PBD Podcast - John Stossel & Danielle DiMartino Booth | PBD Podcast | Ep.118 |

Starting point is 00:00:00 We are officially live episode number one 18 with Michaela said you're right behind me here. I'm making a presentation for the first time on the podcast. No, I think this is the first time we're doing John Stasselon, Daniel de Martino booth. Now, have you guys made each other before? This is the first time. This is the first, like, like three minutes ago.

Starting point is 00:00:23 Well, he was telling great so far. He was telling a fantastic story about a friend of his back in the days on the trading floor that was famous for reading novels, great novels, right? The American Stock Exchange. Yes, yeah, the American Stock Exchange. Anyways, great asset classes is what he was talking about. No, no, he said he was not record breaking. Remember, no, no. He said he was not record breaking.

Starting point is 00:00:46 Remember, he, I said great, not the greatest. Patrick, I was 25 years old. I was staring down at the two story tall Solomon brothers famous trading floor where Liars poker was born basically Michael Lewis's saga. And I count like seven women. And like, I stopped it like 100 men. And I'm like, OK, if a woman can make it here,

Starting point is 00:01:04 then a woman can make it anyway that was the moment I decided I want to go to Wall Street. But is it true like what you hear about what you read about on how it is with the ratios as well as the treatment or you just have to be tough to make it. It was back in the day I mean hearing that Wall Street's gone woke is like excuse me because it's it's a noxie more on it's not how it works there. Is it still not like that or has it changed life? You know what, I haven't been on a trading flow. That's not true, I haven't on a trading flow reason.

Starting point is 00:01:30 There's not the same kind of grunting going on. Well, nobody would grab your ass today in a trading floor. No, but when I'm on the floor, then you're stuck at your day. Sometimes I do see people behind me taking interesting photographs from interesting angles. So.

Starting point is 00:01:44 Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I just thought that you were, I mean, Adam, what were you doing in the photo? Very photographic. Was a cat company coming public? OK, I'm not going to start that. You want to go there, Dan? It's my first time here. Where are you the cat?

Starting point is 00:02:06 So you got a cat? Tell us why, Joe. No, I have an allergic cat. I want to have a cat. I dream of having a cat. Got it. Have you ever had a dog? I haven't had a dog.

Starting point is 00:02:15 Yeah, I had cats until I gave life to a kid who was allergic. And we've got some hot, some hot tacos in the house this morning. It's gonna get interesting. You too, though, you're also allergic to cats. I'm allergic to cats Yeah, and you are not allergic to cats not in any way I love any kind of dogs animals any of that. I mean, I'm just my dad on the other side My dad can't stand animals period. I got to tell you story about Iran with my dad In Iran, we're living on this fourth story and this cat used to come.

Starting point is 00:02:45 And he hated cats, especially because his mom, my grandma, had 12 cats, two dogs, two parrots, two snakes, and a bunch of birds. And a parkage and a parrots. No joke, my grandma loved animals and my dad can stand them. So this cat would come and finally he got furious, he's like, why are you coming over here and making a mess, right? So one day he says, you know what we're gonna do?

Starting point is 00:03:06 We're gonna feed this cat. So me, my mom and my sister were like, wow, that's changed. He took this Marta Della meat and he went out there and he put hot sauce all over the Marta Della. Okay. And this is a Drake story. This is the true story. It's a Drake story.

Starting point is 00:03:23 He John didn't know the Drake story, but he puts this hot sauce all over the Marta Dela. And we stand outside, we're like, wow, that's actually given him. He says, no, I put hot sauce on that thing. They'll never come back. We can't eat the Marta Dela. They choked all the way down from the fort. We never saw cats every yet. That's my answer.

Starting point is 00:03:41 That's listen to this cracking up because you remember when he did this. Clearly, anyway, we got a lot of stories. Yeah, I think your kids just stopped biting their nails. That's listen to this cracking up because you remember when he did this. Clearly, you dreamt of the lesson from that. Look, we got a lot of stories. Yeah, I think your kids just stopped biting their nails and we just smacked to back. Oh yeah, the logo, I like it. They finally put it up. It's sick.

Starting point is 00:03:51 Robert, the team, John, everybody, phenomenal job with that logo. We love it. In the vault. Yes, in the vault, in the bank vault, John, just so you know, this is a bank vault that we turn into a podcast set. Cool.

Starting point is 00:04:02 Except behind all this, there's about $17 million. Okay. And half of them are empty. By the end, you're gonna be able to open it up, whichever one has money in it, it's yours when you leave. Okay. Cool. You got one choice.

Starting point is 00:04:14 This is like a game show. It is a game show. I want to come to the game show with Patrick and Adam. Anyways, topics, Dubai Emirates, suspense flights, due to 5G concerns, and it's all over the place, is it real? Is it just something they're talking about? Elon Musk laments the declining birth rate. If there aren't enough people

Starting point is 00:04:30 for Earth, then they definitely won't be enough for Mars. Big concern for people who want to move to Mars one day. Mr. Bees reportedly made $54 million in 2021. Most ever on YouTube, Euro YouTuber, Euro YouTuber. There's YouTubers here. That's 54 million. That's a lot of money. Maybe we can talk about Mr. Beast, Biden's press conference, who they claim it was the greatest press conference of all time. I mean, historic, the way he handled himself. But this article is a spelling error. It says it was an utter disaster. So I think that title maybe needs to be written. Yeah, it's a typo. California wants to double its taxes. And I want to know what Mr. Stasel has to say about that.

Starting point is 00:05:07 And then we've got a bunch of other things that's going on. One story specifically, Adam's favorite story that we have here is most of us prioritize our pets, physical and mental health over our own. A study shows that seven out of ten pet owners have more concern about getting their pets acupuncture over them. It's a very interesting study we'll get into that on how that works out. And in Stasel, John, you've said some stuff about parents should care about CRT, Andrew Yang's new forward party, and a few other things here about the FDA. Maybe we'll get into that as well. But how about we start off with California wants a double its taxes. You okay with that? Let's talk with California once a double its taxes and

Starting point is 00:05:48 Here we have to that live in Florida you right now live in New York So I double my taxes from you. How awesome is that though? But you like to play volleyball in Del Rey Which is I'd move here if my wife didn't hate Florida. That's right. We discussed this last time. We discussed it. We didn't actually move here. Okay, so let's see what's going on with California. All right, here we go.

Starting point is 00:06:10 This is an article from National Review. You can also find this article. I believe on Washington Examiner and tax foundation.org, but this one is National Review. Folks, if you're living in California or thinking about moving to California, I don't know a lot of people are thinking about moving to California,

Starting point is 00:06:24 but you may want to listen to this. California wants to double its taxes. Jared Walsack of the Tax Foundation wrote a blog post yesterday with news that doesn't seem possible. California in already high tax rate wants to double its tax revenue, no matter how he broke it down, the proposed constitutional amendment, the numbers are astounding. It would increase the top marginal tax rate to 18.5%. That's 7.05% higher than Hawaii, the next highest state that 12 and 12.75% higher than a national medium, it would increase taxes by an average of $12,250 per household. All told, the new tax package is intended to raise an additional $163 billion

Starting point is 00:07:07 to which is more than California raising total tax revenue any year prior to the pandemic. It's not just income taxes though, that they want to implement a payroll tax as well with the top tax rate applying to taxpayers, making only $49,990 an annual income, currently only Massachusetts and Nevada have a payroll tax that do more than any fund unemployment insurance

Starting point is 00:07:27 He continues the most insane part about the proposal however is the 2.3% Gross receipt tax only seven states levy gross receipt taxes which are especially harmful to economic growth because they are based on business Revenue not profits even if businesses lose money They still pay the gross receipt taxes because they still made revenue which is insane if you ask me if this proposal adopted California would essentially have 18 tax brackets and individuals making less than 50,000 dollars per you were wind up paying Double digit marginal tax rates thoughts mr. Stassel. I Think it's great because we need, we've got 50 states. It was a wonderful design so we could experiment and we need models of failure.

Starting point is 00:08:14 You need models of failure. I like that. So you're saying this is a model of failure or potential failure. I hope it will be, but it is amazing how Californians can say, I believe, I believe government will solve all the problems and we'll get the homeless off the street and we'll make everything nice. And if I'm paying 18%, that's okay. I made a lot of money in Silicon Valley.

Starting point is 00:08:42 I can afford it. And it's a public service. Now, here's a question, Daniel. I want to ask both of you guys. Kyrsten, what you say? I think the question is the following. Nusum, when he won the recall, he was going against Larry Elder. And if we remember that, it was convincing victory.

Starting point is 00:08:57 64, it came out as 67. By the time they got everything, it was around 63%, 62%, but it was not even close, right? So 60% plus support noosom, how likely is it that something like this could pass in California? Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, time out. There was a fourth stimulus check mailed to Californians right before the recall vote. So they're literally getting $1,500 of cash in their bank accounts right before they go to the polls.

Starting point is 00:09:25 How convenient is that? And B, to John's point about a failed experiment, it failed last year. Anybody guess when California was entered into the union? Year? 1850. Since 1850, the population of California, NetNet, has grown every single year until 2021. And 2021 was the first time that they had a net decline in their population.

Starting point is 00:09:47 So if they want to continue on this merry path, then they can fail even bigger. Yay. And lose even more companies. But here's a question, Daniel, for you. If 60% supported Newsom, what's the likelihood that this insane tax proposal will pass? I mean, if it's only the crazy voters coming out

Starting point is 00:10:05 and the other people who were like screw that or like leaving, and they were on the fence, before they were like, if anything else, crazy. And I've actually spoken to people out there who have great companies, they make good amounts of money, and they were like, well, we thought the taxes were not gonna go up, we've already bought places elsewhere

Starting point is 00:10:20 in the country, and then all the craziness stopped. But they're like, if the taxes go up, I'm outta here. I've already got my plan B. Actually, I already owned the property outside of the state of California. So, a small exodus is going to become a mass exodus. And do we really know that they supported Newsom? Because the press, Portray Larry Elder, is a crazy man and Larry talks so fast and puts out so many ideas in one quick sentence.

Starting point is 00:10:52 He turned off a lot of people. I love him and he's right on all the issues. Really? So you were a fan of Larry Elder. Totally. Wow. Except for his presentation. And I think he's scared people.

Starting point is 00:11:03 That's talking salesmen and stuff. Is that okay? Okay, California's like New York is a state, right? If you're conservative, you're ambivalent on voting day, you're like, my vote's not gonna count. So you don't even bother, you're like, if I register to vote again, stillery when I lived in New York,

Starting point is 00:11:18 you know what I got? Jury duty. I mean, that was it. My vote didn't count. It was just nonsensical. My friends were like, why are you doing this? Why are you giving your Texas driver that's not me for seven years?

Starting point is 00:11:29 Fine. And she's not even from New York. I'm going to go out and vote against her to do my duty, my civic duty. And all I got was jury duty. But there's a level of ambivalence whether you're living in New York or Illinois or California.

Starting point is 00:11:42 And you're like, my vote, if I'm a conservative, my vote doesn't counsel why bother? Yeah, if I'm a conservative, my vote doesn't count so why bother? Yeah, but he's a part though. Number one, like, you know the whole theory about you put a frog in the water, you boil it one degree slowly, and eventually a two, 12, he doesn't know it's getting hotter so he dies.

Starting point is 00:11:57 Like you've heard this story, I'm not the first person telling you this story, right? All the time. Yeah, it's not true. Yeah, and it's not true. No, the frog jumps out as it's slowly warm You know what we're gonna do. We're gonna do this on the podcast as an experiment next time your good idea Just make a be serious David Tyler making out next time Stassel is out here

Starting point is 00:12:16 We're gonna bring a frog. We're gonna put it in the water We're gonna boil it at two twelve frog in a hot plate And we don't podcast was so easy to frog jump out on John. It would be. So that's an ex-experiment making note of it. But anyways go back to this. At what point, at what point are people going to say, you know, there is no freaking way this makes any sense or is it already happening? Elon Musk originally moved personally to Texas and now he's relocated the headquarters. Yeah, but you remember top marginal tax rate. So what is top marginal tax rate? Because the person making $42,000 a like, please raise a top marginal tax rate. I don't mind if you raise a top

Starting point is 00:12:56 marginal tax rate. So there's more people making less than 49 than those that are making top marginal tax rate. So a lot of the people at the bottom, they're like Silicon Valley and going nowhere. They're gonna stay here forever, right? Like this whole thing about what happened in Detroit, that'll never happen to Silicon Valley. New York is a financial capital, you know, Hollywood is Hollywood, even though Atlanta and Austin's kind of competing

Starting point is 00:13:18 Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, Miami's becoming the crypto capital, there's no way these billionaires will leave. The S.H.A.P. Morgan Chase has more employees in the state of Texas than JP Morgan Chase has in New York. Pat, you used analogy one time and I think you were getting to it with the frog is, you got up set to how much are you willing to get pushed?

Starting point is 00:13:37 Meaning like if I do this to you, all right, it's a little annoying. If I do that a little bit more and if I keep pushing, at what point you one point you could like dude if you push me again I'm gonna knock you out and that's essentially what's happening here. It's like all right We'll raise it a percentage no one's gonna know. Yeah, but you know what it is here's here's the perspective here This is what I'm trying to ask the brains to my left because I'm a guy with a one-pointed GP in from high school These guys got degrees on top of degrees and they're educating the world the journalist legendary journalists and

Starting point is 00:14:03 Federal reserve finance here's a question. I'm doing it to you, right? You're getting irritated. But if those that are making 40 grand, you're watching me do this to the billionaire, guess what they're saying, do it again. Do it again. Oh, that's awesome, do it again.

