U.S. Army Prepares Graves, Alexander Brothers Get 30 Years & Mbappé Apologizes to China | PBD #882

James O'Keefe faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with two felonies over a Minnesota voter fraud investigation. With the 2026 midterms days away, Democrats are already warning of a stolen election. Meanwhile, Flávio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami after defying Brazilian authorities following his election loss to Lula. Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team break down the political fallout. ——— . 👞 Get the NEW Billionaire Suede Loafer: https://bit.ly/4ym5oRA . 🇰 GET STARTED ON KALSHI WITH $10 ON US! SIGN UP HERE: http://kalshi.com/pbd . 👕 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 . 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. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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

• 0:18Speaker 01

  You are a one of one? They send you right there.

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

• 0:26Speaker 00

  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Get it on, I'm late. I forgot to put this on. I gotta take it off. Okay. Wow. Anyways, Vinny, how you doing? You seem fired up today. I'm a Miami narcotics cop, just making sure the product is, uh... Is it good? It's very, very, it's real. We got a good-looking Elon here. Elon, how do you make your money? Vinny throwing me bills. Totally makes sense. Dollar bills. There you go. Tom's the driver and Snyder's acting like he's smart, is what it is. He's dressed up. He did it to himself. He's dressed up as if he's very smart with numbers, so we'll see.

• 1:02Speaker 02

  I thought it was Adam dressed up as Jeff Snyder.

• 1:06Speaker 00

  So... That's a great joke. Today is Halloween, it's around the corner. By the way, just a tip for some of you guys. If your name is Dan Sullivan, the state of Alaska, the Democratic Party is looking for people named Dan Sullivan. You could be a good candidate, very useful. Some people back in the days would call it useful idiots to help with campaigns. But a guy named Dan Sullivan, apparently they found a duplicate craziest story you will think about. And then, the other crazy story is yesterday, Tom, we're gonna need your help on this one. The WNBA's championship game, which I'm sure all of you watch. I know you're a W... All of you watch a WNBA championship, that's obviously a joke. But do you know what time the WNBA championship game was yesterday? You ready?

• 1:50Speaker 00

  Not 7:30, not 8:30, not 9:30 PM. Noon, 12:30, on a Thursday. I honestly wanna know who the hell watched that game. Tom asks Claude, how many people watched the game yesterday for WNBA? Listen to Claude's answer. Go for it, Tom.

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  The WNBA final was held on ESPN6. It received less audience than the reruns of Baywatch on TNT.

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  Nobody watched it.

• 2:17Speaker 02

  Nobody cares.

• 2:18Speaker 00

  That's why you didn't watch it. You're smart, you didn't watch the game. But, it is what it is. Couple other stories, so we'll talk about Alaska. Elon Musk sent out a tweet eight hours ago that everybody's talking about. The market opened up, it's gonna be a... Not opened up, it's gonna look like it's gonna be... Nasdaq's gonna be down 2%, Brent crude at 17, 117. It's looking like people are getting ready for a blue wave. That's how the market is reacting to what could be happening. And a few other statements that the Pentagon made a couple of days ago. We got a whole new statement coming out. Binance had the biggest hack ever, I think $6 billion robbery. The biggest robbery in the history of mankind, allegedly. And they're blaming North Korea, some are saying, nope, this is AI. Because AI came in and it knows how to hack crypto.

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  Once crypto's not protected from AI, they're gonna be able to figure this out. So, we got a couple people missing on the podcast right now, trying to go find that $6 billion. But for those people that have the money, whether it's an AI person or a North Korean, whoever it is... Biggest robbery we'll talk about. Or both of them, yes.

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  Or both.

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  Uh, next one, crazy story, Iran. Everyone's saying, right after, um, midterms, war's gonna break out. US is ready for it, they've already made the announcements. Uh, they've done something, I think they have three ships there right now that they haven't had since '03. That they've already deployed and people are saying, when you did that, you attacked. We're not doing this now to attack. And then they're going around telling others, hey, get ready. Get ready for something to go, to go down. And US is warning other countries, we'll talk about that here in a minute. Newsom says DSA, he got caught on a hot mic. DSA will be very dominant, that's the socialist. Then, he said to Trump, if you dare come to our state and try to investigate our campaigns,

• 4:06Speaker 00

  we're gonna come after you. As a gangster, very tough guy. Newsom's very scary guy. A lot of people are afraid of this guy, right, Newsom? But then he has a war going on with a guy named Rokana. Rokana's for Prop 40, which Prop 40 is what the whole wealth tax is gonna be to 5%. And then Prop 42, this morning I was trying to teach Tom, Prop 42...

• 4:30Speaker 00

  Is the restriction on new assets, which is called a nullifier, Tom. That's right. So it's like, it's trying to nullify Prop 40 and they're fighting. One wants to do wealth tax, the other one's like, no, it's not a good idea. I gotta go independent if I wanna be a president. And Rokana's like, wait a minute, you said you supported it, you're flip-flopping. You're flip-flopping and Newsom doesn't like it.

• 4:52Speaker 02

  Ro said you betrayed me.

• 4:53Speaker 00

  That's right, Yankees. Jorge Posada says, I don't feel welcome in the Yankee Stadium. I don't feel welcome. Then, on another hot mic, the Milwaukee Brewers win the World Series, okay? When they won the World Series, the superstar, there is the coach. The skipper is a great skipper. He's just the kinda guy you wanna listen to him speak. Yup. When he does interviews, it's phenomenal. He goes to one of his players, he says, listen, when you go to the other mother effers, I'll let you watch the mic. He says, you better go tell them, this is how you win. If you go to the Yankees, this is how you win. I got some thoughts on that myself. It's always the great team, people go after. Everybody wants to be a Yankee, nobody wants to be a Brewer. You know, maybe Robin Yount, maybe a cop.

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  Everybody wakes up as a kid, the moment they're born. I wanna be a Yankee one day, that's what it is. But it is what it is, we'll play the clip anyways. Unless you're from Boston. Trump cancels Kansas, trip to Kansas. And this extremely in shape shredded 400-pound guy asks him, are you not feeling well? Trump loses it. But some people are saying he's not going to Kansas because he doesn't think... They don't think there's a chance of them winning. That's the real reason he's not going to Kansas. So we may touch that story. James O'Keefe goes to show the hypocrisy of criminal activity, of people voting without needing an ID. And he acted like somebody else? Well, because it was so embarrassing, they came up and sued him. And saying, hey, this is voter fraud. It's like, what the hell are you talking about?

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  The whole point is, I'm trying to expose how dumb you guys are. We'll play that clip. Flavio, out of all the places to land, he landed in Miami. And, uh, you know, Alexandre de Morais Lula, that government was trying to get his passport. He escaped, I think they went to Argentina first. And then from Argentina, he landed here.

• 6:38Speaker 00

  Microsoft is laying off 60,000 workers, they're doing a worker buyout. And they're saying, this is because of AI. Tom's got a whole different perspective on the H1B visas, we'll go into that. Do you remember that story about the Alexander brothers? The three brothers that were hardcore partying, rape allegations, all this stuff? Yeah. All three are facing 30 years in prison. All three of them. One of them tried to sell me a house and from the first time I met him, I didn't like him. First time, I never liked him from the first... I don't know the other two, so I can't say any, speak on the other two. First time I met one of the realtors, I'm like, this guy's a scumbag, I just got the bad vibes about him.

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  Now it's convicted rapist, we don't have to say allegedly.

• 7:16Speaker 00

  It's a... 30 years isn't enough.

• 7:18Speaker 02

  And a minor, right? There's a reported case of a minor.

• 7:21Speaker 00

  Can you imagine how the father feels? Not one of your three sons. Jeez. Not two of your three sons. If it's three out of your three sons, don't you think some of it is on the father? Don't you think some of it is on the way you raised them? Absolutely. Don't you think there's a... Like, how the hell do three out of your three kids? Yeah. You, I understand if one, you, people, you have certain families, they raise a kid and one guy ends up becoming a... You know, does some mistakes. All three out of three, there's something going on there. Again, I don't know the family, speculation. Mbappe apologizes to China because of a meme. He tried to give something about Mao, they came back, they said, you can't talk like this. They're never gonna play your games ever again. I apologize to China. What, what a lot of people were disappointed with Mbappe, Vinny, I didn't know if you saw this or not.

• 8:04Speaker 00

  There was an expectation for him to learn how to speak Mandarin like John Cena did. Yes. To apologize. And it's like, next time, you better speak this language. Absolutely. And apologize, so he's working on it, we'll see. And then, last but not least, American truckers, man, they're in, um, 221 bankruptcies. They're having a lot of issues there. And then I'm gonna show you a couple things. One, Armenian parliament, you have to see. One guy just takes off his jacket, he says, up it, we know we're gonna be fighting. And they start brawling. Then, by far the funniest video I've seen this week. This guy goes in Walmart, finds an Asian guy, have you seen this? Finds an Asian guy, watches him pull up in the parking lot, Vinny.

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  When he pulls up in the parking lot, takes a picture of his car, uses AI, crashes the car as if he hit it. Oh, I saw it. He goes up to this Asian guy, says, I'm so sorry, I hit your car. It is hilarious. Vinny, you have to see this. It's the most viral video of this week. That's so... The guy, he starts hitting himself like... Oh, yeah, and he's grabbing the guy. He grabs the guy by the arm, says, come here. It's hilarious. And he takes him outside, says, my car is okay. And then he gets up, you have to see this, it's just funny. We all, like, listen, there's so many crazy things going on with midterms being around the corner. With the stock market being down 2%, you gotta learn to laugh. So for us, what we believe in, no matter what takes place. The whole reason why we do this is because we believe the future looks bright. And, every once in a while, we do the limited drops.

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  So, there you have it. Go to FLB.com, place your order. Let's put the link below and get an FLB shoe with it. Next week, we'll be making a massive announcement for some of you guys that may purchase over $500. We're doing a private viewing of the latest product that'll be dropped next Monday. Some of you guys have already gotten the emails and text messages, but we're excited about that. Next week, Tuesday, election night, 7:00 PM, we'll go live. It's gonna be a fun night with a lot of guests. It'll be a phenomenal night. I'm sure you guys will be joining us, whether it's live or in Zoom. We're looking forward to it. With that being said, let's get right into it. First story I want to get into, Elon Musk's tweet. Pull up Elon Musk's tweet.

• 13:47Speaker 00

  This is Elon's tweet goes out nine hours ago now. My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats, House, Senate, and presidency in 2028, they will, one, make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate. Two, open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority. Three, increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority. Kamala's already talked about it. Hillary's already talked about it. Packing the court is their dream to be able to do that. This would result in America becoming a permanent, one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word. All that is needed to ensure this doesn't happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029.

• 14:32Speaker 00

  This is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one. Vinnie, do you agree with Elon?

• 14:39Speaker 04

  I agree, and I, and I, and I'm, let me say my point with everything that's happening on, and I know we're gonna get to it with the war and some of the mistakes and affordability, and I, I understand that. But the bigger issue is, what is going to happen if these people come back into power? Okay, we could fix, try to fix stuff down the road, but they're, they're not even hiding their plans. And maybe, remember last week, the data Republican? Was it last week or, or the beginning of this week? It's the plan, and it's so deep of what these people are trying to do, like, and I don't, I hate the lesser of two evils. I actually hate when people say that because evil, lesser of two evil means it's still evil. I hate that saying, but if you think about the consequences of what these people are about, okay?

• 15:22Speaker 04

  No policy, no nothing, it's just transing the kids, opening the border, you know, pro-illegals, you know, bringing in, you know, Islam and doing all, all the socialist, all the communist stuff. I'm telling you guys right now, do not get duped. And then when I'm seeing all these other influencers, and I know Nick Fuentes is one of these guys that likes to be a provocateur and all that stuff, saying, you know, you know, to hell with them, don't vote for anybody and don't do that, I'm sorry? That's the wrong attitude to have in this instance, because they're not playing games. And I'm gonna get into it later on, Pat, with the other story about Alaska, but this is a warning, and he's telling you, if you don't think Elon knows the plan, he knows, he's watching it, he's seeing it, and he's giving you guys a heads up.

• 16:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, let me tell you what happened. Last week, we had Pete Buttigieg here. You guys know Pete Buttigieg, the guy ran for office. We did a two-hour interview, not last week, two days ago, I think he was here. And it was actually a great conversation, but let me tell you what it was. It was a sign of what they're gonna be campaigning on in 2028. In May of this year, there was a private closed-door meeting in Canada. Carney was there, Obama was there, Slotkin was there, Buttigieg was there, and others were there. Kara Swisher, and I said, hey, this meeting that you went to, why was it a closed door? Well, it's just like Republicans have the meeting, they have the strategy session, Democrats are doing the same thing as well. So I started asking him questions. I said, so if you were to run, what policies would you run?

• 16:48Speaker 00

  Openly. He started going through some of the things.

• 16:52Speaker 00

  I asked him, I said, so what do you think about the wealth tax that California is doing that could push people out to other states like Texas and Florida? What do you think about that? I said, do you think wealth tax needs to be a statewide thing or, or a national thing? He says, no, I fully agree, it needs to be a national thing. Then I said, what about if when people leave states like California, go to Texas and Florida? He says, this is why we need the international countries to participate on a full-on wealth tax, that even if you leave to another country, they're gonna tax you the same as well. I said, that's why they call you a globalist, and you lost it. You lost it. He says, I'm not a globalist. What do you mean by I'm a globalist? I said, that's why people are afraid of people like you being in power, because I no longer have a competition to go to a different country.

• 17:37Speaker 00

  So what Elon is talking about, he's not talking about this because he's just winging it. And by the way, I've said this the other day, I said, they're gonna be targeting Elon in a major way. They have a list of top 50 people that they're gonna be going after in many different ways. Defamation, character assassination, assassination attempt, but there's gonna be many ways they'll be going after this. Do you agree what Elon had to say in this tweet?

• 17:56Speaker 04

  Of course. I mean, this has been their open agenda for a very long time. This is not just, you know, a small disagreement between people who otherwise agree on the big-picture stuff. This is, Democrats have become leftists, and leftists are all about remaking the world as, you know, they see it. Their image. The utopia. They're trying to create a utopia, and anybody who stands in their way is going to be destroyed. That's the communist playbook, it's the leftist playbook from the very beginning. And I think they've been pretty open about it, more open all the time. And it's one of the reasons why Trump came along and said, we're not gonna sit here and take it. For a long time, you know, Republicans were like, no, we need to respect the norms, we need to play within defined rules.

• 18:39Speaker 04

  And Trump said, screw this, you people don't know. This is, this is war. This is, these are not, these are not people who want to make the United States better. They wanna take the United States and change it into something else. This is a radical transformation, and there's a plan toward a radical transformation. And I don't think Democrats have been shy about making a radical transformation. They talk about revolution all the time. So Trump has been saying and fighting, look, this is, we need to understand, this is not a disagreement, a gentleman's disagreement between people who otherwise agree on big-picture terms. Democrats increasingly believe that the United States is evil, irredeemable, and therefore needs to be transformed, whether it's willing, willing or not. And they're willing to use any means necessary to get that.

• 19:22Speaker 04

  And so what Elon is basically saying in a very elegant, very simple way, very succinctly, this is what's going to happen if you allow it to happen.

• 19:28Speaker 00

  Tom, do you have a different angle?

• 19:29Speaker 02

  Yes, I do. So Elon is speaking about the external and the macro, exactly to Jeff's point, because the leftists wanna say, you know, the US, US is irredeemable. I agree with that. What's also gonna happen is on the micro and the internal. So external, Puerto Rico, court, border, all the things we're talking about right here, immigration. On the micro... Um, you know, all the polling and all the people we've been talking to on polling. And I don't mean just the crazies and Pat, you know, there's a lot of numbers on my phone. The micro, they are going to, in this order, they are going to internally impeach Hegseth. They're going to go after Corey Lewandowski, first investigation, then they're going to indict him. Then they're going to use those two to stand on a platform and say, and it was Trump that

• 20:12Speaker 02

  did this, we said it all along, so they're going to impeach him. They are not going to hold a vote in the Senate as a Senate, um, uh, court, because they need 66 votes, they won't have it, they'll have about 52. And the Senate would take an impeachment and find the president guilty in court, and now he's removed from office. They're not going to do that. The reason they're not going to do that is they don't want to have Vance and Rubio, they, first of all, they don't have Trump to pick on anymore. You just sent him home. You, you impeached him, you threw him out of office, now he's home. Now you're going to have Vance and Rubio that could stop the wars, shift the economy, and that's, and then warn everybody that all these other people are crazy, and they'll have to run against that. They don't want to run against that in 2028.

• 20:57Speaker 02

  They need bad orange man. So on the internal, the micro, that's what's going down, Pat. So there's a macro plan and there's a micro plan. And it does not involve throwing Trump out of office. They want to wound him with impeachment and then just bash on him for two years to go into 28 with momentum. So my, my biggest fear here is how the left works is by defining new normals that we slowly over time come to accept. And this kind of rhetoric from the left used to be secret and it's progressively over the past years become blatantly open. Like you say, they'll openly tell you what their plan is now. And we're slowly accepting more and more and more of it. I also think that the shift on the right that we see to push people not to vote is not some organic response. I do think that's part, that's orchestrated as well.

