PBD Podcast - Andrew Schulz CALLS OUT Ben Shapiro & Stephen A. Smith vs Hillary Clinton | PBD Podcast | Ep 390

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

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What was that all about? I mean, have some respect, Andrew. I thought about it when I saw it. I'm like, dude, what happened to the level of respect? Wow, I love it. He went off and we'll show the reaction to it. Firefighters were asked to remove the American flag in New York, which is kind of wild. We'll talk about that as well

There's a study that came out talking about a lot of these Trans-trans most kids grow out of the desire of sex change a study suggests. Oh interesting. Maybe some of those Parents that got puberty blockers for their kids and ruined their lives can ask for a refund Oh, you can't get a refund Maybe you should wait cool. Could they like your friend who did it at 25 years old? Yeah, yeah, 25 years old about my friend. Oh, you're good. Very good friend my girlfriend. I interviewed Girlfriend Frank don't go. Yes. Okay. Here we go guys Paul voters unsure if Joe Biden will survive a second term. It's breaking news.

I have some info on it. New York judge says, Fire Department New York booing Letitia James, Trump chant is not about politics has to do with race. Tulsi Gabbard claims she rejected the offer to be RFK's VP. Didn't work out. She'll be on the podcast in a light. What's the date on that by the way? April 20th.

What is the date, Rob? April 20th something, right? April 20th. Is that sold out yet? Maybe we'll ask that. I think General is the only thing that's left. Everything else is sold out. Rob, what are those dates?

Israel kills aid workers and unintended strike in Gaza. White House outrage. We'll talk about that. I think even Rogan said something about this a couple days ago about genocide, and maybe we'll even play that clip. Trump leads Biden in six out of seven swing states. ESPN star Stephen A. Smith fires back at Hillary Clinton over remarks about voters. Last thing you need to do.

We'll see what he's going to say about that. We'll cover that one as well. Migrant influencer, if you remember this guy, being investigated on federal gun charges. Most say Biden likable, but they see Trump as a strong leader. Survey says this is from the Hill. Illegal immigrant deported seven times, arrested for murder. Authorities say Daily Caller. Denver, this story guys, maybe the best story of the day. I can't wait to go to town for this one. Denver officials, seen telling new migrants to leave, go to New York because they give you more in Chicago.

Gives you more. Is that real? Can you imagine like blue cities are saying look we don't offer that many entitlement programs go to Chicago go to New York they give more we're a wrong place for you leave our city. Those blue states aren't very unified. Yeah that makes sense a lot. Supreme Court approval rating increases after it blocked Colorado from kicking Trump off the ballot. It's good for you guys.

NATO plans, guys, listen to this story. You have a bottle of life insurance policy in case something happens to you, your wife is protected, your kids are protected, your husband's protected. Here's what Zelensky wants. He wants a $100 billion policy. In other words, NATO plans $100 billion Trump-proof fund for Ukraine, meaning say Trump gets in and then Zelensky wants more money, Trump can't say no because NATO's already approved it and we have to pay for

it, right? What a great strategist. It's called an irrevocable life insurance trust. You know what an irrevocable life insurance trust is? It means you're married, you're married, I'll talk about it on the podcast. But that's kind of what Zelensky is doing. When I think of estate planning, fiduciary yeah, I think of estate planning for do share responsibility I think of any did you say of a douche you call me a douche a douche bag

Hey, what am I an asshole all right a McDonald's menu prices have increased over a hundred percent the last decade What's important to ask is the question Tom asked has people's incomes increased a hundred percent the last decade We'll check with that Rob if you can even pull up the number from 2023 to 2013 and see what it looks like. Powell says, ready, Fed needs more inflation evidence before cutting interest rates and Mets owner Steve Cohen, billionaire, casts doubt on Fed's ability to get to the 2% inflation target. That's concerning. They're both right right There's these Bob Iger's going through a few different things He defeats a shareholder Nelson Peltz ending the power struggle, but at the same time

He also came out and said woke Disney is over, but it may not silence his critics We'll talk about that Seattle closes gifted and talent schools talented schools due to racial inequality Interesting reining is cheaper than buying a starter home in top 50 US Metro in talent schools, talented schools, due to racial inequality. Interesting. Renting is cheaper than buying a starter home in top 50 US metro areas. Louisiana governor, Jeff Landry, furious, calls for policy changes after LSU women's basketball misses national anthem. And you have to hear what this man said. It's unbelievable. Sage Stee Steel, former ESPN host

says our Biden interview was entirely scripted by network execs. Every single question was scripted. LA's luxury house sales plummet 70% amid mansion tax launch. Biden directs NASA. You ready for this one guys? I mean this is, we got all this stuff going on. Biden wants NASA to come up with a time zone for the moon. So that means when we get there we're on time. Well you wouldn't want to be on the moon and call mom and she's asleep. This is not a Babylon B story. FYI, the onion is for sale. Babylon B is putting the onion out of business. The onion is for sale due to Babylon B. Diddy Sons hired John Gotti and El Chapo's former attorney. Now

why would you hire the same attorney as a mobster? Can I take a guess? Is it a Rico? Because Rico is involved? Weird! And then what else we got? I got a couple of the things on here that we'll get to as well. We got a couple videos that we'll get into as well Let me see what I have Elon Musk says there's a 20% chance AI destroys humanity But we should do it anyways and black rocks CEO Larry thinks at 65 Retirement age is too low. Here's what experts say will cover that as well

Now let's talk about the first story first story. I want to get into is I'd like to start with a business story, Tom. So if it's a business story, why don't we start off with inflation? Here we go. Go to page 12. Vinny, if you can go to 12, I'm coming to you first. Yes, sir. All right, here we go.

Powell says Fed needs more inflation evidence before cutting interest rates. Powell lauded recent declines in inflation but said the Fed's job is not yet done and that policymakers will carefully assess the economic picture before moving to reduce rates. On inflation, it is too soon to say whether the recent readings represent more than just a bump. Powell said, we do not expect that it will be appropriate to lower our policy rate until we have greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably down 2%. Policymakers have raised interest rates sharply over the past two years, a proven 11 rate increases in the hopes of crushing inflation and cooling the economy.

In the span of just 16 months, interest rates have surged from zero to above 5%, the fastest pace of tightening since 1980s. And this is what Mets owner Steve Cohen said, the Fed thinks it's eventually going to come down to 2% inflation. I think that's going to be very, very hard. The Point72 Asset Manager founder and CEO cited underemployment in the U.S. as the reason inflation has remained stubbornly high, arguing a lack of workers could create upward pressure on inflation if economic growth remains strong.

If growth is too fast, then you start getting constraints on labor and wages go up. And that may be a problem. We're in one of these problems where I don't think many people know exactly what is going to happen. Tom? Wow, there's a lot here. Well, first of all, you have a billionaire who is running. Remember, he's not a billionaire sitting around doing nothing. Oh, he's a rich guy with a sports team. No, he's also, you know, a finance expert. And he's saying, hey, look, the current economy in the United States, getting inflation all the way down to 2%. Now remember, that may sound good, but it means that prices are still going up.

And if you look back at the last three years, and you go, we did it, where we looked at, say, a box of cereal that was $3. That box of cereal right now is 33% up over three and a half, four years. It's almost $4. And it's permanently up. It's not going down. Every time you go in to buy that box of cereal, it's $4. And Cohen is saying it's going to be really hard to get that inflation to stay down around the 2% raise. And what Powell has said, before we cut rates, I need to get the inflation down there, because he's trying to keep inflation under control

So Powell is trying to keep the rate of continual increase Remember inflation goes down doesn't mean prices go down It just means they're going up slower and Powell wants the prices to go up slower So that your wages can you can get a raise every year? Hopefully and your wages can catch up so that if you get a 3% wage raise and Inflation is only 2% that maybe there's a prayer of the American worker catching up and the rate cuts this year right now PBD The 30-year mortgage right around six point seven five seven point one two five depending on your credit score So it's staying there and the rate cuts that we're looking at this year only going to take those interest

rates down to like five seven five to six percent so and by the way historically a five and a half to six percent mortgage historically was a good reasonable mortgage when you look at it on a historical basis so what it says is that the economy still needs help to calm down a little bit and that prices are still going up and the Fed and billionaires who are finance experts are saying so. And so that's what's going on. And by the way, he mentioned, you mentioned cereal in that box of cereal. Remember Gary Pilnick, the CEO of Kellogg's, said start eating cereal for dinner. I've been eating

it for dinner and listen, I've saved a crap load of money. I have high blood pressure now and I have a borderline diabetes, but it has been killing me. I'm, Adam, save that money. Save that money. I might have a heart attack on the podcast, but I've been killing it. You may get a leg amputated, but guess what? Corn flakes taste good when you're watching. And my bank account swollen just like my leg. And by the way, before I come to you, Adam, I want to read this as well so it kind of goes together. McDonald's menu prices have increased by over 100% during the last decade. McDonald's menu by 100% past ticket outpacing U.S. inflation rates more than threefold with

complaints soaring over high cost, including $18 Big Mac meals in Connecticut, $7.29 for an egg muffin and $5.69 for hash browns, Finance Buzz's study revealed McDonald's as the worst offender, tripling the inflation rate, while other chains like Popeyes, Taco Bell, Chipotle and Jimmy John's also hiked prices at more than double the inflation rate. Subway and Starbucks, however, maintain prices relatively in line with inflation. Interesting to know, the study based on data from multiple sources and cross-references with official website highlighted specific increases, like the quarter pounder with cheese meal jumping from $5.39 in 2014 to $11.99 today. A 10-piece McNugget meal,

skyrocketing from $5.99 to $10.99 while McDonald's CEO acknowledged inflation's impact indicating rising menu prices. Adam? PVD, it's been so long since you had to eat a McDonald's you forgot what a McNugget is., but I have kids so they like McDonald's. Yeah, this is sort of indicative What's going on now? But from from a macro perspective the US economy the number one story in Wall Street Journal if you go to that right now It's they asked the they posed the question. What's wrong with the US economy? And the answer is nothing. It's you. And it's all about perception is reality. And yes, inflation has been a problem.

Yes, CPI, consumer price index has been a problem. Yes, soaring costs have been a problem, but it's actually been solved, but nobody's talking about it. So they, Rob, you have this? Yeah, here it is. Wall Street Journal, number one sore today. What's wrong with the economy? Not the data. It's you. You know, every year since I've been doing money content for the last decade, two thirds of the American economy is living paycheck

to paycheck. It hasn't changed. People's spending decisions, people saving decisions have not improved. It is what it is. But here's the problem. And it's sort of like juxtaposes how brilliant of a marketer Trump is versus Biden. If Trump had the economy and the numbers that we have in America today, he'd be shouting from the rooftops how great the economy is. But Biden's talking about shrink inflation and bynomics in the moon. It just. When Trump was in office, when unemployment was low, inflation was low, the stock market was soaring. He would every day look at the market. All the blacks have the jobs, the Asians, they spend, they love me.

Why isn't Biden talking about this? You old fool. Say how good the numbers are they ask the average american hasn't has inflation moved in the right or wrong direction this year 74 percent it moved said it moved in the wrong direction wrong it's gone down from six percent to three point three percent people still think that we're living in the COVID inflation hangover. That's not it though, but they're feeling it in a different way. This is, so what you're saying is, for example, somebody can turn around and say, but Adam, look at this, Biden

is the president for the rich. What do you mean? Because the wealth of the top one percent just hit $44 trillion, highest ever CNBC. So then I could say under Biden the rich keep getting richer the poor keep getting poorer what kind of a president is he you know isn't he supposed to be so he's just helping the rich he's just helping the Wall Street guys get richer there's a difference between the economy being great for wealthy guys who have money and destroying middle America those are two different things. The average person saying that about the inflation, not the rich guy that's got the money. He's not feeling it.

Yeah. Well, look, the shrinking middle class is not a Biden problem. It's been pervasive in the United States for the last 50 years. Not that I'm advocating for binomics, but his whole premise with binomics is the middle out the top, the bottom up, not the top down, the exact opposite of what Reagan was doing with trickle down economics. But what I'm going is to the mindset of the average person, the average person forget about whether you like Trump, hate Trump, like Biden, forget about Biden.