Starting point is 00:14:16 So it's, no, no, they're excited that I'm pushing yours. They're celebrating it. And Newsom is like, you like it oh you like it yeah oh wow okay also let me do some more I think that's the dynamic right and and by the way you know who wants a pain the biggest price for this not you because who wants you who wants you 49 other states want you yes 49 other states want you this guy me and I but so here's the question saying so I love your analogy Pat But why should the person making 40 grand who's watching and to get pushed watching the billionaires get pushed watching the millionaires get pushed

Starting point is 00:14:56 Why should they care why should they jump? Because life won't be as good if you push the because life won't be as good if you push the producers out. But why do you think that Silicon Valley won't go down like Detroit, if the economics don't make sense, and people are moving to Austin and Florida, nicer places. And California has mountains and an ocean and great weather a lot going for it and bizarrely a surplus because the stock market went up so much and these zillionaires are paying more in taxes but it could bust at what point I don't know what point is the last time I

Starting point is 00:15:39 checked the Nazxic's in correction no I get that but I'm trying to like if you have you studied the history of Detroit on what caused it to break down when a mayor, you know, started playing games with deer born and they started raising local taxes and regulation and the union got involved and started making our life a hell. So eventually they're like, we're out of here and in next thing, you know, the population went from one and a half million to 800,000. And all those jobs left to different places. Do you really think if that happens to Silicon Valley, it could happen in number two.

Starting point is 00:16:14 What causes that? I'm going to push one of John's buttons here. Here we go. And in Texas, which is like California Central because the influx is insane and it non-stop. A lot of parents have actually started to leave talking about strong unions because the LA teachers union mandated that when they shut the schools down that they also had to have the private schools close as well. And the private schools are like, wait a minute, we've got the protocol, we can stay open.

Starting point is 00:16:42 And eventually the parents just threw in the towel and they're like, we can stay open. And eventually, the parents just threw in the towel, and they're like, we could afford to have stayed in California. They weren't bending on critical race theory. So A, taxes, B, I want my children to have an education that I want for them to have, not that's mandated and dictated. So I'm getting the hell out of here. So California is hurting itself in more ways than just economically incentivizing people to leave, is all I'm saying.

Starting point is 00:17:05 Because when your union is that strong, like it wasn't Detroit, and you have a public union gets the power to close private schools? I mean, come on. That's not, there's nothing American about that. People put up with a lot. Most people don't really pay attention to the stuff we talk about. They think about sex and music and movies and sports and raising their families. There's the expression that 90% of the people, 1% of the people make things happen and 10% watch and the other 90% wake up and say, what happened?

Starting point is 00:17:44 And people don't notice that their taxes go up a little bit, a little bit, a little bit. They just take it. Yeah, but Patrick, if you're reading correctly, they're talking about doubling. Yeah, but John, if you double, so let's do the math. Let's just say I'm paying $5,000 in taxes, and I'm making 50 a year.

Starting point is 00:18:04 That goes to $10,000 in taxes and I'm making 50 a year. That goes to $10,000 in taxes. My car payment is 320. I'm going to feel bad. Like, I remember when I'm making 40 grand a year, what a hundred dollars was. I looked at a hundred dollars' race and a month I'm like, dude, my phone bill's covered next to it. That's fantastic.

Starting point is 00:18:19 So, I felt a hundred dollars at that level, but you're contradicting yourself. I know I am. I know I am. I know I am. I'm trying to challenge to see at what point do people leave. That's what I'm trying to find at what point the Silicon Valley just become a city, a valley, you know, and all these guys are gone. What will cause them to leave? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:18:40 Yeah. I think it's the same thing that happens in a relationship. It's that we've all, I'm sure we've been in like Relationships that haven't worked out and you get in a fight and it's like all right cool Whatever it's a fight and then you get another fight or whatever and you get a fight and you're arguing and it's fighting And then at what point you think I don't know if I want to be with this person I don't know I don't know it just kind of keeps happening and finally boom something happens and you're like all right

Starting point is 00:19:00 That's it. I'm getting the so it's not a one and done thing. We got to fight. We're done It's the cumulative effect. You meet someone else. It's all the way. We see a nicer sexier state out there. Something like Florida comes and winks at you. To your point, that too. I mean, at some point, you're going to get so frustrated

Starting point is 00:19:16 that you're waiting forever to get into a restaurant. Because the support staff is simply not going to be there anymore. Because you've expanded the social safety net to such an extent, right? The only fourth stimulus check in America was in California. Otherwise, the rest of the nation just got three. And that was way too many. But that was a state.

Starting point is 00:19:34 It was a state. A state, okay. It was a state. But at some point, you're going to get so frustrated if you're a zillionaire that you don't have the service that you want. You can't go to Napa Valley and go to your favorite restaurants there that you don't have the service that you want. You can't go to Napa Valley and go to your favorite restaurants and go to your favorite resorts because there aren't enough workers because the social safety needs big enough

Starting point is 00:19:54 to capture them to where they don't have to work. At some point things start to fall apart. It's just like in New York right now. I mean, you wait a lot longer at a restaurant for service. Any of you want to be there, you don't. You know what this makes me think about it. This makes me think about in a following way. How many people can handle domestic violence?

Starting point is 00:20:16 How many marriages do you know where people are like, you know what, shit, this sucks, but I'm not going anywhere. How many people stay in a marriage with domestic violence? That was kind of my point with the relationship. You want to be aware of that? That time is point, but you also have women's shelters that are constantly full. So clearly, human beings hit their breakpoints or the women's shelters wouldn't be full. So what I'm saying is I think California is a form of domestic violence to its citizens. I think California

Starting point is 00:20:40 is the best example of domestic violence, And unfortunately, some are gonna take it and tolerate it. And some are gonna say, I'm getting the hell out of here. Unfortunately, the logic behind the politician, what's the politician thinking about? What is the policy maker thinking about? What is a policy maker thinking long term? Like, what's this 163 billion gonna do? Like, you're gonna treat one six, get better? Oh, we're gonna help people.

Starting point is 00:21:03 Yeah, problems here. And if we have this money money we can get more social workers to help them to neglect it kids and they believe it. Clean up the homelessness everything that's going on in San Francisco and we've covered that to I mean at least to Blasio left before he was able to set up the the shooting at heroin tents the safe spots. I mean, LA's already gone there. This is a question for you. Go for it.

Starting point is 00:21:28 And so I think this is ultimately where we're going with this, is that physically, John touched on this with the mountains and the oceans physically, California is the most beautiful state. But tax-wise and politically, it is potentially the ugliest state. You see what I'm saying there? Would you agree with that sure? So so you're like you move that account for years but it's for you

Starting point is 00:21:52 It's kind of like you're dating somebody who's dropped it gorgeous who is Ridiculously demanding and nothing ever makes her or him happy. Yeah, how long are you gonna stay in that relationship? My point is that you can brag about it. Everybody else, but she's horrible to my friends that she's horrible to my family and I can't like it. And honestly, she's probably also horrible and bad, you know. I love you. You know, I'm just putting it up because you've heard I said so maybe sex on finances. That's all that's on stuff. Your next show. Yeah. Alley bone sex. Anyway, so last night we went to dinner with one of his friends. Sex and evolved, instead of sex and the vault. Sex and evolved. We went to dinner yesterday with our friend Keith, and he had some depressing words. He says, guys, we're 40. And Adam is 40, about to be 41 on February 4th, right? Is it February 4th?

Starting point is 00:22:36 Correct. So he has a, we only have 25 good years left in us. Oh my God, you're right, dinner has drinks, you know, all that. I'm actually saying, what are you talking about? right, dinner has drinks, you know, imagine. He's like, what are you talking about? I feel like I got a lot more than that. What are your thoughts about that? I don't believe it.

Starting point is 00:22:51 I'm over 65. And you're playing volleyball in Del Rey. I hope to have good years left. I love that response of John Stasel. I love it. You might as well just cart the coffins into the vault here, seriously. It's okay. So now let's go to a different topic. topics so john stasso you did a story on

Starting point is 00:23:07 crt parents should care about crt right let's go to page five with uh... john stasso crt uh... parents should care about crt this is a tribe life story glenn uh... young can recently was elected virginia's governor partly because he promised to ban teaching of crt crt stands for critical rastery which argues that every American institution upholds white supremacy. Journalists, Astra, Noah money, reveals some rather creepy CRT lessons that are taught in schools.

Starting point is 00:23:34 Noah money filed freedom of information act, request that four schools district to reveal how they pay consultants to spread CRT. We fund 300 plus contracts, say Naomi, every day I'm getting a new contract. Some conservatives want to ban the teaching of CRT. That's not a good ID. Government shouldn't be banning ideas of taking choices away from teachers. Bans shield students from important topics.

Starting point is 00:23:56 A better solution is legalizing school choice. Let parents take our tax money to school we choose. Can you unpack that? Well, let's start with the end. Being, if there's a market, everything is made better by competition. And you look at New York, where I'm from, and you used to work, they spend more than $20,000 per kid.

Starting point is 00:24:19 If you do the math, that's $400,000 per classroom. Okay. How many good teachers could you hire for that? You had to be able to hire four good teachers. And this was not capital cost. This was just what they put in to teach the kids every year. So where does the money go? Nobody can find out.

Starting point is 00:24:40 It goes in. It's not just the union. It's the administration, all that. The bureaucracy and the PTA's get caught. I the people who like going into windowless conference rooms and trying to figure out how to run other people's lives. Unless there's competition that forces them to make some cuts somewhere and just some cut somewhere and to spend more on the right things that the parents want, it'll never get better. I don't think the critical race theory stuff is a giant threat, but they have books like Woke Baby. I mean, critical theory is a law school theory, but it got

Starting point is 00:25:20 down to the teachers and many of them believe racism is everywhere, which I think is nonsense. There's more inner marriage than ever before. And it's a better measure of racist getting along if you are eager to marry someone of a different race. But some kids are being taught that they are, if you're're white, you're a horrible person. And you stole from non-white people. You did it.

Starting point is 00:25:49 Well your parents did it and passed it down to you. But you have this huge advantage. And that's evil. Do you believe in the power of affirmations? I'm not sure what it means. Power of affirmations like saying, hey, you know, I'm going to have a good day today. You know, be careful what you joke about, but be sarcastic about it because the spirit stops having faith and the war is that comes out of your mouth.

Starting point is 00:26:14 I meant to do something special in my life. You know, do you believe in affirmations? Do you believe in affirmations, Daniel? I do. Do you believe in power of positive thinking? Sure. Can we say we all agree that norm and information every morning? Okay, I know you do, right?

Starting point is 00:26:28 Norman Vincent Piel, the power of positive thinking, New York preach, you know, past all this stuff, right? So I'm giving a talk and I'm speaking in front of a group of kids and parents, probably thousand people in Norman. I'm up there talking about how great this country is, right? America's the greatest country in the world, like, you know, American exceptionalism. This is the greatest place. And next thing, you know, I see a couple of the teachers go like this.

Starting point is 00:26:53 And I'm like, okay, my job is to read body language. This is what you do when you're speaking from stage. I'm like, okay, curious. I want to really talk to these guys afterwards. So I don't even need to go to them. They come up to me. Listen, first of all, thank you for coming up. But can I give you some feedback?

Starting point is 00:27:08 Yes. You have to be very careful telling young kids a lie like America's the greatest country in the world. Do you realize America's one of the most racist countries in the world? And she went off, right? All these things about how horrible America is. And I said, let me ask you a question.

Starting point is 00:27:24 She said, yes. I said, do you believe in affirmations? She said, what's affirmation? I told her. I said, let me ask you questions. She said, yes, I said, do you believe in affirmations? She said, what's affirmating? And I told her, I said, do you think it serves kids to think positive thoughts about themselves, about their families, about their heritage, about their country? I think that's a formal manipulation.

Starting point is 00:27:41 Oh, really, that's a formal manipulation. Interesting. So I shouldn't tell my kids son You can do almost everything you put your mind to except some things that have physical abilities If you can jump 46 inches, you're probably not gonna be LeBron James outside of some of physical stuff You can probably do anything you want to do right? Is that a bad thing to tell a kid? No, no, but that's not the point.

Starting point is 00:28:05 We have to tell people the truth about the fact that racism exists. I'm like, man, I just came and spoke at a white school and I'm from Iran. Like, do you realize how you invited me and I spoke and I said how great your country is? This is an example of how great America is. Well, no, you haven't seen all the others. I haven't seen all the others. I was in the military, went to Kentucky. Have you lived in South Carolina or Kentucky? I lived in South Carolina and I went to a waffle house, which I don't miss going to waffle house.

Starting point is 00:28:36 So I go to waffle house. This guy's looking at me, saying, where are you from? I said, what do you mean? He said, can I just be honest? I said, yeah, sure. He said, I've never seen a nose like that in my life before. I said, what do you mean? He said can I just be honest? I said, yeah, sure I've never seen a nose like that in my life before I said this is a legendary Armenian nose You cannot make these types of things you have to have genetics. I got actually said that to your face I said you realize your pretty boy. You know knows that you got it cost me 9,000 dollars to make it look like yours

Starting point is 00:28:59 I said you need billions to make yours look like mine Okay, all the money in the world's not gonna say he starts laughing we start laughing. I sound from Iran. He said, you're from Iran. I ran, I said, yeah, I'm from Iran. He said, what are you doing here? You know, and we're at the swathalas. I said, can I whisper to you? So it's not, I don't want people to know about it. Because I'm in the uniform. I said, listen, just between us. I'm a spy here. I'm trying to spy and study all you. Military tactics. So I'm gonna take it back to Iran. It's why I'm here. Seriously.

Starting point is 00:29:25 He's not. Man, I'm kidding with you. He's been in for his gun run. Yeah, he's in the front. So to me, the biggest thing that CRT doesn't get is affirmations work. And if you want to put negative affirmations, they also work.

Starting point is 00:29:40 If you tell hundreds of thousands of kids their racist, by the time they're 18, they're convinced they're racist. And it continues for decades and decades and decades soon. And I think that's a problem. I think it's a different approach we can take. I may be wrong. There's people fighting their way into this country. Give me a break. Yeah, people want to come here. But when the kids are older, it's right to teach them about some of the horrible things that America has done. And it was just not taught to any kid when I was in eighth grade.

Starting point is 00:30:18 I mean, I think we all went to school and we learned about the Civil War and slavery. I don't think it wasn't called critical race theory, but we were all very well aware of these part of jail. Exactly. I know white people civilized America and rescued people from the savages. That stuff was in my courses.

Starting point is 00:30:41 Mm-hmm. Why is that wrong? And vastly older than you guys. But what was wrong? Is that wrong? That incorrect? No. America did some racist nasty thing. No, but your statement is that white people civilized.

Starting point is 00:30:57 He's asking is that wrong because Lincoln, I think, because I'm black, right? Is he white or white? I lost my check. He's still a white guy. He's not with us anymore by the way Adam. The enlightenment. Some tweeting the other day. Western values civilized the world. Correct.

