Digital Social Hour - Elon Musk's Secret Weapon: How Twitter Philanthropy is Blowing Up I Bill Pulte DSH #512

Episode Date: June 23, 2024

🚀 Elon Musk’s Secret Weapon: How Twitter Philanthropy is Blowing Up 🌟 Join the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly as he dives into the untold story of Bill Pulte, the mastermind behind Twi...tter Philanthropy! 🌟 Inspired by MrBeast's YouTube success, Bill took Twitter by storm, giving away millions of his own money and creating viral waves. 💸 From President Trump’s retweets to Elon Musk’s likes, discover how Bill transformed social media with generosity and transparency. 🏆 Hear about his incredible journey, including a tweet that got him 5,000 likes and $110,000 in giveaways! 🚀 In this episode, Bill shares jaw-dropping stories of saving lives, from helping cancer patients to aiding families in crisis. 💖 Plus, he spills the beans on the corporate world’s dark secrets, his thoughts on the future of real estate, and his unwavering belief in Bitcoin. 💥 Don’t miss out on these valuable insights and more! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Tune in now and join the conversation! 🎥📈 #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #BillPulte #TwitterPhilanthropy #ElonMusk #MrBeast #Bitcoin #RealEstate #Philanthropy #SocialMedia #Inspiration #ViralPhilanthropySecrets #MrBeastTwitter #ViralCharityCampaigns #ViralGiving #ElonMuskImpact CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Trump Retweeted You 3:20 - Your Thoughts on Andrew Yang 6:40 - Twitter Philanthropy 7:00 - Bill's Beef with Ryan Marshall 11:16 - How Much Money Did You Inherit 11:32 - How Much Money Did You Make by 27 15:11 - Apply to Be on the Podcast 17:30 - Bitcoin Insights 20:25 - Real Estate Investments 21:45 - What Does Keemstar Invest In 24:38 - Elon Musk's Influence 26:56 - The Next Battlefield Is Lawyers 28:07 - What's Next for Team MrBeast 29:18 - Where to Find Bill APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Jenna@DigitalSocialHour.com GUEST: Bill Pulte https://x.com/pulte https://www.instagram.com/pulte/?hl=en SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 It's cool to see you because you kind of went all in on Twitter. That was like your main thing, which very rarely that happens with people on social media. Why did you decide to go all in on Twitter? You know, I had seen what Mr. Beast had done on YouTube. And I said, wow, if we could do something like what Mr. Beast has done on YouTube, but on Twitter, that would be amazing. And next thing you know, the president of the United States retweeted me. The thing blew up out of nowhere.
Starting point is 00:00:18 We started giving away millions of dollars of my own money on Twitter. And the thing just went completely viral. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe. It helps a lot with the algorithm. It helps us get bigger and better guests and it helps us grow the team. Truly means a lot.
Starting point is 00:00:36 Thank you guys for supporting. And here's the episode. Ladies and gentlemen, the man, the myth, the legend, Bill Pulte here today, coming off a hot interview with Vivek, 2 million views. Big one, yeah. I think we're Vivek. Two million views. Big one. Yeah, I think we're at 2.4 million views in 48 hours. And that's just on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:00:48 That's just on Twitter. Wow. So Twitter's really pushing long for him now. They really are. And I think it's something with the algorithms where, you know, if you post videos on Twitter and you keep, you know, getting at it, it just seems, you know, in the olden days it was mostly like retweets would be the big algorithm thing. These days it seems to be videos. And it's cool to see you because you kind of went all in on Twitter. That was like your main thing, which very rarely that happens with people on social media. Why did you decide to go all in on Twitter? You know, I had seen what Mr. Beast had done on YouTube. And
Starting point is 00:01:15 I said, wow, if we could do something like what Mr. Beast has done on YouTube, but on Twitter, which, which at the time is, was not called X, that would be amazing. And the next thing you know, the president of the United States retweeted me. The thing blew up out of nowhere. We started giving away millions of dollars of my own money on Twitter. And the thing just went completely viral. I gave away $10,000 in my first tweet. And I got like 5,000 likes, which was a ton. Still a ton of likes. But I was like, wow, we're really onto something. That's what birthed Twitter philanthropy. Interesting. Which president retweeted you? Trump.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Oh, nice. What was the tweet? It was, if at real Donald Trump will retweet this, I will give a veteran a free car. Interesting. And so he replied back and he said, thank you, Bill. I love our veteran or something like that. I wonder if it was him or like his PR girl. Yeah, it was a crazy story. So I was sitting in Northern Michigan, believe it or not. I was having a, I think it was a Coors Light or a Bud Light. And I was sitting there and I said, you know, I'm just going to pump out this tweet.
