Maduro CAPTURED! Venezuela, China & Iran Respond + Walz Drops Out & Khamenei's Escape Plan | PBD Podcast | Ep. 712

Summary

PBD Podcast Ep. 712 – Maduro CAPTURED! Venezuela, China & Iran Respond + Walz Drops Out & Khamenei's Escape Plan

Date: January 5, 2026
Host: Patrick Bet-David (Pat), with Adam, Rob, and Vinny

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Main Theme

This episode delivers an action-packed rundown of major international and U.S. political stories, focusing on the stunning U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The hosts dissect the mission’s details, global reactions—including responses from China and Iran—the implications for socialist regimes, ripple effects inside the U.S. (such as protests and political developments), and changing tides in higher education and media. They also touch on domestic fraud scandals, subway fare hikes, and the state of legacy news.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Maduro’s Daring Capture: The Operation Unpacked

Operation Highlights and Timeline

• General Dan Kane’s Overview:
  • At 10:46 p.m. ET, the President authorized the military operation to capture Maduro in Caracas.
  • Over 150 aircraft launched from 20 locations, employing bombers, fighters, intelligence and reconnaissance planes, and helicopters.
  • Delta Force and law enforcement executed the ground operation, flying into Venezuela at low altitude, disabling air defenses via space, cyber, and electronic warfare.
  • Result: Helicopters penetrated Maduro’s military base, with one hit but able to travel; Maduro and his wife were seized after he failed to escape to a safe room. Operation concluded by 4:20 a.m. local time, with extraction to the USS Iwo Jima, then to New York for narco-terrorism charges.
  • (See: [07:38–09:40])

Host Reactions and Analysis

• Pat: "What a freaking amazing way of going out there and doing it. By the way, Trump hints support for fringe theory that Venezuela rigged the 2020 election." [03:52]
• Tom: “The technology… the more you sat back, the more overwhelming it was. They call it closing their eyes. That’s radar and everything. The technology underneath there, it’s multi-layered… They got in, got their target, got out. And the preservation of life, even citizens—unlike how Maduro treats his own.” [12:12]
• Rob: “Nobody cares about the left’s complaints. The signal is the people of Venezuela. The noise is all the paid, inorganic protesting.” [18:54]

Notable Moments

• Hosts point out celebrations by Venezuelans in Miami and globally (juxtaposed with protestors in the U.S. defending Maduro, often lacking facts).
  • “Imagine how far your head has got to be up your ass to be cheering against the Venezuelan people for Maduro.” —Vinny [21:35]
• Discussion of lopsided media coverage and faulty logic from protestors.
  • Interview clip:
    • Protestor: “I have yet to see one Venezuelan… upset. It’s all leftist white liberal women and people getting paid to do it… All horse crap.” —Rob [18:54]

2. Global Fallout: China, Iran, and the "Multipolar World" Power Play

International Responses

• China: Slammed U.S. “hegemonic acts,” called for UN intervention.
• Iran: Accused U.S. of aggression, Khamenei called for resistance; reports surfaced he may flee to Russia as unrest grows.
• Mexico: President Sheinbaum calls on the UN, expressing fear for her security and nation’s stability.
• Russia, Cuba, Iran: All condemned the operation, signaling deepening divides.

Strategic Analysis

• Vinny: “China is our biggest threat. They’re not just adversaries, they’re enemies. And they’re funding these protests from New York to Venezuela.” [20:27]
• “China, Russia, Iran—they’re there for the oil, the gold, the leverage. Monroe Doctrine matters as much as ever. They’re not coming for sightseeing — they’re coming to challenge U.S. dominance in its own hemisphere.” [33:14+]
• Pat (on the Monroe Doctrine): “China wants to run the world. Do you want us running the world, or China? Look at who’s defending Maduro.” [34:09]

Notable Contrast

• Comparison of U.S. interventions:
  • The hosts contrast the swift, precise operation with prolonged, costly wars under previous presidents, noting:
    • “Eight years, 500,000 troops, $2 trillion in Iraq… three hours, a few helicopters in Venezuela.” [32:34, 36:35]

3. Protests, Media Spin & Hypocrisy at Home

Venezuelan and Iranian Voices

• Masses in Miami erupt in celebration; protestors in the U.S. struggle to articulate their points (hilarious, awkward street interviews at [16:47] and [18:03]).
• Iran: Protests grow; powerful “Tank man” style visual moments; Khamenei lashes out—“We will bring the enemy to its knees”—to which Pat retorts: “You are the enemy of your people.” [42:27]
• Emotional clip of a young Iranian explaining to his mother why he must join the protests:
  • “Why shouldn't I go, brother?... If my child asked, ‘what did you do?’ I won’t say I couldn’t do anything.” [48:43–49:25]

Leadership Vacuum & Future of Iran

• Discussion of exiled opposition, with Reza Pahlavi highlighted as reluctant and absent despite being romanticized:
  • “He just said, he does not want to go back… Iran’s biggest opportunity—don’t screw it up.” —Pat [58:14+]
• No clear leader emerges—many suitable candidates are silenced, imprisoned in Iran.

4. Domestic Scandals and Political Upheaval

Minnesota Fraud & Nick Shirley

• Tim Waltz (MN Governor/Vice Presidential contender) targeted by young whistleblower Nick Shirley for massive daycare and welfare fraud involving the Somali community and alleged campaign finance ties.
• Waltz drops out of the Governor’s race amid federal scrutiny and media pressure:
  • “The machine around Tim Waltz fired him; he’s a liability they can’t keep.” —Adam [70:51]
• Host message: “A 23-year-old just exposed their entire state.” [72:16]
• Message to the young: “Look at this guy, 23, making a massive difference. You can too.” —Vinny [80:15]

NYC Fares Rise & “Collectivist” Property Push

• Subway/bus fare rises to $3; city officials sell utopian promises, deliver hikes:
  • “How many times did we warn you? This is exactly how a con artist works. They sell the fantasy; now, everyone pays.” —Vinny [126:40]
• State advisor on property: “Especially white families… will have a different relationship to property now.” [128:13]
• Host response: “They’re seizing the means of production… How many times do we need to hear this?” —Vinny [129:49]

5. Media, Universities, and Culture Wars

Harvard Professor’s Resignation

• Dr. James Hankins resigns, citing a DEI culture that bars white males from consideration, calls it “open, anti-white, anti-male environment.” [91:52]
• Adam: “Getting away from merit is where it all goes wrong.” [93:16]
• Vinny: “Can we stop with the debate about capitalism and communism already? Why are people fleeing Venezuela, Cuba, Iran? It’s not working.” [97:22]

Legacy Media Declared Dead

• Megyn Kelly calls CBS “irrelevant”; Barry Weiss attempts revival.
• Hosts agree: “Nobody believes these networks anymore. It’s like putting a new captain on the Titanic.” [106:10]
• Rise of independent journalism; Nick Shirley—“He doesn’t need you, CBS, Fox, or CNN.” [111:35]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:52] Pat: “What a freaking amazing way of going out there and doing it.”
• [12:12] Tom: “The technology… they call it closing their eyes. That’s radar and everything. The more you dig, the more amazing it is.”
• [21:35] Vinny (On U.S. protestors): “Imagine how far your head’s gotta be up your ass to be cheering against the Venezuelan people for Maduro.”
• [42:27] Pat (Responding to Khamenei): “You are the enemy of your people.”
• [48:43–49:25] (Young Iranian protester): “What am I going to tell my children? That I stayed at home? … If you don’t want to come, just don’t forget me.”
• [70:51] Adam (on Waltz): “The machine around Tim Waltz fired him; he’s a liability they can’t keep.”
• [80:15] Vinny: “Look at this guy, 23, making a massive difference. You can too.”
• [97:22] Vinny: “Can we stop with the debate about capitalism and communism? Why are people fleeing Venezuela, Cuba, Iran? It’s not working.”
• [106:10] Rob: “It’s like the Titanic and you put a new captain on—‘I can do it.’ No, you can’t.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Maduro Operation Recap: [07:38–09:40], [11:27–14:36]
• Trump/Trump Administration Reaction and Political Angle: [14:53–16:33]
• Protests/Street Interviews: [16:47], [18:03]
• China, Global Reactions & Monroe Doctrine: [32:34–36:35]
• Iran Unrest & Khamenei Fleeing: [41:11–45:01], emotional protestor clip [48:43–49:25]
• Minnesota Fraud, Tim Waltz Fallout: [69:40–80:15]
• Harvard/DEI Culture Shift: [91:52–99:56]
• CBS/Media Future: [102:04–111:35]
• NY Transit Fare Hikes, Collectivism: [125:01–131:11]

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Additional Highlights

• Gold/Jewelry Viral Story: A viral exposé in NYC’s Diamond District leads to physical assault and criminal charges, reflecting the importance of transparency, reputation, and authenticity in business. [114:55–124:39]
• Mar-a-Lago Dinner: Elon Musk and Trump share dinner; hosts see this as a sign of renewed unity among big-name influencers and major political forces heading into 2026. [80:39–84:04]
• Rubio vs. Vance 2028: Spontaneous audience poll; both candidates praised for emerging leadership potential, with Rubio taking a slight lead. [86:55–90:10]

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Conclusion

The episode encapsulates a dramatic pivot in both U.S. global standing and domestic politics, highlighted by the surgical removal of an entrenched dictator, turbulent international ramifications, and grassroots-driven political change stateside. Meanwhile, the survival of traditional institutions—from Ivy League academia to legacy media—is openly questioned, as individual initiative and adaptability (embodied in figures like Nick Shirley and entrepreneurial disruptors) become the new American standard.

Hosts’ Tone:
Conversational yet passionate, humorous, occasionally irreverent, but focused on big-picture stakes—with a clear slant toward skepticism of the “woke” left, deep state bureaucracies, and “legacy” institutions. Celebration of American assertiveness and innovation, both at home and abroad, underpins the episode.

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For listeners seeking a firsthand, behind-the-headlines view—from the world stage to the streets of NYC and Minnesota’s corridors of power—this episode brings the energy and insight that defines the PBD Podcast.

Transcript

[Adam]

Did you ever think you were made.

[Pat]

For me, Adam? What's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here. You are a1of1.

[Adam]

My son's right about.

[Rob]

I don't think I ever said this.

[Pat]

All right, folks, hope you had a good weekend. Obviously top of the line story, Maduro, how they got in, how they took him. And I saw one of the best memes yesterday. The meme said it's showing a picture of Dick Cheney. It says Iraq has oil. I need eight years, 500,000 troops and $2 trillion to go get it. And on the bottom is a picture of Trump. Tom, please turn that off tomorrow.

[Vinny]

Here's the smarter way to start.

[Pat]

Okay? And then on the bottom is Trump and it says Venezuela has oil. All I need is three hours and a few helicopters to go get them. Can you imagine like all this criticism and they did it in three hours. And the wind, the way they went and got him was a incredible thing. And Khamenei in Iran is apparently playing hide and go seek. He's running around, he may be going to Russia. They're trying to find out where he's at. Tim Waltz is doing a press conference today and Tim Waltz maybe possibly saying that he is not running again for governor and he's now blaming Nick Shirley. He's going after 23 year old after he exposed all the stuff that was going on out there. Anyways, there's a lot of stories to cover here. Tim Waltz is not a fan of Nick Shirley. And guess what? We love what Nick Shirley is doing to go out there and lear about what's going on in Minnesota. I think we are leering a lot and hopefully Tim Waltz is as well. Couple other things. Trump suggests that US use cyber attacks to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes. Shout out to the Delta Force by the way of what they did. And if you're in New York, listen, whatever you do, folks, I don't know what else to tell you. If you're in New York and you're trying to buy gold or sell gold or don't use track's name while you're messing with them, the guy, he tends to expose you. And you know, there's. If you haven't seen this video yet, it may be the most viral video on Instagram this weekend. I have to show it to you on what happened, the sequencing of it. Very interesting story of the gold issues that happened there. General Dan Kane describes Thailand of Maduro's capture. We'll talk about that. China slams US hegemonic acts after strikes on Venezuela. China's not happy about it. World leaders largely express concern. Some praise about US Capture of Maduro. Venezuelans in South Florida celebrating Maduro's capture. Iran denounces US Active aggression against Venezuela. Demands UN intervention for peace and security. And apparently president of Mexico. Sheinbaum also made a call to UN to say, hey, can you get involved? Because she's worried something may happen to her. Joe Biden mocked for very unfortunate ex post that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. If you haven't seen Pete Buttigieg, nice guy, sweet guy, sweetheart of a guy. Rough weekend. Truly a rough. I'm not talking his personal life. Rough weekend with what happened on X to him. Not a good situation. You guys got to see this. It's pretty bad. We're supporting his recovery from this weekend on X but Harvard professor calls out university exclusion of white males and scathing public resignation. Tom has some commentary on that. It's incredible. Minnesota government whistleblowers claimed they were electronically surveilled, had promotions denied. Canadian snowbirds flocking to sell their Florida homes amid Trump feudal face huge losses at market tanks. Iran's Khamenei lashes out at protesters as nationwide anti regime unrest grows. He came out and tweeted something saying we're going to bring the enemy to its knees. I said you are the enemy. Forget about bringing the enemy to its knees. And by the way, apparently he is running off hiding somewhere in Russia. Allegedly. Let me put that word allegedly in there. And then no future for us. This affected Iranian states. Now or never to topple the regime. Powerful image of Iran. Lone Iranian protester in front of security forces draws parallels to Tiananmen Square Tank man, which we'll show you here in a minute. Reports say 41% of Netflix shows on of four children contain LGBTQ content in 2025. Megyn Kelly. She's not done with Barry Wise Declare CBS News legacy media dead. As Barry Wise feud escalates. Former CBS reporter Katherine Harris reveals how executives delayed her reporting on Hunter Biden laptop. We may talk about that and then just it's gonna be a lot of stuff with Maduro. It's not a pretty side on what happened down there, but the way they did it, what a freaking amazing way of going out there and doing it. By the way, Trump hints support for fringe theory that Venezuela rigged the 2020 election. Obviously there's some talks there as well that people are not happy about. And then subway bus fees in and bus fares rises to $3 in New York City on Sunday. And they're like, wait a minute, I thought you were going to make everything free. And then Mamdani Vinny's telling me this, says, I told you I'm going to make buses free but not subways. So you had to raise the fee by what, 10 cents? You said some number like that.

[Rob]

Even Maduro was complaining. Because when he was complaining, Maduro was like, why am I going to do this?

[Adam]

They made him pick up the tab.

[Pat]

Yep, that makes sense. California band decline how you can manage your cat's claws. Now is that really a story?

[Rob]

Yes.

[Pat]

Stop it.

[Rob]

I'm dead serious.

[Pat]

They passed the law of decline law.

[Rob]

If you cut their nails, it's illegal in California because cats are claw declaw.

[Pat]

Like remove the nail, clip them. Clip them or remove them. Not clip them, remove it.

[Vinny]

Let the cat.

[Rob]

Let the cat guy.

[Pat]

All right, well, we'll talk about that.

[Vinny]

Removing the nail, cutting the nail.

