Trump & Putin Meet In Alaska, Melania's Epstein Lawsuit & Netanyahu TROLLS Iran | PBD Podcast | Ep. 630

Summary

PBD Podcast | Ep. 630

Trump & Putin Meet In Alaska, Melania's Epstein Lawsuit & Netanyahu TROLLS Iran

Date: August 15, 2025
Host(s): Patrick Bet-David (PBD), Adam, Tom, Vinnie
Podcast theme: Business, politics, current events, with an emphasis on candid, sometimes irreverent discussion and real-time reactions to top news.

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Episode Overview

This lively episode dives deep into the latest international and domestic developments including the Trump-Putin Alaska summit, Melania Trump’s billion-dollar threat against Hunter Biden, Netanyahu’s “trolling” of Iran over water, massive ICE recruitment, Social Security’s future, Vegas tourism decline, and a new law holding parents criminally liable for their children's crimes. The PBD Home Team blends news breakdowns with colorful commentary, humor, and sharp political and economic analysis.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump & Putin’s High-Stakes Meeting in Alaska

[07:14–24:45]

• The Setup: Trump and Putin meet in Alaska with the stated goal of negotiating an end to the Ukraine war. Putin praises Trump’s “energetic and sincere” peace efforts, but shows caution, focusing also on nuclear arms and trade.
• Ukraine’s Take: Zelensky calls Putin’s overtures a bluff. Trump claims a “25% chance” of the summit failing, but says he wants to quickly bring Zelensky to the table if it’s successful.
• Strategic Analysis:
  • Tom compares proposed demilitarized “buffer zones” in Ukraine to historical precedents like Korea’s DMZ and Israel’s Sinai buffer, suggesting this is the shape of a possible compromise.
  • Adam asks: “Who needs a deal more: Trump, Putin, or Zelensky?” Pat’s view: “I think Trump wants this thing to be done...He’s the one who said he’ll get this done before day one.” [14:03]
  • Vinnie calls the alpha face-off “Putin and Trump are both alphas; Zelensky isn’t a beta, he can’t compare.”
• Big Picture: The panel agrees both Trump and Putin need a “win,” but diverges on who’s under more pressure. Adam: “Putin has been publicly humiliated...Zelensky’s been turned into a hero.” [21:55]
• Memorable quote:
  • Pat (on Trump’s negotiating bravado): “‘I’ll know within two minutes if we have a deal. This is what I do. I make deals.’” [17:12]

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2. Melania vs. Hunter: Lawsuit over Epstein Allegation

[25:40–32:51]

• Background: Hunter Biden claims on podcast that “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump,” links her to the infamous Epstein scandal.
• Response: Melania’s legal team threatens a $1B defamation lawsuit.
• Hunter’s reaction: When asked if he’ll apologize: “That’s not going to happen.” [27:15]
• Panel’s take:
  • Pat: “Welcome to Gossip Girl crackhead edition.” [27:47]
    On Hunter: “He’s the one carrying the Biden legacy...and it might just burn all down.”
  • Vinnie: “This is his immunity. He just says whatever he wants. But these are huge claims, and that’ll clean him dry.”
  • Adam: “If I’m Joe Biden watching these clips—dude, keep your mouth shut.” [31:26]

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3. 100,000+ Americans Apply to ICE for Deportation Work

[35:45–47:08]

• Context: With a new $50,000 signing bonus and an ICE staff shortage, Trump’s administration recruits over 100,000 new applicants.
• Joe Rogan’s Critique: Rogan is quoted saying, “When people thought about ICE, they thought, great, we’re going to get rid of the gang members. They didn’t think, great, you’re going to get rid of the landscaper.” [38:43]
• Team’s Views:
  • Vinnie: “Trump said he was going to do it and he’s doing it...If you don’t like it, then you shouldn’t have voted for him.” [41:23]
  • Tom: “They’re not recruiting a militia. They’re recruiting the permanent staff that is going to stand watch and control our closed border.” [43:07]
  • Pat: “People want to serve their country. What are the three main reasons to join ICE? Number one—it’s a job...number two, you want to serve...number three, they genuinely feel they’re doing the right thing.” [44:53]

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4. Mexico Extradites Cartel Members to U.S.—Why?

[57:40–66:10]

• The Story: Mexico sends 26 cartel leaders to the U.S. shortly after Trump threatens cross-border action.
• Why give them up? Tom: “Some of the cartels...are giving up guys that are in prison because they don’t want the US Military coming across the border and disrupting their operations.” [61:39]
• Cost: Vinnie calculates $31–51M for U.S. taxpayers to imprison these cartel members for 30 years.
• Larger Point: The team sees this as a symptom of Mexico’s government/corruption dynamics and strategic U.S. pressure.

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5. Netanyahu Trolls Iran Over Water Crisis

[69:04–82:14]

• Netanyahu’s move: Offers Israeli desalination help “once the Iranian regime is removed,” indirectly urging the Iranian people to want change. [70:26]
• Iran’s Response: President Pezeshkian mocks: “A regime that deprives Gaza of water...now says it will bring water to Iran—a mirage, nothing more.”
• Panel’s View:
  • Tom: “Netanyahu...trying to get some of the moderate Iranian people who are upset...They can’t even get your water; I’m willing to help.” [72:54]
  • Vinnie: “Iranians had a huge window of opportunity [for change]...What happened? Dud.” [73:45]
  • Adam (profound quote as an Iranian-American): “It’s 100% the government [to blame]...The government will blame anybody and everybody except themselves.” [81:59]
  • Pat: “Think about how many billions Iran has spent on proxy wars...And their people don’t have water.” [82:14]

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6. The Social Security Crisis & Trump’s New Proposal

[82:34–100:27]

• 90th Anniversary: Trump touts streamlining Social Security, highlights a new provision eliminating taxes for most seniors receiving benefits.
• Adam’s Hard Truth:
  • Social Security was never designed for such longevity or scale; FDR’s designers expected people would die before collecting benefits (life expectancy was 61, payments began at 65) [85:53].
  • “If we use the same principle today, Social Security should start at 84 years old” [88:41].
  • Of $4.9T tax revenue, 68% goes to entitlements.
  • U.S. “national debt” is $37T, but actual total obligations are $105T—“that’s your unfunded debt” [91:47].
• Policy Prescription: Adam: Raise benefit age to 75 (for those under 60 now): “Your kids and grandkids are going to be destroyed [by these costs] one day” [100:27].
• Panel agrees: The math is unsustainable without raising the retirement age or cutting benefits.
• Memorable Moment: Adam has a frank, emotional conversation with his own mother: “I said, Mom, you’re not retiring anytime soon. You need to keep working. And that’s exactly the conversation many of you need to have with your parents.” [96:50]

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7. Why Is Vegas Dying? Plus the Decline in Youth Drinking

[101:16–114:03]

• Vegas Fading: Visitor counts down 11%, convention traffic down, younger people aren’t coming. Prices are up, but more fundamentally: “Why go to Vegas to gamble? There’s an app for that. To meet girls? There’s Tinder. To party? You’ve got Miami.” (Adam, [104:56])
• Alcohol Shift: New Gallup poll: Only 53% of adults think moderate drinking is OK; with two-thirds of 18–34 year-olds now viewing drinking as unhealthy (up from 40% in 2015). [102:32]
• Pat’s Take: “Miami is up, up, up...Miami is the new Vegas.” [112:22]
• Tom’s Analysis: The shift is both health-driven (millennials/Gen Z less interested in alcohol and nightlife) and economic (higher costs, stagnant wages).

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8. New Jersey Law: Parents Jailed for Kids’ Crimes

[114:03–119:03]

• The Law: Parents can now face fines ($2,000) and jail (up to 90 days) if their children commit crimes, as a response to youth violence.
• Panel reaction:
  • Vinnie: “Parents need to step up, and I guarantee you if that goes into law, the crime rate...is going to drop in Jersey like that.” [117:13]
  • Pat: “Sometimes the parents have to be held responsible for the actions of their kids. Throw them up, lock them away, put them in jail. Your kids are shitty, you’re a horrible person. Everyone’s going to jail, straight to jail.” [120:31]
  • Adam, with nuance: “Parents teach bad habits to the kids. There’s more ‘caught than taught’ in parenting.” [120:31]

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9. Who Retires with $5 Million (or Even $1 Million)?

[120:31–130:38]

• Stats: Fewer than 0.1% retire with $5M or more. Only 3% have $1M. [122:43]
• Panel’s Message:
  • Tom: “What they should be saying is how many retire with $1 million? It’s less than you think.” [123:45]
  • Adam: “50% of millennials think they’re going to be millionaires. 72% of Gen Z think they’re going to be millionaires. You’re not. However, what country gives you the best chance? The United States. But you have to play the long game.” [123:59]
  • Adam (on envy): “There’s nothing worse than comparing yourself to somebody else without being willing to do what that person was willing to do.” [127:08]
  • “If you don’t want to [work like an owner], don’t be envious of the guy that becomes that.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Pat, on Trump’s negotiation style:
  “I’ll know within two minutes if we have a deal. This is what I do. I make deals.” [17:12]

• Adam, reflecting on Iranian politics:
  “It’s 100% the government [to blame for Iran’s water shortages]...The government will blame anybody and everybody except themselves.” [81:59]

• Vinnie, on ICE enforcement:
  “Sorry, but if the first thing you did to come here was break the law, don’t be surprised [by enforcement].” [41:23]

• Adam, on Social Security’s unsustainability:
  “If you’re in your 20s and you’re in your 30s...the debt load is going to be passed on you...and you’re going to suffer the consequences.” [89:09]

• Pat, on why Vegas is dying:
  “Why go to Vegas to gamble? There’s an app for that. To meet girls? There’s Tinder. To party? You’ve got Miami.” [104:56]

• Vinnie, on parental responsibility:
  “Wait until your dad comes home. Those six words make America safer.” [120:31]

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Additional Highlights & Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamps | Highlights | |--------------------------------------------|--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Trump-Putin-Alaska Negotiations | 07:14–24:45 | Fresh video of Putin praising Trump, detailed spectrum of incentives | | Melania v. Hunter Biden | 25:40–32:51 | Hunter’s “no apology” response; panel derision | | ICE Record Recruitment | 35:45–47:08 | Rogan’s critique & the right/reason to serve | | Mexico’s 26 Cartel Extraditions | 57:40–66:10 | Why Mexico is offloading prisoners; cost to US taxpayers | | Netanyahu Trolls Iran over Water | 69:04–82:14 | Full Netanyahu speech, Iran’s sharp reply, crisis analysis | | Social Security’s Future | 82:34–100:27 | Adam’s historical analysis, raising the benefit age, debt mountain | | Vegas Decline & Alcohol Rethink | 101:16–114:03| Vegas’s loss of cultural cachet, health/tech trends, Miami’s rise | | NJ Parental Liability Law | 114:03–119:03| Parents as “root cause” debate | | Millionaire Retirement Reality | 120:31–130:38| Dispelling wealth myths; “it’s the long game, not the lottery” |

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Episode Tone & Language

The PBD team keeps the conversation candid, fast-paced, witty and both deeply analytical and playfully irreverent. “Barbershop talk meets business school” is the prevailing style—sharp debate, humor, and the occasional self-deprecating or bromantic aside. At times, the group uses strong language, especially around politics.

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Useful for Listeners:

Whether you’re interested in geopolitics, US border issues, public policy, personal finance, trends (from Vegas to alcohol), or the role of parenting in society, this episode offers provocative perspectives, grounded in news items, historical research, and first-hand experience.

Key Takeaway: Almost every major issue fits the PBD panel’s thesis: if you want to win—at policy, negotiation, business, or life—you have to be willing to do what others won’t, see past the noise, and play the long game. No shortcuts.

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End of summary.

Transcript

[Adam]

Did you ever think you were made for me, Adam?

[Tom]

What's your point?

[Adam]

The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here.

[Unknown Commentator]

My son's right.

[Adam]

I think I said this. Hey, guys, are you on time? Are you guys here? Because it's 8:59.

[Vinnie]

Episode 629 Wake up.

[Adam]

It's great to be with.

[Tom]

And we did it on purpose.

[Adam]

All the people that are with us here on time on Friday, this is the first week we've done Monday, Wednesday, Friday, as well as the Bustamante.

[Pat]

I'm loving it. Yeah, I'm loving it.

[Adam]

Well, Adam's love life is taking a hit because Adam, the McDonald's guy, Adam doesn't like Mondays, doesn't like Fridays. He likes it to be in the in between because Monday he has to sleep in and Fridays he has to prepare for the weekend. But we're going to make it work.

[Pat]

We all have our priorities.

[Adam]

Hi, let's go through some of the stories that we got. Trump is apparently on his way to Alaska. Six, seven hour flight and he said that if it goes good, they're going to do a press conference together. Not a press conference, but what did he call it?

[Pat]

A press briefing.

[Adam]

Press briefing together with him and Putin. If it doesn't, it's just going to be Trump by himself. I love how last minute he just kind of puts that onus on Putin to say, let's see, the world's going to know if this deal is going to go good or not. But he's definitely on his way to Alaska and Putin is on his way to Alaska if he's not already there yet. Few items we're going to cover today. One, why Americans are rethinking alcohol. According to a new Gallup poll, all time low. The 90 days that they've been tracking this, that's the lowest America's ever been when it comes down to drinking alcohol.

[Vinnie]

Why?

[Adam]

We'll talk about that.

[Tom]

They're obviously not watching the news.

[Adam]

Yeah, Putin halls Trump's energetic and sincere efforts to end Ukraine war. If you remember what the Mexico president said a few days ago when Trump wanted to go out there and, you know, handle certain cartel members, Mexico changed their position very quickly. They sent 26 cartel members to us and deal with Trump administration. What happened? Mexico president, I thought you were tough. I thought you said, no, nobody can do this. Now you give Trump what he wanted. Netanyahu offers Iran water in the crisis help. If regime removed him, it shorted. So what a noble guy. Netanyahu is to give Iran water. Vinny was sentimental this morning. He was so emotional that even Vinny brought some water to give to Netanyahu to give to Iran from Fiji.

[Pat]

It's a sip of my tea.

[Adam]

Very, very. We're going to talk about that. California city approves $100,000 fund to help migrants pay rent. These cities, you hear about la and you know, New York. Trump touts tax relief for vast majority of seniors on Social Security's 90th anniversary. I have an idea for Social Security and most people are not going to like it. I'm not going to make any new friends today. So. But we're going to talk about it. So for some of you that are receiving Social Security, that may not like what I have to say, you may want to do earmuffs or maybe just take a break from today's podcast and come back next Monday because of what ideas I have on Social Security. You ain't gonna like it, but I'm gonna give it to you anyways. Next, Trump told Zelensky and allies he won't discuss territory divisions with Putin. This week he agreed that Ukraine can only negotiate territorial concessions. Macron says then we have New Jersey parents applaud new law that could send them to prison for their children's crimes. You get to get parents involved. You got to get parents involved. Middle class residents of Damran City say they're trapped in unsellable homes surrounded by drug markets. And fewer Americans say they don't trust federal government. They don't trust. Fewer Americans say they don't meaning they trust. Right. Rob, the way it's written, it's a.

[Tom]

It'S fun with headline and I can't wait to get out.