The reality is the data shows inflation has gone down. It's been cut in half. The US has rebounded more than better than any economy, major economy in the world. Biden doesn't talk about it. Horrible marketer. They asked the average person, has your investments gone in the right or wrong direction in the last 12 months. 47% said the wrong direction. News flash, the S&P 500 was up 24% last year. The point is this, and you go to the stats about states versus the US economy, and this is what it is. No, I sent you a picture of it. We talked about the swing states, the seven swing states. You ready? Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin They asked the average person the average citizen

How is the economy for you better or worse in your state Rob punch in? Every single state said 10 to 25 percent better But when they asked about the overall US economy, they said 25 percent worse The point that I'm getting at is people know in their states, in their homes, it's actually fine, but from a macro perspective, because Joe Biden is such a weak, ineffective, and feckless leader, that's the symbolism of why they're like, the economy sucks, it's horrible, but the numbers actually don't show that. Going back to the origination of the story, what was it that McDonald's prices have surged 100% in 10 years? I think we're glossing over the

fact that that's a blessing in disguise. That food is actually poison. So guess what? Go buy organic shit, go shopping good. Good, let them charge triple, go to Trader Joe's Whole Foods and you get the same amount of food for a way a thousand times more healthier than what the hell they're putting in a chicken McNugget. I'll tell you it's not that Biden has a marketing problem it's that he's an economic idiot and his policies haven't improved things for the American middle class you know I'm married to a teacher and I have great visibility over the last 10 years to teacher pay. There's no annual bonus if you're a teacher. Benefits program, the erosion that happens to your health care insurance of

the percent they pay versus you pay despite, you know, union negotiations or stuff, although the BizDoc Babe has taught at private schools there still is erosion of benefits. And you take a look at that, and then I look at a teacher with a child, and I look at, you're right Vinny, maybe you shouldn't be eating highly sugared cereal, but that cereal's gone from three to four bucks, and the stuff in the store has gone up. It has gone up. It's not a marketing problem. It is a look at my wallet and there's nothing there product and I'm trying to raise a family problem. That's what's going on. And you can say, oh you know this has been going on for decades, you know what's happening. Well guess what? Every president has an

opportunity to change it and make it better. And a recent president didn't start any new wars. And a recent president was trying to bring back American jobs. And the current president seems to be You know hell-bent on indicting a prior president So if we want to talk about it holistically and then just bring it down to the person saying oh your perception isn't reality Your perception isn't reality That's a lot of crap people are looking in their wallets and it's not making ends meet and it's getting tougher And it's not that inflation is down today

It's what inflation has done on a compound effect on the last three years. This plus this plus this plus this and it's 33%. That box of corn flakes is very accurate representation of what's happening on the rest of the shelves. Gas may go down as a commodity, so it's thank God, it will cost them less to get back and forth to worth but everything else in their life is is is at a new Plateau and they're they're fighting it every day, you know, it's it's not Perception that there's 1.1 trillion dollars of credit card debt now It's not perception that by now pay later was was such a hit at Christmas and now it's out of 40% delinquency rate That's reality. It's hitting the American middle class

Yeah, there you go. I don't know if I could have said it any better I don't have anything else to add but then what you just said right there. I agree. They're feeling it. Let's go to the next story ESPN star Stephen A Smith fires back at Hillary Clinton over remarks about voters Last thing you need to do Rob. Can you play the clip of him saying this if you have the clip of? Stephen A Smith on him going after Hillary Clinton's comments here? I'll read it and then if you can find it because it says yellow here, which means you have a video of it. I also have Hillary's comments if you want to play Hillary's first. Okay, perfect. Play Hillary first and then we go to his. Oh, what the hell.

Here come the deplorables. Biden versus Trump. We know that. Yes, it is. It is. What do you say to voters who are upset that those are the two choices? Get over yourself. Those are the two choices. Yeah, I love that.

And you know, it's kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people, and one is old, and has been charged with 91 felonies. Yeah, that's true. That's true, yeah. I don't understand why this is even a hard choice, really. I don't understand it. But we have to go through the election,

and hopefully people will realize what's at stake, because it's an existential question. Good word I what kind of country we're gonna have what kind of democracy we're gonna have Jimmy Fallon likes anybody has anything that sits next to him yeah I agree with that I'm just gonna pander one of those laughing goofy funny he has no position I don't know if deep down inside you you can have certain people that even you agree with that You don't like I don't know if you like I don't I don't know if he sits there saying oh my god Hillary Clinton's on next week. I can't wait babe. Yeah, I agree with you Fallon is not Kimmel. Yeah I don't I don't I don't see both. Let's not let's even ace Kimmel is unwatchable and he would be shining her

shoes and just be... Here's Stephen A Smith, go for it. I don't think it was a very wise statement on her part. How did that work out for her in 2016? I think that's something that we have to recognize. Yeah she won the popular vote but at the end of the day she wasn't the president of the United States. It was him. You can look at her not campaigning in Wisconsin in the last days, not campaigning in Pennsylvania in the last days. You can look at some of the stuff that they were saying about her that sort of distracted things from

where it should have been in terms of Comey and his report from the FBI. You can bring up a whole bunch of things, but at the end of the day, the last thing you need to do is to do anything that could agitate a potential voter in this particular election. What do you make about the actual argument that she's making? I mean, she's basically saying two old people, yes, but there's substantively different.

I mean, Trump has 91 counts against him. Well, listen, nobody's brought that up more than me. Four indictments, 91 counts, impeached twice. I'm not voting for him. I've said that to a lot of people. I've said that to you. But at the end of the day, what I'm saying is that at some point in time, you got to take into account what the voters thinking about. The voters, a lot of them out there, tens of millions of them out there, by the way, don't care what he's going through right now. They

don't care about his guilt or innocence, his perceived guilt or innocence. They don't care about the 91 counts. They're thinking about their lives. And a lot of times we see politicians taking the positions that they're taking and while we can respect their candor and their honesty, they do seem a bit detached at time from what the voters are actually feeling and what the voters are actually thinking. Nobody wants to hear that from Hillary Rodham Clinton at this particular moment in time,

because especially if you're Joe Biden, what are you really give me? Question yeah, why do they like is it just me or who gives a shit? Sorry for my language about what Hillary thinks or what she's doing or I understand its election season But who is anybody? Okay, what it's women women are persuaded by that human being that corrupt evil person Speaking you think so you think a woman I'm with her is gonna sit home and go you know what? I'm i'm going to double vote for biden

It's like i'm sick and if I was in the democratic party or I was a voter people in Chicago do well I'd be like hillary just get just shut up bro move on from this person like like by the way And who makes that phone call and goes, yeah, you know, Fallon, we're going to have Hillary on. Why? She's not swindled. She's obviously doing more damage than good. She's a known freaking cheater.

You know what I mean? Her husband's a 52-time going to Epstein-Ale like these people. That's the cancer of the Democratic Party, and I think that does more damage than good, Tom. It means it's election season, Vinnie, and they're sending out the proxies. And she is a proxy, and she got the... Look at the fact. We may not agree with it, I mean, we may not have voted this way, but she won the popular vote.

So there's a lot of people out there voted for her. So the DNC and the machine and the establishment is sending her out there on tour to see if she can sway. That's the last person that I would have out there. I would just have Michelle Obama every single day. I'd have Michelle Obama going, hi, I'm Michelle Obama. My husband's Barack Obama. Yay.

She's doing nothing for the people. I'm telling you right now, I know hardcore liberals from California that every time that she comes on TV, they're like, Hillary, shut up. Nobody wants to hear you. Nobody wants to hear Bill Clinton. They come out there and they wave. You're not doing anything. Yeah.

You're not doing anything from a dude's perspective. Yeah. I'm with you. Yeah. I'm not with her. Yeah. I'm with you. Good play on words.

Like there's nothing that resonates with an average person when Hillary shows up where it's like, dude, get him, Hillary, bro. No. an average person when Hillary shows up where it's like, dude, get him Hillary bro. Like, no, but the reality is she's being marketed to females because it's the movable middle. It's a ladies Rob. If you show the stat right there, dude, she's not swing men, right? We've done this stat before where who votes Republican versus Democrats. Married men overwhelmingly vote Republican. Married women vote Republican. Unmarried men tend to vote Republican, married women vote Republican,

unmarried men tend to vote Republican, unmarried liberal women for the most part overwhelmingly are with Hillary, and it's not even close, bro. So that's the, by the way. Is that the Views audience? Clip this right here. The only way Joe Biden and the Democrats win this election is if they get the female

vote. So you're going to see women's rights abortion my body my choice that is their play number one and number two Trump is a threat to democracy. 100% but do you think that they could pick all on I get Adam with you 1000% but there's nobody better than the pick than somebody that okay the Ben Gazi She ruined that whole thing got in trouble for her servers in the in her basement Okay, Russian collusion her husband how much that's what do you mean? What do you mean pick anyone better like who else in the Democratic?

What's a better female that has tenure like her that you can have speak instead of Hillary Clinton? I mean, it's not she's on Jimmy Fallon. It's not like she's speaking to the DNC. She's not freaking lame. No, no, but that's what I mean. That's not a big deal. She's on Fallon. You know, many people are watching. My buddy Marcelo Hernandez was just on the other day. He's like, he's got guests every week. By the way, here's the real question. Yeah. When are they going to freaking have some Republicans on there? When are they going to have Trump on there? They'll never get on there. When are they going to have some Republicans on there now? When they can have Trump on they'll never gonna have a status on there. You're never it's just all left Yeah, no, you're like greg gutfeld respect to you, buddy

The least talented guy and late night is the number one show Tom. Oh wait back to back to the point here Stephen is taking some heat, but that was a very smart Strategic thing strategic point even a was making he said the last thing you want to be doing right now is agitating a voter block and steven a is taking heat for that but i'd i think he's correct he's being strategically correct and he's taking

heat because he won't wave the flag with the establishment on the Democratic side and he's just objectively laying everything out there and I guess you can't be objective smart and strategic and without taking heat. Can I say one thing about Stephen A and then obviously PBDM will let you do your thing. Stephen A is like he's there it's kind of like where I'm at he just is unwilling to even consider voting for Trump.

Like meaning he's not a Trump guy. We had this conversation a million times, policy versus personality. He's just not willing to take that leap because as he said on the Peabody podcast right here, he goes, the guy just don't act right. Okay. But most people understand that. Again, he's going after Hillary basically saying like, she does this all the time. This isn't the first time. Good for giving her flag. But for Stephen A. Smith, he sat right here to say, without a doubt, I'm a Joe Biden, Joe Biden.

How can you, what has Joe Biden done to make somebody of that stature and that education to say I'm going for Biden? Name one. Is he scared? Hold on. Is he scared to lose his- I don't think he's going for Biden. I just think he's missing Trump.

No, but he's not saying I'll vote for- I think he would vote for RFK. No, no. He just said Biden three times. Did he say he's voting for Biden in that clip? Yeah. Did you not pay attention to it three times? He said that in the clip?

I'm voting for Biden. I heard him say he's not voting for Trump. No, no. He said Biden's name three times. But what my point is, is he scared? Because Joe Biden said if you don't vote for him, you ain't black. Is he afraid of losing his blackness? No.

Wait, hold on. I'm being kind of funny, but the same token. How can you say that? Name me one thing that you're going to say, I'm voting for Joe Biden because of what? I don't want to hear infrastructure that. Go ahead. Give me one thing. Name one. Go ahead. Put the Jeopardy song on. Nothing.

Nothing is going right. And when people go, well, we had inflation of six, now it's down to three. It's still a shit show. Nothing is going right. If you could name me one, give me one. Thank you. Go ahead, Tom. Take it away. I think you're doing pretty well on your own there on on that one I think the point was the point was about Stephen a and I made the point that I thought he was making Let me let me ask this question. Do you think do you think Stephen a you know? Given the argument that he does there What kind of change are you making?

meaning You okay, you made your argument about Hillary, you made your argument Biden is a bad choice, you made your argument, no problem, everyone's voting the same way. There is no change. Blacks are still going to be owned by the Democratic Party. They're going to keep that vote and they're going to keep abusing it and they're going to keep giving entitlements to make sure they keep the community the way they have. And Roland G. Fryer, who was here last week, studying to see the effects of hip-hop, and that's his next study he did where, you know, does race play a role in police brutality? No. Police were actually rougher with whites than they were with blacks. And they were

actually more cautious with blacks than whites, according to a Harvard professor who was a Time magazine 2009 top 100 most influential men in the world, who Claudine Gay wanted to fire after the report came up to take his tenure away because their study showed something that it didn't and now he's doing a study on hip-hop you know some people I said there's a see it you know Psy-op with what do you call it with the CIA and using hip-hop gangsta rap you know after police and all this stuff Ice Cube talked about this briefly and he's the guy that wrote the song you know it was a song you know the police but point is, he says that the studies

of hip-hop isn't the fact that it did anything to the, you know, communities that were troubled communities. Hip-hop hurt kids that were from good communities to make them think they were gangs. I can't wait for that study to come out, by the way. But here's the point, Stephen A. Brother, what change are you making though? They're gonna vote the same way. There's not really a change. It's not like it's you're protesting. No, there is no protesting. It's just here's what's going on. I think if there is a person that could make a shift, it's him. But you gotta also realize, in your career, when did George Carlin start to talk about stuff

the way he did? When did George start to like, when did he get into the I don't give a shit mode? Great question. So in his, no, no, no, no, that's a great question. Well into his career where he had success in a platform, he could protect himself. Early 90s what? I would say right around there because remember guys he started radio, he was

the hippie, he was the weed and then I don't know that's a great question I think you know Reagan and all that administration. From the late 80s onward, his routines focused on social cultural criticism of American societies. In the 80s and then that was it. He often commented on American political issues and satirized American culture. His seven dirty words routine was central to the 1978 Supreme Court. Five-four decision and government's power to censor indecent material on public airways,

which by the way, that's a Republican position today. That's a conservative position today. But why did he do it? It's very hard to say it. Guys will ask me questions, they say, Pat, you've made the money already. Why are you doing this to yourself? Just kind of set aside and don't do any of this stuff. Why are you doing this? I've seen what happened to other great countries and I don't want to see it happening here.

