El Mencho Killing IGNITES Narco War & Newsom's 960 SAT Speech | PBD #744

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down cartel riots following El Mencho’s killing, Gavin Newsom’s controversial “960 SAT” speech, Iran’s potential collapse, Trump’s tariff clash with SCOTUS, Mamdani’s snow photo-ID policy, and Mar-a-Lago shooting updates. ------ 👞 THE NEW FLB 1'S: https://bit.ly/4mXV9gd Ⓜ️ MINNECT WITH JOHN KIRIAKOU: https://bit.ly/46HCY9x Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 💬 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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• 0:14Speaker 00

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

• 0:18Speaker 00

  You are a one of one? My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before.

• 0:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Alright, another one of those weekends where a lot of things happen. If you were in Mexico on vacation, we're being told buckle down, be safe, get out if you can. We've all seen the videos, you've probably seen the videos, absolute atrocities of what's going on in Mexico. And these are places we went to, resorts, we've stayed out, probably been to Mexico 50 times the last 25 years. We have some incredible memories, but every time you'd go, you'd say, hey, just be careful what could happen. And this whole El Mencho story of what's going on with him, the guy was a former cop is what he was. The guy that they killed, who was the leader of CJNG, El Mencho. Was a former cop, he was a local police officer.

• 1:10Patrick Bet-David?

  His story, we'll go through, he got arrested in the US before, they send him back. We've known who he is, you know, they split off from the cartel and then they did what they did. But anyways, there's a lot to cover there and Tom had a very unique angle this morning. I want to steal a thunder, I want you to hear it from him because he had a very good point on how America can, the folks who are concerned, how this applies to what could happen to Iran any minute now. State of the Union is when? Tomorrow night is when the State of the Union is. We're going to be doing a live event here ourselves and we'll be reacting to the State of the Union. What time is it at 9 o'clock, Rob? Is it 8 or 9 o'clock? 9pm Eastern. 9pm Eastern, so Rob and Vinnie loves it.

• 1:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Like the later they get it, I don't know why they can't do that midnight. Like why can't you do the State of the Union at midnight? With cigars. You know what I'm saying? Like people with 3, 4 cigars, Vinnie will light those cigars up. One by one by one and we have to talk about Iran. What would be wild is, can you imagine the president has given a State of the Union speech? And there's Nancy Pelosi somewhere in her house ripping papers apart. And all of a sudden, the attack to Iran happens simultaneously. We know who's gonna be there. You know who we invited? The US national, the hockey team that just won. I love it, I heard that. What an incredible video. We gotta turn that guy into a hero. When you win that way, so it's gonna be a lot going on there. The tariff ruling.

• 2:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Lot coming out. The president, you know he's upset when he's sending tweets out on Truth Social with lowercase. He doesn't like lowercase. But he's the opposite. You know how they say the uppercase is screaming? To him, the lowercase is screaming. You know, it's different for different people. We'll show that. And John Kiriakou, who was a former CIA agent. He's the guy that came out and talked about waterboarding being a real thing. Got arrested, got in trouble. He said some things that he thinks is going on with Iran. By the way, CIA. He's also on Manect. His Manect is blowing up right now with a bunch of people asking him questions. You guys can go Manect, John. He's got some thoughts on what's going on with Iran. And then for the folks that, you know, say, you know, you need an ID to vote, it's too much. Too much stuff to do.

• 3:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine, like, people gotta get serious about this stuff. What's more important? Voting or shoveling snow? Of course it's shoveling snow in New York and you need more IDs for that. You know, and there's this lady Adam was talking about this morning, I think her name is Liz or something. Who's in New York going around. She went there 8 a.m. They say you gotta come back at 8 p.m. Yeah. She says, I gotta shovel. She said, this is not approved. You need two IDs. I gotta blow, what do you call it, you know? You're a snow blower, Lizzie Slavette. No, no, no, it's not approved. It's not approved, you know, because Maldani in New York, they got certain rules. And regulations you gotta follow. And, you know, he went to a certain mosque, maybe Vinnie will show you the clip of what happened there. Mar-a-Lago shooting that took place and 20-year-old got killed.

• 4:03Patrick Bet-David?

  There are some people that are speculating what the guy's background is. JP Morgan admits. It shuttered Trump's accounts following January 6th Capitol right if that is the case, it is going to be nasty if they did that. And now that they're admitting to it, Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Suzanne, Susan Rice, or pay the consequences. And she flipped and she threatens Trump supporters revenge is best served cold. What does that mean? Imagine when these guys get back in office, what they're planning on doing. JD or Marco? A lot of people are talking about who is going to be, have we ran a poll here yet, Rob, on who the audience would rather have? I don't know if we have or not. You just start the poll right now,

• 4:46Patrick Bet-David?

  let it rip. And folks, we're curious, if it was one of the two, who would you vote for? JD, put JD, put Marco, put other, three options JD, Marco, other. And let's see how that goes. Trump raises global tariffs to 15%. Rand Paul, I got a clip of him predicting that this was going to take place. And he called it in defense of our republic. Kevin O'Leary says Supreme Court caused a nightmare with the tariff decision. We'll cover that. And then LA mayor called out by reporter on live TV California is having a rough time. This guy named Gavin Newsom, who's the governor is trying to have the most, you know, important job in the world to an audience. He was trying to relate to this African American audience and talking about how dumb he

• 5:31Patrick Bet-David?

  is. And I don't know, I don't know what you're trying to say like to relate to. So extremely, some people called it extremely racist. He called it noble, or maybe like, you know, talking about his SAT scores officially public. And then we got a few other things that we got to cover. The guy who won beautifully done. What else we got here? I think I got all this stuff, right? Even Cash Patel was there. Oh, my girl is back, folks. I tell my wife all the time, if there is a woman you have to worry about. It's not Charlize, it's not Scarlett, it's not Jada Pinkett, it's Kim Porter. I mean, this is like, listen, can you imagine how dirty she'll

• 6:12Patrick Bet-David?

  talk to you? Just think about it. Okay, how she would be, but this, this lady that's wonderful, honestly, I'm not even lying to you. I miss you.

• 6:23Patrick Bet-David?

  I miss you. You've been gone too long. What man doesn't like a woman that just wants to argue 24/7? And fight you and make your life a living? What kind of a man doesn't want that? This is a dream, California. This is a dream. By the way, for content purposes, I would love for her to become the governor of California, just for content purposes. Rob, we would every day come here and do a podcast prep. 80% would be about Katie Porter. Forgive me for calling you Kim, it's Katie Porter. She's a legend. She's a sweetheart. She's amazing. And she's mine. I mean, listen, I'll pass for this all day, baby.

• 7:03Patrick Bet-David?

  With that being said, guys, let me tell you what's so awesome with what's going on, okay? This week, for the last seven or eight days, we've been at the Magic Show in Las Vegas, and we're currently at Italy at the Mykom Show, the Milan Show, the show that everybody shows up. Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, everybody. And you know who was there this year? Future Looks Bright Shoes. There. We sent Pete, Leo, and Mickelli. Went over there, having a great time. Go ahead and give them an update on what's going on with these FOB shoes in Vegas at the Magic Show as well as Mykom. Go ahead, Rob.

• 8:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, by the way, you know what I'm wearing today? Clean. Again, let me say this to you guys. I'm wearing my brown ones, okay? Future Looks Bright. Vinnie's wearing his black ones, okay? From September 9th, when I tell you from September 9th till today, I've only worn these shoes except for five days. That's all I wear. Five days, okay? And I love them. They're so comfortable. Every day, this is all I wear. Uh, for some of you guys that are asking questions about shoes, we haven't done a CTA for a couple of weeks because it sells out every time we do them. Okay. So if you haven't picked one up for yourself yet, go to the site, take a look at the shoe compared with all the other shoes, the Berluti's, the Ferragamos, the Zenias,

• 8:54Patrick Bet-David?

  the Guccis. If you want a shoe that has the same, you know, uh, uh, foam, the, the foam technology in the bottom, like, uh, the Uncloud or the Hoka's, and then the look of a Zenia with the leather, genuine leather from Tuscany, Italy, and you want to combine the two together for a reasonable price, while you can sit in a boardroom, put up your shoe on your knee, and it says, future looks bright, and get the deal done. If you're that kind of a person, go to VTMers.com, place your order. Forty F L B ones, uh, we're excited about. By the way, whatever you do, do it fast because sizes go. I'll get messages, Pat, elevens ran out because that's what happens. When we get the orders, it's forty-eight for one size, eighty-two for one size, one-eleven for

• 9:36Patrick Bet-David?

  one size, and they go fairly quickly. If you're like me, buy every color, navy blue, black, brown, and white. Enjoy them.

• 9:43Speaker 00

  Can I give a quick plug?

• 9:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, go ahead.

• 9:44Speaker 00

  So you gave us a pair very kindly, Vinnie Showm up, of the black F L Bs. You might recall a couple of years ago, you bought me these Ferragamos.

• 9:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 9:55Speaker 00

  Okay, I'm wearing them today because, you know, with blue, you were the white.

• 9:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 9:58Speaker 00

  When I, and this, this is genuine to hand to God, these are uncomfortable as hell. But out of respect and because I love the shoe, I wear them. I haven't got the white F L Bs yet. It's night and day.

• 10:11Patrick Bet-David?

  This versus F L Bs.

• 10:12Speaker 00

  I'm like, ugh, ugh, hurting versus the, the black F L Bs. You know, I like wearing the black suit.

• 10:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 10:17Speaker 00

  Incredible.

• 10:18Patrick Bet-David?

  I love it.

• 10:18Speaker 00

  I had a guy, Nas Daily in the office, massive, massive, uh, influencer. He's like, everyone has these F L Bs. I go, what do you got? He goes, I got Zenias. And the FLBs look similar to the, to the Zenias, the black pair.

• 10:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 10:31Speaker 00

  And I go, how much did you drop? He goes, yeah, these are like fifteen hundred dollar shoes. I said, you spent fifteen hundred dollars on these shoes?

• 10:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 10:38Speaker 00

  I go, bro, save that money, FLB it up. It's becoming a thing.

• 10:42Patrick Bet-David?

  I love it. I love it. I love it. And by the way, if you were, you already know, because you messaged me saying, I've never had anything this comfortable before. Okay. All right. Let's get right into it. First story. Okay. First story that we want to get into is what's going on in Mexico. We're minding our own business. All of a sudden, I'm getting bombarded with, literally, I mean, uh, uh, messages, Pat, look what's going on in Mexico. Let's, what's, look what's going on in Mexico. What is this? Just take a look at these videos. Take a look at this. Take a look at that. So apparently in Mexico, let me go to the story to read so it'll take us right into it. Rob, what pages the Mexico story? Uh, twenty-six and twenty-seven. Page twenty-six and twenty-seven. Mexico's most wanted drug dealer, El Mencho,

• 11:25Patrick Bet-David?

  killed in military operation as violent clashes erupt across the country. Rob, is this the CNN clip or the ABC clip? ABC. Okay, go for it.

• 11:34Speaker 02

  Mexico's most powerful drug kingpin was killed during a military operation. Mexican officials say criminal groups burned cars and trucks to block roads across the country. The State Department is warning Americans to shelter in place. ABC's Melissa Dunn is near the border tonight.

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• 14:18Speaker 04

  Explosions erupting across Puerto Vallarta tonight. Black smoke seen rising over the resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast.

• 14:28Speaker 04

  Mexico's military force is launching a daring operation to capture cartel leader Ruben A. known as El Mencho. Multiple cars on fire in the streets. Mexican officials say during their operation, military personnel were attacked.

• 14:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, do you have the video of people running out of airports? Yep. Of fire everywhere. Maybe show that. Just think about, guys, many of you have been to this airport before. I've been to this airport, I don't know how many times. But if you haven't, just play the clip. Yeah, this is, this is regular people.

• 15:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Antemano.

• 15:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Even security's running. You know it's bad when security's running.

• 15:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you have some of the stuff outside where it's all on fire? The entire city's on fire? You know, eh, eh, eh, yeah, go, this is the one, Costco. Check this out, folks.

• 15:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Lady starts speaking in Spanish. There's even a recording of him on a call. Oh, yeah. Okay, so things are nasty. A few things, Manny, before I come to you. I'll come to you first and then Tom. I'm gonna come to you as well on, on this. So El Mencho, eh, eh, his name is Nemesio Osagüera Cervantes. He used to be a local cop himself. He got arrested in the States, in America, I believe in the 90s, if I'm not mistaken, for drug charges. Later, eh, deported to Mexico. Born in Michoacán. We have a lot of friends from Michoacán, but he was born in Michoacán. He's a leader of Jalisco's new generation cartel, CJNJ. CJNG, they rose in dominance in early 2000s

• 16:04Patrick Bet-David?

  when they broke away from the Mexican Sinaloa cartel. So they were part of it. US had a $10 million, eh, eh, eh, reward bounty for somebody that catches them. I think Mexico had a multimillion dollar bounty on catching them.

• 16:19Patrick Bet-David?

  And then they were known for the synthetic drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamine that they were selling. Obviously, a very profitable situation that they had going on there. And then all of a sudden, he gets killed. This is the phone call, Rob. Is this the phone call that you have? There's a phone call that takes place. By the way, for those of you that speak Spanish, I just want you to know, he's cursing nonstop. So brace for impact. He's gonna drop every single F-bomb in the world you can think about. But this is him calling, having a conversation, Rob, if I'm not mistaken, with cops, saying, what the hell are you guys doing? Go ahead, Rob.

• 16:56Speaker 00

  Hey, ¿quién habla?

• 16:58Speaker 03

  Mira bien hijo de tu puta madre, soy Mencho güey. Relaja tu puta gente a la verga, soy Mencho güey.

• 17:06Speaker 03

  Relaja tus putas partidas, si no te voy a partir tu mala tierra, toda tu bola de perro, te tengo identificado 30 güeyes. Hasta tus putas perros te voy a matar si no te relajas güey.

• 17:17Speaker 03

  ¿Cómo güey?

• 17:18Speaker 00

  Ya está, señor, ahorita los bajo.

• 17:21Speaker 03

  No, no, no, no, no, fúngate hijo de la verga, te tengo vigilantes en che- en la chacala güey.

• 17:26Speaker 00

  Ahora les estoy cobrando, les estoy diciendo, ahorita los bajo.

• 17:29Speaker 03

  Fúngase, ve a las pilas güey, ¿qué se le cuesta ser amigo cabrón? Júngalo, no solamente con un tal para que se pasen de verga.

• 17:37Speaker 00

  Ahorita yo se los bajo.

• 17:38Speaker 03

  Fúngale, mire, revírenmles a todos los hijos de su puta madre porque todos agarran y nadie son buenos de cuerpos.

• 17:45Speaker 00

  Es lo que me están diciendo.

• 17:46Speaker 03

  Se me ponen los tiros, o tú eres el primero que vas a matar por ellos Leon.

• 17:50Speaker 00

  No señor.

• 17:52Speaker 03

  ¿Vale?

• 17:52Speaker 00

  No señor, no se trata de eso.

• 17:54Speaker 03

  Fállense a la verga porque aquí los vergazos están al 20, ya se las sabe. Y no hay un hombre.

• 18:00Speaker 00

  No señor, no se trata de eso. Ahorita los bajo.

• 18:02Speaker 03

  Entonces si quieren la mitad les iba a tener un amigazo cabrón, si no, a chingar a su madre a la verga.

• 18:07Speaker 00

  No, yo sé señor.

• 18:07Speaker 03

  Actúe hasta la verga de que no entiendan loco.

• 18:10Patrick Bet-David?

  This continues by the way, this is a few minutes, you can pause it right there Rob because we're learning Spanish and not the right words. So Vinny, wha- wha- what's going on here? What- what are your thoughts? Because they- they typically talk about, the important part is if Shine Bomb, the president of Mexico, is in cahoots with the cartel. That's what a lot of people want to know. Is this a narco state, your thoughts?

• 18:32Speaker 00

  I- I mean, we just heard a phone call of the recently deceased head of this freaking cartel, calling the head of their police department and saying, "I give you guys money, I know where 30 of you live", you know, but he said, "I'll kill your dogs", that means he will kill the wife, the kids, these people are freaking relentless. I saw- I saw videos that were popping up on my ex feed, Pat. I had to turn away because of the brutality. They're, these guys, like you want to talk about ISIS and Hamas and all that, yeah, horrible as well. These guys aren't that far off. They had one guy taped to a tree. And they're like, like in Spanish, like, okay, you ready? Are you recording?

• 19:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Blowtorch.

• 19:10Speaker 00

  And blowtorch and lift the guy on fighter. And they even had to shut the audio off because it's that bad. And it's kind of weird because now I'm tying in. Remember last week, Pat, or the week before?

• 19:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 19:19Speaker 00

  El Paso shut down the airport because they said it was a balloon. I think it has something to do with these guys and flying drones around. But let's be, let's just call it what it is. Like they designated, Trump designated them as terrorists. If the, if the president of Mexico, Scheinblum, whatever her name is, she's scared of them and cooperating with them. I think this was of, uh, and mind you, this was them. They took him out with the assistance of us. We're not claiming that we did everything, but we did coordinate, I think with logistics and stuff like that for location.

• 19:48Patrick Bet-David?

  And not our guys.

• 19:49Speaker 00

  No, not our guys. They're not, but, but, but, and by the way, the number two is going to step up. But at the end of the day, I'm happy that they're starting to take this serious. The border is just an open turnstile that Mexico with China as well. But Mexico mainly is bringing in guns. They're bringing in drugs. There's sex trafficking kids. And these are the guys, these are the guys. So when everybody, because you know, I guarantee you today, you're going to hear on all these shows, all these leftists are going to be like, oh, we're starting a new war. We're going to go in, we're trying to install this and install this. Guys, they kill hundreds of thousands of Americans just with drugs alone. And I'll think about this. Americans are at Puerto Vallarta. My cousin Rumson, who was here, uh, last week, Pat, they were in Cabo a couple of weeks ago for, a month ago for the wedding.

• 20:32Speaker 00

  And I warned them, I go, bro, they're putting out threats towards Americans. Be careful. We talked yesterday, he was like, oh my God, I have friends that are there or are planning on going there. And it's just, it's a bad situation. And by the way, it's not going to get better. The number two guy has already started and made a video saying, what's up? Here we go.

• 20:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom.

• 20:48Speaker 00

  It's getting a bit bad.

• 20:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, by the way, Tom's perspective here is probably very important for everybody to consider because the next 48 hours, anything could happen. Go ahead, Tom.

• 20:58Speaker 00

  So for all of us that are taking a look at this, we could talk about Trump and the FTO designation and all that went with it. We could talk about disruption to supply chain, tourism and all that. We could talk about all that. I think there's a lesson here. And the lesson here is if you cut the head off the dragon, you better be ready with plan B, who's gonna step in behind it and to manage it. And when you take a look at Iran, that's what I think we need to be worried about. And perhaps that's why there's been this slow buildup of all the military and they're trying to get around to the, to the, to the table. Cause you look over here, we haven't seen the confirmed deaths yet. There were deaths. There were deaths of citizens. There are deaths, almost certainly, there's been deaths of tourists down there. Oh, for sure. For sure. For sure.