Starting point is 00:02:06 I have no idea if he'll see it. Long story short, I understood that his social media guy saw it. And obviously the president saw it. And I think he himself was the one who I said, you know, do it. Because it was totally unconventional. I mean, why would a president ever retweet something like that? But leave it to Trump to do it. And he did it.
Starting point is 00:02:20 And that really helped propel me. I mean, I went from 10,000 followers to 30,000. And now we're at 3.1 million. Damn. And you've had Elon retweet some of your stuff too, right? I've had him like a bunch of stuff. I know that he's familiar with it. And hopefully we'll do more. I mean, we're a great thing for the platform. There's so much negativity on X, so much negativity on Twitter that at least when we give away money or when we raise money for cancer patients, or when we raise money for all kinds of these other things we're doing in a viral way, it's very good for the platform. I'm glad you said that because in my opinion, Twitter is the most negative platform actually. Absolutely. And it feeds, but I'll tell you this, Mr. Beast,
Starting point is 00:02:53 I think really figured something out with YouTube where, you know, positivity, people like positivity. And so we try to bring positivity to Twitter and yeah. Yeah. Cause you've given away millions. I mean, no one with your financial status usually just does that randomly. Yeah, I've given away millions of dollars. And people thought initially it was a scam. And now it's like the hot thing to give away money on Twitter. Now everybody's doing it these days. Well, most of them are scams on there.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Most of them are scams, yeah. And you've got to be very careful. But yeah, it's kind of blown up. So that Vivek interview, did that change any of your opinions on him? I really respected Vivek. I think meeting him in person, I was really struck by him. You know, when you meet Trump or you meet some of these other guys, I always take one thing away from him. And the one thing that I learned from him was he was just so dynamic. When you heard him, you could just hear in his voice that he truly is excited
Starting point is 00:03:37 about what he's doing. And people are so sick, I think, of just these boring, old, lazy senators who are 60, 70 years old. And he just brings youth. So I'm incredibly bullish on our country thanks to guys like him. Yeah, he got me pretty pumped. I was not really into politics before him, to be honest. And he got me kind of interested in it. Yeah, he was very cool. You know, he text messages.
Starting point is 00:03:57 He DMs. He tweets. These are things that a lot of people of his stature don't really do. I mean, I'm sure Trump DMs and texts and stuff. But he's really taken advantage of the whole influencer circle and kind of, in my opinion, hijacked it and done it in a beautiful way that I don't think any candidate's ever done. I mean, he's got all these influencers out there doing his bidding all the time. Brilliant marketing strategy. When he dropped out, I was actually surprised.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Yeah, me too. But I think at the same time, he knew he was going to get clobbered, right? So, you know, better to be friendly with Trump if you're going to be on that side of the aisle. Yeah. But what he did for his budget was super impressive. Very impressive. Yeah. Would you consider... He's very bright. Yeah. Would you consider interviewing people on the left, say if Biden wanted to come on your show? Absolutely. Yeah. I've reached out to the Biden people, let them know that I talked to him, I talked to Trump. I was actually going to talk to Trump before the last election. And who knows, maybe I'll do him and we'll see'll see. I don't know if I doubt Biden will do it,
Starting point is 00:04:48 but we'll see. He went on Jay Shetty's, I think. Oh, he did. Yeah. Biden did. And I don't know, Kamala did it, but yeah, he's been having on a lot of left people. They should do it. I mean, I think Vivek's brilliant for going on my thing. I mean, he accessed 2.4 million people. Half of them are probably Democrats and he never would have reached otherwise. And, you know, that's the future. So I think- Oh, so your audience is half Democrat? I think so. Oh, interesting. I thought you were all right. No, no.