I think Stephen A, if he wants to really make actual change, it has to be with CTA. And CTA is call to action. There is no CTA. He's done them before where there is CTA, but he gets in trouble when he does CTA. A great sermon without a CTA means nothing. A great sermon with a call to give your life up and walk up, right, and your sins will be forgiven. But it's a CTA. You know, Dudley one time told me the story about the fact that when he first went to the church, I don't know what the

church was, Kansas or whatever. I was in Iowa where he started. Rookie pastor, have I told this story to you before? Rookie pastor gets up, he gives the most incredible sermon he's been preparing for, everybody stands up going crazy, comes afterwards and he says, the senior pastor of the Newtures says, so how, did you see that everybody was standing up, how do I do? He says, you didn't do well. He says, what do you mean? He says, you were a great motivational speaker, but how many people walked up?

Nobody. There was no CTA. CTA is, I would rather have a person give a terrible speech, sermon, but have 50 people walk up, then come and get a guy that gives an incredible sermon, but nobody gives their life to anything. There's no baptism or any kind of things taking place. CTA is what matters. Call to action when you're able to convert. If you're not, you're just going around trying to give your opinions, but you're afraid of

the actual CTA. I'm curious, what is the CTA, Stephen A.? He's going to see this. What is the CTA? So let's just say I'm a black voter, and I've been voting Democrat my entire life. What should I do differently when I come to vote this year? Tell me, 2020, I'm curious. What should I do differently?

What can I do differently? What can I do differently? Oh, still vote Democrat. Okay, listen, then what's the purpose of the message? Nothing. There's not a purpose of the message because you're like, well, we need better candidates. Well, you don't pick them, the DNC does. You don't pick them anyways, they eventually tell them, hey, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, you're about to beat Hillary.

You know what? No, everybody drop out. Everybody know, this one's on. You know what? No, everybody drop out. Everybody get behind Biden. Biden was number four in what? Iowa or New Hampshire? In South Carolina. In one of those, he's like all of a sudden, wait a minute. Yeah, let's all get behind him.

Jim Plyburn in South Carolina. We're all getting behind him, yes. Where is the CTA? I'm interested in the CTA. If you're going to give me a message like that, if I'm giving a message like that to Dylan, you know how you're supposed to finish it up? CTA. If you're gonna give me a message like that, if I'm giving a message like that to Dylan, you know how you're supposed to finish it up? CTA. What are you gonna do? What are you, no, here's what I would do if I were you. Not what are you gonna do. Here's

what I would do if I were you. Go. Then the individual has to sit there and say what? Make a decision. Let me think about it. Let me think about it. Maybe maybe not that's the CTA work to me It's you're just giving a message. There's no CTA. That's a rant. There's a random question So Stephen A's with the ESPN, correct? Yeah, is he other? Has he signed the deal yet or what do it does anybody know anything with ESPN has to pay him anything He asked okay guys earned the right to make be the highest paid guy in sports at ESPN Who owns ESPN?

Disney. Disney. Okay, here's my question to you. How much of this is pressure or not pressure or just knowing that the CEO, the Bob Iger is obviously, is he Democrat? For sure. Oh, okay then. So let's put this together in that contract.

Or obviously he knows who this guy is. Is there anything written in there where let's just say Stephen a gets a 20 million dollar a year contract. Okay, and it happens that he signs the deal the next day He goes a guys guess what I'm voting for Donald J Trump what happens to Stephen a Smith is there anything in the contract that says you can't publicly Try to go after one candidate. There's one thing you'll know about Stephen a yeah is He's he's a he's a character guy. Yeah. Two people that were having lunch at the house with us.

He's known him for 20 years. He took care of him. Yeah. Same people. I mean, this is a very good human being. Oh, I agree. Stephen is a very good human being, but he's in a conflicted situation. Where is that?

Let me just go to the next story. Let me just go to the next story that Let me just go to the next story. That's kind of like has to do with this. So former ESPN host Sage Steele says her Biden interview was entirely scripted by networks execs. Every single question. Rob, do you have the clip of this when she says this? Go ahead. Today in sports, opening day for America's national pastimes. This was about two months after he took office. That was an interesting experience in its own right, because it was so structured and I was told, you will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from this

script and go to the word. Like every single question was scripted, gone over dozens of times by many executives, editors and executives. Absolutely. I was on script and was told not to deviate because it was very much this is what you will ask, this is how you will say it. No follow-ups. No follow-ups next. I knew that this was a lot bigger than just the wonderful editors that I worked with. This went up to the fourth floor as we said that were all the bosses, the top executives, the decision-makers are the president of our company. Adam, do you have a problem with this? Do they all work?

Do you have a problem with this? So Sage Steel, ESPN, these are the six questions you ask. You cannot even say how do you feel about that? What do you think about that one time? How about the fact that some Americans feel that when you say if I don't vote for you, you're not black. Do you think it's fair for you to make that kind of an accusation? Do you think there's nothing like that that can be asked? What do you think about the network forcing you to ask every single question the way they put it? So I'll give you three responses. Am I shocked that this is after he was elected? Correct?

What did you say? Five months after he was elected? Am I shocked that the Biden administration is going to want posed, queued up questions? Not in the least. Am I shocked that ESPN is not trying to, owned by Disney, trying to rock the boat and piss off the administration for whatever reason. No. The third thing is sage deal. That's on you, sweetheart. Like you can make your own decisions as in as a journalist. You could say, Sure, I'll co sign this whatever you want me to do. I will do or you could say, Yeah, I don't I don't operate that way like pbd. How often does someone tell you? What are the questions you're gonna ask and I want to know the script and how often would you even? Listen to them. I'm gonna guess zero

What right when when when if a desantis comes a revet comes or a bob iver comes no, no, no You don't you're there's zero script. No, we don't do that. Exactly. That's my point So she made the decision and she's great She's awesome. She made a decision to say okay, whatever you want me to do difference between me and her though because I am Running a business. So for me it and this is it even when I started my youtube channel from small we never ever Send questions to people never I gotta tell you I don't know if we've ever Send questions to people never I gotta tell you I don't know if we've ever Sent questions to people ever right however at one time when I when I had Bush at our event remember the first time we had Bush at the George Bush at the event 19 2019 and and it was an event with him

And what was it? Kobe and all those guys yeah, the Bush administration when we had him on there was a List of questions to go through because you know, he gets a lot of heat and hate They gave the questions and then when he and I were on the stage I asked the questions that I wanted to ask as well and he was he gave information that was out of control. He gave the information. Like he told a story one time about the fact that he poured all the whiskey and alcohol.

Do you remember that? Were you at the CIVN or no? No, but I saw the video. Yeah, when he's like, well, I, you know, poured all the alcohol on and I was an alcoholic and I was thinking to myself, what am I doing? I'm wasting my life. I'm not being a good father. The guy was ridiculously open when he talked, right?

Here's a question though. Here's a question though. When you think about this. Who was he on recently? He wasn't on Seth Meyers? Is it Seth Meyers he was on? If you see the Seth Meyers clip he's on, we don't need to play it right now, you'll notice he's wearing glasses.

And you'll notice he's reading what they want him to say. Right? Whatever, he puts the glasses on and his marketing team, you got to give them a lot of credit for how brilliant they are and how to hide what he's doing. Seth is asked the question, Deft told them that's the skit we're gonna play and he plays it and it you know does what it does. Everybody reacts to it right? Do you know what the difference is with him and his opponent? You know what his opponent does? Talks for an hour and a half. Do you think his opponent says send me the list of questions and what do you want to ask?

No. What do you think his opponent does? His opponent goes up and says what? Whatever he wants. So you know what you'll notice? There's a difference between establishment candidates and non-establishment candidates. Establishment candidates tell you what to ask them. Non-establishment candidates say ask me whatever the hell you want to ask me. Let's roll. America has to choose if they want an establishment candidate or a non-establishment candidate. The fact that this happened during that time at the network with ESPN, I'm not surprised. Would you be surprised, Tom?

I'm not surprised at all. And a matter of fact, I kind of disagree with Adam on one point. I don't put it on Sage Steele. Sage Steele went to work where she was an employee under contract and she was told how to do her job that day. And now she's coming back and very openly saying, hey, you know what? If journalism is spelled with a capital J, why can't I ask follow-ups? Why isn't this an interview?

Is this a photo op? Is this just a infomercial controlled by the president? And you can see the tension she's talking about, but that day she went to work, she was told what to do by her boss, and she did it. Was there anything illegal, unethical, immoral, or dishonest about that? No, she wasn't covering up a scandal. They were asking questions and she's now saying, I was so surprised that there was no follow-ups and no nothing. It wasn't congressional testimony and I respect her for now in this forum coming back saying here do I wish more reporters would stand up in better ways to the

manipulation so that Americans would understand that there is hope for real journalism maybe someplace, and we're not just seeing a scripted movie. I do hope that. I do hope that. But on that day, she went to work that she was told it wasn't like she was lying about COVID. To your point, by the way, I establishment anti establishment Trump, Biden, it's like

completely the polar opposite human beings were on Biden's side scripted because we all know it's might not even be by it's often their handlers, their agents, their publicist or PR that are basically saying this is how they operate. Don't ask him about this. Don't do this. It's not Biden. As you know, it's his handlers. The thing with Biden is people want him to do more interviews, talk more, like,

let's expose what's really going on here. Trump, it's the exact opposite. He's too lippy. He's too open. Some people are like, I love it. Just shut it up a little buddy. But that's who he is. That's his personality. You're not going to stop that. Yeah. Totally opposite individual. Well, and he, I don't look, let's not forget for how many different interviews that we see Joe Biden having cue cards and photographers used to take photos. It would say, stand up now.

Wait for applause. Wait for applause. Look left. Throw shit in your pants. It's not as if it's a secret. And that's why, and you nailed it. When the establishment is the they, when Joe Biden's sitting there looking lost and they go, Hey, I answer this question

He goes I can't they said that that's what makes Donald Trump say whatever the hell you want about Trump, bro He is such a boss because for an hour and a half and would go into those briefing rooms and go off the cuff And yeah, he was a little brash. Yeah, he talked shit. That's what New Yorkers That's what but I respect that a thousand times more than this No, I can't and the moment the questions are done those handlers Adam do you hear him in the White House everybody? Turn to your right hands with a ghost smile by the way if you notice when when Stephen a was on CNN you know what he put in his profile on the bottom what? Stephen a YouTube show

He didn't put first take you put Stephen a YouTube. Yeah, okay What so yeah, if you go back and look at the profile at the bottom I didn't notice that well go ahead and play it in the chiron and and go go a little bit more Fast forward. Okay, keep going first. So I think and I'm keep going keep going But but where I'm going with this is when I first went to ESPN and I was interviewing him His handler 50 times telling me don't ask Stephen anything about politics his handler said that 50. Yes What he said if you do we're gonna cut the interview. No, yes, but guess who didn't know about it Him he didn't know about all. Yeah, so wasn't his call. They were saying that he would have played ball

They were worried because they knew he answers the question because they can't control him. So it wasn't a he thing. It was an ESPN thing. That's the difference. But the handler thing is such an important thing because those guys, that's their cash cow. God forbid he gets canceled. God forbid he gets fired. God forbid his contracts expired. His agent, his publicist, his PR, everyone's done with. I have a handler. Tell me, she goes, Vinny, don't say the F word. That's all I do. I love her. But the handler thing, the establishment, the anti-ansarist is so important because

Biden, we all know, is coddled and handled to the extreme. With Trump, ain't nobody handling that dude. He's going to... I love that. But don't you, isn't that refreshing? For you, yes. A lot of people don't appreciate that. Because a lot of people are soft, Adam. I personally, just like when Steve Vendée was like, yeah, he's not presidential. With all the shit that they did

to him, he has a freaking get out of jail free card to talk as much shit as he wants from what they did from 2016 to all the shit right now. Danny, we get it. You're voting for Trump. Let him go. I think your community has a lot of influence over you. A lot of influence over you.

If you notice when certain people who come in a caged environment, controlled environment, when they're around us, what happens? They let it rip. They love it. They absolutely love it. I agree. It's just like, let's talk, let's boo. They're love it. I agree. It's just like let's talk. Let's move

They're they're protected. They're safe and you can tell it in their mannerisms. Yeah on how they are That's not the case everywhere where that takes place It's just not the case everywhere matter of fact Andrew Schultz recently said something Rob if we can pull up this clip from Andrew Schultz I don't know what all of a sudden happened and prompted Andrew Schultz to say this, but go ahead and play this clip of Andrew Schultz reacting to what happened between Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens, go ahead.

He makes the argument for censorship. He calls it something else. Yeah, I forgot the term I have in my phone. But I don't even think he's using the term right, but he's basically like, there's a window of ideas we accept. Yes. And we accept ideas between this, this, I guess this is,

if I get window you're looking like this. So we accept ideas between here and here. And anything outside of that window, well you're fireball. That's censorship. But he's acting as if this is like a justified reason for firing people when you built your identity and platform off of no censorship and freedom of speech and facts don't care about

your feelings and all this shit. It's also funny that that window happens to end where his beliefs end. I am exhausted. Interesting you would say that. But it ain't not being pro-Israel, that's where the window ends. That's also your specific personal belief.

What? So I just don't see. So you can't have an opinion on your platform that is not pro a country that is not ours? Yeah. Wait a minute. It's crazy, I wish I was. on your platform that is not pro, a country that is not ours? Yeah. Wait a minute. It's crazy, I wish I was.