Starting point is 00:31:13 And you're not allowed to say that anymore. But it's just true. I don't know, maybe Glendale High School focused on it, but I remember I grew up. I grew up. Now, I'm not going gonna lie to you when I was in high school. I didn't like white people in high school. Because what was sold to me was white people take advantage of everybody else. That's what was sold to me. When my teacher was white, when she's teaching history, what they did to blacks, what they did to rape,

Starting point is 00:31:41 you know, till today you're not gonna find an office of mine or anything of mine without an MLK picture on the wall. Till today, MLK is a hero too, and obviously he just had his celebration. So I don't know if the histories, unless if it's inaccurate and Lincoln didn't play big role, then we have to talk about it. I mean, I grew up learning that, you know, the horrors that we inflicted upon Native Americans when we landed here.

Starting point is 00:32:04 I mean, it took all, I mean, they've got like 1.2% of their land left. But I mean, these are things that I learned growing up in school. But I think we're missing a major point here. When you say we did this, we did this. We're all immigrants. My family came over from Russia in the early 1900s.

Starting point is 00:32:21 His family came from Iran. I don't know where you're Jewish. Your family probably landed on Ellis Island. Your family's in town. Ellis Island, 19 Iran. I don't know where your Jewish, you know, your family probably landed on Ellis Island your families in town I don't know I mean, maybe unless you're like original OG James town wasp English from 1600s We all immigrated from some countries where we had to get the hell out of who cares? We were getting persecuted whether that was religiously or Economic economically and we had to make a move So when we like we white people

Starting point is 00:32:47 How many people just treat white people that just landed on Plymouth Rock, you know like the old Malcolm X I didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Lymoth Rock landed on me So the old white people thing I just think is it just a blanket statement that just actually doesn't hold water to most people Am I wrong on that John Stassel? No and also actually doesn't hold water to most people. Am I wrong on that John Stassel? No. And also slavery was ended by white people. Most college students now think America created slavery, started it.

Starting point is 00:33:15 Now you counter-dick them yourself, John. I like to do that. That's what I do. Well, so like you do. So keep in PBD on his shoes. We keep going, keep going. It was the British more than we, but even people from Mexico who ended slavery, but it began in the Middle East.

Starting point is 00:33:32 It was perpetuated all over Africa. And somehow white people are the bad guys. And it continues to this day in various parts of the world. Six countries. Let's not forget that we killed Gaddafi, and now there's a giant slave trade in Libya. Let's not forget about that. After a point with that.

Starting point is 00:33:53 At this point, slave trading is still on today. There are thousands of slaves being traded in Libya after we bombed and assassinated Gaddafi. So we shouldn't have killed Gaddafi? Are you advocating for us not to have killed Gaddafi. So we shouldn't have killed Gaddafi. Are you advocating for us not to have killed Gaddafi? I, it's a voice of God called W. But you may have a good point. I don't think we should have killed Gaddafi.

Starting point is 00:34:13 Tell us why, tell us why. Because we brought the country into chaos. Gaddafi had backed off, he understood that we had his number. He had backed off. He wasn't the terrorist he was 10 years ago, but before he assassinated. And look what happened after he was gone. The country is falling into complete chaos. And it's often justified by this idea of American exceptionalism. We go into all these other

Starting point is 00:34:35 countries and tell them how to run things and we make it worse. I mean, an even worse example than Qaddafi is what's happened in Iraq. We prop up these Qaddafi's, these who say, and Saddam Hussein's, as these boogie men. These are horrible people. We got to get them out. And next thing you know, it creates this vacuum, boom, ISIS, boom, slave trades in Libya. So it's like, what are we trading? One, you know, what is he, just a complete leader?

Starting point is 00:35:11 Totalitarian is the word I'm looking for for basically a complete psychopath mindset that ISIL brings These are three different issues by the way that we just we just combined together and Tyler Completely through a little bomb and then and then time Everybody. Yeah, no, but but to the point of what East Hamlet with Libya, should we be involved? Should we not be involved? I would say that whole stat we did with how many military bases we have versus China around the world. Do you know how many military bases

Starting point is 00:35:34 US has around the world versus how many China has? Do you know what I don't want you to say? I don't know. Do you know what the number is? 90. How many US has worldwide versus China? How many can China has? I don't think five. How many do you think number is? 90. How many USS? Worldwide versus China? How many can China? I don't think five.

Starting point is 00:35:47 How many do you think USS? Thousands. Okay. USS has 800 military bases worldwide. China has one. And it's by what he called the... Jaboodi, baby. Jaboodi by...

Starting point is 00:35:58 Suez Canal? What did he call that? Suez Canal, but there's the... How oil, you know, that whole section is what they have. They have one military base. US has 800. We have 30,000 soldiers. No, that's not the horn of a type of Africa, the northern part of the desert.

Starting point is 00:36:13 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. That's right, that's right. Yeah, not the Suez Canal. 30,000 soldiers in Korea, 30,000 soldiers in Japan. Jemperse, is one of them, yeah. Japan, 40,000 in Germany. Didn't we win those wars? Why are we still there?

Starting point is 00:36:30 South Korea's rich. It could defend itself from the military. We might find out this weekend why there are some in Europe. But Navy, how does that play out? If we we mobilized a ton of the Navy, they're bound to think anything happens.

Starting point is 00:36:46 And it's terrible. And there are massive amounts of the Navy had it straight there. And we're going to go to war over Ukraine. Doesn't sound like it. Somebody was not, either somebody wasn't briefed or somebody gaffed at the podium. So John, this said that what should we be involved in, what should we not be involved in? Should we be involved in anything? we not be involved in should we be involved in anything direct threats to the United States how about direct threats to allies of the United States well we have to because we signed the Nate the NATO treaties so then but these treaties which sound

Starting point is 00:37:17 wonderful we're gonna have a safer world it means we're obligated to go to war for people we may no longer like. How do you mean by no longer like? Maybe you sign the treaty when one government's a power and it totally changes, but once government does something, it never undoes it. Back to your original question about direct threats or your point about direct threats of the United States. Wholeheartedly agree. Look what happened in 9-11. That was a direct threat.

Starting point is 00:37:47 Next thing you know, we'd end up in Afghanistan for 20 years. Longest war we've ever been in, and that's been a disaster when they pulled out a little premature. But at what point is that direct threat just continue and continue and continue and continue to the point where it just makes no sense to be there? Well, part of the threat continues because they hate having our troops

Starting point is 00:38:08 walking down their street. How would you feel if some Chinese soldier in uniform is patrolling your neighborhood? What hate it? Of course. But we want to kill them. But wait a minute. That's not always true. It's not always true. I'm sorry, I disagree. That's not always true, because there are many countries who feel safer with seeing art troops walking around than their own troops walking around. Because there is that abuse. Tyler, had we maintained a presence in Libya?

Starting point is 00:38:37 Do you think that this would have degraded to the extent that it has? No, I don't think it would have. But, to the point, I think when you're the largest super power in the world, and the number one super power in the world, it is your job to play police officer, to keep people in check and to keep a sort of world order. I mean, and let's not forget, that's what these military people sign up for is to maintain peace and essentially save the world.

Starting point is 00:39:02 I mean, that's what they sign up for. I agree with you and I agree with John. This departs. We're going to call today shows the contradiction show. I see if contradiction shows. All contradiction. People are like, well, and what point does a non-direct threat become a direct threat?

Starting point is 00:39:19 So Russia moves into Ukraine. All right, it's not a direct threat. Well, what if they keep moving and advancing and eventually move into all of Europe? Then does it become a direct threat. Well, what if they keep moving and advancing and eventually move into all of Europe? And does it become a direct threat? At one point, do these threats switch to where it's on our radar? Yeah, I mean, back in 1938, you were like, 1939,

Starting point is 00:39:35 they were like, okay, all right, Jeremy, you can have Czechoslovakia, but you better stop there. No Poland for you. And Britain had to go out alone, but they gave him, they were like, okay, we'll let you absorb one little country. But when you give a little inch, you know, you never know how these things are going to progress. And there's something to be said for China watching very closely.

Starting point is 00:39:55 I sent you an article last night. There's something to be said for watching very closely to whether or not, if Putin does something, is this going to be seen as an opportunity for Xi Jinping to do something with Taiwan? whether or not, if Putin does something, is this going to be seen as an opportunity for Xi Jinping to do something with Taiwan? And to have a coordinated effort, look, Putin and Xi Jinping don't like each other.

Starting point is 00:40:12 They're not like hanging out on the weekends. You don't think that they're- They're not body buddies. No, they're too egomaniacs. But that being said, if you're talking about kicking a country when it's down or taking advantage of a point of vulnerability, then why wouldn't you're talking about kicking a country when it's down or taking advantage of a point of vulnerability, then why wouldn't you do it at the same time?

Starting point is 00:40:29 Would you say that Putin and she or even China and Russia are more closer to allies or foes? I would say that their interests are aligned. Right. They're you saying who China and Russia, China and Russia, they have to get along. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're kind of like US and Mexico. Yeah. But let me ask you, who do you think they hate more? Do you think Russia hates America more or China more? Oh, America. Okay. So China, you think China hates Russia more. America. Okay. So that's the end of the comment. Exactly. Right. That part. The enemy of my

Starting point is 00:41:02 enemy. And most people on mainland China believe exactly what they've been told during entire lives. And that's that Taiwan is legally part of China. So let's finish this, folks. Let's go through all this stuff. The sea of contradictions that we had. Number one, CRT. John says, let them teach it because it's a form of capitalism.

Starting point is 00:41:22 If some schools do too much of it, parents are going to take their kids to a different school. That's the RT. Now, the challenge with that is, if my kids are going to public school, and I can't afford it, I can't afford to take my kids to another public school because there's a zip code

Starting point is 00:41:35 and all these other things you're dealing with. I'm a little screwed there, John. If I can't afford to take my kids to private school. Well, no, it could be public school choice. Think if you were assigned to your super market by your zip code, it would be the super market would have no interest in pleasing its customers. Are you okay? It's all up on you.

Starting point is 00:41:55 Are you in New York? But there are opportunities, I think, to revamp the public school system. No, but are you okay with, they say every public school in America is going to come and impose a CRT philosophies on the young kids, then what do you do? You and I can take our kids to private school, but the average person making 52 is going to say, I can't go to Delaware, still CRT, I can't go to New York, it's still CRT, I can't go anywhere. I don't think you would ever see something like that, Nationwide.

Starting point is 00:42:18 I think that the Virginia gubernatorial election taught us that. And if the parent was, if the money were attached to the back of the kid, and you had a system where, oh, that school gets the 20,000, if I can lure that those parents, this would never happen. Yeah. Like, regarding CRT, I don't think anything should be banned, right? Like, nothing should be banned. However, I do think they're, like're like for instance I wouldn't want my elementary school kid learning about CRT I wouldn't probably even want a middle school kid, but at some point 11th 12th grade

Starting point is 00:42:52 I think it's open it up. Let's let's have open conversations You're about to get ready for the real world. There's gonna be a lot tougher things you're gonna do with than a cup Let us see our T class or a As long as you're teaching both sides of every story. It's true. But if you don't want the government to just ban things, you're big fans of DeSantis and I am in many ways. But what about his saying? Because kind of like no one may teach critical race theory.

Starting point is 00:43:18 No one may say in this school, we demand you wear a mask. That seems totalitarian. To also not allow kids to wear masks at certain schools. Yeah, not. If that school chooses it, let them do it. Well, since the Supreme Court rule, look how many companies have abandoned their mask mandate. Yeah, so by the way, while you were saying this, let's transition into what Boris Johnson just said, yes, and if you want to pull up that video, we cover a lot of different topics here.

Starting point is 00:43:51 We found out Abraham Lincoln is white, which is extremely important. If you want to make that bigger, this is Boris Johnson. Please end it badly. Three days ago. Go ahead. Mandate the wearing of face masks. We won the living because you played it when I was a little bit. Go back a little bit. The government will no longer mandate the wearing of face masks anyway.

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Starting point is 00:45:02 Did he just saved his hiding? What do you think about that, John? I think British people just sound smarter because of their accent. But yeah, trust people, if you compare the states, and my last video is about that, how there's just no pattern. States that don't require a mask like Florida,

Starting point is 00:45:24 they get smeared all more deaths in Florida than any other place. And the slimy media does this by mentioning Florida when you have a bad month and ignoring Florida when the numbers are good. Florida is number 19 in deaths and Florida has more old people. So Florida's doing pretty well, despite having totally different rules. And you, you just know better. It's the third largest population in the country. New York, New Jersey did really badly, and they have tough rules.

Starting point is 00:45:56 So can you say, well, locking people up makes increased the problems from COVID? No, because there were fewer deaths in California and they had horrible rules. So there's no pattern. And everybody acts like, oh yes, if you only do this, you will solve it. But we're never going to solve COVID.

Starting point is 00:46:16 It lives on in animals. Are we going to require lions and tigers to wear masks? We have to deal with this. It's a bad luck. It's a bad look. It's a bad look. Lions look good. They need their mouth. What would you say, Daniel?

Starting point is 00:46:31 I think that we're learning that common sense, as Prime Minister Johnson said, that common sense should prevail. I mean, if you're like in a really crowded subway car in New York and you don't have a mask on, then you know, in the event that you've got me, minor lupus, and I get COVID, and it takes my ass down. Hi, I was in a crowded subway car with people breathing all over me. If I'm walking down the street or if I'm in a store by myself, and it's not crowded, and I don't have my mind, fine. How's it going to come up and jump and get me from someplace across the street? No Where I live there wearing masks and outside it. I know I'm in New York on Tuesday

Starting point is 00:47:14 That's the freaky thing about New York is that there's such a fear factor I was in Los Angeles recently and there are people walking on the streets empty streets of Los Angeles downtown Los masks, and I'm like, what do you think is going to get you? You're outdoors. I mean, that's why I'm that's why I'm saying government shouldn't brainwash people out of having any common sense. And that's what we've seen in America. And elsewhere, Austria just mandated... Austria did. ...vaccinations. But fear is such a powerful... It is. Motivator.

