PBD Podcast - China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick broadcast LIVE from The Boardroom Cigar Lounge grand opening as they cover the FSU school shooting, Katy Perry's allegedly fake B...lue Origin space mission, and Trump's millionaire tax plan.------Ⓜ️ ​​SUBSCRIBE TO THE PBD PODCAST CIRCLES ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/42F3Tjf👕 THE LATEST VT MERCH: https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": https://bit.ly/41rtEV4📰 VTNEWS.AI: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Starting point is 00:00:51 Saving on every single destination. Nice. Hurry, book at AirCanada.com or contact your travel agent. Conditions apply. Air Canada. Nice travels. All right. So we're doing a podcast. Rob, what episode are we on today, Rob? 578. 578 with a beautiful audience at 59.90 Live. Make some noise, everybody. All right.
Starting point is 00:01:41 So we decided to do it today. It's a grand opening at the lounge. Those of you guys that are members, afterwards we're going to go have some cigars, have some conversations. Probably the best part of the night is when there's no cameras, especially in the lounge, you cannot have a phone on. But it's where the conversations get deeper. But I'm excited about that.
Starting point is 00:01:59 However, we haven't done a live, Rob, when's the last time we did a live, Rob? Has it been a few months, Rob? I think it's been four or five months since we did a live. The Rob. When's the last time we did a live Rob has it been a few months Rob? I think it's been four or five months alive. Who was the last election? What was he like? Oh wow was election night We haven't been in here since no we have election night. We were not here. We were at 59 night We were at 1200 the debates here that when we did the debate watch let me tell you let me tell you how I know We haven't done one in a while because we have to put the sprinklers here. We have to read I'm going to tell you how I know we haven't done one in a while because we had to put the sprinklers here, we had to readjust the coating for this to become a cigar lounge, bar, liquor license. We haven't done this for six months.
Starting point is 00:02:31 So it's great to be back. It's great to be here with you guys. All right. Stories. We've got a lot of stories. Let's go through them. Did you guys hear about Trump's tax hikes, what the new tax proposal is? Who's following that story a little closely?
Starting point is 00:02:43 Yes? The first three rows are a little bit concerned about it, folks. These are the rich people that are worried about the types of taxes they're going to pay. We're going to talk about that. Trump said he's sick and tired of Fed Chair Powell. Termination cannot come fast enough. I don't know if that's a threat or he's upset, but we'll talk about that as well. California sues to block Trump's illegal tariffs. There is a name in there. It's a guy named Gavin Newsom who sues, who happens to be one of Roger Stone's favorite people by the way.
Starting point is 00:03:14 I know Roger's a big fan of Gavin Newsom, very good friends. Then we have Xi fights Trump's tariffs with global charm offensive. We've got to talk about that. China lashes out, says peasants in the United States. They called us peasants. Literally, one of their representatives said, peasants in the United States, what a thing to call if you want to negotiate. Let me read it to you one more time.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Tell me how you feel. Make some noise if it makes you feel uplifting, if you want to continue negotiations, or you want to be tough with them. Let me read it to you, thenlifting if you want to continue negotiations or you want to be tough with them. Let me read it to you, then react accordingly. Ready? China lashes out and says, peasants in the United States. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:52 All right. A couple of guys are not happy. Will suffer from trade war. Then Trump's going after Harvard now. It says, Trump's administration asking IRS to revoke Harvard's tax exempt status. Is Harvard's $53 billion endowment big enough to offset federal funding cuts? We'll talk about that. Letitia James has an interesting week. We'll see what she's going through. Possible prosecution over allegations for mortgage fraud. LA spends, watch this number here, a little bit weird. LA spends less on firefighters than homeless, who start a third of fires.
Starting point is 00:04:30 A third of fires in LA start by homeless people, yet they don't want to give the firefighters and take care of them. Kind of weird. Mother of murdered Maryland women, Rachel Moran, joins White House briefing. If you've not seen this, very tough to watch. If you're in Florida, you know what happened here at Florida State. We're going to talk about that as well with the shooting. Very unfortunate, disturbing.
Starting point is 00:04:51 If you watch the video, the story keeps getting deeper and deeper. Two are unfortunately confirmed, I believe dead, and six are hospitalized right now as we're speaking. Originally they just said six are hospitalized, but two of them have been killed and we'll discuss that story. And then next one here is the Florida story that was shared with me on Manek. It's a story that I think it's important for us Floridians to talk about, but I think this also applies to some other states.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Governor Ron DeSantis, you've got to love this about the guy, Governor Ron DeSantis says these highway patrol folks in the state of Florida are not getting paid, but we should give them a 25% raise. 20 to 25% raise. Congress says no, in the state of Florida they're going back and forth. There's a stat you have to know about where Florida ranks and what they pay for their highway patrol. I don't know if you know the ranking or not. It's embarrassing what it is, and maybe we can make some noise and get some people's attention with that. How many of you guys use Zoom?
Starting point is 00:05:47 Anybody use Zoom? Did anybody have any issues with Zoom yesterday? 70,000 people reported an outage. We went through it ourselves. And then we have DHS deported, MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrested with rolls of cash and drugs. And apparently we learn about his nickname, what MS-13 calls him. There's a nickname for it, right? Is it Chile? Chile is his nickname. MS-13 nickname is Chile and apparently he's like a, he's a manager, he's a fun couple
Starting point is 00:06:14 of promotions. He's a family man. He's a family man. He's a Maryland man. He's a Maryland man. Yeah. All right, Vinny. You're about to, it's going to be bad, but you can't mess around with stuff like that. All right, so Elon Musk, apparently, there's a story of the president saying, what the eff is Elon doing here? Trump personally blocked Musk's Pentagon briefing on China. Is there truth in this? Who knows? The tactics Elon Musk used to manage his legion of babies and their mothers.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Are you guys... This was Adam's top story. Adam wants to talk about this. And look, when Adam says he wants to talk about the story when it's 30 minutes late, we say, sure, we'll give you one story. This is the one he got. Did you guys catch that one?
Starting point is 00:06:55 Below the radar? Is what it is. Okay. You can take it. Biden gave an incredible motivational speech this week. I mean, Tony Robbins was upset because he like outshined him, but it was just so impressive
Starting point is 00:07:05 when you see stuff like talent. By the way, that's a once in a lifetime type of talent when somebody can motivate as well as Joe Biden does. Do you remember when he would do his, you know, when he was on the road and he was campaigning, hundreds of thousands of people would show up to listen to Biden speak. I mean, that's unbelievable, right? Changed my life. Just incredible.
Starting point is 00:07:24 You know what I love? Gullible people that think I'm serious right now. There's hundreds of thousands of people showed up. How many of you guys saw the Blue Origin flight? Be honest. Did that not make you think you can do the impossible? He said, you know what? I think I can do something big with my life one day.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Right? Vinny, I saw you were inspired. So Gil King is extremely disappointed with many of us by the backlash of Blue Origin Flight accuses critics of sexism. How dare you not believe they went through this devastating 11 minute flight? Give them some credit Vinny. I mean who cares that men built the damn thing? They were on it. I love New York Post's title says, Astro? Not.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Canada's first election debate opens with sparring over Trump and Canada's Gen Z voters turn to conservative Poliev in race against Carney. I don't know if you heard what Tucker said about Poliev, but we'll definitely play that clip. And then some bad news for people in Hamas. A depleted Hamas is so low on cash right now that it can't pay its fighters. So it's a pretty rough situation there in there. I don't know who writes this.
Starting point is 00:08:34 Let me read the story to you one more time. Wall Street Journal. A depleted Hamas is so low on cash that they can't pay its fighters. What the hell does that mean? We'll talk about it. And then we got a couple other stories here that we'll go through. Having said that, for those of you that are watching, Manect, if you haven't yet joined Manect Circle, everything we talk about here on the back end, behind the scenes, the notes,
Starting point is 00:08:57 what we're talking about right now, the notes that I have is in Manect Circle, unlimited messaging, unlimited videos. Behind the scenes right now when we're back there, we posted a video of what was going on, you kind of have to see it to be a part of it. If you're not yet part of PBD Podcast Manek Circle, download the app, join it. Throughout the day, everybody is talking with each other, and it's a bunch of PBD podcasters that are talking to each other.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Go download the app. A lot of exciting news is coming up with Manek here soon, but if you watch the PBD podcast, download the app and join the PBD podcast circle. Okay. What story do we want to start off with? If we were to pick a story, which one do we want to go with? Since we've got business people here, can we talk taxes? Is that okay with you?
Starting point is 00:09:42 Let's talk some taxes. Okay. So millionaire tax hike gains steam as Trump signals openness. What does this really mean? Let's go through it. Republicans led by President Trump are exploring a new 40% tax bracket for individuals earning a million dollars or more annually. With a White House official stating Trump is open to the idea but prefers a threshold far greater than a million dollars or more annually. With a White House official stating Trump is open to the idea but prefers a threshold far greater than a million dollars, Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender said, �We are investigating and having discussions with Congress about a variety of potential offsets,� while Treasury Secretary Scott Besson noted, �Everything is on the table
Starting point is 00:10:22 to manage the taxable costs. The proposed millionaire tax rate aims to offset the cost of expanding the state and local tax deductions, potentially raising the cap from $10,000 to $25,000, benefiting high earners in states like New York and Jersey. Besson reported very good progress on tax talks, predicting performance for the 2017 tax cuts and jobs by 4th of July. Tom, what are your thoughts on this story? Tell us.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Well, I think, like we've been talking about tariffs, and I said, I believe tariffs were tactics, not long-term taxes. Well, it doesn't say Donald has an idea. It says that Donald Trump, 47, says, I'm open to discussions. I'm open to the idea. Because what he's going to do, they got to pay for something. The SALT deduction, it's where people that are in California and New York
Starting point is 00:11:11 get to deduct their state taxes off their federal. And people have often said, well, you choose to live in New York and California. You got to pay that because you get a discount on that. You know, people in Florida, you know, that's not fair. And so what they're talking about doing, okay, you're everybody's upset, we're going to raise it from 10,000, which they lowered it to, to you could deduct up to 25,000 of your California- Who does that benefit?
Starting point is 00:11:37 Yeah, the benefits, New York and California. But now then the Trump people will say, well, Mr. President, if you give that back, we need tax coming in, because we're trying to balance the federal budget ultimately. And so they're saying, well, what if we do a 40% bracket way up? It's already right now, but 37%, 39%, 39.5%, let's move it to 40% so that we can get some back. So they're trying to balance it.
Starting point is 00:12:02 I think this is a head fake, and I think he's trying to get Congress. I think this is a head fake, and I think he's trying to get Congress to come to the table and talk by saying, well, I'm open to talk about taxes coming up. That's like saying free beer in a fraternity house to Democrats, right? They're all gonna run into that meeting,
Starting point is 00:12:16 say, oh, my goodness, he's willing to do this. And I think he's trying to open it up with Scott Besant, Secretary Besant, to start the dialogue and start the conversation. Adam. So Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Proposing the top line being 40%. Like, if you told me that AOC was proposing this,
Starting point is 00:12:33 I'd be like, yeah, obviously tax the rich, tax the bitch. But now Trump is proposing taxing the rich even more. Remember the argument we had in conversation with Sam Seder, he wants a tax? 90%? That's not the way this works, Sam Cedar. So just backing up a second, obviously everybody knows I'm the biggest MAGA person here, like it's without a doubt, like I'm the biggest Trump guy here. We all know that, excuse me.
Starting point is 00:12:56 Is anybody richer? Is anybody richer since Trump took office? I'm not. We all, I mean, I'm heavily invested in the market. I'm heavily invested in crypto, maybe Tomo, because he's selling who knows what. But I think the optics of Trump taxing millionaires and even billionaires is not a good look for him. Who's lost the most money in the last literally 30 days?
Starting point is 00:13:20 I would say the biggest, wealthiest people in America. Like, the biggest, wealthiest people in America. The billionaires are not happy about this. I wonder what type of conversations Elon, the richest man in the world, doing the whole Doge thing, impregnating half the country, I'm wondering what he's doing behind closed doors when he literally lost $50 billion in the last month. So Trump...
Starting point is 00:13:43 But what are you saying? You went on this rant? What's my point? $50 billion in the last month. So, Trump. What are you saying? Like you went on this rant? What's my point? Are you gonna make a point to us? Listen, Pat, it wouldn't be the Peabody podcast if I had a point. However, it's great to see all these beautiful people.
Starting point is 00:14:00 That was pretty good. That's true. I don't know why he would want to raise taxes. So did you hear what Tom said? Did you hear what Tom said? Yeah, but I kind of fell asleep. But let me tell you what Tom said. I love you Tom, I'm kidding.
Starting point is 00:14:14 Knock it off you little. My goal is to get Tom fired up. Here's what Tom said. How many guys think it's a head fake? How many think he's doing this to get the other side to come and talk to him? How many guys think he would actually entertain taking the top to 40% plus? Who thinks he would do it? Okay, so a couple things that we have to be thinking about that's very different.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Remember the quote that says what? I would like it to be a lot higher. He says threshold far greater than a million. Okay, what if it's two million? What if it's four million? So let's just say he makes it two million, you're making 10 million, on that eight million you make between two and eight, you pay 40%, 3.2 million goes to the government, you keep 4.8 on that additional eight million, should the government take 40% of that additional eight million, I don't know about that.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Do I trust the government to do more with that money than us, I don't know. Now, he's doing this for a couple different things. How many guys here run a business? Who runs a business here? Raise your hand if you run a business. What's corporate tax rates right now? What are we paying right now?
