PBD Podcast - Cornell Case Reopened, Tel Aviv Plane Attack & Jobs Report Update | PBD Podcast #866

Episode Date: October 2, 2026

Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team break down the alleged cockpit attack aboard a Tel Aviv-bound flight, the reopening of the Cornell University rape investigation, and the latest developments ahead of the 2026 midterms. Plus, Kalshi’s explosive growth, rising everyday costs, China’s new AI Cold War, Iran sanctions, AI disruption, Diddy at Fort Dix, and more.-------👞 Get the NEW Billionaire Suede Loafer: https://bit.ly/4ym5oRA👕 SHOP THE ICON COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/3TuUU3x👞 GET THE FLB1's: https://bit.ly/4mC4uf6Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4kSVksoⓂ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/4lzQph2🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj🇰 KALSHI: http://kalshi.com/pbdSUBSCRIBE TO:@VALUETAINMENT@BetDavidConsulting@vtgenz@ValuetainmentComedyABOUT 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

Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweetly. I know this life man for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever size. Right here. You are a one of one?

My son's right. I don't think I've ever said this before. Like. Inmate survives execution. What a story, by the way. We got, we're last minute. preparing all the stories. Tom's here talking about Diddy because

I don't even want to get into the name of the place. I'm apparently at a Diddy party many, many years ago. I think it's cool where he's staying. Yeah. And but obviously some interesting stories to cover here. MLB, this guy,

Pine Tar, Sunny Gray. And then you got the other story. Peyton, Toley. Phenomenal story. You're so pretty. Like, we have to play that for you to know how phenomenal the story that is, but Major League Baseball, apparently during the playoffs, there's this thing called

playoffs, and they're all fighting for this thing called the World Series. And there's this one company in the Major League Baseball that spends billions of dollars that is causing a potential strike to come around the corner name Dodgers, I think, is what they call them. And they're going to be playing the Braves, right? The Yankees will be playing. It's all our fault. The Yankees are playing.

The Yankees are playing. The Tampa Bay. Yankees are going to Tampa Bay. This would be the series of the playoffs right now. It's a big series. Chicago. Sox against Cleveland, I believe. Correct.

And then the other one is San Diego is going against... Milwaukee. A hot San Diego going up to Milwaukee with all that talent. So who do you not want to face? Milwaukee or San Diego? Who do you now want to face? You know what? A hot San Diego team is very hard to face.

Scary, yeah. But they're thin in their pitching. Physically? No, they're thin in pitching. Yeah. And so I would take them over Milwaukee. Milwaukee's got more talent. All right.

And then we have jobs before. Never won a World Series. Oh, wow. That's pretty. Even with Robin Yount and all those guys. Never won a World Series and one other thing. Dodgers swept him in the NLCS. So they got a chip.

I got it. So Jobs Report will get into, Vinnie, when you have the numbers ready, just give it to us on what's going on with the job reports. What is the story about, this pilot, 14,000 feet drops, nose dive in 30 seconds. Where the guy based on a TV show he watched, he got in there and saved the folks. And this is almost like a guy. And then all of a sudden he gets off, he goes, BBC and him, people are saying this was a setup. to get sympathy and sympathy. This is not a real thing.

It's from a TV show. It was a show. That has really happened. And CNN did a simulate, you know, like, hey, this is kind of what it would look like. I don't know if we have the video or not. You want to say it to guys. We'll have the pilot.

And then there's this other, the Cornell rape case that came up, which is very weird. So at first, this girl allegedly, well, not allegedly, she allegedly snorted cocaine off of the guys, head of me, head of me, out of the guys dangling. Yes. Right?

Sure, it was a, but she was a, it was a bump. It was a bump. It was quick. So she gets this. Nothing to see here. And then she texts one of the guys that she had hooked up with. With two other guys. And then she texts the guy and says, hey, I really enjoyed it.

Then a few months later, she realizes she can no longer be invited back to the parties because she was a, you know what? Labeled. Yeah. And then she then decides to go out there and say she was raped. And this story is a massive story. All these guys are getting caught up. It reminds me of the allegations.

Tom, in the past when, was it Penn. I don't know which one it was. It was the players that were stuck in this rape allegation athletes that ruled Oh, wait a minute. You're talking about the Duke La Crosse. With the Crooked District Attorney. Exactly. It reminds me that they're trying to just throw these guys under the bus. So we'll go into that case.

Definitely. Many people wrote checks to the Duke La Crosse player. Listen. And then we have the other story, which is kind of weird. There's Krista Pike. P-I-K-E. Pike. In Tennessee, she is being executed because she's on death penalty. First time they fail, second time they fail.

Now people are saying, wait a minute, what's going to happen with this girl? Are they going to be able to do it again? And then this has happened. And second time they've had a failed execution in the same year, in the same state. Tennessee, they're horrible at killing people. And now people are sympathizing and saying, my God, why, you know, this poor girl, if you're going to kill her, don't kill her like this, like kill her. But then they forget, Vinnie's telling me the story of how,

her and her boyfriend, she had a problem with this other girl. They go take her out with a rock, apparently they hit the head, and then she keeps a piece of the girl's skull and brags about it to her friends. These are the types of friends you don't want in life, Adam. True advice. Friends like these, Pat. Yeah, so that's now a story. We'll get into it. Some are saying, hey, we got to bring back, you know, the, what do you call it, the electric chair. And this is all happening during the year where the governors are debating to become. the governor because it's like open season right now. So it's become a topic of discussion.

We'll talk about that. And then heating oil, if you're on East Coast, if you're an East Coast, you know, Tom was talking about this. Tom's been whispering to people saying, hey, even here, every time we turn on the heat there, it says, turn it off.

We got to save it for, you know, winter's coming. But all jokes aside, you know, apparently it is so cold in the East Coast that even the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox had to use pine tar. Because the ball was so cold that he had to use pine tar to try to beat the Yankees to kind of be able to have a little bit more velocity, which, you know, some people that are playing. Slider spin.

Yeah, sliderspin. And he had it that night. But the reality of it is, if this thing goes in the direction that it does, that whole statement of winter is coming, it could be coming to certain states. And when it does, it could be problematic. We'll cover that. I know we talk about a lot of diesel. We talk about gasoline. But this is a complete different conversation.

We'll have that as well. And then there's this actress that we just have to play this video for you. We don't want to do it, you know. This actress that says, I wish my son was, she's saying that his son was, her son was gay. And she was disappointed that her son didn't want to, and you just have to watch this video. What a disappointing son. You would think if this is an act or not, you know, this girl right here. What's her name, by the way, Cameron?

Nobody knows. Yeah. So anyways, we'll watch this as well. Maybe you agree. Maybe you don't agree. And then we've got a couple other stories We'll get into outside of that There's a story about childless adults

Are spending more money on toys than parents Let me say that one more time Childless adults These are people that don't have kids Are spending more money for toys for themselves Not adult toys like you go to You know, you know, triple X toy stores And you got certain toys

Not handcuffs stuff like that We're talking about toys or us type of toys So childless people that don't want to have kids They want to buy toys So you know who's making a comeback Toys R Us is making a come back Just for these guys because they want to buy toys But you didn't know that?

They're making a comeback And then MLB rises for attendance Four years straight To 71.75 million According to ABC News Exciting stuff that's going on there And the Astros We'll cover these sports stories at the end

For some of you guys I want to hear this The Astros had 7,000 empty seats and a playoff game. Playoff? Playoffs. Nine games at home. They've lost, and the fans are furious, booing them. They barely made the playoffs with 81 and 81.

Best record, and there were 500 after 162 games, and fans are pissed off. We'll cover that. Should be. They should be. Yeah, with that being said, we got a special announcement for you, if you notice why I'm wearing the jacket here,

this beautiful jacket that on the back, it says, faith over fear. I want my friend to my love. You're right, Vincent Oshana, to tell you about this jacket. Well, thank you, Pat. So guys, we had this jacket for insiders only at the vault, and they were sold. I think they sold in two days.

I called you, I'm like, Vinnie, let's go out lunch. You're like, Pat, I can't. Everybody wants this jacket. Everybody was buying this jacket. So I want to let you guys know, the front of it has our crest. We have the lion crest here as well. And on the back, guys, like our hat say,

Faith over fear, and this is kind of small. This is letting people know right off the jump. Faith over fear is on the back. That's sick. Is that ridiculous? With Hebrews 111 on the back, the inside of the jacket, it has all of our, all of our VT Quest. I'm telling you right now, how warm is it?

We're talking about winter. Be real. It's freaking warm in this thing. I love it. So, guys, and everybody was asking. And I'm telling you guys right now, limited supply, we only have 100. 100. And they're going to go like that.

A guy came up to you. What did he, an atheist? I'm outside. Adams inside the store talking to people taking photos. A guy goes out to me running the jack. He's like, Vinny. Oh my God. He goes, listen, I'm going to be honest with you.

I'm not a big believer. I believe in some spiritual something. I'm basically an atheist, but I had to rock the jacket because I love how it looks. An atheist bought this jacket, and Adam was there. Adam's my witness. So anyway, guys, go right now to FLB.com and get yours. I'm almost positive. This is going to be gone by the time the shows.

And by the way, if you do it right, get the hat and the shirt with it to have the entire combination, the white shirt that goes with it. And kind of like Vinny right now, the white shirt, the jacket and the hat. Go to phobb.com, less than a hundred of these jackets left, especially by sizes. All right. With that being said, let's get right into it. Tom, the first thing I want to talk about is Jobs Report. So last month, you were a little bit pissed off because Kevin Warsh comes out and he raises the rates and you were furious.

We had to kind of calm you down. We got your cups of coffee. We got your all this stuff to come. We brought you different bottles of wine. But Tom's like, Warsh made a mistake. You shouldn't raise the rates because you just don't do that, right? Anyways, then the report comes out today and inflation, Tom, why don't you tell the audience what happened with inflation going up,

and I know you have your opinions on it, and we'll hash it out here together, but go for it. Okay, just from the last hour, so what we're talking about, you may see headlines America in the last hour. The jobs report was expected to be about $85, $89,000. And they also expected inflation to be about 4.1%. This report comes out every month, and here we are September 2nd. So here comes the reports for October 2nd, excuse me, it's October 2nd. Here comes the report for September.

It comes out and it was 29,000 jobs, not 8589, so that's 60,000 less, means jobs cooling. And they said unemployment went from 4.1 where it had been for a couple months. I think three months in a row, it's from 4.1. It went to 4.2. That's a very minor uptick. Unemployment. Right. So inflation went what?

What direction did inflation? I think you're talking about inflation. No, no, the unemployment rent, 4-1 to 4-2. So those two things were in the jobs report. And so everyone was cheering this morning because what this means is that the Fed had said they were going to raise rates in October. And by the way, you know, the Fed meeting

was actually three weeks ago that I was so upset. And now the next Fed meeting is like right in front of us, Pat. It's October 28, 29th. So it's coming up quick in exactly four weeks. And so this morning, the bonds went down, and the market went up in response to this. And people are saying this now puts pressure on the Fed to not raise rates again because they said they're going to raise them in October.

And I don't think you should have raised them last time. But this data says don't do it again. And there's a lot of people, including me, they're happy about this. Yeah. And this now gives you the moral authority to push on Warsh and say, look, if unemployment is going in this direction now, now you've got to lower the rates. Because his argument was inflation, right? because I think inflation went up.

Correct. It rose 0.2% for the month and 3% year over year. And that's his biggest trigger, Tom, if I'm not mistaken. But people like me are fighting on that. I know. I say it's because of diesel. The diesel that's 650, by the way, over the weekend, it was 805.

I double-checked in California. They have those extra taxes. It was 805 diesel. So to deliver Amazon, to take strawberries from the field to the market, anything that diesel does, it inflates the price in our economy. But it's not sector inflation. It's a shock of the oil and the supply.

So I call that not real inflation, because as soon as you can get diesel back down, everything else comes back down. And Worse looked at it and said it was full inflation. There's my debate on inflation. Okay. Adam, your thoughts on this? Well, look, I just want to compare the United States unemployment rate

to the rest of the world. Because sometimes it'll give you just context as to how are we doing? Because I actually believe that the economy is pretty stable, and especially regarding compared to other countries all the world. around the world. So let me give you this. So United States unemployment rate is around 4%, give or take, right? We're not getting to 4.1.4.4.4.4. 4.2, they say.

So here's compared to other countries around the world. Just a little context right here. You ready? Australia, 4.6%. United Kingdom, 5%. India, 5%. Brazil, 5.3. China, if you even believe, there are numbers. 5.4%. Canada, who's going to F around and find out with America with their little trade tiff, six and a half percent. Turkey, the great Ottoman Empire out there, almost 8%. France, 8 percent, woke and weird out there. South Africa, when we're talking G20 countries, 33%. So there's very few countries, Mexico, 3 percent, and Germany, 4 percent, that are even on

America's level. So let's give some context here. America's doing pretty damn good compared to all the major G20 countries around the world. You know, the average person is going to sit there and say, but we're America. It's not just about we're doing better than them. We're the greatest country in the world. We have to be crushing it better than everybody else. That doesn't mean we're not immune from situations.

Sure, but what I'm telling you is a lot of folks are going to sit there and say, hey, that's not us. We got to do better. And some people are still feeling what's going on today in the marketplace. How long that lasts, who knows. But I'm convinced, Tom, I don't think they'll be raising rates in the next time around when it comes back, Tom. I think it's going to be a flat. I don't think they'll, Tom, are you listening? Tom, I'm looking at you.