Starting point is 00:05:13 That is interesting because most people either have one kind of leaning towards- No, we're really focused on philanthropy. So we're helping people literally who are dying of cancer every day. We're helping people with insulin pumps who have diabetes, all these types of things. It's non-denominational from a party standpoint. And people love helping other people. I think it's just hard-baked into our humanity to want to help other people. Right. In regards to the diabetes, I've seen this on social media. I don't know if it's true, but do they jack up the price of the insulin? Oh, yeah. All kinds of crap. Yeah. And Mark Cuban, I think, has done a pretty good job
Starting point is 00:05:42 with this cost-plus thing and whatnot. But look, we're not a solution. But if we can get people to do micro donations instead of giving these heavily funded, heavily, you know, overheaded organizations, we can help a lot more people. Have you always been this giving even when you didn't have all this money and success? Not really. I mean, I always was told by my grandfather who happened to be a billionaire, and I was trained in business with him and learned a lot of what I knew in business from him that, you know, to give was to receive and that through giving you actually do yourself a really great service. And I always thought, oh, that sounds kind of tacky, you know, okay. You know, yeah, you hear a billionaire say that. But then once I started giving away my own money, especially on Twitter, and it really went
Starting point is 00:06:19 viral in a certain way to the point where I was able to attract people who were literally in real time dying of cancer and having diabetes. I mean, we saved an infant's life. I don't know if you saw this, but we tweeted at an insurance company. There was this infant that was dying from a rare disease and she needed a medicine that the insurance company wasn't giving her. And we flooded the calls. We hired an attorney for her. We got the medicine for her. This is all because of Twitter philanthropy. So, you know, that was an incredibly rewarding thing. And, you know, she credits, her mom credits, she's not old enough yet, but her mom credits me and my teammates, as I call them on Twitter, saving this girl's life. It wouldn't happen without Twitter philanthropy. Amazing. So I do it selfishly to help myself,
Starting point is 00:06:56 but it just happens to help other people too. Wow. That's cool. I was going through your Twitter. You've been tweeting out this guy, Ryan Marshall. Yes. What is going on there? He's a problem. You know, he's a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, our family's company, family's legacy company. And he's gotten in there. And unfortunately, we had to remove his old boss. Who knows what we're going to have to do with this guy. But basically, Ryan Marshall's right-hand guy was running all these, this is a big CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was running all these Twitter bots to come after me. Because yeah, he's afraid that basically, they're afraid, in my opinion, that I'm going to come back into the company. It's a $20 billion company.
Starting point is 00:07:28 I was on the board of it and very influential in it essentially by Marshall. And what's funny about it is that I was kind of willing to go on my way. My grandfather had passed away. It was our family legacy business. I was minding my own business. And all of a sudden I see these Twitter bot accounts coming up out of nowhere with these, this old guy tweeting at me about stuff that only one would know if they were on the board of the company or, or, uh, this like young Asian lady who was tweeting stuff that you would only know if you were a board member of this fortune 500 company. So this stuff doesn't make sense. So I hired a bunch of forensic guys and we found out that it was the right hand guide, Ryan Marshall. He was running a whole op against me. So it's, I'm telling you this whole, this whole, uh,
Starting point is 00:08:04 corporate world is about to undergo, in my opinion, a completely overhaul because of technology. And you'd be amazed what some of these executives are getting away with. And I'm very big, as you know, into retail stocks and stuff like that, the GameStop community and all these things. I'm very involved in that. And I think that we're going to cover more waste and abuse and corporate fraud. And that's why I was so interested in Vivek is because in our own family company, you see what the managerial class can do. Why should a CEO who's essentially not doing anything other than maybe supporting this guy who's doing these bots making $16 million a year? It's absolutely insane. $50,000 a day. That's nuts. And a lot of
Starting point is 00:08:39 these top CEOs are making salaries like that, right? Oh yeah. They're making money and they just sit there and they collect coupons. They don't give a shit if the company goes up or down. All they want to do is put money in their pocket. And then they use the shareholder funds to try to protect themselves. In my opinion, it's a scam. Yeah. I had James O'Keefe on, actually, who exposes these companies, and that was super interesting. I had no idea all that stuff was going on, man.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Yeah, yeah. I met James. He's pretty influential and pretty impressive, too, with what he can do. Did you see his recent thing? Oh, the gay guy. Yeah. He pretended to be a gay guy on a gay date or something like that. Yeah. I mean, that guy's running our security. That's a joke. That's actually disturbing. Exactly. So we got to expose this stuff. So yeah. Yeah. There's a movement, I think, for the truth. You know what I mean? I think Elon kind of started it and Trump kind of were the forefront of it. And now more and more people are speaking up. I agree. Yeah. I mean, like Elon, you know,
Starting point is 00:09:28 obviously he's going after Disney too with some of this stuff. I don't know if you've seen recently. He's funding lawsuits and stuff. And obviously we're having to deal with some of these executives that are families, old companies. So it seems to be kind of that time where technology is really going to start to take over. And I think it's great for the progress of the world. Yeah. Disney just bought Fortnite. I was actually really upset when I saw that why i played fortnight and i i just feel like there's a lot of i don't know how to explain it but they have this programming almost you know what i mean yeah but there's especially their newer movies man i don't watch them anymore yeah it's crazy i mean i'm destroying these companies yeah i wouldn't let my kids watch them either yeah but bob got bob
Starting point is 00:09:59 eiger he doesn't really give a shit right i mean i don't know but he probably just wants to fly in his jet somewhere and pocket money and you know yeah he's the best thing in the world and pretend to run for president. I mean, these guys, they really, when they're these executives, they delude themselves into this, you know, this vision of themselves that is fake. Yeah. There's so much corruption and it all comes down to money. And it's just like, wow, how much importance are these guys really placing on just being a little richer? It's like a drug. It's like a drug and fame's a drug and money's a drug. That's partially why I give away a lot of my money is because it can really make you sick in the head.