Starting point is 00:15:18 What's that? Zero for you? I want your accountant. What business, yeah, who's your accountant? That's a very small business you run. No? Yeah, who's your accountant? Zero. That's a very small business you run. No, no, it's called you run a small business. But watch this here.
Starting point is 00:15:29 So right now they want to lower the corporate tax rate from 21 points to 15 points, which allows you to have that additional 6% to do what? If you do 50 million a year, say you have $20 million in profit, that's 6% additional. I can hire a bunch of other people. That's a good thing that they're doing. And they're doing this in a way to use some of that as tax incentive because the one big promise that he made was what? No taxes on what?
Starting point is 00:15:54 Who remembers that big campaign? No taxes on tips. How many guys think he needs to keep that promise? Who thinks he needs to keep that promise? Who thinks he will keep that promise? I think he will keep that promise. I think, Tom, I think a part of me thinks, you know, you're in the right where he's trying to get the other side to come and want to meet with them, but what ends up happening there, I don't
Starting point is 00:16:12 know. I do know if they do touch increasing tax rates on business owners, they're not going to have a lot of happy people there if that were to take place. Vinny, were you going to say something? No, no, no. I'll say something after Tom says it. Yeah, because... Way in on the... As a CPA, financial advisor, come on. I was just curious. I get the tactic part, tactic with tariffs, and we talked...
Starting point is 00:16:32 Who do we talk to, Eric Molling, about how he didn't trust Lutnick and who's the new... The other guy is Michael Faulkner. Like, who's in his ear? Like, is this all Trump by himself or is he... The people that are next to him, the Lutnick and the Faulkner saying, these are the tactics that you should do or is this all Trump by himself or is the people that are next to him, the Lutnik and the Faulkner saying these are the tactics that you should do or is this all Trump's, you know... I am convinced this is Trump's model. Trump sits in a room and he says something like this. He says, guys, let's just say we're on the guerrilla state office and we're in New York.
Starting point is 00:16:59 He'll say, I'm thinking about moving half of you guys to Miami to take over the Miami market. And he lets, what's that noise by the way, I'm like speaking going on. He lets, he says, hey, I'm going to test you guys out to go to the Miami market. And then he sits in the office and watches everybody react in a way. And they say, dude, I'm not going to Miami market. By the afternoon, six hours later, three people come in, the ones that have guts, and they say, I think that's a terrible idea, we're about to lose half the company.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Okay, then we're not doing it. Or guess what, hey, you know what? Shit, as crazy an idea was, five people are already booking their flights. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I wasn't serious. So I think he is kind of doing this and watches the market, what they say on X, what they say with different stories, and then he'll come back and say, great story or not a great story, or some of the people that he wants to call them, call him to start negotiating. I don't know if that strategy is working with China right now, but I think it may work with
Starting point is 00:17:55 this when it comes out to taxes. Because what did Reagan say? To Democrats, every day is April 15th. To Republicans, every day is what? Fourth of July. Right? One is freedom, one is taxes. So this may kind of get the Democrats who want to come and talk to them. And this has to be done by the Fourth of July, otherwise the original Trump tax cuts expire.
Starting point is 00:18:16 That's right. So let me give you some love letter here from China, Tom, and I want to get your reaction on this one here. China lashes out, says peasants in the United States will suffer from the trade war. Rob, I think you got a clip on this. If you want to prepare this here, is this the one? Go ahead, Rob, play this clip. The only thing he can change is his speed of death in Hong Kong He will eventually reflect on himself Let the American old people
Starting point is 00:18:53 go to the Chinese people for 5,000 years and mourn for them I've been eating Chinese food for six months. That's my boy. He called me a peasant. I'm not going to take a chopstick. Can you play the last five seconds one more time? Just play the last five seconds if you can. Watch this. Go ahead. That's what I'm...
Starting point is 00:19:16 Bro, that's fighting words. Let me read this to you. Let me read this to you. Okay. So here we go. That's what I'm, bro, that's fighting words. Let me read this to you. Let me read this to you. Okay, so here we go.
Starting point is 00:19:30 Jia Baolong, great name, director of Chinese Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, criticized U.S. tariffs as extremely shameless, stating, let those peasants in the United States wail in front of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, which is what we just watched, in response to JD Vance's claim that the U.S. borrows from Chinese peasants to buy their goods. Xi addressed the national security education. They called the U.S. the biggest sinister manipulator undermining human rights, freedom, the rule of law, prosperity and stability in Hong Kong,
Starting point is 00:20:05 and a bully. He warned, the US isn't after our tariffs, but our very survival. The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats, and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China. Alleging US suppression of Hong Kong will eventually backfire on itself. Chinese Foreign Minister spokesperson Lin Jian previously criticized Vance saying, to hear words that lack knowledge and respect like those uttered by vice president is both surprising and kind of laminable.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Tom, your thoughts on this. Well, first of all, here's what China is doing. Our VP spoke, so Xi is never going to talk to our VP. Xi sends this guy out. Xi Balong, director of China's Hong Kong and Macau affairs office. What? It's like the director of China's Hong Kong and Macau
Starting point is 00:20:57 affairs office, hardly the vice president of China. So they're sending out a lower level guy to go make a comment, because China is very symbolic. They're very symbolic with what they say. And so they're like, okay, you're a number two guy who wants to talk a little trash, then we're gonna talk a little trash. Behind the scenes, they have currency problems.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Behind the scenes, they're still tearing down apartment buildings that they overbuilt. Behind the scenes, they are still about to have to deal with changing the demand from their largest customer in the known galaxy, us. And so it doesn't mean that this is easy, and it doesn't mean that they're not a force to be reckoned with, but this guy, he's just out talking trash because JD Vance said peasants, so this guy's going to say peasants.
Starting point is 00:21:40 But let me tell you what's going on here, which is the one part that we have to be careful with because they know what they have that we're having a hard time with. Remember when we were talking yesterday, the fact that Trump wanted Greenland, why? Because the beach is beautiful? Because we're all going to be going tanning there? Or because they have minerals? Trump wanted who else? Ukraine to come to the table and Putin kind of hurt the speed because Putin's not working
Starting point is 00:22:04 that quickly on the negotiation and why does he why did he want a negotiation deal with Ukraine because they offer what minerals that we need two of them were the ones to get the minerals right so watch this here Trump's tariffs gamble putting put to test as China's chokes off critical mineral supplies chokes off so we need it Chokes off. So we need it. Nope, you're not going to get it. Rob, is that the clip? Okay, play this clip Rob. This is very interesting to see what's going on. Because the longer it takes, guys, if you're going to talk over there on the left, if you can, you guys can go to the cigar lounge, we can hear you. If China uses this as a leverage, Putin, Russia, Ukraine,
Starting point is 00:22:49 Greenland doesn't happen, a lot of business owners are going to be calling Trump saying, hey, what are we going to do about this? Rob, go on and play the clip. In Vietnam, they brought the pomp and circumstance to welcome Xi Jinping. And two communist leaders walked the red carpet so Beijing could portray itself as a benevolent source of regional stability. CHINA, Chinese President, China will insist on joining hands rather than throwing punches, tearing down walls instead of building barriers, connecting instead of decoupling. Xi's Southeast Asia tour was preplanned, but he's using it to confront the U.S. for what Beijing calls an irresponsible trade war and recent sanctions on Hong Kong,
Starting point is 00:23:33 China's top official there said today. The repeated attempts of the U.S. to contain and suppress China's exports of rare minerals, critical for weapons, electric vehicles, and electronics in retaliation to Trump's 145% tariffs. So let me give you an idea of what we're going through. We have SLS next week at Mar-a-Lago. We have an event that's coming up next week at Mar-a-Lago. We purchase a million dollars worth of merch that's coming in, and we have it coming in from all over the place, but one of the shipments coming from there.
Starting point is 00:24:02 It's at the port, it's waiting there saying, hey, if you want it, you're going to have to pay another $250,000 in tariffs. Not me, this is the fee. So a lot of people are currently experiencing this small little pain. How many guys are experiencing it yourself in your business? Can you raise your hand if you've had anything happen with tariffs in the last two weeks? Raise your hand if you can. Okay, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Watch this. It says, in rare minerals for weapons, electric vehicles, electronics and retaliation to Trump's 145% tariffs impacting U.S. manufacturing and deflant supply chains, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hesset said rare earths are part of lots of the economy. The rare earth limits are being studied very carefully and they're concerning and we're thinking about all the options right now. China producing 60% and processing 90% of global critical minerals impose export controls on seven rare earth minerals stopping the magnet shipments on April 4th. The ban spares
Starting point is 00:25:03 finished products potentially undermining Trump's tariffs while U.S. industries face production delays. Josh Ballard, CEO of Rare Earth, predicted embedding it affects a lot of the auto manufacturers fairly quickly. Anybody who's doing their assembly manufacturing here, there will be a knockdown effect. Tom, thoughts on this? Remember, I think we all remember, what did Zelensky and Trump supposedly come to a verbal agreement before the famous fight in the Oval Office? It was a ceasefire and minerals deal with Ukraine. And then they came in there, and, you know, Zelensky made a couple snide comments,
Starting point is 00:25:38 back with the media, and then he and Vance went at it. Remember that? So Trump... So this is one of the things where you have to remember, our president, he was a great leader, back with the media, and then he and Vance went at it. Remember that? So Trump... So this is one of the things where you have to remember, our president is showing leadership here. He was trying to get out in front of this. He knew China's gonna play this card.
Starting point is 00:25:54 And he's trying to get out in front of it and saying, hey, we're giving all this money to Ukraine. They've got rare earth minerals. You know, it's like they say, PayPal now accepts Bitcoin. United States now accepts rare earth minerals. You know, pay's like they say, PayPal now accepts Bitcoin. United States now accepts rare earth minerals. You know, pay us in that. Right? Pay us back in that. And then Greenland, he's talking about,
Starting point is 00:26:11 look, you're not thrilled with the Dutch, perfectly thrilled with the Dutch. And China's been trying to get what? Mineral drilling rights in Greenland. And by the way, Greenland only has 54,000 people, which is basically a sold-out, you know, baseball game at larger stadiums. That's it.
Starting point is 00:26:28 And so Trump has been trying to get out in front of these things, because he knows the chess game he's gonna play. And I think people need to, hey, it's in a pinch right now, and he's still gotta negotiate it, but this is playing out in front of our very eyes. Finding out that he was right and he was in front.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Does this hurt Ilan ask you, does this hurt Ilan though? Does this hurt Ilan? Does this? I think so. Okay, so how long can he go with this pain? What do you think? Because to me, we don't know the answer. It's not like you're talking to the guy every day, can you text him and find out how long he can go? What I'm saying is, purely speculate. How long can he go? Can he go a month?
Starting point is 00:27:12 Can he go two months? Can he go three months? Can he go six months? There is a time. How long can he go? Because he's also got a great relationship with China. Elon does a lot of business with those guys on the other end. So if this is affecting, so he's kind of in the middle where I got my business dealings
Starting point is 00:27:30 I'm doing and we need these minerals, where do we go get them from? Ukraine's not moving fast enough, they flipped. There are so many moving... The toughest thing about negotiation is when you're in the middle of a deal and like we were going through this, at the tail end of selling our business there was handful of things moving at the same time and it was not fun. And at any point the deal was about to fall through. At any point.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Any point for the last, would you say eight weeks? The level of anxiety and angst. When by the way, when the money hit the account and we closed, we were in a room and when the announcement was made, you remember Merall's reaction? You remember your reaction? You remember the entire room, what it was like?
Starting point is 00:28:19 It was as if weight was lifted. Now that's a small little business compared to a government as big as we are. They have 20 things going on right now that one doesn't work out, affects this one, Panama, Canal, China, CK, Hutchinson, minerals, deals, we need these chips, Nvidia prices are going up. So he's kind of in the middle trying to negotiate all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:28:43 I don't know. I don't know how this is going to end up. I do know if you voted for this and we're pushing it and we're challenging them, do I think China is going to be willing to go through more pain than us? Do I think China can be a bigger asshole and care about their people? Like who do you think cares more about voters, Americans or Chinese? Not even close. Do they even vote in China? What politician cares more about voters? I'm saying do they vote in China? That's the joke. The joke part is what? Chinese
Starting point is 00:29:13 people look at their voters as what? Listen, you have nothing to say, relax. This is China. You're going to do whatever we tell you to do. In US, you've got midterms around the corner. So there's a lot of stuff that's going on here. Adam, your thoughts. I'm actually in favor of what Trump is doing with China. I like the concept, I like the idea, I like the mission, I don't like the game plan. He could have gone about this so much clearer and better
Starting point is 00:29:41 and prepared everybody. So I'll make an analogy. Born and raised in Miami. You've experienced hurricane season now for a few years now. A hurricane just doesn't pop up in Miami. You're like, it's hurricane season, brace for impact. It's gonna happen in the next six months.
Starting point is 00:29:57 And then when a hurricane happens, you have like a week or two to prepare off the coast of Africa. You're like, all right, cool. We got this. Get the shutters, get the wife, get the kids, get everything out of there. Trump showed up like a fricking tornado.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Boom, tariffs. Everyone's like, what the fuck is going on here? And nobody, business owners, had no time to react. 30 days, so markets can move pretty quickly to respond. But businesses are going to take 60, 90, 120 days to even realize what the hell is going on here. So in my opinion, I voted for Trump, I support him taking on what he's doing with China.
