Lindsey Graham's Death, New Iran Strikes & Mamdani's Map Controversy | PBD Podcast #831

Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team discuss Senator Lindsey Graham's death and what it means for Washington, Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI and the latest developments involving Elon Musk in the AI race, Zohran Mamdani's controversial immigration map, Alex Karp's warning about artificial intelligence, and Trump's housing bill. 🎟️ SECURE YOUR 2026 VAULT TICKETS: https://bit.ly/4xU2SCW 🧢 SHOP THE BLACK & GOLD FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT HAT: https://bit.ly/4pe7gZh 🧢 FLB Florida HAT: https://bit.ly/4fdxPJB 🧢 FLB California: https://bit.ly/3Tw58jI 🧢 FLB New York: https://bit.ly/4f7Y3gt 🧢 FLB New Texas: https://bit.ly/4wwOIpu 🦁 SPONSOR THE VAULT 2026: https://bit.ly/4mFBPpw Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 🇰 KALSHI: http://kalshi.com/pbd SUBSCRIBE TO: @VALUETAINMENT @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

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  Okay, I think it's fair to say it was a busy weekend, a lot of stuff happened and on top of a lot of stuff happening, also this coach, there's a massive coach feud going on with Bellingham in England, which is a very, very interesting story. World Cup, of course, we'll cover that as well. Lindsey Graham, may he rest in peace, died at 71 years old. Right after coming back on his 10 trip from Kiev, Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken, and he made the phone call to the president. And then boom, we heard the story. There's a lot of people that are saying good, bad things, conspiracy theories. We'll get into that and there's one message, one speech he gave defending Kavanaugh that Vinnie showed me yesterday. I couldn't believe it.

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  While I'm sitting there, it's one of the best things I've heard a senate say in a long time, defending his own camp and doing it in such an eloquent way. Uh, but again, he's a conflict, a complicated individual. Mitch McConnell, same thing. They hadn't heard him speak. For a minute and eventually he posts something with a newspaper holding up and there's a lot of memes going on. A lot of people are having a lot of fun with Mitch McConnell. One of the meme was him dancing. One of the memes was him with Elvis Presley and Tupac and all these guys. And then a lot of people asked and said, you know, Beatles breakup. Yeah. A lot of people asked and said, why don't you just post a video instead of a newspaper holding? But I mean, how much there is to it? Who knows? I can tell you, he's already stated last year that he's retiring.

• 1:44Speaker 01

  January 1st of 2027 and he's not seeking reelection. So his job's going to be going to somebody anyway. So for conspiracy theorists, it's, it's a fun story to go through. We will. We're glad he's doing better and he's with his wife.

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  Rubio, I think last week we showed a story, Vinnie, of the fellow Laotian man. Who allegedly, not allegedly, he did rape his wife's sister who was 10 years old. And she didn't file any charges and Tim Walz is like, well, it's just their culture. Leave the man alone, you know, if she, she doesn't want to file anything, it's okay. Uh, Marco Rubio doesn't play around. He came out and said, listen, you're getting deported, you child rapist, you. Yes. No hesitation. I don't care if you put the fear of death into the 10 year old girl at the time. That you ended up marrying his, or her sister. And whether they're okay with you or not, we're not okay with that in America. Get the hell out of here.

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  And that's my interpretation of how he said it. Marco, Marco said it more eloquently, but, but I'm just kind of interpreting a little bit. You're a lay out it here. What? Yeah, exactly. And then aside from that Iran and, and US, a nasty situation. Uh, uh, obviously this memorandum of understanding is going very smoothly. Everything's working out. They're, they're attacking left and right and it's not looking good. It's not looking good. What's going on there? And you should hear what the state TV of Iran was saying when Lindsey Graham was dead. Celebrating and a bunch of other people celebrating with that, but uh, he was one of the guys that was helping out. Reza Pahlavi a lot. And so, you know, with potentially doing things to liberate Iranians. And so they do not like Lindsey Graham, but there's a lot of nasty things going on. They,

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  Iran attacked, I believe Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, a few different places, Oman and a few other places. And so we're, we're in the middle of the 30 day, the 60 day that they said they're going to negotiate. It's not going well in the first 30 days. So we'll see what happened there. Mamdani was allegedly supposed to meet with the ambassador of Iran. Not a big deal. I didn't check my schedule. I don't know. I didn't, I didn't know. And we're supposed to believe, yeah, I didn't know. My, my, my team's doing it, you know, I don't know. Like, let's just say if I got a big meeting. You don't think I know my big meetings. What do you think? Oh, well, hey, Mr. President, I don't know. Hey Ambassador, whatever. I don't know. Right? And then State Department's like, what the hell are you doing? Get out the way. You're not going to go meet with those guys. Do you understand what you're doing here? And then he makes a few comments about, you know, different parts of New York. This, this is,

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  What do you think is going to happen if I go home and I can use? So then the first university in America right now that is no longer allowing, uh, devices in the, in the classroom is University of Chicago Law School. Good for them. We don't want devices in here. I think that's a great idea. You, you guys got to learn instead of just relying on that, you know, technology to do all that stuff for you. Netflix is exploring going live TV. It looks like they want to compete with Hulu in that area, but you know, it could or could not be a good strategy. I think I like it, but we'll see what happened. A couple of good soccer stories. Rich Paul says, if LeBron James joined Steph Curry, they would terrify Warriors opponents. I fully disagree. You know, LeBron James is glued to the TV and is envious of one thing.

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  Watching World Cup, that these people in World Cup are better floppers than him. The only people in the world that are better floppers than, than LeBron James are soccer players. Honestly. Can you imagine LeBron as a soccer player? You touch him, he falls, holds his hands, just looking through his eyes to see if the referees looking or not. Yeah. So I got some thoughts on that. Obviously. He get yellow cards. Yeah, yeah. We won't go to Adam on thoughts on the NBA stuff, but we will give you some insight on what's going on. And then Gavin Newsom says Elon Musk owes him an apology. He owes Californians an apology. You know, and, and he was asking a question about his taxes. It's like, well, you know, I always, I always do my taxes and all this stuff. But Elon wasn't too friendly with Elon and uh, we'll address that part. There's an article that came out from CNBC saying,

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• 10:03Speaker 01

  We get the news, um, seventy-one years old, dies on a flight back. He comes back from Kiev, Ukraine, tenth trip that he has. He calls the president. They're having a call together. While they're having a call together, you know, goes back to his hotel room in the morning, wakes up, we hear the story that he is, you know, at eight-thirty in the morning, um, when he returns back, eight-thirty PM, when he returns back from, um, Washington DC, there's a call, emergency medical services receives a call, uh, reporting a man with severe chest pains at Graham Capitol Hill residence. Within twenty-five minutes, dispatch audio reveals emergency personnel are performing CPR. And then he's transported to George Washington University Hospital where he is pronounced dead. And then his office issued a public

• 10:47Speaker 01

  statement early Sunday morning confirming his passing due to a brief and sudden illness. Uh, apparently the, the story that you keep hearing about from a lot of people is the aorta tear that took place. So now again, with a personality like him, a lot of people would say, well, he was John, you know, he's like John Bolton. He was a, all he wanted to do was military war. Originally he was against Trump. He was this, totally get it. And people have the right to their own opinions. And then the other side, a lot of people said, hey, this guy was trying to make a lot of people in Iran and he was playing a role in making sure I or G C wasn't going to be there. Wherever your position is, is at, may he rest in peace. There's a moment, and I first want to show you the Trump phone call, if you have that. He gets a call, uh, from Lindsey Graham. When he lands, this is twelve

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  hours before he dies, he called the president and had a call together. And this is, uh, right here. If you want to play this clip, go for it.

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• 13:52Speaker 07

  Thank you for joining us and my condolences to you.

• 13:56Speaker 08

  Well, thank you. He's a tough one to lose. He's, he was great. He was unique in every way, actually.

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  He was, Mr. President, and I know that we are all just absorbing this news. We are all in shock. Can you tell us, Mr. President, how you received this news and your immediate gut reaction when you heard it?

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  So what makes it even stranger is that I got a call last night sometime in, you know, the early evening, maybe in the sevens. And he called and he said, we're all set for the Save America Act. He was pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back, said he just landed from Ukraine. I said, that's a long trip to make. He said, he sounded a little tired, but perfect, but a little bit tired. I had a right to be. And he was a worker. He was really a worker, but, uh, but he sounded great, actually. But he was, he was, uh, he actually said he was tired. But he, he wanted to pass the Save America Act. And I said, well, we're going to get it done, Lindsey. We're going to get it done.

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  So Tom, your thoughts on the, the passing of Lindsey Graham?

• 15:04Speaker 09

  Well, first of all, um, it doesn't matter which side of the aisle you were on. Um, you know, you recognized, you know, our statesmen, you recognize these people with respect. You may not agree with them, but you recommend, recognize their life of service with respect. And what has disgusted me is the people that were just, you know, dancing on the grave and being, you know, so happy about it, good riddance and all that. I just, there's no place for that. There is zero place for that. Um, everybody has an opportunity to flip and change. Everybody has an opportunity to, to, you know, find religion, find faith, whatever it is they find, and come to the other side. And they're just one moment, one day away from that. And so first I was disgusted, but then I sat back and I decided I wasn't going to be angry and I was just going to consider the man. And I considered the things

• 15:49Speaker 09

  he did. I considered, Benny, you found it, um, the amazing, full-throated, um, you know, defense that he gave at the Kavanaugh hearing. Um, J six, you know, it's very interesting. I was speaking to some people, um, at Trump International Golf Course. And what they told me, they said during J six, uh, that whole area, that Lindsey Graham was coming down, um, coming down to Mar-a-Lago, and he was coming down almost weekly. And he wasn't there, you know, playing golf, partying or anything like that. He was down there supporting, you know, his colleague, supporting Trump, who was under siege after what happened with J six. And that shows you that he had a sense of loyalty to him. And what was interesting

• 16:34Speaker 09

  to me is, these were just the regular people, you know, that are, uh, these weren't, in other words, these aren't politicians or like that. These were people that are saying, wow, it was amazing when this was going on. You could see the loyalty that he had. You could see the dedication he had, um, you know, for Trump. And how many people, I don't care if you're critical, can you look around in your life and find people that are that loyal to you? I don't care if you like, love or didn't love Lindsey Graham. If you don't look around yourself and see people that are that loyal to you, then guess what you don't have? You don't have true friends. And this guy, I'm just, I feel a sense of loss.

• 17:11Speaker 01

  Respectfully, a lot of people would say, this guy was very critical of Trump in the past. This, this, this guy, so, so the, the part of the audience, there's, there's, there's a few things to isolate, in my opinion. Number one, hey, guess what? You know, the man died. He's no longer here with us. Come say, come say, give me, give me a kiss, baby. You're so funny. Just came in to say hi. And then we can go back. Who loves you, babe? Okay. Hello, Brooklyn. So, uh, um, but you know, a lot of people are saying this guy on one end, um, was, you know, critical of the president for a long time. And then all of a sudden later on, now you're coming saying this. So let's isolate. One, yes, made a man rest in peace.

• 17:51Speaker 01

  But on the other side, you know, he was also not somebody that, uh, was necessarily loved by a hundred percent of Republicans. Now, the one thing that I will tell you that is very interesting is this clip that you shared with me yesterday. You want to talk about what's going on over here?

• 18:05Speaker 10

  So guys, um, and I want to say this because Tom made a great point, like criticize left, right, whatever. His defense of Brett Kavanaugh, when he's trying to get the seat, the Supreme Court Justice, is one of the most defining moments in his political career. And at the time, it was one of those like, uh, um, moments where you're like, oh my God, this dude. And by the way, look at the people around him. He's quiet. So he's trying to become, he's trying to get a seat and they, they had the, you know, uh, Dr. Blasey Ford came up and had this whole rape allegation from high school. And little did they know that this guy had literally every single day on a calendar for years, every single thing that he did. So it didn't add up. They tried to destroy him, just like Clarence Thomas, because this is how Washington does. And if, guys, I'm telling you right now,

• 18:50Speaker 10

  and Tom made a great point. If you are, you know, letter of recommendation or whatever you want, you want somebody like Lindsey Graham, love him or hate him, or his mind changed about Trump or whatever. This is the guy that you want in your corner, talking for you. This is a freaking, um, a letter of recommendation beyond a letter of recommendation. So he's sticking up for him after what the...

• 19:12Speaker 01

  Can we watch it? Go for it.

• 19:14Speaker 11

  If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us. What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in twenty twenty. You've said that. Not me. You've got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said all, because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. Are you a gang rapist?

• 19:56Speaker 12

  No.

• 20:00Speaker 11

  I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham. That you knew about it and you held it.

• 20:13Speaker 01

  The allegations are great.

• 20:14Speaker 11

  You had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford. None. She's as much of a victim as you are. God, I hate to say it, because these have been my friends. But let me tell you, when it comes to this.

• 20:28Speaker 11

  You're looking for a fair process? You came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend. Do you consider this a job interview?

• 20:38Speaker 12

  The advice and consent role is like a job.

• 20:40Speaker 11

  You consider that you've been through a job interview?

• 20:44Speaker 12

  I've been through a process of advice and consent under the Constitution, which.

• 20:48Speaker 11

  Would you say you've been through hell?

• 20:50Speaker 12

  I've been through, uh, hell and then some.

• 20:54Speaker 11

  This is not a job interview.

• 20:56Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 20:57Speaker 11

  This is hell.

• 20:58Speaker 12

  This, this.

• 20:59Speaker 11

  This is going to destroy the ability of good people to come forward because of this crap. Your high school yearbook.

• 21:10Speaker 11

  You have interacted with professional women all your life.

• 21:13Speaker 01

  Powerful.

• 21:13Speaker 11

  Not one accusation.

• 21:14Speaker 01

  Not one. Here it comes.

• 21:15Speaker 11

  You're supposed to be Bill Cosby when you're a junior and senior in high school.

• 21:21Speaker 11

  And all of a sudden, you got over it.

• 21:24Speaker 11

  It's been my understanding.

• 21:25Speaker 01

  Look, if you.

• 21:27Speaker 11

  And if you drug women and raped them for two years in high school, you probably don't stop. Here's my understanding. If you lived a good life, people would recognize it. Like the American Bar Association has the gold standard. His integrity is absolutely unquestioned.

• 21:47Speaker 01

  It's solid. I mean, you can pause it right here. It's just a powerful messaging of Lindsey Graham. Again, in this business, the guy served in the military over 30 years, right? I think he was, uh, three plus decades that he was in there and he did his work. And hard, one of the hardest working guys out there, but the market reacted to it in a very different way. There's a lot of negative things that were said about him as well. So I don't know if you want to get into that.

• 22:07Speaker 10

  Yeah. So, and, and just, I'm happy you brought that up, Pat. 30 years in Congress and in a city where politicians like Nancy Pelosi amassed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Guess what he left? He died with a net worth of 1.5 million dollars. That's nothing for 30 years. But then you have ghouls and Pat, these are disgusting human beings. Margaret Cho on Lindsey Graham's death. Umberto, can you bring that up? And I'll say it while he's looking for it. She said, "Bye, Lindsey. From the closet to the coffin." Think about, and again, guys, going off of what Pat said. I don't care how you felt about somebody, if they love somebody, if they hated somebody, his policies or whatever. This is a human being made in the image of God and he is dead.

• 22:52Speaker 10

  For you to say stuff like, "From the closet to the coffin," where you have it for, put Margaret Cho. Margaret Cho, I sent it in the, in the Slack. Is a disgusting thing to do and it says so much about your soul. And this is coming from the, it's not the majority. It's everybody from the left that is speaking on him. Um, a little bit higher, higher, higher, right there. That's Margaret Cho. And then you can show the other one. Guys, this is Margaret Cho, the comedian, talking about somebody that just died. Go ahead.

