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So, folks, holistically, we're planning on having a holistic podcast because we all grew up in middle class families and we believe in opportunity economy. And when you work as in the district attorney's office of California, you've worked with a lot of people like this before.

And that's pretty much what one of the candidates keeps saying over and over and over and over again. Nobody's getting any answers. You got to see this interview yesterday. Space. Imagine you're doing a job interview with someone. Someone says, so...

Tell me what happened with your previous job when you got fired. Okay, so I walked in and just holistically, it wasn't what I wanted. No, no, you can't even answer it. Oh, yeah. Answer. So why did you get fired at your last job, Vinny? You know, listen, I can't. Next question, sir. I grew up in a small neighborhood. My mom had three jobs. There was a lot. Yeah, she tried to raise us and, you know, it was rough, so.

Okay. Yeah. And your background here, there's a six-year gap of not having a job. Okay. Why do you have a six-year gap in your resume of not working? Okay, so Patrick, I came from a small town. Okay, my mom worked three jobs. This would drive me nuts. Dude, and that's all Kamala does. I'm buying it. I'm voting for that. I remember a lawn. And I'm not burdened by what has been.

or what can be unburdened. But anyways, guys, there's a few things. Mark Cuban has officially revealed what job he wants under Kamala Harris. And I have an idea why he wants that job.

Mark, I think I have an idea why you want that job. And we'll talk about it because you were also on Theo Vaughn and you guys texted Elon Musk and what you texted Elon and what he texted you back. And what's the last time you didn't text him back or he didn't text you back. And then we got this other guy that Eric Adams in New York, that's apparently being indicted and even responded with a video and AOC wants him gone yesterday.

And who's going to replace him? Who is that person? Tom read the entire charter last night for New York. Literally, we're not kidding. He'll tell you an update on what's going on there.

And then Shapiro, Josh Shapiro, you have to see what he's signing with Zelensky being there. And so when people tell, you know, they tell me, oh, my God, look at all the kids that were lost. How about the Russian kids? So it matters what kind of kids are dying. Right. The Russian kids dying with the bombs that Shapiro is signing is not that important. So it matters what kind of apparently that's what you guys care about. The people in media that want to say, look at all the kids lost.

And children that we lost. Because when you see this, signing a flipping bomb. Like, hey, let me sign this that's going to explode and kill a bunch of people. And let's celebrate it. Let's put it in a museum in, what do you call it, Ukraine. And I think Kamala or Biden are thinking about giving them another $8 billion. Some story like that popped up. We'll talk about that. That's Nikki Haley's move, signing bombs. And long range. They want to give them long range missiles. That's the establishment's move, man. We'll talk about that. Iran. Iran.

trying to assassinate Donald Trump over U.S. leaders. They even made a video to get vengeance, seek vengeance on Ghassan Soleimani. You have to watch this video. We'll show it to you. And then you have to see the response from Trump to it.

The son of Ryan Routh was charged with ready child pornography. The son of the guy that was trying to shoot him that said, I'm going to give you $150,000 to get the job done. His son arrested, charged with child pornography. Studies show Taylor Swift's endorsement may turn people off. We talked about it on the podcast. Janet Jackson, Jackson.

said anytime, any place, I'm not voting for her. Her words, by the way, I'm kidding. I made it up, but she said, disavows unauthorized apology for saying Kamala Harris is not black. So somebody on her camp came out and said, I'm speaking on behalf of Janet Jackson. We're going to apologize. It's like, no, I never said that. I speak for myself.

Vinny has a theory what's going on there with a couple words that Trump may have said many, many years ago about Michael Jackson when Michael Jackson was spending time with Trump's kids. And Vinny, if you have that video, send that over to Rob. Yes, sir. Record percentage in Gallup poll sees U.S. as greatly divided on key values. Telegram CEO Pavel capitulates, says app will hand over user data to governments to stop criminals.

That's to people who are in the business of wanting to keep things private. That may be the top of the story for the entire week. Europe grasps for ways to stop the migrant surge. Argentina scrapped its rent controls. Now the market is thriving. That's a Wall Street Journal story. Sarko Suicide Pod used for the first time promoting...

Prompting arrest. You have to hear this story. Very weird. Here's why companies are rapidly firing Gen Z employees. Gen Z, when we get to that point, you may want to put some earmuffs on because you're not going to like it. It's a very sensitive topic that we'll be talking about. Trump trashes Zelensky as the greatest salesman on earth. As he visits the U.S., the CNN host had a bunch of things they wanted to show about Trump and how Kamala is doing. Netflix to pitch top agents.

managers on transparency at event Tuesday, talent payment proposal expected to be discussed and the direction they want to go with it is actually very interesting. We'll cover that. And then the art market is tanking. Sotheby's has even bigger problems. We'll cover what's going on with the art market.

And then aside from that, at the end, if we get a chance, I do have a meeting I got to get to after this, a lovely meeting. Never ask these three questions on a first date. Dating coaches say, including one you should avoid outright. Vinny.

And Adam really wanted that story. So we want to make them happy because we believe in being holistically happy here on the podcast. So we'll cover that. Now, let's talk about a couple things with a recent fiction book that I just wrapped up. 13 and a half years I've been working on this book that was just released recently.

The Academy, the other day I'm at Dylan's soccer practice. Guy pulls up. He's like, I want chapter five. I can't even put the book down. I'm going to section with the story. I mean, the part that a lot of people are messaging me is the interview with Hitler in the book.

that you have to read on what he says on control a society and a country. He gives the strategy on how he did it. He's saying if somebody wanted to destroy a country today, how would you go about doing it? There's an interview process in a vault at the academy that that sexual unknown. I just can't. Again, I'm reading all the reviews that people are posting and,

Some of the people on the review on Amazon are saying, there's no way Peabody wrote this book. You know, how could he write a book like this with fiction? His background is a business. You have no idea how big of a compliment that is for me. I appreciate it when you say stuff like that, because the people that have been with me for 13 and a half years know how many times I asked them to read this book. How many times, look at Tom smiling. Tom, in the last, be honest, how many times have I asked you to read this book?

I think you've asked me at least 10 times during various. It's like, I have an idea. Take a look at this early draft. And it was an outline and three great chapters and an outline. And then I read it when it was full. Then you adopted this. You adopted that. It kept evolving like a great product. It's exciting. I mean, it's exciting when you go through. But here's what it is, guys. Some of you guys were asking about the books being available. Of course, you can buy it on Amazon. But the autographed signed copy.

copies. We have limited amount because we couldn't get that many from our publisher. There's a limited amount of 200 copies signed available for you to pick up. You can go to VTmerch.com. Rob, if you could be kind enough to put the link below, guys will have access to the book. The Academy cannot wait to have you read it and send me the reviews. By the way, for all our friends out there that do audio books or use Audible. Yeah.

You know, I pre-ordered it. Do you know when it's supposed to be due? When? Right around your birthday. Really? Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. Because your birthday is October 18th. Yes. According to Audible, if you pre-order the book, it will be delivered on October 22nd. But the paperback is available and the e-book is available as well. Okay. Let's get into the stories. Let's get into the stories. All right. So, Rob, if you don't mind, the first story I'd like to get into is,

is a story in regards to the job that Mark Cuban wants when he wins. He's being asked by, I think it's Varney and friends. I sent you the link here, Rob, if you want to go to it. He's being interviewed and he asks this. Okay. So Mark, if you get, what job are you fighting for? What job do you want? And the way Mark answered, uh,

The speed in which he answers the job that he wants, you could tell there was motives behind why he wants that job. Okay. Just clarify.

So they're going back and forth. And he said, well, you know, the difference between Trump and Kamala when it comes on to policies, at least, you know, Kamala explains her policies. Kamala explains her policies. You know nothing about Trump's policy. I'm like, wait, what did he just say? But we won't get to that part. Just watch and see what the job. And we're going to go somewhere with this. Go ahead. I ask you, Mark, whether you would entertain being a Treasury Secretary, Commerce Secretary in a Harris administration. Head of the SEC. Boom. Boom.

Head of the SEC. That's the job I would take. Donald Trump, being the socialist that he is, had to beat Bernie. So Donald Trump went out and recommended that interest rate caps be set to... Oh, I thought it was a longer one. So go back and go back to see what he said. Okay, let... Yeah, just watch it again on what he says. He wants to be the head of SEC. Press it.

But I ask you, Mark, whether you would entertain me, a Treasury Secretary, a Commerce Secretary, in a Harrison administration. He didn't even let him finish. Look at the smile on his face. Okay, you can pause it right there. Okay, pause it right there. Why do you think he wants to be the head of SEC? Rob, play the next clip I sent you with Elon Musk on...

what do you call it? Lex Friedman. If you, if you just type in, maybe if you type in on Twitter, Musk and SEC, you'll see a clip that'll come up with him on Lex Friedman. If you just go down a little bit, you should see it. Unless if you already have it, type in Musk and okay, right there, play this clip. And look how he explains the purpose of SEC. The answer he gives. Go ahead.

The SEC in its best form could be a force for good. It should be. But not once did the SEC go after any of the hedge funds who were nonstop shorting and distorting Tesla. Not once. The hedge funds would lie flat out on TV for their own gain at the expense of retail investors. Not once, literally a thousand times. Not once did the SEC pursue them.

How do you explain this failure? The incentive structure is messed up because the lawyers at the SEC are not paid well. It's a fairly low-paying job. But what they're looking for is a trophy.

From the SEC, they're looking for something they put on, basically, their LinkedIn. From that, they can get a job at a high-paying law firm. And the reason they don't attack the hedge funds is because those hedge funds employ those law firms. Bingo. Wow. And they know if they attack the hedge funds, they're affecting their future career prospects. That's right. So they sell small investors down the river.

Stay with me here for their own career to see how this is going. Pause it right there. That's what actually happened. Show the next picture, show the next picture. What I just sent you. This is my speculation. Elon Musk didn't show up for the testimony in a probe over his $44 billion Twitter takeover.

And guess what? Now the SEC wants sanctions. And so this guy, Mark Cuban, we're in Tennessee. I asked him, what's the book that changed your life? He says, Atlas Shrug. I buy him a $4,000 copy of Atlas Shrug. First print, first edition to give it to him because I love the fact that he believes in John Galt or low regulation, any of that stuff. And he,

is now wanting to be the antagonist in the book Atlas Shrugged to go after the man that was once his hero. He doesn't even know he's fallen this trap on Envy, how deep he's in it right now. He wants to be the head of SEC because that's the only way he can beat Elon Musk. That's why he wants to do this. That's my speculation. Tom, what do you think? I think you're dead on. And I also think that it's just kind of weird. Mark Cuban spent most of his career

Core ownership time and I say core ownership because now he sold sold part of the Mavericks and

being the rebel, the owner in the t-shirt shooting baskets with the team. And remember David Stern would say, why are you out there with them during warmups? That's player warmups. Remember all that Pat. And then he would make comment after comment after comment about officiating about TV rights, about all this stuff. And who would, who would wake up every day on every Monday and find Mark Cuban, David Stern, even David Stern's last day, Mark Cuban said, you know,

you've been a great commissioner except for the days that you weren't. And he said, thank you, Mark, that'll be $25,000. It did that. So now,

The tide has turned. Now Mark Cuban wants to be David Stern sending the fines out to the rebels. It's a complete shift that I've seen over 25 years now. I'm seeing a complete shift in Mark Cuban. Now he wants to go the other side. He wants to be the guy dropping the fines down on the rebels. When one day he was the rebel paying all the fines to David Stern. Tom, what caused it? That's what I see. But, but the flip is normally the other way around. Yeah.