Starting point is 00:30:32 The concept is a little reckless in my opinion. It's almost like, if I could give one more analogy, we had frickin' the Democrats drunk at the wheel, DUI, drunk on power and big spending. They're making our boys, girls, they're chopping things off. Everyone's, drunk on power and big spending. They're making our boys, girls, they're chopping things off. Everyone's gay, everyone's going big spending. We're like, dude, we need a freaking safe driver.
Starting point is 00:30:55 What's it called when you are? DD, designated driver. Designated driver, clearly I need one with my Ubers. Designated driver's Trumps like, listen, I got this. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't even have tattoos. He shows up, he puts on Dale Earnhardt hat, he's flicking off everybody, he's just speeding down the race, reckless driving.
Starting point is 00:31:12 You're like, bro, you were just supposed to be chill. He's just going a little too fast right now. Pump the brakes. Let's sing this, take it back to neutral. No, I say he puts it in fifth gear, he keeps doing exactly what the hell he's doing. This is what we voted for. He's the only, he's idea. He's three months in and everybody's acting on the left
Starting point is 00:31:30 Like it's the end of the world member member World War three, North Korea Russia. It's all BS I said this everybody needs to calm the hell down. Let's not forget who China is guys. They are our enemy I hate hearing the word adversary That's the same watered down for the enemy. The amount of crap that they do to us as a nation. And let's not forget, COVID, you still, we still to this day, even the CIA Radcliffe has to say, it's most likely it came from the, that's how powerful these people are, that we still can't say the words. It came from China, it came from Wuhan, at a lab that we started with freaking Fauci who got a preemptive pardon.
Starting point is 00:32:08 I think that stayed the course, they are our enemy, and you mentioned the chess game, who's gonna break first, who's gonna get the checkmate? I think he has to say, yes, we're gonna suffer, but at the end of the day, they are our enemy. You hear that freaking, I don't know what the hell his name was, talking shit and calling us peasants. Regardless of the situation, that's what they think of us.
Starting point is 00:32:27 It's gonna be a fight, and me as an American, I don't have a company where I'm losing that money and all that stuff. But what other tactic has worked throughout the years? Nothing. And they're gonna win. Their GDP's gonna pass us in 10 years. Let me tell you, I don't think anybody is disagreeing with that idea. Everybody wants to see this happen.
Starting point is 00:32:46 But there's also an element of, are these executives, his executives that he's known for 10 years, is his executive team people that he's worked with for 10 years? No. These are very- How long has he had- Months? Weeks? Not even years?
Starting point is 00:33:03 So guess what happens when you have that? So if you run with a group of people that you've been running? Years? So guess what happens when you have that? So if you run with a group of people that you've been running for ten years, guess what you know? No one's talking to each other, it's just signals. You got it? Boom, good, good, good. So part of it is also here where, you know, I don't know, I trust what the vision is,
Starting point is 00:33:21 but on the back end, who's dropping the ball on the Ukraine negotiation deal? Who's dropping the ball on the Panama stuff? This is a very good plan if it's executed, but the leadership team's only been working together for two or three months. You can say all you want. You put a brand spanking new company together with 10 C-suite executives from 10 different companies, guys, make it work. It takes a minute. So I'm a little bit watching to see who I can rely on because this is what I'm thinking
Starting point is 00:33:50 if I'm the president. I'm sitting there, I'm sizing everybody up, I'm like, okay, is that guy really going to get the job done that I need to get done right now or is he trying to run for office for 2028? Is that guy really going to do whatever we need right now to get the job done or is he trying to fight for another job? Is that guy really doing the sort of, need right now to get the job done or is he trying to fight for another job? Is that guy really doing it? That's what I'm thinking.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Why? I haven't worked with you for a long time. I don't need to ask that about Tom. Tom and I have been in business together for, we've known each other for almost 20 years, we've been in business together for a while. But I don't know this camp. So I don't know if this camp is executing this chaotic plan accordingly at the level of urgency you need. I don't know if this camp is executing this chaotic plan accordingly at the level of urgency you need.
Starting point is 00:34:27 I don't know. I don't know about that. You make a good point because technically he's in again. This is a startup. If you think about it, everybody's brand new. It's a very new executive team. It's a very new executive team and you don't know everyone's motives. You don't.
Starting point is 00:34:41 You don't yet know everyone's motives. This is a very heavy duty negotiation going on all at the same time. Some of it needs to close. Like when you have 20 pending deals that are open, you come to your executives and you're like, hey, you had four of them. When are you closing this thing? You said this is going to get done. Why is this taking three weeks longer? Your deadline was March 1st. What the hell are we doing? Let's go. Hey, you have four projects. All four have been completed. Guys, why is this guy getting everything done? You're not done yet. You slowing your things down is hurting the other big things that we're working on. I can't go do this
Starting point is 00:35:16 if you haven't finished up this project. What the hell are we waiting for? Do we need to find somebody else to do this over you? I think that's maybe what's going on because if it's not matching the publicly you have to show what? That you're united. And think about it, a lot of the guys that you have on your team are also business owners. So guess what business owners are looking at? Some of the policies that we're coming up with is doing what? It's hurting the business.
Starting point is 00:35:41 So they're kind of like, are they policies first or their business first? Are they America first? Are they their business, their own network? This is very, very complex. We can sit here and talk about a podcast and a YouTube and, hey, let me tell you, let me tell you, they're running the biggest corporation in the world with 10 brand new executives who have never worked together before. Go ahead, run this biggest corporation.
Starting point is 00:36:05 It's challenging. So I don't know what's going to be happening, but a part of me is kind of anticipating some deals closing up. Close the loop on a couple of these deals. We're being told, I'm pretty optimistic the BlackRock deal is going to get done with Panama Canal. Stop saying that. Close the damn deal.
Starting point is 00:36:23 I'm pretty sure the Ukraine-Putin thing is going to get done. Freaking fly over to Russia already. Let's get. Close the damn deal. I'm putting a deal with Ukraine, Putin, things are going to get done. Freaking fly over to Russia already. Let's get some of this stuff done. That's my concern. Adam, you have one thing to say. Yeah, yeah. I fully agree. As someone that runs a business and understands sales, you have 20 deals in the pipeline.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Oh, yeah, that deal folded. That didn't come through. Oh man, what happened with that client? Boom, boom, boom. Next thing you know, 20 deals. You have 10 deals. 10 didn't close. You're man what happened with that client? Boom boom boom next thing you know 20 deals you have 10 deals 10 didn't close you're like we better close these right here. What's going on with Iran with the nuclear missile deal? What's going on? I'm going to end the war in Russia before I even get it's still going on. Putin's
Starting point is 00:36:54 still bombing Ukrainians. Gaza we're going to get all the hostages back. Nah they didn't really do that. Inflation where are we at with that? So like I fully understand where Vinny's at. This is what we voted for. I want this. I love that about Vinny. But also we need to have like a measured sort of sense of understanding. Like we can't just be in the back seat with a reckless driver and be like, this is the driver, bro. It's like, well, tell them to fucking pull over. And like, let's buckle up from seat belts for a second, guys. So I love Vinny. I love like that's what America is.
Starting point is 00:37:23 Like John Wayne over here, like a cowboy. But like, you know, that horse running. My question is, is three months to to panic right now at three months. And I get what you asked. You asked a very good question. Who has more time? Clearly China. Trump, we have got 16 months until the next midterm. What's the thing they said in Afghanistan when we were there for 20 years? It's like, you guys have all the watches we have all the time. China don't give a shit. They'll starve their people. They'll put people in camps.
Starting point is 00:37:48 They are starving their people. Yeah. You know, so we unfortunately have what's called empathy and care and approval ratings. And Trump's going to have to answer to somebody. And my biggest fear if this doesn't work, you're going to start to see his team of rivals be like, I told Trump not to do this, you're fired. It could get ugly if he doesn't start getting some Ws. Yeah, that's why I think we need to know who's not doing the work. Like if one of the ten executives or two of them are kind of not moving urgently, that story needs to leak to the public.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Like we need to know what's going on because if you don't, everybody's going to be blaming him. What's going on right now? Who's not executing some of these deals? Again, I don't know the full details of what's going on because if you don't, everybody's going to be blaming him. What's going on right now? Who's not executing some of these deals? Again, I don't know the full details of what's going on here. I just think some of them need to close the loop or you have more leverage to negotiate. And a lot of these things are tied to one another. Anyways, we'll see.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Okay, so this leads to Trump wanting some good news. And what's the good news he wants? Donald Trump says Fed chair Jay Powell's termination can't come fast enough. Rob, if you got this clip, played a clip about Jay Powell, and he's been wanting this for a while, this is President Trump. Go for it. Mr. President, on Jerome Powell, you said that the termination of Jerome Powell cannot come fast enough.
Starting point is 00:39:02 He says he won't leave even if you ask him to. Oh, he'll leave. If I ask him to. Oh, he'll leave. If I ask him to, he'll be out of there. I don't think he's doing the job. He's too late, always too late, a little slow, and I'm not happy with him. I let him know it, and if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me. Yeah, go ahead. Tom.
Starting point is 00:39:30 Well, as much as I love the guy that I've supported, yeah, if you want him out of there, how many presidents have wanted the Fed chair out? All of them. All of them at one moment have been like, what do I do with this guy? You know, I can't executive order the guy? No, you can't. And so, and then J-PAL calmly says, well, our independence is a matter of law. And I'm not going anywhere. That's it. And that's the truth about it. And so what Trump wants him to do is to cut interest rates. But inflation has not popped back up. It's like a tenth of a percent, two tenths of a percent.
Starting point is 00:40:10 It hasn't gone crazy. Unemployment hasn't gone crazy. We haven't had 100,000 people laid off from GM. So Jay Powell says, look, I move interest rates to help businesses when macro things, when numbers move, not moods. And you've got an angry stock market because it doesn't like sentiment.
Starting point is 00:40:28 It doesn't like what it thinks it's feeling from tariffs. But we don't have numbers yet. And so I'm not going to move. And I'm sitting here, and I see maybe one rate cut, two rate cuts this year. That's all I see. And Trump desperately wants Jay Powell to cut interest rates at the upcoming May.
Starting point is 00:40:48 He wants a quarter-point cut at the upcoming May. Why? Because it loosens up credit for companies to invest and to do things. That's what every president wants, is lower interest rates for housing stimulation and for loans for businesses. And Powell is like, he's not a cantankerous guy. He's a hard guy to hate, you know, right?
Starting point is 00:41:09 He's like your kind grandfather, Jay Powell, right? You can't hate the guy. He doesn't come out and say things that are bombastic. But what Trump's saying here, Trump could say, I want that guy out and I want to fire him tomorrow. It's not gonna happen. The Fed guy has a term. And there's nothing horrible that's happened. Like, he didn't screw something up
Starting point is 00:41:30 to where you get people in the Federal Reserve to go, Jay, it's been a tough summer, and those were bad decisions. And you kind of wrecked the bond market, and you did all these things. You're gone. That's not happening. And so unfortunately, I want a I want a quarter-point cut. I think in the face of everything with tariffs,
Starting point is 00:41:47 quarter-point cut would help everything. But Powell's not gonna move until he's got unemployment and inflation chasing. I think he will get rid of Jerome Powell in May of 2026, because that's when Powell's term ends. And that'll be ten years. So he's been beefing... May of 2026, because that's when Powell's term ends. And that'll be 10 years.
Starting point is 00:42:06 So he's been beefing Trump, has been beefing with Jerome Powell since the day he appointed him. Like, Trump's the guy that brought him in. He's like, why is this guy here? It's like, you gave him the job, President Trump. How long has he been talking trash about Powell? And Jerome Powell is almost like the flip side of the coin to Trump he's very measured he's very soft-spoken very chilled does anybody even know what Jerome Powell's voice sounds like I
Starting point is 00:42:31 don't do you know maybe a little bit I think that's actually a good thing they're beefing like Biggie and Tupac Trump's just like you're shitty you suck whatever he's like it's not beginning to park it's like, keep the rates the same. No, it's not Biggie and Tupac. It's like Tupac and Sade. He's not saying nothing. He's just saying, Cherish the day. What's your favorite Sade song? Cherish the day? It would probably be... What was that movie with Robert Redford with Demi Moore? What is that? Oh, indecent proposal. So I would say ordinary love, but that's a technical question. This is definitely no ordinary love right here.
Starting point is 00:43:04 Let me, no, no, but what I'm saying to you is, they have, but that's a technical question. This is definitely no ordinary love right here. No, no, what I'm saying to you is, this guy's not fighting back. He's just saying this is what's the right thing to do. He's a logical guy. Can I ask you? I've been very complimentary of Jerome Powell. I think we've had a soft landing, inflation's at what, 2.5%, rates, he's made some cuts. I actually think he's doing a damn good job, regardless of what Trump says. What would you say about Powell's job? So let me explain to you how this works. Here's made some cuts. I actually think he's doing a damn good job, regardless of what Trump says. What would you say about how his job's doing?
Starting point is 00:43:26 Here's how it works. So every year for the last god knows how many years we've had annual conventions and we do that MGM Grand Arena. Sick event. Great event, 10,000 energies, hype, phenomenal, all this stuff, right? And the moment the event ends, I start already talking to my executives about what is the new announcement we'll be making for next year, Vegas, 12 months later. And all I'm collecting is good news. That's all I'm collecting. I need good news on January 1st when it's our kickoff. I need good news on February 1st when it's our awards ceremony that we do on the Zoom.