[Adam]

That's the Hill for you. That's the Hill for you. So can you guess how many retiree with how many retire with $5 million? Here's a hint. Almost no one. Okay, so they're going to talk about how many people retire with 5 million bucks. Adam and Tom have thoughts on this story. Fed expected to stick with regular size rate cuts after hot inflation data. Joe Rogan rips ice rates. Great. You're going to get rid of the landscaper. That's what Joe Rogan said. Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for billion dollars over false defamatory allegations linking her to Jeffrey Epstein's report. And Hunter Biden responded with his buddy Callahan. And you have to see it. What do you have to say? Bill Maher, we didn't cover the story, but we're going to Cover today the View co hosts are the best advertisement aren't the best advertisement for women in blunt criticism. Not he had a blunt but it was in blunt criticism like he was a difference. He was being blunt about it.

[Pat]

Probably also could have been to cue.

[Adam]

Your noise Stock close mixed. Stock close mixed after hot PPI report. Adam, if you know what noises. Okay. Reverend Sharpton slams Trump targeting cities with black mayors. It's race baiting.

[Vinnie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And who was Kevin Watson Chicago man fatally shot on Facebook livestream video goes viral. It's obviously we're not going to show.

[Vinnie]

The video, but you don't. You just hear it. But I mean, I think it's worth showing how the mayor get to it.

[Adam]

When we get to it, we'll just kind of be cautious about it as we're going through that part. Gang, a couple things that we have for. For every once in a while, we get new things that come up for summer. Summer hats are here. And I want to show you this with these summer hats that we have. They're not that many. We didn't order hundreds of them. This is very limited supply for someone. We're just simply testing it out. The first one is the splat print. If you look at. It's pretty sick. Can you change your pictures on that, Rob? There's not that many of these. We're simply ordering these to see how you like it. And then we may do a bigger supply. It's a new Future Looks Bright design on the back of it. It's actually pretty sick on the bottom of as well. Then this next one, the black one, is not gonna last, although I think the neck. These two are going to be competing. Look at this one here, by the way, with the front logo. Real cool on the way this black one looks with the orange on the bottom. The Future looks bright on the back. And the last but not least, it's the white one with gold. Future looks bright. Future Looks bright on the back on the bottom. And an American flag and value, Tim. It's just divinity. This one looks sick. Absolutely. Look at that. This one looks absolutely sick. And so they're out now, gang. Go place an order. When you do place an order, a gift comes with it as well for the first hundred people that place the order. But those are the new hats that came in on valuetainment Summertime. Go Represent Future Looks Bright gear. They just came out this week. Sounds good. All right, let's get right into it. Story. The first story I want to get into is when we're looking at everything Rob, which one was the story that people said to go with? Can you tell me on the, on the chart?

[Pat]

Yes. Out of all the voting in the poll, number one story, Trump meets Putin in Alaska.

[Adam]

Okay, so let's go to Trump meets Putin in Alaska. So Putin hails Trump energetic and sincere efforts to end Ukraine war. Rob, if you have that video there. And by the way, something very weird just came out from Hillary Clinton about Trump and Ukraine. But before I show you this clip, that clip, watch this right here. This is Putin. Go for it.

[News Reporter]

Tonight, on the eve of their high stakes summit in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to lay the groundwork, heaping praise on President Trump. Putin saying the current American administration is making quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the hostilities, stop the crisis, and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict. Putin saying Trump wants to create long term conditions for peace both between our countries and in Europe and in the world. But the Russian leader saying he has other goals from this meeting that go beyond the war in Ukraine, that he wants to discuss nuclear arms control. The Kremlin saying trade and economic cooperation will also be on the agenda. Trump today not ruling out those conversations, but saying his focus is on ending the war.

[Unknown Commentator]

I think that President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine. But I am president and he's not going to mess around with me.

[News Reporter]

But Ukrainian President Zelensky, who won't be in the room, says Putin is bluffing. And today Trump admitting he thinks there's a 25% chance this summit will fail. But if it doesn't, Trump says he wants to quickly bring Putin and Zelensky together for another meeting, even saying Zelensky could join.

[Tom]

Oh, that's where it ended.

[Adam]

Okay, sounds good. So, so when you're seeing this 25% chance, Zelensky saying he's bluffing, you know, Putin's coming in, you know, saying, hey, you know, Trump seems very energetic about wanting to make a deal. And then Trump makes a promise. And he told Zelensky and allies that he won't discuss territory divisions with Putin this week and that he agreed that only Ukraine can negotiate territorial concessions this week. So, Tom, your thoughts on this story here.

[Tom]

Well, first of all, this is the right body language from Putin because if you take a look at the Trump wins on tariffs and other things around the world. Clearly Trump's gaining momentum and Putin knows this. Putin pays attention to this. Says, Vinnie, when you take a look at something like that you can clearly see that put is not agreeing to anything, but he's saying, I think it's very sincere, very energetic what he's doing. And then they go on to talk about territory where Trump talked to the European leaders and said, hey, you know, only Ukraine can be at the, you know, be at the table for the final word on negotiating its territory. And Trump is telling Zelensky, hey, we're not going to discuss territory division with Putin this week. However, then we find out it comes out the other way that says Russia, United States had discussed a model independently, like the West Bank. Now, you have to remember what happened with west bank and what happened with Sinai Peninsula when Egypt came across the the canal and the Suez Canal and attacked Israel from the southwest. After Israel pushed them back, they actually pushed them all the way back into the canal and back over. And then they took it and they told the UN we're not leaving. We don't trust these guys. And so we want this permanent buffer and we're taking their damn land and we're making a permanent buffer between us and Egypt deal with it. And that's kind of. And so now the US And Russia are talking about, well, what if there's kind of like this zone. And by the way, there's no weapons and supposedly there's no militarized people in the zone. There are the Egyptian side of the zone and the Israeli side of the Jones. And if you really want to know about this, you can go read the book Getting ds and that's a great book. And it's got the case study on how they negotiated this, which is very interesting that this exactly what the US And Russia are talking about. Maybe we make a permanent buffer here, like the DMZ in Korea. Now some people are going to be jumping all over me right here. Now Russia took their land and now they're just trying to get it back. Well, look, we got to solve this thing somewhere. And you know, they made this. Ukraine did a huge drone attack last night on the eve of them all trying to get together.

[Adam]

So one of the things, by the way, of the drone attacks, there was a couple of them. While you're. Tom, you're saying that Rob, if you can pull it up.

[Tom]

So I recap. Point one, it appears that good body language from Putin, you know, whether you agree with him or not agree with him about the attacks and everything. Second, I think Trump's really behind the scenes trying to negotiate something. And the fact that the west bank or the Sinai or even Korea, DMZ Comes up, says, maybe we create a buffer that ends up working for everybody may not like it. And then lastly, you know, we haven't seen Zelinsky. It doesn't look like Zelensky is going to show up. It looks like this is truly going to be Trump and Putin.

[Adam]

So the question here is that it? Rob, that's one of the ones that was reported on.

[Tom]

And so now this is the automated airplane.

[Vinnie]

Is that crazy?

[Adam]

Yeah. So the drones they've built, by the way, we were talking about this the other day with Ukraine. Ukraine produces. Ukraine produces. I believe the number was. Was it a. I don't know what the number was. It could have been a thousand drones a day. Rob, can you check how many drones Ukraine was producing? And they were like 500 books, $500. They were blowing up 5 million dollar equipment.

[Pat]

That's an.

[Adam]

Just so you know that what they were doing. But who in here is. Yeah, that's right. Right there you see it. So they do. Wow. That's unbelievable. Wow. 4 million drones this year. 200,000 drones a month, and 6,700 drones a day is what they're producing. A day is what they're producing. So you simply put a bomb on it, send it to a bunch of different locations, to a smaller country, lesser, you know, not inferior weapons. They're being a bigger pest to the enemy. That's a bigger behemoth with a ton of nuclear weapons that they have there. The question I got for you guys is this. Putin's saying the following. It seems like Trump is energetic and sincere about wanting to do Ukraine dealers. Okay, so Zelensky says. I think he's bluffing. Okay? Trump says 75% chance. Boom, 25% chance. It's a bad meeting. I'm going to do the whole thing myself. Who here needs who the most and who is just fake actor? Nothing's going to get done. That's the question, Adam, you're asking who.

[Pat]

Needs who the most?

[Adam]

Who wants this thing to be done the most? Us, Putin or Zelensky?

[Pat]

I think Trump wants this thing to be done. He's the one who said that he'll get this done before he's even day one. Day one.

[Adam]

So look, who doesn't want it to get done.

[Pat]

Everyone thinks it's Zelensky. I think it's Putin because Putin has the opportunity to stop this today. He clearly does not want to stop this. It's shocking to me that, that people are so anti Zelensky. So let's compartmentalize. Is Zelinsky someone That we enjoy, that we like, that we want to hang out with, that we even want to back up. No, no, no, no, no. But who's actually the enemy? It's Putin. So, you know, you had the great interview with Andrew Bustamante yesterday. He was basically saying it's really a great return on investment to keep our enemies preoccupied. The reason that we're not over there having boots on the ground, whether it's in Ukraine, whether it's in Gaza, whether it's potentially in China, is let them do the dirty work. And it's basically saying, oh, like I don't want to go to the restaurant, I don't want to have to go pick up the food. Door dash. That thing. Uber eats. That thing. Ukraine is our Uber eats. We want to deal with Russia, we want to deal with their propaganda, we want to deal with their warfare. Let Ukraine deal with it. Everyone's. Everyone used to be how Bernie Sanders.

[Vinnie]

Is like the millionaires.

[Pat]

The millionaires and then it turned into the billionaires. The billionaires news for you. If it doesn't start with a T with a trillion and it starts with an M million, it's really not that big of a deal when you're giving people money. In my opinion, Putin wants to keep this war going. Zelensky is trying to just stay in power. He doesn't know what the hell he's doing. And Trump wants to make a deal. Final point, he said in a press conference, press briefing with journalists, he said, I'll know within two minutes if we have a deal. Did you hear him say that? And reporter goes, well, how do you know that? He goes, excuse me, this is what I do. I make deals. This is what I do. I think there's a 1% chance of anything good happening. Trump laid the groundwork of 25% chance it will fail. I think it's a 99% chance there's nothing happens from this.

[Vinnie]

We'll see question the whole time.

[Adam]

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[Unknown Commentator]

And at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be. How do you know what I do?

[Pat]

Hello. I mean, it's so true. If you want to know what Trump is, this is what I do.

[Adam]

So you're saying 99% chance nothing's going to happen. My opinion is different. Vinny, where are you at?

[Vinnie]

Well, my thing. Well, Adam, when you say that there are enemy, what, what's. We're not at war with Russia. They're not our enemy. They're our adversary. I think China's a way bigger enemy.

[Pat]

Are we at war with China?

[Vinnie]

No, not a. Not a shooting a gun. Okay, Covid. And buying land and doing.

[Pat]

I agree with you.

[Vinnie]

Different types of war, 100%.

[Pat]

But with Russia, I think we're just peaceful.

[Vinnie]

Not peaceful, but we've been poking the bear with them since the 90s. We told them, but it works both ways. And I understand that. But when it comes to this situation, especially with this meeting, I think Trump is an alpha. Huge alpha. So is Putin. They're going to be in a room, hopefully with Zelensky. He's not even a beta, bro. He's not. He can't compare to these two. And then when you have all the Warhawks, I'm hoping the Lindsey Grahams and other defense contracting people probably weren't in his ear, which I'm pretty sure they're talking to him. And like, Zelensky don't. There's no money. If you just piece it up and we just stop right now. If you bow down, we're all going to lose money. You're going to lose your position, and you look weak. Okay? My hopes are that it happens. But the way that Zelensky is, Pat with the attitude and coming in the White House, that type of attitude comes from people in your ear saying, hey, go in there and be a freaking tough guy. He's not a tough guy. He's an actor.

[Pat]

Who can I ask question to Pat's question?

[Tom]

Who do you think needs it more?

[Vinnie]

Trump. Adam, nailed it. Trump, just for. He said he was going to do it. He's a little bit delayed. But I think Zelensky. Zelensky, listen. Because you know what it is? Hundreds of thousands of people are dying. And guess what? With the drones aside, who thinks lost more soldiers? Ukraine. Ukraine has. And they're running up to them and Putting them in van.

[Adam]

So to me, this is how I see it. And we can get to the next story is a guy at the level of Putin or Trump. They don't waste seven hours of their day going somewhere that they don't want to do anything. And that's a one way flight. On the way back, it's another seven hours for Trump. How long is the flight time for Putin? Rob? That's where Putin was going through.

[Pat]

What do you mean? Russia is right next to Alaska. Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house. It's not that far.

[Adam]

What I'm saying to you is neither.

[Tom]

One of Moscow is nine time zones wide from the Pacific.

[Adam]

So what I'm saying to you is this, this is not going to be a meeting where guys are trying to, you know, waste their time going to a meeting like this. That's one, they're not going to do it. So there's a reason why they're doing this. There's not a waste of time. So There you go, 8 hours and 20 minutes to Alaska. So you got, Putin's got 17 hours of flight time. Trump's got 14 hours of flight time. Neither one of them are doing this for the hell of it because they need more publicity and they want to get cameras there. Sure. The world knows them. They don't need another million followers or 100,000 followers or 50 million views. They don't need that. But to me in this, in this case, I think the way Zelensky and Naito did it. So Naito is telling Zelensky, we have your back. He goes and meets with Starmer. He goes and meets with Macron, is speaking on his behalf. Macron comes out and says Trump agreed, only Ukraine can negotiate territorial concessions. Macron says, so Macron is now speaking on behalf of Zelensky. Speak there. So which means NATO is not for a deal at all. NATO is trying to tell Zelensky, you don't have to give nothing. We have your back. That's what NATO is saying. And Trump in this section where he can throw a complete wrench inside the whole thing and is capable of doing that is really, you guys all teamed up against me. NATO, really? That's what you want to do? No problem. I, the country that gives the most money, I'm agreeing to have Putin Russia be a part of NATO. Go ahead and play that game. So I think Trump in his Trump is showing this hand which is three cards. Trump's got two cards that he's like, nobody knows what those two cards are including hexet no one knows it, and all of a sudden he's going to drop it. It's like that moment when Trump is standing next to Netanyahu and he says, yeah, we're excited about Gaza. We're going to take over, we're going to make. And then Netanyahu looks at him like, what? We didn't speak about this. You didn't agree to this here. So I think that's the surprise element of Trump that's coming here soon. What he's going to say, who knows? But in this case, I think Putin needs this deal the most. I do think Trump wants it for different reasons, legacy. But I think. I think Putin, honestly, if you think about it, Putin's been publicly humiliated. Zelensky's not been humiliated. Zelensky has been turned into a hero. Putin has been publicly humiliated because Everybody thought within 30 days the war is going to be done and Putin's going to get what he wants. And that's not been the case. Yes. So it's a bit of a black eye in front of. On that black guy. It's a little bit of a black eye.

[Pat]

Nothing wrong with that.

[Adam]

In front of his audience, of what happened. And it's to the point right now where Hillary Clinton chimes in, and this is what she said. She admits she would nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize if it helps end the war in Ukraine.

[Pat]

Hillary Clinton.

[Adam]

Hillary Clinton admits she. Is this it, Rob?

[Pat]

Does she say that?

[Adam]

Let's see it.

[Tom]

It's a deep faith President Trump were.