So is the Daily Wire an American media platform or is it an Israeli media platform? Oh, I'm just asking. This guy's cooking. This guy's cooking. Get that, get that, get that. I'm just, no, if the rule is, I'm just saying, if the rule is you cannot be critical,

because he has no problem being very critical of America Yep, it's critical of the left in America left is half the country. You have no problem eviscerating That's the current power and party in power, but you can't criticize Israel as a country. That's just another country unless You're saying and you're clearly admitting that the daily wire is an arm of the israeli I guess media or propaganda machine? Is that? Oof.

Are you manipulating the religious right in America? Are you manipulating the right-wing conservatives in America and selling them country western movies and putting on your little cowboy hat and fake moving in Nashville so you two could take all their money and then in the process restricting free speech one of the core tenants of the American identity Ben Ben Ben Benjamin Benjamin what is happening there's

trouble in Paris context daily wires in Nashville but he's in Florida but yeah yeah what do you think about his point I mean it makes a valid point that and I sent Rob another video of Ben kind of contradicting myself, but he's 100% right. Like what, and by the way, that's, that's what attracted me to Ben Shapiro. In the first place, that, that dialogue that everybody say what you want, do what you want. Facts don't care about your feelings. This is a place where you can say anything except that one topic and we obviously know Ben is one thousand percent Israel we get it. It's no secret. They could do no wrong and I could we played this Patrick

I sent a Rob this clip of Ben basically contradicting himself We have literally tens of millions of people in the United States who are afraid that the cancel culture is coming up for them and cancel Culture does exist. Okay So what this results in very, very often is corporations looking to cram down a particular viewpoint on you and then cancel you. When it comes to the hosts on the Daily Wire, obviously everyone is able to say what they want,

but the reality is that there is an Overton window at the Daily Wire. There are polls out there that show that a vast majority of Americans in every single political group, including liberals, feel like they cannot say what they want to say In public because they're afraid that they are going to be canceled user fire Oh, he was he saying this light society and then it's actually happened to a socialist moron named it Nathan Robinson He got canceled from the Guardian. He's basically saying he got canceled from the good

I got it and then anti Israel tweet. Okay. Now. I think he's an idiot I think that his views on Israel are abhorhorrent but i don't think that he should lose his power over at the guardian that's a different story obviously when it comes to any publisher any publisher gets to make decisions about what it wishes to what it wishes to purvey and not he certainly would not say anybody on the other side he used to say now he's so he went against his word on basically everything that he said he went the complete opposite because we found out that they fired her. They didn't have one of those contract disputes. They were like, you don't see the way that we say you're being anti us, goodbye. And they fired her.

So that's just proof that he's a hypocrite. Thoughts on this? So I've been very open that I thought that the Daily Wire managed the whole thing with Candace in public and managed it very poorly. And then Ben Shapiro just come back on leadership and say, well I'm a founder, but I'm not the CEO and I'm not making decisions. I'm like, come on dude, you just did. So I thought the way it played out in public from a leadership standpoint was not good, but I kind of see it another way.

You determine the product you're going to put out. You determine. And for better, for worse. And if you get exposed, like CNN did, for spinning things, stifling things, and not really being journalists, then guess what? Your ratings go down, your ads go down, your business goes down. Now let's take a look at this. What if Pat we had some people at PHP and we're selling life insurance Proven life insurance is protecting families is doing good stuff. Sure proven product

Yeah, what if we had somebody saying people going with a they get their insurance license They tell people you should just buy gold life insurance really isn't it? Well, you should just buy gold just Just buy gold. Just do that. We would take them aside and say, what are you doing? You know what? We're here and we're training people and these are valid products. This is what we got. And you wouldn't be there.

Vinny, if you had a car dealership and you were selling EVs and you would say, look, a Ford F-150 pickup with the diesel engine, big F-250 with diesel, that's what you need to be hauling stuff around on your farm. You shouldn't be thinking about EVs or something. You would be like, wait a minute. I hired you to sell EVs. 250 with diesel that's what you need to be hauling stuff around on your farm usually think about you know Evies or something you would be like wait a minute. I hired you to sell Evies So there is a part of it that the position of a company you may not agree with it You know what if you're there and you're selling it, that's it But I thought of how it played out with Candace. I don't know Tom. It's just bad

I want to give you and I know where you're going with that word you know the product of the product right be a product of the product like for example I remember when I bought cars from Jaime Godina okay and Jaime Godina sold me my Ford Focus and I believe the Expedition when I was going broke he got me in a Ford Focus for $2.28 a month. Wow. If Jaime Godina you guys can share this with him I think he's at Nissan right right now Honda right now he's been with Honda start of a guy. We bought so many cars from that guy. It's not even funny I Said what do you drive?

He says I drive an Expedition and I went to the back and I'm like, wow you drive an Expedition. Absolutely It's the best car to own I do this with my family. I do something like, okay So he worked at Ford and he drove a Ford as a buyer. You respect that. Of course. You like that. I love that, right? You know, I went to a country club the other day and they're selling me the membership.

And then the person selling me the membership said, and I like the fact that this person was very honest with us, I said, so how often do you bring your family here? Oh, I never bring my family here. I'm like, are you being serious? Oh, I never bring my family here. I'm like, are you being serious? Oh, we never use the facility. I'm like, wow, it's kind of weird. It's like saying, well, you know, hey, you know, do you, and by the way, somebody may say, well, you work at Burger King, but you would never eat the same food because you're there all the time. You eat at Chipotle, you know, you don't eat the food. Okay. I can see a part of that as well. The

argument fine. But a product of the product is the highest level however in PHP Tom we had you know Christians Muslims seven days Catholics. We have whites blacks Asian Everything people knew my position very very strong and it wasn't something that was indisputable. It wasn't like it was hidden. It wasn't a secret. You knew what I stood for. But at the same time, I was always in the business of converting. Meaning, if you're in the business of shifting people's mindset from not wanting to work hard to work hard, that takes a while. But it doesn't mean, nope, you're not, you're out, right?

If you're in the business of baptizing and converting and persuading and shifting and paradigm shift, you have to be very, very, very, very patient. Do you know how many people eventually became a Christian simply because of the way the person treated them? Do you know most people that become Christians, or any denomination, yesterday, the guy at the soccer game that we're watching, you know, the quarterfinals in Miami against Monterey, phenomenal game. The guy right next to us, they were holding a 16 balloon. And I'm like, dude, that guy's

son doesn't look like he's 16 years old. He looks 12 or 13. Why the hell is he holding a 16 year old balloon? Finally the guy comes, he's a valetainer, he says, I'm your number one fan, I'm this, I'm that. Adam. Yeah, he says 17 years. Nicest guy, by the way. Adam, 17 years. 17 years.

This Adam was. 17 years, he's been sober, and the other guy, they were celebrating his 16 years of being sober, right? Amazing. And I'm having this conversation with him, and he says, you know, I went from being a Jew to being a Catholic. I said, what? You don't hear that often, by the way.

I've never heard it. I said, you went from a Jew to a Catholic, yes. I said, tell me why. Why'd you go through it? He says, a big part of it was because when I was going through my sobriety, people from the Catholic church were there for me. And so it means you have to know that conversion and baptism is just patience and being there and understanding. A guy leaves, you know how many guys left, and they trashed me when they left.

And then they would call each other five years later. Hey man, listen, you were right. I'd love to come back. I've changed. I've done this. I've done that. And not everybody. This is not saying everybody comes back.

But there was a lot of people that would say that call. Why? Because you have to be patient. You have to be understanding. You have to know we're different and you have to see what's going to happen. When people are saying what they were saying about this guy, you better fire him. You better. You better do they better do this. Listen, man. I'm patient. I'm understanding I'm going through certain things. I'm gonna see what's gonna happen as a leader and At value Taman we do have one very clear

Value that we don't compromise and that's capitalism. There is no common it's very public. Guess what? I'm not compromising that. It's proven. You have communism, you have socials, you have capitalism, it's but we're not debating this, right? But there's a difference between an economical system with believing in enlightened, empowered, entertained debate where it's one of our big discourse, but we like to debate and you can debate faith and you can debate religion and you can debate that. That's the problem with when you take that position. What you do do after that kind of a move, if I'm a Jew, okay, and I'm a devout at his level and I want to go to a company that I will feel a hundred percent safe, guess what's officially the number one media company to go to? if you're Jewish and you want to proudly

sell all the values and principles that you believe in. Guess what's number one? Worldwide it's officially Daily Wire. Yep. If that's your value. And there's nothing wrong with CBN is what? What does CBN stand for Christian broadcast? It's not it's not you know a RBN Religious broadcasting network. It's what Christian broadcasting net worth daily wire can be daily DJW Daily Jewish wire or diw daily Israel wire. No problem Yeah, if that's your value, stick to that.

If that's your number one, maybe conservative America, all the other stuff comes next. But positioning wise, business wise, you know, if you got an Andrew Schultz, what religion is Andrew Schultz by the way? Is he a Catholic? Rob, what is Andrew Schultz? Fake Jewish. No, I don't agree. Everyone thinks he's a Jewish.

He's not. No, he was reading scripture the other day. Irish Catholic, I think. He was reading scripture the other day I was Catholic. I think he was reading scripture the other day Yeah, he was reading scripture from the Bible the other day very weird that I said I went to church and when there's a church For first time church on Sunday and was beautiful. I'll be crying three minutes. Is this it. Can you play this clip real quick? Yeah, this is him watch this listen to what comedian Andrew Schultz had to say when he visited a church for the first time. Went to church this Sunday.

And it was beautiful. I'm crying within three minutes. Balling. I'm in this church. Just listening to music. I'm three minutes in. And I'm like, oh, there's a reason this book over the world. Christianity is incredible. You see so much selfishness in for these people sitting in this room and just giving up. It's beautiful. You can pause it. So anyways, so you know so for him, he's a pretty reasonable guy and fair guy to say something like that. I don't know.

It's going to be interesting to see what those guys do next. Can I respond? Of course. Cool. Well, number one, love Andrew Schultz. The majority of the time he's got amazing takes. I don't know if he was right on this one. I certainly don't think Akash was right. I here's what I'll tell

you. You know, it's NFL season right now. They're going to have the draft coming up soon. It's free agency season. They're talking about who the top free agents are. They're talking about what's going on there. The number one free agent out there in the YouTube talking headspace is Candace Owens. No doubt, whether you agree with her or disagree with her, she's out there and she'll be a force to be reckoned with and she is going nowhere. Whether it works out with the Daily Wire or not, evidently it didn't, obviously. When it comes to the situation with Ben Shapiro, look, I got nothing to do with the Daily Wire. I'm not defending the Daily Wire. I have zero relationship with Ben Shapiro, zero. I ain't going to the Daily

Jewish Wire. I'm here at Valuetainment. He's absolutely right though. There's something called the Overton window and that's what he's talking about. This is the problem with Ben Shapiro. He's so freaking smart that the average person is like, what is this guy even talking about? The Overton window has specifically to do with policy, policy, not perspective, not opinion, policy and the range of ideas that are allowed to be applied to policy. It is policy driven, not opinions.

So it goes from what's a policy that is implementable to the masses, what's acceptable, what's populable, what's sensible, and then on the fringe of that is what is completely unthinkable and completely radical. He said straight up, this has nothing to do with her positions. And I don't think he's actually full on commented on what exactly happened. By the way, the daily wire, the cancel thing, there's a point there, but it's nuanced. The daily wire is

every right to cancel whoever they want and fire whoever they want. Because there's a difference between a publisher and a platform versus a private company. This has to do with section 230, the whole conversation that's going on with sure cancel culture like if YouTube censor somebody or Twitter censor somebody or Facebook censor somebody meta, that is censorship. If the Daily Wire or the blaze or value taming for that matter, or Tucker Carlson network, whatever he's working on, chooses to fire somebody. That's not censorship. That's a business decision.

So I'm not defending what Ben Shapiro did with Candace or not. I'm just letting you know that's the reality of this Overton window. By the way, here's some examples of the Overton window. What was completely radical and now that became policy. Slavery, that was part of the Overton window. That was part of policy driventon window. That was part of policy-driven, you can own slaves. Hello? That would be completely unthinkable and radical at this point.

Women's right to vote. Women's suffrage. What did Candace say that was overly unacceptable policy-wise? So I'm not privy to what she said, but I will tell you this. But that argument only carries weight if you can validate what Candice said that was so out of line that caused you to say, we don't, you know, it's not about the decision.

Or what did she say that was so overly offensive? Or something in the lines, because you're comparing, you know, slavery is okay is what you're saying. No no I'm saying that within the Overton window at one point it was okay. No no I totally get that. Just like women not being able to vote was okay. And what I'm saying is what did she say that that was at that level of weight and impact

to say boom we're out of here. We don't know but all I can do is tell you what we've seen online. Here's what I can tell you. By the way, zero other Jewish people work for Daily Wire. Jordan Peterson, he's our number one guy, not Jewish. Matt Walsh, hardcore Christian. The other guy, Michael Knowles, Andrew Claven, I think he's a born-again Jews for Jesus type. Ben Shapiro is the only guy that's Jewish, so let's just say that.