Starting point is 00:10:30 If you have too much. Yeah. And if you don't, yeah, it can actually make you sick in the head. Now people would say, well, that's a good problem to have. It is a good problem to have. You can have the right doctors. You can have the right nurses. You can have the right access to medical treatment.
Starting point is 00:10:41 So you like to be rich, but at the same time, you start to condition yourself with these things that are really nice. You know, it's just start to, you know, if you're flying a private jet, then when you have to go wait in the TSA line, you start finding yourself complaining that you're traveling somewhere commercial or this kind of, and you know, it can just slowly but surely make you kind of crazy. And I think that's what happens with a lot of these people. Yeah. You see the trust fund babies, they end up like drug addicts and stuff, you know what I mean? Cause their life doesn't have that fulfillment aspect. Absolutely. How old are you? I'm 26.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Nice. Very good for you. Yeah. No, I noticed it. Cause I've had a couple of partners and I would never work with a trust fund baby again, personally. Yeah. I work very hard to make sure I'm not, you know? Yeah. I was going to ask you actually, cause you said your grandfather was a billionaire. He was. Yeah. I made a hundred million bucks though, before I inherited a nickel from him. And I only inherited 15 million from him, which I was very grateful to get 15 million. It wouldn't be.
Starting point is 00:11:26 But I made a hundred million bucks by the time I was 30, frankly. Okay. Made 73 million bucks by the time I was 27. Damn. On your own family investment? No, I mean, I had an initial investment, 500 grand in my first company,
Starting point is 00:11:38 but I turned a half million bucks into over a hundred million myself. Wow. When I say done myself, it was obviously my team and whatnot, but we've had a lot of success with my firm. It's called Pulte Capital. And so we invest in all types of companies, mainly in the housing sector, which is what my family knows. So- That's impressive, man. Because a lot of people, they grow up in families with money,
Starting point is 00:11:55 they don't have that drive, but it sounds like that didn't happen with you. Yeah. A lot of people say, what are you doing? You could be on a beach somewhere or whatever. And other people call me a maniac and that's fine, but, uh, I like being a maniac because you know what? We're not really a maniac. We're just trying to make the world a better place and enjoy ourselves. And I'd, I'd go crazy if I sat on a beach somewhere. So it's better just to give away my money on Twitter. That's what I think. They've done studies on retirement, how your brain ages way faster when you retire and you, you actually die quicker. Yes. You know, Trump's dad used to tell him, I think, to retire is to expire.
Starting point is 00:12:25 And I believe that. Yeah. His dad lived to what? 100? 93, I think. Yeah. Something crazy. So, you know, I look at it and I say, okay, well, okay, I got this money.
Starting point is 00:12:33 I made a bunch of money as a young kid. And obviously my family had done well. It's like, what am I going to do? Just sit around and not do anything? Give away this money on Twitter. And, you know, we've raised millions of dollars. We raised two and a half million dollars for these Uvalde school shooting victims. I don't know if you saw that. No.
Starting point is 00:12:45 48 hours. Damn. Just on Twitter. So that stuff keeps you going. Yeah. 48 hours, man. There's not many people that have that pull. No.
Starting point is 00:12:53 Yeah. We put out a campaign. Boom. Funded right away. That's so cool. We had a girl who got mauled by a dog in Detroit, seven-year-old. She was riding her bike. A dog came up, bit her, killed her.
Starting point is 00:13:03 We raised money. It was like $27,000 in like two hours for a funeral and stuff like that. So it's just, we just do these campaigns one off all, all day, every day. And, uh, yeah. What technology should be used for? That's beautiful, man. Cause there's so many charities that I've donated to where it doesn't feel good at all. I don't know where the money's going to. They send in the mail every week to donate more. Yeah. It's a scam. Yeah. It's like probably goes to payroll for the people at the charity. Absolutely. And then these payroll charity people, sometimes they can turn into these fat cat executives
Starting point is 00:13:32 as well. And then you get corruption in the whole nine yards. Yeah. Who knows what goes on? I think we're about to uncover this massive golden age of fraud in these companies. I think so. I'd love to see it, man. I'd rather donate to people like you, to like James,
Starting point is 00:13:45 where I could see the actual result, where the money's going to. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, don't even donate to me. You know, we put up the campaigns, boom, the money goes right to the people. Oh, wow. It doesn't go to you?
