Trump–Putin Diesel Deal, James Talarico Mental Hospital Claims | PBD #871
00:02 Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet bit of three. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever size. Right here. You are a one of one?
00:20 My sun's drive there. I think I've ever said this before. All right, so we are back. Yesterday, we had a drive back from a soccer tournament. On the way back, we're singing Persian, songs. We're singing gu-gouche. We're singing chiquetre with Siava. All right. Everybody loves that music. We're singing Hayde, Viggen, Mardi. You know, Pondi, Ndi, Kouros. I mean, it's like Sinatra, Mardik.
00:52 You're making fun, but to the Persian community listen to this. Who knows, you know, Bibi Gull or Delammechal Besan, Be'arga, I mean, we listen to this. We had so much time. Antico knew some of these stuff, which was great. But it was phenomenal. Of course, story-wise, we got a massive announcement to make here today for some of you guys that if you like to have fun, you're going to want to be a part of this, and I'll share that with you here momentarily.
01:15 But a few things to be thinking about story-wise. Trump is officially flipping on Zelensky now. I don't know what happened. I thought they were friends. And all of a sudden, Trump told him, I have one rule for you. Don't hit because it affects the world. And you did, I'm out.
01:30 And then Zelensky had to come out and explain himself to Trump. He's like, you don't dictate our elections, but Zelensky is back to being in the corner by himself because of what he did. And so one moment, Trump's pro Zelensky, one moment is pro Putin, or maybe he just wants this thing to be done,
01:46 and a lot of businesses being left on the table, we talk about that. Pope Leo, to my Catholic friends, whom I love dearly. You know who you are. We have a very good relationship together. Is your pope said something about execution, and he's not happy about it.
02:03 And a lot of people came out and said, what are you talking about? Do you not remember such and such story? And you know in our own group chat that we had, Tom and another Catholic went back and forth. Oh, man. Tom's going to give you a little bit of insight. Jews stayed out of it. Yeah. Scientologists stayed out of it.
02:21 Presbyterian stayed out of it. But a Catholic and a Christian went back and forth and we'll give the perspective. What can happen when Christians and Catholics start having to be? Yeah, yeah. That's not something to want. It's ugly, guys. Anthropic goes rogue. and gives a false tip to cops.
02:36 It's like, what? It's a false tip. What do you mean? So this is the part that they're worried about. Like propaganda, you can, you know, scare the crap out of people. Tala Rico, this guy's been, look, how good were you at the game of hide and go seek? As good as you are, imagine you run for Senate. Yeah.
02:51 And you're on TV nonstop. You're on the Rogan podcast. The world learns about you. You are this supposed to be a noble pastor, sweet, sweet, you know, good, you know, transgender, all this stuff. and then all of a sudden you go missing at the peak of your campaign. This has got to be, listen, I don't care what you say. Some people call Hoffa the greatest hiding ghosting champion. They say he's maybe still hiding.
03:14 Some people call Elvis, you know, Tupac, these guys are still living on an island, all this stuff. But I tell you, Tala Rico's up there with what he did because he's still alive, okay? And he's running allegedly. And somebody called the facility that he was staying at. They're saying they don't know if this is real or not and said, hey, did Tala Rico get out? And then there's interviews of him being asking. He gave two different answers. You just got to hear this.
03:38 We'll talk about that. And then Saudi airport gets attacked. And Houthi's war is escalating. Palantir CEO says there's only two types of people that are going to make the AI war. You may want to hear this on who's going to have a chance of surviving this next era that we're going to go through. He says two types.
03:53 Germany. You ready for this weird statistic? Adam was surprised by this stat. Maybe he was not. 87% of. of the wanted suspects, criminals in Germany, have foreign citizenships. 87% have foreign citizenships.
04:09 Well, of course. You got to realize the three of you guys were born in America, I'm not. So I, you know, I know you spent like two years in Germany. So, but I'm part of the 13%. Okay. Yeah, but were you committing crimes? Were you respecting the law? I was just enjoying living in Hengen.
04:23 But this story, this stat tells you a lot about what the country is going through. Trucking industry, if you're in the trucking industry, the level of bankruptcies that that industry is getting hit but had one of our clients that bought 150 trucks and he told me what happened to him with the diesel gas prices
04:39 and how nasty it is. They're selling trucks right now on pennies, pennies on a dollar right now for something. They have no choice. They've got to get rid of them because it's inventory that's being parked and if they move, they're losing money, so it's like they're not even in the break-even situation.
04:53 Eric Prince from Blackwater, if I'm not mistaken, they sent about 20 of their guys, and one of them was still an active national guard. Tim Kennedy being one of them, apparently they were attacked, and it's not a nice story here, but we'll have to get into it.
05:11 In the Congo, it's not pretty on what happened. A story comes out talking about how malls are back to being busy again, not the mall in Tampa. That's for sure. Oh, no. We went to mall in Tampa yesterday. It was ghost town. I thought for a second I was going to go into backrooms.
05:26 And, you know, from going into the theater, I'm like, be careful where you're going. And then we're going to have all these billions of rooms that we're going to have to go through. This place was so dead that the only people were going to this place was just to go to the theater, okay? Not for anything else, right? Shout out to Alexis.
05:44 Cory Booker, Town Hall. Very funny. You've got to see it. And in Nevada, this is pretty crazy what happened to this lady in Nevada. I mean, she may need to be in the Guinness Book of World, you know, what she did. She married five different. men in one year. How do you do like you got that something? Shut out. She marries five different guys allegedly in the past year and she
06:07 was trying to find a way to get $280,000. So can you imagine like how do you manage this one versus this one versus this one? Five. Five. She did five. Looking for love. And Adam was trying to find her Instagram to introduce it to you as a sixth but who knows, who knows what's going to happen. And then a couple other things that we'll get into, you know, a couple of the unique stories that we get into that. I've got surprises. Every time I'm showing some stuff, I got some stuff up my sleep. By the way, just words of advice for some of you folks out there.
06:35 Life is weird. Life is tough. Whatever you do, this is like some high-level advice. It's not going to be low-level. I wanted to start off Monday strong with you guys with high-level advice. If you ever get the it to want to go point your finger out of tiger, don't do it. Seriously. Don't do it.
06:52 That tiger is not going to listen to you. It won't. So apparently there was this one guy. guy that decides to go and he goes like this to the tiger. And the tiger's in front of it reacts a little bit like, hey, you better listen to me. You know, the tiger listened for a second. Literally, the tiger goes like this. Looks at him. Looks right. Looks at him. The guy met his maker within seconds. Just don't do it. Like I know sometimes like let me do the impossible. Let me do something that maybe people think it's kind of crazy. This is not a good idea to want to go out there
07:22 wrestle a, you know, a tiger. Beast. What did Tony Montana say about a tiger? A lady tiger. I don't know. Some kind of lady tiger. Lady tiger, different story. But a real life tiger, don't mess with them. They can have some. All right. So now, guess what's coming up on November 3rd? Tom, what is coming up on November 3rd? Midterm elections, very important for America. Yes, it is. And it's going to be crazy because some states are going to be happy.
07:46 Some states are not going to be happy. In Florida, people are worried on who's going to win the governor race right now. But there's a lot of different races. You've got to Ohio stuff, you got all this Tala Rico Pax and stuff that's going on. So we are doing an election night. And if you remember the last one we did, it was the biggest election night event in the world. Literally when I say that, it was number one live stream world. But of course, this is not presidential. This is midterm.
08:11 So it's going to be a different format. But if you want to be a part of it, there's one way you can do it. And we're going to have some very special guests with us. Guess that you may want to meet. Maybe play this clip for some of you folks that want to come join us on election night. Go ahead. Two years ago we held the biggest election night event here right here behind this hangar this year, November 3rd, 7 p.m., 2.11 p.m. We are doing it at our private members-only
08:34 club boardroom cigar lounge. So Tom, why don't you let the folks what we'll be covering that night? We will have live results as they come in, race by race, the important ones, all the data's winners, losers, and why. We will laugh. Some states may cry, but we'll have a great time. So if you want to be apart. Vinnie, I'm in the middle of a shoot, Vinny. Oh, what are you shooting though? This is about election. November 3rd, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the boredom cigar line. I'm coming. You're going to be there? I will see there. Can you get rid of the guy? Get rid of the guy sitting in the back. You're not invited.
09:02 Damn, come on that. Guys, get out of here. Again, November 3rd, 7 p.m. 11 p.m. looking forward to see me there. Fill out your application. Our team will get a hold of you. There you have it. So for those you guys, I want to join us, election night, November 3rd, go on the QR code. It's members only. Keep it up. By the way, keep it up right there. It's election night. Go to boardroom cigarlounge.com. Again, boardroom cigarlounge.com or go on that QR code, fill out the application. It'll be only members. And by the way, when you come to us that night, there's a few things you need to know our boardroom cigar lounge that we have. No phones get to make it in there except for the night that we're doing election night in that big room. You'll be there.
09:42 But I can't tell you who's going to be there. So some of you guys may meet some interesting people. And so we're working on the list. We may announce some of the guests. But it's going to be a smaller intimate group, members only. So 7 p.m., 11 p.m. Many people will be there early. Great networking opportunity. It'll be business folks. Go to Portum Cigar Lounge, fill out the membership information and somebody will get a hold of you. With that being said, let's get right into it. So first story I want to start off with, okay? First story I want to start off with is Trump having an issue now with Zelensky. So at first, everybody saw Trump and Zelensky is like maybe there's some progress being made. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe there's some good news. Maybe there's some good
10:20 that's going to happen here and the war's going to end. And then all of a sudden, you see a video from the president. It's like, hey, I told you to not do XYZ, and you did. Once you did, we're done. And he said, Ukraine needs a new president. It's time for a new leader. To the point that Zelensky had to respond to them, if you have the clips in the back, do me favor and prep the clip.
10:41 This is the president talking about Zelensky. You can tell he's had it with him. Go forward. Well, I look at it differently. Milinski could have settled this war many times, many, many times. And he chooses not to. Very difficult. It's a war that should have never been started.
11:01 If I were president, if the election weren't rigged, I would have been president, and that war would have never started. But he could have settled it many times, and he chose not to. We said you can do whatever you want to Russia, don't hit the refineries, because that's a world problem that's caused. And he wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel, because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.
11:30 And we told him, do whatever you want, but don't hit the diesel fuel, because there's a big problem, big shortage. And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel. He can do whatever he wants, but he can't do that, because we have a world problem. And the problem is caused by the lack of refineries for diesel fuel. So what does he do? He goes and hits refineries.
11:52 And I said to him, do what you want. Don't hit refineries. There's plenty of targets. Don't hit refiner. And he went out and he hit. By the way, you can't affect our farmers. And he's not going to affect our ranchers. So let me get this straight.
12:04 So you're having a conversation with the man that you need his help. He tells you to not hit it. You go hit it. What do you think is going to happen right afterwards? What do you think is going to happen afterwards? This is someone's help you need. need. You need this guy's help. And you go and do the thing he tells you not to do. By the way, check this out. Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by
12:29 500,000 tons in November 1st, and then 1 million immediately thereafter, and 3 million more within a short period of time. And he says, I want to think President Putin, we have massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and it's diesel, which is what we want. He did not address sanctions, saying that only lower price of Americans, especially our great farmers, ranchers, and truckers is my greatest priority, and Zelensky called it a weak decision. Unfortunately, a weak decision by strong partner,
12:57 Senator Richard Blumenthal, said it makes us complicit in the Putin War. Treasury issued a license shielding deliveries from sanctions in April 2027. Diesel averaged 620 after a record of 652, and here's how Zelensky responded to the president. Go for it.
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13:28 please contact connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2,600 to speak to an advisor. Free of charge. BetMGEM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days off, total ceasefire, 60 days and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people. This is not the clip I wanted. I wanted a clip of him saying about being a president.
14:09 He answers, we have elections in our country. So Tom, when you see this, the mishap. So can you give the argument of both sides? The people that are saying, well, why would we side with Putin and help him out in a situation like this? and then argue for the other side and say, why would Zelensky choose to attack? So why would our president right now be doing a deal to get diesel for the U.S.? Because diesel is over $8 in California.
14:38 Now, that's because of their taxes. And diesel, I think this morning, AAA diesel was 640 nationwide, 625, something like that. And so we have a crisis. We have an absolute economic crisis in the United States because of the diesel. and diesel transports everything from a Amazon package to a box of strawberries diesel transports everything. So that means everything's price, everything in terms of affordability and a little bit of inflation. That's due to diesel. And that diesel deal is not just election year.
15:12 It happens to be midterms and there's a lot of incentive. So people will say, oh, shut up, Bizdoc, it is because election year. It is and it isn't. It would have happened anyway. Right now we have a, we have, you know, the U.S. citizens, he says, are suffering with this inflation creep in so many areas and the diesel costs that's there. And so I'm arguing that that Trump should do everything he could. He took what was called red diesel. It's called red dye diesel. You know what red dye diesel is? It's a special diesel that they use for farm equipment and off-roading.
15:45 It's a little less environmentally friendly. Okay. But a week ago, Trump said, hey, truck. workers can use red dye diesel on the roads and also spend the federal tax on it. So he's trying to help them get something. And now he's trying to get more diesel from Putin. So I would argue, you know, but for the war, he's trying to do a world supply deal, Pat. He's trying to do a world supply deal to get diesel for Americans to see if we can get the price down.
16:16 Never mind the fact that the real problem in America is the refineries that regulations and the Democrats in California, closing Philip 66 in Los Angeles and Valero in Benicia up by San Francisco. That's freaking California government's fault. They took, you know, approximately, I'll give you the exact number. Yeah, California screwed itself out of 565,000 barrels a day, Pat, a day. That's what got taken off, you know. So we have a refinery crisis in America, but the president, I'm arguing for him, Hey, he wanted to go find diesel to see if he can bring the price down in the United States, and that's where he found it.
