PBD Podcast - Minnesota Daycare Fraud, Iran WARNS Total War, Trump Hosts Zelenskyy + Musk vs Mamdani | PBD Podcast | Ep. 709

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick break down the massive Minnesota daycare fraud scandal exposed by Nick Shirley, Iran’s warning of 'total war' with America, President Trump hosting Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago for Ukraine-Russia peace talks, and Elon Musk’s clash with Zohran Mamdani over his LGBTQ FDNY hire.---✝️ FAITH OVER FEAR COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/3MIFOUu

Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life's meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. The handshake is better than anything I ever signs. Right here. You are a 101?

My son's right there. I think I've ever said this before. All right. All right. You know, this is this is what. today is the 29th. We're two days away from 2026. I hope you are ready for it. There are some people that are writing their business plans of how to go to Minnesota and open up a leering center and creating some communities. You're seeing girls being very impressed with guys that have their own facilities.

Vinnie, I know you've been paying attention to this very closely in Minnesota. Can you guys imagine a 23-year-old guy named Nick Shirley decides to go to Minnesota with, a camera and another man who's from Minnesota investigating everything, this 42-minute video. If you've not seen this 42-minute video by Nick Shirley, that he posted, I don't know how many views it's at right now, that 42-minute video is over 111,11 million views on X, 536,000 likes, 199,000 retweets.

And everybody, this is hundreds of millions of views because it doesn't account for other people that are retweeting, and he's going to all these facilities. This one should have 102 kids, $2.6 million of the government fund and knocking on the doors. Are there any kids here? No. Why not?

It's the middle of the week, middle of the day. No. Next one, boom, boom, boom. Hey, are there any kids you're going to 95? No. Hey, get out of here. Hey, what are you doing here? Turn off the camera.

23-year-old kid is like, what do you guys doing? By the way, while this is happening, you know what's crazy? If we go right now, we'll talk about that here in a minute, CBS, ABC, NBC, NBC, you know, CNN. any of those guys this is how much you're talking about it you're talking about it because a guy named tim waltz and ilhan omar are both holding each other protecting each other because if one drops the ball and throws the other one under the bus it's going to be like this and that's what tom was talking about yesterday and then if you're in iran folks things are very nasty in iran very very nasty in iran i'm

going to show you the numbers when we left iran if you wanted to convert a reale into a dollar You needed 70 Rials to buy $1. Okay, 70 to buy $1. The numbers just came in. Today, if you want to get $1,400,437,500 to buy $1.00 to buy $1. Unbelievable. Topping standards at the bazaar are shutting down. The amount of rioting and protesting right now in Iran, they're so sick and tired of it.

And it looks like something's about to happen. If this thing hits to $2 million per dollar, it could get pretty nasty. We'll talk about that as well. Iran, flat-eyed out and said, listen, our enemy is Israel. Our enemy is U.S. Our enemy is Europe. They call everybody out that's their enemy.

Tom, could you mute yourself because you keep moving paper, and I hear it, if you don't mind until we come to you. Thank you, Mr. Ellsworth. Okay, so next, the fight for young men intensifies. of 2028, 26 midterms, they're showing how Trump won the election in 2024 with winning over young men. But now they're saying that Democrats have figured out how to win young men over because they're going to need that for midterms and 2028. We'll talk about that. Musk and Mamdani go back and Ford. Musk calls that Mamdani on X. Mamdani calls him back. Vinny's got some thoughts on

this. This one story that we have to touch, it may be second or third story we touch. It's this 5% billionaire tax that they want to add into California to some folks there. And David Sachs got involved, Shamat got involved. Apparently, if you're worth a billion dollars or more as of January 1st of 2026, they're going to put 5% tax. They want to put 5% tax on your entire network. You're worth $7 billion, $6 billion of it on paper. You have to pay them $700 million to the government as if they know how to handle their money.

And then video comes out showing how much fraud is going on. California. These guys don't know how to handle money, let alone that one of you would ask for more taxes. We're definitely covering that. And then a few other things, Jeffrey Epstein's Amazon purchase list came out. Let me say that one more time. Jeffrey Epstein's Amazon purchase list came out. You should see what this guy was buying. Obviously, none of you will be surprised by it, but Adam is definitely not interested in this story. So let me continue. Dana Bash admits border is a story of accomplishment for Donald Trump. Tom wants to talk about that.

How Americans are feeling about Trump after his first term in office coming to close. This is Time Magazine. Both Adam and Tom have a lot of thoughts on that. Trump boasts tariffs creating great wealth as he predicts pricing. Tom, are you muted, Tom? I keep hearing saying.

Yeah. Somebody's paper's moving and I hear it. Do you guys hear that paper sound? Yeah. So I don't know what that is. And I know Adam's not moving. So, Rob, you want to check. to see where that sound is coming from while we're going into it.

Trump to political midterms elections are about pricing. The fight for young men will talk about that bankruptcy soar as companies grapple with inflation and terrorists. By the way, this new rule, I don't know if you guys saw this new rule, new airport DNA law is now in effect as of 1226 where they can ask for your DNA if you're a non-citizen. Like, you know how you go through TSA? They can ask for your DNA.

and say, hey, keep your DNA together. What are you talking about? Yep, go give us your DNA. While you're going through TSA, the non-citizens, so I want to know how you feel about it. But we'll cover that. California's abandons lawsuits challenging Trump's decision to cancel over $4 billion in high-speed rail funds.

We'll cover that. And then we got a couple other things with Ilhan Omar's husband, what he was up to with the $30 million, firm quietly scrub's names from the website. And then Iran will cover that. three and four Americans say groceries are so expensive. They've been forced to cut down on other spending. Adam's got thoughts on that.

By the way, a couple crazy numbers. You ready for crazy stats? You know an ounce of silver is worth more than a barrel of oil today. Let me say, an ounce of silver, an ounce, you know, those coins you get, is worth more than the big barrel of oil today. And gold just at $4,500, which is insanity. That gold just said $4,500. Those who bought a bunch of silver five, 10 years ago when there was nothing, you're sitting

pretty there. And then we got a bunch of other stories that we'll get into, Trump Zelensky. We've got a couple of other things that we're going through there as well. Having said that, Vinnie, with everything that's going on, okay, with everything that's going on, Vinnie, this last few days, I am watching Vinnie going through scripture, Bible, his faith, where he's at, what he's doing. while we're out there jumping on slopes and mountains doing backflips with our skiing, which by the way, we just made announcements.

I think two nights ago we will never ski again. Vinny, tell us about your faith over fear merch to the audience here and why it's so important to represent it going into 2026. Well, thanks, Pat. I just think, well, right now with everything that's happening, I think the spiritual battle that the nation that the world is going through right now, I think it's more obvious than I think it's ever been. And I think letting people know, Pat, I was watching Gladiator, and they kept saying, hold the line.

I watched another movie. I was watching Game of Thrones. Hold the line. When it comes to Christianity and your spirituality, I think having faith and not caring about anything. Dylan, I actually, Pat, and you remember this on the plane coming here, guys, on the flight here, the turbulence was so that I have a huge, my biggest fear, my biggest fear of all, is flying. As Pat, I'm sitting next to Pat. we're dropping by the word we're we're in aspen the mountains are like this the the altitude it's horrible and we're coming in for landing and we find it all nervous and then pat's like ask dylan

like dylan were you were you worried were you scared about anything and dylan dylan how old is dylan pat well pat 12 he's 12 years old okay lumpson showman 12 goes dad no i'm not i'm not afraid i have faith Because I'm not scared about anything because if anything God forbid happens, I'm going to be with God in Jesus Christ and heaven. So again, we're in this shirt, guys. I can't tell you how many messages I get of people seeing the back of faith over fear and people like, hey, what does that mean? What does Hebrews mean? And then the conversation sparks. And I learned from Dylan at 12 years old, in that moment, what do you have to be afraid of?

Nothing, nothing. You have nothing to be afraid of if you have faith. And yeah, we have the faith over fear hat. Boom. just like that and the value t-tainment guys i rock this all the time and uh yeah if you want go to vtmerch.com and rock it yeah go to vtmerch.com and place your order we got the shirts the sweaters the gears uh and uh it's exciting it's exciting seeing what's happening with that and we got a massive announcement we'll be making in next week when new year's is here uh which we're excited about

all right let's get right into it topic of discussion at the top the most viral story on X, X, the last 48, 72 hours, is Nick Shirley, who went to Minnesota, made this 42-minute video, and they went knocking on all these different businesses asking, hey, you're supposed to be a school for kids with 102 kids, 99 kids, 68 kids, 73 kids, with all this money, and Rob, you got a bunch of these videos that if we can play for these guys, they're going through showing this stuff. This thing gets viral, 111 million views on his Twitter as of right now, The guy had 200,000 followers, ish, right before he launched this video three, four days ago. He's got 760,000 followers.

This 23-year-old kid is doing more investigative journalism about Minnesota's fraud that's taking place than ABC, CNN, CNBC, you've got, you know, NBC, any of these guys, he's going out there saying, I want to find out what's going on. And 42-minute video, Rob, do you have a couple of clips to show what are some of the things that the world saw when it was going out, the knocking on the doors? By the way, when I first saw one of the clips, when Vinny's like, yeah, they're called a larynx center. I said, what's this larynx center? Let me go see what it looks like. I watched the whole video. Then I said every, I sent it to everybody I know. Just watch this thing on 2.0 speed and see what this kid did.

Rob, if you have any of the clips, if you don't have any clips with you, maybe. go to let's go check CNN real quick to see if CNN is talking about this at all let's go check ABC let's go check you know CBS see if any of these major outlets on their home page go to Fox one by one by one Rob let's check to see if anybody is even talking about the most viral story exposing Tim Walts exposing Ilhan Omar exposing how that one Democrat that voted against it who Vinnie's consistently talked about how right afterwards she goes and of a son is found killed can we can we zoom in a little bit on those videos to see if there's anything about this do you see any of it that's about it go a little bit lord do you see anything

there rob anything there keep going is any of those stories about it robs rob are you are you able to speak or no okay if rob is speaking i can't hear him but can't hear me now okay i hear you now yeah i don't don't see a single video here that has anything to do with the Minnesota fraud not a single one that's ridiculous go to CNN.com don't even go to the youtube page just go to cnn.com let's go to cnn.com because i'm on cnn.com right now you got the net niau story you got nearly 500 women accused la obbg line of decades of abuse british boxing anthony and joshua heard in a fatal car accident in nigeria um key takeaways from trump selinsky meeting nobody wants peace

There's not a single story on the home page about that. Now, go to ABC. If you go to ABC.com, let's see what ABC's got. On ABC.com, nothing on ABC.com news. This is ABC about what happened with Tim Walts and what they found out in Minnesota. If we go to CBS.com, now keep in mind, this is all the people that are supposed to be. reporting this, right? This is their job. They went to school to be journalists. But no, the most viral story they are not interested in at all, because it exposes Democrats, and no wonder

people don't trust the mainstream media anymore. If you go to foxnews.com, let's check foxnews.com. If you go to foxnews.com, you will see Minnesota fraud on the second M. Waltz right at the top. You'll see Minnesota fraud probes raises questions about Ilhan Omar, Mollyland position. You will see a couple stories there about it. Okay. So Vinnie, I'll come to you first. You had a chance to watch the whole thing. I think, Adam, you've seen the whole thing. Tom, you've seen the whole thing. Vinny, where are you at with this? And meanwhile, Robert can pull up a couple videos about it. Vinny, where are you at with this from the first time when we saw about it to now that's gone viral and everyone's talking about it? Okay, so lumps and shaman. But okay,

So, well, just all together, Pat, I've been trying to piece together, A, why the mainstream media is not talking about it. And then I kept going back and forth with Tom and I was like, okay, why out of all the people, did Kamala Harris, did the DNC pick Tim Walts to run for vice president? I was like, you know, very, very interesting. And then if you guys remember, like, nobody knew who Tim Walts was. And all of a sudden, this guy who now was in one of the biggest scandals in the history of the United States, all right? over 18 billion dollars they pick that guy okay let's put that to the side um ilhan omar with her with her husband net worth going from from almost nothing to all these billions of dollars then you know calling everybody racist that they even question it huh it was weird then you have

Melissa horrid pat the one democrat one democrat who voted against giving these illegals in minnesota health care she gets assassinated at her house with her husband and the killer says that Tim Wals also wanted him to kill Amy Klobuchar. It's so insane to me. And then on top of that, there's a realtor in Minnesota that said, and I said, Rob the clip, but I'll just say it, 450 houses in one area in Minnesota were bond cash, turn it to fake care centers, and then used to bill the state like clockwork, okay? neighbors see no patience all they see is luxury cars some of these places take in ex-cons without one in the community so think about that and by the way a little fun fact by law realtors aren't even allowed to tell buyers what's happening in that situation okay the state sends monthly checks with zero i'm going to say that again zero inspections and most of the homes have fewer no clients but the cash keeps coming in and then the fraud pat this you guys have to understand this isn't just a couple of

Somalis that just came here illegally and they're doing $9 billion worth of fraud. This to me goes up the freaking ladder. There is no way, Ilhan Omar, Patrick, there's no way. Mrs. Pro Somalia, another video came out of her saying, I can't wait. One of these days, I'm going to move back and live in Somalia with my child that that person who was so pro, so pro-Somalia and anti-America doesn't have an idea. or Tim Walls, who's been silent. All of them are silent, and they're trying to use that whole white supremacist racist.

