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Adam Sosnick
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Patrick Bet-David
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Adam Sosnick
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Patrick Bet-David
All right, episode 512 podcast. Lots of stories. Let's get into it, folks. A few things again. I see a story here. Vinnie. I don't know if this is like a true story or not. The fact that this guy Jack Smith wants to drop everything, is that really the case?
Vinnie Fisher
Is that weird?
Patrick Bet-David
Is that really the case?
Tom Zawacki
I think they did it already.
Patrick Bet-David
Wasn't Jack like all about going after Trump? So now that he's the president, like, oh, let's drop drop. He's innocent, right? What a great turnaround. Good for you, Mr. Smith. Anyways, we got a few other stories. We got two seconds left, but we got a few other stories. So Rachel Maddard takes a $5 million pay cut and you have to see the reaction to this one meme that even I fell for. You gotta see this reaction. It's hilarious. We'll show it to you. Sonny host and apparently is is doing what? Four more legal notices which is she's, she's apparently like, hey, she got lawyers.
Adam Sosnick
She's now the legal correspondent for the View.
Patrick Bet-David
That is wild to see that, you know, constantly. Anyways, we'll talk. By the way, there's a clip. I don't know if you've seen it or not, folks. It's her ancestries being linked to slave owners. And have you seen this clip or know her reaction?
Vinnie Fisher
I think, I think I have.
Patrick Bet-David
It's incredible. Her reaction.
Vinnie Fisher
So her family owned slaves.
Patrick Bet-David
Her family were slave owners. This is race, baby. Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
So she would just kill me if it like.
Patrick Bet-David
Right. I mean she's tied to it. So anyways, Megan Merkel, this is, this is for some people that are in very good relationships. This one's going to be tough for you. Megan Merkel released a statement after solo Thanksgiving appearance amid professional separation from Prince Henry and Prince Harry. And there's footages of Prince Harry secretly celebrating. But I mean that, that, that's here and There. I mean we don't have it, but it is what it is. China looks to it looks at Musk as conduit to Trump. Seeking to ward off harsh policies. TikTok seeks Musk's guidance. Bezos denies Musk's claims. Amazon founder predicted Trump would lose election. And Bezos responds. You got to see that tweet exchange between the two of them. And then we got Bill Maher and Neil Degrasse Tyson clashing. This is actually made for tv. We'll show that Netanyahu faces UK arrests over ICC warrant. And there's a bunch of reactions to that with different states. Canada's Trudeau says he would arrest Netanyahu and ICC's orders. This is Trudeau, which by the way, that's a whole different mess that will he's, he's saying this while he's also at Taylor Swift's concert celebrating while there's a ton of things going on in his country while Trump is going to.
Adam Sosnick
Put tariffs on him.
Patrick Bet-David
That's right here very soon. You're right, we're going to talk about that as well. Joe Rogan unloads on Zelensky and saying F you man military industrial complex as fears of World War 3 grow. Meanwhile a bunch of other things react. I think the boxer Klitschko Rob we have that reaction as well. Right. When he reacts to it, we'll show that. Brazil Donna Brazil. We kept bragging about jobs when working two can't afford things mom can't proceed with gender affirming care of preteen son dealing dad brutal blows after years long fight lost all parental fight rights. I already told about Justin Trudeau. Coleman says 2025 will be year of generating income. McDonald's to add McValue menu to boost meal deal offerings and then meet the couples putting mortgages before marriages. We'll talk about that. An oil price dropped 20% in the next two years. If the US implements tariffs Goldman Sachs says and Jamie Foxx addresses whether Shawn Diddy Combs was responsible for his 2023 hospitalization. Just kind of weird. And in a couple bonus stories, Microsoft says massive outlook and teams outrage outage is mostly resolved. Macy's found a Single employee bid $154 million worth of expenses. This Macy's employee hit $154 million.
Vinnie Fisher
Did he buy an island?
Tom Zawacki
What?
Patrick Bet-David
First of all, I don't even know how you do it but we'll talk.
Adam Sosnick
About he was hired by the Defense Department is now doing their account Pentagon.
Patrick Bet-David
He works for, you know this person works for Pentagon. Now that's a good one. CNN Ways expanding primetime anchor Caitlin Collins role to chief White House correspondent replacing Jim Acosta. Trump border czar Homan said something to the Denver resistance. Mayor, you just have to see this. It's phenomenal. And then obviously the tariffs that are coming up is exciting to see what's going to happen there with Mexico, I believe China and Canada. Having said that, gang, a couple things. One, today, the last hat we had, the one out of 500, it's gone, it's sold like you wouldn't believe. And the one that's one out of 50, I believe there's a couple of them selling on eBay for four or $5,000 numbered hats because it was only 50 of them. Today we are dropping a blackout hat. This will go in no time because it's only 250 of them. This is blackout. Late at night in the dark, you put it on, you can see the valuetainment. The future looks bright hat. This is limited edition numbered on the site. Out of 250. So first come, first serve, place the order. It's numbered again, out of 250 blackout. We're going to put the link up there for you to get. VT merch.com Go place your order. And by the way, for some of you guys that want to wear business gear, business attire, these polo shirts, I wear them two, three times a week with the vitamin logo on it. It's incredible. It's comfortable, it's fitted right. If you want to place an order of those as well, we got some of those available that just came back in. It's in full stock. I highly recommend whatever you're going to order, go order it. Because on Thursday, you know what starts on Thursday, put it in your calendar. Massive, massive, massive Black Friday offer starts Thursday morning. We'll be doing a podcast on Thanksgiving. But these numbered hats will go in no time. Okay, having said that, let's get right into it. Rob, do you mind playing the clip? The clip I want to start off with is the Bill maher with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. The reason for this, because we had Neil DeGrasse Tyson on and I've been on Bill before and we had a great time. He spoke 90, 90 of the time. I sat there, had a glass of water. And so it's, it's fun watching some of the infighting because in here the amount of things that Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the scientist is saying that Bill Maher can no longer take it. Vinnie, I think it's a couple Clips, Right. It's not just one or two clips.
Vinnie Fisher
There's this one, there's another one. And then I have an old one that he was talking about. Something about the trash.
Patrick Bet-David
Played his clip first. Let's react to it. Go for it.
Rob
Scientific America, the magazine.
Patrick Bet-David
I remember when it was around when I was.
Rob
I grew up with it. Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Grew up with it.
Rob
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, well, their editor had to quit.
Rob
You saw this? Yeah, I heard about it. Because she expressed some opinions, right? Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, sure. But it sure didn't sound scientific.
Rob
It didn't sound like the person I.
Patrick Bet-David
Would want to be running Scientific American.
Rob
Okay. It was a rant on Twitter.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay. I could read it to you. It's.
Rob
It's really ugly. You know, I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of fucking fascists.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
I would. I'm not.
Rob
Okay. I'm not a gasket right there.
Patrick Bet-David
All right.
Rob
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm not for canceling anybody on either side.
Rob
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
But here's what I think is the scandal.
Rob
This is in Scientific American less than a year ago.
Patrick Bet-David
Inequity between male and female athletes is the result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes, but of biases in how they are treated in sports. That's nuts and it sure ain't scientific. And it's in Scientific American and that's why the Democrats lost the election. It's true.
Rob
Bill, every 20 minutes on your platform you come up with another reason why the Democrats lost. You already have the answer. They lost the election. So anything you say is why they did it.
Patrick Bet-David
First of all, you don't watch this show, so you don't know this. I know you don't and it's okay. But you talk as if you do and you fucking don't, and that's okay. Just don't bullshit me. That's the one thing people can't ever do on this show is bullshit me. And that's fine. But I don't say that. I have very good reasons. But engage with the idea here. What I'm asking is Scientific American is.
Rob
Saying basically that the reason why an.
Patrick Bet-David
NBA WNBA team can't beat the Lakers is because of societal bias.
Rob
What you're saying is not. Scientific American says that an editor for Scientific American says that who no longer has the job. So don't indict 170 year old magazine because somebody, okay, this is called Scientific.
Patrick Bet-David
American and they're printing something.
Rob
Someone enters the cesspool that is social media and then participates in that exchange. So why can't you just talk about science.
Patrick Bet-David
Why can't you just say this is.
Rob
Not scientific and scientific Americans should do better? Well, does she still have her job?
Patrick Bet-David
No, not because of this. I said the scandal is not her tweet.
Rob
Because that was like a year ago. Was it? Which one was a year ago?
Patrick Bet-David
I think a year ago, women still couldn't beat men in basketball or any other sport. And it wasn't because of society. You don't see a problem.
Rob
Long distance swimming, Women might actually have the advantage. You can look into that.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, maybe long distance swimming.
Rob
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay.
Rob
Yeah, just. I've looked into it. Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
By the way.
Adam Sosnick
Well, I'm going to file you under.
Patrick Bet-David
Part of the problem. You can pause it right there. So what do you think when you see this, Vinnie?
Vinnie Fisher
I mean, to me, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is probably the dumbest smart person I've ever seen. Like, on the planet Earth. It's like, there's, like, you see, and I love this when it's Democrats Pat going at it. And now you see where the Democrat liberal line is and then where they start saying far left. This guy can talk his way into anything. Like, and this is a clip. You showed this a while ago. This is him about transgender. Like, think about this. His. With all the sciences out the window. If you wake up in the morning and you think you're a girl and you're a biological man, then that's what you are and that's what people should accept you at. I think it's, it's, it's conflating two separate things. And it's just. This is when smart people are trying to go way too intricate and break things down. Can we play this clip really quick? This is Neil Degrasse Tyson. When it comes to the trans and what you think and what you believe that you are.
Rob
My point is, apparently the XXXY chromosomes are insufficient because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature we want to portray the gender of our choice.
Vinnie Fisher
What is he even talking about?
Rob
Either the one you're assigned, the one you choose to be, whatever it is. And so now here. So, so now just to tie a bow on this.
Vinnie Fisher
Put a bow on it.
Rob
I say to you. Somewhere I read, somewhere I think I read that the United States was a land where we have the pursuit of happiness.
Vinnie Fisher
But so science goes out the way.
Rob
No matter my chromosomes, today I feel 80% female, 20% male. I'm going to, I'm going to put on makeup. I'm going to do that tomorrow. I might feel 80% male. I'll remove the makeup and I'll wear a muscle shirt.
Patrick Bet-David
That is, that is disturbing to listen.
Vinnie Fisher
And so here's my thing. So and I remember how we always talk about the money and follow the money at him. We always go back what is his agenda? What is his goal? And saying stuff like women can actually compete. And think about it. He actually did the research to find one thing Tom where statistically and one thing out of all the sports women might not they do might have an edge on men in long distance swimming. So there has to be something up the for somebody that smart to say something dumb like that. There has to be something behind it. There's no way he really thinks like that. There's no way.
Adam Sosnick
And I think, I think the example he was looking for in long distance swimming was a. I think she was a Floridian. Rob Diane, help me out here. Diana Nyad. Diana Diane Nyad but she tried several times to swim to Cuba or something in these incredible long distance. So he's using this one woman apparently that tried and yeah, Diana Nyad and she was, she was incredible athlete. She's out there trying to swim to Cuba and trying to swim to the Bahamas set all these records back and forth. So he's using her when the men that tried got bored and wanted to stop for a beer. So that's what really happened with the.
Vinnie Fisher
Long distance in the water problem.
Adam Sosnick
So it's like you know what, I've been doing this for about five hours. Do you think we could stop and just maybe watch a ballgame or something? But the issue with Neil DeGrasse Tyson this is what happened when a person who is genuinely intellectually gifted you suddenly dive in to the opinion and the pool of wokeness and suddenly you get boiled like a frog. And you sound nonsensical because he is trying to support the opinion of woke the opinion of that side Bill Maher Bill destroyed him on Scientific American. But this is, this is what's going on. This is why he sounds dumb is because he's an incredibly smart guy making no sense trying.
Patrick Bet-David
Even Elon and him had an issue. So here's Eric posting. Eric, Rob, can you zoom in a little bit for me to see the last thing I want to give credit Abenante he posts his tweet on November 22nd. It's an exchange between Mar and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Elon @ the top responds and says the following. He says wow, they really don't get it. Mars is critical to the long term survival of Consciousness. Also, I'm not going to ask any venture capitalist for money. I realize that it makes no sense as an investment. That's why I'm gathering resources. Play the clip, Rob. This is another one. Watch this, folks.
Rob
How soon could Elon Musk realistically send humans to Mars?
Patrick Bet-David
Another good question.
Rob
I have strong views on that. My read of the history of space exploration is such that we do big expensive things only when it's geopolitically expedient, such as we feel threatened by an enemy. And so for him to just say let's go to Mars because it's the next thing to do. What does that venture capitalist meeting look like, Elon, what do you want to do? I want to go to Mars. How much will it cost? A trillion dollars. Is it safe?
Patrick Bet-David
No.
Rob
People will probably die. What's the return on the investment? Nothing. That's a five minute meeting and it doesn't happen.
Adam Sosnick
So we agree.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm not forgotten.
Rob
Okay, wait, wait.
Vinnie Fisher
We got nothing against Mars.
Rob
What I'm saying is here's how we get to Mars. China leaks a memo doesn't even have to be true. They leak a memo that they want to put military bases on Mars. Then we're on Mars in 10 months. But NASA doesn't have its spacecraft, but Elon does. Here's my spacecraft to Mars. And we end up paying him to use his spaceship to get to Mars. And that'd be easy for China because Mars is already red. Right. So that'd be easy sell.
Patrick Bet-David
That'd be an easy sell. Okay.
Rob
That's how. So I don't see it happening until governments judge that is geopolitically in our interest. Otherwise I don't see it as a, as just.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know.
Adam Sosnick
He's gone from a scientist to a nut. Apparently he only owns one tie.
Vinnie Fisher
One tie that has a galaxy on it. And now he's anti space exploration.
Patrick Bet-David
That could be the branding thing that he's doing. I don't have a problem with that. But what I, what I will tell you what this is, you know, you know the clip when Elon is in tears, crying because the guys that were his heroes were laughing at him. And he says, how do you feel about some of these, your heroes getting emotional? Right? Yeah, it's, it's, it's actually an incredible clip to watch. And I've showed this clip to my, my sons multiple times. The bottom left. No, no, Rob, go back. You just had it. Go back.
Vinnie Fisher
It was on the documentary.
Patrick Bet-David
Left. That one right there, Right there. Go ahead. And turn on the audio. Go for it. Are American heroes who don't like this idea. Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan have both testified against commercial space flight in the way that you're developing it. And I wonder what you think of that. I was very sad to see that, because those guys are. Yeah, you know, those guys are heroes of mine. So it's really tough, you know, I.
Vinnie Fisher
Wish they would come and visit and.
Patrick Bet-David
See the hardware that we're doing here, and I think that would change their mind. Look at that. They inspired you to do this, didn't they? Yes. And to see them casting stones in your direction, it's difficult. By the way, let me. Let me tell you. Let me tell you something about this thing here. The only way a person is able to go through the pains that they have to build what they build, you have to believe in it. And you have to have a high score of childlike. Childlikeness. Not childish childlike. Read a book. It could have been 48 laws or it could have been Art of Seduction or one of those books that says some of the greatest leaders of all time had childlike tendencies. Like their level of curiosities. I really want to find out what's going on. Like a What?
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, Christmas.
