PBD Podcast - Trump & Putin Meet In Alaska, Melania's Epstein Lawsuit & Netanyahu TROLLS Iran | PBD Podcast | Ep. 630

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick break down Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin, Melania Trump’s shocking lawsuit over being falsely tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and Netanyahu’s offer to Iran.------🧢 VT SUMMER HAT COLLECTION: GET A FREE VT STICKER COLLECTION WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANY ITEM: https://bit.ly/4mCcpb4

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My son's drive there. I think I've ever said this before. Hey, guys, are you on time? Are you guys here? 859, episode 629. Wake up. It's great to be with... And we did it on purpose.

All the people that are with us here on time on Friday. This is the first week we've done, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, as well as the Bustamente podcast. And I'm loving it, Pat. I'm loving it. Well, Adam's love life is taking a hit because... Adam doesn't like Mondays, doesn't like Fridays. He likes it to be in the in between because Monday he has to sleep in and Fridays.

He has to prepare for the weekend, but we're going to make your work. We all have our priorities. All right. Let's go through some of the stories that we got. Trump is apparently on his way to Alaska, six, seven hour flight. And he said that if it goes good, they're going to do a press conference together. Not a press conference, but what did he call it? A press briefing. Press briefing together with him and Putin. If it doesn't, it's just going to be Trump by himself. I love how last minute he just kind of puts that onus on Putin to say, let's see, the world's going to know if this deal is going to go good or not. But he's definitely on his way to Alaska.

And Putin is on his way to Alaska if he's not already there yet. Few items we're going to cover today. One, why Americans are rethinking alcohol, according to a new Gallup poll, all time low. the 90 days that they've been tracking this, this is the lowest America's ever been when it comes on to drinking alcohol. Why? We'll talk about that.

They're obviously not watching the news. Yeah, Putin holds Trump's energetic and sincere efforts to end Ukraine war. If you remember what the Mexico president said a few days ago when Trump wanted to go out there and, you know, handle certain cartel members, Mexico changed your position very quickly. They sent 26 cartel members to U.S. and deal

with Trump administration. What happened, Mexico, president? And I thought you were tough. I thought you said, no, nobody can do this. Now you give Trump what he wanted. Netanyahu offers Iran water in the crisis help. If regime removed him, it shorted. So what a noble guy, Netanyahu, is to give Iran water.

Vinny was sentimental this morning. He was so emotional that even Vinny brought some water to give to Netanyahu to give to Iran from Fiji. Have a sip of my tea. We're going to talk about that. California City approves $100,000 a fund to help my government. pay rent, these cities you hear about L.A. and, you know, New York, Trump touts tax relief for vast majority of seniors on Social Security's 98 anniversary. I have an idea for Social Security, and most people are not going to like it. I'm not going to make any new friends

today. So, but we're going to talk about it. So for some of you that are receiving Social Security that may not like what I have to say, you may want to do earmuffs or maybe just take a break from today's podcast. And come back next. Monday because of what ideas I have on Social Security. You ain't going to like it, but I'm going to give it to you anyways. Next, Trump told Zelensky and allies, he won't discuss territory divisions with Putin this week. He agreed that Ukraine can only negotiate territorial concessions.

Macron says, then we have New Jersey parents applaud new law that could send them to prison for their children's crimes. You get to get parents involved. You got to get parents involved. It was a middle-class residents of Demran City say they're trapped in unsellable homes surrounded by drug markets. And fewer Americans say they don't trust federal government.

They don't trust. Few Americans say they don't. Meaning they trust, right? Rob, the way it's written, it's a... It's fun with headline, and I can't wait to get after it. That's the hill for you. That's the hill for you. So can you guess how many retiree with...

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You're going to get rid of the landscaper? That's what Joe Rogan said. Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for a billion dollars over false defamatory allegations, linking her to Jeffrey Epstein's report. And Hunter Biden responded with his buddy Callahan, and you have to see it. What do you have to see? Bill Maher, we didn't cover the story, but we're going to cover today. The View co-hosts are the best advertisement, aren't the best advertisement for women in blunt criticism.

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Close, mixed, after hot PPI report. Adam, if you know what noises. Okay. Reverend Sharpton slams Trump targeting cities with black mayors. It's rice baiting. And who was Kevin Watson? Chicago man fatally shot on Facebook livestream. Video goes viral.

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Rob, which one was the story that people said to go with? Can you tell me on the chart? Yes, out of all the voting in the poll. Number one story, Trump meets Putin in Alaska. Okay, so let's go to Trump meets Putin in Alaska. So Putin hails Trump energetic and sincere efforts to end Ukraine war. Rob, if you have that video there. And by the way, something very weird just came out from Hillary Clinton about Trump and Ukraine.

But before I show you this clip, that clip, watch this right here. This is Putin. Ford. Tonight on the eve of their high-stakes summit in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to lay the groundwork, heaping praise on President Trump. Putin saying the current American administration is making quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the hostilities, stop the crisis, and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict. Putin saying Trump wants to create long-term conditions for peace, both between our countries and in Europe and in the world.

But the Russian leader saying he has other goals from this meeting that go beyond the war in Ukraine, that he wants to discuss nuclear arms control. The Kremlin saying trade and economic cooperation will also be on the agenda. Trump today not ruling out those conversations, but saying his focus is on ending the war. I think that President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine. but I am present, and he's not going to mess around with me. But Ukrainian President Zelensky, who won't be in the room, says Putin is bluffing.

And today, Trump admitting he thinks there's a 25% chance this summit will fail. But if it doesn't, Trump says he wants to quickly bring Putin and Zelensky together for another meeting. Even saying Zelensky could join them. Oh, that's where it ended. Okay, sounds good. So when you're seeing this 25% chance, Zelensky is saying he's bull. pluff in, you know, Putin's coming in, you know, saying, hey, you know, Trump seems very energetic about wanting to make a deal. And then Trump makes a promise. And he told Zelensky and allies that

he won't discuss territory divisions with Putin this week and that he agreed that only Ukraine can negotiate territorial concessions this week. So, Tom, your thoughts on the story here. Well, first of all, this is the right body language from Putin. Because if you take a look at the Trump wins on tariffs and other things around the world, Clearly, Trump's gaining momentum, and Putin knows this. Putin pays attention to this. He says, Vinny, when you take a look at something like that, you can clearly see that Putin is not agreeing to anything, but he's saying, I think it's very sincere, very energetic what he's doing. And then they go on to talk about territory, where Trump talked to the European leaders and said, hey, you know, only Ukraine can be at the, you know, be at the table for the final word on negotiations. its territory. And Trump is telling Zelensky, hey, we're not going to discuss territory

division with Putin this week. However, then we find out, it comes out the other way that says Russia, the United States had discussed a model independently like the West Bank. Now, you have to remember what happened with West Bank and what happened with Sinai Peninsula. When Egypt came across the canal and the Suez Canal and attacked Israel from the southwest. After Israel pushed them back. They actually pushed them all the way back into the canal and back over, and then they took it, and they told the UN, we're not leaving. We don't trust these guys. And so we want this permanent buffer, and we're taking their damn land, and we're making a permanent buffer between us and Egypt, deal with it. And that's kind of, and so now the U.S. and Russia are talking about, well, what if there's

kind of like this zone. And by the way, there's no weapons. And supposedly, there's no militarized people in the zone. There are the Egyptian side of the zone and the Israeli side of the zone. And if you really want to know about this, you can go read the book, Getting DS. And that's a great book. And it's got the case study on how they negotiated this, which is very interesting that this is exactly what the U.S. and Russia are talking about. Maybe we make a permanent buffer here, like the DMZ in Korea. Now, some people are going to be jumping all over me right. here. Now Russia took their land and now they're just trying to get it back. Well, look, we've got to solve this thing somewhere and, you know, they made this huge, Ukraine did a huge drone attack

last night on the eve of them all trying to get together. So one of things I... Do you have that video, by the way, of the drone attack? There was a couple of them. While you're, Tom, you're saying that, Rob, if you can pull it up. So I recap. Point one, it appears that good body language from Putin, you know, whether you agree with them or not agree with him about the attacks and everything. Second, I think Trump's really behind the scenes trying to negotiate something. And the fact that the West Bank or the Sinai or even Korea DMZ comes up says maybe we create a buffer that ends up working for everybody. He may not like it. And then lastly, you know, we haven't seen Zelensky.

It doesn't look like Zelensky is going to show up. It looks like this is truly going to be Trump and Putin. So the question here, is that it, Rob? That's one of the ones that was reported on. And so... No, this is the automated airplane. Is that crazy? Yeah, so the drones they've built.

By the way, we were talking about this the other day with Ukraine. Ukraine produces. Ukraine produces, I believe the number was, was it a, I don't know what the number was. It could have been a thousand drones a day. Rob, can you check how many drones Ukraine was produced in the day? And they were like 500 bucks a drone.

Like $500, they were blowing up $5 million equipment. That's an ROI right there. Just so you know that. What they were doing. but who in here is yeah that's right right there you see it so they do wow that's unbelievable wow 200 000 drones this year 200 000 drones a month and 6700 drones a day is what they're producing a day is what they're producing so you simply put a bomb on it send it to a bunch of different locations to a smaller country lesser you know not inferior weapons there being a bigger

pest to the enemy that's a bigger behemate with a ton of nuclear weapons that they have have there. The question I got for you guys is this. Putin's saying the following. It seems like Trump is energetic and sincere about wanting to do Ukraine. Okay. So Zelensky says, I think he's bluffing. Okay. Trump says 75% chance, boom, 25% chance it's a bad meeting. I'm going to do the whole thing myself. Who here needs who the most and who is just fake actor? Nothing's going to get done. That's the question. Adam. You're asking who needs who the most? Who wants this thing to be done the most?

U.S., Putin, or Zelensky? I think Trump wants this thing to be done. He's the one who said that he'll get this done before he's even taken office, day one. So, look, who doesn't want it to get done? Zelensky. Everyone thinks it's Zelensky. I think it's Putin, because Putin has the opportunity

to stop this today. He clearly does not want to stop this. it's shocking to me that people are so anti-Zolinsky so let's compartmentalize is Zalinski someone that we enjoy that we like that we want to hang out with that we even want to back up

no no no no no but who's actually the enemy it's Putin so you know you had the great interview with Andrew Bustamanti yesterday he was basically saying it's really a great return on investment

to keep our enemies preoccupied the reason that we're not over there having boots on the ground whether it's in ukraine whether it's in gaza whether it's potentially in china is let them do the dirty work and it's basically saying oh like i don't want to go to the restaurant i don't want to have to go pick up the food door dash that thing uber eats that thing ukraine is our uber eats we want to deal with russia we want to deal with their propaganda we want to deal with their warfare let ukraine deal with it everyone's Everyone used to be male how Bernie Sanders is like, the millionaires, the millionaires, and then it turned into the billionaires, the billionaires.

News for you. If it doesn't start with a T, with a trillion, and it starts with an M million, it's really not that big of a deal when you're giving people money. In my opinion, Putin wants to keep this war going. Zelensky's trying to just stay in power. He doesn't know what the hell he's doing, and Trump wants to make a deal. Final point. He said,

in a press conference press briefing with journalists he said I'll know within two minutes if we have a deal did you hear him say that and a reporter goes well well how do you know that he goes excuse me this is what I do

I make deals this is what I do I think there's a 1% chance of anything good happening Trump laid the the groundwork of 25% chance it will fail I think it's a 99% chance there's nothing happens from this

We'll see. Question, though. Go ahead, play the clip. Yeah. I'm meeting with Vladimir Putin, and at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made. How do you know?

Because that's what I do. Hello. I mean, it's so true. If you want to know what Trump is, this is what I do. So you're saying 99% chance nothing's going to happen. My opinion is different. Vinny, where are you at? Well, my thing, well, Adam, when you say that there are enemy,

what's, we're not at war with Russia. They're not our enemy. our adversary. I think China's a way bigger enemy. Are we at war with China? No, not a shooting a gun war. But when it comes to COVID and buying land and doing other...

I agree with you. There's different types of wars. Oh yeah, 100%. But with Russia? You think we're just peaceful and friends with Russia? Not peaceful, but we've been poking the bear with them since the 90s. We told them but it works both ways. I understand that. But when it comes to this situation, especially with this meeting, I think

Trump is an alpha, huge. huge alpha. So is Putin. They're going to be in a room, hopefully, with Zelensky. He's not even abated, bro. He's not, he can't compare to these two. And then when you have all the Warhawks, I'm hoping the Lindsey Graham's and all the defense contracting people, Pat, probably weren't in his ear, which I'm pretty sure they're talking to him. And like Zelensky, there's no money if you just piece it up and we just stop right now. If you bow down, we're all going to lose money, you're going to lose your position and you look weak. Okay. My hopes are that it happens, but the way that Zelensky is, Pat, with the attitude

and coming in the White House, that type of attitude comes from people in your ears saying, hey, go in there and be a freaking tough guy. He's not a tough guy. He's an actor. Can I ask you the question? To Pat's question, who do you think needs it more? Trump, Adam mailed it. Trump, just for, he said he was going to do it.

