PBD Podcast - US Pilot RESCUED + Trump's BRUTAL Iran Warning | PBD #771

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down the rescue of a U.S. pilot after an F-15E was shot down, Trump’s 48-hour Iran warning and “open the strait” threat, Rubio revoking visas of IRGC family members, and the economic and political fallout from Iran war taxes, impeachment calls from Ro Khanna, and Newsom’s $19M PR controversy.-------💰 WORK AT VALUETAINMENT: https://bit.ly/4ungnZZⓂ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso⁠⁠⁠ Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2⁠⁠⁠ 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠🇰 KALSHI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm so close like it takes sweet victory. I know this life's meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever size. Right here. You are a one of one?

My son's right there. I think I've ever said this before. All right. So, guys, hope you had a fantastic Easter weekend, uh, spending time with the family. I know we did. We did this, what do you call it? When you put the egg,

it was so weird. I've never seen this where we put the eggs all over the place. And, you know, normally when we do this, we would put $10 and $20. This year we said, let's put $1,500. I've never seen so many adults show that. It was like affordability. I'm like, hey, you're at least 40 years old, bro.

This is for kids. This is for kids. And it's like, no, no, I'm going to compete. I'm going to come in this one guy had like 88 of them. I don't even know this relative. I don't know this. That one guy was me. Thank you for him.

Walked with $280. Save that. Save that. He spent up 17 minutes. It was a record. Turned out. Just a neighbor said he was a cousin. Can you imagine that?

But anyways, hope you guys had a good weekend. We had a wonderful weekend with the family. Nothing like it. While that was going on, I got a question for you, what were you doing this morning at 1.21 a.m.? Just think about it. How old are you, and what were you doing today at 1.21 a.m. How are you? Okay.

Are you, are you 38 and at 120? Like, Pat, I'm sleeping. I was. Are you 27 and at 121. m. Maybe you and your girl. I don't know. What were you doing today at 1.21 a.m.?

Right? Were you up at the club? Were you asleep getting ready for your week? Is it a four-day weekend for you? There's a 79-year-old man at D.C. who had 1-21 a.m. What he had on his mind is endorsing a governor candidate for the state of California, Steve Hilton.

Can you imagine that? And his tweet wasn't a short tweet. He's like, dude, it's late. Let me just kind of post a smaller tweet. Nah, it's like, I have known and respect to Steve Hilton who's running for governor in California for many years. He's truly a fine man. One who has watched as this one great state has gone to hell.

Gavin Huscom and the Democrats have done an absolute horrendous job. People are fleeing. Crime is increasing in tax or the highest in any state, the country. Maybe the world, Steve can turn it around before too late. And as the president, I will help him do so with federal help. And governor, great governor, Steve Hilton, California can be better than ever before Steve Hilton. He's still going.

He's still going at 1.21 a.m. this morning. Now, a couple of days ago, less than 48 hours, obviously, because that 48 hours is coming out. He put a threat on Iran. And on Easter, the words he used, like, you have to be about that life. You know what I'm saying, Vinny? Yeah.

Like, it's thug life. He's there. I sometimes wonder if he listens to Tupac when he wakes up. Can he imagine low-key if the president is a Tupac guy? And you just walk in. He's all I need in the Cypherson is being a Melania. Like, it's just, you know, imagine like he's a hardcore, hardcore DMX,

like bone thugs. in harmony, like, hardcore rap guy before he makes his decisions, right? I mean. So here's what he tweeted. And we'll talk about this as well. He called me right after this. We had a 10-minute conversation. I'm with the kids at the, what do you call it?

Safari. At the safari. And all of a sudden, the president calls. We had a full-on 10-minute conversation about a bunch of different things. I'm asking myself, what does your schedule look like? Hold on. What are you doing? Right.

What are you up to? And Jennifer's there, Brooklyn's screaming in the background, Sen us in my lap were getting past giraffes, and the president's on the phone with me. What a timing. What a timing, right? Are you saying that he called you this weekend? Saturday. Saturday he and I got a call.

I saw you were doing giraffes, lions. That's what he called. Oh, my. That's what he called. President Trump called you. You're trying to say. Well, you're a lion country safari. Yes.

And a giraffe was even like, is that the president? On Easter or the day before Easter. The day before Easter. And what was the premise? I mean, we talk about a lot of different things. We got to talk about you, Adam. Great conversation. It was great.

Thank you for the shout out. We talk about Iran. We talk about a lot of different things. We talk about, you know. Pat, please. Let's just not, yeah, the president called me this weekend. Let's, because I know it's happening for. We may get into it. Yeah, no, but I mean, we're not going to just, we're here now. Yeah. No, I understand that. But like, I just think just for the sizzle, people want to know. I will tell you. I will tell you. Well, then let him tell the people. You have to also, you have to also, you have to

think about it. This is a very pressured type of a weekend. Yeah. You know, for you to come out on Easter. Tuesday will be a power plan day and bridge day, all wrapped in one in Iran. There'll be nothing like it. Open the effing straight, you crazy bastard. Or you'll be living in hell just watch. And the best part of this tweet is praise be to Allah. Yeah, true. Can you imagine like this guy? What is the, you know, so I'm telling you, he's about that life. But you know why he like, can we be honest? He's so unpredictable. Be honest, did you grok it and say, is this real? I had to do it three times and be like, did he really post that? Yes.

Praise me, Allah. It sounded like my type of. But by the way, he posted it after he spoke with PBD. I don't know why if there's a court. No, no. I just put it. And so let me just say this to you.

Let me go through some of these stories on what we have. ICE arrest relatives of Salain, Iranian General Soleimani living in the U.S. after Rubio revokes their green cards. This is the niece and the daughter, if I'm not mistaken. The niece and her daughter. Nice and her daughter. Yes.

So we'll talk about that. White House sits out. deranged liberal conspiracy theory, claiming that Trump is in a hospital. He was definitely not in the hospital. Trump unveils $1.5 trillion of defense surge, deep domestic cuts. What's on the budget chopping blocks? We talk about that. Trump's request $152 million to reopen Alcatraz.

Can you imagine? Everything's going on. Let's reopen Alcatraz. And he takes the worst of the worst thing. You put him on Alcatraz. Maybe he wants Heat 2 to come out. I don't know, like a sequel. Because with somebody else, it was a great movie.

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Okay, let's start off. Rob, miracle what these guys did. You got to respect the hell out of the military that we have, okay? You got to respect the hell out of what they do. Just we're watching the news, you see the two pilots, you know, there's no way we're going to get them. It's over. It's going to be a hot mess. It's going to go back to what happened back in the days when under Khomeini, when he took over after the Shah, 66 Americans were held, you know, at the embassy, and then 52 of them were held hostage, and we had to do an operation Eagle Claw, and it was a hot mess. You know, C-130 crashed into a helicopter, eight people died. It was nasty. So it's like, wait a minute,

do we want, by the way, that's the last time we did an operation like this before. Last time. And obviously the military, you got to give a lot of credit because Delta Force was involved back then. Nobody knew about Delta Force in the early 80s. It was Navy, it was everybody involved. Rangers were involved. Air Force was involved for the pilot of the C-130. It's like, are we going to do this again? Not 453, not for 66, but just for two and this time the CIA is going to be involved?

Yes, you're kidding me. Not at all. And so while we're all watching the news, Rob, if you want to play one of the clips, I don't know which one do you have, we were told this is it, it's done, nothing can happen, and all of a sudden these are some of the news reports that we get in, and Vinny, I'm going to come to you first. Go ahead, Rob. This episode is brought to you by Tell us Online Security. Oh, tax season is the worst.

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mountains of Iran being hunted down by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his commander-in-chief, secretary of war, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and fellow warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day and diligently planning his rescue. At my direction, the U.S. military sent dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons in the world to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine. The miraculous search and rescue operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave pilot yesterday, which we did not confirm, because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is the first time in military memory. The two U.S. pilots have been rescued

separately deep in enemy territory. We will never leave an American warfighter behind. The fact that we were able to pull off both these operations without a single American killed or even wounded just proves once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment that all Americans, Republican Democrat, and everyone else should be proud of and united around we have the best most professional and lethal military in the history of the world god bless america god bless our troops okay minnie well well first i just you know because you know the democrats i remember when that when it first happened what what day did it did it get shot down was it was it friday i think it's friday i think it was friday right rob i'm i'm pretty sure but

do you remember the left was losing their mind and people like you have to understand i get it it's in a war and we all have our opinions left right whatever down the middle i don't care None of them, because people are like, oh, we lost a plane, it's, you know, 25 million, 30 million, whatever the price is top. Did you hear one peep when Obama was sending $1.7 billion in planes that they had to gut out the seats just to send Iran this money? Or when Joe Biden removed all the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan and 13 of our service members died and how much money did they leave behind? Did you remember that video that we saw of all the weapons? all the machine. 83 billion is a number.

I don't know what's the number was. Something insane. It was big. They left basically two full battalions of full equipment. Yeah. And then apparently when we were fighting them, they were finding on the dead bodies. It was United States military weaponry

that the Afghanis were holding and some Iraqis as well. But anyway, from the mission standpoint and being in the Air Force, this was an Air Force colonel. So the first guy landed, you know, in a safe spot. The other guy was alone, like he said, for two days.

I don't think people understand. two days you don't have food you don't have water you just have your uniform and you have the apparently pat the helmet and everything is tracking they know exactly where you are tom they know they know they know everything he had a side arm irgc is coming after you the the militia's local bounty holder just citizens are trying to come out there because they know how much the irgc i'm talking about the people that are that are loyal to the irgc and then pat he's in the he's hiding in a mountain ridge seven thousand seven thousand feet up he finally gets to hide the CIA runs at fake operation. They're giving Iran bad intel. So Iran's going somewhere the opposite way. And then all of a

sudden, SEAL Team 6 shows up with a J-Soc, which is a joint special operations command package. That's drones, gunships, fast movers starting line up. Pat, they start bombing the convoy that's going the wrong way. They grab him at night mission. That's how we roll. Stabilize him and they get him out. And I get it. It's a war. But you have to understand this is what America is about. Everybody was like they're going to leave him. He's going to be a prisoner of war. He's going to get tortured. We, America does not leave anybody behind. And I think that's a message for everybody else watching. You hit one of our freaking guys. You hit one of our birds. We don't care what the outcome. We're going to go in there. We're going to grab him. We're going to take his butt out of there,

period. Tom. I think this is a testimony of how we value life versus how the rest of the world values life. And our guys get trained on, I'm going to mispronounce it. I think it's called Seer training, survival evasion, resist, and escape. Sear. That says, hey, step one, survive, step two, evade, then if cornered, resist, and then put yourself in a position to be rescued because we're coming for you because we value. And so one man's life is worth the risk, but this was phenomenal to me. This was like, look how much better it's got since Jimmy Carter.

Maduro, they expected, and I've said this before, we can't say who, but Department of War, I sat in on a meeting that Pat was invited to. Thank you for that. And I'll tell you what happened. They said they thought they were going to lose 10 guys, extract him as zero. And they had one pilot that had gotten shot and survived. And so when you think about we're willing to pay the cost to go get one man. And we put the training.

That is the testimony, I think, to the training and what the U.S. Armed Forces is all about and the value of life. This is not just, oh, you're just sending our boys off to death. No, no, no, no, no. That's not the way this country does it. We know war is dangerous. We know we're going to lose. But look at the recent missions where they haven't lost anybody.

And this is amazing. And they have the whole thing program. At the end of the runway, I guess there was sand or mud that was deeper they anticipated. And the front landing gear of the C-130 gouged in the mud at the end of the landing. So they're like, well, crap, we can't take this car home. and so they had plan B extracted all of them nobody left behind and they said yeah now go hit and then we hit our own plane and says I you know we're not going to let you go take radios and all the things out of this and I just thought it was just amazing to the training and you you said it well Vinnie and I just

can you imagine can you imagine this Adam I'm going to come through last year in a minute but can you can you imagine you send 200 people to save two lives yeah 200 to save two lives It's America. I'm at my Army unit, September of 97. I've told the story before. They tell us there's a movie being coming out here very soon that is about your unit. You guys got to get into watching, and we watch Save and Private Ryan. They went to save one guy.

Can you imagine the pride America has to go save one person, one person, okay, to do something like this? And again, Sears School, I remember Sears School was one of the schools that when I was getting ready, reenlist and go to the fifth group, 18 Delta. I asked for everything. I said, I want to go to DLI because I speak a lot of languages. I want to go to CIR school. I want to go to Airborne. I want to go to fifth group. And then I want you to send me to Vecenza, Italy. There was a military unit. I wanted to go there. Last minute, I decided to get out to get into business and the rest is history. But my orders were all of these jobs that I asked for. And this is not an easy program to go through, Tom. This is not an easy program. A part of this program, if I'm not

mistaken, they teach you also in case if you get caught as P-O-W and how to handle that. It's a very, very, you know, like survival, evasion, resistance, and escape. Like, what do you do if you're a prisoner of war? They trained you to what to do when they're asking you questions, all this stuff. It's one of the toughest trainings to go through. We have such a great military. This is part of it where, you know, one of my kids comes up to me, says, Dad, I want to go to the military.

I'm like, hey, you know, you remember this conversation? Of course. We were at dinner. I said, we got to go to dinner. You got to talk to Vinny about it. She was asking, Dad, what if we go, you know, what if I, I said, Vinny, what do you want to tell him? He wants to go in the military. So Vinny's Air Force, I'm Army. And it's like, look, it's not like the guy needs to go for money. He's going because he is, he loves America so much. Like he wants to say, this is what I want to do. So we're taking him to a military unit for him to make a decision whether he wants to do this or not as a, he's the only thing for me is he's like he wants to do it as a career. As a kid, as a father, you want your kids to be, you know, closer to you.

