PBD Podcast - The Rock is on Fire | PBD Podcast | EP 53

Episode Date: April 15, 2021

 In this episode, Patrick sits down with Adam Sosnick and Tom Zenner to talk about homelessness, the Rock's Under Armour deal and Jack Ma. Here's the link to watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkdXetYbaP4 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbdpodcast/support

Okay, so today we're gonna have a surprise. It's sitting right behind us. Oh yeah. Okay, it's very loud. There's only a few of them in America, few in the world. It's sold out within the first hour when they announced that it's the first ever.

And I'm gonna show it. I'm gonna show it when we crack 3000 people live. I'm gonna show it to them. How about that? I haven't even turned around yet. You've seen it. You haven't had a ride on it like you had with Adrian. That's a different story. but it's sitting right behind us

Matter of fact, you know what first of all time. Hey, yeah Should we just tease him with the sound what it sounds like? Should I just go turn it on and see what the neighbors are gonna say? Yes, hang tight hang tight from him. Hang on All right, let's see if we can do this now is this dangerous risk as we have microphones Do you like? Hi, let's see if we can do this. Now is this dangerous for us because we have microphones? Could be like, dend. Hi, let's see. Ready?

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Okay, so, there's a little bit of... What's that? A monster truck? What was that, Pat? Bicycle? Is that like a? I was thinking riding lawnmower Writing lawnmower writing lawnmower. So that's what it sounds like, but when you see it

Yeah, you said it looks like something Joker would yeah, I did it would you say? Uh-huh Either Joker the Batman one of these two characters in here. So we got a surprise I'm by the way. I'm gonna reveal it when we crack three 3000. Okay. When it cracks 3000 live, I'm going to show. All right. Let's park down and back then we'll get right. You smell. Within 20 minutes, we're going to be high. You may want to open that door right there for the smell to get out because we can smell the fumes. Now we're talking. That's my kind of part.

We got lots of great, great topics to get into. I know you just had a friend's car that was on fire, but we'll get into that here in a minute. Let me just say some of the stories we got to cover today. And the first thing I want to do is your story. So you're not at airlines hits back at pilot training, diversity criticism. They announced that they're going to be hiring 50% over the next, you know, next 50, whatever timeline it is, 50% of the folks they hire is gonna be from a inclusive diversity community.

Oh, thank God. So we're gonna talk about, no, Adam's very happy about that. China hits Alibaba with a record breaking, $2.8 billion fine, we're behaving like a monopoly. Coinbase is on fire, the IPO, they're saying the value of Coinbase today, ready for this is bigger than Goldman Sachs. We're gonna talk about that.

Amazon defeats historic Alabama Union, effort Americans invested more in the past five months than they did in the last 12 months. Domino's launching autonomous pizza delivery with a tiny self-driving car called R2. Not D2, just R2, they left a D2 out. Every given ship forbidden to leave the Suez Canal until its owner pays up to $1 billion in compensation

for the chaos it caused. Apple reportedly building new Apple TV with building camera and speaker. Facebook spent $23 million last year on Zuck's security, just in 2020, Southwest Airlines recalling 2.7, 2,700 flight attendants for summer travel. Company execs meet at White House over chip shortage. Opposition wins election and Greenland casting

doubt on future of earth, rare earth, mine, CEO pay surge in a year of upheaval and leadership challenges, China. With a $400 billion deal with Iran, could deepen influence in the Middle East. A topic we're definitely touching today. 46% want to win the rock Johnson as president as he floats potential idea.

2.1 billion dollars of undocumented workers, signal New York's progressive shift, New York raises income tax on super wealthy raising concerns among corporations, New York's wealthiest look for exit as the state's ready's hefty tax increase. And a couple of the things we got here is the spending package,

army, Israeli chief appears to hint at possible role in Iran nuclear site incident. Why run the sentence, 2024 stock is rising? And then a couple last topics you're going to get into. We're going to get about snooping the Coke brothers. I got, I got, I got, I got, I got a Zoom call with Snoop and Koch brothers, somehow led to them starting a pro-weep group. Go figure.

Anyways, so tell us what happened with your friend in California. Well, good to see you guys. You know, have you heard that? That are ladies and gentlemen. Have you heard that? Now get this. Work with me on this in California. There's a problem where there's homeless people. Have you heard about this? Yes. It's out of control. I think I read a film. You know what else I heard about this too? You know why it's so bad in California? And this is very serious, is because other states

are giving their homeless population a bus voucher and a food voucher and a one-way ticket to California. So that's part of the problem too. So I saw my friend in West Hollywood on Saturday. And he was talking about the fact that he had to get a new car. And we were gonna introduce him to one of our friends, hey, you know, go see this guy. Great guy, he'll take care of you. By the way, he had to get a new car. And we were going to introduce him to one of our friends, hey, you know, go see this guy.

Great guy, he'll take care of you. By the way, why do you need a new car? And it came up. Well, my car started on fire. So then I was thinking maybe he had a defective car, a lemon, something bad happened, something weird and electrical spark. He's telling us this, just by the way.

And this is, now we were at his store in West Hollywood on La Siena, so this is a very, very, you know, you know, the area. It's a very, very popular area. It's very high traffic. It's very busy during the day. So he tells us that the reason he needs a new car is because a homeless person started his car on fire.

There was a homeless, now there's a lot of homeless people around there right there on the Los Siena. A homeless person started his car on fire in the middle of the day. What's the motive? What's the reason? Just because, just because he was walking down the street and tried to light the light pole in front of their Store on fire, but that was metal. So he wasn't able to do that. So he took the the the lighter and he lit the car. This is not uncommon by the way.

This type of thing is this Middle East or is this LA? It's crazy. And then he said he's the lay. No, only talk about that I was to give me that's kind of crazy man I wonder what that look like the dude actually had a video because the thing was on fire Video It looks like a movie set got this That's your friends car what is that a Range Rover what is that? It was some sort of CV and that's lost the end again. Yeah, this is car. I mean, what is that? A Range Rover, what is that? It was some sort of SUV. And that's La Siena again.

By the way, that looks like a Porsche, the SUV pull. Oh, damn. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. That's in front of his store. Yeah, literally the store is right there by the yellow. And then that right down there. By the way, right across the street,

there's one of the most popular restaurants in L.A. Is a restaurant called Catch L.A. Yeah, catch. You know, the fish on Melrose. They're opening up a catch stake right there across this street, but they can't open it. Because there's a homeless encampment, because there's one patch of grass

that is city property, right? Public pot property, so then they sent up in a camp and there, so the restaurant can't even open. So, when I found out too that other states, cold weather states are sending people to California, and then no one even talks about doing anything, and slowly it gets worse and worse or worse. But that was just crazy because it kind of hit close to home knowing somebody that had his car towards, but he is going to get a new car all the way.

So I got to talk about a crazy story. No one got hurt. This kid, nobody got hurt, which is good news. It's a car of cars you can replace it with insurance insurance but what's crazy is the fact that this has happened right now regularly in LA. And it's just part of the lifestyle of living in LA today. The homeless thing, the burning the cars, the homelessness, the looting,

what are you gonna do? What are you gonna get from a homeless person that has nothing? Go ahead and sue him. What are you gonna get? The state's gonna give you money, the city's gonna give you money. They're about to go bankrupt.

So what are you really gonna do to this homeless person? They're going to go to jail. That's exactly what they want. They're going to place to stay out with food and all that other stuff. Hey, let me light up more cars to get a place to stay out. So, I'm getting rewarded to lighting a car on fire. You're giving me a place to live with food and security. There is no safer place than prison. Go to prison. You got a bunch of security people to protect you. And when I say there's no safer place than prison. Go to prison, you got a bunch of security people to protect you.

And when I say, there's no safer place than prison, you're in a place where you, the only people you have to worry about is what inmates. So here you go. Let me light up the car and I'm gonna go to a place to live and eat. Not so safe. Yeah, and in this part of day to day life,

and you almost become immune to it. What you see on a regular basis, you thought this was 10 years ago, you wouldn't believe that you were actually living this life. Now you just think, okay, what's next? Normal. You just continue to accept things. It's normal. And by the way, we talked about this last week, you wouldn't believe that you were actually living this life now you just think okay What's natural you just continue to accept it's normal and by the way we talked about this last week You weren't here with us. We the total number of homelessness in in America today is around a hundred five hundred and eighty thousand

Total homeless people in America today 580 out of five yeah counted for out of 580 Guess how many live in California 60 percent 160? Okay, not 160, not 160%, but 160,000 of the 160,000, 60s in LA. And in the last 12 months, it increased by 20,000 homeless people just in the city of LA. Unbelievable. And it's all in visible areas too.

It's not like they're tucked away in the forest or in the woods or somewhere in a valley. So I gotta tell you something, Kai, can you pull up the tweet I got from somebody that's running for governor? If you go to my Twitter account, I told Sam, I don't know if Sam brought it up or not. Go to my Twitter account and just type in Patrick, David, go up there. So I get this tweet the other day. Yeah, click on that. Go down. I retweet it. Go down. Go down. From the major. Yeah. So not from the major. So I get a tweet, go a little bit lower,

go a little bit lower. Maybe you should I thought I retweeted it keep going Keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going. It's that far down You got to be kidding a lot of tweeted man. Is that the one go up? I think that's the one Can I remember the house is no, that's not the one anyways. There was one tweet that came out and I retweeted it I'm surprised I can't find it. Anyways, somebody shared the podcast. Remember the podcast we did when I said the state of California needs to eliminate the state taxes and the way you do it is what Florida is doing, which is a tourist tax.

And California's got one of the biggest amount of torus that come in every year and torusum is about to increase how about you eliminate state taxes and you impose a fifteen percent torus tax for people to come so this guy the video gets shared with them wasn't you running for governor the video gets shared with the apparently he is running for governor let me see if i can pull it up i want to say his name is major my wrong on that i want to say major uh... will you really major or let me see if I can pull it up on you. I want to say his name is Major. Am I wrong on that? I want to say Major Williams.

Major Williams. Major Williams hang on. Let me just give him credit because if he is, I want more people to look into. Here we go, I got it. So Kai goes two days ago, it says someone listen to the podcast, good. It's literally two days ago.

So Chris Quentin, shout out to him, sends this to me. And he says, a California governor governor candidate major Williams is adopting Patrick Bay David's message on how to solve Kai, this is you can't see it. It's on the 11th You're for 11th right there. You don't see it go a little lower. It'd be great if you can pull it up interesting Is it well maybe one to go all the way to the top that shows a tweet and retweet like replies Yeah, tweets and replies right there there. See if it comes up there. Go up.

10 hours ago, it should come up here in a minute, two days ago. Okay, well then it's not shown up on your end. California Governor, candidate, major Williams is adopting the Patrick Bay David's message on how to solve California taxes, eliminate state income tax and impose a tourist tax. Unfortunately, California legislators will vote for a tourist tax on top of all the taxes, including income tax property. So, he put it on his website. I'd love to show this to you. I'm going to send this to you and see if you can figure out a way to put it up. Because if this is the case, I'd

encourage people to go look into him. Yeah, it's time to think major for governor, okay? And he said economy taxes, eliminate state taxes, impose tourist tax of 15%. This model is viable and implemented by states such as in Florida. Our focus to make sure that California, family, small business, and independent contractors are considered for financial breaks. After disastrous year of misguided decisions from the leadership of the state, our administration will execute a regulatory order that's still, so anyways, there you go. It's a great idea.

I don't tell you why, because if you actively promote the fact that we want more tours right there, you're gonna bring them in, it's gonna only help the economy that much more. The tours are gonna come anyway. The hotels are gonna come back, the restaurants, the beaches are gonna get cleaned up, it's gonna be great. It makes, I love the fact that, you know,

it was something specific, you didn't just say, Hey, raise taxes here. You say 15%. He can easily go run the numbers, do the math on what that means based on average tourism in California. That might even revive San Francisco, help the wine country. I mean, all of California is a tourism area. I mean, of course. And by the way, here's what I, the point I made in the podcast couple weeks ago, and we talked about this. Here's what I said. I said, I imagine a tourist has come into the state, California. You want to go to San Francisco, Napa.

You want to go to San Diego. You want to go to Hollywood, Palm Springs, pick it. You got a million places to go to for vacation in California. You think the customer that's coming in as a tourist is going to say, no, I'm not going the difference between spending $10,000 versus $11,500, hell no, he's still gonna go.

Absolutely. That's the point. So why don't you turn that? I mean, no one's like, I'm not gonna go to Florida, I'm not gonna South Beach, I'm not gonna let us. Because of a tourist tax, they're gonna pay it. But the guy, Chris Quinton, the guy that said, unfortunately, California legislators will vote,

here's a tough part where states like California. Anytime you introduce a new tax, they salivate over it. So if major Williams, if this is gonna be shared with you, I want you to be thinking about this and start talking about it. If this makes sense to you, is the following. Whenever you introduce a new tax, what they do is they sit there in the state of California.

Places like California, New York, Illinois, they sit there and they say, huh, great idea. But we're definitely not going to eliminate state taxes. But guess what? What if we impose this anyway five years from now, ten years from now? So you introduce a good idea. They run with it to add it on top of everything else. So you could say, why don't we add a gas tax?

