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Adam Carolla
Did you ever think you were made.
Patrick Bet-David
Again, Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here.
Donald Trump
My son's right.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't think I've ever said this before. All right, folks, 9:00am sharp. Lots going on. Well, look at us. We gotta cover this redistricting, this gerrymandering, this California, Chicago, Illinois. You gotta see the history of gerrymandering. What the hell is gerrymandering about? How do they come up with the name? How often can they redistrict? There's all these details about these things, and some states do it better than others. Newsom's now threatening Trump twice, going after him, telling him what Abbott has done is absolutely uncalled for. And. And then last night, we get the Senate hearing for Texas approving the new congressional map ordered by Trump after everybody left, and could potentially replace five new seats with one of them being Representative Jasmine Crockett, which is something you ought to know about. That's why this redistricting thing right now is something that everybody is talking about. And Newsom is using this, as usual, politically to make it seem like if they do redistrict in California, it's because of Trump, not because he ever wanted to do it. Of course, he would never want to do such a thing, all because of Trump's fault. So we'll cover that.
Tom
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Patrick Bet-David
I believe there's a few other things that we have to discuss. Already doing it outside of that. D.C. sending national security. Some people are saying, wait a minute, why are we sending national security? And in Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough is caught trying to read this text from a liberal in D.C. that is an extremely liberal guy that's in D.C. talking about how unhappy he is with safety in D.C. you can tell he's uncomfortable wanting to read it. Either Joe was uncomfortable wanting to read it, or his producer said, don't read it, and he read it anyways. Either way, good on him for reading it. I'll show it to you here in a minute. I don't know what's going on with Candace, Nick Fuentes, Tucker. Elon got involved. There's a bunch of things going on there. Who do you believe? Go, I believe him. I believe her. I believe I'm with him. Either way, there's a lot of it going on and people are getting involved. Elon jumped into it as well. So we're going to have to respond to that and give some thoughts. Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same sex marriage ruling in a state. Could this become a federal thing? Because that is a state who knows? Wall street stunned as inflation defies odds on tariffs. And everybody said, oh my God, it's going to tell. Inflation is going to go up because the tariffs, it's not happening. Then next one is Elon Musk and Sam Altman engage in a fierce war of words on X. All you need to know is you see Sam Altman retweets at Elon because Elon's threatening to sue Apple because X is not showing up or Grok is not showing up on the app downloads. I think it's X that's not showing up and they're not happy about it. But then Sam had some stuff to say. Trump defense taking 15 cut of Nvidia AMD chip sales to China. Tom's got a lot of thoughts on that. Harry Enton from CNN admits Trump has the best political instinct he's ever seen. The good news is Harry's very young, but it's been a long time that he's been seeing this. So great. We'll see what he has to say about it.
Donald Trump
Trump.
Patrick Bet-David
Russia. Trump criticizes Zelensky over Ukraine land swap objections amid Putin talks. And European leaders plan to meet with Trump before Putin talks. That's a Wall Street Journal story. They're worried that, you know, look, we just want you to know, please, when you meet with Putin, don't invite him to be part of NATO. What are your motives? What are your intentions? They're worried about it. Trump takes extraordinary actions to push bloodshed and BDM in D.C. by seizing control of local police, unleashing National Guard. Pete Hexit said he's ready for it. Middle class residents of Demeron City say they're trapped in unsellable homes surrounded by drug markets. Tom's got some thoughts on that. We're of course going to talk about the redistricting. California city approves $100,000 fund to help migrants pay rent. Oh, my goodness. Just brilliant when you think about that. Ready for this next one, folks in real estate or those that want to buy, you may want to listen to this. Fed governor maintains outlook for three interest cuts in 2025. What? Not just one, not two. Three. Is this like the LeBron James of interest rate cuts?
Tom
Not one.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. Who knows?
Vinnie
Who knows?
Patrick Bet-David
That's right.
Tom
Six, I believe.
Patrick Bet-David
And yeah, he said he kept going, but obviously he's been wrong for a long time.
Harry
I'm taking my talents to the Fed comer.
Patrick Bet-David
Bill Clinton prime Suspect in Epstein Investig. And then we got a few other story. Bill Maher had Drew Barrymore on from 50 First Dates or Poltergeist, whatever movie you remember her from, or ET Or Fire. She was getting drunk.
Vinnie
Fire started five years old.
Patrick Bet-David
Let's stop. Her and Adam Sandler were good friends. Maybe they're still good friends.
Tom
Yeah, they probably are.
Patrick Bet-David
Bill Maher says the View co hosts are not the best advertisement for women.
Vinnie
Really?
Patrick Bet-David
In blunt criticism. And last but not least, this is the story Adam wants to talk about. My brain was breaking. Former right wing trad wife a blast. Abusive male power. All right, so that's Adam's story, which makes sense, but. And then we got a few other stories here that we'll get into if we have the time. We have a shot clock up here, folks. You don't see it.
Vinnie
I love it.
Patrick Bet-David
But that is specifically for Adam. Yeah, and. And it's angled in a way for Adam to see to. What's your point? We should call it the. We should call it. What's your point? Shot clock.
Tom
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
Now, all right, let me get to you guys and tell you what we're doing on August 27th. Get your calendars out and put this in your calendar on August 27th. This is kind of like August 27th, dad. Okay? That's a. Guys, that's just when you were young and you heard these commercials.
Vinnie
Persians will get it.
Patrick Bet-David
You can't get it out of you. August 27th, at our property here, okay? In a hanger at our, you know, property that we have in Fort Lauderdale, our headquarters. We're holding a special networking opportunity. A lot of you guys keep saying, pat, I want to come see the property. I want to come see the property. Most people don't know this. We're building the biggest futsal field right now. That is 3,000ft square feet bigger than the biggest futsal field, the traditional ones that you see. We're building one right now. Scott foots off field. It's anyways, the people that know, they know. I don't understand. Listen, so we're building it here. We're doing a bunch of different things on our property. We want to give some other people an opportunity to come and see the property. And some of you guys, I want to give you a tour when you come down here. So here's what we're doing. August 27th. Anybody that's bought a vault ticket that's going to the vault conference that's out of South Florida. You can be from anywhere if you want to come participate. But specifically for the people that are in Florida. If you bought a ticket, general you're invited. Our team will give you a. You'll be able to network with others, platinum and executive ticket holders. You're going to get a tour of the entire property. Founder and CEO, ticket holders, I'm going to give you a tour to property myself. I'm going to show you exactly everything that we're doing here. But you have to be a ticket holder and if you haven't bought the tickets yet, you have to see what we're going to have. Our center car outside the Formula One that we bought, the 1989 one. We have a lot of things. You'll see what we're doing behind closed doors. This year's Vault Conference is going to be absolutely epic. If you're somebody that's got big plans second half of the year, I keep telling this to people. Do not go through this year by yourself. This is the worst year to go into 2026 without getting the strategies that others are having. By far the worst. Whether it's AI, human nature, real estate, insurance, finance, raising capital, networking with others, myself, Tony Robbins, Martha Stewart, David Falk at the number one business conference of the year that teaches you what to do when you leave. It's not like rah rah motivation. Here's how we do this. 300 page manual that will be given to everybody. If you haven't yet bought your ticket, go to the vault conference.com buy your ticket. Then Rob, if you can put the link below for the people that have already bought a ticket because you got to regist, because it's only for the first 200. We're not doing it with 2,000 people showing up here. First 200 register locked in. That's it. Each person that bought a ticket, you'll get to bring one person with you to see the tour. Whether they have a ticket or not, it's not a problem. But the first 200 register, you'll be able to come join us. You just have to prove to us that you bought a ticket and our team will verify that. Rob, what is the link for them to go to register for this? Is there a link that you have for it?
Harry
It's actually pinned inside of the chat on YouTube.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, but is there a link for it for people that only listen to audio? Like if it's in different places?
Harry
Not that I'm aware of.
Tom
I can look and find out.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, I would say maybe send an email to infovt.com send an email to infatvt.com and they'll send back over to you. But if you don't, it's a link on Spotify and on. On YouTube. You'll be able to get to it to learn what that is all about. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you here. All right, let's get right into it. What is gerrymandering? What is redistricting? Why are people losing their minds in the state of Texas? You have the governor, state of Texas. What's his name? Governor Abbott. Greg Abbott goes out there and they announced that they're going to be redistricting and they're going to a lot of people. They're gerrymandering, they're redistricting. And then it goes to vote on the Senate seat, which I believe it's 31 senators, state senators in Texas that have to vote for it. Okay. They vote 19 to 2. Okay. Nine Democrats are not even there. They left. Many of them went to Illinois, some of them went to Massachusetts, some of them went to New York. They're complaining about what's going on in the state of Texas, by the way.
Harry
It was their duty to appear and vote.
Patrick Bet-David
It was their duty to appear and vote, and they did it.
Vinnie
Meaning, is it an arrest?
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, let me tell you what happened. So first of all, what would happen.
Harry
If the cops go on strike? Cops can't go on strike. These, your elected officials went on strike.
Patrick Bet-David
They went on strike. They left. Okay. One of the ladies even said this is, you know, Hochul called this. I mean, she went off saying things about. One of the representatives, even called this, you know, the Holocaust is what she called it. I'm not even Jolando Jones. Can you type in Jolanda? Jolanda Jones, Rob. Jolanda Jones called it a Holocaust. Is that. Is that Yolanda Jones? Yes. Okay, watch this one here. This is what she called it. Go ahead.
Harry
And then integration happened and everybody thought, they accept us.
Patrick Bet-David
They don't accept us. They are showing us who they are. We should believe them. And we better have the courage to stand up, otherwise we will fall for anything. And in this country, we will be defeated, deported. I mean, we will lose all of our rights. Okay? Fear porn, fake Joy Reeves to the Holocaust.
Harry
She's criticizing citizens of Texas elected her. Okay, so you got elected. They don't hate you. There's some number of them elected you woman.
Patrick Bet-David
Tom, we got it. So. So she says Holocaust. Jasmine Crockett is worried because one of the seats could potentially get her to lose her seat. So then last night they vote. And when they Vote. It comes out that Texas Senate approves the new congressional map ordered, they say, by Trump. This is obviously not coming by Trump, but they're calling it order by Trump because a lot of people are saying they're doing this right before the midterms because they're worried Texas could go blue and may as well do it now before it's too late. So Texas Senate approved the new congressional boundaries on Tuesday with a vote of 19 to 2, aiming to secure five additional Republican seats in the House for the 2026 elections, as pushed for Donald by Donald Trump. That's what they're saying. But House Democrats absence from Austin has stalled the Texas House from approving the map for over a week. Nine Senate Democrats walked out the caucus, and then Senate Democrats labeled the map unconstitutional. But Senate Phil King argued no one has presented data or frankly, any compelling case that this map violates any of the applicable laws as the Senate votes proceed. Now, this is the part to keep in mind. So let's talk about what's gerrymandering and redistricting. The way to look at it is if you go to Rob, go to Illinois districts in 1950. Okay. If you go to Illinois districts in 1950. Okay. And if you. If you just type in images and you go to it. Yeah. Go to the one on the top left, the first one that you have. That's what it looked like. And if you zoom in, this is the part that people are kind of zoom, if you can. Okay. Do you see how it makes sense? Because they're all within the same community. You see how all the purple is together. The light blue is all together. The brown is pretty much. It's the same community. This is what it used to be back in the day.
Vinnie
What does this mean, Pat? Not to cut you off. So these are all have a representative. Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
One of the. It could be a Democrat or Republican.
Vinnie
Gotcha.
Patrick Bet-David
But this is 1950. What Illinois look like. Can you wrap.
Harry
This district has roughly the same number of people. That's why you have small ones in cities. Big ones rule. It's about the same number of citizens.
Vinnie
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
This is the districts today, if you come to it. And if you can do me a favor for Illinois, go to District 3. I think it's District 3, Illinois District 3. It could be District 3 or 7, they call it.
Harry
And District 9.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, they call it the earmuffs. Type in. Type in earmuffs. Illinois district Earmuffs. Yeah, earmuffs. Watch this. Go to images so you notice what you just saw. Okay. Click on that, Vinnie, that's now a district.
Vinnie
What?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, so that's called gerrymandering. So what they do is they split it up to take things like. Let's just say if that place is too much Republican in one district, okay, and the representative in that area could end up being a Republican, they'll split it into different districts to have the Republicans be the minority of another district. So intentionally lose. So is that they call this gerrymandering? The same thing happened in Maryland. Rob, if you go to Maryland District.
Harry
3, can you look at Chicago 9 real quick?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, we'll go to that as well. Go to Maryland district. Democrats are smart, huh? So go to seven. Go to Maryland District seven. I just want to see. It's one of the two. There's. There's. There's another one that is extremely weird. We'll show some of these to you guys. Okay. Look at that one right there. Do you see how it's cut?
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
It's cut intentionally that way to hurt some of the folks that, like, imagine you cut a Republican county, a community in a certain way to hurt them. You do it this way, then you win. So now, while we're going through the history of gerrymandering and how this whole thing came about, this goes all the way back to 1800s. There was a governor, I think the governor of Massachusetts. His name was Elbridge Jerry. Rob, can you type in Elbridge Jerry? G, E, R, R, Y. There you go. So this guy is the first guy that understood what redistricting was, and he built a district that looks like a salamander. So type in Elbridge Jerry Salamander. He's the first guy that did it. And he was part of the Democratic Republican Party. Back in the days, there was a Democratic Republican Party. Go on the top left. That's the district.
