PBD Podcast - Walking on Eggshells Society | PBD Podcast | EP 39

Episode Date: February 12, 2021

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Okay, we are, by the way, we are officially live. We are live. What is a 39 episode? Yep. Yeah, we live or know your pointing fingers at us. Okay, we're good. Bring it in. Don't worry about it.

Bring it in. Okay, so listen, very interesting start to the morning today. We're very interesting. We're very interesting. Say hello to everybody. There you go. What's your name? Tell us, tell us what you are.

Brandon, do video edits. Okay, good. They think about it. They think about it. This is a double double first. So very, very weird morning for us today. Elaborate, elaborate. What's happened over the last half of our life? I think it's fair to say I had the worst egg whites

in my life ever that Mickey brought. It's not something that I don't. Better worse than yesterday. No, no, I mean, it's equal. That chicken, whoever that chicken was that gave birth to that egg white was horrible. Also worse egg white, I've ever had. Yeah, every morning you do egg whites, yeah? If I'm at the office, you kind of give like a thought. No, no, no, no, no. that gave birth to that egg white was horrible. So worse egg white I've ever had. Yeah.

Every morning you do egg whites, yeah? If I'm at the office, you kind of give like a throw up in your mouth. That egg white was legit terrible. And then we had the, Paul is wearing his Superman glasses. Clarke, can you come and show your face real quick? Show that beautiful model. So people know what is bearded, the glasses. Guys, let us know if he's got a con on my Clark Tate vibe going on. He's got the full on. Facebook question. Show that beautiful model. Show that beautiful model. So people know what is bearded, the glasses, the logo.

Guys, let us know if he's got a con on the Clark Tasty. No, we're not. He's got the full on. Take a look at the camera. Give him a smile. Yeah. We get the key, man. No, no, no, he's got the, seriously, he's got the supermeth

and going on. Paul Escarciga, there you go, buddy. Did you spend a weird morning? Yeah. Do we want to address the elephant in the room? You can address it if you want to. Where's Mario? Where is Mario? Yeah. Do we want to address the elephant in the room? You can address it if you want to. Where's Mario? Where is Mario?

Mario. Mario. Where are you? Mario are our faithful leader. Mario. Demanding. Mario. Set the tone.

Set the precedent. Everybody be on that. So you know he's listening right now. He's maddering. He missed you Mario. Every morning we look to Mario for the Mario. When you get in, just go to where you sit in the corner with us.

No, listen, let me tell you what's in about Mario. Mario, Mario's word probably, I don't know, he's word harder than anyone. Oh, it's not that long for how long now God knows. 15 years. But no day talking about specifically setting this whole thing up. So we'll let him, you know, when he gets in, he just wants to. Everyone deserves a day off.

Everybody Mario just so happened to do it on the day that we're doing our big podcast where we have Kai. He's a leader. We love him. We look to him to work in this environment. You have to have thick skin or else it's going to be rough. Of course. And specifically,

Vietamins specifically Vietamins because you know, it's, you know, it's tough. This is, by the way, this was exactly how it was in the army at our unit. If you were at our unit and you wanted to hang out with us on the weekend, you had thick thin skin, we were the bad worst people to hang out with. But if you had thick skin, we were part of thick skin community. And we had a good time together. Anyways, we got a lot of things to talk about. Let me tell you, my first mother by a time

had cried in the corner for a month straight. I remember. I remember. Now, second thoughts, baby. Come anything you want. Well, let me read what somebody said yesterday. I'm gonna go there. No, no, I think it's important.

So the 2% of the audience? No, no, this is like 20% of the audience. Natalie June comments yesterday. This is so off. We are naming it. She comments to the public. This is so off topic, but how is Adam single? So then I respond to great question.

He's looking for the right person. Are you interested? She says, I am single and he's gorgeous, intelligent, and above all, he seems to have a big heart. He seems like such a great guy. I follow them on IG with the same photo. It's real. I swear.

And then I would love to get to know him. And then I, you know, it is what it is. The rest of it is for you. Can I be the ring bearer? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Natalie, thank you for all the tainers out there for the love and respect.

Well, you will see that flan again. Yeah. See you at the get go. You go. People watch our podcast like what the hell is this get go. I'll be back. Well, see you at Flanagan's. Yeah. See you at the Gekko. Gekko. People watch our podcast. I was like, what the hell is this Gekko's thing about? So, first of all, to our friends in Plano.

Okay. I'm supposed to be in Texas next week for me, with Jose Guaytan, TG, all those guys. And then I'm going to Louisville to be with Saipala's Vargas and everybody, which they're going to have. This is your squad. If you don't know those names, this is like a cut spot. Yeah, but Tito, I think Ortiz is gonna be there next week.

Tito Ortiz and who's the football player? The quarterback. Tim Tibo. Tim Tibo's gonna be in, which by the way, that's very big. Tim Tibo and Tim Tibo are on stage together. Tibo's gonna be there and the guys, I, you know, Tibo's probably one

of the best motivational speakers in the world. He's gonna be the only one. quarterback. I then do it, right? So I'm sitting here. I'm like, okay, let me see what I got to wear next week for Dallas. And I look at the weather. It says a low of three degrees. Okay. A low of three degrees. And moral sense. She says, no, you have it wrong. It's a low of one degree. So I went to look at the coldest day ever in Plano. Yeah. It's minus seven degrees. I say Plano go for it.

What I say, go for it. Kind of like us and the Lego. It's got a minus a first two. First two. It's it's a forecast. They look at that Monday, two degrees. That's ridiculous to be out two degrees. But if you guys are not familiar with Plano, that's Plano's that's the silence. And for the European audience. This is not Celsius, right? You see how you had the crickets there. That was a European He's in the house. He's in the house. Okay, Mario. I all good all good Allow me to say on behalf of the South Florida welcoming committee, it's 75, it's sunny, it's gorgeous.

Go fuck yourself, Plano. You said it. I lived it for five years. Kids went school over there. We have to put the disclaimer out there. I loved it. It was very good to us, but that's your... Okay, that's true.

I'm sorry. Okay, all right. So let's get into okay. That's true. I'm sorry. All right, so let's get into it. So we got a lot to talk about. We got a lot of topics to talk about. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., officially got kicked off of Instagram. Okay, so that's pretty interesting. Permanently.

Instagram, Twitter. Is it? Instagram, but not Facebook. But not Facebook, but not Twitter, just Instagram. Just it was, okay, so because that's where he's most active. He's very active on Instagram. We'll talk about that here in a minute. But we got, we got an email this morning from Andrew Yang's team that they want to, they

want to be on bad team. But they say exactly. No, no, just say, hey, would you be interested and we're going to go back and forth and see if it makes sense for us to have Andrew Yang gone. I think that would be cool. You know what I commented on the post he had the other day, he put a video up. And you know, there are certain policies you can have a battle with, but the guy as an individual, you got to like the guy. The guy is a skateboarder. He's sitting there in New York playing the piano. I commented. I said, I hope you beat the Blasio. I'm rooting

for you. Is the Blasio running again? Well, you know, whatever. The point is, I hope you win because I want everything to be changing with New York, with what the brass you the mess he's made, et cetera, et cetera. Imagine if he wins in New York and Shemaat wins in California. That's, that's cool. I think they're very similar. I'm very likely. Yeah.

I think his number one. I like it. But that's the main. There's a big difference to the mayor and governor. Shemaat's going to be governor. Governor's a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a be governor. Governor's a, uh, uh, uh, that's a tough task than I say. It is a tougher task, but he's got, he's got a little convales in his corner. Shema's got a little convales in his corner.

Shema's got the young entrepreneurs and his, uh, like a little guy, a likeable guy. Smart guy. But yeah, on the other side, Gavin Newsom, people really like him in California. He's definitely, uh, doing a great job, right? Did you just say that? He's, he's, he's, you might get, uh, they're, they're closing it on one point five million. Maybe we'll start off with that. We'll start off with that.

So just because of you, are you part of the Yang gang? Is that what you're saying? I didn't say that. I just I think I think he'll be very good for the city. I really think he'll be very good mayor. I actually think he would be a good mayor. Your Yang gang. I mean, I'm kind of the same wavelength as Pat.

Yeah, yeah. There's interesting stuff with him and then there's, you know, I, you know, I, you know, what I'd want. I'd want to, yes, that I talked to Kyosaki. And you did an interview with him, which is coming out pretty insane that the, uh, Adams got an interview with Kyosaki coming out on, uh, he's doing economics. He's one special. I'm glad you're saying that. So, but I was speaking to him yesterday and, uh, maybe I'll bring that up here in a minute when we get into it

But he said what do you think about what's going on right now with having to be careful? What you say is my team's constantly trying to protect me for some sometimes I tweet some stuff that I shouldn't be tweeting Etc. Etc. And and we'll cover that because It's a strange time you're living you have to be very very Careful and selective with the words you use because they can come after you in no time. But what covered that? I don't want to bring up any bad, you know, food stuff, but it's kind of like you need

to walk on eggshells these days with your eggs. My gosh, just eggs were just, you know, terrible. What happened when I ate the eggs by the way? I mean, Pat eats as egg whites every morning before he Last podcast he said something was up with those eggs. I'm not sure So you know how you take the paper town you put it on top of the pizza To take the grease Mickey did that with egg white. Yeah, I know. I've never heard of that before so she didn't do it this morning

She didn't do it this morning, so you had two bites of egg whites, and then you gave the old That chicken's out of business. Okay. All right, so is Norway socialist? We're gonna talk about that today because there are minimal wage. We can actually look at a lot of the minimum wage from different countries.

And the time we spent yesterday, I thought it was very interesting with what we came up with. Most business-friendly countries. Okay, at the top is one that we'll cover here in a minute. Minimal wage stats,, smart cart startup, Kaper is helping retailers compete with Amazon by digitizing the in-person shop and experience

of Reddit, raise another quarter of a billion dollars and double its valuation to six billion just because of the GameStop saga. What a, what a, in 30 days, you go from three billion to six billion, you didn't sell any product. You just have Wall Street bets, help you increase your value by $3 billion. That's pretty big.

They might have been the biggest winner of the whole situation. I do agree with you. Wall Street bets was really big for them. Yeah, I do agree with you. Just read it overall. Sales force says the nine to five work day is dead and will provide three new ways for employees

to work, including the possibility of working from home, forever. Okay, our favorite coin,, pronounced for me, please. Doge coin goes viral. Has the crypto market lost all sanity? And the CEO made comments himself that we'll cover in a minute, half of GameStop buyers. Our first time traders never have traded before. We'll cover that. The battery. Kai's got extensive research that he's done on battery. And the market, the history of battery

we'll get into that as well. US stock is a bubble. New York allowing indoor sports. This is a good sign at a certain capacity and they have certain restrictions. AOC says it was a mistake that Biden doesn't pay off the student loan did of 50,000. Twitter says Trump wouldn't be allowed back.

Even if he ran again in 2024 for president thems on house committee, $15 minimum wage Gavin Newsom, et cetera, et cetera. We got a few other things that we'll cover. And then Mark Cuban didn't play the national anthem. The NBA said it is an requirement for us to play the national anthem. Let's go to Gavin Newsom page 8. Everybody if you're listening to this, it's like you're at church. Go to page eight, please have your notes. Go to Psalms 8 line six. Right. Okay, here we go. Governor Newsom has two

potential challengers for governor as recall petitioners 1.5 million names supporters have until March 17, 2021 to collect 1.495, 709 signatures as 1.495 million, 709 signatures needed to trigger a recall election. As of February 3rd, organizer announced that they had collected more than 1.3 million signatures. By the way, they've already collected over 1.3 million. They only need 190,000. They started in like November December. That's a scary thought. That's too quick. California's one of the 19 states.

That might have been a little like a dare to older, I think they're up to 1.4. I think you're right, Marry. Can you pull up to see how many signatures they've gotten for what he called it for? Recall news. Yeah. California's one of the 19 states that allows for citizens

to recall elected officials according to the California Secretary of State website. The petition needs at least 1.495 million or 12% of the 12 million votes in the last the election for governor on Monday conservative commentator Mike Surnovitch announced that he would run against Newsom if a recall vote is successful in the state. Surnovitch announced came during a live stream video posted on his Twitter account where he said the question is why I would run for governor and the answer list answers pretty simple.

In addition to a Cernivage billionaire venture capitalist, Shemat has suggested that he plans to run against Newsom. Shemat has yet to publicly announce his bid for governor, but he has been very critical of Newsom and has shown his support for the recall petition. Is this well deserved for Newsom to be recalled kicked out and not be the governor of California? What are your thoughts? We've been talking, you're born in, I'm sorry, raised in California. 24 years.

Your mom is from California. I know you are from Norway, but you got family in California. Cali roots. I'm a Florida boy. So I'm not really too up to speed on California politics. But you know, we've been since the basically started the podcast since everything that started with the pandemic, we've been covering what Gavin Newsom has been doing. And it hasn't been pretty there. We, you know, we jokingly called him the U-Haul salesperson of the year. Everyone's getting the hell out of California. And it seems like they are getting very, very, very close to this, what is it, recall for the election?

My question is this, just to kind of give the other side of the coin, because it'd be very easy to bash new sum. You see on, you know, even on SNL, they call them, you know, an inflatable sex doll. It's just kind of like this robotic. What, it kind of reminds me of speaking of Michael Burry. What was, what's, who plays Michael Burry in the movie?