• 23:20Speaker 13

  Bye, Lindsey. Bye, Lindsey Graham. Um,

• 23:26Speaker 13

  from the closet to the coffin. Real seamless. Real seamless.

• 23:31Speaker 01

  Her dog even hates it.

• 23:32Speaker 13

  Also, yeah. Mitch McConnell. So it's Mitch McConnell. Lindsey Graham. It does happen in threes.

• 23:38Speaker 10

  Does happen in threes. You know, she's wanting, she wants Trump. That's innuendo, wanting Trump to die. And by the way, her dog, sounds like he's asking for help in the background. Uh, and then, and then Umberto, go down. Guys, listen to me. I know we talk, always talk about evil and demons and all that stuff. Look at this person's eyes when they're talking about death of another human being. And tell me there's not something disgusting and dark in this person's life. Go ahead.

• 24:03Speaker 14

  I woke up this morning and found out Lindsey Graham is dead.

• 24:07Speaker 10

  Jeez.

• 24:09Speaker 14

  Mitch McConnell is dead.

• 24:11Speaker 10

  No, he's not.

• 24:13Speaker 14

  There's two more that needs to go, if you know what I'm saying. But what a wonderful morning. Praise be Allah.

• 24:22Speaker 10

  Yeah, praise be Allah. Praise be Allah. So that, so just to give everybody a context, Pat, and then, Pat, if you don't mind, this, this, this whole thing with Lindsey, because you know, all the conspiracy theorists were out there. Uh, he had what, they basically said in layman's terms, when he tours Iord, it's like aortic dissection due to something cardiovascular disease. Okay? That's going.

• 24:43Speaker 01

  Heart disease.

• 24:43Speaker 10

  Heart disease, Tom. It happened to, uh, who's the threes company guy? I forgot.

• 24:47Speaker 01

  John Ritter.

• 24:47Speaker 10

  John Ritter. They get a tear in his aorta. And guys, this is from people that are just working and they're doing so much. And you're not checking on your health. And I'm telling everybody right now, from experience, if you're over 40, stop putting it off. Get yourself checked out. There's too many people that ignore the warning signs. Okay. Then they find out when it's too late and a lot of these diseases can be treated if you're, if you catch them early. And this is a message for everybody, wherever you are listening to this. If you're overweight, start taking care of yourself. Okay? If you're sitting around, get moving. And if you're struggling with addiction, today is the day to get better. Stop saying, and I love Pat, what are the odds that you did it for the Vol ad? Stop saying, "I'll do it tomorrow." Because tomorrow turns into next week. Next week turns into a month.

• 25:31Speaker 10

  Next month turns into a year. And I know because I've been there. Okay? And if you're struggling with addiction today, do it. Okay? Get sober because it's the best decision. You feel me?

• 25:40Speaker 01

  That's very good. Very good message. Adam, your thoughts?

• 25:44Speaker 15

  Well, Vinny, number one, I'm glad that you're, uh, doing so well and I appreciate the message. Uh, rest in peace, Lindsey Graham. Uh, Lindsey Graham was a political gangster. So you know, the kids say that he stood on business. He stood 10 toes down. That's what Lindsey Graham did. Some people didn't like it. Obviously, you have some disgusting people uh, cheering for his death. Anna Kasparian, you could show that, our old friend. But there's a lot of red-blooded, loving Americans who understand what he did for our country. So he was the number one Republican voice, you could argue, on national security and foreign policy. Some people say he was a hawk. But that was his job. His job was to ring the alarm bells and say, Iran's trying to kill us. China's trying to slit our throat.

• 26:28Speaker 15

  Russia wants to basically take over Europe and basically we're next. Uh, stability through strength, peace through strength. That was his job. And then his coup de grace, we, you saw it earlier, was what he did with Brett Kavanaugh. Sometimes, when, you know, like, you, we might have to read our notes a little bit. We might have to check notes. This dude just looked straight in the camera and was like, "This is what's going on. Here's what you need to know. This is the deal." That's how you know somebody's serious. At the end of the day, what I'm going to remember Lindsey Graham for was there's a lot of people that talk trash, but they're not in the game. This dude was in the arena. He might not agree with everything that Trump did or the Republican establishment, establishment did. But this guy was there every single day and he's gone way too soon. 71 years old.

• 27:14Speaker 15

  We have people in their 80s, almost 90s in Congress, gone way too soon and he'll be missed.

• 27:18Speaker 01

  And by the way, while this has happened, Mitch McConnell posted a note out there and a picture of he and his wife to make sure everybody is not thinking that he's, a lot of people are like, "Maybe he's dead. He's dead. I think he's dead. He's not dead." He posted a picture with he and his wife and put a note out there. I don't know whether he wrote this or not. If you want to zoom in on the picture, uh, if you want to get, zoom in on the picture a little bit. If you'll see, they have the newspaper to the left to kind of show what the timing is and he's explaining how he had a fall. He wasn't doing well. He's gone there. He's recovering. He says, "I still have some work to do. I'm not stepping down and da, da, da, da, da." But at the same time, he's already expressed last year that he's not, no longer seeking reelection after January 2027. So his seeds will be taken over by somebody else. And the, this, the one thing about AI, man, AI knows how to have a lot of fun.

• 28:03Speaker 01

  You want to play some of these clips on what AI did? I, I'm, just, just so you know how the market works. Now, look at this one here. I mean, just love, I mean, if you have a sense of humor, this is what people wanted to make sure he's doing well. You know, it's, watch out for the music.

• 28:18Speaker 10

  Blow the music.

• 28:19Speaker 01

  So.

• 28:19Speaker 10

  Blow the music.

• 28:20Speaker 01

  Now, look.

• 28:21Speaker 10

  There you go.

• 28:21Speaker 01

  Some people are saying.

• 28:22Speaker 10

  You can find much McConnell in the club.

• 28:24Speaker 01

  Some people are saying that's AI. Some are saying it's real. I'm saying it's AI, you know, but at the same time, you know, we're glad he's doing okay and his position will probably go to somebody else here soon. In regard to the South Carolina one, what happens next is the governor of South Carolina has to replace him with somebody, but they still have to do a primary, which means there has to be an element of, uh, somebody on the Republican side to be able to fight for Lindsey Graham's position. I think right now it's 53 to 47. Uh, you know, and it kind of brings it down to 52, 47. So on the Senate, they definitely need every one of them. So there's some very moving, you know, moving parts on the, on the power plays that people have to pay close attention to. Both of these guys, they're watching it very, very closely.

• 29:07Speaker 01

  Let me get to the next story. Next story is Iran targeted, uh, US. Uh, and these stories with Iran that you read about, I mean, it's, it's not, it's not pretty what happened here. What's a real thing that took place? At one point, everybody's thinking, "Well, you know, it's good. It's peace. It's going to be great." Well, on July 7th, Tuesday, escalations began after Iran fires drones at maritime shipping containers and transitioning the Strait of Hormuz, claiming sovereign oversight uh, over unapproved shipping routes. And then Saturday, July 11th, an Iranian strike hits a commercial container ship in the critical waterway, setting it ablaze and leaving a civilian crew member missing.

• 29:50Speaker 01

  Iran's Revolutionary Guard officially declares the Strait of Hormuz closed to all international traffic. Then yesterday, July 12th, at 5:00 PM, CENTCOM forces an issued massive retaliatory waves, airstrikes strike 140 different targets across southern Iran, including Geshm Island, Bandar Abbas, Syrik and Jask, targets including drone launch. You got it. You want to put it here? That'll mess it up. Drone launch networks, missile sites, ammunition dumps, thank you, and Revolutionary Guard naval vessels. Trump announced on, uh, national television, "We bombed the hell out of them last night," signaling that the interim diplomatic deal is effectively dead. And then today, early this morning, very early this morning, Iranian state media acknowledges widespread domestic explosions response to the bombing.

• 30:36Speaker 01

  Iran launched retaliatory strike targeting infrastructures inside Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Oman. CENTCOM asserts that the strait remains open, stating Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing. While this is going on, a couple of things to keep in mind is, uh, these different locations that were, uh, Tom, apparently

• 30:56Speaker 01

  these countries, Kuwait, they were able to intercept a lot of these attacks that took place. Tom, when you look at this, one, how is the market reacting to it? Two, I saw the numbers on odds on what they're saying. They're saying there's a 30% chances that this could escalate into something nasty, even worse than what it was, and oil prices can go back to 120. There's a 50% chance that this could drag out for quite some time till the end of the year. And there's a 20% chance that this is going to be a quick seasonal thing. Boom, we're going back to negotiation and things will be done. Where are you at with this, Tom?

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• 33:50Speaker 09

  Well, I look at to see how the price of oil reacts because the market has been reacting. And I look at those numbers to see how all of the invisible hands of the economy, Pat, that are out there helping us and working against us work. As you can see here, oil was staying just a tick under 74. It was 7350. The market's open now at 7375. Okay, great. So the market is maintaining calmness. Uh, pre-market today for our major indexes, S and P and NASDAQ, half a percent up. So in other words, a normal kind of a Monday up after some positive economic news over the weekend, not dramatic news, but good news, fair news. So the market is not freaking out. Now you go down here and look, take a look, Pat.

• 34:34Speaker 09

  There's actually 34 ships in motion. Remember how long we would look on there and there's like two, three, and they were being escorted by the military just one at a time, please? Well, guess what? There's some going through. Now, the other side of it is that there is the side that says, okay, it doesn't look like anybody's reacting. Here's the side I worry about. Iran is launching things back across at all of those targets and they're hitting two and three. I think they hit three separate countries on the other side. And it's like, wait a minute, this can get out of hand. And yes, uh, the, um, the Iron Dome type technology, which is what we helped Israel with, that's out there.

• 35:14Speaker 01

  And by the way, just so you look at Jordan's air defense intercepts, uh, uh, regional threats, shooting down four incoming Iranian ballistic missiles over its sovereign airspace. Kuwait did the same thing with their intercept, uh, interceptors. And then you got a couple of other locations, not all of them, but some of them did get through.

• 35:30Speaker 09

  Right. And I think Kuwait and Jordan, I believe are US equipment, um, not US ships, but it's US technology on the ground there that we've shared with, with, with those countries. And so they're able to get it down, but this, this is nuts. But the number one nuts part that I absolutely hated was that it was a, it was a civilian, in other words, private company tanker that was there. And that just, when, when they're sitting there, you're looking at, what happens if they really hit that? You have all this oil spilled in the Gulf and you'd have 25 innocent sailors that were working for a cargo company on Monday and on Tuesday they got killed by an Iranian missile.

• 36:11Speaker 09

  That I think is what's escalating this thing bad, Pat, is they're aiming at the innocent, you know, sailors that are on transport vessels.

• 36:20Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, look, again, every time they do this, it unites the world with each other, specifically that region. They're like, okay, we're on US's side, not on Iran's side. But at the same time, while you're watching this, you have to remember that how quickly did this change? When they had the funeral, their own state sponsored banners, state sponsored. That's kind of like, imagine the US state department says, kill Putin or kill something. It said, kill Trump.

• 36:42Speaker 09

  Yeah. How do you really feel?

• 36:43Speaker 01

  Exactly. And then regime vows execution of leaders, high ranking Iranian figures, published a state directive on July 11, declaring that American decision makers will take to their graves, the unfulfilled wish of dying peacefully in their beds. This is not language of somebody that wants to negotiate. So it's, uh, it's, and by the way, again, for somebody that was hoping for Iranians to be free, the 81% that want Iran to be free, the main guy that was spearheading this was Lindsey Graham, who died yesterday. That's why a lot of people are saying, well, maybe this could have a tie because of how Iran state media reacted to Lindsey Graham dying yesterday. Maybe there was something going on there. Adam, your thoughts with the story on Iran?

• 37:24Speaker 09

  So here we go again. I mean, if this were reality TV, Pat, let's be honest here, this would be like the most toxic breakup, get back together relationship in soap opera history. I know you were a big fan of Beverly Hills 90210. Shout out to Dylan McCabe, Melrose Place, but just, we're back again. We're friends again. They're crazy again. They're insane again. We're bombing them again. The Ayatollah is a great guy. He's a piece of crap. At, at what point are we like, oh my God. And I feel like, you know, who's getting fatigue? You know, hear this thing, oh, it's a black fatigue. It's Israel fatigue. At this point, I feel like the average American just has Iran fatigue. Don't even get me started on the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz is affecting everybody's lifestyle and gas prices more than anything in America at this point.

• 38:08Speaker 09

  So if I'm the average American and I'm thinking Strait of Hormuz, Iran, get this stuff out of my face. I think we all understand this. Iran, they want to basically take over the Middle East. They want to have their sort of Sharia law, uh, vision of the world, the end of times. And America, we're focused on midterms versus the end of times. At the end of the day, they're going to do what they got to do with this little soap opera. But who out there doesn't think that as soon as midterms are over, left, right or center, Trump isn't going to just bomb the crap out of these people like he has nothing left to lose. That's what I think is going to happen at the end of the day.

• 38:41Speaker 10

  Benny? Well, uh, here's my thing. How much on this podcast about what happened, but they could keep on doing this and how much, how much are we going to let them do it? Because all I keep hearing is the bragging, okay, the air force decimated, Navy, all the ships are the bottom of the ocean. Pat, at what point, at what point are we going to say, okay, enough is enough? Because to me, it seems like this isn't going to stop in two years. This isn't going to stop in 10 years because Iran first, I don't know how the hell they're doing it besides the mines, Tom. They have control of this, this specific area. And as you said, that all the nations are trying to slowly come together and be like, wait a minute, these people are controlled and it's whatever they dictate, the oil's

• 39:24Speaker 10

  going to go up and it's hurting everybody's wallet, especially regular Americans. So I'm, I'm, because you taught, how many times it's, it's the solution? What is going to be the solution for this whole thing, Pat? And I don't see any solution other than literally going in there. I'm not saying I want us to do this, but I'm trying to figure out another way than going in there, invading and getting rid of the IRGC and freeing the people. There's no other way. What is other, because then give me a solution on how this is going to stop. How are we going to stop Iran, Tom, from doing this every single week?

• 39:56Speaker 09

  Well, we've heard the talking points about, oh, the Navy's at the bottom of the ocean. Oh, we got this, oh, we got that. The only things that we know that we, that we have hit is all the ships. We can count the ships where they were on satellite and now they're not there. They're, uh, they're sunk. So number one, but number two, they've got missile installations everywhere. And these really aren't missiles. These are more like rockets.

• 40:15Speaker 10

  Yes.

• 40:15Speaker 09

  Right? They've got rockets everywhere. They're, they're hidden five here, four here, five here. That's what they got. They're up in the hills, we're up in the mountains and they keep launching them and they keep launching them with some reasonable level of, um, telemetry and guidance systems and they're getting targeting information. That hasn't stopped. We wait for a week and all of a sudden, oh, 40 missiles overnight going here, here, here, here and there. You know, so that hasn't been decimated and that part is still there and operational and appears that they got enough of it that they got this waiting game that they could go out. So we could talk about the Navy, talk about all these talking points, but they still have enough, almost like guerrilla warfare with, with five missiles here, there.

• 40:53Speaker 01

  Let me ask you a question, Tom. Let me ask you a question. If Marco Rubio was president right now, or J D Vance was president right? How would they have handled this situation with Iran? Say they're the president right now. How different would they have handled this situation?

• 41:07Speaker 10

  If they're right on me, I, I don't, I don't think J D would have started it, me personally. Marco Rubio right now, Pat, I think he'd be a little bit more aggressive.

• 41:14Speaker 01

  You think he would have started it?

• 41:15Speaker 10

  Marco Rubio? Absolutely.