Starting point is 00:44:10 I need good news when we're in Dallas. Right now, Train the Trainers is in Dallas. And I need the best news when I'm in Las Vegas in front of everybody to announce what we're doing. When it gets closer to May, June, July and I don't have any big great news, I'm not a happy guy. I've been telling my guys, we need some good news. What's the news?
Starting point is 00:44:30 Comp, which is like taxes. Contest trip, recognition. You know, new technology, which is speed, efficiency. But I have to get some kind of news for them. Trump right now is trying to get some good news to tell. We need some positive distraction. It's the key word. Period. Trump needs a positive distraction right now to get everybody to say, but did you see the tax cuts? But did you see the interest rates lowered? But did you see this? But did you see the new jobs report? He needs
Starting point is 00:44:58 that. With everything that's going on right now, he's got one thing. He needs some good, positive press. And this guy's not helping thing. He needs some good, positive press. And this guy's not helping. If he gets some good, positive press here, what can he say as a guy that's in real estate? Did you guys notice right now the mortgage rate is 5.85%? Wow, it's 5% for the first time. News, marketing everywhere. So there's a little bit of PR that we need right now with positive news with all this stuff that's going on. Yeah, I mean he still has 90% plus approval in the Republican Party in the base. You're good there, he's good. Democrats are always gonna hate Trump, they have TDS, we understand what's going
Starting point is 00:45:31 on there. The independents in the last 30 days have gone from 50% approval down to like 30. So he's losing independence day by day by day by day. Now Trump may not care because he's not running for re-election, but JD Vance or whoever's next in line might be like, let's get some W's over here. I fully agree. He needs to put some points on the board and win a couple games. Yeah, I think he's just looking for some good news. Okay. All right, let's go into this next story here with the state of Florida. So Rob, if you have this clip, the clip specific about law enforcement positions in Florida, let me first read this and then if you can put this up, that'd be great.
Starting point is 00:46:11 So check this out. How many of you here did not live in Florida five years ago but you moved here the last five years? Can you raise your hand? Wow. Vinnie, raise your hand. Look at this real quick. Watch this.
Starting point is 00:46:24 I ask how many people don't live in Florida. Look at this. Where did you move here from? Scream it on three. One, two, three. By the way, I want the audience that's watching this, whatever part of the world you're in. We're in Florida and when I say scream out your name, can you put the camera on them, Deli?
Starting point is 00:46:41 Can we get the camera on them, Kelly, if you're over there? So Jake, if we can do that. Scream out the state you left in the last five years to come to the state of Florida. Go ahead. That's a lot of people. I heard a lot of New York. I heard a lot of New York. I heard a lot of people that moved here.
Starting point is 00:46:56 Stay in New York, guys. But watch this. So watch this. But the right people moved here. Watch this still. Rob, is this the one that breaks down the numbers? Does it say where Florida stands and how they pay their highway patrol versus all the other states?
Starting point is 00:47:12 So, I have a full news article, but it's about four minutes long. I also have this clip of DeSantis. It's about ten seconds long where he talks about the raises for law enforcement officers. Why don't you put that, and as a matter of fact, let me just read this part first and then play the clip with the governor. So Governor DeSantis calls that Florida House budget aimed at cutting law enforcement positions. And by the way, this story was prompted by a guy on Manect that told me you ought to consider this, and I'm telling this story because it's disturbing.
Starting point is 00:47:38 So Governor Ron DeSantis criticized the Florida House of Representatives proposed budget cuts targeting 84 Florida Highway Patrol positions and ballistic armor for troopers, stating what's going on right now in Tallahassee with Florida House of Representatives is really treacherous. They all ran on this agenda. They never ran against law enforcement. I'll tell you that because you would have never, you would have been shown the door by the voters. Dave Koerner, executive director of Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, highlighted
Starting point is 00:48:07 the low pay issue saying, the reality is this budget will keep Florida Highway Patrol as the second lowest starting pay in the country out of 49 states. So imagine all the new people that are moving here, all the business that's moving here. What's priority to us? We left California and New York for what reason? We want to feel safer? We want to be free? We want to be left alone? We want low taxes? We want to raise our kids in a very basic way without confusing the hell out of them? Let me raise my kids. Those are some of the reasons. So now Florida's 49 out of 50 states. That's not acceptable. The governor knows
Starting point is 00:48:44 that's not acceptable. He governor knows that's not acceptable. He noted the average tenure of Florida Highway Troopers has dropped from 9.8 years in 2020 to 6.8 years currently. They're leaving this field. They're barely making $50,000 as a new job to become a highway trooper. That's nothing by the way. How much? $50,000.
Starting point is 00:49:02 I'll give you the data here. Rob, play this clip Their budget cuts 84 current state trooper positions, which oh by the way I don't think the workload is going down in Florida help Was that a rob you really don't like the guy He doesn't say much. He spoke for 58 minutes. You took 13 seconds and cut the guy off This is how you want to do our governor. Your thoughts on this when we're looking at the data here with the pay for highway patrol. And do you have any thoughts on this?
Starting point is 00:49:33 Well, yes I do. This is the governor we elected. And this is the guy that Floridians wanted. This is the guy that responds to truly the needs of the people, like hurricane response, everything that he's done. This is that guy. And he is in front of the microphone and putting these folks on notice, but more importantly for putting them on notice for the next electoral cycle, because they can't run from this,
Starting point is 00:49:57 he's got to get this passed. He's got to get this passed. And the next governor of Florida, which is, you know, we're going to have a war for that, but we got a, um, uh, Byron Donalds wants to run, this needs to continue, because Florida will slide if services slide with all the people moving in here.
Starting point is 00:50:16 Because what will happen is crime statistics are gonna go up. We're gonna have problems with that. And so we need this. We need this so that it is a, it is a noble profession to be in law enforcement and we need to be able to pay you. And if we're one of the more successful economies with all these people moving here, then we got to get this done so that we can pay people so it's an honor to serve the people in Florida and it's an honor to know that they're being paid properly, because this is the guy I voted for.
Starting point is 00:50:45 By the way, you know what Florida's surplus was in 2024? Florida's surplus in 2024 was a $5.7 billion in unobligated general revenue. It represents, I mean, they have a surplus in what they made. So what DeSantis is asking for is 20% pay raise for state entry of officers and 25% for veteran officers including firefighters. Senate said 10 or 15% house is saying zero. That's what he's asking for, for the state of Florida. Do you have any thoughts on this? Yeah I do. Well so how
Starting point is 00:51:20 much do law enforcement officers make in Florida? What's the number? You can't rob. Do me a favor. Go to ChadGBT and type in what do Florida Highway Patrol troopers make in this... Yeah, Florida Highway Patrol troopers make a year. Look at the number here. 50,000, that's nothing. Certified troopers 55 55 to 65, okay? It changes depending on what area it is, but it's $50,000.
Starting point is 00:51:52 And then when you become trooper first class, corporal, sergeant, then you're 65 to 80. And then if you're lieutenant or above, 85 to 100,000. But starting salary, 50K. That's horrible. Rob, what's just average law enforcement? Not even highway patrol, just like a regular cop. In Florida. In Florida.
Starting point is 00:52:11 Because this is Tallahassee, right Pat? This is Florida, yes. This is in general. I'm wondering what that is. 58 to 65. 58, it's not that, that's not that much. And they're fighting for armor and plates and stuff. And look what just happened in Tallahassee a little while ago.
Starting point is 00:52:24 And they have budget cuts like that. It's kind of leading into that. That's kind of where I'm going with the story to that. I don't know what type of person that looks at people making a ton of money out there, and they can go into any field they want. They're going to go to work every day, put their life on the line.
Starting point is 00:52:39 They don't know if they're making it home at night, and you're going to do this for 50 G's a year? Unbelievable. I have so much more respect for police now than I did after they tried to defund the police. And people are looking around me like, so what does that mean? We're just gonna get rid of the cops? What's the...
Starting point is 00:52:56 Yeah, they fucked the cops. It's like, listen, I liked NWA's song back in the day, but I'm actually not trying to like defund the police. If anything, we need to fund the police. It's always the people who don't have any interaction or like, it's always like, there I say it, like white liberal women. That's like, get rid of that police. It's like, chick, that's the first dude you're calling when you have an issue. And it's always the people who have the most issues that understand that they
Starting point is 00:53:19 need the police for protection. The police have been so disrespected in the last five years. And you're talking to somebody that actually never really liked the police for protection. The police have been so disrespected in the last five years. And you're talking to somebody that actually never really liked the police because I would always get pulled over when I did have a car get speeding and I was broken. I was like, how the hell am I gonna get my car out? Guys, let me tell you, Florida's a safer place
Starting point is 00:53:34 without Adam Driver. Oh yeah. I do agree with that. Three years ago, one of his friends lends him the car. Do you wanna tell him what happens three hours after a friend lends you the car when he leaves town? Tell me what happened. Tell him what happened. Was it a friend lends you the car when he leaves town? Tell me what happened.
Starting point is 00:53:46 Tell them what happened. Was it a Mercedes, Adam? Okay, forget about it. What happened? There's a reason why he Ubers. When he Ubers, as much of a hard time I give him, we're all safer folks. Thank Adam for doing that. Ubers stock is one of the few stocks that's up because of me.
Starting point is 00:54:00 But we do need to pay our cops more. The reason why I'm sharing this story is because the state of Florida, with all the people coming in, it's important for them to feel safer. And if all of a sudden these guys are not getting the jobs, 10-year goes from 9.6 to 6.6, 6.8, these guys are going to get other jobs for only 50K, give them a raise. What is 20% of 50K? You know what it is? It's 60K!
Starting point is 00:54:23 That's still nothing to put your life on the line. It's like they're going from 50K to $100,000. If they're gonna make that little of amount, the very least they need to be respected. Like you're gonna show up to work, make 50 Gs, and you're gonna get disrespected, and you're gonna get spit on. People are gonna say, who the hell wants that?
Starting point is 00:54:40 Do you remember the guy that came up to us at the UFC, I think a year ago, the guy from New Jersey, he's like, hey, let me tell you something, guys. I'm a cop, I love you guys. I'm done, I'm retiring, I'm done with this thing. And my beauty. Because that's what the sentiment of defund the police and everything was happening. But if you think about it, Tupac,
Starting point is 00:54:53 people that are joining to be law enforcement, I was a military police in the Air Force. When you do that, you love the job, you wanna protect, you wanna serve, you wanna do that. For 50 grand, I don't know how many more people are gonna be signing up to wanna risk their to serve. You want to do that. For 50 grand, I don't know how many more people are going to be signing up to want to risk their life for 50 G's. Hell, not up in here.
Starting point is 00:55:11 So this leads me to the next story. Rob, do you have the clip of what happened today? The report I have is at the Florida State University shooting. Devastating news. It's two killed, six wounded. As of 6-24, I don't know if there, that's as of 6-24. I don't know if there's been an update since 6-24, so it's 8-07 right now. Rob, if you want to play this clip, I'm sure many of us are following this story closely. We're in Florida, but Rob, go ahead and play this clip.
Starting point is 00:55:38 Yeah, well, I mean, I came, we were over in the loading bay right here next to it and started seeing everybody run. The maintenance guys were telling everybody to get out of the building. So everybody started coming out the back. And I mean, if they would have probably moved 20 feet further, they would have been on this side of the building, which is where he walked out. He came out. Yeah, he came out on this door right here.
Starting point is 00:56:04 And then he saw the maintenance guy who was waving everybody and I guess heard him probably and turned and shot that way towards like our direction towards him. There's a golf cart over here with a bullet hole in it that blocked it. So that was meant for him. And then after that he turned this way and started shooting out on the green. He didn't shoot many shots when he came outside. It was on like four or five shots, but he shot like two at our direction and they shot like to this direction. And that's the girl that got shot in the butt over here that was laying down for
Starting point is 00:56:35 a while. They stretch her off. She looked like she was alive, but I'm not sure. I hope that she is. But then he went back inside. I should have probably hit. I pulled out my phone and started videoing everything, came back out.
Starting point is 00:56:50 I heard that there was a shotgun that never fired that they saw, so they had me looking in the bushes for a shotgun. What other clips do you have outside? Is this? This is footage of the shooter on the campus. Okay, well, listen, warning when you see this, do you actually have the sound of him shooting here?
Starting point is 00:57:07 Yes. Okay, so if you're not comfortable with, it's not, you don't see the person getting shot, but you hear him shooting here, go ahead Rob. What's this one Rob? This is students hiding in a classroom as police are going around banging on the doors and students didn't know whether or not to answer the door so they hid and opened up their cameras. Let me see this.
Starting point is 00:57:49 Oh, they don't know if it's the police or if it's the guy. Can you imagine that? How do you open? Yeah, I'm gonna trust. Who is that standing up there? Is that the teacher? Are you serious? Was he standing like that the entire time? Go back to it Rob. Was he just standing? It looks like he's standing the entire time. Interesting. And then I have one final clip of first responders grabbing a student and moving them off. Go for it. Oh, I saw this one. Oh my God. They got her. What's her role? Is she hurt? Oh, is she shot?
