PBD Podcast - Kyrie Irving Gets a Drink | PBD Podcast | EP 65

Episode Date: June 1, 2021

Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, and Tom Zenner sit down to talk about topics such as Celtics fan charged with assault and battery for throwing a water bottle as Kyrie Irving, rising gas prices, Jeff Bezos now owns all the Apprentice outtakes, and much more! Watch the full episode on the PBD Podcast YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/oXFnRZX4hdg --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbdpodcast/support

We are officially one. So are we just live now? We are live episode number 65. We're at them and Zenner. Welcome back. Welcome back, Mr. Benner. Gang, for those of you that are on, we're excited about today's podcast. Keep in mind that we're going to do it for today and Thursday. And next week, we're gone for a special project. I was at a dealership yesterday with Dylan. So me, Dylan and Mario, go to this for our dealership. I'm looking at a dealership yesterday with Dylan. So me, Dylan and Mario go to this for our dealership.

I'm looking at a couple cars. So Mario, we're looking at the cars all this time. We go in, a guy looks at me. He says, hey man, a little Italian guy, but walking around like he owns the entire dealership. He says, I just want you to know, I never miss your interviews. I said, oh, really cool.

That's cool, man. I said, which one? Only one kind. It's the mob interviews. That's the only one I interviews. I said, oh, really cool. Let's cool, man. I said, which one? Oh, only one kind. It's the mob interviews. That's the only one I watch. I said, yeah. Which ones have you watched? Which ones have I watched?

I watch all the mob interviews. That's great. That's cool. You watch all the mob interviews. He said, so what's the next thing you're working on? What's the next mob? I said, I said, I just want to let you know, man. We may, potentially, we may potentially do something

that could be the biggest project we've ever worked on that could be a history making type of a thing. And when I tell you this, it could truly be a history making type of thing. Very complex, very complicated. Every day we're having issues with seeing if this could happen or not, not telling you it's gonna happen,

but if it does happen, I'm gonna make a prediction. It could get a hundred million views within 24. That's amazing. Is your life in danger by doing this? It's always in danger. It's always in danger. He asked me a very interesting question. He says, can I ask you a question?

I said, yeah, sure. Why do these guys all trust you? Like, what do we, why do they trust you? Are you in the life? I'm not in the life, man. I'm just an insurance guy. In the life. Are you in the life?

I protect him. I'm the insurance. I'm the insurance. I'm the Syrian Arminian, I'm like, no, man, I just like doing interviews. And I like interest. are you in the life of protecting the insurance? The Syrian Arminium, like, no, man, I just like doing interviews and I like interest. Hey, what a lucky day for him though. The person he follows most on YouTube walks in with a big budget.

That's good for a good day for them. Yes, it's a good day for them, but we had a good conversation. Dylan's like, I wanna sit in it. And the guy Renee ended up driving the car with Dylan going, you know, God knows how, you know, he was having a blast And it was we had a good time. You're sitting with that. Sorry.

But then she's looking again a Ferrari. I'm potentially looking to get a Ferrari. The guy make your good deal Did he make you an off? You can't refuse. No, he did not make me an off. I couldn't refuse But we'll see what's gonna. I have a 24 hour rule if I'm on a mechanic kind of a big purchase. I sit on it You should have told them you're affected because he might be a little afraid now You may have gotten me a little bit bigger of a big purchase. I sit on it. You should have told him you're connected, because he might be a little afraid now. You may have gotten me a little bit bigger of a discount, but we'll see what's gonna happen with that. Okay, let me remind you guys a couple things. Number one, we asked for a, what do you call a logo?

Which at the end of the podcast, we're gonna show all the logos that were sent to us. If you haven't sent yours, tweeted out at Patrick Bay David with hashtag, PBD podcast, we are looking at different, I don't know if we're gonna take it or not today, and finalize it, we're definitely gonna look at Patrick, David, would hashtag PBD podcast. We are looking at different, I don't know if we're gonna take it or not today and finalize it, we're definitely gonna look at some, what do you call it, some logos today.

Also, if you're on, the last couple podcasts, what we've been doing is we've been picking and choosing certain superchats and we've been giving 10 times back. So if you put 10 bucks, we give you $100 back. If you give us five bucks, if we like it, we give you $50 back. A guy Steve gave five bucks, if we like it, we give you $50 back. A guy Steve gave $100, he got $1,000 back.

So who knows what we're gonna do with the super chat? There's another lady that gave 20 bucks. And you got 20 times back or so. Yeah, you like your story, you give it 20x. So, you know, it depends on the story, question, anything that we like about what you say, we may. Why are we doing this? What's the reason?

Let them know why. I think we're just doing it. We want to get more activity. We want to get people to be engaged. We want to get more involved. And we want to get this thing to 100,000 subscribers. And eventually a million. We feel there's a need today for podcasts

where opposing views are being talked about. And people get a chance to make up their minds. You agree, disagree? Great. Let's have a discourse to get and see what we can go from there. And I think if you think you've got a good point, put your money where your mouth is literally. We may even call you. We may even call you.

We may even call you. And we'll call you out on it. If it's that good of a comment, put some money where your mouth is. We may even call you and have you get on the podcast here with us like we did with Stephen and us a couple weeks ago. That was great. Anyways, we got a lot of stuff going on. Okay, first of all, the one thing that to me since it's I know a lot of people don't want to talk about sports

It's like the last thing people want to talk about but we got to talk about what just happened this weekend with Fans going in what's broke being thrown popcorn on you got Kyrie Irving having a bottle being thrown yesterday at the Wizards Game a guy runs into the dark. Try young got spit on try young got spit on at a next game a lot of this stuff that's happening right? So yeah, I'll read the story here to you. I don't know if we have it or not with the Kyrie, which pages it on. Okay, page number four, I'll read the Kyrie story,

but it's not just Kyrie, there's quite a few of them that we can get into. Celtics fans suspected of throwing bottle at Kyrie Irving charged with assault and battery. First of all, suspected, it's on camera, it's not suspected, we saw it, new york post the knucklehead fan accused of hurling water bottle net star kairi urwin after sundays playoff game against the boston celltics

will be a rain to see on one uh... count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon according to multiple reports boston police at twenty one year old cold buckley of uh... brain tree massachusetts was arrested at TD Garden after a witness reported. He threw a designing water bottle that gazed ahead of Irving. It's unfortunate that sports has come. This is kind of crossroads Irving said,

where you are seen old ways come up, underlying racism and treating people like they are human zoo. In a human zoo, Kevin Durant added, have some respect for the game, have some respect for human beings, have some respect for yourself. Your mother wouldn't be proud of you throwing the water at basketball players.

Grow the F up and enjoy the game. It's bigger than you. Sunday's instance was not the first involving a fan. During the playoffs, a fan was banned from the Madison Square Garden last week for spitting at Hawks guard, tray young and game two of the next game, and the Wizards guard Russell.

You know, we talk about popcorn. So what are your thoughts about all this stuff taking place? You know, just because they're preaching about it doesn't mean it's going to go away. I was listening to the Kevin Durant quotes and they act like their their voice is going to make a difference. Yeah. There's X amount of idiots out there that they don't give a damn. This has been going on for a week now where it's been a big deal and it happened last night. Someone stormed the court and you know he was answering a dare, right? He was drunk, you could just see that. He was laughing by the time he got onto the court.

He knew he was gonna be arrested. Kyrie Irving, that situation, did you guys think the water bottle was full? I saw the video of it. I couldn't tell if that thing flying through the air was half full. It's a good question. I think it was a water full.

That's my question. That's my question. It has to have water in it. It has to have weight in it. Yeah. So what Kyrie Irving did first, those, he wiped his feet on the logo. Not that that warrants, you know, almost to be getting clocked by a water bottle, but, you know, Celtics fans are nuts. I used to live in Boston. I used to be the

sports anchor at Fox and Boston. So I've been in the middle of this. I'll tell you, fans are crazy. I'll tell you one story. The Patriots were playing the Vikings one game. And there was a fan from Minnesota that went there. And the Viking fans, you know, sometimes they were those hats that had the long horns kind of that Nordic thing. It's just a thing they wear. So this guy felt something tugging on is the back of his head. So he reaches back there to stop and the dude behind them had a scissors and was cutting the ponytail off, okay, of the fake hat. Now, here's the problem. The guy that was the Vikings fan was a world-class surgeon. This guy went through his tendons on his finger and he was serious. He was his like surgery career was about over. So weird things have

happened in the stands. No, that was really. Totally happened. Unbelievable. Yeah. So this stuff does go on. Now, here's the problem. The NBA players, Kyrie Irving is the last one you want to have this happen to because he's going to talk about it every single day. He's going to turn it into this huge thing where every NBA player has a target on them. And they really don't. These things are being blown out of proportion a little bit because they've been happening one after another after another. But, you know, they did the right thing by arresting this guy, I think, to prove a point.

So this dude is going to be in serious trouble. I would say that would be the only way to slow this thing down. But there is a very, very small percentage of people that are so stupid, so idiotic, and so brazen that it will continue to happen just because they don't care. So, go point. Yeah, the, the, the, um, by the way, if you're watching, and some curious comment below, what you, what you think about what's taking place, do you have a unique opposing view or anything else on what happened with the NBA and all these fans that are upset with them?

Go ahead, Adam. So, they're clearly going to make an example out of this guy in Boston. I mean they're they're charging them with throwing a dangerous weapon. It was a water bottle here right? So Do you think that's the right move to a charge? Well they're making an example with that. Sure So I mean salt and battery. Yeah, but do you think that's a good idea? I think they do I think that I throwing a water bottle at somebody is a dangerous weapon. No, no, no, no, but it's, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Keep in mind, we're in, we're still living in COVID, you know, times right now. That's absolutely ridiculous to me. What do you mean? You're spitting on a plant and the guy just gets banned from a Nick's game. Yeah. And he's the most, one of the most likeable players in the NBA.

What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Spitting on a player? What are you doing? Spitting on anybody. Yeah. So I'm sorry. Go ahead. But it's almost like people haven't been out for a year. They forget how to act because that's literally what happened here. But I think a bigger story here is that when you think nobody's watching, you think you can act tough. It's sort of the Drake's famous line, trigger fingers turned to Twitter fingers. It's sort of like your keyboard warriors. And if you're in the masses,

and no one's gonna see it, let me just talk shit. Let me spit on somebody, let me throw a water bottle, no one's gonna see it, but the problem is that you're forgetting is there's cameras everywhere. Everything you do on social media, everything you do, period, is gonna get caught. So Charles Barkley had a pretty good recommendation. He goes, this punk ass, take him down to the locker room and let him have a one on one conversation

with Kyrie. Let me know what happens to this guy in Boston, right? So that's obviously Charles Barkley. The other side of the coin here is that talk about level of pettingness is how petty can we go here because Kyrie, obviously he told to turn anything into a racial issue. None of this to me is anything racial whatsoever. These are just idiot fans doing idiot things with idiot tendencies.

But now the Celtics fan base have started a petition, talk about pettyness, to charge Kyrie with aggravated assault. Cause in 2018, he threw a basketball into the stands when he was upset. Through a ball. So now, how many times?

How many times? Good for the fans. Good for the fans. A phenomenal. To charge Kyrie with. Absolutely. Why? I'm gonna take exactly why.

Let me tell you, it's Monday. When do we do Jennifer's baby show? We did it Sunday. We did it Sunday. Okay, right the house. Okay. Everybody's up there, you know, you're trying to change the diaper,

which we realize if you haven't seen, I mean, if we pull up Adam's video, do you have Adam's video with Adam's try to put the clothes on of this kid? If you don't have it, do you have it? He can pull it up. It's not for hire to change your kids. Yeah, but you know,

but here's the thing, what I liked about it is you were so proud of yourself. You had a, you had a, you like, what do you mean? What do you mean Mario beat me? I'm done. And it's like, the game was against us that rapidly. You know, the buttons on the bottom, you got to put by the diapers.

You didn't put that out there. I wouldn't imagine he mummified the baby. Right? I mean, what she could have seen, like something taping in an ankle. It was a proud, it's like Nick Young, when he shot it, he turned around, he held the three up. As if he made it and didn't go on, that was him.

He just kind of held the three up. I learned when changing a baby, it's, with, as an adult, you put, if you put your underwear on first, that's first, right? You put your pants on or your shirt on first. What do you do? Well, for the baby, you got it. No, no, no, for you.

But this is a baby. Pants on or shirt on. This is a baby, but. I'm not talking about the baby. You want to talk about baby. Let me make a baby. I'm just saying with the baby, you put the shirt on first, then the pants on. I'm not talking about the baby. You want to talk about baby? Let me make the baby. I'm just saying with the baby, you put the shirt on first, then the pants on like,

I had a bad voice. Can you go already have a baby so we can get trained on this? I'm working on it. I'm working on it. So let me give you this part here on what happened. So we're smack talking, everybody's talking trash to each other. Okay, when you talk trash, what happens?

You just have to be ready. Okay, when you talk in trash. So Dylan starts talking trash to rock. Yeah. Yeah, on my son. He's like, I pick, you know, such and such to beat Rob. He picked Donnie to beat Rob. This isn't the baby laundry folding competition.

So afterwards Rob wins. And Rob looks at Dylan and he says, so you picked Donnie to beat me, huh? I won. And he says, give me one of these. And Dylan didn't. No, he, he was very negatively. Furious. So I'm not giving, he just sat down the corner. I said, come here, I me one of these. And Dylan didn't. No, he's very negatively. Furious.

So I'm not giving, and he just sat down the corner. I said, come here, I gotta talk to you. Yeah, that look on his face. So I said, come here, I gotta talk to you. So it comes and sits next to me. And I'm whispering to him, here's what I told him. I said, listen, Dylan, here's how life works. Okay, if you don't want people to talk trash to you,

don't talk trash. If you don't want people to take shots at you, don't take shots. If you don't want people to really kill you, don't really kill them. If you don't want that, don't say anything, right? But the moment you do, you have to be ready to know that that person could say something back to you. And if you do, you have a couple of choices to hide the saying, nothing, or you go back.

