PBD Podcast - Maduro CAPTURED! Venezuela, China & Iran Respond + Walz Drops Out & Khamenei's Escape Plan | PBD Podcast | Ep. 712

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick discuss the dramatic capture and U.S. indictment of Nicolás Maduro, speculation over Tim Walz dropping out of Minnesota's Gubern...atorial race, Mamdani’s NYC bus fare increase, and reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has a Russian escape plan.-----📕 VT CULTURE BOOK: https://bit.ly/4aL3Rw6🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever signs, right here. You are a one of one? My son drive there.
Starting point is 00:00:26 I think I've ever said this before. All right, folks, hope you had a good weekend. Obviously, top-of-the-line story, Maduro, how they got in, how they took him. And I saw one of the best memes yesterday. The meme said, it's shown a picture of Dick Cheney. It says, Iraq has oil. I need eight years, $500,000 troops, and $2 trillion to go get it. And on the bottom is a picture of Trump.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Tom, please turn that off, Tom. Okay. And then on the bottom is Trump, and it says, Venezuela has oil. All I need is three hours and a few helicopters to go get him. Can you imagine? Like all this criticism, and they did it in three hours and the way they went and got him was an incredible thing. And Ahmadine in Iran is apparently playing hide and go seek. He's running around. He may be going to Russia. They're trying to find out where he's at. Tim Waltz is doing a press conference today. And Tim Waltz may be possibly saying that he is not running again for governor, and he's now blaming Nick Shirley. He's going after a 23-year-old after he exposed all the stuff that was going on out there. Anyways, there's a lot of stories to cover here. Tim Waltz is not a fan of Nick Shirley, and guess what?
Starting point is 00:01:44 We love what Nick Shirley is doing to go out there and leer about what's going on in Minnesota. I think we are leering a lot, and hopefully Tim Walts is as well. A couple other things. Trump suggests that US use cyber attacks would turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes. Shout out to the Delta Force, by the way, of what they did. And if you're in New York, listen, whatever you do, folks, I don't know what else to tell you.
Starting point is 00:02:07 If you're in New York and you're trying to buy gold or sell gold or don't use track's name while you're messing with them. The guy, he tends to expose you. And, you know, if you haven't seen this video yet, it may be the most viral video on Instagram this weekend. I have to show you on what happened, the sequencing of it. Very interesting story of the gold issues that happened there. General Dan Kane describes Thailand of Maduro's capture.
Starting point is 00:02:33 We'll talk about that. China slams U.S. hegemonic acts after strikes on Venezuela. China's not happy about it. World leaders largely expressed concern. Some praise about U.S. capture of Maduro, Venezuelans, and South Florida celebrating Maduro's capture. Iran denounces U.S. active aggression against Venezuela demands U.S. intervention for peace and security. And apparently president of Mexico Shinebomb also made a call to UN to say, hey, can you get
Starting point is 00:03:01 involved because she's worried something may happen to her. Joe Biden mocked for very unfortunate ex post that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. If you haven't seen Pete Buttigieg, nice guy, sweet guy, sweetheart of a guy, rough weekend. Truly a rough. I'm not talking to his personal life. Rough weekend with what happened on X to him. Not a good situation. You guys got to see this. It's pretty bad. We're supporting his recovery from this weekend on X. But Harvard professor calls out university exclusion of white males and scathing public resignation. Tom has some commentary on that. It's incredible. Minnesota government whistleblowers claimed they were electronically surveilled, had promotions denied. Canadian snowbirds flocking to sell their Florida homes amid Trump feud face huge losses at market tanks.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Iran's Khamenei lashes out at protesters as nationwide anti-regime unrest grows. He came out and tweeted something saying, we're going to bring the enemy to its knees. I said, you are the enemy. Forget about bringing the enemy to its knees. And by the way, apparently he is running off, heightened somewhere in Russia allegedly. Let me put that word allegedly in there. And then no future for us disaffected Iranian states, now or never to topple the regime. Powerful image of Iran, lone Iranian protesters in front of security forces.
Starting point is 00:04:21 draws parallels to Tenement Square Tankman, which will show you here in a minute, reports say 41% of Netflix shows for children contain LGBTQ content in 2025. Megan Kelly, she's not done with Barry Weiss, declare CBS News, legacy media dead as Barry Weiss feud escalates. Former CBS reporter, Catherine Harris, reveals how executives delayed her reporting on Hunter Biden laptop. We may talk about that. And then it's going to be a lot of stuff with Maduro. It's not a pretty sight on what happened down there.
Starting point is 00:04:55 But the way they did it, what a freaking amazing way of going out there and doing it. By the way, Trump hints support for fringe theory that Venezuela rigged the 2020 election. Obviously, there's some talks there as well that people are not happy about. And then subway bus fees and bus fares rises to $3 in New York City on Sunday. And they're like, wait a minute, I thought you were going to make everything free. And then Mamdani, Vinny's telling me this, says, I told you I'm going to make buses free, but not subways. So you had to raise the fee by, what, 10 cents?
Starting point is 00:05:28 10 cents. Even Maduro was complaining because when he got to New York, when he was a girl-up. He told me. They made him pick up the tab. Yep, that makes sense. California band declaw and how you can manage your cat's claws now. Is that really a story?
Starting point is 00:05:42 Yes. I'm dead serious. They passed a law. A declawing law? If you cut their name. it's illegal in California because cats are declaw D claw not like remove the nail clip them yeah clip them or remove no not clip them remove remove let the cat guy all right well we'll talk about that it's removing the nail it is what it is all right
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Starting point is 00:07:16 all over the world. Okay. Having said that, let's get right into it. Rob, let's start off with Maduro from Venezuela. So, General Dan Kane describes timeline of Maduro's capture. Rob, if you have that clip, let's start off with the capture and how it was done of Maduro. Go forward, Rob. At 10.46 p.m. Eastern time last night, the president ordered the United States military to move forward with this mission. He said to us, and we appreciated Mr. President, good luck and Godspeed, and those words were transmitted to the entire Joint Force. Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea across the Western Hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters,
Starting point is 00:08:08 intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, rotary wing were in the air last night. Thousands and thousands of hours of experience were airborne. Our youngest, crew member was 20, and our oldest crew member was 49. Wow. And there's simply no match for American military might. As the night began, the helicopters took off with the extraction force, which included law enforcement officers and began their flight into Venezuela at 100 feet above the water. As they approached Venezuelan shores, the United States began layering different effects
Starting point is 00:08:42 provided by spacecom, cybercom, and other members of the interagency to create a pathway. Overhead, those forces were protected by aircraft from the United States Marines, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, and the Air National Guard. The force included F-22s, F-35s, F-18s, E-2s, B-1 bombers, and other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones. As the force began to approach Caracas, the Joint Air Component, began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela, employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area.
Starting point is 00:09:31 The goal of our air component is, was, and always will be, to protect the helicopters and the ground force and get them to the target. In other words, guys, over 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, reconnaissance launched precision strikes on Venezuela and air defenses, military sites, to throw them off, by the way. And then 201 helicopters, the Delta Force, reached Maduro's fortified compound, forced face fire. One helicopter hit, but flyable, responded with overwhelming forces. Maduro and wife, Celia Flores, seized Maduro reportedly, tried fleeing to a safe room but failed. No U.S. fatalities. Minor injuries reported. Extraction completed.
Starting point is 00:10:16 420 local time. Maduro couple flown out abroad helicopter to U.S.S. I-O-Gima, then to New York for charges, narco-terrorism. And by the way, if you can show the picture of him getting what he look like with the, he, his eyes, they had to shut his eyes so he couldn't see where he was going. Look at that right there. That's what he looked like. Drinking water, having his, you know, workout suit, middle. Can you imagine middle than that? And by the way, there's a bunch of different reports. Again, shout out majorly to Delta Force. When you see the amazing work they do and how low-key was, going in, in, backdoor. By the way, do you know they've been working on this project since August? They've been working on this since August. Rehearsing and everything, right?
Starting point is 00:11:01 Since August, they've been gathering Intel to know exactly how to do this, and it was officially done. Tom, I'll come to you first. What was your reaction when you saw this? The markets reacted in a very different way. Some people are saying, I cannot believe you're doing this to Venezuela. We are involved that we shouldn't be doing this you know rachel maddow you know what are we doing why are we now running again trump himself by the way if you got the clip of trump is this the one when he says come for me you coward rob is this the one go to and play this clip so he's instigating that's my favorite go ahead rob me here i just got three things to say god bless our troops God bless America
Starting point is 00:11:43 and gentlemen Start your At you just love it Don't you just love it If we're going to be honest If we're going to be honest Tom I'm going to give it to you He requested the president
Starting point is 00:11:59 To come get him If he didn't do it The left would complain at him They'd be like Well how dare you ignore a minority You ask for it Come get it, you got it Period
Starting point is 00:12:10 Tom Well, the first thing that, you know me, I break down everybody's words very carefully, and so I was listening to the general there, and he said we began layering in effects, and we began disabling and dismantling the any aircraft systems. Supposedly Venezuela, and I dove into this a little bit, but supposedly Venezuela has the China anti-stealth technology. Well, apparently it didn't work. Apparently it didn't work.
Starting point is 00:12:36 The layering effects they're talking about were electronic countermeasures, and potentially cyber to create, as they said, the corridor for rotary wing. When you hear them say rotary wing, that's helicopters. And then disabling is cyber or other electronic means. Dismantling is, you know, noise, where you saw the bombs and everything that were hitting any aircraft targets and hitting also their radar installations. And so this was, the layered effects was just tremendous. The more I read about this.
Starting point is 00:13:09 and the more you set back is that the mainstream media has got a defense analyst out there I know CNBC has one, but they didn't talk about it. I'm reading secondary tertiary sources like Janes on armament and everything to say just
Starting point is 00:13:24 how amazing it was to go in there, shut everything down. They call it closing their eyes. They say, okay, close their eyes, and that's radar and everything. So that was number one that kind of was very inspiring to me, the way Delta force did it so well, and the technology that was underneath there that creates this overwhelming multi-layer effect
Starting point is 00:13:43 where we basically go in and out and what was really good that was preserved was the was the people that maduro doesn't care about his own citizens his own citizens could have been in the middle of a firefight could have been secondary casualties but they weren't they got in they got their target got out the other thing i found very interesting as i went to the political side is it was not lost on me that the rest of the world is upset because they lost a Marxist country and they lost a Marxist leader. That's on the side of the globalists that want the socialist Marxist. They lost one of their guys. And that's their funding, there's a Chinese gentleman that's funding protesters in America, put Maduro back, put Maduro back. They just took an L. Marxism took an L. They lost one
Starting point is 00:14:31 of their guys. Think of it as a monopoly board. They just lost one of their key properties. And There's a couple clips down. Those are the two things that I was thinking about. Good point. So there's a couple clips of people being asked who are there for protesting. And I have no clue what to say. But before we go there, Rob, let's go on the clips that you have for the president. Let's start off with this one and we'll go to the other one, Robin. And Adam Vinay, I'll come to you guys.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Go forward. Maduro in the dead of night. It was dark. The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise. that we have. It was dark. By the way, go back, go back.
Starting point is 00:15:16 I cannot, listen, I have so much respect for people that can hold it together and not laugh. It takes every single one of its abdominal muscles to not laugh right there. Marco Rubio, look at his face. Go back five seconds, Rob.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Go back, but we have these lights. We can turn off. Look at Rubio's face. You know he's looking at friends. And he's getting ready to crack up. First play, Rob. He looked at somebody that he wants to laugh. He's holding it together.
Starting point is 00:15:44 Expertise that we have. It was dark. Okay. So listen, we got to give props to rule. You have to get props. Okay, so here's him on the phone. Go ahead, Rob. Incredible job.
Starting point is 00:15:57 These men and women that went out there last night, the courage they had, going into an area where, you know, all the lights were turned. We turned off almost all of the lights in Caracas. I mean, this thing was so organized, and they go into a dark space with machine guns at basing them all over the place, and then you hear from a guy that I'd never even heard of him, but you hear from some congressmen saying, oh, this is so terrible. We're saving lives.
Starting point is 00:16:24 And by the way, the boats, every boat, because that's sort of related to this, every boat that we hit saves 25,000 lives. I love it. I love how it's being broken down. to what they're talking about. Every boat we hit saves 25,000 lives. And by the way, here's some of the protesters. Okay, so check this out.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Let's show some of the protesters on how they're reacting to this. Go ahead, Rob. I love this one. I'm organized with the revolutionary communists of America. We're out here to say hands-off Venezuela, and we unequivocally stand with the people of Venezuela against U.S. imperialist aggression. What do you think about the people of Venezuela
Starting point is 00:17:04 celebrating on the streets? What? What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets today? I saw images of Venezuelans being bombed after the U.S., you know, bombed Caracas. So I'm not sure what you're talking about, but, yeah, I think you should definitely... Can you show me the bombings that you're talking about? I didn't see any... I don't know.
Starting point is 00:17:23 I just saw it on Reddit. It was on the front page of... Oh, right. But what do you think about the people celebrating, the hundreds of thousands of people that are in the streets celebrating? I have yet to see... Can you show me that? Yeah, yeah. Sure.
Starting point is 00:17:34 U.S. imperialism. Celebrating on the streets, too. What do you think about that? I mean, at the end of the day, I stand with the people of Venezuela against U.S. imperialism. The U.S. has no right to bomb the people of Venezuela. The U.S. has no right to kidnap another...
Starting point is 00:17:52 Put to the other one, rather than the other kid. There's another one that's very funny. The other one I sent you as well on... Not that one. That's the one right there. Go ahead. Watch this one. What do you know about Nicholas Maduro? Um, I don't know much, bro.
Starting point is 00:18:08 I don't know, fool. But I'm here with Central CSO, and we fight against all this with, like, the, with Trump, the Trump administration, ICE, police brutality. So we're just here in support of all that. Just make a list. What does Maduro have to do with all that? I don't shit, bro. I don't know. Food the Dodgers.