Vinnie
Let's go freaking.
Patrick Bet-David
He drew that district.
Vinnie
Oh, scary.
Patrick Bet-David
Do you see how he drew that district?
Tom
He drew a dragon.
Patrick Bet-David
That's a salamander. The name came from Gerry and Salamander. They called it gerrymandering. This is how the name came about from the 1800s. So it became a brilliant strategy for a lot of people to use to hurt the opposing party, to eliminate competition, to be able to push whatever policies you want. And a lot of cases they say there's three reasons for it. Some of them, they do it because it's bipartisan. Both sides are like, I think this is fair. It's okay. It's fair for everybody. Some are partisan, and some of them, they're like, look, Whether you care for it or not, we're doing this anyway. So this is called chaos. Newsom responds at Trump yesterday multiple times, I think. Is this the clip about him talking about. But this is different, Rob. This is. Oh, is this it?
Harry
Yeah, this is where he says fighting firearm.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, go for it, Rob, Go ahead. Hey, President Trump, it's time to stand down.
Harry
It's time to make another phone call to Greg Abbott. This time, instead of calling them and telling you're quote, unquote, entitled to five congressional seats, it's time to tell him to stand down.
Patrick Bet-David
It's time to recognize that democracy is at risk.
Harry
It's time to, dare I say, do the right thing. Actually.
Patrick Bet-David
See.
Harry
See how that feels for you, doing the right thing. If you don't, California will neutralize anything you do in the state of Texas. California will continue to punch above its weight. We believe in democracy. We believe in the enduring values of our founding fathers.
Patrick Bet-David
249 years.
Harry
We're not going to sit back passively in pause.
Patrick Bet-David
So that was yesterday. Then there's another one. He puts the second threat, which, Rob.
Harry
If you can go, California will fight fire. Fire is probably not the metaphor that Gavin Newsom.
Patrick Bet-David
True.
Tom
That's true.
Patrick Bet-David
It's a good idea. So, Rob, go to. Go to X real quick. So if you go to X right there, that's his last one. TikTok Donald. Texas governor demands. California governor demands Texas redistributing push threatens ballot measures. So that's the second one. Now, before I go into anything else, I'm gonna pause here. Tom, I'm gonna come to you here. What are your thoughts with everything that's going on with redistrict and distribute and gerrymandering? I have a bunch of other thoughts on this, why this is so important, but what are your thoughts on this, Tom?
Harry
Well, welcome to the sausage making that is American politics. You have right now Gavin Newsom using it to step up and do a pure leadership appear presidential and to do this to put himself in the spotlight. California was already doing it. California Democrats were already moving and Schiff was worried about it because of what was happening in San Diego and Orange County. And if we were to look at how San Diego and Orange county voted in the presidential election, you can see and the central states, just get all of them, the California district map, blue, red for the 2024 election. And you'll see California was already on red alert because they're entitled. Yeah. See, take a look at what was happening here. The entitlement that the Democrats felt in California was already in.
Patrick Bet-David
No, right. Go on. That one right there. Right there. Watch this. Look at the last 20. Look at the last four years, Finney.
Vinnie
So red is. Red is.
Patrick Bet-David
Red is. Red is Republican, blue is Democrat. Look what's happened last four years. Go ahead, Tom.
Harry
Perfect. And so the Dems were already in red alert saying, well, what are we going to do about this? Because their concern was Orange county and San Diego going red. Their concern was like, wow. No, wait, wait, wait. We got real areas here. We need to redistrict these because we can neutralize the 54% red by just moving it around. Gerrymandering. They were already going to do it. Then Texas, you know, had its moment and everything, and that became very public as they ran off so that they didn't have to vote and everything, abdicating their responsibility. And now Gavin Newsom says, we will fight fire with fire. And I've already said that's the wrong thing he should be saying, but he's already getting ready to do because of that what he's already accusing the other side of doing. But they're both doing it. And in my view, this gets a little crazy because both sides can be accused of putting their thumb on the scale. Both sides can be accused of doing this. And this, this isn't where the fight should be. I think the fight should be over issues. I think Newsom.
Patrick Bet-David
There's a problem there, Tom, you know what the problem is? There is no federal jurisdiction on gerrymandering.
Harry
That's exactly right.
Patrick Bet-David
Which means state by state. Did you understand? It's like, Vinnie. They can. Both states can do this forever and the government has no say in it. Nothing.
Vinnie
That's not right, though.
Patrick Bet-David
It's not about. That's not right. They build it this way in this Elbridge. Jerry figured it out and others said, well, listen, if he can do it, I'm going to do it.
Vinnie
Yeah, of course.
Patrick Bet-David
So you essentially prevent the other side winning your state in a long time. Like it becomes mathematically impossible for you to win.
Harry
And by the way, the Dems like to talk about threat to democracy. What about those areas and around the earmuffs that now feel underrepresented? They can't win. They can't get the guy elected. So you have a community that 60% wants to elect somebody, but they are manipulated with other voters and other 60% becomes 42%. Do you see what happens? They keep diluting it. It's like. Like water. Here's hot water. And they just keep diluting it with ice from other areas. This is so the bad part of gerrymandering is Texas has to do it to block what California is doing. And that is the order that it's happening. It's not Texas instigating right now. This was. California was already starting it because the California Dems, led by Schiff and Newsom were like, hey, man, we got to do something.
Tom
So redlining, gerrymandering, redistricting. This whole conversation is coming up. I think I remember learning about this, like, in eighth grade. But so what happens is this. Every 10 years, they do a census. So, Vinnie, you've been sort of on the move on what's going on. Well, illegal immigrants coming through because the census. There's more people.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Tom
What's going on here? So every 10 years they do a census, and where they end up are in certain districts. So every congressman or congresswoman has their district, their quote, unquote neighborhood that they're representing. So gerrymandering. Imagine we have a pizza party. We order a pizza. You're with me.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Tom
And typically, all right, I get a slice. PBD gets a slice. You get a slice. Rob, obviously, is going to get two slices. Tom gets a half a slice. He's low carb. But now it's redistricting, and gerrymandering is like, I'll take my slice. I'll take some of your pepperoni. I'm going to take the mushrooms off Tom's pizza. I'm gonna throw in some crust. You're like, what happened to my slice, buddy? That's exactly what's going on here. Rather than everybody getting a slice, redlining is like, certain people can't even get a slice. Fu. Fu. You're cool. You can eat. And then redistricting and everything that's going on here is basically throwing pepperoni, throwing mushrooms around. The point is this. It's ugly, it's messy. It's musical chairs with your votes, and everybody gets a seat in this.
Vinnie
Are they ever going to change? Like, is there any way to change this legally?
Harry
So.
Patrick Bet-David
So here's. Everybody's the problem with this. So I looked up to see how often you can gerrymander. How often?
Vinnie
That's what my next question was going to be.
Patrick Bet-David
So when you get the census, every 10 years, 20, 20, they give the new census. Some states, you can only gerrymander or redistrict once a decade. And it's like six states. North Carolina is one of them. And it's a few states that you can do it only once every 10 years. Once you do, it stays like that for 10 years. Okay? And of course, there has to be a vote and bipartisan. Both sides have to agree to it. Some states, yeah, right there, you see, North Carolina can only do it once. Some states, you can do it as many times as you want. Vinnie, there's no jurisdiction on how often you can do it. You can gerrymander two times, three times. Again, there is no federal jurisdiction on this of what can happen with it. Now, the problem with this is the following. Here's California. California's got 52 representatives, okay? Out of the 52 representatives, you know how many of them are Democrats? 40, 43 are Democrats.
Vinnie
Damn.
Patrick Bet-David
Nine are Republicans. 83.7% of California is Democrats. And then you got the 17%. He's threatening Newsom to take it from 17 to eight is what he's threatening to do. He being Newsom. Because if. Imagine you got a Jasmine Crockett that may lose her job, which is what just happened right now. She literally may lose her job. There may be a Republican representative that's got a lot of voice in California that's annoying to people like Newsom, who may also lose his or her job because of what Newsom could do. Then Pritzker goes on Kristen. What's her name? Welken.
Tom
Kristen Welker.
Patrick Bet-David
Kristen Welker and Kristen Welker, as well as Stephen Colbert, both call him out. Both of them call.
Vinnie
Really?
Patrick Bet-David
Oh, of course.
Tom
By the way, he looks a little skinnier.
Patrick Bet-David
Watch this year. Go ahead, Go ahead. Look.
Harry
Sticking on your state's map.
Patrick Bet-David
Every major group that grades the fairness of congressional maps gives your state an.
Harry
F. F. Common cause, a nonpartisan government.
Patrick Bet-David
Watchdog, even says your map, and I'm going to quote, represents a nearly perfect model for everything that can go wrong with redistricting. And I guess the question is, you talk about preserving democracy. How do you preserve democracy if you're.
Harry
Using the same tactics that you've criticized Texas Republicans for? But as I say, what they're talking about is a distraction. The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights is what Texas is attempting to do. That's what's wrong with their efforts right now and the fact that the President of the United States knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it.
Tom
Let's see if she is.
Harry
What's wrong with what we're seeing right now? Democracy is at stake, and these Texas Democrats are standing up to what the GOP is at. This is JB Pritzker doing his Kamala Harris Impersonation.
Patrick Bet-David
Do you know what his number is? Do you know what his number is for Illinois? Illinois. Illinois. 84% Democrats.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
16, 15% Republicans. They have a monopoly on this conversation here. California's got a monopoly. Illinois's got a monopoly. But some people on the Republican side also have monopoly. It's not like this is just a thing that's going on on the left. It's something that goes on on both sides. But this conversation is leading to Florida jumping. And then Florida says, look, if you guys are doing it, we may jump in as well. Now Florida saying, you know, the story comes out with Axios. Florida looks to join Trump's redistricting push. Rob, I don't know if you have this video or not. Florida jumps in. Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced last week he will create a select committee to consider drafting a new congressional map aligning with President Trump. Call for decade redistricting with Governor Ron DeSantis supporting the effort. Is this it, Rob? Go for it.
Tom
Yes.
Harry
This is DeSantis talking about the voter flop here in Florida since 2020.
Patrick Bet-David
Go ahead.
Harry
If you had to put a number on. And how many seats do you think Republicans might pick up if in fact there was fair redistricting? I don't know, because I think Florida, our constitution limits. You know, you can't draw snake districts in Florida.
Patrick Bet-David
They got to be normal shape, compact, salamander.
Harry
I think it's great.
Patrick Bet-David
But I will tell you this.
Harry
When I got elected governor in 2018, there were 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. Today, there are 1.3 million more registered Republicans than Democrats. The state has grown by many millions of people.
Patrick Bet-David
Wow. Gotta give him credit on what he's done with that. So, Tom, I'll give you the final thoughts on this year before we move on to the next story.
Harry
I think Florida's got a sensible constitution that says, let's not be ridiculous. I think that's what Governor just said. And so I think either we need a federal control or we need the states to voluntarily do this. But guess what? The home of political corruption, the OG of political corruption, has been Chicago and Illinois. If you just go look up the history of America in elections, Mayor Daley and the machine that was there, and corruption, and it would represent upsetting the apple car and just redrawing everything. But I think what people fail to see, the screaming blue states that are talking about this, Pat, are losing citizens and they're going to lose representatives and they're going to lose electoral votes anyway.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Harry
And so the people that are crying are the people that are losing citizens by their own policies. And I think America needs to look at that. Let's take a look at where people are moving to.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, it's got it. Okay, sounds good. There you have it. So we'll see what happened there. Next time I want to go to is Elon Musk and Sam Altman. They engage in a fierce war of words on X. All you need to know. So Elon threatens to sue Apple. Rob, if you have this one here. Elon threatens to sue Apple. Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the app Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. XAI will take immediate legal action. Now here's a reader's added content. Rob, what's the reader saying? Just one month ago, on July 18, perplexity reach number one overall in India's app store. January 2025. Deep sea creation number one overall on app Store. Both of these occurred over after the OpenAI Apple partnership announced on June 10th of 2024. So maybe there's a correlation between the two. So then Altman responds, and here's what Altman has to say about what's going on. Because this is the war. This is a real war going on right now. That's the AI war. And they know who the most powerful person apparently is, whoever they're suing. Which is who? Apple.
Vinnie
Apple.
Patrick Bet-David
Apple controls. Who's getting the love, who's getting the traffic, who's getting all of it going to them. And Sam Altman comes out and says, wait a minute, you keep coming after us. But how about the fact that. Do you see this one here? Sam Altman, this is a remarkable claim given that what I heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like. So Sam is coming back and saying, wait a minute, you bought X and everything favors you. Musk, you got 3 million views on your bullshit post, you liar. Far more than I received on many of mine, despite me having 50 times your follower count. Will you sign an affidavit that you have never directed changes to the X algorithm in a way that has hurt your competitors or helped your own companies? I will apologize if. So did Elon respond back to that.
Harry
Or did I did not see a response.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, so obviously there's a back and forth going between these two guys and it's a true war. It's a true fight. That's taking place. People are watching it firsthand on what's going on here. Adam, what are your thoughts on this story?