• 21:40Speaker 02

  But again, my biggest fear is the things that I would tolerate 10 years ago are very different than the things that I would tolerate today. The things I find extreme 10 years ago are very different than the things I find extreme today. And the more we push in this direction, whether we stop it today or stop it in 10 years, there has to be a cultural shift. This is a cultural attack, not just a government attack or, you know.

• 21:59Speaker 00

  You know whose playbook this is? You know whose playbook this is? This is, uh, Antonio Gramsci's playbook. Okay. Where Mussolini put him in prison, I think 1926. The next year he put Spinelli in prison in 1927. Pete Buttigieg's father wrote all the prison notes of Antonio Gramsci at University of Notre Dame. And Pete Buttigieg's father is a big, you know, looked up to him. So, and Pete looked up to his dad. So what was his game plan? He talked about hegemony, right? He says, number one, we either win with the sword or we win the long game. Let's use the long game strategy. What was a long game strategy?

• 22:33Speaker 04

  Long march through institutions.

• 22:35Speaker 00

  Now, long march through institutions, first go get the teachers. Let's go get the universities. Let's go get the, if we get them, then the kids will look at them as experts. Because what do parents always say? Listen to your teacher. Listen to your teacher. So people don't realize, the people who train the kids to become who they are as parents, when they say, you better listen to your teachers, you better listen to your teachers. Sometimes it's one of the worst advice you got to give. Yes, be coachable, but no, if some of the things doesn't make sense, you question it. Your teacher also has their own opinion. Come home, let's process it together. Let's debate it. It's okay to be able to debate the argument respectfully. Yesterday, something happened in school, Dylan told me. My teacher asked me, says, you think I can do, uh, you think you can do this study better? It was in, it was a Bible class. And Dylan's like, I think I can do a pretty good job.

• 23:19Speaker 00

  He says, okay, kid, you're going to be the teacher today. Dylan got up for 30 minutes, he, I don't even want to say what he taught, because I don't want the audience to be like Dylan knows so much about this topic. But he went on 30 minutes and he says, you actually did a good job teaching today. Sometimes it's got to be like, hey, you, you got to teach the kids to also not be like, so then what happens? Then they get to the institutions, then kids, send them to all these different industries, Hollywood, real estate, finance, HR, eventually we'll flip them. Can you do me a favor and show the chart that shows what percentage of Harvard faculty are Democrats versus Republicans? Do you actually know the number?

• 23:54Speaker 02

  Harvard, probably like 99 versus 196% or something.

• 23:58Speaker 00

  What do you think it is?

• 23:59Speaker 04

  96.

• 24:00Speaker 00

  You ready for this, Vinny? Watch this here. 99% of Harvard faculty is Democrat, Vinny. Not 80%. Not, this is supposed to be Harvard. Only 1% of the president, of the faculty is a Republican. And that 1% is living a miserable life. You know, where you have to go to work on a daily basis. Look at Princeton, 98, Yale, 97, Berkeley, 97. Harvard's worse than Berkeley. Berkeley always gets a black eye. Harvard's worse than, then you got Columbia, Brown, John Hopkins. You go, even Duke is on that list at 95%. Caltech is on that list. The lowest one is UCLA. On this list, 89 to 11%, 11% Republican. So, I mean, it's, it's a very, you got to give them credit. They played the long game.

• 24:45Speaker 00

  I had a conversation last night with somebody at midnight. I said, how often does the Republican Party hold a strategy session to bring players and say, what are we doing the next 20, 30, 40 years? You know what's one of the things I said we have to be doing? And I said this to the gentleman I was talking to yesterday, you know who he is? I, I said, we talked on midnight last night. I said, you need to go and nominate people to run. You need to have a conversation and say, hey, Johnny, you're running in four years. No, I'm not. I don't want to get in politics, it's too nasty. Exactly. Somebody like you needs to go. The people that are getting into it are dummies. We need somebody like you to go into it. No, but I don't want to ruin my life. You're going to get into it in four years. We have a list of 40 names that we believe should go into it and we'll be releasing it next week on, what do you call it? Election night.

• 25:30Speaker 00

  Some of you guys want to get it early. Text the word PBD to 3103401132, we'll send, send you the list. PBD to 3103401132. I just think they need to realize that the other side is holding meetings like this and Republicans are not. Republicans are playing the short game, Democrats are playing the long game. And if they play the long game, and then all of a sudden, one day you wake up, you're like, how the hell did America become a socialist slash communist, controlling, what, what happened here? And then we're going to sit there with Supreme Court, 92. Oh, not my, all these, you know what he talked about? He says, if you continue saying these ideas, like he said, some of it was extreme 10 years ago, it's no longer extreme today, that's winning. Because they're getting you to say, if the professor says it, if the experts say, if

• 26:14Speaker 00

  this says, this is the norm, I'm the crazy, I'm the looney. No, no, no, no, no. That's how this works. They force you to start questioning yourself. So now, yes, uh, last week, a tweet came about, about Elon, and I want to know what you guys think about this. Tell me if you think this is a good idea or a bad idea. Ready? Can you pull that up? Kelsey tweeted about new Elon 2028 committee pushes to change the constitution so Musk can run for president. Good idea or bad idea? Snyder?

• 26:43Speaker 04

  No, bad idea. I mean, we don't, I, as much as Elon, I, I think Elon is more of, I think he's more effective outside the political realm. I think he's out, he's much more effective as an outsider who has the ability to influence opinion, not strictly be a political party or political partisan, even though, you know, I know he's become a political partisan, but I think Elon would be the wrong guy to run for president.

• 27:04Speaker 00

  Okay. Which of you think this is a good idea? Who thinks it's a good idea? You don't think it's a good idea? Vinny, you don't think it's a good idea?

• 27:10Speaker 04

  I don't think changing the constitution is a good idea. I mean, I, I love Elon as a person because I, because of who he is to, to, excuse me, run a country, but no, I think our constitution is that, because then that opens the door, Pat, for a bunch of people.

• 27:23Speaker 00

  Mumdani and others.

• 27:24Speaker 04

  Oh, no, no, no.

• 27:25Speaker 02

  You don't change the constitution because you want something.

• 27:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, notice how that, that's, that's that ploy. But Pat, I'm, are you talking about the long game?

• 27:32Speaker 00

  Can you run a poll, by the way? Can you run a poll? Would you like them to change the constitution so Musk can run? Run a poll, let's see what it says. Just yes, no. Simple.

• 27:41Speaker 04

  I'm going to get, can I guess? It's going to be 85 to 90% that are going to say no. So, because we'll have 10 or 15% going the other way.

• 27:48Speaker 02

  I, I think it's a bad idea for two reasons. You, if you, if, if you do something to create a short-term exception, you have to be ready for the long-term consequence. And the long-term consequence is that you would immediately have leftists trying to put somebody in power over here like Ursula von der Leyen, who is basically running all of the EU. The globalists would go to those candidates. I see Jeff nodding. So if you do a, if you do something for an exception, even though you think it's good, Pat, and I have more reasons than Elon that I would like to, that, that, in the near term, I would like, but long-term, you create an exception that gets weaponized by the other side.

• 28:25Speaker 04

  And, and Pat, just to the point of, of the topic before, we know what the Democrats are doing, we know they're playing the long game, but as of right now, I'm not trying to give up, I'm not saying we are, but for 2028, to me, the midterm's already said and done, guys. The people are, they're going to vote, there, there, there's not crazy changing somebody's mind October surprise, but affordability is real, the war is real, the, the deporting illegals didn't really happen as much because, you know, Democrats are getting in the way and that, you know, they made all that farce of people dying and jumping in front of cars and, and having guns fighting ICE. My thing is 2028, okay? And Trump is going to pardon himself, everybody's, all those impeachments, Tom, at the end of the day, they're not going to stick, they're not going to do nothing. We need the 2020, like, it has to start yesterday, okay?

• 29:07Speaker 04

  And some of these people that are running, Pat, because at the end of the day, this war, having the attitude of, and saying it out loud publicly, once the midterms are over, we're going to go bombing Iran again. Is that going to help? Is that going to help affordability? Is that going to help any? Be honest, and that's, but hey, and I know you had a different opinion, that's not going to help anything, okay? Iran, Midnight Hammer, Midnight this, bombing the hell out of them, they have the ballistics. Okay. Get, show me or tell me the objective, how do you win that war in Iran?

• 29:38Speaker 02

  So, so again, so I don't disagree with you. I think that I've said this consistently, that there's a huge messaging problem in how we approach the Iran war, and we never clearly stated our objectives in a way that the American public fully gets it and says there's a pathway to achieve this. I'm, I'm with you on that 100%. I think they messed the messaging up completely. Where we disagree is that I do believe Iran is a long-term threat to the United States, is developing long-range ballistic missiles. They've demonstrated that they're willing to fire much longer-range ballistic missiles than we previously thought they have. They did enrich uranium past 60%. And that's not some conspiracy. The UN watchdog for UN proliferation of nuclear, you know, materials, is the one who came up with that conclusion and a lot of others.

• 30:23Speaker 02

  So there's no conspiracy here as to why we're in Iran. It's also not a secret why Trump is attacking Iran. People are surprised by it. When you look at him for many decades, that has been an objective of his. So to, to elect Trump and then be surprised when Trump does exactly what he said he was going to do for like the past 30 years, and many Americans have been killed by Iran, Iran is a destabilizer, not just in the Middle East, across the world, they're a proxy for some of the worst countries in the world that directly threaten us too, and we see that in the actions that those countries are taking to help us. So the whole Iran thing is a lot more complicated, but I agree with you, we screwed up entirely on the messaging, it's going to hurt.

• 31:00Speaker 04

  The Republicans.

• 31:01Speaker 00

  You know what the biggest thing is? Both of you are right. And here's what the biggest thing is. The biggest thing with that is, by the way, who won the election?

• 31:10Speaker 04

  Donald J. Trump.

• 31:11Speaker 00

  He can do whatever he wants to do.

• 31:12Speaker 04

  Absolutely.

• 31:13Speaker 00

  And guess what the House and Senate can do? Agree or disagree, vote him, do whatever they want to do. They got their power as well, right? But election has consequences, positive and negative. That's what he wants to do in his second term, right? He did a lot of things right. You don't have to agree with this. I think the biggest thing with Iran is the saying in sales is over promise, under deliver. You're going to lose a lot of people. Under promise, over deliver. He is an over promiser. Okay, because that's why he's done well in sales and business. Oh, it's going to be beautiful. We're going to do this and we're going to make it this. He, no one's ever talked dirty like Trump as a president, nobody. Just assume how he talks dirty. That's how Trump is, right? Okay.

• 31:58Speaker 00

  So, go to Iran. You're right. Where's Brent crude right now, Tom? 117?

• 32:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, 117 overseas, 104 here.

• 32:07Speaker 00

  In 2008, there was a poll that they did saying 64% of voters, the way they vote is based on looking at the gas prices. That's how it is. It's simple. They're not sitting there going extremely deep into it. But at the end of the day, you better also believe when you kill a supreme leader and that decision's already been done, you better believe they're going to seek vengeance. Maybe five years, maybe 10 years, maybe. They're not going to do it while Trump's president, but they will eventually do it. So, watch what happened. Three weird stories. Remember how we told the story about what Pentagon was talking about going off the grid for 90 dense people like, wait, what? And then you know the legendary guy, what's his name? Thomas Ellsworth said it's a nothing burger. You guys know this. So, let me continue with this thing because we're going to truly show a nothing burger today. But watch this. So, hang on, and we got a full on menu for nothing burger with Tom.

• 32:52Speaker 00

  But don't do that right now. We're going to get to the menu later on, okay? But I want to show you this. Tell me this isn't weird for you. And we love Tom, just so you know that. We love Tom. U.S. Army starts practicing digging mass battlefield graves. Why? It's a pretty good question to ask. Why are you all of a sudden? I've done that before. Let me tell you, it's a lot of work. You're going to get dehydrated for them one day and I thought I was Superman. You know what happened to me? I went straight to the hospital, lost 24 pounds. I was exhausted. For a week, I spent time in the hospital. I'm like, I got this. It was, what did they call it? When cat four, cat five, the heat, heat waves? Insane. Anyway, so yeah, we're learning how to dig graves. Why are we doing that in Fort Bragg, North Carolina?

• 33:34Speaker 00

  The, you know, soldiers hasn't needed to do this on a large scale since the Korean War. Wait, so we haven't done this training since the Korean War? No, no, we haven't needed to do this. That's a little weird. It's fair to say it's a little weird. That's a Newsweek story. Next one. MAP shows nations urging people to stockpile food as France issues warning. Why is France issuing a warning? Around the world, governments are increasingly advising their citizens to have provisions in case of an emergency such as war, extreme weather and cybersecurity threats. What? Yes. Having emergency supplies for a three day period is commonly advised. France and the UK recently advised people to have supplies for a period of 72 hours. I suggest 30 days. If you don't have it right now, I suggest 30 days. Go buy a filter for water.

• 34:20Speaker 00

  Go buy water for 30 days. Go buy food supply, MRE, whatever dried food. Have it for, that's my, this is not a sponsor. This is brought to you by XYZ. No, no. Go find it from somewhere for 30 days. Be ready for it. This is not, hence, you know, it's just fear porn. I would say be prepared for it. And then it says, don't wait for emergency. Prepare now a government account for the French region of Normandy, said on Tuesday. What? And then British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on BBC Radio, I do like my beans. This guy farts a lot. So, I have plenty of those in the cupboard and soup. Canada, Japan, Mexico and the Netherlands also advised an emergency kit for 72 hour period. While Sweden and Norway advised one week and Germany is up to 10 days. Why? Why are they saying that?

• 35:03Speaker 00

  I'll go to the last one then, Tom, I'll come to you to see if this is a nothing burger. So, U.S. warns allies to prepare for possible Iran strikes. Retaliation after election, AP sources say. U.S. officials have told several Middle East countries and regional allies to be prepared for potential renewed military action against Iran after next week's midterm elections, as well as for the possibility that Iran will attempt to retaliate against them, according to two diplomats briefed on the matter. By the way, you know the Israel election that was going on with Bibi going up against his opponent? You know, one of the main things was, we're going to attack Iran. That's how the election is possibly getting the other side to come and agree with Bibi. There's so many weird things that's going on right now. So, Tom, you want to go first? You want me to go to somebody else first?

• 35:44Speaker 02

  No, no.

• 35:44Speaker 00

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• 37:56Speaker 00

  Not since Korea War, doing the digging of, you know, that's like.

• 38:01Speaker 02

  No, that's new. But my point is, every week, there'd be something like that. Every week, there's something going on in the U.S. military that will spook you that maybe they haven't done since Korea, haven't done since Vietnam. That's number one. But number two, when all of the Western countries are all getting together that's saying, oh, we're going to do a test of the emergency broadcasting system. And we're all going to do this. Then there is something going on. And I think what's going on is they're trying to test the public. The government tests the public and the dark side tests the public in ways we don't understand. They'll have announcements come out, this come out. They test the response on social media, they watch. And in many ways, COVID involved a lot of, you know, social behavior testing.

• 38:43Speaker 02

  Within COVID, there was a lot of social behavior testing that they were doing, where certain states did this, certain states did that, and the states weren't all together. They were watching DeSantis very carefully to see, wow, you know, you enable a conservative populace that happens to be armed, you see this. So, this is not a nothing burger on the international level. I think they're preparing us for something. Do they suspect that China's going to pop an EMP? Do they suspect that there's actually, that there, that? First of all, if they felt that that uranium was enriched at 85% and they had a plutonium core that could crush it, that's what creates the nuclear explosion, and then they felt they had a rocket that could deliver it?

• 39:27Speaker 02

  Well, they got the rocket to deliver it. We don't know if they're past 60% or not. They could be at 85% right now. So, you could have the West going, like CIA saying, sir, they have what they need to put a low-grade nuclear bomb and lob it from Iran to Beirut or Jerusalem. I think that when you have the knowledge at the CIA level and MI6 about that to happen, they test, they test us like this. And they put these, I don't think it's a nothing burger. I'll take you to something. You should do this anyway. And I'll tell you why. Katrina, did you see what happened in 72 hours in New Orleans after Katrina?

• 40:08Speaker 02

  72 hours, the churches, the relief stations, they were out of fresh water. They were out of fresh water. And that's when society started to break down after Katrina. They went from shock, and I've been hit by a storm, to looting. And they weren't looking for TVs because there was nowhere to plug it in because they had no power. They were looking for food, they were foraging. And then in the middle of that, atrocities happened. So, you could have an earthquake, you could have a Katrina, you could have a blizzard, you could have a lot of things happen. You should have, in my view, a minimum of one week, minimum, one week of food and water so that you are prepared in the event of something like that. This, I think they're testing us because it's bigger.

• 40:49Speaker 04

  Jeff? I think it's a little bit bigger than that, too, for a different reason. And the question I have always asked, or at least asked over the last month or so, a couple of months is, why are they waiting till after the election to strike? The answer is, okay, they don't want oil prices to spike up before everybody votes. And that's a legitimate answer. I think it's a little bit, a little bit more dangerous than that. I think they are responding to a couple of different things, whether it's specific intelligence or not. But there's also the realization that, as you mentioned, Pat, just a couple of minutes ago, Iran's never gonna let this go. The Trump administration killed the Ayatollah. The Iran's not just gonna go, you know what, let's just back away from this conflict and we'll just, we'll all be friends moving forward. We'll just forget about it. Bygones be bygones. So Iran is going to remain a threat for a very long time.