Patrick Bet-David
What's gonna be here tomorrow? Oh, my God, I can't wait. Like, how am I gonna go to sleep? Like, you know, when we were kids, field trend. When you become an adult, it's like, that's just Christmas. It's Santa Claus. It's like the other. They went and watched this movie of the Rock. What is it called? Red Notice, Rob, I don't know what it's called. Red Something. Your. Your parent. I thought maybe you've seen it. Read something. Like, with the rock. It's called something. I don't know. A red one. I freaking loved it. It's the story of. He is the bodyguard of Santa Claus. Okay? It's actually a very good movie. And we're going. And I'm telling Tico and Dylan and son, I say, you guys know this is based on a true story. And they're like, what are you talking about? I said, dad, stop. I'm telling you. I said, so? They're like, well, you know, Santa's not real. I said, dude, if you don't think Santa's real, what makes you think you're gonna get a gift on Christmas?
Vinnie Fisher
Hilarious.
Patrick Bet-David
You say something like that. You insult Santa, he may not come through for you. And they're looking at me. They know. Yeah, but there's a Second of it where it's like maybe this, you know, maybe, right? So what's the point? The moral of the story is this. Here's a moral of the story. The moral of the story is you have a guy. How many more times does he have to prove to you that he specializes in doing the impossible? What else does this guy have to do for you to realize he's not doing it for money? What does he have to do? Tell me. SpaceX, Tesla X, boring company. Neural link, wanting to cure people who can't see and back pain and all this. What else does this guy have to do? And he's the number one video, this video game that. He's the number one player of Diablo. How the hell do you. Paul. And he's got 12 kids. He's had 12 kids. He's got 11 kids, right? How do you pull all this stuff up? And then you sitting there, who hasn't built anything ever? You just read books all day and you went to school and you got good grades. You're criticizing a doer. There is nothing more embarrassing than a person who is from academia sitting there with their suit and tie on criticizing a guy that's on the ground, on the floor, getting down and dirty, building a business, trying to do something that other people simply don't want to do because they got so much money and they just want to go to parties and this guy wants to build something. Anyone to say something like that? It's just a bad look. It's an embarrassing look when you say something like that. And by the way, kudos to Bill for as much as he's part of that camp and he's part of that community to sit there and say, dude, I can't effing take any more with this freaking. What else are you going to say next? That Kamala's a winner? What else are you going to tell me? I'm going to have to sit here and listen to the stuff you have to say? Anyways, that's my thoughts, Adam. I'll give you the final thoughts before we go to the next.
Tom Zawacki
I mean, you really took the words out of my mouth. I'll tell you why. Because this the most glaring thing to me between each Elon Musk and Neil DeGrasse Tyson is one is a capitalist and one is apparently seems to be a socialist. Do you know the names of the companies that Neil DeGrasse Tyson has built? Do you know the names of them? Zero. He's never built a company. He has zero companies. He's built on his resume. This is a living, breathing example and metaphor of a capitalist builder doer versus what appears to be a socialist professor who basically is aligned with the progressive left. And what I loved about COVID is some people got better and some people got way worse. But no matter what, everything and everyone got exposed. All the bad ideas got exposed, all the bad policies got exposed. By the way, do you know where Neil Degrasse Tyson got his bachelor's and his masters? Take a wild guess.
Vinnie Fisher
California.
Tom Zawacki
Nope. You're close.
Vinnie Fisher
Where?
Tom Zawacki
Harvard and Columbia.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, weird.
Tom Zawacki
The elite, elite, elite Marxist institutions of our time. Now there's people that went to each of those universities that have done great things. I'm not saying that everything is uniformity like that. But we've seen, we've seen what happened with everything that happened that's. But we've seen what happened, everything since basically. Covid on October 7th. So there's a difference. Vinnie, you said it. You sort of said it. There's a difference between being smart and well read and wise and being a builder Elon Musk has built. How many companies that you just listed off? Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Listen, you know the grass Tyson, Maybe.
Vinnie Fisher
You said co. You said co and everything. Maybe because you, hey, if I had to guess, he's gotten the vaccine and nine boosters. That's probably affecting his brain because something's off.
Tom Zawacki
And just think about it, off with that guy. He's arguing with Bill Maher of what's a man and what's a woman. Bill's like, no, no, no, no.
Vinnie Fisher
You lose all your credibility.
Tom Zawacki
Classic liberal.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
And you're not going to win this argument with me, hoss. And by the way, I'm going to give myself a little bit of credit right now. During the election night, which was amazing. Thanks shout out to the team. We just did that event. You said, what are the reasons? Biggest things, top five things. And I said, listen, I think this thing with Dylan Mulvaney and the bull Bud Light thing, because that was sort of the tip of the spear of this what does a man. What is a woman?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, that upsets you.
Vinnie Fisher
That really pissed you off.
Tom Zawacki
And I think we should get.
Vinnie Fisher
Because you're an ally of the community.
Tom Zawacki
100 the straight dudes who like hot chicks. Community. Love that community. But the, the, the Dylan Mulvaney thing was sort of a, the tipping point, a metaphor for. Hold on. You can't even identify this dude. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, or what's left of Joe Biden, sat down with Dylan Mulany to have a conversation with women. Are you in Kidding me?
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah. $27 billion loss, Bud Light.
Tom Zawacki
I remember the day like it was Easter. And on the same day, I was at model volleyball doing what we do. It was the same day that was Transgender Day of Visibility.
Vinnie Fisher
They reminded us.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
And the White House sent out a Happy Easter. And five minutes later. And also happy translator David. I'm like, come on, guys.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
How many. How many different holidays did you say they had, people?
Vinnie Fisher
147.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, 140.
Tom Zawacki
Shout out to the gay uncles out there.
Patrick Bet-David
That's as of a year ago, guys. It's climate. Don't disrespect them.
Vinnie Fisher
It's probably a day right now.
Patrick Bet-David
Don't disrespect any day. By the way, let me just show you something here that I think, Rob, if you can.
Tom Zawacki
I'm disappointed.
Patrick Bet-David
You know what I love? Here's what I love. Okay. We asked a question about baptism, on how many people watch and change their minds. And like, you know, maybe. Maybe I'm. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe this is. This maybe. I mean, growth in life is to go through those moments that we're all going through. Right. Every single year. This is one of my favorite clips that they had. These guys had me react to this clip and Adam Cena. But I just want to show to everybody to know. This is Adam's four years ago, folks. Oh, what is this clip? Go ahead, Rob.
Tom Zawacki
This guy was smart, but Adam Wise at the time doesn't.
Patrick Bet-David
For the fifth time, this is where the audience gets upset sometimes because you don't answer questions.
Tom Zawacki
No matter what you say. You're not going to convince me to vote for Trump.
Patrick Bet-David
So whatever way you want, I'm not.
Tom Zawacki
Going to say you got me.
Patrick Bet-David
That's when you lose people, brother. That's when you lose people.
Tom Zawacki
Because I'm not willing to.
Patrick Bet-David
No, let me explain to you why you lose people there.
Tom Zawacki
If you're saying an AOC or Ilhan Omar, I'm not interested in them either. Can I hear the end of what you said here?
Patrick Bet-David
No. Doesn't have it. That's the point. It doesn't have it. But we have, brother. We had many, many more of those moments. But it's good to see that this.
Tom Zawacki
Comes down to power versus force, which you always talk about.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
And what's in the middle? Just being able to be reasonable.
Patrick Bet-David
It's above middle. Middle is just. Just so. Just so you know. No, the. The number one. The number one level, which is very weird. That Neil is not going to.
Tom Zawacki
Right.
Patrick Bet-David
The number one level is the courage. Is courage, the power of consciousness. First level of consciousness, where you're going into a good area is the courage. The courage of what? To get in the ring. You could be wrong. The courage of talking to somebody. You could be wrong. The courage of a debate, the courage of a conversation. The courage of that right there. If you look at yellow, the third aisle, you see courage, then neutrality. I can talk to everybody, then I'm willing to talk to everybody, then I'm accepting that I was wrong. The acceptance, that's where these guys can't do it. The left is not even at courage.
Rob
Right.
Patrick Bet-David
They're dropping courage to pride and anger. By the way, do you have the clip from Scott Jennings? Who by the way, Scott Jennings is single handedly keeping CNN in business. Do you? Is this the clip, Rob, what they're telling about Twitter, is this the one? Yeah, this the one. Watch this. So check this out. CNN itself does a poll to show that the most fair platform is Twitter. We reacted to this. If is this. Play that clip, Rob, just to kind of show this to you. Watch this, folks. Okay, go ahead. This is CNN reporting on this. And one of the big reasons he bought Twitter slash X is because he wanted to make it his own platform, remake it in his own image. 22. This really gets 65% down among those who regularly X slash Twitter for News. Back in 2022, 65% of those who regularly use Twitter slash X for news were Democrats. Just 31% were Republicans. Look at where we are today. Just a completely different picture now. It's basically this is Democrats. Remember this? Now let me show you this clip. Go ahead, Rob. Play the clip of the great Scott Jennings. Go ahead. I heard what you're saying about X. I saw a survey this week. It's now the most ideologically balanced.
Tom Zawacki
Oh, come on.
Patrick Bet-David
User platform. Scott, stop. It's too early.
Tom Zawacki
I just sat down. I've only been here for two years.
Patrick Bet-David
You cannot say that. Who was the source? Look at this.
Vinnie Fisher
What?
Patrick Bet-David
I thought we, we reported it on this network. It's not accurate. Right there.
Vinnie Fisher
That's hilarious. I love that a CNN host who.
Patrick Bet-David
Doesn'T watch CNN says we're wrong.
Vinnie Fisher
You tell me what's fun. Play the rest of the clip.
Patrick Bet-David
This is the funniest thing I've seen in my life.
Vinnie Fisher
Go ahead, Rob.
Patrick Bet-David
Can I.
Tom Zawacki
But my point is, can I reframe.
Patrick Bet-David
It a different way? Because the site changed radically, right? So whether you think the voices it.
Vinnie Fisher
Are, it is somehow More balanced.
Patrick Bet-David
Now, that's fine. But no doubt must influence Columbia and that you open it up and now you're there with his opinion and he is now part of this administration. So does anyone else think. Think that there should be this greater concern about billionaires purchasing media companies?
Vinnie Fisher
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
Would you be worried if Bill Gates controlled msnbc? No, because he's saying.
Tom Zawacki
Because Ms. Can I just say one thing?
Adam Sosnick
Well, nobody cared when Ben. What I wanted bought time. They don't care if they're billionaires. Do it.
Tom Zawacki
He's saying. So I. What I want. You know how they put subtitles on things. You know, you can do fact check, you know, false, true, false. I want under it to say feelings. Feelings, feelings. Facts, facts, data, data. Emotions, feelings. When they say things, well, he's evil or he's this. No, no, no, no. I love what Bill Maher says. Engage with the idea, engage with the concept. Half the time these people are saying things. It's just pure, raw emotion and feelings. Well, I feel this way, so I'm going to say it as a fact. He's like. She's like, show me the source. Are you flipping kidding me? This network. How about the guy you hired to basically pull all the data? Yeah, that guy. So go have a conversation with him. She's like, scott, I haven't had my coffee yet. Don't give a shit. Yeah, you're just. Feelings, feelings, feelings. Here's the facts.
Patrick Bet-David
But, you know, by the way, Benninghoff, if I'm not mistaken, retweeted something of Lex Friedman interview that was taking place and with Javier Millie. Okay, watch what he says here. So just. Okay, so Javier Melee. Now remember, Mark Benhoff is who this is. Guys that. Keep going lower. No, no, no place. Keep going lower. Keep going lower. Keep going lower. It's going to come up. You'll see. Javier Malay with Lex Friedman if. Keep going, keep going. Keep right there. Okay, go up and then zoom in on what he says. He says, one of the most compelling two hours I've listened to a world leader I had greatly misunderstood. Melee. His holistic perspective on economics, philosophy, society, history and spirituality is profoundly inspiring. This is a man that, on the concept of power versus force, is willing to listen and is accepting the fact that some of the opinions he had on Melee was wrong. And Benioff, guess what? Good for you. He owns Time magazine about to sell it. It doesn't help that he went from 4 million subscribers on Time magazine to 1.6, but still, the fact that a $10.7 billion man can get up there and say something like this. This is where the Neil DeGrasse Tyson and others should look at this and say, you know what? He's showing signs that he wants to maybe look at some other arguments instead of what we've been buying into all this time.
Tom Zawacki
Well, on the power versus force, if you can bring that up, you know how it was. Pride.
Patrick Bet-David
Yes.
Tom Zawacki
There's another word for pride. It's called hubris. It's excessive pride. I had to put like. Because you showed that video. When you have hubris and pride, it's unwilling to admit that maybe I'm wrong. Maybe, just maybe I've given. I've been given the wrong information or my feelings won't allow me to be willing or have the courage to admit that I was wrong. So a lot of these people have hubris, excessive pride. I think it was Icarus who flew too close to the sun in Greek mythology.
Vinnie Fisher
Yo. With the Icarus, yo. You're dropping Icarus, dog. It's not even 10:00.
Tom Zawacki
Listen, listen, don't make Tom start speaking German right now.
Patrick Bet-David
And I give a shout out to my sponsors. Yeah, today's spot. Today's sponsors shout out to Adderall. Sometimes when you take your podcast, you highlight. It just shows that Icarus comes out and all this Greek mythology. Let's go to the next story now, by the way, that's a joke. I'm not one of them. But let me go through this next story. All right, this is funny, guys. Imagine you're the mayor of Denver and you talk shit and you say, there is no way I'm going to abide by what these guys decide to do with the border. And let me read this to you. And then Tom Homan responds to him. Here is the mayor of Denver upset at President Trump and Homan because they're going to clean up the border and possibly deport a lot of illegal aliens. Look at his reaction. Go ahead, Rob.
Vinnie Fisher
I would certainly protest it and I.
Patrick Bet-David
Would expect other residents would do the same.
Adam Sosnick
Trump's new borders are.
Patrick Bet-David
Tom Homan has said that he is willing to arrest leaders like yourself.
Vinnie Fisher
Good.
Patrick Bet-David
For standing in the way of these policies that they want to enact. Would you be willing to go to jail for these things?
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah, I'm not afraid of that. And I'm also not seeking that.
Patrick Bet-David
I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable.
Vinnie Fisher
People how to solve hard problems. Republican and Democratic presidents in the past have all tried to find solutions to these problems. President Reagan helped people get access to work so they could stay and support themselves.
Patrick Bet-David
Biden and Harris worked on restricting entry at the border to close down.
Vinnie Fisher
There are a lot of ways to approach this problem.
Patrick Bet-David
We don't think it has to come to this.
Vinnie Fisher
But, yeah, I think when you look at, you know, Ralph Carr has always been one of my heroes. He was the governor who in the middle of the internment of Japanese Americans, said this was the wrong thing to do and he stood up. It was unpopular.
Patrick Bet-David
People were mad at him about it. That was the middle of wartime. The president comparing tomato go to apple and oranges go to. Go to the other one. Here's.
Vinnie Fisher
I love this.
Patrick Bet-David
Here's. Go ahead. You heard this mayor out there in Colorado.
Adam Sosnick
I want to get your reaction to.
Patrick Bet-David
It, and I want you to be clear about who has jurisdiction, the federal government or state and local governments. And if you're a sanctuary state or city, are you breaking the law? You're absolutely breaking law. All he has to do. Look at Arizona versus us, you'll see these breaking laws. But look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing.
Adam Sosnick
He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail. Because there's a statute. It's Title 8, United States Code 1324.
