PBD Podcast - Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick cover Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on Joe Rogan, Gavin Newsom's disasterous wildfire response, Steve Bannon goes to war with Elon Musk, and Trump helps free 33 Hamas hostages. 👕2025 INAUGURAL MERCH: https://bit.ly/4fSrX6W 🧢 NEW BOGO VT HATS: https://bit.ly/3Yyc3ZS 👕 GET THE LATEST VT MERCH: https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l 📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": https://bit.ly/41rtEV4 📰 VTNEWS.AI: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A 📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7 🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw 📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or 💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! SUBSCRIBE TO: @VALUETAINMENT @ValuetainmentComedy @theunusualsuspectspodcast @bizdocpodcast ABOUT US: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Alright, um, rap episode. I think I've already said this before. All right Rob episode what number are we on? 533 533 ok lots going on guys one good news to give to you guys last Tuesday was a Tuesday or Thursday Thursday we announced that any of the new gear that we had the limited offering that came out we were gonna put a hundred percent of it to California wildfire people who were affected by it due to you and your support that we had the limited offering that came out. We were gonna put 100% of it to California people who were affected by it. Due to you and your support, $108,000 was raised.

100% of what we sold that day will be going to families. A lot of people have already been monectomy. We wanna make these calls. I wanna FaceTime them and find ways to make these peoples, they slightly better. So if you have anybody else that's going through, we got a list of them right now. Some of them are even folks that we've known from Vinny has a couple friends that he is suggesting and anybody else you may know, you can connect to any one of us.

Vinny, Tom, Adam, myself, we want to make those calls fairly as soon as possible because some of them need the resources ASAP. So again, very happy about that taking place, $108,000 that we raised collectively together. Begin some of the stories here. Obviously there's a lot more things that are coming up with the LA wildfires. You saw the number right now, I think it's 24 total death toll I saw earlier this morning and I think the damages right now is $250 billion of damages and at the same time, the wins, I spoke to a bunch of friends yesterday,

the wins for today. Everyone's praying for this week on what's going to happen with the wins that are coming in. They're worried that it's going to get worse, but God willing everything's going to work out. There's a lot of different stories. I saw a story about Michael Johnson, the four-time gold medalist, the way he went about trying to protect his home. There's another insurance company, the story that came

out on December 16th. Wall Street Journal wrote about it and I looked at different ways of preventing this from happening in the future. New insurance company, because a lot of people are asking me, saying who do I go to? My insurance got canceled. We got a bunch of things with FIRED that we'll discuss here today. Stories on Newsome, stories on SHIF that we'll discuss here today stories on Newsome stories on shift stories on video stories on Karen Bass the mayor finally responding but an uncomfortable response Chloe Kardashian imagine you got almost a half a billion followers and Your your name your brand that you guys have built up together your Hollywood

Okay, and you're so sick of it that you finally said, I am flipping fed up that the market now reacts, how could you say something like this? And she's like, what are you talking about? This is insane. This is our livelihood. We're part of the city. We'll talk about that as well. Looters trying to capitalize with all the stuff that's going on.

There's videos all over the place with looters trying to get in. Still they see this as an opportunity and we'll definitely highlight what happened there in regards to another story of what happened with the money that they took back from Daily Caller, gay choirs, trans cafes and social justice art. What LA spent money on while cutting its fire budget. You tell me if that's a good idea. Insurance stocks tumble as LA fires threaten record losses. California bans insurance cancellation in LA fire affected areas. Trump trolls Harris by posting a parody conversation between him and Obama. It's pretty funny. You got to see it. By the way, let's just say in the future you have a job and you become a judge. Let's say you're a judge, okay?

Don't ever text a picture of a ankle bracelet, the monitor, the ankle monitor, as you showed me this earlier, right? Don't ever text that to the wrong person and then get in trouble for it and get fired. Again, just feedback for people, Rob, if you got the picture, I don't know if you have it or not, if you don't, this is called double dumb. A judge texts this to a friend, called him my very first ankle monitor, and it's a white judge. Text

this out. Right, Rob? Where's the story with the white judge? Vinnie will show me this earlier. Yeah, she's a Cook County judge, Carolyn Glennon Goodman. She was temporarily reassigned because this was leaked to the broader public last week. You know what I'd like to know? I'd like to know how many of this sold out. I'd like to know if it prompted like the product to sell out. No, Pat, they don't sell those. They don't sell those. You're joking. No, it's a meme that's been going around. Mike actually sent it to me. Oh, kidding. This tells you how connected I am to stuff like this. Okay You got that sense of humor is a very interesting system humor, but we got a laugh out of it

Yeah, all right Musk versus Bannon Steve Bannon lashes out at a billionaire says he should go back to South Africa that fight is really getting heated and He called he says Steve Bannon wants to take down the evil Racist Musk interesting. This is happening all while we're eight days away from the, what is it, inauguration, a few days away from the inauguration. There's a video Vinny just showed me of our current national security advisor Jake Sullivan. And when you watch this video folks, he's getting up there saying, this is probably the last time you'll speak, you'll hear me speak, but I don't even want to tell you what he says.

I want to get your reaction from it in the comments section. So wait till we play this clip for you. Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple on its lack of innovation and random rules. You know there's a book written, Choose Your Enemies Wisely. I wonder if that's the right enemy he's choosing. We'll see. In one US town, residents are legally required to own guns and ammo. Imagine you live in a city and they say,

do you have a gun? No, you're getting a ticket today, buddy. You gotta go buy a gun, right? That's how that city rolls. Okay, TMC Fort Quarter, TMSC, TSMC Fort Quarter profit sees jumping 58% of Mink's strong AI chip demand, and again this has to do with Taiwan.

We'll cover that. That's a Reuter story. Sono CEO, great first name, terrible ideas. Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch and they replace him with a new CEO. And I'm not surprised that's taking place. It's about time they're doing it, but I hope they fix some of the things we'll talk about. That American Airlines focus on ESG and 401K plan is illegal.

US judge rules. Thank God for that judge. Poll, only 16% of Americans say Disney content is better than it was in the past. We got a couple other stories that came up from the addendum la times owner says endorsing Karen Bass was a mistake due to due to Incompetence and then Gavin Newsom says already reimagining la 2.0. Oh wow Gavin So excited cow yeah la 2.0 folks. This is just reimagined what the 2.0 could look like post wildfires newer properties right about the

Just a strange way of selling it. He's got a Marshall plan to rebuild. It's all about a land grab This is a story that came out from sportskeeda Talking about Gavin Newsom's talks about potential property deals in LA following the wildfires Michael Cohen pleads For but please Biden property deals in LA following the wildfires. Michael Cohen pleads for Biden's presidential pardon. I'm somebody's son also. If you give it to your son, can I get it? Maduro makes a strange call. He calls for Puerto Rican invasion to liberate the island from the U.S.

Hamas expected to release 33 hostages in the first phase of the emerging deal, Israeli officials say. This is a CNN story. Didn't a guy that just won like an election a week ago said I swear to God if you don't release all the hostages yeah he said something threatened them he seems serious yeah

he's in pretty serious I don't know I think it looks like that maybe they're believing them but we'll see we'll see hell on wheels killer who plowed car into wall murdering to wind about handcuffs during arrest, this is a video that came out, I believe it's because her boyfriend broke up with her. Is that the story, Rob?

Yes, according to reports, the two were in a relationship, relationship ended, the man ended the relationship, and then the girl killed the man and his friend in a vehicle, she crashed her vehicle into a wall going and Excess speeds of 100 miles an hour You should see the vehicle and they showed up They didn't believe anybody was alive and then she made it because she had a seat belt on China discuss a sale of tik-tok us Ready to Elon Musk as one possible option and Tom celebrates

But that part was just added. I'm just giving a hard time to Tom. Arsonist spotted, starting California wildfire and a few other things that we got here. Anyways, folks, for those of you that are excited about what's about to come up here January 20th and you support it, the president, the collection, the limited edition hats, the 250, sold out in no time, and everything else right there.

There's limited supplies left. The blue, white, and red, I think there's a few of those hats left. This is something you buy and just said, like if you come into my office, I have the Future Looks Bright hats from this theme of what we experience, and I have it in my office.

If you come and see it in my office, I have some of these hats in my office. This is something you buy, you sport, you wear, and then you set it aside in your house, in your office, because you will forever remember 2024, what it was like. And for some of you guys that supported it, thought it did it in your own way, this is a way for you to say, I contributed during 2024. Go order the gear, and if you've got friends, if you've got angry patriot friends like Vinny, and you go to them and say, I've got a gift for you, you give them something like this, you put a smile on their face.

Again, represent the brand. We've got the shirts, we've got the hats. I'll always say this, numbers came back. We were trying to see what the number was going to be for 2025. 2024, we ended up having over 120 twenty thousand pieces of merch sold in 2024 just three years ago with six hundred Future looks bright as becoming a movement. We're gonna have a million people worldwide. We're in this year representing it right now Mario was telling me he was walking the other day having a shirt on at church This is a guy looked at him and he just looked at him and pointed at the logo and they kind of winked and they walked off the Valuetainment crew

when they see each other. It's a very interesting gang around the world. It's kind of like in the... Whether you know it or not, you're a part of it. It's kind of like in the movie Old School when they just, they know. Like, yeah. Yeah, so whatever Adam said, folks,

go to VTMersh.com and place your order. And for those of you that have the families in California that are affected by it we raised a hundred and eight thousand dollars On last Thursday what we said a hundred percent of it's gonna go to families in California If you know anybody should meet Tom venue or Adam and Manect of a story and their phone number We may just surprise FaceTime them and help them out. Okay. All right, let's get into the story here with everything That is taking place. California wildfires. Let's just go into that.

The total death toll right now is 24. Damage is the number you see circulating right now. It's $250 billion. While this is going on, Gavin Newsom says he's already reimagining LA 2.0 post-wildfire and that California needs a Marshall Plan to rebuild. While this interview is taking place, is this the one where the individual questions him? Is that a guy or honestly? And Pat, first of all, I don't know yet because I haven't heard the voice, but look at the

lighting, the setup. This is a Hollywood scene. But I'm actually really asking a question. I want to say late, it's a guy. Look at the way the guy pushes back when he asks a question and Gavin says something and he makes a comment. I just want you to watch this first.

And can I say one thing? Look at his hand, he's a professional, hand gestures so you don't look at the venom coming out of his mouth. Play this clip, play this clip. Over the course of the next several years, Los Angeles will be host to the World Cup and then the Super Bowl and then the Olympics. With this rebuilding effort needing to take place is LA going to be ready for all those global events?

My humble position and it's not just being naively optimistic, that only reinforces the imperative moving quickly, doing in the spirit of collaboration cooperation. President of the United States, Donald Trump, to his credit, was helpful in getting the Olympics to the United States of America, to get it down here in LA. We thank him for that. This is an opportunity for him to shine, for this country to shine,

for California and this community to shine. The opportunity with all of that and all that opportunity and that pride and for this country to shine, for California and this community to shine, the opportunity with all of that and all that opportunity and that pride and spirit that comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues, but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall Plan. We already have a team of looking and reimagining LA 2.0, and we're making sure everyone's included,

not just the folks on the coast, the people here that were ravaged by this disaster. You just said you're organizing a Marshall Plan for the rebuilding of California. What is that Marshall Plan? For this region, we're just starting to lay out. I mean, we're still fighting these fires. It's funny. So we're already talking to city leaders, we're already talking to civic leaders, we're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits, we're talking to civic leaders. We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits. We're talking to leaders

Okay, so so when you hear that and he says LA 2.0. He he looks at himself as if it's a Hero like he's here to save you, California. Yeah You're so lucky to have him. I'm here. I'm here. I'm going to save you. So do you know what happens when I see that? So imagine all of those people that lost their homes who voted for him, who are for him, who like him. That's what I'm talking about.

Hear me out what I'm saying right now. Imagine the ones who voted for him, who protected him for the recall, who like him, who lost the home, are they watching that and saying, oh wow, he's so sincere, he has me. What percentage of them do you think he still has? 85%. Oh, you think so? These people are, I know some that I've just spoken to

two days ago that are yelling at me about how amazing and how he's the best and that this is all Trump's fault. Are you kidding me? I'm dead serious and I, Pam, this is no BS. They're so brainwashed, they're still gonna vote for this guy. Don't let the hype,

I remember we talked about it, two or three years he's gonna, cause what he's done in 2026. They still love him and they're still gonna vote for this shit. Tom, what do you think? Stockholm Syndrome, Los Angeles, California? Well, I see I understand the Stockholm syndrome

But that's much different. Those are people that are hostages that develop a relationship mentally with their captor and That's different from this What we I think that there's and that's different from this. I think that there's very meaningful percents of this, and I'll give you a great example. The presidential election in California was closer this time

than the last five elections, meaningfully closer, and Orange County was red. There is already a shift of voters there, and I take you to Arizona. In Arizona, where immigration was on your front porch, There is already a shift the voters there and I take you to Arizona in Arizona where immigration was on your front porch, right? Liberals Democrats you went to the store to the ATM you saw the homeless people that were obviously immigrants panhandling You know that vandalism, you know petty theft. These things were happening. Whereas in Missouri

You know immigration was a debate between you and me at Starbucks because we don't see a lot of Whereas in Missouri, you know, immigration was a debate between you and me at Starbucks, because we don't see a lot of it in Missouri. But it was on our front doorstep, live and in living color in Arizona. The Arizona voters shifted. And I believe you're going to see meaningful numbers. Is it 90% the other way? No, it won't be 90% the other way. But just like when the Arizona voters on immigration, they moved from Biden voters to Trump voters. And they were very firm Biden voters. And they were meaningful numbers. Specific to the celebrities. Specific to the celebrities who lost homes.