But there was a whole conversation, like Matt Walsh as an example, firm isolationist, don't fund Ukraine, don't fund Israel, don't fund Taiwan, firm isolationist. That's the position of the MAGA perspective these days. Ben Shapiro said, yeah, that's totally cool with that. Whatever happened with the Christ as King drinking Christian blood, that's a conversation that Candice and Ben, I think, but the trip, but what he's saying is because I follow this closely. She because guess what she has her opinions, opinions about Israel and how they were acting post October 7th. And we're going to get into some of those stories. She didn't say anything that was like, I don't like Jews, or I hate Jews, or anything like that.

When she says Christ is King, or when she interviewed that Rabbi Barclay, and she said, you know, what's her name's a hag? They were looking for stuff to call her anti-semitic. Christ is King. That's anti-semitic. That's horse shit. That's looking for reasons to fire. And then my point is, Adam, I think you're missing a point. Ben Shapiro had been saying hey I I don't make decisions. I'm just there That's horseshit him and who's it was he who's a CEO? Jerb boring me boring if you don't think they had a conversation after the rabbi Shmueli where she was just talking to him about

Spitting fact she's like so what about the deaths? What about the innocent people and rab Rabbi Shmueli who I think is completely unhinged on all levels That it happened right after that. They're like, you know what no more of her saying anything about Israel We got to let we got to get rid of her it happened. It had immediately after that I don't see any problem with a Christian saying Christ is king. Well, like that's saying Christ is king. Like that's your lord and savior. No it's not. Well what do you mean? The whole Jewish... That's not anti-Semitic whatsoever. A lot of people in the Jewish community... As a Jew I'm telling you, you can say Christ is king, or as a Muslim you can say,

you know, Allah Akbar, zero problem. But that guy in the Daily Y, wait you said there's no other Jews, yes there is, it's that other guy. Who's the... Andrew Cleven. Yeah, Andrew Cleven. He's not Jewish. Wait, what do you mean? He's like a Jew for Jesus kind of

wait wait time out time out that guy's not Jewish who I actually don't know that situation wait can you go to him I think he is Jewish and he said that Christ is born again or something whatever it is is it in there he's not Ben Shapiro that's not he's not ben shaper but what I'm saying is it's as if they were looking for reason Adam if I called like look at this freaking girl She's a hag and you on the on the cuff can be like, you know what in 1700s that was anti-semitic. I think you're looking for let me just say this and let's move on to the next story I think there's stuff that happened behind closed doors. I think there's also performance I

Think there is you know when one person gets more attention than another, I think it can be frustration. I think it can be, I feel like I'm in a box and I have to do what you guys are wanting to do. You're just like Fox and who knows, maybe that's what it's and maybe it's like behind closed doors, she's challenging them constantly. Who knows? But those types of things, you know, is very likely for it to happen. But if you're making that argument you made that he's making, you have to show proof with

statements. I don't know if you understand what I'm saying to you. So for example, if somebody asked me, for example, for me, it's either Mario or him. I'm choosing Mario. You understand what story I just said right there. Guess what? It's very simple It's not even a question about it. So in that position ends right there, bro. You're not more important than Mario Yep, I'm not even having a debate. Okay, got it. Hey, this is what we're doing pop up out. Got it Hey, this is what we're doing pop up

But if I say imagine if I say something like this Imagine if I say well, you know There comes a time where to be a host, if your body fat percentage is above 35%, what are you talking about? If you say it's that, give me proof. And if there's proof, then we say, totally makes sense. Okay? If there's proof, that's all I'm saying. And so you have to be very, very technical when you're saying this because you're also

Indirectly could potentially hurt that person's career wherever they go to next. This is a very fickle space There's a lot of talent that at one point they were everywhere You saw them everywhere boom like this done. Yep, because something surrounded their reputation. That is not cool This is how these people make a living and this is a very difficult job to be a part of. Constant pressure, daily pressure, you're trying to have kids, you're trying to have a family, it is not easy. And by the way, even with Ben, when Ben is walking across the street, and I remember

one time Nick was coming up to him and saying stuff to him, he's with his wife and his kids, have you ever seen this when he's crossing the light? Which Nick? Your guy that was on your podcast. I'm also not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. So these are not things I'm a fan of because I think Ben, over the years, yeah, like I'm not a fan of this kind of stuff.

This guy's with his kids. This is Boker Ratone. Who's this guy? Nick Puente. He keeps playing the clip rap. Is this the one that he's crossing the light with? Yeah, you know Oh, oh dude that's that's good cause right there. I am NOT a fan of that Oh, dude, you come like that with kids around me. I am NOT a fan of that you you I will give you respect

Walk side with me. Can I talk you from it? No problem I'm not a fan of this kind of stuff and I think Ben is very necessary I just think you can't make an accusation like that if that's the position he's taking without breaking down exactly what it is. I will find out what happened. I'm sure. But I'll give one more anecdote here. Culture is huge in a company.

We know that. What is it? What do you always say is that culture eats strategy for breakfast. So look, when you look at the daily wire, respect to those guys, I would classify them as like deep intellectuals. Ben Shapiro, they're very like, you know, kind of like the Tom thing, you know, like the very Harvard graduate business school driven, very policy driven smart guys. And great, that works for some people. Candace Owensens we've

spent a good amount of time with her she's just chill and cool as hell so I've seen them do their sort of round table stuff they're hanging out they're smoking cigars they're talking trash they're kind of doing their thing I think my cultural fit I just don't think that she fit there in that crew I think there's a lot of other companies out there she fits better. But say that. Yeah. Say that. So the cause for it not working out is that instead of something else. You know what I'm saying? It's like back in high school, she's a hoe, she's a work out. And bro, you're like, we had a girl and she had a boyfriend, one guy she was with. Okay. And she left him. Okay.

The guy went around telling everybody, do you know for like five years everybody? She everybody thought she was one and you know what happened five years later ever thing. She's been with two three guys No one ever came out that anything ever happened even when you were drunk acting stupid and we're on the space But the guy eventually said no man. She was never one. I was just an idiot kid That's a something like this because I didn't know how to handle it. Running a business is a lot of pressure guys on how to handle it. So I think daily wire is learning on how to run their company.

It's not easy. We're all learning. Trust me, operating is very, very, very difficult. The world can say whatever the hell they want to say. When you're in the kitchen making decisions on how to do everything and food tastes like shit, you get heat when the food tastes like crap. But if you're in the kitchen and you put some food that tastes amazing, what do people say? What a great chef.

Not every day is going to be perfect. And you don't make all the good decisions and that's totally fine. And I wish both of them the best in business. They're both necessary. We'll see what happens there. All right, let's go to the next one Thanks for that commentary. All right, let's go. What do we got here next? Papa papa papa. Okay. I want to go to the Louisiana one time. What page is the Louisiana one? It's a great story 15 that we go and I'm coming to you with this one time. So Louisiana governor

Jeff Landry calls for policy change after LSU women's basketball misses national anthem. So the governor calls for policy mandating student athletes presence during the national anthem citing respect for those who serve. Landry emphasizes it is time that all college boards put a policy in place that student athletes be present for the national anthem or risk their athletic scholarship. He went that far. LSU's women's basketball team faces criticism for missing the national anthem before their regional final game against Iowa. Video footage shows Iowa players holding hands during the anthem while LSU, Rob, if

you got the clip of that, I'd love to to show to the audience what it actually looks like. And while LSU players left the court beforehand, Coach Kim Malky described the absence as routine, stating, honestly I don't even know when the anthem was played. The Tigers absence during the national anthem has drawn attention with reports indicating that they haven't been present for it all Season including last year's national championship play this clip Rob. Go ahead. So this is them right now You don't see them You don't see them. You see Iowa holding hands. This is before the game. You're singing a national anthem. They're not here. Wow. And they lost this game? Yes.

Weird. Karma. Can you go to the actual clip of what he says on news? Can I ask you a question? Did they walk off PBD or did they, they don't just show up? No, they leave after practice. They come to practice. They have a warm up. National anthem. They sing, then they come. That's on purpose.

Come on, man. Good, Rob. Play this clip. Calm. Neither USC or UConn lady basketball teams were present for their national anthems before the elite eight game on Monday night. So to your point, this is other colleges do. I have to let it stay there.

But when they come out per your policy change here, would they have to stand? Well, listen, again, that's what the university should put in place. They should. Everybody should respect the flag. If you don't like it, well, guess what? You don't have to play the sport. And I would hope that all of the final four teams would be out there respecting our nation and letting everyone know that we're united under one flag. Well, Governor, let us know what you hear back from the College Board and where you get with this. Tom, what do you have on this? I think he's making a good point. And you have to think about the following. A scholarship athlete is going to school because they've got academic or athletic ability

and they are given a free education paid for by the taxpayers and they go to, in the case of these state schools. It's very important for you to say that, Tom. Say that one more time. Who pays? So when a kid gets scholarship from a public college, what does that mean? Who's paying for that? The taxpayers are giving you a scholarship for free because money is in the hands of the university to do so those universities are

Funded by the state by the taxpayers. I'm talking about the public schools Ivy League, by the way gives no scholarships whatsoever for Sports it's in their charter, but he's saying hey, I'm Louisiana. I'm the governor. This is my state I want to do this for my state, I want to do this for my state. If you're not present for the anthem, you're not respecting because what is going on at universities? We have ROTC, we recognize, we usually recognize the colors, and have the color guard, and have our men and women. He's like if we're doing this, I want you out there and I want you to be present. And he wasn't saying that you have to salute or do something, he's saying be present out of respect. And then he says, hey that's what I'm you to be be present and he wasn't saying that you have to salute or do something

He's saying be present out of respect and then he says hey That's what I'm gonna do in Louisiana And I'm calling on the rest of college boards to adopt this all he's saying is this is what I'm doing This is how I feel and I think the rest of college should do it too If you got a scholarship from the people and the people were here to respect our OCC and our men in color I think you should be here and respect them How do you how do you feel about this Adam? I'm gonna come to you first How do you feel about this kids not walking up and coach saying now let's stay in the locker room And we come after national well, this is on one person and one person only the coach. Okay, so I played College sports. I know how this operates. I've been to a million games before you have the warm-ups you go to the bench

You do the national anthem the game starts. Why the, you go to the bench, you do the national anthem, the game starts. Why the hell you go into the locker room after warmups? What's going on there? Didn't they say two other colleges miss the national anthem as well? Yukon and somebody else. So I'm actually super grateful this happened. Why?

So we can have this conversation. So if they didn't do this or if nobody called this out, then how long would this linger and go on for? I've said this a million times. Uh, you know, there's one thing that every kid has to do as part of their day. If you're an American, say the pledge of allegiance, like this anti-American, anti-patriotism, Marxist, woken socialist thing that's going on with Gen Z, especially I ain't for that.

So this situation right here, I guarantee you in the next time LSU has a game They're gonna be there for the national anthem I guarantee you Yukon who I think is playing Iowa by the way, Iowa's incredible this girl Caitlin Clark is ridiculous She'll be there for the national anthem. So but part of America's DNA is Protesting it's kind of what the revolution was all about 1968 the Olympics the two guys in Mexico Whether Tommy Smith John Carlos, you could probably find that picture if you go to the black power salute 1968. That's what America is

That's great. Even Colin Kaepernick. He has the right to protest people also have the right to say fuck you NFL Yeah, I ain't going to your games. There it is right there That's what America is but just not showing up to the national anthem I don't think we play that game and I think individually though I think we're missing a point to like so Adam question though. So when the college I mean, I obviously played in high school But would that be a decision that the coach makes and you're in the locker room and you as just an American Can I've been like yo, I'm they're playing the national anthem Yeah, I want to stand out there because I don't know what what's happened in the last, you know eight years

Where players have walked out alone? I was so the national I would respect that a hundred percent and in this case Look how karma works. They lost the game, but and great point Tom. I personally this is just me I would have obviously been out there especially as a veteran but my thing is this anti-american rhetoric stance especially from these athletes that think that they're somewhat better than everybody else and they know how to and i get it adam just because you have the right to do something doesn't make it right because and you nailed it megan rapaponi rap where the hell you know yeah the hell with america you're making millions playing a sport Colin Kaepernick LeBron James It's shitting on this place that has done everything for you LeBron James is a freaking

Billionaire, but that flag and everything it's an anti-american Sediment and I say that to anybody like them that's taken that type of stance and you nailed it It is on the coach, but the players themselves. Where are you at? Get your ass out there and give props to a country that is still number one regardless of how evil and repressed you think we are. There's a lunacy. There's a lunacy to protest outside the United States and let me explain it to you. In the United States, you can protest because you have under that flag a constitution that gives you freedom of speech. So you can protest.

