PBD Podcast - Assange Plea Deal, RFK Misses Debate Stage & Andrew Cuomo Defends Trump | PBD Podcast | Ep. 430
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There's a lot of things to talk about.
Craziness, we got videos to share with you.
We got a tweet, I gave a tweet about the history of LGBTQ that got
some attention with, you know, Caitlyn Jenner retweeted it, we had a lot of other people
that are kind of breaking it down saying, I can't believe you said this, why would you
say something like this? I want to kind of read this to you, especially to those of you
that are fathers that get one day per year to celebrate if you're lucky, and if you're
mothers and you get one year per year if you're lucky.
However, the LGBTQ community's got 140 plus days per year for us to celebrate, which is kind of weird for me.
And I think it's a regular question to be asked, and so we'll talk about that today.
Aside from that story-wise, we got Oprah Winfrey is having stomach issues.
There's a bunch of lawsuits right now with Ozempic.
I'll tell you about that story there.
Rachel Maddow, a little bit heartbreaking when you see how she breaks down crying about
Trump.
But you got to see the clip.
Chelsea Handler, I want you to watch this clip and tell me if this is racist or not.
She's saying she's going to check 50 Cent to make sure he doesn't vote out of line.
Okay, Florida, right now, I don't know if you're following or not, the last 10-12 hours there's some ships from Russia that are close to Cuba but
within 25 miles of us I think, it was at a hundred miles, now you said it's around
25 miles away from us and the US, the way they've reacted to it is pretty
interesting. Today the board votes for Elon Musk to get his $56 billion or not.
We're going to see what's going to happen with that.
But the shareholders, especially the smaller one, have said if this guy earned it and he
said he was going to do it and he did it, pay the man his money.
So I think he's going to get paid his money today.
Kevin Spacey was on Piers Morgan.
There was a couple interesting moments where he was asked about how much money he's got
right now.
He says, I have zero.
And he also told a story about flying to the Epstein Island on the Lolita Express with
Bill Clinton.
He actually told this story.
And obviously we have to talk about Hunter Biden, with what's going on there.
We have some stuff about why more American expats, expatriates, are renouncing their
U.S. citizenship.
26% of Gen Z applicants bring in parents to job interviews.
10,000 California fast food job cuts due to $20 minimum wage.
Authorities nap eight suspected terrorists with ties to ISIS and
multi-city sting operation analysis. 75% American job growth has gone to migrants
since 2019. Elon Musk, there's some stories, a new Wall Street Journal story
that came out, interesting timing on when they dropped the story while he's trying
to get paid for his 56 billion dollars they dropped the story while he's trying to get paid for his $56 billion. They dropped that story.
Apple introduced a system wide open AI, Apple Intelligence, and Elon Musk threatens the ban.
A bunch of conversations about what if he starts his phone.
Brick Summit begins with goal of ditching the US dollar.
Gen Z plumbers and construction workers are making blue-collar cool and majority
of Gen Zers want to become entrepreneurs. In-and-out hikes prices thanks to California's new $20
minimum wage. CNN staffers fear layoffs as network links inks deal with AP, Associated Press,
earning $100,000 a year isn't enough to feel rich in the U.S. anymore. And Fed projects just one cut this year despite mild inflation reports.
Aside from that, a couple other things.
Johnson & Johnson is finally settling $700 million lawsuit.
Nancy Pelosi was recorded saying some things about January 6th that right afterwards you have
to go and press and kind of work and get it back where people are not overreacting.
Some of you guys, if you're single and you're pretty ambitious and competitive, we want
to introduce you to Miss Alabama.
Hang tight for that because you know, just know a lot of people will be competing for
it, but I think if you're competitive, you're like a value-tainter type of an audience,
I think you'll appreciate those who want to compete for it.
And then an interview with Fannie Willis' ex-boyfriend, or maybe even current boyfriend,
I don't know what the situation is there.
They had to stop it in the middle of it because he just got out of line a little bit.
I don't know if you saw this.
I'll show this clip.
Anyways, it's great to be back with you.
We were in LA, a couple stories about LA before we get warmed up. We went to watch the movie
Bad boys bad boys, which by the way, I think if if a movie theater has those recliners
Yeah, they have to keep it at least this much things
Oh, because if they go straight like this, there is no movie
You're taking a nap I did and I made the mistake of going a little bit too far you and I both and so I can't tell you
how the movie was I can tell you I took a nice 30 minute nap however in the
middle of the movie we're sitting there with me Vinny Tico Dilly and Samvel a
man in the front what kind of noises you making like we think he's having a
seizure and by the way nobody gets
up except Pat and me but good I get up I go up I'm like hey man and by the way
we're sitting on this side he's on complete opposite side here in the front
I get up I'm like dude you good what are you doing we're trying to watch you just
by himself yeah he's by himself he's going like this I thought he was choking doing like a peewe a Pee Wee Herman type of thing? So I'm like, are you good? No, he wasn't on Pee Wee.
We're on Herman.
I said, you good?
He says, yeah, what's up?
I said, do we need to get you something?
He says, yeah, why don't you give me some popcorn and ice tea?
He thought you were the usher.
Let me just get this guy out of here so we can get him out of the movie theater.
We go outside and I'm like security, what are you guys going to do?
And he's like, so when are you going to buy me the popcorn and ice tea?
I said, bro, it's not about popcorn and ice tea.
We're trying to watch a movie.
You're destroying it.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie.
We're trying to watch a movie. We're trying to watch a movie. We're trying to watch a movie. We're trying to watch a movie. We're trying to watch a movie. theater we go outside and I'm like security what are you guys gonna and he's like so when you gonna buy me the popcorn I see I said bro it's not about
popcorn I see we're trying to watch a movie you're disrupting the entire room
no one can watch a movie what are you guys gonna it take the security guy who
is well a first of all this dude was on drugs big time he was homeless you could
you could obviously tell know how he got in but secure we're like hey where's
security the security is four foot eight his gun is bigger than him how he got in. But security, we're like, Hey, where's security? The security is four foot eight. His gun is bigger than him. And he's just standing there like,
that's like, is anybody gonna, so me and pattern freaking military mode. And we're,
you know, the kids are behind us. That's in the front. Nobody that works there knows what to do.
This is on third street. Probably not. This is like, what area is this third street?
Third street Santa Monica.
Santa Monica.
It's supposed to be a nice area.
This guy, this guy, this guy is obviously on drugs, bro.
His eyelashes are burnt because he's probably smoking in there and he burned his face.
That's why he's probably screaming.
But me and Pat kick into action.
They have no idea what to do with this guy.
So we finally bring the kids back in.
Sam's standing by the door.
I'm sitting there watching.
They finally kick him out, but it's like nobody knows what to do.
They can't talk to anybody and then then what happens? And then we go outside.
We go outside. They kick the guy out. We go outside. We're walking around. The entire
Third Street Promenade smells like pee. Like urine. It was absolutely disgusting. Yep. We used to go
there every weekend. When we were in LA, we'd go to Venice. We'd go this. We'd go that time. It was
embarrassing. I can imagine.
How terrible the smell was.
You look like you wanna say something.
No, from the theater, did Hunter at least say thank you
for coming up and show some concern for him?
Well, if he was Hunter's brother,
he was a brother from another mother.
Yeah, because I was black.
No, it's terrible.
I haven't been there in three years,
but three years ago, we were there, unfortunately,
for a funeral, and the reception was over by Malibu you know afterwards where you bring food to
the people's house and stuff and we decided to go through Santa Monica and I
said you want to just walk down Third Street promenade and we were had fond
memories walking up and down and I had the same reaction you did walk up and
down at certain points of it it's like what is that smell and this person at a store said you see the space between the two stores right here like that
Little thin alley they go in there and they do their business all night long. I'm not doing the business
They use it as an outdoor toilet and they have to come in in the morning and it was discussed
Horrible absolutely discussed just to maybe get a little substance out of this
How many people were in this movie theater?
Probably 16, 17.
Is that a lot for this movie theater?
I think it is.
Yeah, I would say a lot.
Okay, because look, you know, the whole meme stop situation, everything's going on with
GameStop, everything's going on.
AMC, you know, when we were in Dallas in 2020, you're a big movie guy, dude.
I don't go to the movies ever.
I think I've gone to the movies more time the last few years when we've gone field trips
I came in for it with air the Nike and my movie sound of freedom just a couple different movies that I've seen
I just don't go to the movies anymore. I went to the on Lincoln Road, which is probably the most busy street in all of South Beach
I went with a good buddy of mine. He's actually trying to maybe
Buy the entire movie theater because he's basically his opinion is that movie theaters are done. And I said, are it interesting? And by the way, AMC stock
is now $4 during, during COVID almost $500 something dollars. That was the game stop
situation. But imagine your stock going from 550 to four ridiculous. I guess what's the
that I went with my buddy to go see all these 4 ridiculous. Back here, back here. I guess what's the...
I went with my buddy to go see all these movie theaters.
We went, it was a Wednesday night in Miami, I get it, it's not the weekend.
We went in every single theater, two people here, one person there, five people here.
It was just dead, every single movie theater.
So I guess my question is, what's the future of these movie theaters?
I don't know, this homeless guy's doing his thing.
I don't know, but I think the future of California is bleak because everywhere you went, we were
walking down Beverly Hills just to kind of see what that market was like in Rodeo Drive.
And the guy comes up to us, looks at Vinny, starts putting the camera right in front of
his face.
So tell me, huh, you're an Israel apologetic, oh yeah, you're apologetic about Israel.
Yeah, Vinny, yeah.
And Vinny, that's what he says to Vinny.
Vinny's like, what?
Yeah, I have Senna on my back.
Senna's on his back.
And he's like rushing, like TMZ style shot.
And I'm like, bro, you don't even watch the show.
I go get the hell out of my face.
Are you wearing a PBD podcast shirt?
Of course I am.
And then Senna's on my back, and that's why it piss me out
because I'm like, bro, like do whatever the hell you want
if I'm by myself, but when there's children,
my sister was there, my mom was there, I'm like, yo, back the hell up.
But he was like, and he goes, oh, and you're here too.
Like he was getting into Patsy.
This is more just indicative of what's going on in LA, California.
It was just messy, man.
It was just, I mean, literally everywhere we went, the kids were measuring how many
pride month.
It was crazy.
How many pride month, uh, it was crazy. How many pride, uh,
flags it is, but on a whole different, different level, it's, it's,
it's a different place. And we, it's a one night we're going out to have ice
cream, gelato in Beverly Hills. After we would eat, we'd go walk. Tom, you were
there. This was last night. Actually. Last night, no, two nights ago in LA, in LA,
in LA, we go to this place to have gelato and we run into this of
father and daughter. He's a kind of, he follows the content closely and Jewish father, his daughter,
they went through a divorce, him and his wife, his daughter just got accepted to UC Berkeley.
And we start talking about Palestine, Palestine Israel the exchange lasts 30 minutes
Dylan and t-corps their Sena is there another person comes no Vinny I booked you
And in this this literally we do a podcast for 30 minutes in the middle of the gelato store
It's only us it's like ten of us. Yeah, and we're having this great conversation Tico whispers to Vinny
He goes this is a last conversation I thought would
be happening inside of a gelato place.
Like it's, and by the way, it was a great conversation because she didn't see eye to
eye with her dad.
Pat's like, I want to, I want to come back to you in a year.
Let's circle back to find out.
The other guy comes in.
He says, you think that's just happened in Berkeley?
You should go to UCLA right now.
See how embarrassing California is.
Yeah.
This was a separate guy that walked in and said, wait a minute, I know you guys and was listening and we were all polite to him, kind of motion, do you need to walk by?
And he said, no, I'm enjoying this.
And he sat there and said, listen to the conversation.
He just bought front row seats.
It's the bottom line.
What the hell is going on in California?
That's the bottom line.
So by the way, so here's what I did and fathers, mothers, quick shout out to you before we
get into all these stories.
Rob, can you pull up this tweet?
So, and I wanna see how you're gonna feel about this.
If this upsets you good, cause it should.
This is something I wrote a couple days ago.
The madness with Pride Month has to stop.
We have Father's Day one day.
We have Mother's Day one day.
Yet we have March, Bisexual Health Awareness Month, March 31st,
International Transgender Day of Visibility, April 6th, Asexuality Day, first celebrated in 2021,
April 26th. So you have no clue April 6th is your day. What happened Tom? I said so if you have no
clue April 6th is your day. International Lesbian Visibility Day. May 17th, International Day Against
Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. May 19th, a Gender Pride Day. May 22nd, Harvey Milk Day. May
24th, Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day. What the hell does that mean? June, Pride Month,
entire month. July 6th, Omnisexual Visibility Day.
July 11th through the 17th, specifically one week,
Non-Binary Awareness Week.
July 14th, International Non-Binary Day.
July 16th, International Drag Day.
August 14th, Gay Uncle Day.
Verify this if you think it's a joke.
Gay Uncle.
September 16th through the 22nd, Bisexual Awareness Week.
September 23rd, Bisexual Awareness Week, September 23rd Bisexual
Visibility Day, October LGBT History Month, October 11th National Coming Out
Day, October 20th International Pronoun Day, October 24th Asexual Awareness Week,
November Trans Awareness Month, November 6th Transgender Parent Day, November 8th
Intersex Day of Remembrance remembrance November 13 through the 19th
Trans awareness week November 20 a transgender day of remembrance. Are you tired yet December 8 pansexual pride day folks?
It's only June we still have to go through these days for the rest of the year
145 roughly out of 365 days dedicated dedicated to LGBTQ
Roughly out of 365 days dedicated to LGBTQ, that's 39.7% of the year. Why?
How did this make any sense?
Meanwhile, we took God out from school, we took prayer out of school, we stopped saying
the Pledge of Allegiance in school because that's offensive.
Seriously, who's better for a healthy society?
Promoting LGBTQ or marriage.
Pro-family unit, husband and wife, if this is controversial, America has lost its mind.
If the agenda is not to procreate, pushing LGBTQ agenda suppresses that.
Gay men cannot procreate, folks.
Lesbian couple cannot procreate.
No one cares if you're gay, lesbian, trans or bi.
What you choose to do with your body after you're 18 is your choice and we'll respect
it.
But this agenda must be accounted for why our national birth rate is the lowest it's
ever been.
America would be a powerhouse again if we flip the script, using 145 days to promote
the pro-family and give LGBTQ a day out of the year.
This is enough that would get us back to two and a half birth rate and produce a better
society.
Feel free to tear apart this argument, but if you support it, have the courage to comment
and retweet, God bless, may God bless us all.
Anyways, and this thing went all over the place with commentary, agreeing, disagreeing.
But you know what it was?
99% of people that read this, they were for it.
99% of people said, this is logical, how do you argue this?
Tom, your thoughts on this.
And by the way, we were at dinner, this took us 15, 20 minutes to write before we tweeted,
and you were there at dinner with me.
