PBD Podcast - Patrick Survives COVID and Moves to Florida | PBD Podcast | EP 37

Episode Date: February 10, 2021

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Mario got a bite. We got a talk to Mario and say, Mario, tell me who wins the Super Bowl and why. Yes. Wow. By the way, isn't the Super Bowl this weekend? This weekend. So we have today's Thursday. Yeah.

Isn't that not on the Super Bowl this Saturday? We've already started. We already live at them. We are officially live everybody. You know how long it's been? How long has it been since the last last time? It feels like years, but how long has it been official? Tell us. I want you to tell us. How long has it been? I think it's been since early January before all the drama. I want to say here we got in the notes. Last time, according to our buddy Kai, last time we were together on a

podcast was January 7th, which is what? Exactly how long it's been four weeks. Give or take some speak that the last podcast. So I think we got a lot to share. A lot of you guys have been sending messages. I know you got a bunch of soy boy mafia top of messages that's been sent your way. Where the hell are you guys? Where are you?

What was the one that was sent you yesterday? Give us a guy. This guy was like, all right, enough's enough. The jig is up. Like we need an explanation. We demand an explanation. Where the hell have you been? Where have you been? So Pat, an explanation, we demand an explanation. Where the hell have you been? Where have you been so Pat, let me tee this up for you.

Where the hell have we been? Do you want to know? So first of all, listen man, I gotta tell you, if there's one thing I've missed is the podcast because this is a way of us talking, issues, different thing that's going on, have fun, it's entertaining, it's community, people are involved.

The last four weeks, a ton has happened. January 7th was what? What day was January 7th? What day was January 7th, Paul? That was the day after the insurrection, I believe. So if we look at January 7th, it's a Thursday. Thursday. Okay, so January 7th, prior to that, I had an event,

January 2nd, 3rd and 4th that I had an event January Second, third and fourth I had an event with around four, five hundred people. They came to Dallas right we had a great event was phenomenal was fantastic came out, you know better than we expected just a great turn out on them We came out the gates. We had a great January Up nearly 80% January over January over last year. It's been a good year It's been a good year 2020 was been a a good year. 2021's been a great start. But here's what happened. January 8th, I'm going to dinner with Moral and Teacron because they treated us to this

place called knife. Is there a place called knife and Dallas? Is there a place called knife and Dallas? I think it's a knife and Dallas. Let me tell you knife if you're listening. Food was absolutely delicious, and guess who got the bill? Moral antique, I got the bills.

I got to give a shout out to Moral antique, and this was a nice kind of a restaurant. Who's like my favorite couple in the industry? Yeah, yeah, I mean, let me listen. I think it's everyone's favorite couple. You get to know those guys. I'm the Godfather of their son, Daniel. That's right, that's right.

So, and I'm team Dante, because Dante and I have a connection together. Yeah, yeah, so Sam, or Francis. So, anyways, we go to dinner, I come back, I get in the car, that together. Yeah, yeah, so it's Sam, our friends. So, so anyways, we go to dinner, I come back, I get in the car, that night in Dallas, I felt like it was five degrees and it was pretty cold and windy. Come home, I'm shaking.

I said, I don't know what's going on my body. The next day I go get tested and I test positive. Boom. So here we go. So COVID. So I have to quarantine the entire time I'm quarantining. I got a wife who's four months pregnant, charion. We have to move. We have the movers coming in. We have, you know, the state sale.

We have the 18 wheeler coming and grabbing the stuff that we're moving. We have to go to the office. We have to go drag the stuff out of the office, put it in the truck. Jen is getting the playscore the way that we're moving out here. Everything is going on. Perfect timing. Perfect timing is what it is to kick off the year. And at the same time, we are officially in Florida. We've been planning to just move to Florida for quite some time. We just made the announcement. This is official. You're asking, we are officially back, we are officially in Florida. We want to tell them what city we're in or we can't tell them what city we're in. We are in Boca Raton. That's where we are. We are in Boca. For now, we're in Boca. That's where we are. We are in Boca right now.

We're 45 minutes north of Miami. We're about a half hour south of Palm Beach. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I know you visited at Marilago recently, you know, a potential 2024 candidate. You're not going to happen here. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm we're trying to talk about the rules. We'll see. We will we will talk a lot today. We got a lot to talk about. So to COVID thing happened. And I think something happened to use what with the COVID situation. Yeah. I mean, I didn't get it at the knife with the moral integrity. Yeah. I mean, I you got it with the with the going to the was with the nurse. He wanted to ER with the nurse. Was there a nurse involved with so go ahead tell us what

I was going to be a nurse involved for sure. That's my niche these days. I got it probably parting in South Beach over New Year's. I thought I would literally yeah, probably I don't know. Or I might have got it with Dallas with the rest of the crew because there was like four or five hundred other people we know in Dallas who got COVID. But I think the moral of the story is this.

We've been talking about COVID and this pandemic. How was it for you? For months and months and months. But how was it like? You've read all these things and you don't know if people tell you how it was for the how it was for you. We've had conversations.

You know, you kind of need to like go through something and before you can kind of give an opinion. So we've been talking about COVID and businesses that are shutting down should remain open. Should they not, stimulus checks this and that. And I think we can agree COVID's not fun. Right. Like you lost 10 pounds.

I had probably. I went from 246 to 226. 246. 20 pounds? 246 to 226, one week. You lost 20 pounds in a week pass. And let me tell you, when I saw my, dude, my abs, I looked like a Calvin Klein model. Six, four and a half,

I'm in the middle east and Calvin Klein, my abs were out. I'm like this, you know, Calvin Klein likes the extremely skinny guys. I laws, I, like some minus that. So yeah, I mean, for me, I just can eat. I simply can eat. So I couldn't keep anything down. So I could barely eat anything.

The only thing I could eat was chicken noodle soup, but I did every single one of my conference calls, every single one of my zooms, every single one of it. Anything and everything I had to do, everything was done and no one knew about it. The only people that knew about the fact that I had COVID were people that work on a daily basis, my board, and that was it.

And you can't even know. No, you were living in the other room, and the other room, the other room, the house, you're given it. I was living at four seasons, and I was quarantined at a room all the way on the other side. Nothing. Yeah.

Zilch, zero. I couldn't have contact with those guys. And we did it the right way. You know, I live with our nanny who's in her 60s. I didn't want to have her again. Anything, nothing happened to her, nothing happened to Jen, nothing happened to the kids. It was properly done. And now it's been a while, so everybody scored away.

And it's good to go. But again, going back to it. The most annoying thing about COVID is it's gonna take time away from you. That's it. For me, I mean, for my ex-boyfriend, when I'm noticing from everybody, it's just it's gonna take a week or two away from you.

And it's frustrating. What was the worst symptom you had? Yeah, so basically I was in Miami, I got back to Dallas a couple days later. I started feeling weird. For those of you that I'm not had COVID, here's my story. I had three days that I was at a Friday after work. Obviously Paul, our friend over there, who's behind the scenes, he's like, Gecko, you ready for the Gecko? That's our Friday night spot in Dallas. Shout out to the greatest bar in the history of bars, the Gecko? That's our Friday night spot in Dallas. Shout out to the greatest bar in the history of bars. The Gecko in...

They don't need an advertising budget. Just listen to the podcast. You know, we're sending Gecko. They're killing it. And I said, I think I'm gonna sit this one out, guys. I don't think it's time for the Gecko. And that's when Paul knew something was up. But we're not hitting the Gecko on a Friday night.

So that's, what was that? It's a big deal. So that... By the way, did Paul ever end up going on a date with the girlfriend Gecko? No, but he did buy her her boyfriend dinner out of respect. Yeah. So much respect. Much respect. I respect. I respect. I respect. I never call it back. He also showed her his Ron Burgundy outfit on Halloween. Hold on. We're gonna have to. We got Mario here. That's Mario's voice.

Mario has the elephant in the room. Oh my goodness to have to. We got Mario here. That's Mario's voice. Mario has the elephant in the room. Oh my goodness. Mario, the, by the way, Mario is going to give us an analysis. I'm going to want the Super Bowl this weekend. Well, I can't wait to go do this deep on Super Bowl. I'm really. I'm sure you can.

I aged and got a great tan and looks a little. I gave me a promotion. I said I had permission. I don't do. I missed God. Here's the difference. Here's what most people don't know. Here's what most people don't know. I miss God. Here's the difference. Here's what most people don't know. Here's what most people don't know.

Mario was a spelling bee champion or expert or so he wants something in spelling bee. Anytime I want to spell anything, I go to Mario. He's the guy. I'm telling you, Mario's a ridiculous speller. I don't know where that gift came from. I feel like there's a story there. Yeah, no, no, but we're going to do it today because today he's going to do the search in English, not in, you know, guys, no way, adding the additional six,

no than whatever else that is to it. You're not gonna prank us. So tell us what's the worst. So basically, I had three days that I felt like I just got the shit kicked out of me by like jumped in high school. Yeah. Three days sitting in bed doing nothing. No cough, no cold, no symptoms, no fever, no nothing, no smoke.

And then, um, then I was good to go. So basically I had to shoot, like you said, the show goes on. I had to shoot my money up the soaps. Salah talks money in my apartment. I had to do the business in the apartment. I had to do Zoom calls. Thank God for Zoom. Thank God for FaceTime.

Thank God for technology. And, you know, a week later or 10 days later, I tested negative two times. And now I'm back in Florida and we're having a good time. There you go, buddy. There you go. But I think the bigger story here is maybe the lessons that we can take from all this, something like this, let's give both sides of the coin. It should not shut down the entire freaking US economy or the world.

That's one side of the equation. Like let's not shut things down. Gems, bars, restaurant, like we get it, but at the same time, we're young. We're in our early 40s, you know, maybe in our 30s, 20s, what have you? But we do need to protect older people. Like, you pointed out, Maria 20. Maria's not in his nose. No, I just say anything. I just don't think in one person here news 20s, and it's not Mario. But go ahead. And the person back there remains to be named. Keep going. Keep going. But older people, I can see why they're like, holy shit, they're not, they're going to

make it. So it is real. Yeah. The people who are, it's a scam, damn it. Can I, real? I ain't wearing a mask. It's like, grow up, guys. Like there's people in the society that depend on us taking this seriously.

But for the most part, 99% of us, we're going to have a shitty week or two and move on with our lives. But the biggest question is, I think these days is, can you get it again? I don't know. I don't know. What have you found? I mean, we're going to find out if you can or cannot. I mean, can you get flu again?

Of course. Can you get bronchitis again? I hope not. Can you get, you know, I mean, of course you can get it again. So, you know, the idea of that you can't get it again is a bit of a myth. I think you can't get it again, but it is what it is. And by the way, if you've had it yourself as well

and you're watching this, why don't you comment below and tell us what was the worst symptom that you had? That was mine, that was his. And by the way, we were almost not gonna do today's podcast because we are barely getting the office settled in. As you can tell, the wall is still green on this side. That wall is not gonna stay green.

The wall's painted black here. We got our buddy Joker and Batman here. Hawk won't fit in this because he's 9-3 and this alone is 8. We got a lot of different things that we had to do. We should address that this is a temporary office. Right? We just moved to Florida. We've been unpacked and we've been moving, we've been hustling.

Yeah, we kind of targeted this day. Shout out to you, Eric, Mickey, Mario, working day and night, getting this whole place set up. I mean, seriously, the team worked their tails off, making sure this thing came together and everybody else that was on the outside working doing their part. Obviously, this was a very big thing.

Well, shout out to this guy right here. I mean, first and foremost, this guy locked in the- No question about it. He's meeting with- He has to go meet with these beautiful realtors that he's following a lot of this stuff. It's tough out there to be to be Mario.

But the team came through. The team's here in South Florida. We're here now. So it's good. My watch is Mr. Zex. I lost 35 pounds when I had COVID. Wow. I'm gonna jump in.

I'm gonna jump in. What else we got? Okay, good morning. So we got enough for an instant. I don't know. Oh. It was like your head situation. Like for me, my head was the worst thing and I was bedridden literally for eight days.

And that was, yeah, that was, like I couldn't, I couldn't make it to home. That's our friend Paul, by the way. Paul, the A.K Paul the aka the gecko That's my you must have had it worse than anybody From out of all of us. I you had it the worst. Yeah, I had it pretty much You the first one like eight months ago, so I started this Move you kicked this thing off. I started the soy boy mafia movement. Yeah, you started the Dallas COVID I started the soy boy mafia movement. Yeah, you started the Dallas COVID move. I started this stuff. Yeah. Nice shout out to Eric Galera. He's here. He's a former

marine. He's a stud. He's been, uh, you know, making things happen over here. He's masked up. He's muffled up, but shout out. And there's some shady guy behind you. I don't know who that guy is. But Pat, let's get back to you. You've been planning, you know, you wrote this Wall Street Journal best-selling book, your next five moves. So you're the guy who knows about making moves. You started off in California. You were there for 20 plus years.

You moved to Texas to really grow your business. Five years, yeah. For five years, you've been planning this move to Florida for, I assume, at least a year or so now. I'm gonna have to say, yeah, March of last year, it started because the moment the pandemic started, I watched how California, because we were supposed to go to Greenwich and go to New York. That's what the plan was.

So we looked at a lot of stuff in Greenwich, we looked at a lot of stuff in New York. I love that area. I love the, you know, the dog fight, the competition, the energy of New Yorkers. It's a beautiful place to be. Or we were gonna go back to California because California's all my contacts and my friends, my family, relationships. And then it was Dallas and then last minutes

because we love going to the breakers regularly, we love the breakers and I said, how about Florida? So then Jen said, why don't we go take a look at Florida a little bit more we did and then we started looking at homes, we said let's look at schools, We looked at five six seven schools. We fell in love with this one school and then finally we said, you know, let's, let's make the move because I've said this before and I'll keep saying this. If California and Texas had a baby, it's Florida. Simple as that. California weather. You got Florida weather here. California has got

earth quakes. You got hurricanes over here. Texas has got no taxes, you're in paying taxes here. Florida's a little bit purple, which means you got left, you got middle, you got right, which is great. We're reasonable here. Exactly. What I'm trying to tell you is a little bit of everything. And if you like New York, you'll like here because most people from New York are leaving to come here.

So, all of that combined together left to what it is today, we're leaving the headquarters obviously in Dallas. We're not moving the headquarters of PHP that's things put in Dallas and Here this is purely a value-taming headquarters that we have this is not a PHP Well, you've been you've been operating PHP your your financial services company and value-taming out of the same office Same head for a long time for five plus Yes, so now they are officially they need room to have one plot. Exactly.

And we were kind of like, Timing was getting in the way in PHP. So those two, we were the loud, crazy roommates. Let me tell you, I went there this week. I was there this Monday, right? I went to Texas, this Monday, all morning, I was with them. We have our awards ceremony. You got to give a shout out to MVP's. Ok, four, Swazo, Ricky and Erica. Let me see if I can remember everybody. I'm going to miss one. So Paulo was MVP, but I'm missing one. Oh, Felp was MVP. So I'm gonna forget about my whole problem.

We gave these guys statues, 60,000 statues, bust. It was just ridiculous what we did. I was so. But when I walked in, it was very quiet. Oh, like you can hear whispers. You know how people go typing like, you could hear all this stuff, right?

When I walked in. And then I realized the reason why it's so quiet because all the loudness of value-taming were all gone. You weren't there. You alone count for 19 people. You really think of the amount of noise Adam makes should equate to 19 average human being. Would you agree with that?