• 21:43Speaker 00

  The shooting through there. We just don't have reliable media or anybody that's down there that to cover it. But you cut the head off the dragon, Pat, you better be ready for the consequence. Look what happened. Saddam Hussein was found in a hole with lice and the beard and he was just running for his life until they finally found him there. And all the crazies swept in in Iraq. Now you see what's going on. This is a narco state. This is it. And by the way, 119. You know what that is, Pat? Hmm. That's the number of days to the World Cup event in Jalisco.

• 22:14Speaker 00

  World Cup?

• 22:16Patrick Bet-David?

  That's right, Tom. Because it's, you're right.

• 22:20Speaker 00

  Oh, no way.

• 22:21Patrick Bet-David?

  You're right. It's all America. Finals is in, at the Jet Stadium, but it's, and I saw that. I saw the video. I kept asking myself, why are they showing World Cup event in Jalisco?

• 22:32Speaker 00

  Would you, would you wanna play or hold an event? As, hold on. As an American, would you, as a president, you'd let Americans go? We're targets right now. Are you kidding me? They know that Americans-

• 22:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Who is playing that game? Who is, which game would be in Jalisco?

• 22:47Speaker 00

  Oh, man. Yeah, I'm good, bro. Oh, free tickets, front row? Nah, I'm good. Right now, you have a power vacuum and you're gonna have two things in a power vacuum, Pat. A war among those who want to be number one, and then whoever steps up, he has to assert power. That is how it works in gangs. That's how it works in cartels. You're gonna have two or three guys, Pat, that are fighting to be number one, even if there's a designated number two, because there's an opportunity here. And there've been alliances with the cartels. Then, you're gonna find out, he has to do something ruthless- Kaiser Sose to establish his power. That's the way this works.

• 23:23Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, if this continues, the FIFA president, he is not a joke. He will cancel the games in Jalisco and move it to a different place in no time. This is horrible to the city. Imagine how many small business owners were relying on that game? Yeah, he will cancel and move to a different place.

• 23:39Speaker 00

  Infantino.

• 23:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, he will move it to a completely different place. Uh, uh, he's the one that gave that award to the president, uh, having to do with peace. I don't know if you remember that. He gave some kind of an award, the FIFA peace award. To the president in November 2025. Yeah, the FIFA peace prize that he gave.

• 23:55Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 23:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Um, yeah, and so I'm looking at it. It's gonna be one of the 32 matchups. So it could be anybody. It could be anybody, a major Latin American power. You know, it's most likely gonna be Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, some of those that could play there.

• 24:09Speaker 00

  Can I ask you a question though? Cause I just saw, Rob, can you put that headline of the, the president, uh, Scheinblum, of Scheinblum, whatever her name is from Mexico? For, for the president to say, using force against cartels would violate human rights. War on narco, not an option. It's clear to anybody that's paying attention that she's obviously connected with them. But my question is this, well, guys, here's the thing. Stay on that, stay on that. What is the difference with her saying that and what that cop was saying to El Mencho on it? There's no difference. There's no difference. So in fact, I want to ask you this question. You get them off us. Yeah, I want to ask you guys this question. We get involved with wars all around the world, you know, maybe Iran, Iraq, you name it.

• 24:51Speaker 00

  These people are touching our freaking Texas southern border. Do you think that this calls for something? And I can care less what anybody else thinks. Like, this is gonna have to get like, this isn't gonna stop. Are you okay with, uh, surgical attacks, boots on the ground? You have to, guys, you have to get them out, root and stem. You can't just keep killing the head guy because trust me, there's so many of them.

• 25:16Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, you know, you know, what that does is what you're saying right there. That's the. Is this a time to intervene or not to intervene?

• 25:24Speaker 00

  That's what I'm saying.

• 25:25Patrick Bet-David?

  So, but, but, but the part about to the, to the hundred percent isolationist mentality does not work.

• 25:32Speaker 00

  I don't.

• 25:33Patrick Bet-David?

  This is the part where, why Rubio is kinda going like this? And he's coming up to say, "Look, it depends." The answer is always what? It depends. So if, if we're neighbors and this is coming through to us, what do you want to do? So what do you do in a situation like this? Rob, maybe play this clip and then Adam, I'm coming to you. Go ahead, Rob.

• 25:51Speaker 02

  Presalar la guerra contra el narco no es opción.

• 25:54Speaker 00

  What?

• 25:55Speaker 02

  No es opción. Primero, porque está fuera del marco de la ley. Todos estos de la derecha que se llenan la boca de la palabra, o las palabras, estado de derecho, y defienden la guerra contra el narco. La guerra contra el narco está fuera de la ley porque como lo dije o lo he dicho en varias ocasiones, es permiso para matar sin ningún juicio.

• 26:25Speaker 02

  Y eso en México nadie, o muy poquitos están de acuerdo. Está fuera del marco de la ley. Y segundo, no sirvió de nada más que para aumentar los homicidios.

• 26:37Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you feel safer for the people that live in Mexico, listening to your president speak like this?

• 26:41Speaker 00

  Can I ask a question? If, what would in the United States of America, the cartel narcos be? I mean, like, because they're drugs and they're savages, they're maniacs. Let's say the KKK. Let's say that we killed one of the head guys of the KKK and now this guy, this guy is out right now, sending, all his people are burning down Coscos, shooting cops, doing all this. How would we respond? How would you respond? They're, they're terrorists. We go after them and you gotta get rid of all of them. You sound like Bibi Netanyahu. No, no, I'm sorry. They say the Mexican security forces are outgunned here. No, they're, they're outgunned. The Mexican security and the police. No, no, no, he's right. Don't you start killing people because they're terrorists. No, no, time out, Adam, time out, time out. Vinnie, finish your point. No, you're right, you make a, because you made a great point. The narcos outman-

• 27:24Speaker 00

  and outgunned the actual police and their military. So now, what are we supposed to do? Sit back? They're going to kill Americans if they haven't already killed them. You can't now sit there, help, take out the number one guy and sit here and be like, alright guys, figure it out. No, no, there's Americans there, there's people there, but like, you have to help at this point. You can't go in there- They attacked police squads and police buildings. That's a fact. We've seen it. We don't have the inside coverage, we don't have the full story. But we saw videos, they attacked and burned a police station. So they went straight to the headquarters and was like- Tom, they're murder- Tom, they're doing- they're pulling up, they're driving around, and I've seen the videos. They're shooting all of them. They're shooting cops. Look at, by the way, look at these guys. Guys, do you, you think this is military?

• 28:10Speaker 00

  This isn't military, guys. This is a freaking cartel. They look better than I- dude, I have a Call of Duty character that looks like that.

• 28:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that cartel or is that-

• 28:18Speaker 00

  That's cartel saying, "We're coming, what do you want to do? Let's go." That's them.

• 28:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Play the audio, Rob. Play the audio. Tom, can you translate?

• 28:34Speaker 00

  Your mother likes me?

• 28:41Speaker 00

  Arming up and saying, "Here we go." And I'm sorry, all the isolationists aside, this is, this is serious. And Trump has been saying this for how long? They're not sending their best, they're not- these guys are freaking- You think- I saw a video, I saw a video, and I had, again, I had to turn away. They, on their own people, they caught a guy, the narcos caught a guy that I guess was stealing money from them. They tied him to a tree, while he's still alive, they cut open his chest and they took his heart out, and he's still alive. This is brutality, bro. You don't mess with these people, uh, and you just walk away. No.

• 29:12Patrick Bet-David?

  How bad does this affect Mexico's tourism business? For how long? Like, by the way, you know what I'm thinking right now? I don't know if we're gonna go to Mexico the next five years as a family.

• 29:23Speaker 00

  Absolutely not.

• 29:24Patrick Bet-David?

  That thought is gone, right?

• 29:26Speaker 00

  I'll explain that.

• 29:27Patrick Bet-David?

  But I wonder like who is even thinking about right now? There's a girl that did a video saying, "I'm sorry, honey, you're worried about losing your $1,200 flight and your $2,000 hotel ticket? We're here. Shit's going down right now. People are getting killed. I'm not worried about your flight and your hotel that you had booked." She's talking like that.

• 29:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, people that had to cancel their plans. Well, Tulum, they've been telling people, am I correct, Adam? In Tulum for a year, they've been telling US tourists to be very careful specifically in Tulum. So this has been percolating in the background with danger to tourists.

• 29:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, well, if you are questioning whether we need a border, building a wall, well, here's example one. You brought up Trump. What was the first thing he came down? The escalator down and says, "They're not sending their best." You know, you know, the whole thing, Trump was right about everything. Well, this is numero uno to me, to me gente out there. So if you're gonna subscribe to the Don Ro doctrine and in the Western Hemisphere, priority numero uno is securing the southern border so we don't have Mexico creeping in to the United States and then up top in Canada. You know, the song that goes, "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am." We have narco terrorists to the south of us. We have Hamas sympathizers to the north of us. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you. The point is, we live in the greatest country in the world.

• 30:44Speaker 00

  And everyone here is like, "Oh, you know, ICE killed one person. Oh, my God." We see what's going on in Iran. We see what's going on in Mexico. We see what's going on in Europe. Like, you have to be an absolute idiot to not understand how great America is. You know, I brought up, you know, Pat, do you remember months ago I was like, "Do you know that eight of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the Western Hemisphere are in one country? It's called Mexico?" So I have, there's, I have no interest in going to Mexico at all. All my friends, they go to Cancun, they go to Tulum, they go to all these wonderful cities in Mexico. I go, "Dude, just go to Miami." You wanna go to?

• 31:28Speaker 00

  See Cuba, go to Little Havana. You wanna go see Venezuela, go to Doral. You wanna go visit people in Haiti, go to Little Haiti. Come to Miami if you want beaches. Unfortunately, if you wanna see Somalia, you gotta go to Minnesota for that. But we live in the greatest country in the world. We live in the best state in the world. We live in the best city in South Florida, in Miami. And this is what happens in Mexico? When you take out a narco terrorist, a drug dealer, this is how the country acts? No, thank you. And they caught, you know, they caught his son too. There's a video of his son on a helicopter, shirtless, uh, head down and they're pushing and he keeps trying to look out the window. So they captured him? I mean, they killed him and they got his son. So it's gonna be a very...

• 32:10Speaker 00

  I don't know how many sons he has, but this guy, El Mencho. So I don't know what El Mencho stands for, but if I'm just gonna say The Mensch. The Mensch, ironically, in Judaism means the most upstanding, incredible human of all time. The Mensch. But The Mensch's son, uh, apparently is sentenced to life in prison, serving time in DC. You can fact check that. His brother that goes by the name of Tony Montana, like from Scarface. He, Antonio, he's now apparently running the show over here, but only in Mexico.

• 32:44Patrick Bet-David?

  What is this?

• 32:44Speaker 00

  That's his son. See the guy with the shirt with his head down?

• 32:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 32:47Speaker 00

  That's allegedly, that's him, that's them with the son. And he's, look how nervous the pilot looks. By the way, only in Mexico can you grow up poor.

• 32:53Patrick Bet-David?

  The head down is the...

• 32:54Speaker 00

  The head down is the son.

• 32:55Patrick Bet-David?

  His son, El Mencho's son?

• 32:56Speaker 00

  That's his son.

• 32:57Patrick Bet-David?

  That they caught him?

• 32:58Speaker 00

  His other son.

• 32:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Who caught him?

• 32:59Speaker 00

  I think, I think that's our, that's their guys, their military.

• 33:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, it says Mexico on his shirt. Mexico has a son.

• 33:06Speaker 00

  That's from what I, that's, that's...

• 33:07Patrick Bet-David?

  That helicopter could get shot down at any second.

• 33:09Speaker 00

  Look how nervous he looked. Look at that face.

• 33:11Patrick Bet-David?

  The only reason it doesn't, it's because his son is there. So they're saying the next three that could replace him are Ricardo Ruiz Velasco, who is one, he's a Mexican cartel figure identified as senior commander in Jalisco, new generation cartel. He's one. The other one is Aldias Flores Silva. And he's also alleged a high ranking figure in the same gang, one of the most powerful gangs out there. Uh, also born in Michoacan. And then you have one, Carlos Valencia Gonzalez. Another high ranking guy, so one of those three they're saying could take over. Uh, the US department has a $5 million for information leading to his arrest. This guy here, Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez.

• 33:55Patrick Bet-David?

  So it'll be interesting what happens there, but as we continue and we move on.

• 34:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Iran situation is escalating very, very quickly. Everybody's asking, is it gonna happen today? Is it gonna happen tomorrow? Is it gonna happen this? By the way, would it be true? Would it be unlike Trump to do it while he's giving a State of the Union tomorrow night? Tuesday night? Can you imagine he's giving a speech and all of a sudden, boom? The attack takes place? And at the end, he says, by the way, check your phones. Iran has officially been this. We have Khamenei, we have this, we have that. They may or may not, it's a little bit too risky, but when you're looking at what type of... Did you see the B, uh, uh, the B-52, uh, uh, the... Which bomber was it that was flying in, Rob? There was a bomber that was flying in. I mean, every... They're literally sending everything over there.

• 34:47Speaker 00

  I know the picture you're talking about, that's our B-2s.

• 34:49Patrick Bet-David?

  The B-2 bomber, that one over there? Uh, zoom in a little bit, Rob. Yeah, the B-2 bombers that... Where did it go to, though? When it went to somewhere in the Middle East that it was seen. So at any point, anything could happen there. Let me go to the store here and we'll kind of read through it. Um, uh, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, which one should we go to, Rob? What page do we have the Iran news?

• 35:14Speaker 00

  Uh... That would be page 18 and 19.

• 35:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Page 18 and 19. Okay, so Iran regime squares off against student protests in the streets of Tehran. Death to Khamenei. So they're now saying death to Khamenei in Iran. They're, they're... Which is the complete opposite of, uh, death to America. The students are now wanting death to Khamenei. Go ahead, Rob, if you want to play this clip.

• 35:47Patrick Bet-David?

  This is Wall Street Journal reading this story with Iranian students protest as anger grows FYI this is kinda exactly what happened with Khomeini back in the days when Mohammad Azashapalavi they were doing the same exact type of protest and Rob is this the one from Wall Street Journal?

• 36:03Speaker 00

  It's just one of them, yes.

• 36:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, got it, so this leads to the Telegraph story. Trump could kill Ayatollah's son and senior molesters to topple Iranian regime. Tom, what do you think is gonna happen here?

• 36:18Speaker 00

  So I think this is gonna be surgical and I think they've got it planned. They've got the buildup there and I think Whitkoff said something over the weekend. He said, you know, they're not cooperating anymore in discussions and Whitkoff also said, I really fear that they do have the enrichment capabilities and Whitkoff has never said that. I went back and looked at Whitkoff. Whitkoff doesn't put these little things out there like that. This is not his style, this is not the way he did it. So for him to be saying, I believe that they have the ability to enrich the uranium, we've been trying to talk to them, they're no longer talking forthrightly, so when I see that, you know, we're giving them opportunity.

• 37:03Speaker 00

  Whitkoff's there, Rubio is behind the scenes, we're trying to get them to do the right thing, but we want the transition, we don't want to have Crazy 2 as a sequel to Crazy 1. So I think what's about to happen here, you can't allow the enrichment, but you gotta have a plan for succession. That's the issue, Pat. Those two things is what they're juggling. You gotta have a plan, you gotta get rid of the enrichment, you gotta go after the facilities, but then you gotta have a plan for succession. And I think they're doing everything they can to do both at once and they're gonna be pushed to the wall where I think they have to just go in and take care of the enrichment

• 37:44Speaker 00

  and just say, hey, don't F around because you look at those people, yeah, Khomeini is not polling well with the citizens there and unfortunately, we just have polls and elections here, they'll have polls and coups. So I think it's coming and I think it's hours away, not days away, I think it's hours.

• 38:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, yesterday Mario Nafal reported something from...

• 38:07Patrick Bet-David?

  A, a different ex that was saying Iran is now coming up saying we're willing to negotiate anything and everything. You know, what is it you want? If you want to extend, you know, nuclear development, if you want us to do this, we're open to it, just remove us from the sanctions. Now they're coming out saying, no, no, let's negotiate because apparently the last time when Whitkoff and Kushner went there to negotiate, I don't know if you heard what happened at the end. At the end, they're like, no, we're good. They walked out. No, no, no, no, no, no, this is it. Out. No more negotiation. They came, they made their offer, there was discussion, they said there's nothing else to discuss. They left, which means an attack is what a lot of people think is imminent. Rob, is this a recent clip?

• 38:52Speaker 00

  Yes, this was Friday from the president.

• 38:54Patrick Bet-David?

  What does he say in this clip here?

• 38:55Speaker 00

  That tells the Iranian people that time to negotiate a fair deal.

• 38:58Patrick Bet-David?

  They're not going to be doing that.

• 39:00Speaker 00

  It's what he said on Air Force One.

• 39:01Patrick Bet-David?

  I, I don't even think they want to, I don't think we, they, Trump's team wants to negotiate. I think they're done. I think they're past it. I think the whole, you, you know what it changes if they do negotiate with them? What, what quote is officially out the window? If they negotiate with them, what quote is out the window? A quote that's been used for decades? Go ahead. That it's out the window.

• 39:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, you're right.

• 39:25Patrick Bet-David?

  If you negotiate, guess what's going to happen 2028? I, I, I'm sorry, weren't you guys the party that said you never negotiate with a terrorist party?

• 39:32Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 39:33Patrick Bet-David?

  A, a, and you did. You negotiated with them. So now what? What are you going to be doing now? So there is a report yesterday that came up.

• 39:42Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, that, uh, that they're willing to come up and do something with them, but apparently nothing's been happened yet. Adam, your thoughts?

• 39:50Speaker 00

  Yeah, I don't see this ending well for anybody. Uh, tens of thousands of people have already died and I expect if something happens, it could get way worse. By the way, how brave are these protesters in Iran after knowing that their brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, family, parents, kids, all tens of thousands were murdered by the regime? And then they went out and protested again? Is that what's going on here?

• 40:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 40:15Speaker 00

  Imagine that. Put yourself in these protesters' shoes. They killed all their friends and they're coming back two weeks later is basically saying, "No, we can't stand for this." There's the most daylight in the world between the most brutal regime and the people that want freedom exists in Iran. So, number two, follow the money. How much money are we spending to have a fleet out there in the middle of the ocean? In the, uh, what sea is it? The Persian Gulf? What city is it? Okay. The Persian Gulf? How much money are we spending? If Trump doesn't do anything, we just spent billions of dollars to what? Show force? So, in my opinion, this something's gotta give here.