I cut when we prepared it.
We just proof-write it.
Go ahead, Tom.
No, I think it shows exactly what the agenda is.
What the agenda is, and it's rooted all the way down, here I go, here comes the rabbit hole, get ready guys, we're jumping in, we go all the way down to
Marxism, breaking the American family, breaking the unity of the American spirit
and the American society, and you just keep coming. That is their strategy here,
keep coming. So the reason all these additional days keep coming, and you saw
how duplicate of they were
international pants sexual awareness day
International day of week of pansexual visibility. I don't know what the difference between awareness and visibility are but you see they just keep coming Keep coming. This is the strategy is to
Overwhelm the society with their agenda and where they want to take it and this is how
they're doing it. And by the way I thought it was a joke when you first started
listing them like honestly especially when you showed it to us but here's a
misconception when you when you say like when you put a tweet like that Tom and
we know this automatically the other side is like oh you're Trent you're
have a phobia you're scared you're, no, especially with the pride parades,
especially that happened in West Hollywood,
what does you being butt naked, okay,
sometimes you're ass out, twerking in front of kids,
just what does that have to do
with being proud of being gay?
Gay people have been through so much to get to where,
like now in society, you're equal, you're chill,
you can do whatever the hell anybody else can do.
Why do you have to sexualize it in the streets?
And like, what does that have to do with being gay?
That's what I'm, I get so confused because I'm like,
okay, you're gay, congratulations.
Katelyn Jenner with Transgender retweeted,
gays against groomers, so we fully support this message.
It's, exactly, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, because you don't have to be part of the community
or not part of the community or part of the
agenda to have common sense.
So you know, on the surface, I'm assuming you said 90 plus percent of the comments were
positive.
Yes, I'm assuming the comments that weren't bad, racist, bad sexist.
He's homophobic.
He's anti trans.
This is actually the beauty of actually somehow owning your own media company because there's
a lot of people would be probably want to say stuff like this, but
their fear of getting canceled, losing their job, being demeaned or being
basically called all sorts of names, everything with that.
But what you're saying is actually accurate.
You know, I brought this up.
You tweeted this probably over the weekend.
I want to say, cause I brought it up to a buddy of mine who's pretty high up in
the democratic circles and he goes, well, you know, the father's day and the mother's day, you gotta
understand that those are national holidays. These aren't national holidays. I go, you know,
cute caveat right there, but these things still exist, buddy. Let's, let's stay at the heart of
the matter. There's all these ridiculous holidays. He read it and he said that he read it. He goes,
well, I get it. But understand that the father's day is these are national holidays.
But bottom line is this, everything that's going on with DEI and everything that's going
on, there's corrections and there's over-corrections.
Okay, cool.
After the Harvey Milk, everything that was going on in the gay activist movement, I think
it was Obama that made gay marriage legal, right?
I think during his first term, he actually did not want to do that in his second term.
Obama didn't do it.
It was a John Roberts decision, which under the Obama administration.
Thanks Tom.
But it was Supreme Court under Obama that had happened.
Correct.
But the point is it's reached the point of peak overcorrection where it should sure have
a gay holiday.
Sure.
Have a gay pride month yeah every
single thing now it's like boom boom boom boom enough's enough if i was still in hollywood right
now yeah no joke you'd be gay because i i thought that's where you're going because vinny that's not
cool just telling you i see you other way vinny perfect there's nothing wrong with it come on
what's today is it national coming out day guys come out So so like that's we I retweeted it
Do you realize if I was in LA and I was on a show and I retweeted that
Oh Hollywood I would have been fired your thing about it. They would have told me you're fin take it down or you're fired
That's my point. That's a great point. Yeah, wait till October 11th. Okay, what's national? Do it the right way?
Oh my god, if you're gonna do it in the closet till then we had
We had Gina Piranha on and she got canceled for far less than that. Yeah far less. So it's crazy
I mean obviously but you know free speed, you know, you know only if you're part of the right agenda
Let me tell you let me tell you what's what's great about common sense
It always prevails
Common-sense eventually prevails. Sometimes it takes a day
Sometimes it takes an hour of a conversation with a person, sometimes
it takes a year, sometimes it takes a decade, sometimes it takes 50 years.
But trust me, common sense prevails.
It's undefeated.
Common sense is purely undefeated.
Try to say whatever you want about common sense.
It's eventually going to dominate the marketplace.
By the way, a couple of things when you're watching this.
So watch what's happening with common sense. Logan Paul just had Trump on. You know who
represents Logan Paul? Some of the biggest representatives in
Hollywood that are liberal and all this. This guy has Logan, he goes to Mar-a-Lago
to interview Trump. First of all, Trump's campaign, brilliant, brilliant move to
get into this audience and TikTok.
Whoever's idea was to get the president on TikTok, brilliant idea, whoever it was on
the camp, you know who you are, credit to you, but having him on.
What is happening to America?
People are kind of sitting there saying, look, I just want to talk to the president, okay?
And look at Logan, 864,000 likes to have the guy on his podcast.
What does this tell you?
His audience wants to have this guy on now
They've invited Biden. They've said no they've invited him. He said yes
So maybe both of them will go maybe both and it won't go on but it is what it is
This is what I do want to say this is what I do want to say to all the fathers out there
This is is it father's days this weekend by the way father's day mother's day is not a national holiday
It's it falls on a weekend and father's day is always forgotten about, but not if you watch PBD Podcasts,
because we respect you guys.
You know why?
Because it is so hard to be a father today.
It is so hard to discipline.
We were having breakfast with Gavin O'Connor, right?
The director of The Accountant or The Warrior.
Absolutely stunned.
He's a boss. and his his wife Brooke Burns
I believe if I'm saying the name correctly she was from shallow how Baywatch and we're having
We're having a breakfast for two and a half hours breakfast. Yeah lunch
And their daughter is seven-year-old daughter sitting there the boys get out of line
And all of a sudden I'm looking at Dylan and Tico because you
know they're doing what boys do.
And I'm checking them and I'm talking to them and you see the girl looks at me like this
and they're just like, and she's like, wow.
I'm like yeah, that's how you got to deal with boys with boys.
But anyways, we're having this conversation and you see the value of great fathers. The entire conversation was how powerful and how much he loved his father.
Crazy stories, but it's about fathers.
If you're out there doing your part as a father, picking up your responsibilities, not giving
it up to somebody else to do.
You wake up every single morning thinking about how to raise better kids, thinking about
how to raise better future leaders in the world.
I applaud you, I respect you.
I want to tell you what we're doing this weekend, Rob, if you want to pull it up.
We just launched a new wallet.
This is a wallet I've been wearing for almost six months.
I gave up my Fendi wallet.
I gave up all the fancy wallets.
I wear the Valuetainment wallet.
I have it in brown and I have it in black.
And this is how it works.
You got cash in here, you put it very easy, your ID here, you pull it out, credit card
comes out, it's very simple, I keep my cards here, my credit cards here, this is all I
need.
It's leather, value attainment, officially launched.
We have a limited supply, it will sell out just like the numbered hat sold out a couple
weeks ago.
Anybody for Father's Day that orders one of these wallets gets a free
hat, FutureLooks Bride hat for free.
So place the order, limited supplies, you place the order brown or black, you get a
hat being sent your way as well.
If you have a father, you want to gift them something, gift them this wallet with the
hat and if you're married watching this, to all the ladies watching this, your husband
loves the PBD podcast, order them this wallet for Father for fathers and get a hat on top of it for free.
Rob, they can go to VTMerch.com to see it, and this is where the link is at.
Rob, let's make sure we put the link below as well.
For those of you that are watching this Spotify and Apple, go to VTMerch.com for the entire
weekend of fathers.
This will be there.
However, I'm telling you, we don't have a lot of these.
This is a few hundred of these wallets that we have.
They'll be gone in no time. Okay, so let's get into it
Story I want to get into is
Kevin Spacey Pierce Morgan, I think it's kind of you know
Story was going all over the place. I don't know about you guys. I watched a show
What is that one show that he had on Netflix? What was that?
House of Cards
Amazing and it's the only one yeah that he had on Netflix? What was that? House of Cards? House of Cards. Amazing. And it's the only one where we're on our way, you know the story,
we're on our way to go to Tuscany, Italy. A guy named Carl D. Moss, whom I've never met.
We were Facebook buddies, and he claims he's a Republican, but he always gives a Democratic argument.
We'd always go back and forth.
He said, you got to watch House of Cards. And then my dad says, you got to watch House of Cards. And in the end,
I'm like, guys, I don't watch shows.
I've never watched shows.
We're about to go to Tuscany, Italy.
We're taking 50 of our guests to Tuscany, Italy,
which was the most epic trip ever for different reasons.
Those who were there know what I'm talking about.
Tom, you were there.
I won't even get into it.
No comment.
That night, I come home.
10 o'clock, I sit there and I watch 12 episodes
of season one House of Cards on no sleep.
Then I get on a plane to go,
I was glued to this show, it was ridiculous.
Now, here's Kevin Spacey on Piers Morgan.
Rob, which clip is this?
Is this the one about Clintons
or is this the one about him having no money?
Backruptcy and losing his Baltimore home.
I want you to watch this and I want you to tell me,
do you think this is acting or do
you think this is real?
Go ahead, Rob.
Vinny.
Well, it's funny you asked that question because this week where I have been living in Baltimore
is being foreclosed on.
My house is being sold at auction.
Really?
So I have to go back to Baltimore
and put all my things in storage.
So the answer to that question is,
I'm not quite sure where I'm gonna live now,
but I've been in Baltimore since we started
shooting House of Cards there. So how long is that? I moved there in 2012
So you just been your home for 12 years? Well, not this particular place, but this place has been my home and Evan and Lucy's home
Since 2016 why is it being full closed because I can't pay the bills that I owe
Watch this.
Are you facing bankruptcy?
Been a couple of times when I thought I was going to file, but we've managed to sort
of dodge it, at least as of today.
How much money do you have?
None.
Really?
Well, I mean, you know, you have some sense of legal bills.
He's a fucking actor.
I still owe a lot of legal bills that have not been able to pass.
You're actually in debt?
Yes.
Do you mind me asking how much you are?
In the millions?
It's considerable.
Millions?
Many millions, yes.
The house itself is many millions.
What are you going to do?
Get back on the horse. You can pause it right there. Get back on the horse.
You can pause it right there.
Get back on the horse.
Okay, so let me ask you, Tom, do you believe him or is that an act?
Well, it's hard to believe any celebrity when they go on these apology tours and they go
on Oprah and they cry on Oprah and Tom Cruise jumps up and down on the couch and says he's
in love.
And you all sit back from all these episodes, all these things, Vinny, you know what I'm
talking about.
And you see it, you just doubt the celebrity because they're all professional actors and
they're trying to put the spin.
The one thing Kevin's opened himself up for, a lot of those things he's talking about are
a public filing.
And if a multimillion dollar house in Baltimore with his name on it or the name of an LLC
that he owns it under, that's why celebrities own homes usually, or a trust.
I believe him on that point because it would be so easy to disprove and go to the filing
and saying, you're full of crap, you're not being foreclosed on.
So I think, are the millions in legal bills?
I believe that, but I think there's also some play in it here because he has a couple other
homes, he's got one in New York. He's got one of Malibu supposedly
So he's got assets and so he may be asset rich
But cash flow poor and is deciding to walk on the Baltimore house simply because he can't do it
He's got to pay the legal bills
So I believe about half of it, but I have a hard time with the emotion when celebrities do this
Any what do you think cuz I there's just so easy to. I did a video where I'm crying about Red Lobster on my Instagram.
And I mean, people were furious because I'm an actor.
He is, let me explain something to you.
I've watched House of Cards until they took him on the last season.
He's one of the best.
And even this is the thing with Hollywood.
He's so sick. Even though how many sexual assault, touching,
people are like, well he's so good,
people kinda tend to forget.
He was making reportedly 500,000 per episode
on House of Cards, per episode.
He was in for six or seven seasons.
He's worth, I think in 2017, at least $100 million.
It's acting, I don't know where all this money is going if he's paying off all these people that
were what is this Robbie? Massive disappeared in a tumbling house cards. Star was worth 60
million with the I think it's an act I think especially with this documentary
if you guys have it. Do you think he is wealthy? I think he is wealthy. You think
he has money? I think he has. Here's my question to you. Hundred million
dollars he's made in 2017. What do you think he was doing he has money? I think he has. Here's my question to you. $100 million
he's made in 2017. What do you think he was doing with that money? You think he was just
sitting on it? Where did he live when he made that money? Baltimore? I think he was in Baltimore.
Okay, so assume half of it is gone. Okay, let's go 50. Okay, so then you have 50. Then
you're living a lavish lifestyle. You're buying big houses, legal fees, you ain't working, you're
spending like money's gonna be coming in every single year. Trust me, money goes by very,
very quickly, very quickly. Now, I don't know if he's got zero, I don't know that, but money goes
very, very quickly. Adam, what do you think? Well, Hollywood, pay attention because your boy,
What do you think? Well, Hollywood, pay attention because your boy, he still got it.
So it's so I fell for it.
I fell for it.
I was like, Oh man, Kevin Spacey.
Oh, he's an actor.
Oh, yeah, he got me.
Yeah, he's been apparently that's what actors can do.
But do you think he's acting?
Yeah, well, he's an actor.
Okay, I fell for it guys.
Almost like the Russia collusion that you got me
again Hollywood legacy media. You did it again. This guy won best actor of the Oscar Academy
Award for American beauty. Best supporting actor bad guy in seven. Amazing. Amazing. Unbelievable.
House of cards, LA confidential in horrible bosses. He played the worst boss ever. Yeah.
I would not be surprised if he put this thing on Pierce Morgan on his reel. Hey Hollywood,
your voice still got it. Let me get a job. The beauty of this guy is he's obviously a gifted actor. He's obviously talented. Is Hollywood
going to accept him back? Because he's the only guy that I can understand that I can
think of that got me to do by me doing men, right? Everyone that, you know, the Harvey
Weinstein, the world, the ditties of the world, the R Kelly's of the world, everything that's going on out there.
It's all women.
So I don't know.
I think there's a little leniency to men.
Women are treated a little bit more delicate than dudes.
I don't feel bad, especially if it's all these guys that came forward and were like, dude,
if you watch the documentary, he was cornering guys.
He was taking advantage of people.
But bro, how many cases has he had, especially overseas where like he's had to go to court and he has to pay, yeah, he's innocent, but he has to pay in civil
lawsuits for these people. It's like, bro, and I'm sorry, great actor, but the hell with
you.
I want you to watch his next clip. Play the next clip on him talking about Epstein and
Clinton and just watch this here. In 2015, I started seeing reports online, things on my Twitter account that I had flown
to this guy, Jeffrey Epstein's island and I had abused young girls.