Now. Do you think they will flip? Yes, and I think they will absolutely flip. And I saw, so I look at Arizona, and that's human nature, whether you're a celebrity or not. There are celebrities in there and Adam Kroll I had a five-minute monologue that he did and he talked about before the fires even happened that you know God rest her soul, you know

There's an actress he knew and her husband that had tried to expand and build in a Malibu and they couldn't they couldn't get the permits Done, they couldn't get this done and. They couldn't get this done. And he's pointing out, Adam Kraler correctly, he says, you just wait till you get permits. Now you've lost your home, and it's the fault of the state. Now you have to go get permits to get it done. Those people, I absolutely believe that there are people there that are more mid

than they want to admit, and that they are going to move. And you saw one of them in Calabasas, you talked about one of the stories you have today, is a woman in Calabasas who's very, very wealthy from a very powerful family who has said, I'm fed up right now, she's not waiting for the election. She made a very clear case. Can you pull up Newsome's unfavorability or favorability?

Look at this here. So if you look at the rating from 2023, he went all the way up unfavorable to 45%. Go a little bit ahead right there in the December 1st, Rob. December 1st, right there, what was that, 30, 47%, right? And then it dropped to the mid-30s, and then it went back up late July to whatever, 43, 44%, okay? And then now today it's the highest it's been

and what's the number? 49.2%, okay? On the unfavorable rating side of things. Which by the way, that's as of November 30th, 2024. Rob, do you have that as of right now, what the rate is? Or is that just from them? That's a now low. You saw the reflection of that in the presidential results.

Here it is right here. A direct reflection of that. During the recall, which was when Larry Elder was running, he came out of the show, which was almost two years ago. Yeah, 2022, I want to say. His approval or unfavorable ratings and unfavorable ratings were basically 50-50, depending on the polls you look at. Now, January of 2025, okay? ratings and a favorite ratings are basically 5050. Depending on the polls you look at now.

January of 2025. Okay. 27% unfavorable rating. 20% favorable, unfavorable, almost 50%. So the damn has broken exactly. Yeah, but damn, but but October of 2024. Keep in mind this since the election since the election it was favorable 44% and we literally just okay but the point is this what's the point in the last three months it's plummeted okay in three months we just showed that since the election yeah I don't have it he's leaving like we're just showing that you're repeating the same thing I just said this guy is so funny but you're ready for this though? To go to your point.

And mind you, he's living in the air. He can care less. He's not looking for re-election. He can give two shits. Yeah, he's looking for re-election. But you guys are talking about, he's done with president. Well actually he's not. Let me back up.

But you're talking about, these are famous actors and these are Hollywood, okay? They work for the Hollywood machine is the liberal, woke, perverted, they can't change that, they can't go Republican. They work for an industry that is all disgusting, alright? I was there, I know what the hell they're about. They're not gonna flip. These people are gonna stay loyal to their party blindly. Let me tell you, you know, yesterday I'm on Pierce.

You were on Pierce I think Friday. You guys had a- Last week, yeah. Yeah. So I'm on Pierce. You were on Pierce I think Friday. You guys had a. Yeah. So I'm on Pierce yesterday, we're having a conversation together. He says, what do you think is gonna happen with California and all the extreme and all this other stuff?

Okay, I said, you know, I don't know who he said. He said, somebody said the woke is dead. Maybe he said Musk. Somebody said the woke is dead, right? Anyways, if the woke is dead, I said what you have to be careful is when one extreme dies, another extreme is born, okay? Meaning the Hollywood elites are an extreme. So meaning they're not a big community but they are a loud

community because everybody wants to know what they have to say, right? And so when you when you see that you that reflection on what's going on, what Hollywood, the extreme left, the extreme right, all the extremes are breaking things. All the extremes are the ones that are causing confusion and havoc, right? Here's what it really comes down to. What it comes down to is the average age

of somebody in LA, Rob, if you wanna pull it up, the average age of somebody in LA right now is- wanna pull it up, the average age of somebody in LA right now is. 37. That's exactly the number. Is it? Is 37 years old, okay? The average age of somebody in LA is 37 years old. 36 and a half, that's 20, 22, today's 37 years old.

Okay, how many of these people at 37 years old, if you go back and think about when you're 37 years old, what events are a 37 year old going through? They probably got married, they probably have a kid or two at 37 years old. The average 37 year old is what I'm talking about, right? So they have a kid or two and what decisions are you making at that age? The decisions you're making is, do we buy a house? Do we not buy a house? Do we start a business?

Do we not start a business? Do we go and get another MBA or do I get a little bit additional education to be able to get a promotion? You're thinking because guess what's about to come up? 40 to 55, that's your money making years that you're about to enter. 45 to 60, but 40 to 55 is when you really can make some money and then you compound it from 55 to 70 years old. All right

if you Watching all this stuff that's taking place think about the 37 year old they go to bed at night sitting next lay next to their wife and They're talking babe You you think we should still buy that house? I don't think so babe. But don't you think there's going to be a discount after the fire? Babe, no. Forget about the discount. Babe, what do you think we do with this? Do we start that business in LA? Do we start that thing here? Anything you say, do we buy that house? Do we start that business? Do we grow into this community, do we go.

What you're saying is, if you say yes, you're saying you trust that the politicians in California that have a super majority in the House, in the Senate, they control it all. When you control it all, guess what you get to say? All the good that happened is because of us. But what's the problem when you control it all? Anything that bad that happens, it's what? It's on you. So he can't say, well, you know, the reason why California and what we're going through this

is because the Congress in California didn't approve the $2.5 billion that have been sitting there that we would have helped us. You can't say that. There is no gridlock. You are the gridlock. That 37-year-old is who they have to worry about. This 37-year-old is not famous.

This 37-year-old doesn't have 100,000 followers on Instagram. This 37-year-old is not a multimillionaire. This 37-year-old is not a Hollywood star. This is a regular 37-year-old that's trying to make a decision of where do I go raise my kids the next 30 years. And they're asking, buying a house? Where do I put my kids? Career?

Starting a business. Let's go through each one of them. Buying a house. Do you think homeowners insurance is going to go up or down in California? Skyrocket. Skyrocket. Do you think homeowners insurance companies are going to stay or leave the state of California? Leaving.

Okay. Let's go to number two. Starting a business. Do you think regulations in the state of California are going to favor small business owners, are going to make your life a living hell? They're going to work against you. Do you think starting a business with people coming and stealing from you, do you think the governor, the politicians in the state of California are going to protect you, or

are they going to defend the other person? Other person. Exactly. Okay, so now we have buying a house, and if you buy a house and you want to make it your own and you want to get a permit to build a bedroom and a backyard, to have your in-law stay in, how long do you think it's going to take for you to get them? Years. Okay.

So then we go to the next one. You got kids. Hey, babe, let's have kids. Your kid is two years old. You have two of them, a two-year-old and a four-year-old, right? And you're sitting there saying, what school do we put them in? Do we put them in private? Do we put them in public?

Do you trust the direction the education is going to the state of California? Drag Queen hour? How long do you think it's going to take for it to turn? Will it ever turn? I think the part that's going to be the slowest thing to turn in California is education. Maybe they'll fix the permit. Maybe they'll fix some of that stuff. Maybe.

But the permit is going to take a while and the education is going to take a long as time for them to say fix So that 37 year old is gonna sit there and say How do we leave this place So California thinks the mass exodus was the one that they had can you go to the census Rob that shows how many people? left California the US census shows California lost one point two three four million million three four million, yeah, and then type in census, if you can type census.

There is a Wikipedia that Brandon sent to me yesterday, Rob, if you don't have it, there's a Wikipedia right there. It's 1.234, I just want the audience to see this because I want you to use it when you're talking to other people. Here you go. I got it. Let me send it over your way. 1.234 million people was lost in California. Okay. From 2020 to 2024, 1.234 million people left California. Residents of California? Residents of California.

How many illegal immigrants did they inherit? That left. So click on that right there. There you go, buddy. Open it up, watch this, folks. Zoom in a little bit. Okay, Florida net gained 872 during those four years. July 1st, April 1st, okay, COVID started two weeks prior to that, July 1st, April 1st, COVID started two weeks prior to that,

July 1st. So that four-year period, Florida net gain, $872, Texas net gain, $747, Carolinas, $393, $14, Tennessee, look at the red states gaining, right? Now go all the way to the bottom and work your way up. Look all the way to the bottom. California lost 1.234. New York lost 966. Illinois lost 418. What do all those states have in common? Blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states, blue states. The first one you get to is Ohio at 39. Think about that. That's the first one. Okay, so you know what this means? They think that's the last exodus. You have to understand that exodus was a Exodus because that Exodus was a choke hold.

That Exodus was kids are at home, homeschooling, I can't go to work, I can't breathe, I just want a freaking life, I want to get out. You can't go to the beach. I'm out of this freaking place. You left for a different reason. This reason of leaving is not that reason. It's like this. You know you work for a company

and you say I'm gonna be here for 40 years. This is it. This is where I'm gonna finish up my career. They give you health insurance, they give you 401K, and you love the benefits. All of a sudden one day they're like guess what guys, 401K is gone, health insurance gone, gone, gym will close and I'm done.

All the benefits is gone. What are you gonna do? That's the point. What are you talking about? Like this is the part the job of a company is to make sure it keeps it attractive for people to be there long term. The job of a state is to do the same thing so you attract the right types of people and stay. The good ones stay and don't leave. Now this is going on. So now some people are saying, well, Pat, this is intentional. This is what people like you don't understand.

They want people like you to leave. They want the people that are the 37-year-old hardworking business owners to leave. They want everybody to leave. They want the people to stay. That is their intention. They want to do that. Let's just say if that is the truth. This next exodus California is going to be experiencing, Tom, what would you be thinking about at 37 years old? How would you decide? Would

you just sit there and be like take it? No, remember we left in 2015. I was older than 37 when we left, but this is exactly what we were thinking about. That's right. We were thinking about school quality for our kids. We were at a, I won't say the name, a very prominent private school in LA. And what was very interesting, it was the best in terms of the, it was moderate and it was having more celebrity kids come there, moderate, coming there from Harvard Westlake and things that were far more liberal. And we were looking at all of that. And I was like, you know what?

I can't raise my girls here. And for a lot of reasons, I felt squeezed out of California. And I left. And by the way. You're somebody that the state shouldn't lose. Exactly. My dad worked in aerospace industry. He was literally a rocket engineer, mathematician.

He met my mom at a defense contractor, where they both work. She was a file clerk. I was born out there. I lived through the 1971 earthquake. I lived through the 1994 Northridge earthquake, where the school I was going to. I had graduated, but it was the 94 earthquake

that was so severe where you had all the stuff that collapsed up there at Cal State Northridge. I went and got an MBA at Pepperdine University. I'm a California kid, I was born out there and then my dad's job moved us and we were in, a little bit in, you know, Florida, a little bit in Connecticut, but I came back there where all my cousins and

family was and that was it. And then I get married and I feel squeezed out and I wasn't alone. I talked to so many people that were going through the same mental process that I went through and I got something to say about this. This was, yes or no, the closest election in the last five elections for the Republican candidate right it was that close after 1.2 million conservatives left which shows you that the people that are there are shifting can you imagine if those 1.2 conservatives were still there how close that election would have been and

so the people in California I'm seeing people are fed up. I see people that are leaving. I think both you and Vinny are right because the distinction, Tom, is the following. I don't think the Hollywood people, they're gonna lose all of those guys because they fear to favor. No, I agree with that,

but I'm saying that there's some secret agent moderates that have flipped. No, you're right. And that's the distinction between the two. Yesterday I had an hour conversation with Sharon Osborne, and she is Hollywood. If you remember, Sharon Osborne was the one that on the streets, she's walking, she says,

so what do you think about BLM? She says, the biggest fraud, we gave them $900,000. I don't know if you remember when she said that. Yeah, of course. So they can't even believe what's going on with LA right now. Let me go to Khloe Kardashian. So here's the Hollywood, okay?

It doesn't get bigger than the name's Kardashian. Nope. That's the name, right? Okay, so Khloe Kardashian slammed by liberals for calling out Mayor Karen Bass over response in LA fires. Rob, do you have a clip on this? Or, oh, this is the one that she posted, right?

Okay, can you zoom in so I can read some of this stuff? So she posted this on Instagram. I stand by you, Chief Crowley. You spoke the truth and had tears in your eyes because I can't tell you didn't even want to say that. It was the truth. Okay, go a little bit lower. And says thank you for being honest, Chief Crowley.

Mayor Bass you are a joke okay interesting so here we go with the story. Chloe Carden called that LA Mayor joke on Instagram accusing her of cutting the LA that fired upon her budget before the devastating wildfires. Kardashian shared a clip of LA fire Chief Kristen Crowley alleging she asked is this the clip Rob? This is the clip that Chloe Kardashian screen grabbed and then wrote that message. Post the clip here, go for it.

Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your department and our city? She don't want to answer. It's my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community. Did they fail you? That is our job and I tell you that's why I'm here. So let's get us what we need so our firefighters can do their jobs. Did they fail you?

Yes. Wow. Dude, it's not easy to do that because she knows. What's coming after? She knows what's coming. Liberals criticized Kardashian for remarks with one saying, it's interesting how Khloe Elon Musk Kardashian have been very quick to call Mayor Bass a joke but had no smoke for Trump, Jade events and Elon during the past election.

Another added, Chloe got some nerve calling the mayor of LA a joke when she literally has Tristan Thomas say that her critics are also wrongly accused Chloe Kardashian of exceeding water usage limits during California drought which had actually been reported by her sister Kimiko. So you see this, right, while this is taking place. Does Karen Bass finally respond, Rob, to all the criticism? She has. She just made some statements. I have a video of her. She doesn't respond directly, but here she is. This is her. Happy as all can be. Smiling. Go for it. Angelelenos, we're still going through it and to any of you and all of you that have experienced a loss, the grief, the anger, the just utter shock, I've seen the devastation. It is unbelievable the amount of loss that people have experienced.

But we have to get through this crisis and I know that we will. I was at the Sylmar command post today and I saw the work of our first responders and how they've been able to defeat the fires in certain areas. We know we still have much more to go and we know the winds are going to kick up again. But we got to stick together, we got to stand strong, and then we have to rebuild our city. We're the nation's second largest city, one of the greatest cities in the world. And we stay together and we will rebuild an amazing city.

So thank you, Angelenos. And my thoughts. By the way, you can stop that and Rob, do me a favor and pull up this clip and then I'll come to you guys. Paul, you're pulling that up. I got one thing to say. You could have changed the soundtrack on that and she's wishing everybody everybody a happy fourth of July. Look at the body language.

She's happy. And I'll tell you what, that's all I got to say. I'm done. Go to your clip. I don't want to interrupt. Tom, you okay? He's fired up. I love it. I'm disappointed. That's not leadership. Go to the independent one. Rob. Go to the, it's okay. Karen Bass once insisted she wouldn't go abroad as LA Mayor. Instead she took five city funded trips overseas. Isn't that weird? Isn't that weird? And think about Pat. Think of the timing guys. On January 1st, January 2nd, they knew the fires were coming. Okay, Tom? They knew. They knew it was going to come. And what does she do? She leaves the... Dry January, Santa Ana wins, it's just waiting for... It's coming, Tom. You know it's coming, guys.

And don't... let's not play stupid. I don't want to hear the race card, I don't want to hear the feminine, the woman. No, no. You're the mayor. Why the hell are you going to Africa, to Ghana, to see the presidential inauguration, okay? And like you just said she left six times promising she wouldn't leave the country all right and let's talk about these left-wing policies they don't realize that she is a Marxist communist sympathizer okay in the 1970s she organized for the Vencedemos

Brigade a group linked to Marxist Leninist ideology that sought to subvert American interests weaken democracy and spread communism around the world. Where is this from? It's out there. She's out there. This is what she's done. And she spread communism around the world. She made 15 trips to Cuba, defying US travel restrictions, and upon Fidel Castro's death

in 2016, she praised him as Comandante El Jefe, which is commander in chief, calling his passing a great loss. How can someone act like they love America, love our values, but you're doing this. Why would you travel to Cuba 15 times? Man, she got a funny jersey underneath that shirt. Yeah, isn't that weird? And it's like, and you have to think why,

the smiling of the face. You're not in the country when you said you weren't gonna leave. It's almost as if you didn't wanna be here because you knew this shit was coming. 15 times to Cuba. 15 times to Cuba 15 times to Cuba What are you doing?

And these are this little things back like and this makes people argue like her alignment with communist ideas She visited Cuba eight times in the 1970s. Can you go to the vent vencero most Brigade zoom in is an international Organization finance 69 by members of the student of Democratic societies in real Cuba It was from this coalition of young people to show solidarity to the Cuban revolution by working side by side with Cuban workers, challenge US policies towards Cuba, including United States embargo against Cuba, the year brigade trips 2010. And then continue today, Arkan. So what part is, was this a communist left-wing organization?

Can you control F, search communism? If you're taking a dozen plus trips to Cuba, you're not exactly a Reagan Republican. This group is linked to Marxist-Leninist ideology. This group. This group. So what is she doing? Okay.

Well, you know, when you, the great thing about where we're at today, with everything that's going on, you're seeing the speed of doing something about the issues and now the people of California and LA can vote accordingly and change, period. You're seeing Newsome standing there talking as if everything is happy go lucky.

Go speak to the families of the people that lost their homes, the $250 billion of them. Go to the 24 total deaths that took place. How many people, by the way, when you're going through this, Tom, how much have you found solutions and what's going to be happening with insurance? Because when I'm looking at this right now and I'm reading this insurance story, okay, that says, Rob, where's that story about insurance companies leaving I know it's one of the stories that we wanted to talk about that is page seven

California I'm sorry page eight California bans insurance cancellation in LA affected yeah so check this out, this is a fortune story folks, California bans insurance cancellation in LA fire affected areas. In LA fire affected areas. Who are you to ban insurance cancellation? Insurance companies are going to leave because you are not creating the climate of place for them to stay. These are underwriters that are sitting there saying why would I stay? Okay let me read

this to you and then Tom I'm gonna come to you because I've been looking at some stuff and I want to know if you found anything here I have some thoughts some solutions I'm sure you do as well. California banned insurance from canceling or not rewriting residential property policies in LA neighborhood that were affected by the blazes that destroyed swats of the city this week. The state's insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a one-year property policies in the L.A. neighborhood that were affected by the blazes that destroyed swaths of the city this week. The State's Insurance Commission, Ricardo Lahr, issued a one-year mandatory moratorium to shield those in these neighborhoods who are adjoining zip codes of the Palisades and

East Eaton fires. Whether they suffered a loss or not, this order applies to all residential property policies. In forces of January 7th, when Gavin Newsom declared state emergency. The California Department of Insurance may extend a moratorium to other zip codes that could become effective by wildfires. Our top priority is protecting Californians during this crisis and helping us recover. People don't face the added stress of finding new insurance during this horrific event."

That's Laura said adding to the moratorium. Tom, your thoughts on this. Yeah, so I've been diving into what is gonna happen to who. And so I found, looked at it, and there's, there are a couple different consumers in Palisades. Consumer number one, I own my home and it's paid off, but I didn't have full insurance on it. That's my choice.

Once I own the whole home, it's my choice on how I insure it and do I put an umbrella policy over it. Those people, if they have the resources, they will pay to rebuild it themselves. If they don't have the money to pay to rebuild and they were underinsured, they're probably gonna sell the property to somebody else, because you just don't have the money to pay to rebuild and they were underinsured, they're probably gonna sell the property to somebody else because you just don't have the money to rebuild it.

The second group is you had a mortgage and this is probably the safest group because if you had a mortgage, you had to have insurance on the structure the mortgage company requires you to. As a matter of fact, when you're just starting out and it's your first home, it's called PMI. They force you to have insurance on your home. So those people that had insured are going to rebuild their home, but do they

have enough bridge money to live in an apartment or live somewhere else and wait the three years or more it's probably going to take to rebuild the home? That's it. So they may run out of bridge money. The insurance company says well Vinny, we're gonna pay to rebuild the home at That's it. So they may run out of bridge money. The insurance company says, well Vinny, we're going to pay to rebuild the home at today's prices, but this is the percent that you're covering. So you may only have like 85, 80, 85%. So you're going to build something smaller, it's more expensive. And you may decide to rebuild and wait if you've got bridge or you sell.

And the last group is the super wealthy, they're just going to rebuild again but that's the smallest group. There is going to be developers that come in because Palisades, let's talk about Palisades and Altadena separately. In Palisades no developer is going to come in there and build 5,000 condos, right? It's going to be large single family homes that are eventually eventually gonna rebuild and it's gonna be a completely new neighborhood Probably more expensive than it ever was but it's gonna take Probably a full ten years to complete because you we have to how you gonna rebuild it you you can't just rebuild them all at once There's not enough labor. There's not enough contractors now in Alta Dena. There's some more moderate neighborhoods over there

those people are probably going to sell and As for the insurance cancellation, I was looking at this pat what they're saying is You can't send them a letter right now saying hey Patrick Just to let you know when your policy is up you will be canceled We will not they won't say canceling you like that's what they say if you're a bad driver They'll say we won't be renewing your policy, Patrick, in September. People need that notice so they can look around and find somebody else. They're telling the carriers you can't send out notices that say you're going to cancel

in the future. We don't want people to have that. So the insurance companies are like, well, wait a minute. What if Patrick is up May 1st? That's like in two months. We're not even going to have all the ashes swept out of the streets by then. But we need to let Patrick know we won't be renewing your insurance policy because there's no structure.

And so you'll just need, by the way, remember you don't need a home insurance policy when there's no structure. And so you'll just need, by the way, remember you don't need a home insurance policy when there's no structure. You only need liability because it's your property. And if someone slips and falls on your driveway, cause your driveway is the only thing that's left. Right? You do know the reality. I'm not making a joke. The reality is you do need that. You do need that basic coverage. And so I, you know, I'm looking around Pat and I think there's a lot of these consumers are going to be selling. And the ones that are going to stay,

they've got to have extra resources to cover the real rebuild cost and living in an apartment for three years. Because people are saying, it's a minimum of three years, because you've got to find a developer. You've got to get supplies. You've got to get a permit. And then you've got to get all this cleaned up. And we haven't even talked about something. The entire,

all the neighborhoods that were above ground electrical, guess what? PG&E has got to come in and rebuild all the electric lines and everything in those communities so that there's electricity for when they rebuild those homes. Yeah, and Tom, do you mind if I respond to this? And Tom, we talked about this earlier, and what worries me is, like remember what Rahm Emanuel said, what was the famous quote he said? Never let a disaster, a crisis go to waste, okay? And if you can, Pat, I have this clip I showed Rob, where Newsom is talking about calling Josh Green, the Maui fires, okay?

They exposed the same stuff that's happening right now government failure delayed response ignored warnings And all these parties he says something about reimagining, California Where he calls the Maui guy and this is what bothers me Tom those people that you're talking about now that have nothing Okay, that the house with worth Let's say 10 million with in regard to insurance now if somebody comes and wants to buy up the land time they can offer them Way less and say, listen, everything's gone, you didn't have the right insurance, we're going to give you this much money cash Tom, go about your business, am I right? People that had their house paid off,

that for some of them that don't have the resources and were underinsured, that is their only choice. To sell the land to tomorrow's developer and go somewhere he says this Pat isn't this a worrisome thing where he says he called him and you might have been like look at His face. I want to stay is this about insurance. It's about the land grabbing the land. Okay, play this clip rap We're dealing with a myriad of issues. I'm just talking to Josh Green the governor Down in in Hawaii. You had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like. So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward

and we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks. Unbelievable. So, but let's stay on this. I'm interested in solutions. So I looked up to see who were some of the people that were able to prevent their homes from, like I Googled

and searched which houses made it and why. That's what I'm interested in. Which houses made it and why. Type in Michael Johnson house fire. And it's a story, let me see who it's by. It's a story by Michael Johnson. You need to put Olympic athlete. Yeah, put Olympic. Olympic athlete. With the gold shoes? Yeah. Oh yeah. He was a man.

200 meter dash champ. So, okay. Wealthy homeowners and their insurance turned to hire, okay this is the one, to fight LA fires. Okay. Go a little bit lower to the Michael Johnson side. Let me see which one. Okay, there it is. When former Olympic gold medal sprinter Michael Johnson heard the Palisades fire was heading his way, he knew his multi-million dollar hillside home in Malibu was in danger. Johnson didn't simply dial 911. He turned to his private firefighting system for protection. Johnson pays $5,000 a year to lease the system, a pump and hose apparatus that can draw large amounts of water from his swimming pool to help fight the progress of wildfires and backstop the city's municipal

firefighters and hydrants." Okay, so this is a system. I think he said there's about 500, it'll tell you how much water is in the pool. Just as Johnson and his wife started hosing down their property in hopes of preventing any embers from igniting, a man sent by the system supplier fire defense service showed up to help them. The Johnson's soon evacuated believing they would never see their house again,

but the man from fire defense stayed behind to help protect their house and a neighbor who was a client. His plan was to fight it if it came. Johnson, as the inferno engulfed, tensions have flared over the crews of firefighters. And then there was another story. If you go a little bit lower, Rob, another person shows their house why it made it and keep going lower and he says the equipment you buy, he says the problem with wildfires is the stuff you have inside the house.