• 41:00Speaker 00

  Last but not least, follow the money. The economy of Iran is crumbling. I mean, they're already one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to the misery index, which basically tracks what? Unemployment and inflation? The people have nothing to live for at this point. The economy's in shambles. Half the people don't want to follow this ridiculous ideological religious regime. And they're just basically saying, "Please come help us." Now, Trump, you've said that help is on the way. So, what are you doing, President? Because, in my opinion, this 88-year-old Ayatollah, dude, he'll die a martyr, no problem. The question is, who's gonna come replace him? So, we'll see. But, I mean, it's easier said than done, Adam, and I think Tom made a great point, and we said it last week.

• 41:44Speaker 00

  Who's gonna, who's gonna take his spot? And who is the military going to listen to? Because those same people that we saw videos that they're driving, bro, you're not, we're not seeing a sliver of what's actually happening. What I've heard from people that have family there, Adam, they're shooting them in the streets and they're driving over them. I did see one video, I think me and Pat did, where one, a civilian finally was like, "You know the hell with it." And there was IRGC running in the street and he was running them over. So, it's a very difficult... Situation because okay and look what's happening in Mexico you take out the main guy then what the this is a huge thing that people are looking over don't get me wrong Adam I'm not an isolationist in this in the sense that if your whole thing is death to America not death

• 42:28Speaker 00

  to Adam Vinnie Florida America you know what that means everybody that's in this country if they were dead they'd be happy thems is fighting words okay so if you want the smoke you're gonna get it but when I say it's hard because you can't Adam think about this uh Tom's the main guy Tom's homany you take him out we're generals all of us who who do you think we're gonna listen to whoever the the uh Israel or the United States Wait which one of you decides it's gonna be number one That's what I was You two generals talked each other I'll be number one I have all the forces of the South I have the forces of the North it's like Pat was just talking about the list of cartel people waiting to flow in you think those guys are gonna play nice with each other every one of those wants to be the next Mencho

• 43:12Speaker 00

  That's the time I love it because you took the words out of my mouth you don't think Adam you don't think you're gonna be like wait who who are you to who said that you're gonna be in charge no but the US said that Pat's gonna be in charge You be dictator today I'll be dictator tomorrow No Adam so I get it something needs to be done but I mean ships are on the move I saw the USS was it Ford Tom Gerald Ford is in the it's

• 43:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob can you pull this up can you pull up what I just texted you please so this is very interesting from what Mario Nafal is reporting from uh uh Visioner if Rob if you can pull this is about geopolitics if you pull up take a look at what they're doing here with this so three area refuelers all taking off from Japan are now cruising at low refueling altitudes and doing the aviation equivalent of tiptoeing through the house at 3am avoiding every national airspace like they owe countries money refuelers don't do this unless they're babysitting someone important which brings

• 44:13Patrick Bet-David?

  us to the 4B 52 sitting in Guam the flying sledgehammers of US foreign policy possibly rolling out for little unscheduled travel in the direction of Diego Garcia America's favorite we're

• 44:28Patrick Bet-David?

  We're not saying we're preparing for something, but we're preparing for something, I learned, okay? So, when you see all of this stuff going on, you know, it's, and Adam to go and say that he promised he's gonna do it, that's what a lot of Iranians are saying, hey, you made the promise, you made the promise, but he never said I was gonna do it on your terms. By the way, here's John Kiriakou, the CIA officer who was the whistleblower on what he called a waterboarding many, many years ago, he did time for that, here's what he had to say, just a few days ago on Friday, go ahead.

• 44:59Speaker 00

  I have a friend, former CIA officer, who was at the White House this morning, talking to his friends, and he says that a decision has been made to attack Iran on Monday or Tuesday. The president yesterday gave the Iranians 10 days to, you know, accept our proposals for an end to their ballistic missile program, an end to their uranium enrichment program, an end to supporting groups in the Middle East like Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, but he's done this before. Well, he'll give you 10 days, he'll give you two weeks, and then he'll just attack two days into it.

• 45:42Speaker 00

  He thinks that that keeps people off balance. And so, he said that there are battle lines, that the anti-war forces are J.D. Vance and Tulsi Gabbard. He said that the pro- That's it. That's it. He said the pro-war people are led by Marco Rubio, and include Pete Hegseth, and now the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And I stopped him on that point this morning, and I said, wait a minute, I said, during the Iraq War, at the start of the Iraq War, the most stridently anti-war component was the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were always the last ones that wanted to attack, because they know what war is.

• 46:25Speaker 00

  He said, ah, but you forget Trump has replaced all of the Joint Chiefs this year, this past, in the past 12 months, which I had forgotten.

• 46:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, what do you think about what he said?

• 46:35Speaker 00

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• 49:32Speaker 00

  generals that were more interested in skirts, trans, and making the military into something else than they were in national defense. So it does not surprise me that the joint chiefs would think different to his point there. And I also believe what they're saying. You know, I don't think Rubio's a warhawk. Here come the comments, oh, you don't understand. No, I don't think he's war first, but I think he recognizes what has to be done here. And, you know, do I think the cabinet's split? Yeah, because you know what? I think Trump's got people on that cabinet that have a little tension with each other, that don't necessarily agree with people. And I think, you know, you value that as a leader, that you get perspectives in the

• 50:17Speaker 00

  room. Everybody tells you you're right all the time, then the day you're wrong and they're still telling you you're right, you're naked. So I... Adam. I hope what he's saying is, has some truth to it. Yeah, I don't know about his information or credibility. That's not what I'm worried about. Who I do trust are the Iranian people saying, Maghdad Ayatollah Khomeini. So we're all worried about who's going to be the next person up. I'm not worried about that. Because what are the Iranian people are asking, are they shouting, who's the next person? That will be figured out. The, the, by the way, in Miami, I've spoken to not 10, not 15, hundreds of Venezuelans. Every single one was like, dude, I don't care what happens next.

• 51:00Speaker 00

  Thank God we got done with Maduro. Every single person I know that is pure blooded, loves Iran, Persian, lives in America and all over the world, they're, yes, they're gonna figure out who they want next. They're saying, let's get done with this guy. Nothing changes if nothing changes. You have to take out the figurehead, the leader, the supreme leader. If he doesn't go, nothing changes. So we can debate who's next, who's the next person up. We have the convenience of doing that in our lovely studio in Fort Lauderdale. The people of Iran are calling for a change. Let's listen to them. No, and hold on, and I, I agree with the listening to them and whatever, but yeah, we could be in a studio, but we have to be smart in that, Adam, if you take out that head and another guy just like him comes in,

• 51:44Speaker 00

  everything that those people have been fighting for- That if they thought about that? Well, Adam- Give our military a little bit of credit. They're not like, what? We're gonna get a new leader in there? They thought of it- Look what they did in Venezuela. They basically took out the leader Maduro, and they're like, yeah, you work for us now, okay? The president of Venezuela is Marco Rubio. So you don't think they have something planned in Iran? I'm not saying they don't, I'm saying why is it taking so long? You know why? Cause I guarantee you the person that they thought- So long, it's been 47 years. No, no, no, no, no, no. You think this thing happens overnight? Stay to the point of when he said, well, help is coming and I'm gonna help you. Why hasn't, cause the Venezuela thing happened, brother, this has been going on for the, the entire administration. Why didn't he come in, Adam? Cause I guarantee you, the person- Hold on, let me finish. No, I, obviously, but the person that they thought-

• 52:28Speaker 00

  Venezuela is a small puppy compared to a- Adam, you brought up Venezuela. Let him finish, Adam, let him finish. Because you can't, Venezuela doesn't chant, death to America doesn't- have all the military everybody trying to kill us that's all completely different situation that Israel was easy small and now you're talking about Iran and you're talking about people that want to kill all of us so yeah it's a whole different situation what's your solution and Adam my solution is I don't know what their solution is because they obviously had a leader they obviously had a leader in in in mind he obviously is not the guy Trump even said about Reza Al Palavi he's not the guy you're not the guy so maybe do with Ayatollah Khomeini let's stay there okay ready for this Adam Adam let's get him let's put him in jail forever who's taking his spot another six months

• 53:11Speaker 00

  Adam who's Adam who's taking his spot since you know so much and we're sitting in the studio in beautiful Florida whoever it is is it gonna be worse than this clown says who how do you know um the people shouting death to Khomeini how about that okay about those people Adam that it's are you not are hold on let me just be very clear are you not listening to the protesters and what they're asking for are we not paying attention to them the forty thousand that forty thousand that died what what is the two words they're saying help us we need help that's not what they're saying yes they are they want help what is Maghba Khomeini

• 53:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Madik Bad Khomeini death upon Khomeini

• 53:44Speaker 00

  okay so that's what they're shouting yeah one protest you're talking about I don't speak Farsi one protest that was a protest maybe PBD how many protests are shouting those two words

• 53:53Patrick Bet-David?

  a lot it's it's

• 53:54Speaker 00

  okay that's their number one goal

• 53:56Patrick Bet-David?

  it's hundreds they're done with that by the way I want to show you something here Iranian foreign minister says US deal is still quite possible what's the date when was February twenty second yesterday yesterday meaning hey hey it's still possible look give us a call Whitkoff and Kushner is like no we're good we're out then put the other one up Rob

• 54:17Speaker 00

  you cannot trust these people

• 54:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Iran US talks Thursday Iran offered to ship out half of their uranium after years of will never stop enrichment they're negotiating how to get rid of it what happened US envoy Whitkoff on TV why hasn't Iran capitulated Iran's foreign minister because we're Iranian Iran also hinted they'll negotiate on Hezbollah Hamas missile still off limits so listen they're they're gradual you know what this is though Vinnie here's where it's at my take my take

• 54:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Sometimes, you know, you negotiate with somebody and you'll make an offer, you know they're gonna say what to? No to, cuz guess what you wanna do?

• 54:59Speaker 00

  You have a different option?

• 55:00Patrick Bet-David?

  No, you wanna attack. Cuz you, you, you already know your mind is made up. Do you really think this entire time US wanted to negotiate with Iran? Do you really believe they were convinced that you could negotiate with Iran? Do you know what would happen the moment they brokered a deal? Guess what they would do the next day? You know what highlight reel would be showing up? What do you think the highlight reel would be showing up? Of when Obama, the 150 billion dollar Iran and hey, all the Republicans that said, "Don't go negotiate with them and look what you did Obama", you are officially Obama. So don't criticize Obama. That's what I would do if I was on the other side. That's what I would do if I was CNN playing those clips. I'd be showing that clip the entire time.

• 55:40Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm convinced this entire time, they've known 90% where they stand. I think the president and his team, from six months ago to today, their position on Iran has changed 5 to 10%. Not 38% position that changed. 5 to 10%. What they end up doing here with this, what happens afterwards? Tom said it in the back and he said it again here. What happens when you take out El Mencho? What, what happens to Jalisco? What happens to Mexico? It's chaos. What's gonna happen if you take out? What do you call it? Bless you. What happens if you take out Khomeini and his sons and his people? There's only one big difference.

• 56:24Patrick Bet-David?

  You know what the big difference is? Here's the big difference. Massive difference. In Mexico, the difference is El Mencho and his group CJNG, they had bought all the cops.

• 56:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Where here, it's US coming in. And we're not bought by Iran. It's not like they're doing favors the other way around where it's like, hey, you guys better do what we're doing. I think they are shivering and the Iranian people are supporting it. In Mexico, what did Shine bomb the president say? No, leave it alone. Don't come here. So, I don't know.

• 57:00Speaker 00

  The rule of law.

• 57:01Patrick Bet-David?

  The rule of law. I think the world would be a better place with Iran toppling. Who replaces, they asked a question, Laura Trump asked a question from Witkoff. Rob, I don't know if you have that one when the name Reza Palavi came up. And he says, this is not a Reza Palavi, uh, uh, uh, uh, issue. Go ahead, Rob, if you want to play this clip. Go ahead. Well, there's that pressure. There's also pressure. Audio super low, so you gotta erase it. From their own people. Obviously, we've seen these major protests going on within the country. The exile of Crown Prince Reza Palavi has also laid out pretty clear steps as to how a transition of power might occur over there in his eyes. Has he been part of any of this? Have you guys had any conversations with him?

• 57:43Speaker 00

  Well, I've met him, um, at the direction of the president. And I actually, if you know, it's, it's public, it's, it's out there. I think he's strong for his country, cares about his country. But this is going to be president about President Trump's policies, not, not, not, not Mr. Palavi's, uh, policies. I think the president is interested in hearing everyone's views. He has no pride of authorship is maybe the, the best way for me to say it, which I greatly respect because he's open to new ideas and new ways of thinking.

• 58:12Patrick Bet-David?

  To move to Europe. There you go. So that, that, that's the part.

• 58:16Speaker 00

  What did he say essentially?

• 58:17Patrick Bet-David?

  He said, look, I met with them. The president has them, but Witkoff did, and he says this is public info. But this is not a Trump issue. This is not a Palavi issue. This is Trump's decision on what's going to be happening. I think the way it's looking like right now, Rob, can you find out when is Venezuela's next election? When is Venezuela's next election? When is Venezuela's next election? Let's see what the date is. Is it six months from now, three months from now, two months from now? When is their next presidential election? Because, wow, unless there's a political crisis. There's no constitution, there's six years, the last one's on 2020. Okay, so that means.

• 59:02Patrick Bet-David?

  So you know what that means? If it's in 2030, who the hell is in office in 2030? Who's president in 2030? We don't know. So how the hell do you control the point of contact, Tom, with that?

• 59:15Speaker 00

  Well, they have one caveat. Venezuelan law allows early election if there's an absolute absent of president. Death, resignation, removal, extraction.

• 59:27Patrick Bet-David?

  But by the way, which could trigger a new vote within 30 days? Hasn't happened. How long has it been? When was the Venezuela, when they took Maduro? What date was that? Was it December 20th? I don't know what date it was, but...

• 59:40Speaker 00

  This year.

• 59:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Was it this year?

• 59:42Speaker 00

  Was it January? When is it?

• 59:44Patrick Bet-David?

  What day did they take him out?

• 59:45Speaker 00

  There's so much that happened. I forgot the... So they could call one if they wanted, Pat. They could gather...

• 59:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Who's "they"?

• 59:51Speaker 00

  When was that? Well, the Venezuelan equivalent of parliament and congress. But right now, you've got...

• 59:58Patrick Bet-David?

  January 3rd.

• 59:59Speaker 00

  January 3rd. Happy New Year, Maduro.

• 1:00:01Patrick Bet-David?

  So it's been a month and a half. So then that means if they take out Khomeini, if they take out Pepe, if they take out all the people in Iran, how quickly will you have an election to replace it? That's...

• 1:00:13Speaker 00

  Election in Iran?

• 1:00:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 1:00:16Speaker 00

  Can I ask you a question on that?

• 1:00:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, go for it.

• 1:00:18Speaker 00

  Election in Iran seems like an oxymoron because let's look at case examples.

• 1:00:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Right.

• 1:00:23Speaker 00

  So what other free democratically elected rulers or countries in the Middle East? I got one, Israel. Any other Middle Eastern countries that practice democracy? We've seen what happens when we try to implement our worldview over there. It gets real ugly. So you have three options. Correct me if I'm wrong. You have supreme leader vibes, which is this complete theological, theocratic Shiite regime, which they seem to be done with. You have king or ruler, which was the Shah, or you have democracy. In my opinion, you have to go the middle version. They're done with the Shiite ruler. And there's zero case examples that democracy will work in the Middle East.

• 1:01:07Speaker 00

  We could wish for it, we could love it. Yes, you're gonna be just like America. I don't know if that's possible there. So maybe you need a temporary Shah, whether it's Recep Aby, whatever it is. But there's no evidence in the last 50 years that a democracy can work in the Middle East. You tell me, am I right, am I wrong? Thoughts on this, PBD?

• 1:01:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, no, the argument of people saying, you know, let them have an election, let them choose their president. Then if you take with the position you're saying, this isn't about let it fall and let's see who takes over. The way you're thinking, if they think the way you're thinking, they already have in mind, who's gonna take over to lead Iran? Do you understand what I'm saying?

• 1:01:52Speaker 00

  It's a mystery, a riddle in a quagmire, we don't know.

• 1:01:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you think the administration knows what they want to do? Or do you think the administration is also saying, let's just do the job and see what happens next?

• 1:02:03Speaker 00

  Sadly, I think there's a part that's like, guys, we don't know what. That's horrible. Okay, of course. We learned when we went into Afghanistan and Iraq that we don't know Sunni Shiite, Alawite, who's this, what's going on? Hezbollah, are they our friend? Hezbollah is now working, they're friends with these people, the proxies. It's so messy out there and it's so tribal out there. We have no clue what we're doing, but we know this one thing. Maghba Ayatollah, we know that.

• 1:02:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Benny, go ahead. What do you think? Do you think they know what happens after they execute their mission?

• 1:02:35Speaker 00

  Because everybody's attitude is, like Adams, which I understand, just get rid of the bad guy that's doing all the problems and the chaos. But it doesn't work that way. It's, you have to, dude, and I keep saying it. Besides the people, God bless them, they need it. The military and the people that are running everything, it's so important. You can't just plug them up. That's like somebody coming, taking Pat out, the board getting rid of Pat, and a new CEO comes in and they're like, well, they have. Different ideas, different things, it doesn't work like that, or they don't even have a CEO. Or the new CEO is gonna kinda be like Pat, but he's gonna have different agendas. No, bro, this is, this is so, that's why I think it's taking so long, cuz they don't know.

• 1:03:15Speaker 00

  They don't know. I'm all for Khomeini, death to America, the way he treats the women, the way he treats his people, the way he kills the people, and the way the military is doing it, shame on them. I agree with you, and we see this in election, you see it in free countries election. It's when the public is fed up, the voters are fed up, and all of a sudden, the voters do this. Anything but this. Yes. And guess what? That's how Mamdani got elected in New York. Affordability, rent problems, things that are happening in New York, and the middle class and the left side of it took enough independence with them, and Mamdani gets elected on anything but this. I'll give you free buses, I'll make the buses free. I'll give you free grocery stores, I'll make this free.

• 1:03:58Speaker 00

  Because in the face of everything, and the voters do it. We saw it happen here. What the people over there are saying is, "I am willing to protest", and they are brave souls right now, saying, "I am willing to protest even though I know what has happened to 30,000 to 40,000 of my countrymen. I am going out in the streets, I am gonna go here, and I, we want you to cut the head off the snake. We want anything but this." And that's what you're seeing. And I think if there was a clear path, we already would have intervened. The nuclear part of it is forcing our hand to move faster. And I agree with Pat, I don't think we've changed what we thought. He said, "Look, we're gonna try and do this, we're gonna try and talk to these guys, you're gonna do it", but they're not gonna do it. Ultimately, we're, we're gonna have to push them,

• 1:04:42Speaker 00

  and when the, when the nuclear capability gets too close, you know what we gotta do? We gotta cut the head off the snake. And I think that's right. There we are. And think about it, you're talking about nuclear capabilities. You take out Khomeini, Adam, who's running their nuclear program? By the way, we'll give you half the uranium, we'll give you half of it. Let me just be clear, you're kinda... Kind of saying just keep Khomeini there. I did not say that at all. Until we figure out a better option. No, no, no, no. So I'm trying to understand your point. You have to have a, you have to have a plan in place before you take out a country's number one guy. Of course you do. Or else, or else, nothing's gonna change. You know what the difference is between us and them? Biden and his administration crapped on this country and tried to destroy us, tried to destroy us. Just what we got to do. We got to go to the voting booth and he won in an, in an insane fashion.