• 41:17Speaker 01

  Okay. So what would he, what, tell me what you think Rubio would be doing differently than Trump right now. So let's go to that. Let's isolate specifically Rubio. What would Rubio be doing differently? You think, you think Rubio sees Iran as a bigger threat than the president does?

• 41:33Speaker 10

  Rubio?

• 41:33Speaker 15

  I think it's pretty, pretty equal.

• 41:34Speaker 10

  I think it's pretty, yeah, Adam is, yeah, he makes a good point. I think it's pretty-

• 41:37Speaker 01

  Do you think it's equal?

• 41:38Speaker 10

  Pretty even, Pat.

• 41:39Speaker 01

  You think, you think Rubio's more? Do you think Rubio and Trump, I think Rubio is 5% more than the president. I think Rubio is 5% more than the president. I think Rubio-

• 41:49Speaker 09

  I agree with that. And I think JD Vance is far from the president.

• 41:52Speaker 01

  I, I think Rubio is slightly ahead of the president on how big the threat is. And I think the president is more of a businessman. Where he's like, look, let's just frigging, this is, this is annoying. Let's just come back and do business. Like focus on green and let's focus on this, let's focus on that. I think Rubio would have, uh, would have gone a little harder than the president would have. My opinion.

• 42:13Speaker 15

  I agree with you, PBD.

• 42:14Speaker 01

  I think Rubio would have gone a little harder.

• 42:15Speaker 09

  I think there's one key difference. I think the one key difference is I think Rubio would have made sure that he had succession. How does, who's gonna flow into this gap? We saw what happened when we killed Saddam Hussein in Iraq and all the crazies just swept in and went boom. It's the same thing if you ever read the, the book or seen the movie Charlie Wilson's War. The movie overdramatized it. You know what Hollywood does. But it was a story of we helped the Afghans get the Russians out of Afghanistan way, way back. And guess what? When we left a vacuum, the crazies swept in. When we killed, uh, when Hussein was found and the, and then executed, the crazies came in. I think Rubio, by the way, uh, Venezuela, we knew there was a backup plan.

• 42:59Speaker 09

  Call it CIA, call it Mercado, call it what you wanna call it. But there was a plan for some sort of stabilizing leadership in Venezuela. I think Rubio, Pat, I think he would have made sure that those people either gonna, the Kurds are gonna support this, these people are gonna do this, and we're gonna have succession. I think he would have had that play.

• 43:16Speaker 01

  This is how I see it. This is how I see it. I think all of us, we have a different top five. Let's face it. Like, if you were president right now, your issues would be very different than if Tom was president, than if Adam was president, if I- It, it, everybody has a different, uh, priority list. I just think Iran would be slightly higher on the list for Rubio than Trump's. And I think he would be, uh, he, he would be, he would be approaching the IRGC in a very different way than the president is. The president, he's negotiated with everybody and he thinks he can get a deal with everybody. I just, and a part of it is like this, like you know how sometimes you're, I'm trying to tell you, you got a kid and I'm trying to tell you, hey, Benny, avoid that crowd.

• 43:57Speaker 01

  And you're like, I got it, man. I'm frigging 30 years old. Leave me alone, dad. Let you see, I have a camera. Benny, I'm just telling you, avoid that, dude, are you freaking, I got it.

• 44:06Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 44:07Speaker 01

  And then I'm like, okay, you know what? Guess what? Go. Uh, every time you ask me for advice, I give you zero advice.

• 44:13Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 44:14Speaker 01

  Cause I want you to go through it. Six months later, you go and you hang out with that crowd, you come back and say, man, you know, you gotta avoid that crowd. I'm like, no shit, Sherlock. You don't, I don't say it to you, right? So I think sometimes you have to wrestle with the IRGC to realize they're not- Even the nastiest, ugliest person the president ever negotiated with is not at the level of nasty of IRGs.

• 44:37Speaker 15

  Yeah.

• 44:38Speaker 01

  I think that's the thing. I think you gotta kinda pick that up and kinda go, go for that for yourself.

• 44:42Speaker 10

  And he's going, but Pat, Trump is going for legacy at this point. And like you said, he just wants like, get it over with and get it done with. But these guys aren't going anywhere. They're not going anywhere. And Marco Rubio's think, Pat, it would be a whole different, uh, like approach to it. But at what my point still is, this doesn't seem like it's going to stop anytime soon, but the only solution is gonna be the one that nobody wants. And it's gonna have to be, Pat, literally, go in there and get rid of all of them.

• 45:13Speaker 01

  And by the way-

• 45:13Speaker 10

  Root and stem.

• 45:14Speaker 01

  The poll that we ran right now with the audience, and I'm gonna come to you. The poll says who would go harder at Iran, Trump or Rubio? They put Trump 44, Rubio 56. So even the audience thinks that Rubio would go slightly harder on that. Slightly, not, not a big, again, we don't know that. We're purely speculating. Adam, your thoughts?

• 45:30Speaker 15

  Yeah, I'm with you on this, PBD. Uh, I think what, what Rubio would do different than Trump, he would not have signed that memorandum of understanding on June 14th. Let's be real here. That memorandum of understanding was for one thing and one thing only. It was sort of a Trump birthday present to the world, basically saying, I got a deal done. Look at me. Listen, we all knew that that deal wasn't getting done. We all knew at some point that Iran was gonna break everything that they basically shook their hand on. And basically, we gotta watch out. Like when Iran shakes a deal, shakes their hand, they're probably doing this in the background. So Rubio probably would have been more of a pragmatic person.

• 46:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:06Speaker 15

  Trump is more of a deal, deal maker and deal breaker. At the end of the day, I think Rubio would have gone super hard on these guys. JD Vance would have been a little bit different.

• 46:14Speaker 01

  We'll see what happened. We'll see what happened here as we're going through it. Uh, the reality of it is, these are not the typical people you negotiate with. They, they're just not. And they're not gonna keep any of their promises. They're simply not. They're wired in a very different way. Let me get to the next story here. Next story I wanna get into is, Mamdani allegedly had a meeting to meet with the ambassador of Iran. It was on his calendar. You know what Mamdani said? Oh, I'm, I'm sorry. I didn't even know. I didn't even know I had this meeting on my schedule. Oh, you, wait, I'm meeting with the ambassador? Yeah. Oh my God, you know, I have such a busy schedule. I would have never had the meeting, but you know what? Yeah, we're, we're not gonna have the meeting. Why are you not gonna have the meeting? Well, because the State Department shut down the meeting.

• 46:56Speaker 01

  So if you wanna pull up the story, Mamdani's official planned meeting with Iran envoy was shut down by the State Department. Go a little bit lower if you can. And zoom in. A senior official in New York City mayor of Mamdani administration planned to have a meeting with Iran's ambassador to the United Nations before the State Department reportedly intervened. And the meeting was canceled. Commissioner Anna Maria, uh, leader of the Mamdani administration's office of international affairs was scheduled to meet with Iran's permanent representative to United Nations, Ahmed Said Irani. Uh, Tuesday, City General for reported US, uh, official familiar with the matter confirmed to Fox News that the meeting had been scheduled. The reported intervention marks the second known instance in recent weeks in which the Trump administration

• 47:36Speaker 01

  has stepped in over Mamdani's administration contact with foreign leaders highlighting growing federal scrutiny of New York City's international outreach under its new socialist mayor. Tom, how big of a story is this?

• 47:49Speaker 09

  This is big. And let me tell you why. What's going on when this happens or when Gavin Newsom did the whole thing, what's this now, four years ago with China? You know, and by the way, and by the way, and swept all the homeless out of town, stuck them on buses and sent them far enough away that they couldn't hitchhike or walk back until the Chinese were gone and then put Chinese flags up on there. When a mayor does this, and it's not just, hey, um, Mr. President, you know, I reach out to you. Mr. President, we're gonna do an international trade conference. It's gonna be here in, um, San Francisco. Uh, we have a lot of trade on here, a lot of semiconductors, but we're gonna be doing all this. We're, we're cool, right? We're all right to do this. We're gonna have ambassadors and trade representatives.

• 48:32Speaker 09

  And I come to you, Pat, President, and you would say to me, okay, you can do this, this and this, this, this and this. Thanks for letting us know. That's probably planned out a year, year and a half in advance. Instead, we have proxy wars going on. And let me explain what I mean. So this is Mamdani, a frigging proxy war against our own, um, you know, administration, the same way Gavin did it. This is them trying to do things their way and curry favor with people that they want to have-

• 48:59Speaker 01

  What's the outcome?

• 49:00Speaker 09

  Political-

• 49:01Speaker 01

  What's the outcome?

• 49:01Speaker 09

  He wants political allegiance and he wants funding. He wants a lot of things. He wants funding to come through the dark accounts back into PACs to help him. That's what he's asking for. He's asking for a lot of things, in my opinion. This is Tom's observant opinion.

• 49:18Speaker 01

  Asking who?

• 49:18Speaker 09

  He's asking Iran and other dark sources of funding to come support him. I'm, that's my opinion.

• 49:25Speaker 01

  You're going there, Tom.

• 49:26Speaker 09

  I'm going there. That's what I think. I don't think it's just for, oh, this is just, you know, this is just the camaraderie of Muslims in here. No, no. The aspirations they have are bigger. Listen to Talib, but listen to what she was screaming into the microphone this weekend. Their aspirations are bigger. They are doing this and it's mayors basically running like a proxy war diplomatically against our own administration.

• 49:53Speaker 01

  Yeah. And, and, and you know, this guy, if there's one that Americans should be praying, grateful for is the fact that this guy wasn't born in America. Because if he was born here, you know what this guy would be? He'd be the number one candidate for president, ahead of everybody. He's just too good on what he's doing. And while this is taking place in New York, another story comes out. Uh, Mamdani's immigrant map omits Irish, Italian, Jewish contributors to New York City. New Yorkers are criticizing socialist mayor Mamdani's administration for touting a map celebrating the city's immigrant enclaves that omits the Italian, Irish and the Jewish communities that have been such integral parts of the Big Apple history.

• 50:32Speaker 01

  Mamdani's deputies promoted, um, uh, a new campaign in May to celebrate the city's ethnic neighborhoods with a map entitled New York City's immigrant enclaves that features 30 communities, including a number of Muslim communities such as Yemeni, Pakistani, Egyptian, African.

• 50:50Speaker 01

  Palestinian neighborhoods also represented are Chinese, Korean, Albanian, Colombian, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Indian, Haitian, Polish and other neighborhoods, but critics are ripping the map for ignoring, if you want to pull that up a little bit so they can see it, ignoring European neighborhoods that were the original little, such as Little Italy, or the longstanding Irish and Jewish neighborhoods that helped build New York City throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. Queen Republicans, Queens Republican Councilwoman Joanne Ariola ripped the city hall for exclusionary graphics and told New York Post that it appears Mamdani doesn't think Jews, Italians and Irish count, the Post reported. They were able to get

• 51:32Speaker 01

  a little Bo Tibet in there, but what about the original little neighborhoods, Little Italy, Councilman Ariola said, and what about the areas like the Woodlawn in the Bronx, which are home to plenty of Irish immigrants? Do the Irish Italians not count for mayor's office? State Assemblyman Kalman Yager bashed Mamdani for erasing Jews, and he added, Mr. Mamdani, erasing Jews is an essential part of the brand, part of his brand. No surprise. Joseph Scalesa, founder of the Italian American Museum on Mulberry Street, said, "The mayor's map is terrible mistake. Italian Americans are still a major population in New York City. To not recognize where Italian Americans came from and settled is a terrible mistake. I don't understand why Little Italy isn't included." Adam, your thoughts on this story?

• 52:15Speaker 15

  I mean, what a freaking disgrace. If I'm the average New Yorker, if I'm an Italian right now, and I just woke up and I was like, are you trying to tell me that Mamdani erased Little Italy? I'd be going crazy right now. I think a lot of Italians voted for Cuomo, but the ones that voted for Mamdani, disgracia, what are you talking about right here? If there was any group of people who helped build New York to what it's become, you gotta put Italians at the top of the list. Then you got the Jews, then you got the Irish, and he conveniently left all three of them off the list, but somehow, the great Mamdani, the great Wizard of Communism, he remembered conveniently Little Bangladesh, Little Yemen,

• 52:57Speaker 15

  and of course, Little Palestine, who can't forget the lovely time of year in Little Palestine. Click, boom. The fact that this is what's going on in the modern day New York, if you're a New Yorker who's been born in New York, and you're sitting around and being like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like what's going on here, you obviously don't care about your city, and you obviously don't care about your country, and you know, Vinnie, what's the one line from Big Pun? Back in the middle of Little Italy?

• 53:22Speaker 10

  Little, little, there were riddles, some middlemen who didn't do diddly.

• 53:24Speaker 15

  There you go. Listen to some Big Pun before you end up in punishment land, Mamdani, okay? Get some Big Pun.

• 53:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, and by the way, you know, Andrew Schultz had Mamdani on, and they did an interview with him.

• 53:36Speaker 10

  That was his homie. They were glazing all over him.

• 53:37Speaker 01

  Well, they were interviewing.

• 53:38Speaker 10

  They loved, no, they loved.

• 53:40Speaker 01

  Well, they had him on. They had him on, and it was a very positive, supportive, and willing to pay a little bit more taxes.

• 53:46Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 53:47Speaker 01

  But even Andrew Schultz this last weekend, who was supportive of Mamdani, came out and said the following about Mamdani saying 78 degrees. This is what Schultz had to say. Go for it.

• 53:56Speaker 10

  When we say AC, it's 72 and below. 72 degrees and below.

• 54:03Speaker 17

  You're even a little high with that one, but I'll let you ride.

• 54:06Speaker 10

  I know Zorah was saying, keep it at 78.

• 54:09Speaker 17

  Easy, easy.

• 54:11Speaker 10

  This is, this is America.

• 54:13Speaker 17

  He was feeling a little too good. Nicks at five, he was like off the highs, but he was wild.

• 54:18Speaker 10

  Getting a little hot under the collar. 64, just to spite him even suggesting such a thing. Our AC blew out.

• 54:24Speaker 15

  It was cold for a little bit.

• 54:27Speaker 10

  It was cold for a little bit.

• 54:28Speaker 15

  It blew the fuck out.

• 54:29Speaker 01

  So you can pause it right there. I mean, listen, this is how it works. You can, you can, I like certain people's personalities. I don't have to like your ideas. One could like and say, you know, I like Mamdani's personality. Let's just say maybe Andrew likes Mamdani's personality, but not policies. No matter how much I like you, it doesn't mean I have to support your policies. And now it's hitting the city. And now you're seeing things that they would do, how that's going to impact. So what I'm, what I'm looking forward to seeing is how a lot of the people that were supporting this guy are now going to come out and say, holy shit, what the hell is going on? Are we going to sit here and just take it? And I don't know if you guys are watching what happened, while they're talking

• 55:12Speaker 01

  about, you know, millionaires and billionaires and all this stuff, guess who's giving themselves the biggest raise?

• 55:17Speaker 10

  Oh.

• 55:18Speaker 01

  Mamdani comes out and says, they're giving themselves, he's giving himself an 18.2% raise.

• 55:24Speaker 10

  That's smart.

• 55:25Speaker 01

  That's kind of fair, right? Isn't that great? You get to pick and choose how much taxpayers should give you money. I'm going to give myself an 18.2% raise. Go a little bit lower. Bill Ackman's a, zoom in a little bit if you can. Billionaire Bill Ackman questions New York City's Mamdani on Tuesday after a mayor-appointed commission recommended an 18.2% salary increase for the mayor, but that's a mayor-appointed commission. So, hey, Vinnie?

• 55:49Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 55:50Speaker 01

  Can you please, I'm going to have my wife, appoint her as the commission to dictate how much of a raise I deserve.