And it could go back and forth constantly. But that's a choice you got to make. I said, on one end, I'm glad you're not afraid, but on the second end, I want you to be ready. That's going to happen. What's the moral of the story? Kyrie Irving is Dylan. That's simple.

Kyrie Irving is Dylan. He's a baby is what he is. The question that nobody's asking yesterday, ESPN posted something. I wish I could go on my Instagram to take a look at this. Kyrie Irving is a seven year old boy right now, okay? I posted on Instagram when they posted a picture of all the people that are running to the floor or the speed are done, everything, right?

Posted a question, I said, all of this is pathetic, but can we ask the one question, why are fans so upset at NBA players? Why, or is that an off-limit question? And then boom, it went off with commentary? Yo, let me guess you're gonna say it's COVID. It's this it's not it's not that big of a deal It is that big of a deal Here's why why are the fans upset?

Why are they doing this? Why is it all of a sudden? Let me get to straight you can go For a team that you played who paid you you can go take your shoes and for a team that you played who paid you, you can go take your shoes and smear your shoe on the leprechaun after you won the game, assuming no one's gonna see it, what the hell you think is gonna happen? These are kids that you did not see this. He goes at the end of the game.

So imagine this is the Celtics logo with the leprechaun, the leprechaun, he puts a shoe down and he goes like this on the leprechaun. Like I'm kind of like one, in the Dead to the Dead to the Dead. To the leprechaun, the leprechaun, he puts a shoe down and he goes like this on the leprechaun. Like a white gorilla and did that to the leprechaun. To the leprechaun. Then you have this 21-year-old kid who probably grew up watching the Celtics with his dad and his mom screaming at the screen being a da- cuz you know how Celtics fans are, die

hard. He's gonna take it personal. There's a part of me that I like a fan defending what he stands for. To the point of throwing a water bottle absolutely not that's not acceptable. But listen Kyrie, why do you upset at you? Maybe you've been rubbing it in their face for the last 12 months that everybody out there that disagrees with you is racist and they're sick of it. They're just absolutely sick of your unnecessary comments that you're making and you are sitting

you're acting like you don't understand you you know, I'm just life is tough You know, it's really tough right now, and you know, I'm just you know, I have to deal with certain things I want to go away and play not play a few games and the team has to pay 20 million bucks every year nobody knows Where the hell you even Durances, I don't know where you are. Oh, but you can go out there smear on the thing I don't know about that now on the Westbrook side Here's a one thing about Westbrook Westbrook plays hard and I don't like one happened That one time when the guys were flipping them off when he was you know, you know, the by the sidelines when I don't think about Westbrook. Westbrook plays hard. And I don't like one happen that one time when the guys were flipping them off when he was, you know, you know, the by the sidelines when,

I don't know, this was like four years ago. And he'll get into it with fans all the time. I'm a Westbrook fan and I think Westbrook is a dog and I think the league, unfortunately, he's not gonna have a lot of guys like that. He's one of a kind. He's in the league of his own with the people that are fighting. He just broke the triple double record.

He's in question. It's wire people upset. You know what happened with Kwame Brown this last weekend? I don't know if you guys have been following the last two weeks. What happened? What do you think about what's going on with Kwame? He posted something on social media. What exactly did he say? I forgot. The number one pick. He called out Stephen A. He called that shardamine. God, he called that Stephen Jackson. He called that every by. I remember reading that thing. He was a very articulate. He went. He went. He got a personality. He doesn't Kwame. Well, a very articulate On map bar. Yeah, he's no

Got a person who doesn't Kwame well, let me tell you what he did say which I like I tell you what he did Says which I like so he went out there and he said about the fact that hey just because I posted something and I said look at this Candace Brown video what are your thoughts about it everybody thinks I'm racist I'm just watching a Candace Brown video Candace Owens Candace Owens video right now watching a Candace Owens and what she has to say and people are calling me who you voting for I'm voting for Trump. Oh, you're not voting for Biden. What are you talking about? NASA give me his policies which policies are you voting for Biden? This guy's going that direction. So then he's saying for the last 13 years

He says you guys are out there bashing me. It's a Stephen A I was a 17 year old kid working under Michael Jordan who was talking trash to me 24 or seven. I don't know how to handle seven, you know, at 17 years old, how to be having somebody like that that's constantly berating me, right? Kwame's pushing the envelope hardcore. Stephen A. Smith makes a response video.

Oh, I saw that. I don't know if you saw that. Of course. Did you see the results on the bottom, the how many likes and dislikes I got? I did not. Have you seen that? Kai, can you pull up that video

on Stephen A Smith with? Well, he went in on Kwame Brow. I know he did. I know he did. I know he did. I know he did. He did. Go to YouTube.

Just go to YouTube. And type in Stephen A Kwame Brown, Stephen A Smith, that's fine. Kwame is with a K, I think it's a KW. Kwame KW. KW. KW. There you go. Just, that's fine. Kwame is with a K. I think it's Yeah, KW you're Kwame KW KW KW there you go just talk about just go down right there. There you go Click on the first one, but here's what you got to do. You got to do it in a way where shit

It's gonna play and it's gonna be You can't play so here's what I want you to do. Okay, we can't do that Go and look at it yourself Kai look at it yourself on your phone and tell us how many likes and dislikes it has. Kwame Brown responds to you. I want you to tell me how many likes and dislikes Stephen A's video has. I don't know if you can do that, if you can do that,

I'll do it myself. Yeah. That's the only date I want. He's going to regret that video. Who is? Stephen A. Tell me why. Because he's paid to be a commentator,

to have a pay. Okay, watch this. Can you say it on the mic soator and to have a pay. Watch this. Tell us. Can you say it on the mic so everybody can hear you? Yeah, really good. Yeah, we can hear you go. Okay. So the video has 28,000 likes and 30,000 dislikes. 28,000 likes and 30,000 dislikes, which means

most people didn't like what he had to say. If it was an election, the dislikes wins the election. Okay, on the video, that's not the case with Stephen A. So they're basically saying they think he should not have said anything to each other. No, because the point is here's a kid that came out 17 years old. You're expecting a 17 year old kid to have all this pressure.

Yes, I got to call for one of our guys. And we're having a conversation about somebody that was dealing with anxiety and pressure and blood pressure went up, right? Which is a real thing, by the way. Which is a real thing. By the way. Which is a real thing, by the way, you're seeing what happened with the... Naomi Osaka.

Naomi Osaka, you know, dealing with the pressures of the media, all this other stuff and you know, how that handles. This is one of the reasons why you're gonna have so much respect for folks who run for office in their 70s. You're talking about Clinton, Obama, not Obama, Trump, Biden, Sanders. These people are in their 60s, 70s, running with all the pressure, nonstop trash talking about Clinton, Obama, and not Obama, Trump, Biden, Sanders.

These people are under 60, 70s running with all the pressure, nonstop, trash talking about you, your wife, your kids, your, I mean, it's tough, your husband, constant. They're built for that, though. They're been doing it for years. It's not about their build for that. At 17, you may be not. And Kwame had to go through that at 17. He was destroyed at 17 years old.

Here's a kid that played in the league for thirteen years made sixty-five million dollars. You tell me any human being that plays has a job for thirteen years makes sixty-five million dollars and you trash him for having thirteen years sixty-five million dollars of money you make. And it went after that guy. So finally he just pushed back. He snapped at everybody. Good for him.

Yeah. His podcast was blown up by the way. Kwame Brown. He grew up in the sticks. I mean, he was not exactly a mature young man and not a guy you want to piss off by the way. Yeah, that. And imagine Michael Jordan, the pressure he was putting on that kid because Michael wanted to prove himself as an owner as a guy running the team because frankly, you know, Michael Jordan basically failed as an owner and as a GM so far. I think you could make that argument. So, you know, he put his reputation on the line by drafting Kwame Brown. But Steve and I, I think you could make that argument. So, you know, he put his reputation on the line by drafting Kwame Brown, but Steve and A,

I think maybe, you know, he might regret that a little, but he has no choice, right? He can't, he works for Disney. He has to turn this into something where Kwame has to be wrong because everything with them is a black and white issue, literally, especially in the NBA right now. And as far as Kyrie Irving, no chance of A winning the NBA championship because of him, zero. Even though theyving, no chance of a winning the NBA championship because of him.

Zero. Even though they have most talent, they're not going to win because of him. The only guy that could get him to play to his potential is LeBron, right? And LeBron, to tell me why no way to con win it because of him. Because his mind is not set on being a champion right now.

He is set on being a victim and looking up the next thing that he can complain about and realizing how bad his life is. And he's got the security of the contract and he's already won a title. I don't know if I go that far. I'll go as far as saying he's a terrible player to represent your brand.

Like I wouldn't want him representing a brand. But I think AD just got hurt. Sounds are not gonna beat him. You know, Utah's not gonna happen. Who else he got on the Philadelphia Joe, you know, what's coming out of the East? No, we're getting to the fair this year. Well, Philadelphia, he got hurt, what's his name?

And we've got hurt, you got Milwaukee. I mean, I just don't see it. I think Durant is that good of a player. But to go back to this, to go back to this issue here that we're talking about, what the NBA did last year, what the industry of comedy has done for the last decade. What Hollywood has done the last 30 years, what these, what tech has done the last decade, they're gonna pay a price for this.

I was on an Instagram live with Jordan Belfort, you know, Wolf of Wall Street. And he was sharing his frustration. I can't understand what's going on. I don't even have a voice if I say something just because I'm not a Democrat and I have an opposing view that coming after me and they're sending all this, as a Jordan, that's not how life works. It's what I mean. I said, you can't bully people for too long.

You just cannot do it. Hollywood's bullied people. And guess what mistakes they've made. You know who runs Hollywood? You know what people don't realize who runs Hollywood? What ethnicity? What Chinese? Yes, and Jewish.

And of course. And Jewish, of course. Yes, of course. Do you realize how Jews are being treated right now in America? Do you realize if the Jewish community flips what happens? If the top five producers in Hollywood who are Jewish flip to the other side, what happens all of a sudden? What are they going to say all of a sudden?

Do you know what happened to comedy? Comedy, if you make fun of Trump, you have a job. If you make fun of Biden, God forbid, you don't have a job. Comedy is all about on one side right now. It's not both sides. I want to hear both sides of comedy. I want to see somebody make fun of both sides. Comedy, you can't get up there and talk about all the stuff that the left is doing because God forbid, if you call them out, you're being seen. Yeah, and the same things happen with the NBA. And MLB is almost falling forward with man for it, well what he's doing. But if NBA is wondering why people are pissed off at you,

you disrespected half of America. You made half of America feel guilty for crime, they never committed. You know how ridiculous it is to be with somebody that constantly makes you feel guilt for something you never did? Imagine you're dating somebody that constantly blames you for something you never done.

How long can you tolerate that? Not very long, man. That's what the NBA is doing. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Kyrie. I watch this guy play. He's ridiculous. You know that Pepsi commercial with Kyrie who comes in, he dresses like the old man.

From the movie uncle Drew Dude you don't even know how much I love this guy's game. You have no idea how much I love this guy's game But you have divided America and what you're getting I'm what what you're getting right now It's not as bad as you think it's gonna get but here's a part when a year ago people were saying Why are so many people protesting and writing? Well, why do you think they're writing? Maybe the black community's upset. You're right, maybe they are upset. I give them credence, why they're upset.

Now, to go and loot and destroy businesses, no, I'm not okay with that. But when the shoe flips and I were given the other side, why do you think people on the other side upset at you? Do you think they've run the numbers and realize what's gonna happen when some of the money isn't flowing into the NBA anymore? Because that will happen very shortly if it hasn't already. By the way, I like Tyree. I liked him wiping his feet on the logo.

I thought that was kind of a little FU to the crowd, whatever he used to play there, a little banter, but then you can't have that reaction when someone gets upset that you did it. But I thought it was kind of funny. It's kind of subtly just like his feet. But it's okay if you do that. I don't care if you do that. Just be ready. Yeah. Be ready if you do that. If you do. Hust don't care if you do that. Just be ready. Yeah. Be ready if you do that.

If you do. Oh, hustle off the court then. If that happens, don't be upset if a prideful, proud fan of the Celtics retaliates, who's a 21 year old knucklehead. Don't be surprised. Right. And drunk. Yeah.