Starting point is 00:47:46 And as a consumer reporter, I was eagerly covering every scare that came by. Red dye number six is bestest from hair dryers. Thailand on. Thailand. Why it's 2K? It's going to crash all the planes. Let's kind of like the new thing,

Starting point is 00:48:03 there's just G5 they're talking about. One after the other, none of it happened. You're gonna get brain cancer from your cell phone. The killer bees are coming up from Mexico and they're gonna, they're gonna stay and set up. So what they said about putting metal and microwave, is that was true. Well, that's true.

Starting point is 00:48:19 You laughed, I made you laugh. Oh my God. That's the joke. That's the one that made you laugh. The metal and microwave drove them. Oh my God, that's awesome joke. That's the one that made you the metal and microwave Don't put metal in the microwave So what we fall for it again and again, it's it's fear porn fear porn. I like that That's a huge hashtag on yeah fear porn. I like that. So it's no longer what's the point?

Starting point is 00:48:40 I'm not going to be fear hot right for all my Twitter followers PBD is getting to be really active on Twitter so all my Twitter followers you better be following wow thanks so so by the way this is how I see it I see it from the element of it should should some people be micromanaged yes mentally ill help us be who else who else who else should be microman I got four kids should be micromanter's who could fall into a swimming pool and die. I totally agree how level of

Starting point is 00:49:09 Micro management should we treat toddlers at what levels at a hundred the highest level? I agree I agree right and Boys should be micro-managed more than girl once their mobile Oh my gosh tell me why by the one pack that why boys need to be micro-managed more than girls Oh my gosh. Tell me why by the one pack that why boys need to be my crewmanage more than girls Because boys are stupider and crazier No, no, no, no, no, you're not we develop later. You do males frontal lobe develops by the age of 25 They're they're they're so physiologically idiots until 20 about some until 50 some until forever just all the pants Don't I know a Danielle, let's talk about her.

Starting point is 00:49:45 We're gonna get you to procreate one of these days. And when it happens, I want you to go full speed ahead and make up for the last time, Matt. You should be very happy to know that I'm practicing every weekend and then when it's ready for game time, I will let you know. Thank you very much, appreciate that.

Starting point is 00:49:58 Here's one example that when I finally refused to do the scare stories on 2020, somebody came in with big lighters or exploding in people's pockets and set them on fire and they've killed four people over the past four years. And it was true. And 2020 did the story.

Starting point is 00:50:16 When I refused, they got Bob Brown to do it. But when I looked at the data, you see that 10 times as many are killed by plastic bags. We don't do stories on plastic bags because they're too ordinary. And 200 Americans are killed over that time by buckets, five-dallon buckets, mostly because two-year-old toddlers climb into them and manage to drown. And most of those are boys. Where are we going? Let me tell you what we're going with. At what point should you micromanage less?

Starting point is 00:50:49 Like, what age should you micromanage kids less? I tell every parent, the minute you don't have to have eyes in the back of your head and your kids can swim in the ocean, you're going to cross a Rubicon to a higher level of freedom. Okay, will you ever be a hundred percent not needing to watch what your kids are doing at any age? Hopefully if you raised it roughly, then they have independence. I'll watch where I'm going with this.

Starting point is 00:51:15 Out of your four kids, five kids, three kids, could one need more management than the others? Yeah, the three boys. Okay, fine. So here's where it goes. Then the question becomes the following, should the president or the government trust what percentage of people to make the right choice for themselves and others? Meaning, you're not going to commit suicide, you're not going to hurt yourself. That's going to hurt others or you're not going to hurt other people. What percentage of America should the president and the government trust? and the rest we micromanage what percentage

Starting point is 00:51:48 do you understand the question i'm asking about the cost of the national and i'm going to i'm trying to make a point here so what what do you think is a now you've got to cross the constitutional line now you you've gone into a different vector so so tell me what that means because my questions fairly simple what percentage of america So tell me what that means because my question is fairly simple. What percentage of America should we trust that's going to make the right decision that's not going to hurt them?

Starting point is 00:52:11 Their family, their peers, and the people around them. And which ones should we micromanage? Well, I think the word liberty is coming to mind. Yeah, but it's in a great big document. Well, listen, to me, prisons are a form of micromanaging. Jails are a form of micromanaging. Jails are a form of micromanaging. Those people need to be micromanaged because you killed somebody, you committed murder,

Starting point is 00:52:30 you stole, again, what percentage should we micromanage, and what percentage should we trust? It's a very simple question. According to New York Attorney General, none. That's the point. What do you think that number needs to be? John, I'm actually curious what somebody like you would say to that. What do you think that number needs to be? John, I'm actually curious what somebody like you would say to that.

Starting point is 00:52:45 What do you think that is? 2%. 2%. I don't like you saying that the president should micromanage them. The president is so. Government, local, state. Okay, let's stay there. So let's take the president.

Starting point is 00:52:56 A government, state, local, you know, cities, all of that. So you said 2% needs to be micromanated. 1%. Okay. Okay, do you know what the answer to this question says? The answer to this question will tell the world where you lean politically. The answer to this question will tell you where you lean politically. I'm convinced because if somebody says what? Ask this question today folks. If you haven't lunch with your friends, forget about that. You know, just ask them. I heard on a podcast

Starting point is 00:53:23 today that they were saying this, what do you think that percentage is? You will see, if a person says 50% needs to be watched, well, you know where that person leads. They won't be government. If a person says 1%, those people trust people. To me, it eventually gets to a point where you ever heard of these kids or these girls

Starting point is 00:53:41 or the boys that are raised in a family that's hardcore, micro-managed, and what's the first thing they do when they go to college? Like Catholic school girls. They blow themselves up. Are you kidding me? Like they run a you know it's like it's it's a whole semester before they're like I was drunk the whole time. What the hell just happened? You can actually had to go into the classroom. I think this is a prime example. Boris Johnson of they've been micromanaging their people and America right now is trying to

Starting point is 00:54:03 micromanage its people and what Biden is telling and the administration is telling and some of these states like California, New York, what they're telling Their people is we don't trust 99% of the New mayor of New York. I mean he's only been there for five minutes But I'm liking Eric Adams saying we're not closing the city. You got Mary got governor You got you got you got two different Pat, let me give you a different perspective. We're all micro-managed in some capacity. Meaning you can't just run red lights.

Starting point is 00:54:31 You got to stop and stop signs. You typically have to wear a seatbelt. You kind of got to pay your taxes. You can't murder. We're all, like there's different levels of, in some states you can't throw. That's called the rule of law. But that is micro-managing.

Starting point is 00:54:42 It's not just one big free-for-all. No, it's not. No, no, no, it's not. Here's how this's not just one big free-for-all. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. Here's how this works. Hey, son, here's the guidelines in this house. Go. Versus, what'd you do? What are you at?

Starting point is 00:54:53 What are you doing? What's this? What'd you do? No, go over here. That's the... So, the guidelines aren't micro-managing. No, those are guidelines you create. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:55:01 And then you hope the people live by those guidelines. But those aren't guidelines. So, the Amazon is the biggest. The Amazon is the Amazon. The Amazon was our loss. Yeah, but if you constantly keep creating new laws over and over and over again, what you're trying to say is I don't trust the people in a family with a lot of laws, things break. Okay, one or two or three fine when you over-regulate kids or over-regulate people, you piss them off and they turn against you. You gave the story of the Catholic school girl. I did the sauce cast yesterday. We had the pretty girl Jen on,

Starting point is 00:55:30 and she had older brothers, and her brother, I go, oh, you had older brothers, a good luck out there. And she goes, yeah, they gave me a list of guys that I could not date in high school. Here's the last of 10 guys you could not,

Starting point is 00:55:42 that she goes, I dated every single one of them. I go, what? Because you don't tell me what to do. I mean, that's a last of 10 guys you can not that she goes, I dated every single one of them. I go, what? Because you don't tell me what to do. I mean, that's a form of micromanage. That's all their brothers telling you who you can't account. All right, so Adam, I think Patrick John and I are gonna agree on something as parents.

Starting point is 00:55:57 What's the hardest thing to do as a parent? When your kid does something wrong, what do you tell them? If you're a one percent or as opposed to a micromanager? God, I'm sorry, you made that choice. It sucks. Sorry. And you'll walk away and the consequences be what they may. And that's how you teach guidelines, right Patrick? I'm sorry, you made that choice. John? I always said, wife, would you handle this? Is Danielle right in the looseness that she governs her household?

Starting point is 00:56:32 Is there a less of that? There's no looseness if there's a real consequence. I'm meaning like, hey, better luck next time, that's the approach. I'm asking you. But this is a problem now. I mean, we're over micro-managing these kids and now what do we have safe spaces? Nobody can get hurt nobody can get on there. I mean this was Trophic culture the the coddling of the American mine. I forget who wrote it

Starting point is 00:56:52 But but he's the author started a movement called free-range kids where he lets his kids at 10 12 11 11 11 10 12 13 Walked to the subway walked their friends house. He doesn't know where they're at 24 sets. I mean, minor getting an airplane by themselves and flying in the American country. You know where it's amazing. Like Tom's enter with Dash, remember the time, the first time you met him. He came out of nowhere. He's like, what were you at? I was surfing.

Starting point is 00:57:13 Oh, good call. 10-year-old. 10 years old, just running around Southern California. Yeah, so, okay, so I guess. But then you give them independence, and then it doesn't matter what the government tells a kid who becomes independent. When you raise them, right, you're like, sucks, you made them independence, and then it doesn't matter what the government tells a kid who becomes independent. When you raise them, you're like, sucks, you made that choice.

Starting point is 00:57:28 Sorry. And whatever you turn off their phone, they don't get to go out for a few days. Whatever privilege they lose, they lose. But you're like, sorry, you made that choice. And you walk away. Yeah. And then your kid can be surfing on Manhattan Beach. And they're going to be okay because you've taught them how to be okay.

Starting point is 00:57:46 As opposed to constraining them to where they need a damn safety dog and safety space, all that I'm not going to use a ugly word, but you know. Can we look at one more contradiction in that you talk about jailing people and where's the right level and now you've got places like San Francisco where they don't arrest anybody for stealing up to $900 and people are stealing all the time. And even the mayor now has said, we're gonna stop this bullshit. We're gonna have more aggressive policing.

Starting point is 00:58:19 And I agree they should. On the other hand, America locks up more people than any other country. By far, we are four percent of the population of the world. We have 25 percent of the inmates. That's not. But by the way, if you've been to Alcatraz, they got a wall with all the stats of the fact that here's how much money is spent here, there's that, here's that, and how America leads in incarceration. And that becomes a training ground to turn a criminal that was a three and two, six, because you're gonna go there and learn how to commit crime

Starting point is 00:58:48 in many different ways. And you get to playbook from the best of the best, right? It's total criminal. It's like going to school to become a bigger criminal. That's what it's like. But John, you know what you just did? No, what that I just did. You just even strengthened my argument.

Starting point is 00:59:01 And I love you for it. You're so amazing amazing because my point is to try to micromanage more people is not effective. My kid yesterday screwed up. I got a call from his principal. So I go in and I say, how you doing? Hey dad, I'm like, you know what, yeah, I know, I know. I'm like, let's go into the other room.

Starting point is 00:59:26 I said, so what happened? Just tell me the truth, but because you know these guys are going to tell me what happened. I know, here's what I did. You're probably disappointed at me, huh? I know you would be. I'm like this, Scott. I'm trying to say, oh, I'm not son.

Starting point is 00:59:38 I love you. And I'm like, yeah, it's, you know, I mean, you know the decision. That's not easy to do. That's not the right move you just made, but you know that. That's not the right thing. It says, now I know that. And I mean you know the decision. That's not easy to do that's not that's not the right move you just make But you know that that's not the right thing says now I know that and I'm really disappointed in myself How you gonna fix this right and it goes into this whole thing, but how you gonna do nothing But the principle call because he talked back and some of the you know He was talking while they're taking a test and he was talking to me

Starting point is 01:00:00 Anyways, I mean obviously to me that's nothing but from a 1.8 GPA community But for the 4.2 to PG community, that's a big deal apparently. And it's fine. We want them to have better grades. And so I talk to them, I'm like, okay, here you go. You know, if you choose every opportunity to discipline your kids, that's going back to everything as a crime. It's too much. I don't think that's a good idea. I think you made a mistake. Let's train you. Let's teach you better habits. Let's give you different opportunities. But, you know, I don't think our administration today, and many states in America, I don't think they trust their citizens to make the right choice. I think they want to try to be everyone's mommy

Starting point is 01:00:40 and tell them what to do and what not to. And eventually people are going to burn out. Yeah. And by the way, you know, you know, it's crazy. A lot of people that are moving to Florida, they're Democrats and they're staying Democrats. But they're Democrats who don't want to be told what to do. They're Democrats who are like, just trust my decision making process. I've never committed a crime in my life. Why do you treat me like I'm a criminal?

Starting point is 01:01:00 Look at this. I mean, look at this. Look at this absolute campaign against Joe Manchin. I mean, how much, how many ad dollars have been spent by the Democratic Party attacking Look at this absolute campaign against Joe Manchin. I mean, how much, how many ad dollars have been spent by the Democratic Party attacking this Democrat? 700, yeah, he's up. Jesus, I mean, but he's speaking for the silent majority

Starting point is 01:01:17 in the middle of the country. Can I make one point of the four shots if you're gonna move on? So some of the more three most powerful words in business or in anything in marketing are things have changed. Someone taught me that when I was doing cold calling for my financial firm and I couldn't get through to people and they said use these words, things have changed and it's like, oh what's changed? Well, you know, the comp structure, the marketing, the capabilities, but things have changed with COVID.

Starting point is 01:01:45 We're going to lock down for two to four weeks to control the curve. We're going to implement these laws and mass mandates and all this, but clearly things have changed. And we can't have the same exact rules that we operated in, six, 12, 18 months ago that I'm moving forward. So when did Boris Johnson make this speech? Two days ago. Okay, so clearly things have changed.

Starting point is 01:02:09 The point where he's like, all right, we are no longer gonna do the mandates, the requirements that have been done because things have changed. We're starting to live with COVID. The living in fear of COVID is now gone. People are tired of wearing freaking masks. Things have changed. You gotta adapt. Adaptation is the key to life, things have changed.

Starting point is 01:02:27 Why are they laughing in Parliament? I don't know if they were laughing, per se. I think they're... I heard applause. I heard relief. No, no, the first one was laughing. The second one was applause. Those are the ones wearing the masks in the house.