Starting point is 00:18:28 I mean, it makes sense. You know, Nicholas Maduro is responsible for almost 8 million people leaving Venezuela. That's a Dodger fence for you. Like a quarter of the population over the last decade. I mean, he's contributed a lot, right? Yeah. Take that hat. Watch it.
Starting point is 00:18:41 But, you know, we, we're supporting. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, go Nicholas Maduro. Can we do that? Let's do it. Go, no? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:50 He realized, he realized by Dan. What do you know about Nicholas? Okay, Vinny, thoughts. Well, last year, we talked about signal versus noise, and I think the noise of the left is falling on death ears. Nobody cares. You know what the signal is? the people of Venezuela, okay? I have yet to see one Venezuelan, Tommy, one, be like,
Starting point is 00:19:10 what are they doing? It's all leftist, white liberal women, and people that are getting paid to do it. And by the way, this noise is paid for by the enemy. Okay, the hands-off Venezuela protest that was happening in New York, supporting Maduro was organized by the People's Forum. That's an NGO that received over $20 million from a billionaire who lives in China, FYI, with Ty to the CCP. The NGO's primary funding is from Neville Roy Singham. Singham's residence is in Shanghai. His business ties with
Starting point is 00:19:41 the CCP. He attends CCP-related events and he funds media outlets echoing Chinese state narrative. None of these people know what they're there for. All their signs are bought and paid for. It's the same as the no kings. It's the same as all that paid and inorganic protesting. It's all horse crap. And the most
Starting point is 00:19:57 important, I think, is with everything that happened, China, we talked about this before, was visiting while this was happening the day before Maduro met with Xu Shinki, I can't even say the name representative of the Chinese government on Latin American Affairs at the
Starting point is 00:20:13 Miraflores Palace where he asked Trump to come get him. Maduro said, I had a pleasant meeting with this guy, special envoy to President Xi Jinping. We reaffirmed our commitment to strategic relationship that is progressing and strengthening in various areas for building multipolar world and development of peace.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Okay? Let's not play games. China is our biggest threat. They're not an adversary. They are our enemy. Look what they did with COVID. Zero accountability. And they're laughing in our faces, okay? We have to deal with them, I think, head on.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Okay? If not, what's to stop them to do another COVID or a cyber attack and all that stuff? I think the drugs and all that stuff is a cherry on top. But I think this strategic thing with Tom, China, Russia, it's such a great move that I think that he did because now it's ours. Okay? And guess what? Yes, we're going to get money from the oil. Good.
Starting point is 00:21:05 They're going to make money as well. But why is China and Russia over there? Stay on your own side of the hemisphere. We don't want you, Adam, if you think about it, why are they here? Why are they letting them get close? This is a great move, I think, by President Trump. And if I hear one more person go, we're going to war. He did this, this attack was in one hour.
Starting point is 00:21:25 That's an episode of Friends with commercials. In our. I love it. I absolutely love it. Now, America is back. We're back. Adam. Well, F around and find out.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Shout out to the U.S. military. Shout out to Delta Force. Wow. We are some gangsters out there. So I'm from Miami. I have so many Venezuelan friends. There's such amazing people. So the happiest people in the world today are Venezuelans.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Second to that are the Cubans who understand the struggle of Venezuelans. The cheering going on in Miami all over Miami all weekend was profound. This is the biggest. like on the street protest parade excitement since 2021 when there was the Libertat Free Cuba Movement 2021 since then the biggest parades since Fidel Castro died in 2016 because the people of Miami who have had to flee socialism
Starting point is 00:22:17 and flee communism understand juxtapose that with insane white liberals cheering for Maduro imagine how far your head has to be up your ass to be cheering against Donald Trump, against the Venezuelan people, cheering for Maduro. These are the people that shout, no kings. These are autocrats that have hijacked
Starting point is 00:22:42 that have hijacked countries like Venezuela, like Cuba, like Iran, and the people of their country want freedom, liberty. So shout out to Trump, shout out to Pete Heggshead, shout out to Marco Rubio, and major respect to the Venezuelan people. You know how bad it is when Anna Navarro who hates Trump I mean there's certain people that you can tell that literally that cannot stand
Starting point is 00:23:07 a person she would be on that list but look what she had to do it was so tough for her to do it that even her dog in her background was upset saying please don't do it okay watch watch her here giving praise to the president go forward today for me is a good day
Starting point is 00:23:23 because Maduro is out he is a son of a bitch I hope this sends a message to the other sons of bitches in the region. You may disagree with the way Trump did it, but it's done. He said it was going to end any other way, because once he started bombing boats, and we've bombed boats and alleged drug boats and killed over 115 people, I think Trump thought getting rid of Maduro was going to be easy,
Starting point is 00:23:54 and Maduro was going to scare easily. He didn't. It took him doing this, So yeah, he did it with our congressional authorization. This was an act of war. All of these things, but it's now done. I think it doesn't escalate from here because the objective of this was to get Maduro out. Anyway, while you're seeing that, I just wanted to show that. But you know what's my favorite clip out of all of them?
Starting point is 00:24:20 What is it? Can I tell you what's my favorite clip out of all of them? Because you realize the president said they're running the show right now. Through the vice president that became the president and who was acting all tough on TV. But behind closed doors, she's following order. And Trump said, I think she is.
Starting point is 00:24:38 This reporter here that Marco Rubio goes on, she's asking the question saying, how come you didn't get more people? Why did you only get Maduro? Why did you only do this? And just watch, this is why Rubio, to me, is slowly becoming the number one draft pick for 20.
Starting point is 00:25:00 28 election for president. I just want you to see this. Go ahead, bro. Please play this clip. Curious, because you just described the regime as still in place, essentially. I mean, I'm curious why the Trump administration decided to leave it intact and only arrest Nicholas Maduro and his wife. The person who controls the police, the chief thug, Diazdao Cabello. He's the interior minister.
Starting point is 00:25:26 He's been indicted by the United States. he was in that indictment the administration released he's a narco terrorist there's a 25 million dollar price on his head he's still in place the defense minister who has deep ties to russia 15 million dollar price on his head he is still in place i'm confused are they still wanted by the united states why didn't you arrest them have you seen you are taking out the narco terrorist regime you're confused i don't know why that's confusing they're still in power simple. You're not going to go in and wrap up. You're going to, but yeah, but you can't go, you're going to go in and suck up five people. They're already complaining about this one
Starting point is 00:26:04 operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to capture four other people. We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country. Who wrote that question? And he was arrested, along with his wife, was also indicted. And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation. It was. It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country. The guy lived on a military base. Land within three minutes, kicked down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter, and leave the country without losing any American
Starting point is 00:26:40 or any American assets. That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time? I mean, that's absurd. I do think this is one of the most daring, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long tremendous credit to the U.S. military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable. And tremendous success. And today, an indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela, who we don't recognize, the Biden administration didn't recognize, 60-something countries don't recognize, the European Union doesn't recognize, and many countries in Latin American don't recognize. He was a convicted. He was a indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested. His wife was
Starting point is 00:27:22 arrested also indicted. The others who are also indicted are still. The others who were also indicted are still in place. So that's the point of my questioning there. But you talked about not being the legitimate president. So you wanted us to land and five other military bases? No, I'm asking why you chose that this was the limit of the military operation. The limit? But to your point that you just made that that Maduro was not the legitimate president.
Starting point is 00:27:47 He was the guy was claiming to be the president. Right. Well, I'm curious. Is this not? Does she think the U.S. military, Superman? or Batman or Spider-Man, what planet are you living on that you can't just give praise to the U.S.
Starting point is 00:28:02 to the U.S.M.S.M.C. to Delta Force saying, wow, what an unbelievable operation. Why don't you take out every single bad guy in the world? Because that's not life works. She got up in the morning, took a shower, slipped and fell, hit her head, and woke up as Lindsay Graham.
Starting point is 00:28:16 So it's like, why didn't you get more people? Why don't you attack more things? To me, the irony here is you have a liberal media outlet in the mainstream media actually calling for more military intervention. Weird. Weird. No matter which way you put it, this is the best thing.
Starting point is 00:28:34 The hypocrisy that is seeping from the left right now. Okay, so we're going to object to anything that Trump does. Okay, so now you're defending Maduro? Yeah. Now you want more escalation. You're criticizing what he did in Iran. So now you want the Ayatollah, Palms. This is the hypocrisy that's happening there.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Trump can cancel your income taxes and leftists will be like, I want to pay taxes. They're going to complain. It's so stupid. And we'll talk about hypocrisy. Bush and Obama spent three trillion dollars. I'm going to say that again. Three trillion on the wars.
Starting point is 00:29:06 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. We lost almost 2,500 United States military soldiers fighting the damn Taliban. And the whole time, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. Okay, wrap your hat. And congressional approval, how many strikes happened under Biden with no congressional approval? Do you guys know? Ready for this? 165 strikes.
Starting point is 00:29:26 85 in Iraq and Syria 10 in Syria Iraq combined 70 in Yemen The same with Obama Obama killed Osama bin Laden Zero congressional approval And George W Bush got congressional approval
Starting point is 00:29:39 And invaded Iraq Retorted He and Obama invited Libya Killed Qaddafi No approval in 2016 Rob do you have that chart How many bombs did this guy drop Mr. Black Jesus
Starting point is 00:29:51 How many 26,171 bombs in one year. So when I say, I love that you came with the signal versus noise. Nobody's hearing your noise on the left. Nobody cares.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Who the hell gives the damn what Harry Sisson thinks about this whole geopolitical stage? Nobody gives the damn, all right? And Pat, just I have a chart And Obama killed
Starting point is 00:30:11 the U.S. citizen abroad and knew that he was going to do it. Yeah, oh, thousand percent. Pat, did you see the chart about Poland and Venezuela? Go to that chart, Robbie. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Oh, is this the change in fortunes? Yeah, look at this chart, Pat. Did you see this? Zumaanrabi, Venezuela, per capita countries, gross domestic product divided by popular. Look at that and go back up. Once they become socialist, look what happened. Once Poland said, no, we're not going to do it.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Look at what happened. Isn't that weird? Poland versus Venezuela. Who would have ever thought this was going to happen? Who would have thunk? But I have a different angle. I want to see what you guys think about this. Immediately, when the bombing happened,
Starting point is 00:30:50 immediately on the third, right after, Trump started posting stuff on truth, social, about the 2020 election and dominion. Okay. And one of them was Robbie, I think is one of these. Pat, look at this. This was a Venezuelan military intelligence whistleblower confirmed the CIA outsource election rigging technology
Starting point is 00:31:09 like Smartmatic and Dominion from Venezuela. Okay? So maybe, just maybe, all right, Trump and Maduro, this is just allegedly maybe whatever. They made a deal. Maduro says, okay, I'll let you guys capture me, come and do the whole thing in return. I'm going to drop dime on every single one of the voting, cheating thing that happened in 2020.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Okay? And if you remember, Pat, Lou Dobbs in 2006 had a whole thing. I'm not going to have Rob play it about cheating at him and all that stuff. And then Sidney Powell, Robbie, can you play the one on Sidney Powell? She's been talking about this for years. She got in trouble and everything. Listen to what she talks about. I can hardly wait to put forth all the evidence we have collected on Dominion,
Starting point is 00:31:50 starting with the fact it was created to produce altered voting. results in Venezuela for Hugo Chavez and then shipped internationally to manipulate votes for purchase in other countries, including this one. It was funded by money from Venezuela and Cuba and China has a role in it also. We have staggering statistical evidence. We have staggering testimony from witnesses, including one who was personally in the briefing. I'm just saying, you never know what's going to come out of it. Trump, every time I think I know, I know, what he's doing. There's always something underneath it that he's doing. By the way, and
Starting point is 00:32:28 people want to talk about affordability? Is this oil that we're going to get? Is I going to help the affordability in the United States? Are we going to get lower gas? You know what I love about? There's another clip about Rubio, Western Hemisphere, which I think was brilliant that both he and Trump said, they said,
Starting point is 00:32:45 wait a minute, what are you talking about? So the oil that China and Russia and Iran are coming to take, this is on the West, that's the one right there, Rob. This is on the Western Hemisphere. No, you're not going to come and take it. This is on this side, go out and play that clip, Rob.
Starting point is 00:33:00 This was brilliant. If the purpose of the operation was to capture Maduro and bring him to justice, why does the United States need to take over the Venezuelan oil industry? Well, we don't need to. First of all, let me go back up. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we're not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled.
Starting point is 00:33:24 by adversaries of the United States. You have to understand, why does China need their oil? Why does Russia need their oil? Why does Iran need their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. And we're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere
Starting point is 00:33:36 to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States. Have specific oil companies? We also want to see that oil and the proceeds from it. Hold on. We want to see the oil proceeds of that country benefit the people of Venezuela. Why have 8 million people left Venezuela?
Starting point is 00:33:52 8 million, the single largest mass migration probably in modern history left Venezuela's in 2014 because all the wealth of that country was stolen to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime, but not to the benefit of people of Venezuela. You know how destabilizing 8 million migrants is? The number one fear that Brazil has, that Colombia has, that all these countries in the region have
Starting point is 00:34:12 about what's happening in Venezuela and our involvement is they're afraid of another mass migration event. That's what they fear. This is deeply destabilizing stuff. It's not going to continue to happen. They are not going to come from outside of our hands, atmosphere, destabilize our region, in our own backyard, and us have to pay the price for it, not under President Trump.
Starting point is 00:34:30 I got this one. So there's an article here that talks about that China doesn't want U.S. hegemony. Do you understand what hegemony means? Hegemony means you run the world. So what do you think that Russia, Iran, and China are doing in Venezuela? Hegemony. Do you think they're looking for Arepas and big booty Latinas? No.
