U.S. Army Prepares Graves, Alexander Brothers Get 30 Years & Mbappé Apologizes to China | PBD #882

0:01Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm so loose, I could taste sweetly good story. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here. You are a one-on-one? I don't think I've ever said this before.

0:26Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Get it on. I'm late. I forgot to put this off. I got to take it off. Okay. Wow. Anyways, Vinny, how you doing? You seem fired up today. I'm a Miami narcotics cop just making sure the product is. Is it good? It's very, very. It's real. We got a good looking Elon here. Elon, how do you make your money? Vinny throwing me bills. Totally makes sense. $10 bill for me. Tom's a driver. There we go. And Snyder is acting like he's smart is what it is. That's his look. Dressed up. He did it to himself. He's dressed up as if he's very smart with numbers. So we'll see. I thought it was Adam dressed up as Jeff Snyder.

1:04Anyway. So. That's a great joke. Today is Halloween. It's around the corner. Just a tip for some of you guys. If your name is Dan Sullivan, the state of Alaska, the Democratic Party is looking for people named Dan Sullivan. You could be a good candidate, very useful. Some people back in the days would call it useful idiots to help with campaigns. But a guy named Dan Sullivan, apparently they found a duplicate. Craziest story you will think about. And then the other crazy story is yesterday, Tom, we're going to need your help on this one. The WNBA's championship game, which I'm sure all of you watch.

1:41I know you're a WNBA. All of you watch a WNBA championship. That's obviously a joke. But do you know what time the WMA championship game was yesterday? You ready? Not 7.30. Not 8.30, not 9.30 p.m. Noon, 12.30. On a Thursday. I honestly want to know who the hell watched that game. Tom asks Claude how many people watched the game yesterday for WNBA. Listen to Claude's answer. Go for it, Tom. The WNBA final was held on ESPN 6. It received less audience than the reruns of Baywatch on TNT. Nobody watched it. Nobody cares. That's why you didn't watch it. You're smart. You didn't watch the game. But it is what it is.

2:22A couple other stories. So we'll talk about Alaska. Elon Musk sent out a tweet eight hours ago that everybody's talking about. The market opened up. It's going to be a – not opened up. It's going to look like it's going to be – NASDAQ's going to be down 2%. Brent crude at 17, 117. It's looking like people are getting ready for a blue wave. That's how the market is reacting to what could be happening and a few other statements that the Pentagon made a couple of days ago. We got a whole new statement coming out. Binance had the biggest hack ever, I think$6 billion robbery, the biggest robbery in the history of mankind allegedly, and they're blaming North Korea.

2:58Some are saying, nope, this is AI because AI came in and it knows how to hack crypto. Once crypto is not protected from AI, they're going to be able to figure this out. So we got a couple people missing on the podcast right now trying to go find that$6 billion. But for those people that have the money, whether it's an AI person or a North Korean, whoever it is, biggest robbery we'll talk about. Or both of them, yes. Or both. Next one, crazy story, Iran. Everyone's saying right after midterms, war's going to break out. U.S. is ready for it. They've already made the announcements. They've done something.

3:33I think they have three ships there right now that they haven't had since 2003 that they've already deployed. And people are saying, when you did that, you attack. We're not doing this now to attack. And then they're going around telling others, hey, get ready. Get ready for something to go down. And U.S. is warning other countries. We'll talk about that here in a minute. Newsom says DSA, he got caught on a hot mic. DSA will be very dominant. That's the socialist. Then he said to Trump, if you dare come to our state and try to investigate our campaigns, we're going to come after you. As a gangster, very tough guy.

4:08Newsom's a very scary guy. A lot of people are afraid of this guy, right, Newsom? But then he has a war going on with a guy named Ro Khanna. Ro Khanna's for Prop 40, which Prop 40 is what the whole wealth tax is going to be, the 5%. And then Prop 42, this morning I was trying to teach Tom, Prop 42 is the restriction on new assets, which is called a nullifier, Tom. That's right. It's trying to nullify Prop 40, and they're fighting. One wants to do wealth tax. The other one's like, no, it's not a good idea. I got to go independent if I want to be your president. And Roquan, I was like, wait a minute.

4:46You said you supported it. You're flip-flopping. You're flip-flopping and Newsom doesn't like it. Ro said you betrayed me. That's right. Yankees. Jorge Posada says, I don't feel welcome in the Yankee Stadium. I don't feel welcome. Then, on another hot mic, the Milwaukee Brewers win the World Series. Okay? When they won the World Series, the superstar, there is the coach. The skipper is a great skipper. He's just the kind of guy you want to listen to him speak. When he does interviews, it's phenomenal. He goes to one of his players. He says, listen, when you go to the other mother effers, I'll let you watch the mic.

5:23He says, you better go tell him, this is how you win. If you go to the Yankees, this is how you win. I got some thoughts on that myself. It's always the great team people go after. Everybody wants to be a Yankee. Nobody wants to be a brewer. You know, maybe Robin Young, maybe a couple. Everybody wakes up as a kid the moment they're born. I want to be a Yankee one day. That's what it is. But it is what it is. We'll play the clip anyways. Unless you're from Boston. Trump cancels Kansas. Trip to Kansas. And this extremely in-shape, shredded, 400-pound guy asks him, are you not feeling well? Trump loses it.

5:56But some people are saying he's not going to Kansas because they don't think there's a chance of them winning. That's the real reason he's not going to Kansas. So we may touch that story. James O 'Keefe goes to show the hypocrisy of criminal activity, of people voting without needing an ID, and he acted like somebody else? Well, because it was so embarrassing, they came up and sued him and said, hey, this is voter fraud. It's like, what the hell are you talking about? The whole point is I'm trying to expose how dumb you guys are. We'll play that clip. Flavio, out of all the places to land, he landed in Miami.

6:29And, you know, Alexandre de Moraes, Lula, that government was trying to get his passport. He escaped. I think they went to Argentina first. and I'm from Argentina. He landed here. Microsoft is laying off 60 ,000 workers. They're doing a worker buyout. And they're saying this is because of AI. Tom's got a whole different perspective on the H-1B visas. We'll go into that. Do you remember that story about the Alexander brothers, the three brothers that were hardcore partying, rape allegations, all this stuff? Yeah. All three are facing 30 years in prison. All three of them. One of them tried to sell me a house.

7:02And from the first time I met him, I didn't like him. You know, I never liked them from the first. I don't know the other two, so I can't say any speak on the other two. First time I met one of the realtors, I'm like, this guy's a scumbag. I just got the bad vibes. Now it's convicted rapists. We don't have to say allegedly. It's a 30 years isn't enough. And a minor, right? There's a reported case. Can you can you imagine how the father feels? Not one of your three. Geez. Not two of your three sons. If it's three out of your three sons, don't you think some of it is on the father? Don't you think some of it is on the way you raise them?

7:34Absolutely. Don't you think there's a – how the hell do three out of your three kids? Yeah. I understand if one – people, you have certain families, they raise a kid and one guy ends up becoming a – does some mistakes. All three out of three, there's something going on there. Again, I don't know the family. Speculation. Mbappe apologizes to China because of a meme. He tried to give something about Mao. They came back and said, you can't talk like this. They're never going to play your games ever again. I apologize to China. What a lot of people were disappointed with Mbappe, I didn't know if you saw this or not, There was an expectation for him to learn how to speak Mandarin like John Cena did.

8:09Yes. To apologize. And it's like, next time you better speak this language. Absolutely. And apologize. So he's working on it. We'll see. And then last but not least, American truckers, man. They're in 221 bankruptcies. They're having a lot of issues there. And then I'm going to show you a couple things. One, Armenian parliament. You have to see. One guy just takes off his jacket. He says, aper, we know we're going to be fighting. And they start brawling. Then, by far the funniest video I've seen this week, this guy goes in Walmart, finds an Asian guy. Have you seen this? Finds an Asian guy. Watches him pull up in the parking lot, Vinny.

8:45When he pulls up in the parking lot, takes a picture of his car, uses AI, crashes the car as if he hit him. Oh, I saw it. He goes up to this Asian guy and says, I'm so sorry I hit your car. It is hilarious. Vinny, you have to see this. It's the most viral video of this week. That's so funny. The guy, he starts hitting himself like this. Oh, yeah. And he's grabbing the guy. He grabs the guy by the arm and says, come here. It's hilarious. And he takes him outside, says, my car is okay. And then he gets up. You have to see this. It's just funny. Listen, there's so many crazy things going on with midterms being around the corner.

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11:22We're doing a private viewing of the latest product that will be dropped next Monday. Some of you guys have already gotten the emails and text messages, but we're excited about that. Next week, Tuesday, election night, 7 p.m., we'll go live. It's going to be a fun night with a lot of guests. It'll be a phenomenal night. I'm sure you guys will be joining us, whether it's live or in Zoom. We're looking forward to it. With that being said, let's get right into it. First story I want to get into is Elon Musk's tweet. Pull up Elon Musk's tweet. This is Elon's tweet goes out nine hours ago now. My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats, House, Senate, and Presidency in 2028, they will, one, make D.C.

12:01and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate. Two, open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority. Three, increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority. Kamala's already talked about it. Hillary's already talked about it. Packing the court is their dream to be able to do that. That this would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word. All that is needed to ensure this doesn't happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. This is why you should vote for Republican senators this election.

12:37Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one. Vinny, do you agree with a lot? I agree. And let me say my point with everything that's happening on. And I know we're going to get to it with the war and some of the mistakes and affordability. And I understand that. But the bigger issue is what is going to happen if these people come back into power? Okay, we could try to fix stuff down the road, but they're not even hiding their plans. And remember last week, the day to Republican, was it last week or the beginning of this week? It's the plan, and it's so deep of what these people are trying to do.

13:11And I hate the lesser of two evils. I actually hate when people say that because lesser of two evil means it's still evil. I hate that saying. But if you think about the consequences of what these people are about, okay, no policy, no nothing. It's just transing the kids, opening the border, you know, pro-illegals, you know, bringing in, you know, Islam and doing all the socialists, all the communist stuff. I'm telling you guys right now, do not get duped. And when I'm seeing all these other influencers, and I know Nick Fuentes is one of these guys that likes to be a provocateur and all that stuff, saying, you know, to hell with them.

13:45Don't vote for anybody and don't do that. I'm sorry. that's the wrong attitude to have in this instance because they're not playing games. And I'm going to get into it later on, Pat, with the other story about Alaska. But this is a warning. And he's telling you, if you don't think Elon knows the plan, he knows. He's watching it. He's seeing it. And he's giving you guys a heads up. Yeah, let me tell you what happened. Last week we had Pete Buttigieg here. You guys know Pete Buttigieg. The guy ran for office. We did a two-hour interview. Not last week. Two days ago, I think he was here. And it was actually a great conversation.

14:15But let me tell you what it was. it was a sign of what they're going to be campaigning on in 2028. In May of this year, there was a private closed-door meeting in Canada. Carney was there. Obama was there. Slotkin was there. Buttigieg was there. And others were there. Kara Swisher. And I said, hey, this meeting that you went to, why was it a closed-door? Well, it's just like Republicans have the meeting. They have the strategy session. Democrats are doing the same thing as well. So I started asking him questions. I said, so if you were to run, what policies would you run? Openly, he started going through some of the things.

14:53I asked him, I said, so what do you think about the wealth tax that California is doing that could push people out to other states like Texas and Florida? What do you think about that? I said, do you think wealth tax needs to be a statewide thing or a national thing? He says, no, I fully agree it needs to be a national thing. Then I said, what about if when people leave states like California and go to Texas and Florida? He says, this is why we need the international countries to participate on a full-on wealth tax that even if you leave to another country, they're going to tax you the same as well.

15:24I said, that's why they call you a globalist. And he lost it. He lost it. He said, I'm not a globalist. What do you mean by I'm a globalist? I said, that's why people are afraid of people like you being in power because I no longer have a competition to go to a different country. So what Ilan is talking about, he's not talking about this because he's just winging it. And by the way, I've said this the other day. I said they're going to be targeting Ilan in a major way. They have a list of top 50 people that they're going to be going after in many different ways. Defamation, character assassination, assassination attempt.

15:53But there's going to be many ways they'll be going after this. Do you agree with what Ilan had to say in this tweet? Of course. I mean, this has been their open agenda for a very long time. This is not just, you know, a small disagreement between people who otherwise agree on the big picture stuff. This is Democrats have become leftists. and leftists are all about remaking the world as they see it. Their image. The utopia. They're trying to create a utopia, and anybody who stands in their way is going to be destroyed. That's the communist playbook. It's the leftist playbook from the very beginning, and I think they've been pretty open about it, more open all the time, and it's one of the reasons why Trump came along and said, we're not going to sit here and take it.

16:34For a long time, Republicans were like, no, we need to respect the norms. We need to play within defined rules. And Trump said, screw this. You people don't know. This is war. These are not people who want to make the United States better. They want to take the United States and change it into something else. This is a radical transformation, and there's a plan toward a radical transformation. And I don't think Democrats have been shy about making a radical transformation. They talk about revolution all the time. So Trump has been saying and fighting, look, we need to understand. this is not a gentleman's disagreement between people who otherwise agree on big picture terms.

17:12Democrats increasingly believe that the United States is evil, irredeemable, and therefore needs to be transformed, whether it's willing or not. And they're willing to use any means necessary to get that. And so what Elon is basically saying in a very elegant, very simple way, very succinctly, this is what's going to happen if you allow it to happen. Tom, do you have a different angle? Yes, I do. So Elon is speaking about the external and the macro. Exactly to Jeff's point, because the leftists want to say, you know, the U.S. is irredeemable. I agree with that. What's also going to happen is on the micro and the internal.

17:44So external, Puerto Rico, court, border, all the things we're talking about right here, immigration. On the micro, you know, all the polling and all the people we've been talking to on polling, and I don't mean just the crazies. And, Pat, you know there's a lot of numbers on my phone. The micro, they are going to, in this order, they are going to internally impeach Hagseth. They're going to go after Corey Lewandowski, first investigation, then they're going to indict him. Then they're going to use those two to stand on a platform and say, and it was Trump that did this. We said it all along. So they're going to impeach him.

