Trump-Xi Strike New Deal, Midterm Warning Signs & Tesla Semi Finally Arrives | PBD Podcast #863

Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team break down the latest Trump-Xi deals between the U. S. and China, warning signs emerging ahead of the 2026 midterms, and Tesla finally delivering its long-awaited Semi. Plus, the Iran war, rising prices, AI concerns, the economy, and the biggest stories shaping America. ------ 👞 Get the NEW Billionaire Suede Loafer:https://bit.ly/4ym5oRA 👕 SHOP THE ICON COLLECTION:https://bit.ly/3TuUU3x 👞 GET THE FLB1's:https://bit.ly/4mC4uf6 Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT:https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES:https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING:https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE:https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 🇰 KALSHI:http://kalshi.com/pbd SUBSCRIBE TO: https://youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENT https://youtube.com/@BetDavidConsulting https://youtube.com/@vtgenz https://youtube.com/@ValuetainmentComedy ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls.

• 0:14Speaker 00

  Handshake is better than anything I ever signs, right here. You are a one of one? My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before.

• 0:26Speaker 00

  Alright, so for some of you that used to listen to freestyle music, I have this morning, Vinny, we're listening to TKA, what do you know about TKA, Louder Than Love? They don't know. We're listening to, you know, Spring Love, Come Back To Me, Because I Love You, you know, by Stevie B. And who else do we play this morning? Oh, Shannon. Shannon. Let the music play. They don't get away. That's what's been happening this morning, and Tom's looking at us like, what the hell are they talking about? I'm just doing bong heads. Listening to you doing bong heads. So if you know freestyle, and if you're above 40 and you're listening to freestyle, put the best freestyle songs, Bill, I want to see what you put up there. And we've got a lot of stories to cover here today.

• 1:11Speaker 00

  One of them is, you guys don't even know, Vladimir Guerrero gets a $500 million contract, and they ask him, hey, your season sucked, you went to the World Series last, you almost won the whole thing, you guys kick off game seven with a three-run homerun, you're supposed to beat the Dodgers. And he has a horrible season, gets a half a billion dollars, and he says, they didn't pay me for what to do this year, they're paying me for what I did before. What a shitty attitude. What a horrible attitude to act like that. And it was my favorite World Series I ever watched. Anyways, we'll talk about that. And then we got some sports stuff we'll talk about. We got the midterms, there are so many stories about midterms, I don't even know which ones to put, so we got a category that just says midterm warning signs, and by the way, the warning signs are all for Republicans.

• 1:56Speaker 00

  Watch this. Number one, 17 Republicans in close races break with Trump on Iran war. That's a problem, let's see what happens there. Midterm candidates are dumping debates, 21 out of 36 gubernatorial races may not have a debate. The new thing to do is, let's not debate, right? In a society of freedom of speech, let's not debate, let's not sit there and debate issues. I don't want to talk to the other person. Let me get this straight, if you don't want to sit and talk to other people to get deals done, how the hell are you going to be a person that's getting deals done when you become a governor? How do you make, give me the reassurance to know you're going to be able to do that? I don't know about some of the things they're doing right now with these governors, even if it's Republican or Democrat, I publicly called them out.

• 2:37Speaker 00

  I think it's a horrible, too cool attitude of, I already got it, it's done, we're going to win, and then whenever you lose, then what's going to happen? Anyways, I'm not happy about that, but we'll talk about it. Democrats hit with a plus nine in polling average. Biggest lead of the cycle, we'll show you some of the stuff for Kalshi, you got to see what people are saying with Kalshi, and it's not looking good. Florida Republicans are bracing for the worst results they've had since 2018, vibes return. Worse since 2018, we'll address that. Bill Maher says the president is the F around and find out president, it's a good clip. UK police arrest, five men, okay?

• 3:17Speaker 00

  Who were trying to attack a base that has 125 US soldiers and bombers.

• 3:24Speaker 01

  B1, B2, and a farmer pack called their 9199, it's our 911, and was like, I saw eight to 10, they caught five, three white vans, they evacuated the whole freaking neighborhood, and wait till what the news was reporting.

• 3:36Speaker 00

  We'll talk about that, we'll talk about that. And then Trump and Xi visit, apparently there was a lot of things talked about, one of the things that was talked about, which is kind of apparently a big deal, is Xi offered to give two pandas to us, okay? And I'm being, one is a male, one is a female, they're both born in 2020, one is called Pink Pink, the other one's called Fu Shuang, like, and I'm not even kidding with you, these are the names. And apparently some people believe that pandas are not even real animals, because all they want to do is eat all day, not mate. They don't mate. The reason why they're going extinct is because pandas don't mate. And so some are saying, maybe China created this 150 years ago as a way to spy on others. Anyways, they gave us two pandas, which is, I guess, a big celebration, it's China's way of saying, Tom, we want to do a deal with you, that's their way of doing it.

• 4:21Speaker 00

  Okay. When they give you a couple pandas. But apparently there was a bunch of other things that, you know, hey, they're welcoming 100,000 soldiers, you know, a bunch of other things that we'll get into. Trump asked Xi, do you need some military weapons, do you need help with anything? So we'll see, we'll see what's going to happen there in the story. Elon comes out and shows the semi truck, and the trucking industry is like, wait, are you kidding me? So the trucks, the semis that we've been waiting for nine years, it's finally here, it validates that even the smartest guy in the world, everything you try to do in life is harder, it's 10 times harder than you think, and it takes a lot longer than you think it does. But the semi trucks look ridiculous, they look great, and if they're able to do what

• 5:02Speaker 00

  they can do, there may be disruption in the transportation industry, which we have a lot of friends that are in that business. Then, this weekend, football, you got this USC player tackles Oregon's quarterback, knocks him unconscious, the guy has to get a stretcher, come out, and he's celebrating, the teammates are saying, what are you doing? And a player from Texas sacks the quarterback, goes and pees on him. Yeah, crazy. Teammates are like, what the hell are you doing? Okay, and in the meantime, Joe Burrow loses the ball, they should have won the game, Dallas Cowboys, good for Baltimore Ravens, what a victory, they had, and Josh Allen gets another run, another rushing touchdown, and Trevor Lawrence decides to stop on a one-yard line, nobody has a clue why. Bunch of weird things happened yesterday with football.

• 5:46Speaker 01

  Don't forget about the Giants, though.

• 5:47Speaker 00

  Oh, listen, six times two is 12.

• 5:49Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 5:50Speaker 00

  I'd never forget that six times two is 12.

• 5:53Speaker 01

  Winston, baby!

• 5:54Speaker 00

  I'll tell you right now, every time, I love him, but every time I watch Jame Winston, all I think about is, my math has got to get better.

• 6:01Speaker 01

  You just stepped up.

• 6:02Speaker 00

  He said, six times two is 12, and we're doing it for our guy Dart. We love you, Winston. But seriously, we're rooting for you. Hook him up with Terrence Howard for the math. Math off. That would be great. And then we got a few other cool stories to talk about. Besen is, says Iran has two more weeks until their last shipment of oil brings them revenue. After that, they have nothing going on, and Besen's talking like this, super confident. And then the foreign minister, Abbas Arjaci, is asked, I think it's by Kristen Welk, one of those, Kristen Welk, who is messing up, it's Welker and it's Collins, right? I'm just going to say by last name, I'm going to say last name. One is CNN, one is NBC. NBC.

• 6:45Speaker 00

  So Welker, NBC says, you know, where is your, you know, your supreme leader? Have you seen him? He's doing very good, he still sends the messages from the top, people think, all these stories, now, why don't you do a video? Oh, because of security reasons? You have to watch it. And then in one of the interviews says, Iran foreign minister says Tehran's ready for doomsday war with the US. Doomsday war with US, very optimistic, you know, and stuff that they want to do, and then Messi scores a ridiculous goal. Oh, ridiculous. We got angles, and Messi bought a house, guess in what city? The great Fort Lauderdale, everybody's coming to Florida, I keep telling them, even the greatest soccer player of all time, that's a billionaire, is choosing Fort Lauderdale out of hundreds of thousands of cities in the world that he can live in, he chooses Fort Lauderdale, I don't know why. But anyways, we got that going on.

• 7:30Speaker 00

  So in the interim, while we're going through this, this weekend, guys in the back, if you have the picture that Alicia gave to you with me in Brooklyn, if you have it, do me a favor and put it up, if you don't have it, there it is. Look at this with me in Brooklyn, right now. Skinny Pat, look at Skinny Pat. I've lost 30 pounds, guys. You look great, bro. But do you see in this photo shoot what I'm wearing? Do you see what I'm wearing? That's some FLB. I'm wearing our latest billionaire loafers, which by the way, most incredibly, I wore this on Saturday, and I wore it on Sunday, and I think I wore it on Friday. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. No socks, and it still smells amazing, right? It still smells amazing. Prove it. Hang on, I'm just telling you. But let me tell you, and by the way, if you also look at that, I'm wearing the FLB shirts

• 8:14Speaker 00

  there, my closet, I replaced all the white shirts that I have from all these other guys I was buying, $900, $1,200. Ripping, and they're ripping. It's all ours, and I don't know what we're selling for, it's $99, something like that. My entire closet is filled with these white shirts, but these shoes, you know what we have now? The latest FLB high-quality hat that just came through, look at how they go together right there. You have them in different colors, you can have them in Movila, yeah.

• 8:40Speaker 01

  That's the matching one. Oh, that's the match, look at that.

• 8:42Speaker 00

  Look at this match here, the two here together, look at them. Look how that sits together, right? Yesterday, I had Tom's wife, Kim, was wearing the navy blue one, and we have them in white, we have them in navy blue, and it's cool, we have it that goes with the navy blue billionaire loafers, so if you're somebody...

• 9:02Speaker 00

  That believes the future looks bright and we have some amazing, amazing announcement that's coming out here very soon. You're gonna see the first FLB store, which we can't wait to launch and have the people show up to the first store. Until that day, for those of you that love the brand and you support what we're doing here, you want to see this thing getting bigger, this doesn't happen without you. If you don't watch us, we're not able to do what we're doing. And we chose to have our sponsors be our businesses, so we don't have to be uncomfortable about our opinions. And if you value that, support the cause, represent the gear, and we do everything in our power to bring better quality products to you. And we listen to you. So go to FLB.com, place your order again. Go to FLB.com, place an order, whether you get the loafers and the hats together. My suggestion is combine

• 9:44Speaker 00

  the colors, and you have a lot of other options to go with it. So with that being said, let's get right into it. First story to get into is Trump's meeting with Xi. Okay, and there's a lot of them to go through here. So they have a meeting together. The first thing that a lot of people are talking about because of China trying to show that we want to do business with you. China hands off two panda bears to US, and one of them is called Ping Ping, the other one's called Fuxiang. And like I talked about earlier with these, what do you call it, these pandas, this is their way of saying we want to do business. They lend it to you. The problem with pandas is apparently they don't mate. All they want to do is eat. And they value eating over mating, which I have met some people like that, but not too many. So these guys don't want to make babies, which is a problem. However,

• 10:29Speaker 00

  deals were done. So the president asks, hey, you know, exactly, they call the panda diplomacy. Some people don't think these pandas are not real. And they kind of created it to, you know, because, you know, this whole extinct stuff that we talk about, we'll see. But they said, hey, we want to invite 100,000 of your soldiers, US to come to us. Trump asks, do you need any arms? Do you need any weapons that we need to help you out with? It's a back and forth. And some of the stories that came out, Tom, I don't know how close you're following this. US-China reach a $30 billion tariff deal after Trump Xi summit. Both of them are saying, hey, let's take this off right now. Let's you take it off right now. Let's kind of make sure we're not tariffing each other left and right. US says China to buy 10 million tons of coal in '27 and '28. Trump says Xi knows how I feel

• 11:14Speaker 00

  about Taiwan. Taiwan was also addressed in the conversation. So let's pick one of them and start with the Taiwan topic. Trump says Xi knows how I feel on Taiwan after the summit. And Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one here. And I think we have a clip on this in the back. Trump said on Saturday that the issue of Taiwan came up in meetings with Xi, as he refrained from repeating Washington's decade-old stance on the self-grieving island. We didn't talk about it too much. Right now, it's fine. It's just moving along. He told reporters before departing the White House for college team game, we didn't spend a lot of time about Taiwan. He understands how I feel about it. Comments came after Chinese readout said Xi urged the US to oppose Taiwan's independence. Trump didn't restate the US

• 11:58Speaker 00

  opposition, but gave no indication is willing to meet with Xi's demand to change it. The US officially does not support Taiwanese independence and opposes unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has made bringing Taiwan under China's control a key goal, vowing to achieve it by force if necessary. Tom, thoughts on this story?

• 12:21Speaker 02

  Now, more than ever, we need someone on our side. But Rob Whitman? Whitman's votes drove up costs, cut Medicaid, and risked 350,000 Virginians' healthcare to pay for tax breaks for himself and his donors. He's not on our side. Shannon Taylor will fight corruption, cut taxes, and bring down costs. This November, vote for Shannon Taylor. She's for us. Paid for by HMP, the House Majority PAC dot com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

• 12:50Speaker 03

  How many discounts does USAA Auto Insurance offer? Too many to say here. Multi-vehicle discount, safe driver discount, uh, new vehicle discount, storage discount?

• 12:59Speaker 04

  How many discounts will you stack up? Tap the banner or visit USAA.com slash auto discounts. Restrictions apply.

• 13:05Speaker 05

  This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50-page restoration block, or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up require compatibility and availability varies 18 plus.

• 13:30Speaker 06

  Well, first of all, I thought was very, very interesting is her talk about energy. So Taiwan is always going to be Taiwan. And basically what Xi is saying, you know, ultimately we're going to do this. That's what Xi is saying. And Trump is saying, well, it's moving along. And so this sounds a little bit like Biden in Ukraine, where he said, well, remember this, if it's just a border, minor version at the border, yeah. So suddenly, Trump is not coming out and saying hard no on Taiwan. He's just saying Xi knows how I feel about Taiwan. And we didn't spend a lot of time talking about it. But Xi keeps saying, we're

• 14:12Speaker 06

  gonna do this. You know, we want this, and we're gonna do this. And then they turn around and they make an energy deal. I think that's very significant, because that's the thing China needs, energy. And if the US builds diplomacy with China and takes Alaskan oil and then sends that to China, that's exactly the kind of thing they need. They need that. So I think that in some ways, this took a couple steps. In some ways, it was just the same old, same old. But then at the end of it, they said, hey, we're going to get back together live in November, and we're going to talk about AI. And so I thought all of this, I thought it was, here's my headline. It's good when they're talking. I think it's good when they're talking. And I think Xi probably didn't get what he wants, which

• 14:56Speaker 06

  maybe is another inch or two on Taiwan. But Trump, you know, made his point, and then they bought a bunch of energy.

• 15:03Speaker 00

  In the meantime, while you're talking about this, and Trump is saying, you know, our position hasn't changed, and China's saying their position hasn't changed. Arming Taiwan is an important US interest, Taipei official says after Trump Xi summit. Providing weapons to Taiwan to protect its freedom and supply semiconductors to the world is in the US national interest, a senior Taiwanese diplomat said Saturday after the three-day Trump Xi summit ended with no big public breakouts. Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu asked whether concessions on Taiwan would actually serve US interests, maintaining military sales, and allowing Taiwan's semiconductor industry to continue contributing to the world. These are important US interests. Wang Kwang-jin, very common name of political

• 15:44Speaker 00

  science professor at National Chiang Kung University, said the outcome beats expectations. Looking at the results, many things we thought would be very bad didn't happen. The Trump administration approved an $11 billion arms sale in December 10 months ago. Second worth $14 billion is pending. The US ambassador to China, David Perdue, said there has been no change in Taiwan policy. China's policy, people daily call Taiwan the first unbreakable red line. Adam, thoughts?

• 16:11Speaker 07

  Look, here's the deal with China. I mean, we've criticized China enough. I'm actually going to give some, I guess, rosy picture on China. I don't think they're our enemy, per se. Certainly, they're a competitor, no doubt. But you know, you hear this term decoupling, we got to decouple with China, we're going to decouple. We are so closely intertwined, that there's no decoupling. And I'll give you a specific example. The last time that there was a competitor to the United States on this level was who? The Soviet Union, USSR, which crumbled in '91, I believe. We had nothing going on, trade-wise, alliance-wise,

• 16:53Speaker 07

  business-wise, anything going on with the USSR. So it was the Cold War at its height. I'm sure you remember sort of the remnants of that, Tom, obviously. But there was no reason to work on a deal. There was nothing really to discuss. You know, they had the famous red hotline phone. God forbid, there was going to be something nuclear.

• 17:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, after Nixon, this all got established.

• 17:15Speaker 07

  There you go. But there was no reason to work out a framework of a deal, because there was no interaction, there was no intertwining of the economies. At this point, I think it's pretty evident with China, as much as you might think that they're enemies or competitors, our economies are so intertwined. How many times have you looked at an item and been like, made in China, like almost everything? At this point, like Tom said, it's so much better to discuss and come to terms on where we can agree on things, such as trade, AI, minerals. There's certainly things there's going to be differences on, i.e. Taiwan. But at the end of the day, I don't see any decoupling. If anything, they're just kicking the can down the road on this trade situation.