16:57 So here's when the president says Ukraine needs a new president. This is what Zelenskyat to say about it. Go for it. If they want energy, this is why we are open for this. Don't attack us. Don't kill our children. We will stop attack your diesel. And I think it's fair, fair deal.
17:14 President Trump said that we need, Ukraine needs new president. So first of all, with all respect to President Trump, it's up to our society, up to our people, to choose one or another leader. Yes, we are in war, and now to do elections is really difficult, not only that it goes absolutely not secured and it goes out of our law, out of our constitution. But the main thing is to have security infrastructure for this, to give possibility people to vote. Of course, it's up to Ukrainians when to vote, how to do it, and to choose one or another person. But if to answer on this question, I know that Putin wanted very much to change the president in Ukraine. I understand it. And if President Trump really wants to have some changes during elections,
18:18 I also shared it with his team. So please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people, exactly Ukrainian people. Do you believe them? No, he just said security infrastructure, and I was making a note for Vinny. When he says security infrastructure, you know what he's talking about? Here we go again.
18:51 Back to the things started. He's talking about NATO backing up Ukraine or U.S. weapons backing up Ukraine. We need the security infrastructure. That was, remember when the war first started and they felt like they had a deal and it was down to like that? And Putin said, you put the word NATO on. on that deal, I'm not doing it. Remember that? He's back to that again. Adam, what are you up with this?
19:16 I'm trying to be clear-eyed on this. You know who I trust the least out of anybody in this conversation? There's one person. Putin. That's Vladimir Putin. So Trump's trying to make a deal. Is that fair to say that Trump is trying to make a deal here? There's an energy war going on right now, whether it's the Hormuz situation,
19:33 whether it's the Houthis, what they're doing in Saudi, and then obviously the Ukraine-Russia situation here. So Trump's trying to make a deal. in this energy war situation. And I'm going to call out President Trump for a second. Because as much as I respect everything that he's doing, and I've been obviously arguably one of the biggest fans of what Trump is doing geopolitically,
19:52 he's trying to basically figure out a deal here, and in my opinion will be short-term gain for long-term pain. We've talked about short-term pain for long-term gain in Iran. This is the exact opposite. You're trying to make a deal with Putin. this is like a deal with the devil. And Trump, respectfully, this is the same guy that one year ago at the UN said, he called out the EU and called out the NATO. I don't know if you remember this guys.
20:22 He says, what the hell are you guys doing? You're buying Russian oil from the country you're fighting a war against. Well, isn't that exactly what we're doing this time? I don't understand. What's the bottom line here? How much, how much is, do the math here on this. 300,000 tons of diesel followed by 500,000 tons of
20:43 diesel, 1,000, 3 million. That's basically 5 million tons of diesel. How long do you think that lasts in America? A couple weeks. Five days. Okay. So I've done some numbers on this. So we talked about last week.
20:56 All of these things are like minutes. So like you're making a stupid deal with Putin to help you potentially with midterms that last maybe five days. And then here's the bottom line here. What country is the number one export of diesel in the world? It's the United States of America. We ship, apparently, 1.2 million barrels of diesel a day.
21:20 15% of the world supply. Number two is Russia. So if you're trying to basically bring down costs, if you're trying to basically have farmers and big ag and basic people understand that costs are being lowered, you could go to any country. Why go to Russia? Here's a list of countries that export diesel
21:39 Saudi, India, South Korea, Netherlands, Singapore, Kuwait. Why Russia? I don't understand. I'm very clear right on Russia. Russia is the worst geopolitical actor in the world because somehow we think that we're going to be friends with these people. Yeah, but let me tell you how this thing works when it comes down to doing deals.
21:55 This is kind of how I see it. Let's isolate each issue, okay? Issue number one is a midterm election gas strategy to make sure gas prices drop right before elections to help with the midterms. Okay, guess what? You know what that is? Boom, boom.
22:11 Rolling the dice. You don't know if it's going to work for not, okay? You're already, you know, you got lucky with the Tolariko fumble. You really got lucky. And you hope Florida turns out the way it does if you trust Calci and we trust what Calci does. So with Calci, you know, Donald's has some lead, but a lot of Floridian Republicans may not turn out. They're kind of not excited about Donald's. So they're going to have to get that base excited.
22:33 And the ads alone is not going to cut it, whether it's, they're going to do that debate or not, who knows. You have the Ohio stuff, which that keeps getting worse and worse. I think Ohio, if you look at Cali, Ohio, it does not look good on Ohio Cali. It's the complete opposite. Vivek, you're talking about. No, he's not looking good on Ohio Cali. He's not looking.
22:49 67%, 33%, it's just not looking good. So to me, let's isolate that. Russia deal election. Okay, cool. Let's isolate what Putin's getting out of this. Is Putin getting some money during the war to be able to attack, and do other things? Maybe, I don't know, where he wins in this situation. Maybe Putin made an ass to Trump as like, hey, you do this, I'll do this for you.
23:13 Trump's a dealmaker. But if you isolate the diplomacy of Zelensky, who does Zelensky have a very good relationship with constantly? Who? Zalinski and G? On our side? On our side? You mean American or do you mean American? Because he's got a good relationship with Elon?
23:33 No. Not at all. Elon can't stand him. Well, you know why? Well, America's distance itself from Zelensky. I think is where you're getting it. But no, no, no. That's not how it works, though.
23:42 It's on you. It's on Zelensky. Be better at diplomacy. What are you doing? Well, how is this diplomatic to do some like this? He's telling you don't hit what applies to the world. I'm sorry, Adam, if you and I are talking, you're in the middle of war.
24:00 You're asking me for what you want, and I'm making the calls on the other end. if I'm telling you don't hit that and you do whatever you guys hit everything else it's your business I can't control that part but if you hit that where is the diplomacy on Zelensky I hear you and and listen I'm not going to start defending Zelensky my my assumption is
24:20 okay they announced a energy ceasefire okay you guys stop fighting you guys stop fighting Zelensky is like yes give me 60 days I promise but what did Putin do the next day Putin slaps Trump in the face spits in his face and Russia strikes a power plant in Ukraine. So if there's an energy ceasefire, then both sides have to abide. I'm not defending Zelensky, but I'm going to pile on Putin's BS moves.
24:44 So then isolate that with him. I agree. But I'm isolating with Zelensky. Zilinsky wants stuff from America more than Russia wants stuff from America. Right now. I don't think America is doing anything for Zillinsky. Trump is asking you. No, he wants, he wants, he wants, he wants, he wants Trump, of course, because
25:03 he just screwed up. No, meaning like, who do you think for the last year? I don't think it's been... I don't think so. We can fact check that. I don't think America's been giving Ukraine any money. I'm not talking financials. I'm not talking financials.
25:13 I'm not talking about it. I'm not talking about if you, if somebody were to look at and say, who's Trump looking like he's better with right now a month ago? Zelensky or Putin. People would say Zelensky a month ago. He screwed up. You don't do that.
25:27 Listen, if I was Zelensky, I would also listen to Trump. I understand about isolating. I don't know. Of course, again, we don't know. We don't know everything on what's going on behind closed doors. You don't know it? I don't know what none of us knows. They know it.
25:38 Can we at least be clear that Russia is the aggressor and Russia's the bad guy? And Zelensky, not a perfect person, definitely messes up from time to time. Certainly can be better at diplomacy, but he's not the enemy. Putin is. Can we at least agree on that? I'm isolating with today's issue. But can we agree that Putin's the enemy? I'm isolating with today's issue, which is what?
25:58 Zelensky wants this thing to be done. and there's a part of the audience that says maybe he doesn't because he doesn't want to give up power with elections even when the conversation came up about doing elections in his country the way he answered the question he does not want an election there are a couple other guys that won his job and by the way those are the other guys I'm involved in this a little bit on the back end because I'm talking to
26:22 some of the people involved is what they're asking for whatever they ask is that Zelensky's camp is asking for. The other side is trying to help him, but he's not acting accordingly. So it's asking, hey, I'm changing. Let's do this together. But then your behavior is still the same behavior. That's not the behavior of a partner. It's not. And if you're on those calls and you're making asks and the other side is doing their part to help you, what are you doing behaving that way? It's a little bit of a misaligned behavior. Can I just be very clear on this? And then I'll let everybody
26:59 way in. What percentage do you trust Zelensky? What percentage he is our ally? I don't trust either one of them. No, no. But, okay, so is it a zero percent Zelensky? What percentage do I trust? I trust Zelensky. I wish I knew his motives. I think his motives are he doesn't want to give up power. And his motives are if he does, they're going to come after him. He's going to have to leave the country to go live in a place to be free. And there's going to be a lot of deep investigations. He'll be in court for the rest of his life. So he wants a form. of a pardon to protect himself, and he's probably not going to get it. So I think his motives are those two things. Based on that, that's my level of trust. Give me a percentage of how much you trust him? 10%, 20%, 30%. Less than 10%. Okay, that's fair. Now how much do you trust Putin? Less than 10%. So you think that Putin and Zelensky are exactly the same? No, I actually
27:48 trust Putin more than I trust Zelensky. I would put one. I trust Putin zero. I would put one percent so even if it's 1% Zelenskyy. You trust Putin more than Zelensky? Because I know Putin's motives. I don't Zalinski's motives. I don't think you understand. So what are Putin's motives? You have to destroy America. But you ask me trust. There are criminals I trust more than people that I don't trust who are not criminals.
28:11 Trust that they're bad people. Trust is not a positive thing. It's just I trust that you're going to. I'm very clear what who Putin is. I'm not clear what who Zilinsky is. Make up your damn mind. Who the hell do you want to be? I know who Putin is.
28:25 Who the hell doesn't know who Putin is? If you by now don't know who Putin is, what the hell are you doing? You're an idiot. I know Putin is. I don't know who Zelensky is. Zelensky is like that guy that's like wishy-washy. Make up your mind, bro. I'm not defending Zelenskyy.
28:37 I'm simply just saying I trust Putin zero. So even if I trust Zelensky 2%, that's 2% more than I trust Putin. There's like, there's love, there's fear, there's respect, and there's trust. You're asking me about trust. I trust Putin in his motives more than I trust Zelensky's motives. I think I know Putin's motives. I don't know Zelensky's motives. What do you think Putin's motives are?
29:00 It's very simple. He wants that property because he wants that $7 trillion of whatever he's counting as the natural resources. He's going to need long term to be competitive. So he's going to be competitive in the marketplace. And he knows he's thinking 50 years. He's not thinking 12 months. Do you think Putin wants to go beyond Ukraine? I don't know that.
29:20 So if you're thinking like he's going to go to Poland next and all that other stuff, I think those people are going to stay paranoid. Well, I mean, this is why they're pumping so much money. And I mean, it's supposed to be 5%. Now they're doing more. I'm not trying to deviate. I'm going to get to next. It's 9.50. I'm going to go to the next story. All right. Next story is Pope Leo was asked about the execution that Hexa talked about with the major who killed 13 soldiers, I believe, and hospitalized 32 of them. And while he's going through it, the Pope tweets the following. If you have the tweet out there right there, go all the way to the top, I think that's the one right there.
29:54 Dear friends, during some recent medical examination, no, not that one, there was another one. Sorry, that was on me. Go back another tweet that he had about executions. I think he just did that. There you go. The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded. And the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment.
30:18 Effective systems of detention have been developed and protected citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption, that death penalty is what he's saying. Can you go to the comment section below? No, they can't, which is why God mandated the death penalty in the Bible, you effing libtard. That's not me saying it, Carl, Benjamin said a recommended reading for your holiness, the Bible. Go a little bit lower if you could. This is in direct contradiction of scripture. Go a little bit lower, just to see what the audience is saying. Shouldn't the Pope know the Bible says? What would all do respect, the Bible teaches both mercy and justice, Genesis 9, 6th, that's Vincent Oshana, whoever sheds human blood by human, shall their blood be shed.
31:02 Romans 13-4 reminds us of the government authorities. Do not bear the sword for nothing. God commands us to not murder, but he also establishes consequences for evil. Forgiveness does not eliminate accountability. What about the dignity and sanctity of the innocent lives taken? Bingo. You can believe in Jesus Christ, forgiveness, and redemption while still believe in that justice must be served.
31:20 Fun fact, if you can count the donation of Pepin and 756 in the beginning of pop, okay, we can skip that. And by the way, J.D. Van said he won. be watching it. If it's going to be televised, the last thing J.D. Van said in that interview says, I will not be watching it if it's televised. And even the president was asked about the execution. If you want to go to the one with the president. Yeah, that's the one right. If it's all in me live stream, do me favor. Go to the last. Yeah, play that clip if you could. Play that clip if you could. With the Pentagon's announcement that they wish to live stream the firing scored execution of the
31:53 quarterhood shooter. Well, first of all, I've seen these announcements. I don't know that that's actually going to happen. Let's sort of see what I think it's going to happen in December when he's executed. But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of where they live. So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, he's about to say the last five seconds. I hope that people don't forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people. Now that said, I mean, look, if it's ultimately live stream, I'm not going to be watching it. So that's JD's position. Right. He said that. Now, the president, if you want to ask what the president said about it
32:29 on the public execution, Trump execution, yeah, it should come up. You know, so you have a few different people getting into it. I mean, it doesn't get bigger than the Pope, represent the Catholic Church. And by the way, he can have his own opinion about it. He can say, and Catholics can simply agree or disagree and say, I don't agree with the Pope, even though he's my Pope.