Starting point is 00:13:53 No, I don't need the money. Interesting. It just goes right to the people. It's all direct giving. That's the way giving should be. It's just like to mock, like when you were like 2,000 years ago or whatever, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:03 somebody in your tribe needed something or whatever. Boom, you give them resources. And then we've – as society has gotten bigger, we've created all these different things to try to make it so complicated. No, just give the people the damn money and that's what we're doing. We're just giving people the damn money and we're doing it on Cash App. We're doing it, boom, right on Twitter instantly. Love that. And how do you choose the people that receive money?
Starting point is 00:14:23 You probably get hundreds of requests. We get thousands. We get – you know, I get – sometimes I get 20,000 DMs a day. It's insane. But what we do is we try to focus on people who really need it. And it's very hard for people, believe it or not, to fake cancer. It just is. And if they are, they're going to probably get prosecuted. So we really just try to focus on helping people in acute need or crisis. And then, you know, the occasional kind of fluke things like we had a lady, you can't even make these stories up. I'm not going to go on for days, but you know, a couple of years ago, there was a lady who lost her, she was a handicapped lady, lost her van in a tornado in Kentucky or Kansas or something like this. And boom, we put up a campaign and we replaced the handicapped lady's van and stuff like that. So
Starting point is 00:15:00 it's very hard for a lady, right? Who's handicapped to pretend that her tornado blew away her van. I mean, maybe, but then you got the picture of the van over and then you got this tornado. And are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a guest? We'll click the application link below in the description of this video. We are always looking for cool stories, cool entrepreneurs to talk to you about business and life. Click the application link below. And here's the episode guys. Yeah, that'd be hard to fake. It's very hard to fake this kind of or the girl who gets mauled by a dog in Detroit, you know, and the Detroit News reports on it. So we rely on the media a lot. I mean, I think that's the best function of the local media is this stuff that we're using them for. And the reporters love what we're doing because this is actually,
Starting point is 00:15:40 it's not just them reporting about it, but then we're able to take action and help some of these people. Yeah. Are you big into crypto? I saw you talk about Bitcoin a lot. I love Bitcoin. Yeah. I think Bitcoin is math and I think math is God. Bitcoin is math. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:15:53 I think that it caps at a 21 million. It's basically impenetrable as far as I can tell. Nobody's been able to figure out how to hack it. If you own a Bitcoin, you own a Bitcoin. If you own a piece of a Bitcoin, you own a piece of a Bitcoin. It's all derived from math. And I believe math is God. So I think Bitcoin is incredibly powerful. I don't think anybody can shut it down. And I think the US government has made a big mistake to the extent that they wanted to shut it down. Their time has probably already passed, in my opinion. Well, now with the ETF, right, they're going to be buying it.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Yeah. Who knows what that's about? But I think the the us treasury i told this to vivek on the side too i said hey if you get in a treasury if you do anything like that i hope you buy i'll be by 25 of the float of bitcoin on the on the treasury balance sheet wow i mean that would be great that'd be smart i mean so he said to me that he wants to peg it i can't remember he said this on air or off air with me but he said that it you know his whole thing about pegging it to commodities and stuff, he said he wants to peg it to other commodities, not just to Bitcoin. So we'll see. What do you think about the banking system and how they take your money and they loan it out 10x? I think that obviously that there needs to be caps and stuff like that, but I think a lot of what crypto could do, especially Bitcoin is if it's all there
Starting point is 00:17:01 mathematically laid out. I think the problem is when you don't have transparency, that's my big issue. My big issue. My big issue with naked short selling, short selling, all these other things is there's no transparency in my opinion. And the transparency only benefits the rich and the famous. But if you're not transparent and you're some young guy and you want to go long something or whatever, it's like they want to know everything that you've ever traded.
