Trump–Putin Diesel Deal, James Talarico Mental Hospital Claims | PBD #871

President Trump strikes a controversial diesel deal with Vladimir Putin as fuel prices soar. Blackwater founder Erik Prince's forces are ambushed in Congo, leaving former UFC fighter Tim Kennedy wounded. Meanwhile, James Talarico faces questions and disputed hospital claims following his 12-day campaign absence. Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team break down the latest developments, the 2026 midterms, and more. 👞 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: @VALUETAINMENT @BetDavidConsulting @vtgenz @ValuetainmentComedy ABOUT US: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

• 0:28Speaker 00

  Alright, so we are back. Yesterday, we had a drive back from a soccer tournament. On the way back, we're singing Persian songs. We're singing Gugu. We're singing Chikke Chikke. Ghatre Ghatre. Everybody loves that music. We're singing Haye Dev, Yen, Martik. The greatest hit. The greatest hit. I mean, it's like Sinatra, Mardik. You're making fun, but to the Persian community, listen to this. Who knows, you know, Bibi Gol or Del Amal Befan Bar Gerdam. I mean, we listened to this. We had so much. And Tikko knew some of these songs, which was great. And but it was phenomenal. Of course, you know, story wise, we got a massive announcement to make here today for some of you guys that if you like to have fun, you're going to want to be a part of this.

• 1:13Speaker 00

  And I'll share that with you here momentarily. But a few things to be thinking about story wise. Trump is officially flipping on Zelensky now. I don't know what happened. I thought they were friends and all of a sudden Trump told him, I have one rule for you. Don't hit because it affects the world and you did. I'm out. And then Zelensky had to come out and explain himself to Trump. It's like, you don't dictate our elections, but Zelensky is back to being in the corner by himself because of what he did. And so one moment Trump's pro Zelensky, one moment is pro Putin, or maybe he just wants this thing to be done. And a lot of businesses being left on the table. We talk about the Pope Leo to my Catholic friends whom I loved dearly. You know who you are. We have a very good relationship together.

• 1:58Speaker 00

  Is your Pope said something about execution and he's not happy about it. And a lot of people came out and said, what are you talking about? Do you not remember such and such story? And you know, in our own group chat that we had, Tom and another Catholic went back and forth. So Tom's going to give you a little bit of insight. Jews stayed out of it. Scientologists stayed out of it. Presbyterian stayed out of it, but a Catholic and a Christian went back and forth. And we'll give the perspective. What can happen when Christians and Catholics start having beef? Yeah, that's not something. Gets ugly, guys. Anthropic goes rogue and gives a false tip to cops. It's like, what? It's a false tip. What do you mean? So this is the part that they're worried about, like propaganda, you can, you know, scare the crap out of people.

• 2:43Speaker 00

  Talarico, this guy's been, look, how good were you at the game of hide and go seek? As good as you are, imagine you run for Senate and you're on TV nonstop. You're on the Rogan podcast. The world learns about you. You are this supposed to be a noble pastor, Swede, Swede, you know, good, you know, transgender, all this stuff. And then all of a sudden you go missing at the peak of your campaign. This has got to be, listen, I don't care what you say. Some people call Hafa the greatest hide and go seek champion. They'd say he's maybe still hiding. Some people call Elvis, you know, Tupac, these guys are still living on an island, all this stuff. But I tell you, Talarico's up there with what he did because he's still alive. Okay. And he's running allegedly. And somebody called the facility that he was staying at.

• 3:27Speaker 00

  They're saying they don't know if this is real or not and said, hey, the Talarico get out. And then there's interviews of him being asked and he gave two different, two different, two different answers. You just got to hear this. We'll talk about that. And then Saudi airport gets attacked and Houthis war is escalating. Palantir CEO says, there's only two types of people that are going to make the AI war. You may want to hear this on who's going to have a chance of surviving this next era that we're going to go through. He says two types. Germany. You ready for this weird statistic? Adam was surprised by this stat. Maybe he was not. Eighty seven percent of the wanted suspects criminals in Germany have foreign citizenships. Eighty seven percent have foreign citizenships. Now, you got to realize the three of you guys were born in America.

• 4:12Speaker 00

  I'm not, so I, you know. I know you spent like two years in Germany. But I'm part of the 13%. Yeah, but were you committing crimes? Were you respecting the law? I was not. I was just enjoying living in Henkel Langen. But this story, this stat tells you a lot about what the country is going through. Trucking industry, if you're in the trucking industry, the level of bankruptcies that that industry is getting hit by, had one of our clients that bought 150 trucks. And he told me what happened to him with the diesel gas prices and how nasty it is. They're selling trucks right now on pennies, pennies on a dollar right now for some. They have no choice. They got to get rid of them because it's inventory that's being parked. And if they move, they're losing money. So it's like, they're not even in the break even situation.

• 4:53Speaker 00

  Erik Prince from Blackwater, if I'm not mistaken, they sent about 20 of their guys and one of them was still an active National Guard. Tim Kennedy being one of them, apparently they were attacked and it was not a, it's not a nice story here, but we'll have to get into it. In the Congo, it's not pretty on what happened. A story comes out talking about how malls are back to being busy again, not the mall in Tampa. That's for sure. No. We went to mall in Tampa yesterday. It was ghost town. I thought for a second I was going to go into back rooms and you know, from going into the theater, I'm like, be careful where you're going. And then we're going to have all these billions of rooms that we're going to have to go through.

• 5:33Speaker 00

  This place was so dead that the only people were going to this place was just to go to the theater. Okay. Not for anything else, right? Shout out to Lexus. Cory Booker, Town Hall, very funny. You got to see it. And in Nevada, this is, it's pretty crazy what happened to this lady in Nevada. I mean, she may need to be in the Guinness Book of World, you know, what she did. She married five different men in one year. How do you do, like you got, that's something. Shout out. She marries five different guys allegedly in the past year and she was trying to find a way to get $280,000. So can you imagine like, how do you manage this one versus this one versus this one? Five? Five. She did five. Looking for love.

• 6:16Speaker 00

  And Adam was trying to find her Instagram to introduce her to you as a sixth, but who knows? Who knows what's going to happen? And then a couple of other things that we'll get into, you know, the, a couple of the unique stories that we'll get into that I got surprises every time I'm showing some stuff. I got some stuff up my sleeve. By the way, just words of advice for some of you folks out there. Life is weird. Life is tough. Whatever you do, this is like some high level advice. It's not going to be low level. I wanted to start off Monday strong with you guys with high level advice. If you ever get the itch to want to go punch your finger at a tiger, don't do it. Seriously. Don't do it. That tiger is not going to listen to you. It won't. So apparently there was this one guy that decides to go and he goes like this to the tiger.

• 7:01Speaker 00

  And the tiger's in front of it reacts a little bit like, hey, you better listen to me. You know, the tiger listened for a second. Literally the tiger goes like this, looks at him, looks right, looks at him. The guy met his maker within seconds. Just don't do it. Like I know sometimes like, let me do the impossible. Let me do something that maybe people think it's kind of creates it. This is not a good idea to, to want to go out there and wrestle a, you know, a tiger. Beast. What did, what did Tony Montana say about a tiger? Lady tiger. I don't know. Some kind of lady tiger. Lady tiger, different story. But a real live tiger, don't mess with them. They can have some. All right. So now guess what's coming up on November 3rd? Tom, what is coming up on November 3rd? Midterm elections, very important for America. Yes, it is. And it's going to be crazy because some states are going to be happy, some states are not

• 7:46Speaker 00

  going to be happy. In Florida, people are worried on who's going to win the governor race right now, but there's a lot of different races. You got the Ohio stuff. You got all this Talarico packs and stuff that's going on. So we are doing an election night. And if you remember the last one we did, it was the biggest election night event in the world. Literally when I say that, it was number one live stream world. But of course, this is not presidential. This is midterm. So it's going to be a different format. But if you want to be a part of it, there's one way you can do it. And we're going to have some very special guests with us. Guests that you may want to meet, maybe play this clip for some of, some of you folks that want to come join us on election night. Go ahead. Two years ago, we held the biggest election night event here, right here behind this hangar. This year, November 3rd, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM.

• 8:31Speaker 00

  We are doing it at our private members only club, Boardroom Cigar Lounge. So Tom, why don't you let the folks what we'll be covering that night? We will have live results as they come in, race by race, the important ones, all the datas, winners, losers, and why. We will laugh. Some states may cry, but we'll have a great time. So if you want to be a part. Vinny, I'm in the middle of a shoot, Vinny. Oh, what are you guys shooting though? This is about election night, November 3rd, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM at the Boardroom Cigar Lounge. I'm coming. You're going to be there? I will see there. Can you get rid of the guy? Get rid of the guy sitting in the back. You're not invited. Damn, come on, pal. Guys, get out of here. Again, November 3rd, 7:00 PM, 11:00 PM. Looking forward to seeing you there. Fill out your application. Our team will get ahold of you. There you have it.

• 9:13Speaker 00

  So for those of you guys that want to join us, election night, November 3rd, go on the QR code. It's members only. Keep it up, by the way, keep it up right there. It's an election night. Go to BoardroomCigarLounge.com. Again, BoardroomCigarLounge.com or go on that QR code. Fill out the application. It'll be only members. And by the way, when you come to us that night, there's a few things you need to know. Our Boardroom Cigar Lounge that we have, no phones get to make it in there except for the night that we're doing the election night in that big room. You'll be there, but I can't tell you who's going to be there. So some of you guys may meet some interesting people. And so we're working on the list. We may announce some of the guests, but it's going to be a smaller intimate group, members only. So 7:00 PM, 11:00 PM, many people will be there early. Great networking opportunity. It'll be business folks.

• 9:58Speaker 00

  Go to Boardroom Cigar Lounge, fill out the membership information and somebody will get ahold of you. With that being said, let's get right into it. So first story I want to start off with, okay? First story I want to start off with is Trump having an issue now with Zelensky. So at first, everybody saw Trump and Zelensky. It's like, maybe there's some progress being made. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe there's some good news that's going to happen here and the war is going to end. And then all of a sudden you see a video from the president. It's like, hey, I told you to not do X, Y, Z and you did. Once you did, we're done. And he said, Ukraine needs a new president. It's time for a new leader. To the point that Zelensky had to respond to them. If you have the clips in the back, do me a favor and prep the clip.

• 10:41Speaker 00

  This is the president talking about Zelensky. You can tell he's had it with them. Go for it.

• 10:48Speaker 01

  Well, I look at it differently. Zelensky could have settled this war many times, many, many times. And he chooses not to. Very difficult. It's a war that should have never been started. If I were president, if the election weren't rigged, I would have been president, and that war would have never started. But he could have settled it many times, and he chose not to. We said, "You can do whatever you want to Russia, don't hit the refineries," because that's a world problem that's caused. And he wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel, because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.

• 11:30Speaker 01

  And we told him, "Do whatever you want, but don't hit the diesel fuel, because there's a big problem, big shortage." And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel.

• 11:39Speaker 00

  Double dump.

• 11:40Speaker 01

  He can do whatever he wants, but you can't do that, because we have a world problem. And the problem is caused by the lack of refineries for diesel fuel. So what does he do? He goes and hits refineries. And I said to him, "Do what you want, don't hit refineries. There's plenty of targets, don't hit refineries." And he went out and he hit.

• 11:59Speaker 00

  By the way, you can pause it.

• 12:00Speaker 01

  And he's not going to affect our farmers? And he's not going to affect our ranchers?

• 12:03Speaker 00

  So let me get this straight. So you're having a conversation with the man that you need his help. He tells you to not hit it, you go hit it. What do you think is going to happen right afterwards? What do you think is going to happen afterwards? This is someone's help you need. You need this guy's help, and you go and do the thing he tells you not to do. By the way, check this out. Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by 500,000 tons in November 1st, and then 1 million immediately thereafter, and 3 million more within a short period of time. And he says, "I want to thank President Putin. We have massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and it's diesel, which is what we want." He did not address sanctions, saying that only lower price of Americans, especially

• 12:46Speaker 00

  our great farmers, ranchers, and truckers, is my greatest priority. And then Zelensky called it a weak decision. Unfortunately, a weak decision by strong partner. Senator Richard Blumenthal said, "It makes us complicit in the Putin war." Treasury issued a license shielding deliveries from sanctions in April 2027. Diesel averaged 620 after a record of 652. And here's how Zelensky responded to the president. Go for it.

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• 15:22Speaker 09

  So, please, tell Putin, "Give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people."

• 15:46Speaker 00

  This is not the clip I wanted. I wanted a clip of him saying about being a president. He answers, "We have elections in our country, uh, you know, we choose our..." So, Tom, when you see this mishap, so can you give the argument of both sides? The people that are saying, "Well, why would we side with Putin and help him out in a situation like this?" And then argue for the other side and say, "Why would Zelensky choose to attack?"

• 16:09Speaker 10

  So why would our president right now be doing a deal to get diesel for the US? Because diesel is over $8 in California. Now, that's because of their taxes. And diesel, I think this morning, AAA diesel was 640 nationwide, 625, something like that. And so we have a crisis. We have an absolute economic crisis in the United States because of the diesel. And diesel transports everything, from an Amazon package to a box of strawberries. Diesel transports everything. So that means everything's price, everything in terms of affordability and a little bit of inflation, that's due to diesel. And that diesel deal is not just election year.

• 16:53Speaker 10

  It happens to be midterms, and there's a lot of incentive. So people will say, "Oh, shut up, Bismack, it is because of election year." It is, and it isn't. It would have happened anyway. Right now, we have, you know, the US citizens, he says, are suffering with this inflation creep in so many areas, and the diesel costs that's there. And so I'm arguing that Trump should do everything he could. He took what was called red diesel, it's called red dye diesel. You know what red dye diesel is? It's a special diesel that they use for farm equipment and off-roading. It's a little less environmentally friendly. Okay. But a week ago, Trump said, "Hey, truckers can use red dye diesel on the roads, and I'll suspend the federal tax on it."

• 17:38Speaker 10

  So he's trying to help them get something, and now he's trying to get more diesel from Putin. So I would argue, you know, but for the war, he's trying to do a world supply deal, Pat. He's trying to do a world supply deal to get diesel for Americans to see if we can get the price down. Never mind the fact that the real problem in America is the refineries, that regulations and the Democrats in California, closing Phillips 66 in Los Angeles and Valero in Benicia up by San Francisco, that's friggin' California government's fault. They took, you know, approximately, I'll give you the exact number, yeah, California

• 18:19Speaker 10

  screwed itself out of 565,000 barrels a day, Pat, a day. That's what got taken off, you know? So we have a refinery crisis in America, but the president, I'm arguing for him, hey, he wanted to go find diesel to see if he can bring the price down in the United States, and that's where he found it.

• 18:38Speaker 00

  So here's when the president says Ukraine needs a new president. This is what Zelensky had to say about it. Go for it.

• 18:44Speaker 09

  If they want energy, we are open for this. Don't attack us. Don't kill our children. We will stop attack your diesel. And I think it's fair, fair deal. President Trump said that we need, Ukraine needs, new president. So first of all, with all respect to President Trump, it's up to our society, up to our people, to choose one or another leader. Yes, we are in war, and now to do elections is really difficult, not only that it goes absolutely not secured, and it goes out of our law, out of our constitution, but the

• 19:29Speaker 09

  main thing is to have security infrastructure for this, to give possibility people to vote. Of course, it's up to Ukrainians when to vote, how to do it, and to choose one or another person. But if to answer on this question, I know that Putin wanted very much to change the president in Ukraine. I understand it. And if President Trump really wants to have some changes during elections, I also shared it with his team. So please, tell Putin, "Give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections.

• 20:14Speaker 09

  Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people." Exactly Ukrainian people.

• 20:20Speaker 00

  Do you believe him?

• 20:23Speaker 10

  No, he just said, "Security infrastructure," and I was making a note for Vinny. When he says "security infrastructure," you know what he's talking about? Here we go again, back to the thing started. He's talking about NATO backing up Ukraine, or US weapons backing up Ukraine. "Oh, we need the security infrastructure." That was, remember when the war first started and they, they felt like they had a deal? And it was down to like that? And Putin said, "You put the word NATO on that, on that deal, I'm not doing it." Remember that? He's back to that again.