You cannot do that to folks who are that. So now, if the NBA, here's all I'm curious about. We're going to go to the next topic I'm sure some of you guys that are listening to this you're like you know but this isn't sports this this isn't sports yeah it's but it's it's sports impact on society it's it's go ahead no I'm just saying this this is this is pop culture here's what I'm curious about Adam this is what I'm curious about Tom all I'm watching right now is to see how Adam Silver responds, because that dictates the rest. When the NFL got really ugly in 2017,

is because of how Roger Godell responded to what? Call in Capronick. I'm so curious to know how Silver responds to this. And you've been very clear on what Godell should have done. He should have called Capronick into his office and said, look, if persons persons upset give him a damn call what you upset about pretending that it was just going to go away was not the so are you upset about that's have a conversation

right what frustrates you let's get to it let's address it and then we move on not not this whole thing that they can place right now i think you can make the argument though that adam silver's the second most powerful person the mba behind lebron i think lebron dictates so much of this i mean i guarantee you he is telling silver how to handle some of the sherry's involved in this in somewhere in other i'm sure of it

i do agree with you on the lebron uh... does sort of run the mba silver obviously the commissioners there i do disagree with you that there's a 0% chance that Gary and Brooklyn, not happening. Dude, they are actually literally, literally the favorites to win the championship with Durant and Hardin. Now, and B just got hurt,

not to get to basketbally, but they are literally the favorites. So to say they have a 0% chance, it's just factually an act. But you know what I mean for, the part I'll give them credence to is there are certain players that distract you from the big goal that create additional type of distractions. I don't mind you know how sometimes coaches would

go out there and they would take the heat. But the heat would take the pressure off the players. So players can just perform in the coach would take the pressure. This is a different kind of pressure. This is unnecessary attention. You bring into the team. Your team's becoming a target. That's what Kyrie's doing. Which is not smart. He's bringing unnecessary attention just by getting

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Why doesn't the NBA say take a year off? No, why doesn't the NBA say take a year off? Why would the NBA want him to take a year off? Why wouldn't you want him to take a year off? Why? Well, exactly. I don't think the NBA is going to come in and say Kyrie, yeah, take it easy, buddy. He's got a contract. As general manager, that'sv a is going to come in and say kai re yeah take it easy buddy yours is got a contract is is is general manager i'm a say to him uh... you're under this much rest you're under this much stress life is that i think he literally took twenty games office here no no taken entire your honor i don't think he's trying to take an entire year because he wants the money that's why well everyone wants the money now but you want the

money and without the freedom of having to be responsible for the money that's been paid to you. I got a responsibility. So the fan that bought a season ticket of the nets, what does he do? The fan that bought a $40,000 court size season ticket, the fan that bought a $10,000 season ticket with his kids for 41 games, 36 years. Well, there were no fans this year for the majority of the season. What does that fan do? What does that fan do who's saying this guy's not playing

what does the face that they want to play out but i mean they had to read that in play how to see and they get hard and there wasn't a team have to see and he hasn't played with at the end of the day i think that just can be it's a playoff uh... i think they're gonna do what they got to do in the play also so we'll see what's gonna happen by the way if you agree if you agree we have have 220 thumbs up right now, no thumbs down. If you agree with the idea of the fact that a lot of this

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Adam, I'm going to go to your favorite story the day. South was pilot sentenced for watching porn mid-flight committing loot act. Very important. I asked Adam and Tom right before the whole thing, what is your favorite story? Guess what Adam said. porn. That's his favorite story. Great. Let's address it. It's a catastrophe.

He's a pilot. Southwest pilot sentence for watching Point Mid-Flight, committing loot act New York Post, a Southwest Airlines pilot who was watching Point exposes generals to a female officer on a flight to Florida has been sentenced to one year of probation. Michael Hock, 60 apologized before US

Magistrate Judge Mark Olsen ordered him on Friday to serve probation and pay $5,000 on the incident occurred on a flight that was he was piloting from Philadelphia to Orlando from August 10, 2020, prosecutors, federal prosecutors said, when the plane reached cruising altitude, Hawk got out of the pilot seat and this roped

and began watching pornographic material on a laptop computer on the cockpit, prosecutors said, Hawk who retired shortly after the incident was charged in April 1 intentionally committing the mood in decent or obscene act in a public place he pleaded guilty to all charges. Adam, since it's your story. Well, yes, it's my story. Well, this certainly puts flying in the cockpit a little to the perspective.

But I'm not f**king too sh**. That's good. So, I mean, yeah, so this guy maybe took that the cockpit thing to literal, but you can't make this crap up. And as I was reading the story, I'm thinking to myself, please tell me this wasn't in Florida. Please tell me this wasn't in Florida. And flight goes from Philly to Orlando.

Florida does it again. Florida man, this time it was actually the pilot in the cockpit. And then obviously right after the story comes out, he's retired. He's decided to retire at his 60 years old, it's time for him to retire, and he's put out the pasture.

So talk about just the definition of cancel culture. The cancel culture. The meat to move. Shame on these guys. The meat to move. Canceling a pilot. Meaning like. Pathetic. Meaning this the meat to the meat to move the meat to move the canceling a pound Meaning like that it meaning this is let the man let the man this row play. Yeah, I mean, but This is everything that's wrong. It's very everything that's wrong in America right now was Literally done in this cockpit right here the meat to movement, the cancer culture, they all have a point here.

And this is, you know, talk about, talk about having your hand on a different joystick as you're playing the plank. You know, I don't find anything about this story funny. I mean, even though it's humorous, this guy makes me sick. He really truly does.

I mean, you are an experienced pilot with 150 souls, I solely would say, right? You're responsible. I mean, could you imagine a real pilot how disgusted they are by this? I'm disgusted by everything. This creep, I think he got off easy. I guarantee you, I guarantee you this.

His, the pilot's union is gonna put a little cocoon around him and protect them. Also, if I'm a pilot, I am so pissed off at this guy because here's my reaction. You don't do shit when you fly a plane. It's all automated. So you have time to look at porn. All right, that just goes to show

that everything is computerized and automated. You're not even flying this thing. The whole thing is so wax, so weird. And to think that he only got supervised probation or whatever he has and a $5,000 fine. And then did you hear how he described it? Here's the quote from Southwest. Nothing of the less Southwest did investigate the matter

and as a result, ceased paying Mr. Hock any benefits. He was entitled to as a result of his separation from the airline. But he says it was like a simultaneous prank that he was doing. What ancient was that man? I got you. I don't know too many other 60-year-old women

that find that funny. So anyway, I think the guys are perv. I'm just wondering what his other fellow co-pilot have to say because this guy's been flying be 60 years old he's probably been flying for 30 years or so and all that as other pilots like oh that's just hawk doing what hawk do just exposing his genitalia I just know moving forward every time on a flight, on first class, and I see the pilot going to the bathroom, all I'm gonna think about is,

I know what he's doing right now, okay? It's all, yeah, he's going. Or, but here's the thing, let me ask you a question. What if the story was different? What if the story was flight attendant and pilot caught? Is that different? Would you have judged it differently? Cut, cut, cut.

Like they were a little caught. On the cockpit, going at it. They were mile high clubbing it. What would you have said salute to the, what Would you have judged it differently? Kot, Kot, like in the back, they were in the cockpit. On the cockpit, going in. They were mile high clubbing it. What would you have said salute to the, what would you have said? Would you have said hi-fi? You know what, I'm gonna, that's what I call you the captain. I'm gonna say, you guys have so much downtime,

go do it in the hotel. I mean, do it in the shuttle bus going back and forth just not half their lives. A mile high up. What do you mean, what other time do I get? I gotta say something. We're talking about mile high, mile high club. You ever, you ever.

Mile high, these are too married, missing at this. You tell us. Oh, okay. Oh yeah, I've attempted to. It's just too small. Just small little bit. The pilot was just flying the plane.

Like it, I'd rather just, you know, dark plane in your seat, whatever, but private is peace of cake just so you know. Well, yeah, okay. But when you're, when you're not. Well, you mean mandatory. If the the door close that is a good point You just tell the pilot. Gentlemen. Can you close that door? Yeah, I think the mile high clubs a little overrated Gross little bathroom people are waiting

They're not rated yeah You gotta get it done in my life, but harmless Doing this yeah, no when the moment it involves Exposing to another person like flight attendant, nah, you're just, you know, you're an idiot to do something like this. There's no difference between this and some of these stories you hear about, some comedians went through, some athletes go through, you're putting yourself in a situation like that if you're doing that. You got to think about it. It was exposed to a female officer, I assume that's the

copilot, is that what that means? So she must have been the person that ratted him out. Yeah. Like that's exactly. So I wanna get her perspective on this. So, you know, who knows what happened there? Who knows what happened? All I can say is if this was two folks going at it in the cockpit, would you have judged it differently?

Well, do you think it's, it might be happening for all of the time. I bet you pilots are sitting there saying, is this guy talking about like this is story What are you talking about this happens every day? We spent a half of our life mile high. Where do you expect us to do something in the hotel after the anyways? So Adam. I hope you're grateful for us sharing your favorite story. So now that we got that out of the way that's great It's now everybody knows you are part of the mile high club that almost, almost part of the mile high club that couldn't get it done because of bathrooms.

He said it was overrated. Do you know when you get into the bathrooms and every plane I go to, you know how I have to go, I'm like this. Exactly. You got to get two people in there. It's not going to happen. No, it's not going to happen. It's a tough situation.

Midgets, they be banging in the bathroom. They do it. They do it. They do it. Little piece. I just got canceled. I just got canceled. It's not gonna be so tough situation. Mijits, they be banging in the bathroom. They do it. They do it. They do it. Little piece. I just got cancer. I just got cancer.

I just got cancer. So that's over. Oh my gosh. I am a little people, buddy. Okay, let's keep going. Let's keep going. So, U.S. airlines refunded $12.8 billion to travelers in 2020. $12.8 billion.

This is a Fox business story. 11 U.S. airlines issued $12.84 billion in cash refunds to customers in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic appended the travel industry and the head of the industry trade group airlines for America, A4A, set in a letter to lawmakers on Friday. Caliose said the cash refunds which count for 20% of airlines revenue last year came on top of billions of dollars of travel credits that are now being used as a rapid clip to book fresh flights to redemption of voucher currently accounts for 10 or 15% carriers,

monthly ticket sales and is expected to increase in coming months as the pandemic winds down and markets and venues reopen thoughts. No sympathy whatsoever for the airlines. Tell me, because they got 25 billion in bailout money at the beginning of the pandemic. They've always got their hand out. They're always getting taken care of zero sympathy. That's my first reaction. Number one, I don't believe them. I don't believe they gave back 12.8 billion dollars. So I'm just telling you right now. That's

not how you meant to do. That's going to be like an audit. If you say it doesn't matter, he doesn't believe it. That's fine. Let him have his opinion. Maybe it could be fuzzy math. It could be mysterious accounting. But you've got a point, you get $25 billion a bailout. I fly a lot. We all fly a lot. Are you actually flying?

No, you fly a lot. I've never gotten money back from an airline. It's a credit on another flight. So if they're trying to disguise that as giving money back, meanwhile, that money's working for them. If you got to get more all to make the calls, you got to make more all to make the calls, you gotta make more all to make the calls. You'll get more than credit back, but go ahead.

Okay, that's true. That's a good point, right? You know, I need to get out, shut up a bit more. But then I always know that there's another flight coming, so I might as well just put it somewhere else. So anyway, that's my two reactions. A, no sympathy whatsoever. B, I don't believe you.

You don't believe the math, that's fine. Tom, so are you saying there isn't some sort of distorted accounting principles that could be happening somewhere? I'm not arguing to you. I'm just saying let the boy wash. Let him do his thing. I'm letting you do your thing. Do you have any opinions? Yeah, I do. I think actually right when the pandemic happened I had actually had a bunch of flights that were booked for March. You know that insurance conference everyone has their spring meetings in March and April. I had spring meetings galore and being in Miami amy the hub is american american airlines so i had a lot of flights book to american

actually got to give a shout out to american they were actually pretty damn good they reimbursed any flights they uh... they said that there's no uh... charges whatsoever for if you're changing flights for cancel flights all good they were actually pretty decent but the one thing that that i thought about um with you know the bailout money is the the speech that Chimath had Chimath Palapatia had at the beginning of the pandemic where basically said let him fail let him fail

people were this was on CNBC people are shocked what do you mean let him fail he's like if you he's right though yeah. Yeah, you know, that's part of capitalism Yeah, freedom to fail. Yeah, so if you took all your money that you received from the Trump tax breaks in 2017 And you used it for stock buybacks and you didn't use it to make your company stronger or invest in the people or whatever You needed to do to make your business healthier and you just use it for stock buybacks You reput your soul, right? So actually when Sh Jamat said that, that was actually the first time that I've heard of him,

I was like, whoa, it was this guy talking about letting airlines fail. What, what, what, what? Jesus smart. And then it kind of resonated with me, especially with all the bailouts that happened. Yeah. It's a pandemic.

What about you, Pat? Here's what I would say about this. I think what airlines, by the way, just so you know, restaurants, the other day I saw an article by Bloomberg that said, actually instead of 50% of restaurants going out of business, only 14% of restaurants went permanently out of business.

I'm like, only 14% of restaurants went out, only 14% of American population died. You know, it's only, no, no, no, no, no, what do you, listen, but then they'll flip and they'll say, 2.6 million Americans, that's how come you don't say only. What do you mean only 14% of restaurants went out of business? This is a Bloomberg story. And Pat, remember of that 14%,

86% of the businesses that are restaurants probably are hanging on by a thread. There's no question about it. No other option. I mean, it's a family thing. So just because they're not out of business, doesn't mean they're like surviving or thriving. Margians are like this.

Margians are like this. Even smaller in restaurants, the way smaller. Margians are like this. Margians are like this. 10%. Even smaller in restaurants. The way smaller. Margians are like this in restaurants. And margins are like this. And airlines. Exactly. When they're good at something.

The airline industry's margins are like this. If I'm looking at this right now, here's what I'm thinking about. Forget about the $12.8 billion that to pay back to travelers. Forget about the $25 billion that they got for what you call it. The bailouts. Forget about all that stuff. Every single airline company out there, if the CEO is going to do anything right right now, here's what I'd be doing. I would have every single C-suite executive mind in the company. Read the book, Blue Ocean Strategy.

I'm going to have a conference call. I'm going to say, guys, let me tell you where we are right now. We need to read two books. One is Blue Ocean Strategy. And the other book is, let me give you the name, it's the story of Apple. Kai, what's the not Apple? IBM. Kai, what's the Apple, IBM book I had you read?

What is it? Elephant stands. How elephant stands? Elephant stands. I had this as my book for executives last month that we went through. Who says elephants can't dance? Can you put that up there so people can see it? I don't make money off this.

I couldn't tell you the author's name. But I had every single one of my executives read this because the recommendation was given to me by David Vega, a new COO that we hired. The guy's a flipping amazing guy. And he said, Pat, why don't we read this book? So we read the book. It's how the IBM CEO came in and cleaned house. Okay.

Every airline company needs to read. Blue Ocean Strategy, I think it's by WC Chen. And they need to read this book, who sets elephants, can dance? Because your bigger problem isn't COVID. Your bigger problem is the last 12 months changed people's behavior. And if this behavior stays forever, you are screwed. If this behavior doesn't change,

you forget about how much money you got dealing here. Forget about all this buyback stuff. You may be going out of business if you don't change your current business model. Business model is broken today, the way they're doing it. They have to figure out a different way. By the way, the idea I would take for airlines is the following. Here's an idea for you on airlines.

