PBD Podcast - Newsom's Diaper Scam + Can Spencer Pratt Save LA? | PBD #796

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana and Adam Sosnick break down the latest allegations surrounding Gavin Newsom and a bizarre diaper money scheme, Spencer Pratt’s mayoral ambitions to save Los Angeles, AOC teasing a possible 2028 presidential run, Kevin Hart getting destroyed during his Netflix roast, Costco predicting a recession, the debate over massive data centers and their impact on local communities, Trump calling the new Iran deal unacceptable, and the latest questions around Dr. Fauci as a key deadline expires.------🇺🇲 ARMS FORCES COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/4feSFtD💬 TEXT PBD TO 310-340-1132 TO GET A COPY OF THE 2026 PBD PODCAST SURVEY!🦁 THE VAULT 2026: AUG 31ST TO SEPT 1ST: https://bit.ly/4mZdLhDⓂ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🇰 KALSHI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!

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. My handshake is better than anything I ever size, right? You are a 101? My son's right.

I don't think I've ever said this before. All right. So hope everybody, Tom, we're live. So hope everybody, that's the one thing about Tom, folks. Tom is a everybody, look, the surveys came back. Who's a bigger professional interrupter? Is it Adam or Tom? They're back.

Obviously, Adam is the, you know, we have to kind of figure that up. But privately, like, you know some people that act so properly when the cameras on and the cameras off? That's Tom. Cameras on. Tom's proper cameras off. He's interrupting all of us all the time. Like, we can't start our day without 50 interruptions. But here's one thing you have to realize with the survey.

We learn one thing for a fact. You guys love Tom. God, you love Tom. Rob, don't they love Tom? Tom, be honest, Rob. They do. They love Tom so much. And if you love Tom that much,

send him a minute and tell him you love him because Tom loves you so much that out of respect for the audience, he shaved his mustache and his beard for the first time. For the first time, since Nixon was president,

he has shaved his mustache and we're grateful for it, Tom. You're amazing. We're trying to figure out what the story is right now. We don't know. But hopefully everybody out there that's watching us,

you had a great Mother's Day weekend. We did all these surprises. I got up. I bought all this stuff. You know, we got this big balloon set up in the house. And in the morning, Brooklyn and Santa come, they're like, let's go to the store. We want to buy our own thing.

So anyways, we go to the store. I got to tell you this story. It's crazy. I'm at the store. And I get a half a pound of martyella. I don't know if you guys like martyella or not. I love marthodella. I can eat martadella all day long.

It has the olives in it. And I get the martadilla and I cut my, you know, mushrooms. It's a portabella mushroom. and I make it, the omelet that I make, it's the greatest omelette in the world. I don't know if anybody can do any better omelets than that. I could start a side business group building omelets. But I go to this store, whatever store is it's within this area.

You used to buy food. And the lady looks at me with an attitude. She looks like a Russian-Albanian-looking lady. Great. And probably in her early 50s. She looks on my shirt. I have a future-looks bright shirt on. She says, you really believe that?

Oh. I said, yeah. You really believe the future looks bright? I said, absolutely. You don't? No, I don't believe the future looks bright. I said, here's the problem. She says, what's that?

I said, both of us are going to be right. She says, what do you mean? I said, well, I know one thing. If I believe the future looks crappy like you do, you're going to be 100% right. I said, but I'm willing to take the risk of believing the future looks bright, even if there's 10% chance that's bright. Even if it's only 20%, I'm taking it.

Then she says, yeah, I don't know if that's the right mindset. I said, don't you believe in God? She says, I believe in God. I said, how do you not believe the future looks right if you believe in God? You have to. But that's after you die, Adam. That's after you die is you want to put your headset out. They're working on it.

Yeah, it's after you die is when you realize the future looks bright. And she says, I said, no. I say, you can believe future looks bright today. Anyways, sometimes it's so funny like you're going through and you're wondering how that mindset is. Oh, man, you nothing's working out. everything's going to go wrong if it's going to, choose your mindset daily, folks. That's all I will tell you. Whatever you do, you choose your mindset.

Now, of course, we got a lot of stories to go through. And for some of you guys that are waiting for the survey, we're going to send that to you as well because it's finally ready. I'll show it to you. And if you're wondering while I'm wearing this, I'll get to this in a minute. There's a guy in California that wants to sell you diapers and indirectly charge you 30 cents more and then somehow some way find a way for it to benefit his wife.

I think his name is Gia. What's his first? How does this first name? Gavon Yosom. Gavon Yosom. Right. Good looking guy, tall, very well-spoken, loves to move his hands.

I mean, I don't know anybody that moves his hands more than he does. I don't even know what you're talking. And by the way, what's crazy is there's not a day I go on X where somebody random says, this guy's impersonation of Gavin Newsom is perfect and it's video. I see it every day.

Number two, globalists unite, folks. Oh, yeah. Globalists unite. It's a big party, Canada. Carney got together with this guy named Barack Hussein Obama and another guy named Alex Soros. Father's name was Jorge. They got together to talk about a few different things. We don't know what. Maybe they were playing backgammon. Sometimes you jump to conclusion, Vinnie. Don't know.

They could have been playing Uno. You're right. Maybe they're playing FIFA soccer. Who knows what they're doing? They could be just talking or they could be talking about how can undermine President Trump and make his life a living kill. I don't know, but we're speculating. Number three, let me get to the number. next one here. Today, you know what's special about today? Today's the last day if they're going to hold this guy named Fauci accountable because it's five years and today is the 11th,

if I'm not mistaken. Yes, Rob, it is the 11th. So come on, Rand Paul. A lot of people are like, well, you know, I don't know if we should do it. I don't know if we shouldn't do it because he's got this part and all this other stuff. Millions of people want to see you do it. Now, Costco figured something out, folks. Costco figured out that you and I are not ordering enough beef lately. And when We go to the store, we're ordering chicken and pork. And that's a problem, Vinnie. When you don't order real beef, instead you order chicken or pork, that's a sign of possible recession being around the corner.

Okay? It's a sign of possible. And by the way, the last two times I got to write, Costco. Okay? Last two times I got a right allegedly with this thing here. So it's like the big short type situation? Yeah, I say this weekend we all, every person that follows the podcast here, we all go by beef this weekend, just to kind of change it up.

Can you imagine Costco all of a sudden going in and said, no, you got chicken? I'm not buying chicken. Just beef is what I want to buy. Coles are happy as hell right. Anyways, yeah, they're just freaking out in a big... It is, you're right. And then next one here.

Rob and Vinny show me this video. I don't know if I like it or if I hate it because if you sleep with white noise. I have to. I love white noise. Like, you know, zzz. And I picked it up in the Army because in the Army, we had these shuffle of, what do you call it?

These heaters. That they would have this loud noise all night and you would sleep like a little baby. In Utah, they're building this 62 square mile data center route that Kevin O'Leary is there. People are losing their mind saying don't build it. To kind of put perspective what 62 square mile is, that's three Manhattans. Let me say it one more time. That's three Manhattans in one area and you should hear the sound this thing makes. It's nuts the sound that it makes will show.

that clip, you got to see what's going on there with these data centers. Next, Bibi did an interview. Adam was taking a lot of notes. He wrote a thesis, paper on it. And so we're going to get a third one. Yeah, that's right. We're going to get an update on that. By the way, BB does not look good. He does not look healthy. A lot of people were saying, and of course, we know. Hopefully he's doing okay for himself and recovering from when he said prostate. I'll look it up. I know he had cancer and he beat it. But he looks like, he looks like he's going through it. But there was a lot of good questions that were asked. We'll address that as well. Next one we got here is the peace deal with Iran.

Trump wants to get that done before he goes to China. What is the meeting with Xi this week? Wednesday. It's coming up on Wednesday. And then in New York, you got this guy name Mamdani, who decides to turn the chief who's got a little bit of an accent. I don't know if he's Polish or Russian, but he's being asked and he's like, that's not my mayor.

And so you know what happens to the chief? The guy gets demoted to a 911 operator. Can you imagine you go from being a chief to a 911 operator? That's like going from being the president to being the mayor of Chaz. Right? Like you got demoted, Vinny. They just did that too. So, you know, so he is now doing the night.

And then, by the way, there's videos, Rob. I know you got those videos you were telling me about the George Washington Bridge. What was falling apart, Rob? A beam from the bridge fell as a driver was going underneath. I mean, that's okay. What's the big deal with that? He's going to fix it. He's going to find a guy that's willing to give a free beam to fix that thing

It's coming to New York City very soon. And then we got a couple other stories. New York City has lost 150,000 students in their public schools. 150,000 students. Now, this is either because New York City, middle income, got so rich that they're all putting them in private schools now or because they left to a different place. And then Spencer Pratt was asked a question. Spencer Pratt has become a rock, so I had a great conversation with him this weekend.

Spencer Pratt was asked about the comparison between him and Mamdani and you have to see it. Rob, did you find it or you haven't? Okay, you know which one I'm talking about where he makes the comparison of the free? We'll show it to you. You're definitely going to love that one as we go through it. And then, of course, we've got a couple other stories

we're going to go through on what's going on. I don't like the Wimby getting kicked out with that elbow. You know, he was having his Ron Arta's moment. I don't like it. I know the score was still tight, 109, 114 at the end. I'd like to see San Antonio Spurs win because I like Wemby. Wemby's a tough guy.

And all these people that are bitching about SGA flopping and all this stuff. Guess who he learned it from? LeBron James. So stop talking about SGA is flopping. His coach was Chris Paul and LeBron James, the greatest flopper of all time. How about them next though?

Oh my God, 144. What's going on these guys? They swept the 76ers. Next. And by the way, yeah, and by the way, you know, based on the survey, to bring this up.

You know what I love about this? We ask questions we shouldn't have asked, and some of you guys, you were brutally honest, and we appreciate you for. We did that intentionally. Adam's very thankful for all of you guys with the report.

Love you guys. Because it was very thorough. But one of the topics was how much you guys love us talking about sports. And you want us to spend 80% doing sports instead of anything else. I said, I was thinking about it. I said, no, I don't want to do it

because we don't want to embarrass all the other sports shows. We're going to give them a pass and we're going to stick to the things. that we're talking about it. But if you're somebody that wants to see the survey, almost 16,000 of you ended up doing the survey, we're thankful for all of you. And by the way, those of you guys that activated the 25, I love the, some of the guys were like, I'm doing it right now, gone, and guess what, we gave it, we have no problem with that. But if you want the survey results and you haven't gotten it yet, text award

PBD to 310-340-1132, and we will send you the survey right now. It's ready. Rob, can you show a clip? Can you just go to the survey and show what it looks like? Go a little bit lower. I mean, it explains everything. Our audience, breakdown, percentage of Republicans, business owners. It's seven pages. We can pause it right there.

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I was in the Army, proud, 1001st Airborne Division, aerosol, 63 Bravo, Charlie, with a Hotel 8 qualification. You know, great time at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Fort Jackson. Some great memories of me being in a military. Memorial Day is coming up next week, Rob. Is it two weeks from now? For those of you guys that want to sport, if you want to go to the site, Army gear that says Future Looks Bright on the bottom of it with VT

or Army shirt or Marine or Air Force or you have somebody in your family who watches the podcast, who believes the future looks bright, who has an optimistic personality, who believes things are going to fall in good place. Go to vT.murish.com, Rob, let's put the link below for the Veterans Collection that you can go to, pick yourself up. That's one of my favorite hats as well, that military. You see that Camel hat with Future Looks Bright? it's sick.

If you're a vet or if you have somebody in your family that's a vet, go to VeeTmerch.com, place your order, Vinnie. I think you want to say something. The Memorial Day, I want people to understand

it's the most important day because it's not about the barbecues and everything. It's for all the men, women, brothers, sisters, fathers that laid down their life. As much as people want to talk crap about this country and judge us,

the people that serve that lost their lives, God bless them, God bless their families because if it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be able to be here and complain and talk all the crap that you want to

and you'd be probably speaking a different accent of a different country. And I will proudly, even though my kids don't have to join the military, if any one of them chose to join the military, I will personally proudly support them if they choose to go that route because America is the greatest country in the world that gave me an average guy to have the life that I have today without that safety, security from our military vets. We wouldn't have what we have today. So thank you for all the people that served as well, as well as your family members.

So with that being said, let's get right into it. First story I want to get into. We got a lot of them to pick and choose from. Which one do we want to go with? Let me see this one here. Rob, why don't we go into the story when Mamdani and George, what happened with him and the sheriff? Let's pull up that clip.

Let's start off with that first. So New York City, they call it, it used to be the greatest city in the world, okay? And then all of a sudden this guy gets elected, socialist, communist, Islamist, whatever you want to call him, it is what it is. But here's the captain, okay, New York City captain. He's out there. He's being asked a couple questions about his mayor. And look what he says.

And I will tell you what happens to this guy next because Mamdani wasn't too happy about this. Go ahead, Rob. He's expanding. He's expanding. Mayor Zohran, Mamdani. You're saying it's incredible? You want a minute?

He's your boss. He's your boss. He's your boss. Is he your boss, though? It's his boss? He's the ambassador. He's your boss. He's an embarrassing.

He's an embarrassing. He's what? He said, he said, embarrassment. Yo! You're saying your mayor is an American? He's not my mayor. Call on camera. Okay, so he makes those comments.