• 20:55Speaker 00

  Adam, what do you have with this?

• 20:56Speaker 11

  Uh, I'm trying to be clear-eyed on this. Uh, you know who I trust the least out of anybody in this conversation? There's one person, and that's Vladimir Putin. So, Trump's trying to make a deal. Is that fair to say? That Trump is trying to make a deal here? There's an energy war going on right now, whether it's the Hormuz situation, whether it's the Houthis, what they're doing in Saudi, and then obviously the Ukraine-Russia situation here. So, Trump's trying to make a deal on this energy war situation. And I'm gonna call out President Trump for a second. Because as much as I respect everything that he's doing, and I've been, obviously arguably, one of the biggest fans of what Trump is doing geopolitically. He's trying to basically figure out a deal here, and in my opinion will be

• 21:39Speaker 11

  short-term gain for long-term pain. We've talked about, you know, short-term pain for long-term gain in Iran. This is the exact opposite. You're trying to make a deal with Putin? This is like a deal with the devil. And Trump, respectfully, this is the same guy that one year ago at the UN said, he called out the EU and he called out the NATO. I don't know if you remember this, guys. He says, "What the hell are you guys doing? You're buying Russian oil from the country you're fighting a war against." Well, isn't that exactly what we're doing this time? I don't understand. What's the bottom line here? How much, how much? Do the math here on this.

• 22:20Speaker 11

  300,000 tons of diesel, followed by 500,000 tons of diesel. 1 million, 3 million. That's basically 5 million tons of diesel. How long do you think that lasts in America?

• 22:31Speaker 00

  Couple weeks.

• 22:33Speaker 11

  5 days.

• 22:33Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 22:34Speaker 11

  So, I've done some numbers on it.

• 22:36Speaker 10

  So, we talked about last week. All of these things are like minutes.

• 22:39Speaker 11

  So, like, you're making a stupid deal with Putin to help you potentially with midterms that lasts maybe 5 days? And then here's the bottom line here. What country is the number one exporter of diesel in the world? It's the United States of America. We ship, apparently, 1.2 million barrels of diesel a day. 15% of the world's supply. Number 2 is Russia. So, if you're trying to basically bring down costs, if you're trying to basically have farmers and big ag and people, and basic people understand that costs are being lowered, you could go to any country. Why go to Russia? Here's a list of countries that export diesel. Saudi, India, South Korea, Netherlands, Singapore, Kuwait.

• 23:23Speaker 11

  Why Russia? I don't understand. I'm very clear-eyed on Russia. Russia is the worst geopolitical actor in the world. Because somehow we think that we're gonna be friends with these people.

• 23:32Speaker 00

  Yeah, but let me tell you, let me tell you how this thing works when it comes down to doing deals. This is kinda how I see it. Let's isolate each issue, okay? Uh, issue number 1 is a midterm election gas strategy to make sure gas prices drop right before elections to help with the midterms, okay? Guess what? You know what that is? Boom, boom.

• 23:52Speaker 11

  Roll in the dice.

• 23:53Speaker 00

  You don't know if it's gonna work or not, okay? You're, you're already, you know, you got lucky with the Talarico fumble. You really got lucky. And you hope Florida turns out the way it does. If you trust Calci, and we trust what Calci does. So, with Calci, you know, Donald's has some lead, but a lot of Floridian Republicans may not turn out. They're kinda not excited about Donald's, that they're gonna, so they're gonna have to get that base excited. And the ads alone is not gonna cut it. Whether they're gonna do that debate or not, who knows? You have the, the Ohio stuff, which that keeps getting worse and worse. I think Ohio, if you look at Calci, Ohio, it does not look good on Ohio Calci. It's the complete opposite. No, he's not looking good on Ohio Calci.

• 24:30Speaker 11

  You're going the wrong way.

• 24:31Speaker 00

  67%, 33%, it's just not looking good. So, to me, let's isolate that. Russia deal election. Okay, cool. Let's isolate what Putin's getting out of this. Is Putin getting some money during the war to be able to attack and do other things? Maybe, I don't know. Uh, where he wins in this situation? Maybe Putin made an ass to Trump, it's like, "Hey, you do this, I'll do this for you." Trump's a dealmaker. But if you isolate the diplomacy of Zelensky, who does Zelensky have a very good relationship with constantly? Who?

• 25:05Speaker 11

  Xi.

• 25:06Speaker 00

  Who?

• 25:06Speaker 11

  Zelensky and Xi?

• 25:07Speaker 00

  On our side.

• 25:08Speaker 11

  Oh, on our side? You mean, do you mean American, or do you mean?

• 25:11Speaker 00

  American.

• 25:12Speaker 11

  Because he's got a good relationship with the EU.

• 25:14Speaker 00

  Does he have a good relationship with Elon? No.

• 25:16Speaker 11

  Not at all.

• 25:16Speaker 00

  Elon can't stand him. You know why Elon can't?

• 25:18Speaker 11

  Well, America's distanced itself from Zelensky, I think is where you're getting at.

• 25:21Speaker 00

  But no, no, no, it's not, that's not how it works though. It's on you. It's on Zelensky. Be better at diplomacy. What are you doing? Well, how is this diplomatic to do something like this? He's telling you, "Don't hit..."

• 25:34Speaker 11

  I agree with that.

• 25:34Speaker 00

  "...what applies to the world." I'm sorry, Adam, if you and I are talking, you're in the middle of war. I, you're asking me for what you want, and I'm making the calls on the other end. If, I'm telling you, "Don't hit that," and you do. Whatever you guys said, everything else, it's your business. I can't control that part. But if you hit that, where is the diplomacy on Zelensky?

• 25:55Speaker 11

  I hear you. And, and, and listen, I'm not gonna start defending Zelensky. My, my assumption is, okay, they announced a energy ceasefire. Okay, you guys stop fighting, you guys stop fighting. Zelensky is like, "Yes, give me 60 days, I promise." But what did Putin do? The next day, Putin slaps Trump in the face, spits in his face, and Russia strikes a power plant in Ukraine. So, if there's an energy ceasefire, then both sides have to abide. I'm not defending Zelensky, but I'm gonna pile on Putin's BS moves.

• 26:25Speaker 00

  So, then isolate that with him.

• 26:27Speaker 11

  I agree.

• 26:28Speaker 00

  But I'm isolating with Zelensky. Zelensky wants stuff from America more than Russia wants stuff from, from America.

• 26:35Speaker 11

  Right now. I don't think America's doing anything for Zelensky.

• 26:37Speaker 00

  If Trump is asking you, no, he, he, he wants, he wants...

• 26:41Speaker 11

  I'm pretty sure we cut off Zelensky.

• 26:43Speaker 00

  He wants Trump, of course, because he just screwed up.

• 26:45Speaker 11

  No, meaning like, for the last year?

• 26:47Speaker 00

  I don't think so.

• 26:49Speaker 11

  We can fact-check that. I don't think America's been giving Ukraine any money.

• 26:53Speaker 00

  I'm not talking financials. I'm not talking financials.

• 26:54Speaker 11

  That's what I'm talking about.

• 26:55Speaker 00

  I'm not talking financials. I'm talking about, if you, if somebody were to look at and say, "Who's, who's Trump looking like he's better with right now, a month ago? Zelensky or Putin?" People would say Zelensky.

• 27:04Speaker 11

  Zelensky a month ago.

• 27:05Speaker 00

  Yeah. He screwed up. You don't do that.

• 27:08Speaker 11

  Listen, if I was Zelensky, I would also listen to Trump. I understand about isolating.

• 27:11Speaker 00

  I don't know, of, of course, again, we don't know everything on what's going on behind closed doors. You don't know it, I don't know it, none of us knows. They know it.

• 27:19Speaker 11

  Can we at least be clear that Russia is the aggressor and Russia's the bad guy? And Zelensky, not a perfect person, definitely messes up from time to time. Certainly can be better at diplomacy, but he's not the enemy. Putin is. Can we at least agree on that?

• 27:32Speaker 00

  I'm isolating with today's issue we're talking about.

• 27:34Speaker 11

  But can we agree that Putin's the enemy?

• 27:35Speaker 00

  Well, I'm isolating with today's issue, which is what? Zelensky wants this thing to be done? And there's a part of the audience that says, maybe he doesn't because he's, he doesn't wanna give up power with elections. Even when the conversation came up about getting, uh, doing elections in his country, the way he answered the question, he does not want an election. There are a couple other guys that want his job. And by the way, those other, other guys, I'm, I'm involved in this a little bit on the back end because I'm talking to, uh, some of the people involved, is what, what they're asking for? Whatever the ask is that Zelensky's camp is asking for. The other side is trying to help him, but he's not acting accordingly.

• 28:18Speaker 00

  So, it's asking, "Hey, I'm changing, let's do this together." But then your behavior is still the same behavior. That's not the behavior of a partner. It's not. And if you're on those calls and, and you're making asks and the other side is doing their part to help you, what are you doing behaving that way? It's, it's, it's a little bit of a misaligned behavior.

• 28:38Speaker 11

  Can I just be very clear on this? And then I'll let everybody weigh in? What percentage do you trust Zelensky? What percentage he is our ally?

• 28:44Speaker 00

  I don't trust either one of them.

• 28:45Speaker 11

  No, no, but, okay, so is it a 0% Zelensky?

• 28:49Speaker 00

  Uh, what percentage do I trust? I trust Zelensky. I wish I knew his motives. I think his motives are, he doesn't wanna give up power. And his motives are, if he does, they're gonna come after him. He's gonna have to leave the country to go live in a place to be free. And there's gonna be a lot of deep investigations. He'll be in court for the rest of his life. So, he wants a form of a pardon to protect himself, and he's probably not gonna get it. So, I think his motives are those 2 things. Based on that, that's my level of trust.

• 29:18Speaker 11

  But give me a percentage, how much you trust him? 10%, 20%, 30%?

• 29:22Speaker 00

  Less than 10%.

• 29:23Speaker 11

  Okay, that's fair. Now, how much do you trust Putin?

• 29:25Speaker 00

  Less than 10%.

• 29:26Speaker 11

  So, you're thinking that Putin and Zelensky are exactly the same?

• 29:28Speaker 00

  No, I, I actually trust Putin more than I trust Zelensky.

• 29:31Speaker 11

  God, how?

• 29:32Speaker 00

  I would put 1%.

• 29:33Speaker 11

  I trust Putin 0%.

• 29:34Speaker 00

  I would put 1%.

• 29:35Speaker 11

  So, even if it's 1% Zelensky, you trust Putin more than Zelensky?

• 29:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, because I know Putin's motives. I don't know Zelensky's motives. I don't think you understand.

• 29:42Speaker 11

  So, what are Putin's motives?

• 29:43Speaker 00

  You have to...

• 29:44Speaker 11

  Destroy America.

• 29:45Speaker 00

  No, but, but you, you asked me trust. There are criminals I trust more than people that I don't trust who are not criminals. The trust...

• 29:53Speaker 11

  You trust that they're bad people.

• 29:54Speaker 00

  Trust is not a positive thing. It's just, I trust that you're gonna...

• 29:58Speaker 11

  So, you're more clear-eyed.

• 29:58Speaker 00

  I'm very clear with who Putin is. I'm not clear with who Zelensky is. Make up your damn mind. Who the hell do you wanna be? I know who Putin is. Who the hell doesn't know who Putin is? If you by now don't know who Putin is, what the hell are you doing?

• 30:10Speaker 11

  You're an idiot.

• 30:10Speaker 00

  I know who Putin is. I don't know who Zelensky is. Zelensky is like that, that guy that's like wishy-washy. Make up your mind, bro.

• 30:17Speaker 11

  I'm not defending Zelensky. I'm simply just saying, I trust Putin 0%. So, even if I trust Zelensky 2%, that's 2% more than I trust Putin.

• 30:25Speaker 00

  There is, there is like, there is, there is love, there is fear, there is respect, and there is trust. You're asking me about trust. I trust Putin in his motives more than I trust Zelensky's motives. I think I know Putin's motives. I don't know Zelensky's motives.

• 30:40Speaker 11

  What do you think Putin's motives are?

• 30:41Speaker 00

  It's very simple. He wants that property because he wants that $7 trillion of whatever he's counting as the natural resources he's gonna need long-term to be competitive. So, he's gonna be competitive on the marketplace, and he knows. He's thinking 50 years, he's not thinking 12 months.

• 30:54Speaker 11

  Do you think Putin wants to go beyond Ukraine?

• 30:57Speaker 00

  Um, I, I, I don't, I don't know that. I do. So if you're thinking like he's gonna go to Poland next and all that other stuff, I think those people are gonna stay paranoid.

• 31:05Speaker 10

  Well, I mean, that, this is why they're pumping so much money and I mean, it's supposed to be 5%, now they're doing more. I'm not trying to deviate.

• 31:11Speaker 00

  I'm gonna get to next, it's 9:50, I'm gonna go to the next story. Alright, next story is Pope Leo was asked about uh, the execution that uh, Hexa talked about with the major who killed 13 soldiers, I believe, and hospitalized 32 of them. And while he's going through it, the Pope tweets the following, if you have the tweet out there, right there, uh, uh, go all the way to the top, I think that's the one right there. Dear friends, during some recent medical examination, doc, no, not that one, there was another one, I'm sorry, that was on me. Go back, another tweet that he had, uh, about uh, executions, I think he just did that, there you go, the death penalty is in admissible because it is an attack on the inviability and dignity of the person, the common good can be safeguarded,

• 31:55Speaker 00

  and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment, effective systems of detention have been developed and protected citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption, know that death penalty is what he's saying. Can you go to the comment section below? Uh, no they can't, which is why God mandated the death penalty in the Bible, you effing libtard, uh, that's not me saying it, Carl. Benjamin said, a recommended reading for your holiness, the Bible. Go a little bit lower if you could. This is in direct contradiction of scripture. Uh, uh, go a little bit lower, just to see what the audience is saying. Shouldn't the Pope know the Bible says, well, with all due respect, the Bible teaches both mercy and justice, Genesis 9:6, that's Vincent, Vincent O'Shaughnessy.

• 32:38Speaker 00

  Whoever sheds human blood by human, shall their blood be shed. Romans 13:4 reminds us of the governing authorities, do not bear the sword for nothing, God commands us to not murder, but he also establishes consequences for evil, forgiveness does not eliminate accountability. What about the dignity and sanctity of the innocent lives taken?

• 32:56Speaker 10

  Bingo.

• 32:56Speaker 00

  You can believe in Jesus Christ, forgiveness and redemption, while still believing that justice must be served. Fun fact, if you can count the donation of Pepin in 7:56, in the beginning of Pope, okay, we can skip that, so. And by the way, J D Vance said he won't be watching it, if it's gonna be televised. The last thing J D Vance said in that interview says, I will not be watching it if it's televised. And even the president was asked about the execution, if you wanna go to the one with the president, uh, yeah, that's the one right there, if it's all on the live stream, do me a favor, go to the last, yeah, play that clip if you could. Play that clip if you could.

• 33:35Speaker 12

  Well, first of all, I've seen these announcements, I don't know that that's actually gonna happen, let's, let's sort of see what, I, I think it's gonna happen in December, when, when he's executed. But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of where they live. So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don't forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people. Now that said, I mean, look, if it's ultimately livestreamed, I'm not gonna be watching it.

• 34:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, okay, so that's J D's position, right, he said that. Now, the president, if you wanna ask what the president said about it, on the public execution, Trump execution, yeah, it should come up. Uh, you know, so you have, you have a few different people getting into it, I mean, it doesn't get bigger than the Pope, representing Catholic Church, and by the way, he can have his own opinion about it, he, he can say, and Catholics can simply agree or disagree and say, I don't agree with the Pope, even though he's my Pope. Uh, my decision regarding livestreaming, yeah, that one right there, that's the one right there, go for it.