Would you like to go to China and see what government platform is there and what happens if you attempt to protest? Would you like to go to parts of Russia and find out what happens if you protest under that platform? Would you like to go to Indonesia and be a non-Muslim and protest that platform? You should be saluting the flag and thanking your personal God, whoever you choose that to be Even if it's yourself to the agnostics and the atheist to say I am so glad I have a platform here

Well, I can protest for change. They don't see it that way They're burning down the house while they're standing inside it and they don't understand it. Would you like to be somewhere else? Yeah, go check it out. In North Korea. There was a documentary Pat and Adam down the house while they're standing inside it and they don't understand it. Would you like to be somewhere else? Yeah. Go check it out. And you nailed it. In North Korea there was a documentary pat, and Adam, I don't know if you guys saw this, there was a documentary. Oh protesters, let me tell you, you go from protest to the actuarial table really fast

in North Korea. Yeah, well I was just going to say in North Korea, this doctor went there and there was a bunch of people with like major, like I think cataracts, they were all blind. This doctor went in there, gave them all sight. Right when they saw sight, you know the first thing they did? They ran and started crying and praying, basically to Kim Jong-un's photo, which I found out later. If they go into your house,

the government goes into your house, and you don't have Kim Jong-un's photo, right there, you're gone, you disappear. You're in a freaking war camp. Think about that. And these people are over here, disrespecting our flag. Get out of here

Get out of my face. I mean if you come into Valuetainment first thing you see it's you it's you biden Like we yeah, we have prayed him every morning every morning. I think there's a part of that. That's Pride if you do it from the standpoint of pride There's it's like the whole thing you can spend five hundred dollars and get a business card and start a small business at the DBA local place and call yourself a CEO. You can do that. You can call yourself a CEO all day you want.

If other people don't call you a CEO, you ain't a CEO. When others start calling you their CEO and they look at you as that, that's a different story. If the pride of somebody putting a picture of a leader on the wall is by Choice nothing wrong with that if it's by force Probably one last comment. Yeah, I'm reading the end of the story They're saying the tiger by the way, they won the national championship last year

By the way, just full disclaimer the fact that we're talking about women's college basketball amazing somewhat ridiculous But it is it is sort of she was a beast. Oh, this girl. This is the best country in the car, Iowa but LSU who won the national championship last year. This is who they lost to this time. That's who they beat last year I can't believe I know this woman's cause bashful information But here's what they said the Tigers absence during the national anthem has drawn attention with reports indicating that they haven't been present for it all season, including last year's national championship guys with respect to the coach. I don't even know the

coach's name. Nobody gives a shit about your college basketball show up to the national anthem. I agree. Okay. You have governor Bobby Boucher of Louisiana out here coming on the TV, talking about it. He doesn't want to do Do what you want to do. Jeff Landry. Or Bob, I like Bob Weshay better. Guys get out there for the national anthem period. Next story Denver official scene telling new migrants to leave. New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more.

How crazy is this story right? Denver's recently appointed newcomer communications liaison. Andres, by the way Rob, if you have a video on this, I want to play this video. Andres Carrera was caught on video pleading with newly arrived illegal aliens to turn around and leave the city immediately because the opportunities are over. In the welcoming city of Denver. Play this clip Rob, go ahead Wow stay here you're gonna stop wow New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more.

So I suggest you go there where there's a longer term shelter. There also are more job opportunities there. He continues, we have received too many immigrants and this is why we ran out of resources. We are not going to block you if you want to stay here. Can you imagine, it's even to the point where he's realizing our policies suck and we're out of people's money to spend and he said New York. He said go to New York. Yeah Tom This is the law of unintended consequences in full bloom and spring flowers ladies and gentlemen They sit there and they all they so you have the blue block and Colorado is now part of the blue block of the West, as they call it, that are like, oh, we need an open border.

Oh, we need this. Oh, all your other people are racist and you don't have a heart. And now they're landing in the cities and the cities are being asked to come up with solutions and the voters are coming to strangle the cities. Just ask Chicago. Chicago mayor has been absolutely pilloried by people and the press for mismanaging this. And now you've got blue cities fighting with each other saying, you know, it really sucks here. And by the way, the snow god is coming and you're going to

really hate Denver when the snow god shows up. So maybe you should go to Chicago or New York. And it's just what, you know, it's unintended consequences You can't have your cake. You need it, too You can't say oh come on in come on in come on in trump's an idiot Don't go that wall is so inhumane and everything and then when they get here and saying I can't do anything for you Go away. Yeah, that's funny. It's almost like the Martha vineyard thing You know what happened with the Martha's vineyard remember when Abbott was shipping in the Martha's vineyard They got rid of the majority of them.

You know the ones that they kept? Guess what they are now? Help. They're cleaning, they're cutting lawns, they're doing laundry. They're maids now. So the Martha's Vineyard were like, the ones that want to work, the ones that want to work, keep them and they ship the rest of them out. But this mother, why wouldn't you ship them to New York? What a good pitch.

Go to New York, you'll get $1,300 a month. They're going to give you a debit card. You could punch cell phone, cell phone, cell phone too. You can beat the shit out of cops. And guess what? Walk right out of jail. That's actually a really good pitch squat in a house for 30 days and it's yours. Let's go to New York. You know what this story reminds me of PBD. It's kind of like juxtaposition of what everything you stand for. Like I love the story you tell about when you were living in California and you were on a recruitment visit or being recruited by Governor Rick Perry from Texas. Hey, Mr. David, you come on down to Texas. We got low taxes and low regulation and you're gonna come on down. You're gonna bring your old

PHP. You're gonna help some people start your business save yourself 13% taxes. That's recruiting a free enterprise, right? And capitalism, this is the exact opposite. This is like recruiting for Marxist socialist open border handouts. It's like, hey, they have better benefits over there, bro. Go over there. So it's just, it's just the juxtaposition of the free enterprise capitalist system moving from a state that empowers a business versus hey, there's free shit over there go that way Or words no four words bad policies have Consequences that's exactly what it is. I love you coming up with bad policies

Just a matter of time to common sense takes over because people people can be manipulated Everybody can be manipulated, but the difference between one and the other is the timeline of how long you're manipulated Okay, there's not a single soul in the world that can't be manipulated. Not not a single one. All of us are part of that camp a Form of a prank prank is a form of manipulation, right? Is that fair to say? Yeah, you got me Oh, you got me right, okay got it so but manipulation Eventually a person is gonna sit there and say what a day later if you're still manipulated okay cool month later cool

You're later come on, bro. You're just lazy if five ten years later. You're still manipulated. You deserve exactly what you get I agree, okay You deserve exactly what you're getting but for the most part You're either gonna have your common-sense people that are gonna get rowdy and say stuff or guess what happens with the common-sense people They leave you know why because common-sense people are always in demand no matter where they go Period it's just like a great friend screw over a great friend. Don't worry He's gonna be a great friend to somebody else just not you okay screw over a great friend. Screw over a great friend. Don't worry. He's going to be a great friend to somebody else, just not you. Okay? Screw over a great husband, great wife. Don't worry. He will be to somebody else, just not you. Screw over any great boss, employee. Don't

worry. They're going to be a great friend or an employee to somebody else. These guys are dumb for making a policy. They're paying a price for it, and that's exactly what they deserve. Common sense people lead the way. Okay, next. California, here we go. LA's luxury houses, sales plummet 70% amid mansion tax launch. Just another brilliant idea coming out of the great stage of California. Here we go. One year after its launch, LA's mansion tax, levying a 4% tax on properties priced between $5 million and $10 million, has led to a 68% drop in luxury house sales significantly below its fundraising target. Real estate developer Houman Ghaffari criticized the policy

as ineffective, labeling it a sham that fails to meet its goal while rendering new developments financially unfeasible despite generating $215 million. Only 22% of the $900 million target the city defends the policy, citing a gradual increase in revenue. Greg Good from LA's Housing Department argues that the funds are crucial for aiding distressed tenants and accelerating affordable housing projects. Wow, Tom. I'm honestly reading this, I'm flabbergasted that this is actually happening. I have my own thoughts I'm going to give.

It's a very weird twist I'm going to take, but I want to hear your thoughts, Tom. Tom Hickman Okay, I'm going to give you a warning to Californians. So they needed 900 million targets. So you have to read behind the lines, you know, not between lines, you got to read behind the lines because they hide. And they needed to raise 900 million target and they said hey man let's just tax do your Bernie Sanders tax the billionaires. Plus the billionaires. A billionaires. A billionaires.

Exactly. So that's what they're going to do. So we're going to tax the mansions every time they sell a mansion. We're going to do that. We'll make a million dollars. High five. Everything. It's all fine.

It's going to work. Right? Now watch watch watch watch watch. only, so they mess with capitalism, they mess with market forces. And what did market forces said? Market forces said, wow, that's a hot stove, I'm gonna back off of it. That's what happens in market forces.

Things move around, it's not isolated. They raised only 215 million. Warning Californians, warning Angelenos. They're looking for 685 million dollars they needed 900 they only got 215 Standby brace for impact LA here comes more gas tax here comes other things They got to make up that money because they're seeking it. So Point number one the unintended consequence strikes again. Bad policies have consequences. The market said, I'm not interested in that tax, so I don't

want to and they don't make their money, but they're looking for 685 California and they're coming for you. And how are they implement? Is this on a sale price? Is this on a property tax? Is this high? What the hell? It just we when we started this in 2020 I remember you gave this this symbolism how much of this you're gonna take right if you push someone you push someone you push At some point people in LA, but dude, I can't even And I might get out of my personal space In LA five to ten million ain't exactly like 20 million and up when I were talking big big houses

Yeah, the average house in LA is a million bucks. It's a million bucks for sure. That's great. Here you go Just type in how does LA mansion tax work? Yeah, okay type it up Not well the so-called mansion tax in LA applies to property sales of five to ten million dollars properties over Five million incur an additional four percent while properties costing over ten million Costs another five and a half percent. Let me tell you go there by the way, you know what that is. That's $550,000. Yeah, okay. So so anyways, so so that means if oh my god This is such a how happy are you they get a lot of California tonight? It's an understandable

Let me tell you what angle this is. The same clowns that said realtors shouldn't get paid their 6% commission want the 4.5% commission. Who the hell are you? So that means LA County officially became a realtor and pay me the commission for not doing anything with the work and then I'm gonna give the money to homeless people because I've done such a good job everybody in LA with homeless folks that I'm gonna clean it up trust me we're gonna clean it up oh yeah we definitely trust you to clean it up your reputation doesn't show that you can be trusted but yeah we're doing this four percent and five and a half percent in taxes who do you you trust more to keep that money, a realtor or the city?

Give it to the realtor. Stop arguing with the realtor, making the money. Negotiate. Allow the numbers to be taking place. This is like a slap in the face for L.A. realtors, by the way. So you know what this works out to be. So imagine you're a realtor. You're selling a $10 million house.

Say I'm trying to sell my house for $10 million. Now the guy that's selling the house has to sit there and say, honey, you realize if we sell this house for $10 million, we're paying 6% to the realtor, we're paying 5.5% for this, we're paying $1.1 million to sell a $10 million house. That means we sold it only for $8.9 million and that's not even including the capital gains taxes I have to pay and the 13% taxes I have to pay. So let's just say this guy bought this house at $6 million.

Let's just actually do the math. He buys it for $6 million, Tom. Let's do it the right way. $6 million, sells it for $10 million, okay? And he gives his realtor 6% plus 5.5%. Let's just say that's $1.1 million. He bought it at $6 million. What do you have to pay?

What are the kind of taxes you have to pay on it? Okay, so now we're at $8.9 in hand and we have $6 we can deduct. So the government is going to say, now you have to pay taxes on 2.9 So the 2.9 the capital gains and the California that's gonna come up to if they don't take a housing exemption We'll stay away from that So that's gonna be 39.5 and 13 California 56 50 53 I think okay 52 okay, so to put 52 on 2.9 1.4 so check no 1.5 1.5 on the

nose Vinny you you bought the house at 6 million easy money sold it at 10 million okay you made 4 million in profit but after every fee you paid you only keep 1.5 what of the six million that's what happened ridiculous that's what just happened that's not I'm not selling it it's stupid welcome to California where the oh my god what you understand what just happened right yeah yeah so guess what that's what just happened oh god the state our profit I only walk away with one point one and a half million the state tax commissioner do you know this guy Dover?

Right? Benjamin Dover. He goes by Ben. Ben Dover? That's him! His name is Ben Dover! Holy damn! It's the state tax commissioner in California. He's bending you over, literally and figuratively. By the way, as much as we're laughing about this,

It's not funny. as much as we're laughing about this, California, please understand, they don't like you if you're rich. Yeah. They don't. Unless if you're in pockets that they can use you like, you know, certain Burbank because it's Hollywood, certain areas in, you know, Silicon Valley, if you vote a certain way, they'll leave you alone.

Certain areas everywhere else, they're coming for you selling your houses for certain property. They're going to get that money from you. Eventually, you're going to get so many of these guys that leave, just like Adam just left to go use the restroom. Just like that. It's weird. It's because we raised the P tax on the podcast. Got you. We raised it. We raised it and he's just fed up. I'm not going to deal with it. He's just fed up and he had to kind of go handle with situation. I was so disgusted by this tax. I had to do it. You had to release.

I get it. Totally. All right. Next story here, which may excite you a little bit, Adam. NATO plans $100 billion. NATO plans $100 billion Trump-proof fund for Ukraine. This is a financial time story. NATO has drawn up plans to secure a five-year military aid package of up to $100 billion

in an attempt to shield Ukraine from winds of political change that could usher in a second Trump presidency. The so-called Mission for Ukraine proposal, which will be discussed by NATO foreign ministers on Wednesday, is being put forward by the Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg. According to five alliance diplomats briefed on the plan, it would coordinate an estimated $100 billion in support by 32 members of military alliance. Stoltenberg has pitched the proposal as a means to shield the mechanism against the

winds of political change, hence Trump, according to people briefed on his remarks, if approved, it would also give alliance control of the US-led Ramstein Weapons Support Group and allow it to manage the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine for the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Again, in the life insurance policy business, there's something called an IELT, individual irrevocable life insurance trust. What irrevocable life insurance trust is, let's just say you get married and you buy a $10 million policy, $5 million policy. You can buy an irrevocable life insurance trust on your life for your wife.