That's going to help us eliminate state taxes and lower the state taxes top line from what you got from 13 points 13.3. Let's just say we'd Obama care all less stuff together bring it down to six But rates let's raise gas taxes. They'll say no, let's do both of them So you got to figure out a way to get the voter to understand the difference between the two Yeah, and you know what they they've already spent the money They see that 15% they've always figure out a way to spend it Because your chair keep going down. Hi, we got to switch anything as last time go ahead and you know So he's got to get ready to figure out how to debate Caitlyn Jenner over this because she might be running for governor

Two yeah, it's gonna be wide open in California I know news some is pretty much Fighting for his life right now this recall thing is going to happen now the difference is he's gonna be able to spend unlimited funds There's no limit on what you can spend so he's gonna be able to spend unlimited funds. There's no limit on what you can spend. So he's gonna have $100, $200, $300 million in award chest to fight this thing. We'll see, but practical makes sense.

We need a couple alternatives of people to look at here. But I will tell you this, shout out to Guy like him who's running for governor. What this shows that he's listening, it's the biggest thing that you're listening to what voters in the state that you and I both love. I may be in Florida, but I love the state. I lived there for 20 some years. I'd love to see that state get their act together. And I will say this too real quickly, is I think people are going to vote with their pocketbook in this recall election.

Forget about saving the environment, forgetting about all the social issues that are out there. Everybody in California has been affected by this. So ignore any polls. You hear that newsome might be okay. That 66% of people want to keep him in there. No one's going to admit it to a pollster ever. I think he's got a real chance of getting out. Well, when is this recall election in California this fall? It's happening. Boom. I mean, they haven't announced it officially, but they've got the signature. So you're voting for Caitlyn Jenner over Newsom. I got to hear what she has to say if she runs. I think it'd be interesting. Okay.

Well, you know she's gonna bring up to 72 Olympics. That's like the cornerstone of the Catholic line. Yeah. 76. Yeah. 76. You know, you know, I met him when he was, when he was, you met him before he was a her.

Yeah. I mean, I met him. He and I have a picture together. Yeah. Yeah. From 20 years ago, some 19 years ago. Man's man. Big guy too. So sport. Man's man. Big guy too. So it's four.

Man's man totally. Big hands, big guy, yeah. Totally. If you appreciate athletics and you look at his individual times and distances in all 10 events. Brush this. The dude runs like a 10 500, right? He probably runs a 44 400, probably about a 358 mile.

I mean, it's insane. Which is ridiculous, which is just right there, right? Ridiculous, greatest athlete of all time. I'm at a one time too. I mean, it's insane. Which is ridiculous, which is just right there, right? Ridiculous, greatest athlete of all time. I'm at a one time too. I'm at her. Did you say greatest athlete of all time? Well, at that time. At that time.

At that time, he was the greatest. When you're the D'Catholon champion, you are the greatest athlete in the world for that. You know, I've spent a lot of time with the first chap. I know you have. And the only thing he would talk about, I mean, this was during the whole wedding and everything. You would only talk, you know, back in my day when i was in the

seventy six of the catholic i'm like you know that all the time two thousand eleven but you know what he's only talk about it was like his whole day me ask you question what do you think tom brad is going to be talking about forty years from now of course what do you think what do you think jordan talks about today the other they met sapala was here says i was having a cigar when michael open up his

restaurant in him and she andina go there to sit down. He says, we're sitting there for the opening of his restaurant and guess who comes and sits to the left of Shina and he and Shina have a cigar together. Mike, Michael shows up. This is how long ago. This is like, I don't know a year ago, say something like this. So Michael comes, sits next to Shina, they're having cigar

and he says, the entire time, all Michael kept doing, it's taking shots at everybody. He kept saying, hey, somebody from the Chicago Bears, what are you doing? It's the last biggest milestone you ever had is 84 when you guys wanted. What do you want? 86 when he said, just going back that taking shots,

but still talking, still talking. You're always gonna relive the glory days. Well, I mean, if you, if you're like Pat with his army stories, they're always gonna have a good arm. If the glory days were legendary glory, hall of fame, tap of stuff, you kinda gotta talk about it. You gotta talk about it.

You gotta talk about it. It's not like that and it's a different story. Anyways, I got a toy sitting right behind Adam. Yeah. That's gonna be revealed at around, when we got 3000 plus people alive, that'd be revealed. And so if you're on here,

have a formal test, click on that thumbs up button to get the SEOs on our channel and subscribe to the channel It is a different channel. We got a lot to talk about I say we get into the coin base story How about that we get to the coin base story So coin base It's on fire Okay coin base IPO here's what you need to know. This is a story from Forbes. Soon you'll be able to buy the company

that helps you buy Bitcoin. Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US has announced plans to go public April 14th. With the ticker coin, but it will, it will pronounce that word for me, Adam. It will take the traditional IPO process of hiring investment banks to drum up interest and finance deal instead coin-based plans to post its share

Straight on the NASDAQ stock exchange via so-called direct listing technique pioneered big names like Spotify and Palantino Recent yours Coinbase does not earn money by charging you to store your cryptocurrency in its popular wallet service Instead it earns fees and commissions when you actually buy and sell cryptocurrency. A report from Axiast found that the company was valued at $100 billion when its sold shares on a private market. They're estimating it's going to be over $150 billion, which is more than Goldman Sachs. Thoughts. There has ever been anything more polarizing than Bitcoin and the value of it, where you have some experts that are so convinced that this thing is going to tank, it's going to

bottom out, it's going gonna continue to fluctuate. And then you have someone like Robert Kiyosaki yesterday who said it's gonna go to what? 1.5 million? Unbelievable. I mean, you got smart people on both ends of this. I think this is great for coin base because you're gonna get so many naive people

that wanna feel like they're in the game that they're involved in. Hey, do you have any Bitcoin? Do you have any Bitcoin? Well, I can't afford one coin that costs $60,000, but this can kind of say at cocktail parties and with my peers and in the locker room when I'm getting dressed at the health cup. Yeah, I've got Bitcoin now or I'm involved in cryptocurrency. I think there's going to be a lot of people lose a lot of money in this thing because

they don't know what they're doing. I'd say the vast majority of people that get involved in something like this don't know what they're doing, but I think it's a brilliant move by Coinbase. What do you think? There's a couple of different sides of the coin, so to speak. So for the retail investors, this is essentially going to be sort of like the Robinhood for crypto. Obviously, Robinhood, there's commission-free trading and you don't have to pay to make

trades, but on this you do. But yes, I think a lot of people are obviously super excited. I think the IPO is coming out tomorrow, I want to say. But some of the people that are not familiar with this coinbase that is also known as sort of the bankers bank, where a lot of the big banks out there, the Goldman Sachs of the world, the credits waste, Deutsche Bank, everything they're using coin base as well as sort of like a custodian for all their crypto. This is where they're holding all their crypto. So the one thing that everyone has to be concerned about when it comes to crypto and Bitcoin is legitimacy, is it secure, is there fraud? I mean, we know we've been experiencing some stuff here at value, tamming with all the nonsense that's going on. That's the biggest challenge at

this point. Yeah, so look, there's a couple of things. I'll say that and I'll go into what you just brought up right now. Look, number one is the following. The question like a lot of people are asking is what is a better investment? Coinbase or Bitcoin?

Let me say that one more time. Are you better off investing in Coinbase? Are you better off investing in a Bitcoin? So if you buy Bitcoin today, what? $62,000. Record-breaking high pretty much. It's at 62K, right? You buy Coinbase today, it's a $150 billion company. Is it more likely that Coinbase will go to $1,625,000. Is it more likely that crypto, that coin base will go to a $1.5 trillion valuation, or is it more likely that Bitcoin's gonna go to $620,000 valuation?

You know what I'm saying? So I mean, a lot of people are like, man, I totally missed on this whole coin base concept, but here's some news for people to be thinking about if you missed it on coin based. There is another competitor out there called Binance. Okay, Binance, if you wanna bring them up. Binance, B-I-N-A-N-C-E, I think it came out in 2017

if I'm not mistaken again. I may be wrong, just type in Binance, no, take out the stock. I have the iPhone right here. E, Binance, no take out the stock. I have the option. I'm just typing. Binance, okay, right there, 2017 came out, so 2018 Binance was the largest crypto transaction on the world, just so you know,

they have a token in Binance called Binance Coin that's got the market cap right now of $85 billion. I think click on it to see if it shows. Binance Coinbase, $89 billion as of right now of $85 billion. I think click on it to see if it shows Binance coinbase or something like that. $89 billion as of right now. You look at it right there It's $89 billion as of right now and they are competing directly With coinbase. Yeah, so this this is not going away. This isn't just the coinbase monopoly There's other guys that are coming up and they're gonna be competing in a marketplace with this. We also have Gemini. We also have Gemini.

The Winkle Vospool is. Yes, we do. We also have Gemini. But here's what I want you to be thinking about. He just made a comment here. Kai, go to value payment and go to yesterday's, go to YouTube channel value payment and go to yesterday's interview with Dan Price.

Dan Price, typing Dan Price. Yeah, let's go to Dan Price's interview. So check this out. Click on his interview, press pause, so we're not listening to the audio. Yeah. So now go to press pause, press pause. Okay, go to comments, go lore. So look at anybody that responds.

So say this was great. I really love this debate. Click on the replies. See look at anybody that responds. So say, this was great. I really love this debate. Click on the replies. See, that's the problem. This guy creates a channel, not creates a channel. He creates an account that's same exact logo, same exact name, and look what it says. Start investing in crypto, BTC and Ethereum,

trade to make profits, and put a number there the way they do so Google doesn't catch it because that's what's app number people are responding to it We got an email this morning. I had Mario called the guy this guy sends an email this morning saying hey I gave you guys $15,000 a bit coin You know I need to get my money back to the internet Patrick owes me $16, right? Because this guy named Brian Todd who works for you guys said that you guys, if you wanna get this mentorship, and Marry you call him this morning, that wanna come and say,

this is not us buddy. So the part with Bitcoin where I believe, guys like him could potentially get the government to step in, is those types of transactions that happen, it's affecting people have spent nearly a half million dollars with others who are saying, this is not, because the same thing they're doing here,

go to another comment by the way. Look at this, it's not a real channel, go to about. How are they even able to, you can, you can, hold up, how can they get the name value, tell me if you look, but it's not called by a 10-a-day, it's just a logo.

So look when it started, February 25th. So go back to the other, to our channel and go to another comment that says something good. So go lower, go a little lower, go a little lower, go a little lower. The one that doesn't have too many replies, like he tried a question, Patrick, okay, click on that right there. Okay, again. Oh, my God.

By the way, there are, if I tell you 1000, it's a small number. He has responded to 50,000 comments, this fake account. We keep reporting it to YouTube and YouTube has not taken it down. So if I go on there and I click on the channel to hide it, okay, click on the channel right there that is putting the comments, click on it right there to see, no, no, no, the guy that commented, click on him,

the guy that, the guy value payment, the fake account. Okay, so if we go out here to try to block him, okay, we report him and that's all you can do. This is a separate one. This just got started April 9th. So it's like 50 different fake accounts that they're creating and people are falling for. So here's $12,000 a Bitcoin. I want to get, you know, into the cryptocurrency Patrick strategy. I would never have a cryptocurrency strategy because for people who follow my content, they know we're not a crypto, but the challenge with crypto,

you get a thousand of these that go to regulators, you get 10,000 of these, you get a hundred thousand of these, who typically ruins a great opportunity? Who? Scumbags. Scumbags, con men, right? Who typically ruins a great opportunity and brings over regulation?

People who abuse a great platform. So anytime that there's major money, obviously you're going to have people trying to do. You're going to have. I'm hoping this doesn't get this is why crypto is eventually going to get regulated. I mean, I mean, you can't have stuff like this. There's nothing I can do about it. And Pat, if this is happening at value team, imagine how many other channels is happening to imagine how many other people that they're going to people with credibility and their

Responding to them and they're doing this on LinkedIn left and right. I have like 50 fake accounts on LinkedIn They all block me so I can't block them. I don't know if this makes sense or not so they start the account So it's a strategy. They use they create a LinkedIn account They block the person their copy and so you can't see it They're responding to all the different comments that people are posting and then you're getting money out of them saying, hey, if you'd like to be part of a private group, hey, send us a Bitcoin here

and they're not taking it off credit cards and not taking it off any kind of real. So, again, that part of abuse could bring a lot of attention from the public. Okay, so why do you ignore you? Yeah. Who's that fault here? Meaning clearly the scumbags, the fraudsters,

they're guilty here, they're at fault. But is there some naivete from people just handing over their crypto to somebody they meet online? Are you not having, are you not talking to anybody on the phone? Is there no vetting process? Are you just trusting what you're seeing online? But you know what?

What's your loyal fan base? If they see that logo, they're getting it. Yeah, but that might be legit. I mean, come on. I mean, look, you have 3 million followers on Instagram, hundreds and hundreds of followers on Facebook. On Value Tainment, we have 3 million subscribers. Supposedly we have multiple channels.

I mean, little old me with however many thousand followers I get fake accounts and I get for it. I saw that the other day. I have to tell people, and it I get for it. And I have to tell people. I have to tell people, and it happens all the time. And I have 25,000 followers. Yeah, so how many people are? You have credibility, don't. Okay, well, so do you?

So do you use my point? So my point is, how do people not understand? All right, like, there's some fraud out there. This is the part where the concept of getting verified is very important. The concept of getting verified is very important. The concept of seeing who's sending your message of a verified account is very important.

But still, the naive part of getting ripped off, that's gonna happen, man. You gotta, listen, there's not a single person. You cannot tell me you've never been ripped off before. You cannot tell me, you know. Everyone has. Everyone has, and you need to fall for it at one point, but at this.