Starting point is 00:58:42 Yeah, you can pause it right there, Rob. Vinny, thoughts? Well, I mean, first of all, you know, prayers and thoughts for the deceased, the people that are injured and the families, but I mean, this is just, you know, obviously tragedy. And I always take the step back to who, this person, what, where are you in your mind that you think going on a campus, there's something obviously wrong with this, this doesn't just happen overnight. And we're not going to know for a while, but the campus, there's something obviously wrong, this doesn't just happen overnight, and we're not gonna know for a while,
Starting point is 00:59:06 but the signs, every time something like this happens, we always find out this guy put out the signs, he was talking reckless, and notice how they're gonna automatically try to go, the Republicans are like, well, he hated Trump, and he said he hated Trump, and the other side is like, no, no, you Democrat, what we need to do is first of all,
Starting point is 00:59:22 let the dust settle, but I wanna know where the mentality is of someone that has this What was his online present was there any warnings because every single time this happens Unless it's a manifesto that we don't see for over a year because it's a trans person which they don't want to make look bad I want to know first of all then there's reports that the gun Apparently allegedly Tom the reports are saying that his mother, what was his mom, Tom? She was a trooper? Or a, Tom? Tallahassee police chief.
Starting point is 00:59:52 She is actively? Jessica Eichner. Is she active? Like she is, that's what she does? Wanna make sure we get this right. Yeah, I wanna make sure. So media's reporting. Let me read this to you.
Starting point is 01:00:02 So you got the suspect identified as 20 year old Florida State University student Phoenix Eichner is the son of Leon County Sheriff Deputy Jessica Eichner, a veteran with over 18 years of service. Phoenix has been actively involved in law enforcement related activities including participation in Sheriff's Office Youth Advisory Council and various training programs. This happened at 1150 today. Two individuals were killed, six others including Ickner sustained injuries and were transported
Starting point is 01:00:34 to the Tallahassee Memorial. And yeah, apparently the story is that he used allegedly her weapon. Her service weapon, which is either, the gun that she uses to go to work or something that she just has on her own. But if you think about it, first of all, the accountability of him having the access to that gun is horrible and she is going to be held accountable.
Starting point is 01:00:58 What happened earlier, was it last year, Tommy? Michigan. In Michigan, the parents of the kid that went on the school shooting, they were put in jail and rightly so undeserved. But I want to, what happens to a kid, what happens to a kid of that age that makes you, that breaks that mentality? What is being forced in your freaking mind unless it's drugs and I don't know what the
Starting point is 01:01:21 hell kind of pills he's on, if he's on but to make someone do that and you saw him just walking nonchalant stopping shooting at two people and keep walking there's something that there's something about a person that makes you do this I just want to know who knew who knew what signs that he have what was he posting and stuff like that to find it but I think the mother needs to be held accountable and I mean she's obviously she's not in good shape her her her is pretty much going to be gone, pretty sure. Tom? I'm with Vinny.
Starting point is 01:01:52 Somewhere along the way, there's a sign that somebody ignored. And you hear later about these things. They suppressed information from the public on the horrible shooting that was in Tennessee at the school. You hear later about these things. They suppressed information from the public on the horrible shooting that was in Tennessee at the school. And you later found out about the manifesto, and you later found out about the signs that were there ahead, and nobody did anything about it,
Starting point is 01:02:17 or they didn't do enough about it, or they knew about it, but it wasn't, oh, it's really not my place. And now you have this two problems here. If you have a weapon, you have the responsibility to secure it so that only you have access to it. That's it. Simple as that.
Starting point is 01:02:35 And then second, what were the signs with this kid? And who ran the red light of not bringing it down to say, okay, we gotta talk about this, we gotta engage. How certain are you there was some red signs, red flags? How certain are you? Because here's a note of what he wrote in Florida State University's news site. Rob, if you can pull up this picture,
Starting point is 01:02:59 is this the one that you have? No, give me one second. I just texted it to you. I'll read it to you guys while Rob is pulling it up. And then what I did when I'm reading this, because who knows if this is Photoshop or somebody else posted this, this is him. Once the protests reached the intelligence, these people are usually pretty entertaining, usually not for good reasons. This is Phoenix Eichner. Look at this here. A political science major said, I think it's a little
Starting point is 01:03:26 too late, he's, Trump, already going to be inaugurated on January 20th, and there's not really much you can do unless you outright revolt, and I don't think anyone wants that. I don't know what this means. I don't know how you read this yourself. We don't know where this guy's at. We don't know what happened with the family. We don't know what prompted the guy. There's a lot of stories that stuff like this comes up.
Starting point is 01:03:47 You see a pattern like, can a person go from zero to this? Or is it zero to one to three to four to eight to 18 to 48 to 93 to boom, action? Yeah, you go back and look at Columbine. And Columbine, what happened? We slowly heard the trickle of news that came out over the long line of Columbine. And then you found out that there were plenty of signs.
Starting point is 01:04:15 There was plenty of awareness. And it's just, and to your point, kids don't snap. A person doesn't snap overnight like this. They don't just snap. There's something there. Now, I don't think that A person doesn't snap overnight like this. They don't just snap. There's something there. Now, I don't think that one post by the guy is particularly, you know, volatile. But my point is, when we peel back the onion
Starting point is 01:04:38 and we finally are given all... when the public is finally given all the news, as there was with the Tennessee shooter, there are signs, and there are things that people saw. And I just go to the first point. It's your responsibility to secure your weapons so you're the only one that has access to them. That's it. That's point one.
Starting point is 01:04:57 And then point two, we find out later. We found out with Columbine. We found out, shoot, just 12 miles away over here. Horror. Horror. up with Columbine. We found out, shoot, just 12 miles away over here, horror, horror. I remember having this guy on the podcast a few years ago. His name is Jim Clemente. You heard me tell this story before. This is the first guy that would show up when a husband killed his wife or vice versa. And he would ask them. So he's talking to the killer. He knows you killed your wife. But he's sitting there still asking the questions to see what he can get out of you.
Starting point is 01:05:27 And I said, what prompts somebody to do something like this? Here's what he said, three-step process. He says genetics loads the gun, personality and psychology aims the gun, life experiences pulls the trigger. Let me say it one more time. Genetics loads the gun, personality and psychology aims the gun, experiences pulls the trigger. What genetics, personality is his, experience is. Kind of a life as this guy lived.
Starting point is 01:05:57 To get to a point to do something like this and you go into that school. And think about it, your mother is a high-ranking police officer. I'm gonna assume a lot of law enforcement leans a certain side politically. So I don't know where, and again this is way too early, but securing your weapon. I don't know how fast was the response time of the law enforcement on the campus? Did we know? Because I know it started at what time, Robbie? 1150, I believe? 1150. I'm curious, was there anybody else armed? I mean, this is Florida. A lot of people are armed. I want to know response time and stuff like that.
Starting point is 01:06:33 If it's a gun safe, gun free zone, because a lot of the gun free zones, that's where people are like, oh listen, if I know it's a gun free zone, I'm going to bring a gun, because nobody's going to shoot at me. So law enforcement responded swiftly with approximately 20 officers arriving at the scene within five minutes. See, that's Florida for you, which I respect, and they neutralize it. And think about it, and then look at the numbers. God rest their souls, but two dead.
Starting point is 01:06:54 If that was another place, if that was Cali or somewhere else, Tom, you're thinking about, that's 20, 20 people dead because nobody has a gun, and by the time they respond, it's over. But this is not good, and I feel really bad for the mom she's in deep shit sorry so I went to Florida State so a lot of people are talking about this but I'm actually living it because I have a lot of friends who are alumni I have younger friends who literally still attend there we went there a year ago and met with the Santas like this isn't like a story that I'm just like thinking about I'm
Starting point is 01:07:24 literally texting people I know are you okay? What's going on? She a girl's like? Yeah? I know I'm okay, man. I'm in class alright My buddy my one of my best friends younger brothers. Hey, I'm okay. Thanks, bro. What's going on? What's going on? This is the reality that kids are living in these days So we talked about the mental health that people are dealing with fuck this kid What about the rest of the 50,000 kids that go to school there? You know, Stoneman Douglas is 20 minutes away here. Imagine those kids now.
Starting point is 01:07:53 This is something that we never had to deal with when we were in school. Wondering whether you're going to make it out of class today. It's kind of insane. So totally understand why we want to make sure that our kids are private school or home school because the indoctrination in schools. So totally understand why we want to make sure that our kids are private school or homeschool Because the indoctrination in schools, but this is an actual problem And this is something that we never had to worry about I was listening to a song yesterday. It's so crazy We're talking about today. You talked about Collin button, right? Do you ever hear the song that goes all the other kids with the pump?
Starting point is 01:08:21 Gets better run better run, run, run, run. You know what that song's about? What? Run for your life. Kids running away from the bullets in Columbine. So everyone's like, oh, I love this song. Yeah, yeah, there was 20 people murdered in 1999. So I feel horrible. The place that was happening, I was in front of the student union. I've been there. Doe Campbell Stadium, I've been there. Leech Center, where I used to play basketball and football. I've been there. Doe Campbell Stadium, I've been there. Leech Center where I used to play basketball and football, been there. Like this is reality and it doesn't really register until it actually affects someone
Starting point is 01:08:52 in your life. So we make fun of the kid David Hogg because he's like a leftist Democrat. This guy lost dozens of his friends 20 minutes away. Maybe that shapes his worldview a little bit. So this kid. So I feel like millennials and a little bit older than that, we don't have to deal with this, Gen X and everything. We talk about the anxious generation, the book that you read, that you recommend. Crazy book.
Starting point is 01:09:18 Who's read it? Okay. Anxious generation. Incredible book. If you got a daughter, whatever you do, order that book, listen to the book. If you got a daughter, whatever you do, order that book. Listen to the book. If you got a daughter, must read. My biggest fear is that this is the story of the day.
Starting point is 01:09:31 It's gone. Half these kids are leaving. She's like, no, I'm leaving for Easter. I'm not even there. And then boom, we have the weekend and then the next freaking tragedy next week and what happens. I'm an advocate for 2A, but how long are we going to do this in this country?
Starting point is 01:09:47 What are you saying? I'm just saying, how many school shootings? Are we just, yep, another one, yep, another one. You're referencing Nashville or Tennessee, the manifesto. There's been 10 others since then. So I don't know why this is so common in America, as if it's like, ah, it's school shooting. Come on, bro, it's Tuesday. We need to do better. No but I understand but I don't I don't
Starting point is 01:10:09 think it's a Second Amendment thing it's it's there's so many levels like I said Adam we don't know if this kid was on any antidepressant drugs. It's definitely a mental health thing. No well I'm letting crazy people get access to guns. No no well he well he and again again that goes right down dude it always comes down to responsibility that Tom said. The mother needs to know, especially as a law enforcement member, your child cannot have access. He's not a gun owner, he's not a registered gun owner, that's not his gun, zero access.
Starting point is 01:10:37 There's so many layers, Adam, from the mental health, to the mother, to the gun, but it's evil. There's something inherently evil with you, period. If you think walking on a campus and doing it, because that's what people think, you know people tend to forget. Adam, there's evil people out there. We're not living in this beautiful world
Starting point is 01:10:53 and it's not happening as often as it is, thank God, but that's what it is, there's just evil people. Everyone thought that I was crazy. I mean we still kinda. Thank you. Everyone thought that I was crazy when there was a shooting in Michigan, I believe, and when it was a school...
Starting point is 01:11:08 I don't even remember. There's so many of these things. The kid went to school, killed whoever, whatever it was, and I go, where the hell are the parents? Can we hold the parents responsible for when kids do stuff like this? They're like, what do you mean? They didn't commit the crime. How is that happening? And then what happened a year later?
Starting point is 01:11:24 Parents arrested because they allowed their kids to do this. Like at what point when you raise a psychopath, is the parent going to have to be dealing with the responsibility? I don't know what happened with this deputy. I'm not even speculating. Here it is. Michigan school shooters, parents sentenced to 10 years in prison for not stopping a runaway train. That's my point. I don't know what happened in this situation. I don't what we saw it coming or didn't but the parents better see stuff like this coming You know, they say if you if you see something say something parents are gonna be held accountable if you're raising psychopaths
Starting point is 01:11:57 Let's go to the next story, which is another story of a possible psychopaths a DHS deported MS 13 member another story of possible psychopaths. So DHS deported MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrested with rolls of cash and drugs. Rob, do you have a clip on this? Because it says it's a, there's a clip on here. I do. Yeah, if you want to play this clip, go for it. I think what really matters to Americans is that this MS-13 gang member, who unfortunately Jay, you and a lot of your colleagues have called a Maryland man, when in reality he's an MS-13 gang member. Wait, I'm going to stop you there.
Starting point is 01:12:26 What is your evidence, Tricia? Wait, I've got to stop you there. What's your evidence that he's in MS-13? Well, there's actually been two separate immigration judges, Jay, who have confirmed and ruled that he is a member of MS-13. That as well as we have intelligence. Well, they didn't rule it. It was brought up in deportation proceedings.
Starting point is 01:12:40 They sure did, Jay. But what's the evidence that was brought up in deportation proceedings that he's in MS-13? And they dismissed his appeal, Jay. I can do this all day, Jay. I can do this all day, Jay. I can do this all day, Jay. I can do this all day, Jay. I can do this all day, Jay. I can do this all day, Jay. It was brought up in deportation proceedings. But what's the evidence that was brought up in deportation proceedings that he's in MS-13? I can do this all day, Jay. He is a member of MS-13. I don't think you'd want to be his neighbor, Jay.