[Pat]

All right, so before we go into all the Maduro stories, one thing I will tell you is I've been getting a lot of my next about people talking about what they want to do with their culture in 2026. Going into 2026. And for us it's very clear. If you want to find out how specific our culture is at valuetainment, we went from having nine employees just a couple of years ago to now have a nearly 160, 170employees full time employees here on our campus here. Our culture deck is public available. You can go purchase it to read through and it tells you exactly how we do everything, how we do our calibration, what we stand for, what we do, what it takes to get promoted here. If you've never had one of these, you can go pick one of these up. Last time we did this, it sold out literally in minutes. When it was gone, it's $19.99. Go get it. Read it for yourself. We even went to a company the other day in Arkansas. We were looking at them. Their entire code of honor was pretty much every single thing that we said except for one of them. And it had it in their front lobby. You can obviously go out there and change it up and do it for whatever you want to do with your company. But this could be a way for you to get some ideas for your business going into 2026. So go to vtmerch.com rob we can put the link below as well for people to order Culture deck available for anybody to purchase. We'll ship it to you all over the world. Okay, having said that, let's get right into it. Rob, let's start off with Maduro from Venezuela. So General Dan Kane describes timeline of Maduro's capture. Rob, if you have that clip, let's start off with the capture and how it was done of Maduro. Go for it, Rob.

[Adam]

At 10:46pm Eastern time last night, the President ordered the United States military to move forward with this mission. He said to us, and we appreciate it, Mr. President, good luck and Godspeed. And those words were transmitted to the entire joint force. Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea across the Western hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, rotary wing were in the air last night. Thousands and thousands of hours of experience were airborne. Our youngest crew member was 20 and our oldest crew member was 49.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Adam]

And there's simply no match for American military might. As the night began, the helicopters took off with the extraction force which included law enforcement officers and began their flight into Venezuela at 100ft above the water. As they approached Venezuelan shores, the United States began layering different effects provided by Spacecom, Cybercom and other members of the interagency to create a pathway overhead. Those forces were protected from aircraft, were protected by aircraft from the United States Marines, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard. The force included F22s, F35s, F18s, EA18s, E2s, B1 bombers and other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones. As the force began to approach Caracas, the joint air component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela, employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area. The goal of our air component is was and always will be to protect the helicopters and the ground force and get them to the target.

[Pat]

And in other words, guys, over 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, reconnaissance launched precision strikes on Venezuelan air defenses military sites to throw them off by the way. And then 201 helicopters the Delta Force reached Maduro's fortified compound, forced face fire. One helicopter hit but flyable responded with overwhelming forces. Maduro and wife Celia floor seized. Maduro reportedly tried fleeing to a safe room but failed. No US facility fatalities, minor injuries reported. Extraction completed 4:20 local time. Maduro couple flown out abroad. Helicopter to USS IO. Jima then to New York for change for charges narco terrorism. And by the way, if you can show the picture of him getting what he looked like with the his Eyes. They had to shut his eyes so he couldn't see where he was going. Look at that right there. Like drinking water, having his workout suit. Middle. Can you imagine middle of the night. And by the way, there's a bunch of different reports again, shout out majorly to Delta Force when you see the amazing work they do and how low key it was going in, in backdoor. By the way, do you know they've been working on this project since August. They've been working on this since August, rehearsing everything.

[Rob]

Right?

[Pat]

Since August they've been gathering intel to know exactly how to do this and it was officially done. Tom, I'll come to you first. What was your reaction when you saw this? The markets react in a very different way. Some people are saying, I cannot believe you're doing this to Venezuela. We are being involved. We shouldn't be doing this. You know Rachel Maddow. Yeah. What are we doing? Why are we not running in Trump himself? By the way, if you got the clip of Trump, is this the one where he says come for me, you coward. Rob, is this the one? Go to play this clip.

[Rob]

So he's instigating my favorite.

[Pat]

Go ahead, Rob.

[Vinny]

I just got three things to say. God bless our troops.

[Rob]

God bless America.

[Pat]

And gentlemen, start your love it. Don't you just love it? Don't you just love it?

[Rob]

If we're going to be honest. If we're going to be honest, he Tom, I'll give it to you. He requested the president to come get him. If he didn't do it, the left would complain at him. They'd be like, well, how dare you ignore a minority. You asked for it, come get it, you got it.

[Pat]

Period, Tom, go for it.

[Adam]

Well, the first thing that you know me, I break down everybody's words very, very carefully. And so I was listening to the general there and he said we began layering in effects and we began disabling and dismantling the the any aircraft systems. Supposedly Venezuela and I dove into this a little bit, but supposedly Venezuela has the China anti stealth technology. Well, apparently it didn't work. Apparently it didn't work. The layering effects they're talking about were electronic countermeasures and potentially cyber to create, as I said, the corridor for rotary wing. When you hear them say rotary wing, that's helicopters. And then disabling is cyber or other electronic means. Dismantling is noise where you saw the bombs and everything that were hitting any aircraft targets and hitting also their radar installations. And so this was the layered effects was Just tremendous. The more I read about this and the more you sat back is that the mainstream media has got a defense analyst out there. I know CNBC has one, but they didn't talk about it. I am reading secondary tertiary sources like Jane's on armament and everything to say just how amazing it was to go in there, shut everything down. They call it closing their eyes. They say, okay, close their eyes. And that's radar and everything. So that was number one. That kind of was very inspiring to me. The way Delta Force did it so well and the technology that was underneath there that creates this overwhelming multi layer effect where we basically go in and out. And what was really good that was preserved was the, was the people that Maduro doesn't care about. His own citizens. His own citizens could have been in the middle of a firefight, could have been secondary casualties, but they weren't. They got in, they got their target got out. The other thing I found very interesting as I went to the political side is it was not lost on me that the rest of the world is upset because they lost a Marxist country and they lost a Marxist leader that's on the side of the globalists that want the socialist Marxists. They lost one of their guys and that's their funding. There's a Chinese gentleman that's funding protesters in America. Put Maduro back. Put Maduro back. They just took an L. Marxism took an L. They lost one of their guys. Think of it as a monopoly board. They just lost one of their key, key properties.

[Pat]

And there's a couple of clips.

[Adam]

Those are the two things that I was thinking.

[Pat]

So there's a couple of clips of people being asked who are there for protesting. And I have no clue what to say. But before we go there, Rob, let's go on the clips that you have for the President. Let's start off with this one and we'll go to the other one. Robin and Adam Vinay, I'll come to you guys. Go forward. Maduro.

[Adam]

In the dead of night, it was dark.

[Pat]

The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have.

[Adam]

It was dark.

[Vinny]

He just.

[Rob]

Layman's presence, by the way.

[Pat]

Go back. I cannot listen. I have so much respect for people that can hold it together and not laugh. It takes every single one of his abdominal muscles to not laugh. Right there. Marco Rubio, look at his face. Go back five seconds. Rob, go back. We have these lights we can turn off. Look at Rubio's face. You know, he's looking at friends and he's getting ready to crack a first play. Rob, he looked at somebody that he wants to laugh. He's holding it together, Expertise that we have.

[Adam]

It was dark.

[Pat]

Okay, so listen, we got to give props to your props. Okay, so here's him on the phone. Go ahead, Rob.

[Rob]

Incredible job. These men and women that went out.

[Pat]

There last night, the courage they had.

[Rob]

Going into an area where, you know, all the lights were turned, and we turned off almost all of the lights in Caracas. I mean, this thing was so organized.

[Pat]

And they go into a dark space.

[Rob]

With machine guns facing them all over the place. And then you hear from a guy that I'd never even heard of him, but you hear from some congressman saying, oh, this is so terrible. We're saving lives. And by the way, the boats, every boat, because that's sort of related to this. Every boat that we hit saves 25,000 lives.

[Pat]

I love it. I love how it's being broken down into what they're talking about. Every boat we hit saves 25,000 lives. And by the way, here's some of the protesters. Okay, so check this out. Let's show some of the protesters on how they're reacting to this. Go ahead, Rob.

[Adam]

I love this one.

[Rob]

What brings you out here today?

[Adam]

I'm organized with the revolutionary communists of America. We're out here to say hands off Venezuela, and we unequivocally stand with the people of Venezuela against US Imperialist aggression.

[Rob]

What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets?

[Adam]

What.

[Rob]

What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets today?

[Adam]

I saw images of Venezuelans being bombed after the U.S. you know, bombed Caracas. So I'm not sure what you're talking about, but, yeah, I think you should show me the.

[Vinny]

The bombings that you're talking about.

[Adam]

I didn't see any. I just saw it on Reddit.

[Rob]

It was on the front page of. But what do you think about the people celebrating the hundreds of thousands of.

[Adam]

People that are in the street streets? I. I have. I have yet to see it.

[Pat]

Can you show me that?

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Rob]

U. S. Imperialism celebrating on the streets.

[Adam]

What do you think about that? I mean, I. At the end of the day, I stand with the people of Venezuela against U. S. Imperialism. The US has no right to bomb the people of Venezuela. The US has no right to kidnap.

[Pat]

Another one, rob the other kid. There's another one. That's very funny. The other one I sent you is one. Well, on. Not that one. There's one. That's the one right there. Go Ahead, watch this one.

[Rob]

What do you know about Nicholas Maduro? I don't know much, bro. I don't know, fool. But here with Central cso and we.

[Adam]

Fight against all this with like the.

[Rob]

The, with tr, The Trump administration, um, ice, um, police brutality. So we're just here in support of all that.

[Adam]

Just make a list.

[Vinny]

What is, what does Maduro have to.

[Rob]

Do with all that?

[Adam]

I don't, bro, you know, I don't know.

[Rob]

Food, the Dodgers.

[Adam]

I mean, it makes sense, you know.

[Rob]

Nicholas Maduro is responsible for almost 8.

[Adam]

Million people leaving.

[Rob]

Like a quarter of.

[Adam]

The population over the last decade.

[Rob]

I mean he's, he's contributed a lot, right?

[Pat]

Take that hat budget.

[Adam]

But you know, supporting.

[Rob]

You know what I mean?

[Pat]

Yeah, yeah, Go, go.

[Rob]

Nicholas Maduro.

[Pat]

Can we do that?

[Adam]

Let's do it.

[Vinny]

Go.

[Pat]

No, yeah, he realized, he realized by.

[Rob]

What do you know about Nicholas?

[Pat]

Okay, Vinny, thoughts?

[Rob]

Well, last year we talked about signal versus noise and I think the noise of the left is falling on deaf ears. Nobody cares, you know what the signal is. The people of Venezuela. Okay, I have yet to see one Venezuelan Tommy one be like, what are they doing? It's all leftists, white liberal women and people that are getting paid to do it. And by the way, this noise is paid for by the enemy. Ok? The Hands off Venezuela protest that was happening in New York supporting Maduro was organized by the People's forum. That's an NGO that received over $20 million from a billionaire who lives in China. FYI with ties to the CCP. The NGOs primary funding is from Neville Roy Singham. Singham's residence is in Shanghai. His business ties are with the ccp. He attends CCP related events and, and he funds media outlets echoing Chinese state narrative. None of these people know what they're there for. All their signs are bought and paid for. It's the same as the no kings. It's the same as all that paid and inorganic protesting. It's all horse crap. And the most important, I think is with everything that happened China. We talked about this before. Was visiting while this was happening. The day before Maduro met with Xiu Xingqi. I can't even say the name. Representative of the Chinese government on Latin American affairs at the Miraflores palace where he asked Trump to come get him. Maduro said, I had a pleasant meeting with this guy. Special envoy to President Xi Jinping. We reaffirmed our commitment to strategic relationship that is progressing and strengthening in various areas for building multipolar world and development of peace. Okay, let's not play games. China is our biggest threat. They're not an adversary. They are our enemy. Look what they did with COVID Zero accountability. And they're laughing in our faces. Okay? We have to deal with them, I think, head on. Okay? If not, what's to stop them? To do another Covid or a cyber attack and all that stuff. I think the drugs and all that stuff is a cherry on top. But I think this strategic thing with Tom, China, Russia, it's such a great move that I think that he did because now it's ours. Okay? And guess what?

[Vinny]

You.

[Rob]

Yes, we're going to get money from the oil. Good. They're going to make money as well. But why is China and Russia over there? Stay on your own side of the hemisphere. We don't want you. Adam, if you think about it, why are they here? Why are they letting them get close? This is a great move, I think, by President Trump. And if I hear one more person go, we're going to war. He did this. This attack was in one hour. That's an episode of Friends with commercials in our. I love it. I absolutely love it. Now America is back.

[Pat]

We're back, Adam.

[Vinny]

Well, f around and find out. Shout out to the US Military. Shout out to Delta Force. Wow, we are some gangsters out there. So I'm from Miami. I have so many Venezuelan friends. There's such amazing people. So the happiest people in the world today are Venezuelans. Second to that are the Cubans who understand the struggle of Venezuelans. The cheering going on in Miami, all over Miami all weekend was profound. This is the biggest, like, on the street protest parade excitement since 2021 when there was the Liberta Free Cuba movement. 2021. Since then, the biggest parades since Fidel Castro died in 2016. Because the people of Miami who've had to flee socialism and flee communism, understand, juxtapose that with insane white liberals cheering for Maduro. Imagine how far your head has to be up, up your ass to be cheering against Donald Trump, against the Venezuelan people cheering for Maduro. These are the people that shout no kings. These are autocrats that have hijacked countries like Venezuela, like Cuba, like Iran, and the people of their country who want freedom. Libertad. So shout out to Trump. Shout out to Pete Hegseth, shout out to Marco Rubio and major respect, by the way, the Venezuelan people.

[Pat]

You know how bad it is when Anna Navarro, who hates Trump. I mean, there's certain people that you can tell that literally that cannot stand a person, she would be on that list. But look what she had to do. It was so tough for her to do it that even her dog in the background was upset, saying, please don't do it. Okay, watch, watch her here giving praise to the President. Go forward. Today for me is a good day because Maduro is out.

[Adam]

He is a son of a bitch. I hope this sends a message to.

[Pat]

The other sons of bitches in the region. You may disagree with the way Trump did it, but it's done.

[Vinny]

Going to.

[Adam]

End any other way because once he started bombing boats and we have, we've.

[Pat]

We'Ve bombed boats and alleged drug boats.

[Adam]

And killed over 115 people.

[Pat]

I think Trump thought getting rid of.

[Adam]

Maduro was going to be easy and Maduro was going to scare easily. He didn't.

[Pat]

It took him doing this. So, yeah, he did it without congressional authorization.

[Adam]

This was an act of war, all of these things. But it's now done. I think it doesn't escalate from here.

[Pat]

Because.

[Adam]

The objective of this was to get Maduro out.

[Pat]

So anyway, while you're seeing that, I just wanted to show that. But, but you know, what's my favorite clip out of all of them?

[Vinny]

What is it?

[Pat]

Can I tell you what's my favorite clip out of all of them? Because you realize the president said they're running the show right now through the vice president that became the president who was acting all tough on tv, but behind closed doors, she's following order. And Trump said, I think she is. This reporter here that Marco Rubio goes on, she's asking the question, saying, how come you didn't get more people? Why did you only get Maduro? Why did you only do this?

[Vinny]

And just watch.

[Pat]

This is why Rubio to me is slowly becoming the number one draft pick for 20, 28 election for president. I just want you to see this. Go ahead, Rob, please play this clip.

[Rob]

Because you just described the regime as.

[Pat]

Still in place, essentially.