Now, you know, the mayor sees it. Okay, is there the exchange with him and the sheriff, Rob? the captain? No, I do have a news article or a news report from CBS News that talks about the fallout. Go forward. Go ahead. Captain James Wilson was front and center at a Bushwick protest on Saturday, where crowds gathered outside Wyckoff Medical Center in an attempt to stop ICE agents who were arresting an immigrant who was a patient there. But it's not his policing that is being called into question.

It's the comments he made about the mayor that were posted on social media. Wilson didn't limit his comments of the mayor. He also went after Democrats saying, And it is those comments that apparently led to a decision to remove him as second in command at the 9-4 precinct in Greenpoint. He was sent instead to work in a 911 call center in the Bronx. When I asked the mayor about the transfer, he took pains to say it wasn't his decision. I saw the video.

I did not, however, have any involvement. in that decision, nor did my city hall. That was, my understanding is a decision that was made in accordance with NYPD's administrative guidelines. The NYPD issuing a statement saying of the captain, quote, his disciplinary process is ongoing. Department policy prohibits an officer while on duty from publicly expressing personal views regarding a political party. Okay, so, any thoughts? Okay, well, by the way, he is an embarrassment.

Show me where the guy is lying. Okay, the Democrat thing, you know, waste of human, whatever, whatever. You know how I feel about Democrats, but I thought these are the people screaming no Kings. Every single five minutes, no Kings, no King. Apparently, criticism is only allowed when it's aimed at conservatives, okay? But, Pat, this is the problem with Democrats. They preach tolerance until somebody disagrees with them, and then the punishment starts. And by the way, he's being demoted.

There goes his pain. He's going to be out of the Bronx now. He's going to have to, you know, the commute or whatever he has to do. But let's stop. pretending, I don't believe Mamdani at all, period. Let's stop pretending like he gives the damn about law enforcement. He's built his entire, if you go back and watch all of his

clips, trashing cops, defunding the police, pushing anti-police rhetoric, crime is up and I'm going to give you some stats. Remember, guys, a couple months ago, a knife-wielding psycho is about to stab somebody in an apartment, a cop comes in, he's rushing the cop, shoots the guy, the cop gets stabbed,

guess who Mamdani goes and visits in the hospital? The knife guy. Not the cop. Okay? And like, I'm done with all this nonsense. Pat. Let's just all the focus. Oh, I don't know.

Of course it went to him. Of course he saw. It's all about optics. And let's just throw this out there. New York police NYPD crime transmit data over the last year in transit. Ready for this? Robberies up 18%. Murders are up 300% and misdemeanor assault is up 15%.

Okay. This is politicians, when your time is spent just attacking cops and not backing them, that's what happens. And I don't believe them at all. With the subway. is really, really. That's what you get. But here's what you get, Tom.

I'm going to come to you. In return for that, as much as you're upset, Vinnie, imagine having the luxury and the privilege of driving through George Washington Bridge and knowing you're learning how to we went, we then bob through these, you know, these

obstacles. These obstacles. Yeah. Because it's like playing Mario Kart on the freeway in New York City. It's a great video game. Rob, can you please play this highlight of not Super Mario Card? This is actually George Washington Bridge, folks. Go ahead.

Look at this. You're driving, boom. But you've got to be fast. But you've got to be fast, Vinnie. He obviously doesn't play Mario. Watch it one more time, folks. I mean, this is like, boom, you know?

Like, imagine if that happens to you with your wife and kids and you're going to a nice dinner together. It's exciting, right? It's exciting. Having a mayor that takes care of the streets and, you know, and you get that in return because we should give more free program. You're right. Not fix the roads.

No. Now, not get the construction permits to come out fast. Take your time with the construction permits. Tom, your thoughts on Mamdani's situation. What he did to the captain? Well, I have about three thoughts. The first thought is, look, no cop in any city should talk like that. You know, you shouldn't. And by the way, it doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal.

If you say, hey, the other side is a waste of a human race, you can expect to get demoted and fired. It's going to happen if you're conservative. going to happen if you're liberal. Now, that's just trying to level set. Everybody's going to yell at me. And I said, no, that's true. It doesn't either side you're on. However, I hate that the situation in New York is exactly what you're talking about that led the cop to feel that way. Exactly. He's sitting there trying to defend a city and try to serve people and everything, and he sits there and saying, under what leadership am I doing this? Do this the leadership even have my back? Does the leadership even care about the people and what's going on?

But when you say you're the waste of a human race, that's too far, I get that. That's too far. But all the cop wants to do is serve. All he wants to do it. And the other part of it is, man, you are always recorded and you've got to be so careful because you can be baited, baited, baited, baited, baited, what do you think? What do you think?

Those guys with the camera were being very, very, very persistent, very, very focused. And I just, I don't like what's going on. And by the way, the infrastructure, this has been going on for a while. This has been this danger that's in the infrastructure has been going on for a while. When you strip out the funding for this stuff and you allow fraud, waste and abuse, like we've seen in North Carolina now is worried, like we're seeing in Texas with hospices. It's everywhere. You know, get yourself a government-funded entity, steal the money, filter some of it back to your favorite campaign, allegedly. There you go.

And the bridge doesn't get fixed because you have all the fraud. So I feel for this cop, but you can't say that. And Tom, I want to reiterate. Murder is up in the transit report 300%. Pat, there's a video up. We can't even show it, Rob. Some African-American dude pushed a 75-year-old teacher down the freaking subway thing.

It was like two days ago, and he's smiling in Corey. And that's an hour after he was released for prior offense. From being a nut job. Yeah, an hour after. So it's not like it was a thing where he just did, and he went in. Yes. You see this man. is just walking down and he just pushes him

and the guy dies. Seventy-six years old. Oh, you haven't seen this clip? It's horrible. I don't want to show the clip, but I'm going to show you the clip, Adam, and I want you to see it. I want you to see it. His name is Ramel Burke shoved an elderly teacher. Do you see it? Ross Valzone.

Dead. Dead. Who did that to him? Okay, let me read that. I have his family if you want to hear from his family as well. Let me read this and if you can pull up. This is a New York City by the way, where we repeat offender who had already been arrested several times this year including for two assaults, killed an elderly man in an unprovoked attack in New York City.

Hours before the attack, the NYPD had taken Ramal Ramel Burke to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation after it was reportedly acting irrationally on a Penn Station platform mysteriously. He was released just one hour later. And then a few hours later, Burke, the same guy that was arrested and released, shoved 76-year-R Ross Falzoni,

a retired teacher to his death down the subway in Manhattan. Burke was arrested three times in February for assaulting a police officer, burglary, and resisting arrest. In April, he was arrested again for assaulting a stranger. He was later granted supervised release at the arraignment. Rob,

do you have a video from the family? He's not even a hundred pounds. Donna Falzone just celebrated her birthday in Manhattan with her brother Ross Valzone and was planning another trip to visit him from Pennsylvania when she got some horrifying news. I mean, to get a call

like that at four o'clock in the morning, you know, just, you know, to find out your brother's blind in his own business, three witnesses, and push down the steps and left for dead. There's not amount of anger that we can express and shock. Police have arrested a man, they say, is responsible for shoving the 76-year-old man from the street down these stairs that lead to the 18th Street subway station in Chelsea. Police say the unprovoked attack happened around 9.30 Thursday nights. Fowl's own was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with a traumatic brain injury, fractured spine, and rib. Medics couldn't save him. Just a caring and giving man gave everything to his family. And he just everything.

Eyewitness news has learned the suspect was in custody hours before the attack. At 3.28 p.m. Officers saw him acting erratically outside the 17th precinct. At 339, they took him to Bellevue Hospital. This New York City for you, by the way. Okay, and what happens? Criminals are dropped. Oh, it's okay. Listen, leave him alone. What did the captain say? What did he say? But this guy, come on, this is just a nice, he just had a rough day. A few hours later, he kills a 76 year old. But my God, the captain, now, of course, I agree with Tom. There's certain things, like, if you go to dinner with us with the family, and I will tell the kids,

I swear to God if you ever use that word that your friend used, we're going to have a problem together because you have to choose the words you use. So I'm with it. Tom and I are on the same page there. There's certain responsibilities you have as a leader. But this is words hurt somebody's feelings. This is a criminal.

Killed someone. Let's side with this guy, not this guy. This guy bad. This guy, let's feel sorry for him. Tell me the common sense. By the way, before I come to you, Adam, Let me read this to her. New York City's declining public schools' enrollment projected to lose over 150,000 more as population declines. Okay, here's what we're looking at as population declines.

Let me see this here. All right, let's go here. Let me read this to you. You ready? New York City Public School are projected to drop mirroring the downward trend of its overall population since last year. According to a statistical forecast and prepare for the New York City School Construction Authority, New York City is projected to lose thousands of students in the 2034 to 2035 school year. Enrollment is projected to be 721 in 2034, 2035, which would be a decline of 153,000 students from the 224, 2025 enrollment.

The outlet reported over the next 10 years the enrollments are projected to decline in each of the five boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and projected to have the largest declines in the next 10 years, losing 45, 43, $35,000 respectively to project. Shortfall was attributed to continuing falling birth rates and exodus of residents. An aging population statistical forecasting was retained by the New York City School Construction Authority, SCA, to perform enrollment projections for the New York City public school's tenure program that they have in place. By the way, New York Times reported on Friday that the number of kindergarten through 12th grade public school students in U.S. has declined in 30 states since the mid-20s. New York City's public school lost 22,000 students this year from last year's 906,

according to preliminary Department of Education data, a total of 884 students were enrolled. So you're seeing that happening here. People are not feeling safe. And keep in mind, this guy financially is vested for New York City to win. Selfishly, I want New York City to win. In every possible way, I want New York City to win. Why?

Yankees. I mean, you got Marcello killing it on SNL, right? Adams, you're bragging about Marcello. Look what he did. Look at this. Look at that. Look at this. And now he's becoming a main guy.

You want to see New York City shine. You want to see New York City be a place that families want to come visit. You want to see. Guess what we're, guess where they're holding the World Cup championship game? Not in Kansas. Not in Washington. Not in Texas. You know where they're holding the finals game?

What city do you think they're holding? New York City at the Jet Stadium. And by the way, we knew that before anybody else knew about it. If you remember, when we were at the, Remember President Clinton at that bowling thing? And then we went to the soul. We knew that, but funny story there. But going back to New York City.

Adam, your thoughts. Yeah, well, I think it's bigger than New York City. Here's what I think is really going on. We're used to all these big blue cities that have been, historically, their greatest cities in America, New York City, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago. Chicago was known as second city. And they're just not that city anymore.

And what's the common theme? They're all run by Democrats. Democrats have a stranglehold in all these big blue cities. And you know what happens? You know, the Democratic Party, I don't recognize the party. They're no longer the party of FDR, of JFK, of Bill Clinton. And for the last couple decades, they've been flirting, flirting with all these isms, socialism, communism, communism, transgenderism, Islamism. And the new woke left has combined them all, put them in a basket and says, this is who we are. know. And looking back at it, you could say it started with Obama, but Obama carried himself so like a diplomat. He almost like, he made it appear that he wasn't as radical as he is. Now we're hearing meetings of him, meeting with Soros and all these types of people. But the Democratic establishment is no longer what it was. And it's sad to see. And now you have the

Mamdani's of the world and the Gavin Newsom's of the world and the Karen Basses of the world, the AOCs of the world, and the Ilhan Omar's of the world. And that is the new face of the Democratic Party. And the one guy within the Democratic Party who's basically saying, guys, what are we doing? Is John Fetterman. And you can easily make the joke of like, of course, the one guy with brain damage has the most sense. But that's really what's going

on here. And they're so obsessed with race. They're so antithetical to what MLK stood for. And at the end of the day, if you want to go, like, go, go, go there. They want to completely fundamentally transform what America is and Western civilization. And last part, if you look what happened in the UK, this week, the Reform Party

by Nigel Farage, walloped everything that was going on there. All the wokeness, all the Kirstarmer, everything that was going on, all the migration, and the UK said, we've had enough. My question is, did it happen too late for them? Because I sure as hell don't think it's too late for America to come doing senses

and eliminate this nonsense. But New York, just in general, in general, they have their priorities crooked, completely crooked. And when you say defund the police, When you go visit the attacker, a knife-wielding attacker, Adam, think about it. You're a cop. You're laying in the hospital, same hospital, and the mayor is visiting the guy that stabbed you, literally, literally. How are you supposed to feel?

And I agree with you guys 100%. You can't lump them. It's like Hillary's, you know, basket of deplorables. You can't say that. Democrats already say they've been captured by something that's unrecognizable. They don't have no leaders. They have no nothing. And they don't have God.

Not one of them I've ever heard, praise God, or talk about Jesus Christ. I'm not judging them. I'm just saying, is there one of you out there? Zero, zero. And when you keep saying I hate cops, defund cops, get rid of the cops, and then you have a cop going, yeah, I don't like the guy, because he doesn't care about me. He's taking money away from me. That's the attitude that you're going to get.

And by the way, Kirstarmer, Rob, Humberto send this great chart. If you want to pull it up from Kalshi, man, Kalshi's just doing such a great job. Like, it's becoming the place to go. They're awesome. As a predictive place, $7 million. Do you have the one with Kirstarmer, Rob? There's one with Kirstarmer showing the likelihood of him being out. Okay?

And what is it right now, Rob? Before September 1st is now 59%. Is it 59? 59%. Correct. Before July 1st, 37%. And before June 1st, it's 16%. So, you know, obviously with Adam talking about what happened with UK, whether it's late or not, we don't know.