And I was like, I mean, if you'd asked me in 2015, maybe even if you'd asked me in 2002,
did I know a guy named Jeffrey Epstein, I probably would have said no.
Well, of course, I have since learned who he is.
And I have since been able to go back and find out that the airplane that we flew on
for this humanitarian mission was owned by Jeffrey Epstein and to then learn, oh, he
was actually on some of those flights.
And this Maxwell woman was on some of those flights.
I didn't know him.
I've never spent any time with him.
I was with the Clinton Foundation people.
That's who I was with.
Even worse?
Now, what I understand is that he didn't start to be investigated until 2005 by authorities
in Florida.
So here's what I can tell you.
This Maxwell moment, she was one of many people
to sit down next to me in that throne room.
I have no relationship with her.
I had no relationship with him.
I mean, he's not my friend.
I'm not a confidant.
I've never spent time with him.
And interestingly, I will say this.
I was very fortunate that President Clinton introduced me
a lot of business leaders in London
because he knew I was coming to the Old Vic.
And I developed relationships with Robert Earl,
Pula Ludovic, Robert Earl, a lot of wonderful people,
Richard Caring, people who supported the work
that we did at the old Vic and gave money to us.
Do you know who I never asked for anything was Jeffrey Epstein?
I didn't want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that
trip to South Africa because there were these young girls.
Oh, now we were like, who is this guy?
So I will say this, there were young girls on those
there were young girls on those flights. Yeah. Wait, wait. Oh, time out time out. You mean to tell me,
Patrick, if you're on somebody's private jet, how big is this private jet? It's a fairly size. You
don't know everybody that's on that flight. There's only what 10, 15 people on there. You know the captain,
you know the co-pilot, you know the flight attendant, you know everybody. And all of
a sudden, oh, but Bill Clinton, by the way, great company he keeps Epstein, Clinton Foundation,
Bill Clinton. You're on that plane and now all of a sudden there's underage girls and
now you feel, so there was a really, you did know who he was. So he just incriminated himself
at the end.
And there, I love that.
I think you're absolutely correct.
There's another angle that I think you're going to light up on right here in Hollywood
when you're trying to get a deal done.
Oh wait, no, no, I know that guy.
It's a friend of mine.
It's a new friend of mine.
I made through this guy.
Oh no, no, no.
I know that guy.
We did this thing.
I want them on this trip.
I know what you're talking about.
It's all the BS and all the fluff about everybody's your friend.
Everybody's more than
acquaintance, you did some business with them. And now it's like, no, actually, I was sitting back in
23D and I didn't maybe this Maxwell lady was sitting next to me. Now it's all this walk back.
But this guy has come from a world where you over amplify every little conversation into a friendship or something. But think, and I just, you know, it reminds me, you know, this reminds me of Trey Parker
did a movie called team America. One of my favorites. And do you remember at the very
end of it where all the actors are trying to convince people and they're going to the UN and
doing speeches and the leader goes, be careful, Gary, he's acting. Yeah, of course. This is what I feel like for looking at
Yeah, it's a joke. I do know who this guy Robert Earl is that he keeps mentioning. I just had to Google him real quick
He's actually the founder and CEO of planet Hollywood
So you talk about the connection to Hollywood and the the elite?
Cabal you like to use that word
Anybody's more connected. He's also the founder of the Earl of Sandwich.
You've ever been in there, great sandwiches.
But yeah, I don't, did he say that he was, he wasn't sure he was on the, because he was
on the plane.
Your life changed pretty, pretty well the last couple of years.
You're not you're flying private, baby.
So you kind of have some anecdotal evidence.
If you're flying private with somebody, you know exactly who's on the jet with you. Exactly. So and if the president is flying private
or former president, so it would lead me to believe that he wasn't actually on the same
flight as the guy, just the same plane. Does that make sense? Like you're going to know
Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton is on the plane. No, no, no. He said I sat next to Jelaine. He
said he was there, but Jeff was, no, he said Jeffrey Epstein and Jelaine. He said he was, but I didn't know who she was. Jelaine was there, but Jeff was, no he said Jeffrey Epstein and Jelaine was there, but
he goes he was on the plane, but I didn't really talk to him or, the guy owns the plane,
you're talking to the owner of the plane.
Gotcha, I thought you meant Clint.
Yeah, no, that's very suspect.
He has a great alibi, he's just like, look, you know, the whole young girls thing, yeah,
I'm into young dudes.
So, it's not my thing. He's just like look, you know the whole young girls thing Yeah, I'm in the young dude. Yeah, but so I just know my first of all do me a favor pull up Jeffrey Epstein's plane
Because unless if it's a business Boeing jet you're sitting next to those people if it's a g550 a g550
That's a G5. Yeah, you see
No exactly who's on that plane because that only fits 12 or 13. How many people does that fit maybe 16 people?
Yeah, but less than 20 for sure yeah so the point is you're going to
know on a plane like this there's no way in the world you get on a flight like
this and you don't know everybody on the plane or interact with them you don't
every single person I thought Epstein had a business point jet that's what I
thought that's a Lolita if he doesn't have a BBJ then it's a different story then
you're definitely sitting next to some of the guys
But I mean look the reality of it is when he saw my little girls
There's one thing at least we know that he's not into him because it's
So he so that's the one thing according to what things you read about however
Do you think if you're Clinton and you're watching that do you think you like that?
Of course not.
He just said, yeah Pat, that's the main thing that was in my head.
He just said Bill Clinton was on a plane with little girl under a crew.
Bill is probably calling saying, what are you doing with this?
But it's too late.
It's already, I think that just indirectly threw Bill under the bus and brought that
whole thing back into it again.
But lucky for them, they're so protected, it's ridiculous.
Nothing's gonna happen.
Well, so you're from the place where you think he still has money.
You don't think he's broke.
You think he's doing okay.
I think he's doing okay and he's acting and this is this is just the this is just the
Immediate tour of like hey guys, come on. I think two things can be true at once
I think he's putting on a little act putting on a little show
I think he lost the house for sure
Yeah
I mean how many roles has he done in the last five years since everything has come out how much how much court costs legal
Costs lawyer fees has he had to pay?
I'm sure that he is not doing well cash wise really struggling or at the very least his typical lifestyle is not
this question is not where what he thinks the residual from the movies he's
done residuals oh there's purely residuals
I'll say American pie depends on he's a big-time player million a year on
was it not a lot let's say I'm saying can we find out what it is I just
googled it right now didn't come up that's not a lot. I'm saying, can we find out what it is? I just Googled it right now.
It didn't come up.
That's not a lot.
Okay.
I'm telling you, that's not a lot.
I just did a lowball number because I get residuals from little shows that I do and
if I was the lead in it, forget it.
It's, and he's an EP.
I don't know, but all his best movies, dude, were from like the early 2000s.
Yeah, but he just did House of Cards.
Is there a residual on House of Cards?
I'm sure there is.
Well, think about how much you think it would be.
I couldn't estimate that, but I'm sniffing what you're looking at.
I think he's probably asset rich and cash poor, because it takes money to insure and
pay the taxes on those assets.
So I think he has the London house, the LA house, the New York apartment.
That could take, I just did a little back of the math here, that could take 15 grand
a month just to cover tax roll and things.
So that means he needs 30 grand a month, so he needs constant state, 360.
So I think he's cash poor thanks to his legal fees and everything, but he's got a few assets
left and he's got higher interest rates to get any loans against him.
So I think he's pinched.
So here I'm looking at this article that's talking about residual checks.
So Mandy Moore, I don't know who she is, she talks about how she would get 81 cent checks
for streaming residuals and these guys are talking about how small the residuals are.
Now obviously these are not the level of names of a Kevin Spacey.
Who's mind you, Patrick, he's an actor, lead role, and he's executive producing creator.
Those are all separate checks.
I look at this like if I'm an insurance producer or if I'm doing assets under management or I'm
a financial advisor or any type of someone who does sales, there's your primary income source,
which is your actual income, and then there's your residual. So what insurance is what 2%?
Whatever it may be 2 to 4 percent. Okay, sure
But that's not your you know, a hundred grand a month or whatever you're making. So I look at this like he lost his job
He lost his income. He still has maybe some residuals coming in
But under no circumstances is he as wealthy that as what he once was or is the money coming in what it once was?
So when I said two things to he'd be true as once.
Yeah, I think he's kind of acting, but I also think there's some truth to the fact that
he's actually going broke, saved that money.
Well, I mean, look, at the end of the day, you know, we're going to see what's going
to happen with us, but he's making his towards.
He's going around talking to a lot of different people and, you know, he's probably the biggest
Hollywood name that's comfortably sitting down talking to others.
I'm not sure if people in the establishment of Hollywood like him doing that because it's
re-bringing up stories of stuff that's already out of the limelight.
They're like, hey, stop talking.
Just stay put.
Don't do these interviews.
Why are you sitting there talking to Pierce Morgan?
Why are you going to these types of things?
Why are you talking to Tucker?
I think that's what's happening behind closed doors.
The reason is, bottom line is, he doesn't have a choice, meaning any other Hollywood
actor is doing softball interviews, they're doing, good morning America, hey, tell us
about your new movie, Light and Sunny.
He's like, dude, I am broke, I am penniless, things are a mess right now.
And many of them did the same things.
Yeah, so let's talk about what's going on here with some Gen Zs, okay?
A few things going on here with Gen Zs.
One of them, this story which is absolutely disturbing, 26% of Gen Z applicants, ready?
Bring their parents to the job interview.
What?
I can only imagine, hey daddy, can you go to the job interview?
No!
You can't buy yourself to the interview.
No, hey, please hire my son.
He's such a sweet little boy.
I think he would be great for your company.
Please, he's such a nice guy.
And a survey by Resonate Templates found that 26% of Gen Z respondents involved their parents
in the job interview process, with 31% bringing a parent to an in-person interview, 29% having
parents join a virtual interview of those with a parent at an in-person interview, 29% having parents join a virtual interview of those with a parent
at an in-person interview, 37% had their parent come into the office and 26% had their parents
sit in the room during the interview.
In virtual interviews, 71% had their parents off camera and 29% had their parent visible
with many parents speaking directly.
What?
Oh my God.
That is, I would be like, are we really doing this?
Tell them about your GPA.
Executive resume writer Andrew Stoner, great last name, commented, it does not signal confidence
to a hiring company on behalf of the child and recommended a help at a distance approach,
advising parents to support and advise their children without direct involvement in the interview.
Tom, thoughts on this crazy story?
This crazy story is focusing on the Gen Z, but I'm going to call out you idiot parents.
This is what you have done.
You have turned out incapable, unprepared, you know, emotionally anemic children.
You've turned out.
This is on you, parents.
This is on you, divorced parents,
that didn't find a way to come together and help your kids.
This is on you who let them just dive into social media,
searching for likes and everything,
and didn't develop social skills.
So when they have to do something like, oh my goodness,
have an integrated conversation with somebody
and talk about your skills, talk about your likes, talk about your education, and have an integrated conversation with somebody and talk about your skills,
talk about your likes, talk about your education, and have an intelligent conversation.
Your kids can't do it.
I put this on the parents and I think it's shocking and horrifying that we have 21-year-old
citizens that are walking out right now among us without these skills.
This is on the parents.
Can you imagine, Pat, listen, we're going to fire you.
Go get your dad. Get your dad in here. We're're gonna fire you go get your dad get your dad in here
We're gonna fire you but we want to do it in a nice. Yeah as a boss. What do I say?
Vinny if you're late one more time, I'm calling your mom. No, please don't tell her please
No, but I think it's the other way around
I think it's kind of like look we want to have a conversation with you about your 90-day review
Okay, sounds good. I have to see if my dad's available. Excuse me?
Yeah, my mom or my dad?
Yeah, I have to see if my dad and my mom's available.
Can they both come?
What are you talking about?
To me, if I saw a parent in the interview right there just looking at, hey, yeah, so
I think my son would be very, you guys would be very lucky to have my son with your company.
Got it.
You know what?
I will, you know, I'll sacrifice this lucky moment of mine and give permission to many other great companies
to experience this great luck of yours that you have raised.
Please go do that.
I wish you nothing but the very best in a situation like this.
But as funny as this is, do you believe it with today's helicopter parents?
I believe it.
I believe this to be true. I believe this to be true, Adam.
Yeah, well, it's like, you know, what's the thing you always say, Tom? People talk but numbers scream. What is it?
I say words talk, numbers scream.
So, you know, this is something that I find near and dear to me because when I started finding out, doing content, it was all about millennials. And as the oldest millennial,
and I'm researching sort of Gen Z, Gen Z is basically anywhere between 25 and 15. So
I'm like, okay, so one third of parents are showing up to interviews, I would hope and
pray that it's for the 15 to 18 year olds, or maybe go into a job interview and okay,
you bring the parents. But under no circumstance, you're bringing your parents to an interview.
So I'm wondering why is this happening?
So, but the good news is two thirds of Gen Z are not bringing their parents.
So this is what happens when you start painting in broad strokes.
It's like, are all Gen Z like this?
Are all Gen Z emotional nitwits?
Are all Gen Z kids who just can't do anything for themselves?
Are they all woke basically snowflakes?
No, because
we have Gen Z kids that work here. They're actually great. We've hired them. So it's,
I guess it all depends on who these kids are and what their age group is. By the way, there's
70 million Gen Z. They're the second largest generation ever. There's 70, I think, two
million millennials. And the largest generation before that was baby boomers that were 70
million.
So there's a lot of young people, two out of every five people in America are either
a millennial or Gen Z. So there's a lot of young people out there. So there's going to
be a lot of data that suggests they're babies and they can't do things on themselves. But
then there's this other story right here. And this is actually good news right here.
Majority of Gen Z actually want to become entrepreneurs.
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, entrepreneur wasn't even a thing.
I know you said, you know, Valuetainment is a channel for entrepreneurs.
I know one of the things you'd always say is that 100% of the world's problems are going
to be solved by entrepreneurs.
So here's a report, 54% of Gen Zers in the US want to become entrepreneurs, which is
positive. So it's not just negative, they're all just losers, they're all just helicopter parents,
they all can't just do things, they are not able to do things for themselves. There is a large
coalition of Gen Zers and young people are like, I can't do the traditional route, I'm going to
figure this thing out, I'm going to become an entrepreneur, I'm going to go make my money.
I love that you said that.
And I love that you said that, which is looking at more on the positive than the negative,
right?
But here's a question I got for you.
Do you think the number of helicopter parents is increasing or decreasing?
Do you think the number of parents showing up in interviews is on a decline or is it
on an increase?
Unfortunately, it's increased.
Yeah, that's the-
Because it started at zero a couple decades ago.
Who the hell would even, like, if 20 years ago,
somebody said, my mom is here for the interview,
would you have believed that?
For that to be at 20-some percent,
I watch this Gen Z's,
let me tell you what some of you guys are doing,
which is fascinating.
Gen Z plumbers and construction workers
are making blue collar cool.