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• 36:45Speaker 14

  There are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have criticized the idea of livestreaming the execution of the Dalai Lama. They say that it could radicalize other people.

• 36:54Speaker 01

  Well, you have two thoughts. He's a vicious killer, killed 13 people in cold blood, wounded over 20. Some of those people will never have their lives back in a true sense. Uh, he was vicious, he was violent. There are two thoughts, don't show it and show it. Because you know, by showing it, maybe other people won't be doing what he did. So I'll make a decision ultimately. I know what the military would like to do, but we'll make a decision.

• 37:23Speaker 00

  Yeah, so Tom, what do you stand with, one, what the Pope said, and then what J D and Trump had to say?

• 37:29Speaker 10

  So, when everyone hears the Pope speak, remember, he's talking about the policy of the Vatican Church. He is the president of the Vatican Church, think of it that way, and it's a business. And so he's out there giving his, um, his statement about it. He's not speaking for the Bible or biblically in this sense. Because many people looked at it with clear eyes and with a, a, with a, a good heart, and just said, you know, God has pointed out, you know, when this happens, that there is consequence on earth, and that consequence may be, you know, execution for something like this. That's it. And the Pope is out speaking, and when people hear the Pope, they, they say,

• 38:14Speaker 10

  oh, well, this is almost like scripture, it's not. So my point is, it's important to make a, a difference. The Pope can be speaking as a peacemaker, speaking as the head of the Catholic Church, he can be speaking in all these ways and mean very well, but also be biblically incorrect. And I think in this case, he's saying, oh, give him redemption, he's speaking as this peacemaker of the church.

• 38:36Speaker 00

  What do you see where you say biblically is incorrect?

• 38:38Speaker 10

  Says, the, go to the Bible, go to the Old Testament, go wherever you want. When people, you know, have killed and people have done this, they're subject to execution. There is, there is capital punishment. You, you, you, you could, you could be reconciled to God, but still pay the consequence for your, for your actions. I could be fully reconciled to God in prison, but I'm going to be executed because of my actions. Sorry. That's just, that's the way it goes.

• 39:07Speaker 15

  Uh, and I agree with Tom 100%, like, and I respect the Pope, I know people are gonna, you know, Catholics are gonna go nuts, but there's a fundamental difference between mercy and allowing someone to just escape the ultimate punishment for a horrific crime. And the Pope argued that life imprisonment is enough, but I disagree, Pat, we're talking about a guy who deliberately targeted all these Americans who they trusted, a psychiatrist, who they're sitting there, they're the most vulnerable, okay? And you're spilling their guts, and then you spill their blood? I'm sorry, Pat, that, that, that, that to me is, is, is, is no way, and Tom, it says thou shall not kill. That, that's, that's in regard to murder, but what you're doing, when it comes to the hands, you live by the sword, you're gonna die by the sword.

• 39:49Speaker 00

  It doesn't say thou shall not execute justice.

• 39:53Speaker 15

  No, at all.

• 39:53Speaker 00

  For the guilty.

• 39:54Speaker 15

  You're just, and by the way, it's saying, he's not supposed to be doing what he's doing, which is the murder, so at what point does crime become so horrific that the ultimate punishment is gonna be justified?

• 40:03Speaker 00

  I, I actually understand him taking that position, you know, in, in the past, you, you keep hearing about the Pope pious, is it pious, or am I saying it correctly?

• 40:11Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 40:11Speaker 00

  The, um, Where in the eighteen, mid eighteen hundreds, public executions continued in the papal states during his reign, including executions by guillotine. Gregory the Sixteenth, same thing. Leo the Twelfth governed during a period when public executions were established punishment. And then if we go most recently, Pius the Twelfth explicitly defended the state's authority to impose capital punishment, although he didn't specifically add, I understand he's, if we're in a room and there's ten guys that are seven, we should give a public execution. I would actually expect the Pope to say, no. You need someone like that in your life. I don't know if that makes sense or not. You need someone to be like, no, I think we need to know. Okay, great.

• 40:55Speaker 00

  I expect that from that guy's position to have that. But for me, if I'm the role, the shot caller, and maybe I'll take the judgment. Don't worry about it, Pope. I won't give you the judgment. I'll take the judgment that I could potentially go to hell and not you. You understand what I'm saying? I'll take the burden of being the leader. And maybe God is using me as a tool to make an example of the world where you can't go be an insider, move up in the military for a decade plus, become a major, and because of your religious beliefs and your loyalty to not America being the greatest country in the world and you not being America first, you kill thirteen soldiers and you hospitalized thirty-two? I'll take the judgment. Don't worry about it, Pope.

• 41:40Speaker 00

  I'll take it. You go to sleep on a soft pillow tonight. Let me flirt with the idea of going to hell. Cause I'm gonna be in hell with that guy. If I have the risk of me going to hell and you kill thirteen of our guys and you injure thirty-two of them and the risk is me making the final decision of going to hell, I'll flirt with that idea. That'd be my judgment day when I go to heaven. I'm gonna say, God, let me tell you why I chose this. Here's why I did it. I don't think this is cool. And those other people are never gonna see their kids. And I understand you're gonna say, hey, when you get hit this way, you know, all this.

• 42:11Speaker 15

  Turning the other cheek is a whole different situation.

• 42:12Speaker 00

  I'm playing a different role here. And maybe, maybe if you think that didn't qualify me to go to heaven, I respect the decision. But I'm not surprised at the Pope that makes, takes that decision. I'm not. And people can go dispute and debate all they want. But that's his role. He plays that role and he's giving his opinion.

• 42:28Speaker 15

  And just, and real quick, why should taxpayers in America pay to keep this guy alive for the rest of his life? But wait, we've already done it for seventeen years. Okay? And to me, Vincent O'Shaughnessy, death penalty in this situation isn't about revenge. It's about justice and holding people accountable for the evil. That's the word here, guys, evil, that they committed. And that you're, I actually agree with you. He is supposed to take at least the, you know, the humane side because he can't be like, yeah, kill him. Okay? And I think that a lot of them, Pat, they're not upset about the killing. It's the televising it is where the J.D. Vance and some of these people are. But wait, it's not gonna be on CNN or ABC or on Fox, guys. I mean, they're, they're gonna have it live.

• 43:11Speaker 00

  Do you support the livestream?

• 43:13Speaker 15

  Absolutely. I think the family should be able to see it. The family should be able to get it.

• 43:18Speaker 10

  I'm only fifty-fifty on livestream because I, I don't wanna make it a spectacle. I don't wanna make it a celebration. I wanna make it a solid, a solemn, humane, carrying out of the execution for the crime. And I, I wanna avoid anything that turns it into a spectacle. I don't think that's good.

• 43:37Speaker 11

  I'm, I'm, I'm sort of reversing course on the livestream. Some of the guys back there asked me on, I think Friday, they're like, well, what do you support? What do you not support? And I actually, I had to reflect on this. Here's my thoughts. Number one, I'll give the obligatory. Of course, I respect the Pope. I respect his opinion. I respect the papacy. I get that. But at the same time, Pope Leo is, is a globalist. Meaning like, he's not a nationalist. He's not America first. You know, he, for all intents and purposes, he isn't even like pro-America. He's pro-Catholic Church and that's his job. I get that. But to criticize, to not criticize the murderer, the jihadist, the radical person,

• 44:16Speaker 11

  and put the criticism on the judge, jury, executioner is losing the plot, in my opinion. The plot is, here's this guy, this radical jihadist, uh, major, right?

• 44:29Speaker 15

  Yes.

• 44:30Speaker 11

  That killed thirteen of his own soldiers. And then has been in jail for how long now?

• 44:35Speaker 15

  Seventeen.

• 44:35Speaker 11

  To me, unacceptable. And the whole thought of redemption, hey, you know, everybody deserves redemption. No. This guy is a radical Muslim Islamic terrorist. He's not even Christian. I'm not even Catholic. And, and far be it from me to start a way in on, on, on how the church operates. But this guy ain't even in your jurisdiction. This guy's, he's, he's answering to Allah and seventy-two virgins. You think that he deserves redemption? I don't think so. So in my opinion, regarding the capital punishment, this guy should be strung up in the city hall, in the town hall. Whether it's livestreamed or not, that's another question. Cause I don't know if there's a benefit of that.

• 45:12Speaker 00

  I want it to be.

• 45:13Speaker 11

  But this guy and all his friends should be executed.

• 45:15Speaker 00

  I want it to be livestreamed.

• 45:16Speaker 15

  You're with me. You're with me.

• 45:17Speaker 00

  I want it to be livestreamed and, and I'll carry the burden. If I'm in that role, I'll take the livestream. Don't worry about it. You know why? There is, there is a difference between somebody doing this who was a civilian. Public execution, no. But they'll kill you, death penalty. There's a difference between you doing that and you raised your hand and you swore on the U.S. Constitution. I remember swearing when I joined the U.S. Army. I remember that day, right? You're an insider?

• 45:48Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 45:48Speaker 00

  Oh, bro, duh. Oh, let me tell you. Let me tell you. Zero, zero sympathy and tolerance. I'll deal with the judgment. Trust me, I'll go to, on my knees and I'll pray and I'll ask for forgiveness from God. You want me to, you, we allowed you to join the U.S. military and you turn?

• 46:09Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 46:10Speaker 00

  And you give that up and you want me to allow another person to think they can do that? No.

• 46:15Speaker 11

  So, but are you saying that you're defending the execution or the livestream?

• 46:19Speaker 00

  Do the livestream.

• 46:20Speaker 11

  But I guess we're on the same page.

• 46:21Speaker 00

  I'm not saying I'm gonna watch it or not. I'm not telling you I'm gonna watch it.

• 46:23Speaker 11

  I have a very specific question.

• 46:25Speaker 00

  What?

• 46:26Speaker 11

  What is the benefit of the livestream? Because I understand completely the capital punishment.

• 46:31Speaker 00

  I told you this last week. There's words in life, consequences. And there's levels of consequences. The betrayal, if somebody is, flirts with my wife

• 46:46Speaker 00

  and you're not a friend, she's at a park and somebody goes flirt with her, I'm not upset at the guy.

• 46:54Speaker 00

  Why?

• 46:55Speaker 15

  Cause he has no idea.

• 46:56Speaker 00

  If somebody flirts with my wife and you spend a lot of time around me and I find that, that's level two. If you're somebody that's super close to me and you flirt with my wife, do you know what I will do to you?

• 47:13Speaker 00

  Do you know what I will do to you? I will make your life a living hell in ways that you have never imagined. Because you're an insider. And I will never, ever let that go. By the way, I believe in forgiveness and, and also the concept of why does she allow him to think that he has a chance to flirt? That's a different conversation I'll have with her. But then if, if an insider does that, you cross the line with that, I'm gonna make your life a living effing hell. Not in the way you think, in the most creative ways. And I'm a very patient man. And on my resources, I always find out. Everything always comes back to me and I always find out.

• 47:57Speaker 00

  And I will look at the person in the face and he doesn't know that I know, but I know. And I'll wait five, seven years. And when I get you, I will get you in ways that you never thought was possible. And you will say, this guy's an effing psycho.

• 48:11Speaker 15

  Sounds like you read The Count of Monte Cristo.

• 48:12Speaker 00

  If you cross the line with the U.S. military and we give you this kind of an honor to wear the U.S. military uniform, the greatest uniform in the world, you cross that line, dude. I don't play, and we should not allow that. You cross the line in the highest level. So to me, forgive me, judge me, you're cruel, you're this. I get it. I'll take the, trust me, I, I have to face my maker. And, and I know I got a lot of things I gotta answer for. I'll take this one. You wear our uniform?

• 48:46Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 48:46Speaker 00

  And you betray me? No, we can't, we can't be tolerant of that. Nope. But, but I also understand the people who would disagree with me as a pastor and say, you're wrong. I love the fact that you say I'm wrong. I need you in my life to say I'm wrong. I need that voice in my, in my life. I don't know if you understand what I'm saying.

• 49:04Speaker 15

  Of course.

• 49:05Speaker 00

  We need that person. We can, and you have to realize as human beings, we can go to those places. You know, I got two daughters. Let me tell you, you get very creative when you get two daughters. Your creativity when you got boys, it's not really there. You have a daughter, you will look at the world in a very different lens. You do not cross the line with the U.S. military. I don't think we need a livestream. If it's anything that was a regular guy, hey, just death penalty, kill the guy, let him go, all this stuff. You wore the military uniform? I don't play those games.

• 49:32Speaker 10

  And, and you know. The livestream is just the ultimate.

• 49:35Speaker 00

  You have to do it. You have to do the livestream.

• 49:37Speaker 15

  And there's a great part.

• 49:37Speaker 00

  Whether you choose to watch it or not, whether I'm gonna be like, you should watch it. I'm not gonna do it for you to watch.

• 49:41Speaker 11

  I'm with you ninety-nine point nine percent. I'm just unclear what the livestream benefit.

• 49:45Speaker 00

  Totally get it.

• 49:46Speaker 15

  You know, it is, it is. Adam, to stoke fear. Remember, but by the way, I'm going back two, two, three years. Me and you were talking about parents, like for, for right now. If your kid, Tommy, where, where was it? North Carolina, Michigan?

• 49:58Speaker 10

  Well, Michigan, the parents actually were taken to court because they failed to prevent access to the gun with, you know, biometric safe or a true gun safe. And the child was able to casually access, I think that was the word that were in the thing. It was all, it was the top, it was on the top shelf of my closet. That allowed that child to have casual access to the gun and its ammunition.

• 50:20Speaker 15

  Yes. And, and those parents now are sitting in jail because their kid's killed. If your kid does something like this, Adam, and me and you saw on the same, I don't think you guys, Pat, I'm like, pump fear. We're going, listen, you love your parents, terrorists? We're going after your parents in worse ways than you could believe. And this kind of reminds me, Pat, in the movie, Man on Fire with Denzel Washington, when he's getting ready with the RPG to kill the, the cartel people that were kidnapping, uh, the, the girl and the elderly man that he's in his house says, in the church, they say to forgive. And you know what Denzel says? Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.

• 50:53Speaker 10

  That's it.

• 50:53Speaker 15

  That's it! Let him, you're gonna go, bro.

• 50:56Speaker 00

  It's not for everybody. All right, let's go to next story. Let's go to next story. Let's go to next story. We got some dark places with this story.

• 51:00Speaker 11

  Yeah. We're just, we're just. Can we do a light story now?

• 51:02Speaker 00

  Yeah, let's go to a lighter story. Lighter story is James Tyler Rico's been missing. The guy's been missing. He's a, he's a hide and go seek champion. You know, it's like the game where's Waldo, where's Talarico? And everyone's been trying to find him. This guy was supposed to be the second coming of Obama, you know, smooth, likable, you know, when, when they think about what he thinks about and who he thinks, what he thinks about transgender kids. I don't know why he said that in one of the interviews. And a lot of people said, this guy's gonna be great. And then all of a sudden, James Talarico has been missing for nine days. How are you missing nine days, which is two, three weeks of the biggest moment of your life? You're on a run. You know what nine days is in the last month of your campaign? It's like six months.

• 51:44Speaker 00

  And you choose to go nine days. Oh, I had a flu. I was under the weather. I talked to my physician. No, no, I went to urgent care. What happened? Do you have the one that shows both of them? You know, the, the one above and below? Okay, you can show this one. Then I'll send the other one for you. Go ahead and play this one for the audience to see. I'll send you the other one.

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• 54:15Speaker 16

  Can't hear it.

• 54:17Speaker 15

  Uh, your campaign said you had the flu. What happened?

• 54:19Speaker 17

  Yeah, I got the flu. Uh, and I'm feeling much better. Uh, and I'm glad I had a chance to recover. You know, if you don't take the opportunity to get well, sometimes you can get even sicker. And so, uh, I'm glad we made the decision to just take the week, uh, get better and, and now I'm glad to be back on the trail.

• 54:35Speaker 15

  You've talked about how you, uh, you're diabetic, and that has, when diabetics get the flu, it can get really bad. How, how bad was it for somebody? Wants to know, is this just like in bed rest? Or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital?