32:49 I make a decision regarding live streaming. Yeah, that one right there. That's the one right there. Go for it. Visit BetMDM, Casino, and Tech out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMDM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. 19 plus to wager. Ontario only. Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2,600 to speak to an advisor, free of charge.
33:16 BetmGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. who have criticized the idea of live streaming the execution of the Dalaihan. They say that he could radicalize other... Well, you have two thoughts. He's a vicious killer, killed 13 people in cold blood, wounded over 20. Some of those people will never have their lives back in a true sense. He was vicious, he was violent. There are two thoughts.
33:47 Don't show it and show it. Because, you know, by showing it, maybe other people won't be doing what he did. I'll make a decision ultimately. I know what the military would like to do, but we'll make a decision. Yeah, so Tom, what do you stand with, one, what the Pope said, and then would J.D. and Trump had to say. So whenever one hears the Pope speak, remember, he's talking about the policy of the Vatican Church.
34:14 He is the president of the Vatican Church. Think of it that way. And it's a business. And so he's out there giving his statement. about it. He's not speaking for the Bible or biblically in this sense, because many people looked at it with clear eyes and with a good heart and just said, you know, God has pointed out, you know, when this happens, that there is consequence on earth, and that consequence may be, you know, execution for something like this. That's it. And the Pope is out speaking. And when people hear
34:50 the Pope, they say, oh, well, this is almost like scripture. It's not. So my point is it's important to make a difference. The Pope can be speaking as a peacemaker, speaking as the head of the Catholic Church. He can be speaking in all these ways and mean very well, but also be biblically incorrect. And I think in this case, he's saying, oh, give him redemption. He's speaking as this peacemaker of the church. What do you see where you say biblically is incorrect? It says go to the Bible, go to the Old Testament, go wherever you want. when people, you know, have killed and people have done this, they're subject to execution. There is capital punishment. You could be reconciled to God, but still pay the consequence for your actions.
35:36 I could be fully reconciled to God in prison, but I'm going to be executed because of my actions. Sorry. That's just, that's the way it goes. And I agree with Tom 100%. Like, and I respect the Pope. I know people are going to, you know, Catholics are going to go nuts, but There's a fundamental difference between mercy and allowing someone to just escape the ultimate punishment for horrific crime. And the Pope argued that life imprisonment is enough. But I disagree, Pat. We're talking about a guy who deliberately targeted all these Americans who they trusted, a psychiatrist, who they're sitting there. They're the most vulnerable, okay?
36:12 And you're spilling their guts and then you spill their blood. I'm sorry, Pat. That to me is no way. And Tom, like, it says thou shall not kill. That's in regard to murder. But what you're doing, when it comes to the hands, you live by the sword, you're going to die by the sword. It doesn't say thou shalt not execute justice. No, at all.
36:31 Or the guilty. And by the way, it's saying he's not supposed to be doing what he's doing, which is the murder. So at what point does crime become so horrific that the ultimate punishment is going to be justified? I actually understand him taking that position. You know, in the past, you keep hearing about the Pope Pius. Is it pious? or am I saying it correctly? Yeah.
36:50 Where in the 18, mid-1800s, public executions continued in the Papal states during his reign, including executions by guillotine. Gregory the 16th, same thing. Leo the 12th governed during a period when public executions were established punishment. And then if we go most recently, Pius de 12th explicitly defended the state's authority to impose capital punishment, although he didn't specifically add. I understand he's the, if we're not. in a room and there's 10 guys that are seven of you, we should give public execution,
37:22 I would actually expect the Pope to say, no, you need someone like that in your life. I don't know if that makes sense or not. You need someone to be like, no, I think we need to know. Okay, great. I expect that from that guy's position to have that. But for me, if I'm the role, the shot caller, and maybe I'll take the judgment. Don't worry about it, Pope. I won't give you the judgment.
37:44 I'll take the judgment that I could potentially go to hell. and not you. You understand what I'm saying? I'll take the burden of being the leader, and maybe God is using me as a tool to make an example of the world where you can't go be an insider, move up in the military for decade plus, become a major, and because of your religious beliefs and your loyalty
38:07 to not America being the greatest country in the world and you not be in America first, you kill 13 soldiers and you hospitalized 32, I'll take the judgment. Don't worry about it, Pope. I'll take it. You go to sleep on a soft pillow tonight. Let me flirt with the idea of going to hell.
38:24 Because I'm going to be in hell with that guy. If I have the risk of me going to hell and you kill 13 of our guys and you injured 32 of them and the risk is me making the final decision of going to hell, I'll flirt with that idea. That'll be my judgment day when I go to heaven. I'm going to say, God, let me tell you why I chose this. Here's why I did it. I don't think this is cool. And those other people are never going to see their kids.
38:45 And I understand you're going to say, hey, when you get hit this way, you know, all this. The other chick is a whole different situation. I'm playing a different role here. And maybe if you think that didn't qualify me to go to heaven, I respect the decision. But I'm not surprised at the Pope that makes that decision. I'm not. And people can't go dispute and debate all they want. But that's his role.
39:04 He plays that role and he's giving his opinion. And real quick, why should taxpayers in America pay to keep this guy alive for the rest of his life? But wait, we've already done it for 17. years, okay? And to me, Vincent O'Shanna, death penalty in this situation isn't about revenge. It's about justice and holding people accountable for the evil.
39:26 That's the word here, guys, evil that they committed. And I actually agree with you. He is supposed to take at least the, you know, the humane side because he can't be like, yeah, kill him. Okay? And I think that by the, a lot of them, Pat, they're not upset about the killing. It's the televising it is where the
39:41 JD Vance and some of these people are. By the way, it's not going to be on CNN. or ABC or on Fox, guys. I mean, they're going to have it live. Do you support the live stream? Absolutely, I think the family should be able to see it. The family should be able to get it.
39:54 You support the live stream? I'm only 50-50 on live stream because I don't want to make it a spectacle. I don't want to make it a celebration. I want to make it a solemn, humane carrying out of the execution for the crime. And I want to avoid anything that turns it into a spectacle.
40:14 I don't think that's good. I'm sort of reversing course on the live stream. Some of the guys back there asked me on, I think Friday, they're like, what do you support? What are you not support? And I actually have to reflect on this. Here's my thoughts. Number one, I'll give the obligatory.
40:27 Of course, I respect the Pope. I respect his opinion. I respect the papacy. I get that. But at the same time, Pope Leo is a globalist, meaning like he's not a nationalist. He's not America first. You know, he, for all intents of purposes,
40:41 it isn't even like pro-America. He's pro-Catholic church. And that's his job. I get that. But to criticize, to not criticize the murderer, the jihadist, the radical person, and put the criticism on the judge jury executioner is losing the plot, in my opinion. The plot is, here's this guy, this radical jihadist major, right? Yes.
41:07 That killed 13 of his own soldiers. And then has been in jail for how long now? 17. To me, unacceptable. and the whole thought of redemption, hey, you know, everybody who deserves redemption. No, this guy is a radical Muslim Islamic terrorist. He's not even Christian. I'm not even Catholic.
41:25 And far be it for me to sort of weigh in on how the church operates, but this guy even in your jurisdiction, this guy's, he's answering to Allah and 72 virgins. You think that he deserves redemption? I don't think so. So in my opinion, regarding the capital punishment, this guy should be strung up in the city hall in the town hall, whether it's live streamed or not, that's another question, because I don't know if there's a benefit of that. I wanted to be like, but this guy and all his friends should be executed.
41:53 I wanted to be live stream. You're with me. You're with me. I want it to be live stream. And I'll carry the burden. If I'm in that role, I'll take the live stream. Don't worry about it. You know why?
42:02 There is a difference between somebody doing this who was a civilian. Public execution, no, but they'll kill you a death penalty. There's a difference between you. doing that and you raised your hand and you swore on the U.S. Constitution. I remember swearing when I joined the U.S. Army. I remember that day, right? You're an insider? Yeah. Oh, bro. D. Ultimate is crazy. Oh, let me tell you, let me tell you, zero, zero sympathy intolerance. I'll deal with the judgment. Trust me, I'll go to on my knees and I'll pray and I'll ask for forgiveness from God. You want me to you, we allowed you to, you, we allowed you
42:44 to join the U.S. military and you turn? Yeah. And you give that up and you want me to allow another person to think they can do that? No. So are you saying that you're defending the execution or the live stream? Do the live stream. I guess we're on the same thing. I'm not going to watch it or not.
43:00 Yeah. I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you. I have a very specific question. What is the benefit of the live stream? Because I understand completely the capital punishment. I told you this last week. There's words and life consequences.
43:13 And there's levels of consequences. The betrayal, if somebody is, flirts with my wife and you're not a friend, she's at a park and somebody goes flirt with her. I'm not upset at the guy. Why? Because he has no idea. If somebody flirts with my wife and you spend a lot of time around me and I find that at that's level two, if you're somebody that's super close to me and you flirt with you, with my wife, do you know what I will do to you? Do you know what I will do to you?
43:54 I will make your life a living hell in ways that you have never imagined because you're an insider. And I will never, ever let that go. By the way, I believe in forgiveness and also the concept of why does she allow him to think that he has a chance to flirt? That's a different conversation I'll have with her.
44:14 But if an insider does that, you cross the line with that I'm going to make your life a living effing hell not in the way you think in the most creative ways and I'm a very patient man and I'm my resources
44:30 I always find out everything always comes back to me and I always find out and I will look at the person in the face and he doesn't know that I know but I know and I'll wait five, seven years and when I get you I will get you in ways
44:44 that you never thought was possible and you will say this guy's an effing cycle. Sounds like you read the count of Monte Cristo. If you cross the line with the U.S. military and we give you this kind of an honor to wear the U.S. military uniform, the greatest uniform in the world, you cross that line.
45:04 Dude, I don't play. And we should not allow that. You cross the line in the highest level. So to me, forgive me, judge me, you're cruel, you're this. I get it. I'll take that. Trust me, I have to face my maker. And I know I got a lot of things I've got to answer for. I'll take this one. You wear our uniform and you betray me? No, we can't be tolerant of that. Nope. But I also understand the people who would disagree with me as a pastor and say, you're wrong.
45:34 I love the fact that you say I'm wrong. I need you in my life to say I'm wrong. I need that voice in my life. I don't know if you understand what I'm saying. We need that person. We can go to very dark places. We can, and you have to realize, as human beings, we can go to those places. You know, I got two daughters. Let me tell you, you get very creative when you get two daughters. Your creativity, when you got boys, it's not really there. You have a daughter, you will look at the world in a very different lens. You do not cross the line with the U.S. military.
46:02 I don't think we need a live stream. If it's anything that was a regular guy, hey, just death penalty, kill the guy, let him go, all this stuff. You wore the military uniform? I don't play those games. And the live stream is just the ultimate stuff. You have to do it. You have to do the live stream. And there's a great part.
46:15 Wouldn't you choose to watch it or not? Whether I'm going to be like, you should watch it. I'm not going to do it for you. I'm with you 99.9%. I'm just unclear what the live stream benefit. Totally get it. You know what it is Adam? To stoke fear, remember?
46:26 But by the way, I'm going back two, two, three years. Me and you were talking about parents like for right now. People that are always great. Tommy, where was it? Michigan. Michigan. Michigan. Well, Michigan, the parents actually were taken to court because they failed.
46:39 I said if your kid. To prevent access to the gun with, you know, know, biometric save, or our true gun safe. Nothing. And the child was able to casually access. I think that was the word that were in the thing. It was all, it was the top, it was on the top shelf of Maya closet. That allowed that child that have casual access to the gun and its ammunition.
46:58 Yes. And those parents now are sitting in jail because their kids killed. If your kid does something like this, Adam, and me and you saw on the same, I don't think you guys, it, Pat. I'm like, pump fear. Listen, you love your parents, terrorists. We're going after your parents in worse ways than you could believe. And this kind of reminds me, Pat, in the movie, Man on Fire with Denzel Washington,
47:17 when he's getting ready with the RPG to kill the cartel people that were kidnapping the girl. And the elderly man that he's in his house says, in the church, they say to forgive. And you know what Denzel says? Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting. That's it.
47:31 That's it. You're going to go, bro. It's not for everybody. All right, let's go to next door. Let's go to next door. We got some dark places with this story. Yeah, we go to a light story now. Let's go to a lighter story.
47:42 Lighter story is James Tilarico's been missing. The guy's been missing. He's a hiding goesie champion. You know, it's like the game worst, all the worst Tala Rico. And everyone's been trying to find him. This guy was supposed to be the second coming of Obama, you know, smooth, likable.
47:58 You know, when they think about what he thinks about and who he thinks about transgender kids, I don't know why he said that in one of the interviews. And a lot of people said, this guy's going to be great. And then all of a sudden, James Tilarico has been missing for nine days. How are you missing nine days, which is two, three weeks of the biggest moment of your life?
48:17 You're on a run. You know what nine days is in the last month of your campaign? It's like six months. And you choose to go nine days. Oh, I had a flu. I was under the weather. I talked to my physician. No, no, I went to urgent care.
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49:03 BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. Can you hear it? Your campaign said you had to flu. What happened? Yeah, I got the flu, and I'm feeling much better, and I'm glad I had a chance to recover. You know, if you don't take the opportunity to get well, sometimes you can get even sicker, and so I'm glad we made the decision to just take the week, get better, and now I'm glad to be back on the trail. You've talked about how you're a diabetic, and that has, when diabetics get the flu, it could get really bad.
49:40 How bad was it for somebody who wants to know? Is this just like in bed rest or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital? I just went to my primary care physician, but it wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu. And so I was in bed and, you know, drinking lots of liquids. Unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home. So I didn't even get full days off. But, you know, didn't want to be out on the trail and didn't want to get anyone else sick. It's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments.