When you get on airlines, what can you buy? Actually tell me what you can buy when you get on airlines. That's it. Buz. Now they're given headsets for free or five bucks. Okay. Okay. Buz.

Like, food snacks. What are some of the snack packs? Oh, frickin' wifi. They get a charge. Okay, but you know what, I don't know how much airlines make for that, right? It's go-go. But here's my question for you. I'm sorry. Why don't you put additional things to buy? Like, you know, these games that you get for free and you buy $700 worth of stuff that, you know, I'm in Colombia with my friend Steve and Afo, Afo's like, look what Steve's doing. He just keeps playing this game. Steve was hooked at a game., spent a few thousand. I'm like, what are you buying?

So I'm buying this because I'm trying to do this and Steve was killing it in the game. But they got a guy to go from getting a free game to spending $700 at that. People are spending $5,000 to spend. $10,000, right? Why don't airlines create upsells? What is an upsell?

Okay, if I'm up there by myself, what things do I want or do I need? Think about it, airline industry. What would you like to spend money on and put tears? And the tears could be $10, $50, $100, $500. Some people would spend the money. You're up there like, hey, would you like this? Great, I don't know what it is, but they have to figure out a way.

You got 400 people on a flight. You mean to tell me you can't get 40 grand, make some money off these undivided attention of an audience. You got, stop just selling the credit cards. What other way can you make money off of them? They have those credit cards. They have to start figuring out better ways to make money off the customers that are, yeah,

a sales person. They have to start looking at it this way. If a financial advisor of Morgan Stanley Deanwooder was to be told, hey, every day, I'm gonna give you a hundred different audience to speak in front of, and average audience is 400 people. What would that financial advisor say?

It's freaking sick. That's insane. You're kidding me, no. That's the airline industry. How many flights do you have a day? I don't know, a hundred, 200, 500, 1000. That's 100, 200, 500, 1000 people they can speak to for 400 people on it.

What if you do sponsorship? You bring a Morgan Stanley Dean with a guy that gets five minutes to speak to everybody and Morgan pays you 100,000 dollars for that. Wow, that's a good idea. Bring a man with you. What if you bring a good, what if you freaking do something with this?

That's a ridiculous opportunity. I don't understand what health these airline industries are doing They're thinking this same, you know old school method of running a business is gonna work to you are about to go out of business You better get your act together so two books if they're listening by the way if anybody's in the airline industry or Knows of somebody send this short clip or segment it up so they can listen to this because if not I somebody, send this short clip or segment to the episode they can listen to, because if not, I want the airline industry to stay in business. I want Barnes and Noble to stay in business. There's certain things I want to stay in business, but they need to get creative in the end. Well, the airline industry is going to stay in business, in business. The industry, but just some airlines are going to go out of business. That's the, and that was, I think

Chimalt's, yeah, but I tell you, I just want you to get creative and innovative and creative. That's a great idea. We win. We win if people get innovative and creative. The consumer wins. You and I win. I'm going to say this. You know, some airlines just do it so much better than others and it's so obvious. So shout out to JetBlue, shout out to Delta. You guys clearly get it.

You're very good. Now, I'm going to make another prediction. And as we know, these aren't predictions. This is like looking into history and already knowing what's going to happen with my prediction. No, sure, don't mess right here. You're going to be in another airline bailout next year. 2022, count on it, here's why. Business travel kaput.

All right, now they somehow weathered it for one year because COVID has shut everybody down. Business travelers aren't coming back. Maybe they will to a small percentage, but business travel used to run the airlines. I mean, that was the biggest part of the red line. Number two, they got false hope. They got a sugar high because so many people were spending their stimulus checks on flying.

So then you got that fake thing that you're thinking that maybe you're coming back. And I saw a lot of people that were using their stimulus money to fly. I saw that for about five or six months. And, and leisure travels up right now. Airports are crazy. You may have seen it over the weekend, but that's going to die down too. I mean, because people want to get out there and travel, but that's going to tail off a little at the end of the year with no business travel, with the stimulus money being gone, they're in big trouble, another bailout next year.

I think they could be the next newspaper. I think they could be the next newspaper, if they don't, you know how newspapers went from, everybody had a New York Times, L.A. Times, whatever, USA Today on the table when you went into a business. Yes. And then now we're all going online. I think something like that could happen

to the airline industry and someone today, someone today could disrupt the game in a massive way. Someone could pull it off today. So I don't, I wholeheartedly agree with you that something needs to get done. You can't just operate, you know, as business as usual, like how it's always been done, or else you're gonna be a dying breed.

However, there's clearly some airlines are gonna win and some are gonna lose. And basically what's gonna happen is, at the end of the day, the consumer's gonna lose. Why? Because they're just gonna have less options, less flights, less just options. At the end of the day, if two or three airlines

go out of business, then you're just stuck with American, Delta, United, whoever it is. And the big winners are gonna dominate the marketplace just like in the streaming wars. How basically the rich are getting richer and the bigger getting bigger. The major airlines who are winning this war will divide and conquer and they'll figure it out.

And there's some that are gonna just fail. Like for instance, what's the airline that everyone talked shit about? What's the one airline that everyone's like, oh those guys worse customer service? Well, I don't know what it's called, but you don't spirit. No, not spirit. Yeah, because it's spirit. Yeah. Yeah Is it air-trained? I can't hear you buddy Spirit's different though because they're targeting a different audience. You're going low budget. You don't expect yeah high customer service from a low-budget airline where you can't create business spot and the guy's not changing

He's clear about and people are still gonna fly you're not coming to me for customer service Exactly, you're coming with sheet leg room by the way, you know what I call that I call that a business model Exactly, that is a bit true. That's different There's another one that's emerging too. It's they're going from the smaller regional airports The former founder of jet blue is named as Alex Wilcox He started this airline called JetSuitex. If you haven't flown on JetSuitex, it probably hasn't come this far east yet, but amazing. And there are some smart people in the airline industry that see opportunity and they're trying

to do some different things. And that go on service. I feel like you're getting threatened every time you get on the plane. Everything you can't do, you'll be banned, you'll never be able to fly $35,000 fine. Meanwhile, you got senior Rita and Grumpy in the cabin watching porn, right? And doing that. So it's a crazy world in the air right now. That's the current industry. Well, don't forget, back in the 80s and 90s, how many roads eventually lead to porn? I mean, for sure.

Or the cockpit. Yeah. I mean, how many different airlines merged? Went out of business, Continental. There used to be multiple different airlines. But it's so expensive. Northwest, and they merged, and they came apart of Delta, and then, so, USA, I think, USA, business model.

Business model has changed. Business model has changed. Business model has to change. What you're saying is scary to me. Let me explain to you why you don't want that to happen. Okay, why you don't want that to happen. Okay, why you don't want that to happen. Yes, if these companies are screwing up and you're buying back stocks with the money that you got on the bailout.

Yes, you, the CEO, you shouldn't be running the company. Period. You should not be running the company while you're doing that. That's a bad decision you're making. I got to need to get fired, right? But the point with my issue is, if we only have three airlines guess who's losing customer lose you want six seven eight options we win when there's six seven eight options So you would much rather have six seven eight options that are competing unfortunately right now

I don't see a lot of folks working on business but like I went on these flights I'm like, okay, let me see what they're gonna do differently nothing right This is an opportunity can I ask you a question? Sure. Regarding your up sale idea, which is a great theory, and what we've already talked about the airline history, what about selling porn in the air? They probably make billions. Now all of a sudden you're on the porn side of things. Talk about that.

There would need to be a special section. No, but let me, let me, let me go where he's gone. Let me go where he's gone. Okay, let's just go where he's gone. Okay. Even though I'm not going to get on that flight, but let me go where he's gone. Let me go where he's gone. Okay, let's just go where he's gone. Okay, even though I'm not gonna get on that flight, but I guarantee you there's a model for you. Ready? Okay. Let's just say an airline comes out where all the waitresses or what do you call a flight attendants are dressed like the girls at Mandalay Bay.

They're dressed like the hooters waitresses basically. Let's just say hooters waitresses, but I'm talking about real nice and dressed up, real sexy, you know, where there's an audience for it. And then on there, it's adults only flight. It's truly an adult's only flight. No kids allowed. It's 18 and up.

Like a resort. You know what's crazy? That's a business model. That is a business model. What if on a flight now airlines try to figure out a way to have a casino on the flight? That's a business model. What if airlines can now get approval to have on the flight gambling going on? flight. That's a business model. What if airlines can now get approval

to have on the flight gambling going on? What if there's a deal? What if there's a poker tournament going on on a flight? What, these are all additional ancillary stuff that they could, where someone's gonna say, do let me tell you something man, a five hour flight feels like 10 minutes. That's how you would sell it.

You want a flight from LA to Miami? Our flights feel like five minutes. Why? Because there's a poker tournament going off for six hours. And a winner gets $1,000. You're a fly's taking care. Like, that's the kind of stuff that they can do. I'm just telling you, there's entertainment at some spice.

Maybe new music is a different genre. Maybe people are like Italian music, you know, Dean Martin, top of music, Frank Sinatra. There's an audience for that. Maybe it's an EDM flight. Maybe there's a, I think there's so many people with creative. Is it what you're saying? The first five rows being first class and the rest just being packed in like Sardines isn't a sustainable business model. Moving forward just because it's business model.

But now that everybody else is doing it. Yeah. You're screwed. Plus you're gonna do it. You're gonna have to spend. I know on that flight by the way. I know you were. I know you were.

By the way, I was single. I would also go on the flight. And later Miami and that's what we're doing. I'm gonna go to Vegas. You kidding me, I'm gonna play poker for you. You later Miami and that's what we're doing. I'm going to Vegas. You kidding me, I'm going to play poker for you. You're not going to feel the fly like this, you're landing. The last thing, you know, what are the biggest budget items for an airline is marketing.

You would have to spend almost zero on marketing. You get so much free press. I mean, literally, you'd be getting so much publicity. I'm going to go. The garbage monster gave 499, he says, market a mile high club section. Everybody already wants it, right? Yeah, there it is.

Garbage monster, you get 10 times 10x on your 49 and we just give you $50 on that comment, that's funny. Of course, garbage has to run. It is with an Oscar Solis. Oscar Solis gave 20 bucks and he gave a shout out to Patrick and Mario for answering my message on Instagram. I appreciate the efforts in trying to meet up fluent from Chicago to pay respects to fallen.

Marine God bless those who serve past present and future Oscar You get 10 times on your $20 let's send $200 to Oscars Buffer that comment. Let's continue. Okay. That's awesome Yeah, that's great and by the way again at the end of it We're gonna go through what he called it the logos and if anybody gives super Trident like it. How many people did we pay from last week? I have no idea We got Sam who we got $2,000 we paid already. Can I make one little comment about my two grand my voice? My voice is a little tax today, okay, and I think I know why We got a lot of it. We got $2,000. We paid all rent. Can I make one little comment about my voice? Show up my voice. My voice is a little tax today.

Okay. And I think I know why. You're like, I do. I do. No, the other way around. Yeah. Well, I deserve it. She would never deserve to get yelled at.

But anyway, and I did something so stupid and I knew I'd pay a price. What's that? I hate rides. I hate roller coasters. Right. We went back to Minnesota for a family reunion this week. We had a great time. We have seven kids in our family.

We grew up on a dirt road of 700 people. Seven kids, seven college graduates. I mean, it was a nice siblings. Yeah, so my parents did an amazing job coming from a small town and we just had so much fun going back there. I hadn't seen people. I didn't see nieces and nephews. I didn't see my parents in a really long time.

So we had a blast. But we were in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We were in Minnesota and we went to the mall of America. So we, you know, just hang out there, it's one thing you gotta do, and they have a amusement park in the mall. I don't know if you know that, but it's real, it's a bona fide amusement park,

like I'm scared of all the rides. So that way, you know, it's real. Dash, talk me into going on one of these stupid rides. I screamed the whole time. I did, I screamed, I can't help, I can't open my eyes. I hate rides. I am so pissed. Are you mean sarcastic or something? No, no, no, I'm 100% screamed. I can't help. I can't open my eyes. I hate rides. I am so sarcastic or something. No, no, I'm 100% serious. I am so scared. I can't believe I

went on that ride. I screamed the whole time. Just begging for the least. Tell me somebody. Tell me there's a video to see your face. Oh, my kids will tell you, man. Dash, if you got a video send it to us, Dash, we got to turn your dad into a celebrity. If you got the video send it to us. Well, there's a comment here, Tom. You could just sit the rest the episode out. You don't need to talk anymore. You found that one, didn't you? Thank you. I actually just made that up. However, however, I am shocked that a manly man like you, but it's the right. I'm shocked that you don't, like, that's the fun. I'm petrified. I can't believe I won on the damn ride. So you're basically saying your

11 year old son is tougher than you when it comes to rides. Oh God, yes. Pat's undraw, unborn base. That's our resident conservative ladies. With gentlemen, tough guy. Respect. Respect. Come on, Zetter.

Dash, you are the man. I don't know how many times we have to say this. I can't. You know what I'm picturing? You know what I'm picturing right now? What's that? I'm picturing Dash and Tom sitting there. And it's the old,

Oh my God. Eber him of it speech like bro, come on. Act like you've been here. Yeah, like you've allowed it together. You're 50 year old man. I'm a 10 year old kid. Act like you've been here before bro. I can't do it dash.

Oh man, I wish I was there. I wish I was there to witness that. What was that saying you giving you a slap in his ass off? Come on. Then he ripped me called everybody and said, Hey, this is the funniest thing. Because everybody else on the ride laughs are ass off too. They can't believe it.