[Rob]

I mean, I'm curious why the Trump administration decided to leave it intact and only arrest Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The person who controls the police, the chief thug, Diaz Dio Cabello. He's the interior minister. He's been indicted by the United States. He was in that indictment the administration released. He's a narco terrorist. There's a $25 million price on his head.

[Pat]

He's still in place.

[Rob]

The defense minister who has deep ties to Russia, $15 million price on his head, he is still in place.

[Adam]

I'm confused.

[Rob]

Are they still wanted by the United States, why do you arrest them if you are taking out the narco terrorist regime?

[Adam]

You're confused.

[Vinny]

I don't know why that's confusing to you.

[Rob]

They're still in power.

[Vinny]

I mean, it's very simple. You're not going to go in and wrap up. You're going to. But, yeah, but you can't go. You're going to go in and suck up five people. They're already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to.

[Adam]

Capture four other people.

[Vinny]

We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country. And he was, along with his wife, was also indicted. And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly, complicated operation.

[Adam]

It was.

[Vinny]

It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country. The guy lived on a military base. Land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in.

[Adam]

A helicopter and leave the country without.

[Vinny]

Losing any American or any American assets. That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time? Unbelievable. I mean, that's absurd.

[Adam]

I do think this is one of.

[Vinny]

The most, you know, daring, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous credit to the US military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable and tremendous success. And today, an indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela, who we don't recognize, the Biden administration didn't recognize, 60 something countries don't recognize, the European Union doesn't recognize and many countries in Latin America don't recognize. He was a convicted, he was a indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested, his wife was arrested.

[Rob]

Right, but the others who are also indicted are still in the system. Of course the others who were also indicted are still in place. So that's the point of my questioning there. But you talked about not being the legitimate president.

[Adam]

So you wanted us to land in.

[Vinny]

Five other military bases.

[Rob]

No, I'm asking why you chose that. This was the limit of the military operation. The limit to your point that you just made that Maduro was not the legitimate president.

[Vinny]

Well, because he was the guy who was claiming to be the president.

[Rob]

Right. Well, I'm curious because is this not.

[Vinny]

Does she think the US military is Superman or Batman or Spider Man? What planet are you living on?

[Pat]

There's no way you can't just Give.

[Vinny]

Praise to the US Military, to Delta Force, saying, wow, what an unbelievable operation. Why didn't you take out every single.

[Rob]

Bad guy in the world?

[Vinny]

Because that's how life works.

[Adam]

She got up in the morning, took a shower, slipped and fell, hit her head and woke up as Lindsey Graham. So it's like, why didn't you get more people? Why didn't you attack more things? This, to me, the irony here is you have a liberal media outlet in the mainstream media actually calling for more military intervention.

[Vinny]

Weird.

[Rob]

Weird.

[Vinny]

No matter which way you put it, this is the best thing. The hypocrisy that is seeping from the left right now. Okay, so we're going to object to anything that Trump does. Okay, so now you're defending Maduro.

[Rob]

Yeah.

[Vinny]

Now you want more escalation. You're but criticizing what he did in Iran. So now you want the Ayatollah. This is the hypocrisy that's happening there. Any Trump can cancel your income taxes. And let's be like, I want to pay taxes.

[Rob]

They're going to complain.

[Vinny]

So stupid.

[Rob]

And what about hypocrisy? Bush And Obama spent $3 trillion. I'm going to say that again. Three trillion on the wars, 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. We lost almost 2500 United States military soldiers fighting the damn Taliban. And the whole time Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. Ok, wrap your head. And congressional approval. How many strikes happened under Biden with no congressional approval? Do you guys know? Ready for this? 165 strikes. 85 in Iraq and Syria. 10 in Syria and Iraq combined. 70 in Yemen.

[Adam]

Don't forget Yemen.

[Rob]

The same. The same with Obama. Obama killed Osama bin Laden. Zero congressional approval.

[Vinny]

And George W. Bush got congressional approval and invaded Iraq.

[Rob]

Obama invited Libya, killed Gaddafi. No approval in 2016. Rob, you have that chart. How many bombs did this guy drop, Mr. Black? Jesus. How many? 26,171 bombs in one year. So when I say I love that you came with the signal versus noise. Nobody's hearing your noise on the left. Nobody cares. Who the hell gives a damn what Harry Sisson thinks about this whole geopolitical stage? Nobody gives a damn. All right, And Pat, just. I have a chart.

[Adam]

And Obama killed a US citizen abroad and knew that he was going to do it.

[Rob]

Yeah. Oh, thousand percent. Pat, did you see the chart about Poland and, and Venezuela? Look at. Go to that chart, Robbie. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

[Adam]

Was this the change in Fortune?

[Rob]

Look at this chart, Pat. Do you see this? Zoom in, Robbie. Venezuela per capita countries, gross domestic product divided by population. Look at that and go back up once they become socialists. Look what happened once Poland said, no, we're not going to do it. Look at what happened. Isn't that weird?

[Pat]

Poland versus Venezuela. Who would have ever thought this?

[Vinny]

Who would have thought?

[Rob]

But I have a different angle. I want to see what you guys think about this. Immediately when the bombing happened, immediately on the third, right after Trump started posting stuff on Truth social about the 2020 election and Dominion. Okay, and one of them was Robbie, I think is one of these. Rob, Pat, look at this. This was a Venezuelan military intelligence whistleblower confirmed the CIA outsourced election rigging technology like smartmatic and Dominion for Venezuela. Ok, so maybe, just maybe, all right, Trump and Maduro, this is just allegedly, maybe, whatever they made a deal. Maduro says, okay, I'll let you guys capture me, come and do the whole thing. In return, I'm going to drop dime on every single one of the voting cheating thing that happened in 2020. Okay? And if you remember, Pat, Lou Dobbs in 2006 had a whole thing. I'm not going to have Rob play it about cheating at him and all that stuff. And then Sidney Powell. Robby, can you play the one on Sidney Powell? She's been talking about this for years. She got in trouble and everything. Listen, what she talks about. Can hardly wait to put forth all the evidence we have collected on Dominion, starting with the fact it was created to produce altered voting results in Venezuela for Hugo Chavez and then shipped internationally to manipulate boats for purchase in other countries, including this one. It was funded by money from Venezuela and Cuba and, and China has a role in it.

[Adam]

Also.

[Rob]

We have staggering statistical evidence, we have staggering testimony from witnesses, including one who was personally in briefings. You never know what's going to come out of it. Trump, every time I think I know what he's doing, there's always something underneath it that he's by the way, and people want to talk about affordability. Is this oil that we're going to get, is that going to help the affordability in the United States? Are we going to get?

[Pat]

Yeah. So you know, you know what I love about. There's another clip about Rubio Western Hemisphere, which I think was brilliant, that both he and Trump said, they said, wait a minute, what are you talking about? So the oil that China and Russia and Iran are coming to take, this is on the West. That's the one right there, Rob, this is on the Western Hemisphere. No, you're not going to Come and take it. This is on this side. Go ahead and play that clip, Rob. This was brilliant. If the purpose of the operation was.

[Rob]

To capture Maduro and bring him to justice, why does the United States need to take over the Venezuelan oil industry?

[Adam]

Well, we don't need to.

[Vinny]

First of all, let me go back up. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we're not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States.

[Rob]

Bingo.

[Adam]

You have to understand why does China need their oil?

[Vinny]

Why does Russia need their oil? Why does Iran need their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live.

[Adam]

And we're not going to allow the.

[Vinny]

Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries. Competitors and rivals of the United States.

[Pat]

Have specific oil companies.

[Vinny]

We also want to see that oil and the proceeds from it.

[Pat]

Hold on.

[Vinny]

We want to see the oil proceeds of that country benefit the people of Venezuela. Why have 8 million people left Venezuela? 8 million. The single line largest mass migration probably in modern history left Venezuela in 2014 because all the wealth of that country was stolen to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime, but not to the benefit of people of Venezuela. You know how destabilizing 8 million migrants is the number one fear that Brazil has, that Colombia has, that all these countries in the region have about what's happening in Venezuela and our involvement is they're afraid of another mass migration event. That's what they fear. This is deeply destabilizing stuff.

[Pat]

It's not going to continue to happen.

[Vinny]

They are not going to come from outside of our hemisphere, destabilize our region in our own backyard and us have.

[Adam]

To pay the price for it.

[Vinny]

Not under President Trump. I got this. I mean, so there's an article here that talks about the China doesn't want us hegemony. Do you understand what hegemony means? Hegemony means you run the world. So what do you think that Russia, Iran and China are doing in in Venezuela? You think they're looking for Orpas and big booty Latinas? No, they're interested in the oil that comes from Venezuela, which has the largest reserve oil in the world. So we need to start acting like grown ups here. China wants to take over the world. Do you want to live in a world that China runs the world or in a world that United States run the world? That's what this all comes down to. Do you want us running the world or China running the world? Look at who's praising the, the actions with Maduro. Look who's looking out for the people of Maduro. Iran made a statement. Russia made a statement. China made a statement. Cuba made a statement. These are all enemies of the United States.

[Pat]

Yeah, but, but there's, there's, there's another thing that's, that's brewing here behind closed doors, which is very weird. You're making the Monroe Doctrine, which they talked about.

[Vinny]

If I could just say this Monroe Doctrine is this. James Monroe said, basically US runs the Western hemisphere now. He said that before we had nuclear weapons. I'm not old enough to remember this. Tom, you might know this. There was something called the Cuban missile crisis in 1960, so whatever. Okay, so when JFK was president, so why were we so against Cuba having missiles? Because they're 90 miles off the coast of Miami. Why do we want these foreign adversaries, enemies you may call them, having access to, to a country on our hemisphere where they can set up camp and attack the United States. To me, this is sending a message. We're not playing around. This is grown up stuff. You might not like Trump interfering. He gets in, he gets out. He takes out Maduro, he removes the nuclear capabilities of Iran. He gets in and out. Soleimani in and out. He's not starting foreign wars. The whole argument that Trump starting foreign wars. What foreign war? You're making them up. He's in, he's out, he's precision.

[Pat]

Yeah, but this is again, yes, I saw the whole thing with Iran, with China, with, you know, who's responding to, oh my God, what's going on, who's criticizing it? Right. This one is mainly to the far right, the woke right community that they said, you know, I didn't vote for this, I didn't vote for this. You didn't vote for what? I didn't vote for war. What war? The guy at the top, he voted for war. Dick Cheney. Okay, Iraq has oil. Weapons of mass destruction need eight years, 500,000 troops and $2 trillion. The guy at the bottom is like, no, no, Venezuela has oil, but all we need is three hours and a few helicopters to go do it properly. Remember the criticism when Biden got elected and the way we left Afghanistan, Ridiculous. Now you realize how lack of precision that was directed with the way Biden did it. Imagine if Trump was leaving Afghanistan, what things would have happened. These are things that people have to pay very, very close attention to when they see how he's doing it under his watch, under his regime. Yes. Now, let's talk about the other side. Let's play devil's advocate a little bit. What's the devil's advocate? You know, Rubio said, this has got nothing to do about oil. You know, we have all the oil in the world. Yeah. We're probably producing the most oil in the world. If you pull up the chart, Rob, on X, on how much oil we produce against all the other countries in the world. Yeah, we're definitely producing a lot. But the reserves, Venezuela is number one more than Saudi. So let's not get it twisted. They got all. They got gold, they got. Look at that right there. Look, look at that right there where we were at. Saudi. Look at from 1900, move forward. Look at Saudi. Saudi's been dominating for God knows how long. And then they dropped off from 1970 down to 2010. Saudi. No, Saudi is. Yeah, that's Saudi right there. Yeah. US Was doing the most, and then we dropped off a little bit from 70 to 2010. And the Saudi kept getting going, and then US is all the way to the top. Right. And by the way, even if you look at producing, look at where Venezuela is there, you don't see Venezuela there. Right on that list. So, yes, it's strategic. Yes, it could be, because the gold. Yes, it could be a lot of different things. Now, here's a question. The question becomes, who's next? Because Claudia Sheinbaum calls the UN and says, hey, maybe we need to step in because this is getting a little bit out of control. Okay, Claudia Scheinbaum, Mexican President why is she calling the UN because Trump broke Article 2 of the charter of the United Nations. So she is worried about what could happen now she's speaking on her behalf or the cartel. No one knows. What's Cuba thinking right now? What's Iran thinking right now? What are a lot of countries. What is Colombia thinking right now? The president was asked about Colombia because remember what Colombia said to the president? If something happens, we'll take him out. Remember when the Colombian president will take him out?

[Adam]

Put me in your little orange pajamas.

[Pat]

That's right. No way. He said, we'll take them out. Right. Rob, do you have that clip? When he said, we'll take him out, There's a clip. Petra, just put Petro. Take him out on X. Petro, a couple months ago. And I said, I said, there's no way you can talk like that about another person. Nope, there's no. That's the interview right there. Look, what he says here, fast forward, Rob, if you can't. To the last 30 seconds. Right there. From right there. Spine. Go ahead. Watch this. It is to change Trump in various ways.

[Vinny]

Okay?

[Pat]

Oh, really?

[Rob]

Okay, okay.

[Pat]

All right, so here's the problem. President, go forward.

[Vinny]

Mr. President.

[Adam]

So Colombian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple of weeks ago, you said he's got to watch his ass.

[Rob]

In today, he said he's not concerned.

[Adam]

About anything happening to him in the aftermath of this operation. So just what your message is.

[Vinny]

Cocaine mills. He has factories where he makes cocaine. And, yeah, I think I stick by my first statement.

[Rob]

He's making cocaine. They're sending it into the United States.

[Adam]

So he does have to watch his ass.

[Rob]

I love it.

[Pat]

So. So you're seeing this, by the way. Look at the president's energy. You know what is the best about how he's speaking right now? Zero emotion.

[Rob]

Flow state.

[Pat]

It's not even flow state. It's zero emotion. He used to be used to, like, when he had to win everybody over. He was so animated, so energized. Loud fighting today, nothing. Guess what? Here's what we're doing. He is the coldest I've ever seen him be. He is ice cold as ever before. But the reality of it is, what do you think Petro is doing right now? What do you think the Mexican cartel are thinking about right now in Mexico? What do you think Cuba's thinking about right now? What do you think Iran's thinking about right now? If we want to go into Iran? This next story here, we're all on notice, Pat. They're all on notice. But if you want to go to Iran next. So here's what is taking place in Iran. By the way, the count now of protesters getting killed in Iran, the report says 16, some say 20. Some say a lot more than that, but they are not slowing down. But what's taking place with Iran? Khamenei. Rob, if you want to pull up his tweet. I'm so proud of Rob. Now he knows how to, you know, type out Khamenei like he knows how to Ronomy. There's like this. We're getting so much veteran spelling right now. Look at this. He says we will bring the enemy to its knees.

[Vinny]

I love what you responded, Pat.

[Pat]

We will not give in to the enemy. Rob, if you want to go on Twitter. So he's saying this, right? Acting all tough, and I responded to the guy and I said, let me see what I said to him. I don't know if somewhere in There, Rob. If you can't find it, it's fine. Is it right there? Yeah. You are. He says, we will bring the enemy to the knees. And I said, you are the enemy of your people. Right. What he's got going on to Iran and then reports have it that he is on the run. Reports have it that he is allegedly going to Russia to hide. Ok. He is going to Russia to hide.

[Vinny]

Really?