So they're not going to be raising rates. Stay well. I know you're watching the content as well. I don't think they'll raise the rates next time. I think they'll stay flat with us next time. I think it'll be a decision that you see numbers like this gives favor to guys like you to say, now pump the brakes. Now, here's a question.

What's the likelihood you think he'll lower the rates next time? Not great because the jobs report has happened now and the meeting is on the 28th, 29th of October, and we don't have any major reports coming out. So unless someone like an auto industry has three big companies make layoff reports in the month of October, he doesn't have the data that would push him to lower it. He only has, you know, people like me pushing, you know, hard

and Dr. J. Strategy pushing hard, you know, on this side of it. Don't push too hard, Tom. No, no, but there's no data. The next jobs report doesn't come out for October until like November 4th. I'll give you a little. So Pat, that's the answer. I don't think, I think he could keep flat. He'll be forced to.

But I don't think he can go down. There's something called the CME Fed Watch that agrees with basically what you're saying. They're basically saying the next time that there's a Fed meeting, the odds are, if you look at Calci as well, they're going to skip an increase in October, so keep things stable. And then in December, there's a 60% probability of a potential risk. rate hike. So brace for impact, winter is coming. Just shout out to Vinny. Rates may go up by the end of the year again. Again, they may go up. That's what they're saying, 60% chance in December. 60% in December. Okay, we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen. Next story here,

Adam really wanted to cover this story. It's a big story. It's a top story. Everybody's talking about this. And so, and that is what happened with the flight, the Dubai flight. Okay, so fly Dubai passenger, details treating wounded pilot after tying up suspect. Do you have a video on this? Do we have anything to show people with this. Because here's what we're learning about the flight Dubai co-pilot who allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane. Let me read this to you. One day after flight Dubai co-pilot, I made a violent attempt to crash the passenger aircraft

and was subdued by passengers and other crew members, questions about his identity, and motive continue to swirl Thursday. By the way, this is 14,000 feet. Vinny said nose dive 30 seconds. Is this the clip? Is this the clip? Okay, can you show what happened so that people realize? Is this showing pretty much what the flight was?

It's going down, down, that 14,000, and then takes a right turn. And it comes back up. Is this the CNN? Well, there's a pilot that's saying it's insane. You know how, Pat, when I say this is the pilot. This is the pilot saying that this is almost impossible. Go for it. Just coming into about 500 knots.

So some of the numbers that we're seeing from the reporting, initially are... They don't make sense to me, because if you're descending that rapidly, the aircraft would have disintegrated completely. So the numbers will change when we get to pro there and work. Oh, that's interesting. Because that those I mean, as you point out, those are only the numbers that

we have right now, but interesting that you said that that could have caused it to break apart, and that maybe some of those are a little higher than actually happened. We do know there was damage on the rudder, right, from whatever the speeds actually will turn out to be, and portions of it apparently tore away during flight. Now, obviously, with serious damage to the rudder,

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our hydraulic fuel. Excuse me, I'll get my words right here. The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was approaching Israel when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the flight captain and attempted to crash the aircraft. Israeli prime minister, BBS said the captain fought off the co-pilot long enough to unlock the cockpit door. Passengers then overpowered the co-pilot

and two off-duty pilots gained control and made an emergency landing in Tabook, Saudi Arabia. There are 174 people aboard. No passenger was seriously injured. The pilot sustained stab wounds. and Omani official confirmed to CBS news that the attacker was born in Oman and holds Omani citizenship.

Bibi speculated the incident looked like a suicide attempt and the personnel information gathered during the questioning had led Israel to conclude that the co-pilot underwent Islamic radical indoctrination. President Trump suggested a copilot

may have been linked to Iran based on what I'm hearing. Saudi Arabia said Thursday the co-pilot had been transferred to the UAE. Adam, thoughts on the story. Pat, the story is crazy. I mean, are you kidding me? And it hits very close to home

because I was just in Tel Aviv. And while I was in Tel Aviv, they're like, do you want to go to Dubai? I was like, I don't know if I have enough time. But this story is straight out of a motion. What just happened? Yeah, the pilots. This story in Israel and Dubai is straight out of a movie,

straight out of Dubai. And to me, there's a couple different stories here. Number one, it's a story of culture. Here you have a radicalism versus heroism. You have some guy that somehow, not 25 years after 9-11, are you telling me the terrorists are not hijacking the plane? they're in the cockpit now.

That's what's going on. That's the world we're living in right now. And then the second part of the story is heroism. We can focus all day on the Islamist. I guarantee you shout out the famous two words, a la Akbar before he tried to take this plane down. I'll guarantee you that. But I want to focus on the heroism. First and foremost, this Indian captain,

Smith, are you kidding me? Flying the plane all of a sudden gets stabbed. Next thing you know, he's trying to fight for his life, opens the cockpit door. You picked the wrong plane a la Akbar, buddy. You picked a plane full of badass Israelis.

Next thing you know, a plumber shows up. Not a military guy, not a captain. A plumber, straight out of don't mess with the Zohan, shows up like scrappy cocoa, making things silky smooth,

subdues the hijacker, whips him up, puts the cord around him from his headphones, ties him up, plane is plummeting. He saves the day. Next thing you know, they avoid another 9-11 style attack one week before October 7th. And then he shows up to Bibi Netanyahu's office. Bibi goes, how did you do this? He goes, yeah, I watched TV show. It's called the plane crash

investigations. This is how I learned from. Are you kidding me? Some plumber shows up, saves the day. Next thing you know, a dentist, don't call me not a doctor, a dentist, Sandwiches up the captain saves his life. He's fighting for his life, this Indian captain. This story could have ended so much uglier, so much worse. We don't know the motive yet? Well, I mean, we kind of know the motive. I'm being serious.

Do we know the motive? Well, I'll tell you this. I'll let you figure this out. One story is basically saying a radical jihadist pilot took over the plane and wanted to Allah Akbar things. Then you have the mainstream media basically saying an altercation. What I'm asking you is. Are there any passengers that said they heard or saw anything?

What I'm interested in is what did the 174 passengers say they saw? Did they say they heard anything? They didn't hear anything? Several passengers said they heard screaming and shouting from the cockpit while the aircraft was diving. One passenger's wife who was near the front with their daughter reportedly heard a struggle just before the wounded captain came through the cockpit doorway. When passengers rushed through, they said they saw the captain badly injured and bleeding, lying near the cockpit entrance, a dentist on board said the captain was in real bad shape,

with heavy bleeding, especially from the head. The co-pilot near the controls apparently trying to interfere with or damage the flight controls. Passenger Yaniv Huyan. That's the plumber. Okay, he said there was no pilot sitting normally in either seat when he entered. Passengers physically dragging the co-pilot out of the cockpit and restraining him in the cabin. Some accounts say they eventually tied him with corded headphones. Yep.

One passenger, Hanyu, then jumped back into. the cockpit, pulling the controls in an effort. A regular person jumps in a drop. Oh, let me, let me, can I just explain something to you? These are all regular people. And I want to give a shout out to the Israelis out there. Every single Israeli has to go to the IDF, has to go to the military for two years. And then they go live their normal life.

When you're walking around Israel, the plumber, he was in the military. The architect was in the military. The dentist was in the military. They are born and bred to deal with radical Islamists on an everyday. basis. So the plumber stay ready. You know, they say, stay ready so you don't have to get ready. This guy picked the wrong freaking plane. Any other plane. And this guy would have nothing about the guy that stabbed him. We know that he's a citizen of Oman. And all we know, they have not released his name. When they tied him up. His name, page photograph has not been released. I don't know what's

going on to the people of Saudi. And Pat, you're asking a question. He was just, he was just yelling one thing after they tied him up. You know what he was yelling? Kill me, please. Kill me, please. I want to die. Who did he say that? Who heard him say that? That's what the passengers were basically saying.

Moseyaf, who was the dentist, said he had another pastor then tied the suspect's hands with the headphones. The suspect said fewer words other than he was from Oman, and he told them, kill me, kill me, please. That's what they're dealing with. Yeah, one report says a fellow pilot described him as having joined fly Dubai only about eight months earlier and being unusually religious. including frequent prayer and avoiding handshakes with women.

Okay. This is the kind of stuff I want to know. And that's from the Indian Express. Those details come from secondary reporting and have not been publicly confirmed by fly Dubai. Some reports say pro-Palestinian, free Palestine material was fined among his belongings, but that claim is not yet confirmed by UAE authorities.

And so far, investigators have not established an Iranian connection, which is what the president said, or evidence that he was acting on behalf, of a foreign government, Israeli security has reported, leaned toward him acting alone on stage, and after the plane landed, he received metal treatment when he was detained,

he was subsequently transferred to Abu Dhabi, so they got to find out. The question is how quickly they're going to report on this. Vinnie, what are you on? Can you guys hear me? No, I can hear you. Oh, nothing. I mean, it's a miracle.

And Adam made a great point. It's like, if you're ready and you're always ready, you don't have to get ready. And the fact that, Pat, like, think about this, first of all, what about security? How in God's name that this guy bring a knife? Everybody has to go through metal detectors. I don't care who you are.

I don't know how they do it over there. Everybody has to get checked. Everybody has to go through screening ticket on there. Not only did he bring a knife on there, but you understand how much you have to be fighting to get that guy off and then to open the door. You have to open the door else it's going down. And that CNN simulator guy pays,

the majority of the time when this happens, they're all going to die. You're all going to die. everybody's going down. So he fought, he got him out there, and he, like, you can't ask for like, the scenario is, Pat, almost 99% of time, they're going to all die. You know, it's crazy? Let me tell you, I interview Jacob Coxon yesterday.

You guys know who he is? Yeah, of course. Jacob Coxon is the guy. This is the first long-form podcast he did. I can't wait for the audience. Just the first long-form podcast he did. The AI guy that left Anthropic and it was at Open AI for three years came in yesterday. We did a two-and-a-half-hour, two-hour podcasts, which I can't wait for the audience to see.

One of the questions I asked them Because they're like well he's tied to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton And that New Speak which was an organization of commies and socialists And he gives us answer about What that is but the one part I said You know are you a climate change person

You know you're young so typically it's the end of the world You know all these things he says I'm not He answers it himself you'll see it But the one thing he said I said some say You know if we don't build it China will Okay he says That's the wrong mentality.

Look what he said. Look what he said. He says, Patrick, we know China has spies working at Anthropic and Open AI that if they wanted to, they can take that technology and ship it off to China. The way they do it is they send Chinese nationals to work at Anthropic and Open AI. And then they're reporting back to China. So in the middle of the interview, we go and we start searching to see how many Chinese nationals are at the higher level of executives.

And I ask him names, you know, who he thought. You have to hear what he says his answers. Again, it comes out on Tuesday. But let me tell you what his answer was. This is the one part I'll reveal to the audience. He specifically said, I have a lot of friends that work at Anthroping, and they're going to be upset with me. He says, just like a foreign national cannot work for SpaceX,

a Chinese national cannot work for SpaceX, but they can work for Anthropic and they can work for, what he called, open AI. So he says, I think, as much as some of my friends, are going to be not happy with me, I don't think Chinese nationals should work for anthropic and open AIA. I agree. But here's where I'm going to.

So the part where I'm going to what this pilot stuff is, I don't know what fly Dubai's. I don't know what some of these guys are doing. I mean, listen, man, if you're flying a plane, some people may be sitting there saying, I need to know who the pilot is. Of course. As a passenger, do you think we have the right to know who the pilots are? Yes. Do you think it needs to do you, and I'm being honest with you, like, remember one time we got on a flight

and October 7th happened, it was the next day. Do you remember that flight? I don't know if you remember this or not. We're going to on a flight, I think the moment I tell you, Vinny, you'll remember this. You were on the flight as well. We're going on a flight. The pilot has flown me quite a few times.

I like this guy. Late 20s, early 30-year-old Jewish guy, former IDF. He comes in and he is shook up. Like when I tell you shook up, you can tell he hasn't slept at all. It's the next day. Now I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the next day.

And I'm like, how you doing? He says, not good. I said, how are you feeling right now? He says, the only thing on my mind is, I want to go back to Israel and fight for my country. Yep. So then I got on the fight and I'm like, oh, shit. Then I had to go find out who the co-pilot was.

By the way, I love this guy. He's a great guy. I had to go and say, let me see who the co-pilot is, because this guy is a little bit... He's not in the right place. Of course. So then I went and met the copilot. I'm like, okay, at least this guy's going to be good.

That's helping him out. The entire flight, I was concerned because he was in a place. Naturally, you can't blame the guy where he's at. When I hear stories like this, part of it to me as a passenger is going to be like, look, I need to know a report of who the pilot is before I get on the flight. Okay, here's who the pilots are. Boom, boom, boom. You know, like if you're going to, who's the Uber driver?

This is the Uber driver. Yeah, here's a breakdown. Okay, great. Here's what I want to know. I think there needs to be a scoring something that passengers get for pilots. Maybe don't give me to his full name. Maybe put John D. Larry J.

You know, Mary X, whatever. So you don't give the whole last name, but I get something. As we're going through this direction, we need to kind of find out who are these people that are getting these types of jobs. And as a person that's flying and travels a lot, you know, a co-pilot does this? So now you're not even protected from a co-pilot? Right. And you mean to tell me you couldn't. figured this part out as an institution and an organization. I mean, listen, we all make mistakes

as business owners, but that's a pretty rough place to be. You're dealing with people's lives. This is literally, this story could very easily be, 174 people were killed in a flight that crashed apparently, and we know nothing. Nope. To the black by the way, that's the story that should have happened. If they, if the, if the captain, thank God, wrestled out of the cockpit, open the cockpit door, The hero. The people came. The guy learned to fly the plane from watching TV show. Are you kidding me?