Christian Bale. Christian Bale's character in, help me out here, American Psycho with the hair gel. It kind of has that vibe going on. You tell me, but where I want to go is this is, you can see that little bit, right? Just kind of like this soulless, sex doll kind of a guy. Marry, you might want to pull this up if you can. Gavin Newsom approval ratings in California. I'd love to see if we can find that data.

Obviously, he's a very unlikable person. He's getting a lot of hate. I saw a person just basically mocking him on YouTube yesterday and it was actually spot on. I want to know when this recall, this election would be and what his current approval ratings are because you might get 1.5 people to be a part of this recall. But if he has high approval ratings in the state of California, it might sort of be a move point. Do we have something here?

Is that say 52%? That's a job approval rating. Job approval rating. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. So his job approval rating is 52%. That's not horrible. Build the blasios is way lower than that in New York.

So I mean, if you, if you, if you, are you a little shocked right now, you, if you had to guess, where did you think his job approval would be in the 30s? At least maybe the 40s. Maybe the 40s. I mean, Trump hovered somewhere between 40 and 45, 38 and 45, his whole presidency. I don't think you ever cracked 50 news. So when we talk a lot of trash about him, and I'll, I'll give it up to you now, but he's still about 50%. So I'm actually surprised to see that's where he is. So meaning for all the pandemic stuff that he's doing, all the stuff that you

hauled jokes, there's a large contingency that says, no, he's pretty doing a pretty good job. Here's, here's a question for you. Here's a question for you. What is the most liberal state in America? Boom, you got it, Callie. Maybe Boston, maybe Massachusetts, maybe Hawaii, California. California is probably the most liberal state in America. Okay, think about San Francisco, think about, you know, lots of areas in LA, think about Santa Monica, think about California's the most liberal state in America.

But not way up north, right? I mean, that's when it gets a little bit more conservative, or that's a different story. Or even closer to the east side of the state near Nevada. I agree. But it's probably the most liberal. The highest taxes in America, number one, New York, New York is, I think, number eight, de-best taxes in America is Tennessee. So if California was a country, California wouldn't be America. If California was a country, California would be France. California would be a more liberal politically, which means 50% rating is, is, doesn't, is not surprising to me because it's like, yeah, that's the country where most of them want more social programs, most of them want more of somebody on that side.

So yes, of course, it would be a 50% surprise by the country. Zero. That would be a 50% zero. That doesn't do anything for me. That doesn't do anything for me. All it does is a simple thing. Look, right here, there's a guy last year right this community right across. It's called Royal Palm. Yeah. Literally 200 yards from us, right Royal Palm?

Okay, one guy, his name is David, I believe. Do you know how much he sold in the last 12 months in Royal Palm, how much real estate? I showed it to you. Yeah, you said he sold like 400,000. 700, no, no, no, crazy. Can you grab the brochure out of my office? It's a big blue brochure in my office.

You can go to it's same. Grab the big blue brochure out of my office. It's gonna be a nice advertisement for him. Big blue brochure out of my office. That has Royal Palm properties. You'll see it. He was the guy in royal palm. $737 million of home sold in one community, in one community.

So in one year, in 12 months, in 12 months, in one year, almost everybody you run into here when he talked to them, how you doing? How you doing? So where are you from? Jersey, where are you from?? Jersey, where are you from? New York, where are you from? Why? Why would I stay in New York?

I love New York, but why would I stay there? New York's only a place I go to for vacation. Okay, here it is. This is, thank you. This is the Royal Palm community. I think I'm hoping I said the number right, okay? I don't know if I got the name right. You got it, seven.

Yeah, his name is David, okay? How much did he sell? $737 million from January 1st to December 31st. Okay, we're talking about in a two year period, he sold $737 million. Why? People are leaving. They're leaving New York to come here.

Okay. People are leaving California. You go to Texas, how many people were your neighbors when you talked to? Where are you from, California? Where are you from, California? Where are you from? California. There are people that don't want to living California. You go to Texas, how many people were your neighbors when you talk to? Where are you from, California? Where are you from, California? Where are you from, California? There are people that don't want to leave California.

There are people that just want to make sure California improves. There are people that are so deep rooted that are like, listen, man, I don't want to leave this place. I want to stay here. I just don't want this guy to be my governor and I want policies to change. There is that community that's sick of it, right?

You know, out of the 1.4 million votes that he got for the recall, a third are moderate Democrats. We talked about it last time. And it's getting very close. If it's getting to this point here that this is going to be taking place, it wouldn't be an I think for him to take place because of many of the Democrats when they're looking at their lineup of who could be the potential future president. He's on the list. He's on a list of a future president. Just, you know, oh, absent. He's on the list. Are you kidding me? He's on a top five. He's on a short list of some other that could be. He looks like it. He has California. I just, you know, he has got that raspy voice. He's gruff voice. But he's he's a track. You ever see him given the

answers the way he talks like he talks, like he knows the game. He's been in the game. He looks the part. He looks the part, but he talks the game, the whole game he knows, right? He's a politician. He's a politician. I don't know if this is gonna be a good look for him

if he ever runs for office. I don't think this is gonna be a good recall. No way. I don't think it's gonna be a good look for him if he gets to recall. How many people do you know that sign that recall? A lot. Really? A lot. How many people do you know that sign that recall? A lot. Really?

Oh, a lot. How many people do you know that says, no, that's my guy. I would never. You do. You do. Okay. I actually got roots in California. I have thousands of people there.

A few, a few people that say, no, I think it's okay. I think we should let him go. He's not as bad as Trump. He's not as bad as this. He's not as bad as that. At least he's not Cuomo where he let, you know, he didn't give the right facts about people being in old folks home or, you know, the, no, and people died nursing homes. At least he didn't do that. It's all about at least at least. So there

is that community. They're giving them the benefit of a lot of people are sick of it. Do you think there's an underground like the people that are voting to recall him? Is it kind of the same underground that started flocking behind Trump in 2016, like the silent majority? Look, you know, I got a call from one of my mentors, advisors, very successful president of a multi-hundred billion dollar company, uh, uh, and he's in his seventies. And we had a great conversation to get. He says, look, in life, here's how it works.

He says, you're going to have battles. There's going to be little fights that happens all the time with you and somebody with you and family With you and a friend with you and all that stuff He says the goal is to try to get the battles to be done somebody wins you move on everybody goes about their business, right? He says then there's wars when there is a war you have to know that every country has to defend themselves Okay, I have to defend me you have to defend you and you, there's gonna be some casualties at the end of the war. No matter what, if you go to war, there's casualties. He said, then there's nuclear wars.

When it's nuclear wars, it lasts a long time and the amount of blood in your hands gonna be a lot. Last 12 months politically was a nuclear war. And the way they went after Trump, it doesn't end there. It's not like there's no residual effects to it. There's a lot of... It's still going on right now, doesn't end there. It's not like there's no residual effects to it. There's a lot of... It's still going on right now. It's nothing.

It's nothing. It's nothing. The residual effects of the last 12 months is not a one year residual effect. The residual effects of the last 12 months is a 10, 20 year residual effects. Are you kidding me? Let me put it to you this way. The residual effects of the last 12 months could be 25 year effects of a barren Trump type of residual effects. Like you have to know, you offended my dad. The actual effects of the last 12 months could be 25 year effects of a barren Trump type

of residual effects. Like you have to know, you offended my dad. So, so this, what they did last year, maybe like, hey, it's Calgary, look at, you know, oh yeah. So you did that to Trump, we're going to do this to Newsom. We're going to do this. So, so they started and they started a nuclear war. They started a nuclear war.

And it's not, you took Trump off, watch how long it takes until the next them president just just and what are you going to say? No, so they started a nuclear war and now they're impeaching who in the world cares about a former president being impeached like let me say this one word like okay, it's like saying I'm on a fire and old employee that I've already let go of. What are you talking about? So you understand, like you came, you served your six months, your 12 months,

a year later, I want to change it from that you just did your time and you contraint, you wrapped it up, no, no, I want to change it, I fired you. What are you talking about? No one in the world cares about a former president being impeachable. He's a former one-term president. What's worse than being a one-term president?

How many one-term presidents do we have? That's been impeached to us. You know what it is to be a one-term president. What's worse than a one-term president? Jimmy Carter, one-term, senior, one-term. There is nothing worse than being a one-term president. Nothing for a president. Are you saying they should not even pursue any illegal action? No, it's already bad enough. But since they're doing it, they just have to be prepared for the nuclear war and the world of politics. Are you saying that they should, I'm not, I'm not saying that this is, this is conversation right here. Should they not pursue what's good, because they just started this, you know, second impeachment

trial. It's not everything that's going on. Should they or should they not? Yeah. It's not should they or should they not. Okay. Long time ago, I had to, you know, in my 20s, it was always about, no, but they're wrong. No, but they're wrong. No, but they're wrong. Like, listen, after plenty of books to read and mentors, counsel, all this stuff, you

don't need to win everything. Mm-hmm. Certain things. You just, you just gotta let go of it. This is not worth it. This is embarrassing to me. Why do you think they're going after them so far? It's, I think it's a little too much. I think it's like proven a point.

He's the first to be impeached twice. You think there's any part of it where they're trying to make sure that he's barred from running again? I think that's the big one. We'll try to put the nail in the coffin. 100% that's it. But I tell you what, I talked to Oliver North yesterday or two days ago.

Yes, I did. I talked to Oliver North yesterday or two days ago. Yes, I talked to Oliver North, and I said, who's your number on candidate for 2024? He said, Mike Pence. I said, okay. I said, do you think Trump should run in 2024? He said, no, absolutely not. He says, they're gonna destroy his businesses.

They're gonna go after him. He says, what he needs to be focused on right now is to take care of his family, because it's gonna be pretty ugly. This is Oliver North. You'll see I'm prefect. I'm obviously I'm, you know, yeah. And by the way, I'm familiar with Oliver North. Yeah. Iran, control fair. He talks about it openly. He's a former general. What was what was the current? Lieutenant Colonel. Lieutenant Colonel famous in the early 80s. This

when was the Iran Contan? 80 184 like that. He was famous for a big trial on Capitol Hill. Yeah. You know, for those of you that are not familiar, you got arrested for the, you know, five people are not arrested guilty. Okay. So he was one of them. Pointex, or I think was another one of five CIA agents and a couple other names. This is like the equivalent. I'm not exact, but like this is a water gateish Benghazi type in the news type of like holy moly, Oliver North on trial. Yeah, so it was a $30 million money that they got to work with. I think a country that they were protecting the country, you know, Nukarago, but it's a

small region of it. And they took out of that 13, again, I you can go verify this. 18 million to buy weapons for Iran and give weapons. So it was a very interesting thing that took place. And this is all on the tail end of the Cold War. You have the whole Russia or communism versus capitalism and the ideological fight as well. Yeah. Yeah.

So the whole challenge is, you know, Oliver Nord said, I don't think he needs to run. I think he needs to take care of his family. But the point I'm trying to make here needs to run. I think he needs to take care of his family. But the point I'm trying to make here was Newsom. I'm not surprised. You cause a nuclear war. So when you cause a nuclear war, there's going to be a few what? Casualties.

Newsom's going to be one of them. Period. Newsom is a casualty because of the nuclear war. And I think they knew they're going to have casualties. I think they knew they were going to have casualties. I think they knew they were going to have casualties. This if it happens, you potentially eliminated one of your future presidents. And these are high draft pick by the way, very high draft. He's the top five candidate. I see. And the thing with, you know, as with anything,

it's a lot of it has to do with optics, optics, right? So, you know, again, like we said, Polish, good looking, you know, kind of looks like Christian Bale's character in American Psycho, Hair Gel, you know, kind of, but when he's shutting down all the wineries and then he apparently owns a winery and the one, his one freaky, you own a winery, bro. Oh, his one winery is open and he's, and he's there drinking in a French laundry restaurant, restaurant party. It's like distancing.

Like you're getting very easy to be like, get this douchebag out of here. It's just very easy to feel that I think that's the word though. I think that's a word to describe it. And look, you knew, you knew folks like that in high school who liked guys like that. You know, behind closers, they're like, dude, just stop. I so you're so annoying, right? Get over yourself, buddy. You know, you're, you're not as, you know, amazing as you think you are. So they're annoying the way you are. As a California, if you're watching,

as I'm actually curious, right now, we have 178 thumbs up, 233 thumbs up, one thumb down. Okay. I'm curious if you're watching this. Recall thumbs up, smash thumbs up. If you say he needs to get out, we need to recall and we need to move on and get a shem out or somebody else. No, he's doing a good job. Let's keep him in there. Press thumbs down. I'm curious. Thumbs up out, thumbs down. It's fine. Let's just keep him in there. Continue your session. As a as a Californian, because you keep obviously a closer tab on California politics, who do people in California dislike more?

Newsom or LA mayor Eric Garcetti? It's not even a question on how it is. I mean, Newsom's on that list number one, because Newsom's a governor. It's an unfair, it's like saying, who do people like more, a high school basketball player or an NBA player? Newsom is a NBA player. Newsom's playing on a big leagues. 150. How many mayors you got in America?

Of course, it's a bigger mayor. You can't. Mayor of LA. I get it, but Garcetti Bloomberg, you know, it's, it's a, no, it's, it's no. I'm not. I'm thinking the influence like Newsom probably influences Garcetti more than Garcetti influences. I agree.

Yeah, I agree. And by the way, Garcetti's a more yes or person. Bloomberg is not. Bloomberg, not the Blasio is not. The Blasio fights. Yeah. Cuomo. Cuomo's like, dude, what are you talking about?