[Pat]

Yeah. That's alleged reports. If you type in. Is the report in here, Rob, or you don't have it here?

[Vinny]

I don't believe it's in there.

[Pat]

Okay. So why don't you just go out on Google and type Khomeini, Russia, Khamenei. There you go. Ayatollah Khamenei plans to flee to Moscow. This is the Times. If Iran unrest intensifies, the republic supreme leader has plotted an exit route out of Tehran. Should his forces fail to quell dissent. An intelligence report reveals. Go a little bit lower, Rob. Khamenei has a backup plan to flee the country should his forces fail. 86 years old plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 28 and families. Should he see that the army and security called on quell the unrest and deserting. The plan B is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including a son and nominated her apparent mojtaba. An intelligence source. Ben Sapti, who served for decades for Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime after eight years after Islamic revolution, told the Times the Khamenei would flee to Moscow and there's no other place for him. Where else is he going to go? Well, what other place is he going to go? China may not even want the guy. He's got to go to Moscow because Moscow is the place that Russia owes him because he's been. Iran's been selling him so many drones that they're like, I'm your number one customer. Listen, then I'm going to come and stay over there and feel safe about it. So Iran's not looking too good. And the, the, the, the chaos is continuing. I'm trying to see which video I was trying to go to. Tom, I'll come to you on this because you look like you have some thoughts. Go for it.

[Adam]

Excuse me. I actually have a question for you. Based on history, didn't Ayatollah Rola Khomeini, Right. If I said that correctly, I have to identify him. Wasn't he exiled in France before the 78, 79 revolution?

[Pat]

He was.

[Adam]

So we've kind of seen this playbook before, right? They escape and go someplace and then they wait until maybe it's safe to come back. It's like we've seen this history before, but it doesn't look like this time the Iranian people are having it.

[Pat]

The only difference is the first time Khomeini went to France, he was in his 50s, if not 60s. This guy's 86 years old. His time is up. So it's not really him that we're worried about. It's his son that could be the replacement. That's right. Yeah. So the whole thing that his son is his son is the one that right now the wealth is probably going to go to and a lot of people right now are fighting to see who gets. It's like the Game of Thrones, okay? It's like the Game of Thrones.

[Rob]

It really is.

[Pat]

Oh, my God. It's like the Game of Thrones scene. Who was about to get the power? Who's going to be. They're all fighting for it, right? Which son is going to begin the power? But. But with Iran. Rob, do you have that clip? The one clip over here that says Iran's Khamenei lashes out at protesters at nationwide anti regime unrest. Gross. Do you have that one clip from page 16? Do you know which one I'm talking about?

[Vinny]

Yep, it's.

[Adam]

Unfortunately, I believe it's in.

[Pat]

Watch this. Can you translate, Rob?

[Rob]

Rob, please.

[Pat]

You can pause it right there. I thought it was the translation for America.

[Rob]

He said he wants to talk.

[Pat]

No, no, no. Half resent him.

[Rob]

Yeah, I have a translated version.

[Adam]

I don't know, but it's AI, so I don't know how good it's gonna go for it.

[Rob]

Okay.

[Adam]

It's a different day, but this day.

[Pat]

Is different from riots.

[Adam]

We need to prune our hair. After we prune it, it is useful.

[Pat]

To be disturbed by Spam.

[Adam]

Put the troublemaker in her place.

[Pat]

Put the troublemaker in his place.

[Adam]

The eruption of the century to the east of Harry for rent May luxury.

[Pat]

Sanjam and Rakesh are the beginning centers. This is a certain amount of money.

[Adam]

Beyond the destruction of the body of the country of posh Tiszir. Let the faithful and healthy and Anglos be free from it resumes and fight from the basket.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Sloane is not acceptable before.

[Pat]

You can't destroy the enemy's work by knowing the enemy's name. Not by any means. From the basket.

[Adam]

Here. Danathmi Fardasis from Kissin from Swadda from Bait. The CD Nemo the most Important thing is that when a person is an enemy, he is a creditor. Do you impose something on the drawer.

[Pat]

On the Muslims, on the government? Yeah, with 20 years old. 86. He's 86 years old. He's 86 years old. But it's again, it's not him that you're worried about, it's his son that you're worried about. And right now with everything that's going on over there, there's stories about. Here's a story from the Guardian. No future for us. This affected Iranian states. Now or never. To topple the regime. A sudden nosedive in the value of Iran's currency was the final blow to the population growing tired of being patient under an a link economy. Protesters soon began in Iran and spread, kicking off the countries biggest protest in years. At least now it's 20 people killed. Despite my mother's fears, I joined in. Do you have. Oh my God. You have to see this video. Rob, do you have this video of the son crying, pleading, oh, you have. Folks, I'm going to send this to you, Rob, if you have it. This one right here, Let me see. That's the one. Ravini, watch this. You have to watch this. Go for it. Don't go. Why shouldn't I go, brother? Working like a dog from morning to night like a dog can't be done. I have nothing left to do now. Parents are falling apart. I can't do dance. My mother wish for me to get married. I wish they would wrap me in a blanket tomorrow and bury me. Why shouldn't I go? Let me go Sleep with a guilty conscience at night. Let me go. That if my child asked me, what did you do? I won't say I couldn't do anything. I just got the chills off every night. Why should I go? It's way too late. You've endured so much. Had it up to here. I can't join me. You're appreciated. If you don't want to come, just don't forget me. Are you seeing where it's gotten to in Iran?

[Rob]

And when I hear people, When I hear people and you were all going to hear the same noise over and over and over, they have no idea what the hell they're talking about, okay? They're just sitting here talking crap and they don't, they don't understand. By the way, first of all, I am so proud it's coming to a point of that, okay? And when people are like, oh, Israel in America, shut up. Okay? Do you understand what it's like to Be ruled by these people. Okay, like, first of all, you got to cover your face, ladies, or they'll beat your ass in the head and kill you. Remember that girl? I forgot her name. It was just hanging off her head. They beat her ass to death. Ok? If you're a protester, they will find you and they will kill your ass. Ok? Public hangings. Women are worth half of a man in court. So when I hear these liberal women talking about that. You're not even worth half of a man in Iran, ok? Homosexuality, they're throwing your ass off of buildings. Girls can be married as young as nine. And I know liberals. You guys are okay with that because all your transgender and all your. You guys don't give a damn about children. But enough. Nobody gives a damn about your own America. They. They're doing it on their own organically. But they're going to need help. They're going to need help, and I'm telling you right now, good for them. I'm so freaking happy for the people because I think it's not going back from here, from this point on, Adam. It's not. You can't undo it. They're bought. They're the, the citizens now have guns. They're firebombing places that are. Are of the military. There's no turning back now.

[Pat]

They're done.

[Rob]

And I'm proud of them.

[Pat]

Good for them.

[Vinny]

Well, time is up.

[Adam]

And not all the irgc. Irgc, right.

[Pat]

Yes.

[Adam]

IRGC is not all the irgc. They have the equivalent of a National Guard, which is like a police level.

[Pat]

Yes.

[Adam]

And apparently these guys did not show up in the numbers that were dispatched.

[Rob]

Good.

[Adam]

And that did not, because you go back 10 years ago, they would help me with my history here, Pat. They would just fire into the crowd.

[Rob]

They drove over with with trucks.

[Adam]

There would have been. There would have been a couple hundred casualties when you have 10,000 citizens out there protesting. But there is. We're still counting casualties, which are tragic in intense. We're not counting them in hundreds. And what's interesting to me is that when you hear that the military doesn't show up, that is usually, historically speaking, one of the big signs. When the government can't get the military to do it, the citizens that are in the military are usually saying enough to the government they serve.

[Rob]

That's awesome.

[Vinny]

So that video of that young man basically pleading with his mother, I have to go protest. I have to go protest. Number one, salute to him. But the question is, how many more young men feel exactly like that? My Guess is it's millions. Imagine your mother saying, don't go. I don't want you to lose your life. He says, I have to. What am I going to tell my children? That I stayed at home? I have so much respect for the people of Iran. Not just because of my CEO and boss and friend PBD right here. Just because I know a lot of Persians in this country and beyond who want more than anything a free Iran. So if we think that we're seeing amazing protests in Venezuela, if we're seeing that, we're seeing amazing protests when Syria's levitate, Syria's liberated. I can't wait to see the parades that happen in Tehran. Iran, when the Ayatollah falls and the people of Iran can be free. It's coming. It's inevitable. The momentum is there. And I feel like whether it's now, whether it's next year, the time is now. The. You know, MLK famously said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. For 46 years have been living under this impression, oppression. How long has Venezuela been dealing with this? 25 years.

[Pat]

Yep.

[Vinny]

Almost double what's going on in Iran. And you know who the Ayatollah fears the most? His own people. And they're coming for him. He's hiding and he might be fleeing. We're going to see what's happening there. The people are miserable. They're unemployed. The inflation is rampant. The economy is plummeting. They're focusing on nuclear weapons and funding terrorism rather than feeding their people and providing them with drinking water. His time's up.

[Pat]

By the way, if you want to play this clip, Khomeini has advice for you. This is a speech he gave in 1979. Iranian people, advice from Khomeini. Khomeini, one of the top five most powerful figures in the Islamic religion. If. Well, if you play this, they won't understand. And I want to read up top. So, Rob, if you can get out of it and then play it while having that. So in this speech, this is somewhere around October of 79ish, when he's giving the speech to the Iraqi people. But we can turn this message around and play it for the Iranian people. Go ahead, Rob, play the clip. What he's saying here is blow up places that belong to the government, paralyze its economy, don't pay taxes to it, don't pay for water and electricity.

[Vinny]

Don'T.

[Pat]

Give it the other things it wants. Hold demonstrations. I know that everyone has a bleeding heart from this regime Stab it in the back. Go on strike. It cannot stand against the nation. Pause it. Khomeini is giving you that advice. Khomeini is giving you that advice. Ok, so if Khomeini is giving that advice to a regime that's destroying its people, flip it and do it to that, to, to, what do you call it to that government right now in Iran that's doing it to you. The level of bravery and courage that has taken place with these guys, it's absolutely insane. So many people all weekend like, oh, my God, why can't you just get behind Reza Pahlavi? And why can't you just do this? And why can't you just do that? I don't know how many clips you guys have. Your Iranians are starting to finally share and say, what the hell are you talking about? Here's what Reza Pahlavi said to all your Iranians that are so, you know, infatuated and have the, you have this romance like, oh, but no, but you don't understand. Here's what Reza Pahlavi said. Why don't you take his word for it? Rob, I just sent you the clip. It's all over X and I have multiple clips like this to ask him. Do you want to go back to Iran? No. Do you want to take your family back? No. He has said it now and it's all over the place. And you guys are still romanticizing with this. Watch this clip. Go ahead.

[Rob]

Rob, you keep asking one question, whether.

[Adam]

Or not I'm going to take my family back there.

[Rob]

Because in a way you are thinking whether or not you can take your family back there. We would all like to be able to go back home and be able.

[Adam]

To live there if possible. And I see in a realistic sense that we can keep flowing and going back and forth. We don't have to be pinned in one place. We cannot divest.

[Rob]

Because honestly, my life has been for.

[Adam]

The past 40 years here in America.

[Pat]

My children live here, my friends live here.

[Adam]

Everybody that I know is here.

[Pat]

So it's almost unfair to them.

[Rob]

If I was to go back, what do I go back to? But you keep asking one question.

[Pat]

If I go back to Iran, here's a line. What do I go back to? Do you know what's the criticism he's gotten over the weekend, over the week while this is happening? Where are you? People are saying he was on vacation, he's doing what he's doing. Rob, I'm going to send you this clip here. I don't know if you Want to accept it on your phone to. If it's not coming through, I can text it to you as well. He doesn't want the job. And all this, you know, chanting. You guys better find another person. He can play a very important role. I hope he does. But all this chanting you're doing, the Iranian, it's not letting you, Rob, to come through.

[Vinny]

No, sir. Okay.

[Pat]

It's all. I'll try to text it to you to play it. And this is again from your guy that you guys want. Who doesn't want the job, doesn't want the job. I said something last Friday night on the podcast. I said, have you. I'm going to post it on X and direct it at him probably. I'm going to post it right after this and say a message. A question for you, Reza Pahlavi. A message for Reza Pahlavi and see what the audience will say about it. Rob, are you getting the text or. No?

[Vinny]

It just came through.

[Pat]

Okay. So if you look at this video, this is from the other conversation that we had together. Very point blank question. Do you want this job? Do you want to go back and be the CEO? He says no. He says no. And by the way, for the people that are judging, there's three people in that community. Those of you guys that are judging, those of you guys that are celebrating. Rob, it's not come through yet.

[Adam]

No.

[Pat]

Okay. I just send it to you in the video. It should be up there. If you don't have it on your phone. I don't typically I text it to you, Rob. So can you just translate it? Transform it from there to your. To your thing.

[Rob]

So you're saying the three groups.

[Pat]

Yeah, the three groups are following. One group is the one that is romanticizing to go back to the Shah. No, it's not going to happen. He's not his father and he's not his grandfather. That's not going to be coming fast forward. Okay, you can play the clip, Rob, and. But I have no desire to be the CEO moving my entire family to Iran, running Iran, putting the crown, and being the third king that represents to do this with my family, that's not my interest. Am I reading that correctly?

[Adam]

Yes.

[Pat]

Okay. So do you know this the first time I've heard you say this, and this is the first time I've heard you. You have you say this. And for me, what it does as a viewer, he just said he does not want to go back and be the CEO running it. So that whole Shahan Shahi and all this stuff that whole Bandar Pahlavi or that whole Parkish Shahan Shahi that we used to go to as kids and it would snow, was awesome. I would go play soccer there and I would go bike in that one circle that they had. And we would eat balot. We would eat, you know, what do you call it, corn. And on the water and the salt and how delicious that you remember that. How amazing. Or you would eat jigad with the green on top of a lorme kebab. Or you would do the jigad and you would eat it. It was so flipping delicious with the salt on top of it, on the skewers that they would do kebab. It was so amazing. And the dough you would drink in Obeli or Abe Garm wasn't that awesome? I have some of the best memories of my life in Obigatum Ob Ali. We would go to this place. If you went underwater, the water was gas. Vinny, you come. Well, you couldn't breathe. You have to come back. Enough, dad. What do you mean? He said, go underwater. My dad's like, try to go under the water. Like dad, the water's gas. He says, go see what happens. You go under the water, come. I can't breathe. Boom. You come back up. It's. We go to a place called Obegatum. The place smelled like hot water. A.B. again, warm water. You would go and be in the warm water. Those days under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi are not here. We will forever romanticize about those days, about the way he carried himself in interviews and everything that he was doing those days are not here today. But he can play very important role. So one group that is a romantic group, the other group, that's the hating group of him that that also needs to stop. And the third group is the group that is just saying, man, I just want to see Iran be free again. Fantastic. If you're part of the third group, go find a candidate that's willing to do the job. Go find a candidate that's willing to do the job in Iran. That's what you guys need. Iran needs. But by the way, it's. If you think about the sequencing on the way that it's going, here's what's. What's common. What's common is what in us. What do they do to Venezuela? Us. You needed us's help. Okay. What's going to happen with Cuba, by the way? Can you imagine if Cuba is also goes through it and we start going to Cuba on visit, you need us as Help. What do you need for Mexican cartel to be done? Shine bomb is not cleaning house. You need Americans help. What do you think is going to happen with Iran? All of these things. This is Iranians biggest opportunity. Don't screw it up. Look at that young man is pleading for freedom in Iran. I hope he gets his wish and it becomes a reality. But I hope the Iranian people are finally using some logic. Any motion combined, realizing you got to move on of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi coming back to Iran because he does not want to do that. His son does not want to do that, sir.