18:17They are not going to hold a vote in the Senate as a Senate court because they need 66 votes. They won't have it. They'll have about 52. and the Senate would take an impeachment and find the president guilty in court, and now he's removed from office. They're not going to do that. The reason they're not going to do that is they don't want to have Vance and Rubio. First of all, they don't have Trump to pick on anymore. You just sent him home. You impeached him. You threw him out of office. Now he's home. Now you're going to have Vance and Rubio that could stop the wars, shift the economy, and then warn everybody that all these other people are crazy and they have to run against that.

18:56They don't want to run against that in 2028. They need bad orange man. So on the internal, the micro, that's what's going down pat. So there's a macro plan and there's a micro plan. And it does not involve throwing Trump out of office. They want to wound him with impeachment and then just bash on him for two years to go into 28 with momentum. So my biggest fear here is how the left works is by defining new normals that we slowly over time come to accept. And this kind of rhetoric from the left used to be secret, and it's progressively over the past year has become blatantly open. Like you say, they'll openly tell you what their plan is now.

19:30And we're slowly accepting more and more and more of it. I also think that the shift on the right that we see to push people not to vote is not some organic response. I do think that's orchestrated as well. But again, my biggest fear is the things that I would tolerate 10 years ago are very different than the things that I would tolerate today, The things I find extreme 10 years ago are very different than the things I find extreme today. And the more we push in this direction, whether we stop it today or stop it in 10 years, there has to be a cultural shift. This is a cultural attack, not just a government attack.

20:01You know whose playbook this is? You know whose playbook this is? This is Antonio Gramsci's playbook, where Mussolini put him in prison, I think, 1926. The next year he put Spinelli in prison in 1927. Pete Buttigieg's father wrote all the prison notes of Antonio Gramsci at University of Notre Dame, and Pete Buttigieg's father is a big, you know, looked up to him. And Pete looked up to his dad. So what was his game plan? He talked about hegemony, right? He says, number one, we either win with the sword or we win the long game. Let's use the long game strategy. What was the long game strategy? Long march through institutions.

20:37Long march through institutions. First, go get the teachers. Let's go get the universities. Let's go get the – if we get them, then the kids will look at them as experts because what do parents always say? Listen to your teachers. Listen to your teachers. So people don't realize the people who train the kids to become who they are as parents when they say you better listen to your teachers, you better listen to your teachers. Sometimes it's one of the worst advice you've got to give. Yes, be coachable, but no, if some of the things doesn't make sense, you question it. Your teacher also has her own opinion.

21:04Come home and let's process it together. Let's debate it. It's okay to be able to debate the argument respectfully. Yesterday, something happened in school. Dylan told me, my teacher asked me, he says, you think you can do this study better? It was a Bible class. And Dylan's like, I think I can do a pretty good job. He says, okay, kid, you're going to be the teacher today. Dylan got up for 30 minutes. I don't even want to say what he taught because I don't want the audience to be like, Dylan knows so much about this topic. But he went on 30 minutes, and he says, you actually did a good job teaching today.

21:32Sometimes it's got to be like, hey, you got to teach the kids to also not be like, so then what happens? Then they get to the institutions. Then kids send them to all these different industries, Hollywood, real estate, finance, HR, eventually we'll flip them. Can you do me a favor and show the chart that shows what percentage of Harvard faculty are Democrats versus Republicans? Do you actually know the number? Harvard faculty. Probably like 99 versus 96 % or something. What do you think it is? 96. You ready for this, Vinny? Watch this here. 99 % of Harvard. You're almost way off. faculty is Democrat, Vinny.

22:10Not 80%. This is supposed to be Harvard. Only 1 % of the faculty is Republican. And that 1 % is living a miserable life. You know where you have to go to work on a daily basis. Look at Princeton, 98. Yale, 97. Berkeley, 97. Harvard's worse than Berkeley. Berkeley always gets a black eye. Harvard's worse than... Then you got Columbia, Brown, John Hopkins. Even Duke is on that list at 95%. Caltech is on that list. The lowest one is UCLA. On this list, 89 % to 11%, 11 % Republican. So, I mean, it's a very, you got to give them credit. They played the long game. I had a conversation last night with somebody at midnight.

22:49I said, how often does the Republican Party hold a strategy session to bring players and say, what are we doing the next 20, 30, 40 years? You know what's one of the things I said we have to be doing? And I said this to the gentleman I was talking to yesterday. You know who he is? I said, we talked till midnight last night. I said, you need to go and nominate people to run. You need to have a conversation and say, hey, Johnny, you're running in four years. No, I'm not. I don't want to get in politics. It's too nasty. Exactly. Somebody like you needs to go. The people that are getting into it are dummies.

23:20We need somebody like you to go into it. No, but I don't want to ruin my life. You're going to get into it in four years. We have a list of 40 names that we believe should go into it, and we'll be releasing it next week on, what do you call it, election night. Some of you guys want to get it early. text the word PBD to 310-340-1132. We'll send you a list. PBD to 310-340-1132. I just think they need to realize that the other side is holding meetings like this, and Republicans are not. Republicans are playing the short game. Democrats are playing the long game. And if they play the long game, and then all of a sudden, one day you wake up, you're like, how the hell did America become a socialist slash communist controlling?

23:56What happened here? And then we're going to sit there with Supreme Court 9-2. you know what he talked about he says if you continue saying these ideas like he said, Samashiu was extreme 10 years ago it's no longer extreme today that's winning because they're getting you to say if the professor says it if the experts say it this is the norm, I'm the crazy, I'm the loony no, no, no, no, no that's how this works they force you to start questioning yourself last week a tweet came about Ilan and I want to know what you guys think about this Tell me if you think this is a good idea or a bad idea. Ready?

24:32Can you pull that up? Kalshi tweeted about new Elon 2028 committee pushes to change the Constitution so Musk can run for president. Good idea or bad idea? Snyder. No, bad idea. I mean, we don't, as much as Elon, I think Elon is more, I think he's more effective outside the political realm. I think he's much more effective as an outsider who has the ability to influence opinion, and not strictly be a political party or political partisan, even though I know he's become a political partisan. But I think Elon would be the wrong guy to run for president. Okay, which of you think this is a good idea?

25:08Who thinks it's a good idea? You don't think it's a good idea? Vinny, you don't think it's a good idea? I don't think changing the Constitution is a good idea. I mean, I love Elon as a person because of who he is to run a country. But no, I think our Constitution is that because then that opens the door, Pat, for a bunch of people. Momdani and others. Oh, no, no, no. And that's the, yeah, notice how that's that ploy. But Pat, I'm, are you talking about the long game? Can you run a poll, by the way? Can you run a poll? Would you like them to change the constitution so Musk can run? Run a poll. Let's see what it says.

25:40Just yes, no. Simple. I'm going to get, can I guess? Yeah. 85 to 90 % that are going to say no. So because we'll have 10 or 15 % going the other way. I think it's a bad idea for two reasons. If you do something to create a short-term exception, you have to be ready for the long-term consequence. And the long-term consequence is that you would immediately have leftists trying to put somebody in power over here like Ursula von der Leyen, who is basically running all of the EU. The globalists would go to those candidates. I see Jeff nodding. So if you do something for an exception, even though you think it's good, Pat, and I have more reasons than Elon that I would like that in the near term I would like.

26:23But long term, you create an exception that gets weaponized by the other side. And Pat, just to the point of the topic before, we know what the Democrats are doing. We know they're playing the long game. But as of right now, I'm not trying to give up. I'm not saying we are. But for 2028, to me, the midterms are already said and done, guys. They're going to vote. there's not crazy changing somebody's mind October surprise but affordability is real the war is real the the deporting illegals didn't really happen as much because you know Democrats are getting in the way and you know they made all that farce of people dying and jumping in front of cars and having guns fighting ice my thing is 2028 okay and Trump is going to pardon himself everybody's all those impeachments Tom at the end of the day they're not going to stick they're not going to do nothing we need the 2012 like it has to start yesterday okay and some of these people that are running pat because at the end of the day this war having the attitude of and saying it out loud publicly once the midterms are over we're gonna go bombing iran again is that going to help is that gonna help affordability is that gonna help any be honest and that's by the way and i know you had a different opinion that's not going to help anything okay iran midnight hammer midnight this bombing the hell out of them they have the ballistics okay get show me or tell me the objective how do you win that war in iran is there any way to win again so i don't disagree with you i think that i've said this consistently that there's a huge messaging problem in how we approach the iran war and we never clearly stated our objectives in a way that the american public fully gets it and says there's a pathway to achieve this i'm with you on that 100 i think they messed the messaging up completely where we disagree is that i do believe iran is a long-term threat to the united states is developing long-range ballistic missiles they've demonstrated that they're willing to fire much longer range ballistic missiles than we previously thought they have they did enrich uranium past 60 and that's not some conspiracy the u.n watchdog for u.n proliferation of nuclear you know materials is the one who came up with that conclusion and a lot of others.

28:25So there's no conspiracy here as to why we're in Iran. It's also not a secret why Trump is attacking Iran. People are surprised by it. When you look at him for many decades, that has been an objective of his. So to elect Trump and then be surprised when Trump does exactly what he said he was going to do for like the past 30 years, and many Americans have been killed by Iran. Iran is a destabilizer, not just in the Middle East, across the world. They're a proxy for some of the worst countries in the world that directly threaten us to, And we see that in the actions that those countries are taking to help us.

28:56So the whole Iran thing is a lot more complicated. But I agree with you. We screwed up entirely on the messaging. It's going to hurt the Republicans. You know what the biggest thing is? Both of you are right. And here's what the biggest thing is. The biggest thing with that is, by the way, who won the election? Donald J. Trump. He can do whatever he wants to do. Absolutely. And guess what the House and Senate can do? Agree or disagree, vote him, do whatever they want to do. They got their power as well, right? But election has got consequences. is positive and negative. That's what he wants to do in his second term, right?

29:25He did a lot of things right. You don't have to agree with this. I think the biggest thing with Iran is the saying in sales is over-promise, under-deliver, you're going to lose a lot of people. Under-promise, over-deliver. He is an over-promiser because that's why he's done well in sales and business. Oh, it's going to be beautiful. We're going to do this and we're going to make it this. no one's ever talked dirty like Trump as a president. Nobody. Just assume how he talks dirty. That's how Trump is, right? Okay. So go to Iran. You're right. Where's Brent Crude right now, Tom? 117? Yeah, 117 overseas, 104 here.

30:09In 2008, there was a poll that they did saying 64 % of voters, the way they vote is based on looking at the gas prices. That's how it is. It's simple. They're not sitting there going extremely deep into it. But at the end of the day, you better also believe when you kill a supreme leader and that decision's already been done, you better believe they're going to seek vengeance maybe five years, maybe ten years. They're not going to do well. Trump's president. But they will eventually do it. So watch what happened. Three weird stories. Remember how we told the story about what Pentagon was talking about going off the grid for 90 days?

30:37People are like, wait, what? And then you know the legendary guy. Frontier. What's his name? Thomas Ellsworth said it's a nothing burger. You guys know this. I remember that. So let me continue with this thing because we're going to truly show a nothing burger today. But watch this. So hang on. And we got a full-on menu for nothing burger with Tom. But don't do that right now. We're going to get to the menu later on. Okay? But I want to show you this. Tell me this isn't weird for you. And we love Tom, just so you know that. We love Tom. U.S. Army starts practicing digging mass battlefield graves.

31:07Why? It's a pretty good question to ask. Why are you all of a sudden? I've done that before. Let me tell you. It's a lot of work. You're going to get dehydrated for them one day, and I thought I was Superman. You know what happened to me? I went straight to the hospital, lost 24 pounds. I was exhausted. For a week, I spent time in the hospital. I'm like, I got this. It was, what did they call it? When Cat 4, Cat 5, the heat, heat wave, insane. Anyway, so yeah, we're learning how to dig grapes. Why are we doing that in Fort Bragg, North Carolina? You know, soldiers hasn't needed to do this on a large scale since the Korean War.

31:40Wait, so we haven't done this training since the Korean War? No, no, we haven't needed to do this. That's a little weird. It's fair to say it's a little weird. That's a Newsweek story. Next one. Map shows nations urging people to stockpile food as France issues warning. Why is France issuing a warning? Around the world, governments are increasingly advising their citizens to have provisions in case of an emergency such as war, extreme weather, and cybersecurity threats. What? Yes. Having emergency supplies for a three-day period is commonly advised. France and the UK recently advised people to have supplies for a period of 72 hours.

32:15I suggest 30 days. If you don't have it right now, I suggest 30 days. Go buy a filter for water. Go buy water for 30 days. Go buy food supply, MRE, whatever, dried food. Have it for, that's my, this is not a sponsor. This is brought to you by XYZ. No, no. Go find it from somewhere for 30 days. Be ready for it. This is not, hence, you know, it's just fear porn. I would say be prepared for it. And then it says, don't wait for emergency. Prepare now a government account for the French region of Normandy, said on Tuesday. What? And then British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on BBC Radio, I do like my beans.

32:50This guy farts a lot. So I have plenty of those in the cupboard and soup. Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the Netherlands also advise an emergency kit for a 72-hour period, while Sweden and Norway advise one week and Germany is up to 10 days. Why? Why are they saying that? I'll go to the last one, then Tom, I'll come to you to see if this is another burger. So U.S. warns allies to prepare for possible Iran strikes. Retaliation after election, AP sources say, U.S. officials have told several Middle East countries and regional allies to be prepared for potential renewed military action against Iran after next week's midterm elections, as well as for the possibility that Iran will attempt to retaliate against them, according to two diplomats briefed on the matter.

33:28By the way, you know the Israel election that was going on with Bibi going up against his opponent? You know, one of the main things was we're going to attack Iran. That's how the election is possibly getting the other side to come and agree with Bibi. There's so many weird things that's going on right now. So, Tom, you want to go first? You want me to go to somebody else first? No, no. So do you think something's really going here? Or do you think we should go to nothing burger? What do you think is going on here? When you spend enough time around great companies, you notice that the best ones treat trust as a growth strategy, not a box to check.

34:02Vanta helps companies build and prove trust from day one. Its agentic trust platform connects compliance, risk, and trust at enterprise scale. Vanta delivers a 526 % return on investment over three years and pays for itself in just three months. Learn why over 16 ,000 of the fastest growing companies use Vanta at Vanta.com. No, no, there's two sides to it. But the first was, you know, you could do stories like this on the U.S. military every week. Every freaking week you could do stories. Not since Korea War, doing the digging of, you know, that's like regular training. No, that's new, but my point is every week there'd be something like that.