• 1:05:27Speaker 00

  He won all the swing states. He won the popular vote. He won everything. They don't have that, that, that opportunity. They don't get to go vote. It's who's in charge and who's in charge. What I'm saying is Adam, he needs to go, yes. Why it's taking so long? They don't have the guy. They don't have the plan. And I'm pretty sure outside forces are like, just take him out already. Just kill him. You can't do that without a backup plan. That's it. I just have one last question. I know Pat wants to move. When you say taking so long, Trump's been in power for a year. Yeah. Okay, in this thing, this has been ongoing for how mu- how long, Pat? Forty-seven years? Listen, if it was easy, we would do it already. This is a very hard thing to do. Exactly.

• 1:06:05Speaker 00

  Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people will die. So I'm actually gracious and, and grateful that they're actually taking their time and not going in like idiots like George W. Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• 1:06:17Speaker 00

  I agree. I agree.

• 1:06:18Patrick Bet-David?

  All right, let's get to next story. Next story I want to get to is tariffs. Uh, Trump raises global tariffs to 15%. Obviously, we know what happened with Supreme Court, uh, ruling six-three against the tariffs. The president tweeted something, Rob, if you want to pull that up, Truth Social. Tom, I'm gonna come to you first on this one here. The one on the lower case, Rob, that, uh, we had, uh, this morning, we were looking at. So here's the president. Based on a thorough, detailed and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly-written, extraordinary, anti-American decision tariffs issued yesterday after months of contemplation by the US Supreme Court, please let the statement serve.

• 1:06:55Patrick Bet-David?

  That I, the President of the United States, will be effective immediately raising the 10% worldwide tariffs on countries, many of which have been ripping the US for decades without retribution until I came along to the fully allowed and legally tested 15% level. During the next short number of months, the Trump administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible tariffs, which will continue our extraordinary successful process of making America great again, greater than ever before. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Rob, there's another tweet as well that he did towards tariffs, if I'm not mistaken, that we were looking at this morning. No, not this one, not this one. Go back to that one, let me see what it says right there. My new hero in the United Supreme Court is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and of course,

• 1:07:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that they want to make America great again. So you know what he's saying there. Tom, where are you at with this now after the announcement that was made last Friday was sudden? What's he saying here, Rob?

• 1:07:54Speaker 00

  This is where it calls out Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.

• 1:07:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Whether people like it or not, never seems to happen with Democrats. They vote against Republicans and never against themselves. Almost every single time, no matter how good a case we have, at least I didn't appoint Roberts, who led the efforts to allow foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years to continue to do so, but we won't let it happen. The new tariffs, totally tested and accepted as law, are on their way. President Donald Trump. Tom, thoughts?

• 1:08:23Speaker 00

  So a couple of things here. First of all, in the midst of the cacophony, you had Rand Paul step up and said, "Look, we don't want a president to use executive order when the power of executive order isn't there." Because the precedent is, when we have a liberal president or somebody from the other side, you're going to get stuff coming back the other way. We have to do this orderly." But Rand Paul is not necessarily anti-tariff. So on one hand, I get it. I get that we don't want to use the executive order if there's not authority. However, on the other side, we have been doing nothing. And what President Trump showed was leadership on tariffs, which I agreed with.

• 1:09:07Speaker 00

  We got people to give us trade deals. We got people that come to the negotiating table and got things shifted. That he's right for. We had decades. Certain industries were disadvantaged and our own government didn't care about our own people in our own industries that were going through it. And Trump went out and did it. Now, what I don't like is the politicization with ignorance. And the politicization with ignorance is the Dems and the liberals that think, ha, ha, we stopped Trump. Wait, what did you stop? The tariffs have been working. There was not rampant inflation. CPI came out and it was point one, 2.3 and 2.4 year over year.

• 1:09:50Speaker 00

  You have to give a leader the ability to lead. And what's happening here is what's behind the scenes. The globalists and the liberals want this one world government. They don't want leaders to lead from a sovereign position. And so they're trying to stop him. But what you're seeing with Trump is he's trying to lead. And it's very tough for a leader to lead in a committee environment. And that's exactly what you have in government. And he's trying to sit down, get to certain points and push them. And so the Supreme Court decision disappointed me because I read it and I believe that there is executive order capability in the area of tariffs. They're saying no.

• 1:10:34Speaker 00

  But Scott Besson has been saying for a year that they have other tools. To me, it's not that they have other tools to get it done. They're going to get it done for our economy. He's not going to give up. The issue is we've got liberals that think it's a good thing that you've incapacitated your leader from making good decisions for your country to right wrongs that have been going on for decades. And you don't like him, so anything but him. That's the part that sickens me. The part that sickens me is no one is looking at the success we've had on trade, Pat. No one's looking at the success we've had negotiating with people. It's just anti-Trump. And that's the part that just pisses me off.

• 1:11:15Patrick Bet-David?

  I want you to see this clip and I'm coming to you. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:11:17Speaker 00

  Justice is fortunate and fair. Are you surprised in particular by their decision today?

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• 1:13:58Patrick Bet-David?

  I think it's an embarrassment to their families. You want to know the truth, the two of them. Yeah. And he started soft and in his mind, he says, Trump, go. It's an embarrassment to their families. So at first he was soft. Vinny, where do you stand?

• 1:14:12Speaker 00

  Well, I mean, like, honestly, is anybody out there surprised? It's been an uphill battle, to say the least, from 2016 with Russia, Obama spying, fast forward all the way to shooting him to even trying to win for America. And it's not like it's not working. How many billions and billions of dollars? We're freaking coming back. We're coming back. And it just drives me crazy that even when you try to say, Tommy, Republican, it's like, enough already. Can we just, the guy's doing a fantastic job. Yeah, I have some criticizing points on some other stuff, but like, what are we, what are we doing? It's working. We're respected. The money's starting to come in time. You talked about the numbers with the percentages and everything's coming back.

• 1:14:56Speaker 00

  It's like, give me a break. When is enough? When's it going to stop, Pat? When are they going to say, okay, listen, you're the president, we trust you at this point. Go, go do it. Let me see, let me see the, let me see the breakdown. Let me see the case study. Oh, you made us $300 billion? Okay, keep doing your thing. They're respecting us. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, on April 1st, the market goes down and then the market comes back all the way through the year, comes back, CPI comes out, there was not rampant inflation. Does the liberals want to come to the microphone and say, oh, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I said there'd be rampant inflation because of his tariffs. It didn't happen. Oh, we got trade deals done for a number of industries. I said that would never happen. Oh, wait, gosh, it, it didn't. Look at this, there's success on it that no one wants to talk about.

• 1:15:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Here's, here's my concern with this is when your president that you voted for is in.

• 1:15:45Patrick Bet-David?

  You support executive orders, you know, whatever he wants to do, right? When you're president.

• 1:15:52Speaker 00

  The president you voted for is doing executive orders?

• 1:15:53Patrick Bet-David?

  The president you voted for, you probably align with his ideas, what percentage? Say 90%?

• 1:15:59Speaker 00

  Probably 90%.

• 1:16:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, alright, so you want that.

• 1:16:02Speaker 00

  Go make decisions, I elected you.

• 1:16:03Patrick Bet-David?

  And remember, you can celebrate it when you're president, until the other side gets elected.

• 1:16:08Speaker 00

  Of course.

• 1:16:09Patrick Bet-David?

  My, my biggest trust in the system and the constitution came when I found out what the most powerful community is in DC, and that's the Supreme Court.

• 1:16:20Speaker 00

  Of course.

• 1:16:21Patrick Bet-David?

  We learned this during COVID, we learned this the last eight years, it's the most powerful. So check this out, since 1700s, 1789 or so, 165 formal Supreme Court nominations have happened. How many of them you think got rejected that didn't make it? 165, how many didn't make it after the hearing, after the senate hearing? 165, how many didn't make it?

• 1:16:46Speaker 00

  165 got in. Well, there've been a few, I mean, Bush had one that blew up, and he had to pull it back. Merrick Garland didn't make it, right? Bork, Robert Bork, got blown up.

• 1:16:57Patrick Bet-David?

  How many do you think, out of 165, what, what do you think the number is? Is it high, is it low, is it?

• 1:17:01Speaker 00

  I think it's probably 20, I'll guess.

• 1:17:03Patrick Bet-David?

  20, 37. That didn't make it through, right? That didn't make it through.

• 1:17:07Speaker 00

  Basically, there's a high bar.

• 1:17:08Patrick Bet-David?

  So, do you know why, do you know why that's important to me? Because imagine if all of a sudden Kamala doesn't get any other job, and they nominate her to be a Supreme Court. How do you think she's gonna vote when it comes down to different ruling and, you know, off the ballot in Colorado? You have to really make sure this is not an evil person. I don't know if you understand what I'm saying. You have to really be thinking, so to me, a bigger part of this is more a 50-year thing than a short-term. When I was with Rand Paul, Rob, if you want to pull up the interview with Rand Paul, how long ago was this when we were in DC?

• 1:17:42Speaker 00

  Two weeks ago?

• 1:17:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Was it two weeks ago, three weeks ago?

• 1:17:44Speaker 00

  Yep, three weeks.

• 1:17:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Watch this, go ahead, Rob. Against us, I want him to have it, my concern is, if Supreme Court takes that away from him, that power away from him, which, he keeps bringing it up, which means they may do it, they may say no, and then we lose the revenue that we're getting.

• 1:17:58Speaker 00

  Well, it's not a matter of taking it away from him, the constitution's pretty explicit, taxes originate in the House, have to go to the senate, it specifically even mentions duties and levies, it, it mentions tariffs in the constitution, says that they are in the prerogative of the House. Even the Senate can't. We're not supposed to initiate tariffs. Only the House does. Comes to the Senate, goes to the President. It is a tax. A tariff is a tax. And it never was the prerogative of the President. Now, some legislation has tried to give him that power. But what he's using is something called IEPa, which is an emergency legislation. And it doesn't mention anything about tariffs.

• 1:18:33Patrick Bet-David?

  You think Supreme Court is gonna rule against him?

• 1:18:35Speaker 00

  If they follow the law, they absolutely will rule against him.

• 1:18:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Boom. You gotta be kidding me.

• 1:18:39Speaker 00

  Yeah, because the law is explicit. And so he will try to use other reasons for how he can use tariffs. But it's also very chaotic. I mean, you know.

• 1:18:48Patrick Bet-David?

  You're impossible right there. So this is Rand Paul saying this two and a half weeks ago. When he said it, he says if they follow the law, they will rule against him. Adam, thoughts?

• 1:18:57Speaker 00

  Well, thank you for interviewing Rand Paul, because once he basically said that, I was like, oh, they're gonna strike this thing down. Because in my opinion, you know, we need to make great again? Congress. We need to make Congress great again. There was a time where Congress actually did their job. But we're living in such partisan times that they can't even do anything. So Trump has to do things like this. So if I'm a massive, massive MAGA Trump fan, here's how I'm thinking. Trump's doing the right thing. He's American, America great again. We're gonna impose reciprocal tariffs. They're gonna pay. We've had, what, 2% tariffs in all these countries? We're putting it up. You know, we busted out that whole chart. I love my charts. You know, the EU, they're gonna pay 39%. Vietnam, they're gonna pay 90%.

• 1:19:40Speaker 00

  Taiwan, 64%. Japan, 46%. India, 52%. One by one by one by one, they were all paying 2%. So now he basically put it down to what, 15% now? But Rand Paul's right. Because what goes around, comes around. And he said, to give this example, God forbid, President Communist AOC shows up and wants to start implementing a socialist agenda. What then? All the progressives are gonna say, exactly, this is what we voted for. And all the people with common sense are gonna be like, uh-uh, uh-uh. So I said on the last podcast, thank God this was 6-3 and not 5-4, because Trump, of course, is attacking the judges that.

• 1:20:22Speaker 00

  Didn't side with him, but what's the, you know, Article 1 of the Constitution? All legislative powers are granted to the Congress of the United States. They have the power to make the laws, to declare war, which they haven't done since World War II, even though we've been wars all over the world, to levy taxes, which are basically tariffs, and to confirm judges, like you just mentioned, and cabinet members. So, totally understand why Rand Paul, where he's coming from, because we respect the rule of law, he basically said, in defense of our republic. But I also understand why people are pissed. Trump's doing the right thing. Trump's basically imposing these reciprocal tariffs. Unfortunately, nobody wants to say the quiet part out loud, that this has costed the average American household about a thousand bucks per household.

• 1:21:05Speaker 00

  So, you know, you get what you pay for, you know, you wishful thinking.

• 1:21:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Pritzker came out and said, "Send this cost the average American 1,700 bucks, send them back 1,700 dollars. Cut the checks." Here's what, what's his name have to say? Rob, if you want to go to the Kevin O'Leary, go for it.

• 1:21:21Speaker 02

  It's great to see you. So, this has got to be a pretty big day in your world. What has the reaction been?

• 1:21:30Speaker 00

  It's not a great day for me. We were humming along nicely until this morning. Here's what's happening on the ground. I know you've been talking about the politics and the policy, but let's talk about a business making 100 million dollars in sales. It might have paid out 5 million in the last 14 months on these tariffs. They're in my portfolio. I got phone calls from our customers, from our lenders, because we bore it against our line of credit, and from our shareholders that we reduced distributions on during this period, waiting to settle on the tariffs. They all want their money back. Now, to be compliant, what am I supposed to do? I don't even know what, how this is going to get filed. It's going to be with Treasury, not the IRS, I assume.

• 1:22:13Speaker 00

  I'm going, so I'm going to try and get a meeting with staffers, best of staffers, when I get to the State of the Union next week, to see if they can give me some guidance, because my head's getting squeezed. From the top and the bottom to be compliant and every business in America is going through this right now. There are people that want their money back within the distribution shareholder and lender system. And for me, and I'm telling you right now, you're the first to hear it. I'm setting up a resource called wondertrust.com, hiring if not hundreds, thousands of accountants and lawyers because I don't know how else to be compliant. And I'm going to use them with my companies. We're just, what else are we supposed to do? Because everybody wants their money back. And I wish, I don't know what the policy is going to be on that. It's not a great afternoon for me to be honest with you.

• 1:22:57Speaker 00

  Do you feel like you?

• 1:22:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom.

• 1:23:00Speaker 00

  Well, you see the waterfall effect. Everything's got consequences. And so now what they're talking about is, is there going to be a tariff refund for all the companies that have paid for that? You know, that money, so in other words, let me translate tariff refund, folks. The government basically issues money. We used to say print money, but government just takes on more debt, pays everybody back on the tariffs. We take two steps back on balancing the budget. The can gets kicked down the road and we are sitting there in a worse economic position long-term. Trump is trying to turn the corner on this. There's so much to it. And, and you know, Kevin O'Leary is right.

• 1:23:42Speaker 00

  You know, here he is, an investor, he's trying to help companies be compliant with the laws and what they're going to do. And he's got some people that are screaming, I want my money back. And he's saying, well, then how do we do this? How do we hand it over? Washington doesn't know and doesn't understand what it's, what it's doing. The liberal side don't understand the impact they have on American businesses, even though the Supreme Court has ruled the way Rand Paul thought they would rule on the rule of law. It, you know, tariffs are a tax, therefore taxes only come from Congress. End of story. It's such a bigger issue here about leadership in America and allowing the president to govern.

• 1:24:22Speaker 00

  There was a time where we could come together across the aisle, where Tip O'Neill would sit with Ronald Reagan in the Rose Garden and have lunch once a week and talk through things for the good of the country. Well, right now you have certain people that are worried about the good of the country and it's the conservatives.

• 1:24:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, you know, I said this to you this morning, is, and I don't even know what other way to say it. I don't know if Trump's wiring is built.

• 1:24:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, for the speed of our system in America. I, I, I don't think it is because.

• 1:24:58Speaker 00

  Well, his speed work negotiating with other countries.

• 1:25:01Patrick Bet-David?

  It did, but, but can you imagine like you're working in a company? That you're working faster than the company is working. So we, we, we're accustomed to the startup environment. If we want to make a decision, how quickly do we make a decision here? Like this, we make a decision. How quickly did we make a decision in PHP? Like this, we make a decision, change the comp, do this, do that. We're going here, we're doing that, right?

• 1:25:21Speaker 00

  Give me the facts, let's process, let's go.

• 1:25:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Now you go to a company, you got board approval. You gotta go through this, you got, which by the way. So America's got multiple layers of board. A company typically has one board.

• 1:25:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:25:35Patrick Bet-David?

  So you have to go sit down with the board. You got seven, nine, 11 people and say, guys, here's what I think we need to do. Let's vote for it. I think we make this investment and buy the company for 188 million dollars. Five, four voting against it. What are you talking about? Da, da, da. Here, Congress, then Senate, then, so what, what? By the way, on, on, Rob, can you ask the question? According to the constitution and our system. If the president did take all the tariffs for the different countries he imposed through Congress and Senate, what is the fastest and slowest it would take for them to get approved? Do, do you know what question I'm asking?

• 1:26:18Speaker 00

  Each country?

• 1:26:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so I want to know if, okay, great. We follow the system because that's the great thing about America. You're following the system. If we did follow the system, according to the constitution. Uh, uh, what does it say? Short answer, a president doesn't even. You know, because Congress already has delegated part of its authority through existing trade laws. The speed depends on how long the, it gives Congress power to regulate commerce and set tariffs. But over decades, Congress passed laws that delegate limited tariff power to the president, which is why the president, I know, but that's the 10 to 15. But I'm talking about above the 15%. You saw the president that just raised it from 10 to 15.

• 1:26:58Speaker 00

  Well, this is a slow path. New tariffs require full Congress. legislation. We know what's gonna happen there.

• 1:27:03Patrick Bet-David?

  So go to the slow path.

• 1:27:04Speaker 00

  Inflation bill with a bunch of other crap packed into it.

• 1:27:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Go, go lower route to see what the slow path would be? Keep going lower? Slow path. Okay, number one, bill introduced to the House or Senate. Two, committee hearings and markups. Three, majority vote on House, majority vote on Senate. President signs. Realistically, months to years?

• 1:27:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:27:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Are you kidding me? Like, what do you?

• 1:27:24Speaker 00

  How long did the big, beautiful bill take?

• 1:27:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you understand? By the way, eh eh, can you, can you flip the question? And ask, well, how long, just flip the question, copy paste the question and ask? And just replace it instead of America put China or Russia?