So if you Google, Rob, houses that made it from the wildfire. So once the fire gets in the house, the inside the house is the stuff it has, that's what caused it to just explode. You have a lot of things, so the equipment you buy to make sure, yeah, I mean, I'll send it to you in a minute while we go on, but I think it's one of the above, Rob, That shows houses that actually made it

Yeah, that's the one right there zoom in a little bit Rob, okay why these homes made Survived the LA fires go a little bit lower So this is what I'm interested in more than 12,000 structures I've been going while Virginia runs on single homes a brand new house on Pacific by design and pill by our architect great chase in the Norden summer 2024 could have easily been one of them. None of other homes around it survived, and the car parked out up front of neighbor was perfect vector to spread the flames. Yet, on January 9, after a night of devastation, Chason found the house intact, barely touched by fire. A photo of the house posted on Malibu Architect went viral on X and a thread on Reddit swelled

with guesses about who saved it. Can you open that up? Let's see what that looks like. That's the same house. So you see that house right there. No word. The owner of the house said the following. No words really.

Just a horror show. Some of the design choices we made here helped, but we were also very lucky. Zoom in a little bit. That's his house. Look at the stuff on the left and look at the stuff on the right. Okay. So now go back to the story, Rob, if you could. And let's continue.

Luck was the biggest factor. Chasing concedes, but it wasn't Providence alone. If it weren't for several fire resilient design strategies, the home would have been destroyed. This house was a personalized labor of love and a dear friend. It means a lot from corn. Thousands of Angelenos are still at risk. Anyways, so go fireproofing. Let's see what it says. Go a little bit lower. Some of Jason's fireproofing decisions stand out in the picture. The yard is protected area free of vegetation fenced off by cast-in-place concrete garden walls with landscaping

and sparse Mediterranean desert style. The homeowner has been through fires before, so he was prepared. He removed rubbish bins and other loose items from around the house and even left the side gates open knowing that a fire can spread along a fence to a house. We were unfortunate that the neighbor parked the car fence to a house. We were unfortunate that the neighbor parked the car adjacent to the house. There's molten aluminum in the picture, 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, that will prevent a lot of heat from getting into the house. Other design factors were more subtle. Along the side of the house, there are no eaves or overhangs, which can

form eddies or trap embers blown by high wind. The house doesn't have any attic vents to allow sparks to get inside the roof, which is metal, with a fire resilient underlayment and the house is simple front gaveled without multiple roof lines. This is the part where if somebody is thinking about staying in LA and building a house, call this guy Jason. That guy's going to get a lot of phone calls because this is the perfect commercial for him.

I built this house. Would you like me to do the same for you? Think about that. So then I go on seeing which insurance companies in California or other insurance companies are looking at a solution to addressing the wildfire issues. And I find this story on Wall Street Journal from December 16th, okay? This is pre-fires. Think about it.

December 16th is a month ago. Rob, I just send it to you if you can pull it up. December 16th, insurance startup has a plan to cover uninsurable homes. This new insurance company raised $30 million and is writing policies in California wildfire zones. Hopefully they're still in business because that was a month ago. Mark Mitchell spent more than $100,000 to make his family home in California, Santa Cruz Mountains more resilient to wildfires after it suffered damage when a nearby Redwood growth burn in 2020 despite his efforts

He couldn't find an insurance that could have covered his home for more than two years That is until Friday when Mitchell signed a contract with stand insurance They are the only company that has been able to figure out how much we've done to protect our house and that it's a reasonable figure out how much we've done to protect our house and that it's a reasonable risk to insure. Stand is a new insurance startup that seeks to cover homes in areas other insurers are banning because of risks from natural disasters like wildfires and stuff. The company says its simulation software allows it to better predict risk and identify improvements homeowners should make to increase resiliency.

This guy used to be a guy that was with Metro Mile, which if you know Lemonade, now a publicly traded company, Lemonade, they've done well for themselves. People are not financing insurance companies right now, but these guys got the 30 million. One of the things, Tom, thoughts for you is while this is taking place, what if the governor goes out and says, hey, we have to think about solutions and we have to bring problem solvers in here. We're dedicating a billion dollars towards startups that come and present to us with a board of seven people that are founders of companies that have built multi-billion dollar companies and each of these guys come

and present their ideas and their opportunities and you green light 30 million to this one, 20 million to this one, 10 million to this one, 50 million to this one, 40 million to this one with the hopes of people trying to find creative ways of solving this issue long term. What do you think about that idea? I think it's a great idea. I think what happens is sometimes you know innovation comes out of just forward thinking and great futurists and visionaries. Other times innovation comes out of crisis. And I think right now we've had enough wildfires in California, number one.

Number two, we've had enough samples of wildfires outside of California. I think the Telegraph Fire was in Arizona, I believe. Is that right, Rob? And Lahaina. So you have the crisis set, and I don't know if the state would be the one that would figure it out, but if you had a board of proven entrepreneurs

that are figuring out where this goes, then I think you've got a great chance of succeeding because you've got a bunch of entrepreneurs there that have built things that understand what it takes and it's not just bureaucrats making decisions. I think the key to success, what you talked about, would be that board of entrepreneurs that are making decisions.

Okay, this is what we're gonna do here, this is what we're gonna do here. There are, right now, there's been innovations in insurance, such as they use drone technology and they fly around. And if you told them that you have a 1965 Corvette and it's parked in a garage and it's locked, and they run this drone around your neighborhood

three times, and they say, it's not parked there, you have an extra large driveway, it's parked to the side under a tarp. That's not as safe from theft as it would be in your garage. We're gonna underwrite you differently. There's a lot of ways where there's innovations that are out there,

and I like the idea of having innovation at the intersection. So Pat, this is in Japan Japan they have a 200 year old village called Kayabuki no Sato okay it's a they have a firefighting system and when people talk about they don't have the money that they have money guys and you nailed it it's preventative what are you doing because you know what's gonna happen when I was in California they started retrofitting my apartment and every because they know earthquakes are coming if you know a fire is coming look at this clever thing that they have in Japan look at this

they know fires coming I are extinguishing in Shirakawa Village Japan ancient thatched houses over 200 flammable as hell hide a stunning secret boom an automatic sprinkler system when a fire breaks out I mean these sprinklers instantly pop up and spray high pressure water like a giant fountain, quickly extinguishing the flames. Does California have anything like that? No, no, absolutely not, Adam. Because they're spending money on $24 billion on homelessness and the percentage went up

40%. But they solved the homeless crisis in California. Oh, they didn't solve homelessness in California? No, no, he invested in homelessness and it went up. Stop it. California? Yeah, California invested in homelessness and it went up. California? Yeah, California. Really? I thought they fixed it.

No, no. They invested in it to make it get crazier. Unbelievable. So that's the thing. They had a war on homelessness, but homelessness won. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like the war on drugs. So there are solutions.

And like for instance, is there, you know that fire retardant stuff that goes on the airplanes that red stuff? Sorry, Adam, very offensive word. Spray the house. Do something. Give these people a freaking, give them hope. There has to be a solution but we have stuff on Mars. What's the crime if you're the person that started the fire? Arsonist. What's the crime in California?

It's arson and you are in deep, deep. But what is it though? What is the levels of punishment? Oh let's find that. Billy Joel wrote about it. I think arson that leads to death, Pat, is you can be subject to capital. Let's see this. Arson in California is a felony that can result in imprisonment, fine, and restitution. The punishment depends on the type of property burned

of the crime. Imprisonment, the length of time, depends on the arson, ranging from 60 months to nine years. Convicts may face up to $50,000 fine. Restitution offenders may be required to pay victims for damages. Go ahead, go pull up. You need Elon Musk type of money to pay the damages. Probation convicts may be placed on probation for up to five years. Not enough. Not enough. Let me tell you something. We're starting to see these

people that are coming out of the woodworks, they're arresting them from their homes and they're finding out that they're arsonists and they're setting fires. Dressed up as firemen. One guy got a break into somebody's house and try to steal stuff as firemen. These people, when you talk about accountability, you know, look at this guy, Pat, look at this guy. This looks like a Melrose area. It looks like it. I think this is lighting a fire. Yeah. Look, look, look. And then boom. This is like. Okay. So, you know, I said something pretty controversial a couple years ago and people said, are you

kidding me? And then it turns out, Oh my God, I wasn't that crazy. I said, if you're a school shooter and you do something crazy and you go in and you kill a bunch of people, bunch of kids, I said, and then you end up killing yourself. I go, where are the parents? Let's find these people. They said, well, you know, parents can't be held responsible for the crimes of their kids. And then what happened in Michigan? The parents get arrested because all of a sudden they're like, no, no, no, no, no. Whatever we did in the past

can't be what we do moving forward. Past performance can predict future results, hold the parents accountable. So if you're telling me some arsonist in California just burnt down the entire city of LA basically, and he's gonna face a $50,000 fine in 79 years in jail, him and anyone associated with him needs to be held accountable. I got you Rob. But Google arson crime punishment by state.

By state, okay. Watch this here, okay. Zoom in a little bit Rob so we can see it, there you go. So it depends by the state. Florida, it's 30 years in prison. While in California it was nine years. That's a retard thing because are there fires in California or are there fires in Florida?

Exactly. It's so backwards. Rob, can you maybe type in what state has the most severe punishment for arson? Has the most severe punishment for arson? Yeah, I'm just curious right now. What state is it? According to a veteran of California, it's widely considered to have one of the most severe punishments.

It's nine years. It's not that bad. What are they talking about? What is it? Tell us what it is. Go a little lower. Well, you do have the death penalty potential. Where do you see the death penalty?

Where arson results in fatalities. Okay, in extreme cases, which arson like the death penalty, has a person ever had a death penalty in California for arson? Did California even practice the death penalty? Well, let's see this here. If somebody has anyone ever California death penalty no California does not allow it doesn't even have the death penalty. Go down go down. Because of federal court.

Arsonist gives death sentence. Ricky Lee Flower has been convicted of murder over 2003 fire that caused five heart attack deaths. Breathing and yep. Five get killed five so this guy this guy died is Ricky Lee Fowler dead. Well hopefully not the golfer because he's a good guy but who's this guy? Ricky Lee Fowler what is that can you so in terms of Ricky Lee Fowler. What is that? Can you? So in terms of Ricky Lee Fowler, I want to know if this has happened. Because when something like this happens, there has to be an example made at the highest level.

And when the example is made, then from there, you know, it gets some people's attention. Not everybody's attention, it gets some people's attention. Again, if I'm the governor of the state, the first thing I want to do is get the smartest people in front of me. We're going to have a full-on meeting to come up with ideas on what to do with this. What money do we need? Who do we call? Who do we raise the capital from?

Problem solvers are in my state. Let's get to it. Let's get to find out what happens here. Rob, did we find out if this guy died or not? I can't find that he was put to death, so that leads me to a state that he's still in the room. Ask Brandon, can one of you guys check this, Ricky Lee Fowler death penalty California? And just so we know, because there's a lot of speculation, people are wondering, I saw satellite imagery of three separate fires, starting at the same exact time.

I keep seeing videos of these arsonist black hoodies, like Antifa looking guys. One, the guy that got arrested in Woodland Hills, Pat, the guy that was walking around with that yellow blowtorch and Kenneth fire, guess what? They arrested him, he's a Mexican national who's entered the US illegally, has a criminal history including a 2023 conviction for assault with a deadly weapon, he's currently held on a felony probation violation, he hasn't been charged with arson due to insufficient evidence, he had a yellow blow torch in his hand trying to start stuff on fire, ICE has placed a detainer on him but California, here we go with California, sanctuary state policies may prevent local authorities from honoring it, potentially hindering his deportation. So the guy running around with a blowtorch that civilians, the people in the hills have

to stop him, he's an illegal. You can't arrest him because he might be considered racist. By the way, check this out. Everyone knows that. You can't do that. Ricky Lee Fowler, the arsonist convicted for starting the 2003 oil fire in California, was sentenced to death penalty. As of January 2025, there are no public records indicating that his execution has been carried out. Given

the lengthy appeals process typical in death penalty cases, it is likely that he remains on death row. So why do they have the most strictest policies? No, they don't have the most strictest. They don't have the most strictest. This is a prime example of, you have to make an example of the people, okay? You have to put the scare, what's the phrase? The fear of death. The fear of God and the fear of death

and to people who do things like this. And who benefits from this fire? Trying to see like, who actually benefits from this fire? If you were to think about who benefits from this fire, insurance companies don't benefit from this fire. Who benefits from this fire, Tom? Ultimately... I'm trying to think like a dark, like if there's something behind it, because you know how the Chase Hughes guy that we had on the podcast who said, anytime you see a massive event

that takes place and then they come up with immediate solutions to say, this is what we have to put cameras, this is a RICO and Patriot Act and all this stuff happened. Who in a Psi-op form, I mean this would be the darkest Psi-op of all time, who actually benefited from this fire? Real estate developers? Well, yeah, real estate developers in California are going to be employed for a good long time. So the entire construction industry in California benefits, but it's not like a flip of the switch.

It's not like the airline stocks the day after 9-11. This is going to take some time for deals to be awarded and things like that. Remember the WEF, they said you'll own nothing, you'll drive nowhere, they won't let you have cars, you won't have to leave the city, those 15 minute cities that they're talking about They just want to keep you in there. They want to keep you. They don't want you driving They want everybody did you see that video of China? There's a new video of China where you can't even go to certain sectors Rob of China unless they do a ID check of your face like China's locking down. So if you're an elite

It's it's one of those 15 minute city things, I'm trying to figure out. Can I respond to that? Yeah, go ahead, Roger. Own nothing and be happy, real quick, Pat. Yeah. So when they say those things like you'll- Just don't repeat that stuff that people have said,

but go ahead, let's see what points you're gonna make. All right, you know they say own nothing and be happy. Well, it depends on what you own. So we're having a conversation here about whether people should buy. Pat, you said that the average age of someone in California was 36, 37 years old, right? So what they're going through in life right now is probably they're not officially settled. We all know that people are waiting longer and longer to get married and longer and longer to have kids.