Starting point is 01:02:41 No, the first one was laughing. The second one was applause. I know what he's talking about at first when he said we're gonna remove the mask mandate they were laughing like and he was right and they're laughing behind their masks yeah so why it is look here's the other part you gotta realize first of all question becomes new some do you trust the judgment of Californians I'm curious do you do you trust the judgment of Californians to make the right decision for themselves or do you trust that you make better choices for Californians than they do?

Starting point is 01:03:08 And Mr. President Biden and Kamala Harris, do you trust the judgment of the American people? Or do you think you're better at making decisions for us than us? That's the real question. Do you think we can make the right decision for ourselves? Because I think right now, here's the right move, and I predict this is what's gonna be happening

Starting point is 01:03:27 in the next 30, 60 days. I think 30, 60 days you can hear the same exact thing. You can hear speech from Biden, and the media is gonna run with it. He's gonna say, do to our policies, and what things we did with COVID boosters all this other seven, and help of Anthony Fauci, we are now removing masks

Starting point is 01:03:45 and we are now this, this, this with kids and we are now doing this with schools and applause, oh my gosh, because midterms is around the corner. Do not be surprised if Joe Biden gives the same exact, and by the way, I thought that's what's gonna happen yesterday with his press conference and it was gonna be a victory

Starting point is 01:04:02 and it became the complete opposite. Yesterday was an opportunity for them to do the same thing. You know what I'm saying? Like he could have had the same kind of a situation. Hey, let me tell you what we're doing due to this. We're doing this, but nope, they stuck to their guns. And a UK is now making progress and America is not making progress. Okay, so... In the economy, slowing really fast.

Starting point is 01:04:21 So he can say whatever he wants in 30 to 60 days. If this, if some of the trends that are emerging continue, it's going to be irrelevant because his supporters are starting to get hit where it hurts. But your key point in that, Pat, was that they're going to do it because of midterms. That's it. Not because they trust the people. Not because they believe themselves. Right. They, they, they, they want an anti-state. I mean, and this is the exact debate we're in, the elitist verse the commonwealth would all do respect both sides do it and and i'm that

Starting point is 01:04:49 part i'm not gonna sit there make it a democratic thing i think republicans do a democrats do it when they see all of a sudden midterms are coming and some policies are not working they have to pivot quickly but here's a point what is a great coach to in the middle of a game call an audible you make pivots that's good you should do that hey the people don't like your policies pivots. That's good. You should do that. Hey, the people don't like your policies. Pivot.

Starting point is 01:05:07 So the right thing they should do is they should pivot. But will they pivot? That's the question. We don't know. How do Republicans want an anti-state? I didn't say Republicans want an anti-state. They said both parties. No, what I said is the fact that Republicans sometimes see a policy that they introduce that didn't work and they get backlash, then they pivot.

Starting point is 01:05:28 And then the Democrats say, they're only pivoting because they're skittin' loose and midterms. You're right. So that's a both sides thing, not the nanny state thing, the fact that they pivot under policy. Let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. So we talked about CRT, which led to all these other stories. Let's go through a light story here that maybe there's,

Starting point is 01:05:45 I don't know, this could get heated folks. So just brace for impact because this could get very, very emotional once I go through the story. I'm hoping everybody can handle this in a civil way, but it's not up to me. I can't control people. I trust people, that's my problem. Okay, all right, so living magazine,

Starting point is 01:06:02 most of us prioritize our pets, physical and mental health over our own a new study fund Can you put that link up so we can all see it new survey reveals that the lengths of people will go to care for their pets including acupuncture acupuncture therapy there are three and five pet parents think the pandemic has increased their fury pal separation anxiety a survey of 2,000 cats and dog owners found that 59% have also gotten or have considered getting an additional animal companion for their existing pet of those who bought, broader, considered to bring in a new furry friend home, roughly three and five

Starting point is 01:06:38 did so to keep their first pet company 58% to teach them how to interact with other pets or animals or to improve their socialization skills When it comes to emotional supports seven intense say that their pets actually rely on their own stuffed animals Conducted by one poll on behalf of the spot pet insurance the survey also found that it takes an average of five and a half months For a new pet to start acting odd the most reported odd behavior are making loud noises, hiding from avoiding others and jumping. Do you agree with this article? Do you agree with this article? Adam, how often you take your cast to act upon Trump? I think this article is singling out dogs. I think this article is singling out dogs. I don't know. I see dog owners. They walk them in strollers

Starting point is 01:07:26 They have backpacks for their dogs. They're putting their dog Nancy spends a hundred bucks a month on dog outfits over here Like this is a I don't rarely see cat owners. You have a cat backpacks. I'm considering getting one Thank you, but the reason that I like cats I've been very open about this and reason I have two of them is so they can hang out and I can just piece out for the weekend I'll see you guys in three days you guys take care of yourself It increases their socialization skills I'm not gonna micro-manage you guys. I trust the science. I trust you guys to take care of yourselves I'll see you in three days and I'm out and I'll be back now if you're a dog owner

Starting point is 01:08:00 How many dog owners have to cut short whatever they're doing? I got to go walk my dog I got to go feed my dog. I got to go feed my dog. I literally bring my dog to the office. Yeah, exactly. And you literally need to stop, but I get it. Yeah. So how many people here bring their dog, Nancy brings her dog David, brings her dog every time a day.

Starting point is 01:08:18 Every time cats are way more independent than dogs. It's not. It's true. It's true, but just out of curiosity, do you have any pets, You said you have you guys have a dog because your kid is allergic to cats, right? Yes. Okay. Do you have one or two? One. How about yourself, Daniel? We literally make acid hounds. Dumb is rocks. Great. Great. Great dogs. How many dogs, Daniel? Two acid hounds. Two dogs. How about your soft Tyler? I got two dogs and they're both we can't leave the house for five minutes they will lose their mind. Seriously. Oh yeah. Okay.

Starting point is 01:08:49 You should consider acupuncture. Yes. I think that's where I'm headed. I have two and you got what? I got two intimidating sheets. That's what I got. And then you had one. You had a third dog. Yeah. That lasted how long? One month because he was biting the other two. Yeah. And Melva and Tiko and everybody couldn't handle us. It looked hot sauce handle us a little hot sauce Eric is That's right But is this a waste of money? By the way a part of it like I remember the way we got Jimbo is Jimbo came and jumped on my lap

Starting point is 01:09:18 I said I want to take this dog home I said and I feel bad to separate the brothers. I'll take the other brother as well. I think they need come I think dogs need company, right? Just like here's a question. I mean, I said this question, not to make comparisons of human beings and dogs. John, I hope you don't get offended by this full disclaimer to everybody out there.

Starting point is 01:09:34 How many of you in here are an only child? John, you're an only child? Daniel, you're not Tyler, you? You're an only child? Yeah, basically. My siblings are 12 years older. So yeah, I'm basically. Yeah, you're not really. You're not an only child. Yeah, basically my siblings are 12 years older So yeah, I'm basically you're not only child Basically 12 years David David are you an only child? No, sir. How about Adam? You're not you guys are yeah

Starting point is 01:09:55 So so what do you think about you know nowadays the conversation like we're just gonna have one kid do any of you have an opinion of Having only one kid and being an only child? Do you have any stories, testimonies, and opinions on this? I dated an only child once. How sweet was he? A little bit too sweet. I didn't mean to.

Starting point is 01:10:15 Klingy? He was well taken care of his entire life. And I hope that he married, I don't know, maybe a nurse. Yeah. Somebody very caring and giving with her time, all of her time. What does that mean, Daniel? Unpacked a little bit.

Starting point is 01:10:32 I think she made her point, buddy. He was a little clingy, he was a stalker. No, he needed attention. I can't even get attention. He needed a mom, not a wife. It's another word, it's what I mean. And go, follow me. John, how many kids do you have?

Starting point is 01:10:46 I have two kids. And this is one thing that's researchable, unlike the so-called study from a company that sells pet insurance. I don't believe that. No conflicted insurance. No conflicted insurance. That's the consumer investigative journalist.

Starting point is 01:11:03 Call them out right there. But we once tried to look at who does well in life, the only children, the large families, and there really was almost no difference, except first borns and last borns did better in areas you could measure like school than the kids in the middle. And who knows why? You haven't met my middle.

Starting point is 01:11:29 The first born, get more attention. Yeah, and the last born's get what, more freedom? Maybe, I don't know. They totally get more freedom. The middle kids are just kind of stuck in the middle, clowns that left me, Joe. Let's over generalize. You did it, John.

Starting point is 01:11:44 I mean, you're the, you're sitting your study. There was a small difference. Okay. That's a fair criticism. Yeah. And you can contradict the whole show. And you're taking the news. Okay.

Starting point is 01:11:55 We over general time, but time the youngest comes around, you're just like, oh, whatever, eat it off the floor. I'm sorry, you're in the middle of the highway. But time the youngest comes around if they were four of them. I mean, you just like whatever. By the who's listening to this and it's an only child. Like if you were four of them, I mean, you just like whatever. By the way, who's listening to this? And it's an only child. Like if you're listening to this.

Starting point is 01:12:07 And, you know, as an only child growing up, as an adult, did you say, I wish I had a sibling? Like did you sit there and say, I wish I had a sibling? Or did you say, no, it was good to have friends, have cousins, you know, people around me,

Starting point is 01:12:17 I didn't need another sibling. But are you shocked to hear his, because I think you were basically inferring that an only child will lead to lesser success in life. Has that ever gone this? Yeah, basically saying that that's not true. We look at Kennedys, right? You have Joseph, who was the most ambitious, who died in war as a pilot, right?

Starting point is 01:12:34 But the father was named his oldest son after him. And he thought he was going to be the one that's the president. And the kid that had back problems, health issues his entire life, the youngest, who wasn't ambitious, who never had aspirations of being a president he didn't become a president so the dynamics are very weird when you look at it now you can you go on to the youngest who he wasn't he was the second but he was the number three i think he was or number you because Robert was younger i thought yeah i think he was a second

Starting point is 01:13:01 youngess but i think there's but he wasn't he wasn't the designated no he would nobody he was in the church and even robberd they thought robberd was more ambitious than john was can you see how many presidents we've had that say a a only child only child have we had any only presidents only child it's elan must only child he's not

Starting point is 01:13:20 got a brother that's right that's right how many presidents were only children? I'm actually curious now. None. No presidents have ever been the only child. George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, George Clinton, Barack Obama had half siblings, but no full siblings. Okay, so maybe that's a form of only child

Starting point is 01:13:38 Washington, Franklin, FDR, Ford and Bill Clinton and Obama. But I don't know. I don't know. You know, my opinion would be if it, but I don't know. I don't know. My opinion would be, if it's worth, what it's worth. I think there's competition and having more than a kid. More than one kid. I think there is things you'll learn. I think you have an edge.

Starting point is 01:13:54 I think the oldest. I think the rival return, he did teach you how to deal with rivals in the middle. Yeah, I mean Jordan became Jordan because his older brother, Adrian, would punk him and bully him and he says, I want to get better than you in basketball. I think there's a shot Evans yesterday, say he became a fighter because his older brother would would punk him and bully him and he says I'm going to get better than you in basketball. I think there's a shot Evans yesterday say he became a fighter because his older brother would take a fight.

Starting point is 01:14:08 So I mean, I don't know. I'd like to research is John Stasel's study that he just claimed here that you know, I'd like to show your work. John, well this is your work. It's a famous Thomas Soul Point when you want to see my work. You got to watch Stasel TV. I do. I do. I do. Go go subscribe to his channel. Go ahead buddy. Stossel TV. This is a time and soul point that he's been

Starting point is 01:14:31 making for years when I talk about equity of outcome. And it's all about your circumstances. To John's point, a big thing is the first children usually do better. They're smarter. They're more taken care of more attention is given to them. It's it's that's why you can't ever have a quality of outcome in a sense because it's all about your circumstance. I just, I just did a famous only child, you know, famous only, is that the right word? I typed in famous only, you typed in only fans by, I said, I didn't take a, ten famous only children is the proper English. Isn't duck duck a great that we can just get answers to questions

Starting point is 01:15:09 on our little phone. For free. Sweet. You're saying as opposed to Google. Well, both of them, but I was plugging it because it's less evil than Google. But it is. We should stop and thank, I guess, the inventor of, I wish I'd thank the Apple creators because it's great.

Starting point is 01:15:30 I waste so much time on my thing. Oh, you're saying duck duck or Google. You didn't just, that was not a shout out just to duck duck by the way, list of only children, Lance Armstrong only, okay. He's a, by himself, biking, maybe that's not a team player. Frank Sinatra, only child.

Starting point is 01:15:46 Okay, the greatest. Natalie Portman, only child. Robin Williams, wow, only child. Tiger Woods, only child. Laura Bush, only child. Teller of Penn and Teller, only child. What is this proving? This and just, we're doing this.

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Starting point is 01:16:33 We just have the birth rate in the United States. We're gonna have to have a conversation with John's wife and figure out what it's gonna take to move them to Florida. Possibly a taster. You say when the Democrats move here, they resent they stay Democrats. They just don't like the nanny state. Why not?

Starting point is 01:16:50 They become libertarians. Yeah, not all of it. They're independent, but they are. They are. You have to realize, first time I sat down with this guy and I met him and I started talking to him, you know, he was in a complete different place versus where he is today. He says of DeSantis coasts, he would voting for DeSantis, even though he's a diehard Trump fan.

Starting point is 01:17:08 That's what you made a point, I just in case you, did your poker side didn't catch that. But yeah, so let's go to the story with Elon Musk and what he's talking about. I think that's just a perfect segue into it. Elon Musk laments that declining birth rate, if you aren't, if there aren't enough people for earth, then there definitely won't be enough people for Mars. This is an insider story. Elon Musk says people should be concerned about the population collapse. There's people that talk about depopulation. This guy is talking about overpopulation. He wants more kids, not less kids. Musk shared his worries and a series of tweets on Wednesday,

Starting point is 01:17:42 following a general decline in birth rate. Amid the pandemic in the US, the birth rate fell 4% from 2019 to 2020. Mark in the country's lowest number of births since 1979, which I thought they would have had more kids because you're spending more time with your spouse. Musk is aiming to put humans in a settlement on Mars. He said that SpaceX will land humans on the planet with its starship rocket in five to 10 years.