Let the Amazon people come and put their jobs here. No, it's not fair. It's like, what is the matter with you? Yeah, exactly. So Garcetti and Nusom are on the same page. The Blasio and Cuomo, they're not on the same page. Mario, while we're on the topic, would you find out, build the Blasio approval ratings in New York?

I'd be curious to know. 51% was what? No, no, no, no, no. 52% is noose them. Yeah. Build the Blasio approval rating. No way, it's at 50%. I feel like you, this is all from 2019 article.

No, no, go back. Go go current. You know that when you put current there, that was good. You put current right before approval. You did that with the news. Yeah. It's my spelling right there. I saw that. I saw that. Little over 51% March 26. Yeah, they don't have it out there. Okay. So, so anyways, you know, we'll see what's gonna happen with this in the state of California, whether he's gonna be gone

or he's gonna stay, but very soon we are gonna find out exactly the results on this. FYI, we got a few people I wanna give a shout out to, George just gave five bucks saying, PBD do a reaction on Tom McDonald's song, Fake Woke, give an opinion, he's also one called canceled, okay? I, you don't want to hear me sing, but I am, I'm somebody that sings a lot, but privately.

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after the Dallas Mavericks halt rituals. Specifically, Mark Cuban decided to stop playing the national anthem in the game. This is something that the MBA's been doing for a long time. The league announcement comes after the news that Dallas Mavericks sees playing the national anthem in the game. This is something that the NBA has been doing for a long time. The league announcement comes after the news that Dallas Mav sees playing the national anthem prior to home games this season at the direction of honor, Mark Cuban, the Mavs have not played the national anthem before any home games this season. A spokesperson told NBC the announcement from Bass seems to contradict the previous statement from NBA spokesperson Tim Frank who told the NBC news that teams are permitted to run their pregame operations as they see fit.

Through league policy NBA requires a stand for national anthem according to the NBC sports and BC commissioner Adam silver hasn't strictly enforced the rule. Allowing players to kneel during the anthem and the NBA bubble last season. So, you know, Mark Cuban decides to not play the national anthem i don't know what we watch in every together yesterday with uh... the girl from yes p.m. i don't know her name which is always on Rachel nickel Rachel nickels and he said look it's not that i wasn't planning on doing it we just didn't know if we were going to do it or not we were just kind of listen to the audience some of them thought it wasn't a uh... something that represented their community they don't want to be played

others want to be played so we just kind of saw what we're up, and now we're gonna go back and playing it. So what are your thoughts about the national anthem and Mark Cuban? I mean, let me just start off with Mark Cuban. I know you're listening. Play the damn national anthem.

I'll say it again. Play the damn national anthem. We're here in America. The flip side to that is, you wanna kneel? You wanna do the calling cavernic thing? You want to do the Colin Kaepernick thing? Cool. But play that got national. Tell me why. Tell me. We're here in freaking America. What are we talking about? What do you mean by that? So what do you mean by that? We're in America.

What's the big deal? I mean, I like listen, obviously, obviously, this is the argument that they're making. So I'm trying to see what your argument. I mean, obviously, I'm, you know, there's certain things I'm a little left on, certain things I'm a little left on, certain things I'm a little right on. But where are we in the conversation where no more national anthem, no more mayor at the Star Spangled Banner is a divisive topic. Okay, cool. If you want to, if you want to protest and kneel during the anthem, I'm good with that. I'm good with the Colin Kaepernick thing, raise your voice, social justice, I'm cool with that. But to the point of saying, no national anthem,

are you freaking kidding me? You know when I'm, like, when did the national anthem really started sports games? You did some research on this. World War One. World War One, right? Okay, so World War Two, I'm assuming it was big. For me, being a kid, I'm a member,

I pledge allegiance in school, you know, 1991, the National Anthem, who's hanging at the Super Bowl. Remember that? Whitney Houston completely crushed the National Anthem. We were in the middle of Desert Storm, right? We were at war, George W. Bush senior, I'm George Bush senior, HW Bush. She completely crushed the national anthem.

From that day forward, I'm like, damn, like I, I get down with the national anthem. Now if you, again, if you want to protest, you have the right to protest, peaceful protest. You totally have that right. You want to put your fist up, you want to kneel, I'm good with that. But in no, underno circumstance in America today, should it be even a conversation of, should we play the national anthem, is the national anthem, the right thing to do?

If you don't want to be in America, get the out of America. Paul, what do you think? Yeah, actually, 100% agree with Adam here. I was thinking the same thing. At the end of the day, you do have the freedom to leave. Like, it's just like at a job. If you don't like certain things, it's one thing to complain about it, but at the end of the day, you still decide to be at that job, and you accept all the

conditions that occur with it. If you don't like it, go find another place. You have that freedom, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Like Adam said, the National Anthem is, that's kind of a, that's, you're being in America, you're accepting that. Even immigrants that come here, you're accepting the national anthem. It's part of the deal.

Any, any different opinion than what we've heard so far. Any different opinion, thoughts, Mario, any different opinion than what he just said so far. I mean, I just give two cents here. I think it's interesting, because none, no countries are perfect. I mean, obviously there's, there's baggage that comes with everything

and to change things completely, like changing the national anthem and traditions, I know we talked about traditions yesterday of how changing, like people adjust to traditions, traditions traditionally don't change based on who's there. And you've talked about this culture and companies as well. Yeah.

Of there's a set culture and then people don't change it. Either they adapt to it or like you guys have mentioned, they can leave. You know, here's what I would say with this. So what you said, everybody, what you're saying here is, nine years ago, I'm at Malibu at this one private meeting that was taking place and Prager was there. And then as Prager said, what makes religions work? And he's going through it.

What makes people go to... So why does Catholicism work? And you know, do so. Why is the Judaism religion, you know, he's going through everything. He says because of what? The word rituals, right? Rituals, there's certain rituals. Rituals, you know, I'm a Christian, but I would go, I prefer to pray in Catholic church.

I think I told you guys, I like to pray in Catholic church, even I'm a Christian, some people say, you're out of your mind, why do you wanna do that? That's me, I prefer to pray at a Catholic church because to me, I feel a little bit more, it's different to me when I go there. When you go at a Catholic church because to me I feel a little bit more It's different to me when I go there when you go to a Catholic church. You know, there's so many rituals Christians Don't have that many rituals if you think about it non-denominational evangelical not that many rituals Judaism lots of rituals Christians have rituals don't get me wrong

but not at the level of So didn't you bring it back and you say okay America? Mario when we came here, Mario was staying with us for the first couple of days, more like 20 days. But you know, we stayed with us here for the first couple of weeks and he's got a nice place now right here, beautiful places to stay in the right place. He loves his new bed, by the way.

Yeah, I bet he does. So, for about a week, Mario, what song did you hear me listen to for hours? Amazing grace. How many times did you hear me listen to for hours? How many times did you hear me listen to it? Honestly on repeat a couple hours every night every night couple hours no joke That was your go-to song every night and and and what happened every time I listen to it You have no idea how emotional I get Listen to this oh, no, but there's a specific song. There's a specific person.

Anyways, there's a playlist. I listen to it, right? Okay. And you know, it kind of gets me to think about how lucky I am. Incredible life I have, all the screw ups in life, all the dumb stuff I've done, and I'm still forgiven. I still have the life that I have. And you still been given me the life that I'm living today.

You can't be the luck you spent a life, right? So, National Anthem, what's the National Anthem? It starts being a bent. You know, the greatest country in the world fought for this. People that came before us, they did what they did. And we have the ability to sit here, and we're gonna forget about that. And you don't want to play it just because you don't want

to play because people are offended. Okay, so he said the reason why we didn't want to do this because certain people in our community didn't want to hear the national anthem. Certain. Well, let me get to straight. In Dallas, Texas, who did that poll? Who did that market research?

You know how sometimes my employees would come to me and you know, and salespeople would come to me and say, a lot of people are not happy with this. Really? Name me one. They said, really, of people are not happy with this. Really, name me one. They said, really, give me how many people they are. And then it's always, John and Bob, okay, so it's two people. So don't say they, it's two people.

How many agents do we have? 18,000. Two people say we can't sit there for two people, you know. So, you're living in Dallas. Most people in Dallas are what? Love America, conservative, hardworking, entrepreneurs, business owners. Your ticket prices are not five bucks.

If you are listening to a community that you said they don't want the national anthem to be played, what is the average income of that community? Let's do the numbers. Why don't you make your ticket prices? Why don't you make your ticket prices available to that community? Why don't you make your ticket prices 10 bucks don't you make your ticket prices available to that community? Why don't you make your ticket prices 10 bucks?

Why do you have ticket prices so expensive? If it's so much about the community, stop selling $100 tickets, $200 tickets, $500. If you're so concerned about the community. But if somebody's buying a $500 ticket to come watch your game, $200 ticket to watch your game, for too long taking my kid, and I do that once a year, and twice a year, I'm making $50,000, $100,000, $'re $200,000, you're two by $200 ticket. If not, by the way, I've never been to a basketball game in my life.

I went to basketball game as a kid one time. And the star of that game was Sedale Treat and Tony Smith. You probably don't even remember those names. Yeah. Yeah. Early, early, early mid 90s. But the point is, the point is, the point is, the Van Axle was a star that came a little bit after that.

But here's the point I'm trying to make to you. If you say your community doesn't want the national anthem to be played, show us the report. What percentage of your community doesn't want to play? Because let's just say that number is 10%. Yeah. Say that number is 20%. I can find 50 other things that 10 or 20% of people

are offended by you do. What are you gonna do? Change again. Yeah, exactly. So every single time a small minority community comes out and says, we're gonna have change every single time. I'm part of the minority. I'm middle eastern. How many middle easterns are in America? I'm a Syrian. I'm part of the minority community.

I don't have a four-year degree. I don't have a two-year degree. I am a minority. I came to the States. Green card. Got my citizenship a day after I was in a military. I came to the States, green card, got my citizenship, but day after I was in a military. What are you gonna do? Everything I complained about, you're gonna say,

oh my gosh, Patrick's upset. No. I have to work my way up, have a voice, get my, okay. So, I don't know. Look, there's two different types of people. You know, people compare him and Trump together on Mark Cuban and Trump and all this other stuff. By the way, yesterday you asked me questions

if Cuban ever ran, would you vote from what I tell you? And we run against it. And I gave you the roster. Who did I, what did I say? What did you say? What if you ran against Bernie? You said Cuban.

If you ran against Biden, you'd say Cuban. All day if you ran against Trump, you said, I don't know what you said. No, you didn't ask Trump. You said you said you said you said pants. Oh, Ted Cruz is where you kind of were. I said I would be a little bit in the middle because Cuban at least understands business, but the difference is the final. What concerns me? He's obviously another future candidate that wants to be a business.

It's a movement right now. Entrepreneurs become impressive. You respect Cuban. Oh, but those things you don't. How do you not agree with? How do you not respect the guy? First of all, how do you not respect the guy? You go to Indiana University. The guy's a ridiculous numbers guy, an incredible sales guy, learns to use his numbers and sales together, becomes a billionaire, buys the maps, brings the first championship,

like there is no, I don't respect the guy. I disagree with this assessment of this situation. That's all it is. It's not, there is no, I don't respect the guy for what he's done in his life. He's created a lot of jobs. He's brought a lot of, you know, different things that he's done. But yeah, I don't respect the guy for what he's done in his life. He's created a lot of jobs. He's brought a lot of, you know, different things that he's done.

But I don't know. I just think we have to, this old cancel culture, if it changes the rituals and what America stands for, we're gonna lose our values and principles. Then America's no longer America. No. Because America's just a land.

What is America founded on? If it is, let's just kind of keep reminding ourselves that this is what America's on. Sometimes we need, and you know what affirmation is, affirmation is what? Hearing the same thing, what? Over and over and over again. I had an affirmation list with 30 affirmations. People would come to my house, friends might would come to my house, they'd be sitting in this place or they'd take the affirmation, they'd go to the bathroom and they'd say, Pat, you got all these laminated stuff on the wall. They would read it, they like, man, I'm fired up because of these affirmations. And I can tell you some of the affirmations till today.

We have to listen to national anthem. It's an affirmation. It's an affirmation. To we are. It's who we are and we listen to it over and over and over. And of my favorite service of the year is Christmas. You go to Christmas, you hear this story. At the end, Dudley would put up the candles.

He had one at the front. All of us would walk up. We would light up our small candle, then we go in our end, that they would put up the candles. He had one at the front. All of us would walk up. We would light up our small candle, then we'd go in our community, then we'd light up whoever's around us, five, 10, 15 people, and all of a sudden you got 5,000 people with candle, they would turn off the lights. He would just hold it like this.

Don't let the candle drop on the floor, et cetera, et cetera. And you would look and I'd like, that's awesome. Every year, you would go to your own. It's so freaking amazing. Rachel. It's a ritual. It's a ritual.

It's a reminder. One person can light up a country and inspire them. So I don't know if this is a good thing he's doing himself. I'm glad the NBA took their position, by the way, phenomenal job. Shout out to the NBA. Yeah, cool. Yeah, we're taking our position. So it seems to just use the Cuban Trump analogy.

And this is one of the things that always frustration media of Trump. And this is what Cubans doing right now. It's the people are saying they're saying. People are saying. And, and, and I got to give credit. You, I don't remember the interview that Jonathan Swan, the, I think he's British, not British New Zealand or Australian reporter. The C sat down and did the one and one. He says, who sang? Tell me who sang. Tell me who sang. What people are saying, it's so, like, I love what you said. And it was with you.