Tom
So brace for impact. This is going to be the tech overlords who are going to be running our lives for the next. Not four, not 10, not 20, 40 years. Remember the tweet that Elon Musk said about Donald Trump? He goes, listen, you got him for another three and a half years. You're gonna have me for another 40 years. By the way, Sam Altman and Chat GBT and Gronk and Elon are going, this might be the tech overloads for the next 400 years. It's pretty scary. As far as their personal relationships, forget about the companies, forget about what they're doing with AI. This is personal, this is competitive, and this is going to get ugly and nasty. Sam Altman is number one in terms of AI. Why? Chachi? Pt, Chat GPT. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is running some sort of Nazi propaganda machine over there on Grok. Not my opinion. I pronounce it Grok, not Gronk.
Vinnie
Good.
Tom
All right, there we go right there. But the thing is this. Elon is not used to being number five. He's suing him because Grok is number five on the App Store. Chat GPT is number one. There's a couple other companies that I guess are above Grok in there, but Elon is obviously competitive and he's not used to not being number one, not number two, not number three, number five in this regard. So they've had.
Patrick Bet-David
They've had a few mistakes with Grok that's been public.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
And it's a few royally big mistakes, big time.
Tom
And that's because they've been glitching like crazy. And listen, if you. We all saw the story about the Nazism. Listen, I use Chap GPT for this reason. I get enough hate comments on YouTube. I don't need to go to Grok to be reminded about how hateful people are. But the reality is this, Sam Altman is number one in the AI world and Elon is fighting for his place at the table. We're going to see how nasty this thing's going to get. Last point. This whole Apple being sort of the guard of what's able to go on. Do you remember in 2020 who sued Apple for what they were doing with the App Store? Remember, it was a company called Epic. They're the owners or company that. That does Fortnite. Remember, they were suing apple over the 30%. There it is. Right, there's that what you can charge on the App Store. Apple is the tech overlord and everyone's trying to get become number one on Apple on the App Store. And right now it's Sam Altman and Elon is just sort of crying like Justin Timberlake cry.
Patrick Bet-David
Your thoughts?
Harry
I agree with what Adam said about the tech bros. And right now the tech bros are probably happy to see Sam Altman and Elon fighting. You want to know why? Because Meta and Google, you know, what have they been doing? No, they've been completely innocent. They don't do shadow bans of content they don't like. They don't do things and push people back on Vax and then completely suppress your video. They didn't suppress the lap laptop story on Hunter Biden. They didn't move political things and weight them differently. They didn't manipulate the the teenage girls on Metta and causing them to see more stuff that was actually harmful to them. And they knew what it was doing. No, no, they've never done that. Google has never modified ad weights on AdSense or let things show up differently. Never.
Vinnie
Never.
Harry
The tech bros haven't done this. So what Elon Musk is doing, he's Jerry. What, did he gerrymander some outcomes for his own?
Tom
Maybe he's a callback right there. Maybe he did.
Harry
And maybe Altman is saying sign an affidavit. But everybody else has gerrymandered results in tech. That is the danger of tech. And that's why tech needs competition to keep it honest. Because you look at this, this happens all across the board, even to the point of people getting really harmed was we look back when the tech bros were taking their cues from the federal government.
Patrick Bet-David
And you know what's interesting while we're talking about this, you know, just bought a company from Google for 34, 35 billion dollars. Rob, do you have that story? Jeez, I don't know if you guys heard this or not.
Tom
Oh, is this a story where they're attempting to buy or did they actually buy it for 30 billion?
Patrick Bet-David
They're attempting to buy. AI startup Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for 34 and a half billion dollars. You know Chrome that you use Chrome?
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
City is buying, wanting to buy Google's Chrome for 34 and a half billion. Here's the issue I got with this is why is Google selling? Why? Why do you need to sell? Why would you sell?
Harry
Pending antitrust decision where they're going to be forced to give up AdSense or Chrome.
Patrick Bet-David
So, so it's one of the two. So if I have to give up one of the two, I'm going to sell the Chrome browser to Perplexity. Or maybe you can come for me on Monopoly and antitrust and all the other items.
Harry
Or maybe it's not being offered. Perplexity is just saying, hey, the federal government can cause you to sell something. Pat, I'll tell you what offer you 30 billion.
Patrick Bet-David
Let me ask you a question. You're telling me how much you think this is an offer that was made without Google being aware of this offer.
Harry
Was it a knock at the. I think it could be a knock at the door offer. It's like, hey, think, yeah, I don't, I don't think Google went out and.
Tom
Got a banker, $34 billion knock on.
Patrick Bet-David
The door and AI startup made an unsolicited or unsolicited offer to buy Google's Chrome for 34 and a half. With his chief executive Arvandis stating in a letter to Pichai chief executive Google parent company Alphabet that the offer was designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy and highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable independent operator. The bit comes as Judge Amit Mata U.S. district Rule and expected as early as this we could face Google to sell Chrome to reduce its dominance. And the Internet search perplexity valued at 18 billion, has backing from outside investors for the potential deal. According to Jesse Dyer spokesperson, the Justice Department has pushed for Google to divest Chrome, arguing that Google's monopoly, controlling about 90% of the search market, requires. Requires forceful antitrust changes to foster competition. With David Dalquist, the government's lead litigator, stating this court's remedy should be forward looking and not ignore what's on the horizon. And Google is using the same strategy that they did for search and now applying it to Gemini. Wow. Unbelievable. But so what a, what a brilliant move, Tom. Right. If you think about it, it's like, hey, we know you're getting pressure on antitrust. Let us just make an offer without anybody knowing. Now it's public. So the government said, well wait a minute, we have an offer on the table from Perplexity and they're qualified. So you have something that you're dealing with.
Harry
That's right. And the government can say, well, maybe you should take that because I'm breaking you up.
Patrick Bet-David
Who do you, who do you think could be potential other buys outside of, outside of them?
Harry
Well, it's very, very interesting because everybody's looking for a dance partner and the odd man out is Apple. What is Meta doing? They're grabbing everybody's people to for the superintelligence lab. That's their play. They've been stealing guys from Apple. Well, we're not really going to do things at Apple, so tell you What, I'll take $10 million worth of stock that could be worth 100 million. That's how those big offers have been calculated. So you have Meta trying to get a place. Google is betting on Gemini and is sitting there with its ass court waiting to be broke up like this. Autopilot is already over there at Microsoft. And by the way, if you're scoring at home, Microsoft and Nvidia are now 15% of the S&P 500 PAT. That's a little overweight there. Right into it. Then you get Nvidia making the chips for AI. Remember this is an AI war going on and then you got OpenAI with ChatGPT by themselves. So you see how these armies are being formed. And so Perplexity needs a broadcast mechanism. And so it's going to go get Chrome. Google has to get broken by the government. They don't want to do it, but they got to sell something to somebody. They're going to be forced to. And Google's got Gemini and Meta stealing every engineer that's not nailed down to go for Super Intelligence Lab list.
Patrick Bet-David
Right now it says open AI. Potentially Apollo Global Management, Yahoo and maybe DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo's express long term interest in acquiring Chrome by DuckDuckGo. You're gonna be able to raise that kind of money. I don't know about that. If they are, you know, good for them. But which, maybe just conversation.
Tom
Which one do you use? You got Gemini, Chat GPT, Perplexity got Deep Sea. You got some dude named Claude out there that's giving you information in French.
Vinnie
I honestly, I do Chat GBT first and then I do Grok just to see what, like how different it is.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know if I use Google at all.
Vinnie
I once in a blue moon.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't know if I use Google.
Vinnie
Once in a blue moon.
Patrick Bet-David
I think Google for me is less than 5%.
Tom
But I'm still using Yahoo. I use Crazy.
Harry
Well, actually interesting, interesting here I use Perplexity first to get the deep search and then I compare with Chat GBT and Gemini.
Patrick Bet-David
Got it? Okay, sounds good. All right, let's get to the next story here. Give me one second. Rob, what was it that we had but moment. Okay, let's talk about DC takeover. What's going on with our capital, Trump takes extraordinary action to crush bloodshed and bidium in D.C. by seizing control of local police and unleash a National Guard. By the way, I want to show you guys a clip by Morning Joe after this one here. So here's President Trump talking about what's going on in D.C. go ahead, Rob.
Donald Trump
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is?
Tom
No.
Donald Trump
And placing the D.C. metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening, and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law order of public safety in Washington, D.C. and they're going to be allowed to do their job.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay? So watch this. Judge Pirro, who is now on there. Rob, I don't know if you have that clip. A young kid tries to call her out saying, hey, the numbers have been better. Is this that one, Rob, or is this one.
Harry
Sorry, this is her. Morning, young punks. Give me one second.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, there's another one where a young person jumps in and says something comes on the side and says, explain that to the kid that just got exactly. Broke his nose and his teeth were smashed in and explained this to that person. Explain to this person. She goes after it and says a lot of things. Now, by the way, Hexed comes in and supports the decision. Of course, with what the President's doing, we've mobilized the National Guard and have others specialized units ready to address the D.C. crime. Here's here. Here he is. Go ahead, Rob.
Vinnie
Your direction this morning, We've mobilized the D.C. national Guard. It'll be operationalized by the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, through the D.C. guard. You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming weeks, week at your direction as well, sir. There are other units we are prepared to bring in other National Guard units, other specialized units. They will be strong, they will be tough, and they will stand with their law enforcement partners. This is Nothing new for DOD. As the President noted, at the border, we've got 10,000 troops down there who've been operating in defense cooperation areas, defense zones where there's zero, zero illegal crossings because of troops on strikers scanning the border. We've been protecting other people's borders for 20 years. It's about time we protect our own. And we're working with ICE and CBP in Los Angeles. We did the same thing working with the California National Guard.
Patrick Bet-David
So when you're seeing what's happening here, a lot of the people on the left are calling this authoritarian and what they're doing. However, Morning Joe had to read a text from one of his friends that lives in D.C. and not only does he read the text, but at the same time, while he's going through it, he himself tells him what it was like when he was working in D.C. watch this year. Go ahead. I want to read you a text from a someone who, I won't say their name, but they're very, we'll just say they're very liberal. And he says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's national guard move in D.C. i know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant. I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at. None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8pm 13 year olds are committing many of these crimes. Quite a change from a decade ago.
Vinnie
When things were much calmer.
Patrick Bet-David
Well, that actually sounds like the DC That I lived in when I lived a block behind the Supreme Court. And you know, every three days some, one of my neighbors was getting held up at gunpoint.
Vinnie
I mean, there has been a crime.
Patrick Bet-David
Problem in D.C. and I want to, I want to read you pretty bad when you got the other side supporting what's going on there. Vinnie, what are your thoughts on this story?
Vinnie
Well, first of all, if, if the mayor of D.C. and the chief of police did their jobs, this wouldn't be happening. Okay. And I love the argument of like, by the way, 2024 was one of the highest murder rates was in Washington D.C. yes. The numbers are finally coming down as if that's an excuse. This year there's been at least 100 murders. And you're seeing this tree both. And they're attacking people that are working in Washington. And there was a clip yesterday where they're talking to the mayor and the chief of police, who is, I think her name is Pamela Smith, I believe. And they ask her, Pat, they're like, so now what's the change in command? Pambondi who? And she goes, what is that? What does that mean? The Chief of. The Chief of Police in Washington. Rob, if you can find it. Look, she doesn't know what the chain of command is. Look at this. Just, just real quick. And then the mayor has to jump in.
Harry
What the chain of command is. Now, what does that mean?
Vinnie
Look, she has to leave.
Patrick Bet-David
So the executive order is clear.
Harry
The President has requested MPD services and.
Patrick Bet-David
Our home rule charter outlines the process. The president designated Attorney General Bondi, Bondi's.
Harry
Number one, his proxy to, To.
Patrick Bet-David
To request service.
Vinnie
The Chief of police doesn't know what the word chain of command is, which is not a good thing. But then yesterday, Rob, I don't think, I don't think you're gonna be able to find it because I have to watch the whole CNN episode. Yes, guys, I watched the whole CNN thing. They did a poll on Abby Phillips show that the people who live in dc, Pat, they asked them if they thought crime was low, moderate or extreme. 91% of the poll said it was moderate to extreme. Okay. And I can care less, like I said about the numbers of 20, 24. And good, good that they're coming down. It doesn't mean that they're gone. And then, Rob, I sent you this clip on Slack. Simone Sanders, the girl that took over our friend Joy Reid spot, she was asked on Joe Scarborough if she thinks more police are safer on the streets. You're not going to believe. She said, as a black woman, she doesn't think so. Can you play this clip, Rob?
Patrick Bet-David
You don't think more police make streets safer? No, Joe, I'm a black woman in America. I do not always think that more police make streets safer.
Tom
She could just end the conversation there.
Patrick Bet-David
You don't see a police officer on every corner, but you don't feel unsafe.
Harry
So what is it about talking about.
Patrick Bet-David
The Southeast DC, right, Ward 8, if you will, that people say, well, we need more officers to make us safe. I think we have to rethink what safety means in America.
Vinnie
This is the defund.
Patrick Bet-David
I'd love to know how many times you don't want one in her life.
Harry
Rethink what safety means in America. Start there.
Vinnie
I love that. I love that you said that. So wait, what's she saying? As a black woman in America, more cops. It doesn't make any sense. And by the way, just FYI for everybody out there, that's just, you know, if they're just reading headlines and stuff, this is a 30 day plan. This is a 30 day. See what's going on? And just yesterday they arrested almost 25 people they took a bunch of guns off the street, okay? And remember when we talked about the tariffs? Everybody was tripping out, Tom. And what do we say? Let him cook. Let it happen. Okay? We need drastic times, we need drastic measures, okay? And then on top of that, Pat, the White House unveiled a sweeping plan to address the homelessness in D.C. okay, they're going to be physically going up to people that are in encampments, okay? And they're going to tell them, listen, they're going to offer them shelter and services, and if not, they're going to enforce the law. Brock, can you play this clip?