Starting point is 00:34:50 They're interested in the oil that comes from Venezuela, which, has the largest reserve oil in the world. So we need to start acting like grownups here. China wants to take over the world. Do you want to live in a world that China runs the world or in a world the United States run the world? That's what this all comes down. Do you want U.S. running the world or China running the world? Look at who's praising the actions with Maduro. Look who's looking out for the people of Maduro. Iran made a statement. Russia made a statement. China made a statement. Cuba made a statement. These are all. enemies of the United States
Starting point is 00:35:25 Yeah, but there's another thing that's brewing here behind closed doors which is very weird. You're making the Monroe Doctrine which they talked about if I could just say this. Monroe doctrine is this. James Monroe said basically U.S. runs the Western Hemisphere. Now he said that before we had
Starting point is 00:35:42 nuclear weapons. I'm not old enough to remember this. Tom, you might remember this. There was something called the Cuba Missile Crisis in 1960 sub-whatever? Okay, so when JFK was president. So why were we so against Cuba having missiles? Because they're 90 miles off the coast of Miami. Why do we want these foreign adversaries, enemies you may call them,
Starting point is 00:36:03 having access to a country on our hemisphere where they can set up camp and attack the United States? To me, this is sending a message. We're not playing around. This is grown-up stuff. You might not like Trump interfering. He gets in, he gets out. He takes out Maduro.
Starting point is 00:36:21 He removes the nuclear capabilities of Iran. He gets in and out, Soleimani, in and out. He's not starting foreign wars. The whole argument that Trump's starting foreign wars, what foreign war? You're making them up. He's in, he's out, he's precision. Yeah, but this is, again, yes, I saw the whole thing with Iran, with China, with, you know, who's responding to, oh, my God, what's going on?
Starting point is 00:36:45 Who's criticizing it, right? This one is mainly to the far right, the woke right? community that they said, you know, I didn't vote for this. I didn't vote for this. You didn't vote for what? I don't vote for war. What war? The guy at the top, he voted for war. Dick Cheney. Okay. Iraq has oil, weapons of mass destruction, need eight years, 500,000 troops, and two trillion dollars. The guy at the bottom is like, no, no, Venezuela has oil, but all we need is three hours and a few helicopters to go do it properly. Remember, Remember the criticism when Biden got elected and the way we left Afghanistan?
Starting point is 00:37:24 Now you realize how lack of precision that was directed with the way Biden did it. Imagine if Trump was leaving Afghanistan, what things would have happened. These are things that people have to pay very, very close attention to when they see how he's doing it under his watch, under his regime. Yes, now let's talk about the other side. Let's play devil's advocate a little bit. What's the devil's advocate? You know, Rubio said this has got nothing to do about oil. You know, we have all the oil in the world.
Starting point is 00:37:57 Yeah, we're probably producing the most oil in the world. If you pull up the chart drop on X, on how much oil we produce against all the other countries in the world, yeah, we're definitely producing a lot. But the reserves, Venezuela's number one, more than Saudi. So let's not get a twisted. They got oil, they got gold. Look at that right there. Look at right there, where we were at. Saudi, look at from 1900, move forward.
Starting point is 00:38:22 Look at Saudi. Saudi's been dominating for God knows how long, and then they dropped off from 1970 down to 2010. Saudi, no, Saudi is, yeah, that's Saudi right there. Yeah, U.S. was doing the most, and then we dropped off a little bit from 70 to 2010, and then Saudi kept getting going, and then U.S. is all the way to the top, right?
Starting point is 00:38:43 And by the way, even if you look at producing, look at what Venezuela is there. You don't see Venezuela there right on that list. So, yes, it's strategic. Yes, it could be because of the gold. Yes, it could be a lot of different things. Now, here's a question. The question becomes who's next?
Starting point is 00:39:00 Because Claudia Scheinbaum calls the UN and says, hey, maybe we need to step in because this is getting a little bit out of control. Claudia Scheinbaum, Mexican president. Why is she calling the UN? because Trump broke Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations. So she is worried about what could happen.
Starting point is 00:39:22 Now, she's speaking on her behalf or the cartel. No one knows. What's Cuba thinking right now? What's Iran thinking right now? What are a lot of countries? What is Colombia thinking right now? The president was asked about Colombia because remember what the Colombia said to the president,
Starting point is 00:39:35 if something happens, we'll take them out. Remember when the Columbia president will take them out? Put me in your little orange pajamas. That's right. He said, we'll take him out, right? Rob, do you have that clip when he said, we'll take him out? There's a clip, Petro. Just put Petro, take him out on X.
Starting point is 00:39:51 Petro take him out. A couple months ago. And I said, I said, there's no way you can talk like that about another person. There's no. That's the interview right there. Look what he says here. Fast forward, Rob, if you can't, to the last 30 seconds. Right there.
Starting point is 00:40:03 From right there, it's fine. Go ahead. Watch this. Negotiation possible for the millions of Colombianos that depend on those employees. It is to change Trump. It is to change Trump. In various ways.
Starting point is 00:40:18 Maybe it's the way? It's the way? It makes a gun noise. Okay. Oh, really? Okay. I wonder how he's sleeping a night guy. All right, so here's the president.
Starting point is 00:40:29 Go forward. So, Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple weeks ago, he said he's got to watch his ass. And today he said he's not concerned about anything happening. to him in the aftermath of this operation. So just what your message is about that. Well, he has cocaine mills. He has factories where he makes cocaine.
Starting point is 00:40:48 And yeah, I think I stick by my first statement. He's making cocaine. They're sending it into the United States. So he does have to watch his ass. So you're seeing this. By the way, look at the president's energy. You know what is the best about how he's speaking right now? zero emotion
Starting point is 00:41:10 flow state it's not even flow state it's zero emotion he used to be cold as ice he used to like when he had to win everybody over he was so animated so energized
Starting point is 00:41:23 loud fighting today nothing guess what ice cold here's what we're doing he is the coldest I've ever seen him be
Starting point is 00:41:33 he is as ice cold as ever before but the reality of it is What do you think Petro is doing right now? What do you think the Mexican cartel are thinking about right now in Mexico? What do you think Cuba's thinking about right now? What do you think Iran's thinking about right now? If we want to go into Iran, this next story here, we're all on notice, Pat. They're all on notice.
Starting point is 00:41:54 But if you want to go to Iran next, so here's what is taking place in Iran. By the way, the count now of protesters getting killed in Iran, the report says 16, some say 20, some say a lot more than that. But they are not slowing down. but what's taking place with Iran. Khomeini, Rob, if you want to pull up his tweet, I'm so proud of Rob, now he knows how to, you know, type out Khomeini, like he knows how to do errone of me. There's like this, we're getting so much better in spelling right now.
Starting point is 00:42:21 There's so much spit on his microphone. He says, we will bring the enemy to its knees. I love what you responded, Pat. We will not give him to the enemy. Rob, if you want to go on Twitter. So he's saying this, right? Acting all tough. And I responded to the guy and I said,
Starting point is 00:42:38 Let me see what I said to him. I don't know. Someone in there, Rob, if you can't find it, it's fine. Is it right there? Yeah, you are, he says, we will bring the enemy to the knees. And I said, you are the enemy of your people, right? What he's got going on to Iran. And then reports have it that he is on the run.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Reports have it that he is allegedly going to Russia to hide. Oh, weird. Okay, he is going to Russia to hide. Really? Yeah, that's alleged reports. If you type in, is the report in here, Rob, or you don't have it here? I don't believe it's in there. Okay, so why don't you just go out on Google
Starting point is 00:43:11 and type in Khomeini, Russia, Chameh, there you go. I told Khomeini plans to flee to Moscow. This is the Times. If Iran unrest intensifies, the Republic's Supreme Leader has plotted an exit route out of Tehran should his forces fail to quill, dissent and intelligence report reveals.
Starting point is 00:43:29 Go a little bit lower, Rob. Chomene has a backup plan to flee the country. Should his forces fail, 86 years old plans? to escape to Iran, with a close circle of up to 28s and family, should he see that the army and security called unquest and disserting. The plan B is for Khomeini and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated her apparent Mosh Tabah, an intelligence source, Ben Sapti, who served
Starting point is 00:43:55 for decades for Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime after eight years, after Islamic Revolution told the times the Khomeini would flee to Moscow, and there's no other place for him. Where else is he going to go? What other place is it going to go? China may not even want the guy. He's got to go to Moscow because Moscow's the place that Russia owes him because Iran's been selling him so many drones that they're like,
Starting point is 00:44:15 I'm your number one customer. Listen, then I'm going to come and stay over there and feel safe about it. So Iran's not looking too good. And the chaos is continuing. I'm trying to see which video I was trying to go to. Tom, I'll come to you on this because you look like you have some thoughts. Go for it. Excuse me.
Starting point is 00:44:33 I actually have a question for you based on history. didn't Ayatollah Rola Khomeini right if I said that correctly I have to identify him wasn't he exiled in France before the 78 79 revolution he was so we've kind of seen this playbook before right they escape and go someplace and then they wait until it maybe it's safe to come back it's like we've seen this history before but it doesn't look like this time the Iranian people are having it the only difference is the first time Khomeini went to France he was in his 50s if not
Starting point is 00:45:08 60s this guy's 86 years old his time is up so it's not really him that we're worried about it's his son that could be to replace the whole family that's right yeah so the whole thing that his son is the one that right now the wealth is probably going to go to and a lot of people right now are fighting
Starting point is 00:45:23 to see who gets it's like the game of Thrones okay it's like the game of Thrones it really is oh my God it's like the game of Thrones seeing who was about to get the power who's going to They're all fighting for it, right? Which son is going to be getting the power? But with Iran, Rob, do you have that clip?
Starting point is 00:45:41 The one clip over here that says, Iran's Khomeini lashes out of protesters, that nationwide regime unrest, gross. Do you have that one clip from page 16? Do you know which one I'm talking about? Yep, it's, unfortunately, I believe it's in... Watch this. Bejost, am a eteros... Can you translate, Rob, please?
Starting point is 00:46:04 I, but mootere's half-misen him I don't know You can pause right there I thought it was the translation for Americans to see No, no, no, no, half-present him
Starting point is 00:46:17 Yeah, we're talking I have a translated version of it I don't know But it's AI so I don't know How good it's gonna be Go for it. Okay, John. It's a different day
Starting point is 00:46:23 But this day is different from riots We need to prune our hair After we prune it It is useful to be disturbed by spam Put the troublemaker in her place Put the troublemaker in his place the eruption of the century to the east of harry for rent me luxury singham and rakesh are the beginning centers this is a certain amount of money beyond the destruction of the body of the country of posh tisser let the faithful and healthy and anglos be free from itrazons and fight from the basket sloane is not acceptable before you can't destroy the enemy's work by knowing the enemy's name not by any means from the basket here dinah mrs from kissin from swata from bait the cede nemo the
Starting point is 00:47:04 important thing is that when a person is an enemy, he is a creditor. Do you impose something on the drawer, on the Muslims, on the government, on the nation? Yeah. He's speaking. You can pause the right to go ahead. He's 86. He's 86 years old. He's done. He's 86 years old. But it's again, it's not him that you're worried about. It's his son that you're worried about. And right now with everything that's going on over there, there's stories about there. Here's a story from the Guardian. No future for us. This effect that Iranians say it's now or never to topple the regime. A sudden nosedive in value of Iran's
Starting point is 00:47:38 currency was the final blow to the population growing tired of being patient under an ailing economy. Protests soon began in Iran and spread kicking off the country's biggest protests in years. At least 10, and now it's 20 people killed. Despite my mother's fears, I joined in. Do you have...
Starting point is 00:47:53 Oh my God, you have to see this video. Rob, do you have this video of the son crying, pleading, oh, you have folks, I'm going to send this you, Rob, if you have it. This one right here. Let me see.
Starting point is 00:48:06 That's the one. Ravinie, watch this. You have to watch us. Go for it. Don't go. Why should I go? Working like a dog for morning to nice. Like a dog.
Starting point is 00:48:21 Can't be done. I have nothing left to lose. My parents are following apart before my eyes. I can't do damn thing. I wish my mother. the wish for me to be married. I wish it would wrap me in a blanket tomorrow and bury it. Why shouldn't I go? Let me go.
Starting point is 00:48:43 But at least I didn't sleep with a guilty conscious at night. Let me go that if my child asked me, what did you do? I once I couldn't do anything. I just got the chills all about. Every night, every night a thought that it gets too late to act. Why shouldn't I go?
Starting point is 00:49:06 It's way too late. We've endured it so much. We've had it up to here. I can't. If you join me, you're appreciated. And if you don't want to come, just don't forget me. Are you kidding me? Are you seen where it's gotten to an Iran?
Starting point is 00:49:25 And when I hear people, when I hear people, and you were all going to hear the same noise over and over and over, they have no idea what the hell they're talking about okay they're just sitting here talking crap and they don't they don't understand by the first of all i am so proud it's come to a point of that okay and when people are like oh israel in america shut up okay do you understand what it's like to be ruled by these people okay like first of all you got to cover your face ladies or they'll beat your ass in the head and kill you remember that girl i forgot her name it was just hanging off her head they beat her ass to death okay if you're
Starting point is 00:50:00 if you're a protester, they will find you and they will kill your ass. Okay, public hangings, women are worth half of a man in court. So when I hear this liberal women talking about that, you're not even worth half of a man in Iran, okay? Homosexuality, they're throwing your ass off of buildings. Girls can be married as young
Starting point is 00:50:18 as nine. And I know liberals, you guys are okay with that because all your transgender and all your you guys don't give a damn about children, but enough. Nobody gives a damn about your own. America. They're doing it on their own organically. but they're going to need help. They're going to need help.
Starting point is 00:50:33 And I'm telling you right now, good for them. I'm so freaking happy for the people because I think it's not going back from here. From this point on, Adam, it's not, you can't undo it. The citizens now have guns. They're firebombing places that are of the military. There's no turning back now. They're done.