[Adam]

The architect of that.

[Pat]

I'd nominate him. That's right.

[Adam]

Okay, so that's where you go. And the reason why Hillary Clinton's saying it the way she did, you know why she's saying it as confident as she did? Because she knows something, that there's no way it's going to happen or else she would never say that. Right. You think she's involved in the conversations with NATO and Zelensky? You think she's involved with all the Democrat establishment talking to each other on what they're going to be telling Zelensky? You think the insider establishments told her exactly how the conversations went? Of course I don't think. I think Hillary Clinton just gave away her cards in that statement. And the cards are over my dead body. This war is going to end. And because I know the war is not going to end because I'm involved in it on the inside with some relationships, guess what? I'm willing to say publicly that I would nominate him to a Nobel Peace Prize because she knows she never will. If she does, it'll be the first time in her life that she shows a sign of nobility, which is great, but I think that was her having too much information that she indirectly told the world that I kind of know a little bit more than you small time people out there that you are doing podcasts and shows and mainstream and all this other. You guys are not on the inside. You guys are just, you know, what's the word? You guys are just peasants. You guys are just masses. I know what's going on because I'm on the inside of the conversation.

[Pat]

That she's such a psychopath self dealing person that she would rather see the war go on in Russia and Ukraine than see Donald Trump, her Biddle rival Hillary Clinton received the Nobel Peace Prize. Do you think she's that diabolical?

[Vinnie]

Diabolical? Knowing what we know about her?

[Adam]

Really asking that question, like, what kind of a question is that? I mean, you're talking about a person that. You're talking about a person that in 2016, do you know what happened to her? She said happy birthday, future president to herself.

[Pat]

That's just an egomaniac, right? No, no, she was going to win. Yeah, but that's different from being diabolical.

[Adam]

Oh, I know. This woman is on a whole different level now. Never underestimate the power of a. Not. You know, this is. This is Hillary Clinton.

[Pat]

I know. We want to move on.

[Adam]

You know how highly she thinks of herself. Oh, no, this is a week before the election. She wished herself a happy birthday and then she lost. You think she's ever going to forget the stage? No, she's not gonna forget this.

[Pat]

Brutal. I mean, listen, every politician is a narcissist in some capacity. Not like that, guys. I'm with you. By the way, just side note, what percentage of the stories we hear about Hillary. She did this. She did this. Do you think are actually true? 10, 20, 50?

[Adam]

Let me put it to you this way. If 25 is true.

[Pat]

Yeah, it's bad.

[Adam]

5% is true. It's bad.

[Pat]

It's like when we had Gianni Russo here. It's like, what?

[Vinnie]

Yeah.

[Adam]

You did this?

[Pat]

It's like if half the stories you say, I'm sure you're the man. So, yeah, I mean, she's that big of a psychopath. I don't know, but we'll see.

[Adam]

Let's go to the next story. By the way, Hunter Biden made a few comments about Melania Trump. Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for billion dollars over false defamatory allegations linking her to Jeffrey Epstein. And Rob, do you have the comments that he made about her? Is this the one that he.

[Tom]

So this is the original comment that Hunter Biden made.

[Pat]

And then I also have Hunter Biden's reaction to the.

[Adam]

Okay, go for it.

[Hunter Biden]

Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep anyway. Why do we think they don't want the files released? I don't know. I think, you know, that, that, that thing that John Holman says, like a long time ago, accurate kind of assessment of them, which is everything is projection or confession, everything. So when he puts out that tweet, he says Epstein now is the Russia hoax or the Hunter Biden laptop.

[Vinnie]

The laptop from hell, which the Democrats.

[Adam]

Swore came from Russia.

[Vinnie]

Note came from Hunter Biden's bathroom.

[Hunter Biden]

Like, I wonder if it works. Do you know what I mean? When he.

[Adam]

So, so that's that he makes that comment, right? And then Melania and her lawyers sue Hunter for billion dollars.

[Vinnie]

Or do they threaten him?

[Adam]

Pat, let me know. They threaten to sue him for a billion dollars. And then after they threaten him, Channel 5, Callahan goes. Because I think they're living together, him and Hunter. I don't know if they are. It looks like they are.

[Pat]

That's allegedly.

[Adam]

So then that's. Here's the question that's asked. And this is what Hunter had to say. Go ahead.

[Tom]

Yes, this Andrew Callahan, just for reference, Andrew Callahan asks Hunter if he wants to apologize.

[Adam]

Go ahead.

[Pat]

To Melania.

[Adam]

So now we're here maybe to give you the platform to apologize to the first lady for your statements that you.

[Vinnie]

Made about her possible connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

[Adam]

That.

[Hunter Biden]

That's not going to happen.

[Pat]

With the language.

[Adam]

With the language. What are we doing? Okay, so. All right, so. So there you have it. Hunter, Melandia, Adam, your thoughts on this story.

[Pat]

So this is. Welcome to Gossip Girl crackhead edition. Because if you know anything about how Donald Trump met Melania, it's actually a pretty straightforward story. I don't know if you know this, but Melania is a pretty attractive woman. That's not her. That's Hillary Clinton. And she was a gorgeous model. And they were attending an event at New York Fashion Week, I believe, in 1998. And I'm not sure if you know about Trump, but there's one thing he likes other than deals, it's hot chicks. So he shows up, he sees her. He's actually with another date. And he's like, excuse me, who's this lady over here? Ask for her number. She says no. And then she says, here, give me your number. I'll call you if I'm interested. So that's how they met. What Hunter Biden is doing didn't. Wasn't he pardoned for anything he did? Wasn't there some auto pen situation?

[Vinnie]

Yeah.

[Pat]

It's almost like, remember in middle school, you get like a hall pass, and it's like you can go and go around, go wherever you want, and you're like, I'm the coolest kid in the world. I got a hall pass. I feel like that's what Hunter Biden has right now. He has his hall pass. At this immunity of some capacity, we can just say whatever the hell he wants to say, cursing like a sailor. And we know how we feel about that around here, guys. No bueno. And he's just saying the most outlandish things, like a shock jock. It's almost like he's trying to become a shock jock podcaster. The last thing I'll say about Hunter Biden is who's gonna carry the Biden legacy moving forward? It's not Joe Biden. I mean, this guy's 8, 000 years old. Joe Biden is going to fade away after he passes away. Beau Biden, who was like the quote unquote good son, he died. Ashley Biden, she's nowhere to be seen. So you're left with Hunter, the crackhead artist, and he's carrying the Biden torch, which might end up being a blowtorch, but he's the one that's carrying the Biden legacy. And it might just burn all down if it hasn't burned down already.

[Vinnie]

He's, he's. By the way, and there's another clip. Like he's. It doesn't seem to me like he's backing down. He's saying that he's going to be the tip of the spear for everybody. And the pardons, Adam, have nothing to do with. With this. These are new allegations. This is post. Whatever he does from this point on, he's not protected at all. He sits there smug and he's happy. But this is a huge, huge hole that he's digging himself into. And this is his attitude about if the people want it, he's going to keep.

[Pat]

You're right. What I'm saying is the confidence that nothing I've done in the past I can get in trouble for. So let me focus on now. He's not going to get in trouble for saying ridiculous things.

[Vinnie]

Oh, no, no.

[Pat]

That's what people do.

[Vinnie]

Well, that's well, that's me. That's what crack cocaine does to your brain. Because I. I'm. Dude, I'm pretty sure not as bad as fentanyl. Well, I'm pretty sure the people are telling him, like his team, because, mind you, does he. I don't think he has Secret Service protection, but I'm pretty sure he has security and lawyers and everybody, bro, these are huge claims and a billion dollar lawsuit. Obviously he doesn't have a billion dollars, but that'll clean him dry. Rob, can you please play this crypto?

[Hunter Biden]

I want to go through the process. They know that it's going to cost. Sounds like an enormous amount of money to do it. And so, you know, that's the only thing that I got to figure out. You know, we got to get. We got to figure out how the hell we're going to pay for it. Here's what I'm saying to the American people is if you want to know the origin and the nature of the relationship between Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and which I. Which I have no personal knowledge of, I can only go by what has been reported. But if you want to know that nature, then let's all go figure it out together.

[Adam]

The connection to them.

[Hunter Biden]

I'll be the point of the tip of the spear for you. We got to figure out how. Going to pay for it.

[Adam]

Wow. It's amazing listening to him. You realize where he got his genetics from and.

[Pat]

And.

[Adam]

And who talks like him. His pops. Yeah. So I don't know. I think if I'm. If I'm Joe Biden and I'm watching these clips, what am I thinking? Dude, keep your mouth shut, Be quiet. Go away, hang out with your girls. Do what you're doing. You're not helping with anything that I have going on with the last few years of Legacy. Nothing. You think Joe wakes up in the morning and every time he sees stuff like this or even Jill. More than Joe.

[Vinnie]

Yes.

[Pat]

Took.

[Adam]

Oh, my God. Can you tell, you know, Hunter, to just be quiet and go away and not talk about this kind of stuff. What is he doing?

[Tom]

He's.

[Adam]

He's hurting us with the last couple years that we got left. He got left. So I don't know. I don't know what. What he's doing here. I don't know, the allegations and stuff. Maybe he's trying to get some attention that he's got going on there. But, you know, I. I'm looking at more from the perspective of Joe Biden. I think it's too much.

[Vinnie]

But do You. And I'm. And I'm not being funny. I'm not trying to be funny. I don't think Joe Biden is even there. Jill, you know.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Pat]

You don't think Joe Biden is.

[Tom]

I agree with that.

[Vinnie]

Joe Biden.

[Tom]

Jill is trying to protect the legacy the same way we saw her protecting him on stage, the same way we heard that she was trying to do things in the White House. I think Joe Biden looks at this, and it's like your father's legacy is at stake. I think she's the projector. I think you're right.

[Adam]

Yeah. So let's go to the next thing.

[Pat]

They don't want her. Him to talk now.

[Vinnie]

Hell, no.

[Pat]

No, I actually disagree with you guys.

[Adam]

No.

[Pat]

Because other than. Okay, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. Other than Hunter Biden.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Can you name one person that is defending the Biden legacy at this point? Kareem Jean Pierre.

[Adam]

Defend me like that.

[Vinnie]

This is not.

[Adam]

Don't defend me like different.

[Tom]

You're talking about political allies versus.

[Adam]

You want. You want to be defended like that. I don't want to be defended. The point is much better.

[Pat]

He's defending him.

[Vinnie]

Smoke some crack.

[Pat]

Karine Jean Pierre, who was the biggest progressive Democrat I've ever seen, is now an independent. People jumped off the Biden ship. No, because it was a.

[Adam]

Let me tell you, it was a tight. Let me tell you. I'm at a meeting.

[Pat]

The crackhead.

[Adam]

I'm at a meeting.

[Pat]

They're actually.

[Adam]

There is a person that edifies you. Let's just say somebody edifies you. There's different ways of edification. You're in front of a crowd of thousands of people, and one person comes up and they say something like this. Let me tell you guys about Patrick and I. This is why I like doing business with him. I've been doing business with him for 12 years. And 12 years, anytime I need to get a hold of him, I can get a hold of him. He's responsive so fast. He's busier than anybody I do business with. But he always calls me back. And he kept his word. There were moments we went through challenge and times he'll push you. He was this, he's that. But I have so much respect for the way I've done business with them. This is why we continue to do business. And this was the best year we ever had. With that being said, please help me bring up Patrick by David. Okay, that's edification. Let me give you the other one. Oh, my God. Patrick has Changed my life in a way that if it wasn't for him, I have to tell you, I would have been this. And he is the closest thing to God. And don't do. Don't do that. We're like, that's. That's. That's the what? You know, sometimes. Sometimes edification is I'll look at Vinnie and I'll say, listen. Let me put it to you this way. I can listen to Vinny for hours. I'm never bored. He sincerely is this funny 24 7. My kids love him. I haven't met anybody doesn't. Doesn't like this guy. If you're somebody that doesn't like Vinnie, manect me, okay? And tell me about it. I've yet to meet one person.

[Pat]

Pat, you just connect from me. No, I'm just kidding.

[Adam]

But. But my. My point. My point here is there is a levels to edifying somebody. Some people edify in a way that is so fake. Like when you did it yesterday, sincere. We're talking, we're there. But sometimes you're like, ah, dude, that's not the way to do it. So I don't want to be edified like this. I don't want to be lifted up like this the way I want to be lifted. Like if a person complimented Joe Biden, like, this would be one way to say it. Say what you want to say about Joe. We can all agree about the fact that maybe the debate wasn't this. Maybe this wasn't this. Well, maybe that wasn't this. Look, here's what I can tell you. Behind closed doors, always dressed nice, was always respectful to me, was always good to me, you know, was always fair with me. And I don't know what the legacy they're going to write about it, but I definitely hope that the history book showed the fact that he was fair. Da, da da, da da about him. That's what I. That's proper edification. You don't want somebody edifying you like this. Let's go to the next thing.

[Pat]

But this is all they got.

[Adam]

Let's. Well, that's pretty bad. So I would tell them to go retire. All right, so let's talk about ice. More than 100,000Americans apply to join ice. Apply to join ice. Think about it. To help deport illegal aliens. Do you know what happened after 9 11? So many people joined what police department? The police department and military. You joined the police. You joined the military.

[Vinnie]

I was in during it. And then they did stop laws where we couldn't even leave. And People were joining left and right.

[Adam]

But there's a lot of people that would join because they're like, I'm going to go fight for my country. Right now. Americans are saying, I want to go clean up the border. 100,000Americans applied to join the ICE 12 local arrest and deport illegal aliens, as Department of Homeland Security officials reported, following a recruitment effort by Trump's administration. The campaign includes an ad campaign and a $50,000 signing bonus for new recruits. Damn. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated, our country is calling you to serve at ice. In the wake of the Biden administration failing immigration policies, our country needs dedicated men and women of ICE to get the worst of worst of the criminals out of the country. New ICE recruits are offered student loan repayment forgiveness options, a 25% law enforcement availability, pay for Homeland Security Investigations, special agents, premium overtime payments for enforcement and removal operations, deportation officers, and enhanced retirement benefits. Okay, so that's what they say. The bill also includes more than $46 billion for new border wall construction, $45 billion for ICE detention space, $10 billion reimbursed for states who covered border security costs under Joe Biden, and three and a half billion dollars for Department of Justice to issue grants to local governments who help locate and arrest illegal aliens, among other funding measures. Okay, there was a clip of Mayor Bas losing it over ice, but Rogan, Joe Rogan rips ICE raids. He says, great, you're going to get rid of landscapers. Okay, Rob, I don't know if you have the Rogan clip. We'll come back to the bass one. Joe Rogan criticized the Trump administration raids on Joe Rogan explained to publicly protest stemmed from a visceral reaction to officers pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of the Home Depot and pulling people out, pulling people that were just hard working people. He argued that voters expected the removal of violent criminals, not ordinary workers, saying when people thought about ice, they thought, great, we're going to get rid of the gang members that they think, great, you're going to get rid of landscapers. Rogan pressed if this is the clip that you have, Rob, Yep, okay, go for it. All of a sudden these like pop.

[News Anchor]

Up riots, I actually call them the TEMU riots. Like this is a Chinese funded group and what they're doing is they're using that front in an effort to then divide on that topic as well.