We do no progress as being made. Tom, go for it. Yeah, you know, we were talking about in New York City schools. World Talk, Number, Scream. How about some numbers? Here we go, but you don't have to add anything up, Vinny. Okay. I'm just going to ask you what you think about it.

Go. Because there's less students at the school, would there be more or less tax dollars flowing to them? Less tax dollars? Wrong. New York has decided. There's less students. So, guess that doesn't matter. It's a matter.

In most school districts, the amount of the... But even now. I might have hurt. Give him one time. Here we go. Here we go. In most school districts, what is the amount of tax dollars that are available from the population usually matches a number of kids. Kids are part of the population. So the amount of tax

dollars per child to fund the school is usually how it goes. In New York, they have gone from 31,100 per student five years ago to 42,000 a student now spending, which is higher than the national average. So guess what, Pat? You ready for this? They have not reduced the amount of spending on New York City schools, even though the number of kids are going down. Wait a minute, more spending per child. That must mean the grades are up. The teachers have more time to spend with fewer students. There's fewer students. They get more teacher attention.

Let's go look. Here we go. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh, no. High school graduation rate is at a 20-year low and had a two-point drop from the previous year. It's gone down further. Now it's barely 81% of kids will graduate in New York City.

Think about that, Pat. One in five kids in New York City will drop out. Boom. Take it on the lamb. Now then, but they said, wait, there's better scores for grades three per eight. Time out a minute. How is it possible there's better test scores for grades three through eight, but when they go from grade eight to 12, there's more of them dropping out.

It's 81% 20 year low. Why is all that? Oh, the state of New York from Empire Center data reduce the standards for the test to make the test look better. Ladies and gentlemen, New York City education. Wow. Is that not embarrassing when you look at that? Is that not embarrassing when you look at that with the data on?

You know what's the worst is when the data is not on your side, specifically in anything you do? When the number's not on your side, you're not happy. Let me get to this next story here, aside from New York City that we got going on. Next door I want to get to is another guy on the complete opposite side. Okay? On the complete opposite side, there's this guy named Gavin Newsom who's trying to sell you cheap diapers,

but try to find it in allegedly, try to do it in a way that it benefits his wife. And he's kind of like, you know, kind of in this little quagmire. I don't know how to what, what's the proper word to use here that he's. In a Conagmire? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's, he's kind of, you know. And so he's trying to kind of maneuver.

He's trying to, what's the word? You know. Dance? I don't know if it's a dance. Spin, tall. Turn himself into a press. He's trying to basically fix. Tiptoe.

Rob, do you have a clip on this on these diapers? Ricky Bobby, Shake and bake? Yeah, shaking. That's the better one. I like that. Shake and bake. So here's the shaking bake. master from California, who is the current governor.

He's hoping to become your president. He's hoping to become your president here very soon. Rob, go on and play this clip. I was so inspired when I was reading about these two remarkable people you see behind me. Rob, tell me, he gets right into it because it's two minutes and 48 seconds. By the way, he said he was reading. I thought he was dyslexic. That's a good point, Tom. Very good point, Tommy.

Did he want to play this one? Why don't you play the Steve Hilton clip first? Go for it. So Gavin Newsom is taking $20 million of your money to send 100,000 babies, 400 diapers. That works out at 50 cents per diaper. We just came into Target to check out what you could buy it for in the store. Here you go. Just check this one out here.

$162.22. That works out at $0.16 per diaper. Gavin Newsom's diapers are three times more expensive. Why is that, Steve Hilton? Why is it three times more expensive for Gavin Euston to send diapers to 100,000 babies? Then just leaving the money in the bank accounts of the parents in the first place because... We want to know. to some total bullshit non-profit,

which the cronies of his are going to make money, and that is what is wrong with California, instead of just cutting taxes so you can afford diapers and sending it out in this ridiculous bureaucratic scheme. Vinnie, what else do we know about these diapers? Who's benefiting from this? Well, thank you for asking, Pat. So, like he said, 100,000 babies, 400 diapers.

How about this? Just cut the taxes. Send people the money directly. Like, don't play this nonsense. IRS filings show Jennifer Siebel Newsom. paid herself. Oh, no. The First Lady of California? Yeah, that's her, Tom.

The pro-abortion cutting people, loving to kill babies. She paid herself and her company, $3.9 million from her so-called gender justice charity. About $1.8 million went to her salary, and another $2.1 million went to her profit film company making documentaries pushing into California public schools. And by the way, honestly, Tom, is anyone surprised?

Are any of you at home listening to this surprise? It's Gavin Newsom. It's like being shocked that a raccoon stole your garbage. That's what he's supposed to do. That's what they're supposed to do. All right? And everybody, it's just, Pat, he just exudes this fake identity, okay? And it's just driving me crazy because that's the model.

Everything is optics. Everything is branding. Everything sounds compassionate until you follow the money. And when you follow the money and they act like they care, it's cheaper at Costco. they're BSing you and it always comes out and he's always angry and it's always Trump and it's always Trump. No wonder why California is failing. No wonder why.

And by the way, the guy that runs that is also a donor. So the money goes to him and then we look at his federal FEC filings, federal election committee and to see where he filed, he was actually donating to the Newsom campaign, donating lots of money to Dems and it's like what? So this is the circle of life.

This is the same thing we've been hearing about. In diapers, I love the Steve Hilton walked into a regular target to just point out here's the price right here because words talk number scream and I love that they put that number in front of them. You know, it's interesting. I was a brand new dad once and buying diapers

is difficult. I walked down the aisle in there. There's one diaper. Pax said, up to 12 pounds. I got home and then Kim said, no, no, that's the weight of the child. I'm like, gosh, you only need a couple of those who got all summer covered. Adam. Look, we can

go on and on what's going on in New York City. We can go on and on what's going on in California. Right now, it's working to an extent why? Because they have the greatest distraction that any super liberal person could possibly ask for or super liberal government could ask for. And what's that distraction? It's Trump. While Trump is there, they always can double down on, but Trump, he's a fascist, he's a king, he's this,

they're always going to have that excuse. My question is, what's going to happen to these states when they no longer have the Trump scapegoat? when Trump is no longer here, and we all, I think, agree for the most part, Trump is doing a great job in his second term, certainly better than his first, what's going to happen to these big blue liberal cities when they no longer have Trump to blame? So it kind of, in a weird way, not to go off topic,

reminds me of what a lot of the Middle Eastern autocrats and dictators in Iran do regarding Israel. Don't worry about what we're doing our own people. Don't worry about our terrorism. don't worry about everything that we're doing wrong, subjugating our own people, but Israel. It's a great excuse. Unfortunately, it's kind of like with the Abraham Accords,

it's sort of being subdued a little bit in the Middle East. Now you have a lot of people basically being like, well, it's kind of really Iran. That's the problem. At the end of the day, when Trump leaves office, these big blue cities are going to take a long, hard look in the mirror, especially with people and be like, it's not even Trump anymore.

It's our leadership. And the question is, are they going to hold them accountable and vote in people who are going to go against the grain. That's why everybody's rooting for people like Steve Hilton, for people like Spencer Pratt, because they're not the typical leftist stooges that are just going to go along

with what they've always dealt. But thinking about it, if they win, they're good, but whoever wins on the Republican side, they're going to tie them to Trump. If it's Rubio or Vance or one of the top of them, you know what they're going to say? Oh, he's such a Trump. Trump's telling him. And by the way, that'll work to a certain appendix. Now, watch this. When he's

asked about the leading candidate for governor in California, uh, this is, This is his reaction, Rob. Can you play this? Go forward. Oh, boy, that's what. See, Daniel left right at the right time.

Unbelievable. That's good. I used to do that, too, as mayor. That's so bummed. I really have, I mean, cannot tell you how. I just haven't focused on that. I think I'm going to see Speaker Pelosi, though, shortly. Maybe she'll fill me in on an update on the race.

We'll be at. it's kind of weird It's kind of weird It's like he's mumbling at a cocktail Yeah He's kind of weird It's a basic question Do you endorse the guy

Now so maybe they're holding it off To do that at a big event And all this other stuff To have a spectacle And different kind of a showing But while this is going on in California There's a guy again Spencer Pratt

Rockstar, right Rockstar doing great things And his focus is like Look this isn't my Republican and Democratic policies It's just common sense I want to clean up the streets of LA That's what he wants to do right

And so he's out there being asked questions about the comparison of him and Mamdani. So the guy on the bottom actually asks a good question. A lot of people compare you in Mamdani because both of you guys are not politically, not ideology, but you guys are very good on camera, social media. And Pratt's answer was phenomenal. Go ahead, Rob. In the sense, your politics are obviously very, very, very different, but in the sense that you've really harnessed the power of social media to get your message out.

What do you think of that comparison? You know, the one thing I connect with is I know he promised his voters, like the subway will be free. And I'm promising my voters, the metro buses, the metro trains, they will be free from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks. So that's kind of similar. We both have three things for public transportation. You know, I think he connected with people because they felt like change. They wanted change. That message would never connect.

because we've already been doing the socialist experiment pretty much for six plus years and it's failed here in Los Angeles. So I think my message is why it's resonating on social media is it's the truth. It's authentic. It's from my heart. I didn't want to be a politician. I'm standing in what happened because of failed politicians. That's why I'm here. I don't want to be.

I want to go in and change LA. You have the clip where he's asked also in Adam, I'm going to come to you, the clip where he's asked about, you know, 20 years ago, is this it? Guys, you have this, he has a lot of moments. Okay. And by the way, if you go watch some of his old clips, he was used to being in fights all the time on camera. So he's accustomed to the market talking smack about him. I can't believe he's a jerk. He's a this.

He's at that. He's used to be in a poker, right? He's used to be in a poker and used to challenging others. But watch this situation where the lady's trying to ask a question saying, just 20 years ago, Spencer Pratt, you were A and watch his answer. Go ahead, Rob. What do you think, you know, you're known as a reality TV star? Do you think that that is in your campaign for Los Angeles mayor to run the biggest city in California? Is that a label that you embrace?

Is that hurtful to your campaign or does it help, you think? I mean, the reality, pun intended, is that was from 20 years ago. And if we look at what Karen Bass was doing 20 years ago, she was in Cuba learning how to make bombs with the people that would have been to go Bon Capitol Hill. So if we're looking at backgrounds, I'm pretty proud of what I was doing at 20 on radio television,

even though it was... Go back five seconds. Just look at her smile. Tell me if you recognize... Pause it, pause, pos it. Just look at her lips and tell me if you recognize that smile and what that smile. Can you zoom in on her smile, please?

Rob, are we able to do that or no? Yeah, hold on. Oh, man, if you can zoom in on that smile, Rob is a magician. He's going to find a way. Can you zoom in on the video? Yeah, the video. You can do it.

Okay, just watch it. Watch it. Go ahead, Rob. Go ahead. I'm pretty proud of what I was doing at 20 on reality television, even though it was, you know, I may not have been the most likable character. It was still TV versus trying to destroy America and going to Cuba 20 times and praising Fidel Castro. She didn't like that answer.

Against my opponent. My background's pretty strong. At least that beautiful blouse got a lot of recognition because it's actually nice. It's a nice blue and white that you have there. But, you know, it's a great point, right? What he's sitting there saying 20 years ago, I'm on reality TV. The other one was making bombs. Learning how to make bombs in Cuba.

Big difference, Adam, thoughts. Well, look, do you have that attack ad that the Democrat establishment put out on Spencer Pratt? I think this sort of sums up exactly what he said he will never go back and do anything with CBS. I don't know if you saw his beef with CBS. I'm talking about a labor act. Oh, I know. I know both of them. But this week, they've been trying to attack him in a big way.

Ultimately, and I'll just set it up for this. Do you have that, right? Everything that he's saying is complete common sense, where, you know, he basically said, you know, he wants to give everything free, Mom, Donnie, free groceries, free buses. I want free as well, free of stabbings, free him, you're free my homeless,

look at this attack ad where they try to paint him as some MAGA extremist when every single thing is just absolute common sense. Go ahead and check this. Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand.

new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out. Pratt thinks L.A. needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more. L.A. is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt. Does anybody think that L.A. is on the right track? Let's just be real here. Let's just be unbiased. It's unbelievable. You see what's going on. You know, you talk World's Talks, number scream. Rob, do you have the

voting with their feet picture that I sent you? Because we've seen this before. Nobody is moving to California. Very hardly. Here's the numbers. You've talked about words, talk about words, number,

scream, voting with your feet in your pocketbook. Look at these numbers right here. All the money, it says B, but that's really trillion. $2 trillion in wealth has gone to Florida, Texas, Arizona, and the Carolinas,

where he has almost $2 trillion of wealth that has left, if you scroll down to the bottom right, left the big three woke states, which is California, New York and Illinois. All Spencer Pratt is doing is be completely normal. And then the establishment wants to attack him and say,

this guy defends the police. What's wrong with him? This guy thinks unions are too strong, insane. This guy wants to treat our unhoused neighbors as if they're creating problems. He wants to clean up the city and they're victim and they're villainizing him for it. We're rooting for Spencer.

And Pat, this reminds me of in the movie Dune where the son is like questioning, if he wants to be, you know, he step up into the role. And the father, Duke, tells his son Timothy Chomlet. His name is, Paul. Shamelot, Shamalalat, whatever. He says, a great man doesn't seek to lead. He's called to it, and he answers.

