PBD Podcast - Mamdani Calls Trump Fascist, MTG Resigns, Putin Peace Deal + Minnesota Funding Al-Shabaab? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 689

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick break down Zohran Mamdani calling Trump a fascist, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sudden resignation, Putin’s proposed peace deal, and ...explosive allegations that Minnesota tax dollars may have indirectly funded Al-Shabaab.------👞 GET THE NEW FLB 1'S: https://bit.ly/4mXV9gd🛍️ VT MERCH BLACK FRIDAY SALE: https://bit.ly/4oNbR3C📕 REGISTER FOR BPW 2025 - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH 2025: https://bit.ly/3IU2YWx📕 REGISTER FOR BPW 2025 - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH 2025: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3IU2YWx⁠⁠⁠Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🍋 ZEST IT FORWARD: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kJ71lc ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/41rtEV4⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Starting point is 00:00:52 Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet this story. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever size. Right here. You are a one of one?
Starting point is 00:01:13 My son's right there. I think I've ever said this before. Yeah, he said it. Okay. All right. You want to talk like that? So he wants to talk like that. He wants to talk like that.
Starting point is 00:01:24 Let him talk like that. Let him continue talking about. See what happens. See what happens. I ain't the one. I get it. I ain't the one, fam. He's such a child.
Starting point is 00:01:37 When those budgets have to be balanced and he's got to work with Hockel and all this, it's all going to come home to Bruce, man. It's all going to come home. Tom, I have no idea where you went. You were not where we were. But he's there. It's okay. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:01:50 I was like I'm fired up. No, no, you go ahead and do that. Keep doing that. Madman. Yeah. Madman. All right, folks. All right.
Starting point is 00:01:55 Listen, good morning to you. Hope you had a great weekend. Tom golfed a lot this weekend and ran into six guys who were die-hard Adam fans on the golf course. You know, he didn't get a hole in one, but he hit a guy, which I think is even more satisfying. Four and then good job, Tom. It is what it is. To the person that got hit in the head by Tom, we're praying for you. I hope everything will be okay.
Starting point is 00:02:16 I didn't hit anybody. I don't know about. Tom, come on. No, it's okay. It's totally fine. They send me a DM to. FBI concludes the FBI concludes the man who hit the golfer in the head was Thomas Ellsworth. That's the Hill.
Starting point is 00:02:29 That's a true story. Now, all right, let's get into it. FBI concludes Trump's would-be assassin acted alone during rally shooting. And of course, everybody believes it. Alone during the rally shooting, but not alone leading up to it. Trump plans to end immigration protection for Somalis in Minnesota. Minnesota police chief issues Apology as Somali's community faces backlash.
Starting point is 00:02:58 President says Chicagoans are chanting bring in Trump after violent downtown riot leaves eight-shot one dead in Chicago this weekend, folks. Trump defense punishable by death calls Democrats military video, sedacious behavior. Is this a new one, Rob? This is a new video from last? The responses are new.
Starting point is 00:03:21 The response are new. Okay. Got it. Okay. Trump to Mamdani, on being a fascist, you can just say it, and apparently he got interviewed afterwards as well. Have we responded to that yet? Have we reacted to the meeting with the... We have not. Why do I feel like we have already? We haven't yet. No, we haven't. He was going to meet him. Yeah. He was going to... We spent a lot of time about, hey, man, what happens if he doesn't play ball. Okay, got it. Trump says he would be comfortable living in New York under Mamdani. Wow. Trump brushes off Stefanik's jihadist ladies.
Starting point is 00:03:49 for Mamdani, she's out there campaigning. Trump would love to see Marjorie Taylor Green return to politics. Lumer takes credit for Arch Enemy's resignation. Nick Fuentes, Marjorie Green was forced out of Congress by Trump for criticizing Israel and voting to release the Epstein files. Massey on Green resigning, this is not great news for our country. Fertility startup, ready, folks? This is my story.
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Starting point is 00:04:48 Can you imagine like you just ordering it like that? It's like ordering like a like a burger. It's like Kim Kardashian ordering your sixth husband. The onions off of there. And a power forward please. Yeah. House considers House considers banning Scott stock trading by members of Congress.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Republicans fear a midterm slump without Trump on the trail. This next one is a great story, folks. Especially if those are guests, I've been to Revolution Boulevard. Tijuana mayor threatens news outlets reporting on his money laundering investigation. We have to go to that. That's a top story for Tom.
Starting point is 00:05:27 Maduro tightens personal security as U.S. strike threatens threat intensifies. This guy's any day away from moving to Cuba or Russia for protection. He's not safe living in Venezuela right now. Trump enjoys issues envoys issue
Starting point is 00:05:42 ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday. Everybody who is looking at this envoy and a deal that's, you know, being talked about, it's one-sided for what a lot of people are saying. But who knows? Maybe Tom's got a different angle with it. We'll go to Tom.
Starting point is 00:05:58 New car prices soar. Adam was looking for a car this weekend. It was catastrophic. So new car prices sore to historic highs. As buyers face mounting sticker shock and Barry Wise reportedly planning to blow up legacy media giant. This guy named Eric Swalwell is running.
Starting point is 00:06:17 for governor for the state of California. And Ilhan Omar made a few comments, Vinny, about Republicans. Yeah. Or the party of pedophiles is what she said. Yes, she did. Vinny wants to say a few things about that. I'm sure you're going to be very diplomatic. Yep.
Starting point is 00:06:32 And then we got a few other things here. Expectant mothers in Dearborn to get $4,500. Mayor announces in the state of the city. And the seven ugly trends that shows America as, closer to recession than you think. That's business and setter. We'll hold that story up as well. And having said that, gang, we are,
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Starting point is 00:10:02 Having said that, let's get right into the stories. All right. So, the stories. Mandani, we haven't covered it yet. He comes to the White House to meet with the president. He requested to meet with the president. the president of course says yes no problem he's from new york the president made his wealth in new york he came up in new york he has a lot of history in new york and so mom dani's like yeah i definitely have to come meet with this guy to try to find things
Starting point is 00:10:27 to make things work out and while they're having conversations there's a moment where one of the reporter asks a question about look you've called the president a fascist and he gets ready to explain himself And this shows you how comfortable president is in his own skin. He's like, just say what you want to say. Don't, don't argue with it. You're going to have to do this your entire life and watch what happens. This was a very, very special moment that went viral on Twitter. Go ahead, Rob.
Starting point is 00:10:54 He asked about your comment calling the president a fascist. And your answer was, both President Trump and I have been clear about our positions and our views. Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? I've spoken about that's okay you can just say yes okay it's easier it's easier than explaining it I don't mind I miss a person I wanted to ask you I slapped a little arm you see you're like you're okay yeah there was a but there was another moment where they talked about behind closed doors Rob where they had agreements where he asked the question on you know the president you won the votes over for people that were struggling with
Starting point is 00:11:37 affordability you know which one I'm talking about I think you do have it. I have where Mamdani says that the meeting was productive towards the end. Okay, let's watch us. Go forward. Appreciate it, please. I appreciated the meeting with the president.
Starting point is 00:11:50 And as he said, it was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City, and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers, the eight and a half million people who call our city their home, who are struggling to afford life in the most expensive city in the United States of America. We spoke about rent. We spoke about groceries. We spoke about utilities. We spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out.
Starting point is 00:12:13 And I appreciated the time with the president. I appreciated the conversation. I look forward to working together to deliver that affordability for New Yorkers. Thank you very much. Any questions, please? And by the way, there's a clip where Trump says he would be comfortable living in New York City under Mamdani. And then, Tom, I want to come to you. Go forward.
Starting point is 00:12:32 Would you feel comfortable living in New York City under a Montaigne administration? Yeah, I would. I really would. especially after the meeting, absolutely. What makes you comfortable? We agree on a lot more than I would have thought. I think he's, I want him to do a great job, and we'll help him do a great job.
Starting point is 00:12:51 You know, he may have different views, but in many ways, you know, we were discussing when Bernie Sanders was out of the race, I picked up a lot of his votes, and people had no idea because he was strong on not getting ripped off in trade and lots of the things that I've practiced and been very successful on tariff. tariffs, a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:13:09 Bernie Sanders and I agreed on much more than people thought. And when he was put out of the race, I think quite unfairly, if you want to know the truth, many of the Bernie Sanders voters voted for me. And I felt very comfortable, frankly, in seeing that and saying that. And, you know, it just turned out to be a statistical truth. But, no, I feel very comfortable. I would feel very, very comfortable, being in new. New York, and I think much more so after the meeting. Yes, please.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Tom. I would be very comfortable being in New York and much more so after the meeting yesterday. What happened at the meeting yesterday? The answer is, I happen to think that Mandami got introduced to something called a spreadsheet and that there's things that have to happen in New York that require federal money for it to happen. But what's very interesting is this is the way Trump negotiates. Trump doesn't always spike the volleyball right there at the net, right? And imposterize you. He's like, we agree much more than we don't. So Trump didn't say, I agree with Mandami. You know, I've seen his side. He said, no, no, we agree more than I
Starting point is 00:14:20 would have thought. And it's a negotiation going on. That's what's going on. And both of them are talking to their base. So Trump is making sure the base like us, you know, do not look at this and say, don't kowtow to this guy. Don't worry about midterms at this guy. and I don't want that to happen. I don't think it will. But then, Mandami goes on a day later, Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, and sort of doubles down on the evil,
Starting point is 00:14:46 you know, the evils of the Trump administration a little bit. He didn't go turn it up to 10, but he was on at 8. So both men are talking to their bases after the meeting, and Trump was clearly the alpha. Just say yes. It's just just easier. Just say yes.
Starting point is 00:15:03 It's like the elder statesman trying to help the guy, standing by his dad's desk with his hands holded. It doesn't change whom Ondami is, but I happen to think that he got an economic lesson of what it's going to take to balance of books in New York City and that Hockel's got to go from Albany to D.C. to get money that she can give to New York. And I think that reality is coming home to Roos.
Starting point is 00:15:27 What do you think? What are you going to make one more point? Yeah. And I don't think, you know, I was reading over the weekend that the city council in New York is a little split right now. They're not all lining up with Mandami, line up, line up, line up. The City Council in New York is a little bit freaked over the potential for losing business and tax revenue.
Starting point is 00:15:48 I think, well, again, because you made a great point, Pat, when we were talking this weekend about how you don't, nobody know, like, you don't know what, Trump knows what he's doing. He has it. You know what I mean, that look, that smile, that's slapping him, it's all intentional. I personally don't, I think, you know, it's a wolf, this guy's a wolf in sheep's clothing, like that, that's smile that touching his heart, I'm not buying it. But what he said, and he doubled down here where Kristen Walker, where he said, Pat, he's like, no, no, no, he is a fascist. And my thing is, when you throw that word around, it's not like a harmless insult. Guys, it's dangerous. Everybody knows what do we do with fascist?
Starting point is 00:16:20 Adam, you say that to somebody, you take them down, you strip them, you want to put them in jail, you want to eliminate them. So that rhetoric keeps going, keep going. I think Trump does have something up his sleeves with this guy because he's too calm and he's too complimentative because he has him. I don't know what they were talking about. And I think, Pat, he's going to give him the rope. But everything that you're talking about, go do it. And we're going to see in two years that it's going to fail. I think that that's that that's that business savvy that Trump has.
Starting point is 00:16:45 He's going to let him do his own things. Here's a follow-up meeting would meet the president. Adam, I'll come to you right afterwards. Go ahead, Rob. NYPD would be the ones to do so. In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you've used in the past. You were about to answer.
Starting point is 00:17:02 Then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that's okay you can just say yes it's easier than explaining it so mr mayor elect just to be very clear do you think that president trump is a fascist and after president trump said that i said yes look at that so you do and that's something that i've said in the past i say today and i think what i appreciated about the conversation that i had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment and we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.
Starting point is 00:17:37 You've also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our democracy. You've called him a despot. Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy? Everything that I've said in the past, I continue to believe. And that's the thing that I think is important in our politics is that we don't shy away from where we have disagreements. But we understand what it is that brings us to that table. Because I'm not coming into the Oval Office to make a point or make a stand.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I'm coming in there to deliver for New Yorkers. And a few weeks ago, I was... You can pause right, they'll go forward. Yeah, to me, Trump knew exactly what he was doing. Because when Mamdani fails, which he will, he no longer can blame Trump. Trump could have gone super hard on the guy. But he said, come on, buddy, we're friends, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:22 Got you. I want to succeed. I want you to do good. I'm here for you. So now, he can't play the victim. You saw, he treated me horribly. I went there. respected me. Now he has more
Starting point is 00:18:35 rhetoric for his people. Now he has to say, yeah, I met with the fascist. And he actually was nice. Yeah. This nice fascist. So the whole, he took his power away. He neutralized him. Now he can't play the victim. Smart moved by Trump. But how do you
Starting point is 00:18:51 feel about saying fascists, threat to democracy, and still having that language? I think if this was first term, he handles it in a different way. President does. I think it's second term. And meaning, when it's second term, you already have your base. You don't need to win your base over.
Starting point is 00:19:07 So some people on his base are going to be like, what are you doing? I can't believe he gave him this. And, you know, why you treat him so respectfully? Do you not understand what's going on? There's a bunch of people right now running as socialist, just so you know, as socialists. And some socialists are upset with him
Starting point is 00:19:23 for how friendly he was with Trump. They're upset with him and AOC because both him and AOC are now supportive of Hakeem Jeffries. even though Hakeem Jeffries is running against a socialist right now, and they're not siding with the socialist. So it's a very interesting thing that's going on behind closed doors. So this could end up backfiring in a different way.
Starting point is 00:19:45 Trump doesn't do stuff like this. Trump's not trying to be, you know, he doesn't need new friends. He's not sitting there saying, oh, my God, I want to be friends with this guy. No. And by the way, if you look at Mamdani's body language, you know what, this the person that's running against, is this the one Rob that's running against like Kim Jeffries? Yes, sir. There's a known socialist, but AOC and Mamdani are siding with Hakeem Jeffries
Starting point is 00:20:09 and socialist parties saying, no, you're no longer socialist. You are now in there, the capitalist. You went from being a socialist to now you're a capitalist, sitting now with capitalists. So there's some stuff that's going on over there. But going back to it, if you look at the body language of Mamdani standing next to the president, you know what you'll notice? I don't know if you know what you'll notice. My opinion, do you notice a look like, like, Mamdani's telling himself in his head,
Starting point is 00:20:33 What is wrong with this guy? If you think about it, like, is this the one where he pats him in the back and says, just say yes? Let me put him. Just look at the body. You know what the body language is? The body language is like, what's he doing? Yeah. He's asking himself, what's the president doing?
Starting point is 00:20:54 Go back a little bit. Go back 10 seconds. Go back a little bit more. Rob. Right there. Okay, go ahead. Watch this. Just watch this for a second.
Starting point is 00:21:01 President Trump is a fascist? I've spoken about... That's okay. You can just say yes. Okay. It's easy. You have a slap. It's easier than explaining it.
Starting point is 00:21:10 I don't mind. I'm telling you, he is wondering. What the hell's up with this guy? I am not at this guy's level. He is getting ahead of it. And Trump is right. Let me tell you, if there's one thing about this guy, he pays attention to data.