• 1:27:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Change the country from US to China or Russia? On how long it would take?

• 1:27:47Speaker 00

  Twenty-four hours.

• 1:27:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, that, that's the point though. China's system works very differently against under the fastest and slowest tariffs. Who controls the formally trade and tariffs are sits under the state. General, the state council, custom tariffs, oversight. Fastest way to men's approval under authority. If there's a frame, okay, how fast? Days to weeks, okay? What about slow? Slowest way? Majority and long-term alignment of usually months, sometimes longer. But it doesn't say months or years. So our system, even if he wanted to go through. By the time they get to to vote would be midterms. And then even if it passes through.

• 1:28:27Patrick Bet-David?

  So, all I'm saying is, for a person that comes from the business background that's used to dealing with speed. The speed of getting tariffs done is way too slow in America. Way too slow. Do you understand what I'm saying?

• 1:28:42Speaker 00

  Yeah, totally.

• 1:28:43Patrick Bet-David?

  I, I totally get it. And, and it's great. Uh, some would say, thank God it's slow. Some would argue and say, thank God it's slow because, you know, you're happy when certain things are fast, but you're, like, remember day one, we're gonna sign an executive order, we're gonna sign an executive order. So then moving, moving forward, you almost have to sit there and think about when a president says, we're about to sign an executive order, you gotta sit there and say, listen. Supreme Court, how's the Supreme Court gonna be ruling? Again, it all goes back to how powerful the Supreme Court is.

• 1:29:12Speaker 00

  Yeah, they are.

• 1:29:13Patrick Bet-David?

  The Supreme Court is the board of directors. It's the board of the USA.

• 1:29:19Speaker 00

  Yeah. And thank God we have them, whether we like them or disagree.

• 1:29:23Patrick Bet-David?

  I, I, listen, I'm telling you, I love it.

• 1:29:24Speaker 00

  Remember when Biden wanted to allegedly pack the court? We're like, what does that mean? What's gonna happen here? By the way, you know who looks incredible right now? Maybe the, the, the biggest win of his career is Rand Paul. He said it on the PBD podcast. He said, straight up, I expect them to shut this down because they're gonna, uh, in defense of our republic. I'm not saying you're gonna agree with them or, or disagree with them, but he called this.

• 1:29:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, yes. Okay, all right, let's get to the next thing, guys. Something about the future being, uh, looking bright. Forty-six years ago, on the day, the US hockey team won, and they won again yesterday. In the cra- Rob, can we show the clip? Or what is, what is the, uh, of, of the way they scored a goal? Can you show it or no? And kind of, you're, you're playing with fire a little bit, right? They may take our medals away if they do that as well.

• 1:30:13Speaker 00

  If you show it on X pan and we talk over it, cuz that goal, it was a three on three.

• 1:30:17Patrick Bet-David?

  It was on three on three. He gives the pass and then all of a sudden, boom!

• 1:30:21Speaker 00

  When you hear it, when you hear the crowd.

• 1:30:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Celebration, missing tooth, the right way, Rob. This is a, let her, let her rip, let her rip. We'll return our, uh, medals here.

• 1:30:30Speaker 00

  I'll talk a little bit over it.

• 1:30:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Just lower the audio maybe, just lower a little bit.

• 1:30:34Speaker 00

  Just wanna celebrate, Rob.

• 1:30:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Get up, boom! There you go, buddy.

• 1:30:39Speaker 00

  Teeth all over the friggin' ice, let's go.

• 1:30:41Patrick Bet-David?

  There you go.

• 1:30:42Speaker 00

  And it was a low wobbler.

• 1:30:43Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, to make it even better, against who?

• 1:30:46Speaker 00

  Canada!

• 1:30:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh my God, that's even Justin Trudeau is somewhere making babies with Katy Perry. I heard they said they were half expecting it first. Rob, can you go to the interview this fellow did? Uh, uh, uh, what's his name? Just go to my Twitter account if you go to it.

• 1:31:01Speaker 00

  He's lost teeth, he's lost, dude.

• 1:31:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, uh, uh, keep going, that's the one right there. Uh, let me get his name right. It's, uh, I wanna get his name, but go to his account cuz I tagged him as well. Jack Hughes, right there, I said, go follow the man.

• 1:31:13Speaker 00

  Only fifty-two dollar followers, get on there.

• 1:31:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Go to the clip, Rob, watch this.

• 1:31:18Speaker 00

  I, I love the USA, I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong, and we have so much support from ex-players. And I'm so proud to be Americans today.

• 1:31:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's go!

• 1:31:31Speaker 00

  This was, bro. This was such an incredible game to grind out. I mean, you're bleeding right through it just looking at you right now. Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal was to win?

• 1:31:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Unbelievable game by Hellebuyck. He was our best player tonight by a mile. Unbelievable game. Unreal game by our team. That's just a ballsy gutsy win. That's American hockey right there. Let's go. That's a great Canadian team, but we're USA. We're so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country. I love it. What does this gold medal mean to USA hockey? It's everything. Like I said, the USA hockey brotherhood means so much. Look at these guys. We're such a team. We've been together for two weeks. We're such a team. The USA hockey brotherhood is so strong and we're so proud to win. Rob, can you go to the link I just sent you? And then Vinny, I'll come to you. In one of the interviews, the two brothers, okay? Have you seen this, Vinny, or no? The two brothers that are be- The Kachuk brothers? Yeah. Which brothers? Look, go- No, I haven't seen it.

• 1:32:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, have you seen this clip? Rob, make it big. So these brothers, look at them. They're on the team together, but they were interviewed about playing together one day. Look, look what he says. Watch this, go ahead, Rob. What's the thought of playing against your brother in the NHL someday? I'd be quite. My preference would be to play with him if he's so good. I mean, just to be able to both of us, the three of us, have a chance to play in the NHL. Can you imagine how the parents feel? That would just be unbelievable, so. Look at that right there. That's the dream, baby.

• 1:32:55Speaker 00

  Oh, man.

• 1:32:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Vinny, your thoughts?

• 1:32:57Speaker 00

  I just, I absolutely love it. Like, again, I don't, I'm not, I've lost a lot of passion for, for sports because I personally think it's a big distraction with all the other stuff that's going on. But when it's something like this and it's America winning in this fashion and somebody that's actually proud and on foreign land, talking about how great this country is and how amazing this place is, and it feels amazing that it's against Canada. I don't know if you know this, Pat, you know, they were so heartbroken that Canada put their flag, like, flag at half mast. Did you see this, Adam? Did he do it? This is Canada- Oh, yeah, there it is. -put their flag at half mast.

• 1:33:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that really their flag?

• 1:33:31Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's the Canadian flag. That's the Canadian flag. They changed it, they're upset, because they're so upset, but I mean-

• 1:33:37Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, I mean, with Justin, I can see that being his flag.

• 1:33:39Speaker 00

  Yeah, with Justin, yeah.

• 1:33:40Patrick Bet-David?

  But by the way, for what it's worth, since some people, rumors speculating, him and Katy Perry are expecting a baby.

• 1:33:46Speaker 00

  Congratulations.

• 1:33:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Congratulations.

• 1:33:48Speaker 00

  Who's the one that's pregnant?

• 1:33:50Patrick Bet-David?

  She's pregnant.

• 1:33:51Speaker 00

  Oh, it's her? Okay, cool. Just double checking. Science, but no, but I think it's, I think it's a great, great win. We have the women's that won, and now we have the men that won. What is a woman, if you ask Canadians, they don't know. But, no, I think it's great, and I think what a classy move, and the fact that the president called them. Did you see how long that spe- oh, wait, Rob, which is the pla- can you, you know, one of their teammates died in a car accident, and there's, the teammates go and grab their kids, his kids, and bring them on to the ice.

• 1:34:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Stop.

• 1:34:18Speaker 00

  Rob, if you could find, look, this is, you want to talk about tears? This guy, play this, Rob. Dylan Larkin and Zach Wierenski have gone into the stands to go get Johnny's kids. Johnny Gudrow's kids. They're gonna come out now.

• 1:34:33Speaker 00

  They bring their dads out to take the photo with them. With the gold medal team. Oh, my goodness. This is Johnny Gudrow. He played a long time for the Calgary Flames. And he died in a- He died. In a car- He and his brother were cycling. They were struck by a drunk driver, were killed. He was only about 30 at the time, and these are his kids out there. Look how cute she is, she's smiling. He played with USA National Team, and he was one of the most successful players in US National Team history. Wow, wow.

• 1:35:02Patrick Bet-David?

  That's so beautiful, man.

• 1:35:02Speaker 00

  That's so amazing.

• 1:35:04Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, don't you, don't you just see this and say, I'm so proud to represent you, to buy your jersey, to have your kids want to wear it, to have your kids celebrate guys like this? This, these are the people that we need to turn into heroes, man.

• 1:35:16Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 1:35:17Patrick Bet-David?

  How amazing is this story? Unbelievable. Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:35:21Speaker 00

  Well, I feel bad for Canada. You know, this is a religion in Canada, hockey, and they just can't figure it out. By the way, if you go to the NHL, I know we went to the Stanley Cup, to a few games. The last five Stanley Cups, two have been won by Florida Panthers. I think Colorado and Vegas won, and then Tampa Bay won that. So Florida dominates the NHL. Speaking of the NHL, when's the last time a Ca- Canada invented hockey? This is their religion. This is our baseball, basketball, and football, all combined into hockey. Okay, you know the last time a Canadian team won? 30 years ago. It was the Montreal Canadiens. They won in 1993. The majority of our players on the USA team weren't even born yet.

• 1:36:01Speaker 00

  The, the, the, the team that originated, uh, Canadian hockey was the, um, Toronto Maple Leafs. The last time they won was 1967. And that's been, when, who was alive in 67? None of us. What's, Tom, were you reborn? Yes, I was. Okay, Tom was there. It's the longest drought in NHL history. So to, to say that this is like, just the, the icing on the cake to how great of America is. And Canada is just weird and woke.

• 1:36:33Patrick Bet-David?

  First you're rubbing it in that Canada hasn't won one. Then you ask his age, you know, his family's Canadian, you know, the issue with age. I mean, it's like, at least do one, not the double.

• 1:36:45Speaker 00

  I was just wondering if he remembers the game. That's all I wanted to know.

• 1:36:48Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm going to transition to a different story. Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one. It's going to be California. So California, by the way, the governor came out and publicly, his campaign, I think it's called 960. Uh, because he, he, he, he told in front of a group of African Americans that he got an SAT score, 960, and that he's not smart like everybody. And he says, if his speeches were written, he wouldn't be able to do it. And, uh, the only thing he was missing in this video is a hot sauce in his pocket to pull out and say that he carries with himself all the time, but that's somebody else's shtick. Rob, go ahead and play this clip. Go for it.

• 1:37:24Speaker 00

  I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you. I'm no better than you, you know? I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. Oh, my God. Literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot, you, you've never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech.

• 1:37:58Speaker 00

  Maybe the wrong business to do. What is he talking?

• 1:38:04Speaker 00

  Okay, can we, in this room, everybody, whatever you're doing at your house, you're in your garage, you're making coffee, do you understand, a white man is in Georgia, sitting on stage with a black man who is the mayor, Andre Dickens, and he's basically slowing down his speech and saying, like, "I'm dumb like y'all. Like, I barely passed the SATs, because I'm dumb like y'all." Like, and it, this is the Joe Biden, "If y'all don't get to decide whether you need to vote for me or Trump, you ain't black." And I'm, I'm, I'm at my wit's end with the black people that are out there, in that room, and all across, the Charlemagne, the gods, and all these losers, like, when are you gonna step up and say, "This is absolutely appalling,

• 1:38:49Speaker 00

  and it's racist"? And I hate to be the guy to be like, "If it was the other side," but if it was the other side, if a gov-, name a Republican governor, go ahead, Tom, name a Republican governor. DeSantis. If DeSantis was on stage with a black mayor from, from Georgia, and was like, "Man, I'm, I'm like y'all," huh, and he's throwing in the, huh, like, like he's a preacher, like a black preacher, where's the outrage? Where's the outrage?

• 1:39:11Patrick Bet-David?

  You don't think he was being sincere?

• 1:39:13Speaker 00

  No, this is pandering. Hold on. This is racist pandering.

• 1:39:16Patrick Bet-David?

  You don't think this is sincerity, Tom?

• 1:39:17Speaker 00

  No, but, but, it drives me crazy, think about it, Schumer and the Democratic Party don't think black people know how to get an ID to vote. Kathy Hochul, remember when she said, "Black kids from the Bronx don't know what a computer is," and then with Joe Biden, and now this guy, and the, and the black community is quiet. How, how are you sitting on the sideline, if, Pat, if I was black and I was in that crowd, I would've stood up, and been like, "Wait, wait, what, what are you talking about?" I would've been kicked out of that room. I would've been kicked out. But beyond pandering, Tom, he's basically saying, "Guys, I'm stupid too. You're stupid, I'm stupid, I don't know how to read, like you got," no, Adam, that's basically what he's saying is, "Hold on, let me do the leg fold, because he, his crotch is gone," he's like, "I'm, I eat mac and cheese,

• 1:40:02Speaker 00

  I'm from the..." Good. I'm stu- I'm stupid. You know what I mean? Like y'all, I don't know how to read a speech. So you mean to tell me the governor of California can't read? That's what he's saying. If you can't read a speech, you can't read anything. And I'm sorry for being- Yeah. Pat, it drives me crazy because none of them say anything.

• 1:40:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me, let me show you clip and then Adam, Tom, I'm gonna come to you guys.

• 1:40:22Speaker 00

  Oh my god, bro.

• 1:40:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, show the clip when the reporter is asking him about cost of living in California and how he answers. Go ahead, Rob. This is CNN.

• 1:40:32Speaker 02

  California has the highest cost of living in the nation. The state's prices are 11% higher than the national average. We were actually out to dinner here in Nashville last night. We met a couple from California. They moved out of California because they couldn't afford the rent or even to buy a home and also start a family.

• 1:40:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, we've had hundreds of thousands of people move in California. Last two, three years, we've seen population growth. As you know, we moved from sixth to the fourth largest economy in the world. We dominate now in every key industry from AI, quantum, robotics. We dominate in ag. We dominate forestry.

• 1:41:05Speaker 02

  People are starting to do four things like your mom was.

• 1:41:08Speaker 00

  Oh, she dropped the mom thing. But, but, and again, professional, you have to give, like, he's such a good serpent in the grass. He knows the exact- by the way, I even forgot what the question was. Cause he's like, we're dominating, I'm using my hands, look at my hands. Don't look at the lies that are coming out of the mouth, out of my mouth. He's the future. He's the future of their party, Tom. Him and the Mumdani's and the AOC's.

• 1:41:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom.

• 1:41:32Speaker 00

  That's them. Beware. The, the pandering makes me sick. Um, the pandering has gone on from the Democrats for a long time. And when African Americans and people go out there and express independence,

• 1:41:48Speaker 00

  you know, Stephen A. Smith is not out there screaming like a conservative, but he takes a moderate point of view and he's calling things out that he doesn't like. And there are some that do it, but suddenly they call you names, "Oh, you're betraying us," or "You're going the other way." They're expected to stay in lockstep. In lockstep, voting for people that pander to you like this? In lockstep to a guy that comes in there? You have to remember Obama did it too. Because Obama didn't have street cred with the African-Americans in America. When he would come and give speeches, he didn't have the cred. And if you look at some of these speeches, he started dropping his Rs and talking with that... Don't do the hard R, Tom. Yeah, talking with this tone and everything, you know, "I'm one of y'all," and down.

• 1:42:33Speaker 00

  And it's like, it's just pandering. It's absolute pandering. And they're waking up. The voters are waking up. There are African-Americans that are waking up, they're thinking for themselves, that are saying, "Listen, I will not be automatically assumed to be your voting bloc. I'm there." And we've seen it moving, election by election, and I hope that the... Look, the numbers are screaming. They used to hold 92% of the African-American vote. It was less than that in this last election with Trump. I don't have the number handy, I wish I did. But that's exactly what you're seeing. And this, this is racist and just insidious pandering here. It really makes me sick.

• 1:43:14Speaker 00

  And remember, to those of you in the African-American community, ask yourself a question. Where has it improved? I'm gonna give you this, have you got it? I'm gonna do this for you, have you got it? As I've said before, these folks and Planned Parenthood have run a black genocide upon you through abortion. If you take a look at the number of aborted babies and you go back and you look at it, 14% of our population, proud African-American citizens. 40% of the abortions. Why is that? Because they want that. Yup. They want that. And if that hadn't happened, what would be the size of the African-American community in America? What would be the size of that? 25, 30%? Would they have tolerated, would they have tolerated being used at the voting booth

• 1:43:59Speaker 00

  and then giving nothing at the legislative cycle to improve schools, communities, opportunities? No, they wouldn't. And Obama wouldn't have been the first African-American president. He would have been the second or third. Thurgood Marshall's son would have been the first, in my view. Bingo.

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• 1:46:41Speaker 00

  Adam. Yeah, well, let's make racism great again. You know, every, you know, we see in the NFL, we're going to end racism. So there's two types of racism. There's the open overt racism, which to be honest with you, I'm better with. Because you just come out and say it, bro. Say how you feel. Then there's the other racism, which is like the low key racism, which I believe, uh, George W. Bush called the, the soft bigotry of low expectations. Remember that? You know, he had a few famous quotes, you know, fool me once, can't get fooled again. The tourist. The tourist. But the soft bigotry of low expectations. What are the soft bigotry of low expectations? I don't expect a lot from you. I have very low standards from you. So if you don't excel, if you don't have a high performance, if you don't excel and succeed,

• 1:47:26Speaker 00

  it's because it's who you are. And then it becomes a self fulfilling cycle of, of course, you're not going to do good. Of course, you're not going to read. Of course, you're not going to succeed. Bless you. Sneeze on the truth. Bless you, Lord. Bless you. Then you're going to carry tobacco in your, in your purse. Then you're going to say that you ain't black if you won't vote for me. So then Gavin Newsom, who's trying to appeal to the, to the black vote goes, I'm dumb too, y'all. I got a 960. I can't even read. That part I believe. Lead. I believe the 960. I can't even read.

• 1:47:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, what'd you get on the SAT?

• 1:47:59Speaker 00

  When I took it? Eleven, eleven twenty. So you're not even that smart? I did better than you.

• 1:48:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Be honest, Vinnie.

• 1:48:06Speaker 00

  Unbelievable. What'd you get?

• 1:48:09Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm a mad dude.

• 1:48:09Speaker 00

  I'm a blind, I'm a blind, be honest, what'd you get?

• 1:48:13Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm a mad dude.

• 1:48:14Speaker 00

  It was not good.

• 1:48:15Patrick Bet-David?

  What was yours?

• 1:48:15Speaker 00

  Probably like eight something.

• 1:48:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, what was yours?

• 1:48:19Speaker 00

  Twelve twenty.

• 1:48:19Patrick Bet-David?

  You got twelve twenty.