• 41:33Speaker 04

  And I think there's probably been some reassessment of capabilities. I mean, the story in the UK. The likely Iranian agents who were caught by the US air, or the, the airbase there, that we had to move bombers. That wasn't random. So I think what's happening is the Trump administration believes they have to finish the job in Iran. And Iran is not just gonna sit there and take it. And so there's probably some intelligence that says, we need to continue this war. And therefore, there's likely to be some retaliation and retaliation is probably not gonna be some insignificant, you know, just a couple of gunmen shooting up a marketplace or something like that.

• 42:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, and with how things are evolving, it's, the infrastructure attacks are a lot more possible nowadays. Cyber hacking is a lot more possible.

• 42:13Speaker 04

  That's, that's.

• 42:14Speaker 02

  So that's the problem. Like, I don't know.

• 42:16Speaker 04

  It's still asymmetric warfare, but it's, it doesn't feel asymmetric because when you, when you shut your power off.

• 42:21Speaker 02

  It's not asymmetric anymore. It completely destabilizes your country.

• 42:25Speaker 04

  It's asymmetric in a military sense, but it's not asymmetric.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, the cost is asymmetric. The, the ability to do it is asymmetric, but.

• 42:31Speaker 04

  What do we hear? I mean, sorry, but just recently, there was reports about how US water systems have been hacked. Major infrastructure has been hacked and it's not just the Chinese, it's not just the Russians, so.

• 42:41Speaker 02

  No, with AI, that's gonna change dramatically over the next couple of years anyway. There's some breakthroughs we could talk about later that are actually worrisome for how we protect every single thing that we use. And AI is gonna start bypassing those things. I think the world is just shifting. About the 85% enriched uranium. As far as I know, you don't even need 85% enriched uranium for a dirty bomb. You just have to put some nuclear material on it and get the ICBM out and, and whatever it hits, it'll cause enough damage.

• 43:08Speaker 04

  And a small car or a vest can deliver, or a backpack can deliver that.

• 43:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, so that's, there's just so many potential things that can go.

• 43:14Speaker 00

  Go through what it could happen. So one is power grid.

• 43:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 43:18Speaker 00

  One is finance, okay, where it's mayhem. Then how long can food supply stay at Publix, at stores for you to go Whole Foods? How long?

• 43:26Speaker 02

  Very short because you have ransacking immediately.

• 43:28Speaker 00

  And remember what happened with COVID? Everybody went and toilet paper was gone. It was, so imagine the speed of how quickly that can happen.

• 43:34Speaker 02

  COVID, we had communication, by the way. Once you break down communication, society breaks down.

• 43:38Speaker 00

  That's right. So communication goes. Imagine they do phones. So even for some people, you know how they get the phones that's off the, um, uh, uh.

• 43:46Speaker 04

  Off the grid?

• 43:47Speaker 00

  Off the grid phones where, you know, you're, it's, it's not.

• 43:49Speaker 02

  Well, ham radios are.

• 43:50Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, so I think, what are some different things that could happen? What are different? So one is war. But the retaliation with Iran's, they got some smart engineers that know how to hack into systems and caused a lot of mayhem for a lot of people.

• 44:03Speaker 04

  And if, Pat, they're already here. Oh, I forgot who was that, that lady that spoke, she was ex-CIA or military? She's like, for a fact, Logan or something like that, there's over this many cells of Al Qaeda here, okay? We, there's two, over 2 million gotaways, meaning they have no idea who these people are or where they are. I saw people from China, Tom, remember? When there was cameras at the border? People, well-dressed Chinese people, just now speaking English, they're here. Middle Eastern guys, the guys are like, one day you're going to know my name. One day, that's a threat to America. They're already here. So I think, Pat, the power grid, I, I think water supply, I think, you know, bombing something, something major, something big, there, it's, the, the people are already here. Do you guys remember?

• 44:47Speaker 04

  It's not bombing. It's really not. It's, it's, again, this, I think, connect this story with the story we talked about earlier, which was, you know, the US preparing bases to be self-sufficient for 90 days. That's not because the Iranians are gonna come in with some jets and bomb, bomb the base. It's, they understand the threat is more, it's.

• 45:03Speaker 02

  What didn't the Russians use, they were made fun of because they were using actual hard lines for things for many years. They didn't shift their technology, especially for, like, really high-stake stuff. And they're like, listen, when you guys are under attack, we're the ones who are gonna be able to continue communicating. That was actually their logic. Sometimes old technology works better than new technology when you're under threat. Uh, so, yeah, I think I agree with you. I think it's fundamentally.

• 45:29Speaker 04

  I think it's more, you know, a hacking event that, that takes down more than just a single municipality's water system. It gets much, much bigger than that.

• 45:36Speaker 02

  But water empowers how you disrupt the public. Uh, July 26, 27, 30 Minnesota water utilities were breached by a controller flaw. It was breached from the outside, um, and Michigan then reported nine systems were hit. July, August, New Jersey and Alabama water utilities hit through exposed systems. They were forced to go to manual. Also, mixing of purification chemicals with the water went to full manual rather than automatic. That's scary. Many of the United States water systems are partially reclaimed water or groundwater that needs to be treated and filtered.

• 46:11Speaker 04

  Yes, then you don't just have a lack of water.

• 46:13Speaker 02

  You have dangerous water. Yes, and the population might not know if there's no communication. And by the way, check this out. If a water system, if a water system that uses partially reclaimed water has its purification systems go offline, but there still is power to run pumps, citizens will be receiving bad water. Poisoned water. Says, and dysentery can result. And it says, then October, ABC reported that 12 states were affected. October 22, CBS confirms that 12 states were affected. All water systems and the cherry on top, Clayton County Water Authority, Georgia, 300,000 customers says they lost pressure because external force was shutting their pumps and they turned off their purification system.

• 46:57Speaker 02

  And by radio, they issued a boil water mandatory advisory. Pat, that's just water I'm reading about.

• 47:04Speaker 00

  I know. So, Tom, this is the part that, look, this is, this is what I believe in, okay? I had Annie Jacobson on the podcast. She wrote the book Nuclear War and she just came up with a book called Biological War. And in the book that came out June 25, she says, there's gonna be a lab in Russia that's gonna leak of a virus, that's gonna be a tier one, that's a 100% death rate. And if it hits you within 24 hours, you're dead, unless if you have tetracycline and all these different types of. So, three months later, her story of the book, guess what? It happens in a lab in Siberia. She said in the book, it's gonna be in a lab in Siberia. She just got one of the labs wrong, right? And she says, if that happens, it's gone. She said, if there's a nuclear war, within 72 minutes, 5 billion people die. That's her book. She wrote a nuclear war, which is exciting stuff.

• 47:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 47:49Speaker 00

  And in biological war, she said, it's gonna be a very different thing. This is what I subscribe to. I believe in God, which means what? We're all gonna be okay.

• 47:57Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 47:58Speaker 00

  Let me tell you. The level of optimism, we're all gonna be okay because God's on our side. I'm 100% convinced. Say and do whatever you want. That's in my bones where it's at, right? So there is no, oh my God, what about this? But at the same time, God also gave us a brain to say, hey, it's your job to protect your family. It's your job to have better decisions. I was in the life insurance industry for 25 years. You know what percent of Americans don't have life insurance policy? 48%. That means one out of two people that die, they're like, I'm not gonna need life insurance. Boom, you died 42 years old. Now your wife needed half a million dollars. You could've gotten it for 70 bucks, five bucks a month. You forgot to do it. Everything right now is proper. Preparation prevents poor performance.

• 48:43Speaker 00

  Only the paranoid survive. Be prepared. That's what the message is. Whether something happens or not, we don't know for a fact. All I'm suggesting, you, things are a little bit weird right now and Trump has one of two choices. If he does nothing to Iran, just think about this. Forget about whether you agree with the decision or not. If he does nothing, yesterday I'm watching a, a Wall Street Journal story talking about, why are all these billionaires giving all this money to kids? And SpaceX, and the guy's like, well, because they're trying to win over the kids and they're trying to win over the voters to say that they are noble and they're feeling guilty. You know what it really, we know what I was thinking about? Here's what I thought about. If these billionaires give money, they'll say they have a motive.

• 49:26Speaker 00

  If they don't give money, they say they're cheap. So how the F are you gonna win anyways? You're not gonna win anyway. So watch where Trump's at. Trump's in a place that is in too deep. He cannot win here. He's only gonna be able to win the 8% of population. The other 92 have made up their, made up their minds, Tom. You know what I'm saying? 92% of them have made up their minds of where they're at. So what happens here? Say Trump doesn't do anything to Iran. What's the other side gonna write about? Go ahead. Tell me the title.

• 49:55Speaker 02

  He's weak. He's.

• 49:56Speaker 00

  Iran beat him.

• 49:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, screwed up the whole war. Did it all for nothing.

• 50:00Speaker 00

  No action.

• 50:01Speaker 02

  Wasted money.

• 50:02Speaker 00

  One of the biggest, you know, over-promised, under-delivered presidents of all time. Okay. Then what are you gonna see? The worst president of all time, number 46, Donald Trump. You know, they're gonna make these kinds of lists to kind of, you know, poke him and get, yeah. So what's the other side? The other side is, Trump goes to war. And he annihilates Iran. Regime changes. Okay, let's say that happens. If he does that, then what are they gonna write about? The guy that said there's not gonna be any wars, he's gonna stop all wars, started a war, killed all these innocent people and even one person that dies in Iran or something happens that they're gonna magnify. Never talk about what's going on in Nigeria. Never talk about what's going on with all the Christians and all the, never talk about what's going on with all these other places, Jordan.

• 50:44Speaker 00

  But my God, look what happened over to the three people, to the phone. Not, not the 30,000 people Iranians killed themselves, 40,000, whatever the number is. They're gonna magnify that. But the 8% in the middle, you know what they're gonna say? At least he kept his word. And if he doesn't do that, the consequence of 2028 is gonna be massive. The Democrats are hoping he doesn't go finish the job. Cause that's the story they need that's easier.

• 51:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:11Speaker 00

  That he was all talk, no promises. That's the story they want. So guess what? He won the election. Somebody send a message right now on Super Chat. Let me give this person a shout out. They send a Super Chat and here's what they said, okay? The Super Chat is the following. Let me give the name of the person as well. The Super Chat is by, man, why do you guys not put easier name? DB underscore snooze. Interest rates have increased. Unemployment up. Real wage growth stagnating. Higher gas prices, no border wall, no mass deportation. The list goes on. Trump screwed us. He disavowed America first. They betrayed us. Okay. How many people believe that?

• 51:50Speaker 02

  A lot.

• 51:51Speaker 00

  A lot of people. A lot of people.

• 51:53Speaker 02

  So what do you, so. But, you know, you know, there's a, there's something that people don't understand. You don't have the luxury of seeing the option you didn't take. And so you could see an outcome and say, I don't like the world we're in right now. I don't like that we've, you don't see the alternative, which could be magnitudes worse. So everyone who's like, Trump betrayed us, you don't know the world without what Trump would have done. And you're just assuming it would be a better world.

• 52:14Speaker 00

  Fair argument.

• 52:15Speaker 04

  Or also in the middle of it too. So we don't know how this is actually gonna go.

• 52:18Speaker 02

  History will remember if he.

• 52:20Speaker 04

  What does the 28 election look like if?

• 52:22Speaker 02

  Trump pulls this off. But but but.

• 52:23Speaker 04

  Incred and that's what and what is and what does the world look like in 10 years?

• 52:26Speaker 02

  Pulls it off.

• 52:27Speaker 04

  In 10 years, imagine a world.

• 52:28Speaker 02

  Before 28. What happens if Trump actually forces regime change in Iran and the regime change looks a lot like Venezuela?

• 52:35Speaker 00

  You're gonna have a lot of guys like Van Jones, who are liberals, who are not Trump supporters.

• 52:41Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 52:41Speaker 00

  Who are gonna come out and say, you gotta give him credit.

• 52:44Speaker 04

  A hundred percent.

• 52:44Speaker 00

  You're gonna have a lot of liberal billionaires.

• 52:46Speaker 02

  Oil prices go back to $40 a barrel, so even that gets taken care of.

• 52:50Speaker 04

  You actually have a.

• 52:51Speaker 00

  You're gonna have, but let me tell you, here's the part, and I said this last time, and I know, you know, with everything that's being talked about. Everything in life, whoever makes more money or has bigger level of success, you and I will be judged on what's the level of difficulty of of tasks we choose to overcome and solve. When a guy comes, I had a meeting this week with, uh, we do a meeting in the morning called the skip level meeting, 7 o'clock in the morning. Anybody that scored about 35 on calibration, which by the way, if you're not applying, if your business doing over 5 to 10 million a year, you got 25 plus employees. If you want to know what we've been doing to get our calibration up with our employees, go to highermetrics.com, fill out the information, we'll do a demo for you.

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  Share it with you, go to highermetrics.com, C S, highermetrics.com, we'll tell you all about what we're doing within the organization. But I'm having a meeting, and I said, do you want to know 10 ways you can make more money here? I'm going with every one of them, I'm breaking out the 10 areas, find a new mode, be a builder of leaders, develop players, that's a high market. One of them was specialize in the in in solving problems with high level of difficulty. Higher level of difficulty, what happens?

• 54:02Speaker 02

  Higher return.

• 54:03Speaker 00

  Higher return, and by the way, that's what it is, and investments.

• 54:05Speaker 02

  Basic finance.

• 54:06Speaker 00

  Everything in life.

• 54:07Speaker 02

  You want a big return, you gotta take a lot of risk.

• 54:09Speaker 00

  Tom a shout out this week, I said, Tom, you know what I know about you? I know tough things get done through you, that's why, that's why Tom and I are in business and we enjoy each other's company. Because we are, unless sometime he talks enough to burger, but for the most part, we get along.

• 54:20Speaker 04

  We'll pass that.

• 54:20Speaker 00

  We don't have problems. But let me tell you, let me tell, and I'm sitting and we're going through all this other stuff. If Trump pulls this off, the level of difficulty, and this is what, 9.9?

• 54:32Speaker 02

  Yeah. If not higher.

• 54:33Speaker 00

  If not higher, okay, you know what I'm saying when I say 9.9? But you know what the most important word in that sentence is?

• 54:40Speaker 02

  If.

• 54:40Speaker 00

  If.

• 54:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:42Speaker 04

  And can we be, you're right, and can we be real, like, and and.

• 54:45Speaker 00

  Likelihood of succeeding is what?

• 54:47Speaker 04

  It's 1%. Yeah. Maybe, maybe, so, and I'm, mind you, but you know, you know where I'm at, especially, I don't, I don't, this whole left or right, I go up and down. It's God or the devil, that's, that's, that's where I'm at, I have faith, I have hope, okay? But being realistically looking at this, I, I'm tired of hearing people say, finish your job. Give me the objective, as I know, we're not, we're not generals, we're not in there, you're not in those rooms, I understand that. How can you objectively beat the IR, like, or regime change, bro, it's the IRGC, they control. It's not Venezuela, it's not grab Maduro in his pajamas, put him on a helicopter and leave.

• 55:28Speaker 04

  He knows, bro, we, Iran, for the people that have been there, lived there, know what this regime, these, these America hating, death to us, death to Israel. It's that 1%, so if we're gonna be realists, we're gonna talk about numbers, Tom, numbers, uh, scream, it's screaming that there's no victory. The odds are, there's no victory unless, Elon, you nuke them and kill everybody. That's the, hold on, give me another objective of how you're going, in two years, you're going to win that war because they're showing you they're not going anywhere, it's not working, so what's an objective plan?

• 56:02Speaker 02

  It's a high difficulty thing, but you also have to remember about the short attention span of the American voter. Um, we showed a chart last night, take a look at this, these are people 18 to 29. Look at the bottom, gun control, 1%, criminal justice report, 0%, inflation 33, jobs and economy 16. Ladies and gentlemen, take a look, immigration is at 5%, healthcare is ahead of it, civil rights ahead of it, climate change ahead of it. Why is it down? Because he closed the border, and people have forgotten about that, how big it was, you went back and you look at this. Remember when we did all the shows and everything leading up to the election? Immigration was number two on everybody's list, everybody's list. Yeah, once it's fixed, they don't care.

• 56:41Speaker 02

  It's, it's right, once it's fixed, they don't care, by the way, just go down to the bottom, and you have crazy conservatives with guns and George Floyd, 0 and 1%. That's all done, that's all behind us, I'm not worried about that. So, but to Pat's point, this is a high difficulty dive, and if he pulls this off at, it'll be 99%. But the victories that a leader has in a short attention span society such as we have, get lost pretty quick. But in this one, we only got two years to the election. Yeah, well, I think this is a little bit more difficult too, to answer your question, what are the alternatives from the US perspective?

• 57:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 57:17Speaker 02

  Okay, we don't have a clear path to victory, well, there's no clear path to getting out either.

• 57:20Speaker 04

  Absolutely, I agree.