Yes. The flip isn't normal. As you get older, you go the other way. Yeah. What, what, from, from your experience, what causes somebody to flip like this? You're a free market guy. You're, you're a rebel. You're a rebel with a cause. And now all of a sudden you want to be the antagonist that's going out there and trying to regulate the,

What causes somebody to get to this point? Is it because he now knows he can never, ever beat Elon Musk? He can never, he's so envious of it that this is the way he beats him? Yeah, I think it's that. We've seen people come unhinged over the course of their careers, right? That the longer they go, the deeper they go, the more unhinged they become. We saw a little with Bernie Sanders. We saw a little of this in Bernie Sanders. You know, the older he gets, the more wild he gets. And people are like, gosh, now he's just completely unhinged.

And I'll give you a name that I see with it because I think he's jealous of everybody that's ever been around him. It's Keith Olbermann. The older Keith Olbermann gets, the more unhinged and you can see the bile that oozes out of Olbermann. The older he gets and the more angry he gets and everything. And I think you're seeing it in people that can't reconcile a competitive conflict that's in their heart.

or some position they didn't get, or something that they didn't attain to, they go off the rails and over the waterfall. And I think we're seeing that. So the name SEC has come up a lot recently, and it really made headlines recently.

When Trump spoke at the Bitcoin conference a couple months ago, which is very largely libertarian, the crypto community. Is this the Nashville conference? This was the conference in Nashville, correct. And Trump, like the showman he is, was like, I'm going to fire the head of the SEC. The crowd went crazy. Who's the head of the SEC? Gary Gensler. So, you know, we're starting to, and Trump has basically, is this the clip right here? Go show it. This episode is brought to you by CarMax.

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And ends against your industry. And as long as I'm in the Oval Office, Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, do you remember? Yes, I'm an Indian. She said, I'm an Indian. Why are you an Indian? You don't look like an Indian. No, no. My mother told me I have high cheekbones. That's why she was an Indian. Talk about Gary Gensler. I named her Pocahontas.

Elizabeth Warren and her goons, and she's very nasty to you. She hates your people. She hates everything about you. We'll keep their hands off.

Bitcoin, they're going to keep their hands off crypto. They're going to let it grow. We're going to let it grow. On day one, I will fire Gary Gensler and appoint him SEC chairman. And he goes, wow. Okay. He says it again, right? He gets all the applause. Yeah, he does. So just real quick, did you hear the news about what percentage of corporate capital

spending political donations has come from certain industries. 50% this cycle has come from the crypto industry. 50% highest of all time. To who? To just corporate political donations to all parties right there. Okay. So the crypto sector. So alignments are being made. Cuban is looking at the marketplace right now and he's basically saying, all right, Gary Gensler is, he was basically nominated and put in place by who?

I think we have to show the entire clip. I'm going to send it to you, Rob. By Joe Biden, 2021. He serves five years. So what's happening is now Cuban, by the way, did you hear that Cuban is maybe supposedly talking with Kamala Harris about teaching her about the unrealized gains? You've seen this. Oh, God. She has to learn as she goes. Well, I mean, I'd rather him at least teach her than Bernie Sanders. But the whole Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren thing.

Pocahontas wing, the Kamala wing over there. You know, that's that side. Cuban sort of picking this side where you have the Elon's, you have the Tulsi Gabbards of the world, the RFKs have all spoken at the crypto conference. And Trump is looking at the lay of the land. He's like, yeah, I'm going to go with these guys with the Elon's, the RFKs, the Tulsi's. And Mark just picked his side, whether it's rational or not, it's largely emotional. So TDS is a real thing. Trump's reinforcement syndrome. Uh,

But Pat, I just think Mark Cuban, like all this, you know, choose your enemies wisely. He has chosen, to me, the worst two enemies possible. Elon Musk and Donald Trump, okay? And I think this comes from, yeah, the envy. He's just not relevant. Remember back in the day, he'd be on the court. He'd be yelling. He was cool. The attention was on him. They'd kick him off the court. And he was somebody. Now he's just that angry rich guy. Tom, you're saying that nobody's listening to, that nobody gives a damn about. And by the way, he was on...

Theo Vaughn's thing. He just hates Elon Musk. He was like, yo, I got his number somehow. We're messaging each other. I congratulate him on his 97th kid. Kind of a small jab. And they went back and forth. But then apparently he sent him a bad article about Tesla. And Elon responded with just F.

I agree with everything you said except for one word. You said he's not relevant. I would argue that he's actually becoming more relevant. Not in the relevancy that you want to hear more of, but he's making news. He's making headlines. We're talking about him.

Now, do you agree with a lot of his stances? Do you like his DEI sort of mantra? No. But he's more relevant than he was five years ago. Yeah, but how much of it is just to be that jerk to get... A lot of it. We're talking about it. But it's annoying. His own words speak loudest. There was more to the clip, wasn't there? Yeah, I want to show the whole clip. Watch this, Rob. This is with Neil Cavuto, yeah?

entertained being a Treasury Secretary, Commerce Secretary in a Harris administration. Head of the SEC. Look at his face. Head of the SEC. That's the job I would take. Go back three seconds. Look at the face the way he says it. Look at the revenge. Head of the SEC. That's the job I would take. The first time he says it.

Look at his lips. That's anger. That's rage. Head of the SEC. You see it? Yeah. Second time he does it with a smile. Go back to it again, Rob. Can't help it. Watch. Head of the SEC. That's Elon Musk right there. You may as well say head of Elon Musk.

That's what he wants. Let her finish off. Keep going. Maybe HHS, but somebody needs to replace Gary Gensler. You might have heard her today talking about really pushing hard to support and advance technologies like AI, not the AI like Donald calls it. But replace the head of the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission, because he's not a good cop for the securities industry. Bottom line, right? No, it's awful. Yeah, bottom line. He's awful, particularly for crypto and for businesses in general. We've seen the number of public companies just be decimated. All right.

All right. We'll see what's going to happen and what he does. By the way, do you have the Theo Vaughn clip? Yes. Go ahead. Play this clip. You mentioned Elon a little bit ago. I know you guys have, you guys have like, I don't know if it's a feud. What is it? You think it almost seems romantic a little bit. I just like to fuck with him. Right. I mean, because it's like, he loves me on Twitter too. Oh, it's his pling, right? Yeah. I guess if I'd have paid 40 something billion. Yeah, it's like 44 billion. You better hang out. It's like, why?

why do I go to the Mavs games? Right. You know? Um, but yeah, I don't, I don't dislike Elon, but he says some stupid shit and it's just like, I have no problem calling him out. Yeah. And he's, he's thin skin. Right. And so like, I'll tell you my one little Elon story. Right. So I got, I didn't get to know him, but I was, um,

helped him with something or tried to help him. And so I had his number and I texted him a couple of times. Like he had a kid and I'm like, congrats on your 97th kid. And he texted me back. Mars, Mars needs kids, right? Mars needs people. And I'm like, that's funny as shit. Right. And so one day I had a Tesla and I said something about it and he just sends me a text with the article saying, fuck you. That's it. Just fuck you. And I'm

And I was like, okay. I mean, it was the truth, right? Fuck you. I'm like, okay. So that's a text with the article that what, that I said something that wasn't completely, totally positive about Tesla. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. So that's what, that's what the article was about. Right. So he was just like, fuck you.

I'm like, OK. And then it was nothing, you know, no big deal. I don't care one way or the other. And then we buy his Twitter. Right. And then he starts getting real political. Right. Yeah. So not a lot of people are going to stand up to him. And I'm like, fuck it. I don't care. Right. So he's called me racist. He's called me, you know, poop emoji multiple times. He calls me all these names. And so like that to me, that just gives me license to fuck with him even more. Right. I don't care if he calls me names. I have a question for you. Yeah.

He's a formidable candidate for the left. There's no question. Just so you guys know, he's number one on my list for the left. It's a close race between him and Jamie Dimon. There are four words in there. Stand up to him. He sees himself as the crusader that's going to stand up to Elon Musk. And he wants to be the head of SEC to do that. Yeah. My question is this.

You know, there's levels to the game, obviously. Cuban is richer than Trump. Elon is richer than all these guys put together. It's not even a question. But when you get to billionaire status and you actually own NBA teams and you're owning massive hotels and massive brands and massive corporations, how much of it is still...

ego driven, like, you know what you kind of a thing, regardless of political affiliation, just straight up ego. These are billionaires talking smack to each other. How much is ego play into it when you're that rich?

- Listen, there's no way you're gonna be that rich without an ego. No way. There's no way you get to that level without having an ego, right? And these guys are driven by being told what they can't do, the competitive speed. Mark Cuban wrote a book on competition. It's a phenomenal book on competition. He wrote it at its peak. And it's a small little book, but it's a book you read, you're like, "Holy shit,

fantastic book on what is it called? Oh yeah. That yellow book right there. Whatever it is, how to, how to win at the sport of business. No, it's at the sport of business. It's a phenomenal book. If you want a book recommendation on competition, this is it. What's happened to this guy the last few years is someone offended him. And I think Trump's one of them. I think Musk is one of them. And I think he,

is choosing the wrong enemies unless if he wants to be a democratic president which i think he could easily be the democratic president a lot of stuff's going to come out for him by the way he's got a he's got a he's got a lot of skeletons a lot of scale you have to pay somebody 10 million dollars for the stuff that happened and we with the mavericks yeah we we remember those stories yeah so he had to hire a black president for the dallas mavericks that uh just a di hire he had to do certain things female

that he did certain things just to be good with the ESG, the, the, the, the eye guys. But yeah, so of course there's going to be a part of it that has to do with ego time. You look like you want to say something. He had the self going after this book. He couldn't get any major publishers to take it. I know the story of this book, scroll down. I think it was published by diversion publishing and an agent named Scott Waxman who created this book and,

2013? Yeah. Well, here's what I'll tell you. I know the story of this thing. No one would take it. Can I tell you something? And they self-published it. Can I tell you something? All the publishers were idiots for not taking it. All the public, because I read it. It's a phenomenal book. So I'm not a guy that will sit here and just trash everything. I'm not that guy. It's a phenomenal book on competition. It's a phenomenal book. This is what prompted me to message him. So all the publishers that said no to him, you're lost. This was actually a very good book for 4,400 reviews.

This is the thing, the middle finger to people that don't believe in what this guy's capable of doing. But I just don't know if he's an Atlas Shrug guy. I don't understand how you can go against the modern day John Galt or the modern day Taggart or in some of these stories,

So it's confusing where he's at. But anyways, we'll go. Adam, were you going somewhere or that was the question that you had? I just wanted to understand what you think this was, because I think he is choosing his enemies wisely, because if you're going to basically say that he's the leading candidate for 2028, assuming that Kamala is not going to be the president. We'll see about that. Let me give you guys a story that none of you guys are expecting. Folks, Rob, can you pull up this thing I just sent you right now on Twitter? So I want you to think about this. OK, if you've seen it, don't say anything. Let people react to it.

So imagine there's a man in a hotel room with a gun. Okay. And he's taking out the gun. He's doing what he's doing and cops don't know what to do. And they sent a robot to arrest the guy. Oh, watch this. This just happened.

Take a listen.

It's pure gas into De La Rosa's hotel room. De La Rosa tried to fight the robot, even throwing sheets that would look like towels at it. But that didn't stop the robot from deploying gas. We watched as De La Rosa crawled out of that window and onto the ground where the robot pinned him until officers took him into custody. Yes. What do you think about this? That is. Oh, my God. That's the future, dude. First of all, low tech, sometimes low tech conquers tech. Yeah.

You see what they did? He just threw a, he threw a blanket over the robot. And so, and do you remember that robot that looked like a big cone that was running around in New York and apparently three guys had attempted to lift it up and throw it onto the tracks. And then they discontinued the program because it weighed like 700 pounds. It could have derailed the train and injured people on the trains. So sometimes low tech. Yeah, that was that. That,

That thing was heading for the tracks, baby. By the way, it's only a matter of time till that guy that was arrested. This is a low tech solution. He just threw a blanket over it and you run away from the robot. Give it a day or two. That guy's going to say that the robot was racist and he was just targeting him because he was a minority. That's going to happen. He was assaulted. Yeah. Yeah. But that's I mean, wild. If that was a human being, if that was a regular cop, he might have been shot. So I think that's good.