[Vinnie]

I absolutely believe this is true that I'm sure other countries fund similar things.

[Tom]

But also it was in reaction to.

[Vinnie]

Some of the ICE raids and Pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of Home Depot.

[Adam]

When people thought about ice, they thought.

[Vinnie]

Great, we're going to get rid of the gang members. They didn't think, great, you're going to get rid of a landscaper.

[Adam]

You say you'll never join the Navy.

[Pat]

Never climb Mount Fuji on a port.

[Vinnie]

Visit or break the sound barrier.

[Pat]

Joining the Navy sounds crazy.

[Adam]

Saying never actually is. Learn why at Navy, America's Navy, forged by the sea. This is what.

[Pat]

Ron, this is just B roll footage of the.

[Tom]

But that's the broken.

[Adam]

This is la.

[Pat]

Yes, Crazy.

[Adam]

We were just there a couple days ago and this is, this is not the same LA. You can pause it right there. Okay, so ICE. ICE raids. 100,000 people signing up. You're getting rid of landscapers. Vinnie, your thoughts on this story?

[Vinnie]

I think, like, well, well, first and foremost, let's, let's say what, what the actual problem is. Ok, this. The Biden administration let in how many. What's the number? I hear 20 million.

[Pat]

Tom Homan said 10 million. So let's set the floor.

[Adam]

There could be more.

[Vinnie]

Let's say 10, 20. Let's go in the middle of that. Okay, and now Trump, just like everything else, just like with Russia, just like with the border, just like with crime, Trump has to come in and clean everything up. All right? It's like this is the analogy, all right? The Biden administration threw this wild party, okay? They opened the doors, Tom. Everybody came in the house. Criminals, they're spray painting, they're killing. Girls were raped at the party. People are dead. Okay? Now the cops show up, everybody's showing up at them. The maids, everybody's cleaning up. And you're getting mad at the cops and the maids. I'm sorry. And there's a misconception and I understand what Joel, Cops and I, trust me, he made a great point about how there could be a way that if you've been here for 10 years or five years and you've been paying taxes and all that stuff, even though Trump made it seem like he's going to get rid of everybody. Say what you want, Trump. Trump is saying exactly what he said, okay? But there's a misconception that they're just walking into schools and grabbing people. The majority of these raids, Adam, let's say that they're looking for 30 people. 19 of them have arrest warrants. They were DUI. They have felony charges. And, and there's getting. Ring them. I apologize. I am so sorry. If you're here illegally, the first thing you did to come here was break the law. So when he's doing this wide grab and they're trying to get everybody. I'm sorry, some of these people who are still illegal are going to get rounded up, and it sucks. It sucks. But he ran on it. If you don't like it, then you shouldn't have voted for him. Because that's what I voted for. I voted for getting these people out of here that are illegal. Because how much time do we keep hearing sanctuary city this, sanctuary city that, all the money has gone to these people? Yes, there needs to be an adjustment. But Trump said he was going to do it and he's doing it and that's it.

[Tom]

Tom, I love the recruitment. You know, the U.S. armed forces, police locally, they've been running programs like this to recruit forever there. Remember, programs that ran right after 9, 11. There's programs that run where, you know, the army feels that they're below their target. So they put some programs out there. So they're putting a program out here. And what are they doing? They're not recruiting a militia. They're recruiting the permanent staff that is going to stand watch and control our closed border. We've closed the border. Now we're getting more staff that's going to be there. And yes, we're going to continue the removal of people that have a criminal record. The people that they went after, you know, had criminal records, but there was also visual footage that looked bad. And the mainstream media was more than happy to say that's an innocent man in the middle of a field being taken out. You know, did that happen? I don't know. But there was a lot of evidence that they were going after people that had criminal records who were already here illegally. And then did China fund it? Have Soros organizations funded some of these protests? Yes, yes. The allegation, I believe. I believe the allegations. So when I say yes, I'm saying I believe the allegations that other people that don't agree with Trump are helping to fund make the protest even worse about immigration. I think the average American, if you look on policy by policy, they like what's going on with the lot of the policies that Trump has made. But they didn't like what was going on visually with all the footage. It's like, hey, I like the border being closed. I like the fact that we're vinnie cleaning people back. But then they would see some of the footage and go, that kind of looks kind of bad.

[Vinnie]

Yeah. And again, Tom, it sometimes it does look bad. But just to make my Point. A lot of these people were talking about the ICE raid that they did on August 6th. The Border Patrol grabbed 16 illegals in Westlake Home Depot in LA. Records showed six of them. Okay, 16. Six of them had criminal histories, including a Nicaraguan charged with felony theft in April, a Guatemalan with the prior LAPD arrest for DUI with great bodily injury. He almost killed somebody in an accident. A Guatemalan ICE fugitive with a 2014 deportation order, and three previously deported Guatemalans who illegally came back in during Biden. I get it. It looks bad, guys. It looks bad. But if you ask for it now, you got it. The word illegal. People keep missing the point. Guys. We all came here legally. Your family came here legally. My mom and dad, my grand. They all came here legally. Okay. Besides the fact that. You know what? Let's say out of a hundred of them, five of them, rape and murder and everything, that's too much. That's five Americans that would have been saved if it wasn't for the border. And this all sits on Alejandro Mayorkas and the last administration. Who? Adam, you want to talk about pardons? Nothing's ever going to happen to that guy. He's sitting at home smiling his butt off because he opened the door and let. This problem is because of that Biden administration. So this all lies on them. Period. End of story.

[Pat]

Remember the clip that was like, hide your wife, hide your kids, because they're out here raping everybody? Yeah, I feel like that. This guy right here. Thank you, Rob. I feel like that is sort of the narrative. You want to play this?

[Adam]

No. No.

[Vinnie]

Okay.

[Pat]

I feel like that's sort of the narrative with the illegal immigrants. But sometimes when you want to make an omelet, you got to crack a couple eggs and a couple crackheads. But the reality is this. Why are people joining ICE? How many people are applying? 10. 100,000Americans have applied to join ICE.

[Vinnie]

Good.

[Pat]

That's amazing.

[Vinnie]

Good.

[Pat]

Okay. I want to be. How many people don't want to be police officers anymore? How many people stopped wanting to be firefighters in California over there? So I think it's a very good thing that you want to serve your country. What are the main three reasons that an American want to serve ice? Number one, it's a job. It's a career. AI ain't going to replace you. You're going to have a job for sure. You're going to have money, benefits. What are they giving? $50,000 signing bonuses?

[Vinnie]

Maybe I'll join ICE.

[Pat]

Who knows? Number two, you want to serve your country straight up and we talked about why someone would join the CIA. It's like, bro, you got to be insane. Peter Thiel's handle. It's like they're doing this because they genuinely want to serve their country for national security purposes and to help the country out. Number three. And this is, I think this goes for both sides. They genuinely feel like they're doing the right thing. This is what I. The people that are protesting against ICE feel very passionately that they're doing the right thing. The people that are joining ICE are feeling passionately that they're doing the right thing.

[Adam]

You know this is a two part thing, right? One is Joe saying that they're coming after the landscaper. So the one thing why Joe is loved is because Joe has a soft, you know, he has a heart.

[Pat]

Empathy.

[Adam]

Empathy. That is the reason why he's so he has the empathy and he can kill you, right? So he's got that combination of how he's. He's the gentle guy that also has a heart when he sees things like. This story comes out here. Secretary Noem announces 1.6 million illegal aliens. This is yesterday or today. This is a few hours ago. 1.6 million illegal aliens have left. This is self deported. In the first hundred days as secretary in the US has seen a decline of 1.6 million illegal aliens across the country. So watch this. Q20, Q1, 2021. Biden 10.2. Next year you're a lady. 11.4. Next year 12.6. Next year 40 million. Next year 16 million. Right. And that from 15.8 million to 14.2 million. 1.6 million out. Now they're saying they only ICE has only been able to get how many. We've heard the number. How many people have been. Has ICE gotten themselves? It's a hundred thousand. It's not a big number.

[Vinnie]

It's less than 200,000.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's less than 200,000. But guess what? The, the advertisement, the messaging, all of that, a lot of people like screw this, I'm going back to Mexico. Don't even worry about coming and getting me. I'm going to go back to my family. So the 1.6 million that have self deported is a part of. That's the number. Yeah, ice has removed in the first hundred days was 65, 66,000. Not a big number when you think about that. So let's say it's 100,000 that they actually got. But say 1.6 million self deported. That means they did that. That's a part of what they did. So to. To those that are sitting here saying, well, you know what? What about this and what about that, guys, You. This was his top three issue was the border. He ran on this in 16. Build the damn wall. He's been saying this for nine years, that this is what he's going to be doing. Okay? And guess what happened the moment he came in. People coming through the border went to zero. Nobody has even wanted to come here anymore. It's like, illegally. No, legally, God willing, I'm going to wait to see how I can end up coming here. Right? But to me, I believe the number one most important thing anybody and everybody thinks about when it comes down to family, kids, is safety. It's the S word. Keep me safe, keep me secure. If you can't do that, I'm not with it. It's the same exact thing he's doing in D.C. like, when you see this Mayor Bass of L. A saying something like this. This is her, by the way. Watch her reaction. Look how she reacts. Watch her rage.

[Tom]

Not believe that this just happened to be a coincidence.

[Adam]

There is no way this was a coincidence. This was widely publicized that the governor and many of our other elected officials were having a press conference here to talk about redistribution king, and they decided they were going to come and thumb their nose in front of the governor's face. Why would you do that? That is unbelievably disrespectful. It's a provocative act. They're talking about disorder in Los Angeles and they are the source of the disorder in Los Angeles right now.

[Pat]

This is just completely unacceptable.

[Adam]

Who believes this is a.

[Vinnie]

People like people in California, people in la.

[Adam]

So the guy behind her definitely believes it, with that haircut of it. So when. When you. When you think about. When you think about what Newsom said yesterday with the redistrict. Let me. Let me go to that one. Because she commented on that. So they had a meeting. They've been wanting to redistrict in a while. And his words were, it's over for California. Okay. I think there was a quote. I got to find it to see which one it is. Rob, what clip do you have about the new statement he made about redistricting California?

[Pat]

Right here.

[Tom]

This is what he says Donald Trump's.

[Pat]

Plans are and why he wants redistrict, redistricting so much.

[Adam]

Go forward. Wake up, America, wake up. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will have a president who will be running for a third term. Mark my word. Wasn't exaggerating when I said that I received in the mail a Trump 2028 hat from one of his biggest supporters. These guys are not screwing around. The rules do not apply to him. The most corrupt president in history. He doesn't believe in free enterprise, crony capitalism. He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy.

[Vinnie]

Lies.

[Adam]

A lawless president.

[Vinnie]

Lies.

[Adam]

Wake up, America. Wake up to what's going on.

[Vinnie]

How many, how many lies? Hold on, Adam, dead serious. How many lies did he just say factually in that statement? Lawless, the economy sucks. And by the way, the one that I send you, the image, he's, I'm telling you right now, remember, I made the bet with Sam Cedar, the most handsome guy in the world, that he said that like, that he was going to be the front runner. He's going to be the front runner. And just that Rob, that fool right there, Pat, when you look at this, this is the. And this is it. This is the presidential look that he's going for. And he's completely full of crap. And when you ask who's buying it, who's buying the Karen Bass, by the way, I'm shocked she's even in the country. Not on vacation when shit's going haywire. I'm shocked. I'm shocked that they're doing it. But you, you said it, Adam. I'm sorry, Pat. You did. The scariest thing is they're not. He's not losing any support. Those people standing out there in Californians are like, yeah, yeah. And they're still going to vote for them, even though their city, their state is going down to. I can't even say.

[Pat]

Let me tell you one thing I know for sure. California is not America. We just came back from LA and Pat did the, the thing, the debate, the jubilee thing. Oh, wow.

[Vinnie]

I couldn't believe.

[Pat]

These people are so far gone.

[Vinnie]

Oh, my God.

[Pat]

That there's no. They can't be redeemed. Now, let me qualify this. They're actually smart. They're not idiots, they're well read, they're educated, they have strong opinions, they got the vernacular. They know what's going on. But they're fighting the wrong fight and they're defending the wrong people. And there's no switching these people. So if you're Gavin Newsom now, that's your audience. Gavin Newsom still is the governor of California. That's his first priority. Yes. He wants to be president of the United States one day. Obviously, like that. He's, that's his audience. That's his megaphone. So he's saying the things that the people in California want to hear. These people are so far gone, they're not redeemable. Thank God that there's common sense people in the Midwest, in the, in the Bible Belt, in Florida that are like, dude, save your crap.

[Tom]

There's a lot of common sense people in California. That's the reason they've been planning the redistricting. But before anybody else was talking about redistricting because they freaked out about the compositional change to California after the election. And so he's out there rage baiting. He's out there the dog whistle to his followers. He's out there headline chasing and he's trying to posture himself and he's got no, he really has no record to run on. You look at the fires, look at the economy. You look at the job loss, you look at California's tax, you look at what's going on, you look at the controversies that are having over what appears to be a land grab in the Palisades that's being done legislatively with laws. And you see a man without a country. Also, the minute he steps east of Las Vegas, the Democrat polls are different. JB Pritzker has got tremendous support. And so this primary is not in a FedEx being sent to Sacramento that says, hey, man, see in February 28th, you know, here it is and it's your size. It's tailored for you. Come on, baby, the water's warm. That's not what Gavin Newsom's about to find. JB Pritzker and the DNC are really not with Gavin Newsom. That part's going to be fun to watch. But you can see what they're after right now. Trump's going to lose a midterm. President t ends in 17 months. And speaker Jeffries back. Their focus is on the midterms and they were going to redistrict California anyway. It's happening in plain sight. And no, they're not dumb. They're very shrewd. But they're. Look, they think we're evil. Liberals think conservatives are evil. We just think they're wrong and we want to process it.

[Pat]

Honestly, Tom, everything you said, I agree, I agree. You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. The only thing, I'll give you a caveat. You said Gavin Newsom has no record to run on. That doesn't matter. The only thing that they have to run on is he's not Trump. Trump is evil, bad Bad, bad. I agree with it that it doesn't work, but that's the platform.

[Adam]

Yeah. So by the way, if they redistrict the way they want to redistrict, okay, right now they got a 43, 9 lead. Okay. And remember, with House, you know, midterms around the corner. So this redistricting is purely for midterms, to see who's going to get bumped out. It looks like Crockett is gone. So now, Rob, can you pull up who are the nine Republican House of Representatives in the state of California? Who are the nine House of Republican Representatives? Yeah, in California. Let's see which one of these guys are a threat? Like, who is actually a formidable name that gets in the way out of all the names. Daryl Isa.

[Pat]

Okay, he's a stud.

[Adam]

He's a stud. Ken Calvert. Young. Kim J. David Young.

[Pat]

Kim.

[Adam]

Tom, you know who Vince Fong is?

[Tom]

Yeah, we met him.

[Adam]

We met him. Yep. He's like, yeah, McCarthy.

[Tom]

Yeah. Vince Vong is in Central Valley, around Bakersfield. Took Kevin McCarthy seat.

[Adam]

That's right. So Tom McClintock, Kevin. So all of these guys are targeted. That's what they're targeting. They're targeting these nine names. So if they redistrict and the way that I think they're going to redistrict, four or five of these guys are going to lose their jobs. So four or five lose their jobs. It has nothing to do with California because California is already 43 to 9. It's about what the majority of the House. Rob, go to see the split right now. How many Dems and how many Republicans have, like the percentage of controlling the House. What is the number? Do you know what the numbers, Tom? I know Republicans are up, but by how many?

