Will Cain Country - Tony Robbins Offers Meaning In A World Of Overmedication And Climate Hysteria
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One, the Holy Grail of Investing with New York Times bestselling author and life and peak performance coach, Tony Robbins.
Two, the President of the United States is to compromise to stand trial.
Why then is he the perfect fit to lead the free world?
And three, okay, I didn't see it coming.
Neither did you.
Our name isn't John Dorsey.
We weren't the GM of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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I didn't come by him naturally.
Consider me a convert of Tony Robbins.
Three reasons.
One, I grew up in a small town in Texas.
There was a cultural mindset generally that your mind isn't really something you work on like your body.
That psychiatry or therapy or anything to consider yourself is a little bit of a weakness.
You don't talk about yourself.
You don't think about yourself.
And you don't openly work on yourself.
Two, inside that small town, Texas environment, if you did think outside of yourself, you thought
of God.
We sat on the last pew of the First United Methodist Church, and I listened to Mr. Jarvis,
jingle is change.
A few rows up.
And that was the time where we considered anything spiritual or anything positive or anything
to make yourself better.
And that's good, and that's fine.
But it considered anything outside of that environment, anything outside of the church,
at best, an indulgence, and maybe at worst, a...
distraction from God. And three, once I got into my 20s, I got very invested in the philosophy
of Ayn Rand. I loved The Fountainhead. I loved Atlas Shrugged. I thought a lot about her
philosophy of objectivism. And it pointed to a lot of the problems in the world of people
indulging in themselves, indulging in subjectivism, and thinking they can live in their own
particular unique and individualized reality when in fact there is an objective reality.
I tell you all this is background because I didn't come by the idea that I should consider
my perception, my subjective reality as a way to control how I approach objective reality.
Not a denial of God, not a denial of objective reality and not a denial of that manly culture
that I grew up with in Texas, but actually a way to embrace and enhance all of that by considering
my own mind.
That's how I come by, Tony Robbins.
So let's start with story number one.
He is the number one life and business strategies, peak performance expert, and number one
New York Times bestselling author, global entrepreneur and philanthropist.
And he is in our studios in New York City.
He is Tony Robbins.
What's up, Tony?
Hey, well, nice to meet you, buddy.
I was thought they were punking me.
Good to meet you.
I was an empty chair here I was going to be talking to, so I am so disappointed.
I am so disappointed as well.
But as much as I wanted to meet you and in person, I've had the opportunity to speak to you
through the camera lens once before, but to meet you in person, I had to stay married.
I just spent the last five days in Las Vegas, Nevada, which on its face is a bad thing to have done
in a marriage, but it was for the Super Bowl.
I need to come home. I need to be with my family as much as I wanted to meet you,
Tony Robbins. I've got a lot of want to talk to you about today. Can I start with this?
Sure. You have earned the right throughout your life to impart wisdom and advice on millions in this world.
I'm curious, though, as we sit here in the present tense today, where do you struggle?
What is your personal struggle? What is your biggest struggle where somebody could, should, or would offer you advice?
I think time is still the final frontier for me personally.
And the reason is because, you know, I have 114 companies now.
We do over $7 billion in business.
I come from absolutely nothing.
And I love the variety of that.
But I also have five kids and five grandkids.
I have a 48-year-old daughter.
And I have now almost a three-year-old daughter.
So I think time is that final frontier for me.
And I'm always figuring how to crunch it.
But just I'm polled many different things.
I have lots of interests and lots of things I do in philanthropy.
and all of them really matter to me.
So I think that's probably the single most challenging area for me personally.
You know, Tony, I mentioned it.
You could probably hear my introduction in leading into this interview.
I'm not going to say this is what, this is the piece of content that really won me over with you.
It's not, you know, I've been aware and won over to Tony Robbins for quite some time.
But, you know, I saw this video, Tony, of your interview that she just did in the past month or so with comedian Theo Von.
And I love Theo Von.
I think he's hilarious.
But you were talking about, and you said specifically,
hey, I'm not necessarily someone who believes in positive thinking.
I believe in intelligence, I think was the line that you gave him.
But as an illustration of the power of perception,
of not subjective reality, but how you take in objective reality,
you told him to close his eyes and look at everything in the room that's brown.
And then you brought in everything in the room that's red.
And there was something about that.
And maybe you can share that with us here today, Tony.
It just made me realize, like, it's how you internalize objective reality that creates your own reality.
What I try to tell people is we don't experience life.
We experience the life we focus on.
So what's wrong is always available.
So is what's right.
But I'm not in just being positive.
I believe you've got to see things as they are, but not worse than it is.
Most people today make it worse than it is.
There are young people today that have been sold this idea that in 12 years the world's going to end because of climate.
change, which we all know is bullshit. But when you hear it over and over and over again,
now people are not having children because of it. So I think you've got to see it is, not
worse than it is, because we make it worse than it is, people do that because they're
afraid of getting the hopes up being disappointed. But then if you're a leader, you've got to
see it better than it is. You know, the Bible it says, without a vision, people perish.
You know, it's good advice. You have to have a vision beyond the now. And then you have to
make it the way you see it, which requires strategy, not just positive thinking and
enthusiasm. If you're running east looking for a sunset, I don't care how positive you are. It's
not going to work. You got the wrong strategy. So with Theo, though, it was interesting because
he's such a funny and beautiful young man. And I felt like it was like my son there because, you know,
he's got a lot of pain in him. A lot of comedians do. Not all of them, but many do. And I found
myself doing kind of a little mini intervention on him. And what was amazing is people sent me
responses, you know, on YouTube, which can be mixed, obviously. And there were so many young men
that feel like he do, that feel like they're not enough,
that feel like they don't have a place in the world,
that feel like, you know, if they get too happy,
they're afraid things are going to fall apart.
And so it was really interesting for me to see
how many people were touched by that conversation
who were his followers, which are primarily young men, as you know.
And there was something about that particular,
and look, Tony, you know, as I sat and thought about our conversation today,
I thought, like, what's new under the sun for Tony to talk about?
Like, there's not a pitch in my arsenal.
I can throw him that's going to get by.
It's not a pitch he hasn't seen.
He's got every curveball, every knuckleball.
He's seen every pitch.
He knows what he's going to say.
But what was it?
There was something about that illustration you gave to Theo.
Would you, for my audience, for this audience, and I know it doesn't take long, but what is
that about how we see things in a room?
Well, it's not so much room.
I was just giving an example.
I said, you could do it right now.
Your viewers or listeners, if you look around the room you're in right now and look for
brown.
Look for everything that's brown.
Brown clothing, brown hair, brown people, brown.
brown, anything, look behind you, look around, you, look above you, and then close your eyes.
And then tell me everything you saw in the room that was red.
Usually, there's a little laugh when I do this in public market, you know, 10, 15,000 people,
and I'll say, open your eyes, now look for red, look for red.
Okay, how many found, you know, more red this time?
Everybody raises their hand.
Well, why?
Because seeking, you shall find.
You will find things even if they're not there, I'll tell people, and they look confused.
And I'll say, how many saw beige things called them brown just to feel successful?
How many saw something Burgundy called it red.
So whatever your brain is looking for, you will find.
Whatever you believe, so has it done unto you, quotes in terms you and I would both relate to as Christians.
But the bottom line is, it's true.
Once you believe something, you find evidence to support it.
If you think somebody's a bad person, you'll color them from, you know, brown to, you'll take the beige and make it brown.
If you think somebody's a good person, you'll turn it around.
Like, look, for example, if your best friend treats you really terribly one day, you know, you will,
feel sad or angry or hurt, and if you can't resolve it, you have to go to a phone call or you've
got to go to a meeting. You'll usually rationalize their behavior, right? You'll usually say,
well, they're probably having a bad day. But if you go to somebody who you think is, you know,
a mean, manipulating person, it may not be true, but it's what you believe about them. And they
don't treat you badly. They teach you real nice. What's the first question in your mind? What do
they want? So our relationships, our life is controlled by our beliefs, our beliefs, our beliefs,
colors what we see and don't see, what we experience and don't see. So it's really important
to question our beliefs at times, to not just accept what you've been trained to believe
because our culture, we have a perfect examples, finance. So many people in this country,
young people think we have a terrible country. Well, I was in the Soviet Union when I was
23 years old. I was brought over there because of what I was doing at the time. I traveled
the whole country. It made me a capitalist. I didn't know what a capital was for that.