That's a little bit out of control. Without having a conversation with somebody, You cannot tell me you know everyone has everyone has and you fall for that one point but at this That's a little bit out of control. Yeah You guys are forgetting one element here of blame and that's the social media companies I mean that they can't have some sort of filter or you send them this fake account that's so obvious because they're being Bombarded billions of times so for them to track all of them YouTube sitting there saying how can we track a billion? Yeah, they take it to one down and three pop up again That's exactly they took one down and three pop up and we can't. It's like what's the game they used to play? Wacomal. It's exactly what's happening.

It's amazing how quickly they can take down the stuff they want to. Any sort of negative talk or political talk that they don't want up there. That disappears pretty quickly. Yeah. So anyway, listen, the whole point is very happy for the Coinbase folks. Yes. Crypto community, I have to tell you, you can point is very happy for the Coinbase folks. Yes. Crypto community, I have to tell you, you can go change your profile in the description. For those of you guys that were in crypto, pre-bidcoin being $1,000.

Some of you guys that weren't there before was $500. You can put in your description today, I told you so. You can literally put in your description, quote, I told you so, me on crypto. If you were there pre-1000, you should in your Twitter profile. Put some you so, me on crypto. If you were there pre a thousand, you should in your Twitter profile, put some like that because you were right. And a lot of people sat there and said, I don't know, and by the way, I was a part of it.

I was one of them that sat there and said, I don't know what's gonna happen with crypto. We don't know what direction it's gonna go to. My biggest concern from day one till today with crypto has been what? What's been my biggest concern from day one till today? Would you be regulation? That's been my number one biggest concern

and it's not changing just so you know that, especially under Biden administration. Well go deeper on that. What do you, when you say your concern is regulation, what are you concerned about exactly? Well, let me give you a perfect idea. Let's go into the China story. Okay, let's go into, okay, we're China.

Not China's story with Iran. Let's go into the Alibaba story, okay? So this has to do with crypto in a way that I'll tell the story which will make sense. So China hits Alibaba with a record breaking $2.8 billion out of fine for behaving like a monopoly. This is a CNN business story. China has ordered Alibaba to pay that $2.8 billion after antitrust regulators concluded that the online shopping giant had been behaving like a monopoly.

China's Chinese state media reported Saturday that the state administration for market regulation has imposed a penalty following an anti-trust investigation to Alibaba's exclusive dealing agreements that prevented merchants from selling products on rivalry commerce platforms. A practice known as choosing one from two. The fine is equivalent to 4% of Alibaba sale in China, sales in China in 2019, state news agency reported in an open letter published on Saturday. Alibaba said that the company has cooperated with the investigation and accepted the penalty with sincerity and will ensure our compliance with determination, right? Now let me give you some time. 1024. You know what happened

on October 24th? Ma gave that speech, criticized and regulators. November 3rd, Ma and IPO was halted in Hong Kong. You remember, we talked about in the past. Jacqueline missing. Jacqueline missing right around two days after 1024. Jacqueline missing, okay. On 1110, November 10th, Beijing drafts and anti-monopoly rules for internet.

That's November 10th, they write it. That's three weeks after his speech. December 24th Beijing launches anti-trust probe into Maz alibaba Organization and a summon and executives. That's on December 24th, day before Christmas, Christmas Eve. December 27th, Beijing Demands and Overhaul. This is December 27th, okay? Now this is two months after Masspeech. February 7th, Beijing releases a new anti-monopoly rule for internet. This is new.

Remember the first one that they did on November 10th? Well, three months later, they did a new one that they released on anti-monopoly. On 410, April 10, two days ago, they find them $2.8 billion. You know what they're saying? Hey, entrepreneurs, don't mess with us. You're not bigger than us. We can do whatever you want to do to you. US can do the same thing if they want to to crypto to write new rules and regulations. Janet Yellen is salivating your, yell in a salivating. Your girl, she's salivating to get her hands

on crypto today. They're salivating now. Is that why she keeps dogging it? Of course. And you'll hear a lot of them saying things like the following. You'll see crypto communities say, if you really understand Bitcoin, you would know they can never regulate it, okay?

Which I get the argument there. But if you really understand the track record of the U.S. government and government period, they have always figured out a way to regulate whatever the hell they want to regulate because you, crypto community, are competition to them. The best news here is the big dogs are also entering the crypto space, JP Morgan, Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, all these guys. So that's what I mean when you say, what is your biggest concern?

That's what I mean by, what China's doing, you as could potentially do as well. Yeah, but that's not all bad to have some sort of regulation around crypto, to prevent fraud first and foremost. It depends on who you're saying that to. You have an audience that's gonna say,

we agree with you, you have an audience that's gonna say, what the hell are you talking about, Adam? Here you go again with more regulation and buying into a Janet. Yellow wants to do it with the new regulations. Just giving you both such a good argument. But, there are also fellows also come out and said that they're going to potentially work on a digital dollar from the US government not to compete with the dollar, but to compliment the US dollar.

Well, they have already. You know when they say they're printing money, how do you think they print the money? It's digitally. They don't print the dollars like, oh, printed. The dollars printed digitally, not 100% of money that they print. It's printing press. You just blew my mind.

I didn't know that. I thought they literally printed the money. No, they print digitally. Even they themselves have digital currency that's free. I mean, hard cash currency is only a small part of the economy. Exactly. Yes. Exactly.

Digital printing is what they're doing. You know, Ma, he is clearly in the crosshairs. This is only beginning. His nightmare is only beginning. And frankly, it's a communist country. I think he should be very grateful the fact that he built what he did and was able to, a couple of the things that, you know, the is the, the president is the one that literally, personally shut down the IPO.

He's the one that made the decision personally all by himself. The other thing that the Chinese government is doing here is they're trying to go after Alibaba's data, right? Because they have one billion customers, they have all this information on their buying habits, on their credit habits, and that's another thing that Alibaba and aunt group

has turned into is almost like a bank in China. They're giving out low interest loans. And that's the other thing that's interfering with what China's trying to do. So, you know, not only has his profile gone down, he still has not been seen in public. Jack Ma has not made a public appearance. He did that tape thing in front of the school,

maybe in January, and that was the first sighting of it all, but he hasn't been out in public either. So this is very interesting. He's worth $47 billion right now. Ali Baba is huge. It's, you know, it's Chinese Amazon. It's incredible. And it's not going anywhere now that people are used to buying everything online. But this is something really, really interesting to follow. And whatever happens to him, could he could never leave, maybe he's out of the country. Do you think he could just pack up and leave and be gone? Maybe, maybe he's done there, who knows? Oh, but what leaves with you?

The problem isn't leaving. You know, the guy spoke to medical, and who bought people's NFT for $16 million. Yeah, so yeah. Obviously said the reason why I've never moved to Cal, moved to a state is because of the fingerprints and all the way of controlling you. He says, I don't even want to go into the US system because once I'm there, don't

not even let me take my money with me. So imagine if so many people in America are worried that if they leave your money's tied up, you can't take it out. This is why they criticize offshore accounts. That's America. Let alone China. So you think the guy can take his money from China? Yeah. He may be worth 50 billion in China, he's probably worth half a million in a different country. Unless he stashed some of it over the years and could see this coming, because how could this party not end for him?

There is no way you could think that you could continue to drive this thing like it's coming up. Let me give you another situation, say he moves to Singapore, you think they would still find a way to go get him? You think he would, they would, of course. He's on the CCP. Of course, take him, go to UK, you think they would say with the government of course you talk about the ccp of course take him go to you can you think they would

say you better give him to us he has to go to a country that hates china and is not allies with china that wouldn't sit there and say we're not going to do anything you know so it's it's uh... jack maw is not big in china and no one in china is big in china yeah so it's like you said there this is a lesson for all entrepreneurs in China. You know, look at this last quote that we talked about on this segment. In an open letter published on Saturday,

Alibaba said the company has cooperated with the investigation and accepted the penalty with sincerity and will ensure our compliance and determination. Right. You think they're happy about this? You think they're happy about their 2.4, 2.8 billion dollar fine? No, but they learn their lesson. And this is

a lesson for every other entrepreneur, every other country, other other companies saying, let's shut our mouths. I've got the perfect advice for Jack Ma. This is what he should have done. He should have moved to America and married Mackenzie Bezos. He's a former schoolteacher. She would have loved him. Oh, that's a good point. She would have been all over that. You know what? Screammatch. You know what, screen match.com. How about Zenner.com? There it is. Zenner.com matches billionaires together.

It's only got 400 members. It's only got 2,200 members. And another callback that we can talk about last episode with Ricky. We talked about the communist component of it, the government component of it, but also the capitalist component of it. So weird situation here where you're free to be an entrepreneur and to an extent to an extent to an extent to an extent, but then the government steps in and So to an extent where you have to you have to bow down and realize Your voice cannot be more powerful than the voice. So so there's one thing that's missing in China

It's called what freedom of speech. You don't have freedom of speech in China. Right. Let's just face it You just don't have freedom of speech in China. It's called what? Freedom of speech. You don't have freedom of speech in China. Right? Let's just face it. You just don't have freedom of speech in China. Okay. What do people who win want to do? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? What do you think of? By the way, think about the gold little bit even deeper. Do you have some opinions that you want to share with the world? Yeah. Do you have some ideas about how you can make China better?

Do you have some ideas what you can do to make the government of China better? Do you have some ideas? If you're any intellectual human being where you got like, you know what if we did it this way? Like imagine me saying, hey, we should have a 15% tax on tourists, and the next thing you know, that I tell you in the podcast disappears. Be the podcast disappears, it's gone.

That hasn't seen. That's exactly what Ma did. That's the point. You can't do that in China. But don't you think Jackman knew that before he said something It couldn't be that no I felt I bet you think you know I think you get very comfortable in a situation like that Remember that dog and pony show that he came out to the US and was yeah, you know

Going to Silicon Valley going to Wall Street being treated like a god coming to Hollywood Yeah, I believe you can believe some of that in your mind and you think you're untouchable Look the thing over there with Jack Muddy, only thing I can speculate, again, this is speculation, the only thing I can speculate is the following. So the rock, right? 227 million followers on Instagram. He keeps coming out with a new product every other day.

Okay, I love his products that we mix with under armor. When he comes out with it, I like it, I support it. So he's retweeted some of my stuff, hey, P.B.D. thanks, we're buying the products. I like his products that we mix with Under Armour. When he comes out with it, I like it, I support it. So he's retweeted some of my stuff, hey, PBD, thanks for buying the products. I like his gears. I quite frankly, I never liked Under Armour's shoe. It sucked. No, it's horrible.

Until the rock showed up. I didn't even know he had one. I'm gonna check it out. We were just talking about how ugly Under Armour shoes are the flippin' bomb with Under Armour. No joke, they're so comfortable. I love it. So remember how that Steph Curry shoe was.

It was ugly. Under Armour sucked with shoes. I like their outfits. I hate it. They're shoes By the way shout out to Steph Curry just to be king scored 50 something points last time Not 50 something points, but he's not last 90 scored 53 points. I want to score 53 points. Oh, he had 10 trees That's right. He became the leading score and goals. Yeah, look at their night like this right here. That's the one I bought They're so comfortable when you slip them on, right? The rocks shoot. They kind of look European. They light on the sun.

So he's killing it, but just go to the red shoes of rock. Look at these shoes he grew up on. So he kills it with shoes. Then he goes and kills it with his tequila. And now he's tried it. I have not. I have. Is it good?

If you're used to drinking Casamigos, which I am. If I drink tequila, it's Casamigos, it tastes nothing like that. It doesn't have that kind of a gavi vibe. Why don't we, are you here Thursday, or why don't we, are you here next week? No, I'm not on the podcast. Thursday. Why don't we order a bottle and on the podcast,

let's, I've never had it. Have you ever had it or not? No, I have not. So you and I have never had it. I've never had it. Let's do a sample on the podcast and see what it tastes like. And I'm saying that we're gonna do some day drinking, is that what you're saying?

I mean, it takes a little bit of time. By the way, I will say this about the rocks bottom later. It's economical. It's 32 bucks for a decent sized bottle that would be $48 for cost of money. Good for him. I agree. I will buy it.

So then he comes out with a zoa water. Let's get a bottle of that as well. It's so funny. We're not even doing a sponsorship here. This episode is brought to you by the rock by under our voting for rights. But here's where I'm going with this. The only thing I start off by saying I'm speculating. So my speculation was what? My speculation is Jack Moss sitting there

saying, what's next for me? I'm the richest man in China. The world knows me. I'm the most influential man in China. When you think about China, you don't even know. Most people don't know China's president or prime minister. They know Jack Ma more than they know him. That probably rubs him the wrong way. Not that probably rubs the wrong way. So what if I make a run at it? So when you want to make a run at politics, what do you have to start talking and giving some political messages for people to kind of say, I like this. Look what happened when the guy in China and Russia did it. Putin comes out and says I can go on re, you know, what he called it, another three terms, three terms, two terms, and he signed it up.

I'm also the sexist man in Russia. Yeah, exactly. So China is saying that's not how we choose prime ministers and presidents here. That's not how we choose it. We choose in a complete different way, right? Dwayane Johnson in US makes all the movies, high-speed actor, back to back to back, sexiest man alive, all these things that he does, right? A couple hundred million followers. And he says, you know what? Screw it. Seven bucks. I'm gonna go from seven bucks to the president of the United States. And he comes out if you want to pull up the story. What page is that on by the way?