These people should all be dead. They should all be doing Hell Mary's and Baroque Hashem's right now. It's crazy. And I know Tom, once they say something, I'll say one last thing. This is the world we're living in right now. 25 years after 9-11, it's not terrorist hijackers who take over the plane. It's the actual captain of the plane. Let me tell you, though, you have to think like the enemy.

I'm telling you, Jacob Coxon yesterday, gave me perspective about, about AI, nobody else has given to me. Like, I can't wait for the audience to see this because I went in, I'm like, this guy's possibly a socialist, NGO, you know, all this stuff. You're going to walk away saying you like this guy, sincere. And by the way, you know what I asked him? Because to see, you know, where he's at. Remember the whole thing when the whistleblower, the parent whistleblowers came and said,

Sam Altman killed my son? The engineer. You should see the answer he gave. This is not a guy that was a fan. So, so anyways, all I'm all of them. This is all I'm tying it together with. I think the part about where companies have to be watching carefully is foreign nationals, working for a company that has actual direct impact to lives and direct impact to Intel,

AI, certain technologies that could. That is a valid, valid threat that people are bringing up, especially if you're a foreign national from China. if you're foreign national from some of these countries that are coming, you're working that we have to be careful with. You know how, like right now, one of the things that we have at our company that people have fun with is

who worked here that was former CIA? You know, you know that game that people play, okay? Who worked here that's with Mossad, right? And we know who that is, right? Who always comes here with Mossad agents? And it's always got these people and, you know, who is tied to this. And people joke with it.

Part of it is not a joke, by the way, just so you know. A part of it is not a joke. A part of it is you have to kind of find out where people are coming from. with the CIA have been here? I think so? I would say 95%.

Wow. Say it one more time? He says, do you think people who are dealing with CIA or Intel? Do you think, dude, let me tell you, if they started watching Reagan, 17 years before he ran for governor,

rushed at it, you think these people are not. You don't think people have come and worked you to see what the true motive is and go report it back to certain people. Of course. You're naive, but certain companies have to take it even beyond that. I don't know.

As a pilot, passenger, I would want to report on a pilot whatever flight I'm going to. I don't know if that report is even out there or not. Are you talking about when you fly private or when you fly public airplanes? Either way. No matter what it is. It needs to be, here you go. Private, I fully here's who the pilots are. How do you do that on a public plane? Are you going to leave the plane if you don't like what the, what the, no. Absolutely. Give me the option. Yeah, give me the option. How about this? 24. You know, they have those bands that tell you your workout and your heart rate and everything. I want to know for 24 hours. Did he sleep? Did you go to sleep? Did you got to a huge fight with your

wife you're dealing with someone's life well you're dealing with someone's life you can give ratings 4.7 5.0 whatever oh how do you do that on pilots I think the same thing needs to happen probably I think the same thing needs to happen all right so let's go to the next story next one to get into is um the story with very weird story folks I don't even know how to read this to you but uh this is the story of Cornell a rape story that came out with this young girl and let me just kind of go through the timeline because it is a crazy story right it is a crazy story right it is a crazy story apparently this girl was snored in ketamine off a guy's dangling

and I know that kind of sounds weird it's not like maybe everybody does that and I haven't been exposed to other stuff but apparently she was snored and ketamine off anyways let me kind of go through it timeline an upstate New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into claims of a former Cornell student was drugged

and raped by seven men by the how do you pronounce that chai-fi fraternity Kai-fi-fi-fi-Ferity house in 2004. Here's the timeline. August 2022, Jane Doe begins her freshman year at Cornell in Ethicon, New York, October 18th, beautiful day, 2024, which I'm saying the date. I'm born on that day.

I'm not saying it's a beautiful day because the incident that happened here. Someone overdoses on ketamine at the Kai Phi House per a redacted Cornell report. Next day, Jane Doe alleges she was drugged and gang rape by seven men at this party investigation documents she says she arrived already intoxicated. She says she kept drinking there and accepted drugs before agreeing to a threesome and losing consciousness. Next day.

A fraternity member alleges members messages that the Kifai Snapchat group claiming there was a, there was free sex upstairs. Okay, here we go. October 23rd. She texted a man who invited her, mail number one, my reputation is destroyed and I'm utterly ashamed. She texts. This is documented. October 30th. Texting mail number one after being uninvited to Kifai event, y'all aren't my friends.

Y'all are coven your asses. Okay. November 7th, 2024. Mail number one says he fears being labeled and assaulter, she replies, I haven't said anything, and I know there are rumors I was gang banged. November 8, 2024. She texts, I think I'm done talking to you. I know you lied.

Then files a police report. Cornell suspends the chapter and several students. Six days later, November 14. She gives a formal statement to the campus who refer it to direct district attorney, prosecutor, declined to charge. 12 days later, November 26th. Interim President Michael Kotlikov

cites serious and deeply disturbing allegations of drug abuse and sexual violence at the Kaifai Fraternity House. January 14, 2025. Cornell opens a Title IX, is that Title IX or Title 11, investigation to her formal complaint. February 6, 2025. Kotlikoff and Provost Kavita Bell launched a presidential task force on campus sexual assault. May 2nd to May 29, 2025.

They hold at least 12 hearings, 50 interviews, 32 witnesses. Jane Doe, I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. November 4, 2025. A Cornell survey finds 35% of undergrad women and 8% of men report non-consensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation. September 16, 2026, this is a week ago, two weeks ago. She sues Cornell, Kai Fi,

her sorority, and seven accused men. One week later, September 21st, Cornell Daily editorializes Cornell has failed to protect its students. September 27, DA, Matthew Van Houghton, reopens the case, but says her sworn

statements describe her participation in drug use and sexual contact as voluntary, conscious and consensual, then lawyers for Scott Kreschimer and Scott Norris deny involvement. Ethica police say the case was never reopened to them. Cornell says it occurred on Cornell jurisdiction.

September 29, Kathy Hockel gets involved, demands an outside investigation, and Cornell agrees. Van Houten defends the 2024 decision while calling the allegations morally disturbing. The full statement shows Jane Doe said it, felt like coercion, and attorney for Gillo Lopez, also denies the allegation and on yesterday,

Hokkao points. Ready? Letitia James. Oh my God. He's still on, she's not in jail? Yeah. Special prosecutor saying the case has undercut my faith and the public's faith in the DA. James says she is ready to lead a process

New Yorkers can trust, Vinnie. Okay, so if you're violently gang raped over and over and over during the course of a night, you're going to wait three weeks before you're calling the campus police. I'm sorry guys. I don't believe it. And then the wait, the text, the conversations with the friends, everything that happened in those three weeks, okay, especially when her own messages initially say that nothing illegal happened and she enjoyed part of it. Okay. And by the way, just, I want to put this out there. I genuinely feel bad for her.

The whole situation is horrible, but you put yourself in that dangerous situation, okay? That doesn't give anybody the right to sexually assault you, but you can't also like remove personal responsibility from your actions because, and then blame everybody afterwards. And I saw this video yesterday that made a great point. This girl said I get, I get drunk and get into a car accident.

It's 100% my fault. But if I get drunk and I sleep with someone and I regret it in the morning, I can blame him. It doesn't make any sense. And what about the guys? You said there was a counselor where the guys, some of the guys were drunker than she was. So if your argument is that being drunk means somebody cannot consent

and that standard has to go across the board. So either like standard matters for everybody or means nothing. Because the guys right now can be like, well, I didn't consent. I was drunk. I don't know what the hell was going on. And in fact, this is the main thing I take away from this story is her upbringing. Who are this girl's parents? Okay, were they together?

Were they divorced? What kind of morals and values are you teaching this kid? Because by her own account, she was a virgin in high school. Okay? Then she goes to college and randomly winds up in a situation like this. okay that doesn't that change doesn't happen in a vacuum okay like i would tell my daughter or son the same thing protect yourself protect your reputation don't get freaking waste it by the way you don't go from that to sniffing ketamine off of somebody's penis in one year that doesn't i don't care okay

your choices matter and pretending they don't is doing like young people no favor so people can be harsh i call it being an adult okay if these men raped her prove it in court prosecute them if they didn't, then guess what? These guys should be able to do a counter suit and go after her and go after the school if the school's going to go after them. Period. That's my take. Yeah, and they found a few other text messages of what she said. She said she was super colluded in the same exchange she wrote that none of the sexual stuff was illegal in the text. She said after she was the incident. She also said she liked being with that man and another man and later suggested that they could smoke together again but without the extra 5 billion men and ketamine. So only her ended two

other men. And then she said, bro, everyone knows what happened was ruining my life temporarily and that all she could do was sleep and cry all day. And she said in a text again, the woman will always get the shorter end of the stick. Y'all aren't friends. Y'all are covering your asses. Let's be clear that 90% of what happened that night was not consensual. Then she says that, that on November 3rd. And another message cited in the investigation that she felt like a sex doll worker. Very weird. So, Tom, where are you at with this?

So I think the court of public opinion is out on her. And we'll leave it B. I hope she gets counseling. And I hope that if there was crimes committed, that they're properly prosecuted. But let me say something about the boys. You are an idiot. It is poor judgment. if you're going to get involved in a sexual act like that,

you're putting yourself in the position to be in the headline with her, even if she is completely making things up, the same way things happen at Duke LaCross, if you were in there cheering with your $20 bills when you thought it was a stripper coming into Duke LaCross, you put yourself in the opportunity to have your name in a headline and a campus report and a police report because she makes an accusation.

If you're not there, your name can't be there. So I think the boys were poor judgment and idiots for being there in the first place. You're putting yourself in a horrible situation because look what happens. Things can happen maybe that were perfectly legal, perfectly consenting between people, even though people were drunk and everything. Okay, that may be legal consent, but your name's still in the headlines. Idiot? Do you want your name in the headlines?

You do you want to finish college? Now I'll say something about Cornell. Cornell, in my opinion, is a horrible place. I have talked in the last year, and I knew about this, because this case is going back a couple years. It's been headlines. I was talking to two separate sets of parents about veterinary school. And they said, you know, I think UC Davis up by Sacramento's number one and Cornell's number two. And I said, you're right, it is.

But I wouldn't send my kid to Cornell. Why? Because once upon a time, one of my daughters wanted to study a veterinarian, and I studied Cornell. But then I read about Cornell. The Cornell campus, I do not believe, is properly controlled and properly administered. You're saying this. I'm saying that. My opinion, two years ago, talking to a family about...

Why do you say that? They're saying that to you? No, I'm saying it. Why are you saying? I be specific. I was specifically, I read about this case two years ago. This has been going on two years. Yeah.

And I read about it. And I also read associated things that the fraternity culture that is at Cornell is, quote, unquote, out of control. and not administered. Let me get the straight. Because of this story, you discourage your girls from going to Cornell. I discouraged two other parents

that had girls talking about vet school because Brooke at one point wanted to go to vet school. These people saw that UC Davis was number one. Cornell was number two. And I said, just go to Florida. Florida's top five vet school and you can be bright futures.

And one of them is a family from Florida. And so it won't cost you anything. So I have, this is my opinion based on what I read. So with Cornell, don't go sending me a letter with 12 names at the top. This is my opinion on the things with your name on it and your logo that are out there. The allegations are your fraternity group is out of control. Let me ask you this.

You don't administer it and you're not protecting your students. Go a little bit deeper. So what should they do? So what role does Cornell play here? What should they do? To prevent this? It's already been done. What could they have done to prevent this?

Well, I'll tell you, the whole fraternity system is rife, hazing's, where we read every year what do we read about hazing's in a fraternity system where colleges largely turn a blind eye to it. So number one, I'll give you great example. Rice got rid of fraternities in the 50s because they thought that they excluded people, that kids fell left out, and so they encourage kids to be part of the residential college system where every kid is assigned to residential college at Rice. And they have their own traditions and things, so they bring natural inclusion, not fake

DEI inclusion, natural inclusion where no freshmen are left out. Every one of you is part of a residential college. The fraternity system creates the us and them. And the hazing that goes on, the fraternity system is bad. And I think colleges like Cornell need to absolutely

think, is it time to shut down the fraternity system and create alternative housing for kids to bring non-fake inclusion? And you know what I mean by fake inclusion, Pat? Yeah, it's very interesting, the angle you're taking, Tom. It's very interesting. So you're going to, one thing you can do as universities is get rid of fraternities,

okay, sororities, any of that stuff that you have because of what happens there. And police behavior better. And police behavior better. Now, some will say, some will say that's part of the college experience, like folks who want to Florida State or Arizona State or give me some of Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara. These are some party types of schools. Hey, you're boring, Tom. You don't know what you're talking about.

We want to go there for that exact reason. I'm sorry. I don't want my son, if I had a son, to go to Cornell and have an STD and his name in the newspaper, be part of the college experience. No, that's valid, but some people will say that is part of the college experience. So parents... You're rolling a dice. I totally get that. I'm trying to say here, one, who accepted me?

Where am I smart enough to get into? What are my options? Number two, parents learning more. So right now, Tom, as a parent, what role should parents play if their kid is about to go into college? What should we be doing? If you're not visiting colleges and reading everything you can about the college, and you're just thinking about the college as a merit badge, you're making a mistake. This is why places like Hillsdale are growing and growing for the right reasons,

because they're teaching kids to think not to be indoctrinated and look at the culture of behavior that also happens. So true. I will tell you a story. And I don't know how much of this story I'll tell him. This entire time I'm thinking about how much of it I want to give away. But I'm in the Army. And the guys in the army, there was a girl, she had a nickname. I remember her nickname. What was the nickname?