[Pat]

Maybe, give or take.

[Adam]

It's not a big number. It's not like they're up 40. The score is a very close score. What is the number? Let's see here. So if you look at this, you got what, 219 to 217. So check this out. So if he's able to. Oh, yeah. So if he's.

[Pat]

Okay, so seven seats. Gotcha.

[Adam]

So if he's able to flip four in California, you know what that does? Add four to Democrats, which is 216. Take four away from Democrats, which is 215 Democrats, not control the House. If Abbott does redistrict, in which they just got approved by the Senate, even though the other nine people didn't vote, they go and they do flip five. So that's the five, four plus minus one goes to Republicans. But who else will be doing that? Desantis is talking about being able to do it in Florida. But in Florida they can't do it dramatically like some of these other places can do it with these weird salamander type of stuff that they're doing.

[Tom]

That's a sensible law somebody did 100 years ago in Florida.

[Adam]

That's right. So the reality of it is the Democrat and Newsom is trying to say I'm going to do and you know, in a way he's saying destroy the Republican Party for many years to come if he does this. He's putting the onus now on Trump. But again, Newsom is a professional politician and he knows what he's doing here. So a part of this story is the ice. A part of this is redistricting. Rob, make sure Humberto makes us into two clips, not just one. Clip of what happened with the. Because I'm looking at 21 minutes. But let's make a note of that. So Humberto knows us. All right, let's go to the next one. Just a couple days ago, the president of Mexico shine bomb when the the president White House says, hey, we're going to be going and to clean house in Mexico because they're looking for certain cartel members. She said there's no way you can do this. There's no way you can come over here and all this stuff. Right. And I don't know if you have that or not. Rob, is this it?

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Adam]

She wasn't for us doing any of it. Go to play this clip. This was a couple days ago.

[News Reporter]

We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion.

[Adam]

She called it an invasion. Absolutely discarded.

[News Reporter]

In addition, they have expressed it in all calls that it is not allowed or part of any agreement, much less when they have come to raise it. We have always said no that we can collaborate in another way.

[Adam]

Okay. So she says that couple of days later, guess What? Mexico sends 26 cartel members to US in deal with Trump administration. Okay. And she made his job actually easier. This is a lot easier if you send it to us than us having to go and get it. So this story is the 26 high ranking cartel figures to the US on Tuesday, including Abigail Gonzalez Valencia, leader of the Las Cunos allied with Jalisco New generation cartel, the CGNG, CJNG and Roberto Salazar, wanted for the 2008 killing of LA County Sheriff Deputy as part of a deal with Trump administration to combat drug smuggling. Mexican Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfouk stated as a at a Wednesday news conference. These transfers are not only a strategic measure to ensure public safety, but also reflect a firm determination to prevent these criminals from continuing to operate from within prisons to break up their networks of influence. Rob, can you play this clip?

[News Anchor]

Jalisco and Noreste cartels to the US that also includes one suspect who is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy. Attorney General Pam Bondi writing, quote, these 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores. Under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country.

[Adam]

From what I'm reading, these 26 individuals, cartel members or leaders, I believe that the US promised to seek the death penalty in order as part of the deal to get them here.

[Pat]

What's Mexico's.

[Adam]

What is their incentive to send those folks here?

[News Anchor]

Well, if you remember, when the Trump administration designated the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization, obviously the Mexican government got incredibly nervous about that because that gives incredible power to the US Government to pursue the cartels. So the Mexican government is now cooperating with the US Government because it does not want US Forces going into Mexico to take care of the cartels, which have been a direct threat. Threat. And have been terrorizing Americans in which this administration is clearly not going to tolerate it. So what I find encouraging about this is the collaboration now between the US Government and the Mexican government so that, you know, the Mexican government doesn't get any more of the direct kind of ire and attention from the Trump administration. Yeah, a major win for the Trump administration because the last place these 26 cartel leaders would want to be is in US cup custody. And our relationship with Mexico is unique.

[Adam]

So when you hear that story, why, Tom, why wouldn't they want us to go grab the cartels out of Mexico that are causing havoc in their country? Is it because they are owned and controlled by the cartels? Is it because they're afraid of the cartels? Why is that?

[Tom]

I think you just hit on it. Everything that's. There's been alarm bells going off in my head when I read this. I said, okay, this must mean. Because we see what happens in the election, you know, they. They kill candidates, they kill judges. It's still happening. And the cartels have tremendous influence and control over parts of the Mexican government. And I think, remember, some of these guys were already in jail. Some of these guys had already been, you know, captured and captured with US assistance. So remember, these 26, this follows the 29 that were sent to us in February, this is now 55. And so I think that some of the cartels that are controlling the Mexican government are giving up guys that are in prison because they don't want the US Military coming across the border and disrupting on a wide scale. Because watch. Which is operating, Vinnie, check this out. Which is operating and which is not operating. The guys in prison have influence. Maybe they call shots, but they're not really operating. The guys on the ground are operating. They're operating everything they've got. The human trafficking, the drug manufacturing, they're operating all that. The minute we come across the border and we put raids, we disrupt operations, meanwhile, they just take 26 guys out of prison who may be calling the shots, but they're not operating. Do you see where I'm going? So I think the cartels are like, man, we do not want the US Military coming across here and busting up the stuff that we got going right now. We can't have this. And I think there's this very delicate detente and a negotiation where I believe the cartels have influence and said, you know what? These guys are in jail kind of screwed. We're not going to get them out of jail. If they get released, the US Is going to freak out anyway. Why don't we just send these 26 over the same way we sent 25 over in February? I think it's that way. I don't think this is the. The Mexican government standing up and being all noble and, you know, purely, you know, you know, law and order stance and looking forward and protecting citizens. I think that's. I don't think that's the story here, Vinnie.

[Vinnie]

Well, I think, by the way, she came out of nowhere. Do you guys remember running up to that election from 2018 to 2024, I believe 87 mayors were killed, beheaded, and everything from the cartels or whoever in Mexico. And then she gets put in. So there's. I feel my opinion that there's, you know, she's the one that they want to be in there. I don't know all the details. I'm not really that deep into Mexican politics in Mexico. But, Tom, 26 individuals here, that's. That are going to be in our prisons. I did the math. That's cost per year for, let's say, 30 years, they're going to be in here. Not the ones that they execute, $65,000. So we're talking about the American taxpayer is going to be paying roughly 31 million to 51 million to have these people here. To take care of them for the rest of their lives, not including medical costs or this or that. Why are we taking them? Why can't they just deal with these problems, keep them themselves and hold their foot to the fire?

[Adam]

In terms of justice, according to them, lowered homicide by 25% in Mexico. Can you verify this, Rob, if they've. If Sheinbaum has lowered homicide in Mexico by 25%, apparently they have. Now, again, that's their data. I don't know. They're saying they have.

[Vinnie]

But, Pat, why do we need to. Why should we. Like, can't they put them in jail? And do what? Why. Why do we need to take them in and take care of these people? Not the ones that are going to get the chair. Because we're going for the death penalty, especially the ones that are trying to kill or have killed cops. Why can't they just keep them in the prison? I'm still confused on why do we have to take these?

[Adam]

Why aren't they cutting deals?

[Vinnie]

Why are we taking all 26 of these people? They cut a deal and to do what with it? But what can't they. If the guy killed a cop or killed whatever, can't they give them the death penalty?

[Tom]

There I'm coming across, and I'm going to do this myself. And they're like, we don't want Trump to do that.

[Vinnie]

Just take the bodies yourself.

[Tom]

Here, I'll give you 29 guys in February. I give you 26 here, that's 55. Take them, fill them full of sodium pentothal, make them sit naked on a hibachi. Get their attention and get all the information you want from them. You don't think there's probably some of that going on?

[Vinnie]

Okay, okay.

[Tom]

We're good at that.

[Vinnie]

I got you. Okay, so this is. This is like a. Like we're not going to come and invade.

[Adam]

In her first year, approximately 11 months, Shine Bomb has achieved a 25.3% reduction in daily homicides, which fell from 86.9% to 86.9 a day to 64.9. This marks the lowest levels since 2015. So she's doing something. To give her credit, she's doing something about it as well with numbers. And, Rob, is it true we don't have a military base in Mexico? I don't think we can you check that? We don't have a military base. Yeah, I mean, look, I, if, if, if you think about one of the issues, top 20 issues, Trump, 47. You know what was. Yeah, we don't have Military base in Mexico. Okay, that makes sense. So if you look at the, if you look at one of the issues that Trump ran on was what? Border squared away. He's doing it. Ice, $50,000. 100,000 people already signed up. What's another thing that he signed up that he said he was going to do? Top 20 economy. Fentanyl.

[Vinnie]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam]

Okay. This is the fentanyl promise. This is what they're doing to say, we promised you we're going to go after fentanyl. We're doing it. We're going to find out who's behind it and we're going to put them out. Adam, your thoughts on the story?

[Pat]

Yeah, I mean, in the western hemisphere, Mexico is the last country in the world I'm trying to go visit. Oh my God. Why would you say that about Mexico? It's our neighbor. Not safe. Just straight up, you talk about why the most high priority of a family has taking care of their kids is safety, safety, safety. You call it the S word, right, Pat?

[Adam]

Yep.

[Pat]

Here are the most dangerous countries in the Western hemisphere. We know what happened in El Salvador. We know what's going on in Venezuela. Jamaica, Honduras, Ecuador, Guatemala. Shout out to Mexico. Shout out to Mario the Mexican. But those are the list of, of countries. The most dangerous cities. Just cities.

[Vinnie]

Jalisco is up there.

[Pat]

Oh my. It's all Mexico. The top 10, nine of the top 10. Colima, Mexico. Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. Zamora, Mexico. Manzilo, Mexico. Manzanillo, Mexico. Tijuana, Mexico. Ciudan, Juarez. Throwing a little Port of Prince, Haiti in there. The most dangerous cities you could possibly go visit. Now I know everybody in Miami is like, I'm going to Tulum. Stay in Tulum, bro. Don't leave Tulum. All those cities, you will get decapitated. By the way, little fun fact. There's a couple cities in the United States that are close to the top 10. Jackson, Mississippi. Memphis, Tennessee. Clean it up, boys. Baltimore, Chicago. But they all pale in comparison to what the hell is going on in Mexico.

[Adam]

Yeah, there's a lot of weird stories, Rob. Did you see the story of The Mexican influencer 23 year old girl who was on a live stream and she said, if anybody's going to do anything to me, it's going to be my ex. And she's getting. Don't play the video.

[Pat]

No, please don't.

[Adam]

But, but if I'm gonna, if any, anyone's gonna do anything to me, it's going to be my ex. And she's getting a gift. Apparently A she's getting a gift while she's getting the gift and she gets killed. Just a top member the brutal Jalisco Nueva the whole CJNG and is also suspect of murdering a Venezuelan model in 2000. Her body was found dumped in a sewage canal. This happened the story of this 23 year old Marquez was shot on May 13th. Yeah, she was shot on May 13th this model right here in Mexico because she got a Gucci purse or a Louis Vuitton purse from somebody else and it was one of the fans that send it to her and he wasn't. He wasn't too happy.

[Vinnie]

Apparently the murders are actually up by over 700 deaths. So again you nailed it. You don't know that's numbers that we're getting.

[Adam]

We don't know the stats, we don't know the data.

[Pat]

We don't know careful if you go to Mexico.

[Adam]

Yeah especially if you look like this but and if you, if you look like that there's other places I.

[Pat]

Actually think.

[Adam]

I actually think you would farewell in Thailand.

[Pat]

Oh no. My friends there doing some dirty work out there.

[Adam]

He's out there. Well over there.

[Pat]

So shout out to our buddy that's out there.

[Adam]

Yeah. So let's talk about another story something that's very sentimental to Vinnie Netanyahu offers Iran water Iran WATER crisis help if regime removed amid shortage so apparently in is. Is this it Rob?

[Pat]

Yes, sir.

[Adam]

Go ahead. I mean he's just.

[Vinnie]

Look at his agreement.

[Adam]

Go ahead, Rob.

[Vinnie]

And action. Pour the water.

[Pat]

Oh, he's trolling.

[Vinnie]

This is so.

[I]

Today I'm going to make an unprecedented offer to Iran. It relates to water. The Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water. Israel stands with the people of Iran and that is why I want to help save countless Iranian lives. Here's Iran's meteorological organization says that nearly 96% of Iran suffers from some levels of drought. Issa Kalantari, a former Iranian agriculture minister said that 50 million Iranians could be forced out of their homes due to environmental damage. 50 million millions of Iranian children are suffering due to mismanagement to incompetence and the theft of vital resources by the Iranian regime. Now Israel also has water challenges. We've developed cutting edge technologies to address them. Israel recycles nearly 90% of its wastewater. That's far more than any other country on earth. We invented drip irrigation. Our technology targets individual plants with exactly the nutrients they need. For each plant Israel has the know how to prevent environmental catastrophe in Iran.

[Adam]

I want to Share this So by the way, he's going, he's going about it to kind of, you know, get the people of Iran against the government, which totally makes sense. But this has also happened and a part of this story is true because as you read the story, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian warned of severe water shortages, with Reuters reporting that Iran could face critical shortages as soon as next month, worsened by five years of drought and poor resource management, as seen at the Amir Kabir dam near Tehran. Ok, so there is credibility on what's going on with Iran and the water story. However, the president responds back and he mocks Netanyahu over pledge of help in water crisis. He says he mocked Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to help to have Iran water crisis, stating on X a regime that deprives Gaza of water and food now says it will bring water to Iran a mirage, nothing more. Okay, so he is retweeted out to say he's not trying to help us, he's just kind of given a little bit of troll work here. First look at the difficult situation of Gaza and defenseless people, especially children who are struggling because of hunger, lack of access to of potable water and medicine because of a siege by the brutal regime. He his remarks respond to Netanyahu's Tuesday video after promising Israeli water expects experts would assist Iran once its current regime is replaced, per the Jerusalem Post. Pezeshkian responds saying we do not have a, we do not have water, we do not have water under our feet and we do not have water behind our dams. So you tell me what we do. He described the situation as we are in a serious and unimaginable crisis, noting his administration is consulting experts to find solutions. So the water crisis is real. Netanyahu is trolling. Massoud responds, bringing in Gaza. Tom, your thoughts on the story?

[Tom]

Well, they were actually offering a high tech solution. I don't know if you know this, Vinny.

[Vinnie]

What?

[Tom]

Basically they told them we're going to let you know when the water is going to be there and you'll get a signal on this pager.

[Pat]

Everyone take one? Everybody takes one off, right?

[Tom]

So no, I think so. Let's face it, there's grandstanding going on both sides of this because Netanyahu sounds like he was doing a UN climate speech. If you listen to that, close your eyes and just picture him in front of the UN and all that green marble or whatever it is down there, he sounds like a UN speech. So is he trying to help? Is it? Yeah, maybe. But probably not. I think what he's really trying to do is just get the Iranian drive a spike on the Iranian people and to get some of the moderate, moderate Iranian people who are upset about the, the fact that they're in this war torn country and that they want regime change, they want new leadership, they want somewhere to go, the future. While looking at the rich past they've had. I think Netanyahu's pointing right at those people, trying to get those people. Here's another reason, man, they can't even get your water. And I'm willing to help, Vinnie.