• 55:56Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 55:57Speaker 01

  Is what I'm going to do. So what did my wife say I deserve? I think she said, you've done such a good job taxing everybody and ruining New York City, that I think we should raise your salary about 18.2%. Oh my God, well, I didn't, I didn't choose the raise. It's a mayor-appointed commission that chose this raise. You know, Mamdani's appointed advisor commission is recommending an 18.2% raise for himself and other elected officials because of inflation, yet his self-appointed rent guidelines board, which is supposed to consider inflation in setting rents, froze rents for two years, Ackman wrote on X, "A question for mayor. How is this fair or appropriate?" This is the part with contradictions coming up. Vinnie, where are you at with this? You're a New York guy.

• 56:38Speaker 10

  Yeah, but these are, like, okay, with all these people, with everybody that's disappointed now, like Andrew and everybody, I know, it's just, it's something small, but it's the air conditioner. I know he's being, it's funny, and I get it, he's a comedian, but do you really think these people were that dumb not to know what a freaking self described socialist communist supporter of freaking terrorists? Are you guys surprised? Like, you can't be that dumb. You're educated. You guys are smart. A member was like, I'll pay the 1%, I'll pay the 2%. It keeps going up. They're paying themselves money. And then when, when people in his office are trying to meet with the ambassador of Iran, like, what, and it was made in air, what are you talking about? This is one of, one

• 57:22Speaker 10

  of, if not America's biggest enemies. What are you trying to meet, Pat? And if it wasn't for the State Department, Tom, finding out, if this was a Democrat-run country, Department of Justice ran by Democrats, they wouldn't care. And what are you meeting about? What are you talking about? And Connor said something earlier today that, that kind of hit me, Pat, when he said, you're watching like a soft secession happening in New York right now, because Mamdani is acting like New York has its own country with its own foreign policy, its own immigration policy, own economic policy, unless the federal government, they need money, then they go to the feds, okay? The goal isn't to work with the rest of America. They're trying to take this, one of the biggest cities, the freaking city that never sleeps.

• 58:02Speaker 10

  They're ruining this plate, Pat, and they're fighting against this. And when I tell people, like, this is the enemy from within. And I'm telling you guys right now, it's not an existential, it's not happening right now, but slowly start watching what these people are doing. They hate America. I watched an old clip of Rashida Tlaib and F you, mother effers, and they hate this country. And if you're too blind to see it, and you keep supporting and saying, no, they're, they're caring for the little person. They don't give a damn because their morals, their beliefs don't align with ours. They don't. I'm sorry. They hate this country. All of them talk crap about this country, and they're putting policies and people in charge to destroy us from within. People keep saying the enemy's at the gate.

• 58:46Speaker 10

  They're not at the gate. They're inside on the couch.

• 58:48Speaker 15

  They're in the front yard. They're in the porch.

• 58:49Speaker 10

  Sitting on your couch.

• 58:50Speaker 01

  For sure they are. For sure they are. And by the way, and by the way, and by the way, here's what I want you to think about. Question for you guys. And while I'm doing this, I want you to search this, okay?

• 58:58Speaker 10

  Okay.

• 58:59Speaker 01

  Can you go back to the chart of, okay, don't even go to it. They're trying to raise the mayor's salary to what? 18.2%?

• 59:05Speaker 10

  18.2%.

• 59:06Speaker 01

  All right. Do you know what the salary of the mayor is right now?

• 59:09Speaker 10

  200, 300,000 dollars.

• 59:11Speaker 01

  258,000 dollars. The 18.2% put him around 300,000 dollars. Can you pull that chart up? Okay, so, so if you look at that right there, 258, with the new raise, he would be at 305. The public advocate would go from 184 to 218. The comptroller goes from 209 to 247, and then the borough president goes from 179 to 212, okay? Now, here's a question for you. Whose job is a bigger job? Mayor's or J.D. Vance?

• 59:40Speaker 10

  J.D. Vance.

• 59:41Speaker 01

  Whose job is a bigger job? Mayor Mamdani's or Pete Hexet's?

• 59:46Speaker 10

  Pete Hexet.

• 59:47Speaker 01

  How about Marco Rubio or Mamdani?

• 59:48Speaker 10

  Marco, it's not even.

• 59:49Speaker 01

  Well, guess what? He makes more money than all three of them.

• 59:52Speaker 10

  Weird.

• 59:53Speaker 01

  Let me say the number here for you. Do you know the vice president's salary is 235,100? Mamdani makes more money than him. Do you know the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, makes 250,000 dollars? Mamdani, mayor of New York City, makes more money than him. Do you know the secretary of defense, Pete Hexet, his salary is 250,000 dollars? Mamdani makes 8,000 dollars more per year than the secretary of state and the secretary of defense.

• 1:00:22Speaker 01

  And he makes twenty five thousand dollars more per year than the Vice President of the United States.

• 1:00:28Speaker 15

  That's that's

• 1:00:29Speaker 01

  Did you just hear what I just said, right?

• 1:00:31Speaker 15

  I can't believe that.

• 1:00:31Speaker 01

  A job of a mayor makes more money than all these other guys and what they're doing. So now who's got more heavyweight right there? If you look at it to verify JD, Vice President, two thirty five. Go to Secretary of State, two fifty. Secretary of Defense, two twenty one, but now it's at two fifty six hundred. Mom Donnie makes more money than all of these guys with the job that he has, and they still want to take him to three twenty. And your thoughts before we go to the next story.

• 1:00:58Speaker 15

  PBD, you just mentioned that Mom Donnie is his salary is going to be three oh five, three hundred and five thousand. I think that's what you said. So there's a, there's a story behind the story there. Thank you, Mom Donnie, for everything you're doing. I always give you credit. Your three hundred and five thousand dollar salary is basically taking New York to record high rent. We can roll the numbers and everybody's moving to the three oh five MIA because of you. So I just want to thank you, Mom Donnie, for everything you're doing. Did you see the news that rent is at an all time high?

• 1:01:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:01:26Speaker 15

  In New York, it said it's fifty three hundred dollars.

• 1:01:30Speaker 01

  Pull that up.

• 1:01:30Speaker 15

  It's almost like they don't understand supply and demand when there's not enough housing and there's high demand because people want to live in the city. And then you implement this rent freeze and then the land, the owners of these properties are basically saying, yeah, we're not going to fix this up because they can't charge any more rent. So all of a sudden you have this stalemate and then rent becomes so freaking expensive. Meanwhile, you go, you go into any other random city in America, the average US rent, you know, want to know what it is? It's sixteen hundred dollars. You were asking people what the average rent was during the Florida debate. I think it was Jay Collins that got that right. But at the end of the day, Mom Donnie, keep doing what you're doing.

• 1:02:06Speaker 01

  Check this out.

• 1:02:07Speaker 15

  Keep basically marketizing the Italians and the Jews and sending out a buddy out of New York to Miami.

• 1:02:12Speaker 01

  Manhattan average rent right now, median market, fifty two ninety five.

• 1:02:17Speaker 15

  Jeez.

• 1:02:17Speaker 01

  Brooklyn, forty three fifty. Okay, forty three fifty. New York City housing affordability crisis is in DEFCON one. We need to push harder on every front to address our housing shortage. Update zoning, invest more city money in affordable units, lower the time and cause city bureaucracy imposes on construction, get thousands of vacant regulated units back on the market. We need bold action. You know who's that tweeting that? Can you go see who that is? He is the comptroller of New York City.

• 1:02:46Speaker 15

  Weird.

• 1:02:46Speaker 01

  But this is not like a regular guy who's nobody just tweeting something. No, no, the comptroller is saying there are issues. By the way, can you go to the story of CNBC that came out saying the top ten worst states to live in? Go to this. By the way, you, you guys, I, if you haven't seen this, this is just funny to me. So CNBC woke up and said, let me go write a bullshit article titled, top ten worst states to live in in America. You ready? Look at this. These are the ten worst states to live in twenty twenty six. And the things they went off of was crime rates, air quality, healthcare access, worker protection, civil rights. They, they took out, they took out one thing, which I don't know, they're not telling the truth there because I've seen the chart.

• 1:03:27Speaker 01

  What it was, another thing that they had in there was they were looking at, um, what is the word? They were, what is one of those DEI words that they like to use?

• 1:03:36Speaker 15

  Inclusion.

• 1:03:37Speaker 01

  Inclusion. No, they were looking at, uh, they were looking at, uh, inclusivity, inclusivity, inclusion. You're right, inclusion. So if you go a little bit lower, look at the top, top ten worst states. Okay, Arkansas was number ten. Okay, go to nine, look, notice a pattern with all these states. Are they red or blue? Keep going. Oklahoma's next.

• 1:03:54Speaker 15

  Red.

• 1:03:55Speaker 01

  Then they have Alabama.

• 1:03:56Speaker 15

  Red, red. That guy's depressed.

• 1:03:57Speaker 01

  Okay, then they got Missouri. Keep going. Then they got Utah.

• 1:04:01Speaker 15

  Very red.

• 1:04:02Speaker 01

  Then they got Georgia. Keep going.

• 1:04:05Speaker 15

  Purple.

• 1:04:05Speaker 01

  Keep going. Louisiana, keep going. Go a little faster. Indiana, keep going. Then you got Texas. Oh, it's one of the worst states. Oh, yeah, for sure. And I look at number one, go to number one. Number one is Tennessee. Tennessee is the lowest taxes all in out of all the states. Now, can you do me a favor while they're doing this? Can you do me a favor and go type in twenty twenty five, top ten best and worst states in net migration? These are states that are gaining the most and losing the most. Type in top twenty twenty five, no, just do it on chat GPT, twenty twenty five, top ten, uh, uh, twenty twenty five, top ten states in best and worst net migration.

• 1:04:50Speaker 01

  I want you to see this. How the hell do you say these states are the worst states to move into in net migration? Net, N E T, migration, net migration. So when you look at this chart, uh, no, you already did twenty twenty five. Just, just press enter. There you go. So top, top ten states and net migration. Look what you'll notice here. Look what you'll notice here. If you look at the best and the worst, who do you think's the worst? Who do you think's the worst? Go a little bit lower, go a little bit lower.

• 1:05:16Speaker 15

  California.

• 1:05:17Speaker 01

  The best states is North Carolina, positive eighty four thousand. Texas, number two. If Texas is so bad and it's the second worst state, why the hell are people moving there? Are they dumb? Is that what you're saying CNBC? South Carolina's three, Tennessee's four. So two out of the four states that they said is the worst, their top two are in the top four. Then Arizona, Georgia was on their list as the worst. Alabama was on their list as their worst. Florida, Idaho, Nevada. Now look at the worst. Look who's at the top for worst. Keep going lower. You, you did the best and worst, didn't you? Or just gave you the best? Okay. So look at the worst. If you look at the worst with a T, you will notice number one is California. Minus two twenty nine, New York, minus one thirty eight, Illinois, minus forty, Jersey,

• 1:06:00Speaker 01

  minus thirty seven, Massachusetts, minus thirty, thirty, thirty three, Louisiana, fourteen, Maryland, Colorado, Hawaii, Connecticut are losing. But no CNBC, no, no, not at all. You want to talk about Texas and Tennessee are the worst states. Why is there a stock exchange going to Texas? Why is Goldman Sachs building a building there that's their second headquarters, eight hundred thousand square feet? Why are all these major companies moving to Texas? Tell us why. Tell us why CNBC, oh, inclusivity is bad and that's why it's one of the main reasons. Really? Or is it yours? Can you actually go and see who the hell wrote this article? Go and see who wrote this article for CNBC. I want to know who this person is.

• 1:06:37Speaker 15

  And I can't wait to see what school they went to.

• 1:06:39Speaker 01

  This person is, who is this person? Scott Cohen.

• 1:06:41Speaker 15

  Uh oh.

• 1:06:41Speaker 01

  Oh, he's got a hashtag, guys. Scott Cohen, zoom in a little bit, journalist, methodology, go to his website. I actually want to know where this guy went to school.

• 1:06:50Speaker 15

  I can't wait.

• 1:06:51Speaker 01

  Is there any way we can find out where this guy went to school to say those are the top ten states? Because you know how they do it. They'll take the, they'll take the, they'll take the chart and they'll say, let's add these categories. Oh, take that one out because it made California look bad. Or take this one out. No, no, add this thing in. No, let's add inclusivity. Well, what chart do you want to use for inclusivity? Let's use this here. Let's use that here. And then also, so that's what it is. Yeah, you know what? Make Texas and Tennessee look horrible. You know how many people are moving to Tennessee and they don't want anybody else to know that they're moving to Tennessee? You know how many people are living in Tennessee and they don't want you to move to Tennessee? Do you know how many people that are Texans are hoping this article goes viral because they don't want the wrong type of people to move to Texas? A lot of people, a lot of people. So what did he do?

• 1:07:36Speaker 01

  He was at NPR.

• 1:07:37Speaker 15

  University.

• 1:07:38Speaker 01

  And what do you, I just want to know what school did he?

• 1:07:40Speaker 15

  He went to, uh, Wisconsin, University of Wis- Wisconsin.

• 1:07:43Speaker 01

  He went to Wisconsin. Good people come out of there, but so I don't know, maybe he's one of the ones.

• 1:07:47Speaker 15

  Forty years experience.

• 1:07:48Speaker 01

  Journalism since nineteen eighty one, University of Wisconsin, Maine East High School, Board of Visitors, School Journalism, actually, in terms of information. Yeah. Tom, how, how do you process these types of nonsense top ten lists when they rank the two best states that a lot of people are moving into?

• 1:08:02Speaker 09

  Well, I, it's almost like I don't need to process it. You just did, but I'll tell you, I'll give you the why. This is my observation. Tom's observation is the why these get written. These are intentional political voice hit pieces. They wake up in the morning and it's like, hey, look, we need, how do we, how do we somehow throw shade for the American people? They're trying to shade the people that aren't paying attention, Pat, that watched CNBC. They're trying to shade these red states and make them seem uninclusive and everything. But you know what the reality is? When people go to these states, they have the same reaction that the visitors from Europe and the World Cup did. Oh, my God, Texas brisket is good. What a buckies, what an amazing thing, what nice people. Look at the hospitality we get.

• 1:08:47Speaker 09

  Look at all this. And so all the, they find it. This is nothing more than a hit piece politically to throw shade on the success of the red states. But you said it. Find and find an algorithm. Remember, everybody used to pick on Google algorithms. Hey, Google algorithms, they won't give you a fair, remember the accusations, Vinnie? They won't give you a fair search on COVID research, on ivermectin research. Somebody's playing with the algorithm. Well, the algorithm is this guy. This guy who is now with NPR Monterey Bay. Oh, there's, there's a neutral news source, NPR Monterey Bay. And he wakes up and he says, hey, look, we got to throw some shade at the other side, Pat, so I'm going to write an article.

• 1:09:28Speaker 09

  It's exactly as you say, but what I'm adding to it, my opinion, my observation, these things are intentional and they come from the political direction of the news directors up inside. That is my observation. That is my conclusion based on my own independent analysis. I'm not accusing anybody of a crime. What I'm accusing them of is, is injecting personal editorial bias and calling for these accusations and lining them up.

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• 1:12:19Speaker 15

  Look, this is one of those things that if you're solving for something, you'll find some stat that agrees with basically whatever claim you're trying to make. But what's the number one thing that everybody says is the number one issue? Anytime that it comes to an election, what's the number one thing?

• 1:12:31Speaker 18

  The economy, stupid.

• 1:12:33Speaker 15

  It's the economy, stupid. It's affordability. So if you're talking about the least unaffordable states, not all these other things. Air quality, worker protections, inclusiveness, trans rights, ESG, all these things. If you're talking about the least affordable states, there's the top five. That's California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. Now, what do all these big, beautiful states have in common? They're all the big, blue, beautiful states. So if you're, if you're solving for affordability as the number one thing, those are the states to avoid. And PBD, you hit the nail on the head. Net migration, people are moving to Texas. People are certainly moving to Florida and people are moving to Tennessee.