Patrick Bet-David
And what it says is it's a.
Adam Sosnick
Felony if you knowingly harbor and conceal.
Patrick Bet-David
An illegal alien from immigration authorities. There's also a felony to impede a.
Adam Sosnick
Federal law enforcement officer.
Patrick Bet-David
So if we don't want to help, that's fine.
Adam Sosnick
He can get the hell out of.
Patrick Bet-David
The way, but we're going to go do the job.
Adam Sosnick
President Trump has a mandate from American, American people.
Patrick Bet-David
We got to secure this country. We got to save American lives.
Adam Sosnick
And I find it shocking any mayor of a city would say, and President Trump's been clear, we want to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats.
Patrick Bet-David
I find it hard to believe that any mayor or governor would say they.
Adam Sosnick
Don'T want public safety threats removed from their neighborhoods.
Patrick Bet-David
I mean, I mean, I don't know what the hell is going on in Denver, but we're going to go and we're going to fix it. If he don't want to fix it.
Adam Sosnick
If he don't want to protect his communities, President Trump and ICE will.
Patrick Bet-David
There you go. A guy who is a doer scaring the hell out of a guy who is a people pleaser, okay? One side wants to sit there and act like it's. It's same thing that happened in the past. You're talking about letting people in illegally. Why do you think you did that? You left the border open for three years. You want the American people to sit there and believe that it was just accidental, that that happened? Oh, it's just not a big deal. No one's believing it. Now the right people are getting hired and things are going to.
Vinnie Fisher
Can I correct you just really fast? No, just.
Patrick Bet-David
This is. I have to correct Sonny O'Shaugh. Go ahead.
Vinnie Fisher
I like to make a legal statement. No, because you said three years. No, no, it's still open today. PBD. It's going to be four years and going until January 20th when this thing is going to get shut down. So it's been four years and it's nonstop. And for him, you notice how he was like, I'm willing to go to jail. I don't want it to get there yet. Because that type of guy would never last a day in prison with that attitude. And I think it's, it's, it's. By the way, it's Denver, Colorado. These people act like they give a damn, but we. He's probably getting paid and they're going to get votes.
Adam Sosnick
I look at this and I see the standard playbook of the left bring up something so over the top and try to draw a motion out of the other side. Trump is Hitler. Trump is Hitler. This is Tiananmen Square moment here in Denver. No, it's not. It's moving criminals out of your city so that the people can live safely. But guess what? When the left runs out of logic, they go to feelings. They go to over the top high emotional response statements, and it's completely unsurprising. And if he really wants to go to jail, then the Denver mayor better get used to the words. Hold still, Mrs. Johnston.
Tom Zawacki
Wow, Tom's grabbing those shoulder blades again. By the way, what is the most watered down word these days?
Vinnie Fisher
Hitler.
Tom Zawacki
Racist.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, Hitler.
Tom Zawacki
Nazi. It's like you're just watering down what words actually used to have meaning. By the way.
Adam Sosnick
Upsetting to me, I think it's upsetting me because we take huge tragedies in history and we've somehow minimized their history in the minds of the children growing up, so they can't really understand the true horrors of what happened. And the villains of history that need to be seen as villains on a 10 out of the 10 scale, and suddenly it's all casualized. I think that. I think that is criminal.
Vinnie Fisher
He makes it. Makes a great point to Adam, doesn't he? Like now, because of the left, they have successfully made Hitler a word that people now go like this. Now Hitler. Yeah, they go like this. And this makes people now go like this. Younger people go, maybe Hitler wasn't that bad if he's pro country.
Tom Zawacki
And you know what I did? You know what I do? I said, wow. I said, oh, did Trump kill 6 million Jews and 10 million people? Well, no, he didn't do that. All right, did. Did they invade all these countries all over Europe and take or try to take over the world? No, he didn't do that.
Vinnie Fisher
So, yeah, leave it to the left. Leave it to the left. By the way, not bad.
Tom Zawacki
I don't know if ever get a squ.
Patrick Bet-David
Rare.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, yeah.
Tom Zawacki
I don't know if I'm ever getting a chance to use this reference, but did you ever see the movie? It's a parody. Don't be a menace to South Central. You've seen this movie?
Vinnie Fisher
Of course.
Tom Zawacki
When he goes, lock me up, everyone's like, yeah, throw away the key. I ain't scared to go to jail. I ain't scared of being a cell with a man with the soap running down his back of his ass. And it was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Adam Sosnick
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Tom Zawacki
We just said we're trying to go to jail. That's. That's a Denver mayor.
Patrick Bet-David
He's like, I'll go to jail.
Tom Zawacki
I'll sleep with three men of the same.
Vinnie Fisher
Whoa, hey, baby.
Tom Zawacki
Peaceful protest.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, let's go to the next one here. We're going to. Let's go to the next one, Rob. So Joe Rogan, the documentary Joe Rogan is reacting to Zelensky and what they're doing out there where as, as much as the back and forth, people are seeing the feud. We are very close to potential World War 3, and people are just flirting with this idea. Ah, you know what? It's not a big deal. You can send the long range missiles. It's going to be okay. Okay, Zelensky, let's send the long range missiles to Putin. Okay, Putin. Hey, here's what's going to look like if you f with us. This is what these nuclear weapons we send you around. No, no, it's okay. It's not even. Nothing's going to happen. And so Joe is sitting here saying this. Go ahead, Rob the world we're living.
Vinnie Fisher
In now, and that's la and that's New York and that's a lot of places that got fucked up by incompetent people. I don't know, I just feel safer.
Adam Sosnick
Knowing, like, police might go for all.
Patrick Bet-David
I feel safer knowing that Trump is in office. I do, too. I, like, feel great about it. Like, I just. Like, what?
Vinnie Fisher
I don't feel safe right now. They're launching missiles into Russia.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
How do you.
Vinnie Fisher
How are you allowed to do that when you're on the way out? Like, the people don't want you be there anymore. This should be like some sort of a, like, pause for, like, significant actions that could potentially start World War Three. Maybe that would be a good thing that we would like to avoid from a dying former president. The whole thing is nuts.
Patrick Bet-David
I mean, look, I don't know shit about politics.
Vinnie Fisher
Zelensky says Putin is terrified.
Tom Zawacki
You know who he's talking to?
Patrick Bet-David
Fuck you, man. Fuck you people.
Vinnie Fisher
You fucking people are about to start World War Three.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, it's crazy.
Adam Sosnick
Russia fired a missile today.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Vinnie Fisher
They fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time ever. It's the first time one of those has ever been used.
Patrick Bet-David
That's insanity.
Vinnie Fisher
Insanity because those intercontinental ballistic missiles can.
Patrick Bet-David
Have nukes on them.
Vinnie Fisher
This one didn't. But if it does, the whole world changes. Yep. And it changes because the military industrial complex. And it changes because the money that's going to Ukraine. And it changes because the outgoing president or whoever the fuck is actually running the country is designed to do something, decided to do something fucking insane.
Tom Zawacki
Fucking insane.
Vinnie Fisher
You don't see him get that.
Tom Zawacki
I think we're about to see a new version of Joe Rogan, because when's the last time Joe Rogan reinvented himself? You've always given him his flowers and his shine. Well, he can do mma, he can do comedy, he can do interviews, he can do so many different things. But think about it. When is he ever publicly voted or endorsed? Donald Trump?
Vinnie Fisher
Never. I know.
Tom Zawacki
I mean, he's been doing podcasts for over a decade.
Patrick Bet-David
There's no question about it. But I want you to see the reaction here. Rob, this is. Can you tell the fighter this is the heavyweight champion?
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. But he's also, I think, a big player in Ukraine.
Patrick Bet-David
Ukraine. He is. Go ahead, Rob. Joe Rogan, I listen to your latest podcast. I'm sending you this video to let you know that it is agree. You talk about these American weapons being sent to Ukraine, which you believe will lead to the Third World War. So let me tell you that you're repeating Russian propaganda. Putin's Russia is in trouble, so they want to scare you and people like you. His war was supposed to last three days. It has lasted three years, thanks to the heroism and sacrifice of us Ukrainians. So you're Using the only weapon that Putin really intends to use. Propaganda. And this weapon really weakens our democracies. Putin's Russia wants to destroy Ukraine quietly. They want America to stay quiet. Not great. But quiet. A great America is not an America that abandons countries that defend freedom with their lives. In short. You see I have quite a few points of difference. If you invite me on your podcast we could discuss them like free men.
Vinnie Fisher
I wonder how much of that $180 billion he's getting. That. What. But what are you talking about? Like everything that's happening right now is obvious. It's blinking. It's all these guys that are trying to start a war before Biden is out. There's no even. It's not even a secret.
Tom Zawacki
What do you mean?
Vinnie Fisher
Everybody? Like not. I mean start us getting really involved with the war. Like start a war.
Tom Zawacki
Really.
Vinnie Fisher
No. I mean.
Patrick Bet-David
I agree.
Vinnie Fisher
No. I agree. We're at.
Patrick Bet-David
We're at war.
Vinnie Fisher
Listen. Listen. We're sending them weapons and missiles and we are in a war. But an escalation. But an escalation to where we're going to deploy our troops for something that should never have happened. I think it's absolutely.
Tom Zawacki
We're going to pose a crazy question.
Vinnie Fisher
Go for it.
Tom Zawacki
What percentage do you agree with the Rogan camp versus the Klitschko camp. The camp. And I'm not putting words in anybody's mouth. From what I discern from this is World War 3 is happening. Why are we sending all this money? We got to get the hell out of there. 000. Take parts of Ukraine. We're done. Or hey.
Patrick Bet-David
No.
Tom Zawacki
We're actually. They were supposed to take us in three days. It's been three years. We're doing our fight. Freedom. Freedom Loving people support us. What percentage do you agree with each argument?
Vinnie Fisher
Here's my thing. My. I'm leaning obviously way more towards the Rogan argument because. And I feel bad for the Ukrainian people because they had no choice. Adam. They had no choice. How many times has Putin said don't get close. Don't put NATO. Don't do this. And then we constantly keep pushing it. So they're victims in this. That guy is a victim.
Tom Zawacki
So what percentage.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm.
Vinnie Fisher
I'm 80% Rogan and I'm 20% because I feel bad for the actual people that are there that are suffering because of the policies. And by the way this is all us. This is the United States. Who's the most. Who's the most prolific money giving to Ukraine? Who is it?
Tom Zawacki
Well it's United States.
Vinnie Fisher
It's the United States. What's the reason? What's the reason? Is it like with the border, because we care about illegals? No. Do we care about Ukrainians? No. It's all business. It's all money laundering. Tom, am I lying? Am I off?
Tom Zawacki
You want to answer the same question, by the way?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
So I'll tell you where I'm at. Five things. Excuse me, I'm sorry, can be true at the same time. The military industrial complex is taking advantage of a war and selling and making a lot of money. Because a lot of our money, absolutely, factually, it's proven, is making a U turn.
Vinnie Fisher
Yes.
Adam Sosnick
Billions go there. Billions end up at General Dynamics and Boeing and United Technology, Pratt Whitney, all that. Okay, so military industrial compass. Corrupt. Check. Ukraine's leadership and, you know, diplomats and. Ukraine is corrupt. It has been.
Vinnie Fisher
Check.
Adam Sosnick
Check. The Ukrainian soldiers are bravely fighting for what they believe is their homeland.
Vinnie Fisher
Check.
Adam Sosnick
Russia is completely out of line to go take land, but was provoked on the whole NATO question going back 25 years.
Vinnie Fisher
Check.
Adam Sosnick
And Biden is being a complete fool, playing into the hands of military industrial complex, trying to kind of escalate things and trigger Putin.
Vinnie Fisher
Check.
Adam Sosnick
I think all of those things are true at the same time. And I think the boxer, Mr. K. Is Vitaly Klitschko.
Tom Zawacki
Klitschko is the mayor of Kiev. He is heavyweight champion in the world at one point.
Patrick Bet-David
Right.
Adam Sosnick
I think he is.
Tom Zawacki
So is his brother. I want to say.
Adam Sosnick
Right. He is saying, as a Ukrainian citizen, that he's looking around and sees Ukrainians bravely fighting for the soil of their homeland. That can be true. And so I see all, I see this all together, that the war should have never started. Russia is trying to take land. They should go back. But my fear, and I said this before a week ago, the way we solve wars nowadays is we negotiate treaties and somebody gets something that they shouldn't have. I happen to be in favor of the DMZ that was created in the. In the North Korea, the Sinai Peninsula, that the. The. Oh, in Egypt after Sadat came over the Canal. And then Israel said, nope, we want a buffer zone on our side of it, that we're going to police it. And so that. That's what I think a lot of today can be true at the same time.
Patrick Bet-David
We got five days left for the month. Counting today, December's 31st. That makes it 36. January 20th. January 20th would be.
Tom Zawacki
Basically two months almost.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
We've gone under 60.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. And so 56 days 55 days left till the day. I'm telling you, there's, there's certain. As a kid, you look forward to Christmas hurrying up and coming to get gifts. As a citizen, you want that day to come as quickly as possible because you have no clue. What? Biden and Kamala are not on the same page.
Vinnie Fisher
Nope.
Patrick Bet-David
Biden's doing events. She's not invited. The turkey thing. She wasn't there. She was on a plane waving with a blue suit on. She's in Hawaii right now, chilling at one of the donor's house.
Vinnie Fisher
After 1.5 rumors came out.
Patrick Bet-David
Did you see the stories the rumors came out that was reported on the fact that out of the one and a half billion dollars, everybody's wondering what happened to the money.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
There's even stories about people saying that money was made because when you get one and a half billion dollars, guess what people are asking consulting firms, Hey, 100, 250 billion. No, no, no. Talking campaign, Ukraine campaign, let him go. One and a half billion dollars. Where is that money going? Who's getting the money? The one and a half billion dollars, where is that going to rob? Is that it?
Adam Sosnick
No, sorry.
Patrick Bet-David
This is an email.
Adam Sosnick
Because I'm a registered Democrat. This was the first time I've ever. Yeah. For my entire life.
Tom Zawacki
This is the first time.
Patrick Bet-David
Hang on, hang on.
Adam Sosnick
I ever voted for a Republican candidate for Donald Trump.
Patrick Bet-David
But this email I got on the.
Adam Sosnick
18Th of this month, 13 days after the election, where the Harris campaign is asking for more financial contributions. Why would you need more money after.