50:08 And I'm glad to be back, feeling much better. The internet's doing its thing. The internet was invested in your outdoor. Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure it's because they care so much about me. Well, so conservative folks on Twitter and some of Paxton's alley were pushing the idea that you had a stress-induced episode and were getting treatment for it. What are your thoughts that happened? That's not true.
50:30 I just had the flu and I feel much better. But it's a good reminder that you can. Do I believe it? Yeah, do you believe him? No, Pat, I do me favor and put the other clip that I sent you, which is the above and below the tooth. I just literally send it to you. If you can go through, I want the audience to see this. And I also want you to run a poll after you play this.
50:46 Watch, watch the two answers. Some people are worried about this. Then I'm going to play you a call somebody made to the facility you stayed at. And some are saying, we don't know if it's true or not. Go for it. Play this clip. And last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas. And I was diagnosed with the flu.
51:04 How bad was it for somebody who wants to know? Is this just like in bed rest or did you ever have to go to a doctor or a hospital? I just went to my primary care physician. but it wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu. And last night it got so bad that I went to the... Yeah, so that's that clip. And then if you have the phone call, which kind of gets a little weird,
51:25 because there's this phone call one where I just send it to you if you want to pull it up, the phone call happened. So a guy decides to call the facility. I texted it to you. His name is Pat Ryan Amaker says he calls. So he calls the facility. And to tell you what the facility is,
51:41 the Linder Center of Hope where they said he went there because allegedly Vinny's going to be able to tell you this better than I would. I know right. That there is allegedly some things that happened where they showed him stuff from his past and he panicked and there was a threat that you either go do this or else again, it's politics.
51:59 It's October surprise, folks. So you got to just kind of put all this stuff in place. This is what the phone call sounded like when he called the facility. The thing I want you to do is the following. I want you to put your, you know, CIA hat on. and the PI hat on and you tell me if this sounds like a fake call
52:15 with the women that answers the phone. Okay? Either she's the greatest actress in the world and she can act it well or you believe it. Go for it. Okay, so nothing for James Tilariko? Wait for it. It looks, well,
52:37 this is what it's today. It looks like just this, she was just discharges this evening. That's why I don't have it. Oh, he was distrust. Carson? Okay. And this is the Hope? They should be. Okay. I'm sorry. This is, and I'm sure at the right, this is Hope Linder. Yes. Uh-huh.
52:58 Okay. And you're in Hamilton, Ohio? No, we're not in Hamilton. No. We're in Mason. Okay. So that's why he's not a system. He's been recent. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Okay. So that's it for James. Can you go to the comment section on this? because I actually want to know what the community note is. Let me see the community note at the top right there.
53:20 Linda Helmzana has refuted this. They have made a statement that James Tilariko has never received treatment at this facility. So you need to know that. That's the community note. Go a little bit lower. Elon said, question mark, rated proposed community note.
53:36 Nick Sorda, time for Tala Rico, step aside and focus on his mental health. Holy shit, the redhead libertarian. Mental health is a serious issue. Someone dealing with this mental health crisis. so bad that they need to stay in a mental facility for two weeks while running for government position, go a little bit lower. Tell her who is that guy?
53:52 All the white nationals in the room to go a little bit lower. Texas, vote here. Okay, so people are saying what they're saying. So Vinny, how much credibility do you give? Maybe he just did have a flu. Maybe he was dealing with something that he disappeared for 90s. Where are you at with this? Okay.
54:07 Here's my thing. Be reasonable. I'm going to be completely reasonable, okay? Because, again, and I love, allegedly, we use that word a lot. this is all allegedly you can't tell me and by the way pat it's 10 days it wasn't nine days 10 days till nick sort and everybody's like dude where the hell is this guy this is election time bro you're less than a month away you can you don't disappear okay but it's not like we haven't seen this before with Biden and i'll get into that because that's how the democrats do they'll keep you
54:35 in a freaking basement they'll keep you away so it's not unbelievable so when we're questioning stuff like hey why are they keeping them away there's a reason for it okay and just for the people out there. You might be hearing this name. You might be like, why is it so important? I've been calling this guy a false prophet for a year now, over a year. And I just, just so people understand who he is, Tommy. This is just a quick video that was on, on X. Can you just play this? And guys, listen, if you're driving and you're not watching it, listen to the words that are coming out of this guy's mouth. Go ahead. God is non-binary. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. It is now
55:14 existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption. The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness. You're white. My own masculinity. Our southern border should be like our front porch. Yeah. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. Yep. No need to sit and cry over, you know, your whiteness or your masculinity. They're going to call me a radical leftist. Something that you love. Ready for this? Ready for this? This is what he loves. I love. I love. I love. I'm just saying this because it's on my mind. The trans children, it's a little weird.
55:50 Okay, Pat, to me, it's more than a little weird. What does that have to do with him missing? Are you ready for this? I want to hear it. They, well, here's the thing. The missing, the only reason he surfaced is because they were talking about where are you. You don't all of a sudden, and then you're lying about your actual primary care physician. Is it Austin?
56:09 Is it doubt? You don't misspeak with that type of stuff, but he came out because he had to come out. Pat, and here's the thing about the Lindner Center of Hope, and they have to come out and say no. If that phone call is true, you have to, because if someone that works there, Tommy, actually disclose confidential information. The HIPAA concerns are coming, Pat,
56:29 and you're going to get sued into oblivion. So I, my opinion, there's phone calls that are made. They're like, hey, listen, somebody that works there, open their freaking mouth and you were on a phone call. You better come out and make a statement and say something, okay? And I'm going to go back to the Democrat, Pat. How much of the mainstream media defended Joe Biden's mental health?
56:47 They downplayed the concerns for his mental decline. So I hope the world out there don't pretend that these political organizations and the media are somehow incapable hiding uncomfortable information about the American people. Okay?
57:01 I had the flu last year. It was miserable. But if I was running for the freaking Senate seat, make a 20-second video. Hey guys, I'm here. I'm in bed. I'm not dying. Send it out there.
57:11 Okay, with all this left. So his media campaign sucks. Even Elon Musk said the Tala Rico campaign is hiding something big that voters ought to know about. And if he's struggling, Pat, if he's struggling, my heart goes out to him and I pray for him that he's good. But I believe he's a lost soul and I believe the message he's been pushing is a very dark agenda. So I listen to this and what you just heard there very straight up is a thing called vishing, which stands for voice fishing or it's pretexting. And it works by exploiting predictable human reactions.
57:43 This woman had a predictable reaction. It appears that he is contacted. It sounds like a female voice. And it sounds like that she is a clerk or someone sitting there looking, I suppose, at a computer screen. Because you hear her going, okay, well. And he's giving her simple pretext. So in other words, hey, James Tolariko, is he out? Has he been released?
58:10 Where is he? She's like, oh, this person knows he was here. That's pretexting. And so what do I think? I think that woman was telling the truth, Pat. And then I think it's exactly as you say. They're like, oh, crap. Nope, Tala Rica was never here.
58:24 Nothing to say here. I don't know what you're talking about. If you called somebody that spoke for us, that wasn't us. Enough. Listen, I got to go. Bye. And that's what you're going to get in a defense maneuver because they have to do it. Now, the other part of it is you don't disappear like this.
58:39 It's just simple. I don't need to analyze it. You don't disappear at this part of your campaign. I think that woman was telling the truth on the phone. I think Amacher, Rehn Amacher, stumbled onto this and did a, you know, committed social engineering. But this is exactly what you don't want them to do, call your assistant, and then get her to do things with sending people money that don't need it or paying bills that don't exist. Social engineering. So, Pat. Adam, thoughts.
59:06 I just think this is. That's a fair assessment. I think that's a fair assessment. And so let's do this. Run a poll. Do you believe James Tolarico spent 10 days in a mental hospital? Is that the right question? Yes.
59:20 You could say that. By the way, put yes, no, maybe. Yes, no, maybe. Just to see where people are out with it. Adam, your thoughts. Yes. So what does Kalshi say the odds are in the election right now? Oh, he's way ahead.
59:32 Tala Rico's got 63%. It's like two thirds, one third, right? Talarico's got a big lead. Let me take a cue from my fear, leader PBD and separate the signal from the noise. The noise. The noise is he was at this center of hope and he was apparently discharged. No, I know Rain.
59:49 I'm actually literally texting with the guy as we speak. Tom, if you want to validate who I'm texting with. Well, I know. Yeah, I'm on. So like he said he called the place. He spoke to several people. Rain is a stuff. He said he spoke to a lady who said he was discharged.
01:00:04 That's hearsay. That's allegedly. That's just his word, that he was discharged from this thing. So why was he there? Was he there? What's going on? This to me is a little bit of noise. But the signal is, do the people of Texas, do the good people of Texas actually care about
01:00:21 this story enough to the point where it's actually going to motivate them to not vote for this guy? Because this is going to be a turnout election. And to me, if you told me, okay, this is my opinion. Here's this guy, Tala Rico, that Trump calls Tala Friko. He makes feminine Henry Sisson, Sissy, look masculine. In my opinion, there's no way that the good people of the red-blooded meat-eaten cow truck in Texas
01:00:46 are going to vote for this allegedly gay man. And if he's not gay, he's very, very weird, woke, and feminine. But are the people of Texas actually going to vote against him? And the reason I say the word against him is very specific. Because clearly, Ken Paxton is not motivating people. I don't know what they were thinking, nominating this guy, sort of got a lazy eye, not to get all personal. but clearly this guy is not a a candidate.
01:01:14 I'm saying clear this guy, Ken Paxson is not a candidate that people are rallying around. So to me it's are you voting for Tala Rico or voting against Tala Rico? This is not somebody that actually has normal, traditional, conservative Texas viewpoints. He's clearly weird, woke, and weak. But are the people of Texas actually supporting this dude? I have a hard time believing. And Adam, and this is YPath very, very quickly. the trust in mainstream media,
01:01:40 I still can't believe they're surviving and I get the propaganda machine and the money that's paying for it from the DNC and all these people. But it's like, he's gone for two weeks. You understand? I've never had, like I said, I had the flu, three days, four days, I'll give you five days tops.
01:01:56 Ten days, okay? Meanwhile, by the Washington Post last week, they published five major news stories about Trump's. Who was the girl? Natalie Harp. For seven weeks. For seven weeks, they kept going. This guy's been gone for 10 days and a major...
01:02:11 That's a very good point. And nothing, Pat. The Washington Post. Washington Post. Where are you at? Do your job. The other guy had a Nazi tattoo and they tried to do it. And then eventually they came out.
01:02:20 By the way, this is what the poll of our audience says. And I got another poll I want you to run. Do me if ever run this other poll. Today, today, would you vote, if you could, even if you don't live in the state, because we got people watching all over the place, would you rather, would you vote for Tala, oh shit, is it, Tala Rico or Paxton? Yeah. Yes.
01:02:38 Would you vote for Tala Rico and Paxson? It's our audience. Or sit it out. Okay. Or sit it out. Yes to Tala Rico. Yes to Paxon. I'm sitting this one out.
01:02:48 This is our audience. Wait a minute. I guess my question is... I don't even want you to influence it. I want to see what's going to happen. But the one about do you believe James Tolariko spent 10 days in a mental hospital? Our audience, 60% said yes. That's a big.
01:02:59 18% said no. 22% said maybe. So it's a 60-40. You know, it's a little weird on what's going on. I will tell you. you this. If this story gains ground and more stuff comes out, if it gains ground, it just saved the R&C $5,200 million that they would need to desperately spend for Paxton to win. Because Paxton may be a very smart guy. He may be a good AG. He's not a marketable candidate.
01:03:31 He's just not. It's just not a, you need a miracle. You need an endorsement and a lot of other things or guy like that to win. So you have today, you have tomorrow. For today, you got this to deal with the next two to three weeks. And by the way, for some of you guys that want to be with us on election night and have some interesting people there, go fill out your application on boardroom cigar lounge.com. We'll put the domain in the chat for people to do. Fill it out.
01:03:53 Somebody is going to call you today and tell you about what it takes, everybody goes through a background check to be a member because security is very important to us. But we will see if this is a real thing or not because long term we need better. candidates. We need candidates that people are going to get excited about and get behind. And we don't have that right now. Not all of them, some of them. I just want to ask this, let's say he was at some mental facility. Let's say he was having a nervous breakdown. Yeah. Anxiety. Let's just go there. Yeah. What's wrong with that? Meaning, you're unfit. All right, the guy, unfit. Yeah. They nominated a Nazi in Maine. They got Islamists running in other guys. Unfit.
01:04:34 of the people I'm worried about in this country that are taking over right now you got mom Donnie out there you got Al-Sayed here's some weird gay guy in Texas that's mentally unstable okay that kind of comes with the territory here that that whole generation is Gen Z depression anxiety that's his audience so my question is this isn't that just yeah but the part is that even a shocking news but the part what some people are saying at him is some what people are saying is somebody right before he went to the mental hospital approach them and says, if you keep going,
01:05:06 we're going to drop the story the last week pre-elections. Allegedly. Allegedly. What's the word? Too early. How long we from midterms? Oh, no. You do it one week out.
01:05:17 Yeah. You're October 28th. Okay. Sometimes I get a little aggressive. I go to two. And by the way, if there is and they do drop it, then it's...
01:05:26 What drop what? Who knows, Adam? We're saying allegedly. What's the story? Everybody already thinks he's gay and weird and woke. What's the story? Confirming what? If you drop a story that's something that is super dark, that's scared of crap out of us.