And I think that's what's happening with Spencer Pratt. Right now, he's watching his city that he loves get destroyed with fake leadership, corruption, crime, homelessness, and incompetence to the point where regular people, not these fake, Gavin Newsome, cut out, carbon copy, fake. disingenuous and just disgusting human beings. He says somebody has to step up and we have to do it. And he has to do it. And that's what it is.

You don't try to be this leader pack. Sometimes you're called to it and you've got to step up. And I think he's doing it. Who's this? What's he saying here, Rob? This is, so Spencer Pratt filmed like an hour and a half interview with CBS. Oh, this is CBS, yeah. Yeah, where they took the footage.

And according to Spencer Pratt, CBS gave that footage to the campaign of Karen Bass that Karen Bass's campaign then used to chop up and create a negative attack at attacking Spencer Pratt. Go for it. Go ahead, Rob. After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades Fire, they clearly got the call. CBS,

film with me on my burnt-out lot for over an hour talking about crime, housing, affordability, things that voters care about. And they turned it over to Karen Bass's PR team to edit it into a comical five-minute hit piece with clips from the hills. They can't beat my ideas. They can't beat me in the debates,

so they got to try to turn my campaign into a side show. People are done with these skeezy political tricks. And I'm done with CBS. But it might be the local. It's got to be a local. Voters deserve to hear from their next mayor. There you go. Yeah, this is a different CBS for them to do it.

Yeah. So there you go. Listen, for those of you guys that are in L.A. And you want to see a change. Whatever you do, this is the part where it's not just talking. Go help. Go knock on doors. You want things to change?

It's going to require everybody. effort. Go talk to people. Go support him. If you want to see somebody like this come in instead of a Karen Bass, this is the part that people in LA, if you want change, you got to do your part. There's only so much he can do. There's only so much everybody else can do. Individually, people got to go out there knocking on doors, talking to people, and getting them to say, why don't we just give this guy a chance one time? Why don't we just give this guy a chance one time and see what happens, Adam. Just add one little addition. What they did was they put out a four-minute highlight reel sort of endorsing Karen Bass, essentially what it was. He called him out on their BS, and then 24 hours later they released the entire 28-minute interview. Some say it's a little too late, too little too late. But these are the little tricks of what's going on there to try to basically keep the Democratic. And this is how long left? Three weeks left? June 2nd it is, right? Unless it goes on a runoff till what, November or something like that time? Yep. Top two will go on a runoff in the November election, the same time they're electing a governor, unless someone on June 2nd gets 50.001.

Yeah, exactly. I don't know if you would pull up the couch. That's what they're saying she's got to drop out. Democrats are begging the socialist to drop out, and she hasn't yet. And there's allegations, and if you read on Reddit, you can find these. These were not in mainstream media, but what's being floated and discussed on Reddit is that they're offering, allegedly, there are forces offering Nithyram and say, hey, look, Look, we'll pay you, we'll give you this money, and then you can go take care of your donors. Go next time, but get out of the way. She'll probably do it. I don't know if you. So if that happens, but if that happens, remember, you know what that means?

It means the rumors and stuff that are on Reddit and other places. Some of those rumors are true, if that's what happened. I agree. And that would kill me. Do you think those rumors are true? Look, what they did, the Bernie Sanders and say. Do you think those rumors are true? Do I think those conversations are being had?

For sure. Damn straight they're being had. Of course they are. Yeah. Go ahead. They didn't have them in New York. We know what happened with that situation. They had him in South Carolina with Hillary Clinton.

And Bernie wouldn't move. He was stuck. So they screwed him. Yeah, that's right. If you could just go to the Cal She thing, I know it's not exactly. It's more odds than, than, but she's at 48%. Down from 51 over the past the weekend. So just break down with this is real quick.

But that's 17, Tom. That 17 goes to her, not to him. More than likely, yes. 80% that 17 goes to her, not to him. This is the upper bad. She's even more, probably 95% because she. She's the freak. Can I ask a question?

What is the Karen Bass pitch? What are they running on? What is she saying for people to go, you know what? I'm on board. Your resume is abysmal. What the hell? Is it just that brainwash, a following? A lot of it is identity politics.

That's insane. He's perceived as a white Republican man, even though it's not. Yeah, well, guess what? If that's your mentality, you've got to break your, your, that is the modern left. It's insane. That's what's going on here. Vinny. Cair and Bass is like.

Like Nethia Raman is like regular Coke. And Karen, socialism. And Karen Basque is, you know, diet Coke. Not Basque, Tom. Bass. Basque. Technically, according to Spencer Pratt, it's basura. Yeah.

Which means guards. So, look, I mean, if they keep continuing on double downing on these ridiculous policies of transgender, of this, all the identity politics stuff, that's going to benefit the right come. the general election for presidency, because those ideas may work in small pockets. They're not going to work at the highest level. You have to find a way to go more independent because independents are not with you. When Governor Westmore was here and we were speaking, out of everything that we talked about, do you know what's the one clip that went viral? It's me asking him, what would he do if his son came home and said, I want to transition.

And everybody started texting me and calling me, hey, can you come and comment on? is, do you want to say anything about this? I'm like, okay, listen, that's his position where he's at. But what's the point? He says, I'm not going to condemn him. He has to address this issue. Because this issue is not going to get him the independent voters. Neither will it for Newsom, neither will it for Prisker, neither will it for a lot of these other guys. By the way, you know Bob Costas is? Remember we saw Bob Costas at, we were at the Muhammad Ali Museum? That's right. Okay, would you put him as a liberal or conservative? How hardcore of a liberal is he?

He's so hardcore that there are stories of him getting into it with coworkers. There's a story with him that there is another, a Wall Street guy that lived in the same building. They ended up in a screaming match in a lobby. You dig deep enough. This guy is a hardcore liberal that has a big temper for a guy who's supposed on camera looks very smooth. As hardcore as he is. He's also common sense. As hardcore as he is, which I agree with you, as hardcore as he is,

this is the part that liberals simply don't want to touch. And watch what he says here, Rob. If you want to play this clip, this is on this girl's Trish Reagan's Instagram. Yeah, who is she with, by the way? I think she's independent now. She's independent now. Okay, she's very appealing to the eyes. Play this clip?

Go ahead, Rob. I think CNN expected this. Common sense is not transphobic. There's a reason why the high school champions don't compete with the college champions. There is a reason why no trans man who was once a woman and has become a man has ever competed successfully with men in the Olympics. If Caitlin Clark could play in the NBA, everybody would applaud it. That would be an incredible thing. But if the last guy on the bench of an NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging 40 points a game, everyone would know that is BS.

There's a reason why Sugar Ray Leonard, who was a contemporary of Mike Tyson, didn't fight Mike Tyson. They were in different weight classes. There was a reason why there are men's and women's sports. And why title 9 at 10 o'clock we were warned is going to take off. You can pause right there. Did you hear what he said? Yeah. He's a leftist.

Hardcore. Who is saying what the hell are you guys thinking about with this transgender stuff? This just makes no. And by the way, he continues. He doesn't even slow down. Yeah. Right. But if these politicians,

choose to keep playing this role. Guess what? Republicans. Independence are going to side with Republicans over Democrats on three issues that they don't want to mess with. And I'm so happy you brought up the transgender thing, especially with Westmore. Did you know this past week, remember the transgender guy in California, A.B. Hernandez competed in the girls' division and finished first place in multiple jumps, long jump.

He jumped 20 feet while the closest female athlete was more than a foot behind him. He also won the triple jump, okay? But that's before. Rob had to save the girl's sports protesters were outside. Even Martina Navratilova, Pat. She's on the other side as well. She was blasting Gavin, okay? And along what Nancy Hawks said.

And back, if you just, just to show you guys, a lesbian, by the way. Martina Navaritova is a lesbian who is standing up against the transgender. Oh, her and I went out at it once on Twitter. Not in life. She went out of once on Twitter. But just really, she's not your type. Just really, really quick.

Guys, do you realize how many? negative stories we have that we're probably not even going to get into on California alone. Talking about the politicians, openly talking about permanent wealth tax confiscations, taxpayer-funded diaper programs, biological males dominating in girls' sports, San Francisco store allegedly are selling meth during a massive drug crisis, businesses, well, everybody's leaving.

Everything about California is negative, Pat. Every single thing, and they have a chance right now with Spencer Pratt. You have a chance with Steve Hilton. Guys, please don't fall into the stupid mindset of, well, I'm loyal to my party. What the hell does that even mean? Wake up. Wake up. As much as you're preaching to the choir here, I think what Pat said is probably the most important thing.

This stuff does work locally or even in your state. But when you get to the next level in a general election, this is where it all crumbles. If you remember what the most impactful ad was during the election, I think Charlie Kirk helped actually do this. Rest of peace, Charlie, was when Trump said, you. in that ad, he goes, Kamala's for they, them, Trump is for us. By the way, if you use a they them ad in California, they're applauding, a national electorate, they're basically booing, just understand your audience, right?

So it works there, it doesn't work in the big scheme of things. And you know what this leads to? This leads to until I go to the, I want to really going to the Costco story, but this leads to this. Who's the one person on the left that I've been saying has a shot at 2028 running? AOC. Okay, so watch this. She does an interview. Okay, and there's a couple things that comes up.

One, Rob, if you can go to the one that she doesn't deny speculation of 2028 presidential run. She's no longer fighting it and even playing politics to say, well, no, not really. It's not for me. I just want to focus on New York City and the boroughs. This is what my focus is. This is what she had to say when she was asked about running for president. Go ahead, Rob. When you aren't attached, right?

when you haven't been like fantasizing about being this or that since the time you're seven years old, it is tremendously liberating because I get to wake up every day and say how am I going to meet the moment. And conditions change radically all the time. So I make my response less to an attachment to some positional, like, you know, title or position, and working backwards from there. But I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window, and observing the conditions of this country, and saying, what move or what decision can I make today that is going to get closer to that future, stronger, faster, better, than yesterday.

She dances around the question pretty much the entire three minutes. I think I just got bummer. They assume, this is what she said. They assume that my ambition is a title or seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. President's come and go. Elected officials come and go.

But single-payer health care is forever. She continues, and she told Axelrod that she tailors her political ambitions to meet the moment. Conditions change radically all the time. So I make my response less to an attachment personal title case. And what a move to make the decision that I'm going to get closer to that future, stronger, better than yesterday, she continues.

So she's hinting on what she's going to happen. While she's doing this, there was a question. She was doing a podcast about being a billionaire. Do you remember that whole exchange with that one girl? Where they're both sitting there. Not this one, Rob, it's a different one, I think. Horrible.

Do you know which one I'm talking about? Oh, it's great. And how the founding fathers were somehow billionaires that were being fought against. Rob, is this the one on this story? AOC claims American Revolution was fight against billionaires. as critics school her on that actual history. Do you want to play that clip real quick?

Go ahead, Rob. I want to talk about how this is in the heritage of our country because America was founded. You look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of the, their time. And we are declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power and the

state that the voices of the everyday people. Robinhood was against the billionaires. No, Robinhood was against high taxes and the government taking money away from them. But the reality, you can pause right there out. The reality of it is this is a very formidable candidate. It is. And then she's doing this podcast, Rob, I know you have it.

She's doing this podcast with this other girl. They're like, billionaires this and billionaires that. Oh, yeah. And the other girl keeps saying, that's right. Yeah. And so who knows what this is going to lead to, but the reality of it is she is a formidable candidate for 2027, 2028. There was a podcast, Rob, it was.

I'll pause here while we're going through it. That's the one right there, Rob. Go for it. Watch this, folks. There's a certain level of wealth and accumulatory. that is unearned, right? You can't earn a billion dollars. That's right.

You just can't earn that. That's exactly correct. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they're worth. But you can't earn that, right?

And so you have to create a minimum. that since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it. There's a certain level of what. Tom, I'm going to come to you first with AOC. Go ahead. Look, this is an incredibly formidable candidate. I could sit here and pick on her and play and play, you know, ding dong bingo, right? A6, B6, you know, C-22, D-19. Bingo, we have a winner.

And pick on it that way, but I'm not going to. What I'm going to point out. I love it. What I'm going to point out. This is the most skillful communicator because there are people in there. You look at that clip there. There are people out there that we're listening to That's right that feel the same way because they're destitute or because they're struggling or because something's wrong in their life. And they believe that that voice is representing a solution in a way out and somehow cares for them.