Patrick Bet-David
The election is over? So, but here's the part that's for the $20 million to make up now you got Obama and Clintons that are disgusted and they want nothing to do with Kamala. There's a scene with Bill Clinton saying he knew this was going to happen. Like to him, he's like, he knew Trump was going to win. What do you mean you knew Trump was going to win? So out of the one and a half billion dollars, who got the money? Did some people take $50 million consulting fees, $20 million consulting fees, $5 million consulting fees? Where the hell did the money go to? Where is this money? What happened? How do you spend one and a half billion dollars that quickly? Would not be an intent. So where am I going? Here's where I'm going with this. There's still 55 days of these guys still being in charge of everything. And who the hell is in charge? You watch Biden, he doesn't make any sense. Right. So for me on what happens here. I understand what Klitschkov is saying for sure. Adam, you are Jewish, so you're going to have some positions that are going to be you. I'm a Christian from Iran, a Syrian, Armenian. I'm going to have certain positions that I have, which is, you know, going to be whatever it's going to be for me, because I've seen it. That's my life. Vinnie, military vet. Yesterday, a guy, one of the guys I was interviewing, he says, I was in the military. He did three tours. I said, why'd you get out? He says, because I disagreed with the reasons why we were going to war. I said, we have another guy here that agrees with that as well. Same reason why he got it. And he was Airman of the Year in Air Force. Vinnie Tom, Die Hard Blue Jays fan, Toronto Raptors fan. He's Canadian. I mean, you can't blame him, right? This is a guy that's from Canada. He likes coconut beer, you know, but. But everybody somehow, some way, Vince was better than mj. That's his argument, right? I understand their positions. That doesn't mean you're right. I understand why he would choose Ukraine. That doesn't mean he's right. I understand why Russians will side with Putin. That also doesn't mean they're right. We're Americans. We have one goal. You know what the goal is? No war. That's what the outcome is. What the hell can we do to stop any of this stuff? Because if a nuclear bomb goes, guess what happens next? Everything else is the domino effect. It's one by one by one. And it can get remember how quickly. Remember when? December of 2019. They were saying, I don't know if you remember this circulation about a virus. December of 2019. And we're like, what are you talking about? Yeah. You know, there is a Covid coronavirus, China virus we have to be careful with. Yeah, all right, whatever. What are these guys talking about? No, first case. Rob, can you pull up first case, coronavirus 2019.
Adam Sosnick
And then they say Wuhan wet lab market. The market in Wuhan. They didn't say lab, so watch.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so coronavirus developed into bats. COVID 19 first appeared a small scale in November of 2019 with a large cluster appearing in Wuhan, China. When? December of 2019. Okay, and we're kind of hearing stuff on the news. How much were you really paying attention, folks? Be honest. Were we really paying attention? Very little. How about in January? Very little. How about in February? Maybe a little bit more. How about the day NBA, Universal, Disney, NHL, NFL shut down. How about then? How were you reacting then? Then what happened to America? Everything changed like this. Remember that? That's how life goes. It's like cancer. You're living a good life. Everything is good. Hey, guess what? What? This is not benign. You actually have cancer like this. Hey, what are you doing right now? Are you sitting down? Yes. I'm going to share something with you. It's going to be painful. What's that? XYZ just passed away. That's how life changes. It's sudden, it's unexpected. You don't know what's happening. One nuclear bomb is dropped by Putin because he's sick of NATO. He's sick of the games Biden's playing, He's sick of Ukraine. It goes like this. Then all of a sudden it's World War 3 and we're living in it. Then what do you say? Then in 30 years we have to explain to our grandkids, hey, grandpa, did you ever like when World War 3 happened and 1.2 billion people died or whatever the number it's going to be? Because if it happens, it could get very nasty. Whatever the 6 million, 8 million, 50 million, a billion, whatever it is, if it gets intense, did you ever think that was going to take place? No, Pops. Really? No. I never thought it was going to happen. How was it? I was literally sitting there doing my thing and Russia dropped the first nuclear bomb. And then it was crazy. Shutdown everywhere. Military shutdown. No way. Yes. What changed? And then we tell the story of what changed because that happens like this now. Some may say, give me a freaking break. That's never going to happen to me. That's never going to happen. That's never going to happen. Look, I'm with you. Future looks bright. We believe that. But we're also 49%, you know, only the paranoid survive. I am for no war. I lived in Iran under war for almost 10 years and it sucked as a kid. It left a mark on me as a kid. I saw it. It's horrible. There's nothing exciting and fun about it. Every day you're nervous. Every day you're nervous. Every day you're scared. So yes, the goal is to have no war. So I'm saying to you, the next 55 days can't come fast enough where there's going to be at least somebody that these guys fear that he can knock some senses into Zelensky and saying, no, you don't have permission to send long range missiles. No, Russia, you don't have permission to do this. Let's sit down and talk. Trump will fly to Moscow. He will fly to Putin. He will fly and have a meeting with those guys. Since we're coming together, if not putting a tariff on both of you guys, let's sit down and talk. He will go to them and he will figure out a way to get this thing to be done with. This is a very serious situation that we're talking about. We can sit here and just kind of think, like, it's news and life and all this other stuff. It is. They're playing with fire. So Rogan's position. I'm not speaking on behalf of Rogan and what Rogan is saying, but I understand Rogan's sentiment that this thing can go zero to World War III in no time just because these guys want to sell more weapons and money and revenue going up because I. You need more hypersonic, whatever for us to make. Like, imagine if you make that product and you're in a meeting. So how is the forecasting Looking for 20, 25? Oh, what are we gonna do? It's not looking good, sir. Why is that? Because we're at peace. Everyone's getting along well, what's wrong with you? We can't have any peace. How are you going to hit your numbers, Sir? Sir, we. No one's buying, right? Well, you need to create some kind of tension for people to think that something's going to happen for them to buy. We need the next propaganda. What's the next big propaganda to scare people into buying new weapons? Like, what's your sales pitch? How do you sell it in life insurance. When we sold Guess what we talked about? Mary, John.
Vinnie Fisher
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
You guys have life insurance? No, we don't have life insurance. We don't many times they look like this, by the way, because I was in a market. Mary. John, do you guys have life insurance? No, we don't. Then I would say, john, what are you going to do if, God forbid, something happens to Mary?
Vinnie Fisher
What are you going to do?
Adam Sosnick
Well, I'm going to cause it, maybe. I hope she's covered.
Tom Zawacki
Look at this beautiful couple, by the way.
Patrick Bet-David
By the way. But you know what it was. You would sit there and say, john, Mary, Mary, what are you going to do if John passes away and you got three kids? What are you going to do then? You know what you would ask John? You would ask this question, John, like.
Adam Sosnick
If she fell in the hot tub tomorrow with a toy.
Patrick Bet-David
On a serious note, you know what the one question was that the husbands Always were willing to make a decision. You know what the one question was? You ready for this question? What do you think the question is? The question was this, Vinnie. Let's just say it's you. You're married. Visualize, you're married.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, Tom, you're married. Would you like. Kim. Let's call your wife.
Vinnie Fisher
Frederica.
Patrick Bet-David
Mary.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay. Mary's good.
Patrick Bet-David
Would you like her to be forced to marry a man due to desperation of money?
Vinnie Fisher
No.
Patrick Bet-David
Or would you like her to have the choice to marry somebody that she feels can protect your kids because their father's no longer option B?
Vinnie Fisher
I don't want her to get married. Period.
Patrick Bet-David
As weird as this is, it is a real question to be asked because many wives whose husbands didn't set them up financially, they just marry anybody.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Because they need somebody to pay the bills.
Vinnie Fisher
Got it.
Patrick Bet-David
If they have three kids and they're homemakers. Makes sense.
Vinnie Fisher
Yep.
Patrick Bet-David
So in a situation like this, in the boardroom, they're like, hey, man, how are we going to hit these numbers? We need more war. How do we create more war? This is a reality that we're in right now. And again, 55 days, guys. 55 days. It's going down like this. Countdown to 55 days. So somebody can come in and say, hey, pump the brakes. We're not going to war anyways. Let's go to the next story here. Next story. I know. Tom, you got some thoughts on this one here. Netanyahu faces UK arrest over ICC warrant. Oh, let's go. Page eight. Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu faces potential arrests in UK following an International Criminal Court. ICC warned for alleged war crimes in Gaza, which also includes former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Drowning street has confirmed the UK will uphold its legal obligations under ICC Act 2001, which mandates compliance with such warrants. While the government refrained from commenting on specific causes, a spokesperson emphasized that Netanyahu would not receive special treatment if he were to visit uk. The ICC actions have sparked political debate, which we'll talk about here in a minute. And at the same time, you got. What's his name comes out. Justin Trudeau comes out. Page nine. It is. And he says the following. Let me see. Does it say. It says page nine here, but I don't have it. Where is page nine, Rob? It says Justin Trudeau. Canada's Trudeau. Do you see that story? I don't have it here. Is it on 10 prayer? Okay, nine. Canada's Trudeau says he would arrest Netanyahu and ICC orders. He stated on Thursday that Canada would enforce the ICC warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu, emphasizing, we stand up for international law and we will abide by all the regulations and ruling of the international accords. This is just who we are. As Canadians. Trudeau highlighted broader goals amid the Gaza conflict, such as aid flowing in, the release of hostages and return to two state solution, condemning Hamas while urging for a ceasefire to protect civilians. He acknowledged the domestic challenges for Canadian communities impacted by the conflict, stating, we have to remember who we are, be there for each other, pushing for peace and stability as hard as we can.
Adam Sosnick
Tom, this whole thing is borderline ridiculous. You've got two countries that are basically at war, one against its will, right? Israel has been dragged into a war and it is a war. It's not just a border skirmish and a battle. It's a war and they have been dragged into it. And now you're going to say that all of the leaders that are doing things that are horrible, and the people from Hamas and Hezbollah and Iranian leaders that are responsible for things, funding them, encouraging them and doing all this. The one guy that you say, we're going to pull him over for speeding because, you know he's done some things, and these are. These are war crimes. Some civilians have died. These are war crimes. The one guy the ICC wants to pull over is Netanyahu there. Shouldn't there be a long list of other people from Iran and Syria and some other locations? Really, the one guy you want to pull over, and then the UK says, we'll back it up, but you got to remember who's speaking and who the UK is. If you've been to London, you know why they call it right now Londonistan. You know why they call it that? That's not a bad nickname. That's what's going on. And the political climate, just like Minneapolis, just like we have with Omar and our own government. This is the things they say. And so you're not hearing the core of the uk, you're not hearing sensible, you know, Western leaders saying, hang on a second, there's a war going on and there's people. There should be a whole group of people that's pulled over for speeding here. Look at this. And then you've got Trudeau. Don't look at Trudeau as a Western Canadian. He's a socialist Marxist that was elected by his last name and is doing his best to ensure he's unelected at the first opportunity, which will happen. That's what's going on here. It's ridiculous. This is the Liberal side of media that's pulling these things together. And this is the liberal side of life that's pulling all these things together and they're out there. And then you've got, you know, Lindsey Graham, a voice of reason, saying, hang on, hang on. If you gonna go follow the Internet, the ICC and you can start arresting people, you're gonna have some problems with us. You're gonna have some serious problems, which is the same thing you're gonna hear from Trump when it comes out. It'd be like, wait a minute, who's doing what? Who's gonna arrest who? There's a whole list of people ICC should be putting on, putting on arrest warrants here. There's a war going on. It's terrible, it's horrible. Civilians have died. It's horrible. But this is really ridiculous.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, I mean, just a quick list of. Do you understand how the ICC works? So, you know, there's the United Nations Security Council that I think there's five permanent members on the UN Security Council. So there's three that are kind of on our team and there are two on the other team. So of the US, you have the UK and you have France. And then number four and five are China and Russia. And at any point anyone can veto or suggest that someone goes to the criminal court of the icc, the International Criminal Court. So here's who's been recommended to go to the criminal court, but it's been blocked by China and Russia. Do you remember what Bashar Al Assad did to his people in Syria? Hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people dead in a Syrian civil war. This good looking gentleman right here, Bashar Al Assad. Million people dead. No, no arrest, no nothing.
Adam Sosnick
And he probably used biochemical.
Tom Zawacki
Well, he did okay. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What they're doing to basically subjugate their people. The thug like regime in Iran. No ramifications, no nothing. By the way, let's not mention what the, what China and the CCP are doing to the Uyghurs. Basically putting them in work camps. And just don't worry about these concentration camps that they got going on. You know, I think even Putin was recommended by the icc. The point is they're a toothless organization that has no, they're all bark, no bite. And the United Nations. I used to be like, this is corrupt. This is what's going on. Just think about it. If you want to just put Israel in a vacuum for a second. How many Arab states or Muslim states exist in the world? Take a guess. 50. Okay. Give or take. Someone might say, well, it's only 49. Okay, you got me. How many? How many Jewish states? 1. So automatically, if you're not on Team Israel, you're losing 50 to 1 right here. So thank God the United States is an ally to Israel and they will at least stand for justice and reality here. Because, and this is a weird analogy here, but you do the body count thing. I'm talking actual deaths. If you look at what's going on in Sudan, you look at what's going on in Yemen, you look what's going on in countless countries all over the world. You have in Russia and Ukraine, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people dead, then the latest number that came out of Gaza, which is horrible. Nobody wants this war. 40,000 dead. Even Hamas has acknowledged that half of those people that have been dead were actually Hamas terrorists. So you're looking at a two to one ratio, which is one of the upper echelons of Warsaw. In war, in combat zones. It's not like they're fighting in a field somewhere. They're in towns, they're in buildings. Hamas is embedding weaponry in hospitals, schools, playgrounds, mosques. What is Israel to do?
Adam Sosnick
Garages under townhouses.
Tom Zawacki
So what we've learned is one thing, and this is sort of the Justin Trudeau analogy here. Up is down, left is right. The sun is the moon. Everything's upside down. And if you're a hater, and if you're progressive, leftist, and you're somehow aligned.
Patrick Bet-David
With the jihadists, who the icc, who the ICC has done this with in the past. That's what I'm trying to find out. I just went online to see who ICC's president is. It's this lady named Judge Tomoko Akane, who is Japanese, who is the president of icc. What I'm trying to find out is who else have they issued arrest warrants for? Okay, can you zoom in so we can see? Okay, so we saw that one. We already talked about that one. Putin in 2023. Okay, keep going. Lower. Other individuals. President of Sudan. Okay, go. Laure Joseph. Is that it? Let me get this straight. That's it?
Adam Sosnick
According to ChatGPT.
Vinnie Fisher
That is it.
Patrick Bet-David
Can you go and Google this and say outside of ChatGPT, who else have the issue? So then this means they have zero credibility? They have zero credibility when it's something like this?
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Because for me, if you're going to go out there, who's missing? That should be on that list. You mean to tell me Khomeini is not on that list?
Tom Zawacki
Nope.
Patrick Bet-David
You mean to tell me there have to be a bigger list than that?
Adam Sosnick
Assad?
Patrick Bet-David
No. Zoom in. Who else have they have?
Tom Zawacki
How about maybe the leaders of Hamas or Hezbollah? Nothing.
Adam Sosnick
So they have publicly indicted 67 people.
Patrick Bet-David
So who are the biggest names they've ever indicted? 67 people of these names. Let's see if we know any of these guys. Joseph Kony. Which. Remember Kony, 2012. Remember that guy when video came out about what he was doing? Yes.
Tom Zawacki
Uganda.
Patrick Bet-David
So let's go down the list of names. Keep going. Low rob. That's 67. Keep going. See where the credibility lies. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Muhammad Ali. Why Muhammad Ali?
Vinnie Fisher
I don't know.
Patrick Bet-David
No, that's a different Muhammad. Keep going if you're trying.
Vinnie Fisher
Gaddafi.
Patrick Bet-David
Gaddafi. Okay. 2011, another Gaddafi before he got arrested. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Now we're in 2013. Keep going, keep going. Vladimir going.
Tom Zawacki
Putin.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, Keep going, keep going. And then you got Netanyahu. How long has ICC been around? When did ICC actually become official? What's the year? If you can go up and see when ICC got started? 1998. ICC. So 98 till today. Those are the folks that I've gotten it. Interesting. But how many are from anything to do with who Teas? How many are from Hamas, how many are from Hezbollah, how many is from Iran, how many is from what they did? Anything. So then you lose credibility if you're doing something like that because the amount of damage that's been done by some leaders and you know that you're going after, you lose credibility. Now I can understand a position like that. What would you. What would ICC being comparable to? Tom? Like, is ICC a comparable to like, un. Like who? How would you compare icc?