It's 18 to 19. I can't tell you how many times people get. Shush, I'm constantly being told to be quiet. I've never been told speak up, buddy. I've never heard that. Especially the ping pong games during working hours. Those were always. Did you end up being ranked first place before you left? Oh, this is number one thing on my resume right now. Who's beat you the most though? Out of any one. So number one, I was number one ping pong player and all of the, but who's beat me the most? Was you? Really? Yes. So number one, I was number one ping pong player and all of the, but who's beat me the most was you? Really? Yes. So who's who? So I'll be the most you also would not

stop playing unless you beat me. Like one time, one time, let me tell you one time, I'm trying to go home to make you two dinner, right? And we go one game. No, one more time. Okay, we go a second game. One more time. You remember how many times you beat me in a row? I think it was like 15 or something. You like me 13 games in a row? Okay, and by the way at this point I had no clue can sweat playing ping pong by the worst sweating, you know, I Sure, it's coming out. It's gonna be a late night. I got a big business meeting Finally, I think we played four more. I won two out of the four, but realistically at the 17 games you beat me 15 to two Yeah, it's what you say, you know,

we're gonna see what's gonna happen here. I have a higher time train or formal and ping pong paid at night from 10 to 2. I get trained by you. Like John Stamos and entourage. Yeah, that's exactly pretty much what's going on right now in the backyard. So anyways, are we ready to get into some topics here?

Yeah, I don't know. Did we, are we done addressing the elephant in the room? Are you Florida? We had COVID. We've been waiting to move. I we, are we done addressing the elephant in the room? Are you Florida? We have COVID. We've been waiting to move. I think we're appreciative of all the support we've had from the value, the value, the value, the community, all the value, the trainers out there asking us what the hell is going on here?

By the way, if you're happy, we're back. Smash that subscribe button. If you're happy that this podcast is back and you would like us to go back to doing this two times, maybe three times a week, smash that subscribe button. Before we move on, you got to give a shout out to who? To our, to my best friend in the world. Who's that? Tom's enter.

That's right. Where the fuck is Tom? Tom is not here. Tom, we miss you. By the way, Tom, shout out to Tom. Tom's going to great job with VT Post. Very, very good job with VT Post. I agree.

He's writing. He's doing it. And Tom is all the way on the West Coast. He's California. He's California. It's a challenge to make a move like this because kids are in school, et cetera, et cetera. It's not the easiest thing to make. You know, a lot of time singles you move. You move. We're moving kids. You move in schools. You move in relationships. It's a lot. You move in friendships. But you have no clue how hard it was for me to move my cats. Oh, I know. Your cats were going to a private school. Yeah. And one thing you

guys don't know about the Adam is, Adam was in love with Texas. Adam was in love with... Out in my estate, just for the guest. Nightlife of Texas, there was a very special connection you had with the nightlife in Texas versus Miami. True. Obviously they don't compete together at all.

And Dallas's nightlife is here. Miami's world. Dallas nightlife is the best in the world, Miami. Right, you know, so it was tough, but shout out to Tom Zener. He'll be back, uh, Yeah,

popping in every once in a while. We're gonna have other guests here as well. Schedule is being set up. We're gonna have some of the old friends coming back. Yeah, of course. You're gonna see Danielle, you're gonna see Yudell, you're gonna see the whole new slew of people that I want to get on the lineup because we're in Florida,

Bistock, Bistock wants to make a comeback. Tom is gonna make a comeback. He says, I watched the last podcast. I'm coming to go to war against Adam, but it's going to happen. Yeah, exactly. So, that's it too. Exactly. I know. So anyways, let me, let me give one last thing. Give it to us. To make this round circle all come together, you said that you went to the breakers and you said, all right, you you and Jen you fell in love with Florida. Yeah 40 years ago today My parents went to the breakers and they fell in love and that's where I was conceived and now

41 years later it is my birthday and it all has come full circle at the breakers It all goes down and I never been to the breakers since it's Realized rule of thumb you don't do your birthday. I do your birthday. Okay, that's what is that all about? I'm just saying I'm bringing up the bring it bring it. What he doing? He couldn't wait.

Can you go grab it? I'm just talking about the you breaking kidding me. I'm sorry. I didn't. That's like a throwing in the very I'm supposed to say happy birthday. I didn't even I didn't want to have a birthday. Are we not giving you enough love?

Are you not getting enough attention at home? You have to. Let me tell you guys from Dallas wouldn't show up, but we got you a couple different unique things here. If you got a one we got some soy milk. I think it's appropriate for all of us to have a shot of soy milk. This is for you.

On behalf of the entire crew, do we have the rest of this stuff? Okay, it's going to be here in a minute. Freaking Adam couldn't even wait to know this happened. I didn't know you really, you know, I just didn't know. I don't think we know it's not the right timing. I'm not the right timing. You don't know it's everything. Guys, I'm out of here.

Today, like, you know, killing me here. I'm not even trying to, I was talking to the breakers. No, you want the breakers. I'm talking about the breakers. Okay, fair want you talk to my breakers. Do you have it or you don't have it? It's time if we don't have it. We'll wait. It's okay. Don't worry about it. Let's just take him balloons guys. Adam already announced This birthday we want to we want to get his cake and blue. No, we don't need any cake and balloon Okay, well while you're shot out the dog he gave five bucks at the soy boy mafia. I appreciate it. We had a guy here Adam said paid gave 35 so people you have search online for the unsuccessful. Okay, hang on. There we go. Happy birthday to you Oh my god birthday to you

three got three one two three happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Adam. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Adam Soslik.

How you feeling, man? Feels great. It couldn't ask for a better birthday present to be one-on-one with PBD on our first podcast. It feels very great. And I got my soy boy broke. You got to get the sugar brother. I'm going to chug this out. We're going to get hammered on your soil. We're going to take shots.

It's so happy birthday, Adam. Send him some love. Send him some love. Okay. There you go. Okay. We can move this man. It's appropriate.

I want to make sure you know the entire time we appreciate you. Okay. I want this thing to stay right here. Love you, buddy. Thank you. We love you too, bro. 100% the entire team. I didn't even know it ruined the surprise here. It's all good, bro We we we knew it's your birthday. We wanted to just move on and go to lunch today. We're gonna do dinner You're gonna be cheated today body come on Thank you guys and kosher too. Yeah, it better be it's better being so are we ready? We're ready. Let's get into it

Okay, Paul maria. We're gonna come to you for advice as well and council as well and feed We're gonna need to be ready to give you I'm ready. I know Mario's done us. I've been training on that Mario's done a lot of research last night. Okay, all right, so first of all Adam said the Adam Bray six shout out to you PbD I he gave $35 I have research online but have been unsuccessful Can you please post a link to the greatest general in history, a story that you reference? You know, honestly, the book is a small book that John Maxwell has. It's a blue book from like 20 years ago.

Adam, can you do me a favor? Send me a message on Instagram. And if I don't respond back, send it again to or three times so it comes up. And I'll person go try to look forward and send it to you. And I'll send a link to you from Amazon. Send a message to me, I'll try to find it for you. And then Adam, you're just getting a bunch of love

from everybody. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. You know, if you love Adam, you want to give me shout out, you know, I'll put the link below for his Instagram account. Go give him some. One of my friends said happy soy boy day. That's great.

Seriously. I mean, this is, they got to make you official here in Florida. Okay. So from the last time we spoke, Yes, sir. Till today. Capital. That's insurrection. Cresceness. We have Joe Biden as no longer president. Elect.

He's our president. He is the president. I know you have a nice painting of him on the wall. So he's the president. From that moment till today, Jack Ma resurfaced. Okay, he went away. He resurfaced. Retrained, reeducated.

Game stop. Wall Street beds. They went up against Wall Street and it wasn't pretty. Melvin Capital lost a lot of money, Seth Coyne, and those guys have to give him $2.75 billion and bail him out. And you're just not a pretty situation that took place, right? And then Trump's getting impeached second time from last time to this time, Biden's cabinet's official, Janet Yellen is the first female treasury secretary. It's in, it's locked in.

Pete Buttichich is the first openly gay cabinet confirmed me and youngest transportation secretary in history. All of this stuff has happened in the last four weeks. Some of it is old story. We don't need to really talk about it. Some of it will cover right now as well. But let's go to a couple different stories that we have going on right now.

That's maybe business, and then we'll go into some of the other political stories, sports, we'll cover all of it. So first one, I think we ought to get into is Uber. Uber agrees to buy alcohol delivery service, drizzly, for $1.1 billion. Yeah. OK?

$1.1 billion, Yeah. OK? $1.1 billion Uber agrees to buy them. Founded in 2012, Drizzly has become the leading on demand alcohol delivery service in the US and is available in 1400 cities. The purchase could help drive people to see Uber's app more often. Uber Eats has been a key segment to Uber's business and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has dramatically reduced the number of people leaving their homes during During this time, during this time, our business has been seeing growth, extraordinary rates.

Ubersio Dara said on CNBC, Drizli said it had more than 300% growth this past year. The deal is expected to close within the first half of 2021. Ubersio did anticipate that more than 90% of the consideration to be paid to Drizzly shareholders will consist of shares of Uber common stock and the balance will be in cash. So a 90-10 split is what they're doing at the same time,

Uber has a offloaded, some of its more cost-eating transportation segments, the company last May transferred its electric bike and scooter business, jumped to a line, Uber also sold itself drive-in-unit advanced technology group to start up competitors. Or oral innovation on December 7th, out of valuation of $4 billion at the same time. So what are your thoughts about this drizzly and $1.1 billion purchase by Uber? So yeah, this is, I'm glad that you started with this. So if there's anybody that can speak about the advantages of using Uber, it's

the guy that has an out of car and for content. So right now I'm carpooling with my mom for the next week until I move into my apartment. Shout out to your mom, the coolest mom out there. She's cool, she's cool, she's groovy. I feel like I'm 17 years old again, carpooling my mom. But I uber everywhere. And let's talk about what uber is focusing on and what uber is basically deleting from their focus.

So you got uber, by the way, we tried to take an uber package the other day. People are coming in way, we tried to take an Uber package the other day. People are coming in town. We need to give them their keys. Seven people who work at ValueTam and couldn't figure out an order in Uber package. So in Uber, here's what you have. You can take an Uber. All right, I need to go to my friend's house. I'm taking an Uber. You can go Uber eats, right? You want to order in food. You're staying in.

Everyone's there in COVID. You're ordering in. You got Uber packages. Hey, Clarissa staying in, everyone's there in COVID, you're ordering in. You got Uber packages. Hey, Clarissa Leo, they just got in town. We got to give them their keys, send them the keys in a package. You don't have to go drive over there, wink, wink, and Mario. They'll send them the package. That's easy. They got Uber groceries, so they're competing

with the Instacards of the world. And now they're basically saying, look, we got liquor too. So they're basically saying, listen, work at home, eat at home, drink at home, party at home. Where, if you ever need to go, just, we got you. Uber. What do they not have? Thank you buddy, move that, move that out of there.

Thank you. It was cutting Mario's head off there. We want to make sure. We got to see Mario. This is actually pretty interesting. They stopped their e-bike focus. They stopped their self-driving component. And I had to reread this like three times,

the flying taxi unit, what the hell is that? They were, they announced it was selling their flying taxi business called Elevate. Was that, was that, is that, am I reading that correctly? Flying cars? Yeah, flying taxi. What is this back to the future? This is gonna happen? I mean, what do you think's gonna end up happening? I mean, I don't know. reading that correctly, flying cars? Yeah, flying cars. What is this back to the future? This is gonna happen?

I mean, what do you think's gonna end up happening? I mean, I don't know. I feel like Elon Musk is gonna take over that business. Who knows what that, but this just, this move with drizzly specifically for a billion bucks, 90% shares, 10% cash, makes complete sense with their focus of, you know, staying at home, ordering in, ordering packages, getting you to liquor.

So that's my take on it. What are your thoughts? So, first of all, just so you know, during the pandemic, at the peak of the pandemic in April, do you know how much the sales of Drizly was up? You guys know, what do you think it was up? During April May, how high do you think their stock went up? Sales coming in.

Sales coming in, not stock sales. That's the standard wise or? Percentage wise. 135%. 700 to 800%. You took the under on it. say it's coming in not stock. Percentage wise or percentage wise. 135%. 700 to 800%. You took the under on it. It's how high they were. So, and then,

Explain that. Why do you think they're leveled around 350? 350% for the rest of the year pretty much. And you heard, you know, in this article I'm reading, it says, you know, they've seen growth of 300%, et cetera, et cetera. So why?

Well, people stayed home and they had drinks. They're depressed. Let me get a drink. Let me get a second one. Let me get a third one and then boom. Let me order. Let me order. Let me order easy access. You know, I can just go get it. It's going to come to me. And so, you know, that showed what direction potentially the world is going to. So, Uber sitting there saying, wait, if people order in liquor the way they all right, now why don't we own that business? Are they assuming there's going to be another pandemic? Are they assuming it's going to be more work from home? Are they assuming this the direction that things going to go? Yeah. Working from home, et cetera. I don't

know. But they definitely made the right move. This is a very, very smart strategic purchase that they made. And I think this is going to be benefiting Uber in a big way for a very long time. This isn't going to be a small business here. This $1.1 billion business that they bought. Look at this $1.1 billion business. How quickly it's going to end up being a $20, $20, $30 billion business. Oh, you think so? Oh, buddy, listen, alcohol ain't going away. You know, breakups are not going away. Depression is not going away. People being depressed, feeling bad celebration, down,

birthdays, it's not going away. We're trying to convert people to drinking sores, but drizzly is more of an outfit. Look for my new line of soy based alcohol. It's coming out. It'll be on the value payment shop. Check that out at valuetamestore.com. What, Paul, do you have any opinions on drizzly? Let's see what Paul wants to say about Drizly.

I do, I do think it's a good idea. Anything deep. Tell us outside of a good idea. Do you have any deep thoughts on this topic? I do think it's a good idea. Guys, that's Paul's car. I don't think I have anything deep on Drizly. It's not a, you don't know, but it's prepared. They're maximizing. You just had on drizzly. It's not a you don't know. I can prepare their maximize you just had your home and right there. Here's the frickin bottom line. You have the choice of ordering liquor into your house, the couch or go into the frickin get go. We all know we're going to the bar.

You're not a stay at home and drink. Yeah, look at go hit the streets. I think it all depends on what state you're living in. I think in certain states, it's really going to have a huge impact. Yeah. Like places like Florida and Texas where places are open, I don't see it having as much of an impact versus California revenue is closed. Yeah.

I could see that having a huge impact. Or if you're up north on the winter, if you're up in the winter, it's going to be a lot of it. Yeah. I like that. That's a good point. You went deep. You went deep.

You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. So, Parler, CEO fired by the board. Parler has terminated CEO John Mats, according to Memo Martz, Memo Martz sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News on January 29, 2021,

the Parler Board controlled by Rebecca Mercer. Decided immediately to terminate my position as CEO of Parler, I did not participate in this decision. I understand that those who now control the company have some communication to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompt me to make this public statement, Matt C. Rode, that over the past few months, he has been met constant resistance to his original vision for the social media platform, follow on Amazon Web

Services' decision to shut Parlor down for failure to moderate agree. Agreed just content related to the January 6 capital rights. Conds. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna bring a couple of points here and then really I want to get your take on this because you're a CEO of a company, a founder of a company, and I want to get your opinion on this. You know how old this guy is? The founder of Parlor. Late 30s. He's 27, 28 years old. That's pretty impressive. Very. Okay, 28 years old that's pretty impressive very okay 28 years old you the CEO of parlor how much you think this guy's worth well at the peak or at the low because right now I don't know I checked his network I don't think it's an accurate network you read really there's no way the network does accurate his his net word collapse probably

70 80% on the last 90 days so what I I think has gone down in the last 90 days? What did it say? Isn't that worth this? 10 million bucks. Okay. Now, he's probably worth, you know, a number like that. Because a company went all the way up to, you know, 750, 750 million dollar company.