Okay. Dash is the shout out to Dash for being the manly man in the fan. One of these days when he's in town with you, tell him we're bringing him on so people can finally meet Dash. So we are. Okay.

All right, let's go through this. Next, exclusive content, Jeff Bezos. Explosive. Explosive content, Jeff Bezos. Explosive content, Jeff Bezos and Amazon now own all the apprentice outtakes and one Trump may or may not have said page three, oh my gosh. There we go again, this is epic here and who out of everybody would buy this.

Okay, so explosive content, Jeff Bezos and Amazon now own all the apprentice outtakes and what Trump may or may not have said this is a VT post story, by Tom Zenerg, Jeff Bezos and Amazon now own all the apprentice outtakes and what Trump may or may not have said. This is a VT post story by Tom Zenerg, Jeff Bezos, maybe speak is seeking to release outtakes from the apprentice that show its host former president Donald Trump making racist and sexist comments. Although the pro Trump and anti Trump factions are likely to change their stance. The Amazon purchase on GM catalog, including the apprentices apprentice is steering the

conversation Stephen co bear eagerly introduced the idea during the late show last week. Why would one of the world's richest man pay almost twice the value for a struggling movie studio and that recently went bankrupt? Well, it could be that Jeff Paisos has an ongoing feud with the former president, Genghis Khan, he calls Trump Genghis Khan. Yes, what? All the outtakes from the apprenticerentice are owned by MGM.

Holy mother of DVD extras. The private footage of a TV billionaire is going to belong to an actual billionaire. Holy, meaning Trump's not an actual billionaire. Wow. Actor Tom Arnold fueled the fire in 2018 saying, I've seen a compilation tape that my buddy shared with me. He said the end word.

He says, he called Eric the R R word and it's not looking good. So what do you thought since you wrote the story? It comes down to this. How petty is Jeff Bezos? I mean, does he have bigger things to worry about than this? Or would he actually do something? Now, there's some substance to this as far as what Corbere says because here's what do they get for this purchase?

They definitely may have overpaid for this thing. You get the James Bond franchise, which is, you know, I don't know how big that is in the longer. You get the Rocky franchise, Tomb Raider, Real Housewives Fargo, Handmaid's Tale, Jack Ryan. But did he do this just to get those outtakes? Now number one, would anyone even be surprised? I mean, if Trump said this, don't we kind of expect this?

I mean, he survived what he said on Axis Hollywood with Billy Bush two weeks before the election. So I don't think it would matter one way or another. It would give the left a little chuckle, you know, and they would enjoy seeing this. But again, it just comes down to how petty he is and whether he wants to do this and who's in his ear because I think Bezos doesn't give a crap about this one way or another. I don't think you can be a successful as Jeff Bezos and make emotional decisions that are stupid. So, who's in his ear?

Somebody that has influence, somebody that really wants him to do it, we'll see. And then it comes down to, do they even have the contractual or licensing agreement to air some of this? Because Mark Burnett tried to tie a lot of this stuff up so he couldn't get out there. Let me just say this. If there's any of this stuff that exists of Trump saying the N word or the R, what's the R word? A retard, I think so. Talking about saying the N word or the R what's the R word of retard. I think so. Talking about his son. That would be my guess the R word.

You never go. Because they said talking about Eric with the R word. Okay. Just respectful for your son. That's unbelievable. Yeah. The R word. Yeah. I guess never go full R word. Never do that. But if that stuff existed, it'd be out there already. I don't give a shit of Bezos bought this, MGM on this. If Trump, there was actual footage of Trump doing this kind of stuff as our good friend Tom Arnold alludes to, it'd be out there already. Are you kidding me? You think they're gonna keep that buried for five years?

Not a chance. And here's the biggest point here. It says, although the pro Trump and the anti-Trump factions aren't likely to change their stances, the Amazon purchased might stir the conversation. Hell no, it ain't stirring the conversation. If there's one thing that Trump did is he drew a line in the sand and said, you're either with me or against me and everyone fell in line. How many people are lukewarm on Trump at this point?

Well, you know, I might or might not be in on Trump. He made it very clear that he's like, I'm here, you're the with me or you're against me. In American film and mine. So again, if this stuff's out there, it exists. And to me, it's does, it's, he's probably never said that because we've seen that already. Here's, here's all I know.

Everything I see here with all the moves that are being made on the left, or people of power like Bezos, like Zach, like Dorsey, like everybody on the left that's making these decisions, it just tells me one thing, Trump's running 2024. There's no question about it, he's running. There's no question about it, Trump's gonna run next two years.

Why? Why do you care? Why do you care? They're preparing that in case he runs. This stuff's not gonna come out next year. You know when that stuff's gonna come out about apprentice exactly in 24 months. Not today, it's gonna come out in 24 months.

And in 24 months we're all gonna be sitting there saying, what is that all about? And people are gonna say, wait a minute. I think every, so everything that's going on with this, everything that's going on with this is one thing. Why are people paying twice the amount of money for MGM? It's only one reason. There's only one reason why somebody would do this because everybody believes Trump's

going to run in two years. That's their biggest fear. They cannot handle another four years of Trump of calling them out every single day. Look how peaceful it is right now. They can do their side deals, they can do their negotiate. They don't want another Trump to be out there. They're so frightened. None of this stuff is gonna show up for at least 24 months.

I see within 24 months all the stuff that they have on the apprentice is gonna show up. And I wouldn't be surprised if they have for reasons. Why would the other already? No, no, no, why would you show it right now? Why would you be sure to fly? When Jay had Grohover, when the mob had stuff on Jay had Grohover, they went up to him and they just showed it to him.

They said, look, we know who you are. to him They said look we know who you are look at these pictures We know who's cross trust if you do anything and you say there is such a thing as a mob We just want to let you know we're gonna show this to the world and they never care. I don't think Trump cares I think if they have this explosive content. Yeah, that would not stop him from running I don't think it would stop him from running I'm just telling you this stuff that they're getting. I don't know if it's not stop him from running. I don't think it would stop him from running. I'm just telling you this stuff that they're getting. I don't know if it's going to stop him from running. I just think stuff that he's going to use to, you know,

a normal professional forecast or you've never been wrong. What are the odds Trump runs again? I'm not saying this for a perfect. I honestly don't think Trump's going to run again. I really don't. And I think this will be the least of his worries because he can handle this. I think it's the indictments that's coming out of New York. I think it's the legal battles.

I just going to be facing the next couple of years. I think at some point he loses interest. I really do. I mean, he's gonna be 75 years old if he's not already. I still don't think he's going to run. I think, well, you know, that's fine, but I think there's gonna be other viable candidates on the Republican side and the power of the Republican

is gonna try to get DeSantis or wherever that momentum is. So I, you're asking me out, pinion. I'm saying I don't think Trump will run. You think he's gonna run or no? Oh, there's no question about it. There's no question. So if you're watching, guys, got nothing else going on. If you're watching this, thumbs up, he's running,

thumbs up, he's not running. Thumbs up, he's running, thumbs up, he's not running. I guarantee you, there's gonna be 90% of him. I'm just curious to know what people gonna say. Thumbs up, he's running, thumbs up, he's running. He's not running. I'm looking at here on what the 421, ask that question again.

You just won up 20. I'll just want to question we're gonna get 90% that he's running all right we'll see we'll see what happened here with that okay let's continue uh... white house pushes back as memorial day weekend gas prices top three dollars for the first time in seven years by the way as of right now regular national gas prices for regular gas is $3.04. Premium is $364. Diesel is $3.17. Okay, that's gas prices as of right now. Yes, that I was asking a bunch of people what gas prices are where they're at and they were sending me pictures

Calabases for premium was $489. By the way, if you're listening to this, can you post in the comment section? How much gas prices are where you're at for what kind of gas and what city you're in? I'm just curious. So let's go into that story page six Story of gas prices. Okay, so the White House on Friday moved to a quail concerns of Gasoline price on Memorial Day weekend surging about $3 per gallon for the first time in seven years regular gasoline average 304 some in seven years, regularly gasoline average, 304 prices, which are the highest for Memorial Dixons, 2014, were $1.08 more expensive than a year ago. When demand was depressed due to COVID-19 demand,

destruction coupled with the price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia in April of 2020 resulted in a crude oil prices temporarily crushing below zero. Dragging gasoline prices, but demand has recently climbed to a 16-month high as more Americans received the vaccine and stated began to reopen their economies at the same time supply forward cover has fallen to 19-month low of 23 days. While price has increased from the lows of last year as demand, they're drastically dipped. Prices at just about $3 a gallon are

still well in line with what they've been in recent decades said, press secretary Jens Sabi Gacki said in a statement. That pee is silent. So let's just play a game here for a second here. There's gonna be obviously a large contingency of people. They're gonna say inflation. There it is. It's the inflation. Biden came in, everything's inflated.

That's it, that's the end of the story. So just play a game and just be open-minded for a second. There is something, you don't need to have a value-tame and economics degree to understand the laws of supply and demand, right? So when COVID hit, supply was very high and demand was very low, right? You had Saudi Arabia and Middle Eastern countries

and Venezuela, everyone pumping out gas and all of a sudden there was zero demand because we couldn't go anywhere. And now, demand is back up. People are traveling. It's Memorial Day holiday. You need gas. You need gas in your car. You're ready to hit the road. You're about to have a good time. I'm going to Minnesota for a family reunion. I got seven siblings. I got to say- Well, that's a hell of a long drive. That's a hell of a point. You did, you needed a lot of gas, this is my point. So it's a simple case of supply and demand. Now, you do hear the inflation is real, and I'm not saying that it's not real.

You hear the other argument saying that it's transitory, and it's transient, and it's only here for a little while. And time will tell what's going on with that. But I do agree that this is a supply and demand thing. And as Jen Saki says, she says, well, prices have increased from the lows last year, which is obvious. As demand drastically dipped, that was basically March of 2020, prices just about $3 a gallon and still well within what they've been in

recent decades, which I agree. Now, keep in mind, I haven't paid for gas in about 10 years because I don't have a car. But other than that, the three bucks at gallon doesn't seem far fetched, doesn't seem inflationary to me. I'd like to see him change a baby's diaper than fill up his car with gas and just see what kind of mood he's in. Okay, Dury, he's capable of doing it. Right, exactly.

What's gonna happen first, though? The baby would probably be doused in gas for all we know. Geez. I gotta clean her off a little. Okay, I'll play along with your supply and demand thing to a certain degree, and the colonial pipeline shutdown has something to do with this on the East Coast and that affects things But nothing makes people more mad then watching those numbers go up and up and up and it costing 75 bucks to fill up your your Your

Your Laptop owners. They're laughing. No, that's true. But you know, this can't continue because a people won't be able to afford it and be This really really ticks people off. And it always goes in these ebbs and flows, and it happens, and there's these peaks, then somehow it gets leveled off. So let's hope, in the next month, this starts to get leveled off

or there's gonna be some real blowback towards Biden. Because we can't live like this. That's too expensive for gas. Especially when you do the things that Biden's doing when you don't want to have any mining here in the United States when things that could alleviate some of this, that's so common sense. Then you go this other route and it's just too expensive. So I'll give him a week or two.

Is three bucks a gallon too expensive? Don't worry. Well, my God, I live in California. Three bucks would be a treat. No, no, no. So here's, let me just give you a price of which is that 323 regular in New York City subs, suburbs, okay? Okay. 280, 3 regular Minnesota, New York City sub-subs, okay? Okay.

283 regular Minnesota, 262 Costco price in North Carolina, okay? 263 San Antonio, 349 regular in Washington State, 375 in Jersey, okay? 340 in Boca Raton, 349 in Vegas, up from 229 since Biden took off. What's gas here, Kai? 410 regular $2.90. 410 regular gas in LA, California, $3.29 Chicago suburbs, 403 premium in San Diego. So these are some different prices that, $4.35 for premium in Bakersville says Chris Jolove.

Okay, so, Pat, is any of this excessive? Maybe I'm just being naive, but $2.3 doesn't seem aggressive. Here's what I mean, that's what you're supposed to say. Meaning the party is gonna say, it doesn't seem that excessive, it's about the, what do you mean the party? That's exactly what Jen said.

Jen said, I'm just saying for me, this is what she said. I'm saying for me, I stand alone, I'm not a party person here. But you're, this is Adam saying, you're to three bucks doesn't seem, Adam what I'm calling. This is, I'm asking, you're the three bucks doesn't seem what she just said. I'm asking you're the two to three.

What she said, I'm saying I do agree with supply and demand. You're repeating her words, okay? Let me read her words while price I've increased in the low last year as demand drastically dip prices at just about $3 per gallon are still well in line with what they've been in the recent day. Is that true or not? I don't disagree with that, but it's gone up and people are feeling it look I think this

the biggest thing you have people are upset about there are like at a conversation one of my guys and he calls me this was like six years ago just pat I just had a meeting with my guys I chewed him out because of you know a terrible month they had last month and I told them this and I told them straight they got to get their act to get said I said, let me let me give you some perspective on chewing out. When your guys are not doing well and it's a bad season, you lift them up. When they're winning and making more money than they've ever made, you have to teach them how to stay humble. So the chewing out, maybe you bring it when they become too cocky to arrogant during when they're winning at the highest level, right? Okay. So today,

all right, today, where we're at, what Stephen Druckenmiller said to USC's business school, he said, I made more money in the last 12 months than ever before. He's worth 10 billion dollars. I don't know if we can play it or not. It's on Twitter, right? Is it on Twitter so we can play it if it's on Twitter? Put it up there, we'll play it on Twitter. You have to hear what he has to say. And you'll see where I'm going with this

because I don't disagree with you. But I'm gonna tell you where I'm going with this. Kai, if you can pull that up. So, is it what you played for us in the meeting? Yeah, but we only need to watch the first minute. So here's a guy that's worth 10 billion that's telling the world, hey, just so you know, when they printed all this money,

guess who made the most money? You just made the rich richer, the more money you printed, because the money constantly flows what? To the billionaires. So the billionaires know how to get the money. You just gave them more money. The money didn't flow to the people that needed the money.