• 1:13:14Speaker 15

  So don't be fooled by these ridiculous stats because they clearly have an agenda on them.

• 1:13:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, Vinny, any thoughts for you?

• 1:13:20Speaker 09

  No, I'm good.

• 1:13:21Speaker 01

  Okay, so there you have it. All right, so that's that story. Uh, next story to get into is this, this article that came out talking about University of Chicago Law School bans devices to reduce AI reliance. And then it kind of coincides with the other story that shows a wake up call about AI cheating. Brown University professor says, let me read both of them and then I'll, Tom, I'll come to you mainly. And then we'll go from there. So the first story I want to get to is University of Chicago decides they will, they will ban first year law students from using iPhones, tablets and laptops in class beginning this fall, seeking to ensure students learn to think critically, strategically and independently without relying on artificial intelligence. Would AI disrupt in higher education?

• 1:14:06Speaker 01

  Our commitment to rigorous legal education also must mean openness to even rapid adaption, adaptation administrators say, a willingness to rethink our practices is consistent with our law school's long history of innovation. After a year of consultation with students, faculty and law firm leaders, legal technology executives and the broader university community administrators concluded that students must develop independent reasoning while preparing to use AI in legal practice. So that's out. Now look at this one. Brown is going through the same thing. Brown University professor Roberto Serrano saw scores collapse between a take home midterm

• 1:14:46Speaker 01

  and an in-person final, which I'm glad they did that, leading him to suspect widespread AI assisted cheating. Some students fell from perfect midterm scores to below 20% on the final. Serrano teaches welfare economics and social choice theory. The midterm was administered at home after a school shooter killed two students in December. Whoa. The problem with this technology is that the cost of cheating has basically gone down to zero. It's very easy for students to succumb to the temptation. After Serrano announced that the final would be held in person, many previously high score students dropped the course. Did you hear, Devaney? So these guys scored a high number, take home. All of a sudden they're like, no, no, we're doing it in school. It's like, oh shit, drop the course. Why? Because they haven't been studying at all.

• 1:15:28Speaker 01

  Others who earned grades in high 90s on the midterm scored in the 50s. You scored 90s in a take home midterm, you're scoring 50s in school. Are you surprised? Serrano shared the details with Brown Standing Committee on the academic code on July 8th. University spokesperson, Brian E. Clark said the committee would proceed according to the procedure and that Brown treats every academic integrity allegation with the utmost seriousness. Tom, your thoughts on this?

• 1:15:54Speaker 09

  Well, first of all, I love both these stories for two very key reasons. Number one, University of Chicago Law School, um, and people may not think of it like this, but law schools and MBA schools, business schools, they want to protect their reputation. And what they don't want is a bunch of people coming out zombies that don't know how to perform. I mean, Pat, how long would it take? If you were doing a staff meeting and you're talking about strategy, we got some challenges. Hey, it's February, we have some challenges, we need to make a plan on this and everything. People are sitting in your conference room. How many of them are sitting or on, on laptop or an email they're not? We're talking about the numbers in front of us and try and make a decision.

• 1:16:35Speaker 09

  If these people were, were just AI zombies coming out MBA school, how long would it take you to figure that out, Pat?

• 1:16:40Speaker 01

  Not long.

• 1:16:41Speaker 09

  15 minutes and be like, you graduated from, from Harvard with a Harvard MBA and you can't come in here to this room and just speak intelligently, form sentences and have your thoughts across and do this? You have to go back to your desk and let AI do for it? So Brown is, is, excuse me, University of Chicago, they're, they're concerned about number one, the reputation of the school. And number two, the ability of the school to attract students. I love what they're doing. They're saying timeout, put all those devices away. Let's talk about legal theory. Let's hear you reason. Let's hear you debate a fellow student the way you would in a courtroom. The second is, I love what happened at Brown. And there are people that have stepped out on this and have jumped on it to discuss it.

• 1:17:24Speaker 09

  I love the fact that there is a student that got a 95.5 on the midterm and a 95 in person in class on the final. And you know what he said? The teacher stepped back and said, the professor stepped back and said, you know what? I regarded that individual through observation throughout the semester as an excellent student and attentive in class. And I felt that he would probably do well. I was not, guess what? So he's observing him in class and then he gives him the in-person final. The guy goes, okay, let me take care of this. Boom, 95 and 95, which means he didn't cheat on the midterm. It's very, very even. Then there was another student, he said, I liked equally well, but the guy was somewhat less initiated. And he had a 55 in the midterm and a 55 on the final. Guess what? Consistency.

• 1:18:09Speaker 09

  Maybe he's working two jobs, maybe it was, maybe he's struggling with the class, but the two scores proved he was there. I love these two stories because it's a shining a light on it. That AI may be able to do a simulated research for you. AI may be able to take some time. We use it for prepping for podcasts here. But when AI does the job for you, it's not you and you're not getting smarter. And you've got Brown and University of Chicago, both blue schools who are waking up to it. And I love it, Pat.

• 1:18:38Speaker 01

  Adam, your thoughts on this?

• 1:18:40Speaker 15

  Well, the funniest thing that stuck out to me with this whole AI thing is, did you see the line where they said, professors will designate classroom scribes to take notes for first year classes? You see that? And scribes, they haven't used scribes since medieval times. Like what's, I know people, there's a lot of people out there that want to bring back the crusades. I'm not advocating for that just yet. But when we're using scribes in classrooms right now, it's like, maybe we've jumped the shark on this AI thing. And PBD, I know you're a big basketball fan, but I'll tell you this. I remember, you know, there's unfair advantages, right? So I remember when I was in ninth grade, they put me with the middle school team to play. I was scoring 30 points a game, 30 points a game to like, dude, you're crushing it. They go, okay, now you're going to play with the high school kids. I started averaging 10.

• 1:19:25Speaker 15

  Okay, maybe I had an unfair advantage with the kids that are in middle school. When you actually start competing and not using technology and unfair advantages, basically cheating, you're basically going to be a reversion of the mean. So I think this is going to become inevitable, whether it's medieval times, crusades or taking away unfair advantages. Kids are going to have to put down the phone and actually learn in order to do their job moving forward.

• 1:19:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, there you go. I, I look, I like that they're doing this and I don't, set aside politics. If they, if, if I'm taking a test home and I'm getting 95 and I'm doing it in school, I'm doing it at 50. What the hell you teaching the kids to go to school? If I'm a parent, I'm like, why am I sending my kids to college? Screw college. I'm not even paying for this thing anymore. Parents get upset if they hear something like this. All right, let me get to the next story. Next one I want to get to is, I got so many good stories to go to. I'm trying to see which one to go to next. Uh, let's go to the Gavin Newsom saying Elon Musk owes him things. So I want you to see this video. He's doing an interview and they're talking about his experience with Elon Musk. And he says, well, you know, he owes us a lot of success. And you know what he's doing this? He's doing it here. And you know what he's doing is doing it here. You know what he's doing? He's doing it here. As if he hasn't already made enough enemies that he doesn't need help with.

• 1:20:33Speaker 01

  There's two clips, you have the clip because we send it to you. One of them was, you know, is that the one? So I want you to watch this clip.

• 1:20:40Speaker 09

  And can I warn people? Guys, do me a favor. If you're watching this, don't let his hand gestures mesmerize you because you're going to lose the stuff that's coming out of his mouth. Try not to pay attention to his hands.

• 1:20:51Speaker 01

  Go ahead.

• 1:20:52Speaker 18

  Elon Musk. Look. Uh, one of the great disappointments, one of our, uh, one of the great innovators of our time. I brought up Edison before. He's Edison of our time. It breaks my heart. I was the first, you know, I was got the, one of the first Teslas off the line. I've been one of their biggest proponents, supporters was regulation.

• 1:21:08Speaker 01

  Oh, here he comes.

• 1:21:09Speaker 18

  In California that created the conditions that allowed him to take the risk to become the multi billionaire, maybe trillionaire that he's become, including SolarCity and some of the regulatory frameworks that launched Elon Musk. And he launched this space. Now he's going to space and he's now turning his back, not only in the state that promote him, though he has no problem getting the R and D tax credits and moving his world headquarters on RD here and having Grok here and most of his talent here, which is also interesting. But right now he's allowing, and I think this is Trump, not just Elon Musk. He is going to allow the greatest on goal in, I think, one of the most significant on goals in the next decade

• 1:21:53Speaker 18

  is seeding the EV space to China. They have 70% of the global EV market. It's about statecraft with them. It's about supply chains. They're flooding the zone all around the globe, including now right on the border into China, into Canada, where they're going to 49,000 cars, getting that tariff down there. And it's a stack play. It's a national security play. And I really fear what's going to happen to American legacy automobile manufacturers. Elon was the one accelerating that. Now he's put the brakes on his own innovation in that space and now shifted to robotics, humanoids.

• 1:22:29Speaker 01

  Right there. Tom, your thoughts?

• 1:22:33Speaker 09

  If you were in fact check on this, we would have to do a 24 hour podcast. The number of things on there is just shocking. So I'll sum it up as this. This is Gavin Newsom clearly throwing shade on Elon Musk and trying, it just really seems he's trying to take credit for the regulatory environment that somehow gave Elon Musk a blank canvas. Elon Musk didn't have a dream to go to Mars because of a blank canvas California gave him. Let me tell you, eBay bought PayPal at the end of 2022, within seven months, 2022, within

• 1:23:15Speaker 09

  seven months, 2003, Elon had launched Tesla and then he took it public in 2010. Look at the amount of time it took. Do you think in seven months, the state of California could have done anything? No. And by the way, Gavin Newsom wasn't in Sacramento in 2003, when he built Tesla. Gavin Newsom, when did he become governor? Was he in governor in 2010 when Elon Musk went public?

• 1:23:39Speaker 01

  No.

• 1:23:40Speaker 09

  Good grief. Oh yeah, but you know, he's intimating that his regulation intimacy there. So I think this is disingenuous, Pat. I'm not going to go on and on. I'm going to say it's disingenuous. It takes so many words to say it, which tells you how much he's trying to stretch and morph the argument. And I think this is an insult to entrepreneurs everywhere for you to sit back because guess what? He's taking a page out of the old playbook and I'm going to quote somebody. I'm going to quote somebody. First of all, you got a pack of Salem's. Okay. And second of all, you didn't build that.

• 1:24:16Speaker 01

  Yeah. That like your mic drop moment?

• 1:24:19Speaker 09

  No, that is, I'm, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm saying, he's saying the same thing that Obama said, when you didn't build that.

• 1:24:26Speaker 01

  I got it, Tom. You know, you know what's annoying about this kind of stuff is how entitled politicians speak, sound like when they talk that way. How entitled they sound when they talk that way. It is so flipping annoying when you hear them talk in the way that they do. As if like you owe him something, you know? This guy goes and creates all these jobs like, yeah, let me tell you. Oh, stop it already. Stop it already. Good for Elon for what he's doing. Newsom where he had another clip. I don't know if you have the other clip with taxes. Do you have that one? Check this out. He's getting, a lot of people are saying he's getting nervous with this because how quickly try to redirect and put it on Trump. Watch this.

• 1:25:07Speaker 18

  You have 20 years on my taxes. Yes. I know you love taxes. Donald Trump's.

• 1:25:15Speaker 18

  Well, I am, because that's why I've released all my taxes for decades and you will have all those new taxes. Because I have no reason why you haven't gotten them already. So I have no.

• 1:25:26Speaker 10

  He's just brushing people off.

• 1:25:27Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, look, when you, has he actually released his taxes for 20 years? Because if he has, why is he getting so nervous?

• 1:25:35Speaker 09

  Yeah.

• 1:25:35Speaker 01

  You know what I'm saying? It, I'm sure he has as a governor, but he just kind of looked a little bit uncomfortable. You know, the allegation with the fact that his wife allegedly took a lot of money from that charity. I don't know what the number was, 2.8 million.

• 1:25:47Speaker 09

  2.8.

• 1:25:48Speaker 01

  Or something like that. No, by the way, the report says Gavin Newsom has not released 20 years of his taxes. Newsom released multiple years of tax returns during his political career, including filing, covering five years through 2020, when he ran for reelection in California. And those disclosed Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom reported one and a half million dollar income in 2020 and paid about 480 in taxes. Newsom has pledged to release his taxes every year in office, but he has not made additional return public since 2020. So he's lying. He hasn't released his taxes since 2020. And what was the one, was it the 2.8 million dollars? Is it the 2.8 million dollars that we saw?

• 1:26:30Speaker 09

  I think so with the diaper, with the diaper situation. The most advanced diapers of all time by according to their price.

• 1:26:37Speaker 01

  I think I saw that where she got paid. So, so then that's why he's getting nervous. Because if you did release your taxes, why would you be so nervous? You don't have to be nervous. So now we know he hasn't released his taxes. You're in Gavin Newsom, yes, there has been claims involving amounts in the millions, but the details matter. The 2.8 million dollar figure appears to refer to money connected to her nonprofit work and related entities over time, not a single simple salary paid to her personally. IRS filings show she received compensation from nonprofit. One analysis reported that her total compensation from the organization at about 1.8 million dollars from 2011 to 2024. And then there's some numbers that are 2.8 to 3.7 million, but just, look, you know what the tax situation is? If he's good, he's good. I mean, the, what do you call it? Elections coming around the corner next couple of years.

• 1:27:22Speaker 01

  He's got to be ready for it. I will tell you this though, for the state of Texas, you know, we made four hats for different states. Can you go and show those hats I sent to you? For the people that are proud Floridians, these hats were on fire at the gubernatorial debate. It's your hat, future looks bright on the front and your state, if you can go next so they can see the Florida on the side. This is one of the, no, on that, yeah, just go to the next slide, go, go to the next slide, go to the next one to show Florida on the side. Right there, I don't know if you see it. Boom. There you have Florida there. And then we have three other states. We have California, we have Texas. If you can go to Texas, reason why I want Texas to get some love, look at that. One of the hottest items we got is this here, because people proudly say future looks bright living in Texas. To the people in California, New York, you know, I got a Yankees gold chain that my wife

• 1:28:07Speaker 01

  got me for my birthday. I've had this for a few years and I wore a Yankees jacket. I want to see New York succeed. Are you flipping? And I lived in California for 24 years. Every one of these states I have a direct relationship with. So if you are proud Floridian, proud Texan, proud Californian, or proud New York, go up there and represent these hats. Can we put the link below? And by the way, if you go to vtmerch.com, just put the Texas in the search, the hats will come up like this. Anyways, let's get to the next story. Next story I want to get into is a story about, let me see which one we should go to. I got, I got quite a few good stories to get into. Do we want to go into what Marco Rubio did? Let's go into Marco Rubio video. I'm going to come to you with this one.

• 1:28:50Speaker 01

  Last week, we reported on a story that Vinnie brought to us. A man had raped a 10 year old. And I'm like, there's no way this story is true. And the guy comes out and says, this is our culture. And as we got deeper, you know what we learned about the story? The man who raped a 10 year old married the 10 year old sister. And later on in life, the sister said, I don't want to judge him. We've moved on, our family's doing great. We want to do nothing about that. Wait, what? And then the governor, Tim Walz allegedly pardons him.

• 1:29:23Speaker 09

  He pardons him so he doesn't have to get deported. He wants to keep him here.

• 1:29:28Speaker 01

  Yes. And this guy's from where? Laos.

• 1:29:30Speaker 09

  Laos.