Starting point is 01:12:53 I sure wouldn't. And I don't think many Americans watching would want to be this individual's neighbor. He's been involved in human trafficking. He's been involved in labor trafficking. And he should not be in this country. So whether he's in an El Salvadorian facility. I am so very gl of americans that he is o
Starting point is 01:13:13 remember jay who was ms rape, they kill americans people are done with it. 5th, 2024. Wow. Good for her. Vinny. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm gonna, I wrote a lot because there's so much about this and all this, just, just guys really, really pay attention. You do not, all of you in here and everybody watching at home, you do not hate the mainstream media as much as you should. Okay. Every single one of you guys should add more hate to these people because they're freaking disgusting.
Starting point is 01:13:46 And you see his face in that by-line. And why do all of them look like that? You ever notice they have that face of just that evil? And I'm being dead serious. So by the way, this guy, Kilmar Garcia, the documents were released that he's confirmed he was an active MS-13 gang member and he admitted, he admitted being here illegally. Number one, his wife testified that he was repeatedly a wife-beater and that he was afraid, she was afraid to be around him.
Starting point is 01:14:12 She said, I have multiple, and I quote, photos and videos of how violent he can be with all the bruises he has left me. She also wrote, in November 2020, he hit me with his work boot. In August 2020, he hit me in the eye leaving my eye purple Okay, then Pat you have a Democrat US Senator. I love you guys saw this Chris van Hollen this guy flew to El Salvador Demanding president Bukele to do the right thing. Okay to release this guy He said he was illegally abducted guys. Let that sink in all for a second. A US congressman, alright? Senator or congressman?
Starting point is 01:14:47 He's a US senator. Sorry, I apologize. He's a sitting member of congress, went to a foreign country and was begging to release an MS-13 gang member. Let that sink into your brain. That's where they've gotten. And this is where the Democratic Party has gotten, alright? They're the party that fights for legal gang members. They're the party of violence and destruction, alright? They're the party that's okay with abortion until birth. They're the party that ignores victims and protects criminals, and that's why Democrats
Starting point is 01:15:18 are at the lowest percentage rate in their history of approval. That's what Democrats are dealing with right now. And guys, you keep hearing this, Tom. They're looking for the face of the Democratic party. The hell with the face. They need to find the soul. They have lost their soul,
Starting point is 01:15:35 because that's all, think about what's happening in America. Look at who they're sticking up for. Luigi Mangione, who I don't care what, Brian Thompson, whatever, he's a bad guy guy let the court and let the law go after him murder like girls like Taylor Lorenz drooling over this guy like oh he's so cute and he's so hot illegal gang members Carmelo Anthony who we're gonna get into stabbing Austin Metcalfe that's who their heroes are alright and I think it's ridiculous and by the way this is is my question and I'm done. These guys, all the media still to today is help like this guy's a victim, he's a father, a Maryland guy.
Starting point is 01:16:13 Where was that when Rachel Moran was murdered? Did you hear any peep from any of these people when illegals from El Salvador were going around the country raping and murdering American women and children All right, and you guys know the story about Rachel Moran mother of five. She was jogging and Tom I'll let you do it because I lose my mind when I think of what this El Salvadorian Illegal did to her Tom do that so I could get into what the mom's reaction was so the mom was invited to the White House and It you know this is Holy Week
Starting point is 01:16:44 And I think it's only the grace of God that she was able to hold herself together and to describe what the police evidence was, and she recounted that. And she was tackled or brought to the ground by the bruises on lower extremities, knees, legs, and then her head was struck 20 times with the rock, and then he dragged the body, creating a blood trail of 150 feet into the drainage culvert, where he flipped her body over, disrobed her, and committed atrocities...
Starting point is 01:17:17 Yeah. Basically on a dead body at that point. And the way that she was able to talk about this shocking... By the way, exactly your reaction is what happened. That's exactly it. One person reacted on this side. Whatever you thought, that's what happened. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 01:17:36 And not... And so, you're looking at what level of criminal is capable, not just of a crime, but of that level of a crime. And the... the MS-13 gang members have been indoctrinated into this culture of extreme dark criminality, extreme. And so now there are individuals and the liberals and Democrats that are looking for their modern day Shea. You know, they're looking for Che. Che was not a good guy. All
Starting point is 01:18:14 the people in Miami that are liberal that wear the Shea T-shirt. He was not a good guy. You read about what he did to children, what he facilitated. He's not a good guy. But he's like their freedom fighter and their attractive teacher, because they don't know history. And what they're talking about right now, they want their... And then we're being gaslit.
Starting point is 01:18:34 We're being gaslit. Do you remember Trayvon Martin? Remember that? Remember the picture we saw that turned out it was a 14-year-old boy, and the real picture of what he looked like when he was 18, 19, including the teardrop tattoos and everything, something had happened in those five years because that 14-year-old boy did not look like that
Starting point is 01:18:52 and did not behave like that. That wasn't the guy that was tackled by the police. The guy that was tackled by the police was an older version of him that had gone through just horrible destructive development as a young man. The kid that was there that you would look at, hey, that just looks like a kid wearing a Hollister t-shirt, you know, was... ended up on a dark path
Starting point is 01:19:13 and then in a scuffle and got... and was shot. And so yet the media wanted us to believe that it was this, not that. And this is... this is their Trayvon. They're... they want us to believe, oh, he's a Maryland man not that and this is this is their Trayvon there there they want us to believe always a Maryland man This and this he's not and it's all and it's documented and you get the president of El Salvador Sitting in the Oval Office and saying you're asking me to do what do we see that yesterday? Yeah, you're asking me to do what I'm not gonna
Starting point is 01:19:39 I'm not really seeing a no check because Trump classified them as domestic terrorists because they are. Because to get into MS-13, well, you think they just go, hey, sign this form? No, they make you kill somebody in MS-13. They not only beat the crap out of you, you have to do that. And Tom, I'm just- I don't understand. It's like they want another Trayvon. They want another George Floyd.
Starting point is 01:20:00 They want something. And I believe there's dark forces that want extreme violence to be vomited with all this. And it really, really angers me deeply. Well, you know, this is interesting that you're saying this, Tom. Rob, I found this article I want to send to you, and if you can pull this up, I'll give you my story while you're pulling this up.
Starting point is 01:20:22 You asked a question earlier. What'd you say? You said, why is it that in America, look, I'm a second-to-a guy, but I don't know, maybe there needs to be something. Why are we doing this? Why is it that it's in America that this is taking place? The one good thing about what we have is data. Okay, Rob, I don't know if you have that article.
Starting point is 01:20:38 Look at this here. The rise of school shootings in America, okay? So this is from 93 to 2023. Go up a little bit, go up a little bit so we can see. Okay, look at that. Look at that. Look at that number. Who was president during that time?
Starting point is 01:20:55 2020 to 2023, who was president? What happened then? Okay? If you go and you look at some numbers on Prior to that no go up there for us to look at the dates go closer to see some of those incidents It tells you the different school shootings Thurston high school shooting Springfield, Oregon four fatalities 25 injured Columbine high school massacre a little Colorado 13 fatalities 24 injured Virginia Tech Massacre 33 of 13 fatalities, 24 injured. Virginia Tech Massacre, 33. Majority Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 17-17.
Starting point is 01:21:29 Sandy Hook, 27-2. But then look at the spike. From 93 until 2016, you have a 2018, it's around 50 a year. Then it goes up, then it skyrockets, and it skyrockets, and is above 200 per year. I mean, this is, so what is the byproduct? What patterns do we see here? One, we could say COVID. Two, we can say the border.
Starting point is 01:21:55 Three, we can say fentanyl. Four, we can say divisiveness of Americans hating each other, like, it's a race thing after Obama, blacks and whites, it's all this other stuff. That's the enemy, right? You know, he is the next Hitler. He's a Hitler. He's a Hitler. Well, if he's Hitler, let me go be a hero. Division, division, hate, hate, anger, anger. Mainstream media trust goes down. Trust in the government goes down. Democratic Party trust goes down. And by the way, do you know there's a data that I talked to, what is the guy's name, I forget his name, I had him on the podcast, we had a very heated debate, what is the guy's name?
Starting point is 01:22:33 The moment I tell you this, you know who I'm talking about. Do you know out of the top 25 cities in America, 27 cities in America, crime. The top 27 cities in America in crime, do you know 23 out of 27 are ran by a Democratic mayor? So you're saying 2A? What do you think gun laws in Chicago? What do you think gun laws in some of these other places? What about the medicine? 27 out of 30.
Starting point is 01:23:00 Crime written cities run by Democrats. FYI. Watch this, DC. Do you guys know the story of DC? Do you know when the first time was that DC had a mayor? And DC is one of the top cities in crime. Rob, what's the first time DC had a mayor? Marion Barry was smoking crack.
Starting point is 01:23:17 What year was the first year DC had a mayor? No? Go lower. Go the first time DC had of mayor, start sucking 1974. Go a little lower Rob. 1974, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, you'll see it. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Mayor, are you on mayor or is this like governor, not governor Rob, mayor.
Starting point is 01:23:38 Mayor of DC, Washington history, since 1974 till today, okay this is it. It should show each mayor all the way at the bottom, Rob. All the way at the bottom. It doesn't have it? Okay. There's a list from 74 till today. Do you know how many Republican mayors D.C.'s ever had? Zero.
Starting point is 01:23:56 So tell me, if your policies are so good, why is there so much crime in the cities you guys run? Do you know what D.C.'s known for? The biggest disparity in wealth. They have the most people making over $200,000 and they have the most people making less than $20,000 a year. Who caused that? Your damn policies! So no wonder people are sick of it. Yeah, right there, 1974. Okay, go lower. Okay, this is the one, right? Look, Democratic, 75 to 79, Democratic. Walter Washington, Marion Barry, Democratic.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Sharon Pratt Kelly, Democratic. Marion Barry back at it again. Democratic. Marion Barry after he got out of jail. That's right. Anthony A. Williams. Smokey Crack. Democratic.
Starting point is 01:24:37 Adrian Fenty, Democratic. Vincent Gray. The same policies over and over and over again. And this leads to what happened with Carmelo Anthony. Who's following the Carmelo Anthony story? With the K. With the K, yeah. Carmelo Anthony with the K, true.
Starting point is 01:24:53 So Carmelo Anthony, his so-called lawyer is standing here, the father shows up, the father of the murdered son. Austin Metcalf. Austin Metcalf shows up. Here's of the murdered son. Austin Metcalf. Austin Metcalf shows up. Here's what he had to say here. Watch this. Go for it, Rob. And all I'm going to say, so it don't be asked later, is that was disrespectful and just
Starting point is 01:25:19 shows you all. The character who was not invited. He knows that is inappropriate to be near this family, but he did it. And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words. Okay, what he has filled into is the political operatives that want to make this thing a political thing of hate, yet bigotry, and yet racism. We have conservative operatives that have been posting non-stop about this case. Can I tell you guys, you guys know who that is?
Starting point is 01:26:09 Anybody know who that is? That's Dominique Alexander, Mr. self-proclaimed civil rights activist. He has a criminal history, okay? He's sticking up for Kamala Anthony, which includes a 2011 conviction for causing serious bodily harm injury to a child, brain damage. OK?
Starting point is 01:26:27 Yeah, think about the resulting in probation, which he later violated, leading to a brief incarcination in 2016. Additionally, he has faced charges related to theft and domestic violence. And now he's parading around as some civil rights leader, acting as a mouthpiece for Anthony's family. Just giving you guys a heads up on who is speaking for a kid who brought a knife on
Starting point is 01:26:50 school grounds to attract me to me. And let's just be honest, if you bring a knife to an event and you're a high school kid, you're looking for trouble. I don't care what happens because at the end of the day, that should have been, he was in the wrong tent. Austin Metcalf was like, hey, I don't know the moment, but first of all, if I don't care what happens because at the end of the day that should have been he was in the wrong tent. Austin Metcalf was like hey I don't know the comfort the moment but first of all if you don't bring a knife that confrontation is verbal or you guys beat the hell out of each other. That's it. You
Starting point is 01:27:13 brought a knife you stabbed him in his heart he died in his twin brothers arms and now you have captain bodily harm to children up here talking as if he's freaking Jesse Jackson and it's a movement. All right. It's horse shit. And you named it Tom. What'd you say this was 2.0? Just Trayvon 2.0. This is it. This is it. No, you said this is a BLM 2.0. Because if the rule- Oh, BLM 2.0. But Trayvon, they're looking for Trayvon. They're looking for the George Floyd. They're looking for their poster child. We are the victim. Yeah. It's not what happened. We are the victim. If the roles, be honest with me Pat, if the roles were reversed, ask yourself the truth, if this was a white kid who stood up and stabbed a black kid in the heart and killed him and
Starting point is 01:27:53 he died in his brother's arms, what happens? Honest, honestly, ask yourself, what happens that day in the United States of America? Especially when they start a freaking, what do they do um so ready for this they started a go fund me and it shut down okay because the they shut it down his family moved to give give so again give send go raked in four hundred thousand dollars now they're living in a nine hundred thousand dollar home apparently allegedly they're renting and they have a new car and they're selling merch they're selling merch you understand what's what's happening right now they're selling merch. They're selling merch. You understand what's happening right now?
Starting point is 01:28:26 They're selling merch. The people are selling merch to raise money. It's ridiculous and it's disgusting and if it was the other way around there would have been a freaking race war in this country. Okay, let's just be honest with each other. It's ridiculous. Yeah, I'm looking at this right now.
Starting point is 01:28:40 This says GoFundMe raised $450,000 for Carmelo Anthony and $350,000 for Austin Metcalf. That's what they raised so far. So the one who killed raised more than the one who got killed. Yeah, why are you raising money for the person who killed, like what the hell are we talking about? There's a family mourning. There's a father, there's a mother, there's a brother.