Jabone. Okay. That was her nickname. T-bone. Yeah, no, no, no. Jawbone. And in the mail bathroom in the barracks, there were things written all over the place. And she would come in and write such and such a night in this room, everybody come.

Okay? I'm telling you. So me and my two guys that we hung out with He'd come to me and says, hey man, you saw that again? I said, yeah. So, dude, whatever we're doing, we're going to Nashville that night. We'd go to Nashville that night to be away from the barracks. Smart.

To just be away. We'd come back on Monday and guess what they would say? Sergeant would come in on Saturday. Such and such happened. 14 soldiers are being called on to be investigated on what happened that night. Weird. Because she doesn't remember anything. You and my

One of the benefits I had a drill sergeant That told me from the beginning Listen remember a few rules in the army 15 will give you 20 Yep And you know what that is 15 will give you 20

What is that man Hoking out with a 15 year old Will give you 20 years A girl with a fake ID At a local place He said don't even trust Fake IDs So even fake IDs

In the middle of it You ask a girl for a fake ID Don't even trust the fake IDs Don't even trust the fake IDs then never be in barracks alone with a girl, okay, in the army, because all they're going to say is what? Of course. Here's what happened.

By the way, these are the types of conversations that I think fathers need to have with their sons and mothers need to have with their sons because sometimes it's kind of like, yeah, it's my boy, you know, that's cool, but you're setting them up for failure by not having these types of conversations. And, you know, you made a good point. Like, how was she raised?

I don't know how she raised. We don't know about her parents. We don't know what happened to you. We don't know what the experience was. By the way, it could have very likely been that it was good parents. and she just chose to be dumb because one day she chose to drink and be stupid and now this is on her timeline for the rest of her life

and so far they've protected her name but guess who knows who she is those seven guys and all the other people from the Kai five whatever fraternity they're talking about Adam your thoughts here you have the full college experience yourself so let's see what you're angry. Look I have a different take than everybody here

I appreciate what Tom had to say about these boys being idiots I do have some thoughts on the fraternity system but let me start with what the number one thing is on this situation. It all comes down to personal responsibility and personal choices. Because she's not just doing any old little drug here. How familiar are you with ketamine and what it does? Because that's not like, oh, she's just doing drugs.

Ketamine is a whole different level of drug. And the reason I know this is one of my best friends is prescribed ketamine. And I think he does it a little too much. and it's a little too over the top. Let me explain. It's supposed to be treated as an antidepressant. Okay? But what it does, ketamine,

have you ever heard of the concept of a K-hole? I've heard something like that. Let me explain this to you. If you do enough of it, not only will treat your depression, it'll make you blast off to a different planet and it affects the brain so hardcore that it changes your perception of reality

and you enter a dream light, hallucinogenic state. Yeah. So, and you know what is even more absurd about this drug? It looks exactly like cocaine. Take a look at what ketamine looks like. Here's a picture on your screen. Do you see it?

Yeah, it looks like cocaine. And it even looks like cut like rails or lines. So let me explain something to you. I've been at a party in South Beach. When there's cocaine going around, I mean, welcome to South Beach. This one guy thought that he was doing a bump of cocaine. boom blast off he could not move for six hours he was in a k-hole he did not know what he was doing he did not know where he was we're like hey it was uh is our friend coming with us they're like he's gonna be

a while thank god he's okay but the my whole concept of personal responsibility and personal choices if this girl chose to inhale what she thought was a drug whether she thought it was cocaine or knew that it was K-a-Kedamine. She willingly entered the third realm. Now, she made that decision. So it's on her. At the same time, if you're a dude and you're at a fraternity and you see one, two, three, four guys doing this to a girl,

at what point as you as a man say, bro, what are you doing? This girl's clearly messed up. Oh, no, no, she wanted to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe with him. Now with all seven of you. so to me there's personal responsibility on both ends on her not to do drugs

and on these idiots not to end up any rape case but but but at the end of the day like this situation let's just call it what it is she's one of those girls that went in there and did what she did you can't at the end of it get embarrassed because the because everybody's talking about you and say rape

because then you're going to ruin and destroy other people's lives town's right those guys were more at them you don't nine five guys in a room apparently they were texting on like some social media apps saying, yo, come through, this is happening. All stupid decisions, but that word rape is a whole different

ballgame. Because now she's like, oh, wait a minute, I'm embarrassed. You know what? Somebody's like, let me be very specific. If she did a good amount of ketamine, I don't even think she knows what planet she was on during that rape. So she might have known that she was there to see a guy. I'm just

things straight up with you. I understand. If she did a good amount of ketamine, buddy, she wasn't on this planet. I understand that. I need you to understand that. I understand that. But are other guys coming in going, hey, there's not a ketamine checker?

Hey, where's she out on the ketamine thing? They don't know. They're just hearing, hey, come on in and have... Let me tell you. What I'm saying is, Pat, I think she was there. She wanted to hook up. She was down.

I don't know what happened because at the end of the night because her story is changing. But what I'm saying is, if you're there, Adam, if I show up to a strip club and I see strippers, I can't be like, oh my God. I need you to understand something, buddy.

She wanted to hook up with guys. Multiple guys. She said it. I need you to understand one specific thing. If she was in a K-hole, how would you know, though?

How would a guy know? Like, if you're high, I don't know if she's in a K-hole. Back up a second. If a girl is really, really, really, really, really drunk and you're with her. And do you know that she's really,

really, really- Absolutely. Bingo. Yeah. So if her girl's in a K-hole, that's like 10-X drunk. So hear me out. Okay.

If this girl is literally like, if she's passed out of it, that's my point. 100% different stories. Is that if she, If she was fully in a K-hole, she wasn't like, woo, let's go, guys. It's not cocaine.

Cocaine, she's going crazy, let's have fun. If it was ketamine and it was a K-hole, there's a very good chance that she was like this. But that's what I'm saying is, did she say, Pat? In the story, did she say she was there? Buddy, she don't remember, dog. What don't you get? 90% of what happened to me was illegal.

Illegal. But she said that a few weeks after that. I think, again, I haven't followed this case. I just say this one thing. I could see a scenario where the first guy that she was with and came to be was actually he'll get off, meaning he's innocent.

But if these other guys who showed up in the room while she's K'd out, they're going to pay the price. They might be in some big, big trouble. I don't know the details beyond that. And if the first guy let them in, someone that is on K and in a K-hole, they are not in an awareness state.

So this is the whole situation here. It's like, but she showed up. She wanted to be there. But then she did this drug, and then she didn't know where she was. Tom. It's a very complicated situation. So we're talking about, very careful what you put in your body. We're talking about judgment of men.

We're talking about Cahole's appropriately thing where people may be. But I'll tell you here, three different sources I just found pointed out. And this was the stuff I read it. I recognize one, the Cornell son is one of the things I read. It says, Cornell arguably has the most troubled Greek, system in the Ivy League. The negative side is a long hazing and safety record. Sophomore died in 2011.

Another one died in 2019. 2014. Seven fraternities were suspended over hazing allegations. In February, Delta Phi was permanently suspended, then reduced to five years, according to these stories. And the public hazing log is now,

the hazing log is now made public so parents and prospective students can see it, but it has become longer and worse when you look at the years 24, 25, 25, 26. So it's basically, there you have it. There you have it. What can parents do? Read stuff like this and say to yourself, am I sending my daughter to Cornell? I love this conversation. I love this conversation on what happened, because you had a different lens, you had a very different lens, and you had a very different lens. And yeah, we have to

be ready for it. We have to be ready for it. And for me, with my boys, my kids, you have to be also careful what not to brag about with your boys for them to be like, that's what I'm going to do to be a hero. And we're kind of having a conversation this morning when Anthony asked you question and we're going back and forth and I'm like, I don't know if we got to balance some of these conversations. That's why I'm not part of this camp. There's a reason why Bible wanted you, the Bible wanted us, to save ourselves before. There's a reason. There's a reason. Not that we did it. I failed miserably. But there's a reason. There's a reason for it.

You know how they say, you know, in my early, the whole thing that father or son go through three stages. First you idolize him, then you demonize him, then you humanize him. And then you say, my dad knew everything, man. My dad is a lot smart. He's getting smarter lately. My dad's getting smarter lately. No, no, it's been the same guy.

You know, my mom was right all along. You know, my mom was right all along. It takes you a while to go through it. Man, if you can really be coachable for some of these seasons. Ben Affleck said something the other day in a video I saw. He says, you know, I'm sitting with my son and I'm giving him advice, my kids. I'm giving advice about life. And then I said, listen, I've been through some things in life.

Here's what you should do. He says, dad, you want us to take advice from you? You? He says, yeah, trust me, I have the experience. Hello, I have the, he's joking about it. But it's like, your parents are kind of like, is this the one? Yeah, when I was a boy at 14 years old, my father was so ignorant. I could hardly stand to have the man around.

But when I got to 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned instead. Mark Twain. Is that actually a Mark Twain quote? Yeah, it is. It's a Mark Twain quote. Man, that guy. All, let's get to the next story. Let's get to the next story.

Let's get to the next story. Good fine guys in the back. Good fine guys in the back. Okay. Next story I want to get to is another weird one. But let's skip this weird one. Let me go to another one. So this actress is giving a speech.

We're not going to stay on the story a lot of it. A lot. We're not going to talk about it. It's not about rap. But we're talking about rappers. And so this lady here. We are against those. Yeah.

We are against these types of my. mentality, she says she wishes her son was gay because one of her friends had a son that was gay and he says, what's better than having a gay son, right? I just want you to watch this speech and tell me if it motivates any one of you. Go forward. Always wanted a gay son. I did. I love that relationship between gay sons and their mothers. I want to be the picket sign holding mom who would beat the shit out of somebody for her kid. She's reading. I mean, let's just admit it.

Gay sons are the best, right? I have photographs of my son in high heels, in full drag. He knows every word to every musical ever written. His fairy godfather, Aaron Walton, is here with us tonight. I mean, truly, I thought I had this fucking thing locked up. But no, no. He's the only straight guy in his entire musical theater company. What a loser.

So when Marsha called me about 10 years ago from her closet, I kid you not, she was in her closet, to tell me that her son had come out to her as gay, all I said was, oh my God, you are so fucking lucky! Oh, my God. And about a week later, I was at Marcia's house for dinner when an Amazon package was delivered for her son. And inside, I'm not kidding you.

was a pair of thigh-high red patent leather boots, like kinky boots. And I thought, oh, come on. Now she is just showing off, right? Are you kidding me? I'm speech like this. Like, it's for, just, besides what she's saying, do you hear the applause? Like, Holly, when they say Holly weird, do you understand, like your child is not a trophy for your political activism, social circle? I mean, Pat, like, that's the cool thing.

I know we're going to play the Bill Maher thing in a minute, but whatever happened to your parents just wanting you to grow up healthy and happy, successful, strong, like gay? And she's upset. Does she have any kids? Does she actually have kids? What do you mean? Her son?

Her son's not gay. He's straight. So, by the way, and you're her son. You're her son. And you're listening to this. Yeah. How does that make you feel that your mom is not happy, that you're not some flamer that's jumping around?

But, right, no, Adam, in the streets. of West Hollywood, bro, I live there. They would shut down. You couldn't drive into Hollywood because there was butt-naked men outside. I'm talking about Sodom and Gammar stuff. But-naked going on set-up crucifixes.

You want to talk about evil? You want to talk about demonic-type behavior pat? In the streets of LA and it was totally fine. Little kids, parents, straight parents, bringing their kids, and I would see, I felt so bad little kids looking at butt-naked men flashing them in front of their faces. Okay?

And this is Hollywood, bro. Hollywood preaches acceptance, but acceptance has to work both ways, okay? What are we talking about? Like, if that's not the weirdest thing you've seen all month, I don't know what is. It's disgusting. Tom, your thoughts, Tom. How about normal son? You know, I don't know where to start.

I'm just kind of stunned. But in a way, I'm not stunned because she is fully indoctrinated. She's fully in the liberal crowd. And she's fully out there, you know, she's gone to the point of faking it, to the point it looks like she really believes what she's saying. Oh, yeah. And that is the end point of full indoctrination is advocacy. You suddenly become an advocate for what you're indoctrinated in. So in other words, you follow that, Pat, that you go down the indoctrination. And now you, and so in other words, you're indoctrinated to the point that you're

not just going to be a suicide bomber. You're actually recruiting people, not because you're trying to get a checkmark, you're actually recruiting people because you now believe it at the core of your being. You've been so diluted. The Bible says that they were given over to their desires. And the Lord says that this is not the natural inclination of our heart. This is not our natural orientation as people. It's not. And people can say it is, whether it isn't, but when you go all the way over to indoctrination, you've given your heart over to this level of evil. The people that are advocates for abortion. They don't just think it's the right thing. Let the woman have a choice. No, they're all the way over the waterfall and advocation for the killing. You can't be there.

But I don't think a lot of people, Pat, really believe like she does. I think there's fakery in the liberal area. Can we play, and Vinny has it up here, what Bill Maher said. This is just one sentence, two sentences, what he said when he did his, remember when he pointed out, 6% of this generation, 12% of this generation, 10% of this generation? It's two minutes. It's two I mean, we remember. We remember watching this. No, I add him cue it to one point. And involves children. The answer can't always be that anyone from a marginalized community is automatically right.

Trump card, mic drop, end of discussion. Because we're literally experimenting on children. Maybe that's why Sweden and Finland have stopped giving puberty blockers to kids. Because we just don't know much about the long-term effects. Although common sense should tell you that when you reverse, the course of raging hormones. There's going to be problems. Way off on the time point here.