Starting point is 00:21:28 He knows when the day Bernie Sanders lost, Never forget what press conference, not lost. When they asked him to step out, never forget what he did and how he leveraged that situation. You don't remember what he said. He defended Bernie. He's like they took it away from him.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Oh, yeah, that's right. He defecis, you talk about democracy. Bernie should be your candidate. Oh, yeah, that's right. And so Bernie, the Bernie, what would they call? The Bernie Rose. No, there was another name for them. They are sitting there saying, he's right.
Starting point is 00:21:58 He's right. So they came to him. Or they sat it out. They sat on and they're like, I'm not even voting for Hillary. I'm not going to vote for Hillary nor Trump. So sitting out was a victory for him. So look, of course, I don't agree with the politics Mom Dani is doing and the stuff he's talking about. But you have to know that Trump is playing games.
Starting point is 00:22:20 Adam, I think you wanted to say something. No, he did the same thing with Biden and Kamala. Yeah. If you remember that, he was like, you're just going to anoint this person after just dismantling Biden when they inserted Kamala he's like this is what you guys do Trump is a people person so if you can attack him online
Starting point is 00:22:38 but in person he's going to treat you nicely if you treat him nicely he's going to treat you nicely very smart move by Trump I wasn't a fan of this but I think he handled it well completely neutralized the guy yeah they need the word fascism fascism allows you to be like I'm the freedom fighter
Starting point is 00:22:54 I'm trying to overthrow fascism I'm trying to push it you have to call in there you can't just call them a Republican say I disagree that politician you have to it makes you look it makes you look bold i want to play video for you it's it's there's profanity at the highest level if you got your kids sitting around this is like a scene if you're watching indecent proposal or if you're watching some of these movies you just have to you want your kids to see those movies like if you ever watch forgetting sarah marshall and you forgot the three scenes i'm forgetting sir marshall the other day i'm
Starting point is 00:23:26 like i haven't seen a movie for 10 years i sit there watching with the kids i'm like oh i've forgot about these three cents and you're forgetting inside of you, right, all these things. Take my shirt, but not my eyes. Take my eyes and not the shirt. Not the shirt. But I want you to watch this. You know what this is doing? You know what prompted me to want to play this video?
Starting point is 00:23:47 Is these words, fascist, racist, all take, what else would you put in it? Bigotry, misogyny, Zionist, whatever you want to put it in. Antisemitic. What else you want to put in there? Any of these words you want to put, they know long. Gay Jew. They know meaningless. They know, not that.
Starting point is 00:24:08 By the way, I'm glad you don't read the chat. I'm telling you, what the meaning, meaningless, meaning you. One of the best things you do for your sanity is to not read the chat on DVD podcast. Yeah. Wait, people are talking about water. People are saying things? Wait, wait, wait, wait. What the hell do they update this app?
Starting point is 00:24:24 Listen, by the way, hey, for those watching, just let a rip for 30 seconds so you can kind of get idea what's going on in the chat. Anyways, so this is the part where certain words no longer mean anything today. Here's a guy that runs a nail salon, Asian guy. I've never heard anybody call somebody a bowling pin upside down, but he went there. Inappropriate. So, Rob, if you want to play this clip, go ahead. Come in here and pay me and then you can talk to us all kind of way you want to, bro. The fuck. I can talk to you how out of the hell? No, you can't. No. Back to your damn country if you want to act like that. You just told me to go back to my
Starting point is 00:24:59 I did say that. Bitch, I saw your fucking EBT card in there. Guess who? Guess who paid for that motherfucker shit? I did. I do. Bitch, you know how? How do you want me to feed my kids?
Starting point is 00:25:09 I'm fat. Oh, my fucking God, boy, you got me fucked up, bro. Oh, my goodness. I pay taxes for your fucking food. Yeah, bitches like to eat and my kids like... I pay taxes for your fucking fool, and you told me to go back to my country? Your fucking lazy, big-ass, bitch. The fuck, look like a fucking upside-down boy.
Starting point is 00:25:28 Upside down bowling pin looking ass You look like my fucking sububbing, okay? Fucking potato beer looking ass, that's the fucking By the way, this I would love to see what this woman looks like. No, no, it's just, like, this is real? Yeah, right?
Starting point is 00:25:45 Can you check to see if Grock, if this is AI for it's real? Not AI, like, was it set up or he's really doing that? Just a little bit lower to see if it's a... Look at bowling pin. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, So when I heard this, is it, this video appears to be from a Sally Beauty Supply of Visitor's So it is real.
Starting point is 00:26:07 That's a true story. Is it real? It seems to be. Oh my God. But you know what it is? Like there's a part of it where it's like that fear of walking on excellence, people are just like done with it. Fatigue.
Starting point is 00:26:18 Everybody's just tired. Yeah, it's just like, listen, man, leave me alone. I'm just a regular person trying to live my life and calling him. But he's saying what a lot of people are thinking. and his switch gets flipped. The upside down bowling pin. No, no, no, I mean. Don't even know what that I mean.
Starting point is 00:26:33 No, no, not the profanity. The EBT. No, but the things like you're here in a beauty store and getting Manny Petty when you're carrying an EBT card for your kids, do your nails yourself at home, right? Trim them at home. It's just like, that's what he's saying. And he's saying, I pay taxes for that EBT.
Starting point is 00:26:51 There's an EBT in there. How does he know she has an EBT card? You can pay for your nails with you saw it. It's a card. Oh, you want to go bowling. But hang on, that is what people think. People do think that they're like, what are you doing? I'm paying the taxes for this.
Starting point is 00:27:04 And then apparently she went off on him in some way, some level. And he's like, whoa, you're messing with me. How do you say this? Are we defending the legal immigrant over the actual citizen? Just because the citizen is ghetto? No, I'm asking. What is the question again? Are we defending?
Starting point is 00:27:25 So are we defending the immigrant? I assume legal over the citizen because he's actually working doing his thing. And she's living off the government with her kid. What kind of a question is that? I'm just asking. What are you asking? You ever wonder why Senna walks by didn't give you a high five? Did you ask questions like that?
Starting point is 00:27:45 What kind of question is that, Adam? She's a citizen. Senna is a citizen. She's not paying taxes yet, but when we buy gumford. Listen, if a guy is contributing to society, that's what you want. that guy's contributing to society no he is legal I'm saying what happens if he was illegal
Starting point is 00:28:02 no that's a whole different story you're breaking a law okay you're breaking a law but I think the point with going back to the Mambrani thing Pat this is going back to the Democrats and how they've successfully made words like racist
Starting point is 00:28:16 fascist Hitler Nazi like a throwaway meaning we hear it now and we're like come on those words used to like think about it he's standing in the White House and he said yeah this guy the president who's sitting here is basically Hitler because what other fascists do we know of like that's that's how weak those words have gotten and it sucks because when some when we actually have to use those words
Starting point is 00:28:38 when somebody's actually racist people are going to go now now when another Hitler shows up guess what people are going to say is it like trump hitler oh it's not that bad you can thank trump good bad and ugly because you remember when he won people were like we could say the f word again we could say the r word again Trump good bad and ugly, enabled free speech, which I think is a good thing, but now people are feeling a little more lippy, which is okay, but a little more racism is out there in the atmosphere. All right. Let's, uh... No, Tom?
Starting point is 00:29:10 No, we're done. Tom, you're more racist than ever. He's walking out. He's done. All right, let's go to the next story. Let's go to next story. President says Chicagoans are chanting. Bring in Trump after violent riot leaves eight shot one dead.
Starting point is 00:29:26 So, Rob, I know you have a clip, if you want to play, just to kind of show the madness on what's going. I'll read the tweet first. Go ahead. That's fine. Massive crime and rioting in Chicago loop area. Multiple police officers attacked and badly injured. 300 people rioting. Six victim shot.
Starting point is 00:29:41 One critical and one dead. In the meantime, Governor Pritzker and the low IQ mayor of Chicago are refusing federal funding help for a situation that could be quickly remedied. The people are chanting, bring in Trump. Rob, show what happened there if you could. It's absolutely insane to see this. Folks, imagine you got kids, and you're living in Chicago, and your kids are, say, 17 years old, 18 years old. They're going to go out and hanging out with their friends,
Starting point is 00:30:07 and then they call you. Mom, you won't believe what just happened. You're watching this on the news. How would you react? Go ahead, Rob. On X from Alderman Brian Hopkins, who's, of course, one of the downtown alderman. And he, this is the alderman speaking here.
Starting point is 00:30:20 So that's who we're attributing this to. Look at that. He has posted a tweet on X 300 juveniles. says no rioting in the loop now. At least five victims have been shot. One critical with life-threatening gunshot wound to the torso. Multiple police officers attacked and injured with mace and stun guns. At least one police officer has been hospitalized. That's according to downtown alderman Brian Hopkins, who has been very vocal, Rob and Cheryl Entrey, about the need to have new rules of engagement for the Chicago police in terms of how they can deal with you and how they can
Starting point is 00:30:56 deal with large, large gatherings of youth that happened, as Cheryl, as you say, when the weather gets nice. And it became quite a political story, not just a few months ago, Brian Hopkins, one of the big advocates for. At least six children were shot, including a 13-year-old, two 14-year-olds, a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old, and a less than an hour later, a 14-year-old boy was shot and later died at the hospital and an 18 year old man was also wounded. This is Chicago for you. Vinny, your thoughts. How much, okay, how many more times are we going to have to hear the story? Imagine this is just the thing. This is gearing up for Thanksgiving and a Christmas lighting ceremony. How much more? And then every time this happens, the mayor comes out, it's all
Starting point is 00:31:46 Trump. Trump is a fascist. He's a dictator. Pritzker. You know, he's walking barely breathing and he's saying it's all Trump don't want no this is just Chicago it's not that bad and I'm tired of these people I have family that live there and they're like we're tired of it in 2000 like 8005 murders in 2021 and then 4,400 people shot that year the numbers are coming down and as if they're bragging about it Tommy they're like yeah but it's not as bad as last year hundreds of people are dying in your little ass city drive-by shootings up carjackings remember that video we played of that guy Tom that he was in the in the park. He looked like he was fearing for his life. He's like, please, Trump,
Starting point is 00:32:27 please bring it. We need the help. And I don't know if you guys saw this or not. And, Robbie, I just slacked you a picture of all the stuff that happened. Did you see what happened this past weekend? The young girl, Bethany McGee, Pat, 26 years old. She was set on fire on the train by Lawrence Reed, who had, guess how many arrests, Pat? You won't guess. And Rob, you could, don't look. How many arrests do you think this guy doused this white girl with gasoline and litter on fire. Guess how many times he was arrested, Pat? If you had to guess. 72 times what?
Starting point is 00:32:57 Stop it. Lawrence Reed. I'm going to go down from Chicago. This is happening in this great city of Chicago. 72 arrests. He's only spent how many years in jail if you had to guess guys? How many times did he serve and how much time combined? How long? How much? He was in jail twice and he's only
Starting point is 00:33:13 served 2.5 years. That guy. And then Pat, just going down, Timothy Bowler, 45 arrest. He killed a Lwati Nareen. Alexander Dickey, 39 arrests killed Logan Frederico. David Maz, what was it, Mazzarigos, 33 arrests, killed Nicole Tansy. And then DeCarlo Brown, 14 arrests killed Iran. Go down around, let them see all these people.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Look at that. That's what I'm talking about, Pat. This is unbelievable. And Pritzker and all of them pretending it's not a problem and focusing everything on Trump. Chicagoans need to wake your asses up and stop voting for these people, this blind loyalty to your stupid ass party. Sorry for my language is nuts. And then you have Amy Klobuchar who's saying, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:56 saying that they shouldn't, soldiers shouldn't take these orders, especially the orders when they're trying to send in the National Guard. People need it. It's a war zone, okay? People are not feeling safe. And by the way, that 14-year-old that you talked about that was murdered this weekend, ask his mother if she wants a National Guard in Chicago. Ask her.
Starting point is 00:34:17 I bet you she'll say bring the whole freaking army if it's going to be protecting us. Because it's not stopping time. every single holiday, every event, wait until you see New Year and Christmas, Pat, what's going to happen in Chicago? Anybody want to bet? How many people are going to get shot and killed? And they brag about it.
Starting point is 00:34:29 Yeah, we shy wreck. It's stupid. Beat your prior best. Yeah, it's just dump ads. I have family that's in Chicago. And they all complain, they all complain. They're not voting for this shit. It's the majority because people are giving them handouts
Starting point is 00:34:41 and it drives me nuts. Tom. You know what this is the outcome of? This is the downstream outcome of pandering to a voting block. That's what we have here. There are parents that are responsible, you know, because sometimes when I say things like that, Pat, you know, I get like Menecht. You know what you're saying that? You're actually being a socialist on the other side.
Starting point is 00:35:01 You're saying government should fix it. No, government can make laws and invest in schools and to do things to provide a framework, but then you've got to have moms and dads and society, you know, driving it. And what's right here, this is pandering and enablement coming home to Roos because pandering and enablement does not have. standards. It does not have controls. It does not have, you know, accountability. It's the other guy, your problems, your insecurities, your anger, your envy, your greed. That's the other guy's problem. All those bad things. Oh, that's because of rich people. Or because of a guy that has a job and operates two dry cleaners and employs six people. Yeah, yeah, that's business owners. Boy, that's bad, bad people. And that's the whole thing. This is the downstream
Starting point is 00:35:46 outcome of pandering to people and giving them no, it's a P word, purpose. If you have no purpose in your life and you're just entitled and you expect to be given everything, then you live this life out of control. And that's what you're seeing in Chicago. A life out of control, number one, sprinkled in with immigrants that are the worst of the worst, as they've said. Those weren't freedom fighters, not all. those weren't refugees and do I think there were some
Starting point is 00:36:17 David families that were coming across Eagle Pass coming from Mexico trying to get out of areas where the cartels were yes I do but there's a way to bring them in there's a way to do it and this is the downstream effect what we have no purpose no accountability pandering to the voting block this is the outcome and Pat explain to me because I know it's going to be
Starting point is 00:36:37 extremely difficult maybe impossible how can you be arrested 72 times or 73 times and you've only spent 2.5 years in jail how and then people are like wait it's an isolated incident the mayor said he's pouring gasoline on this girl that's probably going to go see her family and then
Starting point is 00:36:54 lighting her ass on fire thank God she survived she's fighting for her life but it make that makes sense to me how is that system not broken I just don't get it 73 times how many it's a joke to me it's a joke yeah I mean listen
Starting point is 00:37:10 a lot of a lot of uh this is uh theatrics where you're playing theater you're playing to the big screen and you're getting a lot of local families that are coming and calling them out and he's just looking on them like this i will not be answering questions like that when you are using this opportunity to disrespect me i will go to the next person yes sir jeez and you see that you see that yeah but you know what, this is part of, and he promised a lot of things he wasn't going to do that he wasn't going to do. Now he's asking for taxes, all these other things that he's at. Adam, do you have any thoughts on this story? Yeah, of course. So, you know, they say you're only as strong as your weakest link. Chicago, whether it's real or not, they seem like the weakest link in America.