But everybody's supposed to be equal. And there was no equality. I was on these trains going
from literally Moscow to Siberia with all these high-end people.
Everybody's supposed to be equal.
And they're having caviar.
And we'd stop in every little train station, get out in the city.
And there would literally be half a mile, quarter of mile people wrapped around these buildings
so they could get in line for a quart of milk and a half a loaf of bread.
And so it's like, I came back and said, you've got to become, if you live in a free enterprise
country, you've got to do it.
So most people in this country who hate this country or want the government to pay for everything,
which, of course, it can't. It's already broke. They don't understand the opportunity.
Their problem is they've been trained to be a consumer instead of an owner.
I was trying to explain this the other day to a young person, and I said, do you have an iPhone?
And, by the way, do you have an iPhone? Well, of course.
Yeah. So most people have one. I said, okay, so you have an iPhone. Have you bought several iPhones?
I said, yeah. I said, well, I've been around enough. I bought every iPhone.
So if you bought every iPhone since the first one in 2007, you spent $20,600.
That's the amount you've put out of pocket over that time period.
Now, if you bought the stock, hear me now, you took the same amount of money you spent at that time for the iPhone, and I went back and made a chart so people could see it and bought the stock.
Today, all that adds up to $206 million.
So it's like, yes, that's the real number.
That's the real number.
So we just don't teach people.
We don't teach people to question their limiting beliefs, and we don't teach them beliefs that empower them.
So what if you believe you find evidence for it?
How else can you explain all these young people who are pro Hamas?
not pro-Palestinian, pro-Mas. They say, you know, words are destructive, words are violence.
I mean, you know, talk to Chris Rock, and he said, words aren't violence.
So, words are violence. No one has slapped the shit out of you on national television, right?
So it's like, so, but, you know, those same people, someone is cutting somebody's head off.
I mean, I hate for any side Palestinian or Israeli to be injured or hurt. I mean, to me,
it's horrific. But, you know, we have these interesting beliefs that we develop because we develop, you know, an ideology.
and it limits us.
And what I try to do is get people to say,
I don't tell people what to believe.
I get them to question anything that's limiting themselves
and perhaps see if there's a more expanded perception.
I think that's what's missing in our country.
We don't have much of a middle right now.
We have extremes on both sides.
And I think most Americans are in the middle,
but they don't have the voice.
They don't speak it up.
I'm hoping that'll change over the next few years.
Hey, Tony, do you feel like you're swimming against the current
when you sell people this idea
or help them understand the idea
that there's a way to see the world through a different lens.
And that lens tends to be more positive.
What I'm wondering about is, are we inherently culturally,
or maybe even as human beings, attracted to negativity?
You brought up climate change a moment ago,
and young people attracted to this idea
that's a dystopian apocalyptic future.
One of my favorite authors is Matt Ridley,
and he talks about, like, hey, reality is
the world has gotten better.
over a broad timeline.
Your life has gotten better, poverty has gotten down,
your health has gotten better.
But what sells in the news,
and then what sells in a worldview, is negative.
And it makes you wonder, like,
are we not naturally or culturally attracted
to this apocalyptic future?
And you, for example, then,
are swimming against the tide,
swimming against the current,
to tell people, no, that's not actually an inevitability.
You're absolutely very astute.
It isn't just the culture.
It is the way we're wired as humans.
We have a survival brain, and it was designed
millions of years ago, and it was designed
so you could immediately find anything dangerous to survive,
so you'd either fight it, or you'd freeze
and hope it didn't notice you, or you'd run, you'd flight.
Those are three choices.
Well, most people have not evolved very much from there.
There's no saber-tooth tiger anymore,
but we have that reaction to what does somebody write about us
in social media, or do we have enough money
or something that isn't really survival.
And so the negative bias, that's why in the news,
you know it, journalism, journalists are great.
people. The media, like when I say this, people say, no, they're not. Yes, they're good people.
They're doing their job. Their job, the majority of them is for the shareholder. The way you get
the shareholder make more money is you get more eyeballs. We're not an information society that died
a long time ago. We're drowning in information. We're starving for wisdom. But what gets,
if it bleeds, it leads. So they know that if I can get that headline, even if it's not the
same as the article itself, right? What is clickbait? You click on it and I get paid. So that's
the unfortunate part. Then you have social media that just,
everyone has an equal voice, even not everyone is equally qualified to talk about something, right?
So the combination of those two has changed our society to such a negative bias.
But that's true.
That negative bias isn't everyone.
But that doesn't mean you have to live that way.
It'd be natural to, you know, drop your doors and go to the bathroom wherever you are.
That's the way it's done in some countries.
But, you know, we don't do what everybody else does.
We culture ourselves.
We raise the standard beyond just the fear-based of our brains, and we develop a different level of consciousness.
So, yes, but most people come to me when they're hungry.
You know, people come and look at the demographics, and they see every age, every background.
You know, I just did a seminar for 1.1 million people for four days in 195 countries,
all of the world simultaneously in every time zone.
And it's every walk of life.
But what they all have in common is hunger.
So people come to me when they're the best at the world because they're looking for those
little things.
They know if I make this little change, just 10 degrees, but I take that at a week from now,
a month from now, six months from now, I have a different destination, a different result, a different
destiny. Other people come because they had a birthday with a zero on it, or they went through a
divorce, or they lost their job, or they've been doing the same thing forever, and they're great
at it, but they're bored out of their mind. So there's a hunger to change. Without the hunger,
most people are never going to interact with me. And then when they do, I do things in deep immersive.
I don't do something for 30 minutes or an hour and try and pump somebody up. Even my books
are ridiculous. You know, they're five, six hundred pages.
but people get pulled into them.
And when I do seminars, they're 12 hours a day,
four or five days in a row.
These are people that wouldn't sit for a three-hour movie
someone spent $300 million on.
But when you think about time, time is emotion.
How long is a long time?
When you're hating what you're doing, a minute's eternity.
When you're loving what you do, time flies.
And so I've learned how to engage people in a way
where they enjoy themselves while they're transforming,
instead of like it being a pain.
And that's really why I've been able to do this.
I'm entering my 47th year doing this.
I didn't believe I started when I was three, of course, but you get the picture.
Well, I've gotten the picture.
And here's, again, and we're going to move on to talking about finance and investing in just a moment.
But, like, I just kind of personalize this with you, Tony, and everyone, I'm sure does.
But, like, my own lens through which I come to appreciate what you have to say.
First of all, I love what you had to say about information.
Look, we're awash in information.
And I actually think we are, every intelligence in its truest sense is readily accessible all around us.
That doesn't mean we make intelligent decisions, but what we are impoverished at is wisdom.
And that's making sense of everything around us, both past, present, and future, and all of this information.
And you, the wisdom that has, you know, I grew up, here, you'll appreciate this.
I grew up, I think, with one of your friends.
He is, he was, he was somebody I spent every summer with his children are my good friends.
And we just partnered together on a fund to help raise money for the people that were.
that were devastated in Lahaina Maui.
But I grew up with Wayne Dyer, and I know that you and Wayne knew each other well.
And by the way, and I would say it to Wayne's face back then.
I was like, oh, come on, manifest my destiny, Wayne.
You know, yeah, I'm going to, the power of positive thinking, you know,
and he'd laugh, and he was a great guy.
Yes, he was.
A good friend and a really amazing father, too.
And those, gosh, is it nine kids, who are all really close to my family.
family to this day. But, you know, when you talk about habits, you talk about it, Tony,
in a language that makes sense to me, like the habit of how I think about my day, you know.
I made one of my New Year's resolutions to get up every day and, you know, meditate and
reach out to someone, which, by the way, I'm not going to pretend like I'm super succeeding
at all of this, but I need to build the habits. And there's something like functional and
understandable about making this type of thinking a habit that has essentially compound interest
in my life. Yes, it builds.