Adam Sosnick
They do have a court at the Hague and they have put some people in prison. There's one guy that they sent to Norway for 25 years. I think it was like he ended up in prison in Norway. But it's largely a toothless giant, almost like a press release machine. And they hysterically show Netanyahu now as a fugitive. Fugitive. Like fugitive from justice. They call him a fugitive. On their. Their docket, he's known as a fugitive. They. They largely have no bite. There's an international coalition that. That allows it. And it kind of goes like this. You know, I don't know. We're gonna go do some stuff this weekend. I don't really want to be bothered with this. Why don't we just have ICC put Vinnie on trial? And then he'll just send him to some company, some country that's got a prison company that operates prisons, and we'll. We'll just hold them there. It's like that.
Patrick Bet-David
Who gives them the authority?
Adam Sosnick
The coalition of countries that seem to agree with it. And by the way, this hysterical thing is, when Manuel Noriega, The United States had had enough, what did we do? We went in and pulled his butt out of his little palace, took him to Florida, Panama, put him on trial, and put him in our prison. Because we said. Said we are pissed he did wrong. We will take care of this. Thank you very much. Stay out of the fricking way. That's what happened. But when they don't want to do it that way, Pat. And by the way, that's happened in many countries where countries get mad at somebody and they get upset and they go and they put them on trial in their country, then they put them in their prison. So, okay, boom. That's what they do. Meanwhile, the ICC is like this. You know, they're like the park rangers. Think of it that way. They're the park rangers, you know, and for having an illegal campfire, the park rangers could. Could. Could detain you.
Patrick Bet-David
Vinnie, what do you think about this?
Vinnie Fisher
The one thing that stuck out in my head was, what page was it? 8, 7. So when he's saying Justin Trudeau would enforce the ICC warrant, what does that mean? Like.
Patrick Bet-David
Like, if he goes to Canada.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay, that's what I was going to say. So. Oh, like, when. When is. When is. When is planning on going to go to kill. That's like a threat. That's like. Like, by the way, I can't take somebody serious that's at a. At a Taylor Swift concert with a bunch, like, this many bracelets. PBD with a bunch of young girls. Get. Like, one of the creepiest things I saw for the past couple days was the same guy who pushes this LGBTQ agenda, the trends thing. He is so, so, so far left. This is Trudeau. Look at. Look at this guy. He's at a Taylor Swift concert just. And he was making bracelets and giving them to, like, really, really, like, yo, what a weird, creepy dude. And like that. That type of threat. Like, here's my thing. Why is he saying something like that? You know damn well Benjamin Netanyahu is never going to go to Canada. What? What? Why would he go to Canada?
Adam Sosnick
I don't think he's worried about going.
Vinnie Fisher
Because that's what I'm saying.
Adam Sosnick
If Trudeau arrested him in Canada, oh, my God.
Vinnie Fisher
Channel would be taken over.
Adam Sosnick
Moments later, Mossad starts going down a list around Trudeau.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, I'm gonna make analogy right now.
Adam Sosnick
Your cousin's missing, your dog's missing the check your pager.
Tom Zawacki
Just come. Some comparable analogies. Justin Trudeau is the Joe Biden of Canada. He's the walking dead. His approval ratings are hovering in the high 30s, low 40s. Have you ever seen any videos of this guy? Pierre Pov. This guy in Canada dismantling Trudeau with every single iota of Trudeau's perfect hair and his coif trusting Trudeau as just typical playbook. Well, he's racist. He's anti women. He's. This guy is just slicing and dicing Trudeau. And Netanyahu, as it turns out, he's sort of the Trump of Israel. He's gonna get thrown in jail. His approval ratings are low. Nobody wants him. He's as high as it's ever been. People are basically realizing, oh, all the nonsense we were dealing with during COVID they were going to throw him in jail. Turns out he's eliminating Hezbollah. Hamas is basically eliminated. The Houthis are basically. When Trump got elected, Houthis basically were like, yo, we're done. So Netanyahu is very comparable. Yeah. To Trump, and Trudeau is very comparable to Biden. I think we're seeing. But the next time that Canada has.
Patrick Bet-David
An I will say this.
Tom Zawacki
I think it's October of 2025. Have say, I will say this goodbye.
Patrick Bet-David
To church for the community, for the community that doesn't want any war. I can see why they would support this. I can see why they would support it. If you don't want war, nobody wants war. I get that.
Tom Zawacki
Other than the military industrial complex. Well, which you. David, gave it a great example.
Patrick Bet-David
Sure.
Tom Zawacki
But nobody's waking up every day. Yay, war.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
War is necessity.
Patrick Bet-David
Sometimes some people, like, don't get me wrong, I'm not telling, just saying to people that are for this all excited about what he's going through. You know, it may be a community that says, we don't want any war. So those may be the same people that are Trump supporters saying, hey, hurry up and get in so we can stop all the mess that's going on over there in the Middle East. Who knows? Because some are saying it's going to get in and he's going to back up Netanyahu to go out there and even do more than what he's doing right now. I don't know if that's going to be the case, but we'll see again. Arrest warrant for Netanyahu from icc. Let's go to the next one. Let's go to the next one. Let's go to the next one. Next story is Megan. Let's go to this one. Meghan Markle. Okay. Which, Vinnie, I know you and Tom prepared for this immensely, so whenever you guys are ready with your statements, I'll come right in first. Yeah.
Vinnie Fisher
Thank you.
Patrick Bet-David
So, Meghan Merkel released a statement after solo Thanksgiving appearance amid professional separation from Prince Harry. Meghan released a statement after hosting a heartfelt dinner for Afghan women resettled in the US Organized through the Successes Archewell foundation and their partner Mina's list. She described the evening as fostering gratitude and resilience and expressed deep appreciation for women's personal stories, adding plans for future gatherings. The dinner was hosted at Our palace at Our Place, founded by Sheza Shahid, with attendees receiving cookware as gifts. Prince Harry did not attend Merkel's Thanksgiving event as he was in Vancouver for Invictus game related activities. The couple had repeatedly reportedly been navigating a professional separation, with Harry admitting they've been at a crossroad with work. Despite solo appearances, they recently appeared together in a video discussing children's online safety through archieval. So, Adam, what are your thoughts on the story here?
Tom Zawacki
I don't know why they couldn't just, like, figure out how to make content together.
Patrick Bet-David
By the way, did you see this coming? Like, were you. Is this a surprise?
Vinnie Fisher
Vinnie, he's asking me.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, he asked me first, buddy.
Vinnie Fisher
I'm sorry.
Tom Zawacki
See, that's, that's what happens when there's professional separation.
Patrick Bet-David
That's.
Tom Zawacki
But we're going to work it out.
Vinnie Fisher
I'll work it out.
Tom Zawacki
So I don't think they're getting divorced. I don't think they're getting separated. I, ultimately, I think this means, means they're not doing content together anymore. Is that what this means?
Vinnie Fisher
I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's going to lead to something bad because if you guys, if you can't work together, how are you going to be in a relationship together? You know what I mean? Like, I don't understand that.
Tom Zawacki
Number one, I don't think anyone actually cares. I don't think anybody's losing sleep about this. You know who this falls on? There's only one person this falls on, and that's Prince Harry. Dude, you're the freaking Prince of England, of Great Britain. You pluck up some B list actor out of obscurity what was, what show was she was on?
Vinnie Fisher
Suits.
Adam Sosnick
Actress.
Tom Zawacki
Okay, whatever. She is actress. And you basically remove your titles. You say, I don't want to be a prince anymore. You move out of your home country, the country your family basically runs, to go become a podcaster in la. You freaking loser.
Adam Sosnick
You write a book and upset your 2000 year old family.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. Your. Your grandmother dies like the next year or so and now you're. Does he even have a title? Is he even a prince? Prince Harry's a freaking loser. And he basically gave up everything for love and now it's coming to bite him in the ass. And not that they're going to do content together anymore. Cry me a freaking river, Vinnie. What's this again?
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, this is me playing the world's smallest violin for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Oh my goodness.
Tom Zawacki
I'm sure their kids are gonna look like Blake.
Adam Sosnick
She's American actress. There's an expiration date on all of her relationships and it's right around, around seven or eight years. Because she's a trigger goes off and her agent says, you know, you've been in this relationship for seven, eight years, you got a couple kids, it's time for the book deal and the Oprah tour. Right. And meanwhile, you know, he's part of the royal family and he has an uncle paragon of morality, Prince Andrew. And you know, and so you're just, you know, here's what happened. Trump gets elected and the tabloids don't have any headlines and they're like, this is terrible. We need something here. We need a headline like Princes plunging the royal scepter in another. In a. You know, with a starlet on another continent. I mean they need something is what they want. And so they. You have to stir up trouble. But this is like meaningless. What are these when we've got World War three? About the start. I really don't care about a B list actress who. Okay, maybe she's trying to do good, maybe she's got a charity and stuff, but there are bigger issues in the, in the world then the. Than the home wrecker. Like you didn't know, you didn't know that it ultimately would go this way. Are you, Are you Prince Harry? Are you serious?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
Pbd. I know you told me you lost a lot of sleep last night about this. You're running on fumes because you're up all night. I don't know if you were crying. We have extra tissues. Why are you so affected by this story?
Patrick Bet-David
Listen, I mean, you Know when we saw this story coming out, the. On a serious note, what upset me the most about this is Harry's lack of. I tweeted something yesterday. Rob, if you can go to this tweet, go to Tweet. It was 20 something points I put up. Right. And I had Dylan read this yesterday. This goes very quickly. This is not easy. 20 qualities that guarantees a better life. Number one is gratitude. Okay. And by the way, it's easy for us to read it. It's kind of hard. Yeah, yeah. What's the next one? No, it's actually gratitude, dude. And being grateful for who? The people that change your life. Harry's a nobody without his parents. Meaning the amount of benefits you get from that and you embarrass them publicly on the world scale. What was that? Number two, having the right perspective. People going to try to confuse you a little bit. That could be a girl that's getting into the family. You're supposed to say, listen, you're marrying me, you're marrying the family. That's what comes with the family perspective. Being reliable. You're no longer reliable to the family. And by the way, if you want to have your own identity, I totally get it. It doesn't mean you don't need to be reliable to your family. Knowing who to be loyal to. You can slow down, Rob. So people stay with us. Go a little lower if you could. So it's only five of them. No, Rob, I'm saying the other way, Rob. Yeah, yeah. So knowing who to be loyal to, sometimes we forget who to be loyal to. Sometimes our loyalty is to people. That's just like we want to. Like we want to be liked by. It's like, oh, I want to be loyal to that guy. No. Who do you need to be loyal to? Like, actually, if you ask that question, who's on that list? It shouldn't be a long list. The list shouldn't have 40, 50 names on. There should be a handful of names on that list. Knowing the difference between criticism and flattery, I was going to put flattery there, but it says feedback. There's a couple things I missed here. Scripture, one of the best scriptures ever. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, and then the opposite is the kisses of an enemy. Rob, can you go up? Type in Proverbs 27:6. If you can type in Proverbs 27:6, I want to see what's. It's a different word, faithful or the wounds of a friend. But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. So wounds of A friend. I criticize you. We're friends. Like, listen, bro, what are you doing? Just don't behave that way. But a guy that wants to come in between you and I, they're like, dude, Pat sometimes pushes you around a little too much, man. Because honestly, I think without you, he's a nobody. Kisses of an enemy are deceitful, but it is a kiss. And we always like kisses more than wounds. It's very confusing. He's being kissed by an enemy. It's Megan. While he needs to be faithful to his family because family is giving you feedback, it's different perspective. Go back to the tweet, Rob. A sincere pursuit of wanting to have a relationship with God. Humble yet confident. Keeping your word. Relentlessness. A great teammate. Leading to the best of your abilities in every situation. Avoiding the temptation of being liked. Very hard to do. Choosing both your enemies and allies accordingly. Being aggressively patient in pursuit of a vision instead of just money. Long term thinking instead of short term chase. Knowing how to embrace and have fun while going through hell. It's very hard to do while you're going through hell. Controlling who has influence over you. Avoiding bitterness. Envy can have on your spirit. It can steal a decade or two away from you and make it seem like an hour. You'll turn 60 overnight. Surrounding yourself around good company, whom you trust and can enjoy a good meal with. Future looks bright. You know, family will do this to each other. So like, oh, they don't want to be wrong. It's like, oh, so let me tell you what really happened. Here's when they tell lie to their kids, I mean, I grew up with this. Like, let me tell you who your dad really, really is. I'm like now, even though I'm a kid, I don't believe you. He's this guy. You're not going to waste decades of great relationship with me and my dad. You're just not going to do it. My dad and I have a great relationship together. People will do this to you. And unfortunately, she succeeded. How many years did she steal away from his family? How many years? How many people died during this time? Rob, how long has Meghan and Harry been together?
Vinnie Fisher
Quick guess. Is it eight?
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know what the number is. I mean, Tom said seven, so maybe it's a seven thing. I don't know what the number numbers. How long have they been together? It feels like six years coming up seven years. So there you go, Tom. Tracks is very closely. Don't let him fool you. So six.
Tom Zawacki
They're about to get that seven year Ish.
Patrick Bet-David
May. It's going to be seven years.
Tom Zawacki
And it's seven years.
Vinnie Fisher
It's ruined. The damage is done.
Patrick Bet-David
I was there as a brother, of course. The prodigal son. You're okay letting the person back in, but let me tell you, in the back of your mind, you're always going to be like, I can't trust you. You're capable. Yeah, you're capable. You're capable of doing this and permanently. That's the reputation. Permanently. That's the reputation.
Tom Zawacki
You think they're gonna get divorced soon based on this track record?
Patrick Bet-David
I don't. I don't know the guy. I don't know the guy. I don't. She gives me the Vita vibes of Jada. You know, she's a Jada camp. The attention has to be always around Jada, always around Megan. You know, it is what it is.
Tom Zawacki
What percentage of the blame do you put on him?
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, it's not even a question. Of course it is. He should have read the book. 101 Questions to Ask. You're right. It is on him. But I'm just saying this. You listen. Adam, sir, who fooled you with Russia collusion? For how long?
Tom Zawacki
The lamestream media. They got me.
Patrick Bet-David
For how long did they get you?
Tom Zawacki
Until about like a week ago. They got America for a few years.
Patrick Bet-David
But for how many years was that? Four, five, six years, man. They pin. How many people did they pin against each other?
Vinnie Fisher
Family, friends.
Patrick Bet-David
All I'm trying to say is the point I'm trying to make to you is anybody's capable of falling for this trap. This is not like, hey, you're above somebody and it's not anybody. We just have to be as bulletproof as possible to not fall for these types of temptations. Flattery destroys a lot of relationships. A lot of relationships.
Tom Zawacki
What was the quote that you said before the proverbs, what was it?
Patrick Bet-David
Kisses wounds from a friend instead of kisses that are deceitful from an enemy, right? Proverbs 27:6. Never gets old. I can't say how many times I've talked about that.
Tom Zawacki
What does the wounds from a friend.