[Vinnie]

I mean, listen, I'm going to go straight up to, besides Bibi's plan of, you know, the greater Israel, he wants to, you know, he wants to, he wants to expand, he wants to dominate. He doesn't want, you know, his enemies being, being surrounded by him. So he's trying to take over. And I, I get it from that angle. But Iranians had such a huge window of opportunity a couple months back when everything was going on, when Israel and America, we're starting to bomb and everything. And we talked about it. This was their moment, Tom. This was the moment. Rise up, get in the streets, do your thing. What happened? Dud? It's like a firecracker that goes. And nothing happens at the end, okay? So now this is what's starting to happen. Okay? You have leaders trying to say, hey, listen, guys, if you're, you know, rise up, one of you guys step up, somebody do something, we'll give you water. Because if not, what it's going to come to is Israel is going to keep putting the pressure on and it's gonna, they're gonna get involved even more than they are. He even said that he was. And then America is gonna obviously get involved too, because there are allies. So this all goes back to what you said months ago. The people had a chance. I don't care if it was Reza Pahlavi, somebody get in the streets. Get in the streets. Because if not, this is the type of stuff that's going to be coming.

[Pat]

When you get in the streets, you die, though.

[Vinnie]

No, no, no, no, not Adam. If everybody said enough is enough, you're not going to kill everybody, bro. There's no way. There's no way. Not at that moment.

[Pat]

I don't think the Iranian regime will kill all their people, Adam.

[Vinnie]

I think the people, the voice of the people are way too strong.

[Pat]

If everybody said, what evidence do you have of that? Because I have 46 years of evidence. They don't give a. What the People think Adam, they will kill you.

[Vinnie]

When is everybody got in the streets literally. I'm talking about nobody go to work.

[Pat]

Land he's playing in reality. No, they will kill every single one. I don't believe citizens.

[Vinnie]

I don't believe. Well guess what Adam, Is it worth it? Is it worth it than being clinging to power? No, I'm not, I'm talking about the people. The people don't like what's happening.

[Adam]

This is by the way as much as this is the conversation. Both of you are right, it is the conversation. You know, yesterday I'm asking bustamente. For 39 years, 37 years the Shah was president, the king of Iran. Kissinger doesn't help him. He falls four countries unite against the fall of Iran. Now for 46 years they've been the leaders and nothing's happened. Now what? Yep, it's oh, it's going to be a peaceful. Like when the Reza Pahlavi says it's going to be a peaceful. No, it's not. Rob, did you see the thing I sent you with the water shortage in Iran? I don't know if you saw that or not. Check this out. How bad it is? Yes. When you look at this chart, Vinny. Oh my God. This is water shortages spark. Remember Michael Burry said at the end of Big Short in the movie he said the next biggest thing to look at is water. When I went to Harvard, there was a guy there that learned how to build a plant to make water. He says this is the future goal. This is what you're going to want. Look at this here. Water shortages sparked in protests in Iran. Extreme drought. Look at the left side there, Abadan, you see Khuzestan. Severe drought is the orange all over the place. Moderate drought, abnormal dryness. So Tehran is okay when you look at Tehran, but all the other places, man. Yeah, it is not looking good in Iran, Adam.

[Pat]

Yeah, well, Bibi Netanyahu is just completely trolling his enemies at this point. Specifically in Iran. He did a video when he assassinated one of Hamas's things and he takes out the glasses and he's like Netanyahu, Bibi Netanyahu, he's the James Bond of the Middle East. Even if you hate Israel make these concessions. He's eliminated Hamas, he's eliminated Hezbollah in Lebanon. He's basically done a deal with the Houthis. You don't hear much from them anyways. Iran is a sitting duck. They've taken out their nuclear capabilities. Syria's been dismantled again, even if you hate Israel, this is truth. Truth, truth, truth, truth. Israel has completely embarrassed their enemies. But what the Iranians are doing, it's the same playbook. Ready for the playbook of it? But Gaza, Yeah. President of Iran, Ayatollah, you've killed X amount of people. But Gaza, Hey, Syria, what's going on? But Gaza. It's the but Gaza defense. And here's what Bibi Netanyahu thinks about Gaza. He doesn't give a shit. Clearly he's going to do what he wants to do. He'll take it over and you ain't going to do a thing about it. Because it's a dog eat dog world in the Middle East. It ain't the Midwest and these people only understand strength. I don't operate that way. You don't operate that way. Why? Why don't we operate that day? Because we live in America and we don't have to. Oh my God, we're going to get killed today and let's live in Chiraq. We have oceans. We don't have to worry about all this. People in Israel are on edge. Every single. Andrew Busamante made it some great points. He's like, they don't operate the way we did, the way we every day. They're paranoid. They think they're going to get blown up and that's the way they operate. By the way, compare Iran to Israel. It's not even close. Israel is the leading country in the world when it comes to desalination and technology of water. By the way, they're in the Middle East. What is the Middle east known for? Desert. There's no water there. Iran has basically zero water to drink. What's the whole thing? But the last point is this talk about misery and happiness. The happiest country in the Middle east is. Which country? Israel. One of the least happiest countries in the Middle east is Iran. They're not happy in that side of the world. The angriest people you said were the Lebanese, the Turks and another country over there. They're not happy there. They don't have freedom there. Some people have safety. They don't have freedom. Last thing, GDP per capita in Israel, one of the highest in the Middle east, one of the highest in the world. 53,000 per person. That means the average person, 53. Do you know what the misery index and the GDP per capita is in Iran? $4,000.

[Adam]

Wow.

[Pat]

Okay. That's what people make in a month, that's what they make in a year. And it gets worse in Yemen, in Syria, in Afghanistan, they're Very poor and very miserable.

[Adam]

Yeah. I mean, somebody could say, well, it's because the sanctions we put on them, so nobody does business with them. But there's a reason, because you don't have diplomacy. But if you go to this. I just asked a question. I said, how bad is a water shortage in Iran? Look what it says. It says, as of 2025, Tehran's main reservoirs, we're holding only 13% of the capacity with Lar Dam. Rob, can you tape in picture Lar Dam? Just type in picture just to see what Lardam looks like. Lar Dam is only at 1% of capacity of water, Vinnie. 1% of capacity of water. It's 1% full. And then inflows were down 28 year over year. Karaj Dam dropped 58%. Lard down 34. Telagon is down 33, while Latian and Mambo together decreased 47%. Nearly half of Iran's provinces are officially water stressed, outpacing available supply. The nation is experiencing not just a drought, but what many call water bankruptcy with looming day zero scenarios. Day zero scenarios, Siding running dry within weeks. Weeks. This is not like a issue that say 10 years away, 20 years away. This is here, right? And over the past five decades, roughly 70% of Iran's groundwater reserves has been depleted. Tehran, for instance, experiencing land subsidies for up to 25 centimeters per year indicating collapsing aquifers. Study revealed over three and a half percent. Iran's land area impacting nearly 90 million people, is sinking, with some regions affected by sinkholes and irreversible ground collapse. This is a real issue they're dealing with over there. And at the end of the day, you can look at the government as an enemy. You can look at Khamenei or all the president, everything they're doing. But the people are the people are the people. Nearly 85 million people, give or take, are suffering with water. Water is a very. You don't think about water because you have all these bottles of water here. Many times we'll just leave the water, we'll drink a little bit and boom, it's out. Iranians right now would, would literally die to have water to give to their kids and their family. So it's tragic what's going on over there.

[Pat]

As an Iranian, who do you blame for Iran not having water?

[Adam]

It's 100 the government.

[Pat]

Okay, thank you.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's 100 the government. It's the government's in the way of the people having the life that they can have. And the government will blame Iran the government will blame us. The government will blame Saudi, the government will blame Israel. Government will blame anybody and everybody except themselves.

[Pat]

And what's the whole thing? Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you know, food, shelter, water. Think about how many billions Iran has spent on proxy wars, on their nuclear ambitions, on funding terrorism, outsourcing, all the drama that we see in the world. And their people don't have water. Yeah, this is Iran.

[Adam]

Well, let's get to the next story. It's tragic with what's going on in Iran, but it's a, it's a real thing. It's happening. Next story I want to get into is a different kind of a story, but I'm going to read this and I'm going to give you my thoughts. Trump touts tax relief for vast majority of seniors on Social Security's 90th anniversary. Okay, so when he says this. President Trump's proclamation issued Thursday to mark the 90th anniversary of Social Security act, signed by FDR, described it as a monumental legislative achievement, stating to this day, Social Security is rooted in a simple promise. Those who gave their careers to building our nation will always have the support, stability, and the relief they deserve. The proclamation highlights his administration's approvement, including technological advances and a reduction in average telephone response time from 30 minutes last year to 6 minutes and 80% decrease. Trump claims these efforts ensure Social Security now stands stronger and more resilient than ever before. Counting Democratic criticism of workforce. And one big, big, beautiful bill, the administration complete over 3.1 million payments ahead of schedule, totaling $17 billion to eligible beneficiaries. And the proclamation notes provisions in the Republican spending package signed last month allow the vast majority of seniors who receive Social Security to pay absolute nothing in taxes on their benefits, which Trump calls the largest tax break for seniors in the history of our country. Rob so is this him? Him signing it?

[Pat]

This is. And then he praises the Social Security commissioner.

[Adam]

Go for it with him.

[Unknown Commentator]

Some of the most talented people in business and that were making again, they were making a lot of money, but.

[Adam]

They made a lot of money.

[Unknown Commentator]

They had money they didn't have to make anymore. And they just want to do this. They want to have our country become strong and good, and that's what's happening. And we're doing that in a lot of locations, a lot of areas. You deal with some of the people that are commissioners that are secretaries of state, secretaries of treasury and commerce, people that were really, really successful people, and they gave all that up to make a very small amount of money. They don't even consider it a fraction. You say 1%, less than 1%. That's pretty good. That's a big. That's a big pay cut.

[Adam]

Okay, so you see this here? And obviously it's nice, it's great, everything that they're talking about. But then when you get your Social Security statement that comes in and many of these letters, it tells you the account's going to be insolvent by 2033, that it's going to run out of money. And one part that we don't think about, every president is afraid of having the Social Security conversation. They're all afraid of it. You know why? It's a big voter base. And if you don't get it, you're not going to win midterms, you're not going to win elections, you're not going to win any of that stuff. But I'm not running for office. Okay? If you're younger watching this, you're going to pay price for it. I'm talking to the guys that are in their 20s and their 30s. Watch this here. Rob, can you go back and type in when, when FDR came out with Social Security, what was the life expectancy in America? So I'll tell you while he's pulling this up, FDR comes out with Social Security in 1935. Life expectancy at the time was 61 years old. Okay, 61 years old was life expectancy.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Adam]

At that time, okay, 61 years old, right there. Do you know when benefits were paid out? 65 years old. So at the time, benefits were paying out four years after the average American died. So do you know the first time when they came out with Social Security became law? The first time they paid out Social Security was in 1937. 1937. They used to pay Social Security in lump sum. Do you know in 1937 how many people in America got Social Security? You know what the number is? Can you tap in how many people got Social Security the first year they paid it out? It's roughly 54,000 people that got Social Security the first year, give or take. Not 1940. 1937 is the first year they paid it out? How many people in 1937 got Social Security? It's 54,000 people, give or take. Do you know in 1937 when 54,000 people got Social Security? Do you know what the U.S. population was at the time? 53,000 people got Social Security. Do you know what the US population was at the time? The US population at the time was 128 million people. So let's do some math. Vinny, I know you like math.

[Vinnie]

I love it.

[Adam]

Can you type in US population 1937? Tom, you know where I'm going with this. Watch this. Let's do math.

[Pat]

I'm right with you.

[Adam]

So if you do 54,000 people got benefits out of 128 million people. Let's do the math. You know what the number is? It should be.004%. So today what's our population?

[Pat]

340 million people.

[Adam]

So if we apply this into today's math. So let's take this times 340 million people to use FDR's formula today. Only 143,000 people should be getting Social Security today. Do you know how many people got Social Security payments? Can you pull up the number please? What it is?

[Pat]

50 million people.

[Adam]

74 million people are getting Social Security checks today. The number is right there. 74 million people are getting Social Security checks today. So let me get this straight. We started off in 37. Average age was life expectancy was 61. Benefits started at 65. Only 54,000 people got the benefit out of 128 million.0004%. You applied to today on 340 million. It should be only 143,000. Yet 74 million plus. Got it. And if we applied FDR's calculation on when Social Security benefits should start, you know when it should be. Rob, can you do me a favor? What is the life expectancy today of Americans like you guys want to guess? Let's. Let's. What is.

[Vinnie]

What is 72?

[Pat]

More than that.

[Adam]

What is it today? What is it today?

[Pat]

70S, low 80s.

[Adam]

What is it today? 78. Okay. Do you know what that means? If we use the same exact principle of Social Security starts four years later. 61. 65. And that was when we were living 61. Now you go to 78. You know when benefits should start at 84 years old? If we use FDR's formula, Social Security today should start at 84 years old.

[Vinnie]

People are normally dying around.

[Adam]

But by the way, nobody is going to agree to this because no one's going to get elected except for the youth. If you're in your 20s and you're in your 30s, you ought to be campaigning for not wanting any Social Security. But also the debt load is not going to be passed on you because in reality it is. And you're going to be suffering the consequences. So let me get this straight. Median income is not comparable to what it was 20 years ago. 40 years ago, 80 years ago, where a lot of these boomers, they were able to buy a house and paid off within 8, 10, 12 years. By 22, 23, 25 years old, they had a house. It's not the case today. Your income was able to give you decent, you know, life. Not today. On the backs of what? So now they'll say it's the billionaire's fault, it's the rich man's fault. No, it's called out of all the money that America gets in taxes, which is roughly $4.9 trillion of revenue that comes in tax revenue that comes in. Do you know what percentage is used for entitlement programs? 68% of that income is used for entitlement programs. Let me explain to you what this means. You make $490,000 a year. You're rich. You're doing very good for yourself. Your parents guilt trip you on paying 70% of your $490,000 every year to your cousins, to your siblings, to your grandparents, to your aunts, to your uncles. They guilt trip you. But mom, I worked hard for this. 490 doesn't matter. Give it to your cousins, give it to your uncles, give it to your aunts. Are you kidding me? Yes. I worked so hard to make 490. Let's take $490,000 of income times 0.68. $333,000 of it should be given to your friends and family. Do you think that's a good idea? If you don't think that's a good idea, why should it be a good idea for 20 year olds and 30 year olds that are sitting there saying what's going to happen with this if the account's going to deplete in 2033, 2035, are we going to keep adding this 40 trillion debt, 50 trillion debt. Do you know what our told unpaid commitments we have in debt? Not, not national debt. Our national debt is what roughly rob. $38 trillion. Our national debt is $38 trillion. What is our total? Yeah, national debt clock will say what? Let's, let's look at this here. $37.2 trillion. Yeah, but what is our complete debt that we have to all the programs combined right there. What's on the side?

[Pat]

Trillion.

[Adam]

Right there, it's $105 trillion.

[Pat]

Yep.