Look, if he's got that kind of a pride. Well, you know how much? I hope people understand and realize because I already know. I already know the people. I'm like, oh, but send your own kids. Yeah, yeah. Guess what? I was there for the conversation, and when he brought it up,

there wasn't one second when you said, hell no. You said, if that's what you want to do, that's what you're going to do. And it was that because you nailed it. None of them ever have to do anything. If that was the case, he literally said, I want to go and I want to do this for the United States. That kid loves this freaking country. Adam. Well, this was an Easter miracle.

And the pilot that was found. you know, allegedly the three words that he said is God is good, which basically sort of preempted when Trump basically said, praise Allah. This was more important than we're even making it, and I'll tell you why. What if he was actually caught? What would that scene look like? What would this regime do to this hostage? You know, we've said this before.

This is a terrorist organization that's basically holding not only the Middle East hostage, it's the entire world hostage if they had a nuclear weapon. They started off their reign in 1979 by taking how many hostages? 500 hostages, I want to say? 66 for 444 days. Oh, okay, it was only 66? 66 for 44 days, of which... 444 days is what I'm thinking.

13 were kids, 13 were women that they released, and then one was ill, so it ended up being 52 that stayed for the 444 days. The 4,444 days. The 4,444 days I'm thinking about the people. But dozens and dozens of people for over-eastern. year held hostage at this regime. Do you know what this war would look like right now if this pilot and the the two pilots were actually caught? You know what they would do in parading this person around? Do you know what they would say? The no boots on the ground crew,

what they would say, I told you. So thank God, thank Allah that these people were found. They said it was the first time in 20 years we've had a rescue mission. No, no, at this level. Mission like this, at this level? No, it's 1980, 46 years ago. Okay, even that long. Yeah. Unbelievable. I see the same amount of time as these guys came into power. And by the way, by the same country, by the same regime, by the same people. Got it. So 1980 was Khomeini. Now it's the new Islamic Revolutionary Guard post-Khamenei-Khamenei's son.

So it's not like the level of hate and animosity hasn't changed. The only different thing that's different at him is the president. Back then it was Carter. Today it's Trump. The only difference. Yeah, I mean, look, I was watching a video this weekend about, it showed clips of every president since Reagan, Bush, okay, Clinton, Bush number two, Obama, Biden, Trump, every single one was saying the exact same thing. What was it? We have to deal with Iran. We cannot allow them to have

nuclear weapons. We have to take this regime head on. Every single president. For the last 40 years has been saying this. Trump is the only president with the courage and the balls to actually pull this off. Thank God they found this guy because it'd be a lot worse of a scenario optics-wise if he was actually caught. It is. And by the way, again, this part about life that's very hard to,

because most of us in life we're going to make mistakes. And most of us don't learn about it. Learn from it. You're like, ah, it's a couple of children, I'm just going to move. No, like the other day,

we had a meeting time. You remember, it's me, you, I think it's RJ and Paul. Okay? And we're sitting down and something happened we're not happy about. Okay.

And it's like, well, what do we do now? The guy said this and ta-da-da-da-da-da. I said, look, here's where I'm at. What could we have done differently. One guy says, I don't think anything. I said, that's never the case. What could we have done differently? And we came up with two things, if you remember that. And one we already knew about, we felt we missed. That's right. We missed. And we're like, okay, that's our mistake. I don't care

what the guy did. What can we do? Think about this, Vinnie. 1980, you have 66 hostages. 52 you're trying to get out. Carter's the president. They come up with this project called Operation Eagle Claw, Rob, if you want to pull it up. Okay. So they combine Delta, seal, Ranger, Air Force, let's go get these 52 hostages that are in Iran, held by Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Khomeini at the time. Let's go get him. They go out on the wait there. I think it's eight helicopters, one C-130, of the eight helicopters. One of them has hydraulic issues. He comes back. The other one, the pilots getting, you know, he's getting confused. He's kind of not feeling well. So he comes back. So now we're left with six helicopters, right? Of the six helicopters,

that we're left with, one of the helicopters starting to have major, major hydraulic issues, heating up like it's almost on fire, it's not, but it's super hot. He decides to get up and flies right, because it's so dusty, it's desert, they're not used to this. Oh my God, how are we gonna handle this?

He flies right into the C-130. Oh, damn. Five people get killed, I think three on the helicopter, five on the C-130 or the other way around, but it's eight total that get killed. The pilot of the helicopter makes it. I think his name is Schaefer, if I'm not mistaken. He makes it.

He, till today, he believes all those eight people died. He takes the blame till today. He has severe burns. These guys get out of the helicopter. And guess what ends up happening? It's a failed mission publicly. It was 130, 150 people that were deployed to this. For 52 people this time around, if we don't learn from those mistakes,

the military has been preparing for this for decades. So the credit goes to our military servicemen of how they, Can you imagine you get a call? By the way, you know how many guys that are service guys are like, man, I wish I would have gotten this job. You know, I wanted to go back. I wanted to be able to something like this. Can you imagine what kind of an opportunity? There's guys that truly wanted this job to be deployed with, guys that are hardcore gun call.

But major, major shout out to our military leaders who used a massive, embarrassing crisis. Some say this could have been the reason why Jimmy Carter didn't get reelected, by the way. Really? Yeah, because the moment. Reagan won it immediately, Khomey, you dropped the 52 prison. He gave him back. Immediately, 444 days that we read about. So it was so embarrassing, but the military sat down and said,

when the next time this happens, we're going to do it right. And this time around, they brought the CIA in. And why did they bring the CIA in? Just to throw the enemy off. And then he was like, wait a minute. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Boom. It's gone. Boom. We're out of here.

And, you know, when I talked to the president on Saturday, he said, I said, Mr. President, what's happening with the two? what are we going to say, Patrick, 10 or 12 hours. Obviously, I can't say anything, but it's like 10 or 12 hours. Everyone's going to hear about what we did. You'll hear about it in about 10 or 12 hours. He says this. In about 10 or 12 hours, the world's going to find out how we got both of them back.

Can you imagine this guy? Can you imagine? So, anyways, that's that, listen, whatever you do, if you're walking in the airport, you see these military servicemen. We have to tip our hat and say, hey, thank you for your service. anybody that's wearing the uniform or wore the uniform, major salute to you, especially the 200 people that went out there to say these two lives of one of them being a colonel. Anyways, let's go to the next story. While this has taken place, the president comes out

and puts out a threat 48 hours to Iran. He writes another one of his love letters. On Easter, by the way. He got all these other days to write this. It was at Easter or a day before it was Easter? It was Easter. And he says, Tuesday will be power plant day, bridge day all wrapped up in one in iran there will be nothing like it open to the open the effing straight you crazy bastards or you'll be living in hell just watch praise be to Allah okay at least he's being respectful and he's you know saying praise to God at least he's saying praise to God Allah is truly the meaning of Allah is God like if you think about the word the meaning of Allah is God so while they're doing this then all of a sudden you see some clips

coming out. By the way, one thing with Iran, you got to give them credit for their Lego videos. Have you seen these Lego videos they're making to make fun of the president or Hexed or all that stuff? Anyways, we don't need to get into the Lego video. But, Rob, did you see the video of them targeting the $30 billion plant that OpenA. Is it in UAE? I think it's somewhere there that they have a $30 billion dollar plan. Rob, I can text to you. It's a data center, Vinny, that they built. In Iran? Yeah, not in Iran. Not an Iran. in Iran, it's in one of the Gulf states that they have. And they're like, oh, really? Let us show you what we're going to be doing. So if you just type in Open AI, Iran, $30 billion, okay?

Open AI, Iran, $30 billion data center. I just found it. I'll find it. I'm going to text it to you right now. It's in the notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in the notes, Rob. If you look at the notes, I have it in the notes all the way at the top. You should find it. So I'm going to text it to you anyway, so you have it. So what is Iran saying? Iran is saying, just go through you know, as I text it to you as well. Iran is saying, really, you guys want to play this hard? We're going to go after all your, you know, infrastructures that you have. So now what this means, we don't know. Both sides are threatening. Which threat you're going to trust? Watch you zoom in a little bit here. The guy behind this history photograph does a phenomenal, phenomenal job. The Islamic regime released

a video threatening to bomb open AI's $30 billion data center in Abu Dhabi. Watch this. This Vinnie. Go ahead. Go ahead, Rob. They're playing the games as well. Of course, there's some more. They're playing the games as well. Landmark 1 gigawak AI Data Center projected, announced in 20, project bouts in 2025, 200 megawatt phase opening in 2026,

partnership with top tier American enterprises. Look at this. Apollo, Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs. That wasn't David. That wasn't David. They screwed up David Solomon. So, hey, the AI guy that you guys have? He sucks, actually.

It's not that good. It was a tall, bald, white guy. Yeah, that's not David Solomon. So, Tom, you see this message from the president on Easter. Then you see Iran, not holding them back. They're like, and then you see the report comes and saying Iran is willing to have the conversation about the nukes, that, hey, we're willing to not do anything with it. I think what is the number, 440 at 60% enrichment?

Is it 440?40, what is the number? Yeah, it's 400 kilogram. I think it's 440 kilogram at 60% enrichment is that could be 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium enough to develop 11 nuclear bombs. Is what they said they have. That's 1,000 pounds because a kilogram is 2.2. 2.2. So, Vin, they said this is what we have. They're admitting it.

460 at 60% that can develop. 11 nuclear bombs is what they're sent. So now there's rumors of maybe they want to negotiate, maybe they don't want to negotiate. What do you think is really going on here? Vinny, I'm going to come to you right after comp. Well, first of all, I separate the statements they make from the true intent of the regime.

The true intent of the regime has shown time and time again, and Vinny, we've been watching this together, that they're full of crop. And they have, they don't negotiate as a standard actor. A standard actor usually wants to protect something. These people are like North Korea. They don't care what happens to their people. With whatever's left, they will rule and they will do it their way.

And so they lose people. They don't care. They killed 3,000 of their own people and just hand waved over it. But it sounds, there does appear to be a crack in the door, what they're talking about here on this. Because remember, if they tell us, here, you take the thousand pounds and then we're going to consent to this monitor. and stuff, you know, that would surprise me because their ultimate goal, Pat, this current regime, the ultimate goal is just pure death. That's all they want. And they are trying to attack their neighbors to get the neighbors to convince Trump to stop. And so this is consistent. This video is

consistent with their threats and activity, Pat, that we've been seeing for the past two weeks. attack the friends and get the friends to be whispering to Trump, please make this guy stop. Just stop on your side. Make this guy stop. And then that's their strategy. So I see it as sort of unchanged in their strategy, but I see a little bit of light.

I see a crack in the door. Vinnie. And by the way, because at the end of the day, as much as you love it or you hate it, wherever you stand on this thing, we are at war, full stop, okay? Propaganda is going to be played on either side. I mean, they're putting out those videos.

Rob, can you play the video that I just sent you? I sent Rob a video right now of their. Apparently, they sent out, who's the new guy, Pat? The new Khomeini. Khomeini per three. What you just talked about? They put this video, and apparently it's him, Rob, walking into like a nuclear facility.

Did you guys see this one? Of course. Bob, yeah, God, Robbie. He's not wearing glow sticks. Normally because he party like that. You should have glow sticks. But that's him. The mona nuclear reactor.

So what point are you making? No, no, what I'm saying is. No, no, what I'm saying is, I'm asking him. I'm asking him. What are you saying, Khamene? Yeah, exactly what you think that they're saying. So, like, listen, war is ugly. We understand.

What drives me crazy is that we're at a point right now where I feel like people are literally Americans, literally are hoping that we lose. I've seen it, I've heard it. And it's like, love it or hate it again. And by way, there's never going to be a war that we ever fight, that we ever fight, that every single American is like, yay, go.

I remember when I was in after 9-11 and George Bush and all the lies that we had about that. Yeah, everybody, bro, the majority of us were like, yay, let's go. And then we found out that it was a lie and things should. But in this situation, Pat, with these guys, with what they're doing, like, there's no internet. You can't even hear what the people are saying, but the leaders, their leaders are basically saying, hey, listen, we will freaking nuke everybody. We will kill everybody. This is how the war is going. So Trump, by the way, who do you believe more?

The IRGC or do you believe Donald Trump? Tom, I believe Donald. Oh, I believe Trump. If the IRGC is speaking, you know, if they told me what time is it, I'd audit it. Yeah. And then one thing, Pat, the one thing that I saw, because apparently Trump spoke with Trey Yenks, he's the chief foreign correspondent for Fox News. Rob has this clip, which I'm saying about, like, by the way, that video that they showed, the earlier one that you showed,

they're showing all the other people that they're willing to strike in UAE and all that is anybody else going to help Pat? Is anybody going to do their part or do you think that they are doing their part? All the UAE people, all the people over there that, I mean, our assets are at all these bases. Are they helping at all?

They don't have a choice, Vinnie. Because they're the neighbors. Yeah. You know how it's like, well, I'm on neighbor watch. If you live in the neighborhood, you best make sure the neighborhood is safe. If you're on neighbor watch. And how, is it militarily for them or would it be monetarily coming from them, Pat?

Because I remember you said it. Pay the 200. Give us some money. If you're behind close, what leverage do these Gulf states actually have? Actually ask yourself, what leverage do the Gulf states have? What? What leverage do the Gulf states have? Leverage to get involved?

To U.S. Like to U.S. Like what do they, what do we need from the Gulf states? Oil. They got one thing, man. Oil. Oil. Do we need their oil?