Well, you know, I'll give your viewers and listeners maybe a chance to consider.
Think about it this way.
I'm pragmatic.
By the way, I have very strong spiritual beliefs.
I don't think there's a separation between those personally.
Everything in the world is spiritual.
God is a part of my life in every way.
I feel I'm only here because I've been blessed.
I started with absolutely nothing.
I've done my part, but I could have done my part and not been so blessed.
You know, I don't take that for granted ever.
But from a pragmatic perspective, if the quality of our life is what we focus on,
then I tell people there's three to say,
decisions you're making every moment. And your audience can ask themselves, is this happening right now?
Every moment of your life, you're making three decisions. You're not necessarily making them
consciously, though. And because of that, we make the same decisions over and over, and our
life doesn't usually change. So the first decision is, what are you going to focus on? So at any
moment, whatever you focus on, you're going to feel. If you make it to 7 p.m. have dinner with
your wife or your boyfriend or girlfriend or someone, and you get out at 7, and they're not
there, I'll ask people, what are you feeling? And some people go, I'm angry. And some people
say I'm worried. I'm going, it's only seven. What if it's 7.30 or not there? Now, I'm really
angry. What if it's 8.30? They've not called. They not text, not shut up. I'm really angry.
One woman said to me, I'm full. I didn't wait for the bastard. But the difference between whether
you're angry or pissed off or worried has nothing to do with life, objectivity. It's what you did
in your head. If they were late and you're in your head, they always do this. They don't care.
They're probably screwing around with somebody else. You're angry. If you said in your head,
oh my gosh, what if they were in a car accident?
Now you're worried.
So we think the world is controlled by the outside.
It's really our decisions of what to focus on.
And the second decision is what does it mean?
Is this the end of the beginning?
If you think it's the end of a relationship,
you're going to make a very different decision
than if you think it's the beginning of a relationship,
right?
In the beginning, you'll do anything.
In the end, it's like, I don't know, type of thing.
You know, does this person disrespecting me?
Are they challenging me?
Are they coaching me?
Are they loving me?
Whatever meaning you come up with
will radically change your emotions
and that controls the third decision, what am I going to do?
But let me give you a pragmatic way they could use this right now.
Here's a couple patterns of focus that control your life completely.
One question I'll ask you, and your audience can answer it for themselves.
Do you tend to focus more on what you have or what's missing, especially with COVID and so forth?
Where have you focus more on what you have or what's missing?
What would you say for you, Will?
For me, what's missing?
Yes.
And that's true of most achievers.
And so what's good about that is it gives you some drive.
What's bad about that is you can never stay fully fulfilled, because when you're constantly
focusing what's missing, you never get to fill up with that joy and have it last because
you're always the next thing.
That's what puts people on the hamster wheel.
And especially during COVID, it was really easy to go what's missing because there seemed to be
a lot missing.
But if you can focus on a different habit, the habit of what I have first, that feeling of
gratitude changes your biochemistry.
This is science.
It's not attitudes or just mindsets.
And in fact, think about this.
The two emotions that mess people up in the way.
their relationships and their business and their career are fear and anger. Well, when you're grateful,
you can't be angry and grateful simultaneously, and you can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.
So I have a thing I do every morning for 10 minutes, which taps into that gratitude and puts me
in that state every day. Another pattern, do you tend to focus on what you can or can't control?
What would you say you do? We all do both, right? Which one do you focus more on?
Well, I would say, this is a big issue in my life. I am much more fulfilled when I have control,
even if I fail at that control, then when I am out of control.
So as far as my focus, it's probably on obtaining some measure of control
because the out-of-control focus is so unproductive for me,
and I hate the way I feel.
It's the source of most of my unhappiness.
Well, it's true for most people, because all the research shows,
the more you feel in control of the events of your life
versus your events are controlling you directly affects to your level of happiness and self-esteem.
But the majority of people, and I think you'd be different in this area,
Most of the people come see me, they come see me because they want to take control of their finances or their business or their relationship or their body or their energy or their happiness, right?
So I tend to bring those people in.
But think about this.
If you're constantly focusing on what you can't control, what kind of stress are you going to have inside?
And if you're adding to that, you're not, but people add to that what's missing.
And then here's the third one.
Do you tend to focus more on the past?
Everyone listening can try this, the present or the future.
We all do all three.
But where do you spend more of your time, focused on the past, present, or future?
What would it be for you?
I heard you do this with Theo, and he said the past, and I was riding along with this decision
tree with him, and my answer is different.
Mine is on the future.
And you can add mine up there.
Mine is, focus on what I don't have, focus on the future, and focus on how I can obtain control.
And you just describe the core of your personality in three areas of focus.
And by the way, yours is very proactive.
It's an achiever orientation.
That's why you've achieved.
Someone who's always focused on what they can't control.
there's so much we can't control in our lives.
You can't, listen, you think you're in control,
your brain doesn't even control your bowels
if you go to Mexico and eat the wrong food.
I mean, let's be honest, right?
You don't have full control in this life.
We have influence.
We can control our thoughts and our emotions
if we learn how to,
but most people haven't learned how to.
But imagine somebody who is constantly focusing
on what they can't control,
what's missing, think COVID, and then the past.
Well, you can't change the past.
You put those three together,
and you have somebody that's going to be angry or depressed.
So I get people all the time
who are, you know,
have been on, I ask people in live audiences a lot of time. I have 10, 15, 20,000 people.
How many of you know someone will ask them who takes antidepressants and they're still
depressed? 90% of the room raises their hand. Well, why? Because when you take
an antidepressant, all it does is it numbs you. In fact, a year ago, well, 2022, the cover of
Newsweek was showing SSRIs don't even work, but we're still selling them. But, you know,
the good news is you can learn to change these. Stanford decided during the middle of COVID,
they reached out to me because two of their professors went to one of my programs,
and they both were clinically depressed and came out with no symptoms of depression.
They said, do you have data on this?
And I said, well, I have millions of graduates.
They said, but I mean like scientific data?
I said, well, no, but would you like to do a study?
They said, we'd love to.
So I said, well, if we're going to do it, you're going to do it on depression,
because during COVID, the amount of depression exploded, as you know,
and the amount of suicides exploded, overdoses.
I said, well, what is the average across, you know, meta studies?
How well do people get under current approaches?
And he said, well, Tony, the average is 60% make no improvement, whether doing drugs or therapy or both.
40% on average across the many studies improve, but their improvement is about 50%, so they're half as depressed.
Now, some people get well, but very few.
Most of them take these drugs for years or even decades.
And I said, man, you could almost get that with a placebo.
And they said, you're right.
I said, what's the best study you've ever done?
They said it was done five years ago at Johns Hopkins.
they took people for 30 days and gave them psilocybin, which is magic mushrooms, for 30 days, along with cognitive therapy.
And I said, well, you must have got to change out of that.
And they said, yes, it was the most success they'd ever had in the history of depression treatment.
After six weeks, 54% of the people had no symptoms of depression.
I said, why don't you, you know, do your example against that for us?
They did.
They did the study.
The numbers were so, it was a five-day seminar, no drugs, no cognitive therapy.
It's called Date with Destiny.
I do it once a year.
And they then followed up.
The numbers were so insane.
They didn't want to get, you know, blacklisted or, you know, canceled.
So they sent out all the data blindly to three other organizations.
Here's the result.
After six weeks, zero percentage of those people had clinical depression, no symptoms whatsoever.
17% went in with suicidal ideation.
They all left with no suicidal ideation.
11 months later, follow up, no depression.
52%, excuse me, 71% reduction.
me, 71% reduction in negative emotions, 52% increase in positive emotions. So now we're doing a
one-year study that's on quiet quitting to give you an idea in business as well. So we just change
a few things and you radically change how people feel and how they operate. There's some simple
pragmatic things you can do. You know, Tony, one of the things, and I've had this conversation
here on the Will Kane show over the last couple of weeks, I'm going to give you an example.