We do know. Okay, we can pause. We remember this. We've seen this. But go ahead, time. He made a comment where he says, and recently I'm at cocktail parties with Angelinos, saying it's somehow fashionable that your child is trans.

That was a point that he made. They missed the time. That was all I want to get to. I mean, this is the perfect case for virtual signaling that I've ever heard in my life. If you don't know what virtue signaling is, it's basically saying, I'm with you. Let me prove it. Let me tell you what a loser the son is, Pat.

She tried her best to make him gay. I mean, what a disappointment, this kid. She put him in high heels. She dressed him up in drag. He's doing Broadway shows. He's wearing skirts. And still, despite all that, he still likes women. Unbelievable.

His name is Milo. And I heard that one day he wants to get married and have kids. What a loser! your mother is virtue signaling to the rest of Hollywood what a disappointment you are because you're not gay, Milo. Milo, do your best to make your mother proud and be gay.

Maybe even be trans and cut it off because that's what Hollywood is at this point and if you don't show up with like a, you know how they have those dogs in your purse? You don't show up with a gay son and you're not in the in crowd. And here's my thing. She's reading it, Pat.

Whatever. failure. She's reading a teleprompter. If you have something to say and it's heartfelt, say it. She's reading as if she was instructed, like, hey. Vinny, that's the least of our words. Whether she read it or felt it. The words that she came out of her mouth are the most important.

No, no, to me, you know what that means, Adam? She could have just said, I wish I had a gay son and just go off. She's reading it as a script as an actress. Do you think, do you think she fully believes that? Or do you think she's trying to be funny a little? No, no, no, no. She absolutely believes it. And she wants it. By the way, her son is apparently on a Disney show, got millions of followers.

He's somebody. He's doing good for himself. Disney of all places. He loves his mom. And, you know, he's so to me, look, to each his own, do your thing. Truly, to each his own. It's not of my business, what you choose to do as an adult and you live your life. But when it comes down to kids, I had Bob Cheapek there, the former CEO of Disney.

He was on the podcast last week. Can you pull up that chart that I showed to him? The chart about the amount of LGBTQ characters. You know what's the first? time in Disney that a character said I'm gay, 2019. Up until 2019, no character in Disney movies has ever said they're gay. Never. But I want you to watch us here. Who was the first character? The blue is LGBTQ inclusive Disney films. Look at the spike. What was a spike price? During the Biden administration. And by the way, orange is valuation. And blue is characters. What is the

highest valuation of Disney? A highest valuation was 2020. Okay. What happens in 2021? It's dropped. No, no, but look at 2021. What spikes? LGBQ characters. What happens to the stock? It goes by by. There's a direct correlation between the openness, DEI, direct correlation. And direct correlation. So I said, what happened here? What's the story here? And to summarize, it's worth watching the interview, especially for the parents that you are, I asked him about this thing. And he says he wasn't with it at first. He's like, look,

We got kids, and this is eventually he was kind of coerced and forced into taking a position because typically whatever movies you do, they've already been budgeted and built four years previous to that. You know how we always hear about Kathleen Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy?

I don't know that name we hear about, you know who didn't hire Kathleen Kennedy? Disney never hired Kathleen Kennedy. You know who hired Kathleen Kennedy? You actually know this? She's not part of Bob Iger's camp. So a lot of time we would be a bill, blame it on Bob Iger.

Do you know where she comes from? Yeah, we talked about it. Oh, yeah, we talked about it. So when they bought Star Wars in 2012-ish, she was hired by George Lucas. So Kathleen Kennedy came from the Star Wars franchise, and she came with the deal. And I think her contract just didn't, it's not going to get renewed or whatever, this year or last year, something like that. But you just have to know, like, dude, you wonder why a Disney franchise went from what it was to now. parents are like, knock this shit off.

Look what happened two years later to the characters. Look where they're at now in 2024, 2025. They dropped off. But to see a business person watching this and Bob Iger put four board members in, those were Michael Eisner's people that he had and they replaced them, put his own people. And it's kind of like your own Supreme Court that you have any. So he put his own four in. You could do that as a new seal.

That's his job to put it in there. And then a couple other guys that would come, Pearl Water. I don't know, Pearl, what was that guy's named something? Prola. Proman. Ica, Prola. These were a couple of billionaires that were sitting on the board

and they got ousted. They didn't get ousted. They lost the influence. Bob Eiger kept control and they're still doing what they're doing. And the new guy that came in, Josh Diomaro, if you go to pushing this to kids,

parents will get sick of it. And one of the reasons, if there's anything that causes me to think that Republicans are going to win in 2028 is because Democrats have, Democrats haven't learned that even Democrats,

Democrat parents don't want boys competing in women's sports. They haven't learned that even Democratic parents who are pro-choice, who are pro-choice, who want some of these entitlement programs for people, even they don't support these LGBT indoctrination and puberty blooms. They don't support that. So until Democrats go back to common sense on this topic, they're going to keep losing their 5 to 10 percent of Democrats that they've had in a while, that they've had for a while. I think it's a double-dum move. They don't get it. Can I give a disclaimer?

Nobody, it sounds like we're going really hard on the LGBT community. None of us have a problem with gay people. I have gay friends. You used to tell stories about when you were in the army, you'd go to gay clubs. Like, none of us have problem with gay zero in that regard. Where it gets to become an issue is when you start to trans the kids. And you start messing with the kids.

And here's an example where Disney tried to basically indoctrinate the youth through movie characters and movies. and doing all this, and they went woke and they went broke, just like Bud Light and just like Nike. And that's where you draw the line of the sand. But families, because you said this, this is ultimately my point, who is Disney's customer?

It's the parents, not just the kids, right? But can you a joke, yeah, can you a question? No, Pat, really, really fast. Do you guys think in 2020, if a Democrat comes into power, this type of stuff isn't going to keep happening? Like, it won't come back? By the way, I hope so. It's not going to.

No, no, no. No, no. I hope they campaign on it. Yeah. I hope they campaign on it. I truly do. I hope they campaign on it. Like even when I had Governor Westmore here

and I asked him the question, he said my son would never be gay. But he wouldn't go all to say that this is too much. He wouldn't do it because he knows. So they're all worried about where the money and the influence is going to come, but I hope they continue the same play. Keep doing it because common sense

is going to go a very different direction. Okay. Heeding oil. Let's tell the story because this is truly concerning a lot of different people, especially in the northeast of what could happen. A lot of people talk about diesel. They talk with gas prices.

But heating oil bill is expected to jump. Ready? 31.3% this winter with Northeast households averaging nearly $2,300, averaging $2,300. So let's kind of go through this. Heating oil households will pay an average of $2,300 between mid-November and mid-March, a 31.3% increase from last winter. the National Energy Assistant Director Association projected nearly 4.8 million U.S. homes.

Ready? 4.8 million U.S. homes. Homes. How many people live per home? Two, four, five. 4.8 million U.S. homes using heating oil about 82 percent in the northeast, the U.S. war with Iran that began at the end of February, disrupted shipping through the strait. Brent crude, the source of nearly all U.S. heating oil, sat at 106 a barrel in mid-S.

September, up more than 30% from previous to when the war began. While the war may be thousands of miles away, families will feel it when the heating oil truck pulls into their driveways that any ADA executive director Mark Wolf, President Trump rejected Iran's plan to reopen the strait, and senators from both parties have asked them to release emergency heating oil. The American Gas Association projected gas households will pay about 14% less than last winter averaging 497 versus 794 for alex. space heating would record dry gas production expect in 2026. Any ADA forecast overall winter heating costs rise more than 8.7% to a national average of 1030.

Tom, thoughts on this. So let's go take a look at a chart. I just sent the guys a chart right here. Click on one year. Perfect. One year. Take a look at this, Pat. If you go down to February, at the end of last winter, Vinnie, $2.47, $2.38.

You see that? multiply that times 2. 480. Go look at where we are right now. We're at 436. You know what this means? It's going to be 2x. There it is, Pat. It's about to be 2x. At $4.80, it's exactly

2x last winter. So those people are going to have double the price of heating oil one winter to the next. That's not sustainable. And earlier today, right after the jobs report, President Trump, Trump called on Europe to release their surplus stocks of diesel because he's trying to bring

more diesel into the market to help. That's what's going on. So we are, we need a reversal, but Pat, I don't think we can get it. It takes about, say, said, 75 days to turn the price based on what do you think you won't, we won't get it. I don't think we're going to get a decrease unless it's artificial. It takes 75 days. 75 days today is what? November and, and, and, and, and, I'll October, November is 60 days, and then, you know, that's December 10th. Here comes winter. You know, you were going to see how cold it is and just watching playoff games. Baseball.

It's going to be down into the 50s. You guys got to remind me with that place. Time for that. So I saw this coming, and I'm really, I'm really heavy about it because this is really. Oh, this is real, because this is going to really impact the consumer. 2X. 2X. That's real cost that we're talking about.

And so, Tom, when this happened. you know, to sum, what percentage of these 4.8 million households do you think it will impact directly? Of course, it's 100% of them, but which one of them are going to be like, turn off the heater, you know, let's do this, wear more clothes? What percentage you think can't even financially afford this increase? Probably only about 60% because a lot of people are on natural gas and newer home communities, and the heating oil is in some of the older communities and older homes. So, you know, I'm going to say there's probably a full third. That's going to be my guess.

A full third of the customers in the Northeast have limited budgets and can't take that hit. So any thoughts on this? I'm going back to it. So, Tom, this is all coming from what? Why the drastic increase? Refining cost and the cost of barrel of oil. Cost of barrel oil is about 60% of the, increasing gasoline. The other is the increase in refining cost, also known as 3-21 crack spread.

Those two things are there. We've closed refineries in California. We closed a refinery on the Gulf Coast. We have not built new refineries or refinery capacity. So the refining is up. The cost to refine is up because of the shortage of factories to refine it. But then $99, I think today. Is it a barrel? I think it's 99 a barrel. Okay. So Tommy, what are you just saying? It's supply and demand? So, well, I think... No, no, it's a, yes, it's supply of oil, but it's also supply of refining, and it's going to take a while to turn this. Because even if you brought the price of oil down, you're only going to get about 60% of the increase in cost for gasoline diesel down. So is it safe to say the short-term pain for the long-term game?

It's not going to be a short-term pain, Tom. This is going to take a long time. This is going to be a long-term pain because they have to build it? No, they have to build a refinery. I hope that there's some artificial means to do it. It doesn't appear that the natural market, 40s. are going to be able to turn the corner on this until maybe the second half of the winter. And it's not going to go down to where it was last January.

Adam. Well, being that I'm from Miami, I've never had to worry about a heating bill. So this is not something I'm familiar with. I will say that winter is coming for all you people out there. And you might want to get a nice jacket like the one Vinny's wearing to stay warm. But can we touch on the story that is right above that one where it talks about the everyday cost increase and the high gas prices that are spurring states to, waive taxes and regulations amid

midterms, which kind of I think correlates with this story, which in my interpretation, this is a great move that certain states are doing. You know how they say that like all politics are local? Yes, we acknowledge that prices are up. Tom taught me a lot about Brent oil

and West Texas oil and Dubai oil. Dubai oil. Tom was teaching me all this stuff. Dutch could... It's like wine. By the way, your clip that you put on VT is like a half a million views. It was great. It was a- Oh, on gasoline. On gasoline, it was great.

But what I found interesting is that certain states can do certain measurements to actually lower the costs. It says about one-third of U.S. states have implemented some form of fuel tax relief. But here's the catch. And this is where politics get into it. Most of those states, if not all, are Republican states. They're red states. Governors in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota,

Oklahoma and Texas have all provided fuel tax relief for their agriculture and have helped lower tax costs. That's trucks and tractors on farms. Because they actually want to help their people. Now, in my opinion, why are the blue states not helping their people? We all know that California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, who all trend incredibly blue, why don't they lower the cost for their people? Because in my opinion, they want their people to feel the increase of cost. And say, Trump did this to you.

Add orange man. We're not going to do anything. Nothing to lower the cost. We're going to actually hold up this price and make you suffer more. So this is where this gets a real tricky situation. Each of these states are helping their people in red states. Blue states are built nothing.

Let me give you this year. The N.A. says low-income Northeast households alone are expected to pay almost $1.1 billion more in heating this winter. You divided over. part that's around 878 increase average that points to an order of magnitude of around 1.2 to 1.3 million low income oil heated households. So then if I'm asking a question and saying, who are these people, who gets hit hard? Seniors and people living in fixed incomes, which makes

sense. Households under roughly 60K a year. And I ask what percentage is under 60K a year? the EIA 2020 for data shows energy and rise to some approximately 64% of households under 10,000, 58% of households, 10 to 51% at 30 to 60,000 reported some form of energy insecurity. Above 100,000, it drops dramatically. Okay, so makes sense.

Above 100,000, you're still going to be fine. At the 60,000 number that's going to be impact, households already behind on utility bills. Anya D estimates that about 21.5 million U.S. households roughly one in six are already behind on energy bills. Damn. Did you know that? I did not know that. I did not know that. Did you hear the number? Vini, one in six household in America right now are behind on energy bills, not credit cards. Just owning, just just owing money to scary. So one in six, 21 and a half million households are behind on energy bills. Low income

households currently spend about 8.6% their income on household energy versus. versus 3% for other households. And people in New England, this is extremely concentrated geographically in an AIA-2020 data, roughly 53% of Maine and Vermont households, 43% in New Hampshire, 40% in Connecticut, 32% of Rhode Island,

26% of Massachusetts received few oil deliveries. Maine was still around 50% dependent on heating goal in 2024. And last but not least is old folks' homes, old homeowners, heating goals much more common in the older, northeastern,

this is, we're praying for you. This, you know, hopefully they figure this part out and some states find ways to get creative with this.