Starting point is 00:50:50 And I'm proud of them. Good for them. Well, time is up for... And not all the IRGC, IRGC, right? Yes, IRGC is not all the IRGC. Not all the IRGC, they have the equivalent of a National Guard, which is like a police level. Yes. And apparently
Starting point is 00:51:04 these guys did not show up in the numbers that were dispatched. Good. And that did not, because you go back 10 years ago, they would, in my history here, Pat, they would just fire into the crowds. They drove over with trucks. There would have been a couple hundred casualties
Starting point is 00:51:20 when you have 10,000 citizens out there protesting. But there is, we're still counting casualties, which were tragic in tens. We're not counting them in hundreds. And what's interesting to me is that when you hear that the military doesn't show up, that is usually, historically speaking, one of the big signs when the government can't get the military to do it,
Starting point is 00:51:46 the citizens that are in the military are usually saying enough to the government they serve. That's awesome. So that video of that young man basically pleading with his mother, I have to go protest. I have to go protest. Number one, salute to him. But the question is, how many more young men feel exactly like that? My guess is it's millions.
Starting point is 00:52:08 Imagine your mother saying, don't go. I don't want you to lose your life. He says, I have to. What am I going to tell my children that I stayed at home? I have so much respect for the people of Iran, not just because of my CEO and boss and friend PBD right here, just because I know a lot of Persians in this country and beyond who want more than anything a free Iran.
Starting point is 00:52:30 So if we think that we're seeing amazing protests in Venezuela, if we're seeing that we're seeing amazing protests when Syria's liberated, I can't wait to see the parades that happen in Tehran, Iran, when the Ayatollah falls and the people of Iran can be free. It's coming. It's inevitable. The momentum is there. And I feel like whether it's now, whether it's next year, the time is now.
Starting point is 00:52:59 the MLK famously said the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice 46 years have been living under this impression oppression how long has Venezuela been dealing with this 25 years? Almost double what's going on in Iran and you know
Starting point is 00:53:15 who the Ayatollah fears the most his own people and they're coming for him he's hiding and he might be fleeing we're going to see what's happening there the people are miserable they're unemployed the inflation is rampant the economy is plummeting they're focusing on nuclear weapons and funding terrorism
Starting point is 00:53:31 rather than feeding their people and providing them with drinking water, his time's up. By the way, if you want to play this clip, Khomeini has advice for you. This is a speech he gave in 1979, Iranian people. Advice from Khomeini. Rulah Khomeini
Starting point is 00:53:47 won the top five most powerful figures in Islamic religion. If you play this, they won't understand it. I want to read up top so, Rob, if he can get out of it and then play it while having So in this speech, this is somewhere around October of 79-ish, when he's giving the speech to the Iraqi people. But we can turn this message around and play it for the Iranian people. Go ahead, Ra, play the clip.
Starting point is 00:54:12 What he's saying here is blow up places that belong to the government. Paralyze its economy. Don't pay taxes to it. Don't pay for water and electricity. Don't give it the other things it wants. Hold demonstrations. I know that everyone has a bleeding guard from this regime, stab it in the back, go on strike, it cannot stand against the nation.
Starting point is 00:54:35 Pause it. Khomeini is giving you that advice. Khomeini is giving you that advice. Okay? So if Khomeini is giving that advice to a regime that's destroying its people, flip it and do it to that, to what do you call it, to that government right now in Iran that's doing it to you. The level of bravery and courage that has taken place with these guys, it's absolutely insane. So many people all week and look, oh my God, why can't you just get behind a Reza
Starting point is 00:55:03 Palavi? And why can't you just do this? And why can't you just do that? I don't know how many clips you guys have to your Iranians are starting to finally share and say, what the hell are you talking about? Here's what Reza Palavi said to all your Iranians that are so infatuated and have the, you have this romance like, oh, but no, but you don't understand. here's what Reza Pahlavi said. Why don't you take his word for it? Rob, I just sent you to clip. It's all over X. And I have multiple clips like this to ask him, do you want to go back to Iran?
Starting point is 00:55:34 No. Do you want to take your family back? No. He has said it now, and it's all over the place. And you guys are still romanticizing with this. Watch this clip. Go ahead, Rob. You keep asking one question.
Starting point is 00:55:48 Whether or not I'm going to take my family back there. Because in a way, you are thinking whether or not you can take your family. family back there. We would all like to be able to go back home and be able to live there if possible. And I see in a real success that we can keep flowing and going back and forth. We don't have to be pinned in one place. We cannot divest because honestly, my life has been for the past 40 years here in America. My children live here. My friends live here. Everybody that I know is here. So it's almost unfair to them. If I was to go back, what do I go back to. But you keep asking
Starting point is 00:56:26 one question. If I go back to Iran, here's the line, what do I go back to? Do you know it's the criticism he's gotten over the weekend? Over the week? While this is happening, where are you? People are saying
Starting point is 00:56:42 he was on vacation. He's doing what he's doing. Rob, I'm going to send you this clip here. I don't know if you want to accept it on your phone to, if it's not coming through. I can text it to you as well. He doesn't want the job. And all this you know, chanting, you guys better find another person. He can play a very important role. I hope he does.
Starting point is 00:56:59 But all this chanting you're doing, the Iranian, it's not letting you rob to come through? No, sir. Okay, I'll try to text it to you to play it. And this is, again, from your guy that you guys want who doesn't want the job, doesn't want the job. I said something last Friday night on the podcast. I said, have you? I'm going to post it on X. and directed at him.
Starting point is 00:57:23 Probably I'm going to post it right after this and say a question for you, Reza Pahlavi, a message for Reza Pahlavi, and see what the audience will say about it. Rob, are you getting the text or no? I just came through. Okay. So if you look at this video,
Starting point is 00:57:39 this is from the other conversation that we had together. Very point-blank question, do you want this job? Do you want to go back and be the CEO? He says, no. He says no And by the way For the people that are judging
Starting point is 00:57:56 There's three people in that community Those of you guys that are judging Those of you guys that are celebrating Rob it's not come through yet No okay I just send it to you In the video it should be up there If you don't have it on your phone I don't typically
Starting point is 00:58:08 I text it to you Rob So can you just translate it transform it from there To your thing So you're saying the three groups Yeah the three groups are following One group is the one that is romanticizing to go back to the Shah. It's not going to happen.
Starting point is 00:58:26 He's not his father and he's not his grandfather. That's not going to be coming. Fast forward, okay, you can play the clip rob and, but I have no desire to be the CEO moving my entire family to Iran, running Iran, putting the crown and being the third king that represents to do this with my family. That's not my interest. Am I reading that correctly?
Starting point is 00:58:47 Yes. Okay. Do you know this the first time I've heard you say this? And just the first time I've heard you say this. And for me, what it does to me has a viewer. He just said he does not want to go back and be the CEO running it. So that whole Shah and Shahi and all this stuff, that whole Bandar Pahlavi or that whole Parki Shah and Shahi
Starting point is 00:59:09 that we used to go to as kids and it would snow is awesome. I would go play soccer there and I would go biking that one circle that they had. And we would eat ballad. We would eat, you know, what do you call it, corn and the water and the salt and how delicious that. You remember that? How amazing. Or you would eat gigar with the green on top of a lochme kebab, or you would do the gigat and you would eat it. It was so flippin, delicious with the salt on top of it, on the skewers, that they would do kebab.
Starting point is 00:59:38 It was so amazing. And the d'Ugh you would drink in Obali or Abe Garm. Wasn't that awesome? I have some of the best memories of my life in Abe Garm. of Ali, we would go to this place. If you went underwater, the water was gas, Vinny. You'd go on, well, you couldn't breathe. You have to come back.
Starting point is 00:59:53 Dad, what do you mean? He said, go underwater, my dad's like, try to go under the water. I'm like, Dad, the water's gas. He says, go see what happened. You go under the water, I can't breathe. Boom, you come back up. We go to a place called Obigham. The place smelled like hot water.
Starting point is 01:00:07 Obegan, warm water. You would go and be in the warm water. Those days under Mohamed Rezaa Shah-Pahlavi are not here. We will forever romanticize about those days, about the way he carried themselves in interviews and everything that he was doing.
Starting point is 01:00:27 Those days are not here today, but he can play a very important role. So one group that is a romantic group, the other group that's the hating group of him, that that also needs to stop. And the third group is the group that is just saying, man, I just want to see Iran be free again.
Starting point is 01:00:44 Fantastic. If you're part of the, third group, go find a candidate that's willing to do the job. Go find a candidate that's willing to do the job in Iran. That's what you guys need. Iran needs, but by the way, it's, if you think about the sequencing on the way that it's going, here's what's common? What's common is what? In U.S. What do they do to Venezuela? You needed U.S.'s help. Okay, what's going to happen with Cuba. By the way, can you imagine if Cuba also goes through it and we start going to Cuba and visit? You need U.S.'s help. What do you need for Mexican cartel to be done? Shine bomb is not
Starting point is 01:01:25 cleaning out. Of course. You need Americans help. What do you think is going to happen with Iran? All of these things, this is Iranian's biggest opportunity. Don't screw it up. Look at that young man is pleading for freedom in Iran. I hope. he gets his wish, and it becomes a reality. But I hope the Iranian people are finally using some logic, any motion combined, realizing you've got to move on of the Mohammed Razorpa al-Avi coming back to Iran because he does not want to do that. His son does not want to do that.
Starting point is 01:01:58 So every movement needs a leader, needs a figurehead. I mean, here at Valuetain, we rally behind you. Marina, Karina Machado, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. We'll see what happens with her in Venezuela. You've been very outspoken. You don't think the Shah is that guy. He said it himself. Not the Shah, Derrza Pahlavi, his son.
Starting point is 01:02:16 Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Shah's son. Yeah. Who do you think is the figurehead of Iran? That's the question. The problem is nobody is vocal enough to know who it is.
Starting point is 01:02:26 And of the people that are, you know how many candidates they've imprisoned? You know how many candidates in Iran are in jail right now? You know how many candidates that are potential people that could run the place are in prison, silenced? You know how many? A ton. So they're also hiding it where they can't. be as vocal. So there could be a few people on the inside that they know of. Iranians know of that they want, but they don't have the mic. Like you got the mic in America. They don't have
Starting point is 01:02:53 the mic to go around and do things. What are they going to do? Leave Iran and go campaign out of Dubai? Are they going to leave Iran and go camp? By the way, you know what's the biggest thing that Iranian people are saying, hey, Reza Pala. Everyone should go to Azerbaijan and say a few words from there. Come closer to Iran. Show some stuff. He's not doing it. The one thing about Trump, Let me tell you what was very crystal clear about Trump, about Millet, about Buceli. You know what it was? They're willing to do the like work. They're willing to go out there.
Starting point is 01:03:17 They're willing to pay a price. They're willing to drive. They're willing to work their tails off. It's very obvious. We, the market said, who is this crazy Elvis-looking guy from Argentina? There is no way he'll ever win making out with people on stage. Guess what? He won.
Starting point is 01:03:31 Who is this Buckeli guy that's in his early mid-30s? He thinks he's going to be the leader in cleanup El Salvador? Yes. Oh, shit. Maybe he's right. He won. Who was this, you know, TV guy, billionaire real estate guy? He's just doing a publicity stunt. No, no. He won in his cleaning cows. Who is Reza Palabi? Somebody that can help Iranians, but not the guy that's going to play. Because he doesn't have the fire in his belly. He doesn't have the will. He doesn't have the voice. He doesn't want the job. I got four kids. You think all my kids want to go out there and do something big with their lives. You know, a father wants every one of his kids to want to have the fire to do something big with their lives. Trump's got five kids.
Starting point is 01:04:09 Who's the most successful one? Eric, Eric, Juno, Ivanka. They're all doing great. Who would you say? Eric, to me, is I think number one. Okay, who knows if it's going to be Eric or it's Don or Ivanka? It'll be barren.
Starting point is 01:04:20 You know, maybe it's barren. But Tiffany, guess what? What's Tiffany doing? She's a wife. She's to herself. Everybody has to live their own life. Okay, everybody has to live their own life. How old was he when he had to leave Iran?
Starting point is 01:04:31 Well, he left before the revolution. They got him out before the revolution to be safe. So he sled. he's lived a pretty comfortable life in America. He's living a very comfortable life. He's never really had a real job. He's had the silver spoon effect. He's never had to deal with what most Iranians
Starting point is 01:04:45 lived in Iran of how to deal with. I know they ran them and outside of the box and whoever they pick, like I think bringing Jesus like a Christian into the mix, just hear me on them. I know it's a Muslim nation, whatever, but every country out there that lost Christ, okay, is a
Starting point is 01:05:02 constant state of war, crime, terrorism. I mean, Mamdani's a Muslim and he's in New York, why can't it happen over there? I think, I think me personally, Tom, a Christian leader there would be impartial. And I'm telling you from experience, it'd be a whole different game. There wouldn't be any of this throwing people off of buildings. Women wouldn't have to cover their heads. Every time Christ was taken out, look at the outcome.
Starting point is 01:05:27 Go ahead. Look at Syria. I don't care what religion this leader turns out to be. What do you mean? As long as they can galvanize the people. Look, the Persian Empire was never Islamic. It was never Christian. It was Zoroastrian. Yes.
Starting point is 01:05:45 If you're familiar with that. Yes, of course. For me, the religion is obviously important. It's a major component. But it's, it's who can the people get behind? What is this? I'm not Muslim. I am Persian.
Starting point is 01:05:57 I hate Islam. I am not Muslim. They've been colonized. But if they put somebody else in, Adam that has that same attitude, it's going to be come Syria. Well, Shah Reza-Balavi was Muslim. And the people, people are saying, make Iran a person again. Not necessarily the... He wasn't Islamic or Islamist. But what was his religion?
Starting point is 01:06:15 He was Muslim. He was Muslim. Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was. Tom, go ahead. Now, I said, the people are, people have spoken. People have spoken in Venezuela. People are speaking right now in Iran. And that, that, that video, that young man really touches my heart. It's because what he's saying is, what do I have to live for here? And you look at the risk all those people took in Venezuela on the last election. Their guy won in a landslide. And then the people that supported him is political advisors. People were in prison.