Starting point is 00:17:20 You don't even know anything about these big hedge funds until they blow up. Right. Yeah, they don't show you their track record. No. So I think there needs to be a major overhaul. And I think guys like Vivek, if we get some people in there who are young and hungry, they can, I think, expose this. Yeah. And now I'm seeing these big hedge funds are buying up all the real estate and manipulating the housing prices. I think that's true. I think the other issue is that you have colluding with them as the governments, the governments are shutting down housing supply and they're doing so to basically appease a lot of the environmentalists and stuff
Starting point is 00:17:48 like that. And it's driving up prices of homes. You know, they're afraid of building. Yeah. They're afraid of moving a turtle or a bird or whatever, you know, it's like, what do you care? Do you care more about where people are living or do you care more about a turtle or a bird? And I love turtles and birds. I mean, yeah. Who doesn't love turtles and birds, but I do love them. But yeah, that global warming thing was a big debate the last election when Trump was honoring, right? Yeah. You got to make sure that you can house people. If you can't house people, you can't provide, if you can't provide shelter, can't provide food, can't provide water,
Starting point is 00:18:14 can't provide medicine. What the hell are we doing? Average family can't afford a house anymore. I agree. I mean, it's not even close. It's going to get worse. Yeah. Now we're becoming a renter's nation. You know, one of the things people don't talk about with this immigration stuff is, and we see it because we own a lot of the housing stock to ourselves as a family and myself personally, is that this immigration thing I think is going to continue to cause even more problems for real estate prices. How come?
Starting point is 00:18:36 Yeah. People don't even talk about it because you'd let all these people in. You're literally going, you know, like I own a lot of mobile home parks that we're renovating and we're making them into nice communities and stuff like that. Yeah. going, you know, like I own a lot of mobile home parks that we're renovating and we're making them into nice communities and stuff like that. And a lot of the Mexicans, a lot of the immigrants are coming into these communities and they're driving up, they're buying a lot of this housing stock and they're not even residents, but they're able to buy it with cash. So what happens then is that then you force, you know, the people who are in this country up and they have to kind of force themselves either to buy, you know, at other mobile home parks or otherwise, and it creates
Starting point is 00:19:03 more demand than there is supply. And so I think that's the untold story of what's about to happen in real estate, especially if immigration is allowed to continue. Yeah. No, that makes complete sense because there's hundreds of thousands coming in, right? Millions, yeah. Millions? I think so. Damn. I think there's five plus million people coming in. So this upcoming election is super important, right? Because that decides if it's open or not. Yeah. And who knows, can they even shut it down? I mean, do people even have the intestinal fortitude to shut it down? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Right. So. Well, it was pretty under control when Trump was in, right? Or was it not? I think on a relative basis, sure. But I think that, uh, you know, what happens if you don't have the intestinal fortitude to
Starting point is 00:19:37 shut it down? I mean, hopefully, hopefully there can be borders and boundaries and stuff like that. But this thing with housing, I think is going to be a problem for a long time. Yeah. Cause we won't be able to build quick enough. No, especially cause these governments are afraid of the turtles and everything.
Starting point is 00:19:50 You got these guys coming in and they're running in the country and they're, they're going to buy the housing stock. Yeah. They're buying the housing stock. Mark my words. They're buying the housing stock. Wow. With cash.
Starting point is 00:19:59 Cause they're laborers too. So they can work very hard. People don't talk about this, but the laborers, they work very hard. They have the money to be able to afford this kind of stuff. Yeah. Just to get a permit to modify your house in Cali takes like a year, I heard. Yeah. But these guys didn't even do it because they're illegal and they go and they buy the stuff with cash and then they do it themselves. They renovate the homes themselves. And then the people in America don't have a lot of the homes. And I love immigrants, love Mexicans, but that's the truth. Yeah. That is a major issue, man. What do you choose what to invest in with the fund? How much
Starting point is 00:20:28 AUM do you have under? So I have about 130 million. It's all my own money for the most part. I do have a couple very, very small partners and that number can fluctuate by the day depending on the price of the securities, but it's all my own money. And we're invested in anything from, I said, mobile home parks to single family rentals, like you said. These are good investments, but we're trying to do it in a way that, and we're looking at some rent to own things where we can give people who can't afford maybe a mortgage necessarily.
Starting point is 00:20:54 So we're doing that. But I made most of my money, to answer your question, in air conditioning, believe it or not. Air conditioning? Yeah, air conditioning is where I've made most of my money. How? I made over 80 million bucks just in air conditioning alone. Just like installing them in people's homes?
Starting point is 00:21:05 Buying companies, growing them, and selling them in air conditioning. Wow. Okay. So the margins must be good on those units. They are good. But what we really specialize in is growing the businesses. So we go into like a market. We just bought a business here in Vegas.