No. Not really. We need oil for our allies. Yes. Because you can't have your allies getting their asses handed to them because then you lose your allies. So you need not. Trump's, the president's going to say, we have enough oil to give it to anybody because we got Venezuela and we got, again, sequencing wise. If they did it the other way around Iran first, Venezuela next issue. He does Venezuela first, Iran next, which means what? If you need oil, we're in control of Venezuela right now. So strategically, it was a brilliant move to do Venezuela. I swallow first. It's like, don't worry, we got enough oil to give you, right? Now, that's going to be the argument.

But what leverage is Gulf states have, Tom? They don't. You be the Sultan of Oman, okay? Okay, hold on. I'm Trump. How are you doing this morning? Very good. I saw that the missiles hit the desalination plant and the hotel.

Everybody okay? Everything good? Not good, but okay. Okay. So what's going on? Nothing. No, Vinnie, honestly, what do you say to me at that point? Yeah, what are you doing to help?

What am I doing? I need your help. What do you want? Are you guys trying to do an accent? Just lean into the accent if you're going to do it or not. No, you see, what I'm going to say? I said, Mr. President, what do you need us to do? We need this guy to stop, but he's been doing this forever.

He's fearlessly doing it. Now he's attacking us. He says, we've got to take it. And you hear what they've been saying. They've been saying, and the Saudis have been saying, you've got to finish the job here. That's what they've been saying for the past three weeks. Yeah, but the fine finished the job.

God, nobody was killed at the hotel. It's very, very good. Is your water okay? Good. And I said, Mr. President, we've got to finish the job. That's what they've been saying to him. So the Gulf states, not only do they have no choice, but they've been looking toward economic future.

What have they been doing for 10 years in Saudi Arabia? They built an amusement park. They've attracted three F1 races. They have leave golf. They have all these things. They had the World Cup over there. You see, they're desperately trying to connect more to the West. That can't stop.

So you're going to lean back, crush your arms over your chest and say, well, good luck with Iran. Let me know when it's over, Mr. Trump. Yeah, no. No. They're going to say, hey, you've got to finish the job. That's what the Gulf states have been saying. They're saying, how can I help in some way?

Got you. And the clip that I was talking about, Pat, I think you saw it. Trey Yings is the chief foreign correspondent for Fox News. He said the president sent guns to the Iranian protesters earlier this year, and I'm assuming it was when the protest started. And remember the Kurds that we were talking about? The Kurds were getting armed and they were going to go and fight. Look at what the president told, Trey.

Now, the president also, provided new details on what happened earlier this year, as the Iranian regime took to the streets and slaughtered what the president tells me is 45,000 civilians in their own country. After that took place, President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters. He tells me, we sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them. He went on to say, we sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them. And so a number of headlines here from my conversation with President Trump. All of this taking place more than a month into Operation Epic Fury.

And in the aftermath of that successful U.S. operation over... So that's, I mean, Pat, that's pretty... Adam, that's pretty... Like, I remember we were talking about, should we send guns? Because we were thinking about options. Apparently, from the president to him, we sent guns to the Kurds to give to the Iranian people to fight for themselves. And he's saying that the Kurds never gave them the guns. And they're supposed to be allied with them.

you feel about that, Pat? How do you maneuver through that? Because you need them to pass the weapons down. Yes. And so do the Kurds really want to be against the president? I don't understand that move right there. That's a very dumb move. So now you don't pass it down to the people because what, you don't trust anybody? Did they promise that they were going to and they didn't? That's a great question. What a double dumb move if that was the case? You need to, do you not want the IRGC to fall? Like, what is the next request you're going to make that he's going to trust? you now. So now the problem is who does the president have an outlet to give the weapons to if he chooses to do so that gets to the people. Now you know who now nobody. That's the point.

So I don't understand the logic behind and I don't know all about the details of the Kurd stuff, but I don't understand the logic behind him. Adam, your thoughts. Well, listen, there's one key word that summarizes everything that's going on and as is this concept of hell. So what did Trump say exactly? open up the damn straight of Hormuz or all hell will brain loose, right? Using the F word, glory to be to God. There was multiple quotes like that. Do you happen to have the quote of what the leaders of Iran had to say? They basically said, open the gates of hell.

If you mess with us, we're going to open the gates of hell. This whole concept of hell. Why am I saying this word hell? Because we think that this is a military war or a strategic war, to end their nuclear ambitions. We think this is possibly an economic war. Now they're talking about, you know, obviously we know sanctions and banking and taking out their oils, trade of Hormuz, but at the end of the day, here's what's really going on. Whether you believe it or not, whether you want to say it or not, this is a religious war. This is at its core, a deeply, deeply ideological

war. This is a class of civilizations. So if you don't think that this is history repeating itself, go look up the crusades. And of course, Israel and Jerusalem are caught in the middle of this, because it's all started this go-round on October 7th. So here's what I know about the Islamic Republic of Iran. They are willing to die for this cause, and this is why I respect the enemy. They will die. They will go to their death. They will become martyrs.

They will practice jihad. They will go to see Allah for this, and I respect that. At the end of the day, we just talked about how we are going to save our boys' lives, the pilot that went down. There's a famous phrase in the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, and it's this. They said, there will be peace when you value life more than you value death. And this is who these people are. That's why you constantly hear they're a death cult. My final point is this, and I'll keep harping on this,

this is the number one most theocratic regime in the world. What does that mean? There's zero separation between church and state or mosque and state in Iran. You know, in America, we say, well, we get the First Amendment, you know, freedom to join, freedom to do this, freedom of this, freedom, we have all our freedoms. In Iran, everything, every decision, every economic decision, every social decision, everything that is made comes from Allah. How do you defeat that? How do you defeat an ideology? I don't know, but here's what I know. They think they're the good guys. We know that we're the good guys. All their neighbors know that they're the bad guys, but they think that they're the good guys. defeat the leaders, but the people that are in charge in Iran, think about it, they can play

this game, Adam, because you know what? We know that there's, this is civilian casualties that we're talking about. You blow up all these things that we're talking about, the bridges, the infrastructure, all that desalitization, whatever, it's the people are going to suffer. The guys, you think the guys on top are going to suffer? These are military people. They have bunk, they're chilling. Those guys are good. They know that they're using the civilian population as leverage. and that's what I don't care about. And the worst thing is, Pat, we can't hear. And I'm being genuinely inquisitive.

Have we heard anything from the people? I hear people in L.A., like Iranians, like, you know, shut up. We need to be, you know, free and all that stuff. We need to be liberated. But, boy, I haven't heard anything from civilians at all in Iran. Have you? You bring up a very good point. Thank you.

And I'll ask this question. Who cares about the people of Iran more? The United States and the Western world or the Islam. Republic of Iran. They don't give it. They don't give a dance. But here, they just care about them. But there's nuance there. Pat, what percentage of the people in Iran are done with this regime? Sick of this regime? Regime, 80%. The number that the study done by Gammon in Netherlands is 81% who are done with the IRGC.

There's a video of a young lady, Rob, if you want to play this, agree or disagree? This is a video that's been going viral. Did you verify if this was a real video, Rob? Can you go down to see if Grock asked the question? While Adam gives us respond, just verify to see if this video is a real video or not. Go ahead, Adam. Continue. No, I mean, ultimately, what I would assume is that 20% of the country wants this regime to stay intact, right?

The loudest, most vocal, 10% of the country want this regime to stay intact. Or you have 80 to upwards as maybe possibly 90% of the country that is basically like, we are so done with this. So what's the opposite of theocratic, right? Secular. the fastest growing religion in Iran is completely agnostic, atheist or even Christian. Moser closing down. It's just testament to this.

The people are done with this regime. And at the end of the day, and this is why I keep saying this, you know who's going to pay the price? The biggest price? The people. The average people in Iran. Whether it's economic, whether it's military, or whether it's jihad internal,

this is going to end ugly somehow. And it kind of underlines just how bad this is. When you have to turn to the Kurds, And if you know anything about the Kurds. It's stupid. That's such a dumb move by them. The hell are you doing? What are you doing?

Yep. Like, the Kurds hate the IRGC. They don't want the IRGC, but then you don't pass the weapons when the president's telling you, whoever the leader, if the story is true, and that actually happened, whoever the leaders, you're an absolute moron.

Yep. Moron. If you told him that I'm going to pass it and you don't, You're a moron. And they keep the word. You're a moron. Or you're supporters of IRGC.

That's who you are. They have the saying. Again, I don't know the whole, we don't know. But if that's exactly what happened that the president is saying this, what are he doing? The Kurdish military guy has this saying that I looked up. And I think what he said was, I have no friend but the mountains, right, where they live. No shit, Sherlock.

But in this situation, you need friends. Exactly. And they've been isolated. percent, right? Are they 10 percent? Eight to two percent? Something like that. Can you pull up what percentage of, you know, what percentage of Iranians are Kurds? Remember,

these people have been abused on three sides. Turkey doesn't has betrayed them. Turkey betrayed them. Remember Saddam Hussein? What was that city, Halabja, the chemical right on the transition between Bush Sr. and Reagan, this is what started

the problems for the Kurds, where Saddam Hussein, I believe is a Halabja, Halabja, something like that. He used chemical weapons as a test and killed all these people in this village towns. How'd it go? We have a new weapon, sir. Really? It was a Kurd city that he tested it on it. And it was

the... Yeah, I don't understand this move to. So you would think that they would, with that history, you would think that they would have some favor to assist and to be part of a solution. I don't get it either, I don't know. And by the way, in the interim, five hours ago, where poet came from Wall Street Journal that apparently Israel just killed

the number two guy in the IRGC. Strategist? I don't know if you saw this or not. The head of intelligence, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Major General, Brigadier General report says he's a high-ranking guy. He's a high-ranking guy.

He's the number two guy. They just took him out. His name, Rob, if you see it, do you see it, Rob? Yeah, that guy right there. Sayyad Majid Majid Khademi? Majid Khademi. Majid Khademi.

Majid Khademi, Madjid, Khademi, Brigadier General, they just took him out. And a few hours ago, in the heart of Tehran, Sunday night, it's military set. So this is another guy that they're taking out. One by one by one, they're going. You know, one by one they're going. You know who hasn't been taken out?

The two guys that are negotiating on behalf of Iran, one of the guys, Abbas, if I'm not mistaken, Abbas, if they take him out, how to hell you're going to negotiate? Because he's the lead negotiator. Abbas, Arachee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran. There was a video of him showing when he was more, the loss of one of his best friends that was going viral. I don't know if you guys saw this or not.

And, you know, he has become a hero in Iran. Like, this guy's become a hero and loved in Iran. Like he, the more and more war continues, this guy's going to, this guy is right now becoming slowly the face of Iran. If this guy stays alive, he could end up having a very, very, he already has a very powerful position. But I think his upside, he's, He can go all the way to the top with the way he's doing things. So I'm surprised they haven't taken him out. I was going to say it's very lonely at the top if you're the Ayatollah. Well, here's my question, though.

They who, Pat? Tom, if they take like Israel, when I say they, if Israel takes them out, how do you're supposed to negotiate? I was going to say, they could, I mean, they can get to him. By the other, he's on video every single day. If they want to, Pat, they could kill him. But you know what, though? Let me just say this right now. What evidence do you have that Israel or allies can take out any of their time?

top leaders. Are you being facetian? Okay, of course. I'd be whoever I am in Iran, for whatever reason, I'd have a very hard Adam for the last three weeks we've been seeing hits. But here's what I would say. Sarcasm, Tom. He's joking, but here's what I would say to you. What I would say to you, Adam,

is the final one. If they take him out, I'm just saying this right now, you don't have any desire to negotiate. From Iran. No, no, from Israel. No, from Israel. If Israel, like let's just say if I, if I, the U.S., you saw the tweets, Rob, that Iran has agreed to the nuclear request from America.

We send it in a group text. I sent it last night, and then Humberto started verifying my messages. Do you remember that last night? Right there, Rob. I just put a thumbs up on it, if you found it. Yeah, Iran has conceded that they will not acquire a nuke per Fox News. And this is not April Fool's. That's April 5th.

Okay, and then others started retweeting that as well. Rob, can you see on the bottom of that if Grock verified that or not? Just go to the bottom and see if there's any kind of a verification on that, on what's going to say. Here's what you do that while you're doing. I'll give my thoughts, and you can just check the story and verify it. Thanks, Rob. So you know what it makes me think about, Tom? This is the part.

If they kill a bus, if they kill, there's no interest to negotiate. That's simple. So if you kill, you're going for all the marbles. So now if Whitkoff and Kushner are actually negotiating with them, and he's the lead guy you take him out, you never wanted to negotiate in the first place. Which, by the way, guess what? Now you know exactly where they're at.

Yes. So then the criticism becomes, look, you really wink, wink, you're not trying to negotiate, trying to take them out. And by the way, fair. There's a lot of, there's a lot of Iranians. in Iran that are like, stop saying for them to stop and end the war. We want this. The Iranian people say, we want this.

We want you to come and finish. Even if our lives are on the line, we want you to come and take this out, et cetera, et cetera. I think there was somebody that tweeted something saying, take out the power plants. And everyone was like, what are you talking about take out the power plants? You know, who was it that said take out the power plants, Iran's power plants? I think Trump tweeted that he's going to, they were going to give him a warning and then bomb the bridges. the power plants, which was earlier. It was earlier.

I'm sorry, Laura Lumer. That's right. Laura Lumer said. That's who was. Yeah, Rob. That's who was. And so, you know, Laura's been getting, you know, she's saying a lot of stuff. She's going to take out their grid.

I mean, look, the Rassam Soleimani, niece and the daughter and whatever that is, that's a part of her report and that came out. And all of a sudden, went all the way to the top. And Rubio was like, hey, you guys got to get out. Yep. So you want to go to that story, Rob? Yeah. You want to go to the story of the, and Vinny, I'm going to come to you. So Vinny, what happened here?