34:41Every week there's something going on in the U.S. military that will spook you that maybe they haven't done since Korea, haven't done since Vietnam. That's number one. But number two, when all of the Western countries are all getting together, that's saying, oh, we're going to do a test of the emergency broadcasting system. And we're all going to do this. Then there is something going on. And I think what's going on is they're trying to test the public. The government tests the public and the dark side tests the public in ways we don't understand. They'll have announcements come out. They'll have this come out.

35:11They test the response on social media. They watch. And in many ways, COVID involved a lot of, you know, social behavior testing within COVID. There was a lot of social behavior testing that they were doing where certain states did this, certain states did that. And the states weren't all together. They were watching DeSantis very carefully to see, wow, you know, you enable a conservative populace that happens to be armed. You see this. So this is not a nothing burger on the on the international level. I think they're preparing us for something. Do they suspect that China is going to pop an EMP?

35:46Do they suspect that there's actually good that there that first of all, if they felt that that uranium was enriched at 85 percent and they had a plutonium core that could crush it. That's what creates the nuclear explosion. And then they felt they had a rocket that could deliver it. Well, they got the rocket to deliver it. We don't know if they're past 60 percent or not. They could be at 85 percent right now. So you could have the West going like CIA saying, sir, they have what they need to put a low grade nuclear bomb and lob it from Iran to Beirut or Jerusalem. I think that when you have the the knowledge at the CIA level and MI6 about that to happen, they test they test us like this and they put these noise.

36:32I don't think it's a nothing burger. I'll take you to something. You should do this anyway. And I'll tell you why. Katrina, did you see what happened in 72 hours in New Orleans after Katrina? 72 hours. The churches, the relief stations, they were out of fresh water. They were out of fresh water. And that's when society started to break down after Katrina. They went from shock, and I've been hit by a storm, to looting. And they weren't looking for TVs because there was nowhere to plug it in because they had no power. They were looking for food. They were foraging. And then in the middle of that, atrocities happened.

37:07So you could have an earthquake. You could have a Katrina. You could have a blizzard. You could have a lot of things happen. You should have, in my view, a minimum of one week, minimum one week of food and water so that you are prepared in the event of something like that. This, I think they're testing us because it's bigger. Jeff. I think it's a little bit bigger than that, too, for a different reason. The question I have always asked or at least asked over the last month or so, a couple of months, is why are they waiting until after the election to strike? And the immediate answer is, okay, they don't want oil prices to spike up before everybody votes.

37:40And that's a legitimate answer. I think it's a little bit more dangerous than that. I think they are responding to a couple of different things, whether it's specific intelligence or not. But there's also the realization that, as you mentioned, Pat, just a couple minutes ago, Iran's never going to let this go. The Trump administration killed the Ayatollah. Iran's not just going to go, you know what, let's just back away from this conflict and we'll all be friends moving forward. We'll just forget about it. Bygones be bygones. So Iran is going to remain a threat for a very long time. And I think there's probably been some reassessment of capabilities.

38:12I mean, the story in the UK, the likely Iranian agents who were caught by the U.S. or the air base that we had to move bombers. That wasn't random. So I think what's happening is the Trump administration believes they have to finish the job in Iran. And Iran is not just going to sit there and take it. And so there's probably some intelligence that says we need to continue this war, and therefore there's likely to be some retaliation. And retaliation is probably not going to be some insignificant, you know, just a couple gunmen shooting up a marketplace or something like that. Yeah, and with how things are evolving, infrastructure attacks are a lot more possible nowadays.

38:49Cyber hacking is a lot more possible. So that's the problem. Like, I don't know how we're here. It's still asymmetric warfare, but it doesn't feel asymmetric because when you shut your power off, it's not asymmetric anymore. or it completely destabilizes your country. It's asymmetric in a military sense, but it's not asymmetric. Yeah, the cost is asymmetric. The ability to do it is asymmetric. What do we hear? I mean, sorry, but just recently there was reports about how U.S. water systems have been hacked and major infrastructure has been hacked, and it's not just the Chinese. It's not just the Russians.

39:17No, and with AI, that's going to change dramatically over the next couple of years anyway. There's some breakthroughs we could talk about later that are actually worrisome for how we protect every single thing that we use. and AI is going to start bypassing those things. I think the world is just shifting. About the 85 % enriched uranium. As far as I know, you don't even need 85 % enriched uranium for a dirty bomb. You just have to put some nuclear material on it and get the ICBM out, and whatever it hits, it'll cause enough damage. And a small car or a backpack can deliver that. Yeah, so there's just so many potential things that can go through.

39:51Go through what could happen. So one is power grid. One is finance, where it's mayhem. then how long can food supplies stay at Publix, at stores for you to go? Whole Foods, how long? Very short because you have ransacking immediately. And remember what happened with COVID. Everybody went and toilet paper was gone. So imagine the speed of how quickly that can happen. COVID, we had communication, by the way. Once you break down communication, society breaks down. That's right. So communication goes. So imagine they do phones. So even for some people, you know how they get the phones that's off the grid.

40:23Off the grid phones. Well, ham radios are. Yeah, so I think, what are some different things that could happen? What are different? So one is war, but the retaliation with Iran, they got some smart engineers that know how to hack into systems and cause a lot of mayhem for a lot of people. And Pat, they're already here. I forgot who was that lady that spoke. She was ex-CIA or military. She's like, for a fact, Logan or something like that, there's over this many cells of al-Qaeda here, okay? there's over 2 million gotaways, meaning they have no idea who these people are or where they are I saw people from China, Tom, remember when there was cameras at the border people, well-dressed Chinese people just now speaking English, they're here Middle Eastern guys, the guys are like, one day you're going to know my name, one day, that's a threat to America, they're already here, so I think the power grid, I think water supply, I think, you know, bombing something major something big Like, the people are already here.

41:23You guys remember. It's not bombing. It's really not. Again, I think connect this story with the story we talked about earlier, which was the U.S. preparing bases to be self-sufficient for 90 days. That's not because the Iranians are going to come in with some jets and bomb their base. They understand the threat is more. What didn't the Russians use? They were made fun of because they were using actual hard lines for things for many years. They didn't shift their technology, especially for, like, really high-stakes stuff. and they're like, listen, when you guys are under attack, we're the ones who are going to be able to continue communicating.

41:56That was actually their logic. Sometimes old technology works better than new technology when you're under threat. So, yeah, I think I agree with you. I think it's fundamentally... The threat, I think, is more a hacking event that takes down more than just a single municipality's water system. It gets much, much bigger than that. But water empowers how you disrupt the public. July 26th, 27th, 30 Minnesota water utilities were breached by a controller flaw. It was breached from the outside, and Michigan then reported nine systems were hit. July, August, New Jersey and Alabama water utilities hit through exposed systems.

42:31They were forced to go to manual. Also, mixing of purification chemicals with the water went to full manual rather than automatic. That's scary. Many of the United States water systems are partially reclaimed water or groundwater that needs to be treated and filtered. Then you don't just have a lack of water. You have dangerous water. Yes, and the population might not know if there's no communication. And by the way, check this out. If a water system that uses partially reclaimed water has its purification systems go offline, but there still is power to run pumps, citizens will be receiving bad water.

43:07Poisoned water. And dysentery can result. And it says, then October, ABC reported that 12 states were affected. October 22nd, CBS confirms that. 12 states were detected. All water systems and the cherry on top, Clayton County Water Authority, Georgia, 300 ,000 customers, says they lost pressure because external force was shutting their pumps and they turned off their purification system. And by radio, they issued a boil water mandatory advisory. Pat, that's just water I'm reading about. I know. So, Tom, this is the part that, look, this is what I believe in. I had Annie Jacobson on the podcast.

43:47She wrote the book Nuclear War, and she just came up with a book called Biological War. And in the book that came out June 25th, she says there's going to be a lab in Russia that's going to leak of a virus that's going to be a tier one that's a 100 % death rate. And if it hits you within 24 hours, you're dead, unless if you have tetracycline and all these different types of. So three months later, her story of the book, guess what? It happens in a lab in Siberia. She said in the book it's going to be in a lab in Siberia. She just got one of the labs wrong, right? And she says if that happens, it's gone.

44:19She said if there's a nuclear war, within 72 minutes, 5 billion people die. That's her book. She wrote a nuclear war, which is exciting stuff. And in biological war, she said it's going to be a very different thing. This is what I subscribe to. I believe in God, which means what? We're all going to be okay. Yep. Let me tell you. The level of optimism, we're all going to be okay because God's on our side. I'm 100 % convinced. Say and do whatever you want. That's in my bones where it's at, right? So there is no, oh, my God, what about this? But at the same time, God also gave us a brain to say, hey, it's your job to protect your family.

44:55It's your job to have better decisions. I was in the life insurance industry for 25 years. You know what percent of Americans don't have life insurance policy? 48%. That means one out of two people that died, they're like, I'm not going to need life insurance. Boom, you died 42 years old. Now your wife needed half a million dollars. You could have gotten it for$75,$5 a month. You forgot to do it. Everything right now is proper. Preparation prevents poor performance. Only the paranoid survive. Be prepared. That's what the message is. Whether something happens or not, we don't know for a fact. All I'm suggesting you, things are a little bit weird right now, and Trump has one of two choices.

45:34If he does nothing to Iran, just think about this. Forget about whether you agree with the decision or not. If he does nothing. Yesterday I'm watching a Wall Street Journal story talking about why are all these billionaires giving all this money to kids and SpaceX? And the guy's like, well, because they're trying to win over the kids and they're trying to win over the voters to say that they are noble and they're feeling guilty. You know what I was thinking about? Here's what I thought about. If these billionaires give money, they'll say they have a motive. If they don't give money, they say they're cheap.

46:05So how the F are you going to win anyways? You're not going to win anyways, so watch where Trump's at. Trump's in a place that is in too deep. He cannot win here. He's only going to be able to win the 8 % of population. The other 92 % have made up their minds, Tom. You know what I'm saying? 92 % have made up their minds of where they're at. So what happens here? Say Trump doesn't do anything to Iran. What's the other side going to write about? Go ahead. Tell me the title. Iran beat him. Yeah, screwed up the whole war. Did it all for nothing. No action. Wasted money. One of the biggest, you know, over-promised, under-delivered presidents of all time.

46:43Okay, then what are you going to see? The worst president of all time, number 46, Donald Trump. You know, they're going to make these kinds of lists to kind of, you know, poke him and get him. So what's the other side? The other side is Trump goes to war and he annihilates Iran. Regime changes. Okay? Let's say that happens. If he does that, then what are they going to write about? The guy that said there's not going to be any wars. He's going to stop all wars. started a war, killed all these innocent people, and even one person that dies in Iran or something happens that they're going to magnify.

47:15Never talk about what's going on in Nigeria. Never talk about what's going on with all the Christians. Never talk about what's going on with all these other places, Jordan. But, my God, look what happened over to the three people, to the phone. Not the 30 ,000 people, Iranians killed themselves, 40 ,000, whatever the number is, they're going to magnify that. But the 8 % in the middle, you know what they're going to say? At least he kept his word. And if he doesn't do that, the consequences of 2028 is going to be massive. The Democrats are hoping he doesn't go finish the job because that's the story they need that's easier.

47:47That he was all talk, no promises. That's the story they want. So guess what? He won the election. Somebody send a message right now on Super Chat. Let me give this person a shout out. They sent a Super Chat, and here's what they said. The Super Chat is the following. Let me give the name of the person as well. The super chat is by, man, why do you guys not put easier name? DB underscore snooze. Interest rates have increased. Unemployment up. Real wage growth stagnating. Higher gas prices. No border wall. No mass deportation. The list goes on. Trump screwed us. He disavowed America first. They betrayed us.

48:25Okay. How many people believe that? A lot. A lot of people. A lot of people. You know, there's something that people don't understand. you don't have the luxury of seeing the option you didn't take. And so you could see an outcome and say, I don't like the world we're in right now. I don't like that we have. You don't see the alternative, which could be magnitudes worse. So everyone who's like, Trump betrayed us. You don't know the world without what Trump would have done. And you're just assuming it would be a better world. Fair argument. Or also in the middle of it, too. So we don't know how this is actually going to go.

48:55History will remember. What does the 28th election look like if Trump pulls this off? And what does the world look like in 10 years? If he pulls it off. In 10 years, imagine a world. Before 28, what happens if Trump actually forces regime change in Iran and the regime change looks a lot like Venezuela? You're going to have a lot of guys like Van Jones, who are liberals, who are not Trump supporters, who are going to come out and say, you've got to give them credit. You're going to have a lot of liberal billionaires. Oil prices go back to$40 a barrel. You have a stable Middle East. But let me tell you, here's the part, and I said this last time, And I know with everything that's being talked about, everything in life, whoever makes more money or has bigger level of success, you and I will be judged on what's the level of difficulty of tasks we choose to overcome and solve.

49:49When a guy comes, I had a meeting this week. We do a meeting in the morning called the skip level meeting. 7 o 'clock in the morning, anybody that scored about 35 on calibration, which, by the way, if you're business doing over 5 to 10 million a year, you've got 25-plus employees, if you want to know what we've been doing to get our calibration up with our employees, go to HireMetrics.com, fill out the information. We'll do a demo for you. Share it with you. Go to HireMetrics.com, CS, HireMetrics.com. We'll tell you all about what we're doing within the organization. But I'm having a meeting, and I said, do you want to know 10 ways you can make more money here?

50:22I'm going with every one of them. I'm breaking out of the 10 areas. Find a new mode. Be a builder of leaders. Develop players. That's a high market. One of them was specialize in solving problems with high level of difficulty. Higher level of difficulty, what happens? Higher return. Higher return. And by the way, that's what it is. And investments, that's what it is. Basic finance. Everything in life. You want a big return, you got to take a lot of risk. And I gave Tom a shout out this week. I said, Tom, you know what I know about you? I know tough things get done through you. That's why Tom and I are in business and we enjoy each other's company.