• 57:21Speaker 02

  So I think the other part of this is the Trump administration has realized, if they don't attack Iran, if they don't finish the job, Iran's gonna attack us anyway. We crossed the Rubicon, we killed the Ayatollah, there is no getting out of this war. And we don't know the state of the IRGC right now either, we don't know how much confidence there is in the IRGC, we don't know what it would take to cause some kind of internal rift that would cause a shift. Nobody has those numbers, except for people at the highest level who are also taking a massive guess. So, there might be a pathway, you're saying there's no pathway other than nuking them, I disagree, we don't know that. We don't know if you can actually cause a shift within the country itself, that causes some kind of shockwave that starts a movement, that you would hope that that is a possibility.

• 58:01Speaker 04

  But out of all that, Elon, and I understand to a certain extent, all people care about, look at number one. What, what we're gonna do in Iran, you think is gonna lower the crude from 117? Absolutely not, because to be honest with you, nobody gives a damn, I love that he said that, people are gonna open their, look, what's that? Oh, gas is, bro, it costs me $140 to fill up my tank, my, my truck, because I have to put the goods, I have to, because it's a newer engine. So I, that's all people are gonna care about, so I'm trying to figure out, and I'm really trying to break it down, Pat. What is the war going to do to stop that? Because it's the Strait of Hormuz, it's all the oil now.

• 58:36Speaker 00

  Nothing right now.

• 58:37Speaker 04

  Zero.

• 58:37Speaker 00

  No, no, nothing, and by the way, let me tell, let me tell you what's going on, so yesterday, he's being interviewed, he's on the tarmac, he's off Air Force One, a guy asked him, he says, hey, Mr. President, how's your health? He said, I'm doing great, so you're not going to Kansas? Yeah? Are you not going to Kansas because you're not feeling good? This is a guy from Reuters. Let him, watch this exchange, so what, what a lot of people are saying is, the reason why he's not going to Kansas is because his team is saying, whether you go or not, this guy's not gonna win.

• 59:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 59:03Speaker 00

  So, so this is the part, now, some people can speculate and say, you don't know what you're talking about, fine, we can hash that out and debate it, but watch what happens to this exchange, go ahead.

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• 1:01:36Speaker 04

  We've been doing a lot of travel with you. How are you feeling? How's your health?

• 1:01:39Speaker 03

  Good. I think you're doing good. I think you're doing well. We had a great rally. That was a great rally. And I think that Darlene's gonna do very well. I think they're all gonna do very well. Think you're gonna have some very.

• 1:01:52Speaker 00

  You took the longer one, buddy. Just speed it up a little bit.

• 1:01:55Speaker 03

  So you're stuck with you with your feet? Sick of traveling?

• 1:01:59Speaker 00

  Of traveling.

• 1:02:00Speaker 03

  You are sick. Who are you with?

• 1:02:02Speaker 04

  I'm with Reuters, sir.

• 1:02:03Speaker 03

  You are a sick guy. Reuters is terrible, buddy.

• 1:02:05Speaker 00

  Watch it.

• 1:02:07Speaker 03

  Look at this guy. He's way out of shape. Look at how badly he's. He comes to me. Sir, you're not gonna go to Kansas. I'm not going to Kansas because he's doing very well. I'm gonna do a tele rally. Tomorrow, I'm doing Florida. He said, what's the reason? After doing what? Twenty-eight? He says, what's the reason for this, sir? That you're not going to Kansas? You know what the reason is? I don't feel I have to go to Kansas. I'm going to Florida tomorrow. And I'll do if something else comes up. But he said, you're not going to Kansas, sir. Are you feeling well? You've been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell.

• 1:02:47Speaker 00

  By the way, you guys didn't see this? Tom, you didn't see this? Can you find a picture of the guy?

• 1:02:52Speaker 04

  I didn't see the.

• 1:02:53Speaker 00

  Yeah, find the guy. The Reuters guy that asked Trump a question. You have to see this guy. Reuters guy that asked Trump a question.

• 1:03:02Speaker 04

  Well, remember, Pat, he said while he's looking, sick of traveling. He didn't say, are you sick? He said, are you sick of traveling? And then he lost it. He said, healthy first. He goes, are you sick of traveling? But you know what? The president isn't being very, very truthful because Senator Roger Marshall. It's shifting, Pat. It's almost fifty-fifty.

• 1:03:22Speaker 00

  This is the guy.

• 1:03:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, that's. He's not. He doesn't look that.

• 1:03:24Speaker 00

  So go ahead. You were saying.

• 1:03:25Speaker 02

  He's known as Hamburger Harry. Works for Reuters.

• 1:03:27Speaker 04

  And Tom, I think we talked about this. The race isn't a shoo-in. It's almost fifty-fifty. And some polls have the Democrat winning. But and it's actually a very, Tom, very, very tight race against Adam Hamilton. The polling's basically tied.

• 1:03:42Speaker 04

  And some people are saying that possibly Trump's presence could actually hurt Republicans.

• 1:03:46Speaker 00

  That could be a liability.

• 1:03:46Speaker 04

  Pat, that's. This is where I'm pissed off. That now Trump being there is gonna make some people go, you know what? I'm tired of this. I'm tired of this. I'm tired of the lies, whatever the super chat guy was saying. I'm just gonna sit this one out. Or even vote the other way, which a lot of these freaking content creators are saying, which I think is absolutely stupid. You're a moron if you're gonna go vote Democrat like a moron. I'd rather have you sit it out than freaking go vote for them. But this goes something that we talked about earlier in the week. Too many Republicans are just relying on Trump's message. What are you doing to become better? Who are you doing? Because the whole blaming Trump and all that stuff. No, what are you doing as the run? Who is the person, Tommy? Senator Roger Marshall? What are you doing to make people go, I'm voting for you? Yeah, okay, Trump's.

• 1:04:30Speaker 04

  Trump showing up at a rally is good, but what are you doing to win my vote?

• 1:04:32Speaker 02

  So let's take a look at this this real quick. Kansas is a very unique thing. If you could click on margin and just go thirty days, sixty days, sixty days and margin. Look at what's happened. The race was, you know, Marshall's and then it's gone to Hamilton. Well, let me tell you about the two candidates. One candidate is a Methodist pastor. Pastor of the largest United Methodist Congregation, U.S. Church of Resurrection. One of them is a pastor. The other one is an ex-physician that sued his patients for as little as a hundred and eight dollars. Who's a Republican?

• 1:05:04Speaker 00

  Stop, Tom.

• 1:05:05Speaker 02

  The doctor. The Democrat is the pastor of the Methodist Church.

• 1:05:10Speaker 00

  Oh, that is a unique.

• 1:05:11Speaker 02

  So Kansas is upside down. Marshall is the doctor that sued his patients. All this stuff has been coming out and look.

• 1:05:18Speaker 00

  Sell us the dream, Tom. How great of a candidate the mother of Republicans.

• 1:05:22Speaker 02

  This goes, Pat, Pat, this goes. Pat, if you and I ran the GOP in Kansas, Pat, you know what we would have said?

• 1:05:30Speaker 00

  I'm going blue.

• 1:05:30Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, no. We need to draft somebody exciting. Isn't there someone that believes in capitalism, that believes in the farmer, believes in what's going on here? We would have done it that way. And all of this has come out. And that's why these lines have suddenly crossed.

• 1:05:43Speaker 00

  Tom, I'm gonna disagree with you there. Look at, look at when those lines crossed. They start crossing in early September, which is when oil prices really started to spike and gasoline and diesel went up. It really is that simple.

• 1:05:53Speaker 04

  There is.

• 1:05:54Speaker 00

  And Marshall himself has done himself no favors. He has tried to make this as the media is creating the affordability crisis. It's not real. He even said Kansas's economy is doing really well.

• 1:06:04Speaker 02

  Jeff, I agree with that timing on September. But this moved faster than other states who had also had diesel problems.

• 1:06:11Speaker 00

  So it's a combination. You've got bad, bad economy and bad candidate.

• 1:06:15Speaker 02

  Wait a minute, you were a doctor that sued your patients? This guy's a minister?

• 1:06:18Speaker 00

  Which is what Vinnie, you've been talking about the entire bad candidate. Republicans are losing.

• 1:06:22Speaker 02

  It's not just bad candidates. It's bad messaging because they keep saying. They keep telling Americans everything is good.

• 1:06:28Speaker 04

  Okay, yeah.

• 1:06:29Speaker 02

  Like Trump, Trump comes out and says we're in a golden era. You become a liability to anyone you're supporting at that point because Americans are disagreeing with you.

• 1:06:37Speaker 00

  Funny thing is Democrats have been criticized legitimately for their entire platform is we're not Trump and we hate Trump. There's the other side of that, which we're really talking about skirting around the edges is Republicans have gotten lazy. Their entire argument is we are Trump. Now the we are Trump card isn't working. We don't have a Trump card.

• 1:06:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, they're not clear on policy at all this.

• 1:06:56Speaker 00

  And it's terrible candidates. The terrible, the candidates who have been elected to these positions are simply Trump candidates.

• 1:07:02Speaker 04

  It's, it reminds me of the, of the movie Naked Gun. Well, Leslie Nielsen drove his car into a firework shop, a factory and it's blowing up. He's like, nothing to see here. It's like, bro, we see the fire. We see the explosions. Man up and give us a freaking message. Give us, give the people some freaking hope. And that's what it is, bro. I keep coming back to this. Show me the solution. Give it like, how are you going to do it?

• 1:07:28Speaker 02

  I think, I think, I think Republicans are underestimating the frustrations of Americans. I also, again, like I said, there is this non-organic shift that we see like we saw in the, the super chat, which is a ton of stuff is being pushed online. I can't tell you how many friends I have who are saying exactly that message. I think that's organic. It's organic and non-organic.

• 1:07:48Speaker 00

  Is again, falling into the trap.

• 1:07:50Speaker 02

  No, but it.

• 1:07:50Speaker 00

  People find that content because they're disillusioned first.

• 1:07:53Speaker 02

  The people who support it, I agree, but the people pushing it at the top, it is definitely not organic.

• 1:07:58Speaker 00

  Message resonates because people start out thinking this sucks. And it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Therefore, I'm gonna find somebody who's gonna tell me, I'm right. This does suck. And this guy Marshall in Kansas? This is all made up by the media. Kansas is doing really well. Of course, they're gonna vote against the guy.

• 1:08:13Speaker 04

  So can I ask one question, Pat? One question. Midnight Hammer was the first thing, right? That we did. If the second attack bombing doesn't happen where the straight of her moves and all that was affected, is everything in better shape? Is gas still? What was it, Tom? Seventy? No, what, no, what was gas before we did the, the second bombing of?

• 1:08:31Speaker 02

  Before we did the second bombing, I thought gas started, no, no, no. Gas started in mid February, Valentine's Day. I thought gas was fifty-seven, sixty-two a barrel.

• 1:08:40Speaker 04

  Fifty-seven?

• 1:08:40Speaker 02

  USWTI, right? Fifty-seven, sixty-two.

• 1:08:43Speaker 04

  And then, and then the second, the bombing where the straight and we did, went to war? Would we be in better shape? Would, would we have the, the wave again of all Republicans winning if we didn't do the second bombing?

• 1:08:55Speaker 00

  The second bombing? No, I mean, it would, I don't, I don't think it would have made it much different.

• 1:08:57Speaker 04

  No difference. So gas.

• 1:08:58Speaker 02

  You're talking about July.

• 1:08:59Speaker 04

  I'm talking about July. That's what I'm saying. You don't, so you don't think if gas was still fifty-five dollars a barrel and affordability was actually way better?

• 1:09:07Speaker 02

  Obviously would make a difference economically.

• 1:09:10Speaker 00

  That's not how this works though. Because you have to realize. Vinnie, everybody has their own set of what? Concerns? Motives? Assumptions, fears and asks?

• 1:09:20Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:09:20Speaker 00

  What's Trump's motive?

• 1:09:23Speaker 04

  Motive?

• 1:09:24Speaker 00

  Do you think he just wants to be a good president? He's Mount Rushmore.

• 1:09:27Speaker 04

  No, he wants a legacy.

• 1:09:27Speaker 00

  He wants to be on Mount Rushmore.

• 1:09:29Speaker 04

  Absolutely.

• 1:09:30Speaker 00

  He wants to go down as one of the greatest presidents ever to do it, right? Okay. What has he done? Give me the three things he's done to be on the list of Mount Rushmore. Go ahead.

• 1:09:39Speaker 02

  Closed the border after twelve years of mayhem.

• 1:09:42Speaker 00

  So that's number one.

• 1:09:42Speaker 04

  Number one, which I've been saying that for how long?

• 1:09:45Speaker 00

  I don't think that's Mount Rushmore. That, that puts you in top ten. That's not Mount Rushmore.

• 1:09:49Speaker 02

  I'm saying, you said, what are the things?

• 1:09:50Speaker 00

  I understand that. What I'm saying is what are the three things he's done that are his biggest accomplishment?

• 1:09:55Speaker 02

  Isn't that one of them?

• 1:09:56Speaker 00

  That's one of them.

• 1:09:56Speaker 02

  But it takes more than that to go to Mount Rushmore.

• 1:09:59Speaker 00

  Give me two more.

• 1:09:59Speaker 04

  When the economy was freaking going crazy and he had the highest stock market, that would, that wouldn't be.

• 1:10:04Speaker 00

  Not really. Not really. That's not a top three. What else?

• 1:10:08Speaker 02

  I think, I think the tariff chess game that he played. I mean, you.

• 1:10:12Speaker 00

  They didn't let him finish it.

• 1:10:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, I would actually. But after the drop on April first, the markets came back and there was.

• 1:10:19Speaker 00

  No problem. Stock market's not the right. No, it's not. What's the top three? Iran. What are top three?

• 1:10:24Speaker 02

  Iran is gonna be up there.

• 1:10:25Speaker 00

  But Iran's not done, guys. But that's the only thing that would be there. What I'm trying to say to you is.

• 1:10:30Speaker 02

  And the Abraham Accords isn't done.

• 1:10:30Speaker 00

  Abraham Accords, all this, all this big stuff that's pending. Now, don't get me wrong. Got rid of the woke stuff massive. Because if that continues, look what happened with the amount of LGBTQ kids and girls. Teenage girls are no longer, that dropped off from like forty-one percent or thirty-one percent to like seventeen percent. Like nah, I don't identify with that anymore. He called out a bunch of the BS. And called out the globalists, called out all the, you know, swamp, all those guys that, you know, he was going after. But none of that puts you in the top four. It doesn't.

• 1:11:01Speaker 04

  No. I couldn't, notice how I couldn't even, the only thing which was me was the border.

• 1:11:04Speaker 02

  The top four is circumstantial to world conditions.

• 1:11:07Speaker 00

  You have, you, you have Washington who's top four. You have Lincoln who is top four. Who else you put in top four? Some, on the Democratic side, guess who they're gonna put in their top four? FDR, they'll put in their top four because it's what?

• 1:11:18Speaker 02

  Obama would be in the top.

• 1:11:20Speaker 00

  Obama's a top thirty president, top twenty president. He's not in the top four. So here's the point. If that kind of a wiring, who since nineteen eighty-six, he said, go take over Carig Island with Iran. He's been saying this for forty years. Yeah. This isn't an act. If he wants to be on the top four, he has to do the impossible. This is the impossible. He pulls this off. There's the conversation for top four because you took out the number one agitator in the world. Iran, but if you don't, you're not a top four president. Yeah. That's how this thing works. So he's specializing in doing the impossible. And let's see if he's going to pull it off or not. By the way, I would probably put Maduro in his top. Yeah. Five on what he did with Maduro going out to getting that done like this. That was slick.

• 1:12:04Speaker 00

  But to think about a massive thing to put you in the top four, he doesn't have it yet. It's just that simple. So now you can like him all you want. You can say, man, I like the way he talks to media and he called out the media and he kind of got fake news. That's probably one of his top five. Cause he's the one that took. The Jim. But aside from that, you need something. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall. He doesn't have that moment yet. Good point.

• 1:12:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's a circumstantial moment, though. You, you need a.

• 1:12:33Speaker 00

  I get it, but you need that. Unfortunately, you need it to be able to pull that off. So we'll see, we'll see what happened there for that to take place. Let me get to the next story. By the way, again, anybody whose name is Dan Sullivan, folks in Alaska are looking for you. Story came out, New York Times. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I'll go through a couple of you guys. Inside Democrat's secret effort to stack Alaska's ballot. What? What do you mean stack a lot? And New York Times is calling, you know how bad it has to be for New York Times to call you out? In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Paltoya received unusual instructions from top campaign aides. Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state Republican Senator. Another Dan Sullivan on the, I think it's a J.

• 1:13:19Speaker 00

  On the state's unusual four person ballot could cost the Senator crucial votes. The plan worked. A retired teacher from a tiny fishing village announced his candidacy for Senate. His name is Dan J. Sullivan. The Palota campaign has denied any involvement, but the Times has found not only did Miss, Miss Palota, Paltoya. Team work with the person trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan, but the effort was much broader internally called the ballot. Composition project. It involved trips and a Midwestern operative, Jared Kurt, who traveled to the state using a fake name. Senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee took part. Imagine if there was a MAGA party, a Paltoya aide wrote in January, both the campaign and the DSCC denied recruiting soldiers.

• 1:14:03Speaker 00

  Spoilers, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit at President Trump's behest last week, seeking to block certification of votes. Forty other Mr. Sullivan caused Senator Sullivan to win. Such tactics are generally considered illegal. Tom, your thoughts?