There's a clip of Tim Walls claiming that everybody is racist. There's another video, Pat, where he's sitting there, and obviously, it's a setup, and he looks back, and the old Minnesota flag is there. He removes it and puts the new one that looks almost identical to the Somali flag. All right? And what else was I going to say? There's a chart, Pat, that Rob has that I sent. The child and adult care centers in Minnesota, Maxx.

out donations to Somali candidates in Washington. Isn't that weird? What are child daycare centers donating to Democratic people in Washington? Isn't that weird? And Pat, I can't hear you guys right now, but I would like, yeah, look. Oh, isn't that weird? Sunshine Child Care Center. Isn't that a little weird?

Isn't that weird? So what are they donating to? Pat, I think this is what? Lums and Chubbit, let me get out. I'm going to come right back in. Give me one second. because I want to show you guys a video. Okay, so Rob, can you do me a favor?

This is, folks, if you're watching this, to me, I don't care about whether, you know, I don't have ill intentions to Somalis or not. I don't care where you're from, what skin color, what ethnicity, what religion. The only thing I care about is do you come in? Do you make the place better? Do you make the place safer? Do you create jobs for others? Do you love America?

Do you go based on our values and principles that the founding fathers created? If you do, fantastic. You love America, great. But I want you to see this chart, Rob, I send this text to you. Can you hide it real quick? Can you hide it real quick? Can you hide it real quick? Because I want to ask the audience first.

If I were to ask you right now, Somalis that go to Minnesota, after having lived in America for 10 years, what percentage of them do you think still take welfare? Let me ask the question one more time. Somalis, after having lived in America, Minnesota, for 10 years, what percentage of them take welfare still after 10 years? Rob, can you pull this up now, please? Watch this, folks. When you look at this chart, it shows the gray shows Somali immigrant households in Minnesota.

After 10 years, look, how many of them are still taking welfare? Is that say 81%? What does that say? percent, 78 percent of those who have been here more than 10 years. So if some of the newer people that are here, okay, maybe a year, six months, three months, more than 10 years, 78 percent. And if you look at native households in Minnesota, look what that number is, 21%. If you go to cash, 25, 27 percent. Food stamps, 48 percent of Somalian immigrant households in Minnesota after 10 years are.

taking food stamps, 68% are taking Medicaid. Are these programs built for other immigrants to come and take what you're paying to taxpayers? Are you okay with that? Because that's what's happening with this. So a lot of American people are sitting there saying, wait a minute, what the hell is going on over here? What are we talking about over here? These numbers just don't add up. Remember, for a second, forget about being a Republican, Democrat, and dependent libertarian. Do you like these numbers? Do you like other people coming and taking advantage of the tax paying money that you're putting in, 78% of them still relying

on you to take care of them. Do you like that situation? This is why so many people are upset. Rob, do you have one or two videos for some of the people that haven't seen it on what's going on in Minnesota? And then Tom and Adam, I'm going to come to you guys next. Do you have a video of what happened in Minnesota, Rob, on what Nick Shirley was doing, the great job

that he's doing? Outside of the Learing Daycare Center. We've already shown that. Do you have any other one outside of that? Do you have anyone outside of it? Because that one, we've already shown okay yes adam where are you at with this i know you're you know minnesota you got some stories and connections there and by the way course you guys saw what happened in the mall of america with the with the fights and do you have that video around

that's the mall in america that's the mall of america mall of samalia Imagine you go on Christmas shopping. Yeah. That's what Minnesota looks like to do. That's America, folks. This is not Somalia. This is America.

Adam, your thoughts. Yeah. Well, first and foremost, Nick Shirley is the captain now. So I actually had the pleasure of hanging out with Nick Shirley at James O'Keefe's independent citizen journalist event at Mar-Alogo two months ago. I don't know, Rob, if you have that picture. picture. But you know, there's a famous phrase, if you see something, say something. Well, we've been seeing what's going on in Somalia land, Minnesota, for over a decade now. And this

story is personal to me, because here's a picture of Nick Shirley, by the way. This story is personal to me. Why? My mom is from Minnesota. Every summer of my life, I would go to Minnesota. I'm born and raised in Miami. My mom's from Minnesota. Every summer, she would ship me off to go stay with my aunt and uncle and family and cousins in Minnesota. And I was the problem child from Miami. And there I am in Minnesota. And growing up in Miami, Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, Jews, Chris, it's like a melting pot. Then you go to Minnesota and it's like the lily whitest fairy tale you've ever seen, Scandinavian America. And I remember being there in 2018. Remember

there was a Super Bowl in 2018? Dumbest decision ever. in the freezing cold, they had a Super Bowl. And I remember talking to my friends, Humphreys, you know, Pat. I'm like, who are all these people? I've never seen these people. They're like, yeah, they're Somalians. They came in through a church. You know, the Democrats brought them in.

And I was like, all right, well, what's their deal? How many people heard of Somalians before 10 years ago? It's not a thing in America. So Nick Shirley, not the FBI, not the CIA. not the government, not the media, not see it, CNN, nothing. A 23-year-old independent journalist who actually won the award at James O'Keefeb's event, right, for being the best independent citizen journalist rolls up in Minnesota and just starts asking questions. I text Nick, this was Saturday night ago, Nick, your video has 60 million views.

PPD, you said it has how much now? 120 million views so there's this whole conversation of listen somalians built america that's the people that what what are we talking about so here let me give you one little anecdote and then i'll drive the point home every summer i'd go to minnesota and stay with my family they would let me in they had a very beautiful house i would stay with them imagine if i was staying with my family they let me in but low-key i'm stealing all their money and sending it back to the drug lords in Miami, cocaine cowboys, and they're funding illegal operations. That's what the Somalians have been doing.

Forget about bias. They've been funding al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia while being taken in as citizens of our country. This is a slap in the face. This is a Trojan horse. Something's going to get done. Yeah, I agree. They're making progress.

But Tom, you have a complete different angle on this if you want to take over. Go for it, Tom. Yeah, can you hear me okay? Of course, I can. Yes. Okay, so we've talked about all the, first of all, great connection to Nick Shirley, Adam, and Nick Shirley, thank you for what you did.

But watch me connect these dots. I'm saying, why are the networks not covering the story? Is this really just Republican or Democrat thing? Why? And then when Vinny showed that little receipt that he's got, and Vinny, that is a campaign donation receipt in the state of Washington. That was dollars that came from Minnesota, right?

Yep. Pat, what we are seeing in Minnesota is the biggest campaign finance scam in history. They are laundering money through public assistance programs into the Somali community. The Somali community sends it to Somali, Al-Shabaq gets some of it, and then some of it comes back to Tim Walz's campaign. They've got him by the throat. If he speaks about this, they are going to show that money came back offshore from the campaign, to it. I am convinced of this. This is my opinion. This is my deduction. This is what I believe.

So I believe that they have checkmitted it. And now we're seeing dollars from Minnesota going to Somali candidates in Washington. And why don't the networks talk about it? Who collects all the campaign donations? Campaigns, remember when they say that if you give a billion dollar in relief fund to middle class, Pat, it runs right to the EBITA line of Wall Street, right? Because people are going to take it and just buy whatever they want. So, you know, you put a trillion dollars in the economy as Biden did. The money's going to end up on Wall Street and the profit lines of Amazon and every company of people buy things. Bingo. Well, guess what? All of the money that comes into campaign finance goes to the network TV. And the networks are being told, stay off this. Because I believe,

I believe the networks are being told plain, pure and simple, stay off this story. Because what it's going to do, I believe that all this public assistance money goes offshore, comes back to the campaigns. It's money laundering. And I believe it's the biggest campaign finance story in history. And now the networks are sitting there at gunpoint because they need that money every two years because the elections are hugely profitable for network television. Here's a question, though, Tom. Here's a question.

Who's going to throw who under the bus? Is Ilhan Omar behind closed doors saying, Tim, go in it. I dare you to say something. because you're complicit yourself. I dare you to say something. So if Tim knew about this and Ilhan Omar knows that he knew about this, and there's paper trail in text messages and WhatsApp and signal and videos and exchange and email, I mean, these guys are going to protect each other.

It's not like one person's going to jump in and say, hey, if a whistleblower were to come out right now and say some stuff, it would be a very, very interesting thing to see on what's going to happen here. By the way, the one lady that voted against a lot of the stuff who later on got killed, I want you to watch as Democrat. Rob, you have the clip that Vinny was talking about

earlier. Watch her reaction of how concerned she is that she was the only Democrat that voted against it 67 to 1. This is Melissa Hortman. Rob, can you play that clip real quick? I know that people will be

hurt by that vote. And I I'm, uh, we worked very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision. DFL Speaker of Marita, Melissa Hortman, emotional following the House's adjournment from a special session Monday. Hortman was the lone DFL lawmaker to cast a vote to cut Minnesota care access for undocumented immigrants. It's a move she made with a heavy heart. I did what leaders do. I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota. The bill was deeply unpopular. with members of the DFL caucus.

Members have repeatedly expressed frustration that the bill was part of a compromise, one that would ensure the necessary GOP votes to pass the rest of the state budget. Vinny, how much longer after that was she killed? A week? I want to say a week. It wasn't that long, Patrick, her and her husband. And then that killer went to another place, shot two other people, killed one of them. And then in his manifesto said that Tim Walts hired him or,

wanted him to kill uh somebody else do you know like and think about it look at how emotional she was because think about it those people that she's like hey guys because pat she has a heart she's like that money i'm sorry should be going to other she understands that these people don't have anything they're coming from a third world country but what's fair is fair uh to the people and then pat it's not when i say this goes all the way to washington i sent rob this clip um of a tweet that um Kamala harris posted. It was in September 10th, 2004, Kamala tweeted, I was raised a middle class child and I'm the only person on the debate stage tonight who has a plan to lift up the middle class and the working people of America. And then, Rob, if you can pull this up, Minnesota staff

fraud reporting replied. And Rob, can you pull that one up? And I'll read what they wrote back. Look at the chart that they put up. They said, Ms. Harris, please listen to Minnesota. state employees who work every day to deliver best services possible to our state and people who expect no less and pay our wages. Tim Walls has caused incredible harm to our state and agencies retaliated against whistleblowers against fraud. Rob, you have that chart. You put it up a couple seconds ago that had the $250 million on the top. Could you put that one up? And that tweet. She's posting about the middle class. And Pat, they posted that. under her, under the reply.

Look at the whistleblower. The whistleblower is screaming. $500,922 million. They've been saying it. They've been trying to blow the whistle. And Tim Walz, in my opinion, he has to know. If you're shutting up whistleblowers, then you're involved. And one last thing, back, because I know you want to move on.

Nick Shirley did this as well, if you don't mind me doing it. The Sweet Angel Child Care. And Rob, if you want to put up the Google link. There, the phone number to this place goes to guess where, Adam? Tim Walz's office. Why is one of these daycares if you call? Here's the number, Pat. I'm going to call.

I'm going to put on speakerphone. Let's see. Let's see where this number's going. Get out of here. The one the top. Go ahead. That's the one right there, Rob. Thank you for contacting the office of governor.

Let's get out of here. Pat, isn't that weird? Sweet angel children. Why is this? Can you read the number for us to match it? Pat, the number is 6-651, 201, 3-4-00. That's the exact. Zoom in a little bit on that number, Rob, for Sweet Angel Junker.

Why, hey, Patrick, why in God's name, would it go to Tim Walts's office? Huh? I just searched it at Minnesota.gov. That's a match. Wow. Do we have a number to the leering center where all the Somali kids were leering every single day? I want to do this one thing before we move on to the next door

because we got a lot more stories to go through. Rob, can you show one of the clips, especially the lady that just shuts the door on Nick, if you can show that one clip and then we'll move on if the audience hasn't seen this yet. Go ahead, Rob. Watch this, folks. You're going to get very upset.

You're in hearing your child care? Minnesota Child Care right here. It's from the State of Minnesota's website. We're just wondering where the children are. Where the children are? Yeah, where are the children? It says you have 102 children here, and you got $2.66 million this year in funding,

and $2.5 million last year. We're just wondering where the kids are. My name's Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley. We are from ourselves. This is harassment. This is harassment. Asking questions.

Look at that. Yeah. This is in America. Shut us down. Where are the children at? No children inside of this daycare center. And look, this daycare center right here, no children inside of this daycare center. But between those buildings, over $2.6 million.

We're- To avoid investigation, how much money is- Trying to make it about the kids? Tom, how much money are they saying that this is going to be, how many billions? potentially i've heard nine billion nine we're up to 10 9.2 i've seen but it was half of 18 right so that's what everybody's talking about i just want to say the people of minnesota deserve so much better than this you know patty always say elections have consequences these are the consequences of voting in tim waltz of voting in elkhomar yeah voting in amy klobuchar hold on vending

how many small business owners out there have been rejected you know value tainment bet david consulting Shout out to those guys doing great work. How many small business owners do we deal with that are looking for funding? They're looking for grants. They're looking for loans. And they've been rejected by the federal government, by state government, whatever it is. And they're just funneling money to these literal Somali pirates. And it's a slap in the face to every hardworking American.

This is where your tax funding is going. It's BS. You're making a very good point about the fact that, you know, how about the people of Minnesota that actually want to create jobs instead of these guys that are coming in here to want to take advantage of the system. But, you know, it got so viral that guests who had to respond to it. A guy named Cash Patel. Oh, wow. Cash Patel, the director of FBI tweeted this and I responded to it, Rob, if you want to pull up my

tweet and let's read Cash Patel's tweet first, and then I will give my thoughts on why, you know, a couple concerns I got. So this is Cash Patel's tweet. Rob, if you can zoom in a little bit, my eyes are I got to do one of these things here. Zoom in. So the FBI is aware of the recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personal and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes, exploiting federal programs, fraud that steals from taxpayers and robbs vulnerable children will remain a top FBI priority in Minnesota nationwide. To date, the FBI dismantled a $250 million scheme that stole federal food aid meant for vulnerable children. COVID, the investigation exposed sham vendors, shell companies, and large-scale money laundering. The case led to 78 indictments, 57 convictions, defendants included. He's got all these difficult names to read. These criminals didn't just engage in historic fraud, but try to suburb justice as well.