It's late in there. Do we even have it in here? Or, we're, okay, 46% page five. 46% chance. 46% of US one, Duane Johnson as president as he floats potential run, news big story. At least 46% Americans would support a presidential run from Duane, the rock Johnson according to a new poll. The actor and former presidential wrestler has hinted

that could be a 2024 candidate for several years, a poll by people say, residential restaurants hinted that could be a 2024 candidate for several years. A poll by PIPP's people say suggests that nearly half of all US adults would support this candidacy. The poll found that 29% would support campaigns, both by Johnson for President and actor Matthew McConaughey for Texas. Governor DePaul Wug conduct poll was conducted amongst 30,138 adults between April 2nd and April 4th. Johnson tweeted, not sure our founding fathers ever envisioned a 6'4 ball tattooed half

black half somoan tequila drink and pick up truck driving fanny pack wearing guy joining their club. But if it ever happens, it would be my honor to serve the people. He's doing it. There is absolutely no doubt he will run for president. The only the only question is what year will it be? He will run. There's no there's no doubt. There's zero doubt. He just said it. He says if the people want me to duh, it's already happening. All right, I'll tell you another thing. The rock is bored. Okay. He's probably the busiest guy in the world, but he's bored as hell, and I'll tell you why. No offense, but he doesn't make great movies. I mean, he makes good movies.

He makes franchises. D'Rumaji, bro. He makes action movies, but it's the same thing. He's not winning Academy Awards. He's done what you can do making movies. Yeah, he's bored with it. And I'll tell you another thing. He was 10 times more entertaining as a wrestler.

I mean, right now he's like a politician where he wants to please everybody and he's, you know, he's, he's very good at that. He's the best, the best in the world. But there was nobody like the rock when it came to wrestling. There was not a single more entertaining person on this planet than Dwayne Johnson when he was a wrestler. If I was always hope there was every point. There was never a doubt for me that he was going to be a huge movie star. My disappointment was he didn't carry that raw persona over into acting. It always became, I'm going to try this acting.

I'm going to take it serious. I'm Duane Johnson. But he's going to run for president and he'll probably win. And I'll tell you why, because this works. Politicians that come from Hollywood works because it's an outsider. You have the name and Clint Eastwood, mayor of Carmel, and he was successful. Arnold Schwartzenager, governor of California, very, very successful. Ronald Reagan, president of the United States, one of the greatest ever.

I think he's going to do it and I think he's going to win. And by the way, just so you know, neither Reagan or Arnold was as famous as the rock was. Correct. Not in the middle of the media. That's what I'm saying. No, no, no, he was a beacuse. Exactly. He was a beacuse as the rock was. Correct. Not in the middle of the middle. That's what I'm saying. Not in close. No, no, no, he was a beat. Exactly. He was a beat to close.

Pressing up sag. Pressing up sag is only person that's close to rock. Troubles. Yeah, that's it. And Arnie. Arnie was probably maybe the biggest movie star on time. He was on a short time. Arnie.

Good old Arnie. That's your boy. Yeah. I mean, I can just, I can see it now. He starts off every press conference. He shows up and he goes Can you smell the rock is cooking? Imagine if he does that. He sounded like an opera singer. Yeah, I don't know. I kind of butchered that one

But there it was I can see him saying can you smell but I think Let's talk about the things he has going for number one number two number three is named recognition. Are you kidding me? Like? You can run for president. you have the best ideas ever. You know, let's just pick Andrew Yang. You had great ideas. Maybe you didn't like him. Maybe you like him or not. UBI, what have you?

Bringing tech, bringing math, but nobody knew who it was. We had no chance. Yeah. Tom Delaney, whoever this guy was, exactly, you don't even know who he is. So he has name recognition. But I think the biggest thing that he has going for him

is there is a huge hunger and appetite in this country for a third party. The third party lane is completely fricking white open. I mean, I don't know if he's going to run as a damn. That's the question. Like who knows? Yeah. But the guys get so much money. He'll have Hollywood behind him. He'll have people clearly donating. The guy, there's, there's just such a the middle lane is wide open let's not forget if he is going to run I think that he would run as a Democrat because Hollywood if you're listening to this does he run as a Democrat or was a Republican or independent comment below I'm curious yeah and

then let's just not forget it was maybe six months ago where is he where is he and he's getting crazy like he's freaking on Batman movie talking about Trump. Yeah. So we obviously he's not a fan of Trump calling out Trump. But in my opinion, did you believe him? Oh, I believe he's an actor. He's not. Did you believe that he's totally forced?

It seemed forced. It seemed fake. I don't think you like Trump. I don't think you like Trump, but I also don't think he likes Biden. Yeah, I think he likes Biden more than Trump. He remembered that he didn't have to come out and He remembers. He didn't have to come out. He didn't have to come out and do that because you supported me. What do you mean? He could have chose to done something. Well, let me say this. I don't know if you ever watched the interview.

Trump, uh, uh, rock is very careful with his words. Go and watch the five minute clip of him, Kamala and Biden. He didn't go out there and fully endorse, I don't know. He says, well, we hope that you're going to be able to go out there and do the best things. He never fully supported it. Where's rock on the political sketch? Center left. He's sent a right to me. Center right. He's exactly where I am. Is I think where he's at? Okay. Except I don't think he can be loud about it. He can't hear. Here's what to look at. If he runs as a Democrat, he's not putting Hollywood in his rear view mirror. If he runs as an independent, it means he's done with Hollywood because you can't go

back. I don't think you can go back to Hollywood. They will destroy him. They will destroy him. If he runs as what? If he runs as an independent, he's done in Hollywood. In my opinion, if you run as an independent, it's that freaking bad to run as an independent. Oh, I don't know.

I think if you run as a Republican, yes. If you run as an independent, no, not as an independent. I don't think you get lambasted by Hollywood. But let me give you a quick question here and half statement here. Running as an independent, what are you really saying? Are you more center left or center right? Right.

Traditionally, a little more center right. Exactly. So, but Bernie Sanders is independent. And so, from Bernie Sanders is an independently a socialist that's what he is is independent socialist is what the uh... he caucuses with socialist and coming that's what he caucuses with period democratic socialism right okay got it let's raise taxes to ninety percent that's very democratic yes but let's go back to the rock here let's go back to the rock here

uh... i i uh... But let's go back to the rock here. Let's go back to the rock here. I think he's got too many people in his ear that put way too much pressure on him. I think he deep down inside is a people plaser. And what I mean by this is, let me say this in the most respectful way possible. I think he loves his mom and his family, obviously, the guys, total family guy, but his dad pushed him a lot.

And he loves his mom. So he's got a soft place in his heart for women, 100%. I think the guy's going to be very protected there. So if women come in and tell them it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair. He may kind of be tipping to that side. So on any social issues when it comes to women, I think he's going to support them. I think LGBTQ, I think he's tipping to that side. So on any social issues when it comes to women, I think he's gonna support them.

I think LGBTQ, I think he's gonna support them. Military, he's pro-military. That's what's so strange about it. He's a pro-military guy. He's a fighter, man. So he's gonna support them. Not only a fighter, he's pro-America. He's got flags of America everywhere.

He's gonna get heat for that and criticism for that. Economically, he's made a lot of money. That's gonna be on the right side economically. But if he becomes himself to run, if he becomes himself to run, he'll make change, he'll make enemies. But if he becomes who everybody in Hollywood wants him to become to run, I think he'll be miserable.

I think he will be miserable. I think he will be miserable. One time he was doing an interview with Oprah Winfrey. And somebody was asking him a question about what happened between his marriage when it fell apart, you know, when, you know, they don't work at all this other stuff. And I don't know if you've seen this interview. You can tell he really wants to say the right thing. Like he is so concerned about saying the right thing, okay? So much about saying the right thing. By the way, the part with him that I think it could fully be pulled off and he can be a generational tap of a leader.

Because I think what Trump could have done to unify this guy could pull off. Now, do I think the rock can go up against China and negotiate like I think Trump could, and negotiate with China? Absolutely not. Do I think the rock can go up against China and negotiate like I think Trump could and negotiate with China? Absolutely not. Do I think rock could do that? I don't think so.

I think he's going to give she the people's elbow. I don't think so. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Am I sock him right in the shoulder? You never know. I don't think so because a lot of his movies that he did in the last recent years, it was about China movies and he was getting paid twice the amount of money of what he would

have done if it was just a US one. Well, once you start running for president, you throw out your love. I get that. Listen, I'm telling you for me, I'm an optimistic guy. I'm a guy that's an optimistic guy, and I'm a guy that's a fan of his. History is a fantastic story. It'd be a great story for kids to grow up saying,

I wanna be like, you know, president, you know, Dwayne Johnson when I grow up. It's gonna be one of those things if you pose it up. But I hope he comes out with some policies to protect taxes, protect the military and still figure out a way to tell both sides. You're literally too extreme. You're literally too extreme.

I'm gonna be right here. Couple of quick thoughts. I do agree with you that I think he is a uniter and I think he would be able to unite the country, capitalists, Hollywood, leftists, liberals, flag, you know, all that. I do believe that versus, you know, previous president who I think was a divider. And that's more of a macro perspective.

And then just something just a little tidbit that I'm going to throw in there as a little PS. Don't forget where the rock went to college. University of Miami. What is the biggest swing state in the country? Florida. Florida, for the last few elections, has gone to the right. Little bit of red, little bit of red.

But you know, Florida is probably the most purple state in the country. You know, on the north, Tallahassee, where went to college, a little more conservative, Panhandle, the White Trash River area, they call it up there, down south, a little more liberal, obviously, Trump's here in Mar-a-Lago. So, I think he has the ability to make Florida

the tipping point in election if he wanted to stay. He's way bigger than one. No, clearly, bro, he's got to run in 50 states, but Florida is a tipping point in any election. If he runs, I don't think he'd need it. I really don't. Here's what I would say about the rock and to your point, Pat.

When he was a wrestler, he was so comfortable in his skin because that was the family business. He knew it. He knew it growing up. He knew it in and out. When he was in Hollywood at the beginning stages and even now, he's trying to conform to a certain degree. Now he's just so damn talented and he's so charismatic. You know, he's so good at promoting and everything.

And he does well in the types of movie he picks that he's going to be super successful. My fear is that he would do the same thing in politics that he's doing in acting, is trying not to offend, trying to just be a better alternative than what we've had lately. Go in there and kick some ass and make some changes and don't care what people say. Here's what he should do, career advice, 101 for the rock.

Run as a Democrat, emulate John F. Kennedy. All right, there you go. You can't think of a good guy. John F. Kennedy. All right. There you have a good guy. You know, you do that. You kind of follow that game plan, you know, where you can play both sides a little bit, you're going to get that Hollywood money, which you need. You cannot turn your back on Hollywood. You just can't do that if you're the rock or Wall Street. And I think there's a way to do it. You don't have to be the same type of Democrat. I think Republicans would embrace someone

that was a little bit not so crazy of what we've seen on the left side lately. Yeah, I think if he goes that way, he is gonna conform and he's not gonna be the president if he goes that way. I think you're right. If you want to, if you want to be having that check mark of, hey, I'm verified, I'm 47, I'm 48, whatever.

If you want to have that check mark which only 47, 48 people have ever had in the world, which has been a President of the greatest country in the world fine. Then go take that route. But if you want to be the kind like a Lincoln, if you want to be a kind like a Churchill, if you want to be a kind where histories talk about you for hundreds of years, will you become a legend forever and ever and ever to come. Yeah, you may want to run with your core values. Deep down and sat and go back and remember what your mom and dad taught you and what you were raised by that made you who you are today.

The hardworking mother, you know what that he is. And that's what, that's what a lot of people around. He's hardworking guy, no excuses. That's already sent a right. Okay, that's aworking guy. No excuses, that's already center right. Okay, that's a libertarian philosophy. You don't have to make excuses, you can make it work, you have to improve yourself. This is all center right philosophies.

He doesn't act like a victim, he's not a victim, he doesn't make excuses, he never says, poor me, look what happened to me, I don't have any money, bail me out. This is a guy that's coming out saying, I'm gonna figure out where to go straight to the top. So can you, my fan that you're watching me here, and I'm gonna kick your ass and challenge you

and inspire you to do the same as well. I think if it's history, you gotta do it a different way. If it's just the check mark, go by the playbook that you just said, I agree, he would be a president to me. You think I totally agree with you on the values and principles there, because I do think he has a core set of values.

I just like the guy lot. Yeah, I agree. a good like a people that say how can you say this? You know he's such a sub I'm do stop. I like the guy. I mean people don't understand. I like you a lot You know your your your relationship is a grown into what it is today. I like you a lot We may not agree politically, but I like you a lot. I like rock. I like rock as a guy, as a dude, as who he is. I hope he makes the best of it. It's not gonna be easy. Let's ask you a last thing. Does it concern you at all?

That we haven't brought this up, and no one's really brought this up. That we haven't talked about policies, perspectives. He's not a kid. You know, no, meaning, the fact that you've've never been the mayor of a little town or a governor of anything or a senator, never been a, is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing not knowing how Washington works? Like, at least Trump has donated to a million different politicians.

He's in one of the most political industries in the world, which is Hollywood. Are you kidding me? This guy's been playing politics for 20 years, dealing with the guy, WWE, a very political organization. The fact that he made it around McMahon and was able to be the face yet not lose credibility with McMahon and McMahon was still the show. This is all politics.

