PBD Podcast - DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick are joined by comedian Bryan Callen as they cover the DOGE dividend checks, Trump upsetting Zelenskyy with calls for a Ukranian election, and Jair Bolsonaro being charged in a poisioning plot of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.-------🖥️ REGISTER FOR THE MINNECT CIRCLES ECONOMY: https://bit.ly/4hVTkPK📺 VOTE ON TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4gXLioq⁠⁠⁠⁠👕 GET THE LATEST VT MERCH:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l⁠⁠⁠⁠📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY":⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/41rtEV4⁠⁠⁠⁠📰 VTNEWS.AI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A⁠⁠⁠⁠📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC⁠⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7⁠⁠⁠⁠🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw⁠⁠⁠⁠📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or⁠⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

All right, so it's great to be with you guys here. Look what I've become. I'm the one. All right, so it's great to be with you guys here. Episode 549, we just got back from Brazil and one of our favorite people in the world is on the podcast today. He's kind of a big deal, very famous. He said he wanted to make sure we knew about this when he came here. He's fantastic to be around on camera, off camera.

Brian Callahan, it's great to have you back. It's good to be here, my brother. My home away from home. Every time he comes, it gets a little bit more suited. This is a suit for him. He's got a three piece suit on. For him, that's a three piece suit. It is.

By the next, I think seven podcasts from now, he may have like a nice suit. I wanna wear a vest. I want the whole thing, bro. Every time I see you, a little part of me dies. I gotta start dressing better. I need bespoke shoes with a patina sheen, and I want my suits tailored to my body.

We're gonna introduce you to this company called Stefano Ricci, and then we'll get you. Just to be able to say, this is Stefano Ricci. And I'll say Stefano. Stefano. This is Stefano Ricci, why, what's the problem? You need to see Julian. Technically I've been corrected.

Julian Stefano guy. A lot of stuff to cover here today. We just found out a few minutes ago, Tom wasn't following Rob. That's why there was a big fight in the morning and I made sure that got verified right now so it's scored away. But for those of you guys that have been waiting

for two hours, we accidentally posted this Brazilian time 9 a.m Which is 7 a.m. Here so for those of you that have been waiting for two hours We appreciate you and thank you for understanding we put Brazilian time over in the States Okay a lot going on a lot of things to talk about a lot of things to talk about I feel like we haven't done a podcast for a week I don't think we've done a podcast for a week So it's been literally a week a lot of stories to talk about. I feel like we haven't done a podcast for a week. I don't think we've done a podcast for a week. So it's been literally a week, a lot of stories to cover. The social security voters,

apparently there's 130 year olds voting and there's millions of them and even President Trump's reading and saying, what the hell is this all about? And people are kind of looking at it going back and forth. Canada plays US. While they're playing the national anthem, they're booing us.

You know what's happening tonight? Tonight's the rematch of them in the city of Boston. Vinny just told me right now that game of them talking shit is happening tonight in Boston. Oh my God. I want to see what happens here. These guys are going to need secret service to leave. They're going to need protection when they leave that place talking shit to Americans.

Very aggressive. Anyways, but you know what would be the solution? President made it very easy for them to be a solution. If they became the 51st state, we would actually cheer for them. Of course. Honestly, if Canada was 51st state, would we not cheer for them? A thousand percent. A thousand percent we'd cheer for them.

We'd cheer for them. Maybe not that much. Maybe we'd cheer for them. They can start hockey games faster with only one anthem. You're damn right. Okay, a few other stories. Trump calls for Ukraine to hold elections, potentially replace Zelensky as he takes a swipe at the President's approval rating, calls him an OK comedian, and the way he's

pushing him right now, calling him a semi-dictator, we'll watch the video. Trump demands 50% share of Ukraine's revenue from critical minerals, oil and gas, and infrastructure based on the money that we've given them. And then, up like a rocket, CNN's Harry Inton says large chunks of Americans think the U.S. has been very generous to Ukraine. People are no longer supportive of that. We'll address that. Tom's got a lot to say about that.

President's, Brazil's former president, Bolsonaro, charged over an alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula. By the way, we're in his office, we're doing the interview, we've now been with him for four hours. An hour we spoke with him, three hours was the interview. It's in the last 15 minutes. Guy walks in, Senate walks in, everyone's being texted, he's got to leave. We're like, what's going on here?

We finish up the interview, Bolsonaro gets upset, he's gotta leave. Like, what's going on here? We finish up the Intembol Sonata, he gets upset, he's like, let me finish my interview. He stays an additional 10, 15 minutes than he was supposed to, and then he leaves. We're in the car, and we get a report, and that says he is being charged for how many years? We're at 38 years. 38 years because of this.

The entire experience of Brazil, I'll talk about a little bit here, was very, very interesting, but we'll talk about a little bit here was very very interesting But we'll talk about that those discovers millions of instances of Social Security fraud head of Social Security resigns After clash with Elon Musk the real reason Elon Musk's new baby mama chose to go public What an interesting story baby mama drama well. 13th kid, 13th. Allegedly, because he just unfollowed, I don't know what happened there.

Something's going on there because he hasn't said it's his. Yeah, but just because you unfollowed doesn't mean the baby goes away. But the point being is. It could be somebody else's. I mean there's. But what I'm saying to you is, if he is not saying anything about it,

Right. Something's gonna. because he's pro Create he wants as many exactly exactly exactly smart people to breathe and and she's an influencer She's an influencer on the conservative, right? So who knows who knows what's going on? All right next Trump Fort Knox He says we want to go to Fort Knox to see if the goal is even there Who knows maybe the goal is not there. We're gonna go see if the goal is there He kept saying that maybe he knows something the rest of us do not know. Stephen A. Smith reveals why he may run for president and Stephen A., I have a message for you, man. My brother, I love

you, we've been talking, but I got a message for you. I'm sure you'll see this. German prosecutor tells 60 Minutes it's a crime in Germany to insult people online as government raids offenders homes. We have to show you this video. You have to just see it for yourself. Millay had a moment with crypto and he sold I think a coin. Rob, is it true that he sold one of his coins and then it lost 90%? People who bought the coin lost 90% immediately. He's got some challenges with that. We'll talk about that. I know Vinny's read up on that a lot. Trump's White House escalates feud with AP, threatens Barr to bar reporters from Air Force One simply because they don't want to say it's the Gulf of America. All you have to do is say that.

White House says Elon Musk is not part of Doge. Doge says it has saved the government $55 billion so far. And even Trump wants to give a portion of that savings to taxpayers, 20% of it he wants to claim. Forbes said $5,000, some articles saying some numbers. Former MSNBC star Mehdi Hassan calls for more planes to crash. Let me say that one more time. Mehdi Hassan, former MSNBC star, calls for more planes to crash.

What is he talking about? We'll address that in a minute. He's anti-American is what he is. That is just how much gold reserves does US have? We'll address that. Today's inflation report is especially important. Tom's going to give us an update on that. Powell says Fed doesn't need to rush to cut rates and big banks are scrubbing their public mentions of DEI and a few other denim stores that just came out overnight Hoco

Trump's move to end Congesting pricing and attack on our sovereign identity. She comes out strong against Trump. That doesn't mean anything Lavar ball I'm on the flight yesterday. We land. I'm like, what is this picture with Lavar ball amputee? Amputated. Yeah, is that really is it? So smiling and so yeah He just amputated his foot I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that. Whoa. Yeah. But he's got a big smile on his face. But some bad news.

And he says he still could beat MJ. Only... Thank you, Kelly. What just happened here? Kelly. Listen, it's Ryan Kelly. It's fine. He's a big star.

When you're a star, they let you do it. It's fine. She came in hot. That door just swung. Yeah, you know what I said. I said it all Kelly if you want to get on camera Just tell us you don't have to come in like that. Just say I want to say hi to everybody Was about to say that's what it sounded like Shoot oh my god Thank you Kelly for grabbing it But some some bad news many only fans model Lily Phillips announced pregnancy after having sex with a hundred men in a day

What yeah, okay? Yeah, I mean she's her chances when you go with a hundred something's gonna happen. I know the guy he was number 64 What I get what I imagine you're the son who's my dad? Yeah, watch the video track them down track them down which one would you rather have? It was the black guy And then last but not least folks this one here for some of you guys that are you know reading the book the power positive thinking odds of asteroid hitting earth this is the YR4, in 2032 went from.8% to 3.2%, okay?

So I'm just telling you guys, whatever you do and drop a prayer, the odds went up. That's 4X if you think about it. It's legit, like something's going on there. And we may do an underground podcast. Like a bunker. Like bunker. It would be a bunker. Of all the things you have to worry about.

Yeah, but dude, if an asteroid hits, there's no bunker, no safe. I mean, Eli needs to step up right now. You're doing everything in space. Get that thing handled now. Shoot something at it now. That's right. What is this, a movie Armageddon? Relax.

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He's talking, I don't know if this is the one, Rob. There's the one that he's standing up there and he's actually showing exactly what's going on with the number of people that are above, I mean we can see the number, the age of people that are voting. Is that the one Rob? Let me see. President Trump. 360 years old, yes. Go ahead Rob. Watch this folks. By the way, I don't know, I mean if it's true, we'd love to have this person on the podcast. I thought it was debunked. If it's true. Yeah. I thought this was already kind of debunked. Did you read this? Which is this?

So the fact that all these Social Security things for a 350 year old, these were records of people and a lot of these Social Security numbers have been recycled, stolen. Well, let me read this and then you can debunk it. Go ahead, Rob, play the clip and we'll go through it. Go for it. There is one person on Social Security who's 360 years old, which is approximately 110

years older than our country. Rob, can you do me a favor? Go to the numbers, and then I'm going to come to you first. Go to the numbers on the age of the voter. So this is what was posted initially, which by the way, the number doesn't add up. It's higher than our population. According to social security database,

these are the numbers of people in each bucket with the death field set to false. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting social security. Zero to nine, 38 million. So I love this as a story. Let me read it. I'm going to come to you.

0 to 9, 38 million. 10 to 19, 44 million. 20 to 29, 47. Then you got 52 and then 100 to 109. There's 4.7 million people between ages of 100 to 109. What's the next one, Rob? 1, 10 to 1, 19, 3.6 million. Rob, if you go next, there is more.

Can you click next on there? Yeah. So watch this here. 120 to 129, 3.4. 130 to 139. And then it goes down. So you sit there, I'm doing the math. I'm like, this doesn't add up.

190 to, there's 448 people at that age. Okay, Brian has the insight. Tell us what's going on with this year. So what they're finding, I guess, is number one, a lot of social security numbers that are out there have been recycled, taken from people that are dead by illegal immigrants. That's the one thing. So people know that's, that's actually the real story. And as far as this is concerned, this I think

was an error when they did the accounting. They were so those social security numbers of people that are dead are still registered in a database. And so they pick those up by accident. So I believe all of this has already been debunked. So this is the worry that I have as we're trying to audit the government and we're trying to make a difference here. We can't get distracted by the sensational stories. Because a lot of times this is taking our eye off.

You gotta realize this is posted by Trump and by Musk. But can you go, Rob, do me a favor, actually go to Snopes, and let's just look, we do this on podcasts all the time. Go to Snopes and see what they say there, it's gonna refer to certain stories. Trump's social security age. And Pat, while you're doing that, I asked Chad GBT. Yes, there are people in their hundreds collecting Social Security a hundred years old and older and then yes a significant are collecting social you have passed away a Lot of them are dead and they're and they're collecting money

Well, you know you but would anybody be surprised if they found out that they've just been mailing checks to of course 200 year old nobody shocked by that. Analyzing Musk's claim, can you, let's look at this. Analyzing Musk's claim that 150 year olds are collecting social security payments, maybe Twilight is real and there's a gold little old rot. So this is a few days ago. US Department of Dogems claimed that including people that are 150 years or more, that are 200 years old,

were collecting social security payments, widespread income. While an audit published in 2020 found that the central social security database known as the Nubidants does include 18.9 million people born before 1920 who do not have death information on record, making them more than 100 years old. If alive, only 44,000 of them were receiving social security. The auditors warned the Nubidants has spotty death records because these individuals died

before the use of electronic death reporting. While the agency's missing death records may make it more valuable to fraud, the small number of people aged 100 or older actually collecting payments suggests it is not a widespread issue. An earlier audit published in 2015 determined that while 6.5 million people in the Nubodend database were found to be over ageing under 11 payments, only 266 beneficiaries. Okay, so that's important to know that.

Of whom records show were likely actually under the age of 112 while the SSA has undergone some of the... So what does it say if you go to the bottom? The bottom line is there is waste. We just don't want to get distracted by these stories. But is it saying true or false? It's not, it's just reporting it. It's not even giving you the, it's.

Yeah, usually there's like a mostly true, true, false. It's not giving us that. But this has mostly been, I think it's been by conservative journalists, like the Spectator, I'm sorry, by what the X are called, commentary magazine, like the conservative magazines, they have debunked this. It's not that there isn't a lot of waste in government and that this isn't a good audit that we need to, we're gonna find, when they do this audit, look, you guys, it's so funny how we're talking about USAID,

that's adorable. Wait till they get to Medicaid and Medicare. Wait till they get to the Pentagon. You have no, it's gonna be, it's gonna be insane. Yeah, we're gonna have, the numbers aren't gonna be able to fit on the book. Do you know that there was an idea, the idea was when during the Cold War,

there was the idea that we're gonna spend, and we let the Soviets know, we're gonna spend $500 on a screw because we can, and you guys can't keep up with it. There was actually a culture of that. And that was almost a deliberate sort of like effort, a propaganda effort. But when you see how much fraud there is

in those agencies, buckle up. Buckle up. I agree with that. Yeah, let me ask you a question though. Well, Tom, you wanna say it? Yeah, so I agree with that. But on social security, maybe get past the size and scope

of the sensational headline, but there are two major areas of fraud that I, as a voter, and I think the rest of Americans, want to see. How many recycled Social Security numbers are out there with checks that are going to people that never paid in payroll taxes? So they never put it into the trust fund, it was never there. Number one, and then number two, there is truths that there are people that pass away, and then all they have to do is make an arrangement

with the funeral home, and they, guess what? Nothing gets filed, and so they still get the check from grandma, and that is fraud that's happened, and you can go and you can find a handbook that are out there. I wanna know those areas. So I think Doge opening the door that says, hey, there is fraud at Social Security. I think we need to keep looking at that.