You don't have to address the example. But, you know, I would talk about the Republican primary.
and I would say, you know, listen, something's not working for Ronda Santis.
It was just an analysis of reality, right?
It's not endorsement.
It's not a, I'm not waving pom-poms, and I'm not cheering, you know, anyone's failure.
I'm just trying to accurately assess reality.
My argument to the audience is you have to accurately assess reality in order to change reality.
And so, but so much in news, especially when it comes to policy, it's become, don't say anything negative because essentially we want to manifest our destiny.
Like, talk positive, and then it turns positive.
The reason I bring that up is, I think you need to understand reality.
I think, you know, that's step one.
Step two, diagnose, improve reality after you've analyzed it.
So you're talking about SSRIs here.
Here's what I would ask you.
So we know that young women are having a huge problem with depression, kind of starting
around their teens, and it seems to correlate with the adoption of social media.
Without a doubt.
We know that young men are having a big problem, maybe a little bit later.
But we see the suicide and depression with young men.
I've speculated as to why.
You are very well positioned to tell us what is the diagnosis of reality?
What is happening with young men and maybe with young women as well when it comes to depression?
Well, the studies with young women, the more they spend time on social media,
the more likely they are depressed.
And it's because we have this insane double standard for women, which is they're supposed to look like, you know, somebody that's on heroin, you know,
that their body is skinny and acts a certain way and be a certain way.
And as you know, no one actually publishes reality in social media.
They use filters and they make themselves look better.
They make their life look better than it is.
And so people feel about their lives by comparing who they're around.
Well, that used to be the people you growing up with.
Now you're comparing to multibillionaires, models, and people of that nature.
And so it's overwhelming for women because it's so insane that they're held to the standard.
Men don't have the same standard.
You see, men usually are more suicidal because they feel like they're not enough and don't have a compelling future.
They don't have a place in society.
They don't have a way of making it.
They don't have a way of proving who they are.
And, you know, when I did Theo's piece, the thing that struck me again was how many men, like he, are focused on the past, feeling like they're worthless, feeling like they're not enough.
I mean, it was a genius in what he does.
And yet he still was operating from kind of the past.
Though his focus has been on these meanings he made about himself years ago.
And he's gotten so used to it, as he described it's like a friend.
You know, it's like this sadness, this overwhelm is like a friend.
Well, I said, it is not your friend.
It's just a habit.
It's, I call it an emotional home.
You know, when you see people, like, for example, in some parts of the country where a cyclone comes in or a storm, it destroys their home and they're crying and they've got nothing left, at least they survived.
And you'd have to have, you know, ice in your veins not to care for them.
But when you see them rebuild and go through it again, about the third time, most people's brains go, why don't you move?
You know?
But they don't move because it's all they know.
It's their home.
And we have an emotional home.
if it's not a good place, we go back to what we know.
So what I show people is it's time to maybe,
you don't have to give up your home,
but maybe it's time to expand your home
and have it include a new set of emotions.
If I add your audience right down in a piece of paper right now,
and I'll do this in seminars,
I'll say draw a line down the middle,
and on the left side, write every positive emotion
you experience in an average week,
not once a year, not once a month,
but once a week at least or more.
On the right side, write all the emotions
that are negative that you experience in an average week.
And I get them as much time as they need.
The average person comes up with 12 emotions.
And some got more positive, some got more negative.
But the thing you see is there are 3,800 words in the English language for different emotions.
And we have the same emotions over and over again.
We use the same words to describe them.
We use our body the same way.
And so what I show people is how to expand it.
You're ripping yourself off by having such a limited list of emotions.
But people do it because of what they know.
So I put people in environments where their energy is so high.
their biochemistry changes, and now they start to feel differently, and they start to link it.
It's like if I asked you where you were during 9-11, if you're not an American, most people
can tell me where they were, who was with them, what they saw.
I've asked you where you're on 8-11.
You have no clue unless something special happened, because information without emotion is not retained.
So I produce high levels of emotion, and then we make the changes, and that's why when they
did the studies, for example, at Stanford, they go, how is this lasting a year later with no interaction?
because it was anchored into their nervous system
with so much emotion at the time.
It's in their bodies, not just their heads.
Information without emotion.
Would you say information without emotion?
Does it?
Barely retained.
It's so.
You know why your wife will be able to tell you
something horrible you did 12 years ago
that you've forgotten this show of ever in detail?
Some emotion attached.
There's a reason.
I don't remember it.
I didn't feel anything.
Women have a deeper construction
in their brains and female brains,
female brains between the right and left hemisphere, men are more separated. So a man can take a word
and put in the left brain and put the emotion in the right brain. Woman, you say something,
and they have that emotion and that word simultaneously. So they remember more. That's why they
have a deeper memory to give you an idea. Always feeling, always remembering these women.
Tony, here's why I ask you a diagnosed reality. And I'm going to connect this to the SSRI conversation.
that is society's not diagnosis that's society's current solution to the diagnosis of depression
and purposelessness and it's stunning i mean i don't know i don't have it in front of me but i've
looked up in the past the percentage of people watching listening living in america right now
that are on some antidepressant ADHD whatever it may be it's mind-blowing and then tony i would add this
You know, my wife is involved, she's involved in things that bring her into contact with the foster care system in America.
Yes.
And you're talking about children who have objectively awful circumstances for the entirety of their life.
So like if you were saying, hey, why are you depressed?
They'd be able to come up with some good reasons, you know?
Yes.
And the foster care system in partnership with the medical system, answer to that is, here, have some of these drugs.
and these kids are on these drugs constantly and early.
And they're just an illustration, I think, of what's going on wider in society.
At some point, Tony, I would have to think, and we maybe you're already experiencing it,
this chicken comes home to roost.
What is the price we pay for medicating society?
Well, I think you can see it already.
I don't think it's something that has come home to roost.
You have so many people.
I mean, most people don't want to come back to work.
They were paid to stay home and now they don't want to work.
And listen, I understand hybrid work can be really valuable.
I have a lot of companies.
We have a lot of hybrid companies.
But, you know, there are a lot of companies they want their employees, come back to work, and they go, I'll quit.
Well, some of them are putting their foot down.
Now, UPS the other day announced that everyone has to come back five days a week, all the management people.
And they all complained, but they also fired 12,000 people on that day.
So I think a tightening economy changes those types of things.
But I think we have medicated ourselves so much that what's happened, it's like we become weaker and weaker.
If you want to know the history of the country or the history of society, I'm a student of history.
You study 1,000 years of Roman history, 500 years of Anglo-American history.
I can tell you the cycle.
It's really simple.
Good times create weak people.
They don't mean to be weak.
It's just when everything is available to you and you know nothing else, you get really stressed out when your internet doesn't work and you're banging on your phone.
Give it a moment.
It's going to a satellite.
You know, it's like people forget.
But good times create weak people.
Weak people create bad times.
Bad times create strong people and strong people create great times.
It's a cycle.
So if you think of the greatest generation, somebody born in 1910, those people were protected during World War I.
We came back in one.
Think about it.
When they're 10 years old, it's 1920.
We're entering the roaring 20s.
We have all this new technology, radio and television and cars.
And by the way, that generation was not respected in their youth.
They were like how older generations look at millennials or Z generation.
They were called flappers.
Oh, wow.
They were wasteful people.
They didn't care about anything.
They were lazy.
And they were because they grew up in any.
But guess what happened when they turned 19 or 20 and thought they're going to have a car if they're born in 1910?
It was 1929.
And people are jumping out of buildings.
And the middle of the country was a dust bowl.
And people are standing in line for bread.
Well, those people had to get tough to survive.
And they made it through 10 years of depression only to make it 29 years old in 1939 when War II breaks out.
And Hitler is strafing countries in a matter of days.
And you and I weren't alive then.
But it looked like we're going to lose.
And so these people volunteered, went to war, won the war, came back now at, you know, 35, 40 years old,
and they were the heroes of society and created a new society, a new direction.
Well, that was a wintertime.
Every winter has a spring where people get optimistic and society does well.
And that goes on for 18 or 20 years.
