some testing. We want to be below the ice in the North Sea and we want to have submarine listening installations, there's things we want to do. And Denmark said, well, I'm a little light on cash this week, I assume you guys are going to pay for it? And there it is. The United States, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden were part of the, the, the bank rule for this. Then let's go back to May. You know what Operation Dynamic Mongoose was?

• 1:12:01Tom Ellsworth?

  It was another North Atlantic activity because of increased Russian naval activity. NATO has been up there looking over this for a while and then the Chinese are pulling in to get minerals. I support this expansion because there's a security element and an expansion element. And let me quote Marco Rubio, the one quote he gave that wasn't on television apparently. He said, look, we're eager to build lasting commercial relationships that benefit Americans and the people of Greenland and Denmark.

• 1:12:34Tom Ellsworth?

  Our common adversaries are increasingly active in the Arctic. It's a huge concern that the United States and Denmark and the NATO allies share. So if America expands it, I support what Trump is doing. Look how many parts of this get solved by Trump showing leadership on a world stage and doing this.

• 1:12:54Adam Sosnick?

  I want to give Trump a little credit for one thing. I was very frustrated with Trump, especially in his first term, when the rhetoric and the bombasticness of his words, where we're going to win so big, you're going to get sick of winning, and then we weren't winning. And it was so easy to be like, what now? At this point, we are winning, and his actions are speaking louder than his words. Also, say another thing. The challenge that he had in his first administration in 2016, he had all these bootlickers around him that wouldn't say, talk back to him. Look what Mike Pence does. Mike Pence was probably the worst VP for not even counteracting maybe anything that Trump did. Look at the two people closest to Trump now.

• 1:13:35Adam Sosnick?

  You have Marco Rubio, who was a foe and was deemed little Marco, that is now maybe the greatest Secretary of State we've seen in our lifetime. And number two, a Trump-hating VP named JD Vance, who is a fighter and advocate for him. So in my opinion, Trump is working with people that may or may not, he would have aligned with in his first time in office, and they're basically helping him win so big that we're not getting tired of winning.

• 1:14:05Speaker 02

  Well, look at Elon Musk as well. I mean, they were, they had their little fight, and they're back and had dinner this week. Look, he's not afraid to meet with people and work with people. President Trump has done an exceptional job, I believe. And I'm shocked at how...

• 1:14:24Speaker 02

  I just can't believe that Iranian bombing success. I mean, I'm against bombing anybody in the Middle East. And I think, I just, he knows more than I do.

• 1:14:37Adam Sosnick?

  Why are you against bombing anybody in the Middle East?

• 1:14:39Speaker 02

  Well, I'm against just, you know, unilaterally just going without Congress's approval and bombing. I think that's, but as far as, it seemed to be effective to take out, you know, the nuclear ambition.

• 1:14:49Adam Sosnick?

  Everyone says that, Rob, and I want to get your opinion. Every time that we need to do something, we need to have people that can't agree on anything, agree on something of massive magnitude, that to me is counterproductive for our country.

• 1:15:02Speaker 02

  Well, in our constitution, you have to have the Congress decides going to war.

• 1:15:05Adam Sosnick?

  If we're going to war, is a single bombing a war? What constitutes a war? Do what we did with Venezuela war?

• 1:15:13Speaker 02

  If you're gonna kill people, that constitutes a war. If it's not...

• 1:15:17Adam Sosnick?

  People are, then we have a war on our street every single day.

• 1:15:19Speaker 02

  We do. Okay, let me just tell you this thing. As far as, this is really interesting, and I think, PBD, you're gonna like this. And I think, this is, as far as the rare earth minerals, China, cutting us off, potentially cutting us off, is a national defense issue. However, there is an answer to this. And this is like, to me, absolutely incredible. There's a chemist, James Tour, T-O-U-R.

• 1:15:42Adam Sosnick?

  We know James Tour.

• 1:15:43Speaker 02

  The nanotechnologist, with losing, using flash drill technology, can make, and you guys know him? This guy is the potential answer for making, getting these rare earth minerals out of recycling old electronics and taking ash from coal burning plants, and then, you know, basically putting between these two hot coils like a toaster, and then that turns it, and then when you put, is it chloride on it? And, or clo...

• 1:16:18Adam Sosnick?

  Chlorophyll.

• 1:16:19Speaker 02

  Then you have, then you're able to make these things at a lower temperature to get more of these rare earth minerals. And this is the answer. We don't need China, and truthfully, we can't even need the rare earth minerals in Greenland.

• 1:16:34Speaker 02

  We can just, you can make it right here. And I think I'm gonna go out to that plant in March and check it out. And I think that's the answer, and that's what I-

• 1:16:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, until that day, when they figure that out,

• 1:16:47Speaker 02

  They have it figured out.

• 1:16:48Patrick Bet-David?

  We're expanding and protecting it to make sure long-term we're good. But I love that there's ideas like this, and I think that's gonna be happening. But somebody online proposed a great idea about how to get Greenland. And it's straight up out of Game of Thrones type of stuff. And they said, "Why don't we just have Baron Trump marry Princess Isabella of Denmark, and Greenland is given to America as dowry payment." So not a bad idea, I just don't know if that's his type or not. She's not bad-looking, but we'll see.

• 1:17:17Adam Sosnick?

  That's not what your country can do for you. What can you do for your country, Baron Trump? We need you, buddy, step up.

• 1:17:23Speaker 02

  It's a sacrifice that I think he should make.

• 1:17:25Patrick Bet-David?

  It's a sacrifice that he should make. And by the way, just now, if we wanna go into Iran-

• 1:17:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, okay.

• 1:17:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Just now, if we wanna go into Iran, story just came in. A tweet from Khamenei forty minutes ago. "Our enemies don't know Iran. In the past, the US failed due to their flawed planning. Day two, today too, their flawed scheming will cause them to fail again." Okay, so that's Khamenei. Now, keep in mind-

• 1:17:54Speaker 02

  I don't know if he's in the country still.

• 1:17:55Patrick Bet-David?

  No, we don't know that. And it says, "God will, and God will bring the feeling of victory to the streets of the hearts of all the Iranian people very soon." So he's been tweeting left and right. "Today, like the past, the US is wrong in its calculation about Iran. Today, the Iranian nation is even more equipped and armed than that day before the revolution. Both our spiritual strength and hard conventional weapons can't be compared to what we had before." By the way, he's tweeted like seven, eight, ten, ten times this morning. "The Iranian people will not tolerate the harolings of foreign powers." Okay, so why don't we do this? Khamenei, question for you in Pezeshkian. Why did you turn off the internet yesterday? Rob, if you want to go to the tweets, um, of, just go to my Twitter account, Rob. You don't even need to go to a different place. Yeah, right there.

• 1:18:40Patrick Bet-David?

  So zoom in a little bit on the bottom, the chart to show to them. This is the internet in Iran. Completely shut down as of yesterday. So Khamenei and Peshchyan, why did you turn it off? Why is that turned off? Number came in right now, 50 plus people have been killed. Died in Iran. Now, some are saying it's in the hundreds. When you talk to people who are Iranian, nobody knows. But there's a lot of different things that are being talked about. And on top of that, yesterday, I believe Reza Pahlavi, Rob, if you want to pull up his Twitter account, there was a story by a guy named Eli who tweets out, I send it to you, Rob, in your text. There is a tweet by Eli, Rob, I send it in your text.

• 1:19:22Patrick Bet-David?

  There's a tweet by a guy named Eli that said yesterday, Reza Pahlavi was gonna meet with Donald Trump. So that was a meeting that came out, I say, they're gonna have a meeting. Uh, at the beginning, the bottom tweet, Rob, if you can just click on the bottom tweet. This was going viral, breaking, Iran's crown prince is going to Mar-a-Lago to meet with, uh, the president. Two hours later, after this goes viral, the same guy retweets and says, correction, good for him. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi will hold a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, but he is not scheduled to meet with Trump. And then yesterday, Hugh Hewitt asks the president a question of whether he'd be willing to meet with Reza Pahlavi, and here's what the president had to say. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:20:08Speaker 16

  Would you meet with Crown Prince Pavlavi, Pavli, who is the heir to the constitutional monarchy? He doesn't want to rule, he would be a, you know, symbolic ruler like King Charles.

• 1:20:20Speaker 17

  Well, I've watched him, and he's, he seems like a nice... person, but I'm not sure that it would be appropriate at this point to do that as president. I think that we should let everybody go out there and we see who emerges. I'm not sure necessarily that I, it would be an appropriate thing to do.

• 1:20:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so he doesn't want to meet with them now. In the, last week, in a Wall Street Journal interview, Reza Pahlavi said that we need no help from US. Iranians are going to be able to pull this off by themselves. And I said, if that's the case, your father didn't go and become a king without any intervention. He needed help. You know that, the world knows that, that people got involved to get him in there because they wanted Mosaddegh out. So that's his famous line at the Wall Street Journal, which a lot of Iranians were furious with. We don't need a single boot of your military on the ground in Iran. Got criticized hardcore by his own people. He flips. Now, in every tweet he posts, Trump is in the tweet.

• 1:21:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, if you can go to one of Reza Pahlavi's tweets where he says, I am grateful that the president, I send you that tweet as well, Rob. But if you just want to go to his account, you'll see it. Yeah, if you just go to his account, go a little bit lower, not this one. It is, no, not that one. This is, okay, go to, that's the recent one, which we'll get to here in a minute. Go a little bit lower. Right there, Rob, if you can click on that one, show more, the one above it. Okay, you can, you can use that one as well. It says, I want to thank the leader of the free world, President Trump, for reiterating to his promise to hold the regime to account. So, Reza, what does that mean? Do you want intervention or you do not want intervention? So now you're flip flopping.