• 17:56Speaker 01

  I disagree in the fact that China isn't the enemy, because the word that they use is adversary. If you look at everything that they've done, Adam, from the spying, from the buying bases, which I agree, it's stupid because the Biden administration let them, flying spy balloons, COVID-19, they released it, and they still don't have any accountability for it. Okay, so mind you, just because we're not shooting and bombing and whatever, they are our enemy. But the fact that Trump is a freaking statesman, and what did Bill Maher say? The F around and find out president? From all the stuff that they did with the deep state, Adam, which I believe, this is my opinion, from 2019 to 2020 to COVID, to me, it was all Trump was kicking butt, he was holding their foot to the fire against

• 18:39Speaker 01

  trade, and then all of a sudden, a virus comes out of a lab that we own, Fauci, that's a whole, we already know how that story goes. But I think Trump is such a freaking boss. He invites them, he shows them around, he's being professional, but at the same time, he's going, hey, listen, with Taiwan, don't even try it. Oh, and you guys are going to promise us to buy how many, how much coal, Tom? 10 billion? What's the number?

• 18:59Speaker 06

  $30 billion worth of.

• 19:01Speaker 01

  $30 billion worth of coal, so say what you want.

• 19:05Speaker 06

  This year, and again.

• 19:06Speaker 01

  And again, 2028. I just think, Adam, like, they are the enemy, but they're not the shooting guns in your face enemy. But trust me, they would want nothing more than for us to suffer.

• 19:14Speaker 07

  So, and by the way. Push back on that just a little bit. I agree with everything you said. It's not like I'm thinking that China's our best friend and we're being FFF. My whole situation is we are working together on certain things.

• 19:26Speaker 01

  For sure.

• 19:27Speaker 07

  That there's no decoupling from. So we acknowledge COVID. We acknowledge these issues.

• 19:32Speaker 01

  Well, they didn't. They haven't.

• 19:33Speaker 07

  I'm just saying, like, we know what the situation is. My whole thing is, where do we go from here? Are we actually going to get into a hot war with China? Are we really going to do something like that? It's easy to say enemy. I get that. That's an easy thing to do. But where are we going to work together, is the question.

• 19:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, this chart that, I don't know if the audience can see it, this chart has not moved more than five points in the last six years. This is why there's a red line on Taiwan. Look at all the chips. Taiwan has got the global massive market share in terms of a location. You can't let China take this. So I think Trump's trying to let the edges form. But this is why the EU doesn't want Taiwan to go back. But they don't want to be the ones that speak up.

• 20:16Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 20:16Speaker 06

  Everyone doesn't want it because you look at this. Until these chips can be made elsewhere, you're going to give China lording over this and putting spyware and things into chips. It will happen. This is why Taiwan must stay independent.

• 20:29Speaker 07

  Those pandas, those pandas probably have spy chips.

• 20:31Speaker 06

  They sit around and eat all day.

• 20:33Speaker 01

  Pandas are cute.

• 20:34Speaker 06

  Wasn't China supposed to surpass United States economy and GDP in 2025?

• 20:38Speaker 00

  Called made in China 2025.

• 20:40Speaker 06

  Where is that now? Is it even close, the economies at this point?

• 20:43Speaker 00

  Well, if you're, if you're, if you live in China, you would say we hit it. If you live in China. If you live in China, you have to, you have to realize the only media we listen to is our own media. You don't wake up in the morning and go watch in China what they're saying on TV.

• 20:59Speaker 01

  They have state run media.

• 21:00Speaker 00

  That's the point. So to them, they're saying that they hit it. And if you go and, and you know, talk to others who are neutral players, if you talk to neutral players, neutral players will say, you know, you know, they'll, they'll look at this and they'll say, we have to still give that attention to China because they're going to be around, they're somebody we have to play with. It's not like they're not going to be there. They're not, they're not crossing off the idea of China being the dominant player in the world. The reason why it's right not being held off the way that it is, is because the guy that's negotiating the deals is not playing around.

• 21:34Speaker 06

  Trump.

• 21:34Speaker 00

  So yeah, Trump. So if, if this, if this hangs on for another two more years, and if AOC or Newsom becomes president, how quickly do you think they're going to hit Taiwan? What do you think is going to happen? You think they're going to sit on it? So they, they have to sit there and realize this isn't, Xi is telling you, I may not do it under your watch.

• 21:53Speaker 01

  Right.

• 21:53Speaker 00

  But we're eventually doing it. So Xi, out of all the people, he's sitting there saying, this freaking guy, Trump, I can't wait for him to get out. And they're, he's prob, how old is Xi, by the way? And they're saying he has some health issues.

• 22:05Speaker 01

  He looks, he looks, he doesn't look that healthy.

• 22:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:07Speaker 06

  Firm that, maybe 72, 73.

• 22:09Speaker 00

  72, 73, okay. So how much longer does he have? He doesn't have that much long. Let's say he goes seven more years, okay? Let's say he goes seven more years.

• 22:17Speaker 06

  I, I think it's going to be longer than that.

• 22:19Speaker 00

  But what I'm saying is, he is probably sitting there, if there's anything he's pissed off with himself, it might, my speculation, I think Xi is sitting there pissed off with the fact that he did not attack Taiwan under Biden. That was his best flipping opportunity. You know why? And here's how he's probably thinking he should have done it. The moment Putin attacked Ukraine, guess what Xi is thinking? I should have attacked Taiwan a month later. You know why? It's so much distract. Tom is doing some stuff today I've never seen before. He's like, he is, no, he's talking to sign language people. So he.

• 22:55Speaker 06

  That's the sign for the bullpen.

• 22:57Speaker 00

  If he, if they would have hit, so just think about it. Go to, to the month that Putin hits Ukraine.

• 23:03Speaker 06

  That would have been in 2022.

• 23:05Speaker 00

  Perfect. A month later, he should have hit it.

• 23:08Speaker 00

  A month later, he should have hit it. It would have been so confusing for everybody.

• 23:11Speaker 06

  For the UN especially.

• 23:12Speaker 00

  It would have been so confusing for UN, it would have been so confusing on how for Biden to handle it. It would have been, so what pin do you wear? Do you wear the Ukraine pin? Do you wear the Taiwan pin? Which pin do you wear?

• 23:23Speaker 06

  Wear this pin, sir.

• 23:23Speaker 00

  What I'm trying to say is those people that were trying to play these moralists or whatever, what?

• 23:28Speaker 06

  Crass standing, holier than now.

• 23:30Speaker 00

  I think Xi is sitting there behind closed doors saying that they, there is nobody in the world, there is no one in the world that wants, there's no one in the world that wants a democratic president more than Xi today.

• 23:45Speaker 06

  Yeah, I agree.

• 23:46Speaker 00

  Nobody. And guess who else they don't want? Guess who Xi doesn't want on the Republican side?

• 23:51Speaker 06

  Marco Rubio.

• 23:52Speaker 01

  Marco Rubio, of course not.

• 23:54Speaker 00

  He wants a democratic president or second a JD Vance.

• 23:58Speaker 06

  I agree with you.

• 23:58Speaker 00

  That's what he wants.

• 23:59Speaker 06

  And you know what it's so evident?

• 24:00Speaker 01

  I agree.

• 24:00Speaker 06

  You know what's so evident?

• 24:01Speaker 00

  He wants a non-interventionist president, and he wants a democratic president.

• 24:06Speaker 01

  And you know, you know, I agree 100%.

• 24:08Speaker 00

  Why?

• 24:08Speaker 01

  Look at the, look at the difference from Trump, Republican, to what the Democrats, if, if, like, I get it because he had to come to the White House, you have to lay out the red carpet, so to speak. But look at during Biden, when he went to freaking San Francisco, they literally got, took all the homeless people and they said, you guys need to go and hide for a week.

• 24:25Speaker 06

  In Sacramento, in buses, they bust them out of the city.

• 24:29Speaker 01

  Yeah. And, and my.

• 24:30Speaker 06

  And they hitchhiked back over two weeks.

• 24:32Speaker 01

  Yep. And Tom, and look at all the connections that we found out with Hunter and, and Joe Biden. They could have done whatever they wanted under Biden. I think that's a freaking great observation. He missed his mark. He missed his opportunity and he should have done it. I'm not saying I wanted him to do it, but.

• 24:45Speaker 00

  But, but I think that's the part. I think he's regretting it, and I think it's going to come. And he wants, number one, an AOC, number two, a Newsom, number three, JD Vance. He does not want a Marco Rubio. That's not what he wants. And he can't wait for Trump to be gone. He's doing all this stuff for diplomacy reasons. But what, okay, so here becomes a question, Tom. What are the chances China attacks Taiwan while Trump's president?

• 25:07Speaker 06

  Very low, 1%. They play the long game. I'm going at maybe 5%. And they only do it like if weird things keep happening in Iran and there's a confusion moment where they can step in.

• 25:18Speaker 00

  Yeah, so I think, I think here's, so here's the question.

• 25:21Speaker 06

  So I'm like this.

• 25:22Speaker 00

  Here's my question for you. You ready? You ready? Okay. So be in the room, be in a negotiation room. Hey, Trump, what if we do this? In their own way, I'm not going to try to do their accent, in their own way.

• 25:34Speaker 06

  You know what? Let's give it a shot.

• 25:35Speaker 00

  Actually not going to do it because it's a serious thing. I don't want to make this funny.

• 25:38Speaker 06

  Oh, go ahead.

• 25:38Speaker 00

  So, no, no, hear me out. So what if they say this? What are the likelihood they think Xi's camp has made this offer? Hey, President Trump, wink, wink in their own way. We will step out of the way and no longer buy anything from Iran and let them suffer. If you allow us to go and attack Taiwan and do our part. We will be 100% ally to you if you allow us to do what we want to do with Taiwan. We will let Iran be destroyed, will even support in the regime change. What do you think's the likelihood that someone on their team has relayed that message to someone on Trump's team?

• 26:17Speaker 06

  I don't think that message is quite like that, but I think it's probably, I'll go a 75% chance that something in that vicinity has been said. Why wouldn't they? They're not going to give up on Iran.

• 26:27Speaker 00

  You get what I'm saying?

• 26:28Speaker 06

  Okay, I don't think they're going to give up on Iran. When you look at Belt and Road and you look at the geography going to Europe, I don't think they're going to give up a customer or a vendor like Iran. But do I think they would kind of move the chessboard a little bit for that? Yes, absolutely.

• 26:41Speaker 00

  What do, what do you think they value more? Controlling Taiwan and being the dominant player in?

• 26:47Speaker 06

  Chips.

• 26:47Speaker 00

  Chips? Or do you think them having control of Iran with the Strait of Hormuz and all the oil that's moving through there? All the inventory that's moving through there?

• 26:56Speaker 06

  I, I think they value, this is Belt and Road, and take a look at the Silk Road that goes from Samarkand.

• 27:04Speaker 06

  Take a look and.

• 27:05Speaker 00

  You okay?

• 27:05Speaker 06

  Dushanabe.

• 27:07Speaker 00

  Tom.

• 27:07Speaker 06

  I don't know if I'm pronouncing.

• 27:08Speaker 00

  Don't, don't even try that, Tom.

• 27:09Speaker 06

  Samarkand.

• 27:11Speaker 00

  You know what? Keep going, Tom.

• 27:13Speaker 06

  No, you take a look.

• 27:14Speaker 00

  What are you saying, Tom? You're saying what? You're saying there's no chance this is happening?

• 27:18Speaker 06

  No, I'm saying I think there's been a conversation along those lines.

• 27:22Speaker 00

  Between 0 to 100, how important is them getting Taiwan?

• 27:26Speaker 06

  They would.

• 27:26Speaker 00

  Score it.

• 27:27Speaker 06

  To them, very important.

• 27:28Speaker 00

  Give me a number.

• 27:28Speaker 01

  Eight, 75.

• 27:29Speaker 06

  95.

• 27:29Speaker 00

  I think it's 99, to be honest with you. And if you want something that's the 99 type of a level.

• 27:35Speaker 01

  Somebody's talking to somebody.

• 27:36Speaker 00

  And so guess what Trump is sitting there? Trump, if I'm Trump, guess what I'm thinking? That, one, there is no way, we learned during COVID the hard, hard, hard way, how much control China has.

• 27:48Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 27:48Speaker 00

  And how we will be in trouble if the next COVID happens and event takes place. So what are the likelihood that Trump's going to give that up, Tom? The chips?

• 27:56Speaker 06

  Zero.

• 27:57Speaker 00

  Okay. So if that's zero, and what's the likelihood that China would be willing to stay out of Iran for them to have control of Taiwan?

• 28:06Speaker 06

  Uh, I don't think they'll, I don't think they give up both because of this. That is their path to Europe.

• 28:12Speaker 00

  For China specifically?

• 28:13Speaker 06

  Yeah, they, they, they think long about this, that the path that goes from Uzbekistan to Istanbul, they think about that.

• 28:20Speaker 00

  So, so, so then the question becomes.

• 28:22Speaker 06

  Take that out and look, they're still half isolated.

• 28:24Speaker 00

  Tom, if, if you, if, if they had a choice between IRGC staying, running Iran, or a regime change taking place with more honest players like a Saudi, not necessarily like angels, but an honest player that just is about business and money, who, who do you think they'd rather take? China?

• 28:42Speaker 06

  I, I think they'd rather, they'd rather work with IRGC, which is against the West. I'm 100% on that.

• 28:48Speaker 00

  Then, then this is, then this is, then this is why, you know, the, the idea of them wanting Trump out should be the number one priority. Get this obnoxiously strong negotiating guy that comes in thinking he runs the world out of the way and give me a Newsom, give me an AOC, give me a.

• 29:08Speaker 01

  A DSA person, yeah.

• 29:09Speaker 00

  Shapiro, give me a Ossoff, give me a, give me anybody but this guy. Give me a non-interventionist president so I can go out there and complete my mission and get this before another Republican shows back up. And they're praying behind closed doors. You know what China would be doing behind closed doors? I, if, if China is playing the dirty game, he would, they would spend a hundred million dollar campaign with bots and stories, making sure they scared the crap out of Rubio for Rubio not to run. The propaganda to make Rubio believe that he cannot win in 2028 is the number one priority. Rubio cannot run for office in 2028. If Rubio doesn't run for office for 2028, it's the most important thing for China if Rubio doesn't win.

• 29:48Speaker 06

  I agree with that. And why do you say that? Because they know how hawkish he is and how tough he is?

• 29:53Speaker 00

  They're, Rubio's not going to play the game with them.

• 29:55Speaker 06

  I agree.

• 29:56Speaker 00

  And Rubio's not going to sit there and be like, no, let's just mind our own business and let's just focus on America and let's not worry about what's going on around the world. And then around the world, they're going buying the chips. And you're just like running your own community and they're getting more power around you and more power around you and more power around you. Hey, how did this non-interventionist strategy work? They're not all your neighbors. What are you going to do now? Well, yeah, no, it's not that you, let's just focus on our problems and then you lose market share. That's what's been happening.

• 30:21Speaker 06

  And real quick, this is why I said that there's no decoupling from China and our conversations need to keep going on because there's a checklist of things that are a high priority. Obviously Taiwan is important to them. And you know the two words that Trump and the administration says to China whenever Taiwan comes up?

• 30:35Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 30:35Speaker 06

  Status quo. They don't even get into it. They're like, our, our position is the status quo.

• 30:40Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 30:40Speaker 06

  They don't even address it.

• 30:41Speaker 00

  I'm going to go to the next story. I'm going to go to the next story. Next story I want to get to is Scott Bessent. Talks about what's going on with Iran, that they have two more weeks left because they're about to get their last payment of oil. They have nothing else left to sell. And they're going to be hit very hard. I want you to watch this. Then we're going to go to the Foreign Minister of Iran. Watch what he says. Go for it.

• 30:59Speaker 08

  Million more barrels of Iranian oil on the water that Iran will have nothing left to trade for anything. They will have nothing to trade for anything. Probably within the next two weeks, they are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China. And then they will have nothing. It is an empty set. And I believe that they are feeling the pressure here. And that's why they want to deal. And you saw when President Trump was leaving the White House this morning, that the Iranians say they'll open the straits within seven days. Larry, the straits are open. If you take out the Iranian oil, which we're not

• 31:41Speaker 08

  letting out, we're not letting it out, that we're averaging now 15 to 22 million barrels a day. It was at about 20 pre-conflict. So you take out the one and a half or two Iranian barrels. So think of it this way, Larry, the score is United States, 1 billion, more than 1 billion barrels have gotten out, Iran, zero.

• 32:06Speaker 00

  Okay, so now he's saying this of what's going to be happening. Meanwhile, while they're having a conversation with Abbas Al-Raashi, if you have that clip as well, they're asking about what's going on there with your, is this the one about their Supreme Leader? Or are you going to the one that they're ready for doomsday? Do you have both of them? Okay, go to the doomsday one first, and then we'll go to the Supreme Leader, because the doomsday has to do with this. So watch this here, what they're prepared to do. Go for it.

• 32:32Speaker 09

  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump expects to resume bombing Iran after the midterms. As you know, he stood at the UN and threatened to annihilate Iran. Are you preparing for this war to resume?