Rassam Soleimani's niece and daughter, apparently, who Rassam Soleimani is the one that the president killed on his first term, and now the niece and the daughter are in the U.S., hanging out, and all of a sudden we get a report that Rubio is going after them. What happened with that story? So, yeah, his niece and her daughter are in Los Angeles, and their green cards were revoked because she originally came in the country in 2015. She got asylum in 2019, and then permanent residency in 2021.

Then they found out that she had gone back to Iran four different times after claiming she couldn't safely return there, which is it was a lie. And then on top of that, she says that they're saying, and they have proof, that there was online praising while she's here of the Iranian regime and celebrating the attacks on Americans while living comfortably here. And there was one other report, Pat, and I told Tom about it. There's a physician daughter of Iranian official that was booted from the UNS, her and her husband, Dr. Fatima, Ardashir, Lahajani.

whose father is Ali Lahajani, served at the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council before being killed in the U.S. airstrike. So they've been kicked up. But here's my thing. Tom, why are we letting, and Pat, I want to ask you two, the niece of a guy we literally had to kill, stay in America in the first place. We're talking about Hossam Soleimani. He was the head of Iraq's couped force, I believe, and then one of the most anti-American terror figures in the world. he had, you know, blame the death of hundreds of American troops in Iraq

through proxies and roadside bombs and attacks carried out, but the forces funded. So why would you leave, I'm so confused, Tom, why would you leave them here after all these years? And he's a freaking, he hates us. Do you think they have a positive side? Yeah, they're in Los Angeles. They're probably shopping on Rodeo Drive.

Why would you keep them there? I think that's bigger than one immigration line. That shows the system is broken. if the guy who has American blood on his hands their family got asylum and then a green card and living a life and they're cheering against us

when Americans are dying. I'm so confused. I don't get it either. I don't understand why she would still be here. And when, you know, when Solomon finds out we're messing with his niece, he's going to be pissed. He's dead. Oh, that's right. Yeah, he's gone. All right. Gosh, actually good. That was funny. That was good. No, I look at it like this.

Today, don't draw by yourself. I look at it like this. By the way, do you know who some of the greatest informants for the CIA have been? Cool. Says relatives of dictators who don't want to die. Relatives that were part of families. Marcos, when Marcos lost his marbles and then he left the Philippines, and then, you know, Imelda Marcos was crazy,

had buried men alive and concrete while trying to build a, you know, a concert hall, which was to herself. It was just terrible, terrible, terrible. There were people when it was all overthrown, Pat, they were over there like, hey, man, I may be his nephew, but I'm not about this. And they provided assistance. So did they provide assistance and then they stopped providing assistance? That's Manuel Noriega. But Mandrao Noriega, which was working with the U.S. CIA and then stopped providing assistance.

What do we do? We went down and invited him to come spend the rest of his life in a Florida prison. And we did. So you never know what's going on. What are you saying, though? Are you saying that these guys may be given us Intel? Yeah, you never know what's going on. Were they helping and now they're not helping?

They've said some very bad things about America. So that's the thing. So to me... That's what I'm saying. Is that the flip or were they always like that? If they're always like that, then why the hell are they here? To your point, then... But was somebody providing some information?

I don't know. You know what this reminds me of? After 9-11, Pat, when I was in the United States Air Force, every flight was grounded, period. Nobody is flying. But a couple days after, the United States let 13 to 26 of Osama bin Laden's extended family to get on a plane and fly back to Europe. I think they flew out of Logan International Airport.

Wait a minute. The number one terrorist guy that we were told was a terrorist. His family is just chilling on the East Coast. Like, it doesn't make sense. And then you fly them, no questioning, no nothing. You make them leave. I don't like that at all, Pat. Like, they know that these people are here.

They know. we doing? Get them the hell out of here. Your father, your uncle, your whatever, has killed Americans. I'm sorry, the hell with all this immigration, ice, whatever. Get them the hell out of here. You can't. You can't be here. Who knows who they're communicating with? Who are you talking to? Are you passing information? Are you talking to other people? I don't... So this is the problem. I just found it. Go ahead. So the problem with this is, Rob, what I'm about to send to you, because what I size is looking into this is, is a lot of people are saying, why would you rest? Why would you rest? Why would you rest? and that's a good question. Why would you rest? Like, don't we have freedom of speech? Don't we have that?

But in reality, Rob, if you want to pull up this ABC report that came out, they were praising Iran's leadership of knees. Praising them online. And they supported the IRGC and celebrated attacks on Americans. She referred to the U.S. as the great Satan. Then why are you here? Yeah. So to me, I don't think this is CIA Intel. I think these are two relatives that see, blah, blah, blah, blah. The two are amongst number of Americans to have had their legal status in the U.S. revoked for allegedly supporting the terrorist regime in Iran's secretary, Mark Rubio, talked about the niece, the state department says Soleimani's niece and grandniece were living in a lavish lifestyle in LA, at least one of them promoted propaganda from Iranian regime and celebrated attacks on Americans.

Until recently, Hamid al-Solimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders, living lavishly in the U.S. Afshar is the niece of the U.S. Irani and major general Soleimani. She is the outspoken supporter of Iran regime, celebrated attacks on Americans. So the great Satan, and is this a goal a little bit lower on Rubio? Is there anything else that they have? This week, no, Rob. Stay on that story, please, if you could. Go a little bit Lord. This week I terminated both Afshar and her daughter.

Okay, so that's the tweet. I got it. Maybe if you want to go back to the tweet that you had. Let me see if he says anything else here. This week, I terminated Arizona. They are now in ICE custody pending removed from the U.S. The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes. I mean, dude, if that's what you're going to be doing,

you got a lot of other people to go get. That's just two of them. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, look, everything you said, I completely echo. The reality is this. The enemies inside the gates. Oh, they're here.

Straight up. So they talked about the Trojan horse. Pat, you talked about the, and I'll reference it's the video you did a couple months ago, but which immigrants contribute the most to America. So, look, they're talking about removing and revoking their green card. This is the niece and family members of the slain general Soleimani, the sworn enemy of the United States. So they basically gave a red card to their green card,

sorry, you got to go, which is basically apropos for this complete understanding of what this strange bedfellows of this red-green alliance actually means. When the communists and the Islamists get together, it gets very ugly. And it usually starts on the college campuses, just like it did in 1979, this revolution, and look at the college campuses now for the past couple years.

They've been taken over by these pro-Palestine marches. The most kids could not tell you the history of Palestine, much less the history of the IRGC in Iran. Yet they're willing as useless idiots to get out there and basically do encampments and do marches screaming for an intifada, which basically means killing people, screaming river to the sea type mentality. Let me ask you. What is the whole purpose? Here's a question back to you and Tom. So Tom, where does that fall under if a person is a green card holder and they're saying the great Satan and they're defending IRGC, if you're the lawyer of those two girls, how do you defend them

in America with our constitution that we have? Because the argument on the other side, some people are making on social, they're like, wait a minute, you can't do anything to them. That's the part of American freedom of speech. So what do you say to that? Play lawyer. I'm sorry, you're not Americans. You're here on a green card granted by our government under the Department of State rolling up to the Secretary of State. You have proven to be. a and by the way, we have certain laws that we have here about incented, about creating riots and discord and civil disobedience, but you're not a citizen. You're not a citizen. And you're being very difficult and you're being an absolute jerk. Why did I give you? Why did the State Department

give you a green card if this is how you're going to behave here? And you do not have the rights and privileges of a U.S. citizen under the Constitution because you ain't one. And that's why, listen to how Rubio said it, Pat. I am revoking. He's using the authority of the issued green card to say, you're being a complete jerk. And this is just, you know what, we give you a green card to people to come here and attempt to go through the process of making a live. Goodbye. What people mistake and people want to get on their soapboxes and here comes to heat I'm going to take for this, You forget the difference between real citizens and guests. And under a green card, you're a guest.

And Rubio just said... Play the video rap of the two girls that was going viral. This is them, right? Yeah, that's them and that's Soleimani's. Look at this. By the way, that car is a $150,000 truck. That's anywhere between $140,000 to $250,000. So if that's an alpha...

Maybe they could just take a lap around an airport access road. But okay, can I, can I say something? Do, first of all, her uncle killed American citizens. Put that to, put that to the side, okay? Killed, gave orders American people, soldiers, dead or, I don't know, dead. Fact. Fact. Fact.

Do you not think she still has relationships with the people that her uncle was working with? Are you guys, like, not you guys, I'm saying, are people stupid? And I'm going to tell you right now, if my uncle, who was killing people of a country, and I'm in and you kill my uncle, 1,000 percent, I'm going to be giving information. And Adam, you want to talk about the Trojan horse? I'm in the belly of the beach, and I'm hating you, and I will do anything to hurt you guys because you guys killed my uncle, who I love dearly. That's a no-brose.

I don't even know why the hell we let this guy stay in there. From back then, she's been here, living that life, posting stuff like that. And now all of a sudden it's a bad idea. Give me a freaking break, bro. I'm sorry. The reality is we're the number one country that has this problem. I don't know of many other countries that have this exact problem. What's the problem?

Is that the word country of immigrants? We welcome everybody from all over the world. And we say come be a part of our great nation. Just make it better. The problem is a lot of these people come here and they want to live a good life. They don't want to go back to the life they had before. They want all the benefits of America, the life of luxury, especially if they're wealthy.

And then they want to sort of cling on their moral high ground. Yes, of course, I stand for the Supreme Leader. It's like, well, why are you here? Oh, because I want to live my life. I know this one girl, let me tell you how confusing this is. This girl, she's a Muslim. She's a friend of mine. She's a friend of a friend.

I'm not going to name her name. And she's a party girl in Miami. This girl parties. I'm telling you, when I say party, she drinks, she smokes, he does this, he does that. She's out there in the scene. but she praises Allah and she wears what looks like a stripper outfit

although she's not a stripper, yet she will basically give the moral high ground and sort of cite the Quran as if it's like the moral aptitude test of why she's right and morally superior to all of us and she basically praises the IRGC and says that she loves the

Ayatollah. I said, why the hell are you living here? Oh, because I love my life here. Why don't you go back? Oh, I go back sometimes. I go, why don't you stay there? Well, no, my family has businesses here. What's my point? It's very freaking complicated. My response is get the hell out of here. Stop doing drugs. Why are you on your moral high horse where you think you can look down at Americans? Yet you have your superiority complex with your Quran that you're talking about. Which one is it? By the way, if you live this life, anywhere in the Middle East, what would

they do with you if you look like this? If you look like this. Exactly. They'll be head. But they'll be, they'll tolerate it. Yeah. And by the way, the difference, the risk with what you have in America is freedom of speech. That's the risk, because freedom of speech allows people to gaslight and confuse the hell out of people, and most people fall trapped for that. You do. 80% of people have fallen trapped for, you know, some of the propaganda that's taking place. But that's not going to stop. But I'm going to get to the next story.

I'm going to get to the next story because we've got a lot of other things to go through as well. Now, while this is happening, economy-wise, Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one here. So, U.S. Iran War, tax, begins to hit American businesses and consumers. And I'm going to go to two of these stories combined together, Tom, and then I'll turn it over to you. So, number one, Nick Friedman, co-founder of Tampa-based, a caller-junct, a haul-on junk, and business has been facing multiple headwinds. High mortgage rates have dampened the real estate market while rising insurance premiums are eating into operation costs. Now there's a U.S.-Iran war and surge in diesel fuel prices that is eating into profit margins,

yet he doesn't feel like he can raise prices. We are on a bit of a catch-22. Our fear would be if we start raising prices, it'll hurt the customers. Bigger companies, he says, can probably get away with adding fees, such as Amazon just added the 3.5% or United Airlines or JetBlue both raise their prices. And one airline in UK apparently is no longer, they're shut down. I don't know what the airline was, Rob, in UK, if you want to check that. One airline just said, we are not.

even doing anything right now because we just can't afford it. Tom, how is this tax impacting businesses and customers today from the war? What do you see in? Well, they're calling it a war tax and a tax is something you don't want that takes money from you, right? That's the colloquial they're going after. And what they're saying is, is that with today, where's fuel today? Let me look at up real quick, oil. You know, West Texas Intermediate is sitting here. Market just opened. And it's sitting at 112 right now. Is that right? Yep, 112.65. So oil is a commodity, and now you've got oil up.

And so what do you do? He's absolutely correct. A larger company with more longer arms and more profit. Vinnie, think about it. It's like if you operated a company and you're bigger than me and you have a little bit more profit than me, you might be able to wait it out a little longer before you ultimately raise prices.

And what this guy is saying is like, hey, the we're coming to the point where we can't do it anymore we got to raise prices a little bit unfortunately larger national companies are going to have it and so what we're seeing here is the effect of commodity priced oil because the oil in the u.s pat has come up and this is now the impact they've weighted and what also it means is that everyone on wall street has been running on sentiment you know like pat like president says something positive and the market responds then the then they hear something else and then the market goes the other way. So right now, the best thing that the market could hear is positive message. We had a positive message on the rescue. We got a 48-hour,

you know, till deadline. We got to find out what's there. But what the market wants is to have line of sight, to certainty of finish. And you can't come out in the middle of a war and just say, I'll be done at 8 o'clock on Tuesday because it'll all be done that day. Because then there's nothing to negotiate. Isn't there some good news that just came out? Trump tout's unexpectedly high March jobs report as economy rebounds from week of February and, you know, a very happy and blessed Good Friday to all,

especially to the 186,000 Americans who gained private sector jobs in a month of March alone. My economic policies have created an enormously powerful engine of economic growth and nothing can slow it down. Trump added that factory construction jobs are soaring as a result of a rabbit, unshoring and surging investments that tariffs have generated, all the while the trade deficits have shrunk by 52% in a year.