[Adam]

And that's our commitment to Social Security, commitment to everything else that we have. That's your death. That's your debt to all the young folks that are watching this, that's your unfunded debt. And interest. Forget the $37 trillion. That's it. That you have to pay for. How do you think that money is going to come? You think we have that much oil? You think we have that much bitcoin? You think we have that much reserve? And gold? You think we have that? How much you think we have in gold? You know how much we have in gold? You know it's our gold reserve. How much is our gold reserve? Rob, can you go to our gold reserve? How much do we have in our U. S. Gold reserve? Look at the number. Should be 4 or 500 billion. Well, it's gone up now, but it should be a, A What's the number? What's the dollar amount that we have? Book value. Okay, there it is. Overall, the US Reserve gold is now 757. Fort Knox alone is 388. We have $757 billion. Oh my God. That's so much money. Go back to the debt clock. You know how much that is? Nothing. That's the change. That's the. Did you understand what I just said? The change. The gold would simply pay for the change. So if you go to the amount of debt that we have, we're in a bad situation right now. Yep, bad situation right now. So yeah, you know what? Social Security, let's keep doing it guys. Let's keep doing it. I think the least somebody should have the brass to do raise the age to 75. And by the way, you know how it should be. This is how I would do it. Tom, push back on this and please give the devil's advocate argument to what I'm saying and tear apart my argument. If you're above 60 years old, guess what? Let's pay you off at the age that we have right now. If you're below 60 years old, benefits starts at 75 years old. We don't have a choice but to do this. Benefits start at 75 years old, not 65. I would go to 80. I'd go to 85. We're living longer. But benefits goes back to 75 years old for anybody under the age of 60. Anyone above the age of 60, you're there. Your benefits start at 75. No, 65 years old. Above 60. Okay. Above 6. You get it at 65. Below 60, 75 years old. Tom, thoughts argue against it.

[Tom]

I'm not against it because there needs to be a financial restructuring, but I'll be the devil's advocate on the voter side. Okay? So I recognize that we have a spreadsheet that doesn't work. So we got to do something. But here's going to be the argument. Wait a minute. I didn't work for a company with pensions. I've got some savings. My wife and I have our individual IRAs. We rolled a couple small 401ks over when we were with companies that could get us a 401k. And we got our savings and Social Security. That's what I intended to live on. What do you mean you're just going to pay me a lump sum? You're supposed to pay me by the month. I've been getting statements from the government that said that I'm going to get 2730, $200 a month for the rest of my life. My wife's going to get 1200. That $4000, plus my savings. We're selling the house, we're moving to Florida. We're going to get a condo. Downsize. That was my plan. You can't change the plan on me. You can't pull the rug out from under me. Right now. That is the devil's advocate position. That's the voter. And then my other brain says, well, you got to do it. Greece was going bankrupt, Vinnie. Going bankrupt. Go look up Greece. Austerity riots going back 15 years ago, I believe it was. They said in Greece, we're freaking broke. And we are one of the. That's right. Fifteen years ago, May 2010, almost exactly 15 years ago, the government said we're going broke. Guess what? Some of you folks are going to have to work longer and then you're going to have a little less. It's called austerity. When you get to retirement and they're like, wait a minute. Me sitting on the porch with the Mrs. Having little tiny juice, glass full of wine. The way we live our lives here, you're telling me I got to work longer and I'm going to get less. Yes. And then they revised it, I believe, twice. And the people went bonkers. You know why the people went bonkers? Because also in socialism, you know what you had? You had people like me sitting in a job and you had people like my niece waiting for that. I want to work at the post office for the rest of my life on a good government job, just get paid, hang out. But I can't get my job until my dad retires. And you're telling me now I got to wait for him to retire. So this, it was, it was called a barbell reaction where you have two ends of the spectrum are reacting and then you have the Bar in the middle, the youth went bonkers. Are not going to get basically socialist income and, and 30 hour a week jobs and gets paid their living wage for that. And then the older people said, I get less and I can't retire for another five years. And then you can see what they did. They, they reacted a little bit and they kind of tore up the place.

[Adam]

You think so, Adam, your thoughts?

[Pat]

So I'm going to tell a story, so bear with me. So I've had a. Okay, I've had a rough week. My stepdad died, and we know that. I went to his funeral and he's been sick for quite some time. But I had to have a very crucial conversation with my mom about life and finances and work. And here's what I said to my mom, who's 74, and I love you, mom, and thank you, Vinny, for reminding me to call my mom every day. I said, mom, you're not retiring anytime soon. You need to stay working. You need to make more money, and you need to save that money. I love you. I'm here for you. Whatever your shortfall is, I got you. But you need to stay working because I want you here to age 100, and if you're going to be living for the next 25 years, you don't have enough money to last another five years, you need to keep working. There's no retiring for you. And that is exactly the type of conversation that unfortunately many of you need to have with your parents and your grandparents because they did not save that money. And it's sad and it's true. People always ask me, pat, how did you meet Pat? What's it, you know, the number one reason I'm here, number one reason is because that debt clock, Rob, if you can show that. I saw that in 2015. And I said, what the hell is this? I said, what's going on here? I was at a conference in Vegas, much like we were just at last week. And of course, this is when I was drinking. I'm sitting in the back of the room and I'm hungover, and I'm sitting in the back of the room, and you know how the insurance guys are. It's all older white guys, and they're all doing their thing. And I'm just, I'm sitting in the back in the room and I hear, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's why millennials are going to be broke. I'm like, what? Millennials are going to be broke? What do you mean? They're like, did you not hear anything we just said for the last hour. I was like, no, I'm hungover. It's Vegas. And I go, what do you mean they're going to be broke? I go, what are we going to do about it? They go, nothing, buddy. We're about to retire. That's on you. I was like, what? And I felt inspired to basically start my show. And I talked to Pat. I was like, pat, I want to do this thing. It's 2016 at this point. And I said, all right, I'm going to help millennials save that money. And I realized that this is a major problem. Here's a little fun facts for you. You talked about Social Security. I'm fully on the same page with you, Pat. As far as Social Security, workers per retiree. That's what Social Security is founded on. Workers work. They make the money. The retirees who pay into it get to receive the money. In 1940, after FDR did the new Deal, do you know how many workers per retiree? There were 42 workers per the retiree. Pat, you ready for this? You know how many workers per retiree now? Two. In 1940, there was 42 workers per each retiree. Now there's two. And do you think that's going the right way or the wrong way? Life expectancy then you said was 61. You received benefits at 65. Now you're living to 85. 90. My grandma is 98 years old. She's going to be 100. People are living longer. And then also as far as living longer, birth rates are going lower. The math is not in our favor. Social Security was built for a world that we live to 65. We're all living to 85. 95, 100. No wonder this country is going broke. People criticize me. Adam, focus on Epstein. Gaza Auto pen. We're broke, and we need to focus on saving that money.

[Tom]

It was supposed to be a small supplement for approximately two years. It's become a pension program for 40 years.

[Pat]

Yes, and it's very sad, but true.

[Tom]

Tilt.

[Pat]

This is why I care so much about this.

[Adam]

They have to raise the age.

[Pat]

I agree with you.

[Adam]

They have to raise the age. To the boomers that were listening who got off the podcast when I told you earmuffs. Remember what I said? They have to raise the age. Your kids and grandkids are going to be destroyed for this one day. All right, let's go to the next story. Next story I want to go to is the following. Is Vegas dying? That's the question. Is Vegas dying The numbers came back June of 2024 to June of 2025. The amount of visitors going to Vegas dropped 11%. The amount of people visiting Vegas is down 11%. How's that even possible? The airline booking down visitors, down Vegas tourism, down casinos losing billions. All of that happened or is this the clip? Yes, go ahead and play this clip. Go forward.

[News Anchor]

Hi, Brian and Alan. Well, experts say fewer people are coming to Las Vegas and that largely has to do with money. But international visitors are also down, specifically from Canada and Mexico. But experts say Las Vegas relies a lot on their tourism. So it is hitting this city hard. And Las Vegas welcomed nearly 400,000 fewer visitors this June. That's compared to the same time last year. That's an 11% drop, the first double digit decline since 2021. And it's not just tourists. Convention traffic, a major moneymaker here, is also down. Those big conferences and expos bring in high spending of visitors and the cost of visiting adds up fast. Between reservations, resort fees and service charges, vacationing here can be more expensive. Even the city's airport is feeling the impact with passenger traffic falling more than 6% last month.

[Adam]

That's insane when you hear that, right? So now think about this. That's going on with Vegas taking a hit the way that they have. Then reports come with alcohol. I'm going to combine these two together a little bit. Go to the reports with alcohol. Rob, I don't know if you have that or not. It says why are Americans. Why Americans are rethinking. Let me go to what page that is. What page is that on, Rob?

[Pat]

Page eight.

[Adam]

Page eight. Okay. Why Americans are rethinking drinking alcohol. And there's a poll that came up from Gallup. You have to see this number here. Okay. If you show the chart, Rob. Gallup poll conducted in July found that 53% of U.S. adults now believe moderate drinking is bad for their hair. A record high up from 28% in 2015. 28% in 2015. It nearly 2 xed with 2/3 of 18 to 34 year olds viewing it as unhealthy. 2/3 of 18 to 34 Year olds. What were you doing at 18 to 34 drinking every day? Yeah. So viewing it as unhealthy compared to 4 out of 10 in 2015. And while other adults are concerned rose half Americans 55 or older agreeing up to up from 2 in 10. Oh my God, that's nearly 3x. And the shift is driven by grown evidence that alcohol consumption, even in moderation, leads to negative Health outcomes, including being a leading cause of cancer, as noted by health professionals. Lydia Gallup. Lydia Saad Gallup's director, U. S Research, stated, older adults have lived through an era where there was more of a mixed message about alcohol. So it may take them a little bit longer to absorb this information. Look at that chart right there. Lowest. Okay. Lowest number. So when you combine these two stories. Why? Why did I combine these two stories? So when you think about the youth, today is a fun weekend for them. Going to Vegas like it was for us. No. No, it's not. Do they want to go watch the shows? No. Do they need to go to Vegas to gamble? No. There's an app for that. Do they need to go to Vegas to meet a girl? No. There's Tinder for that. We're in LA with one of our guys. Don't mention the name. Don't mention the name. I'm not mentioning name one of the guys. Like, I want to see if the quality of Tinder is going to be good here in LA. It's 11 o' clock at night.

[Pat]

The talent.

[Vinnie]

Talent, yeah.

[Adam]

The next day he was upset. He's like, yeah, it's not as good as I thought. It's better in Miami or it's better in Florida. Right. Remember that conversation he said his exact.

[Tom]

Words were, I'm disappointed by the caliber of women out here.

[Adam]

So guess what?

[Pat]

And it was not me.

[Adam]

For the record here, guys, what's the. Well, you came back at 2:30 in the morning. But that's a different conversation. That's true. So. So, but, but you were on Grindr. But, but no, he wasn't on Grindr. Was bumble.

[Pat]

But.

[Adam]

So.

[Pat]

So while I have what is called real life friends.

[Adam]

But here's the point. The point I'm making to you is the following. The. The guy that said that is in his 20s. Late 20s.

[Vinnie]

Yes.

[Adam]

Okay. May have just turned 30. And he's saying, look at the market where I'm at. Why would I need to go to Vegas?

[Vinnie]

True.

[Adam]

Why would I need to go to Vegas to gamble? Why would I need to go to Vegas to meet girls? Why would I need to get to Vegas to. For what? For the Raiders? That's eight games a year. Eight games a year. Maybe I go to Vegas, Do I want to go watch, you know, the Bellagio show, the O that. Want to go watch the Blue man show? Do I want to go watch any of that stuff? I have access to all of that stuff on YouTube. Okay. I have to save some money. Prices are going up for me. I have. My income's not going up as much as it should. I need more savings. And then with alcohol, I mean, more and more and more people today are obsessed with health. When I was interviewing Chip Wilson ten years ago, the founder of Lululemon, funny guy. We're sitting there. We're somewhere in. By the water. I don't know if we're. Newport Beach, Santa Monica. I'm sitting there. He says, in the next 20 years, everyone's going to be in shape. I said, why do you say that? He says, because everyone's going to wear smart clothes. I said, what's smart clothes? He says, the clothes are going to tell you stand up, walk around. Temperature is this. Go over there, do this, you know, drink water, go eat this time to eat something. Don't eat too much. This is. He says, the entire data is going to be given to you where everyone's going to be smarter when it comes down to health. I had a friend of mine, neighbor, that came and visited us yesterday, and he's telling me about the difference between lifespan and health span. Okay, lifespan is how long you live, but maybe you don't Enjoy the last 15 years of your life. Health span is how long you live while you're healthy. Everybody today is concerned about how long they live a healthy life. So, man, it's a bad time for Vegas. Think about it used to be hot, but it's a bad time for Vegas. Tom, your thoughts on the story?

[Tom]

Well, I think it's absolutely correct. And what I look at is in preparing for this, I sat back and I just had a quick synapse in the old brain, and I'm like, wow, you know what? I know it's just my feedback, but when I also talk to Kim about it in Instagram, I look at how many influencer out there is talking about health. Gary Brecht is talking about health. I'll mention him. I won't mention a bunch of other names, but we all know who they are. And some of them are out there just, you know, selling the latest program like they've always done. But there's an awareness on there about health. And there's also been an awareness about diet. And guess what? The younger generation right now, with the cost of food, where it went, now eggs have come back down and we can stop the egg jokes about, oh, I've got eggs, she'll date me, she thinks I'm rich. So you've got a big awareness about health and you also have a cost issue. And I think that you have the vanity that is on Instagram about look good, feel good. And that vanity leads to bad side of health. Like, oh, just take Ozempic, take the fat shot. What's the worst that could happen to you? It turns out, apparently, you know, allegedly an awful lot of side effects, apparently that are physiological side effects to take into zempic and that aren't so good. And then there's the other side of it. Well, maybe I don't need to eat a Big Mac. Maybe I don't need to eat, you know, a big grease bomb like that, a big rib. And people, people are thinking about it and people have been thinking about sugar and coke. And you finally have folks talking about soda machines in schools are still there, but there's a lot of folks out there that are pushing for it. And now you bring all that youth together that is having this awareness. And socially speaking, they don't want to go to Vegas, go on a bender. And they can watch all these programs elsewhere and it's expensive. And so they sit there. I can barely afford housing, so where's my disposable income? They're not spending on cable, I guess. They're not spending on alcohol. I guess it's all coming back down. I think there's a budget part of it and a health part of it.

[Vinnie]

And you make a great point. When we were in Vegas, me and Adam were sharing a room and while we were cuddling and I was a big screw, we went to the Mini Barney. That's our secret to the mini bar. If you did, you see, you guys were in a different room. But if you move anything or try to put personal items inside the mini bar and the sensor goes off, it's a 50 surcharge. Okay. And look at.

[Tom]

Yeah, like if you brought a. Like you had a bottle of water and you want to put it in a fridge, like you would do it. The Marriott Courtyard. Don't do that in Vegas and bump something.

[Vinnie]

Yeah. Bucket of Coors Light 290. If you want to go buy the pool and all that stuff. It's. It's unbelievably priced. They need to do a major shift. Maybe they could go to Beth David Consulting and have you guys talk to them. But you know, I realized too, when you said you don't need the girl, like everything's online. You could swipe and get your girls. Did you find it weird in our hotel when you walked around, there was a camera and there was just a dealer and they're gambling around the world. Why do you need to even go to Vegas. Drake does it all. These guys are at home winning millions, losing millions.