[Vinny]

So every movement needs a leader, needs a figurehead. I mean here at valuetainment we rally behind you. Marina Karina Machado, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. We'll see what happens with her in Venezuela. You've been very outspoken. You don't think the Shah is that guy? He said it himself.

[Pat]

Not the Shah, the Reza Pah.

[Vinny]

Son. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

[Pat]

The Shah's son.

[Vinny]

Yeah. Who do you think is the figurehead of Iran?

[Pat]

That's, that's the problem. The problem is nobody is vocal enough to know who it is. And of the people that are, you know how many candidates they've, they've imprisoned, you know how many candidates in Iran are in jail right now? You know how many candidates that are potential people that could run the place are in prison, silenced, you know how many? A ton. So they're also hiding it where they can't be as vocal. So there could be a few people on the inside that they know of, Iranians know of that they want. But they don't have the mic like you got the mic in America. They don't have the mic to go around and do things. What are they going to do? Leave Iran and go campaign out of Dubai?

[Vinny]

Of course.

[Pat]

Are they going to leave Iran and go camp? By the way, you know what's the biggest thing that Iranian people are saying? Hey, Reza Pahlavi, why don't you go to Azerbaijan and say a few words from there, come closer to Iran, show some stuff. He's not doing it. The one thing about Trump, let me tell you what was very crystal clear about Trump, about Melaye, about Bukele. You know what it was? They're willing to do the legwork. They're willing to go out there, they're willing to pay the price, they're willing to drive, they're willing to work their tails off. It's very obvious we the market said who is this crazy Elvis looking guy From Argentina. There is no way he'll ever win. Making out with people on stage. Guess what? He won. Who is this Bukele guy that's in his early mid-30s. He thinks he's going to be the leader and clean up El Salvador. Yes. Oh, maybe he's right. He won. Who was this? You know, TV guy, billionaire real estate guy. He's just doing a publicity stunt. No, no, he won and he's cleaning house. Who is Reza Pahlavi? Somebody that can help Iranians, but not the guy.

[Vinny]

That's because he doesn't have the fire in his belly. He doesn't have the will, he doesn't have the voices.

[Pat]

Four kids. You think all my kids. Kids want to go out there and do something big with their lives? You know, if a father wants every one of his kids to want to have the fire to do something big with their lives. Trump's got five kids. Who's the most successful one?

[Vinny]

Eric junior, Vanka.

[Pat]

They're all doing great. Who would you say is?

[Rob]

I think number one.

[Pat]

Okay. Who knows if it's going to be Eric or it's Don or Ivanka.

[Vinny]

Be Baron.

[Pat]

You know, maybe it's Baron, but Tiffany, guess what? What's Tiffany doing?

[Vinny]

She's a wife, she's to herself.

[Pat]

Everybody has to live their own life.

[Vinny]

Course.

[Pat]

Okay. Everybody has to live their own lives.

[Vinny]

Well, how old was he when he had to leave Iran?

[Pat]

Well, he left before the revolution. They got him out before the revolution.

[Vinny]

He fled. He's lived a pretty comfortable life.

[Pat]

He's lived a very comfortable life.

[Vinny]

So maybe he's had the silver spoon effect. He's never had to exactly deal with what most Iranians lived in Iran have had to deal with.

[Rob]

I know there's going to be random and outside of the box and whoever they pick, like, I think bringing Jesus like a Christian into the mix, because hear me out, I'm not. I know it's a Muslim nation, whatever, but every country out there that lost Christ, okay, is in constant state of war, crime, terrorism. I mean, Mamdani is a Muslim and he's in New York. Why can't it happen over there? I think, I think me personally, Tom, a Christian leader there, would be impartial. And I'm telling you from experience, it'd be a whole different game. There wouldn't be any of this throwing people off of buildings. Women wouldn't have to cover their heads every time Christ was taken out. Look at the outcome. Go ahead, look at Syria.

[Vinny]

I don't care what religion this leader turns out to be saying, as long as they can galvanize the people. Look, the Persian empire was never Islamic. It was never Christian. It was Zoroastrian.

[Rob]

Yes.

[Vinny]

If you're familiar with that.

[Rob]

Yes, of course.

[Vinny]

For me, the religion is, is obviously important. It's a major component, but it's, it's, it's. Who can the people get behind? What is this? I'm not Muslim. I am Persian. I hate Islam.

[Pat]

That's what this is.

[Vinny]

Right.

[Pat]

I am not Muslim.

[Rob]

They've been.

[Pat]

I am colonized.

[Rob]

But if they put somebody else in, has that same attitude, it's going to become Syria.

[Vinny]

Well, was Muslim.

[Adam]

What are the people. People are saying make Iran Persian again.

[Pat]

Not necessarily.

[Vinny]

It wasn't Islamic.

[Pat]

No, he wasn't Muslim.

[Vinny]

What was his religion?

[Pat]

He was. Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was. Tom, go ahead now.

[Adam]

So the people are, people have spoken. People spoken in Venezuela. People are speaking right now in Iran. And that, that, that, that video, that young man really touches my heart. It's, it's because what he's saying is, what do I have to live for here? And you look, look at the risk all those people took in Venezuela on the last election. Their guy won in a landslide. And then the people that supported him as political advisors, people were in prison. You look at what Maduro did, and so now Maduro's out and you see the people celebrating. But now what's in the void? What's in the void? The one thing the NBC reporter is right about is there's still some bad guys in Venezuela. And so there needs to be a synergist come to the front to control things and to move it forward in Venezuela. Because Argentina had a stable, a relatively. They had a stable country, a stable government, but a horrible set of economic policies. And they had an unstable economy. But on that stability, Milei was allowed to stand and then say, I'm getting rid of this. I'm getting rid of this. The whole chainsaw, I'm cutting it all down. Well, he only was able to do that because he had the stabilization of the, the country and relative stabilization of the government. The government is just run by a pack of loons that, that, that ran the economy into a tree. And so there, What Iran needs is, let's look at it last two years. Iran's political primary system is really kind of rough. You don't win Iowa. In Iran, you win a sentence in a cell is what happens in the political primary. There needs to be a synergist that comes forward that can bring all of this together because Iran and Venezuela have two things in common. They have a lot of natural resources and oil. And that money can be used to restore the country for the benefit of the people and to make it run. And you have the people there have had enough in Venezuela, the people have had enough in Iran. But both places need a synergist to come to the front to bring it together.

[Vinny]

And the overarching narrative is you have the Islamists and the communists teaming up to do what they're doing.

[Pat]

So let's move forward. Let's go to the next story. So Tim Waltz, Governor Tim Waltz goes after Nick Shirley, calls him a delusional conspiracy theorist. So Tim Waltz, accused citizen journalist Nick Shirley, who has expressed alleged widespread human services fraud in his state of being a delusional conspiracy theorist. Here he is. So Nick Shirley tweets, why was she killed after speaking out against illegal migrants? Was she a threat to you and your fraudster scheme? Rest in peace, Melissa Hortman. Right. Tim Waltz retweets, my opponents have been celebrating this far right youtuber as a groundbreaking journalist. Here he reveals who he really is, a delusional conspiracy theorist. Now, while this is going on, Nick Shirley just tweeted an hour ago saying, I destroyed Tim Waltz's career or something like that. I think he literally just tweeted that, Rob, if you want to look it up, go to Nick Shirley. Boom, boom, boom. I think he just said that. And Elon even commented into, yeah, I ended Tim Waltz. Musk tweeted and said, thank God. And apparently, Rob, you said Tim Waltz is going to be doing a press conference today at around noonish. He just did. When? Right now.

[Rob]

It's officially dropping out?

[Pat]

Yeah, it's officially dropping out.

[Rob]

I just sent it to the group. Tim Walsh drops out of the Minnesota governor's race.

[Pat]

Do you have that just happened right here? So this is what happens when your own federal government wages war. Oh, yeah.

[Adam]

Oh.

[Pat]

What happens when they target communities behind benefit. This is what happens and this is what say happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy. When you hear the vice president of the United States talk about now white people won't have to apologize for being a white. That's never happened once in my whole damn life. And I think everybody in this room knows what they're doing. So we're here today to say, enough of this. We're here today to stand that Minnesota will protect their neighbors. What does that mean? Did he say he's stepping up?

[Vinny]

I don't think so, Vinnie.

[Adam]

He's not resigning. Supposedly he is dropping out of the.

[Pat]

2020 Minnesota Governor race plagued by Somali fraud, exposed by independent journalist securely.

[Rob]

Yeah, that's him blaming white riddance now.

[Pat]

Lock up the. Lock the traitor up. Tim had the gall to pin the fraud on white people instead of taking accountability for what the Somalis have done. He can't leave office soon enough. What a. What a dummy. Tom, your thoughts?

[Adam]

Tim Waltz did not drop out of the race. Let me tell you what just happened. The machine that's around Tim Walsh fired him. Tim Walsh just got fired. He no longer has the support of the people and the mechanisms that have been part of this entire machine around him. And he just got fired by the people that he's in cahoots with with all of this fraud and everything going on because they know that the spotlight just gets hotter if he wants to run for this election and they know they risk losing the Minnesota governorship in the process of it. And they don't want people talking because people are starting to talk. You've got people that supported him, people that were part of it that are starting to talk. You've got the federal government dropping in last Thursday afternoon, was it the federal government froze any transfers of federal funds to the welfare programs in Minnesota. I believe they've been frozen pending full review. And so I believe what we are just seeing here is that the gig is up and the people that are around him is like, Tim, we got to get you out of here because we got, we got to do a little extraction because we can't have you running this and being a lightning rod for criticism and attention on the rest of us. Tim, you're fired. You need to drop out of this race. And I believe the machine fired Tim Walsh.

[Rob]

When we talk about accountability, this makes me so the fact that a 23 year old exposed their entire state and my opinion, Vincent Oshana's opinion, if you think Ilhan Omar didn't know all the crap talking that she talks about to our beloved Somalis and everybody and her attitude is like, I could go back to Somalia because yeah, I made all the money that I did and there's no way that this guy didn't know, okay? There's absolutely no way. Even the president posted something that you reported on first, Pat, that 72% of these people of Somalis are on welfare, OK? It is a big freaking scam. And that's the reason that they picked him to be the vice president to keep that money funneling to keep these freaking leftists elected him in this tampon in the bathroom. Attitude, him being friends with school shooters, his, his disgusting demeanor, his waving on stage like he was like, like a savior. And there was a clip that I sent Rob Pat that there was a daycare in Minneapolis we wanted. Because I don't want neighbor. And I love the fact that we're not forgetting like yes, the Venezuela thing is huge. It's taking over the news. Let's not forget about the trillions and trillions of dollars of fraud. There was a daycare. Oh, this, this is the first one. This is a Somali restaurant that they paid $2012 million in federal child meal funds after they claimed to feed four to six thousand kids a day. The FBI watched the restaurant for six weeks. An average of 40 people showed up. Rob, you don't even have to play the clip. Just long as we have it so people know it.

[Pat]

What is the show? What is the show?

[Rob]

This is them doing the investigative work. Play for a little bit, Rob. In December of 2021, the FBI installed a surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake street in Minneapolis. At the time it was Safari Restaurant which Overall took in $12 million in federal child meal payments through Feeding Our Future.

[Adam]

That's correct.

[Pat]

Safari's former co owner Salim Saeed is.

[Rob]

On trial alongside Amy Bach. Feeding Our Future executive director.

[Pat]

Safari claimed to feed 4 to 6,000 kids a day. Its invoices and meal counts shown to.

[Rob]

The jury alongside the video an FBI agent testifying that an average of 40 people came and went during the six weeks it was surveilled.

[Pat]

The FBI set up a total of 12 cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers.

[Rob]

Another was at Delhi. I don't understand how they've let it keep going for all this time. I don't understand it when it comes to this much money and this much fraud. And also because, you know, since Nick Shirley and all these guys have been going to all these daycares. I don't know if it's legit or not. Rob told me that it was taken down. But there's a daycare in Minneapolis that was looking for child actors to pass as the vetting process to gain state funding. This was because they deleted it. Daycare hiring actors three day for a contract. My family runs a daycare here in the city and have over five years until Monday. The funding was cruelly ripped away without cause due to the insane poor decision clear in white supremacy. I wonder where they got that from. We have to close our doors immediately. We must prove that we are a functioning daycare to get the fundings back. The issue Is the entire client base has already found new daycare services. So we need to find new clients based quickly to help this state vetting process. We're looking to hire 20 actors for three days while state is present.

[Pat]

And by the way, so if you look at the right, it shows if you go to fifteen hundred dollars per day, up to three days, 4, 500 bucks. Contract. No experience required. Just actor. Right? Go look at the grok, because somebody asked. Grok, right there on the right. Third one. Zoom in if you can, Rob. Okay. Grok. Is this real? Yes. Craigslist at Israel. It was posted on January 2, 2026. It's given the ID number. It seeks 20 children under 5 for 3 days. 1500 bucks to simulate vetting after funding law citing white supremacy. This aligns with Minnesota daycare fraud probes, federal Holdstone. Unbelievable. Just, hey, bring your kids 4,500 bucks for three days. Actors.

[Rob]

Do they have to be Somalian? Could they be white? I think they have to be Somalian at that point.

[Adam]

So this ties it up in a bow because the allegation is this. And this is my conclusion as well. The allegations are out there. Tim Walsh was selected as the VP because he could be the bagman for tremendous financial resources to bring into the campaign at a time when. Check this out. The DNC's big money and Obama himself were not on the Kamala page. Remember how late he came to the comma? Oh, all right. She's a candidate.

[Rob]

Remember that? Of course.

[Vinny]

So.

[Adam]

And remember, they set this record. What was it? $32 million in 10 days or whatever it was. Guess what the allegation is that Tim Walsh was presiding over this machine that was federal money just coming to Minnesota. They could do whatever they want with it. And they all knew what was going on. And so there are people there that said. And remember, it was a fractured summer. It was a completely fractured summer. You had people in the Biden group saying, no, no, let's keep him going. Anthony Blinkens wants to be president again. Let's just keep this going, number one. Number two. Yeah. Kamala Harris, you owe it to me, damn it. And then the next one, it was, what about Michelle? Or what about others? So it was a fractured group. They needed money and they went. And guess what? They apparently allegedly got it with Tim Walsh. And so I read all this stuff. I'm not reading the loony stuff. I am reading things A, B, C, D. And I'm not just waiting for someone. I said it when we were in Aspen. This is the biggest campaign Finance fraud in the history of our republic.

[Rob]

I hoped, I pray that they go after Ilhan Omar. They. He his disdain towards America. This guy and Trump, she's the worst of the worst. You notice how the other squad, Adam, they're kind of quiet. The. The Talib, what's her name? I haven't heard from her. Everybody's kind of silent. Ilhan Omar has been now getting silent, but there's no way. There's no way. She wasn't. She didn't know what was going. There's. There's no way, period. And I hope they're going after her.