• 32:44Speaker 10

  We are fully prepared for the time, for the war to be resumed. And I repeat, we stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even it comes to a doomsday war. But at the same time, we are ready, we stand ready for diplomacy. It is up to President Trump to choose. He wanted unconditional surrender in the previous war in two days, and now it's eight months that they are fighting with no result. A new aggression would be certainly the same. We are fully prepared for that. We have learned our lesson from the two previous wars, and we have corrected our tactics, we have changed our tactics,

• 33:29Speaker 10

  and we are fully prepared to do that.

• 33:30Speaker 09

  All right.

• 33:31Speaker 00

  Okay, and by the way, they're saying the IRGC Navy claimed it captured a US Remus 600 underwater drone in the straits. Okay, so they have underwater drone in the straits. West Texas Intermediate closed at 9241 a barrel, and Prince at 10432. I wonder where it's at right now, Tom, if you want to check it to see where the numbers are at, as of right now.

• 33:51Speaker 06

  WTI 94.

• 33:52Speaker 00

  WTI is 94. Brent?

• 33:53Speaker 06

  Brent's, Brent is 98.

• 33:58Speaker 00

  Brent's at 98. So Tom, what do you think about what Besen is saying that they have two weeks before the income stops with the last shipment that they're making? Do you believe him?

• 34:07Speaker 06

  Yes, I believe him. Because if you look back at Scott Besen, everything he said has basically come true, or have been directionally correct, and other things have then intervened. But he hasn't been off on a limb. And so I think what he's saying is that this is real. Also, he's bringing something up, in that there have been convoys, and there's been other things happening that's been allowing a certain amount of oil to get through. And some people are saying, oh, it's still closed, it's still closed. And you're wondering, where are we being gaslit by Reuters? And where are we being gaslit by political statements versus where it's really getting through? And I think you have to look at the price of oil. And I wish we had an audit point for the deliveries, right? If you had an

• 34:52Speaker 06

  audit point on deliveries to refineries, then we would have it. But Besen has not been a guy that's been out there attempting to gaslight on some wild theory that doesn't happen. There are proxies out there doing that on both sides. But Scott Besen wasn't one of them. And I believe him. I believe two weeks from now, if nothing changes, there's going to be issues. Now, how can Iran change that? Well, they get super, super aggressive, and they start throwing all those rockets all night in the Gulf, and then things have to stop. But right now, there apparently are ships that are on the Oman side, you know, we've talked about this before, stay on the south side where the US Navy is. And so if

• 35:33Speaker 06

  he says 20 are getting through, I'm like 85% believe Scott Besen that there's throughput. Now, has that been every day? He didn't say that. Has it been that way for a week? He didn't say that. But he did say, listen, over the last few days, we've had this. And that's a lot more oil that was going through.

• 35:51Speaker 00

  Yeah, in the interview, the conversation continues to say, you know, because Trump declined their last offer that they send in as well, because the offer was, you know, weak. And so, God, we're not interested in this. They're going to stay to their playbook. He was asked about the Supreme Leader of Iran, like, hey, if he's alive and he's doing so well, why can't we see him? This is what he had to say.

• 36:09Speaker 09

  Mr. Final question to you. The President of Iran said this week, he has spoken to the Supreme Leader. He says he is in good health. Why has there been no proof of life of the Supreme Leader since he took power in March?

• 36:24Speaker 02

  Now, more than ever, we need someone on our side. But Rob Whitman? Whitman's votes drove up costs, cut Medicaid, and risked 350,000 Virginians' health care to pay for tax breaks for himself and his donors. He's not on our side. Shannon Taylor will fight corruption, cut taxes, and bring down costs. This November, vote for Shannon Taylor. She's for us. Paid for by HMP, the House Majority PAC dot com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

• 36:54Speaker 03

  How many discounts does USAA Auto Insurance offer? Too many to say here. Multi-vehicle discount, safe driver discount, new vehicle discount, storage discount?

• 37:03Speaker 04

  How many discounts will you stack up? Tap the banner or visit usaa.com/autodiscount. Restrictions apply.

• 37:09Speaker 05

  This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50-page restoration block, or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up required. Compatibility and availability varies. 18 plus.

• 37:34Speaker 10

  Well, there are security concerns. It was a little bit longer than that. You know, our Supreme Leader was illegally assassinated during the last war. And I think it is very logic that we protect our leader.

• 37:59Speaker 09

  Why not put out a video? Why not put out a video?

• 38:03Speaker 10

  No, no, there are, for security reasons. There are lots of indications that he is under threat by Americans. And there are other indications that he is in full control, he is in full order. We receive his, you know, comments and orders and opinions.

• 38:20Speaker 00

  Okay, what do you think is going on with him? The Supreme Leader, you think is dead or alive?

• 38:26Speaker 06

  I think if he is alive.

• 38:27Speaker 00

  The current Supreme Leader.

• 38:28Speaker 06

  Yeah. I think if he is alive, let's just be basic about this. Like, let's not even be bombastic. If he is alive, which is 50/50 at this point, he is severely injured or burned on his face. Why do I think that? Because if you lost a leg, like they supposedly said, you could still shoot a video. If you lost an arm, you could still shoot a video. I think his face from a bombing is so messed up that they can't actually publicly put him out there. So much of the fact that right after the bombing, what did they bring out? Do you remember, Pat? A cardboard picture of the guy, like it's fricking Major League and you're ripping off clothes to win the pennant race. To me, you know that. You remember

• 39:11Speaker 06

  the cardboard? To me, and I don't know if you watched that full interview, I watched that full interview. You have Besen speaking, and you have Al-Raashi speaking. Who seemed more confident and direct? To me, Besen is like, straight up, they got two more weeks, here's the fricking deal, economic fury, boom. This guy's like, well, you have to understand the security concerns, and we're waiting to do a deal. In my opinion, they're getting desperate, and they realize that their time is coming up. I'm not saying there's going to be a regime change. You said, how much, how much time did Besen said until?

• 39:51Speaker 07

  Two weeks.

• 39:52Speaker 06

  Two weeks until their economy?

• 39:54Speaker 07

  Till the, no more oil's gone.

• 39:55Speaker 06

  And I believe that. So to me, and you know, knock on wood, maybe I'm being an optimist, I think they're getting really close to basically imploding internally in Iran.

• 40:06Speaker 00

  Well, listen, the 2026 midterms are what? Tuesday, November 3, okay? Which, Tom, let's talk about maybe we do a live event at the Boardroom. Let's make a note about that and what we're going to do with that. And, you know, that's 36 days away, five weeks and one day. Do you think in their minds, you know, because I'm wondering, like, how aligned Besen, Trump, and Rubio are? Because Rubio said something very interesting the other day. He said something very interesting the other day. He said, I don't think Iranians realize, I think they're thinking midterms are that big of a deal, that if the Democrats, they must not understand how the US Constitution works and how the US government works. The Democrats are not just all of a sudden going to wake up and want to do a deal with you and...

• 40:51Speaker 00

  So, what was, I watched that clip a few times to see what is he pleading? What is he saying? I think what he's saying there is he's trying to take a chip off the table that Iran has. And a chip that Iran has is what? They believe Trump is afraid of losing the midterms and it's gonna be an embarrassing loss. And they're trying to hold off 36 days to, because imagine if midterms go against Trump. What do you think the entire market's gonna say? Trump lost control of Republicans. You know, like these stories, I'll read some of these stories to you and look what the headlines say. You ready? The one headline says that 17 Republicans in close races break with Trump on the war. ABC News.

• 41:35Speaker 00

  So, why is that? Why, why are these stories important stories? Okay, let me go through it and then I'm gonna come to you. So, 17 Republicans competitive midterm races have publicly called for to an end of a war. Remarkable crack in the party discipline driven by kitchen table math. ABC News reports that defections concentrate exactly where expected. Districts where diesel prices are up 60% and gas station stickers shock down. Out every other message, the political brutal, a CNN poll cited in a piece, puts public disapproval of the war at 67%. Okay, so do you think Iran is following that story? I believe 100% they are.

• 42:12Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 42:13Speaker 00

  Number two. Democrats hit a nine plus nine in polling average, biggest lead of the cycle. NBC News. Do you think Democrat, do you think Iranians are reading this? Seeing what this shows and they're sitting there saying, oh, beautiful, give me more. Democrats have opened the largest generic ballot lead of the midterm cycle, 52 to 43%. A nine-point advantage in the NBC News poll average that puts the party in territory where the House is not competitive, but assumed and Senate map starts tilting. Can you show the Kalshi numbers, by the way, on what is shown right now as of the latest? Democrats against the Republicans on the midterms? Look at this here. Democrats, look at the spike just in the last week and a half, two weeks. Do you see that where it's at 60%?

• 42:56Speaker 00

  So Democrat sweep, 62% Vinny. Democrat sweep, Democrat House, Republican Senate 29%. Republican sweep is only at 8%. Republican House, Democrat Senate 1.1%. So Iran is sitting there and saying, oh, just throw them a bullshit memorandum. Throw them a bullshit deal. They're gonna say no to it anyways because Iran is saying, we need 37 days. Can we survive 37 days? They're sitting there saying, can you survive 37 days? Can we survive 37 days? Iran's economy is horrible, it's in shambles. They got so many other things that they're publicly hiding from everybody. Even at the UN, the speaker at the UN, one of the things that a guy did, he walked up to the Iranian diplomats that were there. You know what he offered them?

• 43:41Speaker 00

  I don't know if you guys saw this clip or not. He offered them a Starlink. He says, hey, here's your Starlink. Why don't you go give this to your people so they can have internet?

• 43:48Speaker 07

  That was the Israeli ambassador to the UN.

• 43:50Speaker 00

  This is the one. He's walking up to the Iran envoy, watch this. Can you put the audio and go back a little bit so we? Go all the way back?

• 43:59Speaker 11

  I thought it appropriate to give you the Starlink. If you heard the Prime Minister, it can be very useful for you to allow the Iranian people to get their freedom after what you did to them. So you want to take it and deliver it back to Tehran?

• 44:15Speaker 11

  It can be very useful for you in Iran. We love the Iranian people and we pray for the regime change there. It will come that day.

• 44:23Speaker 00

  Imagine the bold statement to go up to the guy and says, we are praying for regime change. And they are so bold and they're saying that and he's giving them a Starlink. So, so to me, Iran, Iran right now is just playing a waiting game. They're playing a waiting game and the world, the word is with Besen. What Besen is saying, how long can they last? That's the real question on how long they can last. Adam, I'll come to you first.

• 44:45Speaker 07

  Well, number one, that was a gangster move by the Israeli ambassador to the UN. His name is Danny Donon. Forget about what he did, gangster move. How weak did the Iranian leader move? Imagine Tom comes to talk to me, starts talking trash and all I do is this.

• 45:01Speaker 06

  You would never do that.

• 45:01Speaker 07

  Of course not, of course not, because I'm intimidated, obviously. But gangster move by him. So just real quick.

• 45:10Speaker 07

  We want, we want to win, obviously. Who doesn't want to end this war? The question is, how will we end the war? I would like to win the war with total victory. That's what I would want. So is Iran just gonna capitulate and just give in to our demands? No.

• 45:27Speaker 07

  He used the word doomsday scenario. This to me is the number one thing. Trump is out there trying to save the world while the average American respectfully, he's trying to save that money. To me, any, what's Trump's number one red line with Iran? What is it?

• 45:42Speaker 00

  The nuclear.

• 45:42Speaker 07

  No nuclear. So when you have the Foreign Minister basically saying, we're prepared for all options, including doomsday. Yeah, that is perfect evidence why we do not want nuclear weapons in these people's hands. In my opinion, right after midterms, bang, bang, bang, Trump's gonna take these people out. That's my opinion.

• 45:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, and by the way, Tom, I'm gonna come to you. Can you play the Bill Maher clip? Can you play the Bill Maher clip about who Trump is as the president? And I think when a guy like Bill Maher, who couldn't stand Trump, is now becoming one of the most logical players for Trump. And look, look what he had to say here, go for it.

• 46:14Speaker 12

  And it's not just drug crime that's way down. It's all crime. And again, probably much of it is not political. It's because you can't move two inches in America without being tracked, photographed and followed by a flock camera. But it's also because when Democrats expand the safety net, there are less desperate people. And because Trump is a badass. No, I don't agree with many of his methods. Like how they sometimes just deport people to countries where they have absolutely no connection, like Meghan and Harry.

• 46:49Speaker 07

  His writers are good, man.

• 46:53Speaker 12

  Is doing it this way the right thing? No. But it's just childish to pretend that when you elect a fuck around and find out president, a no more Mr. Nice Guy, boot in your ass, V for Vendetta, kick ass and take names, say hello to my little friend president. That's not gonna have some effect on crime. He has UFC fights on the lawn. I think the bad guys got the message.

• 47:18Speaker 00

  Look how many people are laughing. That was only, how many, go back, go back five seconds.

• 47:21Speaker 06

  Six people.

• 47:21Speaker 00

  That's right, how many people is that that's laughing? Go, press play.

• 47:24Speaker 12

  Act on crime. He has UFC fights on the lawn. I think the bad guys got the message.

• 47:31Speaker 00

  How many is that?

• 47:31Speaker 06

  Four to five.

• 47:32Speaker 07

  And that's nervous laughing.

• 47:33Speaker 00

  That's right, Tom, go for it. So to me, when you hear this with Iran, Iran knows who he is. They're trying to act like they have it under control, you know? But at the same time, you know, with, with what they're saying, all this, how do you react to this, Tom?

• 47:47Speaker 06

  Well, words talk, numbers scream. Let's go some numbers. 47, that's the number of Democrat senators. Actually, it's 45 plus Angus King and Bernie who are independents, but it's 47. Six, that's the maximum number of senators that they could win in the election, according to the current polls, which would mean the next number, 53. That would be the maximum number of senators that the Dems would have. Would they control the Senate? Yes. Three, 3rd of January, that's when they get sworn in. 67, that's how many it takes in the Senate to override a veto by number 47. And that's not gonna happen. Best case, they've got 53 people in the Senate on January 3rd.

• 48:28Speaker 06

  They need 14 people to cross the line to get 67 to override a presidential veto. This is what Rubio was talking about. Rubio saying, I don't think you understand. There's certain things that are, that are under the control of the president. He was being very matter of fact. I was in the legislature for a while. There are things and there are tools that are at his disposal. That's what it is. They may be sitting there waiting for the midterms, but it's a PR hit on, on Trump more than anything else. In reality, he's gonna veto things and he's gonna say, you got 67 senators? You got 53 after the election. Find 14 people that are willing to cross that line, override my veto at 67. That won't happen.

• 49:09Speaker 06

  You can go up and down and look for all of the MTGs, look alikes that you could possibly find. There are not 14 in there.

• 49:16Speaker 00

  How many masses are left after midterms? How many masses are left?

• 49:19Speaker 07

  Very few.

• 49:20Speaker 06

  Very few.

• 49:22Speaker 07

  And how many like people?

• 49:23Speaker 00

  And he put that on the Republican side that will not go again, that will go against Trump.

• 49:26Speaker 07

  Well, can I answer that real quick? There's a difference between rhetoric, because right here you said 17 Republicans break with Trump.

• 49:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 49:33Speaker 07

  Versus what they're saying, versus what they'll actually vote for. This is my opinion. Because the war in Iran is unpopular, there's people in close races in, in, in certain districts who are gonna say publicly, we need to end the war, wink, wink. You know, Trump, clean it up, wink, wink. But when it came to push and shove, if a Republican gets elected, they're not gonna break with Trump when the actual vote happens. That's my opinion.

• 49:58Speaker 06

  That's what I'm saying. So it's not just about November. November is gonna be, are US media going nuts? And you know that pen on the wall, the auto pen for Biden? Well, Trump actually has a pen and it's in a human hand. And it's a human hand that, under the hand of Donald Trump, will veto it and then say, I dare you.

• 50:15Speaker 00

  Oh, so, so, okay. So then in other words, based on what you're saying, you're telling me he doesn't really give a shit about the midterms?

• 50:22Speaker 06

  He, I think he cares deeply, but he is not gonna be turned into some gilding horse out in the pasture. Well, if he veto.

• 50:29Speaker 00

  Not his identity.

• 50:30Speaker 06

  No. No, if he, if he gets, if he wants to throw a veto at him, they have to throw 67 senators at him.

• 50:35Speaker 00

  How closely do you think Iran's following the midterms?

• 50:38Speaker 06

  Very closely. And they think that he's gonna be.

• 50:41Speaker 07

  This is their lifeline.

• 50:42Speaker 06

  Right.

• 50:42Speaker 07

  This is all they got.

• 50:43Speaker 00

  But that's the part, what prompted this conversation was? I watched closely what Rubio says. Rubio specifically said, I don't think the Iranian people understand how midterms, how the US government works. They think with midterms. He is specifically speaking to the motivation of Iran on what they're trying to do to negotiate against them. Now, while that's taking place, the part in America that we have to isolate. So this is the Iran issue and tied to midterms. Then go to US affordability, diesel, gas prices, all that stuff with midterms, which is the day-to-day Americans. Set this aside, completely different animal, bring it over here. And a couple of things that's happening in America right now that's kind of weird politically.