01:05:38 He's already said the weird parts out loud. Adam, I don't, I'm not on the inside to know what the story is. All I'm saying to you is if they do drop the story. By the way, our audience said 9% they will vote for Tala Rico. 71% they said they will vote for Paxton. You know what's the scariest number? 20% said they're going to have a big chunk. That means 29% is not voting for Paxton.
01:06:03 I'd like to know what percentage of our audience is planning. Can we find out what percentage of our audience is actually planning on voting in the midterms anyway? In general. Like what percentage of our audience is planning on voting? What does that tell you about this one here? What does it tell you about? Nobody's excited for Ken Paxton. Nobody's excited for midterms.
01:06:20 This is about that specific issue because, you know, we can go to a Florida thing and we can ask that question as well. But I'm going to get to next story. I want to get to next story. Next one I want to get to is Anthropic goes rogue. And this is kind of weird. an AI model when broke, submitted fake tip to police. I'm not going to everybody on the story, but Tom, I'm going to come to you on this one here.
01:06:39 So let me get this straight. Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital system of outside organization, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for AI companies to secure their system.
01:06:57 The company listed four types of unintended behavior, exploiting basic software flaws to run commands, submitting forms it should not have, and bypassing restrictions to access public data information regarding this case, its clot 4.5 model submitted a tip to local police department stating, I may have information regarding this case. I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area without filling in the name and contact field. Anthropic agent also submitted 20 incomplete visa applications. That's crazy. through a public state department form.
01:07:30 The cases we've identified to date in these categories have minimal real word impact. The company wrote, it briefed the White House and notified each agency. The White House's new superintelligence force said the activity has seized, Tom. So there's two things going on here, and one of them is a headline
01:07:47 because it's anthropic. And the other thing is bots have been filling out forms for 10 years, meaning if you put on your website, Vinnie, let's say you have a website. You know, for VT comedy, contact Vinny here. For information about Vinny appearing, contact here.
01:08:06 And you put a little thing, put your name, put your email address, and a quick statement here, send it to us. Bots have been filling those out and sending them in for 10 years. They're trying to get a reply back and a usable email address from a real human. It happens. And so when you hear
01:08:22 this, Pat, where it says it also filled out 20 incomplete visa applications. And so what it did is it searched the internet and it found this this crime watch or something and it said ah so it filled it out and it filled it out the way it knows supposed to but you know it didn't have in here what it didn't have no no name no contact fields no phone number so in other words because it's anthropic people are freaking out pat well there is something to it right this misbehavior now is more than just a bot trying to fill out a reply response form on the internet this is now
01:08:57 what if it gets really smart? And it gets back into just what I was talking about social engineering. And it can actually fool a human by reaching in or it causes actually a misdirection of the authorities, also known as swatting. So now the bots go out there, Pat, and they fill out a bunch of crime watch tips. It says, hey, this guy that lives at a pretty notable house in Fort Lauderdale
01:09:22 rides his bike every morning, shady character. now you've got bots and stuff out there swatting people. Make sense? Like sending you false... Oh, for sure. It goes back to that story of Tom Cruise where it was like a future crime you're going to commit. False allegations.
01:09:36 Now I've got to go explain myself. So that's a part that some people are concerned with this, Tom. It's big because this is anthropic, but this is the next generation of what we already see if you operate a business where you get all these fake things come in on your response forms that are on the Internet. These were incomplete visa forums. Guess what? It found a form.
01:09:55 Started putting blank data in it, but it didn't have name or contact or a phone number. So it just, what this means is that the AI is a far smarter bot than the bots that are filling out these forms. And we need higher levels of security. And we got to, you know, watch the social engineering that these things are going to be capable of. Well, look, we all know the famous phrase, snitches get stitches. Well, here, Anthropic is snitching on a case that didn't even exist. Like, they're just giving fake tips. Just calling up, hey, I got a tip on this case.
01:10:28 Turns out they were lying. I know, Pat, you've interviewed a lot of mafia-type peaks. Like swatting, right? What happens to Reds? Especially rats who are lying. So, I don't know. It just seems to me, this is not something that anthropic wants. What do you think, Pat?
01:10:42 You can, you can play this. It's just a nothing-burger type of stuff. Keep playing that. Keep playing that. And then let this thing accelerate three, five, ten. years from now. And all of a sudden, they start using this and a new person gets elected in the White House, Mr. Ellsworth. And all of a sudden, this person that gets elected in the White House does a side deal with one of these AI companies. And they start wanting to target people for future
01:11:11 crimes they're going to commit. Go to 2045 and Trump runs in 2045. If Trump ran in 2045, all you would need to do is an Obama who would have done anything in his power to make sure Trump doesn't get elected. You know what he does with a system like this? Hey, can you go out there and create a future crime for Trump that he's going to commit and we're going to save civilization? Well, on October 28, 2048, Donald Trump was going to press the button because it was going to be a nuclear disc and because of that, we're making an arrest and we are saving roughly an estimated 17 million people's lives. Absolutely. Because it is incredible technology that we have. Do not get too comfortable
01:11:54 would where the direction of this technology is going. I am zero comfortable with that. An evil person, Tom, in power, who wants to destroy someone's life, who wants to get their vengeance, they will do everything in their power to use this to put somebody in prison. So you've got to make sure there's some levels there
01:12:13 because this is a creative leverage for some of these people. In this movie, Minority Report, that was Tom Cruise, right? Yeah. remind me what happened. They would stop a crime before it happened and then they'd bring them in front of these three people who were judges?
01:12:28 No, no, no. Was that what it was? No, that's a different movie. Okay, got you. This is you're getting arrested for a future crime you're about to commit. Yeah. So pattern recognition,
01:12:37 based on the searches you made, based on the questions you're asking, you're probably about to kill such and such. And because of that, we're going to arrest you right now for a future crime you're going to commit on October 28 of 2026, you're doing 20 years in jail. Yeah.
01:12:49 And FYI, if you think that's not, gonna. Oh, Adam. You think this is, this is not a nothing. No, no. Initating life and life is meditating art. Because in the movie, they had something called precogs. They were pre-cognitive psychics
01:13:02 that are laying there. It was like three of them, right? They're laying in this water. So they're basically listening to psychics. This ball comes out and they go, oh, Adam was going to kill somebody tomorrow in this fashion and they go and they stop you. I remember like they got like burst in through the roof. They'd come in and stop them. Yeah, yeah. Pre-crime.
01:13:18 You're saying that this is potentially, I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you. Only the paranoid survive. All you need is a very strong socialist president who hates seven people on the other side, who has access to technology like this, to pass new laws, and flip three Supreme seats where they're controlling seven or two on the left. And let me tell you where they can pass a lot of weird things. Okay?
01:13:39 I just stay for the people that are like, yeah, let me just watch sports and watch the Yankees get their asses handed to them and get sweat. Yeah, let me see Milwaukee take out the Dodgers. It's just one game. Let's just get all distracted with football. And Joe Burrow won yesterday. Oh, did you see such and such through 370-something yards for the Patriots with three touchdowns?
01:14:00 And you don't pay attention to this stuff and you don't vote? All it takes is one crazy cycle leader with control that flips the Supreme Seed, seven or two to the other side. They will have the power to do some really dark stuff. So brace for impact. Get involved. Don't sit on the sidelines. Don't lose your paranoia.
01:14:20 The future looks pride because we're going to be involved. That would be my thoughts on this story. Let me get to the next one. Next one I'm going to get to is Tom. Palantir's CEO says there's only two types of people out there that are going to make it during the, what do you call it, with AI era? And here's what he had to say. So who's he talking about two types of people?
01:14:40 Is he talking about, you know, background? Any of that stuff, I've played a clip. Here's Alex Carp. Everybody's worried about, like, their future. But there are basically two ways to know you have. a future. One, you have some vocational training. Okay. So it's like, or two, you're neurodivergent. And when I say neurodivergent, I mean broadly defined. Like, your guys are sitting here. You could have had a corporate tool job. Yeah. You could have been like, I don't want to pick on Goldman,
01:15:05 but like just say, you know, like a job. I replied there. They turned me down. Well, yeah. I did work at sit at all for a little bit. Anyway, you could have, you could have a job where you're like a cut. He tried. He failed. No, actually, maybe they didn't know the right way to test. Yeah. Like, it's like, yeah, They were like, like, you know, whatever. I'm not picking on one or the other. I'm just saying, you, you know, you're probably here. You think you're here because, what, da, da, but it's actually, you probably wouldn't have been able to do that shit
01:15:31 because there's like, it's the same thing as sit down in class and learn some bullshit. Like, and you just regurgitate it. Like, that's not a valuable thing. If you are actually have insights into anything, and you have real technical expertise. Yeah. Like, you know, you can look at a company,
01:15:47 but you actually can look at it because you know, something about how these things work or something about how clients work. You know, then all the other stuff that used to be precious, like being able to do low-end coding, being able to do low-end lowering, being able to do low-end reading and writing. I mean, this is like, I feel like Odin came down and was like, I'm going to make the world just right for dyslexic. It's like, yeah, Odin has come down from our, or Lockhe has come down and said, you know what, carp, you suffered so much as a kid. Yeah.
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01:16:59 No, he's on a, I don't agree entirely, but he is making a point. He made a point in there about low-end lawyering, low-end writing, low-end, he's right. It's basics. I mean, what Doug and I can do right now with these AI tools on legal speeds up what we do. Now, do we still check with legal experts? Yes. So the low-end stuff, I think he's right. But what he's talking about neurodivergent, it's, neurodivergent is the opposite of
01:17:30 neurotypical. Neuropical means you look at the world the same way other people do like you, because that's how you were taught, that's how you were brought up, and that's the lane you're in. And then there's other people when they were brought up and taught. Maybe they were on spectrum a little bit or just these crazy smart people that were very, very curious. He said, neurodivergent people like that. are going to have an advantage because they're not easily replicated like low-end lawyer,
01:17:57 low-end writer, low-end. That's the point that he's making. But every article and everything that comes out, Pat, where people talk about, oh, going to take jobs away, society's going to change. This half of society burns to the ground. That's the reason there's a lot of attraction, not attraction, but there's been a lot of audience attract Ted to this and saying, you know, there's going to be two kinds of people. Well, I would like to say, I think, Pat, there's two kinds of people now.
01:18:27 People that want to work a job. People want to do a job. They want to do a good job, get a paycheck and go home. And then there's people that had courage, that had, you know, creativity that wanted to do something different, than wanted to build something, that were inspired to do it. I think there's always been two types of people. but what AI is going to do, it's going to make the difference and the enablement that much more stark. But I always think there's been too.
01:18:55 There's always been Elon's and Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison's. There's always been those people. And then there's people that have been go along, get along, do a regular life. And what he's talking about is through the eyes of AI, yeah? But I think a part of it on what he's saying where the nerve, the geek that was made fun of is now in charge. The nerd the geek. Revenge of the nerds.
01:19:23 No, but literally the revenge of the nerds is as accurate as it can be. Get those nerds! They are officially the ones that you don't want to scare off and you don't want to piss off. Because those guys now have a certain power that wasn't as cool 40 years ago. No.
01:19:37 Now they have. And I think there's an element to it, but he's also saying, look at you guys. You guys could have gone to Goldman. You guys could have gone. He's like, I actually did. You used to work on Morgan Stanley. But you ended up here.
01:19:47 So somewhere the tests didn't get it right where they missed you, right? Where they missed you and what you were going to do. That's the part that's going to be very interesting as you're going through this next phase of testing for people to identify what their career paths. And I think it's going to come. I think there's going to be a moment where when you sit and you're talking to somebody and they ask me about career stuff and they'll say, hey, you know, what should I do as Korean? And I'll say, it's very simple for me. I make a list of all your talents. Like if I were to ask you, I talked to Vinny at 18 years old, and I knew you for two years
01:20:20 and I was to ask you, what are your talents? What would you have said at 18 years old? At 18. At 18 years? Not today. At 18 years old. Funny? Funny?
01:20:28 What else? Very athletic? Very good looking. I saw that picture of you with your hair. So funny. Your wife beat. Smart. I mean, I was on a high honor roll.
01:20:40 What were you? What did you do well with? Was it writing? Was it math? Was it English? Was it science? Was it history? English, history, not so much math.
01:20:49 Well, my English was gooder than everybody else. So athletic, funny, smart. So let me tell you how this works. I would take these and I would see what routes it would talk. I can do that with AI today. What industries would benefit somebody with, matter of fact, let me just do this right now. Watch this, okay?
01:21:09 But let me also, tell me also what your passion is. What does your passion lie? But back then? I really didn't have, like, back then I was so freaking long. What are you, what gets you excited? Like, what was it that gets you excited? Oh, I mean, knowing, oh, great question. Knowing that me being a character or doing comedy or doing something funny made somebody laugh.
01:21:29 And I had that, like, ability to make them laugh, entertain. Because remember, it was my mom with the household that we lived in. When I would watch my mom watch comedy and what George Carlin and Eddie Murphy and all these comedians would do and she would be like, she'd have a vacation from the life that we had with my dad. I looked at that and I went, that's what I want to do. I want to be able to free people from their regular lives and make them laugh and entertain them. That was my, from watching my mom laugh and watch comedy. Yeah.
01:21:57 So then for me, the part that I'm excited about is we're going to come to a phase right now. We're working on something I will share with the audience here soon, where I'll be able to identify your strengths, what industries you would excel in, and which ones excite you? because that's what happened with me. Mine was numbers. I liked people. I looked at what industries to get into.
01:22:20 I went into financial services. I dealt with people. I dealt with numbers. And boom, ended up working out for me. But when I was in the military, I wasn't using my numbers. And I wasn't,
01:22:31 you know, it was like, so to me, this next phase is what creative jobs will match someone's personality. Okay? Like, you know,
01:22:39 I asked myself, if I was raised in a family that my parents were highly educated with MBAs and they went to school and all this other stuff and the expectation of getting better grades and all this stuff, what would I have gone? I don't know. Maybe I would have been a lawyer.