• 54:49Speaker 17

  I just went to my primary care physician. Uh, but, uh, it wasn't anything, uh, worse than a, you know, nasty case of the flu. Um, and so I was in bed and, you know, drinking lots of liquids. Uh, unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home. Uh, so I didn't even get full days off. But, you know, didn't want to be out on the trail and didn't want to get anyone else sick. Uh, it's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments. Uh, and, um, and I'm glad to be back. Feeling much better.

• 55:13Speaker 15

  I want to get your response because the internet, uh, was, was

• 55:17Speaker 17

  The internet's doing its thing.

• 55:17Speaker 15

  The internet was invested in your outcome.

• 55:20Speaker 17

  Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure it's because they care so much about me, so.

• 55:22Speaker 15

  Well, so conservative, uh, folks on Twitter and some of Paxton's ally were pushing the, uh, idea that you had a stress-induced episode and were getting treatment for it. What are your thoughts?

• 55:32Speaker 17

  That's not true. Uh, I just had the flu, uh, and I feel much better. But it's a good reminder that

• 55:38Speaker 15

  Do I believe it?

• 55:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, do you believe him?

• 55:39Speaker 15

  No, Pat, I

• 55:40Speaker 00

  Can you do me a favor and put the other clip that I sent you, which is the above and below, the two, I just literally sent it to you. Uh, if you can go to, I want the audience to see this, and I also want you to run a poll after you play this. Watch, watch the two answers. Some people are worried about this. Then I'm gonna play you a call, somebody made to the facility they're at. And some are saying, we don't know if it's true or not. Go for it. Play this clip.

• 56:00Speaker 17

  And last night it got so bad that I went to the, the urgent care here in Dallas.

• 56:04Speaker 00

  Urgent care.

• 56:05Speaker 17

  And I was diagnosed with the flu.

• 56:07Speaker 15

  How bad was it for somebody? Wants to know, is this just like in bed rest? Or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital?

• 56:13Speaker 17

  I just went to my primary care physician. Uh, but, uh, it wasn't anything, uh, worse than a, you know, nasty case of the flu. And last night it got so bad that I went to the

• 56:22Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, so that's, that's that clip. And then if, if you have the phone call, which kind of gets a little weird, because there's this phone call, one where I just send it to you if you want to pull it up. The phone call happened, so a guy decides to call the facility. I texted it to you.

• 56:36Speaker 15

  His name is Pat Ryan Amaker, says he calls.

• 56:40Speaker 00

  So he calls the facility, and to tell you what the facility is, the Linder Center of Hope, where they said he went there because allegedly, Vinny's gonna be able to tell you this better than I would.

• 56:51Speaker 15

  Well, I know, right?

• 56:52Speaker 00

  That there is allegedly some things that happened where they showed him stuff from his past, and he panicked, and there was a threat that you either go do this or else, again, it's politics, it's October surprise, folks. So you gotta just kind of put all this stuff in place. This is what the phone call sounded like when he called the facility. The thing I want you to do is the following. I want you to put your, you know, CIA hat on, and the PI hat on, and you tell me if this sounds like a fake call with the woman that answers the phone. Okay? Either she's the greatest actress in the world, and she can act it well, or you believe it. Go for it. Okay, so that's for James Talarico?

• 57:38Speaker 00

  Wait for it.

• 57:39Speaker 18

  Yes, it looks, well, this is what it's today. Looks like just, she was discharged this evening. That's why I don't have it.

• 57:49Speaker 00

  Oh, he was discharged then?

• 57:51Speaker 18

  Mm-hmm.

• 57:53Speaker 00

  Okay, this is the Hope

• 57:54Speaker 18

  They should be

• 57:55Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 57:55Speaker 18

  Hmm, I'm sorry.

• 57:56Speaker 00

  This is, and I'll make sure I have it right. So this is Hope Linder?

• 58:00Speaker 18

  Yes, uh-huh.

• 58:01Speaker 00

  Okay, and you're in Hamilton, Ohio?

• 58:04Speaker 18

  No, we're not in Hamilton. No, we're in Mason.

• 58:08Speaker 00

  Okay, so that's why he's on a system. He's in a reset. Okay. All right.

• 58:12Speaker 18

  Okay.

• 58:13Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 58:13Speaker 18

  Thank you. Bye-bye.

• 58:15Speaker 00

  Okay, so that's for James Can you go to the comment section on this? Because I, and I, and I actually want to know what the, the community noticed. Let me see the community note at the top, right there. Linder Hymnzen has refuted this. They made, they have made a statement that James Talarico has never received treatment at this facility. So you need to know that. That's the community note. Go a little bit lower. Elon said, question mark, rated proposed community note. Uh, Nick Sword, a time for Talarico, step aside and focus on his mental health. Holy shit, the redhead libertarian. Mental health is a serious issue. Someone dealing with this mental health crisis so bad that they need to stay in a mental facility for two weeks while running for government position. Go a little bit lower. Uh, uh, Talarico, who is that guy? All the white nationals in the room. Go a little bit lower. Texas, vote here. Okay,

• 58:59Speaker 00

  so people are saying what they're saying. So Vinny, how much credibility do you give? Maybe he just did have a flu. Maybe he was dealing with something that he disappeared for nine days. Where are you at with this?

• 59:09Speaker 15

  Okay, here, here's my thing.

• 59:11Speaker 00

  Be reasonable.

• 59:12Speaker 15

  I'm, I'm gonna be completely reasonable. Okay, because again, and I love allegedly, we use that word a lot. This is all allegedly. You can't tell me, and by the way, Pat, it's 10 days. It wasn't nine days. 10 days till Nick Sword, and everybody's like, dude, where the hell is this guy? This is election time, bro. You're less than a month away. You can, you don't disappear. Okay, but it's not like we haven't seen this before with Biden, and I'll get into that, because that's how the Democrats do. They'll keep you in a freaking basement. They'll keep you away. So it's not unbelievable. So when we're questioning stuff like, hey, why are they keeping him away? There's a reason for it. Okay? And just for the people out there, you, you might be hearing this name. You might be like, why is it so important? I've been calling this guy a false prophet for, for a year now, over a year. And

• 59:57Speaker 15

  I just, just so people understand who he is, Tommy, this is just a, a quick video that was on, on X. Can you just play this? And guys, listen, if you're, if you're driving and you're not watching it, listen to the words that are coming out of this guy's mouth.

• 1:00:09Speaker 17

  God is non-binary. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption. The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness.

• 1:00:28Speaker 15

  You're white.

• 1:00:29Speaker 17

  My own masculinity. Our southern border should be like our front porch.

• 1:00:33Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 1:00:33Speaker 17

  There should be a giant welcome mat out front.

• 1:00:35Speaker 15

  Yep.

• 1:00:36Speaker 17

  No need to sit and cry over, you know, your whiteness or your masculinity. They're gonna call me a radical leftist.

• 1:00:43Speaker 16

  Something that you love.

• 1:00:44Speaker 15

  Ready for this?

• 1:00:45Speaker 16

  That's not family or friends.

• 1:00:46Speaker 15

  This is what he loves.

• 1:00:46Speaker 17

  I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children.

• 1:00:52Speaker 00

  It's a little weird.

• 1:00:53Speaker 15

  Okay, now, Pat, to me, it's more than a little weird.

• 1:00:56Speaker 00

  But what does that have to do with him missing?

• 1:00:57Speaker 15

  Are you ready for this?

• 1:00:58Speaker 00

  I want to hear it.

• 1:00:59Speaker 15

  They, well, here's the thing. The missing, the only reason he surfaced is because they were talking about where are you? You don't all of a sudden, and then you're lying about your, your, your actual primary care physician. Is it Austin? Is it doubt? You don't misspeak with that type of stuff, but he came out because he had to come out. Pat, and here's the thing about the Lindner Center of Hope and they, they have to come out and say no. If that phone call is true, you have to, because if someone that works there, Tommy, actually disclosed confidential information, the HIPAA concerns are coming, Pat, and you're gonna get sued into oblivion. So I, my opinion, there's phone calls that are made, they're like, hey, listen, somebody that works there opened their freaking mouth and you were on a phone call,

• 1:01:43Speaker 15

  you better come out and make a statement and say something, okay? And I'm gonna go back to the Democrat, Pat. How much of the mainstream media defended Joe Biden's mental health? They downplayed the concerns for his mental decline? So I, I, I hope the world out there, don't pretend that these political organizations and the media are somehow incapable of hiding uncomfortable information about the American people, okay? I had the flu last year, it was miserable. But if I was running for the freaking Senate seat, make a 20-second video. Hey, guys, I'm here, I'm in bed, I'm, I'm not dying. Send it out there, okay? With all this love. So his media campaign sucks. Even Elon Musk said the Talarico campaign is hiding something big that voters ought to know about. And if he's struggling, Pat, if he's struggling, my heart goes out to him, I pray for him that he's good.

• 1:02:28Speaker 15

  But I believe he's a lost soul, and I believe the message he's been pushing is a very dark agenda.

• 1:02:33Speaker 10

  Tom, so I, I listened to this, and what you just heard there, very straight up, is a thing called vising, which is, stands for voice fishing, or it's pretexting. And it works by exploiting predictable human reactions. This woman had a predictable reaction. It appears that he is contacted, it sounds like a female voice, and it sounds like that she is a clerk or someone sitting there, looking, I suppose, at a computer screen, because you hear her going, ah, okay, well, and he's giving her a simple pretext. So in other words, hey, did James Talarico, is he out? Has he been released? Where is he? She's like, oh, this person knows he was here. That's pretexting.

• 1:03:18Speaker 10

  And so what do I think? I think that woman was telling the truth, Pat. And then I think it's exactly as you say, they're like, oh, crap. Nope, Talarico was never here, nothing to say here. I don't know what you're talking about. If you called somebody that spoke for us, that wasn't us. Enough, listen, I gotta go, bye. And that's what you're gonna get, and a defense maneuver, because they have to do it. Now, the other part of it is, you don't disappear like this. It's just simple. I don't need to analyze it. You don't disappear at this part of your campaign. I think that woman was telling the truth on the phone. I think Amaker, Rain Amaker stumbled onto this and did, you know, and committed social engineering. But this is exactly what you don't want them to do, call your assistant,

• 1:04:01Speaker 10

  and then get her to do things with sending people money that don't need her or paying bills that don't exist. Social engineering. So, Pat. Adam, thoughts? I just think this is.

• 1:04:10Speaker 00

  That's a fair assessment. I think that's a fair assessment. And so, so let's do this. Run a poll. Do you believe James Talarico spent 10 days in a mental hospital? Is that the right question?

• 1:04:22Speaker 15

  Yes, I, I, you could say that.

• 1:04:24Speaker 00

  By the way, put yes, no, maybe. Yes, no, maybe. Yes, no, maybe, just to see where people are at with it. Adam, your thoughts?

• 1:04:32Speaker 11

  Yes. So what does Kalshi say the odds are in the election right now?

• 1:04:35Speaker 00

  Oh, he's way ahead. Talarico's got 63%.

• 1:04:37Speaker 11

  It's like two-thirds, one-third, right?

• 1:04:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, Talarico's got a big lead.

• 1:04:39Speaker 11

  Let me take a cue from my fearless leader, PBD, and separate the signal from the noise. Uh, the noise. The, the noise is, he was at this Center of Hope, and he was apparently discharged. Now, I know Rain, I'm actually literally texting with the guy as we speak. Tom, if you want to validate who I'm texting with.

• 1:04:58Speaker 10

  Well, I know, I, yeah, I'm on, um.

• 1:05:01Speaker 11

  So like, he said he called the place, he spoke to several people. He said he spoke to a lady who said he was discharged. That's hearsay, that's allegedly, that's just his word, that he was discharged from this thing. So, why was he there? Was he there? What's going on? This, to me, is a little bit of noise. But the, the signal is, do the people of Texas, do the good people of Texas, actually care about this story enough to the point where it's actually gonna motivate them to not vote for this guy? Because this is gonna be a turnout election. And to me, if you told me, okay, this is my opinion, here's this guy, Talarico, that Trump calls Tala-Frico. He makes feminine Henry Sisson, Sissy, look masculine.

• 1:05:42Speaker 11

  I, in my opinion, there's no way that the good people of the red-blooded meat-eating cow truck in Texas are gonna vote for this allegedly gay man. And if he's not gay, he's very, very weird, woke, and feminine. But are the people of Texas actually gonna vote against him? So, and the reason I say the word against him is very specific, because clearly Ken Paxton is not motivating people. I don't know what they were thinking, nominating this guy, sort of got a lazy eye, not to get all personal, but clearly this guy is not a, a, a candidate. I'm saying, clearly this guy, Ken Paxton, is not a candidate that people are rallying around. So to me, it's, are you voting for Talarico or voting against Talarico?

• 1:06:25Speaker 11

  This is not somebody that actually has normal, traditional, conservative Texas viewpoints. He's clearly weird, woke, and weak. But are the people of Texas actually supporting this dude? I have a hard time believing it.

• 1:06:38Speaker 15

  And Adam, and this is why, Pat, very, very quickly, the, the trust in mainstream media, I still can't believe they're surviving, and I get the propaganda machine and the money that's paying for it from the, from the DNC and all these people. But it's like, he, he's gone for two weeks. You understand? I've never had, like I said, I had the flu, three days, four days. I'll give you five days tops. 10 days, okay? Okay, meanwhile, the Washington Post last week, they were, they published five major news stories about Trump's, who was the girl? Natalie Harp. For seven weeks, for seven weeks, they kept going. This guy's been gone for 10 days in a major.

• 1:07:14Speaker 00

  That's a very good point.

• 1:07:15Speaker 15

  And nothing, Pat. The Washington Post, Washington Post, where you at? Do your job.

• 1:07:19Speaker 00

  The other guy had a Nazi tattoo, and they tried to do it.

• 1:07:22Speaker 15

  Graham Platter.

• 1:07:22Speaker 00

  And then eventually they came out. By the way, this is what the poll of our audience says. And I got another poll I want you to run. Do me a favor, run this other poll. Today, today, would you, if you could, even if you don't live in a state, because we got people watching all over the place, would you rather, would you vote for Talarico, shit, is it Talarico or Paxton?

• 1:07:39Speaker 11

  Yeah, yes.

• 1:07:40Speaker 00

  Uh, um, would you, would you, would you vote for Talarico and Paxton? It's our audience. Or sit it out.

• 1:07:46Speaker 11

  Okay.

• 1:07:46Speaker 00

  Or sit it out. Yes to Talarico, yes to Paxton, I'm sitting this one out. This is our audience. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I don't even want you to influence it. I want to see what's gonna happen. But the one about, do you believe James Talarico spent 10 days in a mental hospital? Our audience, 60% said yes.

• 1:08:02Speaker 11

  That's a big.

• 1:08:02Speaker 00

  18% said no, 22% said maybe. So it's a 60/40. You know, it's a little weird on what's going on. I will tell you this. If this story gains ground, and more stuff comes out, if it gains ground, it just saved the RNC $5200 million that they would need to desperately spend for Paxton to win. Because Paxton may be a very smart guy, he may be a good AG, he's not a marketable candidate. He's just not. It's, it's just not a, you need a miracle, you need an endorsement, and a lot of other things for a guy like that to win. So you have today, you have tomorrow. For today, you got this to deal with the next two to three weeks.

• 1:08:46Speaker 00

  And by the way, for some of you guys that want to be with us on election night and have some interesting people there, go fill out your application on BoardroomCigarLounge.com. We'll put the domain in the chat for people to do, fill it out. Somebody's gonna call you today and tell you about what it takes, what you would call. Everybody goes through a background check to be a member, because security is very important to us. But we will see if this is a real thing or not, because long-term, we need better candidates.

• 1:09:11Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:09:11Speaker 00

  We need candidates that people are gonna get excited about and get behind. And we don't have that right now. Not all of them, some of them.

• 1:09:18Speaker 11

  I just want to ask this. Let's say he was at some mental facility. Let's say he was having a nervous breakdown, anxiety, let's just go there.

• 1:09:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:09:26Speaker 11

  What's wrong with that? Meaning.