Lexus Abreu, a 27-year electrician, has amassed 2.2 million followers on social media
platforms like TikTok and Instagram, making $200,000 a year from clicks and brand deals.
She notes you feel just like a normal person until you actually get confronted by people
and you're like, oh my goodness, this is real.
People know who I am.
Enrollment and vocational programs rose 16% last year as skepticism about the cost and
value of four-year college degrees grew.
Influencers like Abreu are making trades appealing by highlighting high wages and success such
as we've made it more appealing.
We have nice vehicles, we own homes, we are successful, says Carpenter Matt Panella, who
earns over $200,000 from
Sponsor and come brought is this the same story as the plumber and construction workers? Yes. Yes it is
Okay, so how do you process this? Well, let's just move aside the tick talkers who are pretending to be construction workers
And that's actually talking about the people are actually doing the construction or actually using the tool belt and are actually
actually talk about the people who are actually doing the construction or actually using the tool belt and are actually making the products that they're talking about because the average
construction worker isn't on TikTok making 200 grand.
But I actually love this story because we've seen what's happened since the 1980s.
Forty percent of college students used to be women and 60% were men.
Now it's completely flipped.
Now men make up 40% of college students and it's 60% that are women.
So men have to realize, listen, you know, we just talked about the story about more Gen Z and young people are becoming entrepreneurs.
College isn't the only route that you can take. You can go to trade school, you can go to technical school, you can become an entrepreneur.
There's so many different routes you can take to make money and make something of your life.
You can become an apprentice, you can get an internship. You could do national service.
You can go to the army and figure out who you are and be the best you can be.
So, you know, this story, I guess, gives nice headlines that they're making hundreds of thousands of a year
in sponsorship fees or in TikTok ads, whatever.
But the reality is you've got to give respect to the guys that put on a hard hat every single day, worked their tail off, got a shovel, got a hammer, got a plunger, whatever
it is. Those are the guys that are, you know, ready for it. Never going to be replaced by
AI. Those are the guys and gals, but it's 98% men who are actually working and make
America, dare I say, great again. Wow, you said it. Amen.
I mean, listen, to my right sits a spokesperson for Donald Trump.
Magna.
That's a little too much, Mac, on this podcast.
Too much, Adam.
Go ahead, go ahead, Tom.
I might just get canceled real quick.
No, I think, and I feel like there's something in my coffee because I'm about to say, Adam
has a point.
Whoa!
Whoa! Tom, when you got a very, very good point is you take a look and we've, we've
covered this on the podcast before that. I think it was 45% of college graduates discovered
that what they studied in college could not connect them to a job studying art history,
studying, you know, American history, you history. You want to be a history teacher?
Study American history.
You get an American history degree because you want to hang out at Princeton for four
years?
You could do nothing with that.
40% of them said that, and they ended up in a lot of debt.
So they're seeing that.
These people are seeing their older brothers and sisters and their aunts and uncles going
through this and coming out the other side and looking at it and saying, you know, AI is not going to replace electrician. My uncle was electrician. Maybe I get a couple
trucks and a couple people working for me. I'll be an entrepreneur. The only thing that
there was a quote in the article says, I can be my own boss, work my own hours,
and have more time for myself. Well, if you're going to be an entrepreneur, you can work for yourself and have more hours, but I will say this, you know, if you're really an entrepreneur, you're
going to be an all-the-timer and it's incredibly fulfilling and you're going to be making jobs and
doing things like that. So I think the Gen Z, you know, I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
here, but 26% of Gen Z is 18.5 million people.
So that's an awful lot of people here.
That's 5%.
That is almost, because 5% would be 360, so that's almost 5% of the US population has
got their mom and dad coming into the interview.
But I think it's a great idea to consider trade school.
I remember, goes back 15 years, where Ann Coulter made a point on a Fox interview,
and she then wrote it in her book that was out at the time about winning arguments with
a liberal. One of the things that she said was, hey, you're missing the whole thing of
trade school. U.S. colleges, excuse me, U.S. high schools and guidance counselors aren't
pointing out, why not be an electrician like your uncle was? Look at what you can earn, look what you can do with that, and you can start
an apprenticeship right now and you won't have all the college debt. So a
lot of these things are finally coming home to roost and I think it's a good
thing. Pat, can I say one more thing? Yeah, go for it. Yeah, the life of an
entrepreneur. That was your first viral video, we all know it. Tom also said
something that's pretty important where he said the
quote, I can be my own boss and I can work my own hours.
I hear that a lot on Manect.
Well, I don't know if I want to go get a job.
I don't know if I want to work for somebody, you know, I will kind of want
to start my own business.
I don't know if I feel comfortable working for somebody else.
Newsflash.
Here's what I could tell you.
If you start your own company, no matter if you're the boss, you're the
CEO of you incorporated, you're always going to be working for somebody, whether
it's an investor, whether it's your board, whether it's the bank, you're actually working
for your employees because if you don't do a good job, they will leave you and go someplace
else.
So if you think that you're never going to have a boss and just the life of an entrepreneur
is like, I call the shots here, you've got another thing coming because you're going to always
have some boss looking over you. Number two, if you think you're going to work less versus
work more, you get another thing coming. You're going to be working 24 seven, working on your
business. It's going to come your life, bro. And the last thing you think you're just going
to be on vacation to take time off. I would venture to guess that as an entrepreneur, you're gonna have more stress than less stress.
You got payroll, you got HR, you got bills, you got rent.
It ain't easy, this life of an entrepreneur.
So be careful what you wish for.
No, it's not.
And by the way, valid points, all three of them, on what it is to be an entrepreneur.
However, you're either a supporter of an entrepreneur or you are.
If you're the one, you want all the pressure on you great
If you're not but you can feel like you can bring a lot of support to somebody else
You're still in a very good position to go do something. They're so excited to see
New heroes rising up from the Gen Z community
I want to I want to show you the most viral video on Twitter this last week
Okay, this video Rob if you can unshow the video to show the stats, I wanna read it
because I also wanna give credit to who posted the tweet,
is by Robbie Starbuck, okay?
Great name.
And he posted this.
It has 177,000 likes.
It's got 62,000 reposts, okay?
54.4 million views.
And you wonder why.
The American College of Pediatricians just put out a fire statement calling out all the
major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids.
They asked for these groups to immediately stop the promotion of
social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and
surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their
biological sex. Watch this video. Go ahead, Rob.
We have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols
promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort
with their biological sex.
This declaration was authored by the American College of Pediatricians, but really it was
developed from the expertise of hundreds of doctors, researchers, and other health care
workers and leaders who for, have been sounding the alarm
on the harmful protocols that continue to be promoted
by the medical organizations in the United States.
Despite recent revelations from the leaked WPATH files
and the recent release of the final report
from the CAS review, these medical organizations
have not changed course. So we are review, these medical organizations have not changed course.
So we are calling on these medical organizations of the United States,
including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society,
the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the American Medical Association,
the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European colleagues
and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones
and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological
sex.
In our declaration, we affirm that sex is a dimorphic, innate trait defined in relation to an organism's
biological role in reproduction, male and female.
This genetic signature is present in every nucleated somatic cell in the body and is
not altered by drugs or surgical interventions.
Consideration of these innate differences is critical to the practice of good medicine
and to the development of sound policy for children and adults alike. Medical decision-making should be based upon
an individual's biological sex. It should respect biological reality and the dignity
of the person by compassionately addressing the whole person. We are here defying the
claims made by these medical organizations in
the US that those of us who are concerned are a minority and that their
protocols are consensus. They are not consensus and we are speaking in a loud
unified voice enough. So here's a question I got for you folks if you're
watching this. Why do you think 55 million people were interested in this
just last week? Why? Why is this the most viral tweet I think it's the most viral
tweet in the last week? Why is that? What makes I mean she wasn't sensational
she actually the way she talks she talks where she could be the cure for
insomnia it wasn't like it was a motivational speech where she fired you up.
She didn't tell you a joke.
She wasn't like, and we're going to do this.
And she didn't do anything like that or fire or call people out or destroy or disrespect
or say any of that stuff that gets things to go viral.
She's just reading something to you.
But 55 million people said enough is enough.
And that's because the other 300 and whatever,
270 million, 280 million people in America
haven't seen it, but there's a reason why a message
like this goes viral.
Tom, thoughts?
I have the shortest comment I'm gonna make today.
What did you say at the beginning of this podcast?
Common sense always makes the comeback
and wins in the fourth quarter.
And I think this is, they've got science on their side, wrapped around a common sense
argument in that science, and almost 60 million people are watching this and saying, yeah,
you know what?
I agree with that.
Yeah.
How about this?
It's about time.
And thank God she's saying this because it's consistently,
it's an attack on the children. The same with that pride stuff that we're talking about,
about over-sexualizing kids and dancing in front of their faces. We're talking about mutilating
children because they think, because they've been brainwashed to think that they can be whatever
gender that they want. And it goes back to Big Pharma making all the money and helping with the depopulation because those people are never going to have kids.
It's an agenda and I'm so happy for stuff like this.
This makes me happy Pat that 54 and this is besides how many people that they talked about
about this.
You know it's probably a hundred million people are now talking and that's being shared everywhere
because it's like you're right enough is enough.
Why did it have to take this long? kids eight-year-olds but remember that the
girl that was on the um I think was on dr. Phil and dr. Phil's like you think
an eight-year-old to make a decision on what and and the transgender guy goes
absolutely if they want to chop off their their genitalia that's their body
they know what to do this makes me happy as hell yeah I'm with it Tom you look
like you wanted to follow up on something. No, I was agreeing
I was completely agreeing with him and you kind of nodding a little too. I'm
Yeah, well, there's a couple things that she said here and
Is this the American College of Pediatricians or is this a completely different story?
No, that's okay. Gotcha. Got you. All right
So the express serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the
current protocols asserting that medical conditions should not be based on an individual's, you
ready?
Feelings.
You were so caught up in how you feel and you don't want to abide by the truth.
They want to live my truth.
Whereas I had a conversation with a lady one day.
So if I identify as a woman right now, am I a woman?
She's like, well, yeah. And then I'm like, well, 10 minutes later, if I want to be a
man again, am I a man again? She goes, well, yeah, because it's how you feel. And I'm just playing
this game with this girl of like, all right, let me see how far I could take this ridiculousness
of all right, so I feel like a woman now. She's like, then you're a woman. Good news. I'm back
to feeling like a man.
Hey, however you feel.
It's not how you feel.
She talked about having biologically what you are.
The beauty of why people this resonated, she might have the cure to insomnia, is because
she said out loud what we all know to be true.
And words have power and the truth needs to be
spoken sometimes and sometimes the truth hurts but you know you're Dylan Mulvaney
sorry you're not a girl. There's people out there you know we've seen the one
guy out there who basically was like it's ma'am in the deepest most baritone
voice ever it's like no you're a dude pretending to
be a woman. So the bottom line is let's all stop playing pretend and let's get back to
biological reality.
Yeah, I mean, this leads me to another insanity that people just are uncomfortable talking
about. Rob, can you show clips of Miss Alabama.
Miss Maryland is a transgender and Miss Alabama, Sarah Milken's title is being disputed after
fans claim plus-size pageant queen isn't the real deal.
Oh, is this the big girl?
Oh, I have something to say on this.
Yeah, so a pageant queen who was crowned Mrs. National American Alabama 2024 is facing backlash
from fans and former title holders, questioning the legitimacy of her title. Sarah Milken,
a plus-sized beauty pageant contestant, steered controversy following her win over Memorial
Day weekend, but now critics are voicing their opinions. Rob, can you show actual pictures
of, so that's Miss Alabama.
Yeah, but the video's over by the way.
I mean, do you even need to see more? So that's Miss Alabama. Yeah. But there's the videos of her by the way.
I mean do you even need to see more?
Can you pull up the video?
Vinny, go ahead.
So I'm gonna remind you guys, she's by the way 23 years old, morbidly obese, okay?
What message are we telling young girls?
What are you saying that first of all you said Miss Marilyn her name is her name is whatever Bailey Ann
Who was in fact a biological male was crowned Miss Marilyn the funniest part guess what song he came out to
Man, I feel like a woman by Shania Twain. No, no, I swear to God. Yeah, that's
Okay, feel like a woman. There's those feelings again. So look at it, this is a 23 year old girl.
You know what you're saying to young girls?
Guess what? If you're struggling
with your weight, don't worry about it.
Keep going, keep eating unhealthy. Who gives a shit?
Because you can still be celebrated.
And this is what they've been doing to this type.
What are we talking about?
How long do you think she's going to live if she keeps that up?
She's 23 years old.
This is unhealthy. She's morbidly obese and I think it's ridiculous. Did you see all the runner-ups?
I want to know who were the judges Rob
Stevie Wonder, Charles and Rachel
Who were the judges honestly who were the judges? I'm gonna guess that it's women or a trans
I'm gonna guess that it's women or a trans man. Unbelievable.
Who were the judges that that are these?
Can you zoom in on the judges?
I swear to God I bet you it's women.
If you go to the judges to no no this is the.
You just had a picture a second ago.
Yeah I know that's Miss Alabama Teen.
This one is yeah Miss Alabama Teen.
Okay.
Make sure you're getting the right title.
Rob, if you go back up there,
first find the right title for what it is to win.
Judges for Miss Alabama 2024.
No, because it was a specific contest.
Miss National America Alabama.
That's what it is.
Miss National America Alabama judges.
Then type in judges.
Yeah, judges. There you go
So the 23 I'm gonna know who the judges were they might not even let you know
Can you go up on images to see if the judges maybe show up or no?
Is that the girl in the middle right there, what's that one right there?
Is that it no no. No? Okay.
I want to know what the judges are because, you know, half of this is the judges' fault.
Who allowed that to even be a participant?
Now, if you're doing something that's for plus size, great.
But if that's what you're putting up there, this is just absolute ridiculous, embarrassing,
condescending, disrespectful, and confuses the kids.
By the way, let me get to this as well.
And this is going to be a very weird transition to what I'm going to next.
So the next story I'm going to, Rob, if you can pull up the one with Oprah Winfrey and
her friend.
Oprah Winfrey was hospitalized this past weekend, and Gayle King shared,
if you wanna play this clip, go for it.
We're very happy to say, joins us right now in studio.
I'm so glad you are here.
And I'm so sorry that Oprah can't,
yesterday she said I'm gonna rally, I'm gonna rally.
She had some kind of stomach thing,
stomach flu where stuff was coming out of both ends.
I won't get too graphic.
But needless to say, she ended up in the hospital,
dehydration, you get an IV, so it was a very serious thing.
So it had to be, I hope she's okay.
She will be okay, she will be okay.
I hope she's not mad at me for sharing that detail.
But I wanted to make it clear though
that it mattered to her.
She doesn't have anybody with me,
but I wanna read this to you, Rob.
I don't know if we have the story there or not.