The rocks been in politics for 30 years. No one just knows about it. Scott, maybe one of the best politicians we have in America. Politician, I didn't say policies. He one of the best politicians we have in America. Politician, I didn't say policies. He maybe won the best politicians we have in America, the last studios. I'm willing to bet some of Rock's best friends are Republicans and Democrats and independent

and gay and straight and pro-military and not military. I'm willing to bet this guy is one of the best politicians the last studio. As bottom line, does he have your vote? I don't know you I don't know Spouse I have no idea, but I will say this my fear today in April 13th is my fear is that he's a doer He's a driver. He likes checking those boxes. I think he would do it to show that he could do I don't think you can do anything and not be great at it

So I think he wants to be the biggest at everything and that means president I don't know at this point if I think he'd be a great president I don't know that but I will say this Pat if you're hosting the debate in four years You got all your questions right from this podcast question, you know today you got the rock here in a presidential debate You can ask him some of these questions. Yeah, I mean we'd listen the rocks got an open invitation by Tim and he just asked asked for But I know I know his camp will say don't sit with the sky Okay, because he asks weird questions Don't go go sit with everybody that's gonna ask basic questions, but

I'm a fan. I'm a supporter anything. We can to help spread his message whether we agree or not We'd love to entertain okay, so having said that gang we're about a hundred fifty fifty away from being a lot at three thousand So I can show you this crazy little toy that sold out within the first hour that they announced within the first hour It went life. It sold that in one hour. It all sold out and one of them is sitting back here And it's loud. It's fast and it's the fastest Indostreet's zero to 60. It's insane when I ride it. It's Ridiculous how much power it's got, but we got to get to 3000 We're pretty close to it. We'll get into it here in a minute. By the way, a lot of people said, if the rock runs, we'd love to see Steve Austin run.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Stone cold. That would be classic. Okay, so why don't we talk about a very soft light topic? So it's not too crazy. Why don't we talk about the China $100 billion deal with Iran? You know what it's not like? Light soft, nothing.

Let's talk about it. Okay, China with a $400 billion deal with Iran. It's nothing. It's light soft, nothing. Let's talk about it. China would a $400 billion Iran deal could deepen influence in the Middle East, New York Times story. The countries have signed a sweeping pact that calls for heavy Chinese investment in Iran for 25 years in exchange for oil. Step that could ease Iran's international isolation. China agreed to invest $400 billion in Iran over 25 years in exchange for studies, supply of oil to fuel its growing economy,

the deal to deepen China's influence in the Middle East and undercut American efforts to keep Iran isolated. $400 billion of Chinese investment are to be made in dozens of fields including banking, telecommunication port, railways, healthcare, and information technology. Over the next 25 years in exchange, China would receive a regular and heavily discounted supply of Iranian oil. The deal also called for deepening military cooperation including joint training and exercises, joint research and weapon development

intelligence sharing keyword and intelligence sharing intelligence sharing and Iran has a lot of intelligence and this whole thing is going on while Iran still has sanctions. U.S. still has sanctions against Iran that was imposed by Trump. And they're still saying, America, we're not worried about you. We're still going to do this $400 billion deal with China. What do you think about that? This is scary as hell. This should be... This scares you.

You don't think about going to Iran for vacation? Like, I'm going to go to Tehran with Adrian. I'm good. I'm good on going to Iran. I'm good on going and spending any money in China. This is incredibly scary stuff. Anytime that China and Iran are talking about this kind of stuff. You know, this is the lead story in the Wall Street Journal today.

The lead story, China's message to America, we're in equal now. This is the lead story in the Wall Street Journal. So the times of... Can you pull that up? We're an equal now Wall Street Journal. Go ahead, keep going. I send it to you on Slack, I believe Kai. I don't know if you can get on the Wall Street Journal right there, but... Keep going. Just go back and type that into search. We're an equal now. Go ahead. Now, and I sent you it on Slack, if you need to see that. But look, you know, it's something that definitely, I was aware of before I came to value tame in a year ago.

And now that I'm acutely aware of is China standing in the world. They are coming, here it is right here. They are coming after America and they are coming for the top spot. And, you know, their whole message here to America when they sat down and they had this meeting is essentially like

look at the house going on your country you guys are freaking divided you're racially divided your socially divided politically divided were unified yeah nobody can say shit because if they do they'll get jack mod but um... that guy right there pull him up he basically it's took i think think, 16 minutes, scroll down, Kai, you'll see it. He basically left.

Let me read that. China, no, no, Kai, just go to exact here. China can already look at the world and equal level. He told the annual legislature sessions in Beijing in early March, a remark widely interpreted in Chinese media as a declaration that China no longer looks up to the US. The US routinely described China as a strategic rival, Beijing has rarely, if ever, you such terms emphasizing terms like win, win, and cooperation.

One of the more obvious changes in Chinese attitude is that China and I recognize the existence of competition which was never expressed in the past. Says Wang and advisor to China State Council and President Sen. Very interesting. Very interesting. And then they say, Kai, can you just,

I think it's maybe one sentence up or one sentence down. It was very intriguing. I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure and could lead to conflict. The U.S. is committed to helping Taiwan preserve its autonomy under pledges, including the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act. And the Biden team trumpets its plan to strengthen economic and political links to Taipei. Mr. Xi has made a reunification with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a breakaway province, a big part of his China dream of national rival. Chinese Foreign Ministry says Mr. Yang's anchorage

warning the Chinese side pointed out that the Taiwan issue a dream of national rival. Chinese foreign ministry says Mr. Yang's anchorage warning, the Chinese side pointed out that the Taiwan issue is related to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and China's core interest it has. There's no room for compromise. Ah, Kai, go to the top sentence, I believe, it may have been the first sentence. They said something to the effect of the kind of dialogue.

Basically, what I did, Beijing wanted to restore the effect of the kind of dialogue. Basically the, what I've said. But Beijing wanted to restore the kind of a cringed dialogue Washington sees as a waste of time, says, US and Chinese officials briefed on the Alaska meeting. What point are you trying to make, Adam? It wanted to be challenging over a bit. Basically, essentially just sort of gave an overview of their perspectives. For years, they just said, stay quiet. Keep it up, guy.

They said, stay quiet. Don't rock the boat a little bit. Sort of their 2030 plan that they've been planning, and now that's getting exacerbated because of the pandemic and everything that's happened and printing our money. And look, message to Americans. Message to my fellow Americans here.

That's enemy number one, okay? That not your, not if you're a Democrat, it's not the Republican, if you're Republican, it's not the Democrat. You know, I had a conversation with our friend Ricky the other day, and I assume a lot of people feel this way. I asked him, who do you like more?

Who do you like more? Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin? He goes, oh, Putin, not even freaking close. I go, hold on, you're telling me that you like more Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin? He goes, oh, Putin, not even freaking close. I go, hold on, you're telling me that you like Putin better than Biden, an American president. What does it like mean, define the line? Meaning like who you respect more, who you like more. Respect like who has more power?

Who's smarter, who's wiser, who's better strategic? Fill in the blank, American president, Russian president. Who do you, who do you sympathize with more? That's a different question. That's my question. Yeah. But my point is a lot of people, and there's interviews like this all over,

where people would say, I'm more into Putin. I don't know the correct word here, but I am more sympathized with who you are. I don't think people say that. I think people do. I think you gotta choose your words carefully when you say this, because this is a very important topic. I think people think Putin is stronger

and a better leader than Biden, but people don't sit there and say, I hope Putin succeeds. You think American people say, I hope Putin succeeds. I think there's a segment of the Republican wing that does that. You are out of your mind.

And I also think there's a segment. You cannot just have said this. Listen, I'm also gonna. And I also think there's a segment. You cannot just have said this. Listen, I'm also going to say this. I think there's a segment of the Democratic Party that looks at Trump as a worse person than Putin or even she. And that's ultimately my point is, as fellow Americans are not your enemies.

I do know about that. No, I don't. No, no, no, I think that people actually think that. You cannot, you mean to tell me American people, Republican or Democrat or independent or rooting for Putin to No, let me use this. Let me use this word correctly. Let's hear it. I think that many Americans Democrats specifically hate Trump more than they hate Putin or she and I think conversely I think a lot of Republicans hate Biden or Hillary Clinton more than they do

Different that's different than wanting Putin to succeed. That's different than wanting G to succeed. I would hope so, but I just... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, It's actually the person you just described. What percentage of America is actually? If it's 1% and it's too many. No, no, it can't stop. It can't stop me. I would say 10% on both sides. No, it's probably 1% is probably 1% that says that, but that 1% is so loud that they make you think it's 20%.

That's a problem with these guys. Sometimes the complainers are so loud, it convinces the world that they have so many people following them. They don't. It's a one per. No, it's not hope. So it's not ultimately my point is this.

How many people? How many people in the street? How many people out there in the streets? Okay. A hundred people you run into. How many of them are willing to rob your car right now and take your money from you out of a hundred people? One. Oh, that's so what are you going to judge?

You had a 99 on the one? Come on, man. I don't think we can do that. But but to say they're they're fine. By the way, do you see the conflict that's going out right now with Russia and Ukraine? Are you kind of the one? Come on man, I don't think we can do that. But to say they're fine, by the way, do you see the conflict that's going on right now with Russia and Ukraine? Are you kind of following that? Yeah, over Crimea and all that.

Yeah, so, and you know, US is, you know, with the hopes of, hey, if we support Ukraine, what could happen with Russia and Russia gets involved? By the way, just so everybody knows, Russia right now, so does US, but Russia right now has nuclear bombs targeted to every major city in America that can get here within 30 minutes. Just so you know that, 30 minutes, it's here.

We also have the same. Femps, same we have as well. So there's NATO, everything over there, yeah. So do we, so do they, but they got it within 30 minutes. It's a very, oh, oh. Well that's not, is that new? I mean, that's been going on for a second. It's not about it's new.

But Ukraine and Russia, look, Russia look look at China and Taiwan How sensitive is that to China? Extremely sensitive. That's like number. How sensitive is Ukraine Russia to Russia? Extremely sensitive. How sensitive is Iran? US with what China just did. Yes, extremely sensitive. You know what is happening? People are disregarding the level of sensitivity today. So China saying, oh, OK, US, you're supporting this, no problem. I'm on a support Iran. By the way, Iran, the people of Iran have no idea what this means. There's a couple things you have to think about with Iran, OK?

I have an income to, I'm sorry, go ahead if you want. So a couple things about Iran. So you have to know one part of Iran is sitting here saying what? OK, so now we have China that's back in a set and given us 400 billion dollars over how many years 25 years So China's own China essentially owns Iran for 25 and Africa by the way, just a little PS out through Africa and Africa in Africa Okay, Kai I sent you a two links that if you can pull up one of them was a couple things I just want you to look at okay one

of them was the uh... yeah go up a little bit this is us allies go a little lower okay and then go to natural resources which is a link prior to that i sent you ten countries with the most natural resources okay close it up close it up close up go back go back to another link i don't want them to see it i don't want them to see it can you tell me what country number one has the most natural resources did you see it or no did you see it or. Can you tell me what country number one has the most natural resources? Did you see it or no? Did you see it or no? Did you see what country in the world has the most natural resources? If you're watching this right now, what country in the world do you think has the most natural resources? What country? I want you to actually comment, what country in the world do you think has the most natural resources?

It's around $24 trillion, $23.6 trillion. And what's not the United States? I want you to guess it. It's okay if you want to guess it. What country do you say, Kai, did you see it or no? You know it, Sam, did you see it? What country think in the world? Just throw it out there.

I'm guessing it's either the USA or for China. Okay, US or China, what are you gonna say? Natural resources. So you got a lot of countries in the Middle East that you think about, right? They're not on my list. Okay, so let's check this out a lot of people are saying Russia Venezuela, it's on the list China Sweden Russia Congo Iran Venezuela all these other things. Okay, I'm going with China here Go to go to the list now go to the list now go up go up go up like keep going down is what I mean?

Okay, 10 is Australia, okay. Nine is Congo, good call by the way, somebody said Congo. Eight is Venezuela, 14.3 trillion dollars worth of natural resources. United States is seventh, okay, keep going lower, keep going lower. Brazil sixth, 21.8 trillion dollars, including gold,

iron, oil and aluminum, uranium. Keep going lower. Five is Russia, $75 trillion, but they're five. Four is India, which they're going to compete. And India is a US ally, which is good news. Okay, keep going. Three is Canada. It's a little concerning with Canada, okay, because Canada's got a better relationship now with China than they do with US.

You'll see here in a minute, I'll show it to you. Go to number two, Saudi Arabia, obviously, and number one, the most natural resources, China. China tops a list for having the most natural resources that estimated to be worth $3 trillion, 90% of China's resources are coal and rare earth metals. However, Timber is another major natural natural and other services on China producer,

and the minimum coal, gold, graphite is another major in natural zone, natural zone, natural zone, China producer, and the one that we call gold, graphite, lead, the list goes on, right? Okay, so now go to the other link that I sent you to see what allies, this is many CUS as their top ally. I wanted to find out what country CUS as their top ally. Wow. Israel's 82, but look at China, because this is a very important thing to look at,

comparing, do me if I ever flip the screen, this the bigger screen us the smaller screen sound if you can do that Flip us so they're seeing this more than they're seeing us Israel 82% US 1% China Before you yes 82% Israel is a like better Ally with US and the US versus China. US China and other countries. So whatever their other country would be notable. South Korea were number one. Look at where China is, 4%. This is good, okay.

Philippines, by the way, look at China who else is 4% North Korea. And the other country named is that ally? Or that's a- Most named country that people would make that in this argument. Philippines 64% China's 9%, not even close. Japan's 63. Look at China.

One, this is good for US. Canada 46, I'm sorry, Canada was, which one's the one that I said Canada was China? Canada wasn't the one with China. It was another one that I was, no, it was another one I was making in comparison to, which we'll get to, you'll see what I'm gonna go here with one of them.