• 1:14:17Speaker 02

  I, I think this is horrible. This is beyond horrible. This is basically deliberately trying to confuse the populace and to basically rig an election. Let's call it what it is. They want to rig the election with simple confusion on will the real Dan Sullivan please stand up? And, you know, um, Dan S. Sullivan needed somebody like me on his campaign that says, I'm the real Dan Sullivan. Remember Daniel S. Sullivan, right? You bet your ass I am. So it's like, there had to be something that drove this to stick in the mind of the voter as a counterplay. And rather than just saying, you're screwing with me, you're screwing with me. They didn't really effectively do the counterplay.

• 1:15:02Speaker 02

  That's my fault with the Republican Party. My fault with this is, it says, there are people that said, this is going to be felonious, uh, election interference. But it doesn't help the fact that the election's going on right now, but this isn't going to stop. It's going to go, it, it, this will probably end up, uh, with a special election. I believe Pat, I believe we're going to have a special election because I think the courts are going to step in.

• 1:15:28Speaker 00

  Jeff.

• 1:15:28Speaker 02

  I, the biggest part is that this is not illegal. So it's not illegal, therefore.

• 1:15:33Speaker 00

  That's the real question.

• 1:15:33Speaker 02

  Yeah. But the bigger problem is what we were starting to talk about before is what this does to faith in our elections. And that's becoming a bigger and bigger theme as again, uh, we're not in just a, you know, a gentleman's argument about where the United States should go. Or what policy, you know, we should pursue with farm bills and whatnot. This is about remaking the US from the bottom up and Democrats are playing to win. They're using every, every tactic they possibly can to do so. Some probably illegal, some not illegal.

• 1:16:06Speaker 02

  But like I said, it's, it's, it's now everywhere and it's, we talked about the Brazil election. Everybody says that one was stolen. The Democrats have started a stop the steal for the midterm election. So faith in elections is being eroded, which is where this Dan Sullivan story really comes in. It because it just, it, it furthers this distance between. Can I agree and disagree with one thing you said? I agree that it's not felonious illegal. What I said, and I chose my words carefully. I've read legal review of this called election interference. That if they prove that the opponent was the one that brought the name in to create the confusion. That is election interference.

• 1:16:46Speaker 02

  It's not going to put you in prison, but it could get the election overturned and in the form of.

• 1:16:54Speaker 02

  Allow the people to speak, allow the people to, to speak and understand. That's what I think is going to happen. And I think what ends up happening is, uh, Mary says it wasn't me. Yeah, that's all she has. Okay, it played out to the. You know, the mafia boss doesn't make all the orders. They give them to, you know, a bunch of people. But there's enough behind this that she was and her aides. Her aides, not her directly. Played out though. All you need is one, you know what you need? You're going to tie it. But let's say it's not illegal. Let's say this becomes something that is a precedent is set. Now this has been done, it's not illegal. And what does election integrity look like moving forward? When everyone can start doing this. Bigger question. That's the big. Because once you allow it and once it's worked.

• 1:17:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:17:33Speaker 02

  And we, we obviously no longer by that standard care about policy. This is why Republicans can't just bend over and take it this time. That's exactly it. You have to fight, fight, fight.

• 1:17:42Speaker 00

  This is, by the way, this is, uh, the clip from the real Dan Sullivan. Uh, I just want you to watch this clip, go forward.

• 1:17:48Speaker 01

  Let's talk about these allegations that actually Dan J. Sullivan is a plant. Yeah, I think that Alaskans have had it up to here with the lying and the dishonesty.

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• 1:20:40Speaker 00

  Find as many people named Dan Sullivan as you can.

• 1:20:42Speaker 02

  That's sketchy.

• 1:20:43Speaker 00

  Yeah. Do me a favor. Go to the other clip of her speaking.

• 1:20:47Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:20:47Speaker 00

  It's one of the worst hit piece videos I've ever seen in my life. What kind of a song are you using for that? But anyways, go to this one. I don't like that one. Here, uh, watch this. This is her speaking.

• 1:20:57Speaker 03

  This is just another distraction.

• 1:21:00Speaker 00

  Do you believe her?

• 1:21:00Speaker 03

  It's another diversion. Every day, it's some new, you know, look over here moment.

• 1:21:06Speaker 02

  This is gaslighting.

• 1:21:07Speaker 03

  Not Dan Sullivan.

• 1:21:08Speaker 02

  Terrible gaslight. This is Democrat gaslight.

• 1:21:09Speaker 03

  Incumbent voted for this war in Iran 14 times. Lisa Murkowski quit voting for that war in Iran six months ago. And he's doubling and tripling down.

• 1:21:21Speaker 00

  Go to the other one. There's two of them. This is one, and then I sent you another. I sent you three of them. Yeah, watch this one.

• 1:21:26Speaker 02

  It's projection.

• 1:21:27Speaker 03

  It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead an electorate.

• 1:21:32Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:21:33Speaker 03

  Yes, let's work for that.

• 1:21:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:21:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, so you can, you can already tell who she is.

• 1:21:38Speaker 02

  Accuse the other side of.

• 1:21:39Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:21:39Speaker 02

  The very thing you're doing.

• 1:21:40Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:21:41Speaker 02

  Always.

• 1:21:41Speaker 04

  Can I, can I say something, guys? Good, this is the Democratic Party, okay? And you have to tip your hat to how it's not illegal, but these, listen to me. The, the Republicans are never going to be able to fight against these people unless they start playing dirty with them. And I'm sorry, you have to say, brother, they can't win on policy, so they're going to find a way to win. And even if you win, just look at what Trump, they won. What did Obama and Hillary and all them do? What'd they do? Russia collusion, impeachment.

• 1:22:10Speaker 02

  Fidesz abuse.

• 1:22:11Speaker 04

  They shot him and they tried to take his freaking head off, bro. Lawfare, the family, 91 indictments. Until the Republicans start, because be honest, that's a creative ass way to try to cheat without it being illegal. And then you get caught, you know what you say? He, it's you guys. It's, it's projection at the highest level and drives me crazy because, bro, that's all they do. And these are the tricks. This is the party's agenda, bro. This is the, this is the party that opens the border, Tommy. Brings in all the illegals. Because you know they're gonna vote for the, for the census and all the numbers for all the seats, uh, in Congress and everything like that. And then, when the people get kicked out, you know what we do? Congressmen from the Democratic Party will fly, remember that they had the, the Delaware father, what was it? The father that.

• 1:22:55Speaker 02

  Maryland man.

• 1:22:56Speaker 04

  The Maryland man. They flew and sat and had drinks with him to try to bring this illegal back, getting their votes back. So until Republicans learn how to play these freaking legal games, Tom, they're gonna keep doing this. They're gonna keep doing it. And you have to fight fire with fire.

• 1:23:12Speaker 02

  You know what? I don't tip my hat. I flip my finger is what I do. And I'm waiting for the GOP to step up and put candidates out there that talk about liberty, freedom, capitalism, and the things that is in the core hearts of people that they want to hear. They want to hear from exciting candidates who are talking about that. They want to hear about enablement. You tell me, you put 10 people in a row and let, let them feel for a moment the joy of, of creating something, the joy of being part of something, the joy of being driven, right? And then you take the, the rest of them that says, I'll give you a free cash and coke, right? You know how it goes. It, it is a dip, the poverty and the poverty on somebody else's nickel builds bitterness in the soul of man.

• 1:23:53Speaker 02

  What we need is exciting candidates that talk about hope, talk about the future looks bright and why it's gonna look bright and why the Constitution is so great.

• 1:24:01Speaker 00

  You have a better messaging.

• 1:24:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:24:03Speaker 00

  You have a better messaging.

• 1:24:04Speaker 02

  Well, isn't the problem that, uh, Democrats are not gonna get punished for this? And I don't mean in court. But that's a consistent thing. The voters are not gonna vote against, um, uh, Poltola because she pulled some dirty tricks. They're still gonna, she's.

• 1:24:16Speaker 00

  Yeah, they were interviewing, I was listening to, uh, uh, multiple individuals that were Democrats. They're like, yeah, look, this is sketchy. I don't like what she did, but I'm still gonna vote for her.

• 1:24:26Speaker 02

  That's Jeff. Jeff captured it perfectly. There is nothing they can't do because it's win at any cost. And that has kind of bled down from the political elite into the actual population that's voting. Which is really scary because even, even an acceptance of political violence has skyrocketed.

• 1:24:43Speaker 00

  Let me give you an idea. Let me give you one story here. That's very weird story. James O'Keefe. Couple of months ago, maybe even a couple of weeks ago, goes out there and dresses like somebody, and I don't know if you guys have the clip to pull up.

• 1:24:55Speaker 02

  August.

• 1:24:55Speaker 00

  To show that anybody can go out there and vote. Okay, this is him. Now, watch what happens. Look what they do to him. This is what, August 11th. Watch this. Go for it.

• 1:25:04Speaker 03

  You voted here before?

• 1:25:06Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:25:07Speaker 03

  No. Okay, well, go down to where it's her voting. Take a right and they'll help you out in there. Hello.

• 1:25:15Speaker 02

  Hello.

• 1:25:16Speaker 03

  Register over there. Hello, what is your last name?

• 1:25:19Speaker 02

  Uh.

• 1:25:22Speaker 03

  Is that?

• 1:25:25Speaker 03

  And what is your first name?

• 1:25:26Speaker 02

  Genevieve.

• 1:25:28Speaker 03

  Genevieve?

• 1:25:29Speaker 02

  And vouch.

• 1:25:31Speaker 03

  You say?

• 1:25:32Speaker 02

  Vouch.

• 1:25:33Speaker 03

  Um, she's vouching?

• 1:25:35Speaker 02

  I, I vouch. She is vouching.

• 1:25:37Speaker 03

  Oh, for her? And is, is she Genevieve?

• 1:25:40Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:25:41Speaker 03

  So are you wanting to vote first? She's gonna have to make the phone call.

• 1:25:44Speaker 02

  Yes, but can, can she vote if I vouch?

• 1:25:49Speaker 00

  I'm trying.

• 1:25:50Speaker 03

  No, good luck. Um, is she, does she live within this precinct?

• 1:25:55Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:25:56Speaker 03

  Yep, we can get a register.

• 1:25:57Speaker 00

  Yep, that's it. That's it.

• 1:25:59Speaker 02

  That's all it is. Yes, but vouch for her.

• 1:26:03Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:26:03Speaker 02

  So she vote, so if I vouch, she votes? The most scary here is how bad he's acting.

• 1:26:09Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:26:10Speaker 02

  And how he continues to get people.

• 1:26:12Speaker 00

  Watch this. So obviously, they're exposed of what happened.

• 1:26:17Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 1:26:18Speaker 00

  But let me tell you how they react. Instead of taking responsibility and saying there's voter fraud and people can get away with voting with no ID, none of that stuff, you know what they decide to do? Conservative influencer James O'Keefe charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota.

• 1:26:34Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:26:35Speaker 00

  Think about how they flip it on him to say, no, you're the fraud, not us. Absolutely insane when you see a story like this. Tom, how do you react to the story?

• 1:26:45Speaker 02

  I react to it, this is right. You can draw a, put a dot on Minnesota there and then take a dot all the way to Sacramento where they were trying to put a, uh, a statute on the ballot to stop our good friend from exposing all of the, the hospices and what's going on there. Yeah. And Nick Shirley, and there was the Stop Nick Act. What it is, is the, they have discovered that independent journalism makes a, by the way, that was effing NB effing C that was running that headline, Pat. That was NBC writing that headline, right? Let's just remember who that is. Decision 26 subsection of the NBC News website, they are writing the headline.

• 1:27:29Speaker 02

  What does that tell you about their complicity? But I can draw a line from Minnesota to Sacramento on they wanna stop people like Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe from shining a light on what is horrible fraud. Not, not rumors. This is fraud. They're exposing the fraud. And so he, he comes in, identifies himself, hello, I'm Ahmed Al Kaboom. I wanna vote. And this is my sister Fuse and she'd like to vote. And he exposes the whole thing. Yeah. And so now, now, you know, conservative influencer James O'Keefe charged with unlawful voting.

• 1:28:04Speaker 00

  Where are you at with that, Elon?

• 1:28:05Speaker 02

  Thanks, NBC. It, it, like a week ago or two weeks ago, you asked who the Avengers are.

• 1:28:10Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 1:28:11Speaker 02

  And these are two people we didn't talk about, James O'Keefe and Nick Shirley. And they have consistently put themselves at risk. James O'Keefe, the OG, more than anyone, has put it. Acorn, back in the day. Has been through so much just trying to expose.

• 1:28:23Speaker 00

  By the way, James O'Keefe had his event last year recognized, this year, I think, recognized Nick Shirley and gave him an award.

• 1:28:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, for the.

• 1:28:28Speaker 00

  For the great job that he's doing.

• 1:28:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, he's James O'Keefe, uh, 2.0. And it's really just, it's the, the gaslighting and the shifting of how they will turn it on you and attack you and try and silence you and use everything at their disposal to get rid of the truth. Should piss off every single American. I'm so tired of these things being partisan. This is establishment versus anti-establishment. This is corruption versus truth.

• 1:28:53Speaker 00

  Let me give you the Minnesota system, by the way, because most people don't know this, and we can't talk about it's enough time. This is, you fact-check this. A registered voter from the precinct can vouch for another person's residence, okay?

• 1:29:05Speaker 02

  Vouch.

• 1:29:06Speaker 00

  Number two, one eligible registered voter can vouch for up to eight people.

• 1:29:13Speaker 02

  So nine.

• 1:29:14Speaker 00

  Eight people. One, vouch for up to, this is not hypothetical. This is what the law is. The person registering must meet voting eligibility requirement, which is what? The voucher must sign a sworn statement providing false information can lead to criminal penalties, which you know that's not happening over there when it comes down to that. So what crimes is O'Keefe accused of? Unlawful voting, up to five years of imprisonment.

• 1:29:41Speaker 02

  He didn't vote.

• 1:29:42Speaker 00

  Identity, he didn't vote. Identity theft, up to five years of imprisonment. Each charge is $10,000. I don't know if people realize how many times they've gone after him. And he's got a wall of every time he's beaten these guys.

• 1:29:54Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:29:54Speaker 00

  When they, when they've gone after him. Vinnie?

• 1:29:56Speaker 04

  Uh, Edward Snowden, I, I watched the documentary that he did. Do you remember which one it was? When it was him and, um, Greenwald. It was an amazing, amazing documentary. He said, at some point, he said, and I'm gonna quote, "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." This is exactly, how much stuff, how much trash, how much bad news are we going to get out of this freaking state? Could, could, could we recognize from Tim Walz to Keith Ellison to Ilhan Omar? Like, it's, it's unbearable to me. It's unbelievable to me. And I, I mentioned this last week too. Why of all places are all these people going to freaking Minnesota? You're all from, from, you know, I mean, it's from Somalia. It's nice and hot.

• 1:30:39Speaker 04

  And why the hell over there? Because they're put there. They're put there on a purse, on purpose to do this with the system. And that's why every time you see Tim Walz or, or who's the, who's the mayor? Frey?

• 1:30:50Speaker 02

  Frey.

• 1:30:50Speaker 04

  Sitting there eating, eating freaking Somali food, almost gagging and almost throwing up because they're pandering because they have to. They're all in on it. They're all in on the scam. And this is how it is, bro. That's how people stay in power. Could you ima?

• 1:31:02Speaker 02

  Jacob Frey during the BLM stuff was hilarious when they were like.

• 1:31:05Speaker 04

  Dancing.

• 1:31:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. And they wanted him to, to abolish the police. Is this, that was him, right?

• 1:31:10Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is, this is the guy, oh, just the biggest beta.

• 1:31:13Speaker 02

  It's just the fake crying at the George Floyd casket.

• 1:31:15Speaker 04

  He was leaning on the casket crying. It's like, bro, and, and you just sailed it. No accountability for, like, you're going after the people that exposed it. It, it boggles my mind.

• 1:31:25Speaker 02

  But it's what Jeff said earlier. Sorry, I just wanna give you credit for this because you touched on such an important point, which is it's being accepted by the people who are, you know, we were talking about the Constitution. Welcomed. Welcomed. Yeah, and we were talking about the Constitution earlier and why, why we would be against it changing. Because when it benefits me, it does today, doesn't mean it'll benefit me in the future. These people fail to realize that what they are accepting and what they're making normal, or even celebrating, will come for them one day too. If you're on the left and you're seeing this kind of thing happen and you're losing, and you can openly see that there's no more trust in our, in the integrity of our entire voting system, that should worry you, even if it benefits you today. Yeah. So that I'm.

• 1:32:03Speaker 04

  Is it 14? You said 14 states don't require an identification?

• 1:32:06Speaker 00

  I think it's 15 states don't require any.

• 1:32:08Speaker 04

  How are you going to prove who, like, that, this is a fundamental thing for voting. Who are you? Here, this is my identification. And the left will, it will fight for it and be like, no, that's racist because there's, there's black people that can't, it's like, shut up.

• 1:32:22Speaker 02

  That don't know where DMV is.

• 1:32:24Speaker 04

  They don't know where DMV is. Oh, yeah, it's, it's, it's 10 times more racist to say black people don't know how to get an identification to vote.

• 1:32:31Speaker 02

  You touched on something, Vinny, though, that I think is really important here that maybe people don't think about enough. Why Minnesota? Why Michigan? Why did they end up there?