I'll read it out of my phone, Rob, if we don't have the Ozempic here.
So Ozempic, 20 to 30 percent of, they're saying 20 to 30 percent of Americans will be on Ozempic
within the next 10 years.
Okay?
20 to 30 percent of all Americans?
They're saying 20 to 30 percent.
Let me just pull this number up, Rob, to double verify what I'm saying.
So Graham McGregor, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary University of London,
predicts that in a decade, 20 to 30 percent of the population will be on Ozempic, these
types of drugs.
Okay?
Yes, 20 to 30 percent will be on these weight loss drugs. So, okay, you're like, all right,
fine, that sounds good. Now, following story, okay? If you go to Mario Rabel, send this text to you,
and if you can pull this up, Mario Nafal does a great job with these stories that he posts.
I just sent you the text, if you can pull it up. It was in the notes that I sent you.
Just go to the one that says, 10,000 people are suing Ozempic. If you have the right to go up,
go up there. Is that the one? Okay, so zoom in. So 10,000 lawsuits hit Ozempic, WeGoV,
and Mount Jaro over severe side effects. Ozempic and similar shot like Wegovi, and are reportedly facing
up to 10,000 losses from patients who claim the drugs caused debilitating side effects
like stomach paralysis.
What did Gale say?
Oprah Winfrey was having issues, stomach issues, and tearing holes in the food pipe.
Unfortunately the manufacturers failed to adequately warn of the associated
risks.
Zacharia, 46, had her gallbladder removed seven months after starting Ozempic.
Meredith, 56, diagnosed with stomach paralysis after taking Monjaro.
And this is, if you can go to the bottom, Rob, so we can also, I'm sorry, let me see
that chart real quick.
What does that say?
All the reported side effects linked to Ozempic, mental health, suicidal thoughts,
other, fatigue, headaches, dizziness. I can't read the next one. Alcohol, food, coffee,
avoidance, aspirin, vivid, drifts, cancer, sexual dysfunction, fertility boost, gastrointestinal,
digestive issues. I can't read the next one. Diarr diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, gastroparesis, bad breath, burps, metallic taste, and bowel blockages and obstructions.
Hanging out with Oprah must be fantastic.
So that is all the stuff we're hearing about Ozempic.
Okay, so while you're doing this, all of this, I pulled up this video.
I think this is very, very important, parents, Father's
Day is here. If you've got a girl, watch this video with your kids, especially with your
daughter. It was such a great cartoon depicting what's going on in today's society. Rob, I
just texted it to you. The video shows a girl that's walking down the street and sees
Everything being painted as what sexy is today, and then she goes and does
What sexy today she goes does this surgery then she goes uses that drug then she goes does this she goes does
Can you zoom in and play this clip just watch this clip and see what happens you play play this clip Rob, go for it.
There's so much truth to this cartoon.
I know people like this. It's tough. Even more. Even more.
Even more.
Even more.
Watch how it ends. Her at the beginning.
Wow.
Purely natural.
What it was all like.
Natural was perfect.
At the beginning.
Now watch this.
The transition of this video started off with who?
Miss Alabama.
Which we showed somebody that's heavyset.
So one then may say, well maybe is this you know should she get on ozempic?
And then should she do this and should she do that now at the end of the day?
It's find a better diet
Pick up better habits have better friends that are not letting you eat anything and everything
Start an exercise routine lose lose some weight, make that
your lifestyle.
When I saw Ethan Supplee's picture of before and after, Rob, can you type in Ethan Supplee?
He's like, I'm about to die and I'm not going to see my kids anymore.
Put the before and after picture of Ethan Supplee, of what he looked like.
Go to the, yeah, that's him.
Before and after, okay?
Look at this.
Yeah, how much weight this guy lost? 250 pounds to go from that
to the one on the right. It's not easy. When you talk to guys that are heavyweight, they'll
tell you, Pat, it's really not that easy to do. It's very difficult. It's tempting.
But we're living in such a weird time that one, we're calling the other girl sexy, then
two, we're selling all these shortcuts, way of doing things, which is destroying your
life, okay?
And you're seeing the lawsuits.
And then number three, we're being forced to do so many different surgeries because
everybody else is looking in a certain way.
And then eventually realize that natural look was really the way to go, okay?
Tom, as a father of two daughters, how do you process this message? Self-esteem. I've built self-esteem in the girls from the first moment that they
were there about their individuality, their individual skills, and who
they are. How'd you do it, Tom? Give me specifics. Specifically, I praised them
for what they were obviously doing really well. Bailey concentrates. Brooke is creative.
Bailey's really good with math, but she has to work hard at it. Brooke's good at math,
and she doesn't have to work as hard as Bailey. But I've complimented who they are, what they are,
very specifically, and complimented them in the sports and the things that they did.
And I've been straight up and warned them, say the reason you don't have social media
is the following, because comparison can be dangerous.
And I've told them comparison was dangerous.
And I gave them specific examples of how dangerous endless comparison and endless pursuit of ratification.
Because that's what the beauty track is all about.
Comparison and pursuit.
I compared to this vision, now I pursue making myself like it.
And my validation comes from this mostly anonymous crowd that's given me likes, likes, likes, likes, likes on social media.
And I painted the picture for them.
At the same time, I built up, I said, look, you are who you are because God made you,
and you need to, you can't just let yourself go. You have to work on it. You have to work
on yourself. Being healthy takes work. I also underlined that to them. Being healthy today
takes work. Making great decisions about what you eat and who you are and what you do takes work.
But it's worth it because your individuality and you will be accepted for that and don't
buy into the myth.
I spent a lot of time with that one.
Don't buy into the myths that are made to create comparison and then pursuing that.
And a lot of times the pursuit involves buying this buying that these shoes that
fashion hang tight and so I just
education about the illusions of society and then a father under you know mining society by
Over indexing on them and their value and who they are and how wonderful that is I?
What pissed me off especially about the overweight thing is, you know, how many millions of people, how many millions of girls, whatever ages, are watching that, they're not watching shows
like this, they're going to see that and they're going to go, you know what, I was probably
thinking about losing some weight but why do I need to?
Why not?
This girl just won at 23 years old, Miss Alabama, I don't need to do it. I think the underlying message is that unhealthy stuff that you're talking about is gonna lead to what?
Death or her getting on something that for the rest of her life
She's gonna be taking ozempic number one killer of women in America is heart disease heart disease and miss
Alabama is about to be their flight carrier. Yeah
ridiculous Adam
Look, this is a conversation that that needs to be had with the girls out there.
I spent a lot of time, especially on the Sazkaz talking or even on Manek talking to mostly
young men. 90% of my audience on Manek or on Sazkaz is young men, but you know, women
also need to understand a message. You know, the most viral thing of the last month when
it comes to masculinity and femininity is this whole conversation that happened with Harrison Butker when he was giving the commencement speech
at a Catholic university, basically reminding women, hey, listen, congratulations on graduating,
congratulations on getting your degree. But don't forget, the one superpower you have that men
can't do is the ability to birth children and be a homemaker. And, you know, I
always say, who do you guys think has it tougher out there these days, men or women? And I wait for
people to respond and, you know, well, men have it harder, you know, men have to bring home the bacon,
men have to make the money. I say, well, that's true. But I'll give you the other side of things.
I actually think women have it harder these days. Why? Because the one thing that I would want to have in life is clarity. As
a man, it's pretty clear what your job is. Be the protector, be the provider, be there
for your woman. Go out there and make money, make your way in the world. As a woman, the
one thing that women don't have these days is a lot of clarity. Should you be a homemaker
or should you be a boss, babe? Should you rely on your looks and your beauty? Should
you rely on your brain and your career? Which one is it? The reality
is like, it's kind of hard to do both. Can you do both? Yes. But it's like that's like
saying, can you have a baby but also work 24 seven, it's very hard to do. And girls
out there are very confused. And you know, don't forget that a lot of this situation
that is happening this video that you showed, I actually saw a piece of artwork at Art Basel. You've been
to Art Basel when it was a beautiful girl's face. And it was essentially that entire video,
but just in a picture, lips blown up, eyes like this, scars, stitches, you know, looking
in a mirror, crying and it's all that. And a lot of it can be blamed on, you know, who
the Kardashians. And I remember back in the day when I used to hang out with the Kardashians,
I remember seeing Kylie Jenner at age 14, 15. She just looked like a little girl, like
a little girl. She didn't have these big ass lips. She'd have the big booty and fake breasts
and fake everything. And by the time she's 18, every thing is fake. And whether it's Kim, whether it's Kylie, whether it's Kendall, whether it's Chloe,
whether it's Courtney, whether it's the mom, Chris, these girls look up to these people.
And they're looking at them on social media.
And you know, they say the comparison is the thief of joy.
They're looking at all these women with money and access and status and power and glitz
and glamour.
And they want to be that.
And they tend to forget, I'm 15 I can just be who I am and be beautiful but
it's hard to do in the social media age. Well listen the one thing is for sure
true is girls need validation from their fathers. This is a father's day weekend
this is father's day weekend as fathers as much as it's about us celebrating,
hey, Father's Day, it's about, you know, they're gonna get us gifts and do all this stuff, and you know,
they say Father's Day is always the one that's forgotten the most.
But this is also a way for you to think about what you can do to raise your girls and raise your boys differently.
My wife right now, she's reading James Dobson's book, Raising Up Girls. If you've never read it, go read it. If you got girls, it's a must-read. Rob,
can you pull up Raising Up Girls by James Dobson? There's another book that he has
called Raising Up Boys, both phenomenal, phenomenal books to read. Either one of
these books will be great books for you to read on how to raise girls,
specifically from the father's standpoint, because you play a very important role on how to shape their confidence and their identities
and how to make sure that, like the other day I took Sen out on our date that we went on,
and I said, baby, do you know why I treat you this way?
She says, no daddy, why do you treat me this way?
I said, put the crayon down, because we were messing around with crayons at Eddie V's.
She said, because I want you, that one day when you choose what kind of a man to be with,
you have a certain set of standards that have to respect you.
You know, they have to show you respect, they have to love you, and they have to treat you
like this.
This is why I do what we do here together.
She says, I said, because baby, one day you're going to have a boyfriend and one day you're going to be
married and one day you're going to look for a husband. And it got a little bit uncomfortable.
I said, I don't want you to be uncomfortable about it. I know what's going to happen and
I'm excited for you and I'm looking forward to you experiencing that day. But I just want
to make sure you're choosing the men properly, that they're giving you the right kind of
respect and they're giving you the right kind of messaging. And we had a very nice conversation with her and I.
Yes?
I actually want to ask your opinion on being a dad, because obviously love your kids, amazing.
I'm asking this sort of selfishly, but also for the people out there.
I want to know how you handle giving the hard truth to the boys versus the girls.
Your boys and your girls, you know, even in your book, you talk about using logic and
emotion, right?
You know, we see girls out there who, you know, Rachel said, I'm a 10, I'm a 10, I'm
a 10.
We've seen this all before.
And even on SOScast, I think of stories where this girl the other day, she called herself
a mogul.
I was like, what makes you a mogul?
She goes, one day I'm going to be a billionaire.
I'm like, well, you're not a mogul yet.
Or there's another girl that's like, I'm a born again virgin.
I'm like, well, you're not a virgin.
There's another girl that's like, she's a literal porn star.
She's like, yeah, guys want girls with, you know, tread on their tires.
I'm like, no, they don't.
But girls can be a little bit more delusional because they're more emotional. We just did the story about the about
Basically the the scientists thing. Yeah
Sorry trans women. You're actually a man. Sorry about that. I'm saying all that to say this
Boys, you can give them the cold hard truth. Like sorry, you know, I've seen what you're done with Dylan
You're not ready to do this Tico. You're not where you need to be. What would you recommend how to deliver news or feedback to boys versus girls because
of the emotional component?
Tico Lemos, Ph.D. We still have 40 years to see if we're doing it right or wrong, but
I'll tell you how I do it. When it comes on to the guys, to the boys or the girls, I speak
very openly with the boys, very openly about, you know, hey,
don't make silly comments. If you're going to make something like that to others, have
a backing. If you don't have a backup to it, you sound silly just making an opinion. He's
the worst president of all time. I said, you know what you sound like? You sound like the
rest of the world. I don't respect that. That's not us to be David's. Tell me why. Explain
it to me. Why do you think this is a bad idea? You know, you have a certain way you got to carry yourself. I had a very direct conversation with my
oldest a week and a half ago. That was a very good conversation. We had about how
many victors you've had. Do you feel like you're drifting in life? Is this thing
just going by? You're not even paying attention to it. Life's gonna go by. We
had that conversation. Well, my girl, Baby Senna, she's now at eight years old, where
the conversations are able to be a little bit more serious. And I'm openly talking to
her about certain things, and I'm also leaning on Jen to have certain conversations with
her that are different than the ones that I'm having. And some of the conversations,
you talk about, you know, boys, school, what to expect LGBTQ you talk I'm openly talking about you know if someone's going through this you got to respect them
But that's not you God created us to be this way
Here's what it's all about certain values and principle keeping them as close to God as possible making sure they got a relationship with God
Where they believe in prayer they're staying close to their faith that someone is watching over them taking care of their body
close to their faith that someone is watching over them, taking care of their body, taking care of what they eat.
We no longer, we cut out all cereal in our household.
A lot of stuff that's been cut would die.
And even sometimes Brooklyn gets a little bit spoiled because she's so good, man.
She is so good.
She'll come to school like this.
Sweets, sweets.
Candy, candy.
No, no, we're not doing that.
She's a pro.
Do you know who taught her that?
Do you know who taught her that?
Uncle Vinny?
You know who you are. You know who you are. You know
who it is? It's called Papa. He knows it. She and Papa are super. So you have to kind
of realize that at the end of the day, a lot of people will be trying to influence your
kids, but 20 years from now, they're not going to say who was your kid's nanny, who was your
kid's grandpa, who was your kid's grandma, who was your kid's this.
They're going to say, who were their parents.
And it's your job to lead them properly.
But we'll see.
We'll see the case study in about 20, 30 years, if we're doing any of this stuff right.
All right, so I want to wrap up with four stories, and we've got to go rapid fire through
these stories.
So if you're going to comment on it, comment because you've got a unique perspective, not
if somebody else said something about it.
All right, so Elon Musk, $56 billion. There's a couple things going on right now
with Elon Musk one is
Musk says Tesla shareholders voting. Yes for his
$56 billion pay package, which is great to hear and that's what date what date is that? That's the 13th
832 a.m. This is two hours ago ago this just happened right that I'm saying most likely
is gonna get us 56 billion dollars that's great to hear that this has taken place however
however there's something going on because Apple launched they introduced their Apple
intelligence AI and Elon Musk threatens a ban with Apple now why is this taking place
because just recently he had a meeting with Larry Ell Now why is this taking place? Because just recently he had a
meeting with Larry Ellison and apparently the conversation was that hey
you know if there's anybody you don't want to go war with it's Apple. You guys
got to have a good relationship because you have to download the app, X, all this
stuff. There's got to be a solid relationship. But at its 2024 worldwide
developers conference, Apple announced a system-wide AI upgrade that
will give users access to personalized generative AI.