Starting point is 00:37:57 I don't know if it's actuality. I don't know if it's just sort of the narrative, but they seem like the weakest link in America. They keep voting for these Democratic, socialist mayors type people. Who was the mayor before this guy, Brandon Johnson? Lightfoot. The lady who looks like Beetlejuice. Oh, horrible.
Starting point is 00:38:15 So, something's going on in Chicago where they keep voting for these people. My assumption is it's relegated to certain areas. You know, on the last podcast we're like, it's going on in Dearborn. I'm like, listen, Dearborn's Detroit. It's 15 minutes outside of Detroit. And everyone's like, no, it's not.
Starting point is 00:38:32 Not Detroit. It's Dearborn. It's not Chicago. This isn't going on in downtown Chicago. It's going on in like Garfield Park or whatever there is or the south side of Chicago. So if it were me, I would hyper focus on the area, not the name of the city. So what is the area that's causing all these problems? And if I were Trump, I would clean this thing up. I would do it. It's multiple spots. The Christmas lighting tree ceremony wasn't in some random spots downtown. This is hitting home. Adam, people are scared to go outside.
Starting point is 00:39:02 I agree with you. It's not, that's not supposed to be in America. Why do they keep voting for these people? Because they're giving them, they're incentivizing. And it can't be just off of race. It can't be off of we're going to promise you. That's a very small segment that's, quote, unquote, being purchased by EBT cards. Okay, can we give me, let me ask you what?
Starting point is 00:39:18 There's probably white liberals. It's probably white guilt. Adam, if there's probably just normal Democrats. Lightfoot, light foot, under light foot. Thousands of people are getting shot. The city is a mess. Why would you vote for another person on the same point? And if it's really that bad, you would make a change.
Starting point is 00:39:34 I don't get it. I don't get it either. Thank God we live in Florida. But. Stockholm syndrome, they like the views. Simply what I'm asking is, is it as bad as we perceive it is? That's all I'm asking. Yes. When family members are telling me, like, bro, it's bad.
Starting point is 00:39:46 Chicago's not, there's areas that are good. So you have family there? Yeah. Why do they stay? Adam, they're from there. You can't uproot somebody that's just been there, their entire life, their family, there's true or everything. He's from, he's from Iran.
Starting point is 00:39:58 He's from, yeah, but different folks, different folks, I understand. Youngers, you left. But some people are... Tom's from Canada, he left. They don't want to leave. They love their place. They want the system to change. I agree with you.
Starting point is 00:40:08 They should make a change. But if it's so bad and they fear for their safety, travel to get the hell out of there, no? It's getting to that point. Well, guys, let's talk about a different community, a little bit safer community in Chicago. Minnesota. Oh, my favorite.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Trump plans to an immigration protection for some Somalis in Minnesota. He said on Friday was immediately ending temporary immigration protections for a group of Somalis living in Minnesota, the latest group the president has targeted in his mass deportation pushed. This is Wall Street Journal. Trump said on Friday night post on Truth Social that he would be stripping what is known. Minnesota governors have a fraudulent a laundry and activity. I am as President of the United States hereby terminating effective immediately. The temporary protection status for Somalis and Minnesota, Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of the great state and billions of dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came
Starting point is 00:40:59 from it's over president dj t minnesota attorney general keith ellison a democrat said on the post on next on friday uh he said is exploring uh his options to respond donald trump cannot terminate tps for just one state or on a bigoted whim minnesota governor tim waltz a democrat set on the post it's not surprising that the president has chosen to broadly target an entire community this is what happens when uh this is what he does to change the subject. So, Vinnie, when you hear this story, I mean, I've got a couple of the things I'm going to get to as well.
Starting point is 00:41:36 But just with this, how do you process the story? Well, I don't know if you guys have noticed, I was going to say Somalia, Minnesota, Little Somalia, what they want to call, whatever they want to call it. Little Mogadishu has been on the news. And if you notice, Pat, Tim Walz, you know, Tampon Tim and Ilhan Omar, kind of quiet last week, kind of quiet. We talked about all the fraud.
Starting point is 00:41:59 It's allegedly been carried out by members of the Somali community, okay? Hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen. This is the story we did last week. Sent back to Somalia. And guess what? It ended up in the hands of El Shabab, a terrorist organization. That's why they're all crickets, okay? One source even said bigger, he said that the bigger funder, the biggest funder of El Shab is the Minnesota taxpayer.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Okay, and just this week, the 77th person in Minnesota was arrested in a 250, million-dollar fraud case against most and most of them are Somali immigrants. Trump, like you said, has ended the deportation status. And now recently, I think it was Friday, Rob, a Somalian officer in Minnesota, Pat, told the Somali community, and I'm quoting him, as Somalian police officers, we work for you. And that is why we are different from foreigners and white, white officers. Pack, can we play this? Go for it.
Starting point is 00:42:54 As Somali police officers, we work for Somalia. Have any amount of any tag in a day and night, we stay. for you and serve you. As you don't look at this country as refugees, and Iskirts Somalia, there were no Samayan police officers. So now that we have hired, it means we're working for our people.
Starting point is 00:43:12 We understand the culture. We understand the language. We understand. The way of life. That's why we are different from foreigners or white. We're built that bridge. We build that bridge. We build that gap.
Starting point is 00:43:24 So thank you, I'm hastened again. And you know, and I'm a scented police officer. whether you're in the homeland or abroad works for you and you were asleep at night and you're resting
Starting point is 00:43:34 for the ones protecting you so mind you I don't know if you guys know this or not police are supposed to serve everyone equally okay the moment you pledge loyalty to a certain group you're not upholding the law the law you the badge means nothing at that point okay your loyalty again
Starting point is 00:43:50 is the law and like I mentioned Ilhan Omar you guys notice she's the biggest mouth the biggest crap talking Trump this fascist Hitler, Nazi, she's been quiet, but last week, this is her. Oh, she emerged last week when they were talking about Epstein, and look what she called the Republican Party. Tom Emmer has been a huge part of what I call the pedophile protection party.
Starting point is 00:44:15 They've done every single thing possible to make sure that these files on Epstein were not going to be released. Pretty, like, if you think about it, Is that pretty ironic? She called the Republican Party, the pedophile protection party, but she praised to a prophet that was the most prolific pedophile, Aisha, six years old and what married her at nine. So let's be honest, then she's in the pedophile worship party.
Starting point is 00:44:45 And again, allegedly, she married her brother for citizenship for him. So it's just, it's so rich to hear her talking that nonsense about an entire party. Meanwhile, she's praying to this guy. And I think, Pat, there's so much bad happening in freaking Minnesota. And I'm so happy that Trump is making these moves because enough is enough. How much more are they going to be milking off the taxpayer, hating the freaking country, having police officers are like, hey, I'm all about Somalis and talking crap about white officers and other officers. No, that's what we were talking about slowly coming in, doing their thing, multiplying, hating the country, and this is what we get.
Starting point is 00:45:21 Tom. You know, what really was I found very galling on this was police. I think it's Brian O'Hara. Yep, Brian O'Hara. So he says, hey, we solved this crime. We arrested some people. Quote, they were part of a group of Somali youth who had been involved in a number of violent crimes in our city.
Starting point is 00:45:42 That's all he said. But immediately they all went hard to the hoop. And they said, outrage from community leaders. I can't believe you're saying this. You're stereotyping us. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. When a police chief in Los Angeles says,
Starting point is 00:45:56 you know, the Cripsom. bloods have got groups of youth in them that have been brought, you know, recruited to each other that are committing crimes and terrorizing part of the cities. They're not stereotyping all African Americans are talking about this group. And he took such heat. He came back and actually took it back. I take full responsibility of my poor choice of words. My intent was to provide context and the pain I have caused. Now you're confessing that just saying to the people hey, there's a group of Somali youth, not all of them, a group of Somali youth that are doing some really bad things, and we have to go out there and restore law and order.
Starting point is 00:46:38 And this is what happens when you don't have assimilation, right? You have a group that wants to maintain. This is the difference between invasion and assimilation. There I said it. Bingo. Oh, Tom went there. Adam. So two things.
Starting point is 00:46:56 I have no problem with police officers looking like the community that they serve and protect. So if you're Mexican, you're Mexican in a Mexican community, if you're black, in an African-American community in Compton, wherever it may be, in Jews in Brooklyn, whatever it may be, you should serve and protect your community. It builds trust. You can communicate. There's a respect level there. I'm an advocate for that. The challenge that we're going to have with these types of communities is really the biggest question that I think we're going to do with. from a socioeconomic standpoint, and that is this,
Starting point is 00:47:29 is Islamism compatible with Western American values? That's the question. And I'm not talking about individuals. I have Muslim friends. I have Jewish friends. I have Mexican friends. I have Japanese friends. I have Japanese.
Starting point is 00:47:44 As long as you assimilate to American culture, we good. But if you try to keep your own culture, Sharia law type stuff in American cities, that's where you lose. Did you know it's not, Pat, I looked it up. It's not, you know, Sharia law, to being implemented here, it's not illegal. So the fastest growing community of Muslim community America, do you know what city it is? It's in Houston, Texas, ironically.
Starting point is 00:48:09 So we get preoccupied with Dearborn. We talk about Minneapolis, it's happening in each of these cities. Governor Abbott, I believe, outlawed Sharia law in Texas. Rob, you can fact check that, please. What eventually will happen is each state is going to have to just outlaw this nonsense. And say, come and assimilate to America. We want you. We like you.
Starting point is 00:48:29 We love you. You're all welcome if you follow American values and laws. Straight up. Yeah, because I'm almost positive at him. If he did it, that's good. But I think constitutionally, it's not illegal to impose Sharia law. If I'm not mistaken, Rob, if I'm not mistaken, which I don't think is a good thing. Rob, while it's doing that, did you have the clip of the officer apologizing for identifying Somalians?
Starting point is 00:48:54 Yes. Did you guys see this clip? No. Watch this here. Go forward. The Somali community here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has shown love towards me, and I appreciate it. Over the last three years, we have been working together to try and address some of the real serious problems that we have in our community.
Starting point is 00:49:11 We have to be honest at times with the problems that we're having in our community, and we know our community to help us fix those problems together because it's real and it's serious. At the same time, if people have taken anything that I have said, out of context in a way that's caused harm I apologize and I'm sorry for that because it's not my intention at all apologizing for the other guy
Starting point is 00:49:34 taking your words out of context yeah I didn't take him out of context my gosh we'd spend all day doing that I'd really like to apologize for all the people that jumped up on X and took my words out of context here on the podcast and got all upset I'm so sorry they had them hostage
Starting point is 00:49:49 like you have you seen Captain Philip that's exactly what that scene looked like I am the captain now I'm not gonna be the captain this is where you end up when you don't have the guardrails. He didn't start out there. He ended up there. Minneapolis Police Department didn't start out there.
Starting point is 00:50:01 They ended up there. And Rob, what is the idea where they sent $20 million over to, let's address that real quick, the Sharia law, if you don't mind? So the Greg Abbott outlaw, Sharia law in Texas. Yes, Abbott assigned legislation made statements saying that what he refers to as Sharia law in Texas, but the legal scope of meaning what he calls that is narrow or more complex than a blanket outlong of religious practice. So it's not going to be as easy.
Starting point is 00:50:25 as, you know, one thing for him to be able to ban it. But Adam, were you going to say something on this? I was going to make a different point, but go ahead, sir. Rob, that other clip, you had a clip there. Is this the one that's saying they're funding? Yes. Go for it. Watch this here, Minnesota taxpayers' funding terror group.
Starting point is 00:50:43 Is the old Shabab thing? Go ahead, yes. Is the biggest funder of al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Somalia? Actually, the Minnesota taxpayer? A federal investigator says, Yes. An alarming claim first reported by City Journal, which spoke with multiple former federal agents. The U.S. Attorney's Office has charged dozens of defendants across multiple schemes, including housing aid fraud, pandemic child nutrition fraud, and false billing for autism therapy.
Starting point is 00:51:13 In total, prosecutors say these schemes have cost Minnesota taxpayers billions of dollars. Billions. People that have legitimately could use those resources that are not getting those resources. It's past criminal. Minnesota is home to one of the country's largest Somali communities. Former state fraud investigator, Kesh Magin, himself, a Somali American, wrote last year that it's uncomfortable and true that nearly all defendants in these major fraud cases come from that community. They have taken advantage of the most generous country in the world and one of the most generous states in that country. And according to City Journal, some of the stolen money with a shoot each other back.
Starting point is 00:51:51 What are they doing? Formal cash transfer networks. Investigators say, Once that cash arrived in Somalia, al-Shabaab took a cut, whether the sender intended that or not. Pretty much across the board, people that I spoke to said there really isn't a law enforcement solution to this problem. As you said, that's simply playing whack-a-mole. People pretty consistently told me that, you know, there needs to be a policy change here. Critics claim Minnesota leaders have tiptoed around the issue, fearing a backlash from the state's powerful Somali-American voting bloc. So you mean that's like, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:52:26 Billions of tax dollars that you guys are stealing from the American taxpayer are going to a terrorist organization in another country. And how is that not? Headline news. Here's the challenge. Tom brought up a good point about assimilation, right? My question is, how do you define assimilate? What does that actually mean?
Starting point is 00:52:46 Sort of like a catch-all term. You got assimilate. You know what I have a problem with? And, dude, I go crazy on these people. in Miami, born and raised, Cubans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Venezuelans, who have been here for 10, 20, 30 years, no English, no English.
Starting point is 00:53:05 And you know, I drive Uber, they're all Uber drivers. They say, uh, do where are you in Cuba? Uh, how many years, vi in Miami? Uh, 10 years, 10 years. Uh, ablas English? No. You've been living in Miami, 10 years. You got no English, bro.
Starting point is 00:53:18 Zero? No, signor, no. I said, I said, but the challenge, okay, to me that's horrible. I went to, you know, we have a McDonald's right here. The lady had the worst hospitality ever and spoke no English. I said, pick one, lady. You can either have great hospitality and no English, I'll deal with you, or shitty hospitality, and speak English, I'll still deal with you.
Starting point is 00:53:41 You got bad hospitality and no English, get the hell out of here. So I freak out the challenge with them. They're not assimilating, but they're not funding terrorism. They're not burning the American flag That's the biggest problem here They're not basically funding al-Shabaab or al-Qaeda Or the Free Palestine Hamas movement I'm not word that Haitians
Starting point is 00:54:01 Maybe they're eating the cats Which is not true by the way But I'm not worried that they're going to be sending money To terror networks or burning the American flag That's the problem And then the Congressmen These people are looking to populate and dominate How many videos have you seen people in America
Starting point is 00:54:14 Saying we're coming for you We're taking over your churches We're going to dominate America And, inshallah, America will be Islamic one day. And we're having more kids. Hell to the no. Yep. That's the problem.
Starting point is 00:54:26 And hold on. 4,500. You have to say, just say, and to put the cherry on top, then you have the Congresswoman, constantly bashing the country, constantly clapping on our president. And hijab. And a hijab. Don't give me a break, bro. While this is going on, while this is going on, here's from Detroit Free Press,
Starting point is 00:54:45 expectant mothers in Dearborn. You ready? to be getting $4,500 mayor announces in state of the city. Do you know what this means? Watch his clip here. Go for it, Rob. Oh, that's that guy.