Is it a public trade company? No, I don't know if it's not trade-time. All I'm saying is, as far as the way that we value in their company was around being half a billion to two billion out of company. So from that to the drop off, it's a complete different story. But what do you think about them firing him, the bulls? I have, listen, you're the CEO of a company.

You're a founder of a company, right? I mean, all I've ever been is a VP of sales and a company. I've never founded a company. What does that entail when you found a company? You're the CEO. I assume that you have a major hand in selecting the board members. And then they say, hey, buddy, Pat, hit the road. What does that feel like?

I can see you on a founder. So that means he doesn't have control of the board. That means they own more shares of the company potentially than he does. So it's not like he is the founder, the CEO. That means he raised money to the point of a matter of fact, let me look at CrunchBase. Can you look at Mario, pull up CrunchBase and type in parlor? Go to CrunchBase, CrunchBase and then type in parlor and parlor's with

an E. You think it's with an O, but it's with an E. Parlor. Let's see how much money they've raised. Parlor, do you see it? Okay, type in Parlor. He just told you, it was with the knee, Mario. Did he do all? Yeah, he went out. Okay, Parlor. Show us his office. Kyle's text to me. Okay, so go to, click on Parlor right there.

I'd go up a little bit. Go up the other way. Yeah, yeah. Found a 2018 angel. Okay, keep going up. Up, up, up. So they haven't raised money. Wait, okay, number of investors, two highlights.

Click on that to the right right there. Rebekah Mercer, Angel, Angel. Okay, click on Robert Mercer, see how much he gave. Are they disclosing it or no? Go up, go up. Robert Mercer says undisclosed amount. Okay. And then go to the next one.

Go back and see if we can find that if Rebecca's number is public. Interesting. Why would you make it undisclosed? And this is also undisclosed. They're not saying it. Same thing. Okay. Look at what you just did here. Okay, so go to another company.

Go to Robinhood. Okay, type in Robinhood for us. Yeah. That's in the news right now. Yeah, Robinhood, you'll see. So you could have crunch based stock. Crunch based stock. What is crunch based? Crunch based tells you the raising of money, the organization, details about, like right there.

Look, if I want to find out Robinhood, how much money they've raised, click on total funding amount right there. And then it tells you every time they raise money. So go down the first time they raise money, all the way down to the first round. They raised, okay, so you have to have the free truck. Okay, they raised $320, $320 million.

You're in a half ago July 22nd, right? Series E. So E means DCBA four rounds prior to it. Ironically enough, two days ago, three days ago, they had their, they are just $2.4 billion. Yeah, $2.4 billion. In the middle of the whole game, so now if you want to find out who it was, click on the number six.

Click on convertible node Robinhood right there. Let's see who was the people that were involved. It's big names, it's not small names. Sequoia capital, ribbit, new enterprise associates, index venture, I mean, they got, and recent hurlwits. I mean, they got the main guys that are putting money with them. Six investors came in, put $2.4 billion. So, they got the main guys that are putting money with them. Six investors

came in, put 2.4 billion out. So, partner. In the middle of all that. And, but listen, all of this stuff that people are saying would robinhood. Look, you can say all you want about robinhood. You can say anything you want about robin. Take shots at them all you want. Last Thursday, they had 175,000 new people that downloaded their app. And last Thursday, they had more people using rob Robinhood than all the other brokerage accounts combined. Let me put this again. Last Thursday after all this heat, after all this being trashed by AOC, Musk, everybody that

trashed them, right? Last Thursday, they had more people on their app than anybody else, all their competition combined, right? Let's name the competition who their computer is. E-trade, short trade, Scott, trade, just Vanguard, all of them. So Robinhood is bigger than all these guys now. Not, not, I didn't say bigger, traffic, more people,

they remember it's a free platform. So the market is not the market of higher echelon, you know, it's more $500, I'm gonna buy one stock, I'm gonna buy 10 stock. They're quantity not quality. They're quantity. And now there's some quality. They're starting to get quality. You're not gonna just stay quantity for too long. You start off 10 stock quantity not quality. They're quantity and now there's starting to get quality.

You're not gonna just stay quantity for too long. You start off with quantity and no joke at this point. Robinhood is a 25 to 30 billion dollar company. Are these big guys, these swabs, these e-trades, these Scotch trade, these Vanguard, these Fidelitys? They gotta be a little bit nervous with this new guy in the market. Let's stay on parlor and then we'll go to that here in a minute. So on parlor, let's talk about parlor.

So I don't know how much those guys bought from the company. I don't know when somebody comes in and they give you money, the next step after agreeing to give money, guess what's the next thing that's talked about? Control. Controls. Right. What controls I have? So what is controls?

Your salary, your bonus, how much money you can spend without our approval. If you want to make a spend $100,000, you don't need our approval. If you're spending a penny above $100,000, you need to get to approval, or you can get a quarter million, a half million, and that can go up as the company's grown and you're doing a better job. The controls could be what other things you can do outside. The controls could be a lot of different things when you're raising money, right, with a company. I don't know the controls of this guy. I have no idea. I don't know how we set himself up. If he's 27, 28, he could be smart, he could be brilliant,

but he's not that experienced to know what controls matter and what controls don't matter. When a, you hear the saying, when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with the money, the man with the money leaves with the experience. He just left with the experience. Wow.

We're fine. That's exactly what you just have. He just left with experience. So now they're firing him. What the hell does that mean? You're firing him. Does this mean you have somebody in mind that you're going to recruit that's going to be able to get

the web services up and parlors gonna be back up. So for some of the people that are a parlor, like pro parlor community, this could be a good thing because if the board is firing him, maybe they think if they bring somebody from a Google, maybe they think if they bring somebody from another company to make the company be more independent, right? In the middle, maybe they bring a former executive from Amazon to bring, maybe they think that connection is going to get Amazon to say, fine, we'll go because a person that's now running a company is a former executive of Amazon or whatever.

Now we feel a little bit more comfortable. I don't know. But if you do make a public firing of a CEO, you do not look good if you don't have a plan afterwards. I don't know if that makes sense or not. Of course. If you just fired me, you better have a plan. So if within the next week, parlors board doesn't have a new guy, gal leader, that's gonna be running it, that starts showing progress. What was your point about firing the guy? What statement did you wanna make?

Like what was the motive? parlors down, nobody's downloading the app. They don't have AWS. All the other web services don't want to give them the business They keep saying oh we're gonna come out with a new website. Oh somebody's going on something If you don't have a replacement You're gonna look like a fool yourself so the board's about to look like a fool if they don't come out with a replacement This is not just him looking bad the boards are also gonna look bad if they don't bring somebody that's gonna make the company go back to

Being let me ask you a question on that. Do you think that companies are being put in a position to maybe a pressure position to make these type of decisions, to make the masses maybe feel better about their company? How do you think they're processing decisions like this? Because a lot of it has been happening the last few weeks on decisions being made that are made by others. So, that's a great question. So this leads to Robinhood, right? Your time on Robinhood.

So, what does the name Robinhood mean? What does the name Robinhood mean? The now, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the think it's stealing from the rich. The rich was the government. That's what it meant. So it's not steal from the rich. The rich creates jobs. The government who forces tax on you is who they want Robinhood wanted to get money back from. Not the small business owners are selling bread and food. Robinhood never went and tried to take money away

from the people that are creating small businesses. That wasn't the idea. Robinhood was trying to take money back from who? The big government that's bullying the average guy that doesn't have any control because of regulation, right? Okay. People imposing taxes. Yes. So Robinhood started off as a great idea. It's purely accidental. It went from what it was. I mean, you did a great video on it yourself just a couple days ago. It went from what it was. Hey, this is for average investors. You're not going to have to pay anything. Just come over here and do your trade. Beautiful story. And it was. You hate this is for average investors. You're not going to have to pay anything. Just come over here and do your trades. Beautiful story.

And it grew. And it got the attention of a lot of different people. Lots of big names, lots of Hollywood people, lots of celebrities. You keep seeing videos and advertisement from these guys that keep doing their thing. But eventually, when you raise $2.4 billion, your boss is no longer a customer. Your boss

officially changed. When all of a sudden you go from your customer is middle America, but your owners is Wall Street, you're conflicted. Oh yeah. Big time. Big time. So who are you loyal to now? Who do you have to listen to now? Who can fire you now? Who can say, you know, you got to get out of here now? Who do you have to listen to now? Who can fire you now? Who can say, you know, you got to get out of here now? You're sitting there saying, well, these guys, this company is at $30 billion. My network is now XYZ.

What do I do? How do I keep them happy? How do I keep the consumer happy? But I got to make sure these guys are happy. When they said it, when he shut down and said no trading out, like, you're talking about Vlad. Yeah, I mean, you think people are naive

when Elon Musk's asking those questions on clubhouse. Clubhouse. Clubhouse and he's just grilling them 16 minutes and going back and forth. I mean, you don't think people are naive that what happened there, but it's not the point. The board, the founder starts with a vision. And a vision is here's what we're doing this company for. The board, the buyer of the company, when they come in and they're like, listen, we love your vision. And a vision is, here's what we're doing this company for. The board, the buyer

of the company, when they come in and they're like, listen, we love your vision. Keep driving a company. But we like profits. That's what we like. Okay. So if you want to focus on profits, this so the relationship between those two has to be set up in a way where the vision and the cause doesn't change. If the vision and the cause changes, you could potentially lose your customers that you already had. Although that's not happening in Robinhood. But today you're living in a different time. You're living in a time right now where you're seeing a parlor, you're seeing a Robinhood, two different stories. Parlor founders, maybe the guy that came out and we got to go against Facebook, we got to go because freedom of speech, we have to have people to be able to

say whatever they want to say because that was his message, right? That's what we're going to do. But the money guys are like, listen, that's great. We just give you 10 million bucks. We just give you 50 million bucks. I'm sorry, give us our 50 million dollars back. I don't have that kind of money. Now we're changing it.

So to change is we have to bring somebody that's going to be a little bit more reasonable, a little bit more. They're probably gets along with big tech a little bit better. You kind of have to do that today. You kind of have to do. You got to follow the laws today on the social side because so one day I had a group of people in my office and I wrote a map. I said, the Democrats are brilliant.

They're so brilliant. And I was having this conversation last week, I think with Robert Kiyosake, I think it was, I don't know who it was. Somebody was having this conversation last week, I think with Robert Kiyosake, I think it was, I don't know who it was. Somebody was having this conversation last week. Yeah. And I said, Republicans chased money. Democrats chased influence and control. Period.

Let me say that one more time. Republicans chased money, which was what? Man, let me just make money and leave me alone. Okay. So traditional business that you go to, that you don't have influence, but traditional business that you go to, that you don't have influence, but traditional business that you go to. You're talking about politically or actual independent like voters. I'm talking politically and power player billionaires is what I'm talking about.

Democrats said no, we have to control boys. So what did Democrats billionaires start buying? LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, etc., etc., right? Then what did they do? Amazon Web Services. Now it's the biggest. They're killing it. What they're doing. Amazon, Facebook, Google, you know, Twitter, go through all of them.

Doors all of these guys for Republicans now to compete on the media site. You know how long it's going to take for them to compete in the media side? Decades. Two decades now, one decade. No way. Two decades. On the media side, it's going to take two decades for them to even have a shot. And by the way, two decades from now, you think it'll be 50, 50 even? No way. Two decades from now, it will still only be 70 30. Where do you think it is now?

Oh, I think it's 98 to two right now. That, that, that, that big of a problem. Give me on the right what the media has. One channel. I think that Fox, you got newsmax. You got newsmax is not newsmax is not at the, you don't put those guys at that level yet. Newsmax, as far as an NBC, you do not put them at that level yet.

I don't know like that. By the way, if you look at right notes, MSNBC, it's CNN, it's Fox, then you got CBS, ABC, you know, all those other guys are all on the left. They're not on the right. So, so this is a little bit more of a long term strategy that, you know, folks got to sit down and kind of think about on what's taking place. You can't just sit there and say, let me tell you, this is not fair and this is not this. No, it's not called not fair. It's called competition. And it's called, you know, some of the strategies that you had Republicans on your side kind of didn't help you out. And if you don't start making some changes right now, you're going to have to be hoove and you're going to have to bow down to whatever they have to tell you because they control

that's just what's going on. Period. So there there needs to be major, like, you know, I'm on a flight back with a guy, Jerry, I'm trying to sleep because I had three hours of sleep that day. There was a war ceremony. I'm trying to stay a couple days ago, but Jerry's got great stories, good phenomenal stories. And he's telling me, you know, 1967, he started working for Bell, and back in the days when, you know, AT&T had a, what when AT&T had a monopoly because AT&T pretty much controlled the market and the government had to come in and break up AT&T because you could only buy phone system from one place. So AT&T would come in and they would say, hey, you know, you got three plans.

Which one do you want? I don't like any of these. No problem. OK, go on. So can you imagine there is nobody else that's coming to your house afterwards. So the government said, you can't do this. So they broke them apart. Then they became different companies.

Anyways, he finally said, he said, you know what's the one thing about Democrats against Republicans? He said, what? He says Republicans compete against each other. Democrats, even if they hate each other, you have to give them credit. They are united, even if they hate each other. There is more going on today with all these businesses, Parlor, Robin Hood.

It's more political than people even realize today. This is no longer about just doing business today. It's not. It's a complete different game. So 27, 28 year old, that's going in. Yeah. And the zucks of the world who started Facebook, Zucks brain is also a different kind of a brain.

It's not a regular brain. It's, you know, in the gates brain and the job's young brain, those brains are wired in a different way. To compete nowadays, you need to be ready. You need to have influence from many different places, especially in the social media game. Let me, uh, something that's on my mind since we're gonna go back to the parlor CEO who's 28 years old,

Zuck's probably in his late 30s now. You said a quote a little bit ago, you said, show me two people, the man with money meets a man with experience, the man with the experience walks away with the money, the man with the money walks away with the experience. You know, we have an audience who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s. What have you?

Give us, you founded PHP. You were how old? 30, 31. Okay, 31. But up to that point, you were, you were a big dog at your former company. I was doing good. Okay. You're now 42 years old. 42. Walk us through PBD founder CEO 30 years old. Yeah. Verse, PPD CEO founder 40 years old. And use that analogy between money and experience. Cause now you're both. Back then you had little, right? You had some money, some experience. If PPD one who's 30 meets PPD one who's 42, what happens? Well, let me ask you a question.

Trump's 74 when he becomes 72-71 when he becomes president. Does he have a lot of experience? Of course. Does he have a lot of money? Yes, sure. Does he have as much experience in politics as politicians? I've experienced some politics. Probably not, no.

It doesn't matter how much experience you got in business or in wealth that you have. If you go into a field that you don't have experience in, you will get schooled. Gotcha. Experience and money, like experience in one place doesn't mean that that experience bleeds into every other thing that you do, right? And so what happens when you do that? The biggest thing that change from the 31-year-old P.B.D.

to 42-year-old P.B.D. is asking counsel and then processing for myself. So hey, I don't have all the answers. 31-year-old, I have all the answers. You don't have all the answers. 31, you're all, I have all the answers. You don't have all the answers. 42-year-old, you know, hey, what do you think? What happened here? What happened here? What should we do here? What do you think about the situation?

So, it's a little bit more of asking for counsel than I know exactly what I'm doing. By the way, both is needed because you need a little bit of, I know where I'm doing, we're gonna go take over the world. You need that drive and the fire to go out there, right? That level of determination. But the experience comes with, hey, we're about to do this. What do you think about this?