They don't understand that there's no spreadsheet behind what she's saying, meaning that there's no budget or there's no long-term. term corrective fix in what she's saying. But people are listening to this very formidable communicator, this very telegenic person, this person that presents herself female, ethnic, and all the things that go with it, which are things that we should be celebrating in America about the diversity of everywhere we are. And it's diversity of people, but then merit on achievement. And instead, she sits there and she does like this. And what worries me, Pat, is that is a really formidable candidate. I'm going to make a comparison. Everybody's going to attack me. But remember, go through history. It says,

forget about World War II and what he did. Mussolini came to power promising to make the trains run on time, among other things. Now, forget all the other allies and everything he had. But think about that simple promise he was trying to make to the Italian people at the time. Hey, man, things are so bad. Tell truth, we'll start simple. I'll make the trains run on time. And that's who she is in this telegenic, absolutely amazing campaigner that I think people should be joking about less and figuring out how to

counter her and the people that are listening to her more. I'm not buying it, man. I understand why people make the argument that she's a formidable competitor. I understand. So, you know, she's very big on social media. For a politician, she's a, you know, a 10, but in real life

she's a 6. I mean, not to go down that path. They look at her like she's some incredible person because she's more attractive than all the other politicians. But what are her policies? What does she stand for? She's living in the the wokenest, leftist district in Brooklyn. She's underqualified. She's unprepared. And if she gets on a debate stage versus a Marco Rubio, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Talk about being qualified. Again, I get why people want to play that game. But regarding the billionaires, I'm so sick this, you remember when you did the debate in Jubilee and you had to make your, you said, my assertion is the following. And you said, billionaires are great for society. And then you

went through the societies that have the most billionaires and the societies that have the least billionaires. And if you just look at the math here, it's not even close. United States here, obviously China's second, which uses capitalism and then has communism to basically spread the wealth. But if you look at a map of South Korea versus North Korea, I mean, like the the conversation's over. Why? Because billionaires create jobs and opportunities and billionaires. And then millionaires,

they create jobs and opportunities. They create thousandaires. But when there's no millionaires and there's no billionaires, everyone's just equally poor. So if you're just solving for equity, where we're all in the same place, poor as hell, vote for AOC. And that's the biggest problem. That she just does not respect capital. And it's scary because it's like

the, Tom, pointing out her, you know, she's not stupid. but she's not the brightest person in the room. When she's like, you know what, the world's going to end if we don't change climate change and what? What was it six years or whatever? Well, Bernie Sanders said that and I tweeted this weekend. I said, you know, we're all dead.

Yeah, no, you're right. We're supposed to be dead. And I understand the fact that she's formidable in the sense of the social media and she's out there and she's attractive and she's that person. But again, the policies that these people want, it has never worked. It never worked. This socialist, communist attitude.

Look at mom. She is the mom dani. You want to see what you want, you want your country to look like New York, then vote for these people. And don't do this stupid identity politics. Well, we need a few,

we just need, I'm with her. I'm with Hillary, one of the most corrupt people out there that cost the lives of Americans in Benghazi. But it's who, I'm with her. She's a good,

who cares. Compared to Hillary. I mean, no, she's a state woman. She makes Kamala Harris looks like a genius. She makes

Hillary Clinton look like Albert Einstein. Like there's different levels to this. Okay, by the way, if you notice, what did she say? What reference did she say? The American Revolution is the king. Whose name did she use? Jefferson. Jefferson and Madison.

So when's the last time you've heard her use phrase Jefferson to try to teach us history? When's the last time you've seen? I've never heard of saying. Okay, but why do you think you're hearing it? Because she's trying to sound more presidential. Because people behind closed doors are working with her saying, Read this book, read that book, read this, study this, study that, study this because you're going to go up against Marco Rubio.

This was a great glimpse of somebody who is prepping to run for president and they're learning history, okay? Prepping. There's a big difference, Adam, between prepping and winning. I watched Rubio the other day. He's at a hearing and he's being asked a question about, you know, this lady says, you have this job, you have that job, you have this job. are you really the National Security Advisor Council, whatever the NACs, said NAC National Advisory case, so he said, and you're the secretaries, and you're this. And are Whitkoff and Kushner talking to you?

Are they dealing directly with the president and you're not even involved? He says, no, I talk to Whitkoff, and he says, let me answer this question because it's a very good question you're asking me. And you just watch the way he handles himself and he educated. The role that this job plays is this. It depends on portfolio to portfolio on what happens on who communicates with who. But I talked just the way he educates. Good luck debating against a guy like that.

But I do think watching her, like when I go to Dylan pick the team he's going to. It took a couple months. We don't need to make the announcement what team it is. But he picked the team that he's going to. Okay. So you know what happens when I go to these tryouts? I'm like, I remember that kid. Let me see how much he's improved.

He's gotten taller, but he's the same as it was two years ago. I remember that kid. My God, he's gotten better. So I go talk to the parent. What have you guys been doing? Then I'll go look at that kid. I'm like, oh, he's still silly. Then I'll go look at that kid.

I'm like, he's put on weight. Then I'll go look at that kid. I'm like, my God, that guy just got faster all of him. He said, pull it. Look at this guy. Look how much of a speed that he has, right? You have to watch what talent is doing. AOC is realizing there's a difference between Miami.

a difference between New York City and national, she has to get these things right, and she's prepping for it. And, you know, win or loss, I don't know, but she's not going to be one that's going to be, listen. There was a lot of people on the establishment that wanted Andrew Cuomo. There's a lot of people in the establishment wanted Andrew Cuomo. But guess what happened? Mamdani fought it, and what happened to Mamdani?

He won in what city? New York City, of course. So, again, big difference, big different game. She has a higher likelihood of replacing Trump. Chuck Schumer or something like that in New York. And that's still even statewide. We'll see if that happens. And we're glossing over the fact that she said billionaires during Thomas Jefferson. What that's what year is that?

1776. There's no bill. The word billionaires didn't even come about like Rockefeller was the first billionaire in 1900. What the hell does she even talk about? She's making the comparison. She's trying to say that the billioners of today are based as a king of the poor. It's like socialist. Love the movie Robin Hood.

Yeah. Always remember what was the movie Robin Hood about? Was it taken from the wealthy and giving it to the poor? No, it was not. Who was the king in Robinhood? King George. And what would he do? Well, it was a feudal system.

They would basically tax the people and basically they didn't have to do anything. Exactly. It was not about the wealthy. It was about the government overtaxing people. Actually, that is about socialism and high taxation and what it does in a government tries to keep the promises and they don't. It's got nothing to do with millionaires and billionaires. You're absolutely right. It's a bunch of bullshit.

You're absolutely right. Because they had all the money. The king had all the money. The government had the power. It's like, no, give it to the people. It wasn't like they were stealing from the Bezos in the most of the world. They were still from the government. Let's go to the next one.

Let's go to the next one. So my Dems are trying to revise history. And those books that we give the kids in school. Let's go to Costco. Rob, Costco. I know it's not in one of the stories that we have. But Costco's coming up predicting recessions around the corner. And the reason why they're predicting recessions around the corner is based on one

buying habit that you and I have. And you know what the buying habit is? Let me read it to you. By the way, not just in the current recession or concern for recession, And historically we've always seen some, like within fresh protein we've seen, we've always seen when there's a recession, whether it was 99, 2009, 2009, 08, 10, we would see some sales penetration shift from beef to poultry and pork. And we have seen some of that now.

I think anecdotally, I heard a few months ago from our head of food and sunrides buyer that we saw some switch even to some canned products like canned chicken and canned tuna. and things like that. This is Costco CFO, Richard Galante, saying the fact that we are not buying enough beef and we're going to chicken and pork. Tom, do you agree with what they're saying here on the fact that we may be in the beginning

of a possible recession? Well, I think possibly. And Costco would know because these things are shifting. And I think there was a comment that was made by the McDonald's CEO last year when he wasn't inventing new burgers and having videos that criticize him for the way he bit a burger.

He was talking about that people were leaving fast casual like Applebee's, Red Robin, and Chili's, which costs this much for lunch and coming back to McDonald's. So there was things that are happening there that you see the trends. What's interesting here, we have to remember that beef was up 17.6% that I found it earlier this year. And with that increase, there was also they were talking about the herds were small. So the supply of beef was low, driving the price up. So do we see, there it is, 17% over 17. It was 17.6, 17.

I love it when I remember the right number. So there you have it. And so people are shifting from that protein to chicken or even canned chicken. Now, could two things be true at once, Pat? I think there are. Beef was up, cost of buying groceries was up. People shift to chicken, lower cost, A. and B, right now the cumulative impact of the long-term Biden inflation and the fact that wages have not kept pace the right even or even a little lower than CPI means that people are struggling and they're looking, especially when you look at fuel and maybe looking to conserve the home budget.

I think both can be possible, but beef was already expensive with seeing a little shift away since the beginning of the year. Adam. Well, there's no economic data that says that the recession has. The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive orders of negative GDP. Which Biden never followed. Unless you're under Biden, then it's, yeah, they reword it during the moment. I will say you can always pick out sample sizes like this. There is something earmuffs called the stripper index. You're familiar with this?

The stripper index is basically saying, you piqued your interest, buddy. It's all about discretionary income. is before the market and the number and the data, before the toms show up and be like, bebo, bebo, beep, it affects regular people. You're the numbers guy. So the party money, the fund money, the discretion of money, the stripper money,

the make it rain money, when strippers are like, yeah, I only made $100 bucks tonight or $50 tonight. But yeah, six months ago, dude, I took $1,000 home. All right, when the strippers start feeling it, that's a problem. Because men were stupid with their money a lot of times, right? Women are spending their money on makeup

and doing the things like that. men of discretionary money, bars, clubs, strippers, whatever. You know, this thing. So when they start feeling it, that's a problem. And based on my sources, credible sources, the strippers haven't felt it yet. Vinnie. Well, I don't even know what the, that's, you get to call Diamond right now and find out of Diamond is not doing well.

So there you go. We'll see what it happened here. Next story I want to get to is a data center. 62 square mile data center is being built in Utah. People are not happy about it. Kevin O'Leary was there, but while this has happened, just to give you some fun fact, on how big 63-square miles,

it's three Manhattans. Manhattan is 23-score miles, and at the same time, while this is taking place, you have to hear what the sounds like. I don't want to give you a sound yet. Let's first go to this, Rob. Is this the town hall? Yep, they get right into it. Okay, go for it.

Concern and outrage in Utah. Hell Sakes, Grow up. Where hundreds of protesters this week flooded this meeting of Box Elder County Commissioners. Can you be quiet and let our citizens hear what needs to be said, please? As they voted to move forward with a controversial data center proposal, backed by celebrity Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary. Hello, Sharks. Known as Mr. Wonderful on the hit show, Shark Tank. You should do this deal. You have no risk. Just saying yes.

O'Leary firing back at the protesting criticism in this video posted on social media after the vote. I'm pretty aware of what these concerns are. They are around. water use, heat. Sustainability is at the heart of what we do in terms of all these proposals. We're not just Utah. The Stratus Project is a plan to build a 40,000 acre development near Utah's Great Salt Lake, boosted by government tax incentives. And according to a county fact sheet,

is eventually expected to generate and consume up to nine gigawatts of power once completed. A number MITA, the state entity backing the project, says is more than double Utah's average energy consumption. That's the concern. Data centers of the old have a bad reputation. They gobble up a lot of water. They use up your power. And then when they're all built, they don't employ many people.

This is not that. Power's usage is completely self-contained. The project's potential environmental impact sparking much of the outrage. We're losing land. We're losing water. We're losing air quality. This has the footprint. Can pause the right?

Can you show the audio? This is actually a very good. video. Can you show the audio of what it sounds like, what these things sound like? Is this going to be the same exact one, Rob, or which data center is this that's making this sound? Do we know? I'll find out what data center this. Yeah, let's find out which data center that's from. Go ahead, Rob. Sounds like a plane taking on. The C-5. Yeah. Is that really what it sounds like? That's outside. Go in the comments section. I'm just curious on where this is. Texas Virginia, what is it say? Texas and Virginia are currently leading the way with data centers.

Go a little bit lower to see what the audience is saying. Go a little bit lower. I'm just wondering if other people are saying this is what it sounds like. That one, Pat is in Vineland, New Jersey. I had a data center that size as a client. It sounded nothing like this. In fact, it didn't sound like anything. What is making that noise?

Jet engines, that's exactly what I said, because I don't think that's what it sounds like. At positive mindset of a relinquency data to China, we should solve the self-inflicted. Go a little bit lower. Let's see what she says. They use different forms. of electric power. Some are even using gas turbines. Don't argue would body counts go a little bit lower? What is in point of this? Keep going a little bit lower. Can we find out where that is, Rob? I looked it up, Pat, and it says the data center in this video is Vineland, New Jersey,

Cumberland County, South Jersey, large Microsoft-backed AI Data Center facility. And is the sound coming from that? Can we find out if Grock or somebody can verify where that sound is coming from? And I asked, Pat, is this what they sound like? She said, yes, That's exactly what large AI data centers sound like, especially when they're running heavy cooling systems or backup on site power generation. The warring humming in New Jersey, it's similar, massive arrays of cooling fans,

air handling units and cooling towers. Noise characteristics at a distance, half a mile like many violent homes. Meet your neighbor or giant data center. Okay, this is what I want to see. If this is real, I mean, what are we talking about if this is real? Play this rap? That's loud.

That's loud. That is loud. But again, nowadays, I mean, you have to... By the way, can you do me favor? In the comment section, who lives by an AI data center and how bad is it? You know, if you're actually right next to it right now, post a video right now with a link, send it to us on X. A bunch of you guys are tweeting at me, at Patrick by David, post it at on X and say, this is what it sounds like right now if you're close to a data center. Tom, your thoughts?

So data centers are getting a bad name, earning a bad name, but there's so much that we could be doing better about it. For instance, water usage, that's the one I look at because I think some of these data centers make this noise, but I think other data centers are quiet unless they turn on the backup power. And the backup power are these enormous diesel engines. If you've ever heard a hospital do, you hear a little siren, and then the hospital does a power outage test, and you hear them fire up, the big generators are outside. It's loud, but that's the backup. I want to know is what does the sound actually coming from the data center and, you know, how are they creating the power for the data center and what are they doing about water? I thought it was very, very funny, a data center in Atlanta, Pat, you'll love this. they sucked up 30 million gallons of water

until there was outrage because people were calling City Hall. I know what they were asking? I'm trying to take a shower and the water pressures down. And so they go, let's figure it out. So the city literally sent out people to go look at it. It was Annalise Park in Fayetteville, Georgia, about 20 miles south of Atlanta. Vinnie are going to love this.