01:22:53 Maybe I would have gone or different. I don't know what direction I would have gone. But there is life on how it happens. The next part is identifying what's going to be a good career for an individual based on their gifts, talents, and personalities. I think that's the conversation where a lot of parents need to have with their kids. Adam, your thoughts on this. Well, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
01:23:10 I mean, there's something called icky guy. you've heard of this before. Tell me. That's the Japanese reason for being or reason for living. I-K-I-G-A-I. Essentially, it's sort of like a Venn diagram, a cross-reference of your passion, your mission, your vocation, your profession, what you love to do, what you're passionate about, what the world needs, what the world will pay you for. And essentially, that's how you can figure it out. Essentially, what you're saying is take that, pump in some AI with it, and spit it out.
01:23:41 But by the way, don't look now, but Alex Carp, when he speaks, you should probably start listening right now because he's basically running one of the companies that's essentially running the new frontier of the world right now with Palantir. Right. And essentially what he's saying, did you see what he said about college? He said, skip the debt, said, reclaim years of your life and earn a Palantir degree. So they're basically saying, you know, we saw what Ken Griffin is doing in Miami now, opening up a university to help people get smarter. essentially what they're doing, and the Palantir is offering two things, this neurodivergent fellowship and neurodivergent, Tom can chime in on this, is like outside the box thinking, thinking a little bit differently, not just doing it everybody does, and then a meritocracy
01:24:25 fellowship, which basically is like, you get the skills to pay the bills. So essentially what he's saying is this. You know, Bob Dylan, I think famously once said, the times they are changing. You either adapt, like Darwin said, or you get left in the dustbin of history. So if you're you're still doing the old methodology of life, you're going to get left behind. The whole, like, Pat, do you remember this? You used to go to the library. You used to have a card catalog. Dude, I'm old enough to remember I had a typewriter in the 80s.
01:24:54 Typewriter. The times are changing so fast that you either adapt or die. So, you know, it's last week I choose words to talk to the kids about. And this morning I had an emergency meeting with our guys. We made one of the biggest announcements to, but they'd be consulting and higher metrics, which we're very excited about, very good meeting. We're at the office early.
01:25:12 I was biking this morning very early, my five miles, even though we got home late last night, and we're doing what we're doing and soccer tournament, all this stuff, being a parent, being this, being that. And I told the kids, this is a few weeks ago where I'm trying to get them to understand this concept. The hardest thing in life to build is momentum.
01:25:32 Hardest thing in life to build is momentum. But as hard as it is to build momentum, it's also the easiest thing to lose. It is so hard to create, but it's so easy to lose. With friendships, with business, with content creation, with your health, with your wealth, you know, you're compounding, you're making all this money, and you make something dumb and you lose $3 million in gambling debt. Or you're making invest in something stupid that you didn't call a couple people to get your advice and you're upset why he lost $400,000. You didn't get anybody's counsel. You just kind of aggressively make that decision, right?
01:26:04 And then you lose momentum, and you've got to come back again. And so momentum is your best friend in life. That's also with knowledge, content, learning, relationships. And then most of the time when people get momentum, to 80% of people that get momentum, guess what's the next thing they do in life when they get momentum? Stop. Get cocky.
01:26:23 And think that momentum's going to stick around for the rest of her life. She's not. She's going to leave you to another person that respects momentum. And then they get discouraged because they saw how hard it was to create momentum and how easy it is to lose it, that they never, ever again want to recommit to the level of sacrifice it took to create momentum and they'll only experience one time in their lives.
01:26:43 Most people won't create momentum too many times in their lives because they don't want to put the price again. Because it took eight years to create and one dumb decision to lose it all, right? Okay. Here's the other part about this when you think about it. The other part about it is on most of us that we don't think about it a lot is the following.
01:26:58 long-term thinking is a massive, massive misconception with long-term thinking. It's like, oh, my God, such a long time. Hey, you know, if you invest $500 a month, 30 years from now, you'll have $2 million in a bank at 12% whatever when people say that stuff. You want me to wait 30 years? Yeah. You know, if you apply this to your company within eight quarters, your company's going to be able to get better calibration, better results out of you.
01:27:26 You want me to wait eight quarters? Yeah, that's not a long time. That comes like this. You know if you change your diet in nine months? Nine months? Yeah. I'm telling the story this morning, and I'm talking to my guy in the military,
01:27:39 and I had to say, remember 20 years ago when we were on boot camp? And then all of a sudden I'm like, shit, that was 30 years ago. Jeez. 30 years ago is when you joined the military. It's crazy. 30 years ago is when I joined the military.
01:27:52 26 years ago is when I got started with Morgan Stanley Dean with her day before 9-11. I've been married 17-plus years. Are you flipping kidding me? I met my wife June of 02. So two things that we don't think about a lot, that we ought to think about a lot, is commit to long-term thinking, don't subscribe to short-term thinking. It's the hardest thing to do because it doesn't take a long time.
01:28:16 It's going to be like this. And number two is never, ever, ever disrespect momentum. Never. In every possible way your life is better when you have momentum on your side. in every possible way you look smarter, you look better, you feel better, everything feels better, but that one dumb mistake you make,
01:28:35 you wipe out the momentum. So for somebody that's watching and say, well, I'm discouraged and I don't know, and blah, blah, blah, blah. Restart that momentum commitment again. And this time around when you go through, don't screw it up. And teach this concept to your kids.
01:28:46 Talk to your kids about this kind of stuff. It's very, very difficult to embrace the concept of, you know, embrace the concept of, you know, the fact that 10 years is not that long of a time. going to come by very very quickly it's not an easy thing by the way i want to talk to you about a couple of these stories with germany 87% of wanted suspects have foreign citizenship and i got two other stories i'm going to get into but before i do so i want you to listen to our sponsors who believe the future looks bright go for it handmaid in portugal their craftsmanship is a way of
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01:30:04 I wear them all the time. All right. Germany, 87% of wanted suspects have foreign citizenship. Why is that? And this is a story by Zero Hedge. And should Germany even pay attention to this? Should you judge it based on this? More than 148,000 people remain subject to outstanding arrest warrants in Germany
01:30:22 and only 11.2% of them hold exclusively German citizenship. Overall, 87% of arrest warrant suspects are foreigners. according to a figure for Federal Ministry of Interior provided in response to a parliamentary inquiry. By the way, they don't publish these numbers. The reason why they did is because of the inquiry. If they don't ask, they wouldn't have known. They want to keep these numbers secret. They don't want these numbers to be public.
01:30:47 There's a lot of people involved in it that don't want these numbers to be public. Foreign nationals account for 87.3% of the total, while another one and a half percent are German citizens, who also hold a second nationality. well obtained the ministry reply to a question from a fd lawmaker sebastian the figures speak for themselves the overwhelming majority of criminals wanted on arrest or not have german passports says calling for permanent border controls german citizens from single largest group of 16,671 followed by romanian 161 23 polls georgians turks and germans population is 81% exclusively
01:31:23 german citizens cdew spokesman alexander thorn said 17,500 people with outstanding warrants have been caught at the border since September of 2024. Tom, why is it such an important data? So words talk, numbers scream and you know, when handcuffs click, victims cheer. So I think what you're seeing here is this goes in the face of the narrative. This goes in the face of the globalist narrative. This goes in the face of open border narrative. This is exactly what they don't want. What they don't want is this data to be out there so that average people can say, what did we say, Vinny? Wait a minute. So you're telling me it's not working. I thought we were just, so take your, take your middle of the road liberal
01:32:07 that has an open mind on it. They don't want them to shift, Pat. That's who's shifting here. The moderates, the liberal moderates that pride themselves being a middle road are looking at this and going, wait a minute. So we opened our borders and these are the people that are committing crimes, and it's not one or two for the sake of the headline. It's a freaking stack of data. It's a stack of data. And so the powerful part of this is that what you said, somehow the data got freedom of information equivalent in Germany or wherever it was, somehow the data got out in the open, and now it's being reported not by Reuters, not by the traditional media, not by build in Germany, but by
01:32:53 Zero Hedge, and then others like us that picked that up and said, wait, this story needs to be told. This is saying exactly. And it was said, they're not sending us their best. Remember that? We were trying to talk to Mayorkas. Who
01:33:09 said that? Which U.S. politicians said that first? They said, listen, they're not sending their best. Trump was the first one. Trump, but I think there was also Trey Gowdy. There's a lot of people who have been reminding folks, hey, look, These aren't like scientists that are in Mexico that want to get out from under the regime there. Yeah, some of those are coming over.
01:33:32 But the most of it is just a bunch of refugees. And what's inside that is criminals. That's what's going on that are coming over to a new market. And the new market is Germany. Hey, they're going to let me come in here and they're going to actually give me a cell phone. And they're going to give me a little relief, Pat. and I get to start my criminal business over in Germany. What a thing.
01:33:56 And the criminal element laughs. But the liberal people that are in the middle, conservatives are screaming in Germany, but the liberals that were in the middle with a little bit of an open mind are sitting there going, wait a minute. This didn't work. And that's exactly what the globalist government and the core EU, you know,
01:34:16 that's not what they want the average citizen that'd be in possession of. And what was it, by the way, Chuck, this up. So I just asked Chad, JBT, to pull up a report. When is the last time UK ran a similar report based on an inquiry? You know what it says? Because they ran the similar report in UK. Guess when's the last time they ran the report that they made it public to the British parliamentary? When do you think that is? When is the last time you think they ran the same exact report? 50s? 2013, 2014. It's been 12 years of them having ran this report. And guess what the number came out on UK parliamentary,
01:34:54 on what percentage of the crime, the arrest warrants, were foreigners? Non-British nationals. What percentage do you think of it was? 85% same number? Are you ready, Tom? 98.3% is what the report came up. Beat your prior best. So 98.3% is when they came up with this report in 2013.
01:35:16 It was 7,881 arrest warrants that they had. warrants involving British nationals was only 132. Warrants involving foreign nationals was 7749, time. 98.3%. And they knew about this in 2013, 2014, and what did they do? Nothing. I want to know why they haven't ran that same exact report recently. Why are you running that report so late?
01:35:43 Why not find out and see exactly what's going on? You know, we had this fellow on the podcast, who Raymond Ibrahim, whose interview, his clips are all over X, and I'm being tagged by a bunch of people that are not happy with me. And Vinny, you got a death threat guy on DM. You reported to the FBI. Yeah, I sent the screenshot to Umberto
01:36:01 just in case people want to see it. Yeah, so he report, and by the way, what's funny about this guy, which is not funny, I sent it on Bertha. He sends the message to Vinny, and I wanted to know, because Vinny sent him an audio back,
01:36:10 which was very funny, but not funny. Then the guy responds back in audio. Yes. He responds back in audio. Do you have that audio, by the way, with this guy? I can play it right now. Yeah, he responds back in audio because of the recent interviews.
01:36:25 Who talks like this? Yeah. Who threatens like this? Nobody talks like this. And what do you want to do? You want to sit there and say, oh, it's not a big deal. A guy broke it down for me. It's the strategy of Islamification of a nation, and the initials were RPM, RPM.
01:36:43 RPM, always remember these initials. First they come in, and they come to a come. country and they say we're a peaceful religion are peaceful religion the p they gain political power after they came political influence then the last one they used the military to take control the country that's been their strategy for centuries on what they done okay and raven ibrahim he talks about this in his book uh uh uh kind of breaking down what's going on so you know when when you see data all if by the way if it said armenians the one that are 87.3 percent i want to know who it is i don't care about ethnicity and nationality wise whoever
01:37:18 it is, stop taking people from those countries and those places. It's common sense, Vinnie, do you want to read? This is the guy. He says, this is random. We haven't even said anything about religion or anything. And I don't even know how long. He says, random, you son of a bee, if I see you, I'm going to take your head off, you little fake Christian coward.
01:37:40 F, tuft, tooth in the Middle Eastern. I'll spit in your mom's face and F her till she cry, you son of her, you know what. You're lucky you live in effing America, you coward, face-to-face, break your jaw, you clown. I looked them up. This is from Belgium. And I already knew, guys, what other religion is going to message you and throw in a chop off your head and everything? And then, because I left him a message, I said, listen, come to America. This is all the talk, all your people.
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01:39:21 you're lucky you live in America you're lucky you live in America you're very lucky you've guns I love America I think God bless America a guy like you in Europe or in Africa
01:39:33 in South America would be would be killed easily like nobody wants even taught you because look at that you're small you understand
01:39:42 that's the reason why you people are not taken seriously what do you think this guy's from this idiot So you want me to play what the first one I said? No, no, you don't have to play what you said.
01:39:55 And what I want you to say? Where do you think he's... I want you to say, you wouldn't be able to talk like this in UK. Can you read that part which says, you don't be able to talk like this in UK? Yeah, he said... If you talk like this in UK, there's a reason why they don't say anything about us in the UK.