I would take this angle. Tell me why here. Okay, interesting. Let me go ask Johnny. Johnny, what do you think? Bobby said this on the board. So it's a little bit more wanting to get counsel rather than I know exactly what I'm doing.

Trump got into politics, became a president, did what he did four years. He said everything. He said he was gonna do. He did it. And then, but he did four years. He said everything. He said he was going to do. He did it. And then, but he didn't win allies on the left. And you don't have to win 100% of them. Not 1%, not 5%, not 10%.

You need them. Especially today. You need them. In the business world, you do as well today because all this stuff about Wall Street bets, Wall Wall Street bets, you know, here's what they're going to, they're taking down Wall Street. Really? What, here's what they're going to take in down Wall Street. Really? What kind of contacts do they have?

Because Melvin Capital, Seth Cohen, Citadel, Citron, all those guys have to do is make 5-10 phone calls in DC. Then they create new regulation, then they create tougher barrier to enter, then they're able to target companies like Reddit because they have the contacts all the way at the top of just politicians. It's a different game today than it's ever been before.

It's always been like this, don't get me wrong. You've always had to have an element of this, but today you got to be ready to compete in the next level. So you're saying that the Wall Street bets Reddit community are not as powerful as they're somehow being made out to be because I'll give you a quote You know a chamath Palapatia. Yeah, very smart guy. Brody potentially running for governor of California He's out there. He's talking about everything. You know, he said things like let the big airlines fail companies fail

I agree said or you do because we can talk about that if you know you did a fully agree with you did a four elements of capital I fully agree with that freedom to fail you talked about that freedom to buy freedom to elements of capital, the episode and freedom to fail. You talked about that. Freedom to buy freedom to try freedom to sell freedom to fail. Freedom to fail. He says Wall Street bets is now officially the number one hedge fund in the world because they are democratized and decentralized platform. This is his opinion, obviously.

But I don't disagree with that. Everything what you just said, I don't disagree with that. Okay. Everything what you just said, I don't disagree with that. But here's the issue. Yeah. Who was the most famous people in the world four months ago? Most famous person in the world, powerful person in the world four months ago. Well, maybe Trump was four months ago.

Four months ago. What happened to him? Goodbye. What happened to his Twitter account? What happened to his Facebook account? Peace out. When's the last time you said, let me check on Trump's tweet, here's what Trump his Facebook account? When's the last time you said, let me check on Trump's tweet,

here's what Trump said to him. When's the last time you're, best two months in my life. By the way, you know what's crazy? Not for CNN. They're down 44% viewers. Yes, yes, yes. In the last 30 days.

In the last 30 days. That's a scary thought. 30 days is a long time for business to be not 44% of a sudden. The Trump would tweet something. What are you gonna do? Joe Biden is the greatest of all time. No one cares. People want, and people want media's that, right?

So they're now taking a hit. MSNBZ is taking a hit. They're firing people. They're letting go of people. They're trying to get into market for somebody to buy them. They don't have money. CNN is on a month. They can't sustain this for too long.

That's what Bezos was talking about buying CNN. This is not sustainable long term. So, yes. So you're saying that you wish that they wished they had still had Trump as a president, because obviously CNN has done everything in their power to get Trump the hell out of office. Now, you think that they're sort of regretting that decision for ratings purposes, for money purposes.

What was your question? When you started your question, you were asked about. We were talking about Wall Street bets and the influence and power. Yeah. You get the mail of the capital. So what I'm trying to tell you is if the government can team up against Trump and take him down who the hell is Wall Street bets? Yeah. Okay.

I'm with you. Who is Wall Street bets? You know, 7.2 million subscribers. By the way, for me, you need a Trump. You need a Wall Street bet. You need an AOC. A check on the other side of the end. You need, you need all of this.

When you eliminate and you make the other powerful, the other also becomes weaker. You need all of these guys. Just like you need a strong Republican party to compete with the Democrats. You need it. You need it. Just like you need a strong Democratic party to come back with the Trump., you do. I think you need an Obama. You need a, you know, you need, you need a Trump. You need a Ted Cruz. You need a pull. You need some of that. Now trying to unify these guys today, little bit like I would have mind seen them 20% come a little bit more

center, 20% come a little bit both sides. Oh, yeah. 20% right. Come to the left. The little bit. Let me go right. You know, a little bit both sides. Oh, yeah, 20% right come to the left. The left. Yeah, right. You know, a little bit more. Mechan midfield. By the way, you know, the whole executive orders. Yeah, Biden. Okay, do you want to pull that up? Do you know who has, who has, who have, you've seen this already this that I'm assuming, right? Ma, Ma, Ma, you before you bring it up, before you bring it out, let me just kind of read this. Let me just kind of read this. If we're going to go political here, Pat, I got to do one thing first. You got to go to the bathroom. No, I got to get a little soy on my cup over here.

So I was gonna go to the bathroom. This guy's gonna go to the bathroom. I swear we're done. Oh my God. Okay, so take a look at this. Take a look at this. So our body, Biden becomes president, right? When he becomes president, he goes on a executive order frenzy, right?

Big time. And he said in an interview, I think it was last year when they asked him, they said, what do you think about executive orders? He said, I think executive orders, if you do it without asking the other side, you're a dictator. What's the difference between a dictator and some of this? He says this in an interview. You can see this as every one of us.

How long ago was that interview? Less than a year ago. Wow. It's what it was, right? Give or take a year ago. So he becomes a president, they want executive order. Paris climate change, ending ban on US entry from majority Muslim countries, require a mask wearing on federal property,

coordinating a government-wide COVID-19 response, incorporating the undocumented immigrants into senses, refusing, refocused on climate crisis and canceling the Keystone XL permit, which was massive, mandating ethics pledge for government appointees, polling funds from border wall, pausing federal student loan payments, strengthening deferred action for childhood arrivals, promoting COVID-19 safety and domestic and international travel, expanding access to COVID-19 treatments, establishing a COVID-19

pandemic testing board, guaranteeing unemployment insurance for workers who refuse work due to COVID-19, facilitating delivery for stimulus payments, empowering federal workers and contractors. Okay, reversing transgender military band, reinstating COVID-19 travel restrictions, promoting bi-America agenda, and reliance on private prisons, initiating plan to combat climate change. By the way, I'm not done.

Reestablishing presidential counsel on science and technology. We got like 10 pages. I mean, I can keep going. You know, reinforcing Medicaid and affordable health care acts. Okay, 35 executive orders, seven memo randoms, and three proclamations. And if you pull up the history of who's had the most executive orders, this is what you would find.

Okay, go up. So here's the leaders in executive orders. Biden, go, okay, go up a little bit so I can read exactly what the time around. Biden's fury, flurryurry of executive order standards. And his first two weeks, President Biden has signed more executive orders. Most recent presidents did in their first month. He has signed nearly as many executive orders as FDR did in his record breaking month.

So FDR did 30, Biden did 28. Look who's third. Obama is third at what? 16. You take Trump out who's fourth Obama is third at what 16 you take Trump out whose fourth true man now watch this Why did I say if you take Trump out here's why the left typically likes to enforce through force We're doing this whether you like it or not is the left right the right wants to There's true. Remember the Democrat. Yes, I know how I watch this this. Now watch this. Trump is at 12. What does that say about Trump? Trump's not a Republican. People don't realize Trump was never a Republican.

Trump is independent. Trump was a Democrat for most of his career. Now he's a Republican for the last however long decade of his career. Trump's still the 12 executive orders. That is an independent. You look at the rest. Bush, seven, Clinton, six, the GHW, Bush senior, two. He was just like, I'm not even having any executive orders in the first 30 days. Reagan, five, Carter, left, seven, Ford, five on the right, mix and five on the right. Johnson, left, seven, Kennedy, left, seven, Eisenhower, right, 6, Truman, left, 13. This tells you about how they look at executive order. So what does this have to do with what we were talking about earlier

with what do you call it, with Wall Street bets? If the right people want to just go out and create a new long and push Wall Street bets around, they can easily do it. You know why? Most of these guys on the left were funded by Wall Street. So if you get funded by Wall Street, you have to kind of realize, just like the company we talked about, Robin Hood, which is what? You campaign for the little person, the small people, the people that don't have the money, but you report

to who, the people that gave you big money. Wall Street people. They give you the big money. There's no difference here. You campaign. We got to help, but you have to report to the people that funded your campaign. And if you don't make that phone call and the campaign people call you and tell you, listen, we give you this much money.

Here's what you need to do here. We need a law, Papa, Papa, Papa. We need barrier to enter, Papa, Papa, Papa. We need somebody to go look at Wall Street bets and invest again. We need somebody that's how this thing works. I am fully on Wall Street's bedside. I'd like 100%.

Okay. Of course you are. 100% but you need contact So hopefully these shamats and mosques and all these other guys are so on their side that they protect them Hopefully that's what they need that's who they basically come out and said that he's on this on this team. He donated Yeah, half of my money is the port no. He did. Well, fun. Yeah. So with, I mean, I don't know how much time you want to spend on Biden's executive, we have like 12 pages of this on.

Go for it. Go for it. You know, I went through some of these and let me give you, I guess, my perspective on this. I went, there's probably four pages. I don't disagree with a lot of these things. Yeah. You know, so let me give you two sides of the coin here on Biden.

Number one, he came out there and he said, what's the quote that you said? If you do too many executive orders, you're a dick. Yeah. At the same time, he's just reversing a lot of what Trump just did. So, Trump came in, reversed a lot of what Obama did. Obama, Biden, but so many other presidents can do the same thing. Totally with him. But he's doing it more than the other.

What's the one thing in common with who FDR when he was was a president in 1933 what's what are they all the world? Had a crisis. They just had a freaking they just got out of the great depression in the middle of the good depression now They're in World War two so Biden Because again, this is in the first month of the presidency, right? This is what this stat is Trump came in and There wasn't a lot to quote unquote change. He did it, in my opinion, a lot of it out of spite, a lot of it of like, well, Obama did this, I'm doing this. Yeah.

Biden is coming in, a lot of his mask mandates, executive orders on climate crisis. You know, obviously he's no fan of big oil. A lot of it is COVID-related. Why don't you ask the other side? Why don't you ask the other side? Well, that's the my next point. I don't trust the other side. Why don't you ask the other side? Why don't you ask the other side? Well, that's the my next point. Why don't you just say, hey guys, if it's not that big of a deal, why don't you ask him?

I don't know how that works within Congress, but yes, it's not a big deal. Why don't you ask him? So then I say, guys, here's what I wonder. What do you think about it? And let them say we disagree, okay, I'm going to do it anyway. How long does that take? Because this political, politically, it could take weeks. So the freaking years to get stuff done.

He's like, let's get it done. Listen, for me, here's, here's like my approach. You know, Tico and Dylan get into it. Okay, did you guys try to address them each other? No, I don't want to talk to them. I can't help you. Talk to each other. Get in a room and figure it out.

You think, come out and still do the executive order. I'm good because now you can say what? Look, I wouldn't do it when I talk to this. We tried to talk about it. They didn't want to talk to me. Yeah. Okay, cool. The people are going to say, you know what?

Fine. But you at least made what? The effort that, hey, here's where we are. This is what I want to do. You know, you can't drop the word unity and not do that. So for example, if you're a campaign, Jimmy Carter's campaign was what? Human rights.

Okay. And he tired to get it to countries, Iran and Cuba. Okay. Human rights. Late 70s. Human rights. Human rights. If that's your campaign, you better advance that campaign.

Trump's campaign was what? Build a wall. Build a wall. Build a wall. Build a wall. Make a great deal. Yeah. Make a wall. Build a wall. Build a wall. Guess, but it was build the wall, build the wall, build the wall. Guess what?

He started building the wall, right? That's what I need to do. Taxes, build the wall. That's what he said, what he's going to do great. If you say unify, you got to unify. So then don't say unify. Obama said, what? Change.

Change to what? Change of philosophy. Change of what? Obamacare, healthcare. Guess what? He kept his commitment of, I'm going to go out there make change. Now, he got up and says, not going to cost you a penny. We're not going to tax you. You can keep your plan if you want to. That was not the truth. It wasn't the true. But he did make drastic changes, scary changes for some people on the other side, but he kept this commitment.

You can't say unify. Is that basically your point here on Biden is that you're saying, let's, I'm going to be the president for all the people we're going to find. I've been known as the centrist, you're the centrist, you're lecture se, you're a center left guy, et cetera. Okay, great. Show a little bit. And now he's coming in as a dictator.

Now he's essentially a white man. He's coming in on what he called a dictator, not what I call a dictator. His interpretation of an dictator. I never said he's a dictator. He said he's essentially, he's coming in on what he called the dictator, not what I call the dictator. His interpretation of an dictator, I never said he's a dictator. He said he's a dictator. That's what Biden called himself. Is it the fact that you don't agree with some of the executive actions or just the fact that he's making executive actions, regardless of what the actions are? You know what I'm saying, my question, is it, I just don't like that he's doing executive

actions or I don't like exactly what they are. You understand my question? Is it? I just don't like that he's doing executive actions or I don't like exactly what they are. Oh, listen a little bit of if Trump came out and says, I'm going to do all executive orders and you do, well, you said you were going to do that. Yeah. So just you said you're going to do that. Then do that. It's all good. We knew he was going to do that. So the people who voted for him, guess what they wanted, a bunch of what executive orders and he did it. This guy didn't come out saying, I'm gonna do a bunch of executive orders. Gotcha. Okay. He did say a couple, but he came out saying, like he said, climate, you know, day one, I'm gonna do Paris come in a way. He did say those things. Totally fine. Yes. But this many little bit, little bit.

It's aggressive. It's a little aggressive on what it's aggressive. So again, the, the, the parlor, the Robin Hood the The amount of executive order somehow some way they're all tied to each other. This is all tied to each other somehow some way Okay, let's go into the next one. Let's go and talk about Amazon. Okay, Amazon Jeff Bezos decides to step down as a CEO So Jazzy is his replacement Andy Jazzy Jazzy joined Amazon in 1997 to EuroOne public and quickly moved up the ranks. He's a close confidant of Bezos and has led Amazon cloud computing business in 2003. The cloud CEO helped build AWS into a massive unit

that generates over 40 billion dollars in annual revenue. AWS is also the de facto leader in cloud computing. By the way, AWS, we just talked about 40 billion dollars in annual revenue. Okay. Exactly. The fact of leader in cloud computing over 30% of market shares officially ate AWS. Adam over 30% is officially AWS. Insiders say, Bezos undoubted, unbounded, trust in Jaze who was promoted to AWS, a senior vice president to CO in 2016. The people who have worked with Jazzy

who turned 53 last month, described them as general United's person who nevertheless, it's high standards and expectation for his people and expects them to rise to the challenge. Jazzy takes AWS service role empowering so much of the internet economy and is rolling, keeping it to the top in the cloud market very seriously.

So Andy, Jazzy, New CEO, Amazon, and Bezos moves to be an executive chairman of the board. What are your thoughts about this? I mean, just the names alone. If you're a 90s guy, you're going to appreciate this reference because I know you appreciate this. I'm here in Jeff Bezos and Andy Jazzy. All I'm thinking of is like DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and Will Smith and Jeff Bezos being well-smith and Andy Jaze coming in as DJ Jaze Jeff playing the ones that

are scary. That's a scary thought, right? There he is. That's a scary thought. But what do you think about this? Any thoughts on this? Well, a couple different things. So number one, first and foremost, let's start with the top.

Let's start with this founder. Let's start with the CEO. What's Bezos going to be doing? What's Bezos is next? moves? What's his new moves are going to be? It says there, Bezos still says he'll, he's still be involved in important initiatives. I don't think Bezos is just retiring and just going to kind of go live in a centropay and eat, you know, $40 euro lobster rolls and monoco. Somebody tells me he's going to be working doing this thing, taking on important initiatives.