To your point, hey, let's get past the sensational headline. The sensational headline, if it turns out things are wrong, I don't want to give the liberal media an opportunity to say, hey, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, and knock on Doge when they are uncovering a lot of stuff that's really important. And I as a taxpayer would like a rebate. Absolutely. Let me tell you why I think this story is actually way more important than even we're maybe assuming right now, even though these numbers are maybe wrong or inaccurate, whatever. But I love the fact that it's a conversation starter because and I've said this all the time, you know, our federal deficit was $2

trillion this past year And we are thirty seven trillion dollars in debt thirty said can I just say how much hold on? Yeah, go count go no, but it's insane. It's I'm gonna give you yeah I keep talking cuz I want to give you perspective on what 37 I let me give you a little perspective If you and Jesus went into business today, you're so dominant All right If you and Jesus have been doing and you made a million dollars a day, boom, you and Jesus boom for the last 2025 years, boom, boom, a million dollars every day, it still

would not equal $1 trillion. Correct. And we're $2 trillion a year, bro. Yeah. So if you look at what our expenditures are $2 trillion deficit, our number one expenditure, and this isn't discretionary, this is mandatory spending. Our number one thing is this thing on the screen right here, social security. Then you have Medicare, you have Medicaid. I'll never forget, this is how I know PBD, I'm at these insurance conferences, and this guy is getting up on stage talking to baby boomer advisors. And he's basically saying that America's screwed. And the big thing, he goes, there's the one reason why. And everyone's basically saying that America screwed and the big

thing he goes there's the one reason why and everyone's like tell us why we don't have and he goes it's a four-letter word and the word is math is because we just can't pay for all this stuff and this guy wrote a book called The Power of Zero and basically said do what you can to eliminate all your taxes get a Roth IRA way well and make sure that you're not basically exposed to the tax liability. Here's what I want you to be thinking about. Let's say this is not right, okay? And let's say it's not being reported the right way.

Let's say, Snopes doesn't even say it's wrong. Snopes, if you, Rob, can you pull up, go Snopes, Barack Obama, fake, what do you call it? Yeah, type in Barack Obama's birth certificate. Just go do Snopes, Barack Obama birth, I just Snopes is great. Type in Barack Obama's birth certificate. Just go do Snopes. Barack Obama birth certificate. I just want the audience to see what it looks like.

Yeah. Okay, birth certificate. I'll tell you, it's false. If it's false, here's what it looks like. False. False. Now go back to the other one with the age that we just showed. If you go back to the one that we just talked about with social security payments, Trump's

social security age, if you go to this, there is no false. It's just giving you a report. Keep going lower, lower, lower. So they don't even wanna put false, partly false, partly misleading, nothing. I don't know why. Now, let me read this part. Who do you think would be most accountable

if these numbers were being reported? The head of who? Social Security. Perfect. Rob, Vinny is so loud, even when I lowered on mine, like I can't even, it's not on Vinny. I've told you guys four times already, I don't know what else to say.

On mine, specifically on mine. It pops. The head of Social Security resigns. After clash with Elon Musk, why would you resign? It's kind of weird, no? Okay, so Michelle King, the acting commissioner After a clash with Elon Musk, why would you resign? It's kind of weird, no? So, Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, resigns after refusing Elon Musk's Doge access to sensitive SSA.

Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, explained Doge wanted access to SSA sensitive files, the same way they're trying to do at Labor and Treasury and the acting commissioner wouldn't give it it and she was replaced. Trump has nominated Frank Bisignano as the next commissioner while Leland Dudek, great name, head of the SSA anti-fraud division has taken over in the interim, Musk tasked by Trump with looking into government waste, fraud and abuse, posted a chart showing more than 20 million Americans have listed this, da da da da. So why would she resign after the clash with Musk?

My guess is sometimes you resign because one, you figure you're already going to be fired or there's no way you can do your work under this administration because you've already been painted as a bad guy. This happens all the time. Or you just see the writing on the wall. So sometimes people would rather resign than get fired. I think that's probably something of what's going on. The other thing that I worry about and we have to hold our side accountable.

This is very important. We need to know that it's one thing to go in and move fast and break things. I'm all about it, man. And I'm all about shrinking government. Government has no accountability and it's too big. It's a Leviathan, we know this. Let's just make sure I think that we understand how these complicated systems work.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. There are, Social Security, by the way, politically is a hand grenade, especially for Trump. There are a lot of those voters that rely on those. And in this state, are you kidding me? Social Security is a very delicate issue. So we have to be very careful about how we handle this. And it is a complicated thing.

You can get into specifically, why does Patrick Medd-David get Social Security? He doesn't need it. Why is that? What's going on there? So there are things you can do with social security. Is there a play to at least privatize some of it? It is the people's bank.

You don't get that money if you die early sometimes. There are a lot of issues there that we can talk about. The Cato Institute talked about, and there's some thoughtful scholarship on social security. I just worry about, we liveato Institute talked about, and there's some thoughtful scholarship on Social Security. I just worry about, we live in a world today, and you would appreciate this, you're a numbers guy. You're overthinking. Am I?

Yeah, let me tell you why. All right. Because here's how audits work. You know how audits work? No. Okay, so as a business owner, we get audited every year. You know when it's like, oh my God, I'm getting audited. Okay, bro, every year.

It's a leisure, right? It's not even You know, it's like, oh my God, I'm getting audited. Okay, bro, every year. It's a leisure, right? It's not even like a, it's like, yeah, we're gonna find out, like, for example, if you're selling a business, you tell me your business makes profits $10 million a year, okay? And I have to believe you, and I say, it makes 10 million, you say yes. If your business makes 10 million, based on that,

I'll give you $80 million for your company. Right, it is. Then, that's a letter of intent. If your business makes $10 million, based on that, I'll give you $80 million for your company. Right. Great. Then, that's a letter of intent, based on me auditing your financials to see if it's real. Then I go hire a company and I spend $100,000, $200,000. They come sit in your office for two weeks, literally. Two accountants will come sit there, and if it's a big deal, maybe more.

But they'll send the office, and they're going through all your earn financials and they'll say after doing a quality of earnings They come back and say no, it's actually six point two million. So our offer is now forty eight million dollars Because after auditing your financials, you're not a ten million dollar net profit company or they'll come back and say You're actually ten and a half million our offer states $80 million. Great, right? So to me, auditing doesn't mean we're going to be right. 100% rocket science is what you're saying. No, all I'm saying is I love that they're tripping. I love that they're tripping and they're going. They're like, listen, if this is true, this is insane. Let's find out if it's true. That's

what they're doing. Look, it's a revolution. Yeah. I love it. Yeah, I mean, he comes out and he says, you know, we're going to go to Fort Knox. Why are we going to Fort Knox? Let's see if the gold is there. And then you look at the ledger. Do you know what they have on the ledger that they're pricing the average price of gold? $42. Why? If we actually price it up for what it's worth today, that's a 700, 800 billion dollar, trillion dollar reserves, give or take. Yeah. There's something, is this the one about Fort Knox? Yes, sir.

Can you play this clip? Watch this here, the way he says it. Why would he even say it the way he said it? Go ahead. We're going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there. What do you mean? You know that, we're going to go into Fort Knox. Do you know about that?

Look, look, look, that's good. That was a bad bump. He's so fine. We'll see what happens. One of the things we do want to look at, I mean, we hope everything's fine with Fort Knox, but we're going to go to Fort Knox. He's a disruptive problem. He's going to make sure the gold is there.

But think about it. Yeah, what's he saying? By the way, by the way, you know what he did? Here's all he did. Just his statement of saying what? What's the point of saying what? He's saying, you know, we're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox.

We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. We're going to go into Fort Knox. to make sure the gold is there. But think about it. Yeah, what's he saying? By the way, by the way, you know what he did? Here's all he did. Just his statement of saying what?

We're gonna see if the gold is there. Yeah. That statement makes you say what? Is there any gold there? Yeah, what if there isn't? Yeah, why are you going to investigate? So let me ask you this now. What percentage do you think the gold is there?

I mean, I don't know. I'm at 90%. 90%. Yeah, I'm at 90%. I'm at 94 knocks. But guess what, I don't know. I'm at 90%. Yeah, I mean, I'm at 90%. But guess what? I don't care, audit it financials. If you're wrong, that's it, bro. That's all it is. You know what we're dealing with?

We are looking at, in my opinion, a revolution, the likes of which we haven't seen maybe since, I don't know, Andrew Jackson. I don't know if we've ever seen this. Listen, people forget this. 1977, Jimmy Carter tried to audit the government. He tried to shrink government. He had a worker freeze.

He said, we are not going to hire any more federal workers. 1993, Al Gore tried to initiate an early retirement from federal workers. So the Democrats have tried to do this before. It's not just a Republican thing. And anybody who has a problem with cutting down on waste and auditing these departments, I mean, I don't understand the argument there.

Let's see where the waste is. How could that be bad? Well, by the way, and that's what my problem is with this entire situation is the left, the Democrats that are losing their minds, yelling, they're in podiums in Washington yelling it's like this is your one chance that we could say Democrat Republican independent all of you let's get everybody get together but it's impossible for them to say you

know what they're right because they're they're mad at the messenger that's telling them that they're getting robbed instead of worrying about the message is I'm getting robbed we've been getting screwed over for so long. That's the disruptor that we need somebody in there. By the way, why is Elon doing this? Does he need money? He doesn't give a shit. He cares about the freaking country and that's it.

This was a unifying moment that they couldn't even capitalize. Rob, what is the can you see how many people work for the federal government? What is the number there? Oh, million. Because by the way, and not just not to make it a political issue, but it is true that about 90% of federal workers do vote Democrat. There is that. I'm not saying that that's, you know, but we have to-

Why are you saying it in an uncomfortable way? We have to at least admit that this is, you know- So nobody votes more Democrat than literally Washington, D.C. But guys, what you're also hearing is this federal workers are no longer guaranteed lifetime employment. Well, who is? None of us are bro. I don't I'm not guaranteed I got I got my show in this weekend in Miami If I don't put butts in the seat, I'm in trouble. That's up to me, bro Yeah, that's great. But so so to me marketplace Yeah to me though, by the way, the whole reason why Vinny's loud

and he is low is because the name here, he is Vinny and you are, yes. So I've raised him. Did you understand what happened? I'm like, I am dying here. He just came and fixed it. All right, so, but no, going back to it, all I care about is accountability

and I don't mind if you make mistakes. Our entire lives, what the left has done, specifically the left, has been trying to audit you, you, me. This is the first time where we're able to audit them. Guess what? You were a business owner. How much did you deal with? In California? What was that like? Listen, we've left California since 2015. We still pay California taxes for our insurance. Well, we do every year. Quarterly, every quarter we pay California taxes. We don't have a choice on the insurance side. But guess what? On the auditing side, business owners are used to it.

They're like, yeah, every year. What do you want me to do? But the government, now you don't want to be audited. You don't want to be audited. If your numbers are right, you're saying you're doing the right thing. let's celebrate it. Let's tell the world. Social Security does everything right. Let's say it. However, every year when we get our Social Security statement, most people don't look at it.

There's a fine, you know, what do you call it? Fine print. Fine print. And if you look at it, it says, just so you know, the Social Security Fund is set to run out in 2035. If you look at it, it says, just so you know, the Social Security Fund is set to run out in 2035. Rob, can you go on ChadGBT or Google? When is Social Security going to run out of money?

Run out of money. This is what they send to you. When is Social Security going to run out of money? Let's see what this says. Okay, I was wrong. 2033, folks. Not 2035. Look at this.

The social security reserves are projected to be depleted by 2033, according to the latest estimate. At that point, the program will solely rely on incoming payroll taxes, which are expected to cover approximately 79% of scheduled benefits. So I'm in Brazil, and I'm talking to the president of Bolsonaro. Dude their taxes there for business owners is horrible. What is it? Let me put it to you this way.

So every employee gets 30 days vacation every year. You can't do nothing about it. In December every employee gets an additional 13th month payment. So if you make 14 grand a month, the business owner is supposed to pay an additional $4,000 a month at the end, so that's now 14 months of pay. Then if you work for the government, most government employees, some of them make an additional 14th month payment. So they pay you an additional, so you really want to work for the government.

Then taxes, regulation. So he says business owners can't afford to pay their employees and employees are not making enough money to survive. The problem is what? Both ways, regulation-wise. So now you gotta print more money. Yes, so to hear for them to see what's going on in the states here, I'm excited about seeing what they're going. Can I say one thing real quick about Social Security?

Well, it's a function of math just only because this. We have literally 30 seconds. We've been 40 minutes on social security. Okay, well then just move on. Okay, let's move on. All right, next story I wanna go to. Rob, if you can pull up this clip while we're on it with Doge.

Go to the clip where Trump says he's weighing giving 20% of the Doge savings to Americans, okay? So folks, this is kinda weird. Because they're saying if we find the amount of fraud that we find that you paid money into it, they want to give you 20% of it. I want it. Okay? They want to give you 20% of it.

Is this the clip, Rob? Yes, sir. Watch this clip here, folks. Sir, you have us mis-proposing, potentially giving money to Americans based on what Doge is finding. Do you have any thoughts on that? I love it. A 20% dividend, so to speak, for the money that we're saving by going after the waste

and fraud and abuse and all of the other things that are happening. I think it's a great idea. How much money do you think it could be? It could be a lot. I mean, if it's 20%, we'd give back a lot of money to the taxpayer and also would give an incentive for the taxpayer to go out and report things to us where we can save money. So what are we going to do about the deficit?