Who's that? Well, Bob and John, okay, so two people are saying. So that's what people are saying. But by the way, we did the research. We all do it. When do we use that? When we're cornered? Yeah, when you're, when you're, I heard.

Yeah, but we all do that. But when we do that, when we use that when we're cornered? Yeah, when you're, when you're, I heard. Yeah, but we all do that. But when we do that, when we do that, we can still be held accountable. Yeah, also, if you have an argument, guess what? Then you say, here's who said it. Okay, fair. I didn't know. Then let's talk about it, right?

But if you say day people in our community are not happy, what percentage of your people in your community, who is upset about the national anthem? According to a easy way to BS your way out of it. I'm not afraid. People are saying, also the way in your community, who is upset about the national anthem? According to such an easy way to BS your way out of it's not a thing. People are saying also the way in the interview how he put it of, oh, we didn't decide. We're kind of just seeing how it goes, but now we'll go back to this very safe answer of not trying to play. Why you could be a president one day.

But diplomatic. I think I can also just say on the interview with Adam and Robert, a rumor was mentioning that a lot of people don't have financial education. At the same time, I think a lot of people don't know the meaning of the United States flag of the, or the, or what we have done. I mean, I come from Colombia originally. So for me being here every time even that I'm not an American U.S. citizen born here, I always stand up and give my respect to the flag just

because all the great things that I have gotten for becoming to America. So I just think that a lot of U.S. citizens in high school, I went to high school here in United States college, they don't teach school. Here in the United States, college, they don't teach us the value of what United States of America means. Yeah, and this is a guy that gives you. Yeah, I did. You know, he fought to come here from,

what age did you come here from a 14-year-old? 14-year-old, you got your bachelor's degree? Yes. On your own dime, who paid for it? I was working 46 hours a week while going to school. And what degree did you get, bachelor's and what? I have a bachelor's in accounting and a bachelor's in corporate finance. How old were you when you got the bachelor's and those two?

Hey, I finished at 21. And how much family you had here while you were in, in, in, no family? I mean, that's, that's the story. willing to go through, by the way, I want, I do want to respond to a couple of people that commented that are against us. Okay. I do want to's the story. Willing to go through, I do want to respond to a couple of people that commented at our against us. I do want to talk about that. So here's one of the comments says, do you know the second stands at the anthem?

Anthem, it's offends to the people who build a country. Air, R, Stoth Heart, I'm going to come back to you because you had another comment as well. Adam, I don't agree with you political, but I'll listen to your financial videos and one or say thanks for sharing your wisdom, Matthew Elliott. Okay, thank you., but I'll listen to your financial videos and one or say thanks for sharing your wisdom, math to you, Elliot.

Okay, thank you. Chris Hunter Pat, what are your thoughts on Genevieve Fired from Mandalorian? Also, what are your thoughts on Brian Rose running for Mayor of London? I support Brian. I sent him a message. I said, Brian, I wish you nothing but the best.

He and I communicated. That's Chris Hunter, but that's the question. Steven Ginoños, Francis Scott Key, who wrote the anthem was a slave owner and most people didn't know that last five years. So that's what drives people crazy and want to change the America, the beautiful soy boy mafia hashtag, so your community.

Let me give the answer to that, my perspective. Just so you know, assyrians were slave owners, blacks were slave owners, blacks were slave owners, Jews were slave owners. You go back 200 years ago, 300 years ago, every culture on slaves, every culture on slaves. There is not one that never on slaves. Africa on slaves, they do many small, till today,

there are many countries that own slaves. What are we going to do? So now we have to get rid of all the history of everybody that at one point had it, is that what we're going to be doing? So what if right now somebody said this one large insurance company, that's one of our competitors, and they've been around since 1868, okay, it's based out of New York, hence, okay. So did you know that back in the days, they saw life insurance to slave owners. So one of my guys said, we should use that when we're going up against our competitors,

and bring that up. I said, you're never going to do that. Why? Because if they did it, other people did it. That was legal. Back then, it was stupid. It was not good. It wasn't anything that we agree with today,

but back then it was what? Legal, okay? Very simple. Legal. And if it was legal back then, no one is breaking what? The law, okay? Very simple. So does it mean we endorse it? Of course not. Does it mean we support it? Absolutely not. Does it mean we sit there and we say, oh my gosh, you know, it's, it's, it's, so who cares? No, that's not what we're saying. It wasn't a law back then. So large insurance companies,

what do you call it? They sold insurance to slave owners. Should we shut all of them down? All the banks here, all the banks in America, every single one of them, bank of America, bank of Italy used to be bank of Italy. So every single one all the banks in America, every single one of them, Bank of America, Bank of Italy, used to be Bank of Italy. So every single one of the banks in America, finance and help open up accounts for slave owners.

Should we shut down all the banks? Should we shut down all the banks? That's what we should do. So every book you ever read that's an old book, okay, we're talking about 200 years ago, that are classics. Oh, somebody in their family, should we get rid of that book? So is this the direction we're gonna go?

So, so a crime everybody committed, now we should bring it back and because of that embarrassed and public, is that the direction we're going? Again, that is a form of a nuclear war because if you constantly go and say, but you did this 79 years ago, but you did this 200 years ago. Look at what happened. Kevin Hart, who didn't want to see Kevin Hart do the Oscars? Who didn't want to see him as the host? Everybody wanted to see him do the be the host, but no, back in 2014, here's what Kevin Hart tweeted.

Are you kidding me? And then they went through what they did with Kevin Hart. Now, so to me, it is part of the tradition. It's what we've used. Everybody and anybody that we know on their resume, there is part of the tradition. It's what we've used. Everybody and anybody that we know on their resume, there is something bad. Including yourself, Kenyon. I bet you if I were to go and do higher somebody,

$50,000 and I told them, your project is to go investigate to see what bad things you did, I guarantee we would bring out something that you wouldn't be happy with. I mean, we're human, we're not perfect. That's the point. None of us are perfect. We make mistakes.

That's just the way it is. What's that one song? I'm only human, born to make mistakes. Oh, man. It's one of the best commercials by are perfect. We make mistakes. That's just the way it is. What's that one song? I'm only human born to make mistakes Yeah, man, the best commercials by the way And I think another thing there is kind of you're judging the past with today's perspective and today's Values and principles that we have or our viewpoints right now, which just doesn't make sense because times change Things that are okay in the past aren't okay now and vice versa, things that are okay now aren't okay then.

So you're just, you're confusing the times and how you look at things. And in that case, there's gonna be wrong things with everything. I mean, again, we're human, we're not perfect, we make mistakes. And at different points in time, those things are okay or those things are normal.

Watch this. I can't hear you. Okay, thank you. So what is February? Black history. Black history month. Okay. America, do you know what percentage Americans

are African American? Are African Americans? 13%. Exactly. Good number. That's the number. 13.4%. Do you know what percentage of our company are African American?

At our 18,000. 30%, maybe? 20, 22%. Between 20 to 22 18,000. 30% made. 20, 22%. Between 20 to 22% and half. 50% Latino. 50% Latino, 20% to 20% African American, right? Okay. 20% why, what we at?

You guys are up there. Okay. Like top five. No, not you guys. But, but it's top five. But here's the point I'm trying to make to you. Does this mean that we don't have, you know, 50% of the company to be white that we're racist again?

Like you know what I'm saying? Like what are you going to do every time? You're racist again, somebody, every company, you know, like, but this month is black history month. So the teacher asks my son, which character do you want to write a report about for black history month at the school that he's going to? So him and my wife are having a conversation together and My son says because my son has read a lot of books on Martin Luther King any book

I get that I can give my Martin Luther King. I want you to go. I want him to read it so He says I want to write about Martin Luther King Jen says want you try somebody else because everybody else is doing Martin Luther King He says okay, he comes back. He says you what, mom? I want to do it on Rosa Parks. He said this yesterday. He said, okay, Sean. So he's doing his report on Rosa Parks. Hasn't had us know about Rosa Parks. He's read multiple books on Rosa Parks. Why? Because we want to teach him the history of America. We don't sit there and say, don't read this.

You know, read this. Here don't need this, you know. Read this. Here's what happened. The kid in the bed. Dude, I've went and seen the real bus of Rosa Parks. That was, I went to the bus where it was in Durban. It's in Ford, museum. Eric and I drove as we were driving here and he got me a lot of crap for this

was because we were driving through Alabama and I saw we were about to pass Montgomery and then Selma was further south. So I was like, let's just drive through Selma and pee something bridge where they, the famous bridge where they marched over it. We drove over it and kind of just checked out the area. So absolutely, there's, there's a lot you can learn and there's a lot you can, you have to kind of know of it to not repeat the mistakes.

What's the quote? Those who don't read history, repeat history. Yep. Adam. I think even just what we're doing right now, you're given your perspective, you're given your perspective. I'll give my perspective. We all have different perspectives.

It's important. I'm not saying you're 100% right, you're 100% wrong. It's important to talk things out. One thing that stands out to me, even on the podcast, I remember when we were during the middle of all the protests, George Floyd, they were going down and removing a lot of the Confederate statues, ruining them all. And you asked me a question, should the Confederate statues be removed? And I listened, no fan of Confederacy whatsoever, like not even close. And I give a very emotional response. And

I, I, hell yeah, take them down and get the hell out of here. And people are like, what do you mean take them down? I'm like, get them out, get them, fuck them, da, da, da, da. And then after cooler heads prevailed, I listened to some other perspectives. I rethought my perspective. I reanalyzed my stance of this. I said, you know what?

They should go in a museum for history. If you wanna learn, there's a Confederate museum over there. We can't cancel the past. We can learn from it. If you don't learn from history, you're destined to repeat it. So I remember on another podcast, I gave a reform my answer and I said,

well, I thought about it and I'd like to reverse course. And I don't think they should just remove everything, but I don't think it should be out there in the public to be grandstanded on. Like these are, these people weren't heroes at the end of the day. They were traders, but it is part of our history. So put it in a museum, you know,

if you want to learn about it, go for it. So what's important is to have a conversation, to hear your thoughts, to hear my thoughts, to hear the BLM social justice thoughts, to hear why, you know, the, the South will rise again, hear their perspective, talk it out. I did an interview with Darryl Davis. The most important thing you can do is respect somebody's opinion and be willing to listen. You might disagree, but hear them out.

And when you can talk to somebody and you can have an open dialogue, that's where you'll find some compromise in the middle the Cantal culture up get out your out go up. That's where we are though. That's where we are. It's a very dangerous Unfortunately, that's what we are so I told Robert Qosak. I said we are living in the walking on walking on Exile Society. This is the walking on exiled. Robert F. Kennedy just got canceled off of Instagram if you want to put them up permanent ban Robert all the way to the right. I see Robert Mario all theo up to the right. The link. There you go. Yep right there. Clikanda. Okay, so Instagram on Wednesday took down the count of controversial trying to have X-Sine activists Robert F. Kennedy

We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunk claims about the coronavirus or vaccine spokesperson for Facebook Which owns Instagram sent an statement Kennedy the son of the former late former US general, US attorney general, US senator, presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy has repeatedly spoken out against the vaccine. He has lobbied Congress to give parents exemptions from state requirements that mandate their vaccine, their children. Look, look what an insane sentence that is. He has lobbied Congress to give parents exemptions from state

requirements that mandate they vaccinate their children. That's supposed to be controversial. Let me read it one more time. Like that's supposed to be controversial. exemptions from state requirements that mandate they vaccinate their children. That's supposed to be controversial. Let me read it one more time. Like that's supposed to be controversial. He lobbied Congress to give parents exemptions from state requirements that mandate they vaccinate their children. Mandate horrible.

That's that's supposed to be like a read the next sentence though. The lifelong Democrat downplays his anti vaccine views though by saying that he is actually in favor of safe vaccines and noting that all of his children have been vaccinated. There you go. Kennedy's Facebook page with more than 300,000 followers was still active at the time of the publication. The company spokesperson said that there were no plans to take down the page at this time. Children's Health Defense, the nonprofit group Kennedy chairs that express a skepticism about the health benefits of vaccines that it could not immediately comment on Instagram actions, Facebook has struggled for years to crack down.

I'm going to have a conversation about this a month ago. He called me about this a month ago because he was already getting challenged. Let me see this up for your response, if you will, because there's two stories going on here. Obviously, big tech, you know, canceling people's voices and then obviously vaccine. You held a vaccine debate with Robert Kennedy Jr. himself and Alan Dershowitz. This was about three, four months ago. Million views, everything. What were your biggest takeaways from that debate? What do you recall from that? Look, here's, it's two lawyers.

Robert is known as being an incredible environmental lawyer. Alan's a lawyer. He's been a, what do you call it? A professor? He was a defense lawyer. He was a defense lawyer. Constitutional lawyer for 51 years at Harvard. But Obama took his class.

Like that's defending Trump these days. He's defended OJ. Yeah. His resume. His resume is ridiculous. And what he's done. Okay. Look, I like a good debate because I learn.

I sit and I say, okay, this makes sense. So, hey, if you're doing this vaccine, do it after your kids three years old. Okay, go. The risk is when it's 18 months to 36 months. Okay, that's good to know. If you're going through this, it's purely the option. What is scary is the fact that you can't even have

the conversation today. Like, it's like a, oh, that guy said anti-vaxx. Okay. Every single vaccine that we've had to get, we've gotten. Me, my wife, are kids, everything. I've been over-vaccinated because I was in the army. When you're in the army, you're like, what do you call it? You're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're getting picked. They test on you and you have to sign. Same with Galera. Yeah, you, you're, you're signed saying weird things could happen to you. Obviously a lot of weird things happened to me after that. But so it makes sense. Yeah, I think I think

it's a it's a scary era. We're going. Okay. And all of this started off with one guy being taken off of social media. Alex Jones Alex Jones. That's where this all started. That's where all this started. Well, someone like that rightfully so, like what's the line that you should cross? What's the line you cross where it's like, all right, you've just gone from free speech to completely lying or giving false narratives. Like you could say what you want, but you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. What's the line, right? I mean, that's the same thing that the slippery slope people have been debating for years.