They found out that one water connection had been installed without the city utility's knowledge. and the other was not linked to the company's account. Therefore, they weren't being billed for the water. Now, they cleaned everything up, and they found out that the people that built it were trying to get it done, and they did some things they shouldn't have done. And so quality technology services paid back Atlanta, $150,000 for the water,

and they got it all back together. But the point is the usage of water, I think, is bigger. Because power, if they'll just force them to make, and this is where I keep saying, Mr. President, Mr. President, get the nuclear power permits out so they could put a Gen 5 small reactor at the data center to provide power for the data center. And then if you have a local problem like tornadoes or power grid goes down in some areas, you reduce the power, you brown out the data center and you switch it so that the nuclear reactor sends the power to the grid. Now, the water side of this, this is a big issue. It's like, where's the water going to come from and how do we recycle it because they need all the cooling stuff?

And so I think some of this, Pat, data centers deserve the rap they're getting. I want to see a survey just like you're asking about which data centers are making noise. Because my understanding is they can be built quiet except for the backup diesel generators and you can be self-sufficient on water and power. But guess what? the industry and its hunger to get these things built, they're not communicating or they're not designing them, and they're getting people, righteous citizens coming to City Hall, asking them for answers the way we've seen in these. These are not crazy people.

Some of them are crazy, no data centers at all, but other people are just saying, hey, what's the plan to keep my electricity going up? So the reason for this, these sounds of jet engines, multiple cities of people have filed lawsuits and complaints against these data centers because they're using these big, machines. Cool. The GPU's electricity, cooling airflow, which facilities chips from Nvidia like the H-100s, B-200s, and GB-200 systems. And then while they're building up these racks, the 50-kil-watt, 100-kil-watt, even 150, they're using giant fans to cool off. Oh, man. And that sound is like the AC sound you hear. Like, you know how you have the AC

on, you hear it? In some places, they can make it even a little bit less quiet. But no matter what, even at close range, it says the combined low-frequency roar can resemble airport tarmac noise, a large warehouse turbine, or distant jet engines. And the cities that AI campuses, residents are complaining is Phoenix, Dallas, Ashburn, Memphis, and it's not slowing down. So it is a real thing that that noise exists. Rob, this is another one that you just pulled up. If you want to play this, go forward.

So this is comparable to the data center that is going to be built over. in the Bertram chain of lakes. The guy from Schenelle Properties told me to come and check out this data center. Wow, that's bad. I'm hoping that my phone is capturing that noise. It is. It is actually significantly loud. That's what happens in my ears in my sleep.

Well, imagine I'm working inside. Like, imagine in there. Okay, it didn't get any better. Adam thoughts. Look, this is an important question that I think we're going to have to have a conversation with, but I think there's precedent here that everything is going to work out. The first question I asked myself is, are we going to need data centers in America? Yes. We're going to need them, yes?

If we want to compete in the modern world, the modern economy. You don't do it the enemy will. So you get to pick and choose. They're already doing it. So to me, it's a non-starter saying we can't have data centers in America. It's going to happen. The question is how close to the thing? be from towns. We have case

examples of here. We can't live near nuclear plants or power plants. We don't live near landfills. Not many of us live near airports. I know that we're ironically behind on an airport right now. But they're going to figure out a rule where you know, and local towns and

municipalities and states are going to figure this out. Data centers can't be within X amount of miles from town centers or from where the people are. If you're living out in Tunbuktu in the middle of nowhere, sorry, buddy, that might affect you. But the reality is we're going to need data centers, you know, who controls data and AI is going to control the future. We're on a fight with China and a lot of our enemies out there.

And if it's going to affect some people's hearings, you might have to move. They might not have to build the data centers right there. But at the end of the day, data centers are good for society, good for the economy. And just you might have to put on some earmuffs like an old school. Tom, do they have to be next to the place that's using the, like it can't be like, you know, You know, when you're driving to Vegas, Pat, they had that outdoor solar panel field, and it feeds all the way to... You can put the data center wherever you want it. You know, you need water and you need energy.

And energy, you know, I'm on record saying that we should accelerate the nuclear permits so they can have small reactors on site. But if the cooling systems are still this loud, man, there is an opportunity somewhere for an entrepreneur to figure out how we can get... They will. Exactly. They will. They will. Number one. And number two, we've got to figure out the water.

If they're using water for cooling, and they're just, you're saying, hang on a second. Something tells me an entrepreneur is going to figure this out and tell these data centers to quiet down. Yeah, but listen, when you're living close to it, what is the most, here's a question to ask you, what is the most disturbing living situation you ever had that the average person wouldn't understand it unless they experienced it?

Go ahead. What was it for you? Vinnie snoring. No, I'm being serious. What is the most disturbing? I live in an apartment complex in North Hollywood, And Pat, when I tell you, there were studio apartments. I was living upstairs, downstairs.

You heard everything. Every single noise you heard. Any upstairs, downstairs, anybody arguing, whatever, my downstairs neighbor, this dude moved in. Pat, the first day he moved in, I woke up and just walked to the bathroom and he was, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then started blasting music to, like, get back to me. And it was a fight. It was a constant fight because, I'm like, it's not my fault that you moved into an opponent. I was there for four years.

you're coming to where I live and you can't stand like just walk, regular walking and it was like where I was trying to fight him because there was a pool in the middle. You know the studio apartments in North Hollywood? It was horrible, Pat and then thank God I got online. Let me tell you something.

Have you ever lived in a major city? Like I never lived in New York and I spent a lot of time there. Any major city, it's loud as hell. Any major city, construction going on. This at the other 24th city, the city never sleeps. A lot of the people that are complaining are out in, you know, Wichita.

hands is whatever. They're not used to any noise. And all of a sudden, like, these are the people complaining. You talk to any person in any major city, New York City, anything like that. They're like, dude, this is an everyday thing. Yeah. Tom. The worst living condition, right after I got out of college, rented a house with some other people, that was all good. But on the same street, you know, all of a sudden, you know, sirens in the middle of the night, and you go on there, and there's five people laying on the front lawn in handcuffs and everything and you find out that

they built a kitchen, you know? They were building, it was like a, and that they had tapped into the to the power line and were, you know, running all that power and lights and stuff in there. And so it's like, wow. What do you mean? Like a meth?

No, they were, yeah. Cooking meth. It was everything. You're like your Walter White. They were, they were cooking meth. And then the entire, the entire garage was hydropos. was hydroponic pot with all these lamps in it.

And it was, this is in West Hills, Kenoga Park near the Sherman Way. And now everybody was really, everybody was like concerned about traffic in that street for the next year. And we were right. People learn more about him. It's not your fault.

No, what do you mean he's not his fault? He's Walter White. He's literally, Tom. What do you think his money comes from? How do you think he made all the money he made? Jesse. I mean, I walked down to the guy and I said, say my name.

Tom, you killed you killed. You killed. And he said, He said, Heisenberg, and he says, you're right. And then they left. All right. Let's go to the next story. Okay. So, but the point is, if you ever, like, for us, we're on the airport here, 11 acres, literally, we have to get an update saying today in F-18, a plane is taken off. Every day, it's plane taken off. And I actually don't mind it. I love it. Does it bother you? Like, does it at all? No, it's quick. Think about it when these planes take off? Well, yeah. I mean, it's loud as hell. But, you know, you live and you learn from a military. I love it. It's probably because we're military. I love it. And also, what we hear doesn't come through as much as we think.

It's there, but it's not like, if you're listening to the podcast, it's not a huge thing. All, let me get to the next story. Trump calls Iran's response to a U.S. proposal to end war, totally unacceptable. This is a BBC story. Tom, Rob, I think you got a tweet or something on that to read. Iran's semi-official Sunni news agency said to Iran's proposal sent via Pakistan, which has served as a mediator, included an immediate end to the war on all fronts, a halt to U.S. naval blockade, and guarantees of no further attacks on Iran,

a ceasefire meant to facilitate talks to end the war, launched by the U.S. and Israel in February, has been largely observed in despite occasional exchange fire. So while this has taken place, here's what the president had to say. This is the tweet that came out. I have just read the response from Iran's so-called representative. I don't like it, totally unacceptable. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Tom, how much, how much, how much,

progress is being made right now because the president, Pezchian, from Iran, did not directly reference to the proposal, but said, we will never bow our heads before the enemy. And if talk of dialogue or negotiation arises, it does not mean surrender or retreat. Trump posted on Truth Social. I've just read the response. And Trump also said they can call us. No one's calling us. They can call us. So Trump is saying, if you want to do something, you can give us a call, and they're not saying at any time, they're going to start losing money to be able to pay their military personnel, their government personnel, and then when they do, they're going to get desperate. But you hear different stories. Tom, your thoughts.

We've been waiting for Iran to respond as a rational actor and get desperate now for three weeks. They haven't because they're not a rational actor. And you've got things like the British over the weekend said that they were going to send a frigate to the Gulf to help with the safe passage of ships. Did you see that, Pat? Yeah. They're like, even the British are saying, okay, we're going to send a ship and we're going to join you to create a, a safe passage patrol here. Price of oil today went back up three bucks.

Now we're back up to $98.33. And the closer we are to $100, the more I feel like, you know, we're not getting there. And the, that's futures, Rob, go WTI. And on the other side of it is you've got him openly saying nobody's calling us. Yeah, 9729. So almost 9833 on the other side. So here we are back to 9750, 98 for oil. And he said nobody's calling.

And so I hope that means that Whitkoff is talking. But look at who is trying to help. Pakistan sends a message. Hey, Mr. President Trump, will you please look at this? If that's truth, then that's the way it happened. And then the British saying, hey, we'll send a ship. Seems like everybody else is saying, can we get moving here? Can we get this fixed?

But we're sitting there, you know, every day. saying, listen, we don't like what that, we reject that. And, boy, if you keep this up, they'll be held to pay. How long is that circle? That just seems like we're spinning a circle right there. It's kind of frustrating. Well, we're going to be playing the weight in the game a little while longer on Iran because I don't see this situation ending anytime soon.

So you're saying the short-term pain isn't going to be short-term. It's long-term pain for the long-term game. Why? Because the biggest thing that's going on in the world this week is Trump's about to go meet with she. And there's going to be two major conversations with Xi. And one of them is regarding Iran. Because believe it or not, this is hurting China's economy worse than it's hurting America's economy. We don't get any oil or goods that the Strait of Hormuzi.

China gets all that and then some from the Strait of Hormuz. So if you're Iran and you have no problem being the world's bad guy, you don't care about your people. Your people are basically broken penniless and starving for food and water. and they don't care. If you're willing to terrorize the entire world, just imagine what you're going to do to your own people. So I don't think anything's going to happen this week.

Continue to pay a little bit more at the pump. And let's see what the outcome of this Trump-She meeting is, when one of the cornerstones is what do you want to do with China. And maybe Trump and Xi figure something out, diplomatically speaking. But Iran is not breaking yet in the terms of that they're willing to concede to an agreement. because why would they? They don't care. They're willing to die on this hill. And as long as they survive, they feel like they've won.

So don't expect any news anytime soon. I think there's a high likelihood after this Trump meeting if there's nothing established that they go out and do something militarily. Because right now it's just economically. I think there's the... China does something military? No, no, no.

That the United States does something again militarily, whether it's Karg Island, whether it's going out and taking out more people or more things, setting a precedent. But I just don't, I don't think that taking out people worked. They thought taking out all these leaders, I just felt like Trump was, I don't know, I don't know, like the misconception of just taking out these guys, because Adam, once the one's gone, the next one's coming up. It's just like Tom Bennett Perfect.

This is just going to be a cycle that's going to keep on members. As I agree with you, there are certain people. Like, so for instance, the 20 nuclear. scientists that they took out that basically were spearheading their entire nuclear program. You take these guys out? Yeah, you got a problem. Because still the cornerstone of all their

negotiations, everything, is the nuclear thing, the enriching uranium. You take out their basically nuclear capacity to enrich and their scientists. Yeah, I'd say that makes a major difference. I agree with you on the Ayatollah, now they got the gay parent and son or whatever. I agree. The IRGC is still

there. What is it called? The Bastille. What is it called? Yeah, I look, I don't know all the stories behind. So this is my feedbacks coming based on pure podcast or pundit thought, just my ideas on what I'm saying. You know what the challenge is now, Vinnie, is when you were there attacking and we were playing offense and the temperature was super high and the anger towards the president was very high

and the Republicans was very high, and then we went ceasefire to try to lower the temperature and be able to figure something out. Pakistan obviously doesn't have any influence over Iran for Iran to want to negotiate, and nothing's happening with Pakistan where they call them and say,

hey, let's figure something, let's do something. So Pakistan, to me, is not an influential player here. I agree. They're just the influence who say, we're holding a meeting at Islamabad. What a great name. So they're just being a facilitator, but you're not a facilitator,

that has any influence because Iran's not listening to you. So me, from the U.S. standpoint, I would look at that. Number two, what you were doing, you were creating pressure. There was tension. There was uprising. If you have to restart that again, you're now going back to the level of hates you had four weeks ago, five weeks ago, six weeks, whatever the timeline was when we were actually playing offense and attacking and doing certain things.

if you don't this tweet of every single time totally unacceptable totally this totally that you know if it's Trump's playbook of hey he kept hitting boats there was drugs on that boat

Venezuela he kept hitting boats he kept hitting boats not acceptable and then also middle of the night hey surprise we got Maduro oh shit okay so they've been working behind closed doors so if I'm a betting man behind closed doors they're working on something that the average person does not know

about. What that something is, I don't know. But if they have to go back to attacking again, Vinnie, they never needed a stop. If you're choking them, it's kind of like, remember that one fight where the guy has them? By the way, great UFC card. Shout out to Strickland for winning the way he did. But you know how sometimes you have a person and you see the guy backing off and then he ends up losing? Like you have the guy. We recently, a UFC fight in Miami, the guy's killing him with the kicks. The guy tears this, I don't know what he tore on it. It looked like it. Poor's knee. and then he's like just plain relax he could have finished a fight and the guy knocks him out and it's over so i feel like u.s. may be doing that and if you have to get back in i don't think it's going to be

a good look if they get back in there because now he's remember he delayed the meeting he was supposed to have with g and march now they're doing it this wednesday rob i think you said wednesday yep and he's going in there with what victories what is he going in there with because one of them was trump was trying to do a 10% tariff did you guys see the 10% tariff thing that was a Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional because he came out and said, you know, where is that on the unconstitutional? Yeah, there it is. Donald Trump's 10% global tariff ruled illegal by U.S. court. Illegal by U.S. court. That 10%, you know, who is he playing that against?