[Vinny]

Rob, do you have Nick Shirley's tweet again?

[Rob]

So America hater, go after her. I ended Tim Walsh.

[Vinny]

Ok, so if you didn't tweet that, I probably wouldn't put this out there, but I was texting with Nick, Nick Shirley a week ago before he came on the podcast. We met in person for the first time at James o' Keefe citizen Journalist event at Mar a Lago a couple months ago.

[Adam]

Oh, when he got that award, right?

[Vinny]

Young guy, he won the citizen journalist award. So I say to him, because I'm going online this a week ago as his story is basically blowing up, I go, dude, you're blowing up all over the Internet. He has 66 million on that, his initial video. Now it's well over 100 million. He goes, Bro, I think it's the biggest video of the year. So he's excited. Good for him. I'm telling him, listen, my mom's from Minneapolis, respect to what you're doing. He goes, this is what the funniest part is. He goes, we lit them up. I bet Tim Walls resigns. He goes, can you imagine that? Me, Nick Shirley, is who gets Tim Walls to resign. I said, this is why what you do is so important. And the message to all the young people out there is, look at this guy. He's 23 years old, making a massive difference. You can, too. Number two, can you imagine just in a hypothetical horrible bizarro world, imagine if Kamala Harris and Tim Walls won the election and they were president and the vice president, United States. Do you know what kind of chaos their administration would be in right now if they were in power? Do you know what kind of COVID up they would be doing? Do you know what Tim Walls would be doing in Minnesota if this video came out there? Could you imagine if Kamala was president right now? Borders still open. Iran's still making nuclear weapons, hostages still in Gaza, Maduro still in power. DEI still in place, gender affirming care. Everywhere we got they them is running the government. Thank God. President Donald J. Trump.

[Pat]

Yeah, exactly. And, and this continues and we'll continue following this story. This is not going to be done. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. But to get the former VP candidate to drop out the way. This is a lot of winning. This is maybe a little too much winning going into 2026. And by the way folks, you know who had dinner with who at Mar A Lago? Juicy. Who had dinner with who at Mar A Lago?

[Rob]

Elon.

[Pat]

Elon and Trump had dinner together. They had dinner together. And you know who tweeted about the dinner? Who do you think tweeted about the dinner? A guy named Elon Musk tweeted about it. Okay. And he said had a very nice dinner with the President. That's them right there. If you look closely, them having dinner together right there. The President, what do you think they're talking about? And by the way, look at the guy in the middle right there. The guy in the middle of that somehow got into that picture. Okay, he's in there. But who is that all the way in the back all Is that Dan Bongino? All the way in the back. Zoom in a little bit, Rob. Or you can't. Can't zoom in? No, it's not. Oh, okay. Secret Service. Ok, well that's Secret Service somebody. No, no, but Musk and Trump are speaking which is great to see them reunited. Now imagine you're speaking openly.

[Vinny]

Speakers dining just looking at these guys.

[Pat]

Yeah, but, but the point is this is that was a massive breakup that the left needed desperately a massive breakup that the left needed. Now you're going into 2026 on the same page. Now you're going into 2026 with what happened with Maduro. Now you're going into 2026 with what's going on with Tim Waltz. Now you're going into 2026 with, you know, inflation going down. Now you're going into 2026 with GDP growth higher than expected. Now you're going into 2026 is going to be the greatest years of our, of our lifetime World Cup 250 year anniversary. It's going to be a very, very weirdly special year. But at the same time I think the enemy is aware of it and they're gonna try to ruin the party. You know how you try to put a good party together and everybody knows you're about to put a record breaking party. Everybody wants to go. You don't invite somebody and they're like, wait a minute, you don't want to invite me? I'm gonna ruin your party. To the party poopers are also gonna be there. But I have a feeling he. They're gonna get way ahead of it to make sure the party Engels.

[Rob]

Talking about, what do you think that conversation. Because think about it. Besides calling him a basically a pedophile. Basically, he. Because Trump promised, I think the taxes, the tax cuts for SpaceX. Pat, if you had to guess what the meat the crux of that conversation was, because to me, in Elon's eyes, I think he felt like he got kind of shafted. What do you think that conversation's like?

[Vinny]

Can I give you my opinion?

[Pat]

Go ahead.

[Vinny]

So Pat just said, party pooper, right? So my opinion, Elon Musk, when he left, in a glorious fashion, in a blaze of mean tweets, he said he's going to go start a third party. And I forget what it was called because nothing ever transpired whatsoever. So in my opinion, Elon Musk sort of came in with his tail between his legs and said, look, my bad dog. I'm not starting a third party. I realized you're the guy and let me come and help you again and let me do a mea culpa and give you on my bad. And Trump goes like he always does, if you say nice things about me, we're good. You say bad things about me, you're my enemy, Elon Musk. Listen, if you're getting invited to Mar A Lago, you're not coming there to talk shit to Trump's face. He came in with the sole purpose of saying, my bad. Let's get on the same page and let's do this. Because if there's anything that Elon is against is whatever's going on on the woke left and on the woke right. So to see those two aligned is a massive, massive victory for Trump and the country. That's my opinion.

[Pat]

I think it's a little bit of business. I think it's a little bit of let's figure it out. And remember the way Trump that did it in. When you run a company, let's bring it to a much smaller scenario. When somebody in a company I'm running all of a sudden flipped and publicly came after me. Negative trash, whatever. You have to stand your ground and put them in their place, but then you just give them their space. They eventually either come to you or they don't. For the richest man in the world to set aside his ego and go to Trump at his place and realize what's going on. You know what's been very clear the last nine months? Here's what's very clear the last nine months, and it's not even close. The biggest Alpha of every room in the world is Donald Trump. Let me say that one more time. There are many Alphas. The biggest Alpha in any room in the world is Donald Trump. Everyone has to go to him, period. Desantis learned the hard way. Pierre Poliev learned the hard way. Canadians learned the hard way. He learned the hard way. Bezos eventually had to come to him. Zuck had to eventually come to him. Everybody who thought they were bigger Alpha than him. It took 78 years to realize Alpha is not just about being the richest man in the world. Alpha's not just about being the tallest, the richest, the wealthiest, the best looking, the famous. Nope. There's Alpha quality that he has that none of these other guys have. And Elon has probably sat on the sidelines saying, damn, you got to give this guy respect. And he said it so many times. So let's see what's going to happen here. By the way, JD Mance just tweeted something. Apparently somebody broke into his house or something. Something happened over the weekend that they're reporting and that he had to tweet about it. Rob, is that the one? We hope he's safe. We hope his family is safe. I know he said they weren't home when this happened. Man arrested after allegedly damaging Vice President Vance's home. And Vance also tweeted it. Rob, I don't know if you have it or not. There's a tweet about it, but he didn't like the fact that reporters are posting pictures of his house all over the place saying something happened to the window. Zoom in. I appreciate everyone else well wishes about the attack at our home. As far as I can tell, crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows. I'm grateful to Secret Service and Cincinnati police for responding quickly. We weren't even home as we returned already to dc One requested immediate we try to protect our kids as much as possible from our realities of this public life of public service. In that light, I'm skeptical of the news value of plastering images of our home with holes in the windows. Anyways. Okay, so glad they're hammer.

[Vinny]

I didn't even get that. I thought I heard it was gunshot.

[Pat]

Listen, it could be this hammer situation. So look, you know, San Francisco, a hammer. Hammers are becoming a popular thing with stuff like this. But anyways, we're glad he's safe. What I will say to you, I'm telling you guys right now. Can you run a poll right now with our audience? Rob? Right now, folks, you have a choice for 2028 presidential candidate, and it's only two people. I'm going to give you a choice of Vance or Rubio. Who do you pick right now? What I mean, right now, Today is what, January 5, 2026. Who do you want as your president? If it's right now? Rob, did you run that poll, Rubio or Vance? Which of those two would you pick? I am so curious to know what direction the voting goes. I'm going to say it's going to be super close. As close to 50, 50 as possible, going back and forth. Look at that, Vinnie right there. It's 54, 46. To be fair, Rubio just had a massive victory, so it's probably going to be him. Nearly 2,000 votes. Rubio is ahead of Vance at this point. Okay, Rubio is ahead of Vance at this point. And gotta love competition like that. Gotta love competition like that. When you're a president and you're a leader, you want to be able to have multiple people that are competing. So it's not a definite front runner. And this is a pure reflection of Donald J. Trump.

[Rob]

100%.

[Pat]

This is a pure reflection of Donald J. Trump.

[Vinny]

Look like a few days ago before the Venezuela.

[Pat]

Just flip it. Just flip it. 55, 45. Vance is what I would say doesn't.

[Rob]

Make you feel good, though, that Rubio.

[Vinny]

Is, is, is showing himself to be the adult in the room. Capable, efficient. He's been through the ringer, he's run for president. You know, he did the whole little water thing, little Marco. And now, just like J.D. he was against Trump, now he's on Team Trump. Something about these people that weren't on MAGA 1.0, on MAGA 2.0, but they came to their center.

[Rob]

Sensibilities, what isn't it?

[Vinny]

I don't know many people like that.

[Rob]

But is it refreshing that the future does look right, that this is our bench? Like, how about this? I'll take either one of them. Who is the other side? Have Gavin Newsome. Good night, ladies and gentlemen.

[Vinny]

Who would you take Vincent, out of these guys?

[Rob]

I'm not gonna front. I like Marco Rubio. I'm being honest. If he shaves his beard, then I would consider it. But I would go. I would go. Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio has been in the game for a lot Longer, and he has a lot more credibility.

[Adam]

I'll give you two words, leadership and poise. I think Marco Rubio is showing leadership right now, and I think he was very poised and even handed when he addresses the media and people can hear the strategy that's in there, and it's very clear, and that is leadership.

[Pat]

Yeah. It's early to tell, but Rubio, with that job that he has, sometimes it's better to be the Secretary of State than the vp, especially during times like this, because vp, it's kind of like, you know, go work on the border, make the building nicer. Okay. Go make sure our emails are clean. Right. Sometimes kind of like VP is a. You know, if you've ever seen the movie, the Vice movie, it's like, what's VP like? Who wants to be a vp?

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Pat]

That VP was a different story because Dick Cheney wasn't really the vp.

[Rob]

He was running the show.

[Pat]

Dick Cheney was running the show. Vance is not running the show. Trump is running the show.

[Vinny]

Yeah. I'd pick Rubio in a heartbeat.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Vinny]

Now, listen, they're. They're optics. You know, he's only five foot nine. Vance, I want to say, is probably over six years.

[Pat]

Is Rubio 59?

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Vinny]

He's not the. He's not the biggest dude.

[Pat]

I don't think he's five, nine.

[Vinny]

No, I'm just saying, like, people, optics matters, but experience, capability. Yeah. What is he, five, eight?

[Rob]

My boy right there, Marco Rubio.

[Vinny]

Listen to me and just say it. Talk to Desantis's people. You're gonna get them boots.

[Pat]

No, no, no, no. That'll be the worst thing you could do.

[Vinny]

Guys, it's a joke.

[Pat]

That'd be the. No, you were actually being serious that.

[Vinny]

Well, regardless, Pat, do you. I know you probably don't want to.

[Pat]

Maybe fan of his. I like what he's like, Rubio. I like what he's doing. I like what he's doing. But it's early to tell, but I like what he's doing. So we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen. We'll see what's going to happen with 5545. And this is a very fair 6000 people voting and they have it 5545. As of right now.

[Vinny]

That debate stage look like it's. It's interesting.

[Pat]

It is going to be interesting on how they're going to go. Can we completely change some of the stories to complete different story here? Let me, let me get to this story. A Harvard professor calls that university's exclusion of white males in scathing public resignation. Rob, I believe you have a clip on this. If you do, please go to it. Watch this, folks. Very, very interesting on what's going on, Rob. Of course, we won't play the whole clip because it's 3 minutes and 54 seconds, but play some of it. Go ahead, Rob. Harvard professor says he is leaving the university after 40 years, claiming its focus on DEI is doing more harm than.

[Rob]

Good writing quote in the fall of 2020, I came across an outstanding prospect.

[Adam]

Who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years, this candidate would have.

[Pat]

Risen immediately to the top of the.

[Rob]

Applicant pool in 2021.

[Pat]

However, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that that meaning admitting a white male was not happening this year.

[Rob]

Harvard alumnus Shabbos Kestenbaum joins us now. Happy New Year, Shabbos.

[Pat]

Thanks so much for being on with us.

[Rob]

Happy New Year. Good to be here.

[Pat]

So the professor writes about this seemingly.

[Rob]

Open, anti white, anti male environment that has really been growing in Harvard.

[Pat]

As an alumnus, is this something that you have experienced? Do you agree with what the professor wrote?

[Rob]

Certainly, I agree with what the professor wrote. It's shocking, but it's certainly not surprising. I mean, a country that does not teach about its own history is certainly a country that does not have much of a future. But honestly, my greatest concern is the greater societal implications and the greater societal ills, particularly the demoralization of young people in America. So when you have cultural elites or professors who insist and instruct young people that their culture is not worthy of preservation, that their race is something to be apologetic over, that their history is not worth worthy of scholarship, then of course, those young people, particularly young men, will become disillusioned and disassociated with the society they're meant to be interacting with. And we need to be very clear now that we're in 2026, that Tom thoughts?

[Adam]

So this is a professor, Dr. James Hankins, who had been at Harvard for 40 years and who finally had just had enough and 40 years. And if he was 24 when he 28 when he got his doctorate, so he's probably late 60s, maybe 70. And he's saying we've had enough. And one of the things he said is he talked about DEI and he says we've abandoned merit in favor of diversity quotas, which changes the way we conduct our affairs and the qualities that we deliver. He's saying it, he's now saying it out loud, saying, guess what, you know what we get away from merit, this is where it goes. And what's interesting today, there's a Wall Street Journal story that is today on the front of the Journal that talked about that merit is, is making a comeback as we come into the, what will be the spring recruiting season is that there are companies that were saying it does matter where you go to school. And we'll be recruiting and looking for merit, and we're looking for kids on merit. And actually there is McKinsey gentleman that was quoted in the article talking about looking for merit not just at Ivy League schools, at other schools, but actually stepping back from the schools where DEI does not give them. You know, hey, we're going to come on campus to recruit. They want to recruit strong people based on merit. And so I think this is a, I think this is a tip of the iceberg moment. Harvard's going to circle the wagons and they're going to shut everybody down and they're going to tell everybody to knock it off because Harvard is still doing this. The Supreme Court case that was against Yale has teeth, but they're still doing it because you've got generations of these DEI leaders, Vinnie, that are still in there. Just like Venezuela, you gotta get rid of a few guys and you need to put new leadership in. It's gonna be one step at a time. But what's interesting is this actually got play from the mainstream media talking about it, and then it's actually being set out in the open. And I'm glad to see it. But it's only one small step. There's. There's a long walk. There's going to be a batang death march to rid the halls of the DEI and get higher education truly back.

[Vinny]

To what's going to happen.

[Pat]

James Hankins. How will the market treat somebody like a James Hankins?

[Adam]

Well, if he's, if he's put himself in a place to retire, then the market can't do anything to him. He can just retire and, and he doesn't need it. But I believe there's going to be folks out there that want to hear from him. I believe you're going to have a publisher will ask him to write a book about, of his experience. I don't think he's going to be welcomed with open arms and there's a lot of people that are going to want to stab him in the back for what he did. But I think there is going to be some people out there, a few of them that are going to, to try to help him. But I Think, obviously as he walks away from Harvard, he's, he's done with that. But I think it's going to be. There's gonna be some islands out there. Someone I think will want him to tell a story.