U.S. added 178,000 jobs in March, which included 8,000 government jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is about three times what most economists forecasted, three times, Tom. This gain comes after country lost 133,000 jobs in February. Unemployment also dipped from 4.4 to 4.3%. The average person who is not following the economy, the way experts are, would say, how is this even possible, what the war going on, What price is going up, but we added this many new jobs.

Why is that, Tom? Because what's going on in the background that the president put in place has been continuing. So I was on record for January and February. And, Vin, you remember this. I said, hey, after Christmas, you get a lot of seasonal workers get laid off. Or that's the end of their contract. And so they're off. And I expected to be flat jobs.

But then February came in even worse. Now, this is coming up. And I've got to be careful because the Department of Labor, tends to come back and adjust these. But if this is traction on springtime hiring and stuff, on construction, then this is really good news. And it points to manufacturing, which would also be good news. So it says some of these things that was going to take time.

Because remember last year we said, hey, you got all these jobs to build data centers. So I said, well, first you need a permit, then you need a foundation. Then you need all those things that have to happen. Then the jobs can come there for all the army of people it takes to build these data centers. And if that's what's coming up here as springtime hiring, this is really good news. So both could be true at once, Pat, is that fuel cost is hurting businesses because now they've got to think about raising prices a little bit. But that should be a temporary thing that after the war, those come back down, and the market wants line a site to an endpoint. On the other hand,

it's very positive that if these are manufacturing jobs, because this is exactly what the president was talking about that he wanted to incentivize and he was driving last year. So if this comes true and this doesn't get revised down, I think it's good news today. And if it doesn't get revised, I think it's great news. Right, Adam. Look, I don't know how to tell you guys

this, but everything's going to be okay. You know, what's the phrase that we keep saying? Short-term pain, a long-term gain. Look, I have the beauty of understanding how the markets work. Because at one point, I had no clue what a 401K was. I had no clue what a Roth IRA was. I believe me, I had no

clue what Bitcoin was, but eventually I learned what all these things are. And at the market, if you look at the market every single day, it goes like this, Pat, right? Every day, it's up, it's down, it's green, it's red, it's bulls, it's bears, it's up and down. But if you look at the market over years or a 10-year span, the market's always up. What's my point? We've been through way worse than this Iran conflict. Guys, we're not the ones getting bombed every single day. We're not the ones getting our leaders decapitated. We're not the ones that are basically going to go bankrupt if they bomb our energy supply. We're sitting pretty here in America. What's the worst that we have in America? We pay a couple extra bucks for gas. That sucks. I get it. Maybe

you have to cut down your vacation for a day or two, or maybe your travel plans get a little interrupted. The travel plans in Iran right now for the Ayatollah and its crew, they're non-existent. So, like right now, in sports right now, Luca's injured, right? He'll be back in a few weeks. So the Lakers. Oh my God. What are we going to do? Oh, my God. We might not get the third seat. Don't worry. You're making the playoffs. Everything's going to be okay. Do you remember the guy, what's the guy, Damar Hamlin? That basically two years ago, all of a sudden, feints and basically goes in a coma. He's playing again. So if you look at the news just in terms of what's going on today, oh my God, oil, price, oh, okay, calm down. You know, what's the fear, greed index? We talk about that,

or the VIX? Where's the VIX right now? The point is that's the volatility index? Things go up and down and up and down. But we have the beauty in America of having stability and calmness and peace and prosperity. And yes, there's some short-term pain, but I guarantee you there's going to be some long-term. Okay. I say one thing, though, just to push back a little bit. We have the luxury to say that here, you're successful, you're in L.A., but the average American that's in middle America, Adam, that's going paycheck to paycheck to paycheck.

This has heard of this short-term pain. Thank you. To them, they're like, wait a minute. This sounds short-term. And let me finish. I'll like you back to you. because Adam, gas, groceries. These people are actually struggling, and they just want to know, Adam, give us, and I get this.

We're giving them five days. We're giving them 10 days. We're giving around this thing. They want a clear, and I get it. It's war. It's unpredictable. I understand I'm not being that guy. But for the regular average Joe, American, this is kicking their butt.

Is it, though? Yes, it is, Adam. Adam, gas. Let me ask you a question. Because Adam, they're in their head, they're like, okay, the short term, how long? as a short term. They don't see an end in sight. The majority of the, because Adam, if you're just seeing this from like a, take a couple

steps back and look at it on a global type thing, these people don't seem like they're going to stop. You think the RIG, they're willing to literally, they're basically saying this. Go ahead and bomb the bridges. Go ahead and bomb our oil. We're not going to stop. And they're putting up videos of their new leader walking into a room,

okay, basically saying, yo, we'll nuke Israel. That's, I mean, that's where they're at. So the average American Adam, here's what you're saying, and I guarantee you, they're like, bro, because we have those viewers. They're out there. I feel for them because in their mind, they're like, wait, what do you mean? Feel short term.

I don't think that they think is short term. Well, the average American, and believe me, I feel for the average American. I feel for everybody because how many questions do I answer on my neck about personal finance and saving money and being smart with your money? But I'll use some case example. Shout out to Tom, in terms of recent memory and recent history, that things were way worse than the economy and the other now. Do you think that the economy wasn't as worse as it is today versus COVID in 2020?

or when inflation hit all-time highs or next to all-time highs in 2022? Not too long ago, the economy was real bad. How did they survive? You buckle down and you survive. You cut costs and you basically trim the fat and you live your life. 2008, I remember when the recession happened,

that affected America. That wasn't going on halfway around the world in Iran. That was people losing their houses. That was foreclosures. They were basically your house is being taken away. People survived. In 2001, the dot-com bubble busted. Oh, my God, what's going to happen?

right after Y2K, everything was okay. So yes, there's going to be some short-term pain, but there's going to be long-term gain. And I feel for the average American, but I would feel a lot worse for the average American if there was a nuclear holocaust happening anywhere around the world, God forbid America. You can say that, but people are suffering.

People are really suffering. So donate money to them. No, but the point is that's the debate. We can't hand wave over it like that. They got $1.3 trillion in credit card debt. B&PL delinquencies are up, car loan delinquencies are up. up. And America, to put words, talk, or number of scream, has not replaced the savings that they had in 2019.

Eight years ago, those savings rates were never fully replaced. They got a little bit of relief from government checks. But America is in a tough spot, you know, right now. And so you got to look at it right now for where the, right now. Why do you think Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen come out over the weekend and don't even sound like Democrats? They're asking about, should anybody pay income taxes if they have $75,000 or under? And they're talking about a tax cut. Cory Booker talking about a tax cut. Why is he doing that? Because the election's coming and he knows Americans are hurting, hurting, hurting.

And, you know, I just think... The long-term issue we have with this... You can draw comparisons to history, but right now people are hurting. The longer issue we have on this is the following. Here's the long-term issue we have on this. I think affordability is not a political topic. Set it aside. I agree.

I think affordability is a real issue. And the fastest way to look at it, last time we're at the house, and we're having a conversation about, you know, this fatherhood book that we're talking about. And I played three clips for everybody. And it was one of the clips I played as the logic clip, which I played here. Then I played the Gene Hackman clip about his father when he left at 13.

And in the interview, it says, it's only been 65 years, and he's, you know. And then the Dana White clip, when Dana White says, yeah, my parents died, but I don't have any sorrow, anything because they were not good parents. I don't know if you've seen this clip. It's a very, very heavy clip. And it's like, well, why are we where we are today? We made some very bad decisions back in the days with Lyndon Johnson when we changed the entitlement programs and we started giving single mothers free money for nothing. And we went from single mother households

being from 4% in America in 1964 to not being at 41%. We made some mistakes when in 1970 or so only 35% a women worked in the workforce. Right now it's 70%. Not because they want to, because they don't have a choice. You need dual income. If you have dual income, what happens if you have dual income? You have 1.58 childbirth rate. If you have 1.58 childbirth rate, what is the replacement? 2.1? If this continues, then what happens? Then we become like some of these other countries that, you know, you have a bigger, older population and a smaller, younger population. And you see India's average ages 28 and we're at 36, 37, 38. I don't know what our age is today. It's getting older because we're not having babies. Affordability is a very real issue. Not for Trump, not for Biden,

not, I'm not putting it as a political thing. It's a real thing. And this war isn't helping the average guy out who's out there. This is why my hopes are for this thing to be done quickly. There was something I came out today in the morning. I don't know if you guys saw this, that they were wanting to talk about a 45-day, what do you call it? Seasfire. Did you see that, Rob? I saw something about this morning a 45-day ceasefire. For what? You know, for what? Iran mediators making the last-ditch push for a 45-day ceasefire.

No. If you do a 45-day ceasefire, what is Iran really saying? Give us 45 days to get stronger and get some more help from Russia and China and all this other stuff. Get it wrapped up. I don't know if you go a little bit lower on this, Rob, to see how these conversations are going. White matter. Sources said the chances of reaching a partial deal over the next 48 hours are slim, but this last-ditch effort could be the only chance to prevent a dramatic escalation in the war

that will include massive strikes on the Iranian civilian infrastructure and retaliation energy against energy and water facilities in Gulf states. Driving the news, President Trump's 10-day deadline to Iran was expected to expire on Monday, and now you get 48 hours. I don't know how many hours he's got left. Rob, how many hours does he have left? It's 8 o'clock tomorrow night, so... 8 o'clock tonight or tomorrow night?

It was supposed to be Tuesday at 8 p.m. So Tuesday, 8 p.m. Now, you know, Jay came in and Humberto, they're like, hey, you know, when he says two days, he may do it in a day or not do it at all. So he may still do something today to surprise. But going back to the affordability, that's a real thing that people are going through. So I want to get to the next story because we got a few other stories. And I'll be 10 seconds. Affordability is never going away.

There's always, every year they say one-half to two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That never changes. What's my point? Yes, the government has a role here. seconds, buddy. Okay, but it's also on you. It's called personal finance. Nobody disagrees with that.

Called personal responsibility. This is a... Called self-worth. This is a real thing that they're going through today, and they didn't do anything about it. Sure. So the American people... Just like in 2008, did the American people do anything about it? But that was part of the economy.

I am. Just like the dot-com bubble. Just like COVID. The affordability issue is a real long-term issue that has to be addressed, no matter... Unfortunately, for the... people to be able to address this, it's a very hard thing to do because you have to make some changes that are going to be disruptive. And I don't know if any politician has the audacity

to do it. I don't think, and do you remember when that story came out about us cutting entitlement programs? How could that 41 million people that are taking entitlement programs and we have to cut, you know, welfare and food stamps? And then how long did that story last? One week? Why? Because they're like, you're going to lose elections over this. To do what's right for the American people financially, I don't think any president will do it because you'll only be a one-term president. It's tough.

I don't think any president will do it because you're a one-term president if you do it. So anyways, by the way, here's what Rokana is saying. Rokana comes out and says, if the Democrats win the midterms, guess what they want to do? They want to impeach the president. Listen to this one here. Go for it. When the House and possibly the Senate in November, there's a better than even chance. Trump gets impeached again?

Absolutely. He should be impeached now. I mean, he's taken us into a disastrous war, threatening war crimes in Iran, in terms of knocking out plants and knocking out electricity. And the Democrats will impeach him once we take back the House and should impeach him for all the things he's done. And depending on the Senate, he may face conviction if we get to 60, especially if his numbers keep going down. They're not hiding here. They're leaking it. They're leaking it.

I mean, are we surprised these guys? And by the way, on Cali, if you want to go to Calci, man, can you imagine without these markets for you to be able to see what's going on with the markets? What's the temperature? What's the pulse? Calci is saying he will be impeached. He will be. Wow.

Before June 1st, 2028, it's 80% almost. Okay? If you go before January 1st, it's 3rd. 13% before June 1st, Vinnie, even before June 1st, okay? It's 4%. Now, the reason why June 1st is not a likely one, that's a pure gamble, is because they don't have control to be able to do it. The reason why the January 1st is a good position is what?

When is midterms? November. November. So 12.9, those are pretty good odds right there to be looking at that, but they got 70% chances of him being impeached before January 1st of 20,000. So your thoughts on what Rokaneh just said. Are you surprised? Absolutely not.

And that's why it drives me back, Pat, which the Pambandi firing and all this stuff, the accountability factor of the other side, we have gotten none of it. Absolutely none. And the only two people I said this last week were Jim Comey and Letitia James, and they indicted them. And in one week, they were like, oh, this person did this and the judge. And they're done. Zero. They're not even hiding it anymore.

He's telling you on it, what was that, CNN or MSNBC, Robbie? MS now. MS now. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot about MSNBC. They're telling you exactly what they're going to do, which they have been doing for the past eight years. Okay?

And this is what the Republican Party needs to understand and wake up. All the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the auto pen, all these people, Ilhan Omar, they keep launching and writing letters. If you don't start going after them, they're going to come after you. And this is not even hiding. And the way that it's looking,

Kalshi's no joke. I've been doing some research. They don't miss. The people that are doing all the volume, they know what they're talking about, and it's not going to look good for him, okay, at all. So I hope that it's worth it because they're all, they're all laughing.

Ilhan Omar, they're all laughing. They're like, yeah, yeah, launch another investigation. Gavin Newsome, billions of dollars. Yeah, we don't know nothing. And they come to Congress, Pat, and they laugh in their faces. They laugh in their faces because that's all they do. Comer and all these guys. And I love Kennedy, but he's a comedian in there.

What are you guys actually doing? If this was the other way around, everybody and their mother, they would arrest your dogs. Your dogs would be in jail. Like, what are we doing? And they're going to come after them. By the way, this isn't a threat. Rokana, that's promising.

He's promising you. They get 60 in the Senate. It's a rap. They're going to convict them. By the way, the Senate they also have on Cali. It just flipped. So if you go look at what Senate was, it was supposed to be like not even close, but right now they're officially up on Senate as well.