And then we have another 18 or 20 years.
We're tired of the optimism.
It's like, do you ever smile so much your face hurts?
It's like, we need another emotion.
And so we go to a summertime, and that's always a fight between.
young and old, within the culture.
And then there's a fall where the stock markets go crazy and people reap really easy
and somebody wants to give you a house even though you don't have a job, right?
And then it follows winter again.
So we're in winter right now.
And we're probably two-thirds the way through it.
I was going to ask you, what do you think we are currently?
We're in winter?
No question.
We're in winter right now.
Because in winter, everything's fearful and everything's exaggerated and everything's negative.
But it isn't forever.
That's the good news.
Every winter is followed by a springtime.
Every horrible night of the soul is followed by the.
the day. I mean, if you were God, you'd set it up that way, so it seems to work pretty well.
But it's like testing us to get strong, giving us some freedom and joy, testing us to be
strong. But if you can understand that winter doesn't last forever, no pandemic lasts forever,
no war lasts forever, no economy lasts forever, then you know that what's next can be better.
It always has been. It's not a straight up arrow. It's not purely positive. It's like anything.
If you see a straight line in nature, that's not nature, a human druid. Real nature is like
a stock. It grows up a little bit and comes down.
and goes up, but overall, if it's healthy, is growing higher and higher, and that's humanity.
So I think, you know, we're going to see more challenges, and we've got a whole society
of people, millennials and zes, that are going to be the next heroes of our society. I can promise
you that. I love that cycle analysis. I've never thought about it through the four seasons.
I've read about, by the way, the fourth turning, which says... Yes, that's one of my favorite
books. I interviewed those guys in the 1990s. Oh, really? Yeah, and that's, the projection there,
is it an 80-year cycle they talk about? Things move in 80-year cycles?
seasons roughly 20 years. It used to be 100
years in times of Rome, but it's
gotten tighter now. Everything's faster.
So, yeah, so 18 to 20 years cycles that we go
through. Think about, think about...
The scary thing Tony used to try to. Think about after the
war, the late 40s,
45, till about the time that
the president was shot,
meaning JFK, it was a very
optimistic time. Then the summertime,
he gets shot, Martin Luther King,
Robert Kennedy, and what happens?
All hell's breaking loose between the
generations. And then think about the difference in the
90s and 2000, 2010's. Pragmatic kids grew up and said, I'm more interested in economics.
I want to have my life be a certain way. So we go through these cycles emotionally. And if you
understand them, you don't freak out so much. It's like I hear people all the time saying it's the
worst environment ever politically. And I sometimes when I do these events, I have these visuals I
throw up. And they're placards from Jefferson and Adams during their campaigns. And if you read
what they wrote about each other, it makes what Republicans and Democrats are right and left,
about themselves seem nice. I mean, it was brutal what they wrote in those days. This is just
a cycle for it. And you want to learn, look, when winter's come, some people freeze the
death, other people get smart and they ski and snowboard and build a fire and grow their business
and educate themselves. This is the time to do all the above and retool yourself for the next
period. And the story of humanity is to save up for winter to last through the winter.
And that takes us to your new book, by the way. The Holy Grail of Investing, which you go into,
this is the third in a trilogy on finance that you have written. And in this one, you're focused
pretty tightly on private markets. The markets that have been available to elites and
somehow elusive to average investors for quite some time, private equity, private debt, private
placements. And I want to talk about some of that, but I'm going to start, as I always do,
with where my natural curiosity begins. And you talk about in the book, sports investing.
Yes. And sports investing, obviously, I'm a massive fan. But from, it's interesting the place that
sports is arriving in entertainment, but also in society where it's live and it's one of the
few places anymore where we still congregate as a people and experience reality together
communally. And as such, it's made it a valuable business. One, you point out, hasn't always been
available for us. Now there's private pools for people who jump into, but there's some teams,
like the Braves and Manchester United, you can buy into publicly as well that are publicly traded.
That's true. And this is part of what you talk about is getting increased.
increasingly accessible for average people, sports investing.
Well, for two reasons.
The first reason is because the book is really teaching something that Ray Dalio taught me,
which he's one of the greatest investors of all time,
managed $170 billion to give you an idea.
And he talked about if you can find 8 to 12 uncorrelated investments,
big word for some people, it just means certain investments tend to move together.
They move up together or go down.
If you know stocks and bonds, they're supposed to go in opposite directions.
Of course, in 2022, they all went down.
But the finding 8 to 12 is not easy.
But if you look at it, I interviewed 13 of the most powerful people in private equity, private credit, private real estate.
And these are 20 to $100 billion companies that are getting returns of 20% per year compounded for decades, some of them 30%.
That's unheard of by most individuals.
But if you're in the stock market, you got 9.2%.
That's been great for 35 years.
If you were an average private equity, not the people I have in the book, you had 14.2.
So you literally were getting 50% more money per year compounded.
So think of a million dollars as a round number.
You could make it 100,000.
But a million dollars put in the stock market 35 years ago, it's $26 million today.
A million dollars in private equity, $139 million.
Every stock market in the world.
So how does that relate to sports?
Well, these teams have never, you had to be, I have worked most of my life to make enough money
to actually be a purchaser of a sports team with other partners.
I bought the LASC Football Club with my partners,
helped to build the stadium, had a blast doing it.
It was just fun, like you said, just amazing.
But it's more than that.
Now, these teams, it was announced yesterday in New York Times,
the NFL is going to decide in six weeks.
But the NBA has already done this.
Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer,
the National Hockey Association,
they all allow private equity guys to buy certain ones.
People have no leverage to buy pieces of these businesses.
Now, why would you want it?
You just said the most important reason.
They're monopolies.
You have a legal monopoly.
can compete with you. Number two, your customers are fanatics. That's what the word fan
means, and they're multi-generational. Number three, it's not tied to the stock market. When the
stock market goes up and down, it has no impact whatsoever on sports. They've made it through
World War I, two, the pandemics. And guess what? They continue to grow like crazy. And what they
are today is not just butts and seats. They can raise the dollars to the hot dogs and you pay it,
right? That's how it works. But the real value is the real estate they now have around these
stadiums, and the big money, as you said, is the media.
Because I'll give you a perfect example.
Peter Goober is one of my dearest friends and partners in some business, and when he
bought the LA Dodgers a few years back, he paid $2 billion, he and a team did.
I own a piece of it now, too.
And everybody said, no one's paid a billion dollars for a baseball team.
$800 million has been the most.
Maybe the Dodgers, they're so special, they're worth a billion, but they're not worth
$2 billion.
He'll never make his money back.
So I go to Peter, who's been an executive producer of 52 Academy Award nominated.
movies. And he says, Tony, I said, I know you're not dumb. Tell me what you know
no one else knows. He said, Tony, I'm going to leave you on the cliffhanger. You know
who I am. I'm going to announce this on Tuesday. Call me. We'll celebrate together.
So I find out on Tuesday, he announces he sold the local TV rights for the Dodgers for
$7 billion and made $5 billion in a day. That's the value. Of the top 100 shows this last year
that you've seen, 92 were sporting events. And that's because cord clipping, nobody watches
ads anymore but you can't and that's what to those were NFL that's right well you saw the streaming
that peacock did 30 million people right to see kansas city against miami first time they ever did
it they i think the number was 15 million new members they got some insane number they paid 10
million to stream one program that's how valuable sports has become now so these you know michael
jordan bought the hornets uh got the name back recently charlotte he bought them for 270
million about 11.5 years ago. A consortium of investors, I'm part of it as well, just paid him
$3 billion for the team. Because by the way, you can have the last place team, and you get an
equal share, 1 30th of all the national, international media. So you make a fortune, even if
you're a terrible team, and then you have your own seats to sell, your own local media to sell,
your own real estate to sell. So the average across Major League Baseball, the NBA,
hockey, and Major League Soccer has been 18% compounded for the last 10 years.
The stock market's been 11%.
And you get the fund of ownership.
And today, you get this tiny little piece and be able to join it.
It's never been available before.
And hopefully the NFL will be available soon as well.