• 1:29:31Speaker 01

  So Marco Rubio suddenly, people forget about the story like, wait, this is it? Marco Rubio's like, no, no, no. No, no. That 10 year old girl that was raped, who says now he doesn't need to be held accountable. You live in America. We have laws here and we protect people here. And this is what Marco Rubio had to say. Go for it.

• 1:29:49Speaker 19

  Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota. Loation national, Tuli Van, was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10 year old girl in the state of Minnesota. He even tried to pay his victim for her silence and he called his heinous crimes a minor thing. Just days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported, Tim Walz, the governor, issued him a pardon, setting him free to once again endanger the children of America. Well, this week I revoked his legal status in the United States and as a result, federal agents took him into custody and as of today, he has been removed from the United States.

• 1:30:31Speaker 19

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• 1:33:06Speaker 10

  And could you do me a favor, Pat? Can, Umberto, can you show what Tim Walz said about it? Tim Walz is sitting there, guys, and saying that he feels sorry. He feels sorry that he goes, "I find no reason how it's safer." Like, you, I, I, it's crazy that we're in this AI world. I have to keep checking if this is fake or if it's real. And this is a real clip of him. Mind you, guys, this is a guy that repeatedly, he did so much bad stuff to this child that when I go to ChatGPT and I'm trying to help them word my stuff and structure my thing, it says, "This content can't be shown for safety reasons." ChatGPT won't even let me research this topic because it's so bad. And this is what Tim Walz's attitude is towards this child rapist. Go ahead.

• 1:33:48Speaker 01

  This is about the guy we just watched?

• 1:33:49Speaker 10

  This is about the guy.

• 1:33:50Speaker 01

  And this is two weeks ago?

• 1:33:51Speaker 10

  Yes.

• 1:33:51Speaker 01

  Go for it.

• 1:33:52Speaker 18

  Thanks, Case. I would state this, that I can find no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported to a country he has not been to since he was a child.

• 1:34:04Speaker 10

  Look, stop, stop, can you stop that right there? Do you, is everybody listening to what the hell he said? I don't see how America's gonna be safer without a child rapist, Pat. And I've talked about this before, guys. Alcoholism, all this stuff. You still have that disease. Like, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be a drinker. I'm not drinking, but it's still in me. You know what I'm saying? You have temptation, but for me, it's almost all gone. If your thing is child rape and molestation and pedophilia, that doesn't just go for, you don't go to an AA meeting, you're like, "Yeah, I'm recovering." No, no, that stays with you forever. And his attitude is, "I wanna keep this person here and not send him to Laos because it's gonna be unsafe for him." Is that, is that crazy? And what really, really scares the hell out of me is this guy, Tim Walz,

• 1:34:47Speaker 10

  was a, a couple of swing states away, Pat, from becoming the Vice President of the United States. And we keep talking about enemies from foreign and domestic. This is the people, guys.

• 1:34:58Speaker 01

  Where does this guy live, by the way?

• 1:35:00Speaker 10

  He's in, he was somewhere in Minnesota.

• 1:35:01Speaker 01

  I'm telling you, like, if this guy, like...

• 1:35:04Speaker 10

  I already know, I, I already know where you're going.

• 1:35:06Speaker 01

  This, this, this, this is a...

• 1:35:08Speaker 10

  Look at him, Pat.

• 1:35:09Speaker 01

  This is, you know, you know, there's gotta be a game.

• 1:35:13Speaker 01

  I can't even get this, too crazy of a game. There's gotta be a game for people like this to... You know, you know, you know how you watch that show? Is it Squid Games?

• 1:35:21Speaker 10

  Squid Games.

• 1:35:22Speaker 01

  And then what's the other one? The Squid Games? And there's another game like that that's on TV that's like people like to watch where, you know, Survivor or whatever, you make it or you don't make it.

• 1:35:30Speaker 10

  The Hunger Games?

• 1:35:30Speaker 01

  Hunger Games. Take these types of people and move them to a country that is, laws are different than here, and do a real-life Squid Game.

• 1:35:42Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:35:42Speaker 01

  I mean, what's the point of this? Forget about them. At least turn it into entertainment and watch them go through it. Instead of having them sit here.

• 1:35:49Speaker 10

  Yep.

• 1:35:49Speaker 01

  Maybe Squid Games, whoever came up with that idea, is a good idea to take some of these people like this for others to say, "Dude, I don't ever wanna be in that game."

• 1:35:57Speaker 10

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:35:58Speaker 01

  "Yeah, I don't ever wanna be in that game." Go, go, taking, doing what you're doing to that 10-year-old kid and then later on... And he was an adult when he did that.

• 1:36:05Speaker 10

  Of course he was. But, so my question is to you, Pat. You're a father living in Minnesota, and you hear your governor saying, "Wait, wait, wait, this child rapist, I'm not gonna send him back home. He's safer here." Is that boggle anybody else's mind?

• 1:36:22Speaker 01

  Let me get to the next story.

• 1:36:23Speaker 10

  Alien versus Predator.

• 1:36:24Speaker 01

  Let me get to the next story. The next story I wanna get to is a very different story that we have us, we'll be, we can go on through. So, uh, should we go into the World Cup or not yet? Nah, I'm not gonna go into the World Cup. Let me get to, let me get to the COO story. So, check this out. It's a great story. Chipotle CEO uses team dinners to spot potential leaders. And there are four qualities he looks for. I actually like this. There's four qualities he looks for. Okay, so Chipotle CEO, Jason Kidd, no relation to the other Jason Kidd.

• 1:36:58Speaker 10

  Basketball player.

• 1:36:59Speaker 01

  Visits about a dozen stores each week, ending his days with roughly 90-minute dinners, attended by three or four of his regional employees. The meal helps strengthen operations, reveals employees' careers, ambitions, and identifies candidates for internal promotion. We're constantly identifying internal team, talent during these visits, seeing how people show up and seeing how they react. Chipotle promoted 23,000 workers last year, including all of its new regional vice presidents. As of March, the chain employed more than 135,000 people across 4,100 locations and planned to open as many as 370 new restaurants this year. Kidd, who joined Chipotle last year after serving as Taco Bell COO, looks for four qualities in potential leaders.

• 1:37:42Speaker 01

  First, they care for colleagues and collaborate effectively. At the end of the day, we run a people business, so you need to make sure you take care of your own people. Collaborations and a relationship building become increasingly important as employees move into senior role. Number two, strong, strong candidates who own the outcome. They take, they take responsibility for results, whether positive or negative, and assess their performance honestly. If somebody can own the outcome of what they're doing, they're likely going to be a good leader. Number three, they anticipate problems... This is like our language. I'm loving what he's saying here. They anticipate problems instead of merely reacting. We don't need firefighters. We need people who could be ahead of the issues

• 1:38:26Speaker 01

  and anticipate what's going on. And last but not least, they solve problems rather than simply identifying them. Restaurant operations inevitably produce difficulties, and effective leaders arrive with solutions instead of raising concerns. By the way, this one you think about... So, if you really, one of them is what? Collaborate effectively. They own the outcome. They anticipate problems instead of just reporting it. And last but not least, they solve problems instead of just identifying it. So, for the last 20-some years, one of the things I used to do when we first started our insurance company is, and I told you this story, I think maybe I told you this last week, every Tuesday night, I would cook for my guys. So, we would finish our sales meeting at the office,

• 1:39:11Speaker 01

  and Tuesday night, when it's over with, people would come to my house. And I would ask people to bring their wives or bring their family. So, we had this place, and I'm making my famous chicken barbecue that I do, which is legendary. You age backwards. A lot of people say when you eat it, you age backwards.

• 1:39:25Speaker 10

  I lost my hair.

• 1:39:26Speaker 01

  And you actually get younger. When I used to make this barbecue in my apartment 25 years ago, everybody in the community would show up because they could smile. "Can I get a piece?" And I'd say, "Here, take a piece." It was just phenomenal. But anyways, I'm cooking. And you know what it is when I'm cooking? I'm talking to people. So, "Hey, tell me how long you guys been together?" "Oh, wow, okay." "So, what do you do right now? What do you think about this insurance thing he's trying to do? I don't really think it's gonna work. Do you think it really works? What's your concern about working and not working? What are your dreams?" And so, "Well, we'd like to one day..." "How long you guys been married?" "12 years." "Did you think 12 years ago when you guys got married, you would be in the situation you are right now financially?" "No, never thought that." "Okay, so what did you think life would look like after being married for 12 years? I thought 12 years later, we would be in da-da-da-da-da." "Okay, so if you don't do anything differently now, what's life gonna look like 12 years from now?" "Oh, probably the same." "So, what alternatives do you have? What choices?" "Not a lot."

• 1:40:11Speaker 01

  "So, okay, so maybe this is something you ought to entertain and support your husband?" "Yeah, that does kinda make sense." And then we would have that conversation. Then I would be like, "Ooh, that guy's Wi-Fi like because she's positive, she's supportive." "Oh, she is super negative." "Well, you can pray for him. Nothing's gonna happen with him because she is such a negat..." So, this model of getting to know your guys, just last week, was it last week when I was making the omelets for people? I don't know what it was.

• 1:40:34Speaker 10

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:40:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, maybe a week ago, week and a half ago. I'm making omelets. I made, I made 100 omelets that day for two hours.

• 1:40:40Speaker 10

  I'm not gonna front, they were pretty, they were good.

• 1:40:42Speaker 01

  And you know what was the one thing about making the omelets? Every omelet takes about two minutes to make. Takes about a minute and a half to make. You know what time I had? I had a minute and a half to two minutes to get to know you. "So, where are you from? What's your background? How long you been with us? What do you do here? I'm an engineer of yours." "So, what else do you do?" Da-da-da-da. I think more leaders need to get hands-on to get to know their people effectively. And by the way, I'm gonna give a book recommendation to you guys right now. This is a book that anybody that reports directly to Bezos has to read. You ready? The book is called The Goal. It's sold over 10 million copies. It's, I recommend you buy this book and buy the audiobook and listen to the audiobook while you're reading the book.

• 1:41:23Speaker 01

  It's a ridiculous book to read. That's a ridiculous book to read on operating. And the guy, the story of the guy in the book, he's going through marital issues. His wife leaves him while he's operating. So it depicts the exact challenges that a person goes through who is trying to be a good executive, good person running a company, that there's a lot of additional moving parts and stuff that happens that you're not aware of. So I highly recommend reading this book. I got another one here. I'll recommend to you here in a minute as well. But as a COO or CEO, if you don't get to learn stories about your guys long-term, you don't find out who the stars are. Sometimes stars will be hidden underneath a shielding manager that doesn't want you to know that the real star is under that person.

• 1:42:07Speaker 01

  Like, whoa, we would have never found out about that person. And you have to overlap them. You have to overlap them, or else there's going to be so much politics taking place and you'll continue losing good people year after year. And that's not a good thing for you to do. I want to get to the next story. Next story is, and by the way, Tom, I'll give you something here because you as a COO for the last 20 years. You've been very good at, I've watched you personally develop some incredible leaders yourself. You've been instrumental in the way you've helped with morale, becoming a better executive, whether it's Tikram, whether it's Mario, whether it's a lot of different people. What are some things you do when you're like, I mean, some of the people that Tom had ended up becoming a CEO of Snapchat? I mean, the people that Tom's worked with the last 30, 40 years became players. What would you say you look for when you're developing people on your team?

• 1:42:50Speaker 09

  I look at adaptability and ability to learn secondary. The first thing I look for is just people that are really passionate and sharp about their skills. If they're passionate and sharp about it, they're constantly honing it. They're constantly trying to be better. That's the individual part. But then I want to look at adaptability and learn because I give people frameworks. Hey, if you're going to be a leader over here, here's the framework that you have to do. This is what you have to do as a leader. You have to lead people. And one of the phrases I give to people, I says, look, it can't get done by you. It's got to get done through you to a larger team, not by you, but through you. That's the leadership development. And if they'll adapt and they'll learn and they'll apply, then I can take somebody that's got good technical skills, like morale was phenomenal with commissions.

• 1:43:34Speaker 09

  She was great with finance, great with focus. And I said, look, I think you could influence so much more because where you're going, get it done, not by you, but through you, and then influence the people while maintaining the culture that you're under. The other part that I really focus on people is I say, look, you've chosen to be here, wherever here is, whether that is Jam that back in 2004, or whether that's PHP, or that's ValueTainment, or David Consulting, and there are cultures there. Are you bought into what this organization wants to do? Because that's not about Tom developing you. That's are you bought into this? And then I can run with that because I'm working with and for you. And as soon as they commit to that, and I says, okay, then I think you're going to be successful here.

• 1:44:19Speaker 09

  But then it's a million little things as you walk the road.

• 1:44:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, and I've seen you go through it. And it's the time's ability to project manage is phenomenal. We, you know, we're offsite, so we're doing stuff for your preparation podcast. One of the things I'll always do with Jake, I'll say, Jake, give me the entire list. Checklist of everything we need to do. And he'll come in and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And if we don't have checklist created to get certain things knocked out of it, we're always, we're missing a wire. We're missing a this, we're missing a that, we're missing a this. No checklist, put the stuff together so you don't have to go through it as you're building it. But a major shout out and a prayer to morale and her family. They had a very unfortunate situation this past weekend that was tough for all of us to go through. But our prayer and love is with that entire family.

• 1:45:04Speaker 01

  We love them. And just so you know, we're thinking about you all the time. And we love you guys. We love that entire Kishishian Beckham family, one of the most special families I met in my life. Such a special group of people. Anyways, okay. Uh, let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get into is something that has to do with leadership and I want to address, and I kind of like this story. It has to do with World Cup, but it's different and it's complicated and say very, very complex situation. So the World Cup matches, we watched, we saw what happened. So let's kind of go through a couple of them, right? So who got kicked out? So you know, England beats uh, England beats Norway and Holland, which by the way, if you watch that game, there's a clip that you have where

• 1:45:46Speaker 01

  this one teammate of Holland could have passed to him twice. He didn't. There's all this commentary afterwards. The clip we're playing is from a fan, so we can show it. It's not a clip from ESPN. So I want you to see this clip here. This right here is Alexander Solod, who is going in and look who is wide open. Who do you see is wide open?

• 1:46:04Speaker 09

  Right down the middle.

• 1:46:05Speaker 01

  Holland. He's the, look at him. Give the fricking pass. So guess what? He wants to be the scorer. And then Holland's like, what are you doing? And by the way, in the post-game interview, he even said, we could have made some better decisions. You can tell he's defeated. Give me the flip. There's a reason why he's the number three scorer in his first World Cup for Norway. All he had to do was pass, this goes overtime. Who knows what happens? So who ends up winning? England? And by the way, there's a few people that won millions, if not tens of millions of new fans. Holland is probably at the top of that list. Messi's always had him. Ronaldo's always had it. Vizinho is the one that probably won the most. The goalie was like, holy shit, who is this guy? Now it's going, and remind me, but let me tell you what's going on here. That's very interesting. So

• 1:46:47Speaker 01

  no one's talking about, everyone's saying Spain's going to win it. France is going to win it. Argentina's going to win it. You know who no one's talking about? No one's talking about England. They're not talking about England. And you know who's England about to face? Argentina. And guess what? You know when's the last time they faced? It's the Hand of God. You know which goal I'm, if they had VAR back in the days, Argentina ain't winning the World Cup, just so you know that. It would have been a Hand of God. So check this out. The coach of England is the third non-British coach they've ever had. Third non-British coach they've ever had. And UK, England, they have two of the top five biggest scorers in this World Cup in England.

• 1:47:30Speaker 01

  Kane and Bellingham. If I'm saying it correctly, correct me there, Jake, if I'm not saying it correctly. Okay, while this is going on, England in 2025 decides to go get this coach. His name is Thomas Tuchel, Tuchel, Tuchel, however we want to pronounce it. And this guy, just to kind of give you his resume, he was a soccer player as a kid. He was a defender. His father coached him. He tried to go pro. He played some minor league type of soccer stuff. 2025, at 25 years old, he gets an injury. He decides to go into business. And then he goes and becomes a bartender while he's trying to be a coach.