So they take House, they take a Senate. And the presidency? It's over. It's over. You know what happens next. So Tom, thoughts. Yeah, the risk is that it'll be right now with the races that are out there, I'll just do the math for you.

The risk is 5248, which means he only need eight Republicans to vote for impeachment. because remember the Senate, the way it will work, the House impeaches. And what that really means is that the president's been indicted. And it's horrible and it's political. We've been now using impeachment just to say we're mad. It's complete BS. But when you take that to the Senate, then the Senate holds the trial. The Senate votes 60-40, you're done.

And so that's why the midterms are so important. And it makes me very nervous, Pat, because 5248 on election. day, they only need eight senators from the Republican side to walk across, and there's like four of them that they have that they know would vote that way. So I see 56 votes right now based on now, which is why it's so important for economic things that happen this summer. It's so important to get a ceasefire and get the war done on our terms with the right outcome. It's so important for that to get done so Americans can sit back and say, wait, look at the manufacturing jobs. I see the point of what happened here. They don't have to like it. Just like you don't like

chemotherapy, but you have to get through it. And I think we're being led. Could I ask you a question, Tommy? By what date does it need to turn around before it's over for the midterms? What, give me a date, Tom? Pre-world cup. Pre-world cup. Pre-world cup. You know why it's pre-world cup? Because World Cup's going to be the biggest distraction for the American people to forget about what happened. When is that July? June. It starts in June, July. The championship, I think, is that 17. or the 19th, it's pre-war cup. Pre-world cup, if you can pull it off, pre-world cup, America's going to move on.

If you can, if it's post-World Cup, it's going to be a shit show. So to me, whatever World Cup is, pre-World Cup, you have to be done with Iran. Got you. You have to be done with it. This is my opinion on what I think's got to be, pre-war cup.

So we'll see. We'll see what I happen with that. Regarding the impeachment, look, there's one thing that's the guiding light of the far-left Democratic Party, and that is Trump derangement syndrome. There's two major things going on in the world right now. Tell me if you agree or not.

That shaping the world and shaping America, on one hand, you have hardcore Trump derangement syndrome. The people can't think straight. And on the other hand, you have Israel derangement syndrome where they can't think straight. You want to free the people and you want to have social justice, but you're silent of the people of Iran. Everywhere you look, it's double standard,

double standard, double standard hypocrisy, double standard hypocrisy. And then you get so emotionally triggered that when you see Trump, whatever he says or does, you want to do the opposite. And you want to know why I know this? Because it happened to me. I remember when I looked at Trump and I was like, I can't. I can't even make sense of what he's saying because I can't even hear the words he's saying. Guys, I'll say this to my core.

Have you ever disliked Trump, like genuinely dislike Trump? ever? Not me. Okay. You ever? You ever disliked Trump? No. You ever hated Trump?

No. Okay. I'm going to be honest though. When he was on Apprentice, I wasn't like a fan. I would look at him like, oh, what is this show off? You weren't a fan, but. Oh, once he ran and what they did to him? Forget it.

No. No, I don't hate anybody. There was a point where I was like, oh my God, I was watching Russia, Russia, Russia, every single day. There was a point where I literally thought in 2016, 2017, this guy is compromised. He's a Russian ass. He does a Russian puppet.

I felt victim to this. I know what it's. It's like to genuinely be like, oh my God. And then I came out of it. Thank God. And look at me now. I love America. I love Trump.

I love what's going. I've loved. Always up to America. If I still felt the power of this TDS, do you know understand how insane these people are at this point? There's no coming back from it. These are governors and senators that have it that are going to go after them. Bingo, that's my point.

That's scary. It doesn't stop just because you're a regular citizen or you're a regular citizen or you're watching on YouTube or whether you're a government official. Trump is in your brain. TDS is a real thing. IDS is a real thing. People can't act logically. And that's what's going on here.

And he, apparently, will be trying to get impeached again. Adam, they... But it won't work. Adam, they... And really fast, Pat, not even 30 seconds. They've been... Since 2016, he won. Russia collusion,

impeachment, destroy his name, take all his money, his whole family, ruin his thing. Letitia James, Comey, all the, dude, how many forces around this guy? Then they shoot him in the head. Then they try to kill him the freaking Ukrainian guy. And he's still going.

And these are the, this is, hold on, this is past Trump, the Ranger's syndrome. This is, he is the enemy. Donald Trump is the enemy to the left. And that's what everything that they are about is just get him. Gavin Newsom is a frontrunner. All he talks about is Donald Trump. And it's not, it's not the TDS Adam. He thinks that that's the guy that he's running against, and it's past that.

Let me just ask. Let me ask. They can say a lot of things about Trump and be angry at Trump and things. I say erase Trump's name and look at the things he's trying to do. Those are the things the left is trying to destroy. And one of the ways they're trying to destroy it is by painting him as the implementer as this great Satan. And so I'm not on that page, you know, with just, you know, accepting that, well, maybe it's a personality leader. It's a leader with the guts to put these policies and these programs on the table that are necessary.

And we're seeing the jobs report that some of them are getting traction. You know, you can be upset about the war and things like that, but we just rescued a guy. Right. And, you know, say what you will. You know, it's a leadership right now that has been driving through. There's a lot of things that need to be corrected. And I'd love to see it all happen before World Cup. As Pat said.

Yeah. If they get it before World Cup, it's so important to do it. After World Cup, you're screwed. Now you put it in my head. It's screwed. You are so screwed. after World Cup. If there's any counsel I would give is finish this thing up before World Cup.

You can't have it continue. World Cup's going to be the best thing that happened to Trump's administration if this is over with. It has to be so amazed because there's going to be something big that's going to happen in the World Cup that we're all going to get distracted with. Ronaldo and Portugal is going to win their first World Cup. He's sitting on, Messi's going to win a second one. You know, a event where one team beats another team and it's the enemy and it's so political It's going to be stuff that's going to happen that we're all going to be distracted.

Positive distraction. World Cup is the best positive distraction for the president. And then you know the icing on the cake? July 4th, 250. 250. But just when you're doing the World Cup. Distraction, having fun. For sure.

So let me do this. Then July 4th. While this is going on, guess who decides to spend $19 million dollars of taxpayer money in the state of California to hire a PR firm to make them look better? Guess who? No, tell us. A guy named Gavin. No way.

You wouldn't say. $19 million of taxpayer funds on a New York PR firm to polish California's image. The governor's office of business and economic development awarded PR powerhouse. Edelman, a contract up to $19 million to burnish the Golden State's reputation. KCRA reported. Edelman, which also does work on behalf of mega companies like Dove, Starbucks. eBay and Heineken, will be tasked with combating, it will be tasked to combat negative narratives amplified online in partisan media about California while promoting the state's economy and tourism.

The company considered one of the largest PR firms in a nation, also has offices in LA and San Francisco. The contract begins on April 6th and will run through then end of the year, which nearly coincides with the end of governor's term in 2027. The Office of Business of Economic Development, known as Go-Biz, posted their request for proposals last month stipulating the small businesses be considered for their first contract. Vinny thoughts? So basically instead of fixing California's reality,

they're spending millions to polish California's reputation, which is abysmal. Forget about the speed rail. All I've been seeing is documentary after documentary on the speed rails and the reporting in California billions. The homelessness, $24 billion, which made it go up, and I'll talk about New York if we get to that, Pat. But it's like positive

$19 million. So you mean to tell me that Californians who are struggling. You want to talk about struggling? They don't trust the fire departments, especially in these rich Malibu and the Palisades and all these people. The mayor is over, where was she? Was she in Cuba doing some event when all the fires were happening? No, no, no. She was all the way over in Africa, you know,

where there was a transition of leadership or something was going on. And she went anyway with all the crisis was there. No, that is coming. And I'm telling you right now, Pan, you said it perfectly at the beginning. There is no amount of money to change the reputation of what's going on in California, but it still baffles my mind. Adam, I think you said it last week. I haven't heard one person say, yeah, dude, I've got a place in California.

And I feel bad for the people there because they have to pretend everything is okay. You know how many conversations I've had with my sister and my mom, and we have other reasons that they want to stay. You know, my brother's there and my nieces and my nephews, but what are you doing? And I get it. People have lives. but don't even think, I told my sister, don't even think about buying a property there.

Nothing's changing. Nothing is changing. And for the people there, if you're going to vote and this next governor isn't a Republican, I am done. I promise you guys, I will stop talking about them. If that happens, once Gavin's done and you guys bring in another Democrat, I'm done.

If you say, hey, Vinnie, what are your thoughts? I'm going to say, Pat, move on. I'm done with California. Well, here's a thing. At 110, 112 a.m. this morning, the president tweeted something. endorse on Steve Hilton. Okay.

Who I like. Steve Hilton, yes, who is running for governor, state of California. He was very complimentary. I've known him for many years, he says. He's running for governor,

truly a fine man, one who has watched as this a once great state has gone to hell. Gavin, who's coming to the Democrats have done an absolute horrendous job. Anyways,

he's going through this. And if you pull up the CalShie with Steve Hilton, Rob, I don't know where he's at with the odds, the odd market, what they're saying. It's not looking bad. Okay?

It's not looking bad. But this is a small volume. It's not a big volume right now. As of right now, Hilton's at the top. Since last night's CTA, he went above Swalwell. If you look at what happened, because of the tweet, look how much he bumped up. He went from 60 to 65 to all of a sudden after the tweet to what numbers at Rob? 81% at the power of a tweet to the market, how they react.

And obviously, Tom's on that list as well, Tom Steyer, but he's a different story. Tom, your thoughts on this with California. Well, California, what I dove in. to. I'm not going to repeat what Vinny said. I agree with every syllable of what you just said. Thank you. And more. Caste with combating negative narratives. So that's your job. We need some help with the negative narratives. It's like a guy sits in his front yard, you know, slaughtering pigs as children are walking to school and then holding a barbecue. And he wants to combat the negative narratives that slaughtering a pig is such an ugly job. Well, then stop it. Stop it. You want to combat negative narratives?

How about turn the state? How about do things for the people? How about build the rail or say, you know what? You're not going to hear about the rail anymore. It's not going to happen. That's what's going on here. They think it's a narrative game. They think if you just change the narrative, you just spin the narrative.

And if you look at it, Gavin Newsom is a narrative machine. He can't run on leadership without a narrative. He can't run on numbers. He can't run on success without a narrative. And you look at the two things they said, economy and tourism. So you're going to see, we're now the fourth largest, a fifth largest economy in the world. And look at all the tourists are still coming to Disneyland. And look at all the number of people who come to visit, you know, California.

Well, it's also a dirty little secret that sometimes, Pat, they count in the tourist things. Like if you and I went back to California and went to a wedding or a funeral, Pat, which, you know, we do from time to time, do you know that they would count us in tourist stats? Really? California. Yeah. You can look at the corruption of numbers in the way you count these things. So you don't have any numbers to talk about. You don't have things. So they're going to talk about tourism. They're going to talk about fourth largest economy and combat negative narratives. It's not a negative narrative. Nobody's rebuilding their homes and all the things you talked about. It's not a negative narrative. They're closing hospices that don't exist that were stealing money that was meant for truly people that needed it to get back on the horse so they could ride off into into a career and into some sort of, you know, contributing member of society.

This is just astonishing to me. You don't need a PR firm to combat narratives. You need leadership to make change. Thank you. And Tom, $19 million, Pat, that's not like just a drop in a bucket. $19 million from taxpayer money. The people that are suffering the most are paying for him to lie. Like, make me look good.

Make me like, like you have blood all over you. You've killed every. You're like, yeah, yeah. No, no, I didn't kill. Make me look like blood fell on me from the roof. No, no, you killed this person. Like, it just drives me crazy. And I hope this gets to people that are voting.

They're only doing this for one reason because this guy's running for president. They're not doing it for the governor election. They're doing it for presidential campaign. And Gavin is using the California's taxpayer money to fund this 2028 presidential election. That's what he's doing with this. Because the better California looks to higher likelihood

he wins presidency in 2028. Adam, thoughts. Look, you know I don't got a lot of love for California, but I'm going to give Gavin News some credit right now. He's an incredible politician. I'm just going to say it what it is. He says all the right things. He looks the part.

It's a great communicator. He looks presidential, you know. But then reality hits, and you realize that it's just complete lipstick on a pig. Because as much as he's a great politician, he's one of the worst executors you can possibly find. He's an incredible governor. Horrible CEO.

No accountability. You know, they have the super majority in California, so whatever he wants gets done. It's all looks and no results. And I respect that. Why get stuff done if you look at you're getting stuff done? Respect to you, Gavin with a good hair. It reminds me of this.

You remember when I think she came to visit San Francisco, which is like a literal shithole. Sorry for cursing. Poop maps everywhere. And what did Gavin Newsom do, the governor of California? For that one week, San Francisco looked immaculate. You remember when they cleaned up the whole city? Oh, of course.

They got rid of the homeless people. They got rid of the homeless people. Xi Jinping shows up. Chinese flags of war. Bing, Bing, Bing, Jing, ching, ching. And then, there you go. Then she leaves back to corruption, back to homelessness, back to crime, back to rampant ridiculousness, back to the cost of living.

But it was all lipstick on a pig. That's Gavin Newsom. You have no idea, Gavin Newsom, how much I respect that. Why act good when you can just pretend like you're acting good? It's incredible. He's one of the most gifted politicians I've ever seen. He's pretending that he's doing a great job. Respect to you, Gavin Newsom.

I think he's actually executed very well. I think he's executed, put-to-death opportunities for middle-class Californians. I think he's executed, put-to-death a sensible budget. So if you want to talk about true execution, I think he's doing a pretty good job. It's one of those things where it's a great state to visit. You get in, you get out, and ain't nobody trying to live in California, unless you have to. Let's go to the next story.