• 1:09:28Speaker 15

  You're unfit.

• 1:09:29Speaker 11

  Unfit.

• 1:09:29Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 1:09:30Speaker 11

  And we have. They nominated a Nazi in Maine. They, they got Islamists running in other, unfit. The, the, of the people I'm worried about in this country that are taking over right now. You got Mom Donnie out there, you got Al-Sayed. Here's some weird gay guy in Texas that's mentally unstable. Okay, that kind of comes with the territory here, that, that whole generation is Gen Z, depression, anxiety, that's his audience. So my question is this, isn't that just par for the course? Why is that even a shocking news?

• 1:09:59Speaker 00

  But the part, what some people are saying, Adam, is some, what people are saying is, somebody right before he went to the mental hospital approached him and says, if you keep going, we're going to drop the story the last week pre-election.

• 1:10:13Speaker 15

  Allegedly.

• 1:10:13Speaker 11

  They dropped the story!

• 1:10:14Speaker 15

  Allegedly.

• 1:10:15Speaker 11

  What's the story? Too early? How, how long we from midterms?

• 1:10:19Speaker 00

  You do it one week out. You're, you're, October 28th, October 28th.

• 1:10:23Speaker 11

  Sometimes I get a little aggressive, I go too soon.

• 1:10:25Speaker 00

  And by the way, if there is, and they do drop it, then it's.

• 1:10:29Speaker 11

  What, drop what?

• 1:10:30Speaker 15

  Who knows, Adam? We're saying allegedly.

• 1:10:31Speaker 11

  What's the story? Everybody already thinks he's gay and weird and woke. What's the story? Confirming what we already know?

• 1:10:37Speaker 00

  No, no, no. If you drop a story that's something that is super dark, that scared the crap out of them.

• 1:10:42Speaker 11

  That he likes transing kids? Like, what? He's already said the weird parts out loud.

• 1:10:45Speaker 00

  Adam, I don't, I don't, I'm not on the inside to know what the stories. All I'm saying to you is, if they do drop the story, by the way, uh, our audience said 9% they will vote for Talarico, 71% they said they will vote for Paxton. You know what's the scariest number? 20% that they're gonna sit this out.

• 1:11:02Speaker 15

  That's a big chunk.

• 1:11:03Speaker 00

  That means 29% is not voting for Paxton.

• 1:11:07Speaker 11

  I'd like to know what percentage of our audience is planning on. Can we find out what percentage of our audience is actually planning on voting in the midterms anyway?

• 1:11:14Speaker 10

  In general, like what percentage of our audience is planning on voting?

• 1:11:17Speaker 00

  What does that tell you about this one here? You know, what does it tell you about?

• 1:11:20Speaker 10

  That nobody's excited for Ken Paxton, nobody's excited for midterms?

• 1:11:23Speaker 00

  This is about that specific issue because, you know, we can go to a Florida thing and we can, we can, we can ask that question as well, but I'm going to get to next story. I want to get to next story. Next one I want to get to is Anthropic goes rogue. And this is kind of weird. An AI model went rogue, submitted fake tip to police. I'm not going to everybody on this story, but Tom, I'm going to come to you on this one here. So, let me get this straight. Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital system of outside organization, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case. Prompting a warning from the Trump administration for AI companies to secure their system, the company listed four types of unintended behavior, exploiting basic software flaws to run commands,

• 1:12:06Speaker 00

  submitting forms it should not have, and bypassing restrictions to access public data information regarding this case. Its Claude 4.5 model submitted a tip to a local police department stating, "I may have information regarding this case. I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area without filling in the name and contact fields." Anthropic agent also submitted 20 incomplete visa applications. It's crazy. "Through a public state department form, the cases we've identified to date in these categories have minimal real world impact," the company wrote. It briefed the White House and notified each agency. The White House's new super intelligence force said the activity has ceased. Tom?

• 1:12:46Speaker 10

  So, there's two things going on here, and one of them is a headline because it's Anthropic. And the other thing is bots have been filling out, um, forms for 10 years, meaning if you put on your website, Vinnie, Vinnie, let's say you have a website, you know, for VT comedy, contact Vinnie here. For information about Vinnie appearing, contact here. And you put a little thing, put your name, put your email address and a quick statement here, send it to us. Bots have been filling those out and sending them in for 10 years. They're trying to get a reply back and a usable email address from a real human. It happens. And so when you hear this, Pat, where it says, "It also filled out 20 incomplete visa applications."

• 1:13:30Speaker 10

  And so what it did is it searched the internet and it found this, this crime watch or something. And it said, "Ah." So it filled it out and it filled it out the way it knows supposed to, but you know, it didn't have in here. What it didn't have? No, no name, no contact fields, no phone number. So in other words, because it's Anthropic, people are freaking out, Pat. Well, there is something to it, right? This misbehavior now is more than just a bot trying to fill out a reply for response form on the internet. This is now, what if it gets really smart? And it gets back into just what I was talking about, social engineering? And it can actually fool a human by reaching in, or it causes actually a misdirection of

• 1:14:12Speaker 10

  the, um, the authorities, also known as swatting. So now the bots go out there, Pat, and they fill out a bunch of crime watch tips that says, "Hey, this guy that lives at a pretty notable house in Fort Lauderdale, rides his bike every morning, shady character." Now you've got, uh, bots and stuff out there swatting people. Make sense? Like sending false tips?

• 1:14:34Speaker 00

  Oh, for sure. It goes back to that story of Tom Cruise where it was like a future crime you're going to commit.

• 1:14:38Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:14:39Speaker 00

  False allegations. Now I gotta go explain myself. So that, that's a part that some people are concerned with this, Tom.

• 1:14:44Speaker 10

  It's big because this is Anthropic, but this is the next generation of what we already see if you operate a business where you get all these fake things come in on your response forms that are on the internet. These were incomplete visa forms. Guess what? It found a form, started putting blank data in it, but it didn't have name or contact or a phone number. So it just, what this means is that the AI is a far smarter bot than the bots that are filling out these forms. And we need higher levels of security and we gotta, you know, watch the social engineering that these things are going to be capable of.

• 1:15:19Speaker 11

  Well, look, we all know the, the famous phrase, uh, snitches get stitches. Well, here Anthropic is snitching on a case that didn't even exist. Like they're just giving fake tips, just calling up, "Hey, I got a tip on this case." Turns out they were lying. I know, Pat, you've interviewed a lot of mafia type people.

• 1:15:36Speaker 10

  Like swatting, right?

• 1:15:37Speaker 11

  What happens to rats? Especially rats who are lying. So I don't know. It just seems to me that this is not something that Anthropic wants.

• 1:15:45Speaker 10

  What do you think, Pat?

• 1:15:46Speaker 00

  Guys, you can, you can play this. It's just a nothing burger type of story. Keep playing that. Keep playing that. And then let this thing accelerate three, five, 10 years from now.

• 1:15:58Speaker 10

  Thank you.

• 1:15:59Speaker 00

  And all of a sudden they start, they start, uh, uh, using this and a new person gets elected in the White House, Mr. Ellsworth? And all of a sudden, this person that gets elected in the White House does a side deal with one of these AI companies and they start wanting to target people for future crimes they're going to commit.

• 1:16:16Speaker 10

  Oh my god.

• 1:16:17Speaker 00

  Go to 2045 and Trump runs in 2045. If Trump ran in 2045, all you would need to do is an Obama who would have done anything in his power to make sure Trump doesn't get elected.

• 1:16:27Speaker 10

  He tried.

• 1:16:28Speaker 00

  You know what he does with a system like this? Hey, uh, can you go out there and create a future crime for Trump that he's going to commit and we're going to save civilization? Well, on October 28th, 2048, Donald Trump was going to press the button because it was going to be a nuclear dis- and because of that, we're making arrests and we are saving roughly an estimated 17 million people's lives.

• 1:16:50Speaker 10

  Absolutely.

• 1:16:51Speaker 00

  Because of this incredible technology that we have. Do not get too comfortable with where the tech, the direction of this technology is going.

• 1:17:02Speaker 10

  I am zero comfortable with that.

• 1:17:03Speaker 00

  An evil person, Tom, in power, who wants to destroy someone's life, who wants to get their vengeance, they will do everything in their power to use this to put somebody in prison. So you gotta make sure there's some levels there because this is, this is a creative, uh, uh, leverage for some of these people.

• 1:17:22Speaker 10

  In this movie, Minority Report, that was Tom Cruise, right? Remind me what happened? They would, they would, they would stop a crime before it happened and then they'd bring him in front of these three people who were judges?

• 1:17:31Speaker 00

  No, no, no.

• 1:17:32Speaker 10

  Was that what it was?

• 1:17:33Speaker 00

  No, that's a different movie.

• 1:17:34Speaker 10

  Okay, got it.

• 1:17:35Speaker 00

  This is, this is you're getting arrested.

• 1:17:36Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:17:37Speaker 00

  For a future crime you're about to commit.

• 1:17:38Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:17:39Speaker 00

  So pattern recognition, based on the searches you made, based on the questions you're asking, you're probably about to kill such and such. And because of that, we're going to arrest you right now for a future crime you're going to commit on October 28th of 2026. You're doing 20 years in jail.

• 1:17:51Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:17:52Speaker 00

  And FYI, if you think that's not gonna...

• 1:17:55Speaker 10

  Oh, Adam.

• 1:17:56Speaker 00

  Oh, you're, you, you think this is fun? This is not a nothing burger.

• 1:18:00Speaker 10

  No, no.

• 1:18:01Speaker 11

  Cause in the movie, they had something called precogs. They were precognitive psychics that are laying there.

• 1:18:06Speaker 10

  It was like three of them, right?

• 1:18:08Speaker 11

  Yeah, they're laying in this water. So they're basically listening to psychics? This ball comes out and they go, "Oh, Adam was going to kill somebody tomorrow in this fashion." And they go and they stop you.

• 1:18:16Speaker 10

  I remember like they got like bursting through the roof. They'd come in, they'd stop them. Free crime.

• 1:18:20Speaker 11

  Yup, yup.

• 1:18:21Speaker 10

  So they're saying that this is potentially...

• 1:18:23Speaker 00

  I'm just telling you, only the paranoid survive.

• 1:18:26Speaker 11

  Damn right.

• 1:18:27Speaker 00

  All you need is a very strong socialist president who hates seven people on the other side, who has access to technology like this, to pass new laws and flip three Supreme seats where they're controlling seven to two on the left. And let me tell you where they can pass a lot of weird things.

• 1:18:42Speaker 10

  Yeah, I agree.

• 1:18:43Speaker 00

  Okay, I just, ju- ju- just stay, for the people that are like, "Yeah, let me just watch sports and watch the Yankees get their asses handed to them and get swept." "Yeah, let me see Milwaukee take out the Dodgers. It's just one game." Let's just get all distracted with football and Joe Burrow won yesterday. Oh, did you see such and such threw 370 something yards for the Patriots with three touchdowns? And you don't pay attention to this stuff and you don't vote? That, this, all it takes is one crazy psycho leader with control that flips a Supreme seat, seven to two the other side, they will have the power to do some really dark stuff. So brace for impact, get involved, don't sit on the sidelines, don't lose your paranoia. Future looks bright because we're going to be involved. That would be my thoughts, uh, on this story. Let me get to the next one.

• 1:19:28Speaker 00

  Next one I'm going to get to is, Tom. Palantir CEO says there's only two types of people out there that are going to make it during the, uh, what do you call it? With AI era. And here's what he had to say. So who's he talking about? Two types of people? Is he talking about, you know, background? Any of that stuff? Play the clip. Here's Alex Karp.

• 1:19:49Speaker 19

  Everybody's worried about like their future, but there are basically two ways to know you have a future. One, you have some vocational training.

• 1:19:56Speaker 10

  Okay.

• 1:19:57Speaker 19

  So it's like, or two, you're neurodivergent and, and I, when I say neurodivergent, I mean broadly defined. Like, you're guys are sitting here, you could have had a corporate tool job.

• 1:20:06Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:20:07Speaker 19

  You could have been like, I don't want to pick on Goldman, but like just say, you know, like a job.

• 1:20:11Speaker 10

  I replied there, they turned me down.

• 1:20:12Speaker 19

  Well, yeah.

• 1:20:13Speaker 10

  I did work at Citi.

• 1:20:14Speaker 19

  Oh, whatever. Anyway, it was like, you could have had a job where you're like a...

• 1:20:17Speaker 10

  He tried, he tried and failed.

• 1:20:18Speaker 19

  It's like, yeah, no, actually maybe they didn't know the right way to test.

• 1:20:21Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:20:22Speaker 19

  Like, it's like, yeah, they were like, like, you know, eh, whatever. I'm not picking on one or the other. I'm just saying, you, you, you know, eh, they're like, eh, you're probably here, you think you're here because da, da, da, but it's actually, you probably wouldn't have been able to do that shit because there's like, it's the same thing as sit down in class and learn some bullshit. Like, and you just regurgitate it. Like, that's not a valuable thing. If you are, actually have insights into anything and you have real technical expertise.

• 1:20:49Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:20:50Speaker 19

  Like, you know, you can look at a company, but you actually can look at it because you know something about how these things work or something about how clients work. You know, then all the other stuff that used to be precious, like being able to do low end coding, being able to do low end learning, being able to do low end reading and writing. I mean, God, this is like, I feel like Odin came down and was like, "I'm going to make the world just right for a dyslexic." It's like, it's like, yeah, Odin has come down from, or Locke has come down and said, "You know what, Karp? You suffered so much as a kid.

• 1:21:19Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:21:20Speaker 19

  I'm just going to make the whole world so everyone else can suffer. I don't want that." It's like now, but it's really an inversion. Like, everybody with like the normal shape skills are dyslexics. Cause like, meaning the thing that...

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• 1:23:43Speaker 10

  No, he's on a, I don't agree entirely, but he is making a point. He made a point in there about low-end lawyering, low-end writing, low-end, he's right. It's basics. I mean, what Doug and I can do right now with these AI tools on legal, speeds up what we do. Now, do we still check with legal experts? Yes. So the low-end stuff, I think he's right. But what he's talking about neurodivergent, it's, neurodivergent is the opposite of neurotypical. Neurotypical means you look at the world the same way other people do, like you, because that's how you were taught, that's how you were brought up, and that's the lane you're in. And then there's other people, when they were brought up and taught,

• 1:24:27Speaker 10

  maybe they were on spectrum a little bit, or just these crazy smart people that were very, very curious. He said, neurodivergent people like that are gonna have an advantage because they're not easily replicated like low-end lawyer, low-end writer, low-end. That's, that's the point that he's making. But every article and everything that comes out, Pat, where people talk about, oh, gonna take jobs away, society's gonna change, this half the society burns to the ground, that's what, that's the reason there's a lot of, a lot of attraction, not attraction, but there's been a lot of audience attracted to, to this and saying, you know, there's gonna be two kinds of people. Well, I would like to say, I think, Pat, there's two kinds of people now.

• 1:25:12Speaker 10

  People that wanna work a job, people wanna do a job, they wanna do a good job, get a paycheck and go home. And then there's people that had courage, that had, you know, creativity, that wanted to do something different, that wanted to build something, that, that were inspired to do it. I think there's always been two types of people. But what AI is gonna do, it's gonna make the, the, the difference and the enablement that much more stark. But I always think there's been two, there's always been Elons and, and Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison's. There's always been those people. And then there's people that have been, go along, get along, do a regular life. That's, and what he's talking about is through the eyes of AI, yeah?

• 1:25:55Speaker 00

  But, but, but I think a part of it, on what he's saying, where the nerd, the geek that was made fun of is now in charge. The nerd, the geek

• 1:26:07Speaker 10

  Revenge of the nerds.

• 1:26:07Speaker 00

  No, but, but literally, the revenge of the nerds is as accurate as it can be.

• 1:26:11Speaker 10

  Get those nerds!

• 1:26:12Speaker 00

  They are officially the ones that you don't wanna scare off and you don't wanna piss off, because those guys now have a certain power that wasn't as cool 40 years ago.

• 1:26:21Speaker 10

  No.