They're going through this strategy. I always say that you right now in your life You should have low overhead and high flexibility. We talked about insurance, you know who loves Talking about insurance and you know who loves buying insurance Nobody Nobody wants insurance. Nobody wants car insurance. Nobody wants health insurance. Nobody wants life insurance. But you need it to protect yourself. They said it's called insurance in case happens, right? So nobody wants this. But now boomers, you'll see this article in the Wall Street Journal, how millennials officially have it worse than their parents, which were the boomers,

when it comes to buying real estate. And what were the, uh, Tom, you would remember this. What were the lowest and highest interest rates in the early eighties? If you're going to buy a house. Oh, right. The minutes after. So you was, it got to 14, it got to 16, it got even higher than that. This was the end of Carter and like the first year of Reagan While all of his reformers say it's high as 18%

It's basically buying a house on a credit card. So I'm thinking like hold on what yeah, that was pure peak Okay, so and go back to the top of the article Rob just so we understand my point here Millennials have it worse. How is that? How do Millennials have it worse? Now if you go into these graphs, it'll show you it basically comes down to supply and demand. So, you know, they said that in, when you're buying a house, there's another article here about basically how taxes here it is right here, insurance and taxes now cost more than your actual mortgage. So Vinny for two years would ask, is now a good time to buy? Is now a good time to would ask is now a good time to buy is now a good time to buy It's not good. That's why what these articles are basically saying that is that is the worst

Time to buy so, you know in California you talked about who the people are there You're either the have-nots or the have yachts That's what they call them the haves or the have-nots if you have millions of dollars You can afford someone to whatever Michael Johnson did still don't know you're gonna be okay I don't know what you're saying. What I'm saying is now is a horrible time to buy a piece of property. It is possibly the worst time that we've experienced in the country and especially in California. Now if you've got a ton of money, you're gonna be okay. But if you're the average person, I can't tell you how many messages I get from people on my neck that say, Hey, I'm 24 years old.

I've been told I should buy property. I said, really, how much money do you have saved up? Like three grand? Oh yeah. What's your credit rating? I'm not that good. Do you, do you have any kids? No.

Why would you buy a house? And then they say the same thing every single time. What do they say? Well, they, I've always been told that renting is throwing away money. You don't have any money. You can't afford a house. Go save money, put money into the stock market. And that's my point right here. Own nothing and be happy. Yeah. If you own assets like stocks or crypto or I own REITs, real estate investment trust, you know where you can take that? Anywhere the hell you wanna go. And if your house burns down,

you don't have to worry about it. Is there something that I said that you disagree with? Not disagree with, are we on point with what we were talking about? But your point was made. It was about finance, what decisions to make, what decisions not to make. Isn't that what it all comes down to?

I get it, I understand. But in that what it all comes down to? Sure, I get it. I understand. But in the context of the story that we were in, specific to California, trying to find solutions, this would have been something that's a completely different side story, but I get what you're saying. Let's just move on. Okay, so going to the next story here that we have. Where's that one story I wanted to get into?

The story? Okay, here we go. So Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple on its lack of innovation and random rules. This is a clip-rob with him on Rogan this last week. This is after I think the introduction was made with them going to Community Notes, Dana White on the board, and then here's what he has to say about Apple. Go for it. Haven't really invented anything great in a while. And it's like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone

and now they're just kind of sitting on it 20 years later. And they actually, I think year over year, I'm not even sure they're selling more iPhones at this point. I think like the sales might actually be declining. And part of it is that each generation doesn't actually get that much better. So people are just taking longer to upgrade than they would before. So the number of sales I think has generally been flat to declining. So how are they

making more money as a company? Well they do it by basically like squeezing people. And like you're saying, like having this 30% tax on developers by getting you to buy more peripherals and things that plug into it. You know, they build stuff like AirPods, which are cool, but they've just thoroughly hamstrung the ability for anyone else to build something that can connect to the iPhone in the same way. Okay, Tom, smart move choosing Apple as an enemy. No, and this is, so I'll stick to that, but then I have a comment about Mark if that's okay.

Please. So right now, if you're gonna pick enemies out there in business, I don't know if Apple is the one I would pick. And he's, Facebook and other people have said, well, you know, Apple takes 30%, Apple takes 30%. Why don't you make a T-shirt and go ask Macy's what percent Macy's wants to make on that T-shirt.

It's called a retail profit. And so- Call up our team and like, I thought Mark Zuckerberg was here talking shit. Right. It's basically, and so it's like the developers are out there saying, well, why does Apple take 30% of everything?

Because they made the phone, they invented the thing, and if you want to be in their store, and the iPhone is a store, you have to do it. But I think picking Apple as an enemy, with Apple's reach and Apple's influence on meta and Instagram and on everything that's there, I don't know if I'd be picking Apple as an enemy, but I do know this. Mark Zuckerberg is very clever, and there was a quote in a journal, I think it was one of his PR people in the journal,

that says, well, this is the real Mark. Well, this is the real guy, trying to portray it as if all these years you haven't been seeing Mark Zuckerberg. This is the real guy, you know? Oh, there it is, you know? Zuckerberg debuts real Mark and pushed to woo Trump. This is all about, this is all about, that was what it was. What was this? Yesterday, last night. Tell me I was bored. So basically he is picking an enemy while he's on this tour to put Facebook

in a better position. Because as we said on the last podcast, the hearings are coming back on whether Facebook was intentionally doing things that cause young people, specifically young girls, to become kind of addicted to it and then there was a negative effect and they knew about it and they did nothing about it. There's a lot of things in there and Facebook is trying to be like, wow, guess what? There's a new sheriff in town, his name is Trump. Well, let's see if we can get Trump's friend to be like wow guess what there's a new sheriff in town his name is Trump Well, let's see if we can get Trump's friend to be on our board Let's see if we can you know well, I'll pick Apple is an enemy

You know and I think a lot of this is a little showmanship, and I don't know about picking apples and enemy though I think that's to me this kind of dicey Apple decides. You, I'm upset with you. You know, I'm going to turn off Instagram for For for this reason, you know Apple can do these things Pick your enemies wisely even if you're on an apology tour. Adam. What do you think? I actually totally disagree with Tom. I think you're making a good point that you don't want to Necessarily pick Apple as an enemy. But listen, one of your rules was punch up. Don't punch down. Apple's a $3 trillion company.

What is meta? Maybe half of that fact check that real quick. Uh, meta probably one and a half trillion and, uh, Apple, what? Three trillion, if not more. So, you know, you talked about, uh, yeah, there it is. Uh, you talked about, um, you know, Zuckerberg being held accountable for people on Instagram or sort of doom scrolling all day. Where do you think they're accessing Instagram?

On their iPhones? Right here. So by the way, you know, the conversation is, is he making a good decision picking Apple as an enemy maybe maybe not I don't know punching up I agree but that was on Rogan okay yeah is what he said wrong I actually think he's spot-on I was at the Apple store this weekend trying to get my damn phone fixed here what have they come out with recently right, I got a little new computer and iPad, nothing new. Nothing new. Nothing original. Nothing unique. I mean, I use it. God forbid that someone shows up with a Android and a group text. They're going to be shamed for having a disgusting, gross green looking thing

on your screen. Get out of here, buddy. Shame. Ever. You gotta be blue. You gotta be blue. So we're all Apple thing. We, you know, we, we, people come to the value table and you're an Apple person, you're an Android person. Get out of here with your Android thing. I'm an Apple person. I get it. Guilty by association. But is Mark Zuckerberg wrong? No, I actually think he's right. Last point about Mark Zuckerberg. It's not like I'm a fan of Mark Zuckerberg. That's the homie. You got to admit, he's sounding a little bit more reasonable. He's probably not as much of a nerd.

I don't know if he's got like the Ju-Fro going on. He's got his thing going on in his bag. He's working out. He's kicking ass. He's hanging out with Dana White. He called Trump a badass. I don't know. I'm starting to like Mark Zuckerberg

a little bit more. But what the intentions of everything that you just listed at the end, they're trying to be cool. They're trying to do your hair, doing push ups, trying to be buff, fighting and it's all because you know, you've been trying to be better. Not I don't I don't trust that guy at all. Tom nailed it. He knows who's coming in. He knows he's got hold on. He knows what he's done. Okay, there has to be accountability and anybody that's gonna keep him accountable is the guy that he's kissing his ass now. It's gonna be Trump because if all this, anxious generation, I'm reading Pat, you're talking about the stuff that this does, that social media, that Facebook does to the minds of

the youth and you're talking about the phones, that's why I respect the hell out of what you're doing with the kids. Kids shouldn't have a cell phone until when they said? High school. They shouldn't have a cell phone until when they said? High school. They shouldn't have a cell phone until high school. And he's talking about Apple and how they're cornering the market. Look at Facebook. They don't have a monopoly.

That's the problem. And all the stuff that he's doing, I don't trust it. I don't believe it. By the way, so Tom, a couple questions for you. He says what has Apple created since the iPhone, right? What has Facebook created? They've acquired, well, that's exactly right. If you go take a look. No, but the question is what have they created?

Well, I read an article two years ago, maybe three years ago, it says since the thumbs up like, which was a Facebook innovation, that the newsfeed and the thumbs up like, which was a Facebook innovation, that the newsfeed and the thumbs up like were sort of extensions of Facebook and everything else, look at what they bought. They bought Instagram, they bought WhatsApp, they abandoned their own picture service that they were trying to build and they bought Instagram. And you look at what they bought versus what they've created and the

metaverse Zuckerberg was spending how much on that for four years? Where is it? Yeah that's what I'm saying. What is the last thing they created since the Facebook? I'm making your point. They've done little things on Facebook but there's been nothing groundbreaking in them. That's it, okay. So then the other question would be, do you think Zuck, going on the biggest podcast

in the world, went in there open or he went in there with intentions of making two, three, four, five statements that he knew he was gonna find a way to say while he was with Joe. Yeah, I agree. Everything that I've ever read about Mark Zuckerberg and what we've seen in Congress

is that he is scripted and intentional in public. He is not off at the, he does not go off at the end and just go to the corner of the room and just talk about what he's thinking. Okay. Everything is very intentional. Perfect, so you think what he said about Apple was intentional. Then if it's intentional, it better follow up

with an announcement, in my opinion. Meaning, that's why Facebook is announcing the, dot dot dot dot dot. That's why this, this, this, this, that. Because when you make a statement like that and you truly are a chess player, I'm looking forward to see the benefit of saying that. I'm looking forward to seeing,

if in the next two, four, six weeks he does do something that he announces, great. If that comment was made just because he thinks he's on the, you know, now he's got Trump's protection and Elon's protection because he gave Elon some credit with community notes, it's like, wow, now Elon's on my side, and Apple, I don't know, the reality of it is every one of these guys that has an app relies on people to use a phone that has most of the apps that are built on and that phone is called the iPhone. So if Zuck announces a Facebook phone coming out, because I think think the phone market remember how for the longest time They said nobody ever competed with Pepsi and Coke anybody that comes out with a drink

What do they do Pepsi or Coke buy some RC Cola? Whatever whatever they buy them right and it was 40 years until somebody was able to compete with auto manufacturers like Somebody that came out with a car until what car came out and started competing with all the for the GM all those other guys It was Tesla when is the last time somebody came out with a phone until what car came out and started competing with all the Ford, the GM, all those other guys? It was Tesla. When is the last time somebody came out with a phone that competed with phones? I don't remember. When?

Blackberry went out of business. Okay. Elon floored it with coming up with the Tesla phone. If you type in Tesla phone, there's pictures of the Tesla phone. If you go on images, yeah, there's a real sleek, right there, that's the image right there. That you would see, hey, what if they come up with a Tesla phone? Can you type in Facebook phone?

Type in Facebook phone. Facebook didn't make its own phone, but it did collaborate with HTC, and HTC first in 2013, first Android to reverse Facebook software, yeah. And what happened to it? They sold how many? 15,000 units, critics panned the phone the phone calling it one the biggest failures of 2013

The phone ran a pure version of android under the facebook Yeah, that's why i'm saying that comment has to be you can't make a comment like that to apple Without a follow-up tom I I agree with I agree with that point and one of the things I was thinking about when I made my top 10 predictions For the year. There is, it was like in the like number 13, I was making my list. One of the things I was noticing was this. X has put video programming on X, like long form, like a football game, right? They did it.

YouTube TV, they've been going at it for years. And they also just got NFL Sunday ticket, right? Yep. About a year ago, they signed that. People enjoying that. And then Amazon. Amazon had some playoff games. Remember that? Yep.