Part of that is gonna be philanthropy. I mean, don't forget his wife, Mackenzie Bezos, who's like the 20th richest person in the world, just because she has Amazon shares. She's become famous why over the pandemic, for giving billions and billions away for philanthropic efforts. Cool. So that's what's going on in the Bezos household.

And we know Tom Zanner was new, the girlfriend of Bezos and somehow Tim's Tom Xander's in this story. But Jazzy, let's talk about this guy, 53 years old. He's going to step in as CEO when what, Q3 of 2021. You were most impressed by the fact that what you said 40% was at 30% of their total revenue was AWS. What was that? The market share. Market share of cloud today is controlled by AWS. Is that what's a monopoly? 45% 50% because I phone smartphone is 46%. Okay, so iPhone Apple is 46% the market is very close to being a monopoly. Very. You're very anti-monopoly. Oh, it's not good for the economy. Yes. At all. Did you play Monopoly as a kid?

I do. And every play Monopoly as a kid. I played many times. Mario's witnessed me play Monopoly many times. Very good. It's a great game. Really? Yeah.

Okay. Speaking of Monopoly. I'm pretty sure they don't follow the rules the whole time when he gets late in the game. What did they start? What did they do? Does Pete this patch? He's putting keys on the table. It's all negotiation.

It's all negotiation. So if you unlock, because there's different rules that you can play by. If you allow negotiation to take place between the two two owners then it is what it is. Okay, so you you don't play by the rules You're doing some other stuff. We play by the rules. Okay, but there are different rules to the game of monopoly when you play Okay, what does that mean exactly? So when you sit down and you play with a group the group can dictate the controls and the rules to the game of monopoly Was that where dictate mean in this thing right here? So you say, hey guys, what are we doing negotiating this? Well, we need a third approval or not.

Or you say there's many different ways to play monopoly. And if the four players agree on the terms, you agree on the terms. Okay. But you do that at the beginning. Yeah, of course. At the beginning, when everybody's at the same level, you don't create new rules at the middle of the game. You agree on it at the beginning of the game.

We had one night, we were, where were we at? We were in Georgia. We were in Georgia Atlanta and it started and it ended. It was pretty epic night. I will asleep. I will get everything. We would have recorded that. I wish we would have recorded that.

But go ahead, give me your thoughts on this year. No, I mean, we were talking about a monopoly. So they're not a monopoly level yet, this AWS, right? It's not yet. Okay, but they're trending in that direction. They're a 30% of market share. The way they're grown right now, they'll get there and now. And this is, I'm not exactly the tech savvy guy,

shocker, but I started hearing more about this AWS. Why, let's reference back parlor, right? They shut down parlor from Amazon Web Services. Who else are they shutting down? Well, how much this goes back to the initial topic? Control. What kind of control do they have? Who is parlor going to put in as CEO of the new company?

Are they going to have a good relationship with DJ Jazeep Jeff over here? I think he's going to be able to make a phone call like you talked about with Melvin Kaffir or something. He's guys, hey guys, we we gotta get back up to business. We're a legitimate company. What's going on here? But bottom line is Bezos ain't going nowhere. I think he's gonna be doing more things like

looking into purchase CNN, you know? So the question becomes, here's a few questions. I'm reading a book right now called Motive by Patrick Linceoni. Patrick Linceoni, if he comes out with a book, you gotta read his book, especially if you're in business. Five, this functions of a team, five temptations of a CEO, ideal team player.

You gotta write books, everybody needs to read it, especially if you're in a business world. So everything to me is motive, right? So whose playbook is Bezos following today? He is following potentially a Bill Gates playbook of nonprofit. That's what I'm going to do. Okay. Fine. Maybe. Let's just say there's a thing for moving forward. Moving forward. Yes. What he wants to do. The difference between him and Bill Gates is what? He's a little bit more of a flamboyant guy than Gates. Gates was a true qualified nerd,

qualified man. Not flamboyant at all. Zero flamboyant. Yeah. Bezos today looks buff. He's got a chest. He's got biceps. Right. He changed. You know, when you have money, you can make yourself look.

He's a lot less nerdy. He's wearing leather. Little TRT, you know, like some stuff's going on over there, right? Okay. So what is his motive? I don't know. What is his motive? Does he have any different aspirations for years from now? Five years from now? I don't know. Does he want to run one day? I don't know. What is his motive? Does he have any different aspirations four years from now five years from now ten years from?

I don't know does he want to run one day? I don't know does he want to run for office one day? I have no clue He did say he's gonna be the executive chair and he's gonna work on nonprofits and contribute to Washington Post So why Washington Post? I don't know. Let me take a complete different angle here. I love this story. Here's why I love this story Listen more younger people need to be inspired by these stories. Two days after he took his final exam to get his graduate degree, Andy. Two days after he agreed to go to Amazon.

Jazzy. Jazzy, you know what he told him? Put me anywhere, I don't care. I'm just happy to be here. And that's two, that's 97. We're talking. That's a rocket ship analogy. Yeah, it's like dude, just, I'm just glad to, I don't care what's- Put happy to be here. And that's 97, we're talking. That's a rocket ship analogy. Yeah, it's like dude, just I'm just glad to,

I don't care what's rocket ship. Put me anywhere, let's go play ball, right? Let's go play ball. So he goes in, what does he do? 97, 94, Amazon got started 94. He comes in at 93, young guy, what do you need from me? You know, in two years ago, he got interviewed on CNN. If you guys have never seen this interview

with him on CNN two years ago, the lady asks him, look, you've been able to do this, you've been able to do that, you've been there from day one, you've done this, you've done this, you've done that. Is there any aspirations of you being a CEO? You know what his answer was? He says, I just can't see Amazon being ran by anybody else, but Jeff Bezos. So now, I don't have any aspirations. Two years later, he's the CEO, right? If you, it's a three minute video, if you've

not seen, it's a great interview to watch. Three minutes. So, he's a likable guy. He's a leader. To me, he is fall on the playbook of who? Two, three different names I'll give you. One is our buddy that bought the clippers. What's his name?

Steve Balmer. Balmer. And he's fought Microsoft. Exactly. He worked his way up under Bill Gates. Balmer, Paul Allen, Tim Cook. That's the playbook. He's a number two.

He's a great number two. But he is about to be a very rich number two. If Bezos's ex-wife became the 20th richest person in the world, he's about to become a top 100 in no time, representing a $2 trillion company. You think they're gonna pay this guy a few billion dollars? So what does this tell you? Here's what it tells you.

Listen, let's talk a little bit of business. Let's talk a little bit of business. Every once in a while in your life, you will meet a man or a woman that's different. Something about them, it's different. You will feel it. You're gonna feel it. And you're gonna say, I don't know what it is

about this guy or this girl. It's just different about this guy or this girl. They inspire you, they think big, they keep their word, they're driving, they're excited. They wanna do something that's never been done before. There's that energy that you feel, right? And the longer you're with them and you witness a level of consistency of this,

that's not just trash talking, you know how, you know, watch what I'm gonna do. It's not hot air, it's not hot air. They're delivering results. It's continuously going in that direction. You have to do whatever you can to be a right hand person because long term, you're gonna be locked in if you do it right. So in this situation, you got a guy that came in and says, this guy needs my help, do tell me what you want me to do.

I'm gonna help explode this company. And he now is an entrepreneur. Okay. Never been an entrepreneur. He's an entrepreneur about to run a $2 trillion company, 1.71 point or whatever the number is. A $2 trillion company and he's replacing Jeff Bezos. What a beautiful story.

What a beautiful situation to have. A young guy that goes from there to being where he's at today still young, 53 with this kind of responsibility. He just tells you, by the way, this camera keeps moving out on what's going on here, some's going on here with the camera. I know you guys are addressing it. So, thanks.

Yes, I am all about this. I'm supportive of it. I'm excited for him. I hope you can kill me. I have one question for Jazzy, but of course. So, if he was listening to the podcast right now, and you were on his board giving him advice on how he could possibly mess it up

and what to be careful with, are there anythings you would prepare him for time? No, I would need to be an insider to know, to give any kind of counsel here. I am not qualified in this situation to give him counsel because he's been there since 1997. The only thing is kind of like, look, sometimes when you replace a big character, you're always compared, you know compared to that character. It's very difficult. It's not an easy situation.

And sometimes I am sure Dev Heardle write executive coaches and psychologists and therapists to get him to understand what to say and what it really means. You're not getting this position because you have to be Jeff Bezos. We're not expecting to be Jeff Bezos. You're not wired to be like Jeff Bezos.

Like it's very hard to be Tim Cook. Everybody's constantly gonna compare you. But whoever did that with Tim Cook, did it the right way because look at Tim Cook. He's got his own identity now. He's done a great job with the company. But he's a replacement game, you do. Yeah, it's a replacement game.

But it's more about, but you're not here to be me. You're here to keep the culture together because that's a very important on Amazon. We have a culture. We got to keep this together. We have a vision. We got to keep driving for the vision. You got to keep using your abilities that were great. You just have more responsibilities now. And we're entrusting you to take this company to the next level because we believe it's you. So it's more of that side. It's late night pressures.

That's going to come. And now everything's on you. And for somebody that decides to be a CEO, you can turn down that position. By the way, there was a guy a couple of years ago that everybody thought was going to be the CEO of Amazon. What was his name? What was the name of the guy that was supposed to be the CEO of Amazon? Jeff Wilkie. Jeff Wilkie was supposed to be Jeff Wilkie was supposed to be the CEO. What does this say, Jeff Wilkie, by the way? I don't see it. It says note. Note, I don't see it.

Check this out right here. Yeah, there was another guy that was supposed to be, okay, Jeff Wilkie was supposed to be the CEO of Amazon and guess what he did? He just said, I don't wanna do it. Wow. Yeah, I don't want to do it. No, I don't know.

I just think the life happens. Buddy, you don't, let me take my 100 million bucks. It's not even that you don't know the whole story. You don't know, I just think the life happens. Buddy, let me take my 100 million bucks. It's not even that. You don't know the whole story. You don't know. I've worked so hard. I've been away from my kids.

One of my kids is not using drugs. I got to get into save my family. I just don't want to work that like that anymore. I want to be around my family. I don't want to be the face. I don't want attention. I don't want to be on board calls. Grilling me on CNBC.

I just don't want that. That was you. You did it. I'm good. I'm worth 200 million bucks. I just don't want that. That was you, you did it. I'm good. I'm worth 200 million bucks. I'm worth 50 million bucks. I'm worth half a million. I have no desire to do it. Give it to somebody else.

Many times these positions are turned down by the person that they want to give it to. Yeah. You and someone I'm saying that the person they want to give it to, and he says, now I just don't want to be a CEO. I don't want that kind of responsibility. I get to get a shout out to, well, two things. I like to circle back to Mario, because I know he's starting his own YouTube episode on the importance of being a number two, so you can probably weigh in on that.

But let's talk about being a CEO for a second. Straight team. Never forget straight team. You know, a straight team. This is actually a pretty funny story about Pat and Eric, you were there, and so was Mickey. No, Mario was there too. A couple of days ago, we left, we were working crazy hours.

We're getting here early, we've been staying late, we're setting up the office, we've been out of move. Pat left, probably like, you know, he said, I gotta go have dinner with the fam. I gotta see the fam maybe around eight o'clock, around 10, 11 o'clock, we all go to Pat's house because that's where Eric's car was. And we were all just kind of catching rides and doing a car pulling, doing our thing. And we get to Pat's house because that's where Eric's car was. And we were all just kind of catching rides

and then the car pulling, doing our thing. And we get to Pat's house and it's gated. So we go in the gate, we park the car, we're making our moves. Pat gets out of his car that's sitting in the driveway. Hey guys, what's up? Pat, you've been sitting in the driveway for what it seemed two hours on a phone call. We thought you went home already.

He's still in the Shelby. In the Shelby, like we thought the car was parked. We thought we were just getting the car to make a move. All right, cool. Like, you know, I'm high beaming you. You're not even noticing it. It's me. You're like, I'm looking at a complete different angle. I lost. I'm lost. I'm lost. I'm lost. I told him I said, I bet your parcel awake in the kitchen sitting there following your phone messages. But here's the point, as a CEO, you get the glamour, you're the Jeff Bezos of the world, you're the PBD,

you're making the money, you're the big shot. What people don't see is the fact that it's fricking 10 o'clock at night, you're still sitting in your car two hours later parked in your garage, probably haven't even walked in and said, how do your family yet? Cause you're on, I assume an important phone call, if you haven't even gone in the house yet to your family yet, because you're on, I assume an important phone call if you haven't even gone in the house yet.

That's sort of, I mean, you did a video that went viral to, you know, 90 seconds of an entrepreneur. But is that kind of what you're talking about? Like the other side of like, oh my God. Some people have no desire to be that. Yeah, look, I know a lot of talented, capable people who have no desire to start their own company. Zero.

I had a lot of people in the former company who used to be part of. I looked up to I admired these men. Many of them, a guy named Rich. I admired a lot of these guys who could have started a company, but they never did. Why didn't they? Is it capability? Is it capacity? Is it that you can't run it? Is it you're not smart enough? Absolutely not. It's, do you want that life? Yeah, totally different. It's a different life. There's a big difference between being, you know, a person that's, you know,

behind closed doors, you're making good money and you're good, but you don't have the highest level of pressure that comes to you. You can still make three phone calls above you that the pressure's on them. And you simply share the pressure versus, boom. All the pressures with you, it's a different kind of a pressure. It's not for everybody. on them and you simply share the pressure versus bone. All the pressures with you, it's a different kind of a pressure.

It's not for everybody. Look, this is why when you talk to certain, like Elon Musk said, you want to be a founder, you want to be a founder of a company, okay, perfect. Here's what it looks like. You're going to have no life, okay? You're going to work 80, 90, 100 hours a week and you will have no life. Everything comes to you. You will have a lot of sleepless nights because you have to make the right decisions.

You have to get up in the morning and you have to figure out what you need to be doing. And it's ongoing non-stop. That's what it is. It's the life. By the way, let me give you another thing. The life of a head coach, you think a head coach is an easy job in sports. Every day, you kid him, you got to be there at four o'clock studying this guy's playbook. You just lost a player, you got to replace this player. There's only five quarterbacks on the right now that are free agents. And you got a, you're 62 years old, urban, my or heart issues, you know,

pressures coming to you. This is, yeah, studying, it's not an, it's, but it's not for everybody. It's not for the only place you look good is once you win. And then they say, you're a frickin' G. Good for you. There's a book that's called The Heart Things About Heart Things. I think it's written by Horowitz Sun. What's I don't know his first name but it's it's also Horowitz at the heart things if you go search the heart things about heart things on Amazon if you can so people can see it on the screen here on the big screen Mario. The heart things about hard things. He talks about how he built this.

David Horowitz. David Horowitz. Yeah, I think it's David Horowitz. Who wrote, or Ben Horowitz. Okay, David Horowitz, okay, right there. Go to the bottom, right there, this book. If you haven't read this book, phenomenal book. You know what he explained?

You're a hard thing about. You read this book. Is this the father of the son? Son, this is the son. Okay, gotcha. So you read the book, by the way, he's a three and a half billion out of guy. The type in David Horowitz and a network or Ben Horowitz network.

I think he's a three and things may have changed a lot. He may be higher or less, but he's up there. He's a guy that killed it himself. He hit four of his eight. Two point eight right there, business insider. Okay, Forbes, whatever the. Oh, Papa, Papa, Papa. He's up there.