• 1:22:04Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, I want you to know, you know, if you're gonna pull it off, pull it off. It is time for others, including European leaders, to follow his lead and break their silence and act more decisively in support of the people. Now, the one thing that we do know is Netanyahu has met with RP many times. They had a picture, so Israel definitely is supportive of Reza Pahlavi. But if you go on a previous tweet, Rob, he says another thing about Trump. Go above it, go above it right there, click on that one, show more. I appreciate President Trump as a leader of them, once again, for emphasizing. The necessity of now is the time for others to go back up to the recent tweet that he just had up. He just had a recent tweet that came up like 23 minutes ago. Keep, that's the one right there.

• 1:22:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Mr. President, this is an urgent and immediate call for your attention, support and action. Last night you saw the millions of brave Iranians in the streets. Uh, facing down live bullets. Today they are, Rob, can you please zoom in a little bit? My eyes are like 47 years old. Today they are facing not just bullets, but the total communication blackout. No internet, no landlines. Khamenei fearing the end of his criminal regime at the hands of the people. And will help of your powerful promise to support protesters has threatened the people of the streets. With a brutal crackdown and he wants to use his blackout to murder these young heroes. I've called the people to the streets to fight for their freedom and to overwhelm the scrutiny, uh, security forces. With sheer numbers, last night they did that.

• 1:23:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Your threat to this criminal regime also kept the regime thugs at bay. By time is of, uh, but time is of the essence, the people will be on the streets again in an hour. I'm asking you to help. You have proven and I know you are a man of peace and a man of war. Please be prepared to intervene to help the people of Iran. Make up your mind.

• 1:23:54Speaker 02

  I know that's very clear.

• 1:23:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me just finish this up, make up your mind. So do you want intervention or not? Now let me give you the other problem you're facing. And by the way, some of the people online that are like, well, Pat supports MEK. Let me just say this flat out, I had a call yesterday with a high rups about MEK. This is what I learned about MEK to all the people that are talking about MEK, MEK, MEK. So MEK is MEK is somebody that was previously pro Khamenei, Khomeini. And then they went and helped Saddam Hussein, it's like Marxism meets, you know, jihadist, uh, you know, uh, Islamist combined together, they're like a, I don't even know if I would say AOC meets Mam Dany of what they're doing.

• 1:24:39Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't even think she's good for Iran at all. But that's a name, that's somebody that's out there. Let me tell you what I'm looking for, for some of the people that are wondering if I'm Paid by M E K. One minute, so funny, I saw two tweets. One tweet said I'm paid by Qatar, the other tweet said I'm paid by uh uh M E K. And six months ago, they said I got paid by Israel. So who the hell am I getting paid by? Right? I'm not, you know, we're not taking money from anybody. But this is the reality to the Iranian people and specifically to Reza Pahlavi. Very important for you. Very, very important to pay attention to this. I I contacted Kashi this morning. Rob, can you pull up the Kashi? Numbers on who Kashi sees as the next leader for Iran. Okay, so can you zoom in, please? Count next leaders for Iran. If you go a little bit lower with the list of names.

• 1:25:25Patrick Bet-David?

  And click more, they have Mojtaba Khamenei at 25%, which means it's gonna be another Khamenei. Then they have gold son Hussein Mohseni, 23%. Then I have Hassan Khomeini, 19%. Who do you not see on there? You do not see Reza Pahlavi on there. Nope. So I contacted Kashi and I said, we need to add Reza Pahlavi to this list. And Iranians, for those of you guys that are in America, this is what the world is looking at. Nowadays, decisions are being made by Kashi. Okay, for you guys to go out there and sit there and say, wait a minute, how come he's not on there? By the way, Nargis is not even on this list. But Reza Pahlavi is not on this list. So the people that are betting are saying, we don't believe it's gonna be him. But I do believe he has a shot. Here's the screw up.

• 1:26:11Patrick Bet-David?

  I would have gladly have said this privately, but he's forcing me to say all this stuff publicly to him. And all the Iranians, I cannot believe. You know, and all this other stuff. Listen, we wanna see this happen, okay? We would like to see this happen. I wish he had competition. There literally is no competition in Iran that's going up against R P. I wish there was. This is why he's so soft. He needs competition. He needs somebody to poke him. He needs somebody to disrupt him. He needs somebody to wake his ass up. And I'm willing to play that card because there's no other candidate. Not Nargis, not any of these other guys. That would be good for the Iranian people. But Reza Pahlavi, pay very close attention and I'm gonna give you a case study of somebody to watch. Venezuela.

• 1:26:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Maduro was taken. When he was taken, everybody thought it was gonna be Maria Corina Machado. What did he do? He says, "No." He put Maduro's VP in there, reporting to Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is more about intervening. JD Vance is not. Watch what Maria Corina Machado did. Pay very close attention, cuz you suck at diplomacy. You absolutely suck at diplomacy. So I'm gonna give you this message, and I'll be the guy that's pushing you around a little bit. And I can be the enemy. Gladly, I'm comfortable with it. It doesn't bother me. All these messages and videos you guys make, you're comical to me. Because you're so worried about, God forbid, somebody says something to this man

• 1:27:42Patrick Bet-David?

  that is gonna be a little bit too sensitive. You don't talk to him this way, I will gladly talk this way. And you can say whatever you wanna say. Nothing is gonna happen here. I'm gonna be comfortable giving this message. Maria Corina Machado, the worst thing that happened to her, to be the leader of Venezuela, was when she won the Nobel Peace Prize. The day she won it, she knew. Look how wise she is. She knew, if I have to exchange this Nobel Peace Prize to help Venezuela be free, screw this Nobel Peace Prize. I want Venezuela to be free. And you know what she just said? She says, "I want to fly out, to go meet with the president, to hand him over the Nobel Peace Prize."

• 1:28:26Patrick Bet-David?

  And then the president has asked this question. Is this the one, Rob? Is this the short segment? Cuz I don't wanna go through the whole seven-minute one. Sean Hannity asked the question and says, "She offered to give you the Nobel Peace Prize. What would you do about it?" If you can play this clip, please. Go for it.

• 1:28:44Speaker 18

  Let me ask you about Maria Corina Machado. I've had her on TV this week. Yeah, she's a very nice person. Okay, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. When she accepted that Peace Prize, she dedicated it to you. She said to me this week, both on TV and radio,

• 1:29:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Brilliant.

• 1:29:02Speaker 18

  That she wants to give the Nobel Prize, her Nobel Peace Prize,

• 1:29:06Patrick Bet-David?

  The people matter more to her than her ego.

• 1:29:11Speaker 18

  In 2023, she won over 92% of the vote to be the leader of the opposition. Maduro kept her off the ballot. Do you have any plans to meet with her? And would you accept the Nobel Prize she wants to hand to you?

• 1:29:25Speaker 19

  Well, I understand she's coming in next week sometime. And I look forward to saying hello to her. And I've heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor. I did put out eight wars. Eight and a quarter, because, you know, Thailand and Cambodia have started going at it again.

• 1:29:41Speaker 18

  I'll put the list up if you want.

• 1:29:42Speaker 19

  I give a quarter, so it's...

• 1:29:43Patrick Bet-David?

  You can pause it right there. You can pause it right there. So remember, look at the diplomacy and the wisdom of Maria Corina Machado, who is like, why the hell would you give me the Nobel Peace Prize? This man prevented eight wars. You're giving it to me? She's wise. She says, I would much rather give it to you because she knows she's going to need his help. I want to applaud you, Reza Pahlavi. You've been more diplomatic the last four or five days since I called you out on reaching out to the Trump's camp. And apparently, you've been trying to get a hold of their camp. You're taking the right approach. But just keep in mind how she played. That is the best... You are the luckiest man alive to have a case study right now of Venezuela taking place. That is a very similar story to Iran.

• 1:30:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Make sure whoever's in your ear, you're making the right next few moves. You're going to need his help. This nonsense article you did with Wall Street Journal, I hope nobody ever reads it again of, we don't need anybody's help. You've shifted because you're paying close attention. But if you take this next move properly and you go to the man or you're respectful with him, he comes and help you out, you have a standing chance. I don't know what that role is going to be. I'd like to see you be on Calci so other people can vote for it. But according to the people that bet in Las Vegas, they don't believe you're winning. Iranians, go on Calci on that Rob. Can we put that link below for Calci? Because the world is seeing this kind of stuff. To see who they're gonna be rooting for and FYI, go to another report on Calci Rob,

• 1:31:10Patrick Bet-David?

  the one that says which leaders are about to fall. Watch this folks, this is to the Iranians. This is very good for you to see. Watch this one, zoom in a little bit Rob if you can. Who there he say is gonna go leaders that are gonna be out in 2027? Can you put more Rob on the bottom so the names go lower? Click more. Rob, I also sent you an image if you want that. Look who's all the way at the top. Wow. Khamenei is number one at 60%. Above everybody, Keir Starmer, Miguel Diaz-Canel, Netanyahu, Zelensky, Orban. He's above it all. So Iranians around the world if you're watching this, my priority is for you to be free. I'd like to come back and visit first.

• 1:31:50Patrick Bet-David?

  To the people that are in RP's ear, encourage him to pay very close attention to how wise of a decision Maria Corina Machado made. She didn't play this ego thing, we don't need Trump's help. And he's making the moves. If you don't, you're hurting your own people. The Iranians need Trump. You don't have a military to protect them. Yes, they came out, that's great. But you're gonna need Trump's help to be able to help you out with this next move that's taking place.

• 1:32:15Speaker 02

  Respectfully.

• 1:32:16Patrick Bet-David?

  What would what?

• 1:32:17Speaker 02

  PBD, what kind of help are you talking about?

• 1:32:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, it, it, it, listen, what kind of help is a following? You threaten somebody right now and say, I swear to God, if you say anything, I'm gonna hit you. Okay?

• 1:32:29Speaker 02

  I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that.

• 1:32:31Patrick Bet-David?

  I say there's two threats. Whose threat do you think carries more weight? Yours or John Jones?

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• 1:33:39Speaker 02

  I don't threaten people.

• 1:33:40Patrick Bet-David?

  That's not the question, though. The question is, whose threat carries more weight? Yours or John Jones?

• 1:33:46Speaker 02

  John Jones, obviously.