The new Siri will be able to take action inside apps, figure out context clues, and more easily
learn natural language.
Siri will also begin to work with open AI chat GBT and
App developers are being invited to create with the new AI tools
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he would ban Apple device at his companies if they were to integrate open AI and
Apple operating systems many tech experts have been hoping that Apple would into integrate AI developer tools to iOS especially
Because it would be it would give the AI tools access to
wealth of personal information.
The Wall Street Journal says,
this is thought to be the holy grail of AI, Tom.
So there's a couple things that Apple did.
First thing Apple did is says,
hey, we have a deal with OpenAI
and we're putting GPT-440 into.0 into Siri and this way it works.
Hey Siri, find me this. And Siri says I don't find it completely but with your
permission we'll go deeper and that is where the OpenAI is allowed to go in.
Second, what they did is they've put a lot of AI tools on here and there's a
lot of criticism that they're about to put a lot of smaller companies out of business or make their app redundant, such as Grammarly.
People love Grammarly because it helps you write in Word, it helps you write in emails quicker
and with correct grammar, professional.
Well, that's now built in to the iPhone.
And so they're like, well, now you don't need
Grammarly anymore, because they put GPT and OpenAI.
And what Elon Musk was making a very important distinction.
AI as a tool on your phone that you can opt in and out,
like on Siri, you don't have to take
the GPT extension to Siri. You can say, no, no, no, I just want Siri and I don't have to take the GPT extension to Siri.
You can say, no, no, no, I just want Siri and I don't want anything to happen.
You can do that.
What Musk is saying is if they integrate it with the OS, meaning when you get those notices
on your phone, it's time to upgrade to 14.6, it'll be done tonight, it has to download,
you know what I'm saying?
So he says if it's in there, then it's permeating the phone and Musk's argument is you have
no personal data security.
That is Musk's specific argument.
I particularly think he's right.
Larry Ellison thinks he's right too, but wants us to go lightly.
But get what he's saying, Pat.
That's what he's saying.
If you put OpenAI into the OS where it kind of controls and does everything, that's bad.
If you merely put chat GPT in there and you can use it if you want to, maybe that's good.
What did Ellison say?
So Ellison is quietly backing up Musk because when Musk speaks on this, you know he's conferred
with Larry.
I have not seen direct quotes from Larry, but Larry is on record about OSes versus tools.
I mean, he built the big data.
Let me ask you a question.
How is Ellison's relationship with Tim Cook?
Well, Ellison's a database guy, so Oracle does compete with Apple on a certain level,
but Oracle is actually more worried about large database like Google and Microsoft.
If you look...
I'm just curious, are Larry Ellison and Tim Cook friends?
Tom, I'm just asking you, don't worry about looking it up.
Like from what you know, do you know if they're friends or?
I think they're colleagues, but I've never seen like a big golden handshake on stage.
Okay, so there you go.
So then that means no.
Two years after the death of Steve Jobs, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed it was inevitable
Apple would struggle under Tim Cook.
You only have to look at what he said, what happened to the company in the period after
Jobs was ousted in 1985.
We already know, we conducted the experiment Ellison told, talk shows, Charlie Rose in
2013, his fingers,
okay, this is a very old story, this is 11 years ago.
But the point is, I think,
I wonder what the relationship is there.
I also wonder part of it, Tom,
where maybe, obviously, his relationship with Sam Altman,
would you say that's a good relationship
or a rocky relationship?
Well, I think they supported Sam during the board fiasco, but I think Sam is kind of running
down the street ahead of everybody right now.
Play this clip, Rob.
How much money did you give them?
So I'm not sure the exact number, but it's some number on the order of $50 million.
So, man, fate loves irony next level.
So I used to be close friends with Larry Page, and I would stay at his house, and we'd have
these conversations long into the evening about AI.
And I would be constantly urging him to be careful about the danger of AI
and he was really not concerned about the danger of AI
and was quite cavalier about it.
At the time, Google, especially after their acquisition
of DeepMind, had three quarters of the world's AI talent.
They had obviously a lot of computers and a lot of money.
So it was a unipolar world for AI.
And we've got a unipolar world, but the person who controls that does not, or at least did
not seem to be concerned about AI safety.
That sounded like a real problem.
And then the final straw was Larry calling me a speciest for being pro-human consciousness
instead of machine consciousness.
And I'm like, well, yes, I guess I am.
I am a speciest.
So, right, so you helped to the creation of OpenAI.
You put as much as $50 million.
I want to read this.
Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI accusing Char chat gbt owner of abandoning mission.
This is a different story.
He is accusing Sam Altman of abandoning the original mission of development AI for the
benefit of humanity not for profit.
The lawsuit alleged that open AI set the founding agreement aflame by releasing chat gbt 4 and
focused nonprofit Musk sought to compel OpenAI
to make its research public and prevent it from using assets like ChatGBT-4 for financial
gain.
Attorneys for Musk requested the dismissal of the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court
without providing a reason, but it was dismissed without prejudice, meaning Musk could refile
it later.
OpenAI attorneys described the lawsuit as a contrived attempt by Musk to advance his
own AI interests, arguing it was based on incoherent claims and Musk's desire to capitalize
on OpenAI's success.
Okay, so question on this, Tom.
Do you think behind closed doors, didn't he just raise $6 billion?
Yeah, right there.
Okay, Musk, so that's right.
So Musk founded his own AI startup, XAI, which raised $6 billion in Series B funding in May,
reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion.
Okay, so do you think behind closed doors, there were certain promises and negotiations
made between Elon and maybe Tim Cook and maybe others and maybe the speed of
implementation that maybe the deals are not being kept that's kind of pissing
them off the way it is or do you think it's just very exactly what we see
exactly what we read that's what it's all about? Yeah and I'll go through it
really really quick Musk said at the end of that interview something that he had
repeated before he said I thought that the only thing that could compete with Google was a massively open AI where everything was open and all the
tools would be available for everybody. He said that that would blunt Google's
black box for profit. So you can see what he felt there about Larry Page saying, no,
no, no, the only thing that can defeat Google is this, go open, go big and open.
Then he goes with, after the big, the weekend from hell where, you know, they fired, you
know, Sam Altman for a minute, but then he came back and, and even Elon Musk was putting
in the weight in there saying, hey, there's motivations on that board, they shouldn't
have done this and things like that.
I think he wanted OP&DA to go down a certain path.
I also think Elon has a competitive element, because he's building things.
FSD, full self-driving, is AI.
That is a fairly sophisticated form of AI.
He's building that into all the Tesla,
and he's gotten FSD to be better than these taxi things, some of them are having to be closed down
because it doesn't work so much. So I think there's a competitive element as well. Yeah, Adam? Well,
a couple of things. So just to go back to the Tesla thing, because the Tesla thing is the biggest
thing out there. AI, we understand, and I have some comments on that. But today's the day that they're going to be
holding this shareholder vote, right? So the question that is going to be asked of shareholders
is, does Elon Musk deserve this $46 billion? We talked about this last week. Today's the day.
So here's some details of this pay package. The shareholders are going to have a vote
and they're going to decide what should be done here. Here's some feedback for you. Just
talk about how casual Elon Musk is. If you just look at his Twitter, this is on the Wall
Street Journal as well. He goes, Hey guys, please take a moment to vote for your Tesla
shares before the annual meeting on Thursday. Pretty casual. And then Kathy Wood, we know, Ark Investments, she basically says, she lays it all out.
Here it is.
She goes, look, I'd like to argue that no other executive is as aligned with shareholders
as Elon Musk, who committed to ready, no salary, no bonus, no stock compensation for 10 years. Ten years he took nothing and said I'm gonna bet on myself and he would receive no money unless he created
Tremendous value for Tesla. So I'll let you guys be the judge judge of this
You tell me if this guy created massive value for Tesla. So if you want to go back to 2018 six years ago
53 billion dollars was the market cap when he did this deal and put this whole
thing together, I guess. $53 billion. The market cap, the stock price at that point
was $20. Fast forward to today, the market cap is $600 billion. It used to be $53 billion.
Now it's $600 billion. Stock price of today is $ 183. I think at one point Tom, correct me was over a trillion dollar
Market cap, it's obviously come down some since 2023. They've had a bad quarter
But if you just want to look at the actual facts here this dude bet on himself took no money took
No salary took no bonus took no compensation other than give me stock options, give me equity in the company, let me go to work. Did he earn it? Yes or no? Obviously he did. And what's going to happen is
this is in Delaware, I believe, because a lot of corporations incorporate in Delaware. Do you hear
what he said? He goes, if they rule against me, I don't think any corporation should ever go
incorporate in Delaware again. Two things here real fast. A 15% bonus would be completely reasonable bonus.
That's what he's asking for. And you don't like the number because it sounds so mammoth. But that's
all you're giving him. You're giving him like a 15-17% bonus over that amount of time where he took
no bonus. The second thing that's being voted on today, ladies and gentlemen, is moving the
incorporation to Texas. That is in front of the shareholders today, it's one of, I think, four motions or nominated elements that the shareholders are voting on.
Yeah.
A major screw up on Delaware, because Delaware, everybody would go and talk to pretty much
majority of the people that when you wanted to incorporate a business, they would say,
you should do it in Delaware.
You should do it in Delaware.
The laws are good.
You should do it in Delaware.
Not anymore.
This is a bad look for Delaware. Not up in here. No. This is a bad look for Delaware. Should do it in Delaware. Should do it in Delaware. Not anymore. This is a bad look for Delaware. No, this is a bad look for Delaware. Okay, so let's go to the next
story. Next story I want to go to is Hunter Biden. Rob, if you can pull up the Hunter
Biden story for us to go through it. What page do we have it on? There we go. Jury.
Okay, so we haven't even reacted. I feel like it's been only a couple days, but it's been
a while since we haven't done a podcast. Let's go to page five. Here we go. Jury finds Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, has been found guilty on three felony charges
related to his illegal firearm purchase in 2018. Hunter pleads not guilty in October
following his indictment by special counsel David Weiss, and the federal trial revolved around his purchase of an illegal firearm while allegedly addicted to drugs.
He is now convicted of two counts pertaining to false statements in buying the firearms
for writing that he was not addicted to drugs on a federal gun purchase, and a third count
of obtaining a firearm while addicted to drugs.
This is the first time in American history that the son of a president faces a criminal trial. Vinny. Well, first of all, I think I'm so excited and happy
that they actually went this far. I don't think he'll do any jail time because of his father,
because his father could still pardon him, especially when Joe's up. But I think this is
showing us, Pat, that this is the end of Joe Biden. I don't know if you guys have been paying
attention.
They've been protecting Hunter Biden for how long?
For how long?
Everybody knows who the hell he is.
Everybody knows about the laptop.
We're not stupid.
They're letting the story come out, Tom,
because I feel like they're slowly giving up on Joe Biden.
The shift is happening right now.
They're letting him speak in public.
I sent Rob a video.
He is the worst. I think I've seen him with stuttering. They're letting him speak in public. I sent Rob a video. He is the
worst, I think I've seen him with stuttering. They're putting him on the public. I don't think
that they're giving him any of the drugs that they probably allegedly give him to keep him up
and running. All the business dealings are coming out. There was a thing that came out on CNN that
said all the business dealings with Haley Biden, a couple other family members, a grand kid.
They had like a couple millions of dollars with Ukraine and China.
All those stories are coming out.
And I think it's just so stupid as well.
Joe Biden was speaking the day his son Hunter got these three felony charges.
Guess where Joe Biden was?
He was speaking and trying to preach to us about gun control and gun violence.
This isn't it.
But this is just a video. And this is going back to my point, Pat.
The left is starting to shift, and guys, I'm not saying take this to the bank, this is
my opinion, Tom, and the next month or two, they're going to, because all the business
dealing stuff is going to come out with them, they're going to shift off of him, and don't
be surprised, they have the countdown to hot swap.
Exactly, Tom.
It's going to be the new some Michelle
Something big is gonna happen too because just just as him speaking this weekend and then the other one is the Juneteenth celebration
Look at how back to this will come back. Think tight. We're gonna come back to this Rob
Can you do me favor on this specific story? Yeah, so I want you to see this. This is CNN a while back
That's not a while back. This is like a couple months ago play this clip first
Then what is the other CNN clip
that you have, Rob, the one that's on page nine?
That's where they talk about Hunter Biden
and Joe Biden's mortgages being paid
from foreign countries.
Is it recent story?
Is that a recent one?
Yeah, it's pretty recent.
Can you play the most recent one?
Because this is a few months old.
So play the other one that you have, the CNN page,
you know which one I'm talking about, the one that's on page nine, clip nine.
Go for it, play this clip.
Watch this.
Biden would actually pardon Hunter Biden, despite him saying pretty honestly.
Yes, as a father he would.
Disturb him.
But he knows that he's not going to be convicted.
He did not say that about the trial in September because there, the stakes are much higher.
He's accused of tax evasion and the money on which he failed to pay taxes came from
foreign sources and is linked to influence buying.
In other words, to buy the influence of his father.
Bingo on CNN a week ago.
They can actually track the payments to various Biden members, including payments for Joe
Biden's mortgage payments.
Just to be clear, there's actually not any evidence linking any of Hunter Biden's wrongdoings
to Joe Biden.
You are incorrect.
You are incorrect.
We have the bank statements that have been presented in the House of Representatives.
Because he paid back a loan to help buy a car from his debt?
No, because he routinely pays Joe Biden's household bills.
This has been—look, if Republicans had that evidence that you were suggesting—
They do.
—they would have impeached him by now, and they haven't.
Jamal—
No, I want the audience to know that they do have it.
By the way, this is a week ago of her saying it on CNN.
I love that.
Play the Tapper clip that Tapper has to say that she's not mega
And Tapper has to say the most painful words play this clip
Kessler from the was zooming a little bit right had a fact check about Joe Biden from earlier this month
Noting that hunter Biden admitted in court in July that he was in fact paid substantial sums from Chinese companies
court in July that he was in fact paid substantial sums from Chinese companies. Kessler wrote, Hunter Biden reported nearly 2.4 million in income in 2017 and 2.2 million
in income in 2018, most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.
And this directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump.
Take a listen. My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.
Once you became president, he made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow, and various other places.
So it's from two different debates, but he has to say the words.
Trump was right. There you go.
Oh my God, that must hurt, huh? That must hurt and so going back to my point, Pat, the shift is happening right now.
This is the the month where everything is starting to shift. The stories are coming out and just off that story of Jake Tapper,
the Biden family, so it was Hunter, Jim, Sarah, Haley and the grandchild
holding 18 million dollars plus from foreign sources since Biden was vice president.