Ahmadinejad, Mohammed Noor, and others were charged for attempting to bribe a juror for $120,000 in cash. He goes into it, right? Not once does he give credit to Nick Shirley. So here's my response. My response was the following. respectfully, why not hold a major press conference on this issue like you did with the NBA gambling scandal? Why not bring in Nick Shirley, recognize him for his work in fraud in Minnesota? I'm not an insider, but I encourage you to be more aggressive and public about it.

By the way, why not even include Nick Shirley's name in that tweet? Why not take that credit? By the way, don't you want more younger guys like that in gals that want to go to investigative journalism? You know, there's a clip of Nick Shirley in the streets of Minnesota while he's going around? Guy is hitting him. A guy is a Somali guy is hitting him and hitting the camera. I don't know if you saw this clip or not, Rob. A guy is hitting him and hitting the camera guy. And this is not a UFC fighter.

This is a guy that loves America that wants to go out there and expose to the crowd. So to me, you got press conferences that Cash has done. It's been four of them now. If you go search this, I think it's four of them that he's done. You guys can verify this. One of them was the NBA scandal. Another one was the Charlie Kirk assassination. Then they had a couple other ones.

ones that they did. One of them was with the president, but nothing on Minnesota. I would highly encourage. And when you did the NBA scandal, what did you give us? Nothing. It was just, we're investigating a gambling scandal in the NBA. Okay, great. We expect more big names. What's bigger? This? Or NBA scandal? Who gives like the NBA scandal is like second grade amateur stuff versus this is like PhD level fraud at the highest level that's a threat to the entire country. So my hope is that I know the president is very big on edifying and building people up. I wouldn't be surprising. The president built up Nick Shirley and give him some recognition and brought him to the White House. But I would like to see the director of FBI

be a little bit more aggressive, assertive about it. And for something this massive, I would expect a press conference today, tomorrow, latest by Wednesday. If we don't see it, I think they're just being casual about it. And the criticism that they're giving to the FBI, I think it's valid. If you take this long after the most viral story in America on news of what's going on in Minnesota, you don't say nothing, then guess what? You're being casual. And you deserve every criticism you're getting from some of the people out there that were for you originally that not are saying, I'm sorry, Cash, you're not coming through. I think some of that is

And Pat, it's not just cash Because cash has been in power For not even a year yet Let's give a shout out to James Comey Former FBI Director Andy McCabe Former FBI Director Christopher Ray Guys, what are you guys

What are you guys doing? You're running the FBI A 23-year-old citizen journalist just showed everybody up Here's the difference Here's the difference Adam And you have to know Here's the big difference

Cash came in like this that I'm going to go after everybody. Well, if you're going to go like this, hey, the guerrillas here, the silverback is here. We're going to take over. Show up. Show up and go handle business in Minnesota. Get on a private jet that you've been flying and take that PJ of yours to Minnesota

in front of a facility of us seeing people getting arrested and show America how assertive you are. He's capable of doing that. This is a guy that's not a guy that's afraid. He's not a guy that's scared of stuff like. Cash is not a pansy. Cash is a tough guy. But this is a time to deliver.

This was massive. Credit goes to Nick Shirley. I want to get to the next story here. The next story I want to get into is having to do what California is doing. Californians a week ago or so just recently took a bill to the attorney general that they want it to be on the 2026. November ballot for people to vote for to give 5% tax on anyone that's worth a billion dollars or more in the state of California, effective January 1st, 2026. So if you live in California as of 1-1-2026 and you're one of the 199 billionaires

that lives in California, they don't want to tax you 5% of your net worth, not your cash, network. This is unrealized gains. This is you own a company worth $400 million. They want to tax you 5% of that, whatever equity you own. And what they're saying they want to do with this is that's going to give them $100 billion.

Of the $100 billion that they collect from billionaires to $199, they want to take $90 billion and put it on their broken health care system that they have. And they want to take $10 billion and put it on their broken education that they have, which most likely this stuff is going to go to illegal immigrants that are coming

It's not going to go to the people that really need. It's going to go to others. And then, by the way, check this out. The number that some people are, come on, this is not going to happen. There's no way people going to vote for this and all this other stuff. They need 875,000-ish signatures by spring of 2026 is what they need to make it on the ballot. If they get the 875,000 signatures, which, by the way, how hard is it? You got 40 million people living in California, only 199 people.

people are going to be affected by this. Do you not think out of the 40 million people that live in California, they can find 875,000 to vote to destroy this 199? Don't you think they're going to be able to pull that off? Of course they're going to be able to pull that off. So the question then becomes, what the hell is California thinking? Yesterday, Rokana was going back and forward with myself, with Chamad, with Jason, with David, with Tom, and all these guys that are going back and forth talking to them about this 5% billionaire tax, as if these $199 billion don't have a place to go, as if Texas won't gladly welcome them, as if Florida won't gladly welcome them, as if Tennessee won't gladly welcome them. You know how many people

will gladly welcome founders, investors, PE guys that are willing to create jobs, anybody and everybody. So I'll pause here. Tom, I'm going to come to you because I got a lot of stuff to say about this, but I'll come to you first. What are your thoughts on this issue and where you had with it. Boy, where to start, and I would try to go quick and hit this bang, bang, bang. First of all, to get it on the ballot, here's what they did. If Gavin Newsom says, I'm going to use my pen and I'm going to evict it, he's got a problem. He's going to catch all the flack. Ro Khanna comes out and says, hey, I'm in favor of that. But did he put his name on it? No, he didn't put his name on it. So he doesn't be there. What they did is they went to SEIU, which is a union,

service employees international union and they went united health care west union do you know how many people how many members se iu has in california 496 000 400 000 are regular workers 96 000 are state workers so they got the unions pat to sponsor the ballot measure that way rocan is oh no no this is the people what is more people oriented than the workers and a union what is more people than a union of workers standing up and saying, let's use the process of democracy. Let's put something on the ballot and let all people vote for it. That's where this came from. So Rokana and others are not actually kind of sponsor, so post sponsors in a traditional sense.

They've kind of got it on the ballot thanks to the union. Step one. Step two, they got all these union people. They're going to get the signatures from the union sponsors. Everybody would say, hey, Pat, you're in the union. remember you pay you pay $19 a paycheck we're trying to get your benefits sign so all the union people don't have any they're going to know who's naughty and nice and who's signed so that's step one step two is they didn't just decide they're going to make it another um tax all they had to do is say

hey top tax i think is now 13.3% for um your wealthy dollars i think under 300 000 something like that just put 2% on it they didn't want to do that i'll tell you why Once the Democrats put a knob on the dashboard that says new tax, what do they do? They turn the knob. And it doesn't say 5% anymore. It says 6%, 7%, 8%. Or they say, oh, this will be 5% every four years. They're going to come back to it.

That's the way it works. Point two. And then point three, people are not being told the truth. All of these billionaires have already been taxed on the money. or as soon as they cash that stock or it goes public or they sell their company, they will get taxed on the money. You know it, I know it, Pat, you have experienced it personally living in California. It's a big tax.

It is a lot of tax to pay for the weather, which is provided by God, and I don't think God gets much of the money that they tax. So you have to take and look at it both sides and say, wait a minute, this is not a tax. This is asset seizure that is, my opinion, this is asset seizure. which is contemplated, which is going to be recurring, and it's designed to erode the billionaires. And California just wants to be the first, but the other blue states will follow.

Yeah, and by the way, while we're going through this, Rokana, who's been the biggest one vocal about this on X, if you look at what he says at the top of his Twitter account, he posts and he pinned it his district that he is in, Okay, his district that he's in within a 50 mile radius is $18 trillion of the stock market is within a 50 mile radius of his district. Jeez. 18 trillion dollars. If you go a little bit lower up, 18 trillion dollars within 50 mile radius.

And he says, we have five companies with a market cap of over a trillion dollars. Wow. If I can stand up for billionaire tax, this is not a hard position for. 434, other members of 100 Senate. So what he's trying to say is, imagine your local, you're representing these guys, and a third of them are in your county, and you're going to want 5% from all of them.

Then when he's going back and forth, they're like, well, what if we do 1% every year, over five years? And then it's like, well, what if we just do 2%? And then, you know, David comes back, and he says, what if we put the 2% under 13.3%. He says, the reality of it is, don't lie to people. You're not trying to get $100 billion to help with California. You're trying to destroy the billionaires' influence and power in California to make them weaker.

That's what you're trying to do because, Rob, can you play that clip that just came out, guys? This is a week ago of what's going on with California. So you tell me, after watching this clip, Rob, that I just texted you, you tell me if California has the authority and a moral authority to ask for more taxes, after this was just exposed under Newsom's watch. Go ahead, Rob. California Congressman Kevin Kiley, he is sounding the alarm in his home state,

saying under Governor Gavin Newsom's leadership, it has become the, quote, fraud capital of America. And we have team coverage. Our national correspondent, Alana Austin, is on Capitol Hill with more on the investigations into Tim Walls. But we start with correspondent Heather Myers,

who has more on what is going on in California. A rainy day out there on the West Coast. what can you tell us well good afternoon to you katrina and andrew this latest report was issued by the state auditor and that's a nonpartisan position that state auditor now puts eight state agencies on the high risk list of agencies to watch out for for things like fraud and mismanagement as well as waste here's a look at that 92 page report newly added to the high risk list is California's food stamp program. If the state doesn't get the improper payments under control, it could cost an extra $2.5 billion. Also on there is the Department of Finance, which was tasked

with giving out COVID relief funds. Critics say $32 billion of that was taken by fraudsters. Then there are infrastructure issues like California's deteriorating dams and also the high-speed train that's already cost taxpayers $18 billion without a single section of track complete. report site $24 billion spent on the homeless issue that could explain the state lost track i believe we talked about this on friday but the reason why i'm showing you this is the following here's what i'm showing you so imagine your kids so for those of me that have kids your kid comes to you and says that i need to borrow 20 000 you said what i need to borrow 20 000 for what i want to start a business with joey and nicky really yeah okay well 20 000 dollars what plans do you guys

have, boom, boom, boom, they show it to you. You give them $20,000. They come back and they turn it into a Shopify business and they make $380,000. So it's like that, that $20,000 turn into $380,000. So your $20,000 is now worth $80,000. No way. Yes, perfect. So your son now says, dad, we need $200,000 because we feel with the $200,000, we can hire this and we can invest into this and we can take that $200,000 and make that $280,000 business into $2 million. Now you're going to sit there and say, okay, the $20 turned into $80. Let me give the $200,000 if you do. You give the $200,000, all of a sudden, they take the Shopify business from $2.80 to $1.8 million.

Do you think the third time around when they come back to you, what are you going to say? How much you need? Because you're making all this money, right? Okay, stay with me. Flip it. Your son comes to you. Dad, I need $200,000. We're going to, me and, you know, Nikki and our friends, we're going to start this business.

Three weeks later, that $20,000 is gone. They come back. Dad, I need $30,000. Why? That idea didn't work because it was, but we need another $20,000. If you keep giving your son, $20,000 and he keeps failing, you're the idiots. If you keep doing that. This is the same exact thing as Newsom coming to the people of California asking for more and more taxes,

and they keep giving it to them, and they say, yes, let's do it. while how many of those palisades homes have been fixed so far how many of them how many of them got the permits and they're already done up and running what happened with the 24 billion dollar homeless bill that he was going to what happened what happened what what nothing so does he have moral authority to ask more if he doesn't he doesn't by the way in in many many years ago Abraham Lincoln when war happened he came and asked the American people before we had income taxes he said folks we need to, we need you to help us pay for this war. The American people are like, this is crazy. Lincoln came. The American people, they had a certain category of how much taxes they were paying. They paid Lincoln and the U.S. government taxes. He says, once we pay off the debt we had for the war, tax will go away.

You know what happened seven years later? What do you think happened to the taxes? Some of you guys are probably saying, it stayed forever. No, it went away. That's why they called Abraham Lincoln, honest Abe. that's how it's supposed to be now everything is permanent taxes so of course the job creators of California are sitting there saying this guy's full of it he's a clown what they're talking about they want more money in the state of California Adam your thoughts on this so we need to stop

villainizing billionaires in America guys where do we think jobs come from we all have jobs everyone watching this is a job do you think jobs are just falling from the sky oh the job tree 85 to 90% of jobs in America are created by the private sector, the small business owners, the people that are starting companies, the entrepreneurs, the hustlers out there, those are the people that start companies. And they deserve to reap what they sow. If their company does well, they should reap those rewards. 10 to 15% of jobs in America are created by the government.

Do you want the government being in charge of all the money? State government? Do we not just learn from Minnesota? California, I think every single state out. there should have a doge team let's start with minnesota and california boom boom those two so we need to stop villainizing these uh billionaires uh by the way you know the the jerky boys thing we always talk about vini uh pablo come to florida pablo come to florida hey billionaires come to florida we love you we appreciate you we had a mayor for the last 10 years mayor

francis swaras good friend of ours he sent out a uh forward uh tweet i believe during covid It was, how can I help? And all of a sudden, Silicon Valley and people from New York and California and Chicago said, you know what, here's how you can help. Let me go to Florida where there's no state tax, where there's no income tax. Maybe we'll do that. And they did. There you go.