• 51:26Speaker 00

  Florida Republicans are bracing for the worst as 2018 vibes return. Okay, 2018 vibes return.

• 51:35Speaker 00

  And that's Florida. We live in the great state of Florida. And so a lot of people are talking about what could happen here politically. Florida Republicans running the state that defined GOP dominance this decade are privately bracing for the worst in a midterm. This is the independent that wrote the story. The independent reports former Representative Carlos Curbelo, summing up the mood in as 2018 vibes, the year a Democratic wave erased Republican House control. The anxiety is striking precisely because of location. Florida was supposed to be solved problem. The state turned into from a swing to solid, but Republicans registered more voters and won by 20. The independent party operative watching the same numbers as everyone else, presidential approval underwater,

• 52:17Speaker 00

  as unpopular Democrats, but all these other things that they're talking about. Tom shared a number earlier that of the people that the plus minus that happened with Republican with independents that voted, 80% were independents, 20% was the plus minus of how many new Republicans Florida gained, which is, which is a good thing, but independents can do what? They can flip and go to the other side, right? Easy. And one thing that's becoming very weird is midterm candidates are dumping 21 out of 26 governor races may have none. This is ABC saying that what was the number again? 21 out of 36 races, there may not be a gubernatorial debate. The candidate debate is dying

• 52:57Speaker 00

  in plain sight. ABC News found that 21 out of 36 governor races this cycle, no general election debate is scheduled or likely, and the pattern repeats down ballot and Senate and House contests. The tradition that once anchored campaigns is becoming optional and frontrunners are the ones killing it. Like Byron Donalds killed the Republican debate GOP debate for Florida. And so guess what his opponent is now saying? I don't know if you guys saw it. I may not even debate. Why would he debate? And okay, so now what can Byron Donalds not say to his opponent?

• 53:27Speaker 01

  Why aren't you going to debate me?

• 53:28Speaker 00

  He cannot say he's a debate dodger. Yeah. Cause if he says you're a debate dodger, what are they gonna say? You're a debate dodger. So you're opening it up. And so this is, this is not a good thing for Republicans. Why is this not a good thing for Republicans? Cause who has the better logical argument?

• 53:44Speaker 01

  The Republicans.

• 53:45Speaker 00

  But if there's not a debate, you don't have the platform to make your better Republican common sense argument. If you don't have that, this, this could be a very ugly season for Republicans at the midterms. Tom, your thoughts?

• 53:56Speaker 06

  So I'll give you one clip from absolutely. Here's an interesting clip from Florida. 2018, DeSantis lost to Andrew Gillum by 20 points in Miami.

• 54:09Speaker 00

  34,000 votes.

• 54:11Speaker 06

  No, no, no, no.

• 54:12Speaker 01

  He's saying in Miami.

• 54:13Speaker 06

  Miami, Miami. Miami Dade, it was 20 points. The next election, it was 5544, a 30 percentage point swing in Dade County. Today, you know what the ballot is today? Excuse me, the polls today, five reputable polls in the last three weeks, Miami Dade, 54% Jolly, 42% Donalds. The big cities are the weights on the barbell that swing these states. We've seen it in Michigan. You win, what's that Wayne County around Detroit?

• 54:44Speaker 01

  Lil Wayne County.

• 54:45Speaker 06

  Lil Wayne County. You win all that. And then it's very hard to the, I caught what you did to me. And then it's very hard to win because up in the upper UP, upper peninsula and everything, there's not enough people to offset the population Detroit. You know, take a look at this right here, Pat. This is right here. He Byron Donalds needs to over index in the red.

• 55:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 55:09Speaker 06

  Because what is the darker blue above Dade County? That's Broward County. And what is the blue above that? Pat, take a look. You know what is right now? Right now Palm Beach County is blue. It has been barely red for a while. It's blue in the polling. So I think Byron Donalds has got, I don't want to lose the state house. I do not want to lose the state house, but I don't want Byron to sit on the sideline and they say, well, I'm not going to debate because only two things happen in the debate. You give the other guy a sound bite and you say something by accident and that goes viral. So don't debate. People are telling their candidates for that reason I just outlined, don't debate. He needs to get out in front of this. I don't want to lose it, but I'm

• 55:53Speaker 06

  disappointed in how Byron's running this.

• 55:55Speaker 00

  I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm going to tell you this. Having watched, been in the insurance space for a few decades now, and I watched guys who everything on their resume looked perfect for them to win and dominate, and they were too cool. And they didn't realize when it comes down to competition, the other guy is doing everything in his power to eat your fricking lunch and take your spot. And this energy of, well, I got Trump's back. Trump's got my, Trump's got my back. Trump's got my back. And then the other day they're saying the Trump endorsement was removed from the website because everybody's kind of trying to say that they're more like, you know, I'm just, you know, for, for, you know, the saying is what? Well, you need the endorsement for the primary, but for the general election, stay away from Trump as much as possible because

• 56:38Speaker 00

  he needs some independents to come towards you. So that may be the strategy, right? But the reality of it is this too cool approach of I got it under control. Dude, you better have a higher level of urgency or Florida could go blue very quickly. And then what's going to happen? The conversation is going to be what? Now Florida's run by a Democratic president. And guess what? Fully deserve it. Fully. If you play too cool and this Evan guy who runs the Florida GP advice being given on the back end, you don't need to debate, you don't need to debate. Then you give the opposition, the argument to say, then I don't need to debate you. Go ahead and call me a debate dodger. Then I'm going to say, you didn't even talk to the Jay Collins, the lieutenant governor. You didn't talk to the Speaker of the House, Paul Renner, and you were frightened of

• 57:22Speaker 00

  James Fishback. You're making your own job harder. So guess what we are? We would love to see a Byron Donalds win, but competition doesn't work that way. Competition is brutal. It is absolutely brutal. And if you sit there, you're kind of like, well, no, we have it under control. It's going to be fine. Man, that, that, that's just not, well, you're not in the political game. Competition is competition, no matter where you're competing. It doesn't matter whether it's podcasting, whether it's insurance, whether it's real estate, whether it's sports, whether it's politics, whether it's mainstream media, competition has zero sympathy for you. Zero. And so to me, when I see some of these things taking place, forget about the Iran issue we talked about, isolate this with America,

• 58:03Speaker 00

  affordability. You know, you got the issue of affordability. You got the issue of what's going on right now with the economy. You got the, how are you going to, and then you're also not playing offense at the highest level? I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. Of course, we would love to see that state with the similar values of DeSantis. What DeSantis made it so

• 58:22Speaker 00

  difficult and great is he did what? He made the state fricking better for everybody. He made the state better for everybody. You follow that? Floridians are expecting DeSantis type of results. Will you do that? Who knows? Will you even have the fire for you to want to go fight them? You see some of the old clips with Byron, how phenomenal he was? You were talking about it the other day.

• 58:45Speaker 01

  I watched clip after, I was that guy during COVID, pre-COVID, after COVID, watching him in just.

• 58:52Speaker 00

  Guys like this are the problem. Evan Power.

• 58:53Speaker 01

  Yeah. And by the way.

• 58:55Speaker 00

  The party chair of Republican Party of Florida, guys like this are the problem. I'll say this publicly easily.

• 58:59Speaker 01

  Yeah. And mind you, it's not like he doesn't have the ammunition and the firepower. Byron Donalds has it, but it's like, Pat, this bothers the hell out of me because even Hussein Bolt, when you have to qualify, you still got to run the race against people that you know that you're better than. You know what I mean? You still got to run against them to get your time and then you do the final. This pisses me off because now I, I know for a fact, the Democrats not going to want to debate. And now it's going to come down to who has the better commercials. All week I've been getting a 954 numbers. It's all Democrat numbers. I'm telling you right now, I haven't gotten any Byron numbers. I've gotten all Democrats pitching it, Tom. And it's going to come down to who has the better commercial and the more money because I didn't get to see any debate. I didn't get to see you go in there and.

• 59:41Speaker 00

  I don't think money's going to be the problem.

• 59:42Speaker 06

  These are, by the way, I'm hearing this too. And I listened to a couple of messages out of curiosity. And what they're saying is David Jolly understands Florida. David Jolly is not, and they're, they're actually selling it this way, Pat. David Jolly is not your average Democrat. He understands the need for jobs. He understands what's going on. He understands the insurance crisis and he understands the housing crisis we have in Florida. It's both hot buttons and they're selling it.

• 1:00:07Speaker 00

  Brilliant message. Brilliant messaging.

• 1:00:09Speaker 06

  And they're selling independents, Pat. They're selling the center.

• 1:00:13Speaker 00

  By the way, let me just give you numbers, just so you know, because it's not a money problem. Byron Donalds has more than $41 million of cash on hand after raising about three and a half million in the week, ending September 4th. He's got 41, it could be even higher number today. Jolly has $6 million in hand, just so you know that.

• 1:00:29Speaker 01

  And look how close he is.

• 1:00:30Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's the point. With only 6 million. Adam, go for it.

• 1:00:33Speaker 06

  Look.

• 1:00:36Speaker 07

  I think Byron's gonna win. It's no secret. I'm rooting for Byron. I, I, I root for DeSantis, and I want the Republicans to keep Florida what it is now. Why? Because Miami's Florida is the best state, in the best city, in the best state, in the best country in the world, and I want to keep it that way. And if Byron can, can, can continue what DeSantis has been doing, I'm all in on that. Now, what we're talking about with Byron is not just a Byron thing. It seems to be systemic. How many different candidates will not be doing debate and races all across the country? 21 different races. So this is systemic. This is basically people saying, listen, if you have a big lead, play prevent defense. What happens when you play prevent defense? The other team, like in football, has a chance

• 1:01:17Speaker 07

  to move the football up the field, just like Baltimore, when they kicked the field goal the last second against the Cowgirls, and they wanted the last second because they were playing prevent defense. So let's hope that you're not playing too weak and soft of a prevent defense. And I will say Byron's up relatively big. He's got an 80% chance of winning, according to Kalshi, right? This other guy has a 20% chance, Jolly. And even in Florida, if you want to kind of go down ballot here, Ashley Moody, who's our current senator right now, she's wiping the floor with ever this DSA candidate.

• 1:01:52Speaker 00

  As lieutenant governor, she's gonna crush it.

• 1:01:54Speaker 07

  Yeah. So, um, well, and the senate. So here's my biggest thing. Right now, you talk about the biggest states. California is blue, and as blue as it gets. New York is, is flashing blue, and it's disgusting. You got, you got Tallerico in Texas that somehow is beating this cowboy, Ken Paxton in Texas. God forbid that turns blue. If Florida turns blue as well, just picture this PBD, you have California, you have New York, you have Texas, and you have Florida going blue, that is very bad for America.

• 1:02:28Speaker 00

  What's your point?

• 1:02:29Speaker 07

  Okay, that is my point.

• 1:02:31Speaker 00

  No, well, you're, okay, so, so then who's the onus on?

• 1:02:33Speaker 07

  It's on the candidates to get out there.

• 1:02:36Speaker 00

  Who else is it on?

• 1:02:37Speaker 07

  It's on, what do you mean?

• 1:02:38Speaker 00

  It's on the candidate?

• 1:02:39Speaker 07

  And the people.

• 1:02:40Speaker 00

  And it's on the Republican Party?

• 1:02:41Speaker 07

  Yeah, the team behind it.

• 1:02:42Speaker 00

  Well, it's also, it's also on voters to get out there and recognize that it's on them. That's bullshit. That's bullshit. Let me explain, let me explain to you. No, it's not. Put, put the candidates in front so I can make an educated decision.

• 1:02:54Speaker 07

  Oh, I agree with you.

• 1:02:55Speaker 00

  Put them in front of me so I can see the educated decision to see, I don't even know who you are. I don't even know what the positions are going against. I want to see the debate. Somebody thought that was a good idea. Who the hell were those people?

• 1:03:05Speaker 07

  Bingo.

• 1:03:06Speaker 00

  Who are you? Who are you?

• 1:03:08Speaker 07

  Faceless bureaucrat.

• 1:03:09Speaker 00

  Who, who were those people? Did you give us seven options against Paxton? Or was it just Cornyn and Paxton? Give us seven options. Give us five options. Paxton, he, he's going up against Tallerico? We, we didn't have seven options. There, there needs to be a draft. There needs to be a pipeline of people to look at and learn about. I had no idea who Paul Renner was until I met him. I'm like, this guy fricking sounds reasonable. I like this guy. Jay, I met Jay, I'm like, you know, a little too emotional, but probably more qualified than some other people. But I looked at Renner, I'm like, and it's like, well, you know, we're not that good in marketing. His, his gal was phenomenal. She texts me all the flipping time. But the, the, the, the pipeline, marketing, storytelling, early

• 1:03:53Speaker 00

  on, options for, so if I can't get excited about a candidate, why do I not get excited about a candidate? What if you have the debate, then your conviction for Donald's goes even deeper. You're like, oh, that's, you know what? Yes. Let me get behind him. There needs to be a regu, there's, what does sports do? Preseason, you size everybody up. Then what do you have? Regular season. Then what do you have?

• 1:04:16Speaker 07

  Playoffs.

• 1:04:17Speaker 00

  Playoffs. Then what do you have? Championship. So now you guys want to wipe out regular season and preseason and playoffs? Here's just a championship. What runs that way? What's the whole purpose of preseason, season, playoff, championship game? So the loyalty for a team goes higher. If it's just championship, where's your loyalty to who? For what? Where's the context? No, I'm, I'm, I'm not with that. I think the Republican Party, uh, uh, on, on not allowing these people, Trump went and fought everybody.

• 1:04:46Speaker 07

  Yep.

• 1:04:47Speaker 00

  Tooth and nails. And he made it in there. He set the example for everybody else. Who the hell is following it? Who's following it? So now it's on, it's on the voters? Hey, let's put all the pressure on the voters. Wait, what? You should go vote. No, I shouldn't. Get me excited. So, and by the way, the, the whole idea is, well, well, you're gonna, you're gonna vote for them anyways, right? You're gonna vote for them anyways, because you're Republican. No shit, Sherlock, but here's the problem. Am I gonna convert 88 others? And the answer is no. Why? I'm not excited. I'm not excited. So then what are you doing? Who's excited about a candidate? People are excited about a candidate, go promote

• 1:05:28Speaker 00

  that candidate. You got excited about Trump. You got excited about Obama. You got excited about some of these candidates. You're excited about some of the stuff they're putting in front of us? You need that excitement, Adam. They effed up. They effed up. So one of the parts is, okay, we can argue affordability. Fine. Yes. 100% that you, you, you look at the numbers that people vote with, I think in 2008, when the gas prices came up, 64% of people, they said, I don't even watch the news, but I see the gas prices, and I'm voting based on the gas prices. What, you know what big percentage of the population just votes off the fricking gas prices? That's gonna be one problem.

• 1:06:03Speaker 07

  Pretty big.

• 1:06:04Speaker 00

  So you already have that problem. Rent is up, prices are up, interest rates are at seven and a half percent. The average person can't even buy a house. I went to a place to eat the other day, the same guy that's telling me that, I said, can I get sparkling water? I'm at that place every fricking time. We don't have sparkling water. What do you mean you don't have sparkling water? We don't have it because corporate didn't give us budget.

• 1:06:23Speaker 07

  What?

• 1:06:24Speaker 00

  Yeah. Let me have my steak and shrimp fajita combo that I always do. Make the steak a medium. Corporate did an approved steak.

• 1:06:30Speaker 07

  Jeez.

• 1:06:31Speaker 00

  What do you want to give me? Do you want chicken breasts? Give it to me. I'm not a chicken breast guy. So, so, so why, you don't think these things are happening to small business owners? Go ahead. Are you shaking hands and talking to these people? I'm sorry, I don't play these games. I, I, don't, don't automatically assume you have some people's votes just because of that. You need more than that person's vote. You need more than that. When we were going to build a campaign in the insurance company, I'm campaigning with everybody. I'm calling insurance company CEOs. I'm calling the wholesalers. I'm calling the technology guys. I'm calling my guys. I'm calling everybody to find out what's going. What are we doing here? Is this an entitled Republican Party? What an unattractive approach to take. And this is coming from a conservative guy with conservative

• 1:07:12Speaker 00

  values, pro-capitalism, pro-freedom of speech. You think you're entitled to a flipping vote? No. That, that, that is a royal, royal screw up, and the voters should push back. Not to the point of going to Democratic Party. But you need more than that. You need excited voters. You do not have an excited voter base right now. You don't have an excited vote. You got the people that understand it. Like, I'm a business guy. I understand what Trump is doing. And I get it. It's a very hard place to be. And it's gonna suck for a while. And that's the part of you being a leader, that sometimes people are not gonna like the decision you're making. And you have to go through, be alone, and you got your main guys that are having your back. That's a price he's gonna have to pay. But everybody else

• 1:07:55Speaker 00

  that's running these states, this Florida GOP, Texas GOP, get your fricking act together. What are we doing? Get your act together. I, I don't know. I'm, I'm not with that. So that whole same lip service of, well, fear porn, let me tell you what the state would turn into. No shit, we know what the state would turn into. Look what the hell is going on California right now. A once beautiful state. You know how many people I'm recruiting away from California to Texas? Left and right. We had a guy that just came here the other day, had the biggest amount of real estate in Texas at one point. Guy was a multi-multi-billionaire. You know, one of the wealthiest Assyrian in the world. They're looking at moving to Florida. What happened? We're recruiting everybody to the state of Florida. But this entitled approach of, you know, like even with our content, do you think, I think I'm

• 1:08:38Speaker 00

  entitled to the audience that watches our content? Do you think we sit there and say, well, listen, because we've been scored, you have to come and show us? The market doesn't give a shit. Market wants you to improve yourself. And they're right. They're right. We need to stay in this state. The Republican Party got cocky and arrogant. And I said that right after Trump won. I said, you cannot use this as a cocky moment to think this lasts like this forever. They just had a humiliating loss. They're gonna go back and strategize, and they're gonna watch you fumble. And stay cocky and see what happens to you. Go ahead and stay cocky, see what happens to you. In any business, in any, you know, yesterday. I'll say this and I'll get to the next story. I apologize.