By the way, the other governor in the gubernatorial race that is in Florida, James Fishback that we had on a podcast, actually like some of the ideas that he had. He had a moment. Something happened. A guy approached him, and apparently he told him you should be lynched. I didn't even believe this story at first when I saw it, so I want to play this for you. By the way, he's doing a very good job going and shaking hands. So marketing-wise, he's good.

But this was a terrible moment. Go ahead, Rob. Why is he not answering the question, bro? I'm happy to answer the question, dude. Did you smash? Was it missionary backshots? What was it? I don't want you ever, I don't want you ever speaking about women in our state like that ever again. I mean, I don't want you ever smashing girls, teenage girls in our state ever again. So promise me never smash a minor again?

Why haven't I been arrested? I don't know. Why haven't I haven't been arrested? I don't know. You should be lynched. You should be lynched. I should be lynched. Oh, wow.

Yes. You should be lynched. All pedophiles. I agree. I will lynch every single Epstein criminal in this country. Start yourself tonight. Sir! Why haven't I been arrested?

What does Lynch mean? Hanging by a rope. Like old, like KKK. What is the guy who spoke to? Maybe there is different definitions for Lynch. Am I the one that is confused here? Can you pull up the definition to kill someone, especially by hanging for an alleged offense

with or without a legal trial? With or without a legal trial. That's what they used to do in the South. So he said to the black guy. to the black guy. To a black guy. You should be lynched? Unfreaking believable. Yeah. I didn't believe. I couldn't. Is this the end of it? I have no words for this. This is, you can't use that word. That is just the most horrifying word that goes back to the south and what happened to innocent people. You can't use that word. You can't say, oh, I meant like the old web.

Is this AI or is this? Can you check to see if that's real? No, this is real. Check it to see if it's real. There's no way this is real. it's real. Are you positive? He definitely said that. Yeah, he said it. This isn't AI. No, that's real.

What the hell is he thinking? Well, there's probably one thing on his mind. I think he got triggered because the guy came after him and what he said about young girls. He's typically very quick with it, right? You know, he's typically very quick with it. He knows how to speak, but like what are you even? Where did your brain go? It's like the Michael Richards at the laugh factory.

Like, what the hell are you doing? Oh, that's painful. Well, that's where he's going. Man is a bad person. Bad person. This is a horrible look. That's going to haunt him. That's going to haunt him. Look, I'll just be

like normal and sensible. I think his chances of becoming governor are completely in the basement. Now they're crumbling. He had a 10% chance a week ago. Now it's under 5%. But bigger than anything, more than likely we're about to have our first black governor

in Florida history, Byron Donald's, who we know. And by the I like Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins. I just not sure of his chances right now. But the most likely governor is going to be Byron Donald's. And James Fishback is trying to take Byron Donald's job. And you hear you have a black man who's a capable person

endorsed by Trump. Says and does the great thing. Some people might disagree. A lot of people agree. And now you're going to announce your candidacy and try to basically tax women and do this whole thing he talks about. And then he allegedly has these stories with his women.

But you're going to look at a black man who supports Byron. Donald's, I assume, and tell him you're going to be lynched. This is not only the end of his governor chances, this might be the end of his career. Who says that to a black man? Lynched? Are you kidding me? And then shifts it and goes, I'm going to do it to every single Epstein. What do you, what do you talk?

You can have all the greatest talking points. How old is he right? How old is he? I think he's in his early 30s. You can't. But this to me is going to haunt his career for the rest of his life. By the way, that could that could that could haunt him in his big. business career. You can't talk like that. That's, that's, he's, he's not saying, hey, I'm going to kick you

out of here. I'm going to beat you up. I'm going to get you. You told a black man to his face, I'm going to lynch you. Have you ever used that word in your life? Listen, I, that to me is disgusting. He interviewed with Pierce Morgan on that only fans girl. Yeah. They were going back and forth, 50% tax. And he had some of the ideas, which were creative ideas, but you can't talk like that. And this, to me, this is the part where some of the guys on social gets so out of control with the way they talk, they don't realize the consequences with that long term. You know, they don't realize it. But anyways, okay, sounds good.

Next story, Mamdani's gun violence comments. After killing of a seven-month-old baby sparks outrage, I don't know, Vinny, if you saw this one or not. I saw the actual, you know, I saw, I saw the surveillance inside the CT cam of inside where the mother realizes that her kid was hit with a stray bullet from a gang shooting outside. It's in the care.

Oh, dude, it was hard. Mom Dani is facing criticism from local politicians and onlookers on social media after comments. He made that critics say places blame on gun rather than criminals in an incident involving the shooting death of a seven-month-old child in Brooklyn. And this is what Mamdani had to say. This is not the first family in our city to know this pain. Too many children have never grown up into becoming adults. Too many parents have had to bury those that they love the most. We cannot accept this.

as normal in our city. We cannot grow numb to this pain. And today is a devastating reminder of just how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city. I send my deepest condolences to all those carrying the weight of this enormous loss.

As we grieve this loss, I am grateful for the NYPD's continued work to find all those responsible for this murder and to bring them to justice. So New York City reporters, Republican councilman, Vicki Paladino, said the following, literally anything but blaming the criminals who our system releases onto our streets repeatedly over and over and over again with no consequences. She said this on X. Tom, thoughts?

Excuse me. So you can look at this and say, well, that's a very nice thing that the mayor said. It appears to hit all the right tones until it stops short of condemning the criminal. and I think that's exactly what they're pointing out. And it's like you can be made because you look at that. That wasn't coming from the heart. He's reading prepared comments. And it's a difference between reading a prepared comment and coming to the microphone. And if you look in the history, people like, you know, Andrew Cuomo were just phenomenal.

Ronald Reagan were phenomenal Clinton of coming to the microphone and being able to speak from the heart about things. He said in your reading prepared comments that leave out. why is this happening and what are you doing about that? He praises the police. That's a good thing. He gives condolences to the people that they're lost. That's a good thing. But the city councilwoman, she's right. You know, he stops short of, you know, condemning criminals

because that is not what the Democrats, or especially a Marxist, are in the business of doing. Tom, like, this is the same guy that went to the hospital to visit the crazy person that ran after a cop. in an apartment with a knife and the cop shoots the crazy person. Mom Dani doesn't visit the cop. He visits the crazy guy with the knife in the hospital.

So this is on brand? This is 100% on brand. This is, by the way, he's not blaming the gangster. He's not blaming the, by the way, we don't know the immigration status of these people. This is the guy that defunding the police and doesn't give a damn about New Yorkers. This guy, he, out of all of them, Pat, the smile that he does, you want to talk about the Trojan horse. It's him. It's this mom, Don't and it's the beginning. And shame on him.

Shame on you. Don't, it's not the gun. They would have stabbed each other. This is New York, bro. If they want you dead, they're going to kill you, okay? And if there's any bystanders, you're going to get it too. So I think it's shameful that this guy doesn't even have the decency to say, hey, listen, God rest of the soul, this poor seven-year-old kid who was shot, and I saw the video. It's freaking disgusting and it's horrible. The mother lost it. Obviously, you knew what was going to happen.

But the gun. Doesn't mention the gangsters. doesn't mention where they're from or what the hell they were doing what they're doing drugs was it just a turf thing shame on him bro he he cares more about the freaking criminals than he does with the law enforcement or the deceased plain and simple if it was a drunk white guy you would have heard about his race you would have heard of thousand percent tom adam well new yorkers love him straight up we're obviously very critical of mom downy on this show but this is exactly what they voted for and this is what they won they're going to get it so do you know mom Donnie's favorability ratings in New York.

I want to say he's above water at least a dozen points. I want to say his favorability rating is somewhere around 48, and unfavorable rating is in the low 30s, which puts him at probably around plus 15. Rob, you could fact check that. Here's the reality. New York,

there it is right there. He's loved by Democrats, especially progressives. He has a net favorability of somewhere in the double digits. This isn't the modern day New York, whether we like it or not. New York is no longer the home of capitalism. New York is no longer, if you can make it, you'll make it. Anyway, it's no, get free stuff, get free stuff, rent control, rent freeze, tax the rich. We have to stop pretending that this is the New York we've always known.

The modern day New York is crumbling and they're electing progressive, communist, Islamist, mayors, and you know what, Vinnie? They love it. They want more of it. He's the highest rate of Democrat. He's the face of the Democratic Party. This is the modern Democratic Party, especially in New York. So do they care of some random baby get killed?

Of course not. That's not their concern. They want to tax the rich. They want to eat the rich. The New New York, you want to know where the New York is? It's called Miami Brickle. Miami World Center. Because this is where reality lives these days.

You can keep the progressive fantasy land up in New York and California. So let me get to the next story. This next story, none of you guys marked off. I want to go to, and I think it's something we should talk about. The young couple choosing financial freedom over having children. Telegraph story on page 20 if you want to go to it. So Ali and Charlie Higgins, Rob, you got a clip on this one, I believe, right, are simply not willing to give up the financial independence they have, spend yours building to have children. Allie 33, a recruiter for Uber, and Charlie 37 works for a technology company. The couple moved to U.S. to, moved from the United States to Amsterdam for work four years ago. and I build up a combined household income of 310,000, $210,000, what is it?

Is that, what is that, Tom? Is that pound? Is there pounds? Okay, pound. In the last couple of years, we've created a lifestyle that we've enjoyed living. Is this it, Rob? It is. Okay, just played a clip.

I can't play a four-minute clip, Rob. She gets to it right off the back. Okay, go for it. Can't have a single alcoholic drink. They cannot go out. They cannot have any fun. No. I think we have to get our ducks in a row here,

and one of the things that I notice, if you open any newspaper, bar the telegraph, bar G.B. News, they portray family and motherhood as a complete negative. They say it ruins your looks, it ruins your finances. Nothing's going to be the same again. But actually, we have to look at the economic side of it. We need workers. We need children. Okay, it's okay. I can skip this. I thought they were speaking. So the couple are parts. of a grown group of so-called dinks, which stands for double-income, no kids. While the term was first coined in the 80s, it has surge in popularity in social media in recent years, while couples posting online about the disposable income laws and how challenging it is to lift it in financially.

So there are 4.1 million sinks in America, single income, no kids. And dinks in the UK, according to insurance provider, legal in general, fertility rates in UK, England and Wales are languishing at their lowest level since record began in 1938. We know what the numbers right now. They're at 1.41. And 2.1 is replacement. We're at 1.58. They're choosing financial freedom over having kids.

Tom, there's hundreds of stories like this that we see. How do you process this when you hear stories like this? So I go back and I look at the truth. I think, Pat, this could be something you do a deep dive, one of your how-to is on and go into the data. Because it'll show you that historically speaking, in Western civilization, it's the affluence of society that leads to people having less kids, not long-term. I'll talk about long-term for society, not simply wars or affordability.

It's not. They can find people that'll say it's this, but on a macro scale pat, when you back up and you look at a society, as a society becomes affluent, less kids come out of that society. I saw last week a poll that said it was like 55% of people surveyed, why don't you have kids? Fifty-five, and they gave multiple answers, but 55% of them said one of their answers was, I just don't want to have them. You know, I think I have more freedom. And so what's very interesting is I see things like this. I think it's terrible for people who want to have kids who feel like they can't afford to do so. That's real. But long-term,

it's an affluence of society that leads people to be selfish, simple as that. Because it's happening in Korea. It's happening in Japan. And every country's got its different issues. So how is it all happening at the same time that the affluence and the development of those countries is leading to less kids? It's not unaffordable to have kids all of those countries. Tom, what do you say? Because I've heard they're saying that some of the excuses were that the girl doesn't want to lose her figure.

And if you think about it, Tom, now they're making this money. They're like, hey, we don't want to lose any of this money. So how much of it is greed? I don't want to say necessarily greed. They want to save money and they don't want to spend it on a kid. And they're guess what? Accluent society putting self ahead of the joy that you have with the creation of family. We were designed to have families.

Got you. By the way, in 2024, here's an interesting stat that kind of goes into this. In 2024, about 31% of Americans were part of the upper middle class, upper middle class in America. Okay, up from 10% in 1979, according to a report released this year by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. Okay, this is from Wall Street Journal. More Americans are breaking into the upper-middle class. It's kind of goes together what we're talking about. There's no single standard definition of middle class or upper-middle class.

The AEI report classified a family of three, earning 133, $133,000, to $400,000. in a year, 24, as upper middle class. So if you make between 133 to 400, they're considering that upper middle class. The rise in influence is powering an American economy built on consumer spending and transforming the types of products that's being used. So if you think we went from upper middle class 10 and 79

to now 31, that means what happened to middle class? Not upper middle class, middle class. So again, affordability is a real, real issue, whichever candidate can come up with some creative, I have so many creative ideas, whichever candidate can come up with creative ideas for 2028 campaign, you're going to have a very favorable outcome. If you know how to deliver a message to the audience, you're going to have a very favorable outcome because Americans are thinking about this today. They're choosing career over kids, Vinnie. This is, this is, if anybody cares about America long term, not just

26, 27, 28. If you care about America for 2050, this may be the top issue to be thinking about of Americans not wanting to have kids. Adam, thoughts. Look, this is the conversation of our times. And, you know, look, I ask all my married friends the exact same question. I said, give me the good, the bad, the ugly of marriage. And I've told the joke before, the one guy goes, my favorite thing, I love, my wife, she's always there. My least favorite, my wife, she's always there. But here's the reality. I'm at the point of my life. I'm at the point in my life where obviously, you know, I'm in a relationship now. I'm looking at the market and I'm seeing my friends who are somewhat happily married, a lot who are seemingly fake happily married, miserable,

sort of. And then there's people who are loving their life. I get that. Then I have friends who are in their 40s, some in their 50s, and these guys are some of the biggest studs that I know in life. And they've been with more women than we're than we even know about. But I always ask them like, where does this end? Where does this end for you, bro? You're the biggest player. You're the biggest man. You know all the women in Miami. You're the man. It's like, you don't want to ever have kids. I don't know, man. I know one guy who got a, what's it called when you snip your stuff as a man?