He's a little bit delayed. But I think, I think Zelensky. Listen, because you know what it is? Hundreds of thousands of people are dying. And guess what? With the drones aside, Who he thinks it was lost more soldiers? Ukraine. Ukraine has it.

They're running up to them and putting them in advance. So to me, this is how I see it, and we can get to the next story, is a guy at the level of Putin or Trump, they don't waste seven hours of their day going somewhere that they don't want to do anything, and that's a one-way flight. On the way back, it's another seven hours for Trump.

How long is the flight time for Putin, Rob? Where Putin was going through. What do you mean? Russia is right now. next to Alaska. Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house. It's not that far. What I'm saying to you is neither one of them. Moscow is nine time zones wide from the Pacific. So what I'm saying to you is this, this is not going to be a meeting where guys are trying to, you know, waste their time going to a meeting like this. That's one. They're not going to do it. So there's a reason why they're

doing this. There's not a waste of time. So there you go, eight hours and 20 minutes to Alaska. So you got, Putin's got 17 hours of flight time. Trump's got 14 hours of flight time. Neither one of them are doing this for the hell of it because they need more publicity and they want to get cameras there. The world knows them. They don't need another million followers

or 100,000 followers or 50 million views. They don't need that. But to me, in this case, I think the way Zelensky and NATO did it. So NATO is telling Zelensky we have your back. He goes and meets with Starmor. He goes and meets with Macron is speaking on his behalf. Macron comes out and says,

Trump agreed only Ukraine can negotiate territorial concessions Macron says so Macron is now speaking on behalf of Zelensky speak there which means NATO is not for a deal at all NATO is trying to tell Zelensky you don't have to give nothing

we have your back that's what NATO is saying and Trump in this section where he can throw a complete wrench inside the whole thing and he's capable of doing that is, really, you guys all teamed up against me, NATO? Really, that's what you want to do?

No problem. I, the country that gives the most money, I'm agreeing to have Putin, Russia be a part of NATO. Go ahead and play that game. I think Trump is, Trump is showing this hand, which is three cards. Trump's got two cards that he's like, nobody knows what those two cards are, including Hexet.

No one knows it, and all of a sudden he's going to drop it. It's like that moment when Trump is standing next to a net, Netanyahu. And he says, yeah, we're excited about Gaza. We're going to take over Gaza. We're going to make, and then Netanyahu looks out of like, what? We didn't speak about this.

You didn't agree to this year. So I think that's the surprise element of Trump that's coming here soon. What he's going to say, who knows? But in this case, I think Putin needs this deal the most. I do think Trump wants it for different reasons. Legacy. But I think Putin, honestly, if you think, think about it, Putin's been publicly humiliated.

Zelensky's not been humiliated. Zelensky's been turned into a hero. Putin's been publicly humiliated because everybody thought within 30 days the war is going to be done and Putin's going to get what he wants and that's not been the case. Yes.

So it's a bit of a black guy in front of, on that black guy, it's a little bit of a black eye in front of his audience of what happened. And it's to the point right now where Hillary Clinton chimes in And this is what she said. She admits she would nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize.

Whoa. If he helps end the war in Ukraine. Hillary Clinton admits she, is this it, Rob? Does she say that? Let's see it. It's a deep fake. If President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for Nobel Peace Prize. Okay, so there you.

That's where it ends right there. So, I mean, and the reason why Hillary Clinton's saying it the way she did, you know why she's saying it as confident as she did? because she knows something that there's no way it's going to happen or else she would never say that. You think she's involved in the conversations with NATO and Zelensky? You think she's involved with all the Democrat establishment talking to each other on what they're going to be telling Zelensky?

You think the insider establishments told her exactly how to conversations went? Of course. I don't think, I think Hillary Clinton just gave away her cards in that statement. And the cards are, over my dead body, this war is going to end. and because I know the war's not going to end because I'm involved in it on the inside with some relationships, guess what?

I'm willing to say publicly that I would nominate him to a Nobel Peace Prize because she knows she never will. If she does, it'll be the first time in her life that she shows a sign of nobility, which is great. But I think that was her having too much information that she indirectly told the world that I kind of know a little bit more than you

small-time people out there that you are doing podcasts and shows and mainstreaming and all this stuff. You guys are not on the inside. You guys are just, you know, what's the word? You guys are just peasants. You guys are just masses. I know what's going on because I'm on the inside of the conversation.

Do you think that she's such a psychopath, self-dealing person that she would rather see the war go on in Russia and Ukraine than see Donald Trump, her bitter rival, Hillary Clinton, received the Nobel Peace Prize? Do you think she's that? Diabolical? Just diabolical. Knowing what we know about her? Are you really asking a question?

What kind of a question is that? I mean, you're talking about a person that, you're talking about a person that in 2016, do you know what happened to her? She said, happy birthday future president to herself. Well, that's just an egomaniac, right? She thought she was going to win, yeah.

But that's different from being diabolical. Oh, I know. This woman is on a whole different level. No, never underestimate the power of a, not, you know, there she is. This is Hillary Clinton. I know we want to move on. You know how highly she thinks of her.

This is a week before the election. She wished herself a happy birthday, and then she lost. You think she's ever going to forget the stage? No, she's not going to forget this stage. I mean, listen, every politician is a narcissist in some capacity. Not like that. Guys, I'm with you. By the way, just side note, what percentage of the stories we hear about Hillary?

She did this, she did this. Do you think are actually true? 10, 20, 50, 100. Let me put it to this way. If 25% is true, it's bad. Yeah, five percent is true. It's bad. It's like when we had Gianni Russo here, it's like, what?

Yeah. If you're 10% you did this, it's like if half the stories you say, I'm sure you're the man. So she's that big of a psychopath. I don't know, but we'll see. Let's go to the next story. By the way, Hunter Biden made a few comments about Melania Trump. Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for billion dollars over false defamatory allegations linking her to Jeffrey Epstein.

And Rob, do you have the comments that he made about her? Is this the one that he made? So this is the original comment that. Hunter Biden made and then I also have Hunter Biden's reaction to the lawsuit. Okay, go for it. Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are like so wide and deep. Anyway, why do we think they don't want the files released? I don't know. I think John, you know, that that thing that John Romling says is like a long time ago. It's called Crack Bear. Accurate kind of assessment of them, which is everything is projection or confession.

So when he puts out that tweet, he says, Epstein now is the Russia hoax or the Hunter Biden laptop? The laptop from hell, which the Democrat swore had swore came from Russia. No, it came from Hunter Biden's bathroom. Like, I wonder if it works. Do you know what I mean? So that's that. He makes that comment, right? And then Melania and her lawyers sue Hunter for billion dollars.

Or do they threaten him, Pat? They threaten? No, they threaten to sue him for. billion dollars and then after they threaten him Channel 5 Callahan goes because I think they're living together him and Hunter I don't know if they are it looks like they are that's alleging so then

here's the question that's asking this is what Hunter had to say go ahead yes is Andrew Callahan just for reference Andrew Callahan asks Hunter if he wants to apologize to Melania so now we're here maybe to give you the platform to apologize to the first lady for your statements that you made about her possible connection

to Jeffrey Epstein. Fuck that. That's not going to happen. Fuck, butt quack, fuck Eddie, buckback. And with the language. What are we doing? Okay. So, all right.

So there you have it. Hunter, Melania. Adam, your thoughts on this story. So, uh, this is, uh, welcome to Gossip Girl crackhead edition. Because if you know anything about how Donald Trump met Melania, it's actually a pretty straightforward story. I don't know if you know this,

but Melani is a pretty attractive woman. That's not her. That's Hillary Clinton. And she was a gorgeous model, and they were attending an event at New York Fashion Week, I believe, in 1998. And I'm not sure if you know about Trump, but there's one thing he likes other than deals. It's hot chicks.

So he shows up. He sees her. He's actually with another date. And he's like, excuse me, who's this lady over here? Ask for her number. She says no. and then she says here give me your number

I'll call you if I'm interested so that's how they met what Hunter Biden is doing didn't wasn't he pardoned for anything he did wasn't there some auto pen situation he was pardoned it's almost like remember in middle school

you get like a hall pass and it's like you can go and go around go wherever you want and you're like I'm the coolest kid in the world I got a hall pass I feel like that's what Hunter Biden has right now he has this hall pass this immunity of some capacity we can just say whatever the hell he wants to say cursing like a sailor and we know how we feel

about that around here guys no bueno and he's just saying the most outlandish things like a shock jock it's almost like he's trying to become a shock jock podcaster my last thing i'll say about hunter biden is who's going to carry the biden legacy moving forward it's not joe biden i mean this guy's 8000 years old joe biden is going to fade away after he passes away beau biden who was like quote unquote, good son. He died. Ashley Biden. She's nowhere to be seen. So you're left with Hunter, the crackhead artist. And he's carrying the Biden torch, which might end up being a blowtorch. But he's the one that's carrying the Biden legacy. And it might just burn all down if it hasn't burned down already. He's, he's, Bobby, and there's another clip back. Like, he's, it doesn't seem to me like he's backing down.

He's saying that he's going to be the tip of the spear for everybody. And the pardons, Adam, have nothing to do. with this these are new allegations this is post whatever he does from this point on he's not protected at all he sits there smug and he's happy but this is a huge huge hole that he's digging itself into and this is his attitude about if the people want it he's going to keep going for you're right what i'm saying is the confidence that nothing i've done in the past i can get in trouble for so let me focus on now he's not going to get in trouble for saying ridiculous things oh no no that's what people do on the internet well that's well that's that's what crack cocaine does to your brain because I'm

dude I'm pretty sure it's not as bad as fentanyl well I'm pretty sure the people are telling him like his team because mind you does he have I don't think he has secret service protection but I'm pretty sure he has security and lawyers and everybody bro these are huge claims in a billion

dollar lawsuit obviously he doesn't have a billion dollars but that'll clean him dry Rob can you please play this crap bro I want to go through the process they know that it's going to cost it sounds like a young joke money to do it and so you know that's

the only thing that I got to figure out you know, we've got to figure out how that we're going to pay for it. Here's what I'm saying to the American people is if you want to know the origin and the nature of the relationship between Donald Trump, Melania Trump, which I have no personal knowledge of.

I can only go by what has been reported. But if you want to know that nature, then let's all go figure it out together. I'll be the point of the tip of the spear for you. We've got to figure out how that we're going to pay for it. Wow, it's amazing. you realize where he got his genetics from and who talks like him.

His pops talks just like him. Yeah. So I don't know. I think if I'm Joe Biden and I'm watching these clips, what am I thinking? Dude, keep your mouth shut. Be quiet.

Go away. Hang out with your girls. Do what you're doing. You're not helping with anything that I have going on with the last few years of legacy. Nothing. You think Joe wakes up in the morning and every time he sees stuff like this,

or even Jill, more than Joe. Yes. So, oh my God, can you tell, you know, Hunter to just be quiet and go away and not talk about this kind of stuff? What is he doing? He's hurting us with the last couple of years that we got left.

He got left. So I don't know. I don't know what he's doing here. I don't know the allegations of stuff. Maybe he's trying to get some attention that he's got going on there. But, you know, I'm looking at more from the perspective of Joe Biden.

I think it's too much. And I'm not being funny. I'm not trying to be funny. I don't think Joe Biden is even there. Jill is though. Jill, you know that?

Yeah. You don't think Joe Biden is just completely competent. I think Jill's like you're out of control, Vinny. You say some outlandish things. No, I agree with that. I think Jill is trying to protect the legacy the same way we saw her protecting him on stage,

the same way we heard that she was trying to do things in the White House. I think Jill Biden looks at this and it's like your father's legacy is at stake. I think she's the projector. I think you're right. Yeah. So let's go to next door. want him to talk? No. Hell, no. No. I actually disagree with you guys. No. Because other than, okay, hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. Other than Hunter Biden,

yeah. Can you name one person that is defending the Biden legacy at this point? Corrine Jampier, who is the biggest liar on her. He's not defending me like that. This is not defend me like different. You're talking about political allies versus. You want to be defended like that? I don't want to be defended. The point is, nobody else is defending him. Smok some crack. Corrine Jean-Pier, who was the biggest progressive Democrat I've ever seen, is now an independent. People jumped off the Biden ship because it was a, it was a titanic. And this is the crackhead who's defending them.

They're actually appreciated it. There is a person that edifies you. Let you say somebody edifies you. There's different ways of edification. You're in front of a crowd of thousands of people, and one person comes up and they say something like this. Let me tell you guys about Patrick and I. This is why I like doing business with them.

I've been doing business with them for 12 years. In 12 years, anytime I needed to get a hold of them, I can get a hold of him. He's responsive so fast. He's busier than anybody I do business, but he always calls me back. And he kept his word. There were moments we went through challenging times. He'll push you.

He was this, he's that. But I have so much respect for the way I've done business with him. This is why we continue to do business. And it was the best year we ever have. With that being said, please help him bring up Patrick bed, David. Okay? That's edification. Let me give you the other one.