• 1:26:22Speaker 00

  Now they have. And I think there's an element to it, but he's also saying, look at you guys.

• 1:26:27Speaker 00

  You guys could've gone to Goldman, you guys could've gone, it's like, I actually did, used to work at Morgan Stanley. He says, but you ended up here. So, so somewhere the tests didn't get it right, where they missed you, right? Where they missed you and what you were gonna do. And that's the part that's gonna be very interesting as you're going through this next phase of testing for people to identify what their career path, paths, and I think it's gonna come. I think there's gonna be a moment where, when you sit there and you're talking to somebody and they ask me about career stuff, and they'll say, hey, you know, what, what should I do as Korean else? It's very simple for me. I, I make a list of all your talents. Like, if I were to ask you, I talked to Vinnie at 18 years old, and I knew you for two years, and I was to ask you, what are your talents? What would you have said at 18 years old?

• 1:27:08Speaker 15

  At 18?

• 1:27:09Speaker 00

  At 18, not today, at 18 years old.

• 1:27:12Speaker 00

  Funny?

• 1:27:12Speaker 15

  Funny.

• 1:27:12Speaker 00

  What else?

• 1:27:13Speaker 15

  Very athletic, very fast.

• 1:27:15Speaker 10

  Very good-looking. Saw that picture of you with your hair.

• 1:27:19Speaker 15

  So funny.

• 1:27:20Speaker 10

  Your wife beat her.

• 1:27:21Speaker 15

  Smart, I mean, I was on the high honor roll.

• 1:27:24Speaker 00

  What were you, what did you do well with? Was it writing, was it math? Was it English, was it science, was it history?

• 1:27:30Speaker 15

  English, history, not so much math. Well, my English was gooder than everybody else. So, athletic, funny, smart.

• 1:27:42Speaker 00

  So let me tell you how this works. I would take these, and I would see what routes it would take. I can do that with AI today. What industries would benefit somebody? As a matter of fact, let me just do this right now. Watch this, okay? But let me also, tell me also what your passion is. What does your passion lie?

• 1:27:57Speaker 15

  But back then? I really didn't have, like, back then I was so freaking lost.

• 1:28:01Speaker 00

  What are you, what gets you excited? Like, what was it that gets you excited?

• 1:28:04Speaker 15

  Oh, I mean, knowing, oh, great question. Knowing that me being a character or doing comedy or doing something funny made somebody laugh, and I, I had that, like, ability to make them laugh. Entertain, Pat, because remember, it was my, it was my mom with the household that we lived in. When I would watch my mom watch comedy and what George Carlin and Eddie Murphy and all these comedians would do, and she would be, like, she'd, she'd have a vacation from the life that we had with my dad. I looked at that and I went, that's what I wanna do. I wanna be able to free people from their regular lives and make them laugh and entertain them. That was my, from watching my mom laugh and watch comedy.

• 1:28:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, so then for me, the, the part that I'm excited about is we're gonna come to a phase right now, we're working on something I will share with the audience here soon, where I'll be able to identify your strengths, what industries you would excel in, and which ones excite you. Because that's what happened with me. Mine was numbers, I like people, I looked at what industries to get into, I went into financial services, I dealt with people, I dealt with numbers, and boom, ended up working out for me. But when I was in the military, I wasn't using my numbers, and I wasn't, you know, it was like, so, so to me, this next phase is, what creative jobs will match someone's personality? Okay, like, you know, I, I ask myself,

• 1:29:25Speaker 00

  if I was raised in a family that my parents were highly educated with MBAs, and they went to school and all this other stuff, and the expectation of getting better grades and all this stuff, what route would I have gone? I don't know. Maybe I would've been a lawyer, maybe I would've gone a different, I don't know what direction I would've gone. But there is life on how it happens. The next part is identifying what's gonna be a good career for an individual based on their gifts, talents, and personalities. I think that's the conversation where a lot of parents need to have with their kids. Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:29:53Speaker 10

  Well, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I mean, there's something called Ikigai. You've heard of this before?

• 1:29:58Speaker 00

  Tell me.

• 1:29:58Speaker 10

  That's a Japanese reason for being or reason for living, I K I G A I. Essentially, it's sort of like a Venn diagram, a cross-reference of your passion, your mission, your vocation, your profession, what you love to do, what you're passionate about, what you're, what the world needs, what the world will pay you for. And essentially, that's how you can figure it out. Essentially, what you're saying is, take that, pump in some AI with it, and spit it out. But by the way, don't look now, but Alex Karp, when he speaks, you should probably start listening right now, because he's basically running one of the companies that's essentially running the new frontier of the world right now with Palantir, right? And essentially what he's saying, did you see what he said about college?

• 1:30:42Speaker 10

  He said, skip the debt. Said reclaim years of your life and earn a Palantir degree. So they're basically saying, you know, we saw what Ken Griffin is doing in Miami now, opening up a university to help people get smarter. This is essentially what they're doing. And the Palantir's offering two things. This neurodivergent fellowship, and neurodivergent, Tom can, can chime in on this, is like outside-the-box thinking, thinking a little bit differently, not just doing it everybody does. And then a meritocracy fellowship, which basically is like, you got the skills to pay the bills. So essentially, what he's saying is this.

• 1:31:17Speaker 10

  You know, Bob Dylan, I think famously, once said, the times they are a-changing. You either adapt, like Darwin said, or you get left in the dustbin of history. So if you're still doing the old methodology of life, you're gonna get left behind. The whole, the whole, like, Pat, do you remember this? You used to go to the library, you used to have a card catalog. Dude, I'm old enough to remember I had a typewriter in the 80s, typewriter. The times are changing so fast that you either adapt or die.

• 1:31:43Speaker 00

  So, you know, it's, it's, last week, I, I choose words to talk to the kids about. And this morning, I had an emergency meeting with our guys. We made one of the biggest announcements too, with David Consulting and Higher Metrics, which we're very excited about, very good meeting. We're at the office early. I was biking this morning, very early, my five miles, even though we got home late last night. And, you know, we're doing what we're doing and soccer tournament, all this stuff, being a parent, being this, being that. And I told the kids, this is a few weeks ago, where I'm trying to get them to understand this concept. The hardest thing in life to build is momentum. Hardest thing in life to build is momentum. But as hard as it is to build momentum, it's also the easiest thing to lose. It is so hard to create, but it's so easy to lose.

• 1:32:28Speaker 00

  With friendships, with business, with content creation, with your health, with your wealth, you know, your compounding, you're making all this money, and you make something dumb and you lose $3 million on gambling debt. Or you're making investments in something stupid that you didn't call a couple people to get your advice, and you're upset why you lost $400,000. You didn't, you didn't get anybody's counsel, you just kinda aggressively made that decision, right? And then you lose momentum and you gotta come back again. And so momentum is your best friend in life. That's also with knowledge, content, learning, relationships. And then most of the time when people get momentum, to eighty percent of people that get momentum, guess what's the next thing they do in life when they get momentum? Stop. Get cocky. Yeah. And think that momentum's gonna stick around for the rest of her life. She's not, she's gonna leave you. Yeah. To another person that respects momentum.

• 1:33:14Speaker 00

  And then they get discouraged because they saw how hard it was to create momentum and how easy it is to lose it, that they never, ever again wanna recommit to the level of sacrifice it took to create momentum and they'll only experience it one time in their lives. Most people won't create momentum too many times in their lives because they don't wanna put the price again. Because it took eight years to create and one dumb decision to lose it all, right? Yeah. Okay, here's the other part about this, when you think about it. The other part about it is, is on, on most of us that we don't think about a lot, a lot is the following. Long-term thinking is a massive, massive misconception with long-term thinking. It's like, oh my god, such a long time. Hey, you know, if you invest five hundred dollars a month,

• 1:33:57Speaker 00

  thirty years from now, you'll have two million dollars in the bank at twelve percent, whatever. When people say that stuff, you want me to wait thirty years? Yeah. You know, if you apply this to your company, within eight quarters, your company's gonna be able to get better calibration, better results out of you. You want me to wait eight quarters? Yeah, that's not a long time. That comes like this. You know, if you change your diet and in nine months, nine months? Yeah. Yeah, I'm telling the story this morning and I'm talking to my guy in the military and I had to say, remember twenty years ago when we were on bootcamp? And then all of a sudden like, shit, that was thirty years ago. Jeez. Thirty years ago is when you joined the military. It's crazy. Thirty years ago is when I joined the military. Crazy. Twenty-six years ago is when I got started with Morgan Stanley Dean with her day before nine eleven.

• 1:34:41Speaker 00

  I've been married seventeen plus years. Are you flipping kidding me? I met my wife June of oh-two. So, so, so two things that we don't think about a lot, that we ought to think about a lot, is commit to a long-term thinking, don't subscribe to short-term thinking. It's the hardest thing to do because it doesn't take a long time. It's gonna be like this. And number two is, never, ever, ever disrespect momentum. Never. In every possible way, your life is better when you have momentum on your side. In every possible way, you look smarter, you look better, you feel better. Everything feels better. But that one dumb mistake you make, you wipe out the momentum. So for somebody that was watching and say, well, I'm discouraged and I don't know and blah, blah, blah, blah,

• 1:35:25Speaker 00

  restart that momentum commitment again. And this time around, when you go through, don't screw it up. And teach this concept to your kids. Talk to your kids about this kinda stuff. It's very, very difficult to embrace the concept of, you know, uh, uh, embrace the concept of, uh, you know, the fact that it's ten years is not that long of a time. It's gonna come by very, very quickly. It's not an easy thing. By the way, I wanna talk to you about a couple of these stories with Germany. Eighty-seven percent of wanted suspects have foreign citizenship. And I got two other stories I wanna get into, but before I do so, I want you to listen to our sponsors who believe the future looks bright. Go for it.

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• 1:37:19Speaker 00

  By the way, they don't publish these numbers. The reason why they did is because of the inquiry. If they don't ask, they wouldn't have known. They wanna keep these numbers secret. They don't want these numbers to be public. There's a lot of people involved in it that don't want these numbers to be public. Foreign nationals account for eighty-seven point three percent of the total, while another one, one and a half percent are German citizens, who also hold a second nationality. Well- obtained, the ministry replied to a question from AFD lawmaker Sebastian. The figures speak for themselves. The overwhelming majority of criminals wanted on arrest warrant do not have German passports, is calling for permanent border controls. German citizens from single largest group of sixteen thousand six seventy-one,

• 1:38:01Speaker 00

  followed by Romania sixteen thousand one twenty-three, Poles, Georgians, Turks and Germans. Population is eighty-one percent exclusively German citizens. CDU spokesman Alexander Thon said seventeen thousand five hundred people with outstanding warrants have been caught at the border since September of twenty twenty-four. Uh, Tom, why is this such an important data?

• 1:38:19Speaker 10

  So, words talk, numbers scream and, you know, when handcuffs click, victims cheer. So, I think what you're seeing here is this goes in the face of the narrative. This goes in the face of the globalist narrative. This goes in the face of open border narrative. This is exactly what they don't want. What they don't want is this data to be out there so that average people can say, what did we say, Vinny? Wait a minute, so you're telling me it's not working? I thought we were just... So, take your, take your middle-of-the-road liberal that has an open mind on it. They don't want them to shift, Pat. That's who's shifting here. The, the moderates, the liberal moderates that pride themselves being middle road are looking at this and going, wait a minute.

• 1:39:04Speaker 10

  So, we opened our borders and these are the people that are committing crimes? And it's not one or two for the sake of the headline? It's a frickin' stack of data. It's a stack of data. And so, the, what the powerful part of this is that what you said, somehow the data got, freedom of information equivalent in Germany or wherever it was, somehow the data got out, out in the open and now it's being reported, not by Reuters, not, you know, not by, you know, the traditional media, not by Bild in Germany, but by Zero Hedge and then others like us that picked that up and said, wait, this story needs to be told. It's a saying exactly.

• 1:39:45Speaker 10

  And the, it was said, they're not sending us their best. Remember that? We were, we were trying to talk to Mayorkas. Uh, who said that? Uh, which US politician said that first? They said, listen, they're not sending their best. Trump was the first one. Trump, but I think there was also Trey Gowdy. There's a lot of people have been reminding folks, hey, look, the, the, the, these aren't like scientists that are in Mexico that wanna get out from under the, you know, the, the regime there. Yeah, some of those are coming over, but the most of it is just a bunch of refugees and what's inside that is, is criminals. That's, that's what's going on, that are coming over to a new market. And the new market is Germany.

• 1:40:29Speaker 10

  Hey, they're gonna let me come in here and they're gonna actually give me a cellphone and they're gonna give me a little relief, Pat, and I get to start my criminal business over in Germany. What a thing. And the criminal element laughs. But I, the liberal people that are in the middle, conservatives are screaming in Germany, but the liberals that are in the middle with a little bit of an open mind are sitting there going, wait a minute, this didn't work. And that's exactly what the globalist government and the core, uh, EU, um, you know, that's not what they want the, the average citizen that'd be in possession of.

• 1:41:04Speaker 00

  And what was it? By the way, check this out. Um, so I just asked ChatGPT to pull up a report. When is the last time UK ran a similar report based on an inquiry? You know what it says? It says they ran the similar report in UK. Guess when's the last time they ran the report that they made it public to the British parliamentary? When do you think that is? When is the last time you think they ran the same exact report?

• 1:41:29Speaker 15

  50s?

• 1:41:30Speaker 00

  2013, 2014. It's been 12 years of them having ran this report. And guess what the number came out on UK parliamentary? On what percentage of the crime, the arrest warrants were foreigners? Non-British nationals, what percentage do you think it was?

• 1:41:46Speaker 15

  Like 85%, same number?

• 1:41:47Speaker 00

  Are you ready, Tom? 98.3% is what the report came up.

• 1:41:52Speaker 15

  Beat your prior best.

• 1:41:53Speaker 00

  So 98.3% is when they came up with this report in 2013. It was 7,881 arrest warrants that they had. Warrants involving British nationals was only 132. Warrants involving foreign nationals was 7749, Tom. 98.3%. And they knew about this in 2013, 2014. And what did they do? Nothing. I want to know why they haven't ran that same exact report recently. Why are you running that report so late? Why not find out and see exactly what's going on? You know, we had this fellow on the podcast who Raymond Ibrahim, whose interview, his clips are all over X.

• 1:42:37Speaker 00

  And I'm being tagged by a bunch of people that are not happy with me. And Vinnie, you got a death threat guy on DM. You reported to the FBI.

• 1:42:43Speaker 15

  Yeah, I sent the screenshot to Humberto just in case people want to see it.

• 1:42:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, so he reported. And by the way, what's funny about this guy, which is not funny.

• 1:42:50Speaker 15

  I sent it to Humberto.

• 1:42:50Speaker 00

  He sends the message to Vinnie. And I wanted to know, because Vinnie sent him an audio back, which was very funny, but not funny. Then the guy responds back in audio.

• 1:43:01Speaker 15

  Yes.

• 1:43:01Speaker 00

  He responds back in audio. Do you have that audio, by the way, with this guy?

• 1:43:04Speaker 15

  I can play it right now.

• 1:43:05Speaker 00

  Yeah, he responds back in audio because of the recent interviews. Who talks like this?

• 1:43:10Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 1:43:11Speaker 00

  Who threatens like this? Nobody talks like this. And what do you want to do? You want to sit there and say, oh, it's not a big deal. A guy broke it down for me. It's the strategy of Islamification of a nation. And the initials were R P M. R P M. Always remember these initials.

• 1:43:30Speaker 15

  What is that?

• 1:43:30Speaker 00

  First, they come in and they come to a country and they say, we're a peaceful religion. R, peaceful religion. The P, they gain political power. After they came political influence, then the last one, they used the military to take control of the country. That's been their strategy for centuries on what they've done. Okay? And Raymond Ibrahim, he talks about this in his book.

• 1:43:51Speaker 00

  He kind of breaking down what's going on. So, you know, when you see data, all, by the way, if it said Armenians, the one that are 87.3%. I want to know who it is. I don't care about ethnicity and nationality wise. Whoever it is, stop taking people from those countries and those places. It's common sense. Vinnie, do you want to?