• 1:33:46Patrick Bet-David?

  No shit, right? So John Jones has got more threat. So in here...

• 1:33:49Speaker 02

  But I don't think that that's a proper analogy.

• 1:33:51Patrick Bet-David?

  But I think it's a proper analogy for the following reason.

• 1:33:53Speaker 02

  What would be the...

• 1:33:54Patrick Bet-David?

  And I'm telling you, I'm answering your question with a question. To me, what I'm saying is with Iran, is Reza Pahlavi's threat mean nothing to Khamenei. Nothing. Khamenei looks at Reza Pahlavi and laughs at him. Khamenei looks at Reza Pahlavi, "You're a little boy. You've never had a job in your life." But Khamenei looks at Trump and says, "That's not a guy I want to mess with." Khamenei fears Trump. He does not fear Reza Pahlavi. Anytime you're in this kind of a position, just like Maria Corina Machado, just like a Reza Pahlavi, just like these guys, you have to sit there and say, "I'm gonna need some kind of leverage from somewhere." Not, even if it's somebody that fears us, "I can get things done for my people."

• 1:34:38Speaker 02

  So you're talking the leverage? You're not talking about... I'm talking about specific military action. Would you approve?

• 1:34:42Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm not talking about go attack and send troops over there. No, not at all. But just the thought of the person knowing. Because when Trump threatens, and he did what he did to Hassan Soleimani, Trump's threats are not lightweight threats. He has a reputation. Sometimes when you build that reputation up as a person that when you say you're gonna do something, you do it. That's all you need.

• 1:35:01Speaker 02

  Okay, all right. Just asking. I will say that we have to be, you know, "we." I just think the... If you go back to the Shah of Iran and how he was pushed out because Iran was getting at that time 16% of the oil profits in 1952 from the predecessor to British Petroleum. And then when they said, "Well, we want more," and then the Brits said, "No." And they said, "Well, can we at least look at the books to see if we're getting 16%?" Then they said, "No." And then they asked for a million dollars from Truman to the Brits to overthrow Mosaddegh.

• 1:35:44Speaker 02

  Because Mosaddegh, at that point, nationalized the oil. Then he went to Eisenhower and said, "Can we get..." And then Eisenhower said, "Yes." And then they sent a, you know, a paid mob in front of the presidential palace. And then that didn't really work. And then they sent two. And then, you know, Mosaddegh had to jump over the... They burned it down. Mosaddegh had to jump over the fence. And then he had 26 years of the Shah of Iran. And during that time, the secret police, you know, we can't... I mean, I would suggest that they not have that repeat of that. Because what it did was it set up, you know, a similar thing to happen where people were... If you could...

• 1:36:28Speaker 02

  Where anybody who was the opposition...

• 1:36:31Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think you follow the podcast, do you? You probably don't follow the Iranian story here with us.

• 1:36:35Speaker 02

  Well, I think, but I'm just talking about that. That's the history that I know about.

• 1:36:38Patrick Bet-David?

  So what you just said right there is that you don't want a constitutional monarchy to return to Iran?

• 1:36:42Speaker 02

  No, I'm saying that I don't want a secret police underneath the monarchy to return to life.

• 1:36:46Patrick Bet-David?

  So you're talking about Savak, is what you're talking about?

• 1:36:48Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:36:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so then that's... But here's what you have to realize.

• 1:36:51Speaker 02

  But I'm saying, look, I don't mind a, you know, a monetary, you know... Sorry, a monarchy that would support a constitutional republic of some sort. Absolutely. I don't want a return of Savak. You're absolutely right.

• 1:37:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. And by the way, just so you know that, we here are not about going returning to constitutional monarchy. I'd like to see a republic. I'd like to see a democracy. I'd like to see something like that. But by the way...

• 1:37:16Speaker 02

  I'd like to see the Iranian people decide that.

• 1:37:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, for sure. But also, when you talk about Savak...

• 1:37:20Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:37:20Patrick Bet-David?

  You know what Savak is?

• 1:37:22Speaker 02

  It's a secret police.

• 1:37:24Patrick Bet-David?

  So, Savak is MI6. Savak is CIA. Savak is Mossad. So, but, but, but, but the part about Savak that you have to think about is, the way you look at Savak is what Iranians in the Middle East and the world thinks about CIA.

• 1:37:41Speaker 02

  Sure, no, they're not wrong.

• 1:37:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so, so to us, like, you know, we have, i- i- in our CIA, when we go look at the history of ours with, with Economic Hitman, we would go to other countries who had resources and say, "Hey, you're gonna take this debt from us. You're gonna do business with us, or else we're gonna kill you." These are documented meetings that we had with world leaders in the past.

• 1:37:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:37:59Patrick Bet-David?

  And so, that's, that's Savak. I know it's, it's always very, uh,

• 1:38:03Speaker 02

  It radicalized people, and it set up the situation for the Khomeini. So I'm saying, let's not do a repeat of that. If the Iranian people, let them decide.

• 1:38:11Patrick Bet-David?

  What happened with Reza Pahlavi at the end is, he got soft at the end, because he allowed the, the 3,000 political prisoners when Jimmy Carter's like, "Release them all!" That ended up being Hezbollah's, that ended up being the, ISIS, that ended up being all those guys.

• 1:38:28Speaker 02

  Yes, but I'm talking about the 20, respectfully. PBD, if I can call you that. No, respectfully, I think the 26 years of, of, uh, really not allowing any political opposition to his reign, created that kind of tension and that kind of fear.

• 1:38:45Patrick Bet-David?

  That's a fair argument. That's a fair argument for that, yeah.

• 1:38:47Speaker 02

  And I think at the end of the day, I mean, you're a rational person who wants what's best for the Iranian people. And that is, to your credit, and I think we all do, but I think it's, it's important to recognize in the past.

• 1:38:59Patrick Bet-David?

  For sure.

• 1:38:59Speaker 02

  Just like what's, what's happening now. We're reckoning, I think you're having not a revolution in this country, you're having a counter-revolution to some of the lunacy policies that we've had, like opening up 10, you know, the, the border to millions of people, just to simply-

• 1:39:12Patrick Bet-David?

  But if I have to say this respectfully,

• 1:39:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:39:14Patrick Bet-David?

  If I have to choose, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, that was still there, and let's just say he never fell in 79, and Savak was still Savak. Let's say Savak is still around till today. If I have to choose what Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi did with Savak, and then later on say his son right now would be the king of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, who he's not, versus what Khomeini, IRGC did to the world in the Middle East, 100 out of 100 times, I choose Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and following his son, Reza Pahlavi. Not 80 out of 100 times, 100 out of 100 times.

• 1:39:56Speaker 02

  I see your point.

• 1:39:57Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, just so you know, if Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was still, he's obviously, he died, he had health issues, but say his son follows his leader and is close to his dad, 9/11 never happens. So 9/11 doesn't happen, those 3,600 people that were working in the World Trade Center, they're still around, they're still going to their families, they're still going and spending time with their kids, they're still seeing their parents, they're still able to enjoy the American dream, they're still able to do that. That was due to the fall of the Iranian revolution. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, as much shit as everybody from the left, right, and then center gives him, he kept the Middle East safe. There was no to little wars in the Middle East when he was the king of Iran.

• 1:40:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, you can call it Savak, you can call it this, you can call it that, and by the way, even him in interviews said that Savak used to do certain things. Even him with Mike Wallace said, "We used to torture, but not anymore." He said that in interviews, so you're right, they did some of those things.

• 1:40:55Speaker 02

  Well, I mean, if we just look at the interventionist policies of the United States, one of the consistent things that happens, PBD, is that we seem to replace secular leaders, and they get replaced with this Muslim extremists.

• 1:41:11Patrick Bet-David?

  I agree.

• 1:41:11Speaker 02

  Well, extremists, I'm just saying, Islamists who actually follow what the Quran says. I mean, there's no such thing as moderate Islam, that doesn't exist.

• 1:41:21Patrick Bet-David?

  PBD.

• 1:41:21Speaker 02

  So, but I'm saying, so that, but this, that's why I don't think, I know Venezuela went up Be the same because if you take a look at the other presidents and you know of intervention Panama and Grenada Grenada every year has like a holiday for for you know commemorating the invasion of Grenada and Panama so I think that you're gonna have a very similar situation and I think we have to be careful um you know uh that um for Mexico that's leaning socialistic and I think what has made Mexico uh which is such an incredible country was such amazing people lovely people is that is that they've been

• 1:42:00Speaker 02

  imprisoned and tortured by you know for I mean they'll lose 50,000 uh in in a in a less than a decade in Mexico the cartels you know it would they have to eventually go and I don't know how that is done but um it it certainly would make Mexico uh you know for the people that would be it would it would it would get them out of the the prison that is made from those cartels. Adam.

• 1:42:28Adam Sosnick?

  Well, let me stay on Iran for a second so uh this is what happens when you go full Islamic you know the famous line from the movie Tropic Thunder like never go full retard. Iran went full Islamic and we're seeing other case examples of when you go full Islamic whether it's ISIS whether it's Al Qaeda whether it's Hezbollah whether it's Hamas whether it's Boko Haram you go full Islamic this is what happens to your society speaking of going full Islamic and going full retard do you see what's going on with your friend Tucker Carlson these days who is the Islamic regime Ayatollah playing to use as propaganda in Iran none other than Tucker Carlson do you have this clip Rob this is what the Shah

• 1:43:13Adam Sosnick?

  uh this is what Ayatollah of Iran is playing to indoctrinate his own people to galvanize them to not overthrow his regime go ahead.

• 1:43:22Speaker 07

  So, um, the Islamic regime right now is literally broadcasting Tucker Carlson interviews in Persian on their 24-hour news channel. The country is in a state of chaos and yet for some reason Islamic regime is choosing to play Tucker Carlson interviews because this is like, you know, it's Islamist propaganda. I'm just filming this right now because if I didn't do this, no one would believe, this is literally what's going on in occupied Iran right now.

• 1:43:55Speaker 02

  I listened to that conversation that he had.