Will you tell me? You're you're a business guy about the deficit. Thirty six trillion dollars. Well, I mean, first of all, I want to I want to say this and then I'll give you my answer because I'm a come I'm going to come to this because we should we should pay it off one million percent. So I like where you went, by the way, you went straight to a person taking care of their fine. Hey, we're getting a big return. Let's buy Xbox. Let's buy video games. Pay off the debt. Yes, you're thinking the right way. Tom,

thoughts on this? Well, I think this is a great idea. And unlike the government that was sending us relief checks during COVID and some people were getting checks that didn't really need them or deserve them. You notice what they said here to all tax paying units married filing jointly, five grand, individual five grand, and they were very specific about it in the follow up. And I think this is a great idea because it sends a message to America. This was your money. And it's coming back to you because we found out where it went. And we're going gonna rebate you. It's a message to America. People say it's buying votes. No it's not. He's in his second term. People say oh you're trying to stimulate the economy because you're not gonna have double Social Security checks

going out to people and those double checks can't buy goods and services so we're in a risk of recession if too much dough, because that's one of the arguments, right? We could have a recession if Doge finds a lot of money that we're flowing illicitly to citizens running scams. And all of a sudden that money stops buying plane tickets, Disneyland, booze, all these things. It's a tricky argument. It's a very tricky argument, but it's an argument being made. Yeah. No, you could you could cause a recession.

Let people commit fraud. And I look at it and say, wait a minute. I think this is a positive message for the American. The second part I look at is I'm ready for Chapter 2, and I don't think we can debate it. We can suppose. But Chapter 2 is going to be, OK, what is some long-term deficit to get closer to a balanced budget? And what does the long-term deficit to get closer to a balanced

budget and what does the long-term now pay down that debt? And we got an awful lot of oil and we're about to be the number one oil producer in the world if we aren't already. We are based on a projected reserve basis and we could be just having extraction taxes on our own oil and that tax goes back to paying down our debt There's a lot of ways that could go in there to paying it down. But to your first question pat I love this. It sends the right message to america. It was your money. It was wasteful and here's some coming back to you Yeah, you want me to get my thoughts on this? Okay

so I think This is one of the scariest things for democrats that they pull this off Really and i'll explain to you why. You know, when I first was part of this insurance company, I wanted to find a way to participate in the long term of the company. I wanted equity. Nobody wanted equity.

I wanted equity. So I wanted to go 20 or something like that. I want equity on the company. If we make it multi-billion dollars, I want to participate in equity. Like like now. We're not doing that. I'm like, okay, cool. No problem I'd like to participate in that we like that We like that you own a piece of stock options you want the company if it grows I'm gonna get a check like my guys right now Some of the you know checks that the guys get from the insurance company. They're like what the hell is this?

This is part of what happens when a company makes profits. To shift the thinking of a country, if you shift the thinking and say, every time we find wasted money, we're sending you percentage, you have the entire country supporting you. Did you understand what happened right there? Because what you're now doing is,

you're revolutionizing the freaking game. Do you understand what happened right there? Because what you're now doing is you're revolutionizing the freaking game. Do you know what the opponent can do? This may be one of the scariest, you know when he said, no taxes on tips? I hate the sky but I'll vote for him. No taxes on tips. But you know what this is? This is no taxes on tips, on steroids, growth hormone, TRT, whatever the hell you want to

put on top. Every single thing on top of that, that's what this is. But now let me ask you this. There seems to be a divide philosophically. One side says the only way to get rid of the deficit is to tax. But free market people say, hold on bro, tax, give me the money so I can stimulate the economy. Right? That's right.

And then you'll be able to have a wider tax base and then we can pay it off. Yeah. I think. I don't know. Do you have friends or relatives that no matter how much money you give them, they're always going to come back for more money? Come on. It's a mindset.

It's a mindset. It's a mindset. You were broke at 50 grand, you were broke at 80 grand, and now you're broke at 120 grand. It's not about how much now you're broke at 120 grand. It's not about how much money you make. Your mindset sucks when it comes down to money, and you don't want to admit it. So no matter what those people, they're always going to have the financial difficulties. But if you get the country sitting there saying, hey, did you hear about what happened?

What did I find? Find some more fraud. They just saved us another $3.8 trillion. They just got $600 billion. Hey, they were getting another $3,800 check awesome that's great we're more finding more fraud that's what's gonna happen do you realize what that's exactly right my father always said the best way to lose a friend is to lend him money yeah but let's see doing stuff like that that's remember they were hinting at a third term. That type of shit would make people go kind of one. Where are you going? Yeah. Where are you going? Wait,

come back, Trump. That's when I should change. Start calling daddy. Yeah. Well, I think I think everybody needs to understand this one thing. America is broke. I mean, I don't we can't be any clearer about this. We're rich and broke. There's a difference between broke and poor. Poor is your freaking Bangladesh. Good luck out there, buddy. Good luck out there in Malaysia. Good luck out there in half these countries in the world. America is rich, but broke. I know. Sorry. I have an affinity with Malaysia. Here's what's actually going to happen with Trump. What was Trump's highest approval rating ever? 52. If that, okay. If that. So I've been saying for years, I would love for

a president in America today in this divided, fractured country, somehow to get to 60%. Let's just break everything into thirds. There's a third of America that's like Trump, bro. Trump, Trump, Jesus, Dale Earnhardt straight up. And maybe not even that order. There's a third of America that's like Trump, bro. Trump, Jesus, Dale Earnhardt, straight up. And maybe not even that order. There's a third of Americans that are like, I don't care what he does. He's the devil. So remove those people. Then there's a third of America in the middle.

They're like, all right, let's see what we got. And slowly and slowly he's chipping away. Boom, boom boom boom and if you said like equity in America every time that we we locate x amount of billions of dollars you're getting a check you're getting a choke he's Oprah Winfrey up the whole country next thing you know it's my money and I need it now by the way like jj one for the people that are going to say I thought you weren't about redistribution of wealth no no this, this isn't that. This is called, we found fraud from what the government

was doing, not what taxpayers were doing. Or waste. That's the wasted money of our money. They wasted our money. So now you're firing all of these folks and you're telling them, see if you can make it a free market. You ever go to, like I went to a restaurant the other day,

what is the restaurant in Ball Harbor, right next to Carpaccio? It's a French restaurant. No, it's a French restaurant, Ball Harbor, French restaurant. Okay, so it's called L'Azu, okay, L'Azu. And I go over there and I love going to this place. It's Jennifer's birthday, Valentine's Day,

so we go to Lizzou. The hostess is working over there, okay? So we go in and I said, you know, we'd like to get a table and I point at the table. 80% of the place is empty. There is nobody there. And I say, I'd like to sit at that table. You know, I like to sit in the corner table, you know, I like this in the corner and

She says I have 300 reservations as I understand it. But is that reserved? I have 300 reservations I said, what do you have available? I can only put you here and she's being disrespectful to Jenna and I it's this where it's her birthday So we went and ate there the day before so she takes us to a table and I'm like, wow So they reserve that table we go eat at this lady's them like yes then or something like that with curly hair we go eat at carpaccio while we eat at carpaccio great service phenomenal service guys are doing a great job they come back I'm watching that table I go back and I see the tables been empty the entire time okay oh man then I come in and a manager sees me. He's a Yankee guy. I'm a Yankee guys. Hey, how you doing? How's everything? I got a question for you. She's standing right there. I love this

I said I came here about an hour going up and watching the entire time. I wanted that table She said the tables are reserved. Is that table reserved? He starts rolling his eyes. I Said so it wasn't reserved. No, she's on the phone acting like she can't hear I said before I leave did you just hear what your boss said? The boss says what he says to her? Oh, no, I was trying to sit you whatever that's a no no and then Jennifer comes no, you know, Jennifer is No, you told us that table was the racism that tables not reserved anybody can sit there and then she said well I apologize guess Guess what? She reminds me of employees that work at the DMV.

Because some people that have that power, they just want to use it. The fact that they're firing all these people in the government that treat our customers like shit, let's see how you make it in a free market enterprise. Let's see how you do. By the way, flip side, we go to this restaurant called the French Steak, whatever.

Dirty French. Dirty French. In Miami. In Miami. Rickle. Waiter comes, Francisco was a basketball player. Came to the States at 16 years old. He was gonna be an NBA player at 16 years old. Mexican falls in love.

Incredible service. When I tell you royal treatment, I cannot even tell you how they treated us over there. From the guy at the front on Valentine's Day that had a red jacket on, from the guy that kept bringing us the drinks, from the lady that would bring us all this stuff, Francisco got a 10. He said, Patrick, can you please give me some love? Francisco, you were amazing.

I went to the bathroom. There was a whole thing that said a girl had left a message. I heart Adam. There was all this stuff in the bathroom. She was a whole thing that said a girl had left a message. I heart Adam. There's all this stuff in the bathroom. But she was hoping that Adam would come. But by the way, that guy's going to make it in free market and the other girl's going to be losing jobs left and right. So I love the efficiency with government employees.

Let's see if you can make the same kind of money treating people like shit in a free market. Tom. I'll give you a period on the end of the sentence here. Over the weekend, Bloomberg measured 48% of America thinks it's going in the right direction. That is the highest percentage ever recorded in the history of Bloomberg keeping the right direction survey. Wow. So guess what?

There's a lot of headlines going back and forth and a lot of things going on. But what does America think? That's what we think That is unbelievable when you see these stories. What's the book? You always talk about the life cycles of a business barbarians to bureaucrats She is just a bureaucrat just getting in your way or as our friend Francisco flag carrier out there Francisco's a stout of complain. Let him complain America thinks is happening and it's going in the right direction

But what did Trump call it during election when we were there? He said this is the golden age It's the golden age of America telling you right now that we are freaking winning and it's so and I don't blame the left They're not used to this like just relax. It's I know it's weird. Just go with the flow I have to get Brian Callahan a shout out then if you ever seen the movie the hangover check Them out right now one and two you remember the part of the movie when they go where back We're back like America's back finally Brian you've been in so many movies that I the other day I'm watching one of my favorite movies of all time by Gavin O'Connor warrior. Oh, yeah, Gavin O'Connor

What a frickin start up my voice. He is a fina humanist. I favorite movies of all time by Gavin O'Connor, Warrior. Gavin O'Connor, what a freaking stud of a guy he is. He is a phenomenal, he listens to you all the time. I love Gavin, phenomenal guy, good family. And I see you, I'm like, holy shit, and you killed it. You actually, you were so good, and I'm like, the relationship with Joe Rogan obviously helped you out. I'm sure you watch a lot of them. So Gavin wanted Rogan, I call Rogan, and I go,

hey, do you wanna to do this movie? He goes, honestly, bro, I'm so busy. If it's not a ton of cash, I'm not doing it. So Gavin goes, why don't you play it? So I said to Joe, I said, you got any advice on how to play this role? He said, take yourself completely out of it. And that's all I did.

Just if you're an announcer, never talk about yourself. There's not a better person to give you counsel. You didn't call Stephen A. Smith on how to commentate a UFC fight? Because Stephen A. Smith, anyways. I love him, I love him, but he's not the guy I call. Don't call fights. No, but let's talk about Stephen A. Smith.

I'm gonna go to Stephen A. right now. So Stephen A., I texted him a few days ago, we're going back and forth. Stephen A. comes out and he says that reveals why he would consider running for president. Alright, Stephen A. Praise for impact, buddy. Stephen A told Daily Mail that the US two-party system is a joke and could drive him to run for president, stating, let me tell you why I would consider running, because I think our system sucks.

I think the binary system where we could have to choose between Democrats and Republicans is a joke. I think it's this way. Is this it by the way, Rob? This is a clip from earlier this month. He's talked about this a few times, but this is him explaining exactly why he wants to run for president. How many minutes is that? It's only 39 seconds. Play the clip. Go for it. I doubt I'll ever run.

It's not me. I live a pretty good life and I don't want to ruin it by getting involved in politics. But I got to tell y'all something. I'm running. The Democratic Party looks so pathetic after this election. I have to run. I might entertain running. Yeah, okay.

I just might change my mind one day. I doubt it, but I might entertain with yeah, okay, I just might change my mind one day. I doubt it, but I might Because how much would it take to beat y'all and Trump can't run again He's done You know what the problem with that is that's cute, but when you get into politics You you people come to you and your fundraisers say you better vote along these lines, because the money is with us. And you're

either a Republican or a Democrat. And you try to be an independent. That's cute. But they the real operatives look at you like a street fighter. They just go, All right, bro, we'll see when you when you come to your senses, we'll be over here because the money's and I can't wait to hear what you have To say you have that look in your eyes like like Brooklyn does this let me explain something to you what he's doing what I just Said about the golden age of America. We were not how many days are we in? Let's be honest a month and a couple how long Rob how many days? We're coming to the president Trump got to business literally 30 days. Okay one month and this has happened

We're gonna have four years of this just kicking ass I don't care anybody from the Democrat left if this mandate is gonna be so strong and powerful Nobody's gonna look the other way. There's nothing I think this is my opinion What's a Democrat gonna come and do right now to be like no no, no, no, what they're doing, we're gonna do this. They are just a destructive, the past years of what Biden did, that's what, what are you gonna run on? What are you gonna run on? If it's not piggybacking of what they're doing, what the JD Vance is and what the Tulsi Gabbards

and there's no freaking way, there's no hope, there's no Stephen A. Smith, nobody could stop this movement. I don't think so. There's no way. People have woken up, bro, and there's no way to go back to a nightmare. It's a wrap. If the economy has a hangnail, that's what they're going to run on. That's right. If they can find an average person who can no longer buy a Snickers bar today and they could buy it yesterday, they're going to put that person on camera. Every little thing is going to be hyper amplified. You're already seeing it right now. This is the

most important year of the Trump presidency. This is the establishment year. This is the momentum year. This is getting out of the gate. This is getting it all the way so that we all have a very happy holiday and say, wow, bumpy summer. But man, I guess he was right. The economy is here.

Jobs are happening. And the year is ending well. Because then that goes into midterms. But these cats, these dogs, these swamp creatures are going to be looking for every little thing so that they can carry momentum into midterms and see if they can shift the Senate and Congress. As much as I agree with Vinny, the left ain't going anywhere, bro. I mean, listen, there's only two parties in this country. And I guarantee you four years from now. I

Just like every election of our lifetime. Yep Too close to call who knows who's good. We don't know who it's gonna be. We don't know what the agenda Yeah, but it's not Trump again, right unless I know Vances he events. He's the future. He's the future. He ain't Trump, bro. I don't know, man. I know. I know. I know he's not Trump. I think he may be the future. The VEC may be there. There's a whole list of issues, but don't get it twisted. They're going to come up with an agenda. There's still 40% of America who are never going to vote Republican 52 or 52%. Is it just 48% as much as I agree with you, they have a game plan,

they have an agenda, and they're gonna implement it. Let me ask a different question here. So for me, let's isolate one by one by one, because a lot was said. Stephen A. Smith. So here's the challenge he's gonna face. Stephen A. Smith was on the podcast, and I said, if your mother, who's his hero,

was alive today, who would she vote for? And he said she would vote conservative. She would vote for Trump, okay? That's what he said when he was on the podcast. Here's the problem he's facing. The problem Stephen A. Smith's facing is 90% of the policies of how he lives and he believes and he was raised on is on the right.