But I kind of, I kind of agree that they're not going to let this happen because they need this crisis to blame it on Trump. They need this. There's no way to work. You can choose not to drive.

You can't choose not to freeze. Yeah. No, this is, okay, let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get to is I really want to get into that baseball story, but I'll get into that at the end.

The story I want to get into next is, Adam, are you feeling this? Are you feeling Uber delays right now? There's a story that says Uber wait times rise, 20% as prices climb 53%. So let me read this. And you tell me and others as well, can you run a poll real quick asking folks, is anybody increasing prices in Uber and delays? Yes, no, I don't take Uber and Lyft. Or put I take a lift.

Just kind of put that question in there. Watch this. the time between Uber matching a driver and the car arriving grew by 19% from Q1 and Q, 2023, same time period. While price per mile is up 53%, a new analysis by Len Sherman from executive and residence at Columbia Business School, you're charging more for less, Sherman said. The analysis relies on a number of inaccuracies and Uber spokesperson countered. Sherman examined 37,500 trips and six cities, wait time and time. roads in five including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Tampa.

The data doesn't include waiting for Uber to pair a driver. By definition, it's an underestimate, Sherman said. Once cash burning to acquire users, Uber has used up from pricing to become profitable by charging riders more and paying drivers less, Sherman contends. By raising wait times and prices, Uber risks customer relationship as an AIG and lets riders compare prices with rivals, the 2026 Axios Harris Poll 100, ranked Uber 72 on reputation down from 58. Are you experiencing that or not at all?

I haven't felt anything, and I'll tell you why. When they say that the Uber wait time is up 19%. That means if it typically takes you four minutes to get an Uber, now it's going to take you five minutes. But have you felt that? No, because if you order an Uber, you know that the Uber's not going to magically show up in 10 seconds. I understand that.

So it's going to take five minutes. Is it eight minutes or 10 minutes? No. Okay. I haven't felt that. Have you seen the prices going on? No. And I'll give you the.

Exactly. Today, I took an Uber here this morning. I scheduled ahead. Which is very important, by the lot of people don't realize, the night before you go to sleep, set it up to pick you up exactly so you don't have to worry about it. And does the driver get to pick it earlier? Absolutely. This guy showed up at my house. He's supposed to pick me up at 7.30.

On the dot. Earlier. Like, it'll back up so many minutes. That's interesting. So that it gets to you at the time you want. What are you guys who never drive over to answer for me, guys? He comes on time. He comes on time.

He waits for me. It costs me 40 bucks to get from Miami. How much was it a year ago? Same exact price. I have not felt it. And I take Uber's and lifts more than anybody. Because what they're doing is they're probably, they're not going to raise the cost in the consumer

because the consumer's already getting pinched. To me, I've saved so much money on Lyft and Uber. You just did a whole breakdown. How much is the average person spent on a car vehicle total for the year? $12,000? Yes, $1,000. Okay. So $13,000.

Correct. I would have to take Uber's left and right up my wazoo to spend $10,000 to $12,000 on Uber right there. And I'll do it for you. Today I'll break down the price of what it costs me to get you. Actually, I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Because if you take how many Uber's,

how much money you spend on Uber per month? About 500 bucks. Wait, are you sure? 40 there, 40 back. That's 80 just coming here once. If you come here twice, you get a ride back to Miami? Yeah.

Okay, so you get creative. I drive with Jaden on the way back because he's here and we drive back together. Got it. So it's, and I'm here three days a week. So you spend 500 bucks on Uber. Yeah, but that's also, so like let's look at it this way. If I wanted to go, if I had my car, like this weekend I went out and this past weekend you go out to an event in South Beach, I'm going to have to spend 20 bucks on valet anyway.

The Uber to get me there costs it $12. I'm saving $8. Okay? The gas is going to cost me how much these days? So people really need to take a look at how much they're spending on their vehicles. If you can get by and with not having a car and how much again, is the average person spending a month, Tom? $1,072.

That's $13,000 a year. You'd have to be very hard-pressed to spend $13,000 a year on an Uber or Lyft. That's what I would say. Here's a breakdown of the pricing. If you just want to know what happened to me today. The receipt, here we go. the trip fare was $30. The booking fee was $9.

So Uber's taking $9 off the top. They're getting their money. I give the guy a $5 tip, and the guy waited for me a little bit longer. They charged me one extra dollar. So it turned out to be $45 all in, tip, tax, this, that, the other. So, yeah, the point is, I Uber more than anybody.

I haven't felt it at all. Where some see heroes and others see egos. Bloomberg sees the era of billionaire athletes. While others follow the noise, we follow the money. Learn more at Bloomberg.com. That's a very serious thing to look at. Because if the economics doesn't work for Uber and the drivers long term, they have to raise the prices.

Oh, I think I have a whole... I have a whole opinion on what's going to happen to drivers. And this is my opinion. Driverless? Oh, if you're in America and you speak English and you're a normal person, if your sole job is an Uber driver, buddy, you got to go back to the drawing board. Because in America, in Miami,

98% of the drivers I have and I Uber and Lyft every single day, no I'm English at all. Zero. So they're coming to take your jobs. These are immigrants who have been your 10, 15, 20 minutes. And they're coming to take your jobs. So if you're an American who has brains and has a will to improve, you can't just be

in Uber. Well, let me tell you what. Let me tell you what our audience said, okay? 40% said yes, prices have increased and weight has increased. 42% said no increase. 17% said they take a lift. Okay, so they take a lift. The same thing.

Lift and Uber is the same thing. And actually, I would encourage people what I do. is, you know, you know, when any, you have a rule here. I've learned a lot from PPD. If you're going to get a price, how many options? Three. Three options. There's really only Lyft and Uber.

I check Lyft and Uber every single time I don't order a car. And it's usually dramatic price difference. So this morning, Lyft was going to charge me 60 to get here. Uber charge me 40. What do I go with? I go with the Uber. On the way back, it actually changes. So I don't know what kind of mechanism they're using.

Whenever Lyft is a certain price, Uber will undercut them. If you're just ordering Uber blindly and not checking Lyft, you're actually probably spending this amount of money. I guess the reason that I'm not noticing this, Pat, is because I'm shopping the market and saying it costs me 40 to take over and 60 to take a lift. But also the business owner has to find a way to make it profitable for them.

If they don't pass down the prices, they have to find a way to make money. You mean the driver's up? The Uber. Well, I think Uber is like losing money. That's exactly my point. So, yeah, I don't know what they're doing is. And it's only going to get worse as these waymo.

Waymore. Let me get to the next story. I think Uber might be cooked. Next door I want to get to is Krista Pike. So this story is a, you know, very weird story with Krista Pike. So this girl who many years ago, I don't know what the timeline was, 25, 30 years ago, her and her boyfriend, she gets upset at another girl. And she decides to go and get the girl.

I think I don't know what it was. They kill her, hits the head, grabs a piece from the skull. She ends up bragging about the piece that she has and she shows her to her friends. She gets arrested. She gets the, what do you call it, death penalty? And in the state of Tennessee, they tried to take her out twice. It fails both times. And this is the second time that has happened in Tennessee.

And other stories are what's going to be happening. The lawyers coming back saying it's the state's fault. I cannot believe you did this. People are coming out and saying, poor girl, poor her. Can't believe she went through this. That is not fair. And that's, I'm summarizing the story for you. Bavini, I'll come to you first with this story.

Yeah, and just to add to it. And Connor, you have that graphic that I sent you about Colleen. Yeah, Colleen slumber. Pat, check this out. Pentegram carved into her chest while she was still alive, okay? 300 cuts on the face, neck chest, abdomen back in arms. Six inches gaping wound across the middle of her neck, penetrating fat muscle. but this is a violent

attack from a female multiple extensive skull fractures from at least four blows to the head two on the left side one to the right eye one above her nose area head injuries rendered her face unrecognizable they couldn't even tell if they had to obviously check

boy or girl identification made part by dental records you understand how bad that is bruises and cuts all over the majority of her body dirt and debris because they mean like that oh sorry um she was dragged clothing removed and defensive wounds on her arms meaning she was fighting

she was fighting the whole time okay they tortured her they beat her and in prison pat you think that she would be a change woman in 2001 she tried to strangle another inmate with a shoelace years later she was recorded Tommy saying that she would do it again

and the next time she would succeed okay so this is here's my thing pat evil person even all that aside I do feel because as a Christian guy I feel bad. This is, when you're supposed to go, you're going to go, meaning the execution should just go. Why are we still doing the lethal injection, Tom?

Even, even, remember the movie Green Mile? You know, sometimes it messes up if it's not this or if it's not that. Just firing squad. Do a firing squad. I have never heard of a firing squad where the person lived later on to tell stories or they were bruising and everything like that. And there was other reports that that she refused eating. She didn't want her final meal. And for some reason, she was not drinking.

She was dehydrated. makes the vein search very, very hard. Apparently they were having trouble doing it. This is, by the way, she's been in jail for a long time. This is a evil person that I hope and I pray turn to God. Because a lot of people in there have a lot of time on their hands. Okay, she seems like an evil person. I can hope and pray that she came to Christ, but this is not a good person.

Okay, and I feel bad that it wasn't clean. They need to change the freaking way that they're killing people. You know, it was a few people that were involved. So she apparently, she was thinking that this girl, Colleen, was trying to to take her boyfriend away from her. So she teams up with her and her boyfriend, Todd, Tadarrel Ship, and another lady named Shadola Peterson,

Lord Colleen to a secluded area near the University of Tennessee agricultural campus in Knoxville. And then that's where they beat her and tortured her, et cetera, et cetera, horrible. Tragic event that takes place. And the case became, especially notorious because of the extreme brutality and because Pike later kept a piece of the skull

as a trophy. Yeah, that's exactly what she did. Now, let me continue with this. Shadora, Shadola Peterson, her friend, got away, got off. Nothing happened to her. She got, she did not receive a long prison sentence. She cooperated with prosecutors against,

testified against Krista Pike and to Daryl Schip. She ultimately pleaded guilty, yeah, to be in an accessory after the fact and receive probation, rather than a murder conviction carrying a lengthy prison term Contemporary Summary Summally described her original sentence as six years suspended to probation only. So even though she was involved in a murder, she got up because she said everything about what her friend did, right? And then when you go a little bit deeper up what they did, Krista Pike was treated as a principal killer.

Evidence shows she had talked beforehand about wanting to kill Colleen. Slamer participated throughout the prolonged assault and Slammer's throat multiple times cut the throat, beat her ultimately smash her. And I'm not saying we're glossing over it. Do you guys understand if with all the things that I said about what they did, the Pentegram while she was alive, if you crack somebody's head open with asphalt and you actually go and you take a piece of the skull and you're showing it off to people at school, you are evil. There is no, I was fun.

I was having a good time. I was young and dumb. Absolute. No, Adam, seriously, that's evil. I know we're talking about. college girls making mistakes and whatever in the drugs. This is a different story. When you're taking off a piece of the head and showing it in school, Tom, it doesn't get more evil than that.

You're bragging about murdering this innocent girl. And this is where I have fault with our criminal justice system. First of all, how much evidence do you need to get a murder conviction? And yet you're willing to give a person that was involved in it probation for testifying against the killer. Are you kidding me? You usually do that when you need the witness. when you need something. I don't know what more you need if she's in possession of a piece of the skull. Gee, ma'am, where did you get that? And I understand our appellate process, but this is where,

you know, the courts became so clogged, Pat, that they developed what's called the rocket docket. The docket of cases coming up, they said some of these cases just need to go fast so that the people can be served because we, the people, need the court to be handling cases for the service of the people by finding criminals guilty and doing all the things they're supposed to do or by finding the wrongly accused innocent. That's what the court's supposed to do. I think there should be a rocket docket on death row because what you have here is you have people on death row

who has strangled somebody on death row with the shoelace and says, hey, chick, next time I would have got it right and killed you. Because she's in there for a life without parole. She's on the death penalty. So she's a danger to other inmates who may be there for a lesser crime. So I think you just got to get it over with. And the incompetency of the state to administer this, there is a whole bunch of stuff that goes into the lethal Jackson folk that won't talk about

in that they understand the size, weight, composition, everything, you know, of the person that there's going to be injected. And yet they get it wrong. You know, why don't you just outsource to a gangbanger? They off each other with a single shot. I just popped a cap in his side. And it was that. And it was dead.

And you know what? In the state of Florida, they used to use the electric chair. The electric chair was undefeated. You know, you had a record of 296 and 0. So you don't beat the electric chair. And they thought it was inhumane

because you bring in witnesses for executions. And apparently smoke poured and then flames from the head of Jesse Tafaro in 1990. And again for Pedro Medina in 1997. So people were upset about that. And the proponents were saying, well, it means that the electricity is working. And then in 1999, they stopped that. However, in the state of Florida,

you can choose old Sparky because it is still held in a small room ready to go. And if you don't want the lethal injection in Florida, you can select Old Clarkie. But my point is just do it. Yeah, I want to show you this. I want to show you this a couple things. By the way, the boyfriend to Daryl got off and he just got life because he was 17 at the time. And he's the one that prevented her from running away twice, escaping twice. And records showed that he gagged slimmer and inflicted some of the cuts and wounds. So he got away because he was under 17, under 18 years old. And this is the lawyer talking about the failure.