• 1:48:20Speaker 00

  Damn, smart man. I cheated, bro. There's a lot of Asian kids in my class.

• 1:48:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Vinnie, you and I are right next to each other, buddy.

• 1:48:26Speaker 00

  That's what I'm saying, dog. But this is...

• 1:48:28Patrick Bet-David?

  But let me tell you, I got a, you know what my SATs got me scholarship to Glendale Community College?

• 1:48:32Speaker 00

  Really?

• 1:48:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:48:33Speaker 00

  I mean, if it wasn't for that, then you wouldn't do it.

• 1:48:35Patrick Bet-David?

  But by the way, can you imagine at this tape, table, Adam got a better SAT score than Tom?

• 1:48:40Speaker 00

  Well, Tom fell asleep.

• 1:48:41Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, Tom's daughter got a fifteen sixty out of sixteen hundred.

• 1:48:45Speaker 00

  Bailey got like, you know what that means? She got like one or two wrong. Those that can't do, teach. And Tom taught his daughters well. Oh, there we go. Tom, it's a joke, buddy. It's a joke. Don't get red. There we go. Don't get red, Tom. It's okay.

• 1:48:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's go.

• 1:49:00Speaker 00

  Tom, it's okay. I beat you in the SATs. Are you ready? Let's get it on. Let's get Babs on the podcast and have her tell you the, the amazing story of how upset they were. Cause I stayed out late. I fell asleep during the last section of the SAT. It's a true story.

• 1:49:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, I have a story about my SAT, but I'm not gonna get into it.

• 1:49:20Speaker 00

  Why'd you fall asleep during the SATs? You think you're better than the SATs? I did an abracadabra. I just put abracadabra and it didn't work.

• 1:49:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Math, to me, I nailed math. But to me, I was like, I'm out with English. We were playing spades with my Armenian crew. And I think, uh, right after taking SATs, a month or two later, I joined the army. Wait, go ahead. You were telling me.

• 1:49:39Speaker 00

  Well, speaking of, uh, black culture, I remember you told this story. I think you were in DC. And you saw these sharp, uh, sharp dressed black men coming out in suits, looking like a million bucks. They were like the young...

• 1:49:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, yes.

• 1:49:52Speaker 00

  Who were those guys? They were like...

• 1:49:54Patrick Bet-David?

  They were young, young lawyers, African-American women and men, looking amazing. I went and I said, what are you guys doing here? Two thousand of us. This was ten years ago, nine years ago? What year are we right now? To twenty twenty six?

• 1:50:08Speaker 00

  We're still in twenty twenty six, yeah.

• 1:50:10Patrick Bet-David?

  It would be fifteen, two thousand fifteen.

• 1:50:12Speaker 00

  So two, so twenty fifteen?

• 1:50:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 1:50:15Speaker 00

  So Obama's the president, black lawyers, I assume they were...

• 1:50:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 1:50:18Speaker 00

  You know, this was in DC or where was this?

• 1:50:20Patrick Bet-David?

  It could have been Chicago or DC.

• 1:50:22Speaker 00

  Alright, so...

• 1:50:25Speaker 00

  Let's go there.

• 1:50:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:50:26Speaker 00

  I've seen what you've done with PHP. I mean, black, white, Latino, Asian, Filipino, Matipal, the whole, everybody dressed like a million bucks. Imagine if you said, hey, guys, white people dress in suits, Latino guys do that, black guys, don't worry. Sag your pants. It's okay. Don't worry. It's the soft bigotry of low expectations. You have high standards. You say, meet the standard or get the hell out. And every single one of your guys, whether it's Chris Hart, whether it's Suazo, whatever, whoever we're talking about.

• 1:50:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 1:50:58Speaker 00

  All look, act, and play the part, and they deserve it, and everything that they've received, they've earned.

• 1:51:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 1:51:05Speaker 00

  So there's, there's no low expectations when it comes to us, and that unfortunately is how Gavin Newsom sees black people.

• 1:51:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, let's, let's go to this, Rob. Do you have the clip of the mayor of California being questioned by the reporter? Do you have that clip, Rob?

• 1:51:19Speaker 00

  I do.

• 1:51:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, play the clip. Watch this here, folks. Okay?

• 1:51:23Speaker 00

  Potholes are an issue now, especially since it has rained and we've seen so many of them. Uh, what are you gonna do about it?

• 1:51:31Speaker 06

  That's right. Well, and let me just tell you, we are fixing them, and in the last three months, we fixed over 10,000 potholes, and in the last couple of weeks, we fixed almost 300. So we are gonna continue doing that, uh, and until all the potholes are fixed. And we're, what we're doing here is asking people to report on 311, uh, when they receive, they see a pothole, because we certainly don't want cars damaged, our people to be, uh, you know, have difficulty with that.

• 1:52:01Speaker 00

  Now, we saw you fill a pothole with asphalt here just a few minutes ago, and you're, you're encouraging people to call 311, but guess what? We, we know people, I work with people who've called 311, nothing happened, the pothole was never repaired. They called several times over a couple of months. What do you have to say about that?

• 1:52:16Speaker 06

  Let me just tell you that in the last two months, three months, we have fixed over 10,000. We have a lot more to fix. But I think this is a reflection of decades of lack of investment in our infrastructure. And we are definitely addressing that.

• 1:52:32Speaker 00

  You talk about that, I mean, we spend so much less here in LA than other cities do. For example, New York, or San Diego, San Francisco. And, and we haven't repaved a single city street here since last summer.

• 1:52:44Speaker 06

  Well, let me just say that we have much more we need to do, which is why I've been developing-

• 1:52:49Patrick Bet-David?

  So you can pause it right there. Sounds like a politician, you know, lip service, but- Nothing burger. But, but by the way, who is the guy? Who was the guy? We have to recognize that guy. Can we get his name? I don't know where he lies politically. I'm sure he voted for her. Can you go to him? And just give credit for him asking, can, can we just recognize the guy's name, Rob? Do we know who the reporter is?

• 1:53:12Speaker 00

  That's the independent station in LA, KTLA 5.

• 1:53:15Patrick Bet-David?

  KTLA, I mean, I'm familiar with KTLA. You and I live there, so we know KTLA. But who was the KTLA guy that interviewed him? I, I just want to recognize the guy because he deserves credit.

• 1:53:26Speaker 00

  Eric Spillman.

• 1:53:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you go to his, can you go to his account? Eric Spillman, KTLA. There he is. That's the guy?

• 1:53:32Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 1:53:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, go, go, uh, can we learn a little bit about this guy? Go, go to his link, Wikipedia, or is there anything that we can learn? Go to his profile right there. Uh, zoom in. Eric Spillman, KTLA morning, I've been starting the program in July of 1991. Showed that he began reporting, well, said, well, there was a shift there, JD, he sold the string or a story to AP about a Berkeley professor who won a Nobel Prize in Physics. That report for which he was paid $25 was the beginning. And he graduated English Literature. Yeah, he's definitely a liberal, but guess what? Uh, San Luis Obispo, beautiful ride down the street from Morabey. Hey, whoever you are, respect.

• 1:54:08Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 1:54:09Patrick Bet-David?

  You're asking a question that we're wondering. And, you know, I applaud you for doing what you're doing. Good for you. All right, let's get to the next story here. Next one I want to get to is, I have a clip I want to play to you guys, two clips that I'm going to wait till the end. It's about fathers and daughter, father and son relationship and Anthony Hopkins, that I don't think you've seen this clip. Have you guys seen this clip? Tom, have you seen it? Tom, have you seen the clip with Anthony Hopkins? I can't wait for you to see it. And I want to have a little bit of conversation with it. But while we're in California, on the stop, we're in California, for some of you guys that are not for Gavin Newsom, I have a vote for you. Katie Porter, guys, she's a frickin'

• 1:54:48Patrick Bet-David?

  rock star, and she's back. She is back with a vengeance. Can you imagine? She's been controlling all that anger and rage, and it's not good to keep it. You gotta let it out. Folks, in California, if you're looking for a hardcore liberal candidate that believes in her crazy ideas, but she's got that temper, that rage, that is very fit for TV, you cannot let an opportunist like this go away without her getting more TV time. Here's the great Katie Porter. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:55:23Patrick Bet-David?

  This is her campaign.

• 1:55:36Speaker 00

  Well, you know Gavin's in the crowd like, "Man, me and my brothers, we don't know how to read, woman." What does that say, woman?

• 1:55:43Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, this is not a joke, folks.

• 1:55:45Speaker 00

  California gets billions and billions in dollars from the federal government. So she gets elected governor, taking Gavin Newsom's spot because he's leaving to run for president. Oh, God. So how does she work with the president? You need to get relief. You need to get, by the way, we also know that they got $21 billion recently for homelessness that they basically stole from the federal government, and now they're taxing their own businesses on it. But what do you do? How do you do that? Pat, where's the logic? Where's the logic of running a message like that?

• 1:56:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Could you say logic, Tom?

• 1:56:17Speaker 00

  Logic?

• 1:56:18Patrick Bet-David?

  That's not a word. They know how to... Where's the logic? You gotta say, where's the emotion?

• 1:56:23Speaker 00

  Look like...

• 1:56:24Patrick Bet-David?

  That's emotion.

• 1:56:26Speaker 00

  Look at their... Like, if you think about their... Just look at their... Just from those two clips, from her and Gavin, okay? Pandering to a black crowd and basically saying, "I'm dumb like y'all." Her message is, "I'm running for California Governor F. Trump." That's all they have, guys. Zero... And then when you ask the governor, the sitting governor who's sitting there, about how horrible the state is, you know what he says? "No, no, we're actually number four and this and look at my hands." They have nothing, Pat. They have nothing. Remember, it's all anti-Trump. And I mentioned this at the beginning, I'm sorry, when we were in the back. Um, I keep hearing this thing, "left and right." Every time, guys, you hear "left" or "right," and we talked about this, I saw this on the internet.

• 1:57:05Speaker 00

  In the Bible, this is over 3,000 years ago, it said in Ecclesiastes 10, chapter 10, verse 2. "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Stop being fooled by these people, these leftists, these people that don't care about you. They don't care about your... The freaking country. It's about power and it's about... All about them. Mind you, she's gonna be the governor. You know that. She's the frontrunner. Is she the frontrunner? Where's Kelsey? She's gonna be... What's... Who is this lady, by the way? No, I'm saying Kim... Oh, I'm saying Kim Porter. Katie Porter. Katie, whatever. She's the same person. Stop bringing Diddy's wife up to this. So there's an Iowa Senate campaign ad that is basically the same message as Katie Porter. The entire commercial is F. Trump.

• 1:57:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Is this a commercial?

• 1:57:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, this is an ad. It's not running on television. It's running online due to the language. Fuck Trump. Oh, my God. Vote Juliana. Fuck Trump. Vote Juliana. Fuck Trump. Vote Juliana. They said it, not me. I'm Juliana Stratton, and I'm proud to have lived my whole life on the south side of Chicago. I'm not scared of a wannabe dictator. I'm running for Senate to stand... To Donald Trump, I'll abolish ICE and hold Trump accountable for the crimes he's committed. Just like they said, fuck Trump. Fuck Trump. Fuck Trump. Vote Juliana. That's why I approve this message. They're both robbed two minutes after this video. What is she running for exactly? Senator in Illinois.

• 1:58:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Senator, Senator of Illinois. Rob, can you go to Cali?

• 1:58:31Speaker 00

  State or federal?

• 1:58:32Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't know. Can you go to Cali? Why do you ask?

• 1:58:36Speaker 00

  No, I'm just wondering like.

• 1:58:37Patrick Bet-David?

  Go to Cali, California governor to see who's at the top. Uh, Cali, Gavin Newsom, Greene, Swalwell is at the top.

• 1:58:47Speaker 00

  Oh God, no.

• 1:58:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Where's Katie Porter? Go a little bit lower. She, I don't think she's on the list at all, but she's right there.

• 1:58:53Speaker 00

  There's my girl.

• 1:58:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Guys, we got work to do.

• 1:58:55Speaker 00

  No, so she's not anywhere close. No, she's a woman, she's gonna get up there.

• 1:59:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Matt Mahan, Steve Hilton, and you got a few of Chad Bianco. By the way, I'd like to see Chad Bianco get more and more momentum.

• 1:59:08Speaker 00

  She'll win.

• 1:59:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Uh, Chad Bianco is somebody that has, has a good ideas, good policies. Hopefully he'll get some momentum getting up there.

• 1:59:16Speaker 00

  Oh, Pat.

• 1:59:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, thoughts?

• 1:59:18Speaker 00

  He's got no chance. He's a Republican. So unless his name is the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican has no chance in California. And this is what happens when you have a one-party state. You know, a lot of people say that, you know, United States Congress, we're living in a uniparty. It's a uniparty. Everyone, it's, it's the uniparty. They're, they, they fight behind closed doors. They're on the same team. That's what it is. We're looking at what a one-party state will do. So, you know, what's the difference between California and China? Or California and Russia? There's not a lot. Because when it's one party, they're in control. That's it. You could pretend to do stuff. You could pretend to be a Republican and try to win.

• 2:00:02Speaker 00

  Republican has no chance. When's the last time a Republican did anything meaningful in California? Is it Schwarzenegger? Is that when it happened? I don't know. I don't know. But you remember when, um, it was, um, one of the monarchs in UAE was basically saying, comparing UAE to the United States. And it's like, we've got all this, United States has this. We have got all this, United says this. But here, we have one party. And that's a challenge. Cause if you fall out of line and fall out of favor with the party. That's it. At least in the United States, you have a two-party system. California has a one-party system. And unfortunately, a Republican has no chance.

• 2:00:45Speaker 00

  And didn't they do something with the gerrymandering and everything like that? And the redistricting in California, it made it even worse. So I don't see California getting better anytime soon.

• 2:00:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I mean, it's not gonna help if they do the gerrymandering and become 48 to 4. It's a losing proposition for two states that they want to lock up the left and the right. It's California and Texas. They don't even want it to be a discussion. And they're doing the same thing. They're both gerrymandering. But we'll see. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens with California. Let me get to the next story here until we get into, um, let's go to Mamdani. Folks, when it comes down to IDs, you need IDs to be able to shovel. And not just one, to shovel snow in New York. But you don't need IDs when you're voting, guys. Let's get it straight. I mean, shoveling is a lot more important task. We need to verify these people, not voting, right?

• 2:01:37Patrick Bet-David?

  I mean, the common sense stuff, just the kind of stuff that people say. Well, let me just listen to this. Rob, is this the clip of the reporter asking questions? Do you also have the link showing what is required of him? Before, first play this clip and then we'll go to what it says on their site.

• 2:01:56Speaker 00

  There's been this controversy over the snow labors and the sort of what some see as onerous need to have documentation. Can you just talk about if that's new and what you make of the controversy? This is all longstanding. This is a longstanding program and longstanding requirements. And this is a way that New Yorkers are, get paid to shovel snow in assistance with the city's response to a winter storm event. Federal law requires that employers get authorization and documentation to pay people for their work. We are not allowed to just cut checks to individuals for their work. And these are the policies that we've had in place.

• 2:02:41Speaker 00

  But I understand that for many, it's the first time that they've ever heard about it.

• 2:02:44Patrick Bet-David?

  So what is that, Rob? If you can go to, there's a picture from their site that says you need, right there. Okay, zoom in a little bit if you could. To be eligible, you have to be 18. To register for an appointment, workers must have two small photos, two original forms of ID, plus copies, and social security card.

• 2:03:07Patrick Bet-David?

  I mean, people can't find their social security card. Gavin Newsom, the other say, you need passports. He can't even find his passports. Why are you making it so difficult to do this, yet you want to make it easy to vote? That's the, that's the question. Adam, did you send that one clip of that?

• 2:03:22Speaker 00

  Yeah, I did. I sent it to Rob.

• 2:03:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, if you want to pull up the one that Adam sent you, I haven't seen this yet, but apparently...

• 2:03:27Speaker 00

  There's this clip by a great influencer, Lizzie Savetsky, giving her take on what's going on in New York.

• 2:03:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob.

• 2:03:32Speaker 05

  A big snowstorm coming today, and our mayor says that we need emergency snow shoveler.

• 2:03:36Speaker 00

  If you'd like to sign up to be a paid snow shoveler, you can go to any DS and my garage from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow on Sunday. So there she goes.

• 2:03:44Speaker 05

  I saw that the mayor said that we were supposed to report for duty between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. today to, for emergency snow shoveling.

• 2:03:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, not yet.

• 2:03:52Speaker 05

  Why?

• 2:03:53Speaker 00

  It's not yet. I think the earliest that we can put you out there is 8 p.m. tonight.

• 2:03:58Speaker 05

  It's $10 an hour?

• 2:03:59Speaker 00

  I think it's actually higher than that. I believe it's $30.

• 2:04:02Speaker 05

  If I have a snow blower and I can do the work of three to four people, can I get paid more? I don't think so. I thought we could just tax the rich. We need two forms of ID. What happens if I only have one? You need two forms to sign up. It's one from this side and one from this side. It's so interesting because they want to tell us we don't need ID to vote, but we need two forms of ID to shovel, you know? Do I need to print the photos out? I have to print those. What if I don't have a printer?

• 2:04:28Patrick Bet-David?

  What if I don't have a printer?

• 2:04:30Speaker 05

  Thank you. I got here, our mayor.

• 2:04:33Speaker 00

  Yeah, shout out to Lizzie for exposing the ridiculousness. That is Mamdani, New York City.

• 2:04:38Patrick Bet-David?

  So, Lenny, your thoughts? Your thoughts with Mamdani and what's going on in New York here?

• 2:04:42Speaker 00

  I have a, I have so much going on, like, and I, can I piggyback on top of it?

• 2:04:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 2:04:47Speaker 00

  What they were doing too? I think it's, it's, if you can't see, as last week when I said, we told you so, and now it's happening in real time. Not saying that we're right on everything, but how, when has it ever worked? The hypocrisy of, of saying, I'm a sanctuary city, bring the kids, free this, free that, and now this is happening. And, and, and it's, it shows how ridiculous and how much of a liar, uh, this guy is. I don't know if, and I, if you guys want to come back to what you guys have to say, did you guys see what happened in Times Square? Uh, this past couple of days, Rob? I forgot what day it was. But they shut down Times Square. A bunch of Muslims went there, Sneko, your boy was there. My boy, yeah.

• 2:05:30Speaker 00

  Playing, praying in the middle of the city, okay? Mind you, before Rob plays this, there's a Muslim guy in this video proclaiming they are taking over the city and chants "Allahu Akbar" and everybody comes in. And just to let you guys all know, this is them planting a flag, okay? This is them saying, "We're here." It's asserting dominance. Robby, can you please play this and tell me if this makes anybody feel comfortable? And mind you, this is 20 minutes away from where the World Trade is and where Islamists flew planes into the World Trade and killed over 30-some-hundred Americans. Same religion, okay? Play this video real quick.