• 1:32:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:32:40Speaker 02

  Wasn't an accident, it wasn't an accident. There is an infrastructure that is out there, you know, they call it globalization, and there are parts of globalization. These people were funneled to Minnesota specifically, they were funneled to Michigan specifically.

• 1:32:52Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:32:53Speaker 02

  They weren't there, they weren't there for accident, by accident.

• 1:32:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, I want, yeah, you tell me you're in Somalia, which is freaking a horrible place to live, I'm sorry, call it what it is. What makes you go, you know what, we're going to Minnesota out of all places, bro? Because I love that you said that setup there, you have the Tim Waltons, you have the Ilhan Omars, bro, it's a.

• 1:33:10Speaker 02

  Not an accident.

• 1:33:11Speaker 00

  But why do you think?

• 1:33:12Speaker 04

  I think, I think it's all in on, on, because think about it, they'll, they'll vote you in for power, all the fraud that's happening, all the daycares, all the lying.

• 1:33:19Speaker 00

  It's very simple, Vinny, it's very simple. It goes back to what Henry Ford did in Michigan. He got cheap labor from Syria and Lebanon, and accidentally, he kept hiring all these Muslims that were coming to Michigan, and then he accidentally brought the first Imam, then they built the first or second mosque in America in Michigan, and Michigan became what it is today because of Henry Ford. Ford is the reason why Michigan was that, and guess what happened with Minnesota? Probably the same exact thing when they moved over there, and then guess what's going on with fraud? All over the place. It's crazy when you're looking at all this stuff with, what is happening. And, you know, a story comes out about Flavio, we know he escaped Brazil, beating Lula, not beating Lula, election fraud. Election fraud galore everywhere right now.

• 1:34:01Speaker 00

  He just landed in Miami, he's gonna be making some statements, they don't want to be saying anything until after midterms. So we're praying for Flavio and his family, I know it's a very chaotic moment they're in right now, and once the statement is made, we'll find out what's going on with that afterwards, but let me go to a different story. We got a, quite a few stories to go through, but let me go to the next story. Here's a story of what happened with these brothers, three brothers, okay? Alexander brothers in Miami, I don't know if you guys tracked the story, we talked about it a couple of times. Three brothers, each facing 30 years in prison after women speak of being drugged and raped by the three brothers. I met one of them once, when we were trying to buy a house in Boca, I met one of them once.

• 1:34:45Speaker 00

  And I walked away saying, there's something very slimy about this guy, I don't know the other two, so I can't say anything about the other two, but I remember one of them. So, three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday for 30 years in prison after one victim described the attack as an eternity of terror. Tal, Orin, and Alan Alexander started blankly as US District Judge Valerie E. Caproni announced their punishment, which was less than the life sentence that federal prosecutors sought. "Your conduct was monstrous," Caproni told the men, reconciling their marked sex trafficking conviction with their claims that being fathers and husbands has changed them. It strains credibility

• 1:35:31Speaker 00

  that marriage would change them from sexual predators to model gentlemen. She said the brothers must each pay at least $300,000 in fines, while the brothers, twin Orin and Alan are 39, Tal Alexander 40, express regret for how they treated and regarded women, they all denied drugging and raping anyone. "My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone," Orin said, "that's entirely a lie and you all know it," Caproni told them. The accusers who spoke in court were among at least 70, Vinny.

• 1:36:01Speaker 02

  Seven zero?

• 1:36:02Speaker 00

  Not seven, 70 women who prosecutors say were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over the last two decades. Jeff, your thoughts on this?

• 1:36:12Speaker 02

  I hate that it was only 30 years. Honestly, that just seems ridiculously short of what it should be. I, I'm not a, not a big fan of the death penalty, but I think this is one of those cases where you should think about the death penalty.

• 1:36:23Speaker 00

  Tell me why, tell me why.

• 1:36:24Speaker 02

  Why? Because what they did to these women. You hear some of the statements, how these women say, "You stole my life from me, I'm a broken person." This is not simply just, you know, oh, we had a bad night together and we can move on from it. They changed the trajectory of these young women's life, and I have three daughters of myself, my own, so speaking as a father, 30 years is nowhere near enough. This should be something they should talk, this should be added to capital punishment. This is one of those things that, and it's, look, he can say that, you know, these are lies, it's made up, you all know that. A jury of his peers convicted him of all of these charges, at least the charges he was, that were presented, so this is not an allegation, this is a proven allegation, and 30 years nowhere near enough.

• 1:37:03Speaker 04

  I'm, I'm, I'm with him, especially where I read on, on that report, if you go towards the top a little bit, it said the brothers jailed, 2024 arrest, uh, keep going higher, and then right there, right, yeah, that one right there, keep, look at the bottom part. Uh, pay another $50,000 for producing child sexual.

• 1:37:21Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, that's a whole other category.

• 1:37:23Speaker 04

  So they recorded a video, not, not, whatever the hell he was saying that lying, raping a 17-year-old girl, and mind you guys, this is just stuff that they caught them on.

• 1:37:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:37:33Speaker 04

  And I love that you said.

• 1:37:34Speaker 02

  To prove.

• 1:37:34Speaker 04

  Imagine the freaking poor girls, because you, by the way, this sickness that these, these human beings have, if you think it stops with just 16, 15, trust me, it goes deeper than that, okay? And I think they should never see the light of day. And the only thing, the only, and we talked about this a long time ago, about people in, think about this, there's people in jail right now that have done way worse crimes than this, murderers, people that are just horrible, they can't be in society. When they see people like this that do stuff to younger girls and rape, guess what?

• 1:38:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:38:07Speaker 04

  These guys are marked, because there's, there's, those guys have a code, have a code in prison, where if you do this to, to, to, to children, to younger people, you're a freaking mark, and these guys are gonna be marked, and I hope that they live in fear and a hell for all the stuff that they did to all these people, because like you said, Jeff, those girls are done. Like, you're not, I don't care how much counseling you're gonna get, you are, you're, you're never gonna be the same person again. PTSD, like, forever.

• 1:38:34Speaker 02

  I, I think that this actually is a, um, this specific story represents a bigger, broader systemic issue in society that existed for a very long time when there wasn't accountability. Luckily, it came to light, now there is more accountability. In Hollywood, this is a disgusting issue that went on for many, many years, I'm sure, like, I've been in Hollywood, I've been in, like, I've seen where people are in positions of, of power, and the way they will try and take advantage of people, and there's a very kind of disgusting thing that happens when you can't serve two gods, you know what I mean? You're either gonna serve God or you're gonna serve fame, money, sex and all these things, and it will lead you down a dark, dark path

• 1:39:14Speaker 02

  that will inevitably, not only, you know, ruin your life, but you're destroying the lives of countless other people in the process. And it's a sickness, and again, it's, it's really good that more stories like this are coming to light, there's more accountability.

• 1:39:27Speaker 00

  Let me tell you, so you know what's a combined net worth of the family, it's apparently around a billion dollars. You guys remember when Ken Griffin bought that 238 million dollar mansion, penthouse in New York, Manhattan? They sold it, okay? So it's four brothers, the oldest brother is married, he's not involved in any of this stuff. Mom and dad came here, they built a security team, a business, and then later on they got into luxury real estate, and I think they were with Douglas Ellman and all these other guys. So, I remember one time I'm looking at this house in Boca, and a house was at $25 million, beautiful house, it was on Rob Report, one of those houses, we're looking at this home, I go in, he's the realtor, and I'm told from a couple of friends in Miami, they're very well-known, strong realtors,

• 1:40:10Speaker 00

  comes in, super arrogant, super entitled, just a very, very horrible vibe from this guy. I walk away, I tell Jen, I said, there's something about, I just don't like this guy. Anyways, I make an offer on the house. I make a 21 million dollar offer on this house. His response is, they're, what do you call it? Their counter is from 25, they come down to 24 and a half million dollars. So let me, you just came back a half a million dollars. I said, forget about it, I'm out. Then he calls my Realtor, which I just saw the other day, Le Bouquet, whatever the place's name is in Palm Beach. They got a restaurant also, the place that we go to when we go to the Hamptons. And, and she says, they came down from 25 to 24, I said, I'm done, I'm out. He keeps calling, he's willing to talk, they said, I'm done, I don't like the way he deals, I'm out.

• 1:40:52Speaker 00

  Pat, and again, calls me, what do they need you to get me back in? I said, nothing, I don't like this guy. I don't do business with morons like him. Don't call me about him, I will never buy a house from, if that guy makes commission, I'm not doing business with them. I walked. You're later, I'm at a house in Miami. I'm looking at a comic book that was selling for 5 million bucks, Ken Griffin has shown me all these, not Ken Griffin. Ken Golden has shown me all these different comic books, baseball cards, Mickey Mantle. Did you go with, maybe you went, I don't know if you went, me and Adam.

• 1:41:21Speaker 04

  I was not there.

• 1:41:21Speaker 00

  Anyways, we're there, he's there. And he walks up to me, he says, ha, ha, ha, did you see what happened with the house? You could have had it, but you should have called me back. I said, no moron, you sold it for 17 million. You should have taken my first offer. You lost 4 million dollars. Don't, don't come to me like this. And he's like, oh, you saw the news? Of course I saw the news. I saw the news. I say, yes, I'm like, get the F out of here, like the way he was just, so that mannerism is just unattractive. I don't know if that means they're gonna do stuff like this. To, to be honest with you, I, I feel terrible about the father. I feel horrible, he's got four kids. Three of your sons that you raised to 18 years old are now gone to prison for 30 flipping years.

• 1:42:03Speaker 00

  Imagine the grandkids, imagine the, what are you having kids for? To do something like this? Are you kidding me? And by the way, like, there wasn't any warning signs for them to sit their asses down and say, you do this, I'm gonna whoop your flipping asses? I don't know, I'm not here to judge, I don't know the father. I'm sure he's going through a lot of pain right now with this, this is not a, for the rest of his life, this father's gonna have to deal with. Any dinner you go to, any restaurant you go to, any event you go to, how you look at that guy?

• 1:42:32Speaker 04

  Oh god.

• 1:42:33Speaker 00

  Then they know who you are. 75% of your kids are criminals and rapists, go ahead.

• 1:42:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, but like, like you touched on earlier, the reality is that he failed somewhere along the way.

• 1:42:41Speaker 00

  There's no way in the world, if three out of your four kids behave like this, and you were not somehow involved.

• 1:42:47Speaker 02

  You know what the problem is, you have a billion dollars.

• 1:42:48Speaker 00

  I don't know, man, maybe I'll jump into conclusion here.

• 1:42:51Speaker 04

  No, what do you mean, you don't, that's not an overnight, huh, what are you guys doing this weekend? I don't know, I'm gonna go rape and record me doing underage, no.

• 1:42:59Speaker 02

  70 times. 70 times, that's a crazy, crazy number.

• 1:43:03Speaker 04

  And Pat, what about the mom? Like, you're a mother, loving, caring, how the hell does that happen?

• 1:43:07Speaker 02

  Serial, systemic. Serial, systemic. Who primed the system? We can stop debating about the father.

• 1:43:18Speaker 00

  The other day.

• 1:43:19Speaker 02

  Something came.

• 1:43:20Speaker 00

  You're right.

• 1:43:20Speaker 02

  From the parents.

• 1:43:21Speaker 00

  The other.

• 1:43:21Speaker 02

  Systemic, what program that's.

• 1:43:23Speaker 00

  The other day, I'm talking to the kids, and I bring up Cornell, what happened? I'm like, okay, you're invited. They invite you to go there and go through the scroll, what are you gonna do? I'm not going, why wouldn't you go? Maybe your friend tells you, you'll never find out, dad, I'm not going. How do you know you're not gonna, now, what, what, what could you do to put you in a position to make a dumb mistake like that? So I'm processing this with them for them to know. Parents have to talk to their kids about this stuff, man. I mean, I grew up in a Middle Eastern family whose parents were afraid to talk about how babies are born. You know, and, and you find out about sex, if you're avoiding these types of conversations, then you go, and then you know what else it is?

• 1:44:01Speaker 00

  Man, I saw something today, I read something today for, send it to Jen, I think every parent, I see this when parents do this, it's such a massive mistake. And you don't, you're trying to explain this to some people, but unfortunately, not everybody subscribes to this mindset, I'll read it to you. And here's what it is, let me see if I saved it or not, did I save it? I thought I saved it. Uh, I sent it to Jen this morning, let me just go on my DMs.

• 1:44:25Speaker 02

  Go for it.

• 1:44:26Speaker 00

  Let me tell you what it says. It talks about what parents with high standards do with their kids. Okay, parents with high standards do with their kids. Here we go. So let me go to the slide one, thank you for your patience, everybody. Here's what it says. It says, something I noticed about parents who raise kids with the dog mentality. The dog mentality, like competitive sports. The difference between raising a kid with drive and high standards, this, and simply being too hard on them is not even close. Uh, Amon Ra, he explains this one father, Brown, grew up with a dad who had very high standards. Amon Ra, Saint Brown, grew up with a dad who had high standards.

• 1:45:11Speaker 00

  John Brown started training his sons when they were young, and people criticized him for being too hard on them. But years later, Amon Ra said he understood that some fathers go too far, he just didn't believe his dad did. His dad was tough when it came down to sports. And Amon Ra, and said he wouldn't change it. Now, I don't think the lesson is be harder on your kids, or train them younger. I think the lesson is much more important. High standard says, I know what you're capable of, being too hard says, why aren't you good enough? Yet, right? Those are not the same thing. High standards still leave room for mistakes, bad games, bad attitude, getting benched, being corrected, losing, struggling, all that stuff.

• 1:45:50Speaker 00

  Because sometimes a lesson isn't found by removing the hard moment, it's found in teaching our kids how to respond to it. That's where I think the dog actually starts, not with the parent constantly pushing, with a kid learning, what am I doing about this? Bad game, what do I need to do differently? Got benched, how do I need to earn back? Someone is better, what do I need to do to improve? And this is where the parenting gets hard. Because when our kids hurt, our first instinct is to what? Often help, fix it, explain and protect them, make it better. Sometimes that's exactly what they need, a hug, encouragement, someone to listen to, but sometimes they need to change, they need to, they need the chance to work through it. Not every uncomfortable moment needs to be removed. Sometimes discomfort is when kids learn, I can handle this, I can adjust, I can keep going.

• 1:46:35Speaker 00

  And maybe that's where our standard should live, effort, preparation, attitude, how they respond to adversity, and not just goals, wins, minutes. We can expect a lot from our kids and still make sure they know they're loved when they fall short. High standards and a safe home can exist together. So what's the point? Sometimes we're too soft on our kids.

• 1:46:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:46:52Speaker 00

  Sometimes we, we see our kids can never make a mistake. The other day, I'm having a conversation with a couple of our friends, and I said, so, hey, how's Dylan doing? How's this, how's, I'm like, listen, you know, the coach did this, yeah, you know, the coaches, as I said, guys, listen, timeout. I'm not part of the camp that everything is the coach's fault. I'm part of the camp, if you're good enough, if you're, you're good enough, you're old enough. So this is not like, well, nope, that's not how it works. I don't feel sorry for my kid to protect them. So sometimes these, these families like this, you don't think there was protection from the.

• 1:47:24Speaker 02

  There was, yes, and no accountability.

• 1:47:25Speaker 00

  Protection from the family? You don't think there's like, you don't think there's that fear of, if I even catch you doing something like that, do you know what's gonna happen when you come home? Oh, it's okay, oh, oh, you got the girl, it's okay. Get the, what are you training these boys to be? So, so I think a part of it is also, men and fathers, how we joke about guys getting girls and boys getting girls, and you have to be very diligent and serious about that topic with your kids, especially with your boys. Or else they're gonna think it's a silly slippery slope. No, no, no, there is no slippery slope here. Because a man with three daughters is capable of doing what, to protect his three girls?

• 1:48:03Speaker 02

  Anything, there's no, you know what you, you touched on, which doesn't exist in society anymore? Rights, rites of passage are gone in society, used to have young men, almost every culture throughout all of history. Used to, used to put men through, young men, through some kind of trial, so that they could understand their strength, understand their limitations, and work through it themselves, and then they would be accepted by the tribe, or by that culture, or by that society as a man, and with that came responsibility. This is a perfect example of men who didn't learn the responsibility of their actions, because they never had a, you know, a right of passage or something that led them to understand, I'm a man now, I'm capable, my actions mean something, I can hurt other people with my actions, and I have to be responsible.

• 1:48:48Speaker 02

  So I think rites of passage is a big thing that has to come back to society. They didn't learn, shared humanity, to treat other people like this, like they're garbage, like meat, something is wrong here, something is big wrong. Excessive money, excessive privilege, excessive, no consequence. And it's just a slippery slope that keeps getting worse and worse and worse. How can you treat another human being like this? And do it repeatedly? The only way you can is, is, like Tom said, there's systemic problems.

• 1:49:12Speaker 00

  Guys, these guys are defective units. I don't like this story. I'm only talking about the story because a year and a half ago, a year ago, we talked about the story, and it's closure on the story, which, we talked about it with Humberto, we gotta get closure on the story. So we're getting closure, I don't like the story. But, you know, as a father and your boys, four feelings. Likability, respect, love, fear. We can put trust there, but let's set trust aside, let's go through them. Too many fathers are too concerned about being liked. Likability is last on my list. I could care less if you like me or not, okay? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a jerk or an asshole, you're around, we're together all the time, but that's not a number one priority.