Starting point is 00:21:19 And we just bought the business, bought into the business. And now it's up like 600% since we got involved. Damn, in a year? In a couple of years. That's impressive. business. And now it's up, you know, it's up like 600% since we got involved. Damn, in a year? In a couple of years. So, you know, yeah, it's our playbook, right? So we get in there, we go, we grow the hell out of it. And then, you know, assuming that it's a good, safe, sound business, we take it to market and sell it.
Starting point is 00:21:37 We've had a lot of success doing that. Nice. And that's an air conditioning business? That's an air conditioning, yeah. And I'd like to, you know, I'd like to be worth, you know, a lot more money. And if I can be worth a lot more money, I can help a lot more people on Twitter and X and stuff like that. I'm very bullish on Twitter. I put $3 million into Twitter.
Starting point is 00:21:53 I don't think I've released that before, but I put $3 million into it just to support Elon and kind of what he was doing. And I think Elon, I think he's going to make it. I think it already is the most powerful platform in the world, but I think that it's going to be huge in 20 or 30 years, assuming Elon doesn't get killed. Yeah, that's a possibility. It's where the truth is, right? You can 30 years. Assuming Elon doesn't get killed. Yeah. That's a possibility. It's where the truth is, right? You can speak your mind there. It won't get banned. I get a post every day, it gets shadow banned or deleted off Instagram, off YouTube, off whatever.
Starting point is 00:22:13 Yeah. They're committing slow motion to YouTube and Instagram and these things. I just got a strike for talking about autism. That's crazy. One of the brilliant doctor came on and talked about it. I got a strike. Yeah. It's crazy. I mean, it's disturbing. I can't even speak about it. Yeah. It's crazy. One of the brilliant doctor came on, talked about it, got a strike. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, it's disturbing.
Starting point is 00:22:25 I can't even speak about it. Yeah, it's corruption. I mean, Twitter's the only one I feel like. I can't even, maybe kick and rumble, but that's about it. Yeah. Yeah, I just DM'd with the CEO of Rumble the other day. I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to interview him on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:22:38 Nice. So that'll be interesting. But yeah, we need more CEOs like that who are committed to free speech and the truth. And why are these people so afraid of the truth? I don't understand it. They're part of it, right? Dana White talks about it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:51 He exposed the Peloton company. Did you see that? No, I didn't see that off the chat. Yeah. So Peloton, I guess someone reached out to Dana cause they were a sponsor of the UFC and they said, I saw your post about you're voting for Trump. Oh yeah. And he said, go F yourself.
Starting point is 00:23:04 Yeah. Yeah. So he just axed that whole deal. I mean, post about your voting for Trump. Oh yeah. And he said, go F yourself. Yeah. Yeah. So he just axed that whole deal. I mean, that's, that's scary. If, if you have a podcast and your sponsors are telling you what to say, that's weird. Yeah. Well, I got this fortune 500 CEO trying to get a
Starting point is 00:23:15 gag order on me left, left right and right ways to Sunway Sunday. Yeah. I mean, they're trying to shut me down however they can and going and threatening news organizations. So you probably haven't seen me tweet that, but that'll be a big story that'll come out at some point. These executives, they want to shut me down however they can and going and threatening news organizations. So you probably haven't seen me tweet that, but that'll be a big story that'll come out at some point.
Starting point is 00:23:27 These executives, they want to shut you down. Why does he hate you so much though? I think he's threatened and I don't know why he's threatened. I should be his best partner. I should be his best ally. I think it was the dumbest thing he ever did was kick me off, kick me out of there. Oh, this is the. This is the Ryan Marshall guy.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Ryan Marshall guy. And you know, these bots that his right-hand guy was running. You can't make this stuff up. I mean, this stuff's right out of a sitcom. Yeah. Wow. Do people even believe the bot posts or it's obvious that it's a bot? I think that it was very credible. I mean, he even took my grandfather's.