It's not on the left. 90% is on the right, not on the left. Stephen A. Smith's conflicted right now because he's gonna get paid and he deserves every penny he gets paid. He's been number one for 20 years and dominating everybody. So amen, amen, exactly. Number two is he is, at a certain point of your life, like this matter like when we when you're young you're like, dude

Should be quiet with this political stuff Did you see the guy went three four four yesterday had six RBI's and hit two home runs and the bottom of the night Then it that I don't just see the new hit. Did you see what easy just came out? Did you see that's in when you're young you're never and then as you get over shit now He's at a phase that he's, you know, 30s you start paying attention to taxes. And then 40s you start saying, maybe these people on my side are lying to me.

And then at this age he's like, no, I know it's done. You see how that works. Of course. So for him to make a decision to run or not, he can only, Steven, if you're running just to say you ran and on your Wikipedia says you ran for office, run as an independent. Run as an independent, go do it like that and you'll eventually have to go behind somebody. But if you want to run to run, you know you have to run as a conservative.

But you know the entire celebrity community that you've been invited to, the parties, the texts, the messages, you're permanently ousted and that is the number one reason why guys like him who are super capable, have common sense, are incredible communicators, ought to be running. I told them, run. You ought to run. You ought to run and go do this. They know they have to go to the other side and the worry is, do I want to lose those relationships or not?

And if you don't, you can't. Independence is just not going to happen. Democrat, you're not a Democrat. Conservative, you're going to lose the Hollywood card. So what do you do with that? That's kind of what's going to be up. How do we avoid, you're a guy, you and Tom know politics, how do you avoid though, when you say you're a Democrat, you know you get these super PACs.

You get the trans activists, you get the abortion activists, whoever it is, they come to you and they say, if you want our money and you need our money, you're gonna vote absolutely along these lines. That's why you get someone like Kamala Harris saying, I supported transgender prisoners having the money to transition even immigrants. Illegal immigrant transgender prisoners.

Why did she say that? Why did she say that? Good stuff. You think she believes that? It doesn't matter. That's not the point, man. You better say across the lines, if you have any nuance, you're not getting our money. So how do we avoid all those special interests with all that money?

I want to know, what do we do about campaign finance reform in that sense? That might be the thing to talk about. It's not sexy. The minute I say campaign finance reform half your audience Just now just went to sleep They literally got I took all the energy out of their body because when you get into the nitty-gritty of this stuff But that might be really what we should talk about listen that that that right that I agree Tom If you want to say something on that, I don't know I think there's a time and a place for campaign finance reform and When Byron Donald's was here a couple weeks ago

I made a comment I said if you want to find out why Elizabeth Warren is yelling and sounding a little weird at a Hearing find out who yelled at her an hour and a half before the hearings there you go And he goes that is so true That's it. And so there is that, and there is campaign finance reform, and the John Roberts decision that allowed unlimited citizens to go there.

But I think. I'll give you something here. I think that's a deeper issue, and I think Pat's hitting it on the head on the surface. I'm gonna transition into this next story, and you'll see why I'm going into this next story, okay? So Brazil's Bolsonaro Okay charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula. Okay. Oh my yes

Yeah, exactly James Bond film. So Prosecute again, this is AP News Brazil's prosecutor general formally charged President Bolsonaro, why don't they put the guy's name? They should put the guy's name. Bolsonaro was attempting a coup, alleging he agreed to a plan called Green and Yellow Dagger to poison President Luis Lula de Silva and assassinate Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraz.

Bolsonaro's defense called the accusations dismaying and indignating, while his son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, dismissed the indictment as empty and politically motivated. The indictment, based on manuscripts, digital files, spreadsheets, and message exchanges, described a coordinated effort to overturn Bolsonaro's 2022 election laws by pressuring military leaders drafting legal cover and citing riots. The Supreme Court will decide whether to proceed with a trial where Bolsonaro could face up to 20 years in prison, up to 40, up to 38 years, if convicted of attempting a coup. So now, you hear this story.

While I'm there, I want to learn about what the system's like. We're in Brasilia. Brasilia, Brazil is the capital, but it was built by communists. The city looks like a communist city because they intentionally built a city in a very like everything looks the same. Like Rob, if you can go to the buildings and just put images, everything, there's nothing fancy sexy about the city. Okay, when you go to it, we stayed at a hotel called the Royal Tulip, which Castro stayed at, which Chavez stayed

at, which Maduro stayed at, which she was there just two months ago. We stayed at that hotel. And we went to the House, Congress, they walked us around Senate, they walked us around everywhere. We had a chance to see everything that was going on in Brazil. Interviews coming out on Monday. And while we're talking, here's what we learn about Brazil. Watch this. And why this applies to America.

Americans it's so important to realize this. Do you know, oh my God, like, do you know if Trump, his greatest accomplishment that he did on his first term, you know what it was? Flipping three seats. That's right. When he flipped three seats, you can call it luck, you can call it whatever, we were debating this, Brandon, a power, you know, hand of God,

you can call it whatever you want. Obama had eight years, he flipped one seat. Trump had four years, flipped three seats, and one of the years was COVID here. And he flipped three seats. You're talking about Supreme Court seats. Supreme Court seats. Okay, gotcha.

Now here we have how many seats? Nine. When he flipped, at the end of his term, what was the number? Was it 6-3, Tom, or was it 5-4 at the end of his term? Biden? No. Conservatives to liberals. Yes.

I think it was 6-3. I think it was 6-3. Exactly. So he would say it was 6-3. The next term, if you guys remember this, what did they try to do to the court? Do you remember no? Stop well could pack the course, but do you remember when? Colorado was the first state to come out and say what and you're moving is a big deal off the ballot

We want to remove them off the ballot then other states started coming in and saying what yeah, we're gonna do it Yeah, we're gonna do it. yeah, we're gonna do it to yeah We're gonna do it to yeah We're gonna do it to and then who said pump the brakes not gonna happen Supreme Court Supreme Court justice by the way What would have happened if it was 6-3 the other way around if it was 6-3 the other way around Trump's not president today Right so let me explain to you if it's 6-3 the other way around Trump may be in jail today his kids may be in jail today everybody may be in jail today. His kids may be in jail today. Everybody may be in jail today. While I'm in Brazil, you ready for this? 2016, Trump wins election.

They call Bolsonaro the Trump of Brazil. He wins in 2018. They've both been married three times. They both have three kids from their first wife, one from the second, one from the third. Both of them. Okay? Bolsonaro and Trump. Bolsonaro was in the military for 13 years as a captain.

He went and became a congress for 27 years, of which the last four years was with his son. Then he ran for president. Do you know how much money he had to run for president? One million dollars when he ran against the left. Do you know in the Brazilian media, what they do there is anybody that runs, they decide how much time you get every day,

every morning and every night. They allot you time to go up and talk to the people. Globe was the biggest media company. I think they got 39% of all the viewership of all the nine, but Globe was like their biggest one. Do you know his opponent who was the leader of I think the Workers' Party, a guy named Haddad. Okay, Rob, if you can pull up Haddad.

Tall, good-looking guy who's a full-on socialist. Haddad, no, not Haidad, Rob. Haddad. H-A-D-D-A-D. I almost spelled it like hybrid. There you go. Brazilian Haddad, H-A-D-B-A-D. Almost spelled like hybrid. There you go. Brazilian Haddad, that's the guy. Okay, so this guy Fernando Haddad runs against Bolsonaro.

Watch this. He gets every day to speak on TV 12 minutes in the morning, 12 minutes at night. You know what they give to Bolsonaro every day? Seven seconds in the morning. Seven seconds. Do you know? They have two run-offs. First run and there's a run-off.

How do they justify that? Exactly. The point is, they have two run-offs. in the morning. No. What? Seven seconds. Seconds. Seconds. Hello. Do you know? They have two run-offs. Wow. First run and there's a run-off. How do they justify that?

Exactly the point. But they say it. We're only giving Bolsonaro seven seconds and he has one million to campaign. He ends up beating this guy. Do you know by how many votes he beats Haddad? Rob, can you pull up by how many votes he beats Haddad? Around 1.8 million? No, no, no.

More? No, no, no. By how many votes did Bolsonaro beat Haddad, okay, who Haddad had the mainstream media. Haddad had everybody. He beats him on the first runoff by I think 15 million votes. First. He beats him by 15 million votes. Look at that.

Wow. First one he beats by, that's the second one, Ron. That's the runoff. He beats him by 10.1 million, but on the first one he beats by 15 million votes. So watch what happens. You ready for this? This is what I asked them on why they're going after him and why they can.

The Supreme Court in Brazil, you know how many seats it is? 11. You know how many is on the right? What do you think it is? Two. Two. Two out of 11 is on the right.

Everybody else against them. Senate they have 81 senators. You know who's on the right? 22. House they have 513 congressmen. You know how many is on the right? 130. That country who has been dealing with corruption forever is still controlled by these corrupt people like Alexandre de Morais who had to go back and bring Lula back out of jail. Lula, Operation Car Wash, who stole money and he got a free apartment. That when he got the free apartment, this guy named Moro is asking him questions and saying, hey, you got this apartment. Yeah, I got this apartment.

I don't even know what happened. He said, no, but they gave it to you as a apartment. Yeah, I got this apartment. I don't even know what happened. He said, no, but they gave it to you as a gift. He's kind of questioning him, right? Eventually, his wife is under so much stress, she has an aneurysm, she dies, four months later. When his wife dies, right after his wife dies, guess who he blames that accepted to receive the apartment?

He blames his wife. He blames his dead wife. Media says, look at this guy, what you're doing. Alexandre de Morais goes and says, no, you're not guilty. He was supposed to go to jail for 12 years. He brings Lula out. Lula beats Bolsonaro in 2022. Trump loses. You know, Biden and Lula are the same people. And then he's here today. The only difference today why he could potentially go to jail is because they only have two on Supreme Court. They only have 22 in Senate. They only have 130 in House.

And it is, so when you're saying many political parties that have 23 political parties, you have to make a deal with everybody or else you're not getting nothing done. That's Brazil for you. Chaos, chaos. Dude. And everybody's got their hand out.

Living off the public troughs Yeah, they're not gonna shrink it voluntarily This is what this is a really important point you can say would you like? Yes, it as they do this doge as they move fast. They're gonna break things. Yes. They may not understand nuances of government Yes, you throw the baby out with a bath water at the end of the day. You want a country What did George Washington say? Government should be treated like a necessary evil. The larger it grows, the more coercive it becomes. It passes taxes and it raises taxes and it passes laws. Those are coercive measures. So just know,

and there's no accountability. So at the end of the day, do you need, look, every one of these agencies we talk about, let me give you an example. Everyone of these agencies has an inspector general, they have somebody that's supposed to audit that's supposed to look for fraud. And they do, but it's not good enough. What's going on? Biden's own accounting office, what did they found find 7070 different government programs of those 70, they found that's his department. They found 236 billion irregular or overpayments or fraud. Okay, 236 billion. That is, I believe, one fourth of the defense's budget. Okay, so there is and that's just Biden.

So we're going to find that this is that's chicken feet. Yeah, I mean, again, by the way, this thing while we're there, before we go, they tell us when we went with a team of nine, they said you need an international lawyer. They don't want him to speak. They don't want him to talk about anything. He's not allowed to talk about it. You know, he was the only president in the world that didn't get a covid shot He's the only president in the world. I mean we can't count tanzania and somebody smaller He's the only president in the world that refused to take the covid shot. I love him and he's very popular still in brazil Popular he can't even walk outside guys. He can't go anywhere. And so this is a form of a coup, isn't it?

It's it's what they're trying they are so worried because if this guy wins in Brazil, the way it works is if you are one term, you lose, you come back and you can go two terms back to back in Brazil. Oh, shit. So you know what happened right now. So is he not going to be allowed to run or he is running? As of today, he can't even run. So there's a guy named Nicolas Ferrerio who is a rock star in Brazil. Rock star. He makes a post on Instagram, it gets a million likes. It gets two million likes.

Any post, go look him up right now. This guy right here, he is the future president of Brazil. He's 28 years old right now. Unfortunately, he cannot run until I think 2036 because of the way they have it set up. He is the most popular guy in all of Brazil. We were having dinner with him last night last night Is he a conservative last night? Oh, he's a conservative. Yeah, he's a good we were having dinner with him last night at this one in Furno, I don't know what the pizza place was which was the pizza. Oh, he's on your story

He was giving you a shot on bro in Portuguese the influence this guy has is like no other they're doing a massive march on March 16 all over the country and We're excited to see what happens over there. But anyways, the guy says, you guys need to be secure. So we had a, what do you call it, an armored truck that we went everywhere with, we're being escorted. And we had the files and eventually when we left, we didn't post anything until we got to the states here.

But remember this name, folks, Americans. By the way, he's going to be on the podcast, I think this Saturday or next Saturday, one of these, he the States here. But remember this name, folks, Americans. By the way, he's gonna be on the podcast, I think this Saturday or next Saturday, one of these, he's coming here. This guy will one day be the president of Brazil. He is loved, he's admired, he's bold, he just had a kid, he's got another one on the way, a big fan of this guy. Excited to see what he does here.

So good luck to all of Brazil. The one thing Brazil you got, you got on your side. The one thing you got on your side. You cannot lose hope. You've got to stay yesterday on the flight back. I'm watching Senna's documentary for the hundredth time. By the way, Ayrton Senna, Tom, you want to know a fun fact? You know who shares a birthday with Ayrton Senna?

Jair Bolsonaro. They're born on the same day. They both have the same birth. I think it's March 21st or something like that. On the flight back, I'm flying back watching the, I watched the Senna's documentary in Ford versus Ferrari again. I can watch it back to back. And both stories end the same way by the way if you think about it.