I think yesterday he talked, this is her lawyer. Listen to what he had to say. Go forward. We start by saying, Krista is alive right now. We do know that she is alive right now. receiving life-saving medical care. The state of Tennessee has shown us again that they are not capable of carrying out an execution consistent with basic human dignity.

Last night was not just inefficient. It was cruel and it was torturous. It was also predictable. Krista's legal team told the state of Tennessee and the courts that her medical conditions would cause her to suffer an agonizing death. The state and the court dismiss Christ's concerns. The governor's call for an independent review does not go far enough. After having endured solitary confinement for more than 20 years and a full attempt to kill her by lethal injection,

Krista has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Krista's sentence now. Can you do me if ever and play the other clip on what they think is going to be happening? Because what some people are saying is they're going to use double jeopardy to get away and she's going to get off. And this is a very good breakdown. Now go forward. It happens a lot in death penalty cases. These last minute hail Mary's to try to prevent the death penalty for occurring.

And sometimes it goes all the way up to the Supreme Court or to the federal circuit court like it did in this instance as well. So there might be a lot of brief file, but I don't think it's going to really override the punishment. I've heard a lot about double jeopardy. This is not double jeopardy. She was already convicted. She was already sentenced.

There's no double jeopardy here. It's really an Eighth Amendment issue where there's cruel and unusual to do this again to her. know, as an individual. And under Tennessee law, it would be at this time because they already tried twice. But I think in past cases, they've waited like a year when mistakes or unsuccesses of killing a defendant have happened. So I think that's probably the most likely thing. I'm about it's weird because they had this happen again earlier, just four months ago. Tony Vaughn Caruthers, execution aborted before lethal drugs were administered because the team couldn't establish

the backup line. Can you imagine that? And this is all happening while Tennessee is trying to find out what their next governor is, and this has become a topic of discussion in the governor race that they're having. I think Tennessee might need to take a lesson from Tehran and just do what Tehran does and just hang people from the noose. You mean all know that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the best at that. They're leading the league in hanging innocent dissenters. So just do what's proven to get done and do like Iran does. By the way, she smiles as if she's proud she did this. She's like it doesn't look like anything changed. like, yeah, I would do it again, and she deserved it. And look at the smile on her face.

And look at how. Hey, guys, how you doing? Yeah. You know. And look how rich. Is that her on the left? Right. No, on the right.

Who's on the left? I think the writer of the article. It's like Colsey Gabbard's cousin. But how, yeah, but how rich, like, how low, and I get it, it's her lawyer. But how rich is it that he had the audacity to say that the way that they're trying to kill her was cruel and torturous. Give me a, but you know, you know why lawyers get a bad. I'm going to defend him. I'm going to defend him.

I'm going to defend him. And here's why. He is a criminal defense attorney who is supposed to use all means possible for them. That's his job. So don't criticize him for his job. You can say, how could you be a criminal defense attorney? That's valid. And I think it takes a special kind of person to contrive what is also lying.

Lindsey Clancy's attorney. Are you ready for this? However you killed the person that you killed, that's how we're going to kill you. And the family gets to watch if they want to. You want to put fear? What is that, Homerabi's code? Well, if you want to put fear in people's hearts, oh, we got, we caught you and you put a pentegram on her and then you beat her to death.

You're going to die that way. Or just give her cellmate with shoelace next time. Yeah, exactly. Hey, she tried to kill you with this. It's a stronger one. Yeah, unbelievable. This would make a very interesting interview sitting with her to see how somebody gets to this point. All right.

What time do we got? 1102. Okay, we got a couple of stories that I'm going to go with as well. Next story here is MLB. So the Red Sox apparently played against the Yankees. Twice. Twice. And Tom, you told me that they won.

The Yankees won. The Yankees won? Yankees. Congratulations. Very interesting angles on the story. The pitcher for the Red Sox, Sunny Gray, who used to play for the Yankees, came up with the Oakland A's, right? Play for the Yankees.

And all of a sudden, the market is like, what the hell is this pine tar on his neck? Looking at us. I don't know if you guys have seen this or not. And he keeps wiping. Look at this. on the right side of his neck, right there, right there. You see what he wipe? To be able to have a little bit more velocity.

And grip and grip because the weather's cold, right? So they're saying this is what was going on. In the post-game interview, and by the way, the other guy for them, who is the guy that, Compreras, who hits the home run, takes him 28, 29 seconds to go at the end. He was walking. They're like, you're walking as if you are ahead or winning. And Sonny Gray is doing the interview afterwards.

And look what he had to say. Go for it. I think I'm the best pitcher in the American League going through the order the third time. Still does the funny commentating. Let's back it up. He thinks he's the best pitcher in the American league. He talks shit about the Yankees saying I never wanted to go there in the first place. It feels good to me to go to a place where it's easy to hate the Yankees.

And even with all that confidence he claims he has, he comes into Yankee Stadium with pine tarl over his neck. And does a terrible job. Look at this. Posset. Pass it right there. Pass it. Pass it right there. Gonna go back a little bit

and pause it right to go back a little bit. What is that? By the way, now I just did a shower and wheat, sir. Do you know what's my favorite part of the story? Let me tell you what's my favorite part of the story. This is all leading to my favorite part of the story. Do you know the picture for the Yankees that Tom says

is probably going to win the Siong and potentially the MVP? Cam Schlittler. Okay. Do you know what's a special story about Cam? Do you know his background? No, really. Do you know when he was coming up? You know what city he's from?

Boston? He wanted his dream was to play for the Red Sock and they turned him down. Oh, what a great story. So he goes and plays for the Yankees, right? And when he plays for the Yankees, can I share some stats with you, just so you know. Okay. In the game that he had playing against the Red Sox, he pitched for 6.1 innings, okay?

10 strikeouts, zero earned run. Nothing. He gave up nothing. But that's not the big deal. He finished with 117 pitches in the game. 117 pitches. The last time a Yankees pitcher pitched 117 pitches and a game. game was in 2012. It was a guy named C.C. Sabat. This is not a common thing. Tom can tell you 117

pitches today is unheard of today. This is not a new, no, no, it's not. But let me tell you what gets even more exciting about this. Across two postseason starts against the Red Sox, he's pitched, he's given zero runs, 22 strikeouts, and out of his six career starts against the Red Sox, six career starts against the Red Sox. Guess what his ERA is against six games against the Red Sox? 1.0.0. 0.9? I mean, 0.5 is his ERA. Anything lower than 2.0.

Are you kidding me like, that's insane to me on what he does. So this guy is sitting there and he's being interviewed. I don't know if you guys saw the interview of what he says. He says, listen, if you want to be a legend in this game, I don't know if you got saw this or not. And for the kids that play sports and you got things that's going to, on. This is the mentality that I love boys. I'm sending it to you. If you can play this clip, I send it to Vinny. I don't send it to you guys. I'm going to send it to you for you to play

this clip. It's a different clip. In this clip, he's being interviewed after the pitching game that apparently had. I didn't watch it. So he says in this interview, he's just talking very ice cold, very regular, okay? Very calm. And he says the following. Folks, I want you to watch us. Play this clip for your kids. Let your kids see this. Okay, watch us. Go ahead. Play this the beginning if you can. Refresh it. Refresh it one more time. Watch this. Get the mute button as well. There you go. Your position perfect. The job's not done. We've got to get another win tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, again, the job's not done. We've got to get another win tomorrow.

But I mean, it's very well known that if you want to be a legend, which is obviously the goal, you got to do it in the postseason. I am right. Have dominant starts and put the team in position to win. That's kind of the most important thing. I thought a lot of guys today did a great job of that, and we're definitely heading the right direction. Don't you love that mindset to have a mindset like that? You're saying this is the guy who grew up being a Boston Red Sox.

This guy's dream was to play for the Red Sox, and he plays for. Spoiler alert. It's like you grew up a Muslim, you become a Christian, and you want her to be an imam, and you become a thing. That's how divergent. Oh, no, no. The Red Sox, the Red Sox, the two, it is a religion for these guys.

Wow. It is a religion for these guys. And then Ben Rice, who to me looks just like Roger Maris, you know, hit the, did he had a Grand Slam or something like the people. Some people told me you had a Ben Rice at a grand slam or he had a big home run. Oh, by the way, how great is that, Pat? The Yankees didn't hit a Grand Slam. By the way, this is his upbringing.

Ben Rice to the left. He's our designated hitter. And how awesome is a decision as the New York Yankees, not that Aaron Judge has been wanting to come back? They're in the dugout, but they're not letting him come back. And I tell you a good story, though. This is the good story, Vinny, that we have to tell. have to. One of the pitchers from the Red Sox, his name is Peyton Toll. Tully. It may be Tolly. Taly. Paiton Tully. There's two clips that Vinny brought up. Can you do

me if everyone bring these two clips up, okay? Two of them. Go to the first one that shows when he's being picked up and going to the Major League. This is the clip of him being told you're about to pitch your first big Major League baseball game. Look at the reaction. Go for it. So if you want a $3,000 a month Payday for Life, what would you feel free to do? Maybe take a long weekend, every weekend, or try a bunch of new hobbies? Would you feel free to upgrade and listen ad-free? Don't worry, we get it. Every $20 ticket could win you $3,000 a month for life and supports life-saving cancer research at the Princess Margaret. Feel free to buy your payday for life ticket today. Raffle number RAF-157-39-16. Please play responsibly.

There's a game here, Pirates versus the Red Sox. Paul Skeen's versus TBD. We were thinking to turn that TBD into Tully. Bro. Bro. It looks pretty good. Isn't that great? Don't you love this guy?

Wow. He's such a good guy, bro. This guy's up. That sounds good to me. Yeah. Don't you love this guy? By the way, we were watching. Is that his first game ever that he was going to play?

Yeah. And then watch, watch this video, Vinnie. Why don't you tee up this next video of what he said? This year. Paul Skeen's National League's Young Award. Yeah, exactly. It's not like you're going up against anybody.

Welcome to the show. Great stash on this guy. It's like a ball player. So he's explaining here how, you know, why he has You're So Pretty inscribed on his glove. And it's a message. On his glove, he has a statement that says, you're so pretty. Yeah. To attribute to his mother, Gina, who passed away last year from cancer.

Just watch us. Watch us here. Go for it. Tell the fans who don't know, what is on your glove and why. So on it, I have, You're So Pretty. and every game throughout high school I'd always know mom was there because she'd y'all, you're so pretty

it was meant to embarrass me for a long time and I found quickly it's like he was close to me there's a matter of time I look down to see that it's my little reminder like hey crap happens on the field but you're still pretty like you're still good

you're more than just a baseball I mean this is a guy you love who doesn't love a player like this he loves his mom and he's a red socks guy But you love him. And he loves Jesus. Yeah, he does. And I love, like, that's, and again, Pat, again.

Is that what it says? He really says, I love Jesus. Can you play that? Stop it. Play from. But I cuss a little bit. But I cuss a little bit. So does Vini, it's okay.

Go out there and kick ass. I kick ass. I kick out there. I love it. Anytime that I get to. This is a beautiful, buddy. This is the beautiful part about sports and baseball on what happens. So, Tom, walk me through.

Because one of the stats is that came out, which is fascinating, is that MLB attendance rises for the fourth straight year to 71.75 million. Look at the Tigers. 71.75 million fans watching this. I thought last year when you guys won the World Series, in my opinion, the greatest world series I ever watched. That was the Toronto one? Oh, it was the greatest World Series I've ever watched my life.

It went game seven, didn't I? It did, it did. But attendance rose. But Tom, at the same time, while attendance rose, the Houston Astros are in the playoffs, And you just said to me, 7,000 people weren't there in the audience and they're booing their own. How is that even possible? Well, I'll tell you why it's possible. The Houston Astros finished with an incredible record of 81 and 81.

So they did not have a winning season. They fought to a tie with themselves. And if you take a look at what was going on in the American League West, that was kind of the dark side of baseball. It was nobody wanted to win. And the rest of American League just beat the crap out of them. and the Houston Astros are now 0 and 9 at home in playoff games dating back. They got swept in the wild card this year by Chicago White Sox. Two years ago in 2024, they got swept in the wild card at home.

You're opening up the wild card at home. You're supposed to win. You're the home field. They lost. So that's four. And then the previous year, 2003, do you remember that remarkable American League championship series between the Rangers and the Astros? the Astros won all three games at Texas, and Texas won all four games at Houston.

The home team never won in that ACL-Yes, and somehow the Rangers went to World Series and won it. They lost those four. So that's 2003, and then they lost one game the prior year. So it's been 2022 since they've won a home playoff game, and they've been in the playoffs four years. The fans are tired of it. Also, if you talk to the Astro fans,

there. There are some that have read the stories about the people that left after 2017. We know what happened in 2017. They cheated. They won the World Series. They beat the Dodgers. And they beat it with hidden cameras and banging on tubs It all makes sense now, Tom. It all makes

sense now, Tom. Alcubei hits a home run and he says, don't take off my jersey. Because he was wearing a buzzer. Yeah, you can right. He was wearing a buzzer. Allegedly. Allegedly. So that's what's going on. Then with the Astros, Pat, You have just, I think, a lack of, there's a lack of effort on the field.

They've kind of lost mojo. But the state of baseball is good. We had a great World Series last year, not because the Dodgers were in it, because it was simply great baseball. And this year, the stadium experience has been better. And I think, Pat, something they did, and I want your opinion on this as a baseball owner, is I think the shot clock that they brought to baseball for pitching.