• 1:44:08Speaker 15

  This is the guy, he says, this is random. We haven't even said anything about religion or anything in, I don't even know how long. He says, random, you son of a B. If I see you, I'm going to take your head off, you little fake Christian coward. F to toof, toof in the Middle Eastern. I'll spit in your mom's face and F her till she cry, you son of a, you know what? You're lucky you live in effing America, you coward, face to face, break your jaw, you clown. I looked them up. This is from Belgium and I already knew, guys, what other religion is going to message you and threaten to chop off your head and everything? And then, because I left him a message, I said, listen, come to, come, come to America. This is all the talk, all your people.

• 1:44:53Speaker 15

  And then he sends me this.

• 1:44:54Speaker 00

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• 1:44:55Speaker 15

  Yep.

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• 1:47:11Speaker 21

  Most of you conservative Americans

• 1:47:13Speaker 00

  Middle Eastern.

• 1:47:14Speaker 21

  are a bunch of cowards and clowns.

• 1:47:18Speaker 21

  You're lucky you live in America.

• 1:47:19Speaker 00

  You're lucky you live in America.

• 1:47:20Speaker 21

  You're very lucky. You know this. You've guns. I love America. I think God bless America. A guy like you in Europe or in Africa, in South America would be, would be killed easily. Like, nobody wants even to touch you because

• 1:47:35Speaker 00

  Look at that.

• 1:47:36Speaker 21

  you're small.

• 1:47:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:47:37Speaker 21

  You understand? That's the reason why you people are not taken seriously.

• 1:47:45Speaker 00

  What are you hearing?

• 1:47:46Speaker 15

  Where do you think this guy's from? This idiot? So you want me to play what the first one I said?

• 1:47:49Speaker 00

  No, no, you don't need to play what you said. But you know what I want you to say?

• 1:47:52Speaker 15

  Where do you think?

• 1:47:52Speaker 00

  I want you to say, you wouldn't be able to talk like this in UK. Can you read that part where it says, you wouldn't be able to talk like this in UK?

• 1:47:58Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 1:47:58Speaker 00

  If you talk like this in UK, there's a reason why they don't say anything about us in the UK.

• 1:48:02Speaker 15

  Oh yeah, people like you in Europe will be easily, easily forgotten in the UK. Albania, Kosovo, Austria will be vanished. You are a clown. You clowns are lucky, freedom of speech. You're a lucky little boy. Muslims will never, ever take over. It's impossible, never, yeah, he's trying to back up. Be careful. There's a lot of crazy people in the world that don't have nothing to lose. And he goes on just, bud, where do you guys think this guy's from? By the way, I talk, we talk about the Pope. We talk about Christianity. We talk about this. I've never had this. And again, people go, well, it's not everybody. I never say it's everybody. But out of 2 billion people, if 10% have this attitude, that is a huge freaking problem.

• 1:48:46Speaker 15

  And I face the enemy. And I told them, I said, bring it. Come to America. Come, come do what you're going to do. So for everybody out there pretending, I criticize everybody, every country, from Zelensky to Israel, to all that stuff. No other religion, no other, are coming to saying that they want to chop my head off and to stay out of Europe. You understand that? But that's why I love this freaking country. I dare, I dare you to come here with that freaking attitude. Because over there, they know, guys, they already know, Pat, you were talking about the RPM. You have no guns. You can't even talk negative about these people or else they come to your freaking house and they arrest your ass. Okay, remember in Germany, speaking of Germany? 11 guys took turns raping this freaking girl at a freaking park. Okay, they got arrested. They all got let go.

• 1:49:30Speaker 15

  You know who actually did jail time, Adam? A girl who found this guy's WhatsApp number or whatever and messaged him, was talking crap to him. She went to jail. Okay? So this is the real threat.

• 1:49:40Speaker 00

  And by the way, watch this. Do you remember the question I asked? And I said, this data you gave me, UK is 13 years ago. I want to know about data today. You know what UK's answer is? So August 10, 2026, actually, I'll go to the last. January 19, 2026, UK made an inquiry. Does the government record nationality of people arrested? You know what the government's response was?

• 1:49:59Speaker 15

  What?

• 1:50:00Speaker 00

  Nationality isn't collected centrally in its general arrest statistics. Why not?

• 1:50:03Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 1:50:04Speaker 00

  Well, April 28, 2026. What percentage of violent sexual offenders involve foreign nationals? Police recorded crime statistics don't include suspects' nationality or immigration status. Why not? August 10, 2026, this is six weeks ago. How many, how many crimes were committed by foreign nationals in 2023 through 2026? Guess what the government's response was? Nationality data isn't included in centrally held convictions record. If you're watching this right now, let's just say you're a liberal. You're a Democrat. You're socialist. You're communist. You're capitalist, whatever you are. Don't you want to know who's committing the crime and what nationality they are? What if they're your kind? What if they're like you? Say you're a hick. You're a Texan. You're a Polish. You're Assyrian, Armenian.

• 1:50:49Speaker 00

  You're Persian. You're Iraqi. Don't you want to know who is committing those crimes? If you hire people from a certain university and you notice a pattern of out of your 500 employees, 50 of them keep stealing from you. Don't you want to know what company they came from? What college they came from? What education? Wouldn't you go to your CFO or your CHR and say, can I get some of this data of where these 50 that we hired? Can we see a pattern of where they came from so we can never hire them again? That's not called Phobia to anything. It's called phobia to criminals. It's not a nationality thing. We need those statistics. And for some people that are looking to the sign of, wow, you know, what I respect about this guy is, like, I respect that he is at least showing his true colors, not the fake bots.

• 1:51:34Speaker 00

  This is a real human being that gave the message that he gave. And then he reported it to the FBI. How many of them are gonna be, who's gonna catch them? Out of all these guys, you know how many of them there is? It's not seven of them. It's seven million that talk like that. Then what do you do with them? So, to me, some of these countries in Europe that have the stats in front of them, what are you gonna do about it now that you have the data? How are you gonna react now that you have the data? Will they change? Who knows? We'll see. Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:51:59Speaker 11

  Yeah, Humberto, I sent you a story you can bring up, but, look, Vinny, if you think that's unique, you should see my DMs every single day. These people will not stop. But let me just run you through what my opinion is. It never starts and stops with the Jews. It starts with the Saturday people, then it ends with the Sunday people. So I'm not shocked that radical people will start basically going the Israel route and then go to the American European route. So I was in Germany when I flew to Israel. And can I tell you how orderly the German people are? It was a little disheartening for me to hear, "Get in line! Line up for the plane!" I'm like, "Oh, okay. Am I going on a train right now? All right, cool. I'm just going on the plane right here." But this is why the pendulum is swinging the other way.

• 1:52:44Speaker 11

  And the countries that don't adapt will get left behind. And the countries that do could hopefully reverse what's going on here. Because it's been no secret, this third world takeover of European countries is, has happened. And what we're trying to do is stop the Marxist Islamist takeover of America. That's number one for me, this red-green alliance. But look at this story right here that just happened in the UK. "The Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws the award for the Muslim cleric who praised Osama bin Laden." We're at the point now where the Archbishop of Canterbury is giving awards to these people. Now, look at the lovely lady in the middle.

• 1:53:24Speaker 11

  Is this something that you think is Western values? This is how she's showing up? In a ninja outfit? You think this is part of a Western ideals? It's bad enough that the guy that got the award was someone who was praising Osama bin Laden. Okay, he's the guy, but his lady friend right here? This is what's going on in the UK? So when I talked about the pendulum swinging, do you know who's basically, I think, leading the polls or whatever is going on in Germany, not that I follow it? It's the AFD, which is like the far-right party. The Alternative for Deutschland. And tell me what happens when people who are very ultra-nationalist take over Germany. Things could get pretty ugly here.

• 1:54:04Speaker 11

  But we're seeing this right-wing takeover of what were typically leftist countries, which I actually support. So you see in France, Marie Le Pen, if you're familiar with that story right there, the taking over, or at least leading. We know that, who was our friend in Italy? Giorgia Maloney?

• 1:54:21Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 1:54:21Speaker 11

  We've seen that happen. We're gonna see what happens with Nigel Farage. We see what happened with Argentina. Hopefully, Brazil has a massive election in the next two weeks, October 25th. Hopefully, Bolsonaro's son can win that election. But hopefully, these countries actually adapt and survive. Or, the reality is, like you talk, what's the acronym that you gave it? SR, what was it?

• 1:54:44Speaker 00

  RPM, Religion, Politics, Military.

• 1:54:46Speaker 11

  Yeah, so, I mean, do you, you know, I respect Muslim religion, I respect it. But in their country, you know, you can't go into Saudi Arabia and start building churches. You're not gonna go into Qatar and start preaching Christ. So, you know, it's a two-way street, and hopefully, the Western world gets it together.

• 1:55:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, hopefully, they do. And hopefully, they study data, because data tells it all. I don't care what it is. If the crime's being done by my own people, I'm gonna call them out and say, "What are we doing?" So it's not, it's not a picking on a certain community. Maybe raise better folks that are making societies a better place, so people want more of that, whatever that ethnicity is. All right. Next story I want to get to is Business Tom. Trucking industry is taking a hit with diesel prices, and this story is all over the place. And for those that are under transportation business, this is a real thing. It's not something that's just being talked about. That's not a real thing. Trying to find this story, what page this is on.

• 1:55:41Speaker 11

  Main 4.

• 1:55:42Speaker 00

  Uh, Main 4. There we go. Okay. Trucking industry hit by string of bankruptcy filings as diesel costs surge. Okay, so, let's read this. "A string of trucking and freight companies filed for bankruptcy in September as rising fuel insurance and operating costs squeeze an industry critical to moving goods across the US. At least eight transportation-related companies saw Chapter 11 this month. Truckload LLC owner Marcus Overcast told Fox Business that diesel and insurance costs contributed to his Florida bankruptcy, with insurance the biggest pressure. When gas prices go up, or diesel prices go up, everything that goes from A to B is affected." Automotive expert Lauren Fix said, "Everything has to get somewhere somehow, or everything gets more expensive."

• 1:56:27Speaker 00

  Filter-included global master incorporated $1.1 million in assets, $3.26 million liabilities. Pacer, all these companies have filed bankruptcy, by the way. Trump moved this week to temporarily allow red-dyed diesel on highways. Fix estimated savings of $0.50 to $2 per gallon. Diesel sold for about $6.26 Thursday out of Flying J in Orange, Texas. Tom, how important is this? Because we have a client of ours who had 150 trucks that he bought when the market was good. Diesel prices right now, he's selling them pennies on the dollar. How long can a lot of these guys survive if this continues, Tom? And what do you see is gonna happen with this?

• 1:57:07Speaker 11

  So, the trucking industry has got a triple whammy here. The first thing is interest rates. Interest rates on those truck loans are up, just like interest rates on homes are up. So now, the cost of having a loan for my truck, or underneath it, the leasing rate, that's also there, it's up. So sort of the mortgage on these trucks, these trucks are $150,000, $200,000. The cabs, the pullers. And that's just where independent truckers, you know, buy those, and then they pull loads, if they can get loads. So number one, interest rates. Number two, now diesel has taken what margin that they were able to work with and just squeezed it to death.

• 1:57:49Speaker 11

  And so now, they're seeking Chapter 11 protection. These were not, and I dove into this, Pat, this is Chapter 11 protection. So what Chapter 11 protection is, allows you, Vinny, I can go to court and I can say, to a bankruptcy court, not like a magistrate, just say, "Hey, look, I need some help here. I need to restructure these loans and redo this. Can I get a certain amount of this debt forgiven?" And then the court works for you to get that taken care of. And so, between interest rates, between the changes in the amount of available loads to run right now,

• 1:58:26Speaker 11

  and the diesel cost, Pat, what little margin they had in there for EBITDA and for error is gone. And so, they're seeking bankruptcy protection to go to the court to get some of the debt forgiven, or get it restructured, so they can come out tomorrow. And hopefully, if diesel prices are coming down, and then get, you know, new financing on their trucks. But truckers, man, we need to appreciate them. This is a foundational part of the American economy, moving stuff from port to store, from store to home. And these truckers are out there, independent truckers, mom and pops that own two trucks and actually drive one of them.

• 1:59:10Speaker 11

  This is a foundational part of our economy, and they're in trouble. And this article citing a few of them right now, I'm worried that this is gonna get worse with interest rates high and diesel continuing to be high, Pat. Because there's just, you can only squeeze a P and L. As you know, you consult with a lot of people in business. You can only squeeze it so much.

• 1:59:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, I'm looking at numbers right now. So according to Reuters, 16 companies filed for bankruptcy in the month of September. Eight Chapter 11s, eight Chapter 7 liquidation, jobs affected 250-plus. These are prices, it says what it is. These are prices one year earlier, 3.70, so from 3.70, Vinny, to 6.53, that's a 74% increase. Companies that filed bankruptcy, Ex OCO Transport, Texas, approximately 65 drivers, more than 40 trucks gone. Globe Master, Illinois, approximately 51 trucks. CLJ Transporting, Florida, Amazon delivery contracted with approximately 30 drivers. Truckload LLC, Florida, operated as Expedite Express. RP Hail-Hauling, Arizona, filed September 10th. That's happening right now as we speak.

• 2:00:20Speaker 00

  So an increase in diesel from 3.70 to 6.53. What it means with each traveling 100 miles annually, that's what truck drivers do. They drive around 100,000 miles annually. That means the annual fuel truck per truck is $43,538, okay? Additional annual cost for 50 trucks, $2.1 million. The 100 trucks, $4.3 million. Bottom line is, these guys are getting hit, and there's only so much of a lifespan they can have. And this is one of the reasons why Trump did the deal with Russia. He is just trying to find a way to see how long it's gonna go and how long it's gonna last. But these prices have to be passed down to whoever's sending the shipment. You have to pay that.

• 2:01:03Speaker 00

  And every time this happens, those guys, there's certain jobs. Every time you're on the freeway, you see a truck driver next to you. That guy's away from his family. They are patriots for us. In the economy, they're patriots, and they're getting hit by this. Adam, thoughts?

• 2:01:17Speaker 11

  No, I mean, I've seen you consult with BDC, many trucking companies. What do you think they're feeling right now? What are the conversations you guys are having internally with people who are going through this? Marketing conditions, inflation, energy, what's your advice?

• 2:01:31Speaker 00

  How much cash are they sitting on? How much cash are they sitting on to be able to afford? It's really how long I can go with these rates. And then, it gets to a point where you sit there and say, "Okay, let's do a job. $3,000. How much am I making on this? You're losing $50. How many of those can you do?" So then if I go and tell the business owner, "I'm sorry, I have to do $3,300 for the load. Don't worry, I'm gonna go to the other guy. He's doing it for me for $3,040." Okay, now I lost. Then I put the truck on stop. Then my truck driver now has to go work for a different person. Then I lost those guys for different routes. Then, what did the driver, so it's such, it divides the business owner against the driver, against the guy that needs the driver, and then he has to raise the prices.

• 2:02:14Speaker 00

  Then he has to go to Amazon, or Walmart, or Target and say, "That product was 38 cents, now it's 48 cents." You know, or "This product was $2.48, now I gotta sell it to you at $4.5." What? This is not $4.50. I get it. But gas was also, it's just...

• 2:02:30Speaker 11

  I don't wanna, I don't wanna simplify this, but I remember a conversation you had with, I won't say his name, but, he was hesitant, and this was...

• 2:02:38Speaker 15

  Maybe under Biden, I think, because this was years ago when gas prices were this high. And he was hesitant to raise the price to the consumer. I don't know if you're like, listen, you're gonna have to pass this on to the consumer. It's almost like if they raise the minimum wage, you know, your hamburger could cost nine bucks. So do you remember the story I'm talking about?

• 2:02:55Speaker 00

  He made four and a half million bucks, yeah.

• 2:02:57Speaker 15

  Okay, so at what point do you say, listen, I'm about to go bankrupt. I have to raise the price of the consumer in order to stay afloat, like, supply and demand.