Patrick Bet-David
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Vinnie
Okay, Rob, you can stop it. And you know, I love Pat. Enough. Like, people just talk. This is not a dictator. This is not authoritarianism. It's in the law. They are stating the law and talk. The left just has to go opposite. Enough is enough. We just got back from la. It looked like a third world country. And my heart goes out, guys. I get emotional sometimes when I talk to them and I give them money and stuff. And I hate when people are like, well, you're giving them money. What are they going to buy? They're going to just buy drugs. I'm like, they're not going to invest in the S&P 500, all right?
Patrick Bet-David
I'm not stupid.
Vinnie
I'm not stupid.
Harry
You are correct.
Vinnie
But, Tommy, here's my thing. Help them. They're offering. I'm like, hey, listen, you can't be here. We're going to put you in a shelter, we're going to try to get you off drugs, and if you say no, that's it. We're going to freaking lock your ass up. Enough is enough. I love it. He's knocking, going after crime, Tom, and he's going to clean up the streets, by the way.
Harry
And I have some receipts to go with your passion.
Vinnie
Give it.
Harry
Do you know when the act, the District of Columbia Home Rule act, started? When? December 24, 1973. It was put in place after unrest and the federal government had small militias, not now militia, just means a small group of soldiers that were providing security around the district. Why? Because the president of France may show up and do a speech. So they made sure there was security in the district. Well, things were starting to get out of control, so they said, stop, we, we want to. And there's also residents here. So on December 24, 1973, they pass the District Columbia Home Rule act to give them the ability to, quote, limited self autonomy. And they inserted section 740 that said, but if you get out of hand, we the government who have been governing this since way back when, when they burned down the White House, when the British burned down the White House and it was attacked, it was the military protecting the city. And in 1973, December 24th, this part I'm not sure about, but I think Santa Claus got slayjacked. And so they said, we got to do this. But 12-24-73 is when it happened. They put this and they put section 740 in there. So for everybody that's saying President Trump is authoritarian. No, he's not. They're opening this up and saying crime is out of control. We have a provision here that if you couldn't get your squat together and take care of the city with your own police force and governance, we were going to step back in because we ran the place for 154 years before we put this act in place and gave you the ability to govern the citizens that lived in the little suburbs that were close in. So I think everybody that's trying to make this political about authoritarianism. Why don't you go back and read the act and look at why it was created, where it was created, and then look at Joe Scarborough, no friend of Trump, saying, yeah, it was pretty bad where I lived and I was only a block behind the Supreme Court.
Patrick Bet-David
Adam.
Tom
Well, defend the police. Don't defund the police. I know we had a little play on words last episode, but Trump came out, and when his. When he first came out, he said, we're going to be the party of law and order. And guess what? I alone can fix it. Do you remember that? And I remember 10 years ago, I'm being like, what a narcissist. You alone can fix it. Trump, Donald Trump, 2025, you alone. Please fix it, please. Because the last thing we need is our capital of the United States, Washington, D.C. turning into a ghost zombie land full of homeless drug addicts. And I'm just talking about the Congress, people. So. So let's clean this act up. Do you remember what happened in New York city in the 90s? We had a guy named Rudy Giuliani, and he cleaned up the streets, he cleaned up the Mafia. He basically. What was it the. What he used to stop the Monica? Was it the Rico? Rico Suave. Here we go.
Harry
And that's what started with the longshoreman, went inland. There you go.
Tom
And, well, that needs to be done in D.C. if there's one city we need in America that doesn't look like a absolute hellhole, it might as well be the capital, United States. I said this last episode because we've spent a lot of time in D.C. it suits by day, sirens by night. Anyone you talk to goes, oh, no, no, no, no. When the sun sets, get the hell out of here. Don't walk around.
Vinnie
Did you see. Did you see what Dana Bash said, Pat? By complaining about Trump cleaning up D.C. dana Bash said the most violent day was January six. That was her. That was her. It's really very, very short. Look at.
Harry
She's reading that the most violent moment.
Patrick Bet-David
In recent history in D.C. was January 6th.
Vinnie
That's what she's worried about was an.
Patrick Bet-David
Attack on the United States Capitol by a lot of people who were doing it in the name of Donald Trump.
Harry
It included the people who were hurt, included members of law.
Patrick Bet-David
The reality of it is she can say that all she wants. A report just came from Western Journal, ma'.
Tom
Am.
Patrick Bet-David
It's long pastime. Ex Capitol chief, Police chief hits Pelosi with three damning memories after she criticized Trump on D.C. national Guard use. Okay. Nancy Pelosi. Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th, when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake. Now he's activating DC Guard to distract his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education, immigration, just to name a few blunders. And Chief Steven Sund responds. Watch this, Vinnie. Ma' AM it's long past time to be honest with American people. On January 3rd, I requested National Guard assistant, but your sergeant at arms denied it. Under federal law, I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. The same day, Carol Corbyn at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority. On January 6, while the Capitol was under attack, and despite my repeated calls, your sergeant at arms again denied my urgent request for over 70 agonizing minutes running it up the chain for your approval. When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing top with concertina wire, barbed wire, and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops. I mean, this is the part about how be patient, time is going to reveal truth. A lot of people are getting exposed with things that are going on right now. And I love the fact that they're doing this right now in D.C. there's no way in the world, the capital, the capital that we live in of the greatest country in the world should be unsafe. It should be the safest place in the world for sure. And I'm glad they're working on making that happen. All right, let's get to the next story here. Next story I want to get to is Candace Owens slams Nick Fuentes for claiming she is coordinating with Elon Musk to attack him. Call streamer a sheltered theater kid. Rob, do you have a clip on this or is it a tweet?
Harry
So I have a tweet and then a few clips as well. This is the original tweet from Candace.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, so Nick says what full blown coordinated attack on my credibility for the past week. And then she says what? Laugh my ass off. Here we go again, guys. Nick talks trash about literally everyone claiming they are frauds. But when the very people he speaks about reply to him, he says it's some high level coordinated attack. Me coordinating with Elon Musk. Lol. Have you watch even a minute of my content? Didn't you say that I was working with Russia Tonight he'll say defend me. They are trying to kill me. Meanwhile, I'm being sued by President of France. The Tate brothers are actually facing a coordinated multi state level attack from various countries and none of us are cry victimhood. I maintain Nick Fuentes as a sheltered theater kid who cries and lies pathologically. All right, so this story, Adam, go for it.
Tom
Well, welcome to Mean Girls Nazi edition with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens. These two were never going to get along. If you know anything about Nick Fuentes and how he feels about women and the blacks and loud, mouthy black women, they were never going to get along. And Candace, who was a very logical actor until she got deathly stricken by the anti Semitic bug, used to make a lot of sense. And now one thing I can say about Candace, other than the anti Semitism and the demonic stuff that she's doing, actually a nice person. But one thing I will say is follow the patterns, follow the receipts with Candace. She goes to a place, leaves after a few years, Goes to a place, leaves after a few years. Fights with somebody, leaves after a few years. These people don't play well with others. They're talented, they're smart, they have opinions, they know how to galvanize their audience, they know how to entertain. But they're not going to be part of a team. There's no way that Candace and Nick Fuentes were gonna have a happy, happy ending overall. It's almost like entertainers and rap beef. They're gonna shoot their shots, they're gonna do their thing. This will end very ugly.
Patrick Bet-David
That's what I want to know. What happened here?
Tom
The vibe.
Patrick Bet-David
Who called who out? Rob? Vinnie? What do you know about what happened?
Vinnie
So, okay, so, I mean, on. In July, when Candace was on the Tucker Carlson show, she said the conversation, it was great. However, when it aired, this is after.
Patrick Bet-David
The Nick Fuentes conversation. Yeah.
Vinnie
And then Fuentes said he called Owens in anger, cursing at her because she did a 180 in tone. This is what he's saying. And Candace later questioned what it provoked the reaction. But then Nick, on July 15, he did a rumble video and he said it was a failed hit job. And what it's coming down to, Pat, is he's saying. What Nick is saying is he's been OG from day one. He's saying that Tucker, Candace, Milo, Charlie, Kirk, a lot of this is stemming from their support of not only, not all of them, but Israel. That he's saying. Because Candace obviously is not, you know, pro Israel.
Patrick Bet-David
What?
Vinnie
But he's saying Candace. But he's saying that they're all. His. His back. They're backing or their. Their positive speaking path of J.D. vance because he has a. And oh, and there's another thing. Them claiming that he might be a fed. Not Candace, but the other ones are saying that he might be a fed. He. He had receipts. He's like, if I'm a fed, how am I, how am I on the no Fly list? How am I not being able to fly? And then he does a thing where he shows he googled Peter Thiel because this is all going back to Peter Thiel propping up JD Vance the the upcoming of JD Vance how they're kind of going against Trump. But then he showed Rob, I sent you the clip. Look at this.
Tom
And allegedly Peter Thiel was some sort of informant.
Vinnie
This is right here. This is on Business Insider. Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant. Like these are just facts on who I don't, I don't know. I think he was on foreign.
Tom
I think it was on something about during the.
Patrick Bet-David
I want to read that story. Rapper Peter Thiel wore many hats over the years so called Trump bank of donor cryptocurrency burns on democracy but there is yet another face to Thiel one that has remained secret until now. In the summer of 2021 Insider has learned that Thiel began providing information on the confidential human resource chs. Jonathan Moma LA based FBI agent was specialized in investigating political corruption and foreign influence campaign. Charles Johnson, a longtime associate Thiel and a notorious figure in the far right movement that Thiel was subsidizing for a decade told Insider statement that he helped recruit the billionaire as an informant by introducing him to Buma a source with knowledge theatom and relationship to the FBI whose identity is known to the insider but who insisted on anonymity corroborated Johnson's account telling Insider that Johnson brokered a relationship between Thiel and Burma Burma Insider was able to confirm through an additional source that FBI had added Theo to its former roster of registered informants. Interesting.
Vinnie
So very, very interesting. So, so he's pissed. He was furious because mind you guys, I've watched the whole last two episodes, even a little bit last night which was weird at the end of it because Bob, it's kind of a longer clip. He says like I'll sit down with Candace. We should hash it out. So it's like it kind of kind of flip flopping. But I think the, I think the good clip to play Pat would be the one where he's talking about J.D. vance and where he came from and how this is all that's one of the the most angriest that he is about Enchilada.
Adam Carolla
You want to know why they're so mad about my show? Not even from last Friday but from the week before that. I'll give you a little spoiler alert. It has everything to do with the vice president. We are living in house of cards right now. J.D. vance went from being an unelected civilian in 2022 to a senator to the vice president in 24 to within four years, potentially the President of the United States. That is some serious house of cards. This is a guy that in six years has gone from never Trump author to potentially President of the United States. And he was empowered to get there by Peter Thiel, who designed the surveillance state itself, by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who owns the Platform X. And Tucker Carlson, who is maybe the most influential voice in Republican politics. Courtesy of Rupert Murdoch, his former boss.
Vinnie
And Rebecca Mercer much.
Adam Carolla
And I'll show you how it all comes together at the end.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm.
Adam Carolla
I'm Zoe Barnes. What if there was a coup against the American government? What if there was a coup against the America First MAGA movement by the Deep State to usurp and subvert Donald Trump and install a Deep State puppet, a Never Trumper Silicon Valley artifice who was nobody. And in six years, he'll be the heir apparent president from maga President of the United States. And what if one guy stood against him? What if one guy who didn't take money from Peter Thiel, what if one guy who wasn't taking support from Silicon Valley, one guy who's paying attention and is skeptical, what if one guy was calling that out? Well, he get hit with the Death Star laser.
Tom
Who's the one guy.
Vinnie
I'm gonna give credit where credit's due, which I always do. He was the. Pat was the first one. And I know we changed because the debate and all that's not that we changed, but Pat from the beginning was kind of like, I don't know about JD and now when somebody actually breaks it down from Pat being a nobody to the vice president and guys, I don't know, man. It's a he. That's what he's saying. This is what Nick is saying about where the beef and why everybody's upset with him because he's calling this out.
Tom
Do you believe him?
Vinnie
I don't know, Adam. I don't know. Like, my opinion is like, bro, when people piece things together, like connecting the dots, and you start to go, okay, came from nowhere. Peter Thiel funded him. He is where he is now, by the way. The rise to fame, it was like. It's like Obama, like, Obama came out of nowhere and it was just like, yes, we can. And the change and this and that and what happened? He became the president like that.
Tom
Yeah, because people voted for him.
Vinnie
Yeah, of course. But where did he come from?
Tom
Nigeria, obviously.
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, no, no. You don't go into Trump no, the difference is, respectfully, Obama didn't come out of nowhere. He crushed his DNC speech in 04.
Tom
Correct.
Patrick Bet-David
Exactly. And it was known as the greatest speech. Whether you're black or white or brown or gay or straight or Republican or this.
Tom
I don't believe in red states or blue states. I believe in the United States.