• 1:09:19Speaker 06

  No, keep going. I'm all ears.

• 1:09:20Speaker 00

  Yesterday, I'm, I'm, uh, uh, uh, Saturday Dylan had a soccer game. Yesterday were, I'm out. I'm training with him yesterday, Sunday morning, two hours. It was birthday weekend, very good, you know, birthday weekend. He got his first.

• 1:09:32Speaker 06

  Thirteen.

• 1:09:33Speaker 00

  Thirteen years old and you know, he's, uh, we're talking about career and all this stuff. So we're training in the morning, we're running. He's running two miles and I'm pushing him. Sprint, stop. Sprint, chase me, catch me, touch me. And I'm going in front. He's trying to hit me in the back. Get the, get the tackle. Come get me. So we're doing these things. Anyways, and on the way back, I'm selling him the dream. I said, Dilly, I said, let's say at 20 years old, you're playing in the World Cup. Eighteen years old, seventeen years old, you're playing in the World Cup. I said, do you think the 20 year olds playing in the World Cup because of what the 20 year old did? No, you're playing in the World Cup because of what the 13 year old did today. You're going to say thank you to you. I said, the 20 year old version of Dylan is thankful to what you're doing today. You're going to be so proud of the 13 year old Dylan. I said, you think I'm living the life today because of what I did at 47 years old?

• 1:10:18Speaker 00

  No, I'm living this life today because of what I did as a 25 year old. That kid that said no to the parties, no to the club and no to going out there and you know, staying on. That guy who was disciplined to one, I said, that's who I'm thankful for. I said, the 75 year old Patrick's going to be thankful to the 47 year old Patrick. For the decisions I make now for the next 25, 28 years. That's what I'm thankful for. The Republican Party of whoever some of these entitled people are. If you think Trump's going to be your ticket to the top forever. You are delusional. It is no longer his responsibility. He's doing his part. Okay. And he's going to get his legacy and things that he's working on. From here, the next layer of leaders have to realize.

• 1:11:00Speaker 00

  What happens to America in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years is because of what we do today. If we are these entitled, like, let me tell you what we have this. You're going to have a very big problem the next 10, 20, 30 years.

• 1:11:12Speaker 06

  What's the old wolf, young wolf analogy?

• 1:11:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, Darryl.

• 1:11:14Speaker 06

  That whole thing again?

• 1:11:15Speaker 00

  That's the whole thing. He says, make sure the old, the young wolf in you takes care of the old wolf that one day you'll be. Anyways, let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. We covered this.

• 1:11:22Speaker 06

  I'm sorry that I upset you on that one.

• 1:11:24Speaker 00

  No, you didn't upset me.

• 1:11:24Speaker 06

  I just went Florida to stay red.

• 1:11:25Speaker 00

  I am not attracted to entitled people that think they automatically deserve the vote. Life doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. We have to keep improving and earning people's vote. We have to earn people's vote. They deserve for us to continuously earn their votes. Talking about a guy that keeps earning people's vote as a capitalist. Elon Musk posted a video saying, hey, look at the latest semi truck. Nine years ago, he said this was coming. It's finally here. You should see what it looks like. The guy's standing right in front of it, talking about it. Here's him. Go for it.

• 1:11:55Speaker 13

  Welcome to the Tesla Semi event. Uh, we're super excited to start production with the Tesla Semi truck. And uh, this is really going to be a revolutionary truck. Uh, that is capable of carrying the heaviest loads over very long distances. Uh, with ease of recharge, mega charger that's capable of uh, megawatt of, of power. Uh, this is really going to be a phenomenal truck and it's going to be really also a driver's truck. Drivers are going to love.

• 1:12:21Speaker 02

  Now, more than ever, we need someone on our side. But Rob Whitman? Whitman's votes drove up costs, cut Medicaid and risked 350,000 Virginians healthcare to pay for tax breaks for himself and his donors. He's not on our side. Shannon Taylor will fight corruption, cut taxes and bring down costs. This November, vote for Shannon Taylor. She's for us. Paid for by HMP, the House Majority PAC dot com, not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

• 1:12:50Speaker 14

  USAA knows dynamic duos can save the day like superheroes and sidekicks or auto and home insurance. With USAA, you can bundle your auto and home and save up to 10%. Tap the banner to learn more and get a quote at USAA dot com slash bundle. Restrictions apply.

• 1:13:06Speaker 05

  This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web. Like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50 page restoration blog. Or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up required compatibility and availability varies 18 plus.

• 1:13:31Speaker 13

  Driving this truck because it's, it just has so much acceleration. Uh, it's, it's like, almost like a sports car in truck form. So it's, uh, it's going to be the funnest truck to drive. In the very near future, we'll be adding in the self-driving features. So these will be incredibly important for, for safety. Uh, so if somebody's on a long truck journey, uh, they can engage the Tesla self-driving. Um, and uh, greatly improve safety and comfort of driving. Um, so that the, the driver arrives at the destination, um, and uh, and still feels refreshed. Otherwise, driving for many hours straight can be quite exhausting. So this is really going to be a, a game changer truck. And also it's going to make a ton of sense economically.

• 1:14:13Speaker 13

  Um, because the cost of electricity per mile is much less than the cost of diesel, especially in these crazy times.

• 1:14:18Speaker 06

  What a great timing too, huh?

• 1:14:19Speaker 13

  So I think this is really going to be something that works on, on every level. Yeah, I'd recommend placing more orders if you haven't already. Uh, but the waiting list is already pretty significant. Um, and this is really going to be a breakthrough product for, for heavy shipping. Thank you and thank you for coming.

• 1:14:33Speaker 00

  So check this out. The Tesla truck can go up to 500 miles loaded, okay? Consume about 1.7 kilowatt per mile and recover roughly 60% of its range in 30 minutes of the charge that they have. So large fleet operators are the ones that are mainly excited about this. You got Walmart, DHL, you got PepsiCo. Uh, uh, you know, some of these guys, a, a shipper coalition recently selected Tesla as the primary supplier for an order of, you ready? They ordered 2,500 electric class eight trucks. 2,500 they ordered, one. DHL's reaction especially meaningful because they actually tested it. So they're the ones that are, you know, super excited about it.

• 1:15:17Speaker 00

  Fleet CFOs, when diesel is expensive, they're sitting there saying, are you kidding me? I'm paying, you know, uh, Axios reported Tesla's comparison showing diesel fuel costing roughly 80 cents a mile recently versus a 20 to 30 cents mile for electricity. So those guys, the CFOs are excited. Drivers who have actually driven it, they sit there and say, you mean to tell me I can take a nap and relax and watch a movie and this guy's self-driving? Yes. Now who's worried is the question. Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one. Truck stop operators.

• 1:15:45Speaker 06

  That's scary.

• 1:15:47Speaker 00

  Truck stop operators and charging infrastructure companies. Think about where you're going to go. That's a business right there, right? So they're worried about what's going to happen with them. Small trucking companies. The big guys can build depot charging. Pepsi can say, we'll install charges at our distribution center. Small trucking companies cannot do that. They don't have those types of resources. And long call operators, 500 miles sounds enormous until you compare it with diesel. A diesel class A truck can often travel well beyond a thousand mile between fills. So 500 miles is not as long as you think it is. Uh, compared to others. Now, of course, the resting, like instead of resting and I'm able to take a nap. You can make up so much, uh, some, some of the time there.

• 1:16:30Speaker 00

  Uh, so those are some of the things. It's exciting. I love the fact that he's saying he's going to do this and he delivered on it. Of course, everything big you're trying to do in your life is going to be 10 times harder than you think. And it takes 10 times longer than you think it was going to take. Tom, your thoughts on this?

• 1:16:42Speaker 06

  Well, I think that this is disruption and it's also opportunity. If you're in the trucking industry and this is going to be your truck. And you're like, look, I've, I've got to partner with people. The smaller truck, truckers are going to have to partner with the bigger ones. And it's going to lead to some mergers consolidation. Some people say that'll affect um, uh, price per goods. But this is coming at exactly the, the, the wrong time for the trucking industry. Because the trucking industry is suffering through the cost of diesel. Uh, Pat, you and I, I won't say his name because I'm, I'm going to say two businesses here. I'm going to call them A and B because it's in Chicago and I don't want to expose anybody. But there is a trucking company that was working with one of our friends who's in factoring.

• 1:17:27Speaker 06

  And what factoring is, um, think of it this way, Vinnie. You tell, um, uh, buying future payments. Right. Well, but it goes like this. You told, uh, you know, Adam that you're going to deliver him five tons of corn every week all summer long.

• 1:17:44Speaker 01

  Loves corn.

• 1:17:45Speaker 06

  And all of a sudden, and you've got, you have a little bit of a buffer so you could pay your truck drivers and you could buy diesel fuel and pick up the corn. You take it to Adam and then he pays you. Well, all of a sudden the cost is going up and you don't have a 20% profit anymore. You only have a 5% profit. So you give me, the factoring guy says, listen, can you give me an advance on what Adam's going to pay me when I deliver the corn? Well, why don't you just have Adam pay you? I can't. I need to pay for the diesel and it's expensive.

• 1:18:12Speaker 01

  Get it to Adam.

• 1:18:13Speaker 06

  So I can get it to Adam and he doesn't pay until I deliver the corn and he inspects it, that it's all high quality. So you have factoring and right now, there is a factoring company in Chicago that said, one of their customers, Pat. One of their customers. Lost 2 million of the 2 and a half million of EBITDA they have this year on fuel cost. Last year, 2 and a half million of EBITDA, this year, half a million.

• 1:18:37Speaker 00

  Oh my gosh.

• 1:18:38Speaker 06

  And they are scared to death.

• 1:18:40Speaker 00

  So they're gonna have to park the trucks and not even put them to work?

• 1:18:44Speaker 06

  Well, and by the way, if they park the trucks, they better hide them because the bank's gonna come get them. Because they gotta pay for those trucks. They got leases on those trucks. They got payments on those trucks. And in California today, in California, with the, I think it's $2.07 tax, we're seeing 8.01 for diesel in California was legitimately, over the weekend, there was 8.01 diesel, not just at one location, there was multiple locations, that it breached 8. Now, I think it's back to 7.65 this morning, but still, oh, back to 7.65, oh dear God. You know, that's, that's still $2 above 5.50, and at 5.50, we announced that we had economic stress. 5.50 diesel creates economic stress.

• 1:19:27Speaker 06

  And so, I think this is coming at exactly the right time, you know, for Elon and bringing it out. It's bringing it at the right time. But yeah, look at this, $6 at $10, 66%.

• 1:19:41Speaker 00

  Yep, so by the way, a user said on a Super Chat, "Nobody wants EVs or voted for this junk. That's Lance Dooley. Gas and diesel is the best." Well, Lance, respectfully, you could say that, but the market talks. So if the market places orders of thousands of these EVs, they're telling you they want it. Now, if it works or it doesn't work, we're also gonna find that out 6, 12, 24 months later. But the reality of it is, he said he was gonna do it, and if you're gonna make that investment into this, of knowing this is eventually gonna be here, you better believe it's because there's a market for it. Nobody comes out with a product that's, and by the way, it may fail, it may not succeed, but the market has been excited about this for a while. So we'll see what happens. Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:20:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, well, look, Tom said the magic word, which is disruption, and there's disruption going on in many different industries. This might be the biggest. You know, I had a heart-to-heart with a buddy of mine, who's an Uber driver. And I said, "How long are you planning on being the Uber driver?" And he's like, "I don't know, this is what I got going on right now." I said, "You better look for a new job immediately, bro." He's like, "What do you mean?" I go, "Let me, let me just explain something to you." Because obviously you guys know that I take Uber and Lyft every single day. By the way, if Lyft wants to give me a sponsor, we'll take it here. If you're an American, if you're an American, if you're an American who speaks English

• 1:21:06Speaker 06

  and has a functioning brain and wants success, you better start making alternative plans ASAP, bro. I see Waymos with no drivers. Now Elon is basically delivering these semi-trucks that can basically drive themselves. Disruption is coming, you know, like in Game of Thrones, they're like, "Winter is coming." Winter is coming for the trucking industry and the driving industry. So whether you're driving, whether you're doing in vehicles, any sort of transportation, any sort of trucking, you don't get too cocky. I know Pat went off on people getting a little too cocky and a little too comfortable when it comes to debates and elections. Don't get too cocky if you're in this driving industry. I'm telling you right now, disruption is coming. And there's, I think there's 4 million professional drivers out there, 2 million driving big rigs,

• 1:21:48Speaker 06

  and 2 million driving other types of vehicles. You might not have a job for much longer. That's my point.

• 1:21:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, and, and go ahead.

• 1:21:55Speaker 01

  No, I just wanted to point out how Elon, I don't, you want, I'll stay on the story because I just wanted to show you what SpaceX did today. Because on top of the trucks and the EVs and everything, SpaceX Starship rocket successfully reached orbit, deployed its V3 Starlink satellites for the first time, making it like, today was the official Starship's first revenue generating flight. And this is a big milestone for him, like, so Pat, besides the cars, besides this, besides the Neuralink, he's freaking launching satellites like, 1 hour ago, look at that, boom. And he's just, dude, this guy is non-stop. He's not messing around.

• 1:22:26Speaker 06

  You know what, this guy Elon, I think he's gonna do some big things in his life.

• 1:22:30Speaker 01

  He's on to something.

• 1:22:30Speaker 06

  I think he's figured something out, I don't know.

• 1:22:32Speaker 00

  Keeping his promises. It's a big thing. He's keeping his promises. Let's go to the next story. Next one I want to get to is, we talked about that, we talked, okay.

• 1:22:41Speaker 00

  Do we want to go to the UK police? Let's go to that one. Okay, so what page is that on, Vinnie? Page Addendum 6. Let me read that and I'll come to you. So, "UK arrests five men under terrorism. Explosives act close to the US airbase." Apparently 125 US soldiers are at this base. Let me read this and then, Vinnie, I'll come to you. "British police arrests five men Sunday on suspicion of offenses under the Explosives Act near RAF Fairford. The southwest England base hosting US Air Force bombers used in operations against Iran.

• 1:23:15Speaker 00

  The police declared a major incident evacuated about 85 households and city 400-meter cordon while army explosive experts examined vehicles. Counterterrorism policing said the men were also arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist attack." Vinnie, what happened to you overnight?

• 1:23:31Speaker 01

  So, allegedly, these five guys, and can you show a photo, by the way, I sent Connor a photo. Pat, just, I know they enhanced it. These are, these are the guys that were there. It was a little bit blurred, they just made it a little bit more clear. Let's not play this game. There was, one of the inspectors, whatever you want to call them, the chief, they came out and they, you know, they were like, "We don't want to speculate about these people's ethnicity or their background." And I'm gonna give you guys the translation. Five Muslim immigrants. By the way, these are British nationals, okay? Tried to bomb your neighborhood, but if you dare point out that they're Muslim and you want, and want them in prison for life.

• 1:24:11Speaker 00

  Can we watch a clip?

• 1:24:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, go ahead.

• 1:24:12Speaker 00

  Go for it.

• 1:24:12Speaker 15

  So I'm from the, the local force, so I'm from Gloucester, Good Stabbury, just to, just to make that clear.

• 1:24:21Speaker 15

  So at around 12:45 AM today, Sunday, the 27th of September, police received a call relating to three suspicious vehicles traveling towards RAF Fairford. Armed officers responded and subsequently arrested five men in the Wellford area on suspicion of committing offenses under the Explosives Act. The men were taken into custody where they remain.

• 1:24:46Speaker 15

  A 400-meter cordon has been put in place around the vehicles while the army's explosive.

• 1:24:51Speaker 00

  Can you go a little bit forward?

• 1:24:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, go towards the end, go towards the end. Mother, look at those, Pat, all three of those vans were explosive. You know what damage that would do?

• 1:24:58Speaker 15

  And nationally.

• 1:24:59Speaker 01

  He both, yeah.

• 1:25:00Speaker 15

  In particular, we are working closely with our partners in counterterrorism policing.

• 1:25:06Speaker 15

  Gloucester Police's focus at this time is on the local community, and I'd like to thank the residents who have left their homes this morning for their understanding and support.