50:53because sometimes we talk to Northamburg, but for the most part, we get along. We don't have problems. But let me tell you. I'm sitting and we're going through all this other stuff. If Trump pulls this off, the level of difficulty, and this is what? 9.9. If not higher. If not higher. You know what I'm saying when I say 9.9. But you know what the most important word in that sentence is? If. If. Yeah. And can we be real? likelihood of succeeding is what? It's 1%. Maybe, and mind you, you know where I'm at. This whole left or right, I go up and down. It's God or the devil. That's where I'm at. I have faith.

51:37I have hope. But being realistically looking at this, I'm tired of hearing people say, finish your job. Give me the objective. I know we're not generals. We're not in there. You're not in those rooms. I understand that. how can you objectively be the ir like or regime change bro it's the irgc they control it's not venezuela it's not grab maduro in his pajamas put him on a helicopter and leave he knows bro we iran for the people that have been there and lived there know what this regime these these america hating death to us death to israel it's that one percent so if we're going to be realist We're going to talk about numbers, Tom.

52:16Numbers scream. It's screaming that there's no victory. The odds are there's no victory unless, Elon, you nuke them and kill everybody. Hold on. Give me another objective of how you're going. In two years, you're going to win that war because they're showing you they're not going anywhere. It's not working. So what's an objective plan? It's a high-difficulty thing, but you also have to remember about the short attention span of the American voter. We shared a chart last night. Take a look at this. These are people 18 to 29. Look at the bottom. Gun control, 1%. Criminal justice report, 0%. Inflation, 33.

52:54Jobs and economy, 16. Ladies and gentlemen, take a look. Immigration is at 5%. Health care is ahead of it. Civil rights ahead of it. Climate change is ahead of it. Why is it down? Because he closed the border. And people have forgotten about that, how big it was. You went back and you look at this. remember when we did all the shows and everything leading up to the election immigration was number two on everybody's list everybody's list once it's fixed it's it's right once it's fixed they don't care by the way just go down to the bottom and you have crazy conservatives with guns and george floyd zero and one percent that's all done that's all behind us i'm not worried about that so but to pat's point this is a high difficulty dive and if he pulls this off at it'll be 99 But the victories that a leader has in a short attention span society such as we have get lost pretty quick.

53:43But in this one, we only got two years to the election. Yeah. Well, I think this is a little bit more difficult, too, to answer your question. What are the alternatives from the U.S. perspective? Yeah. OK, we don't have a clear path to victory. Well, there's no clear path to getting out. Absolutely. I think the other part of this is the Trump administration has realized if they don't attack Iran, If they don't finish the job, Iran's going to attack us anyway. We crossed the Rubicon. We killed the Ayatollah. There is no getting out of this war. And we don't know the state of the IRGC right now either.

54:12We don't know how much confidence there is in the IRGC. We don't know what it would take to cause some kind of internal rift that would cause a shift. Nobody has those numbers except for people at the highest level who are also taking a massive guess. So there might be a pathway. You're saying there's no pathway other than nuking them. I disagree. We don't know that. We don't know if you can actually cause a shift within the country itself that causes some kind of shockwave that starts a movement that you would hope that that is a possibility. Out of all that, Ilan, and I understand to a certain extent, all people care about, look at number one, what we're going to do in Iran, you think is going to lower the crude from 117?

54:49Absolutely not. Because to be honest with you, nobody gives a damn. I love that he said that. People are going to open their, look, what's that? Oh, gas is, bro. It cost me$140 to fill up my tank, my truck, because I have to put the goods. I have to because it's a newer engine. So that's all people are going to care about. So I'm trying to figure out, and I'm really trying to break it down, Pat. What is the war going to do to stop that? Because it's the Strait of Hormuz. It's all the oil. Nothing right now. Zero. No, no. And by the way, let me tell you what's going on. So yesterday he's being interviewed.

55:17He's on the tarmac. He's off Air Force One. A guy asked him, he says, hey, Mr. President, how's your health? He said, I'm doing great. So you're not going to Kansas? Yeah. Are you not going to Kansas because you're not feeling good? This is a guy from Reuters. Watch this exchange. So what a lot of people are saying is the reason why he's not going to Kansas is because his team is saying, whether you go or not, this guy's not going to win. So this is the part. Now, some people can speculate and say, you don't know what you're talking about. Fine, we can hash that out and debate it. But watch what happens to this exchange.

55:46Go ahead. When you spend enough time around great companies, you notice that the best ones treat trust as a growth strategy, not a box to check. Vanta helps companies build and prove trust from day one. Its agentic trust platform connects compliance, risk, and trust at enterprise scale. Vanta delivers a 526 % return on investment over three years and pays for itself in just three months. Learn why over 16 ,000 of the fastest growing companies use Vanta at Vanta.com. We've been doing a lot of travel with you. How are you feeling? How's your health? I think it's very good. I think you see that. We had a great rally.

56:26That was a great rally. And I think that Charlene's going to do very well. I think they're all going to do very well. I think you're going to have some very... You took the longer one, buddy. Just speed it up a little bit. So are you sick of traveling? You are sick. Who are you with? I'm a Reuters, sir. You are sick Tomorrow I'm doing Florida. He said what's the reason after doing what 28? Says what's the reason for this sir that you're not going to Kansas? You know the reason is I don't feel I have to go to Kansas I'm going to Florida tomorrow and I'll do if something else comes up. But he said, you're not going to Kansas, sir.

57:21Are you feeling well? You've been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell. By the way, you guys didn't see this? Tom, you didn't see this? Can you find a picture of the guy? I didn't see the picture. Find the guy, the Reuters guy that asked Trump a question. You have to see this guy, Reuters guy that asked Trump a question. Remember, Pat, he said while he's looking, sick of traveling. He didn't say, are you sick? He said, are you sick of traveling? And then he lost it. He said healthy first. He goes, are you sick of traveling? But you know what?

57:57The president isn't being very, very truthful because Senator Roger Marshall, it's shifting, Pat. It's almost 50-50. This is the guy. Yeah, I mean, he doesn't look that good. So go ahead. You're saying. He's known as Hamburger Harry. He works for Reuters. And Tom, I think we talked about this. The race isn't a shoe-in. It's almost 50-50, and some polls have the Democrat winning. And it's actually a very, Tom, very, very tight race against Adam Hamilton. The polling's basically tied. And some people are saying that possibly Trump's presence could actually hurt Republicans. That could be a liability.

58:30Pat, this is where I'm pissed off, that now Trump being there is going to make some people go, you know what, I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this, I'm tired of the lies, whatever the super chat guy was saying. I'm just going to sit this one out or even vote the other way, which a lot of these freaking content creators are saying, which I think is absolutely stupid. You're a moron if you're going to go vote Democrat, like a moron. I'd rather have you sit it out than freaking go vote for them. But this goes something that we talked about earlier in the week. Too many Republicans are just relying on Trump's message.

59:00What are you doing to become better? Who are you doing? Because the whole blaming Trump and all that stuff, no. What are you doing as the run? Who is the person, Tommy? Senator Roger Marshall, what are you doing to make people go, I'm voting for you? Yeah, okay, Trump's showing up at a rally is good, but what are you doing to win my vote? So let's take a look at this real quick. Kansas is a very unique thing. If you could click on margin and just go 30 days, 60 days, 60 days and margin. Look at what's happened. The race was, you know, Marshall's, and then it's gone to Hamilton. Well, let me tell you about the two candidates.

59:32One candidate is a Methodist pastor, pastor of the largest United Methodist congregation in the U.S., Church of the Resurrection. One of them is a pastor. The other one is an ex-physician that sued his patients for as little as$108. Who's a Republican? Stop, Tom. The doctor. The Democrat is the pastor of the Methodist Church. Oh, that is a unique thing. So Kansas is upside down. Marshall is the doctor that sued his patients. All this stuff has been coming out. and look at... Sell us the dream, Tom. How great of a candidate, a Republican, a Republican... This goes... Pat! Pat! This goes... Pat, if you and I ran the GOP in Kansas, Pat, you know what we would have said?

1:00:13I'm going blue! No, no, no, no, no. We need to draft somebody exciting. Isn't there someone that believes in capitalism, that believes in the farmer, believes in what's going on here? We would have done it that way. And all of this has come out, and that's why these lines have suddenly crossed. Tom, I'm going to disagree with you. Look at when those lines cross. They start crossing in early September, which is when oil prices really started to spike and gasoline and diesel went up. It really is that simple. And Marshall himself has done himself no favors. He has tried to make this as the media is creating the affordability crisis.

1:00:43It's not real. He even said Kansas' economy is doing really well. Jeff, I agree with that timing on September, but this moved faster than other states who had also had diesel problems. So this combination, you've got bad economy and bad candidate. Wait a minute. You were a doctor that sued your patients? This guy's a minister? You've been talking about the entire bad candidate. Republicans are losing. It's bad messaging because they keep saying they keep telling Americans everything is good. Trump comes out and says we're in a golden era. You become a liability to anyone you're supporting at that point because Americans are disagreeing with you.

1:01:20The funny thing is Democrats have been criticized and legitimately for their entire platform is we're not Trump and we hate Trump. They're the other side of that, which we're really talking about skirting around the edges is Republicans have gotten lazy. Their entire argument is we are Trump. Now the we are Trump card isn't working, we don't have a Trump card. Yeah, they're not clear on policy at all this. And it's terrible candidates. The candidates who have been elected to these positions are simply Trump candidates. It reminds me of the movie Naked Gun while Leslie Nielsen drove his car into a firework shop, a factory, and it's blowing up.

1:01:55He's like, nothing to see here. It's like, bro, we see the fire. We see the explosions. Man up and give us a freaking message. Give the people some freaking hope. Well, give us a solution. And that's what it is. I keep coming back to this. Show me the solution. Give it. Like, how are you going to do it? Go ahead. I think Republicans are underestimating the frustrations of Americans. I also, again, like I said, there is this non-organic shift that we see, like we saw in the super chat, which is a ton of stuff is being pushed online. I can't tell you how many friends I have who are saying exactly that message.

1:02:28I think that's organic. It's organic and non-organic. Calling it non-organic is, again, falling into the trap. No, but it— People find that content because they're disillusioned first. The people who support it, I agree, but the people pushing it at the top, it is definitely not organic. The message resonates because people start out thinking, this sucks, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Therefore, I'm going to find somebody who's going to tell me, I'm right, this does suck. And this guy Marshall in Kansas, this is all made up by the media. Kansas is doing really well. Of course they're going to vote against the guy.

1:02:56Guys, one question. Midnight Hammer was the first thing, right, that we did. If the second attack bombing doesn't happen where the Strait of Hormuz and all that was affected, is everything in better shape? Is gas still, what was it, Tom? 70? No, what was gas before we did the second bombing? Before we did the second bombing, I thought gas started. No, no, no. Gas started in mid-Falentine's Day. I thought gas was 57.62 a barrel. 57? USWTI, right? Okay. 57-62. And then the second, the bombing where the straight and we went to war. Would we be in better shape? Would we have the wave again of all Republicans winning if we didn't do the second bombing?

1:03:38The second bombing? No. I mean, I don't think it would have made it much different. No difference. You're talking about July. I'm talking about July. That's what I'm saying. So you don't think if gas was still$55 a barrel and affordability was actually way better? Obviously, it would make a difference. That's what I'm saying, though. That's not how this works, though, because you have to realize, Vinny, everybody has their own set of what? Concerns, motives, assumptions, fears, and asks. What's Trump's motive? Motive? Do you think he just wants to be a good president? No, he wants a legacy. He wants to be on Mount Rushmore.

1:04:12Absolutely. He wants to go down as one of the greatest presidents ever to do it, right? Okay. What has he done? Give me the three things he's done to be on the list of Mount Rushmore. Go ahead. Closed the border after 12 years of mayhem. So that's number one. Number one. Okay, what else? I've been saying that for how long? I don't think that's Mount Rushmore. That puts you in top ten. That's not Mount Rushmore. I'm saying, you said, what are the things? I understand that. What I'm saying is, what are the three things he's done that are his biggest accomplishment? Isn't that one of them? That's one of them.

1:04:40But it takes more than that. Give me two more. Give me two more. When the economy was freaking going crazy and he had the highest stock market, that wouldn't be. Not really. Not really. That's not a top three. What else? I think the tariff chess game that he played. They didn't let him finish it. Yeah, I would actually say. But after the drop on April 1st, the markets came back, and there was stock markets not the right to measure. No, it's not. What's the top three? Iran. What a top three. Iran is going to be up there. Iran's not done, guys. But that's the only thing that would be there. What I'm trying to say to you with.

1:05:12And the Abraham Accords isn't done. Abraham Accords. All this big stuff that's pending. Now, don't get me wrong. Got rid of the woke stuff. Massive. Yes. Because if that continues, look what happened with the amount of LGBTQ kids and girls. Teenage girls are no longer. That dropped off from like 41 % or 31 % to like 17%. Like, nah, I don't identify with that anymore. He called out a bunch of the BS and called out the globalists, called out all the, you know, swamp all those guys that, you know, he was going after. But none of that puts you in the top four. It doesn't. No. I couldn't. Notice how I couldn't even.

1:05:46The only thing was to me was a border. The top four is circumstantial to world conditions. You have Washington who's top four. You have Lincoln who is top four. Who else you put in top four? On the Democratic side, guess who they're going to put in their top four? FDR, they'll put in their top four. Obama. Obama would be in the top four. Obama's a top 30 president, top 20 president. He's not in the top four. So here's the point. If that kind of a wiring, who since 1986, he said, go take over Karag Island with Iran. He's been saying this for 40 years. Yeah. This isn't an act. if he wants to be on the top four, he has to do the impossible.

1:06:22This is the impossible. He pulls this off. There's the conversation for top four because you took out the number one agitator in the world, Iran. But if you don't, you're not a top four president. That's how this thing works. So he's specializing in doing the impossible, and let's see if he's going to pull it off or not. By the way, I would probably put Maduro in his top five on what he did with Maduro, going out to getting that done like this. That was slick. But to think about a massive thing to put you in the top four, he doesn't have it yet. It's just that simple. You can like him all you want.