Patrick Bet-David
That was the day where you're like, the greatest speech given in the last 40 years of Democrats was Obama. And they're like, this guy's gonna be the president. Easy. They take him in, and he becomes the president, United States. But to me, with this case going back and forth, Elon jumps in and supports that he might be a fed. Okay.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
He calls Fuentes as a fed. And then Fuentes responds and says, oh, you're now in this as well. And to give credit to Candace, Candace has been critical of Iran. So to me, it's kind of like a. So maybe he doesn't know that part of it. But then saying, well, maybe you are a Fed. But him and Milo had an exchange together where he's like, are you going on January 6th? You may want to show. You have to show up. So why is. Are the feds going to be. Feds are going to be there. So he's shown receipts and remember, guys, 12 years ago, Milo was the guy that. Not 12 years ago. Yeah, probably 12 years ago, Milo was a superstar. Milo would go on Bill. Milo was everywhere until some of the events that happened. And I don't know. I don't know when I'm going back and forth. There's a couple things that's just very weird on some of the interviews that are happening. I said a few years ago, when the alliance was being built, and Elon. When Tucker went to X. And I said he made a great decision because Elon was retweeting, if you remember.
Vinnie
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
His first 50 interviews or so. Elon retweeted. Yep. And if a 200 million account person retweets you and you have 1 million followers, it really means that you have 201 million followers. I don't know if you understand what I just said right there.
Tom
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
So what's more important? And. And if you remember Tucker, in the last two and a half years, he went from having a couple million followers. Do you know how many followers Tucker has on Esque right now? Go look up Tucker's followers on X. I thought it was a brilliant move by Tucker to go there. We made an offer to him, but he went there. If you look up Tucker Carlson, I think he's at 12 million followers, 10 million followers. He's in the 16 and a half million followers.
Harry
Wow.
Patrick Bet-David
All because Elon kept retweeting this stuff. And because he did the legwork of going to Russia, going to everywhere to do the interviews, he wasn't waiting for people to come to him. So you got to give him credit on that as well. But right now, it's very interesting what's going on here. It's very interesting how some of this is being handled. Some of them are, you know, taking it in a way where there's Israel involved, there's MAGA involved. It's Trump's fault. It's this. It's J.D. vance, it's Peter Thiel, it's Elon. Establishment, anti establishment. But a lot of our young guys, and I always look at our young guys when we're doing podcast prep just to kind of hear what they're saying, because I know they follow this stuff more. I run nine companies, guys. I'm. I'm in meetings all day, so I can't be glued to the screen seeing everything that's going on. But we have researchers who are. And the guys that were pro Candace and pro Tucker. Die hard. Die hard for the last two and a half years, in the last two weeks are becoming more Nick now. Yes. You know who I'm talking. I don't want to give names.
Vinnie
Hundred.
Patrick Bet-David
But I'm kind of like, they were complete. They're like, yeah, I don't know. He brought the receipts and he did this and he did that. And, you know, the way he's doing it. Why are they targeting him now? Is it because he's not part of anybody? Because he's not getting money from anybody? Well, you know, he went and got money from people. He went ask Steel for money, but Thiel didn't give him money, and he's butthurt. And all the. All these conversations of what's going on. But if it's the younger people that are paying attention to who's doing what, everybody is playing the Avengers are in many different ways. And there's like a massive war going on right now. It's a civil war going on right now with not necessarily Republican Party, to be honest with you. The way I'll put it is there's a civil war going on right now with conservative influencers on X. I wouldn't even say it's the Republican Party. No, I would say it's conservative influencers on X because the search for Epstein has dropped 89% in the last three weeks there is no interest in Epstein anymore. The interest has dropped dramatically. And this is CNN telling you this. Go ahead, Rob. At least a political point of view quickly turning into a dud of a story. What am I talking about?
Harry
Which is wild. Which is wild.
Patrick Bet-David
Which is. Has been for three weeks. Exactly. Take a look here. Google searches For Epstein down 89% versus just three weeks ago falling through the floor.
Harry
It is no longer the top term searched along.
Patrick Bet-David
You can pause it right there, Rob. So what's the point? This is an X interest that led to Google and the power to X. It was at one point it was the most trending. 2.3 million people had used the word Epstein on X and obviously made it very trending. So I think there's something going on on the Republican conservative Maga America first debate on X that a lot of younger people are following. And there was a little bit of. And, and also when it for the people that was extremely cool to be anti Israel in the weirdest way they are right now.
Harry
More.
Patrick Bet-David
Look, if I have to choose between Israel and Islam and Muslim and what they're doing to all these other places, I, I hate to say this, if it's between the two, I'm going Israel over that. And I listen all these guys, I've had them on. I'm in communication with many of these guys. I talked to most of them here, not all of them. Most of them here. And I'll, I'll host Dave Smith. We've hosted Candace many times on election night. We've host, you know, you name them many of these and who knows, maybe in the future we'll have Nick on as well to have a conversation with them. But it's been a very interesting specifically Vinnie, I would say it's been a very interesting last three weeks and Nick.
Vinnie
Said it himself from his mouth. He's on a generational run and right now I don't care what anybody says. He is freaking on fire.
Patrick Bet-David
You believe Nick though. I get a feeling that you believe.
Vinnie
You know what it is Matt, because okay, name, name the person that, that can't even be on YouTube. He can't be on YouTube because of the stuff that he says. They, they froze his bank account. I guess he had like $500,000 in an account. They froze him. He's at the capital. He was. He wasn't. They, they made it seem like he was running into the capitol. He was on the. The grounds where you can do it. And I'm just saying like. And regardless of what that stat says 89% down. If it's so not, it's a nothing burger. They keep pushing because they want us completely to forget about it. Pat, why is Colmer saying that Bill Clinton's a prime suspect and they're investigating. They're still digging deep and looking for people to get into it.
Patrick Bet-David
We'll get there in a minute. But, Rob, somebody told me that Nick did open up his potty mouth.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Do you want to see?
Vinnie
Yes, he did.
Patrick Bet-David
Nick.
Tom
What'd he do?
Harry
Nick?
Vinnie
Well, you have to see.
Patrick Bet-David
Rob. Did they edit this? Is this what you.
Harry
This is the edited.
Patrick Bet-David
But what part is it? We can't play the whole four minutes. Can you go to the part where it's like, here comes. You know, PBD tells me whatever, because I think Humberto or one of the.
Vinnie
Guys showed me that while he's looking for it. Can I. With all due respect, and you got to give credit where credit's due. He goes crazy. He cusses at Candace. He goes after Charlie. He's no hold. Milo Tucker. He craps on all of them. And in that rage, whenever your name comes up, he goes and. PBD, Patrick McDavid, PBD podcast. It's like the fire calms. And then he goes back.
Tom
This is.
Vinnie
Look at this. Look at this screen.
Adam Carolla
I am America first. You are not. You're not even American.
Tom
Who is?
Adam Carolla
And to the extent that you are.
Harry
Candace, Trader and Elon.
Adam Carolla
That's the last word on that.
Vinnie
No, it's not. As the show.
Adam Carolla
Who is the Fed? Will the real federal agent please stand up? Who is it? Who's the real federal agent? Elon, Peter Thiel, JD Vance Tucker and George Farmer, the son of the head of the alliance of Christians and Jews in the uk are the realest. You know, Patrick Bet David said. Why do you say the N word? It's to show people I'm real. Why do you roll?
Tom
I'm as real as you. Here's my N word.
Adam Carolla
You're going to have hate sex with Candace Owens. Why do you know?
Patrick Bet-David
It's crazy. You can pause that. Here, here's, here's the thing that, that, that I, you know, of course he's passionate. He's 26. He's doing his thing. I, you know, if he would not use five words, they would play his clips on mainstream and would introduce them to a new audience.
Tom
Nope.
Patrick Bet-David
Yes.
Vinnie
Yes, they would. Yes, they would.
Patrick Bet-David
Adam, let me tell you, you're saying nope. You're saying nope. There's a lot of nopes. You have to bite your, you know, tongue right now when you said nope, Trump won. Win in 2016. Nope. Trump won't win in 2024. Nope. A lot of nopes have become yups. Okay, a lot of nopes.
Tom
How much you want to bet Nick Fuentes is never going to be played on mainstream media?
Patrick Bet-David
Don't do that to yourself. Okay, listen, I had a $1 million PVD. Don't let me put it. Listen, I'm actually. It is more likely that mainstream is going to play his clips, if they haven't already. Then Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize. It is more likely that they're going to play his clips. But the only thing, if they're going.
Tom
To do a hit job on him, yes, they'll play his clips, but that's.
Patrick Bet-David
Part of playing his clips, by the way. Guess what?
Tom
Okay.
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, it's not okay. What I mean, okay, a part of it is he has to realize that he has play offense, give you arguments, have the receipts, go do your thing, all of that stuff. But man, he has to have a quote like right underneath his iPad. I have met the enemy, Desire. Alexander the Great. He's his own enemy in certain areas because you know, as you're going up and you make enemies with everybody, you have to, you have to find ways to build some alliances.
Vinnie
Yep.
Patrick Bet-David
You know, there, there is a, there is a. Huh?
Vinnie
What do you mean? Not possible. He has a line.
Patrick Bet-David
No, no, hang on, hang on. Let me just make my point. You can say whatever you want to say, but as you're going up and you're moving up, this is sincere feedback to all of them. It's not even just any one of them. Dana just closed a 7.7 billion dollar deal with Paramount. Dana 20 years ago went to Spike and gave them 10 million dollars to show UFC. Did you understand what I just said? Right there you go to Spike. I don't even know what Spike is. UFC goes to Spike or what. Rob, can you Tap in Spike UFC 10 million on Google? Spike UFC 10 million. If you go Spike UFC 10 million. I want to say he offered them 10 million bucks 20 years ago right there. Is that it? Yeah, yeah, there he goes. UFC pitch Ultimate Fighter to several networks, but none of them were interested until Spike TV came along. However, Spike wouldn't air it until UFC paid the production cost of the Fertitta brothers and Dana White invested $10 million to get the show on Spike. And now he just got $7.7 billion over a five year deal. I think it's five or 10 years. I don't know what the numbers. I think it's seven years or five is one of the two. How you got to, like, if you're, if your plan is long term, you need to, you need to have a little bit of a better approach towards building, not alliances, but, you know, yeah, 7.7 over seven years, 1.1 per year. Yeah. You have to do a little bit of a better job building alliances. Dana. Build it with Trump. Imagine Dana without Trump. What if Trump doesn't support Dana? What if Dana didn't build that relationship? He loses that opportunity. I just think a little bit of it. It's just little bit of business sense. Like, go read. Out of all the political books you read, read five business books. It's the only thing he reads. Five business books. I would give those five business book recommendations for him. Just to look at it from the perspective of what the upside could look like. That's the only feedback I would give. Because all the other stuff and he's going to do. He's the kind of guy, like, for me, you couldn't tell me what to do. I'm working at Bally's. A guy named Fernando Lawson ends up becoming one of my groomsmen at my wedding.
Tom
The singer.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, the singer.
Tom
Love that.
Patrick Bet-David
I come in at Bally's. I just got out of the army. You know how I talk. Hey, what's up?
Vinnie
Oh, yeah, me too.
Patrick Bet-David
And I'm like, finally, one day, for now, I say, can I talk to you? He says, yes. We don't know each other. You just been working here for a week. I'm willing to bet you would sell two times the amount of memberships if you stop saying the F word. I said, there's no way in the world. You're right. And I. He says, try it. I went 30 days. I'm like, that's freaking right. Yeah. Because the clients that were maybe a little bit more, you know, certain level of people, they're like, yeah, I'm willing to entertain this guy. Language matters. Especially when you're that good of a communicator. A great communicator doesn't need to add those words, but to each his own. It's freedom of speech. You do whatever you do. And I, I. We're. We're not someone that has to sit there. You better do this or else. No, I just think he's his own enemy sometimes and he can get out of his own way. Go ahead, Adam.
Tom
Well, word to the wise, stop saying the N word. I mean, that's pretty basic. You're saying that Nick Fuentes is going to be some sort of mainstream darling.
Patrick Bet-David
Allegedly. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. No, no.
Tom
He's going to be played on mainstream darling. Okay. No, I inserted.
Patrick Bet-David
Because the mainstream media needs enemies to play perfect.
Tom
He is the perfect enemy.
Patrick Bet-David
If he changes a bit of his language.
Tom
Well, not a fan of the N word. I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna take a. I'm gonna take a leap of faith here and say that most people are not. Now, just because I'm criticizing of that does not mean I don't think he's smart and capable and well read and a good communicator. That's all great, but he's also incredibly toxic. So, you know, risk versus reward. Does not play well with others, does not have friends. I know. He has his crew, the Groipers. I'm sure they'll see this clip and come at me. It's all good. I'm not disparaging the man's character, how smart he is, how wise he is. I'm just saying a guy like this will never go mainstream in that capacity. Last thing he talked about. I am America first. No, you're not, bro. Donald Trump is. Have a little respect. If there's anything that I could say about Donald Trump, he started this. He's maga. He's the movement. Nick Fuentes has been excommunicated from this movement since the day that Kanye brought him to Mar a Lago. And Trump said, no, no, no, you're fired, you're gone. Since then, he brought up JD Vance. Stop with this whole charade that it's this smoky room thing. He wrote a book about his real life story about his grandma and everything that raised him. This was not fabricated. He wasn't. This wasn't Manchurian Candidate. He was elected in 2022. He beat a congressman named Tim Ryan, who was going to basically take Nancy Pelosi's place. JD stepped up. Donald Trump Jr. Hand selected him after vetting the entire field, and he won the election. And now we're about to say it's some big conspiracy. Sometimes if you want to play the conspiracy game, you can. Sometimes it's just. He won elections, and these are the consequences. Don't we say elections have consequences?