But this, so the holy grail of investing, and we hear you today talking about the success of private placement, private equity, private credit.
It's been elusive, though.
I mean, it's like a good, it's an elite club of people with a, you know, I know how this works.
I mean, there's minimum levels of investment.
and a lot of it even now is institutional.
You point out Ray Dalio.
You don't get to $174 billion by average dudes putting in $1,000.
So how does the person listening right now,
if they find this as a worthy investment advice to follow,
after having read your book, how do you get in?
How does this become not something just for the elites?
Well, there's two things.
First of all, you couldn't even legally get in unless you were an accredited investor,
which means you have to have a million dollar net worth,
not counting your house, or make $200,000 a year, or $300,000.
It's a couple. And I've always said, this is ridiculous. Why do the richest people in the world get access to the best investments and the people that need it the most don't? Well, fortunately, Congress agreed in about four months ago, bipartisan, one of the few bipartisan things they've done, they passed the law that says, this is ridiculous. You might have inherited your money. That means you're sophisticated. You might be a good businessman, but you don't know investing. If you take a test, you study and take a test, you're accredited. You don't need a million dollars. Now, the Senate needs to approve it, but it looks like it's going to pass bipartisan as well.
So that's exciting.
But then you bring up the bigger point.
You know, you and I are well-known people to some extent, and we have a certain amount
of success, and we know the right people.
And so we might be able to get in there.
And I was getting little slivers of some of the best in the world, like the ones I interviewed.
Well, it wasn't going to move the dime for me, and it wouldn't move the dime for most people.
So I was lamenting about this to a friend of mine who worked with Paul Tudor Jones, one of my clients,
and he started his own firm.
And he said, Tony, you've helped me so much.
I'm going to let you in on where I put most of my money.
Now, this guy is really successful financials.
I'm leaning in, you know, tell me.
He goes, Tony, there's this company in Houston, Texas, called Kaz.
And as soon he said Houston, Texas, I'm like, not London, not Singapore, not New York, not Connecticut.
He goes, yes, they're outside the bubble.
And here's what they've done.
You know how you're fighting to get a little piece?
They've spent billions in dollars and bought pieces of these companies where you're the general partner.
So people know, when you invest in a private equity fund, they tie your money up for five years.
They get 2% of your money as a fee, no matter what, whether they do well or not, they do well or you wouldn't keep your money with them, and they get 20% of the upside.
That's why they're so wealthy.
Well, people are willing to do it because the returns are so insanely good.
Well, watch this.
You're a limited partner when you invest in one of those.
A general partner is the owners, the CEO and so forth.
You can actually buy a piece, small piece, a sliver of these companies.
So I have a piece of 65 of the biggest private equity firms in the world where I'm getting that 2%,
and 20. So I get about 10% percent a year in income and all the upside multiple that comes
from the growth of those businesses. And when they double in size, their costs don't double.
Their profits increase. I get that. When they sell the business, I get a multiple on it.
That is available to an average investor for the first time in history. So that's one thing I was
most excited about. You can do this with some of the best companies that exist literally in the world.
Well, I'm sure you can learn a lot about this and the access and the investing philosophy and the Holy Grail of investing.
You're doing so much out there, man.
And I really am.
And I don't do, you know, I used to have this beautiful, Tony, this beautiful black and tan Doberman.
I lived in New York City at the time.
And I would take him to Central Park.
It's leash-free before 9 a.m.
He's gorgeous.
I'm like, I know.
He really is gorgeous.
But I can't return the compliment unless it's a real compliment, meaning I can't just say, oh, your dog's pretty too, unless it's a pretty dog.
So I don't give gratuitous compliments.
I'm a fan is what I'm saying
and it's not just positive thinking
it's intelligence it's manifesting
you know how you see the world
it's habits it's investing
I know you're doing a lot of stuff in health as well
you're something here in Dallas where I live
and where I'm from that you're working on when it comes to health
screening you're doing a lot of good things
you're in short man
you're full of wisdom and I really appreciate
you hanging out with us today on the Will Kane's
I really appreciate I'm a fan of yours as well I've watched many of your shows
I enjoy them and by the way I want people to know
though if you maybe get this little investment in this
book. I don't care how advanced or just beginning you are. You'll understand it. But also we're
donating, as I've done for my last four books in a row. They've all been number ones. A hundred percent
of the money goes to feeding America. And I set a goal 10 years ago to feed. I was fed when I was
11 years old on Thanksgiving. We had no food. And changed my life. It wasn't the food. It was that
people cared. And so I started with two families and then four. And then I got to a million families,
and then four. I said, I want to pride a billion meals in the United States in 10 years.
And I'm proud to tell you, we did it last year, two years early and eight years. And we're
continue. Now we're doing 100 billion meals across the world. So while you're changing your own
life, you'll be helping other people who are really in need as well. Awesome. Awesome.
Providing solutions as well in this world. Thank you so much.
Thank you, I really appreciate it. Next time in person. I know a lot is lost.
You know, nonverbal, you know, body language, energy. You know, I believe that. We manipulate energy in the
room. So we're losing a lot of it here, but I think we did a good job with your wisdom.
No, thank you so much, well. I'll see in person sometime soon.
All right, take care, Tony Robbins here on the Will Cain Show.
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Last Thursday after the live episode of the Will Kane show, I took off in a car on a four-hour road trip from Dallas to Houston.
It was my son's conference tournament in high school soccer.
I spent Thursday and Friday watching a high school soccer tournament, and then immediately
on Friday night flew to New York to host Fox and Friends on Saturday morning.
On Saturday, after the show, leaving the show 20 minutes early, I got on an airplane and flew to
Las Vegas, landed, and immediately went to Gronks Beach party, and from there did my best to make
my way towards bed to get some semblance of sleep before hosting Fox and Friends on Sunday.
going to the Super Bowl, hosting Fox and Friends on Monday.
The point is, until today, and yesterday's breakdown of the Super Bowl, until today,
I have not been able to take a moment to spend some time with you over the breaking news last Thursday
that the President of the United States is not competent to stand trial.
That's a bit of a paraphrase and a bit of a colloquialism.
But Special Counsel Robert Hurd, in the investigation into Joe Biden's, willfully miscelly,
handling of classified documents, documents including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, stuffed into a
garage in Delaware safely, according to Joe Biden next to his Corvette, and openly given to his
ghost writer, all of which was found in the special counsel's report, concluded, though, that he could
not prosecute Joe Biden, because it would likely be the case that a jury would look at him
and consider that he is a befuddled old man, incapable of being held responsible for his willful
misconduct. That in on its face is a shocking discovery. First of all, no one is paying
enough attention to the fact that this should immediately lead to the removal of charges against
Donald Trump for the mishandling of classified documents. It is not a special counsel's job to
provide the defense with an affirmative defense. It is not a prosecutor's job to say,
you're guilty, but I don't know that I can ever find a jury to convict you.
Now, prosecutors across this country, federal, state, special, and local, will all use prosecutorial
discretion to decide whether or not they have a strong or weak case.
But it is really the case that I have a strong case, all the elements of a crime, but
I'm not sure I can find a jury that's going to buy the truth.
That's what Robert Hur offered up to Joe Biden.
And it sets a standard that that same thing should be offered up then, therefore, to Donald Trump,
whose argument might not be that he was a befuddled old man, but even stronger is he was president of the United States.
So he has the available affirmative defense of the Presidential Records Act.
He can classify or declassify anything at his discretion.
While that might be arguable to some, it's stronger than, eh, I'm not sure a jury would look at him and say, you know what, there stands a criminal.
And that was the case with Joe Biden.
And hers argument as to why a jury would not say,
there stands a criminal, is he's a befuddled old man.
In two interviews over two days, Joe Biden asked, for example,
was I vice president in 2013 and referring to events in 2013?
On a second day, Joe Biden turned to third parties and said,
was I vice president in 2009 when questioned about events from 2009?