• 1:25:15Speaker 01

  The whole neighborhood's gone.

• 1:25:16Speaker 15

  We appreciate the disruption that this will have caused to both them and other local residents in the area. And we'd like to reassure them that we are working as quickly as we can to get them back into their properties. We would also please ask the public not to speculate.

• 1:25:30Speaker 01

  Don't speculate.

• 1:25:31Speaker 15

  But to follow official channels for all updates.

• 1:25:33Speaker 01

  And by the way, don't speculate.

• 1:25:35Speaker 06

  And don't ask questions.

• 1:25:36Speaker 00

  You know who else said that? You know who else said that? The British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, urged people to not speculate. The safety and security of the people is our priority. He said the US Embassy warned Americans to exercise caution, noting UK authorities rate the terrorism threat severe. The US associated facilities possibly at heightened risk.

• 1:25:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, so basically, don't speculate, meaning don't say what is, it's so blatantly obvious. And you guys, listen to the language, okay? Describe these suspect offenses under the Explosives Act. Just say terrorism, okay? If you believe they were planning an attack, which they were, call it what it is. Stop using this soft language. I think, Pat, that gets lost in translation. You have to say what it is, okay? By the way, they wanted to attack their base, which has our soldiers, 125, Tom, with B1 and B2 bombers, okay? And let's not even, like, look at the trend with the Pakistani rape gangs and everything, and everything that's going on. And it also coincides with another story that happened in the Netherlands. 18-year-old girl raped by multiple men, Pat, they don't want to say where these guys are from, okay?

• 1:26:39Speaker 01

  And this is what pisses me off. Europe keeps, Europe keeps playing this game where they're scared to talk openly about who was committing these freaking crimes, okay? And again, this came out half an hour ago. These are British nationals. These are 20-year-olds, okay? What the hell is getting in these 20-year-olds that are there, that you live there, that's gonna make you want to blow up a freaking base with, with thousands of people, a bunch of Americans and all these bombers? And mind you, Pat, and Connor, I just sent you the video of them, could you show? Tommy Robinson showed it too. Just the other day, 51 migrants were brought to Dover, England. They were 33 hours, did you see this? They were crossing the English Channel from Normandy to France. Pat, look at the security and look at how, how much they give these guys the credence. That is taking them and they're bringing, they're bringing them to a hotel,

• 1:27:24Speaker 01

  and they're gonna give them money and they're gonna hang out and chill.

• 1:27:26Speaker 00

  This is who?

• 1:27:28Speaker 01

  This is, there was migrants on a boat coming 33 hours to Dover, England. They brought them there, now they're in England, Pat. Look at, by the way, the president doesn't get that much security.

• 1:27:38Speaker 06

  Isn't it crazy? It looks like a team arriving for the Super Bowl.

• 1:27:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, and those, those are immigrants.

• 1:27:43Speaker 06

  Migrants were off the boats, were put on the buses, and are being brought to hotels as refugees.

• 1:27:49Speaker 01

  Refugees.

• 1:27:50Speaker 06

  Because it's their policy to accept them.

• 1:27:53Speaker 01

  Accept them and take them, and the people in Dover, England are...

• 1:27:55Speaker 00

  Treat migrants better than citizens?

• 1:27:57Speaker 01

  You 100% right.

• 1:27:58Speaker 06

  Exactly. Suicidal empathy.

• 1:28:00Speaker 01

  And that's another angle, that's them during the day. And the, how do you think the people of Dover, England feel that you're treating them like this? Yeah, you're right, Tom, is Messi on that thing?

• 1:28:09Speaker 06

  But if you're from Dover, Pat, to take it one step, tell them what the citizen, what happens to citizen if they put this on Facebook and say, "I don't like this."

• 1:28:15Speaker 01

  You will go to jail. You will go to jail. So this is what bothers me, Pat. Soft language, you have to be careful, don't criticize, don't say nothing. No. And then this happens, and then five, a couple days later, five guys are accused of wanting to blow up a freaking base. Like, enough is enough.

• 1:28:31Speaker 06

  We need Dirty Harry. Remember Dirty Harry? You know, the mayor's yelling at Dirty Harry in the movie, and he says, "I don't like this trouble." And he says, "Well, when I see an adult male with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy." And then he says, "Intent? How did you establish that? It's a naked man with a butcher knife and a hard-on running down the, running down the alley. I assumed he wasn't collecting for the Red Cross." The police chief goes, "Harry has a point."

• 1:29:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, you know what they're saying? They're saying, what they're, what they're speculating is that these five men, which, age-wise, if you want to know where they're at, one of them was a, so there was a 23-year-old. It's a handful of them. It's a 23-year-old, 25-year-old, 22-year-old that they caught, all these men that they caught, right? But at the same time, when the speculation, if you're wondering what the market is speculating, the market is speculating that these guys are Iranians tied to IRGC.

• 1:29:31Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 1:29:32Speaker 00

  Is what they're speculating.

• 1:29:33Speaker 01

  These guys?

• 1:29:34Speaker 00

  They are tied to the IRGC is what they're speculating, that the IRGC's behind it. Yeah, again, remember, pure speculation. Who knows? They could, because a couple of the guys look like they could be from a...

• 1:29:45Speaker 06

  T-ron.

• 1:29:46Speaker 00

  That's right. So, so we'll see, we'll see what's gonna happen, but they're saying there's ties to the IRGC. Speculation.

• 1:29:51Speaker 01

  All allegedly.

• 1:29:52Speaker 00

  For whatever reason, UK doesn't want to yet publicly...

• 1:29:58Speaker 00

  Report, you know, where their backgrounds are and what they're doing. What did the president say about it? Is this a clip of the president? Go for it.

• 1:30:05Speaker 02

  Now, more than ever, we need someone on our side. But Rob Whitman? Whitman's votes drove up costs, cut Medicaid, and risked 350,000 Virginians' healthcare to pay for tax breaks for himself and his donors. He's not on our side. Shannon Taylor will fight corruption, cut taxes, and bring down costs. This November, vote for Shannon Taylor. She's for us. Paid for by HMP, the House Majority PAC dot com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

• 1:30:35Speaker 14

  USAA knows dynamic duos can save the day, like superheroes and sidekicks, or auto and home insurance. With USAA, you can bundle your auto and home and save up to 10%. Tap the banner to learn more and get a quote at USAA dot com slash bundle. Restrictions apply.

• 1:30:51Speaker 05

  This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? That's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50-page restoration block, or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up. Required compatibility and availability varies. 18 plus.

• 1:31:20Speaker 16

  The arrest in the UK was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation. They, uh, they were looking to do big damage to our fort. And working with the British worked out great. Were they migrants? It may have been Scotland Yard. I don't know. We worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time and we got them. Thank you.

• 1:31:44Speaker 07

  And mind you, the farmer-

• 1:31:45Speaker 06

  Can I just give a shout out?

• 1:31:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:31:47Speaker 06

  Shout out to the intelligence community for actually stopping this, stopping this plot. And it sounds like, according to President Trump, that they've been monitoring these people for quite some time.

• 1:31:56Speaker 01

  I, I saw a report where they were monitoring them, but the, the, the straw that broke the camel's back, a farmer goes, hey, brown guys, white vans. By the way, and he said eight to 10, Tom. He said eight to 10, Pat, that he goes, I'm positive there was eight to 10 of them, but they caught five of them.

• 1:32:14Speaker 06

  And you know what the good news? They caught these guys and they're gonna find out who the hell these guys are, don't you think?

• 1:32:20Speaker 01

  Oh, absolutely.

• 1:32:21Speaker 06

  Oh, exactly. Especially if the CIA is there with their little attache case full of syringes.

• 1:32:26Speaker 01

  But I just hope that the, the, their government, I just hope the government doesn't play this, hey, guys, we're gonna hold on to it. We want, we don't want to tell you that they were, you know, in, in this mosque or doing this or doing that, which-

• 1:32:36Speaker 06

  Allegedly.

• 1:32:37Speaker 01

  No, what I'm saying is, even if it is Adam and they are terrorists and they hate the country and they hate America, you think they're gonna come out and say it? No, because you let all these people in. You let all these people in that hate your country. Period. Sorry.

• 1:32:51Speaker 06

  Well, luckily they caught these people.

• 1:32:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's, and we'll see. We'll see what happens next. But the, but, but there's a little bit of a tension right now of anything like this that could happen next. And so people are kinda like, hey, you know, just kinda like, uh, you know, let's be, let's be on, cause how, how desperate is Iran today? Let's assume what Scott Besson said, that they have two more weeks. Let's assume everything that they're saying about how bad is economically in Iran. How desperate do you think Iran is right now?

• 1:33:18Speaker 06

  Extremely. 10 out of 10 desperation.

• 1:33:21Speaker 00

  When you're desperate, what do you, like, they, they would always say in insurance agents, do whatever you can to get desperate agents from not selling on their own. Have somebody go sell with them because desperate agents will sell anything for commission, right? What are desperate people capable of doing?

• 1:33:36Speaker 06

  Anything.

• 1:33:37Speaker 00

  What are desperate countries that just killed 10 to 50,000 of their own people capable of doing?

• 1:33:43Speaker 06

  Doomsday.

• 1:33:44Speaker 00

  They're willing to do anything.

• 1:33:45Speaker 06

  Anything.

• 1:33:46Speaker 00

  So, you know what? The intel, if they're able to get their work done right now, you gotta give them credit as they're going through this. Jamie Dimon gave some business advice, and Tom, I'm gonna come to you with this one here. Jamie Dimon says business leaders are sloppy as hell at communications. This is a Forbes story. He told an audience that most executives are terrible at two skills that matters the most: communication and leadership. His verdict on the business writing was blunt. Leaders send memos and decks that are sloppy as hell burying the point under jargon and then wonder why nobody executes. Dimon's argument is that communication is not a soft skill bolted onto the real job. It is the job. If people cannot understand what you want, nothing else matters.

• 1:34:26Speaker 00

  He pushes brevity, says the, say the thing plainly, say it early, cut the throat clearing. On leadership, he is equally direct. Too many bosses managed by abdication, hiding behind processes and consensus instead of making a call and owning it. The best leaders are ready, visible, decisive, and willing to be disliked for a decision they believe in. How powerful of a breakdown is this, Tom?

• 1:34:53Speaker 06

  This is incredibly powerful, and this is coming from the same guy that absolutely went off on work from home about six months ago. Remember this? And somebody recorded it. He says, you're sitting there, you're not as effective, you're not doing this, and you're not paying attention, and you're on your phones. And he's there. And what he's talking about here is basically human leadership. And I love the point here. Burying the point under jargon and then wonder why nobody executes. It says, I push this right now. I push this at our company right now at times. Not all the time. Fortunately, we got some great people here, but it's like, communication is not a soft skill. It is the skill. When would, what will you do and when will you do it? And next week? Did you do that?

• 1:35:36Speaker 06

  That accountability loop, nobody seems to like. And people don't. And there is a, um, there's another story in here as well, Pat, if, if we could go to it, about what businesses expect of, of young people. Let's look at those four things, and then I've got something up here. I know you know what I'm holding.

• 1:35:53Speaker 00

  Yeah, go for it.

• 1:35:54Speaker 06

  So, the four things that, that they're talking about, that, that they, people want in college graduates, and the people is like, good businesses that are, that are hiring, what they're asking for, and they say, look, we think you need to have four simple skills. Sound judgment. Resilience. In other words, if your judgment is wrong, come back and keep trying. Communication. Oh, there's what Jamie Dimon's talking about. And collaboration. No Lone Rangers. Work as a team. And when you take a look at the things here, we have, and I highlighted them here, this is our culture book.

• 1:36:26Speaker 00

  And, and one of them was recover from setbacks. Go ahead, Tom.

• 1:36:29Speaker 06

  Yep. This is our culture book. Our culture book, you can get this at VT dot com. And people see it because they say, well, you've synthesized the things we should be talking about. And we look for seven qualities among our best associates. Research, hunger, desire, competitiveness, hitting deadlines, an obsession with personal development, curiosity, and we don't want you to be a Lone Ranger, and we want you to be part of the one club. Do what you say. And take a look at this and what Jamie Dimon's saying. Guess what? In an age of AI, humans that can communicate well, lead well, lead with clarity, get the job done, and work with the team to lead them to get the job done are valuable. Pat, I'm so shocked.

• 1:37:11Speaker 00

  Yeah. No, this, this is, this is a very simple breakdown that when you see something like this, again, the words, visible, decisive, and willing to be disliked for a decision they believe in. Last Friday, before we finish today and we go to a photo shoot with the family, we had the seventh CEO of Disney come here, Bob Chapek. And he did the first podcast. It was a two and a half, three hour podcast for his recent book that's coming out. The interview goes live tomorrow. Let me tell you, this conversation we had of what happened with them, I, I, I'll let you watch it, but based on what was talked about, there were moments that Bob Iger knew Bob Chapek was gonna be fired when he became the CEO of Disney, that he set him up for

• 1:37:56Speaker 00

  COVID. And, and, and he talks about Bob Iger's style of leadership and versus, you know, how other people are at. So, the, the, these types of stories, this book is coming out, September 29th, the interview, we drop it tomorrow, the 29th. Whether you're an executive, whether you're a businessman, whether you're a fan of Disney, whether you wanna know what, what happened in there. I asked him the question about LGBTQ, and we showed a chart of how many LGBTQ members they've had in movies and cartoons and how to stalked it. I showed the chart right in front of him. Our team did a great job putting that together, and he had to give an answer to it. And we spent quite a lot of time on that topic alone, but with leadership, it's very simple. This is why Jamie Dimon is respected the way that he is. Visible, decisive, and willing to be disliked for a decision they believe in.

• 1:38:40Speaker 00

  It's not an easy thing to do. Uh, by the way, a part of that could be who? A part of that could be Trump. He's visible. Nobody in the, the other day is like, well, you know, you, you, you are in a, Sarah Huckabee comes on and says, what are you talking about? Your previous president wouldn't even come do these press conferences. He's the most available president to the press there's ever been. He's visible, he's decisive, and he's willing to be disliked for a decision they believe in. It's not an easy place to be. But I like what Jamie Dimon says about this, when it comes down to, uh, leadership. Let me get to the next clip here that we have, next article I'm gonna get into with you guys. This one's a bit of a different direction I'm going, but I think it's important for us to be talking about this. So, USC is playing Oregon, and an incident happened in Texas as well. This is college football.

• 1:39:25Speaker 00

  And although it's sports, it's more than football we're talking, more than sports we're talking about here. If you can pause it real quick, this is the quarterback of Oregon, is going up, and he decides to slide, and watch what the opponent does. Go ahead. Watch this clip. We've all seen this. Late hit. Oh, you didn't see this? Benny, Adam, you didn't see this?

• 1:39:47Speaker 07

  No.

• 1:39:48Speaker 00

  So, he's gone. Then look how he's celebrating. Look what number eight is doing, celebrating his own teammates. One of them is celebrating with him. Number six is saying, great job. But one other opponent is coming up and say, stop celebrating, put your hand down. Look at this other guy, the mature guy, right there. Put your hand down, stop it. You can tell he is trying to get him off and stop celebrating. And eight continues to celebrate. Late hit, the kinda hit that gets kids injured, they're out, they get hit in a big way, and-

• 1:40:18Speaker 06

  Look at him working on him. The hands come up. That's called the fencing position.

• 1:40:21Speaker 00

  Watch this.

• 1:40:22Speaker 06

  And that means that the brain-

• 1:40:23Speaker 00

  Look at the head.

• 1:40:24Speaker 06

  -shuts off for a second.

• 1:40:25Speaker 00

  This is the most dangerous type of hit because the elbow went in the jaw and then the head hits, this is horrible.

• 1:40:30Speaker 01

  That could kill you. Literally kill you.

• 1:40:32Speaker 00

  Of course it can.

• 1:40:33Speaker 01

  Boom.

• 1:40:34Speaker 00

  Of course it can. Now, the good news, Tom, is I think he's doing okay. I think the reports came back that he's doing okay. And so a lot of people were going out there and, you know, saying USC's program, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. How much of this is on the program? How much of this is on the player? Because a similar type of an incident happened with Texas. And you know, Texas, this is a very well-established, respectful organization that they have, but watch what happens here with a player who sacks the quarterback, and look what he does. And the players are like, what are you doing?

• 1:41:05Speaker 01

  What's, like, what? What?

• 1:41:07Speaker 07

  He's pretending to pee on him.

• 1:41:09Speaker 01

  Dude.

• 1:41:10Speaker 00

  Whoa, oh, what? What would I do, man?

• 1:41:12Speaker 01

  Are you serious?

• 1:41:13Speaker 00

  His own teammate's like, what is wrong with you?

• 1:41:16Speaker 00

  Fifteen yards.

• 1:41:17Speaker 07

  Look what he says.

• 1:41:20Speaker 00

  Or simulated.

• 1:41:21Speaker 07

  Simulating years in the restroom.

• 1:41:24Speaker 07

  What I do, man?

• 1:41:25Speaker 00

  So, the quarter, the coach of Oregon is being interviewed. I sent you guys that clip as well if you have it. And he's saying, hey, if you want to go to Chris Brown contest, concert, go to that team. If you want to win, come over here to us. Do you have that one that I sent? Go to the next slide. Yeah, just go in there and play this clip. Watch this.