Shout out to Francis Suarez right there. And then, and then, so the billionaire, guys, let's just do a little math here. We don't appreciate billionaires. AOC wants to tax the rich. so we all love our jobs we want to have jobs you want to have income we all love innovation we all love tech we're all on social media we're all on our phones we're all watching this on a phone or a tv that a company created all our retirement accounts are at all time highs but you hate the people that made that all possible it's so backwards and it's such BS and we wonder why the young

generation veers more towards socialism and communism than capitalism because we don't appreciate the job creators and the innovators. Pat, can I just one question from a guy that's not deep into this world? It's no secret. What, how many more bad decisions does this party, does the left, do the Democrats have to continue to keep doing and the people keep letting these people stay in power? It boggles my mind because I'm sitting back watching it. I left California, as you guys don't know for a myriad of reasons, how much more

from the violence, from the wasting $24 billion on a homeless situation that multiplied homelessness, zero accountability, that rail thing that he wanted, spent billions, zero accountability. Now you have ideas like this where you're literally going to have the richest people who are creating the most jobs, leave your state. At what point, are they gonna have a mental revolution,

Pat, all these Democrat-loving liberal brainwashed people, and trust me, I have them in my family, that are going to say, guys, enough is enough, enough. I know it sucks to hell with this blind loyalty to a party. It's the decisions, it's the policies. Pat, am I losing my mind? Am I off my rock? You're not.

Here's, there are so many quotes about, don't waste your time arguing with an idiot because, you know, within 30 minutes, you're the second idiot, right? All this stuff you kind of hear about. But the reality of it is the Democratic Party is a, religion it's not a political party it's a religion and when it's a religion you have fanaticals that no matter what happens they have to support it do you think all these people that were pro transgender all of a sudden overnight were like that 10 years prior to that no what happened to them

it's because they're cult leader their religion leader said that's the case they followed suit they're like yeah that's where i'm going to go with it so it's a very but you're dealing again remember just think like what percentage of our audience is the 12% of America that are independent critical thinkers that are like yeah I don't know if I agree with you yeah like the other day at the Aspen we're walking around seven people are standing oh my God what's up people do you know what I agree with you know what I agree with you know what I agree with but there's these critical thinkers the independent thinkers that are going to be running America in the few times. That's the reality of it. So we need to make sure they are getting their answers giving to them in the most logical, reasonable way where they walk away and have dinner with their wife and kids and their husbands and their family sent us.

You know today on the podcast, I saw this. What do you think about it? But let me tell you what they said about this. Why should California have the right? That's what you want to do. Our goal with PPD podcast is to create thousands of conversations. That's all it is. By reasonable people who are critical thinkers,

who can get other people to think. and then eventually that expands. I think we have to focus on the people that are willing to reason versus the people that are sitting there saying, no, I'm part of a religion, a part of a cult. You can never change my mind. Let me get to the next story. Can I ask you a question, Pat?

Because this is personal for you, like the Minnesota thing with me. I remember the love letter you wrote to California when you left California. And then I remember in 2020, you were deciding, where should we take value taintment? If you recall, you were considering going back to California. You were considering New York. Obviously, we ended up. up moving to Florida. So it's not just the people who are going to leave California, the billionaire tax. There's reasonable business owners who are trying to build businesses and saying

where should I go? Why would you move to California at this point? If a person is aspirational with big dreams and big plans, and by the way, some guy yesterday on the tweet responded to one of my tweets and he says, there's more to California than this, all the talent pool, all the disc. No one's ever going to leave California on Silicon Valley because all the talent pool is here. I'm like, what an arrogant position for you to take? What the hell do you think Hollywood was before it moved to Burbank and Hollywood? What do you think it was? New Jersey. And why do you think they left New Jersey? Because Thomas Edison had so much control over all the movies that they were making. It got so overregulated that the creators are like, screw you. I'm moving

to California. And at that time, California created some tax benefits for movie makers and studio so they move there these clowns to think somebody else is not going to create better incentives in a different marketplace all this arrogance of people will never leave california the weather is not that much worth it guys a billionaire can get on a pj go to napa valley drink as much wine as he wants get back on the jet go back home and he can live in south dakota if he wants to it's not that big of a deal so you know once you create wealth you don't this is not the days of trying to scare the crap out of these guys i think there's going to be some massive disruption but we'll see what it happened next.

Come to Miami, all you billionaires. The weather's just fine. Only the logical ones. Only the logical ones. All right, let me get to the next one here. Next story I want to get into is Musk hits Mamdani and then Mamdani hits back. So, Rob, if you want to pull that up,

Musk hits Mamdani for appointing non-firefighter to the fire department of New York. Let me say this to you. A non-firefighter became appointed, for fired upon of New York, and Elon said, people will die. Okay? Elon says people will die because of this. Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.

Zoram, I'm done your points. Lidion von Sigmunda as the new FDNI commissioner, although she's never served as a, as a fire, Rob, keep that tweet up. Although she's never served as a firefighter, Rob, can you keep that tweet up? I was reading it. Although she's never served as a firefighter, she's confident that won't matter.

Boncierre is a trailblazer for the LGBT community. Tell me how much that makes sense. Vinny, I'm going to come to you. Well, January is going to be one of those, like, let's see if the proof is in the pudding. And guess what Mom Dhani's going to show it to? All the people in New York, all the young people, all the white liberal women, they're like, yeah. And all the young people are like, he's going to give. us free stuff you're all going to see it come crashing down he on top of this uh appointing a like

while you were saying it i'm like appointing someone who has never even been a firefighter to run the fire department is like hiring a vegan to run a steakhouse because they said oh i love cows it doesn't work like that you have to know the ins and outs of everything you've had to have lived the life pat and that's by the way this is the tip of the iceberg he also hired an ex-com who was in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery to guess what to work in the community safety advisory board what are we even talking about here so I don't listen Elon is right Pat and I feel bad for the New Yorkers because everything everything that we've warned you about and we've told you guys about January it starts and this is I'm telling you right now this is going to cause a lot of harm just like we saw in California with all the fires when all of some we started to between them back the layers and you're like wait a minute this chick is running this she's never done what and look at how all it all fell down it's not it's not going to look good pat they keep confusing symbolism with leadership and the people are going to be the ones that have paid the price so you're

going to see it it's going to happen yeah and look at that's mom donnie he appointed a convicted armed robbery to a transition team good luck good luck new york and by the way mom dani really really close to the LGBT community I'm very curious why a guy a Muslim man who By the way, I'm reading the Quran right now. You guys have no idea the attitude towards these people, towards women and gays. It's kind of weird that he's so pro-trans, so pro-gay, and putting up people in positions that don't belong there. It's kind of weird.

It's kind of weird if you connect the dots of what he's actually doing. What is he up to? I'm very, very curious. There's a brief story, and Pat would know this about what happened in Iran. The Red-Green Alliance is real, and it's happened in 19-7. 79. The Islamists team up with the communists and they overthrow governments and they try to put their Sharia law in there. And then you know what happens to all the communists and the Marxists and the socialists? Yeah, once they get power, the Islamists kill them. So that's what's

happened in Iran, which I'm sure we'll cover. But back to New York, is there a bigger dichotomy of ideology and belief and doing things than Elon Musk? and Zoran Mamdani, we talked about builders versus destroyers, how it's so easy to destroy and tear down, it's hard to build. There's only two ways to have the biggest building. You actually build a building that's harder than the biggest building, or you just tear down all the other buildings. So Elon Musk is a full-on capitalist, unapologetic,

and Zoran Mamdani is a democratic socialist Islamist. So he believes in wealth redistribution, and Elon Musk is creating wealth. So here's my advice to people in New York. stop listening to what Zoran Mamdani says. Just watch what he does. Watch who he brings into his cabinet. Watch how the taxes will go up.

Watch what happens. Forget about your feelings. Watch what actually happens to your city with these nonsensical people that he puts into power. By the way, Rob, can you pull up the tweet by Mamdani responding to a mosque? So here's a tweet, and I want you to hear from this chief commissioner of the fire department in New York. he responds to Elon. Experience does matter,

which is why I appointed the person who spent more than 30 years at EMS, you know the workforce that addresses at least 70% of all calls coming into the fire department of New York. Rob, do you have that clip I sent you with her speaking? This is the commissioner, by the way,

of the fire department of New York. Let me know if you're worried about your fire in New York when something happens. Can you pull up this clip, Rob, that I just texted to you? Or is a career first respond. In just nine days, she'll be running the world's busiest fire department. One of the most important appointments of the incoming administration.

And they deserve a leader who cares about their work because she did it herself. Where's the girl? Who understands every detail, and it will fight tirelessly to empower FDNY and make it the best firefighting force in the world. Lillian Bonsignor began her career as an EMT in 1991. It was ultimately promoted to chief of the city's EMS Division. EMS division where she served for three years before retiring in 2022. Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that won't matter. I know the job. I know what the firefighters need

and I can translate that to this administration who's willing to listen. I know what EMS needs. I have been EMS for 30 plus years. Bonsignor is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community who will serve as the FDNY's first openly gay commissioner. She's a highly respected detail-oriented manager whose style has been compared to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, who will remain in her post in the new administration. I am so confused. I have no idea what the hell is going on right now. At least they check the DEI LGBT box.

Let me just show you something. Let me just show you something. Let me just show you something. Rob, did you guys see the video of the female cop that was trying to get this guy in the middle of the freeway two days ago, three days ago, and what the guy did to the female cop? Did you guys see this video or not? Have you guys seen it? I saw it. Rob, can you pull this up?

Can you pull this up what I just sent you? And when you pull it up, Rob, can you go right in the middle of it? Go to like the second 50. Go to 50 second right there. Watch this, folks. That's a cop car, okay? That pulls up, that video is a TMZ video. This is Seattle, Washington State.

Go ahead. So that's the patrol car. She's trying to find out what the hell is going on with this guy in the middle of the street. And look what he does. He all of a sudden pulls up. He's like, ah, what are you going to do about it? Watch this. Pulls up, opens the door.

Keep in mind, this is a cop in Seattle. He leaves the, what the hell is she doing? That's her. What? bone drops the cop oh my god oh he drives off brother if there's guns in the car she could have shot him she should have shot him so you know what the moral the story is you ever hear me give that staff about all these people that are the jobs that are men do and in jobs that women do i don't want a man at a daycare babysitting my kids. I don't. I want a woman. They're more gentle. They're more loving. They're more

caring. Yesterday we're at the movie theater. One of our guys's son has diarrhea, TMI for you guys. Do you know how many times she takes them to the bathroom to change the diapers over and over and over and loving and caring and do it all this. Imagine the day that Adam's got a kid and that boy's got diarrhea seven times in a row. Can you guys visualize Adam changing diapers? Can you visualize that picture right there. Adam right now is getting second thoughts of even thinking about having kids. And last week, he was open to the idea. Now he probably is delaying that for another 15 more years. What's the moral of the story? Nothing against women and men. There are certain jobs. I just don't want to see a man doing. And there are certain jobs, I just don't want to see a woman

doing. And so for you to say a fire, the commissioner of the fire department, the logic to say, we need a lesbian chief commissioner to be up there doing that because we feel safer. I wonder how many New Yorkans who are willing to set aside their politics will say, yeah, that's the right decision. I feel so much safer now. Tom, I'll give you the final thoughts on this.

Yeah, 30 years answering 911 calls. Is that important? Yes. Does that give you exposure to the problems? Yes, does it allow you to look at data and say how many fire calls, how many paramedic heart attack calls, how many this? But you know what it doesn't give you?

It doesn't give you the moral authority to look all of the battalion chiefs in the eyes and say, what equipment do you need in the parts of New York City where you have crumbling buildings and your team is expected to go in there to rescue people and to save lives? What is the equipment that you need in there? What's different? What are the training that we need? What is change going on here? This is a symbolic hire.

I don't care what her background is. I actually don't. Do I think that she was probably a good manner? he, she, whatever she identifies at, I will give her the respect of her pronouns while not, you know, belittling. But the point is, you've been answering 800 numbers, excuse me, 9-1-1 calls,

and now you've got the entire chief, the reason that you needed a police chief that represent the police chief, because there's a hell of a difference between answering a 911 call and people understanding what it's like to be shot at by people you're trying to arrest. That's why that's important.

So don't you think it's important that someone that's been out there. Because remember, New York is not perfect. The streets are narrow. The complications are many. The infrastructure is difficult. The buildings are old. The buildings are tall. And these people fearlessly walk inside to save lives every day. Do I want a battalion chief who rose through the ranks that understands all that that's been there that can say, I don't know which of the city recommended this model fire truck because it didn't work. These three were great. I want that guy. I want that guy there for the safety.

Except for talking about the safety in New York City, you want somebody there. And this, to me, is a symbolic hire, which is DEI, and trying to say, well, did answer the 911 calls. I'm sorry. I'm not buying it as an excuse for qualification. Pat, just, I know, like, 20 seconds. I kind of brushed over it, but I want to make that point clear. Like, Mom Dani to me is like the Trojan horse. Pat, think about it.