He couldn't remember the term, the dates of his vice president.
see. Separately, apparently when given a range of dates, he couldn't narrow down when he lost
his son, Bo Biden, which he talks about quite often. This was such a big deal last Thursday and
Friday that he gave an impromptu press conference, and Biden never gives impromptu press conferences.
Biden never gives press conferences. Biden never does Q&A. So when he announced an impromptu
Q&A, promptu press conference, we were left that night, standing on the sidelines of a soccer game,
by the way, in Houston, we're either going to war or the president of the United States is stepping
down. Instead, he defended himself in his mental competency. He lied and said that the special
prosecutor found he did not willfully mishandle classified documents. The lie, the opposite of the
truth. Her found he did willfully mishandle classified documents and then wanted to prove the strength
of his mental acuity in a confused speech where within the span of 24 hours, he couldn't
remember if it was the president of Mexico that shut down the wall in Gaza, President Sisi
of Mexico, which is President Sisi of Egypt. He defended with emotional grandstanding his ability
to remember when his son died by saying he retains the rosary from the late.
lady of can't remember the church. Joe Biden, it's obvious to anyone who sees anything the way he
walks, the way he talks, the way he comports himself emotionally, often resorting to anger,
which is the handrail of control when someone feels insecure and out of control, the most
easily accessible emotion that you often see in older people of anger when faced
with their own confusion. Joe Biden isn't strong enough to stand trial. He's not therefore strong
enough to run the country. Here are the important questions coming out of that. Who's running the
country right now? There's no way you come away from that with the answer, Joe Biden. So who is
running the country right now? I know there's some like my co-host on Fox and friends, Rachel Campos
Duffy, who provide you the answer, Barack Obama and his sphere in his orbit.
I fear the answer is much scarier, that the government is on autopilot, that the FBI, the DOJ, the military industrial complex, the Pentagon, they're all on autopilot.
This is what we talk about when we talk about the deep state. This is what we talk about when we say permanent Washington.
It doesn't matter if it's a Republican or Democrat if it's left or right. The bandwidth of change within Washington is about five degrees.
but when a true existential threat to permanent Washington was elected in Donald Trump,
something that fell outside of the bandwidth must be destroyed by Democrat or Republican.
And that in and of itself might be the biggest feather in the cap of Donald Trump.
That the military industrial complex, permanent Washington, the DOJ, the national security complex,
the FBI, the Republican and Democrat parties all saw him
as a threat that might be the biggest cap, biggest feather in the cap of Donald Trump.
This permanent Washington is clearly on autopilot when you don't have a captain at the helm, as is so obvious with Joe Biden.
I do not think that Joe Biden will be the nominee as Democrat for President of the United States.
Not because he's mentally incapable.
They're happy to continue running on autopilot, but because the nation is seeing that the captain is asleep at the wheel.
That the nation sees that the leader of the free world should be able to remember 10 years in the past.
that the nation sees this cannot be the president of the United States.
Polling suggests Joe Biden is losing to Donald Trump all across the board,
and that will be the reason that he will not be the nominee as Democrat for president of the United States
because it's obvious to you, because it's obvious to me,
because it's obvious to America, that if you're not competent to stand trial,
you're not competent to be president of the United States.
United States.
So I didn't see it coming.
I didn't see Patrick Mahomes.
Fine.
Whatever.
Make fun of me.
Neither did you.
Neither did anybody else.
So don't look out the rearview mirror with 2020 vision now and say, oh, we all knew
it was coming, one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
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All right, just got back from Las Vegas last night.
I got my first full night of sleep in four days.
A little bit like a Navy SEAL, sleep deprived, but still performing.
I feel like I have taken a baseball bat to my face and my energy level for the better part of a week.
But here we are back together again.
What's up, two a days?
What's up?
Establishment, James.
What's up with tinfoil pat?
I love the nickname.
I have the red yuncon vest now.
I should have worn it today.
This weekend, while I'm at the Super Bowl, literally, no, I mean this, literally, I'm at the Gronk Beach Party.
It's possible I was hanging out with Flav or Flave.
I'm getting group texts from establishment James talking about Glenn Yonkin's taking the stage.
He's at some political dork convention, and he's telling me how cool it is that Glenn Yonkin is about to speak.
I'm like, if you don't take me off this group text, you're fired.
I mean, you have Trump Jr., let's say he's having beers, because that's all we could say.
We have beer having a drink with Troy Aikman, but somehow that's being a nerd?
It's not more important than the Super Bowl, I'm sorry.
You see your boss's favorite quarterback.
You should say something to him, right?
I guess.
Don't trot out Troy Aikman, like the shiny bobble on your rotten Christmas tree.
You were there to watch a bunch of political stuff.
Troy was getting into it.
You had to see it to understand it.
I understand why I didn't sell it enough.
Troy, how did Troy vote in the straw poll of Virginia politics?
I was more paying attention to where the applause lines were, where he was and where he wasn't.
And it was very, and I don't get in trouble, but that's okay.
I'm sure he'll appreciate you telling everybody when he pumped his fist.
All right, what do you got for me today?
Two of days.
What do you got for me today when it comes to stories from the Super Bowl?
So I was thinking, I think you posted this.
You said it was like two to one 49er fans out there in Vegas.
Yeah.
So I was wondering, what was the rowdy or fan base you saw outside the stadium and inside during the game?
Chiefs or 49ers?
49ers.
It's just no doubt about it.
And I'm going to give you two reasons why anyone that's there would have to say the same thing.
Las Vegas was a home game for the San Francisco 49ers.
And here's why.
Geographical proximity, for one.
It's just easier to get to Las Vegas from San Francisco or the Bay Area than from Kansas City.
And two, it's new.
It's exciting for San Francisco.
Look, four Super Bowls in five years, I'm not criticizing Chiefs fans.
It's just the way it is, you know?
I mean, there are going to be fewer Pat's fans at the end of that dynasty who made the trip and paid the money to go to a Super Bowl than the first potential Super Bowl.
That's just the way it is.
And so, now, the Chiefs fans that were there were enthused.
But, you know, for them, if they lose, well, we've still got two Super Bowl victories in five years.
For the Niners, there's this sense that makes it, like, really intense beforehand.
Like, are we going to finally win it?
Or are we becoming the Buffalo Bills of this decade?
And that leads to intensity.
So absolutely Niners.
Yeah, I think the Chiefs came in with a sense of confidence, even though they were kind of the dogs going into the game.
But, like they just had that.
Like you just said, they have the Super Bowls.
And so I think they came in with a little calm, quiet, and, you know, just watch us kind of thing.
Well, they have Mahomes.
And that leads me to this on the show group texts.
That's funny because I was doing some research.
Tinfoil Pat.
I knew Tinfoil Pat would have something to say on the group chat about Mahomes.
He's doing a little research.
And it came across a video.
from the NFL draft, and someone was a little critical of Patrick Mahomes.
When you want to talk about that?
You're talking about me.
You're talking about there's a clip.
Somebody wearing a Dak Prescott jersey on the SPN.
There's a clip going around that shows Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharp, myself.
It's a montage, a few others, criticizing the pick of Patrick Mahomes by the Kansas City Chiefs
when he came out with Trubisky and Watson.
But I would ask you this, Patrick, what did I say in that viral video?
What did I say in that viral video?
Yeah, he...
Footwork?
He was...
Footwork was bad.
Undisciplined?
Undisciplined.
Which, you know, he wasn't very disciplined on that fourth down run either.
You know, he clearly, you know, improvved.
So, I mean, maybe you were right to an extent, you know.
All right.
In the viral clip, I am saying, I hear words like,
undisciplined, bad footwork.
Then why'd you repeat that?
Work ethic.
So here's the thing.
Are you suggesting that I was wrong for relaying to you words that I heard?
I heard words.
And I told the audience about words.
You put your name behind it.
You put your name behind it.
I don't know.
How did I put my name behind?
I didn't say he is undisciplined.
I said, I'm hearing words like undisciplined.
Semantics.
Hey, I stand by that in that just because the future refutes the past, it doesn't mean at the time the past was inaccurate.
So when Patrick Mahomes came out, that was all said.
That was all true.
And it would have made me skeptical of drafting him.