• 2:06:07Speaker 04

  Giving dabbal. Yo, make some noise on the bottom order right now, baby. Asha Allah, yeah!

• 2:06:12Speaker 00

  Asha Allah, yeah.

• 2:06:13Speaker 04

  Tufi! Oh, don't scare them, brothers. Relax. They're over here on purpose to be like, "Oh my God." Who's seen those videos where they're like, "Oh my God, the Muslims are taking over New York City." You seen those?

• 2:06:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:06:26Speaker 04

  You seen those? Let them know that we are taking over New York City. Tufi!

• 2:06:33Speaker 04

  Oh my God.

• 2:06:34Speaker 00

  When people, what was it, Maya Angelou? When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time. They're not hiding, guys. So for everybody that's like, "Oh, we're America, we're open for culture." BS. Take that nonsense and go to the Middle East and do it. Go to Saudi Arabia, go to Qatar, go to wherever the hell it is. I'm so uncomfortable with that. And it's becoming clear with Mhamdani what his focus is in. Because he's failing at every single thing. Every metric you see him. He lied about the promises. The streets are filled with trash and filth and poop. There's videos of that. He looks lost during severe weather where the homeless people are dying because he doesn't know how to do it.

• 2:07:13Speaker 00

  He's so unmanaged, yet he keeps happening Islamic prayer, Islamic this, speaking Arabic in front of people. That's what he's doing, okay? And there's a difference, okay? As Christians, in the Bible, Matthew 6:6, pray in private. You go in a room. I have my moments with God every single morning and every single night. It's you. You don't show. You don't show off, you don't say, "Hey, everybody, look at how religious and how cool I am." It's about humility, it's about your relationship in your heart. Okay, you're not flexing in the street to let people know, "Oh, this is who I am and this is what we are." That's a battle call, okay, what he's doing, okay? Shutting down Times Square, I'm not a fan of it at all, Pat. And again, when he's saying, "Oh, they're scared that we're taking over."

• 2:07:56Speaker 00

  We are taking over, and we keep letting this crap happen, and it's gonna keep happening and keep happening. There's parts of Brooklyn where they're playing "Al-Awa" in the street on loudspeaker. Like, where are we? What are we talking about? They're blocking sidewalks. The horn signaling the call of prayer.

• 2:08:12Patrick Bet-David?

  A Trump supporter showed up to this.

• 2:08:14Speaker 00

  I think Freedom News, I don't know what we played.

• 2:08:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Mu'laani.

• 2:08:17Speaker 00

  I think, Robbie, last time we played Freedom News, it gave us a strike.

• 2:08:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, then don't do it. Don't do it.

• 2:08:22Speaker 00

  Jim, I don't understand the problem with Muslims taking over New York City. What's the problem with that? No, no, no, I'm not. What do you mean?

• 2:08:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, at least let me show you where he went to pray. Guys, invitation, go ahead, Rob. This is Mamdani, when he went to a mosque, it's called the Al-Hoi Islamic Center in Queens, cited by the DOJ in sanctions cases, telling worshippers it was privileged to be there as the first Muslim mayor. Go ahead and play the clip, Rob, and then...

• 2:08:49Speaker 04

  Last Ramadan, I was with many of you here at the procession

• 2:08:55Patrick Bet-David?

  February 2026.

• 2:08:56Speaker 04

  On the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali, Alayhi Salam. It is a privilege to be here with you once again. I stand before you as the first Muslim mayor in our city's history, and this year as the first jumma that I have attended in that new position. And to do so together, it is a reminder that in this month of Ramadan, as we find moments of reflection...

• 2:09:21Patrick Bet-David?

  You can pause this right there, Rob, and then do me a favor. Go to the last 15 seconds. Go to the last 15 seconds of, go right there. Just read the words, folks.

• 2:09:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Wait, did it just say in the killing of infidels by your sword?

• 2:09:40Speaker 00

  Yes, it did.

• 2:09:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Did it just say the same place he went? And the prayer says, "And the killing of infidels by your sword."

• 2:09:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:09:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Huh.

• 2:09:48Speaker 00

  What's wrong with that, though?

• 2:09:49Patrick Bet-David?

  It's peaceful.

• 2:09:50Speaker 00

  No, but, but here's the thing. No, no, and when, no, no, no. I don't understand what you guys are trying to do right now. No, no, Adam, I have to say something. You're trying to say that they can't assert their dominance, that they can't kill infidels with their sword. What are you trying to say exactly? No, my, my thing is, this public- Let them do what they want to do all over the United States. No, no, no, no, my, I've been saying this since day one. In Dearborn and New York City and Houston, let them take over. No, no, Adam, it's a public, public- I don't care what you say, bro. Public display of power. Don't pretend that it's the same thing with what we do as Christians, okay? They're not. One is humility before God. They're the correct religion, Danny. Let me finish. One is humility before- Can I finish, Adam? Yes, sorry. One is humility before God, the other is dominance in a public square, okay? Praying before a meal, normal, I do it, nobody, nobody cares.

• 2:10:32Speaker 00

  But when you take the most iconic intersections in America and you turn it into like a victory rally, that sends a message. Faith is one thing, force, presence, it's another. And I don't care, everybody, I know people are gonna come at me, go ahead, message me and death threat me about, oh, but America's like, no, no, no, excuse me, this is a Christian nation, okay? Block, shutting stuff down to pray for your freaking God? I'm not a fan of that, okay? Period. Period. And the Bible warned us about this false prophet stuff. It's not, we were warned. What, go ahead, Tom, are we gonna say something? No, you're absolutely right, we were warned. We were warned about, you know, compromise.

• 2:11:12Speaker 00

  That when you compromise beliefs and you compromise that, the one that's compromised is you. You think you're compromising for the other side to be nice, to be friendly, to be accommodating, to be magnanimous. You're not. What you're compromising is yourself. And this is what we get. And it comes in. This is history repeating itself. The flaw of mankind have done this over and over and we've seen thriving societies diluted-

• 2:11:40Speaker 00

  Through compromise that they think, "Oh, we're just being nice to people." And this is where you end up. It's a slippery slope and you slide down it. And Tom, if you think about it, that's his, that was his main goal. You want to talk about a Trojan horse, that smile, that touching on the chest? He is failing at everything, but he is winning in that, Tom. Shutting down Times Square as a New Yorker is a spit in the face to everybody there. And then by the way, there was Christians, I saw like five videos of Christians trying to be there and record and they were bullying the Christians, like trying to fight the Christians. Are you freaking, what? What? No, I'm not cool with that. I'm not cool with that at all, bro. Go to your, go in your mosque and do what you're gonna do, blocking intersection and interfering with people's lives and then yelling at Christians who are just there to witness what you guys are doing?

• 2:12:25Speaker 00

  I don't play that. And I'm sorry. I'm not a fan of that at all. Vinny, I think you need to be a little bit more tolerant. No, no, I'm, Adam, I am tolerant. If they say that they're a religion of peace, you have to believe them. Don't worry about that they want to kill infidels. There's no examples of them exploding and killing people. Stop it, Vinny. It's obnoxious.

• 2:12:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen, there's a, Rob, can you show that one clip on the reason why people fear? The picture, not the clip that I sent you. Can we fact check this, Rob? The second one right there from Babylon B. "Groundbreaking new study finds Islamophobia may be partially caused by Muslims killing people all the time."

• 2:13:05Patrick Bet-David?

  And by the way, I'm not saying this is correct because I don't know if Babylon B is, you know, how serious they are about this, but go ahead, Adam.

• 2:13:13Speaker 00

  I just, for me, it's a religion of peace. You can't tell me anything otherwise. You can show me thousands of examples. You can show me 9/11. You can show me ISIS and Al Qaeda. I'm gonna anchor to my belief system that they are the best people in the world. But let me shift gears and let me follow the money for a second, if you don't mind.

• 2:13:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it.

• 2:13:29Speaker 00

  So, yes, we can go there on the religious side, but let's talk money for a second with this guy, Mumdani. You know, my favorite guy on CNN, I know it still exists, is, other than Scott Jennings, Fareed Zakaria. Fareed Zakaria, who's frequently criticizes Trump, went ham on the big blue states, Democratic states. Here's what he He said, he said, the big blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less, and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day. That's Farid Zakaria saying this. He said, Democrats in city halls should stop governing as if it's a goal to announce new entitlements and instead make government work. Now, here's what he said about New York

• 2:14:11Speaker 00

  City, which is like the crown jewel of government bloat. Number one, their budget right now, which we talked about the other day, 127 billion, just in New York City alone, which is the size of some small countries like Greece and Thailand. That's number one. Number two, under Mayor Bloomberg, which was as soon as, as recent as 2013, I want to say, so 13 years ago, it's 127 billion now. Take a guess what it was under Bloomberg. 70 billion. Okay? So almost double in the last 13 years. So if you want to talk supply and demand, whichever that comes down to, pre-COVID, there was 8.8 million people living in New York City.

• 2:14:54Speaker 00

  8.8. Everyone fled. The rich left. Whoever can afford the hell to leave, they're all living in Miami, they're Florida, wherever they went. It bottomed down at what?

• 2:15:03Patrick Bet-David?

  8356.

• 2:15:04Speaker 00

  835. Okay, so that's how many people left? Over a half a million people, Pat? Is that right? So now, in 2025, this is at the end of 2024, 2025, they still haven't gotten up to pre-pandemic levels. What's my point? Everything comes down to supply and demand. So if there's less people and your budget is more, guess who's gonna have to pay more taxes? The people living there right now. That's why you have those black guys last week. They're like, oh, hell no, bro. We voted for you, but I didn't think you would tax us more. Who do you think they're gonna tax, buddy? It's not just gonna be the rich. It's gonna be the homeowners. It's gonna be everybody else. Then, here's another example, if you want to show this. The cost of education.

• 2:15:46Speaker 00

  Just to educate our kids, you know how much they're spending per child in New York City? Thirty-five grand per child. Dude, that's the price of a nice private school in Miami. Maybe fifty, but you'll get there. So forty-two billion dollars just goes to educating kids. Thirty-five grand a kid. Now, if you want to show this last piece, this is what a high earner has to pay in New York. We all, we understand that, you know, California's at what? Thirteen percent? Tom did the math last week. He said, Adam, you forgot about not only the state, but the city tax as well, and the personal income tax. So you're paying as much as fifty-five percent. That's what you're paying in the EU. And by the way, in the EU, you get, uh, universal healthcare

• 2:16:29Speaker 00

  and free college. At what point are New Yorkers gonna say, what the are we paying for at this point? Unbelievable. And the coup de grâce right here is, I don't know if I sent you this, New York City has the highest, uh, marginal corporate tax rate. So even companies are paying seventeen point four percent. At what point are people gonna say, I'm done with this. I'm moving to Miami. Come on down, the weather's fine.

• 2:16:55Patrick Bet-David?

  You know what's pretty bad, which is, that was great, the numbers you went through? You know what's bad? When WaPo's editorial board mocks Mamdani for facing harsh reality less than two months later. When WaPo goes after you, WaPo goes after you.

• 2:17:09Speaker 00

  Right.

• 2:17:10Patrick Bet-David?

  You're doing something wrong. So this is gonna continue.

• 2:17:12Speaker 00

  They're the people that laid off hundreds of people.

• 2:17:14Patrick Bet-David?

  And I hope Mamdani succeeds. I hope Mamdani succeeds, and he keeps pushing his stuff because, again, sometimes people need a reality check to realize what's possible and what could come to a city near you. This guy here is doing it to the number one city in America for capitalism. If he does it to that city, what, what other cities do you think he can do it to? Any other cities?

• 2:17:38Speaker 00

  And you know what's even more interesting?

• 2:17:39Patrick Bet-David?

  What's that?

• 2:17:40Speaker 00

  What's, what's, uh, coming up this July in America?

• 2:17:43Patrick Bet-David?

  World Cup.

• 2:17:44Speaker 00

  No, it's our two-hundred-and-fiftyth birthday.

• 2:17:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Anniversary, yes.

• 2:17:47Speaker 00

  Amazing. Happy birthday, America. What also is coming is the twenty-fifth anniversary of nine eleven. So we're gonna have Mamdani, uh, nine months from now. Eight months from now, being like, guys, uh, welcome to New York City. This is where 9/11 happened, and you're gonna juxtapose that with him in mosque saying, literally, kill the infidels. You can't make this up. Welcome to clown world 2026.

• 2:18:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. Okay, all right, let's get to the next story. Next story I want to get to is the gunman at Mar-a-Lago, Rob. If you want to pull this up. Gun gunman, um, over the weekend, we all saw the reports. 20-year-old guy tried to jump over and, uh, you know, he had a shotgun in his hand. In no time, he was eliminated. Rob, if you want to play this clip. At 1:30 this morning, the security detail detected that a individual had made his way into the inner perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. A deputy and two Secret Service agents on the detail went to that area to investigate. They confronted a white male that was carrying a gas can and a shotgun.

• 2:18:55Patrick Bet-David?

  He was ordered to drop those two, uh, pieces of equipment that he had with him, at which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position. At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat. He is deceased at the scene. I'll give you a picture of the shotgun and the gas can to have with you. So that's what we know now. Investigation continues. The FBI is the lead investigation agency on this case, and we will be assisting them in whatever manner they would like, and they will be responsible for answering any other

• 2:19:39Patrick Bet-David?

  questions at an appropriate time. Okay, so that's that. Now, the gunman shot at Mar-a-Lago was obsessed with Epstein cover-up, came from family of avid Trump supporters. The man who entered Trump's, again, this is the Daily Mail story. The man who entered Trump Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and a gun gas canister comes from a family of supporters. Austin Tucker Martin, 21 years old, was shot and killed on Sunday morning after entering Mar-a-Lago. Brandon Fields, Martin's cousin, reacted with disbelief, called Martin "quiet and sane." His family was almost entirely in favor. "We are big Trump supporters, all of us, everybody," Fields said. "But his cousin was real quiet, never really talked about anything." Martin himself was also allegedly a supporter.

• 2:20:22Patrick Bet-David?

  However, a text message uncovered by the outlet showed that Martin may have been influenced by the Department of Justice's release of the files related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on February 15, just a week before he was killed by law enforcement. He texted a coworker at Pine Needles Lodge in North Carolina. "About the files, I don't know if you read up on the Epstein files, but evil is real and unmistakable," Martin said. Vinnie?

• 2:20:48Speaker 00

  I mean, tragedy, but how, like ignorance in the same breath. What do you, first of all, the president's not even there. It looks like a suicide mission to me. You're showing up to Mar-a-Lago, you know it's heavily guarded with a gas canister and a shotgun. And depending on what kind of ammunition's in the shotgun, if it's buckshot, you're not doing anything but pissing off the person that you're shooting at. If it's a slug, you have to have a really, really good aim. So I don't, I don't know where the, the mindset of something like, like that was, but for the whole family to be Trump supporters and then to have something like that, what's, what's the end goal? Like, what's the mission? And who's talking to him? I don't think it's just on the internet and he's just looking on X to find that. In his brain, what is going to kill?

• 2:21:33Speaker 00

  What was, what was his objective? Go and do what? The president's at the White House. To go there and do what? I think it's, and again, people, you know, online, listening to what they're listening to gets swayed a certain way, but to me, what, like, in all honesty, I'm asking you, Pat, what is he doing with a gas canister and a shotgun? You know you're gonna get confronted. The, the one thing that bothered me is that he got into the inner perimeter, which even though the president's not there, there's no reason anybody should be getting that close. What do you think the objective was? What, what is he trying to do? With one shotgun, no, no massive ammunition, no backpacks, shotgun, gas canister? What is he doing?

• 2:22:08Patrick Bet-David?

  You think he knows the president's not there?

• 2:22:10Speaker 00

  I'm almost positive he knows the president's not there.

• 2:22:12Patrick Bet-David?

  So what do you think he's doing?

• 2:22:13Speaker 00

  I don't know, like, maybe it's a su- like, just like that guy that, um, the, I don't know if it was an airmen or army guy, that went in front of the White House or something, put gasoline all over himself, and killed himself in protest of what was happening in Gaza. It's like, are you, are you trying to do a suicide mission to bring awareness? There's so many other ways to bring awareness than going there and you know you're gonna get killed. When you pick up your gun and aim it at a law enforcement officer, you know what's happening. He's not gonna kill, well, you're gonna kill five of them? No. I think he knows what's gonna be happening. So what, what's the, what's the goal? I wanna hear more about the, uh, the mental condition and what happened. Mainstream media's gonna say, "Oh, see? Completely disappointed. Dissolution with Trump to the point of,

• 2:22:55Speaker 00

  you know, going to engage it like that." But your, your questions, Pat, are the right questions. Those are the questions at the center. If you know Trump's not there, then you know the only people you're gonna encounter is the second-level security that is securing dwelling because there are no active targets on, and I hate to say that, um, but they call them active assets or active targets. Because they know people are targets. And so, Pat, if he goes there, he knows it's gonna be second-level security, and this is what he's gonna encounter, and he, and first of all, I thank you for the sheriff, um, that, uh, sat there and gave a very transparent and complete report.

• 2:23:39Speaker 00

  That is what strong law enforcement reporting for the media and the public sounds like. I'll give you a picture of it, so you have it, and I'll do this. But he says he then raised the gun at us. What does he think is gonna happen? At that moment, that's a suicide. Yep.

• 2:23:53Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam?

• 2:23:55Speaker 00

  Well, it only takes one psycho to change the world. I mean, we saw what happened with Charlie Kirk. We've seen what happens when Trump almost got killed, shot. Uh, we've seen what happens with school shooters. Uh, it's, you're only as strong as your weakest link. Here's this kid that's clearly, uh, mentally ill. He drove, drives from North Carolina.

• 2:24:17Speaker 00

  Whether he thought the president was there or not is almost irrelevant. He went out of his way to kill himself. So by the way, how many times have we been to Mar-a-Lago in the last few years? We're lucky enough, and I'm grateful enough, to have been to Mar-a-Lago, I don't know, dozen times? We've done our events there? Dude, you're not getting past security at all. Much less if we're gonna go to the White House, or anything like, you're not, you're not getting there. I mean, Butler, PA, that's a whole nother story. Okay, but this kid thinks he's gonna show up and do what? So I'm so grateful that we've become, you know, tight with the Trump administration. They invite us there, we've done our events there, I know we're doing another event in Miami sometime soon. Dude, you're showing up, and you think that you're gonna do what?

• 2:25:02Speaker 00

  So, to me, this kid is irrelevant. It's sort of, he's an embodiment of what's going on, that these weirdo kids, let, next thing you know, he's gonna find out he's a trans shooter. God forbid we bring that up. They think that they're gonna take vigilante justice into their own hands, and change the world. Whether it's school shooter, whether it's Charlie Kirk, whether it's any of these characters. Hopefully, they're killed before it even becomes an issue. Because the fact that he got how close? Inner perimeter. Inner perimeter, wherever the hell that means. That's very close. You know, it's... That's by the house. So, thank God everything's okay, thank God everybody's okay, but it only takes one idiot to change the course of history, which we almost learned.