Starting point is 01:29:02 Dude, he was gushing blood in his brother's face while he's sitting there dying in his arms and his father shows up and sees that scene. And what the hell are you raising money for? And that's where the BLM 2.0, what happened with BLM? Everybody that posted the black square was all tough. Everybody got duped. How much money did she steal? How much money did the girl that was in charge of BLM
Starting point is 01:29:21 give to everybody, bought houses, bought cars, hired brother security and shit, got duped. And I hope, if you posted a black square, I hope you've taken that shit down, because it was all race, it was all divisive, and who do you think was behind it, Pat? I had to do, if you don't mind, I did a little research. I had to do research, because this guy over here
Starting point is 01:29:38 has taught me, Vinny, go backwards, why and who? Who's behind all this negative shit? Go upstream. Go upstream, and the one name I keep getting, Pat, is George Soros. Followed go backwards why why and who who's behind all this negative shit go upstream And one it go upstream and the one name I keep getting Pat is George Soros this name Keeps coming up and he's never been dealt with okay. He's not funding a couple of lawsuits. Okay. He dumped billions So check this out open society foundation poured 32 billion dollars into Democrat causes BLM riots Antifa Tesla Tesla protests, Prohomos campus protests, Adam, CRT in schools,
Starting point is 01:30:10 attack on voter ID laws, open borders, soft on crime, DAs, Trump impeachment legal teams, and trans agenda in classrooms. And think about this guys, America welcomes George Soros, right? They love him here. He is kicked out of Russia, Hungary, Pakistan, Turkey, Poland, Philippines, all of them kicked him out
Starting point is 01:30:29 because of national security, but we treat him like he's VIP here. Okay, he gets VIP access, and he got $260 million from USAID to help wreck our justice system from the inside. Okay, and now his money is backing Justice Action Center and Human Rights First, who blocked Trump from deporting half a million illegal
Starting point is 01:30:47 migrants using Obama judge and Deira Talwani and all of its funded and planned in the skies of human rights This guy is the enemy of the freaking people and he has to be dealt with accordingly period Who's gonna do it Pat he and mind you and who was it one time when I was like, like he, what he did to his own Jewish people to try to get out of getting killed during the Holocaust. Remember that, Adam? Like he was ratting out his own people to save his ass. That tells you who this guy is. And until we, because everything keeps happening, you're like, who's paying for these Tesla
Starting point is 01:31:22 guys when they put a camera in their face, the guys that are doing the protesting, and they're like, whoop, what are you here for? And some guy was like, listen, they just paid me and who's paying for it? That's the guy, that's the enemy right there, that's him. He looks way worse right now. Tom, Tom, thoughts? I think you're exactly right.
Starting point is 01:31:39 And I think what we have right now is there is a desire to create this massive division. And when you take a look, there are forces behind the forces. And if you go upstream far enough, you know what they want. They do not want a sovereign United States. A sovereign United States is the shining city on the Hill. It is not...
Starting point is 01:31:59 The experiment that is in the United States is working. And they want to destroy it. They want to destroy family. They want to destroy the faith structures that are in the United States. And they want to foment dissent. His own country, Hungary, won't have him back. Yeah, what does that say?
Starting point is 01:32:17 He's from Hungary. That was the first one. You know, we don't want this guy. And you know what? I don't think any of the rest of you guys should either. Well, what's left? Where does he go? Well, he'll figure it out. And you know what? I don't think any of the rest of you guys should either. Well, what's left? Where does he go? Well, he'll figure it out.
Starting point is 01:32:26 And you take a look how he, the history of how he bet against the UK pound sterling and the monetary system to destabilize it. He is a globalist that believes- Can I challenge you guys on this? Yeah. With something very weird. Okay. How do you like Scott Besson?
Starting point is 01:32:46 The treasurer secretary? How do you like him? Seems to be doing a pretty decent job. Tom, you like him? Adam, your mic is too slow, you gotta do some of your bubbles. But how do you like him? Well, so far about a six. I like his tone, I like his style,
Starting point is 01:33:01 but I'm kinda waiting for the shoe to drop because there's a little bit of background there that I hope. You give him a six? I think you're more than a six, Tom, when you and I speak. You sound like you trust the guy, okay? I think he's pretty solid. I think so far he's done okay. I like his temperament.
Starting point is 01:33:16 I like the way he's managing. What job does he have? It's not a small job. Secretary of what? Treasury. Treasury. Right? State is Rubio, if I'm not mistaken. DHS is Kennedy, and then
Starting point is 01:33:30 DNI is Tulsi, but this is Scott Besson. You want to know the craziest thing about Scott Besson? Rob, can you go to his LinkedIn, please? Go to Scott Besson's LinkedIn. Go to LinkedIn and type Scott Besson. Anybody knows where I'm going with this or no? Raise your hand if you know where I'm going. Okay, so stay on this.esson, anybody knows where I'm going with this or no? Raise your hand if you know where I'm going. Okay, so stay on. Like eight of you guys know where I'm going with this. Just a funny part about this that I don't like to be spooked and jump to conclusion with everything.
Starting point is 01:33:55 I want to kind of study a little bit more. Is there a LinkedIn or no, Rob? You can't find something? Okay, then maybe go and type in, what did Scott Besson do on Chad GBT before becoming the Secretary of Treasury? Just type in what did Scott, let's just look at it together and we'll go through it. And Pat, his job, he took a Janet Yellen spot? This is Janet Yellen?
Starting point is 01:34:15 Secretary of, no, that's Fed. She was the Fed, right? Treasury was who? Was it Yellen? Was it Janet Yellen, Tom? Whose job did Besson take? Yeah, no, she's had both jobs, I believe. So watch this here.
Starting point is 01:34:28 So he was a tenure at Soros Fund Management. Uh-oh. Weird. But watch this. 1991, Besant joined Soros Fund Management and rose to become one of the heads of the firm's London office. He played a pivotal role in the firm's 1992 bet against the British pound, an event that led to substantial profits from the Black Wednesday currency crisis.
Starting point is 01:34:49 After leaving Soros Fund Management in 2000, he was there for nine years, he returned 11 years later as the Chief Investment Officer overseeing the firm's global investment strategy until 2015. So let me get this straight. So who works for a company for 11 years, for how many years? Go back, go back up top. Who works for a company for nine years, leaves, and then comes back to Vita for five years? Somebody that hates the job or likes the job?
Starting point is 01:35:14 Likes the job. So why would he come back? To George Soros? To George Soros. I mean, when the money's good, Pat, when you're getting what you want, you know, some people sold their soul. Do you think that's what it Pat, when you're getting what you want, you know, some people sold their soul. Do you think that's what it is, Tom? Excuse me?
Starting point is 01:35:28 Do you think that's what it is? Why does somebody work, look guys, you guys know where I stand politically. I'm not one that is very shy about where I lean. But at the same time, I have questions. So sometimes some questions we ask is like, this is part of our values. Debate. So then sometimes some questions we ask is like this is part of our values debate this guy goes for source for nine years comes back and becomes the chief investment officer Chief go back up Rob is an investment officer when he went away
Starting point is 01:35:54 The key group was funded by Soros. It's two billion dollar seed fund That's but so where are you going with this? No, I'm saying his alignment with Soros was pretty consistent. Do you think till today Scott Besson is probably friends with Soros? I would go on a hundred percent. But do you trust Scott Besson? When it comes to that, that's why I'm happy. Did you know about this? I have no idea.
Starting point is 01:36:19 Who here did not know about this, by the way? Okay, but does this change your mind at all? He's doing a pretty good job. He's doing a pretty good job. He's doing a pretty good job. How do you feel about the fact that he's doing a pretty good job so far? How do you feel about the fact that maybe he has been in those meetings and in the rooms and he's got the right phone calls? Why would Trump hire him?
Starting point is 01:36:37 You think Trump is good with sorrows? What's Trump doing? So where do you go with this? Do you automatically jump to conclusion to go in and say, holy shit, there's something going on? Or does credit go to a guy like Trump that says, I want to hire a team of rivals? Like the book that was written about Reagan, not Reagan, Lincoln many, many years ago. So is this Trump's genius?
Starting point is 01:36:58 Is this where Trump is saying, well, if we're going to find a way to make this work, maybe I'm going to bring a little bit of this guy because everybody hates that guy. I got one guy on here, open AI, Sam Altman, who's got very weird accusations. One the whistleblower, one his sister. Then on this other side, I got Elon Musk. These guys hate each other, absolutely hate each other. They're in the room together. How does that make you feel?
Starting point is 01:37:21 Can I ask you a question? Yeah, for sure. How would I do this? You're, I'm trying to make every, okay, so Tom is George Soros. You're Patrick McDavid, you own the company, okay? I am the guy that worked for him for all those years. And by the way, Tom has talked so much shit about you.
Starting point is 01:37:42 I'm talking about that's George Soros hates Donald Trump. He hates you, right Pat? And now would you hire him to come work for Valuetainment for after everything that you know he despises you. I'm sorry, Tom's, Tom's. I'm with you, I'm fine. You know where I'm at. You're confused.
Starting point is 01:38:01 Would you, would you hire? That was a very clear question. Just answer. Vini, what's your point? Train left at 9 p.m. Would you feel comfortable hiring a guy that worked for a guy for all the years that despises you and actively has been trying to destroy you for all these years? Because everything leads to him.
Starting point is 01:38:23 So let me ask you this question. Who brought Jay DeVance in? Kelly, who is that for, by the way? You're standing there like you want because everything leads to him. So let me ask you this question. Who brought JD Vance in? Kelly, who is that for by the way? You're standing there like you want to give it to somebody. Tom, can you give it to him? It's okay. So who brought JD Vance in? Who brought him in?
Starting point is 01:38:36 I think it was John Junior. Somebody said Trump Junior, right? But who else likes JD Vance? Peter Thiel. Thiel was also a fan of JD Vance. So if you think about that. So what does Trump do? What does Trump remember from first term?
Starting point is 01:38:53 What happened first term? A lot of people got fired. And by the way, we're about to get to 100 days. So far, who's been fired? The Laura Loomer situation with those six people getting fired. Mike Walsh, the Signal Gate, whatever they want to call it. But this time around, I don't know. I think he's taking a different strategy.
Starting point is 01:39:12 Let me tell you, there is, I remember one time a couple of my guys came up to me and they said, so is this the real reason why we do XYZ and this is what we do. And I'm like, to try to explain to them how much stuff we're doing behind closed doors to get all the dots to connect is so overwhelming for them to know that I'm like, listen, no, we're not doing that but one day you'll know. It took five years for them to know what we're doing. I don't know if we're going to know all of it. Just so you know, I'm not 100% supportive, I'm not 100% skeptical thinking this is a Soros connection.
Starting point is 01:39:52 All I'm saying is, we need to know that this guy worked for Soros for 13 years. And whatever that means, I don't know. Then I can sit there and say, Team of Rivals, or I can sit there and say, Soros got a guy in. I don't know what that is. But to me, Scott seems like a pretty straight up guy, so far. But again, remember this whole thing got started with what? We don't know who these executive teams that he's hired are working together or not. It's way too early.
Starting point is 01:40:20 We were at the UFC, okay? We're in the room. It's me, Tico's there, it's so funny. Dana White meets Tico. It's the funniest interaction they have together. I'm like, you okay if I tell the story? So Dana meets Patrick. They shake hands.
Starting point is 01:40:36 Dana's like, holy shit, you got some mittens there. What are these? Tico's got very big hands, and he's 13 years old, size 10 and a half feet. Okay, so he's 13 years old, size 10 and a half feet. So he's stacked. So he says, so let's talk about fighting. Do you fight? I said, yeah, he did jujitsu for about two and a half years.
Starting point is 01:40:54 He says, why don't you like it? He says, doesn't want to say this, I'll tell you what he told me. He says, dad, why would I do jujitsu where guys are on top of me? I want to learn how to punch and kick them to get them away from me. And then Dana says, well, at least you know your son's not gay. He's straight. Such a funny story. But we're there.
Starting point is 01:41:21 We're in the back. All right. It's us, Brekka, Marco Rubio, Tulsi. No, she's not here yet. Bobby Kennedy on this side. I think that's it. That we're in the back, right? Yeah, it's just us.
Starting point is 01:41:36 And then all of a sudden, you see Musk shows up with X. You see Trump showing up. Then you see Tulsi. Then you see Ted Cruz, then you see, who else was there? Am I missing anybody? Oh, Cash Patel? Cash was there. They all show up. And you watch all of them together. They're all enjoying each other's company. They're all happy. Can you imagine? They're negotiating hundreds of deals. Think about it for some of you guys that are like, man, life is so busy, dog.
Starting point is 01:42:06 I had such a rough week. I just want to chill at the house. This guy's like, all right, all these deals that we're doing with people around the world, shit's on fire, market tank, let's go watch a UFC fight. Think about the way this guy's wired. And he's 78 years old. The card ends, I don't know what time the fight is. Two o'clock in the morning it ends.
Starting point is 01:42:25 They barely leave. Gets back, leaves, doesn't stink, energized, not yawning, fired up. Granddaughter's there and they're on Air Force One and he's looking at the, you know, the media interview and he says, here, go look at this. This is what fake news looks like. Look at all these guys. What do you want to tell fake news? Is there anything you want to tell fake news?