He's hiring ex-convicts from prison for robbing. kidnapping to head the community safety advisory board he's he was in a church with a gay LGBTQ that's like hey the children the children so he's pushing the ideology on the children and now you're hiring a he she whatever that's never been the fireman it's almost as if he's coming with that smile and he's slowly going to destroy the freaking community guys i'm i'm not playing it lightly that's like a trojan horse and he's doing it with that that stupid face horse you look at the history and you look at what he as she wants to do, that's the Trojan horse and he's trying to destroy a freaking city

just like they're doing in Minnesota and just how they're trying to do that shit in freaking Texas. Sorry for my language. Interesting. I'm just excited for the 2026 fireman calendar of the year. You know, we've seen these calendars. It'll be littered with they, them, trans,

LGBT. And you know, they say that facts don't care about your feelings. Well, fires don't care about your feelings. We saw what happened in California when the palisades burnt down. forbid something ridiculous happens in new york i'm just warning new york be smart and by the way you know how andrew sholz said many years ago he said you know i judge a great president by the way he moves merch he said Biden doesn't know how to move merge trump knows how to move merge right i wonder how much

merch those uh calendars are going to sell of a fire department of new ys i'd love to see her be in it and let me but maybe we're wrong maybe 50 million people order it and you see it in offices and and And I have no problem being wrong. And if 50 million sell, I'll Wi-Fi with them myself and hand it over to Vinny Adam and Tom and Humberto. I need Tabasco for my eyes. Yeah, I'm going to continue with this one. Let's go to the next story. Okay, Iran is upset.

And they came out flat out, no longer holding back. I mean, it's not like they've been holding back for 46 years. But Iran declares total war against U.S. Israel and Europe as Islamic Republic seeks to expand nuclear facilities, meaning we don't give a shit if you want to do it because the sanctions right now are so bad in Iran. Let me read this to you. Iran's president declared war against U.S. Israel, Europe, just as Tehran looks to rebuild its nuclear capabilities, Massoud Peseshkian, made the bold statement. in an interview published in state media Saturday, Barron's reported, in my opinion, we are at total war with the U.S. Israel and Europe. They want to bring

our country to its needs, Pezachian said. This war, listen to what he says. This war is worse than the one launched against the U.S. by Iraq. This is in the 80s when Saddam Hussein was there. On closer inspection, it is far more

complex and difficult. He said in a reference to the 1980 to 88 war with Iran's western neighbor, when I lived in Iran, in Tehran during those eight years as well. The claims come amid U.S. sanctions on Iran, orchestrated by France, Britain, and Germany due to the regime's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. It also followed the 12-day war with Israel in June when the Jewish state obliterated much of the Islamic Republic's nuclear capabilities with the assistance of devastating U.S. strikes

as tensions between Middle East rivals ramps up. A Tehran-backed candidate is also lost. likely to win a major election to a leading role with Hamas. Khaliyah al-Haya, a Palestinian politician, is expected to beat out Hamas' chief Khalid Michelle in an election for head of the group's political bureau, which could be decided in the coming days. Sources told Saudi Arabian outlet, a shark reported. Let me give you some numbers, folks.

Before I might come to you. Rial. Rial is like a dollar. Real, you know, their currency is Tuman and Riyal. Like, we have the dollar. That's what Iran has. In 1979, when the revolution happened, and a lot of Iranians escaped and they brought their dollar, their money from Iran to here, they had, for every dollar, it would cost

you 70 Rials to have a dollar. So if you had 7 million Rials, you're probably coming here with $100,000, just to kind of give you some numbers of what it looks like. Today, each dollar today in Iran is 1.437 million 500 reals. You want $1? You need that amount of reals to buy a dollar. It dropped 7% this week. They're saying it's going to be going to 2 million reals. There's protesting in the bazaars.

Rob, I'll send you a couple of the clips here. But first, Adam, I'll come to you and we'll show some of the clips. or what's going on in Iran? Adam, go ahead. Is this the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic regime? That's a legitimate question. So, you know, I'll pretend I'm a politician for a second. You know how politicians ask,

is your life better than it was four years ago? Yes or no? Vote for me to change. I'll ask the people of Iran. I'll ask the people of the Middle East who have suffered through this Islamic terrorism regime. Is your life better now than it was five years ago, 10 years ago, 46 years ago, when the Ayatollahs took over Iran? No. They're one of the top 10

countries in the misery index, inflation, unemployment, misery. They've been funding terrorism all around the world. We're talking about waste, fraud, and abuse that's going on in Minnesota, Somalia, California. How much waste, fraud, and abuse has happened in Iran, funding terror networks all over the Middle East, all over the world, for what? so you have no money, and most importantly, and here's the kicker, have no water, this is a desert barren land. And Iran is struggling with food, their economy, and drinking water. Walk me through, Tehran faces intensifying water crisis as reservoirs declined. So they've been pouring all this money into Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, trying to tear down Israel. And look where they are now.

their people are desperate they're revolting women are refusing to wear a hijab they've killed more people in the last year than ever before in terms of their own people hang their own people and what have been how have your people been served by this so you're going to lose people when they don't have water you're funding terrorism but nobody has water so and now are they changing are they shifting ideology they're doubling down on dumb now now they're saying we're going to full-on war against America, Israel, and Europe, you just got your ass kicked Islamic Republic of Iran, and now you want to double down and try to re-duplicate your nuclear strategy.

The Ayatollah, who's how old now, 80-something years old, my opinion, as soon as this guy is dead, and it might come soon, that's the wrong guy, this whole regime is going to crumble, and everyone is waiting on the day for that to happen. Here's a question, though, while you're saying that, Let's say it crumbles. Fine. It crumbles. Who's replacing them? Who? Who? Who's going to be the replacement? A what kind of a person. So the challenge isn't what's about to happen. The challenge is who is replacing this regime.

A Wall Street Journal story just came out a couple days ago, day after Christmas, talking about how Iran is easing its social rules amid crisis, but crushes dissent. live music is blaring on the streets of Tehran. Rob, you can show that one video. Women are ditching their mandatory hijabs and young people are dancing in cafes as authorities allow a degree of social freedom not seen since the Islamic Revolution of 1970 time. At the same time, a widespread crackdown and dissidents

and have executed more people this year than in nearly four decades. That's what Adam was talking about. More people executed this year than nearly in four decades both moves have same objective preserving a system still shaking by last summer's 12-day war with Israel and by sanctions that have sent the economy spiraling the regime has one goal and that is to make sure there is no collective action, no uprising, said Fatameh, Hagiajou, a former member of the Iranian parliament who is now living in exile in the U.S.

They feared that if they enforced the hijab, there will be another uprising. They decided they can't fight people on every corner. So what does this really mean, though? what does this really mean? Do you think a person is going to come in and not see all the opportunities of stealing money from the Iranian people? I don't know. Do you think there's going to be a monarchy in Iran? Like they're going to want a monarchy back in Iran with somebody out here. You need a very, very strong personality for somebody to come in to address this. And quite frankly, I haven't seen that person yet. There aren't too many people in the world that want to see a strong personality come out that's fearless, that can stand against these guys and talk. to them and sell the dream of what the future of Iran could look like. I haven't seen that person, a person that's willing to go beginning to the end to make sure Iranians will be free again. The good news is the Iranian people themselves are fed up.

They're sick of it. I just hope they choose somebody. They get behind somebody that believes Iran can be free again, a place that all of us can go for vacation. We're on the mountains this weekend. and doing an amazing trick skiing and everybody's picking notes on the way we're skiing

and Dylan says, hey dad, you know, does Iran have mountains? I said, of course Iran got mountains and snowing. Really? Yes. Rob, can you just go to Google and put Iran skiing mountain 70s? Just type in Iran

mountains skiing 1970s. And just look at these pictures and go to images. Okay? And look what Iran look like this is that's not Aspen that that's not Whistler

that's not Lake Tahoe not Big Bear that that's that's not Montana that is Iran folks Iran looked like that in the 70s you ain't got that today you ain't got that going on today you got to have a hijab

while you're going down skiing it was a very different climate than today and because at the time the shani was there's so many things I've been reading and studying lately with the Iranian revolution that happened that is, it's a scary sight that these guys have had control over Iran 46 flipping years. Anyways, let's get to the next door.

And then just to put a ribbon on this, where's the crowd that was so against America striking Iran? Where's that crowd now? The Dave Smith, the Candace, the talkers. Where are they? Silent as hell. Because look at what America, in behalf of Israel, has done to the people of Iran, to the Iranian regime. They're about to crumble. It turns out Trump knows what he's doing, is all I'm saying.

Yeah, well, listen, too early to jump to conclusion as if the victory's been done, never underestimate the power of Houthis Hezbollah and the IRGC to find a way to hold their people, a chokehold on their people, and not allow freedom to come their way. But anyway, let me continue. Let me continue to the next story I want to get to. Next story I want to get to is Jeffrey Epstein, folks, you ready for this? They released his Amazon orders, what this guy would order on Amazon. Things are about to get a little bit weird here, okay?

So let's go through the story of what type of stuff this guy was ordering on Amazon, all right? Is it a similar order to Diddy, which was a lot of baby oil? I don't know, but let's go take a look at it. Okay, let's go read this thing here. So Jeffrey Epstein, shocking Amazon purchase history, revealed in DOJ's latest files released including schoolgirl uniforms. I'm sure we're not surprised with that one. And Kinky Island. So let's see what this is.

Epstein had a weakness for junk food, apparently, an obsession with binoculars. I don't know what he was trying to put. Weird. Well, I mean, it couldn't make sense because there were rumors about the lemon. in a taste for twisted, including schoolgirl uniforms and prostate massages, massagers. Prostate massagers. That you heard on Amazon?

Yes. His purchase. Amazon reveals the notorious, well-documented pedophiles buying habits are detail as part of the trove of tens of thousands of documents being released by the Department of Justice, including 1,0006 Amazon receipts from 2014 to 2019. Those automated Amazon email receipts show Epstein ordered four regulation girls' school outfits from uniform company Cherokee to its Upper East Side Mans on East 71st Street in 2018.

The order included two types of full-bodied dresses, twill girls, shorts, and a Tommy Hill figure girl adjustable pleated skirt. Two days after Christmas in 2018, the sex-obsessed money man ordered a $61.50. Prostate Massager, okay? That's apparently sold out right now on Amazon. Now, I'm just kidding. By Prostate Health Center for Home Used Prostate Health, the records show Epstein

Sordid shopping list was not random, but in fact constitute a map of power, relational trauma psychologist Desirene Nazarian, great last name, told the post, on April 18, 2017, he procured bottles of vaguely firm, all natural vaginal tight, pils on herbal supplement that promised increased lubrication and libido, libido, and

firmer breasts for 6495, which is on discount right now, 64.95, according to the records, ironically, Epstein ordered a novelty, $34-dollar black and white prisoner's costume on August 6, 2018, exactly 10 months before he was arrested on July 6, 2019. And this last one is, he also snagged an FBI costume, pair of Israel Defense Force, combat pants, IDF, a bevy of sauna hats, and four books of Vladimir Nabokovs, including the notorious pedophile theme novel, Lolita Records Show. Okay, Tom, Vinnie, what are we learning about this Amazon order? Is there anything here that's getting you say, this is craziness? Tom, I'll come to you first.

I don't, just when you think that the actual evidence can't get worse and more creepy, it does. it basically to me this just sort of ties a terrible ribbon around the top that if anyone had any shred of speculation it's gone what this shows is that there is reason they're trying to hold these files back there were more pictures of people pictures that were inconvenient and there's this stuff nobody wants to be part of it everything wants to go away and if you want it to go away it goes away one of two ways you put a lid on it and you put fingers in your ears and the government just waits till the public loses interest or stops screaming. The second is you drop everything at once, let everybody get covered with mud, and then get over it. But when you keep it like this, it just keeps going and going and going.

Because now people are saying, wow, oh my gosh, buying all this stuff, what a freaking creep. And now it goes back. Who was with this creep? There we go again, back in the circle. It just gets worse. Binnie. I remember, what was it? A year and a half ago

when we were talking about this and Adam was like, man, nobody cares or nobody cares. But you know what? It seems like people still do care, even though we're not getting any legitimate answers because we're not at this point

and we could all agree, we know what the hell is going on, okay? There are people at the top that are disgusting, pervert. I'm not going to call them all pedophiles, perverted pedophiles and guys that are just they just love praying on innocent, underage children, okay?

Just think about it. Look how much news is happening with Minnesota Fraudpan, California, and all this stuff that just a couple days ago, we saw a trove of documents that showed Bill Clinton in a hot tub like this, married Bill Clinton, you know, the ex-president United States, in a hot tub with blacked out faces, f-deen with little children in his arms, Now he's buying all this stuff on Amazon.

And guys, nobody, it's all, it's like, it's like old news. Look at that. That's the ex-president. If that was Donald Trump, if that was Donald Trump, forget it. You wouldn't hear of any news, any news. But just like where we learn with this Minnesota fraud, because it's the left, because it's the Democrats, nobody talks about it. Okay? So you know who's really in charge?

But, Pat, I'm not, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. And the only, the only comfort I feel, because you know, you know, you know, who's really, who's really in charge. you know me and Tom, you're the first one that's ever called me, the angry patriot, and I am where I am today, and that label, which I wear it proudly, besides having faith over fear. I have trust in God. And guys, if you stress out, okay, and you're worried and you're frustrated like me, just know that all of them, from the Epstein's to the Clintons, to whoever was involved,

they're going to have to answer one day to the actual judge. So feel comfortable in your heart of hearts. If no justice is done here, they're going to get it one day sooner or later. Just know that in your heart of hearts. Adam. So totally understand why people want to get to the bottom of Epstein, but let's get one thing clear. The Epstein list could have a thousand different names on it, but the Democrats only want one name. They want Trump.

That's all. Their entire identity, it revolves around hating Trump. and if you just take Trump for what you actually see, give a little timeline. I think it was 2006, Epstein gets arrested. 2007, Trump basically kicks him out of Marilago and goes, get the hell out of here. By 2008, Epstein has to register as a sex defender. 2015, Trump's running for president. He's doing interviews.