Those criticisms that he received would have made me very skeptical.
He sounded like a freelancer.
He sounded like, you know, the way he was describing to came out was essentially a less disciplined Darren Rogers.
And in a way, in some ways, he is that.
What we didn't know, the work ethic thing was completely wrong.
Whoever put that out there, that's completely wrong.
But you look at Patrick Mahomes and what he does, and it's not like, wow, look at his
incredible mechanics.
Wow, look at his footwork.
You know, and discipline is often, we think of discipline as, like, how you conduct your
life outside the game, but discipline is also how you live within a system.
You know, I always tell this story.
I love this story real quick.
when Charlie Weiss was the offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots
early in Brady's career they called a play and the play called for a seven yard out
and Brady threw the so they called the play the seven yard out instead
Brady threw a go pattern that resulted in like a 30 yard completion
and Weiss blew the whistle and yelled at Brady and said what are you doing
and he said he was open coach so that I threw it to the go route
and he took the whistle off and threw the clipboard at Brady and said if you want to
be the offensive coordinator, then you be the offensive coordinator. The play call is the seven
yard out. You take the profit as designed and you execute as designed. That's discipline, right?
What we see with Mahomes is, okay, so what? He's thrown it across his body at bad arm. That 50-yard pass in
the Super Bowl, you just want I'm talking about where they fumbled it right afterwards, so it added up
for not, but they couldn't move the ball in the first half. That was him running across the field,
throwing across his body into double coverage.
Everything was bad about that.
When he released it in the stadium,
when it was released in the stadium,
my son and I were both like,
that's an interception.
Everybody around was like, that's an interception.
And instead it drops right in the bucket
of the only explosive play,
really in the game, especially in the first half.
And just you didn't know when he was coming out
that all of those words were true,
but you're dealing with a talent
that is otherworldly
and can pull off being undisciplined with bad.
bad footwork. So I was right. Is that more wrong? In the Netflix documentary, the quarterback
one, we see it with Mahomes. And two of the big things that they show is that they really do work
on all of this mobility and the movement and kind of the out-of-the-box stuff. So it's not like it's
unprepared or unpractice. And it's also his baseball background is playing shortstop pitching
is the reason that he's able to make some of those throws so naturally that are quote-unquote
bad mechanics. Right. Right. So the long and short of this is, before we move on to other
Super Bowl thoughts is, even when I'm wrong, I'm right. What do you got two of days?
That's, I mean, that's okay. All right. We're moving on. Do your sons agree?
No, I was curious, so I've never been to a Super Bowl. I've been around them. But at the game,
you know, during the commercial breaks, it must be annoying because the commercial breaks are so long
when you're there. It must be really frustrating sitting there being like, okay, can we just get
this game going? And the person at home doesn't realize how much time is just sitting there.
Super noticeable.
Great point.
If you said you'd never been to a Super Bowl,
last Super Bowl I went to as a fan was in the 90s.
So I'm sure you've been to an NFL game.
It's not the same.
These are much longer commercial breaks.
So what they do, it's still a big lull.
It's still a big lull.
Enough that you can really go to the bathroom.
Like you think about when can I go to the bathroom.
And I have a thought on that.
But they have, you know what they have?
In-game production a little bit.
So what they did is they have a host or two, and they've got, like, you know how to NBA games?
They do that a lot.
Now they're doing NFL, they did the Super Bowl.
It's that Colleen Wolfe, who works for the NFL network, was one of them, and she kind of says a few things and tosses it to somebody, and, like, out comes Joe Montana.
And he doesn't speak, but he waves, you know what I mean, and then out comes Patrick Willis or whatever.
It's like they had different guys come out and just kind of wave at the crowd to give you energy.
Real quick on the bathroom thing, I said this yesterday.
And I'm not, I hate negativity in a way.
Like, I got on to two of you guys the other day,
I don't like this commercial, I didn't like this,
like two of you guys, like, I don't know what it's going to take.
Establishment James and 104 Pat to be happy.
But, so I don't want.
Listen to Tony Robbins, just a sweater vest.
I don't want to be negative.
But Allegiant Stadium's brand new, and it's the Super Bowl.
and there was a long line for the bathroom.
And I tried to figure out why,
and I counted nine urinals when I got in there.
Now, I'm spoiled maybe because I go to AT&T and the Cowboys,
and it's phenomenal.
That stadium is awesome, and it's 20 years old.
But this stadium for being brand new on the inside?
Eh?
Narrow hallways, crowded walking around.
Hot dog, eh.
No real, you know,
interesting food items i don't know i don't want to be that guy at that place i want to
wanted to ask was like i mean i saw some prices where it was like 50 bucks for one item i mean
it just seem absurd i don't remember um that being like there it's it's ballgame expensive
i don't remember being extra ball game expensive do you know what i mean by the way Vegas in
general i don't know if it's always like this like it's impossible to get a ticket so like my son i
I hate it Johnny Rockets.
By the way, Vegas has nothing open before 11 a.m. too.
And we're on East Coast time, and I'm doing shows at like 3 a.m.
So the quietest time of day in Las Vegas is like 9 a.m. 10 a.m.
And there's nothing to eat.
So we ate Johnny Rockets.
And like two burgers, it's like I'm $60 in, it felt like.
Have you been to non-super Bowl playoff games before?
Yeah, Cowboys, for sure.
Is there a different dynamic?
I think I heard maybe Joe Burrough say this on a podcast a few years back.
the dynamic of a Super Bowl
versus a playoff game
and the playoff game is ruckus and big
and it's all fans and is there more of a corporate
maybe kind of
business guy element
at a Super Bowl that's maybe less intense
or what is the intensity
that game like compared to an NFC
champions or a divisional game
for the Cowboys
So a couple
Wow
That's savage
Who do you like establishment James?
The New England Patriots.
Oh, yeah, and the New York Yankees, too, right?
Indeed, yep.
Oh, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Frontrunner.
We've talked about this for two years, and you've just been waiting for the time to say it,
but I've already told you the reasons a couple times,
and you know the reason, but you're not going to say it because that wouldn't work on air.
It's a perfectly fine reason.
It has nothing to do with front runners.
So we're now third in the draft?
We're picking third in the draft?
Frontrunner establishment, James.
front-runner establishment, James.
You have to make a new graphic for him.
You're getting all the nice adjectives.
Yes, it's absolutely true.
I'd rather go to the NFC championship game, possibly, than the Super Bowl, if the
Cowboys were in there.
It's especially the home side of it.
It's just, yeah, it's way more invested, way more raucous.
I will say, the Super Bowl, yeah, there's a lot of corporate, look, man, I think the tickets
ended up like $10,000 where it was a decent average. And I'm going to be real. I didn't pay.
I didn't pay. I mean, this was because I went and I covered the game and I did think about selling
them and I did think about going to the blackjack tables. And I said to my son, how much would
I have to give you and selling these two tickets for us to like, you know, make this work?
But there's a lot of fans. I think you guys saw the video. I saw a video somebody going around asking
people how much did you pay and it's not just like CEOs it's regular people so i don't know
there's regular people spending a lot of money drawn from the 401 day for it i guess i don't know
well yeah it seems like a fun time that's all we got for you uh it was it was it was a good time
um it's a it's i mean obviously and this is the thing why you'll end up paying 10 000
a ticket you want to go when you have one of your teams in in there and then all of a sudden
it's worthwhile in a way for it to be a real memory.
But like, I don't know, whoever James picks next year to root for, you know,
after the playoff seatings are set, you know, say they make it, James.
Your favorite team come December 1st.
We get Jade and Daniels, the third overall pick.
Although, I guess when the draft comes, we'll have to see if your quarterback
wisdom is as strong as it is, and whoever you say is good or as bad, we will take.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Deep tease.
Will Kane was right, even when he was wrong on Patrick.
Patrick Mahomes. So I'll let you know Patriots fans should it be Caleb Williams or Drake
May or Jaden Daniels or whoever's left at that point in the draft. All right, this has been
a good time. That's going to put a ribbon probably on our Super Bowl talk for the week, but we'll
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