Oh, my God. Patrick has changed my life in a way that if it wasn't for him, I have to tell you I would have been this and he is the closest thing to God and do do do do do do do do do do do do don't do that we're like that's that's that's that's the what you know sometimes sometimes edification is I'll look at Vinny and I'll say listen let me put it to this way

I can listen to Vinny for hours I'm never bored he sincerely is this funny 24-7 my kids love him I haven't met anybody doesn't like this guy if you're somebody that doesn't like Vinny, menack me, okay? And tell me about it. I've yet to meet one person. Pat, you're just going to connect from me. No, I'm just kidding. But my point, my point here is there is levels to edifying somebody. Some people edify in a way that is so fake. Like when you did it yesterday, sincere, we're talking, we're there. But sometimes you're like, oh, dude, that's

not the way to do it. So I don't want to be edified like this. I don't want to be lifted up like this. The way I want to be lifted, like if a person complimented Joe Biden, like this would be one way to say it. Say what you want to say about Joe. We can all agree about the fact that maybe the debate wasn't this. Maybe this wasn't this. Well, maybe that wasn't this. Look, here's what I can tell you. Behind closed doors, always dressed nice, was always respectful to me, was always good to me, you know, was always fair with me. And I don't know what the legacy they're going to write about it, but I definitely hope that the history book showed the fact that he was fair da-da-da-da-da-da about it. That's what I, that's proper edification. You don't want

somebody yet to find you like this. I agree, but this is all they got. Let's, well, Well, that's pretty bad. So I would tell them to go retire. All right. So let's talk about ICE. More than 100,000 Americans apply to join ICE. Apply to join ICE. Think about it.

To help deport illegal aliens. Do you know what happened after 9-11? So many people joined what? The police department and the military. You joined the police. I was in during it and then they did stop laws where we couldn't even leave and people were joining left and right. But there's a lot of people that would join because they're like, I'm going to go fight for my country, right? Now, Americans are saying, I want to go clean up the border.

100,000 Americans apply to join the ICE to a local arrest and deporting illegal aliens. As Department of Homeland Security officials reported, following a recruitment effort by Trump's administration, the campaign includes an ad campaign and a $50,000 signing bonus for new recruits. Damn. DHS Secretary Christine Nome stated our country is calling you to serve at ICE in the wake. of the Biden administration, failing immigration policies. Our country needs dedicated men and women of ICE to get the worst of worse to the criminals out of the country. No ICE recruits are offered student loan repayment, forgiveness options, a 25% law enforcement,

availability pay for Homeland Security investigations, special agents, premium overtime payments for enforcement and removal operations, deportation officers, and enhanced retirement benefits, okay? So that's what they said. The bill also includes more than $46 billion for new border wall construction, $45 billion for ICE detention space, $10 billion reimbursed for states who covered border security costs under Joe Biden, and $3.5 billion with Department of Justice to issue grants to local governments who help locate and arrest illegal aliens, among other funding measures. Okay.

There was a clip of Mayor Bassel losing it over ice, but Joe Rogan rips ice raids. He says, great, you're going to get rid of landscapers. Okay, Rob, I don't know if you have the Rogan clip. We'll come back to the bass one. Joe Rogan criticized the Trump administration McGraths on Joe Rogan, explained to publicly protest stemmed from a visceral reaction to officers pulling people out of schools

and pulling people out of the Home Depot and pulling people out, pulling people that were just hardworking people. He argued that voters expected the removal of violent criminals, not ordinary workers, saying when people thought about ICE, they thought, great, we're going to get rid of the gang members that they think, great, you're going to get rid of landscapers.

Rogan Press, if this is the clip that you have, Rob? Yep. Okay, go for it. All of a sudden, these, like, pop-up riots. I actually call them the Timu riots. Like, this is a Chinese-funded group, and what they're doing is they're using that front in an effort to then divide on that topic as well.

I absolutely believe this is true that I'm sure other countries fund similar things, but also it was in reaction to some of the ice rates and pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of Home Depot. So when people thought about ICE, they thought, great, we're going to get rid of the gang members. They didn't think great, you're going to get rid of a landscaper. This is what, Ron?

This is just B-roll footage of the, but that's the comments broken. This is L.A.? Yes. We were just there a couple days ago. This is not the same L.A. You can pause it right there. Okay, so ice. ICE raids, 100,000 people signing up.

You're getting rid of landscapers. Vinnie, your thoughts on this story. I think, like, well, first and foremost, let's, let's say what the actual problem is, okay? This, the Biden administration let in how many? What, what's the number? I hear 20 million. Tom Homan said 10 million. So let's set the floor there.

It could be more. Let's say 10 to 20. Let's go in the middle of that. Okay. And now, Trump, just like everything else, just like with Russia, just like with the border, just like with crime Trump has to come in and clean everything up

all right it's like this is the analogy all right the Biden administration through this wild party okay they opened the doors Tom everybody came in the house

criminals they're spray painting they're killing girls were raped at the party people are dead okay now the cops show up everybody's showing up at them the maids everybody's cleaning up and you're getting mad

at the cops and the maids I'm sorry and there's a misconception and I understand what Joe Cox and trust me he made a great point about how there could be a way that if you've been here for 10 years

or five years and you've been paying taxes and all that stuff, even though Trump made it seem like he's going to get rid of everybody, say what you want. Trump is saying exactly what he said. Okay, but there's a misconception that they're just walking in the schools and grabbing people. The majority of these raids, Adam, let's say that they're looking for 30 people.

19 of them have arrest warrants. They were DUI. They have felony charges and there's getting rid of them. I apologize. I am so sorry. If you're here illegally, the first thing you did to come here was break the law. So when he's doing this wide grab and they're trying to get everybody, I'm sorry.

Some of these people who are still illegal are going to get rounded up. And it sucks. It sucks. But he ran on it. If you don't like it, then you shouldn't have voted for him. Because that's what I voted for. I voted for getting these people out of here that are illegal because how much times do we keep hearing? Sanctuary city this.

Sanctuary city that. All the money has gone to these people. Yes, there needs to be an adjustment, but Trump said he was going to do it and he's doing it. And that's it. Tom. I love the recruitment. You know, the U.S. Armed Forces, police locally, they've been running programs like this to recruit forever. There were been programs that ran right after 9-11.

There's programs that run where, you know, the Army feels that they're below their target, so they put some programs out there. So they're putting a program out here, and what are they doing? They're not recruiting a militia. They're recruiting the permanent staff that is going to stand watch and control our closed border. We've closed the border. Now we're getting more staff that's going to be there. and yes, we're going to continue the removal of people that have a criminal record. The people that they went after, you know, had criminal records.

But there was also visual footage that looked bad, and the mainstream media was more than happy to say, that's an innocent man in the middle of a field being taken out. You know, did that happen? I don't know, but there was a lot of evidence that they were going after people that had criminal records who were already here illegally. And then did China fund it? have Soros organizations funded some of these protests? Yes.

Yes. I believe the allegations. So when I say yes, I'm saying I believe the allegations that other people that don't agree with Trump are helping to fund make the protest even worse about immigration. I think the average American, if you look on policy by policy, they like what's going on with a lot of the policies that Trump has made, but they didn't like what was going on visually with all the footage. It's like, hey, I like

the border being closed. I like the fact that we're cleaning people back, but then they would see some of the footage and go, ah, that kind of looks kind of bad. Yeah. And again, Tom, it sometimes it does look bad, but just to make my point, a lot of these people were talking about the ice raid that they did

on August 6th. The Border Patrol grabbed 16 illegals in Westlake Home Depot in L.A. Records showed six of them. Okay, 16. six of them had criminal histories including a Nicaraguan charged with felony theft in April

a Guatemalan with a prior LAPD arrest for DUI with great bodily injury he almost killed somebody in an accident a Guatemalan ice fugitive with a 2014 deportation order and three previously deported Guatemalans who illegally came back in during Biden I get it it looks bad guys it looks bad

but if you ask for it now you got it the word illegal people keep missing the point guys we all came here legally your family came here legally my mom and dad my grand they all came here legally okay besides the fact that you know what let's say out of a hundred of them five of them rape and murder and everything that's too much that's five americans that would have been saved if it wasn't for for the border and this all sits on Alejandro myorkas and the last administration who Adam you want to talk about pardons nothing's ever going to happen to that guy he's sitting at home smiling his butt off because he opened the door and let this problem is because of that Biden administration so this all lies

on them, period. End the story. Remember the clip that was like, hide your wife, hide your kids, because they're out here, raping everybody. I feel like that, this guy right here, thank you, Rob. I feel like that is sort of the narrative. You want to play this? No, no, keep going. I feel like that's sort of the narrative

with the illegal immigrants, but sometimes when you want to make anomaly, you got to crack a couple of eggs and a couple crackheads. But the reality is this. Why are people joining ICE? How many people are applying 100,000 Americans have applied to join ice? Good. That's amazing. Good.

I want to be, how many people don't want to be police officers anymore? How many people stop wanting to be firefighters in California over there? So I think it's a very good thing that you want to serve your country. What are the main three reasons that an American want to serve ICE? Number one, it's a job. It's a career. AI ain't going to replace you. You're going to have a job for sure.

You're going to have money, benefits. What are they giving? $50,000 signing bonuses? Maybe I'll join ICE. Who knows? Number two, you want to serve your country? straight up. And we talked about why someone would join the CIA. It's like, bro, you've got to be insane. Peter Thiel's Henry. It's like they're doing this because they genuinely want to serve their country for national security purposes and to help the country out. Number three, and this is, I think this goes for both sides. They genuinely feel like they're doing the right thing. The people that are protesting against ICE feel very passionately that they're doing the right thing. The people that are joining ICE are feeling passionately that they're doing the right thing. You know, this is a two-part thing, right?

One is Joe saying that they're coming after the landscaper. So the one thing why Joe is loved is because Joe has a soft, you know, he has a heart. Empathy. Empathy. That is the reason why he's so he has the empathy and he can kill you, right? So he's got that combination of how he's the gentle guy that also has a heart when he sees things like this. story comes out here Secretary Nome announces

1.6 million illegal aliens this is yesterday or today this is a few hours ago 1.6 million illegal aliens have left this is self-deported in the first 100 days as secretary in the U.S. has seen a decline of 1.6 million

illegal aliens across the country so watch this Q2021, Biden 10.2 next year you're late 11.4 Next year, 12.6. Next year, $14 million. Next year, $16 million, right?

And that from $15.8 million to $14.2 million, $1.6 million out. Now, they're saying they only, ICE has only been able to get how many. We've heard the number. How many people have them been able has ice gotten themselves? It's 100,000.

It's not a big number. It's less than $200. Yeah, it's less than $200,000. But guess what? The advertisement, the messaging, all of that, a lot of people are like, screw this. I'm going back to Mexico.

Don't even worry about coming. of getting me. I'm going to go back to my family. So the 1.6 million that have self-deported is a part of, that's the number. Yeah, ICE has removed in the first 100 days was 65, 66,000. Not a big number when you think about that. So let's say it's 100,000 that they actually got. But say 1.6 million self-deported. That means they did that. That's a part of what they did. So to those that are sitting here saying, well, you know what? What about this and what about that? Guys, this was his top three issue was the border. He ran on this

in 16. Build the damn wall. He's been saying this for nine years, that this is what he's going to be doing. Okay? And guess what happened the moment he came in? People coming through the border went to zero. Nobody has even wanted to come here anymore. It's like illegally, no. Legally, God willing, I'm going to wait to see how I can end up

coming here. But to me, I believe the number one most important thing anybody and everybody thinks about when it comes down to family, kids is safety. It's the S word. Keep me safe. Keep me secure. If you can't do that, I'm not with it. It's the same exact thing he's doing in D.C.

Like when he see this Mayor Bass of L.A. saying something like this. This is her, by the way. Watch her reaction. Look how she reacts. Watch her rage. I do not believe that this just happened to be a coincidence. There is no way this one.

a coincidence. This was widely publicized that the governor and many of our other elected officials were having a press conference here to talk about redistricting, and they decided they were going to come and thumb their nose in front of the governor's space. Why would you do that? That is unbelievably disrespectful. It's a provocative act. They're talking about disorder in Los Angeles, and they are the source of the disorder in Los Angeles right now. This is just completely who believes it? This is a people in California people in L.A. So the guy behind her

definitely believes it with that haircut of it. So when you think about, when you think about what Newsom said yesterday with the redistricting, let me go to that one because she commented on that. So they had a meeting, they've been wanting to redistrict in a while, and his words were, it's over for California. Okay, I think

there was a quote, I got to find it to see which one it is. Rob, what clip do you have about the new statement he made about redistricting in California? Right here. This is what he says Donald Trump's plans are and why he wants redistricting so much. Go forward. Wake up America. Wake up. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will have a president that will be running for a third term. Mark my word. I wasn't exaggerating when I said that I received in the mail at Trump 20208 at one of his

biggest supporters. These guys are not screwing around. The rules do not apply to him. the most corrupt president in history doesn't believe in free enterprise crony capitalism he is wrecking this country wrecking the economy he's a lawless president wake up America

wake up to what's going on how many lies hold on Adam dead serious how many lies did he just say factually in that statement lawless the economy sucks and by the way Brad the one that I send you the image he's I'm

telling you right now, remember I made the bet with Sam Cedar, the most handsome guy in the world, that he said that he was going to be the frontrunner, he's going to be the frontrunner. And just that full, Rob, that full right there. Pat, when you look at this, this is the, and this is it.