• 1:41:41Speaker 17

  Guys, I guess if you're interested in winning football games and you're from this area, you should go to Oregon. If you want to go to a Chris Brown concert, you should go here.

• 1:41:50Speaker 17

  Three wins against these guys.

• 1:41:51Speaker 00

  You want to go to Chris Brown concert and they talk about what happened afterwards. How much of this you put on the player? How much of this you put on the team? How much of this you put on the coach, Tom?

• 1:41:59Speaker 06

  So I put this.

• 1:42:01Speaker 00

  This type of behavior?

• 1:42:02Speaker 06

  This type of behavior, I put 50% on the coach and I'll tell you why. You know, when you're coaching these folks, they need to fear compliance. There are starters, they're in the game and they need to fear consequence. I don't mean fear hazing like, you know, so many college fraternities and just the ridiculousness of hazing. But they need to be, have great respect for that coach and that the coach would never accept this. Do you think anyone in the history of Belichick would do something like that?

• 1:42:35Speaker 00

  Nope.

• 1:42:35Speaker 06

  Hell, no. You'd get cut.

• 1:42:37Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 1:42:38Speaker 06

  Because the team's more important than you. Do you think anybody would have done this under Bear Bryant? No way. Under Paterno? No way. You would, so I put it 50% on the coach and then I put it, um, I put it 50% on the player. I, and I think the team that encourages it, you already saw that there were members of both teams that were coming over. What are you doing? But there was also members of both teams that were like the high five and quiet. What does that tell you? If the whole team comes out on it goes, what are you doing? Guess what? Then it's the player, 100%. But that's not what happened. You saw other people that were still in there. And the other side of it is, this is very competitive now. NIL has brought money into it. This is very competitive.

• 1:43:21Speaker 06

  Win your place, keep your place and a lot of these guys want to play on Sunday. And so they show this kind of grit and determination on Saturday. And then you have a guy that's going to say, well, we're not going to draft this kid. So I, I think, I put half of it on the coach.

• 1:43:35Speaker 00

  There's one person that we're not even talking about that I put a lot of it on, that's parents. You know, parents to me, like, you know, your kid behaves like this, somebody made it okay for them to do it. Your kid, and I'm not even talking about the USC one. I'm talking more about the Texans one. What do you mean you're behaving like that? You, you think that's the first time they did that? You think after the sack, he just decided to do that or you think he practiced that? You think he played it before the game? You think other people knew he was going to do it? Now, if nobody else knew, the Texans team gave me the vibes that the other players didn't know he was going to do that. Like, what are you doing?

• 1:44:07Speaker 06

  I agree.

• 1:44:07Speaker 00

  Kind of behavior is this? But to do something like that? Dude, it's like, that is just, that is horrible theatrics. Adam, you were part of Florida State, you know, football and you, you played sports. What, what do you think about when you see something like this?

• 1:44:21Speaker 07

  Yeah, I mean, the, the, the biggest challenge right now is, Tom hit it, that the NIL, players have more power than ever. So, look, I, I'm a big Miami Hurricanes fan. I played football in North Carolina, transferred to Florida State, you know, did the whole walk on thing. But the, the, the reality is, these players have more, have more power than ever. And if they don't like what's going on there, they can transfer another team, go to a transfer portal, go get that money and go elsewhere. So to me, these two situations, the, like, the Oregon thing, by the way, Oregon beat USC. The, the USC thing, it, a lot of times, these, these plays are so bang, bang. You're running at a guy, you're running at a guy, you really can't kind of control yourself. So I don't know if the guy did that intentionally. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

• 1:45:04Speaker 07

  The guy from Texas, you do a sack, you get up, you don't randomly come up with that in the spur of the moment. You think before the game, if I get a sack, I'm going to do my little urination dance and whip it out and then boom.

• 1:45:18Speaker 00

  I've never seen something dumb.

• 1:45:20Speaker 07

  So dumb.

• 1:45:21Speaker 00

  At college level?

• 1:45:23Speaker 07

  And now the referee doesn't have to say, on sportsmanlike conduct, he has to say.

• 1:45:27Speaker 06

  Urinating.

• 1:45:28Speaker 07

  Urinating, simulating. Like, what are you doing, homeboy?

• 1:45:32Speaker 00

  What do you think?

• 1:45:32Speaker 07

  And listen, last thing, Miami Hurricanes, I grew up in the eighties, nineties when Miami Hurricanes were doing the dance, doing their thing. Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Ray Lewis, respect on that. They were never urinating on people. They might have ripped your head off, but to me, Texas, when you got Arch Manning out there, do a little bit better.

• 1:45:51Speaker 01

  Attractive and I love that you said that, Pat. It's a combination of parenting some of the coach, but it's on this person. And I think it's just like, for instance, I'm, I'm a little bit on the opposite, Adam. The, the urinating, he planned it, he's stupid, okay. The other guy, you almost took his head off.

• 1:46:07Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:46:07Speaker 01

  Okay, and you're celebrating, people are like, yo, bro, the guy could be dead. Relax and, and these little, by the way, and they don't understand this. Those little decisions that you're doing on this field in that heat of the moment, your stock, because you're, the, the, the dream is what? If you're playing college football, it's the NFL. If you don't think everybody in the NFL is watching that, Pat, and one day when you try to go into the draft or the combine and they go, hey, wait, wait. Is that you? Are you the guy that almost killed somebody because we're all about safety in the NFL now? And you celebrated, oh, you're the guy that urinated and you think that that's cool? I'm telling you right now, your stock dropped substantially and good for them. Good for them.

• 1:46:46Speaker 07

  One is on the field and one is behavioral. By the way, did you see that UFC fight with the Mexican kid, the great fighter, the?

• 1:46:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, he keep.

• 1:46:54Speaker 07

  Rosas?

• 1:46:54Speaker 01

  Collapsed and he.

• 1:46:55Speaker 07

  Oh, Rosas, he was fighting, um.

• 1:46:57Speaker 01

  He got stretched out.

• 1:46:57Speaker 07

  A Brazilian guy.

• 1:46:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:46:59Speaker 07

  And in the heat of the moment, the guy just completely like, lights out. I don't know.

• 1:47:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, he was out. He was out.

• 1:47:04Speaker 07

  It's just like, when you're in the, when you're in the octagon or you're on the field, the, you never know what's going to happen. But at the after the play thing with Texas, to me, there, there, there's a level of.

• 1:47:14Speaker 00

  I think.

• 1:47:14Speaker 07

  Of disgust.

• 1:47:15Speaker 00

  I think it's an ex, it's not acceptable. I got a few other things I want to get into. I think it's unacceptable behavior. I think parents need to be involved and they need to put certain level of fear of, you don't behave like this guy. You're representing the team, you're representing the family, you're representing the country, you're, you have certain things you're representing. You don't behave like that.

• 1:47:32Speaker 07

  Pat, not to get, um, too like into the weeds on this, you know, the, the, the lack of a father and a parent in a household.

• 1:47:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, no.

• 1:47:39Speaker 07

  That could be a factor.

• 1:47:40Speaker 00

  You're right. No, that, that goes together. And, and this leads me to the next story, Messi, okay? Billionaire soccer player who scored a goal yesterday that people lost their mind. You have the one that I sent you the clip of all the angles.

• 1:47:52Speaker 07

  Unbelievable.

• 1:47:53Speaker 00

  Of the way he scored his goal. Just watch this. Can you put this from the beginning? Please watch this from the beginning. Watch this. Boom.

• 1:47:59Speaker 01

  That looks AI, dude. Like, oh, crazy.

• 1:48:05Speaker 07

  In Miami.

• 1:48:06Speaker 01

  Bro.

• 1:48:10Speaker 07

  In Miami, there you go. Oh, goal ass hole.

• 1:48:13Speaker 00

  There's certain players in sports that you're going to miss. This is one of them. He announced, you know what is his last final game for Argentina?

• 1:48:20Speaker 07

  What?

• 1:48:21Speaker 00

  October 6th.

• 1:48:22Speaker 01

  What?

• 1:48:22Speaker 00

  This is his last game with Argentina. He announced.

• 1:48:24Speaker 01

  Next month?

• 1:48:25Speaker 07

  What's the game?

• 1:48:25Speaker 00

  Ben in at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, FIFA and the Reuters report, I think tickets sold within seconds.

• 1:48:32Speaker 07

  Of course.

• 1:48:33Speaker 00

  Sold out within seconds of him saying he's no longer playing. He just bought a house, uh, he bought the house right next door in his Fort Lauderdale mansion for $8 million, give or take.

• 1:48:44Speaker 07

  Here, it's a great neighborhood.

• 1:48:46Speaker 00

  If there's a, if there's a statement that he's making, think about this.

• 1:48:49Speaker 07

  He's playing things.

• 1:48:50Speaker 00

  How many cities do you think would love to have Messi around the world?

• 1:48:53Speaker 01

  Every single one.

• 1:48:54Speaker 00

  How many states would love to have him? He had 50 choices of states to choose. He chose Florida. Out of all the counties in Florida, he chose Broward County. Out of all the cities he could have chosen, chosen in Florida, what did he choose?

• 1:49:05Speaker 07

  Fort Lauderdale.

• 1:49:05Speaker 00

  Why did he choose Fort Lauderdale?

• 1:49:06Speaker 07

  Weird.

• 1:49:07Speaker 00

  Why, what, what, would you think maybe he and his family, you think this was a decision they made on safety, on low key, on living on an island?

• 1:49:15Speaker 07

  Leadership.

• 1:49:15Speaker 00

  Taxes, all of that. Even some people like, well, after retirement, because the stadium, just so you know, if you go from our place, we, we live right next to him. If you go from our place to the arena that they played, the other day I went to Inter Miami again, we were hanging out with the owner of Inter Miami, Jorge Mas, the, the suite. The stadium looks ridiculous of what it looks like.

• 1:49:34Speaker 06

  And a gentleman of the sport, one of the owners you love to.

• 1:49:37Speaker 00

  Yeah, he was just a pure class act. And you go there and you're thinking to yourself, all right, so he's probably going to move to Miami after he retires. And no, he buys the house right next door. So who knows what the long-term goals are? But it gives more credence to people who call me and manek me. I give my next all the time. I made another video the other day, why move to Florida five and a half years later? Because now you actually live here. So the first one I made was a different story. This is the second one. There is a reason why people like that are moving to cities like Fort Lauderdale and surrounding area. But this is a massive shout out specifically to Fort Lauderdale over Miami. Over Miami. What community has more Hispanics, Fort Lauderdale or Miami?

• 1:50:19Speaker 07

  Miami.

• 1:50:19Speaker 00

  Why did he choose Fort Lauderdale? Mina, I don't know, but you know, he's coming over here. So, Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:50:25Speaker 07

  Well, uh, congratulations to Messi, amazing, the goat. Um, there, there's someone that might be a little upset right now and I don't want to rain on, on, on our friends parade. But there's an incredible soccer player, he's 13 years old now, that still thinks. The Cristiano Ronaldo is the

• 1:50:43Speaker 00

  Don't piss him off.

• 1:50:44Speaker 07

  The best player in the world. And I don't want to do this. I don't want to do it, but I gotta, at this point.

• 1:50:49Speaker 00

  He would flatten your

• 1:50:50Speaker 07

  Can I just, can I just come out?

• 1:50:51Speaker 00

  Slash your tires, but you don't have a car.

• 1:50:53Speaker 07

  Can I just come out and ask this question?

• 1:50:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:50:54Speaker 07

  At this point, can we just settle the debate? Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not the guy. Can we just come out and say it? I don't want to hurt his feelings.

• 1:51:02Speaker 00

  Good luck getting other people who are Portuguese people. Portuguese Ronaldo diehard fans to agree there.

• 1:51:08Speaker 07

  Just like good luck getting LeBron fans to But you know. Agree that Jordan is better.

• 1:51:12Speaker 00

  You know, there's

• 1:51:12Speaker 07

  Messi is Jordan and Ronaldo is potentially LeBron. Might not even be that high. But I'd just like to settle that debate. Plant that flag right now.

• 1:51:21Speaker 00

  Well, there's speculation that Messi and Ronaldo are about to play in a game that they'll be teammates for the first time ever.

• 1:51:28Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:51:28Speaker 00

  And, and the world of soccer is looking forward to seeing that. There's a real possibility.

• 1:51:33Speaker 07

  It's like Pippen and Jordan teaming up.

• 1:51:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, so this is about Boca Juniors that they're talking. We'll get them together and there's, you know, Carlos Tevez's farewell match in December 2026. He wants those guys to want to be teammates. And my God, it would be a spectacle.

• 1:51:50Speaker 07

  People go, what?

• 1:51:50Speaker 00

  For the world to see, because you know what everyone's gonna want to see in that game? Messi gives a pass, Ronaldo scores a header, you know, and the fans go crazy. And Messi and Ronaldo hug each other as they're about to leave the sport. Two of the greatest to ever lace them up in the history of soccer. Unbelievable moment for these guys to experience. But shout out to Messi for that goal that he scored. And congratulations for him to plant his flag in the state of Florida and also for Lauda. I want to play a clip for you guys. You guys know I love music. And, and how many guys love Teddy Swims? Me, what do you mean? Me and you sang, you going to Miami for an hour. No question.

• 1:52:30Speaker 00

  We, literally Vinny and I put on a concert singing to Teddy Swims on an hour drive to a fight that was taking place. So check this out. This is in the middle of the street. This guy is singing his song. They have no, people are just walking by. They don't know who he is. Most people don't know what Teddy Swims looks like. Nope. He just went regular clothes. After the guy is done, Teddy Swims starts singing a cappella. I just want you to see how amazing this video. It's got like, I don't know, a hundred million views, whatever it's got. Watch this clip here, go for it.

• 1:53:02Speaker 00

  Wait for it, look at this.

• 1:53:10Speaker 00

  And he's good.

• 1:53:10Speaker 07

  Noah Berkley.

• 1:53:15Speaker 00

  Great voice. People are just walking by. They don't know who these people are. Does he know it's Teddy Swims? Yeah, he knows. Others don't. Now watch.

• 1:53:29Speaker 00

  Now watch this. Oh my God. Who's gonna know that's Teddy? Look at him, he's covered up. You don't even know who. He's about to come up, guys. Wait for it.

• 1:53:39Speaker 00

  This guy's very talented, this kid. Yes.

• 1:53:53Speaker 00

  Construction work.

• 1:53:56Speaker 00

  Wait for it, he's about to hit it.

• 1:54:06Speaker 00

  Free concert in one of those. Front row.

• 1:54:10Speaker 07

  Looks like it's in the UK somewhere, right?

• 1:54:13Speaker 00

  Those are migrants in the back. And then they, some people started to realize.

• 1:54:19Speaker 00

  Isn't that great? He's incredible. These stories where you hear about, like, I think one time, is it, is this true, Tom? That you two were stuck at the airport at a, at a, whatever it was. And then they decide to put on a concert. They start performing at the airport. Have you heard about these stories? Apparently like Bono and these guys, sometimes when these singers get stuck, they just start performing. And people are like, wait a minute, is this real? Is this really happening?

• 1:54:41Speaker 07

  There's one TikTok account that they, they basically do that. They're just sort of like, it's like a flash mob, but for musicians.

• 1:54:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:54:48Speaker 07

  I'll see if I can find that account, but

• 1:54:50Speaker 00

  Freaking Teddy Swims. He is ridiculous. Is he not ridiculous? Yeah, that voice is So the average, he was so covered up, you have no clue who he is. No. Thirty-four years old, lighting it up. You were gonna say some

• 1:55:01Speaker 07

  Well, you know, I gotta give someone a shout out right quick.

• 1:55:04Speaker 00

  Here we go with Adam. Shout out. Adam's gonna shout out.

• 1:55:06Speaker 07

  I think you're gonna appreciate this one.

• 1:55:07Speaker 00

  There was a girl, we knew a girl in a subway.

• 1:55:09Speaker 07

  This person does not get enough credit at ValueTainment. But we have our musician DJ, Micky Sadio here, that's constantly playing music. I'm not sure if you've heard her. I know you might've heard her sneeze.

• 1:55:21Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:55:22Speaker 07

  She put me on to Teddy Swims in 2000.

• 1:55:26Speaker 00

  What?

• 1:55:27Speaker 07

  I'm sorry, in 2020. In 2000.

• 1:55:29Speaker 00

  When he was four years old.

• 1:55:31Speaker 07

  Or she was born. I said, what is that right there? She goes, oh, it's Teddy Swims. And the guy has just gone, he has a sort of the door, walking out that door. Incredible. Teddy, keep doing you and do me. This is my little opinion. Don't, don't go Jelly Roll. Don't go Hollywood on us. Stay you.

• 1:55:48Speaker 00

  I don't think he will. You don't think he will? No, I think he's You don't think he's gonna go do one of those crazy? He'd be crazy.

• 1:55:54Speaker 07

  You think I'm crazy?

• 1:55:56Speaker 00

  Last clip I want to show you is Max Verstappen. This one's for you, Tom.