Starting point is 01:42:43 And she's like, no, thank you so much for being here. Why? Let me tell the fake news what I think about these guys. The way he is energized, excited, getting all this stuff done, maybe he thinks he can get all these guys to kind of work together and he's allowing all of them to fight with each other. Because he's running a hundred companies altogether at the same time. And just so you know, what's the biggest company's annual budget per year?
Starting point is 01:43:12 What's the biggest company's in America budget per year? Okay, so for example, Apple is worth what? Three trillion dollars. What's Apple's OpEx per year, Rob? Type in AppleOpex. AppleOpex per year. What does it say? What does it say?
Starting point is 01:43:31 $12.5 billion in quarter one, which means what? $50 million a year. Okay? Okay? That's the biggest company in America. You guys are ready for this? Kennedy, who runs DHS, you know what his budget is per year? One and a half trillion dollars.
Starting point is 01:43:48 Holy moly. That's not one company. Let me tell you what that is. That's one and a half trillion. It's 30 Apple budgets. One guy is running 30 Apples. That's what they're doing right now. And they're at a freaking UFC fight.
Starting point is 01:44:03 Until three o'clock in the morning. To tell you the way these guys are running and gunning and doing what they're doing right now. And they're at a freaking UFC fight. It's all three o'clock in the morning. To tell you the way these guys are running and gunning and doing what they're doing. So I don't know what's going on. He's managing all these personalities and stuff's gotta get done though. They're getting close to stuff getting done. Things gotta close.
Starting point is 01:44:17 Things gotta close. Was Scott Besson at UFC? No. Scott Besson wasn't at UFC. Good, get your ass to work buddy. Inflation. Yes, Scott. Okay, the economy, tariffs. You're doing go-no UFC for you Scott. All right. Let's do one last story here before we wrap up. I want to do a fun story. Oh. You guys
Starting point is 01:44:33 okay if we do an emotional story like a sentimental type of story? Do we have any ladies in the house or no? Ladies make some noise. God, I love it. They did this for you, what I'm about to read. You were their inspiration. They wanted to inspire you. It's very important for us to give proper respect to these ladies. Where are they at? Right there.
Starting point is 01:44:58 Gail King, disappointed by the backlash to Blue Origin, Flight accuses critics of sexism and New York Post, can you go to the New York Post story cover? What a phenomenal title. Whoever came up with this title, give this guy a freaking raise. Send him to the spa. I just want to, just show the link Rob, just go to the link. Tell me how, this is not awesome. Astronaut.
Starting point is 01:45:27 Okay, look at this. Rob is going to figure this out. Astronaut conspiracy theories swirl about Katy Perry's faked Blue Origin space mission. Alright, so before we show, just show the legendary landing real quick, Rob. This is such a beautiful moment. This may be greater than us landing. Look at this. Look at the way it lands to the ground. None of them break their backs. Watchful. Wow. Southwest Airlines lands just like this. The frickin music it's awesome Right gladiator type all
Starting point is 01:46:10 maximum Look at that My back would have been shattered you see it How sick is that right just like? motivating However, there's been some critics saying some stuff in it. Really? Rob, I don't know if you have any of the critics stuff or not. Do you have any of this stuff on how they open a door first and then they have to reopen a
Starting point is 01:46:31 door and they have to say go back in there and then Jeff Bezos falls, poor guys tripping, he's having a hard time. Look at this here. Which one is this Rob? Tell us. This is the door being opened from the inside. So can you tell, Tom, tell everybody here why they changed to make sure the door doesn't open to the inside before each, go ahead, go ahead, Tom, give us the, give us a break. Because there's pressure. You've seen all pictures. What happens when an airplane loses a window at like 30,000 feet, right?
Starting point is 01:46:59 It's madness, right? All the stuff you can get sucked right out of there just just like a guy Pat's eyes will go right out the window like going through a meat grinder. And so when this thing goes all the way up and comes back, there's this process they have to do to open the door and to allow the pressure to equalize outside the inside. And so it's not just like you just open it because the pressure inside is actually lower.
Starting point is 01:47:24 So you open that door door that thing would flip open and you'd have your bell rung. Open it up Rob. Watch this. Jeff Bezos out there right by the capsule kind of hard to see that is Jeff Bezos out there right by the capsule? Kind of hard to see. That is correct. I have to pee. Is that Jeff Bezos or our founder? No, no.
Starting point is 01:47:49 He has to step up with the official doohickey thing. Rob, what else you got? Because there's a bunch of them. I have Gail King claiming that it was sexist. Go ahead and play this clip. Go ahead, Rob. I don't like that people are calling it a ride. You never see a man, a male astronaut, who's going up in space and they said, oh, calling it a ride. You never see a man, a male astronaut,
Starting point is 01:48:06 who's going up in space and they said, oh, he took a ride. We actually duplicated the route that Alan Shepard did. That's why it's called, this particular capsule is called the New Shepard. We duplicated that route. No one said he took that ride. It's always referred to as a flight or a journey. So I feel that that's a
Starting point is 01:48:25 little disrespectful to what the mission was and what the work that we were she was okay Martin let's try one remember big you got it the Ford it's a big deal event is on how's that a little bigger the Ford it's a big deal event nice now the offer? Lease a 2025 Escape Active All-Wheel Drive from 198 bi-weekly at 1.99% APR for 36 months with 27.55 down. Wow, that's like $99 a week. Yeah, it's a big deal. The Ford It's a Big Deal Event. Visit your Toronto area Ford store or Ford.ca today.
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Starting point is 01:49:23 Hey I can upgrade my kids! You chill, Mom. I'll load the dishwasher. Awesome! Exclusions apply. See Specsavers.ca for details. Offer ends soon. We went on a mick. Can you put Katy Perry kissing? Listen, the love for Earth, Mother Earth. Rob, just showie put Katy Perry kiss it. Oh listen like the love for Earth mother Earth Rob Just show the kiss Katy Perry, man. Yes, that's the part. There's the rocket if you don't have that Rob That's the part that really got me the most you have it Adam your thoughts cuz I know this excited you a little bit
Starting point is 01:49:56 Okay, I swear on my life. I've heard nothing about the story. I'm not following this at all. What I Like literally nothing. I don't Katy Perry hasn't had a hit song in 10 years. Adam, they were freaking astronauts. Don't worry about it. But hold on. The first thing I did see was you tweet like, I don't even think this happened. Who tweeted?
Starting point is 01:50:19 You tweeted something, maybe it was a fake PBD. Oh no, it was a wrong PBD. That's not me. Okay. I tweeted. I never tweeted this. Is there a fake PBD. Holy shit. You got me? That's not me. Okay. I tweeted. I never tweeted this. Don't you? Is there a fake PBD account?
Starting point is 01:50:28 There's an account called not PBD. He got me. He got me. Did he really tweet this? And he said, did anybody see that? Okay, help me out here buddy, I'm drowning. Okay. Speak loudly.
Starting point is 01:50:43 What did the tweet say? Speak loudly. What did the tweet say? Good job, buddy. All it said was I'm not the only person that's skeptical of this thing even happening. And I was like what? What is this? Katy Perry is a space astronaut now? What do you think actually happened?
Starting point is 01:51:00 Let me just see Katy Perry kissing the ground. Go ahead Rob. Oh my God. Listen, this is a moment. Look at this moment. Look at this moment. So awesome. So okay, so Vinny, what thoughts do you have about this one? That almost got me emotional, but first of all, did you guys know how much it costs like on that like
Starting point is 01:51:25 the reports say how much passengers pay for these flights this isn't free you know that right does anybody know the range of prices? Alright so passengers have paid anywhere from 200,000 to a million depending on the flight and who's on board this one was probably up there. Let's do it. I'm in I love roller coaster rides. The first seat ever auctioned, you know how much the first seat was auctioned for ever
Starting point is 01:51:51 when they went? $28 million to do that. And by the way, this whole crazy ride, it wasn't 11 minutes, it was 10 minutes and 21 seconds. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah, and it wasn't space travel. Okay, check this out guys. They technically crossed the Carmen line, which is 62 miles, but they hit it for a moment at apogee, but with no orbital insertion. Okay.
Starting point is 01:52:13 Which the rocket looked pretty weird. I'm sorry. Sounds real hot. There's kids here. All right. And immediately dropped back to earth. So the weightlessness, if you guys see the weightlessness that they experience was just freefall like the top of a roller coaster You know that the top that you hit that's what they experience Okay, real astronauts on the ISS experience today. They hit a microgravity They didn't okay, and that what pissed me off about what Gail Gail You know what Gail King said she said this was gonna inspire women to be astronauts is that no? Yeah, that Lauren Sanchez on the left? Yeah, that's Lauren Sanchez. Oh, that's Jeff Bezos' fiance?
Starting point is 01:52:48 Yeah, where the hell have you been? Adam Hives, 2025. It all makes sense now. Where the hell have you been? Just funding his girlfriend's lifestyle, I guess. Yeah, done. Makes sense. But this is what pissed me off about Gayle King.
Starting point is 01:52:59 She said, this is gonna inspire women to be astronauts. Why would you wanna do that? So they could go into space and be stranded for nine months like Sunita Williams and Barry Mulmort. Remember that? Guys, think about this. We just had two astronauts, real astronauts, not these fantastic cosmonauts. We had freaking two people stranded for nine months that Biden wasn't going to get because
Starting point is 01:53:21 Elon wanted to help. They left their asses up there to die. This is getting way more news than that. Should've changed the name NASA to Nada. The Nada. Are we coming back on a flight? Nada. Yeah, and Tom, what was your analogy with all this? Oh, with all this, how many people think this really happened?
Starting point is 01:53:38 How many people think it's like CGI fake all the way? I don't believe all of it. I think it's a fake capsule with fake people, celebrities, fake boobs, fake lips, fake landing after a fake launch in a rocket that looks like a slong. You know, it's like. And by the way, Tom, congratulations. Guys, no footage of the inside when they launched.
Starting point is 01:54:00 It's getting late. What did you want? Tom wants a cigar. He wants a drink. Yeah, he does. No helmets, right? No helmets. The landing, even though it was big on impact, actually, you know, guys, you saw that nitrogen explosion? That's normal. Just off of the landing. You're still going to be hitting hard. No helmets. And yeah, where is it? There's no footage of the inside. There's actually one, Rob. Look at look at that guys my back would have shattered my sciatic nerve mom you know what's up but guy Rob can you find by
Starting point is 01:54:30 there's one photo there's one photo of a hand and it's a black female's hand tell me it doesn't look like it's a mannequin hand can you find that Rob did you find that photo just put put mannequin hand. It looks so fake inside. Let me see if Rob can find it. Look at that. Zoom in on that. That's a plastic fake hand. What is that? That looks like a freaking, right?
Starting point is 01:54:54 T-Gone's like a mannequin. What? I don't believe it. I don't believe it, guys. Hold on. If you're going to do this mission and celebrate in a flower in mid-flight, where's the launch? Don't you want to be in there? Where's that footage?
Starting point is 01:55:05 That's what I want to see. Why don't you issue a challenge to Jeff Bezos and like put your money where your mouth is, send me to space. We're not talking. See if we'll do it to you. We're not on talking terms right now. I got two things.
Starting point is 01:55:14 What is this, Rob? Oh, this was the thing that allegedly PBD posted. Stop it. You think I would post something like that? Can somebody pull that up? He wouldn't do that, but look at that patch. Whoever does not PBD account, what does he say? Patching. Okay Patrick okay was the parody
Starting point is 01:55:26 account they got me they got me freaking Adam what is this Rob this is the fake PBD account that I fell for yeah because you know what you know that I thought it was the launches you don't know what the hell is it what is this show me what it was this is a patch on their shirt on her on her on her It says this is like the Satan backwards or whatever. Well read the read the caption if you don't mind This is a rob. This is happening way too often to be a coincidence and it's Listen, not PBD is better at tweeting than PBD I just realized I'm not even following you Listen, not PBD is better at tweeting than PBD. That God Adam. I just realized I'm not even following you.
Starting point is 01:56:06 I'm following fake PBD. And just I'm going around. You see what my boss said? That's my guy. Yeah, it was all Satan. What? Funny. Anyway, let's go to space, dude.
Starting point is 01:56:17 That's the last story. If they did or if they did not, funny as hell. I'm not sure it's going to inspire anybody to be an astronaut with that story. Gang, for everybody out there that you're with us still, today is Thursday, tomorrow is Easter. Happy Easter, everybody. Enjoy it with your family, enjoy the weekend, and to everybody that's here, VIPs,
Starting point is 01:56:38 we're about to go to the cigar lounge, have a drink, have a cigar, have some good conversations. Everybody else... Tomorrow's Good Friday, Sunday. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I gotta correct you. You know why I said Easter?
Starting point is 01:56:49 You know why I said Easter? Why do you think I said Easter? Because you're thinking of Pesos or something like that? Because, because, because Jennifer's, we're looking at scheduling calendar with the kids of what two, three events we're going to. We have the Derby going out, we have SLS going out, we have Easter going out, we have all this stuff going out, but tomorrow's Good Friday, enjoy the day with your families. But we're going to go out there in the back right now with the cigar lounge.
Starting point is 01:57:10 All the premium and the generals, thanks for coming out. Have a good night everybody, everybody out there. We will be doing many more of these and this next time when we announce to the public, we'll give you more than two day warning. Next time we'll announce it four weeks in advance when we do this. Reason for it, somebody was supposed to be here with us tonight, it'll be announced here soon. It'll be the next one that we'll be doing here together.
Starting point is 01:57:33 God bless everybody. Take care. Bye bye, bye bye..

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