I don't know what the numbers go up. No, it doesn't show the number. Anyway, he's done very, very well for himself. When you read the book, he's a big hip hop guy, big hip hop guy. He doesn't look like a hip hop guy. He's a big hip hop guy, right? Well, you're a big hip hop guy.

You're a huge T-Pain fan. You're a huge T-Pain fan. so fine. I'm a value a train. Well, what is this new song? What? But you know what he says in a book. Here's what he says in a book. He actually outlines all the ugly truth about building a company and how many times he almost went out of business before he sold it for a billion. Or whatever he sold the hard thing about hard things. The hard thing's about the hard things. Right, so it's not, it's for every one guy that almost made it,

for every one guy that makes it, and is like at the top, that cemetery is filled with a lot of people that could have and should have, and something happened, and they didn't make it. It's not an easy game. So, congratulations to this guy for doing it. Yes, I mean, some people don't like him. Some people say I don't like the fact that he's doing this because he's the reason why parlors out. So I got a text like my

Andy Jazzy. Yes. There's some people that don't like the right now because he forced Parlor out. So if you want to know who forced Parlor out, this is the guy. This is the guy. Wow. Okay. This is the guy that had the influence of doing that. And so now he is the face of Amazon. So again, it's interesting stuff going on over there. Let's talk a little bit about oil. I don't know if you heard or not, but possible Exxon mobile Chevron merger, the biggest merger of all time, the chief of executives, Exxon Mobil and Chevron spoke about combining the oil giants after the pandemic shook the world last year, according to the people familiar

with the talks, testing the waters for what could have been one of the largest corporate mergers of all time. Such a deal would reunite the two largest descendants of the John DeRaccafellor standard oil company, which was broken up by the US regulators and 1911 and reshaping the oil industry. By the way, FYI, if Rockefeller's wealth back in the days, before he died, if you compare it to today, the inflation and everything to get, you know what is networked?

Where would it be? 340 billion dollar network. He'd be number one. He'd be number one. Right, he'd be combined those two. He'd be Elon Musk and Bay, that's Rockefeller. Rockefeller was a, Rockefeller.

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is Apple as far as market share. But here's actually something pretty interesting. You know who the biggest company in the world was? In 2006, most highest valued company in the world, 2006. Walmart. No, who? Exon.

Exon, okay. So now we're talking about them struggling so bad that now they might potentially, because this is all just sort of hearsay initial talks, having to merge with Chevron just to compete in the marketplace right now, because under an invited administration, do you think they're gonna be pro or against energy

and gas and could some might? 100% anti. I mean, I did an episode about, you know, Biden's going green. I mean, clean energy, green jobs. Yep. So, this is all just initial talks right now, whether Exxon and Chevron, but, you know, 15 years ago,

Exxon was the big dog, energy was the big dog around the world. And now who are the big dogs? Tech, Apple, Amazon, obviously Microsoft was there then. The tech has now the big dogs around the world. Apple, Amazon, obviously Microsoft was there then. The tech has now the big dogs around the world and energy is clearly plummeting. Well, Tesla as well, they're making a big energy with all their solar and all that electric power.

The Tesla is tech, big data and clean energy, not traditional, big oil, you know, Exxon, Chevron, that type of energy, yeah. When you get in a Tesla, when you get in a, you know, electric car, electric car, you know what I, I, I, I, I, the Panemero electric, that car is pretty ridiculous. We have the I8 and that wasn't that bad. I did have the I8 and I loved the I8. I don't know if you've seen the I8.

What is that? The BMW I8, the doors up and up on the side. Oh, pull it up, Mario. I like the car. I like the car. Did you drive the I8? Yeah, I drove to pick up your dad one time a day. Yeah, it was actually pretty good.

I mean, it wasn't really that fast. It was around the 16, like the 3.5 seconds, four seconds. Yeah, I ate Adam right there. It was faster than my Saturn. Yeah, it is faster than your Saturn, for sure. So the I8, uh, uh, you drove this for a while. Yeah, it has the electric BMW. Yeah, I had this for two years.

It was really? That's the one. The white and the blue right at a mission impossible. It is a sick car. It's an I had. So you had an electric car. It's right there. That's exactly what I had.

I had that one right there. Okay, I would charge it every day and I. What was that like? What was that like? Let me tell you, I don't even know why I got rid of this car. Why did I get rid of this car? You know, they're getting, I think it was the orange Lambo. The eventador. Yeah. Oh, what? I got the, I got the don. I got the road. I don't know why I got rid of this car. This was a phenomenal car. It was actually a very good car. You know, it was a very good everyday car, is what this was, very good everyday car. But you had to charge it. There was no gas stations.

No, it's gas, it was a combo. Gas, it was a hybrid. It was gas and electric. So if I had the electric, great if I didn't, I could get the gas as well. So, yeah. Can I ask you a question on the mirror? I kind of like that.

Believe it or not, I kind of like that. The hybrid approach. Yeah, I kind of like that because there Wasn't enough Chargers and I didn't have time to go stand somewhere and wait for 15 minutes 20 minutes. I'm like do it Yeah, how long does it take you to fill up your tank? Yeah, five minutes not even two minutes How long does it take you to charge your entire? I don't even know how long it's a it's a while It's not like a minute or five minute thing. You got to sit there for some time right so some like this You go in and it's hybrid or worked out there If there's some things I forgot to charge it,

I'm gonna go to the gas station and take care of that. Go ahead, Maureen. Yeah, a question for you, a little speculation, just a question a little deeper, but the biz-doctor in episode last week, I think, on Tesla. Yeah. We talked about maybe Elon's planning doing energy gas stations.

Do you think if, on these oil companies, and they're thinking next moves strategically, they're merging in order maybe take on the next big thing? Do you think that could be a possibility? I think they're un next moves strategically, they're merging in order to maybe take on the next big thing. Do you think that could be a possibility? I think they're unifying right now because there's a lot of enemies. The next, let's just say Biden and Kamala go eight years. Let's say, a lot of people are saying it's not gonna happen,

meaning Kamala is gonna be the face because Biden may not make it past four years health-wise. We don't know, it's just pure speculation. But say they go eight years. Can you imagine eight years of anti-oil agenda nonstop? You have to pivot. Remember that one episode we did about general motors where Tom put up the picture saying

that general motors website, even though they only sell three percent of their cars are electric, you know, on their website, the only car they had on General Motors website was a CO standing next to their only electric car, even though they only sell 2 to 4% of electric cars, their website says what? Electric cars. And they said by 2025, I think Cadillac is going 100% to 2035, 2030 or some number, I don't know if it was 2035 or 2025, but it was in the next five to ten years.

They're busy saying the next half a year, they're going to be going 100% electric. So this doesn't just catalyze or they're entirely. It was catalyzed only first and then they're going. Yeah. Yes. So if you look at numbers, Exxon's share fell 29% last year. Chevron fell 20% last year. Chevron fell 20% last year. Okay. The stock index of US oil and gas companies was down 57% at one point in 2020. You have to also, the challenge with Exxon and Chevron goes, these guys thought oil was going

to be around forever and they took a hit. By the way, these oil guys, executives, you know, kind of money they make. They go golf in two, three times a week, making a million dollars, two million dollars, half a million dollars, regular executives who are not even working, making that kind of money because they think this is going to be around forever. And unfortunately, this happens in many newspapers

and they're getting fat and lazy. Radio, oh, are you kidding me? Of course they're getting fat and lazy. Radio, oh, are you kidding me? Of course they're getting fat and lazy. You can't go like this forever. And Elon Musk is officially forcing Chevron and mobile Exxon to get back to work. And Elon Musk is forcing these guys who've been kicking a golf in 3, 4, 5 times a week

to get back to work. Because if you don't, your business model is no longer working today. Well, I mean, right here it says it was, was it Exxon, which was America's most valuable company seven years ago? This isn't a hundred years ago, but the market share of more than 400 billion nearly double chevrons. All right.

Exxon has fallen from its heights, following a series of strategic missteps, which were further exacerbated by the pandemic. We all remember back in March, oil went to, you know, zero dollars a barrel, right? What was going on right there? But here's the biggest point right here. It was removed from the Dow Jones industrial average last year for the first time,

since it was added as standard oil in 1928. So scary thought to be so 90 years ago. It's it's it's removed from Dow Jones. So the first time in 90 years. Since 1928. So that alone ought to tell you what direction this is going to right now. So the first time in 90 years. Since 1928. So that alone ought to tell you what direction this is going to right now. This is not a joke.

Like these guys are, you know, I don't know if they're sitting there panicking right now, but I think they're saying, listen man, we know we can't stand each other. You're exon, you're Chevron, look, let's just kind of team up because we have a common enemy. It just come together,

try to make this work and be on the same team together. What do you say? Great. So it's not gonna be that pretty, to make this work and be on the same team together. What do you say? Great. So it's not going to be that pretty, but it's not a bad move that they're making. So we'll see what's going to happen there with this. By the way, let's see which one we go to. Well, you brought up the fact what might happen in the next four to eight years. You want to talk about this?

This might be a good segue for odds. Twenty twenty four candidates. Yeah, I mean, we have to write here. Go for it. Twenty twenty four candidates. Okay. Eric, do you have an opinion on this? On who do you think is going to be 2024 Republican candidates?

Who do you think? I think I would love to see it and we'll see if it happens. But Dan Crenshaw and Tulsi Gabbard VP, a combination and I think Republican. Republican side. Yes. Oh no, Republican ticket. Yes. Oh no Republican ticket or being the VP I think would be because she's she's you know pretty moderate and I would like to see that happen. I don't know two military. By the way, how did you come up with that?

Have you just been thinking about it? I just thought you know I like their personality I like their logical somewhere or no, no, no, it's just me speculating. I feel like Kristen combination you just proposed I actually It's just me just speculating. I feel like Christen combination, you just proposed. I actually fully kind of endorsed where you're going with this. This is a Republican, a reasonable moderate Republican. If you guys don't know who Dan Crenshaw is, he's the guy with a patch on his eye. Pete Davidson on Saturday Live made front of the guy

here to retract that. And now Dan Crenshaw has blown up, by the way, not a Trump guy. Crenshaw, he's voted with him in Congress. I think he's in the house. He's not a senator, right? Who? Crenshaw has blown up, by the way, not a Trump guy. Crenshaw. He's voted with him in Congress. Yeah. I think he's in the house. He's not a senator, right? Who? Crenshaw. Congressmen. Congressmen. So he's in the house. He's not towing the company line. So to speak his guy's own opinions. Right. They're both congressmen. Yeah. And we'll tell Tulsi Gabbard is no longer an active Congresswoman. She, I think she's no longer in office right now.

So if you're watching this, who do you think? Who do you think 2024 candidates? I'm curious. I want to hear from you as well. Who do you think if you were to pick candidates and 2024 running? Who would be on your list? But go ahead. You were saying something. No, I do like the fact that I think this is what this country needs. A Republican, you know, a moderate Republican, a moderate Democrat coming together and running under one ticket saying, guys, we don't have to be so extreme. It doesn't need to go socialism. All the way to the left, the AOC doesn't need to be a candidate. We don't need to have a, you know, what we won't call names, but whatever Trump was doing all the way to the right and, you know,

the conspiracy theorists and the QAnon and the two feet like we need to again get back to center Paul What do you think do you have anybody mine? I've heard about Donald Trump Jr. Kai being a possible candidate Donald Trump. Toxic a bard was actually a bard. Karim Abdul Jibbar. Same guy that would say, Don Le Mans.

Don Le Mans. And what's your good friend's name? Juicy Smule. Juicy Smule. Yeah. The whole thing. I heard. Mario, who do you have?

Anybody or not? Not really. No idea. Do you know the odds? No. You know the odds. I got some odds. Maybe I got some odds.

Do you know who is the highest odds, like most likely candidate? Nicky Haley. What do afraid you know who is the highest odds like most likely candidate. Nicky Haley. What do you think it is? The highest odds today best odds. Yes. Rain Paul would be another name. The San, listen, listen, Gabbard, relax. Who do you have as a high stock?

Okay, high stocks. This is according to a betting website. Okay. Number one, best odds. Want to guess? There's no way they're going to have Trump as a betting website. Okay. Number one best odds You want to guess? There's no way they're gonna have Trump as a high-stods You sure about that is he the high-sum Trump plus 800 as a wild card plus 800 right so the the lower your number the more likely So for instance right now you bet a hundred bucks. You win 800 bucks exactly. You know who the favorite is who in 2024 like the favorite you gonna tease me How much for me? Oh, baby. I'm a T favorite. That's all ready. So the favorite right now to be president in 2024. Yeah Kamala Harris plus 450. I'm with that Biden plus 600. Okay, so meaning they project

Harris is more likely to be president in 2024. What is that? Okay, coffee So meaning they project Kamala Harris is more likely to be president in 2024. What is that? Coffee. Okay. Coffee. It's a tea. Oh, it's a London. Okay. Come here Pat.

You need a little soy for that. You got good buddy. Keep going. So so Malak is plus 450. Patens plus 600. Patens plus 800. Patens plus 800. Patens plus 800.

Number two, Nikki Haley at plus 1200. Mike Pence at plus 1600, and then we have Ted Cruz at plus 3300, Senator Josh Hawley at plus 4,000, Mark Cuban plus 2,500. So he's got better odds than Cruz and Haley. As a Republican. As a Republican. Your boy Dan Crenshaw plus 5,000, your boy, Donald Trump Jr. plus 5,000. So that is the most likely to least likely candidates.

And then you have GOP, Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Green, she's all in the news, plus 10 billion. She ain't going to be president. If you know who that is. Yeah. No. For you betters out there though. So let me give some names here. Let me get some names here. What you got? Abbott, Kai, one, Texas. Yes. Let me tell you why. Okay. He's done a good job.

He's done a good job. No, he's done a good job doing it. Forget about friends. I'm saying he's done a good job doing a good job doing a pandemic. Okay. Texas. Number one, I wouldn't put him number one. I'm just saying, putting him on the list. I know Kai's got a list here. Kai's got Trump, Haley Cruz, Holly, Pants, Cotton. But I think Abid is one seriously to consider. I think the other one is the Santas. Let me take White Santas. Watch this. The NBA playoffs last year.

What was their main campaign? What would they campaign in? Their entire time. They're the NBA bubble and social justice. But what was their main campaign? What would it campaign in their entire time? There are the NBA bubble and social justice. But what was it? What was everybody weren't? Everybody was wearing what you're social justice. Yeah, that's matter. Okay. So a liberal organization decided to hold their playoffs in a conservative state ran by a conservative Republican descent is right. So the NBA playoffs goes there. Super Bowl goes to Florida.

They're right now trying to bully Japan saying, if you don't get your act together, we will gladly hold the Olympics in Florida. They'll let me sit over here, yeah. Yes, in Florida because we know how to do it, right? So you gotta give credit to desantis, okay? And desantis is not a pushover. He's solid, he can hang in there,

and he's a pretty strong guy and he's got good argument to give on what they've done. Young guy too, he's probably in his early 40s. And watch this. Can you imagine if he does and somehow Cuomo gets involved, he will crush Cuomo. He's gonna say, all your guys came to me. All your businesspeople came to me.

So that would be a, I'd love to see the stage of Cuomo going up against the Santas or see an abbot going up against Nusom. I'd love if Nusom runs and these guys somehow get on the same stage. Like you know, the other day we're watching McGregor, we're watching McGregor fighting. I'm like, what a what I say to you at this. I was, I'm like, I don't even, I wasted my, I was so disgusted by it. You wanted him to win. You got a guy you think you're gonna, you're gonna, anyway, it's very frustrating. Listen, this is upsetting you. I'm a fan, I'm a fan, but the money,

you got a couple hundred million dollars from proper 12 and you go in there, either don't fight or fight the guys, he's so exciting. You wanted a kid to be a McGregor. I wanted Kabeegra and that's not gonna happen. I could be made fun of him, say this may never happen again, right?