But I'm watching it and it gets to the point, I'm in a freaking plane, I'm putting blankets over him, I'm like nobody can see me right now while he dies and you see women crying, the only hope they had, I'm like, people are coming, would you like anything to drink? I'm like, oh! He was your hero. I named my daughter after him. I named my daughter after him. He's in that painting of yours.

To me, Senna's, I wouldn't say he's my hero. I think he's a guy I respect for how he lived his life. Yeah, like a monk, right? He was like a monk, wasn't he? He was a lot of things, but one of the questions questions I asked Bolsonaro because he's very good friends with Pique I said hey man, you're born and sent us birthday, but you're fan of Pique and you guys are friends So when you how do you handle this his answer is funny and he gave me a coin at the end You have to get this coin. He's only given to five people Rob. Who would have five names he said about this coin

Trump Or banel a me Orban, and you. He gave these five coins. And this coin, it's so interesting what it says on it. You have to see the translation. The first word is umo-ri-vel, okay, which means undiable. Okay, that's the word. It's really not a word, Rob, if you can. Undiable. I like that, I like that. It's a good name for a movie. Undiable.

The second one is imbro-chavelle. Okay, Rob, can you look this up? You see the word there, undiable. Imbro-chavelle. I'm sure Brazilians are cracking up right now. They're laughing. Imbro-chavelle. The meaning of imbro-chavele, well let me look this up,

because I think you're having a hard time with the spelling. Let me, people have to know what the last one is. What does imbro-chavele mean in Portuguese? Portugueses. Imbro-chavele means unflappable, never losing potency. Like you always stay up, you're never limping. means unflappable, never losing potency, like you always stay up, you're never limping. No, literally, this is the guy. That's exactly what it means.

You don't need Viagra, you're always hard. Brazilian for Cialis. Rob, move that image off of it. And do you know what the last one is? Say flaccid proof, it said. That's what it is, that's how funny this guy is. And then do you know what the last one is? The last one is in comivel.

Rob please look this up. The audience has to see this. In comivel. In comivel. The Portuguese people who are watching this right now are cracking up. In, no Rob, in, I-N, C-O-V, C-O-M, O-M, M, take the V out, M-I-V-E-L, I-V-E-L, definition, okay? Means in Portuguese, yeah, okay?

Incomível, well I'll say it to you, it means unfuckable. Oh! Inedible, inedible. No, no, it's specifically, incomível. Indiable, undiable. Undiable, unflappable. Unfuckable.

That's this guy. You can't fuck me. Now let me ask you this. Did you feel from him, did he feel nervous and worried about? Yes. Because he's got the world coming after him. But let me tell you what he did. He did not hold back.

While we're sitting there, my translator is trans, because he has a translator telling him, which is his son and another girl named Lily, Guy Paolo, I love this Guy Paolo, we had a great time with him, but my translator is translating to me. There's a moment where I say to him, I say, I've been walking the streets of Brazil and asking everybody, I have one question,

because a country that can't find the next people to step up doesn't have heroes. I'm asking everybody who their heroes are, everywhere. Everybody says, we don't have heroes in Brazil. But almost everyone gave me three names. They said Pelé, they said Art and Senna, and they said Bolsonaro. And I said, why do your people love you so much?

Let me tell you what happens. I just got the chills. Rob, did you go there right now, Rob? Let me tell you what happens. I just got the chills. Rob, did you go there right now, Rob? Let me tell you what happens. I ask him this question. Vinny, I can't wait for people to see this. Tears dropping on the table. He's a Trump guy.

He's not a crier. Tears are dropping on the table. He's a captain in the military. He's a captain in the military. Tears are dropping on the table. And he's speaking to his people. My translator in the back, he's translating what he's saying and he's crying, Ezra's.

He's crying. And he can't even see him. He's just hearing him. He's in tears crying. Rob doesn't even know what he's saying. Rob's crying. Rob is sitting in front of me. I'm looking at Rob.

I'm like, hold it. I'm telling you, this is, by the way, this thing, this is gonna be, I can't wait for the world to see this interview. It's by far my top 10 favorite interviews I've ever done in my life, and I don't wanna rank, I have to see it myself again, and you know, the list of people.

I cannot wait for the world to see this because I think Brazil desperately needs hope today and the way they have it set up with Supreme Court, House and Senate, they need God's help, God willing, Musk, Trump, others can help as well. I would love to see. I would love to go back to Brazil when there's an inauguration of him and we go back. I think you will be. I'd love to see that happen. I'm coming with you.

I'll go together, bro. Bro, listen to me right now. I'm telling you right now, I'm ending every one of my shows, tears. Okay, you know what I'm saying? And my next special, you know what my next special is called? Un-fuckable.

Why did you violate? What is it? Un-flappable? Un-flappable. Un-flappable. Undiable. Undiable. None of them are words. No! Why is it viable? What is it? Unflappable none of them are words Own words and then tears. Yeah, it's it's hilarious man. It's a that is that is true. That is Incredible that must have been like that's like if you're gonna cry over something. That's what you cry Oh brother when you see this thing, you'll see I mean it's gonna come out. We can't wait for it That's what you cry for, right? Oh, brother, when you see this thing, you'll see.

I mean, it's going to come out. We can't wait for it. OK, next story. Trump calls for Ukraine to hold elections to potentially replace Zelensky as he takes swipe at President Bolsonaro's rating. New York Post. Rob, go ahead and play this. No, not Bolsonaro.

Are you talking about Zelensky? I'm sorry. No, no. President Zelensky. Yes. Thank you. Yes. The Press. We're hearing that Russia wants to force Ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign a kind of a peace deal.

The President. Force? Force? Is that something that the U.S. would ever support? Well, we have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law — essentially, martial law in Ukraine — where the leader in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine — I mean, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4 percent approval rating — and where a

country has been blown to smithereens. You got — most of the cities are laying on their sides. The buildings are collapsed. It looks like a massive demolition site. The whole — I mean, so many of the cities, I mean, they haven't done it in Kiev because I guess they don't want to shoot too many rockets in there. They've done it 20 percent, but they haven't done it 100 percent.

If they wanted to do it 100 percent, it would probably happen very quickly. But you have cities that are absolutely decimated. And yeah, I would say that, you know, when they want a seat at the table, you could say the people have to — wouldn't the people of Ukraine have to say, like, you know, it's been a long time since we've had an election? That's not a Russia thing. That's something coming from me and coming from many other countries also. You know, Ukraine is being just — just wiped out.

Look at what's happening to the cities. There are cities, there's not even a building standing. It's a massive, you talk about Gaza. I mean it's literally, these cities look like Gaza. Okay, so Vinny, thoughts? Well, first of all, the honeymoon is over, okay? And I'm so freaking happy. Easy. Don't you love those sayings? I like that. I'm so freaking happy. Easy. Don't you love those sayings?

I like that. I got it from you. It's about damn time somebody said it. I mean, he's been running. It's been a money laundering scheme this entire time. Remember when it first started, Tom? The pins and everybody was pro-Ukraine and who was it that sat here that said, F Ukraine? And they knew it from the beginning what the hell was going on. Pat, was it? I don't think it was Candace. It was the girl from? I don't think it was Candace. It was the girl from England, I think. Remember?

It was Candace. It was Candace. And another one that was getting into it with Adam, the girl from England. Katie Hopkins. Katie Hopkins. I was like, we're going to spend almost a trillion. And you were like, we're not going to. We're at $350 billion.

Okay, let's go back to Trump's first impeachment. It was about Biden's corruption in Ukraine. Do you remember that, Tom? When Hunter Biden was sitting on Burisma. And remember, the big guy made the billions and they kept the money flowing to Zelensky and all that stuff. And at that same time, Zelensky came, was allowed to speak at the pulpit of honor in our Capitol building and then turns behind himself and unfolds a Ukrainian flag that

Nancy Pelosi helped him hold up. Yep. I remember that. And dude, and I just said it Adam, $350 billion, no receipts, no accountability, $120 billion, I didn't even get the money. You want to talk about Doge 2.0 from overseas, enough is enough and I'm so happy. Mind you that attitude from Trump, Brian, it's over and Russia's been on the 19th, Poole, I sent the clip to him, Poole's like yo we're ready to talk and we want to piece it up but dude the money is in war.

All these rhinos, all these Lindsey Grahams that are like that's the most important thing that's happening. Bullshit. They want to freaking stop it, we need to stop it. And I'm just tired of it, but I'm tired of giving these guys 300. We're worrying about social security. A couple of people losing it. 350 billion dollars. You know what that is? Well, yeah, but actually the the the hidden thing that people don't talk about is when you give this aid to Ukraine, American companies are actually making those goods and services.

So a lot of this supports the American economy. So I'm not even talking about that. Did you ever think, let me ask you a question. We talk about sending aid, so we send material, we send supplies. Did you ever think about what happens when that aid gets to the airport and is unloaded? Do you know? Do you guys know what that is? Well, our stuff there, our stuff in Ukraine.

So we send a bunch of stuff, radios, guns, ammunition, whatever it is, MREs, where does it go? What happens, do you know? Because I'm gonna tell you. So nobody ever asks, nobody asks the question, we send it. When it lands at the airport, there are trucks waiting to get that stuff, to take it to the front lines. That's not where it goes.

Those trucks, all those supplies are already divvied out by who? By the people that run different quadrants of Ukraine, gangsters. And guess where that goes? It goes into their warehouses. So all that aid goes into warehouses first. And they've already met in a church and talked about who gets what. And that goes into a warehouse.

And then the front lines get to buy it. And guess what groups get the aid first? The ones that prove their loyalty to Zelensky And guess what groups get the aid first? The ones that prove their loyalty to Zelensky more than the next guy. Do you understand? You know who told me that? CIA guys told me that. That's what happens.

Nobody ever asks where does that aid go? When it goes there, there's a whole system. It's not going to the front lines. And oh, by the way, if you did a percentage on what actually gets to the front lines, the people that really need it, it would make you cry. It's probably 10%. The rest of it sits in warehouses to be sold to everybody else. And Tom, I want to come to you on this story.

And Rob, I want you to prepare the clip of President Trump talking about, hey, we've got to get some of the share of all these revenues from the minerals that you guys got if you can prepare that clip. But I'm going to come to Tom. Tom, so story comes out, and you share this with us. Most Americans say U.S. foreign aid is wasted on corruption. This is daily caller. Now Americans are going there, right?

And Trump demanding that, up like a rocket, CNN's Harry Enton says a large chunk of Americans think US has been far too generous to Ukraine. This wasn't the case two and a half years ago. That's the case today. Rob, play this clip first of the, which one is this Rob? This is Ukraine? So I have both Harry Enton and I also have Trump. Play the Harry Enton and then go to Trump and I'll go to Tom.

Holy Toledo, look I'll go to Tom. Holy Toledo, look at this trend line here. U.S. support for Ukraine is too much. Back when the war began, back in February of 2022, it was just 7 percent. Up like a rocket ship. My goodness. Up now in February of 2025 to 41 percent. And the clear majority of Republicans,

and of course, Republicans are in charge of the U.S. government now, 62% of Republicans say that the U.S. support for Ukraine is too much. What a difference from just three years ago. I can remember John, all those backyards in the United States, Ukrainian flags, far fewer of them today as Americans' opinions on Ukraine have changed dramatically. Oh no, he's saying like including Democrats. They're saying, Ruth, we're done, including Democrats. Right. You know, obviously, if you were his president, change of the price. They're saying, we're done with this thing. Everybody's against it now.

And then, Rob, if you can play, was this with Zelensky's, no, it's fine. Go to the one with Trump, go for it. We don't get our money back. And we told them that the deal is we'll do something for the rare earth and some oil, et cetera, et cetera, and that'll be all right. And they agreed to it, more or less. And then Scott Bessett actually went there and was treated rather rudely because, essentially,

they told him no, and Zelensky was sleeping and unavailable to meet him. He traveled many hours on the train, which is a dangerous trip. And we're talking about the Secretary of the Treasury. He went there to get a doctorate signed. Disrespect. And by the way, we knew he was there and I'll tell you why. Can we at least say though, guys, that

let's not forget that Russia did invade and and and and did it with their military. Let's not be apologists to Putin either. No, but what but here's the question. Why why why did he do it? Why did he do it? Why did he do it on the Biden? And why did Joe Biden, when they asked him the question, he said this, Brian, and there's a clip. He goes, well, they could do a minor incursion.

He welcomed them to go. Who said that? Joe Biden did. You can find the clip, Rob. He basically invited, but Brian, at the end of the day, they pushed Putin to do this. I'm not an apologist for him. But the guy's been saying for a while like bro

He doesn't want they're pushing him to do this shit. And if you think about it, I get it. You're Putin Be honest did they have did they ever have a chance of winning this war? Zero, absolutely zero. And how many soldiers, how many Ukrainian families are never gonna see their freaking family, their fathers? But it's not like Ukraine started the war. What do you mean they had a chance? No, I didn't say they stopped.