Okay, it's slowly starting to happen. He's falling apart. The laptop being
introduced as actual evidence and I don't think people understand the amount
of stuff that's on the laptop is insane and it's gonna start coming out and the
next two months I think they're gonna shift off them. And it was FBI, the
current FBI, AIC, agent in charge, that testified in court that the
laptop is real.
This is not some news report speculation.
This was raise your hand and testify.
So number one.
Number two is I don't think they're allowing, I'm a little deeper than you.
I don't think that on one point, I don't think they're allowing him to speak in public.
I think they're sending him to speak in public. I think they're sending him to speak in public.
And I think they want the buzz.
And by the way, check this out.
So the video, now this leads me into this.
Rob, play the video that you had a minute ago, right there.
This is from when, by the way?
This is this past weekend.
Okay.
Yeah, he was at a Juneteenth celebration.
So he's at a Juneteenth celebration.
Watch this clip and then I'm going to give you another clip and tell me if something
looks weird in the other clip. Go ahead, Rob.
You know, he knew so long as I was alive that our freedom can never be secured. That's the Now Rob, go to the clip that everybody on the internet is reacting to.
This is Ed Krasenstein that we had on the podcast.
When is this?
Well, no, he just posted this two days ago. Okay. Okay. People are now claiming that Joe Biden has a different skin color on his neck
The absurdities never stop. Okay, play this clip and just watch
Is that you have to talk the same way?
Look at the neck and the market is that if you have all of the tax breaks, essentially all the tax breaks,
all of the benefits flowing to the top one tenth of one percent, including going back
to the Great Depression.
And so one of the things that worries me most about that, John, is not just that.
Is that AI creation?
Now close it.
Now go to the comment section, okay? What is that? Is that AI creation? What there is? Now close it. Close it.
Now go to the comment section.
Okay?
Zoom in and say something for sure is going on, bro.
Explain this, right?
Go a little lower.
It's the lighting.
And the shadow.
And the shadow is color.
It's definitely not lighting.
Okay, keep going lower.
Keep going lower.
Keep going lower.
Keep going lower.
Keep going lower.
You'll see more.
This one here.
What would you call it? Go to the bottom one with the picture. What would you call it? Okay? So go a little lower. You'll see more. This one here. What would you call it? Go to the bottom
one with the picture. What would you call it? Okay. So go a little lower. Go a little
lower. Now, and then look at this one here. This is the worst one. What is that?
That doesn't look like it.
What is that? That's not, that doesn't give me AI vibes because it's moving, Tom. So if
you go back up at the top, Rob, and play the clip again when the neck is moving,
let it just move.
Yeah, keep it moving along.
Watch this.
All of the tax breaks, essentially all of the tax breaks, all of the benefits flowing
to the top one-tenth of one percent.
There's never been a concentration of wealth, including going back to the Great Depression.
So you can pause it here now.
Few years ago, 10 years ago, I had somebody very interesting on the podcast.
Her name was Jonah Mendez.
If you can pull up who Jonah Mendez is, Jonah Mendez was the former disguise officer of
the CIA okay and her job was to make you know different types of
masks of people to make it look real do me a favor Rob if you can't go back go
back to where you were at yeah and go to the top where you googled her name and
type in Bush just type in Bush and then go to images yeah right there and then
go to images she's standing next to Bush, holding a mask, it's the one right there Rob, go a little
bit to the left of the image, the big one you put up, no the big one you put up, meaning
like it's to the left.
Rob right there, it's right in the middle of the screen.
Right in the middle of the screen Rob, no Rob, right there, okay, zoom in a little bit
on that picture. That's her showing the entire time she's talking to Bush, she had a mask on, and Bush didn't
recognize her until she took it off.
And she says, no, that wasn't me.
That was the mask we made.
And by the way, this mask that Jonah Mendez made was when President Bush was president.
How long ago was it when President Bush was president. How long ago was it when
President Bush was president?
Oh my God.
Senior, what year is it? Tom?
80?
88 to 92?
Yeah, no, uh, yeah.
88 to 92.
88 to 92.
So, because Clinton was 92 to...
To 2000, and then 2001, which is George Bush, right? So, how much better you think we've gotten at making these masks from then to now forget it
How much better you think we've gotten better at that right?
So 500 times yeah when I had a run and she told me she was the chief disguise officer of CIA
And how she would made her and her team would make these types of masks and I would ask her I said how many
Doubles are there are there doubles you'd be surprised What do people do people do for Saddam Hussein double? All these other people doubles.
Some people are claiming, allegedly, that that is a double. Because there's no way on
one end, let's do this one more time because we didn't even pay attention that we were
looking at the guy's neck. Rob, can you go back to the clip of President Biden mumbling? You know the
one that you put up, the first one you put up? So this is President Biden mumbling. Just
listen to him speaking and see if this sounds normal. Play this clip.
You know, he knows so long as he was denied, our freedom can never be secured.
Okay, you can pause it right there. Now go to the other clip of people reacting to saying there's no way this is the same
man and see how he speaks in this clip.
Audio.
You have to write the market a little bit here.
And the market is that if you have all of the tax breaks, all of the benefits flowing
to the top, one tenth of one percent.
You can pause it.
Listen, to me, my eyes, one is not like the other.
Something sounds strange and this is her.
Is this her talking about how she made it, Rob?
Play this clip.
Go forward.
Back to our Disguise Labs out at Langley and we invented a whole new genre of masks. Masks that are so good, that are so realistic,
that you can actually get up close
and have a personal contact with someone
for an extended period of time.
They're good enough that you can brief
the President of the United States
in the Oval Office wearing a mask.
And he isn't sure if it's you or if it's someone else.
Those masks were the beginning of a whole new generation
of work that we did at the CIA.
Once we could make these masks that fit you so well,
then we discovered we could make a twin.
We could make another you.
There could be two of you.
This is the chief disguise officer of the CIA.
Usually one extra was all we needed.
So we will respond to questions.
God bless you all and may God protect our troops.
But that's only the tip of the iceberg.
As longtime CIA lawyer John Rizzo tells it, the relationship between the spy agency and
La La Land is quite cozy.
In his new book, Company Met.
I sent Rob two separate videos on Slack.
And brother, this isn't a conspiracy.
The technology is there.
This is the head girl at the CIA. Just look at Joe Biden
throughout the years. Look how different, like, Bob, look at that guy compared to
that guy. Are you kidding? Guys, don't lie to yourself. That does not look like the
same guy. And there was one when he was playing with John Kirby, his chin, it was
a double chin. Then he has a different chin. And now with the nut chin. The nut
chin, the ball chinian. It just looks like I understand people age and
they get different faces but this is ridiculous this is just I don't know for
a fact what's going on but what I do know what I do know is that when I
interviewed the former chief disguise officer of the CIA yeah she specifically
told me that they made these masks so good This is 30 years ago that it fooled the leader of the free world
George Bush senior that's so if it can fool a man
That one out of billions of people becomes a president if it can fool the leader of billions of people
Don't you think it can fool the average day to day people?
100%?
Yeah, it's the same person.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
I'm just, you know, it just looks a little bit weird here.
Adam.
So what's the question?
Hunter Biden?
Is there multiple Joe Biden?
There's no question.
I have any thoughts on the whole conversation?
What's the point?
I guess my first question would be if Joe Biden can do it, could Donald Trump do it? Because he was also the president.
He probably has access to any of this. So look, I might not be in the majority here.
Actually, this might be controversial. I actually think there's only one Joe Biden. I actually
think there's only one Donald Trump. I think Joe Biden is a gaffe machine. I think he has
a stutter. I think he makes a lot of mistakes. I think-
What do you think that next is? What do you think that neck? I don't know. But if you
told me that there was going to be a situation where we were talking about skin color on
a president's face and neck, I'd be like, oh, we're talking about orange Donald Trump.
No, there's something going on in his neck. I don't know. It is weird. Stay on that. Stay
on that. Stay on that. Stay on that. But let me be super clear here.
Hang on a second. Stay on that. Stay on that.
So you said, you know, then that means there could be a double with Trump.
I guess there could be a double of anybody if that's what we're gonna do.
So no problem. So think about why, if we play speculation game, okay?
Do you think there's ever been any leader that had a double around the world?
I think there's plenty of leaders that have body doubles.
My one question is, are they the one giving speeches?
Right, so that's where it goes to.
So watch this.
Do you think President Trump has shown any signs of not being able to communicate his
message clearly?
No.
Speaking is not his biggest problem. Exactly. Some of
the words that comes out of his mouth, you might argue, could be a problem. He's a very
gifted speaker and marketer. So do you think President Trump, even at this age of 78, has
a hard time clearly delivering his message to the people? The answer is what? No. Okay. Do you think President Joe Biden
used to be able to deliver his message better, but today he does not know how to deliver
his message in a clear fashion?
Clearly he has fallen off.
No problem.
But I will say that I don't think he's ever been an eloquent speaker. It's not like we're
talking about JFK or Obama and all of a sudden he fell off.
I'll give you a video in a minute. I'll find it and I'll give it to Rob to see.
You will not recognize that these two are the same.
He's always had a reputation of plagiarism
since Johnny Carson days.
He's always had a reputation of duplicating
and doing what other people's speeches are saying.
It's fine.
But he used to be a good communicator.
So the reason, again, we're playing speculation game.
If somebody was to bring a double,
would be for what reasons?
If one were to do it, what would it be for?
For Biden or for general?
No, general, anybody.
One would be protection, is that fair to say?
Yeah, for sure.
Where it's kind of like,
but protection, you're just walking, right?
So it's not like you're in a public, you're like,
look, we don't wanna have the president walk
and let's have somebody else walk.
So one would be protection.
What would be another reason why you would want to have a body double?
You could be two places at the same time.
You can cover a track.
What else?
Maybe you can, hey, listen, this guy ain't ready to give a speech today.
Get this guy out there.
He can give the fake speech, give the fake Joe Biden out there, do all that.
So again, I'm not sitting here telling you that is the case or not.
I'm purely speculating if there were.
The chief disguise officer of the CIA just tells you we have such great advancement that
we can make the face look so good that you can talk, and it's the same exact person.
It gives you a little bit of concern to say, is this really happening?
Especially after all of a sudden says, hey, tough guy, June 27, I beat you twice, I'll
beat you again.
Debate all this other stuff.
I don't know.
I think there's some reason for people to be skeptical.
I don't know if I'm there right now, but I think there's some reason for people to be
skeptical.
You're an odds guy, and I know you want to move on real quick.
Odds that he has this fake body double.
What percentage?
Tom? 100%. 100%? I know you want to move on real quick odds that he has this fake body double what percentage Tom
100% 100% they've been using they've been using doubles and you can
Double since Reagan I'm saying getting out there and giving speeches
Specifically, they've been using doubles since Reagan. And so in those 40 years, is it possible? They've progressed it all the way that the guy could pull off a speech? Yes. You know, you can really dive into the State of the Union speech.
Tom has never said 100%.
I am so impressed.
You can really dive into the State of the Union speech.
You don't really give yourself a lot of wiggle room.
I think 100% with Tom. I know you guys, Tom, Adam hates when I say 100%. I think 100% body double,
obviously, because even celebrities have body doubles.
I don't think, I believe that that is not the same Joe Biden because from his earlobes
to everything from his chin, that's not the same.
From the window to the wall, that is definitely not Joe Biden.
There's a movie, there's a movie in 1993 called Dave.
Did you ever see Dave?
Where the president is with a girl and has a heart attack.
They find the guy that looks just like him and he and he changes the system and everything like that's called Dave
I want to have a fun little exercise with you quick because I already have a vote with yeah a bet with with Tom
Yes, and you pretty much went out there and said that there's the the switch is in the flip is in so let's just have the
Vote already a Tom and I have a vote that I believe whether it's for good or for bad,
these Dems, they're riding with Biden. Straight up. They're basically saying, one of them,
they're basically saying, you know what, we think we can beat Trump. We're good or for
bad. There's a lot of people out there probably being like, these idiots are actually sticking
with Biden. But Vegas hasn't moved much since the indictment. The polls are actually pretty close.
The DNC is August 19th.
The RNC is July 15th.
So I think Trump's going to be the guy.
We all know that.
I don't think he's going to go to jail.
We can have a conversation.
You're pretty pretty pretty confident.
They're going to flip out.
Do the switches in whether it's Obama, Michelle Obama, whether it's, whether it's Gavin, you know, this. So, all
right, let's like, let's make the bet by the DNC. They're going to do the switch. How much
we put on it?
Well, hold on. Cause we already have a $500 bet on that. He's going to go on Rogan and
$500 bet on. So we have a thousand McGregor, Conor McGregor. Yeah. But this is specifically
on Joe Biden. I don't want to make the, bet. Let's go get to the point like we gotta go
Hundred bucks that's we all right, so let's go through this. All right. So here we go next story next story we got is
What do we do so far? We did Musk we did Hunter. Okay, pull up the clip from Joe from Nancy Pelosi
Pull up the clip from Nancy Pelosi
Very soon we're gonna to have a sponsor that's going to be DraftKings.
We've got to put our money where our mouth is.
Or stole a Chenaya.
This is her in January 6.
Watch this.
This is her by the deposit.
So let's preface what this is, Vinny.
Her daughter is in the backseat recording all this.
And mind you, there's been speculation like she had two conversations, two of the same exact conversations.
They recorded it. This is all supposed to be like a documentary from her daughter recording.
But little did they know that she admits something here at the end of this.
Oopsie. Oopsie.
We have responsibility, Terry. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have.
This is ridiculous.
You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing,
but they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police?
I mean, the National Guard?
Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?
They thought that they had sufficient. No, there's not a question of how they have made they don't know
They clearly didn't know and I take responsibility
For not having them just prepare for more. She's taking
Responsibility for them not being there and being prepared for more and let's just very quickly Oh, you want to show this one? Yeah, of course show this one. This is her responding to the video. Is that what it is?
Okay, go ahead the same day go
The fact is that the president of the United States the former president and his
Toadies do not want to face the facts. They're trying to do revisionist history on
January 6th. But we cannot let us be dragged into their, again, false impression of what
happened that day. They know what happened that day. The fact is that the-
Okay. So, and again, and again, it it just like you said about common sense and people and and
Information it just takes time we January 6. Okay, and this is member the ex-police chief of Capitol Police
Steven Sun he said the FBI the Department of Homeland Security and the military all knew
January 6 was going to be insane. It was gonna be chaotic
military all knew January 6 was going to be insane. It was going to be chaotic. They had intelligence warning them of violence and the intelligence was not shared with him because they
wanted it to be a shit show. Okay. And then add to the fact that the FBI had, you know, FBI sources,
even Antifa was dressed up in MAGA gear. They were changing. they were inside. This was January 6th was a trap. It was a setup.