And even Dana said, it may never happen after what just took place. And then he had the drug stuff that came up, which is six months suspension. That's a whole different story. So Connor had a, yeah, I think Connor got suspended. Kai, can you verify this? I think Connor got suspended for six months

or something like that. Yeah. So, so your sleeper is, yeah. You're sleeper, you called Mario Kai. No, no, I actually Kai's texting. Oh, that is there. Yeah, you're sleeper. You called Maro. Okay. No, no, I actually guys text. Oh, okay. Yeah. You're basically saying your sleeper is the Santis.

If you can pull out a little bit from. I think so so the Abbott, the Santis, Pompeo, I don't know if he's a guy that could be a president. Let me throw another curveball for you. Yeah. Let me throw another curveball for you. I don't know if it's going to happen this year. Maybe it's going to happen in the next eight to 12 years, maybe 16 years.

Kushner's genius, Ivanka, I think, can run, people love her, and even the left respects her. When she's saying Kushner or Ivanka, are you saying they're running at the door? Either or, either or, because remember Kushner's not a Republican. Kushner's a center right center, sometimes center left. And Ivanka's not fully a Republican. Ivanka's a center right is where she's at at and she can go on the view and they're very

respectful to Ivanka, the way she is, right? So Abbott, DeSantes, Trump, Ivanka, Kushner, Tim Scott, which we've already talked about. I love what you said with Tulsa Gabbard, Dan Crenshaw, sure, he hasn't had enough publicity online on media, you know, the whole thing that happened sat in my life was good. I'm gonna throw a crazy curveball in there, crazy curveball, because you know, the usual suspect everybody throws. Here's a crazy one, that would be so interesting.

And by the way, I'd love to see Cuban getting it. I'd like, I talk Cuban as far as I was as good. I told him four years ago, and we said, and I said, so what's your, you know, I'd love to see, I'd love to see Cuban get in it. I'd like, I talk Cuban as far as I can. I told him four years ago, and we said, and I said, so what's your, you know, I'd love to see, I'd love to see him get in it because I think, I think he pisses off both sides. I don't think Cuban as a Democrat, I don't think he's a Republican.

I think he is center left. He's not a Republican, but he's center like slightly, like just a little bit left, okay, is where he is center left uncertain issues center right uncertain issues closer to economy. Okay But I Don't know why I would love to see Tucker Carlson run You don't even know how much I'd love to see him run You don't know how bad I'd love to see him run really. I'd love to see him run no support from the left Oh, yeah, I don't know how bad I'd love to see him run really I'd love to see him run no support from the left. Oh Yeah, I don't know

Well, no wait a minute. He's he's also called out Trump He's called out the right. He's called that things that the right is done So you have to know that there's an element of the right that also doesn't like Tucker So it's not like he is he'll get up there and say stuff like dude. What are you doing? Are you Republican already Democrats? So what's your name? Really badly? What's her face? The Trump lawyer, the Q and on lady, the, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hard

court, hard court. I don't know which one was today. What was the lady saying? The lawyer's name. Sandy, Sydney, Sydney Powell, Sydney Powell. He's the first one that was like, yo, Sydney shows the proof. Yeah. You're talking about a whole big game.

You're talking Hugo Chavez, you're talking Dominion. Yeah, a little bit too much. So that's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm going to tell you what I'm trying to tell you is, I can see that, you know, if he was to get in. Now here's a challenge why a guy like that may not get in. You know why a guy like that may not get in? Because a guy like that, it's about to be a free agent,

and he's probably going to land a hundred to a hundred and fifty million dollar contract. So him running could cost him a hundred and fifty million dollars. Like the money, buddy. That's probably what's going to be a free agent and it's probably gonna land a hundred to a hundred or a hundred fifty million dollar contract. So him running could cost him a hundred or fifty million bucks. Take the money, buddy. That's probably what's gonna end up happening. The reason why some of these guys, like you imagine, Bill O'Reilly never ran. Why maybe a little bit of personal life? I don't know.

Some of these guys never ran. But you can, I think we've experienced a way that there's a big difference between winning, you know, your primary in the Republican party versus the three winnings. Thank you, baby. For the winning, yeah. So listen to this. Now, that's from Jen. Yeah. Thank you, baby. Four-row-doodle-doodle. She listened to this. Now she'll actually, that's from Jen. Yeah.

Thank you. You know what the reminds me of, Pat, with the Tucker Carlson kick is a few years back. And this didn't end up a success story, but there's other names I can't come to my mind. But in the NFL, Matt Millen, who is a former player, he was a color commentator, and then he had no front office experience, but then he jumped into the GM role of the Detroit Lions. But to me, that'd be kind of a similar thing where it's like, you watch it and you're studying, you're analyzing it, so you have a better,

maybe understanding than a lot of people from inside. So you have a nice outside perspective, but then you don't necessarily have all that experience, but sometimes that could work for you. So I kind of like that philosophy. Yeah. I don't know. I like them.

Something about them I like. You know, like, like, here's what's crazy. And people get up so when I say this, there's something about Chris Kohlmey like. I don't know. There's something about John Stewart. I love. I'm so glad he's back on Twitter, by the way. John Stewart just got on Twitter. I don't know if you guys heard or not. He's officially on

Twitter. He was never on Twitter. He gets back on Twitter. And if you guys have, like, go on his Twitter account so we can see what he says. You're a fan of John Stewart. I'm a fan of John Stewart because I said he's left. He, no, he's not. He's sent her left. He sent her left. He called that Nancy Pelosi on his show and made her look like a fool. And he went up there and fought for the firefighter some nine eleven. So I mean, that's what I don't know. I don't know if he's left. I don't know if he's as left as you think he is. I think he's sent her left. But I think we need him. I think I mean, he started to go to Twitter. Go tap and just tap and Twitter on the top. No, no, no, just put John Stewart. Okay, go to Twitter and type in John Stewart.

Two T's. So you guys are in the same community. Twitter. Got it. Got it. So Kai, Marius, making you look good today. Kai, if you watch, you know Kai somewhere in America. He's Kai's somewhere right now.

He's celebrating. You said you said, you said, Typen, go to his account. John Stewart. Not sure what his account John Stuart Roach oh my gosh, I can't Somebody help us out here. Oh, maybe he's not on that. No, he is under. He's a hundred percent under He just he just has a unique and right there the dog all the way in the bottom All the wind that's him. Yeah, believe it or not that's him click on that. Okay, one million followers

He's following one person and the one person he's following I think is Wendy's I think is it Wendy's Artie trashes them on a tweet but go back we have the tweets Go back okay, so he puts up on the 31st. I believe compromise is the heart and that out of progress demands Concession so to the right in exchange for universe of health care I will allow all the future Mario. What are you doing? I'm reading Mario. What are you doing? I'll all future space leaders To be non-demon-denominational what compromise are you doing? I'm reading Mario what are you doing? I'll future space leaders to be non-denominational. We compromise the proposed. Remember there are no bad ideas unity. The stuff he says yes I've come back on you much like one of your nasty nasty sandwiches Arby's right because Arby said that thanks for whatever so if I do really well on here I get to be

president. Yes he's got 484. That's my Trump. Yeah, I think it's cool though. I think I think Stuart, you know, I enjoy his perspective. I I don't know if carcel is going to run or not, but I think that kind of a personality would be very interesting. I'm out of eventually Shapiro's going to run.

Yeah, eventually Shapiro's going to run. It just may not be in the next 15 years. Eventually he's going to. But I think we're going to have to hear that voice. I think we would do a disservice if we don't address the most likely leading contender other than Trump himself is Nikki Haley. She's a reasonable moderate. Let me just read a little bit of what people said.

Here's what people said. The Sandes and Noem, okay. Tulsi and Jocco. The Sandes and Tulsi said, Amia. Mades and Tulsi, Dennis McGriff, Narelland Joseph's as Candace Owens, Ian Wins says, Patrick, David, 2024. How about Patrick, David, David, soy boy, PVD, soy boy, campaign. We got a 2024.

We got to make, we'll put our face on a milk carton done. We'll get Nancy on that right now. Nancy, we're going to need my face on a milk carton. Okay, Talsy, Talsy, Talsy says, pre-Omen, Roy Shanley, Talsi, Trump and Talsi, Trump and Talsi, Shapiro and Crowder, Shapiro and Crowder, Mark Cuban, doesn't matter who's president in 2024. And he got Ted Cruz, Talsi, Crenshaw, Haley, Tim Scott, and Talsi has been demonized and ostracized by the Democratic Party.

By the way, this is what's needed. Meeting more people talking about you in different platforms, tosses, makes made herself so relevant and different from what people want her. This is very good. It's good time to have momentum because you've got three years to create that kind of momentum. It's actually very good sign that other people are saying this.

Who else got PBD and sauce, Irvin, Jack, okay. So we got more. Anyway, a lot of people are saying, you know, different names, but you said the leading candidate, okay, one person, your brando commando gave $5 and said, I got Republicans, Matt Gaetz, okay. Good looking guy, you're not a fan of Matt Gaetz. He's shan does cousin by the way.

So Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Greg Abbott, the Sanders Democrats, Kamala Harris, Newsom, Bob Iger, Mark Cuban. Good list, Bob Iger, Newsom. When you say someone like Iger, I'm thinking who can get out of the primary and actually win the general. Someone like Bob Iger can. Someone like Nicky Haley can.

Okay, can. Bob Iger. Nicky Haley, can. Bob Iger could be president. And he wants to, by the way. Okay. Democrats like him, smart business guy, traditional conservatives, you know, I don't know if he'll have the MAGA community.

Nikki Haley. He's left. Okay. Yeah. But his family parents are left and he grew up wanting to. We've all seen you can do great, like Ted Cruz can do great in the Republican primary. That guy's never going to be president. I'm sorry.

Um, Matt Gates, you got to understand from someone who, you know, kind of views himself like Ted Cruz can do great in the Republican primary. That guy's never gonna be president. I'm sorry. Matt Gates, you got to understand, from someone who, you know, kind of views himself as Senator left, I'm looking at these names and I'm saying there's no way Matt Gates is ever going to be president of the United States with what he's done, and pissing off people on the left. Just like someone like AOC is never gonna be president

because no one on the right would ever vote for her. So you need to have someone who could reach out to the other side and get votes. That's what Trump was able to do in 2016. Biden took some votes from Trump in 2020. Obama was able to do that in 2012. Big tent, baby. So Ted Cruz, I don't see it. I don't see Trump Jr.

I do see a Nikki Haley. I do see even a Tom Cotton. I do see even a Tom Cotton. I do see a Tulsi Gabbard. Uh, yes. Yeah. I see what you did there. Yeah. I got a name for you guys. I just this just started perk A in my head. This is a little out there, but stop it. He's got different experiences which I like ice cube. I thought you were going to say John L. Way or something because of how's die hard of a guy you are? I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think conservative principles now. He's kind of a lower place. He's polarizing in a good way. You ain't got no job. You ain't got no place to go. And it's Friday. Ain't nobody gonna have to get you high today, but I can see that shirt. Those straight out of the White House.

Straight out of the White House. I'm telling you guys. This is a marketing. Marketing. Marketing. Pat, I don't know how much time we have left. One hour ago. One hour ago. News just came out and it's trending on Twitter. What's going on? Jeff Zucker, CNN president is going to be stepping down by the end of the year. Oh. Jeff Zucker from CNN is going to be stepping out of you. Well, our friend that was recording all his conversations, what was that? Yeah, yeah.

It's, it announces, plans to step down one hour ago at CNN. Okay. So he is stepping down. Um, what is the guy over? Veritas project, Veritas. Project stepping down. What is the guy? Oh, Veritas, Project Veritas. What's the guy's name from Project Veritas? I don't know the guy's name. Okay. Okay. James O'Keefe. Yeah. He had a recording of their calls that he had and he made it public and people listen to it. So I don't know if that's the case. I think CNN is taking a massive hit. I think that's what I was going to say is what's the upside for him staying trying to,

I mean, ratings are going to be lower for news media over the next four years with Biden. He's just not, people just obviously don't give a shit what he has to say as much as Trump, whether you like Trump or not, you listen to Trump. I think he said, listen, I dealt with the Trump era, I'm out. Let me just take my couple hundred million and keep it moving. But we're talking about odds here. Yeah. We're in Florida.

We talked about the Santas. We talked about the NBA bubble. What's this weekend? It's super ball, but Mario, who do you got? Tell us who should we be betting on? Uh-oh. I don't bet against goats. So.

Wow. Well, we got straight up. We got the real goat versus the baby goat. You're going to go for Tom Brady. So you're saying Brady's going to win it. Yes. So it's temporary. You're going to put Brady against my homes.

Yes. Okay. It's going to take a young bucket lesson. You think so. That'll be twice he lost in a playoffs by the way. You're going to Paul. What are you saying? Yeah.

I am rooting for Paul. I'm bringing Paul actually no sports. Paul actually no sport. Big time. I'm rooting for the Buccaneers sports. Paul actually knows sports. Big time. I'm rooting for the Buccaneers. I think they have a puncher's chance, but the chiefs are the better and more consistent team. Did you hear about the whole COVID thing with the chiefs?

Yeah, the barber. No, the barber got COVID and he cut 20 guys here and they all, do you know the players have to test negative five days in order to play on five days in a row? Pat my homes got the haircut with the barber as well. Unbelievable. Yeah. That's pretty crazy. If you lose because of a barber, I mean, that barber. I mean, guys from Vegas are going to go

find this barber. Are you going to say damn it? You cost me 20 million bucks. I think they would push the Super Bowl. I think there was zero chance they would Oh, really? I bet that the Super Bowl is being played in Tampa this weekend. I don't know if half of the

chiefs are out. They're going to push the super bowl. By the way, who else has said what you just said right now? Probably no one. I don't know. I've never. They're not going to push the super bowl. You can't you can't physical if you lose half your team because it's not like a replacement. But he that's your responsibility. You should have followed the guidelines and being a little bit more responsible. I get that part, but you can't, you can't play the Super Bowl with half your team. And, and you can't just say it's a tie or you understand the amount of preparation they put into the having to freaking Super Bowl three days from now. I get it. But the, like, everything that they're doing,

all the sports league about flexibility. Was not we put in your bench? I mean, then, then, now we have like we have no you don't have a million Play for the team for the Super Bowl is gonna be this weekend. I will lose listen, Hals I've been jogging so you will lose so Eric you got anybody or nobody? Okay, Sam you got anybody or nobody who Box who do you have Paul you said the chiefs chief? Spamwarden for the okay who you got well,'m going to use your words to prove my point here. What's the okay? Tom Burdy's the goat.

Yeah. Patrick Mahomes the baby goat Patrick Mahomes they're the favorite KC's favorite minus three. Talked about odds. Patrick Mahomes what do you do this past off season? He signed a new five hundred million dollar extension right? Half a billion bucks almost whatever it it was. Biggest ever. Here's how I'm going to use, give me a guy with experience, the guy with money, the guy

with the money is going to walk with experience, the guy with experience is going to walk away and get the bucks. I'm going to, I'm rooting for the bucks. Tom Brady, that's my guy. I've been rooting. And in college, I got, I skirted by by running book. And I took Tom Brady's first Super Bowl 2001 Patriots were plus 14 points is obviously under the bill of Bellicic era. They beat the Rams

The greatest show on turf. So I haven't gone against by the way. Let me ask you if you're watching this Push thumbs up if you got the box push thumbs down if you got the chiefs. I'm actually curious Push thumbs up if you got the box push thumbs down if you got the chiefs. I'm actually curious. Push thumbs up. If you got the box, push thumbs down. If you got the cheese. To be clear, comment. Don't push the, no, no, no, no, smash that button right there. Not comment. No, no, not comment. I want them to, I don't care if it's a negative comment or not. I don't. I don't. They hit the thumbs down. I want because that's how I can track it. I see right now. 795 to seven. So if I see this, I'm a little buddy right here. Okay. So 795 is okay. So more people think the bucks are gonna win. Really?