Starting point is 01:18:05 But if the demographic crisis doesn't let up, there won't be enough people for Mars. He said last month, Musk, the father of six said that unless people have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Adam, your thoughts, because I know this is very personal to you. Well, you said you thought that more people would have more kids during the pandemic because they're home alone. Didn't you? Like everybody that we people that have more kids during the pandemic because they're home alone didn't you like it? Everybody was talking about he may be more sexual But I'll tell you that there's nothing sexy about a pandemic

Starting point is 01:18:31 There's nothing sexy about masks. I mean, you literally had to social distance. Yeah, so I don't know if you weren't going to meet up People at bars. You weren't going to it wasn't conducive to to procreation but I don't know okay look is Elon a visionary yes is he the richest guy in the world yes is he just a complete beast amazing I don't get the Mars thing I'm just I don't get the obsession with Mars I would rather him focus on improving earth the only planet we've ever known and probably will ever know. I've done some, you know how cold it is

Starting point is 01:19:08 on average in Mars? You know, let me throw some stats your ways. Mars is further from the sun than the Earth, okay? It's a very cold planet. The average temperature on Earth, 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The average temperature on Mars, minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. He average temperature on Mars minus 80 degrees

Starting point is 01:19:26 Fahrenheit. He's taking heaters though. He's taking heaters. Okay. How long is it? How long do you actually think it takes? Assuming people get on rocket ships to get to Mars. How long do you think? To get to Mars from here. I have no idea. Seven days. Seven days. I thought it took a year. A half a year if you're lucky and it takes a year on average Like it's gonna take you a rocket people get upset about doing 16 hours from you know New York to Dubai You think you're gonna enjoy your one-year flight buddy enjoy that I don't get it All right, it's gonna land nobody's gonna be alive. They'll have killed each other by then 100% that people are freaking out On planes these days because if you don't wear a master of fist fighting right now What's gonna happen on a year-long flight to Mars?

Starting point is 01:20:07 But I think I think there's just a like cryogenically do something to where I like knock your ass out for the first six months of the trip Okay, well or they'll he'll invent something like a fax machine. We'll just be Facts over to Mars teleport you're talking about teleport. Yeah, okay now. Yeah, that's an 80s reference Now teleport John John John don't go back to Star Trek I just talked about it. Teleport, you're talking about it. Teleport, yeah. Okay, now. That's like an 80s reference. Now, I'm telling you, John, John, don't tell me. Anyway, I just, I just, so temperature you top up.

Starting point is 01:20:29 Thank you. You top up. Temperature, you top up. 6 to 12 months. Yeah, there's very little oxygen. You can't really breathe. It's basically mostly carbon dioxide. I mean, here we're oxygen.

Starting point is 01:20:39 I mean, that's what we breathe here. And here's another little fact. Plants can't even grow on Mars. So this obsession with Mars sounds amazing, and obviously I've been very vocal that I think Elon Musk is literally trying to bang aliens. That's hence why he made his girlfriend dress up as an alien and get alien tattoos,

Starting point is 01:20:57 and then he broke up with her. People have different fetishes. I don't know, that's his fetish. But he broke up with her, so he's a single dad of six kids. Yeah, six kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, they are no longer together. Grimes, I believe, was like nine years old. Anyway, right? He's younger than nine years younger or nine years old. She was nine years younger. He's 30 years younger. Okay. She was much younger. But the point is, I wish that he would use

Starting point is 01:21:21 his amazing knowledge and double down on green energy and neural link and everything that he's doing here. And just we're not moving to Mars. So, you know, do you think he hasn't thought of this? Like, do you think he's gonna watch this podcast and be like, you know what, I'm not gonna go to Mars. I don't think just made a great point.

Starting point is 01:21:38 I hadn't realized that it's that long. Yeah, and that's a great point. The voice of God right now. Maybe he's the wealthiest man in the world and he wants to keep his share price up. I just, I think it's a distraction, the Mars thing. I think he's just trying to make sure that he maintains his mystique.

Starting point is 01:21:54 That's why I stockpired. Wait, wait, wait, wait, let me ask you guys a question. Let me ask you guys a question. Do you think this Mars thing is just a troll like his bullshit? No. Come on Patrick. Part of us. You think he's trying to elevate a stop price.

Starting point is 01:22:07 You guys are so funny. I'll be damned. You are so funny. You think this guy's joking? You think this guy's joking? I actually don't think he's joking. OK, good. I don't think he's joking.

Starting point is 01:22:17 Do you think people will be living in Mars by the time Elon Musk dies? Let's say he lives the age of 100. I don't hold anything away from that guy. So that's it. You're believing that we the age of 100. I don't hold anything away from that guy. So that's it. You're believing that we're going to Mars. I don't need to. Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:22:30 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What I'm saying to you is I think that guy is determined to do that. What seems very interesting to me, this was a story about not enough kids being born and you were concerned about Mars. Okay. That's a completely different thing. But that's the highlight.

Starting point is 01:22:46 But aren't enough people on earth? Are we got to do more? Adam, you can do so much more, though, yourself. You just got to put your mind to it. I would say this. I have, I would say this. Actually more than your mind. I think Elon Musk is extremely aspirational.

Starting point is 01:23:02 I think Elon Musk, I fully believe what I'm about to tell you. I think he believes he would come out with a better foundation than what America was founded on. I fully believe that. I think he looks at the Constitution, says I agree with 92%. Here's 8% of what I would have changed. Look at what's going on in America today.

Starting point is 01:23:20 And I think he'd love to run a country. I think he'd love to run a community of millions of people. He'd love to run a country i think he'd love to run a community of millions of people like he'd love to be a president he can't do that in u.s and he would and he would love to go to a different place to do it and prove that his case study works that look at the kind of a environment i created i think his ambition is that confident in his philosophies

Starting point is 01:23:42 i think that's the angle and he's gonna do that in marz i don't know if he's gonna do that all i'm saying to you in his philosophies. I think that's the angle. And he's going to do that in Mars. I don't know if he's going to do that. All I'm saying to you is in his mind if I'm speculating, he's got the money to buy a country if he wants. I mean, he really wants to put his mind where he can buy an island. He can buy a country. I didn't say an island. No, I'm talking about a big old country. John, what do you think of this? I think he was joking when he talked about Mars, but the math is just the math. Yeah. There aren't going to be enough young people to pay into the fun that pays Medicare and

Starting point is 01:24:09 Social Security. And it's getting worse, the less we procreate. So your encouragement to the youngest to go procreate more? Well, my daughter is procreating. How many does you have? It's a tough one. She just had one and she's going to have another. But she has the assets to make it possible.

Starting point is 01:24:33 And people have individually better lives when they're struggling if they don't have a whole bunch of kids. People used to have a whole bunch of kids because half of them died. And the others were working on the farm. We're needed for that. Now it used to be 90% worked on the farm now it's 2%. That's all we have summer break, I believe. And yet when you see what's happened, you know in a post cares act world, a lot of the

Starting point is 01:25:01 smallest businesses in America, why are they still open? Because they were family-owned and family-run. You know, but there is a whole thing about, do I really want to have kids? OK. I talk to a lot of people who flat out say, I don't know if I want to have kids. I don't know if I should have kids.

Starting point is 01:25:20 I don't know if I want that responsibility. I don't know if I want to raise my kids in today's society. I'm concerned on what it is to raise a kid in today's society. You know, there are really a lot of people that are coming from a place of, I don't want the responsibility. And I don't want to be able to raise kids in today's society. Plus, the climate crisis, the world will be unlivable. 12 years from now, the world's going to end based on AOC,

Starting point is 01:25:41 which is it's a factual statement she made that, if we go out the space, I don't know that. If she's still here. Sorry. Yeah, she's still got 15 million followers on Twitter. I mean, you know, her message is spreading. I think she could have like left with DeBlasio. I mean, we could that would be like a by one, get one free.

Starting point is 01:25:53 No matter how much people say about her, she keeps getting bigger and bigger and her audience keeps climbing in that youth, which she's in the most. Well, she speaks well and she's good looking. She is articulate and she is pretty and I'll give you all that but all of the legislation that's up on the hill seems to be failing. Okay, so to you, is this really a concern to you about what Elon Musk is talking about? Meaning, so do you think this is so serious where there should be a campaign to inspire folks to have more kids?

Starting point is 01:26:19 Or do you think this is a financial reason why people are not having more kids? Do you think this is a responsibility? I don't want to have more kids. What do you think this is a financial reason why people are not having more kids? Do you think this is a responsibility? I don't want to have more kids. What do you think this is? Well, there already is a campaign. Just look at China. China had a one-child policy for how many decades? And now they're encouraging it.

Starting point is 01:26:36 But there's not more than, I think, you're allowed to have up to three kids in China now. In the Alapto. They're biggest, exactly. So China has 1.3 billion people, and they've been limiting the supply of kids, supply and demand economics and there's basically what's the average age of people in China. India is way younger than them.

Starting point is 01:26:53 So now they're basically in pro-create, pro-create, pro-create. And they can't get the people to do it because they're like, I want to make sure that I've got the financial wear with all. And I only think that I have that for one child. And a lot of Americans who are of a younger age and see housing prices as being off the rails and the ability to, I mean, if you've got the means, if you've got the wherewithal, fine.

Starting point is 01:27:14 But a lot of people are like, you know what, I can only really afford to bring up one kid. Yeah. I can't move to a guy who's getting it. Is there anything wrong with that? Is there anything wrong with that? With that thinking? With that thinking? No. Okay. Perfectly logical. I'm with that as well, because I don't move to anything wrong with that. Is there anything wrong with that? With that thinking? With that thinking?

Starting point is 01:27:25 No. Perfectly logical. I'm with that as well, because I don't think you ought to have more kids if you can't afford to have more kids. Of course not. But I also think if you have the money and the resources, I think you ought to consider having two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight kids.

Starting point is 01:27:37 I can not think about that. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 14, 18, 18, 18. I also think there is going to be a millennial baby boom, because, you know Millennials are are Waiting longer to have kids you a generation ago you would have kids at age 21 22 25. All right Okay, we're gonna have to Google in the nose world white till 30 35. Yeah, but that by definition that means that you can't have as many So okay, let's let's go to the next one two three. three. I mean, you don't have to be limited by one. Yeah, but the economy has to be able to lift everybody up right now.

Starting point is 01:28:09 And the way that we've been forming economic policy in this country, you're going backwards. You're basically saying it's the economy stupid. It is the economy stupid. There we go. Danielle and I agree. Okay. I want to give a shout out to a couple of people, Bitzina. Mozia Shivli said, reason TV is the bomb. Jans says I like it is. I agree. Okay, I'm gonna give a shout out to a couple people. Bitzina, Mozia Shivly said, reason TV is the bomb.

Starting point is 01:28:25 John says it like it is. I agree we should focus our efforts to fix Earth, but we do need everyone doing that. I think, but do we need everyone doing that? I think not. Next one, another super chat. John, I wanted to say, pay my dues. Thanks to you.

Starting point is 01:28:38 I have found my love for Austrian economics. I'm now operating my own blockchain startup. Thanks to you. And after today's podcast, I plan on having seven kids The last part was me the last part was me. He didn't say that. I'm just joke. I'm giving you hard time That's right. Redol for Ramirez is something very interesting He said if you can teach CRT in school you should also be able to teach religion in school Okay, that's an interesting perspective if you want to let CRT in

Starting point is 01:29:01 Why don't we let religion in and Bible in school if we're going to go that route? Anyway, let's go to the next topic here with President Biden on what happened with the press conference. Did you watch the press conference? Did you? No. And wasn't the two days ago? Two days ago, yes. Daniel, were you able to watch it? I watched some of it. I did watch some of it. The highlights, yes. Okay, well then let me read a little bit of it and you you guys tell me if you caught any of it oh I've got a really special part of it that I want Tyler to pull the perfect so Biden's press conference was an utter disaster says New York post if president Biden's press conference was supposed to inspire confidence it felt

Starting point is 01:29:39 horribly even though he spent most of it clearly calling on reporters from a list of safe questionnaire provided by his staff, he stumbled and bumbled and all too often made no sense that O'Plaussi repeated his bizarre whisper shout gimmick to emphasize certain points. When what it actually emphasized is his age. His answers on Ukraine were particularly confused. The issue is pretty straightforward. Vladimir Putin is in a threatened and invasion and we'll do it if he thinks he can get away with it. At the least, he'll try to get the West to bribe him by promising him much of what he

Starting point is 01:30:11 wants without any fighting. Then too, he ought to say Putin would win all by at a heavy price. The cost of going into Ukraine is a terms of physical loss of life with Russians. They'll be able to prevail over time, but it's going to be heavy. Anyway, it's going to be heavy. Anyways, there was a bunch of different things I'll discuss. His own state department during the press conference

Starting point is 01:30:30 was sending out clarifications to what he was saying because he was contradicting the state department's plans that were public. And his own state department was like, oh, sorry, he just made a boo-boo. Yeah, the answer's so, you know, he just said that he believes there's going to be meddling in the midterm sort of elections. And a sack is like, well, no, he just made a boo-boo. Yeah, they asked us, so you know, he just said that he believes there's gonna be meddling in the midterm sort of elections.

Starting point is 01:30:46 And then Sack is like, well, no, that's not what he said. What he was trying to say, no, no, his words. Yeah. He said there's gonna be meddling in 2022 midterm elections. That's not what he meant. And then Kamala Harris was pushed on it as well. She got really upset.

Starting point is 01:30:59 And even Morning Joe, your guy came out and said, Putin and Xi, see this? And they see Biden as a week they don't seem as a strong leader of a country but what was your biggest takeaway watching the press conference? Look if this article was written by the Washington Post or something on CNN I think it would have a lot more credence and I understand that the Bloomberg was lot more credence and I understand that the I hate blim blim blimberg was reporting the same kinds of even the liberal media has gotten pushed to the point where they're like Yeah, they've got to recognize some of these gaps. Yeah, there's no doubt that the guy is sort of a stumbling bumbling, you know,

Starting point is 01:31:34 Gaff machine, but then again, so was Donald Trump and that's why Biden was elected just Biden was elected Not because he was going to be some super human hero to transform America. It was because he was going to be some super human hero to transform America. It was because he was not Donald Trump. What's a whisper shout? When he's like, hey, listen, John Stasel, you come at me, buddy. I'm going to challenge you to push up contest, buddy. That's a whisper.