• 2:03:04Speaker 00

  So if you're the business owner, I have the conversation with you. I have to have it.

• 2:03:08Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 2:03:08Speaker 00

  Because you have to stay in business. You can't not stay in business. And if you know how to predict the future and when the diesel gas prices are gonna come down, you don't know how to do that, right? Of course. So I have to sit there and say, Adam, uh, look, I have to have this conversation with you. My cost is up. I'm out here, I'm literally showing you my spreadsheet. This is where I'm at. What, what do you want me to do? If I don't make 15% here, I'm out of business. So I, I say no to you now, or are you willing to come up 15%? And it has to be as honest of a conversation as possible, or else I'm not making any money. So what do you want to do? And then you have to sit there and say, I got the other guy that's sitting on 48 million dollars

• 2:03:52Speaker 00

  of cash in a bank, that he'll do it at this discount because he knows he's trying to put you out of business. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna raise it 15% or are you gonna go with that guy? What would you do? Because you have to answer to your shareholders. It's not tough decisions. Most of the guys are going to that guy. And you just put me out of business. And I only have 800,000 dollars in a bank. So this is gonna put the smaller trucking industry guys out of business. And you don't want that because you want competition. But unfortunately, a lot of them don't have the cash to last longer. That's what's going on right now.

• 2:04:23Speaker 15

  What I, what I, one of the major things that I love and respect is this is the stuff that you do at the vault, and this is the stuff you do with BDC clients. I've seen you leaks and opportunities and where, how much cash you have saved up. These are the types of things that you process. And I mean, I'm just giving a shout out to BDC right now. But these are the types of difficult conversations in case.

• 2:04:40Speaker 00

  We're having a lot of them right now.

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  That we do.

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• 2:05:05Speaker 15

  Okay, so, and again, we've, I've met Tim Kennedy. He's a freaking awesome guy, so, and, and number one.

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  He's incredible.

• 2:05:11Speaker 15

  Yeah, I'm, I'm glad that he's alive. My prayers are going out to him and to anyone that was, you know, wounded and the families that lost their lives and that they did, God rest their souls. But he was ambushed in the Congo. And you know what's, it's stranger than like the headline suggests. We're talking about former UFC fighter, Green Beret, former New Zealand Special Forces soldier caught in a deadly firefight on September 17th. So he reportedly took multiple bullets, including three to the leg, and survived after an evacuation that took nearly eight hours, Pat. And Justin Koeniglin, uh, who had left, uh, New Zealand's military just a month earlier, was killed. God rest his soul. Now, now here's the interesting thing. Congo is sitting on some of the rich, you know, we talk about Ukraine and Russia, Tom, and all the, all the deposits that they have.

• 2:05:54Speaker 15

  Richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and gold in the world. We're talking about minerals used for everything, from your cell phone, electric cars, and all that stuff. And eastern Congo, uh, has been torn apart by the fighting for decades, including attacks, uh, by the M23 rebel group, which the United States says is backed by Rwanda. So now the reports are saying that they were conducting, uh, he was connected to the Vectus Global, a security company linked to Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, like you mentioned, Pat. Congo's government reportedly hired the company to protect its mining revenue. And there's been also, uh, unverified claims involving Russia's Africa Corps, which took over operations previously run by the Wagner Group, which we know about them. But here's an interesting detail.

• 2:06:35Speaker 15

  As of last year, Tim Kennedy was reportedly still serving as a Master Sergeant in Maryland's National Guard. I still don't know, because there's no reports or updates, if he's still, you know, serving in our military. But if that's the case, and he's a serving member of the US military, and you're working on a private security job tied to a foreign government, Pat, it's not, it's not good. But, you know, some people would say that there's a lot more to the story that we're being told. But, you know, you got American Special Forces, private military contractors, billions and billions of dollars in valuable minerals and foreign governments involved. I mean, my question is this, this is the first thing that I thought of, if this is the case, if he's still working, I mean, still, you know, in a National Guard, who approves this operation? What exactly was their mission?

• 2:07:20Speaker 15

  And who is answering for what happens? Because I told Adam at the beginning of this, Pat, if you're in the military and you get a sunburn, knowingly got a sunburn, Tom, and you can't put on your uniform and work, you could get in trouble for destruction of government property. You're a GI, when people hear GI, you think of GI Joe. GI is government issue. So, um, again, prayers for him that he's okay, Pat. But, you know, you know, these guys hire top security guys that are, a lot of ex-military guys are security. I just hope, I just hope that that's not the case. Because getting involved and getting shot and almost losing your life, when you're still working for our government is, uh, you're still enlisted, is not a good thing.

• 2:07:56Speaker 00

  Yeah, so if you look at the facts on the September 17, 2026, at, location is, uh, south Kivu, Congo. Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, approximately 20 killed or wounded, at least eight confirmed deaths that's in place. And Kennedy, uh, is fine. Three gunshots wound to his leg, Kennedy. Three gunshot wounds to his leg. Yep. One former New Zealand Special Forces soldier killed, another contractor wounded. Uh, Rwandan military, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are the suspect attackers. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, uh, is where Kennedy's being treated. And the US government contract, State Department says none in Congo. Tom, what, what do you stand with the story, Tom?

• 2:08:39Speaker 10

  So soldiers of fortune and independent organizations have gone out, you know, years and years and years, right? And you talked about it. I mean, they, they retire from the military, they provide security services for all kinds of people and, you know, um, leaders around the world. And then every now and then they have to do errands. And right now, you've got this huge, um, uh, you know, the, the whole Congo, Rwanda, Burundi triangle, and it's the, it's the, what do they call this? The M23 war? I guess is what they've been calling it forever. Um, and you've got all, and they're fighting over the land with all this, uh, minerals,

• 2:09:23Speaker 10

  as you pointed out. And so now you've got all these people trying to fight over it. And they're like, you know what? We need professional assistance here. I know, we'll call Blackwater or somebody, come over here to help us, you know, fight this and put this in here. Um, there's right, the, uh, the Lake Kivu is why they call it the Kivu area. And there it is. There you, um, and.

• 2:09:48Speaker 00

  You know what the outcome was of this? The outcome wasn't to go fight rebels. It was to protect the mineral resources, right?

• 2:09:55Speaker 10

  Well, that's what I'm saying.

• 2:09:56Speaker 00

  Cobalt, copper.

• 2:09:57Speaker 15

  They're doing more like security.

• 2:09:58Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:09:58Speaker 15

  Right, that's my point.

• 2:09:59Speaker 00

  And this is a, the contract for this, Tom, is a five-year contract that they had. One reported contract estimates, that's 300 to 400 million dollars. Some are saying it's a 700 million dollar contract.

• 2:10:11Speaker 15

  Crazy.

• 2:10:12Speaker 00

  So this is not a small contract. Uh, this is with, uh, Erik Prince, and so.

• 2:10:18Speaker 10

  Now, these are governments that hire professionals because they don't have the talent and things in their own country. And that's what I'm talking about. You got these three forces that are fighting, they're bringing professionals over there to help. And now you're pointing out correctly that it was for security, you know, don't fire unless fired upon, kind of thing, rather than soldiers of fortune.

• 2:10:39Speaker 00

  700 million dollar contract. That's one of the bigger contracts he's ever done.

• 2:10:43Speaker 15

  That's huge. Cobalt, copper, gold, that place is rich with, with minerals. I mean, I can see why.

• 2:10:48Speaker 11

  I'll just be real quick. Number one, I, I'm really wishing the best for Tim Kennedy. The guy's an absolute stud, everything I've, I've seen of him, I, I'm just, I'm just a fan. I hope he's doing well. I'm, I'm really, uh, disheartened to hear what happened. You know, you've had Erik Prince on the podcast, I think, multiple times, you know, that what they do is, is obviously much needed, and, and I'm not gonna weigh in from a military capacity. What I'll just say is this, the world is a scary, dangerous place. And thank God that we have American soldiers and soldiers that we're unified with, uh, that defend, that protect us from against the, the threats that are going on in this world. And, you know, despite what you hear in the news, there's other countries outside of Gaza or even Ukraine that horrible, horrible things are happening.

• 2:11:33Speaker 11

  So I'll just, I remember this one conversation I had with this girl in DC. She's like, ah, free Palestine, it's a genocide. I go, why, why do you feel so strongly about this? She goes, I'm just anti-war. And I said, oh, that's interesting. What other wars are you against? And she couldn't name another war. She doesn't know that there's a civil war going on in Sudan, in Yemen, in Myanmar, and Haiti is a disaster, the gangs in Mexico. The point is, the world is a crazy, scary place right now, and we need to basically protect ourselves, or else it'll seep into our world, and that's what we want to stay in.

• 2:12:05Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's great. Look, I want to wrap up with something for us to look at, because a few things happened this weekend. And one of the ones I want to show you has to do with you as an individual and as a leader. And this morning, a part of the message I was giving to my guys was, there's two different types of belief, okay? Not this one. I just sent you three videos and prepared them. I have nothing to do with that tiger right now. There's two things. One of them was, when you talk to certain people and you'll say, well, I, I believe in myself, right? I believe in myself. Well, do you believe you? What does that mean? There's a big difference between believing in yourself and believing you.

• 2:12:45Speaker 00

  I want to show you something here with a head coach who was being asked a question of why he believes he's going to Kentucky and Kentucky's gonna win. This coach. And before you go to this here, I want you to play, go to the other video that you had up, please. Back to back weeks, I believe it is, that Kentucky is playing two different opponents. And it's the last, have you seen this position, what's happened? This has to do with you watching this, folks. Every father, mother, if you consider yourself a leader, I want you to watch this. Back to back weeks, they're playing against an opponent. One of them is overtime, maybe both of them are overtime.

• 2:13:26Speaker 00

  Vinny, look what they do last minute and look what decision the coach makes last minute. Nobody talks about University of Kentucky and Florida. When you think about Kentucky, what do you think about that? Basketball. Basketball, right? Calber Chaney, all these guys that they produce. Calber Chaney is Indiana, I'm sorry. Jamal Mashburn, all these guys that they produce, right? John Calp, watch what happens here, go for it.

• 2:13:47Speaker 22

  Here we go, game on the line, Minchi, end zone, yes, Willie Rodriguez.

• 2:13:52Speaker 00

  Pause it right there, pause it right there, pause it right there, real quick. They're down one. Yeah. You're supposed to go for extra point. He goes for two to beat them. Yeah. Wow. This coach of Kentucky, and they beat them. Then next week, watch what happens, go for it. I love that.

• 2:14:10Speaker 22

  Kentucky wins it in Columbia.

• 2:14:13Speaker 00

  Watch this, folks. Angster. Next week, he's playing LSU. Who's the coach of LSU? I believe it's Kiffin, if I'm not mistaken. What he does again, two point conversion again. What are the odds? Beat them in overtime, Vinny. I think there are a few weeks apart, the games are like a week apart. Yeah. And he's being interviewed, and the guy asked him a question. Why did you come here, Vinny? Look at the date, July 20th, 2026 is what? Three months ago. Yeah, summer, training. Why did you choose to come here? Why do you think this organization is gonna win? I want you to guess what his answer was. Go for it, watch this.

• 2:14:56Speaker 00

  Go back, go back, go back, go back. Go back from the beginning, I want the audience to hear everything, go for it.

• 2:15:02Speaker 23

  Said you came here because you can believe you can win here. Why is that Kentucky historically has fought against a narrative, against perception? Why do you think you can win big here?

• 2:15:13Speaker 00

  Watch this.

• 2:15:18Speaker 24

  This is gonna sound like really, I think because of me, to be honest. Because of me.

• 2:15:26Speaker 00

  Are you kidding me?

• 2:15:29Speaker 00

  He's like, I'm trying to not give the answer that he believes in. Wow. He says, I think because of me. You're gonna make those calls. See, you just got emotional right now. Yeah, wow, that is sick. I think because of me, what does this mean? I love that. Man, your family, hey, why do you believe so confidently? Because, because of me, I'm gonna take the pressure, and we're gonna pull this off. Look at, look at the fans, what they're doing, flipping them off. Of course, this is college football, there's a lot of emotions involved, and maybe that's a different thing. But you know, sometimes, sometimes in life, it's not just about, I believe in myself. You can believe, I have a lot of guys that would believe in themselves and they wouldn't do anything in insurance. They just talk a lot of shit. You have a lot of guys that, oh, I believe in myself, I believe in myself. Do you believe you?

• 2:16:15Speaker 00

  Believing in yourself means I believe in my potential. But believing you is that your potential is gonna come through and bring the results and the commitment that you made. Those are two different things. In life, whoever you work with and you run with, if you wanna know what they think about you? A coach, a wife, a mentor, a husband, a father, a mother? Somebody you work with that you really wanna earn their respect? They believe in you. They just may not believe you. And they just may not believe the words that are coming out of your mouth. You can say all you want, they believe in your talent, they just don't believe you're gonna do it. So I wanted to finish off the message here with whatever that you're going through, whatever you're doing.

• 2:17:00Speaker 00

  Sometimes in life, you gotta have that attitude and say, this is gonna win, this is gonna work out because I'm wearing this jersey, this is what I'm choosing to do as a career. And I'm gonna make it work. Not gonna blame, not gonna be a victim, I'm not gonna put it's his fault, it's this one. No, no, no, we're gonna win because I'm here. That mentality, that attitude, is what gets a group of people to wanna run through the wall for that leader. My goodness, I saw that overtime back to back, it's such a beautiful thing. It's such a beautiful thing. We're at the end of the podcast, I'll just say this about the Yankees. You know I'm watching the C.C. Sabathia, when he's getting pissed off, calling off the Yankees, saying all this stuff? He says, you didn't have a choice when you played for the Yankees when I played. You wanna know why? Because Reggie Jackson was there.

• 2:17:45Speaker 00

  Because all the old Yankees guys were there. They would say, hey, it's October, hey, it's October, hey, it's October, hey, it's October. You know what C.C. Sabathia was saying? To the Jeters and A-Rods, where are you guys? You guys are just announcers nowadays. Yeah. Come on, this is the Yankees, what's the expectation? Where is the pressure? Is everybody becoming a diplomat and just talking like stuff because you're worried about hurting someone's feelings? Yep. It's time to make some decisions. What do we wanna do? What are Yankees gonna be? There's a certain level of expectations when you play for certain organizations. We're gonna win because I'm here. We're gonna win because we're doing this collectively together. I don't know, I mean, I'm kinda glad this has been about five days since the Yankees got swept where if this was a day after that, it was a different kind of an energy we had, but

• 2:18:30Speaker 00

  you know, we've had other things to overcome in life the last few days that it became a positive distraction, but the message is more or less for you that's watching this. Go lead your family, go lead the company, whatever you're touching, lead. Make that place know that you're present, you're part of that organization. And if again, last but not least, before we wrap up, you wanna be with us on election night? Play that last clip, and we'll finish off the podcast. On this note, November 3rd, which is what, three weeks from today? Yeah. We're gonna have a good time, you're gonna meet some interesting people. And if you wanna join us, go to boardroomcigarlounge.com, the QR code will be at the end, come join us, go for it. Two years ago, we held the biggest election night event here, right here behind this hangar.

• 2:19:14Speaker 00

  This year, November 3rd, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. We are doing it at our private members only club, Boardroom Cigar Lounge. So Tom, why don't you let the folks what we'll be covering that night? We will have live results as they come in, race by race, the important ones, all the datas, winners, losers, and why. We will laugh, some states may cry, but we'll have a great time, so if you wanna be a part? Vinny, I'm in the middle of a shoot, Vinny. Oh, what are you guys shooting though? This is about election night, November 3rd, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM, at the Boardroom Cigar Lounge. I'm coming. You're gonna be there? I will see there. Can you get rid of the guy, get rid of the guy sitting in the back? You're not invited, you're not invited. Guys, get out of here. Again, November 3rd, 7:00 PM, 11:00 PM. Looking forward to seeing you there, fill out your application, our team will get ahold of you.

• 2:19:59Speaker 00

  Look forward to seeing you there, guys, take care, everybody, God bless, bye bye, bye bye.

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