01:40:07 Oh yeah, people like you in Europe will be easily, easily forgotten in the UK, Albania, Kosovo, Austria, will be vanished. You are a clown. You clowns are lucky freedom of speech. You're a lucky little boy. Muslims will never ever take over it's impossible never
01:40:24 he's trying to back up be careful there's a lot of crazy people in the world that don't have nothing to lose and he goes on just where do you guys think this guy's from I don't by the way I talk about the Pope we talk about Christian we talk about this I've never had this
01:40:39 and again people go well it's not everybody I never say it's everybody but out of two billion people if 10% have this attitude that is a huge freaking problem and I face the enemy. And I told him, I said, bring it. Come to America. Come, come do what you're going to do. So for everybody out there pretending, I criticize everybody, every country from Zelensky to Israel,
01:41:02 to all that stuff. No other religion, no other are coming to saying that they want to chop my head off and to stay out of Europe. You understand that? But that's why I love this freaking country. I dare, I dare you to come here with that freaking attitude. Because over there, they know, guys, they already know, Pat, you were talking about the RPM. You have no guns. You can't even talk negative about these people or else they come to your freaking house and they arrest your ass. Okay, remember in Germany speaking of Germany? 11 guys took turns raping this freaking girl at a freaking park. Okay?
01:41:33 They got arrested. They all got let go. You know who actually did jail time, Adam? A girl who found this guy's WhatsApp number or whatever and message him was talking crap to him. She went to jail. Okay? So this is the real threat. And by the way, watch this.
01:41:46 Remember the question I asked and I said, this data you gave me UK is 13 years ago. I want to know about data today. You know what UK's answer is? So August 10, 2026, actually I'll go to the last. January 19, 2026, UK made an inquiry. Does the government record nationality
01:42:01 of people arrested? You know what the government's response was? What? Nationality is and collected centrally and its general arrest statistics. Why not? Yeah. Well, April 28, 2006, what percentage of violence,
01:42:12 sexual offenders involve foreign nationals? Police recorded crime statistics don't include suspects nationality or immigration status. Why not? Why not? August 10, 2020. This is six weeks ago.
01:42:23 How many crimes were committed by foreign nationals in 2023 through 2026? Guess what the government's respond was? Nationality data isn't included in centrally held convictions record. If you're watching this right now, let's just say you're a liberal, you're a Democrat, you're socialist, you're communist, you're capitalist, whatever you are. Don't you want to know who's committing the crime and what nationality they are? What if they're your kind? What if they're like you?
01:42:47 Say you're a Hick. You're a Texan. You're a Polish, you're Assyrian, Armenia, you're Persian, you're Iraq. Don't you want to know who is committing those crimes? If you hired people from a certain university and you notice a pattern about your 500 employees, 50 of them keep stealing from you. Don't you want to know what company they came from, what college they came from, what education, wouldn't you go to your CFO and your CHR and say,
01:43:14 can I get some of this data of where these 50 that we hired? Can we see a pattern of where they came from so we can never hire them again? that's not called phobia to anything. It's called phobia to criminals. It's not a nationality thing. We need those statistics. And for some people that are looking to the sign of, well, you know, what I respect about this guy is,
01:43:34 like, I respect that he is at least showing his true colors, not the fake bots. This is a real human being that gave the message that he gave. And Vinny reported it to the FBI. How many of them are going to be, who's going to catch them? Out of all these guys, you know how many of them? There is not seven of them. It's seven million that talk like that.
01:43:50 Then what do you do with them? So to me, some of these countries in Europe that have the stats in front of them, what are you going to do about it now that you have the data? How are you going to react now that you have the data? Will they change? Who knows? We'll see. Adam, your thoughts on this?
01:44:03 Yeah, Humberto, I sent you a pick a story you can bring up. But look, Vinny, if you think that's unique, you should see my DMs every single day. These people will not stop. But let me just run you through what my opinion is. It never starts and stops with the Jews. It starts with the Saturday people, then it ends with the social. Sunday people. So I'm not shocked that radical people will start basically going to Israel route and then go to the American European route. So I was in Germany when I flew to Israel. And can I tell you how orderly the German people are? It was a little disheartening for me to hear, get in line. Line up on the plane. I'm like, oh, okay. Am I going on a train right now? All right, cool. I'm just going on the plane right here. But this is why the pendulum is swinging the other way. And the countries that don't adapt, will get left behind, and the countries that do could hopefully reverse what's going on here.
01:44:55 Because it's been no secret, these third world takeover of European countries has happened. And what we're trying to do is stop the Marxist-Islamist takeover of America. That's number one for me, this red-green alliance. But look at this story right here that just happened in the UK. The Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws the award for the Muslim cleric who praised Osama bin Laden. We're at the point now where the Archbishop of Canterbury is giving awards to these people. Now look at the lovely lady in the middle. Is this something that you think is Western values?
01:45:31 This is how she's showing up? In a ninja outfit? You think this is part of Western ideals? It's bad enough that the guy that got the award was someone who was praising Osama bin Laden. Okay, he's the guy. But his lady friend right here? This is what's going on in the year? UK. So when I talked about the pendulum swinging, do you know who's basically, I think, leading
01:45:53 the polls or whatever is going on in Germany, not that I follow it? It's the AFD, which is like the far right party, the alternative for Deutschland, and tell me what happens when people who are very ultra-nationalist takeover Germany, things would get pretty ugly here. But we're seeing this right-wing takeover of what we're typically leftist countries, which I actually support. So you see in France, Marie LaPen, if you're familiar with that story right there, the taking over, or at least leading. We know that who's our friend in Italy, George Maloney? Yep.
01:46:26 We've seen that happen. We're going to see what happens with Nigel Farage. We see what happened with Argentina. Hopefully Brazil has a massive election in the next two weeks, October 25th. Hopefully Bolsonaro's son can win that election. But hopefully these countries actually adapt and survive. Or the reality is like you talk, what's the acronym that you gave it? S.R.
01:46:48 what was it? RP. Religion, politics, military. Yeah. So, I mean, do you, you know, I respect Muslim religion. I respect it. But in their country, you know, you can't go into Saudi Arabia and start building churches. You're not going to go into Qatar and start preaching Christ.
01:47:03 So, you know, it's a two-way street. And hopefully the Western world gets it together. Yeah, hopefully they do. And hopefully they study data because data tells it all. I don't care what it is. If the crime's being done by my own people, I'm going to call them out and say, what are we doing? So it's not a picking on a certain community. Maybe raise better folks that are making societies a better place,
01:47:25 so people want more of that, whatever that the city is. All right. Next door I want to get to is business time. Trucking industry is taking a hit with diesel prices. And this story is all over the place. And for those that are under transportation business, this is a real thing. It's not something that's just being talked about. That's not a real thing.
01:47:43 I'm trying to find this story, what page this is on. Main four. Main four. There we go. Okay. Trucking industry hit by string of bankruptcy filings as diesel cost surge. Okay. So let's read this.
01:47:58 A string of trucking and freight companies filed for bankruptcy in September as rising fuel insurance and operating costs, squeeze an industry critical to moving goods across the U.S. at least eight transportation-related companies saw Chapter 11 this month. Truckload LLC owner Marcus Overcast told Fox business that diesel and insurance costs contributed to his Florida bankruptcy with insurance the biggest pressure. When gas prices go up or diesel prices go up, everything that goes from A to B is affected. Automotive expert Lauren Fix said everything has to get somewhere somehow
01:48:29 or everything gets more expensive. Filter included, Global Master Incorporated, $1.1 million in assets, $3.26 million liabilities. All these companies, how filed bankruptcy, by the way. Trump moved this week to temporarily allow red-died diesel on highways, fixed estimated savings of 50 cents to a dollar per gallon. Diesel sold for about 626 Thursday at a Flying J in Orange, Texas. Tom, how important is this? Because we have a client of ours who had 150 trucks that he bought when the market was good. Diesel prices right now,
01:49:05 he's selling them pennies on a dollar. How long can a lot of these guys survive if this continues, Tom? And what do you see is going to happen with this? So the trucking industry has got a triple whammy here. The first thing is interest rates. Interest rates on those truck loans are up, just like interest rates on homes are up. So now the cost
01:49:26 of having a loan from my truck or underneath it, the leasing rate, that's also there, it's up. So sort of the mortgage on these trucks. These trucks are $150,000, the cabs, the pullers. And that's just where independent truckers buy those and then they pull loads.
01:49:44 they can get loads. So number one, interest rates. Number two, now diesel has taken what margin that they were able to work with and just squeezed it to death. And so now they're seeking Chapter 11 protection. These were not, and I dove into this, Pat, this is Chapter 11 protection. So what Chapter 11 protection is allows you, Vinnie, I can go to court and I can say to a bankruptcy court, not like a magistrate, just say, hey, look, I need some help here. I need. I need. to restructure these loans and redo this. Can I get certain amount of this debt forgiven? And then the court works for you to get that taken care of.
01:50:23 And so between interest rates, between the changes in the amount of available loads to run right now, and the diesel cost, Pat, what little margin they had in there for EBTA and for error is gone. And so they're seeking bankruptcy protection to go to the court to get some of the debt forgiven or get it restructured so they can come out tomorrow. And hopefully if diesel prices are coming down and then get new financing on their trucks. But truckers, man, we need to appreciate them. This is a foundational part of the American economy moving stuff from port to store, from store to home. and these truckers are out there, independent truckers,
01:51:10 mom and pops that own two trucks and actually drive one of them, this is a foundational part of our economy, and they're in trouble. And this article citing a few of them right now, I'm worried that this is going to get worse with interest rates high and diesel continuing to be high, Pat, because there's just you can only squeeze a P&L, as you know, you consult with a lot of people in business. You can only squeeze it so much.
01:51:40 Yeah, I'm looking at numbers right now. So according to Reuters, 16 companies filed for bankruptcy in the month of September, eight chapter 11th, eight chapter seven liquidation, jobs affected 250 plus. These are prices. It says what it is. These are prices one year earlier, 370. So from 370 to 653, that's a 74% increase. Companies that file bankruptcy, XOCO transport taxes approximately.
01:52:05 65 drivers more than 40 trucks gone. Globmaster, Illinois, approximately 51 trucks, CLJ transporting Florida, Amazon delivery contractor with approximately 30 drivers, truckload LLC Florida operated as Expedite Express. RP Hale-Hallink, Arizona Files, September 10th. That's happening right now as we speak. So an increase in diesel from 370 to 653,
01:52:29 what it means with each traveling 100 miles annually. That's what truck drivers do. They drive around 100,000 miles annually. That means the annual fuel truck per truck is 43,538. Okay. Additional annual costs for 50 trucks, 2.1 million. The 100 trucks, 4.3 million. Bottom line is these guys are getting hit.
01:52:51 And there's only so much of a lifespan they can have. And this is one of the reasons why Trump did the deal with Russia. He is just trying to find a way to see how long it's going to go and how long it's going to last. but these prices have to be passed down to whoever's sending the shipment. You have to pay that. And every time this happens, those guys, there's certain jobs. Every time you're on the freeway, you see a truck driver next to you, that guy's away from his family.
01:53:16 They are patriots for us. In the economy, they're patriots, and they're getting hit by this, Adam thoughts. No, I mean, I've seen you consult with BDC, many trucking companies. What do you think they're feeling right now? What are the conversations you guys are having internally with people who, are going through this, marketing conditions, inflation, energy, what's your advice? How much cash are they sitting on?
01:53:37 How much cash are they sitting on? To be able to afford, it's really how long I can go with these rates. And then it gets to a point where you sit there and say, okay, let's do a job. $3,000. How much am I making on this? You're losing $50.
01:53:50 How many those can you do? So then if I go and tell the business owner, I'm sorry, I have to do $3,300 for the load. Don't worry, I'm going to go to the other guy. He's doing it for me for $3,040. Okay, now I lost. Then I put the truck on stop. Then my truck driver now has to go work for a different person.
01:54:07 Then I lost those guys for different routes. Then what did the drive? So it's such a divide the business owner against the driver, against the guy that needs the driver. And then he has to raise the prices. Then he has to go to Amazon or Walmart or Target and say that product was 38 cents. Now it's 48 cents. You know, or this product was $2.48. Now I've got to sell it to you at four and a half.
01:54:29 What? this is not $4.50. I get it. But gas was also, it's just, I don't want to simplify this, but I remember a conversation you had with, I won't say his name, but he was hesitant in, this was maybe under Biden, I think, because this was years ago when gas prices were this high. And he was hesitant to raise the price to the consumer. I don't know if you're like, listen, you're going to have to pass this on to the consumer. It's almost like if they raise the minimum wage, you know, your hamburger used to cost nine bucks. So do you remember the story? I'm talking about you don't talking about?
01:55:01 Okay. So at what point do you say, listen, I'm about to go bankrupt. I have to raise the price to the consumer in order to stay afloat, like supply and demand. So if you're the business owner, I have the conversation with you. I have to have it. Because you have to stay in business. You can't not stay in business. And if you know how to predict the future on when the diesel gas prices are going to come down,
01:55:21 you don't know how to do that, right? Of course. So I have to sit there and say, Adam, look, I have to have this conversation with you. My cost is up. I'm at here. I'm literally showing you my spreadsheet. This is where I'm at. What do you want me to do?
01:55:34 If I don't make 15% here, I'm out of business. So either I say no to you now, or are you willing to come up 15%. And it has to be as honest of a conversation as possible, or else I'm not making any money. So what do you want to do? And then you have to sit there and say, I got the other guy that's sitting on $48 million of cash in a bank. that he'll do it at this discount because he knows he's trying to put you out of business.
01:56:01 What are you going to do? Are you going to raise it 15% or are you going to go with that guy? What would you do? Because you have to answer to your shareholders. It's not tough decisions. Most of the guys are going to that guy. And you just put me out of business. And I only have $800,000 in a bank.
01:56:15 So this is going to put the smaller trucking industry guys out of business. And you don't want that because you want competition. But unfortunately, a lot of them don't have the cash to last longer. That's what's going on right now. One of the major things that I love and respect is this is the stuff that you do at the vault. This is the stuff you do with BDC clients. I've seen you leaks and opportunities and how much cash do you have saved up. These are the types of things that you process.