I don't disagree. I don't disagree, but you mean to tell me like, we can't have technology right now that says on the bottom, like, you guys got billions of dollars. You mean to tell me you can't do a technology right now at the bottom, says, misstatement, okay? And it just comes up. That's all you have to do. So imagine you do video.

That's all they had over Trump's every single tweet. No, but what I'm saying to you is, no, it wasn't. It was just a blanket one. Everything he said it was blanket. CDC this, it was all blanket, right? The impeachment is not this. The electoral colleges, the big did differ. But, but you just have to show according to give us the top 100 sources, credible,

okay? And then say inaccurate statement according to a statistic or this, this, that. Great. Yeah, it's awesome. So I'm like, oh, shoot, we were wrong. Great. We did. So are you saying that someone can say whatever they want, but as long as they're fact checked at the bottom? Yeah, what I'm trying to say is if we, if we're going at this level of advancement, just give us a source at the bottom, technology, YouTube, whoever it is,

and say, this is wrong. Here's what the answer is. Great. Now, we know there's a form of accountability and embarrassment, quite frankly. There's a, oh, shoot, I hate saying wrong things. Oh my gosh, my apologies guys. This is what it was. So it gets people to kind of be a little bit more careful that throwing just general statements out there.

Gotcha. Okay, so I don't know. I'm not comfortable with anybody just being taken down, but nowadays for a guy to say he lobbied to get parents to have the ability of an exemption against mandated vaccines. Like that sentence is a... But it's also labeling.

He's an anti-vaxxer. Well, no, he was questioning vaccines. His argument was in 1972, when I got the shots or my kids got the shots, it was three of them. Today it's 72, 60, some shots, 70 some shots, kids are gonna get, why do we go from- The world hasn't gotten way up. Dirt your way more dangerous.

Why do we go from three to 70 shots that a kid should get? That makes no sense. That's what he's arguing. Why do we go from three to seven? Is there a correct number that you find to be- I'm not an expert, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist.

All I'm saying is let's keep debating the topic of vaccines. That's all I'm saying. Oh, we have a doctor here. Dr. Lode. I mean your brother's gonna be a doctor. I'm sure you have these conversations with with your fat brother CJ Shout out. No, I think where you are with this guy. I definitely think me myself. I'm my mom never vaccinated us or we've never been vaccinated. Really? Yeah. You're not vaccinated. Not at all.

So none of you accept my older brother and my older sister. They had to get some shots as they were going to men's school. Actually, interestingly enough. So they were required and at that point they chose to get the vaccines they needed to. But I think I definitely agree with what Pat's saying that there's arguments that should be had or debates and kind of seeing how good or how is it because obviously there's a certain risk with not getting vaccinated and then there's a counter-risk of getting vaccinated.

Can you guys do this? Beat a devil's advocate right now. Let's try devil's advocate argument. Not that it's your position. Make the case why it makes sense to take him off of Instagram. Let's all do the devil's advocate thing. Why did it make sense? Be the other side. Tell me. You spreading misinformation that it's going to make people not get the COVID vaccine therefore more people will die. Okay, good. What else? Is he specifically talking about the COVID vaccine or just vaccine overall? It vaccines period, but this year it also became COVID vaccine. Why does it make

sense to take down Kennedy? Can I go conspiracy theory? Do it. Yeah. Go for it. Say it. Well, if you have an agenda, and you're going to profit off something, and again, I'm not saying this is my personal belief, but if you have an agenda, big pharma is a huge, huge industry. They're lobbying, is the highest lobbying in Washington DC. You're basically cutting off your money. So if people are now cutting off the money supply,

then that obviously affects my business. And I'm the one paying for your campaign, paying for this. So there is ties and connection to all that. Again, whether it's true or not, none of us know, but this is where you really go into this shady, dark area of control and all that. And if you start doing the censoring and all that,

like who's fact checking the fact checkers, right? That's also another. Yeah, but I want their argument. You're saying FTM, follow the money, follow the money. That's the number one rule in journalism. And it's the time. It's always stood the test of time is follow the money. Okay. Adam, do you have a devil's. I mean, I agree with him on the fell of all the money thing. I mean, why does it make sense to take him down, give the other side argument, not what you think, give the other side of the argument. He was taking down, they did the right thing because that that misinformation. Okay. Who's money are you affecting? Conspiracy theories. What are you? Where are you going with this?'m actually, I'm not going anywhere with this. So I don't, I'm just really curious to know the other side's argument.

I mean, it's just, it's a scary situation when you don't agree with somebody. Who's making the call? All right, that's it. You're done. You're banned. You're off Instagram, you're off Twitter. Who are the people in the room having that conversation? But do you know there's like a council?

Like, all right, it's up at the top now. Who are the know there's like a council? Like, all right, I'll put the top now. Who are the three people making that dissinert? What are there political affiliations? That's where it's going. Where are they at? Who's in the room? Is it like the minority report? Is it a little manager?

Is it the, look, it's kind of like a good talk? It's going to look at like, who's making the show? You talked to Kiyosaki yesterday. You believe save that money. Yeah. He doesn't. He thinks it's waste of money. I asked him to say it. He said, I will not say it.

Okay, great. So save that money, right? Okay. No problem. So if you were to say, make the argument for the other side, cash is trash. Yeah. Yeah. Make the argument why cash is king.

We can do that. Yeah. Why are they give me an argument you're in the board and we have to take them down. Why? Because of that, that, that, that, that. What is it? Okay. So your stock. What is it? Is it just

misinformation and conspiracy theory? Is it perpetuating what they feel is the wrong information perpetuating? Pull up CNN's biggest advertisers. Oh, I'm sure it's all the big pharma. Hello. CNN big as advertisers biggest advertisers Kai co That's what year though 2018 2018 is a different. Okay. Let's just let's just look at this Otsela who's Otetsla Otesla. Otesla. The Premalak Humila, Otesla. What do you know what they do? But I've seen that commercial a billion times. Okay. It's like the commercial with the sleeping but the butterfly comes in your room. I don't know.

I mean, I also look up lobbyists for even by North Trump. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I'm by the way, it's not like CNN took them down. Facebook, Instagram took them down. Facebook took them down. Tesla is a pill that can help you achieve clear skin. Oh, Tesla is a pill that can give you clear skin.

So it's kind of like what is that one other pill that helps you with skin? Acutane. Yeah. Acutane. Interesting. Okay, I don't know. I'm curious.

I'm curious to know what is it just purely money? It's just purely, let's get them out because he's an anti-argument. Oh, they're putting their points here. They are putting their points here. They're writing their stuff. Our bodies heal themselves. I got a fellow Norwegian Benjamin.

Kai, I'm from Norway. They're putting their points here. So let's say something to him in Norwegian. Benjamin Satham. Let's say it. Let's say it. Okay, let's continue. Let's continue here on another topic that we got.

Countries most business-friendly countries in the world, okay? Let's pull that up. Most business-friendly countries in the world, okay? If we look at the most business-friendly countries in the world, Kai, do you have a number on which one it is? Is the Wikipedia one, that one? Okay, so the easiest countries in the world

to do business in. By the way, look at this. Every year, there have been number one, number one except for 16 15 that were second It's I'd loved it before you say it. Yeah, pull the audience who they think the most business friend Maybe someone who gets it right it's already up guys great job. Great job everybody. It's already up But they can't see that screen. Yeah, maybe they can take a look at it. They can see it So by the way look at this Singapore Singapore was number one for like 10 years straight. Do you see that?

Do you see the Singapore run? And now it's the New Zealand the last four years. So it's a dog fight between two people. New Zealand is New Zealand. New Zealand. And who was the other one with that? That, yes, really only two people. And Hong Kong is, you know, top three, top four.

They're doing their thing. Hong Kong, Denmark, South Korea, US is number six. United States is consistently in the top. However, they, however, look, look at the ranking. It used to be number three. Yeah. So went from three to four to five to four, to seven, to eight, to six, to eight, to six.

Okay, so, so it was a little bit higher. Went to seven last year of Obama went to eight first year of Trump. Okay, then it dropped off to six then eight and six. So that's regulation right there. Okay, Georgia. Why would, uh, wow, look at Georgia went from 100 in 2006 to six and seven plays. That's a big jump. That's the form, right? That's reform and that's a government change in UK. About the same place, they used to be fourth in 2011, now it's eighth.

Norway used to be fifth, now ninth, used to be 11. So relatively around the top 10 is where they are. Norway. Look at China. Where is China? China towards the bottom of the list of of highlighting yellow. China highlighted in yellow. I'll left. 31. Yeah. Used to be 91. That one's jumped to. Yeah, it's jump because they are allowed capitalism to take its course. Yeah, it also moved

more towards capitalism as opposed to it has the government communism, but you can build your business and do what you do. Yeah, so then so then go all the way at the bottom. Let's see what's all the way at the bottom. Like what countries do I see? People in Kazakhstan, 100 Armenia, Chile, Italy. Look at Italy. 58 place. Mexico, 60th, India, 63. But look how much they've come up. Yeah. 130. They're coming up as well. Keep going a little more. Let's see what we see right there. Qatar, Greece 79th. Wow. Um, go lower, lower, lower, lower, lower. See if anything stands out at the bottom with nations that we know about.

Guatemala, Mario, you guys are doing good from. One eight nine nine, what are you doing in America? I mean, say, keep going. Brazil, 124, uh, Argentina, 126 used to be 77 77 so they're going the other way around Iran About the same place. Yeah, it's been about the same place pretty consistently not good for business

Ecuador okay, same place keep going lower. Let's see what is like names that you see Names nothing nothing mind amoreizing.. Yeah. Iraq. Afghanistan 172. Okay. Afghanistan 173. Guys breaking news. It's pretty tough to do business. And it's Afghanistan and Iraq and serious. Well, if you're thinking about starting a business there, England,

I just want to reconsider that same with as well as down there too. 188. The worst country to do business. Are you surprised? Are friends in Somalia? Somalian pie. Go to minimum wage. as well as down there too. 188. The worst country to do business though is our friends in Somalia, Somalia and Pirates. Okay, go to minimum wage, minimum wage country. But before we leave this, can we just go to the United States?

I have one question for you to get your perspective. Mari, go back up to your next. Go back to that. To ease. There's a one question on United States and we can move on to the next topic. Top of the list, top five, Mario, top five. Why would the ease of doing business in the United States be better more between 20,

2008 and 20, you know, 15, 2016 and then when Trump comes in and gets a little worse, I thought it would be a little, no, that's true. It's gone from three, four to seven, eight. Who was president in 2015? Trump. It's gone. No, three, four to seven eight. Who was president 2015? Trump 2015. No, that's Obama. That's Obama, buddy. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Office in 17. So Obama raised it to seven and it had a minute seven. What do you mean? He was three and four. His whole terms. What I'm saying? It was three before him in oh six. He doesn't get credit for three.

I'm saying I'm saying eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. He was three, him in oh six. He doesn't get credit for three. I'm saying, I'm saying eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. He was three, three, four, four, five, four, five. He started. What year did he start? Oh, wait. Okay. What was it before he started? Three. Yeah. Okay. Well, you was a before started. So he doesn't get credit for three, but he took a three and he finished it with a seven. He took a country that was third best for business in the world. And by the time Obama was on it was number seven. You're saying the beginning it was no, you were trying to make a argument to look, you know, I'm saying it was consistent.

It was between three and four the whole time prior to it. And his last term and went to seven. It was three and four. Did you pay attention in math class? Pat, I'm looking at the freaking numbers. Is this not? Is this not three? Is this math analysis?

Is this basic algebra? Pat, I was a mathematician. I won the math elites. I mean I know what I'm doing here. He was a three to four the entire time. I was not seeing a stable price. What's funny is Adam was actually 3.5 GPA guy. Will you a 3.6? I want to get it. Yeah, three six. Yeah, three six. Come loud. Where are you really in college? Yeah, well you've been serious. You should see mine legit. Okay. So yeah, if you take a, if you start off in your, but Trump, he's still doing this. He's, Trump was at seven through eight is entire turn. It's all like he went backwards. You went up. Listen, he started off with a seven. Yeah. When he left, it was a what? Six and eight. No,

six. His last year is a six. He went from seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, eight, six. So he took a seven, you don't change rules and guidelines and all of a sudden, he doesn't change his life. It's bureaucracy. Be patient. Guys, it takes so long. I see what he's trying to say. I think what he's trying to say is if Trump would have gone a second, or maybe that would

have gone to three. That's a good point. That's a good point. That's a very good. That's a more 130. That's. So funny. I'm just saying I'm shocked that Obama's numbers are that good. I thought they'd be worse. Obama's numbers are terrible. What? Are you serious? I mean, is he serious? Like Obama doesn't get credit for what happened in the beginning. He can't reverse things over. It was already a three prior to Obama. He kept it a three or four. What do you see? He kept it at a three or four. He gets elected in 08. By the time he's done in his first

term, it's a five by the time he's done with his second term. It's a seven. I mean, you're like crashing. I thought I thought I thought away was always always Okay Obama Obama is a terrorist Do you want to I mean I translate for that You want to cut the last two minutes Remember when bills Parcells took the jets to the Super Bowl Or the Patriots to the Super Bowl right

And they won the Super Bowl with Bob Bill Parcells And the next year Pete Carroll with the same team They didn't go to the Super Bowl. Pete Carroll doesn't get credit for Bill Parcell's work. Ooh, that's the glasses talking. That's the glasses talking, right? The Superman glasses. I feel like a Tom Brady and Sudden. Do not even offend that, right?