Okay, so Canada 46, 2 UK 14, Australia 38, China 6, Australia's neighbors with China, still 6. Canada 35, China 30, Brazil 32 to the US, 8 to China, Nigeria 27, 22, which you mentioned earlier, Mexico, look at Mexico, interesting. 27 and 16, South Africa 24 and 19 India 21 and 3 meaning 21 is US in Indonesia 16 6 Argentina 15 5 Lebanon Tunisia look at Turkey that's my concern that is my concern is Turkey and you'll see where I'm going with this go lower go lower go lower go lower

lower go lower go lower I think there was one of the charts here. And then across different countries, both the US and China are just key threats. Okay. Mexico. Mexico, you got it. Percentage who say such and such country or group that poses greatest threat to their country, okay.

Mexico, US Turkey, US, Argentina, US, Canada, you see how that works out, okay? Canada, that's the one I was talking about, where China is ahead with Canada as a threat. You see where that at, but it's equal number. Here's the point. When you see this here and you see what Iran's doing with, China's doing with Iran, right? There's a couple things that we are not paying very close attention to. Here's one of them.

You have to know that if you can flip the screen now, I don't know if, oh, you weren't able to do it. Look at the last one. OK. US. US, 3% of the US think we are our own biggest enemy. But here's a party you have to think about. If you can close it up kind of, just bring it to me so we can get everyone's attention. But here's a party you have to think about. China and Russia. You can close it up kind of just bring it to me

so we can get everyone's attention. So here's the part, the challenge we have. Right, the 1000 by the way. The challenge we have now in the US is the following, in China is the following. What people don't realize is, those extremists in Iran, who are the loudest people in the world, the 99% or the one person.

The one person. The people on the way to the way. They're yelling person the one person How many extremists does Iran have? Loan number. It's they have a good number. But meaning they have them they have extremists. Okay And they're sitting there saying wait a minute So imagine like the aOC of Iran who's a super extremist religious leader of Iran who's a super extremist religious leader, vocal, all the way, I'm not going to say left or right, all of them say extreme religious that they're going to sit there and say, wait a minute, Iran, why are we doing a deal with China?

Isn't China persecuting weggers? Isn't China Muslims? Have you seen what China is doing to Muslims? Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me money is now more important than our profit? And are you telling me that that's more important? Oh, okay, okay, see what we're going to do to you now. So what China doesn't realize, they're about to experience is the following.

See, folks, I lived in Iran. When I lived in Iran for 10 years, you know who was Iran's number one enemy? US. You know why? Because the extremist in Iran would say, hey, Shah, why are you lining up with US? Look what they're doing to our daughters.

They're making our daughters not work clothes and not wear, you know, what do you call it? They're no longer conservative. They're not wearing the hijab. You are making us westernize and we hate you for it. What happened? They eventually kicked them out. Okay. The extremists in Iran right now are saying, why are we lining up with somebody that doesn't like our religion? Why are we lining up with somebody that sits there and tells the Muslims of China to go out in front front of the camera so they can track them and see exactly where they're going. Why are we not, why are you teaming up with them? So we are not going to see the side effects of this

for at least five to 10 years. Okay, I don't think you're gonna see the side effects of this for six months, 12 months. Everybody's celebrating right now. We got this on the other hand, on the other hand. Why is this deal taking place four months after Trump's that in office anymore? Why are they doing this deal three months after Trump's?

What is the day, January 21st, whatever the date is? What's the last day Trump was in office? 20th. 20th. Okay. Why are they doing it now? Because they don't care. They're not afraid of US. They're not sitting there saying, oh, the sanctions you have on Iran, let us not do because Biden's gonna come after us They're saying dude. We're gonna do the deal and there's nothing US or Biden's gonna do about it Yeah, and they're first but they may be wrong. This is deal has been on the works for a while now

It's not like it just came about yeah, but it just got done now, okay? Okay, yeah, got done now 400 billion dollar dude is getting done now So now you're seeing the deal getting done positively how much was as gonna pay a rent at part of the nuclear dear 150 was a hundred fifty million 150 billion dollars. So this is three x that give or take here I'll throw a couple things out of you You know when I look at these numbers from the story, you know Everybody looks at four hundred billion dollars to think that's unbelievable But if you amortize that over 25 years. It's not that much

25 years though that they have them under their thumb is unbelievable And that's what China does and when I when I saw that data that you put up over there and I saw Mexico, list China as a 26% their number one alley. Ally, I had no idea they even thought of China as even a remote ally. They invested in Mexico. Exactly. And that is what China does. That's their diplomacy.

They throw all kinds of money into countries. They build up their infrastructure and then they own them I mean, could you imagine if China had a huge presence in Mexico? That is a very very big problem for the United States and here's my question when you see all this and you hear I ran You hear China here, you know all these threats and all the scary talk about it But what do you guys think is the end game for a China for an Iran? It's economic dominance. Isn't it not so much Iran, but for China.

They want to be the number one economy. This isn't a warfare type thing where they want to come in and take over this country. I don't think. Isn't it where they're just trying to become the most dominant country on the planet? No question that. So think about it this way.

Who has an advantage? The person that's dominating right now or the most ambitious person behind closed doors that's monitoring how you dominated for the last 50 years for me to study all the right wrong in the mistakes you made. Exactly what China's doing. Who is got the edge? China does. And China is exploiting that edge that they've had watching exactly what US has done and look at them now. Okay. And by the way, this isn't just about made in China 2025. We're going to be the largest, you know, most powerful regime in the world.

This is influence, control, and it's long term. It is not short term. And if they do take over, they're going to be imposing. Think about it this way. You know how they said if Germany would have won everybody in the world, would have been speaking what language? German. German.

Oh, Hitler wouldn't want it. German everybody would have been speaking German, right? Okay. Well, we know what happened. We all speak what? British English whatever you want to call we speak English right? Okay, but what else has US imposed to people around the world? Hey, uh, Mr. Gorbachev, please tear down that wall, you know, hey, what you guys need communism, Yugoslavia, you need capitalism. Hey, China, what you guys need to do is you need to let your people own business and be capitals.

Hey, Gorbachev, you have problem that you have in your country, is everybody drives the same car, everybody drives the same car. Let your people compete. So these people say, what's a great idea? We're going to take capital some on. But yes, what China is going to do now. They're going to go and post their philosophies. And what's one of their philosophies?

Silencing you. Silencing you. Their philosophies is no philosophies. Their philosophies. And what's one of their philosophies? Silencing you. Silencing you. Their philosophies is no philosophies. Their philosophy is our way or the highway. And the number one power China has is silencing people. Even if you're the richest man in China. Even if you're the richest man in America, because look at Elon Musk, they said,

don't have video cameras on. They don't have the kind of control at Elon Musk. They said don't video have video cameras on They don't have the kind of control over Elon Musk. What do you in China? They do we've cracked three thousand But go ahead in China. They do yeah, yeah, they impose not having letting Tesla Video tape anything on their cars right anyway, we cracked three thousand is a big view want to come up So folks here's what I'm gonna do we crack three thousand I'm gonna show you this toy here that just arrived last week I've been riding it. I've been having a blast with it and I'm gonna give you this toy here that just arrived last week. I've been riding it, I've been having a blast with it. And I'm gonna give you another surprise, this Sunday.

Nobody knows, that's the crazy surprise. That's gonna come this Sunday, you know what? The crazy surprise, I think you out of everybody knows what the crazy surprise is. But which camera are you gonna use? Are you gonna use that camera? I'm gonna turn it on so you may wanna lower your audio if you're riding in the car and listening to this

or if you're at work, lower the audio because I want you to listen to the engine. Maybe put your ear muffs on because when I do it You Lord a little bit yourself. Did you bring it down here? Yeah, you're gonna hear how loud this thing is but I want to show you the Ridiculous thing that we have here and then we got few more topics to get to before we wrap up the next 35 minutes. I think tight Okay, need a drum roll. You got the camera? Yeah. Are you going to move with that camera? Hold on. Let me get some social media presence going on here. Once you're ready, which way are you? Is it on or now? Okay.

All right. Let me pull it up a little bit. Here we go. All right. Here we go. Check this out. Okay. Sam, if me pull it up a little bit. Here we go. Here we go. Check this out. Okay Sam, if you want to bring the camera closer, this is the new, if you want to come closer here, this is the first-ever collaboration between Lamborghini and Ducati. Okay. First-ever collaboration between the two. The Lamborghini that came out the same exact kit that they used, they used them this. By the way, if you touch it, it's so sleek, it's ridiculous. It's the fastest bike in the streets right now, 0 to 60.

This 63 represents the Euro Lamborghini got started. Most people don't know is the fact that Lamborghini was bought by Audi and Audi also bought Ducati. So it's a collaboration between the two. They only made, they only brought 60 in US, 600 made, period worldwide, 60 of them isn't US if you want to come around so they can see this angle. Like this literally just came in, if you can see this. The tires are brand-spanking, no I haven't even put many you see those bad tires look at the wheels the cover of the wheels can you pull it out a little bit or no yes okay good look at the wheels

what it looks like the same exact color wheels as the lambo if you want to pull it a little bit is the what color is that by the way there's there's a there's something gold they call it. What do they call it? There's a name for it on the gold, but it's beautiful when you see this. I mean it perhaps when you're writing it out there. Everything is numbered at a 630. They made 630 then this is 417 at a 630. There's only at a 630, there's only 60 Ds in the US, this being one of them. And when I write it, it's absolutely ridiculous. 1260 Lambo, it's part of the Diavelle family, just a gorgeous bike. So, yeah, I mean, I got this and I said, I'm going to bring it on the podcast. Maybe you have a beyond the set for the next few weeks,

but the new Ducati Lamborghini Diaville 1260 isn't the house with only 16 US. You know what's crazy is the fact that 16 of them sold out in the first hour in the US. I believe that. That's crazy. They announced it within the first hour, they're like it's done.

I call everywhere, everywhere to see if we can get one. Call it every single place I could. Eventually, my good people here, is it Jim, Adam is a Jim and Mario, at the Miami, Ducati dealership, or is it for the Pompano, Ducati dealership? And I call it Newport, I call Fort Worth, I call called Virginia's

Ducati I called Dallas I called LA I called every word finally got one that came in last week anyways yes that's the Ducati Lamborghini collaboration Lamborghini gorgeous man it's just beautiful if you see it in the streets take a picture of them because you're only gonna see 60Ds and that's like a bowl on the front too, isn't it? What is the? I want to hear what it sounds like. Okay, let's let's turn it off. Okay. Here we go. Get your earmuffs ready. Earmuffins ladies and gentlemen. Earmuffins. That's the speaker right there.

Watch me fly into. Yeah, come. Go in. That thanks. It's a move to it. Might be come. Go in. That thanks. It's a beautiful. Might be the new owner of Value Tame. We have an amazing person called.

Ready? He's open it up. Turn it off. We can show up. We can show up. We can show up. Okay. Anyways. So have you been on the streets with it? Of course. Do you get, I would imagine you get some great reaction.

Oh, but I don't even, you can't even tell. Yeah. With flies when you're going on it. But is that street legal? Is that street legal right there? That is street legal. The other one. I've actually never, I've always wanted to use that term street legal.

So I even know that means. Yeah, I don't, I think the ubers you drive, they're all street legal. You know, I think the most interesting, which how many just say 60? 60. It'd be great to see the roster of the people that actually got them. I think the people that are on that roster probably are all die hard. Raise the volume a little bit because we're low. Let's go back to normal. I think they're probably part of the die hard to Cadi community. It's a

crazy community. You're talking about the Ferrari, the Lambo of motorcycles. When you talking about the Ferrari, the Lambel of motorcycles. When you think about Ducati, that's what it is. What Aston Martin did, they teamed up with an old bike company that used to be called the Rolls-Royze bikes, and they got a bike that came out, and that one is not street legal. So that's more for somebody like you who will love speed.

I know you'll love speed. Just Adam's a guy, hard speed guy. Even now, in your 40s, on a motorcycle, come on Adam. Let me put it to this way. There's nothing in Adam's body that likes speed. Nothing. Adam, if the speed limit's at 65, he wants 60. Is what he prefers.

I once got pulled over for going too slow. Did you really though? I actually believe it. Yeah I did. Seriously. Yeah I got pulled. You know how I believe this? So we go to the Andredi race track to go race.

You know what he does? He's on the right. Let everybody pass in. He's waving at all of us. And he's just cruising. Okay, cruising. And Paul Paul E was fantastic. I'm not, Paul is.

It's funny though. Some people are built for speed and others aren't. I mean, that does not throw him. I'm more an Adam's category. I'm not into it. You know, I've been to Bob Ondron's racing many, many times. And I'm not really into it. Some people have built for speed.

Some people have built for comfort, just, you know, contemplate whatever, whatever floats your boat, man. When I, when I played sports though, when I ran the 40, when I played football, I was the fastest you ran the 40. 459. What you run at it? Probably about a 449 or 450. Really?

Yeah. Center. Yes. Wait a minute. You said you were all what? You were all, uh, I mean, I, look, I was a football player. I was an athlete and I was pretty fast. Yes.

So four five for sure. Four four nine and four four nine and a good diet. By the way, we just, we just confirm we running out to hold Dallas Cowboys stadium. And as a surprise to everybody I announced last week, Bo Jackson's gonna come join us. It's gonna be a good day. We brought Bo Jackson.

Yeah, Bo will be. Who is a better athlete? I want to be the Bo Jackson or Deon Sanders. Who's a better athlete? Yes. All around? All around. I don't know, that's a tough one.

That's what I put it out there. I would probably say the edge, I don't know. They say Bo is faster. One is thunder, one is lightning. They said bo ran a four, one nine. God, that's ridiculous. Who's faster? Bo Jackson, say on sender.