Why don't we? I think everybody's just rooting for Tom Brady, but if you actually look at the logistics, this is gonna come down to pass rush. Whoever gets the, generate more of a pass or is gonna win this. All right, they're Matt Melon. This guy's going deep over here.

We'll look at the energy champion. Yeah, another concern. Tom Brady is throwing, is having a lot of turnovers right now. We all know our community income here for the sports. Pat, give us your prediction. Pat, my home's Patrick Bet David, who you got? Let me, let me give you if both happens.

Let me give you if both happens. I kind of give it to you from a different way. If my home's wins, that's like Kobe always wanted to face LeBron in a playoffs. Yeah. You know, Kobe, if Kobe goes on the finals, and he, if Kobe goes, if Kobe goes against the, in the finals against Jordan and beats the Bulls, there's always that argument. Yeah. Okay. The reason why LeBron for the rest of his life is going to have the argument of, you're not the greatest, is because, you know, six, LeBron, your Jordan, six championships, six for six, all this, there's moments in history

that you have to really capitalize. This maybe Mahomes' most important game of his lifetime. For legacy. Purely for legacy. Because if Mahomes beats, I just got the chills. If my home's beats Brady, the chances of Brady going back to the Super Bowl slim to none. Right. Running it back. I'm not going to say slim to none. I'm going to say 10%. Here's why. Who's the most pissed off person in the world this weekend?

Probably Bill Belichick. No one's more pissed off in the world than Bill Belichick. Nobody is more pissed off than Bill Belichick. You did this without pissed off in the world than Bill Belichick. Nobody is more pissed off than Bill Belichick. You did this without me, bro. We didn't have a coin. He's got $60 million to play with. He's gonna put a team together. Okay. He's about, he's got a $60 million.

Who does? Salary that's got opening to play with. He's gonna put a team together that's gonna scare the hell out of everybody. Belichick. Belichick. You don't give Belichick $60 million budget for you. Why does he have $60 million?

He's got, that's the number. He's got cash. He's got Sallery cap. Sallery cap. He's got $60 million. Watch what this guy's gonna come back with, which means what? Brady's the most hated player as competitor, competitor, because he keeps winning. Nobody like, nobody like Jordan.

Nobody likes, as a competitor. Nobody like Kobe. Everybody like Kobe when he retired and was shooting 27% from the field. We love Kobe. Yeah, because he's not going to beat you anymore. You hated Kobe 10 years ago, you love Kobe not, right? They still hate Brady, because he's still in the Super Bowl. Okay.

Uh, if he beats Brady fast forward 10 years from all the Stephen A. Smiths and Max Calermans and Skip Bayless, they're all debating on TV and they're gonna say, but the last time Brady went to Super Bowl, he lost to Pat Mahomes. And that's why Pat Mahomes is now the goat because he beat the prior goat. And Brady has to sit there for the rest of his life listening to those interviews.

So for Mahomes, lots of pressure. For Brady, a lot of pressure. Cause Brady knows Mahomes can take it away from him. So they Brady, a lot of pressure. Because Brady knows, Mahomes can take it away from him. So they both have a lot of pressure. A ton, my prediction, here's my prediction. Whoever gets sacked two times in a first quarter loses. Whoever gets sacked two times in a first quarter

loses the Super Bowl. Very simple. If Brady gets sacked twice in the first quarter, he's gonna lose. If Mahomes gets sacked two times on the first quarter, he loses. What's your, what's your analogy? You gotta shake the guy up

because there's so much pressure. Shake him up. Sack him twice in the first quarter, then you have a shot, okay? I think that's my prediction. I may be wrong, but we're trying to say something or not. I'm just time.

Yeah, that'd be my prediction to say that. So give us a final score. Let's do it. I don't know. I think last week when Brady won, Tampa Bay had a solid defense. So I'm, you know, KC. So I'm kind of a, I'm going Tampa Bay's defense, believe it or not. I'm going Tampa Bay's defense wins the championship.

That's my bet. So I could be wrong, you know, that my bet is Tampa base defense going to win the Super Bowl. So again, I hope you're right, Pat. I hope you're right. As well. But you better respect this, my homestead. He's likable. He's crazy. He's a great teammate. They love him. He's a good captain. He's a good face at a league in every possible way. The NFL got so lucky having them at home. So lucky to have them at home because the NBA's the NFL is locked in the next 10 years.

Just because they have a good face. Mom's a such a great face for the league. So if he wins, I won't be upset. But I'd like to see, it might prediction his Tampa Bay's defense going to win this thing. Paul. How far is Tampa Bay from here asking for a friend?

Probably less than four hours, three this thing. Paul. How far is Tampa Bay from here asking for a friend? Probably a lesson four hours, three hours away. Yeah. All right. So with the last time, by the way, let me do one more here to see if the odds changed or not. Yeah. It's still people are saying Brady's going to win. Hey, if you enjoyed today's podcast, smash that subscribe back. We are back. I don't know how many times we're going to get back to, but we are back and, you know, we're going to mix things up and Depending on how this does and it grows Will increase the level of commitment we put into this don't get me wrong. We had a lot of fun We enjoyed this ourselves. I've really enjoyed this. It's a very busy time of my life right now

These guys know how busy I am because they see me every day what my life looks like Mario yesterday came in at 11.30. I'm what what I look? You see them when he came into the house. Phone to the right, leg extended, face down, knocked out, listen to audio book. I was listening to the motive. Sleep. Knocked out on the couch because I'm trying to finish this audio,

but I'm gone. I said, why don't you wake me up? This is Pat. I went, I had two tangerines, I opened the fridge, I walked around, it got noise, you still, I kept saying Pat, Pat, Pat, you're still in wake up. I opened the fridge. I walked around. It got noise. You still I kept saying pat pat pat. You still in wake. You needed some sleep Who's fault of what was that? I'll go. No, go ahead. We'll go. I woke up at four o'clock this morning and everything was about notes notes Strategy strategy notes notes from four o'clock. I couldn't sleep. You know what? I blame your friend Jerry on the airplane didn't let you sleep

Jerry, you know what? Oh, by the way, I gotta give a shout out to friend Ruth Jerry on the airplane didn't let you. Jerry, you know what? Oh, by the way, I got to give a shout out to a friend. Ruth, two people I got to give a shout out to and I know like it's Ruth. I, I'm at the beach the other day celebrating Tico's birthday. Tico turned nine years old, my son, my first son. I'm so, I love this kid. Patrick Jr.

So proud of a man on what he's doing and who he's becoming, but turn nine years on. The other day, Dylan says, hey, dad, people in school ask me if my daddy's rich. What do you say? I say, you don't go bragging about if your daddy's rich or not, but they're asking. I said, no, our family's businesses, our family's business, and Dylan says, so I said, what are you gonna say if they ask you?

Well, if they ask me, I'm gonna say, we keep those kind of information to ourselves. Okay. Ben, do you want to say, because that's tickle says, yeah, but I don't know if I'm comfortable with that, because if they ask, I want to answer because I don't want to lie.

I said, Tiko, what would you say? My dad has money, but he's very modest. He realized the first time I used the word modest, I was in my late 30s. Like, what do you mean modest, you know? Nine years old. Nine years old, literally, what he said. He says, my dad's modest, but shout out to Ruth.

We're at the beach. I'm hanging out with the kids, celebrating Tiko's birthday. Mario is there. Melva's there. You know, Mickey was there as well, I think. Yeah, Mickey was there as well. And All of a sudden I start talking to this family because the kite I was using always and this husband and wife are sitting in their Concerned because the windows moving. Boom comes down crashing. They thought I was gonna hit him. I missed them by like six feet And so dark. Okay, I'm glad it didn't hit us, I said no, it's all right, it's cool. So we start talking to him, we exchange phone numbers. Then I walk away, this lady is nursing her kid.

And sitting there with her family, with her husband, Jonathan, I think that's his name. She's got a 12 year old, a nine year old, a five year old, and a three month old baby. This lady does sit in right there. She says, you have one other fan here. I said, who I look at her husband. He says, no, Ruth probably

late 60s, early 70s. She says, I listen to the entire podcast and what you guys say. And I promise Ruth, before I forget Ruth, shout out to you. She's from upstate New York and hour north of New York is visiting her niece here. Just had a very pleasant conversation with the family. If Ruth, you are listening, shout out to you. And the last shout out I do want to give is, I posted this on Instagram, I just kind of want to say this here, it's because as a kid, I was growing up,

I got a call last week for my sister, and she said, Luther Al-Hasey passed away. I call them Uncle Luther, but Luther Al-Hasey passed away at 95 years old. This is a serious man who was very successful. He owned country clubs, golf clubs. He lived in a beautiful home and they called the sack right next to Stunc Dog with a, you know, birds, what do you call it, cage with collection of birds and his jaguars parked

outside in a basketball court, a tennis court, a pool, Jacuzzi, you know, just the whole thing. This is like, this was a guy looked up to an ad, young age every summer, I would go to his house once my dad would take me there. And I would watch him, you know, wouldn't speak to him because he was looser, but I would watch him. He had a picture of himself and Al Gore in the billiard room.

He had a picture of himself as an entire family, 30 of them, all dressed in white. And he would sit down and debate his kids. Why did Jesus do this? Why do things going on with this? Who's going to win the championship? I disagree with you. He would constantly inject debate in their family, right? And I looked at him, I said, what does a sky do? Dad, he's a business owner. So one day I want to be like him. From that age, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, every time summertime I'd go see him and I joined a military, then see him again. But I said, I'm going to go be successful because of this guy ran a business and I'm going to do the same thing as well.

You know how he started his business? This is how he became a million. What a great story. He's at a bar. This is the myth everybody says. No one knows the 100% truth but this is the story. He's at a bar. A guy on the side of the bar says, Hey man, I got a big load.

I'm trying to move up to Russia. But I need a massive truck and I don't know how to do it, and I willing to pay premium for it. And he says, man, let me see what I can do about this. At the end of the bar, a guy is selling him a massive truck, not a bigger than 18-witter-to-move stuff. And he tells the guy, how much you selling your truck for because this guy's going out of business,

he gives him a dollar amount. He goes to this guy and says, how much you willing to pay me advance? The advance he gives him ends up giving him enough money to buy the truck. He takes the truck, moves the stuff to Russia, makes his money, comes back, starts a transportation company and leaves Iran on time when the two men was only a few dollar, few two men a dollar, comes you with the money, becomes successful, runs the business, has got the best, best, man. Everybody in his family so accommodating. These people have treated me royally.

His son, Lydamir, when I was a kid, I was part of an organization called the New Century City, New Century City basketball association where they brought trouble teens, you know, from Mara Savatru Trucha, from Blood, Crip, you know, everybody, and we would play basketball. And he was our coach. He kind of brought kids together and he would play with us,

not on his son, a lot of you. And I wasn't at the best phase of my life at that time, 14-year-old Nuckelhead. And he injected belief and he was patient this entire family. So two years ago, I'm so glad this happened because he needed a cure from me. Two years ago, we were at Raffi's place. Maybe you're in a half a go. Mario, either you were this happened because he needed a hero from me. Two years ago, where I'd raffis place.

Maybe you're in a half ago. Mario, either you were with me or Tickle was with me. We were at raffis place. And I spot him. So I get up and I go to him. Paul, may have been you. I don't know who was with me. One of you guys was with me.

I go up to him and his daughter is there and Jackie and he's like, hey, how you doing? You know, all this stuff. And I say, Uncle, I have to tell you something. I think you have to hear from my mouth. He says what? I said, you change my life. I you something. I think you have to hear from my mouth. He says, what? I said, you changed my life. I am who I am today because of you.

You inspired me when there was no example of massive success in business and life. I love my dad. He shaped me to be a man, but in business I never had it. You were it because of you at a young age, you inspired me to become who I am today. Without you, I am not where I'm at today.

You see tears in the guys eyes. I said, look, you probably have impacted so many people, but I wanted you to hear this from my mouth. And he remembered you. And he of course remembers me. We've had many conversations. Yes, yes, yes. He starts getting emotional.

He sits down and walk, and I go back and I have my dinner. And then last week I get a call from Paulette, saying he passed away. So, prokmy, how my spirit was broken for a day, because this is one of those special Assyrian leaders amongst other leaders. And, you know, I look forward to replacing and setting a great example for that community.

So, I just wanted to give a shout out to the entire Al-Haseh family. I love you guys. May he rest in peace. My condolences goes out to you and your entire family, the Syrian community lost an incredible leader, but his example is going to develop so many great leaders to represent around the world of what other young Assyrian leaders can do. So shout out to the entire Assy family. And those of you guys that don't know who he is, it's important to me. I wanted to take this moment, this platform to give that shout out to the family.

I appreciate you guys that stuck around to listen to this. Had a good time on the podcast here with everybody. Again, can't wait to do this again. I think we have a schedule for next Tuesday. What time? So the challenge with it is we're debating whether we do 8 a.m. Eastern standard time. So let me ask you guys this question because this is one since you guys are here

till the end and you're pretty much a true lie tenors that are here with us. At the end, do you want us to do it eight AM Eastern Standard Time or nine AM Eastern Standard Time? Here's a difference. I want to do eight AM, okay. I want to do eight AM. So eight AM meansm. California.

9 a.m. means 6 o'clock California, but the content that we talk about is worldwide. So some of you guys are Europe, some of you guys are Saudi Arabia, some of you guys are Dubai. So we got people from all over the world. Do you want to see 8 a.m. Eastern or 9 a.m.? If it's 8 a.m. press thumbs up. If it's 9 a.m. put thumbs down. I'm curious which one you want to see. So let's take a look here. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 999 899 8888 8888. So everybody is it possible? Is it possible to do a poll on Instagram? I tell you it's looking like it's 8. More people are asking oh by far. Are you seeing it or no? Yeah, I'm looking at coffee. Are you looking at it? It's more eight and nine a.m. 8 a.m. Andrew said you lose West Coast. I'll probably get you lose you for an hour and you join me

at, join me at six. So here's what I say we do. Here's what I say we do. Based on what a lot of people are saying 8 a.m. Next week, we will test Tuesday, 8 a.m. Fair? Got it. Next week, am I in town next Tuesday or no?

Z said we're confirmed for the following week. I'm not here at all. So we're not going to do podcast two weeks from now, but next week I'm here the entire week. We're going to post on a vitamin Instagram. Okay, so we'll figure that out. So next week, we're for sure Tuesday, Thursday. Okay, so next Tuesday, let's lock it in 8 a.m. Eastern standard time, 5 a.m. West Coast Pacific Standard Time. Good. So you just got it. To next Tuesday, we're testing Eastern. So that's an hour earlier than we usually start. We're going to test it and we're going to see.

Data's going to tell us what's going to happen. Lock it up, Adam. Say that again. Lock it up, Adam. Yeah, so that's what we got here again. Hey, guys, some of you guys were no more smash that subscribe button. Thanks for joining us for the last couple hours. Really enjoy looking forward to getting back to this. Adam, happy birthday to you.

Thank you, bro. Thank you. Special special shout out to you with your birthday. Take care, everybody. Really enjoy looking forward to getting back to this. Adam, happy birthday to you. Thank you, bro. Thank you. Thank you. Special shout out to you with your birthday. Take care, everybody. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.