Starting point is 00:23:54 We just found out he was behind the account that was fooling people that he was my grandfather. What? My grandfather's been dead. Yeah. So he had like six or seven different identities that we've been able to identify so far one of them was he stole my grandfather's obituary photo went used my grandfather's name and everything and then you know had my grandfather's birthday at the whole nine yards and was going in and telling people that you know his grandson meaning me was full and all kinds of stuff so this is what in my opinion probably goes on in a lot of these
Starting point is 00:24:22 high-powered executives to cover themselves they try to engage in this dark covert behavior. And then when they get busted, they try to cry wolf. Yeah. Cause they're in there with the media outlets. So they could just say, cancel that guy, try to pay you 20,000 or whatever. Absolutely. The whole thing all over again. Yeah. That's why I don't even believe so many articles I read these days. Yeah. I mean, it's like, what's the real agenda here? Absolutely. Even all these studies they're doing, who's funding it? Exactly. I mean, you've really got to do your due diligence these days. Most people just read the headlines.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Mark my words. The next thing that's also going to be coming up is legal stuff around some of these corporations. And I think Elon, I mean, I'm on the forefront in my opinion of it with this situation dealing with this executive. But look at what Elon's doing with Disney. I think this is going to be the next battlefield. It used to be the media. Now it's going to be lawyers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:06 I'm rooting for Elon on that one, man. Yeah, me too. I mean, because Disney has the potential to influence all your kids' perceptions and what they put in their movies or whatever. It really messes with some people. Yeah. I mean, it's scary, dude. It's programming. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:19 I realized I was programmed, honestly, growing up in Jersey. Heavy Democrat. Thought Republicans were evil. Going to public school, getting influenced there. It's pretty awful. Yeah. Where'd you grow up at? Grew up in Florida, family's from Michigan. And yeah, it's a scary thing.
Starting point is 00:25:35 These algorithms are scary. People don't even know that they're being programmed and they are. So everyone, dude, if you watch the news, you definitely are. Yeah. I mean, it's terrible. It took me years to get out of it. And I don't think I'll ever send my kids to public school. Yeah, and they're not going to go down without
Starting point is 00:25:47 a fight. That's why I'm big into the retail investor thing, because they tried to shut down the stock market with the GameStop thing and all that other stuff. I got wrecked on that, because Robinhood stopped trading. Yeah, it's a ****.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Yeah, I would have made a ton. In my opinion, they should all be in jail. I mean, that was messed up. Did he even get arrested or anything? No, of course not. I just got my Celsius money today, at least. Oh, good for you. Yeah, I had a lot on there, but that not. I just got my Celsius money today, at least. Good for you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:06 I had a lot on there, but that guy, I can't believe he got away with that. Crazy. Celsius, FTX, I mean. You're a good host. You're very laid back, very good, very conversational. Thanks, appreciate it. Coming from you, that means a lot. I think you'll go places.
Starting point is 00:26:18 I hope so, man. That's great. I got to get on Twitter though. I'm going to start posting my shows on Twitter. Let me know. Why don't you post this on here and I'll retweet it. Cool. I will.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Doesn't it take a while to upload there? Yeah, but Elon's getting better every day. I mean, there's nobody who can move faster than him and he's moving that thing. Yeah. Do you do a lot of lives there too? I do. I used to do a lot more. They used to have a thing called Periscope.
Starting point is 00:26:39 I used to have, sometimes you used to have 20,000 concurrent viewers. Yeah. Which is a lot, right? But they shut down Periscope, the dumbest thing they ever did. This is before Elon. And now I'm lucky if I get 5,000 or 6,000 concurrent viewers.
Starting point is 00:26:51 That's still a good amount for live. It's still a lot of people. Still big numbers, but it's not 20,000. Yeah. What are you working on this year, next year, anything exciting? I think we're going to try to blow up X Philanthropy.
Starting point is 00:27:01 We got some good things in the pipeline. We did a partnership with Mr. Beast. We did a couple of partnerships with Mr uh you know giving away money we also did something with jeffrey star we did something with dream you know minecraft uh the big youtuber so i think we'll do some more partnerships but i think most importantly we're just trying to get into and it's like elon with the rockets you know elon's just like boom boom boom get these things in the air with regard to philanthropy campaigns people of cancer, it's just like every day we want to be pumping out campaigns, helping people.
Starting point is 00:27:28 Because then you wake up, it's like things in isolation, if you help two, three, four, five, 10, 20 people dying of cancer a day, it's not a lot. But when you help them every day over a year, over two years, five years, we've helped over 4,000 people. Damn. In just, you know, the last couple of years.
Starting point is 00:27:42 And this is all viral. Yeah. This is just people donating a dollar, $2, et cetera. So imagine if we could, you know, step that up even more. Incredible. So you're saving thousands of lives, man. I don't know a lot, but. A lot indirectly too.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Cause if you save that person and they have a family, you know. Oh yeah. We get, I mean, people say every day, you know, we save their life and all this other kind of stuff, but the human spirit is very resilient and people will figure it out. We're just trying to ease people's pain at their worst moment of crisis. Absolutely. Bill, it's been fun, man.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Where can people find you and reach out to you? At Pulte on Twitter. We'll link it in the video. Thanks so much for coming on, man. Thanks, buddy. Yeah, thanks for watching, guys. See you. See you next time.

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