1:06:56You can say, man, I like the way he talks to media, and he called out the media, and he kind of got fake news. That's probably one of his top five because he's the one that took. But aside from that, you need something. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall. He doesn't have that moment yet. Yeah, that's a circumstantial moment, though. I get it, but you need that. Unfortunately, you need it to be able to pull that off. So we'll see. We'll see what happened there for that to take place. Let me get to the next story. By the way, again, anybody whose name is Dan Sullivan, folks in Alaska are looking for you.

1:07:27The story came out, New York Times. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I'll go through a couple of you guys. Inside Democrats' secret effort to stack Alaska's ballot. What? What do you mean stack Alaska? And New York Times is calling. You know how bad it has to be for New York Times to call you out? In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides. Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state Republican senator. Another Dan Sullivan on the, I think it's a J, on the state's unusual four-person ballot could cost the senator crucial votes.

1:08:06The plan worked. A retired teacher from a tiny fishing village announced his candidacy for Senate. His name is Dan J. Sullivan. The Paloto campaign has denied any involvement, But the Times has found not only did Miss Piotola team work with the person trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan, but the effort was much broader. Internally called the ballot composition project. It involved trips and a Midwestern operative, Jared Kurtz, who traveled to the state using a fake name, senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee took part. Imagine if there was a MAGA party, a Piotola aide wrote in January.

1:08:42Both the campaign and the DSCC denied recruiting soldiers. Spoilers. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit at President Trump's behest last week seeking to block certification of votes. 40 other Mr. Sullivan caused Senator Sullivan to win. Such tactics are generally considered legal. Tom, your thoughts. I think this is horrible. This is beyond horrible. This is basically deliberately trying to confuse the populace and to basically rig an election. Let's call it what it is. They want to rig the election with simple confusion on will the real Dan Sullivan please stand up. And, you know, Dan S. Sullivan needed somebody like me on his campaign that says, I'm the real Dan Sullivan.

1:09:28Remember, Daniel S. Sullivan, right? You bet your S I am. So it's like there had to be something that drove this to stick in the mind of the voter as a counterplay. And rather than just saying, you're screwing with me, you're screwing with me, they didn't really effectively do the counterplay. That's my fault with the Republican Party. My fault with this is there are people that said this is going to be felonious election interference. But it doesn't help the fact that the election is going on right now. But this isn't going to stop. It's going to go – this will probably end up with a special election, I believe, Pat.

1:10:06I believe we're going to have a special election because I think the courts are going to step in. Jeff? The biggest part is that this is not illegal. So it's not illegal, therefore. That's the real question. It's just so unhappy. But the bigger problem is what we were starting to talk about before is what this does to faith in our elections. And that's becoming a bigger and bigger theme as, again, we're not in just a gentleman's argument about where the United States should go or what policy we should pursue with farm bills and whatnot. This is about remaking the U.S. from the bottom up, and Democrats are playing to win.

1:10:41They're using every tactic they possibly can to do so, some probably illegal, some not illegal. But like I said, it's now everywhere. We talked about the Brazil election. Everybody says that one was stolen. The Democrats have started a stop the steal for the midterm election. So faith in elections is being eroded, which is where this Dan Sullivan story really comes in, because it just furthers this distance between what we've said. Can I agree and disagree with one thing you said? I agree that it's not felonious illegal. What I said, and I chose my words carefully, I've read a legal review of this called election interference, that if they prove that the opponent was the one that brought the name in to create the confusion, that is election interference it's not going to put you in prison but it could get the election overturned and in the form of that allowed yes but allowed where does this allow the people to speak allow the people but the to speak and understand that's what i think is going to happen i think what ends up happening is uh mary says it wasn't me yeah that's all she has okay it played out to the mafia you know the mafia boss doesn't make all the orders they give them to you know a bunch of But there's enough behind this that she was and her aides were there.

1:11:57Her aides, not her directly. Played out. All you need is one. You know what you need. You're going to tie it to it. But let's say it's not illegal. Let's say this becomes something that is a precedent is set. Now this has been done. It's not illegal. What does election integrity look like moving forward when everyone can start doing this? Bigger question. That's the big one. Because once you allow it and once it's worked, and we obviously no longer by that standard care about policy. This is why Republicans can't just bend over and take it this time. That's exactly it. You have to fight, fight, fight.

1:12:25This is, by the way, this is the clip from the real Dan Sullivan. I just want you to watch this clip. Go for it. Let's talk about these allegations that actually Dan J. Sullivan is a plant. Yeah, I think that Alaskans have had it up to here with the lying and the dishonesty. The lying and the dishonesty. When you're building a company, you learn that trust is what closes deals. You may have the best product, but buyers won't sign without proof that your product is secure. especially if it has AI. Vanta gets you compliant fast with SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more, and keeps you secure with continuous monitoring.

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1:13:27find as many people named dan sullivan as you can that's sketchy yeah do me a favor go to the other clip of her speaking oh yeah it's one of the worst hit piece videos i've ever seen in my life what kind of a song are you using for that but anyways go to this one i don't like that one here uh watch this this is her speaking this is just another distraction another diversion Every day it's some new, you know, look over here moment. This is gaslighting. Not Dan Sullivan. Terrible gaslighting. This is Democrat gaslighting. Incumbent voted for this war in Iran 14 times. Lisa Murkowski quit voting for that war in Iran six months ago.

1:14:06And he's doubling and tripling down. Go to the other one. There's two of them. This is one and then I sent you another. I sent you three of them. Yeah, watch this one. This projection. It should be a criminal offense to buy or mislead. Yeah. Yes. Let's work for that. Yeah. Yeah. So you can already tell who she is. Here's the other side of. The very thing you're doing. Always. Can I say something, guys? This is the Democratic Party, okay? And you have to tip your hat to how it's not illegal, but these, listen to me, the Republicans are never going to be able to fight against these people unless they start playing dirty with them.

1:14:44And you have to say, brother, they can't win on policy. so they're going to find a way to win. And even if you win, just look at what Trump, they won. What did Obama and Hillary and all them do? What did they do? Russia, collusion, impeachment. They shot him and they tried to take his freaking head off, bro. Lawfare, the family, 91 indictments. Until the Republicans, be honest, that's a creative ass way to try to cheat without it being illegal. And then you get caught, you know what you say? It's you guys. It's projection at the highest level. and drives me crazy because, bro, that's all they do.

1:15:19And these are the tricks. This is the party's agenda, bro. This is the party that opens the border, Tommy, brings in all the illegals because you know they're going to vote for the census and all the numbers for all the seats in Congress and everything like that. And then when the people get kicked out, you know what we do? Congressmen from the Democratic Party will fly. Remember they had the Delaware father? What was it? The father. Maryland man. The Maryland man. They flew and sat and had drinks with him to try to bring this illegal back, getting their votes back. So until Republicans learn how to play these freaking legal games, Tom, they're going to keep doing this.

1:15:56They're going to keep doing it. And you have to fight fire with fire. You know what? I don't tip my hat. I flip my finger is what I do. And I'm waiting for the GOP to step up and put candidates out there that talk about liberty, freedom, capitalism, and the things that is in the core hearts of people that they want to hear. They want to hear from exciting candidates who are talking about that. They want to hear about enablement. You tell me you put 10 people in a row and let them feel for a moment the joy of creating something, the joy of being part of something, the joy of being driven. And then you take the rest of them that says, I'll give you free cash and Coke.

1:16:31You know how it goes. Poverty and poverty on somebody else's nickel builds bitterness in the soul of man. What we need is exciting candidates to talk about hope, talk about the future looks bright, and why it's going to look bright, and why the Constitution is so great. You have a better messaging. You have a better messaging. Well, isn't the problem that Democrats are not going to get punished for this? And I don't mean the court. But that's a consistent thing. It's the voters. The voters are not going to vote against Paltola because she pulled some dirty tricks. They're still going to— That is part of all.

1:17:04They were interviewing. I was listening to multiple individuals that were Democrats. They're like, yeah, look, this is sketchy. I don't like what she did, but I'm still going to vote for her. Jeff captured it perfectly. There is nothing they can't do because it's win at any cost. And that has kind of bled down from the political elite into the actual population that's voting, which is really scary because even an acceptance of political violence has skyrocketed. Let me give you an idea. Let me give you one story here that's a very weird story. James O 'Keefe, a couple months ago, maybe even a couple weeks ago, goes out there and dresses like somebody, and I don't know if you guys have the clip to pull up, to show that anybody can go out there and vote.

1:17:47Okay, this is him. Now watch what happens. Look what they do to him. This is what August 11. Watch this. Go for it. Have you voted here before? No. No. Okay, well, go down to where it's her voting, take a right, and they'll help you out in there. Hello. Hello. Register over there. Hello, what is your last name? Uh, Is that And what is your first name? Genevieve. Genevieve? And, vouch. I'm sorry? Vouch. Um, she's vouching? I vouch. Oh, for her? And is she Genevieve? No. So are you wanting to vote first? You're going to have to make a phone call. Yes. But, Can she vote if I vouch? Does she live within this precinct?

1:18:42Yes. Yep. That's it. That's it. That's all it is. Yes, but vouch for her. So if I vouch, she votes. The most scary here is how bad he's acting. Yes. And how he continues to get people. Watch this. So obviously, they're exposed of what happened. But let me tell you how they react. Instead of taking responsibility and saying there's voter fraud and people can get away with voting with no ID, none of that stuff, you know what they decide to do? Conservative influencer James O 'Keefe charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota. Think about how they flip it on him to say, no, you're the fraud, not us.

1:19:28absolutely insane when you see a story like this. Tom, how do you react to this story? I react to it. This is right. You can put a dot on Minnesota there and then take a dot all the way to Sacramento where they were trying to put a statute on the ballot to stop our good friend from exposing all of the hospices and what's going on there. And Nick Shirley, there's the Stop Nick Act. What it is is they have discovered that independent journalism makes a— by the way, that was NBFingC that was running that headline, Pat. That was NBC writing that headline, right? Let's just remember who that is. Decision 26 subsection of the NBC News website, they are writing the headline.

1:20:16What does that tell you about their complicity? But I can draw a line from Minnesota to Sacramento on they want to stop people like Nick Shirley and James O 'Keefe from shining a light on what is horrible fraud. Not rumors. This is fraud. They're exposing the fraud. And so he comes in, identifies himself. Hello, I'm Ahmed Al-Kaboom. I want to vote. And this is my sister, Fuse, and she'd like to vote. And he exposes the whole thing. And so now, you know, conservative influencer James O 'Keefe, charms with unlawful voting. Where are you at with that, Elon? You know, like a week ago or two weeks ago, you asked who the Avengers are.

1:20:57Yep. And these are two people we didn't talk about, James O 'Keefe and Nick Shirley. And they have consistently put themselves at risk. James O 'Keefe, the OG more than anyone, has been through so much just trying to expose. By the way, James O 'Keefe at his event last year, recognized this year, I think, recognized Nick Shirley and gave him an award for the great job that he's doing. Yeah, he's James O 'Keefe 2.0. and it's really just it's the the gaslighting and the shifting of how they will turn it on you and attack you and try and silence you and use everything at their disposal to get rid of the truth should piss off every single american i'm so tired of these things being partisan this is establishment versus anti-establishment this is corruption versus truth let me give you the minnesota system by the way because most people don't know this and we can't talk about but it's enough time.

1:21:44This is, fact check this. A registered voter from the precinct can vouch for another person's residence. Okay? Vouch. Number two, one eligible registered voter can vouch for up to eight people. So nine? Eight people. One. Vouch for up to eight. This is not hypothetical. This is what the law is. The person registering must meet voting eligibility requirement, which is what? The voucher must sign a sworn statement providing false information can lead to criminal penalties, which you know that's not happening over there when it comes down to that. So what crimes is O 'Keefe accused of? Unlawful voting up to five years of imprisonment.

1:22:29He didn't vote. Identity theft. He didn't vote. Identity theft up to five years of imprisonment. Each charge is$10 ,000. I don't know if people realize how many times they've gone after him. I mean, he's got a wall of every time he's beaten these guys when they've gone after him. vinny edward snowden i watched the documentary that he did do you remember which one it was when it was him and uh yeah it was an amazing amazing documentary he said at some point he said and i'm going to quote when exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime you are being ruled by criminals this is exactly how much stuff how much trash how much bad news are we going to get out of this freaking state could could could we recognize from tim walls to keith ellison to ilhan like it's it's unbearable to me it's unbelievable to me and i mentioned this last week too why of all places are all these people going to freaking minnesota you're all from from you know i mean from somalia it's nice and hot and why the hell over there because they're put there they're put there on a on purpose to do this with the system and that's why every time you see tim walls or or who's the Who's the mayor?

1:23:37Frey. Sitting there eating freaking Somali food, almost gagging and almost throwing up because they're pandering because they have to. They're all in on it. They're all in on the scam. And this is how it is. Well, that's how people stay in power. Could you imagine? Jacob Frey during the BLM stuff was hilarious when they were like. Yeah. And they wanted him to abolish the police. That was him, right? Yeah. This is the guy. Oh, just the biggest beta. It's just the fake crying at the George Floyd casket. Yeah, he was leaning on the casket crying. It's like, bro, and you just sailed it. No accountability for, like, you're going after the people that exposed it.

1:24:11It boggles my mind. But it's what Jeff said earlier. Sorry, I just want to give you credit for this because you touched on such an important point, which is it's being accepted by the people who are, you know, we were talking about the Constitution. Not just accepted, but welcomed. Welcomed. Yeah, and we were talking about the Constitution earlier and why we would be against it changing. Because when it benefits me, it does today. It doesn't mean it'll benefit me in the future. These people fail to realize that what they are accepting and what they're making normal or even celebrating will come for them one day too.

1:24:37If you're on the left and you're seeing this kind of thing happen and you're losing and you can openly see that there's no more trust in the integrity of our entire voting system, that should worry you, even if it benefits you today. Is it 14? You said 14 states don't require an identification. I think it's 15 states don't require any identification. How are you going to prove? This is a fundamental thing for voting. Who are you? Here, this is my identification. And the left will fight for it and be like, no, that's racist because there's black people that can't. It's like, shut up. They don't know where DMV is.

1:25:11They don't know where DMV is. Oh, yeah, it's ten times more racist to say black people don't know how to get an identification. You touched on something, Vinny, though, that I think is really important here that maybe people don't think about it enough. Why Minnesota? Why Michigan? Why did they end up there? It wasn't an accident. There's an infrastructure that is out there. You know, they call it globalization, and there are parts of globalization. These people were funneled to Minnesota specifically. They were funneled to Michigan specifically. Yeah. They weren't there by accident. Yeah, you tell me you're in Somalia, which is freaking a horrible place to live.