Starting point is 01:06:48 You look at what Maduro did. And so now Maduro's out and you see the people celebrating. But now what's in the void? What's in the void? The one thing the NBC reporter is right about is there's still some bad guys in Venezuela. And so there needs to be a synergist come to the front to control things and to move it forward in Venezuela. Because Argentina had a stable, relatively, they had a stable country, a stable government, but a horrible set of economic policies, and they had an unstable economy. But on that stability, Malay was allowed to stand and then say, I'm getting rid of this, I'm getting rid of this.
Starting point is 01:07:26 Alfaura, the whole chainsaw, I'm cutting it all down. he only was able to do that because he had the stabilization of the country and relative stabilization of the government. The government is just run by a pack ofloons that ran the economy into a tree. And so what Iran needs is, let's look at it the last two years, Iran's political primary system is really kind of rough. You don't win Iowa in Iran. You win a sentence in a cell is what happens in the political primary.
Starting point is 01:07:57 There needs to be a synergist that comes forward that can. bring all of this together, because Iran and Venezuela have two things in common. They have a lot of natural resources and oil, and that money can be used to restore the country for the benefit of the people and to make it run. And you have the people there have had enough in Venezuela, the people have had enough in Iran, but both places need a synergist to come to the front to bring it together. And the overarching narrative is you have the Islamists and the communists teaming up to just do what they're doing. So let's move forward. Let's go to next story. So Tim Walts, Governor Tim Walts goes after Nick Shirley, calls him a delusional conspiracy theorist of, uh, so Tim Waltz
Starting point is 01:08:40 accused citizen journals Nick Shirley, who has expressed alleged widespread human services fraud in his state of being a delusional conspiracy theorist. Here he is. So Nick Shirley tweets, why was she killed after speaking out against illegal migrants? Was she a threat to you and your fraudster scheme? Rest in peace, Melissa Hortman, right? Tim Waltz retweets. My opponent. My opponent. have been celebrating this far-right YouTuber as a groundbreaking journalist. Here he reveals who he really is, a delusional conspiracy theorist.
Starting point is 01:09:10 Now, while this is going on, Nick Shirley just tweeted an hour ago saying, I destroyed Tim Walts' career or something like that. I think he literally just tweeted that, Rob. If you want to look it up, go to Nick Shirley. Boom, boom, boom. I think he just said that,
Starting point is 01:09:25 and Elon even commented into, yeah, I ended Tim Walts. Musk tweeted and said thank God and apparently Rob you said Tim Walts is going to be doing a press conference that he just did. He just did. He just did. When? Right now? It's official. It's official. It's official dropping out. Yeah. It's officially dropping out. I just sent it to the group.
Starting point is 01:09:45 Tim Walts drops out of the Minnesota governor's race. Do you have that? This literally just happened? Right here. So this is what happens when your own federal government wages war against you. This is what happens when they target communities for their own benefit. This is what happens when they scapego. And this is what happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy when you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about.
Starting point is 01:10:11 Now white people won't have to apologize for being white. That's never happened once in my whole damn life. And I think everybody in this room knows what they're doing. So we're here today to say enough of this. We're here today to stand that Minnesota will protect their neighbors. What does that mean? Did he say he's stepping out? I don't think so, Vinny.
Starting point is 01:10:29 He's not resigning. Supposedly, he is dropping out of the... 2020-in-M-Nissued by Somali fraud exposed by independent journalists securely. Yeah, that's him blaming white people. Now lock the trader up. Tim had the gall to pin the fraud on white people instead of taking accountability for what the Somalis have done. He can't leave office soon enough. What a dummy.
Starting point is 01:10:50 Tom, your thoughts. Tim Walts did not drop out of the race. Let me tell you what just happened. the machine that's around Tim Walsh fired him. Tim Walsh just got fired. He no longer has the support of the people and the mechanisms that have been part of this entire machine around him. And he just got fired by the people that he's in cahoots with, with all of this fraud and everything going on. Because they know that the spotlight just gets hotter if he wants to run for this election.
Starting point is 01:11:19 And they know they risk losing the Minnesota governorship. in the process of it and they don't want people talking because people are starting to talk you've got people that supported them people that were part of it that are starting to talk you've got the federal government dropping in
Starting point is 01:11:37 last Thursday afternoon was it the federal government froze any transfers of federal funds to the welfare programs in Minnesota I believe they've been frozen pending full review and so I believe what you are just seeing
Starting point is 01:11:53 here is that the gig is up and the people that are around him is like, Tim, we got to get you out of here because we got to do a little extraction because we can't have you running this and being a lightning rod for criticism and attention on the rest of us. Tim, you're fired. You need to drop out of this race. And I believe the machine fired Tim Wals. When we talk about accountability, this makes me so, the fact that a 23-year-old exposed their entire state, and my opinion, Vincent O'Sana's opinion, if you think Ilhan Omar didn't know, all the crap talking that she talks about to her beloved Somalis and everybody, and her attitude is like, I could go back to Somalia because, yeah, I made all the money that I did. And there's
Starting point is 01:12:38 no way that this guy didn't know. Okay, there's absolutely no way. Even the president posted something that you reported on first, Pat, that 72% of these people of Somalis are on welfare. Okay? It is a big freaking scam. And that's the reason that they picked him to be the vice president to keep that money funneling to keep these freaking leftist elected him in this tampon in the bathroom attitude him being friends with school shooters his his just disgusting demeanor his waving on stage like he was like a like a savior and uh there was a clip that i sent rob pat that there was a daycare in minneapolis we want to because i don't want and i love the fact that we're not forgetting like yes the venezuela
Starting point is 01:13:18 thing is huge it's taking over the news let's not forget about the trillions and trillions of dollars of fraud. There was a daycare Oh, this is the first one. This is a Somali restaurant that they paid $12 million in federal child meal funds after they claimed to feed four
Starting point is 01:13:35 to 6,000 kids a day. The FBI watched the restaurant for six weeks an average of 40 people showed up. Rob, you don't even have to play the clip just as long as we have it so people know it. What is a show? What is a show in the clip? This is them doing the investigative work.
Starting point is 01:13:48 Play for a little bit, Rob. In December of 2017, 21, the FBI installed a surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake Street in Minneapolis. At the time, it was Safari Restaurant, which overall took in $12 million in federal child meal payments through feeding our future. Safari's former co-owner, Salim Saeed, is on trial alongside Amy Bach, the Feeding Our Future Executive Director. Safari claimed to feed 4,000 to 6,000 kids a day. Its invoices and meal counts shown to the jury alongside the video. An FBI agent testifying that an average of 40 people came in lunch during the six weeks.
Starting point is 01:14:29 It was surveilled. The FBI set up a total of 12 cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers of meals. Another was at a deli in St. Paul. I don't understand how they've let it keep going for all this time. I don't understand it when it comes to this much money and this much fraud. And also, because you know, since Nick Shirley and all these guys have been going to all these daycares, I don't know if it's legit or not Rob told me that it was taken down
Starting point is 01:14:55 but there's a daycare in Minneapolis that was looking for child actors to pass as the vetting process to gain state funding. This was because they deleted it. Daycare hiring actors three-day for contract. My family runs a day care here in the city and have over five years
Starting point is 01:15:11 until Monday the funding was cruelly ripped away without cause. Due to the insane poor decision clear in white supremacy I wonder where they got that from. We have to close our doors immediately. We must prove that We are a functioning daycare to get the fundings back. The issue is the entire client base has already found new daycare services. So we need to find new clients base quickly.
Starting point is 01:15:30 To help this state vetting process, we're looking to hire 20 actors for three days while state is present on site. By the way, so if you look at the right, it shows if you go to $1,500 per day up to three days, $4,500 contract, no experience required, just actor, right? Go look at the Grock because somebody asks Grock right there on the right. Third one, zoom in if you can, Rob. Okay, Grock, is this real? Yes, Craigslist at Israel. It was posted on January 2nd, 2026.
Starting point is 01:15:56 It's given the ID number. It seeks 20 children under five for three days. $1,500 that assimilate. Veting after funding law, citing white supremacy, disallines with Minnesota daycare fraud, probes, federal holds stone. Unbelievable. Just, hey, bring your kids. $4,500 for three days.
Starting point is 01:16:14 Actors. Do they have to be Somalian? Could they be white? I think they have to be Somalian at that point. See, this ties it up in a bow because the allegation is this. And this is my conclusion as well. The allegations are out there. Tim Walsh was selected as the VP because he could be the bagman for tremendous financial resources to bring into the campaign.
Starting point is 01:16:37 At a time when, check this out, the DNC's big money and Obama himself were not on the Kamala page. Remember how late he came to the Kamala? Oh, all right, she's a candidate. Remember that? Of course. And remember they set this record? What was that, $32 million in 10 days or whatever it was? Guess what?
Starting point is 01:16:58 The allegation is that Tim Walsh was presiding over this machine that was federal money, just coming to Minnesota, they could do whatever they want with it, and they all knew what was going on. And so there are people there that said, and remember, it was a fractured summer. It was a completely fractured summer. You had people in the Biden group saying, no, no, let's keep him going. Anthony Blinkins wants to be president again. Let's just keep this going.
Starting point is 01:17:22 Number one. Number two, you're Kamala Harris. You owe it to me, damn it. And then the next one, it was, what about Michelle or what about others? So it was a fractured group. They needed money, and they went, and guess what? They apparently, allegedly, got it with Tim Walz. And so I read all this stuff.
Starting point is 01:17:39 I'm not reading the Looney stuff. I am reading things, ABCD. and I'm just waiting for someone I said it when we were in Aspen. This is the biggest campaign finance fraud in the history of our republic. I hoped I pray
Starting point is 01:17:55 that they go after Ilhan Omar. His disdain towards America, this guy, and Trump, she's the worst of the worst. You notice how the other squad at him, they're kind of quiet. The Taliban, what's her name? I haven't heard from her. Everybody's kind of silent.
Starting point is 01:18:11 Ilhan Omar has been now getting silent. But there's no way, there's no way she wasn't, she didn't know what was going. There's, there's no way, period. And I hope they're going after her. Rob, do you have Nick Shirley's tweet again? So. America hater. Go after her.
Starting point is 01:18:28 I ended Tim Wall. Okay. So if you didn't tweet that, I probably wouldn't put this out there. But I was texting with Nick Shirley a week ago. Before he came on the podcast, we met in person for the first time at James O'Keefe, citizen journalist event at Moralago. A couple months ago. Oh, when he got that award, right?
Starting point is 01:18:45 Young guy, he won the Citizen Journalist Award. So I say to him, because I'm going online this a week ago, as his story is basically blowing up, I go, dude, you're blowing up all over the internet. He has 66 million on that, his initial video. Now it's well over 100 million. He goes, bro, I think it's the biggest video of the year. So he's excited. Good for him.
Starting point is 01:19:06 I'm telling him, listen, my mom's from Minneapolis, respect to what you're doing. He goes, this is what the funniest part is. He goes, we lit them up. I bet Tim Walz resigns. He goes, can you imagine that me, Nick Shirley, is who gets Tim Walz to resign? I said, this is why what you do is so important. And the message to all the young people out there is, look at this guys, 23 years old, making a massive difference. You can too.
Starting point is 01:19:30 Number two, can you imagine just in a hypothetical, horrible, bizarre a world? Imagine of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won the election and they were president and the vice president of the United States. do you know what kind of chaos their administration would be in right now if they were in power do you know what kind of cover up they would be doing do you know what Tim Walls would be doing in Minnesota if this video came out there
Starting point is 01:19:54 could you imagine if Kamala was president right now borders still open Iran still making nuclear weapons hostages still in Gaza Maduro still in power DEI still in place gender affirming care everywhere we got
Starting point is 01:20:09 they them is running the government thank God President Donald J. Trump. Yeah, exactly. And this continues and we'll continue following the story. This is not going to be done. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. But to get the former VP
Starting point is 01:20:26 candidate to drop out this is a lot of winning. This is maybe a little too much winning going into 2026. And by the way, folks, you know who at dinner with who at Marlago? Just you at dinner with who at Marlago? Elon and Trump had dinner together. They had dinner together
Starting point is 01:20:43 And you know who tweeted about the dinner? Who do you think tweet about the dinner? A guy named Mila Musk tweeted about it, okay? And he said, had a very nice dinner with the president. That's them right there, if you look closely. Them having dinner together right there, the president. What do you think they're talking about? And by the way, look at the guy in the middle right there.
Starting point is 01:21:02 The guy in the middle of that somehow got into that picture. Yeah, good for you. He's in there. But who is that all the way in the back? Is that Dan Bongina all the way in the back? Zoom in a little. bit, Rob, or you can't? Can't zoom in? No, it's not. Okay, secret service.
Starting point is 01:21:15 Okay, well, that's Secret Service, somebody. No, no. But Musk and Trump are speaking, which is great, to see them reunited now. Imagine you're at Mar-a-Lago, just dining, just looking at these guys. Yeah, but the point is, this is, that was a massive breakup that the left needed, desperately, a massive breakup that the left needed. Now you're going into 2026 on the same page, Now you're going into 2026 with what happened with Maduro. Now you're going into 2026 with what's going on with Tim Walts.
Starting point is 01:21:48 Now you're going into 2026 with, you know, inflation going down. Now you're going into 2026 with GDP growth higher than expected. Now you're going into 2026 is going to be the greatest years of our lifetime. World Cup, 250 year anniversary. It's going to be a very, very weirdly special year. But at the same time, I think the enemy is aware of it. and they're going to try to ruin the party. You know how you try to put a good party together
Starting point is 01:22:13 and everybody knows you're about to put a record-breaking party? Everybody wants to go, you don't invite somebody and they're like, wait a me, you don't want to invite me? I'm going to ruin your party. To the party, poopers are also going to be there, but I have a feeling they're going to get way ahead of it to make sure the party and goes on. Just really quick, I know you want to go to the next story.