Even Dion, Deon said, Deon said, Deon said boast faster. Yeah, Deon said boast faster. Wow, that's scary. Deon said like, John's enter could take a little bit. I might be, it'd be close. You know, he's maybe now,

maybe now I could take Deon, but I think we set that up. You know, if Bo hadn't been hurt, he may have been the most accomplished athlete of all those for sure. I asked a question yesterday on Twitter saying, who's the greatest running back of all time? You'd be surprised who people said, but who do you think's the greatest running back of all time? Uh, I'll go with Walter Payton.

Who do you say? Barry Sanders. Yeah, I would say Barry Sanders as well. But there was arguments for Jim Brown. Yeah. Okay, he 12 seasons, a thousand yards, whatever the number they put. I don't know the exact number, but that's somebody who commented.

I don't even think it could be 12. Maybe it is 12 seasons with a thousand yards. Some put AP, Adrian Peterson. Oh no. They put as a top five. Emmets made top five statistically. They said a very Sanders had Emmets line. He would have destroyed everybody.

Oh yes. Eric Dickerson was the young man. Eric Dickerson was on that list. Yes. What about OJ? What about OJ? What about OJ? Some people said OJ was hilarious and some people said LT. Lydany Thomas. Yeah. He had a couple good seats. Hey, respect to Marshall. I don't I don't think I think you got to run that in a top hand top 15.

You know, OJ screwed himself though because he was phenomenal. He was an unbelievable running back. But nobody thinks about it. Yeah, when you screw yourself like killing two people. Okay, let me ask this, who's a better athlete? The on Sanders or Bo Jackson thumbs up? Bo Jackson thumbs down, Deon Sanders right here. We got 680, let me see the exact thing that we got right now. We got 707 thumbs up, seven thumbs down. Bo Jackson thumbs up, Deon Sanders thumbs down.

Watch us get about 200 thumbs down now in a minute because people say Deon, I'm actually curious right now. To our anti sports community, this is, they're going crazy right now saying stop talking sports. But okay, all right, so let's see what we want to talk about next. Do you have any specific topic you want to go on to? How about the Apple, the new Apple TV with the Microphone? I'm going to veto you.

I'm going to veto you. You don't like that boring story? I feel like we either need to go to Americans investing or our friend Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. I'll go with Zach then. Okay, what page is he on? Zach is on page four. Okay, let's go to page four. Here we go.

The story is a story by Fox Business. Facebook spent $23 million on Mark Zuckerberg's security in 2020. $23 million on security for C.ONF on March 12, 2020. Physical year, social media giant disclosed last week. Facebook spent more than $13.4 million on personal security for Zuck at his residency, as it residences, and during personal travel, Zuck also received $10 million pre-tax allowance

to cover additional security equipment and personnel for his family. The security costs rose slightly compared to 2019 when Facebook spent only $10.4 million as well as $10 million allowance. Facebook said Zuckabberg is a unique position because negative sentiment regarding our companies directly associated with them.

23 million dollars. What do you think about it? I don't think it sounds exorbitant at all. Take a look at Mark Zuckerberg. The guy looks frazzled all the time. All the time. I mean, I have never seen a picture of him or a video of him where he looks calm, cool, you know, relaxed.

The number of threats he must be facing are astronomical. If you think about every celebrity is harassed on some level. The biggest ones are stalked and their life's in danger. We just don't know. Sometimes you hear about it, but it's real. And I can only imagine what the controversial stance that Facebook takes, and he is Facebook. He is the face of it. He is the whole thing.

As much of the one person can be identified with a brand as can possibly be. So I don't think 23 million to protect an investment of a trillion dollars is that exorbitant at all. And I'll say this, what did seem high to me when I looked at this story a little bit more in depth is they spend $6 million in security on Cheryl Sandberg. To me, that seems like a hell of a lot of money

to be spending on a lower level executive. And if you look at the numbers for other CEOs of tech companies, Jack Dorsey, I mean, I think he's on, what, I think it's around three million they spend on him. Eric Schmidt was 300K when he was at Google. The CEO of Google, or when, yeah, the CEO of Google now, 1.2 million. And Tim Cook is pretty low.

He's about 800,000 for his annual security is what Apple said. So, there's just a lot of threats on him. I would imagine. He travels a lot. He has compounds in Hawaii, so there's a lot of travel. I think a part of it has to be linked to hate it. Like, hate it, and most potential future influence. I combine those two together. So Tim Cook, is he hated?

No. No. Does he have future influence? I wanted to go out and run for office. I don't know if Tim Cook's gonna run for office, right? Okay. You talk about Cheryl Sandberg. Is she hated?

Yeah, she's part of Facebook. Is she important? Without Cheryl Sandberg, they're not doing the kind of revenue that they're doing. So she's very powerful on what she changed again, when she came from Google and she brought the algorithms to Facebook. I had Kenneth Bombasson, okay,

I don't know if you remember two months ago, two and a half months ago. This guy's a bodyguard, executive protection, is what they do, and a company's called Global Threat Solutions, right? And here I was speaking, I said, let me ask you a question. He's represented Clinton, presidents, billionaires,

a bunch of different people that he's represented, okay? I asked him, you know, what is the life? I don't know if you guys remember when we talk about the fact that the bodyguards actually don't know how to fight. They know how to run. Great bodyguards and executive protection guys are great runners.

They don't fight you. They hit and run. It's what they do. They don't sit there and say, hey, you wanna fight? They're not looking for eight degree black belt. They're looking for a guy that can know how to leave the building the fastest. That's their specialty.

Pretty interesting when you think about them. And take their subject with them. So you want a skinny, small executive protection guy that knows how to fight defend and leave is what they want to do. We all saw the bodyguard with Kevin Gosner. There you go. So pretty much visualize that versus the 6800.

That's not executive. Like the rapper's bodyguard. That's a show. That's a show. Like who flew there? I asked them. I said let me answer your question if I want to get Bodyguard, you know, I want to get your service. How much is it gonna cost me? What are you looking for? I said what if I want to have a couple people full time at my house all the time one in the front one in the back He says well, you have to realize that's three a day. So what do you mean is three a day? He says it's shift. It's eight hours. It's not only three a day

They can only work five days. So you really have three a day. So that's three times three is what? That's three times two is six. He says, you know, then six you gotta add three more because the days they're off their work. And so yeah, nine is what you got. Let's just say, you can,

so you do the math. So the additional two days is additional. So that's 12 is what you're dealing with, okay? And he said camera, everything to be there, full protection, travel, all that. He says, you're looking at about three and a half million dollars. You're, yeah. So that's what I'm talking about.

I said, what'd you say? He says, three and a half million dollars a year. I said, three and a half, he says, yep. He says, you gotta calculate around a, a, a, a, a day for a real good one. So a, a day times three times here one. So a thousand day times three times, he's doing a whole calculation, you're looking at two and a half to three and a half million out of your.

So regular billionaires are getting two million dollars to three and a half million dollars for body card service for some like this. 32 million for Zuck, 23 million dollars for Zuck, I think it's a deal. I think it's a steal. And that's also if you only have one body guard, we can't hear you, raise this volume please,

I can barely hear him. Go ahead. That's only if you have one bodyguard. We can't hear you. Race is volume, please. I can barely hear him. Go ahead. That's only if you have one bodyguard at a time. That's right. So now imagine you have two or three and like one of them is a driver. Now you're traveling, jet, car, restaurants. It's constantly.

And then also a big thing that was in the story is that last year, what happened last year? Pretty controversial year in many ways. It's election year. Imagine the money they get spent on Facebook to sway ads either way and him. I mean, he was probably one of the biggest one in the hot seat for things that they allowed,

things that they fact check this, that and the other. So I mean, it makes sense that it goes up. By the way, they voted Bo Jackson as a better ass. Bo Jackson, yeah, so I thought so. Well, anyway, this, this, uh, we got some stats for you. Um, you know, on Mark Zuckerberg, this is, it comes out to two million dollars a month, about 65 grand a day. Uh, but you talked about being a controversial figure and how much is it cost and approval? I mean, you know,

obviously he's worth over a hundred billion dollars at this point. Let's just talk about favorable and unfavorable ratings. Facebook's favorable rating, 43%, unfavorable rating, 47%. Okay, so more unfavorable. I'm surprised it's not higher. Unfavorable, right? Yeah, I'm surprised it's not higher. Let me keep going. Mark Zuckerberg's favorable rating, 20%.

Unfavorable, 56%. To put it in perspective, Trump's favorable rating was 40%. 56% unfavorable. Keep going. Zuck does he have too much power? Power is 73% say yes. 41% say that Zuck should resign. The only CEO in the country,

the only tech CEO in the country that has an actual positive net approval rating is your friend Tim Cook, 23% favorable, 18% unfavorable. Just a couple more stats for you. Does Facebook have too much power? 69% said yes, and then last stat, does 57% believe Facebook is primarily a harm to society

and 71% believe the company prioritizes profits even if it causes societal harm. You know, if you you if not good rating If you got the quote of three million dollars for yourself these other guys are lying jack dorsi's they're their numbers They're lying. What did jack dorsi say they said it was like Seven I know 79,000 out of your mind. I know I know and literally that's what they said for Eric Schmidt 300K and 1.2 Well the only reason why would believe is 79,000 is if you live in the office and you never leave. And you have to count the company's security

as personal security. Right. You have to have security. Exactly. The amount of money they invested in Twitter's security in the building, you know how much money they probably put into security cameras, key cards, all of that. You know how much that cost?

That's a massive ticket right there. So no, I don't think he's spending $79,000 in 2016. Well, we just learned that people really, really don't like Zuck and they really don't like Facebook. But so, Zuck, the human robot. Well, why though? Think about why. Here's what I want you to think about. We just talked about the rock running because he's got 220 million Instagram followers. Zuck running. He's got 2.5 billion followers. Yeah. If Zuck is the only guy, if you think about that, if he runs, he can be the new world order leader.

If you actually think about it, because he's got world global influence. Don't give him any ideas. Well, interesting. You did the interview with Medi-Covon. You said that these tech companies are virtual governments. Yeah.

That was pretty profound statement right there. They're becoming virtual governments is what they're becoming. Okay, so that's your story that we had with Zuck spending the security you were so concerned about. I'm glad we touched it. Let's talk about the ever given ship that has been sitting there not being able to leave.

Check this out, pretty crazy story on what's going on with the ship that we have parked there. Kai, it's on page three. So, every given ship for forbidden to leave the Suez Canal until its owners pay up to a billion dollars in compensation for the chaos it caused, business inside the story. Egyptian authorities said that they wouldn't release the massive ship which was stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week until its owners agreed to pay up to a billion dollars in compensation.

Lieutenant General Osama Rabi who led the Suez Canal Authority, said Egyptian authorities would demand a billion dollars to cover the cost of freeing the vessel. The figure would cover the expense of the equipment and machinery used to clear the way and damage to the canal itself by the dredging while also compensating about 800 people who worked to release the 200,000 ton ship. It would also fund the cost from blocking the canal, which ended up causing an epic traffic jam of more than 400 ships on either side of the channel. Fair or unfair?

I think it's just extremely unfair. Unfair to charge the billion, like they should just take the hit themselves. It just makes them seem unsophisticated. It's like a ransom, it's crazy. $1 billion, how about we're discussing this some sort of settlement But meanwhile the 25 man crew is held hostage

They haven't been allowed to leave that ship even though they are members of a union by the way Shout out to Amazon's great success with their union vote. They can't get them off the boat But I think it's just crazy. It makes you think I never want to go to Egypt My god is if this the way they do business or or the Suez Canal, how unsophisticated this governance is of it. I'm shocked by it. It's sitting right there just to come out and say a billion dollars is irrational and crazy.

This was costing what, $400 million an hour, as far as how much it was costing profits, or however, I don't know how they calculated that number. Commerce. Commerce. So yeah, I agree that I actually, I'm gonna take the other side of this thing. I think a billion dollars is a I have to buy that money Egypt if that was the global economy that suffered from that right? Yeah, well Egypt is the the country that it all went down. They want their money, bro. They just you know So you're supporting Egypt by the way they have

The Egyptian friendship either all the goods are stolen my Egyptian friends on this one By the way shout out to our Muslim friends out there today is the first day of Ramadan and You know from a Jew to a Muslim sitting with the Christian sitting with I don't know I don't know I don't know who you are Christian, you know just shout out to all our people out. Like can we all just get along just like our friend? Ronnie kick. I agree. I agree. So okay. So you're sticking to the bill. I think the billion dollars is fair because if you are being urgent about going out there and bringing all these

the dredging the people, I just don't know how they go about doing it. How do you come up with a map to figure out would it be the ship owner to pay for it? Is it his fault, whose fault was it? Is that because the cause of it, then that's gonna cause an investigation because the ship owner's gonna say, why am I gonna pay for this?

I didn't do it, I didn't cause the win. I didn't call everything that happened here. This is your fault. So there's so much greater here. You could have built out the dam more. I mean, the dam hasn't been touching it. Yeah, that's pretty much the art of 50 years. I agree.

So why, and what does that money go to just the damages or to build out? But don't get me wrong, they did take a hit, though. There isn't a hit taken, but I would want to know what caused it. If it's man made or if it's nature, if it's nature, why don't you sue God, send the bill to him. See what's going to, if he's going to pay for it or not.

He might, he might. Hey, the heart cost by the way, are about 120 million for the digging, the dragging, the towing, the whole, all that stuff is about 120 million. So to me, a billion is exorbitant. I mean, this is something, how do you sell to this right away? You don't hold a ship hostage and say, pay a billion or you can't move on. There's 20,000 rates on there that they haven't been able to unload. That's affecting a lot of people who are paid for that, that it's supposed to be coming through. That's what insurance companies are for.