1:25:46I'm sorry. Call it what it is. What makes you go, you know what? We're going to Minnesota out of all places, bro, because I love that you said that set up there. You have the Tim Walz's. You have the Ilhan Omar's. Bro, it's a free event. Not an accident. But what do you think? I think it's all in on, because think about it. They'll vote you in for power, all the fraud that's happening, all the daycares, all the lying. It's very simple, Vinny. It's very simple. It goes back to what Henry Ford did in Michigan. He got cheap labor from Syria and Lebanon, and accidentally he kept hiring all these Muslims that were coming to Michigan, and then he accidentally brought the first imam.

1:26:21Then they built the first or second mosque in America in Michigan, and Michigan became what it is today because of Henry Ford. Fort is the reason why Michigan and Rosetta. And guess what happened with Minnesota? Probably the same exact thing when they moved over there. And then guess what's going on with fraud all over the place? It's crazy when you're looking at all this stuff, what is happening. And, you know, a story comes out about Flavio. We know he escaped Brazil, beating Lula, not beating Lula, election fraud. Election fraud galore everywhere right now. He just landed in Miami. He's going to be making some statements.

1:26:51They don't want to be saying anything until after midterms. So we're praying for Flavio and his family. I know it's a very chaotic moment they're in right now. And once the statement is made, we'll find out what's going on with that afterwards. But let me go to a different story. We got quite a few stories to go through. But let me go to the next story. Here's the story of what happened with these brothers, three brothers, okay? Alexander brothers in Miami. I don't know if you guys tracked the story. We talked about it a couple times. Three brothers, each facing 30 years in prison after women speak of being drugged and raped.

1:27:25by the three brothers. I met one of them once when we were trying to buy a house in Boca. I met one of them once. And I walked away saying there's something very slimy about this guy. I don't know the other two, so I can't say anything about the other two, but I remember one of them. So three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday for 30 years in prison after one victim described the attack as an eternity of terror. Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander started blankly as U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni announced their punishment, which was less than the life sentence that federal prosecutors sought.

1:28:04Your conduct was monstrous, Caproni told the men, reconciling their marked sex trafficking conviction with their claims that being fathers and husbands has changed them. It strains credibility that marriage would change them from sexual predators to model gentlemen. She said the brothers must each pay at least$300 ,000 in fines. While the brothers, twin Oren and Alana 39, tall Alexander 40, express regret for how they treated and regarded women. They all deny drugging and raping anyone. My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. Oren said that's entirely a lie and you all know what Caproni told him.

1:28:44The accusers who spoke in court were among at least 70, Vinny. Seven zero? Not seven. 70 women who prosecutors say were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over the last two decades. Jeff, your thoughts on this? I hate that it was only 30 years. Honestly, that just seems ridiculously short of what it should be. I'm not a big fan of the death penalty, but I think this is one of those cases where you should think about the death penalty. Tell me why. Why? Because what they did to these women. You hear some of the statements how these women say, you stole my life from me, I'm a broken person.

1:29:18This is not simply just, you know, oh, we had a bad night together and we can move on from it. They changed the trajectory of these young women's life. And I have three daughters of my own. So speaking as a father, 30 years is nowhere near enough. This should be something they should talk. This should be added to capital punishment. This is one of those things that, and it's, look, he can say that, you know, these are lies. It's made up. You all know that. But a jury of his peers convicted him of all of these charges, at least the charges that were presented. So this is not an allegation. This is a proven allegation.

1:29:49In 30 years, nowhere near enough. I'm with him, especially where I read on that report, if you go towards the top a little bit, it said the brothers jailed. 2024 arrest. Keep going higher. And then right there. Yeah, that one right there. Look at the bottom, Pat. Pay another$50 ,000 for producing child sexual. Oh, yeah. That's a whole other question. So they recorded a video, whatever the hell he was saying that lying, raping a 17-year-old girl. And mind you guys, this is just stuff that they caught them on. And I love that he said, imagine the freaking poor girls. By the way, this sickness that these human beings have, if you think it stops with just 16, 15, trust me, it goes deeper than that.

1:30:33Okay? And I think they should never see the light of day. And the only thing, the only, and we talked about this a long time ago, about people in, think about this. There's people in jail right now that have done way worse crimes than murderers. People that are just horrible. They can't be in society. When they see people like this that do stuff to younger girls and rape, guess what? These guys are marked because there's, those guys have a code, have a code in prison where if you do this to children, to younger people, you're a freaking mark and these guys are going to be marked and I hope that they live in fear and a hell for all the stuff that they've done to all these people.

1:31:12Because like you said, Jeff, those girls are done. Like you're not, I don't care how much counseling you're going to get, you're never going to be the same person again. PTSD, like forever. I think that this actually is a, this specific story represents a bigger, broader systemic issue in society that existed for a very long time when there wasn't accountability. Luckily it came to light. Now there is more accountability. In Hollywood, this is a disgusting issue that went on for many, many years. I'm sure like I've been in Hollywood. I've been in like I've seen where people are in positions of power and the way they will try and take advantage of people.

1:31:49And there's a very kind of disgusting thing that happens when you can't serve two gods. You know what I mean? You're either going to serve God or you're going to serve fame, money, sex and all these things. And it will lead you down a dark, dark path that will inevitably not only, you know, ruin your life, but you're destroying the lives of countless other people in the process. and it's a sickness. And again, it's really good that more stories like this are coming to light. There's more accountability. Let me tell you. So you know what's a combined net worth of the family? It's apparently around a billion dollars.

1:32:20You guys remember when Ken Griffin bought that$238 million mansion, penthouse in New York, Manhattan? They sold it, okay? So it's four brothers. The oldest brother is married. He's not involved in any of this stuff. Mom and dad came here. They built a security team, a business, and then later on they got into luxury real estate. and I think they were with Douglas Elliman and all these other guys. So I remember one time I'm looking at this house in Boca, and a house was at$25 million. Beautiful house. It was on Rob Report, one of those houses. We're looking at this home. I go in, he's the realtor.

1:32:52And I'm told from a couple friends in Miami, they're very well-known, strong realtors. Comes in super arrogant, super in tight, just a very, very horrible vibe from this guy. I walk away, I told Jenna, I said, there's something about, I just don't like this guy. Anyways, I make an offer on the house. I make a$21 million offer on this house. His response is, what do you call it? Their counter is from$25, they come down to$24.5 million. So let me, you just came back at half a million dollars. I said, forget about it, I'm out. Then he calls my realtor, which I just saw the other day, Le Bouquet, whatever the place's name is in Palm Beach.

1:33:28They got a restaurant also. The place that we go to when we go to the Hamptons. And she says, they came down from$25 to$24. I said, I'm done, I'm out. He keeps calling. He's willing to talk. They said, I'm done. I don't like the way he deals. I'm out. Pat, again, calls me. What do they need you to get me back in? I said, nothing. I don't like this guy. I don't do business with morons like him. Don't call me about him. I will never buy a house from him. If that guy makes commission, I'm not doing business with him. I walked. A year later, I'm at a house in Miami. I'm looking at a comic book that was selling for$5 million.

1:34:00Ken Griffin has shown me all these. Not Ken Griffin. Ken Golden has shown me all these different comic books, baseball cards, Mickey Mantle. Did you go with? Maybe you went. I don't know if you went. I was not there. Anyways, we're there. He's there. And he walks up to me. He says, ha, ha, ha. Did you see what happened with the house? You could have had it. But he should have called me back. I said, no, moron. You sold it for$17 million. You should have taken my first offer. You lost$4 million. Don't come to me like this. And he's like, oh, you saw the news? Of course I saw the news. Yeah. I saw the news.

1:34:29I said, yes. I'm like, get the F out of here. Like, the way he was just. So that mannerism is just unattractive. I don't know if that means they're going to do stuff like this. To be honest with you, I feel terrible about the father. I feel horrible. He's got four kids. Three of your sons that you raised to 18 years old are now gone to prison for 30 flipping years. Imagine the grandkids. Imagine the, what are you having kids for? That's crazy. To do something like this? Are you kidding me? And by the way, like there wasn't any warning signs for you to sit their asses down and say, You do this, I'm going to whoop your flipping asses?

1:35:05I don't know. I'm not here to judge. I don't know the father. I'm sure he's going through a lot of pain right now with this. This is not a – for the rest of his life, this father is going to have to deal with any dinner you go to, any restaurant you go to, any event you go to, how do you look at that guy? Oh, God. They know who you are. 75 % of your kids are criminals and rapists. Go ahead. Yeah, but like you touched on earlier, the reality is that he failed somewhere along the way. There's no way in the world if three out of your four kids behave like this, and you were not somehow involved. You know what the problem is?

1:35:35You have a billion dollars. I don't know, man. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. No, what do you mean? That's not an overnight, huh, what are you guys doing this weekend? I don't know. I'm going to go rape and record me doing underage. No. 70 times. 70 times is a crazy, crazy number. And Pat, what about the mom? Like, you're a mother loving, caring. How the hell does that happen? Because you don't know. I don't think that. Like, systemic. Yeah. Serial, systemic. Systemic. Who primed the system? We can stop debating about the father. The other day. Something came. You're right. From the parents.

1:36:09Systemic. What programmed that system? The other day, I'm talking to the kids, and I bring up Cornell. What happened? I'm like, okay, you're invited. They invite you to go there and go through the scroll. What are you going to do? I'm not going. Why wouldn't you go? Yeah. Maybe your friend tells you you'll never find out. Dad, I'm not going. How do you know you're not going? Now, what could you do to put you in a position to make a dumb mistake like that? So I'm processing this with them for them to know. Parents have to talk to their kids about this stuff, man. I mean, I grew up in a Middle Eastern family whose parents were afraid to talk about how babies are born.

1:36:42And you find out about sex. If you're avoiding these types of conversations, and then you know what else it is? Man, I saw something today. I read something today. Send it to Jen. I think every parent, I see this when parents do this. It's such a massive mistake, and you're trying to explain this to some people, but unfortunately not everybody subscribes to this mindset. I'll read it to you. And here's what it is. Let me see if I saved it or not. Did I save it? I thought I saved it. I sent it to Jen this morning. Let me just go on my DMs. Go for it. Let me tell you what it says. It talks about what parents with high standards do with their kids.

1:37:21Okay? Parents with high standards do with their kids. Here we go. So let me go to the slide one. Thank you for your patience, everybody. Here's what it says. It says, something I notice about parents who raise kids with the dog mentality, the dog mentality, like competitive sports. The difference between raising a kid with drive and high standards, and simply being too hard on them is not even close. Amon, he explains this one father, Brown, grew up with a dad who had very high standards. Amon Ra, St. Brown, grew up with a dad who had high standards. John Brown started training his sons when they were young, and people criticized him for being too hard on them.

1:38:04But years later, Amon Ra said he understood that some fathers go too far. He just didn't believe his dad did. His dad was tough when it came down to sports. And Amon Ra said he wouldn't change it. Now, I don't think the lesson is be harder on your kids or train them younger. I think the lesson is much more important. High standards say is, I know what you're capable of. Being too hard says, why aren't you good enough yet, right? Those are not the same thing. High standards still leave room for mistakes. Bad games, bad attitude, getting benched, being corrected, losing, struggling, all that stuff.

1:38:38Because sometimes a lesson isn't found by removing the hard moment. It's found in teaching our kids how to respond to it. That's where I think the dog actually starts. Not with a parent constantly pushing, with a kid learning, what am I doing about this? Bad game, what do I need to do differently? Got bench, how do I need to earn back? Someone is better, what do I need to do to improve? And this is where the parenting gets hard. Because when our kids hurt, our first instinct is to what? Often help, fix it, explain and protect them. Make it better. Sometimes that's exactly what they need. A hug, encouragement, someone to listen to.

1:39:10But sometimes they need to change. They need the chance to work through it. Not every uncomfortable moment needs to be removed. Sometimes discomfort is when kids learn, I can handle this. I can adjust. I can keep going. And maybe that's where our standards should live. Effort, preparation, attitude, how they respond to adversity and not just goals, wins, minutes. We can expect a lot from our kids and still make sure they know they're loved when they fall short high standards and a safe home can exist together. So what's the point? Sometimes we're too soft on our kids. Yeah. Sometimes we see our kids can never make a mistake.

1:39:42The other day I'm having a conversation with a couple of our friends and I said, hey, how's Dylan doing? How's this? I'm like, listen, you know, the coach did this. Yeah, you know, the coaches, as I said, guys, listen, time out. I'm not part of the camp that everything is the coach's fault. I'm part of the camp. If you're good enough, you're old enough. So this is not like, well, nope, that's not how it works. I don't feel sorry for my kid to protect them. So sometimes these families like this, you don't think there was protection from the family? There was, yes, and no accountability. You don't think there's protection from the family?

1:40:14You don't think there's that fear of, if I even catch you doing something like that, do you know what's going to happen when you come home? Oh, it's okay. Oh, you got the girl. It's okay. What are you training these boys to be? So I think a part of it is also men and fathers, how we joke about guys getting girls and boys getting girls. And you have to be very diligent and serious about that topic with your kids, especially with your boys, or else they're going to think it's a silly, slippery slope. No, no, no. There is no slippery slope here because a man with three daughters is capable of doing what to protect his three girls.

1:40:51You know what you touched on which doesn't exist in society anymore? Rites of passage are gone in society. Used to have young men, almost every culture throughout all of history, used to put young men through some kind of trial so that they could understand their strength, understand their limitations, and work through it themselves. And then they would be accepted by the tribe or by that culture or by that society as a man. And with that came responsibility. This is a perfect example of men who didn't learn the responsibility of their actions because they never had a right of passage or something that led them to understand, I'm a man now, I'm capable, my actions mean something, I can hurt other people with my actions, and I have to be responsible.