That means irrevocable, you can't change the beneficiary, okay? It sticks with her no matter what. It sticks with her no matter what. So your wife is not going to worry about two years later you guys get a divorce and you change the beneficiary to Beth instead of Mary, okay? It's going to be a new person getting that. It's irrevocable, okay? Even if they both parties go, we don't, oh, bye.

It's irrevocable. It's irrevocable, yeah. It's irrevocable. It's irrevocable. Bye bye. It's irrevocable. So, what Zelensky and Ukraine is doing, they're trying to get a hundred billion dollar irrevocable funding, aid to them, even if Trump gets elected. So that means if you change your wife or your, whatever you do, if you change your wife to somebody else, you still have to support your ex-wife, hence Zelensky is the ex-wife of the US if Trump gets elected. That's exactly what this is. Tom, anything different than what I just said?

No, you're absolutely correct. It becomes like a 401k or an IRA for future bribery. So it's like, it ensures that the bribes can keep going, the graft can keep flowing, and you know, it saves Zelensky the trouble of you know ironing the green shirt to come to Congress and do speeches begging for aid. He's just, he's become, you know, Zelensky's become an annoying like baby mama like I'm sick and tired of hearing him him complaining like dude really you're setting it up to where it's Trump proof to not let you launder money

that's absolutely ridiculous. How far is it along? Are they saying that's gonna happen? I mean, I hope not. By the way, who are they protecting? Are they protecting who they're giving the money to? Of course. Is it Zelinsky or is it who Zelinsky then gives the money to? No, of course. Tom, how many times are we gonna find out stories where this guy got caught with four million, this guy got caught with forty million. It's like it's like it's not even pretending anymore. We all know what the hell it's about. I was trying to paint the picture for people who maybe haven't heard us previously. Oh, yeah, no, you're right. More and more people are watching the podcast.

Everybody's getting caught. They didn't know. It's like Zelensky takes this money, and all of a sudden generals, economic guys, and everything are driving a Bentley. They're trying to avoid bombs, but they're driving a Bentley. Rob, can you go to Politico, to Google and type this up type in Ukraine is that great risk of its front lines collapsing okay front lines collapsing okay go to Politico it should be a political story Tom look at this here stories like plastic surgery failure to

me by the way this is from what they can you give us the date on this Rob maybe go up a little bit to see if we have a date or lower. April 3rd, which is what? Two days ago, right? What's today's date? Today is the 4th? Today is the 4th. Okay, go up to the top of the story. Alright, so Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapse and according to high

ranking Ukrainian officers, the military picture is grim and Russian generals could find success wherever they decide to focus their upcoming offensive. I thought Ukraine was winning. Oh! I thought and I thought Politico is a paper from the left. How dare Politico write an offensive article like this? But why would, Tom, why would Politico do such an irresponsible paper here? Well, you know, this doesn't make any sense unless somebody from the establishment Democrat Party asked him to write something in support of the foreign aid Wait, oh my gosh You know what?

As Russia will certainly gain more land in Ukraine. He said that four days ago go a little lower rap It almost predicts Russia will gain more land Musk says he believed Ukraine should focus on defending its territory instead of attacking Musk's basics initially sent thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine, but relations have since cooled. Yeah, because you don't remember what they said to Musk. Do you forget what they called Musk? Trashing Kim and finally Musk is like, screw you, I'm turning it off. Go a little lower Rob.

About the Neuralink? Yeah. Or Starlink, sorry. It was a tragic waste of life for Ukraine to attack a larger army that had defense in-depth minefields and stronger artillery. When Ukraine lacks armor or air, surprise, superiority, superiority, any fool could have predicted that Musk said this on Twitter. Okay.

Formerly known as no. Yeah. Formerly known as Twitter. Go ahead. X. Okay. Let me known as no. Yeah. Formerly known as Twitter. Go ahead. X. Okay. Let me weigh in on this. I think it's like best move they can possibly make if you're NATO, you know, where they fail. I love the insurance analogy. You know, the thing was coach bear Brian that famously said, uh, offense wins games, but defense wins championships. You better put some defense in place because if Trump is elected, the rhetoric he has used is we're going to solve this in one day. And a lot of people were inclined to believe that that means he's just going to let Russia take Ukraine.

So from an American perspective, America first over here, that's not the biggest deal to us. But if you're talking Poland and Finland and Sweden and Lithuania and Estonia and Latvia and everything going on over there, yeah, they got some worries of Russia, bro. They're very worried. And that the prime minister of Norway, he was the former prime minister of Norway, now he runs NATO, Jan Stoltenberg, he better do this because there's a good chance based on Trump's rhetoric that he's just going to let literally Putin do whatever the hell you want. So there should be some concerns.

I think one of the best things that Trump should have ever done marketing wise, he said build a wall locker up, drain the swamp, all these three word, three word phrases, make NATO pay. Not sure how he missed that one as a brilliant marketer, but he's holding NATO to the fire. He's making them pay and he's holding them accountable. They have been paying more since Trump's been saying that. But if I'm those countries, I would implement this insurance policy and play defense. Tom, I think NATO is trying to protect NATO. NATO wanted to expand into Ukraine. NATO wanted to expand NATO and NATO is trying to protect NATO. You know the question is you know the loss of life

that's gone on on both sides here is pretty ridiculous and the Ukraine you know let's step back from it and look objectively. Ukraine was the breadbasket of Europe. This was the Midwest farmland of Europe, when you take a look at Europe. And that has been lost. Prices are up. Huge loss of life. You know, we need to ceasefire and we need to get this thing back to sanity and back to the borders, you know, where they were. And we're in this intractable, long drawn out proxy war where we keep flooding all the war hawks keep flooding money into Ukraine hoping we're gonna hold back Russia whereas Elon Musk is right all

the propaganda and everything oh Ukraine is winning keep giving them more they're almost gonna win a little more we're almost there a little bit more we're almost there a couple billion more yep it's it's it tragic but this is NATO protecting NATO. NATO's interests are expand NATO. And so of course they want to fund so they can keep trying. Well let's talk about something important like Biden directs NASA to create a standard time for the moon.

Meaning what Biden is worried about is what time zone is the moon going to be on? Like can you imagine how considerate he is that he wants to make sure that if you're catching an Uber or you're trying to watch a game, you don't miss it because you need a time zone, right? And some people are thinking this is a joke. This is not a joke. This is a real story. Here we go.

The White House has directed NASA to establish coordinated lunar time, LTC, by 2026. Aiming for international consensus and synchronization among lunar emissions, Arati Prabhakar emphasized the important stating, imagine if the world wasn't syncing their clocks to the same time. How disruptive that might be and how challenging everything becomes. LTC is vital for data security and communication synchronization among spacecraft, lunar satellites, bases and astronauts. Kevin Goggins, NASA's space communication and navigation chief, highlighted the necessity, stating, you're going to want a heartbeat on the moon, emphasizing the significance

of LTC for precision in lunar operations. While the U.S. leads LTC definitions, achieving accuracy and resilience in the lunar environment will require international agreements amongst spacefaring nations, as stated in the OSTP memo. Little weird. Are you guys talking to aliens? Like, who are you negotiating this with? Tom, how do you process the story?

Well, I process it like some poor American astronaut is going to go back to the moon and then he's going to leave and at the moment he leaves, you're going to send him a radio transmission. You know it's daylight savings time. Did you change the clocks back? He's like, oh crap. And he's going to get back and he's going to get fired because he didn't change the clocks back. I think this is look I Think they have figured out standards if we can get satellites and the Hubble telescope and things to Jupiter and take pictures and get them back I think we've figured out how to get things into space and get them back and establishing

CST lunar standard time is really bad marketing so I think Biden should be working on his marketing better talking about more things that relate to, you know, like the economy and stuff. You should be marketing his great accomplishments in the economy rather than talking about getting clocks on the moon. Adam. Well, I mean, to all the people that think that Biden is just completely a space cadet, boom, there you go.

You got some evidence right there. I actually think he's given a shout out to I have I'm agreeing with you finally Tom interrupting that's not that never Back to square one But I actually think he's giving a shout out to Trump right now because we all know in 2019 Trump took a lot of heat for creating what Vinny? Where my sister works. Space Force.

My sister works there. Right now she's in Los Angeles working for the Space Force and she won't tell me anything. And I'm going to, she's not getting shit for Christmas. I'm like, are there aliens? Veronique O'Shaughnessy. Veronique, do me a favor. Continue not telling Vinny anything. This guy will flap his gums at the quickest

section. Excuse me. I'm a good, I'm very good with systems. Anyway. I had top secret clearance. But I think Biden's just continuing Trump's legacy. We all know that Space Force is part of the Air Force. Yeah. Weren't you part of the US Air Force?

I was in the Air Force, but Space Force, and this is on some different stuff. I'd love to see what Elon Musk has to say here with SpaceX. I'd love to see what Jeff Bezos has to say with Blue Origin. I'd love to see what Jeff Bezos has to say with a blue origin. I love to see what NASA has to say. The final frontier, baby, Joe Biden is going for it. Listen, with all this, all the crap that we have going on on this planet, I can give two shits what's happening on the moon. So I said this today to somebody, you know, somebody told me and I'm looking serious here. They're like, you think we landed on the moon?

I was like, here we go. That conversation went completely the other way. But dude, like, like, what are we doing, bro? Like people are hungry. People are like starving in the streets here. And this is what we're talking about. Listen, give me a break. Tim Dillon called me an absolute stupid person questioning if there's aliens out here.

Meanwhile, he wants to know who the hell landed on the moon. Okay. So for you guys, I can care less, but shout out to my sister. You got any strong feelings on this? You ready to go to the moon? You ready to be an astronaut? No, I'm not. I'm high. No time wanting to know time and moon and what all that stuff's going to be. Maybe if you have your satellites out there, maybe it matters if you have satellites and stuff out there. I don't know. Why, is it gay proof? I don't know. I don't know. Look, the fact that we're having NASA do its part and we have Space Force and they're active, I kind of want them to do what they're doing because we're nothing compared to what's out there in the world and we got to keep studying it to learn more about it. It's good for all of us to kind of explore more. But

time zone, I don't know. Alright, next. Texas University clears the EI office, lays off employees in light of new state law. So clears the EI office. Why would they do that? The University of Texas at Austin terminated dozens of employees in their diversity, equity, inclusion programs to adhere to new Texas law resulting in the dissolution of division of campus and community engagement with 60 related positions eliminated.

University President J. Hartzell underscored the compliance efforts with the new law, SB17, emphasizing it is also important that this continues to be a welcome and supportive community for all while ensuring student-facing roles remain for the semester and offering affected employees opportunities to apply for other positions Tom Well, first of all DEI Dies again, and I hope it just keeps dying. So this is basically remember What is going on here? Well, there is a bill and Texas did a bill and Texas did a bill SB 17 and Texas said as long as those universities are funded by us and which is paid for by the taxpayers we are making laws and

rules of how things work around here damn it and SB 17 says DEI programs out and what was interesting the senator who was responsible for this he said he said listen You know what higher education is supposed to be brace for impact folks a merit based environment Merit who scored more in a game. That's merit there are no Merit what grade did you get on the test merit? You know merit, you know, how good are you so you can get an athletic scholarship or an academic scholarship? Merit. And we are going to address SB17 things that were not merit based, where we were forcing it. So thank you very much, University President

Jay Hartzell, for cooperating and doing what the Texas legislators said with SB 17 and not pushing back on it. There's a lot of university people out there, Pat, even though they work for the people at state universities, they're pushing back on things like this. And hats off to the Texas and Austin cooperating with the state with the people's money and saying DEI goes away we're gonna push more merit-based things back. And guess what? That's a victory for common sense. And it's another nail in the coffin for DEI as it should be.

Yeah. And just to kind of echo what you were saying yesterday when you nailed Isaac Newton's theory, when you said for every action is an equal opposite reaction, this is exactly what's going on here. Like when you talk, I interrupt. Exactly. Exactly. It's just going to happen. This is DEI as we all here. Like when you talk, I interrupt. Exactly. It's just going to happen. This is DEI, as we all know.

It sounds great in theory when you bring it up. Diversity, equity, inclusion, it's great. We've talked about this a hundred times, but not in practice. You know, what do they say? The road to hell is paved in good intentions. For every, what was that? Nothing. Excuse me.

Sounded like D. Are you good, Tom? Yeah. This just comes down to equilibrium. There was such a push for DEI and ESG, and then people were like, yes, yes, let's do it. Sounded like D. Are you good Tom? Yeah. This just comes down to equilibrium. There was such a push for DEI and ESG and then people were like, yes, yes, let's do it. Let's implement it. Let's go on.