Starting point is 01:22:30 What do you think that they're talking about? What do you think that conversation? Because the good thing about it, besides calling him a, basically a pedophile, basically he because Trump promised I think the taxes the tax cuts for space tax Pat if you had to guess what the meat the crux of that conversation was because to me in Elon's eyes I think he felt like he got kind of shafted what do you think that conversation's like can I give you my opinion for it so Pat just said party pooper right
Starting point is 01:22:59 so my opinion Elon Musk when he left in a glorious fashion in a blaze of mean tweets he said he's going to go start a third party and I forget what it was called because nothing ever transpired whatsoever so in my opinion Elon Musk sort of came in with his tail between his legs
Starting point is 01:23:19 and said look my bad dog I'm not starting a third party I've realized you're the guy and let me come and help you again and let me do a Mia Copa and give you on my bat and Trump goes
Starting point is 01:23:32 like he always does if you say nice things about me we're good you say bad things about me you're my enemy Elon Musk listen if you're getting invited tomorrow Lago you're not coming there to talk shit to Trump's face he came in with the sole
Starting point is 01:23:46 purpose of saying my bad let's get on the same page and let's do this because if there's anything that Elon is against is whatever's going on on the woke left and on the woke right so to see those two aligned is a massive massive victory for Trump
Starting point is 01:24:02 and the country that's my opinion I think it's a little bit of business I think it's a little bit of, let's figure it out. And remember, the way Trump did it, in, when you run a company, let's bring it to a much smaller scenario, when somebody in a company I'm running, all of a sudden flipped and publicly came after me, a negative, trash, whatever. You have to stand your ground and put them in their place, but then you just give them their space. They eventually either come to you or they don't. For the richest man in the world to set aside his ego and go to Trump at his place and realize what's going on, you know what's been very clear the last nine
Starting point is 01:24:42 months? Here's what's very clear the last nine months, and it's not even close. The biggest alpha of every room in the world is Donald Trump. Let me say that one more time. There are many alphas. The biggest alpha in any room in the world is, Donald Trump. Everyone has to go to him. Period. DeSantis learned the hard way. Pierre Poliév learned the hard way. Canadians learned the hard way. He learned the hard way. You know, Bezos eventually had to come to him. Zuck had to eventually come to him. Everybody who thought they were bigger alpha than him, it took time, it took 78 years to realize Alpha is not just about being the richest man in the world.
Starting point is 01:25:35 Alpha is not just about being the tallest, the richest, the wealthiest, the best looking, the famous. Nope. There's alpha quality that he has that none of these other guys have. And Elon has probably sat on the sidelines saying, damn, you've got to give this guy respect. And he said it so many times. So let's see what's going to happen here. By the way, J.D. Manz just tweeted something. Apparently somebody broke into his house or something.
Starting point is 01:25:59 Something happened over the weekend that they're reporting. and that he had to tweet about it. Rob, is that the one? We hope he's safe. We hope his family is safe. I know he said they weren't home when this happened. Man arrested after allegedly damaging Vice President Vance's home. And Vance also tweeted it.
Starting point is 01:26:15 Rob, I don't know if you have it or not. There's a tweet about it, but he didn't like the fact that reporters are posting pictures of his house all over the place saying something happened to the window. Zoom in. I appreciate everyone else. Well wishes about the attack at our home. As far as I can tell, crazy person.
Starting point is 01:26:31 try to break in by hammering the windows. I'm grateful to Secret Service and Cincinnati police will respond quickly. We weren't even home as we returned already to D.C. One requested the media. We try to protect our kids as much as possible from our realities of this public life of public service. In that light, I'm skeptical
Starting point is 01:26:47 of the news value of plastering images of our home with holes in the windows. Anyways, okay, so glad they're safe. How do you even get that? I heard it was gunshot. Listen, it could be this hammer situation. So, you know, San Francisco, there was a hammer.
Starting point is 01:27:03 Hammers are becoming a popular thing with stuff like this. But anyways, we're glad he's safe. What I will say to you, I'm telling you guys right now, can you run a poll right now with our audience, Rob? Right now, folks, you have a choice for 2028 presidential candidate. And it's only two people I'm going to give you a choice of. Vance or Rubio, who do you pick right now? When I mean right now, today is what?
Starting point is 01:27:27 January 5th, 2026. Who do you want as your president if it's right now? Rob, did you run that poll? Rubio or Vance? Which of those two would you pick? I am so curious to know what direction the voting goes. I'm going to say it's going to be super close as close to 50-50 as possible going back and forth. Look at that venue right there.
Starting point is 01:27:52 It's 54-46. To be fair, Rubio just had a massive victory, so it's probably going to be him. nearly 2,000 votes, Rubio is the head of Vance at this point, okay? Rubio is the head of Vance at this point and got to love competition like that.
Starting point is 01:28:11 Got to love competition like that. When you're a president and you're a leader, you want to be able to have multiple people that are competing so it's not a definite frontrunner and this is a pure reflection of Donald J. Trump. 100%. This is a pure reflection of Donald J. Trump. What do you think these numbers would look like a few days ago
Starting point is 01:28:25 before the Venezuela fix? Flip it. Just flip it 55-45 vans, is what I would say. By the way, it doesn't it make you feel good though. Rubio is showing himself to be the adult in the room, capable, efficient. He's been through the ringer. He's run for president. You know, he did the whole little water thing, little Marco. And now, just like JD, he was against Trump.
Starting point is 01:28:47 Now he's on Team Trump. Something about these people that weren't on MAGA 1.0, on MAGA 2.0. But they came to their sensibilities. But isn't it? I don't know many people like that. But is it refreshing that the future doesn't like right that this is our bench? Like, how about this? I'll take either one of them.
Starting point is 01:29:03 Who is the other side have? Gavin Newsom. Good night, ladies and gentlemen. Who would you take, Vincent? Out of these guys? I'm not going to front. I like Marco Rubio. I'm being honest.
Starting point is 01:29:16 If he shaves his beard, then I would consider it. But I would go, I would go, Marco Rubio. I've been in the game for a lot longer and he has a lot more credibility. I'll give you two words. leadership and poise. I think Marka Rubio is showing leadership right now, and I think he was very poised and even-handed when he addresses the media, and people can hear the strategy that's in there, and it's very clear. And that is leadership. Yeah, it's early to tell, but Rubio, with that job that he has, sometimes it's better to be the Secretary of State than the
Starting point is 01:29:49 VP, especially during times like this, because VP, it's kind of like, you know, go work on the border, make the building nicer, okay? Go make sure our emails are clean, right? Sometimes kind of like VP is a, you know, if you've ever seen the movie, the Vice movie, it's like, what's VP? Like, who wants to be a VP? Yeah. That VP was a different story because Dick Cheney wasn't really a VP. He was running the show. Dick Cheney was running the show. Vance is not running the show. Trump is running the show. I got to tell you, I'd pick Ruby on a heartbeat. Yeah. Now, listen, there, they're optics. You know, he's only five foot nine. Van I want to say is probably over six feet.
Starting point is 01:30:28 Is Rubio 5-9? Yeah, he's not the biggest dude? I don't think he's 5-9. No, I'm just saying, like, people, optics matters, but experience capability, yeah, what is he, 5-8? My boy right there, 5-8. So, Marco Rubio, listen to me, and just say it. Talk to DeSantis' people.
Starting point is 01:30:44 You're going to get them boots? No, no, no, no. That'd be the worst thing you could do. Guys, it's a joke. That'd be the, no, you were actually being serious. That'd be the worst thing you could do. Pat, do you, I know you probably don't want to maybe. I'm a fan of his.
Starting point is 01:30:56 I like the worst thing. what he's doing. I like what he's doing. I like what he's doing. But it's early to tell, but I like what he's doing. So we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen. We'll see what's going to happen. 5545. And this is a very fair 6,000 people voting and they have it 5545 as of right now. What would that debate stage look like? It's interesting. It is going to be interesting on how they're going to go. Can we completely change some of the stories to complete different story here? Let me get to the story. you. Harvard professor calls that university's exclusion of white males in scathing public resignation. Rob, I believe you have a clip on this. If you do, please go to it. Watch this, folks. Very,
Starting point is 01:31:37 very interesting on what's going on. Rob, of course, we won't play the whole clip because it's three minutes and 54 seconds, but play some of it. Go ahead, Rob. Harvard professor says he is leaving the university after 40 years, claiming its focus on DEI is doing more harm than good, writing, quote, in the first. of 2020, I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years, this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that that, meaning admitting a white male, was not happening this year. Harvard alumnus Chabos Chastinbaum joins us now.
Starting point is 01:32:17 Happy New Year, Shabos. Thanks so much for being on with us. Happy New Year. Good to be here. So the professor writes about this seemingly open, anti-white, anti-male environment that has really been growing in Harvard. As an alumnus, is this something that you have experienced? Do you agree with what the professor wrote? Certainly I agree with what the professor wrote. It's shocking, but it's certainly not surprising.
Starting point is 01:32:41 I mean, a country that does not teach about its own history is certainly a country that does not have much of a future. But honestly, my greatest concern is the greater societal implications and the greater societal ills, particularly the demoralization of young people. people in America. So when you have cultural elites or professors who insist and instruct young people that their culture is not worthy of preservation, that their race is something to be apologetic over, that their history is not worthy of scholarship, then of course those young people, particularly young men will become disillusioned and disassociated with the society they're meant to be interacting with. And we need to be very clear now that we're in 2026 that Tom thoughts. So this is a professor, Dr. James Hankins, who had been at Harvard for 40 years. And, and, you know, and
Starting point is 01:33:22 who finally had just had enough. And 40 years, and if he was 24 and 28 when he got his doctorate, so he's probably late 60s, maybe 70. And he's saying, we've had enough. And one of the things he said is he talked about DEI and he says, we've abandoned merit in favor of diversity quotas, which changes the way we conduct our affairs and the qualities that we deliver. He's saying it. He's now saying it out loud, saying, guess what? You know what? We get away from Merit. This is where it goes. And what's interesting today, there's a Wall Street Journal story that is today on the front of the journal that talked about that Merit is making a comeback as we come into what will be the spring recruiting season is that there are companies that we're saying it does matter where you go to school and we'll be recruiting and looking for merit. And we're looking for kids on merit.
Starting point is 01:34:21 there is McKinsey gentleman that was quoted in the article talking about looking for merit, not just at Ivy League schools, at other schools, but actually stepping back from the schools where DEI does not give them, you know, hey, we're going to come on campus to recruit. They want to recruit strong people based on merit. And so I think this is a tip of the iceberg moment. Harvard's going to circle the wagons and they're going to shut everybody down and they're going to tell everybody to knock it off. because Harvard is still doing this. The Supreme Court case that was against Yale has teeth,
Starting point is 01:34:58 but they're still doing it because you've got generations of these DEI leaders been either still in there. Just like Venezuela, you've got to get rid of a few guys and you need to put new leadership in. It's going to be one step at a time. But what's interesting is this actually got play from the mainstream media talking about it. And then it's actually being set out in the open. and I'm glad to see it, but it's only one small step.
Starting point is 01:35:25 There's a long walk. There's going to be a Batang death march to rid the halls of the DEI and get higher education truly back to... What's going to happen to James Hankins? How will the market treat somebody like a James Hankins? Well, if he's put himself in a place to retire, then the market can't do anything to him. He can just retire and he doesn't.
Starting point is 01:35:50 doesn't need it. But I believe there's going to be folks out there that want to hear from him. I believe you're going to have a publisher. We'll ask him to write a book about his experience. I don't think he's going to be welcomed with open arms, and there's a lot of people that are going to want to stab him in the back for what he did. But I think there's going to be some people out there, a few of them, that are going to try to help him. But I think, obviously, as he walks away from Harvard, he's done with that. But I think it's going to be, there's going to be some islands out there. There's someone, I think, will want him to tell a story. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:36:23 I mean, for him to be able to say what he's saying right now, you've got to applaud him, respect to him on what he's seen taking place. For someone at his caliber, Adam, if you have any thoughts on this, I'll come to and I'm going to the next story. Well, it's been no secret. There's been an attack against straight white men in America for over a decade, you know, a.k.a. the patriarchy. It's all a farce.
Starting point is 01:36:47 So, you know, back in my days when I was doing a lot of mannisphere content, we talked about the red pill versus the blue pill. I thought you were going to say something else. What do you think I was going with that? No, I thought you were going to say, like, you know, there's been a major attack on straight white male. And I thought you were going to say back in the days when I was a straight white male. Yeah, I thought you were going to go somewhere. Go ahead. Keep going.
Starting point is 01:37:08 All right. But is this an announcement? He made it a long time ago. We'll keep going. So my girlfriend will disagree. But say hi to Fred. Um, the, uh, the, the reality is the, let's, can we stop, not biz doc, right, biz, yeah, yeah, can, can we stop with a nonsensical freaking debate of what's better capitalism or communism? Is the fact that we're still having this debate in life, in campus? Are we really playing
Starting point is 01:37:37 this game? Is this really what we're doing? How many times have you talked about, you know, the campus, we're having a debate, guys, what do you think is a better economic, socioeconomic system? capitalism or socialist which one is it guys i don't know can we stop the freaking nonsense meanwhile capitalism might not be the prettiest system what did uh uh churchill say it's just it's the the second best out there is better than everything else so yeah it might be ugly it might be messy but at least it's in your face it's competitive and it's an example of how countries thrive what examples do you have a socialism marxism or the warmth of collectivism put a nice little communist blanket all over you that have worked. Why are people fleeing Venezuela? Why are people
Starting point is 01:38:19 fleeing Cuba in rafts? Right, Mikey? Why are people doing this? Why are people fleeing these Islamist nations? Because it's not good to live under. And the fact that Harvard still indoctrinates their kids under this Marxist critical race theory, DEI bullshit downstream of Marxism. It's just, they're still doing it. And it's just different languages. In some cases, it's economic communism. it's social justice, social justice warriors, you're producing nothing. You're producing people that just want to destroy the system. The greatest country that's ever lived or indoctrining these young kids to go out there and protest on behalf of Maduro, on behalf of Hamas. It's so stupid. This is why when I was arguing with Stephen A. Smith, he goes, you can't
Starting point is 01:39:04 call them stupid. I go, yes, I can't. Because they're stupid. They might be able to read and write and do arithmetic, but they're stupid. This is what they call them useful idiots. So I'm so sick of what's happening in the institutions of higher learning and doctrineing our kids to hate America. That's what this all comes down to. How many these people come out and graduate and be like, I love the USA. They hate America.