He's doing the whole charade going on all the shows. Out of nowhere, someone goes, so what are your thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein? nobody knows Jeffrey Epstein at this point so basically 2020 right he goes yeah total dirtbag that's something you probably want to ask Prince Andrew about that and you probably want to ask Bill Clinton about that

10 years ago Trump said this 2015 so my North Star is this if Democrats had anything on Trump don't you think they would have done it and put it out there in the last 10 years it's such BS what Trump is dealing with the country is in a malaise

right now because they're obsessed with the Epstein thing, and the Democrats are trying to pin it on Trump when there's literal pictures with him and Clinton and who was the guy, the Harvard guy, Larry, Larry Summers. We know about Prince Andrew, and the Democrats just want to force this Trump thing down our throat, so to speak, and I'm just not buying it. Well, okay, there you go. I mean, the reality of it is we're learning more and we don't know what's going to happen next. We'll see as these stories coming up. Now we know what the guy ordered with Amazon. I want to get to a couple stories. One story I don't want to get to

is a, let me see which one it is. I kind of want to go to this. Then I want to go to the D.K. Metcalfe, which is such an important story to get into. But check this out, folks, of what they're doing with airports, effective 1226, just a few days ago. I don't want to stay on the story for too long, guys. So I may only go to one or two of you guys. So new airport DNA law now is an effect at U.S. airports, see how it could impact your holiday travel. New DNA? What? What are they talking about new DNA? Watch this. New strict customs laws have gone into effect, allowing government officials to request tourists DNA in some cases. Tourists, DNA in some cases. The new biometric data collection started on December 26 just ahead of the new year. The new rule targets, non-citizens entering, or leaving

the U.S. according to the government documents seen by Reuters, travelers will now be subjected to facial recognition photos, which is normal, at the airport, to help match them with existing records. Those facial recognition pictures will be stored up to 75 years, according to the documents. Under the new law, Department of Homeland Security officials may request additional biometric information, including fingerprints or DNA from non-citizens. The update security measures are meant to defer to five. filing of frivolous claims and provide operational consistency, according to the U.S. government

travelers under 14 years old, and those over 79 years old were exempt from these requirements. Tom, how do you feel about this? So I think what they're trying to do is get us comfortable with a lack of privacy through safety, on one hand. On the other hand, when they say frivolous claims, I think they're talking about immigration. The two articles that I went through, I was trying to find. out what frivolous claim what are you worried about are these are these in airports people filling out forms and correctly identifying them as visa holders versus tourists what did what do you mean claims

and i couldn't find a straight answer to it which was very concerning because if the government doesn't give you a straight answer it usually means that you can pretty much suspect what's there i now what's on the good side what's on the good side is okay then if you want to keep all the the biometrics on people, and then we collect all the biometrics if we had done that at Eagle Pass. Well, now then, you know, who's here, who's not? Guess what? You can have voting integrity. You could have a lot of things. So I've got mixed emotions here because the government collecting data always makes me concern than any given time pad. If they don't like what I'm saying, click, they turn off Tom. And now Tom can't use, Tom can't drive a car, Tom can't

go through a toll booth, all these things they can do, the bigger net that they make. One side, of me worries about that the other side of me maybe we just now have a way to really check who's coming and going and make sure we know who's entering the country and maybe it puts us one step closer to elections with integrity or knowing who should or shouldn't have benefits in Minnesota because obviously we got to do but you don't need to do biometrics on an empty room in Minnesota I'm not talking about fraud I'm talking about somebody who's legitimately here in a visa. Yeah. Similar thing happened right after 9-11 when two months later, in November of 2001, they introduced to us TSA. And before, if you think about before TSA, you would just walk up

to the gate. There was no TSA. So do you think now, Tom, bring it to 2025, are you glad we have TSA? Or do you wish we didn't have TSA and people walk in through the, you know, the what do you call it the when they're checking to see if you have any guns metal detectors metal detector well are you are you thinking tsa was a good idea now or a bad idea there's two sides of tsa you can't say tsa unless you say patriot back and patriot had a bunch of bad crap that happened and they were used for they were used for no knock basically breaking and entering to come to do to do arrest no knock seizures no knock searches

and things like that, that was bad. But is it good that we have everybody in the, in a world where some people's wardrobe includes suicide vests? Is it good thing that we're checking to get on airplanes where they could create sudden havoc? Yes. There is a good side to TSA, but it came with the Patriot, which we could talk about for days, about the negative things that were inside it.

Pat, I'm anti. Anything that has to do with your. DNA and them having any of your swab or I'm anti all that 1,000% also did you guys know this when you go to the airport and the TSA has that facial recognition pat it's voluntary but every single person just lines up and you're giving them your face over and over and over I'm from what I've seen I'm one of the only ones because I've been to the airport a bunch of times I go excuse me I don't want that I don't want my face they go okay just come this way people are just willingly like sheep stepping up and any and time to the point where you said you know if it's for voting and all that stuff that should be you know what the states every state should be mandatory ID and the fact what the border situation is happening right now that should be a whole separate thing anything with swab with DNA with facial recognition I'm anti that time because at the end of the day the goal that the government wants is for us to be China where in China if you if you break the law they have you

your face, the bill in their eyes, it comes right to your house. That's the future. They want us all lockdown. They want us all digital. Vinnie, I don't think it's swabs. Have you walked on an airplane where you just walk up and you go to show your boarding process, scan it? No, no, don't worry about it. Just look at the iPad. And you look there and it goes, and then you get on. I went to Austria a year ago and we were getting on a, I forget thing to be there. No, Austria Air. and we were getting on in Miami and there was just an iPad there and normally at the door you always had to show

passport boarding pass passport boarding pass international flights we didn't and that told me wow is that my global entry data in there they just looked at my face and said that's Tom Millsworth this is your seat you're getting on and guess what it's another picture then from 2024

of Tom because it said your picture being taken this is all the biometric things they're talking about start with face I don't think they're talking about swabs but to your point, you don't like the database. I don't like the database. Pat, your story was DNA, wasn't it? Taking DNA?

I'm Tom, and you're right, because Tom, I just want people to know, too, it's all slowly but surely they make it comfortable, comfortable. They just put that on there, and it's voluntary. But the fact that they haven't, they're telling you, look inside the camera. This is non-citizens coming in.

This was tourists. I understand that, Pat. I understand that, but still taking DNA because for 75 years, they have their DNA, I don't trust it. I don't trust government with any... No, I'm not a fan of it at all. Vinny, you have to pay attention to what Peeb you just said.

If you're not American citizen, then we should be surveilling everybody that comes in this country. We just let how many, 10, maybe even 20 million people in the country, and we don't know any of these mofos? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That was on purpose. That was on purpose. Sure.

But citizens of American citizens, you know, We have to grapple with whether we want more freedom or more security and safety. This was the whole situation with the Patriot Act with surveillance and the agencies being able to communicate and wiretapping and trying to find out with the terror financing. It's all government control. And I encourage every young man out there and every young woman out there because we're living in it again. Read the book 1984, George Orwell, Big Brother is watching you. So whether it's digital credit scores, whether it's, whether it's digital, whether it's a central bank, digital currencies. I don't know.

We've talked about that. Here's how credit scores. What's that? Here's how I'm processing this. So to me, you know, what if you're running a business and you're doing your budget for 2026 and each department is telling you who they need to hire next. and let's say you're about to hire 100 people at an average salary of, I don't know, 80K because it's some executives, 2,300, and then some at 50, so let's just say average salary of 90K.

And you're going to hire 100 employees. 90K at 100 is what? Is that $9 million, Tom? I think it's $9 million, right? Yeah, so $9 million. Checks out. Okay. What do you want to do?

What do you want to do before you hire these 100 people? What do you want to know about it? Vinny. Background check. Background check. Criminal record. Any criminal offenses, felities, warrants, you know, just basically a domestic terrorist. Credit score. Well, I mean, if they run your social and you're a terrorist, it's going to come up. Credit score. Yeah, just, you know, top five. Let's flip it. Let's flip it. Let's say the government puts out a list saying this year we're going to give away, give away, give away. 500,000 green cards. I'm just making up a number, okay? We're going to give up,

give away 500,000 green cards. What do you want to know about these 500 people when you're looking at their applications? What do you want to know about them? Me personally? Yeah, you are running the FBI. You're running, you know, border security.

You're in charge of that, and you just get a report that, hey, we're going to get 500,000 green cards. We're giving up in 2026. What do you want to know about these 500,000? people. I want to know what country they're coming from. I want to know if they have a criminal record. I want to know anything in their past that might be illegal or dangerous or illicit to bringing into America. I'll start with those three and then we could trickle down from there.

Well, I'm happy that my spokesman Adam spoke for me, which I appreciate. No problem. No, but yeah. Country of origin and Gugganic government find out if they've ever been arrested, if they've ever had anybody like Interpol or any, any terrorist. acts anything around the country and it's basically simple for that past not that much when it comes another country no police record any i mean would you go online presence if they ever said anything like f america or death to america or stuff like that you might what i'm saying to you what i'm trying to tell you is tom i want to get your thoughts on this as well a little bit deeper because it's it's like this you're about to have a sleepover of eight kids at your house what do you want to know

about these eight kids what tom what is tom doing No, no. No, no. Adam, don't go there. Stop, stop. This is a fair question. One of your kids is going to bring eight of their friends over to do a sleepover. Okay? And it's your house. What do you want to know about these eight kids? First of all, I want to know, I want to know, do I even know the kids? And do I already know the parents? Because this is very, I have two daughters. So my radar is far more sensitive than maybe other people would be.

When you're a girl dad, you know what? I'll tell you. until I didn't really know fear in this world. Honestly, I didn't until my daughter turned six. And I suddenly understood in the things that could happen and what schools were allowing guidance counselors to be. So here's what I want to do. I've experienced this. Hey, Tom, somebody's having an eight-year-old birthday.

The girls are going to have sleeping bags in their big family room. And I know the mom. I know the families. I know the parents. They're watching movies to 11 o'clock. and they're getting up in the morning and then they're going to all make waffles and pancakes with the parents.

Okay, any older brothers? Who else lives at that house? What's going on there? I do a freaking mental background check first on the males at the house they're staying. And then I want to know the family of everybody else. I say, wait, there's two other girls there to have dads that carry and are even more conservative than me.

I like that. And so I do my mental, I do what's called underwriting. Perfect. So going back to it, Tom, underwriting immigrants coming here, non-U.S. citizens coming to you, what do you want to know about them? Just like what Vinnie said. What country are they coming from? Does the country have a reputation for reliable criminal records and those that would get reported to Interpol or international databases? Second, third, you know, I want to know, where's the family? Is there some record of the family? Was there a record from schools? I really want to underwrite these. people yeah i'm coming from mogadishu where i was a successful cardiologist for 30 years really in what hospital in mogadishu exactly so you know what this is not hard but this is where it takes me though tom if you want to come to america with all the threats that's going on right now i want everything

about you i want your blood work i want your because remember in the army vini maybe you remember this there used to be a military base in korea that if you went there there was an esther that if you got, they would not let you back in the country for two years. And I don't want to get into more details about this, but we have guys that would go to, this is U.S. military soldiers that would go to this camp. And then, guess what? A lot of guys are having sex with a lot of Koreans

because there was a lot of prostitution and different. So there was this one specific STD that was going around. If you had it, you didn't come back to the country. Why not? They didn't want you to come and spread it over here. So to me, I don't know. I think it's a little too, it's a little too easy, peasy. Just come down and do your thing.

I don't know about that, especially people that want to come here and get a green card. You want to live here. I want to know, I didn't ask you to come here. You said you want to come here. We didn't force you to come here. You're escaping your country. Well, tell me everything about your resume. I want to know everything about your resume.

And if I'm not getting that, so to me there's a part of it where, especially with what we just experienced recently I don't know for people that want to come here I want every single detail about you before I allow you to come to America I'm with you 100% especially but my question is where does the slippery slope

begin because if they started with these immigrants what's going to stop them from using it on civilians you know remember that story when there was in California that Apple wouldn't open up the iPhone and there was that whole thing right there. This whole conversation of like stopping terrorism, but infringing on our rights,

it's a delicate balance. Go to a case study and study what works. What is the safest country in Europe? Poland? Why is that? They don't allow any... Lowest crime, lowest unemployment. Why is that?

No, they honestly do not accept any third world, any Muslims. There's a certain type of people. No, he said it. He said they allowed Christians from Ukraine. they don't allow any Muslims from any countries to come in. Why are they so safe? What's going on with UK? By the way, I saw a number the other day.

Let me give you somebody's numbers here that you see with what's going on. It was a very interesting data showing what percentage of white population in different countries what's happened. I don't know if you guys saw this or not on the population in the States. Rob, I don't know if you have this.

Maybe you do, maybe you don't. There it is. There it is. Yeah, 1975. U.S. white population was When Chinrop? 83%. Today it's 59%.

It's a 24% drop-off. Canada's white population, 75% was 95%. Today, it's 70%. 25% drop off. UK went from 97 to 82. Western Europe went from 96 to 80. So guess what? If they're coming in, and by the way, I'm part of that.

I'm a guy that came from Iran to Germany, Germany to here. But guess what? If you're coming in to love America, create jobs and be a proud citizen serve the country and you love this is like the true dream great if not i don't know i want to be i want to be a lot more selective of who we just allow coming in here seeing with all the stuff that's going on around the world anyways let's go to the next story next door i want to get to is d k metcalf so this the cayland metcalfe wide receiver in the nfl who is phenomenal at what he does he's got one of those Calvin johnson's

type of bodies for some of you guys that follow football closely. Unlike Adam, this guy, Calvin Johnson, was a great wide receiver for the Detroit. Detroit Lions, I'm familiar, sir. He had a nickname. Megatron, yeah, Megatron. Right? And just like Barry Sanders, he retired early, here's a football player, D.K. Metcalf, is on the, that's, that's, that's, that D.K. Metcalf, okay, beast of a guy, and I actually

liked the way he plays. On the sidelines, a fan and him, the first clip we ever see is when he goes, he goes. goes and holds the fan's hair, Rob, if you want to play this clip, and watch how much money he lost because of this simple incident and what happened. So this is what we first saw. You want to play the clip? This is him on the sideline, holding a fan's hair, and then boom, hits him. Oh, my goodness.