Those, that's what's gonna eventually pay the toll on this anyway. So, unless they're like a number they kinda made up. Like, oh, a billion. All right, go with it. There's no math involved. I think it just pure emotion. Well, you better not screw up the next time you go through the Suez Kid Hellman, they are not playing.

I know you're planning on going there in a few weeks. So just take it easy with the yacht, all right? It's gonna be a fun trip out there. it's gonna be a fun trip out there. It's gonna be a fun trip out there. By the way, he's kidding. I don't want people to think I'm gonna Suez Canal. Okay. Adam, it may go to Iran before I go to Suez Canal.

Okay, so let's talk about New York raising income tax is something that shocked the hell out of us. I couldn't believe New York would actually raise income taxes, hence the sarcasm. But let's take a look at what New York did. New York raises income taxes on super wealthy raising concerns among corporations, a morning brew story.

Last week lawmakers passed a budget that raised the personal income tax on individuals for over a million dollars and introduced to two new brackets of those making more than $5 million and $25 million. Can you imagine you have a tax bracket for people making over $25 million a year? The changes mean that the wealthiest New York city

residents will face the highest combined local and state personal income rate in the country, people making over $25 million a year. The changes mean that the wealthiest New York city residents will face the highest combined local and state personal income rate in the country, surpassing California. New York officially passed California. Interesting. So 250 business executives have sent a letter to state lawmakers arguing that the higher tax will jeopardize New York's

recovery from the economic crisis inflicted by COVID-19 by sending high net worth people fleeing. Meanwhile, just three hours south of the JetBlue fly Miami Twitter, in chief Mayor Suarez is welcome in New York's wealthy with a promise of zero-state income taxes and carbon reservation, which makes New York City leaders including mayoral,

candidates, Andrew Yang in Raymoghwar, anxious that that tax hike could lead to a 1970-esque corporate exodus when the city lost half of its fortune 500 companies. And then keep going to the next story. Very interesting. New York City Walteas looked to exit as a state ready's hefty tax increase. That's a CNBS story. It's different stories. New York's top business leaders are gearing up for potential mass exit is as coma state lawmakers prepared to raise

their tax with the state budget set to increase a personal income tax in a Walteas New York or something like that. We covered that. Walte business leaders have historically resisted moving, at least some of their resources to Florida. Or other less tax state explained that they are now seriously considering, as working from homes, becomes the norm, allowing more flexibility. Florida does not have a personal income. So similar story, two different articles.

By the way, you know who just moved to Florida, Palm Beach and bought a 83 million out of home. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, there we go. Just bought an 83 million out of home and, and, and Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly got a place in Jupiter for 9.6 million. They sold their house, I think, in Connecticut. Are they married or just dating? They're not married.

I, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. They're not married. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. They're not married. I think they're just dating. Seriously dating though. But go ahead. What do you think about New York? Any different opinions?

We've been following this story. This is not a new story. I just love shout out to my guy, Mayor Francis Suarez. We hung out them the other day. We were at the event. This was literally one week ago, I believe. And I just love how all roads leave to Florida, lead to Florida, and specifically Miami.

I love how he has now taken the new moniker, the tweeter in Chi, Francis Suarez. So how can I help come on down the Florida, the weather's fine. By the way, some people still don't know the value of entertainment as in Florida. I get that, when do you go? Well, today video, when I was saying why I moved to Florida.

I just went out with him. Did it really? Finally, this morning. Well, about time. Yeah, fine to go ahead. So we're not saying why I moved to Florida. I just went out with it. Did it really? Finally, this morning. Well, about time. Yeah, fine. So we're at Florida and it's just, uh, come on down New York. You know, the thing that just annoys me is just the level of unsophistication and uncreativity that these politicians have in these states.

I mean, you got to make a conscious decision. I'm going to live in New York and I'm going to live in California. I'm just going to have to deal with it, right? There's better alternatives. And you look at a state like Florida and Texas that has no state income tax and they're thriving. They are taxing less and it's working. And these bozos just think we'll just keep adding taxes

and the lowest hanging fruit is the rich people. It's the corporations, it's people making 25 million or more. So that's the easy target. You go and get the extra, you know, few billion that you pump into the general economy and it doesn't do anything. Because the other story attached to this is how they're giving away $13,000 to undocumented

immigrants or something in New York as well, which is staggering in unbelievable. Okay, do you have that story in here? Because that's the story I'd like to go to. Yeah, right above that story. Which pages it on? Same page though, you just read the same page. Okay, there's page six. Okay, let's go on to that as well, because they all go to get a 2.1 billion dollars for undocumented workers, signals, New York's page six. Okay, let's go on to that as well because they all go together 2.1 billion dollars for

Undocumented workers signals New York's progressive shift. This is a New York time story, which is the most progressive newspaper out there saying progressive shift after sweeping move Bi lawmakers this week New York will now offer one time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost work during the pandemic the effort a, a 2.1 billion dollar fund in the state budget is by far the biggest of its kind in the country and the sign that the state shifts towards policies championed by progressive Democrats, such as AOC, in the state of New York. Republicans instantly criticized the measure. As that I've touched at a time when many other New Yorkers were still struggling while some Democrats from Swinks districts upstate and on Long Island said privately that a publicly funded rescue program

for people are not in the country legally would be wielded as a against them. Cudule against them in future elections. New York's fund dwarfs a similar relief program enacted in California where official set up a 75 million dollar cash assistant program last year and give undocumented immigrants a $500 one-time payment on a first-come First-served basis. This is $15,600.

Yeah, they probably won't tax them either. Adam, do you support this? No, hell no. It's ridiculous. This is unfair. Look, this is undocumented immigrants. These aren't from, you know, so if you're gonna give a $500 payment to, you know, somebody or stimulus to your fellow Americans, cool, I get it. $15,000 freaking dollars to undocumented immigrants. Okay, don't pay taxes. How does that even, how is that even a good idea? I would love to get the other end of the spectrum. It's unfair. They lost their jobs. How come you don't care about them? They're not American citizens. What are we talking about here? Okay, Adam, you sound like a conservative. You sound like a peaceful, not a police watcher language. I sound like a reasonable person.

Oh, okay. I sound like a reasonable person. Which is why it's so shocking. Oh, Senator, you don't want to, you don't want to let the cat out the bag, Senator. This guy flip flops more than a guy in a vacation. So it just absurd. It's just absurd.

And sometimes, you know, to my fellow Democrats out there, sometimes you need some tough love. Just like, you know, if someone's a family member, they need some tough love. This is freaking absurd. How does someone even justify this to, to the AOC's out there, to the Bellosios out there, whoever the hell's running the show in our city? Like, listen, ridiculous. The 1974 Exodus of what happened with Fortune 500 companies like listen you realize You have documentation to know what happened in the 1970s when a massive exodus took place How do you not see trends New York? How do you not see it? How do you not see that that is taking place? Rewarding people for doing nothing is one of the stupidest things you can possibly do as a government and it is hurting businesses

Huge like in California. I'll give you an example. You go to restaurants that are finally able to open again. You know what their biggest problem is? Weight staff, support staff. They can't find people because they cannot rehire the people that used to work there because they're making more money on unemployment. It doesn't make sense for them to go back to work.

So good restaurants then have to go to a shrinking pool to try to find qualified applicants that can handle that. They have to retrain them. They have to pay. First, they have to find people that probably don't even have experiences, waiters, and you see that difference. You talk to restaurant owners. It's a huge, huge problem. This is just so, it's so stupid. It almost makes you wonder why Democrats didn't think of it sooner, right? It's almost like a story you would see in the onion. And you're like, oh, okay, there he is. Yeah, exactly. But it's not $15,000, buddy.

$15,000 and it's normal to it. And it's untaxed, too, right? I mean, they won't, they won't. Can you imagine that? Do you know what, like some people are going to be like, take away my green card, give me the money. I'll be illegal. I feel like they're going to justify that by saying with payments

up to $15,000, meaning they might not get the whole thing they might qualify for a thousand dollars AOC is celebrating right now. You see sitting there saying we are making more Progressive B.O.C. for a second. You know flip the script. You're a OC. Yeah, why does this make sense? Why does it make sense some of the things that you said is you like to to research the other side Just to kind of get this 100% Socialistic philosophy. Okay is all we're going to take care of you. This is what comes after this is when you take your undocumented immigrants, next comes if they live here and they pay taxes, they ought to be able to vote as well. I mean, you're leading to the direction of wanting to allow undocumented immigrants to be able to vote. And once that happens,

forget about anybody winning on the right, if that takes place. But then nobody's winning on the right in New York anyway. So why is that such a... I don't know. I think we're too quick to think that America's gonna be the greatest country in the world forever. Like this money's gonna be here forever and we can spend it because money's gonna be here forever.

You, listen, you are not rich forever. You know how people retire and they're sitting down the money and they're like, oh, you know, I've got my Retirement of Million dollars. How would you 65? Dude, you're going to live to 90. A million dollars at 65? 25? You don't know. 25 years, say you get 3% interest on your Million dollars. That's 30,000 dollars. Say so.

Security sends you another 20 grand. That's 50,000 dollars. You're going to be able to afford that for the next 25 years And your lifestyles been 150 now you need four or five million out of so people think Money supply success lasts forever. It doesn't New York is getting cocky New York is getting arrogant New York is thinking nobody will leave them because it's New York City the financial capital of The world they forget that many other financial capitals of the world lost their reputation due to exact kind of policies that New York is doing. But they got to be reading what's going on in the news.

They got to be saying what's going on. They're already leaving. I don't know. I'd be well leaving. How do you reason with unreasonable human beings? But Cuomo's the type of person that seems reasonable. Yeah, but one was the only thing Cuomo is thinking about right now is to make sure he doesn't get impeached.

What do you say he's almost thinking about? Are you serious? Cuomo wakes up every day with somebody new coming out and saying he kissed me on the cheek. He did this. He did that. Every day he's got a different story coming out. I haven't heard many stories in the last few weeks.

Well, maybe they're happy because this past. Maybe that's why you kind of got silenced. But the people around him would say the exact same thing that he's only governing to save himself I mean that's it that's his main motivation most of the time anyway especially now you're not more powerful than the the tribe of Democrats and everybody on the socialist set you are not more powerful than them you just are not as that's that's straight up you think you are you're not no matter how many lives you did and everybody loved you Cuomo. No, it's not how this thing works Okay, last story I want to do here before we wrap up is round the census Why run the census 2024 stock is rising a Wall Street Journal story the sentence has burnished his brand with a COVID-19 response that has enthused the voters base of a former president Trump while in Florida at least also impressing the kind of moderate and suburban

Voters who turn away from Mr. Trump in 2020 As a GOP looks to rebuild after losing a presidential election, allows you that formula could give. Mr. DeSantis and Advantage, over rivals who similarly are trying to forge their own path in the shadow of Trump. Over the past year, DeSantis rejected the advice of most public health experts and reopened the state's economy early, resisted mask mandates and other restrictions, and made Florida one of the most permissive settings in the US. He was he received praise from Republicans on skating

criticism from Democrats while sparring regularly with the media practice that endeared him to fans and allies of Trump thoughts. You know, he's not a lightning ride like Trump is. And if you're thinking about 2024, the Republicans have to find some candidate that they maybe get a little bit of momentum behind. Trump came out the other day and said, I don't even know if I'm gonna run for president again. And if I do, I won't say anything until 2022.

So he's really not really a factor right now. And DeSantis is doing well. The state's doing well. He's like a bull. He's not hated by everybody on the left yet. So we'll see. I don't know if that, do you think that's his intentions maybe the picture they use with the finger to show the similarities between him and

trump you know trump would do the thing or think this is the wall street journal there are there there are more right i think they're sent right i i i trust what the wall street journal has to say well look florida for sure was the big winner in the pandemic okay texas you know arguably up there as well uh... with uh... governor abit uh... who have i guess was pulling around zero at c pack and in the pandemic. Okay, Texas, you know, arguably up there as well with Governor Abbott, who I guess was polling around zero at CPAC and around the census was polling pretty well. But Florida was the big winner in the pandemic. They did what? They hosted the Super Bowl,

they hosted the NBA bubble. They've been trying to get the Olympics down here. So credit needs to go to the top. He's the governor. in charge of florida so you know he made some magic happen but in twenty twenty twenty four i don't think he stands a chance against the rock so there it is the centers doesn't stand a chance against the rock in the twenty twenty four no interesting you think rocks running in twenty twenty four i i would guess baby twenty i don't know how do you run in twenty twenty four against if you're gonna be a Democrat you can't run He can't run against Biden

Whoa, well, that says that's not assumed that Biden's going to be there. Okay, you are $1,000 bet that he's going to make it through this term some distinct making you money here with I'm making money making I got to tell you got to have like I'm not red. I'm not blue. I'm all about the green You know, but if you think about it the state of Florida is the capital of the Republican party. Now that you have the entire Trump family living here, right? And you got a strong governor. So watch for him. Mario Hernandez just gave a hundred bucks and said the $15,000 seems excessive plus undocumented

immigrants do pay taxes from sales to Fed and don't get a tax refund for or very little of that's true, but they don't play. They don't pay income taxes. That's the difference. Yeah, that pay income taxes. That's the difference. Yeah, that's the difference. That's the difference what we got there. Okay, anyways, all right guys, we're at the end of it here. If you enjoyed the podcast, smash that subscribe button.

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