Most likely China and others. So now you mean to tell me that the courts this quickly said no. So if they're taking all his leverage cards away, now what is he going to be going in there with? He's got to go there with something. He's got to go there with something. So while BB was being interviewed on this, was it the 60 minutes, Rob? Or what interview was it? 60 minutes.

He was asked about the question of the China provide some military weapons to Iran. And it was the only thing while he was being interviewed, he said, I'm going to keep my mouth closed. Because you know, Mossad knows if China gave him anything. What do you think of other chances that Mossad knows exactly what weapons? 100%. Okay. So now watch it. This was the only part that he was a little bit uncomfortable. Go ahead, Rob. Do you really want to have a fanatic regime with nuclear weapons that is committed to Islamist revolutionary revolutions?

That's what Iran's constitution says. We're committed to export the Islamist's revolution. So China should think about. Because it's apparently doing it right now. Could be. I don't want to speak for China. I don't want to speak also. But you have eyes and ears on this. Yeah, well, you know, but I also have a closed mouth when necessary. Hmm, that says a lot. So you see that conversation with...

So to me, this meeting, everything that's going on with Iran, going to China, he has to be thinking about what things will be discussed, what leverages he has, what things he can give to Xi. He's already got a choke on him with... Panama with Strait of Hormuz, China needs that oil. So he can go in and say, I'm going to work with you, you know, do a favor for you if you do this for me with Iran. So are you how interested? Like I'm trying to figure out back at the end.

I see where your brain is going. What is Trump going to go in there with? What's the thing where he's going to, hey, listen, I know you need this. He has a lot of leverage. But you want to, you know, every year when we would, Tom knows this. Every year we ran PHP. Every time we had a big event. From the moment the event was.

over with till next year's event, guess what I'm working on for 12 months? What am I working on, Tom? Growing the next year's event. No, what am I looking at? What do I want? Announcements. All I'm doing is new announcements at the Vault Conference, not at our annual convention that we have. So if I left an event and I have my next event coming up with my guys, I want an announcement at the next event. Then if I'm going, so it's constant announcement about progress that you're making. So he's constantly working on announcement to be making. What announcement is he going to be making out China? I don't know.

He's working right now behind clothes. By the way, the next 48 hours, don't be surprised if you get a crazy announcement made from Trump or the White House to claim a victory on something. I don't know what it is, but I'm expecting one of those tweets to say, great news, you know, such and such, we just brokered a deal with papa, papap, pap, that's going to create this many. I'm expecting something like that. the next 48 hours. Adam.

Regarding China? Yeah. Well, this is a big, big meeting. This is probably the biggest meeting in the world. Yeah, there's so many storylines that have gotten unfortunately buried behind everything that's attached to Israel. Israel and Gaza, we completely forgot about the entire war in Russia and Ukraine, which I don't know if you saw what's happening. They announced some sort of ceasefire, which is the first we've seen in something like that. We've also forgot that China is our number one enemy. What Trump wants to do, which is, you know, major kudos for him taking down Iran at what he's doing there, but he hopefully wanted to pivot immediately to get to China. Because Israel and Iran are

going to have a longstanding thing. Their neighbors, they're not going anywhere. They're going to have their internal issues. And obviously Israel is clearly kicking Iran's. But Trump was hoping to pivot from Iran to China, because that is our number one geopolitical threat in the world today. So he's going into this meeting with some with some L's but also with some Ws with some wins because don't forget the Strait of Hermuz is affecting who

more than the United States China China is desperately being affected by the Strait of Hermuz and if you look at the Wall Street Journal if you want to pick up the cover story it says Iran War hangs over the China summit. Trump prepares to meet Xi

Jinping this week. He's eager to move forward from the conflict that has hurting the domestic power and global economy. And it talks about some great things that China is doing, but how their economy is starting to crumble, how China is feeling the effects of this war way more than the United States. There you go. So we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen here. I do think in a major way they both want the same thing. I do think in a major way they both want the same thing because China relies on their export to go. And so they need both the importance. of the oil and the export of their products that they have.

So, you know, again, like I've said this for the last, you know, 10 years. I trust this guy negotiating on behalf of you and I, the American people, and the rooms more than anybody else. And let's see. Let's see what happens with that meeting. A couple of other things I want to get into before we wrap up. Did you watch the roast of Kevin Hart? I just, did you watch the roast of Kevin Hart.

I saw clips. I did not. Which clips have you seen? I saw Tony Hinchcliff. What was like 13 minutes, Ron. He was just brutal. I saw... Did you see Cat Williams?

I just saw a small clip of it. So is it fair to say that Kat Williams and Kevin Hart, it's not like there... They have not been friends or allies. If you remember Cat Williams' most popular podcast two years ago that he did with Shannon Sharp that went viral, one of the guys that he was talking about was who? Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart. So here's Kat Williams talking about Kevin Hart and Diddy.

Have you seen this? I haven't seen. No. Okay. So this is good. You guys haven't seen it. Here's Cat Williams talking about Kevin Harden, Diddy. Go for it.

Release party for Pete Ditt. There was a record number of releases on the bed, in the pool, on the floor, everywhere about the hose. Fluffy. But I want to be clear. Just because Kevin went to Ditty parties does not mean he did something wrong. The fact that he gets all quiet when you bring it up. That means he did something.

By the way, that's Cat Williams for you. The guy's brutal, and then it was Tom Brady had a moment. I don't know if you saw the Tom Brady one. The reason why this was a good one is because this is Tom Brady's way of getting back at heart. And listen, Hart's a professional. He does this for a limit.

So he knows how nasty these things get. Go ahead, Rob. Have you even left the forum? Or have you just been here screaming? screaming into that mic the last two years waiting for daddy to come home. Well, unlike your real dad, I actually showed up. Oh, you son of a bitch. You son of a bitch.

And I brought you a jersey. Oh, you son. That's newborn size. Does that fit you? Give me the fucking jersey. All right, sit down. Hey, with the language. Fucking Hobbit.

He is a hobbit. He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he. Bray, it's like, I'm going to get my. Oh my God. Yeah, you got to watch all of this stuff and see how it is, you know, and how they go back. It's not for everybody. Oh, no. Roasting.

It's brutal. Mind you, this morning, after like I'm praying and I'm doing all my stuff, I'm just like, it's a Tony Hinchcliff, the whole thing. It was bad. Really? I haven't seen the Hinchcliff. Oh. Do you have the Hinchcliff one?

Because I haven't seen that one. Let's see what Hitchcliff is. It is. I'm just warning you guys. Airmuffs, if you have kids. Is it that bad? Tony Hinchcliff obliterates what's a Chelsea handler about. They talk about abortion.

And he talks about what's his name's father? Oh my God. Father? Like, what's his name's father? The Kim Kardashian's, um, Robert Kardashian. No, no, Tony Henson, there it is. Pat, he is, it's seven minutes. Oh, it's too long.

This is the one here, just the beginning of it. Just put the beginning. It's brutal, Rob. It's so brutal. Go ahead, Rob. One more time for Tiana Taylor, everybody. That was amazing. This roast is so ghetto.

I thought I heard a fire alarm chirp at one point during her. Are you still watching? Are you still watching? One more time for Shane Gillis. He looks like the type of slave owner that you can trick into buying Kevin Hart. So he'll get bigger, right? If Kevin was a slave, his song would be, Let My People Grow.

This is a big roast. Kevin Hart is trying to fill Tom Brady's shoes. A lot of extra space. That's like Pete Davidson's dick trying to fill Kim Kardashian's vagina. Indeed, the closest Pete has come to greatness is when his dick rubbed up against some of Kanye's old... I don't know this is what it was. It's so bad.

This is a little bit more, buddy. All right. But did you watch the whole thing? I didn't watch the whole thing. It is brutal. No, but I do watch a lot of the roast, by the way, and they're incredible, and they're always for a good cause. And you've got to give whoever's being roasted some major respect.

I mean, when you think about some of the greatest roast of all time, Trump did a roast. They roasted Trump. Snoop. Snoop. what Snoop said about Trump at his rose? About, no, what? This ain't the first time you kicked the black man out of his house.

Exactly. I haven't seen that. Oh, yeah, of course. Snoop says to, yeah, it's good. Tom Brady did a roast recently. He did. Nasty. Nasty.

Yeah, it was a couple of years ago. Pamela Anderson, I see Justin Bieber, listen, to sit there and get there and take a joke, it's a special type of person and for a good cause, and I know that you were trying to lead the charge, and I can help you do this of doing a BB Net and Yahoo roast. I know there was something that was near and dear to your heart. Well, that word alone has a different

meaning to different people. There are some people that really don't like that guy. Yeah. But, you know, it's funny. We're talking this morning with Rob on the interview that happened with them. Timing with market. I had a call with somebody. I don't want to say the person's name. And I said, look, you guys are not winning the PR game because of the way you're handling yourself. And it's horrible. In this world, the moment like, you know, people that I've known for many years who maybe you haven't spoken to in a while because they have their own lives. They're, you know, good friends of mine, California, Texas. They live different places.

They'll say, oh, my God, I see the comment section. And is everything okay? It's as if like this just happened. See, the thing about criticism is if you all of a sudden go public and you're like a rookie who just got a contract, you go public and they criticize you, you're not used to it, Tom. So you watch the comment section 24-7 because you're worried about the comments section, right? But if you're gradually coming up and you've been beaten up and people are trashing you left and right, you know what ends up happening? You end up realizing this is part

of the game. You have you, you either keep your mouth shut and don't say anything or if you do, there's going to be some pushback. And if you're expecting to win a hundred percent of people over in the world, good luck to you. That's a very tough life you're living. It's a miserable life you're living if you're trying to win everybody over. But yeah, I do think this roast idea, the timing's got to be right. Yeah, do you have the Trump one with Snoop? This is the legend.

You haven't seen this one? Oh, you have to hear this. This is what Snoop said about Trump on his road. Like a decade ago. Go for it. More long than that. Donald said he wants to run for a president and move on into the White House.

Why not? It wouldn't be the first time you pushed the black family out of their home. Ivanka sees. And by the way, it turned out to be true. Yeah, well, Obama was already out. So it's not like, you know, Obama, it's not like he kicked him out. He kicked Biden out. No, are you seen...

Well, you know, I mean... No, he did. He replaced Obama. I know. But Obama served two terms. Yeah, that's the part. But Biden was kicked out. Like, if you ever watched a Melania documentary in the documentary, the last 40 minutes of the documentary,

the first 40 minutes is about fashion. The last 40 minutes is about what happened when they went into the White House. It's actually... worth watching because you see how annoying it was and how they treated Trump. Yeah. And then how satisfying it felt when Jill Biden and Joe had to get out of the property, Trump kicked Biden out of it. Oh.

Oh. No, no. He's stepping. No, no, he did. And they were still graceful about it. But are you seeing what they're saying right now with the 2020 election, the fraud, everything that Trump has said, I could even say these words. Now they let me use these words.

Yeah. Because when they come out and everybody sees that these guys cheated and they did, are you seen this last week of what he's been saying? So we'll see. I mean, obviously a lot of this stuff. Today is Fauci's last day. If Rand Paul is going to do anything, Tom, do you think there's going to be anything done with Fauci today? So do I think that... It's the deadline. It's the deadline for, it's a five-year deadline today. Okay. So do I think enough congressmen or senators or whomever will put pressure on the Department of Justice so that they're major campaign donors, I mean the pharmaceutical industry will get behind Fauci actually being prosecuted for hurting their, I mean making them billions in profits.

Do I think that that's going down? Hell no. Hell no. This is going to expire. It doesn't matter how bad Fauci is. Doesn't matter how terrible it was. And we could scream and scream all day. And I'm with Vinny.

And by the way, on a good day, I am more passionate and more angry and more dedicated and more focus than the angry patriot. I am the nuclear patriot on my days, but do I think something's going to happen here? No, I don't. Because of the amount of pharmaceuticals in the industry that have money behind these candidates and by the people in office. No, because guess what happens? The dominoes start falling. It's not just Fauci. It's now you get back into, okay, should we have done it this way? Should we have given them, you know, immunity in Congress? Should we have done this? Should we have controlled the CDC different? Fauci is a domino.