The money flowed up the way you put it in the market. Because, no, it's basically what you're saying is, when a man with experience, man with money meets a man with experience, a man with experience walks away with the money. And a man with, the man with the money works with, because what happens that, right? What happens if you give it a poor man money?

What does he do with the money? He's gonna spend that shit. He's gonna spend it. What happens if you give your rich man who's invested? He's gonna invest it. So, it he give you a rich man who's invested? He's gonna invest it. He's gonna invest it. So it's not the fact that the poor are getting poor because they're not getting the money

or they're not getting handouts. They don't know what to do with the money. This is an educational issue that way. I want everybody to watch this and it's gonna get to your point that you're making. By the way, this man you're listening to Stephen Druckenmiller, I believe. He's worth $10 billion. Okay. Play and see what he says.

I'd like to know what he was worth before the pandemic. With defend and inequality, I don't think there's been any greater engine of inequality than the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States the last 11 years. So here in the chairman talk about visiting home shelters, homeless shelters is very, very rich indeed.

I just had the best year I've had in 15 years last year. Everyone wealthy I know is making fortune. And why are we making it? Because this guy is printing money like there's no tomorrow. And the kids in Harlem, in my opinion, are not benefiting from money printing, but stand drug-emiller and other wealthy people are. So for the life of me, I can't figure out why the left is so excited about money printing. And all the data says, the people that benefit from money printing a rich people that know how to navigate.

What a perspective. The markets. So prices on bad is who. Okay, so if you want to listen to the rest of, put the link below if people want to watch it, they can go watch, it's a too many video, I recommend you watching it. Here's what I would say to you Adam.

I'm not affected if the gas prices go to $20 a gallon, personally, I'm not affected by it. I'm not gonna be affected by it. Because to me, it's just going to be 20 times 20 gallons of my truck for 100 bucks. I'm fine with it. I'm not affected by it. So this isn't every time they do these types of things

with gas prices. It's like, well, it's just a norm. Here's what's happening. The exact audience that they want to help is who they hurt. The exact audience that they want to help is the who they hurt The exact audience that they want to help is who they hurt. So now, inflation, three bucks, you're right. It's not nothing ridiculous. We've had three bucks on the last decade.

Yes, the highest on the last seven years, the last time it was higher than three dollars was under Obama. Okay, that's when gas prices were higher. Under Obama's gas prices were higher. Trump brought it down. Biden's bringing a backup. Democrat, high Republican low, Democrat bringing a backup again with gas Okay, why?

They sit there and they have good intentions. There's a lot of times in life like the other day Dylan Dylan got hurt He got injured biking. He's a pretty active guy. So he's got scars all over the place like a dash tap of a guy You saw the scars, but it's not looking good. It's pretty bad. You saw pretty you saw pretty shredded up so I I see it and It's pretty bad. You saw it. You saw how it looked. It's pretty shredded up. So I see it.

And the first reaction when Sena says, oh my gosh, it looks bad. She come like, so I come home and I said, guys, guys, guys. I got this kid. I'm gonna love on him, but this is something that he's got to realize. If you play sports, you can have a lot of injuries. He has to know that this is not the ending of it, right?

We went through it. How much do you think in that moment I want to love on the guy? Kiss him, hug him. I'm so sorry, it's okay. You have no idea how much as a father, you are in pain seeing your kid being pain, but that's not what he needs. Many policies, we think are the right thing to do because we feel so bad for people. Look noble on the beginning, but end up hurting them. How many decades do we need to go with the same exact policies?

Until people finally realize these policies don't work? You're not going to bail people out of bad habits. Rather than doing this, teach them better habits. I'm going to make a prediction to you. Here's my prediction to you. Gas prices three bucks. Okay. Random bold prediction. Don't be surprised if in the next 12 12 months gas prices go between five to $10. A gallon. Let me say that one more time. Do not be surprised. If in the next 12 months, gas prices go to five to $10 in an X 12 to 24 months.

When that happens, if gas prices go to $7.25, who takes a hit? Wall Street? No. Who takes it? Hollywood stars? No. Who takes a hit? Those who take ubers, you're going to feel it.

Who takes a hit? Those who go and buy the milk at the market for $3.99? Now you're gonna pay for $4.99. Because whoever's delivering that has to what? That cost has to be counted on for the delivery of the equipment. Who's gonna feel it? Amazon prices gonna go up. Whole food prices gonna go up. You know, crogr price is gonna go up.

Regular day-to-day stuff you buy is gonna go up. Inflation is coming. There's a no way they can fight manipulating the market for this long, having interest rates being low and one percent for a lot. They are begging behind closures, finding the most manipulative ways to keep inflation down. But it's at a point right now that you can't do

nothing about it. 12 to 24 months. When gas prices, remember, write this date down kind of your notes. So we know which podcast to go to to cut to short clip. It's podcast episode number 65 in today's date is what? June 1st. I want you to write down notes.

When I ask you, we're going to come to this. Gas prices are going to go five to $10 within the next 12 to 24 months. And you know who takes the biggest hit? Low income, middle income family, not Wall Street, who. Well, true. But that'll be one of the biggest crisis is this country's face If gas prices go up to five hundred dollars. I mean, there'll be an absolute river. That's Venezuela I mean literally what's going on there yet?

But but but but we're getting to a point where again low income middle income is going to pay the price and Every time these folks keep keep giving money out thinking it's the right thing to do, you're hurting these guys. My kids asked me questions. That can we get paid to read a book? No. Can we get paid because I ate my food? No. The other day, the kids are getting ice cream.

I come on my like, Mubba, why is the kids getting, oh, because they ate good food. I said, let me get this straight. I said, they got ice cream because they ate their food. Yeah. I said, since when do we give kids ice cream? I said, I'm sorry, Dad. My dad's sitting right there. I said, Dad, did you give us ice cream when we ate our food? They said, we got ice cream once a month.

I said, I'm sorry babe, how many times did you get ice cream? So we never got ice cream. I said, mama, what is the system with kids get ice cream because they ate their food? You're supposed to eat it. So I brought the kids and I said, what is your exp? I said, so this is the ice cream. So, oh, I can't stop them from getting the ice cream.

It's in the freezer. I said, oh really? So I now cannot buy ice cream because the ice cream sits in the freezer and kids can come and take it. So I grabbed the ice cream, it's in the freezer. I said, oh really? So I now cannot buy ice cream because the ice cream sits in the freezer and kids can come and take it. So I grab the ice cream, I bring it out. I said, kid, it's coming out. We're gonna have a conversation together.

So do you want me to trust you? Yes. I'm a trash, she's ice cream's right now. If you tell me you are gonna go out and take the ice cream without asking permission, I'm trashing all of these. Do you wanna develop trust with me? I do that, Mava.

If you cannot lead these guys without eating guys or just because they ate their food, I'm gonna try to choose you. So what do you guys want to do? No, no, no, no, move in focus. No problem. You don't get ice cream for eating your food. America right now with the policies, we're just giving ice cream to kids because they ate their food. You're supposed to eat your thing. God, you have food to eat.

We're giving people rather than saying, let's go create jobs. Let's go get a job. How about these 10 million renters? How about these 10 million renters right now that the bailout for renting is coming up in 30 days? 10 million, okay, what are they gonna be doing? We've been paying their rent for 10. Do you know what a catastrophic issue that is

if we can no longer bail these guys out? For how many months have they not been paying rent? 15, can you tell us about this? 10 million because you wrote about it. Yes. So that's coming. So the moratorium on, you know, not being able to evict people is going to end. It's ending and when is it July 1st?

Yeah. So you know that these landlords will do it immediately. They're pissed off. I mean, they haven't been getting paid. You know, it's caused a lot of hardship for people that own these businesses as well. So it's a real deal and it's gonna adversely affect the African American community. I mean, it's right there in the story, the whole thing.

So yeah, because the left, they can only think day to day. They only think about making people like them for one more day and to keep them acceptable and keep them in office. They don't care about any long-term solutions or using any real strategy to fix this stuff. But that's coming. And I know landlords and I know renters. And it's going to be affecting them big time. Yeah, I mean, this is important to read. It's a lifetime thrown to 10 million plus struggling

renters in the US has only 30 days to run. And many of the Americans face eviction. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention helped to establish an eviction moratorium that began last September and provide assistance in the wake of pandemic. Today, we're reporting to getting millions are behind on their payments. There's real danger coming as the June 30 deadline approaches. By the way, this is real. You really want to see protesting? Raise gas prices.

You really want to see protesting? Give people free rent for months and all of a sudden, tell them it's going to go away. Watch the real kind of protesting. You're going to see. And then what are you gonna do like you said next year? What's coming another stimulus another stimulus and then all of a sudden we're sitting there saying We have taught the American people in the last four years. We can send the money We can send the money and then gas prices go to 10 bucks Then they're gonna say how can you raise gas prices 10 bucks? You asked for it

You asked for it. Yeah, this is what took place This is gonna I mean this is if you really think about the impact of this because covid and everything just it gave you this sense this fall sense of security like you're going to get these stimulus checks things are going to be take care of but this is real there's going to be people on the streets here in 30 days which is the last thing this country needs is more homeless Adam thoughts. No that's it's going to be a major issue like I in my prediction is that they're gonna extend the moratorium past June 30th.

Got how much longer can they do? I know, I agree. I agree. I think at the end of the day, September is going to be the de facto date where all this is gonna come to an end because kids gotta go back to school. Life has to go back to normal.

You might wanna give people a heads up. Not that there isn't a heads up already, 30 days, and I'm sure if you're getting your rent paid for, you're very closely tracking the story. But at the end of the day, I wholeheartedly agree with you. We can't just keep printing money like this. It's absurd. And giving people ice cream because they ate their food

is a very good analogy right here. And I agree with you. Watch this. How much you love Uber? These days, I like Uber more than left. I used to be a lift guy. What I mean by, I'm just saying that model. Look, not the name. Forget about Uber or Lyft.

It's fantastic. Okay, the model, right? Okay, so for you, you have money. You're great, I would choose. Things are okay. You're an expert. You don't wake up in the morning stress that about money.

You're very disciplined. You are somebody that has in the morning stress out about money. You're very disciplined. You are somebody that has your own show, soft talks money and people, by the way, your episode yesterday that came, I got a lot of love on the commentary. They're loving what you're talking about on it. Thank you. By the time it economics.

But you are teaching the basic fundamentals of what it takes to create good habits that eventually could get help you get out of death, right? Correct. You didn't come out of wealth. You didn't come out of family. You had a family that passed, we got a $2 million check, that did not happen to you, you just stayed disciplined

over the years. Are those basic fundamentals that you teach transferable to anybody else? Oh, 100%. Who can we teach those basic fundamentals that you teach? Everyone on America can anybody learn it. Now, here's a question for you. What percentage of America do you think actually applies?

What you're talking about? Well, the stats show that 75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. So the odds aren't good. So let me ask this question. Why isn't the government focusing on education? Like here's an idea for you. What about the White House's YouTube channel? The White House's YouTube channel.

Forget about all this, Prager U.A. What if the White House's YouTube channel. Forget about all this, Prager You are. What if the White House's YouTube channel creates content for a year straight all having to do with educating them on how money works? What if your approach, what if the approach became, let's educate the basics of money. What if the approach became, let's educate you on the tax pro, why we benefit entrepreneurs. What if the approach became, how to become better parents, how to become better adults,

how to become better innovator, what if we taught the basics? What if they did that? I think the responsibility of the school system needs to be changed and that's, I think, a more important. Well, I get that, but all I'm saying is we look up to these folks at the top.

Okay, we look up to these people that are running for office or their governors or senators or congressmen or presidents. They have such a massive influence that they can make that even their business model way. You know how we talk about American, like the airline industry needs to have a new business model, like their business model no longer works.

America's political systems business model also needs a little bit of revamping. I agree. It's also needing to read blue ocean strategy. They also kind of need to sit there and say, what the hell are we up to? What are we doing here? You know, the scary thing.

If you even making that suggestion, we laugh at it because we know they would never do that, the White House, and creating that type of content because it would go against everything that they're trying to do, and everything that keeps them in power, right? I mean, the last thing they wanna do is empower people to maybe do better on your own.

You'll not depend on the government more. That's their business model. And that's how much longer until a YouTuber becomes a president. Um, our lifetime probably. Okay. I agree. I agree. By the way, this is not, I'm not saying I'm going to go around for, I'm not born here. So a lot of people that say, if I want you to run, not born here, I'm not interested in the governor.

But how much longer until YouTuber runs for office? I think it's gonna happen next 20 30 40 years and what if a youtuber is a president and This youtuber decides to use White House's YouTube channel for an approach of education What if somebody becomes a president and they actually document what the president does on a daily basis and we follow the president's journey? The daily vlog of what? actually document what the president does on a daily basis and we follow the president's journey. The daily vlog of what president is. What if we actually went, what if a YouTuber comes out and says, my campaign's gonna be the following, transparency and here's how we're gonna do it.

Look, there's certain things I can bring you on the inside because I cannot have our enemies see what we're doing. But pretty much everything else that I can, I wanna show you what my day looks like. I wanna show you what time I wake up, I wanna show you what things I deal with, family, kids. I just want you to see what we're going through here, and I'm comfortable with it.

What if a YouTuber takes that approach? So I think it's eventually going to happen in the next 20, 30, 40 years, and when somebody does that, they're going to be known as an innovative president. They're going to change the game, but it's going to be a 20 year old right now that's watching this or listening to this.

A 30 year old that's sitting on saying, I think I can do something about it. by 50 years old they're going to be able to do some like that. Sure. And an infinite influencer becomes president. They're for sure going to do that because that's what would have got them elected. Well, I actually think you have your spot on right here, Pat, about that. I think, you know, it's funny because a YouTuber might become president.