They're okay, you want to go to the batteries? They're so good at it. Okay. So let's talk about batteries. And some of you guys, by the way, before you're like, oh my gosh, who cares? If you're enjoying the conversation so far, and it's one of your first time that you're joining us

on this podcast, smash that subscribe button. FYI, I looked at the numbers at the beginning. Remember how I asked, put thumbs up if recall for news. Thumbs down. You know what the number was after five minutes? What was the number? 200 thumbs up recall, one thumb down. 200 thumbs up recall. They want to recall the guy. They want to recall the guy. Let's go to the batteries here

The battery is ready to power the world. Okay The floor of batteries is currently dominated by Asian countries and companies nearly 65% of lithium Ion batteries come from China. Let me repeat that one more time 65% of lithium I ion batteries come from China. By comparison, no single country produces more than 20% of global crude oil output. 65%. This is an absolute monopoly coming out of Asia. Rechargeable lithium ion batteries were first commercially used in health hand camcorders

in 1991. Laptops soon followed a decade later batteries enabled the rise of tech titan such as apple link by powering smartphones and wearable devices then made their way into electric vehicles the basic technology throughout remained pretty much the same lithium ions move through a liquid from the cathode to the anode and back again this however was just the beginning after a decade of rapidly falling caused, the battery has reached a tipping point no longer just for consumer products as poised to transform the way the world uses power. The gains are less likely are likely to continue electrical

vehicles. Vehicles are currently the main source of demand for battery. So as the man grows and the cost fall further, batteries will become even more disruptive across industries, battery industries score to win at General Motors, company would set it hope to phase out gasoline and diesel powered vehicles from its showrooms worldwide by 2035. The first commercially available, it said it's okay.

So Kai, tell us what's going on with this batteries and why should we be paying attention to this? So obviously, just looking at the 65%, it's a shocking number that that's coming out of juice. Yes. So first thing I looked at then was which countries have the biggest lithium iron ores or the mines, right? Surprisingly, who would we think is on top?

China. Exactly. However, China is not on top. On top you have Bolivia. It's number one. You have Argentina's number two. You have Chile's number three. By the way, those are some of the three worst countries

to do business with. Yes. So you look out on that list. They're largely undeveloped. They're not doing anything with that. Well, Argentina changed it. They used to be up there. Yes.

They went a different direction. They risked out the American economy. It was deemed just too risky for financial investment. So Bolivia, Argentina, Chile continue. Fourth one, no, none other than USA. How many, how many Lithuania, Lithium Ours do we have open? No idea. One in Nevada.

Guess who hinted at creating a second one in Nevada? Who? None other than Elon Musk. Okay. Because he wanted independence, not having to rely on others. However, number five is Australia, and then number six is China. China has 4.5 billion tons.

Bolivia has 21 million tons, or they're both in millions. However, the thing that is different is out of all the countries, Bolivia has 21 million tons or they're both the millions. However, the thing that is different is out of all the countries, China is the one that's pulling the most iron or lithium or out of the ground. Other countries aren't. So that's a concerning. However, another part of it is Australia, they export the exported $1.9 billion of Lithium, right?

Most of it went to none other than China. Exactly. So they're getting all in. Why should we be concerned about this? Why should we be concerned about it? The concern about it is in some ways, just that they're, they're, they're, they're markizing, they have the control of it. Obviously, we saw now with the disruption in supply chains that we have the control of it. Obviously we saw now with the disruption in supply chains that we have

the struggle of getting the chips that we needed and self-sustaining kind of how we're building things another part of it is with the increase in the electrical vehicles and the batteries I mean batteries moving forward are just gonna be more important the reason oil has been a Strong commodity as long as it has is it's easy to transport. You put it in a tanker, you drive it wherever you want and you drop it off. It has the same energy value and kind of efficiency wherever it is. Gas, you can send it in pipes and it stays the same. Batteries, or especially electricity, you know the high voltage ones?

They lose a lot of power when you're sending the electricity. So what you send from A, if you send 100%, you're not receiving 100% on the other end. So batteries are the closest way we can do that. And that is why, if you look at Tesla, the biggest thing they're doing is battery development and figuring out how you can store the energy, transport the energy, and get the most out of it later on. So that's, I mean, the future is going to be in batteries, because we need to store the energy. We need to figure out how to do it as efficiently as possible. And obviously China is leading the front on that end. The future is in batteries. You just say,

let me, let me, let me, let me tee you up and, and tee you up. You know how they say, you know, you only remember, you know, 20% of what you see and 10% of what you hear and whatever the thing is, but people remember how you make them feel. How should people feel about this battery stuff? Because I don't speak real, but I don't speak battery. I'm here in like, you know, I'm here in a lot of math guy. Yeah, exactly. For a mathematician, I'm here in a lot of batteries.

I'm here in a lot of lithium. I'm here in a lot of mining. I'm hearing a lot of lithium. I'm hearing a lot of mining. Which how should we feel about this? I mean, there's a there's a reason for concern, especially if things are being more kind of split and Companies aren't being able to get as much from China. It's it's very easy Adam. Here's how you got to look at it. So What what percentage of the cars you guys got to turn off your things? Because I keep hearing your audio. You turn off your speaker because I keep hearing typing. I hear it. Okay, thank you.

So what percentage of cars are going to be battery-driven cars in the next 10 years? A lot more than they are today. Give me an idea. 50% was projected by 2040. 2040, 50% in the US. 50% of cars are a lot. Worldwide, yes.

So it's 50% in the world. 50% worldwide by 20 worldwide. Yes, okay, so it's 50% 50% 50% worldwide by 2040 and if Will Ferrell has it's gonna happen sooner than that If it's up to Will Ferrell. I know you guys are having a So but watch this so if that's the case by 2040. Yeah, who has control China Okay, so you remember when people said wise Elon Musk shaking hands in China Why is he doing? By the way, his business is growing in China. So there's a he's done a great job being a diplomat

working with other countries trying to get that part going. However, going in Germany as well. However, let me tell you what this means in a whole different way. If this is the case and we need, you know, import export, guess what country cannot have sanctions with US? Guess what country cannot have any kind of sanctions. China. China. So those sanctions need to be lifted because businesses

behind closed doors such as GM, the Tesla, is everybody else going to be like, listen, we need China. They want 65% of it. You shutting them down, you're hurting our business. We want to create jobs. You're increasing the cost. You got to open it up.

So look how it's like the story. Okay, let me tell you the story. So yesterday I was on a podcast. Girl asked me and said, you know, the podcast was called Women, something about women. What was it? Women in business. Women in business on some like this.

So she said, what can women do to be more successful in business? I'm like, look, I can tell you from my perspective on what any person can do, man or woman. Let me tell you a story. And this is exactly what China did. So there was a king. This king has a daughter. He wants his daughter to marry a prince, but this daughter ends up dating a local guy. And they get together and he finds out about it.

When a news gets back to the king that the daughter and that I'm talking about a local guy, the king sends his troops to go do what? Kill the guy. So to go get the guy and everybody tells them, listen, you're about to get killed His people are coming after you're gonna die today. They're gonna kill you. They want to make a public example out of you This guy panics is like oh my gosh. What are you talking about?

This is crazy says well, you got to figure something out. Do run away. So I can't run away. Just where I have everything He said I have I have a plan. It's okay So he on the side was a psychic, okay? Where he would like do your, what do you call it? Like you're readings and all this other stuff. So to come to kill him and says, look, before you kill me, I have some news that I have to tell the king. The king has to know this and it's bad for him, but he has to know this. As a psychic, I have a vision and I've seen it. I saw it yesterday. He has to hear the news. So what did they do? Well, the king, hey, we have to take you. He wants to say this. So the

king says, come on, and before we kill him, I want to see what you have to say. He goes to hear the news. So what did they do? Well, the king, hey, we have to take you. He wants to say this. So the king says, come on in before we kill him, I want to see what you have to say. He goes to the king and the king says, what do you have to say? He says, well, I had a vision. I was reading and seeing where you were at and what's going to happen with your future. My prediction is you're going to die day after I die.

Okay. So the king says, what do you mean? He says, whatever day I die, you die the next day. So the king who's an extremely superstitious guy says, dude, you mean? He says, whatever day I die, you die the next day. So the king who's an extremely superstitious guy says, dude, we can't kill this guy. We got to make sure he, we give him the best life. So the king brings him in, has a married a daughter, okay? And he says, take care of him. What ends up happening? The guy outlives the king and the king ends up dying. In this situation, China's the psychic. China has made it impossible to sanction them. China has

made it a monopoly to say, I dare you to sanction us. Listen, what are you talking about sanctioning us? You're going to need us long term. And they're saying, you taught us capitalism. We brought it in. Everything you did, you allowed us to take all your trade secrets. We're already so competitive. It's so hard for, listen, we're the number one. You know we're gonna win. We're the future of the world. We're the future of the capitals and we're the future of business.

Every innovation is gonna come from us because you taught us, but it's too late. So this entire battery game is a monopoly game for China. Congratulations, China. You have won the game because that's the direction the world is going. Big victory for Asian countries in China. You have won the game because that's the direction the world is going big victory for Asian countries and China. No reversing. 65%. No, listen, imagine you're playing a football game. The score is 65 to nothing.

Third quarter, second quarter. You're going to have to do a Buffalo Bill's comeback. Yeah, we got to get Tom Brady on the scene. You got to get Tom Brady on the scene. Exactly. Matt Ryan. So that's kind of where they have such a long big lead who's going to come in and try to compete with these guys. Because if you think of it also as the market, obviously the market cap for batteries and the need for it's going to expand, but they're just going to grow with it. So the world is going moving towards batteries and China is already there saying come to my

wheelhouse baby. What is this controlled by? What is that controlled by? What's past phone controlled by? What's the watch controlled by? You're saying batteries are controlled in big tech. Batteries I mean they're the energy of it. Guys, we learned something today here on the bed, David podcast batteries.

But I think that's where investment has to play a large role. I mean, you talked about it's not like they're the only ones with actual lithium, but which is the good thing. That's the great thing. It's a great thing, but you have to invest in that. And we're talking, right, right now we're talking about $1.9 trillion, you know, relief bill. It's not like we don't have money.

It's how we choose to spend our money. And we have to choose to invest in our future. And we're not doing that. When you're running for mayor, I mean, it does. Paul should wear those glasses more. That message, do what you just said it. I knew some of them come for you, buddy. Yeah.

I'm cute for president. I'm Paula Scarsiga and I endorsed this message. Just say that once, Paul. Say, say it once. I'm Paula Scarsiga and I endorsed this message. Beautiful. I like it so much. So can you go back to the top countries to do business, but look at the top minimum

wage because we've been talking about minimum wage. We talked about a little bit with Norway, and the debate is, is Norway capitalistic nation, a socialist nation. So let's go to the top minimum wage countries. Is that the one or no? This is one of them, yeah. Okay, so if you,

number one, is that Luxembourg? Luxembourg, yeah. Okay, what website is this? Worldpopulationview.com? Okay, go to the other one. Go to the other one, because that number seems lower than what Australia is.? Worldpopulationview.com. Okay, go to the other one. Go to the other one because that number seems lower than what Australia is.

Luxembourg has the highest minimum wage in the world, 13.78, $13.78, okay. Well, that would only go to Luxembourg. Oh, it's the same website. Okay, so go back to the website he had. Luxembourg, Australia, what was the other website? That's a 1260 Australia. 12, so I saw one that says 19, but it's mostly like a 19 Australian dollars, which I got

it. So Australia, $12.14, their minimum wage, France, $11.66. By the way, you're looking at socialism, right? There then you got New Zealand, $11.20, which was number one on business friendly, business friendly, $11.20. Then you got Germany 1087, then you got Netherlands 1044, Belgium 1038, UK 1034, Ireland 962, Canada 952, FYI, China, Russia is $2.40. Okay. Can you go a little lower Mario just to see? has the 12th highest minimum wage in the world. At 725. At 725, it's important to say, at 725, right? Okay. So if US goes to 15 bucks an hour,

which, No more one on the world. No more one on the world, which by the way, it looks like it's gonna happen because of the $1.9 trillion. The Democrats control the House, the Senate and presidency and it's gonna be easy for that to be done. Minimum wage goes to 15 bucks an hour.

If minimum wage goes to 15 bucks an hour and all the other countries were beating our socialistic countries, what does that say about America? Ha ha ha ha ha. Makes you think to save. There's an area you don't wanna lead is minimum wage. Just like, look how amazing we are.

We pay the highest minimum wage. Go ahead Adam. Two things with the minimum wage. I like, look how amazing we are. We pay the highest minimum wage. Go ahead Adam. Two things with the minimum wage. I see Australia's number two. I went to Australia 2009, so a little over 10, 11 years ago. And I remember, obviously I got to Australia. I landed, I meet up with a buddy.