• 1:56:00Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:56:00Speaker 00

  So Max is being interviewed and he's telling a story about what's happening with him. Can I win eight championships? Because that's the number, right? To win eight, if you want to be the GOAT. And a lot of people think Max has what it takes to be the greatest of all time. The guy's very unique. There's a story about him and his father. I'll try to find that as well that goes with him. But in this clip, look how much perspective he's given. Go for it. And there's a reason why I'm playing this for somebody that hopefully are watching this. Go ahead.

• 1:56:26Speaker 18

  You know, the ultimate goal, can you win eight titles? Yeah, it would be amazing, yes. But on the other hand, it's, it's not really necessary. I mean, there's so many more things that I want to do in life and also just have, you know, a bit of fun, catch up with my family. Because I know that there will be a day, of course, that, you know, nowadays, sometimes my dad or mom calls me and I'm like, I'm not busy, you know, like I'll call them back later. But I also know there will be a day that they are not calling me anymore, you know, because they won't be here. And these kind of moments, it makes me realize that it's not all about racing and Formula One. And I want to spend time with them because from when I was four years old, all of our lives, my family's life, has been dedicated to me and, and success and trying to get to Formula One. And at one point, that's enough.

• 1:57:10Speaker 18

  And then you have to give back and spend more time with them. And at the end of the day, that's way more important than, you know, all the success here. It's great. I mean, I love it. I love to be competitive. I love to win championships. I love to win races. But at one point, family again comes first because people get older and you really have to savor those moments.

• 1:57:33Speaker 00

  What a freaking perspective, right? With the guy. And it's, it's interesting because last night I get a call from one of our guys. You know who this is. We love him. This guy's family to us. We love him, we love her, and we love their kids. And he had to fly to LA last minute yesterday because it was the last moment he was gonna have with his mom.

• 1:57:58Speaker 00

  And he said, I had to be there bedside, next to her. So he goes, he makes it. He makes it bedside, right next to her. And it's talk, I'm talking to him last night and I, he says, she doesn't speak back, but she's nodding that she's hearing what I'm saying. And I literally just got a text 30 minutes ago that she passed away.

• 1:58:17Speaker 07

  Oh, wow.

• 1:58:18Speaker 00

  This just happened, 30 minutes ago that she passed away. And dude, this is like, you know, we talk about this, how this thing goes. All of a sudden, it goes all of a sudden. And this, this individual that just passed away, she had the most amazing spirit, happy, positive, fun to be around. You wouldn't see an ounce of bitterness in her. She was just fun to be around and it's gone, right? Thank God he had a chance to go and be bedside where he knows for the rest of his life, he was there when that moment happened. Some people don't have that luxury. That is a very difficult thing that happens. Of course, we want another day, another second, another moment. I was watching the interview of that one actor that he says, man, he says, you know what

• 1:59:03Speaker 00

  I miss? Just the sound of my mom. I would just give anything to just talk to her one more time. I just want to hear her voice. I just want her to say hi. Says, every day I would call and talk to my mom. Every day I would just call and talk to my mom. And I don't have that anymore. So sometimes it was just a conversation, ma, how you doing? Ma, how you doing? Ma, here's what's going on. You know those people that talk to their moms every day? You're like, what a lucky community where it's like mom is like fully supporting, loving. Your mom's an angel. She's listening, you know, she's watching right now and she's listening. I guarantee you. You went to LA to be with her and how she always Had surgery on her foot. She had surgery and all that stuff. Yeah. Well, I saw this video with Max and I'm like, you know what? This guy's arguably gonna go down as one of the top three greatest drivers of all time.

• 1:59:46Speaker 00

  And he's given perspective of what happens with family. Because that day is eventually coming for everybody.

• 1:59:54Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:59:54Speaker 00

  Where that call is made and this is it. And we no longer can make that phone call. So if you're watching this, I don't know, man, make that phone call. You know, not everybody has the best of relationships. One of the things we're working on right now with the podcast that we're trying to bring this new show on is for fathers who haven't spoken to their son for 15, 20 years, or sons who haven't spoken to their fathers for 10, 15, 20 years. We're gonna have a casting call that we'll have, which if one is open to the other one. And I'm gonna call the father or the son to unite them and come down here and do an interview together with them. Because that father-son relationship to me is very unique for them to have that. So anyways, you know, while you're hearing this story with Max and he says he wants to be around his dad more, there's a story that he tells once.

• 2:00:39Speaker 00

  He says, when he was a kid and he was karting, go-karting.

• 2:00:43Speaker 00

  One race, his dad is chewing his ass out. And he says, "My dad was so pissed off at me because I kept trying to talk to him and he didn't want to talk to me." And he eventually was so disgusted by the way I drove, that he pulls over the car and tells Max to get the hell out of the car because he doesn't want to talk to him. Max says, "My dad drops me off at the gas station. I have no clue what to do. This man who's my hero, I love him. He doesn't want to talk to me." He just goes home. He says, "Luckily, my mom was five, 10 minutes away. She came and picked me up to take me home."

• 2:01:17Speaker 01

  13 years old?

• 2:01:18Speaker 00

  13 years old. And you know, when you see them together, because the dad is a psycho competitor himself.

• 2:01:25Speaker 00

  It's just a beautiful story that even a son who had a father that drove him so hardcore cannot wait to have more time with him. Isn't that a beautiful thing?

• 2:01:32Speaker 01

  And recognizing the time.

• 2:01:34Speaker 00

  And recognizing the time.

• 2:01:36Speaker 01

  We have, and I, by the way, and I love videos like that because by the way, I, I really like and, and, and respect for Strappan. To see him and like, you see another layer of a human being, which is like, you, you have the eye and the prize, but to have that, that, that know-how of time, Pat, I, I was talking to somebody the other day. We have, like, you never had this when we were young. Nobody, you didn't give a damn. Nobody cared about time. The older we get, we're looking because, and I don't know if anybody else is out there, how fast, it's already September 28th. Time is flying by and I tell people all the, all the time, I love that you said it, Pat. Talk to your parents. I don't, even if, even if it's not that you're fighting, call them, talk to them. I talk to my mother every single day, multiple times every day. Not because I have to, because I want to. I love her to death.

• 2:02:20Speaker 01

  And we talked about this the other day too, about kids and their families and like, how, remember we were talking about Tico? And Tico's the guy that's like, "I don't want photos. I don't want to be, leave me alone." And I told them in the car, I go, "Tico, I don't have any photos of me."

• 2:02:30Speaker 00

  That's crazy.

• 2:02:31Speaker 01

  There's maybe, there's maybe, Patrick, maybe, and my mom can attest, when I, when I got out of the air force, I'm sorry, when I, when I, when I graduated, there might be one photo, I think she has it, of me over here, my mom, uh, and me, Pat, I'm looking at my dad and I'm emotional. And my dad's just looking at the camera. That's the only photo. I have one photo that I'm kind of next to my-

• 2:02:53Speaker 00

  Are you freaking serious?

• 2:02:54Speaker 01

  Yes, and she has, I'm gonna have, "Mom, if you're hearing this, send me the photo so I can show Patrick." One, Pat, and you're gonna see in my face the sadness of me looking at my father. And that's all I have is that one and memories. Okay? So when I tell people, and I've talked to him about it too, about getting close, there's, your dad is your dad. Even if he's in the picture and you love him, but your mother carried you. She nurtured you. She brought you here. And I know some people have messed up relationships, but the, the mother, the connection, especially if she's a, if she's been good to you, like Pat. And, and the messed up thing is, you have to think about that. You have to foresee the future because they're not going to be here forever. Because the way that the world works, they're supposed, you're supposed to bury your parents, not the other way around.

• 2:03:35Speaker 01

  And it's a, it's a sad thing. It's a sad thing, but recognizing it and getting closer to them, Pat, I think is one of the most important things in life. It really is.

• 2:03:42Speaker 00

  Tom.

• 2:03:42Speaker 01

  Besides God.

• 2:03:43Speaker 00

  Go ahead, Tom.

• 2:03:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:03:45Speaker 02

  Now, more than ever, we need someone on our side. But Rob Whitman? Whitman's votes drove up costs, cut Medicaid, and risked 350,000 Virginians' healthcare to pay for tax breaks for himself and his donors. He's not on our side. Shannon Taylor will fight corruption, cut taxes, and bring down costs. This November, vote for Shannon Taylor. She's for us. Paid for by HMP, the House Majority PAC dot com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

• 2:04:14Speaker 03

  How many discounts does USAA Auto Insurance offer? Too many to say here. Multi-vehicle discount, safe driver discount, uh, new vehicle discount, storage discount, legacy-

• 2:04:23Speaker 04

  How many discounts will you stack up? Tap the banner or visit usaa.com slash auto discounts. Restrictions apply.

• 2:04:30Speaker 05

  This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50-page restoration block, or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up required. Compatibility and availability varies. 18 plus.

• 2:04:57Speaker 19

  I can't talk right now.

• 2:04:59Speaker 07

  Oh, Tom.

• 2:05:00Speaker 19

  I just...

• 2:05:03Speaker 01

  How important, Tom? How, it, it, the, the, the love?

• 2:05:06Speaker 19

  Yeah.

• 2:05:07Speaker 07

  Oh, love.

• 2:05:09Speaker 19

  You know, my heart's heavy for a friend and, uh...

• 2:05:20Speaker 19

  Yeah.

• 2:05:21Speaker 01

  You're the best, Tom.

• 2:05:22Speaker 19

  You have to cherish the last words. Because during those days, you don't get the words anymore, you know? They're not going to be there. And so you have to value those, um, and really be very intentional about them. And I think it's, it's hard to be, you know, the world is so busy and there's so many demands, um, and the communication comes out so fast and furious and the things we gotta do. It's such a busy place now that that competes and you forget just how intentional you gotta be, uh, to put that, to put that time down and to remember it, you know? Cancer got my dad at, uh, at 61.

• 2:06:06Speaker 19

  And you realize, you know, I got all the answers I'm gonna get. I got all the moments I'm gonna have and I protect them like jewels. But you have to sit there and know each day, you gotta make another jewel with the people you got left. And then, and protect those. It's just, it's a, it's a heavy topic to talk about and then my heart's very heavy for this, uh, this person this morning, really heavy, so.

• 2:06:39Speaker 07

  Well, I, I might just want to, uh, end maybe on a lighter note. Uh, shout out to my mom because today it's her birthday.

• 2:06:45Speaker 01

  Oh. What are the odds?

• 2:06:46Speaker 07

  Happy birthday to my mom. We're going out. By the way, I don't know, Connor, Humberto, I sent you a picture of the last time I took my mom out on a, on a double date with a, a good friend of mine, uh, which was your mom. And we did a double date, Vinnie, with my mom and your mom.

• 2:07:02Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:07:02Speaker 07

  This is where the picture should show up and tee it up.

• 2:07:06Speaker 01

  That's a funny picture.

• 2:07:06Speaker 07

  I guess our, uh, guys aren't, uh, pulling up the pictures. But anyway, happy birthday to my mom. And, uh, you've inspired me incredibly how much, how tight you are with your mom and how tight you are with your dad. So I, uh, just want to give my mom a happy birthday shout out.

• 2:07:22Speaker 01

  Happy birthday, mom.

• 2:07:23Speaker 07

  And I did send the team pictures, but maybe they're not listening. I don't know.

• 2:07:26Speaker 00

  They're listening. They're probably also in the back emotional themselves trying to hold it together.

• 2:07:33Speaker 00

  Okay, different kind of a podcast, how it ended, you know, but that's the reality of it. Everything I do at this phase of my life is just creating those memories. So the way Tom put it, what was the word you used? You said it's creating those jewels, right? Creating the next ones. That's really all it's all about. You know, it's, it's, it's having the, yeah.

• 2:07:50Speaker 07

  Oh, there it is. There's our double date. Hey, my, happy birthday, mom. There you go. And, and I hope sweet Lana's feeling great.

• 2:07:56Speaker 00

  Happy birthday, Mrs. Hosni.

• 2:07:57Speaker 01

  Pat, I'm sending, I'm sending this to Connor right now. Connor, I'm slacking this.

• 2:07:59Speaker 00

  Oh, you found the picture of you and your dad?

• 2:08:01Speaker 07

  Oh, your picture of your dad?

• 2:08:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:08:03Speaker 07

  Can I ask you?

• 2:08:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course.

• 2:08:04Speaker 07

  Okay, I mean, since we're on this emotional journey right now, my favorite guy, how's Papa Gabriel doing?

• 2:08:09Speaker 00

  He's doing good, you know? We were with him yesterday. We're with him every day, but, uh, uh, you know how it is, like, people come over, all they want to do is they want to talk to him. We had a birthday party yesterday for, uh, Dilly Boy. And everyone just sits next to him and talks to him. And he tells us crazy stories that he tells, you know, whatever he's gonna talk about, on marriage, relationship, family, all this stuff. You don't get a lot of these. Look at this picture, Vinnie.

• 2:08:30Speaker 01

  And I forgot, look at my mom's crying. Look at me looking at my dad. That was my dad, my sister.

• 2:08:35Speaker 00

  What are you thinking?

• 2:08:36Speaker 01

  I, I was just-

• 2:08:36Speaker 00

  Are you thinking, is he proud?

• 2:08:37Speaker 01

  That's exactly, that's, that's what was going on, Pat. And I was so emotional to see them because it really, the military really messed me up. Because I was, I never was away from, from them. And this is that moment that I'm looking, Pat, this is literally, literally the only photo. And look at my mom. She was crying. I'm crying, my brother who was already in, uh, and I was like, that's the only photo that I have. My father, look at his hand. He has a camcorder because he was proud. And just yesterday, my mom was like,

• 2:09:01Speaker 07

  Look at that.

• 2:09:02Speaker 01

  My mom just thinks, Pat, my mom goes, "Vinnie", because there was, Pat, there was no inclination of what I'm doing right now in my life. She's like, "I can't imagine how proud he would have been to see exactly what you're doing right now. It would have been insane. It would have been insane."

• 2:09:15Speaker 07

  And just so you know, not, you, your brother and your sister all served.

• 2:09:20Speaker 01

  She joined after this. My sister joined after this. And that's-

• 2:09:23Speaker 07

  And your mom served.

• 2:09:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, my mom. My mom was in the Iranian army.

• 2:09:27Speaker 07

  I love her.

• 2:09:29Speaker 00

  This is the only picture of you and your dad?

• 2:09:30Speaker 01

  That's the only picture that I have of me and my father, next to my dad. Yeah. Where my mom, my mom can attest. Yeah, I don't, I don't even think, there's photos of him, uh, uh, either they didn't take them or I don't, God knows where they are. This is the only photo that I have of my dad. And she just sent, yeah.

• 2:09:45Speaker 00

  Interesting. You told me this two nights ago. I'm like, that's hard to believe, but what, Vinnie, have you framed this picture or no?

• 2:09:51Speaker 01

  No, she has it, she has it on a, on a photo.

• 2:09:53Speaker 00

  This picture is a picture that tells so many freaking sto- If you ever write a book, like, this has to be in the book, bro.

• 2:10:03Speaker 01

  And I'm looking right at it.

• 2:10:03Speaker 07

  And it's crazy. You're looking at your dad. You're not even looking straight.

• 2:10:06Speaker 00

  That's what I'm saying. This, the only person that's looking at his dad. No, Adam, that's part of the story. I don't, you, you understand the, the dynamics here. This isn't about what are you doing? This is about a boy who's 18, 19 years old. How old are you right here?

• 2:10:21Speaker 01

  19.

• 2:10:22Speaker 00

  19 years old is wondering, is my dad finally proud of me?

• 2:10:25Speaker 01

  That's it.

• 2:10:25Speaker 00

  That's how I process this picture. And let me ask you, how much longer after this does he pass away?

• 2:10:30Speaker 01

  Um, I want to say, uh, a year or two, maybe a year or two years.

• 2:10:37Speaker 00

  After this.

• 2:10:37Speaker 01

  After this. Two years and I, and I, yeah, and I, because I was in Mount St. Mary's, based in Montana, my mom called me and goes, "Hey, listen, he went to the doctor. Don't be emotional. It's gonna be okay. He's gonna take chemo and then, and then a couple of months, boom, gone. So, yeah.

• 2:10:51Speaker 00

  Nothing like family, man. Everything goes by very, very quick. Anyways, gang, great being with you guys. Uh, tomorrow, the Bob Chapek interview, Disney, for seventh CEO in Disney, 103 years. His interview goes live tomorrow and we will do this again on Friday. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

• 2:11:10Speaker 02

  Now, more than ever, we need someone on our side. But Rob Whitman? Whitman's votes drove up costs, cut Medicaid, and risked 350,000 Virginians' healthcare to pay for tax breaks for himself and his donors. He's not on our side. Shannon Taylor will fight corruption, cut taxes, and bring down costs. This November, vote for Shannon Taylor. She's for us. Paid for by HMP, the House Majority PAC dot com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

• 2:11:39Speaker 03

  How many discounts does USAA Auto Insurance offer? Too many to say here. Multi-vehicle discount, safe driver discount, uh, new vehicle discount, storage discount, legacy-

• 2:11:49Speaker 04

  How many discounts will you stack up? Tap the banner or visit usaa.com slash auto discounts. Restrictions apply.