Vasectomy. Bissectomy. I go, you got a vasectomy. You don't even have kids. Because, yeah, I made that decision. And that's really ultimately what it comes down to. Like what Pat always says, who do you want to be? I've made the decision that I definitely want to have kids. And that's something that I'm working through and working on right now. It's because, listen, I, like, you know these younger people you're talking about these dinks and sinks and all these things? I know what it's like to have money and have a bunch of women, but not have the real fruit of life, which is kids.

And obviously, you have a pat out there that's encouraging everybody to have more kids. And this is something that I process. So I ask all my friends these exact same questions. Do you want to have kids? What age do you want to have married? Get married and have kids. And you know who the most important people that need to answer this question? Women.

Because in my belief, this might offend somebody. Feminism, modern feminism has been sort of the worst curse that's been put on women. Because it allows them to believe that their job is more important than a family and that they have more time that matters. So whether you're a dink, a dual income, no kids, single income, no kids, a Henry. There's a thing called a ninja. Henry, which is a high earner, not rich yet, or a ninja, no income and no assets. The last thing that you want to do, whether you're a man or a woman, has become a cell.

Single and lonely. It's the last thing you want in life. So figure out who you want to be and solve for that. There you go. By the way, the best thing you can do in your life, find a right person, have as many kids as you can have. It's the best thing you live in your life. Nothing comes close to it. Nothing.

Yesterday, Mario and I were at the house with Barbie. We're having conversations. And Barbies his wife and he's holding his son in his arm, Gabriel, knocked out. And we're talking about all these things with parenting. Mario is saying, you know, Easter was making me think about something. He says what? He says, for God's so love the world that he gave his only. He said, there's no way in the world I could ever do that.

He says, there's no way in the world. I can't even imagine life without this guy, right? There's something very, very unique of what happens to a man. Man matures in a very different way when he has a kid, in a very different way when he has a kid. And it's different when it's a boy, and it's a different when it's a girl. Very, because you look at the lens in a different way. And, you know, whatever God gives you is because what God believes that you're supposed to lead.

So anytime somebody's pregnant, the prayer is, God, give me what you think is what I need. And I'm going to do my best to raise whatever kid you end up giving me, and I'm grateful for it. What are you saying the prayer is? Whatever you give me, just give me a healthy child. I'd never ask for sex, never ask for, you know, just give me a healthy child. Whatever you think I'm the one to raise, give it to me. I'm going to take on that responsibility seriously, and I'm going to do the best I can do. Whatever you think is right for me, I'm going to do it.

And from there, you know, if he gives you all boys, there's a reason. If he gives you all girls, it is what it. If he gives you boys and girls, it is what it is. But that is a blessing to anybody that comes out. I'm going to go to one story here and then we can wrap up. So, Rob, do you have that New York Times story? There's a guy out of nowhere that New York Times does a story, and maybe I'll release a go a little bit more,

but this is a very interesting story. A guy out of nowhere, New York Times has a story of a fellow who with him and his brother and $20,000, he built a business worth $1.8 billion in somewhere around two years that New York Times went and interviewed him to see if this is real or not. So Matthew Gallagher took just two months, 20,000 and more than a dozen AI tools to get a startup off the ground from his house in LA, 41 years old, use AI to write the code for the software that powers this company, produces the website, generates the images and videos for ads, handle customer service, he created AI system to analyze his business's performance, his startup Medvi, a telehealth,

provider of GLP1 weight loss, drugs, got 300 customers its first month, second month a thousand customers more. In 2025, Medvi's first full year in business, the company generated $401 million in sales. This year, they're on track to do $1.8 billion in sales. Vinnie, in sales. With how many employees? Two employees.

Him and his brother. Him and his brother with two employees is doing something like this. By the way, you're going to hear so many more stories like this of guys who understand what AI is doing, understands the power of it, and they're going to build behemoth companies that someone's going to come up and pick up. Tom, your thoughts on this story here with, you know, this fellow who built this Matthew Gallagher that built this company that could do $1.8 billion this year. Well, I have two sets of thoughts. The first is I'm going to set aside anybody who wants to send me the things because MedVie's, He's also been criticized.

It said it was a compounder of drugs. So I'm going to set aside all that. The fact is he built a business that was selling. And then in GOP1, you have to say the right things with you sell, just like we had in life insurance. It was a regulated industry, and you have to do it right. So that first point I'm not going to get into. I'm just going to leave that there. But what this shows is that with AI, he created what?

He created ad creators. And the agents did AB testing. He used AI to create a customer service response. or anybody responded, you immediately got an email back. Oh, thank you, Vinnie, for your interest. Here's the information you were looking for. So it shows that you can use these agents to do chores of the basic stuff to build a business. Now, here's what AI doesn't do.

It's not going to select an industry for you. It's not going to make you incredibly smart about that industry, diving in to understand exact what you're going to do. It's not going to tell you, oh, here's the gap, Vinny. Go do this right here. Here's the gap. You know, you may get some sort of analysis or things on that, but ultimately, the human's got to make this decision. But what it does show, Pat, is that AI can be used to do these chores so that you could open this online.

Here's what he did. He was an online reseller, basically, if GOP1 weight loss, telehealth, hey, I want to use GOP1. Fill this out, do this, and we'll get your drugs, and they get shipped from the company. And so I think it's a success story on AI, even if it's a cautionary tale of, of always be sure you know the regulations of the sector you get into. If I was a schoolteacher, Tom, if you were a school teacher, how would you use the story with your kids? Okay. How would you use a story with your students and how would you use the story with your kids?

Because I have plans with this. I wonder what you think about that. I would say, hey, let's take a look at a case city here where they were using AI to quickly get something off the ground. Now, second of all, and let's go see the things that they could do, and I would show all the good in that. And I would say also this also shows that wherever you start a business, you better be fully researched and know all the regulations and things are going to that business. Because you got to do business right. You don't want to have AI help you build the business like this and all of a sudden you get shut down. So number one, I would show this is how AI can be positive using the tools.

Number two, you got to know it. But number three, first and foremost, it takes a human to lead it. You have to decide what you're going to get into business to do. And you have to decide what is the character of you, how. you're going to lead and what you're going to put your company, whether you're one person or you have 10 humans working for you. And those would be the three points I hit. I hope parents are watching this and sharing these stories with their kids. I had kids over at the office the other day and I said, hey, what do you guys, what are you guys looking at?

Not my kids, some kids from a school. I said, what are you guys looking at? What are you guys paying attention to? What do you guys listen to? What are you thinking about what career? What do you want to do? What tools are you guys using? How do you guys process AI? How do you guys process politics? What do you think about this? If parents are not tools, involved right now, your kids have an advantage with certain tools that wasn't around for many of us, okay? Many of us. Sometimes all you need to do is say, hey, son, I want you to watch a story. Look at what this guy did. Why can't you do it? Hey, honey, come look at the story what the sky did. I would be sharing these types of stories with, and by the way, maybe your kid does anything

with them. Maybe they don't, they don't. But these are the types of stories that you can just sprinkle and let the kid decide for himself or herself. If they're going to do something, if they're not, they're not going to go. okay, I don't care, dad, boom, I'm gone. Oh my God, really? How? Hey, and then they go talk to the friends, hey, did you hear about this one guy named what he did Matthew Gallagher? And did you hear about, what if we did something like this? What if we did something like that?

I mean, it's really, really interesting stuff to see what's happening in 20206, Adam. Really, I would be happy if you can kind of break down how this all kind of works, meaning the, they made a projected to have a billion dollars in sales, aka revenue. So he used AI software to produce ads for him that perform. He used AI software that works as customer service to get back to all customer complaints, issues, deliveries. He used AI that works with delivering the products to the customers. Copywriting is all AI.

Everything he's doing, it's all AI that him and his brother are driving. Perfect. So totally understand that component. But one of the things I've learned hardcore is, you know, your net, your grocery sales is not your net revenue. What is that, what type of revenue is a company like? Dude, if you're doing $401 million in revenue, just do this. At 10% EBITA, that's 40 million, right? Yeah, at 20% that's 80 million. I'm going to say it's probably in the 20% range. Gotcha. So if he does a billion dollars, he's net revenue is 200 million dollars.

If it's 200 million dollars, someone's probably going to cut a multi, multi-billion dollar check to this guy here if this continues. That's what I want to understand. Okay, so how many years do you have to do it for? Oh, no, no. A buyer may come in and they may buy this company at the valuation of 2028. Like today a buyer may come in and buy this at a 2028 valuation, not at a 2026 value. What does that mean exactly? Because like, okay, so one time we're on a, it's me, Greg, share, Tom, some of our guys,

we're on a boat. We're having a conversation together. And we were talking about a company that does $50 million a year in revenue versus one that does $100 million in revenue. Which ones valued more? They both have 20% EBDA. One profits 10 million year, one profits 20 million year. But if the $50 million

company, the last five years has grown at 50%, and the $100 million company has been flat for five years, even though it has a bigger EBITA, the $50 million company is worth more than the $100 million dollar company. So right now, someone

is buying this company if he chooses to sell, if he chooses to sell this company this is going to be a multi-million dollar company are you worried that it doesn't have a long enough track record only two years? That's not about what I worry

I'm just saying with the market the buyer? If the buyer comes in if a big GLP1 company comes in and sees the machine you build and the machine is bringing profits you're not even hesitating. You're like hey all I'm going to do is transfer that or either buy the GLP1

I don't know if it's a you know if it's a a white labeling. I don't know what the model is on how this works out. I don't know if it's like using somebody else's, but he has built a machine that's worth billions. It's a sales machine, too. Of course.

So he doesn't make the drugs. He just enabled them to go. And this skill set, you know what you can use a skill set for? Any product. Any product. So forget about the product. You could do this with any product that he's got.

Remember group? It's a very, very interesting era we're living in today. And there's two companies to get an example of when you're on the boat. One that's, you said, 50 million 50%. and growth, 10 million to profit, 100 million, 20 million in EBITDA, but hasn't grown for five years. Did any of those companies sell or those are just... Oh, yeah.

We were the 50 million going towards a hundred million, and we sold more than the company that was 100 million doing more than us. Interesting. So it was... It was us. Because we were... What was our Kager five years in a row, Tom? You were over 30?

Over 30. Over 35 years in a row. What is that? Kager. Like our growth... What is the Kager? I know what a kegger is. You're one of those.

Tom. A kegier is cumulative annual growth rate, so it's a lot. Like they look at it and they say C-A-G-R. No, but that's not what I'm asking. I'm not asking Cager. What was the amount of quarters that we beat the prior quarter in revenue? Do you remember the quarters? Going into the-

Was it 13 quarters, 14 quarters? Yeah, I believe it was. It was almost, I think it was almost four years. And then we went in, a little bit of COVID in there. And Marcus, like, what the hell are you guys doing? So- I actually understand that because it's like a free agent. If I can just kind of sum this up,

it's a guy who scores 18 points, 20 points, 24 points. It's like, all right, this guy's approved. But the guy who goes 10, 15, 20. Now he's at 30. You're like, dude, this guy's a dominant league. And you recognize that early because of the trajectory. Yeah, can you pull up Janus's stats? Just type in Janus MBA stats.

Okay, and watch his first seven season. Yeah, he went from like five points, go down, go down, go down, go down, go down, go to the NBA one. No, no, go to the basketball reference. Go to the basketball reference. Come on, Rob. This is our world here, buddy. Zoom in. Go a little bit lower, Rob, if you could.

Go a little bit lower, lower, lower, lower, lower, lower. Go lower right there. Look at this. Go back out. Okay. So zoom out a little bit, zoom out a little bit more. Look at the point. Points.

Season one. Six point eight. Yeah. Season two, 12.7, 16.9, 22.9, 26.9, 27.7. 27.7.29. Seven seasons in a row, he beat his prior best. Wow. And if you look at his rebounds,

Look at the rebounds. 4.4, 6.7, 7.7, 8.8, 10, 12 and a half, 13.6. You don't see stats like this. Got it. You don't see. So to me, that's what this guy is doing. The key is signing him in his second year, third year, right before he lived off. Nobody did.

So now, I mean, the guy is miserable being where he's at. And, you know, I'm not saying, I'm not speaking on his behalf, but this guy deserves a championship. He's won one already. He has one. I'd like to see him. I think he's the type of guy that could win a few. Anyways, there you have it. Parents share that story with your kids.

I think, you know, let's inspire these kids to be. thinking bigger. With that being said, Rob, do we have anything tomorrow? We do. We do have something. Is it a surprise? I have to talk to you about it after, but we will have something at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Really? Yes. And it's a surprise. Yes. Okay. Well, listen, Rob. is the surprise guy. Rob is the surprise guy now. Okay, Rob.

Ooh. Hey, Benny, you know what are surprised? We're going to a keg or later. With Tom, he's drinking the beer. Gang, we will do this again Wednesday and Friday and today on hot cakes and hot takes, which, by the way, last week, Stephen A's was phenomenal. Vinnie, who do you have today? James O'Keefe is on today. We're going live at 1130, and he's going through it, Pat, but he's such a, like, you just wait until you hear his background,

his story, his upbringing, why he does, what he does, and how important he is to the marketplace. And we had some hotcakes while we were doing. There you go. All good. Take care, everybody. God bless. Bye bye, bye, bye, bye.