Starting point is 01:39:27 And let's just stop with the fucking debate. Sorry about the language. Let's wrap it up really, really quick. There's something got updated on Wikipedia that was not in my research. He is going to the University of Florida where he will be the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the U of F.
Starting point is 01:39:43 and that's where he is going to go. Apparently, the free state of Florida. That was not in the research earlier. And I sing about it, Harvard takes an L and somebody else comes to Florida. Think about that. Imagine going from Harvard to University of Florida.
Starting point is 01:40:01 What's wrong with the University of Florida? It's a number seven public university in United States. I went to Florida State. I'll have my friends went to UF. It's a great school. But it's not Harvard. But it just shows what the professor He goes, I can't take this woke DEI nonsense.
Starting point is 01:40:16 Let me go to the free state of Florida where there's just rational, moderate people. That's what that comes down to. I had a call with a senior partner the other day at BCG. And they do around $15 billion a year in engagements, whatever the number is. It's a big company. Top four, would you say top four? Somebody would even say number two behind McKinsey, right?
Starting point is 01:40:37 Exactly. And I said, so what is your recruiting process? Is it still the same process of wanting Harvard, wanting all these guys? He says, man, we're having more experience recruiting some guys that are coming from smaller schools that are competitive top of their classes. They're more scrappy. They're willing to work harder. Some of these guys that are coming from Harvard and city schools. Some of them are more entitled.
Starting point is 01:40:56 They're expecting not to eat this. They want this. They want that. It's changing. The market's changing. It changes in a long time. And let's see if Harvard's going to be able to maintain their prestigious name that they've had all these years. We'll see.
Starting point is 01:41:07 We'll see what's going to happen. Let me get to the next door here. Next year I want to go to is Megan Kelly. Megan Kelly declares CBS legacy media dead as Barry Wise feud escalates. And it doesn't look like this is going to be slowing down. So here's Megan Kelly talking about CBS. Let me get to the story, Rob. I think it's on page 18.
Starting point is 01:41:28 Megan Kelly dismissed CBS news efforts to reignite interest in its evening newscast, declaring legacy media dead as she escalated her feud with networks editor. She had Barry Weiss. Nothing will happen as CBS Kelly declared on X. responding to a post about income in CBS news anchor Tony Docoupil nothing. Legacy Media is dead and evening news has totally irrelevant for a long time. CBS has not had evening viewers in any competitive way in over a decade.
Starting point is 01:41:56 The blunt assessment came ahead of Docupil's who is this person by the way? Is that the person that went over there? Is that the guy the guy's face right there? Okay so he goes That's Barry Weiss's choice for the chair of the evening news. Monday night debut anchoring DPS News flagship. Now he's pledged to rebuild trust with viewers as Weiss has taken controversial steps to shake up the network since becoming head to Hancho in October. He has echoed longstanding conservative critiques of the press,
Starting point is 01:42:23 acknowledging that newsrooms have often missed the mark by privileging elites over ordinary Americans. On too many stories, the press missed the story. Doquipil said on Thursday, can we figure out how to hell to pronounce his name so I don't keep butchering this guy's name over and over again? Arguing that the media relied too heavily on advocates, academics, rather than viewers themselves. He promised that under his watch, you come first, not advertisers. Here's a clip.
Starting point is 01:42:49 Go ahead, Rob. Too many stories, the press has missed the story because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you. And I know this because at certain points, I have been you. I have felt this way, too. I felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news
Starting point is 01:43:17 didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life and that the most urgent questions simply weren't being asked. So here's my promise to you, today and every time you see me in this chair. You come first, not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests. And yes, that doesn't include the corporate owners of CBS. I report for you on too many stories. Okay. So there you go. Tom, thoughts on this. Are you with Megan Kelly? Are you with Barry Wise? What do you think is going on there? So I'm not with Megan on her feud, but I am with Megan on her conclusions.
Starting point is 01:43:58 It is really going to be difficult to reverse what's happened to the evening news. Partly because it's not the same playing field anymore. The evening news now is not what it used to be. There are choices. Look, people are coming to us to get their news. People run into you in a restaurant and wanted to know, are we running a special segment? You read those on the weekend, right? The gentleman comes up to you and says, hey, love the podcast. Are you doing a special segment on Maduro? Because they're coming to other places such as us to get their news. And so I agree with her that with the technology, the deterioration of the cable subscriber, number one. Number two, over the top is everywhere. People, so it's no longer over the
Starting point is 01:44:44 top. It's just internet comes to your house and you choose wherever you want to get your news. You know, Vinny, you don't, do you have a cable subscription? No. No, we have a Hulu one, but that's it. We don't have all of this. So technology supports what Megan Kelly is saying. And the, the public trust has been so destroyed over the last 15 years on what they feel about, stream media to the point that MSM, even my mom knows what MSM is when I texted or something a couple months ago. I noticed she knew exactly what I was talking about. So on that count, I think Megan is right.
Starting point is 01:45:21 It's going to be very, very hard to turn around CBS. Now, that said, the Ellison's have a hell of a lot of money, and Barry Weiss is really putting her shoulder to the wheel to do it. So I won't say it's impossible, but it's going to be tough. It's a new day. To turn CBS around. Yeah. I agree.
Starting point is 01:45:41 You think she'll win or she won't win? I think it'll do okay. But like just even the way that he talks, the demeanor, the stage is set, nobody's, you've lost all credibility. I'm sorry. It's a ship that's going down. Like it's the Titanic and you put a new captain on like, I could do it. No, you can't.
Starting point is 01:46:01 Nobody believes them anymore. Nobody believes CNN. MSNBC could change it to MS now or MS. we're never going to lie again. Nobody believes you. Government, the trust in government's down. I think it's gaining a little bit of credibility back with the Trump administration, but nobody listens to these people. Nobody's going to ever forgive them for what they did to COVID. Nobody's ever going to forgive them for the lies that they did with Iraq and weapons of mass of trucks and everything. It's gone. It's totally gone. Those days of Walter Cronkai and old school Bill O'Reilly and all these guys, I'm sorry. Adam. It's not going to happen.
Starting point is 01:46:37 Well, it's Darwin isn't 101. It's a failure to adapt. You know, a month ago or two, here at Valuetainment, we had to read the book, Who Moved My Cheese? The cheese got moved. The industry got disrupted, and they failed to adapt. You know, you adapt or die. By the way, this is not unique just in media.
Starting point is 01:46:54 What happened to blockbuster video? They failed to adapt. Netflix took them over. What happened to the taxi industry? They used to have this monopoly on medallions. Now Uber and Lyft takeover. So what percentage of the S&P 500 or the Fortune 500 companies from 50 years ago are still in the top 500? Like 10% failure to adapt. What happened to
Starting point is 01:47:14 Kodak? What happened to all these companies? By the way, same for cities. New York City, L.A., Chicago. There's no guarantee they're going to be the greatest cities in America anymore. If you fail to adapt, you will die. It's a dying industry. They're trying to do this the right way and try to basically be relevant. And they're coming in and giving an apology letter. But the reality is a lot of these media companies failed to adapt their journalists turned into activists and now they're paying the price when podcasters are now the most watch people in the country
Starting point is 01:47:46 I don't think it's a failure to adapt Adam I think it's there's no way that stain is going to disappear from the American public's eyes Stephen A Smith said I don't give a shit what you think Vinnie guess what well Stephen A understands what I was making a bunch of very very valid points but going back to the COVID thing we're supposed to forget what every single one of these people
Starting point is 01:48:06 were like, you're the enemy. You're not getting this experimental drug in your body. Take it. And now kids are freaking dying. People are dropping dead. Turbo cancer's up. Now all the truth is coming out. And now we're supposed to just forget about it.
Starting point is 01:48:19 That's one of the biggest travesties that this country. Besides all the 9-11s and the JFK assassination, they China unleashed the virus that I think, Fauci and all them, they're not stupid. Then they sold us on this freaking vaccine. And they told us that we were anti-American and that we were the terrorists. Chris Cuomo said it. All these people said that the number one threat was us.
Starting point is 01:48:40 CBS, MSNBC, all of them. And now we're supposed to go, oh, Barry Weiss is in. And there's a new white guy that says, I'm not going to lie. Nobody's going to believe it. There's no – this is a failed industry, and it's over – done. Here's what I will tell you. Here's what I will tell you before we go to – I got two more stories to wrap up, and then we'll move on. To me, I believe in Barry Weiss.
Starting point is 01:49:06 I believe it's tough to be a, in NBA, they call them two-way players, guys that play offense and they play defense. I also believe it's very tough to be a talent and to be an operator. Barry Weiss is a talent operator. By the way, in all of media, there's not a Barry Weiss, period. There's not a Barry Weiss that's talent and operator. Talent sometimes hate when there are people like Barry Weiss, when there are people that know how to operate, And they know how to garner attention. She worked at New York Times.
Starting point is 01:49:41 And then she called them out and she went out and did her own thing and did a bunch of great interviews. And she was actually fair and she did a bunch of different things. Yes. Is she Jewish? I think she is Jewish. She's going to get free press. She's going to get criticized for being Jewish and working with Ellison and, you know, she's pro-Israel and all this other stuff. That's a debate.
Starting point is 01:49:59 You guys can have that all day. Go for it. It is what it is. I'm a Christian. I'm going to favor Christianity. Okay. If I'm talking to a person that's a person that's, Muslim, they're going to defend their religion of Islam. If someone's Jewish, they're going to
Starting point is 01:50:11 defend what it is. It's kind of how it is. You're protecting and respecting your family and the tradition that you came. And typically, whatever faith you came from, if you respect your parents, you're going to respect that faith. So it's a way of saying she respects her parents. You can say Jews are this, Jews or das. Go ahead and do that all day long. It is what it is. You got to respect game. Megan Kelly, to me, I think she is talented. Talent wise, I think she's up there, maybe even number one on the list today, who is willing to be fair and talk to anybody. And I'm a big supporter of what she's doing. But I think Barry Weiss is a power player.
Starting point is 01:50:48 There's a big difference. Megan Kelly's an incredible journalist, lawyer, talent, communicator, not afraid, you know, great wood words. Barry Weiss is a business woman and an operator and a talent. And it's trying to do something to turn the company around with the back end of a last thing like Ellis. and with the amount of wealth that they have. I don't know. I hope they succeed. I hope they succeed.
Starting point is 01:51:13 I'm not saying they're going to. It's going to be very hard. I hope they succeed. I would like to see one of these guys succeed. And if they do succeed, it's not a succeeding for 50 years. It's succeeding for a decade and a half is what it is. That's what it is. Because the reality of it is, it is going the direction of podcasting.
Starting point is 01:51:32 It is going in the direction of independent journalism. It is, by the way, Nick Sherry, Go ahead, ABC, sign him. CBS, sign him. Fox, sign him. What are he going to sign him for? Like, hey, you know, we're going to go sign him. For what?
Starting point is 01:51:48 Go ahead. You understand what I'm saying? Like, go ahead and sign him. The other day, you know what shirt he's got on while he's doing his stuff? Polymarket. Do you think it's because he loves polymarket sweater brand and quality?
Starting point is 01:52:01 Did you see this go on images? You know, right there. Why do you think he's wearing a sweater with polymarket eyes. It's cold, Pat. You think it's because that sweater has the highest quality of density to prevent the snow from coming in? No, guess what? He does not need you CBS. He does not need you CNN. He does not need. That's the disruption of what is going on here. People are choosing to team up. Those are two different things of teaming up versus doing something like this. Young cats are coming up saying, I want to be the next Nick Shirley. I want to be a YouTuber.
Starting point is 01:52:33 I want to be this. I want to be that. So these bigger companies have to find a way to be a little bit more, what's the word I'm looking for? A little bit more flexible, adaptable, understanding what's going on while creating their own set of, again, I'm rooting for both Megan Kelly to succeed, but I'm definitely also rooting for Barry Weiss to succeed. because I do think there's still a audience of people above 60, 65 years old that still consume their content on TV so I'd like to see her win.
Starting point is 01:53:05 Hopefully she wins and we'll see where it goes from here. Flip it, Pat. Imagine they don't hire Barry Weiss. Imagine they don't do this thing, whatever David Ellison is doing with it was Skydance. I imagine if they just sit there and they have CBS
Starting point is 01:53:19 and just in third place behind ABC and NBC. Adam, what point you're going to make? So I'm going to the next. The point is they have, had to do something. Of course they adapted. Yeah. And she's the figurehead. So she's going to get so what are you going to say that hasn't been said already? Go ahead. I'm saying that imagine they did nothing. What do you, what do we be saying now? You still have Stephen Colbert plummeting. All these things is downstream of when they took over. So yes, she's now the latest
Starting point is 01:53:47 victim of what they're doing right now. But they had to do something. Third place, can't stay third place forever. Let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get into is the following. So if you arrive, if you can pull up, let me see what I got here. If I have nothing here, then I'll go to that story. Boom, boom, boom. Let's just go to the story here. So gold, folks, you ever about gold? You ever been ripped off by somebody telling me it's 14-carat but it's 10-carat?
Starting point is 01:54:11 You ever bought gold and on it, they type into 14-kart and then somebody else said, this is actually not 14-carat gold. This is 10-carat gold. Well, in New York, a guy by the name of Tracks, he's got a different name, but they call him Tracks, who is a very, very well-known guy. I think it's on the 57th or whatever the main street is with all the gold diamond district. He goes out there and one of the guys that used his name,
Starting point is 01:54:37 this is the most viral video of the last week. If Nick Shirley was two weeks ago, this was the most viral video last week. It got 70 million views, 617,000 shares on Instagram. Rob, go ahead and play this clip. Watch this. Where's my fucking money? Motherfucker!