This is the presidential look that he's going for, and he's completely full of crap. And when you ask, who's buying it? Who's buying the Karen Bass? By the way, I'm shocked. She's even in the country, not on vacation when shit's going, Hey, I'm shocked. I am shocked that they're doing it, but you know,

You said it at him. I'm sorry, Pat, you did. The scariest thing is, they're not, he's not losing any support. Those people standing out there in Californians are like, yeah, yeah. And they're still going to vote for them, even though their city, their state is going down to, I can't even say. Let me tell you, one thing I know for sure, California is not America. We just came back from L.A. And Pat did the, uh, the debate, the Jubilee thing.

Oh, wow. I couldn't believe it. These people are so far gone. Oh my God. that there's no they can't be redeemed now let me qualify this they're actually smart they're not idiots they're well read they're educated they've strong opinions they got the the vernacular they know what's going on but they're fighting the wrong fight and they're defending the wrong people and there's no switching these people so if you're gavin newsom now that's your audience

gavin newsom still is the governor of california that's his first priority yes he wants to be president in the united states one day obviously like that he's that's his audience that's his megaphone so he's the things that the people in California want to hear. These people are so far gone. They're not redeemable. Thank God that there's common sense people in the Midwest, in the Bible Belt, in Florida that are like, dude, save your crap for a person. There's a lot of common sense people in California. That's the reason they've been planning the redistricting before anybody else was talking about redistricting because they freaked out about the compositional change to California after the election. And so he's out there rage baiting. He's out there, the dog whistled to his followers.

He's out there headline chasing, and he's trying to posture himself. And he's got no, he really has no record to run on. You look at the fires, look at the economy, you look at the job loss, you look at California's tax, you look at what's going on. You look at the controversies that are having over what appears to be a land grab in the palisades that's being done legislatively with laws. And you see a man without a country. Also, the minute he steps east of Las Vegas, the Democrat polls are different. J.B. Pritzker has got tremendous support. And so this primary is not in a FedEx being sent to Sacramento that says, hey, man, see in February 28, you know, here it is, and it's your size.

It's tailored for you. Come on, baby, the water's warm. That's not what Gavin Newsom's about to find. J.B. Pritzker and the DNC are really not with Gavin Newsom. That part's going to be fun to watch, but you can see what they're after right now. Trump's going to lose a midterm.

Presidency ends in 17 minutes and Speaker Jeffrey's back. Their focus is on the midterms and they were going to redistrict California anyway. It's happening in plain sight. And no, they're not dumb. They're very shrewd, but they're, look, they think we're evil.

Liberals think conservatives are evil. We just think they're wrong and we want to process it, honestly? Tom, everything you said, I agree, I agree, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, the only thing I'll give you a caveat on you said, Gavin Newsom has no record to run on, that doesn't matter. The only thing that they have to run on is he's not Trump. Trump is evil, bad, bad, bad. I agree with it, that it doesn't work, but that's the platform.

Yeah, so by the way, if they redistrict, the way they want to redistrict, okay, right now they got a 43-9 lead, okay? And remember, with House, you know, midterms is around the corner. So this redistricting is purely for midterms to see who's going to get bumped out. It looks like Crockett is gone. So now, Rob, can you pull up who are the nine Republican House of Representatives in the state of California? Who are the nine House of Republican representatives in California? See which one of these guys are a threat? Like who is actually a formidable name that gets in the way, out of all the names?

Daryl Issa. He's a stud. He's a stud. Ken Calvert, Young Kim, Jay, David, Vince Fong. Is that a rapper? John Fong? Tom, you know who Vince Fong is? Yeah, we met him.

We met him. Yep. Vince Fong is in Central Valley around Bakersfield, took Kevin McCarthy's seat. That's right. So Tom, McClintock, Kevin Cod. So all of these guys are targeted. That's what they're targeting. They're targeting these nine names.

So if they redistrict and the way that I think they're going to redistrict, four or five of these guys are going to lose their jobs. So four or five lose their jobs. It has nothing to do with California because California is already 43 to 9. It's about what the majority of the House go. Rob, go to see the split right now, how many Dems and how many Republicans have?

Like the percentage of controlling the House, what is the number? Do you know what the numbers are up? I know Republicans are up, but by how many, though. 10 maybe, give or take? It's not a big number. It's not like they're up 40. The score is a very close score.

What is the number? Let's see here. So if you look at this, you got what? 219 to 2.17. So check this out. So if he's able to, oh, yeah. So if he's eight seven seats, gotcha. So if he's able to flip four in California, you know what that does?

Add four to Democrats, which is 216, take four away from Democrats, which is 215. Democrats not control the House. If Abbott does redistrict in which they just got approved by the Senate, even though the other nine people didn't vote, they go and they do. flip five. So that's the five four plus minus one goes to Republicans. But who else will be doing that? DeSantis is talking about being able to do it in Florida, but in Florida they can do it

dramatically like some of these other places can do it with these weird salamander type of stuff that they're doing. A sensible law, somebody did a hundred years ago in Florida. That's right. So the reality of it is the Democrat and Newsom is trying to say, I'm going to do and in a way, he's saying

destroyed the Republican Party for many years to come, if he does this, he's putting the onus now on Trump. But again, Newsom is a professional politician, and he knows what he's doing here. So a part of this story is the ice. A part of this is redistricting. Rob, make sure Humberto makes us into two clips, not just one clip, what happened because I'm looking at 21 minutes,

but let's make a note that's Homberta knows us. All right, let's go to the next one. Just a couple of days ago, the president of Mexico, Shinebaum, when the president, White House, says, We're going to be going and to clean house in Mexico because they're looking for certain cartel members. She said there's no way you can do this.

There's no way you can come over here and da-da-da-da, all this stuff, right? And I don't know if you have that or not, Rob. Is this it? Yeah. She wasn't for us doing any of it. Go ahead and play this clip. This was a couple days ago. We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion.

She called it an invasion. That is discarded. Absolutely discarded. In addition, they have expressed it in all calls, that it is not allowed or part of any agreement, much less. when they have come to raise it, we have always said no, that we can collaborate in another way. Okay, so she says that. A couple days later, guess what? Mexico sends 26 cartel members to U.S. in deal with Trump administration, okay? And she made his job actually easier. This is a lot easier if you send it to us, then us having to go and get it.

So this story is the 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the U.S. on Tuesday, including Abigail Gonzalez-Valencia, a leader of the Los Cunios, allied with Halisco New Generation Cartel, the CJNG, and Roberto Salazar, won for the 2008 killing of L.A. County Sheriff Deputy as part of a deal with Trump administration to combat drug smuggling. Mexican security minister Omar Garcia Harfuk stated at a Wednesday news conference, these transfers are not only a strategic measure to ensure public safety, but also reflect a firm determination to prevent these. these criminals from continuing to operate from within prisons to break up their networks of influence. Rob, can you play this clip?

...polisco and Noreste cartels to the U.S. That also includes one suspect who is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. Attorney General Pam Bondi writing, quote, these 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores Under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country. From what I'm reading, these 26 individuals, cartel members, or leaders, I believe that the U.S. promised to seek the death penalty in order as part of the deal to get them here. What's Mexico's, what is their incentive to send those folks here? Well, if you remember, when the Trump administration designated the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization, obviously the Mexican government,

got incredibly nervous about that because that gives incredible power to the U.S. government to pursue the cartels. So the Mexican government is now cooperating with the U.S. government because it does not want U.S. forces going into Mexico to take care of the cartels, which have been a direct threat and have been terrorizing Americans in which this administration is clearly not going to tolerate it. So what I find encouraging about this is the collaboration now between the U.S. government and the Mexican government so that, you know, the Mexican government doesn't get any more of the direct kind of ire and attention from the Trump administration? Yeah, a major one for the Trump administration because the last place,

these 26 cartel leaders who would want to be is in U.S. custody. And our relationship with Mexico is unique. So when you hear that story, Tom, why wouldn't they want us to go grab the cartels out of Mexico that are causing havoc in their country? Is it because they are owned and controlled by the cartels? Is it because they're afraid of the cartels? Why is that? I think you just hit on it.

Everything, there's been alarm bells going off in my head when I read this. I said, okay, this must mean because we see what happens in the election. You know, they kill candidates. They kill judges. It's still happening. And the cartels have tremendous influence and control over parts of the Mexican government. And I think, remember, some of these guys were already in jail. Some of these guys had already been, you know, captured and captured with the U.S.

assistance. So remember, these 26, this follows the 29 that were sent to us in February. This is now 55. And so I think that some of the cartels that are controlling the Mexican government are giving up guys that are in prison because they don't want the U.S. military coming across the border and disrupting on a wide scale. Because watch, which is operating, Vinny, check this out which is operating and which is not operating. The guys in prison have influenced, maybe they call shots, but they're not really operating. The guys on the ground are operating. They're operating everything they've got, human trafficking, the drug manufacturing, they're operating all that. The minute we come across the border and we put raids, we disrupt operations.

Meanwhile, they just take 26 guys out of prison who may be calling the shots, but they're not operating. Do you see where I'm going? So I think the cartels are like, man, we do not want the U.S. military coming across here and busting up the stuff that we got going right now. We can't have this. And I think there's this very delicate detente and a negotiation where I believe the cartels have influence and said, you know what, these guys are in jail, kind of screwed. We're not going to get them out of jail. If they get released, the U.S. is going to freak out anyway. Why don't we just send these 26 over the same way we sent 25 over in February?

I think it's that way. I don't think this is the Mexican government standing up and being all noble and, you know, purely, you know, law and order stance and looking forward and protecting these citizens. I think that's, I don't think that's the story here. Vinnie. Well, I think, by the way, she came out of nowhere. Do you guys remember running up to that election from 2018 to 2024? I believe 87 mayors were killed, beheaded, and everything from the country. cartels or whoever in Mexico and then she gets put in.

So there's, I feel my opinion that there's, you know, she's the one that they want to be in there. I don't know all the details. I'm not really that deep into Mexican politics in Mexico. But Tom, 26 individuals here that are going to be in our prisons. I did the math. That's cost per year for, let's say 30 years are going to be in here, not the ones that they execute, $65,000.

So we're talking about the American taxpayer is going to be paying roughly 30,000. million to 51 million to have these people here to take care of them for the rest of their lives, not including medical costs or this or that. Why are we taking them? Why can't they just deal with these problems, keep them themselves, and hold their foot to the fire in terms of justice?

According to them, they have lowered homicide by 25% of Mexico. Can you verify this, Rob, if a shine bomb has lowered homicide in Mexico by 25%. Apparently, they have. Now, again, that's their data. I don't know. They're saying, to have.

But Pat, why should we, like, can't they put them in jail and do what, why, why do we need to take them in and take care of these people? Not the ones that are going to get the chair, because we're going for the death penalty, especially the ones that are trying to kill or have killed cops. Why can't they just keep them in their prison? I'm still confused on why do we have to take these people in? They cut a deal. Why are we taking all 26 of these people?

They cut a deal. And to do what with the, but what can't they, if the guy killed a cop or killed whatever, can't they give them the death penalty there? I'm coming across, and I'm going to do this myself. And they're like, we don't want Trump to do that. Just take the bodies yourself. Here, I'll give you 29 guys in February. I give you 26 here.

That's 55. Take them, fill them full of sodium pentothal, make them sit naked on a habachi, get their attention and get all the information you want from them. You don't think there's probably some of that going on? Okay, okay. We're good at that. I got you.

Okay. So this is like a, like we're not going to come and invade. In her first year, approximately 11 months, Shinebaum has achieved a 25.3. percent reduction in daily homicides, which fell from 86.9% to 86.9 a day to 64.9. This marks the lowest levels since 2015. So she's doing something to give her credit. She's doing something about it as well with numbers. And, Rob, is it true we don't have a military base of Mexico? I don't think we do. Can you check that we don't have a military base in Mexico?

Yeah, I mean, look, if if you think about one of the issues, top 20 issues, Trump, to 47. You know what was, yeah, we don't have a military base in Mexico. Okay, that makes sense. So if you look at the, if you look at one of the issues that Trump ran on was what? Border. Squared away. He's doing it. Ice. 50,000 dollars, 100,000 people already signed up. What's another thing that he signed up that he said he was going to do? Top 20. Got to me. Fentanyl. Oh, yeah. Okay. This is the fentanyl. Promise. This is what they're doing to say, we promised you. We're going to go after fentanyl. We're doing it. We're going to find out who's behind it. And we're going to put them out. Adam, your thoughts on the story. Yeah, I mean, in the Western Hemisphere, Mexico

is the last country in the world that was trying to go visit. Oh my God. Why would you say that about Mexico? It's our neighbor. Not safe. Just straight up. You talk about why the most high priority of a family has that taking care of their kids is safety, safety, safety. You call it the S word, right, Pat? Yeah. Here are the most dangerous countries in the Western hemisphere. We know what happened in El Salvador. We know what's going on in Venezuela. Jamaica, Honduras, Ecuador, Guatemala, shout out to Mexico. Shout out to Mario, the Mexican. But those are the list of countries.