I mean, it's just telling you what direction we could be going to. Oh, that's it. That possibly saved the cop's life. Big time. So that's the way it could be sold. Yeah. But at the same time, if these robots, this is not a, like, you know, iOS right now is on what? 16 or 17? I did 17. It's just the new update. Is it iOS 17? I got a question. Cops have been...

shooting three canisters of tear gas into houses since the 50s. And generally speaking, people come running out with their arms up and they lay down in the grass. It's rare that they don't. Or they stay inside and the canisters light the house on fire accidentally. So I don't know why we need robots to do this when we've had SWAT teams and things and the ram arms that go right through the front door. Now we need a multi-million dollar robots to do this. When it used to be, hit it with the tear gas and let's wait, you know.

I don't know. What are you saying? You saying we don't need robots? I'm saying, I think that we try, sometimes you try to use technology where traditional tech and techniques have worked just fine.

Got it. So you're not for it. You're not for having cops as RoboCops. You're not for that RoboCop. I believe in bomb squad robots. They've saved countless lives where they leave something out there and the robot comes out there and they have a camera and it moves it. And sometimes you see the thing detonates and it destroys the robot, but no cops. And yet the bomb is detonated. And now the people around are safe. I believe I love that. But you think cops are going to be happy with that, though? There's already defund the police. Now you're going to have robots. Cops are going to be freaking out of jobs.

I mean, if you think about it. I was just going to go there with that, Vinny. So, you know, we think of automation and AI taking jobs online.

They're taking jobs away from human police officers. I remember like back in the day in the 80s, remember the movie Robocop? Of course. It was a ridiculous movie. But then there was also the movie Short Circuit with Johnny Five. Johnny Five alive. And you would think, all right, what's going on here with these robots? What's going on? But this is the reality is that why do you need to send seven SWAT guys into a hotel room against Miguelito out there that's basically trying to hold up in this room out here?

sending this robot. This guy tried to fist fight a robot. The robot just ran over this dude. Forget about it. Yeah. There's no lawsuit. Sorry about that. Like the robot got you. You're done. You're trying to throw a blanket over the guy.

I mean, I was joking. I would say I think it's saving police officers lives because why do you need to go there into a hotel room? Saving their lives, but taking their jobs at the same point. But then I mean, then the whole OK, the robot shot me. Was he supposed to shoot? Was he not supposed to? I mean, this opens up a whole automation has been doing this. Automation has been doing this. We come from L.A. where I once got a red light ticket from a camera.

It got mailed to my house like three weeks later. Right. And so it says, Hey, you know, you ran a red light apparently, you know, within one second or whatever. And so we've got automation that's been in law enforcement for a while. I love it. If it saves lives, I don't think it's taking jobs. I think it's saving lives, but I think this is overplayed. Okay. So this one upset Tom. I mean, listen, Tom, I apologize on behalf of a,

Sorry. The executive production team for the PBD podcast. All right. So here's a video that Iran made in response to Trump saying, we have not forgotten that you killed our hero, Ghassan Soleimani. Watch this video and then we're going to show you a response from what Trump says to this. Go ahead, Rob. It's actually very good job. Great production. Look at that drone shot.

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Revenge is definite.

All right. How are you processing that pie? Then show Trump's reaction to it, and then we'll react to the whole thing. Trump reacted to it. Good. Yeah, this is Trump's reaction to it. Go ahead. Everybody in Congress.

But if I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We're going to blow it to smithereens. You can't do that. And there would be no more threats. There would be no more threats. But right now, we don't have that leadership or the necessary people, the necessary leaders

We have two people, not one. We don't even know who our president is right now. Who is our president right now? It's facts. We really don't know. But we have two people, not one, that only keep looking. And when you do that, when you just look, trouble always ensues. So it's big trouble for our country. Meanwhile, we have the president. So how do you how do you process that video, Tom?

Well, look, you know, it's basically a video game movie that Iran has made. Revenge is definite. You know, you used to have, you know, a guy in a cave taking a selfie, talking about what would happen. And we would hear on our news that the CIA was trying to determine in the rock formations if they could identify where that was. Remember that? And we're trying to figure it out. And so...

threats on video have been going from left to right for a long time. And now they've elevated it up to the whole, you know, concept of, you know, a little robot that's going to paint the laser on there. And by the way, that's older technology. Painting the laser is Tom. I know what you're saying. And you're downplaying. You do that sometimes. And you downplay stuff.

They just threatened to kill a president, Tom. No, no, no. A former president. So, Vinny, what is your thoughts when you see something like this? I think, great, that's the point. Iran is paying attention. Like, think about, you know what that said to me? Yeah. That Iran is paying attention to all of the Secret Service gaps in our protection for the president. That video on the Bushes, that means they're watching the Ryan Rolfe. They know that they can get to him. They know that the perimeter is easily breachable. He's easy to get to. I mean, the overhead, yeah.

you know, laser, whatever. But that's a, if you think about it, if you have a remote control, something that it could run right up on him and, and, and blow up. I think that's them. If you, if you are looking at it from the, maybe let me make the question a better question. Tom, I want to come back to you.

If you are the Department of Homeland Security, you're the head of it. You can't downplay something like this. That's not your job. That's the job of a pundit or a podcast or a TV person to do. You're the Department of Homeland Security or whatever you want to call the position that's going to be, choose one of them.

You see this. What should be our reaction? Should we just be like, ah, whatever, it's not a big deal and move on? Do you remember when Norman Schwarzkopf would lay out that deck of cards and they had all the Iranian people on the deck of cards? Iraq most wanted deck of cards, right? Right, exactly. You know, if they, my point is, you know, you sense that I was downplaying, maybe I was a little bit, but my point is these threats get made every day. And if they want to do this, then under the cover of darkness, under the cloak of secrecy,

you know, we'll pick a card out of the deck and we'll go pop somebody. That's what I do. You know, once you're, once you're there and once you're, you're available and you're in the chair and you can say, this is the way we don't play like this.

That's where I go with it. If I'm the director of Homeland Security, I'm like, Mr. President, should we take one of those folks out of that deck of card and take care of something overnight and let somebody do it? Because remember when Trump took the picture of the guy's house out and flopped that out there? Those are the moves to make. That's the move. Well, this guy who they're talking about

Hasm Soleimani. Am I saying that correctly, Pat? Thank God. Cause I know you got mad at me when I... No, you did the right amount of khakh. You did the right amount of khakh. You got mad at me when I called Khameni, Kho-Ameni. It was two different people. You spit on the mic the right amount. I got a khakh. Yeah, perfect. So Soleimani. The guy that was identified by a finger with a ring on it. But, you know, it's not ironic that almost five years later, they're still trying to defend his legacy. But what's his legacy, I guess, is the question because...

You know, this guy right here, you know, we just talked about Norman Schwarzkopf, whether you want to talk about General Mattis or whether McRaven, these are our generals. These aren't household names in Iran. This is like a superhero to these guys. So and what was he known for? He's he led the coups force, I want to say.

This is the equivalent of their former Ulysses S. Grant that was eventually a two-term president. That's kind of like two. But he was never the president, right? No, no, he was going to be. Okay, gotcha. Possibly, yeah. He was their military commander, head of the Quds Force, which runs part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. But if you just look at his legacy, what did he do? He, number one, whether covertly or covertly,

quite out in the open, supported militias all over the Middle East to sow discord all over the Middle East and basically allow the Iranian military-industrial complex to basically spread their tentacles and go fund all the reasons that the Middle East is basically unstable right now. The Triple H crew, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the Houthis, he was their patriarch, their founder right there. And his goal was to basically counter U.S.,

in the region to destabilize the Middle East. Iran, because of him, has become the greatest destabilizing actor in the Middle East since, I don't know, is there anyone that's ever destabilized the Middle East this bad? So he's in Iran, correct me if I'm wrong, he's sort of the symbolic, the symbol of the resistance to

The Western presence, you know, whether it's America, whether it's Israel, whether it's democratic values, whether it's the the war on the West that our friend Douglas Murray wrote a book about, but.

Yeah, they've killed U.S. forces. He's an enemy of the United States. We should have taken him out. But now they're threatening the president of the United States, Trump, with retribution. All the leftists that come out of communist Central America, they wear the Shea t-shirt. He's their Shea. Yeah, he's their Shea. So he's their poster boy for that. But you know what? When you do all this stuff, then you become a poster boy for getting killed. And so it's just like...

You know, if they want to play it like this and they want to do it like this, we can make the head of the military. You should probably expect to. Well, we can make their Uber rides really exciting. Well, I don't know, though. I don't know, though. When we say we, who is we?

We is only we if he's in the office. You think you think if they do anything to Trump and Iran takes, let's just say they take Trump out. Yeah. And they say we did it as a form of strength around the world. What do you think Kamala and Biden are going to do? Great point. Great point. What do you mean we? Yeah, there is no. That's my concern. My concern with the we is no, we are not we.

This is not a United States of America today. This is not a we, we, this is a them, us. And they're not like us. You know, it's, it's, it's that, it's that culture we have today, Tom, where for me, if, if these guys are ever going to do anything to him,

If they're ever going to do it. And if I'm a department of Homeland Security, I'm running something. Alejandro Mayorkas, who doesn't like Trump. If I'm the guy that's running, if I'm in Iran right now, I would be telling, and I'm wired like the way, let's just say these guys are thinking now, we know what I'm saying? Guys, what are you doing? You got 40 days.

You can't do it after 40 days. You know why? Why? If we do it after 40 days and you take him out, no problem. Vance is in there. He will bomb every single city in Iran. Yep. So you got 39 days left to take him out. What are we waiting for? Yep. So that's my point. Because to me, I think this is very serious.

because the statement they're making, when you put something like that out there, all you're looking for is for one person to want to be a hero. That's all you're looking for. You're not looking for everybody. And then if they do, so, okay, let's go through it, Tom. Here's a question for you.

If it's not like this is, oh my God, you guys are getting so dramatic. There's been two assassination attempts last 90 days. Some will even say three, but let's put the third one away from what happened in Arizona with the eyes burning and all that other stuff. Let's say two. Okay. Tom, say, say they succeed in the next 39 days. Who's running against Kamala?

Who would J.D. Vance? Yeah. What happens actually? What actually happens? Well, do you have to have an emergency convention? First of all, if something happens close to the election, you know, a level headed Congress, which we don't have, could move the election date so that a candidate could be properly presented.

Not long, but move it long enough for a candidate. How long? 30 days? 60 days? 30 days, I suppose. So let's say 30 days. But the point is, you know, it is very likely that they would say, sorry about your guy. Are you running? We'll pick your VP. Let's see if we can get all the votes, all the ballots updated, and let's go with this. Because there's already been, the early voting is in, but there's now a guy, you're not voting for that guy anymore. So they got to restart. If God forbid he gets killed, the...

Kamala wins. Lancelot. That's the point. And that's the goal. And that's why they can care less. I'm not saying that they want him dead, but they're not going to cry that he's dead. And there will be no vengeance. Period. There will be no vengeance. So this is why. Not in that administration. Hell no. They did. They did.

They did them a favor. They're number one guys out. It's eerily similar to Jimmy Carter, who wouldn't take stands, wouldn't take a firm stand. But the minute Reagan won, a bunch of things got fixed. Yeah. A bunch of things. Yeah. So the challenge with purely my frustration with this is,

is they just put something like this. What has Homeland Security said? Have they responded to that video made? What's been said about it? And by the way, have they said that that video was made by the Iranian government? Who made that video, Rob? Is it some designer made it? Some editor made it? Or who made that video? Is Iran saying that they made it? I thought it was released by the Khomeini guy. Khomeini? You better pronounce it right, bro. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I came up from his account over my intelligence officials.

have been briefed, the Trump campaign on Iranian threats. Look what's, I want to know who released the video. I want to know who released Iran's on the same time. Is it Iran trying to assassinate Donald Trump? It was on Ayatollah's website. Okay, perfect. And it's from the top. So it's not like if they're retweeting it or if they're putting it on their website, Iranian animation. Okay, perfect. Can we read this rap? Can you go a little bit closer? Okay. Iran trying to pick assassination of Donald Trump in the Gulf.

Made video from 2022. That can't be 2022 because the post of Grant Ayatollah website is early warning to Arizona 2020. Animation opens up in Arizona Mar-a-Lago. Okay, go a little lower. Go a little lower. Go a little lower. Go lower. Go lower. Okay, so go back to the USA Today story from 16 hours ago.

Go back to go back one. Yeah, right there. 16 hours ago. Let's see what they're saying here. Iran trying to assassinate Donald Trump says U.S. leaders official says go lower.

So Iran has made it clear that it's trying to assassinate Trump as well as a number of other ministers. And the Biden administration has paid back of killing Iran. No one from Biden administration. The comments after Trump's dramatic disclosure Tuesday night that he had briefed by the Oval Office of Direct National Intelligence about Tehran's real and specific threats. Senator Mike Rounds, RSD, South Dakota, a member of Senate intelligence said that he hadn't seen any indication Iran had anything to do with the two alleged assassination plots.

including one that drew blood out of Pennsylvania campaign goal. Lord, how would you know that? But I think there's also clear evidence that Iran has made it clear that they intend to, if they could, they would try to assassinate the former president. And they've talked about assassinating other senior members of leadership. There you go. Okay. Well, well, I think it's completely obvious why Iran would want to assassinate Trump. And you might say, well, it's the revenge Soleimani. Okay. I think that's part of it. Sure. Revenge. Revenge.

But also from a geopolitical perspective, just look at the last 40 plus years of who Iran would rather deal with. The Democrats are the Republicans. So it started with Carter in 79. And then Reagan came in and basically said, uh, homie, got the hostages back day one. But if you're looking at Trump and you're looking at Kamala and you're the Ayatollahs and you're the new president, was it Pazheshkin? What do you say his name?

The new president of Iran? Something like that. Posheshkin. I can't believe I'm teaching pattern. Double issue. Yeah. No problem. But Iran would love to see Kamala win. You know, just look at what's happened over the last 40 years or even the last 10 years. And the main two reasons are this, is because the Democrats are more predictable and honestly more exploitable. So...

Who gave billions of dollars to Iran for hostages and basically to unfroze the six billion dollars, all those assets. It was the Democratic Party. They love it. They love it. OK, who was negotiating with Iran during the nuclear deal to put the nuclear deal in place? What administration?

the Obama administration, Trump came in, tore it up, said, no, we're not giving these guys any money. And you hear what Trump says. Iran was going broke. They were. They were going broke. They were. We were putting the sanctions. We're putting the tariffs. And then Biden comes in and they're flush with cash. He's not wrong. Nope. Our friend Trump out here. But Obama is out there with Kerry and his crew negotiating the Iranian nuclear deal.

But while that's going on, hey, don't look at the hundreds of thousands of

dead Syrians that's going on in the city. Don't worry about that red line. Don't worry about that. You know, where are the gays for Gaza brigade during this? Where are the Hamas lovers protesting almost a million people dead in Syria? Don't worry about that. So nothing to see. And then lastly, the Democrats are more exploitable and they're more not on team Israel than the Republican party is. So if I'm, if I'm the Ayatollahs and if I'm the new president of Iran, who just spoke at the UN, by the way,

I'm looking at the Republican Party, the party of Reagan, the party of Trump, what have you. And I'm looking at the Democratic Party, the party of Carter, the party of Obama. And now Kamala, you're like, yeah, if I had to take someone out, it's going to be Trump. Long live Kamala is basically what they're saying.

Yeah. Well, talking about Kamala, Kamala did an interview yesterday. Okay, Rob, if you want to go to it. During the interview, the interviewer who was just on Bill Maher defending Kamala Harris, and you have to see what she said on Bill Maher, but then let's first do this one. And then in this question, I think she asks, you're saying you're going to raise corporate taxes, but what if you don't have Senate? What if you don't have Congress? How are you going to do it? Listen to her answer. Go ahead. Expand.

Expanding that child tax credit, or you mentioned housing before, giving that extra money for a first home. If you can't raise corporate taxes, or if GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that? Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow? Well, but we're going to have to raise corporate taxes, and we're going to have to raise...

We're going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share. That's just it. It's about paying their fair share. That's not an answer. You're running for president. You sound like a dictator. We're going to have to. She's asking you, how are you going to do it? Rob, can you pull the clip, if you have it, with...

her debriefing after the interview where she says, honest, that's the one right there. If you could play this clip. So she's not being interviewed afterwards. And so how was it? Go ahead. Yeah.

I do, but here's what's a little tricky. She doesn't answer the question around if the GOP is controlling the Senate, if she can't raise corporate taxes, where is she going to get the money from to expand the child tax credit and do all the things she wants to do? And she says, we just have to do it. And that's great, and that's a campaign promise, but the issue is...

If it means we're just going to borrow again, then what we're doing is we're just never addressing the deficit. And back in the days when you were a proud Republican, debts and deficits mattered. Rob, and then go to her, Stephanie Ruhle, on Bill Maher. Go to her on Bill Maher. Yeah, right there. That's the one. You just had it. Right there, right there. Okay.

Go for it. Watch this exchange. Kamala, say, are you for a Palestinian state if Hamas is going to run that state? Okay. Yes or no? And let's say you don't like her answer. Are you going to vote for Donald Trump? No, I'm not. Kamala Harris is not running for perfect. She's running against Trump. We have two choices. And so there are some things you might not know her answer to.

And in 2024, unlike 2016 for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy. Oh, God. Threat to democracy. Here we go. Applause break from the Thomas Brainwash audience.

We don't know her answer to anything. You know his answer to everything. And that's why I would never vote for him and people shouldn't vote for him. But people also are expected to have some idea of what the program is of the person you're supposed to vote for. You're just not supposed to say, well, you have to vote for Y because X is this, that and the other. Let's find out a little bit more. And I don't think it's a lot to ask her to sit down for a real review. 90 minutes.

Within the Democrat Party, you are not allowed to be a rational opponent of Trump. Then I would just say to that, when you move to Nirvana, give me your real estate broker's number and I'll be your next door neighbor. We don't live there. Oh, God.

Tom, what do you think? What do you think about the whole Kamala question from the beginning? Economy, what are you going to do? We have to and into all this stuff. Well, there's two problems here and I just made the point about, I won't belabor it, you know, about the reporter. You're not allowed to be a rational opponent of Trump, meaning you can't be an opponent of Trump and be rational about

any criticism of Kamala Harris because Stephanie Rule there is embarrassing and embarrassed herself. She's definitely a little ticked the way she's being attacked for how she conducted the interview. But on the other side, I'd,

I'm sitting here wondering, did Kamala Harris understand how government really works in that moment? Did she have a rational thought about that? Because I remember Clinton having to work with Republican Congress and Clinton who came up and said, look, we're going to make some compromise. We have to negotiate point by point. And there's things that they want. We have to get this. So I have to work through that Congress to make it happen. He knew he knew.

And this is after Lewinsky in his second term where he was a real economic centrist. And so you would hear it from there. You don't hear it from her. She's like, she's like, we just have to get it done. And she goes back to the campaign things. It just shows a very vacuous, vapid, disingenuous,

shallow, uninformed candidate who's not coming out with anything that sounds like a reasoned approach. And by the way, they're running scared, Pat. If you want to talk about her poll for a split second, they're running scared. They believe Kamala's side believes that they have one path right now. You know what that path is? Rob, do you have that chart? I'll show you the map. Over the weekend, they looked at Arizona and Nevada. There it is. Back, back, back.

No, no. Go to the map of the U.S. right there. Other one. There we go. They believe this is where it is, Pat. See, there's no Wisconsin. There's no Nevada. There's no Arizona. Look at North Carolina and Georgia. They believe that's what they have to win. They have conceded the fact that they believe Trump's going to win Pennsylvania, the way they're spending in it. And they have conceded Arizona. But take a look at what they're doing. They're doing everything they can on Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia. That is the path they think they have.

because she's not coming out and gaining any momentum at all. This election could be over at 1130 on election night. This is what they're trying to do. They have only two states going after her. What's her name, Adam? Stephanie Ruhle. Stephanie Ruhle, okay. Guys, obviously, I mean, Trump derangement syndrome, as we see it with a lot of people. She's on Bill Maher. That audience...

By the way, I've been there. I've been in that audience. It's the worst. Okay? It's the worst audience ever. But she talks all that crap on Bill Maher. She gets this, you know, applause break. She thinks she's in charge. Kamala's campaign sees that. They get her an interview thinking it's going to be a softball interview. Then you have her in front of you and you don't challenge her. Then...

Then you go on another interview and you talk shit about her not answering the question. And this is the problem with them not holding these horrible reporters. You don't hold their foot to the fire. And the rational guy gets slapped around. Exactly. And he's against Trump. And he's against. That's what I'm saying. And he's like, I'm not going to vote for him. But you guys, it's not holding their foot to the fire and not asking the actual questions, not stopping or going, OK, Kamala, time out.

stop talking with your hands, answer the question. How are you going to do it? And we don't have no answers because people like Stephanie rule, protect them and they guide them and they make sure that they don't say anything completely stupid and they never challenge. Well, they want you to talk with your hands on the DNC, but they want you to do it like this. Meanwhile, I actually think that Stephanie rule, this is actually a, it's going to be a weird take. I actually think she's one of the smartest women in the business. However,

She's making excuses for someone with zero policy.

And that's the problem that I have with Stephanie that I'm trying to understand her. Because if you watch Stephanie, I mean, whether she's on CNBC or MSNBC, she's a beast. She's a massive economic political correspondent. She's not an idiot. So what happens in this case? So in the episode with Bill Maher, she was sitting there with, it was Brett Stevens, who's a writer for the New York Times. Not exactly a conservative view right there. And he's basically being like, look,

I'm just going to come out and say, yeah, Brett Stevens, this guy, I'm not going to vote for Trump. I just can't. Not my guy. But are we really going to sit here and expect nothing from Kamala? We're just going to just go with no, no, there's no policy. He's just going on joy and vibes. Are we really doing this?

And she's like, well, what are you going to do? Vote for Trump? He's like, well, I'm not going to vote for Trump. So you see this sort of mental gymnastics where it's like, you can't vote for that. You can't vote for that. But what are you willing to accept over here? Are you willing to accept and literally vegetable Biden if he was running? Would you vote for that? Well, it's not Trump. Are you willing to vote for a completely clueless, feckless, just weak DEI potential leader as Kamala?

Well, it's not Trump. It's like, hey, there's are you smarter than a fifth grader? Can this fifth grader can Billy Madison be the president? Well, it's not Trump. So the point is, they're willing to just do whatever it is, whatever the policy is, doesn't it? Whether there's no policy, as long as it's not Trump, they're willing to vote for the person. And as Pat is basically saying.

Tells us all the time, just look at the policies. You never see that they Trump, that they attack Trump's policies. It's always his personality. And me, I'd rather have a crazy vindictive a-hole than an incompetent BIDZH.

In the end at all, there's panic. There's panic going on. You can see it. Quinnipiac is a left-leaning pollster that has the distinguished, distinguished credibility afforded to the last place poller as the least accurate in the last two presidential campaigns. And yesterday they came out, even though they're left-leaning, well, yeah, we think Trump is about one point on national basis. They came out with it. They're in a state of panic. The campaign's in a state of panic.

The New York Times, I am not a fan of New York Times, but over the last two months, New York Times has been speaking up and saying, hey, you need to come to the microphone and you're not having it. It's been, remember they wrote the article, hey, it's been 40 days and she hasn't conducted a live, what they call an adversarial interview where she sat down with somebody. So even the New York Times and Bret Stephens' New York Times have been saying they see it.

And why are they panicking right now? The New York Times sees the ice melting beneath Kamala's feet and it's showing up in the polls, not right wing polls. It's showing up in the polls. Pennsylvania is almost four points right now on a national level. We got highly credible polls saying it is now about three point six percent.

So the ice is melting and now you're getting infighting among the liberals that want to see her win. That's what you're witnessing there. Why are they infighting? Why is Brett and rule infighting on Bill Maher? Because there's no victory lap and there's no flagged away. And they're they're in a panic because their person is going down the tubes. And they are true believers that believe that a that a liberal progressive president is the right answer. They're wrong about that.

But they see the whole thing about to fall. Yep. And great point, Tom. And Adam, you made a great point, too. They're not running on any policy. Not Biden, not Kamala. It's just not Trump. Yeah. OK, like, tell us why we should vote for you. Trump is Hitler. That's like if you own Hyundai, Pat, and Tom's Toyota. And you ask me, so Vinny, please tell us about your car, your Hyundai. And my only answer is Toyota sucks. Toyota's horrible. No, no. Tech sucks.

Talk to me about your car. Sell me your car. No, no. Toyota, shit. And if I don't... If you don't... Like, no, no. That's not the point. And going back to the point... That's a perfect point. Thanks, Tommy. It's like, hold their foot to the fire. I wish we had one. One. Like, Pat, that's why I would pay money. I swear to you. Pay money for you to sit down with a Kamala and just ask the questions and hold their feet to the fire. And they would never do it. They would never sit down. But then guess what the people want? Answer the damn question. You're going for the most...

You know what's interesting to me is, you know, like when COVID happened and we started printing money, this is the part that is, are you going to see where I'm going with this, Tom? Tom is so funny. When we started printing money, the first thing that I said and I thought was going to happen was gold's going to go to the roof. Nothing happened.

There's no way we can print this much money in gold and Bitcoin doesn't go to a quarter million dollars or gold doesn't go to, you know, $4,000, $5,000. Nothing happened. Okay. And it's like, there's, there's no, and then you're, you're just looking at everything between quantitative easing and quantitative tightening. Experts had no clue. Every expert kept getting things wrong. Everybody. And then eventually you're like, what the hell is going on here? Right. Right.

But the reality of it is we've never gone through a pandemic where we printed, you know, four or five, six trillion dollars the way that we did. Forty percent of our currency that has been printed was printed in that three year period, two year period. Right. So we've never been in a campaign like this before. I've never we've never it's not we've never been where a Democratic president steps aside with what, 120 days to election. I don't know what the exact timeline was, but wasn't far right away.

And then we have to immediately get, and so no primaries for Kamala, no getting exposed by others on Kamala. Nope. And then we have to just say, that's her. And then her strategy is giving no answers, no interviews. If she wins...

Republicans and conservatives and libertarians have to realize you have to go buy up media companies. Just yesterday, you know what the FCC approved yesterday? The purchase of George Soros buying up 200 radio stations.

And Rob did a very good clip on it on Twitter with one of them, Rob, if you can say the one in Cuba. What's the one that he bought in Cuba? The conservative radio. Matter of fact, just play your clip, Rob, if you have it. Just play your clip on Twitter. Go to the one that you put up. Rob explains exactly what happened. This just happened yesterday or two days ago. Why would FCC approve this? Why would FCC approve something like this? This didn't make any sense to me. Watch this here, folks, on what Soros just bought yesterday. Go ahead.

is looking to expand his evil empire in february george shoros purchased odyssey one of the largest radio companies in the united states i think it was for 300 million dollars he ended up purchasing 230 radio stations nationwide including sports radio stations like wfan in new york hayrock which is a legendary rock station in los angeles purchased 230 radio stations think about that buying radio stations in the digital age of media these stations are going back

Why do you think? Watch this.

mambia it is a conservative spanish radio station in cuba why would you want to buy an am conservative radio station in cuba george soros what a great take right so here's a question for you so so here's a question for you hey conservatives libertarians independents who are a little worried guess what uh where are you gonna put your money

What are you doing with the money that you have? I'm talking to the rich guys, the real rich people who have the money. You know what Musk is doing? He put $44 billion on Twitter, lost 75% of valuation within two years because of all the advertisers he lost. And he's driving it. What company think he's driving the most on a daily basis right now? It's Twitter.

What do you see him being most active for? Twitter. Now, it's an integrated business because he knows through Twitter he's going to drive, Tesla and he's going to drive, what do you call it, SpaceX and everything. So it's all integrated. The way he's done it, it's brilliant. But what are you going to do? What are you going to buy? Soros just bought 200. By the way, we can bitch and whine all we want about Soros. Soros is doing the right thing if he wants to impose his ideology and agenda to it.

If he believes in what he believes in and you want to be able to control the narrative, he did the right thing buying those 200 radio stations. He did the right thing doing buying those 200 radio stations. And who do you think had a meeting with Alex Soros yesterday? His son. You know who had a meeting with Alex Soros yesterday? Just take a wild guess. Well, the president who's running for president is Kamala. Who's her vice president?

What's the guy's name? Tim Walls. The guy that was in Alex Soros' living room in New York. He was in Alex Soros' living room yesterday in New York. Oh, weird. Interesting. What kind of alliance is that? What do you think? With Huma Abedin being his new girl and all this stuff. What do you think he's doing there for? You know what's going to happen if Kamala wins? If Kamala wins without Iran doing anything and Trump being alive by the end of the election, it means...

They have a chokehold. They have a chokehold. You know what Zuck did recently, which was kind of interesting? What he did yesterday. Did you guys see what Zuck did yesterday? He hired a libertarian advisor to help him approach the conservative media and conservative lobbyists. Yes, that's what he did yesterday because Zuckerberg is now saying that he relates. Yeah, he sees himself more as a libertarian, no longer a guy on the left. And by the way, I actually believe this.

I actually believe he's going through this. Can you go a little bit lower, Rob? So in private, Mark Zuck identifies with the libertarian ideology sourced on New York. Zuck is trying to repair his image of Republicans who have accused him of anti-conservatives. His refusal to talk politics is distinct among his peers.

And it's partisan schism in the tech world. So he is now going through this phase himself for him to have the brass. I think one of the biggest things that happened last 90 days is him coming out and talking about the fact that yes, they were forcing me. Yes. Biden Harris, this yes, 400 million, this yes. I think that's the biggest story last 90 days. And I don't see a minus the assassination attempt. So to me, I think if Kamala wins with this strategy, um,

Republicans, libertarians, independents, you guys better unite. And you better put your money up. You better make some investments. That's what we're doing. We're building a campus. You're going to hear about what we're doing. Your announcement's going to be made. You know, we're doing our part. You know, we're competing in our own unique way, different than everybody else's. Our consulting firm is growing exponentially, and we're putting it back in the media side. And very soon, you know, you'll hear us about buying certain assets that some of you guys will hear about in the marketplace. We're playing an offense in a different way. But I think...

I think Kamala winning, going back to the case study when I said when we started printing money, I thought gold and Bitcoin is going to go up and it didn't. If Kamala wins this way, the left will say to themselves, we have this in the back. It's over. We have it for decades to come. That's how they're going to process this. Let me tell you why you are so on point and the bigger threat.

Because not only do conservatives need to buy up these radio stations, right? Because we see what's going on in the universities. I think it's 13 to one liberal professors for conservative professors. And that stat might even be a little bit old at this point. So here I sent you this article. This is from the European conservative magazine.

OK, and they talked about George Soros. Why is George Soros scooping up all these radio stations? Well, they say this. Soros has a history of scooping up conservative media companies and changing their leadership and programming. Soros purchased a media company in Poland before last fall's election and unseated the conservative law and justice program.

Party in the government. And you interviewed the guy from Poland, our buddy. What was his name again? Tarjanski. Tarjanski. Dominic Tarjanski. So here's what he's doing. By the way, he said, billionaire George Soros has reportedly been approved to approach us Odyssey as our friend Rob did that. I'm wondering why the hell are you buying radio stations right here? So who does Odyssey own? Here it is right here. Soros, the 93 year old left wing globalist bought $400 million of debt in Odyssey and

After the company declared bankruptcy, so we got a great deal on it, making him the largest shareholder. The company, here it is, has since restructured and is currently home to conservative voices like, you ready? Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck. So all these guys, some of the biggest conservative voices in the country are

on the platform of Odyssey. So who's Glenn Beck's new boss? Who's Sean Hannity's new boss? George. George Soros. Jorge. Let me know how long that's going to work out. Is this a clip of Beck? So this is a clip of Glenn Beck interviewing Brendan Carr. He is the FCC commissioner. And during this interview, Brendan Carr explains that the FCC fast-tracked this purchase unlike anything they've ever done before. It broke its own policies.

in order to fast-track George Soros' purchase of the radio station. How recent was this interview? This was two days ago, if you'd like to play it. But keep in mind, this is Glenn Beck talking about George Soros buying the radio station on the radio stations at George Soros' boss. When he has a history of replacing these guys. Go ahead. Do I have this right, first of all, about the George Soros takeover of radio stations? And if so, why was there an exception made and fast-tracked?

Well, you know, the New York Post has a story out last week or actually yesterday that says that the FCC last week adopted an order that effectively fast tracks Soros's purchase of these 200 radio stations. And I haven't commented on that publicly because the fact is the FCC hasn't released a final decision to the public yet. But the reporting is that we adopted it.

last week in a 3-2 vote. I've been outspoken on this particular issue for the reasons that you talked about. We have a very clear process at the FCC that we've set up that could take six months, could take a year to go through to review the foreign ownership at issue here. But for reasons that are not sort of plain to me, the FCC commission, for the very first time ever, has skipped that process for the benefit of this Soros-backed group.

and I'll sort of let people draw their own conclusions about it. But again, it's, it's an unprecedented decision for the commission. Never happened before. Yeah. And they're calling it. That's right. We at the commission level, he just found out that the, one of the most evil people on the planet just became his boss. Yeah. And they're calling it the quote unquote Soros shortcut. And here's another thing we talked about monopolies here all the time, right? If you own 50% of a marketplace, right. Is that the, is that the number Pat 50% of the market share? Yeah.

Under the Federal Communications Act, no radio station license can be held by a corporation with more than 25% foreign ownership. The source group has acknowledged...

that the level of foreign ownership of Odyssey, which they just bought, will definitely exceed that. And they still request that the FCC expedite the approval of the application for ownership to ready, quote unquote, allow them more time to quickly realize their ownership interests and take the reins in these hundreds of local radio stations across the country. This is how much I feel bad for conservatives. Yep. This is how much I feel bad for you. You see this?

Oh, that's the Illuminati sign. This is how much I feel bad for you. I can go like this, like this. What do you want? This is how much I feel bad for you. You know why? Because you've had money for decades and you didn't buy shit is what you did. I have zero sympathy for you. Zero sympathy for you.

You had all this money and you didn't buy nothing. You sat on your asses while these guys bought it. And now you have to sit there and eat everything they're feeding you and your kids. Everything. You had the money.

You lost public schools. You lost the media. You lost Hollywood. You lost all of that. You lost consulting firms. Every one of the major consulting firms in America, McKinsey, D-E-I-E-S-G, BCG, D-E-I-E-S-G, Ernst & Young, D-E-I-E-S-G, Gartner, D-E-I-E-S-G. Hey, let us make your company have a higher D-E-I bullshit bullshit score. Yes, you screwed up. What are you going to do now? You upset?

You're going to do anything about it? You're still going to go golf six days a week and bitch about how much you don't like Kamala Harris. You caused this. Don't put this on anybody else. You've had money for a long ass time. What'd you do with the money?

Just say, let me put some money in this fund here. We're making 7% to 12%. Let's buy some debt here. Yeah, yeah, let's get it. This is going to give us a municipal, okay, 5% tax-free? Let's do this here. No, we don't want to operate. It's a lot of work is what it is. I don't want to do that. Okay, then stop bitching about it.

I don't want to hear anything when conservative billionaires bitch about what's going on here and they're not putting their money where it's at. Be quiet. You can't say nothing. You have the money and the ammunition and the resources. Either do something about it or sit your ass on the sidelines and say nothing. Nothing. Let your money get to work. Support some of these guys out there. If it's DW, DW, give them a billion dollars. Give them a half a billion dollars. If it's

Another guy that you see, if it's someone that's starting something new, go support them. My feedback, because it's going to get worse because the other side understands they have your kids, public schools, 95% of the teachers are on the left. They have your kids for 12 years.

You know how long that is? Long ass time. Then when you go to universities, they still have your kids. Okay. Then when they watch TV, they still have your kids. Hollywood. Then they watch YouTube. They still have your kids. Then when they go on Google, they still have your kids. Then when they go to Chad, GBT, they still have your kids. Everywhere you go, they have your kids. So if this case study proves that she wins, and by the way, this is not a five-year fix. This is a 20-year fix.

So whatever we do now, you won't be able to fix it till 2044. It's a long-term fix. We're going on a 40 year run by attainment. Okay. You know, what's crazy. I'm sitting here because an interview is coming. I'm going to be on the cover of jet set magazine. That's coming out here at every private airport. 75,000 copies are going to be everywhere. Sick. They just sent me a picture of what it's going to, I'll show it once it's finalized. I'll show it to you guys on what the cover of the magazine is going to be. This is what it's going to be, by the way, Adam, I don't know if you've seen it or not. This is,

McGregor? At all the private airports, this is where- Where you at, PBD? Next month. Oh, it's not out there yet. Next month. And they're talking about what you guys are doing, all this other stuff. You know what it made me think about? Here's what it made me think about.

It made me think about like right now we're getting 500 to 3000 resumes on a weekly basis. A bad week, 500 resumes of people saying, I want to work at Valuetainment. Wow. Big week, 3000 resume. Tom is sitting right next to you. Our HR reports to Tom. Okay. And we're playing ball. We're going long-term. We're going to play ball. We're going to have our own thing that we're doing. I would encourage others to realize that.

Either put the money and give it to someone to work, either invest and you go operate it. And if you have the money and you do neither, just go golf and don't say nothing because you're just as guilty.

If you don't do anything with it. My opinion. I don't have the right there and sit and bitch about something when I'm not willing to do anything about it. If you don't have money, find a way to give back. If you have money, invest into something. And if you're a good operator, you're a good leader, you have the good brains, you're a good developer, you know you're smart. You know you are. Get in the freaking arena.

Well, I'm 55 years old and I'm rich. I'm retired. Bullshit. Go on a 15 year run. You're going to live till 85. What a miserable life to live to just golf five, six days a week. Get in the ring, get in the ring. This is not the time to sit on the sidelines. I have guys that are in their thirties wanting to retire. Like what, what are you even talking about? Like I, I don't understand that logic at all for some people. This is a very important time in the history of America. This is a real war that's taking place.

They're trying to brainwash your kids and take them away from you. They're trying to brainwash that America is a bad country. They're trying to brainwash. And some people are starting to believe that I'm not okay with that. And I, again,

Excuse my directness. A lot of these guys I have relationships with. I would just advise you and encourage you. We need to collectively do something about it. Forget about this is not a, you know, everybody has their own sword they want to die on. If it's pro-life, pro-choice, that's yours. Go for it. If it's economy, business, go for it. If it's freedom of speech, go for it. That's Musk's. There's so many different things. But you know what all of it comes down to? Leave me the hell alone and let me just build my life. If I'm wrong, I'm going to die.

The world will know. If I'm a bad father, trust me, nowadays you can't hide it. If I'm a bad leader, the market's going to say it. If I'm a bad content creator and my ideas suck and my method of communicating is boring, you will lose audience. That's how brutal the market is. And then we have to pick ourselves back up and do something about it. But the community that loves what this incredible country was founded on, hey man,

Get in the rink. This beautiful country, she needs you right now like never before to be able to present the arguments better. It's very, very important right now to not be sitting on the sidelines and celebrating your victories from five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, even a year ago. God gave you certain gifts. Get in the rink. You know you need to get in the rink. Get in the rink. This is not a message to everybody. The message I just gave right now is really only to

2% of people that are watching. I just want to say one thing, by the way, the message there's, there's two people out there that are, they're listening to this message for the newer listeners. They're like, Oh damn, Pat is fired up right now. Oh wow. He is for older listeners, you know, three, four, five years we've been in this thing. You know exactly what Pat's talking about. Cause Pat's been saying the exact same thing since we started the podcast in 2020. And if not longer,

Get in the ring. This is going to happen. We see the writing on the wall. We see what's going on in schools. We see what's going on in media. I'm sitting there listening half the time, learning this stuff. I'm like, oh damn, Pat's doing this. And Pat gives credit to a few different people half the time. Imagine if Elon Musk never bought Twitter. Imagine if the Twitter files never came out. Imagine if our friend Chris Pavlovsky never started Rumble. If there was an alternative to YouTube, respect to YouTube. Imagine if Rogan didn't go to Spotify. Imagine.

So these things that you're basically fired up about, I've heard this a hundred times. You say this. Imagine if the Daily Wire didn't do their thing. There's only one. By the way, people think we hate Daily Wire. I freaking love the fact that Matt Walsh's documentary is going viral. I just want respect.

To me, if you think you're better than me because you're, what do you call it? Elitist? You talk to me like I'm not that guy. Talk to me directly. If I call you, you call me, hey, can we do this? You don't respond back and all this stuff. That's the part I don't like.

but I want to see daily wire blow up. We don't have a problem with that because I think there's still a net positive. I want to see people that are questioning authority doing certain, I want them, I think Candace is necessary that's going out there saying that that's like a complete 180.

Because she's getting certain questions that people have and say, well, I don't agree with this. Okay, great. I don't agree with certain things with Daily Wire. I don't think they agree with certain things I say. It's not supposed to be that way. But if we're in the space of freedom of speech where you can say what you want to say to the best of your abilities, we need to support that. Now, having said that, this here, Adam, is bigger than that. No, this is bigger. This is a real war. This is a real, real war that we're getting into. Let me read this Argentina here, what's going on. Guys,

Bad policies have consequences, so do good ones. Argentina scrapped its rent controls. Tom, I'm coming to you with this one here. Scrapped its rent controls. Not a market is thriving. This is a Wall Street Journal story. Argentina's removal of rent controls under President Javier Millet has triggered a rental market boom with Buenos Aires rental supply increasing over 170%. While rents are still high in normal terms...

Real prices have dropped 40% for adjusting for inflation, giving many renters better deals than before. Landlords who previously kept properties vacant or used them for short-term rentals, like Airbnb, are now returning them to the market. However, rent increases every three months allowed under new contracts have made housing unaffordable for more with tenants like Romina Misenta saying their rent increased over

Almost threefold. Millet's economic overhaul includes removing price controls on essentials like milk, gas, aiming to curb Argentina's 237% inflation rate. Tom, guess what? Capitalist leadership wins. What Millet did. So you have rent controls. Let's.

You're one of my favorite case study. Exactly. So you I'm told I tell you, you cannot rent that apartment for more than four grand. OK. On my apartment. Yeah. You own it like you own a condo. OK. Three bedrooms, two bath. You can't rent it for more than four grand. All right. But loophole, you don't lease it. You put it on Airbnb and you make four hundred a night.

Oh, guess what? You only rent it half the nights, 10, 15, that's six grand. So do you put it out in the rental market at four grand a month on an annual lease or do you Airbnb it for six grand a month? Airbnb. Correct. So guess what? The price control from the government creates a shortage.

because they're not on the market. You're trying to just do Airbnb, vacation rentals. So he takes out the wage and price controls on that, the controlled, and guess what happens?

The supply comes out and people can get there. And suddenly the market is behaving as it should, which is the supply of rentals to the demand from people. Suddenly the water, the tide comes in, the tide comes out. The ocean of the rental market is operating the way it should. And guess what? It's because Malay pulled socialist programs off.

off the table and said, just like that, what was the famous, Afuera, Afuera. He lines up everything in the government. That's got to go. That's got to go. Well, you know what he said to rent controls? Afuera. And guess what happened? People are able to find housing. Now, is the inflation all the way down? No. But this is a guy showing leadership. And by the way,

You know what America is going to need 75 years from now? We're going to need a Malay because if we keep going the way we're going and we don't get the leadership in and we don't do the things we should do. And when the conservatives don't spend up and spend what they should spend to put the institutions in place and protect institutions, then you're going to be like Argentina. You're going to wake up one day and you're going to be looking for your political Messiah. And it's, it's going to be a guy like Malay because go look what happened to Greece in Europe.

When they got to there and they had to put austerity on the books. Okay. You have to work five years later. You can't have your social security because we're broke. They're equivalent of social security. So you have to work five years later. And so, and by the way, there'll be 10% less when you get there. Why? Because we're broke.

So is that what we want? We want the experiments have played out. The experiments have played out. And what you're seeing, if people with eyes to see is me lay is is the leader of the USA. Seventy five years from now, when if we go down to this absolute whirlpool and get sucked down the drain by the socialist progressive policies, this is where it ends up.

where you have somebody that finally steps up and says to go forward, we need to pull all this government out and release it. The same thing that Reagan said, we don't need more government. We need less. People are looking for government to be the solution when government is the problem. What Malay is doing here is showing leadership. It ain't over. He's got to make good, more good decisions. He's got to keep pushing, but look at the progress he's making by pulling the socialist things back off the table.

And I just, I just hope he can hang on. I hope he can get reelected when it's time. I hope he can hang on. I hope the corruption, the arms of corruptions don't emerge from the abyss and strangle him. I hope he can keep it up because he's, he's, he's, he's got it started. I,

I got to tell you, I fully agree with the biz doc. He's fired up. He's got me fired up right now. Cause what's the famous quote from Reagan? One of the most terrifying words you ever hear. I'm from the government and I'm here to help. I don't think so, buddy. So the whole premise of price controls, rent controls, what's the root word here? Control. And what are they controlling? It's the government controlling what you can and can't do with your property or with goods and services. Right. And they put mandates, right?

On the maximum and minimum of what you can sell things for, whether it's gas, whether it's milk, whether it's your rent, whatever it is. So, you know, you talked about Albuera, Albuera, we're going to cut it out. We're going to cut it out. He literally, and our friend Humberto will remember this. He used to go to all his election campaign rallies with what?

a chainsaw and be like, we're going to scrap all this BS and cut the fat because it's basically weighing us down. What was the inflation in Argentina when he took over 237%? No, no, good. Argentina, my gente is no good. So he's coming in there and basically saying, no, we're done with this. And the problem we're starting to see in Latin America, I mean, it's been a pervasive problem is, you know, they're promoting, they're promoting socialism, which is basically communism light.

as if it's worked anywhere before. So here's this full on capitalist. Look at him with the chainsaw. Look at him go. Oh yeah. He's going to cut someone's hand off if they're part of the government. So he's coming in and basically saying free market capitalism was where it's at. I believe, I believe in,

Western civilization and capitalism, free market enterprise. And we're going to cut your hand off literally possibly if you try to reach in our pockets and basically steal our money because taxation is theft and rent control is basically theft. And he's just not playing the game anymore.

And to top that, he said at the UN, at the General Assembly, this is why I love him as well, he said that COVID lockdowns are a crime against humanity. And he said ridiculous WEF leading world to bleak economy.

future. Anybody that loves this country like that. That would be World Economic Forum and Klaus the scholar's character. Yeah, he's, this guy is no joke and that's why they're kicking ass. He's the anomaly in Latin America. Yeah, he is. And by the way, we know what Humberto, shout out to Humberto, told us about what's going on with Colombia when you're talking about the guy at Colombia is worse than Maduro. They're going through their set of issues right now and

Venezuela having the challenge that they got today with the lady Maria Edmundo, I believe, that won 67 to 31, some ridiculous number. And he's saying, no, he won 52%. So what Millet is doing is an anomaly. You know, he had a meeting with Musk the other day. Musk showed up with a black Let's Make America Great Again hat. So these alliances are being made. But let me tell you guys, guys, this is how I start my day every day. And throughout the day, I do this forever.

four or five times when I want to know when I'm in meetings. Yesterday I was in meetings from the second I came into the second I left, I was a meetings nonstop. So when I don't have time and I want to know what's going on throughout my day, every time I do this, I go to VT news.ai. Okay. So this is VT news.ai. If you haven't yet used it, I go in there on the news and I have the highest level on there, which is 1999 a month, unlimited amount of questions to ask the AI. Okay.

Uh, the ask VTAI on there. And I go there to the Rob, if you can zoom in a little bit, so the audience can see it. If you have the AI edition all the way at the top, I asked that question, go a little lower, Rob, go a little lower. I asked that question. What are the top five news events today? Four or five times a day. Cause it changes because news changes. So click on that and let's see what it spits out. Can you zoom out a little bit so we can see it? Um,

So at any point, so let's just say you're, okay, based on, zoom in a little bit, let's see what it says. Based on the recent information here, the five economic units, Vice President Kamala Harris has been actively campaigning in battleground states, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, focused on economic development, healthcare. Okay, got it. President Joe Biden spoke at Bloomberg Global Business Forum during Climate Week NYC, highlighting his administrative achievement in combating climate change. Okay. A video from 2018 has service showing then Senator Kamala Harris chanting down with deportation. What? Yeah.

Did you see this? I never saw it. Is that true, Rob? I'll go find it. Well, hang on. Let's continue with this. At a parade contrasting with her current campaign rhetoric on border security. Very weird. Vice President Harris recently participated in a high-profile live stream with Oprah Winfrey. Michigan affecting hundreds, attracting hundreds of thousands of viewers. What's this? Former President Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona due to security concerns. What? That just happened?

Whoa. That's why I use VT news. Wow. Okay. And by the way, if you haven't yet subscribed, just go to V we hired 15 machine learning engineers to create this. And the level of the level of people that have subscribed to it, we've not seen numbers like this before. Go to VT news. I test the freemium, but if you really want to leverage the AI, the lopsided stories, the which way stories are leaning, it shows you all of it. The timeline of events. If you go on timelines, Rob on,

on the timelines and go to Trump's timeline. It'll show you any top right. It'll show you any stories with what's happened in the peaks. You can literally go to that thing and see what's going on. Again, go to vtnews.ai. Leverage the technology that we worked the last nine months putting together for us that we're sharing.

With you, Rob, what is that deportation video? Down with deportation from when she was senator. She joined this this crowd. And I think if we pull the story on VT News down with deportation. Yeah, she joined a bunch of people that were out there chanting. I don't think she understood. There she goes. She wanders into the crowd, gets out of the limo, wanders into the crowd and just starts chanting what they're chanting here. Played rap. That's what happened.

She just thinks it's a song. It's a new kind of song. She's like, I like this move. Let's go. Oh, my man. Look at that. Look at that. Yo, yo, yo. Yeah, yeah. I actually... I actually... Then she asked where the bar was, said one at a Tito and Cranberry, hold the cranberry, and...

That was how she spent the afternoon. Actually, I respectfully disagree. I think she knew exactly what she was saying. I think that is exactly her policy. She's the border czar. Let them all in. No deportation. Let's give them education and let's give them indoctrination and let's maybe eat a Haitian. I don't know. Whatever we got to do, we got to do. But let's keep these people from the nations in our equation so we have a sensation of the Kamala Harris border going.

Emancipation. Yeah. And the border czar, long live the border czar who let every 20 million people in the country. You're almost rapping. There it is, Tom. I mean, nobody's a better rapper than you. My brother, Larry, had a, what is it? Oh, no, that goes way back. Okay, let me sing it. Go for it. No, no, no, no. Your brother Larry.

Were you going to say something? No, no, no. Oh, by the way, what's crazy about this is, so Taylor Swift, she does the endorsement on the day of the debate and everybody's like, oh my God, that's it. That's unfair. It's going to make an... I was one of those people. I was like, oh my God. And then we did the math here and I'm like, guys...

This is nothing. We weren't buying it. And then the report comes out and here's what the report shows guys. The results. This is embarrassing. Study shows Taylor Swift's endorsement may turn off voters. Do we have the chart? Rob, if you have the chart, I'm going to look for it. I'm going to read this while you're looking for it. So the endorsement common errors after the pay went viral, but research shows it may not help Harris. A national survey found that,

that undecided Swifties who initially showed a high likelihood to vote, .71 on a zero to one scale, reported a sharp decline in intent to .4. Damn, when Swift endorsed Kamala Harris. Trumpy Swifties were unaffected by Swift endorsement and those already planning to vote for Harris showed no increase in enthusiasm. The research highlighted that celebrities, including Swift, struggle to sway voters.

on deeply partisan issues like abortion or candidate. While Swift activism has mobilized voter registration in the past, the study suggests her political endorsement may backfire, especially amongst undecided voters. So here's the numbers, guys. So, Tom, you want to take this? Go ahead and take this since you're having fun with this. This is just wonderful. So you take the 18 to 34. There's your core Swifty. 18.

8% were more enthusiastic, but 11% were less enthusiastic about Kamala Harris. Net three. A net negative three. And 80%, it didn't effing matter. And then you go to their parents, it gets worse. 35 to 49. The Swifties' parents, 5% were more enthusiastic about Kamala Harris finding out that Taylor Swift was supporting her. But 12%.

12% were less enthusiastic, meaning the parents were negative seven and 83% of them had absolutely no difference whatsoever. So there you have it. You know, we talked about it. Pat did the math. He broke it all down. And then I dug up some stats. I think, yeah, I did. They talked about that. The, what used to move voters quantitatively,

you know, with facts were governors, mayors, and the newspaper opinion page. It used to be very critical to get the Miami Herald to support you because the opinion page usually wrote a long thing. Remember this, Adam, Miami Herald, and it contained, oh my gosh, facts and policies. We want to support Michael Dukakis here in Miami for the following facts and policies.

Now that swayed voters back at those days. But celebrities, it doesn't work. And Swift swiftly took three points back. And by the way, think about this. Pat broke down the math. In a U.S. race that is razor thin but is starting to widen,

This is a gaffe. So you mean to tell me Cher saying that if Trump wins, she's going to move out of the country, it's not going to affect people's vote? That probably helps Trump. Now watch this, though. Watch this. This is the weirdest thing. The next story is Janet Jackson...

Who came up there and she says she's not even black. She made that comment last week. Yes. Whoopi comes out defending her. About comments. Oh my God. You know, everybody gets it wrong every once in a while. I get it wrong. You get it wrong. We all get it wrong once in a while. Just let Janet Jackson go. She's not doing anything on purpose. Get back in line. And then Janet Jackson disavows unauthorized apology for saying Kamala Harris is not black.

She was criticized for her comments, saying she's not black. She said she's not black. That's what I heard. She's Indian, Jackson claimed. That she was told Harris' father was white, saying Harris' father was white. That's what I said. Harris was born to an Indian mother and Jamaican father. Following the backlash, Moe Elmarzi, who identified as Jackson's manager, issued an apology on her behalf, saying Jackson deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a black and Indian woman. He added, Janet apologizes for any confusion caused.

Jackson's team has since disavowed El Marcy's apology, asserting that he was not authorized to speak for her. USA Today reported that Randy Jackson, Janet's brother, is her actual manager, and El Marcy's role is now in question. To the translation, Janet Jackson said, knock that off. I meant what I said. That's right. That's what she said. By the way, any time, any place. I meant what I said. Do you know she made a music video?

that the percentage of men buying strawberries went to the roof three months later. Did you know the studies have proven studies that is not public. It's a study that we did internally. This is an internal study done by men. It's an insight. It's a very insightful. When this video came out, anytime, any place, everybody was buying strawberries. And now she's out there. She's going to have this thing with Justin Timberlake. Did you hear about this thing? Her and Justin Timberlake? I'm going to get you elected by the end of the song.

By the way, Rob, you're a comedian. Did that land? It landed on Rob. Yeah, it landed on me, but Tom's always do. Tom gets me. Does anybody not remember the Super Bowl? Oh, of course. I'm going to get you naked by the end of the song. Pat, do you know what this says? This says Janet is like, no, no, no,

I want her to know that I don't care and this is how I feel about her. I don't like you. I did a slight digging. I think Janet, Michael, Kamala, and even Trump, they've been intertwined for a while. Janet knows that Kamala Harris, who she is, because

since 2003, 2004, she was actively working with the Santa Barbara police to try to destroy Michael Jackson. And they sent, tried to send him to jail while Donald Trump was defending Michael Jackson. That's the video that I showed you before we came in here, Pat. Well, Michael Jackson was later vindicated and proven innocent. She was, she was still working in California. Rob, do you have that video of Trump? I'm sorry. Kamala makes a comment. It's,

It's the one that I sent you, Kamala Michael Jackson. Like I said, I think there's something deeper for her. Think about it. Imagine your team, Tom, putting out an apology and you go, no, no, no, no, no. You publicly come out and say, I didn't say, no, no, no. Leave it there. She's not black. She's Indian and Jamaican. It happens more often than Hollywood than you think where your agent will go out and say, well, I think what Vinny was saying was this. And it's almost like you've got

It's almost like you have your own private little Jean-Pierre running around, running around saying, well, what Vinny was really trying to say was this. Yeah. Because guess what? You know, celebrities say things all the time. I don't mean when they're drunk and they're walking to their car and TMZ puts a phone in front of them, you know, at 2 a.m. walking out of a club. I mean, where they say, no, this is how I feel. And this is what it's all about. Gary Sinise. I think what Gary Sinise really meant was this. No, I meant this. And then we all found out that he was actually conservative.

Exactly. And so this is what's going on here. They're trying to play the, oh, what she meant to say was, and she's like, no, I said what I meant. I don't like, yeah, exactly. That to me has some personal thing. Pat, do you want to show this one? The Michael Jackson thing? You want to tell them the time of where it is? Yeah, go ahead and play it. Because Kamala's in the beginning. Because Kamala's in the beginning. Go ahead and play. So she's going to go and they took pictures of me? Go ahead. This is a...

ABC. And cases like this can depend on the testimony of the child accuser. In general, the child will be able to recall and recollect in some detail the incident, and that is persuasive to a jury, even if it is the only testimony that is available. Jackson gave a wave when he was released after booking. He's scheduled for arraignment in January.

Michael's been a longtime resident of Trump Tower. Last night, the Donalds reiterated his defense of Jackson with Larry King by going after the accuser's mother. Mother. She's had plenty of experience at going after people. And she goes after him viciously and violently. And I saw a story and I read another story about some of the things she's done. And I don't believe it. But you know what it's like when an indictment comes down. It's tough. It's presumption. It's tough. It's tough to win.