The fact that Russia hasn't already won the war is the most incredible thing ever. Look, the argument would be, look, what they did in Chechnya, what they did to Georgia, what they've always done that the Russian bear is is not somebody to apologize for. Look at Afghanistan, etc. I'm not apologizing, but look at us too. We bomb and kill a lot of people. We probably could have really made them pay a price if we had armed the Ukrainians

right away in the beginning of this war. That would be the argument. I don't know. I don't I don't. Tom, your thoughts on this. The question that you asked me, Pat, was about Americans and how they feel. Most Americans. So there's a survey comes out done by the Financial Times. And I looked it up. It was it's a fair survey. 60% of people in the survey said that foreign aid is wasted wasted my tax dollars are wasted. The only way now let's assume 10% of the Republicans that would be in the survey which would be 46% let's take four points off. So only saying 90% of Republicans because 4% are just war loving rhinos. Okay, 44. That means to get to 60%, you got to have 18 points coming from Democrats, which means

a unified America is coming together thanks to those shining the flashlight on the bottom of the rock and we can see all the bugs and the mud and the goo and we're saying oh my gosh, this is so wasteful This is so terrible and then you go look at Harry and 10 Harry and 10 It's like he it's it's like aneurysm week at CNN every time he goes to that board and starts pointing to things Whoever's the victim? Have you ever noticed Brian they always have some anchor come up stand next to him and nod just nod for a minute and all The sudden you can see them shifting their weight and there's the wrinkling in their forehead. And so look, she's going to have an, that's a 50% annual as America comes. And then they go and Harry

pointed out, it went from 2%, 7% all the way up to here. Guess what? You shine a flashlight on it. Americans see it Americans realize it. And this is the benefit of Doge and this is then hang on Donald Trump saying, okay We all agree. It's wasteful and now more people than ever think it's been way too generous to Ukraine You know what? I want to get something for this and you know what I will because I know it's corrupt You know what I want I want rare earth same thing I want from Greenland because I'm gonna help the United States not get Same thing I want from Greenland because I'm gonna help the United States not get Checkmated by China on rare earth minerals and he's making deals to get rare earth minerals in Greenland get rare earth minerals from

Ukraine and we're gonna see at the end of this how the story ends the Trump was three steps ahead Because this is the stuff we need to be competitive on EVs and other things and he's going to make sure that we're not stuck with China checkmating the world in the mining in Greenland and getting nothing for something in Ukraine. Now we're going to go back and say, no, no, no, no, no, you're going to dig that crap up and we're going to take it. And that's the way we're going to do this. And you're going to help pay us back. But a war, by the way, okay, who started it, who whatever, dumping $350 million and having

all of our congressmen wearing pins and celebrating and kissing his ass, bro, and nobody, by the way, this whole, and I know what people say that the pooling apologists bullshit, okay he starts wars and he does stuff, what about us? What about Iraq? What about Afghanistan? What about Syria? We all, we are one of the biggest ones that do it. I'm just, they're trying to push Ukraine to get into NATO. He doesn't want missiles and

shit lining up around his country. He's fighting for his country. I think what Trump also is good at though, is when he comes to the negotiating table, he'll hit you with an outrageous claim and then we'll scale it back from there. Yeah, that's totally fine. By the way, don't take him at face value every time. When he comes out of the gate sometimes, he comes out hard and strong and outrageous, knowing that you're going to counter and this is how we negotiate. And at the end of the day, Biden couldn't get a piece on the books. I'm telling you, this guy at the end of the day

is probably going to achieve this piece. And that's better than having this war rage on and and and so and that's this is what he does he's colorful. Hunter sure got a piece. Yeah exactly. Yeah with Burisma right. Do I agree with most Americans that probably a lot of this foreign aid is corrupt and wasteful and abuse sure great but let's not take our throw out the baby with the bath where you talk about let's not take our eye off the prize.

Just first topic we talked about today there's a big difference between millions billions and trillions yeah what percentage of our of our federal budget do we spend on foreign aid do you know one percent correct one percent yeah that's right well that's a retarded comment because it's not retarded need to have soft power around the world. We do however development. Yeah, we can't just like, oh, we're ostrich. That's what we do. He's American. Russia. But the point is, okay, we can have a conversation of what we want to do with this 1% sure is a wasteful as abusive. Let's look at the 99%. So I gave this analogy before. We're deeply in debt. We're hemorrhaging money as a family, let's say, and your rent is $7,000 a month and you really should be spending $3,000 a

month and you and me are arguing whether we should cancel the Netflix subscription or have Amazon prime. Right? It's 17 bucks. Exactly. For 30 freaking irrelevant. Listen, focus on the $7,000 versus the $3,000 For seven, 30, 30 bucks. It's freaking irrelevant. Listen. Focus on the $7,000 versus the $3,000 rent and then we'll figure out what we want to do. Can we choose, can we? We could, we could, we could, hold on.

We could do it all because we're finding out hundreds of billions, hold on, hold on. Sure. Hundreds, hundreds of billions of dollars. He doesn't know where the hell they are and there's veterans in our street. No, no, no. One percent to me isn't just who gives a shit if you If you were broke answer this question legit broke. Yes, okay, and you were spending $7,000 a month in rent. Okay when you should be spending three thousand and also you have Netflix and

Amazon Prime and I'm like Vinny you're broke. What do you do first? prime. And I'm like Vinnie, you're broke. What do you do first? 36 trillion dollar debt. A trillion seconds is 32,000 years. Let me say it again. Okay, a trillion seconds. So our debt right now I think is 36 trillion dollars. That's that is, is that three? What is that? So it's 1000 billion for a trillion. It's just a whole lot of zeroes. That's 36,700 billion.

Billions. Okay, so there you go. So the point is you focus on the big ass number. That's how much money is. That's weighing you down. Yeah. Not the seven dollars a month. I think we could do both because guess what? The people in North Carolina with the hurricane,

trust me, they're worrying about that one percent that could be going into their pocket because 350 billion is almost half a trillion. If we didn't stop, if Trump and them haven't tried to stop these assholes, they'd go for a trillion. He'd be able to get a trillion. Let me use this another way. I love the vein in his eye. That's what you know. Let me say this another way. Let's say you had a heart attack. I get your analogies. I get it. I don't think you do, Vinny. No, Adam, I'm America first. I don't want money to anybody. Just hear me out.

Okay, you're not going to get... And as you're falling down, you get a paper cut on your finger. And you're like, can we fix both? I'm like, let's start with the heart attack, Vinny. They're doing it all. You're like, we can do the paper cut. Don't let them do it all. So let them do it all. But the 1%? To hell with that.

I want it for America. I don't care about everyone. You just venn-mode Russia money. I just saw you go to... Focus on the heart attack Vinny not the paper cut buddy. These analogies aren't gonna... I'm America first. Alright guys. Vinny's fixing his paper cut while he died. Somebody get him a bandaid. Let's move on. Let's move on to the next story.

A little bit more of a lighter story. The real reason Elon Musk's newest baby mama chose to go public This is good. I like this Hang on just reading I'm reading the story here So so Ashley St. Clair a 26 year old conservative influencer publicly revealed on Valentine's Day that she had a baby with Elon Musk Claiming she had been forced To reveal her secret due to tabloid media probing her personal life. However, Kylie Kramer, director of MAGA Group, Women's America First Alleged, exed that

St. Claire went public because she was trying to elicit a reaction from Dad after Musk ignored her messages. Seems like she wasn't getting what she wanted, was emotionally hurt on Valentine's Day and decided to parade her crazy on the front porch thinking people would be sympathetic to her as a victim of a powerful, wealthy man. She pointed out that Sinclair's claim of media intrusion was contradicted by her inviting the media to capture it in a New York post and it would be complete with a Photoshop and a luxury apartment in Manhattan apartment. Brian Sinclair's spokesperson rejected Kramer's claims as ridiculous and wrong stating Claire

Ashley recalls one phone call with Ms. Kramer years ago at a brief meeting where she was highly critical of Ms. Kramer's ideas and Ms. Kramer appears to be carrying a grudge. Okay, Callum, what thoughts do you have on this year? Are you following it? Look, she's 26. That's so wonderfully creepy. When you're, is he in his 50s? God bless you.

I think when you have that kind of money, listen, she's bring her up for a sec. I don't know what to say about that. Yeah. She's a beautiful, you know, who she is. I don't, I don't. Okay. Very pretty. Uh, I don't have any idea, dude.

I don't know how to make sense of this. I guess he had a kid with her and then they were outing her and then she basically And I'm wondering on this I don't know if I'm the right guy to ask on this. I guess what what is the concern? What is the questions? And maybe I can help well, I want to know what's going on. Okay. Well, why is he why did he block her? Well, I want to know what's going on. Why did he block her? That's the question. Did he block her?

That's what the rumor is. Let me just give one piece of information. And then feel free to ask questions. I am friends with Ashley. I've known Ashley for quite some time. And I think she's a great person. So whatever you want to know, that I do know.

Well, give us the tea. I mean we're here. I'm not here to give any tea. She's a beautiful, intelligent woman. So let's see this here. So this is a response. It's an odd preamble. So what is the previous Rob?

What is he saying woe to? I'm not sure. This was her response to Elon Musk and everybody saying she was trying to get Elon Musk's attention and the entire release of the information regarding her being pregnant with his baby was because he was ignoring her calls so she went public with it on Twitter. I believe, I cannot confirm this but I'd have to look further into it, I believe the tweet has been deleted that Ashley put up. Wait was that it?

Wait hold on. So I think, is this her tweet? Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded. When are you going to reply to us? Us. Instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old. Whoa.

Whoa. Whoa. Who did that? So that's, that's at least a little proof that they're in touch. How about that? Oh, oh yeah. They're in touch. But she, but she kind of went to Twitter to get in touch with them or something. But I mean, think about

it, if you were, if you're hooking up with Elon Musk, I mean, what's that? A picture of them together? Yes. This is apparently from, I believe 2023 or 2024 when the first two met. Interesting. Okay. All right. Well, so what are the facts or what do you, what do you think is actually happening? I guess what's the concern here? Is there any doubt that- Adam, are you her lawyer? Do you have thoughts on it? If you have thoughts, say it. If you don't have thoughts, we can move on on the story. All I'm saying with this is to me, when I'm seeing something like this, I don't know what the big deal is. If a powerful man is attracted by beautiful women, that's been the case for a couple thousand years, guys. The case study is there. Okay, and

typically, you know an Elon who has a lot of kids he wants to have a lot of kids. This will be the 13th, right? And would a person like that as smart as he is, do you think he would have a structure of how people like I remember one time I met a guy, very wealthy guy who had a lot of kids, wanted to have nothing to do with the responsibility of being a father. He had 20 kids and he had a very arranged contract that was written and he pays them a certain amount of money and they have the kid and he sees the kid, but that was a responsibility. Elon, you're always seeing him with his kid.

You're seeing with the kid on the shoulder and all the stuff that he's got while he's different places. Maybe he wanted to have a kid with her. Maybe they had the conversation. Maybe he's, is he, Rob, he's still following her or he's not following her? The reports are that he unfollowed her, but I can't substantiate that

through any type of credible news source. It's just people on Twitter stating that. Yeah, I had a chance to, she was at the Manect event and she was very sweet. When we had the conversation together, I think we had a couple of exchanges at the Manect event. I know you guys were talking a lot together as well. But in an issue like this, some people are saying, wow, conservative, you claim you're

conservative, this, this, this, and that. You had all these kids. Other people are saying, hey, leave them alone, if they had a kid it's their business celebrate, anytime somebody has a kid you should just say congratulations, etc., etc. Wherever you stand there, that's your opinion. Adam. Sure, well let me just give a little information here. So in my opinion, Elon Musk is definitely the father.

I think more truth is going to come out. Is anyone surprised that Elon who already has a baker's dozen kids Maybe once more in my opinion. I think Elon Musk is literally gonna try to repopulate the planet probably go for a hundred kids We'll see about that in this situation right now. A lot of people are calling her a liar in my opinion She's definitely not lying the kid exists They've in my opinion, definitely had a relationship, for sure. What I would speculate is there's a few major parties here. There's Elon, there's her, there's obviously a baby, and then there's an entire team of lawyers that if you can believe it or not, are forcing

her to probably sign something she doesn't want to sign or do something that she doesn't want to do because they have vested interest in him. What I know about Ashley, and this is based on just personal experience, if there's one thing she cares about, it's being a mother. She already has another son. She has a kid. And I know that she takes pride in that. She just gave birth to a another son. She's a class act to write. She's the son of these five months. Yeah, she's a smart, talented, classy, awesome, cool girl. There's a reason that Elon Musk was attracted to her. I don't know the reason that Elon or whatever the team are denying this. Feel

free to speculate. I'm going to say this. I can tell you one last thing. Yeah. There's one thing I can guarantee. She's not a gold digger, but if you're having sex with the world's richest man with no condom, you know what you're doing. Let's not play that game. If you're hooking up with Elon Musk, hold on, were you dating him for love, a future? Let's just be honest. If you're, if you're an adult, 26 years old and you're having sex with the richest guy on the planet ever, are you going to go, Hey, you want that condom? No, because if you have a team and lawyers and everything, that's a, that could be how many women in the world, how many women in the world when they get a DM from Elon Musk that says, sup, don't respond. I didn't say not respond. Every single one. Having sex with no condom and then

dealing with this. So I mean, not a serious. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. If he's going to pay my mortgage, he doesn't have to wear a condom with me. That's what I'm just saying that's on the news man, Patrick That's on the dude whether it's Elon Musk or whether it's Drake whether it's LeBron whoever it is if you're the guy And you're choosing to have sex As a guy as a guy it's great you're trying to populate the earth as a guy who has four children Being a father is more important And if you don't I don't know how you have time to father 13 kids to populate the earth as a guy who has four children, being a father is more important. And if you don't, I don't know how you have time to father 13 kids.

So sometimes a little criticism, you know, toward these guys might, might be appropriate. Like you're having 13 kids, Nick Cannon, all these guys, like, I'm sorry. That's, that's the one thing I can't respect. You got children, bro. Raise your kids, my kids kids my four kids all that matters is that I'm a good father. I don't have time I don't know how you have time with that you know 13 kids come on man. And let's be honest whose responsibility is it you said it's a guy's responsibility to put on a condom

men the majority of guys don't ever want to wear a condom. Who's like hey I'm gonna have sex let me put rubber latex around my penis. It's her responsibility. Take penicillin. What? Why is it the girl's responsibility? Because something's going inside of her, Adam. All, no guy wants to wear a condom. Are you kidding? I didn't know it worked that way. Get a diagram. What's he talking about? Hold on, you mean to tell me, you mean to tell me. You know you use condoms, buddy? The girl just goes like, oh I trust you, I trust you, go ahead. It's a girl's responsibility to be like, that's going inside of me, put on a condom. It's Elon Musk.

I'm pretty sure she was like, get every piece of rubber out of this room right now. I don't want to be late to that. Exactly. That just proves the point that it's on the guy, the person with the status in terms of the money to make that decision. Okay? There it is. Do you saying that you don't use condoms? I don't know what you're saying right now column column He's saying condominium saying he's Russian many if and when you lose your virginity you maybe want to That's why he's got that dress. We learned

a lot of people Most of it was about us. I'm horny. I'm really horny right now. She's in clear ladies watch out if you Sponsored by Trojan condom The men's view is over back to the podcast. Yeah, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas But if any billionaires want to try to impregnate me Anything you may or may not Men can get pregnant apparently meanwhile I'm open to anything you may or may not want.