Starting point is 00:54:59 You had a baby. As of November 1 or are currently pregnant, you were eligible for up to $4,500. I would just have to be kids. Dearborn, RX Kids is finally here. We worked for this program for over two years, and if you're pregnant now, had a baby after November 1st, you're eligible.
Starting point is 00:55:14 Dearborn produces more babies per capita than any other city in Michigan. Roughly 1,700 babies. which is why it's important that this program is live and well right here in the city of Dearborn. That's not the same mayor that said that you're not welcome here because the guy was complaining. To a pastor, I believe. And by the way, more babies per capita in Deerborn and anybody else in the United States, if the stat is true that he's saying, and we're relying on this, it appears to be credible.
Starting point is 00:55:41 I think he's in Michigan, yeah. Okay. Then what they're saying is in Dearborn, this is what we've been saying. Americans, you got to have kids. You got to have kids and you've got to bring them up a certain way. Otherwise, a combination of immigration and them having it, they're going to, the phrase is known as, breed you out. That's what's going to happen.
Starting point is 00:56:03 And now they're getting paid for it. We've been working so hard. This is a form of handout to a immigrant group that's running a high fecundity rate. If they want a battle time, we should have like a woodstock, but just everybody get in that stadium. and just... Here's why this is so bad. I'm trying to multiply.
Starting point is 00:56:22 Because we're no fans of a welfare state in America, and we are certainly no fans of an Islamic state in America. This is both of those combined. An Islamic welfare state in Dearborn, hail to the nah, mashallah, no way. Well, they're doing it. If you want to find a way to move that money over, that's what you were doing.
Starting point is 00:56:42 By the way, that's the same guy. Rob, is that the same guy that's the clip I watch this here. This is him. He says this to an American. Go ahead. I mean, Hezbollah, you know, bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans. So I just feel it's quite inappropriate. You are an Islamophobic.
Starting point is 00:57:03 And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believe in coexistence. Have you ever heard of a mayor speak to a citizen like that? Because he's saying, hey, listen, if you guys are doing this and you're funding this and that's a... Yeah, I've heard a lot of mayors say it. Those that have the constituents, they were naming the people after? That isn't... What do you mean, Tom?
Starting point is 00:57:32 There's a lot of mayors, they'll say that. Those that are not afraid of the re-election because they've got their constituents and they got their voters and they have their voting block. He knows that there's a large group of voters that have his back that... I love what he's about to say. But you can't say that. You can't say that if you're not who he is. By the way, he was complaining that they were naming the street after a known Hezbollah terrorist. Cool.
Starting point is 00:57:57 Let's compartmentalize that. Did you see what they did in Europe? This is a known thing. The Muslim Brotherhood, which we're going to hear that name over and over and over again, because they're a 50-year plan to infiltrate the West, which is halfway there. They said use in Europe, use the term Islamophobic as much as possible. And look at London Look at Paris
Starting point is 00:58:18 Look at Berlin They use that term They use that term To deflect after their real plant Nobody's scared Unless you're actually trying to change Our complete community And our culture
Starting point is 00:58:30 Then you should be scared Yep Yeah Well We'll see We'll see what's gonna happen It's a Muslim guy Talking about coexistence
Starting point is 00:58:39 Tell me that's not ironic Yeah I mean yeah makes you think when you hear that, right? Don't you think? Let me get to the next story here. So, MTG, I don't know where announces that she's stepping down. And it was a shocker.
Starting point is 00:58:53 It was a shocker to a lot of people. Crockett was shocked. Massey was shocked. A lot of people were shocked when she made this announcement. Go ahead, Rob. I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all goes away and gets better. If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by neocons, big pharma, big tech,
Starting point is 00:59:13 military industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can never, ever relate to real Americans, than many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well. There is no plan to save the world or a 4D chess game being played. When common American people realize and understand that the... About another minute. Okay. Political industrial complex at both parties. She's resigning, is what she's saying.
Starting point is 00:59:42 She's resigning effective January 1st. When she announced that, President Trump called her a traitor, I believe, and she was upset about the fact that she was called a traitor, Marjorie Trader Brown because of plummeting poll numbers. No, he called her brown. No, he says brown. Because of her plummeting numbers. Get it?
Starting point is 01:00:03 Oh, because the grass turns brown. Because of the plummeting poll numbers are not wanting to face a primary challenge with a strong Trump endorsement where she would have no chance of winning because decided to call it quits her relationship with the worst Republican congressman in decades. Thomas Massey of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr.,
Starting point is 01:00:21 because he voted against the Republican Party and really good legislation did not help her for some reason primarily that I refused to return her never-ending barrage of phone calls. Marjorie went bad. Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie and thank her for her service to her.
Starting point is 01:00:38 and then he does that. By the way, she's a great person as well. I hate her with a passion. Best of luck to you. I love you. Yeah. That's Trump. Yeah. So anyways,
Starting point is 01:00:49 and then Massey says this is not great news for the country. Loomer takes ownership. Loomer says this is because of me that this happened. What's the tweet, Rob, that you got? Let me see here. She said, you got loomer. She got loomer. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:00 But by the way, why did she say she got loomer at him? Is there a, was there a back and forth there, Rob, between the two of them? They were not friends whatsoever. Laura Luma is one of the Trump's greatest allies and advocates. Some call her the Trump whisperer. The thing with what Marjorie Taylor Green, where she really messed up, even Megan Kelly went in on this, you can criticize Trump. That's fine.
Starting point is 01:01:22 It might not work out well for you. What you cannot do is go on what Megan called it, enemy territory. You go on CNN and you're going to try to downplay Trump's achievements and basically try to wreck Trump. No, that's not going to work out well for you. There's no benefit if you're the Republican Party of going ham on Trump. It's not going to work out well for you. Marjorie Taylor Green, two weeks ago was the most controversial. Everyone's talking about her.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Then she resigns. You don't cross Trump. Thomas Massey, you know, they're in these safe districts. But if Trump zeroes in on you, you do not have a future in the Republican Party. so we are seeing beyond this everybody's read all the stuff that she said and has heard all the clips I don't need to recover that what I'm seeing here is she believes in what she says she absolutely believes she's hardline maga coupled to what we used to call tea party and she believes that and she believes it with with with all her heart I don't think she's for sale I think
Starting point is 01:02:34 she's stepping out, and I think she's going to go show up as a presidential candidate. Now, I don't think she's going to get very far. But in weekend polling, she suddenly shows up on polling and on Kalshi as 5% chance to be the Republican nominee in 28. Now, I don't think that she's got a shot. I thought she tweeted saying she has no intention to run for president. It's like Gavin Newsom. It's the same as Gavin Newsom.
Starting point is 01:03:03 I'm never going to run. Ross Pro. I may be making a fuss. I've really got no intention to get in the middle of this mess until he did with both feet. So, come on. That's what I think is going on here. What does Cal she have with her chances, Rob? I'm looking for that right now. I don't think she's stepping down because she's tired. I think she's lining up her shot. She knows, you know, the party's kind of whatever. Four days over the weekend. Go up to top, top, top, top, top. Look, 5%. Number three. After four days over the weekend. Yeah, I mean, she's, instead of sitting and dealing in Congress with all this nonsense and Trump going after, she's freeing herself up to move around the country, she's going to raise some money. And, you know, look at where she's at, Tommy. She's in third.
Starting point is 01:03:44 She's not a big tent Republican. This is, okay, I got to agree with you. You got to agree with me on certain things. I don't agree with you on this. You don't agree with me on that. But we got to stay under the tent for the sake of the guy we put in the White House and winning the Senate. That's not her. She is not a big tent person.
Starting point is 01:04:02 And this is what I was telling you, Adam, last week, and when we kind of went back and forth, I'm not saying the party, meaning, you know, Mag and everybody's losing their minds. But, like, look up, like, she's going to cause some problems with, you know, Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance, well, how are they going to debate each other? They're going to go after each other's throats. She's going to be the one that kind of go in there and say, hey, you guys said this and Israel, that, and this and that. She's going to be the thorn in that, which I was getting to my point last week, Adam. She's going to be the, like the Ross Perot, Tommy.
Starting point is 01:04:30 She's going to go in there and mess things up. You know what I mean? Not to help the party. In a world where can I respond to that? 4%? I couldn't. For the primary? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:39 I couldn't disagree more. And it has nothing to do with Marjorie Taylor Green specifically. It has nothing to do with a whack job, low IQ Jasmine Crockett. Show me. Please, show me. There's zero precedent for any Congress person in the last 100 years, 100 years to do anything in a primary. They've never been the nominee. They've never done anything.
Starting point is 01:05:03 Here's a weird analogy. So last week I compared Trump to Jordan. And people want to rip on Jordan, criticize Jordan. He's the goat, bro. Ever, period. So if we're talking about current NBA players, let's say, just using an analogy, Trump is LeBron. Whether I'm not saying you agree with him politically or not,
Starting point is 01:05:21 he's the best player currently playing, meaning stats-wise, probably the number two best player. This to me are loser players who have never done anything in their career. Swaggy P, Nick Young, Dylan Brooks, who gets traded left and right. You know, J.R. Smith, dribbling the wrong way. These are players who make headlines, but they do not move the needle at all. This isn't like Kevin Durant is talking trash about LeBron. This isn't like Steph Curry's talking trash.
Starting point is 01:05:49 These are people in safe districts who have safe, cushy jobs in their Congress seats, when their job is to inflame the public. But they have zero, and I mean zero. national recognition. Zero. So do you ever wonder why AOC, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert, Jasmine Crockett, why they make headlines? Because they say the most wild, stupid stuff because they can't. You can't do that if you're a senator.
Starting point is 01:06:20 You certainly can't do that if you're a governor. If you're a president, only if you're named Trump can you say wild, ridiculous things. These people, in my opinion, until I'm proven otherwise, are literally irrelevant. And the only reason they are relevant because they'll put them on TV to say stupid-ass shit, roll the tape,
Starting point is 01:06:38 Jasmine Crockett, there you go. Pat, I think there's something to what you just, we just heard from Adam. But what I really, you know, got to emphasize to people, long-term relevance or not relevance, it messes up the momentum you have,
Starting point is 01:06:55 and it messes up the unifying message that you need under the Big Ten. that's what you need and does she have a chance no but she seems to think so and she's getting inflated here why was sorrows spending so much dark money trying to influence district of attorney appointments and things like that he didn't want to be right out there you know holding hands with someone up there like this this is my money electing this person there's a lot of things that goes on behind the scenes and i think mtg is you know a true believer and what she believes, but she needs to be pulled in because, you know what the Dems did?
Starting point is 01:07:34 They did it in a horrible conniving way. The South Carolina absolute, you know, screwing of Bernie Sanders in that election. You know what I'm talking about, Adam? Of course. Is because they wanted, they said, you got to be out of the way. We need one message, one candidate. That's Hillary, because we got to win. And so even though they did that in a horrible way that completely screwed the will of the people that have been voting for Bernie in those primaries, all those people, their voices got erased and said, wait a minute, I supported, I volunteered, I door knocked out of all this.
Starting point is 01:08:11 You don't have to agree with Bernie's position to admire the patriotism of the Americans that felt that Bernie was their guy and then suddenly got cast aside. You need unity under the tent. Otherwise, it just creates nothing but problems, electability or not. Do we know why she's resigned? Is there a reason? It's all the, all the Trump stuff, all the going back and forth with her. She's like, I'm not going to deal with you. She's like, she's like, she's not going to be like, she's not going to be a wife in an abusive relationship.
Starting point is 01:08:38 She's leaving. It's bad for business to be a Republican and oppose Trump vocally on CNN. Probably bad for your career, yeah? Yeah, well, probably. She's making the rounds. Why did it start? Do you know where it started, though? It doesn't matter why it started.
Starting point is 01:08:51 What do you mean? What does it? Sure. We'll get addressed why it started. The point is where, where did it finish? No, I She was the loudest person in Congress And now she's resigning
Starting point is 01:09:00 Within a month She was one of the biggest supporters From the jump She was Yeah, but what what's shifting Was it? And I'm generally curious, Rob Was it because she's been very critical
Starting point is 01:09:09 Epstein She's very critical of Israel She's been very critical With the economy She's been very critical Critical of regulation There's a list of issues Okay
Starting point is 01:09:18 The reality is this What did Tom just say Get in line or get out Is she in line or she's out She's out that's it by the way where can you disagree more
Starting point is 01:09:29 within politics the republican party or the democratic party republican all day long you can disagree as much as you want with the public party talk about big tent you know the whole dei thing the one challenge with the democratic party
Starting point is 01:09:44 is they don't have a diversity of thought you can have a diversity of thought in the republican party all good the democratic party you do not go against the establishment you're gone Bernie Sanders she went against Trump in a very vocal, loud manner
Starting point is 01:09:58 that did not work out well for her. AOC has stayed in line even though she and Schumer do not get along. You don't have to go very far to see that they absolutely don't get along, but she's about to get her green light and she has been very restrained
Starting point is 01:10:14 because you don't think that she's aspirational, you don't think she's out there, you don't think she's really developing persona and getting better at what she's doing. She absolutely is. But right now, she's about to get her green light that she didn't have. Republican Party, I'm going to primary you. I'm going to go after you.
Starting point is 01:10:30 You know, when Joe Lieberman stepped out, by way, you know, Vice President candidate Joe Lieberman, when he stepped out a line, what did they do to him in Connecticut? The Dems primaryed him. And they defeated him. And then guess what happened? He ran as an independent and said, Connecticut is a small town, boys.
Starting point is 01:10:51 I still got it. And then he got reelected as the independent. There was a perfect example. I don't know, though. I don't know. I don't know how you all of a sudden step out. Yeah, it's weird. I don't know how you do it.
Starting point is 01:11:03 So go through the possibilities. She just said she's, I'm sorry, sir. She is tired of the Epstein stuff. Okay, cool. She is tired of, you know, what did she say being hit? What was the word she used, Vinny? She said like an abused wife that's going to sit there and keep taking it. Okay, so an abused wife that's going to sit there and keep taking it.
Starting point is 01:11:20 Okay, great. So she's done. I'm going to go back to live in a normal life. Who believes that? Not me. Who believes she's done with politics? Nobody. Nobody.
Starting point is 01:11:28 Anybody believes that? No. Okay. So is this aspirational to want to run for president? Maybe. Maybe. Is this a way where she's done with politics and maybe she wants the job on the view and she wants to go mainstreaming and she wants to make money doing that?
Starting point is 01:11:46 Very good point. Was there an offer made behind closed doors on the view saying, hey, you come here, We'll pay you $2 million a year. Good point. Better life, relax, enjoy, do your thing, you know, all this other stuff. I don't know. Literally, when I'm telling you, I don't know. All I'm saying is there was a set of events that took place.
Starting point is 01:12:03 Maybe, is she married, Rob? Is she married? She is married. Can you pull up her husband? I don't know what her husband does. Can I get, what is her? I guess they're divorced now. She got divorced in 2022.