Okay. So this happens. First reaction, what the hell happened? Next thing you know the story we get is D.K. Metcalfe. claims that that fan used the N-word, okay? He used the N-word. Now watch this. Go ahead, Rob.

This is a different angle. But now go and show the clip, Rob, of a fan recording it from the back. I send that one to you as well. And this fan is recording it, and he hears what the fan is saying to D.K. Metcalf. Do you have that clip, Rob, I send that one to you as well. This is from an angle from the back.

And you hear what he's calling him. And what the guy, D.K. Metcalf, gets upset about because he's calling him by his name, the Kalin. Rob, you should have that clip. If you got to just pull it up to show it, I text it to you as well with the other two clips, three total. So the fan is looking at the same. Wait a minute. There is no N-word being said. Nobody said the N-word.

he didn't say why are you saying the fans at the end word Rob let us know if you have it or not because it's in the text that I sent you Rob go for it Rob you have no no not this one Rob not this one no no that's the last one I want you to show I want you to show the other one I sent you that shows that the fan is from the other angle that shows the fan is do you have that one or you don't have the one the fan

shows. Let me go to this one. You got to see this one. Hang on one second. Yeah, the other fan video. Yeah, it's another fan video from the back. The witness. Is this the one? Yeah, there it is. I found it. So let me send this to you, Rob. My apologies, I didn't send you this one. I send you the other one. So watch this one, Rob. If you were able to find it, the audience has to see this because nowadays, man, if you don't have this stuff in place and a celebrity can go out, out there and say, yeah, use the N-word. It's automatically. You're like, dude, your life is ruined for saying something like that. Okay, watch this clip here, Rob. The one I just sent, you should have it. It says, DeKalin doesn't like being called his government name. I don't know

what that means, but it says it doesn't like to be called. Real name. Government. And of calling him the N-word and his mother the C-word. So D-K told the NFL that he called him the N-word and his mother the C-word. Can you think? think about that, but watch this. Go ahead, Rob. Hey, D.K. Yup. Yep. Yup.

Yep. Yep. Okay. Then this guy does a press conference gets emotional because he says he's getting death threats. Watch this clip here. The fan. The fan is doing this, and you have to know how much money this cost them. Okay.

Not only does D.K. Is this it? Yeah, go ahead, Rob. Be crystal clear about one thing. I didn't use any racial slurs. No hate speech. I mean, none of that. the game. Actually, never. 15 years, he's a ticket holder for the Lions. I've never done that at all.

So to Kalen, if you're watching this man, just, if you could just say that, please. My family's getting threats and stuff and it's not cool. So whether you said that or not, I'm sure you didn't want that to happen to the family even if you did like i forgive you man that's all i got okay look this up watch what happens here number one NFL suspends them for two games the two games you got suspended will cost them $555,000 in salary for those two games but that's not the bigger issue the bigger issue is early reports showed indicated that metcalf had a $45 million guaranteed money that is officially voided due to the suspension. 25 million was guaranteed in 2026

and 20 million was guaranteed in 2027. Because he got suspended those two games, he is no longer guaranteed those 25 games. This is reports that came out from a bunch of different guys that were talking about it in the sports media side. So Vinnie, I'll come to you first year. How do you process this when you saw what happened here with D.K. Metcalfe?

Well, the first thing, Pat, that you read good, good for him, okay? because your freaking actions have consequences, all right? You signed up to play football, people are going to talk trash, deal with it. He called you by your government name. Okay, but Pat, there's a clear pattern here, and people are afraid to say, okay? This isn't the first time that this has been happening where minorities are saying, yelling racism and racism, and they get in trouble for it. Remember Jesse Smollett walking around saying, oh, a noose around his neck,

MAGA people in Chicago beat me up and they said effing ma'am, and they said the N-word to me, okay? Then it happened again with Bubba Wallace at NASCAR. He's like, they put a, by way, his career was going to crap, being Tom talked about this. He's like, they put a noose in our garage. It wasn't a noose. It was just a rope that hangs and opens up and closes the garage. Yelling racism, yelling racism is absolutely ridiculous because it diminishes the word. Like when I say people call Trump, Hitler.

Now the word Hitler is like, eh, no wonder why people and these groupers are like, yeah, it's kind of cool. Because if Trump is Hitler, then Hitler's actually not even that bad of a guy, if you really think about it. And what's the other one? Remember the Covington, Nick Sandman? He's just sitting there smiling, and the Indian guy was banging the thing in his head. He just stood there. Like, oh, that's racist. Oh, he's racist. It's like all three of these cases, Pat, accusations come first. Then the truth comes in later on. We live in a culture. We'll yell. Telling racism is almost like a shield. Okay, it shuts down questions. It skips evidence.

And then when real racism is going to happen, people are going to be like, okay, man, whatever. We don't want to hear it because it's like the boy who cried wolf. I think it's stupid, Pat. I think it's hard to take stuff like this serious. And again, you want to lie in this day and age? And I'm happy that they have cameras. $45 million. That's not some chum change.

I know he's already rich, but good for him. Good for him. And not because that guy's back. Even though he sat there in front of a camera and admitted, I didn't say it, there's a camera, he's still going to get death threats. He's still going to have people looking for him because in this day and age, let's say 80% are going to see it or maybe 70% are going to see that it was a lie. There's still another 30% out there that's like, that white boy said the N word, go get his ass. So it's not, it's BS. He should pay for his security for a year.

That's what DJ, whatever his name is, should freaking. give them it's ridiculous well point one to verney speaking of security if anybody's been to an NBA game I haven't been an NBA game a long time but I know it goes on and I've seen what happens to the NFL there is security at the perimeters and all a player has to do is point to a fan and flip out and security will come and walk them up and talk to them and you may get your game ticket as they could scratched they tear your ticket back in the old days it used to be called they tear your ticket and you have to leave the stadium, you're gone, you're kicked out. If you did something really terrible, you're not allowed to come back to that stadium for games.

So, number one, that. Number two, did DJ Metcalf look like a man who had just been called the most offensive term to his race, that someone that had said to one of the most offensive things to his mom? Did he look like that guy? Or did he just like a guy that just said, man, F you, and walk away? That's what I saw. I didn't see a man that looked like he was flipped out. I didn't see a guy that's calling for their security there.

He knows where they are. He just waves at them and says, I want this guy out. That's how players work. Now, the guaranteed contract, let me share what this means. DJ Metcalf has to stay healthy because contracts in certain sports are not guaranteed. They're paid out as a percent of playing time. So if you played eight games one year and got an ACL, if it's not a guaranteed contract, you only get the eight games you played and the second half of that year is unpaid because you were injured.

A guaranteed contract goes to the Beth athletes that say, well, if you want me to sign this, I'll play for you, but it's 20 million a year and it's got to be guaranteed. If I've already been in the league five years, I'd like, look, this guy's an all-star. This guy's a pro-bowler. We've got to give him the guaranteed contract. But then there's clauses, moral turpitude. You do something crazy.

You get drunk. You use drugs. You violate domestic violence, violate the league's policies. And you lose those protections at a superstar. Well, guess what just happened? because he didn't play for the full year and because this was a league discipline now the Pittsburgh Steelers says

well you better stay healthy because you're going to get your contract if you stay healthy but if you get hurt now it's no longer guaranteed Adam your thoughts for DK. Metcalfe man he's one of the most talented players

in the NFL but this was a dumb decision so you know they say that you're the sum of the decisions that you make. Life can turn instantly by one decision, good or bad. You make one stupid decision, your life changes. You lose $40 million. You get in a car accident.

You end up in the wrong room. You get arrested. You make the right decision. You end up in the right room. You end up with the right people. Life can change real quickly, real instantly. So what's the message here for D.K. Metcalfe? and to the people out there make smart decisions

because one stupid decision can cost you money, your reputation, possibly even your life and your legacy. And this comes down to leadership. Because D.K. Metcalf is, I think he's played for Seattle the last 60s. I want to say this is his first year in Pittsburgh. The head coach is a Hall of Fame coach, Mike Tomlin.

Their quarterback is the oldest quarterback in the league, Aaron Rogers, leaders on leaders on leaders. How do they not? get to him before this. You know, you said on the last episode, PPD, it starts with the top leadership. How do you not understand that you can't do things like this? You know what this is reminiscent of? Who are they playing the Detroit Lions? This game was in Detroit? We had a guy on the podcast not too long ago, Ron Artairet, Meta World Peace, famous, not for what he is on the court play, but for his off-the-court antics that led to the malice and the palace. The palace is

where the Detroit Pistons play right down the street from the Detroit Lions. NFL players, NBA players, professional athletes, be very careful before you travel to Detroit because you might end up fist fighting a fan and end up getting suspended and losing millions of dollars. Buyer beware, Detroit. Bad boys. There you go. Okay.

So, 45 million bucks, which, by the way, no one knows whether the Steelers are going to imply those sanctions and fines against them with a 45 million. they can choose to say, you know, that they're not going to do that. Matter of fact, Vinny just sent a story right now saying that he reportedly, the Steelers are not going to be imposing those $45 million guaranteed, you know, protocols on them. That's a Steelers decision. Okay, and by the way, Steelers coach is a player's coach, and they love playing for him.

But the NFL has got to be able to say something about this to say, you can't just drop those two words. If you investigate and that didn't happen, the NFL is responsible for saying, nope, the fan never said that because then the NFL, is not protecting the fans, which is the fans that keeps the business, the company in business. So we'll see. Pat, a 10-year season ticket holder in Detroit, a white guy yelling, 15, I'm sorry, yelling the N-word in Detroit where black people surrounded.

How stupid does that sound? How ignorant do you think that guy is? 15 years in there, and he's always been going at DJ Metcalf. He's going to yell the N-word right there in front of everybody. Yeah, I believe that. I'm with Vinny on that. I'm with Denny on this one. It's absolutely ridiculous.

By the way, if he was shutting that, everyone around him would have whooped his ass. So, D.K., this is on you, brother. Yeah, we'll see. I'm trying to bring a guest here to see if they're going to bring this guest for me to introduce to you guys. Santa Corky? Let me try to see if I can get a hold of this guest or not.

We'll see if there's going to be an appearance or not. Let me get to this store here. It's a lot of stuff. Yesterday, there was a big press conference with the president and Zelensky, Rob, I'm sure you have a couple clips there yourself. Let me read a couple of this, and we'll go with some of them. So Trump and Zelensky say they're nearly in agreement on Ukraine peace deal. They are near.

And while they're saying this, being near towards a peace deal, let me read this to you. And this is right after, while they're saying this is going to be happening, ahead of the meeting, Putin attacks one of the locations. Let me read this to you. President Trump and Ukraine and President Zelensky met in Florida at Marlago to discuss. security guarantees for Ukraine. Days after Zelensky said he had a good conversation with U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law.

Trump said Sunday that he had good and very productive call with the Russian president. Rob, if you have any clips on this, saying they're getting close to it. They drafted a 20-point plan agreed upon U.S. and Ukrainian negotiation under review by the Kremlin, although Moscow has shown no signs of budging on his territorial demand. Zelensky said Sunday, he and Mr. Trump are 90% agreed on the plan. both calling territorial issues like the Dumbas a very tough question Zelensky urged Ukraine's partners

on Sunday to keep up their efforts their support after Russia attacked Ukraine's capital city of Kiev just on Saturday. Rob, if you got a clip, go ahead and play the clip. Showing mispelled signs, locked doors, empty clans. A different clip, Robert.

Rob, do you have a clip? We'll speak tomorrow. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you for everything. Dear colleagues, first of all, I would like to thank President Trump

for a great meeting at this amazing place in his home in Mar-a-Lago. And we had a really great discussions on all the topics and we appreciate the progress that was made by American and Ukrainian teams in these recent weeks. Special thanks to Steve Witka and Jared Kushner. And thank you for their engagement and full commitment and also to our team, and first of all to Rostemu Meroen, General Gnatov, and to all our teams.

And we discussed all the aspects of the peace framework, which includes, and we have great achievements, 20-point peace plan, 90% agreed, and U.S.-Ukraine security guarantees 100% agreed. U.S., Europe, Ukraine's security guarantees, almost agreed. three dimension 100% agree. Prosperity plan being finalized and we also discussed the sequencing of the following actions. And we agree that security guarantees is a key milestone in achieving lasting peace and our teams will continue working on all aspects. We also had a joint productive call. Tom, your thoughts on this. Are we making any progress or nothing's going to happen because of Russia? Well, no, I think they're making progress because

it hasn't become a 10-point plan it was like 22 or 20 right it's still a 20-point plan and if you listen carefully the two things that he amplified he amplified four things but two of them he amplified a lot and one of them he did twice security and then the prosperity plan so he mentioned security twice what is that they want remember the first thing they wanted when trump got in office i want you to give me a backstop treaty so that united states is the backstop if i'm attacked by russia wait a minute. Russia's not going to want that because it's almost like a NATO country, us, is giving NATO protections to Ukraine. And that was exactly one of the issues that Putin and Russia was upset about. So there's some sort of a security plan that's in there that they've

always wanted NATO or at least United States to give them some sort of assurances that there's going to be a big brother around if Russia comes back. Number one. Number two of the prosperity plan, I want to know who's paying for it. Because, you know, Ukraine, has been very good at dragging its feet, changing its mind, coming back, and it always ends with aid, billions of dollars worth. So I want to see what that is. What's also interesting, Trump said something. He said, look, I don't think I have to do it. I don't think I'll be going over there. But I'd be willing to talk to the Ukrainian parliament. I'd be willing to go make a speech to the parliament and talk to them about, hey, these are certain things you have to give up,

because it really comes down to one thing with Russia. I'm keeping most of what I stole, specifically, Dornbos. Primera, I think we're still flipping a coin over, but Russia wants Dornbos and Crimea. Ukraine wants to be protected, almost like a member of NATO, and Ukraine wants a bunch of money. I think we're making progress, and I look at the tone of Zelensky.