Men can get pregnant apparently. Meanwhile, meanwhile, okay? Be glad you're living in the States because in Germany, prosecutors tell 60 minutes it's a crime to insult people online as government raids offenders homes. If you've not seen this clip, Rob, please pull up this clip. This is disturbing. Okay. Oh shit. We can't write cuz it's 60 minutes Yes, it's been the case. We cannot show it We can play it disputed because it is covered under fair use so we should be fine what happened the last time though No, the last time he was taking down don't play it Rob. I tell them what happens in this

Yeah, so don't play this on the back CBS Can I tell them Pat what happens in this video? So don't play this on the back. CBS gets really cranky. Show it to us and you actually say what's going on. Go ahead. So basically this person that they're going into their apartment right now with CBS embedded in their police operation, this person posted something online that was apparently racist. And by the way, who's to say, because they haven't showed it, they go in their house,

bro. They confiscate everything the cell phone his the plugs the wire the computer everything and this person gets arrested for for posting something and then they asked the prosecutors it's an interview with three other lawyers they go so listen if somebody says something they repost something online that you said that was mean and hurtful. He goes, yeah, you go to jail. He's like, in your face, it's still bad, but you could insult somebody, Brian, in their face.

If you post something or you repost something that wasn't true or a funny meme of somebody, you're going to jail. Actually, there's a caveat to this. So in Germany, since World War II, after the Nuremberg trials, the denial of the Holocaust or Nazi propaganda is what is punishable by jail. And this has been happening in Germany for a long time. This is not new. This is just a new

story. But this has always been the law in Germany. Okay. And what probably happened here is this guy posted something? That was pro-nazi Nazi paraphernalia or the denial of the Holocaust when you do that in Germany since I think 1948 it has been illegal and that's what that's what's really going on But they would ask these prosecutors are like so if somebody pulls something that's not true Like, you know, sometimes we repost whatever X will say, you know community posts they they were like, oh no, you're going to jail, right? In England people are in jail right now for posting what is considered Things that incite violence towards immigrants

So if you say something like I don't think these people should be in my country you can go to jail If Rob puts us on 1.5 speed path. So last week at the Munich security conference, JD Vance was there and he just shit on every side of my language on all the European leaders. He called them for stifling free speech and ignoring the real issues that their citizens are facing. Rob, you put on 1.5, it'll get to the meat faster. I looked at Brussels where EU commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest

The moment they spot what they've judged to be quote hateful content Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of quote Combating misogyny on the internet. Yes a day of arrest. That's this is where it goes Where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. As the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting,

a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. Wow. Amazing. And look at how unhappy they are. I look to our very dear friends in the United Kingdom where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs.

Ready for this? Ready for this? A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes.

Silently praying. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Wow, jail.

Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.

Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer

within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. In your house? Naturally naturally the government urge readers to Report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe free speech I fear is in retreat he by the way, you know agrees with them most Europeans Yes, you know doesn't the elites there course they were all really mad Yeah, you're not quite was and you know, it's crazy the Europeans itself They can't go online and express themselves about the situation German German defense minister Oh, I would made a speech about how offensive that but you know what he does

He goes on and he must have written this as JD is shitting on all of them He goes right here and he goes I couldn't I cannot not talk about this situation If we can't but just the beginning said because they're they're weaponizing free speech. Yeah, that's what he says. This is why I cannot just ignore what we heard before I cannot not comment on the speech we heard by the US vice president. We fight for your right to be against us. No, you're not. That is the motto, one of the mottos of the Bundeswehr,

and it stands for our democracy. This democracy that was just called into question by the US Vice President, and not just the German democracy, but Europe as a whole, he spoke of the annulment of democracy. And if I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe

with the condition that prevails in some authoritarian regimes. Rob, you can stop it. And it's like, and you nailed it, Brian. People from Europe. I get my next from people from Canada, from all these different places. Everybody is complaining and complaining about what is going on.

And dude, look at the UK with those, the Pakistani guys that were doing the gangs that were doing whatever. You can't even do grooming gangs. You can't talk about it. You can't point out what's happening. And if you go online and do it, they go to your house and go to jail. And could you imagine, Tom, we're Christians, we go to church, we pray. Imagine it being illegal

to get on your hands and I'd be arrested because every single morning and every single night I pray, you can't pray silently in your house and it's illegal. The irony of what they do, the irony of these laws is they are going to, they are going to usher in already are they're going to usher in extreme right wing parties. That's how it happens. Because what happens is people go really you want to do this to me? I'm going with that guy and so those guys inadvertently are gonna usher in an extremist government if they're not careful or parties that are not exactly in the middle or nuanced in their thinking.

The left never ceases to amaze me and how restricted they can be. Look, free speech, guys, you know, free speech, you know why? Watch this, you're allowed to say whatever you want, because guess what, you might change my mind, or or if I disagree with you, it forces me to bolster my position, it forces me to stress test why I believe what I believe, It's how we grow, it's how we change our minds, and it's how we fortify the truth that we stand on. And

if you don't have that stress test coming from you at all different angles and you have parameters on speech, then you're never going to get honest. You're never going to have an honest society. You're never gonna have an honest society. You're absolutely right. Somebody write that down. I know. Run for office. You know what I'm saying?

A comedian didn't Ukraine anyone. Right, can I get some background music when I pontificate this weekend? Callan, I love when you go here, and I'm Miami, by the way, look at the pin that we're wearing right here. I don't think we understand in America. I don't know how to put it on.

No, you put that thing on right now, buddy. Bro, on my semi jacket. Look, even PBD has it on. I don't know how to put it on now you put that thing on right now, buddy Oh, I might on my my short semi jacket. Look even PBD has I'm looking good. Listen, not bad. He's right here. I'm a podcast from no three piece suit This blue brings out the brown on my eyes true or false. Would you actually wear three piece suit for you? Yeah, the next time I come here. I'm doing I'd love to see what you look. It's progressing I bet you look freaking money. Not bad, but all right good you look like. It's progressing. I bet you look freaking money. Not bad, buddy. All right, good. Not bad. As a matter of fact, we're all wearing a three-piece suit. Okay, I'm in. Go ahead. Look, PBD, born in Iran, made in America. How much free speech did you have in Iran these days?

How much? These days? Yeah, yeah. Tell me about the beauty of free speech in Iran. Yeah. Stop it. There's a story here. We have it right here. Someone was protesting. They can't find this kid anymore. We have no idea how freaking lucky we have it here. And we were losing it. We were losing it during COVID. And you know, I know we talked about Elon the last segment. Thank God that he bought Twitter for that 44 billion and he's running a quote unquote nonprofit these days. Do you know what percentage of the world what countries actually have freedom of speech? I think it's 20%. I want to see 30 to 40 countries out of what 200 countries in the world Straight-up have freedom of speech and by the way what we're talking about in Europe right now

Those are the countries that have it and it's catering correct cook in most of the world You don't have freedom of speech name a country in the Middle East Not name Israel that you can have freedom of protest and freedom assembly freedom of speech Zero. Yeah. Okay. So everyone what an African countries right here name Israel that you can have freedom of protest and freedom assembly, freedom of speech, zero. Okay. So everyone, what an African countries right here, we're seeing what's happening in Latin America. What just happened with Pat and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil? We just talked about right now. We have no idea how fricking lucky we have it. And according to our friend Chad GBT, 80% of the global population is living

in countries where freedom of expression and freedom of speech is declining. Great. Since COVID. So it's not like it's like, yo, we're getting better y'all. So we have no idea how important when JD vans goes up and gives a speech and sort of reprimands what's happening Europe. It's like, pay attention fellas, because you're actually the people we need to embrace freedom of speech because if Europe loses it, what's next? This is why America's important, y'all. Y'all. Okay.

Well, thank you for that. You know, we're going to keep steroids out of T-ball. I want steroids. I want, I want, I want home runs. So, so Rob, can you play this clip when they're playing the national anthem, US versus Canada. Vinny, you're telling me this game was not a big deal of a game.

The game that they're playing tonight is the big deal. America beat their ass. This one, this, even though Canada lost in the black and white, this is in Canada. That's in Canada. This is in Canada. But we're in Canada, do you know? If I wanna say Thomas in Quebec, I don't, I don't.

We got some Middle Eastern or Syrian talking about Canadian hockey. The national anthem, and listen to say Thomas in Quebec. I don't I don't And listen to the booze folks go ahead Rob They're two seconds in two seconds We're gonna beat the shit I've never wanted to watch a hockey game as much as I want to watch a game tonight. All right, so by the way, pause this here. I sent a video clip. I watched this guy here, okay? He dismantles the NBA. And folks, for some of you guys, I could give a shit about sports.

Just please let this man break down what he said about hockey and NBA. And Hanslin is sitting on the bottom right. Doesn't even say like he broke down exactly why nobody cares to watch the NBA. Do you know the All-Star game? How many people watched the All-Star game? 4.6 million people watched the All-Star game. Wow. Okay. You know what's the second lowest? 2023. Do you know when Michael played Rob? Can you pull up the clips of how many people watched the NBA All-Star game? Type in NBA All-Star game viewership history, okay? It's embarrassing what LeBron James and Adam Silver did to the game.

Okay, go down to history. What's happening? What is it? Well, he's gonna explain it to you. You have to hear what he has to say. Put in history, Rob, and if you go a little bit lower, it'll show you the history ratings right there. Yeah, if you go a little bit Lauren just kind of see Okay, look at and by the way, this is only since 2000. Look what the number was an oh three thirteen point one million, right?

Do you know what it was in the 90s? Can you please Rob find? 1992 NBA all-star game viewership 1992 NBA all-star game viewership. 1992 NBA All-Star Game viewership, okay? Watch this. Ah, man, I wish I could see. How many was it? 18.8 million! An All-Star Game! To four million!

They've destroyed the league. It is the worst sport right now to own a stock in today. If they don't change it, it is the shittiest product right now of all the four sports. the shittiest product right now of all the four sports the shittiest product and watch what this person eloquently breaks down why hockey is winning and why in the NBA today is embarrassing even though NBA has more viewership than let this man I believe his name is a case subin go for PK you can't compare the cultures because of the way the game is

played. You can step on an NBA floor and go through the emotions. You can't do that in hockey. You can't like the culture of our sport. You have to play with passion. You have to be willing to fight you have to be willing to leave it on the ice. That's what fans are investing in.

So for us, when we charge $1,500 for a ticket to come to Fortnite, fans know what they're getting. Bingo. Kyle McCarr, the best defenseman in the world, wasn't in the lineup for this game. This was the most viewed game that we've had in years. And you see it, it's not just based on the skill and talent, it's based on the pride, honor, playing for the guy next to you. I got a question for the NBA players.

What the hell are you playing for? What are you playing for? It's not about the money. You make all the money. What, you're injured? Well, there's a difference between being hurt and injured. Are you hurt or are you injured? There's a difference.

He's talking about LeBron because LeBron didn't play the Oscar. We play injured. That is the culture of the sport. It's always been that way. So you want to talk about the business, the CBA. Fans get all of that. But what do fans resonate with? They resonate with what's real. You got to fight sometimes for your country. You got to compete. You got to go out there and leave it on the ice. Because those people are paying the price of admission.

So fans know whether our stars are on the ice or not, they're getting their money's worth. The NBA has that issue that they gotta work on. You gotta create a better culture for your players. It starts with the leaders. This issue, there was no issue when Jordan was around. There was no issue when Kobe was around. There's no issue when Sidney Crosby's around. There's no issue when Wayne Gretzky was around because those are true

leaders. They lead by example. Go ahead and call this man racist. Sidney Crosby talking to Canada. What a racist. Oh he's black. What? It was the players that did that for the four nations. That's not the league. The league set it up but the players went out there and decided and said you know what boys we're all in. When is the NBA going to do that? Because I haven't sat down and watched the NBA consistently since Colby. I love basketball. Love the players. I think LeBron's great.

I think KD's great. Steph Curry, love watching them. But you got to be on the court. You got to be there. And when you're there, you got to go all in. The fans got to feel that they're getting their money's worth. And right now there's a big difference between what the NHL's doing with those events and what the NBA's doing.

Four Nations works because the players are all in. Wow. Damn. Rob, is there any way? I just wanna clap with this guy. I send this to everybody. I'm like, good for you, buddy. Wow.

So you're a basketball fan? Good for you. I was a die-hard fan of the game. See if we can find you down in this response, Rob. I mean, I'm telling you, at the highest level, I never missed a game. They destroyed a great game because of politics, bullshit, and giving all the power to players.

They forgot the fans are the number one customers. And they still realize it. It's the fans, NFL fans, MLB fans. NBA doesn't. NBA thinks the fans work for them. It's a complete disgusting mindset. When you see those guys come in and they're dressed It's a fashion show now with the football players. Yeah, is is this a new thing or is that always been the case of?

Fashion well you see like like Travis Kelce. He's dressed like a Talking to what I'm talking about specifically is what he's saying here with NBA product. NBA products... Rob, if you can find the All-Star game, you have to see. Nobody cares for the viewership. Is it the money? What's going on? What happened? I just told you. They've made it about the players. And the players own everybody. The players have so much, and the other day Draymond Green is saying like, yeah, you know,

we got a very bad collective bargaining agreement. What are you talking about? Your players don't even have to play and the owners still have to pay the money to these guys. The owners are not protected. The fans are not protected. You know what, I'd love to take my kids to go see a good NBA game. I can't do it because it's a risk. You don't know who's going to be at the game. You don't know who'd love to take my kids to go see a good NBA game. I can't

do it because it's a risk. You don't know who's going to be at the game. You don't know who's going to be playing. Really? No, you don't know who's going to be playing. Wow. You have no idea who's going to be playing. Pat's absolutely right. It's a players run league and they're going to pay the price. They're already are paying the price. Think about this. Every other sport, football, helmet on your face. They don't even know what you look like. You can walk past a DB right now. You have no clue that guy is hockey helmet, face mask, goalie baseball hat, helmet, basketball. Look at this face. It's a players driven league.