Patrick Bet-David
J.D.
Tom
Vance won. Nick Fuentes, smart guy. Completely BS on his J.D. vance narrative.
Patrick Bet-David
Tom.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Final words before we move on.
Harry
Final words. I'll give you some receipts on this to. To back up what's been talked about here. In terms of mainstream media. Would love to have this guy. Absolutely love. I'll give you a super, super, super, super Fast case study. 1994, Harold, Howard Stern goes on E Network. E Network even said, we're taking a deep breath. We hope this will work. He goes on E. It's very successful. He starts calling himself the king of all media. I spoke to producers and showrunners in LA. This is 94 to 96. I was getting my MBA at Pepperdine and they told me, does Howard Stern realize that he would get paid four or five times what he's E is paying him if he would just turn it down a little bit? Just here and there, kind of like the five works comment. Then Clear Channel. He still the radio show kept having to suspend him for decency things. And that kept it. And finally this one guy that gets Sirius and XM to merge together, then gives him the on Sirius xm. If you look at what Howard Stern made, Howard Stern would have made so much more been over on mainstream if he had just move a little bit. There's the receipts. In a case study, Nick Fuentes has got the same thing from a political angle. If he would just move a little bit, they would pick him up and fly that.
Tom
What's the one thing they said about Howard Stern and his audience? If you remember that movie Private Parts, they said, fun fact. The people that love you listen to for an hour. What's the most common reason? They want to hear what you're going to say next. That people that hate you listen for an hour and a half to two hours. Why the most common reason they want to hear what you're going to say next. Shock jocks are a thing, but shock jocks are not the real world.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, okay. All right, so let's go to the next story here. Next story I want to go to is fed governor remains maintains outlook for three interest cuts in 2025. Okay, so three cuts now 2025. That's what they're saying. Yep. They're saying three cuts in 2025. 25. Let's read this here. So Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bauman, vice Chair of Supervision, reiterated her projection of three 25 basis point interest rate cuts in 2025 despite the federal Open Market Committee decision to maintain the benchmark federal funds rate at 4.25 to 4.5. She spoke at Kansas Bankers Association 2025 CEO Manager, Senior Management Summit in Colorado Springs, Colorado, emphasizing her dissent from July decision alongside Fed Governor Christopher Waller, marking the first dual dissent favoring cut since 1993. Bowman based her stands on the signs of fragility, fragility in labor market conditions, stating economic conditions appear to be shifting, and as a result, we should reflect this shift in our policy decision. Tom?
Harry
Yep. This is the individual that I gave credit to. And I said, you know what? This is the first time in 32 years that we had dissenters. And she was right. And I commented at the time that I thought that Weller Waller, excuse me, was saying it because he actually wanted.
Tom
To be Justin Waller.
Harry
Yeah, well, he actually. No, no, Christopher Waller. He actually wanted to be the next Powell. And so I said, well, him dissenting, you know, okay, but he's kind of campaigning. But Michelle Bowman was absolutely, I think, well within her rights and was correct about the dissent. And now she's saying we're going to get three cuts, which would be September 16th, 17th, October 29th and December 10th, 25, 25, 25. That's what she's looking at. And by the way, if you go look at cme, cme, which is the federal tracker of the Federal Board of Governors, and what they say at their speeches and stuff. Here we go. Cme, Fed Tracker. Just say fed tracker. Let's go take a look at where it is. It was, okay, 35 days, 3 hours and 36 minutes. They even have a countdown clock here, Pat. It's amazing. Now go down. Just scroll down and. Oh, my goodness. What does that say at the top of that blue, blue bar? Oh, my gosh. 97.9. Is that what that says? Yes, 97.9 chance that we're going to get a cut. Cut Coming up here on the 16th, 17th of September of a quarter point. I think she's absolutely right, and she's out there pushing it because we are seeing a little bit of unemployment. We're seeing things that make sense for the cut. And so I. I happen to be right there with Michelle Bowman, and I think she's had the guts to stand up. First time in 32 years we had two governors actually stand up in dissent. Although you get a discount. Waller a little bit because he's kind of lobbying to be the next pal.
Patrick Bet-David
Interesting.
Vinnie
All right, did you see. Did you hear who Scott Besson said that he's Trump's considering?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. Janet yelling.
Vinnie
Janet yelling.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah. That's kind of interesting.
Vinnie
That's kind of interesting, isn't it?
Patrick Bet-David
Very much so.
Tom
It's called a team of rivals.
Patrick Bet-David
Rob, can you play that clip, by the way? Good hair.
Vinnie
Wow.
Patrick Bet-David
Candidates.
Harry
There's a lot of talk about it. Chris Waller Kevin Warsh, Kevin Hassett and so forth and other names. You're casting a wide net.
Patrick Bet-David
A very, very wide net.
Vinnie
And as you know, more than, more.
Patrick Bet-David
Than anyone, president has a very open mind. He even considered Janet reappointing Janet Yellen. So we want to see what everyone's thinking. It's not ideological. It's about economics, what's best for the American people, what's best for the economy. And as I talk to the candidates, I'm looking at three things. Monetary policy, regulatory policy, and the ability to run and revamp the organization because it's really gotten bloated. And I think that this bloat puts its monetary independence at risk.
Harry
Well, you've said.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, there you go. The balance that he is entertaining Janet Yellen. Now that could also be a misdirection. That also could be something that they're trying to throw you off. But I think Trump is a guy that would actually entertain Janet Yellen. I actually think he would entertain it. I think Trump's the guy that would be open to it.
Tom
Yeah, sure.
Harry
And I think in team of rivals, you have to think about things. A friend of mine from inside the administration said that Big time wasn't thrown into the ring by Bessant. Bessant's hat was thrown into ring by Lutnick, who felt that he'd be a strong candidate. And then Lutnick kind of self nominated and said, and if you need somebody over at Treasury, I'd be glad to do it. So I think we've got a lot of really good people and a team of rivals. And that answer from Bessant we just heard there, I thought was balanced. And he's talking about the exact things the account the economy needs. This place is being run like a business now. Yeah. And guess what? It's showing up in the results.
Tom
I gotta, I gotta be honest with you. I'll go real quick. I think I'm very impressed with Scott Besant. He seems very capable. I mean, he's the one who allegedly got Elon Musk out of Doge. But let me take one quick angle right now. Don't look now, but this is the richest I've ever been. I'm assuming this is the richest you've ever been. I'm assuming this richest ever been. I know this is the richest you've ever been. Inflation, The S&P 500 is at all time high. NASDAQ is at all time high. Dow reaching all time records bitcoin at all time high. Things are looking pretty darn Nice. And you know, you have zero control of what the Fed does with rate cuts. Zero goes up. Trump fires Powell, hires yelling. Whatever happens, happens. But you do control your bank account. You do control how hard you work. Work, earn, save, invest. Work, earn, save, invest. Do it on rinse and repeat. Keep your costs low, stay the course. And here's the biggest thing. Tune out the noise. Three, four months ago, they thought the world was falling apart. Tariffs, oh my God. Now we're at all time highs. Donald Trump is sitting there laughing at everybody that thought the economy was going to tumble and now take your money to the piggy bank.
Patrick Bet-David
Vinnie Yeah, I mean, look, it's again, three times. I don't know. JANET Yellen Possibility, a lot of moving parts, but we'll see what's going to happen here with the story. Next story I want to go to is Trump defense taking 15% cut of Nvidia AMD chip sales to China. This is kind of weird, but he didn't ask for it, they offered it. So if they offer you 15%, what do you do? And that's going to come back into paying off the debt that you have a national in national, you know, the national debt that shop. It's an interesting thing, but he's been asked about it. President Trump defends a deal requiring Nvidia and advanced microchip devices AMD to pay US government 15% of their China sales revenue for export, licensing. And here's what he had to say. Go ahead, rob.
Donald Trump
But the H20 is obsolete. You know, it's one of those things, but it still has a market. So I said, listen, I want 20% if I'm going to approve this for you, for the country, for our country, for the U.S. i don't want it myself. You know, every time I say, like, like 747, I want, I want. Yeah, for the Air Force.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah.
Donald Trump
So I just wanted, so when I say I want 20, I want for the country. I only care about the country. I don't care about myself. And he said, would you make it 15? So we negotiate a little deal. So he's selling a essentially old chip, that Huawei has a similar chip, a chip that does the same thing. And I said, good, if I'm going to give it to you because they have a, you know, they have a stopper, what we call a stopper, not allowed to do it, a restrictive, truly known as a restrictive covenant. And I said to, if I'm going to do that, I want you to pay us as a country something because I'm giving you a release. I released them only from the age 20. Now on the Blackwell, I think he's coming to see me again about that. But that will be a unenhanced version of the big one. Like, I don't know if you know it. We will sometimes sell fighter jets.
Patrick Bet-David
Tom, thoughts?
Harry
You love this. So Nvidia goes to the federal government and says, hey, look, we saw a lot of different chips. And when he's talking about the H20. The H20 was a chip that was made for the Chinese market, and there's a whole lot of companies over there that use it for a lot of things. This isn't going to be something where the Chinese government is buying a thousand of them, 10,000 of them, 100,000 of them, and running AI Simstra to spy on us. That's not what these are going to be used. There's a bunch of Chinese companies doing it. And Jensen Wang goes to the government, says, hey, you know what? In the midst of this stuff, I can keep making these. And I'm a US Company, says, is it okay if I sell these here? And, you know, I've got this tariff on top of it. So I got this tariff thing. And so what Trump is basically saying, well, tell you what, I'll give you liberation to actually sell it on the embargo. But instead of the tariff dollars, pay the federal government pay us. And so guess what? It's left hand, right hand. And so he said, Jensen says, great, yeah, I guess we'll do that. And he said, now, those Blackwell chips, the enhanced Blackwell chips, that's the super AI chip. That's the Shelby Mustang of AI chips. Or you want to call it the. Yeah, I held up from making a really big, bad, bad decision or something.
Vinnie
No, Tom, no, it's.
Tom
Go for it.
Vinnie
No, no, no, no.
Harry
No. The Blackwell chip, the enhanced Blackwell chip is the super horsepower, big, beautiful chip.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay?
Harry
You don't. You don't want them to have. And so this is basically, once again, I'll say it again. I said it a minute ago, but.
Patrick Bet-David
I'm gonna say it again.
Harry
It says, you know what? This place needs to be run like a business. And it is being run like a.
Patrick Bet-David
Business uncomfortable with me. So here's what I'm gonna ask you, Tom.
Harry
But you.
Patrick Bet-David
You know where I'm going with this?
Harry
Yes.
Patrick Bet-David
Where am I going with it?
Harry
You're going with this. Is that you open the floodgates.
Patrick Bet-David
Yes. For the next guy. For the next guy. For the next guy.
Harry
Which is who maybe doesn't like you and just wants to take your company from you.
Patrick Bet-David
But you know what? This. Yeah, yeah, 50.
Harry
I'll do it.
Patrick Bet-David
Listen, that's like the Putin I would. Do you think I would negotiate the same with. Trump is negotiating with Nvidia. Yes, yes. Yeah, I would.
Harry
Okay, skip the tariff, pay the country.
Patrick Bet-David
That's right. But, but, but maybe tie it to a project. So, meaning this is the way I would do it. I would say the first. Let's just say how much revenue you think they're going to get from this chip? AMD and Nvidia, how much you think they're going to get from the chip? Give the number.
Harry
That's gonna be billions of dollars.
Patrick Bet-David
Give me a number. Let's just say it's $300 billion of revenue. I'm just making up a number. 15% is what, $45 billion. You know what I would say? Here's what I would say as a form of project that we're working on right now. You guys gonna pay for the wall or you guys gonna pay for this? Or you guys gonna pay for the drone or you guys gonna pay for that? It becomes a where the audience says, okay, so that 15% for the government, you're gonna pay half of the dome. Are you gonna pay for half of the dis. Are you gonna half of that tie for it to be like, okay, they're gonna pay for this instead of the government's gonna be a business partner with you on some of this stuff because this is where you open up the.
Harry
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
Because every citizen thinks nationalize and all this other stuff you're just doing, you're giving the opposition a, an argument for it. And I'm telling you, I love the way it's being negotiated. I love the way it's done. I love what they're doing with it and the revenue that's going to be coming in for taxpayers. And there's so many guys, oh, inflation, nothing happened. Tariffs, nothing happened. Up until now, nothing. And by the way, the China deal's not done. The India deal's not done. A lot of deals are still not done. And still inflation didn't skyrocket when everybody said. And yesterday was a record breaking day for the stock market. Just two days ago we read an article. Well, you know, the market was affected yesterday, up 500. What happened? What happened with it? Adam, thoughts on this?