Patrick Bet-David
Meaning to you if I tell you, Adam, honestly, the way you treat your brother. You don't even have a brother. The way you talk about your brother makes me very uncomfortable. I don't like it. Because you should never disrespect your brother like that. Even though if you guys are going through stuff. Stuff. Even though you guys have fights, never disrespect your brother publicly. And you may Walk out and say, whose side are you on, man? You don't even know what the. My brother's doing. And then somebody else says, I've known you for 28. What the. Who is he, bro? He doesn't know who your real brother is. I'm not telling you. I don't know who your real brother is. Just don't throw your brother under the bus publicly. Keep it to yourself in a small circle. Like, if we're sitting here publicly having dinner with a group of people that we don't know, and you start openly talking about your own family in a way where there's two people that are sitting at the table, we don't know. I'm not talking to you. Open. I don't know who you are. Who are you? No, no, you're not in that community. If we're sitting with a smaller community, we're talking about certain things. I get it. Not publicly. That's. And then. So you may walk away and say, pat's coming from a good place. What's. What motivation does he have to say, Respect my brother? Why would he. Like, how does he win? It's like, oh, okay, what's this guy. This guy's trying to. Nah, man. Flattery, dude. It. Flattery has destroyed civilizations. This whole new movie, Gladiator 2, that came out that. That, you know, I had a hard time watching, because every time I'm comparing it to the only movie in my life that I given a perfect 10. Only one movie in my life, I've given it a 10, that there's nothing wrong with the movie, and that's Gladiator 1. Wow. And you make a movie, you don't even get Russell Crowe Council, they make. They make Gladiator 2. Ridley Scott not once called Russell. He's nowhere in the movie. He's alive. He's not in the movie. I know he's got a difficult personality, but how is he not in the movie? I watch this movie. The brother kills his brother in the movie. Why? One guy gave flattery to him, said, you can run the country better than Denzel. Flattery is so freaking powerful. It is so freaking powerful. When it's. When you're in the web of flattery, you know what it says? It's because of you.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
You're doing it. Nobody without you. They would never make it. Your husband is nothing without you. Your wife is nothing without you. Your partner's nothing. You're like, oh, they're right. I don't get enough appreciation. Boom. You make a stupid mistake. You lost a greater relationship. Yep. It happens that quickly that when you're in the web, you simply don't know you're in the web at this conversation. Mikey. I've been talking to them about this a lot lately, just to kind of prepare them, because it's coming. They're gonna have girlfriends, and they're gonna. They're gonna go into families and they're gonna talk shit. You got to be ready for it because it's coming. You know, you want to make sure they're. They're as bulletproof as possible, but they're kids. They're going to go through this next phase. I don't know how the hell we got here, but, Megan, thank you for this content.
Tom Zawacki
I think that was very important to understand.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, let's go to the next one. Let's talk about some good news here, guys. Make that McDonald's to add McValue menu, boost meal deal offerings. We need some good news, man. We need. You know what? We're going to McDonald's after this. On me, guys. We just crushed it, honestly. Tommy, forget casa. It's too cheap. We're going to McDonald's. All right? McDonald's will launch the McValue menu on January 7th. Why not the 6 McDonald?
Vinnie Fisher
Come on.
Patrick Bet-David
You should have done it on the 6th.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
There would have been an insurrection Outside of every McDonald's buying up the McValue type of stuff, featuring a buy one, add one for a dollar deal applicable for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfast options include the sausage McMuffin, sausage biscuit and sausage burrito, and hash brown. By the way, can you imagine? You go to McDonald's 99 cent menu. You know how you go to France and you go to dinner? You spend 600 a person. The patty is this big, and they bring out the steak. They're like. Like, I never. I went to a place. We went to this 11 Madison. They're like in the main course.
Tom Zawacki
Oh, Jesus.
Patrick Bet-David
They brought the main course. Here's the eggplant. I'm looking like. Do you remember this eggplant?
Tom Zawacki
Yeah. I didn't want to say anything because I was super respectful.
Patrick Bet-David
$30,000 later. Yeah, $30,000. I'm getting an eggplant.
Tom Zawacki
This guy gave me a shaved carrot. He said, hey, man, this is a filleted carrot.
Patrick Bet-David
Listen, man, I'm. I'm. I'm getting distracted, folks. Let me go back to the $5 meal. Initially launched as a limited time offer, will now be part of the McValue platform and extended through summer of 2024. The deal allows customers to choose between a Mc Double or McChicken plus small fries. By the way, the small fries is two pieces of fries. Four. What? I'm kidding. Four piece soda. The CEO, Chris Kim Jinsky acknowledged that inflation has pushed low income consumers to eat at home more frequently, impacting QSR quick service restaurant traffic. Tom, thoughts on this?
Adam Sosnick
So here's what's going on. Quick case study coming. Step one. Inflation has sucked and it affected everything. Okay, that was, that's done. Now we're, now we're all together here. McDonald's has been suffering. Inflation has caused things to be expensive. We've seen areas, you know, Vinnie, where you the, the rent is so high that McDonald's prices are ridiculous. Like in airports or like in a rest area on a turnpike or a big highway. People don't realize the rent they pay is so high that they have to charge afterwards and they end up with the like 19 Big Mac meal. Right?
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Adam Sosnick
Well, all of that happens on a small scale and people have been eating more at home. So there was a crisis for McDonald's and that was America's getting healthier and eating at home, which is a terrible crisis. So they got to do something about it. And so now they have to come out with a way to offer a meal at a reduced price. So they're offering the items that are their lowest cost items. So they could put these things on the menu called the McValue meal. Well, the McValue meal means the Mc Low Cost meal, which means the Mc Cheap Ingredients meal.
Vinnie Fisher
And then Mc Heart Attack coming soon.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah, the McCornary.
Vinnie Fisher
It's like, it's like the trouble bypass. That's right.
Adam Sosnick
And so for a buck more, you can add a, what are they, hash browns or a couple of McNuggets. You know, that's what they're doing. And so what they're trying to do, McDonald's is trying to survive. So now I'm going to end the case study. McDonald's is trying to survive. Inflation has driven up their prices. They've got rent issues because commercial real estate was up. They were also kind of facing. And they own a lot of their own land there and their property taxes are up. There's a whole bunch of things, if you read into the McDonald's earnings report that have just. They now got to figure out a way, how do we make sure people come into McDonald's to eat lunch? McValue meal. These are the things that cost less. So we're going to offer these. And for A buck. You can get some extra hash. Hash browns with that or something. And they're doing the best they can, but it still doesn't rank much higher on the healthy food, you know, scorecard. But that's what's going on. McDonald's, they're trying to. Trying to get us to come in because inflation has made it ridiculous.
Vinnie Fisher
And by the way, I. Listen, I've always been a McDonald's fan. I mean, the French fries. Can we be honest with each other? Like, you'll burn your. You'll burn your stupid. You don't care. Like, it's. You see it come out of the oil, but you keep going. But I just love McDonald's. That's one of the only companies that is still like, listen, we know it's not good, but just come on. Even Pat. Even there. Rob, I just sent you this photo on Slack guys. They don't even give a damn about their slogans and their promoting. They came out. You guys know, remember this? They came out with the land, Air, and seaburger. Did you guys have. You remember that? Land, Air, and Sea. It's a chicken sandwich. It's the Big Mac, and it's the fish filet. The only problem is. Okay, land is what, Tom? The cow.
Patrick Bet-David
How much is this? Like 80 bucks?
Vinnie Fisher
It's like 40.
Tom Zawacki
And it comes with a free heart attack.
Vinnie Fisher
So land is the cow. C is the what, what?
Tom Zawacki
Fish, right?
Vinnie Fisher
Chickens. McDonald's doesn't give a shit. McDonald's, like, just eat the damn thing and have a heart attack. They don't fly. Have you ever seen a chicken fly? But they just don't care. And I get it. They're trying to survive, Tom. But shout out to McDonald's. That's the only company that's just like, hey, listen, we know it's trash, but you know you want it. McDonald's.
Tom Zawacki
I was in. When we were in D.C. and the night that we were watching the fight, Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul, we actually didn't end up getting together that night, but the team watched it. I was so hungry, I. It's like at 10:30 at night, something like that. I was like, oh, there's a McDonald's over there. So I'm in line.
Patrick Bet-David
Were you with us or no?
Vinnie Fisher
No. You wasn't? No, Adam.
Tom Zawacki
No, he wasn't watching, but I was at dinner the night. And then, you know.
Patrick Bet-David
You were with that girl. Yeah.
Vinnie Fisher
You were with the girl. You're better than us.
Tom Zawacki
So I'm at McDonald's and I'm ordering, and a guy Walks in and you could tell he was slightly angry. He goes, hey, hey. The ice cream machine broken again still? They go, no, actually, actually, it's working. He goes, get the out of here. Give me two ice creams, man. He was so shocked.
Vinnie Fisher
So broken.
Tom Zawacki
McDonald's ice cream wasn't Mcbroken out here. Give me two ice creams. He's like. I was like, oh, who else you with? He's like, man, I've been wanting ice cream all day. Let me take two. Boom. So congrats. I got a bone to pick with McDonald's. What's with the breakfast ending at 10:30am?
Vinnie Fisher
No, I thought it's all day, all day long. No, no, no.
Tom Zawacki
All day long.
Vinnie Fisher
Wait, what? They changed it. What?
Tom Zawacki
This is some mcnews to me, bitch.
Adam Sosnick
No, hold on.
Vinnie Fisher
You need the mcchill because I'm going to tell you something right now.
Tom Zawacki
Mcwhoop your ass.
Vinnie Fisher
You know? You know what though? Some of the food is so bad, they can't keep it on the menu year round. Like the McRib. You ever noticed the McRib's not here right now, but you'll be driving on the freeway and you'll see an 18 wheeler and it's like the McRib is back. It's like, where's he been? In prison? Yeah, where is he? I want him on the menu all the time.
Tom Zawacki
I stop my MC and pick up a McRib. Don't get the McBiz dog.
Vinnie Fisher
Let's go to the next.
Adam Sosnick
Wyoming. And we're driving down the highway. His cow had been hit. Billboard, next billboard. McRib is back.
Patrick Bet-David
Let's go.
Adam Sosnick
He's like, wow, that was quick.
Tom Zawacki
Do you ever eat at McDonald's?
Patrick Bet-David
September of 97, last time.
Tom Zawacki
I never see you eat the fast.
Patrick Bet-David
Food with September of 97.
Tom Zawacki
You know who loves McDonald's?
Patrick Bet-David
Who's that?
Tom Zawacki
Excuse me. Of course we all know who loves McDonald's. We saw that thing with RFK. He's like, Listen, I got.
Vinnie Fisher
Show that photo.
Tom Zawacki
He goes, he's like this. But let me try to use the. I don't like. I think he just eats poison. He eats poison every day.
Vinnie Fisher
Look at how. Look at, look at his face. Look how happy everybody is. Except go close it on rfk. He does. He's like poison in my hands.
Tom Zawacki
Imagine Mike Johnson has to like feed.
Patrick Bet-David
Over to be in that is, by the way, look at, look at Trump. Like energy, attractive.
Vinnie Fisher
Look how many sandwiches.
Patrick Bet-David
I freaking love it, man.
Vinnie Fisher
Look how many sandwiches he has. I love them.
Patrick Bet-David
Next time I. Next time I eat Big Mac. It happens to be a special occasion. Please, coffee and Big Mac. It's got to be special.
Tom Zawacki
You know what I find? You know what I find to be.
Patrick Bet-David
By the way, just so you guys know, let me tell you guys, we're having a strategy session the other day about things to do in 2025. You know what Adam's idea was about a great podcast in 2025. All of us smoking weed. Can you imagine?
Tom Zawacki
Like specifically you.
Patrick Bet-David
Why would you want me to smoke weed?
Tom Zawacki
Because Tom does it all the time.
Patrick Bet-David
And say that public. I'm not smoking.
Vinnie Fisher
I'm not doing. I'm drug free alcohol. I'm never going back.
Tom Zawacki
I think the world maybe take a gummy. No, hey, pvd, man. Maybe capitalism. Maybe communism's all right, man. I don't know, baby.
Patrick Bet-David
Imagine I become a commie after taking a gummy. Now. Okay, let's go to.
Tom Zawacki
Can I say one thing?
Patrick Bet-David
Can I say one thing for. Let me go to this next story. This next story. People are struggling financially. I want to give him a story. This is a story like. Macy's found a single employee who hit $154 million worth of expenses. There's ways. There's ways. All right, let's read the story to you. This person's going to jail, but there's ways. Okay, so should get an award. Macy's revealed Monday that a single former employee intentionally made erroneous. Erroneous. Erroneous accounting accrual entries over nearly three years to hide up to 154 million in small package delivery expense. An independent forensic investigation confirmed no other employee were involved. And CEO Tony Springs stated the company remains focused on ethical conduct and executing its holiday strategy. The irrigate irregular. Irregular. The irregulatory through a. Though a small fraction of Macy's $4.36 billion. A small fraction. Yeah. It's just $154 million.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
In delivery expenses since late 2021. Delayed the company's full quarterly earnings until December 11th. Macy's clarified the issue. Had no impact on a company's cash management activities or vendor payments. Retail analyst Neil Saunders criticized the situation, questioning the competence of companies auditors. Tom, this person's got to get a job at Pentagon. Like you said earlier. I mean, Pentagon's probably making a call saying you have a job lined up for you to come over here.
Adam Sosnick
Oh, my gosh. It's like the Pentagon's upset. How do we let Macy's get this guy? Did we interview this guy? Did you offer him? Did you tell him we offered health care.
Vinnie Fisher
I didn't say health care.
Adam Sosnick
No. You know what's really funny about this? Neil Saunders is the analyst, retail analyst, that's a stock analyst that they, they look into companies and they give you their opinion of them if they think it's a good buy or not. And so that's a retail analyst. The competence of the company's auditors. It's not the company's auditors. It's their management control system. I like it says the issue had no impact on the company's cash management activities. Wait a minute. No impact on cash management. It was $154 million. What was that? What do they. Would they pay that out in shoes and clothes. No impact on cash management. So it is so funny that in the face of embarrassment, everybody's running for cover here. The analyst says, I think it's a company's auditors. The company's saying, well, there is no problem with our cash management. Everybody's running and not saying the same. What CEO Tony Springs should have said is that not only refocus on ethical conduct, I want to restore investor confidence in our controls of costs and cash management. That's what he should have said. Instead he goes the spin. We remain focused on ethical conduct and, and executing our holiday strategy. You know what that means, Vinnie, Let me translate it for you. I don't want to talk about this. That's what CEO Tony Spring is saying. I don't want to talk about it.
Patrick Bet-David
Right.
Adam Sosnick
Come on, man.
Patrick Bet-David
That.
Adam Sosnick
So that's what's going on. You know what this reminds me of? Long, long, long, long, long time ago. It's got to be like 40 year old year old movie. Wasn't Richard Pryor in a movie called Brewster's Millions? Yeah, I love where he, he had this little mistake and he ripped off the bank because he had this little tiny mistake going on.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah. He gained interest.
Adam Sosnick
That's right. And then that's what this guy's doing.
Tom Zawacki
John Candy in that movie.
Vinnie Fisher
Of course. He was the catcher.
Adam Sosnick
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
Oh, that's right. They were in the baseball team.
Adam Sosnick
That's what this reminds me of. This reminds me of that. This is a modern day Brewster's million. He didn't even tell Macy's that he was getting Amazon prime, by the way.
Patrick Bet-David
What the hell is he talking about? Their revenue is. I'm looking at their revenue. Their net says $4.72 billion and $150 million in net profits. Your margins are super low. What do you mean? You didn't need this cash, you could have doubled.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah, Listen, Pat, like we say all the time, 150 million ain't what it used to be.