• 2:25:44Patrick Bet-David?

  It is, it is very weird. And by the way, yesterday, you know, I was talking to a couple of parents about what young boys need. And I said, there's five things young boys need. They need a present father, the right belief system sold to them. You need high standards, you need friction, and you need fun. You need friction to be able to know that life's gonna be tough. And over the weekend, I saw a video, an interview with Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Hopkins, one of my favorite actors of all time. The guy was in Shadowlands, he was in, I think it's called Shadowlands, he was in Silence of the Lambs. He's been on so many, The Fracture, he's been on so many things. But in this interview, he just came out with a book a few months back, and this interviewer's asking him about his daughter.

• 2:26:28Patrick Bet-David?

  His daughter's 58 years old, they haven't seen each other for 20-plus years.

• 2:26:33Speaker 00

  Oh, wow.

• 2:26:33Patrick Bet-David?

  And she does not want to see him, and you have to see how uncomfortable he gets. And then I want you to hear his answer, then I'm gonna come back to you guys, then I'm gonna show you a video clip of a... Son and a father talking to each other. The son is now thirty-two years old, but let's watch this clip first. Here's Anthony Hopkins being asked about his estranged, uh, uh, being estranged from his daughter. Go ahead, Rob.

• 2:26:58Speaker 03

  Good for you. So if I know what you're gonna talk about my domestic life? Yes. No, no. Even though it's in the book? No, it's done.

• 2:27:06Patrick Bet-David?

  He doesn't want to talk.

• 2:27:07Speaker 03

  Can I ask a general question that's not specifically about the material in the book? Well. It's about the, but I'll, I'll stumble through this. Part of the reason that the material in the book about your relationship with your daughter, your strange relationship with your daughter, part of the reason why I found it so painful is that it resonated with me for personal reasons. Uh, I've seen my father, I think, twice in twenty years. And I've spoken to him once in, in those twenty years. And I'm very curious about other people's experience of that kind of estrangement. In this instance, the estrangement

• 2:27:50Speaker 03

  is, uh, my choice, but I, I just wonder if you have thoughts about where reconciliation might lie between estranged parents and children? My wife, Stella, sent an invitation to, come and see us. Not a word of response. So I think, okay, fine. I wish her well. I'm not gonna waste blood over that. If you wanna waste your life being in resentment, oh, fifty years later, fifty-eight years later,

• 2:28:32Speaker 03

  fine, go ahead. It's not in my can. See, we can, I could carry resentment over the past, this and the other. But that's death. You're not living. You have to acknowledge one thing, that we are imperfect. We're not saints. We're all saints.

• 2:28:59Speaker 02

  Sinister, saints, or whatever we are. We do the best we can. Life is painful. Sometimes people get hurt, some of them we get hurt. But you can't live like that. You have to say, get over it. And if you can't get over it, fine. Good luck to you.

• 2:29:16Speaker 02

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• 2:31:48Speaker 00

  I did what I could.

• 2:31:52Speaker 00

  So that's it. Would... That's all I want to say. Do you hope your daughter reads the book?

• 2:31:59Speaker 00

  I'm not going to answer that, no. I don't care.

• 2:32:03Speaker 00

  I'll move on. Please, I want you to. Because I don't want to hurt her. I understand. I don't want to, I don't want to make any, no. 20 years, the offer is made, but, fine. Onwards.

• 2:32:19Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think?

• 2:32:19Speaker 00

  That's tough, man.

• 2:32:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Vinny, what do you think?

• 2:32:25Speaker 00

  I mean, I'm curious, like, what, what did he, did they say what he, what happened for something like that to occur? Why, why the estrangement? Is there any, like, fallout? Did we, was it because of his acting? Was it because of an action? What did he do? Because I mean, that, but I could, I could feel the pain in the, uh, in the interviewer's, uh, thing. Because mind you, I don't have any kids, but I can only imagine what that must feel like as something that came from you. You can't communicate with that person. I lost my dad when I was 19. And Pat, we talked about this. I couldn't see. My mom's still alive. I love her to death. I couldn't see a moment or a scenario happening where I know that he's walking around and I wouldn't be able to talk to him or be around him, even though whatever he put us through.

• 2:33:11Speaker 00

  And remember, you asked me, Pat, I think a month ago, you're like, Vinny, not, less than a month ago, we're eating dinner and you're like, if you had three wishes, what would one of them be?

• 2:33:20Speaker 00

  And I told you, five minutes with my dad, give me five minutes. So when I see people like that,

• 2:33:27Speaker 00

  it hurts because I'm like, you could see the pain. He doesn't want to talk to me. He's fighting it. He's fighting and fighting. You've gave this person everything. You've nurtured this person. You gave them a life. They're 58 years old. They're an active, you know, contributing person in society and you can't get them to be with you or even communicate with you. And it's like, man, that's a, that's a struggle I can only imagine. I can only imagine with everything that I've seen with you do, with Tico, with Dylan, with Senna, with Brookie. I, it would drive Pat, if I found out one day, Tico doesn't want to talk to you and you have, and it's just because in his mind or a scenario happened in his head, he doesn't want to talk to you. It would crush me knowing how horrible, horrible you would feel

• 2:34:10Speaker 00

  because of everything that you've done and the lessons and everything with the video that you put on Instagram. The work and all the stuff that you put in. So I'd be curious to find out what, what happened. It's none of my business, but I mean, if he's saying it's, it's in the book, but it's, it's soul crushing. It's soul crushing and I could see it in his face. I could see it in his face. So, yeah. Yeah, it's tough, man.

• 2:34:29Patrick Bet-David?

  In this article, this is, uh, him and Abigail did a movie together called Shadowlands, which I think is a story of C.S. Lewis, which is worth watching if you haven't seen it. And he was an alcoholic. He talks about it in his new book as well. He married his first wife, I believe in 1967, and they had her. It's the only child he's ever had. And when they ask what happened and why he was hurt, and because if you go a little bit lower, there's a picture of the two together smiling. That's his daughter right there. So she, she was an extra. She was, she had some kind of a small role in the movie. Go a little bit lower, Rob. So he says, "They fought frequently." Hopkins explained that points of contention. Rob, can you see if they says they fought frequently? Is that his daughter or is that about his ex? Go a little bit higher to see if it's talking about his daughter or his ex.

• 2:35:15Patrick Bet-David?

  "By the time we realized how awful of a match we were, Barker was pregnant and we tried to rally for the sake of the child we were about to have, but it was no use. The marriage was a disaster." So he's talking about his wife. Go a little bit lower. And then he says, "They fought frequently." Hopkins. Explained that points of contention included his alcoholism and Barker's resentment over his career. One night when he returned from home, returned home from working on a location in Scotland, Barker greeted him with sarcasm and called him Mr. Lord High and Mighty. I have never been physically violent, but in that moment I was filled with such revulsion that I became afraid for myself and her. And at that exact moment Hopkins decided to leave for good and went to see his 14 month old daughter in a room. I looked down at her and whispered goodbye, he writes, then I walked back to the hall,

• 2:36:00Patrick Bet-David?

  picked up my suitcase and left the house.

• 2:36:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Go a little bit lower, Rob.

• 2:36:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Aside from sending financial support, I didn't have contact with Patronella and Abigail for a few years after that. It is the saddest fact of my life and my greatest regret. And yet I feel absolutely sure that it would have been much worse for everyone had I stayed.

• 2:36:21Speaker 00

  And I don't know, I don't know their religious beliefs, Pat, but I horrible, horrible situation. I don't know if she's a Christian, I don't know if he's a practicing Christian. The attitude that he has, which I think is beautiful that I missed is we're all sinners. We're far, far, far, far from perfect. I, I, by the way, I don't act, I'm trying to be the best Christian that I can. I try to walk in the path, I sin, I stumble all the time. He's at least saying as a man, I messed up. We're all gonna mess up. That's what this life is about. You're, you are the furthest thing from what Christ acts, but we're trying to walk in the footsteps. And I, and again, if she was a real, I don't know who she is, I don't know nothing about her except for what you guys wrote.

• 2:37:03Speaker 00

  If she was a real practicing Christian, that forgiveness, that which is one of the hardest things. Praying for your enemies is number one for me, which is so difficult, but I do it. And then forgiveness, knowing that we fall short of the grace of God, but he gives us that moment to say, listen, you're gonna fail, you're imperfect. And if you, if you accept that, then it could be that, that relationship could be a lot different. Cause if that was me and I was a daughter and I was a real legitimate practicing Christian, I'd say, dad, you know what? I love you, I forgive you, I'm not gonna forget anything that you did, leaving me at 14 months old, but I do forgive you.

• 2:37:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam.

• 2:37:41Speaker 00

  Whoa, I'll try to not cry like Vinny, but it might be tough. But I'll say this, I'm respectful and jealous of the relationship you have with your dad. Because I see the relationship you have with your dad, and I just didn't have that relationship at all with my dad. I had the opposite relationship to Vinny, where you said you want to spend five more minutes. I said, "I can't spend five more minutes with this guy." I tried, and tried, and tried to work out this relationship with my dad, and at the end of the day, like, I just had to block him from my life. And it was the first time that I was able to like, press block on my phone after considering it. And he died less than a month later. And I had all these crazy voicemails on my phone, it was tough.

• 2:38:25Speaker 00

  But when you deal with challenges in your life, it only makes you better. Like, if you see poor people, they get motivated, "But I'm not gonna be poor. This is not gonna happen." When someone says, "You can't do it," you say, "Yes, I can." So for me, I had such a contentious relationship with my father, I'm like, "I'm gonna have the best relationship with kids." I was a camp counselor, I was a school teacher, all my best friends have kids, I'm like the front uncle, I've taken a massive role in my nephew's life, especially since my sister got divorced. So I'm gonna be the best possible uncle, father, leader. And obviously, I'm going through that vetting system right now with my girl. But it's not easy. You know, you said, "These are the five things that every young man need." You said, "What is a father?" Present system.

• 2:39:10Speaker 00

  A belief system. Present father. A belief system. Standards. High standards. Friction. Friction. Fun. And fun. And I wrote it down, because it's so true. And I wish that more people, that more men had that active role with their kids. I mean, you know, the one movie that you not encouraged us to see, you made us see, was The Judge. And Robert Duvall, I want to say passed away last week. And that, that, the relationship they had with their Robert Downey Jr. And Robert Duvall, that was tough. I think the, he had to come back after being estranged for decades and represent his father that was accused of murder. And was this the movie? And he says, where were you? Was that this movie?

• 2:39:49Patrick Bet-David?

  That's Johnny Cash.

• 2:39:50Speaker 00

  Gotcha, but still same concept.

• 2:39:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Both of them, but, but in that scene, there's also where were you? Oh, she want, your mother just wanted to see you. Why don't you come? Yeah.

• 2:39:58Speaker 00

  So it's tough out there and we've seen the stats about, you know, the best outcome for a kid is to have a, a two-parent household, a nuclear family, but then when you take away the father, the, the stats plummet. But when you take away the mother and it's a single father, the stats say the same. And I'm not discounting what single mothers do because the, God knows we have that massive problem in this country. But the father's role in the life is the most important thing. The last thing is this, I have friends on the opposite side of things, guys my age, that have gone through a divorce. And I've seen the women that hold the kids hostage from my buddies. And I wish it was an equal footing type of thing, but men have to know what they're getting themselves into in the legal system

• 2:40:43Speaker 00

  because they're always going to side with the mother, whether that's alimony, whether child support. So be very careful who you have kids with, go through the vetting system. I know you talk about the 101. Questions to ask before you get engaged, but this life thing that we're all trying to do, it's, it, nobody has all the answers.

• 2:41:00Patrick Bet-David?

  But I want to show you this. I want to show you this, Rob. Can you go to this other clip I sent you? Because Vinny, if, if, I want you to see this. These two go hand in hand. Here's a guy that is sitting with his dad. Okay. And this guy's a father now himself. He's got a son himself. And he is trying to tell exactly how he feels about his dad in the most respectful. And he is so sincere in this clip, very emotional. Rob, go ahead and play the clip.

• 2:41:30Speaker 00

  I waited for you. I waited every weekend and you never showed up. And he always told, he always said that you would.

• 2:41:41Speaker 00

  And I love looking back.

• 2:41:51Speaker 04

  You know, we never had this talk. Nigga, this 33 years, right here, and that's what this is. Yeah, and you told me that you would come, Daddy. You never did. You told me that you was gonna pick me up. And I waited, and I look at my son, and I think about how much I... what my son means to me. And I can never make him sit on a curb. And I don't say this to make you feel bad. I don't. I really love you. This is not to beat you up, show. This is the "Here we are." This is the "We're gonna rejoice." So let me get it out. 'Cause you, like me, were the same. I know you love to talk. And I love to talk. And I've been talking and talking, so but let me keep talking.

• 2:42:34Speaker 04

  And let me say, "I was that little boy, and you told me you would come, and you promised, and you promised." You know, I'm a man of my word today because you aren't.

• 2:42:48Speaker 00

  Wow, that's a really famous rapper, by the way. Who was it? Is that Logic right there? That's Logic. Was that Logic? I never saw that. He's one of the greatest rappers, white, black, whatever.

• 2:42:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that really Logic?

• 2:42:57Speaker 00

  Eminem rapper level. Yeah, that guy's nasty. Wow, I didn't know that.

• 2:43:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, my God, I didn't know that was Logic.

• 2:43:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, I didn't. Until mid-interview, I go, "Wait a minute." I saw the tattoos.

• 2:43:08Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think about that? What do you think about a son being that vulnerable with his father for not being there? The pain, the emotion, I could never do that to my son.

• 2:43:16Speaker 00

  Insane, like, I would never have him be on a curb and sitting. Wait, because guess what? He... Right when he said that, I knew that he was sitting on a curb as a kid, like, "Where's my dad?" Aw, man. Well, this is what I talked about, where, you know, if you're poor, you're gonna have that motivation, right? He learned from his father. He said, "I'm not... I'm gonna be present for my kids, 'cause you weren't present for me." So it comes down to this one thing. You don't have to have that generational curse in your family. You can be the person that stops the curse. Whether that's money, whether that's education, whether that's fatherhood, whether that's anything in life, you can be the person that makes the difference. So shout out to him for being the best version of himself.

• 2:44:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom.

• 2:44:02Speaker 00

  You know, there's a reason that the Lord tells us, "Don't let the sun go down on your anger." And there's a reason that when Christ talked about all the characters of humanness, he said, "But the greatest of these is love."

• 2:44:17Speaker 00

  And there's two simple truths about kids. Who is in their ear is always important. Kids, other parents, who is in your kid's ear, number one. And number two, they're watching. They're watching you.

• 2:44:38Speaker 00

  When people get divorced and suddenly leave, they don't walk out on the spouse, they're walking out on the kid. Because that's what the kid believes. Kids inherently believe, "It's not my fault I'm here and your fight's not my fight." Adults in counseling help people unpack these woundings.

• 2:45:00Speaker 00

  Where you come later in life and you say, "My parents got divorced. That wasn't..." It says, "It hurt, it hurt me and I was innocent." And my dad tried to say, "You don't understand, you had to live with my mom. You don't understand, you had to live with your dad." Parents don't leave each other, they leave kids. And it is the, it is the power of faith and the Holy Spirit that gets you to a place where you can forgive. But not letting the sun go down on your anger and finding the love for those around you.

• 2:45:36Speaker 00

  Logic was giving his dad a gift there. The gift of transparency and the pain so that they could work from here. And I don't know what happened with Anthony Hopkins' daughter, but he admitted, he came into a kid... And he said goodbye. The kid wasn't in the fight. The fight was the mom and Hopkins. I don't know the, I don't know the situation. I don't know the other facts. But you see it all the time where kids just draw a line and the line is not a line of rejection typically. It's a line of protection. If people say that hurt me so bad, I'm going to put up a wall here. Cause I won't be hurt again. Other times the kids are just putting up a line of, of anger.

• 2:46:22Speaker 00

  Says you've hurt me and I'm not going to, never going to let you close to me. But all of it, it's human tragedy. It's all human tragedy. And regardless of how deep you go or how far you go, there's always a way out. And the way out is that Jesus Christ can heal. Even if the parent is never to be seen again, or has passed away, he can heal the bitterness in our hearts and give us a way forward. And for those that are awake and are available and are here, be careful of who's in your kid's eyes. And be objective about who you are and what you portray, because they're watching.

• 2:46:58Patrick Bet-David?

  That's great, you know, a, a, and I would tell you. Humiliation, public loss causes people to run and get away from things. Sometimes a, a father is just not that present because, you know, the, the, the wife, embarrassment, the undermining, any of that stuff. It's nasty. It's one thing that the kid just wants, man. He just wants you around. That's what he wants. He just wants you around. He wants you to say, I believe in you, son. He, he wants you to say, you know, uh, uh, challenge him to do a little bit better. He, he wants you to give him the gift of time, quality of time, words, positive affirmations. And those are things that we can do. It doesn't require money.

• 2:47:42Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, and no matter, no matter how much money or how little money you got, I remember my dad had nothing. When we would go and we would eat at a Burger King, we would eat because he could afford a Whopper. And it was working at a 99 cent store and I would go the days that he had me. When I would see him every other week and we'd go to the 99 cent, he would make me a little sandwich and we would sit there and listen to a, a, a, you know, Persian music that he's playing. Naslemah, nasletoh, nasletaharokia zamune. Nasli, I mean, we would just listen to the song over and over again at Westwood or in, you know, Inglewood. And I would remember these, these, these moments, so. You don't need all the money in the world to give your kids what they want. It isn't just money.

• 2:48:25Patrick Bet-David?

  They want words, they want belief, they want encouragement, they want playtime, and they want you to know you believe in them. Because society today isn't saying that a lot. And if the wrong person tells your kids they believe in them, and they're the first to do so, typically their philosophy and ideology will be imposed on your kids. Do not be the last person that tells your kids I believe in them. Be the first. Never be the last one. Never be the one that doesn't do it. Start off, when you get off the today's podcast and whatever you're doing for the people that are still watching, call your kids today, make it an assignment, write them a note, tell them how much you believe in them and why. Here's why I believe in you. It'll be one of the best conversations you'll have with your kids.

• 2:49:07Patrick Bet-David?

  And if you haven't done it yet, it'll be an amazing moment, incredible reaction. They'll be shocked. But those of you guys that are doing it, don't even worry about it. Vinny?

• 2:49:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, can I quick look? Okay, so the Hot Cakes and Hot Takes is going to be going live right after this. I think they're going to put a lower third with the QR code. Me and Emily Austin with Rob and Humberto. Amazing conversation, stuff that you're not even going to know about her. We didn't even talk about politics. It was about hotcakes, her tennis pro, she almost won tennis pro. So if you guys want to go, we're going to go right after this. It's actually live.

• 2:49:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Take care, everybody. Bye bye, bye bye.

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