Yep. Well, what does Facebook need? They need stickiness, and they have a slightly older demographic than other social media. And so I thought about it and then I didn't think about what I'm about to say, but then I started thinking about it again a week ago, Pat, when Dana White's on the board. This is Facebook offering video programming,

almost like linear TV, and there's a certain guy on the board that has some of the biggest pay-per-view events in the known universe. I was thinking about that when I was doing my top prognostications for the year saying what if Facebook gets into the content game the way Amazon and others have tried because they don't have that. That's one thing they don't have. And what they need is stickiness to make the ad sales go further. Well, I mean, I got to, I think we got to give them a little credit. They did develop Facebook threads. I mean, that's killing it right now. Right? Yeah. But I actually, I should have a question from a business owners perspective

You know the way you sort of positioned it was like look what have they Developed, you know, cuz almost like their business model has been acquiring people right? acquiring competitors Seeing ideas out there in the marketplace and honestly, maybe getting them at a discount, like they bought Instagram for what, a billion dollars? Instagram is probably worth tens of billions of dollars, if not more at this point. From a CEO's perspective, from a founder's perspective, is there something wrong with that model?

Is that- No. Is that a viable business model? No, no. It's nothing wrong with that. You can do that. I'm just saying when you say, if let's just say I'm coming to tell you,

I'm better than you in, I'm trying to give an analogy, I'm better than you in ladies, right? As I look at Adam, when's the last time Adam got an eight? It was Mary, nine years ago. And then imagine you follow up and he say, bro, when's the last time you got a six? Okay, so you don't have the right to give that,

it's only time you say that, and if you are who I think you are, which is always intentional, he has to follow it up with, here's what we're announcing. And by the way, and FYI, you know what could happen? Let me tell you what could happen. Let me tell you what could happen. Let me tell you what could happen. What if he does something with Dana that's on the board now

that the Facebook stuff that you're talking about, Pay-Per-View is now on Facebook? That's very interesting angle. Then now that announcement could be Dana joins this, Now that announcement could be Dana joins this, Zuck goes on Rogan, takes a shot at Apple, gives credit to Musk, six weeks later UFC teams up with Facebook, ba ba ba. Guess what? Great job, great sequencing, I applaud you. Okay, now I get it.

So that's the part where I don't know what's going to happen next and we'll see. So last thing, was it Facebook that sued Apple in 2020? Remember the Apple commercial? That the famous Apple commercial in the 80s? Who is it that that was suing Apple for not letting them on the App Store? Was it Facebook? Yeah, Facebook opposed Apple's changes to app tracking and threatened to file and remember we covered this and this is Dallas I remember sitting there Qualcomm and Facebook and and two largest famous ad where The Apple commercial 1984 exactly so there's beef here. Yeah, something going on here. Okay, we'll see so let's next story

I'd like you to be five to ten minutes guys So Musk versus Bannon we got a few more to go through Bannon lashes out Musk versus Bannon Steve bannon lashes out at billionaire says he should go back to South Africa what a comment state to make so here we go Forbes Trump ally Steve Bannon attacked Elon Musk said he would do anything to keep the world's richest person out of the White House in a new interview with an Italian newspaper weeks after bannon publicly derided mus Musk for his

defense of a skilled visa program, Bannon said Musk should go back to South Africa where he is from asking why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, making comments at all on what goes on in the United States. According to a WAPO translation of Musk's interview with Corleigh de la Serra, Bannon, a controversial figure whose influence over Trump has been ebbed and flowed for years, says he would do anything to keep Musk off the White House and is actively working on a strategy

to limit his influence over Trump, telling the paper, Musk's ideas are really about the implementation of techno feudalism on a global scale. Tom. So, boy, we're just starting to see Bannon. Boy, when he got out and got back on the microphone, and got out after, in my opinion, wrongfully imprisoned, wrongfully prosecuted, but when he came back out, he's got a belly full of

fire. And the thing that he's linked his two weeks of diatribe to has been H-1B and his position that it takes jobs away from American workers and that their lower cost jobs and then the H-1B recipient can't change jobs easily. That's his core. I'm not saying that's my point. I'm saying that's what Bannon has said. And he says, so therefore, since they're getting them

for a lower price and they can't change jobs, they have a person there and they should be paying more to an American worker of whatever color, but an American citizen should have that job. So he's been really revved up on that. So he's been head to head with Elon Musk on that because Elon Musk was you know, it was kind of aimed at Bannon and others when people were very firm on H1B and

Musk said to everybody a few in the face, you know, this is the way I feel about it and but I don't agree with Bannon doubling down and then you know you know South Africa being racist yeah there's a history there but that's that'd be like if I had a German grandparent which I don't but I had a German grandparent be like Bannon saying there goes Ellsworth and his German grandparents always wanting to start a war and take things over I think that's out of bounds. Has South Africa had a history?

Sure it has. But how do you put that on Elon? Because he hasn't shown that. I haven't seen a racist guy. I see a guy sending Starlink around the world for natural disasters. I don't really see that. I think Bannon's got an issue with Visas and he's got a big beef with Musk and it's boiling over into some really heavy

Feelings I think you know and I like Steve Bannon. I know he's just trying to stir the pot But I must go about the South Africa. That's Anti-American the guy's American. He has done so much for, for hiring thousands of Americans, he's getting us out into space, free speech, he spent lost money to put us on X, and I mean do I agree with everything that Musk says? No, Todd. I think, you know, you never know what a true person's intentions are, we'll see in the long run, but this whole cheap anti-immigrant, dude the guy is an American citizen. Wasn't he a, he he a Canadian citizen as well, Tom? South African.

No, he wasn't Canadian. I think he was. Can you check that out, Rob? Was he a Canadian citizen as well? We're the land of opportunity. Okay, these people have busted their asses. They're doing their thing. It's like I see a little jealousy. I see a little anger. I'm all about, and everybody out there knows, I'm America first, but this is a cheap-ass shot. And it's like we've been saying it that the Democrats want to separate us and have us all fighting and blah blah blah. I think Steve Bannon is better than this. I know he's angry about being wrongfully accused, but you know what? You have platforms like X that you get to talk all this shit that you cut.

You probably would have been in trouble or banned three years ago. Now you can say whatever the hell you want. I'm not a big fan of it. You don't like what he's saying, but you defend his right to say it. Yeah, you're damn right. 100%. Well, as Andrew Schultz said, he's one of my favorite African Americans ever. But Elon Musk, did you hear what else he said? He said it wasn't just that, oh, he should go back to South Africa and there's a history of racism and apartheid in South Africa. Okay. That's one thing. He said the

following. Elon Musk is a truly evil guy a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. All right, you think you're taking Elon Musk down the richest man in the world. Just got out of jail. Choose your enemies wisely. This is what you want to do. This is what you want to choose. This is punching up.

I get it. You know, I said in a couple podcasts ago, MAGA 1.0 versus MAGA 2.0. Sort of the nationalists, the populists, the anti-immigrant, anti-trade, those types of piece versus look, call it what you will. Elon Musk is a globalist. He has business all over the world. There are, there is some conversation to be had about his relationship with China. You know, Steve Bannon basically says he's owned by China in so many words. But the other thing that Steve Bannon said the other day was very interesting is, you know, we converts, we want converts, we want

people to convert, we want, we want people to come to the party, but you sit in the back of the room. And I look at it that comment, like, all right, you think that Elon Musk who just gave what how much money? Quarter of a billion dollars to the Trump campaign is gonna sit in the back of the room, buddy He's driving shotgun at this point So at the end of the day this MAGA 1.0 versus back at 2.0 who's the one person that can defuse this who's? Who's the one person that can make sure everything's okay Trump? You know six days from now. He's as an inauguration you think Trump likes this I Don't think you think you think Trump because remember Trump is not who you think you are do you think he's he's a guy

That looks at the world in a different way than the average person does do you think Trump likes this? No, tell me the fighting the fighting with Bennett No Do you think Trump likes this? No. Tell me why. The fighting with Bannon? No. Because I know that he knows that Bannon's been there for him old school. Bannon has gone to prison for him because of his ideas and being a MAGA supporter. And I think Elon's doing something completely, same type of vision, same type of goal, but just in a different lane. But I don't think Trump likes the infighting before he's even come into office.

He's not even there yet. I got to tell you, I don't know what role Steve Bannon has in the new Trump administration, if anything. I don't think he has one. And by the way, I know one thing about Trump. He's no fan of the illegal immigration. He's no fan of the illegals. But when you talk about immigrants and legal immigrants

I mean even as in his inner circle doesn't have Sebastian Gorka. Yes, doesn't have Boris Epstein. That's part of it I'm sure there's more but also don't forget two out of his three wives have been legal immigrants Right, yeah the the mother to his first three kids and to his last kid Baron Trump So Melania, so what are we talking about with this anti immigrant anti? Anti foreign-born people coming to America going back to their country. It's a little nativist and it's a little nationalist And that's fine sometimes but not the white nationalist perspective. Not down for that. All right, Helen Wills, killer who plowed car

into the wall murdering to wind about handcuffs during arrest. So very weird story here, folks. Okay, so here's a girl that boyfriend breaks up with her. In a newly released video, Mackenzie Sharila, Here's a girl that boyfriend breaks up with her. In a newly released video, McKenzie Sherilla, then 17, appeared more concerned about her jewelry than the fatal crash she caused, which killed her boyfriend, Dominique Russo, and his friend, Davin Flanagan, 19.

When arrested, Sherilla tearfully asked officers, could you please be careful taking this one off so it doesn't break the bracelet, 19. When arrested, Sharila tearfully asked officers, could you please be careful taking this one off so it doesn't break the bracelet, please. Officers assured her they would handle the handcuffs gently. A year later, she was sentenced to two concurrent 15-year life sentences with Judge Nancy Margaret Russo calling her literal hell on wheels, stating this was not reckless driving, this was murder.

Security footage revealed Sharila deliberately accelerated her Toyota Camry to 100 miles an hour, veered off the road and crashed into a brick warehouse, killing both passengers instantly. The prosecution argued she acted with purpose and intent due to a strained relationship with Russo. Though THC levels in her system exceeded the legal limit, no DUI charges were pursued. What's this one here, Rob?

What's the clip that you have? This is her arrest where she complains about the handcuffs breaking her wrist bracelet. Go for it. Step out for me. I'm Detective Hazzu. I'm the one who's been investigating the crash. You're under arrest for aggravated murder times too.

Geez. Nobody's going to ask you any questions. Nobody's going to bother you. Can I have your key please? Could you please be careful taking this one off so it doesn't break the bracelet? You got it. You got it. Do you want my necklace? No. Thank you. You got it.

Okay. Was it your mom? No. Was it her sister? Was that her? This is her parents. Thank you. You got it. No, was that right on this is no parents Progress on me to car into a building to our deceased in the vehicle dogger's driving I Don't know whether because one that we don't know his name is Jacob does anyone know a Jacob I don't we don't this your daughter's okay. She's talking to us my talk to her. Okay, your daughter's alive. Okay

Your daughter's alive She was driving. Okay. Who was that? Jacob and Hill? I think it was...what's the name you said? Dom. Might be. Oh my god. Stop!

What's his relation to... Point, point, point. Yeah, then Dom was in the car. Stop! Oh my god! What? Are you kidding me? Count three. Murder.

The court having had count 3 tried to and pursuant to a waiver, finds the defendant, Mackenzie Sherrill, guilty of murder, to win Dominic Russo in violation of the Mohari-Biase Code section 2903.02b as charged in Count 3. Count 4, murder. The court having had Count 4 tried to and pursuant to a waiver, 15 years to life to two of us so 30 she's gonna get 30 I think listen it wasn't like she made a mistake guys this girl this is premeditated

She put them in the car, and she purposely drove them to murder them okay? And she's gonna get to see the light of day at some point. How old is she right now Robbie? She's 18 Hi, I'll define okay high on marijuana. You know I'm saying I don't making stupid decisions. I think this is a it's a deeper Angle with you know drugs irresponsibility lack of consequences those kids are gone those families are freaking ruined and she's gonna be able to see the light of day again I would have put her life in prison because nobody everybody wants to say have leniency but it's not your kids your son wasn't in that car your daughter wasn't I mean that that that to me is absolutely ridiculous she's a murderer

she premeditated it and she should be punished accordingly. There is a side of this that I read that it was, the word that I read was fluke. It was a fluke in the way the crash happened that she was not injured at all. And that no one can read inside her mind but that this was a... That's the car? That's the car, Tommy.

That's the car. That this was basically a murder-suicide. Her intent was that everybody's going together. Wow. You know what I mean? And so you look at that and you're saying- Well, I just texted you the clip if you- And that's the side of the, obviously where he was sitting,

her side is less damaged, obviously. And they said it was a fluke. Yeah, okay. That, I mean, come on. It wasn't like she stopped on the freeway, he got out and got hit by a truck. She deliberately had that horrible crash. And anyway, what I read was that the

speculation was in her mental state she was depressed she was angry and she was high and it was like a murder suicide. And I know people are asking how do you know it wasn't it was a cheap yeah dude wow 100 miles an hour and that right turn that you were talking about in Dude, wow. One hundred miles an hour. And that right turn that you were talking about in court, because I saw the thing, in court the lawyer was arguing, you see Rob, go to that, go to the one before Robbie, just

right before this happens, Tom, she takes this little turn, she, look, yeah, you can fast forward it, Rob, to where this is her right before, take it, because they died down the street, look at her, take this right turn right before taking, because they died down the street. Look at her, take this right turn, calm and collected, they're in the car, everything is good. By the way, it's 5.30 in the morning and then she accelerates. And then she does that. And then she does that because he broke up with her because they were fighting.