The most dangerous cities? Just cities. Alisco is up there? Oh, my. It's all Mexico. The top ten, nine of the top ten. Colima, Mexico. Ciudadobregan, Mexico.

Zamora Mexico. Manzilo, Mexico. Manzanila, Mexico. Tijuana, Mexico. Ciudan Juarez. Throwing a little Port of Prince, Haiti in there. The most dangerous cities you could possibly go. visit. Now, I know everybody in Miami is like, I'm going to Tulum. Stay in Tulum, bro. Don't leave

Tulum. All those cities, you will get to decapitated. By the way, a little fun fact. There's a couple of cities in the United States that are close to the top 10, Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, clean it up, boys, Baltimore, Chicago, but they all pale in comparison to what the hell is going on in Mexico. Yeah, there's a lot of weird stories. Rob, did you see the story of the Mexican influencer 23-year-old girl who was on a live stream, and she said if anybody's going to do anything to me it's going to be my ex and she's getting don't play the video but if any but if anyone's going to do anything to me it's going to be my ex and she's getting a gift

apparently a she's getting a gift while she's getting the gift and she gets killed beautiful girl which is a top member of the brutal hadisco Nueva the whole CJNG and is also suspected of murdering of Venezuela model in 2000 her body was found dumped in a sewage canal

This happened, the story of this 23-year-old, Marquist, was shot on May 13th. Yeah, she was shot on May 13th, this model right here in Mexico, because she got a Gucci purse or Louis Vuitton purse from somebody else, and it was one of the fans that sent it to her. And he wasn't too happy about it. But apparently the murders are actually up by over 700 deaths. So again, you nailed it. You don't know.

That's numbers that we're getting to Mexico. We don't know the data. We don't know. Careful if you go to Mexico. Yeah. And especially if you look like this. But if you look like that, there's other places. Oh, you're Gringo.

I actually think you would farewell in Thailand. Oh. No, my friends, they're doing some dirty work out there. He's out there. Shout out to our buddy that's out there. Yeah. So let's talk about another story, something that's very sentimental to Vinnie. Netanyahu offers Iran water.

Iran water crisis help if regime removed. amid short it. So apparently in, is this it, Rob? Yes, sir. Go ahead. I mean, he's just go ahead, Rob. And action. Pour the water. Oh, he's trolling. This is so.

Today I'm going to make an unprecedented offer to Iran. It relates to water. The Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water. Israel stands with the people of Iran and that is why I want to help save countless Iranian lives.

Here's how. Iran's meteorological organization says that nearly 96% of Iran suffers from some levels of drought. Issa Kalantari, a former Iranian agriculture minister, said that 50 million Iranians could be forced out of their homes due to environmental damage.

50 million. Millions of Iranian children are suffering due to mismanagement, to incompetence, and the theft of vital resources by the Iranian regime. Now, Israel also has water challenges. We've developed cutting-edge technologies to address them.

Israel recycles nearly 90% of its wastewater. That's far more than any other country on earth. We invented drip irrigation. Our technology targets individual plants with exactly the nutrients they need for each plant. Israel has the know-how to prevent environmental catastrophe in Iran. I want to share this information. So, by the way, he's going about it.

to kind of, you know, get the people of Iran against the government, which totally makes sense. But this has also happened. And a part of this story is true because as you read this story, Iranian President Massoud Peseshkian warned of severe water shortages with Reuters reporting that Iran could face critical shortages as soon as next month,

worsened by five years of drought and poor resource management as seen at the Amid Qabir Dam near Tehran, okay? there is credibility on what's going on with Iran and the water story. However, the president responds back and he mocks Netanyahu over pledge of help in water crisis. He says he mocked the Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Niyahu offered to help to have Iran water crisis, stating on X, a regime that deprives Gaza of water and food now says it will bring water to Iran. A mirage, nothing more. Okay. So he is retweeted that to say he's not trying to help us. He's just kind of given a little bit of a troll work here.

First, look at the difficult situation of Gaza and defenseless people, especially children who are struggling because of hunger, lack of access of potable water and medicine because of a siege by the brutal regime. His remarks respond to Netanyahu's Tuesday video, after promising Israeli water expects experts would assist Iran once its current regime is replaced per the Jerusalem Post. Pezeshkian responds saying, And we do not have water.

We do not have water. We do not have water under our feet. And we do not have water behind our dams. So you tell me what we do. He described the situation as we are in a serious and unimaginable crisis, noting his administration is consulting experts to find solutions. So the water crisis is real. Netanyahu is trolling. Massoud responds, bringing in Gaza. Tom, your thoughts on the story.

Well, they were actually offering a high-tech solution. I don't know if you know this, Thinney. What? Basically, they told them. we're going to let you know when the water's going to be there and you'll get a signal on this pager. Everyone take one. Show up when the pager goes off.

So, no, I think, so let's face it, there's grandstanding going on both sides of this because Netanyahu sounds like he was doing a U.N. climate speech. If you listen to that, close your eyes and just picture him in front of the U.N. and all that green marble or whatever it is down there. He sounds like a U.N. speech. So is he trying to help? Yeah, maybe, but probably not.

I think what he's really trying to do is just get the Iranian drive a spike on the Iranian people and to get some of the moderate Iranian people who are upset about the fact that they're in this war-torn country and that they want regime change, they want new leadership, they want somewhere to go to the future while looking at the rich past they've had. I think Netanyahu's pointing right at those people, trying to get those people. here's another reason, man. They can't even get your water, and I'm willing to help. Vinnie. I mean, listen, I'm going to go straight up to, besides BB's plan of, you know, the greater Israel, he wants to, you know, he wants to expand. He wants to dominate. He doesn't want,

you know, his enemies being, uh, being surrounded by him. So he's trying to take over. And I, I get it from that angle. But Iranians had such a huge window of opportunity. A couple months back when everything was going on when Israel and America were starting to bomb on everything and we talked about it this was their moment Tom this was the moment

rise up getting the streets do your thing what happened good it's like a firecracker that goes and nothing happens at the end okay so now this is what's starting to happen okay you have leaders

trying to say hey listen guys if you're you know rise up one of you guys step up somebody do something will give you water because if not what it's going to come to is Israel is going to keep putting

the pressure on and they're going to get involved even more than they are. He even said that he was and then America is going to obviously get involved too because there are allies. So this all goes back to what you said months ago. The people had a chance. I don't care if it was Reza-Palavi. Somebody get in the streets. Get in the streets. Because if not, this is the type of stuff

that's going to be coming. When you get in the streets, you die though. No, no, no. Not Adam. If everybody said enough is enough, you're not going to kill everybody, bro. There's no way. There's no way. Not at that moment. You don't think the Iranian regime will kill all their people. Adam, I think the people, the voice of the people are way too strong. If everybody said F you. What evidence do you have of that?

Because I have 46 years of evidence. They don't give a shit what the people think. Adam, they will kill you and hanged in the streets. Literally, I'm talking about nobody go to work. You're living in a fantasy land. He's playing in reality. They will kill every single one of their citizens. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. Is it worth it? They're clinging to power. No, I'm not talking about

the people. The people don't like what's happening at him. This is, by the way, as much as this is the conversation. conversation. Both of you are right. It is the conversation. You know, yesterday I'm asking Bostamante, for 39 years, 37 years, the Shah was president, the king of Iran. Kissinger doesn't help him. He falls. Four countries unite against the fall of Iran. Now for 46 years they've been the leaders and nothing's happened. Now what? It's, oh, it's going to be a peaceful, like when the resapalavi says it's going to be a peaceful me no it's not yeah rob did you did you see the

the thing i sent you with the water shortage in iran i don't know if you saw that or not check this out how bad it is yes when you look at this chart vinny oh my god this is water shortages spark remember michael burry said at the end of big short in the movie he said the next biggest thing to look at is water why when i went to harvard there was a guy there that learned how to build a plan to make water. He says, this is the future goal. This is what you're going to want. Look at this here.

Water shortage of spark in protests in Iran. Extreme drought. Look at the left side there. Abadon, you see, Kazakhstan. Severe drought is the orange all over the place. Moderate drought, abnormal dryness. So Tehran is okay when you look at Tehran. But all the other places, man.

It is not looking good in Iran. Adam. Yeah. Well, Bibi Netanyahu is just completely. totally trolling his enemies at this point, specifically in Iran. He did a video when he assassinated one of Hamas's things, and he takes out the glasses, and he's like, Netanyahu, Bibi Netanyahu. He's the James Bond of the Middle East.

Even if you hate Israel, make these concessions. He's eliminated Hamas. He's eliminated Hezbollah in Lebanon. He's basically done a deal with the Houthis. You don't hear much from them. Iran is a sitting duck. They've taken out their nuclear capabilities. Syria has been dismantled.

Again, even if you hate Israel, this is truth, truth, truth, truth, truth. Israel has completely embarrassed their enemies. But what the Iranians are doing, it's the same playbook. Ready for the playbook? Give it. But Gaza! President of Iran, Ayatollahs, you've killed exa money people. But Gaza!

Hey, Syria, what's going on? But Gaza! It's the but Gaza defense. And here's what Bibi Get Netanyahu thinks about Gaza. he doesn't give a shit clearly he's going to do what he wants to do he'll take it over and you ain't going to do a thing about it

because it's a doggy doll world in the Middle East it ain't the Midwest and these people only understand strength I don't operate that way you don't operate that way why don't we operate that day because we live in America and we don't have to oh my God we're going to get killed today unless you live in Shirek we have oceans

we don't have to worry about all this people in Israel on edge Every single, Andrew Busamanti made it some great points. He's like, they don't operate the way we day. Every day, they're paranoid. They think they're going to get blown up, and that's the way they operate. By the way, compare Iran to Israel. It's not even close.

Israel's a leading country in the world when it comes to desalination and technology of water. By the way, they're in the Middle East. What is the Middle East known for desert? There's no water there. Iran has basically zero water to drink, what's the own thing? but the last point is this talk about misery and happiness the happiest country in the middle east is which country israel one of the least happiest countries in the middle east is iran they're not happy in that side of the world the angrious people you said were the lebanese the turks

and another country over there they're not happy there they don't have freedom there some people have safety they don't have freedom last thing GDP per capita in israel one of the highest in the Middle East, one of the highest in the world, 53,000 per person. What is, that means the average person, 50, the other, do you know what the misery index and the GDP per capita is in Iran? $4,000. Wow. Okay?

That's what people make in a month. That's what they make in a year. And it gets worse in Yemen, in Syria, in Afghanistan. They're very poor and very miserable there. Yeah, I mean, somebody could say, well, it's because the sanctions we put on them, so nobody does business with them. But there's a reason, because you don't have diplomacy. But if you go to this, I just asked the question, I said, how bad is the water shortage

in Iran. Look what it says. It says as of 2025, Tehran's main reservoirs were holding only 13% of the capacity. With Lard Dam, Rob, can you tape in picture Lard Dam? Just type in picture just to see what Lard Dam looks like. Lard Dam is only

at 1% of capacity of water, Vinnie. 1% of capacity of water. It's 1% full. And then inflows were down 28% year over year. Caraj Dam dropped 58%. Lard down 34. Telegan is down 33, while Latiant and Mambo together decreased 47%.

Nearly half of Iran's provinces are officially water-stressed, outpacing available supply. The nation is experiencing not just a drought, but what many call water bankruptcy with looming day-zero scenarios. Day-zero scenarios, siding running dry within weeks. Weeks. This is not like an issue that's a 10 years away, 20 years away. This is here, right? And over the past five decades, roughly 70% of Iran's groundwater reserves has been depleted.

Tehran, for instance, experiencing land subsidies for up to 25 centimeters per year, indicating collapsing aquifers. Study revealed over 3.5% of Iran's land area impacting nearly 90 million people is sinking with some regions affected by sinkholes and irreversible ground collapse. This is a real issue they're dealing with over there. And at the end of the day, you can look at the government as an enemy. You can look at Gomenet or all the president and everything they're doing, but the people are the people are the people. Nearly 85 million people, give or take, are suffering with water. Water is a very, it's a, you don't think about water

because you have all these bottles of water here. Many times we'll just leave the water, we'll drink a little bit and boom, it's out. And the Iranians right now would literally die to have water to give to their kids and their family. So it's tragic what's going on over there. As an Iranian, who do you blame for Iran not having water? It's 100% of government. Okay, thank you. Yeah, it's 100% of the government.

It's the government's in the way of the people having the life that they can't happen. The government will blame Iran. The government will blame U.S., the government will blame Saudi. The government will blame Israel. Government will blame anybody and everybody except themselves. And what's the whole thing, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, food, shelter, water. Think about how many billions.

Iran has spent on proxy wars, on their nuclear. ambitions, unfunding terrorism, outsourcing all the drama that we see in the world, and their people don't have water? Yeah. This is Iran. Well, let's get to the next story. It's tragic with what's going on in Iran, but it's a real thing. It's happening.

Next story I want to get into is a different kind of a story, but I'm going to read this and I'm going to give you my thoughts. Trump touts tax relief for a vast majority of seniors on Social Security's 90th anniversary. Okay. So when he says this, President Trump's proclamation issued Thursday to mark the 90th anniversary of Social Security Act signed by FDR, described it as a monumental legislative achievement stating to this day, Social Security is rooted in a simple promise. Those who gave their careers to building our nation will always have the support stability and the relief. They deserve the proclamation, highlights his administration's approval, including technological advances,

and a reduction in average telephone response, time from 30 minutes. last year to six minutes and 80% decrease. Trump claims these efforts ensure Social Security now stand stronger and more resilient than ever before, counting Democratic criticism of workforce and one big, big, beautiful bill. The administration complete over 3.1 million payments

ahead of schedule, totaling $17 billion to eligible beneficiaries and the Proclamation notes, provisions in the Republican spending package signed last month, allow the vast majority of seniors who receive Social Security to pay absolute nothing in taxes on their benefits,

which Trump calls the largest tax break for seniors in a history of our country, Rob. So is this him signing it? This is, and then he praises the Social Security Commissioner. Go for it. He just brought with him some of the most talented people in business, and they were making, again, they were making a lot of money, but they made a lot of money. They had money they didn't have to make anymore,

and they just want to do this. They want to have our country become strong and good, and that's what's happening, and we're doing that. A lot of locations, a lot of areas. You deal with some of the people that are commissioners that are secretaries of state, of secretaries of treasury and commerce, people that were really, really successful people. And they gave all that up to make a very small amount of money. They don't even consider it a fraction.

You say one percent, less than one percent, you know, it's pretty good. That's a big, that's a big picture. Okay, so you see this here. And obviously it's nice, it's great, everything that they're talking about. But then when you get your Social Security statement that comes in, and many of these letters, it tells you the account's going to be insolvent by 2033, that it's going to run out of money. And one part that we don't think about, every president is afraid of having the Social Security conversation.

They're all afraid of it. You know why? It's a big voter base. And if you don't get it, you're not going to win midterms, you're not going to win elections. You're not going to win any of that stuff. but I'm not running for office. If you're younger watching this, you're going to pay a price for it.

I'm talking to the guys that are in their 20s and their 30s. Watch this here. Rob, can you go back and type in when FDR came out with Social Security, what was the life expectancy in America? So I'll tell you while he's pulling this up. FDR comes out with Social Security in 1935.

Life expectancy at the time was 61 years old, okay? 61 years old was life expectancy at that time, okay? 61 years old right there. Do you know when benefits were paid out? 65 years old. So at the time, benefits were paying out four years after the average American died.

So do you know the first time when they came out with Social Security became law? The first time they paid out Social Security was in 1937. 1937 they used to pay Social Security and lump sum. Do you know in 1937, how many people in America got Social Security you know what the number is?

Can you tap in how many people got social security the first year they paid it out? It's roughly 54,000 people that got Social Security the first year, give or take. Not 1914, 1937 is the first year they paid it out. How many people in 1937 got Social Security? It's 54,000 people, give or take. Do you know in 1937 when 54,000 people got Social Security,

Do you know what the U.S. population was at the time? 53,000 people got Social Security. Do you know what the U.S. population was at the time? The U.S. population at the time was 128 million people. So let's do some math, Vinie. I know you like math. I love it. Can you type in U.S. population in 1937?

Tom, you know where I'm going with this. Watch this. Let's do math. I'm right with you. So if you do 54,000 people got benefits out of a hundred and 28 million people, let's do the math. You know what the number is? It should be 0.004%.

Wow. So today, what's our population? 340 million people. So if we apply this into today's math, so let's take this times 340 million people. To use FDR's formula today, only 143,000 people should be getting Social Security today. Do you know how many people got Social Security payments?

Can you pull up the number please? Probably 50 million people. 74 million people are getting social security checks today. The number is right there. 74 million people are getting social security checks today. So let me get the straight. We started off in 37. Average age was, life expectancy was 61.

Benefits started at 65. Only 54,000 people got the benefit out of 128 million. 0.004%. You applied to today on 340 million. and it should be only 143,000, yet 74 million plus got it. And if we applied FDR's calculation on when Social Security benefit should start, you know when it should be? Rob, can you do me a favor?

What is the life expectancy today of Americans? Like, what you guys want to guess? Let's, let's, what is. 72? More than that, buddy. What is it today? 78. How 70s, low 80s?

What is it today? 78. Okay, do you know what that means? If we use the same exact principle of Social Security starts four years later, 61, 65, and that was when we were living 61, now you go to 78. You know when benefits should start at 84 years old? If we use FDR's formula, Social Security today should start at 84 years old. People are normally dying around 70 years ago.

But by the way, nobody is going to agree to this. No way. Because no one's going to get elected, except for the youth. If you're in your 20s and you're in your 30s, you ought to be campaigning for not wanting any Social Security. But also the debt load is not going to be passed on you. Because in reality, it is. And you're going to be suffering the consequences. So let me get the straight.

Median income's not comparable to what it was 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 80 years ago. Where a lot of these boomers, they were able to buy a house and paid off within 8, 10, 12 years. by 22, 23, 25 years old, they had a house. It's not the case today. Your income was able to give you decent, you know, life, not today. On the backs of what? So now, they'll say it's the billionaire's fault. It's the rich man's fault.

No, it's called, out of all the money that America gets in taxes, which is roughly $4.9 trillion of revenue that comes in, tax revenue that comes in. Do you know what percentage is used for entitlement programs? 68% of that income is used for entitlement programs. Let me explain to you what this means. You make $490,000 a year. You're rich.

You're doing very good for yourself. Your parents guilt trip you on paying 70% of your $490,000 every year to your cousins, to your siblings, to your grandparents, to your aunts, to your uncles, they guilt-trip you. But mom, I worked hard for this $490. Doesn't matter. Give it to your cousins. Give it to your uncles.

Give it to your aunts. Are you kidding me? Yes. I worked so hard to make $490,000. Let's take $490,000 of income time. $3,000 of it should be given to your friends and family. Do you think that's a good idea? If you don't think that's a good idea,

why should it be a good idea for 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds that are sitting there saying, what's going to happen with this if the account's going to deplete in 2033, 2035. Are we going to keep adding this? 40 trillion debt, 50 trillion debt. Do you know what are told, unpaid commitments we have in debt? Not national debt. Our national debt is what, roughly, robbed?

$38 trillion. Our national debt is $38 trillion. What is our total, yeah, national debt clock will say what? Let's look at this year. $37.2 trillion. Yeah. But what is our complete debt that we have, to all the programs combined, right there.

It's on the side. It's on the side, right there. It's $105 trillion. Yep. Wow. And that's our commitment to Social Security, commitment to everything else that we have. That's your death.

That's your debt. To all the young folks that are watching this, that's your unfunded debt and interest. Forget the $37 trillion. That's it. They have to pay for. How do you think that money is going to come? You think we have that much oil?

You think we have that much Bitcoin? You think we have that much reserve and gold? You think we have down? How much you think we have in gold? You know how much we have in gold? You know what we say? Our gold reserve. How much is our gold reserve are up?

Can you go to our gold reserve? How much do we have in our U.S. gold reserve? Look at the number. It should be $400, $500, well, it's gone up now. But it should be a, what's the number? What's the dollar amount that we have, book value? Okay, there it is. Overall, the U.S. Reserve gold is now $750.

Fort Knox alone is $3.88. We have $757 billion. Oh, my God, that's so much money. Go back to the debt clock. You know how much that is? Nothing. That's the change. Did you understand what I just said?

The change, the gold would simply pay for the change. So if you go to the amount of debt that we have, we're in a bad situation right now. Bad situation right now. So, yeah, you know what, Social Security? Let's keep doing it, guys. Let's keep doing it. I think the least somebody should have the brass to do

raise the age to 75. And by the way, you know how it should be? This is how I would do it. Tom, push back on this and please give the devil's advocate argument to what I'm saying and tear apart my argument. If you're above 60 years old, guess what? Let's pay you off at the age that we have right now. If you're below 60 years old, benefit starts at 75 years old.

We don't have a choice but to do this. benefits start at 75 years old not 65 years i would go to 80 i'd go to 85 we're living longer but benefits goes back to 75 years old for anybody under the age of 60 anyone above the age of 60 you're there your benefits start at 75 no 65 years old above 60 okay above 6 you get it at 65 below 60 75 years old tom thoughts are you against it uh i'm not against it because there there needs to be a financial restructuring but i'll be the devil's on the voter side, okay? So I recognize that we have a spreadsheet that doesn't work. So we got to do something. But here's going to be the argument. Wait a minute. I didn't work for a company with

pensions. I've got some savings. My wife and I have our individual IRAs. We rolled a couple small 401ks over when we were with companies that could get us a 401k, and we got our savings and social security. That's what I intended to live on. What do you mean you're just going to pay me a lump sum? You're supposed to pay me by the month. I'm getting statements from the government that said that I'm going to get $2,700, $3,200 a month for the rest of my life. My wife's going to get $1,200. That $4,000 plus my savings. We're selling the house. We're moving the Florida. We're going to get a condo, downsize. That was my plan. You can't change the plan on me. You can't pull the rug out from under me right now. That is the devil's advocate position. That's the voter. And then my other brain says,

Well, you've got to do it. Greece was going bankrupt, Vinny. Going bankrupt. Go look up Greece austerity riots. Going back 15 years ago, I believe it was, they said in Greece, we're freaking broke. And we are one of the, that's right, 15 years ago, May 2010, almost exactly 15 years ago. The government said, we're going broke. Guess what?

Some of you folks are going to have to work longer. and then you're going to have a little less. It's called austerity when you get to retirement. And they're like, wait a minute. Me sitting on the porch with the misses having little tiny juice glass full of wine the way we live our lives here. You're telling me I got to work longer and I'm going to get less. Yes.

And then they revised it, I believe, twice. And people went bonkers. You know why the people went bonkers? Because also in socialism, you know what you had? you had people like me sitting in a job and you had people like my niece waiting for that I want to work at the post office for the rest of my life on a good government job just get paid hang out but I can't get my job until my dad

retires and you're telling me now I got to wait for him to retire so this it was it was called a barbell reaction where you have two ends of the spectrum or reacting and then you have the bar in the middle the youth went bonkers They're not going to get basically socialist income and 30-hour-a-week jobs and gets paid their living wage for that. And then the older people said, I get less and I can't retire for another five years. And then you can see what they did. They reacted a little bit and they kind of tore up the place.

Adam, your thoughts. So I'm going to tell a story, so bear with me. So I've had a rough week. My stepdad died. And we know that. I went to his funeral. And he's been sick for quite some time. But I'd have a very crucial conversation with my mom about life and finances and work.

And here's what I said to my mom, who's 74, and I love you, Mom. And thank you, Vinnie, for reminding me to call my mom every day. I said, mom, you're not retiring anytime soon. You need to stay working. You need to make more money and you need to save that money. I love you. I'm here for you. Whatever your shortfall is, I got you.

But you need to stay working because I want you here to age 100. And if you're going to be living for the next 25 years, you don't have enough money to last another five years. You need to keep working. There's no retiring for you. And that is exactly the type of conversation that unfortunately many of you need to have with your parents and your grandparents. Because they did not save that money. And it's sad and it's true. People always ask me, Pat, how did you meet Pat?

You know the number one reason I'm here? The number one reason is because that debt clock, Rob, if you can show that, I saw. that in 2015 and I said what the hell is this? I said, what's going on here? I was at a conference in Vegas much like we were just at last week.

And of course, this is when I was drinking. I'm sitting in the back of the room and I'm hungover and I'm sitting in the back of the room and it's, you know how the insurance guys are. It's all older white guys and they're all doing their thing and I'm just, I'm sitting in the back in the room and I hear blah, blah, blah, blah.

And that's why millennials are going to be broke. I'm like, what? millennials are going to be broke what do you mean they're like did you not hear anything we just said for the last hour i was like no i'm hungover it's Vegas and i go what do you mean they're going to be broke i go what are we going to do about it they go nothing buddy we're about to retire that's on you i was like what and i felt inspired to basically start my show and i talked to pat i was like pat i want to do this thing this at 2016 at this point i said all right i'm going to help millennials save that money and i realized that this is a major problem

Here's a little fun facts for you. You talked about Social Security. I'm fully on the same page with you, Pat, as far as Social Security. Workers per retiree. That's what Social Security is founded on. Workers work. They make the money. The retirees who pay into it get to receive the money.

In 1940, after FDR did the New Deal, do you know how many workers per retiree there were? 42 workers per the retiree. Pat, you're ready for this? You know how many workers per retiree now? Two. In 1940, there was 42 workers per each retiree.

Now there's two. And do you think that's going the right way or the wrong way? Life expectancy then, you said, was 61. You received benefits at 65. Now you're living to 85.90. My grandma is 98 years old. She's going to be 100. People are living longer.

And then also, as far as living longer, birth rates are going lower. The math is not in our favor. Social Security was built for a world that we live to 65. We're all living to 85. 95, 100. No wonder this country is going broke. People criticize me. Adam, focus on Epstein, Gaza, uh, auto pen. We're broke. And we need to focus on saving that money. It was supposed to be a small supplement for approximately two years. It's become a pension program for 40 years. Yes. And it's very sad, but true. Tilt. This is why I care so much about this.

It's to raise the age. I agree with you. They have to raise the age to the boomers, that were listening, who got off the podcast when I told you earmuffs, remember what I said. They have to raise the age. Your kids and grandkids are going to be destroyed for this one day. All right, let's go to the next story. It should step up. Next story I want to go to is the following.

It's Vegas dying. That's the question. Is Vegas dying? The numbers came back June of 2024 to June of 2025. The amount of visitors going to Vegas dropped 11%. The amount of people visited Visiting Vegas is down 11%. How is that even possible?

The airline booking, down. Visitors, down. Vegas tourism, down. Casinos losing billions. All of that happened. Is this a clip wrap? I guess. Go ahead and play this clip.

Go forward. Hi, Brian and Alan. Well, experts say fewer people are coming to Las Vegas and that largely has to do with money. But international visitors are also down, specifically from Canada and Mexico. But experts say Las Vegas relies a lot on their tourism, so it is hitting this city hard. And Las Vegas welcomed nearly 400,000 fewer visitors this June.

That's compared to the same time last year. That's an 11% drop, the first double-digit decline since 2021. And it's not just tourists convention traffic. A major moneymaker here is also down. Those big conferences and expos bring in high spending of visitors, and the cost of visiting adds up. fast between resort fees and service charges vacationing here can be more expensive even the city's airport is feeling the impact with passenger traffic falling more than 6% last month

that's insane when you hear that right so now think about this that's going on with vaguest taking hit the way that they have then reports come with alcohol i'm going to combine these two together a little bit go to the reports about alcohol rob i don't know if you have that or not it says why are Americans, why Americans are rethinking, let me go to what page that is. What page is that on, Rob? Page 8. Page 8. Okay.

Why Americans are rethinking drinking alcohol. And there's a poll that came up from Gallup. You have to see this number here. Okay, if you show the chart, Rob. Gallup poll conducted in July, I found that 53% of U.S. adults now believe moderate drinking is bad for their hair, a record high up from 28% in 2015,

28% in 2015. it nearly two-xed with two-thirds of 18 to 34-year-olds viewing it as unhealthy two-thirds of 18 to 34-year-olds what were you doing at 18 to 34 drinking all day, every day so viewing as unhealthy compared to

four out of 10 in 2015 and while other adults are concerned rose half Americans 55 were older agreeing up to up from two in 10 oh my God that's nearly three X and the shift is driven by grown evidence that alcohol consumption even in moderation

leads to negative health outcomes, including being a leading cause of cancer, as noted by health professionals, Lydia Gallup, Lydia Sod Gallops, director of U.S. research stated, older adults have lived through an era where there was more of a mixed message about alcohol, so it may take them a little bit longer

to absorb this information. Look at that chart right there. Lowest. Okay, lowest number. So when you combine these two stories, why did I combine these two stories? So, when you think of, about the youth today, is a fun weekend for them going to Vegas like it was for us?

No. No, it's not. Do they want to go watch the shows? No. Do they need to go to Vegas to gamble? No, there's an app for that. Do they need to go to Vegas to meet a girl? No, there's Tinder for that.

We're in L.A. With one of our guys, don't mention the name, don't mention the name. I'm not mentioning the name. One of the guys, like, I want to see if the quality of Tinder is going to be good here in L.A. It's 11 o'clock at night. The talent. The next day, yeah, the next day he was upset. He's like, yeah, it's not as good as I thought.

It's better in Miami or it's better in Florida, right? Remember that conversation, right? His exact words were, I'm disappointed by the caliber of women out here. So guess what? And it was not me for the record here, guys. Well, you came back at 2.30 in the morning, but that's a different conversation. That's true. And you were on Grindr.

No, he wasn't on Grindr. It was Bumble. But so while. I have what it's called real life, friends. But here's the point. The point I'm making to you is the following. The guy that said that Is in his 20s, late 20s

May have just turned 30 And he's saying, look at the market Where I'm at Why would I need to go to Vegas? True. Why would I need to go to Vegas to gamble? Why would I need to go to Vegas to meet girls? Why would I need to get to Vegas to, for what?

For the Raiders? That's eight games a year. Eight games a year. Maybe I'll go to Vegas. Aside, do I want to go watch The Bellagio show, the O? Do I want to go watch the Blue Man show? Do I want to go watch any of that stuff?

Have access to all of that stuff on YouTube. I have to save some money. Prices are going up for me. My income's not going up as much as it should. I need more savings. And then with alcohol, I mean, more and more and more people today are obsessed with health. When I was interviewing Chip Wilson 10 years ago, the founder of Lulu Lemon, funny guy.

We're sitting there. We're somewhere by the water. I don't know if we're Newport Beach Santa Monica. I'm sitting there, he says, in the next 20 years, everyone's going to be in shape. I said, why do you say that? He says, because everyone's going to wear smart clothes. I said, what's smart clothes? He says, the clothes are going to tell you, stand up, walk around, temperatures this, go over there, do this, drink water, go over eat this, time to eat something, don't eat too much.

He says the entire data is going to be given to you where everyone's going to be smarter when it comes out to health. I had a friend of mine neighbor that came and visited us yesterday. And he's telling me about the difference between lifespan and health span. Okay, lifespan is how long you live, but maybe you don't enjoy the last 15 years of your life. Health span is how long you live while you're healthy. Everybody today is concerned about how long they live a healthy life. So, man, it's a bad time for Vegas. Think about it.

Used to be hot, but it's a bad time for Vegas. Tom, your thoughts on the story. Well, I think it's absolutely correct. And what I look at is, in preparing for this, I sat back and I just had a quick synapse in the old brain, and I'm like, wow, you know what? I know it's just my feed, but when I also talk to Kim about it, in Instagram, I look at how many influencer out there is talking about health. Gary Brex is talking about health. I'll mention him. I won't mention a bunch of other names, but we all know who they are.

And some of them are out there just, you know, selling the latest program, like they've. always done. But there's an awareness on there about health. And there's also been an awareness about diet. And guess what? The younger generation right now with the cost of food where it went, now eggs have come back down and we can stop the egg jokes about, oh, I've got eggs. She'll date me. She thinks I'm rich. So you've got a big awareness about health and you also have a cost tissue. And I think that you have the vanity that is on Instagram about look good, feel good, and that vanity leads to bad sides of health, like, oh, just take a Zimpec, take the fat shot. What's the worst it could happen to you? It turns out apparently, you know, allegedly,

an awful lot of side effects, apparently, that are physiological side effects to take into Zempec and that aren't so good. And then there's the other side of it, well, maybe I don't need to eat a Big Mac. Maybe I don't need to eat a big grease bomb like that. A big rib. And people are thinking about it and people have been thinking about sugar and Coke and you finally have

folks talking about soda machines and schools are still there, but there's a lot of folks out there that are pushing for it. And now you bring all that youth together that is having this awareness and socially speaking, they don't want to go to Vegas, go on a bender

and they can watch all these programs elsewhere and it's expensive and so they sit there I can barely afford housing so where is my disposable income? They're not spending on cable and guess they're not spending on alcohol I guess it's all coming back down I think there's

a budget part of it and a health part of it and you make a great point when we're in Vegas me and Adam were sharing a room and while we were cuddling and I was a big spoon we went to the mini bar we went to the mini bar if you did you see it you guys were in a different room but if you move

anything or try to put personal items inside the minibar and the sensor goes off it's a $50 surcharge. Okay, and look it. Yeah, like if you brought a coat... Rob Fee. You had a bottle of water and you want to put it in a fridge. Like you would do it the Marriac Courtyard. Don't do that in Vegas and bump something.

Yeah, bucket of Coors Light. $290 if you want to go by the pool and all that stuff. It's unbelievably priced. They need to do a major shift. Maybe they could go to bed David consulting and have you guys talk to him. But, you know, I realized too, when you said, you don't need the like everything's online.

You could swipe and get your girls. Did you find it weird in our hotel? When you walked around, there was a camera and there was just a dealer and they're gambling around the world. Why do you need to even go to Vegas? Drake does it. All these guys are at home,

winning millions, losing millions. You don't even need to... Did you see the big glass and closed stage that was filmed everywhere with four games going on there? With all the identically dressed dealers? No, men and girls. There was a typical...

Tom, the guys were hot too. like don't they were all there it's right and hot no but I mean why even including that roommate you had apparently

and mind you as somebody that stopped drinking over two years ago it's I think it's fantastic and especially with the drinking because you know what when you eat too much food

what do people say yeah I was full I need to lay down when you drink too much alcohol you know what they say it's alcohol poisoning it's poison so good

good Adam well shout out to Vinny hasn't drank in how many years two years two months and he's been a good influence on me because I think I've cut down my drinking 90%

since then. I've been sober for it. I'm not worried about that guy. Let's work focus on us. You know how they say? I'm two years, 90% you're down to five martinis a day? That's incredible.

Tom, you drink fake alcohol to look cool. I've seen it. I've seen Tom put it down, bro. You don't know, Tom. Then he does his bubble. On the way here, then he does his bubbler.

Exactly. Tom's drunk now. We're recovering a story. Tom, you're collecting retirement in two years. Relax. Wow. Oh, boy. This guy just called me on Grindr, I say that you're, I say his actual age.

Whoa. Let's not do this, guys. Well, one's an observation, the other's discrimination. Okay. Discrimination against old gay people is what you're saying. Let's focus. Let's stay on track here before Tom does his bumper. Here we go.

So you know what they say? What happens at Vegas stays in Vegas? What happens if nobody goes to Vegas? You know where people are going instead of Vegas these days? Miami. I'm not sure if you've noticed. Miami's up, up, up. Shout out to Mayor Francis Suarez.

Why do you go to Vegas anyways? It's for three things. To gamble, drink, or party. In whatever order you want. Gamble drink party. You can do all that in Miami, but Miami has one thing that Vegas does not have.

The beach, the sun, the fun. You don't have to go to Miami and drink and party. Go work out on the beach. Go on a boat. Go on a yacht ride. Have a great time. Miami is the New Vegas. New York is done.

LA's done. It's all about Miami. Look where we live in sunny south Florida. You go to Miami. He's kidding. You go to New York City. You go to New York City. Go to Miami, Miami, Miami. Miami. There's traffic. There's founties running and Vegas has not been cool since the hangover. And the little Asian dude jumped out of the trunk like Tom did with the little dink. And there is a tiger in the bathroom. What's his name? Carlos. That's true. So baby Carlos, yeah No, I mean, look, the reality of it is

This is what's going on with Vegas It's not the same. We were there We were there last week we brought we tried to help Vegas We brought nearly 10,000 people there And I actually like going to Vegas Because I go to a couple restaurants every time I'm there And you know, I've watched almost every one of the shows There's good memories of being in Vegas

But it ain't it ain't It ain't what it was before We do our events in Vegas at the MGM Grand Arena and we get our guys to be locked and focused to not go and gamble and stay locked in for three, four, five days. And we're able to do, we've been doing it for many, many years, but unfortunately, it's not what it wants. But it's helping the city.

They're buying not for room nights or paying for restaurants. That's our event. That's our event last week. What was the top picture, Rob? Top pictures. Who's that guy? Hummer Mechanic, baby. Look at this guy. Look at that guy.

I had a certification called Hotel 8, which is you try to pull trucks out of the mud with an LMTV or an FM. TV. That's what I did before. In 97, you're solo in a truck 2025. This is your event given the keynote speech. This was last week. Pretty cool, Pat. We had a very good event. It was such a special event. It was phenomenal.

It was phenomenal. I showed a picture of Tom. Shout out to PHP. I showed a picture of Tom. One of the all-time greatest pictures. Very emotional picture of Tom. I could reenact it right now if you'd like. Not going to do it. Don't do it. Making a point. Just making a point. So let's go through here to the next story. Vinny, I'm coming to you

with this one. And it's probably going to be our last story. New Jersey parents applaud new law that could send them to prison for their children's crimes. You got to get the parents involved. All right. So let's see what the story is. We've talked about this on the podcast here for the last two or three years, this specific story. Rob, is that the clip? Yes. Go for it. Parents, if they don't prevent their kids from breaking the law, they could essentially face fines up to $2,000 and jail time up to 90 days in jail. Some parents are outraged, say that's a dangerous precedent. You know, thanks to cell phones and YouTube, we're seeing more scenes like this playout

out of country. It's what Gloucester, New Jersey, found itself dealing with last summer when more than 500 teens arrived at a city party, started a brawl and needed over 100 police to calm the situation. The mayor of Gloucester addressing this recently says he may have a solution. We have a juvenile crisis in this country. is not unique to Gloucester Township, but rather is symptomatic of a larger, larger societal juvenile crisis.