That's just a famous person at this point. Before, I mean, celebrities, like the, how long ago were the A-list celebrities just Hollywood? Hollywood only. Now, you got YouTubers, the Paul Brothers as an example, who are the biggest names in social media and media. Logan's gonna have legs. Okay, I know you're a big believer in Logan. Jake, he's a little more of a trashier version of Logan, but I know you're a big believer

in that guy. That guy's just famous at this point. He's an YouTube famous. You all these people. The fights coming up, are you gonna go? It's just weekend. It's this weekend. Logan Paul Floyd made weather.

I'm not, I'm not watching it though. I'm buying that thing for sure. Who you're rooting for? Logan Paul Floyd made weather. I'm rooting for chaos. I just want chaos. That's all. I don't care who wins.

You don't care who wins at all? Yeah, I mean, it's obvious who's gonna win. But what do you mean it's obvious who's gonna win? It's obvious who's gonna win but what do you mean? It's obvious is gonna. I was gonna win You talk about the greatest defender of all time what are you talking about the greatest defender of all time? So you think you think the greatest defender of all time Okay, you don't think you don't think Logan Paul is gonna touch him There's no way you can get close to that guy. He's the greatest defender of all time You know how many tricks to the game he knows yeah, he knows all the true

You think a guy's gonna come just because he's training with, you know, the King Ryan guy, the guy that I Ryan Garcia, I love that guy. I love what he's doing. It's just not going to happen. By the way, guys like that have legs long term. A Ryan Garcia has legs long term. A Logan Paul has legs long term. Those types of guys have legs long term to do something. A Justin Bieber has legs long term to do something. I'm telling you guys right now, for sure. To play along with that point you made a few minutes ago,

money versus experience. I mean, that's what we're gonna see on that floor, or on that ring, because you do realize that any second of that fight, Floyd could end it if he wants to. Logan drops his gloves for one hand, he makes it, or for one second, he makes one mistake, he turns the wrong way.

It's done. I think he's probably going to go easy on him. I'm not killing him, but it'll be a boring fight because that's how Floyd now. You're asking me who I would like to see. Yeah. Of course, I'd like to see Logan Paul win. Oh, you kiddin' me. Who wouldn't want to see Logan Paul win? Well, a lot of people, they got a lot of haters. No, not love to see Logan Paul win. It's under the, I'm the underdog community. I'd love to see Logan Paul win. He has a prediction. I think Jay Paul is going It's under the I'm the underdog community. I'd love to see Logan. I think Jay Paul's gonna upstage the event somehow. He's gonna do something where he becomes the bigger story after this fight. Listen, whatever anybody is saying, you're gonna have to put up with the Paul Brothers for the next 50 years. Period. I think for sure. I don't know,

Jake's you're gonna have to put up a shake. If he's alive in five ten years, that's the challenge. That's going to be the challenge. I'm not even joking. That guy's the kind of guy that a crash bird really is. I don't think you're joking. And he saw that he just announced that he's gonna be fighting the trainer to who's the guy that he just beat, Ben Ascraner. Ben Ascraner.

Ben Ascraner. His trainer. So, in my opinion, that guy's got to fight a real boxing guy. Let's talk about your story. Let's talk about the Biden story in China. The one you like, tears, well, page five. I'm going to do both of them at the same time. So if you want to go to page five, this is Adam's story

that he wants us to cover, which is a great story. So Biden wants the second one is. Biden wants to make moving to the US from abroad easier and cheaper by revamping the immigration system to the business inside of the inside of the story. Biden administration plans to rebuild and expandamping the immigration system to the business inside our story. By administration plans to rebuild and expand the US legal immigration system according to a 46 page government document

seen at the New York Times DHS plans to restore trust and our legal immigration system to draft documents outlined plans to undo President Trump's effort to make immigration more difficult, X-Men 7 slower. Policies described in document would help more people move to the US including refugees, asylum seekers, traffic and victim skilled workers, families of American living abroad, and Native Americans born in Canada,

Biden administration plans to revamp various programs and immigration system including H1B1 visa program for highly skilled workers and the US visa program workers. Document approach. So what do you think about this? What do you think about this? I think making it easier. I think part of the problem, and I think part of the problem that Trump ran into was, I know people are gonna say, he wanted legal immigration, he wanted legal immigration, he wanted to build a beautiful wall with a big beautiful door, and that's great, and that's all good.

But he under, the underbelly, the undertone was that he was sort of anti-immigrant. So that was what a lot of people were offended by. What I think, I'm, look, we need to welcome immigrants in this country. Immigrants are who make America. You're an immigrant, okay? My grandparents were immigrants from Russia. Russian-Oscanazi Jews that came over here, had nothing and made a living and made a life.

And I think the biggest thing, what did Reagan, his most famous quote is we wanna be a shining city on a hill and a beacon of hope for the world. I think that's where America has lost his stature under Trump. There was a lot of good things that happened under Trump. This isn't a Trump hater. Are you saying stats or you spit not the lines?

Is this stats or lines? I'm just saying, this is my opinion here. I think number one, we need to welcome. Because stats disagree with you. Okay, well, let me just tell me why. Go ahead. No, I think we need. I think we need.

Show that Obama deported more people than any other president in the history of America. To Mexico. That's, that's, that's, that's a big, I'm talking immigration overall. But no, overall. But immigration overall, the main issue was from the Mexican border. We don't have issues where people come in here from, you know, Iran or China or, you know, it'll leave you.

There's a lot of people coming and not leaving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't have a problem with that. The problem why people said Trump was anti-immigration was only one country and it's not one of South or Central America. That was the problem. So when you're talking about immigration, if you talk stats, that's favor against you. He did talk about shithole countries and then to having people come from shithole countries.

We can't dispute that. I know this is the turning into a Trump thing. This is more of a commentary on immigrants. Immigrants should be welcome to America. Yes, we want people that work hard, that pay their dues, that want to make something of themselves. But you can't, beggars can't be choosers kind of a thing. People are, we want people to come to America. And there's some money behind this. Tax revenue. We do have social security pay for it. Baby boomers are getting older getting older we need young people able bodies to be working in America paying taxes What we do no one this is when there's a lot of people there's a lot of people that do disagree

I don't think so there's a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment. I don't give me a name. There's a poll out there. There's a poll out there Kai you might want to pull this up. It's not about the bullet stats.. Give me a stats, I'm not polls. This is a stat. That's not a stat, that's a poll, that's opinions, that's opinions, a poll is an opinion. I'm asking stats. If you give stats, no one deported more people, then Obama. Again, I'm not trying to get political here,

I'm talking about pro-immigrants. I get that, so if I read this article, your business insight, okay, look how they read it, look how they write this article, you can tell which way they lean, just by the way they wrote it. Policies described in the document would help more people move to the US, including refugees, asylum seekers, trafficking victims, skilled workers, family of Americans live in a broad and Native Americans born in Canada.

Now if this was an article written about Trump, you know what I would say? He, Trump, policies-described and document would force families to split up, would force the way they're writing it as if it's like an angel Biden is doing the greatest thing. Look, we know what's happening here. You want more votes. It's exactly what they want.

Pelosi said, I've always done, we should make votes at 16 years old. You want a 16-year voting? Hey, we should get more people that are immigrants on document people to vote. Of course, that's all political. This is a political plan. And Biden won't even address the fact

that there is an issue going on in the southern border. So I think you lose a lot of credibility when you're talking about immigration, when you can't fix a pretty major problem that we have going on right now in this country. So the credibility is shot. And people welcome immigrants. We've always done that.

And I don't think immigrants care about being welcome. They just want the opportunity to come here and be able to work and do their thing. That's all they're looking for. So, like, you can't trust them. I mean, it's a complete mess with what's going on down there. You know what I would say about this, guys? Here's the following. Okay. So, to the person that is 43 years old, has been been living in US for 25 years. Parents came here and they've been here for 25 years. They're Americans, they've lived in America more than they lived in Mexico.

What are we waiting for with legalizing these people? What are we doing? You're talking about the dreamers. Yeah. How are we doing? Thank you for saying that. What are we doing? Like what are you doing?

Like this is, this is, this has been part of, these kids didn't do anything wrong they were under eighteen when their parents came here yeah you want to talk about the dot market that i don't understand that concept of our republicans won't agree to that i i i don't by the way you all bomb had a chance to do nothing happen or you what do you mean the republicans voted against it but but you mean to tell me the last 40 years democrats are republicans in charge should make it happen this is not a

republican or democrat is though i i'll get democrats are the one i'll say sixty percent is the more republicans hold them at forty percent is democrats i'm a six sixty percent republicans forty percent democrats they've had both both the house and i'll send out a senate to be able to pull this up how come you haven't done it how come you haven't done it half the time why shit doesn't get done is because they overnegotiate when you overnegotiate you go intootiate, you go into gridlock.

When you go into gridlock, nothing gets done. That's the half the challenge that they got. You ask 75 different things that you put in there and the other party's like, let's see, I mean, I'm not doing this. You're trying to pull in $25 minimum wage by 2025. I'm not agreeing to this. So these are the types of things that they trust.

Yeah, they should have shit in there. But to me, did you been living here for 25 years? You're not one, you don't wanna make this person legal? How much taxes has this person paid? Sales time, how much taxes has this person paid? Let's just already flip that. What now? At the same time, you got a criminal record?

Hey, felony, you got all that stuff? I'm sorry, different story. We have to figure that part out of clean house as well. But for that community, I don't know. And also, here's something, and I actually think Trump was actually pro this. So this is actually me giving Trump credit, this H1B visa program.

These are highly skilled workers. These are someone who comes. Why would we loosen them? Why would we want someone who comes over here from India, from South Korea, pick a country, goes to university, learns to become an engineer. And then after they graduate, you send them back. The only ones I would be very concerned about, the only ones, and I'm being dead serious

with you, the only ones I would be very concerned about are those coming from China. No, those coming from China. And a bit of Iran, by the way. And I'm from Iran. I would be very concerned. I would do additional due diligence to see where it's coming from. You know, it's crazy. Did you watch that video, Kai sent two nights ago

or last night about Africa? Did you see that? China basically bought Africa. China basically bought Africa. They built the African Union headquarters with $300 million and later on in the middle of the night, every night they're like, wires are system down.

China was getting all the emails, all the data, the employees, every office was wire tapped and they're listening with Africa's up to, what is their monarchy? So they pay for their infrastructure, right? And that's a good segue into the next story. The craziest part, that video though,

was with the furniture and how like in the furniture there's wires, there's bugs made custom into the furniture. Like, how crazy does that? I would back there. Very, very careful with China, in which family it's coming from. That would be me, my own, and it's unfortunate to say this.

What do you mean, which family? I want to do more due diligence of what your background is as you're coming here. I want to know where you're coming from. I want to know what your motives... Oh, when you're coming to America, that's the only thing. I'm a little bit concerned with that part, but aside from that, I mean, I get it.

You know, I get the fact that when talent comes here, you go to our school, we train and we send you back. What are we doing here? Let's keep you here. Yeah, let's keep you here. Keep talent here. Keep talent. That's smart, talented.

Yep, no question about it. Let's go to the next story. Bold plans. Joe Biden says China's goal to own America before 2035. VT post story, President Biden during a speech to American service members in Virginia said Chinese leadership thinks it will own America before 2035. We're in a battle between democracy and autocracies.

I talk about autocracies. Biden told troops at joint base, Langley used this in Hampton. The more complicated the world becomes, the more difficult it is for democracies to come to get and reach consensus. I've spent more time with President Xi of China than any other world leader leader has for 24 hours of private meetings with him, just with just an interpret of 17,000 miles traveling with him in China and here, he firmly believes that China, before the year 2035, is going to own America because of autocracies can make quick decisions, Biden said.

The US's political landscape has never been more divided and that appears to be among the reasons Biden believes China could think it has an ownership opening. Got a real problem with this. And he also brags about the fact that no leader from America spent more time with the Chinese president that they traveled together for 17,000 miles and then they were together for 24 hours

with Justin and Turperter and they're discussing these things. Why are you telling us this in the fashion that you are? Why aren't you more like, China thinks they're gonna own us, but I'm telling you right now, I will not let that happen. It's not going to happen on my watch. I didn't get that from him saying this.

I would just, China has clearly has a strategy to do this. Part of the problem that there's this division that he talks about is because of Biden. And I would just like to hear something from him saying, yeah, we know what you're up to, and we've got a counter plan to make sure that doesn't happen. Like, he just made it seem like fact as opposed to,

this is a huge problem if China thinks they're gonna own us and we're not gonna allow it to happen. How come this isn't a huge, like issue for him? Look, I have a lear for me. I think it is. I think you're just reading the headline and just making an assumption. He's basically saying, we need to do something about China.

I think the biggest fear when Biden came into office was people saying well He's not gonna be tough on China and that was all Trump Biden is basically saying look I'm gonna pick up where Trump left off, okay? He's been like I what's my favorite show that I watch every Sunday? It's for read Zakaria and he's a very smart guy and he basically said in a world where Americans are so divided The one issue that we all agree on is the threat the China is imposing. And he went off for five minutes on the threat the China is imposing.

And this guy is a liberal, very smart guy on CNN, and just went off on the fears of China. So it's very easy to say, well, the right is doing everything against China and the left isn't. That's just not true, okay? Plus, look at what's going on in the world. You said the biggest threat to China potentially if the world coalesces and actually fights China. So you have India, you have Australia, you have Japan, you have all the countries in the South China Sea that are basically saying, oh, the EU, keep in mind, enough's enough.

Let's get to the bottom what the hell China is up to. So I think in theory, saying that Biden isn't doing enough or the world isn't doing enough is great to say, it's great for headlines, but I think in actuality, people understand that China is a major threat. Yeah, I don't know if I buy that. And here's how I see that. Is it fair to say that Hunter has had some dealings

with China? Yes, yes. It's a fair to say that it's public right now. He writes about itings with China? Yes, it's public right now. He writes about it, people talk about it, it's public. It's nothing that anybody is fighting, that there's not any issues there. Is it fair to say that Hunter had some bad habits and addictions that maybe when you're addicted to a drug, you tend to make stupid decisions. Is that a fair assessment when you're on crack? Read his book, right? You make bad decisions. He talks about it openly. Is that a fair assessment when you're on crack? Read his book, right?