• 1:43:59Adam Sosnick?

  Did you listen to what she just said?

• 1:44:00Speaker 02

  I did, I did.

• 1:44:01Adam Sosnick?

  So why is the Ayatollah of Iran playing Tucker?

• 1:44:04Speaker 02

  Because it's pro-Iranian, obviously. It's pro their regime.

• 1:44:07Adam Sosnick?

  Why would Tucker Carlson defend the Ayatollah regime?

• 1:44:12Speaker 02

  I'm not saying, I don't, well, first of all.

• 1:44:14Adam Sosnick?

  And I'm not coming at you.

• 1:44:15Speaker 02

  Adam, Adam, no, no, no, Adam.

• 1:44:16Adam Sosnick?

  That you're his friend. Explain that to me.

• 1:44:18Speaker 02

  That's, that's, that's an unfair straw man question. Why is he, he's not, what, he's not defending the Iranian regime.

• 1:44:24Adam Sosnick?

  Then why are they playing him?

• 1:44:25Speaker 02

  No, no, no, but, well, you're, you're, you're.

• 1:44:26Adam Sosnick?

  Of all the things that they could play, they're playing Tucker?

• 1:44:29Speaker 02

  But what you've just done, you're making the, you're making the argument and you're, you're answering it with, with your pejorative, pejorative line of questioning. First of all, he is allowed, Tucker Carlson, we have to have people interview other people. Now, and, and he's interviewing this, you know, um, the president of Iran.

• 1:44:49Adam Sosnick?

  But that wasn't the president of Iran who he was interviewing.

• 1:44:51Speaker 02

  Who was interviewing at the time?

• 1:44:52Adam Sosnick?

  He was interviewing some random guy.

• 1:44:54Speaker 02

  But, but, but what that does is, just so you know that. We need to hear, we need to hear some, yeah, I, I, he did not ask in his questions when he did that interview, which I listened to, there was questions I wish he would have asked and he didn't. I wasn't there, I don't know.

• 1:45:05Adam Sosnick?

  I'm not asking you to defend or not defend Tucker. I'm just saying, why is the Ayatollah even thinking about considering playing Tucker Carlson propaganda?

• 1:45:14Speaker 02

  That's how.

• 1:45:15Adam Sosnick?

  To me, these are the questions that need to be asked.

• 1:45:17Speaker 02

  Well, these, these are obviously how desperate the situation is in Iran right now that they go, what do we got? We got Tucker. He's saying, he's not attacking.

• 1:45:25Adam Sosnick?

  So who's the useful idiot we could use? Tucker Carlson?

• 1:45:27Speaker 02

  Well, I would say in that situation, yeah, they feel like that conversation. buttresses their support for the regime.

• 1:45:35Patrick Bet-David?

  It's not gonna make a difference.

• 1:45:36Speaker 03

  I was just thinking, you guys know who Ahmed Malik is, he's the Iranian, Iranian mother, Pakistani father, who invested the 15 million for Tucker to start TCN, that's number one. Well, just give me a little backstory, history, but then Rob, I'm just curious, when, did you hear when Tucker was like, they asked him, so you're buying property in Qatar, and he goes, "Yeah, cuz I'm an American."

• 1:45:58Adam Sosnick?

  I'm an American citizen.

• 1:45:59Speaker 03

  And that's what Americans do, and it's like, has nothing to do with it, and it just feel, buddy, cuz he was, if I, if I'm not mistaken, he was interviewing the co-see, the founder of Wikipedia, cuz they were talking about, you know, the West, and how the West talks about this and that, which, I mean, there's, there had, there is a reason that they're playing him, but Tucker, and friends and all that aside, the shift of Tucker Carlson from going, like, I get it, criticize America, fine, I criticize America, especially during 9/11 and George Bush, I've revisited that 20 times, but you cannot deny the shift in, you know, buying land in Qatar, them playing you, which, I mean, of any, by the way, internet's down, complete blackout, why aren't they playing you, Rob, why aren't they playing Deuce Bigelow?

• 1:46:44Speaker 03

  They're not playing Deuce Bigelow, they're playing Tucker Carlson talking crap about the United States.

• 1:46:48Speaker 02

  It certainly doesn't look good.

• 1:46:49Speaker 03

  Cuz he went full retard.

• 1:46:50Speaker 02

  No, it certainly doesn't look good.

• 1:46:52Adam Sosnick?

  Why do you feel the need to defend Tucker?

• 1:46:54Speaker 02

  Because he's not here, he's not here, and also, I, I think that, I, the, one of the great strengths that we have, and what you guys have, and what you have here, is, whether you like it or not, is to hear opposing views, and it may be views that you don't like.

• 1:47:08Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm gonna give something that's gonna be very weird.

• 1:47:10Speaker 02

  And, and that is, and, and I gotta tell you, like, I don't agree with it, but at the same time, to, to, to just attack somebody, you gotta take a look at the totality, and yeah, I think it's, I, I think that there is some potential, um, you know, uh, corruption in, in, in, in the fact that there's not questions asked that I would've asked, but I'm not that guy.

• 1:47:30Adam Sosnick?

  Corruption in who?

• 1:47:31Speaker 02

  Well, I'm saying that the, that the interview seemed to have, had a corrupt, I mean, there was some corruption, as far as, I, I just think, you know, journalistically, but that's my, my opinion.

• 1:47:40Adam Sosnick?

  So we're on the same page, that Tucker Carlson has been corrupted.

• 1:47:43Speaker 02

  No, I'm saying that interview, I think, could've been, you know, but I'm not an interviewer, I don't do that, so I would say, like, you know, you, what you do is you can put information out there and let people look at it.

• 1:47:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Tell me why this is a big deal, Adam, why is this a big deal, that they're playing Tucker? So, because originally, what would've made it a big deal? If he was, if they're showing what clip?

• 1:48:02Adam Sosnick?

  If they're showing what clip of Tucker?

• 1:48:03Patrick Bet-David?

  What would have made it, what, what clip would I have said, why are they showing this clip? An interview with who?

• 1:48:10Adam Sosnick?

  With the president of Iran.

• 1:48:13Patrick Bet-David?

  But it wasn't. It was an interview with Wikipedia guy.

• 1:48:15Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 1:48:16Speaker 02

  So what was he saying?

• 1:48:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I don't know, but all I'm saying is like, who cares if they're showing the clip? Like, you think they're using it to show what? Hey, Tucker's on our side? I'm asking Adam. What, like, what do you think is a?

• 1:48:27Adam Sosnick?

  I'm saying, so, the fact that they're saying, hey guys, so let's back up a second, if you may. This regime is about to collapse, in my opinion.

• 1:48:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, sure.

• 1:48:38Adam Sosnick?

  The, on Kalshi, who's the number one person on the list that's most likely to be toppled?

• 1:48:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Khomeini, one of the sons.

• 1:48:44Adam Sosnick?

  So he's clinging for life.

• 1:48:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 1:48:46Adam Sosnick?

  So what does a desperate animal do when he's clinging to life? He's going to fight back. So he's gonna use whatever weapons at his disposal to fight. He's killing his own people. More people have been killed by the Iranian regime.

• 1:48:57Patrick Bet-David?

  I get that. That's not what I'm asking.

• 1:48:58Adam Sosnick?

  This year. So when you're desperate, you do stupid things. So he brings out this useful idiot, Tucker, to say, hey guys, we're actually good people. Listen to what this American journalist has to say about us.

• 1:49:11Patrick Bet-David?

  What I'm trying to say is, what did he say? They showed a Larry Sanger clip.

• 1:49:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, I know, first of all, they're in free fall.

• 1:49:18Adam Sosnick?

  They're defending the regime.

• 1:49:20Speaker 02

  But it's not Khomeini.

• 1:49:21Adam Sosnick?

  You think Khomeini's defending the regime?

• 1:49:23Speaker 02

  Adam, sensible.

• 1:49:24Adam Sosnick?

  Do you think that they would play a clip of him dismantling the regime?

• 1:49:26Speaker 02

  Adam, can I ask you a question? Do you think Khomeini knows how?

• 1:49:28Adam Sosnick?

  So they're using a clip of him defending the regime, saying, listen guys, we're not that bad. Even Tucker Carlson thinks we're great.

• 1:49:35Speaker 02

  You're not making sense. You're not making sense.

• 1:49:36Adam Sosnick?

  Respectfully, I think I'm making complete sense.

• 1:49:39Speaker 02

  No, you're not, because Khomeini-

• 1:49:40Adam Sosnick?

  And you haven't made one valid point.

• 1:49:41Speaker 02

  Khomeini has no, doesn't know how to use the internet. He's not doing it. His people, obviously, somebody, somebody is doing that, but let me, I just want to correct something. I said, I didn't say that, I don't mean to say that I think that Tucker is corrupt. I'm saying that-

• 1:49:53Adam Sosnick?

  I do.

• 1:49:53Speaker 02

  There's something wrong in that conversation that he had, because I, I, I think that that is, he's missed out on an opportunity.

• 1:50:01Patrick Bet-David?

  I'll give it.

• 1:50:02Adam Sosnick?

  When you miss out on opportunity, an opportunity, opportunity-

• 1:50:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's what I would say.

• 1:50:05Adam Sosnick?

  At some point, you say, maybe you're compromised.

• 1:50:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, here, here's what I would say. Do I think his positions changed a little bit while he's saying, I've never met anybody bad that's from Pakistan. They've been very good. I've never met anybody. I've never met him. It's a little weird on his positioning with the video and the messaging from, you know, five years ago, 10 years ago to where he's at today. Okay, I'll give you that. A little weird on what's going on, so.

• 1:50:25Adam Sosnick?

  There's other examples, but go on.

• 1:50:26Patrick Bet-David?

  There's many examples to go through, plethora of examples to go through.

• 1:50:30Adam Sosnick?

  He forgot that internet exists and the internet is forever.

• 1:50:32Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm not even talking Israel. I mean.

• 1:50:34Adam Sosnick?

  I haven't brought up Israel once.