Let's go get a beer. Let's go get a beer. Let's go have a drink. Cool. All right, I'm in the land down under. I'm about to have a beer. And we, you know, I'm. All right. I'm in the land down under about to have a beer and We you know my I'm staying with my buddy. So you know, I do the right thing. I pick up the tab and pick up the check cool You pick up wait wait guys. Yeah, I know breaking to accept the tab. I picked up the tab. There it was how guys Have you ever seen Adam pick up the tab? Yes, actually yes a cup once but what is this percentage? I mean with me

It's very good, but But how many rides use the driver? So that's the exchange you got. You got to go. Guys, guys, we got it down. That doesn't apply to everybody else. No, I'm just lucky we roll with PBD and PBD. Host everybody. How many times have people pay for Pat?

Anyway, where's my ex-hand? Which anyway, Mario's also very cordial. What's my point here? What's my point? Where I wish we had the button here. So I go to pick up a tad, it's 100 year Australian bucks, whatever. And I go to leave a tip.

And the guy goes, no, no, no, no, you don't need to leave a tip. They're already good. I'm like, what do you mean? In America, you got a tip, 20%. My bill's 100 bucks. You leave the waiter, you know, bartender 20 bucks, whatever.

He goes, no, they're already very well compensated. I said, what do you mean? They go, yeah, they make 20 bucks an hour. I said, you're telling me the waiters and the servers and the bar bartenders are make 20 bucks an hour. You don't need to tip them? No, you don't need to tip them.

It's a very interesting. So that's just a quick story and we can get a feedback. But here's my, here's my segue back to Pat, you don't need to tip them. It's very interesting. So that's just a quick story and we can get a feedback. But here's my segue back to Pat, you know, because I would consider myself much like Mario and intrapreneur. I've helped build businesses, but I'm not the business owner. I'm not the founder.

I've built up a business and made a business very successful, but I'm not the owner. Same thing we're doing here with value payment. But we were reading yesterday about the $15 minimum wage hike with it's going on here and a potentially in America. And and pass it. How do you feel about that? I said, you know, look, I'm, I've come out vocally. I'm not in favor of a federal mandate of a $15 minimum wage. I think that's absurd across the board. In certain states or cities, New York cities, San Francisco, Miami, whatever, cool. I get it.

You can't live on less than 30 grand a year if you're going to have a life. But if you're in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, if you're in, you know, Bumble F. Oklahoma, like businesses, you know, I'm not in favor of that. So I, that was my perspective. And I asked Pat, your perspective, and genuinely, Pat says, I am so sad. I feel so bad for these businesses. You have no idea how bad I feel for the,

I'm genuinely hurt for these businesses. And my thing was more logical, zero emotion in my answer. I said, well, I just don't think it makes sense economically, financially. Pat came from a place of obviously logic, first and foremost, but deep sympathy for these businesses. And I said, I don't feel that sympathy that you're feeling. And you said, well, that's because you've never started your own business. I said, what do you mean by that?

And you said, when you start a business, you know, you, not, you know, maybe this is where you want to pick up, but you had very strong feelings about this minimum wage. It was more emotional than logical. How'd you feel? Well, you know, listen, go to, go to the example I gave you when I said, Adam, let's just

say you and I fight. No, because you went to say, when a person starts a business, don't they already know that you may lose that? That's my, that's what the conversation went. I said, you put your, you know, your risk, everything to kind of put yourself out. You know what you're getting yourself into and I said, yes, accept. When the rules change, that's when it's unfair. So if you and I were to fight, there's a big fight coming up.

Patrick's fighting, Adam on June 28th. Major, you're a better boxer. I'd pay for that. You're a better boxer. You're a better boxer. You're an eight, I'm a six and a half. I have no club box, but you're a much better boxer than me, much better fighter than me.

And the rules is we're gonna fight what? Boxing. But I'm a ridiculous kicker. If I kick you, you're over. Three kicks, fights over. Okay. That's me. I'm a nine.

You're a one when it comes down to kick in. Five minutes before the fight, they say rules have changed. You cannot kick. Who is that fight? I won the fight because I don't even have to come close to you. I can have a distance from you. You my legs are longer than your punch. So I won the fight.

Okay. So you're married. You run a small market that your father passed down to you and your husband run it together with your kids. It's been around for eight years in a small city and you have Walmart right across the street but you've still been able to survive because Walmart sells milk for $359. You sell milk for $349. They raise the minimum wage, six of your employees that work for you, you pay them 720, okay?

Eight of your workers, I worked, you pay them 720, some of them 10 bucks an hour, but not 15. So, they raise the minimum wage to 15. You have to raise the milk price from 349 to 429. Walmart keeps it at 359. You have to raise the employees minimum wage from 7, twenty from ten bucks an hour to what? 15 bucks an hour Walmart doesn't care Walmart loves that the government officially eliminated you without Walmart becoming the enemy a $15 minimum wage makes The small business owner go out of business without Walmart even needing to compete

Right Walmart says it's cool. Yeah, it's like the fight happens and the referee said fight hasn't even started. Referee says, Adam, you won. And what do you tell him? We haven't in started out on one to fight. It's over. That's what just took place right now. Think about it this way. Okay. Minimal wage. What industry pays the most employees minimum wage? Let's look at it. Do we have that data? We don't have that data. No, we have a restaurant. We have the data. Where's that data? Wait, there's one which is the, no, we might actually not have this one, but we have the chart. If you go here, one that says here, the tab that says here, where is here? Okay, right there. Okay, good.

You'll see here are of this is for Legion Hospital. That's what I'm looking for. I'm looking for can you search Mario? Which industry? Has most minimum wage employees by the way the number is staggering The difference between first place and second place makes zero sense Which industry audience want to guess what industry? Oh, you can guess why we're pulling this up You're about to be shell shocked. Which industry has most minimum wage? Let me see if I can find it more. You do it as well, employees.

See if you can find it. I know I searched it yesterday. And it was a, okay, no. Oh my gosh, if we can show you this, this is, okay, I found it, here we go. I found it's a statistical website. Can I share it with you, air drop, or you're not on a Mac? You're on a Mac. Okay, air drop. Which Mac are you on? I have it's very timid media by Tim a Mac. Is that the one? Yeah. Okay. Mari see if you receive it. You got it Okay, I'm gonna press it again

Okay, open it up, accept, watch this. Look at this. Look at that. Not even close. Get rid of that. You for sure. Yeah. Oh my, how come it's not, oh there you go. Okay.

Go up a little bit. It's not letting you see the, are you kidding me? Because I have it over here. Okay, well anyways, you see that first one? I'll just tell you what it is. You see the first line? The first line is leisure and hospitality. Yeah. You know what

the second one is? Education. 977 by 149. Seven times higher. Okay. So let me get to straight. Leisure and hospitality has the most employees making minimum wage and which industry got crushed during COVID the most the last part on leisure and hospital. You just crushed these guys. Yeah, yeah, you just destroyed them. And if you go to the last chart, you can see what jobs have lost the most Mario bring up where the jobs are. Um, another interesting part though is that that is also the industry where people are most tipped. And leading up to tell me. So that obviously makes up for their wages and that sense of that there's a there's the

meant there's the minimum wage and then there's the tips they receive as well. Everybody took a hit with that the customer because food price is going to go up to go down tips going to go down food price is going to go up and what's that? Here, the one that's up to the left for that, Mara. Yeah, that one. Pleasure and hospitality, they are down the most in January. I mean, they've been crushed the entire pandemic, but even January, they lost the most jobs. So you know, it's like,

imagine you're running a small restaurant, you're like, okay, oh, we're gonna come back. Oh my gosh, we have $38,000 in our account, babe. We're gonna make this work. Yes, what're gonna come back. Oh my gosh, we have $38,000 in our account, babe. We're gonna make this work. Yes, what? Minimal wage. So then imagine that meeting with you and your employees, your waiters and your waitresses,

you have an meeting with them. You got four of them sitting in front of you. How do the waitresses feel about the minimal wage being raised from $7, 25 to $15? How do the waiters and waitresses feel? I mean, how many are sitting there? There's four of them. Well, now congratulations.

There's only three of you now. Someone's getting fired. But actually, give me their feeling. How are they feeling about going from 7, 25 to 15 bucks? Exactly. They're not against it. They're for it. Are you kidding me, dude?

What are you talking about? Do you not remember what? Like, I had a job for 325 at Hagen does. When I got a race to 515 at Bob's big boy, I'm like, dude, I'm gonna be rolling, getting nice, fucking tell-a-star, pager, and I'm gonna be able to send the hello text and the, you know all this stuff, it's gonna be sick, right?

From 375, 325, 325, 515. Oh, then. If your waiters and waiters are sitting there for them, they're going from 725 to $15 minimum wage. You think they support the minimum wage? Hell yeah, they do. You think you, the business owner, that now have to sit there and say, guys, we gotta do something about this.

Do you think there's a division now between the employer and the wages? I mean, compensation wise, at that point, I feel like they're also dipping in the tips at that point. You can't, or legally, you can't do it as a... You can't do that legally. No, no, no, you can't. You mean, you want the restaurant to take tips off?

You can't do that. You No, no, no, you can't. You mean, you want the restaurant to take tips off, you can't do that. You, you, one restaurant gets reported that the owner keeps tips, you're over. Nobody works for you. Obviously, you're not taking the 100% but you're making up for that. You can't do any, you can not do anything. It is the fastest way to not have waiters

and waiters has worked for you. Is what? Is when you keep tips, a percentage of the tips. It's the fastest way. You make it twice as much to be honest. It doesn't matter. That's not how things work. That's not how things work.

So guess what? A typical burger, you go to a nice restaurant, a burger's what? 15, 16 bucks? A nice restaurant. I'm not talking about like you go to Burger King. Nice restaurant, you go to like what? Gerries is that Gerries, what is that place we go to here? Right here.

We were there yesterday with the Krispie Zucchinis. Gerries, Gary's farmhouse right here on Boka by Myzner. His burger is 16 bucks, 17 bucks. They raised a minimum wage. His burger is now 22 bucks, 23 bucks. Anybody paying 22 bucks for burger? So that is a buck fit. Oh, you will pay for it. You will pay for it. I mean, the business is not going to take the head. You won 22 bucks for burger? So is a buck fit? Oh, you will pay for it. No, you will pay for it. Well, no, you won't pay for it. Whoever's covering your check will pay for it. Of course.

But someone's paying for it. 22 dollar burger. At what point is that just ridiculous? It's not about it. It's that ridiculous. You have no control. This is not something they're asking you for your vote. The Senate, the House and the president's passing this law. And they're putting it into 1.9 trillion dollar bill. You don't have a And they're putting it into $1.9 trillion bill. You don't have a choice, you don't have a say. Just take it. This is what's happening here, okay? So yes, that's what's gonna happen.

Leisure and hospitality. As if they didn't have one black guy, they just got a second black guy. I saw something on Prager You on their Instagram. They did a little bit where it's like, all right guys, congratulations. There's four of you in the room. And major announcement, minimum wage has been increased

up to $15. So let me tell you what's gonna happen to the four of you. John, congratulations, you have a raise, Sally, congratulations, you have a raise, Nancy, congratulations, you have a raise, Bill, pack your shit time for you to go, but you gotta go. So the four has gone down to three, and the rest of you will just be doing more work

for the $15 an hour, and congratulations on everybody on their new jobs, and get the hell out of here. Yep, yeah. By the way, somebody just said here right now, they said the PBD, it's called Gritudi, and they do it all the time, Dante, I know, I get that. And this one person said Florida has had a $15 minimum wage. Florida has $15 minimum wage in a couple of years.

It's a done deal anyways, meaning the $15 minimum wage, right? Yeah. You must have missed yesterday's podcast though. You must have missed yesterday's two days ago podcast. I said states like Florida, Texas, California, New York. Forget about it. 15 bucks is mandatory.

What are you talking about? $30,000 a year. It's not a job. That's how much you're making on $15 an hour. Just times it by two. This isn't about Florida. America's bigger than Florida, California, New York, and Texas. America's bigger than that.

All over the flyover states that everyone forgets about, they show up. My concern is the small markets. My concern is the small markets. My concern is the small markets. You know how one people say things like the argument is, well, do you think it's fair that a company like Walmart came and crushed all the small businesses and put them out of business? Yes. They didn't do it by themselves.

They did it with the help of the government. Regulation. Yeah. They did it with the help of government. That's how they do it. They didn't do it. They got some help to have some like that take place. So yes, I am with you and I hope some of these businesses find a way to survive specifically

in the leisure and the hospitality. We got 15 minutes left, 12 minutes left. Let's see what we want to cover that we haven't covered yet. We want to go market New York opening sales force. Let's talk about sales force. Let's talk about sales force So sales force is on what page tell me what paid sales for Everybody turn your turn your syllabus is your syllabi Bibles to page number four. Yeah, I think it's a very interesting topic. Okay, hang on second

I don't know if we're gonna have time to talk about your favorite thing dogecoin But just know that sales force says the 9 to 5 work that work, they is dead. They will provide three ways for employees to work, including working from home. Salesforce on Tuesday and on Saturdays, employees would have the option to work from home remotely full time, even when it's safe to return to the office.

The new guidelines which Salesforce is calling the work from anywhere offers, employees, three options, flex, fully remote office base. Salesforce says the decision to offer new ways of working was based on employees. Well, wellness survey, the company had been sending around since the onset of the pandemic. Okay, so guess what? They sent a what? A survey, something Mark Cuban ought to do. Something Mark Cuban ought to do. For employees who work within the flex option, they'll report to the office between one or three days each week for tasks

that are more challenging to do over video calls, such as team collaboration, customer meetings, and presentation. Salesforce said it's most of its employees worldwide would have a Flex schedule, an immersive work schedule, work space is no longer limited to a desk in our towers, the 95 work that is dead, the employee experiences about this work.