• 1:48:01Speaker 09

  Damn.

• 1:48:02Speaker 01

  And then eventually he gets the opportunity. He's 52 years old. Later on, after retiring, he ends up coaching. And he ends up winning his first major trophy with Borussia Dortmund, lifting Germany Cup in 2017. Then at PSG, he won League One, then took PSG to their first ever championship league final in 2020. They lost to Bayern Munich, a team that he beat when he was with Dortmund. Then he becomes a Champions League winner with Chelsea in 2021, beating Manchester City in the final. This is a legit coach here. Okay. Then he wins the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Cup with Chelsea in 2021. Then he's named the FIFA Coach of the Year in 2021. Now he's his reputation. This is the part that gets tricky and it's all about leadership and business.

• 1:48:47Speaker 01

  He's got a reputation of being a tactician, being a perfectionist, and super demanding with his players, super demanding with his players. Which you know what ends up happening because of this personality that he has? They win the game. When they win the game, he doesn't sound like a coach that is happy about them winning the game. And he kind of calls out the team and Bellingham didn't like it. This is what the coach had to say. And then I'll show you what Bellingham had to say. Go for it.

• 1:49:13Speaker 20

  There's no mentality problem. This is pure mentality.

• 1:49:16Speaker 01

  Dangerous coach for Argentina.

• 1:49:18Speaker 20

  Pure mentality. You can bottle it up and sell it. This is, yeah. So why is the problem for mentality? We made life very, very difficult for ourselves today.

• 1:49:26Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:49:27Speaker 20

  The result is fantastic. We're in the last four. It's amazing, but not happy with the performance.

• 1:49:33Speaker 01

  Can you imagine?

• 1:49:34Speaker 20

  Never since. It was, again, the commitment is there, but we made life very, very difficult for us in the, in the way we played, how we played. Sloppy, a lot of technical mistakes, not fast enough. Uh, not repetitive enough. We were lucky today. Was that the occasion? Getting to the players? I don't know. It's just.

• 1:49:54Speaker 01

  I want you to pause right here. Pause right here. Okay. So he is the kind of coach that is a super annoying coach for players, but a great coach if you're the country or the team that's hiring that coach. By the way, do you know each team, each job that he had, I think he had a follow-up disagreement or got fired? After they won the Chelsea championship, two months later, he got fired. He left. Because of disagreements with management. So this is a very difficult guy. So then watch what Bellingham says. Bellingham knows. So imagine you just won.

• 1:50:20Speaker 09

  And you scored two goals.

• 1:50:21Speaker 01

  You just scored two goals back to back. I think, I don't know, how many people have scored back to back two goals in that much of a elimination run? I think he's one of only two players that's ever done this. So it's not like he did something small and look what happens to him. Look what he says. Look what the guy asks and look what he says. Go for it.

• 1:50:37Speaker 21

  Thomas has just been quite critical of the performance after the game. Does that show the standards that he expects, the standards you guys expect of each other? And maybe that there's more to come from the team.

• 1:50:46Speaker 22

  Maybe, but maybe he doesn't know what it's like to play in those kind of conditions against Erling Haaland, Odegaard, Nusay, Soloff. You know, that's not an easy team to play against.

• 1:50:55Speaker 01

  He doesn't know.

• 1:50:56Speaker 22

  You know, I think we've tried to create a positive environment. We should continue that going into the final four. I can't speak highly enough for the lads. You're not going to win every game popping the ball and making a thousand passes. Sometimes you have to win dirty and we're doing that again tonight.

• 1:51:10Speaker 01

  Okay, so now you hear something like that, okay? And then the coach is asked again and again in a different interview. I'm not going to play that. He's still saying, we're not there yet. You know who should be worried? Argentina should be worried.

• 1:51:21Speaker 10

  I was just gonna say.

• 1:51:22Speaker 01

  All I'm saying.

• 1:51:23Speaker 10

  That's what I'm saying.

• 1:51:24Speaker 01

  All I'm saying to you is you don't ever want the opposing team to have a coach like that. You don't ever want, and by the way, typically coaches like that, that create that much pressure, Bellingham and him may not be able to play together twice. This may only happen one time. England may end up winning the World Cup this year because they got a psycho coach like that.

• 1:51:43Speaker 10

  I think so.

• 1:51:44Speaker 01

  To get a person like that demanding, where the freaking guy scores two goals and after the game, he's like, you look at his face, he looks disgusted. Look at Bellingham's face. He's, he looks, go a little bit, that's not Bellingham, go a little bit, he looks disgusted. He's like, I know you're gonna ask me this shitty question. I don't want to answer it. So my wild card to everybody out there.

• 1:52:04Speaker 10

  Here we go.

• 1:52:05Speaker 01

  Like I want France or Argentina, I want a rematch. But I tell you, this coach, this coach and this team is, this coach is a real coach. This team is a real team. If you think for a second, England's gonna walk through England and you know, Argentina's gonna walk through England, I think you have another thing coming. I hope Argentina is aware and paranoid enough of what these guys are capable of doing.

• 1:52:29Speaker 10

  The coach's mentality reminds me, I have only one thing to say, Pat. The coach's mentality reminds me of one thing that both you and I hold close to our heart. When I hear him talk, you know what I hear in my head? Job's not finished.

• 1:52:40Speaker 01

  That's right. That's right. But that's, that's a tough type of person to work with.

• 1:52:45Speaker 10

  Or play with.

• 1:52:46Speaker 01

  And so, yeah, to work with, to play with, any of that stuff. If you can have the tolerance, you will win a lot of championships. But you have to be willing to have the same size of a, and by the way, if they win, you realize what happens if England wins? If England beats Argentina, then England beats France or Spain? Holy shit.

• 1:53:03Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:53:04Speaker 01

  Again, full disclosure, I have one of Mbappe's best cards. I bought five years ago for a quarter of a million dollars. Financially, I'm.

• 1:53:12Speaker 10

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:53:13Speaker 01

  I want to see Argentina, France, but I like the coach of England.

• 1:53:18Speaker 10

  And can we be, can we be honest? Cause we've watched how many games at this point? I don't, and I know we have a bunch of people around us that love Messi and they don't have it this year. They don't have it this year.

• 1:53:30Speaker 01

  England?

• 1:53:31Speaker 10

  No, no, I don't think Argentina has it.

• 1:53:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:53:33Speaker 10

  Don't get, guys, Messi to me is the best. He doesn't have the attitude of Cristiano Ronaldo posting old school 2016 stuff or whatever. I'm just telling you guys, cause we watch every game. France is having fun. Mbappe is electrifying. They're like enjoying the game. At the end of the day, guys, it's a game. If you're not having fun, if you're just like, oh, you're not gonna win.

• 1:53:57Speaker 01

  Mbappe looks.

• 1:53:58Speaker 10

  Mbappe.

• 1:53:58Speaker 01

  France is the only team that looks like it's superior to everybody else.

• 1:54:01Speaker 10

  A thousand percent, but Pat, me personally, I love this type of attitude from a head coach. Think about it, they're singing Wonderwall and having a great time. You haven't won anything. I want a coach to be like, yo, yo, we made this many mistakes and it's not like he's lying. Check the tapes. They were playing a little bit, you know, loose and you know, not fouling at the wrong time or playing lazy. Like I want that. You don't want anybody kissing your butt and you're down to four. I think it's good, Pat, and I like that tension, cause now you know what's gonna happen? Bellingham has a little freaking grudge now. He's gonna go out there and be like, okay, you wanna play games? I'm gonna score three goals.

• 1:54:37Speaker 01

  Dude, if Bellingham gets two goals again.

• 1:54:39Speaker 10

  Oh my God.

• 1:54:40Speaker 01

  Back to back to back in eliminations. One of the greatest single performances in the elimination round ever by player.

• 1:54:46Speaker 10

  I think so.

• 1:54:47Speaker 01

  Adam, any, any insight from you?

• 1:54:50Speaker 15

  Well, I'll tell you from experience, you wanna know the most annoying person to work for or be coached by is someone with high standards. It is so annoying and demanding and someone with high standards will make you question everything. But here's what I've learned. The coach with high standards, the leader with high standards will get more out of you, will get more out of the people that he, that work for him or that play for him than any other coach. And believe me, I know from experience and I'm not even talking about you, PBD. All my sports, I'm just saying, every time that I've had a coach in school, anytime you know, there's like, oh, he's, he's a player's coach. He's a player's coach. But you can be likable and the people like playing for you, but you don't necessarily win.

• 1:55:34Speaker 15

  The coaches that have gotten the most out of me and I played college football, I played basketball, high school basketball, everything above. The guy who you're like, oh my God, would this guy just leave me alone?

• 1:55:45Speaker 01

  Run a poll.

• 1:55:46Speaker 15

  That guy is gonna get the most out of you.

• 1:55:47Speaker 01

  Run a poll to see who the audience thinks is gonna win the World Cup. Argentina, England, France or, what's the last one? Spain.

• 1:55:57Speaker 10

  Can I guess?

• 1:55:57Speaker 01

  Spain is the most boring team to watch play. I just can't do Spain. It's so flipping boring. It's like, it's like watching the 2019, 90 San Antonio Spurs or, or the early 90s Cavs with Mark Price and Craig Elo and Brad Doherty and bullshit, bullshit. Just a boring team to watch, but watch Spain end up winning the whole thing.

• 1:56:17Speaker 10

  No, no.

• 1:56:19Speaker 01

  I'm about to get all these menics from Spaniards upset at me because Lamine Lamalle is gonna be passing up everybody. But stop it.

• 1:56:26Speaker 10

  Okay, if you had to guess right now from our audience, what percentage is gonna be, who's gonna be number one and two?

• 1:56:32Speaker 01

  I think number one will be Argentina. I think number two will be France. I think it'll be, because of what I just said, influence England a little bit. And then I think it'll be Spain, but let's see, let's see.

• 1:56:42Speaker 10

  I'm gonna, I'm gonna say France, our audience, France, Argentina, England, Spain.

• 1:56:49Speaker 01

  Well, but you know, if we put Portugal, some people would have voted Portugal, even though they're out.

• 1:56:53Speaker 10

  Of course.

• 1:56:54Speaker 01

  Portugal fans are delusional fans and you love them, they're good people, but my gosh, who's first? Oh, they put France first, Argentina second, England third, Spain last. There's something about Spain that's just boring as hell.

• 1:57:05Speaker 10

  They're right, they're right. Look at that. Oh, pals, right. France is one, Argentina two.

• 1:57:10Speaker 01

  There you go.

• 1:57:11Speaker 10

  England, let's go.

• 1:57:12Speaker 01

  Okay, I just wanna see a rematch. I just wanna see a rematch, but coaches like that, man, this is, that's.

• 1:57:17Speaker 10

  I can't wait now.

• 1:57:18Speaker 01

  All right, let's do, let's do, let's do two other stories and a wrap up. Again, folks, your brother 80, I told you, stick around. It's a health matter. It's the last thing we're gonna look at. It's, it's very important, but the first thing I wanna get into is the following. So Conor McGregor, everybody was waiting for this five year of him not fighting. Oh my God, Connor's gonna fight Holloway and you know what everybody was looking forward? This, this sign.

• 1:57:40Speaker 10

  Come, let's fight right now.

• 1:57:41Speaker 01

  Cause Holloway's like, bam, bam, bam, bam, going back and forth. And then next thing you know, we're sitting there and you know, everybody's up, you know, it's Argentina game's going on while this is going on. Ah shit, which one should we watch? So we're watching the fight on the phone and we're watching the game on TV, cause the game is more important than the fight. And then all of a sudden, boom, five seconds, it's over. What? What happened there? And then the speculation started. Four days ago, he went and saw a doctor with his leg and you can, we can't show that clip by the way. Uh, we cannot show that clip, no. That's the one right there. No, no, you have it right there where he's walking into.

• 1:58:14Speaker 10

  Is that, is that, this is Hollywood fix.

• 1:58:18Speaker 01

  Conor McGregor was seen walking into Newport four days before. Can you check with AI to see?

• 1:58:22Speaker 10

  Pain management clinic.

• 1:58:24Speaker 01

  Do me a favor and check to see, can you go on the bottom of it and see if this is true?

• 1:58:28Speaker 10

  A bottom of the tree.

• 1:58:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, typically people will do it, but if you wanna do it your way.

• 1:58:32Speaker 10

  It looks pretty real.

• 1:58:34Speaker 01

  Okay, so please, clarify, verify claims. Okay, so some people said, there already community note in this video, Conor appears normal with no visible limb. Reports confirm his leg injury occurred during the opening minute of the fight. So he looks fine. By the way, anybody would go there right before a fight as well. It's not like he is limping. To me, he looks normal. A lot of people said he looked bad here. Now, pre-fight, he was standing there, he was kind of, you know, having a hard time standing on one of the legs. But then while he was practicing, he was kicking. So it's not like he wasn't kicking and throwing kicks in the back, you know, just preparing for the fight. And then all right, they go a little bit lower and I don't know if we can show that or not. That's the part where you know.

• 1:59:13Speaker 10

  Like watch, he's not, yeah, he won't put any weight on that.

• 1:59:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, he won't put any weight on the right one. So that's when people are like, well, we knew. And then fight starts and then MGK, which I don't know if you guys know the beef with MGK and, and uh, that's the shadow of the leg. You see that?

• 1:59:26Speaker 10

  No, no, no, that's not it, that's not it.

• 1:59:27Speaker 01

  Is that the one, is there another one?

• 1:59:29Speaker 10

  No.

• 1:59:29Speaker 01

  Cause I saw a picture of what, that was not the one?

• 1:59:31Speaker 10

  No, that's.

• 1:59:32Speaker 01

  Why are you teasing us with stuff like this?

• 1:59:33Speaker 10

  Yeah, it looks like somebody put a shotgun. That's a joke.

• 1:59:37Speaker 01

  I see, he went a little bit higher. I saw it for a split second what it was. That was a big joke.

• 1:59:42Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 1:59:42Speaker 01

  Hence, so anyways, so that happens and you know, a lot of people come out and they knew, he had to get in the ring to get paid 30 million dollars. He doesn't step foot in there, he doesn't get his 30. He has to get in there to get his 30 million dollars. So the world was looking forward to it. MGK, who had issues in the past with Eminem and which, by the way, he made a video responding to Eminem and then Eminem responded back and I think it was over from there. But here's MGK at Connor, go ahead.

• 2:00:11Speaker 23

  I'm aware I did a post yesterday and I should probably apologize for, absolutely nothing, homie. Fuck this dude. That's how beef works. We don't like each other. Everyone's saying, oh, you commented on his age. He's only one year older than you about his knees. Hey, guess what? We don't age the same. My knees are awesome.

• 2:00:31Speaker 01

  Oh, you wouldn't say it to his face. I already did. That's why a picture exists of this little leprechaun punching up and missing me and me not flinching. Where the fuck is the rest of the footage where we tossed this little guy like a piece of dirty drawers across the red carpet? That's why all the footage starts with him far away. Buddy, you look like a drunk, ugly extra in a Sherlock Holmes movie. What in the 1934 am I looking at? Fix your face. Holy shit.

• 2:00:54Speaker 23

  Oh, that's me. Why are you kicking him while he's down? Dude, fuck this guy when he's down, up, sideways, asleep while I'm peeing.

• 2:01:00Speaker 15

  You know what? Okay, can I please go PBD?

• 2:01:02Speaker 01

  Go ahead.