• 1:50:35Patrick Bet-David?

  The argument against Israel, call it out, control, all of that stuff, I'm comfortable with that, have that debate. I'm talking about Iran and the Middle East.

• 1:50:45Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 1:50:45Patrick Bet-David?

  I look at this clip, I do think he made the president of Iran seem like a nice guy. Sweetheart. I do think he made it, I would have interviewed in a very different way. What I'm specifically isolating is this singular video that people are reacting to, to say what happened. Do you know yesterday, uh, who, uh, who was the Anna Paulina Luna we had on the pod? Do you know what clip was going viral yesterday?

• 1:51:11Adam Sosnick?

  What was that?

• 1:51:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me show you what clip was going viral yesterday. Anna Paulina Luna, uh, my phone is blowing up. Did you hear, is this true that Anna Paulina Luna said on your podcast that Erica Kirk lost her kids? Did you guys see this clip? By the way, tens of millions of views, so watch this clip. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:51:32Speaker 20

  I don't think that she at all had any connection to that. When I see that, it's like you're already, you're victimizing the victim, if that makes sense. Cause at the end of the day, she did lose her husband, she lost her kids. Like, I was just with her at the White House and she's.

• 1:51:44Patrick Bet-David?

  She lost her kids, right?

• 1:51:45Speaker 20

  Anyone.

• 1:51:46Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, no, no, she misspoke. She meant she lost her kid's husband. I know she misspoke. What I'm trying to tell you is, the internet goes and takes this and says, Erica Kirk lost her kids. I know, those are morons. So the point, the point I'm going to use, I'm isolating this clip. If Iran was gonna use the TV that they control to show a clip, they should have shown Peseshkian's clip, not Larry San-

• 1:52:11Adam Sosnick?

  Well, how do we know that they haven't shown that as well?

• 1:52:13Patrick Bet-David?

  That girl who showed it would have also shown that other clip. If they did show, like, for instance, if today somebody shows a clip and says, "Here's Iran showing a clip of Tucker with the President of Iran", now I will say Tucker is helping out Iran. But this clip, I don't see point of it.

• 1:52:29Adam Sosnick?

  Let me ask you a question, a specific question.

• 1:52:31Speaker 02

  Can I just jump in?

• 1:52:32Adam Sosnick?

  Let me ask Pat, why would they show anything of Tucker?

• 1:52:35Patrick Bet-David?

  So what it was, let me ask you a question. If all of a sudden, they show a clip of PBD Podcast in Russia, what does that mean?

• 1:52:42Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 1:52:43Patrick Bet-David?

  If all of a sudden, they show a clip of us in Israel, what does that mean? If all of, so imagine somebody comes out, "You know, the Israeli TV is showing PBD Podcast, we always knew they were about", pump the brakes, guys.

• 1:52:54Adam Sosnick?

  Can I give you one counter argument and then you can go?

• 1:52:56Speaker 02

  No, no, no.

• 1:52:57Adam Sosnick?

  Can I give one, Rob Schneider?

• 1:52:59Speaker 02

  No, Adam, you-

• 1:52:59Adam Sosnick?

  Can I give one?

• 1:53:00Speaker 02

  I'm gonna jump in. I'm a guest, I'm a guest, so let me speak.

• 1:53:03Adam Sosnick?

  You are the guest.

• 1:53:04Speaker 02

  So let me speak, okay? I know, because, because what you have is you've already made your conclusions, and you're not listening to any evidence, and that, that, that's ignorant.

• 1:53:11Adam Sosnick?

  You haven't given one shred of evidence, other than you're friends with Tucker.

• 1:53:15Speaker 02

  I am friends with Tucker, but I'm also, that has nothing to do with it. I'm also a logical, rational person, and you are not being logical or rational. Otherwise, you wouldn't make a straw man argument, which you have. The thought is simply this, Adam, you have to look at the totality of what somebody's contribution as a journalist. And yes, I would have asked different questions. And PBD, you absolutely would have been able to ask more pertinent questions that I think would have been helpful in that conversation, and I was disappointed. But you have to look at the totality. The totality of Tucker Carlson, that he has made, I would say, the United States and the world a freer place because of his journalism. Is it perfect? Is anybody's perfect? And I, and I think like, in that's, in that particular situation, it wasn't.

• 1:53:58Speaker 02

  And I would say corrupt in the sense of, as if something was underneath of it that wasn't as good as it could be, just like a corrupt, you know, i- i- if you're making a building and then the beams aren't right. There's something wrong in that conversation, well, whatever. I, the totality of Tucker Carlson- Undeniably that he's made journalism a better place. Is it perfect? No, but is it proof that he's being used by the, uh, somebody on the team of the, uh, of the ignorant team of, of Komeni's, uh, internet, um, group? Is that proof of anything? Absolutely not, Adam.

• 1:54:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Give him a rebuttal, Adam, so we'll move on to the next story.

• 1:54:33Adam Sosnick?

  The problem is, you just walked into my trap.

• 1:54:35Speaker 02

  Oh, here it comes.

• 1:54:35Adam Sosnick?

  Because here it is.

• 1:54:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Here we go.

• 1:54:37Adam Sosnick?

  Who did you just call out at, in an amazing, incredible way at Turning Point USA? What was her name? Candace Owens. Now, the totality of her contribution to society has been incredible.

• 1:54:53Speaker 02

  I don't think so.

• 1:54:53Adam Sosnick?

  However, the last year or two, she's been a destructive force. And that's exactly what Tucker Carlson has done. I'm not talking about what he said during 9/11. I'm not saying what he said during COVID. I'm saying on the last year, Tucker Carlson, much like Candace, has taken a weird turn. Where you become anti-American, anti-truth, and anti-normal American thoughts.

• 1:55:19Speaker 02

  Alright, now those are...

• 1:55:21Adam Sosnick?

  So if you're gonna call out Candace, how do you not feel like calling out Tucker?

• 1:55:25Speaker 02

  Because the last four things...

• 1:55:26Adam Sosnick?

  Because they're doing the exact same thing. Show me the difference between Tucker and Candace in the last year.

• 1:55:30Speaker 02

  The last four accusations... The four, the last four accusations that you made in a row after making a decent argument about saying that it shifted. Yes, there are shifts is happening, but you can't jump to a conclusion that he's anti-American. I think what you have...

• 1:55:44Adam Sosnick?

  I didn't say that he's anti-American.

• 1:55:45Speaker 02

  You did! You just said, "Let's go back and listen to it."

• 1:55:48Adam Sosnick?

  I'm saying...

• 1:55:48Speaker 02

  You said he was anti-American. You just said it.

• 1:55:50Adam Sosnick?

  You just said...

• 1:55:51Speaker 02

  You just said anti-American.

• 1:55:52Adam Sosnick?

  The reason I said that is because he said, "I bought a house in Qatar because I'm American." If you want to be pro-American, go buy a house in Detroit.

• 1:55:59Patrick Bet-David?

  But, but, but, Adam, that's a different criticism.

• 1:56:04Adam Sosnick?

  Are we saying that Tucker Carlson hasn't making a drastic turn over the last 12 months? Where average people are like, "What's up with him?"

• 1:56:11Patrick Bet-David?

  But wait a minute, I say he has.

• 1:56:12Adam Sosnick?

  Okay, that's my point.

• 1:56:13Speaker 02

  No, but that's not...

• 1:56:14Adam Sosnick?

  That is my point.

• 1:56:14Patrick Bet-David?

  No, but that's not, but, but, but these are, okay. We can say, yes, he has. There are concerns. Why is he defending Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East as hardcore as he is?

• 1:56:26Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 1:56:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Valid points. That's a valid question.

• 1:56:28Adam Sosnick?

  That's my question.

• 1:56:29Patrick Bet-David?

  But the other part here, we have to be very careful. If all of a sudden, somebody plays a clip in Russia, in Israel, in Iran, in any of the countries that are enemies, and they show a clip of us, what are they gonna say? Are they gonna say, "Wait a minute, we always knew him"? No, no, no. Pump the brakes. I would say if they showed a view, Adam, I'm gonna go, yes.

• 1:56:51Adam Sosnick?

  If they show one random clip, just like Annapolis, Annapolis, we all said, "Guys, that was taken out of context." We all defended her without even knowing.

• 1:56:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Normal people are that.

• 1:56:59Adam Sosnick?

  Nobody in their right mind should defend Tucker because he's done a hundred of those clips.

• 1:57:02Patrick Bet-David?

  All right, let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. Don't agree. Let's go to the next story. Tom, what story do you want me to go to that you have a lot of stuff on? Do you want me to go to California, the fire? Is that what you want to do? Let's go to that. Let's go to LA Mayor Bass brushes off Palisades fire protests, claims locals are profiting. And Rob, I think you got a clip on this one as well. So if we go to this, page nine. How does she not get recalled by now? I mean, how does that not happen? Let me have her explain it to you. Go ahead, Rob. How does that happen?

• 1:57:34Speaker 21

  One year after the fires, are you surprised that so much of that anger is directed at you?

• 1:57:38Speaker 22

  A little, but again, I do understand the anger. If they need to focus them on me, you know, whatever, whatever takes them to heal and get through this. I don't take it personally.

• 1:57:50Speaker 21

  Do you think a reason for that anger is misinformation, and people are looking for someone to blame?

• 1:57:54Speaker 22

  Well, I do have to tell you that there's a part of it, and this is the part that troubles me the most, is that there are people who have preyed upon people's grief, who are financially benefiting from people's grief. And to deliberately put out misinformation, like nobody's rebuilding, permits aren't being given, there are challenges, absolutely. But there is progress being made.

• 1:58:18Speaker 21

  There's a rally being held tomorrow called "They Let Us Burn."

• 1:58:22Speaker 22

  Right.

• 1:58:22Speaker 21

  Is that how people should be commemorating this one-year anniversary?