1:41:35So I think right of passage is a big thing that has to come back to society. They didn't learn the shared humanity. To treat other people like this, like they're garbage, like me, something is wrong here. Something is big wrong here. Excessive money, excessive privilege, excessive no consequences. And it's just a slippery slope that keeps getting worse and worse and worse. How can you treat another human being like this and do it repeatedly? The only way you can is, like Tom said, there's a systemic problem. It's a systemic. Absolutely. These guys are defective units. I don't like this story. I'm only talking about this story because a year and a half ago, a year ago, we talked about this story and it's closure on the story, which we talked about with Humberto.

1:42:09We've got to get closure on the story. So we're getting closure. I don't like this story. But, you know, as a father and your boys, four feelings. Likeability, respect, love, fear. We can put trust there, but let's set trust aside. Let's go through them. Too many fathers are too concerned about being liked. Likeability is last on my list. I could care less if you like me or not. Okay? Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be a jerk or an asshole. You're around. We're together all the time. But that's not a number one priority. Respect, love, unconditional love, you're going to get. Because God chose me to be your father.

1:42:48This father with the three boys, you think he still loves his three boys? Of course he does. That's how God created us. It's your kid, right? But I tell you, if as a father you don't use enough fear, sometimes you just sell the dream and get them to realize they can get away with anything. You're still going to be there for them? That's a mistake. The mismanagement of how the energy of fear is used, I don't know. I just really don't like this story. This story really bothers me. I want to get to the next one. Okay. Next story, get to Tom. Let's talk about Prop 40 and Prop 42 in California. Prop 40 is what Ro Khanna is pushing for, which is wealth tax of 5 % on the billionaires, which ends up being around 8 % to 10 % because it's unrealized gains.

1:43:30I have to sell stuff to be able to pay the 5 % of whatever calculation you come up with and ended up being on the ballot. But Prop 42 is out there to do the complete opposite of what Prop 40 is doing. So restriction on new asset taxes. Originally, Ro Khanna and some others in California were pushing for Prop 40. Newsom went behind it, and we called him out, and we said, Now you're a socialist. He got a lot of pushback, and he's like, Holy shit, there's no way I'm going to be a president. If I'm going to be fully the DSA side, I have to kind of be independent, center-left, for me to be able to be a president.

1:44:02We all know that's his dream. He's been a guy that's been wanting to do this for a long time. And so now Ro Khanna is at war with Newsom. Ro Khanna is at war with Newsom. Tom, what can you tell us about what's going on here with Ro Khanna calling out Newsom and each of their motives? Well, Ro Khanna denies that he's running for president. He denies that he has an exploratory committee in stealth. He denies he's got money being put together in stealth. Conclusion, he's running. So you have him preparing a potential run for president. and you've got Newsom, who's been running for president since Kennedy was shot.

1:44:36So you've got all this stuff going on there and two key propositions. What was Newsom's first position, Vinny? Remember, I don't think everybody's going to leave the state. This is a great state. Everything we've got going on here, the things I've done here, those are my hands. They just move like that. And remember that whole thing from Newsom. Instead, all of a sudden, one of the Google guys is down in Florida and has moved all of his personal assets. A deal has to get struck to keep Zuckerberg staying in California. And multiple other billionaires, including four key ones related to Oracle, actually moved to Austin.

1:45:12So money did leave. And all of a sudden, now Newsom's catching heat, catching hell on this. And he's unable to get to his talking points about bad Trump, bad orange man. because he's getting tied to Prop 40. He goes silent this summer. Did you notice that? Of course he does. He goes silent. And then he surfaces again like a monstrous whale that can hold its breath for 20 minutes. Suddenly he surfaces again, and he's there behind Prop 42, and Ro Khanna is like, wait a minute. You—and he used the word betrayal, Pat. Ro Khanna in a tweet and then verbally used the word betrayal. He feels that he is being betrayed, that the Democrat Party of California is being betrayed.

1:45:57I actually love the strategy he's got. Believe it or not, whether I agree with Prop 40 or Prop 42, of course, we side with more Prop 42. But I love that he's exposing Newsom because what he's telling the world, Tom, he's telling the world, you are a flip-flopping, you know, you know. You'll do anything to get there. He's calling him out. Yeah, which is true. So now on the other side, again, this was very disturbing when I talked to Pete Buttigieg this week. And I was trying to find that because we know his running. Talented, capable, way more talented than Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris was probably the most obnoxious candidate anyone's ever put on the left or the right.

1:46:34Worst candidate ever. She's just hard to listen to. Her voice, you can't blame her voice. One of the worst voices in the world. It's like there's certain voices you can listen to. You can actually listen to AOC's voice, believe it or not. Forget about like I'm talking purely voice. If suicide rates will go up for every minute, Americans are forced to listen to Kamala Harris's voice. It's that bad. This is my opinion. This is my opinion on what I'm saying. But, Pete, I said, what are you going to do when people leave California and go to Texas and Florida because the wealth tax? He says, we need the international people's help to make sure nobody can leave to another country.

1:47:11Once we do that, wealth tax becomes nationwide, not statewide. You're going to see wealth tax being an issue that people will be campaigning on in 2028 front and center. The number they said is if we do a 5 % wealth tax on billionaires around the country, they're going to generate roughly$4.5 trillion. That's what they're pitching. You're going to see that happening nationwide, Vinny, when they do this. Jeff, any thoughts on this story? Yeah, I mean, we've seen this happen before. And Democrats and people who support that have always gone. They used to call it white flight. People moved from the cities to the suburbs.

1:47:45We're talking about 1950s, 1960s. It wasn't really white flight. People were escaping Democrat policies inside the inner cities because they could vote with their feet. And then we went through a backlash in the 1980s and really the 1990s where you saw these metropolitan area consolidation. They tried to sell this consolidation. What that really was was realizing that the people who had the ability left the tax jurisdiction, and we need to recapture those taxpayers because they left to the suburbs. So if we expand the city to include the suburbs, we've now recaptured all that tax base. That's what they're really talking about.

1:48:19Except now they're talking about creating international infrastructure to be able to do it, which is really the frightening thought. One of the geniuses of the American experiment has been you can vote at the ballot box or you can vote with your feet. You don't like the policies. You don't think you can win. Go someplace. Go to Florida. Go to Texas. However, if you're the one enacting those policies, then you have to eliminate that option, which means you have to capture everything and everything in it. Yeah, it touches on the reality. is again i always talk about reality versus ideology they're ideologically driven and they try to find ways to counteract the reality-based effects and the more people try and leave a location to seek a better life which is literally what the united states is based on the more they try and compensate by getting more authority and now they're looking at global authority which leads us literally it's never it's never you know in science if you have a theory that gets falsified you change the theory that's they never they don't have to know because okay you don't like the policies you left well i'm just going to dot my policies wherever you live uh wherever you go to but that's literally the versus reality they're being exposed to what the truth is which is that people are not responding well to these policies they're not having a positive effect they're not having more net profit for the government and then they're trying to compensate for it but let me tell you what what newsom also knows he was uh caught on a hot mic uh with a video of him selling socialist and dsa what's going to happen with that look what he had to say go for I'm a younger voter, and a lot of us, we want to see the Democratic Party move forward.

1:49:44We don't want more Kamala Harris. We want more, I guess, Democratic Socialist policy. Where do you see, I guess, the Democratic Party going? I think it's, I mean, I think no one is arguing to manage the status quo or fail more efficiently. So I think that the DSA, the energy, and the desire and demand for bold change, non-incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be mainstream democratic. Absolutely. No question about that. You can't play in the margins anymore. The whole system's broken. It's completely unbalanced. And we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine it.

1:50:28Well, he's just going straight out of the World Economic Forum now. Correct. Let's remake the world in our image. Or he stood at the back of the room while other people were giving speeches, by the way. Yeah. So, I mean, this is the, again, this is the playbook. And I don't see how anyone is surprised by it. And I don't see how we're not more united in coming out against it. We're having too much inner fighting. We're disagreeing over things that are irrelevant compared to what they're trying to do. And so long as we're over here bickering, this comes into play. It's existential. He laid it out there.

1:50:59He said, look, we're no longer in incremental change. It's radical change. And what they really mean by that is existential. The United States is irredeemably evil. It needs to be destroyed. I'm going to tell you this. And that's where it goes. But by the way, here's the thing. What a double dumb move again for him to do. Stand up. Stand up to whatever you believe in. Do you not realize that's your problem because you're so vanilla and moving for every flipping position? This is the first time that CNN said we're at this point of where presidential election is. This is the first time in history where there's not a Democratic leader that's up at 25 percent.

1:51:37He was at 40, 35 percent. You've dropped off because nobody knows what the hell you stand for. And I'm a registered independent saying this to you. Of course, I lean center right. I'm a freedom of speech capitalist. list, you know, raise your kids, leave me alone on the way I want to raise my kids. Let me do my part. I'm that guy. You don't even know what you stand for. We're on camera. Now you're defending DSA. Like, what do you think? They're going to vote for you? You think they're going to come and say, oh, let me come vote for you? That's not how this works. But he's in an impossible position just from where the party is.

1:52:10He would do better if he took a position and educates and say, here's what we need to do. Be the big boy in the room. Teach. Share history. Sell America and in whatever things you believe in as a Democrat. You can still do that. You can still do that position and lead the way as a center left to get the independent voters. You're not going to win going to the far left side and trying to win those guys over. You're just not. You know how many people in America right now are far rightists that some of the stuff they talk about, go ahead and win them over. Go ahead. Go win over Thomas Massey. We got to win over Thomas Massey to win elections.

1:52:46No, you don't. We got to win over. No, you don't. You don't need to do that. The same way you don't need to go out there and do this. They have their own reasons why they believe in what they believe in. Newsom's campaign is just a mess right now, but what he's doing. Get off Twitter and figure out what the hell you stand for and come back and sell it, whether we agree with it or not, but core convictions, no more Hollywood acting bullshit that you do that you're doing to the camera. This doesn't get you to vote, guys, like the stuff you're doing. Did you see him on – because Tom made a great point.

1:53:18We haven't seen him or anything. The one thing was the undercover. And I watched this yesterday three times, and I watched it once with no audio. We're going to play the audio. But it's almost like, Pat, he's possessed, and he's like a slithering snake in him. He's performing. He's been watching all summer to see what are the cues that I have to roll with to get the voting blocks to follow me. It's not about what he believes. It's about his ambition. His ambition is so overriding his sense of integrity. He just wants to tell you what he needs to tell you, and he's been watching all summer. He just came above waterline and told you that he's going to go DSA.

1:53:55Look at the vibe you get off him on Jimmy. Go ahead, play this. He does have a bit of a fixation with, forgive me, people's asses. Yeah, yeah. But the only ass I care about is the one we're going to kick on Tuesday. Such a fake, phony, like, oh. Obviously, I mean, look at the crowd. By the way, pause it right there. Good-looking guy. Yeah. Perfect hair. The gray and the black. Yeah. The tie the way he does. The makeup. He is. The Democrats wish this guy was a little bit more backbone-driven so they can really deploy the money behind him. He's kind of Kennedy-esque. Is there room for a Democrat like that anymore in the party?

1:54:39That's where we're at. The third-way Democrats are extinct. The third way is what we're really talking about. What do you mean? You don't think this guy becomes president? No, I just don't think that. I think the party has shifted fundamentally. I think there's no more room for a class. I think the party, I think all politics has moved toward the left, even the right, except for the fringe on the far right, which is kind of horseshoeing around on some issues. But I think we've just fundamentally as a country moved more left. And now there's no more room for a classic liberal anymore. Yeah. Well, we'll see.

1:55:10Let me get to the next story. Next thing I want to get to is, Tom, I'm going to go to Microsoft, 60 ,000 workers buyout. Don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I do want us to talk about on what happened. This is a real number that you're talking about. Microsoft offers buyout to 60 ,000 workers as it pours money into AI. So Microsoft has 60 ,000 workers. I'm about to one quarter global force as a technology giant. Invest more in AI. Offers are available in Canada, India, UK, and the U.S. employees. must be the vice president level or below to qualify. This offer gives eligibility to employees who may be considering a future outside of company.

1:55:47A new choice to make that transition now with support. Amy Coleman, Microsoft Chief People Officer, said in a memo, Microsoft expect to spend$175 billion AI infrastructure, including data centers, in 2026 alone. CFO Amy Hood said in a July earnings call, the exit program is second voluntary buyout. Microsoft has offered this year. In May, Microsoft plans to offer buyouts to about 87.57 % of its U.S. workforce. In July, the company said it's cutting 4 ,800 jobs. Microsoft's 223 ,000 employees globally at the end of June, down from 228 to 223 now at the end of 2025. So, Tom, is this a pattern where other companies are going to follow their lead as well?

1:56:27I think they have to. What you're seeing here is I was just looking for Alphabet, and if you look at what's happened to Alphabet year-to-date, and I didn't have the stock chart, and the guys back there are probably not ready for it. So sorry about that. But if you take a look at what's going on with Alphabet, it's 282 in May. Just go back to May. That was 400, Pat. So Alphabet's gone from 400, a little over 400, I think in mid-May to 280 today. And so you see that's what's going on there. Similar things are going on with Microsoft. I really think that Alphabet and Microsoft, even though they're trillion-dollar companies with huge power and positions here, they're the adults in the tech world.

1:57:17The new kids are open and are good friends, you know, driving Claude and Thropic. So you have those as the new kids are going. And now Microsoft, by the way, this is knocking on a quarter of their global workforce is being asked to step aside. If they don't take it, you will see that it will really be a layoff. The Wall Street Journal actually went after it in the headline. Microsoft seeks to trim 60 ,000. Just don't call it a layoff. So they were basically told by Microsoft PR, hey, it's not a layoff. It's not a layoff. It's not a layoff. And they set it to the point that the Wall Street Journal reporter had enough of it.

1:58:07And there's the headline. Look at this, Pat. Look what the Wall Street Journal did in the headline. Trying to shed a lot of workers. Just don't call it a layoff. Because Microsoft was trying to sell it to them. It's not a layoff. And they're like, screw you. So people will be given the opportunity to take the package. or then there will be a big layoff that I believe will happen toward the end of the year, holidays, because they want to be out there for first quarter earnings. Now, what I think, I think Microsoft is going to be here a long time. They need money. AI needs a lot of money to invest in it and to build it.