Tom
Well, Trump made the whole phrase quid pro quo famous, which is basically like, scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. You know, funny thing about my back is that Whole thing. But the media will spin this story about Nvidia cutting a deal of 15 of their revenue for their exporting chips to China. And they're going to say Trump's enriching himself. And Trump's just making money on this. And I'm so glad that Trump was like, I'm not doing this for myself. I'm doing this for the country. This is the art of the microchip deal. Now, speaking of Nvidia, I think just, just two weeks ago, a week ago, they became the first company that reached 4 trillion dollar market cap. And now look at this little 4.47 yesterday to hit 5 trillion. Yeah, don't bet against Nvidia. So I'm totally in favor of what Trump is doing. You're basically saying you're making a ton of money. You're taking, making a ton of money selling to China. Pay me, show me the money is what Trump's saying to Nvidia Jet. By the way, Jensen Huang, I, you know, if you put him on a lineup, I guarantee you 99 of Americans could not pick this guy up. This guy is running the most profitable, biggest market cap company in the world, and nobody even knew his name or Nvidia's name five years ago.
Patrick Bet-David
By the way, he's worth $150 billion today. He's doing okay.
Tom
But you know what?
Patrick Bet-David
They're thinking about starting a GoFundMe 158 billion. It's not. It's just not.
Tom
Save that money.
Patrick Bet-David
All right, let's go to the next story here. Let's go to the next story here.
Harry
It's going to be a Stefano Richie crocodile leather jacket. They should go get this.
Patrick Bet-David
You can afford it.
Tom
Did you hear what he said the other day?
Patrick Bet-David
Was that.
Tom
It was in our panel. He goes, what's, what is it that makes America the greatest country in the world for when it comes to technology and everything? He goes, yeah. One thing. Donald Trump, do you remember when he said that?
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look, we're back to people not being afraid of talking. We're telling the truth, which is great.
Tom
The clip right here, I believe.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, go ahead.
Tom
The all in guys you see are.
Vinnie
America's unique advantages that other countries don't have. America's unique advantage that no country possibly have. Is President Trump there?
Harry
It is.
Tom
And.
Vinnie
Let me explain why. One, on the first day of his administration, he realized the importance of AI and he realized the importance of, importance of energy.
Patrick Bet-David
For the last, I don't know how.
Vinnie
Many years energy production was, was Vilified. If you guys remember. Yeah, we can't create new industries without energy. You can't reshore manufacturing without energy. You can't sustain a brand new industry like artificial intelligence without energy. If we decide as a country the only thing we want is IP to.
Patrick Bet-David
Be an IP only, a services only.
Vinnie
And country, then we don't need much energy. But if we want to produce things, something as vital as artificial intelligence and we need energy. And so I'm just delighted to see.
Patrick Bet-David
Pro great to accelerate AI innovation to.
Tom
The picture of Trump being like, yeah.
Patrick Bet-David
That'S great to see that. All right, let's get to the next door here. Let's get to next door here. Let's get to next door here. So, Vinnie, you almost went into the story, but I'm going to get into one before we get into that one, which is real estate. California female, Remember a few months ago, right after the fire that happened, the Palisades, and Adam Carolla went up there and said, here's what's going to happen. They're probably going to take all these properties and they're going to do this and they're going to do that. Well, let me tell you before we watch the video by Adam Carolla, I'm going to read you what phone call Grant Cardone just got. Okay. Grant Carton was contacted by FEMA and can confirm the Pacific Palisades as a land grab. Democrats are burying the homeowners in structural upgrade costs. The crazy part is three months ago, Adam Carolla predicted the same exact thing that was going to happen to LA would steal the land. He was right. California is a land grab. And by the way, before I get into this next thing, I just want you to see what Carolla said a few months ago and what's allegedly starting to happen in California. Go ahead, Rob.
Harry
And the other thing that people need to understand is everything here is on septic.
Patrick Bet-David
Nothing is on a city sewer system.
Harry
Every dwelling in Malibu, it has a separate septic system.
Patrick Bet-David
And these houses in front, many of them were built in the 40s and the 50s and the 60s and the codes were almost non existent. So they have septic systems that are.
Harry
In place now that are completely unacceptable.
Patrick Bet-David
In 2025 when they rebuild, not that they'll rebuild in 2025, 2055 when they rebuild.
Harry
And they're going to have to update the septic system, which means Coastal Commission.
Patrick Bet-David
Ocean, Sierra Club, dig it all out.
Harry
And because of the proximity of the ocean, they're gonna have to build sea walls so that erosion won't take their septic system. So they're going to be several million dollars into stuff that's buried in the ground. A seawall, not above the ground, but a seawall that's in the ground so that the storm and the erosion can't get to it. New septic system, I mean, they may be 3, 4, 5 million dollars into it before one piece of two by four is even put up.
Patrick Bet-David
In terms of framing the new house.
Harry
Do you know how much bureaucracy, red tape and permits worth of nightmare this is going to be? Because regardless of whatever the mayor says, whatever the governor says about expediting this stuff, a septic system is a septic system. The code is the code, the seawall is the seawall, and they're all going to have to have.
Patrick Bet-David
Okay, Tom, thoughts on this?
Harry
I think he's right. I went through this earthquake in 1994. I went up and I bought a house in Northridge, and before I go get a permit to extend the kitchen. And I wanted to move one wall. And they said, we're not going to approve this unless you put a sheer wall on your back of your house. I said, what are you talking about? This house was built like in 1965. The foundation is still here. It went through the earthquake in 1971 and 1973 and 1994, and now I'm sitting here in 2004. And they said, sorry, Pat. They were waiting for the first person to do the upgrade and they did it. So they've been doing this all over the place on saying, oh, you need to do the upgrades. Adam Caroller is right about this. And the septic system is a system that you need. And so there will be reasonable things here. But he's pointing out that all the stuff's going to be upgraded. Meanwhile, there's other ways that Grant Cardone's about to point out where they insist on upgrades that are designed to create expense. So you'll abandon the land. Two different things. Adam Carolla talking about old septic systems to be upgraded with new ones. You want them to be safe, they're going to need a seawall. They can't have the house erode and fall down and have all that septic stuff go in the ocean. But if they then say up on Palisades, well, you people need to re level this and bring it up and it's going to add a couple million bucks. People with more limited insurance who already got screwed because they were under fair plan only gave them a maximum amount. Those people, guess what? Now they got to abandon the land and California is going to take it.
Vinnie
And do you remember when the fires were still burning and the Palestinians literally smoke and ash and Gavin Newsom was standing in the middle of all those people and he was talking about, talking about the governor or. And he started doing that weird body snake movement about land surveyors. Remember like he said it, he said it right here.
Patrick Bet-David
Issues.
Harry
I was just talking to Josh Green.
Tom
The governor of down in, in Hawaii.
Harry
Who had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming.
Patrick Bet-David
In, buying up properties and the like so.
Harry
Or the state to, to move those things forward and we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks.
Vinnie
Yeah. Talking about because Hawaii had the fires and everybody there was was complaining about yo, they're coming in and buying the land. He's saying it.
Patrick Bet-David
Rob, can you do me a favor and go to chat GPT and type in what is Senate Bill 549? What is Senate Bill 549? What is Senate Bill 549?
Harry
California.
Patrick Bet-David
Yeah, watch this. Senate Bill 5 or specific to California. There it is. Yeah. Senate Bill 549. They just announced this and it's been now put on pause. This bill removes certain powers from enhanced infrastructure financing district under second neighborhood infill finance and transit improvement notably the ability to use sales and use tax revenue and the requirements for districts to be coterminous with the creating city or country by the way with the county. If you go a little bit lower the idea of this when they announced it was for them to use a portion of the area, establish a government resilient rebuilding authority that could purchase fire damaged parcels in Pacific Palisades then develop a portion into low income or supporting housing objective address the housing affordability and post fire rebuilding efforts in LA County. Let me, let me explain this to you. The properties that were the waterfront properties they proposed, why don't we take this and turn some of it into low income. The pushback bill met with strong local opposition from residents who felt it constituted a land grab, citing loss of property rights and demographic change in the community. Over 23,000 local signed objections and leaders like Pacific Palaces residents associations voiced deep concerns. As a result, it was put on a pause in mid-2025 to allow for more community input and consultation by the way. So when you hear these things being said, it wasn't just a theory, it was actually what they were trying to do in California and a lot of people are like what the hell are you talking about? What the hell are you talking about and you know, obviously, you know, as they're going back and forth, I pull up the numbers on permits because that's the one I always look at how fast permits are being given. As of July of 2025, which is last month, the city of LA has received 389 rebuilt permit application tied to Palisades, about 8%. Of the estimated 4,700 properties affected, 145 permits were approved allowing homes to begin major repairs and reconstruction. And then in the Altadena area, only 15% of applications were approved. And this is an ongoing thing that's going on right now. So again, to a lot of people, they moved on, life goes on. To the people that were affected by the Palisades, their life is still impacted by what happened there. The Palisades, Altadenina.
Harry
Go ahead, scroll back to the top and look at what they call it. Sometimes your government hides its corruption in plain sight. It's called right there the second neighborhood infill, finance and transit improvement. What is the second neighborhood? Low income housing that they're going to force on you after they steal your neighbor's land.
Patrick Bet-David
Let's see what's going to happen there.
Tom
Adam, by the way, Adam Carolla, just stay on him for one second. What complete divergent career paths Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla have taken. Can we just highlight that for a second? Do you remember 25 years ago these guys were the host and co host of the Man Show, a show that lived on Comedy Central that was famous for beer chugging and juggie dancing. And now Jimmy Kimmel has gone completely left. Shill of the left. Adam Carolla has gone right and just keeping it real and everything he said here, just sort of capturing the essence of what's going on in California. Very important. The reason I bring that up is this. I would love to see those two have a conversation. What do you think? What do you think? Apparently they're still friends, but apparently they don't talk politics at all. Who do you think doesn't want to talk politics?
Patrick Bet-David
Let me tell you what happened. Here's the question I want to ask you. Just last week we did a clip on Kimmel and I dared Kimmel to have a Republican and I said he wouldn't do it, right? Apparently the Fallon producer, some young person there that follows PD podcast, heard it and took an idea to him, right? And said, hey Fallon, let's shock the world and let's have Gutfield on. Are you kidding me? So the number one late night show, Greg Gutfeld that beats these other guys and he's on Fox News. He goes on Jimmy Kimmel. And guess what happened to the results tonight show rating soar to multi year high on Gutfeld visit. So by the way, kudos to Fallon's group for listening and obviously Kimmel's gonna do whatever Kimmel is doing because his show is going to be canceled here soon because he's not a late night show host comedian. He is a pundit from cnn, msnbc that's placed into the late night show. And Kimmel should simply resign and go to msnbc. He should go to CNN instead of doing what he's doing. These are the numbers that came up. Gutfeld drew approximately 1.7 million viewers, a peak audience for the show since late 2023. This represented a season high regular non sports led in sports in the key 25 to 54 demo. The episode attracted 294,000 viewers marking a 13% increase over the average of 2024. According to Nielsen Live+ same data, the viewership increased during Gutville segment compared to the half hour before. Unusual as late night show typically lose viewers over the hour. Yeah, maybe you ought to go to beddavid.com Bed David Consulting and hire somebody from here to help you double your viewership because before you also have to shut down both of your shows because how embarrassing it is. Kimmel goes out there and has 170something guests who are all on the left and the only conservative he ever brings is who, Liz Cheney. Guess what, Kimmel, you got a shot at doing something as well yourself if you bring a conservative on the fact that Fallon brought him on. I'm happy for them and good for Gutfield to be in front of an audience that probably never watches them because they never watch Fox News. By the way, a lot of the Fallon audience was actually not happy.
Tom
Oh my God.
Patrick Bet-David
His true fans. Yes, we're not happy about Gutfield, but good for Kemp, good for Fallon. I respect the fact that Fallon had him on and I hope they continue doing this and if they do, their producers listen, they're going to start getting a little bit more balance and all of a sudden, oh, this model works. Of course it works because bring America on, not just Democrats on or else you're just cnn.
Tom
I fully agree with you and I'm fully happy that you point that out. Here's the catch. Will Jimmy Fallon and his team have the balls to deal with the backlash they will receive? This one guy was outraged on Reddit and wrote a whole thing basically saying there's no defense of this. Jimmy Fallon has always been soulless and weird. Do you have the. Where was that?
Harry
Just a soapbox.
Tom
And you have the chutzpah to basically say, I'm going to do this. And here's the whole thing they said, I can't believe he normalized the right. Normalized the right. Do you remember Jimmy Fallon was the guy that took Trump's hair, messed it all up, disheveled it. The problem is this, and here's the essence of the problem of the left. Not only do they not think it's normal to have these guys, they don't think that these people are human. Why are you humanizing these people? Why are you humanizing Trump? Why are you normalizing these people on Fox News? They are soulless maggot extremists. Let's see if Jimmy Fallon, or Jimmy Kimmel for that matter, have anybody from the right on. Because the backlash is going to be.
Patrick Bet-David
Here's another challenge for you. Let's see which one of you guys will pull it off first. Because I guarantee it'll be the most viewed show you've had. Non celebrities, the next, the last, whatever, 10 years. You ready? If Kimmel or Fallon, either one of them have Trump on, it'd be the most viewed show you've had on and your rating is going to go to the roof if you can get Trump. But if you can get Trump and you have the audacity to sit in front of him and maybe even say a few words and maybe Kimmel, apologize for a couple things in a humorous way, not in a serious way, in a humorous way, I think it'll be record breaking. So guess what? If I'm a producer for Fallon or Kimmel and I'm a competitive guy and I'm somewhat center, let's say I'm a conservative gay man working for or libertarian producer who is a capitalist financially, but socially you're liberal, let's just say, and you're working for Kimmel or Fallon, but you're still competitive and you want to compete. You don't want to be the next Colbert where under your watch your show got canceled because that's on your resume. I'd be the one calling the White House and saying, hey man, what can we do to get the president? Jimmy Fallon would like to extend an invite to the president and we'd like to host him and he can talk about whatever he wants to talk about. Whichever show gets them first, it shows you're open minded and the audience will show up, you'll see the audience will show up and your viewers will go.