• 1:58:26Speaker 22

  Well, I don't think so. Again, I think that there are people that are profiting off of this. And that is what I find very despicable. Intentionally putting out misinformation, intentionally profiting from social media, book deals, etc. And I think that that's unfortunate. To me, I hope that it's about healing and moving forward and getting this community back. Every single Palisadian that wants to come back, that should be the focus.

• 1:58:52Speaker 21

  You have people who continue to tell me every single time I'm here, "This should have never happened." Should this have ever happened?

• 1:59:00Speaker 22

  Of course it should have never happened, but I do think that's something that we're all coming to grips with in our world, but certainly within our city. Weather events that we would have never thought would have taken place.

• 1:59:13Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, she was on vacation.

• 1:59:14Patrick Bet-David?

  It's the weather's fault. Yeah, okay.

• 1:59:15Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah.

• 1:59:16Patrick Bet-David?

  You can pause it right there. Tom, thoughts? Go for it. I'm gonna go to Tom first, and Rob, I'll come to you.

• 1:59:21Tom Ellsworth?

  So this is, what's despicable is that Karen Bass is trying to politically profit from spin. She's turning it into, "We need to heal and move forward." That means your point doesn't matter. "We need to heal and move forward. Don't look over here." Well, I'll tell you what not to look at. The fire chief and the mayor, she laid off the fire chief, she censored the fire chief, then the fire chief left. Now they're in court, and that fire chief is probably going to win. The last two articles I saw, Pat, is the fire chief, the legal analysts that were out there in the liberal media were saying, "If this goes to court, Karen Bass and people are gonna have to turn over

• 2:00:04Tom Ellsworth?

  all kinds of text records, everything that was going on on this, including the report that Kristin Cowley said that she had published about readiness." So I think it's despicable that Karen Bass stands there and talks about healing and moving forward. How about accelerated permitting? How about intervening with some of the insurance claims? About supporting what's going on there to help people who had homes and were paying taxes, property tax, that part of LA, get their house back without being interfered. How about pushing back on the coastal commission in Malibu that is not allowing people to build certain things because the Greens don't want the houses to be back there at all and so

• 2:00:49Tom Ellsworth?

  are using the coastal commission to say, "Oh, we're just gonna have the beautiful ocean. All these rich celebrities and other people, they don't get their homes back, but we get our coastline back." Karen Bass is trying to profit politically by spinning this into being everything that it's not, and meanwhile, the taxpayers of the city of LA are gonna write a check to Christine Crowley because Karen Bass does not want that court case to go. That's my opinion, that's what legal analysts are saying, is that they're gonna write that ex-fire chief a check because it was mishandled and they besmirched her reputation, and for her to stand there like that, when I saw that, the first thing I thought, it was like a staged interview.

• 2:01:32Tom Ellsworth?

  "Oh, here we go, she's gonna stand there and get softballs from the reporter." But the reporter, you know, God bless him, tried to push it, and she just, look at the direction she spun it. There was no accountability, no leadership. As an ex-resident of LA, this disgusts me, because there's people I know, we know a guy named John that we were friendly with, that had a place in Palisades that is up there. A great guy, part of a large business mentor organization. He's not, everybody has talked about these things. These were good citizens that are being screwed, and she's not taking leadership to stand up and say-

• 2:02:10Patrick Bet-David?

  John lived in Palisades?

• 2:02:11Tom Ellsworth?

  Hmm?

• 2:02:12Patrick Bet-David?

  John M.?

• 2:02:13Tom Ellsworth?

  Yes, sir.

• 2:02:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Wow, I didn't know that.

• 2:02:15Tom Ellsworth?

  They're down, they're down, they're down, uh, north San Diego, where his daughter is.

• 2:02:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, wow, okay. Rob, what do you think about this?

• 2:02:22Speaker 02

  Well, one of my friends who- Still writes for The Simpsons, uh, he lost his house and it's devastating. And you have, um, when you see Karen Bass and you hear her talk, it almost reminds me of something like that Iraqi spokesman during the, uh, during Saddam Hussein. Remember him? What was his name? Iraqi Pete or something Iraqi? What was his name? Good name. Iraqi Bob. So, uh, and it just, you don't believe a thing that they said, "No, we will be the biggest. We will conquer the Americans any day now." It's just nothing but lies. We will burn the great Satan to the ground. What, what is it about the Democrats in Los Angeles and California in general that have this Hitler in the bunker mentality?

• 2:03:05Speaker 02

  Well, they'll go down with the ship, you know, they just, I mean, how does this person? I remember the city council kicking out somebody in the town that I grew up in for trying to raise taxes for 10 bucks. This is somebody that had all their houses burned down in this, in this city of Palisades. That, and how do you not get rid of the mayor? How, what, what point? You know, I remember I said years ago, it was a Jamie Lissow joke, which is like the, um, you know, Californians would vote for a bowl of shit if it had a D next to it. Yep. It's like there's just, they're just, it's a group mentality. It's, it's a, that is, um, you know, they just paint the other side as so evil that they'll stick with somebody who, who destroyed their community.

• 2:03:48Speaker 02

  And don't, and don't step out of line, otherwise they'll come after you. Yeah, um, it's, it's something out of the Khmer Rouge. I mean, it really is. To hear her, you really hear a communist, and she is. You really hear this communist group think that, um, that they, they never take any personal responsibility for anything. The fact that she was not there, that she was in Africa at a wedding to be cool, knowing that the winds were coming and, um, I just, I just don't see California climbing out of this because I think they have that bunker mentality. And if you give enough stuff away to people and you give them enough free stuff, they'll keep voting for the Democrats. And that's the plan the whole time. And it's not going to change, I don't think, in our lifetime. I don't see it changing. I want it to.

• 2:04:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me go to the next story. Gavin Newsom confronts $18 billion budget disaster he helped create. This is a New York Post story. After years of surplus, Golden State is facing staggering deficits that could be ballooned up to $35 billion in coming years, according to the state's legislative after years-long spending spree. Newsom, who's expected to launch the 2020 presidential, unveils his plan to stanch the bleeding in a major speech Thursday. In it, he'll posture as presidential while aiming to reassure cash-strapped Californians that he's leaving the state in tip-top shape in his final year in office. Critics doubt it will be enough. Governor Newsom's speech will highlight a lot of claimed wins, but Californians see

• 2:05:12Patrick Bet-David?

  the lack of results every day, said Senator Republican Leader Brian Jones of San Diego in a statement. Year after year, his policies have pushed opportunity out of the state while driving the cost of living to ever-new heights for working families. Only about four years ago, California had flush with cash, was flush with cash, with a jaw-dropping surplus of $100 billion, thanks to a rockling stock market and COVID-era cash infusions from the federal government. Since then, revenues driven by capital gains taxes on rich shrunk as the economy took a nosedive. Tom, your thoughts?

• 2:05:50Tom Ellsworth?

  I'll tell you, so you're destined to take these last two stories and just get my blood pressure up to the temperature in Death Valley. But I'll tell you what's going on with Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom wants to stay relevant, wants to stay in the headlines, and wants to keep acting presidential and appearing presidential. But you know what you need? You need a platform and a record. And the record here is pretty gruesome. The numbers are coming out and people are starting to wake up. And you're seeing... Folks start to pre-cover stories. This story could have been re-headlined, "Can you believe what this guy is gonna say tomorrow?" And this is not coming from hard conservative sources. His speech is gonna highlight claimed wins.

• 2:06:35Tom Ellsworth?

  "We did this, we did this, we did this." So he's gonna put the spin on the wins, and I hope people look underneath and see what's really going on there. And he is, along with Ro Khanna, saying, "Oh, no, no, no, it's the service union that is bringing the ballot initiative for the billionaire tax." Baloney, they're doing it, but you got your fingerprints on it. And this is Gavin Newsom, he's gonna come out, try to look presidential, take credit for things, but I hope the people of California look to the numbers, and you don't have to look deeply, and ask yourself a question. Is this is what you want? Because you have an opportunity to elect a new governor, but the rest of America needs to wake up and understand that if this guy can't run the sixth-largest country in the world,

• 2:07:19Tom Ellsworth?

  then how the hell is he gonna run the the-largest country in the world?

• 2:07:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Apparently it's the fifth now, Adam.

• 2:07:24Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, well, I don't care about California at all. I've made that very clear. But I do love the United States of America, and I care about the United States of America. In my opinion, and I don't mean this literally, burn it down and start over in California. Because there's nothing good coming out of California. You lived in California 20 years. You were there for a decade. You were there for over a decade. You spent a lot of time-

• 2:07:46Tom Ellsworth?

  Most of my life.

• 2:07:47Adam Sosnick?

  -there. I don't care about California. I literally, like, don't think that any California Democrat should ever see the White House. That could be Judgment Day for America, much like Karen Bass was Judgment Day for the Pacific Palisades in California. To me, elections have consequences. I don't care what happens in California. Burn it down and start over, not literally, but I'll be damned if I ever see someone like Gavin Newsom in the White House. Hell, no.

• 2:08:18Speaker 03

  But the scary, but the scariest part about Adam, what you're saying is on Cal She, who's number one, Robert? Who's number one? I'm, I'm sorry, I mean G. By a mile. By a mile. So what?

• 2:08:29Speaker 02

  And this is where, bro, I'm talking about.

• 2:08:32Adam Sosnick?

  This is three years from an election, just like Scott Walker was number one, or Jeb Bush was number one. Literally whoever's number one never finishes number one.

• 2:08:41Speaker 03

  Okay, but let me ask you a question.

• 2:08:42Adam Sosnick?

  But I hear you.

• 2:08:43Speaker 03

  Who do you think, because real quick, because I want to get to where you're talking about, because you're talking about Adam, even in biblical which, I love that you went there, because it could be the end. Gavin Newsom's at 35%. Who else? Who else? Even like a late blooming, who's gonna challenge him?

• 2:08:56Adam Sosnick?

  We'll see.

• 2:08:57Speaker 03

  He's the guy with the hair? He's the guy with the suit?

• 2:08:59Speaker 02

  That's what primaries are for. The fat guy from, the fat guy from Illinois.

• 2:09:02Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, you never know. God, God help us, but, and Rob.