Okay, yeah. If that's your kid, if that's your kid in that car, you want her to spend the rest of her life in prison, plain and simple. That's it. I'm sorry you made a mistake. Now pay the price. That's tough to watch. I feel for everybody.

We showed the parents of her receiving the news. Could you imagine the parents of the two children? I think they actually did, which sucks. That when you imagine their response to receiving this message, you know, Pat, you say something, taught us something and I repeated all the time, especially when giving advice to young people from, you know, your teenage years to up till 20. The number one goal is don't screw it up. Don't mess it up. Right? Second chapter of your life, make your money. Third chapter, fulfill a purpose. Fourth chapter, give back, right? So here are two young people that are never even going to get to the second, third, fourth chapter of life. And by the way, her life is obviously ruined. But, you know, this, why do you think she did this? She's in love. Her boyfriend did something at 17 18 years old. You know, we've all been in love when we're 17 18 years old. You this first love this emotion it's running wild. You think that everything that life is it's all happening right now. But when you pan out, you're going to have other relationships, you're going to have other friendships. You know, we say play the long game here. This girl is so caught up in the moment that this

whatever minor situation that he did, it affected her so much that now she's spending how many years in jail? 30. Okay. And there's two dead people here. So emotions will get the best to you. And Tom, this is another exhibit. Well, beyond the first point, which was my very mechanical research into it, and that's hard to watch and the sound is horrifying. You know, you've got a situation now with parents that are going to reflect back and saying, wow, all of our child rearing, all the things we did, all the things we set up, all the examples we set, all the guard rails, if any,

and now she's driving while stoned, high. We know that because of the THC levels were there. Exceeding the legal limit. I didn't know there was a legal limit for THC in that state, actually. I know there's DUIs, but I think that you gotta look back to the Michigan case with the shooter. Parents gotta take some accountability here.

And gotta take some accountability. Insurance companies, we'll go back to that, are really good at making you pay if your kids broke a $2,000 window with a baseball in your neighbor's house and your kid's 918. That insurance company on that $2,000 window with labor and everything, three grand to replace it, their insurance, homeowners insurance company is gonna be really good at finding you and asking you to pay for that. Of course, they're really good at that. And

Michigan got as said, Hey, you know what? You're buying guns. You got them in the house. You've got this and you're responsible for deeds. Your kids, you know, there needs to be parental accountability here and it needs to be accountability for for whatever you did, however you raised her, whatever happened. Something broke and something wasn't right. And she thinks it's okay to be high and driving, number one. Number two, she's in a relationship with somebody. Where were you with the breakup?

What do you know about it? How close are you to your kid with what they're going through with their friends? Do you know who's in your circle around your kids? Do you know who's in your kids' ears? That's your responsibility as a parent. Kids will hide. Kids will have secret friends. Kids will do things. But transparency, guardrails, active parenting is all there to prevent it. And those parents are very shocked as any parents would be getting the news, but the question is, where were you? Where were you? And how in your household did she, how was she raised and what was permissible, what was wasn't?

And I think we're entering an era where we're really gonna look long and hard about parental responsibility in a lot of these things. Kids will do dumb things, but they will do less done things when raised well. Yeah. You know, when he said, where were you, where were you, you know what movie that's from? Johnny Cash father and son are sitting at the table. I think it's Thanksgiving and the father's throwing Joaquin Phoenix under the bus for not being there. The day his brother

died and you know, that whole difficult scene of Johnny Cash and he's saying, where were you? And finally, Joaquin Phoenix, Johnny Johnny Cash flips out and says where were you? Where were you as a father? And it was a you just took me there right now and I got the chills all over my body. No it's true but also at the same time man like you have to you have to realize you know when you're younger your temperament where you're at how you can flip out you know you're oh you're oh think about your temperament right now when you're younger, your temperament, where you're at, how you can flip out. Think about your temperament right now when you're older. And then add your testosterone level at 16, 17, 18, you're trying to figure yourself out. Then add mom and dad maybe are not living with you.

You have challenges, issues going through, you're trying to kind of figure out friendships, being accepted. It's such a delicate, delicate moment where you need every single help possible to shape your kids into the right mindset, whether it's God, whether it's anything. We're having the conversations about, with the kids earlier,

when New Year's about the key word I talked to them about was being intentional. And then this week I talked about them about was being intentional. And then this week I talked about on last week's business plan, the three words for 2025. One of them was being signal and controlling the noise. If you can learn how to live your life with the noise, you know, noise of people saying things about you that's out.

I tell my kids, let's role play. Kids in school say, well, you don't know your daddy's this. What do you say to them? I'm going to punch him in the face. No, you can't do that. You're going to say this. What are you going to tell them? What if they say this? And what if they say this? And I'm poking them. How are you going to manage this noise? How are you going to handle it? And they're getting upset with me. I'm like, why are you getting upset with me? This is coming around the corner, kid. You're a kid right now. What are you gonna do when you get older? And you read stuff. You think we're getting fired right now? You think this is just gonna stay the way it is right now? You think we got a glimpse

of it in 2024? What do you think is gonna happen in 2030 when you're 18 years old, when you're 17 years old, when your sister's 14 years old, when Brooklyn is 9 years old? What do you think is gonna happen? What do you think is gonna happen? We talked about this last week. Was it last week when we talked about the noise that we have to be? Yeah, I think it was last week when after the podcast, we talked about what's going to happen with the noise. But man, parents have to spend that additional time talking to them.

Rob, is this the mom, Vinny? Is this the- This is the mother learning that her son is gone after the accident. And again, and you're nailing it. It's about those conversations which, and we saw the other girl, the actual killer's parents, they look like a normal family. They're emotional, they're sad. The smoking marijuana, the lack of this,

like it takes a certain type of person to have that click to become a murderer. That's not just a random thing. This is the mother of her son finding out that she was. So why is this film? This is like a body cam from a cop got it See this yeah, I don't really want to say I was two passengers Well who we believe is dominant okay, what McKenzie told us okay, okay both Davion and Dominic are deceived

Okay, both Davion and Dominic are deceased. Oh God! I mean that sucks Adam, but that's the reality of it. That's what, now she has to live with that for the rest of her life. That girl's gonna be in jail getting paid, getting taxpayer money to keep her alive and she's gonna come and see the light of day. They're never gonna get their kids back. It's over. I think we have to see stuff like this because that's the sad reality of it. That's the sad

part that nobody wants to talk about and see. What's the worst that the kid the boyfriend could have possibly done? I don't love you. What? Yeah, I love you through the there's nothing about this girl that I can tell that she's, you know, Charles Manson in a skirt. No, she's an emotional teenager. Who's her boyfriend be flirted with a different girl at 17 years old Yeah, you murder kill and she freaks out and the friend so the friend gets it. It's controlling your emotions Like Pat said, it's horrible tragic. I want to see this

Yeah, it's tough. It's it's tough to say the least and condolences to the families who have to hear with a surprise Message unlike this. This is why parents ought to be involved with the friends and have conversations Read a book long time ago. It was called. Thank God. It's Monday Rob I think we talked about this with chase Hughes and You remember it took you a minute to find the book. So don't worry about trying to find a book He says this guy was a psychologist. He would talk to men who were so happy they were going back to work on Monday

to be away from the family and all the drama. Like it's kinda like that movie with the remote control was the father that Adam Sandler. Click. Click. Is this called like man, I just wanna freakin' fast forward this part of life. Yeah, I think it was called Click. There are certain things in life you can't fast forward.

There are certain things in life you cannot match up. There are certain things in life you can't fast forward. There are certain things in life you cannot match up. There are certain things in life. I watch Tom, Vinny, when I tell you guys this, I watch Tom, no matter where we are in the world, no matter what time it is, he always called Bailey, he always called Brooke, checking on their day, telling them he loves them, always, no matter where it was, every time and look at his growth the

result that is a byproduct of a phenomenal freaking father that Thomas phenomenal father that Thomas yeah no no question what this thing did to me was made me realize this that mom she ain't getting her kid back. The other parent, she ain't getting her kid back. The two parents, they just lost their daughter for 30 years. You know, we're talking about all these fires in LA right now. Houses, gone. One of our friends here, I don't want to say his name, but from LA, you know, I'm talking

about C-suite executive here. You know, his childhood home burnt down, burnt down. He showed me the photo and he was just like, yeah, this is it. Calm collective. I go, how are you so calm right now? He's also the guy that walked into the glass. He goes, look, man, it's a house. It's a property.

You can replace that. you can't replace family. And that's what this is making, that's why I'm like, I don't wanna see this video of the mother crying. These people are gonna be able to build their houses, some things are gonna be financially unstable for a while, but that's the real tragedy right there, losing a kid, losing family right there. Put things in perspective.

Yep, tough to see that. Okay, so next story to go to. Let me see what stories I had at the top that for us to go through that was non-addendum related. Okay, I got that one. Maybe a lighthearted story. Well, let's go to this next story. All right, so only 16% of Americans say

Disney content is better than it was in the past. All right, so only 16% of Americans say Disney content is better than it was in the past. All right, 16%. Disney content better than it was before. Erasmus and Paul found that only 16% of Americans believe Disney's content is better than it was in the past. While 47% say it's worse, 29% believe it has stayed the same. Amongst Republicans, 65% believe a percent think Disney's entertainment has gone worse revealing what poll described as profound image crisis for Disney Disney's 2024 Star Wars spin-off acolyte was canceled after one season despite an estimated cost of close to a quarter of a billion dollars. Oh my God. The series featured a transgender

actor. Is this a serious Rob? I'll have to, I didn't hear about the show, but I'll look at the series featured a transgender actor as well as a coven of seemingly lesbian witches, which show runner Leslie headland calling it the gayest star Wars ever. Following backlash headland later backtracked somewhat somewhat but the damage was done making another high profile failure for Disney. Is this a joke? Really? Was that Jake's voice?

Jake, what do you know about the story here? The gay Star Wars ever. Can you pull up Rob the picture of it to see what this actually looked like? Not even play a clip. So zoom in a little bit. So who's zoom in? Can we see this? That's the poster. So who's zoom in can we see this that's the poster So who's the transgender here?

That's the secret They spent a quarter of a billion dollars on this and they shut it down and one season Right, who is this person to showrunner? Leslie headland with a why Leslie headland Head land. Yeah, is that it? Yeah, can we see who she is zoom in a little bit American film tellers and security? Leslie Headland, is that it? Can we see who she is? Zoom in a little bit, American film,

in terms of security, probably right. Dedicated a comedic film to Bachelorette, sleeping with other people, co-created on a Russian doll, earned a two-time prime, many outstanding, for example, writing comedy, creator, showrunner, Disney, Star Wars, and acolyte, 2020s player. She has written a book, systems, Cosmo, okay, so, 44, 45, Maryland, US, spouses Rebecca Henderson.

Also, she is a part of the LGBTQ community and she called this movie the gayest movie ever. Was she saying that as a compliment? I thought it was a shot, so let's just see. Upon graduating from Headland, spent six years working as an assistant at Miramax, one year which she spent as Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant.

So she was Harvey's personal assistant and her experience during that time is what inspired her 2012 play The Assistant. So she claimed she was not physically assaulted by Weinstein and did not witness any incidents. Go a little lower Rob to see what else she said. Keep going lower, keep going lower, keep going lower, keep going lower. She wasn't his type. Rotten Tomatoes, the series, has an average rating of 78% based on 246 critic reviews, Hollywood Reporter coming on.

Okay, of course, they're gonna say, so if it was so good, why did it shut down? Go to the lower again, Rob. The lower, I think, let's say headlines. Okay, so now maybe, who's this Rebecca Henderson? Rebecca Henderson, can you just click on her name right there? Let's see who she is. She's somebody that was in Hollywood as well.

Canadian actress, she's known for a portrayal of Lizzie on Netflix series Russian Doll. Okay, Henderson was born and raised in Canada, she moved to New York. Got October 19th, it was announced that the couple, got it. So go to the quote, is there a clip of her saying, like this is the gayest ever, is there a video clip? Yeah, he just said it to Rob in the PBD podcast,

prep Robbie, that's dope, now I know exactly who she is. This is the video that I saw of them, Tom, of them Rob interviewing and they're laughing about how it's gay. My intuition is that she's not saying it disparagingly. No, she's saying it in a way like, come see it, it's the gayest. It's a big difference. Oh yeah, that it it's the gayest. Here we go.

And then we wonder why your shit fails. The way she's sitting. I want to ask you both because this is arguably the gayest. Star Wars. It's way too loud. Lord audio please. Did you do that?, thank you. Go for it. I want to ask you both because this is, I would say arguably the gayest. He's not gay. By a considerable margin. And are you excited about that? Are you bracing yourself? Nothing gay in Star Wars.

Nothing. Girl, so happy. It's pretty gay. I'll be honest. Chante. Leslie, are you, how do you feel? Am I gay? Yes.

No, I know you are gay, but I'm asking are you excited about putting this, you know, this is gonna be a talking point? Is it gonna be a talking point? I'm sure some... Because nerds are gay. Yeah. Well, some nerds are very not gay and are very threatened by gay stuff. Well, that's true, but in my world, nerds are gay.