Starting point is 01:54:59 Where's my fucking money? Where's my money? I got this... Where's my fucking money? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? You say VVS, I3, 14K? Hey, you're using my name!
Starting point is 01:55:21 You bitch! 6447. Yeah, 6447. Seathe? You feteef! You feteeth! There's a violence. Stop. Take him out. Yeah. All right. So this happens. This gets 60-something million views. Now, Rob. This gets 60-something million views. Now, Rob, go to his Instagram account. Because in an up, But I'm a wait until you see what happens next, by the way.
Starting point is 01:55:57 But in another video, this one's tough to watch. So I'm going to tell you in advance to, be careful before we watch this. Go to his Instagram account, Rob, because he explains what happened here. This is the whole thing with the issue on this. If you go to the account, go to the third video right there. Watch this and put the audio on. The seat from this disgusting company that pretends to be me, says their tracks in my seat, sells my customer, a bracelet rips them off and rips them off on the gold.
Starting point is 01:56:27 Shit, they're saying it's 14-carat gold. Well, we're going to test this bracelet right now. Start the test. 10-carid gold, so that they say they were tracks in YC? Yeah, he tried to portray, he tried to sell one of your products. He said that he ran out one of your rings that you purchased. Right, that you, so that, that, you, so that, that we sell. So you came with a picture of Trax, NYC.
Starting point is 01:56:55 Yep. I opened up the website for... And then he said he ran out, even though he has nothing to fucking do with me other than to steal my fucking customers all day long. These rats have done this over and over and over again, and I tolerated it. And now they fucked them over on the carrot as well. Yo, Akai, you are fucking thieves, bro. The most disgusting...
Starting point is 01:57:18 You want to know what happens? Now go to the main clip. Guys, I'm telling you right now, brace for impact, because this one's tough to watch. Watch what happens here. Go ahead. Oh, my God. Look at Windex bottle, blue. Boom. Oh, they're violent.
Starting point is 01:57:36 Oh, my God. Oh, they violent. How much spit did he have in his mouth? Oh, oh, oh, oh. In the end, they try to kill me, strangle me with my own chain. and get out of this hospital. Tracksonyc.com. He's always ready for it, right?
Starting point is 01:57:56 Now watch. Go to the last video of them getting arrested. Did you see the video? Oh, I haven't seen this one. You haven't seen this video? They went after them? Oh, no, no, no. You haven't seen the video.
Starting point is 01:58:05 That's the main video what happens. By the way, this is the gold. You have to be ready because, yeah, if you type that the guy's getting arrested, go to the video of them handcuffed. Oh, that's it? No, them handcuffed with cops. Right there. That's one right there. Watch this. Make a bigger rock. Go back. Okay, watch this.
Starting point is 01:58:26 Oh, the music. Music, rock. Music, music. Okay, there you go. Wow. Good. That guy got arrested. That's a salt. Spin on my face. And look at this. They came in. They took him. All three of them. Oh, good for him. He's not. He's not handcuffed. He's just leaving because he scored away. So, good.
Starting point is 01:58:43 Gold. Tom, how do you process this yourself? I mean, you know, gold. Because when you think about, you know, I'm Middle Eastern. So jewelry over the years, you buy stuff in L.A. There's that one district in downtown that you go buy all the gold and I'm, you know, and people would get caught. Well, this is a V-cut. This is a debt cut diamond. This is this.
Starting point is 01:59:01 And it's not. It's a lower level, but they sell it to you. And the average person doesn't have the equipment to go take a look at it to see if it's real or not. Your thoughts on this top. Well, I bought an engagement ring and a wedding band in L.A. And in L.A., there is so much fraud. you had to know somebody or know somebody's father who was legitimate that you would go in and
Starting point is 01:59:27 you would take care of it. And that's how I found it. But this goes on everywhere. The scamming that goes on in jewelry is horrible. If you don't know somebody and you can't validate it, you know, you're probably not getting the fair price and you're probably not getting the fair quality. They've gotten to the point where diamonds now have laser serial numbers that are very, very, very, very tiny, but they're actually on the stone, and so that you can get validation now. But you've got to be so careful with it. I knew people that got ripped off in L.A. and things like this. I know a guy. This is a true story. Earlier in my career, I was in sales with IBM.
Starting point is 02:00:09 He got a gold Rolex. At least he thought it was a gold Rolex. Remember, on the back of a Rolex, there's no serial number. They're all smooth on the back. So you have to know somebody that can remove the bezel, can look at the serial number underneath. Pat, in three weeks, all of a sudden, there's this, it's turning his wrist green.
Starting point is 02:00:25 Oh, no. Because it was completely fake. You know, for it's rubbing in his body oil, it's actually because it's like copper substrate or something. It's there. And so, but I'll say this, it's not just that. You've got to be careful everywhere. And if you're buying VT merch, there's not a commercial.
Starting point is 02:00:40 This is a caution. Only go to our website. We spend hours each week doing audits, and we find our stuff with cheap material, cheap clothing. And not only is it our trademarked logos and slogans and stuff, but then it's really junk stuff. And people think it's us because a lot of times you sell through distribution. We sell through ourselves. Go to vt.com, vtmerch.com, only buy it from ourselves. So just like jewelry, you better know somebody.
Starting point is 02:01:13 And if you want the future to look bright for your dollars, for the hats and stuff that you bought that you're supporting, faith over fear and all the stuff that we do, only go to our website. But you just, you got to know somebody. Well, I know Max very well. We've hung out a bunch. He's been on my show.
Starting point is 02:01:29 I'm with Max Tracks on this one, by the way. Yeah, he's loud. He's brash. He's in your face. But you know what he is? He's honest. And he does goes business. I was actually with tracks recently.
Starting point is 02:01:39 and I was with Mosheimov, who's the watch king of New York. He's there on the left with my friend, Rabbi Benny. And I went to 47th Street. It's the Diamond District. If you've ever seen the movie Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler, right there, if you show that picture right there, they're all in this room right here.
Starting point is 02:01:56 They're all together. All your competitors are in the same freaking place. By the way, I think 90% of the diamonds in the entire United States that are sold come from this one block in New York. So talk about money on money on gold on diamonds. it's all right here. So the story goes from what I understand, because Mosheim off the watch king, I said, dude, what's going on here? He goes, what you don't know is this. This is all over
Starting point is 02:02:18 $22,000. So the guy that spitting tracks his face, by the way, pussy move. Spading in someone's face, you can go to jail for that, which he did. Apparently, he's the landlord. And he's been in business since the 70s, and he's been around forever. You're telling me, you know, they say that, you know, you can work on your reputation for 40 years. And in one day, you ruin it. That's what happened with this guy. Apparently he's been in business since the 70s here in the Diamond District on 47th Street and one viral video of tracking, where's my money? That guy's now arrested in jail, legacy ruined. So we're about to see what happens with this. Grimy business, stealing your other's customers, ripping people off, and you're
Starting point is 02:03:04 going to ruin your entire reputation over $22,000. save that money. Yeah, I mean, dude, I just Googles, I wanted to, because I saw a video where he's saying he's half Jewish. Apparently, and I asked Google, the AI overview, he's Azerbaijani American. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, moved to Queens, and his parents in 1993 at the age of seven.
Starting point is 02:03:28 But yeah, Adam, he's old, every time I see him, by he walks around on the streets of New York, asking questions, and giving gold, giving silver. He actually loves people. He loves giving away stuff. I think, I mean, that's, dude, that's what you get. This is what happens. You find success when you're good at something and then you can promote it.
Starting point is 02:03:45 There's a product and there's marketing. His product is watches, diamonds, jewelry, but he's also a marketer. You talked about being a talent and being an operator. He's an operator, but he's also a talent. So it's not easy to do, and it's a rough and ugly business. And this is sort of why people appreciate authentic people, because this is who he is. If you've ever met this guy, he's in your face like this. Here's what it is.
Starting point is 02:04:10 Yeah, I mean, that's the gold world. Certain jobs is not for everybody. You have to be ready to go to war. For somebody that's watching this, say you don't know him. Say you just watch us for the first time. Like, holy shit, I had no idea what happened here. Do you trust him more? Would you buy from him?
Starting point is 02:04:27 Would you do business with him? What would you know? Think about the level of conviction in that space. And, Rob, do we have any stories that we haven't gotten into that we need to before we wrap up? Is it anything we have left that we should get into? The Mamdani price raising. Oh, okay, let's go into that one. We'll wrap up with that one here.
Starting point is 02:04:43 So, Momdani is claiming, let me read this story. Rob, you got a video on this as well. Subway and Bus Fair rises in New York to $3 on Sunday. And some people are like, wait a minute, what's this all about? Go ahead, Rob. Why do they always do that? Mayor Mamdani, he promised us a free ride, but guess what? we got instead higher bus fares. Yes, that's right. Today, the price of this bus
Starting point is 02:05:14 went up to $3. You know why? Because even with this price increased, New York City buses and subways are barely able to function. The mayor of New York City has actually never had control over the transportation that is controlled by the state. Yes, that's right, the governor. Mamdani, he lied to all of you and guess who's paying the price? All of us, literally. There you go. So on Sunday, Prices went up to $3 from $2.90. 10% increase. A cost of weekly monthly tickets on Long Island Railroad and Metro North Railroads, which are based on distance travel, will increase by 4.5% one way.
Starting point is 02:05:54 Fairs will climb up 8%. But a company, minor 17 and under, Canara, two commuters, railroads for a dollar. Previous limit was 11. A trip using access a ride. Paratransit service will also cost $3. Starting next year, tolls at the authority, bridges, and tunnels will increase about 7.5%. Most vehicles using the Queens Midtown Tunnel, for example, will climb 7 from 746 to 746, from 6494. DMTA expects the changes.
Starting point is 02:06:27 You ready for this? To raise an additional $350 million a year in additional revenue. Mamdani, what happened? you said you were going to fix this what happened viny thoughts well first of all I think how many times did we warn you this is exactly
Starting point is 02:06:46 how a con artist works they sell the people the fantasy everything's going to be free and remember the day he won the next day he made the video like remember I didn't want any money I need your money yeah exactly two weeks later Adam remember I told you I was done asking you for money
Starting point is 02:07:02 I need some more money so and again this is with that young generation that was like free and you got sold just like with Obama when they're like I remember those videos of those of those black ladies in the street going he's going to pay for my cell phone he's going to pay for my rent did he do any of that didn't do any of it he's constantly asking for money like just think about everything that he's done he's hired uh ex-cons that have been convicted for kidnapping and and robbery and and all that stuff he's lied to everybody's face he keeps asking for money and then one of his best picks, but his housing official,
Starting point is 02:07:34 C.O. Weaver, top housing advisor for New York City, Mayor Mamdani. Look at what she says about people and your housing and white people. She's saying that we've treated property as something personal for centuries. Now it's time to see it as a collective.
Starting point is 02:07:50 Here you go, New York City. There you got it. Go ahead, Rob. I think the reality is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good, and we are going to, and transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will
Starting point is 02:08:14 mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we can. Ready for that? Hey, Tom, you just bought a house. When are we moving in? That's what's going to be. White people collectively. Run! Yeah. Run!
Starting point is 02:08:36 And it's, I don't understand how stupid people can be. I mean, I see it, to vote for this. It's never worked. It's how many case studies, how many examples from different countries? The guy is just, that stupid smile that you guys all fell for, New Yorkers. I'm sorry. You, you, we warns you.
Starting point is 02:08:59 And it's happening in front of your face. It's all collective. Can I ask you some questions? In a collective, who built that building? Who put the couch in that? Who paid for the couch? The capitalist. Who put the stove in there?
Starting point is 02:09:10 Who put the fridge in there? Who built the building next to the building? Who built the store that's on the corner where they got their stuff? Where did this all come from? It's amazing to me that in a collective, we suddenly, we all own everything in a collective. That's what she's saying. You'll have a different relationship with your property. Wow.
Starting point is 02:09:31 Interesting. You'll have a different relationship with your property. So at least she acknowledges that once upon a time it belonged to somebody. But once you stop this, where does it all come from? Where's it come from? Yeah, exactly. Where does tomorrow's house come from? And tomorrow's couch.
Starting point is 02:09:44 And tomorrow's fridge. And tomorrow's little grocery store. Where? Yeah. Well, to use a famous phrase from the biz doc, you know, words talk, action scream. Stop listening to what these socialists say. And just watch what they do. judge them by their actions of course they're going to tell you that the warm comfort of collectivism
Starting point is 02:10:05 is like a blanket on a cold wintery night they're seizing the means of production like carl marks wanted to do and joseph stalin did and the Mao people did i mean how many times do we need to hear this i said this earlier can we stop it with a nonsensical debate over what's better capitalism or communism, free market enterprise capitalism or social? Why are we still doing this? And the stupid people of New York fell for it. And now this white lady gets on there and goes, so yeah, we're going to have to come after your houses and especially the white people, you know, because you're white. So you need to have white guilt and white shame. And you're obviously, are colonizers because, you know, you were born in Brooklyn. So seizing the means of production, we forget we're one generation
Starting point is 02:10:55 from tyranny. And unless people stand up and start doing something about this, stop believing the speeches and start focusing on the policies. Yes, Mom, Donnie lied. Now you fell for it. Are you going to vote for him again?
Starting point is 02:11:08 Are you going to keep them in power? Let's see what happens. There you go, New York. We're watching very closely to see what's going to be taking place with your incredible city. A lot of weird clips are coming out, but this is just a week into it,
Starting point is 02:11:24 and it's already up. $350 million. Imagine what's going to look like a year into it, two years into it. So New York, I hope you guys are able to protect that beautiful city that I love so very much. Thank God there's a guy named Tracks that's making sure at least gold people are going to be honest. And Diamond people are going to be honest. I hope the rest of you guys do the same as well. Having said that, God bless.
Starting point is 02:11:45 We will do this again on Wednesday, Rob. I believe we're back at it again. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye bye, bye, bye.

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