Nobody wants to tip over and nothing is going to happen. That's my opinion. I'm with Tom on this. Nothing's going to happen. But immunity, pardon, all that. But I'm nominating our very own Vincent Oshana for the unofficial official Faucizar. I want you to keep an eye on this guy moving forward. I know how much you detest this guy.

As of today, I don't see anything happening. It's going to fall on your lap. He's one of the type of people that makes. said very, very difficult to be a Christian because you have to pray that he gets it right. Because Adam, guess what? So true. From the looks of it, Thomas, it's not going to happen here. But guess what, Adam?

You don't think he knows every single thing that his conniving self did and all the millions of people's lives that are affected. And so remember we talk about the thief on the cross that you're like, oh, you mean last minute? He better get right and he better do it fast because if we don't get justice here, God will. And Pat, just really, really quick. Do you remember Jill Biden's? Could you guys mention the Bidens?

her ex-husband, they found that his wife dead. He was just charged with murder for killing his wife. Who? Remember, Jill Biden's ex-husband? His wife died. She fell or something, Rob, in the parking lot. Murder, he was, she was... Unrelated story to Fauci.

Unrelated to Fauci. But Pat mentioned the Biden's, Jill Biden's ex-husband, apparently, I saw it on Fox. I sent it to Rob. Wow. Stabbed shots, suffocated, strangled, and bludgeoned. Yeah. Suicide. Yeah, yeah. Suicide. So, yeah. I want to wrap up with the story. I want to wrap up with this story.

Who remembers Lonnie Wilson? Lonnie Wilson. Rob, can you type in Lonnie Wilson images? Okay. Just type, no, no, just type in Lonnie Wilson and on search, go to images. Who remembers Lonnie Wilson? Okay, remember the Lonnie Wilson? She was married to Jermaine Jackson.

Rob, can you pull up the thing I just sent you? Oh, yeah, I do remember her. Lonnie Wilson. Was she a gorgeous girl? She was gorgeous. She was, you know. Was she Baywatch? Yeah.

Yeah? Oh, wow. Wilson was like a Pamela Anderson type of a girl. Look up the one I just sent you, Rob, on, I just texted it to you literally right now if you want to pull it up. Watch what happened to Lonnie Wilson, okay? Do you see it all the way at the bottom? You have a text right there. Watch this.

That's before and afterward, Lonnie. No, Zoom in? No. Of course. Oh, my goodness. Go to the next page. Oh, no. That's meth.

No, that's more than... Are you kidding me? That's Lonnie Wilson. No way. Yeah, that's Lonnie Wilson today. Pat, why is this whole thing in Spanish? You can translate it if you need. Oh my God, it's like Gallum from the Lord of the Rain.

You know what's crazy when you say, go back on the pictures, Rob, go back on the cup. That's a tough one to see. But when you see this, you know what it is? And the part with a story like this isn't necessarily. When you think about it, I read Charlie Munger's Almana. Can you pull up Charlie Munger? I actually think it's a very good book for everybody to order. I don't know how much it.

It's like 50 bucks or something like that. Everybody should have in their office a Charlie's almanac to just read. How much is it? Yeah. Okay, 20 bucks. But you buy the other one. Buy the one. Buy the hardcover one.

Yeah. Go to the other one, Rob, so we can see the right image. The big blue one. Maybe go back to images. Maybe go back to images that you had. Right there. Click on one of the blue ones. Yeah, click on the right there.

So when you read this book, in the, book, they interview his kids. I don't know how many kids he's got. My memory, I think he had six kids or five kids. He had a lot of kids. And they said what was eight kids. So yeah, a lot of kids. So they asked his kids, what would daddy talk to you guys about during dinner? You know what they said? He said, dad wouldn't talk about success stories. He would do the opposite. He would tell stories of people that had success and lost it all. Or that almost, experienced success and I lost everything they had for many different reasons, bad friends, drugs, alcohol, all this stuff that you go through. Yesterday I'm reading this book on estate

planning and legacy and all this stuff and when you're going through it, one of the things that talks about in this book, it says the challenge, you know, kids would wealthy families have is it's they have access to everything. It's right in front of you. Whatever you want to get, You have access to it. You want to get drugs. You want to get girls. You want to do anything. You have access to it.

The wealthy lead lives of exceptional temptation, given the ease with which they can indulge lust, gluttony, and sloth. School and extracurricular activities for children must therefore be prioritized. Those which teach discipline, the child who masters his body against sloth, gluttony, and cowardice,

is well disposed to latter master his spirit against lust and corruption. And he's kind of talking about how to do this with kids. I thought it was a very important thing to do. There is no difference between Lonnie and us. You see a story with Lonnie. It can happen at anybody. It can happen to anyone.

You know, to some people, maybe not at that levels. You know, when you get to a level like that, when you see someone go, it hurts because that's someone's kid, that's someone's daughter, that's someone's, you know, a friend that goes through a situation. like that. But it is that important to constantly talk to your kids about not just success stories,

about the people that had a close shot at doing something big with their lives that they destroyed it because of a bad friend, bad situation, trying to please. A guy was sitting with me in one of our meetings last week. He asked me a very good question, this guy. I don't want to say his name because he asked a personal question. He says, I've always had the reputation of being the class clown. I always have the reputation of being the guy that jokes around so everybody laughs everybody laughs and all this stuff I'm kind of always that guy said look there's a difference between being funny and being silly there's a difference between being funny and silly

one time one of my kids came home and him and I were sitting down talking and I told him I said listen do you want to grow up to be a clown no I said because let's let's look at the clown salary Rob can you pull up the average salary of a clown pull up the average salary of a clown and I went through the whole thing said look if you want to look at daddy will help you become anything you want to become the average salary of a clown makes $62,000

so $80,000 a year you can be a clown if you want to is that what you want to do? There's a difference between comedian and clown I said you can laugh you can joke you can tell jokes comedians do that all the time but silliness

where everybody looks at you and laughs at you versus laughs with you, that is a big difference. And so in life, you know, the dinner this week, we had a very good dinner this week that we went out. It typically always turns into some kind of a conversation that we go to. Every time it's a different type of a topic

we go to. But we have to shape the mindset of our kids that your one friend, one bad friend, one bad party, one bad situation away from destroying your life. One bad temptation. It's not a big deal. Just try this. Everybody does this. It's a little bit. It's not that much. You can control it.

I know how to control my liquor. I know how to control my drugs. I know how to control this. And today, for every boring message like this, there's plenty of guys on TikTok and Instagram that are telling the other part. If you only do enough LSD and you control it, you're going to be fine.

If you just try a little bit of mushrooms, if you just do a little bit of TRT, if you just do a little bit of, you know, Saustin and 250 or Deca or DBA or all this stuff while you're 18, 19, 19, 20. It's just a little bit. It's not a big deal. Let's just do a little bit.

So I saw that picture with Lonnie. Listen, back in the days, if you came to my room in the Army, I had pictures of all these girls on my wall in the Army. I had one of those walls, Amy Fadali, Lonnie, Monica, I wouldn't say Monica Brandt was her name. Was it Monica Brandt? It was Monica Brandt. Yeah. Monica Brandt on the wall.

Amy Fadali, type in Amy Fadali, Rob. Amy Fadali. It was F-A-D-H-A-L-I. I want a F-D-H-F-A-A-A-A-A, not I. F-A-D-D-D-A-A-A-A-A-A. right there. I think that's the one. Go on images there. Yeah, that was her.

So then there was another one called Angel Teves, T-E-V-E-S. I remember all these girls. A lot of posters. I have a lot of posters of girls. Angel S, yeah, there you go. That one right there. That poster was on my wall. That poster right there.

I'm telling you, so you know a lot of these girls, right? You know a lot. And by the way, eventually I went to Mr. Olympia. I met Angel. I met a lot of these. But they went from like this, Vinny, overnight. destroying their lives. So I don't know if it's timely or not for you,

but if you have a daughter or a son, they want to sit down and tell some of these stories as much as it's painful, sometimes you've got to scare the crap out of your kids to know what's possible. If you don't make some good choices, you make some bad choices, you can destroy your life.

Anyways. I just want to piggyback on how great, because we've been through, and I know people that have been through it, the people that you surround yourself, and then you have to equip them with the right thing back, because sometimes they're going to cross paths with those people.

It's inevitable. It's inevitable. And every time I see somebody like that, besides the, you know, being the daughter, you know, of a mother or father, like, who, who are you surrounding yourself around that is going to introduce you to heroin or meth? You know what I'm saying? Like that my father taught me, Pat, only honestly, two things that I remember, you know, he was just the guy that provide the bills.

There was no, my mom was the love and the caring and all that stuff. My dad was just the authoritative figure and just, you know, paid the bills, even though he drank and smoked and entertained his friends. It was, you tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are. And every time these people would be around, my mom would know. She had that, like, intuition. You know what I mean? Like, she would just point and be like that.

I don't trust that one. And mind you, I knew killers. I knew a guy that literally his mother's boyfriend was abusing and blah, blah, and he actually shot and killed her. That guy is in my house post getting out of jail because the community got behind him because it was self-defense. she loved them, adored him, but the one that would come in and she'd like stay, that's, I don't trust that guy, that was the one that was always trying to push me. And like you said, smoke a little bit of this.

Just do a little of this. But I didn't smoke wheat towels out of the military. I didn't do nothing. I was, I was on the straight? Just started last week. First time I might. Congratulations. Tom, was Tom finally giving you with the bong?

With the bong head. Wawi, what's the one you like the most, Tom? Well, there was Acapoco Gold. There was Maui Wau. There is Northern California. You know, you know why shave his must. because he burned himself smoking the joint. See, that's the, that's a better story than the one he gave.

By the way, excuse me, it's a blunt. Oh, my bad, my bad. It's just great that Tom's a bigger partier than Adam, what Adam was. Yeah. But business stock signature series bong at vtmerch.com. Don't make the, uh, the bong noise. Don't do the bong.

What you're saying, what you're saying is true. I mean, I've read these estate planning fails. You're talking, remember the show scared straight? The, the scariest thing is when you watch it, happen in front of your eyes. I've lost more than a handful of friends to drugs, alcohol, overdose and all that. But there's one thing that is that is more challenging than anything else. I have one friend who's already lost his brother. His brother overdosed and died about a year and a

half ago. And to deal with the issue, he's now doing drugs. And we're telling him, and this is a very good friend of mine. Man, stop. This is my last time. I promise. Does it again. Dude. And when you care for somebody and you want to help them change and some people use it as an escape, some people have an addiction, some people you want to use it as fun and have fun. The problem is when it's all three.

And it's the saddest thing because when you see someone, you know, the Chas quote, the saddest thing in life is wasted talent. when you see someone so that's so incredibly talented, whether was this famous actress, whether it's, you know, what's the guy from friends that died, Matthew Perry, when you see them and you're like, please stop drinking, please stop doing this, and they promise you.

And then their words are hollow and they have no meaning. You don't know what to do as a friend. So this is something that I'm seeing and that's a challenge, and we just want our friends to not do this. But you made a great point, though, about teaching them and telling them and showing them. You have to see, because especially people that have money at them.

They have the money in success. Who's telling them no? Because they fear, Pat, and I had this type of friend. I have a couple of them where if you tell them and you have that talk, it's like, who the hell do you think you are? And they will cut you off like that. You're gone. A guy menectomy, I told him something.

I said, a guy sends me a manette says, how do you handle it all this stuff? I said, you know what's the greatest compliment now? I know. But at the time when I was going through it, it was painful. He says, what's that? One good friend of my name was Devina. He's the only the vina. good looking guy, good with the ladies, fun.

I know his number off the top of my head right now. I can just tell you his number. I'm not going to because everyone's going to text the guy. But he was the only guy that when I came out of the middle of the, I lived with him for 18 days. During my break, I live with him. I love to be. But one day, I used to go out with all these guys,

and he calls me. We used to work at Burger King together at 14 years old. He literally. He was the drive-thru guy. I was a chef in the back. My manager, Eddie, would have made me a drive-thru. He says, you talk too much. He says, you just go in the back.

So I would make Burger King Whopper, no onion. And I had my shirt. He only had a medium shirt, and my lower back was always up. Because you're bending over making this. I said, get me a damn extra large. I only got a medium right now. He's wearing a medium. And I was wearing my payless shoes.

I like, well, Pat was here. His payless shoes piece are we're missing. Three people can validate that story. Devin, Kogan, and Eddie. But anyways, one day, Devin calls. He says, hey, Pat, what are you doing tonight? I said, dude, I'm reading on stocks tonight. I got to finish that part of.

He says, you're reading on stocks? He says, yes. He says, man. And by the way, I haven't gone to clubs now for a year and a half with them. He says, Pat, can I tell you something? I said, yeah, what's that? He says, I missed old Pat. He says, we all missed old Pat.

First time he said it to me, it hurt. So then you get off and then you realize you went from the cool guy to the boring guy to the guy that's pursuing a vision. But sometimes the biggest compliment people will ever give you is I miss the old you. And that's actually a compliment. Yeah. It's not a negative thing. It's a badge of honor.

It's a badge of honor because I don't miss the old guy. I love the new guy. I enjoy spending time with this new guy. If you're wiser and you never have to go through it, even better for you. Like Trump never drank alcohol. If you can't go through it without ever doing that, even better for you.

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