And I'll tell you, I don't have all the answers. But one possible answer is to hold parents accountable for their children. Mm-hmm. Oh. What do you think about that, man? I absolutely, like, finally, finally, this is what the hell's been missing.

Okay, let's put aside everything that Trump's doing with D.C. and Chicago. I had a whole thing I was going to get into about D.C. and Chicago and the horrible leadership just from the mayor side and all that nonsense. But Adam, we talked about this too about parents that have children that do

terrorist crap in this country or mass shootings or anything. You know what? Where were the parents? I forgot which state it was that the mom and... Michigan. Michigan actually had the mom and dad. I know exactly where you're done here, buddy. I love that you remember that the parents in jail time. You live your guns out, you're irresponsible, and your kids

does something stupid. I'm sorry. What is this one, Tommy? Read it right there. James and Jennifer. Just read it. Yeah. The parents of the Oxford High School shooter, James and Jennifer Crumbly were sentenced to 10 to 15 years, each for the involuntary manslaughter and connection to the 2021 school shooting. Okay? When kids run this tree, my mind you, is it just me, Rob, or have you been seeing, all I'm seeing is videos like this of kids running in the streets, they're doing drifting, they're beating the hell out of each other, they're shooting at each other, and zero respect for the law. It all starts at the whole. home. You know what kept me out? Yes, I did a lot of stupid stuff, but you know what kept me

from actually losing everything? Knowing that my dad, like, oh my God, my dad, Pat. If my dad found out, I'm pretty sure you're in the same boat. If my dad found out, when my mom said those six words, wait until your dad comes home. That was the fear. Wait until your father gets home, bro. That stopped me from doing everything, okay? If the parents don't teach the discipline and the order and all that stuff, it all goes to Haywater. It's not the school's job. By the way, it's not the cop's job. It's yours. Parents need to step up. And I guarantee you, if that goes into law, the crime rate, especially with the youth, is going to drop in Jersey like that. You know, it's very interesting about this.

It's very, very interesting. Insurance companies have something called subrogation. So in other words, your car gets hit in a parking lot by somebody and you walk out from the store. Oh, my gosh, my car's been hit. People said, hey, it's this guy, this old man backed into you. Your insurance company will quickly get your car fixed. But then they are going to go to the other guy and his insurance company called subrogation. to get the money back because he's responsible for it.

You don't have to do that, you know, Liberty Mutual, whoever you have takes care of your car. Well, guess what? If an underage child breaks a window on your house and under your homeowner's insurance, you get it fixed. Do you know what they're going to send you? They're going to send you a questionnaire, and they will call, if that child is under 18,

they will call the other child's parents. They will attempt to find a parent or guardian and make them responsible for that window. This is the way it works behind the scenes in the insurance industry. So why should it be so shocking that now people are trying to say, okay, well, if your kid goes out there commits a misdemeanor and costs the city some money and things like this and act of vandalism, then you should pay for it. And if you're going to be completely responsible and leave guns out there, than just like these people in Michigan,

you're going to do time. I love it because it's you are responsible for your kids. Adam, thoughts. So I upset a couple of people last week or when I said that you should hitch your kids more often. Hitch. Like hitch them? No, no, don't hook them up.

Hit them. Oh, gosh. Hit them. Not Hitch, not Will Smith, no. But sometimes. Did you hit that? Tom. You're being very inappropriate, Tom.

Tom, what did you mean, but did you hit that? Keep going. No, Tom, explain. Adam, make your point. I want to get one more story. Go, go. Go, head like the kid. Go for it.

I'll start over. I made some, Rob, you're laughing? No, don't start over. Just pick up for your left off. Tom, I'm going to pick you up and drop you off where I found you at the old age nursing home. Well, you can't get on the car. You have the Uber. You don't have the Uber.

That's right. Unbelievable. Anyway. Hope you're wearing Nike's. Speaking of hitting your kids, sometimes you got a hit. your parents and sometimes you got to hit the people that are responsible for how horrible the kids are as much as tom is being annoyed today his kids are absolutely incredible he's a good parent some parents need to be held accountable for how horrible they are we told a story last week

some gangster ass uh lady with tattoos she's going to jail for some reason because her kid did some murder and they're holding her accountable i i was like oh if your kid shoots up a school without question you go to jail what do you mean the parent didn't do this how it's a kid i don't care turns out yeah this is the lady right here oh turns out she didn't raise the best kid model citizen oh no shocker sometimes the parents have to be held responsible for the actions of their kids and sometimes the kids do such bad things the parents seem to be doubly responsible throw them up lock them away put them in jail your kids are shitty you're a horrible person everyone's going to jail straight to jail kids are not shitty

Let me tell you, kids are trouble. Parents teach bad habits to the kids. There's more caught than taught in parenting. Kids have a shot in life. If you raise them well, I've met so many kids that are so impressive. Then I want to meet the parents to tell the parents great job, okay? Vinny just said something powerful. I hope he tweets it out.

These six words, make America safer. Okay? Wait until your dad comes home. Those six words, make America safer. Unfortunately, when, And the number of single mothers right now and children being born without a father, you can't use that line.

Wait until your father comes home. Wait until your father comes home. You can't use that line. It's a very powerful line to make America safer. Last story here, Tom and Adam, this is the one you guys wanted to talk about, so I'm going to come to you here. Uh-oh.

Can you guess how many retire with $5 million? Here's a hint. Almost no one. 99.9% fall short. Okay, so let me read the story. to you. Five million bucks is the number that we're talking about. Few than one-tenth of one percent of retirees have $5 million or more, meaning only about $100,000 reach this mark. While only 3 percent achieve the $1 million milestone, according to analysis by Employee Benefit Research

Institute using Federal Reserve Survey data, data from DQYDJ shows 4.8 million U.S. households or 3.7 percent of a net worth of $5 million or more in 2023, including non-liquidated. assets like home equity and businesses, which may not directly support retirement income. A $5 million net egg allows a 4% annual withdrawal rate yielding $200,000 yearly before taxes, providing resilience against inflation, market swings, and health expenses. The article highlights that reaching $5 million requiring high earning careers, discipline savings, wise investing, and smart business decisions or luck with tips, including working with a financial advisor as a good one can help you map out a realistic plan stress test against market swings and adjust it as your life changes, Adam.

Tom, you can go first, sir. I'm just pulling something up. Well, this doesn't surprise me. Even in the areas where you have very, very dramatic appreciation in homes, the average American, you know, through even an IRA that was pegged to Nvidia and Apple, sequentially, you know, you're not going to retire with this amount of money. The average American retires of far less, which is the savings crisis that we have in America, which is also related to what we're talking about, Social Security. Social Security has become a pension plan. So it's sort of interesting to me. They come out with this story. How many Americans retire of $5 million? Less than you think. What they should be saying is how many retire with a

million it's less than you think to really put it in perspective to see, you know, what's there? Because you know, $50,000, 20 years, that's a million, you know, and so if you retire and that's four grand a month, a little over $4,000 a month, yeah, that goes quick. And so the headline to me kind of, you know, is making a point in trying to get clicks. But the real issue is just how many Americans don't have the basic savings to even supplement Social Security, and now Social Security has got a change that we already talked about. Adam. Okay. You're not going to be a millionaire. You're also definitely not going to be a billionaire because the odds are not in your favor. How many billionaires are in America? A thousand or so. How many millionaires are in America? There's 23 million millionaires. The percent of people that retire with a million dollars in the bank, 3%. The pretend of people that retire with $5 million in the bank, 0.01%. Now, if you ask the millennial, an average dude, he's 30 years old, are you going to be? a millionaires? Like, of course, 50% of millennials think they're going to be a millionaire.

72% of Gen Z think that they're going to be millionaires. You're not. However, what country gives you the best chance to be a millionaire? It's not even a question. It's the United States. The problem with most people is they don't play the long game. You know, the average age when someone comes a millionaire? Do you know it? 60 years old. Everyone wants to get rich, quick, put this microwave hustle society. The reality is, you'd rather look rich than actually be wealthy. The only way to be wealthy is work, earn, save, invest, and do that year in and year out, and don't stop.

It might take you a decade. It might take you a few decades. But if you do it the right way and save that money, you will become a millionaire, but not pipe dreaming that you're just going to become a billionaire one day. It's not going to happen. In regards to what? You're saying billionaire?

No, there's a 3% chance you become a millionaire. There's a 0.01% chance you become a billionaire. I know, how many people do you mean? 0.01? Yeah. Less than that. Sorry, 0.01. It's like 0.0.0.0.0.0.1. The point, yeah. 0.01% chance.

You're going to be a $5 million. No. Point zero one. I can do it. Tom, help me out here. When you said that, wait a minute. I'm not going to a math, but are you serious? But you think that 0.01 is a good number in your feet?

No, but to be a billionaire, it's not, I mean, 0.00, 0.01 of having $5 million. The chances of becoming a billionaire are non-existent. It's 0.000, okay, I forgot to carry the decimal. But here's the point, listen. Nobody becomes billionaires. Now, well, this is the part to be thinking about when it comes down to this, okay? It's, there's nothing worse for you to do than you compare yourself. to somebody else without you willing to do what that person has done or is willing to do.

It's very simple. You know, we're having a conversation. Three of our highest paid employees in a company are all in sales. All of them here. They work for Bed David Consulting. And if you're somebody that's in sales and you have experience with SaaS software sales or you've done consulting, Go to bed david.com apply for the company, okay? Bed David Consulting.

These three guys are all above a half a million and they're all going to make a million dollars net. They've only been with us for a couple years. It's not like they've been with us for a long time. I just applied, by the way. But you know when, oh my God, why don't I get paid more money? Why don't I do this? Why don't I do that?

Guess what? Some math requires. It's not some math requires. They're taking client calls on Sundays. They're doing stuff on Saturday. They're working until 8 o'clock at night. They're choosing to go above and beyond to make the, kind of money they want to make. Great. Don't be upset. I can't believe that guy drives that car.

No, don't be upset. That's that job they chose to take. One of the guys at Jubilee asked me question, he says, how do you feel about nurses? I said, to me, they're in the top 10 more honorable professions in America. Do you think it's fair that nurses don't make as much money as hedge fund people do? I said, that's not how life works. Hedge fund solves a bigger problem, and nurses is not a high-paying job, period. If you want to go compare to two, the market pays better for somebody that's able to make financial analysis. And it's not about feelings, not feelings. It's what the market pays better for.

But if you love being a nurse, guess what? Be a nurse. Yesterday, I asked a question from my oldest son dropping them off. And I made a video and I said, Vinnie, check this out. Yeah, we're driving. I'm like, Tico, I just ask him, I'm like, maybe this guy wants to be a teacher one day. I don't know. I said, Tico, would you want to be a teacher?

Oh, absolutely not. Why not? He says, I'm so sick and tired of these kids. you're a kid but he's like a 70 year old kid he's 80 years old he's 80 but you know what it is and tom you're laughing because you know that's his personality he's not 13 I've had these conversations I know so but the point is what you choose to do now let's go the other way around let's say you chose to be a nurse let's say you chose to be a whatever the job is a supporting cast HR whatever you're doing how can you now maximize your earnings potential to

later on have a few million dollars 40 years later 30 years later be better with your money be frugal start investing early create better habits fight to get equity in the company work your bought off to move up so maybe you're going to participate in bonuses L-tip all these other situations and then you're putting yourself in a good and don't make some dumb mistakes avoid the alcohol avoid the drugs avoid the bad stupid things that can potentially cost you so much money if you don't do those things you put yourself in a position to be financially free Right? That's what you end up doing. Now, having said that for somebody else that is, you're going for all the marbles and you're working in ways that nobody else is. Yeah, you could have an expectation of we were just in Arkansas visiting a business. We went to this place called Hot Springs, Arkansas. And we visited this two business owners, Sean and Morgan. And we're there. And we're driving around. We're meeting these 250 employees in their city. They're rocks. stars, 250 employees work for this company.

Okay. Damn. They went from being regular guys to build in a business that's probably worth right now, $150 million, and they're probably going to be able to build this company potentially to a half a billion to a billion dollar business. They're at that level now, what they've gotten themselves, that there's a possibility with that. But that doesn't mean everybody is capable of doing that,

nor do they want to. Nor do they want to. If you don't want to, also don't be envy of the person that becomes that. okay that's the key if you don't want to don't be envious of the guy that becomes that as well because that person wants it's a very big difference anyways vini we're very uh honor to know that we do a podcast with somebody that's about to be a billionaire yourself i appreciate and the way you dress today honestly today vinny dressed like he owns all of four lauderdale he's running for mayor he's it works by the way if you ran for mayor and for lauderdale it would be the funniest campaign one of you

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