• 1:49:55Speaker 00

  Respect, love, unconditional love, you're gonna get, because God chose me to be your father. This father with the three boys, you think he still loves his three boys? Of course he does, that's how God created us, it's your kid, right? But I tell you, if as a father, you don't use enough fear, you know, sometimes you just sell the dream and get them to realize they can get away with anything, you're still gonna be there for them? That's a mistake. The mismanagement of how the energy of fear is used, uh, I don't know, I, I, I just really don't like this story. This story really bothers me. Uh, I wanna get to the next one, okay? Next story, get to Tom. Let's talk about Prop 40 and Prop 42 in California. Prop 40 is what Ro Khanna is pushing for, which is wealth tax of 5% on the billionaires,

• 1:50:39Speaker 00

  which ends up being around 8 to 10% because it's unrealized gains after sell stuff to be able to pay the 5% of whatever calculation you come up with and ended up being on the ballot. Prop 42 is out there to do the complete opposite of what Prop 40 is doing. So restriction on new asset taxes. Originally, Ro Khanna and some others in California were pushing for Prop 40. Newsom went behind it and we called him out and we said, "Now you're socialist." He got a lot of pushback and is like, "Holy shit, there's no way I'm gonna be a president. If I'm gonna be fully the DSA side, I have to kinda be independent center-left for me to be able to be a president." We all know that's his dream. He's been a guy that's been wanting to do this for a long time. And so now Ro Khanna is at war with Newsom.

• 1:51:23Speaker 00

  Ro Khanna is at war with Newsom. Tom, what can you tell us about what's going on here with Ro Khanna calling out Newsom and each of their motives?

• 1:51:29Speaker 02

  Well, Ro Khanna denies that he's running for president. He denies that he has an exploratory committee in stealth. He denies he's got money being put together in stealth. Conclusion? He's running. So, you have him preparing a potential run for president and you've got Newsom, who's been running for president since Kennedy was shot. So you've got all this stuff going on there and two key propositions. What was Newsom's first position, Vinny? Remember? "I don't think he's gonna leave the state. This is a great state. Everything we got going on here, the things I've done here, those are my hands. They just move like that." And remember that whole thing from Newsom? Instead, all of a sudden, one of the Google guys is down in Florida and has moved all

• 1:52:13Speaker 02

  of his personal assets. A deal has to get struck to keep Zuckerberg staying in California. And multiple other billionaires, including four key ones related to Oracle, actually moved to Austin. So money did leave. And all of a sudden, now Newsom's catching heat, catching hell on this, and he's unable to get to his talking points about bad Trump, bad orange man, because he's getting tied to Prop 40. He goes silent this summer. Did you notice that? Of course. He goes silent. And then he surfaces again like a monstrous whale that can hold its breath for 20 minutes. Suddenly, he surfaces again and he's there behind Prop 42 and Ro

• 1:52:54Speaker 02

  Khanna is like, "Wait a minute. You..." And he used the word betrayal, Pat. Ro Khanna in a tweet and then verbally used the word betrayal. He feels that he is being betrayed, that the Democrat Party of California is being betrayed.

• 1:53:09Speaker 00

  I actually love the strategy he's got. Believe it or not, whether I agree with Prop 40 or Prop 42, of course, we side with more Prop 42. But I love that he's exposing Newsom because what he's telling the world, Tom, he's telling the world, "You are a flip-flopping, you know..."

• 1:53:25Speaker 02

  "You'll do anything to get there."

• 1:53:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's calling him out. Yeah, which is true. So now, on the other side, again, this was very disturbing when I talked to Pete Buttigieg this week. And I was trying to find out because we know his running. Talented, capable, way more talented than Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris was probably the most obnoxious candidate anyone's ever put on the left or the right, worst candidate ever. She's just hard to listen to. Her voice, you can't blame her voice. One of the worst voices in the world. It's like there's certain voices you can soothing, you can listen to.

• 1:53:55Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:53:56Speaker 00

  You can actually listen to AOC's voice, believe it or not. Forget about like, I'm talking purely voice. If suicide rates will go up for every minute Americans are forced to listen to Kamala Harris's voice, it's that bad. This is my opinion. This is my opinion on what I'm saying. But Pete, I said, "What are you gonna do when people leave California and go to Texas and Florida because of the wealth tax?" He says, "We need the international people's help to make sure nobody can leave to another country. Once we do that, wealth tax becomes nationwide, not statewide." You're going to see wealth tax being an issue that people will be campaigning on in 2028, front and center. The number they said is if we do a 5% wealth tax on billionaires around

• 1:54:39Speaker 00

  the country, they're gonna generate roughly $4.5 trillion. That's what they're pitching. You're gonna see that happening nationwide, Vinny, when they do this. Jeff, any thoughts on this story?

• 1:54:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, we've seen this happen before and Democrats and the people who support that have always gone... They used to call it white flight. People move from the cities to the suburbs, you know, but we're talking about 1950s, 1960s. It wasn't really white flight. People were escaping Democrat policies inside the inner cities because they could vote with their feet. And then we went through a backlash in the 1980s and really the 1990s where you saw these metropolitan area consolidation. They tried to sell this consolidation. What that really was, was realizing that the people who had the ability left the tax jurisdiction and we need to recapture those taxpayers because they left to the suburbs. So if we expand the city to include the suburbs, we've now recaptured all that tax base. That's what they're really talking about. Except now they're talking about creating international

• 1:55:33Speaker 02

  infrastructure to be able to do it, which is really the frightening thought. One of the geniuses of the American experiment has been you can vote at the ballot box or you can vote with your feet. You don't like the policies, you don't think you can win, go someplace. Go to Florida, go to Texas. However, if you're the one enacting those policies, then you have to eliminate that option, which means you have to capture everything and anything in it. Yeah, it touches on the reality. Again, I always talk about reality versus ideology. They're ideologically driven and they try to find ways to counteract the reality-based effects. And the more people try and leave a location to seek a better life, which is literally what the United States is based on, the more they try and compensate by getting more authority. And now they're looking at global authority, which leads us to literally everything we're talking about. It's never, you know, in science, if you have a theory that gets falsified, you

• 1:56:18Speaker 02

  change the theory. That's... They don't have to. It's like, "Okay, you don't like the policies, you left. Well, I'm just gonna adopt my policies wherever you live, wherever you go to." But that's literally the versus reality. They're being exposed to what the truth is, which is that people are not responding well to these policies. They're not having a positive effect. They're not having more net profit for the government and then they're trying to compensate for it.

• 1:56:40Speaker 00

  But let me tell you what Newsom also knows. He was caught on a hot mic with a video of him selling socialist, DSA. What's gonna happen with that? Look what he had to say. Go for it.

• 1:56:51Speaker 03

  Because I'm a younger voter and a lot of us, like, we wanna see the Democratic Party move forward. You know, we don't want more Kamala Harris. We want, you know, more, I guess, democratic socialist policies. Like, where do you see, I guess, the Democratic Party going?

• 1:57:05Speaker 02

  I think it's, I mean, I think no one is arguing to manage the status quo or fail more officially. So I think that the DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, non-incremental change, is very much gonna be dominant. I mean, that's gonna be mainstream Democratic. Absolutely. No question about that. He can't play on the margins anymore. The whole, the system's broken. It's completely unbalanced and he can't, we can't manage with the climate. We have to completely reimagine. He's just going straight out of the World Economic Forum now. Correct. Let's remake the world in our image. Or he stood at the back of the room while other people were giving speeches, by

• 1:57:50Speaker 02

  the way. Yeah. So, I mean, this is the, again, this is the playbook. And I don't see how anyone is surprised by it and I don't see how we're not more united in coming out against it. We're having too much inner fighting. We're disagreeing over things that are irrelevant compared to what they're trying to do. And so long as we're over here bickering, this comes into play. Existential. He laid it out there. He said, "Look, we're not, we're no longer in incremental change. It's radical change." And what they really mean by that is existential. The United States is irredeemably evil. It needs to be destroyed from within. And that's where it goes.

• 1:58:22Speaker 00

  But by the way, here's the thing. What a double dumb move again for him to do. Stand up. Stand up to whatever you believe in. Do you not realize that's your problem? Because you're so vanilla and moving for every flippin' position. This is the first time that CNN said, "We're at this point of where presidential election is..." This is the first time in history where there's not a Democratic leader that's up at 25%. He was at 40, 35%. You've dropped off because nobody knows what the hell you stand for. And I'm a registered independent saying this to you. Of course, I lean center-right. I'm a freedom, freedom of speech capitalist, you know, raise your kids, leave me alone

• 1:59:06Speaker 00

  on the way I wanna raise my kids. Let me do my part. I'm that guy. And you don't even know what you stand for. We're on camera and now you're defending DSA? Like, what do you think? They're gonna vote for you? You think they're gonna come and say, "Oh, let me come vote for you?" That's not how this works.

• 1:59:19Speaker 02

  But he's in an impossible position just from where the party is.

• 1:59:22Speaker 00

  He would do better if he took a position and educated and say, "Here's what we need to do. Be the big boy in the room. Teach. Share history. Sell America and then whatever things you believe in as a Democrat." You can still do that. You can still do that position and lead the way as a center-left to get the independent voters. You're not gonna win going to the far-left side and trying to win those guys over. You're just not. You know how many people in America right now are far-rightists? That some of the stuff they talk about, go ahead and win them over. Go ahead. Go win over Thomas Massey. "Oh, we gotta win over Thomas Massey to win elections." No, you don't. Go, go, we gotta win over... No, you don't. You don't need to do that. The same way you don't need to go out there and do this. They have their own reasons

• 2:00:06Speaker 00

  why they believe in what they believe in. Newsom's campaign is just a mess right now, but what he's doing. Get off Twitter and figure out what the hell you stand for and come back and sell it. Whether we agree with it or not, but core convictions, no more Hollywood acting bullshit that you do that, you know, you're doing to the camera. This doesn't get you to vote, guys, like the stuff you're doing.

• 2:00:28Speaker 04

  Did you see him on... Because Tom made a great point. We haven't seen him or anything. The one thing was he undercover.

• 2:00:34Speaker 00

  Yeah, watch.

• 2:00:35Speaker 04

  And I watched this yesterday three times and I watched it once with no audio. We're gonna play the audio, but it's almost like, Pat, he's possessed and he's like a slithering snake in him.

• 2:00:45Speaker 02

  He's performing. He's been watching all summer to see what are the cues that I have to roll with to get the voting blocks to follow me. It's not about what he believes. It's about his ambition. His ambition is so overriding his sense of integrity. He just wants to tell you what he needs to tell you and he's been watching all summer. He just came above waterline and told you that he's gonna go DSA.

• 2:01:08Speaker 04

  Look at the vibe you get off of him on Jimmy Kimmel. Go ahead, play this.

• 2:01:11Speaker 02

  I mean, look, he does have a bit of a fixation with... Forgive me, people's asses. Yeah, yeah. But, uh, but the only ass I care about is the one we're gonna kick.

• 2:01:23Speaker 04

  Such a fake, phony, like, oh.

• 2:01:27Speaker 02

  I mean, look.

• 2:01:28Speaker 04

  Obviously, I mean, look at the crowd.

• 2:01:30Speaker 00

  By the way, pause it right there. Good-looking guy.

• 2:01:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:01:33Speaker 00

  Perfect hair, the gray and the black.

• 2:01:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:01:36Speaker 00

  The tie, the way he.

• 2:01:37Speaker 04

  The makeup.

• 2:01:38Speaker 00

  He is.

• 2:01:40Speaker 04

  He's the.

• 2:01:40Speaker 00

  The Democrats wish this guy was a little bit more backbone-trimmed so they can really deploy the money behind him, but.

• 2:01:46Speaker 04

  He's kinda Kennedy-esque.

• 2:01:48Speaker 02

  Is there room for a Democrat like that anymore in the party? Is there? That's where we're at, so.

• 2:01:54Speaker 00

  You don't think?

• 2:01:54Speaker 02

  The third-way Democrats are extinct. That, yeah. The third way is what we're really talking about.

• 2:01:58Speaker 00

  What do you mean? You don't think this guy becomes president?

• 2:02:00Speaker 02

  No, I just don't think that. I think the party has shifted fundamentally. I think there's no more room for a class. I think the party, I think all politics has moved toward the left, even the right, except for the fringe on the far right, which is kind of horseshoeing around it on some issues. But I think we've just fundamentally, as a country, moved more, more left. And now there's not more, there's no more room for a classic liberal anymore.

• 2:02:22Speaker 00

  Yeah. Well, we'll see. Let me get to the next story. Next one I want to get to is, uh, Tom, I'm gonna go to Microsoft. Sixty thousand workers buyout. Uh, don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I do want us to talk about on what happened. This is a real number that you're talking about. Microsoft offers buyout to sixty thousand workers as it pours money into AI. So, Microsoft has sixty thousand, roughly, one-quarter global force as a technology and invest more in AI. Offers are available in Canada, India, UK, and the US employees must be the vice president level or below to qualify. This offer gives eligibility to employees who may be considering a future outside of company. A new choice to make that transition now would support.

• 2:03:03Speaker 00

  Amy Coleman, Microsoft Chief People Officer, said in a memo, Microsoft expects to spend $175 billion AI infrastructure, including data centers, in 2026 alone. CFO Amy Hood said in a July earnings call. The exit program is second voluntary buyout Microsoft has offered this year. In May, Microsoft plans to offer buyouts to about eighty-seven fifty, seven percent of its US workforce. In July, the company said it's cutting forty-eight hundred jobs. Microsoft's two-hundred-and-twenty-three thousand employees globally at the end of June, down from two-twenty-eight, two-twenty-three now at the end of 2025. So, Tom, is this a pattern where other companies are gonna follow their leaders well?

• 2:03:40Speaker 02

  I think they have to. Uh, what you're seeing here is, I was just looking for Alphabet. And if you look at what's happened to Alphabet, uh, year-to-date, and I didn't have the stock chart, and the guys back there are probably, um, you know, not ready for it, so sorry about that. But if you take a look at what's, what's going on with Alphabet, um, it's two-eighty-two, uh, in May. Just go back to May, that was four hundred, Pat. So Alphabet's gone from four hundred, a little over four hundred, I think in mid-May, to, um, uh, to two-eighty-two today, two-eighty today. And so you see that's what's going on there. Similar things are going on with Microsoft.

• 2:04:19Speaker 02

  I really think that Alphabet and Microsoft, even though they're trillion-dollar companies with huge power and positions here, they're the adults in the tech world. The new kids are open and are good friends, you know, driving Claude, Anthropic. So you have those as the new kids are going. And now Microsoft, by the way, this is up, this is knocking on a quarter of their global workforce is being asked to step aside. If they don't take it, you will see that it will really be a layoff. The Wall Street Journal accidentally went after it in the headline.

• 2:05:03Speaker 02

  Microsoft, you know, seeks to trim sixty thousand, just don't call it a layoff. So they were basically told by Microsoft PR, hey, it's not a layoff, it's not a layoff, it's not a layoff. And they said it to the point that the Wall Street Journal reporter had enough of it. And there's the headline. Look at this, Pat. Look what the Wall Street Journal did in the headline. Trying to shed a lot of workers, just don't call it a layoff. That's funny. Because Microsoft was trying to sell it to them, it's not a layoff, and they're like, screw you. So people will be given the opportunity to take the package, or then there will be a big layoff that I believe will happen toward the end of the year. Holidays, and because they want to be out there for first-quarter earnings.

• 2:05:45Speaker 02

  Now, what I think, I think Microsoft is gonna be here a long time. They need money. AI needs a lot of money to invest in it and to build it. That's what they need. And they are out there trying to compete as well. Google Gemini is behind Claude. It's behind OpenAI in, um, use and stuff. I use, I was using all three, and actually I now use, um, Gemini the least. And part of the problem with Alphabet, people are getting the low-cost, um, subscription on Claude. Claude is taking from Google Search. People are using Claude for Google Search when it's like, hey, America, you don't need to pay a small token charge to do a search on Claude.

• 2:06:30Speaker 02

  You could just do it on Google for free and deal with the ads. You could do that. But people are actually shifting. So what is happening, I believe the legacy players, Alphabet and Microsoft, are being challenged by the new guys who are about to go public.

• 2:06:44Speaker 00

  Oh, let's see what happens.

• 2:06:45Speaker 02

  And it's a quarter of the company.

• 2:06:46Speaker 00

  And I'm gonna tell you, what's, what's interesting is, they're also realizing you don't need as many employees to be able to get the results that you want. The other day I sat down with Aric Mansour, who is the founder of, uh, co-founder of, uh, Calshi. And you know they're a forty-billion-dollar company officially? Well, you know how many employees they have? Two-hundred-and-fifty.

• 2:07:06Speaker 02

  Jeez.

• 2:07:07Speaker 00

  Forty-billion-dollar company with two-hundred-and-fifty. It's the highest valuation of the company with the least amount of employees.

• 2:07:13Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 2:07:13Speaker 00

  A two, and last year they had around a trillion dollars that was traded on Calshi. One of their positions, which was the World Cup final, that around one-point-three-billion dollars that was traded on that position alone. On Cal, and their number-one trader this year in 2026, you know how much the number-one trader this year made on Calshi? Number-one trader who's in the.

• 2:07:33Speaker 02

  That's part of the interview.

• 2:07:34Speaker 00

  One hundred million dollars he's already made. One, Vinny.