Starting point is 01:31:57 Yeah, and I'm yelling on the inside. Stasel, you were playing volleyball, buddy. That's a whisper shot. Thank you. OK. I also think that the media Biden doesn't do much to get a lot of media attention, like Trump did. So the one thing that they will get the media attention

Starting point is 01:32:19 is look at him. He's an old stumbling, bumbling fool. OK, cool. They'll get some clicks. I mean, you worked in media forever. But Pat, I actually want to get your thoughts on this one comment that he made because he was talking about Basically he's touting his infrastructure and basically no surprise medical bills and he basically said the words We're not going back to lockdowns. We're not going back to school closings He said these words

Starting point is 01:32:41 Hey, look man. I'm a capitalist, but sometimes But capitalism without competition is not capitalism, it's exploitation. So the fact that Joe Biden came out and basically called himself a capitalist stop, I think that's, oh, so what was stopped? Why am I stopping? No, no, no, like what I mean is stop, you know, because, you know, I can, I can be 400 pounds and tell you, cheesecake's not good for you. You know, you should stop eating cheesecake. What provoked him to say that?

Starting point is 01:33:11 What was the question? That was part of his speech. I didn't see him answering any questions. He's been attacked by the middle of his party for trying to promote socialism. Yeah. Well, look, the fact that he even came out and said that you got to applaud him for saying, look, I'm a capitalist, but even capitalism has some issues. Well, then why don't you try and back some capitalist policies?

Starting point is 01:33:29 Hey, I agree. First of all, listen, let me simplify something for you. Okay. The other day we showed a Steve Harvey deal, right? What does Steve Harvey show? Steve Harvey showed that the difference between the reason why Dave Chappelle can get away with anything is because he's got what? Subscription, not sponsored. He says not sponsors when your sponsors you can't say everything, right?

Starting point is 01:33:50 Okay, is Biden a subscription model or a sponsorship model? Sponsorship. Okay, then he's not gonna say what he's saying behind closed doors is gonna say Pfizer Don't worry about it. I just have to say that to you so I can get the people's confidence But we got you. I still need your 48 million dollars on my campaign. Don't worry about it, right? Just have to say that, so I can get the people's confidence. But we got you. I still need your 48 million dollars on my campaign. Don't worry about it. So, subscription model on who became a president or who had a shot of becoming a president is the following names, just so you know.

Starting point is 01:34:16 Not sponsored you. What do you like this or not? Sanders was a subscription model. Obama's first term was a subscription model. Trump's first term was a subscription model. Trump's first term was a subscription model. So don't give me this bullshit about AOC. AOC is a subscription model. This ain't about left or right. This is why respect Sanders because he's a subscription model. Okay. This guy is not a subscription model. This guy is a sponsorship model that has to say whatever the money people

Starting point is 01:34:41 tell him behind closed doors. And that's most of the presidents we've had in the last few decades. That's most politicians to be honest. Yeah, but this is why people liked Obama and they wanted Trump and they wanted Sanders. That's a subscription. It couldn't be bought. This guy's, this is not about policies.

Starting point is 01:34:58 This is just telling you, $5, 10, 20, $40. 88% of our donors are $5 don't. 88% you know, those statistics that they say yet these guys cannot say that you remember that one time who was a person that was being interviewed uh... all you know what it was it was talker had Jim Jordan on and i don't know what's Jim Jordan who was actually i do think it was Jim Jordan when talker said

Starting point is 01:35:18 hey can you all this stuff that you say about google and all this other guys can you explain to us why you took a majority of contribution is coming from silicon valley uh... uh't know if you remember that or not. It was. Jim Jordan. I thought it was Jim. I'd like to verify this. I don't want to put his name out there and defame his character. If you can verify that. But the point is, the moment you go that route, okay, and you take money from Silicon Valley, you can't sit there and say, this censorship bullshit that they're doing, yes, Facebook, I'll take your $100,000,

Starting point is 01:35:46 but this sucks. Stop it. Stop it. You're acting on what you're doing. Yeah, I said it right. Who is that? Jim Jordan, I was right. How long ago was that, by the way?

Starting point is 01:35:56 Can you pull that up and say, I was a year ago. Yeah, a year ago. I remember that. So that's to me the moment that, and I'm a Jim Jordan guy, I'm like, wait a minute. You're taking money from these guys that you're bashing censorship. So that's what I mean by stop it, you know. I think it's a, I I'm like, wait a minute. You're taking money from these guys get your bash and censorship,

Starting point is 01:36:05 so that's what I mean by stop it, you know. I think it's a valid point. I like the analogy that you did with the subscription versus sponsorship. These are a lot of sponsorship presidents we got here. Please, John. I disagree that they're doing it for the money. I think the main motivator is, what will people like?

Starting point is 01:36:26 What will make me popular? What will not piss people off? The money is secondary. Okay, I disagree. Here's why. You do that on camera, you're right. You're absolutely right on camera. For sure, 1 million percent you're right.

Starting point is 01:36:46 But camera is Hollywood. Behind closed doors sitting down doing deals, that's real life. All right, but we were talking about this in the context of the news conference. Sure. I get that, but he was explaining it from a standpoint of saying, what do you think about the fact that he said this? I'm a capitalist, but at the same time, you know, sometimes capitalists without competition is exploitation.

Starting point is 01:37:05 You're right. So every time you raise minimum wage, who in the behind closed doors goes like this. Amazon says, do it again. Walmart says, do it again. We don't pay anybody 15 bucks in our. People just want to trash us, do it again. But the small guy that's sitting there running a restaurant says, they have no clue how to handle my supposed pay this waitress from $7.25 to $15.00

Starting point is 01:37:25 in our end tips and restaurant, my burgers are going to go from $8 to $19.00. I can't afford to do that. Yeah, big businesses love it when they raise minimal weight. So yeah, that's what I mean by exploitation. These are the guys, politicians are the guys with their policies that eliminate competition. If you leave people alone, competition will typically take care of itself, minus the monopoly side, which is kind of happening right now. And we think we would have discovered this by now that people would understand, look at Hong Kong. They went from third world to first world because the government left them alone. And people were free to compete, 15% flat tax. And the British rulers sat around the drank tea,

Starting point is 01:38:07 left people to pursue their own affairs. And that took them from poor to our level of prosperity. Our level of prosperity did a day or a day, Rick, then. All right, I'm talking 10, you know, now China's wrecking it. But it's been the- Sorry, my former employer is about to pull the plug on this thing, so the Federal Reserve. But to pull the plug on... On liquidity, on what makes markets go...

Starting point is 01:38:33 Hmm, and stay happy. Things that make you go... What do you mean by that? They're January the first. They increased the reduction of purchases into the market. They doubled it. So now they're 45 billion less that they're reversing the quantitative easing. Exactly.

Starting point is 01:38:53 And they'll be finished by mid-March and it's fully anticipated. So they don't want to have so much political burden. Biden at his press conference said it's time for the Fed to take care of inflation. Not mine. It's not our worry. That's the Fed's purview. But your tone of voice says you like the quantitative easing. No, help me.

Starting point is 01:39:10 No, help me. Oh, you're on up there. No, that's the TV right there. No, I wrote a book called Fed up. Why the Federal Reserve is bad for America after work in there for nine years. No, no, no, no. No, but it's I mean, it's hysterical

Starting point is 01:39:21 that the Biden administration is placing all of the blame on the supply change disruption. I mean, you can't even make this stuff. By the way, this whole thing with Dubai, right? Dubai Emirates suspends flights to several US destinations on 5G concerns. This is a Reuters story. The move is due to operational concerns associated with the plan, developing a 5G mobile network services in the US.

Starting point is 01:39:42 The company said that the destinations include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, SanG, mobile network services, and the US company said that the destinations include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, San Francisco, and Seattle. We are working closely with aircraft, manufacturers, and their relevant authorities to alleviate operational concerns. And we hope to resume our US services as soon as possible. The carrier said, the White House said earlier on Tuesday

Starting point is 01:39:59 that it wants to reach a solution on 5G development that protects air safety while minimizing disruption to our travel. How much of this really is 5G? How much of it is protecting a different messaging that's happening behind closed doors with traveling with vaccination cards? How much of it is, you know, what do you think this story lies? John, I'm going to go to you first.

Starting point is 01:40:20 I know, I can't answer any of those questions. It's fear porn. Again, it's light to K. The planes are going to crash. But isn't 5G already in use? Yeah. And the airlines are already saying that major US airlines have already told the FAA. No. They told them know about what? About shutting down, right? Yeah, exactly. Meaning what though? They're gonna shut down flights? They're not going to. No, the American...

Starting point is 01:40:51 American, big American Airlines, the FAA was like, we got a few of those 5G thing out and it's scrambling, you know, it's not safe you'd be in the sky. American Airlines were like, not American Airlines itself, but big American airline companies were like... I got you. No, sorry. I got you.

Starting point is 01:41:07 I played this video because, you know, Tyler's got this video that he wants to show with 5G. Again, folks, this is just a video. I don't want you to lose your mind. It's just a video Tyler found. Go ahead. So, and then the caption here is, the FAA published 1400 Plus notices to airmen about 5G and international airlines. They're canceling flights.

Starting point is 01:41:24 They warn pilots not to use their radio-autometer and more than 80 airports in the U.S. It just drives the gauges wild. Yeah. I mean, it scrambles them, but you're assuming the pilot can't fly the plane. And that they wanted just to this? Well, he can't fly the plane if he doesn't have his gauges and he doesn't know where he's at and is at altitude and whether he's not, if he's straight and level, if he's in a bank, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Starting point is 01:41:45 Then why haven't we seen planes come down? Yeah, how do I know that's just not a faulty radar? That's just something that, how do I know that's what I said? That's why I said, you're right, David. That's why I said, you know, this is just a video that Tyler found online that's showing that. Well, let me throw some stats here, because 20 major airports have basically created a buffer zone. All the major airports in New York, LA, Miami, Orlando,

Starting point is 01:42:10 DFW, and Dallas, Seattle, Philly. I mean, there's 20 airports that said you cannot have 5G within two miles of our airport, OK? And I'm not the 5G expert. How are they going to stop it? I don't know. They can have towers. You'll restrict, yeah, you'll restrict towers.

Starting point is 01:42:27 Exactly, but basically where it comes into play is not so much when they're flying around the sky and they're, you know, 10 miles up in the air, it's regarding the landings. It's when they're closer within a thousand feet of the tower is what they're worried about. And then the airlines of the pilot unions, which are not exactly always seeing eye to eye, they're actually lock step on this. So on the same page, they're basically

Starting point is 01:42:49 in a 100% agreement that this is basically something that they need to be very weary of. Because essentially this comes down to safety, over speed. I mean, what's the point of 5G? It's basically these, you know, cell phone companies are basically putting up 5G. So you can download your porn even quicker or communicate even quicker.

Starting point is 01:43:08 Not you, John, obviously not you, but it's safety or speed. And, you know, I think right now we're doing pretty good with the 4G, with the speed, the 5G is going to make it 10 times, 100 times faster. But look, we've got a pretty good record. If you already come up with a happy medium of protecting the airspace in the immediate vicinity of the airport, then OK. Yeah, well, we've got a very good record of safety. And I don't think any major US airline

Starting point is 01:43:33 has crashed in the last decade, even longer. US airlines, domestically, 100%. So safety is a major concern. I mean, people get scared if there's some turbulence out of plane. Now if there's a plane that flies off the runway, God forbid, the Hudson type of things happens again. So it's a safety thing.

Starting point is 01:43:51 I'm not the 5G expert, but basically, when you see the airlines and the pilot unions, basically on the same page, that should be a telltale sign that they're very concerned about this. And then we've found a solution. What's the solution? The buffer zone? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:44:05 OK. I mean, I've had 5G on my phone all over the country for the past few months. I looked down and I'm on 5G right now. Do you have strong feelings about this 5G path? But I bet when I'm close to the airport this afternoon, when I'm headed back to DFW, that the 5G disappears. I don't know.

Starting point is 01:44:23 You go to these doctors and they say, do you have a lot of headaches? I do. Do you wear the Apple, what do you call them? Ear buds. I'm like, I do. Well, we're getting a lot of people that are coming here saying they get a lot of headaches from wearing that.

Starting point is 01:44:36 You may want to stop wearing that because of, you know, whatever radiation they're talking. I'm like, OK, is there 100% there? I don't know. They've been talking about stuff like this for a long time. They would talk about if you live near towers, cancer increases. I mean, had it never-

Starting point is 01:44:49 Or was it proven? Yeah, that's what you said earlier. So I think we gotta get a good investigative journalist. I think we know one that can go out there to these- You play so much volleyball, it's not gonna happen. You play too much volleyball, it's problematic. So, let's go, I got two other stories. I throw the other stories I'd like to get to if we can make the time.

Starting point is 01:45:05 So US Senate Democrats fail in a bit to pass voting rights bill. Okay, another Reuters story. Adam, I just want to make sure you're happy with that. Reuters story. President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats suffered. Twin legislative defeats late on Wednesday. Inder push to tough and voting rights protections. Inder run up to this November's midterm elections, that will determine control of Congress

Starting point is 01:45:26 in 2023. And back-to-back votes later on Wednesday, Senate Republicans, first block Democrats move to advance the voting rights legislation toward passage. It was the fifth time in less than a year that they did so. They employed the decades-old filibuster rule to stop the legislation, which requires a cooperation of at least 60th Senate, 100 members to keep bills alive. The Senate currently is 50-50 split, enlightening speed. Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat, then moved to revamped the filibuster rule by lowering the 60 vote to 50. By this

Starting point is 01:45:57 time, it was not Republicans, but Schumer's own Democrats, conservatives, Joe Manchin and Kristen Senema, who put the final mail in the coffin by voting against the rule change they finally tally on limiting debate on the election reform before now fifty one that i don't have to do forty eight but blah blah blah blah so uh... do you care even about this star okay so this story what the question i have is what are democrats trying to accomplish with this they're just trying to get get a talking point out there.

Starting point is 01:46:25 This is nonsense. Right, to make people think Republicans are shutting voting down, which they aren't. They aren't. So this is a non-story. But speaking of shutting things down, can we talk about Facebook shutting me down and my suing them?

Starting point is 01:46:40 Facebook shut you down? I did a piece on, is global warming really a horrible crisis. Got 24 million views on Facebook and now they won't show it to anybody because they hire these fact checkers from the Pointer Institute, this leftist group, which is I think run by the St. Petersburg paper here in Florida. And they justify it by saying, well, our fact checkers found your story incomplete. Well, it's a five minute TV piece. Of course, it's incomplete. And the fact checkers say it's wrong because Stassel said this, and they put

Starting point is 01:47:26 what they say, I said, in quotes. And it's not what I said. They took a quote from someone else or made it up. And when we point this out, they don't change it. They're lying about me. And so far in the court case, that one headline that you just put up, they said, well, our fact checkers are really just opinions, so you can't sue us. But they call them fact checks. Former Fox business host John Stasel, on Facebook, alleging that the social media company on one that's contract the fact check

Starting point is 01:47:58 an organization, defaming him when it flagged, two of his videos, alerting viewers to missing context and partly false claims. The lawsuit also claims that Stasel's professional reputation has been significantly and irreparably damaged by the false labels and statements since Stasel left Fox business. He's been releasing videos on various social platforms, including Facebook and Instagram,

Starting point is 01:48:18 but the endeavor has apparently been somewhat lucrative, has made around 10,000 dollars a month. From Facebook alone, my news model is based on social media, our company's showing you videos. He said on Facebook, but when Facebook fact check and label appeared on two videos, Stasso alleges that his ad revenue from the platform was cut by 45%.

Starting point is 01:48:37 Interesting. So is this done with? Is it still going? Is it still pending? Or is it still going? This case is take a while. And I don't care about the revenue, but we Facebook used to be my main outlet

Starting point is 01:48:48 in reaching millions of people. Now it's YouTube because once these idiot fact checkers, Facebook just gives up the power to them. We don't like this. We think climate change is a bigger crisis than you implied, so you can't say it. Are you friends with Dennis Prager? I like what he does.

Starting point is 01:49:11 We're not personal friends. You guys have never spoken. He's back. We've got no injuries. And I asked, I'm not trying to find a conspiracy here between the two of you. I'm just saying like he sued YouTube and they had a issue that they went back and forth.

Starting point is 01:49:25 I don't know if he spoke to him and his wife, yeah, but it was a lot of good information came out of him losing. The rest of us learned a lot from it. I don't know if it may not be a bad idea for the two of you guys to speak. So there argument really was that you didn't necessarily misrepresent yourself. It was a quote

Starting point is 01:49:45 and the whole story wasn't given. So because of that, I've got to take this 24 million view video down. They basically three, oh, it's so complicated to say. It's a real number by the way on Facebook. Facebook, of course. 24 million down to zero.

Starting point is 01:50:02 Who's the Facebook guy that you interviewed? Facebook fast checker. Yeah, yeah, he was a fact. He was not a fact checker. He was not a fact checker. A moderator. Moderator. He looked at things that they would take down and things that they wouldn't take down. And that revealed a lot. He was a guy that worked for Facebook, telling us some of the systems. And the guy got emotional in the interview because I couldn't stop. I couldn't work at Facebook anymore because of what was going on. But he wasn't working for Facebook, he was in third department, third party organization that moderated. So a lot of these guys are third party people that are not necessarily Facebook. Almost all of them. Yeah. Moderators are kind words for sensors. And it's a tough job because you want to keep child molestation off and direct threats of violence. And so these poor guys have to view all this creepy stuff all day.

Starting point is 01:50:49 But as the Supreme Court said, you know pornography when you see it. That's what the Supreme Court said. We're talking about the different change of censorship. Well, again, you know what when you see it. And I believe in the Supreme Court's ruling, but censorship is a whole different matter. But John, we've obviously seen a lot of censorship and things being taken down regarding vaccines. And they have every regarding vaccines.

Starting point is 01:51:12 We've seen that. Right. And I hate, but they can do it legally. But they can't lie about me. Oh, they have every right to do what? To take down anything they want. It's their discretion. Company.

Starting point is 01:51:24 Yeah. They're company. That's their... Description. Yeah. They're company, they. That's my position. They've made it very clear that if they don't like what you're saying about vaccines, you're cut. This is the first I've heard about global warming though. And you think that you're suing them, but at the same time you actually agree

Starting point is 01:51:38 that they can take it down? Right. But they can't lie about me. They took it down and they say, I said this, I didn't say this. We contacted the reviewers for the censors. They haven't watched it. Defamation of character position.

Starting point is 01:51:54 His position is not a, you can't take the video down. That's the argument that he's making. Okay, that's hurting his reputation as somebody that's been doing this for decades. And because I'm former real reporter, when the stuff came out, we called him and said, would you talk to me? And two of them agreed to interviews. We showed him the piece and they said, well, if you thought we criticized this because

Starting point is 01:52:20 we saw it, no, we never watched it. You know, what the hell? Did they make a public announcement? Did they say anything? Did they give you an email? Did they give you words? Did they write about it somewhere where we chose to take the stow and was there anything that they came back with to protect your reputation? I'm confused by who the they is. Facebook. No. Facebook just doesn't respond. They say, we leave it to the fat checker, appeal to them. And pass in the book. And letting the people be their own judge. Letting the fat checkers just decide if they're right or wrong. And

Starting point is 01:52:58 of course they say, we're right. This piece doesn't make people understand the climate crisis. Well, listen, since you don't like to be controversial, I want to read one of your non-controversial stories here. John Stassel is a time to abolish the FDA, unethical to deny Americans of life-saving drugs. This is a real clear politics story. Thousands of people a week, per week, continue to die from

Starting point is 01:53:25 COVID-19. Yet America's FDA stops people from taking drugs that might save lives. John Stasel weighs in. Stasel, I'm surprised that we haven't heard more about new drugs that make COVID less of a threat. One drug reduced the risk of health, death or hospitalization by 89% in trials. The media probably doesn't report on them much because you and I aren't permitted to take them. The FDA makes everyone wait until the drugs meet the urgency agencies, rigorous standards, but while we wait, thousands die, abolish the FDA, that's your position. Yes, they've justified having the right to band drugs from philidamide from many, many years ago when this bad drug got on the

Starting point is 01:54:06 market and hurt people. And that's happened sometimes. But when they, and by the way, this drug now is available, they did speed the process at least. But when they say, this new drug will save 10,000 lives a year. And it takes 10 years to get it approved. That means they killed 10,000 people last year, and they year before.

Starting point is 01:54:27 But they don't count in the media reporting or in government thinking. Yeah, this has been going on for generations. I mean, multiple generations where people have gone to Europe or other countries where they're equivalent of the FDA is much more expeditious in getting these drugs to the pipeline. So if you, again, if you have the means,

Starting point is 01:54:44 then you go to another country and you get the drug that you know that you need that's gonna save your life. If you don't have the means in your America, you die. And it's not like if you abolish the FDA, everybody's gonna take bad drugs and die. It's new things will appear. Consumer rights, consumer reports under writer's laboratories. Some people will get suckered and will die and will learn from that.

Starting point is 01:55:07 And in the long run, more people will live. So you are in the school of thought of trust 99% of people to make the decisions for themselves. It goes back to that same thing. It's our body. And if I'm dying, shouldn't I get to try some new drug? As opposed to waiting for a broken bureaucracy to deliver a decade later. Current system doesn't trust you'd make the right decision

Starting point is 01:55:29 for yourself. Right, in many areas. Yeah, in many areas. OK, last one here we'll do. China's G-threatens catastrophic consequences of China is confronted. They just seem like the friendliest people out there. This is American military news.

Starting point is 01:55:45 During the speech before the virtual only Davos World Economic Forum, G said that the world needs to move away from what he called the coal world mentality. G also appeared to criticize Western nations, which have been adopting economic policies and forming alliances around countering China. For example, the US has adopted the U.G.R. Force Labor Act to bar imports from China's G-Jang region, which are suspected to being produced through the force labor of U.G.R. population.

Starting point is 01:56:14 The U.S. has also stated that international efforts like the Clean Network, which seeks to build network infrastructure using only trusted technology companies, while excluding companies like China's Huawei and September the U.S, Australia and UK also from the new defense of technology sharing, agreement aimed at bolstering Australia's military capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. Danielle, thoughts? Look, he's got until November, and he's going to do everything he can before the 20th People's Congress to bolster support for himself, not externally, but internally. And I think we need to understand the difference between the two. Because in 2015, 2016, there was a global industrial recession, the manufacturing sector

Starting point is 01:56:57 worldwide got slammed, China pumped a ton of money into the global economy. Xi Jinping is looking for an unprecedented third term, which he hopes to become a dictatorship when the 20th people's Congress convenes in November. Now he was born, the actual date of the Congress is a very closely held secret. It's announced very close to the date of it opening. He was born in the year of the snake, people born in the year of the snake, October is a very unlucky month, and the Chinese believe in their lunar calendar deeply. So I say that sometime around November or so,

Starting point is 01:57:30 all this tough talk is gonna go away. All he wants to make sure is that he retains his dictatorship. So the more he says about the West, and the West being the bad guys, the more popular he is on the mainland, and that's what he cares about. Does he stand the chance of losing? There are enemies within, and he has, there cares about. Does he stand the chance of losing? There are enemies within.

Starting point is 01:57:45 And he has, there are some people who have criticized his attack of the billionaires, and having gone too far and destroying wealth in China. And there are indeed in his own party, those who don't want to see this third on, this is like FDR. This is an FDR moment for China. There's never been a third term.

Starting point is 01:58:05 So he's trying to exert himself within the party, within and by breaking through barriers that have never been broken through in the Communist Party. John, do you have an opinion on this? I will not blowviate about what I haven't researched. So no. Okay.

Starting point is 01:58:23 I like that word blowviate. Go ahead. What's going to, I just want to follow up to Danielle. You're saying, are there only, are they limited to two terms in China? Here it is in the United States, or is this, uh, not only? It is typically, it is, it is typically two terms. This is, this is the 20th Congress, but yes, and they, they come together here every six years, but this will effectively ensure the, the, the strong leader who he has become

Starting point is 01:58:42 remains in this position. And how long has been brutal with his enemies this position. And how long has it been brutal with his enemies? How long has it been? So there's six, not four years in, I'd say. So he's been in power, you're saying, 12 years, and he's looking for another six, so be 18 years. And the Chinese economy is at a 30-year low growth rate, 30-year low.

Starting point is 01:59:01 And that's because of COVID, or why? It's because the country itself has reached its limits in terms of Its capacity to to be the marginal consumer of 50% of commodity to the non-planet It's got a demographic problem. We talked about that earlier and the growth is simply slowing so any and all stimulus that's going to be put into the economy this year is going straight to the people Ray Dalio's been talking his book lately And he's been saying you know, it's common prosperity. That's what they call it. This common prosperity push, the campaign.

Starting point is 01:59:30 It's a great thing for the people of China. Well, just wait and see what happens after he succeeds if he succeeds in November. And then all of the stimulus goes poof. Look, layman terms over here. I don't think there's any chance that he does not succeed. He's a complete strong man and look at where China is at right now. You seem to be skeptical of him actually winning, quote, unquote, re-election. Again, he has made, there are people underneath him.

Starting point is 01:59:54 You have to, it is traditional right now in China for you to name your successor. That is, even if he takes the unprecedented third term, he didn't name his successor last time around, meaning, I plan on being here. Yeah, I don't think you're going to know. And that's what, you know, critically, that's what he and Putin have in common, is that they're going to be around with their countries and with the common enemy of the United States.

Starting point is 02:00:15 Who's around longer? Putin or she? In power. Who's around longer? Putin's not going anywhere. Doesn't seem like she is either, no? Well, we'll see, come November. Pat, do you have any feelings on whether she makes it this third term or not? I mean, the way it's looking like what he's doing,

Starting point is 02:00:33 but she's talking about a system. So six, two, it hasn't happened. I don't know. This guy seems like he is a true believer on what he believes in, and he is one that imposes himself. A lot of us, people, and people are scared of this guy. Extremely, by the way, the other day, you saw how Innis Cantor came out and called that China again

Starting point is 02:00:52 on what they said about Yugers and all this other stuff then. Shaman had to say, no, not what Shaman had to say because Innis was disappointed with what Shaman had to say on the podcast, but Yao Ming came out and said, I don't know who this NS can't to freedom person is, but guess what? If you want to come to China, we'd love to show you this country. And show you the, yeah, there it is. He says, but if he wants to see the real China, come on down.

Starting point is 02:01:17 By the way, here's what I'll say. If NS decides to go to China, I would join them on that trip to go to China. And it's counter. I would join them. I would join if, if because to validate a point, I would join them on that trip to go to China. You and NS canter. I would join them. And just freedom. If, if, because to validate a point, let's go see how freedom is. Well, I see. Here's what I can guarantee.

Starting point is 02:01:32 There is a higher likelihood that NS canter freedom goes to China than he goes to Turkey. You're so funny. You're so funny. Okay, maybe we'll do, you know what we'll do? Here's an idea, because I know the sky that likes to travel. Maybe we'll go check out the volleyball team in China with John Stassel. And we'll do some investigative journals. What do you think about that? Are you open to it?

Starting point is 02:01:50 No. No. Okay, I figured. Have you ever been to China? No. No, but Hong Kong. You have. Is that count?

Starting point is 02:01:58 Somewhat. Yeah, like 50-50. It's like a half brother, like no Clintons have. Well, listen, people love today's podcast podcast lots of positive commentary for john and daniel and Adam I think this was one of your best podcasts ever I think you you crush it did I mean seriously I think you crush it today we're doing it again next week on Let me see what do we have you got a Tuesday not Thursday Tuesday we got a who a Christina push up oh Christina push up shower push up Christina Pusha. Oh Christina Pusha. Abshawar Pusha. Pusha is the Secretary of the Santas will be here Tuesday folks do not miss it it's going to be an interesting conversation

Starting point is 02:02:32 Especially if you live in Florida or if you'd like to see the Santas become the president of Florida that'll be Tuesday podcasts take care John Daniel. Thanks for coming out. Have a great weekend everybody. Bye-bye-bye-bye. Daniel, thanks for coming out. Have a great weekend everybody. Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye.

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