Let's get the bureaucracy going. And then people are like, what the hell is going on here? Because DEI just basically means anti-straight white men, which is the majority of the country. I hate to break it to you. So there's a lot of people that push back and now the government universities are implementing this. We saw that University of Florida, shout out to the president, Ben Sasse used to be a senator from Nebraska. He's pretty sassy dude. He canceled that. So this is simply just a reversion

back to meritocracy, which capitalism is the foundation. What were the four words you said, Pat? Bad? Policy type of consequences. That's it. That's it. That's it. And there's nothing working. These people, now they're starting to back off because they know that all that crap is BS.

All right, let's do this last one here. We'll wrap up. Trump leads Biden in six of seven swing states, new polling shows. President Joe Biden trails former President Donald Trump in six out of seven battleground states with Trump leading in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, according to recent polling from Wall Street Journal, Biden's biggest deficit in North Carolina is state Trump narrowly won in 2020, while only 28% of the swing voters believe Biden, age 81, has better physical chance and mental fitness to handle the White House despite both candidates, both candidates, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, seven battlegrounds pollsters believe these voters could swing towards either Trump or Biden with Kennedy drawn more support from potential Trump voters.

Adam. Well, this should be very alarming for the Biden campaign. Because look, when we talked about the election in 2020, we did a lot of national polls, what's going on. There was a lot of don't believe the polls, don't believe the polls. But when you start looking at swing states, you better start getting very cautious for the Biden administration Arizona What is it? He's up. What can we get a better graph here up five?

Georgia up one Michigan up three, North Carolina up six. Holy shit, Nevada one, Pennsylvania So I guess if I'm the Biden administration, I'm looking this and saying, look, a few of the states are within the margin of error. But if you lose a couple of these dominoes, especially the the blue wall, what do they call it, Tom? The blue wall up there, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, boom, you're done. So we we what we don't know is Biden's floor and ceiling. We kind of know that Trump is locked in, in the low 40s. We know that. And then what we don't know is the X factor this time, which is RFK. There hasn't been a viable third party candidate since Ross Perot in 1992. We took what? 19, 20% of the vote. RFK is coming. He's getting out there. He's a very credible candidate.

I don't know if he's going to pull from Trump. I don't know if he's going to pull from Biden. I know that Trump's out there basically saying that he's the most whack job liberal leftist progressive. I don't think so. He's pretty common sense. I think RFK is the person who's going to spoil the election for Trump or for Biden. And if I'm the Biden administration, I'm super skeptical of having Kennedy in the race.

I don't know, Tommy, you can go ahead. So what's very interesting here, Arizona, right now, Trump's, every poll that comes out, these are just facts, words talk, numbers scream. The polls keep moving up with Trump in Arizona along with Carrie Lake is now Extending her lead incrementally. These are very tight races a lot could happen to you now in November, but it's moving Georgia outside of Atlanta people are polling with voter sentiments are up at seven eights and nines on Asking was it unfair with the state of Georgia did with with Trump, you know What Fannie did and it's yes. And so and North Carolina check this out

This right now at 28 points Biden is down 16 points from where he was in the election in North Carolina So North Carolina Arizona and Georgia if those stay with Trump Biden has to win all of Wisconsin Michigan and Pennsylvania because if he loses even one of those and very like the likely one there is It's Pennsylvania, Wisconsin Michigan in that order with Central, Pennsylvania Getting redder and redder and so it's no wonder they're shocked it's no wonder that they're freaking out and what's also interesting is there I saw an analysis that said

that this 15% polling for Kennedy is probably eight to nine percent in in the polling place in other words the polling that the third party gets is usually at this point, but they usually bring home about 60 percent of it, because once they get to go vote, there's a certain percent of those that thought it was a good idea but then say, maybe I don't waste my vote, and it pulls back. But for Kennedy to be polling 12 to 15, that means he's probably gonna take you know 8 to 11 of that which would be in line with Ross Pro and if Trump takes Arizona Georgia North Carolina let's let's not I don't know

but again I'm not a big long time to go long way to go polls you know everything with polls and Hillary and everybody but I love you guys notice this or not I did a little bit of research. I was on X and I did my own digging that the number of voters registering without a photo ID has skyrocketed in three key swing states, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Since the start of 2024, Texas, 1.25 million are registering. No photo ID, no nothing, just their social security number. In Pennsylvania, 580,000, Arizona, 220,000. The HAVVA, Help America Vote Verification System, which coincides with HAVA, Have America

Vote Again Act, allows voters to register with the social security number four digits. That's it. Guys, these are all these people. Remember this open border? Remember that open border? Remember this tactic that I was telling everybody? It doesn't allow illegals to get licenses, but they can get Social Security cards for work authorization permits. And Tom, you talked about this a couple weeks ago about the Democrats. It was something along the playbook that they're using for

Texas because you remember California used to be a red state, correct? Republicans won eight out of nine presidential elections during the mid-90s. Reagan carried it. Exactly, exactly. LA itself, the GOP won six out of ten presidential elections, then something changed and you nailed it. In 86 Reagan cut a deal with the Dems and granted amnesty to millions and millions of illegals and the majority of them residing in California.

And then what happened? He get them the right to vote. And since then, the GOP has not won one single presidential election in California. If Texas, which has 40 electoral votes, goes away, California, the GOP will cease to exist. And that's the chart right there. So everybody that was asking about all these, where are illegals and what are they doing? Guys, they're flying them into these places. And those are the most important places. And Pat, you said this on the town hall, 16 out of 50 states, no ID required to vote. out of 12 out of the

532 electoral votes 11 out of 50 states do not require a photo ID 23 states are the only ones that need an ID. This is a Playbook to the tee hats off to the Democrats. This is their tactic to win. This is it PBD Let me give you some data You're a big data guy and one of the things that I think is we should talk about is now there's a sample size for both. You know, it was easy to say when Trump was first selected, the stock market's going to take well actually did well.

He's going to create a nuclear war. No, there was actually no wars. You know, Biden gets in, he's stable, he's mental, he's a nice guy. Well, we have sort of the proof is in the pudding. So pull up some of these charts. 72% of Americans, if you look on the left, say that Biden is not mentally or physically fit to be the president. This was the narrative about why he was elected in 2020.

Look, I don't care what you say in 2020, a freaking ham sandwich could have beaten Donald Trump. The country was completely over him. They were just the rhetoric, the divisiveness, they were over it. But now that they've seen Biden, there's a lot of people, especially the movable middle, that are like, yeah, I'll take the mean tweets again, bro. But it turns out, but in these swing states, dude, Biden's polling as far as being physically and mentally ready to be the president in the 20. Trump's at least in the forties,

high forties in many states. Secondly, the top issues. If you go to the next one, Rob, Trump's crushing it on every single topic, except for the one topic we talked about the board women stuff. All the women stuff, my bad. Economy is up 20% immigration. He's up 20% mental and physical health. Okay. Up 20%. This is going to come down to women is the abortion stuff. We saw what happened in the midterms. Last point, if you go to the last thing, look at the coalition, you know, they talk about building a big tent party. The politics is about addition, not subtraction. Who can you add? Who can you add? Get the blacks, get the women, get the Hispanics, get the young people, get them all in here.

Dude, he's trending the wrong way in 2020. 91% of blacks were going to vote for Biden did vote for 68% Steven A Smith's world right there. Hispanics, 63% 2020. Now less than half, less than half. And then the young people who was basically the Biden's base, dude, he can't even pull 50%. What are you saying? Are you saying it's a done deal? I'm just saying the numbers are trending the wrong freaking way. So get ready for two things. You wouldn't do a thousand dollar bet today that Biden is gonna win. Hell no. Okay. I think you are onto something you didn't even realize what you're on to. I'm onto it. No, no, no. When you were saying they're sticking with Biden, they're going with Biden. You're seeing these numbers,

they're still sticking with Biden. They're ratting with Biden, because of what I just told you, he's comfortable and he knows Adam, those major swing states are all going to go, he's comfortable and they're backing him, they're not announcing anybody else, it's going to be him, you know why? Because the fix is in, all those illegals that have been coming all over the country, and I'm pretty sure people in the chat are like, you're delusional. I just read one. Guess what? I'm not delusional They're voting without any ID all they need is social security numbers They're too calm with those numbers Adam. It should be abandoned ship panic mode I hear you're not gonna change you and it's legitimate concern, but those are on the individual states

That's not on the National electorate. That's on each of those states that have protections in place no but this is a which I would hope in America that they have those but that's on each but Adam when you see that 16 out of 50 states you don't need a photo on your ID that's the system I got an announcement to make we got a lot of stuff that's going on I got an announcement to make, if you want to have the fellas come in here, we have two Assyrian talented guys that reached out to Vinny on Manek. They sent a video for their interview which was an incredible video with great work that they've done. They built a channel with 700,000 subs, a bunch of videos with 20, 30, 40 million videos, and they're

officially part of our Tainment, very proud to have signed these guys here with us. And I'll kind of give you an idea. They're leading the Future Looks Bright initiatives on making sure it increases the level of optimism of what direction we're going because leaders exist out there that are doing great things. And this is the first video, just to kind of give you a highlight Of what they'll be doing here So Vinny maybe tell the story about what happened when they manoeuvred you right because you got a manoeuvre from them

Yeah, so and again this goes to show how sick this this app is um Instagram It's too hard, but I mean you get way more than me, but it's hundreds and hundreds of messages I can't check them these two freaking awesome Assyrian kids hit me up. They're like Vincent, you know, this is who we are This is what we're doing. Here is a clip of them pitching themselves. We would love for you to see it to Pat I looked at it. I saw it no-brainer I sent it to Pat and now what a month later two months later You guys are sitting here and guess what part of the VT team. Congratulations, bro. I love I love it I love it. Great to have you guys here.

And so Rob, if we can show the first clip, right? We have the first clip here to show. If you have it, go ahead. You're going to get a chance to get an idea what these guys do. Go ahead. I saw this man pushing his wife on a wheelchair and his cart at the same time. And you won't believe what happens next. Do you want to buy this lucky shirt for a dollar?

Give you a $2. You want to know why it's a lucky dollar? I'll give you two dollars. You want to know why it's a lucky shirt? Here, let me give this back to you. Why? Look, I got two hundred dollars here for you. It's been a long years. What's the hardest thing you've gone through?

Cancer. Sorry to hear that. But you're doing amazing. Thank you. What's your name? I'm sorry to hear that. But you're doing amazing. Thank you. What's your name? Roderick. Roderick, I'm meaning. It's been seven years.

I think she will not make it this year. I hope she'll make it. Will the money help with any medical? I hope so. What's your dream? Well, she'll make it this year. It's her birthday. After this.

I don't know if she's gonna make it. What's her name? Marilyn. I actually have some flowers. Do you mind if we give it to her? No, go ahead. Roger, here, you surprise her. This is your flower.

Oh, man. What's what it's about. We give you money. We give you your lucky shirt. We give you your lucky shirt. We go to the doctor, we go to the chemo, everything. That's awesome guys. Wow. Powerful man. Unbelievable. So happy to have you guys.

You're gonna make us cry before lunch. Can you say a couple words before we wrap up to introduce yourself? If you don't mind, you guys gotta get down as well so they can see you. Go by Vinny so he can say a couple words. So first of all, thank you so much for having us, Patrick, and we're so happy to join the Valuetainment team. Yeah, I have the most amazing brother in the world. We started this journey a year ago.

We just picked up a camera and started spreading kindness and not knowing where it's going to go. And then first video just went viral and we just knew from God that this is our calling. So ever since then we've been doing it consistently and today here we are. We're excited to change some lives and undervalue things. I love it man. I love it. I'm so happy for you guys. I'm sorry, Rob, is this another one? Yes, so that video got tens of millions of views worldwide and then Donations and money started coming in and it allowed them these guys to do this second video. So it's the same guy For Roger. Go ahead $30,000 Jesus just a few days ago

I saw this man pushing his wife on a wheelchair and you won't believe what happens next. Do you want to buy this lucky shirt for? a dollar You want to know why it's for a dollar? Give me two dollars. You want to know why it's a lucky shirt? I got two hundred dollars here for you. It's been a long years. He then explained that his wife has had cancer for seven years and when I asked what his dream was, this is what he said. Well, she'll make it this year.

It's her birthday. After. December, December, December. After, after. That's when over 1700 of you donated totally over $30,000. So we went to his house to give him the big news. The love you have for your wife is absolutely amazing. Yeah, and this is your surprise. So, the BT logo, look at that. So you now have over $30,000 That is so awesome man I've been sick for five years. Oh man. Yeah.

For five years. Dude, that's freaking awesome. Wow. Seriously. So awesome. And there's going to be many more of those things being done. Rob, if you can put the link for them to go to the channel, that would be great. We're going to post this video here momentarily on TikTok, Instagram, all over the place,

Twitter. You'll see it excited. And we'll be updating everybody with all the different acts of kindness we do with our channel, the Future Looks Bright channel. Guys, you even have Rob Gargiulo crying over there in the corner over here. By the way, I had to fight myself because I'm a community cry in my head. I'm like, they're probably gonna go to Vegas and they're going to get, I had to make it funny in my head because it was so fricking touching. What a photo video. Awesome. Welcome

to the team. Welcome. Having said that, take care everybody. Saturday podcast. I believe we got Jesse water. Take care. Bye bye. Bye. Bye. Freaking. Thanks for making me cry before lunch.