And you can only see. step out of the batters box and scratch yourself and remember they used to step out literally when I say scratch yourself they would adjust their cup and then they would sit there adjust their gloves and then get back in the batters box and it was like will people stop fidgeting and just play it's like that's why they have a shot clock in basketball so you don't sit there just bouncing the ball wasting time and that's why they have the clock in football so baseball brought it and I think it's resulted in a good thing I also think that the rule that the relief pitchers pat have have to face a minimum of three batters.

Remember when you used to have five pitchers at the end of a baseball game, Pat? Yeah. Like five, left-hander, right-hander, left-hander, right-hander. And it was worse than all the timeouts in the NBA where it takes five minutes. Is that a rule now? You have to face three batters? Correct. What am I getting smoked?

Guess what? Then the manager brought the wrong guy in. Then what happens if you get injured? Well, let me tell you what has happened, though. A couple of things to be thinking about. The other day, I'm sitting there, and I'm asking myself one question, because I noticed everybody that would come up. He had 243.

He had 228. He had 265. These are guys that are in the freaking playoffs. They're hitting 240, 250, 260. I remember watching playoffs 30 years ago, 328, 317, 341. Paul Molter, you know, you would see Larry Walker, 370, you know, Juan Gonzalez 350 and ARA, 328. What the hell happened to batting average?

Do you know in 1996 what the average batting average was in baseball? The average. Average. 250. 270. Wow. In 1996, you know what it is today? 244. What happened?

I'm going to tell exactly what happened. Tampa Bay Rays changed the game when they realized I'm no longer needing to pitch. We used to have a lot of complete games. We used to have a lot of shutouts. We had a lot of guys that was pride. 17 complete games, shutout. You know, six complete games shutouts. Nobody gets complete games anymore.

It doesn't matter. They went to mathematics. So you start off strong. So low ERA, first, second, third inning. And then they started noticing that it drops around fifth, six. And like, you know what? Let me get rid of them after the six. You need five minutes to get the win.

So then they bring two, three, four pitchers. So average game has five pitchers. The game got boring to a pitchers. But audience has now shown up. But let me tell you what happened. This is one thing I don't like. I'm glad you broke that down. Vladimir Guerrero, who yesterday, last year, if you guys can find this clip,

last year, the guy plays in the greatest world series ever. I watched. You remember when they're going up against the Dallas? You almost beat the Dodge. The greatest world series. It was like, hey, thank you Dodgers. Thank you, Toronto for putting on an amazing show. Every game was exciting.

Congratulations for the Dodgers for winning. Well dessert. But the one person that we all started looking at as a person you feared was who? Vladimir Guerrero, because what he was doing under playoffs. You know what happens after last year? He gets a 500 million auto contract. And he's being interviewed. in an interview,

guess what Vladimir Guerrero says? He says, they didn't pay me to hit 40 every year. He says, they paid me for what I did last year. I want you to watch his comments. Go ahead. Can you turn on? Okay, go for it.

Watch this. Oh, my God. So he says, they didn't pay me $500 million on what they want me to do this year. They paid me $500 million because of what I did last year. No.

That's not the way it works. Now, watch. Let me tell you what happens next. Do you know this year he played 147 games? Okay? Yeah. That's a lot. You played 90% the game. Do you want to know how many home runs he hit this season? Compared to all? Tom, do you know how many home runs you had this season? No, no, I just want you to know. This is a guy that was hitting 400 in the playoffs last year, 350 in the playoffs last year. How many home runs you think he played in 147 games? No major injures. Don't look up the

stats. I just want you to guess. How many home runs you think Vladimir Gero hit this year? That's still a lot. If you hit less than 30 if you're this guy, you're a horrible season. After getting $500 million. I remember at the All-Star break, it was like he didn't even show up on league leaders. I don't know how many. But what would shock you, Tom? For Guerrero, his father was a phenom. If he hit less than 20.

What number would you be shocked with? Less than 20 would be a failure. 15 to 20 without an injury would shock me. Less than that. He hit nine home runs. No way. No injury. That's half of what in the game.

Only 57 RBIs. Wow. 72 runs. That's it. What a loser. Slugging percentage, 356. He has his money. But he got his money.

That's it. You know what a horrible example this is to the other teammates? I agree. You know what a horrible example this is for the young kids? FYI. Can you pull up Toronto Blue Jays record this year versus last year? Toronto Blue Jays record this year versus last year. Okay?

What is the Toronto Blue Jays record this year versus last year? If you go look at how many Wednesday they had, look at this, Vinny. Last year record was what? 94 and 68. And then you start paying. They were number one. AL East finish. Of course, they lost the World Series 4 to 3.

They almost won the whole thing. Look at this year. 79 and 83. In the AL East, they finished fifth. And Guerrero was not injured. Wow. But you got paid. You got paid.

You learn what happens. Do you know in the history of sports, the most disappointing team ever, with the biggest budget as a team, that ended up going last, you know who it was? New York Mets. Juan Soto took the check, went to the Mets, what happened to him. The other day he can make it to first base.

The guy fumbles, he doesn't get the hit because he's just kind of trotting, like, let me tell you how much money I got all this other stuff. Nothing is more annoying than you watch guys that were exciting guys. Like Poppy would play. You're like, man, when this guy's playing, he brings so much pride to the game of baseball. I'd love to see Veronica Giroro this year offseason. Go lose 25, 30 pounds, recreate himself, come back. next year and go back into the big, what do you call it, the World Series and play against

somebody like the Dodgers. The concern is right now, the Yankee, what do you call it, MLB, has a lot of good things going on. They're getting viewers. People are enjoying baseball. Absolutely. People are enjoying watching baseball. And by the way, they're enjoying watching baseball during a pitcher, pitchers era.

Yes. Steroids out. You know how scary it is to do steroids today? You know what happens if you get caught? Do you know what the fine is right now? Are out for the whole season? 81 to first time, 162 second time. Half a season, then full season.

You're making $30 million a year. You just lost $15 million. Oh, you don't get paid either. Zero. No, no. Your team gets a waiver. Zero. You pay nothing.

So guys are doing no steroids. They're not even doing any of this, you know, Nortestin or whatever muscle tech stuff that, you know, some guys, Rafael Palmer, all these guys would talk about. So it is a very, very different league today to play. And so it's exciting. It's fun. But I hope they don't screw this thing up with this collective time. is it the collective bargain agreement that's coming out that they're going to go on a strike?

Everybody's stacking up with cash because they know it's going to potentially next to be no season. Yeah, the collective bargaining agreement is the rules by which the owners and the players will work with each other. And if that expires and there's no rules to work together, then they're technically what's called on strike. Because the players will say, well, until we have a new CBA, they call it, we're not playing. So the players go on strike while they're trying to negotiate a new contract. What is Cali's number on a strike happening? Can you guys go and see if there's a Cal She on strike, like MLB strike? Go ahead, Tom.

Yep. I think we are lockout, lockout, MLB lockout. The current collective bargaining exprise December 1st has proposed salary cap and salary floor with a proposed $275.25 million on floor of 171. Here it is. New CBA before December 2nd, 6% chance. Oh, it's not going to happen. What do you mean?

You don't think a strike's going to happen? No, the agreement's going to happen? They're not going to have an agreement before. That's right. If this was 96% chance, there's no lockout. There won't be an agreement. This is no agreement. A strike is going to happen.

Flip it over, 94% chance there's going to be a strike. I hope they figure out quickly because baseball has won millions of fans back. And it's a dumb mistake if they do it now. It's a dumb mistake if they do it now. The sport is exciting. playoffs this year last year last four years straight and you know this pad they updated the product

without changing the heart of the game Tom you made a great point everything is faster you're in there and they're leaning on players like Shohei Otani and Judge short clips they're putting them out there and you know I want people because a lot of people talk crap like basically it's so boring it's like okay I love the NFL the last few years exactly if you watch the NFL

people don't realize this Adam three hours of a game you're getting 11 minutes of hike but and basically Baseball, Pat. We're sitting there watching the game, Adam. We're eating. We're talking. We're doing, yeah, last year, my bad.

Sports trivia. If you go to an actual game, guys, you're in the, that's why they call it America's Pass time, but you're in there, you go eat, you go shopping, come back, fourth inning. And it's still exciting and it's still. You know what, Dovini? Yeah. You know why I'm wearing this jacket right now?

Why? The faith over fear jacket that you can get on FLB.com. Yeah. Because I have faith, they're going to figure it out. Ooh, I like what you did there. It's faith over fear, baby. I like what you did there. It's faith over fear.

baseball is going to figure it out, and they got to put that in place. I say this to everybody. If there's a sport, I'm convinced. It's not like I have insider information. I don't want to leak my sources because you get in trouble. God's favorite sport is baseball. This is documented. By the way, you know, it's in the Bible.

Really? What would they say in the Bible, Tom? Can you tell them? What were the first words in the Bible? In the big inning. Oh, wow. It's in the Bible. It tells you.

In the big in. But that's a mistake. That is just sacrilegious. Some people say it's in the beginning. No, no, no, no. It's actually in the big inning. He's talking about maybe the ninth year. The Bible starts with the excitement.

That's a baseball guy. Don't let anybody fool you, by the way. It's not football. Wow. It's not soccer. Baseball. It's not hockey. It's baseball.

There's something about baseball. You get to sit. By the way, I am praying the Yankees go to the World Series. And I'm praying the, Dodgers go. Oh. You know why? Because I want to go to New York and I want to go watch the World Series together.

That is such a great experience going to the game. Yankee fans show up. Last time we were there, a bunch of guys coming and talking. It's great conversations. But anyways, with that being said, I think games start time. Guys, remind me with the schedule. I think tomorrow starts. Saturday.

So I'm not following this. Tomorrow. Tomorrow Dodgers play at four. Dodgers play Atlanta. Okay. Yankees play against the Tampa Bay Race in, which is. Tampa Bay. In Tampa.

And then you got Chicago, Cleveland, and the last one of San Diego goes against Milwaukee, which should be baseball. Baseball is back, baby. Baseball is back. All right. Before we wrap up, I appreciate you laying out what happened with the averages. By the way, just for the record, I've been to basketball games, football games. Going to a baseball game, there ain't nothing like it.

Something about that diamond on the field. It's incredible. But I don't follow baseball like you guys follow baseball. I'm more basketball. I skip two games, but I love the games. Great game. I'll check stats just to see who are the good players. I do that.

I was like, I'm looking at the average. Nothing. Six players batted above 300. That's right. Growing up, if you didn't hit 300, you weren't in all stuff. Six players, and this guy, Jordan Alvarez, led the league with 316. I remember you used to lead the league. You'd have to be at like 340, 320.

Home runs, you're talking, don't talk to me unless you've hit 50. By the way, he played for the Astros. had, like, nobody behind him. So he did that on a bad team or they could have pitched him. Well, I also noticed something about Tom. Not only does he kind of low-key, you know, root against the Yankees. He hates the Yankees. You also, you also low-key, I realize this, why you hate the Houston Astros.

Yeah, they beat the Dodgers. Us too. Hold on. They beat us. They beat us. They beat them down. Now I get what's going on. Everybody in the league. Houston we have a problem. By the way, forget about bitter Dodgers fans. No, no, no, no, no. Forget about Bitter Dodger fans.

Everybody in the league and C.C. Sabathia say that they cheated. That should have been a Dodgers Yankees World Series. C.C. Sabathia said, said that they got cheated. Tom, who pitched in that game in 2017 for the Dodgers when they lost? The Persian guy. Persian? Who pitched? U. Darvish.

He helped you. I did help. I did help. I was at the game. Stephen Afo said, hey, let's go to the game. Get out of here. And on the way to the game, these guys were so good at getting forward. He thought it was like Japanese.

On the way to the game, they're like asking all these compensation stuff. Smart. Like these guys, every time they do this with me. Smart. But I went there and we sat there to hope to see the Dodgers win. Because at that time, I'm like, look, believe it or not, one thing about me, you've got to realize. If the Yankees are playing the Dodgers, I'm rooting for who? The Yankees.

Anybody else playing against the Dodgers, I'm rooting for the Dodgers. I'm telling you, I'm an L.A. guy. Dude, when the Dodgers won in Texas during COVID, I was. I was wearing a Dodgers hat because it's dog. I'm in a lay guy still. I love the Dodgers. So I'm conflicted. But it's Yankees.

To me, baseball is Yankees. To me, baseball is Yankees. Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra. Babe Ruth. Jeter. Murder is Roos. Baseball is Yankees, does. Yankees.

That is something about it. Where a Yankees had a total freaking. Ukraine. They're going to know who the Yankees. Everybody knows that the number one team, Like the icon. For you, it's the fever. I know.

It's the Florida, Miami, Marlin. No, no, no. You go to center. I'll tell you. Putt Rodriguez. Let me tell you, the day, if we ever get a hold of a team, majority, yeah. It'll be some of the funnest games you'll ever go to.

The day comes that we're majority. Right now, you know what a minority owner over Yankees is? You know what you get to say? You just get to cheer. Yeah. That's the Yankees, Doug. You get to do the seventh inning. Yes, a little bit of the point.

But the day comes, God willing, if it happens, if the day comes that we own a majority, Let me tell you. We have some ideas that you want some of the craziest ideas we have. I can't wait for it. I can't wait for it. We would definitely make Tom or his daughter the GM. Oh, oh, Bailey, for sure.

But if you think I'm joking with you, I'm actually not joking with you. But anyways, Vinny, any final thoughts before wrap up? Because they're going, they're going freaking fast. Guys, the faith over fear. Right now they have the lower third on there. Get it right now. Remember, there's less than 100 and they're going. So make sure you click on it.

Styl and that is so clean. Great job today, Vinnie. Have a great weekend, everybody. We will do this again next week. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye bye, bye, bye.