Patrick Bet-David
I mean, it's not. But $150 million in net profits is a lot of money to a company like Macy's to go through this. But anyways, that's very weird to. For that to happen.
Tom Zawacki
Three and a half percent.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, that's, That's, That's a big. That's a real number, guys. That's a real number. To have something like this take place. Let me go to the next story. Next story I want to go to is Jamie Foxx addresses whether Diddy was responsible for his 2023 hospitalization during live shows. Eyewitness Rob, if you got a clip, play this clinical clip. He's not really saying it here when I watch this. He's not saying it.
Vinnie Fisher
No, no, because no pbd. It's. This is not. This is just them saying what we know. But the, the clip that I sent Rob is of. What was his name? Robbie. Oh, big homie. Cc.
Patrick Bet-David
Big homie.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah. Because so bad. You know what's going. So let me.
Patrick Bet-David
Let me read the story and I'll come to you because I thought it was a video.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
During the tapings of his upcoming Netflix special, what had happened was Jamie Foxx reportedly stated that he was responsible for what happened to him. And Fox is the one who called the FBI on Combs, according to Choke, no joke, a videographer who attended the shows. Another attendee, Dennis La White, recalled Fox saying, people keep asking me if Diddy was responsible. He was not responsible. If he was, I would have been dead. Fox also referenced Combs extensively in his routines, joking about topics like baby oil. Fox reflected on his 2023 health scare, calling it an unexpected dark journey. Me, he explained on Instagram, I had an opportunity to tell my side of the story. And there was no better place than Atlanta, Georgia, where he was hospitalized. He described his special as an artistic explanation of something that went terribly wrong and added, to clarify, I was betrayed by a fake friend. Bingo. Go ahead.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay. So fake friends and mind you. And I felt. I felt blamed to this because the media and everybody was being quiet. The family, his daughter, everybody was like, like, especially because this was the whole COVID vaccine. People like, just tell us, just mind you. I know Jamie Foxx personally. I even messaged him when he was going through this. I said, I'm praying for him and everything like that. We didn't get into nothing like this, but everybody was like, oh, it's the vaccine. It's the vaccine. Talk to us. Talk to us. It was media silence. So from what I'm gathering, because I know people that are there that went to the special. When you go to the special like this, and you guys know this from the comedy shows that we've been through, they take your phone, they lock it up. You can't have anything recording or nothing. Right, Right. He said in the special that, yeah, I. I was hospitalized by this person. And mind you, him and Diddy have had a business falling out. They said they had a beef. So the choke. No, Choke was a videographer. And he was like, yo, I was there. He said Diddy was responsible for what happened to him and that he's the one that called the FBI and choke added. I don't think he was joking in the special. Okay, so nobody knows. And you guys know this. We might not ever see what's even there, because on the cutting room floor, we know this from editing. If he doesn't like it or if it's anything kind of, you know, too far, they'll edit it out. But the people that were there were saying that he was saying it and that he was serious about it. And also, this is a little while ago, Pat, this was celebrity bodyguard big homie CC who publicly alleged that Diddy. And mind you, let's not pretend like people are like, this is a far fetched idea. This is the type of character, after dragging Cassie and doing all the. That he did that this guy alleged that Diddy, he poisoned Jamie Foxx, leading to him calling the FBI. And he also stated in this video, I know he poisoned Jamie Foxx. And he also said that he's been poisoned before in the past. Can we play this clip?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. Some of the things that you heard behind the scenes that were going on before this indictment actually dropped. Well, I know he poisoned Jamie Foxx and Jamie Foxx reported him to the FBI because of it. I know that's a fact. So wait, you're saying that Diddy poisoned Jamie Foxx and that's how Jamie Foxx got s. Dick? Jamie Foxx reported this man to the FBI because of this. Facts. Wow. Okay. And. And how did you hear about this? If you can tell me or if you can't, that's all good. But, you know, I'm saying, like, well, you know, people are gonna. They're gonna want to know, you know what I'm saying, how you know, how this happened, or, you know, I'm saying, what's the backstory of this but by the time this dropped, this is gonna be in the stratosphere. It's gonna be in the ether. By time this drop, you can probably look it up right now. But by the time this interview drop, this is gonna be out in the ether for sure.
Tom Zawacki
And who's this guy?
Patrick Bet-David
These people poison people, bro. I've been poisoned three times.
Vinnie Fisher
He's been poisoned.
Patrick Bet-David
Why am I testing positive for cyanide? You feel me? Why am I getting. Why do I have. I had pneumonia three times. So people like, man, why he breathed like that?
Vinnie Fisher
Because I only got one lung.
Patrick Bet-David
And then I had a car crash. I got one nostril permanently blocked, and I had pneumonia three times. Somebody been trying to poison me.
Vinnie Fisher
My brother got poisoned with me.
Patrick Bet-David
The little lady I was bodyguarding, she got poisoned. Like, somebody is carrying on these antics. These are facts. Is there any idea why Diddy would.
Vinnie Fisher
Want to poison Jamie Foxx? This is big. He's a bodyguard. Celebrity bodyguard.
Patrick Bet-David
No big homies.
Vinnie Fisher
Big homie CC is a body.
Tom Zawacki
Nobody has more credibility than the big homie.
Vinnie Fisher
I'm just saying, we. We like.
Patrick Bet-David
It's not.
Vinnie Fisher
It wasn't Covid. It wasn't the vaccine. There's something going on. And the fact that he's talking about it on his. By the way, this is his special taping. They do three shows, and this guy said every single show that he mentioned it and he thought he was serious. So I'm just saying I'm gonna take.
Tom Zawacki
The other side on this. Number one. Have you seen the special?
Vinnie Fisher
Nobody has. Okay, I know, but I know people that were there.
Tom Zawacki
You know, there's a famous phrase in comedy. These jokes, man.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay?
Tom Zawacki
These jokes.
Vinnie Fisher
So with joking about somebody poisoning you and then you calling the FBI.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know.
Tom Zawacki
There's a lot of Diddy jokes out there right now. I mean, there's a lot to make fun of, I don't think. My opinion. I'm gonna. I'm gonna throw the word allegedly all over this conversation. If he was actually poisoned, almost lost his life.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Tom Zawacki
That he's not announcing on a comedy special. The FBI would be dealing with this.
Vinnie Fisher
Well, now he could. Well, now he could at him, because FBI's arrested the guy and he's in jail. He's not scared.
Tom Zawacki
How much credibility are you giving to the big homie cc?
Vinnie Fisher
I mean, to be honest with you, I think when somebody like that is talking. Me personally, I believe him. I believe because I. Because I know what you 100 believe him. No, I would say, let's say 80% I'm at like 2% because those guys see everything. Adam. These guys see everything, though.
Tom Zawacki
That guy has sunglasses on. He's £380 and he's wondering why he can't breathe so good. Maybe lose some weight.
Vinnie Fisher
No, but I mean, listen, I'm just saying. I wouldn't put it past somebody like Diddy, who we know the track record from. From his allegedly having people shot have. Hold on. Baby oil that had freaking drugs in it to all the crazy stuff that's going on. This is the least of my thing. If you have a beef with somebody, then poisoning them, I believe it.
Tom Zawacki
Hold on, Tom, Let me finish. One thing. I'm separating. One thing. Do I think Diddy is a world class scumbag who's probably going to spend the rest of his life in jail? Yes. Do I think that Jamie Foxx joke and whoever the big homie Cece is has any credibility here? Very low. So I'm just separating the two.
Vinnie Fisher
So. Okay, okay.
Adam Sosnick
Since when did hip hop stars when start taking a page out of the failed James Bond assassination handbook where you're going to poison some guy or put him on the edge of a cliff and he's going to be rescued. Why don't you just go back to the 90s and just pop a cap in his ass?
Vinnie Fisher
Oh.
Tom Zawacki
I like when Tom gets gangster or German instead of two bucks.
Adam Sosnick
Hit him up by. Shoot him in the head, throw the gun in the ocean and then go roll with your homies for the 2am club.
Patrick Bet-David
People are starting to realize who Tom is.
Vinnie Fisher
Wait a minute.
Adam Sosnick
We'll put the poison in a Big Mac and slide the Big Mac with.
Patrick Bet-David
The other day. We're going to church on Sunday with him and his family. They pull up. You know what music Thomas listening to his kids in? It's the Thuggish Ruggish.
Vinnie Fisher
No, he did not to go to jail.
Patrick Bet-David
He's a big. He's a big Mo fan. He's a big.
Vinnie Fisher
Remember the last Sunday that we. He was a we.
Patrick Bet-David
Brooklyn net.
Vinnie Fisher
He came up and he almost hit somebody.
Tom Zawacki
One time.
Adam Sosnick
I saw my little homie Kenny died tonight.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, see Master P, man, that's too natural. No, no, no, Thomas, he's.
Tom Zawacki
One time I saw. You want me to. I'm. I'm.
Vinnie Fisher
Thomas G. Went like this.
Tom Zawacki
He goes, I'm bust out this case study right here, right now.
Vinnie Fisher
Thomas, don't let him fool you.
Patrick Bet-David
Anyways, let's go to the next story.
Adam Sosnick
I almost got shot for that.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, next story here. Bang bang Trump. Bang, bang, bang. Bang. Couples retreat, couple retreat. Trump plans tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China that could cripple trade. This is a New York Times story. All right, let's read this.
Adam Sosnick
So the word cripple.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, of course. That's the word they put in there. President like Donald Trump announced plans to impose a 25% tariff on all goods from Mexico and Canada and additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports, claiming the measures aimed to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl. Trump declares the tariffs would remain until these issues are resolved, stating it is time for them to pay a very, very big price. Their tariffs could dramatically affect the economies of Canada, Mexico and US With Canada's Deputy PM Christia Freeland emphasizing the mutually beneficial relationship between the nations. China's embassy in Washington warned no one will win a trade war with. Vice Commerce Minister Wang Xuan stated the US Measures would ultimately raise consumer prices. Tom?
Adam Sosnick
Well, look, if you want the best explanation of tariffs, you should go look at CNBC and what Howard Litnick was in charge, who's now going to be nominated Secretary of Commerce, and he's been the co chair of the transition committee. And he pointed out this, that, look, tariffs, you know, the left wants to say, oh, and the globalists want to say, oh, he's going to put tariffs on Canada. So maple syrup coming from Canada is going to be $18. Yeah, no, that's not the way it works. How many Fords are sold in Europe? Very, very, very few. You want to know why? Because a bunch of countries over there have tariffs on Fords because they want to sell their cars and yet their cars are over here. Porsches, BMWs, Mercedes and Big factories over here. We talked about it on the last podcast. So all Trump is saying is, hey, I'm not just talking about China on tariffs. Mexico, you got to pay for the wall. And you got to be helping me with this fentanyl coming across the border in Canada. I've been helping you with energy for a while, but you got to help me out on cars here and you got to play fair. All he's putting him on notice is y'all got to play fair. That's what's going on here. He's not going to do this. We have some inflationary effect on the American consumer. If anything, if he causes the price of fentanyl to go up 10x, that's a good thing because fewer people can afford it. But this is, this is basically, Trump threatens new tariffs. And of course the New York Times has to say, well, you know, since, since he's threatening something. We have to say it's bad because Trump's bad. Orange man bad. We gotta do bad. And so that's what it's all about. But you know what this is? This is Trump protecting the interest of you and me and moving the ball forward on a playing field because there's a little ball to be played with Mexico, a little ball to be played with Canada. And we already know that he's about to play big ball with China.
Patrick Bet-David
Damn.
Vinnie Fisher
Can't wait.
Tom Zawacki
Well, look, if you look in the. Can you pull up the Wall Street Journal? This is the number one story on the Wall Street Journal right now. The Trump fires salvo on North American Free Trade Agreement. So there's actually another graph out that I sent you below that. I can resend it if you want. But listen, there's campaigning and then there's actually governing. It seems like Trump is actually serious about these tariffs right now. Here's the share of U.S. imports since basically Trump. Trump took office in 16. Chinese imports have plummeted. Now, I think Mexico is our number one trading partner at this point. Right. So. And then there's Canada.
Vinnie Fisher
All right.
Tom Zawacki
Little our neighbors to the north. But coming back, I think we're going to take Trump at his word when he said that my favorite word in the world is tariffs. It's better than love. We're going to figure this out. I think he said the, the Mexican and Canadian tariffs are 25% and then China is. Is closer to 10 and 15%. Tom, do you know those numbers? Regardless, Trump seems to be meaning business right here in the Wall Street Journal and other USA Today. And this is the number one story that they're reporting right now. I think it means business right here. And I think part of the trade also has been treated, being treated very unfairly. The foundation of it with Mexico and Canada is the fentanyl crisis. Trump ain't playing this game. You know, you've heard Trump say, don't do drugs, smoke cigarettes, don't get tattoos. He doesn't like to see the drugs coming in this country and he's going to do something about it.
Vinnie Fisher
Can I ask you a question? What? Go back to that chart. Sorry, Rob. That chart. China, you would think, shouldn't China be trading a lot more that Trump is gone. Why. Why is it dropping so hard from.
Patrick Bet-David
Biden kept the tariffs on.
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, he did.
Patrick Bet-David
He didn't remove the tariffs.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't think he removed.
Adam Sosnick
That's correct.
Patrick Bet-David
So he kept them on. That's why. So Biden said Trump's ideas are good. We're staying.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay, good.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay. So that's why they still took a hit. Now. China is now coming and saying, hey, hey, we're willing to what?
Vinnie Fisher
Negotiate?
Patrick Bet-David
We're willing to work with you. Everybody's saying, we're willing to come and work with you. The only dummy that's playing a little bit too hard is Trudeau, and he's not going to like what's going to happen when he takes place. Now, there's parts of it where he tries to say, I'm going to work with you or not. Everybody's going to have to work with him. What I like about this time a lot, and let me tell you what it is. So everything's about timing and amount of pressure you can use. Trump doesn't have two terms. He has one term, which means, you know, you know that one scene when Obama says to. Who was he sitting down with? Listen, why don't we talk about this on the second term?
Vinnie Fisher
Oh, yeah, you know which clip the guy from. The guy from Ukraine. Right. Or Russia? He says, I think it was Russia. It was a little. He goes, after my second. He didn't know he was Mike. He's like, after my second term, he.
Patrick Bet-David
Didn'T know he was Putin.
Vinnie Fisher
No, it wasn't. It was. It was Putin's number two guy.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. He says something with a ski. Let's talk about this after the second term. Rob, you can find this on Twitter. You can find it on Twitter and you'll find a clip. But, but the. But the thing is, that negotiation line is out. Everybody uses that line. I'm not going to put it and think it's only Obama that's going to use that line. Every president's used that line. Right. Is this someone going to play this clip hot, Mike. After my election, I have more flexibility.
Adam Sosnick
Transmit this information to Vladimir and.
Tom Zawacki
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so that right there. By the way, how many presidents you think have used that line? Oh, never.
Adam Sosnick
All of them.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so now here's the question. Trump doesn't have that line this time. No. So guess what? And the opposition cannot use that fear over his head either.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
To say, hey, you do this with us, we'll support you on the next election.