• 2:07:39Speaker 04

  Hundred million?

• 2:07:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, and he said lots of people are making millions on Calshi.

• 2:07:43Speaker 00

  They're trading. You're trading. This is not gambling. It's not like they make money, you lose. You guys are trading a position.

• 2:07:51Speaker 02

  Correct.

• 2:07:51Speaker 00

  They have nothing to do with.

• 2:07:53Speaker 04

  They just take a small percentage.

• 2:07:54Speaker 02

  There's no house.

• 2:07:55Speaker 00

  There's no house.

• 2:07:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, which is why it's better than, in many, it's more profitable than gambling.

• 2:08:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, casinos are furious with them as they're going through this. So anyways, that's the story that we have here with Microsoft. We'll see what happened with it. Let me get to a couple weird stories here. One, let's go to Mbappe. Mbappe is forced to apologize to China. This is the all-time scorer, I believe, in the World Cup. Is he the all-time scorer? Messi's ahead of him. I think he's the number-one all-time scorer. Just lost the Ballon d'Or to, uh, what do you call it? Kane. Messi was fourth. I think he was second. Uh, he was third. And, uh, Lamal was like, uh, uh, uh, second on that list. So here's Mbappe, global soccer star. Kylian Mbappe just apologized to China for a Mao meme.

• 2:08:37Speaker 04

  Wait, what?

• 2:08:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, Mao.

• 2:08:40Speaker 00

  Really? It's purely about, yes, it is. It's about a meme. So this guy's apologizing about a meme and that's it? Yes. So where did this come about? What happened here? Let me go to the story with you to see what happened here. So this guy, uh, Mbappe on Tuesday became the first-latest global sports figure to run a foul of, on China on Tuesday, leading several sponsors to cut ties with him, and a state broadcaster to black out his games. Mbappe then issued an apology in three languages while Spanish soccer league, where he has played since 2024, followed suit to protect the media rights deal. Over a hundred million dollars a year. The international incident kicked off when a clip began circulating of a French interviewer asking Mbappe, if you can find this one,

• 2:09:23Speaker 00

  for the funniest thing he's been seen about himself. The twenty-seven-year-old Real Madrid star answered by describing a meme that features his face on the body of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong. They made a video of a guy, I think this is a, go for it and play the clip. Do you have the clip or just the image? Okay. He said, they made a video of a guy, I think he was a Chinese dictator, and they put my face on him. That's all he said, Vinny.

• 2:09:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, he laughed.

• 2:09:47Speaker 00

  After that, two of Mbappe's corporate partners, uh, the Dong Peng Beverage Company, what a great name, and Menjui Diary quickly cut ties. My comment was ill-judged, and now I understand that it hurt many people in China, Vinny.

• 2:10:02Speaker 02

  How many people did Mao hurt in China? Yeah, I mean.

• 2:10:04Speaker 00

  Mbappe said in a statement released in English, French, and Chinese, I have deep respect for the Chinese people and their history, and I'm sincerely sorry. What do you think about this crazy story?

• 2:10:12Speaker 02

  So it's not the first time we see, you know, money and power controlling what people say. And it's just so crazy that it's over him laughing at a meme, which is objectively a ridiculous.

• 2:10:23Speaker 00

  This is his apology in three languages.

• 2:10:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:10:25Speaker 00

  Just so you have.

• 2:10:26Speaker 04

  But didn't you have the picture of John Cena, which was hilarious?

• 2:10:29Speaker 00

  Can I see the comment from that?

• 2:10:30Speaker 04

  Video of him.

• 2:10:31Speaker 00

  Can you do me a favor? Go to that post they just showed. I just wanna see the comment section, how the audience and fans are reacting to him. Go a little bit lower, zoom in. Okay? So this is, is this the meme? This is all him that he is, Mbappe, go a little bit lower, here's the video. Okay, play that video. And he's speaking in a different language, probably.

• 2:10:56Speaker 02

  I can translate it if I speak French.

• 2:11:00Speaker 00

  That's it. That's what he did. Go a little bit lower. So this meme keeps coming to the Chinese, my name is our hero. Who is this?

• 2:11:06Speaker 04

  How can he be?

• 2:11:07Speaker 00

  Mao uplifted farmers, working class in China. Mao supported the heroic struggle of the Afri, you're kidding me. Who is this person that said this?

• 2:11:14Speaker 02

  Gotta be a CCP.

• 2:11:15Speaker 04

  Please.

• 2:11:15Speaker 00

  Hang on, hang on. Chinese world traveler, journalist, and political commentator.

• 2:11:19Speaker 02

  Let's go back and look at that picture. Mao, shown here in Mobile. Alabama.

• 2:11:25Speaker 00

  Is that Andrew Schultz standing to the left? That looks like Andrew Schultz. What's Andrew doing?

• 2:11:31Speaker 04

  He's been working in the game for a long time.

• 2:11:34Speaker 00

  Was the number one killer in the world history. Go a little bit lower.

• 2:11:37Speaker 04

  That just sounds like Schultz's street fight.

• 2:11:38Speaker 00

  What a you you caved so quickly. No wonder France surrendered to the Nazis in just six weeks during World War Two. You and your team are incredibly naive. You clearly have no idea that China is the ultra nationals little pinks operate. These people believe in one thing above all else. Might makes right according so apologizing so quickly. One on you. Wow. Jeff, what do you have with this one?

• 2:11:59Speaker 02

  This is absolutely ridiculous in every single way possible, but yet so on brand for where we are is, you know, society, right?

• 2:12:08Speaker 02

  John Sheena.

• 2:12:11Speaker 02

  Look, Mao was a dictator. He was one of the biggest killers that we've ever seen.

• 2:12:15Speaker 04

  How many deaths are attributed to Mao?

• 2:12:17Speaker 02

  The low end, the low end is 20 million.

• 2:12:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:12:20Speaker 02

  The low end, the high end could be, you know, 100.

• 2:12:22Speaker 04

  It's 800, yeah.

• 2:12:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, for him to say, I think the bigger problem here is what you said, that the Spanish league was forcing him to apologize. What the? How could you not stand up for your star there? This is like a layup, or at least it should be. And it comes down to money.

• 2:12:36Speaker 04

  They're seeing immediate consequence.

• 2:12:37Speaker 02

  No, I understand. It's exactly, and I know I understand the dynamic here. But again, that's why I say it's a reflection on us as a society, what would actually move things here when it really should be. He said something that was true. First of all, it didn't really matter. This was a joke. It wasn't anything serious. So we.

• 2:12:52Speaker 04

  By the way, his language in French.

• 2:12:54Speaker 02

  It wasn't even a joke. It was kind of an aside. Oh, see, they put my face on a Chinese dictator. Yeah. It was an aside. He wasn't trying to make an upfront. He wasn't making a political statement. He wasn't speaking to the microphone after, you know, World Cup or anything like that. It was just an aside. And to show you how sensitive China is with the sponsors in there, there they go. And because it is true, Mao did kill all those people. It took the knockoff golf club industry decades to recover.

• 2:13:22Speaker 00

  All right, let's, let's do two more, two more stories and we're wrapping up. Yankees.

• 2:13:26Speaker 04

  Tom's got jokes.

• 2:13:27Speaker 00

  Yeah. Yankees, Tom. Jorge Posada comes and says he doesn't feel welcome in the dugout. He doesn't feel welcome in the Yankees. And people are like, wait, what? Jorge Posada is not welcome? Play this clip. Go for it. You want to do it?

• 2:13:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, I, Joe, it's gotta be the right. I mean, I could, uh, but I, but I don't think they, they want me there. To the truth, uh, so.

• 2:13:54Speaker 00

  Why not?

• 2:13:55Speaker 02

  I, I don't feel welcome when I go there, you know, even in spring training, I don't feel like, you know, I'm just like,

• 2:14:04Speaker 02

  like I, I don't know, like, I don't feel welcome. I don't feel like they want me there, so I don't go.

• 2:14:10Speaker 00

  And where do you think that flows from? Who, what, what, I mean, you're, you're a five time, you're an historic Yankee.

• 2:14:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I don't know, uh, you know, what happened. Uh, I'd rather just move forward. Uh, my last season of the, of my career was a really tough one, uh, when it comes to handling everything in my part and also the Yankees, you know, uh, towards Jorge Posada. So it's, it's tough to, you know, to go back and, and feel that again.

• 2:14:45Speaker 00

  Okay, so part of the history here, Tom, I think the audience needs to know about the history of what happened back in 2011. They moved him, you know, from the, where he was hitting to the ninth hitter. He says, hey, I want to be moved out. DH, him and Cashman had issues, him and the skipper had issues at the time. So there is some history on the way it ended his career as a Yankee. So that friction is there, but that's on Cashman to be able to build that relationship with him and say, can we have the conversation? See what I can use you? And then yesterday, not yesterday, when the Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series, the, the.

• 2:15:19Speaker 04

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  Pat Murphy is the skipper and he knows he's about to lose a couple of his guys to.

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  You gotta read the caption, what he said. There's ones with caption, you play, I think this is the one that.

• 2:18:07Speaker 04

  He's basically saying, Pat, remember.

• 2:18:08Speaker 00

  When you go to the Yankees, just remember.

• 2:18:11Speaker 04

  This is how we want it.

• 2:18:12Speaker 00

  This is how you win.

• 2:18:14Speaker 04

  You win it here.

• 2:18:15Speaker 00

  How you win it here.

• 2:18:17Speaker 04

  And you know what he says? He says, you ain't going to get rid of me that fast. He goes, you're going to be a rich effort. Just remember when you're on that horse shit, sorry for my language, Yankees team, and you're all, all, all playing for yourselves. Just remember, this is the way, uh, you do it. Which, by the way, just, just throwing this out there, the fact that, and I know, Tom, you have a lot to say about this, like, there's a manager celebrating with his players who used to be a Yankee. Bauer used to be a Yankee. Uh, the example of a team of where everybody plays for themselves. That's the reputation that we're talking about for the Yankees right now. And so Jorge Posada and then Tom, I'll, I'll, I'll pass it to you. For everybody that doesn't know, 17 years with the Yankees.

• 2:18:58Speaker 04

  That's not a little chunk, a little stint, three year, four year, that somebody else buys your contract, you leave. Four World Series, five time All-Star, five Silver Sluggers. More postseason games than any catcher in MLB history. He's a part of the core four. Can you imagine with that type of resume? That's like Troy Aikman not being able to go to Cowboy Stadium, Pat, because they're like, yeah, we don't, we don't need you anymore. I don't care what the hell type of arguments are happening. That's unbelievable. Okay, but I think, I think there's a much deeper problem, Pat, than just the injuries, the bad manager decisions and, and, and all that stuff. And it's not just Posada. CC Sebastian said, uh, what did he say last week? They, what happened to the standard?

• 2:19:41Speaker 04

  He goes, you know, if, if a player doesn't hustle the first base, you take them out of the game. If your player, your second baseman, Jazz Chisholm.

• 2:19:51Speaker 04

  Pat, if I told you 10 years ago, uh, how a Steinbrenner would be cool with the player eating a lollipop at second base during a game? You'd laugh in my face. You wouldn't believe that it's happening. So it, it just drives me, but besides the injuries and the bad decisions by Boone and the, all that stuff, all the mental mistakes, all that stuff. There's a culture problem. If somebody like Jorge Posada doesn't feel welcome and there's a vibe and it's awkward in the clubhouse, Pat, there's something wrong. Okay, the Yankees used to represent something meaningful, discipline, excellence. Okay, you want that standard back? Start respecting the legends who helped create it in the first place.

• 2:20:33Speaker 04

  Hold players accountable and remind everybody in that clubhouse that's wearing the pinstripes. It's supposed to mean something because right now, as a, Pat, diehard Yankee fan, I know you know this, something's off. Something's off. Even when they said Cashman staying in Boone, it's just an energy like, yeah, whatever. Besides the money, what was the evaluation? 16 billion dollars? Great, that makes me happy for, for the organization. But the culture, the, that's the vibe. It ain't, it, it's not good.

• 2:21:02Speaker 00

  Tom.

• 2:21:02Speaker 02

  Number one, you're right about the culture and everybody in MLB knows it and Pat Murphy just whispered in the ear of a player during a World Series celebration. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. Point one. Point two, Posada's last year was not handled well. It happens in sports. It's really unfortunate. It happens to a five-time, the number, the guy who's caught more games in postseason history than anybody else. I had, I always had tremendous respect for Jorge Posada. You know why? He was never arrogant. He was never full of crap. As a Dodger fan and any other fan, you know, I was never in my heart rooting for the Yankees, but I always, I'll tell you the truth. I always had respect for him because of who he was as a catcher and how he maintained himself. And I always

• 2:21:46Speaker 02

  had respect for Jeter. And you go look at what they have in common. They weren't dicks. Excuse me for saying that. They weren't. And they were leading teams. They, you take a look at Joe Montana and the transition to Steve Young, not handled particularly well. But then Steve Young and they went forward and they won another Super Bowl with Steve Young. So the, the team-

• 2:22:04Speaker 00

  It's never easy. You gotta do it though.

• 2:22:06Speaker 02

  It's not hard.

• 2:22:07Speaker 00

  And by the way, the, the, the part about here is like the relationship you have with Cashman and Boone, it's a tough decision, but you gotta make the decision and you gotta move on. And sometimes that's not going to be an easy thing for the organization to do, but it's, listen, everybody has an opinion. Everybody is a, what do they call him? Uh, something quarterback?

• 2:22:26Speaker 02

  Monday, Monday morning.

• 2:22:27Speaker 00

  Monday morning quarterback. Everybody has their own opinions. You don't know what, what's going on in there, but you know what, you know what doesn't lie? Results doesn't lie. And the market looks at the results and the results is you haven't won one since oh nine. You can say whatever you want to, you haven't won one since oh nine.

• 2:22:39Speaker 02

  Can I finish with one point?

• 2:22:40Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:22:42Speaker 02

  You lost the World Series in the fifth inning on a complete defensive breakdown to the Dodgers in 2004. And then look at game two at the ALDS this year. It hasn't been fixed in two years.

• 2:22:52Speaker 00

  Four errors. Yeah.

• 2:22:53Speaker 02

  Yep. Mic drop.

• 2:22:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, done. Normally other people will say, mic drop. I'll do, I'll do a pass for it. Mic drop. That, I mean, it's like-

• 2:23:01Speaker 02

  No, but it didn't have to be to all the people that love their Yankees.

• 2:23:04Speaker 00

  Too much when you're doing something like-

• 2:23:05Speaker 02

  Look, they let down their fans.

• 2:23:06Speaker 00

  Careful when you're talking about the Yankees would, anyways, forgive Tom for that, but I want to wrap up with this. Okay. You guys know, part of us, man, we love pranks. And when somebody pulls a good prank, I have a lot of respect for him. This guy pulls up to this guy in Walmart or, you know, Target, he takes a picture of him pulling up in the parking lot.

• 2:23:24Speaker 02

  So he's following this guy?

• 2:23:25Speaker 00

  Yeah, no, no. He's, yeah, hilarious. He ends up taking a picture and using AI saying, I'm sorry, I hit your car. This man panics, Vinny. You're about to cry and pee in your pants. Go for it.

• 2:23:36Speaker 02

  Sir, is this your car? I'm sorry. I just, I had too many buzz balls this morning. No, no, I got, yeah, yeah. I'm not gonna run. That's why I come to you.

• 2:23:47Speaker 00

  The guy's holding him.

• 2:23:48Speaker 02

  He's arresting him. What are you doing? He's holding me hostage. Do you have insurance?

• 2:23:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:23:54Speaker 02

  Well, I don't.

• 2:23:55Speaker 00

  Ah!

• 2:23:56Speaker 02

  Myself.

• 2:23:57Speaker 00

  Wait, wait, go.

• 2:24:01Speaker 02

  It's over there.

• 2:24:02Speaker 00

  No, wait, go there.

• 2:24:03Speaker 02

  What are you talking about, dude?

• 2:24:06Speaker 00

  You realize? You right away know he's behind me.

• 2:24:11Speaker 02

  That's pretty, by the, that is, it's clever, but it's really, really messed up. The AI pranks are getting out of hand. Did you see the one of the, the guy who takes a picture of like people who are like falling asleep or whatever, and then he has someone coming and making out with them? And he's like, what, who are you making? And they're like, what is this? Did you make out with this guy? Saw him over there. I mean, this, this, this is going to be very dangerous in the next couple of years, bro. Especially for older people. Just wait till this is divorce court and it's stuff you never did. Yeah. We need to find out how we find out.

• 2:24:42Speaker 00

  AI will be able to figure out divorce. Tom, you weren't like penetrate, like-

• 2:24:44Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm saying is wait till this stuff starts happening and causing real trouble for people. It's not a prank. And we need-

• 2:24:51Speaker 00

  I think it's gonna be, I think-

• 2:24:53Speaker 02

  It will be fun in the beginning.

• 2:24:55Speaker 00

  Don't incriminate yourself, but I'm just saying like there's certain things that divorce court, all that stuff. Look, for those of you guys that are watching, if you ended up getting your limited edition hats, great. If not, there's still some supply left on the other ones as well. Go to FLB.com, place the order. If not, you will only be able to get these things on eBay. God bless. Have a great weekend. We'll do it again next week. Take care, everybody. Bye bye, bye bye.

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