Whereas every other league, it's all about the team. So what's more important, the front of the Jersey or the back of the Jersey in the NBA? You better believe it's the back of the Jersey. Every other team is the front of the Jersey. Right? So in the NBA, these guys, all the players have all have to say. So in the rest of these leagues, the ownership has way more, way more power. So didn't we just talk a story the other day about how NBA owners are basically saying, I want to follow what the NFL owners are doing. So here's what's also happened with the NBA and it talking about leadership starts at the top ever since Who was the the former David Stern when David Stern died? What year did David Stern die?

2020 okay since And Adam Silver has taken over Adam Silver is not a badass He's not a tough guy. He's a nice guy. And he's getting trampled on by LeBron. He's getting trampled on by KD. And the players run the league and he answers to them. They don't answer to him.

Watch this, that's you, Vinny. I'm gonna come to you. Zoom in, look at this. But zoom out a little bit so we can see the numbers, Rob. Go a little bit. Okay, now keep sliding up. Watch this, 2024. 5.4. This this 2024 5.4 this year was 4.4.4.4.4.4.5 then watch 6 6 7 6 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 9 6 7 6 6 7 8 this is oh and by the way pull up when LeBron James got drafted pull up when LeBron James got drafted

watch this 2003 go back to the stats go back to the stats 2003 is the last time they hit when LeBron James got drafted. What year did LeBron James get drafted? 2003. Watch this, 2003. Go back to the stats, go back to the stats. 2003 is the last time they hit double digits. The year LeBron got drafted, from that year on, nobody's giving a shit about the All-Star game. The last time we hit 10 million plus, look at that number right there. Prior to that, 13 million, 30% drop off.

Seven million, 10 million, go lower go lower go lower look at that 17 million 98 last year Michael 17 million 17 million 15 million 13 million 1993 23 million people watch the NBA All-Star Game even in 1990 it was only it was 13 million the idea of how bad shitty entitled policies turns off customers the moment Juan Soto Said after the game was over with when he said are you willing to you know do this as it? What do you think about the pride of Yankees? I'm willing to take offers from everybody. Yeah, the moment He said that I don't have any decision-making. I'm not a majority owner, I'm willing to take offers from everybody. The moment he said that, I don't have any decision making,

I'm not a majority owner, I'm a minority guy. The moment he said that, I'm like, you know what? Do whatever you wanna do, go wherever you wanna go. You forget the pride of being a Yankee. You forget the pride of being a Yankee. You forget, and you look at how. Becomes too much of a business, huh? Yeah.

Everybody's their own island. It's not even about the business part. You're all going to make money. He is by far the most highest paid overrated athlete of all time. One soda already. No one's ever the numbers you look at of what kind of money they pay this guy. It's astronomical for a guy to get paid the biggest contract in the history of baseball with the stats that he put up.

The stats are good. These are not compared to the stats and the defense and all this other stuff. No way. By the way, if he got $760 million, if Barry Bonds was alive today playing with the numbers he was putting up, comparing him to Juan Soto, Barry Bonds would have deserved $2.5 billion. That's how much better Barry Bonds was than this guy. For the sport, for the game, for everything. So, so anyways, for me, it's about the pride. Look, they're gonna make a lot of money.

The game's a great game and they deserve to make a lot of money because the teams are making a lot of money, but the NBA product absolutely sucks. All in all, you know what the message is? Tonight, Canada, US, Boston. Tonight, Canada, US, Boston. 8 PM Eastern. My show at the Miami Improv.

I mean, you know what I'm saying? Well, I mean, hockey's fun, but Brian Callan for an hour? No, no, forgive me for opening with my play. Do you believe in miracles? You know what I'm saying? Brian Callan is performing at the Miami Improv. How dare we even compare US against Canada? The whole weekend. Maybe you'll come out. Maybe you'll come out, for God's sake. Are you performing tonight?

Tonight, two shows tomorrow, two shows Saturday. Take your pick, I roll out the red carpet. You come to the green room, we laugh, we hug. Do I get free water and like, You get free water, you get to laugh hard for at least an hour and 70 minutes. In the green room, Miami have never seen me work. Just to clarify, the first game was in Montreal and they were booing and Trudeau was in the audience,

alpha male Trudeau. Did you know I'm almost in my mind thinking about finding a way to go to Boston tonight to be at that game. I wanna go to this game, I'm just thinking, I haven't been in the Friggin' House for four days. It's going to be, it's tonight at 8 p.m. Boston's gonna be crazy. Didn't you take Dylan to the Game 7 of the Stanley Cup

when they won the Florida? Too loud for him. What? It was the the Florida. Too loud for him. What? Was it loud? Too loud. It was the loudest game I've been in my entire life. The Stanley Cup?

The only thing comes closer is the Kentucky Derby. If you've never been to the Derby, have you ever been to the Derby in your life or no? No. Let me tell you. No. Come with us, Brian. Let me tell you.

It's the most unique sporting experience in your life? Really? That I've ever been to in my life. Is there any room in the jet? I'm asking. Like a friend. I'm home team. Let me just put it to you this way.

The most ridiculous experience. Really? I'm telling you the most ridiculous experience. I'll bring a hat, I'll wear my suit. I'll wear a suit. Right, I had a pink jacket on last year. I swear to God I'll wear a suit. I've been to Super Bowls, I've been to baseball,

I've been to every sporting thing that you can think of. Nothing this moment. Just for that, how long is the race? It's a mile and a half, 90 seconds. Greatest two minutes of sports is what they call it. It's only two minutes. But those two minutes. Oh, it's sick.

You're gonna go, it's like nine races and then there's nine races the day before. It's a spec 150 000 people. We got the biggest sweet fifth floor Manect March 4th put it in your calendar. Go to VTU webinar and register for it. Vinny, ask me if I can ride a horse. Hey uh Brian uh can you ride a horse? I can break a horse brother. Oh dang it. That's sexy. Did you see that? You know the first time I uh him and I met was at the Cavalier in Burbank. What was it? 15 years ago.

It was a horse show. Maybe more. What were you guys doing there? I had my kids. My daughter wanted to, she was a horse. It's a sick show. The amount of money I spent on horses for my ex and my daughter who would ride horses. My accountant calls me

He goes he goes how's the album going? I go what he goes. How's the album? What's it like to play for all those people I go it's Brian count I mean I play for people and not that many goes you're not a rock star I go no Well, then stop spending like What kind of car do you want to drive? I said, what do you mean? He goes, for what you pay for these horses, what do you want? I go, what can I drive?

Pick anything. Pick any car you could drive that car right now. That's an expensive sport. It's an expensive sport. Speaking of rock star, everyone and their mother was going up and taking pictures with Vinny last year at the Kentucky Derby. Like, wow, this guy's famous. They thought he was a jockey.

They're like, oh, these guy's a little tiny guy. One guy was like, man, why aren't you putting on a suit? You gotta be on the horse. Yeah, they got that, do people, I took a horse. And he said, I make a horse. You got me, yeah, you got me. He's five foot three, he's five foot three. Patrick, you ever ride a horse?

Yes. You did. Well, so we're at the Hampton Summer, and we take the kids out to get on the horse. First of all, I put my daughter, if I find this video, it's so funny. The horse looks at Pat and goes. So we get on this horse.

Six foot two four. My dad, same way. You get on the horse. And I'm like, I told my wife, I'm like, babe, if we're getting on a horse, 20 to 30 minutes has been. Is that a real picture of your body right there? oh look at this guy's jack he just ate a horse right there I'm 18 years old hold on 18 yeah what are we talking about I'm a no steroids no steroids bro that's that's nothing that's not genetics

bro that's a generations of persecution You should see the pictures of Tom. There's Tom there on the left. Right there. Dory and Gates. Dory and Gates. Hey Patrick, you're a big boy. That's no joke. Yeah. So, if I find this clip man, it was so funny.

So we go to the Hamptons. And we're with Brooklyn. And this horse comes up. And the moment the horse moves the neck a little bit, she was gone. By the way, we went on a horse ride for an hour and a half. It was an hour and 15 minutes too long. By the time we got off one of my testicles,

I couldn't have a kid anymore. My voice changed. You guys are like, Benny, where are we going tonight? You got shape marks still. Maybe we need to buy Elon Musk a horse. This was it. It was a great experience. But there's nothing relaxing about it.

I will never do it for 90 minutes. No, too much, way too much. It's too much, 90 minutes too much for me. But we'll go to the Derby. Your taint. Rob. Hey, go back to that last picture right there. Shaved.

That's a good picture. I love baby Brooklyn. She loves Papa. I mean, I'm looking at the Papa. This morning she sees me, she runs up, she has the bed. She's the one that when she sees you And she hasn't seen you for a second. Yeah, it's too long, but she sees me. She hasn't seen me for four days She says daddy. Where were you daddy? I miss you daddy. Where were you? That's Brooklyn. Oh, she just she's a

She's she's been working me though. She'll hug me. She'll cuddle then she'll be like I want a pink purse You're great with kids. I love him. Oh, they love him. He sent my kid a gift. I love him. They love him. They love Vinny.

Okay, Rob, is there a story that we haven't covered that we should cover? A story, okay, I'll do this one here, Tom. EU denies making offer to US on lowering its tariff for cars. Okay, this is a Bloomberg story, and Tom, I'm coming to you first. The European Union denies making any offer to lower tariffs on US cars.

Contradicting President Trump's claim that EU had already reduced them, the European Commission stated that any tariff reductions must be mutually beneficial and negotiated within a fair and rules-based framework. Trump has been pushing for a reduction in EU's 10% tariff on US cars compared for the US's 2.5% tariff on European vehicles. Trump announced 25% tariff on imports of steel and aluminum and hinted at higher auto tariffs which would particularly impact German automakers. EU trade chief Maros Sefkovic is scheduled to meet with Trump's commerce secretary nominee,

Howard Lutnick, trade representative nominee, Jamie Courier to discuss these matters. Tom, your thoughts on the story. This is a great story. Whenever you hear the EU say, we're sending all of our guys over to meet all of your guys. No, no, no, don't come here. We'll come to you. We'll come to you. You know, we'll be there in a minute. We're going to be, we're going to be right in the area. We'll drop by. And he's, and Trump is saying they've already made the decision to drop their tariffs. They've already made a decision to lower the tariffs. And they're like, no, no, no, no, we haven't done that yet. We haven't done that yet. This is just like when I running back to nice slapping his girlfriend, you know, he did it. Of course, Of course he did it. She did it twice. He did it three times. This is the time we caught him. And so the

EU, this is a sign that Trump's negotiation through tariffs are working. This guy's going to come over here and we are going to see a deal happen and then opening up to allow us automakers, most notably Ford. Ford has a line of smaller cars. If you've been to Europe, you know, people favor them. Mr. Bean. Yeah. Well, no, no, not like minis, but they favor the smaller four door car that fits in cities and everything. And Ford makes a lot of those. They make them better than GM does.

If you go over to Germany, you see a lot of those little Fords, the old Ford Fiesta, if you remember long ago, they call it something else now. Sounds like a party to me. But that's what's going on here So what's going on here? Yeah, no, no, no, we're not doing that But we're sending our guys to your house to your place and are y'all home because we really like to talk You're not coming over here to talk and say nothing as they said glen Gary Glenn Ross

Coffee's a guy that's a guy doesn't walk on the lot unless he wants to buy You watch you watch the tariffs are going to come down and there's gonna be a little announcement. Again, it's what it's what Trump does. He'll he'll start with something like crazy and say something and people go, oh, that's crazy. 25%. And then you know, we're just we're starting to negotiate. Relax. I'm throwing some things out your low ball or your high ball I'll give you ten bucks for the house. So Tom, what do you think is gonna happen? I think what's gonna happen is you know when there's suddenly Maros Sefkovic is gonna be standing at the microphone with Howard Lutnik and With Jameson Greer and especially Kevin Hassett and they're gonna be saying there we've had productive talks

There's gonna be movement as of May 1st they're gonna they're gonna say a date they're gonna say productive they're gonna say movement and then we're gonna say a date that's what you're gonna see and then you're gonna see the American automakers say we are pleased relieved and looking forward that's what you're gonna see hmm all right let's see what happens all that means is there's my prediction European cars may get slightly cheaper. If they get cheaper, that's a good thing for Americans. They're gonna have to pay less. And what's that one? You want to talk about this story right here? This is what this is.

Why there's no relief ahead for high used car prices. Wall Street Journal. What is it saying? Basically saying don't expect to get any cheap good cars anytime soon And it's lunch. Yeah, I mean I had to sell two horses to get a car Brian type of money man, you know you you're you're in the horse business Eventually eventually we would like to aspire to get into the horse Oh, that's it what Vinny's getting into Vinny's getting to zoo business. We're about to get about 50 animals here for Vinny because Vinny's listen Vin, Vinny's getting into a zoo business. We're about to get about 50 animals here for Vinny because Vinny's, listen, Vinny is the real life. What was that movie where he could talk to them? Dr. Dolittle?

No, no, Vinny's the real life one. The Dr. Dolittle. Vinny can actually speak. Noah's Ark. He's the animal whisperer. When animals see Vinny, there is an emotional connection, a mutual respect I've never seen before. The other day we're walking the dogs and a squirrel comes. This is a squirrel that attacks everybody. He sees Vinny. I've never seen this before. The squirrel on his four, on four, stands up on two and goes like this to Vinny.

Goes like this to Vinny. And I saw that. I was like one second too late because of people don't believe me right now. They think this is a spoof. The squirrel stood up like this. We looked at Vinny, went like this. That is an unspoken truth. We'll see this.

Jungle, animals. And I'm gonna tell you this right now. I've seen sparrows land on his shoulders and I've seen squirrels run up his legs. And with Adam, I've seen rats and crows land on that guy. And that's when you know that he's evil. Scarecrow. That's true. And I've seen squirrels run up his legs and with Adam I've seen rats and crows Easy scarecrow Crows it's bad listen if we know anything about Vinny, he's just a squirrel looking for a nut And he does not use a condom. I just sent one rock and I might you I know it's not Christmas Brian

But I I talked to them sometimes they sound like me this one this one was a reindeer. That's just running Can we play this one this one went viral this one yeah this one went viral but just listen to the voice look how happy he is look how happy this little guy is Pat's got some tits Vinny why are all the animals gay? Every single animal you run into is gay. He's a sassy reindeer. He's a sassy reindeer. He's a sassy reindeer. That's a flamboyant reindeer.

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