Okay. Oh, God. Is this a fun element of... No, I don't think so, and yet people have told me that it's the gayest Star Wars and I frankly... You're offended? Into it. Into it. $250 million later.

I think that Star Wars is so gay already. I mean, have you seen the fits? We'd be like, look how gay this is, and then send each other a reference photo. And are you telling me, with a straight face, that C-3PO is straight? They're a couple. That's what I think. Oh my god, and you guys want to wonder why you lost money? R2D2 is a lesbian Even the word alchol I have like a rainbow ish But and and you would guys you would you would think I was uncomfortable to watch that's horrible

And they lost and and they keep dumping money into these horrible, woke, LGBTQ ideas. And guys, by the way, nerds obviously don't like it. And nerds, they're some gay, they don't like it. You're poisoning something that was meant to entertain and now it's just gone completely LGBTQAI plus whatever other letters that they have. and I'm happy to see that these freaking now They're losing the studio lost two hundred and fifty million dollars because of these giggling idiots Look, we've been talking about the way Disney Tom Bob Iger could have given that 250 million dollars Just so you guys know to Steve Naismith. He could go exactly right. Way better investment, I'll tell you that much.

Well, why not? Go ahead, Tom. Should have given at least 90 of it. Stephen A is listening. He knows what I mean. Cut. Give him the check. So what you have on here is you have to remember who greenlit this.

Eiger Greenlit this. Of course he did. Probably two to three years ago. And what's her name? Kathleen Kennedy, who is part of that. And so this comes right out of the pre-fake shift at Disney. Because Disney's trying to make a fake shift, right?

They're trying to say, oh, it's really not this, it's really not that. They're trying to make this fake shift and get people back in the parks and build content. And so instead, this thing comes out, which was greenlit two years ago, and it just shows you. You just saw what a bubble looks like. That is a thought bubble, a creative bubble.

You just saw the bubble. And it's like, are you three people serious? The one guy is apparently a journalist covering it or a PR guy. But you're looking into that and you're saying, so you people are making the decision. Does it surprise you that that's the movie that came out if that was the creative people in the room? She's a show runner. Yep.

Right? Exactly. It doesn't surprise me. What surprised me is there's actually 16% of Americans that thought the content's better. That's the curiosity I have is where are the 16% somewhere? Do they all live in, do they all just live in West Hollywood? Of course they do.

And this isn't an attack on anybody's lifestyle. My point is if you live in a bubble like that and you're building and you're making content for a more broad-based audience, says, you know, there's That's that's a little over-the-top with all what was a joke they were making about yeah You know r2d2 are you do me or whatever the name of the robot? She was talking about whatever she's three or whatever the CP 3. Oh is they're saying but you tell me straight

Here's the challenge they're having Pat pointed this out not so long ago. It's who is Disney's customer Is it kids? Not really. It's the parents. Because the parents got to take their kids to go watch these movies. The parents got to go take their 12 year old, 10 year old, five year old, whatever it is to go watch these movies to buy these products. So the parents. So who's having kids? Well, more often than not, it's usually a man and a woman having kids so this isn't anything about anti-gay or anti LGBT it's just understanding your customer what is it called know your customer rules isn't that isn't a thing in business know your customer and insurance it is yeah fraud right so well this turned out to be a fraud of capitalism over here and fraud of

basically running a company because this is stock prices basically pummeled since all these Go-woke-go-broke movies came out, you know speaking of go-woke-go-broke Disney stock price plummeted since basically 2020 when everyone realized what the hell's happening with all these cancel culture DEI Agendas out here. So I remember as a kid growing up, Lion King, frickin' Akuna Matata, are you kidding me? The Little Mermaid, I mean, all the girls like that kind of stuff.

Aladdin, awesome movies. What are the movies they make now? What is this? I don't know what it is. So as a parent, I'd have a very hard time being looking at Disney, being like, yes, we're going to go. We're going to go pay money for these movies.

We're going to go spend money. Give this company money. Here's the thing. What percentage of America is actually gay or LGBT? 2%, 5%, whatever it is. But in Hollywood, Hollywood, what percentage are LGBT? Let's say it's 20%. It's probably more. So you have people 20, 30, 40, 50% of Hollywood, 5% LGBT,

dictating culture to kids and to parents. So it's a supply and demand issue. Yeah. And look, again, remember earlier we talked about a person at 37 years old has the kid thinking about buying a house business all that other stuff This is your state This is your state. This is what they want to do the school the education the ideas the policies Disney, California They believe this is the norm again more of a reason to realize what direction things are going FYI Bad thing about Hollywood and movies is when you make a movie and you say yes to a movie, you can't change your mind for five years. Let's think about it. So right now Bob Iger sitting there saying, oh my god, I got two more years of shitty movies coming out that I gotta put up with, that everyone's gonna be

talking about me, but I can't wait for 2027, you know, if he's even thinking that. But what a bad place to be for a guy 2027, if he's even thinking that. But what a bad place to be for a guy like him, that he knows there's a couple more bad movies coming out that we don't even know about. I know it's crazy, you could sit on them and they'll do it, but I mean, it'd be a waste of $250 million. Yeah, well, let's see what happens.

So here we go. Again, he could have saved that money and just given it to Stephen A. I mean, he needs it. So Hamas expected to release 33 hostages in first phase of emergent deal. Israeli officials say, okay, this is a CNN story. They could have added something to the title,

but they did not, but it's okay. So let's go through it. Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages in the first phase of ceasefire deal after being finalized in Doha as Confirmed by senior zero officials President Joe Biden described the deal as aiming to free the hostages Halt the fighting provide a security to Israel and allow us to significantly search humanitarian assistance to Palestinians Who suffer terribly in this war that Hamas started? They have been through hell.

Negotiations involved a 42-day ceasefire and stipulate that hostages released may include both living individuals and the bodies of those deceased with ongoing logistical talks in Doha. Key figures and developments and negotiations include Mossad Director David Barnea to a senior Israel official who stated there is a talk of engagement agreement in the near future it is impossible to say whether it's a matter of hours or days. Adam. Well, look, first and foremost, is it ironic that this announcement when there has not been any movement with hostages in months and months and months under the Biden administration, do you find it a little ironic this is is happening one week. So Trump takes over office because what did Trump say? If these hostages aren't returned by the time I take office, what were the words? I have Hamas

You're gonna have hell to pay So the people of Gaza paid a lot paid a hefty price already Tom. Do you have the quote that the video? Is that the video? Yes. Yeah is that the video yes yes last Wednesday when president-elect Trump was at Mar-a-Lago and spoke about the hostages by the inaugural all hell must be paid they don't release the hostages do I have to define it for you?

all hell will break out if those hostages aren't back I don't want to hurt your negotiation. If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. And it will not be good for Hamas. And it will not be good, frankly, for anyone, all hell will break out. I don't have to say anymore. But that's what it is. Let me tell you, by the way, disagree with Trump or agree with Trump.

He took a stance. That's it. Joe Biden tried to pander to the Jewish people, try to pander to the Muslim people. And Trump won not only the Jewish vote. He also won the Muslim vote. Did he not? Cause at least the Muslims, they want peace and prosperity as well.

Do they not? So a person who was a slave, what does it say in the Bible? A person who, if you don't pick a path, basically you're a slave to two masters, no one could serve two masters. He said this, I'm standing with Israel right here. We know where he stands. By the way, speaking of Hamas, they're the only terrorist group, terrorist group, that has worldwide sympathizers.

Nobody's marching for ISIS. Nobody's marching for Al-Qaeda. Nobody's marching for Hezbollah. Nobody's marching for Islamic Jihad. It's only Hamas. Ask yourself why. Go ahead, you know the answer. Tom, I think this is what leadership looks like.

Take a look at the way the Democrats campaign the campaign on feelings, right? We'll step aside from the I'm not Trump that was the strategy be not Trump, but it's all about feelings You have been deprived by them You have been discriminated by them feelings feelings feelings They it's all about feelings and when you get into facts You have been discriminated by them. Feelings, feelings, feelings. It's all about feelings, and when you get into facts, they don't want to talk about it, because they want to create the angry feeling response in the voter.

And when you go to negotiate, and your tactic to win an election, Joe Biden, was based on feelings, and when the strategies you use are feelings projected by media and the person on the other side goes, that's all you've got? Is feelings? And they laugh at you, Hamas, they laugh at that. And then a guy with substance who says simple words, I don't need to define that for you.

You know who he's talking to? He's talking to Hamas and he's telling them, I don't need to define that for you either. And when leadership that has substance, that knows that reasonable actions are going to follow reasonable conclusions and that statements are not to be doubted because the actions will follow and you're not going to

like the consequence. Its decisions have consequences. You have made the decision. I will bring the consequences and it's action. It's leadership and action that you're seeing out of Trump there and they're moving not unlike what on Ronald Reagan because you know what the best position for America is the best position for America is when the rest of the world thinks that our guy is decisive and a little crazy because that is our card now that that our guy and a little crazy he's got a lot of events he's gonna be at the next

few days while these things are taking place, the current national security advisor, here's a video Jake Sullivan, and I think Vinny, you asked me the question before you played it and I didn't know where you were going with it. Do you mind asking the same question of the audience? Okay, here's what Vinny said to me. He says, I want you to watch this and tell me if there's something weird about the delivery of what he says in this walk Just watch it. That's what you said to me And I'm like what are you saying Vinnie in about 10 seconds into it? You're gonna say why did you say that you didn't have to say that? What's your point of saying that are you insinuating something?

Are you suggesting something just watch this year go for drop? I just will say one last word, which is this is I hope this is my last time at this podium, at least for a little while. I don't mean that in a negative sense. I mean the only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days, which as you all know is totally possible given what you've seen over the course of the past years. But if it is in fact my last time before you, I just want to say thank you for what you guys do every day. Thank you for putting up with me. Why would the national security advisor fully possible say farewell, but go hey, listen,

you might hear from me again if something happens. And I would think since you're the national security advisor, you have the FBI, we have all these apparatus. You should say nothing is going to happen because we're secure. He says, cause it could quite possibly almost, he's almost as he's letting us know something is going to happen and you are going to hear from them. Or I told you so. It's not my fault. Yeah. I don't like, I don't like that at all. I don't, I don't know what you're saying.

What do you mean? What do you see different? Okay. He gives a briefing. How often? Once a week. Okay. How much more time is he having this job? No, this might be his last. Exactly. Okay. So this is literally his last time speaking on less on less. Something crazy happens in a week. So literally, literally, it's his last time speaking, unless something crazy happens. In a week. So literally, literally, it's his last time speaking, unless something crazy happens. He said, I hope nothing happens. We all hope nothing happens. But as we all know, shit happens. No, no, no, no, no, no.

That's not what he said. Stay on that. You're right. Everything you said was right up until Rob played. This is the statement I have a problem with. Go right the middle Rob if you don't mind there's place press play the only thing that would bring me back is An unexpected event to pause few days. Okay an unexpected event in the next few days. He's right Yeah, that's what we're both now watch the next sentence this next sentence. I'm not comfortable with go ahead Rob

Which as you all know is totally possible Everything you've seen over which is totally possible instead you reassured the American people to say which is highly Unlikely because we have such a great leadership team that's working Day and night to make sure all the events leading up to the inauguration is gonna be safe and sound while people come here to celebrate This day you ensure confidence. You don't make a comment like that. You make a comment like that. You know why you make a comment like that?

What do you make a comment like that for? To sort of say, hey, give the righties on the wall? Or you know something. I don't think he has anything to do with the inauguration. That's not what I'm interpreting this. He's a national security. Yeah, so I'm thinking about what he's saying is like, hey, under my leadership

Under Joe Biden's leadership. Yeah, we now have more wars around the world more chaos than we did four years ago So as you know Anything could happen in the next five in the next five days I know that's how I'm interpreting like I'm guaranteeing the people watching this and the people that have never heard that are Completely on 95% are uncomfortable with the national security advisor going hey because we know how shit has happened in the past people get been shot presidents have been shot it might happen do I think he should project strength and security of course yeah not that right but I don't think he's doing anything malicious well we'll see we have a week left gang we have a

couple special podcasts that'll go out this week. One will be with Scottie Pippen. We had a two hour plus conversation. I asked him a question. I said, would you rather have a ring that you want outside of Michael Jordan's help or would you rather have gotten paid an additional hundred million dollars? You have to see his answer to that question. Comes out on Friday. And also with all the homelessness stuff that's going on in California, up to 181,000, I think 24% of homelessness in America out of 770,000 is California. Number one is LA. I brought in somebody who lived on Skid Row seven years, addicted to all the drugs in the world, heroin.

Mom died from heroin. And I wanted her to find out exactly what happened in LA. His podcast, Rob, is going out when? Tomorrow, Wednesday at 9 a.m. Which I can't wait, that's maybe the one I'm very excited about because he actually addresses how to fix the homelessness problem that's going on in the state of California.

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you know someone that you they're going through something is some of them we can only give a thousand dollars two thousand dollars so some of them we're gonna give five ten thousand dollars to we have a hundred eight thousand dollars that's going to somebody in the next 24 to 48 hours if you know anybody that's a friend family member give us your information Give us their phone number. We'd like to call them to help them out while they're going through these challenging times God bless everybody. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye