Hormuz Blockade + Swalwell Drops Out | PBD #776

Summary

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PBD Podcast Episode #776: Hormuz Blockade + Swalwell Drops Out

Date: April 13, 2026
Host: Patrick Bet-David (“Pat”)
Home Team: Tom, Adam, and Vinny
Main Themes: Iran-US conflict and Strait of Hormuz blockade, fallout from Eric Swalwell’s scandal in California politics, US political maneuvering, global power shifts, elections, and more.

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into breaking geopolitical news about the Hormuz blockade and the US-Iran standoff, analyzes the collapse of negotiations involving J.D. Vance, scrutinizes US domestic politics (including the Eric Swalwell scandal and Democratic party dynamics in California), and offers lively debate on the power of global institutions and faith leaders (Trump vs. the Pope, Soros and Hungary). The crew rounds out with local political activism, policing, and cultural moments, including a fiery soccer ranking debate.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The Strait of Hormuz Blockade Crisis

• [09:57] Pat introduces Trump’s announcement:
  Trump declares a US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after failed Iran talks. The US Navy is instructed to interdict ships paying tolls to Iran, destroy sea mines, and enforce passage.

  • Quote (Pat quoting Trump):
    "Any Iranian who fires at us or at peaceful vessels will be blown to hell. Iran knows better than anyone how to end this situation..." ([09:57])

• [14:34] Tom's map breakdown:
  Tom explains the logistics of the blockade using a shipping lane map, discusses Iran’s mine-laying and toll tactics, and clarifies that Iran claims to “lose track” of their own mines as strategic ambiguity.

• [16:07] Adam’s geopolitical analysis:
  Argues Trump is not starting but ending a 47-year war, positioning the current US move as eliminating Iran’s last major leverage—economic warfare centered on oil transit.

• [18:37] J.D. Vance negotiating:
  Clips played of Vance leading 21-hour failed negotiations in Pakistan, later spun by the administration as a strategic play:

  • JD Vance's press conference:
    “[The negotiations are] bad news for Iran much more than it is for the United States.” ([18:37])
  • Trump (interview):
    “I want everything. I don’t want 90%, I don’t want 95%. I told them I want everything.” ([19:45])

• [22:52] Vinny’s perspective:
  Sending Vance, labeled as a “non-interventionist,” sets up an optics win for inevitable force, establishing that all diplomatic avenues were exhausted—a “gangster move.”

• [24:11] Iranian response:
  Iran says it will keep obstructing passage until the US agrees to its terms, issues military threats (including targeting US bases and oil complexes), and claims attacks on US interests in the region.

• [27:05] Adam on Iran’s proxies and Lebanon:
  Adam details Iran’s use of proxies like Hezbollah and how the Lebanon conflict is used as leverage in negotiations, explaining the networked nature of Iranian regional influence.

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2. Domestic Impacts: Oil, China, and US Politics

• [12:55, 41:51] Oil prices and risk:
  The crew tracks oil spiking past $100/barrel, noting further escalation could push it to $140–$200 if the blockade remains unresolved.

• [40:30] China’s involvement:
  Trump warns China against supplying weapons to Iran:

  • Pat summarizing Trump:
    “If China does that, China is going to have big problems.”
    Tom explains that, per Western intelligence, China is shipping not just finished weapons but also rocket fuel chemicals to Iran—a “red line” escalation.

• [46:21] Adam contextualizes China-Iran relationship:
  China’s main interest is discounted Iranian oil for its vast energy needs; if Hormuz is blocked, it hurts China as much as Iran.

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3. Blame, Power, and Religion: Trump vs. The Pope

• [55:54] Trump criticizes Pope Leo:
  Trump goes after Pope Leo on Truth Social, calling him weak and criticizing his stance on war and crime.

  • Trump (via Pat/Truth Social):
    “I don’t like a Pope that’s going to say it’s okay to have a nuclear weapon... I’m not a fan of Leo.” ([57:09])
  • The crew debates whether Trump’s confrontational style is justified, with Tom arguing the Catholic Church has politicized itself, and Adam noting Trump’s tendency to “come at you 10 times harder.”

• [60:45] Comparing religious power:
  Pat leads a candid debate about centralized power and influence of Catholics vs. Jews, with discussion on population, structure, and historical conflict.

• [69:58] Trump’s controversial meme:
  Conversation over Trump reposting a meme positioning himself in messianic imagery, which draws concern from Vinny and Pat over blasphemy and hubris.

  • Vinny:
    “God will not be mocked, period. End of story, full stop.” ([70:55])
  • Pat:
    “You don’t play with God. It’s the only thing.” ([76:02])

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4. US Politics: Eric Swalwell Scandal & California Intrigue

• [78:26] Swalwell’s downfall:
  The crew covers the rapid leaking of scandalous clips (including apparent sex worker involvement), allegations of sexual assault, and a groundswell of negative media—interpreted as coordinated by Democratic Party insiders.

  • Tom:
    “...the mainstream media is on a leash with the DNC...they just did to him what they did to Bernie.” ([85:34])

• [84:43] Democratic infighting, candidate shakeup:
  Tom explains the California “jungle primary,” how the Dems panicked seeing polling numbers, and why they greenlit the dump on Swalwell to clear the field.

• [91:24] Vinny on primary process:
  Kamala Harris could technically enter through a write-in campaign, but it would be difficult. There’s skepticism the Dems will settle for lackluster options ("Tom Steyer/Sawyer"), suggesting a surprise entry is being prepped.

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5. Democratic Bench and the 2028 Presidential Race

• [97:30] Pat forecasts 2028:
  Predicts 2028 will be a “wild, open battlefield,” with outsiders, influencers, and even athletes running.
• [99:32] Newsom, Michelle Obama, AOC:
  The crew debates Democratic prospects, with consensus that there is no clear strong candidate; Michelle Obama “not built for this” (Adam, [105:51]), but AOC could be a sleeper due to a shifting electorate.
• [106:48] Warnings about the left’s ideological surge:
  Vinny urges listeners not to “sleep” on candidates with socialist/Marxist platforms—referencing the rise of figures like Mamdani in New York.

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6. International Power, Elections & Soros’ Role in Hungary

• [47:56] Viktor Orban loses power:
  After 16 years, Orban is swept out in Hungary by Peter Magyar; Alex Soros and western liberals celebrate. The team debates whether this marks the acceleration of progressive/globalist influence in Europe.
  • Vinny:
    “They just took Hungary, the last Christian stronghold in Europe… The walls have been breached... It’s a bad, bad sign.” ([52:33])

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7. Local Politics, AI, and Civil Activism

• [124:19] Missouri AI Data Center Battle:
  Small-town residents in Missouri oust four city council members who backed a $6 billion AI data center due to concerns over rising electricity costs and lack of transparency.
  • Tom:
    “Citizens are now showing up, Pat, and they are equating the next data center with the next utility hike, and they’re not having it.” ([128:31])
• [130:22] Adam’s reminder:
  Stresses the true importance of local politics over national intrigue.

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8. Notable Cultural Moments

• [133:34] Sports Illustrated soccer ranking outcry:
  The crew debates the controversial list that places Cristiano Ronaldo only 15th all-time (to the team's dismay), with Messi crowned #1.
  • Adam:
    “Did Cristiano Ronaldo ever win a World Cup? ... Messi’s the guy.” ([136:54])

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Iran Blockade:
  “Any Iranian who fires at us or at peaceful vessels will be blown to hell.” – Trump statement (as read by Pat) ([09:57])
• On Political Leverage:
  “Trump has all the cards. He has all the leverage. And now Iran is going to have to scramble to dictate what Trump’s going to do.” – Adam ([17:02])
• On Catholic vs. Jewish power:
  “Only Catholics and Muslims have somebody that they look at as their supreme leader... Catholics pulled it off. What a power.” – Pat ([65:07])
• On party machinations:
  “The mainstream media is on a leash with the DNC…they just did to him what they did to Bernie.” – Tom ([85:34])
• On cultural transformation:
  “Once a country loses its identity, Pat, getting it back is way harder than getting it in the first place.” – Vinny ([54:13])

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Recommended Timestamps

• Trump’s Hormuz announcement & oil crisis: 09:44–18:37
• JD Vance negotiations / strategy: 18:37–24:11
• Iranian threats & US Naval response: 24:11–29:34
• Israel-Hezbollah & US policy debate: 29:34–39:14
• Trump vs. the Pope convo: 55:54–63:10
• Swalwell scandal / CA politics: 78:26–94:59
• Power of Catholics vs. Jews: 62:44–68:59
• Soros/Orban/Hungary election analysis: 47:56–55:54
• Missouri data center uprising: 124:19–130:22
• 2028 presidential race debate: 97:30–104:10
• Soccer greatest debate: 133:34–136:55

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Tone & Language

• Energetic, irreverent, unscripted: The Home Team oscillates between sharp, data-driven breakdowns and comedic, sometimes incendiary banter.
• Frequent cross-talk: Overlaps occur, especially in heated debates on Israel, religion, or intraparty power struggles.
• Mixes serious insight with informal, relatable stories: From soccer injuries to high-level deals, they blend expert geopolitics with relatable personal vignettes.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• Expect a whirlwind tour: from the global shockwaves of the Strait of Hormuz blockade, through the chess game of US and Iranian maneuvering, down to the dirty tactics of California politics and the subtle machinery of globalist power.
• The episode’s heart: Political gamesmanship—domestic and international—is shaped by perception, leverage, and timing. Whether it’s Trump “blockading the blockade,” Democrats eating their own, or Soros flipping Hungary, the moves are ruthless and strategic.
• Add in culture war flashpoints, religion, and even local town hall politics, and you’ll have a punchy, info-rich, and often provocative listen.

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Transcript

[Tom]

Did you ever think you were made again, Adam? What's your point?

[Pat]

The future looks bright.

[Vinny]

My handshake is better than anything I ever saw.

[Pat]

It's right here. You are a one of one.

[Tom]

My son's right about.

[Vinny]

I don't think I've ever said this before.

[Pat]

Oh, my God. Hope you had a good weekend. Lots of stuff going on. I had a wild weekend, which I'll tell you here in a minute what wild means to me. But before we get into my wild weekend, let me tell you what's going on. Oil prices. People are worried with this blockade that it may be going to 140 to 200 if this continues and they don't find a way to figure it out. J.D. vance goes out there to try to negotiate. 21 hours later, nothing happens. He says it's bad for Iran. JD Vance went to Hungary to help Viktor Orban and Viktor. No, not. Where did he go to. He went to Pakistan.

[Adam]

Then he went to Pakistan.

[Pat]

Not Hungary.

[Tom]

Islamabad.

[Pat]

He went to sit down to help Viktor Orban on the campaign. Orban. And no, this was a week ago, a few days ago, five days ago. Okay. That attack took place. So Orban ends up losing in a massive way.

[Vinny]

Right.

[Pat]

16 years we're talking about. They were in charge. They're saying some corruption. Putin got him up to want to help. Netanyahu got him up to want to help. Trump was trying to help. Alex Soros to. Soros family hasn't been this happy in a long time. In a long time. And we'll talk about why that is. Trump posted one of the truth socials about the blockade. We have to get into that. There's a recording of the president saying, I don't want. I don't want just a little bit of things. I want all of it. I want. I don't want 90. I want 95% of everything I ask for from Iran. We're going to see if that's going to take place or not. At the same time, there was a tweet from the president with, you know, depicting as if he's a, you know, Jesus. Jesus. Putting his hands over people. Lots of reaction to it. There's going to be reaction here as well that will talk about, you know, the UFC happened over the weekend. Wasn't really a crazy card that they put out, but I got to tell you, it was a sick card that you win. And sometimes you go to a card and it's big names. And it disappoints this one. It wasn't big names, but it Was a phenomenal. The last three fights. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. Three fights, especially the last one. You thought the guy was over with. He comes back unbelievable, ends up winning. Adam was in the bathroom. But it was unbelievable when that took place. And what else can I tell you? So we got all this stuff, inflation. We have to talk about the economy, these AI. What do you call it, data centers that they're building in Missouri. We have to address the Missouri situation with the data center, the 6 billion. Tom's got a lot of stuff to say. Somebody came out and apparently threw something at Sam Altman's house with Molotov cocktail. You know, people are. Because, you know, they're saying it may have some ties to. Maybe people are upset about the data centers. Who knows? We'll get into that as well. Kamala Harris, folks, your favorite person came out and she's hinting, she's hinting that maybe your dream can become a reality for 2028. I have a feeling a ton of people are running in 2028 election. I think it's going to be crazy with a lot of people running in 2028. Yes. And then what am I missing here? Story wise. Oil Pope. We have to talk about Pope. Humberto said don't talk about the Pope. We have to talk about the Pope.

[Vinny]

He hates that. He doesn't like it.

[Pat]

He doesn't like it. But it is what it is. He's got to get over it. It is happening. And then this guy named Eric. Oh, I don't know if you're tracking this guy's weekend.

[Vinny]

He's a rough saint.

[Pat]

Rough weekend for Eric Swalwell. Maybe he likes it like that. But it was a rough weekend for him. You know, it was a rough weekend for him with some of the old clips came out. Some people are saying the Democrats have been sitting on these clips for many years. Everybody knows. He's just trying to finally say you don't want him. And you know, maybe you don't even want to. Who's my girl? Katie is Katie Porter. You know, and who knows? They want. They may not even want Tom Sawyer. Right. Who are you going to want?

[Adam]

Tom Steyer.

[Pat]

That's what I'm saying.

[Adam]

Is now running.

[Pat]

Are you kidding me? Tom Sawyer has a higher chance of winning than your Tom Steyer.

[Adam]

That's probably true. I think that Tom style will throw more money at the race.

[Tom]

But it was definitely a bad day. Leaderboard for Eric, man.

[Pat]

It is. And. And we got some clips to show you. It's semi soft porn, but we Will show you no kids watching today. When we do, we will make sure to tell you. Earmuffs and what's. What is earmuffs and what. What's ice.

[Adam]

Let the boy watch.

[Pat]

Well, no, not. No plums. No plums today. But let me tell you what happened. Weekend. Let me tell you what happened on my weekend. Let me know what's going on. Let me tell you what happened on my weekend. So Saturday, I come in. The last three weeks, I've been already crazy enough, but for different reasons. But I come in Saturday, we put a soccer game, 7v7. It's the sickest game. One guy gets injured. I said, guys, I'll come in. I had my soccer shoes with me. Dylan's playing, it's going great. I come in, I play Vinnie, and I'm thinking, I'm 27. I'm making some good moves. I made a couple sick passes. I'm playing defense. I'm getting this guy named Ethan who thinks he knows what he's doing in soccer. I'm putting him in his place. Although he scored more goals than anybody else, you know, he is actually really good.

[Vinny]

Okay.

[Pat]

Anyways, all of a sudden, I'm in the corner playing defense with this Cuban boxer, and I make this one move. Boom. And then I fall. I'm like, what was that all about? My knee buckles and I fall. I get up, I'm like, no, I got this. I said, give me a break, guys. It's gonna be fine. So I try to come and do it again. At this point, I no longer have control of my knee. I'm like, what the hell is going on with this knee? No joke. So I said, I got. Guys, I can't play you guys. I try to do goalie. I'm like, I can't even stand up. So I come out, but there's zero pain. Yeah. So then a friend of ours has come in, Levitan, who I haven't seen for 16 years. He comes in, we go out, we have dinner, we have a good time together. And then I get a call, you know, we get 10 tickets to the UFC fight. So at this point, I don't know if we're going to go or not because of what happened to knee. And I said, listen, it's probably not that bad. I probably just, you know, strained. Something or something happened. And then we go to the UFC fight. All night, I'm walking like a. You know, and you know, what kind of a limp? Like. Like, hey, let me. You know, like one of those old school, you know, Low rider, you know, just walking around with my little limp that I got going on at ufc. Everyone's like, is this guy doing it on purpose or not? And this pain is not going to. I got ice, I got braces, I got all this stuff.

[Vinny]

Advil.

[Pat]

It's my dad's 84th birthday. Then we come home at like 1:32 o'.

[Adam]

Clock.

[Pat]

We go to sleep. I wake up in the morning, I'm like, I got to get an mri. I go to Miami, I get my MRI done. I'm like, it's probably not a big deal. And then the New York Giants ortho, the guy that's for the football players, he says, you tore your acl.

[Adam]

Stop it.

[Pat]

I said, what did you say? He said, you tore your acl. I said, tell me you're joking. He says, no, you've torn. Says your cartilages look great. I've never seen better cartilages than this at 47 years old than the ones you have. Meniscus looks okay, but you have a torn acl.

[Vinny]

Yeah.

[Pat]

I said, so what do I do? He says, it's only a six to nine month recovery. I'm like, what are you talking about? I walk when I'm speaking. And he says, no, you have to do full on reconstructive surgery, all this stuff. So I walked.

[Adam]

Are you kidding me?

[Pat]

The entire night at ufc, I walked on with a torn ac.

[Vinny]

He just walked in here. He's not touches or anything.

[Adam]

I'm standing at the door because I'm here early these days. Peabody walks in. I think he's doing a little.

[Vinny]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pat]

So anyways, DJ Laz, vibes.

[Adam]

So what's gonna happen now?

[Pat]

I have to do surgery.

[Adam]

Stop it, Pat.

[Pat]

What are you talking about?

[Adam]

Why are they playing soccer out there to nine months?

[Pat]

What do you mean? I got a kid. I want to play with the guys. I'm not gonna.

[Adam]

So how about this? How does this affect our stair racing situation?

[Pat]

Well, that one I'm glad it's documented. We know one thing for a fact. You know what's faster, Vinnie? I have no more skiing and snowboarding for you ever again.

[Vinny]

That's why I play video games. Because let those little digital guys do all the work.

[Pat]

And one of these days I'll tell the whole story. But this is God's way of saying, listen, man, you know? You know what I'm saying?

[Adam]

Slow down.

[Pat]

Anyways. All right, so that's what's going on here in the interim, before we get into the story.

[Tom]

Ain't gonna be no, let me.

[Pat]

Let me kind of tell you guys what's going on here. Do you guys know? Since September 9th, fun fact. Since September 9th, this is the only shoe I've been wearing every day. Except for seven days when I tell you every day. Everybody here knows this is all I wear. And by the way, I intentionally wear this every day to see how it makes it through walking, hiking in the snow. I wear it everywhere just to kind of get in. And nothing is torn, nothing is broken, nothing. It's still going. The future looks bright. Shoes are truly what we promised it to be. Thousands and thousands of people around the world are worn. The future looks bright shoes. And if you haven't yet ordered yours, I want you to pay attention to this video clip here of a shoe 100% made in Tuscany, Italy, designed in Fort Lauderdale with the super foam technology on the bottom of it to make it comfortable when you're walking. Rob, go ahead and play this clip. When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort, function and luxury, we had the choice to make it fast. We had the choice to make it cheap. We chose not Ivy. Instead, we chose Tuscany, Italy. We chose true Italian craftsmanship. Each pair touched by 50 skilled hands. We chose patience, spending two years perfecting every detail. And we chose the finest quality at every step. Introducing the future looks bright collection. Not rushed, not disposable, not ordinary. Rather introduce intentional, luxurious, timeless. There you go. FLB's.

[Vinny]

You weren't playing soccer in them, were you?

[Pat]

No, I wasn't playing soccer.

[Tom]

Had he been playing soccer in these sh.

[Pat]

I have, it would be a different.

[Tom]

He would have had proper arch support. Not hurt that.

[Pat]

Here, here's some good news for a lot of you guys that were asking for different sizes. We just got thousands of them that just came in, which we're very excited about. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean we have 500 by each side. It just means we have 45 to 80 of each size. So if you haven't yet ordered yours, black, white, navy blue, or champagne, go place the order. A new color will be coming out in three months, which we'll be launching. We're very excited about. And potentially sneakers in the future Christmas season. But stay tuned for that. So go to vtmerc.com place an order for yourself or your loved one. Having said that, let's get right into it. Trump announces strait of Hormuz blockade after Iran talks collapse. Here's the president. So there you have it. The meeting went well. Most points were agreed. But the only point that really mattered. Nuclear was not effective immediately, the United States Navy, the finest in the world, will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. At some point we will reach an all being allowed to go in, all being allowed to go out bases. But Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying there may be a mine out there somewhere that nobody knows about but them. This is world extortion. And leaders of countries, especially in the US Will never be extorted. I've also instructed our navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the straits. Any Iranian who fires at us or at peaceful vessels will be blown to hell. Iran knows better than anyone how to end this situation which has already devastated their country. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti aircraft and radar are useless. Khomeini, he probably meant to say Khomeini and their leaders are dead. All because of their nuclear ambition. Their blockade. The blockade will begin shortly. Other countries will be involved with the blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit of this illegal act of extortion. They want more and they want money. And more importantly, they want nuclear. Additionally, and at an appropriate moment, we will fully be locked and loaded and our military will finish up the little that is left of Iran. So that announcement is made. You look at oil prices right now, Rob, if you want to go to it real quick just to kind of see where we are with it as of right now, oil prices, maybe press a refresh. Is it, is it live? 103.39. There you go. 103.39. It was at 105 in the morning. It went all the way up to 119. They're saying if this continues for another week or two, we could be looking at 140. Even if a little bit longer we could be looking at 200, which is pretty wild to be thinking about. And J.D. vance himself was out there, I believe, trying to negotiate with you. Not he even said that it went for 21 hours. And I think in an interview, Rob, if you have it, he says it's bad for Iran, it's not good for Iran. After 21 hours of a negotiation that they had about the blockade and the President came out and said something. Hopefully we'll find a clip to show you. But he came out and said, is this the one, Rob?

[Tom]

Yes, one of them.

[Pat]

Go for it.

[Adam]

Mr. Vice President, how often did you

[Vinny]

communicate with President Trump throughout the negotiations? There are reports.

[Pat]

Good question.

[Vinny]

There were multiple rounds where there were breaks in between negotiations. How often did you communicate with the President throughout those rounds? And what was he saying as you were going through these negotiations that you said fell short? Yeah, obviously we were talking to the president consistently. I don't know how many times. We talked to him a half dozen times. A dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously also talked to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marco, to the entire national security team. We talked to Scott Bessant a number of times. So, look, we were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith.

[Pat]

You can pause it right, and you can pause it right there, Rob. Okay. So, Tom, what do you think about the blockade?

[Tom]

So I'm going to. Let's take a look at a map so everybody can understand because over the weekend. That's it right there, Rob, get that one left. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. That one. Okay, so take a look at this. On the lower side is Oman. The dark blue water is Oman. And there's the two old shipping lanes when the Strait of Hormuz was operating before the war. See it? One goes this way, one goes that way. Those are known as shipping lanes. And they keep two miles in between for bad weather, fog, you know, all the kinds of things you want. So these boats go this way and that way. That's where it was before. You see the red gridded area there where Iran is declared it a hazardous area. See that square there, Pat?

[Pat]

Yep.

[Tom]

Iran has said we put a bunch of mines in here, but we can't remember where we put them. That's why the President, in his quote that you just read, do you believe

[Pat]

they really don't know where it's at?

[Tom]

No, I believe they're using the unknown to force their offer, which is, see the two lanes that now run through the pink, the pink light. Light red is Iran territory waters. And they're trying to force the shipping lanes to reroute. They're going to put the toll booth on Lara Island. See that right there with the two lanes, one goes this way, one goes that way. So they're saying, hey, you're going to pay a toll to us. This is where it's going to go. And, gosh, I wish I could help you with those shipping lanes down there, but I got mines in the area. So the President is Saying, screw you, I'm going to blockade you on those new shipping lanes that you're offering that your own boats are shipping through, and we're going to go clear any mines out of the old shipping lanes by Oman, and we're going to get life back to order. That's what the President is saying on a. On an operational level. These are the actions he's going to take on the other side. Iran wasn't given and they weren't given, which is kind of put him in the. All right, you know, you're not going to give up, so I'm going to go blockade the other way. But ladies and gentlemen, that's why you're hearing Iran saying, we're blockading, using it, because they say there's mines, and we say, nope, we're going to blockade, saying we are going to block the new lanes that have been offered by Iran.

[Pat]

Adam.

[Adam]

So US Is winning, Iran is losing, and everyone else is trying to pick up the pieces of what's actually going on. It's very interesting to me to see, obviously, we saw the tweet that Trump did when he called out everybody, especially the MAGA crowd, who's basically abandoned Trump. It's like, you don't abandon the guy that got you here. So the question with Trump now regarding Hormuz and just the overall Trump situation is, is Trump betraying his base or is he actually just following through to what he's always said? So if you just look at Trump's track record, and then I'm going to get to this trade of Hormuz. He came in, in 2015, came down the escalator in that speech. Everyone. He addressed the Mexican situation. They're rapists, they're this, they're that, and some are good people. What was missed from that speech is he called that Iran in his first major speech. Okay, gotcha. He's exited the jcpoa, the Iran nuclear agreement. I don't want to curse right now, but he said, I'm going to bomb this out of them. Do you remember that quote? Then he did it.

[Tom]

Yeah, I don't care.

[Adam]

I don't care. I don't care. He said this years ago. He takes out Soleimani, by the way, took out ISIS. Where are they these days? He was in the 12 day war, the. The bombing of the nuclear facilities. He did a Muslim ban. And all of a sudden people are like, dude, where'd this come from? I thought you didn't want any new wars with Iran. I view it this way. Trump's not starting a new war. He's ending a war with Iran that we've been at war for 47 years. Now, let's talk about the Strait of Hormuz. This is all Iran's got left. We've taken out their military. We've taken out their navy. Do they even have an air force? Do they even have defensive missile capabilities? Defensive. They're making themselves enemies of all their neighbors, their social pariah. And all they got left is the Strait of Hormuz. So it's an economic war over oil. So I'll ask you this. Remember the famous situation where Trump and J.D. vance were in the Oval Office and they were dressing down Zelensky? You don't have the cards. You don't have the cards. Now, Iran jokingly goes, yeah, well, we have a straight. The Strait of Hormuz, and Trump's using this blockade and saying, oh, really nice straight. Boom. Here's a royal flush. I'm gonna blockade your blockade. You think you're crazy? I'm crazier than you. The bottom line is this. Trump has all the cards. He has all the leverage. And now Iran is going to have to scramble to dictate what Trump's going to do.

[Pat]

I want to show you two things. Rob, if you want to pull up the JD Vance clip real quick when he explains 21 hours and nothing happened, go ahead. Rob.

[Vinny]

Well, good morning, everybody, and let me say a couple of notes of appreciation. First of all, to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Field Marshal Munir, who were both incredible hosts, and whatever shortcomings in the negotiation, it wasn't because of the Pakistanis, who did an amazing job and really tried to help us and the Iranians bridge the gap and get to a deal. We have been at it now for 21 hours, and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen not to accept our terms.

[Pat]

Okay, so you hear that? Wait, you hear that right there? Then you see the President coming out, and he's speaking to Maria Bartiromo and this is what he says to her on what he wants now from them.

[Tom]

I predict they come back and they

[Vinny]

give us everything we want. And I told my people, I want everything. I don't want 90%, I don't want 95%. I told them I want everything.

[Pat]

Yeah. So now here's the thing. I think one of the things the President did by sending J.D. vance out there, I actually like that move a lot. And I'll tell you why. Because if Rubio went out there negotiating on his behalf, Rubio, people would say he's an interventionist. But if JD Vance goes out there negotiating as a guy whose position is probably a non interventionist, more like an isolationist, because the ties of names like Tulsi being tied to J.D. joe Kent being tied to J.D. a lot of Tucker Carlson's son Ben, I believe his name is Buck or Buck Buckley, Carlson being tied to jv. JD I think these are all good things that the President did of sending J.D. vance out there. Because the world is now saying, well, guess what, Rubio, JD And Trump are all on the same page. When it comes down to Iran, you can say whatever you want. Those three are now on the same page. So, you know, the average person would have probably thought the better person to send to negotiate here would have been who? Rubio. Right.

[Tom]

Rubio and Wyckoff, they've been doing their work.

[Pat]

But why did he not send Rubio? Why did he send JD because now I think it's a great, absolute, absolute great move that he sent J.D. instead. And by the way, here's the thing that we're going to realize as well. You know, and this is a little bit tough because, you know, like, people say things to me and they'll say, well, you know, why don't you send me? Why don't you send me? You know, when we're doing certain negotiations. And I'll say, look, if I send Tom, here's what Tom's going to do. Tom's going to close. The deal's going to get done. We're going to make progress. If I send you, will you close? If you don't close Vinnie, then I'm not sending you. But we got to send somebody that's going to go close the deal without you being there. So the pressure is also on who? The pressure is also on JD to close. Because right now, what are a lot of people saying? You saw the criticism that's going viral right now. What is the criticism? Did you see it about J.D. i don't know if you guys Saw this this morning.

[Adam]

No, he does. He doesn't have the cloud. He can't close the deal.

[Pat]

Anything he touches, it doesn't turn to gold. What people are saying, like, he's the Drake of politics. Like they're saying, hey, well, I'm telling you what the Twitter, you know, the criticism is saying, you know, JD's approval rating has fallen 21 points from January of 2025 of plus 3 to minus 18 today. So he has to rebuild his credibility because he went to help out Orban. Orban didn't work out. He went to negotiate. So this is also a way of saying, hey, you want to go be a president? Show up? Do you have, do you know how to negotiate in these high intense, high pressure type of situations? We're going to see what he's going to do as well. I'm confident that he's got the skill set to be able to do that as well. He's fairly poised. He showed up in a debate with, when he was going up against Tim Wall. So I think he has that diplomacy in himself as well. But you got to close. You have to close the deal. So will others be threatened by what he's saying? Will? We don't know. We're about to find out. Vinny.

[Vinny]

Well, Pat, and I'll give you credit where credit is due. When we were in the van coming back, this just broke and this was one of the first things that you said is that they know that they're sending a guy that doesn't want war, that was distancing himself. Trump was in, they quoted him, I don't know which, I don't know if it was New York Times or Wall Street Journal where they said the president said J.D. vance was then they put in quotes less enthusiastic about the war. And by the way, so this looks like a dead end. If you want, from a strategic point of view, Tommy, you want to send the guy that has to now get his hands dirty. Because this trip to me was about watching, documenting and letting Iran show in real time that there was no real path forward. I believe they kind of already knew that going in. Once the optics were locked in, the moral high ground was established and whatever comes next can now be framed as the only remaining option. It made me look at the book the Art of War, and Sun Tzu wrote, all warfare is based on deception, which basically the lesson is when conflict is unavoidable, let your enemy prove peace was never possible. Then when force follows, it no longer looks like aggression, it looks inevitable. So I think this was a gangster move by sending him now because Adam now guess what? Come 2028, when he's going to start to distance himself, they go, whoa, whoa, you were there, you saw it. Iran's not trying to freaking negotiate at all. So you're in it with us. So now it levels the playing field.

[Pat]

Now let me tell you what Iran said to this. Iran says it'll keep obstructing Hormuz until US Agrees to a deal. Iran has found the leverage that they have, which is the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what Iran said. Iran will keep passage through Strait of Hormuz hampered until it gets an acceptable offer from the U.S. according to statements carried by Sanim and Fars news agencies affiliated with Iran's security services. Here's a quote. Iran is not in a hurry. Until the US Agrees to a reasonable deal, there will be no change in the situation of the Strait of Hormuz is what they said. And on top of that they threatened. Is this a video of the threats, Rob?

[Tom]

Yes, sir.

[Pat]

Go ahead and play this clip. Go forward. In the name of God, the most

[Adam]

gracious, the most merciful. The naval and aerospace forces of the Revolutionary Guard since dawn Today in the

[Pat]

99th wave of Operation True Promise 4 with the Holy Code Yafatima Al Zahra,

[Adam]

peace be upon her in response to the enemy's crimes and attacking the country's infrastructure have targeted American bases and interests

[Pat]

in the region as well as command centers and Zionist military gatherings in the

[Adam]

occupied territories with ballistic and cruise missiles and offensive drones. In the first phase of the attacks, the largest petrochemical complex belonging to American companies Sadara ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical located

[Pat]

in the Al Jubayl region of Saudi Arabia and and the large petrochemical complex of the American company Chevron Phillips based in Al Ju Ayma, Saudi Arabia were effectively targeted with medium range missiles and offensive drones. Additionally, more than 30 locations in Rishon

[Adam]

Le Zion and PETA Tikva in the

[Pat]

center and Beersheba Dimona Arad Kiryad Ghat Iran threatens to attack US Navy ships entering Strait of Hormuz after first American vessels moved through the channel, US Navy destroyers began clearing a new passage through the Strait of Hormuz Saturday making the first time America ships crossed the channel since the started award. The USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy set off on the mission to establish an open route so that minesweepers could later clear sea mines laid by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard cause. Vice President Vance and other delegates embarked on peace Talks today began a process. The two guided missile destroyers were only established on the route for minesweepers and sending a message to Iran that US will reopen a vital trade corridor by any means. By the way, UK is apparently helping them out because they send a team that's experts at knowing how to do the minesweeping. So, you know, no one really knows what's going on. At the same time while this is taking place, Israel says it struck over 200 Hezbollah targets just in the last 24 hours. The Israel military said its air force hit over 200 targets linked to Iran backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon on Saturday. The announcement of the strikes comes as Iran demands a ceasefire in Lebanon as part of the wider talks with the US In Islamabad to end the war in the Middle East.

[Adam]

Adam, you're talking about Lebanon right now?

[Pat]

Yeah, no, I'm talking about Lebanon. I'm talking about Iran's threats. Iran controlling it. All those three together.

[Adam]

Well, if you listen to what Trump said. Did you see the quote, what he said? Listen, we've already won. You see that quote? Can you pull that one up, Rob?

[Pat]

Yes.

[Adam]

Basically he says, yeah, I don't really care what happens in these negotiations. We've already won, destroyed their military. I think Trump is basically doing this, it's a game of chicken about the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz, what countries is that the most important to. Let's get real here. Before this war, how many of us talked about the Strait of Hormuz? We talked about Panama Canal, talked about Gulf of Mexico, we talked about the Monroe Doctrine. We talked about or the Trump Doctrine down road doctrine. Strait of Hormuz doesn't really affect the United States, does it? It affects certain other countries. Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Southeast Asia, India. So I think he's using the Strait of Hormuz as a leverage point, saying if we close this down, what's going to happen to the rest of the world? Didn't we have a picture over the weekend of how much drilling is happening in the Gulf of America now? How many ships and oil refineries are popping up and how many ships are coming through the Gulf? Did we not discuss that? The whole concept of drill baby drill, dribby drill, it's basically the chickens are coming home to roosters. Now, regarding Lebanon, you know how they say united Israel controls America? Bibi Nanyahu controls America. Okay, well, did you see, did you hear what Anthony Blinken had to say? We can tee up that clip, but you know who controls Lebanon? It's not Even a question. It's Iran, Lebanon. Hezbollah is Iran first. This whole conversation. Why would Lebanon not part of Iran, be a part of these negotiations? Because that was the center point. That was the linchpin as to what J.D. vance did. You see J.D. vance, what he had to say when he was outside of Air Force One. He goes, listen, yeah, we were trying to do the, the, the deal and then all of a sudden Israel and Lebanon are going at it.

[Vinny]

Well, who started that? Who's doing that?

[Adam]

Well, that's been ongoing. But here's the point. He goes, I genuinely think Iran thought that Lebanon was part of the deal. Lebanon wasn't part of the deal. Lebanon's name didn't even come up. So Iran's playing games. They have their proxies out there, whether it's the Hezbollahs, the Houthis, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, whatever they're doing, they're funding them, not funding their own people. Lebanon has no part of this deal unless Lebanon is controlled by Iran. That's true.

[Vinny]

Are we sure about that? Like, what's your proof that Iran controls Lebanon?

[Adam]

Okay, so.

[Vinny]

No, I'm at. No, I'm asking.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Vinny]

No, I'm asking.

[Adam]

What do you know about Hezbollah?

[Vinny]

They're terrorists.

[Adam]

Okay. Where are they based in?

[Vinny]

They're all over the place.

[Adam]

No, they're not.

[Vinny]

Yes, they are.

[Adam]

They're in Iran. I'm sorry, they're in Lebanon.

[Vinny]

They are. Well, there's. They're in Iran as well.

[Adam]

Hezbollah is based in Lebanon. Facts. Just like Hamas is in Gaza, just like the Houthis are in Yemen. Okay. And how they get their funding from Iran, the Iranian terror proxy network, okay, that's who this Hezbollah is. So rather than funding their own people, own economy, drinking water, everything, they fund Hezbollah. This isn't even a controversial statement. This is true. So they're sending in. Imagine you're in Tel Aviv, imagine you're in Miami. Imagine you're in New York. You're sitting there and missiles are flying in over your city. I don't think people truly understand what's going on in Israel. Their entire country is living in bunkers at this point, when Iraq and Iran were at war. Ok, you're a proud Iranian, I assume at this time, I assume you were hearing missiles over your head, non stop. Do you remember this?

[Pat]

Yes.

[Adam]

Do you still have like flashbacks about this? And I'm not saying this doesn't go on in other parts of the world. The entire society in Israel right now is underground. They get to pop up and live their lives. All of a sudden Missiles are coming from Iran. They have 10 minutes to get underground. Missiles come in from Hezbollah. They have three minutes to get underground. Missiles come in from whatever left in Gaza. They have one minute. You have entire Western democracy, ally of the United States. Regardless how you feel about Bibi and Israel, you have an entire society that is forced to live underground because the IRGC and all their, their proxies are sending.

[Pat]

What is this? Clip by Blinken, Anthony Blinken.

[Adam]

This is a separate conversation about what is it? So this is basically saying, how did us enter this war in Iran? And this is Anthony Blinken, obviously, former secretary.

[Pat]

Go ahead, let's see it.

[Adam]

Basically saying it. Was it Bibi, was it Trump? Whose decision was it? This is Anthony Blinken. Go ahead.

[Pat]

Prime Minister Netanyahu at various points tried to convince the Obama administration, the Biden administration, to do things like this. To my knowledge, he's tried to convince virtually every administration since he's been in office to do what President Trump finally did. He came to the Obama administration and tried this. He came to the Biden administration and tried this. And he finally found a willing customer in President Trump. But this was President Trump's decision. This wasn't Bibi Netanyahu's decision. It was President Trump's decision.

[Adam]

Look, that's it.

[Pat]

It's not that previous administrations, whether it was, there's president.

[Vinny]

You have to admit though, Adam, it's 1,000% President Trump's decision. But you cannot sit here and pretend that Bibi Netanyahu doesn't have major influence. Jared Kushner has known. Jared Kushner has known him since he was a child. His father in New Jersey, he used to go visit him, Bibi, in Jersey. He's over there negotiating. That's a conflict of interest, number one. Number two, we can't pretend, Adam, everything was Iran, Iran, Iran, and then Israel went on full on seizing land and attacking in Lebanon and mind you, Adam, in heavily populated civilian and Christian parts of Lebanon. And they're literally seizing land. And it's looking out because, Adam, who's to stop them from just going, well, there's terrorists here. Bomb them. Who's checking to see how many civilians are dying in Lebanon?

[Adam]

Where's the.

[Vinny]

Because if all you have to say is this, there's terrorists there, you could literally keep bombing, keep extending, expanding until you've taken over as much land as you want. Obviously, I want Hezbollah taken out. Obviously, I want Hamas done. Obviously, I want ISIS done, which Trump basically did. But if you've been seeing like I've been Seeing literally in the downtown area. You want to talk about Miami? In Miami, a whole apartment complex with civilians coming all the way down and they're bombing it. So that's what I'm saying is, Adam, there's a huge, huge Christian population there, which I'm not comfortable with them going on full offensive when you're supposed to be focusing on Iran. I get it. They could. What's the saying that you said before? Walking Chew gum. But it's like, bro, what is this?

[Pat]

What is this clip? Rob?

[Vinny]

Yeah, that's.

[Tom]

This was the strikes last week in Lebanon.

[Vinny]

Yeah. That's ok. You want to kill one terrorist, so you do that. Let's just say there's one Hezbollah guy in there.

[Adam]

Why would you say there's only one?

[Vinny]

I'm just saying how many?

[Adam]

How many take out that building?

[Vinny]

Because. Are you telling me. Do you have reports? So I don't know, because they're.

[Adam]

I appreciate news and let me. Let me respond real quickly. Thirty seconds ago, you'd even know that Hezbollah was based in Lebanon.

[Vinny]

I didn't. I didn't say based. I said they were. I didn't say that. I said they're everywhere.

[Adam]

No, they're not. They're in Lebanon, period. Full stop. You might say there's one guy who has a cousin who's hanging out a different part of town. Hezbollah is in Lebanon. And this is exactly what it is. You just said, obviously, we want to take out Hezbollah.

[Vinny]

Yeah. So kill how many civilians for one terrorist?

[Adam]

How do you assume that they do that?

[Vinny]

What do you mean? I don't. Adam, how do you. Because I saw what they did in Gaza and they. Dude, Gaza is flat. It's flat. So they killed almost 30.

[Adam]

Vinny, you got to pick a side here.

[Vinny]

No, no, no, no. Don't play that game with me. Do not. Hold on.

[Adam]

Do not want to take out terrorists or you don't.

[Vinny]

Time out. Do not play the. Pick a side, Adam. When it comes to 25,000 or 20,000 children dead. Don't play that game with me. Because if terrorists were in this location, this location, Israel should have done. Let me slow down. No, no, no.

[Adam]

What do you mean children dead?

[Vinny]

Adam, you. If you show Gaza right now, and I don't even want him to show it. Look at what Gaza looks like. Was there Hamas everywhere? Yeah, because it's flat. Okay.

[Adam]

By the way, the whole children. And I know. We don't want to talk about this. The whole children dead. Why are children dead?

[Vinny]

Because they didn't. Because when you go caution to the wind. And you don't do a ground invasion, go in the tunnels and go at everybody. You could just carpet bomb everybody and just say. Well, there's errors there.

[Adam]

Just one quick question, follow up.

[Vinny]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Where are these children hanging out?

[Vinny]

Oh, what do you mean, Adam? This is. They're God. They live there. They live there.

[Adam]

They. By themselves? They're hanging out?

[Vinny]

No, when the bosses.

[Adam]

Oh, they're with their parents. Yeah, gotcha. So they're with their parents who are basically part of Hamas also. Yes.

[Vinny]

Parents. Is that your argument? Is that all these kids that died, these innocent children, their parents are Hamas? Are you serious, Vinny?

[Adam]

I feel like we're going back years to have an argument.

[Vinny]

Let's move on.

[Adam]

No, no, let's not move on. Let's stay right here. Hamas is embedded in society.

[Vinny]

So kill everybody is your thing. Just why? Why they take so long?

[Adam]

Kill everybody? If they wanted to kill everybody, there'd be a million people dead right now. You have to understand, if they wanted to kill everybody, which they don't. A real genocide. There'd be a million people dead in Gaza. Do you know that? The fact that they're talking about only 60,000, half of which are Hamas, half of which are civilians, is a testament to the fact that they don't want to kill everybody.

[Vinny]

It's a horrible ratio.

[Adam]

America killed how many people in Iraq? How many people in Afghanistan?

[Vinny]

And it was all wrong.

[Adam]

And I never heard the word genocide once.

[Vinny]

What do you mean, Adam? I left the military because of what we did in Iraq. I, Vincent O', Shaughness, left because of 9, 11 Iraq.

[Pat]

Let me get to this next story. Here's the story.

[Adam]

I don't understand your point, Adam.

[Vinny]

Let him go to the next point. What do you mean, Adam?

[Pat]

What point? Explain the point. What point is this?

[Adam]

We're fighting radical terrorism.

[Pat]

And your point is what?

[Vinny]

My point is your point. And I'm pointing from a tactical point of view. They. The way that they handle Gaza.

[Tom]

Respectfully. Let him ask past questions. Yeah, let him answer her. Pass.

[Vinny]

He's doing it.

[Adam]

What was the question?

[Pat]

What happened, Tom?

[Vinny]

Yeah, he was doing it.

[Tom]

I thought you were asking him to explain this. And we were trying to.

[Pat]

No, no, I'm asking.

[Adam]

Bottom line is this. Whether you like it or not, the world, specifically the Middle east, has one major problem, brother. You know what that is?

[Vinny]

No. Christ. No. Jesus Christ.

[Adam]

Okay, That's.

[Vinny]

No, it's the truth. No. Christianity. None of this would be happening if they were all believers in Christ.

[Adam]

Sure. Great. Gotcha. But they believe in radical Islam. So you just went to Christ. They believe in Allah, and they believe that they're going to reach paradise when they kill and maim and convert people or die. So you're going to have a choice of whether you're going to say, huh, I really don't like to see innocent people dying. Nobody wants that. Or I'm going to let the radicals take over. I'm fully on the point of we're not letting them take over. You're kind of still straddling the middle. Respectfully. Well, we got to take them out, but we can't kill innocent people. That's a problem. We need Christians, buddy. At some point, you're gonna have to realize this is the problem. And Israel and United States, you think it's the problem?

[Pat]

You think Israel's the problem or Islam's harder?

[Vinny]

No, I think tactically, the way they're doing missions is not. For instance, is it okay if you want to kill two terrorists? Are you okay with them taking down an entire apartment complex that people are living in? I don't think. I think tactically. Send in your ground troops. Mossad is dope. The IDF and all them, they don't want to get involved on the ground. Which I think path is oversimplifying. No, I think put some troops in

[Adam]

there in a very.

[Vinny]

Throw some troops on the ground. Go fight the war.

[Adam]

Troops on the ground don't just carpet bomb, by the way, I'm defending America here, but I just feel like giving you some facts, brother. How many people do you think live in Israel? There's 350 million people in America. 350 million. There's a billion plus in Iran. In India, there's a billion plus in China. How many people do you think live in Israel? What's your number?

[Vinny]

5 million.

[Adam]

5 million? It's 10 million people. That's the size of a city in America. I know people in the idf. You think they want to be at war. How many tours have you done?

[Vinny]

What do you mean, tours? I was just in the Air Force.

[Adam]

Okay, so you weren't even a tour. I know people on their fifth tour, seventh tour. They've been in Lebanon, they've been in Gaza. They've been flying to Iran. There's. They don't have enough people. The whole conversation about sending boots to Iran, they don't have enough people. You know the famous situation with Joe Rogan? He goes, how many. How many Jews do you think there

[Tom]

are in the world?

[Adam]

He goes, ah, a billion. Let me lower my expectations. Half a billion people, I think it was Gad said that said try 15 million. There's about 5 million that live in the United States, 10 million that live in Israel. There's not that many of them. And 20% of Israel are Arabs that are citizens that fight also in the idf. So this whole concept of a boots on the ground where you think all these people are going to be everywhere at once, they don't have the numbers. That's just the bottom line. And you have these 10 million people which very few, less than half a million are actually serving that are fighting war after war after war after war. And we're saying do more. They're to their last leg. And America comes in as a capable ally to Israel in the Middle East.

[Pat]

Let me get to this next story. To defeat Islamic terrorism, Trump warns China will have big problems if it ships weapons to Iran, but insists he doesn't care about peace talks as win regard as we win regardless. Go ahead, Rob.

[Vinny]

China is preparing ship weapons. Well, if China does that, China is going to have big problems. Okay.

[Pat]

Yeah. So when you, when you see this story now, he's also saying he doesn't care. There's another clip because of that clip, Rob, that you just played. There's a few of them that he goes a little bit deeper into. Trump warned obviously China. The president caution comes after several news outlets have reported that China is preparing to send air defense systems to Tehran in the coming weeks. If China does that, China is going to have big problems. US Intelligence sources told New York Times and CNN that Beijing is shipping shoulder fired anti aircraft missile systems known as MANPADs through third countries to mask their origins. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in China in Washington denied the accusations in a statement to cnn. China has never provided weapons to any party to the conflict. The information in question is untrue. The spokesperson said it comes as peace talks between us and Iran began in Pakistan's capital city, Islamabad on Saturday. Trump's Trump acknowledged very deep negotiations but told Reuters no matter what happens during the talks, the United States has already won. Regardless of what happens, we win. We totally defeated that country. And so let's see what happens. Maybe they make it make a deal, maybe they don't. From the standpoint of America, we win regardless. Tom.

[Tom]

So there's two ways to ship a weapon. One is finish a missile, a bullet, a gun and send it to the guys. Iran Contras, right. Just send them the guns, drop them off. The other way is you send raw materials that are critical. And what I was reading over the Weekend, Pat, is that the US and the UK are now. And I think it was the CIA found it and MI6 confirmed it. That was what I read about a chemical called ammonium perchlorate or sodium perchlorate, which is key rocket fuel. It's basically rocket fuel chemical that you need so that you can send out rockets or missiles. And that is what is huge. And so when people say China's shipping weapons, there's the anti aircraft system that they sent to Venezuela. Remember we jammed it. Remember the stories on that path that the Americans jammed the Chinese system. So the system that they had, did they have the best one? Don't know. And so China was reportedly also providing that system to Iran and also now they're shipping chemicals that are used to make the propellant, the fuel for rockets. And so China's definitely in this and I think the President said what's going on? If they're really doing this, they're going to be in big trouble. But just remember, you don't have to ship the guns. Sometimes you can ship the powder. And this is terrible. This stuff is, this allows them to make the rockets.

[Vinny]

How long you think he does? How long do you think? Because it's almost a given. They're both kind of helping, like on the low till he does something or like it's out in the open where he's going to actually act on China or Russia. Because I haven't heard anything from them. Like these are, these are the little stories that pop up, you know, China's doing it. How long do you think till Trump. Because he looks serious right there when he's talking about if they're doing it, it's going to be bad for them.

[Pat]

Do you actually think they're providing weapons to Iran? Do you think they're doing.

[Vinny]

I think they're on the.

[Pat]

Well, what is your percentage of them providing weapons to Iran directly or 100%

[Tom]

that they're providing these chemicals? We've found it. The MI6, CIA apparently found it. Now we have all kinds of articles on it. So it's 100% that they're sending rocket fuel, right? Number one. Number two. Are they. I'm probably around 80% that they're sending, you know, the, in aircraft and radar systems because it's, it's easy and that's what they were supplying to Venezuela. So why wouldn't supply there anything beyond that? I'm only about 25% because I think that's like a red line. And do you think China wants to cross that red line?

[Vinny]

But but if you're sending.

[Tom]

I'm lower on the actual missile, bullet and bomb.

[Vinny]

But. But if you're sending the fuel to launch these rockets or the missiles, it's almost like, you know me, like the loading the gun thing. You're putting the gunpowder in the bullet to shoot the guy. You're.

[Tom]

I didn't send you the cannon.

[Vinny]

Yeah, but that's still. But if I find out that you're sending them the gunpowder and they're shooting my. You know what I mean? That's a whole different situation. You're still actively involved in killing people so they could play that little game. What do you think?

[Pat]

I don't know. I mean, look, Humberto just sent a message. The whole 90% of the oil that China is getting is from Iran. So who is a bigger partner? How do you manage the two partners? One is giving you oil, the other one, you sell a bunch of products to your number one customer is America, that you make hundreds of billions of dollars of exporting. And so do I want to compromise that relationship with, you know, us, but do I feel confidently in my ability to low key underground get stuff to Iran without anybody finding out? Don't forget when the Huawei's founder's daughter, who was the CFO was in Canada doing deals with Iran and Trump put 100% sanction on Huawei and Huawei disappeared. We everybody. A lot of people used to have Huawei phones in America. So they are shifty, the Chinese are shifty on how to get in and how to deliver something to. I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing it, but if they do and they're in the middle of all these negotiations, I don't know if it's a smart move by their end. Adam, tomorrow morning is knocking. Stock your fridge now. How about a creamy mocha Frappuccino drink? Or a sweet vanilla smooth caramel maybe? Or white chocolate mocha, whichever you choose. Delicious coffee, find Starbucks Frappuccino drinks wherever you buy your groceries.

[Adam]

Two things are going on here. Number one, China looks at Iran as one thing, a transactional partner. They're using them from oil. They've been, they basically been evading sanctions Iran by basically selling discounted oil to China. They got a billion and something people that they got to have energy for. They're shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. You think it affects Iran? It affects China too, big time. It affects Southeast Asia, it affects half the Middle East. We don't rely on the Strait of Hormuz. So China's looking At, at the situation, Iran being like, oh man, we're losing our oil. Oil prices going up. Who knows what deal they're cutting with, with Russia. I'm sorry, regarding oil. By the way, wasn't Trump and Xi supposed to be supposed to meet coming up?

[Pat]

They were supposed to meet in March.

[Adam]

They're supposed to meet in March.

[Pat]

But they didn't.

[Adam]

But they didn't. Why?

[Pat]

No, he said they're going to delay to May.

[Adam]

Why? Because of this war. So now Trump is using the Strait of Hormuz as leverage, saying before I

[Pat]

even come to speak to you because of tariffs, it was a couple things kind of going on.

[Adam]

But, but the center point, the linchpin was what's going on in Iran. So now you have China basically saying, how do I literally fuel my economy? I have a billion plus people that I got to take care of. They got their own issues. For years we've been here and China's on the rise. There's only one country that's on the rise and it's the hottest country in the world right now. United States.

[Pat]

That was it.

[Vinny]

That was it.

[Pat]

That's all I got. Wrapped it up.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Pat]

All right, well, let's go to Orban or back up a second.

[Adam]

You want me to keep talking?

[Pat]

No, no, I don't want you to keep talking. That's okay. You want me to keep going? Good job.

[Adam]

What's my point? I wrapped it up early.

[Pat]

Orban era swept away by Peter Magyar's Hungary election landslide Alex Soros Soros celebrating. Hillary Clinton celebrating. Obama celebrating. A bunch of them celebrating last minute. Putin came to help. Bibi came to help. Trump came to help. Orban JD Went to help. None of it worked. Orban ended up losing and there's a lot to it. Rob, I think you got a video on this one here. 16 years in power and this is a BBC story. A system condemned by electoral autocracy. Liza tatters defeated by 45 year old former party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to bring it to the end. We did it. Peter said told the crowd of cheering supporters beside a river Danube overlooking Budapest. Magnificent parliament on the other side. Together we overthrew the Hungarian regime. Is this it, Rob?

[Tom]

This is Viktor Orban last night conceding

[Pat]

preliminary election results based on more than 98% of country voted counted votes put his Tiza party on course for an extraordinary 138 seats versus Orban's 55. And the far right, our homeland on six. The landslide will not only allow Magyar to overthrow Orban's increasingly unpopular domestic policies, but reset Hungary's global relation. Orban has been a close partner of President Trump, earning an in person appearance from the J.D. vance. That's what I said in the final week of the campaign. And Russia's Vladimir Putin and he had become one of the big thorns in the inside of EU and Ukraine. Here's Viktor Orban conceding. Go ahead, Rob.

[Tom]

The election results, although not yet complete, are understandable and clear. The election result is painful for us, but clear.

[Pat]

The responsibility and opportunity to govern were

[Tom]

not given to us.

[Pat]

I congratulated the winning party.

[Tom]

Thank you.

[Pat]

Thank you for all your hard work. There you go, Tom.

[Tom]

So Orban was trying to do two things. Hungary and California were very similar. It's not very big, but it was full of corruption, all kinds of problems going on. And Orban's been trying to make good relationships internationally, such as Trump, such as Putin. It's sort of interesting. And he was the one guy you saw on the end of his campaign, both Putin and Trump were saying, I hope this guy wins. Meanwhile, everybody else on the liberal globalist side say no. So Orban, people that are there said no. He was a continuation of the corruption. He was trying to fix things domestically. And he did some things domestically that were really unpopular. And then he was trying to be a peacemaker and do things, you know, on the world stage. People say, how can you call him a peace day here? He's all right. Okay, well, the answer is Hungary is California. And this guy was actually trying to correct part of it. He was part of it because he had kind of, you know, his political career come up through it. And now you had an opportunity for a conservative minded guy in Hungary in the middle of the war and the economy and everything, the people said no. Not by a landslide, but the people said no. And so that's what's going on. And this is why. And guess what? Now Soros is happy, Hillary's happy, Obama's happy. All who I say happy because all of them have put out statements of support. Meanwhile, the more conservative side of earth is coming out and saying, man, this sucks. I thought there was an opportunity to turn the corner on Hungary. But you know what? The Hungarian people are fed up. And what the vote was in Hungary, you know what it was, Pat?

[Pat]

What's that?

[Tom]

Anything but this. And when voters do that, sometimes you get out unintended consequences on elections. And that's what's happened here.

[Pat]

Yeah. So if you go, by the way, if you got Alex or tweet Rob, if you want to pull it up, go to Alex Source's tweet. I just send it to you. If you go to his account, you'll be able to find it. It's not a big deal. Just go. There you go. Okay, so here's a tweet. The people of Hungary have taken back their country. A resounding rejection. Rejection of entrenched corruption and foreign interference. If you go a little bit lower, look at the first tweet. Elon Musk Soros organization has taken over Hungary. And retard finder says imagine the family responsible for the most foreign interference. Complaining about foreign interference. That's not me saying it. That's a handle that's called iFindretards. That's the job of that Twitter account. So, Vinny, your thoughts on this?

[Vinny]

So basically they found one. And I just hope, Pat, that Americans are paying attention when Alex Sor, like, name one thing that that name has done. Positive. Give me one. George Soros. Positive thing. They're destroyers, okay? And I hope this sets off alarms because think about it. They just took Hungary, one of the most Christians, the last Christian stronghold in Europe. Sixteen years. They resist, resisted the migrant flood. They resisted Alex and his and Daddy, Daddy George and that slow like that. National security now. Now it's basically the walls have been breached. The people behind the push are not even pretending to hide it. And this is Pat. A red green alliance, global Marxists on one side and the Islamic pressure is on the other side. And they're both moving in the same direction. And this is a warning shot. Europe is already cooked. And this is what happens when countries stop defending themselves. The leadership falls, the demographic shift. Everybody's welcome. Bring everybody in. We don't care. We don't care. Crime rises, faith disappears. And the people who built the country are told to shut up and adapt. And I'm telling you right now, it's coming here. We're the main prize. America is the crown jewel. Look at every single uprising that we've had. Blm, this, burning the street, everything, all these judges, everything is. So every time you link it back to these NGOs and everything, it always leads to the Soros foundation or something with George Soros, okay? And they're not even hiding it anymore. So I hope people are waking up, because once a country loses its identity pact, getting it back and is way harder than getting it in the first place. And these, they're not hiding it anytime. Alex Soros, Hillary Clinton, and they're celebrating about something happening over there. It's a bad, bad sign, period.

[Pat]

Tom.

[Tom]

There's 10 million people over there. There's 10 million people in Hungary and they're all flipping out. And you had this conservative opportunity there, but now you've got Soros in there interfering with it. And, you know, he has a little bit of a bone to pick with Hungary over time.

[Pat]

Right?

[Tom]

Of course, a little bit of a bone because they called him out and they knew who he was and he couldn't even go visit what was his original, his country of birth, right?

[Vinny]

He's banned in so many.

[Tom]

He's banned. What does that tell you? And so he's back there trying to manipulate it because every one of these, you have to understand the globalist populace and communist movement. See, every one of these countries, like a state, there's 10 million people there. There's like almost three times that in Florida. So think about it. This is like, I don't know what US state has 10 million people in it, you know, I don't know, Missouri or something. So this is what they've got. And so they're out there trying to do it and that's it. There you go.

[Pat]

Adam, any final thoughts?

[Adam]

I'm not the Hungary expert. I'll just say this Orban was a extreme nationalist, you know, Hungary first. This other candidate basically was more of a globalist, basically saying, I'm going to align myself with the eu, with NATO, that kind of situation with the globalists, Ukraine. Whereas Viktor Orban was basically saying, you know, strong man, but here's the most powerful thing in any election, the most powerful thing is change. This guy came in and said, listen, you've been doing this for how many years? Almost 20 years with this guy. 20 years. Said it's time to go. And at the end of the day, this is democracy, showing that people have a voice, the people have a choice. There's a lot of places out there where democracy is fading. At least in Hungary, it appears that it's still there.

[Pat]

Okay, so let's talk about Trump blasting the Pope. Here's a New York Post story. Trump blasts Pope Leo as week says he prefers his MAGA brother after pontiff's veiled jabs over Iran, war and immigration. Is this it? Let me first read what he said and then we will go through what he said. Rob, do you have what the Pope said?

[Tom]

I have a clip of the Pope, I believe this this weekend where he says he's going to continue to speak out against the war.

[Pat]

Go ahead. The message of the Church, my message,

[Adam]

the message of the gospel, blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political or politician.

[Pat]

I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think that the message of

[Adam]

the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing. And I will continue to speak out loudly against war, against looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among

[Vinny]

the states, to look for just solutions of problems.

[Pat]

Too many people are suffering in the world today.

[Tom]

Too many innocent people are being killed.

[Pat]

And I think someone has to stand

[Adam]

up and say, there's a better way to do this.

[Pat]

Okay, there you go. That's the Pope, and then here's the President. Go ahead, Rob.

[Vinny]

And they're going to go back filled up with oil. Pope Leo on truth Social. I don't think he's doing a very good job. He likes crime, I guess. He, he hit us.

[Adam]

Think of it.

[Vinny]

He's worried about fear. What about the fear when the ministers and the priests and the. All of those great people that were arrested during COVID and in many cases they're outside, 10ft apart and they were arrested. So we don't like it. We don't like a Pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon.

[Tom]

We don't want a Pope that says

[Vinny]

crime is okay in our cities. I don't like it.

[Pat]

I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo.

[Vinny]

He's a very liberal person and he's a man that doesn't believe in stopping crime. He's a man that doesn't think that we should be toying with a country that will wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world. I'm not a fan of Leo. I mean, unless I miss something, the Pope, all he said was, listen, I'm not about war. You know, he quoted the Bible, blessed are the peacemakers. He's just, just, he's not saying, you know, to hell with them and whatever with the troops. No, this is the Pope. This is the holiest guy on the planet, the biggest guy in, in Catholicism, just voicing his opinion. And then Trump goes into this crate like this was this, this wasn't a 500 worder, but it's like, I don't know. I'm not a fan of him going after him and then bringing up nukes. All this guy is saying is, listen, I'm not about war. We're trying to be. If you're trying to be a Christian, a good Christian, the last thing on the, on the menu is war. And if there's a way to do it, do it. And if he's going to bring up like, because I don't know if we're going to bring up the. Him tweeting Pat about him being basically Jesus and putting.

[Pat]

We will do that right afterwards.

[Vinny]

Yeah, go ahead, Tom.

[Tom]

Well, I struggled with this because it's like the Pope, the Catholic Church has become political. Let's, let's face it, over the last 25 years, they've become very political. They've weighed in on DEI, they've weighed in on so many things and they've also done, you know, kind of ride the line. Well, what we really interpret is this. So they've actually moved and they've moved things and people say, well, that's progressive. That's that not. If your handbook is the Bible and It says that one foot is 12 inches and an inch is this much, then you don't sign it. Change it over time. So that 1 foot is 14 inches or 8 inches, you don't change your standards. And the Pope is kind of moved with that. Some people call, you know, progressive Catholicism. You know, I don't know. On the other hand, where Trump is, you know, if you're not with me, you're against me. And he's very, very clear about that. And while he's trying to get things done on a world stage, you know, he's going to react to things that he think. Remember, it wasn't just this comment by the Pope. There's been other things. And there was a closed door meeting. And so Trump is a little annoyed with the Vatican because Trump sees the Vatican as a political voice. And it's like, if you're going to be a political voice out there, this is what we're trying to do, you know. You know, last time I checked, Trump didn't say this, but Tom says this. The last time I checked, the path to peace in the Bible sometimes got a little bit bloody and a little bit messy because humans are humans. And so this is a heavy tweet, but I think I understand where it's coming from. You know, if you're not with me, you're against me.

[Pat]

Yeah, Adam.

[Adam]

Well, let me put on my. Take off my yarmulke and put on my cardinal hat. Here's what we know about Trump.

[Tom]

Here's your APAC baseball hat.

[Adam]

Thank you, buddy. Tom's got the jokes always. Here's what I know about Trump. Anybody can get it. A week ago, people were freaking out, basically saying, may Allah be with you. All of a sudden, there's people upset about that. All of a sudden, we're going to take down an entire civilization. Nothing happened. All talk, rhetoric calls out the Pope. By the way, this isn't his first time calling out the Pope. By the way, he'll call out Bibi. What the f is going on here? If you get in Trump's crosshairs, whether you like it or not, he's going to shoot. What's the famous phrase? If you come at me, I'm going to come at you 10 times harder. So that's Trump. You like it or not? I'm on Team Trump because Trump represents America. The Pope doesn't represent America, despite being from Chicago. Go Bears. I know Humberto is probably going to be a little offended right now. That's okay. The Pope doesn't represent America. And I have Catholic friends, I have Christian friends, I have Muslim friends. Everything no one is without basically being. No one's about being criticized. Anyone can get it. Because if you look at what the Pope is basically saying. If you didn't tell me he was the Pope, he would sound like a pacifist. He sounds like a dove. You know, there's a concept of like, are you a hawk or a dove? Trump's neither. Trump's a dealmaker. Are we gonna get stuff done or not? Here are the things that I understand. You tell me if I'm wrong. What the Pope basically advocates promotes peace, no war. He's an open border guy, globalist type of guy. Helps humanity. I get that, respectfully. It seems to me there's a lot of socialist tendencies and they're critical of capitalism at the same time. Doesn't the church own more land than anybody in the world? Aren't they basically a religious corporate structure dictating the papal laws to all around

[Tom]

the world supposedly own more land, except countries, allegedly.

[Vinny]

Allegedly.

[Adam]

They're also very big on the Green New deal, the green new scam. Talking about a thing. At the end of the day, these crosshairs are going to happen, and it'd be best served for the Pope to stay in his lane and Trump to stay in his lane when those two lanes cross is going to get up.

[Vinny]

What do you think, Pat? Because I, from what I heard, I didn't hear the. Oh, the Pope was just saying, yeah, I just wish there's more peace. I don't, I don't think he was going, what do you think? I'm curious.

[Pat]

I mean, look, he. To me, I like him more than the previous guy, for sure. I'm not. You know, I think he is. He's just saying. He says, look, the Bible says peacemakers, right? Be a peacemaker. And, you know, blessed are the peacemakers. And, you know, at this moment, people could say, trump's not a peacemaker. Trump's a chaotic agent. You know, he disrupts. He's constant. Right? Which is fine. That's who the American people voted two times to be the president. But I will tell you something here, that low key, you know, here's. You know, I don't know why Catholics, you know, have this issue with Jews. I do know what it is. They have this. You know, I don't. Listen, I get the Jews have issues with Christians, and they'll make fun and they'll say stuff like, oh, your Jesus is gonna. You know, they'll say, well, he was a Jew anyways. Right. But then Catholics have that issue with Jews, and they act like, you know, they're all innocent and everything. And when you look at Catholics, the amount of centralized power they have, centralized. You know what the total Catholic population is worldwide? It's like 1 2, 13 billion. Jews are 15 million.

[Adam]

15 million.

[Pat]

But Jews are decentralized, meaning Catholic Jews don't have somebody they listen to that says, hey, you better do this. Catholics, God forbid you say something about the Pope. They're like, hey, man, listen. Who is that Pope figure in the Christian community? We don't have one. If I ask you right now, who's the Pope in the Christian community? You don't have somebody to look at who is a witch pastor?

[Vinny]

Yeah, exactly.

[Pat]

We don't have them.

[Tom]

It's an independent network of the Bible.

[Pat]

So if you look at. Only Catholics and Muslims have somebody that they look at as their supreme leader, like, you got to go to somebody. But even more, it's Catholic.

[Adam]

Well, there's only two theocracies in the world. Catholicism, Islam. I'm sorry, The. The. The Islamic Republic of Iran.

[Pat]

Yep.

[Adam]

And the Vatican. Yeah, those are the two major. Listen, big difference.

[Pat]

Yeah. Okay. You pulled it. I said 1.3 billion. My apology. I don't want the Catholics to be upset with me because, you know, I have a lot of Catholics friends. 1.4 to 2 billion. By the way. You ready for this? They have 220,000 parishes worldwide. That's churches.

[Vinny]

Wow.

[Pat]

They have 3,000 dioceses, 400,000 priests worldwide, 600,000 religious sisters, nuns. Wow. 200,000 Catholic schools globally. 50 million students enrolled worldwide. 1300 universities, 5 to 6,000 hospitals, 15,000 plus clinics, 16,000 plus homes for the elderly, disabled. Orphans. I have had nothing but great experience with Catholics. Nothing. Here's where my challenge is. I've never had any issues with Jews. I've never had any issues with Catholics, but they have issues with each other.

[Adam]

Okay, well, I don't think Jews have any issues with Catholics. I think the old school Catholics, the old school had major issues with the Jews. And then I think in the 1960s, they said, you know what, guys, let's pump the brakes on all the Jew hate and all that. But that still links.

[Pat]

Did you not, Tom, did you not watch Godfather 3? What's Godfather 3 about? Do you want to. Do you really want to go through the history of Catholicism and how much power and authority and mob and finances and you have its own military? There are so many things to go through. So for me, this is the problem. This is the problem for me. It's when you come in and take a judgmental position and your church has a history of a lot of issues, you're kind of contradicting yourself and you're a hypocrite. So you have to kind of be able to balance that. But at the same time, guess what? That's what comes. The Vatican has a lot of power. It's a think about if you wanted to have control over 1.422 billion people around the world in a sin, Christians couldn't pull this off. Mormons couldn't pull this off. Catholics pulled it off. What a power. And so here's a question. Who's more powerful? Can you run a poll, Rob? I'm actually so curious to know how the audience votes. I kind of have an idea which way they're going to vote, though.

[Vinny]

And you want us to give up?

[Pat]

Who has. No, I don't want you to say anything. I just want to give it three minutes. Who has more power? Humberto, don't call the bots people you have. I don't touch any of your bots people. Who has more power, Jews or Catholics? Does the Catholic Church have more power or Jews? Okay, just put those two. Rob and Jews. J, E, W S, not J, U, I, C, E. Just want to make sure Rob gets it right. Oh, is that why I'm making all these juice boxes?

[Adam]

That's what they're saying.

[Pat]

And I'm not even putting.

[Adam]

I just thought they wanted to buy me a drink, this juice.

[Pat]

So. But, but, but, but here's the. Here's the thing. Do you know what's the funny thing with power? You know what's a funny thing with power? It's like, it's always the other guy that wants more power, not you. You're the humble one. You know, it's always the other guy that wants more control. You don't. Yeah, definitely. Jews don't want any control, it's the other guy. Catholics don't want any control, it's the other guy. Islam doesn't want any control, it's the other guy. Everybody wants control. Why do they want control? Why do they want control? Think about why they want control. Because what? Because they want to be able to push their own, what agenda and what you believe in. And guess what? I think that's very fair. You know, if you live in a community, like, you know, there's such thing as hoa, right? You know what HOA is? Homeowners Association. So, for instance, like, let's just say you live in a community and you have a house that's on one lot and I have a house that's on three lots. Okay? But we pay our HOAs fairly. Now imagine the person with one lot says, we want to charge $5,000 per person who lives in this community, per lot. So who does it favor? Who does it not favor? The guy with one lot says, yes,

[Vinny]

that's fair, let's do it.

[Pat]

The guy with three lots, like, what are you talking about, bro? Yeah, but you know, no, we're going to keep everything five times. No, you take more land in a community. Everybody's got an agenda, bro. Of course everybody does. So when we get into the innocent stuff, listen, I said to myself, I'm from Iran. So when people are like, well, you know. You're from Iran. Yes. I don't like the irgc. I've said it a million. I've made videos about this for over a decade talking about how I feel about this. They're bad people, they're evil, they're not wired like you. And the world is a better place if they're gone. Do I have some biases because I lived with these guys 100%. It's the people when they're like, well, I don't have any. Well, I don't have this. I don't have. Stop acting like you're so innocent. Everybody's got their own stuff that's going on. So now Trump does something else that kind of pissed a lot of people off. And this deserves criticism. And it's a well deserved criticism. He posts a picture of himself that was posted a few months back in February by a guy named Nick Adams. So the original tweet, oh, we know Vinny I don't know if you know or not.

[Vinny]

Yeah, it was somebody else.

[Pat]

The original tweet of this is actually not him. The original tweet of this was a guy named Nick Adams.

[Adam]

Yeah, we know who.

[Pat]

Yeah, he post this in February of sometime this year. And the only difference is which a lot of people are talking about. Rob, it was on my notes. I don't know if you want to go to it. If you want to pull it up. I'll text it to you as well, both ways. You have it. I just texted it to you. There is a picture of comparing the two that you have. Is that the one I just sent you out? There you go. So if you look at this, Nick Adams tweeted this in February, but then something changed. Go to the right one. The one on the right. So this one has the, you know, soldiers in the back. And then come back February 4th. And you want to come back. America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation. And then go to the new one that the President tweets. And so the President tweets this one.

[Vinny]

Who's that?

[Pat]

Yeah. So the one in the middle. People are like, well, what is that? What is that person? So, anyways, I'll pause here. Vinnie, your thoughts on this?

[Vinny]

Well, I mean, okay, well, if I'm assuming, what is that? Is that the Antichrist? Is that a demon? Why? Of all the things that you change, you just change that thing. So there's questions, but listen, In Galatians, chapter 6, verse 7, pat, it says, God will not be mocked, period. End of story, full stop. I know we're talking about Catholics and Jews and all that stuff, but, I mean, look at the track record. I played a video a long time ago saying that Trump said that he is not a Christian. Then he also did on Air Force One, he said, I'm not very fast. I'm not going to heaven.

[Adam]

Okay?

[Vinny]

And then when he got sworn in, he didn't put his hand on the Bible. I know that's not a huge deal, but the Bible's right there. I think Melania was holding it, and he didn't put his hand on it. This type of stuff, Pat. And again, people like you said, can have their opinions, and everybody has their thing. I'm not a fan of that. And putting it there and then adding the demon, whatever the heck that is in the back.

[Pat]

You think he did, like, somebody. He probably forgot somebody had edited it. And then he retweets it. It's not like it's a By the way, I don't know if I can. We can show this picture here. Rob, on. So you may want to change this one. Go ahead, Adam.

[Adam]

You're asking the question of whether that.

[Pat]

Let me go to Tom now. Let me go to Tom. Tom, your thoughts on the picture of the president posting that? How do you feel about that?

[Tom]

Look, there's like a meme a day, a meme a week. And, you know, you put something like this, I don't know how to interpret it. It didn't come with, like, a commentary. It's. I mean, clearly the original intent from the original author was, hey, he's going to heal the nation. And he even says, I'm not a spiritual guy. You know, it's kind of like, you know, it's kind of like Charles Barkley saying, man, I'm not a role model. You can make me out to be, but I'm not a role model. And if this was Mother Teresa here, no one has any trouble with it, you know, without the American flag, you know that this is a symbol of healing and touch and things like that. And I think this is just, you know, I can't read into it. Maybe he's saying, you know what? I want to. I want to fix things and I want to bring things forward. I don't see it religiously, you know, I see.

[Pat]

I don't know if I like it, Tom. I don't know if I like it.

[Tom]

It's kind of like, I don't know

[Pat]

if I like it. It's off, you know, I don't like it, Tom. Like, when it comes down to, you know, certain things, like with God, I don't know if I'm messing with this. Leave this one alone, you know, Go and see yourself above every other man, you know. And by the way, this is coming from a guy that's Assyrian. And guess what Assyrians were known for.

[Vinny]

What?

[Pat]

What happened to us? Hey, hey, let's go visit our country. Vinnie, where's our Vinny Rob? Can you pull up on the map?

[Vinny]

Assyria.

[Pat]

Assyria. Pull up on the map and why don't you pull up the president of Assyria? And here's an Assyrian saying this. Where's our country, huh? We don't have a country called Iraq.

[Vinny]

It's Baghdad where Baghdad is.

[Pat]

No, but I want to find out who is the president of Assyria.

[Vinny]

There is none.

[Pat]

So what happened to Assyrians? I thought we were the first warriors 6,000 years ago, 3,000 years ago. I thought we conquered the biggest. I thought we invented, you Know the beer irrigation, you know, the capitalism, you know, mercantilism. Everything that we have right now. Capitalism. Can you pull up stuff that Assyrians invented? Assyrian Empire invented. Go to what things Assyrian Empire invented? If you go to stuff that they invented. Okay, from. Can you just go to chat GPT. It'll list it out for you if you go there. The stuff that Assyrians invented is insane. Insane. I mean, insane. You go read the Bible, Go watch the language. Aramaic. Me and Vinny speak Aramaic. Right. We're trying to get Tom and Adam and Rob to learn. Rob's the closest so far. But, you know, we're. Weapons, math, business, you name it. Assyrians. What happened to the Assyrian Empire? We fell. Why did we fall? Do you know Assyrians? Like, we're so crazy that they would go get lions to say, you're not the king of the jungle. We are.

[Vinny]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Can you imagine how crazy you have to be to say, hey, we would go kill lions just to say, we're the kings of the jungle. We're Assyrians.

[Vinny]

Yep.

[Pat]

And then what?

[Adam]

Too cocky.

[Pat]

A little too cocky.

[Adam]

You think? You guys try to build the tower.

[Pat]

We built something. A tower.

[Vinny]

You guys try to go to. Try to reach up there to go

[Pat]

and say, hey, guys, listen, we're kind of stronger than you. And he's like, wait, who are you guys? Do you know what this thing called the famine is? Wow, you're gone.

[Adam]

Go ahead.

[Pat]

Assyrians. Okay, now, there's still. Listen, a few of us left. We are very aspirational. We bought 11 acres. We're trying to build a small little country here in Fort Lauderdale.

[Adam]

Papa Gabriel could be the Godfather.

[Pat]

We believe the future looks bright. But I think the part is there's one thing you don't play with. You just don't. You don't play with God. It's the only thing. Play with anything you want to play with, you know, And I'm somebody, you know, I was. You know, we were with the UFC president, Dana. We're there sitting right next to everybody, family. We spoke to Marco Rubio. We were read everybody. Two days ago with a torn acl, walking around with a limp from Compton. Like that, kind of a true legit limp.

[Tom]

Like, you were on the card.

[Pat]

Yeah, exactly. But.

[Tom]

But.

[Pat]

But the point is, like, you know, I just don't think there's any benefit to things having to do with God. Leave that one alone. Very simple, I think. Leave that one alone. That's my feedback. There's no benefit. And I listen, is he. Is he being funny about it is he trying to get under the skin of the Pope? Is he trying to get under the skin of people? Is he trying to get another thing that the people are talking about? Of course he is. But this is one you just avoid. There's no winning here. There's no benefit to it here.

[Adam]

I don't know. I hear your point and I'll raise you this. If people still get offended by a Trump tweet, that's on you, bro. I'm not saying you, sir. I'm saying in general. How many times? Oh, my God, I can't believe Trump's. He said, what'd he do? But we've been seeing this for a decade. He's got his own platform truth to basically say Twitter, you wouldn't allow it. Now I got my own thing. You're not going to silence this guy if every time you freaked out of what he does, you'd go insane. So to me, stop being offended. That's number one. Number two, he's the most consequential president in our lifetime by far. Barack Obama, goodbye. Maybe Reagan was in our lifetime. Trump's the guy. And you know Trump's religion. Let me tell you, Trump's religion above all. You know what it is? America first, straight up. I don't think he's necessarily a God fearing guy. You know, he'll call out Allah, praise be Allah. He'll call out the Pope, boom, boom, boom, whatever this picture was, he'll call out Israel. They don't know what the f they're doing, whatever it is. Next thing he's going to go after Buddhists and Hindus. Anyone can get it. You can agree or you can disagree, that's fine. But when you come at Trump, don't miss. Literally could have an ear blown off because he's going to come back 10 times harder. You know, what's the famous quote about wrestling with a pig? Be careful when you wrestle with a pig because you're going to both end up get dirty and the pig loves it. Trump's born for this.

[Vinny]

But be careful when you make, you know, beside the pig, when you're messing around with Jesus Christ, that's not good when you're trying to be that guy. And I know he didn't make the meme, he reposted it. But what are you trying to say? And I'm not, I'm not, I'm not like, oh, my God. I'm just like, bro, he made a great point. Sit that, sit that one out. Don't. You could talk crap about The Pope and do a 500 word thing to the Pope. That's fine. He's a human being. He's still a man. He's flawed. He sins. Not that guy.

[Adam]

That's what my sins now.

[Vinny]

Yeah. What do you mean, does he sin? Of course, everybody.

[Pat]

Okay, all right, all right. Let's go. Let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get to is a guy that's been sinning publicly and privately, okay? And some of the stuff became public, okay? Eric Swalwell. And this guy was supposed to be the leading candidate, gubernatorial candidate for the state of California. And now they're gonna get not Tom Sawyer, but Tom Steyer. Or they may get our friend Katie Porter. Okay? The hottest thing going on in California, which I don't think my dream will become a reality with her because she's a little bit off. Like, she is very aggressive. Like, she. Honestly, like, she needs. She needs a lover right now. She needs to find somebody, needs to love her lover.

[Vinny]

I'm on an Instagram that's going to calm.

[Pat]

But I don't know. Listen, I don't want to speculate. Eric Swalwell. This is his tweet. I am suspending my campaign for governor. He could have replaced that with. The Democrats have fired me after realizing I don't stand a chance of winning. To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes and judgment I've made in the past. I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made. But that's my fight, not a campaign's fight. Okay, my question is campaigns. Let me ask you. Is that apostrophe S? Because, you know, he used ChatGPT because of that line. Yeah, yeah, but what campaigns? Not a campaigns. I don't. Rob, is that proper English with the apostrophe? Yes.

[Tom]

The campaign is a noun, meaning the campaign doesn't own the fight.

[Pat]

Okay, so chatgpt got it, right? So we see this and can we show that video or no? Is that video. I know. It's soft porn. Can we show that or no?

[Vinny]

I think so.

[Pat]

I mean, so there is nothing going on, right? Is it? Rob, I don't want you.

[Vinny]

No, no. She's just, you know, he's married.

[Tom]

And if you listen close so you can hear a narrator.

[Pat]

Is this it, Rob? I don't know if anybody else showed it either, but anyways, there's a video of him making out with the scroll. And then it gets a little bit worse. Nothing happens. There's no liftoff. There was nothing that took place. But, you know, is this him saying that he's dropping out?

[Tom]

No. Yes. But it's from the billionaire that has funded his last three campaigns. Supposedly it's at the billionaire's home.

[Pat]

Right.

[Tom]

So what did he do? He ran to his biggest donor and his biggest benefactor, who he's been pushing legislation for.

[Pat]

Allegedly. The biggest donor asked for million dollars back from him that he gave to.

[Adam]

To him.

[Pat]

Allegedly.

[Tom]

Yep. He was at that guy's house. Supposedly.

[Pat]

Okay, so play this clip and a time I'm going to come to you because it looks like you know a lot about it.

[Vinny]

A lot has been said about me

[Pat]

today through anonymous allegations. And I thought it was important that you see and hear from me directly.

[Vinny]

Me hit the point his chest.

[Pat]

These allegations of sexual assault are flat false. They are absolutely false. They did not happen. They have never happened.

[Vinny]

And I will fight them with everything that I have.

[Pat]

They also come on the eve of an election where I have been the

[Vinny]

front runner candidate for governor in California. I do not suggest to you in

[Pat]

any way is this the stepping out?

[Vinny]

This is him saying certainly before the video came out, he's like, I did not do this. It's like the Democratic.

[Pat]

And Rob, do you want to play the other clip? You just texted me the clip of. I just texted you what you texted me. Nothing crazy. Don't like if it goes Rob. If close comes off.

[Tom]

Rob, I got you.

[Vinny]

Is that a house or is that a hotel room?

[Adam]

Who is this?

[Tom]

Listen close.

[Pat]

I pause it right there. It's fine.

[Vinny]

Fine.

[Tom]

Wife want me home for a while, so.

[Vinny]

And by the way, there's a girl in the back.

[Pat]

That's Mar. Who tweeted that.

[Vinny]

Yes.

[Pat]

Oh, wow.

[Vinny]

And he goes, here. Is that my sources? It was taken at. In his home. This is. And this woman is a sex worker. Allegedly. And, but. And if you see. Because there's two videos.

[Pat]

Whose foot is that? Like whose shoes?

[Vinny]

There's a guy in the bed with them. There's a guy. They're trying to figure out who's there, who's recording.

[Adam]

Pat, wake up, man. There's always got to be a guy filming.

[Vinny]

No, but Pat, there's a girl that shows up in the back that looks like another girl worker, whatever. Allegedly, she runs back because she sees that somebody has a camera. She gets up, but there's a guy in the bed. And then there's a guy obviously recording. So one.

[Pat]

But we don't know who the guy.

[Vinny]

No, there's five. See that guy's head? I mean, it's gonna come out. You're gonna find out. See that guy said he has nice sneakers. I mean, he has Nikes. Yeah, those are pretty cool dunks.

[Adam]

That's what Vinny's looking at, the sneakers.

[Pat]

So, okay, so we don't know who that guy is, though.

[Adam]

No, they're gonna identify him. See his face right there?

[Vinny]

Gonna find him.

[Pat]

So, Goose, if he wasn't close. Congressman, if we know who the guy is. Go ahead, Tom.

[Tom]

So here's what I think.

[Pat]

Why did this happen? That's the real question. Of course. It's fun and games. So why did this happen, Tom?

[Tom]

Yep. So everything comes out at once. So we summarize it. This video. That's right, this video.

[Adam]

Unbelievable.

[Tom]

Two campaign workers, you know, come out and say he was hitting on us. One gentleman puts up a tweet, says, he was hitting on my wife. We have the evidence. If he wants to sue me, sue me. But don't you dare say a word about my wife.

[Vinny]

I.

[Tom]

She worked for the campaign. And this is where it happened all over this weekend. From Friday. It's like a suddenly groundswell. Who gave the meat? So I'm going to ask this controversial question. Who gave the media permission to run with this? The mainstream media is on a leash with the dnc. That's not allegations. We've seen it so many times. Rob, do you have the polling information? So let's look under the covers, shall we?

[Adam]

Oh, my goodness.

[Tom]

It says. And we find the California primary is known as. And this is what they call it, ladies and gentlemen, it's called the Jungle primary. There's no DNC primary. There's no RNC primary. There is one primary coming up in June in California, and the top two run for governor frequently. The poor Republican has never had a chance to be in the top two, or you're so far behind, it's crazy. But this year, they call it law of the jungle. Survival of the fittest. All the animals have to fight. Who's gonna be the one that comes out on top? So take a look at this. Top two, move on. Steve Hilton, 17.1%. Chad Bianco, 13.5. First and third. Eric Swalwell. There were things leaking out, and he's been dropping a little bit. And Katie Porter is seen as, like, this very angry woman. And the polling says that, not me. It's not an allegation. Polling says that voters found that her anger and everything was unbecoming of a candidate. The Dems were looking at a situation that if just the conservative media show this, they might have Hilton and Bianco running. This is Emerson College poll that was released to the media by Democrat source. Wait a minute. Why are the Democrats releasing unfavorable polling? Why is New York everything coming out at once? I'll tell you why. They only have six weeks before the June primary and they're running a terrible risk of losing the State House. Guess what? They knew what was going on with Swalwell. They knew back from Fang Fang and all the jokes we can make about that, about, you know, being compromised by a foreign. A Chinese spy. Slash, prostitutes, whatever, Whatever.

[Vinny]

A lot of slashes.

[Tom]

Okay, there we go. There it is, Pat. If Swalwell had slipped down. Now, what they do, the Dems just did to him what they did to Bernie. But Bernie wasn't guilty of all this stuff. Bernie was just a pain in the neck on a highly progressive basis in South Carolina.

[Adam]

Remember that, Adam?

[Tom]

And they were against, against Hillary. And what did they do? They cut off access to all of the support. They changed the rules in South Carolina and suddenly Hillary comes up. Bernie's campaign is absolutely thwarted so they can get the candidate they want. They don't want to lose the California State House, Pat. And now you have a big bomb go off that tells the voters, Swalwell, bad Swalwell, bad Swalwell gone. He pulls out with six weeks to go off of the campaign.

[Pat]

But the reality is. So now what? Now you think Katie stands a chance? Well, you think Tom, not Sawyer style, stands a chance? Or they have Humberto, that thing we were looking at at dinner when we said, what is the latest time to put somebody in a name in? When was the last day they could do something? Because this is it, Tom.

[Tom]

It's over. I don't think they can. They can't do the Kamala Harris thing and put in a candidate. They have to go with one of these.

[Pat]

Are Republicans going to win?

[Vinny]

Oh, like, do you think that's going to happen? Well, why would they destroy him?

[Tom]

Not only that, Luna is putting forth a motion to censor him and have him removed from Congress. From Congress. And if that happens, there'll be a special election for his seat. And there's a lot of unrest in California right now economically, and they fear, even though the Republicans are just hanging on to 39, 40%. It wouldn't take that much. That's right.

[Adam]

Wouldn't take exactly.

[Tom]

You know what I mean? It wouldn't take that much for a Republican to win his seat. And the Republicans stand a very real chance here. They only have one shot. And the Shot is, does Chad Bianco get passed by Katie Porter? And then she becomes the candidate and she wins by default because she's the Democrat and then they control her. That's the plan.

[Vinny]

Wow. And it's not good for him. He's done the. He had 50 former staff members. Staffers released a leather letter saying that the allegations are serious and credible and demanding he resigns from.

[Tom]

Give us the dates on everything. It all started Friday and these people were all greenlit.

[Vinny]

Do you remember Nancy Pelosi that made that video, Robbie, the wrap up smear. The little smear campaign that she does. Smear. It's a smear, but I like adding the schmuck.

[Adam]

She go with a schmearly?

[Vinny]

Yeah. And you have that video of this is. I slacked it to you, Rob. She says what they do, they get the story, Pat. They sell it to all the freaking news and then they do a wrap up. They put you out there, they destroy you. And then you made a great point.

[Tom]

They eat their young.

[Vinny]

They eat their young. This is it. But it bothers me. If you want to play, we can play it. It bothers me, Pat. They've had these videos. They've had it.

[Pat]

Eric got fired. Eric Swalwell got fired by the Democratic Party is what happened.

[Vinny]

That's exactly. But it bothers me that these people. I mean, I get it. It's a disgusting dirty game. I've heard so many stories about these politicians in Hollywood. I mean, on Hollywood, in Washington and the fact that they have. And they hold it on you, Pat. This black man.

[Pat]

So, Tom, here's the thing. Apparently the primary election is June 2, general election is November 3. But the write in deadline. The write in Deadline, Tom, is May 19th.

[Vinny]

Kamala could come in.

[Pat]

The write in deadline is May 19th. You think Democrats are just gonna let this go like this?

[Vinny]

No way.

[Tom]

So the write in, I'm not familiar with that thing. Meaning I could put my name out there to be a write in candidate.

[Pat]

I think based on the way they have it, they needed to file a write in before the primary deadline in May of 2026, which they have time. They have 36 days to write someone in, give or take. So I don't think in a million years Democrats are going to get rid of Eric Swalwell and just let it go like this and that's it. I don't buy that. You think they are excited by Katie Porter. Katie Porter is one press conference away from beating the living crap of somebody. And Dana White is the one that's hiring her to do a UFC fight. Gina Carano.

[Tom]

She has a daily card with her staff.

[Pat]

No, she's a force to be reckoned with in the fighting space, but to me, and then the Tom Steyer guy, you know, Tom Sawyer, Tom Steyer, him, you know. You think they're going to get behind him? No, I don't think. I think there's something up their sleeves that we don't know about. You're about to hear an announcement, I'm assuming in the next, you know, three to seven days, maybe two weeks of somebody where they're going to say, here's our guy and Antonio Villargosa talking about 2.8%.

[Vinny]

How's he gonna jump?

[Pat]

Like, you think he's gonna pull it off at 2.8%?

[Tom]

Look, if they get behind him and they push him hard, he's got name recognition in LA. He will carry LA if others are.

[Pat]

He's got 800 followers on X. Can you go to Anthony? I couldn't believe it that day when we checked the rap. Can you look at Mayor Villar Garrosa's Twitter followership and influence?

[Tom]

It's not about logic, it's about desperation and about a party machinery spelling.

[Pat]

Rob, you crushed it. You did what I would have done. We had to just see that because I would have spelled it too. Look at that. He said 1318 followers and that's his

[Tom]

account, so he's almost doubled. Pat, give him credit.

[Pat]

No, but Tom, you said 800. But check this out. Like, I don't even know who follows him. Like influencers.

[Tom]

Not followed by anyone. You're following.

[Pat]

Yeah, I mean, that's not a V. So, Adam, I'll come to you and then we're gonna wrap up with the story.

[Vinny]

In fact, can I say one thing about her? So California primary is June 2, and the normal filing deadline for governor was March 6. So as of April 13, Kamala cannot just decide to jump into the race. But there's one narrow exception. Tom, she could still try a write in campaign in primary. California allows write in candidates for voter nominated offices in the primary, and the write and filing window runs from April 6 to May 19. But there's a much tougher pass because she would still need to finish top two in the primary to make the general election, which she could because of the stats that Tom just showed. So here's a clean way to say it. She cannot join the race now as a regular ballot candidate because the filing deadline's over. But she could only try a late ride in route, which is legally possible, but politically much harder, Tom. If they put all their weight behind her. If they put all their weight behind her and they say, guys, this is Republicans. They're going to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They want to kill illegals, whatever. And then they put her in. She has. She has a path.

[Pat]

Look at Tom Steyer, though. Tom Starr just blew up.

[Adam]

Tom just went. Blew up right now.

[Pat]

Yeah. Adam, go ahead.

[Adam]

Tom Sawyer. Okay, so one quick question. Has Swalwell officially dropped out of the race?

[Tom]

Yes.

[Adam]

Okay, Gotcha. Well, Pat, I got a Swalwell story. If I can share it with you,

[Pat]

can you do it in less than a minute?

[Adam]

I can.

[Pat]

Okay, go ahead.

[Adam]

So I'm at the White House correspondence dinner. I was. I. I was with some ladies from cnn. I don't know if you want to show that picture, Rob. I sent you two pictures. Way to bury the lead. Here's all my CNN ladies. You might recognize some of these ladies at the White House Correspondent Dinner. This is in, I want to say, 2017. And, you know, when you go to these events, like we went to the inauguration, you go to these things, you're interacting with a lot of people. I found myself at the bar with Eric Swalwell.

[Vinny]

Oh, God.

[Adam]

And I knew him a little bit.

[Pat]

You're the guy in that video, Adam.

[Adam]

I'm not incriminating myself.

[Pat]

I was about. Is that where he's going, the guy in this picture?

[Adam]

But here's what I'll say about Swalwell. We're at the bar.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Adam]

We're having a drinks. I don't know this guy. This is the point of my story. How sloppy he is. This is my opinion, my story. He says to me, hey, man, let's go have a little fun. Let's go see what's out there. I'm like, you're talking to the right guy. He's like, what's up? Basically saying what a chick's at.

[Tom]

Yeah.

[Adam]

I'm thinking, all right, here's this dude that wants to have a good time. I'm a free agent. I'm looking to have some fun. And then I realize, what's up with this guy's judgment. How are you just going out and picking up chicks with a dude you met three minutes ago?

[Vinny]

He doesn't care.

[Adam]

And my point is, that's sloppy. Whatever happened with a fang Fang. Whatever happened. All you have to say is, hey, man, nice to meet you. Have a great day. I'm gonna go hang out with my friends. You're gonna come and say, hey, man, I Like you let's go kick it and pick up chicks. Sign me.

[Pat]

Who was he at the time?

[Tom]

You're a little excited.

[Adam]

He was a represent. He was a representative. Representative in California. Yeah, that's why he was there. So I'm thinking huh, is this guy cool? Is he's got. I want to say he was married. I don't know. The point is this. He's dropping out of the race. Nothing's been proven. What did we learn from Trump with the whole grab him by the situation.

[Vinny]

Anything's possible.

[Adam]

You got to own who you are. If you kind of walk around so

[Pat]

you're saying he should come out and say.

[Adam]

I'm just saying if you walk around and present yourself as holier than thou. Yeah, I would never, I would never do something like this. Like if I ever ran for government I'd be like how many videos of me out in a club having a good time there are. That's who I am. But now I'm a changed man. He's presenting himself as a polished individual.

[Pat]

I see your face subtly throwing I'm

[Vinny]

gonna hide myself up but you realize he was he was on a bed with another dude and a dude recording. That's maybe he was trying to do. Trying to put California.

[Adam]

What is this mess? The point is this California is a mess. Gavin Newsome cheated on his wife, some of his best friend, whatever but he owned it.

[Tom]

Campaign manager by the way how we

[Adam]

doing Swallow is sloppy. He didn't own it. He's done and now that's his and

[Tom]

now you could now you can write in and according to the there's a new commission the Democrats running under new Kamala D R U N K which spells drunk. You can write in Kamala or the name of any vodka and it will be attributed to her. So part of the write in campaign is meant to be right up her alley. So we'll see. Is she going to go as a write in or is she running for president already?

[Pat]

Rob, what happened to that poll we ran 30 minutes.

[Vinny]

I totally forgot about that.

[Pat]

Can you run that poll? I'm just curious to know what happen less. I mean listen, I know which way it's going to go. I just want to go okay, go ahead. What do you think it went who has more power, Catholics or Jews? What do you think the poll work?

[Adam]

Catholics or Jews?

[Vinny]

Yes.

[Pat]

What do you think the poll literally

[Adam]

there's 1.4 billion Catholics.

[Pat]

I know so where do you think the poll go?

[Tom]

I think our audience will think the power is with is if our Audience,

[Adam]

the Catholic Church. And you have it, Rob.

[Pat]

Or not.

[Adam]

It's way bigger and way more powerful.

[Pat]

Oh, because of this. You didn't delete it, though?

[Adam]

No, I can.

[Tom]

I think I can pull it up on the. The watch after.

[Pat]

Well, you didn't delete it, though. Okay. All right, well, we'll take a look at it afterwards for. If you're conveniently deleted. Let me do this can for the audience that's watching. If you guys remember what the poll was just kind of posted below. I wouldn't mind seeing what the numbers are while we're on the topic right now. All right, let's get to. Let's get to next story. Let's get to next story. Let's get to next story. Next story I want to get into is I tweeted something, Rob, if you want to pull it up on what I think's gonna happen in 2028. Okay. This is what I think is gonna happen in 2028. I think. 2028. You guys know I don't tweet a lot, but when I do, this is one of them. I said, mark my war. 2028 presidential race will break every rule in politics. An open battlefield without Trump in it. Strange. People will be running. Hollywood stars, influencers, podcasters, former athletes, pastors. I have a list of 22 outsiders that could be running. It'll be nasty, right? While we're doing this, a report comes in saying that Michelle Obama may be thinking about running. Hinting, hinting, hinting. You saw that with David Harris, I think.

[Vinny]

Of course.

[Pat]

Hinting. And then there's another one with Kamala who's talking to Reverend Jackson, if I'm not mistaken. Rob. You know, did you see that one, Rob? This is it. Go ahead. Go to.

[Adam]

That's Al Sharpton.

[Vinny]

Sharpton.

[Pat]

What did I say?

[Adam]

Let's get our black pastors out. Jesse Jackson passed recently.

[Pat]

I know you were thinking of him

[Adam]

because we're in the. In the religious bubble right now.

[Pat]

Al Sharpton.

[Adam]

Al Sharpton.

[Vinny]

Al Sharpton

[Pat]

run again in 28. He's lost £300. All right, so watch this.

[Adam]

So. Oh, God.

[Tom]

Okay.

[Vinny]

I tried to be subtle, but I

[Pat]

just figured I'd go right up.

[Vinny]

That's it. Subtle as rim now shar could ever be.

[Adam]

Yeah, girl, we love you for many

[Vinny]

things, but not being subtle. Oh, God, I don't miss that at all. Listen, I might. I might. Oh, God, please do. I'm thinking about it.

[Pat]

Please think more.

[Vinny]

I'm thinking about it. Yeah, you're not. Oh, please go.

[Adam]

Yeah, Please.

[Pat]

Who else? Who else for 20?

[Vinny]

She has zero.

[Pat]

Who else for 20? 28. Who else?

[Vinny]

Michelle. Michelle Obama would be formidable for sure. She knows how to talk. She doesn't know. She doesn't. By the way. She. The race card and everything would be played. She would play that thing all. Every single day. Every single day. And anything, any debate against her, she's gonna go to that card. She's gonna play that card because that's all she's been doing for the past 10 years. That's all she does. Everything is. She's a victim. She's a victim. She's a victim. And people love that. Mind you. She was selling out arenas. Pat the first. The president's wife was selling out arenas. What was she saying? What was she talking about? I'm very curious, but out of their entire. Who the Democrats have right now, Gavin Newsom's number one. And he is going down. All the fraud, all the lying, all the taxes, all the. Everything. She comes in. I know Roger Stone quoted this.

[Tom]

I don't know. The best campaigner in the lineup. In a world of snack and headlines.

[Vinny]

Who would it be?

[Tom]

I'm saying, I think Gavin Newsom is the best political envoy and the best campaigner. If you sit logically with 10 people. If you sit logically from 10 people and you debate Newsom, you come to one conclusion. You get 300 million people that are just thinking at the surface level, he can get elected.

[Vinny]

Yeah. Who do you think would have a better chance? Gavin Newsom or Kamala or. I'm sorry. Or Michelle Obama?

[Tom]

Gavin Newsom, I think, gets cleaned up by Michelle Obama very early in the primary because he doesn't have an east coast base in the first place. And I've always said, wait for New Hampshire, South Carolina and Iowa, and then tell me if the guy that can't get above 19% with core Democrats right now. And we've never had a candidate. Pat brought it up. Remember the research we did like two weeks ago, Pat? There's never been a Democrat candidate at this point, a prospective nominee, not in.

[Pat]

Not an ever. In 30 plus years, we haven't had a candidate that as of this season was below 25%. Not Biden, not Hillary, not nobody. Thirty years, it's never happened. So there's not a lead guy for them. So as much as they're having a hard time with governor for California, they're having a hard time with President for 2028. This is why I believe in AOC stands a chance for 2028. This is why I believe an outsider stands a chance for 2028. And you know, commonly, I know you're going to say no, but. But I'm telling you, I think for me, as you're seeing more and more opposition come in like a Mamdani come in, they're gonna. They're playing ball. They're playing ball. Adam, your thoughts on this 2028?

[Adam]

Look, you know, the whole. The whole conversation is that the Democrats have a deep bench. Oh, they got a bench you're never gonna see.

[Pat]

Where's AOC Rob, where's AOC on this?

[Tom]

She's at 10.8%. I believe she is second.86. Yeah. Newsom is first.

[Pat]

If you put a position of $100,000, what would it be?

[Tom]

By the way? There's 86 million.

[Adam]

I know.

[Pat]

That's what I'm saying, Tom, if you put $100,000 on AOC and she pulls it off, what do you get? According to this?

[Tom]

According to this. Let's flip it over, because I think

[Pat]

you get the inverse of that $90,900,000.

[Tom]

Yeah. Click on the yes. Just click on the yes.

[Pat]

Oh.

[Vinny]

Oh, there it is.

[Pat]

So what does the yes do, Tom?

[Tom]

I. I think you get the 90.

[Pat]

So you put $110,000, you get 900, $902,000.

[Tom]

Yep.

[Pat]

Okay. All right. So as of right now, Newsom's number one.

[Vinny]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Aoch. Two, who was three. Go a little bit lower to see who three was.

[Adam]

Think I saw John Ossoff.

[Vinny]

Ossoff.

[Pat]

Oh, wow.

[Adam]

That boy better work his ass off. Okay,

[Pat]

you were saying?

[Adam]

Look, 20, 28 is wide open. You are right. You know, the whole conversation of the Democrats. They got a deep bench, you know, but the challenge is all their players should stay on the bench. They don't have any stars that can actually win yet. National Gavin Newsom. Exactly. From a national perspective, Gavin Newsom was all they got. If you want to pull up that list, I'll tell you exactly. Bing, bing, bing. Who these people are. Gavin Newsom looks good. Becky with the good hair, whatever it is, doesn't have a national electorate. Aoc, we haven't elected a representative from the House of Representatives into the presidency ever. Ever. So unless AOC is the greatest candidate in the history of America, she's not going to be there. Jon Ossoff, I'm sure he's working as Ossoff. Nobody knows who he is. I think he's a senator. In what state? Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Georgia, I think. I don't know. Kamala Harris. Keep the drinking Pete. Hey, Buddha. Judge, that ain't happening. Joshua Piro, I love you like a brother. Because you're Jewish, you got no chance in the Democratic Party. They hate Israel. They hate the Jews. Ro Khanna, go back to wherever you came from. Andy Bashir, keep up for that guy. Governor of Kentucky, Rob Emanuel. Could be a. Could be a player here. JB Pritzker, I don't care how much Ozempic you got, ain't happening. All I see is white men in a Democratic Party that's run by black women. I don't think any of these people get a chance. I think on the Republican side of things, you get the most capable resume we've ever seen, possibly in Marco Rubio. The only question is, where does J.D. vance fit? We'll figure that out. But to me, if you're looking at resume and capability, Democrats don't got it.

[Tom]

The Democrats are not dumb. And I think the Democrats have been on the sidelines a lot right now trying to figure out what they want to do. And I don't think Pat said something about this two years ago about the formidable nature of a Michelle Obama running. And I agree with that. Right now, right now, I'll tell you, the Dems are looking for a savior and they're not seeing it in the natural way. It comes up. Nobody is showing up at above 25% as the prospective nominee. Nobody. So what do they gotta do? They have to do a South Carolina thing. And I think I'm wrong on something I've been saying for a while. I've been saying that the money would hold back and go with JB Pritzker because he could carry Rust Belt, he could carry Illinois. That's the algebra on it. But he really doesn't seem like he's there. And so I think the DNC is trying to do something. Just like I think as Pat used the word fired, Eric Swalwell got fired this weekend by the dnc. They gotta do something. And remember, money wins elections. They sit on the most amount of money and they direct the super pacs because the super pacs are connected to legislation and they tell them if they're gonna get their legislation or not. And they guide super PAC spending.

[Adam]

Can we just stop one thing, please? Can we. Do me a favor, stop it with the Michelle Obama nonsense. I mean, for 10 years, she's going to run. She's never going to run. She's never has run. She's never given any indications run. Want to know why?

[Pat]

She said it's.

[Adam]

She's not built for this.

[Vinny]

She said this.

[Adam]

She's not built for this.

[Pat]

For a black woman to be a president.

[Adam]

Well, how's she going to qualify?

[Vinny]

No, come on. I'm just saying. But. But you know what? But you know what? You know why? He makes a really good point about aoc, And I'm telling you guys right now, clip somebody, clip that, and just save that for your own. Whoever's listening to this. Mamdani. Adam1 in New York. Nobody would have thought, bro. He came on a video yesterday saying, we will not be ashamed of standing with our transgender neighbors. We will not be ashamed of being called socialists, and we will not be ashamed for fighting for immigrants targeted by ice. By the way, this is his first hundred days. He hasn't done anything, all right? He's canceling the free buses thing. That's done. And he's saying in a year, they're going to have free supermarkets where they're going to give away food. Don't sleep on these guys. That whole communist, Marxist aoc, bro. And you notice he made a good point, too. Everybody's quiet right now. Gavin's not out there talking crap, saying Donald Trump and yelling it's his wife. No, Gavin, when's the last time you're having.

[Adam]

I don't know. Three days ago, five days ago.

[Vinny]

I've seen his wife more than I've seen him out there. She's out there. She's out. Because, by the way, Gavin can't avoid all this fraud and everything that's happening right now. So they kind of keeping him on the hush, Adam. But he's gonna.

[Adam]

Trust me.

[Vinny]

He's gonna come out from under the rocks when it gets closer, because now we're in a war. How are you gonna criticize? What's he gonna say about Trump? What's he gonna say?

[Adam]

Talk trash about Trump?

[Vinny]

No, I'm saying right now. You haven't heard anything, have you, Tom? When's the last time? All I'm saying is, what's your point with Mundani? My thing is, don't sleep. America. New Yorkers overwhelmingly got Mamdani in, so he's the same. Him and AOC are cut from the same clothes. Don't sleep.

[Adam]

On that whole, Mamdani is the now face of the Democratic Party, and if not, the Republicans should make him the face. By the way, to answer your question about who has more power, Catholics or Jews? If I may, Jews run New York, right? They couldn't even get Cuomo elected. A lifelong Democrat. Mamdani comes in. Never heard about him. Until a year ago becomes the mayor of New York City. It just proves to me either New

[Pat]

York Jews don't run New York or

[Adam]

they gotta step their game.

[Pat]

You know what's even funny?

[Adam]

What's that?

[Pat]

Neither Jews could get Cuomo elected. Neither could Catholics get Cuomo elected. So what does that tell you? What does that tell you?

[Adam]

That New York.

[Pat]

What does that tell you? The number one financial capital of the world, Jews. Neither Jews or Catholics could get a Catholic. Isn't Andrew Cuomo a Catholic? Father was a Catholic. Couldn't get an Italian Catholic alike.

[Adam]

It's not Chris Cuomo. Where you at?

[Pat]

Can you imagine that? And by the way, let me tell you, watch your language. Language.

[Adam]

I'm sorry about that.

[Pat]

What's your language? We know what that means.

[Adam]

You can't even know what that means.

[Pat]

Yeah, you do. You know, I really don't.

[Vinny]

I just said it wrong at the end.

[Pat]

Exactly.

[Adam]

What is it?

[Pat]

So, okay, all right, so let me get to the next story. Next story I want to get to is. Let me see, which one is it that I wanted to get to? There's one. Oh, did you guys see this crazy guy knocking on the door of a guy trying to look for the daughter? The daughter, yeah. And then he got in. Have you guys seen this or no? There is a few of them. I think. You have the clips. Okay, start off. Is that the one where he comes in and then he starts saying open? Okay, so first of all, this is a. Okay, that's the one. Play this clip. So watch this terrifying moment where a ring camera shows a deranged man in long coat crashing out, asking, where is your daughter? And threatened the man on the camera that he will end him if he doesn't open a door. Go ahead, Rob. This episode is brought to you by indeed.

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[Pat]

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[Tom]

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[Pat]

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[Vinny]

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[Vinny]

Hello? Hi there. Can you open the door please?

[Tom]

For what? I just want to make sure that everything's okay.

[Vinny]

There seems to be something going on.

[Pat]

What? What do you mean?

[Tom]

I don't know.

[Vinny]

I just figured I checked on something. I don't know what you want, man. Get out of my house.

[Pat]

Open this door.

[Vinny]

Flip flops and a trench coat. Where's your daughter, man? Talking about your daughter. Where's your daughter? Who's in there with you, bro? Bro, if you don't open this door, open this door, I'm breaking it down, you understand me? Dude, leave my house. You don't.

[Pat]

Are you okay?

[Vinny]

What? Is everyone in this house okay?

[Pat]

What?

[Vinny]

Everyone's okay? What do you want, bro?

[Pat]

State of California, by the way, this is Cali.

[Adam]

This is Cali.

[Pat]

Because if this is Texas or Florida, you know what's happening?

[Vinny]

It would have been. All this video would have been done after the man or a woman.

[Pat]

Rob, is that the end of the video or he. No, he's still standing there. Jack is moving, watch this. He's waiting for the dad to open the door because he wants to know if the daughter's inside, okay? And he's just holding himself. He's about to go postal.

[Vinny]

Can you leave my house please? Can you open the door, please? You have nothing to do with my house. Can you leave my house?

[Pat]

You know what my name is?

[Vinny]

Oh no, I don't know who you are. You don't belong this neighborhood, that's for sure.

[Pat]

This is my neighborhood though.

[Adam]

Oh man, this guy's. Yeah, I live there.

[Pat]

I don't know man.

[Adam]

This is fat, man.

[Vinny]

My name is Harry Dresden.

[Adam]

Oh man.

[Vinny]

Oh, open the door. This is my neighborhood. Eyebrows. Open the door.

[Adam]

I don't play.

[Vinny]

He's got the Shapiros. Is that it?

[Adam]

Harry Dresden to the rescue. No.

[Pat]

Oh my.

[Vinny]

End you. Oh my. Do you understand me?

[Pat]

Well, people have lost their mind thinking they can talk.

[Tom]

Does this guy know?

[Pat]

He's not done yet.

[Tom]

Poisoning Worth. I know he's extremely, extremely.

[Vinny]

Suddenly I think there's a video of him in the house.

[Pat]

That's what I thought, I thought it was in the house.

[Vinny]

He gets in the house and the guy, the owner, comes in with a shovel and is like, bro, get out of my house.

[Pat]

Are you in the military? Yeah.

[Vinny]

Look at this. Has nobody called the cop? No.

[Pat]

91 1, you know, the guy has. What are the chances the guys called the cops? I mean he's called the cops of

[Vinny]

course, but what about the neighbor, like dude.

[Pat]

So now Rob, you want to play the other clip of the cops angle? This guy keeps going like this, lost his right. But then there's another clip of him inside. Do you have that one, Rob too, or. No, I watch it. So this is a different angle made it in of cops pulling up and they're like, what the hell are you doing? Look at this. Yeah, you see the cops on the back? Go ahead.

[Vinny]

Oh, I will end you. Do you understand me?

[Adam]

An Avengers movie.

[Pat]

Oh, that's.

[Vinny]

Somebody had the shovel. That's the owner, Pat, with the shovel. So the owner dropped. Owner dropped the shovel.

[Adam]

The audio is really.

[Vinny]

There's. There's a dog.

[Pat]

Durbin,

[Vinny]

bro, if you have say kill

[Tom]

you

[Vinny]

dude going on here.

[Pat]

This guy is dating the owner's daughter. I don't know if he's dating or something. He wants come and see the daughter.

[Adam]

Look at this.

[Pat]

This is California. Cops come in, they're checking the guy. Did they handcuff him?

[Vinny]

Whoever sells a trench coat in California, you got to monitor that guy.

[Pat]

What you doing with trench coat, Bob? What do we know about this? On what happens? What does the community note say? Can you go to the community note right there? Zoom in a little bit. Jason Thomas Nichols was arrested in Fairfield, California, April 7 after a viral ring doorbell video shows him aggressively banging on the door. Where's your daughter? And claiming to be a fictional wizard named Harry Dresden. Of course, he faces charges including first degree criminal threats, vandalism and assault with a deadly weapon. And bail set for $35,000.

[Vinny]

He'll be out in two days.

[Pat]

He'll be out in two Days.

[Vinny]

A guy like this in California? He'll be out. He'll be out.

[Pat]

But do you remember back in the days there was a movie with Mark Wahlberg, 20 plus years when he did this.

[Vinny]

Oh, if you haven't seen that movie, I highly recommend he did. Fantastic.

[Tom]

Oh, God.

[Vinny]

Reese Witherspoon.

[Adam]

Oh, yeah, Reese Withers and the other girl.

[Pat]

What year was this? Not 20 years ago. 30 years ago.

[Vinny]

30.

[Pat]

30 years ago. It's been 30 years. Of course, too. Yeah. So when that happened. Yeah, you know, guys like this are out there. Parents let me in the got to be involved on who their girls date and who their girls.

[Adam]

Guys, I don't know. I think you're looking at this all wrong. It's a love story.

[Pat]

Yeah, this is a love story in California. It is Cali, by the way, Vinny, this is your dog.

[Adam]

He better love lemons.

[Pat]

I'm going to ask the two of you guys, I'm going to come to you. A guy comes in and is asking for your daughter. Tom, how do you handle this on this?

[Tom]

Number one, I will call the authorities immediately. And I would make sure that first of all at home, Kim and I would. As soon as this guy comes up, Kim and I would both arm up and be ready for the door to come down.

[Vinny]

Time. I walk around with a gun, just.

[Adam]

You and Kim would be like that couple in, like, D.C. with the huge shotguns.

[Tom]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We have appropriate home defense. We haven't got bazookas or anything, but we got appropriate home defense. Number one, I would arm up and call the police, get the professionals.

[Adam]

You and Kim right there, Tom.

[Tom]

No, no, no. I'm not gonna be Rambo. The number one, I'm gonna. I want the professionals on my front doorstep as fast as possible. Number one. So I would call number two. You know, I arm up. Number three, I prepare, you know, secondary exit and escape routes because I don't want to engage. This is what they tell you. This is concealed weapon. People tell you this, I'll tell you this. This is what I would do. However, that's at the point. I don't think this will happen at my house because of the way we've raised our daughters and the cautions we've given them. And we never, ever, ever point to issues that any kids at their school had and say, see, see, see? Danger, danger, danger. What we say is, what do you think happened there? What were the bad decisions that led there? You got a process. And we taught the girls to reason and resist. Resist the bad decisions of life and reason through everything and be prepared for it. And we use these as cautionary tales. But that's what I would do if it was happening on my porch pad. I'm not gonna be Rambo. I want the professional. But I am going to arm up. And if that door comes down, I hate to say it.

[Vinny]

Call Dan.

[Adam]

Exactly, Call Dan shows up. That's right, 1-800- call Dan.

[Tom]

I'm gonna. And I'm gonna be preparing. I want the professionals there.

[Vinny]

Right, Tom? Let me explain something to you, Tom. If I was married and had a daughter and that dude kicked my door, guess what would have happened? My wife would have been calling Home Depot to find out if there was discounts on doors, because that would have had holes in it. Because, Tom, if that guy comes in, you don't know if he has a knife. You don't know if he's armed and he's trying to kill.

[Tom]

That's why I'm calling 91 1, two seconds later.

[Vinny]

Oh, 91 1, first and foremost. But I'm waiting at the door, Tom. Wherever he goes, I'm following him with a gun. You're not coming in my house. He got in the house. He got in the house, and the owner had a shovel. Because he's looking for his daughter, Tom. And I'm sorry. You got to protect your home. What about you?

[Adam]

I can't imagine.

[Vinny]

Can you imagine coming to the door? Senna is 18 years old, and that guy is on your ring cam hat, and you see him on the ring camp and you're home.

[Pat]

He has to worry about Tico.

[Vinny]

Oh, I know.

[Pat]

At that age, but to me, no, no, this. This is not going to happen. Listen, if something like this happened, there are certain things happens in life where the father is capable of going to, you know, whatever kind of a, you know, punishment and all that stuff. You want to be as measured as possible. It's easy as a. To get emotional and say, I put a bullet and I would do this and I would do that. You, you, your kids need you not in jail. But if it gets to a point of you stepping in the house, it's done. It's not even hesitation.

[Tom]

I completely know.

[Pat]

Zero hesitation. You're like, hey. And by the way, FYI, just so everybody knows, this says one of the reasons why I left the state of California to live in Texas and to live in Florida. Okay. In Florida, you could walk around. A lot of people carry here. You can go to a restaurant. People carry here.

[Vinny]

Yep.

[Pat]

You know, today we're driving in, guess what? M16. And the front seat, like, literally sitting there. Why is it sitting there? Just a regular conversation. And it's sitting right there. I like that.

[Vinny]

Yep.

[Pat]

I like that. You have to be safe nowadays because the reality of it is there's a lot of crazies out there. So anyways. All right, let's go to the next story.

[Adam]

Look at this kid. I'll just say one thing. Show me that you've never been laid without telling me you've never been laid. You're telling me some grown man, child wizard is showing up at the door demanding the daughter, I'm assuming. I have no clue what's going on. I'm just reacting to his video. This is a man who's obsessed with a girl. She's probably given him zero attention, maybe said hi to him. He thinks in his trench coat that he's the superhero shows up to the door as Batman, apparently telling the dad, get out of the way. Where's your daughter? I'm assuming this guy with three names, of course. Jason Thomas Nichols. We know the whole three name thing. Situation has never been had a girlfriend, and this is how you react. Be careful out there, gentlemen. Don't end up like this.

[Pat]

Yeah, for sure.

[Tom]

No, that's why you call the police? Nine One, one is number one. Number two, what is your exit plan? No. And then what is your engagement plan? You have to have all that set up up. And we're an engagement plan.

[Adam]

We don't want this guy getting engaged.

[Tom]

What it is, it's.

[Adam]

We don't want him getting engaged to your daughter, Tom.

[Tom]

No, this is 9 millimeter 147 grand hollow tip engagement. Okay.

[Adam]

Different type of engagement. Respect.

[Tom]

Yeah. That's what this is. And I'm ready. But I'm not going to be Rambo and open the door.

[Adam]

Tom, you're built for this. Stop.

[Tom]

No, no, no. But if he comes down that door, the police are already on their way. Then I'm gonna. I'm gonna air him out.

[Pat]

By the way, you know, you look at Tom and you think about a Rambo. What? No, no, you think. When you look at Tom, you think about somebody, it's like, oh, he couldn't harm anybody. Tom's got a very weird side to him that nobody's seen.

[Adam]

Is ruthless.

[Pat]

No, no. His family feels very safe. I've seen Tom go zero to a whole different person.

[Vinny]

Do you know the iguanas in his neighborhood? What?

[Pat]

I will murder you. What is that one scene? He says I will.

[Adam]

No, that's Tropic Thunder.

[Vinny]

Like Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Tom]

That's not usually how I started.

[Adam]

Right.

[Tom]

We. We encountered some people in New Orleans.

[Adam]

Ludicrous.

[Tom]

Yeah. And I. I just. I'm usually easy first. And I looked at the guy and I said, that is a remarkably bad decision.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Tom]

And that was my first.

[Vinny]

I love that you broke it down,

[Pat]

but that was 48 oysters later, and a. This was like 12 years ago. It was a long time ago. All right, so let me. Let me get to the next story. Let me get to the next story. Let's talk about these data centers, man, that a lot of people are worried about. Voters oust half of Missouri City council for greenlighting a $6 billion AI data center. So if you want to pull this up, check this out, guys. And this is going to lead to a story with Maine, which they kind of go together. And Tom, if you wanted to kind of go and, you know, combine the two stories together, feel free to do so. You don't have to wait for me to separate the two stories. So the billion is. So where's this page at? Page 24? Is it page 24? What page is this thing on?

[Tom]

23 and 25.

[Pat]

23 and 20. I'm on 23. I don't see Missouri on 23.

[Tom]

Really?

[Pat]

Oh, there it is. Okay. Voters in Missouri town ousted four city council members Tuesday for supporting the AI data center in the area. Voters in the town Is this a video?

[Adam]

Rob yes sir.

[Pat]

Go for it. Texas council approved $6 billion data center despite public pushback look at this. Legit. They don't want data center data. Tuesday vote followed months up at times ruckus Opposition against the CRG Clayco plan to build a hyperscale data center on 360 acres in the town. The four city council members who lost their reelection bids were defeated by candidates who ran against the data center and supported more transparency. This data center fight has struck the community to the core and really honestly ignited a community driven effort here, said Dan Moore, who defeated the pro data center incumbent Bobby Benz told St. Louis Public Radio. People are awake now and we're not going to let this continue on anymore.

[Tom]

Tom so here's what's going on. Two things happened in America and I'll connect the dots really, really fast. We have been not allowing appropriate permits for new power in this country and we think nuclear power is Three Mile Island 1977 or something like that. Whenever the disaster happened I think it was 77. Check me on that. And so we haven't been doing it meanwhile and we also see, oh my gosh, the tsunami and Fukushima and all the people that got, you know, radiation poisoning in Japan when that power plant and then newer power plants have been built in crazy places like France allowing new fifth generation. I think it's fifth and sixth generation data. They haven't been doing that in the us. Meanwhile our power consumption has been going up just with regular IT and EVs. California, you can't even get an off peak power plan for your house that's as inexpensive as it was 10 years ago. 10 years ago you used to get cheap power in the evening. Sun goes down, you can run the air conditioner at night and it cost you less per hour of electricity or per kilowatt. Not no more. You have all the EVs. How is this going to data centers? Data centers are arriving on the scene when America's terrible energy policies under Obama, Obama and Biden have led to an electricity shortage in America because we don't have enough power plants. And so now the data centers have thrown it over the top. Power has gone up. We covered two weeks ago that the bid for power in the eastern region around Baltimore was up 30x over five years. 30x you're Bam. Yeah exactly and do you have the chart showing, Rob? The chart showing the build out of data centers. So now the citizens are going in and saying hey man, it's multicolored chart. I sent it to today. Rob Guy. Gotcha. So now Maine has said we're outlawing these. There will be no data centers here, number one. Number two, we have Missouri people showing up because they're equating data centers with electric costs. And so they don't. And data centers have been overpaying people for their land. Remember the woman we covered a week and a half ago, Pat? She said I'm not selling my farm for 20x. And people around her and her neighbors were like, hey, we're really, really appreciate that you did this. There it is. So now take a look at this, Pat. Look at data center pipeline. Here's the announced data centers and the blue at the top is the ones that are actually under construction. They are being blocked by citizens. So guess what? Electrical power is going to keep going up for the data centers that are built. And the fact that America already has an electricity shortage because of EVs and other usage. And you have Oracle and Google actually got permission to build small micro nukes to supply their own data center. And the president, something that I've been outspoken about, he got the ratepayer pledge And I'm like, Mr. President, that was a nice pledge to get in Q1 of this year just a couple months ago. But you need to turn that into rate payer legislation so that you protect the consumer. But that's what's going on. Citizens are now showing up, Pat, and they are equating the next data center with the next utility hike. And they're not having it. And those are not crazies. Those are citizens sitting in a gymnasium coming unglued in Missouri with their city council who wants to vote for it. Because you know what it means, property tax money for the city. And they think it means, you know, 40 to between 40 to 100 construction jobs for about a year and a half and then usually only about 10 to 15 data center workers. But they want the property tax money. But the people are freaking out about electricity.

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[Adam]

Yeah, well, I'm not going to be the data center guy, but I will say what's important for the viewer out there. Understand that local politics is the most important politics you should have in your life. We're so focused with what Trump is doing, what Trump is tweeting, or if you don't live in New York, what did mom Donnie say? I don't care about California. Gavin Newsom, you know, my boy, swallow all this. But here's the question to you. Do you know your local mayor in your town? Do you know the name? I guarantee you know Mamdani's name cuz he's all over the news. I know, I know. I didn't pay attention to local politics. I'm just, just starting to really pay attention. I'm here in Miami. Shout out to Mayor Francis Suarez. The new mayor of the Eileen Higgins, Democrat came in. Mayor Steven Miner in Miami Beach, Florida. Greatest state in the union by far and away. Shout out to Ron DeSantis. Byron Donald's likely to be the next governor unless Jay Collins has something to do with it. I think Fishback is taking his fish back. I don't think that's happening. But the most important thing for you is understand your local politics because that affects you way more than anything that Trump does by far. So shout out to these voters in Missouri. Missouri, you know, basically weighing in on what the center is.

[Pat]

A good point.

[Adam]

And that's what you should do at home.

[Pat]

Good point. So good point. So what I'll do is to wrap up the story with a couple interesting ones. Rob, can you do me a favor? Go to the site instead of this because the site allows you to just type in top 55 greatest soccer players of all time. I showed this to Sean and Dylan the other day. Honestly, I thought, I thought they were going to lose. I thought they were going to call Sports Illustrated complaining. Sports Illustrated announces the top 55 greatest soccer players of all time. Okay, go a little bit low, Rob. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. It's going to take a long time if you go that speed. So so we got a couple names. You know, top number 55. Noor. Go. Go to number 35, because a lot of these guys are going to keep going. They put Neymar at 51, by the way. Go to 35. Yeah, go to 35. He was not happy about that. Javi. Okay, keep going, keep going, keep going. Suarez, 34 greatest. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Carl Hines. Okay. Andres iniesta. Fine. At 32. Revellia. Revelino. Old school, Brazil. I believe he's a Brazil guy. Is he a Brazil guy? I think he was a Brazil guy. Keep going, keep going. Bobby Moore. Socrates. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Old school, 1950s player. And then all of a sudden, you're Ronaldinho, 26th. Okay, fair. Ronaldinho, 26. Keep going, Vinny. Keep going, keep going. Rude. Keep going. Bobby Charlton. They know these names because of Giuseppe Maisa From Video Games. 1934. 38. Back in the days, Tom was following this stuff. Raymond Copa. Keep going.

[Tom]

Saw him play.

[Pat]

Yeah, I saw him play. Mario Romario. Phenomenal, by the way. Romario was a temperamental player that would beat people up. One of the most fierce little guy, but he would beat, like, he would fight anybody and everybody. He would slap you in the face.

[Adam]

Kind of reminds me of a guy named. I know, named Mario.

[Pat]

Yeah, keep going. Romario Eusebio. Keep going, keep going. Now watch what happens at number 15. Zico. 17. Keep going.

[Vinny]

16.

[Pat]

Franco Baresi. Look at 15. Cristiano Ronaldo.

[Vinny]

Insane, bro. Those guys are now.

[Pat]

No, they ranked them 15. 15th all time.

[Adam]

Okay, let's see where this lifts.

[Pat]

15th all time.

[Tom]

He's in the 20. He should be happy.

[Pat]

No? You lost like Ferenic Puskas.

[Vinny]

Yeah.

[Pat]

People are gonna keep going. Don't forget about him. He was great. Paulo, Paulo, Paulo. Paulo Maldini from Milan. A.C. milan. J. Mueller. You got to respect him. German guy, okay. He was great. Main Garinka. Okay? And then you have Alfredo. Keep going. Alfredo Di Stefano, everybody. I know that Gu, who never kicked in a World Cup. And that's the one thing that everybody never forgets. Keep going. But it was a beloved Platini. Platini. Keep going. Now watch this. Ronaldo, the OG Ronaldo. The old school Ronaldo. By the way, fun fact, the fat Ronaldo. We had Khabib at the event. I'm interviewing Khabib. I tell the guys, do some research on who his favorite player of all time is. Tom, I don't know if you remember this. So we get him because it says his favorite player of all Time is Ronaldo. We get a Ronaldo sign, signed autograph ball. And at the end of the interview, I said, hey, man, we got you a gift. We saw that your favorite player was Ronaldo. They hand him over the soccer ball. He says, no, not this Ronaldo. I like the old Ronaldo, the fat one. Now keep going, keep going. 6.

[Adam]

Oh, that's your boy right there. Zidane. No, you're like the other guy.

[Tom]

Here's your head.

[Adam]

Comments made like the other guy.

[Pat]

Johan. Keep going, keep going. Now the top three. Top three who? The top three.

[Adam]

Messi's in the top three.

[Pat]

Okay, Pele is number one. Who else is top three?

[Adam]

Number one? Us.

[Pat]

You got Maradona, you got Pele, and you have Messi. Rank it the hand of God. How do you think this goes? Okay, so Pella's one. Who's two in your eyes?

[Adam]

Messi's two.

[Pat]

Okay, Messi's turn. Maradona's three.

[Adam]

That's what I'm going.

[Pat]

Okay, so you got. But I know the NBA path. How do you do it?

[Tom]

I can't vote because I know about it.

[Pat]

Oh, you know about it. Okay, Canadian. All right, so go to it. No, I look at number three. Number three is Pele. Get. Go get Sports Illustrator. Put Pele as number.

[Adam]

Wow. They're going to put Messi number one.

[Pat]

Three World Cups, they're going to beat Messi two and 70.

[Vinny]

No, Messi can't be number one.

[Pat]

And then number.

[Vinny]

It's about winning.

[Pat]

Number two is Maradona.

[Vinny]

Wow.

[Pat]

Yeah. You know who they put number one?

[Adam]

Obviously Messi.

[Pat]

They put Messi as the greatest player of all time.

[Adam]

What's their justification?

[Pat]

I mean, Sports Illustrated, they can justify whatever they want to justify, but they're saying this guy was a balloon D' or winner. 0, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 23. FIFA World Cup Player of the year. Barcelona. All time top scorer. La Liga, all time goal scorer. Six time Pichichi winner, Argentina. I'm going to get so many manects with hate today. But I will tell you this to the Ronaldo community, because we have a few in our household to put him number 15. I think it's crazy. They should at least put him 14. I think it's.

[Vinny]

Dylan's gonna be so mad when he hears that.

[Pat]

No, no, no, no. Of course, what he's done.

[Adam]

Can we end the debate then?

[Pat]

Which is what?

[Adam]

Messi is better than Ronaldo.

[Pat]

Listen, this World cup, straight up. If Messi wants to finish the argument. Yes, if he wins one more finish the argument.

[Tom]

You know what?

[Pat]

I understand what you're saying.

[Adam]

Did Cristiano Ronaldo ever win a World Cup?

[Pat]

Never. Never.

[Adam]

Okay. Messi's the guy.

[Pat]

All right? Anyways, we're doing this story because the World Cup's around the corner. And guys, by the way, just so you know, there's going to be special, I'm telling you guys in advance, we're going to do special future looks, bright hats by countries. Okay. And we're doing small amount, not a lot of them. So some of the countries you guys were going to get a chance to get yours. And America's hat looks ridiculous is what it looks like. Absolutely ridiculous. But having said that, Monday morning podcast. Great to spend time with you guys if you're watching. If you haven't yet subscribed, 51% of you guys watch without subscribing, please do so. It helps out with our algorithms. Rob, any announcements for tomorrow or Thursday? Maybe. Maybe tomorrow at 9am Maybe tomorrow now. But we got to talk about it, so stay tuned. Maybe we do something tomorrow, 9am if not business podcast on Wednesday. Take care, everybody. God bless. Bye bye. Bye, bye, bye, bye. It. Hablas espanol spries to dzoich.

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