1:58:41That's what they need. And they are out there trying to compete as well. Google Gemini is behind Claude. It's behind OpenAI in use and stuff. I was using all three, and actually I now use Gemini the least. And part of the problem with Alphabet, people are getting the low-cost subscription on Claude. Claude is taking from Google Search. People are using Claude for Google search when it's like, hey, America, you don't need to pay small token charge to do a search on Claude. You could just do it on Google for free and deal with the ads. You could do that. But people are actually shifting. So what is happening, I believe the legacy players, Alphabet and Microsoft, are being challenged by the new guys who are about to go public.

1:59:31Let's see what happens. It's a quarter of the company. And I'm going to tell you, what's interesting is they're also realizing you don't need as many employees to be able to get the results that you want. The other day, I sat down with Arik Mansour, who is the co-founder of CalShe. And you know their$40 billion company officially? Well, you know how many employees they have? 250. Jeez. $40 billion company with 250. It's the highest valuation of the company with the least amount of employees. Wow. And last year they had around a trillion dollars that was traded on Calci. One of their positions, which was the World Cup final, they had around$1.3 billion that was traded on that position alone.

2:00:13And their number one trader this year in 2026, you know how much the number one trader this year made on Calci? Number one trader who was in the story? That's not part of the interview. $100 million he's already made. Vinny. $100 million? And he said lots of people are making millions on Calci. They're trading. You're trading. This is not gambling. It's not like they make money, you lose. You guys are trading a position. Correct. They have nothing to do with. They just take a small percentage. They just take a point. There's no house. There's no house. Yeah, which is why it's better than in many.

2:00:46It's more profitable than gambling. Yeah, casinos are furious with that as they're going through this. So, anyways, that's the story that we have here on Microsoft. We'll see what happened with it. Let me get to a couple weird stories here. One, let's go to Mbappe. Mbappe is forced to apologize to China. This is the all-time score, I believe, in the World Cup. Is he the all-time score or Messi's ahead of him? I think he's the number one all-time score. Just lost to Ballon d 'Or to, what do you call it, Kane. Messi was fourth. I think he was second. He was third. And Le Mans was like second on that list.

2:01:18So here's Mbappe, global soccer star. Kylian Mbappe just apologized to China for a Mao meme. Wait, what? Yeah, Mao. Really? It's purely about? Yes, it is. It's about a meme. So this guy's apologizing about a meme and that's it? Yes. So where did this come about? What happened here? Let me go to the story with you. To see what happened here. So this guy, Mbappe, on Tuesday became the first latest global sports figure to run afoul on China on Tuesday, leading several sponsors to cut ties with him and a state broadcaster to black out his games. Mbappe then issued an apology in three languages while Spanish Soccer League, where he has played since 2024, followed suit to protect the media rights deal over$100 million a year.

2:02:03The international incident kicked off when a clip began circulating of a French interviewer asking Mbappe if he can find this one for the funniest thing he's been seeing about himself. The 27-year-old Real Madrid star answered by describing a meme that features his face on the body of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong. They made a video of a guy. I think this is a go for and play the clip. Do you have the clip or just the image? Okay. He said they made a video of a guy. I think he was a Chinese dictator, and they put my face on him. That's all he said, Vinny. Yeah, he laughed. After that, two of Mbappe's corporate partners, the Dongpeng Beverage Company, what a great name, and Menjui Diary quickly cut ties.

2:02:44My comment was ill-judged, and now I understand that it hurt many people in China, Vinny. How many people did Mao hurt? Yeah, I mean. Mbappe said in a statement released in English, French, and Chinese, I have deep respect for the Chinese people and their history, and I'm sincerely sorry. What do you think about this crazy story? So it's not the first time we see, you know, money and power controlling what people say. And it's just so crazy that it's over him laughing at a meme, which is objectively ridiculous. This is his apology in three languages. Yeah. Just so you have. But didn't you have the picture of John Cena, which was hilarious?

2:03:16Can I see the comments on that video of him? Can you do me a favor? Go to that post that you just showed. I just want to see the comment section, how the audience and fans are reacting to him. Go a little bit lower. Zoom in. Okay? So this is, is this the meme? This is all him that he is embotting. Go a little bit lower. Here's the video. Okay, play that video. And he's speaking in a different language, probably. The one I'm most excited about is when we made a video of a guy, I think it's a Chinese dictator. I can translate it. He used it a lot with my friends online. For the play. That's it. That's what he did.

2:03:48Go a little bit lower. So this meme keeps coming to the Chinese. Mao is our hero. Who is this? How can he be a hero? Mao uplifted farmers, working class in China. Mao supported the heroic struggle of the African... You're kidding me. Who is this person that said this? Gotta be a CCP player. Hang on. World traveler, journalist, and political commentator. Let's go back and look at that picture. Mao, shown here in Mobile, Alabama. Is that Andrew Schultz standing to the left of Mao? That looks like Andrew Schultz. What's Andrew doing? He's been working in the game for a long time. Now he's the number one killer in the world history.

2:04:23Go a little bit lower. Wow. What a... You caved so quickly. No wonder France surrendered to the Nazis in just six weeks during World War II. You and your team are incredibly naive. You clearly have no idea that China is the ultra-nationals. Little pinks operate. These people believe in one thing above all else. Might makes right according. Apologizing so quickly. What on you? Wow. Jeff, where you at with this one? It is absolutely ridiculous in every single way possible, but yet so on brand for where we are as, you know, society, right? John Sheena. Look, Mao was a dictator. He was one of the biggest killers that we've ever seen.

2:05:03How many deaths are attributed to Mao? The low end is 20 million. Yeah. The low end. The high end could be, you know, 100 million. It's 80, 100, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, for him to say, I think the bigger problem here is what you said, the Spanish league was forcing him to apologize. How could you not stand up for your star there? This is like a layup, or at least it should be. And it comes down to money. Because they're seeing immediate consequences. No, I understand. Exactly. And I know I understand the dynamic here. But, again, that's why I say it's a reflection on us as a society, what actually moves things here, what really should be.

2:05:34He said something that was true. First of all, it didn't really matter. This was a joke. It wasn't anything serious. By the way, it wasn't his language. It wasn't even a joke. It was kind of an aside. Oh, see, they put my face on a Chinese dictator. Yeah. It was an aside. He wasn't trying to make an affront. He wasn't making a political statement. He wasn't speaking to the microphone after, you know, a World Cup or anything like that. It was just an aside. And to show you how sensitive China is with the sponsors in there, there they go. And because it is true, Mao did kill all those people. It took the knockoff golf club industry decades to recover.

2:06:09All right, let's do two more stories and we're wrapping up. Yankees. Tom's got jokes. Yankees, Tom. Jorge Posada comes and says he doesn't feel welcome in the dugout. He doesn't feel welcome in the Yankees. And people are like, wait, what? Jorge Posada is not welcome? Play this clip. Go for it. Who want to do it? Yeah, I – Joe, it's got to be the right – I mean, I could. but I don't think they want me there to tell you the truth. Why not? I don't feel welcome when I go there. Even in spring training, I don't feel like, I'm just like, I don't know, I don't feel welcome. I don't feel like they want me there so I don't go.

2:06:57Where do you think that flows from? You're a five-time, you're an historic Yankee. Yeah, I don't know what happened. I'd rather just move forward. My last season of my career was a really tough one when it comes to handling everything in my part and also the Yankees towards Jorge Posada. So it's tough to go back and feel that again. Okay, so part of the history here, Tom, I think the audience needs to know about the history of what happened. Back in 2011, they moved him from where he was hitting to the ninth hitter. He said, I want to be moved out. DH, him and Cashman had issues. Him and the skipper had issues at the time.

2:07:50So there is some history on the way it ended his career as a Yankee. So that friction is there, but that's on Cashman to be able to build that relationship with him and say, can we have the conversation, see if I can use you. And then yesterday, not yesterday, when the Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series, Pat Murphy is the skipper, and he knows he's about to lose a couple of his guys to Dodgers, Mets, Yankees. And here's what he had to say. Go for it. When you spend enough time around great companies, you notice that the best ones treat trust as a growth strategy, not a box to check. Vanta helps companies build and prove trust from day one.

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2:08:53You got to read the caption what he says. There's one's with caption. I think this is one that. He's basically saying, remember. When you go to the Yankees, just remember. This is how we won it. This is how you win it. This is how you win it here. He says, you ain't going to get rid of me that fast. He goes, you're going to be a rich effer. just remember when you're on that horse shit, sorry for my language, Yankees team, and you're all playing for yourselves, just remember this is the way you do it. Which, by the way, just throwing this out there, the fact that, and I know, Tom, you have a lot to say about this, like there's a manager celebrating with his players who used to be a Yankee.

2:09:36Bauer used to be a Yankee. The example of a team of where everybody plays for themselves. That's the reputation that we're talking about for the Yankees right now. And to Jorge Posada, and Tom, I'll pass it to you. For everybody that doesn't know, 17 years with the Yankees. That's not a little chunk, a little stint, three-year, four-year, that somebody else buys your contract, you leave. Four World Series, five-time All-Star, five Silver Sluggers, caught more postseason games than any catcher in MLB history. He's a part of the core four. Can you imagine, with that type of resume, That's like Troy Aikman not being able to go to Cowboy Stadium, Pat, because they're like, yeah, we don't need you anymore.

2:10:18I don't care what the hell type of arguments are happening. That's unbelievable. But I think there's a much deeper problem, Pat, than just the injuries, the bad manager decisions, and all that stuff. And it's not just Posada. CeCe Sabathia said, what did he say last week? What happened to the standard? He goes, you know, if a player doesn't hustle the first base, you take them out of the game. If your player, your second baseman, Jazz Chisholm, Pat, if I told you 10 years ago how Steinbrenner would be cool with the player eating a lollipop at second base during a game, you would laugh in my face.

2:10:54You wouldn't believe that it's happening. So it just drives me, Pat, besides the injuries and the bad decisions by Boone and all that stuff, all the mental mistakes, all that stuff, there's a culture problem. If somebody like Jorge Posada doesn't feel welcome and there's a vibe and it's awkward in the clubhouse, Pat, there's something wrong. Okay? The Yankees used to represent something meaningful, disciplined, excellence. Okay? You want that standard back? Start respecting the legends who helped create it in the first place. Hold players accountable and remind everybody in that clubhouse that's wearing the pinstripes, it's supposed to mean something.

2:11:32Because right now, as a diehard Yankee fan, I know you know this, something's off. Something's off. Even when they said Cashman, Stang, and Boone, it's just an energy like, yeah, whatever. Besides the money, what was the evaluation? $16 billion? Great. That makes me happy for the organization. But the culture, that's the vibe. It's not good. Tom, number one, you're right about the culture, and everybody in MLB knows it, and Pat Murphy just whispered in the ear of a player during a World Series celebration, everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. Point one. Point two, Posada's last year was not handled well.

2:12:12It happens in sports. It's really unfortunate. It happens to a five-time. The number, the guy who's caught more games in postseason history than anybody else, I always had tremendous respect for Jorge Posada. You know why? He was never arrogant. He was never full of crap. As a Dodger fan and any other fan, you know, I was never in my heart rooting for the Yankees. But I always, I'll tell you the truth, I always had respect for him because of who he was as a catcher and how he maintained himself. And I always had respect for Jeter. And you go look at what they have in common. They weren't dicks.

2:12:44Excuse me for saying that. They weren't. And they were leading teams. You take a look at Joe Montana and the transition to Steve Young. Not handled particularly well. But then Steve Young, and they went forward, and they won another Super Bowl with Steve Young. It's never easy. You've got to do it, though. It's not hard. And by the way, the part about here is, like, the relationship you have with Cashman and Boone, it's a tough decision. But you've got to make the decision. And you've got to move on. And sometimes that's not going to be an easy thing for the organization to do. But, listen, everybody has an opinion.

2:13:16Everybody is a, what do they call them, something quarterback? Monday morning church. Everybody has their own opinions. is you don't know what's going on in there, but you know what doesn't lie? Results doesn't lie. And the market looks at the results, and the results is you haven't won one since 09. You can say whatever you want to, you haven't won one since 09. Can I finish with one point? Yeah. You lost the World Series in the fifth inning on a complete defensive breakdown to the Dodgers in 2004. And then look at game two at the ALDS this year. It hasn't been fixed in two years. Four errors, yeah.

2:13:47Four. Mic drop. Yeah, done. Normally other people will say mic drop. I'll do a path forward. Mike, drop. I mean, it's like. No, but it didn't have to be. To all the people that love their Yankees. When you're doing something like that. Look, they let down their fan base. Be careful when you're talking about the Yankees. Anyways, forgive Tom for that. But I want to wrap up with this. Okay, you guys know part of us, man, we love pranks. And when somebody pulls a good prank, I have a lot of respect for them. This guy pulls up to this guy in Walmart or, you know, Target. He takes a picture of him pulling up in the parking lot.

2:14:18So he's following. No, no, it's hilarious. He ends up taking a picture and using AI saying, I'm sorry I hit your car. This man panics, Vinny. You're about to cry and pee in your pants. Go for it. Is this your car?

2:14:34I'm sorry. I just had too many buzz balls this morning. I'm not going to run. That's why I come to you. The guy's holding him. He's arresting him. What are you doing? He's holding me hostage. Do you have insurance? Yeah. Well, I don't.

2:14:54it's over there what are you talking about dude you realize you right away know he's being on me that's pretty by that is it's clever but it's really really messed up the ai pranks are getting out of hand did you see the one of the the guy who takes a picture of people who are falling asleep or whatever, and then he has someone coming and making out with them, and he's like, what? And they're like, what is this? Did you make out with this guy? I saw him over there. I mean, this is going to be very dangerous in the next couple of years, bro. Especially for older people. Just wait until this is divorce court, and it's stuff you never did.

2:15:32Yeah. We need to find out how we find out. The AI will be able to figure out divorce. Tom, you were like penetrating. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm saying is wait until this stuff starts happening and causing real trouble for people. I think it's going to be fine. And we need to. I think it's going to be fine. It won't be fine in the beginning. Don't incriminate yourself. But I'm just saying, like, there's certain things that divorce court, all that stuff. Look, for those of you guys that are watching, if you ended up getting your limited edition hats, great. If not, there's still some supply left on the other ones as well.

2:16:01Go to FLB.com. Place the order. If not, you will only be able to get these things on eBay. God bless. Have a great weekend. We'll do it again next week. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.