• 2:09:05Adam Sosnick?

  But guys, Trump was at 1% by the time there were primaries, and then he took down everybody one by one by one. I think America is smarter than falling for Gavin Newsom's trick.

• 2:09:17Speaker 03

  Adam, really? They fell for Russia collusion, they fell for Biden not, Biden was in charge.

• 2:09:22Speaker 02

  But you're here.

• 2:09:23Speaker 03

  They fell for Kamala, give me, like, I'm telling you right now, but this is what, when, when I talk about, bro, the opposite of what we are, there is light, and then there is dark. This party has been captured by darkness, and if you can't see, I'm not saying you, I'm saying the people in general, I have family members, I have people that are, they're just so far gone, and Rob made a great point, they can't, it's going down with the sinking ship, because you know what they don't want to say? You guys were right. We're wrong. They have lost the plot. It's complete evil.

• 2:09:52Speaker 02

  Well, here's, let's, can I just jump in for one second? If you take a look at historically, the last time there were three non-consecutive administrations, you're gonna go Nixon, Ford, Carter, and then you had two Reagans and one Bush. I think what you have now, since we have a Trump, Biden, Trump, if you look at historically, it, odds seem to be a patterns that happen, and I, I think you're gonna have that one Trump and then two Vances, or whoever wins that. Or Rubio, I mean, they'd be great. And, and I think that whoever runs is gonna be a sacrificial lamb of the Democratic Party. I'm hopeful, because I, I just, I just don't see it happening in any way, shape, or form, I think, but you, you have to care about California for no other reason than this.

• 2:10:37Speaker 02

  The electoral college votes, I mean, it is a, it is unbelievable.

• 2:10:42Adam Sosnick?

  What do you mean, do you think that's how we're gonna go red?

• 2:10:44Speaker 02

  No, but that's why I think at a certain, no, I think that's why you need to be concerned about it because you know how tough it is, you guys know how tough it is for a Republican to win? He's got to like, I mean, it was a minor miracle, I think it was the hand of God that helped, you know, every swing state and everything, we just happened to have, we had Charlie Kirk helping with kids, God rest his soul, 22.5% jump with young voters, that's amazing. We got Hispanics, we got Hispanic men, black men, you know, we're never gonna, white women we're never gonna get. But we did get, you know, a resounding victory, which is great. And we have to continue this because I do think it is a threat against Western civilization. And I think whether the Democrats realize it or not, I think that they are unfortunately

• 2:11:29Speaker 02

  playing into the hands of socialism and they make the mistake of thinking that they want a one world government and they make the mistake of thinking they're gonna be in charge of it. It's not, it's gonna be China, we're gonna be some weird, small, slightly freer social credit system. In my opinion.

• 2:11:42Adam Sosnick?

  Well, I don't not care about the people of California, I love the people of, I have friends in California. I'm saying the state legislator and whatever's happening there, I have no love for. You know how they say if like about, there's gonna be a plane crash? Put your mask on first, then the people, the person next to you? That, to me, California is so far gone, that the last thing I'm interested is putting a face mask on the people in California. Good luck, you guys figure it out, you vote for this, keep doubling down on nonsense, best of luck.

• 2:12:12Speaker 02

  Can I ask about the mask, everybody says, put your mask on first.

• 2:12:14Adam Sosnick?

  Oxygen.

• 2:12:15Speaker 02

  How often, how often does the oxygen mask come down on a plane? Have you ever been on a plane?

• 2:12:19Adam Sosnick?

  Have you ever flown private with us?

• 2:12:20Speaker 02

  Have you ever been on an oxygen mask, I'm not serious.

• 2:12:23Adam Sosnick?

  No, thank God.

• 2:12:24Speaker 02

  Okay, but let me tell you though, so what happens more often? What happens more often than the oxygen mask cap? There's turbulence, right? You've been on a plane with turbulence? And if you have a baby, don't you tighten the baby's belt before your own? So I always find that-

• 2:12:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Why is there a baby in a seatbelt?

• 2:12:37Speaker 02

  No, I'm saying that because the idea is before you help your child, help put your mask on first. I would say that that's not a very valid thing and everybody keeps using that. And I would just say the real thing is that there's turbulence and if there's turbulence, you help your kid first unless you're a heathen. So I would just say that's just a false statement.

• 2:12:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh my God, of all the things Rob gets pissed off, he's like, you know what? I'm sick in time. First, put your seatbelt on before you kick him.

• 2:13:02Speaker 02

  No, I'm just saying because I hear that so many times and I just don't like- can somebody poke a hole in it for once? If I have nothing, one kid-

• 2:13:08Patrick Bet-David?

  I just want to let you know if I was sitting next to you on a plane, I'd put my mask on first. Then I'd help you. Oh my God, that was a great argument. Life changing. All this time. Okay, so let's talk about some of these billionaires that are leaving.

• 2:13:21Speaker 02

  Who's leaving?

• 2:13:21Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm gonna tell you, Larry Page, Google, they're leaving.

• 2:13:23Speaker 02

  Is he leaving for sure?

• 2:13:24Patrick Bet-David?

  They just bought two houses next to each other, Miami. Miami home, 173.4 billion-

• 2:13:31Speaker 02

  What?

• 2:13:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Million dollars. Two bedroom.

• 2:13:33Speaker 02

  Garage, shared garage.

• 2:13:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me read both of these and I'm coming to you, Tom. So by the way, that's the place that they picked up, these guys. It's a nice little two-bedroom condo, 473 million. It's a joke, by the way, it's a joke, but they are leaving. So billionaire makes strategic moves out of California ahead of proposed wealth taxes. Now, this is something we talked to last week with Chamath and some of the other guys, but-

• 2:13:59Speaker 02

  What is a wealth tax?

• 2:14:00Patrick Bet-David?

  As the clock ticks on California's billionaire facing a proposed wealth tax, some of America's top business leaders are making strategic moves to leave the Golden State. Larry Page appears to be distancing himself from California as a public filing reviewed by Fox News Digital from the California Secretary of State office shows several business entities linked to Page were moved out of the state in December. Ahead of Jan 1st, 2026 residency, they tied to the proposed tax. I'm sure you're gonna get into that, Tom. Oracle founder Larry Ellison has taken some steps that signal a potential pullback from California through details, though details of a reported $45 million off-market sale of his San Francisco home-

• 2:14:44Patrick Bet-David?

  have not been independently confirmed by major outlets. Tom, this 5% tax bill to billionaires starting January 1st, 2026. How much can you tell about it? What's the latest on this?

• 2:14:56Tom Ellsworth?

  So well, let's let's first recap. If you haven't been paying, if you haven't heard the podcast recently, the origin of it is SEIU, which is one of the largest, bluest service employee unions in the world. Very big in California, very, very big in Nevada, where everybody that works for hotels is part of it. This is the group that is putting the billionaire tax on as a ballot initiative. Now, the politicians are supporting this because that way it's not on them. Oh, it's a ballot initiative being brought by voters, voters just like you, workers. So point one, it's a ballot initiative being brought this way. Point two, that ballot initiative isn't going to be voted till later this year.

• 2:15:40Tom Ellsworth?

  But everybody is trying to get out now. Now, why are they getting out? Because they believe it's going to pass. Because like if no one knows anything about Proposition 13, which was a property tax initiative that goes back to the 70s. 78. That 1978, thank you, that has regulated property tax for the older people that never sold their home so that their property taxes don't go up. So ballot initiatives in California have teeth. Larry Page and people are handicapping, Pat, the odds of this going down. And everybody believes that the that the ballot initiative is going to pass and pass big because California is so blue. They've got the union behind it.

• 2:16:24Tom Ellsworth?

  They need several hundred thousand votes to get it finished on the ballot.

• 2:16:28Patrick Bet-David?

  875.

• 2:16:30Tom Ellsworth?

  SEIU is going to get is going to help it done. And guess what Larry Page is doing? These people say, oh, they're not really moving. They're just buying homes in Florida and they're going to live 189 days in Florida. Well, wait a minute. Larry Page, I don't care about his 173 million dollar property purchase in Miami. A lot of people can do that and they have second and third homes in Aspen and, and you know, in the Montana and places, but he also moved coop. Kooop is his family office. Billions and billions of dollars. He has moved the registration for Kooop, K-O-O-P, to Florida, along with his Flying Car Initiative,

• 2:17:12Tom Ellsworth?

  and he has an influenza research company that he's moved. So, this doesn't look like a guy just buying a house in Miami, Pat. This is a guy who believes this ballot initiative is gonna pass, and he has pulled up stakes, and he has moved.

• 2:17:27Speaker 02

  Well, it's not legal, it's not constitutional. You can't tax, I just don't think that'll hold up. They tried to do that, a separate tax for people in Arizona making over $250,000 a year, and that, and it did pass because, you know, who wouldn't vote for that if you're making under that? So, the Democrats, of course, will push that through, and that was also funded $25 million by the teachers' union, that, and it did pass, but it got kicked out by the Supreme Court level. So, I just don't know, you know, somebody has to look up the constitution, the state constitution, and see if you could tax people separately or unevenly. So, I just don't think that that's, but I wouldn't put it past that it'll pass, but

• 2:18:11Speaker 02

  I just don't know if it'll hold muster. But, who would want to take the chance?

• 2:18:14Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, the legal, thank you for bringing that up. The legal procedure would be that you could contest it, but it's called concurrence. In California, if it's a ballot initiative that is deemed to be constitutional by at least one judge, and this would be the Ninth Circus, and you know what that means, the Ninth Circuit, also known as the Ninth Circus, and they say, "It appears to be constitutional to us," it would get implemented, and they could start collecting the tax, and then everyone has to fight it, and if they win it and overthrow it, then the state can appeal it, then you gotta wait for the Supreme Court, and then you gotta ask yourself a question. If it all comes down, what are the odds that California gives you your money back?

• 2:18:56Tom Ellsworth?