Starting point is 01:12:16 Oh, so she's not married. No, this is her ex-husband. Married 95 to 2022. What happened there? Wow, 95, 25, 27 years? Yeah, what happened there, Rob? Is there a story behind it or no? I'll take a look and see.
Starting point is 01:12:29 Yeah, so, no, because Rob was going to go and I said, does she married? Maybe her husband's like, babe, stop it. Let's just kind of spend time with the family and the kids, and I don't follow her personal life. So maybe it's like, okay, babe, let's spend time with the kids. Maybe someone's becoming a grandchild, someone's having a grand kid.
Starting point is 01:12:46 There's a broken due to, there are three children. your political, how old, okay, go a little bit lower up, go another political ground? 27 years. 27 years. How old is the oldest kid? Okay? How old is the oldest kid?
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Starting point is 01:13:55 Visit us at manares.com slash commerce. Damn, they went in on our Wikipedia. She's, mine just says, he's cool, he's funny. So, PPD, I think you're on to something while he's looking at that. In the last six months, she's been on real-time with Bill Maher. She's been on The View. She's been on CNN She's been on Megan Kelly
Starting point is 01:14:21 It's called The Rounds 27 years old as oldest kids Wow Yeah so no what I'm saying is like Is that the phase 27 26 22 kids are grown So she's by herself Oh by the way now maybe that it's divorced
Starting point is 01:14:35 Maybe she's like Listen man I'm not trying to be a Old single You know my What's the lady that I like? Katie What is that one The motivational speaker
Starting point is 01:14:46 The lady that's the lady that screams at her staff and she's just great on TV. Kim, Kim? Katie Hopper. You're not getting up. Oh, California. Katie Porter. Don't you chocolate trash by my Katie Hopkins, bro.
Starting point is 01:14:57 That's my girlfriend. Get out of my shot. Ellen DeGeneres? Maybe she doesn't want to be, you know, somebody that's just single doing Polly. Maybe she wants to settle down and have a family. Maybe she's dating somebody that said, look, man, I'm with you. I'll marry you.
Starting point is 01:15:13 I'll give you a ring, but not if it's going to be like this. We don't know 99% of this. stories of why she's doing this. Maybe it's like, you know what? I went in there, try to be a statesman. Not possible. I'm out. This is too dirty. This is too nasty.
Starting point is 01:15:26 I just don't have it. Who knows? Who knows what it is? I think you nailed it. PBD. You went down the checklist. Don't be shocked. I think she's not going to rerun in January. January. It's coming up.
Starting point is 01:15:36 Don't be shocked if there's a TV deal or some deal where she ends up on the view or has her little show on MSDNC, whatever it may be. She's about to go get that money. She's about to what? go get that money, the TV money. I don't know. I don't know. All I'm saying is, you know, it may be completely out there or she may be wanting to run for president.
Starting point is 01:15:59 Nobody knows. The reality is we'll find out in three years. You said something very interesting. I just looked up. Brian Glenn is allegedly still her long-term partner. They've been together for almost four years, it says. And he is the chief White House correspondent for Real America's voice, a media network
Starting point is 01:16:18 he's far right he got a little bit of criticism for kind of a puff piece he did on her but he also was the one that went after Zelensky
Starting point is 01:16:32 about not wearing a suit so she's interesting you say that Pat she's in a relationship with someone who's very visible in alternative media and I say alternative because Real America's voice is not a main stream channel. Yeah, I don't know. So the guy she's dating is the what correspondent or is the
Starting point is 01:16:52 for media? White House correspondent for Real America. Okay. Yep. And he's like editorial director of something or other. So don't forget. I think, you know, where she was at, she was a gamer and, you know, she was somebody that would debate and she would put herself out there. Sometimes you need that. She didn't give me the vibe of a, uh, uh, uh, what's the word? Like it's all about me. It's all about me. It's all about me. She didn't give me that vibe. She didn't give me that was self-centered. No, she didn't give me that vibe that she really believed in what she was doing. And look, this is a very, very nasty game. Very nasty game. It is not for everybody. If you get into this game, you want to be in a long term. Like Crockett said, oh, now you want to step out the moment
Starting point is 01:17:39 you're getting some pressure and we have to deal with that guy for the entire time. You can't handle that. Now you want to quit. Now you're getting out of it. Like she was kind of like, but she's a gamer. Like this one and this, she, she enjoys it. Like, Crackett is made for this game. She's going to do some stuff with it. But, all right, let's go to the next door here. Let's go to the next door here.
Starting point is 01:17:59 Next story I want to get to is, let me see which one I want to go to. Let's go to this one. Tijuana, folks. I know a lot of you guys care about Tijuana. So Tijuana, threatens news outlets reporting on his money laundering investigation. How dare you report on the mayor of Tijuana
Starting point is 01:18:16 Kiwana. Can you imagine you ought to be ashamed of yourself? Rob, is this the clip? Yeah. Go ahead, Rob. And it is also a media outlet that is claiming to defame me, well, I am also going to take action. Legal because beyond freedom of expression, they are putting my image at risk, then also, I am already with a provogato for those means that are daring to farm and I am also going to take legal action against those who tarnish my image and my reputation and make me vulnerable. These types of situations, and what type of information does it refer to, they are for a fact that I have. Something that has to do with a situation involving money or an action of some federal crime, which is confusing for citizens, the media has to be very responsible. In what they
Starting point is 01:19:00 kill you because it is practically clear that it stains the image of the politician or the human being that you have here in front or of any other person that is driving like that. Because the line in the hair, look at that line. That's pretty legit. That's intentional. Yeah, so what happened here is this politician is allegedly linked to two businessmen who have been singled out for their alleged ties to both cartel, Halisco, New Generation, and Sinaloa cartel. During a series of public events this week, Miguel Brugueno Ruiz confirmed that he had received the confirmation from Mexico's Attorney General Office for a hearing as part of an investigation from an organized crime division. The issue began this week when various local news outlets in Tijuana and Tijuana publish photographs of court documents from the case. One of the photographs was of a notice to peer requesting his presence at FEMDO
Starting point is 01:19:55 headquarters on Tuesday along with Brugueno. Authorities were also looking to talk to other politicians from Baja, California, and other businessmen. According to InfoBes, Bruguenos has been linked to Mexican businessman Fernando Rafael Salgado Chavez. and Marco Antonio Moreno, Santele, says, who have been outed in local news outlets as key connections to both C.J&G and Cinello, Cartel, Tom. Okay. Let me see if I understand.
Starting point is 01:20:23 Go ahead. A Mexican politician, you know, the mayor of Tijuana, A, is being investigated by the government. B, gets a notice to appear at the federal level from Femdo, which is their RICO, this Mexico's RICO and FBI, ding. And then somebody takes pictures of other things that were in court, and they end up in the newspaper, ding! And then he comes out and says,
Starting point is 01:20:54 I will not have my reputation smeared. I will not have this, I tell you. I will take legal action again. Well, you hope legal action isn't like people hanging from bridges with no heads. You know, we hope that what he's talking about. Watch it down. But look at this. And here, he's tied in with the, I love this.
Starting point is 01:21:14 Yeah, Cartaghalisco New Generation and Sinaloa. Sinaloa, which is basically like in Mexican government, defense contractors, right? The biggest most powerful groups in the United States, usually defense contractors or pharma. Over here, it's the cartels. And so this guy is standing up there, actually drawing more attention to it by saying, anybody that publishes this crap, I'm going to do business with you. And meanwhile, it's like, wait a minute, but you got your own FBI, your own RICO, you got this, you get this, and then they got a picture of this, and then we find out that this guy's been trying to meet with other guys.
Starting point is 01:21:54 So he doesn't just want two defense contractors, he wants all of them. I'm your guy, just like God rest his soul, you know, Dick Cheney, he was certainly the guy for the defense contract in Rumsfeld. they were your defense contractor guys and I look at it at the headline and it's like what is the what you should be doing you should be finding like hungry people in the streets and finding ways to feed them
Starting point is 01:22:20 and doing all this stuff and like distracting everybody from it so the people say sir don't you have to go for the corruption case I'm not worried about the corruption case I'm worried about that there's no clean water and sewer service for one third of Tijuana and I'm here to fix
Starting point is 01:22:36 accent, I got to do it. That's how you do it. Instead of this guy says, all right, I've had enough of this crap, and I'm going to mess you up. Question about, like, how, how corrupt would you say, are, because I heard a lot of stories of the president of Mexico, a lot of the mayors, they're all connected to the cartel. Oh, yeah. They're like, like, by the way, Adam, just him standing there talking in my brain, I'm always like, oh, my God, somebody's going to come and pull the trigger. It's not like as if they have secret service protection. They're just out there in he opened. And it was a month ago or was it a month ago about another
Starting point is 01:23:09 was it a mayor, Robbie? He just with his family, somebody came up and just shot him in the back of the head and just walked away and they don't find the people and it's like, it's all connected. It's like the corrupt I would, the last thing I would want to be is in politics in Mexico, bro. You're the Tijuana. Let me tell you something, bro.
Starting point is 01:23:26 I'm not going to make any Mexican friends when I'm saying this. Mexico is the most corrupt shit hole in the western hemisphere. Ten years ago, when Trump came down that escalator and he says, Mexico, they're not sending their best, they're rapists, their drug dealers. Oh, they are. I'm not saying individual people.
Starting point is 01:23:43 If you put it in chat, GPT, Google, top 10 most dangerous cities in the Western Hemisphere, you'll find two cities that are not Mexico, Port of Prince Haiti, and Caracas, Venezuela. The other top 10 are Tijuana and then the rest of Mexico. Is Halisko up there? Halisco is pretty. Of course. I said a day to go from Aliscoe. Of course.
Starting point is 01:24:05 Always at a knife. So two of the top 10 are not Mexican cities. Correct. So this guy is, number one, Colima, Mexico. Colima. Tijuana, Mexico. Piawana. Mexico, Mexico.
Starting point is 01:24:16 Okay, go. Delay, let me. I don't know what the hell is. Hey, first, second, third. They got the whole podium. Dude, I don't know what the hell's going on in our southern border. But we couldn't build this wall fast enough. People thought Trump was racist in 10 years ago, I would say that he's right.
Starting point is 01:24:33 Hey, wait. Right about everything. Number 10. Got to give a shout out to number 10. What was number 10? Baltimore. Let's go, baby. Way to go, Baltimore.
Starting point is 01:24:41 Earlier this year, I got approached with this, quote, unquote, great business opportunities. Genuine, genuine, great businessmen. Nothing to do with them. They said we have this amazing property in Mexico. We're looking for investors. I said, let me look at the numbers. I'm not a big real estate guy. The property looks sick.
Starting point is 01:25:00 And then they go, I go, yeah, but I'm not interested. They go, why not? the numbers look great the property looks great I go there's only one challenge it's in freaking Mexico I have no interest in doing anything in Mexico we couldn't build this wall fast enough you got that in an email
Starting point is 01:25:16 make it make it Gulf of America let be done with Mexico until they clean up their act it's not going to happen they're on a southern border and they have the top eight of the top 10 most dangerous cities
Starting point is 01:25:30 in the western hemisphere did you know that their president built the wall around her her headquarters, Rob, was that true? Around her house. Yeah, because she has brains because now she'd be a die later. And they tried carrying it down? This ruins the whole thing. What?
Starting point is 01:25:41 Because for this year, Tom knows this. We were like, we were doing things to recognize people for the performance. Yeah. For 2025, we were going to send Adam to Cancun. I'm good. Forget that noise. I'm good, bro. By the way.
Starting point is 01:25:54 To Cancun. You don't set them up to do the podcast. There is no chance I'm going anywhere in Mexico. By the way, my cousin. I'd rather go to Porta Puenteeathe before I go to Mexico. You're dead serious. Hey, you're in. I'm in.
Starting point is 01:26:05 Send out of that. You'll see me in Gaza before you see me in Theoana. It is. We had a trip. We sent a few hundred of our guys to Cancun. And then a week after we left that resort, somebody got shot at that resort. You remember that? You want to know why?
Starting point is 01:26:25 PBD, want to know why? Because it's in Mexico. Yeah. Straight up. Well, look, let me tell you. I've been to Mexico, Cancun. God knows how many times. There is a steakhouse called Harry's.
Starting point is 01:26:37 If you can find a way to go to Mexico to Cancun and not get shot and go to Harry's, good luck. Go try their steak. Their steak in a food. You're eating it like this. Pop, pop! It's like, is that the chicken popcorn or whatever they're doing? No, it's not.
Starting point is 01:26:52 If somebody's getting shot, that food at Harry's steak house in Mexico is ridiculous. The presentation they bring you, Tom, you know what was the first time we went to Harry's? This is when Matt Sopalo showed El Jeanette Williams's watch. Oh, she never recovered. There's a lot of people that never recovered after they went to Mexico. Do you remember my cousin Rumson, Pat? The board is cleaning the boat. And by way, Matt Zapal is listening.
Starting point is 01:27:21 You are a very bad man. My cousins had, he had his wedding in Cancun. And I'm like doing all the research. We did a story about how they're killing people. And their Sinolaa cartels actively looking for people. And I message him. And he's like, yeah, I saw the story. He's like, don't worry about it.
Starting point is 01:27:36 I called the hotel. They said, we're good. They went. They got it. Went out of that hitch. But I was like, I was so nervous for everybody. My brother went. His wife went.
Starting point is 01:27:44 Let me ask you. Oh, the hotel said we're good. All right. You guys, you live in California. How many years? 20 years. 24 years, Vinny. How much time in California?
Starting point is 01:27:52 18 to 20? 18, 19 years. 45 years. 45 years. You look great, Tom. I know a lot of people in San Diego. that would go to Tijuana. Yeah, of course.
Starting point is 01:28:05 All the time. Yeah. I have family in San Diego. I go, hey, would you ever go to Tijuana? They go, bro, you crazy? No. I've gone there in 10 years.
Starting point is 01:28:12 Nope. You ever go to Tijuana? Are you asking? See? Of course I've been in Tijuana. Would you go to Tijuana? There was a Papa Zambia in Tijuana. There was another club in Tijuana.
Starting point is 01:28:26 But I tell you a crazy story about Tijuana. You know, whenever you have like, for whatever reason, you know we live with melva so you would go to the dentist and one time they're like how much is a dental work you got to do 30 000 tijuana will do for 3,000 100% do you know how many people go to tijuana just for dental work a lot oh of course amazing I'm sure do you know how many people go to tijuana for you know oh do other things we I have friends that would go to tijuana for sasteland 250 but that was like 30 years ago that's like saying do you know how many people
Starting point is 01:28:57 go to Columbia for BBLs you know how many people go to turkey for hair transplants or leg implants Yeah, you get in and you get the hell out. You don't live there. I have a feeling. Before I'm super, super racist. I know a guy from Mishuakan that's going to watch this. He's going to see this. He's going to come down here.
Starting point is 01:29:13 He's going to put you in a car and he's going to take you to Michuoka. And he's going to introduce you to all his friends. Okay. So let me guess. He's a gangbanger, a former gangbanger from Mexico. Let me guess. I'm still trying to figure out how you're getting emails for investment opportunities. Ricky Aguilar like that a long more time.