Tom
That'S a crazy idea.
Patrick Bet-David
I don't think they're gonna do it.
Tom
To have people on you disagree with.
Patrick Bet-David
That's crazy.
Harry
Oh my God.
Patrick Bet-David
I think it'll be explosive. And by the way, over under.
Tom
We gotta live in an echo chamber.
Patrick Bet-David
Who do you think is more likely to have it, Kimmel or Fallon?
Tom
Fallon.
Patrick Bet-David
And who do you think Trump will most likely like to go back? Or Camel. Who do you think?
Vinnie
Oh, he would destroy.
Tom
Time.
Harry
Don't touch the hair. It's my hair.
Vinnie
Fun fact. Well, who would you. By the way, what was the. Because you almost spit on the microphone. Jake said be careful because you're going to short the mic.
Tom
True, but who needs having some balls?
Vinnie
The late night Fallon show. Who's. You know who the executive producer of the Tonight show for Fallon is?
Harry
Tell us.
Vinnie
Lorne Michaels, snl. So that attitude, you guys are just anti Republican Trump hating. What? Just look, look at snl.
Tom
Trump was on snl.
Vinnie
No, when, what year?
Tom
When he did the hotline Bling.
Vinnie
Yeah, but what I'm. Yeah, but what I'm saying is like, you have to adjust. Just like with who's a. Who's going bye bye Stephen Colbert, you're losing 40 million. But the, the, the, the propaganda hate machine is so strong. Tommy.
Tom
Vinny, Vinny, Are you saying that these people should not live in echo chambers? What are you doing?
Vinnie
I know, I know this is weird, but stop it. But whatever.
Patrick Bet-David
I got you guys, we're about to finish the podcast. Hey, this is the first week of us doing Monday, Wednesday and Friday. And it looks like you guys are loving it. The fact that we're going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, because the numbers are skyrocketing on viewership, which is great. And we'll, we'll test this out for a few weeks and if it works, we'll continue. Hopefully it'll work. Guys, couple things I want to remind you again. August 27th, networking event here at our office. Anybody that has a general ticket, the first 200 that register, you'll be able to come down, get a private tour the place. But you got to own a ticket. So go get a ticket for the Vault conference. If it's general, you'll be able to network in our hangar and hang out with all the other 2, 400 people that are going to be there. If you're a platinum or an executive, you get a private tour, the entire property, founders and CEOs. I'm going to give you a private tour on the entire property. And who knows, maybe even afterwards, we'll go show you our cigar lounge that we just opened up down the street from here and have a cigar with a couple of the guys. But go to the link right here that Rob has. Rob, can you go a little bit lower so they can see what's there? You just have to go there. The information is there. Fill out the information below to make a reservation. Then the first 200, you'll be able to bring a guest with you qualification. You have to have a ticket, and we're going to verify all of it when we call you and check with you on that. Anyway, gang, appreciate you guys. Love you all. We'll do it again Friday, and we have a special interview coming here soon as well. God bless everybody. Bye bye. Bye bye.
PBD Podcast Episode 628 Summary: "Trump DC TAKEOVER, Nick Fuentes vs Tucker, Candace & Musk, Schiff Leak & Pelosi BUSTED"
Release Date: August 13, 2025
Hosted by Patrick Bet-David, the PBD Podcast Episode 628 delves into a myriad of pressing topics spanning political maneuvers, media conflicts, economic policies, and social issues. This comprehensive summary captures the key discussions, insights, and conclusions from the episode.
Overview: Patrick Bet-David opens the episode by addressing the contentious issues of redistricting and gerrymandering, focusing on the recent developments in Texas and California. He emphasizes the historical significance and strategic implications of these practices in shaping political landscapes.
Key Points:
Redistricting in Texas: The Texas Senate approved a new congressional map with a decisive 19-2 vote, potentially allowing an increase of five Republican seats in the House for the 2026 elections. This move is heavily influenced by Donald Trump's directives. However, House Democrats' absence has delayed the map's approval for over a week, leading to accusations of it being unconstitutional.
Donald Trump: "...possibly replace five new seats with one of them being Representative Jasmine Crockett" (00:19)
California's Political Strategy: Governor Gavin Newsom is portrayed as using redistricting to politically undermine Trump by shifting California's boundaries to dilute Republican influence. This strategy is seen as a preemptive measure before the midterms, aiming to secure Democratic dominance.
Patrick Bet-David: "Newsom is using this, as usual, politically to make it seem like if they do redistrict in California, it's because of Trump..." (00:18)
Historical Context of Gerrymandering: The discussion traces the origins of gerrymandering back to the 1800s with Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who created a district resembling a salamander—hence the term "gerrymandering." Patrick illustrates how modern maps distort community boundaries to favor one party over another.
Patrick Bet-David: "He's the first guy that understood what redistricting was, and he built a district that looks like a salamander..." (14:02)
Notable Quotes:
Overview: The podcast shifts focus to President Donald Trump's bold move to take control of Washington D.C. in response to escalating crime rates. This intervention includes placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deploying the National Guard.
Key Points:
Declaration of Liberation Day: Trump announces the invocation of Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, effectively seizing control of local police forces and mobilizing the National Guard to restore law and order.
Donald Trump: "This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back." (39:15)
Reactions and Criticism: Critics label Trump's actions as authoritarian. However, supporters argue that the move is a necessary crackdown on rampant crime. Morning Joe features a text from a liberal resident expressing tentative support due to the worsening safety conditions.
Morning Joe Clip: "This may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's national guard move in D.C..." (42:50)
Law Enforcement Challenges: The podcast highlights failures in local governance, such as the D.C. Chief of Police's inability to manage the chain of command, prompting Trump's decisive federal intervention.
Vinnie: "If the mayor of D.C. and the chief of police did their jobs, this wouldn't be happening." (43:15)
Notable Quotes:
Overview: A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the escalating feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over artificial intelligence and platform X (formerly Twitter). This conflict underscores broader tensions within the tech industry regarding AI dominance and regulatory practices.
Key Points:
Elon Musk's Legal Threats: Musk threatens to sue Apple, claiming that the company's restrictions unfairly disadvantage AI competitors, particularly OpenAI's ChatGPT, which dominates the app store rankings.
Patrick Bet-David: "Elon threatens to sue Apple because X is not showing up or Grok is not showing up on the app downloads." (01:28)
Sam Altman's Counterarguments: Altman responds by accusing Musk of manipulating X's algorithms to harm competitors and seeking an affidavit to prove Musk's non-involvement in such manipulations.
Sam Altman: "Will you sign an affidavit that you have never directed changes to the X algorithm in a way that has hurt your competitors or helped your own companies?" (30:01)
Industry Implications: The dispute reflects deeper issues of antitrust violations and the monopolistic control of tech giants over app visibility and market placement, potentially stifling competition and innovation.
Patrick Bet-David: "Sam Altman comes out and says, wait a minute, you keep coming after us." (28:12)
Notable Quotes:
Overview: The podcast briefly touches upon the Supreme Court's formal request to overturn landmark same-sex marriage rulings at the state level, raising questions about the potential for federal intervention.
Key Points:
State vs. Federal Jurisdiction: The discussion raises concerns about whether same-sex marriage protections could become state-specific, undermining previous federal rulings and impacting LGBTQ+ rights nationwide.
Patrick Bet-David: "Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling in a state." (03:26)
Notable Quotes:
Overview: Harry Enten from CNN is mentioned, highlighting his unexpected praise for Trump's political instincts and Allusions to investigations involving Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
Key Points:
Harry Enten's Endorsement: Enten acknowledges Trump's political acumen, marking a significant shift in media portrayal.
Harry Enten: "Trump has the best political instinct he's ever seen." (03:26)
Pelosi's Actions Busted: The podcast refers to Nancy Pelosi's criticism of Trump's use of the National Guard in D.C., juxtaposed with historical criticisms of Pelosi during the January 6 Capitol attack.
Patrick Bet-David: "Nancy Pelosi. Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th..." (52:32)
Notable Quotes:
Overview: A heated segment explores the conflict between conservative influencers Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens. The verbal sparring includes accusations of orchestrated attacks and personal grievances, reflecting wider fractures within the conservative movement.
Key Points:
Nick Fuentes' Accusations: Fuentes alleges a coordinated attack on his credibility, blaming influential figures and suggesting ties to the "Deep State."
Nick Fuentes: "They are trying to kill me. Meanwhile, I'm being sued by President of France." (54:43)
Candace Owens' Response: Owens dismisses Fuentes' claims, criticizing his character and labeling him as a "sheltered theater kid" prone to lies and pathological behavior.
Candace Owens: "...Nick Fuentes as a sheltered theater kid who cries and lies pathologically." (54:43)
Feud Escalates: The exchange intensifies with Fuentes' harsh language and Owens' staunch rebuttals, highlighting personal and ideological clashes rather than unified conservative strategies.
Tom: "Nick Fuentes is going to be the most viewed show you've had." (70:37)
Notable Quotes:
Overview: The discussion shifts to economic policies, focusing on Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman’s projections for significant interest rate cuts in 2025 amidst signs of economic fragility.
Key Points:
Bowman's Projection: Governor Bowman advocates for three 25 basis point interest rate cuts in 2025, diverging from the July decision to maintain rates. This marks the first dual dissent favoring cuts since 1993 alongside Fed Governor Christopher Waller.
Patrick Bet-David: "Fed governor remains maintains outlook for three interest cuts in 2025." (80:06)
Economic Indicators: Bowman cites labor market conditions and shifting economic landscapes as reasons for the anticipated rate cuts, suggesting a response to potential economic downturns.
Harry: "I think she's absolutely right, and she's pushing it because we are seeing a little bit of unemployment." (81:38)
Market Reactions: There is anticipation of how these projections will influence markets and economic stability, with listeners advised to focus on personal financial strategies amidst policy changes.
Harry: "The economy needs to be run like a business." (90:35)
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Overview: The podcast addresses alarming developments in California’s real estate sector, particularly allegations of land grabs post-fire incidents, exacerbated by bureaucratic red tape and restrictive rebuilding regulations.
Key Points:
FEMA Involvement: Grant Cardone reports that FEMA is involved in what is perceived as a land grab in the Pacific Palisades, with Democrats allegedly burying homeowners in structural upgrade costs.
Patrick Bet-David: "Grant Cardone was contacted by FEMA and can confirm the Pacific Palisades as a land grab." (96:48)
Septic System Upgrades: Many properties constructed in previous decades relied on inadequate septic systems. Upgrading these systems post-fires necessitates costly changes, including the construction of seawalls to prevent erosion, leading to financial burdens for homeowners.
Harry: "Everything here is on septic. Every dwelling in Malibu has a separate septic system." (96:48)
Legislation and Pushback: Senate Bill 549 aims to establish a government-resilient rebuilding authority to purchase and redevelop fire-damaged parcels into low-income housing. This proposal faced significant opposition, with over 23,000 local objections citing property rights and demographic shifts.
Patrick Bet-David: "Over 23,000 local signed objections and leaders like Pacific Palisades residents associations voiced deep concerns." (100:17)
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Overview: A lively discussion ensues about the political leanings of late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, contrasting their career trajectories and debating the potential impact of featuring conservative guests like Donald Trump.
Key Points:
Career Divergence: The hosts recall how Fallon and Kimmel both emerged from the comedic realm of the "Man Show" but have since taken divergent paths politically, with Fallon leaning more liberal and Kimmel maintaining a centrist stance.
Patrick Bet-David: "Jimmy Kimmel has gone completely left. Shill of the left. Adam Carolla has gone right." (75:39)
Potential for Bipartisan Dialogue: Patrick proposes that inviting Trump to appear on mainstream late-night shows could dramatically increase viewership and foster a more balanced political discourse.
Patrick Bet-David: "If Kimmel or Fallon have Trump on, it'd be the most viewed show you've had." (77:01)
Resistance to Conservative Voices: The hosts express skepticism about the willingness of hosts like Fallon and Kimmel to accommodate conservative figures, predicting backlash and labeling such inclusions as unlikely.
Tom: "He is the perfect enemy." (76:43)
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Economic Optimism: The hosts express optimism about the current economic climate, citing record highs in the S&P 500, NASDAQ, and Bitcoin, attributing success to strategic economic policies and advising listeners to focus on personal financial management.
Tom: "Inflation, The S&P 500 is at all-time high. NASDAQ is at all time high. Dow reaching all time records bitcoin at all time high." (85:36)
Call to Action: Patrick Bet-David concludes the episode by promoting an upcoming networking event on August 27th at Valuetainment’s headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, emphasizing registration for ticket holders and encouraging participation in the Vault Conference.
Patrick Bet-David: "August 27th, at our property here... We're holding a special networking opportunity." (05:59)
Conclusion: Episode 628 of the PBD Podcast offers a deep dive into significant political strategies, economic policies, and cultural clashes shaping the current landscape. From the intricacies of redistricting battles between Texas and California to high-stakes feuds within the tech industry, Patrick Bet-David and his guests provide comprehensive analysis and passionate commentary on the events influencing America’s trajectory in 2025.