[Pat]

Yeah, I mean, for him to be able to say what he's saying right now, you gotta plot him respect to him on what he's seen taking place for someone at his caliber. Adam, if you have any thoughts on this, I'll come to you now. I'm going to the next story.

[Vinny]

Well, it's been no secret there's been an attack against straight white men in America for over a decade. You know, AKA the patriarchy. It's all a farce. So, you know, back in my, in my days when I was doing a lot of manosphere content, we talked about somewhere else versus the blue pill.

[Pat]

I thought you were going to say something.

[Vinny]

What do you think I was going with that.

[Pat]

No, I thought you were going to say, like, you know, there's been a major attack on straight white male. And I thought you were going to say back in the days when I was a.

[Vinny]

Back in the days.

[Pat]

Yeah, going to go. Keep going.

[Adam]

All right, but is this an announcement?

[Pat]

No, he made it a long time ago, but keep going.

[Vinny]

So my girlfriend will disagree.

[Adam]

But say hi.

[Rob]

The.

[Vinny]

The. The reality is the not right biz.

[Pat]

Yeah, okay, can.

[Vinny]

Can we stop with the nonsensical freaking debate of what's better, capitalism or communism? Is the fact that we're still having this debate in life, in campus? Are we really playing this game? Is this really what we're doing? How many times have you talked about. Yeah, the campus. We're having a debate. Guys, what do you think is a better economic socio. Economic system? Capitalism or socialism? Which one is it? Guys? I don't know. Can we stop the freaking nonsense? Meanwhile, capitalism might not be the prettiest system. What did Churchill say? It's just, it's the, the second best out there is better than everything else. So, yeah, it might be ugly, it might be messy, but at least it's in your face. It's competitive and it's example of how countries thrive. What examples do you have? A socialism, Marxism, or the warmth of collectivism put a nice little communist blanket all over you. That have worked. Why are people fleeing Venezuela? Why are people fleeing Cuba in rafts? Right, Mikey? Why are people doing this? Why are people fleeing these Islamist nations? Because it's not good to live under. And the fact that Harvard still indoctrinates their kids under this Marxist critical Race theory, DEI bullshit downstream of Marxism. It's just. They're still doing it, and it's just different languages. In some cases, it's economic communism. Sometimes it's social justice. Social justice warriors. You're producing nothing. You're producing people that just want to destroy the system. The greatest country that's ever lived were indoctrinating these young kids to go out there and protest on behalf of Maduro, on behalf of Hamas. It's so stupid. This is why when I was arguing with Stephen A. Smith, he goes, you can't call them stupid. I go, yes, I can, because they're stupid. They might be able to read and write and do arithmetic, but they're stupid. That's why they call them useful idiots. So I'm so sick of what's happening in the institutions of higher learning. Indoctrinating our kids to hate America. That's what this all comes down to. How many people come out and graduate and be like, I love the usa, they hate America. And let's just stop with the debate. Sorry about the language.

[Adam]

Let's wrap it up really, really quick. There's something got updated on Wikipedia that was not in my research. He is going to the University of Florida, where he will be the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the U of F. And that's where he is going to go, apparently.

[Vinny]

State of Florida.

[Adam]

That was not in the research earlier. The nice thing about it, Harvard takes an L and somebody else comes to Florida.

[Vinny]

Think about that. Imagine going from Harvard to University of Florida.

[Adam]

What's wrong with the University of Florida? No, number seven, public university.

[Vinny]

I went to Florida State. I'll have. My friends went to uf. It's a great school, but it's not Harvard. But it just shows what the. What? The professor goes, I can't take this woke DEI nonsense. Let me go to the free state of Florida. Or there's this rational, moderate people. That's what this comes down to.

[Pat]

I had. I had a call with a senior partner the other day at BCG and they do around 15 billion a year in engagements. Whatever the number is, it's a big company. Top four, would you say? Top four? Some of you would even say number two, behind McKinsey. Right, okay.

[Adam]

Exactly.

[Pat]

And I said, so what is your recruiting process? Is it still the same process wanting Harvard, wanting all these guys? He says, man, we're having more experience recruiting some guys that are coming from smaller schools that are competitive, top of their classes, they're more scrappy, they're willing to work harder. Some of these guys that are coming from Harvard and CD schools, some of them are more entitled. They're expecting not to eat this. They want this, they want that. It's changing, the market's changing. It changes in a long time. And let's see if Harvard's going to be able to maintain their prestigious name that they've had all these years. We'll see. We'll see what's going to happen. Let me get to the next story. Next I'm going to go to is Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly declares CBS Legacy media dead as Barry Wise feud escalates and it doesn't look like this is going to be slowing down. So here's Megyn Kelly talking about cbs. Let me get to the story, Rob. I think it's on page 18. Megyn Kelly dismissed CBS News efforts to reignite interest in its evening newscast, declaring legacy media did as she escalated her feud with network's editor in chief, Barry Weiss. Nothing will happen at cbs, kelly declared on X, responding to a post about incoming CBS News anchor Tony Dokupil. Nothing. Legacy media is dead and evening news has totally been irrelevant for a long time. CBS has not had evening viewers in any competitive way in over a decade. The blunt assessment came ahead of Docupos. Who's this person, by the way? This. Is that the person that went over there? Is that the guy? The guy's face right there?

[Adam]

Yep.

[Rob]

Guys.

[Pat]

Okay, so he goes.

[Adam]

That's Barry Weiss's choice for the chair.

[Pat]

Of the evening news Monday night debut anchoring the business flagship. Now he's pledged to rebuild trust with viewers as Weiss has taken controversial steps to shake up the network. Since becoming head honcho in October, he has echoed long standing conservative critiques of the press, acknowledging that newsrooms have often missed the mark by privileging elites over ordinary Americans. On too many stories. The press missed the story. Doku Pill said on Thursday. Can we figure out how the hell to pronounce his name so I don't keep butchering this guy's name over and over again. Arguably, the media rely too heavily on advocates, academics rather than viewers themselves. He promised that under his watch you come first, not advertisers. Here's the clip. Go ahead, Rob.

[Vinny]

Too many stories. The press has missed the story because.

[Rob]

We'Ve taken into account the perspective of.

[Vinny]

Advocates and not the average American or.

[Rob]

We put too much weight in the.

[Vinny]

Analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you. And I know this because at certain.

[Rob]

Points I have been you.

[Vinny]

I have felt this way Too. I felt like what I was seeing.

[Rob]

And hearing on the news didn't reflect.

[Vinny]

What I was seeing and hearing in my own life and that the most urgent questions simply weren't being asked. So here's my promise to you today. And every time you see me in this chair, you come first. Not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests. And yes, that does include the corporate owners of cbs. I report for you on too many stories.

[Pat]

Okay, so there you go. Tom, thoughts on this. Are you with Megyn Kelly? Are you with Barry Wise? What do you think's going on there?

[Adam]

So I'm not with Megan on her feud, but I am with Megan on her conclusions. It is really going to be difficult to reverse what's happened to the evening news, partly because it's not the same playing field anymore. The evening news now is. Is not what it used to be. There are choices. People. Look, people are coming to us to get their news. People run into you in a restaurant and wanted to know, are we running a special segment? You read those on the weekend, right? Gentleman comes up to you and says, hey, love the podcast. Are you doing a special segment on Maduro? Because they're coming to other places such as us to get their news. And so I agree with her that with the technology, the deterioration of the cable subscriber, number one. Number two, over the top is everywhere, people. So it's no longer over the top. It's just Internet comes to your house and you choose wherever you want to get your news. You know, Vinnie, you don't. Do you have a cable subscription?

[Pat]

Nope.

[Adam]

No, we have. We have a Hulu one, but that's it. We don't have all of this. So technology is. Supports what Megyn Kelly is saying. And the, The. The public trust has been so destroyed over the last 15 years on what they feel about mainstream media, to the point that msm, even my mom knows what MSM is. When I texted or something a couple months ago, I noticed she knew exactly what I was talking about. So on that count, I think Megan is right. It's going to be very, very hard to turn around cbs. Now, that said, the Ellisons have a hell of a lot of money, and Barry Weiss is really putting her shoulder to the wheel to do it. So I won't say it's impossible, but it's going to be tough.

[Pat]

It's a new day to turn CBS around.

[Adam]

Yeah, I agree.

[Pat]

You think she'll win or she won't win?

[Rob]

I think it'll do okay. But, like, just even the Way that he talks, the demeanor. The stage is set. Nobody's. You've lost all credibility. I'm sorry. It's a ship that's going down like it's, It's. It's the Titanic and you put a new captain on. Like, I could do it. No, you can't. Nobody believes them anymore. The day nobody believes cnn, MSNBC could change it to Ms. Now or Ms. We're never gonna lie again. Nobody believes you.

[Vinny]

Government.

[Rob]

The trust in government's down. I think it's gaining a little bit of credibility back with the Trump administration, but nobody listens to these people. Nobody's gonna ever forgive them for what they did to Covid. Nobody's ever gonna forgive them for the lies that they did with Iraq and weapons of massive trucks and everything. It's gone. It's totally gone. Those days of Walter Cronkite and old school Bill O'Reilly and all these guys, it's. I'm sorry, I. Adam, it's not going to happen.

[Vinny]

Well, it's Darwinism, one on one. It's a failure to adapt. You know, a month ago or two, we here at valuetainment, we had to read the book who Moved My Cheese? The cheese got moved. The industry got disrupted, and they failed to adapt. You know, you adapt or die. By the way, this is not unique, just in media. What happened to Blockbuster Video? They failed to adapt. Netflix took them over. What happened to the taxi industry? They used to have this monopoly on medallions. Now Uber and Lyft take over. So what percentage of the s and P500 or the Fortune 500 companies from 50 years ago are still in the top 500, like 10% failure to adapt. What happened to Kodak? What happened to all these companies? By the way, same for cities. New York City, L.A. chicago. There's no guarantee they're going to be the greatest cities in America anymore. If you fail to adapt, you will die. It's a dying industry. They're trying to do this the right way and tried to basically be relevant, and they're coming in and giving an apology letter. But the reality is a lot of these media companies failed to adapt. Their journalists turned into activists, and now they're paying the price when podcasters are now the most watched people in the country.

[Rob]

And I don't think it's. I don't think it's a failure to adapt, Adam. I think it's. There's no way that stain is going to disappear from the American public.

[Vinny]

Well, Stephen A. Smith said, I don't give a Shit.

[Rob]

What you think, Vinny? Guess what? Well, Stephen A. Understands what I was making a bunch of very, very valid points. But going back to the COVID thing, we're supposed to forget what every single one of these people were like, you're the enemy. You're not getting this experimental drug in your body. Take it. And now kids are freaking dying. People are dropping dead. Turbo cancer is up. Now all the truth is coming out. And now we're supposed to just forget about it. That's one of the biggest travesties that this, Besides all the 9 11s and the JFK assassination, they. China unleashed a virus that I think Fauci and all them, they're not stupid, okay? Then they sold us on this freaking vaccine and they told us that we were anti American and that we were the terrorists. Chris Cuomo said it. All these people said that the number one threat was us, cbs, msnbc, all of them. And now we're supposed to go, barry Weiss is in and there's a new white guy that says, I'm not gonna lie. Nobody's gonna believe it. There's no way. This is a failed industry and it's over. Done.

[Pat]

Here's what I will tell you. Here's what I will tell you before we go to. I got two more stories to wrap up and then we'll move on. To me. I believe in Barry Wise. I believe it's tough to be a in NBA. They call them two way players. Guys that play offense and they play defense. I also believe it's very tough to be a talent and to be an operator. Bari Weiss is a talent operator, by the way. In all of media, there's not a Barry Weiss, period. There's not a Barry Weiss. That's talent and operator talent. Sometimes hate when there are people like Barry Weiss. When there are people that know how to operate and they know how to garner attention. She worked at New York, New York Times. Times. And then she called them out and she went out and did her own thing and did a bunch of great interviews. And she was actually Pharaoh and she did a bunch of different things. Yes. Is she. Is she Jewish? I think she's Jewish. She is Jewish. So she's gonna get free press. She's gonna get criticized for being Jewish and working with Ellison and, you know, she's pro Israel and all this other stuff. That's a debate. You guys can have that all day. Go for it. It is what it is. I'm a Christian. I'm gonna favor Christianity, okay? If I'm talking to a Person that's Muslim, they're gonna defend their religion of Islam. If someone's Jewish, they're going to defend what it is. It's kind of how it is. It's you're protecting and respecting your family and the tradition that you came. And typically, whatever faith you came from, if you respect your parents, you're going to respect that faith. So it's a way of saying she respects her parents. You can say, jews are this, Jews are this. Go ahead and do that all day long. It is what it is. You got to respect Game. Megan Kelly, to me, I think she is talent wise. I think she's up there, maybe even number one on the list today who is willing to be fair and talk to anybody. And I, I'm, I'm a big supporter of what she's doing. But I think Barry Weiss is a power player. There's a big difference. Megyn Kelly's an incredible journalist, lawyer, talent, communicator, not afraid, you know, great wood words. Barry Weiss is a business woman and an operator and a talent and is trying to do something to turn the company around with the back end of a lasting like Ellison, with the amount of wealth that they have. I don't know. I hope they succeed. I hope they succeed. I'm not saying they're going to. It's going to be very hard. I hope they succeed. I would like to see one of these guys succeed. And if they do succeed, it's not a succeeding for 50 years, it's succeeding for a decade and a half is what it is. That's what it is. Because the reality of it is it is going the direction of podcasting, it is going in the direction of independent journalism.

[Adam]

It is.

[Pat]

By the way, Nick Shirley, go ahead. Abc, sign him. Cbs, sign him. Fox, sign him. What are you gonna sign him for? Like, hey, you know, we're gonna go sign him for what? Go ahead. You understand what I'm saying? Like, go ahead and sign him. The other day, you know what shirt he's got on while he's doing his stuff? Poly Market. Do you think it's because he loves Polymarket sweater brand and quality? Did you see this go on images, you know, right there? Why do you think he's wearing a sweater with polymarket on? You think it's because that sweater has the highest quality of density to prevent the snow from coming in? No. Guess what? He does not need you. Cbs, he does not need you. Cnn, he does not need. That's, that's the disruption of what is going on here. People are choosing to team up. Those are two different things of teaming up versus doing something like this. Young cats are coming up saying, I want to be the next Nick Shirley. I want to be a YouTuber, I want to be this, I want to be that. So these bigger companies have to find a way to be a little bit more. What's the word I'm looking for a little bit more flexible. Flexible, adaptable. Understanding what's going on while creating their own set of. Again, I'm rooting for both Megyn Kelly to succeed, but I'm definitely also rooting for Barry Weiss to succeed because I do think there's still a audience of people above 60, 65 years old that still consume their content on TV. So I'd like to see her win. Hopefully she wins and we'll see where it goes from here.

[Vinny]

Flip it, Pat. Imagine they don't hire Bari Weiss. Imagine they don't do this thing. Whatever David Ellison is doing with was it Skydance? Imagine if they just sit there and they have cbs and just in third place behind ABC and Adam.