Here's the big pump. Pay attention here, though. Pink Punk tables and snacks. That's a shot straight at you. VT. Sure. Number one, it is a shot at VT. Brent hired a president of the chief police.

People office of Salesforce said that Salesforce was, okay, so what do you think about this? What do you think about the direction Salesforce is going? Do you agree? Do you disagree with them? Well, this guy marked Benioff as clearly proven himself to be a leader in the business community. Yep. I got a lot of respect for this guy. Salesforce, you know, they, they, they start trends.

They don't just kind of follow them. They've come out and said, WFA is a lifestyle now, baby, WFA work from anywhere and you have three options. Who's in favor of three options? Or in favor of three options around here? What do we got? What do we got? You got this flex schedule. We can come in the office a couple days the week. You work from home a couple days a week, do what you got to get done. You got the fully remote. We never even see your ass. You're just, you're, you're working remote. You want to get a big time job. This guy actually lives in Indiana. Typically, we couldn't get this guy in here, but or a gal. We're going to have them work remote from Indiana. Let's bring in some talent. Let's pay them what we got

to pay them. They're working fully remote. And then there's obviously office base. But the beauty right now is we got options. You got options options that didn't exist per say before this pandemic. So basically Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, is saying, listen, the nine to five is dead. I think we can agree right here, nine to five is a very old school mentality when it comes to work. Show up, sit at your desk at nine o'clock, take your lunch at noon, be done by 1230.

After that, you got to, you know, the people, what's the joke that you make? The 459 crowd, what's the joke that you make for them? 459, they are, they are standing up and stretching. They are out the door. We got blueberries, we're on and wild here. But the most beautiful thing that you can do, and everyone does it here at value-tainment is,

you show up when you show up, you leave when you need to leave, and you GSD, you get your shit done. Okay. And for the nine to five crowd, you know, who you're making your salary, you're making your 30, your 40 grand, whatever, whatever, whatever. The people get self done, they don't necessarily abide by nine to five. You come in and as long as you enjoy what you're doing, you'll work for many where you work remote. And I just think it's impressive that he's giving the people the options now. And I think that's the future of what do you think?

I mean, we've seen this in Silicon Valley, and I think to Ness and some agreeing with what Adam's saying here, the options. It also depends on obviously the work that they're doing, some things you can't do, and some things you can do remotely. In the, in towards the end, he also mentioned that obviously, why don't they pull for talent, which is another thing, but I also think that if the, if the, if this is truly the way things are moving, then virtually, how would,

would you as somebody stand out more as opposed to like in an office? I mean, you're, you're a CEO, you're a founder. How would somebody, that's one place where I can see an issue, is like, how do you efficiently stand out or become more of a linchpin if you're just kind of So here's my here's my question for you. So maybe we auto forever only watch video games through zoom We not video games sports sporting games like NBA's we should not go to games anymore

Why why do we go to the game? Why don't we just watch it from TV? What's the difference from going to the game than actually watching it from TV? Maybe we should drop school and no longer have to go to school and everybody just goes to school from home on a Zoom. Maybe we should do that. Maybe we should do that. Wait a minute, why not? Maybe moving forward, Wait a minute, why not? What's the, maybe moving forward, church should only be from home. Not going to a actual place, a sanctuary, a church. Maybe we should just do it through Zoom

and somebody preaches and you just kinda, you do worship from home and not go to church and we just kinda do, maybe super bold, there should be no fans in there. Maybe all-star game, there should be nobody in there. Where LeBron says, I see no reason for us to have a, and be all-star game fans are gonna be there. Maybe everything we should do

shouldn't be around each other anymore. I think that's a bad idea. Maybe we should do that. Maybe that's the direction. Because we don't really need human interaction. We can do it through Zoom. I mean, talking to my dad over a phone is the same as seeing him face to face, right?

And that's what it is. What's the big difference? I mean, who cares about a hug? Who cares about a handshake? Who cares about how you're doing? That's not that valuable, you know? Who cares about sitting down here having this kind of a conversation?

We should do this from a zoom. You should stay home. Why are we guys here? We should do podcasts from home. You shouldn't be here right now. We shouldn't be doing it this way. Why do we guys here? We should do podcasts from home. You shouldn't be here right now. We shouldn't be doing it this way. Why do we come over here to work? People forget, this is human beings you're talking about. How the hell do you build a culture working from home?

How do you do it? How do you build a culture? Why do you go to a concert? Ask somebody who went to Michael Jackson concert, what they'll tell you. They talk about it till today. Ask somebody who watched Michael Jordan play a game score 45 points on a Sunday that everybody else was watching on TV and they were there. Ask somebody who was at a game when Reggie Jackson had three home runs in a game, a Stratobar. What did it feel like when you were in there versus somebody that I watched it on TV? Ask somebody who was there when Duck flew through that touchdown

for Boston College. What's the difference between that and the highlights we watch on TV? Look, I'm not sitting here saying certain industries this works for. Okay, I have a chief information officer guy that works with us. He says Pat, here's how engineers are. Very good. Very a guy I trust is very, the way he explains things is my style. I like it a lot. And for engineers, I get it. Yeah. They're wired in a different way.

Everything else, I don't know. It doesn't apply 100% to every industry. This is not a black and white across the board. Everybody. You can't do it that way because you can't wipe across the board everybody. You can't do it that way. Because you can't build a culture that way. For example, video game. If you want to have a video game competition, can you do it from your house? Sure, fine. Can you do poker tournament from your house? Okay, fine.

Is it different than you watch in a world series to everybody sitting at the table? Not the same. When you're watching them talking to each other, all of this, I can't see your eyes. I can, it's a very different story. We human beings are not robots. We human beings have emotions. We in human beings have feelings. We human beings have different senses. And those senses are only being used when

you're around what? Others. You can say all this stuff you want and give me a great pitch on it that this is the directions going. Everybody can work from home forever. Fine, do it. It could work for some companies. It can't work for everybody. And then the idea of culture.

So if you were to say, what is the biggest company in the world today that people talk about culture? What's the company? That's culture, culture, culture, culture. Google. That everybody. Netflix. Netflix.

Oh yeah. Read Hason said, I'm not a fan of this. He's not a fan of working for Mom Forever. Why not? When you think about culture, does anybody ever says the Salesforce culture? No. They have a great product.

They have a genius run out of company. When you think about Netflix, what do people say? They have a great culture. They have a genius run out of company. When you think about Netflix, what do people say? They have a great culture. What a job say about culture. What a growth say about culture. What did anybody that ever build an incredible company say about culture? How do you build culture through Zoom?

How do you do it? There's nothing like face to face building culture. So, I'm not sitting here saying, I disagree, I'm not sitting here saying, I, I think that is the direction we're going. I think some of the industries, yes, but if you wanna build a culture, it's gonna be very, very difficult,

trying to do it all from home. We have some people right now in the company, like, all we do is zoom, we don't do trainings anymore. Really? Yeah. They're being left behind by others who are doing face to face. They can do what they wanna to do based on the guidelines

or whatever the state offers. We're just gonna do Zoom moving forward. Now, I'm gonna go out there and live over here and I don't even need to be at my office. Fine. You know what we've noticed happen to their business last six months? Gradual decline.

Then the people that are together seeing each other office all, and we know what we've noticed with them. Gradual increase. How do you measure that? You know you have certain players in the NBA that you can't measure their statistics. You can't measure Dremel green. You just cannot measure him. But how much does he do for the game? A lot. You can't measure a Patrick Beverly. Okay. How much does he do for the game? A lot. You can't measure a lot of the stuff Rodman did. And it's not just rebounds. He didn't score, but what did Rodman do? Oh my gosh, none of that stuff

has a leader's bulletin. How he had Carmel owned drop four times on the same walk back, you know, after you know, you know, you know, which one I'm talking about. So finally, he got so upset and no, then a carmo couldn't make the shots because all he kept thinking about is how annoying cool is. Then it's Rodman is, yeah. So the point I'm trying to make is the intangibles, you cannot discredit the intangibles just because the intangibles don't show data. You have to pay attention to it. And I don't know if a lot of people are paying attention to it.

This is too early. This is too early for us to jump to conclusion saying, this is the one way to go. That is the one way to go. We still haven't seen the side effects of it. We're still going to take us a year, two years, two years for somebody, have a definite philosophy. These are all testing philosophies.

COVID's only been around for a year. It's not even been a year. I mean, I'm of course, it's been a little bit right now. Things are gonna change. A year since the first death, let's just say. It's been around a year, it's 12 months. It's one year old. Yeah.

We're shutting down as a year old. We've not experienced shutdown before. So a question of more of a follow up. But isn't this, you know, the truth is always somewhere in the middle. You know, not, you know, doing zoom, nonstop and not showing up in person is obviously a ridiculous nonhuman, it just doesn't make sense. But only going to work, everyone doing that can be oftentimes inefficient. That's why I'm saying I'm in favor of this flex option. Like you guys put on big events, you guys have meetings, PHP, obviously, value, payment,

we're here. Well, you guys also utilize a lot of zooms. Zoom has helped your business immensely. I never discounted. No, I'm saying. So like, there is truth is somewhere in the middle. Zoom to me is speed. Zoom to me is not culture. So remember how everything to me is a word.

Like if you want to talk about people who like to control people, why are you controlling them? Controlling trust, right? Lazy is what? You know, boredom, you know, you got bitterness is what? Like a creative, you're not creating anything. You're not part of a community. Okay, when I think about Zoom, I think about speed. It's all I think about.

I don't think about culture. I don't think about culture. But those are all important elements to a business. I don't disagree that Zoom is important, but it doesn't. The culture is probably the most important, but the speed is pretty damn important soon. Speed is very important, but if there is no, okay.

So have you ever had a long, long distance relationship? Yes. What do you say to a person who says, I love her, but we see each other once a quarter. What do you say to that guy? Once a quarter, that's ridiculous. We see each other once a month. What do you tell him? Bro, like, how do you, what do you do the rest time?

Wait a minute. What happened to all of a sudden? You flipped. We're zooming every day though. Uh-huh. Well, that's, that's relationship. Come on now. What is culture? All right. All right. See we guys see we go.

Little bit tipping point right there for you. The moment it got to, how you gonna have a, you've had a long distance relationship. Yeah, but not, not, I would not see someone once a month for extended period of time. Then it's not a long distance relationship, buddy. What do you do? You see them once a week you fly out to them and see them once a week. No, it's not sustainable. Okay. I think that's where you're going. Yeah, that's zoomed to me. Long distance relationship is zoom. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Kai, what's your point?

No, I think Pat has a lot of good opinions and kind of input there. But I do think also that it's changed the way where it's now more flex, like kind of going back to Adam with flexibility and also realizing that the business trip, everyone thought everyone had to do 100% of the time, they realize now, hey, what if we cut back half of those times, we moved that money someplace elsewhere where we can get more return for it. I think that has changed and probably will stay that way for quite some time, even though things ease up and restrictions and stuff like that, because they're kind of realizing what is necessary, but then also a lot of this stuff that isn't necessary.

I don't disagree. I think the flex is here. I think, believe it or not, I think COVID hurt commercial real estate. But I think COVID also hurt a lot of universities. You know, what do I need to stay on campus now? What is the purpose of going to college? If you actually think about what the hell is the purpose of going to college? If you actually think about what the hell is the purpose of going to college?

Yeah, I have friends in Norway that are in school and the US. No, no, I want you to think about this. Actually process it. What is the purpose of going to college? If you have kids right now, what is the number one reason you would want your kids to go to a great college? Well, everyone has always said, the college experience.

Which is what? You know, you're going to parties and frat, and going to class and all that. But now if you just zoom in, what's the college experience? But you said that's a good idea though. I'm saying there's, there's a, I'm a favor of somewhere in the middle,

there's a flex schedule. So only 50% of students should go to college. Everybody else zooms in. No, I'm saying you can go to classes on campus, but also, do I need to commute? And I'm just saying hypothetical, commute an hour to take a two hour class to drive back home an hour.

It's like, do let me just zoom for a more freaking class. Yes, what? Colleges just got crushed. I'm in favor for that. It's fine. Let me name 40% of them. Keep the 60% that can handle it.

What happens there then? Again, college is about experience, people, relationships, seeing what's going on, learning how to communicate with people, learning how to do with people. Soft skills, not just hard skills. I think you've been watched a movie with Joaquin Phoenix her too much lately. And I think you've got to stop watching that movie her.

Have you seen her, Paul? Has anybody here seen her? You've. Herb. Have you seen her Paul? Has anybody here seen her? You've never seen her? Have you seen her? You know what the what's the story about? He's basically he built a relationship with this smartphone. So it's him in a smartphone. And they pretty much get into relationships.

He falls in love with her. It's like you found. Hey Siri, how you doing? Hey, baby. Wait. Hey Siri, how you doing? Hey, baby. Hey Siri, how you doing? That's my Siri. Why is your Siri sound like he's a gentleman? He's an engineer. He's a gentleman. That's my that's my Siri, right? Okay. Hello, Pastor Quebec David. Good to see you again. The I think the direction we're going is, Adam's going to have a virtual relationship.

All you hard at, a hot ass smartphones out there. Holly at your boy. I'm here. I'm single. It's going to be the situation. I'm dating somebody. Who can we see or not yet? Can we see or not yet?

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