  So, the billionaires are handicapping that and saying, "My lawyer may tell me, well, you know, this doesn't have to happen, but Pat, if your lawyer said, you know, 'Option 1, Pat, you can move to Florida,' or 'Option 2, you're probably gonna win, but it could take eight years, it'll be really bloody, and you're gonna have to pay the tax on day 1,'" you would look at it and go, "Wait a minute. Maybe I just move and then let this thing play out."

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• 2:20:21Adam Sosnick?

  That makes sense.

• 2:20:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Who the hell is gonna risk that?

• 2:20:23Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah.

• 2:20:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, look at this. Will California billionaire tax initiative pass? Forty-nine percent is saying yes on Cal-C.

• 2:20:29Adam Sosnick?

  Wow.

• 2:20:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Forty-nine percent.

• 2:20:31Adam Sosnick?

  That's just today. Wait till the summer.

• 2:20:33Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, no, no, Tom. Go to January 1st.

• 2:20:36Adam Sosnick?

  It went, whoop.

• 2:20:36Patrick Bet-David?

  It was at like 10%.

• 2:20:38Adam Sosnick?

  It started going up on the 10th, 3rd, 4th.

• 2:20:40Patrick Bet-David?

  And then all of a sudden, boom.

• 2:20:43Patrick Bet-David?

  It got up to 49%. So, Adam, you were gonna say something.

• 2:20:47Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah. If California doesn't want your billionaires, we'll take them here in Florida. Come on down to Miami. You know, Mayor Francis Suarez put his name on the map. Shout out to him. When Silicon Valley was asking what they could do, he says, "How can I help?" And now Miami is now the capital of capital. It's no secret if you just trust, what's this word? Data? Societies that attract and keep billionaires grow and societies that demonize billionaires will decline. What do billionaires bring to your society? Well, jobs, money, taxes, innovation, opportunity, long-term thinking. California, if you don't want your billionaires, we'll gladly take them here.

• 2:21:30Adam Sosnick?

  And the 305, by the way, shout out to the Miami Hurricanes. Gonna be the national champions this year. Respect.

• 2:21:36Patrick Bet-David?

  It's gonna be good if it's gonna be Miami Hurricanes, Indiana. Let's do one last one and wrap up. So Trump says he's banning institutional. Rob, do you have that one? He's banning institutional, let me go to this one, institutional investments from scooping up single-family homes.

• 2:21:51Speaker 02

  We've been talking about that for a while.

• 2:21:53Patrick Bet-David?

  This is big. If they pull this up, this is very good for middle America. For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American dream. It was a reward for hardworking, working hard and doing the right things. But now, because the record-high inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, the American dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans, Trump wrote on Truth Social. Tom, thoughts on this?

• 2:22:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, he's calling on Congress to codify it. I mean, let's make a law, let's do this. I think this is, this is smart. A lot of people say, well, wait a minute, wait a minute, now he's interfering with this. Real estate's just an asset class. Banks want to buy asset classes. Well, hang on. When you're talking about the power of America, which is its citizens, and you're talking about that we've had a situation where, you know, building has been kind of flatlined. I don't think we're gonna have more than 4 million transactions for 2026 after 4 million last year, and the housing starts are low. I think this is smart, saying,

• 2:22:59Tom Ellsworth?

  wait a minute. You know, I don't think it's a good idea that, that large banking or private equity simply buy up an asset class like this and rent it back to the American worker when there's a bigger thing here. And the bigger thing is that home equity had been a key part of people's savings, which impacts their retirement. So this is also the federal government stepping in, who needs to be paying for Social Security, which is probably gonna get cut, ladies and gentlemen, and stopping, this will, this will stop the shortage, part of the shortage, Pat, will stop. Because when these houses get bought up, there's fewer

• 2:23:43Tom Ellsworth?

  houses for people to buy, and so the price of those houses that are available to general public is pushed up additionally by the, all that printing of money.

• 2:23:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob.

• 2:23:52Tom Ellsworth?

  But I think this is a good thing.

• 2:23:53Speaker 02

  You have BlackRock, you're talking $5 trillion.

• 2:23:58Speaker 02

  You're talking BlackRock owns most of the pharmaceutical industry, if not most of the Dow Jones. If you're thinking about tech stocks and you're thinking about this BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, that is more powerful. That is a real unelected group that can force policy, can affect the economy and is. I mean, if you take that $5 trillion, the buying potential of that, and what they've done to single-family homes, I would just say to you this. When was the last time you washed your rental car? You don't do it, you don't own it, you don't give a shit about it. But kids, how do we expect these young Americans to care about the American dream if they're not given a piece of it?

• 2:24:41Speaker 02

  If they don't have the opportunity to earn a piece of it? So we have to do that. When you have BlackRock that will buy a home in a neighborhood for $300,000 and sell it to themselves for $700,000, they're artificially causing inflation and making the house purchases unbuyable for the average young person. I'm talking 30 and under. And in their 30s, for crying out loud, who are still living with their parents. They also are getting tax credits for buying for this purchase, and they're getting loans for exceedingly, you know, a better deal than young people can. So we need to have some regulation. And that's why the president, you know, does not traditionally like to get involved with regulations. But in this situation, it has to happen because I believe there's a monopoly going in place.

• 2:25:26Speaker 02

  And if you think, you know, if the government thought that, you know, Ma Bell back at the time and long-distance phone companies were becoming a monopoly, certainly, and that was worthy of being broken up, certainly the idea of one big company like BlackRock buying up single-family homes in the hundreds of thousands is a monopoly, and that needs to be taken care of. And Robert Kennedy and I talked about that, you know, a year ago, and thankfully President Trump is doing another something great to help the American people.

• 2:25:59Patrick Bet-David?

  I agree. I would tell you, this means they are paying attention to the affordability crisis that's taking place. And that's great. So to people that are 18 to 29 years old, 18 to 30 years old, this is directed to you, and this is very good news for you. Because we want the youngins. To get married, to have kids, to buy a house, to have their dreams become a reality. The more, anytime you build a company, when we built the insurance company at the beginning, I told my guys, I said, "Listen, the previous company lost a lot of people. Why? Because the comp benefited the guys at the top.

• 2:26:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Once the comp benefited everybody and the newest guy can win, you'll continue winning. We have to make sure the comp benefits right now, the newer people that are coming up as well, 18 to 29. And if we can do that, affordability can be fixed. I think midterms will be scored away. But if they don't figure this out by around July, August, it's gonna be a very, very deadly midterms that they'll have. Adam.

• 2:27:02Speaker 02

  Forget.

• 2:27:03Adam Sosnick?

  Yeah, well, this comes down to affordability. You know, I applaud President Trump for making housing affordable. You know how I feel about buying a house and renting? Part of the reason that I've been such an advocate for not buying a house is this because it's been completely unaffordable. How could the average 25-year-old, 30-year-old, 40-year-old buy a house when you're competing with BlackRock for that specific house? So I'm all for people getting married. I'm all for people getting a house. But not if it's gonna drive you into debt. So to me, if you can't afford a house, stop complaining about it. Rent, save that money, invest in other appreciating assets.

• 2:27:41Speaker 02

  Right.

• 2:27:41Adam Sosnick?

  Until then, stop complaining. And what's the definition of crazy? Doing the same thing over and over again? Until housing is affordable, it's almost irrelevant if you wanna buy a house. You can't afford it.

• 2:27:54Speaker 02

  You can't afford it, but it's not because of its market forces. It's falsely inflated market forces that are preventing it.

• 2:28:00Adam Sosnick?

  Whatever the reason is, you can't afford it.

• 2:28:02Speaker 02

  No, no, but I'm saying is that there's...

• 2:28:04Adam Sosnick?

  That's like saying, "Hey, I wanna be on SNL." It's like, "Well, you're not funny."

• 2:28:07Speaker 02

  Well, there's an art...

• 2:28:08Adam Sosnick?

  Well, okay, you are funny, but you're not living in New York.

• 2:28:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me hear what Rob has to say. Give me a second.

• 2:28:14Speaker 02

  But it's artificially saying that, like, the people auditioning for Saturday Night Live, we're not gonna pick any of those people. We already pre-picked. That's the same thing BlackRock's doing now, is that they're artificially raising the prices of homes. and making it unaffordable and they're buying too many and forcing people to become renters so they can't even rent because they're literally they'll buy 30,000 homes so what the president is doing is is and it has to be done through you know codified through through congress but he is going to limit it has to be done in two ways the ability to buy a massive amount and they shouldn't be able to speculate on that and so they just you just you have to but the legislation is going to be critical and Tom you'll know that the legislation has to be critical so that it isn't

• 2:28:57Speaker 02

  have loopholes in it that they continue so this isn't just some something it has to be able to help and and what's going to help right away is to take away any tax credits that that black rock currently receives for buying homes so that that has to be done

• 2:29:11Adam Sosnick?

  so let me ask you one question because I agree with you if you want to buy a house should you buy it before or after regulation sets place

• 2:29:20Speaker 02

  you have to buy it when you can afford it and and in any particular place and and this this regulation though should be able to stabilize the house prices if not lower them and we'll see I mean I'm hopeful but

• 2:29:32Adam Sosnick?

  it's not gonna happen overnight though

• 2:29:33Speaker 02

  it's not gonna happen overnight

• 2:29:34Patrick Bet-David?

  well folks we'll see what's gonna happen here Rob appreciate you for coming on

• 2:29:38Speaker 02

  thank you for having me I hope I

• 2:29:40Patrick Bet-David?

  we have watched you 100 times more than you watched us over the years literally you are unbelievable entertainer and what you've done in movies some of the I could say five of the top 20 movie clips that you watch on rerun like we love 51 states

• 2:30:00Speaker 02

  thank you

• 2:30:00Patrick Bet-David?

  and that your funny as hell in 51 states but we can keep going with that you done great work but we appreciate you for coming on guys

• 2:30:06Speaker 02

  thanks for having me

• 2:30:07Patrick Bet-David?

  for those that are watching have an incredible weekend God bless we will do this again next week bye bye bye take care everybody

• 2:30:14Speaker 02

  thank you