Starting point is 01:29:31 We're making names for him. You talk about Ricky Aguilar like that one more time. Ricky still loves me money, bro. Ricky's lucky. I'm not coming after he. How much he owe you? Huh? He owes you money.
Starting point is 01:29:39 He owes me about a, oh, boy. About two humans in Mexico, whatever that caused. By the way, before I'm the racist guy, who's my best friend? You could say his name. Best friend in the world. My best friend. Your best friend? Uh, what's the guy?
Starting point is 01:29:53 Rothschild. What's the last name? Rothschild. Raich. Raim, Rauchschild. After him. After him. Adrian.
Starting point is 01:30:01 Adrian's Mexican. He goes to Mexico all the time. My best friend. He goes, you want to come with me? I'm good, bro. I'm good. By the way, after saying this, probably never going to visit Mexico again.
Starting point is 01:30:13 But, your photo is getting put up in every Mexican bar, bathroom, brothel, pharmacy. But I love me. That's him. This is crazy. He's going to walk out the door
Starting point is 01:30:25 of the studio and somebody's going to pop a cap in his ass. Listen, white guy. Don't talk like that. Listen. The reality of it is, I've had a lot of good memories in Mexico, and I'm telling you, I've been there probably, I have to say 30 times, okay, 30 times. Great memories.
Starting point is 01:30:43 When I tell you great memories, I mean great memories, okay? Let me tell you a memory. Mexico is to guys from California, what Bahamas is to folks from Florida. And we had a lot of good memories there for Masatlan. It's the other one, right, that we want to go there. Yeah. Rosari and not Rosarita
Starting point is 01:31:02 Yeah Rosarita Popas and beer All that You take the free All the way down You know the thing about memories You keep them in the past You don't go back to the memories
Starting point is 01:31:10 No Do you remember Joe Francis Do you remember who that guy is? Nick Francis's brother Who's Joe Francis? Who's Nick Francis? Joe Francis used to have this company called Girls Gone Wild
Starting point is 01:31:19 Yeah Do you remember that? So back in my Kardashian days We all went and visited Joe Francis Incredible, incredible property in Mexico Kim Kardashian, the whole deal.
Starting point is 01:31:30 It was incredible. And then after we left, shortly after that, some gangsters rolled in and basically terrorized him, put him in all sorts of weird situations. I think they in in inally raped them, and they demanded money and held him hostage. That's not fun. But that's what happens when you invest in Mexico.
Starting point is 01:31:51 It's never fun. It's the worst one that happens, right? And that's what that email was about investing in Mexico. First of all, I'm good. Are you friends with this guy? No, not anymore. Not anymore, not after that. Do you want to really, you really drop this guy's name?
Starting point is 01:32:03 Let me just read that paragraph for you. Wow. Francis has on several occasions been convicted of bribery, false imprisonment. Oh, yes. Assault causing great bodily injury, dissuading a witness, record-keeping violations and tax division. In 2015, he pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution in the 2015. And after being convicted for imprisoning three women in Hollywood home, he fled the U.S. and lived in his residence and, dude, you should have never, are we live or are we being recorded?
Starting point is 01:32:31 Listen. Attempting to avoid extradition, Francis has faced more sexual assault allegations, including allegations of engaging in sex with underage partners, non-concessional sexual partner. That guy that probably did the thing to him that you're talking about was probably one of those underage girls' brother or uncle. Maybe. Probably. I'm going to do to you what you did to my niece.
Starting point is 01:32:51 I don't know this, dude. Kim Kardashian has some explaining to do, not me. you said he was your best friend you said he's a level above a don't you put this on me Ricky Bobby I said Chaim Raichaud than Adrian I don't know this guy Kenny this is crazy
Starting point is 01:33:03 play the clip this is just this just got weird here pull up a picture of Joe Francis and Kim Kardashian that's who has some explaining to do holy moly oh it's just a wedding reception listen guys I'm the Teflon down
Starting point is 01:33:13 you could call me whatever you want you can pin me point me with everything that's what I'm explaining to do bingo yeah that was the house by the way you pull up Adam Sosnick Adam's in the back Kim Kardashian. Adam saw that Kim Kardashian.
Starting point is 01:33:27 You probably find the picture in Mexico. You're probably find the picture in Mexico. You know, the per Noelle, the pro of the embalage Caduce, so on the debalage, it's who the maher? The mull Reese on board of arachid met your art of the deballage at the preve. And with three mull-o-burd-rachid,
Starting point is 01:33:44 cream-o and chocolate-forned by packet, you have to what to entraned? To find, and again, and again, this pleasure-sucre-sallie. And again. And again. The Pern-N-Hell has these biscuits, you're just a rhes.
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Starting point is 01:34:33 All right, guys. Anyway, this is one of this is incredible. By the way, stay out of Mexico. The wheels have fallen off. I'm just saying that happened in Mexico. Like, look how popular and cool I am. Of course. My life is so boring.
Starting point is 01:34:45 I just get emails about that Nigerian general who's still trying to get out of jail. If you could just send him $5,000. And he'll send you $5 million. Yeah. Let's go to the next one. By the way, guys, Maduro tightness, personal security as U.S. strikes, threat intensifies. At this point, like, is it even worth reading this?
Starting point is 01:35:02 Look, bro, leave. Get the hell out of it. Go to Cuba. Go to Russia. You don't think he's going anywhere? The writing's on the wall, bro. So what do you think is going to happen with him if he stays there? He did.
Starting point is 01:35:14 He's gone. You know what's happening? So read the story. What's the story right now? I'm going to read it to you. I'm going to read it to you. Vinny, I'm going to come to you with this one here, okay? Now, actually, Tom, I'm coming to you with this one.
Starting point is 01:35:24 John Tom's got some stuff he wants to say, if I can figure out a way to read page 15. All right, here we go. Venezuela authoritarian President Maduro tightened his security arrangements as he holds carefully, choreographed public appearance to rally support in the face of a potential U.S. military action. Recent public appearance, including a Caracas rally last weekend,
Starting point is 01:35:41 and a televised event with grassroots supporters on Wednesday have been announced at the last minute with public sector workers and members of the Socialist Party apparatus apparatus that makes a shift from before the U.S. began assembling a major naval presence. Maduro is developing a classic security protocols for when a person is being threatened, said Jose Garcia Venezuela, military analysts who has monitored his security procedures. If he holds a public event, he makes sure there are hundreds of people there, so the United States won't attack without having to get through several people first.
Starting point is 01:36:16 So, Tom, what do you think is going to happen here? Well, first of all, Maduro is definitely, under great political stress. He's still got this bounty on his head. There's all these things going on. But the U.S. is still supposedly moving gently here, definitively, but it's gently compared to what we could do. Because we could do the same thing we did to Manuel Norega.
Starting point is 01:36:41 We sailed into Panama, tied the boat to the dock, sent the guys in, told him we were taking him. He went over to the Vatican Embassy. the Marine Corps set up speakers started playing loud rock music outside the embassy at it. And so the Vatican said, dude, you've got to get out of here. You're messing up the neighborhood. It's really loud. And so the Vatican embassy told them you have to go. Go with who?
Starting point is 01:37:05 Go with them. Get out. And so if the United States wanted to extract Maduro, it would have been done on Tuesday. But right now, I think they want a... a transition that's to our liking. And you've got Russia and you've got China, which what we talked about last week, a lot of stuff down there economically,
Starting point is 01:37:30 a lot of JVs, a lot of Chinese oil tankers. And so you don't just go in there and hit Manuel Norego in the head, take him to court in Florida and stick him in a Florida prison, which is what we did. We took a foreign leader who was a bad guy, who was no longer playing golf,
Starting point is 01:37:48 playing golf with the CIA, the way he used to, and they're like, yeah, we're not having this. And so now Maduro is looking like a guy who's like, are they really going to take me? Are they not going to take me? Are they not going to take me? And what we're seeing live, Pat, is I think, you know how the U.S. government will sometimes work with other people in your regime? He's suddenly not being seen in public with certain people. Like has the CIA flipped one or two of his guys?
Starting point is 01:38:15 So, Signor, you do realize that, you know, if we come to get him and you're in the way, you are not very, you are not very famous. So, you know, so we have this game called Morta, Morita, Morita, pick one. Yeah. Weta? Yeah, no. And so this is what's going on. He is trying to hide, and I believe the U.S. is trying to flip people in there. And I also believe the U.S. wants to be very careful about China and Russia.
Starting point is 01:38:45 Because this is a big, this is the, this is, what is that, eighth or seventh, seventh or eighth member of OPEC, right? It's the only one that's not there in the Middle East. And so I think that's what's going on. And now it's like, if he holds a public event, he makes sure 100 people there, so United States won't attack. Maybe we should send him a film of Butler, Pennsylvania, you know. Yeah. There could be hundreds of people, president. You can still get shot at.
Starting point is 01:39:08 Yeah. So I think that's what's going on. And I think the news is tightening. What do you hide if you're him? Tom, what do you hide if you're him? Like, give me a place he goes. goes to? Cuba, Russia? Where does he hide? Who are his allies? I think he only has one place. He's not going to go to China. China just made deals with them economically. They have got no desire to cover his butt. I think the only place he really
Starting point is 01:39:31 has a home is probably Cuba. I thought we're going to say Orlando, but he's saying Cuba like if he goes to Cuba. Mexico? Yep. Well, he's got to get asylum someplace and he's got to get protection to someplace. So he can't leave and make a mess. The only thing, because right now, you're going to go to someplace less secure. So we have a transition of power. He goes, remember the rumor two weeks ago? They said he wanted assurances if the rumor was true. He had like four demands. And one of them was peaceful transition and I go someplace else and you don't off me. You pull off the bounty on my head and you tell the CIA that they can't do overthrow practice on me once I go somewhere, right? So I think he has to go, I think he has to go to Cuba. China's not going to
Starting point is 01:40:20 protect him. He's not going to China, speak Chinese, to speak Mandarin. Can I, can I ask a question? No, China cut deals for economic. China's, he is a pawn on the Chinese 3D chess board, you know, as China wants the oil and the influence in our hemisphere. So is that, so for somebody that doesn't, like, I'm not in Venezuela in politics or, you know, I haven't gone that from the outside. It seems like, obviously, we're interested in the oil, okay? He's not a good dude, but I mean, you know, all governments do evil stuff, whatever. What was the moment? What was the moment that made them say, okay, this is the moment, this is the time. Now we're going to do it. Now we're going to do the transition. And obviously they're going to have somebody
Starting point is 01:40:59 that we're going to want to put in there that's not, you know, combative. That that's not going to be like that, Pat. So, and I could see the power movement, meaning. Meaning Russia's interested and they're involved. China's going to be involved. And we're just open. I mean, by the way, those boats that, I don't even want to say his name, Charlemagne. I'm not going to say his last name because he's not one.
Starting point is 01:41:19 Saying that we're just bombing fishermen. No, no. They're sending boats that are potentially going to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, which I'm fine with that. I don't want people coming here. But what was the, like, what's the moment? Was it this year that they were just finally like, okay, that's it. We're going to remove you and we're going to come in and take it.
Starting point is 01:41:34 It's called Trump. No, it's called Rubio. Okay. It's called Rubio. It's called Rubio because if we're pulling something, putting something together and you come in and you have your guys, like, you know, there is pride. When I see my guys in Ph.P make the kind of money they're making and their lives are changing. I love it. I love seeing what's going on with Vargas. I love seeing what's going on with Hargis. I love seeing what's going on with Hargis. I love seeing what's going on with Vargas. I love seeing what's going on with Vargas. I love seeing that kind of stuff, right? within a company. Swazzo, I just love it. There's something special about it. Trump wants to see his guys win. Trump wants to see his guys win. Trump wants his guy Rubio to be better than Kissinger. He wants to be able to do that. Now, Kissinger is a very interesting character. So to me, he wants this victory to be a big victory for Rubio and set him up for 2028 elections. Okay? I think he's just trying to set both of them up. Here's JD. Here's Rubio. Go and see who's going to
Starting point is 01:42:36 become the president and do your thing. It's the exchange. You know what the great presidents have? You know what the great presidents have? If you think about the great presidents, their VPs became presidents. Okay. Lincoln, who was his VP? Great. He became two-term president.
Starting point is 01:42:53 Not a good one, but it became a two-term president. Not a snitch. Okay? Reagan, who was his VP? That was Bush. He became president. Okay. So if you go look at Obama, Biden,
Starting point is 01:43:04 terrible. But it became president. By the way, Bush's VP, who was Bush's VP? Cheney, rest in peace. But some people would say he was. He was not a people person, right? He played a very different role. And the other day, you know, we had Scott Jennings here giving his perspective.
Starting point is 01:43:23 He may, you know, listen, I keep joking about him being the seal of CNN. Who the hell knows what's going to happen with CNN, right? You know, if somebody buys him, you know, he may end up having a decision. Like if CBS is doing stuff with Barry Wisey, you heard about what Barry Rice said? Did you read about this? I just want to say one thing. I think you're right.
Starting point is 01:43:41 This is Rubio. Rubio is very attached to Cuba. Don't forget Trump. Whether it's China and the fentanyl, whether it's the drugs from Venezuela, Trump ain't playing that game. A lot of this, with the drug boats that he keeps blowing up, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing.
Starting point is 01:43:56 And they keep coming? Idiot. Venezuela's a narco state. They're basically Syria with oil. No country has collapsed. worse, had a bigger fall from grace than Venezuela in the last 25 years. They were one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Another terrorist narco state led by this guy Maduro. I'm going to go to the next story.
Starting point is 01:44:16 Barry Weiss reportedly planning to blow up legacy media giant. Okay. Okay. You've been following this so far? Vinny, just so you're not playing around. I'm so focused right now. CBS News director, news editor-in-chief. Barry Weiss's reportedly planning
Starting point is 01:44:33 on dramatically change the networks coverage to eliminate left-wing bias and make the news from more efficient. Wise has been handled, handed a mandate for change by Paramount's guidance, David Ellison, the CBS CEO of CBS News parent company, which bought her company, the free press, for $150 million.
Starting point is 01:44:51 Ellison wants Wise to bring news that reflects reality and journalism that doesn't seek to demonize, demonize, but seeks to understand. I want to blow things up. Weiss has reportedly told her colleagues. during meetings. During the hiring process, Wise has reached out to outside talent directly rather than speaking to their agents, which is considered the traditional method of communication. She has also reportedly been highly involved in booking guests in an attempt to fix the network's
Starting point is 01:45:14 ratings. Wise is focused on trying to reshape CBS Evening News, which has consistently ranked third in place behind ABC and NBC. CBS Evening News typically average around 4 million total viewers on the week, November 3rd, the program garnered 4.2 million viewers, 564,000. in the 24 to 54 category, which is the most important one to them, while NBC News tightly had 7.2 million with 6.6 million total viewers, as well as 929 and 883 in those demos. So I think some's going on here, Tom. But go ahead.
Starting point is 01:45:46 What are your thoughts about Barry Weiss and what she's doing at CBS? She's doing exactly what the Ellisons wanted to do. When Paramount Skydand's deal gets done, Vinning, they basically bought 10 small houses in town. And do you think they want to make money on all those houses? Of course. Make all those Airbnbs profitable. If one of them has been this crazy family living on the corner and it was painted and odd color and everything, they're not having that.
Starting point is 01:46:14 They're like, no, no, no, let's change it. Let's make money on all this. And so they look at it and they say, you know what? We need news that reflects reality and doesn't seek to demonize but seek to understand. those sound like leadership comments that would come from people like the Ellison's listen guys we're in third place fourth place during the elections when you get like you know Fox and others come up there and get us and cable's not getting any easier or any better it's more of a streaming world what the hell are we doing you know if you're if
Starting point is 01:46:49 you're setting your goal to stay in first place congratulations kids you've succeeded admirably but that's not what they're saying they're saying we think CBS needs to get back to where it was. Once upon a time, it was the Tiffany Network, and Barry Weiss has been giving a charge. So what has she done? She's made some changes. She didn't do it all on day one. She's waited, what is this, like 45 days now? And so now she's saying, we're going to blow this thing up, which is like, I believe what's going on, Pat, is Barry Weiss has done some things of the first 45 days, and some of them have been successful, some she's getting resistance inside. She had to go, why was she going direct to talent rather
Starting point is 01:47:28 talking to agents, Vinny? If you have a comedy place that's just not run very well, sometimes you have to break through and they just call you direct rather than deal with all the agents. Man, there's so much BS going back and forth. We can't get a deal done. So I'm calling you directly. Has that ever happened to you? Yeah, and you're doing a festival or a, you know, a comedy jam or something? Of course it does. That's happening at CBS. And you've got, she had some success with some things she did a couple things and now she's like all right you guys have had your chance and now she's saying publicly i'm going to blow up this thing and
Starting point is 01:48:02 there's leaks of the people she's talking to so she went out and she booked her own guest for things called people directly hey i worked with you back over here i need you on here come on up here let's do this let's do that and now she's saying and we're going to change some of the people and she's now some of the people she's leaving so now the daily caller comes out and says reportedly planning to blow up legacy meeting. What the headline should be, Pat, Barry Weiss losing patience with the pace of which legacy CBS is cooperating and she's putting more people on notice because she has a pen and she has a mandate and that's what's happening.
Starting point is 01:48:40 When you hired an entrepreneur to come and do a corporate job that's been political for God knows how many decades, he's going to come and mix it up in a ways that they're not going I like it. And by the way, part of a $150 million deal, Tom, how much of that $150 million deal you think is not really free press? Is that the name of the company? I think it's going, how much of you think is free press and how much of it is like, listen, paying $150 million, come and run the entire company. So part paying for the business, part paying for, is she getting a salary at CBS, Rob, on top of the $150 million? Can you ask Chad GBT, is Barry Weiss getting paid a salary on top of What do you, would you say yes?
Starting point is 01:49:19 I would assume she's there. I think it's a share, yeah, probably, but it can't be that much because it's got to be tied to specific bonuses. Like if I were to hire her, we buy her business, no problem. But now it's like, hey, come and increase rating against sponsorship. And there's only, but there's a major deal appointment. It's $150 million. Cash and stock. Cash and stock.
Starting point is 01:49:39 Same time she was appointed and chief. So it implies that between $100 to $200 million for her venture, available coverage. Yeah, but is there a salary? involved? Or is it just an equity and a bonus deal if she increases? I think it was an aqua hire, you know, where you acquire something, but you're hiring the people both together. Yeah. And what do you think that number would be, Tom? I think she's getting, most people look at it, did not think free press was worth that amount of money. Now, was it successful? Was it growing? Was she a force of nature behind it? Yes, yes, and yes. And by all
Starting point is 01:50:15 accounts. She was doing a good job entrepreneurily. But was it worth a full 150 or was it maybe worth 70 and we'll give you four years, 20 a year on this deal to do it. You also don't know the Ellisons are not dumb. The Elisons are not dumb. And these deals, you also have earnouts and you have things that play into place. Hey, the free press can't fall apart. It's got to keep doing well. Kind of keep doing this. But I think that there's a very, very meaningful percent, Pat, that was for her to be the leader and the rest of it was for the free press as a fairly valued podcast asset. But the free press only had 367,000 subscribers to give somebody $150 million for that. That means they really like her. They really trust her. And I mean, Pat, at the end of the day,
Starting point is 01:51:03 how hard, and I'm being genuine, Tom, how hard is it to just say, guys, your model sucks? I mean, this isn't, it's not like a breaking news flash. You guys are just one-sided, the political arm of the left and the Democratic Party. CNN's model, Pat, even though CNN's still not doing good, the only show that people are watching that goes viral that has clips is Scott Jennings going against everybody and destroying them. That's meaning it's entertaining and it's informative and you're not just being propaganda for one side over and over and over.
Starting point is 01:51:32 I don't think it takes a genius to say, guys, enough is enough. Just like when we talk about with Bob Arger with Disney, how many billions of dollars do you have to lose to wake up and say, we don't want that. LGBTQ crap in the movies. We don't want this pushing the transgender stuff. We don't want you to push anything on us, especially our children. I don't think it takes a genius to go in there and say, guys, enough.
Starting point is 01:51:53 And it takes her to do it. I think she's going to do it, but I don't think it's that outlandish of an idea to just say, guys, stop. Like, it doesn't work. We're losing money. Look at late night TV with Kimmel. These guys. They're losing all this money, but guess what? It's worth it because the sponsors are giving money because they want
Starting point is 01:52:09 their party to win. Right. Right. Two things happen when you go into a corporation like this. The first thing is it's not 10 people in a room that you can talk like that. You can talk to 10 people at a time like that. But then the rest of it is it's worse than the cartels of Mexico. These people
Starting point is 01:52:25 are behind this person. They're protecting this. These people are behind this room. It's all political. And you have political groups lined up behind shows, behind divisions and departments. And you're trying, Barry Wise, trying to figure out who can you trust, really trust? Who says to you, man, I've been working here for
Starting point is 01:52:41 the last five years. I've been really waiting for someone unlike you. How do you identify who are the people that are real and the people that are full of crap and need to go? And the next reality is you can't fire everybody on day one, otherwise there's no one at the fire department. You know what I mean? And you can't run a business. So you have to win the hearts of those who are going to follow the plan and then carefully, surgically remove the people that aren't. And then sometimes you don't go to your lawyers to call the agents anymore. You call the talent directly. You start having meetings directly. that sends a leadership message inside the organization that says,
Starting point is 01:53:17 okay, not all of you are cooperating, but some of this as an entrepreneur, I'm going to go do myself. So Barry Weiss is officially a media power player. I don't know where she was on your top 50 list or when you do these lists. I don't even know if she was on the list. She's going to be on that list this time.
Starting point is 01:53:34 Maybe top 10, maybe top 20. I don't know where she currently ranks, but she's on that list. 2020, she was famous for basically pulling a Jerry McGuire-type move, at the New York Times, basically calling out the group think and the woke left establishment that basically runs in New York Times, she then built this free press, she catapulted to the Paramount CBS world, cut a check for 150 million bucks, receive that money, whatever that looks like. And now she's basically a major, major player. She's, um, she, her name has been mentioned
Starting point is 01:54:06 on this podcast more times the last month than maybe in the last five years. Would you disagree with that, PBD? So she's doing something? Thank you. She's doing something. She's doing something right and I wish her luck. Yeah, and I think if the business model goes right, you know, don't be surprised if, and the likelihood of this happening is not going to be as high as Barry because Barry's ran a business before and she knows what it is to run a business, but don't be surprised if CNN comes in. And so a David Ellison type buys them and a Scott Jennings is getting something that he does. A bigger role than what he has. Not, you know, I keep saying he's a CEO of CNN, but I'm talking a bigger job than he currently has today. Who knows?
Starting point is 01:54:49 He got offered to go to different places. He says, I don't want to be somewhere. He was, I think he was offered to go to Fox. He turned it down and he's saying where he's at. A lot of moving parts right now. You see, you see Brett Bear is still, you know, available and, you know, free agent-ish. You're seeing some of the names that are getting the phone call. Scott Jennings even got a call, I believe, for, from Barry Wise, about CBS, but we'll see. We'll see what it happened next. Let's go to the next story. Next one I want to talk about is what's going on with Russia
Starting point is 01:55:16 and Ukraine. They're trying to get the peace deal done and wrap it up. And Zelensky is like, I feel like everything is favoring more Russia, not myself, and he's not too comfortable with it. So let's get into the story here. Rob, is this one of the clips? Yes.
Starting point is 01:55:32 It's the president. So Trump envoy issues ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday. Here's who's the president talking about it. We lost at him, guys. Go ahead. Ella McKay.
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Starting point is 01:56:52 He hasn't accepted. You remember right in the Oval Office not so long ago? I said, you don't have the cards. Don't forget, I inherited this war. I would have never, this war never would have happened. I inherited this war. And I thought he should have made a deal a year ago. years ago? The ultimate deal would have been
Starting point is 01:57:13 if it never started. That would have been the good deal. That could have been done too if you had the right president, but you didn't have the right president. So Trump administration has told Ukraine, European officials, there's a little room to negotiate on his plan to end Russia's war and the U.S. heaps pressure on Zelensky to sign a deal drawn up by
Starting point is 01:57:30 drawn up with Moscow's help by Thursday. U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told European ambassadors and Western officials at a volatile meeting in Kiev late Friday, that he was optimistic that now is the time for peace still, but warned that Washington would show little flexibility, we're not negotiating details, is what he said. Tom, your thoughts on this year? So I think this is really good news.
Starting point is 01:57:56 When you were speaking at a conference in Miami, going back just a couple weeks ago, a fantastic conference, it was very interesting that we were invited to a dinner the night before, and Whitkoff was given the key to the city. by Mayor Suarez, Francis Swarrow. Yep. And who could have known that between giving a very sharp-edged analysis of foreign policy and related economics on stage to the audience and receiving the key to the city that he was across town apparently, because the timing is right for what they described, you know, working on one of the bigger deals of the Trump administration.
Starting point is 01:58:39 And the way they did it, working with the main protagonist, Russia. And I think that's a testimony to the foreign policy that's there. It's clear that Wittkoff and Marco Rubio don't disagree on a lot of things, but actually didn't agree on the whole list of it. But what's very interesting to me is that this is, This doesn't happen without Trump's leadership and telling them, saying, listen, you go do this. They're not going to do this without Trump.
Starting point is 01:59:15 Hey, we're going to be gone for a couple of weeks when we've talked to all these people. Is that cool? Wait, maybe. Who are you talking to? When? So all of the stuff that Trump said, well, I wasn't sure. Wouldn't know about that. Yes, he did.
Starting point is 01:59:25 And now they're putting it in the position to saying, look, some people don't like it because they say some of it looks like it was just the same points from Russia here, here, here and here. Other points looks like Whitkoff is being very skillful that says you, Ukraine will not join NATO, but after this is over, a peaceful Europe is
Starting point is 01:59:45 important and a Europe that will protect its neighbors is important. You see the delicate nature of that, Vinny, because Russia didn't want them to be NATO with that, you know, the article that says you attack one, you attack all. That's automatic. That's trouble and Russia doesn't want that.
Starting point is 02:00:01 They want Ukraine wants some sort of protections and the most interesting part of this Pat is at the end of it is Europe says oh we will come and make a counter proposal and it's like no you won't we're not
Starting point is 02:00:16 we're not negotiating details on this and actually I think Zelensky's in a bad place I don't think in other words a different and worse place than he was earlier in the year and I think that Trump's team has done a really good
Starting point is 02:00:32 job putting this in front. And for the benefit of the world and the benefit of everybody else, you know, this thing has to get done. And there's going to be people that scream because I think Russia is going to keep certain territory that they think is their historical territory. And I think that Ukraine needs to get back to normal, because I'll tell you, Ukraine is the Midwest of Europe. It's got more farming, agricultural that right now they don't have. And they need Ukraine to get back to producing grain and to being this incredible economic agricultural power that it was more than that. But the agriculture is huge. And I think Wickcoff did a really good job getting it to this point.
Starting point is 02:01:17 Now let's see if Zelensky gets the message because the fact that this is being all talked about publicly. What gives you the idea he's going to agree to this deal? I believe that if Whitkoff has gotten Russia this far, then there's equal back channel that's gone to some of the European people. He only needs a couple of them. He needs a couple of them to say, you better go whispering this guy's ear and tell him the gigs up. You know, it's not like when he left the Oval Office,
Starting point is 02:01:47 and he ran over here, and then the U.K. shook hands with them, and then Macron's shook hands with him. Remember, he went on almost like a sympathy tour of Europe after yelling at J.D. Vance. and get into that altercation. I think it's not just this deal that's on the table pat. I think there's more than that
Starting point is 02:02:03 because I think Wittkoff knows and has been incredibly skillful of this thing that you can't go in one angle with it. I think Europe is on notice, and I think there's some of this. They have to let Europe say face a little bit. Listen, I'm going to let you complain a little bit, but I'm not going to change this deal.
Starting point is 02:02:23 But I'm going to let you say what you need to stay in public. I think that's what's going down. Adam. So to me, this comes down to one thing. Who has the most leverage? So in any deal, who's most willing to walk away? So what is Putin looking for at this point? What is Putin asking for?
Starting point is 02:02:42 More land? And what is... More land and what he said from the beginning, stop trying to put bases and get NATO one inch. They said that they weren't going to do it and they've kept pushing them under the Biden administration. And that's why he even invited the little encouragement. He basically invited them to attack
Starting point is 02:02:58 That's basically what he's saying Yeah and then What is Zelenskyy one? He wants security guarantees He wants more money Give me money Every freaking month He would come over there and praise him
Starting point is 02:03:10 He would defend his country Listen there's a lot of people Did you notice something? Let me just say something When Trump was campaigning What did he say about Ukraine? We're done with Ukraine We want nothing to do with this
Starting point is 02:03:20 We're stop funding this What does he done since then? We're still helping Ukraine For the most part Not like the hundreds of millions of dollars that we were giving. But they realize, you know, what is Andrew Cuomo saying? You campaign in poetry and you're governed in prose. He gets in office and he realizes, yeah, Biden was an absolute chaotic president.
Starting point is 02:03:40 You can argue that he caused his damage. But he realizes it's like 3D chess. It's not just about Ukraine. Because if you fund Ukraine, they're neutralizing Russia. Russia can't help in Syria, which fell. They can't help fund Iran. They can't give them drones. They all of a sudden can't do China.
Starting point is 02:03:56 This is 3D chess. So in our opinion, yes, I don't think that we should just be blank checking Ukraine. However, if you're using pragmatic geopolitics, you understand, funding Ukraine hurts Russia, which hurts our enemies more than it helps our allies. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. But from the beginning, there was no way. I understand the war's been dragging on at him because they want it to be dragging on.
Starting point is 02:04:20 They don't want peace. They want forever wars. But there's no winning from Ukraine. Who wants forever wars? What do you mean? All the people that are all the, all the war hawks and all the Niki, everybody. Well, for sure, the military industrial complex once says. He said this from the beginning.
Starting point is 02:04:34 But couldn't you also argue that Putin wants more war? Yeah. I mean, they all, yeah, they can all want more war because he wants more land. And if, do you remember when they had that? Why do you think Putin wants more war? Because they've said this before, that the war is basically, uh, fueling Russia's economy. Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. What do they do? They do oil.
Starting point is 02:04:59 That's all they do. And vodka. But after this war is over, what does Putin have going on there? What has Putin done? Russia, to me, is a, you know, you do the, are you, the thing you've done on the, on your, on your booklets, are you underachiever, overachiever? To me, Russia is the biggest underachiever country in the world. they could be so much better
Starting point is 02:05:23 they could do so much more they're the biggest land mass in the world they have more oil than everybody they have nuclear capabilities and all they are is a regional bully to me Russia is a just
Starting point is 02:05:36 could be so much greater but they're just so much worse than they are I'm trying to really the benefit here for Russia you think Russia is doing better selling oil during the war than not do you know how many countries Russia got sanctioned
Starting point is 02:05:51 Tom, how many countries were sanctioned to do business with Russia? I don't know the exact number, but it was massive. It basically put a near halt. I think they were down to 20, 20, 25 percent of exports, previous exports. I think they stepped on it like that. Yeah. But they've been evading sanctions, I'm going to say. 45 countries have imposed sanctions on Russia, pleasure, adoption of
Starting point is 02:06:14 UK Parliament research noted that many countries abstain or refuse to implement a full-sum sanctions sanctions are typically sectoral targeted rather than a blanket ban. And if you pull up the number, Rob, was Russia selling more oil pre-war or post-war? Was Russia selling more oil pre-war with Ukraine or post-war with Ukraine? I'm trying to see the benefit for Russia in this thing. Here's a summary. The United States of Russia
Starting point is 02:06:50 and a stable year over your 7.5 million barrels. $7.1.1 million to the European Central Bank. Pre-invasion, Russia's volume were higher than what is observed right after the invasion, 15% drop. But then it was a large yield recovered. Yes, pre-war Russia was exported more oil than immediately. But the post-war 20, Russia exported,
Starting point is 02:07:10 they'll have larger return to volume. Or the key difference is the shift of destinations and economic solarized. Yeah. So I don't know if it's a better situation. for them and I don't know how Russia is benefiting from this. I think Russia, the only thing internally, yeah, I think the only thing for me with Russia is it's a horrible look when you start the war. You better finish the war if you started the war. It's not a good look. You know,
Starting point is 02:07:38 you started this war and you prompted this. It's not like Ukraine started it, right? So to me, the biggest thing is how they're going to be seen around the world. If Trump comes in and they broker the deal and they bring them together and they get a lot of things they ask for, at least Russia will be able to save face. So I don't know about how Russia's winning from this. They're not. I mean, you remember six months ago, whenever that was, you can fact check the date when they met in Alaska and, you know, Trump flew over the planes and it was like, oh, they're got, and I said to many people said, you know, you're wrong, you're wrong. I said, nothing's going to happen from this. Or how could you say that?
Starting point is 02:08:18 I said, because I don't think Putin actually wants to stop this war. Putin could stop the war today if he wanted to. Everyone thought that Trump was going to. Yes, of course, but without getting what he wants? The point is, what does he want? He has not expressed his fully. Of course he has. Of course he has what he wants.
Starting point is 02:08:35 He's made it clear what he's interested in, what he wants. And the envoy is trying, this is why do you think, why do you think Zelensky, did you see what Zelensky said about the envoy? Rob, do you have a quote from him Zalinski said? said. I think yesterday, Zelensky said, I feel like this whole deal is one-sided. I feel like this whole deal only benefits Russia. So if the person, if he's, no, not that, is that the one, let me zoom in a little bit on the quote. I have approved Ukraine's delegation. Folks are over some of the damage guaranteed. Russia crimes must never be rewarded or forgiven.
Starting point is 02:09:08 It's a little bit more than, it's another one where he specifically talks about the fact that he feels this is a one-sided deal. Well, if it's a one-sided deal, how does one get a one-sided deal? Only because the other side knows what they want. You don't get a one-sided deal if the other side doesn't know what they want. That's why he's not happy about it.
Starting point is 02:09:27 Or else they would close a deal. I also don't think he wants this deal to be done as well. You know, I don't see him being a, like when Trump says in his opening line, I said he doesn't have the cards to negotiate. What does he mean by that? he's also acting like he's got a ton of leverage from who Trump's cornered everybody
Starting point is 02:09:49 Trump's cornered UN Trump's cornered you know NATO Trump's cornered NATO Trump's cornered NATO Trump's cornered you know a world economic forum you know that they want him to go speak in Davos hey we just want to let you know there's no woke topics there's no woke topics
Starting point is 02:10:06 they're now doing what he wants everybody to do no more of this bullshit games you're playing and he's moving so fast because I think what Trump is doing right now truthfully, I think Trump in one term is going to do where the average president would take three terms to do. Oh, I agree with you.
Starting point is 02:10:22 I think that's why he's going the way he's going. He really, if you really want to know what I think he's going for, I think he's really going for to be in his eyes as a second greatest president of all time. I think that's what he's going for. In his eyes. Good.
Starting point is 02:10:38 In his eyes. Now, you know, he always, You'd have to go ahead of Washington. You'd have to go ahead of Lincoln. You got some work to do. But he's already ahead of Reagan. For sure. I think Mount Rushmore, though, he's probably like,
Starting point is 02:10:50 I think they could put another one. What I'm saying is like, I think he is really going at this pace because he wants to get so many things done and then put his resume out there and say, go put somebody against this. Yep, right. Go ahead.
Starting point is 02:11:00 Put somebody against this. I really believe he's doing that. So I do too. That's why I believe that Anchorage didn't get certain things done, except Trump established himself as the Alpha. Oval Office. A lot of things didn't get done, except Trump established himself as the Alpha. Yeah. I don't think, do you think Trump wants another Anchorage or another oval office? He doesn't want a third one so that the media and everybody could say, wow,
Starting point is 02:11:25 three losses in a row. And you and I both know those are losses. There's a lot of posturing. There's things that go with that. No, he doesn't want that. And Whitkoff knows it. And everyone knows it. I think they've got people where they want them and this thing is going to get done. wants two things. Certain land Dornbus, certain land Crimea, and you won't join NATO. That happens. It's done. But at the same time, why would Zelensky, Pat, wanted to stop when he's gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from us? There's a bunch of corruption that's going on, meaning all these guys, there's one guy, forgot his name. What does he got lately? He hasn't gotten good, no, nothing from us. I don't know what, I don't know how much money he's getting from us. So daddy has stopped the allowance.
Starting point is 02:12:08 Daddy stopped the allowance. So think about it, if you're Zelensky, why would you want the war to stop? You know what I mean? They're running out of ammo. You run out of freaking troops where they're doing conscriptions where they're grabbing people out of the cars. If you think about it, we're the ATM machine for him. Of course he doesn't want it to stop.
Starting point is 02:12:22 Why would you want it to stop? One of his leading generals has been caught up in this corruption thing. And the Hague, they're talking about the European Union helping to take this guy to the Hague. And the Hague is the court. And so Zelensky's now got a cover for his guy. So there's things going on here. I believe...
Starting point is 02:12:41 I got one last story, Adam. I'm going to come to you and then I'm going to go to this last story. To me, I understand why you would say you think Zelensky doesn't want the war to stop. I don't know why he would want the war to continue unless he's the most selfish person in the history of the world. Maybe that's never happened before his leaders. Don't rule that out. Again, I gave you that. His people are dying.
Starting point is 02:13:02 He's trying to bully the bully. Putin is the bully. He's trying to hang with this. he's why would Poland give all this money? Why would NATO give all this money? Because they recognize that Russia is the threat. Zolensky might not be your favorite guy, but all eyes
Starting point is 02:13:17 are on Putin. They know that he's the bad guy. I understand, but I still don't trust. Like Zillensky, I just, if I'm going off of gut and intuition at him, I don't trust the guy, I don't think he gives a damn about his people. Why I think they're grabbing fathers off the street and throwing them in vans and putting them into the meat grinder. No, I'm not a fan. It's not a good thing
Starting point is 02:13:33 I'm not a fan of it. I don't trust them. I don't trust them. It was my money. It was my I know he does. Let's go to the next story. Fertility startup that screens embryos to predict height intelligence and disease sparks debate with gray genes campaign. Rob, is this a clip on it? Yes. Go for it, buddy. Is this a commercial they made for?
Starting point is 02:13:56 Yeah. I'm so excited today to announce the launch of nucleus embryo. A genetic optimization software that helps parents give their children. children the best possible start in life. This announcement also marks the first time a company has openly partnered with a couple to help them optimize their embryos based on intelligence. For me, the launch of nucleus embryo is deeply personal. My parents are immigrants from Iran who came to America with nothing but conviction
Starting point is 02:14:31 that me and my siblings would have more. They sacrificed, struggled, and made bold choices that opened doors for me I could never have imagined. But my parents, or anyone, couldn't change what they didn't. I'm just going to read it. It's going to be a lot of fast. So this startup, he started, Iranian guys. Screening could predict a baby's height intelligence
Starting point is 02:14:52 as far controversy. Nucleus genomes. Blanket of Big Apple Supply stations with billboards this week as part of their Have Your Best Baby Campaign, encouraging prospective parents to build generational health. The company has also posted flyers outside of American an Eagle flagship and Soho, reading, these babies have gray genes, a reference to that
Starting point is 02:15:11 retailer Sidney Sweeney's commercial that, oh, you've got to be kidding me. Nucleus offers customers access to genetic optimization software allowing them to analyze, compare, and select their embryos based on 2,000 genetic predictions. The technology not only screens the potential health conditions, but also physical traits, such as eyes, hair color, causing critics to claim the company is using IVF to, create designer babies. So eugenics is profitable now. One commuter snarked in a now viral post on X.
Starting point is 02:15:45 That post prompted heated debate about nucleus while others are describing the technology as terrifying dystopian. However, defenders hit back claiming the company was simply offering more options to parents. Wouldn't you want your child to have the best possible outcome? One ask, you're going through the IVF process anyway. Why would you just pick a random embryo instead of the best possible one out of your lot? how is this controversial? I mean, it's a good argument
Starting point is 02:16:09 they're going back and forth. Tom, what do you stand with this? Man, I don't think we should mess with life. And whenever you play, choose the winner. I'm really against that. I understand that people really turn to a lot of things when you really want to have kids.
Starting point is 02:16:30 Kim and I were considering, you know, adoption. You know, we didn't. get there real tragically with our first child. And, you know, so we refer to like Bailey as our second child. And we understand the pain of wanting a child so badly. But when you sit there and you listen to the IVF people when they told us, they said, well, you got to take these injections every day and you may get multiple embryos, but then we'll go do a selective reduction. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You'll do what? Well, if you've got sex top unless, you may not want that. So we'll go do a selective reduction. So you're going to say, hey, you're pregnant with sex tuplice.
Starting point is 02:17:10 You only want twins? Okay, one, two, three, four. You lose. And to me, that's, that's horrifying. Now through genetics, if they can tell propensity toward height or things like that, I don't know. I can see why people would want a healthy child, but it seems, I agree, really dystopian to me. and I'm not liking what I'm seeing. Adam, would you be open to the idea? You and your girl are sitting there and you're a sports guy. You know, if you had a choice
Starting point is 02:17:44 to choose the height of your kid to be as detailed as possible, six, seven, you choose the look, you choose all that, would you want to be able to have the option to do that? Look, the most important thing that if my girl is pregnant, she gives up to the baby,
Starting point is 02:18:00 when the baby's born, is that it's not black. because that means I'm not the father. I'm just sick. Other than that, I think the market is going to determine if this is a viable option or not. I think, listen, my father had birth defects.
Starting point is 02:18:19 He had cerebral palsy. It affected his physical ability. It didn't affect his mental ability or his emotional ability or spiritual ability, but physically he had major, major issues. I'm sure my grandma, if she could go back in time and say, yeah, I don't want my son to have cerebral palsy,
Starting point is 02:18:36 she would have done that. If there's no him, there's no you. When I was born, exactly. When I was born, his whole thing was, is he healthy or not? They're like, he's totally healthy, but he might be gay. I was like, listen, dad, why would you even bring that up? I'm not even a, turns out I'm not, Vinny, it's okay. I got you.
Starting point is 02:18:54 However, yes. Let me check. If you're going to do, if you're going to have designer handbags, if you're going to have designer dogs like Tom Brady just duplicated his dog or whatever he did I'm sure people are going to be very comfortable having designer babies
Starting point is 02:19:08 so as long as a baby is healthy that's the most important thing and as long as it's your kid that's probably the second most important thing I have Vinnie I don't like the whole taking children and making them into like build the bears
Starting point is 02:19:24 I think you don't mess with the author God made every single one of us tall short bad whatever it is there's a purpose there's a reason i saw this video pat it will get me emotion i don't want to i don't want to talk about or send it to rob about this kid who was born and the soars and the and it's just in this suffering and he was so emotional in what he was saying but he's like god i am the way that i am to make other people that are going through stuff and struggling and and i'm giving them hope and i'm giving them like you know god made like david in the bible
Starting point is 02:19:53 short and throwing a rock and everybody had their own ways i don't think doing this and and and and going against God, it is what it is, and I think this is playing, I don't know, it's a slippery slope, but I'm not a family. How much you think something like this costs?
Starting point is 02:20:08 Because IVF is not cheap, it's like $20,000. $100,000? I don't know. I don't know. I have friends of mine that have done IVF. More than that? And it doesn't work every single time.
Starting point is 02:20:17 I have a friend that probably spent a couple hundred thousand dollars to have kids. They had twins. So I have no clue how much is. This is for the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. And by the way, they will pay for it.
Starting point is 02:20:28 No doubt. And by the way, can we just acknowledge another Iranian entrepreneur making a contribution in America? What is with these people? These H-1Bs? What is going on here? I should have picked a model, though.
Starting point is 02:20:40 I mean, listen, simple observation, if you're Iranian and you can't grow a beard, don't try to. It's just, it's a known, like, it's very known. Like, I'm part of that community.
Starting point is 02:20:56 Yeah, how bad I've tried to grow a beard. It doesn't have. And by the way, I don't manak me and tell him to come to Turkey, I'll give you a beard. I'm not coming to Turkey to grow beard here and come back. Just swing by the Turkish. You have four kids. Not amazing. Not interesting.
Starting point is 02:21:12 You wouldn't do this? Not interested. Not at all. No, no way. I mean, are you kidding me? Like, two, two. No. Dilly boy, Senna, Brooklyn, Tico, I'm good, man.
Starting point is 02:21:25 I am good. God picked those guys for me. and he picked me for them, I'm a happy camper. I'm a happy camper of what we got with those guys. Anyways, gang, it's been a blast being with you guys. Today's what? Today is Monday. Yes, sir.
Starting point is 02:21:38 We are doing podcast this Wednesday, and we are doing podcast day after Thanksgiving Friday, just so you know. So stay tuned. You got any questions, any thoughts? Send us on my neck. God bless everybody. Take care.
Starting point is 02:21:50 Bye bye-bye, bye-bye.

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