01:56:40 And I mean, I'm just giving a shout out to BDC right now. But these are the types of difficult conversations. We're having a lot of them right now. We do. And if you're watching this right now and you want to learn more about what we do go to bed david.com, whether it's time with Tom, myself or others. We do this regularly with clients. Go fill out your information.
01:56:57 Somebody from our firm will get it. hold of you. Okay, let's go to the next story. Next time I want to get to is, is a little bit of a weird story. What happened with Eric Prince, Blackwater, Tim Kennedy, Vinny. What's going on over there with that story? Okay, so, and again, we've, I've met Tim Kennedy. He's a freaking awesome guy, so, and number one, yeah, I'm glad that he's alive. My prayers are going out to him and to anyone that was, you know, wounded and the families that lost their lives and that they did, God rest of their souls, but he was ambushed in the Congo. And you know what's, it's stranger than, like, the headlines suggest we're talking about former UFC fighter, Green Beret,
01:57:32 former New Zealand Special Forces soldier caught in a deadly firefight on September 17. So he reportedly took multiple bullets, including three to the leg, and survived after an evacuation that took nearly eight hours, Pat. And Justin Keneglan, who had left New Zealand's military just a month earlier, was killed. God rest of the soul. Now here's the interesting thing. Congo is sitting on some of the rich, you know, we talk about Ukraine and Russia, Tom, and all the deposits that they have.
01:57:58 Riches deposits of cobalt, copper, and gold in the world. We're talking about minerals used for everything from your cell phone, electric cars, and all that stuff. And Eastern Congo has been torn apart by the fighting for decades, including attacks by the M2.3 Rebel Group, which the United States says is backed by Rwanda. So now the reports are saying that they were conducting, he was connected to the Vectis Global,
01:58:22 a security company linked to Eric Prince, the founder of Blackwater, like you mentioned, Pat. Congo's government reportedly hired the company to protect its mining revenue. And there's been also unverified claims involving Russia's Africa Corps, which took over operation previously run by the Wagner group, which we know about them. But here's an interesting detail. As of last year, Tim Kennedy was reportedly still serving as a master sergeant in Maryland's National Guard. I still don't know because there's no reports or updates if he's still serving in our military.
01:58:51 But if that's the case, and he's a serving member of the U.S. military, and you're working on a private security job tied to a foreign government, Pat, it's not good. But, you know, some people would say that there's a lot more to the story that we're being told. But, you know, you've got America's Special Forces, private military contractors, billions and billions of dollars in valuable minerals and foreign governments involved. I mean, my question is this. This is the first thing that I thought of if this is the case. If he's still working, I mean, still, you know, in a National Guard, who approves this operation? what exactly was their mission
01:59:25 and who was answering for what happens? Because I told Adam at the beginning this, Pat, if you're in the military and you get a sunburn, knowingly got a sunburn, Tom, and you can't put on your uniform and work, you can get in trouble for destruction of government property. You're a GI. When people hear GI, you think a GI Joe.
01:59:40 GI is government issue. So again, prayers for him that he's okay, Pat. But, you know, these guys hire top security guys that are a lot of ex-military guys are security. I just hope that that's not the case. Because getting involved and getting shot and almost losing your life, when you're still working for our government, you're still enlisted, is not a good thing. Yeah.
02:00:01 So if you look at the facts on the September 17, 2026, at location is South Kivu, Congo. Eric Prince, founder of Blackwater, approximately 20 killed or wounded. At least eight confirmed deaths that's in place. And Kennedy is fine. Three gunshots wound to his leg, Kennedy. Three gunshot wounds to his leg. Yep. One former New Zealand Special Forces soldier killed, another contractor wounded, Rwandan military, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are the suspect attackers. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is where Kennedy is being treated.
02:00:37 And the U.S. government contract, State Department says none in Congo. Tom, what do you stand with this story, Tom? So soldiers of fortune and independent organizations have gone out, you know, years and years and years, right? And you talked about it. I mean, they retire from the military. They provide security services for all kinds of people and, you know, leaders around the world. And then every now and then they have to do errands. And right now you've got this huge, you know, the whole Congo, Rwanda, Burundi triangle. And it's the, it's the, what do they call this, the M23 war.
02:01:20 I guess is what they've been calling it forever. And they're fighting over the land with all this minerals, as you pointed out. And so now you've got all these people trying to fight over it. And they're like, you know what? We need professional assistance here. I know we'll call Blackwater or somebody. Come over here to help us, you know, fight this and put this in here. There's right the Lake Kivu is why they call it the Kivu area.
02:01:49 There it is. There you. You know what the outcome was of this? The outcome wasn't to go fight rebels. It was to protect the mineral resources. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're getting more like security. Yeah.
02:02:03 Right. And this is a, the contract for this, Tom, is a five-year contract that they had. One reported contract estimates, that's three to $400 million. Some are saying it's a $700 million contract. Crazy.
02:02:16 So this is not a small contract. this is with Eric Prince. And so these are governments that hire professionals because they don't have the talent and things in their own country. And that's what I'm talking about. You've got these three forces they're fighting. They're bringing professionals over there to help. And now you're pointing out correctly that it was for security, you know, don't fire unless fired upon kind of thing, rather than soldiers of fortune. 700 million out of contract.
02:02:45 That's one of the bigger countries he's ever done. That's huge. It's a massive. Cobalt, copper, gold. That place is rich with minerals. I mean, I can see why. I'll just be real quick. Number one, I'm really wishing the best for Tim Kennedy.
02:02:56 The guy's an absolute stud. Everything I've seen of him, I'm just a fan. I hope he's doing well. I'm really disheartened to hear what happened. You've had Eric Prince on the podcast, I think multiple times. You know, what they do is obviously much needed, and I'm not going to weigh in from a military capacity. What I'll just say is this.
02:03:14 The world is a scary, dangerous place. and thank God that we have American soldiers and soldiers that were unified with that defend, that protect us from against the threats that are going on in this world. And, you know, despite what you hear in the news, there's other countries outside of Gaza or even Ukraine that horrible, horrible things are happening.
02:03:37 So I'll just, I remember this one conversation I have with this girl in D.C. She's like, free Palestine, it's a genocide. And I go, why do you feel so strongly about this? She goes, I'm just anti-war. And I said, oh, that's interesting. What other wars are you against? And she couldn't name another war.
02:03:54 She doesn't know that there's a civil war going on in Sudan and Yemen, in Myanmar, in Haiti is a disaster. The gangs in Mexico. The point is, the world is a crazy, scary place right now. And we need to basically protect ourselves or else it'll seep into our world. And that's what we want to stay in. Yeah, it's great. Look, I want to wrap up with something for us to look at because a few things happened this weekend. And one of the ones I want to show you has to do with you as an individual and as a leader.
02:04:22 And this morning, a part of the message I was given to my guys was there's two different types of belief. Okay? Not this one. I just sent you three videos and prepare them. I have nothing to do with that tiger right now. There's two things. One of them was when you talk to certain people and you'll say, well, I believe in myself, right? I believe in myself.
02:04:43 Well, do you believe you? What does that mean? There's a big difference between believing in yourself and believing you. I want to show you something here with a head coach who is being asked a question of why he believes he's going to Kentucky and Kentucky's going to win this coach. And before you go to this here, I want you to go to the other video that you had up, please. Back-to-back weeks, I believe it is, that Kentucky is playing two different opponents. And it's the last, have you seen this position of what's happened? This has to do with you watching this, folks.
02:05:19 Every father, mother, if you consider yourself a leader, I want you to watch this. Back to back weeks, they're playing against an opponent. One of them is overtime. Maybe both of them are overtime. Vinny, look what they do last minute and look what decision the coach makes last minute. Nobody talks about University of Kentucky in Florida. When you think about Kentucky, what do you think about time? Basketball.
02:05:41 Basketball, right? Calber Cheney, all these guys that they produce. Cabrachian, Indiana. I'm sorry. Jamal Mashburn, all these guys that they produce, right? John Calp. Watch what happens here.
02:05:49 Go forward. Here we go. Game on the line. Minchie. In zone. Yes. Willie Rodriguez. Pause it right there.
02:05:58 Pause it right there. Pause it right there real quick. They're down one. Yeah. You're supposed to go for extra point. Wow. He goes for 2-2. Beat them.
02:06:08 Wow. This coach of Kentucky. And they beat them. Then next week, watch what happens. Go for it. I love that. Okay, wins it in Columbia. Watch this, folks.
02:06:20 Angster. Next week, he's playing LSU. Who's the coach of LSU? I believe it's Kiffin, if I'm not mistaken. What he does again? Two-point conversion again. What are the odds? Beat them in overtime, Vinnie.
02:06:36 I think there are a few weeks apart, and the games are like a week apart. Yeah. And he's being interviewed. And the guy asked him a question, Why did you come here, Randy, look at the date. July 20 at 2026 is what? Three months ago.
02:06:50 Yeah, summer. He asked a good question. Why did you choose to come here and why do you think this organization is going to win? I want you to guess what his answer was. Go for it. Watch this. Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back. Go back from the beginning.
02:07:04 I want the audience to hear everything. Go for it. He said you came here because you can believe you can win here. Why is that Kentucky historically has fought? against a narrative, against perception, why do you think you can win big here? Watch this. This is going to sound like really,
02:07:25 I think because of me, to be honest, because of me. Are you kidding? He's like, I'm trying to not give the answer that he believes in. Wow. He says, I think because of me, you're going to make those calls. You just got emotional right now.
02:07:45 Wow. That is sick. I think because of me, what does this mean? I love that. Man, your family, hey, why do you believe so confidently? Because of me, I'm going to take the pressure. I'm going to pull this off. Look at the fans what they're doing, flipping them off.
02:08:00 Of course, this is college football. There's a lot of emotions involved. And maybe that's a different thing. But, you know, sometimes in life, it's not just about I believe in myself. You can believe it. I have a lot of guys that would believe in themselves and they wouldn't do anything in insurance. They just talk a lot of shit.
02:08:14 You have a lot of guys that, oh, I believe in myself. I believe in myself. Do you believe you? Believing in yourself means I believe in my potential. But believing you is that your potential is going to come through and bring the results in the commitment that you made. Those are two different things. In life, whoever you work with and you run with,
02:08:35 if you want to know what they think about you, a coach, a wife, a mentor, a husband, a father, a mother, somebody you work with that you really want to earn their respect, they believe in you. They just may not believe you. And they just may not believe the words that are coming out of your mouth. You can say all you want. They believe in your talent.
02:08:57 They just don't believe you're going to do it. So I wanted to finish off the message here with whatever that you're going through, whatever you're doing, sometimes in life, you've got to have that attitude and say, this is going to win, this is going to work out because I'm wearing this jersey. this is what I'm choosing to do as a career and I'm going to make you work. Not going to blame.
02:09:17 Not going to be a victim. I'm not going to put it. It's his fault. It's this one. No, no, no. We're going to win because I'm here. That mentality, that attitude is what gets a group of people
02:09:28 to want to run through the wall for that leader. My goodness, I saw that overtime back to back. It's such a beautiful thing. It's such a beautiful thing. We're at the end of the podcast, so I'll just say this about the Yankees. You know I'm watching the C.C. Sabatheet, when he's getting pissed off, calling off the Yankees
02:09:43 and saying all this stuff. He says, you didn't have a choice when you played for the Yankees when I played. You want to know why? Because Reggie Jackson was there. Because all the old Yankees guys were there. They would say, hey, it's October. Hey, it's October.
02:09:55 Hey, it's October. Hey, it's October. You know what C.C. Sabathia was saying? To the Jeter's and A-Rods, where are you guys? You guys are just announcers nowadays. Yeah. Come on. This is the Yankees.
02:10:06 What's the expectation? Where is the pressure? Is everybody becoming a diplomat and just talking like stuff because you're worried about hurting someone's feelings. It's time to make some decisions. What do we want to do? What are Yankees going to be? There's a certain level of expectations when you play for certain organizations.
02:10:22 We're going to win because I'm here. We're going to win because we're doing this collectively together. I don't know. I mean, I'm kind of glad this has been about five days since the Yankees got swept where if this was a day after that, it was a different kind of an energy we had. But, you know, we've had other things to overcome in life the last few days that it became a positive distraction. but the message is more or less for you that's watching this. Go lead your family.
02:10:45 Go lead the company. Whatever you're touching, lead. Make that place know that you're present. You're part of that organization. And if again, last but not least before we wrap up, you want to be with us on election night, play that last clip. And we'll finish off the podcast on this note,
02:11:00 November 3rd, which is what, three weeks from today. Yeah. We're going to have a good time. You're going to meet some interesting people. And if you want to join us, go to boardroom cigarlounge. The QR code will be at the end. Come join us.
02:11:12 Go for it. Two years ago, we held the biggest election night event here, right here behind this hangar. This year, November 3rd, 7 p.m., 2.11 p.m. We are doing it at our private members-only club, boardroom cigar lounge. So Tom, why don't you let the folks what we'll be covering that night? We will have live results as they come in, race by race,
02:11:32 the important ones, all the data's, winners, losers, and why. We will laugh. Some states may cry, but we'll have a great time. So if you want to be apart. I'm in the middle of a shoot, Vinny. Oh, what are you guys shooting though? This is about election night, November 3rd, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. At the bored of cigar line.
02:11:47 I'm coming. You're going to be there? I will see there. Guys, can you get rid of the guy? Get rid of the guy sitting in the back. You're not invited. You're not invited. Oh, no, no.
02:11:55 Guys, get out of here. Again, November 3rd, 7 p.m. 11 p.m. Looking forward to see me there. Fill out your application. Our team will get a hold of you. Look forward to seeing there, there guys. Take care everybody. God bless.
02:12:06 Bye, bye, bye, bye.
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