They, like, Ray Epps, Ray Epps was not only caught on camera time, he was the number one
instigator of the riot.
He was at the first breach and what did he get?
He got a misdemeanor and he's going to do no jail time.
Okay, everybody else that was there got 20 years.
They're still arresting people, they're arresting veterans who are outside holding flags.
And I'm happy.
I hope something comes up about this, because they all knew.
But they wanted it to become what it did,
so they could go after everybody,
because they don't want anybody going to Washington.
Tom, how big of a deal is this?
How big of a deal is this?
Nancy Pelosi?
Yeah.
This is a pretty big deal.
On a 1 to 10, I give it about a 7,
because it just shows how much, just like
the Steele dossier, just like Russia, that as time goes by, things are leaking out and
the narrative that they tried to pin on Trump isn't pinning. It's coming undone. The thread's
coming undone for one simple reason. He was anti-establishment, they are establishment,
and they're trying to protect the home field on that.
And now you're seeing from Hillary to Pelosi, it's all coming out.
Adam.
So we're trying to establish how much accountability and responsibility is on Nancy Pelosi versus
Trump.
What are we solving for right now?
Well, I think from what we're seeing, Adam, she was claiming, you know, she had no idea
and everything.
Donald Trump was authorizing thousands of troops.
She was the one from what the chief of police, Stephen Sun said, they didn't want it.
They wanted it to be chaotic.
They wanted it to be exactly what they wanted to, to go after everybody, to make it seem
as something as it wasn't.
I don't disagree with you.
I just look, the most important thing that we're going to have coming up is election
November 5th.
Anytime you bring up anything with the Capitol, anytime you bring up anything with that insurrection,
do you think that benefits the Republicans or you think that benefits the Democrats?
I'll answer it for you.
It's definitely not going to help Trump.
And when you're talking about January 6th, most people have made up their mind.
There was a poll out there in the CBS this weekend.
You know, if you trust CBS, let's give that disclaimer and you trust polls.
Sunday morning, this was, do you think the FBI operatives organized and encouraged the
January 6th insurrection?
Forty-eight percent of Americans, this is from the Washington Post, can't trust them,
we know that.
Of course.
And the University of Maryland poll, margin of error, 4%. 48% of Americans said that probably
are definitely false that the FBI operatives organized or encouraged it. So almost 50% said
nah, the FBI didn't organize it. Guys, this is a poll.
Yeah, okay.
26% says, listen, not sure, can't really tell you one way or the other.
And 25% said definitely you're probably true. So you'd be obviously in that camp that the FBI
for sure was part of this for sure. Exactly. Christopher Ray, he was in front of Congress
and he goes, I can't say he 100% there was FBI agents on the ground. Vinny, I'm with you. So
you're in that camp where I'm just letting you know that half of America doesn't think that way a court of America is with you and a court of America
It's like yeah, I'm not really sure. What's my point? You're gonna talk about January 6
Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing for Trump?
To be personally if it's a with stuff like that coming out
It's a good thing because the word insurrection never happened
You mean to tell me all those people came over to take over the government and no one of them had a gun. So I
see where you're going with this. I just don't think it helps Trump. So I guess the way you're
positioning it is kind of like the clip we played from earlier when Kevin Spacey says,
I was on the plane and there was little girls there and that's why I never supported Jeffrey Epstein, right? Okay that information
Does not help the Clintons
Because it validates that there were young girls on the plane that were teens on the plane
She just a very famous celebrity just validated that there was teens there
You're right that is not good to bring you back up
validated that there was teens there. You're right. That is not good to bring you back up. But in this case, she is saying she's the reason I take responsibility. In this
case, it helps Trump. It doesn't hurt Trump. It helps him and it hurts Nancy Pelosi because
all the stuff that we were told, insurrectionist, and look what they've done and all this other
stuff.
Yeah, so guess what?
Now we know who was behind it that didn't allow protection to come as soon as possible
because she wanted chaos.
Yeah, I mean, look, there's blame to go around.
I'm sure politics is ugly and we're seeing sort of how the sausage is made.
What did Trump do?
What did Pelosi do?
There's enough blame to go around.
I'm just from a macro perspective.
By the way, what percentage of Americans do you think are going to see that clip?
Percentage of Americans?
15, 20 percent.
You know, you don't need every, no, it's not even that.
It's less than that.
But the point is-
It's not going to go viral.
Nobody is going to talk about this.
You don't need that many people.
I just don't think talking about January 6th helps Trump.
All that's going to help is when his trial comes up.
That's not how life works, Adam.
If you were accused of doing something that you never did, you have no problem, as many
people talking about it, if you know for a fact you never did it.
You want that to be talked about if you never did it, especially if more proof is coming that you didn't do it. Trust me. You want that well, we trust me that community
Who was accused of that wants that well, so a part of it helps him doesn't hurt
I don't disagree last point when you see and quote me on this
hundreds of millions of dollars of ads that hit the airways this summer
and this fall before the election of the greatest insurrection clips ever of Confederate flags
in the Capitol that Robert E. Lee and Stowell Jackson weren't able to do.
They were in there of our buddy that we interviewed.
What's his name?
The QAnon shaman.
When you see people smashing,
fighting police, when you see hundreds of million dollars worth of ads replaying the
highlights of January 6th, ask yourself, does that help Trump or hurt Trump? It ain't going
to help Trump.
Yeah. Again, that part with logic, if it's showing to redeem a person 100% it helps him.
Similar to what you said earlier on today's podcast.
You said, I almost fell for Kevin Spacey.
He is that good of an actor.
Just like I fell for what?
Russia collusion.
And now do you think the Russia collusion
was an accurate statement
or they were manipulating to her
Trump?
They were definitely manipulating.
This is the same exact thing with J6.
And I see exactly what you're doing.
The only difference is January 6 actually happened.
No, no.
But no, it's not January.
It's happened.
I'm not calling it an insurrection.
I'm saying the ugliness of it all.
But that's, no, no, no, no, no.
But what you just said is a, like, listen, you go and you hook up with a girl.
No, no, no. No, no, hang on, hang on. Let's not use, like listen, you go and you hook up with a girl.
Okay?
No, no, no.
No, no, hang on, hang on.
Let's not use this analogy, no?
I don't want to use this analogy.
You go hook up with a girl.
And imagine somebody keeps saying, no, you raped her.
No, no, you raped her.
So was there sex between you and the girl?
No.
Yes.
No.
If there was sex between you and the girl, one can say it's what?
Consensual.
One can say it's what? Rape.
Okay? There is a big difference. Meaning, was there a rally with millions of people,
not millions, thousands of people that were not happy that Trump lost because they felt
that holding back the New York Post story was manipulation? Yes. But is that an insurrection?
No. There's a big difference between a rally and an insurrection. Yes. But is that an insurrection? No, there's a big difference
between a rally and an insurrection. And that difference is called a crime. So in this case,
when she finally says this, no, this is saying that she was responsible for the crime.
I'm with you, but as I see this stat, I have to point out the obvious. Our audience, 94%
believes the FBI was involved in instigating the insurrection.
I love our audience, respect, say what you want to say. You know, all the lovely comments
are out there.
That's not even what I'm, by the way, the national polls say 50%.
Not a single thing I've said.
I'm not talking about what you said, I'm saying about that poll right there.
What I'm saying to you, I don't care about the Fed stuff. I'm not talking about what you said. I'm saying about that pole right there. I'm saying I don't care about the fed stuff
I'm not talking about the fed stuff. I'm talking about the
Qualification of award being used you had sex with the girl. No, you raped her
Those are two the intercourse happened, but one was consensual one was forced. Did you hold a rally?
Yes, why did you hold it? We were not happy with the results, one was forced. Did you hold a rally? Yes.
Why did you hold it?
We were not happy with the results, but was there insurrection?
No.
They let us in and they didn't even want, she didn't even want to.
The qualification and the definition of the two words are different.
And by the way, very quickly as we've learned in the last few years, 64%, whatever the number
was, majority of America, Rob, can you pull up the stat on
JFK assassination?
The trust in JFK assassination over the years, okay, there's a poll for it, where it says,
you know, 80% of the public believed the fact that it was Harvey Oswald, and then that's
gone down to numbers where now people realize the number one person that they think was
behind the killing of JFK was who?
The government.
And it's changed.
How many years did that take?
It doesn't matter.
It's how long it takes for- Well, no.
You've got six months to convince the general public that January 6th was actually a good
thing.
This helped.
I agree.
But it needs to happen quick.
This took 60 years.
I get that.
But today there was no social media then.
Today there's social media, so it moves much quicker. Alright, Rob, let's go to the last story. Florida, there was no social media then. Today there's social media. Things move much quicker.
Alright Rob, let's go to the last story.
Florida, Russia, what the hell is going on there?
So if you have a clip, so here's a clip.
So Russian warship in Cuba are no threat.
USS.
Alright, no problem.
So this is a few hours ago.
US officials have played down Wednesday's arrival of four Russian naval vessels in Cuba for military drills.
The visit of the vessels, which include a nuclear-powered submarine, not a big deal,
I mean it's just a nuclear-powered submarine and a frigate, have been seen as a show of
force amid Moscow's tensions with the West over the war in Ukraine.
They are anchored at the Havana Bay, some 90 miles from the
US state of Florida.
We of course take it seriously, but these exercises don't pose a threat to the United
States.
The Russian moves are consistent with the routine naval visits that we've seen under
different administrations, press secretary Sabrina Singh added.
Russia's defense ministry says Admiral Gorshkov
of Frigate and the Kazan submarine are both carriers of advanced weapons, including hypersonic
missiles Zircon.
They earlier conducted missile drills in the Atlantic.
But Cuba's foreign ministry says none of the vessels have nuclear arms on board, and
their five-day visit does not pose a threat to the region.
Obviously, we have to sit there and believe that. missiles have nuclear arms on board, and their five-day visit does not pose a threat to the region.
Obviously, we have to sit there and believe that.
But that just happened last night, folks, when you were asleep.
Russia shows up out of nowhere.
Tom, how normal is this?
Is this a tactic?
Is Putin trying to send a message?
What do you think this is?
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and they are basically, while Biden is president,
sailing right on by into Cuba and making their point.
We can do whatever we want.
This is a result of weak leadership in the United States.
And now you have the US government saying,
oh, it's no threat, this stuff happens all the time.
And they're saying that because they don't want
to appear weak.
But if you think the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
and you think that really the US intelligence
and defense community underneath the covers like this
and think this is okay.
You're kidding yourself. This is not okay.
Well, this is scary stuff. We never want to hear Russia in Cuba. You know, 1960s, 1962,
I want to say JFK was the president right there. There was the Cuban missile crisis.
Fidel Castro, a communist socialist. Cuba was, this was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, communist socialist Cuba was
this is during the Cold War, everything but that was very scary.
You know, my father would tell me stories about how do you that would as a kids, they
would have to hide under their desks and everything like that.
Thank God, you know, these days, there's another a lot of kids have heard about other things
in school shootings out there.
And it's pretty unfortunate.
But back in the day, kids would literally have to hide under their desk for fear of
nuclear war.
And just the fact that this is happening, you know how far Cuba is from here?
90 miles from the south of Florida, from the Keys.
So scary, not a comforting feeling.
And I'm wondering the last time this happened, that's my first question.
And then look, Joe Biden, Russia and Ukraine,
war, Israel, Gaza. I think there's a new situation going on in Yemen that's been resurfaced.
We've seen what's happened in the withdrawal of Afghanistan. Look, I'll be critical of
Trump, but I'll also be critical of Biden. Weak, feckless leadership. This is kind of
shit that happens.
Yeah. And to all those idiots that were posting Ukrainian flags on your social media and those
stupid ass pins, how stupid do you feel right now?
Russia is literally going to be putting missiles, they're trying to put hypersonic missiles
to Cuba, which by the way, our missiles can't intercept, we don't even have that technology.
So I'm happy that everybody that was screaming that World War III nonsense, congratulations.
This is like out of the movie, right? October. That is the biggest F you. You want to talk about
Show of Fours, bro? That's 66 miles away. Rob, what'd you say? It turned into 25 miles?
They reported 25 miles off the coast of Key Largo, which is in the Keys.
Yeah, congratulations. Put another pin on your stupid ass shirt.
They're not going down there to get some contraband cohibas. No, no, they're not. Has the State Department or the Department of Defense made
a public statement about this? Because this is not something that we should just kind
of treat lightly and casually talk about. Is there actual a statement that's put out
them? They do what those guys are. I mean, they have no idea. They don't give a shit.
I just read it. I would hope that they give a shit. Well, Adam, but here's the thing.
Adam, it's a thing.
I would hope that they care about our country.
Adam, you follow the news.
The fact that you haven't seen it, and this has already been 24 hours, what does that
say?
We of course take this seriously, but these exercises don't pose a threat to the United
States.
It says the Pentagon.
Yeah, sure.
That's what I read earlier.
Yeah.
Do you believe that, Adam?
So, Pat?
Listen, for me, when I see some like this at the peak
Yeah at the peak of what they're going through right now Russia Ukraine is still going on
You got all these relationships and by the way a part of it has to do with
the fact that there were some weapons that were sent to
Used to attack Russia that were sent to, used to attack Russia, that were American weapons given to
Ukraine.
This is what the reaction is to.
I don't know where I read that.
But Rob, if you can find that, the fact that they're not happy that the US helped Ukraine
with certain weapons that have hit.
I'm trying to read the article, it says, National Security, Jake Solomon reported Wednesday
that the US is closely monitoring the Russian military
drills in the Atlantic, adding that there's no evidence of Russia's interference with
any missiles to Cuba.
Experts believe that the exercise is a show of force by Kremlin.
The warships are a reminder to Washington that it is unpleasant when an adversary meddles
in your near abroad, says Benjamin.
Anyways, I'm sure we're going to learn more about this later on today.
It also reminds Russian friends in the region, including U.S. antagonists Cuba and Venezuela,
that Moscow is on their side.
Russian ships and submarines have been docked in Havana since 2008.
As part of Russian military exercise, US officials say
they expect the latest round of vessels to remain in the region through the summer with
a possible stop scheduled in Venezuela.
What was that part thing in 2008? What was that?
They've had a vessel in Cuba since 2008.
Okay. Yeah. That's why I'm wondering how often this thing's happening. Because I know
they've had relations, there's communism and everything that's going on there. By the
way, you know who I do trust is the Miami Herald because they kind of vested interest in what's going on in Cuba because,
you know, 50% of our population down here is Cuban, Cuban political refugees. And the Miami
Herald does a great job of covering this. So I checked what they did this 24 hours ago,
Russian warships, nuclear submarine enter Havana. We are watching this as you are under watch by US destroyers.
So it's not like this is going unnoticed.
Let's just hope that cooler heads prevail.
All right.
Exercise.
Listen, Rob, I don't think we have a podcast tomorrow.
So this is the only podcast we're doing for the weekend.
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