But I have a feeling he's going to win, Larry. The interesting thing is I've known Michael from many different standpoints, and Michael would spend a lot of time with my kids. I have beautiful kids, and at the time, like at Mar-a-Lago, and even in Trump Tower, the kids were very young. Michael would come, play with the kids.

He just loved children. He was not a child molester. And I am certain of that. He loved children. He'd play with my son, Eric, and my son, Donald. And he'd just play with them forever. He loved children, but he was not a child molester. And, you know, that whole final saga of Neverland and the police and what they did was, I think, a very, very bad part of Michael.

So I feel, I feel like that, like as a sister, if Michael Jackson was your sister and you know, Kamala is trying to run for president and, and you say what you say. And then they're like, yeah, she meant that. And you go, no, no, no, no, no. I said exactly what I meant. I think that there's a little bit of a history book because that's her brother. And that Kamala was, uh, was talking to me like Janet is not defending Kamala because Kamala went after Michael. I think, yeah, I,

I think she doesn't like her. And Donald, the family, do you think the family remembers what Donald Trump said? That was on Larry King. That wasn't a side interview. Great point. That was Larry freaking King at his peak. And by the way, this leads me to the next one when we're talking indictments. Eric Adams is indicted.

following federal corruption investigation. This is the mayor of New York, right? Eric Adams has been that a federal corruption investigation involving potential illegal foreign donations from Turkish government. While the indictment remains sealed, it's reported focus on me on whether Adams conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations from

And Adam responded. I'm going to show the clip here to you in a second. The investigation, which began in 2021, also examines whether Adams pressured a fire department to approve the Turkish government's consulate building. Despite safety concerns, his administration has allegedly been destabilized by earlier investigation involving his top aides, including searches and seizures. The calls for his resignation with Alexander Ocasio-Cortez saying, I cannot see how Mayor Adams can continue. Go ahead and play this clip. This is him.

My fellow New Yorkers, it is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes. If so, these charges will be entirely false based on lies. But they would not be surprising. I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, that I would be a target and a target I became.

For months, leaks and rumors have been aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility and paint me as guilty. Just this past week, they searched the home of our new police commissioner looking for documents from 20 years ago, just one week after he joined my administration. Enough. I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit.

If I'm charged, I know I am innocent. Tom, what do you think? So there's a couple of things here. I don't have a comment on on the charges other than it gets bad when they're going after all your all your crew and they're taking everybody's computers and files and everything. But there's an interesting soap opera is about to play out because the charter of New York is very clear that.

If the mayor is suspended and you know who gets to suspend him? The governor. Governor Hochul has the power to suspend a mayor for...

A variety of reasons. And you just got indicted by the Fens is right up there on the list that you can suspend them now. But who steps up? This is where it gets. There's a soap opera. The the I think the next election is next year, 25. So they're one year and four weeks from having an election for mayor in New York.

And the city public advocate would step up if the mayor is incapacitated or was suspended because it's called suspension by the governor. But the guy that's the city public advocate of New York right now is Jumaine Williams, who is the arch enemy of Hochul because they ran against each other in a very bitter race that ultimately led her winning the nomination and running for governor.

Well, the guy that's behind it is a guy named Brad Lander, who's a controller of New York, who's sort of like the next guy. You know, we have the president, the vice president, and then speaker of the house, the order. And we always used to say that, you know, Nancy Pelosi, unfortunately, is only two heartbeats from the presidency. Well, OK, well.

And there's probably not enough time to put together a special election. You'd be doing a special election in 120 days. And if you did that, that's April 1st. But then you're running the election for the mayor next year in November. So that's probably not going to be a special election unless they could pull one off in like record time. So what you have here is Governor Hochul, if she suspends Adams, now has to deal with Jermaine Williams as the act.

Acting governor who's one of her political enemies. Okay, so here's what I want to do, Rob. Can you go to vtnews.ai and ask the question, is Mayor Eric Adams guilty? Just ask that question on VT News. Is Mayor Eric Adams guilty? What a fast timer. And let's see what it says. All right. And then I want you to put a follow up on there because this is the question that I really got for it.

As of right now, he has been indicted. Adams is expected to surrender authorities early next week, at which point some information charges likely to be revealed. The indictment follows a sweeping corruption investigation and has focused on

alleged influence, peddling, Turkish government. Okay, we saw that. However, the probe has intended multiple high-profile aids. It is crucial to know that innocent until proven guilty. Perfect. Follow up with this. Who can potentially, if you can follow up, and he already knows what the quote, who can potentially replace him if he resigns or gets fired? You don't even need to put his name. You just put him because it knows you're just talking about him. Who can potentially replace him if he resigns or gets fired?

resigns or gets fired. Right. And let's see what it says. Um, it, it, uh,

So if Merrick Adams, zoom in a little bit so we can see it resigned. This is the thing I love about the CIA. It already knows what your previous question is. The line of succession in New York City is as follows. Public advocate, currently this position is held by Jermaine William, which is what Tom said. The public advocate is the first in line. Number two is comptroller. The current comptroller is Brad Lander. If the public advocate is unable or unwilling to serve the comptroller's next...

Then three is borough president. If neither public advocate or comptroller can serve, the most senior borough president by length of service who is eligible would become acting mayor. In the event of vacancy, the acting mayor would serve until a special election can be held to elect a new mayor. The special election would...

typically occur within 60 days of the vacancy unless it's close to a regularly scheduled general election. It's important. Okay. By the way, again, that's their problem. This is on VTnews.ai. This is how you get answers to these technology of the 50 machine learning people that we are. So that's what VTnews.ai says. So Tom, based on that, we know Hochul is,

Relationship wise with him. But Jermaine Williams is terrible. Right. But here's the question. Do you, do you think based on what we've seen and the fingerprints be in different places, um,

Is it giving you vibes that he may be guilty, like something's coming or do you think he's being targeted? So I think they went after him because let's take a look at this. One year ago, he took a lot of heat over the EBT cards. Remember those given EBT cards out. But then remember as winter approached, he had to take school gymnasiums and he had to put the, uh, um, uh, the immigrants who are homeless into school gymnasiums. Remember that? Yes. And there was a big,

big outcry specifically in Brooklyn as the parents were saying, wait a minute, there's a bunch of crazy immigrants at my kid's school. They've taken over the gym and all that stuff was going on. And remember, he came to the microphone and said, we need help and we need this to change. We're getting slaughtered here. Remember that? Well, guess what? Guess who was upset with him? AOC was upset.

was upset because here was a Democrat, their number one guy, New York mayor is their number one guy. He's almost like a Senator in terms of his influence on a national basis. He went, Oh,

outside the lines on the Democratic Party and was criticizing immigration, criticizing what was happening because the people of New York were saying and the police of New York were saying, we got problems here. So he went outside the line and I think they went after him because what happened here, supposedly he took a donation from the Turkish government of some type and then they're building a Turkish consulate in New York. Remember, they can build their consulate in Washington, D.C. You can put your consulate anywhere. Turkey happened to select New York

And supposedly he made phone calls to accelerate permits in the building so they could get their consulate built faster. But the question is, was it cash that he received from Turkey? And that's what we're going to find out. But this doesn't look he didn't go out and do a foreign arms deal. It looks like they decided to go. And by the way, how many people take bribes from little foreign governments? Let me ask a different question. How different is this than Andrew Cuomo?

Well, Andrew Cuomo was a little bit of me too, mixed in there. And they had those women that kept coming forward and, and he, then he had, you know, people were upset about the old folks homes during COVID. I think this is less, I want to hear like, if they find out that he's got $2 million from Turkey. Okay. And they've got the bank receipts. I'm sorry, Eric, you're screwed. But if this was something smaller gifts, couple hundred grand, then I think that, that,

they went after him. But by the way, if there's a special election next year, you know, early, and I don't think they can pull it off before the regular election, either one of those elections, Andrew Cuomo is going to be in there running for mayor. But Adam, I know you want to say something just really fast, but I know, you know, afterwards he was like, you know, this is going to destroy the city of the migrants. But in 2022, he was proud to be a shelter state. He initially was like, come on in, everybody come here, come here. Then it got so F

up. He was like, wait. Then they showed up to the party. Yeah, then, so here's the thing. He's responsible for saying yes and come here and helping destroy New York City. Then you flip-flop and you go, hey, wait a minute. This is a problem. This is going to destroy us. I don't buy it. So I agree that there might be something to do with that, Tom, but I think there's some other deeper stuff where he's getting... AOC went after him then and she's a voice here. She's got no authority in New York. I cannot see how Mayor Adams can continue, says AOC. The

the house of representative lady who has no purview over. Exactly. Pat asked a really good question about like how much similarity is this between Cuomo and Eric Adams? I would say there's actually a, some underlying similarity for sure. I mean, what's going on in New York over here. So he didn't have issues in 21, 22. Cause why he was playing ball. But what I'm starting to realize is there's really no room for moderate Democrats in New York anymore.

You either go woke left, you go AOC left, or...

Or you exit stage right and you're basically doing what Donald Trump is doing and basically trying to win New York and you do the conservative right-wing MAGA thing. There's no more room for moderate Democrats in New York. I'm sorry. It's not a thing. So, you know, we played that clip about New York Post, but there was another portion of that. You know, I remember like a year or so ago, did you hear that Eric Adams and Joe Biden aren't speaking? They're not on speaking terms. I'm like...

Well, why is the mayor of New York speaking with the president anyway? All right. Well, they're not on speaking terms. All right. Whatever that means. But there was a portion of the clip. He goes, because the federal government did nothing about these broken immigration policies. I mean, he was going off on these guys over here, overloading the shelter system. So what happened is in 21 and 22, when he was walking the company line, cool, all good. Do your thing, Mayor Adams. But now what?

Much like Cuomo, and this is the sort of similarities, you're paying the price for basically not being woke enough. And what's happening is every single person in his administration, all his closest associates have been searched. Their phones have been searched. Their homes have been investigated. And essentially they're basically saying, listen, you either get in line or you keep it moving. Now,

This isn't the state of New York going after them. This is the federal government. Yeah, but they're all connected. I mean, they're all Adam. None of that happens without them all in cahoots. And guess what? I don't feel everything that you just said, Adam. I don't feel bad for any of them. If you were initially the come on in and you were playing ball. Now you want to flip flop. I don't give a damn. But because the city's gone, we are as a country. 20 million people are here because of people like that going. Come on in. Yeah, come on in now.

Now that the whole building's on fire, you're like, oh, shit, let's call the fire department. I don't buy that, bro. The damage has already been done. That's only half the argument. The other half is, what did we see happen during COVID before he was even the mayor? When Bill de Blasio was going to potentially run for president, what happened then? How many tens of billions of taxpayer money left New York? They're all out here in Miami. I see them all the time. And by the way, the cops didn't like de Blasio, which is part of what got Eric Adams elected because he used to be a...

Who, de Blasio? No, Eric Adams. He was a cop, right? Top cop. 5-0. So the point is, you're losing taxpayer revenue, income, and now your expenses are going higher and higher because you're letting immigrants come in here and take over these gymnasiums. Let's find out what he got from church. And by the way, that's the same mayor, that's the same place in New York, that when those same migrants that you let come in

We're punching the shit out of cops. They walked right out of jail the next day doing that to us. So I don't feel zero more for him. That's what happens when you play with fire, you get burnt. The question is, is this a hit job or is he actually corrupt? That's exactly. We'll find out. We're going to find out with time. Meanwhile, go to VT news.ai throughout the day and ask questions every couple hours. Ask him, find out what the top five are and follow up with it. Gang.

It's been a blast being with you. We've got another podcast going out tomorrow, and we'll do this again next week. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.