• 2:01:03Speaker 15

  Go ahead. Alright. This is the problem with internet culture. Does anyone think that if two of these two guys were in a room together, Machine Gun Kelly, who's probably never shot a gun in his life, Paints his fingernails pink. Yes, he's banging a hot chick. I'll give him that. Sorry for the kids out there. Does anybody think if you drop these two guys in an alley by themselves, That MGK would be walking, talking, speaking, or living nobody? It's so easy. You know, Drake famously said the line, When trigger fingers turn to Twitter fingers, this guy is a fake tough guy, Talking about one of the most decorated, likable, Greatest champions of all time in the UFC and MMA. The fact that he's taking away Connor's shine and took it away from him is ridiculous. This should be about Connor, one of the greatest who's ever done it.

• 2:01:47Speaker 01

  Okay, let's play a game. Adam, here's a game for you.

• 2:01:50Speaker 15

  Ruined his knee, ruined the fight, but this guy should shut his mouth.

• 2:01:53Speaker 01

  What are the chances that Connor and MGK Are gonna see each other as some kind of a party or an event? For sure. And what are the chances? What are the chances Connor beats the living crap out of him? He's a father of three kids now. What are the chances that he does that?

• 2:02:08Speaker 15

  Oh, after.

• 2:02:08Speaker 01

  You know what I would do if I'm Connor right now? I would do the following. I would say, MGK, Please quote tweet this, That the next time I see you in the streets or at an event, that if I beat the living crap out of you, you don't sue me. Can you please quote retweet this so the public knows? And it's almost like you're being held harmless from a lawsuit.

• 2:02:28Speaker 15

  On sight.

• 2:02:28Speaker 01

  I would be tweeting that if I'm Connor right now, because the moment it happens, that left is coming, it's over.

• 2:02:33Speaker 15

  It's over.

• 2:02:34Speaker 01

  So you know what's heartbreaking about this is Some of the greatest UFC moments ever was with Connor.

• 2:02:41Speaker 15

  Yep.

• 2:02:42Speaker 01

  When he fought Mayweather, non UFC boxing, the way he did what he did, unbelievable. When he fought Khabib, the greatest, I mean, that was like a, Of course, the match, neither one of them ended the way. When he fought Diaz, both of them, the first one, the second one. Do you know, I think, five out of the top five biggest pay-per-views, when they used to do pay-per-views, Is all Connor. I don't know if you know this or not.

• 2:03:02Speaker 15

  Yeah, Jose Aldo.

• 2:03:03Speaker 01

  This guy changed the game. He made a few hundred million dollars in one of the interviews he's doing. I don't know if you have it or not. If you type in Connor Jesus, They're asking and say, does the game change you? Does the game change you? And he says, of course it does. Of course it does. Is this the interview? Yes, this is it. I just, man, play this clip if you can. Go from the beginning. Watch this. Go for it.

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  What does your Catholic faith mean to you? And how important was it to your comeback and preparation for this fight?

• 2:05:41Speaker 27

  It is everything in my life. I have mountain-moving faith. And I am more than a conqueror in Jesus. I am an heir of the royal family. An heir of the royal estate. All of God's promises are yes and amen in Christ and apply to me. It is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me.

• 2:05:58Speaker 15

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• 2:05:59Speaker 27

  All glory to God.

• 2:06:01Speaker 15

  I love it. I freaking love him.

• 2:06:08Speaker 01

  By the way, can you go to the other thing when he says, did the game change you? Type in Connor interview. No, you just stay where you are. No, just stay where you are. Go back to X where you were at. Go back to where you were at. Where were you? You just lost yourself. Go back to where you were at. And go to the top and just remove McGregor. And just type in Connor interview. Just type in interview. Yeah. And so if you see this here, In one of the interviews, he's going, I hope you find it, go a little bit lower. And there's a clip, Did the game change you? And his answer is such a beautiful answer Of what he gives. Anyways, Benny, any thoughts here?

• 2:06:46Speaker 15

  Uh, well, just, I mean, he did a post-game too, Pat, where he goes, the next day, because the fight was Saturday. He said he's going to church on Sunday. I mean, this is heartbreaking for me because I've, I've followed Connor McGregor's career, Pat, when he was fighting in freaking Ireland and a girl that I used to Know very, very well in California. I won't even say her name. She, when he started blowing up and started doing the UFC unleash and he Got the fight with Jose Aldo and following up to the fight. Then he started blowing up. She's like, oh my God, this is the guy. Yeah, play, play this clip.

• 2:07:17Speaker 01

  Watch this clip.

• 2:07:18Speaker 12

  Fell into the trap.

• 2:07:19Speaker 01

  Watch this.

• 2:07:19Speaker 12

  Do you feel like you fell into the trap that so many fighters do with fame and money?

• 2:07:26Speaker 27

  Obviously. Obviously. You know, 2017, Double weight world champion Floyd Mayweather banged. And then I launch an Irish whiskey. I didn't drink heavily. If at all. In that time of my life. I was an athlete at the top of my game. Next thing you know, there's thousands upon thousands of bottles in my garage. Sell this, Connor. Okay, I'd leave my property in With two bottles under my arm. And that was it. I was caught. God gave me these lessons. That's it. I was trapped in God. And it is what it is. I trust in God. I trust in my journey and I trust in the truth. If the world is against the truth, Then I am against the world. And that is where I stand.

• 2:08:12Speaker 01

  Let me tell you. I'm telling you, God willing, this guy stays healthy. He, he's not done with his life. Whatever he does next is gonna be something big. And it's not even gonna be something he's ready for right now. It could be political. It could be back with his country. But if we know the war that's about to come and you're seeing it happen in UK and Europe and all these other places, and it's gonna come to US as well, You're gonna need some crazies like that to go to war. You're gonna need some crazies like that. And he's gonna play a very important role for this next phase we're about to go through. Which, by the way, I'm certain is coming the next couple of decades. I am certain That war is coming. And people like him are gonna unite and realize who the enemy is. And I think he's had some big fights, but I don't think his biggest fight he's had yet.

• 2:08:57Speaker 01

  I think he's gonna have his biggest fight in his life, God willing, if he stays healthy.

• 2:09:02Speaker 01

  And stays positive.

• 2:09:03Speaker 10

  You mean politically?

• 2:09:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, politically.

• 2:09:05Speaker 10

  Oh, that thing's gonna need, they need it.

• 2:09:08Speaker 01

  I think he's gonna be solid. Anyways, let's get to the last story before we wrap up. The last thing I want to show is the following. So here's a, a, a public warning to anybody above 80 years old, folks. We're really concerned for you. Can you just pause it for, for real quick before we get to it? If you're above 80, look, I mean, chances are you're probably gonna run into a, a bison. Somewhere. Some are slim, some would say would never happen, but let's just say it does. I want you to watch this. A tourist was seriously injured because he was trying to take a video of this bison. And then he ended up flying eight feet in air, which by the way, I want you to brace for impact from laughing. This is not necessary to laugh.

• 2:09:48Speaker 10

  You know, wait, hold on, you know why they'll pack?

• 2:09:50Speaker 01

  But yeah.

• 2:09:51Speaker 10

  It's mating season. He's in testosterone mode. They know what they're doing. By the way, that's a picnic table set up.

• 2:09:57Speaker 01

  Anybody that knows what not to do when you're in the mating season as an 80 year old male.

• 2:10:02Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 2:10:02Speaker 01

  Gentlemen, if you're watching this, you know what you're in the mood. And somebody bothers you, what are we capable of doing? Some very bad things. So I want you to watch this and again, brace for impact. Kids, you know, just parents at your own risk. Go ahead, play the clip. 80 year olds, man, you gotta look out for them sometimes.

• 2:10:18Speaker 10

  Hello, he's having fun. He's mate, buddy, he's chilling.

• 2:10:21Speaker 01

  This is where this is in Yellowstone.

• 2:10:23Speaker 10

  Yellowstone National Park.

• 2:10:23Speaker 01

  There you go.

• 2:10:24Speaker 10

  And there's the victim in the back with his daughter or son. I can't tell male or female.

• 2:10:28Speaker 01

  Nowadays, you can't tell.

• 2:10:29Speaker 10

  I can't even tell, I can't.

• 2:10:31Speaker 15

  Is that a beard? Does he had a big beard?

• 2:10:32Speaker 10

  Yeah, big beard, taking a photo.

• 2:10:34Speaker 15

  Claus out there.

• 2:10:34Speaker 01

  But watch what's about to happen.

• 2:10:36Speaker 09

  That a buffalo?

• 2:10:36Speaker 01

  So, so far, everything looks pretty nice, cool.

• 2:10:39Speaker 15

  Dolphin jersey?

• 2:10:40Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 2:10:40Speaker 01

  Watch this, just like, let me take a video, honey. We're gonna go back and show it to Mary.

• 2:10:45Speaker 10

  Look, Pat, he thinks, see the, the bison sees the truck like he wants some beef. But then he's like, you know what? I'm gonna go after grandpa.

• 2:10:51Speaker 01

  Watch.

• 2:10:51Speaker 15

  Imagine if you're grandpa right now thinking, holy moly.

• 2:10:54Speaker 01

  Look at this.

• 2:10:55Speaker 10

  Dude, dude.

• 2:10:57Speaker 01

  No, no, wait for it. So he's so far, you can tell he played running backwards, something back in the days.

• 2:11:02Speaker 10

  Yeah, for sure.

• 2:11:03Speaker 01

  And by the way, what happened to the kid?

• 2:11:04Speaker 10

  Look, but, but the kid's gone. The kid's gone. Pat, the, the, the bison's fighting the tree.

• 2:11:08Speaker 15

  He's hiding behind a tree?

• 2:11:10Speaker 01

  Watch, wait for it.

• 2:11:11Speaker 15

  Oh, my God.

• 2:11:12Speaker 01

  Wait for it. He's getting away so far, it's everything about, it's about to happen.

• 2:11:15Speaker 10

  Woo! Oh, my God.

• 2:11:18Speaker 15

  Oh, my God, the old man.

• 2:11:20Speaker 01

  Folks, don't do this if you're over 80. Why would you do this to yourself?

• 2:11:24Speaker 10

  I feel bad.

• 2:11:25Speaker 15

  Why are you walking around like that?

• 2:11:27Speaker 01

  Eight feet, he flew in, you know.

• 2:11:28Speaker 10

  Pat, can I make an observation?

• 2:11:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, for sure.

• 2:11:30Speaker 15

  How's he doing by the way?

• 2:11:31Speaker 10

  No, it's always white people. You notice there's no minorities. You'll never see a black, a Middle Eastern or Puerto Rican anywhere around. They're like, why are you that close? No, no, Adam, there's a, get the hell.

• 2:11:45Speaker 15

  Tom, please defend white people now.

• 2:11:46Speaker 09

  I, I am going to, and I'm gonna tell you something.

• 2:11:49Speaker 10

  This is always white people with a camera.

• 2:11:51Speaker 15

  We need you, Tom.

• 2:11:51Speaker 09

  So, hey.

• 2:11:52Speaker 15

  The white people need you, the whack.

• 2:11:53Speaker 10

  It's always whack.

• 2:11:55Speaker 09

  My father-in-law, my father-in-law, Bob, great guy, Bob. And my brother-in-law, Jason, mountain man of Jason, big guy. So they live in Idaho. And we go up there and visit a lot, you know, Christmas, holidays, certain birthdays. We're in there in the springtime, Pat. We say, hey, let's go up to Yellowstone and let the girls see all the stuff, all the geysers and everything up. But we also have some areas that were not like this with picnic benches. But you would, you would not get out of your car. You would just drive slowly because there were ranch fences and, and certain obstacles. But we saw, personally saw, here we go. An Asian guy with a camera, like an old school, big camera.

• 2:12:39Speaker 09

  Get out of the car, hop the fence and walk like 10 paces into this kind of prairie, taking pictures of three or four bison that were very quiet and just grazing. And there is one of these big tan, you know, logos on the side of a truck, you know, National Park Service. This guy gets out and he says, get out! He's yelling into them, get out! And the guy's just turning, looking at him, taking pictures. And the guy starts blowing a whistle and he has a little orange air horn. He blows the air horn. And these guys come walking and as they're walking toward us, all of a sudden, the bison decided to get up and start galloping. Now, we're in our car with the windows rolled up and I'm like, I'm watching this. And here it comes, but the guy gets over the fence and then you hear the park ranger

• 2:13:24Speaker 09

  and the bison's ran up to the edge where the fence, where they turned around, went back to do whatever bison's do. But the ranger is like, are you crazy? And they were staring at him. I, I don't think they spoke English, like, are you crazy? So this is the life of park ranger where you go out of your truck. Yelling at people like this. But we thought we were gonna see a, a patal.

• 2:13:44Speaker 01

  We're at a zoo the other day and I got the window down and I'm looking at these lions and giraffes and all this stuff. It's like, hey, pull your, pull your window up, pull your window up. It's not something to joke around about. Anyways, we're at this Palm Beach Zoo, I don't know if you've been to it. It's pretty sick, you drive through, it's very cool.

• 2:13:59Speaker 15

  Of course.

• 2:13:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's very, very cool.

• 2:14:00Speaker 15

  Well, and in country safari, country safari.

• 2:14:02Speaker 01

  You know, but you know who bought it? You know who, I think Larry Ellison just bought it. As crazy as it is, can you type in, did Larry Ellison buy a, a Lion Country Safari in Palm Beach?

• 2:14:12Speaker 15

  Lion Country Safari, West Palm Beach?

• 2:14:13Speaker 01

  Did Larry Ellison buy Lion Country Safari? If I know this weird fact, I don't know for what reason.

• 2:14:19Speaker 10

  Random.

• 2:14:20Speaker 01

  Buy a Lion Country Safari in Palm Beach? You gotta be better than that, buddy. Safari in Palm Beach, in Palm Beach, P A L M Beach, not B I T C.

• 2:14:30Speaker 15

  West Palm.

• 2:14:31Speaker 01

  Okay, all right. So let's see if this, yes. I was right. So he bought it, 250, uh, four acres.

• 2:14:36Speaker 15

  Larry Ellison did?

• 2:14:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, Larry Ellison did. All right.

• 2:14:39Speaker 15

  We gotta stop these Jews from buying everything, Pat. They're taking the shoes and the work.

• 2:14:43Speaker 01

  If you're watching this, prices are going up today to the vault. If you haven't yet registered, go to Vault 2026. I'll spend four days together. Adam, Jim Grandorino in Las Vegas. And last but not least, today is a special woman's birthday.

• 2:14:55Speaker 10

  Oh, my goodness.

• 2:14:56Speaker 01

  And that is Tom's wife's birthday today, Kim Ellsworth.

• 2:14:59Speaker 10

  Kim!

• 2:14:59Speaker 01

  Kim, we wanted to wish you a happy birthday. We took her out to a nice lunch place. The burger was incredibly overcooked.

• 2:15:07Speaker 10

  Oh.

• 2:15:07Speaker 01

  The steak was, if you ask for medium rare, you got burned is what you got. But we had great conversations. We had incredible foie gras pate and oysters and some good, you know, avocado, the dessert was, the mousse, the chocolate mousse was to die for. But the burger and the steak we went for was horrendous. I won't give a shout out because they have to recover. We're gonna go back again, but Kim, we just want to wish you a happy birthday. You're an amazing woman. You have such a great example. You set for everybody else. Every morning we see you going for your 15, 20 mile bike and doing your exercise and reading your Bible in the morning. Great example as a mother, as a woman. And we just wanted to say happy birthday, Tom.

• 2:15:49Speaker 09

  Happy birthday, sweetie. Bistock babe, I love you. 26 years continually renewed my one-year contracts and I thank you for it.

• 2:15:57Speaker 01

  Awesome. Thank you, everybody. God bless.

• 2:15:59Speaker 15

  Happy birthday, Kim.

• 2:16:00Speaker 01

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