Vinnie Fisher
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
No, that, that. That line is officially gone. For both sides to use. Yes. Do you understand what I mean by that? Okay. Right. So the fact that those two lines are gone, Trump's all business right now, coming in, whatever you want to do. You got four years. And the thing with tariffs, guess what? He's got to do. He's got to come out the gates strong. Longer he waits, less effective. Sooner he comes out, sooner they realize he's. He's playing straight up, and they have to sit there and work with him. And then comes everything else. So I kind of like the fact that he's starting early with it. It to see what's going to happen with it. But, yeah, I'm. I'm excited to see what happens with negotiation. I foresee them working with them faster than they did the first term, because the first time they didn't take him seriously. They're like, this guy's going to be out. Listen, we're not. This is not somebody to take serious. Now they realize that, no, not only is he serious, even the guy that replaced them, that talked as much trash about him kept the tariffs on China. That means he has credibility to say, hey, don't worry about me. Whoever gets elected after me may even continue the tariffs with you. You so don't fool around here. You better take us seriously. Let me get to the next story here before we wrap up.
Adam Sosnick
Picks on Trump, on the economy.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, but. But it's the fact that, you know, some people don't know the stories of what's going on. So which one do we want to go to? Vinnie, you have a story with Planned Parenthood. Oh, man. Tell us what's going on there.
Vinnie Fisher
Okay, so. And Rob, I sent you this. So Planned Parenthood was selling viable, healthy, aborted babies who could have survived outside the womb to the University of California for experience.
Patrick Bet-David
So.
Vinnie Fisher
So. And Rob has this story. Rob, I think I slacked it to you. And in their contract, it states that they own the intellectual property rights and the patent rights developed and experiments done by the body parts. Okay, so Planned Parenthood and the University of California, San Diego reportedly negotiated fetal tissue donations for research emails. And a 2018 research plan revealed that they wanted up to 2,500 fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age, which is almost 6 months, by the way. Now, donating fetal tissue is legal, but selling them isn't. So why is there a contract that gives Planned Parenthood the property rights over the tissue? I think that's kind of weird. And then Planned Parenthood claims that this is all done under the highest ethical standards. But how is it ethical to negotiate the fate of unborn child if it's a commodity? This is all. It's all transactional, Tom. So. And then add to that the allegations of racial disparities, the Spanish consent. Look how racist this is. The Spanish consent forms fail to disclose the same commercial value details as the English one. So basically, if you spoke English, you got the full story. They're going to make money. They're going to, you know, if they get the patents, they make money. But including the fact that the tissue could have commercial value. But if you spoke Spanish, they left that part out, which is freaking racist. And they say, oh, it's not profitable. But then why does. It's in the, it's in the stipulation of the contract. Valuable consideration is in the contract. So if you're receiving taxpayer dollars and operating, this is a gray zone. And I think we need answers. So Senator Mark Rubio recently called for a federal investigation into the Parenthood based on these findings. So I think it's, like, unbelievable, Pat, that this is in conjunction Planned Parenthood with the UC San Diego, that they were in contract saying, by the way, way these babies can survive outside the womb. And I don't know, Pat, it was Tico who told me about this thing where they put these, the forceps inside and the baby's moving because it knows about the pain of this thing that's coming. Tom, you've heard about this before. So what do you think, Tom? Because this is, by the way, this is all factual. This is factual. They were selling babies for contract, and they were basically saying, if we use, if we take this fetus, six months old, that could survive, okay, totally healthy baby. We take it and we come up with the patent. You can't. It's just we're, we're taking all the money. That's the Planned Parenthood UC San Diego contract that they had. And it's all factual. And at least this is two months ago. I think Marco Rubio, love him or hate him, he's actually standing up to this because it's ridiculous, Tom.
Adam Sosnick
Well, look, we know two things. Number one is that you can donate your body to science.
Vinnie Fisher
Yep.
Adam Sosnick
When you pass away, and if you pass away without cancer or poisoning or things like that, your organs can be harvested. You can elect, like, right on your driver's license, you could say, I'm an organ donor. And your corneas, your kidneys and things can go to, or even your heart can go to somebody that needs it. So medical research and donating organs has been gone on for a long time. And sometimes it's an amazing thing. And you see these stories of people that hear a recording of their loved one's heart beating in the chest of a person that received the heart after Their loved one died. So all of that's been going on and now it extends to using the tissue from aborted babies for research as well. The second thing is, we need to understand is that abortion is not just a political topic, it's an industry. It's billions of dollars of profit and billions of dollars of federal dollars that are given to Planned Parenthood that conducts the abortions. And then they take the tissue and they profit and use it for research purposes. And so you've gone from the noble act of when you got your driver's license and saying, I'm willing to be an organ donor. Remember that? And they used to put like a.
Patrick Bet-David
Dot or something, green sticker or whatever it was. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Adam Sosnick
And so that's noble of you to do it, to try to help somebody. After you take all of that and medical research, would you like to donate your body to science? So we could do research on the walls of your heart and things like that to see how things gone or, you know, when you're a Alzheimer patient passes away, says, can we. Or a professional football player, they want to do research on Alzheimer's, dementia and C and cte. Exactly. Right, right. All noble. But on the other side of it, there's this profit machine. And I'm just speaking logically of it because I'll get emotional the other ways we have to remember, abortion has become an industry. It's not just a moral issue, it's become an industry. And to bring the morality back, you're having to fight an industry and Planned Parenthood and getting money from the government. And look at the addresses and look where they put their clinics and how they over index and have created a genocide against African Americans. And it is a genocide. Never been more than 17% of the population. They're usually 40% of the abortions.
Patrick Bet-David
Wow.
Adam Sosnick
How did that happen?
Vinnie Fisher
Weird.
Adam Sosnick
And so this is just more what you're pointing out of this, the disgusting industry, that if America knew the truth and if America. Rob, I think the name of the movie was Silent Scream. That was suppressed.
Vinnie Fisher
That's what it was.
Adam Sosnick
Because they, they were, they were able to show that at a certain age, the, the, the baby and I, I'm not going to use any of the medical terminology because they use that to make the baby seem like something else. Oh, it's just tissue. No, it is A living. Feels the pain of being murdered in the womb.
Vinnie Fisher
And that's, that's what Tico. Not to cut you off, but that's what Tico was telling me about. He's like, Uncle Vinny, do you know about the silent screaming? I didn't know what he's talking about. He's like these. Even when they put the forceps in there, the baby's trying to move away because it knows that the pain is coming. So. And Tom, great point, because if we don't value the life in the womb, then how can we value it anywhere else? And the pro choice people are like, oh, it's only tissue. No, no. 6, 23 weeks. That old, that long. It has a heartbeat. It's feeling pain. You know what I mean? And now you're going in there, you're not only killing it and it's excruciating pain, then you're selling it and you're making money off of it.
Patrick Bet-David
You know what book he's reading right now?
Vinnie Fisher
Which one?
Patrick Bet-David
Thomas Soul's book.
Vinnie Fisher
That's why I just bought. Because of him.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. That book is a revolution. Everybody needs to read this.
Vinnie Fisher
The reader.
Patrick Bet-David
The reader. That's what he just finished. Let me give a couple of thoughts here on the Planned Parenthood. We got it. We got to wrap up because I got to head to the house. I got to meeting. So stat. And data comes out, by the way. Yeah, that one right there. So data comes out. Rob, can you go to that Wall Street Journal story? So Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy doge plan to reform the government right. Following the Supreme Court. If you can press control F in there, Rob, and type in plan Plan Parenthood. Right to watch that. So go a little bit higher so I can read that paragraph. That's fine right there. Final focus on delivering cost saving. Skeptics questions how federal spending doge can tame through executive actions. They point to a 1979 control act which stops the president from seizing expenditure authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested that the statue is unconstitutional and we believe the current Supreme Court could would likely side with him on this question. But even without relying on this view, Doge will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended. 350. $535 million a year. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which they're talking about. They're talking about the. Is it Voice America? Is it the not voice of America? What's the other one that Is it pb, pbs. Pbs, right.
Adam Sosnick
Promoting their view.
Patrick Bet-David
That's right, the PBS and the one and a half billion dollar for grants. International organization to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood. Oh, so that story is there then. Insider writes the story reacting to this. Planned Parenthood says it's seen a 1200 spike. 1200% spike in vasectomies appointments as Musk's deutsche targets its cuts. The 1200% increase in vasectomy. 760% rise in IUD's appointments following Trump's reelection amid fears of funding cuts. CEO Alex Alexis McGill Johnson criticized Musk and Vivek, heads of Trump's proposed doge, calling them unqualified fanboys and agents of chaos for targeting the organization. The federal budget trimming plans, which aims to cut $300 million of Planned Parenthood. Muskie and Ramaswamy argue in the op ed that the federal spending, the $1.5 billion, you get the idea where that's going. So there is a lot of moving parts here. This is not a good season for Planned Parenthood. They're sitting around saying, wait a minute, these guys are probably going to come after us. And what does that look like? Is it going to be done? Where else are they going to get their funding from? Is it going to be four years of no funding? What could happen? Anything is possible right now with what these guys trying to cut. But yes, it's, it's, it's exciting that you have two people that their number one job is to come and cut expenses. And they're both entrepreneurs. If there's anything entrepreneurs know how to do successfully, those who eventually make it successful is cut expense. Musk went to Twitter. 7, 500 employees fired. 3750. 1250 decided to leave because they thought they were next. He ended up with 20250 employees. That happened within a week or two of him buying Twitter.
Adam Sosnick
And X still worked for the rest.
Patrick Bet-David
And not only works better. It's the number one downloaded app right now, period. It's the number one downloaded app RIGHT NOW.
Tom Zawacki
Adam49 Right. Partisan public. I have a whole thing on Doge. I'll use it on another segment because I've actually been doing a lot of research on what they're doing. I mean, everyone's sort of excited of what this upcoming administration is. They're sort of the super team they're putting together. I'm most excited about this DOGE Department of Government Efficiency. Their task is to cut $2 trillion from the federal deficit. So I don't know how long they're going to do that in how long they're going to take. We discussed this on a previous podcast. What's mandatory. What's discretionary, what's what is basically fixed. What's baked in the cake. I'm excited to see what budget cuts they're going to make. And it sounds like prime Planned Parenthood is going to be a big part of that.
Patrick Bet-David
Gang Thursday Thanksgiving. Put it in your calendar. By the way, those that are ordering the blackout hats, less than 100 left. So there's 250 if you wanted one, go get them because these things going to go in no time. It's a sick limited edition hat Blackout. Go to VT merch.com to get yours. Thanksgiving morning while the turkeys are getting ready in the oven, we're going to be doing a podcast. So we will be here doing a podcast Thanksgiving morning. For those of you that are part of the crazy, crazy crew that are going to be tuning in, we can't wait for you to join us. We'll have a good time here together first and then we'll go grub and have Thanksgiving with our families. Hey, just remember, we are thankful for you. You're amazing, you're brilliant, you're special that you follow here and, you know, join us in this crazy journey that we're going through and being patient with this guy for him, going through the evolution of reason, getting smarter, entertaining, all of that. We believe the future looks bright and we look forward to you joining us this Thursday. God bless everybody. Take care. Bye bye.
Tom Zawacki
Turkeys on Thursday.
PBD Podcast Episode 512 Summary: Rogan vs Zelenskyy, Netanyahu ICC Warrant, Diddy Drugged Jamie Foxx?
Release Date: November 26, 2024
Host/Authors: Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Vinnie Fisher, Tom Zawacki
Podcast Description: The PBD Podcast delves into current events, trending topics, and politics as they intersect with life and business. This episode features robust discussions on legal challenges, media controversies, international relations, economic policies, and high-profile celebrity disputes.
Jack Smith and the ICC Warrant
Discussion: The hosts examine the recent developments surrounding Jack Smith, a prosecutor known for his pursuit of former President Trump. The conversation questions whether Smith is truly ready to drop significant cases, especially now that Trump is no longer in office.
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Netanyahu Faces UK Arrest Over ICC Warrant
Discussion: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under scrutiny as the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to enforce the ICC mandate, emphasizing Canada's commitment to international law despite domestic challenges.
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Rachel Maddow’s Pay Cut and Legal Notices for Sonny Host
Discussion: Rachel Maddow recently took a $5 million pay cut, sparking varied reactions. Additionally, Sonny Host, now the legal correspondent for "The View," is facing four more legal notices, highlighting the increasing legal pressures on media personalities.
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CNN’s Primetime Shuffle and Twitter Management
Discussion: Caitlin Collins steps into the role of Chief White House Correspondent at CNN, replacing Jim Acosta. The hosts critique CNN's attempt to present Twitter/X as a more ideologically balanced platform under Elon Musk's ownership.
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China’s Strategic Positioning with Elon Musk and Trump
Discussion: China perceives Elon Musk as a potential mediator to influence U.S. policies towards Trump. This dynamic is further complicated by Jeff Bezos’s denial of Musk’s claims and the ongoing trade tensions.
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Discussion: A heated exchange between Bill Maher and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson is analyzed. The hosts criticize Tyson for departing from scientific objectivity and endorsing progressive ideologies, arguing that his credibility is undermined by his stances on transgender issues.
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Discussion: Joe Rogan’s comments on Ukrainian President Zelensky have stirred debates about the escalation towards World War III. The podcast hosts explore Rogan’s skepticism about the military-industrial complex and the potential for global conflict.
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Trump’s Upcoming Tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China
Discussion: President Trump plans to impose a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% on Chinese imports. The aim is to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl. The hosts defend Trump's stance as a move towards fair trade, contrasting it with previous administrations.
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McDonald's Launches McValue Menu
Discussion: In response to inflation and changing consumer habits, McDonald’s introduces the McValue menu, offering budget-friendly meal deals to attract cost-conscious customers.
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Macy’s Accounting Scandal
Discussion: Macy's uncovers a former employee who manipulated accounting records to hide $154 million in delivery expenses. The incident raises concerns about corporate oversight and the effectiveness of internal controls.
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Jamie Foxx Addresses Diddy Allegations
Discussion: Jamie Foxx publicly addresses rumors that Sean "Diddy" Combs was responsible for his 2023 hospitalization. The hosts debate the credibility of these claims, scrutinizing the sources and the involvement of a videographer named Choke.
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Discussion: Allegations surface that Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue to the University of California for research under dubious ethical standards. Disparities in consent forms for English and Spanish speakers further intensify the controversy, prompting calls for federal investigations.
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Discussion: The hosts wrap up the episode by highlighting upcoming events, such as the Thanksgiving podcast and new merchandise releases. They emphasize their commitment to addressing critical issues and engaging in meaningful discussions.
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Key Takeaways:
Legal and Political Scrutiny: High-profile figures like Jack Smith and Benjamin Netanyahu face significant legal challenges, reflecting the intense political landscape.
Media Bias and Management Changes: CNN’s shifts in correspondent roles and the management of Twitter/X under Elon Musk are scrutinized for potential ideological biases.
International Tensions: China's strategic interactions with Elon Musk and the U.S., along with looming tariffs, indicate escalating economic and political tensions.
Celebrity Health and Allegations: Jamie Foxx's hospitalization connected to Diddy introduces complex narratives involving celebrity interactions and media influence.
Economic Strategies: Trump's aggressive tariff policies aim to address immigration and drug trafficking, positioning him as a decisive economic policy-maker.
Ethical Concerns in Healthcare: Planned Parenthood’s alleged unethical practices with fetal tissue have sparked significant political and social debates.
This episode of the PBD Podcast offers a comprehensive analysis of pressing global and domestic issues, blending political commentary with investigative discussions on ethical dilemmas and celebrity controversies. Listeners gain insight into the interplay between media narratives, political maneuvers, and social ethics, all while the hosts provide their candid perspectives and forward-looking statements.