[Pat]

What point are you going to make? So I'm going to.

[Vinny]

The point is they, they had to do something. Of course they adapted.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Vinny]

And that she's the figurehead. So she's going to get.

[Pat]

So what have you. Are you going to say that hasn't been said already? Go ahead.

[Vinny]

I'm saying that imagine they did nothing. What are you. What do we be saying now? You still have Stephen Colbert plummeting. All these things is downstream of when they took over. So, yes, she's now the latest victim of what they're doing right now. They had to do something. I get third place. Can't stay third place.

[Pat]

Let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get into is the following. So if you rob, if you can pull up, let me see what I got here. If I have nothing here, then I'll go to that story. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Let's just go to the story here. So gold, folks. You ever brought gold, you've been ripped off by somebody telling you it's 14 karat, but it's 10 karat. You ever bought gold and on it they type in the 14 karat. And then somebody else said, this is actually not 14 karat gold. This is 10 karat gold. Well, in New York, a guy by the name of Tracks, he's got a different name, but they call him Tracks, who was a very, very well known guy. I think it's on the 57th or whatever the Main street is with all the gold. Diamond district. He goes out there and one of the guys that used his name. This is the most viral video of the last week. If Nick Shirley was a. Two weeks ago, this was the most viral video last week. It got 70 million views, 617,000 shares on Instagram. Rob, go ahead and play this clip. Watch this.

[Vinny]

Where's my money? Where's my bunny?

[Rob]

Where's my money? I got this bracelet.

[Vinny]

Where's my money? What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?

[Rob]

You say vvs I 3 14k. Hey, it was like my name.

[Pat]

You 64 47.

[Rob]

Yeah, 64 47.

[Pat]

You. All right? So this happens. This gets 60 something million views. Now Rob go to his Instagram account because in another. But wait till you see what happens next, by the way. But in another video, this one's tough to watch. I want to tell you in. In advance to. To be careful before we watch this. Go to his Instagram account, Rob, because he explains what happened here. This is the whole thing with the issue on this. Okay? If you go to the account, go to the third video right there. Watch this and put the audio on.

[Rob]

Receipt from this disgusting company that pretends to be me. Says they're tracks in my seat and sells my customer a bracelet. Rips them off and rips them off on the gold. Shit. They're saying it's 14 karat gold. Well, we're gonna test this bracelet right now. Start to test. 10 karat gold. So did they say they were tracks NYC?

[Pat]

Yeah, he. He tried to portray.

[Vinny]

He tried to sell one of your products. He said that he ran out, right?

[Rob]

One of your rings you two purchase, right?

[Pat]

That you.

[Adam]

So that.

[Rob]

That we sell. So you came with a picture of tracks in my seat.

[Pat]

Yep.

[Rob]

Opened up the website and then he said he ran out. Even though he has nothing to do with me other than to steal my customers. All day long these rats have done this over and over and over again. And I tolerated it. And now they them over on the carrot as well. Yo, Akai, you are thieves.

[Pat]

The most disgusting. You want to know what happens now? Go to the main clip. Guys, I'm telling you right now. Brace for impact because this one's tough to watch. Watch what happens here. Go ahead.

[Rob]

Look at Windex Body blue. Oh, my God.

[Adam]

Yeah, get that girl.

[Vinny]

You de.

[Rob]

How much spit did he have in his mouth?

[Vinny]

In the end?

[Rob]

They tried to kill me.

[Pat]

Strangle me with my own chain. Get out of this hospital.

[Vinny]

Tracksyc.com.

[Pat]

He'S always ready for it right now watch. Go to the last video of them getting arrested. Did you see the video?

[Rob]

Oh, I haven't seen this one.

[Pat]

You haven't seen this video?

[Rob]

They went after him.

[Pat]

Oh, no, they got the guys. You haven't seen. Seen the video? That's the main video. What happens, by the way? This is the gold. You have to be. You have to be ready because. Yeah, if you type that the guy's getting arrested. Go to the. Go to the video of them handcuffed. No, them handcuffed with cops. Right there. That's one right there. Watch this. Make it bigger. Rock. Go back. Okay, watch this.

[Rob]

Oh, the music.

[Pat]

Music, Rob. Music, music. Okay, there you go.

[Rob]

Wow, good.

[Pat]

That guy got arrested. That's assault. And look at this.

[Rob]

This guy's smiling.

[Pat]

They came in, they took him. They were all three of. He's not, he's not handcuffed. He's just leaving because he scored away so good gold. Tom, how do you process this yourself? I mean, you know, gold. Because when you think about, you know, I'm Middle Eastern, so jewelry over the years, you buy stuff in la. There's that one district in downtown that you go buy all the gold and I'm, you know, and. And people would get caught. Well, this is a V cut. This is a deck cut diamond. This is this. And it's not. It's a lower level, but they sell it to you. And the average person doesn't have the equipment to go take a look at it to see if it's real or not. Your thoughts on this stuff?

[Adam]

Well, I bought an engagement ring and a wedding band in la. And in la, there is so much fraud, you had to know somebody or know somebody's father who was legitimate, that you would go in and you would take care of it. And that's how I, I found it. But this goes on everywhere. The, the scamming that goes on in jewelry is horrible. If you don't know somebody and you can't validate it, you know, you're probably not getting the fair price and you're probably not getting the fair quality. They've gotten to the point where diamonds now have laser serial numbers that are very, very, very, very, very tiny, but they're actually on the stone and so that you can, you can get validation now, but you got to be so careful with it. I knew people that got ripped off in LA and things like this. I, I know a guy. This is a true story. Earlier in my career, I was in sales with IBM. He got a gold Rolex at Least he thought it was a gold Rolex. Remember, on the back of a Rolex, there's no serial number. They're all smooth on the back. So you. You have to know somebody that can remove the bezel, can look at the serial number underneath. Pat in three weeks, all of a sudden, there's this. It's turning his wrist green. Oh, no, because it was completely fake. You know, it's for. It's rubbing in his body oil. It's actually because it's like copper substrate or something. It's there. And so. But I'll say this. It's not just that. You got to be careful everywhere. And if you're buying VT Merch, it's not a commercial. This is a caution. Only go to our website. We spend hours each week doing audits, and we find our stuff with cheap material, cheap clothing. And then. And not only is it. Is it our trademarked, you know, logos and slogans and stuff, but then it's really junk stuff, and people think it's us. Because a lot of times you sell through distribution, we sell through ourselves. Go to vt.combtmerch.com Only buy it from ourselves. So just like jewelry, you better know somebody. And if you want the future to look bright for your dollars, for the hats and stuff that you bought, that you're supporting faith over fear and all the stuff that we do only go to our website. But you just. You gotta know somebody.

[Vinny]

Well, I know Max very well. We've hung out a bunch. He's been on my show. I'm with Max Tracks on this one, by the way. Yeah, he's loud, he's brash, is in your face. But you know what he is? He's honest, and he does goes business. I was actually with Tracks recently, and I was with Moshe Haimoff, who's the watch king of New York. He's there on the left with my friend Rabbi Benny. And I went to 47th Street. That's a diamond district. If you've ever seen the movie Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler right there. If you saw. If you show that picture right there, they're all in this room right here. They're all together. All your competitors are in the same freaking place. By the way, I think 90% of the diamonds in the entire United States that are sold come from this one block in New York.

[Rob]

Yeah.

[Vinny]

So talk about money on money, on gold, on diamonds. It's all right here. So the story goes, from what I understand, because, Moshi, I'm off the watch. King. I said dude, what's going on here he goes. What you don't know is this. This is all over 22, 000. So the guy that spit in tracks his face, by the way, move. Spitting in someone's face. You can go to jail for that. Which he did apparently. He's the landlord and he's been in business since the 70s and he's been around forever. You're telling me. You know, they say that, you know, you can work on your reputation for 40 years and in one day you ruin it.

[Adam]

That's it.

[Vinny]

That's what happened with this guy. Apparently he's been in business for, since the 70s here in the, the Diamond District, then on 47th street and one viral video of track saying, where's my money? That guy's now arrested in jail, legacy ruined. So we're about to see what happens with this grimy business. Stealing your child's customers, ripping people off, and you're going to ruin your entire reputation over $22,000. Save that money.

[Rob]

Yeah, I mean, dude, I just googled because I wanted. Because I saw a video where he's saying he's half Jewish apparently. And I asked Google the AIO review. He's Azerbaijani American. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, moved to Queens and his parents in 1993 at the age 7. But yeah, Adam, he's.

[Pat]

Oh.

[Rob]

Every time I see him by, he walks around on the streets of New York asking questions and giving gold, giving silver. He actually loves people. He loves giving away stuff. And I think, I mean that's, that's what you get.

[Vinny]

This is what happens. You find success when you're good at something and then you can promote it. There's a product and there's marketing. His product is watches, diamonds, jewelry. But he's also a marketer. You talked about being a talent and being an operator. He's an operator, but he's also a talent. So it's, it's not easy to do. And, and it's a rough and ugly business. And this is sort of why people appreciate authentic people because this is who he is. If you've ever met this guy, he's.

[Rob]

In your face like this.

[Vinny]

He is what he is out there.

[Pat]

Yeah, I mean that, that's the gold world. You got certain jobs is not for everybody. You have to be ready to go to war. And for somebody that's watching this, say you don't know him. Say you just watch this for the first time like holy shit, I had no idea what happened here. Do you trust him more? Would you buy from him. Would you do business with him or would you not? That's. Think. Think about the level of conviction in that space. And Rob, do we have any stories that we haven't gotten into that we need to be fully. Is there anything we have left that we should get into?

[Adam]

The Mamdani price raising.

[Pat]

Oh, okay. Let's go into that one. We'll wrap up with that one here. So Mamdani is claiming. Let me read this story. Rob, you got a video on this as well. Subway and bus fare rises in New York to $3 on Sunday. And some people are like, wait a minute, what's this all about? Go ahead, Rob.

[Rob]

Rob, why do they always do that? Mayor Mamdani, he promised us free ride, but guess what? We're got instead. Higher bus fares. Yes, that's right. Today the price of this bus went up to $3. You know why? Because even with this price increase, New York City buses and subways are barely able to function. The mayor of New York City has actually never had control over the transportation that is controlled by the state. Yes, that's right. The Governor Mamdani, he lied to all of you. And guess who's paying the price? All of us. Literally.

[Pat]

There you go. So on Sunday, prices went up to $3 from $2 and $0.90 10% $0.10 increase. A cost of weekly, monthly. Monthly tickets on Long Island Rail Road and Metro north railroads which are based on distance travel will increase by 4 and a half percent. One way fares will climb up 8% but accompanied minor 17 and under. Canara 2 commuters railroads for a dollar. Previous limit was 11 a trip using Access a Ride paratransit service will also cost $3. Starting next year, tolls at the authority bridges and tunnels will increase about 7 and a half percent. Most vehicles using the Queen's Midtown Tunnel, for example will climb 7 from 7:46 to 7:46 from 646:94. DMTA expects the changes. You ready for this? To raise an additional $350 million a year in additional revenue. Mamdani, what happened? You said you were going to fix this. What happened? Vinnie, thoughts?

[Rob]

Well, first of all, I think. How many times did we warn you? This is exactly how a con artist works. They sell the people the fantasy. Everything's going to be free. And remember the day he won. The next day he made the video like, remember, I didn't want any money. I need your money.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Rob]

Exactly two weeks later. Adam, remember I told you I was done asking you for money. I need some more money. So and again, this is what that young generation that was like, free and you got sold. Just like with Obama when they're like, I remember those videos of those. Of those black ladies in the street going, he's gonna pay for my cell phone. He's gonna pay for my rent. Did he do any of that? Didn't do any of it. He's constantly asking for money. Like, just think about everything that he's done. He's hired ex cons that have been convicted for kidnapping and robbery and all that stuff. He's lied to everybody's face. He keeps asking for money. And then one of his best picks, his housing official, Sia Weaver, top housing advisor for New York City. Mayor Mamdani. Look at what she says about people and your housing and white people. She's saying that we've treated property as something personal for centuries. Now it's time to see it as a collective. Here you go, New York City. There you got it. Go ahead, Rob. I think the reality is, is that.

[Adam]

For centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good.

[Pat]

And we are going to.

[Adam]

Transitioning to treating it as a collective.

[Rob]

Good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently.

[Adam]

And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to.

[Pat]

Have a different relationship to property than.

[Rob]

The one that we congratulate. Ready for that? Hey, Tom, you just bought a house. When are we moving in? That's what's going to be.

[Adam]

Attention, New York.

[Pat]

Run.

[Rob]

Yeah, run. And it's. I don't understand how stupid people can be. I mean, I see it. To vote for this, it's never worked. It's. How many case studies, how many examples from different countries. The guy is just that stupid smile that you guys all fell for. New Yorkers, I'm sorry, you. We warned you. And it's happening in front of your face.

[Adam]

It's all collective. I can ask you some questions. And a collective. Who built that building? Who put the couch in that? Who paid for the couch?

[Vinny]

The capitalists.

[Adam]

Who put the. Who put the stove in there? Who put the fridge in there? Who built the building next to the building? Who built the store that's on the corner where they. They got their stuff? Where did this all come from? It's amazing to me that in a collective, we suddenly, we all own everything. In a collective. That's. That's what she's saying. You'll have a different relationship with your property. Wow. Interesting. You'll have a different relationship with your property. So at least she acknowledges that once upon a time it belonged to somebody. But once you stop this, where does it all come from? Where's it come from?

[Vinny]

Yeah, exactly.

[Adam]

Where does tomorrow's house come from and tomorrow's couch and tomorrow's fridge and tomorrow's little grocery store? Where? Where?

[Vinny]

Yeah, well, to use a famous phrase from the biz, Doc, you know, words, talk, action, scream. Stop listening to what these socialists say and just watch what they do. Judge them by their actions. Of course they're gonna tell you that the warm comfort of collectivism is like a blanket on a cold, wintry night. They're seizing the means of production like Karl Marx wanted to do and Joseph Stalin did and the Mao people did. I mean, how many times do we need to hear this? I said this earlier. Can we stop it with a nonsensical debate over what's better, Capitalism or communism? Free market enterprise? Capitalism or social? Why are we still doing this? And the stupid people of New York fell for it. And now this white lady gets on there and goes, so, yeah, we're gonna have to come after your houses and especially the white people, you know, because you're white. So you need to have white guilt and white shame. And you're obviously our colonizers because, you know, you were born in Brooklyn. So seizing the means of production, we forget we're one generation from tyranny. And unless people stand up and start doing something about this, Stop believing the speeches and start focusing on the policies. Yes, Mamdani lied. Now you fell for it. Are you gonna vote for him again? Are you gonna keep him in power? Let's see what happens.

[Pat]

There you go, New York. We're watching very closely to see what's going to be taking place with your incredible city. A lot of weird clips are coming out, but this is just a week into it and it's already up $350 million. Imagine what's going to look like a year into it, two years into it. So, New York, I hope you guys are able to protect that beautiful city that I love so very much. Thank God there's a guy named Tracks that's making sure at least Gold people are going to be honest and diamond people are going to be honest. I hope the rest of you guys do the same as well. Having said that, God bless. We will do this again on Wednesday. Rob, I believe we're back at it again. God bless, everybody. Take care. Bye bye, bye bye.