You make bad decisions. He talks about it openly. Do you agree with that when you're on drugs? You make bad decisions. Yeah, I, okay. Where are you going with the bunch? I'm gonna go with the same thing. Stay with me here.

Is it fair to say that if you're dealing with folks in China and you like drugs and the enemy knows what you like, they know how to persuade you and then they know how to get information from you, which means in a situation like this, do you think China has intel on Hunter that we don't know about to persuade you and then they know how to get information from you, which means in a situation like this, do you think China has intel on Hunter that we don't know about? Do you?

I don't know. I think for me, if I'm a betting man, I'm gonna say 10% the answer is yes. I think China has some stuff on Hunter, which means any conversation to have with Joe, it's gonna be based around Hunter. The whole story with Jay Ed Groover went with them and they said,

hey, just so you know, the next time you act tough, here's what we have of you. I have a feeling there was a moment where she said, let's walk out over here and I want to talk to you by ourselves. Here's what we have. Moving forward, here's what your script is. This is what you can say and here's what you can't say. And if you don't, it's not going to be nice for you.

I just want you to know this. If he didn't say it, somebody may have told him that. Maybe completely wrong. I may be completely over speculating. That's why I said 10% credence I'm given to this. What upsets me the most about this is the following. There's a story about Facebook, ending bands on post-asserting COVID-19 was man-made.

The story came about last week, it's a Wall Street Journal story. Facebook has ended its ban on post-asserting COVID-19 was man-made or manufactured a policy shift that reflects a deepening debate over the origins of the pandemic that was first identified in Wuhan, China about 18 months ago. President Biden on Wednesday ordered the U.S. intelligence inquiry into the origins of the virus. The White House has come under pressure to conduct its own investigation after China. After China told the World Health Organization that it considered Beijing part of the investigation complete, calling for

efforts to trace the virus's origins to shift into other countries. Let me read this one more time, folks. I want you to list. I'm going to read it slower. The White House, this is a Wall Street Journal article, this is not us writing it, this is Wall Street Journal. The White House has come under pressure to conduct its own investigation after China told World Health Organization that it considered Beijing's part of the investigation complete. Let me get this straight. I'm going to read it one more time. White House has come under a lot of pressure to conduct its own investigation because China told World Health Organization

that it considered Beijing's part of investigation completely. Like, listen, we checked on it already. Don't worry about it. It's okay, America. Nothing really happened. You don't need to do anything. Calling for efforts to trace the virus's origins to shift into other countries. Earlier this month, a group of 18 prominent scientists called for a deep-on investigation

into the circumstances in which the virus emerged, including the possibility that a laboratory accident released it. Facebook and February began to ban on claims the virus was man-made or manufactured as part of its list of misleading health claims that aren't allowed. So here's my problem with this. Here's my problem with this. Look, it's March of 2020. We find out this virus is, I think the first person died and the, you know, the shutdowns was taking place, you know, Disneyland, all this other stuff that was taking place.

Trump goes and travels flights from China. What does Biden call? Racist. Zina phobic. Racist. What does Nancy Pelosi do? She goes to Chinatown and says, look, these are good people. And he says, wait a minute, what are you talking about? I'm banning this because it could be man-made. The moment anybody on the right said they released a virus. You know what they called those people? Crack top.

Conspiracy theorists. The word conspiracy theorists. The moment somebody tags the conspiracy theorist on you, what happens to you? You lose credibility. You know what's crazy? The whole scandal with Russia for three years, that was the ultimate conspiracy theory ever.

There's never been a bigger hoax than the Russia scandal, the dossier that Clinton's paid $35 million. There's never been a bigger scandal than that. That was a scandal. The moment it came out that it was a scandal and was a conspiracy theory, the media stopped talking. It was just kind of like, oh, the Russia scandal is not real.

Okay, well, let's talk about this here because, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, three years you've been talking about this, address this, no, no, no, no, no, we move it out, we have to go over here. No, no, you just talk, okay. So they are, there's so much hypocrisy there because a year ago, the Democrats had only one plan and here's what the plans were. And as a registered independent who thinks Bill Clinton was a decent president, who thinks me, who thinks Bill Clinton was a decent president, he was able to get things down with Newt Gingrich.

Me, first president I shook hands with was Bill Clinton. The independent guy here sitting here saying, a year and a half ago, you silenced anybody that said it could be man-made, because in your mind, you only had one thing in mind. We have to figure out a way to blame COVID on somebody. Who do we blame COVID on, one person? If we do China, the guy gets re-elected, because it brings the entire country together.

You know who we have to blame? We blame Trump. Because if we blame Trump, we win the election. Everybody went off of Russia's story. They went into the China story, Trump's fault. They put all the pressure and the fault on Trump. And what does Trump do? Here's what Trump does. He gets elected a week later. Vaccine comes out. He loses the election. A week later vaccine comes out. Who did that? But Fauci says it's going to take 18 months to have vaccines. Oh, I'm sorry.

Fauci brought the pressure. No, Trump brought the pressure. The handling of COVID may have been one of the greatest handlings of a pandemic, a president has done without any training on it. No one's been talking about training on this for a long time. No one's gone through it. No one's gone through it at this level.

So like, oh, here's what we got to be doing. This guy handles it well. He handles in the right way. They divide. They pin it on him. After he loses five months later, all of these guys have a conference calling. Not they want to say could be man-made and Facebook removes. How many billions of views of people who had opposing arguments about this being manmade was taken down? How many doctors who did an interview with ABC talking about, hey, this virus, how many of those interviews were banned? Remember that whole African American doctor that went up and she talked about it, she got like hundreds of millions of views taken down.

The doctor from Bakers will take it down. Why? Because it's an opposing view. I'm sorry. So what is a conspiracy theory? What percentage of conspiracy theories are right? This whole alien thing was a conspiracy theory. Everybody's not talking about it aliens. This whole JFK thing was a conspiracy theory Everybody's talking about JFK assassination. All of these things you call the conspiracy theory

Guess what they just did as a person who's a hardcore skeptical guy myself as a person who's hardcore skeptical You know what this whole nonsense about Facebook saying we end ban on posts asserting COVID-19 was man-made. You know who won? Here's who won. Conspiracy theorist won. They won. You now have to sit there and say, I'm sorry. These conspiracy theorists were in conspiracies. Maybe there was some weight behind it. It's not okay to do that. Look, Charlemagne God calls out Kwame Brown, hardcore, okay. Talks about his family and all this other stuff. You know what Charlemagne did?

Here's what Charlemagne did. He got up and he gave an apology. Beautiful apology. I listened to the whole thing this morning, it's six minutes. Hats off to Charlemagne. Media, are we getting an apology? Facebook, the Judy Mike of its interview that was taken down, the virologist that was taken down, all the

posing stories that were taken down, are you are you are you going to give any credit to what happened to the last administration or is this is China is a COVID still Trump's fault? Is that what it is? Oh, now it's China's fault. Here's the biggest opportunity we missed on. This is what this is what upsets me the most. And I'm on a wrap up because we got found my home here your thoughts and will wrap up. We may not even get a chance to go into the what we call it. Logos because we got the other thing. Adam here's what upsets me the most. We had such an opportunity last year for America to be united man. We had such a big opportunity last year to be united. 9.11 united us.

We had such a big opportunity to get united last year. We missed a mark. Who caused it? Partly Trump, because he wouldn't prevent what he'd be in the whole divisive. The last two presidents, prior to Biden, the Bolton divisive. Obama was divisive, he was divisive.

Constant dividing. And then the left, the media two presidents, prior to Biden, the Bolton divisive Obama was divisive, he was divisive. Constant dividing, and then the left, the media, everybody, we had such a beautiful opportunity last year for America to come out being stronger, but we came more divided. We missed a massive opportunity because we could have shared one common enemy, and it would have been who, China. But you know why we couldn't have done that?

Because if last year we would have said China's enemy, Trump would have been real elected. And that's one way of looking at it. And a lot of people do the Democrats were so obsessed with Trump and their only objective was to get him out. Russia didn't work. I mean, they tried like hell to have that work. It didn't. They had, no, this is people's theories. Now, the other thing, the byproduct of what they did is they knew if the economy would tank. That would be another big role in Trump not winning. And that was another byproduct of this whole thing.

And the saddest thing about it in my opinion is, we did miss an opportunity to become united and have this be something that can draw the country together. But there's certain factions that just don't want that. And the mainstream media is one of them. Unfortunately, that's not good for their business and it's not good for their model. So you're not going to get those types of stories or the truth in some cases where that's going to, you know, happen where the country's going to be united. And as a matter of fact, they're going to go the opposite direction very, very hard.

I'd like to see where Facebook goes from here because if they're basically saying we're ending the ban, are they going to give some reasoning, some justification, like what's the story behind it? They don't have to do that. The guy who went on James O'Keefe and who was a former Facebook employee and he said all the stuff that he said, Facebook fired him, the next day and said, Sue us, do whatever you want to do. Do what you got to do. Well, I think the silver lining here, and I do agree with you, whether it was the media,

whether it was Trump, whether it was COVID, whatever it is, everything has gotten so politicized and we are as divided as ever i would love to see the country rally and unify against a common threat or continent common enemy of china and uh... as as someone who gets the label of the resident leftist here i could tell you that uh... we are equally concerned with china and about time at them i would say about time because about a year ago you were not. Well, are you gonna you're upset with me that it took me a while to come around?

No, no, no, no, no, no, my frustration is the fact that many smart individuals like you miss the mark might might and by the way, I'll go through this at some point in our lives. You're not the only one. You know what the you know what the biggest challenge is? Is those this is the problem Adam if lives. You're not the only one. You know what the biggest challenge is, this is the problem. Adam, if I give you the problem, this is the problem. You know how you're like, here's what's starting to happen in America,

which is actually not a bad thing. The problem is when Republicans see a thing Sean Hannity says, and they're like, I don't if I agree with that, but I have to because I'm a Republican. I'm like, you know, Anderson, I don't know if I agree with that, but shit, I'm a Republican. I'm like, you know, Anderson, you know, I don't know if I agree with that. Shit, I'm a Democrat.

Yeah, I agree with that. You know, I don't know if I agree with that. You know, that whole thing, that's what everybody went through last 12, 18 months. Everybody was longer than that. Yeah, no, but yes, you're right. I think it was because of Trump. Let me just remind you, real quick,

I was a registered independent, full on my entire life. You never voted for Republican president, so that's, that's, that's, I was a Clinton guy, but what's your point? I was a, but you say that as if like you are like, you probably never voted for Democrat. I have, of course I have.

Of course I have. Clinton. Of course I have. You didn't vote for Clinton? What year? What are you talking about? You voted for Clinton before. What are you talking about?

My point is this, here's my point. I was a registered independent. Yeah. What year? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? My point is this. Here's my point. I was a registered independent. Yeah. And then when Trump showed up, I became a Democrat. Okay. So now that he's gone, it's a lot easier to be an independent thinker.

This was Trump's gift and curse. Yeah. You were either with him or you were with him against him. And for someone who was against him, he could not hear you. But you were against him emotionally. Yes. Whether I was against him emotionally or logically is a relabat, but you lost or not you, but people don't have common sense.

Because if you would have seen, and that's my point, if you would have seen the policies, there was no Palestine is real issue. There was no ISIS issue. There was no gas issue. There was no economy issue. There was no wars. There was none of that. There was no gas issue. There was no economy issue. There was no wars.

There was none of that. There was fake Russia, which was fake. You know was fake. Yourself, we've talked about this. That was the ultimate conspiracy theory where for three years all we heard about is the fact that this guy's got a deal in with Russia and he's got he's on the inside with Putin. It's all we heard. None of it was true. What happened? COVID came, best crisis for the left. They used it. They kicked them out. And boom, he's out now. We're dealing with all this other stuff that's going on today. So that part, yeah, I have a problem with that. And yes, I'm glad finally, many people are finally realizing the real enemy, the last 18 months has not been Trump. The real enemy, the last 18 months has been one country in his China. And now you want to say, you can say last year because you have to blame Trump on it last year.

You're finally figuring out this, you're not you. You being biting into camp on the other side that's saying, and you voted for that. There's also 86 million people that voted. So to label people, wine, or like that's like, I think they are. I actually do believe, I do believe majority were blind because the main, what is the main method of where majority of people get their information to places what are they

media social media social media both are controlled on one side yes you're right both are controlled on one side Hollywood one side sports all all the most of the sports commentators what side are they on left yeah what's that are they on namely one right guy that's a big name in sports he won't have a John Give me a man Troy ackman is a football guy. Yeah, okay, who else outside of Troy you read your book? Who else? Joe Buck who else give me anybody from ESPN that stays there Anybody from ESPN that keeps their voice. Oh really the guys on the left who else you think Stephen a Smith 100% is on the

Adam are you kidding me? He's so funny. You're so funny. We've talked about anything Stephen A. Smith true. Yeah, I think he's I think he's a center of life guy, but he's on the left. Oh, I thought you thought he was on the right No, I think he's a center left who if you talked about his real values that his mom taught him he'd be a center right But he can't I'm good with anybody who's center left or center right the problem I have are the leftists or the complete right autocrats out there. That's my biggest problem. I don't give a shit if you're center left. I don't give a shit if you're center right.

What I don't like is if you're too far left or too far right. And that's where, that's basically what we're at in this question. I wish we had more time with you folks, because this is when it was starting to get juicy. If you enjoyed today's podcast, smash that subscribe button and the notification button. And any of the short clips's going to come up later on today. If Kai is able to get them to us, we'll share it with you a couple of them. I think our word sharing with others.

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