Pat, what did you think of his tone reading through his points this time compared to six months ago and then 10 months ago where he's sitting there about to have a hissy slap with J.D. Vance in the Oval Office. Listen, Tom, I want to be able to say, I think we're making progress, and I think he isn't a place that he wants to work with that Amazon. No, until I see that done done, I don't trust Zelensky's motives. The only thing I trust is I trust Trump's and his team's ability to push the envelope for Zelensky to be like, I better get my act together.

That I trust. Do I trust him? And if he's going to make it work and accelerate, I don't trust him as a friendly partner to negotiate with, not at all. It's very clear what Putin wants. And Trump's probably stuck in the middle, not knowing what to do. But I have somebody that wants to say hi. Come here, baby.

Tell her, I want to say hi to her, please. Say hi to you. She wants to say hi. It's only, it's only Brooklyn. Brooklyn. How much do you love Uncle Vinny? Where is you? Vinny's right there. You see Vinny?

Say hi, Vinny. Hi, Brooke. He's in his room. But say hi, Vinny. Say hi to Vinny. I love you. Okay, by the way, did you get good gifts for Christmas? Was it good? Yeah?

Were you naughty or was it good stuff? Good stuff? Yes? What was your favorite gift? Nail pie. Nail pie. Oh. First of all.

Did you get her any ice cream? Division of Santa Claus got her nail polish. Who loves you, baby? Okay, go back. I just want to say hi. Say bye to everybody. Say bye-bye. by Brooklyn

so adorable Pat I love your spaceship that you're living in while you're out of town right now this is a backdrop they're like this is just a real thing I don't know if you guys recognize this backdrop this is called I live in a studio right here living a band down by the river

so final thoughts on this Ukraine-Russia thing before we move on can I go after Adam I want I have to go ahead I mean it's so apparent at this point that everything in geopolitics is a binary option and we have to suffer with picking the lesser of two evils. You know, everyone's like, oh, I don't like Trump.

It's like, all right, well, what do you got? Kamala? What do you got? Joe Biden? Well, I don't like Zelensky. It's like, well, you're rooting for Russia now. You're rooting for Putin? Well, I'm not a fan of Israel. So now you like Hamas?

And that's the reality of this subject, that life is not just black and white. It is gray. Trump's trying to negotiate and make this peace deal happen. But at the end of the day, it's very clear. We're on the side of Ukraine as much as people didn't want to fund this. And I get that. Zalinski is not exactly a fan favoritor over here. But he's doing a press conference with Zelensky, trying to figure this out. And you have this thug Putin who came to Alaska. I want to say five months ago, summertime, six months ago. And nothing came of it. In my opinion, Putin doesn't want to. stop this war. He's keeping the war machine going. It's all he's got going on out there. They got oil and military in vodka is what's going on in Russia. And the Ukrainians and the Poles and the people in Europe are paying the price. Well, again, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I'm some geopolitical, you know, expert because I'm not. But yeah, but Adam, as the average American, I am sick and tired of seeing that.

little Zelensky dancing little belly dancing freaking monkey every freaking I'm I'm tired of it okay we all know what the hell by the way this is a war that started under under Biden because he let it happen he even said it's okay if Russia does a little minor incursion he welcomed it okay and as we all know which Tom spoke about it's a money laundering scheme all the defense contracts and all that everything is coming right back and coming right back to Washington okay he and they prop them up as a freaking saint. During the Oscars, they were showing like Zelensky as if we were supposed to. It's actually my favorite part about him. Yeah, we were told that you guys should love him and Pooin, Pruin price hike and Poo in this and Russia bad. And Adam, I'm not saying I can care

less about both of them, but our money, all the people, as if we don't have enough stuff, enough problems here, $18 billion of fraud, our money is just getting siphoned off to Ukraine and a war that we all know they were going to lose. There's no winning. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of freaking Ukrainians, Russians, dead, doing constriction, driving up to fathers, walking their dogs, grabbing them and throwing them inside of vehicles, and then seeing them die with drones coming in and killing them at them and wearing pins. Oh, I'm next to the American flag. I'm with Ukraine. B.S. brother. B.S. I'm just sick and tired. Vinny, simple question for you. What involvement do you want the United States with the rest of the world? with the rest of the world or are we staying specific to this? No, no, no, like, do you want to have any foreign policy whatsoever or are we just going to be isolation?

It's a very simple question. At this point, there's no going back because we're the, we gave ourselves the title of the police of the world, okay? And that's the problem that we're in, Adam. Because being a guy that worked at a nuclear missile base, we could just sit here and say, if anybody messes with us, we will blow up every, because we can, Adam. We have the capability of blowing everybody up. I think having good relationships, but we've poked our nose and we've spread ourselves to everybody where if anything happens, we have to be involved.

With this situation, Adam, we get, how many hundred billion, how much money, Pat, have we given to them to Ukraine? A lot of money. How much? A hundred billion dollars, Adam. And I see people, I see veterans with mental issues and shit in the streets of America. Meanwhile, we have to care about Ukraine. What the hell does Ukraine give a damn about us, Adam?

I hear you. And we covered a lot of waste, fought, and abuse. I'm just asking a simple question. Where do we stick our nose in? Where do we not? Because you were a huge fan of Trump saving the Nigerian Christians. So like, what, do you get to pick and choose what we're doing? Adam, are you ready for this?

Adam, are you ready for this? You're talking about Christians with no guns, no nothing, just their faith and their church getting slaughtered. Okay, that's a difference that a freaking Zelensky, who's a puppet, put in to go against Vladimir Puan because they kept one, hold on, let me finish. Aren't Ukrainian Christians? Hold on a second. Hold on a second.

Adam, you're conflating two different things. You're talking about innocent Christian lives. Adam, if you please, let me finish, then you could talk. You cannot compare defenseless Christians sitting in church praying and ISIS coming and killing them. And Donald Trump saying, enough is enough and striking small ISIS houses to let them know what's up. Then Vladimir Pooen, I'm sorry, Zelensky, basically being our puppet, inching closer and closer and closer to NATO and Russia. Hold on, which they said, don't come and leave, leave it here, leave it alone. You can't compare the two. So you don't care about the

Ukrainian Christians? I do. Adam, that's such a weak, that's such a weak argument. Are they sitting there defenseless? I feel like I'm dumber after your response, by the way. Are they starting? Who's, you're acting like Ukraine and Vladimir. Who's telling Vladimir to do what, Adam? He comes to the White House. He does what he wants.

He doesn't wear suits. But Lindsey Graham and all them are like, we've got to keep giving them money, Adam. There's a huge difference between people in church that are praying to God and getting murdered. Then Vladimir Putin, the puppet who's pushing, pushing us to go to war with Russia. So the point is, so the point is. We can't be isolationist, and we do need to have peace through strength throughout the world.

And we can't just bury our head in the sand and say, no, we can't fund anything because there's nuance to this. And we do need to get involved in the world, because if we don't step up, then other countries are going to fill that vacuum, i.e. China, I.e. Iran, I.e. Russia. And we do need to have some sort of formation of semblance of a foreign policy and not just be a monkey and be like, no money for anything. because there are certain things that we do care about around the world. Go ahead, Tom. Hey, guys, there is a difference between a surgical strike to support a president who can't run his own country and needs help with ISIS, and it's a surgical strike. If that escalates into something, then we're all dumb, and we've all been deluded.

Like the surgical strike that we did in Iran. Well, then now the other side is you've got this war in Ukraine that really is a war in Ukraine, But you have to remember, $30 billion went to the government to pay all their checks, and there's a bunch of fraud in it, $80 billion went to the U.S. defense industry. Wait, I thought we gave it to Ukraine for defense. Who did they buy this stuff from? Who did they buy it from? Most of it was bought from us.

Defense contractors, exactly. They also bought it from France. They also bought it from UK. But the majority of the defense stuff, so if you don't think the last two years, which was Dow 5800, coming back to Dow 6,700, was in part funded by the Ukraine war, you're not paying attention, right? So it's one thing to have this war, I call it this terrible, this war that also is wrapped in this horrible fraud, and it's this round trip going back to campaign coffers and defense contractors. It's one thing for that, which all of us should be upset about, and the surgical strike to help Christians.

But let me say this. A lot of this Ukraine-Russia stuff, we've talked about a year ago, two years ago, three years ago. I want to take a complete different angle on this. and for us to you can show everyone's faces as long as Adam's head is not down you can show everyone's faces so let me tell you what happened yesterday we went and watched the latest 17-hour avatar movie whatever the movie was like three and a half hours and i'm sitting there watching movie ends we go get this incredible crepe oh chicken and pesto and cheese in it Chris got the crepe with Nutella, strawberry banana.

And they even had red velvet crepe. It's almost just ridiculous. So anyways, let me stay focused here. I couldn't wait to see my son, Tico, to debrief about the movie. But Tom decided to walk the opposite direction after I came to get Tom and Vinny. And they thought it was a good idea without telling me. So we're not driving different directions. And anyways, I finally find these guys.

Cops are pulling me over. They're like, hey, and then cops are, oh, I watch your podcast. I'm like, can I go? He lets me go. Anyway. The story of the avatar was the following. At the beginning, the family that wants to live where they live

and Sully and, you know, eventually becomes one of these avatars and they're living there and they're peaceful and their God, what's their God called? I want. I want. Yeah. I want. I want.

Awa. Awa. Awa. Awa. A was God. And so then all of a sudden, one of the boys finds all these weapons, M16s, AK-47s, that were dropped in the middle of the ocean. He finds it and he brings it. And he says, look at these weapons we found. If we want to fight these humans, we need these weapons.

And the leader's like, no, guys, because the last thing you want is that weapon in the hands of the wrong person, it's over. No, but we haven't. We're good people. It says, no, we don't want these weapons because the wrong person is going to get their hands on it. Anyways, long story short, there is this, the evil lady that you guys have to see in a movie. I don't know what her name is, but she worships the devil in a movie. Very creepy scenes, couple of very sexual and erotic. But she gets her hands on the weapon.

When she gets her hands on the weapon, she realizes how powerful it is. Then the colonel comes up from the Marine and finds out the way to get back to Sully, he has to use the same. lady the devil and he says i'll give you as many weapons as you want and shows additional things and all this other stuff they team up they use these weapons to destroy then there is a scene where the whales of the avatar island that they live on the whales are apparently there's wise whales that they tell you no we're not going to go to war this is not what we want to do the whales leave then they eventually realize they're about to lose their land to these people that are going to come and take it over, then the whales finally give permission for the people to be violent. Okay? So what's the moral

the story here? Here's the moral of the story. The moment a weapon is created, the moment you kill someone's son, which is what happened in Avatar, you kill someone's father, you kill someone's wife, you kill someone's mother, what do you think you need to do to eliminate that level of hate and revenge that's in their bones. And how long do you think those revenge in their bones and their blood is going to go away? A month later, a year later, 10 years later, a generation later, two generations, what do you think happens? This is why the moment, you know, Adam ate the apple, you know, and sin became something that was normal for us. The rest is history. So I don't think these things are going to stop. I think these things are going to continue for a long time because

vengeance are in the blood of Ukrainians, Russians, you know, Hamas, Iran, Israel, America. Everybody is doing whatever they can to protect their own and you just got to decide who you want to team up with. I don't think this is going to go away. I think it's going to, I think nastiness is going to be around for a while. I think the main thing you're trying to do is to find ways to eliminate present and future wars in the most creative way possible, known behind closed doors. Some countries are cashing checks to create division within America. And by the way, who the hell knows who's an agent or not?

Who the hell knows who's working for MI6 or CIA or Mossad or not? Who knows that? Who knows who's funded or not? Who knows whose opinions change all of a sudden or not? Nobody knows it. Do you know how long it typically takes to find out who's really behind it that was dividing a great country, 20, 30, 40 years? sometimes it takes that long.

So we may not know what's going on. The challenge is going to be who you're going to believe, who are you going to trust? And who are you going to sit there and say, those people seem reasonable? Those people seem this. I don't know. We're going to do what we're going to do.

And for those guys that tuned in on the 29th, we love the fact that you're all so crazy enough that you're interested in these stories. Four of us sitting here talking about these types of conversations. We appreciate the support of what you guys are doing. I think we're going to do a podcast, on the 31st, Wednesday, which is a 31st, and then on that day, I will share with you guys for some of you guys that don't do this annually, I would encourage you to do a vision planning

on New Year's Eve with your wife, kids, your family, everybody together to plan on what things are going to happen in 2026 because I am very, very optimistic of what's going to happen 2026 and the future. As crazy as things are, I'm extremely optimistic about the future. Having said that, God bless everybody. We'll see you guys on. Wednesday take care oh bye bye be careful for those bears out there in aspen okay get him though we got because i got a guy that knows how to wrestle with him he wrestle very careful out there happy new year's everybody bye bye bye bye