[Pat]

You don't need to.

[Tom]

Did you see the big glass enclosed stage that was filmed everywhere with four games going on with all the identically dressed dealers, men and girls there was typical.

[Vinnie]

The guys were hot too. Like, don't.

[Tom]

They were all there. That's right, hot.

[Vinnie]

No, but, but I mean, why.

[Tom]

Even including that roommate you had.

[Vinnie]

But. And mind you, as somebody that stopped drinking two over two years ago, it's. I think it's fantastic. And especially with the drinking, because you know what? When you eat too much food, what do people say? Yeah, I was full. I need to lay down. When you drink too much alcohol, you know what they say? It's alcohol poisoning. It's poison. So good.

[Adam]

Good, Adam.

[Pat]

Well, shout out to Vinnie hasn't drank in how many years?

[Vinnie]

Two years, two months.

[Pat]

And he's been a good influence on me because I think I've cut down my drinking.

[Vinnie]

90% been sober.

[Pat]

I'm not worried about that guy. Let's work. Focus on us. You know how they say I'm two years?

[Tom]

You're down to five martinis a day. That's incredible, Tom.

[Pat]

You drink fake alcohol to look cool.

[Vinnie]

I've seen Tom put it down, bro. You don't know Tom.

[Pat]

And then he does his on the way here. Then he does his bubbler. Exactly. Tom's drunk now.

[Tom]

Were we covering a story?

[Pat]

Tom, you're. You're collecting retirement in two years. Relax.

[Vinnie]

Wow.

[Pat]

Oh, okay, let me. This guy just called me on Grindr. I say that you're. I. I say his actual age.

[Adam]

Whoa.

[Pat]

Let's not do this, guys.

[Tom]

Well, one's an observation. The other's discrimination, okay?

[Pat]

Discrimination against old gay people. Let's focus. Let's stay on track here before Tom does his mailer handy. Here we go. So you know what they say. What happens. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens if nobody goes to Vegas? You know where people are going instead of Vegas these days? Miami. I'm not sure if you've noticed. Miami's up, up, up, up. Shout out to Mayor Francis Suarez. Why do you go to Vegas anyways? It's for three things. To gamble, drink, or party in whatever order you want. Gamble, drink, party. You can do all that in Miami. But Miami has one thing that Vegas does not have. The beach. The sun. The fun. You don't have to go to Miami and drink and party. Go work out on the beach, go on a boat, go on a yacht ride, have A great time. Miami is the new Vegas. New York is done. LA is done. It's all about Miami. Look where we live in sunny South Florida. You go to Miami.

[Adam]

He's kidding. You go to 11, you go to Bodega.

[Pat]

Miami.

[Vinnie]

Miami, Miami, Miami.

[Tom]

Traffic there, there's fountain, go to 11.

[Pat]

Go to bo has not been cool since the hangover. And the little Asian dude jumped out of the trunk like Tom did with the little ding.

[Tom]

And there was a tiger in the bathroom.

[Adam]

What's his name? Carlos. Carlos.

[Pat]

That's true, baby Carlos.

[Adam]

So baby Carlos. Yeah. No, I mean, look, the, the reality of it is this is what's going on with Vegas. It's not the same. We were there. We were there last week. We brought, we try to help Vegas. We brought nearly 10,000 people there. And I actually like going to Vegas because I go to a couple restaurants every time I' there and you know, I've watched almost every one of the shows. There's good memories of being in Vegas, but it ain't, it ain't, it ain't what it was before. We do our events in Vegas at the MGM grand arena and we get our guys to be locked and focused to not go and gamble and stay locked in for three, four, five days and we're able to do. We've been doing that for many, many years, but unfortunately it's not what it wants.

[Tom]

But it's helping the city. They're buying lots of room nights, they're paying for rush.

[Adam]

That's our event. That's our event. Last week.

[Pat]

What was the, what was the top picture?

[Adam]

Top picture guy. Hummer, mechanic, baby.

[Vinnie]

Look at this guy.

[Adam]

63 Bravo. I had a certification called Hotel 8, which is you try to pull trucks out of the mud with an LMTV or an fmtv. That's what I did before.

[Pat]

Somehow, some way, solo in a truck. 20, 25. This is your event. Given the keynote speech.

[Adam]

This was last week.

[Pat]

Pretty cool, Pat.

[Adam]

We had a very good event. It was such a special event. It was phenomenal. It was phenomenal. I showed a picture.

[Pat]

Shout out to php.

[Adam]

I showed a picture of Tom, one of the all time greatest pictures. Very emotional picture of town.

[Pat]

I could reenact it right now if you'd like.

[Adam]

Don't do it. Don't do it.

[Tom]

Making a point. Just making a point.

[Adam]

All right, so let's go, let's go through here to the next story. Vinnie, I'm coming to you with this one and it's probably going to be our last story. New Jersey parents Applaud new law that could send them to prison for their children's crimes. You got to get the parents involved. All right, so let's see what the story is. We've talked about this on the podcast here for the last two or three years. This specific story. Rob, is that the clip?

[Pat]

Yes.

[Adam]

Go for it.

[Vinnie]

Parents, if they don't prevent their kids from breaking the law, they could essentially face fines up to $2,000 and jail time up to 90 days in jail. Some parents are outraged, say this sets a dangerous precedent. You know, thanks to cell phones and YouTube, we're seeing more scenes like this play out across the country. It's what Gloucester, New Jersey, found itself dealing with last summer when more than 500 teens arrived at a city party, started a brawl, and needed over 100 police to calm the situation. The mayor of Gloucester, addressing this recently, says he may have a solution.

[Pat]

We have a juvenile crisis in this country. This is not unique to Gloucester Township, but rather is symptomatic of a larger.

[Tom]

Larger societal juvenile crisis.

[Pat]

Now, and I'll tell you, I don't have all the answers, but one possible answer is to hold parents accountable for their children.

[Adam]

What do you think about that?

[Vinnie]

Finally, this is what the hell's been missing. Okay, let's put aside everything that Trump's doing with D.C. and Chicago. I had a whole thing I was gonna get into about D.C. and Chicago and the horrible leadership just from the mayor side and all that nonsense. But, Adam, we talked about this, too, about parents that have children that do terrorist crap in this country or mass shootings or anything. You know what? Where were the parents? I forgot which state it was that Michigan. Michigan actually had the mom and dad. I love that you remembered it, that the parent in jail time. You live your guns out, you're irresponsible, and your kid does something stupid. I'm sorry, what is this one, Tommy?

[Tom]

Read it right there. James and Jennifer, just read it.

[Vinnie]

Yeah. The parents of the Oxford High School shooter, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were sentenced to 10 to 15 years each for the involuntary manslaughter in connection to the 2021 school shooting. Okay. When kids run the street, mind you. Is it just me, Rob, or have you been seeing. All I'm seeing is videos like this of kids running in the streets. They're doing drifting. They're beating the hell out of each other, they're shooting at each other, and zero respect for the law. It all starts at the home. You know what kept me out? Yes, I did a lot of stupid stuff, but you Know what kept me from actually losing everything? My knowing that my dad, like, oh, my God, my dad passed, My dad found out. I'm pretty sure you're in the same boat. If my dad found out or my mom said those, those six words, wait until your dad comes home. That was the fear. Wait until your father gets home, bro, that stopped me from doing everything. Okay, if the parents don't teach the discipline and the odor and all that stuff, it all goes to haywater. It's not the school's job, by the way. It's not the cop's job. It's yours. Parents need to step up, and I guarantee you, if that goes into law, the crime rate, especially with the youth, is going to drop in Jersey like that.

[Tom]

You know what's very interesting about this? It's very, very interesting. Insurance companies have something called subrogation. So in other words, your car gets hit in a parking lot by somebody and you walk out from the store, oh, my gosh, my car's been hit. People said, hey, it's this guy. This old man backed into you. Your insurance company will quickly get your car fixed, but then they are going to go to the other guy and his insurance company called subrogation and to get the money back because he's responsible for it. You don't have to do that. You know, Liberty Mutual or whoever you have takes care of your car. Well, guess what? If an underage child breaks a window on your house and under your homeowner's insurance, you get it fixed, do you know what they're going to send you? They are going to send you a questionnaire and they will call. If that child is under 18, they will call the other child's parents. They will attempt to find a. A parent or guardian and make them responsible for that window. This is the way it works behind the scenes. So in the insurance industry. So why should it be so shocking that now people are trying to say, okay, well, if your kid goes out there, commits a misdemeanor and costs the company, the. The city some money and things like this, an act of vandalism, then you should pay for it. And if you're going to be completely responsible and leave guns out there, then just like these people in Michigan, you're going to do time. I love it because it's. You are responsible for your kids.

[Adam]

Adam, thoughts?

[Pat]

So I upset a couple of people last week or when I said that you should hit your kids more often.

[Adam]

Hitch. Like hitch.

[Vinnie]

No, no, no.

[Pat]

Don't hook them up.

[Tom]

Hit them. Oh, gosh hit him.

[Pat]

Not Hitch, not Will Smith. No, but sometimes. Did you hit that? Tom, you're being very inappropriate. Tom. Tom, what do you mean by did you hit that?

[Tom]

Keep going.

[Adam]

No, Tom, explain Adam, one more story.

[Vinnie]

Go hit like the kid. Go for it.

[Pat]

I'll start over. I made some. Rob, you're laughing.

[Tom]

No, don't start over. Just pick up where you left off.

[Pat]

Tom, I'm pick you up and drop you off where I found you at the old age nursing home.

[Vinnie]

Well, you can't get on the car.

[Adam]

You have to Uber that.

[Vinnie]

You'd have to Uber them.

[Pat]

That's right. Unbelievable. Anyway, hope you're.

[Tom]

Hope you're wearing Nikes.

[Pat]

Speaking of hitting your kids, sometimes you got to hit your parents, and sometimes you got to hit the people that are responsible for how horrible the kids are. As much as Tom is being annoying today, his kids are absolutely incredible. He's a good parent. Some parents need to be held accountable for how horrible they are. We told a story last week. Some gangster ass lady with tattoos, she's going to jail for some reason because her kid did some murder, and they're holding her accountable. I. I was like, oh, if your kid shoots up a school, without question, you go to jail. What do you mean the parent didn't do this? How? It's like, I don't care. Turns out, yeah, this is the lady right here. Oh. Turns out she didn't raise the best kid models. Oh, no. Shocker. Sometimes the parents have to be held responsible for the actions of their kids. And sometimes the kids do such bad things, the parents need to be doubly responsible. Throw them up, lock them away, put them in jail. Your kids are shitty. You're a horrible person. Everyone's going to jail, straight to jail.

[Adam]

Kids are not shitty. Let me tell you, kids are trouble. Parents teach bad habits to the kids. There's more caught than taught in parenting, okay? Kids have a shot in life if you raise them well. I've met so many kids that are so impressive. Then I want to meet the parents who tell the parents. Great job. Okay, Vinny just said something powerful. I hope he tweets it out. These six words, make America safer. Okay? Wait until your dad comes home. Those six words, make America safer. Unfortunately, when the number of single mothers right now and children being born without a father, you can't use that line. Wait until your father comes home. Wait until your father comes home. You can't use that line. It's a very powerful line to make America safer. Last story here. Tom and Adam. This is the one you guys wanted to talk about. So I'm going to come to you here. Can you guess how many retire with $5 million? Here's a hint. Almost no one. 99.9% fall short. Okay, so let me read the story to you. 5 million bucks is the number that we're talking about. Fewer than 1/10 of 1% of retirees have $5 million or more, meaning only about one in a thousand reach this mark, while only 3% achieve the $1 million milestone, according to analysis by Employee Benefit Research Institute using Federal Reserve survey data. Data from DQYDJ shows 4.8 million U.S. households, or 3.7% of a net worth of $5 million or more in 2023, including non liquid assets like home equity and businesses which may not directly support retirement income. A $5 million net egg allow nest egg allows a 4% annual withdrawal rate yielding $200,000 yearly before taxes, providing resilience against inflation, market swings and health expenses. The article highlights that reaching $5 million requiring high earning careers, disciplined savings, wise investing and smart business decisions or luck with tips, including working with a financial advisor as a good one can help you map out a realistic plan stress test against market swings and adjusted as your life changes. Adam.

[Pat]

Tom, you can go first or I'm just pulling something up.

[Tom]

Well, this doesn't surprise me. Even in the areas where you have very, very dramatic appreciation in homes, the average American, you know, through even, even an AIRA that was pegged to Nvidia and Apple sequentially, you know, you're not going to retire with this amount of money. The average American retires with far less, which is the savings crisis that we have in America, which is also related to what we were talking about, Social Security. Social Security has become a pension plan. So it's sort of interesting to me. They come out with this story, how many Americans retire with 5 million less than you think? What they should be saying is how many retire with a million? It's less than you think. To really put it in perspective, to see what's there because you know, $50,000, 20 years, that's a million, you know, and so if you retire and that's four grand a month. A little over four grand a month. Yeah, that goes quick. And so the headline to me kind of, you know, is, is making a point and trying to get clicks. But the real issue is just how many Americans don't have the basic savings to even supplement Social Security. And now Social Security has got to change that we already talked about.

[Adam]

Adam.

[Pat]

Okay, you're not going to be a millionaire. You, you're also definitely not going to be a billionaire because the odds are not in your favor. How many billionaires are in America? Thousand or so. How many millionaires are in America? There's 23 million millionaires. The percent of people that retire with a million dollars in the bank. 3%. The pretend of people that retire with $5 million in the bank. 0.01%. Now, if you ask the millennial, an average dude, he's 30 years old, are you going to be a millionaire? It's like, of course 50% of millennials think they're going to be millionaires. 72% of Gen Z think that they're going to be millionaires. You're not. However, what country gives you the best chance to be a millionaire? It's not even a question. It's the United States. The problem with most people is they don't play the long game. You know the average age when someone comes a millionaire? Do you know it? 60 years old. Everyone wants to get rich quick. Put this microwave hustle society. The reality is you'd rather look rich than actually be wealthy. The only way to be wealthy is work, earn, save, invest, and do that year in and year out and don't stop. It might take you a decade, it might take you a few decades, but if you do it the right way and save that money, you will become a millionaire. But not pipe dreaming that you're just going to become a billionaire one day. It's not going to happen.

[Adam]

In regards to what you're saying, Billionaire, no.

[Pat]

There's a 3% chance you become a millionaire. There's a 0.01 chance you become a billionaire. I know.

[Adam]

How many people do you.01. Yeah.

[Pat]

Less than that.

[Adam]

Sorry, less.

[Pat]

0.0.

[Adam]

1.00.

[Pat]

Correct. Correct. Correct.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pat]

0.01% chance.

[Adam]

That.

[Pat]

Exactly.

[Vinnie]

I, I can do it. Tom, help me out here. When you said that, I went, wait.

[Pat]

A minute, I'm not good with math, but are you serious? But you think that 0.01 is a good number in your favor?

[Vinnie]

No, but not to be a billionaire. It's not.

[Pat]

I mean.001 of having $5 million. The chances of becoming a billionaire are non.

[Adam]

Existent. Is it? It's 0.000.

[Pat]

Okay, I forgot to carry the, the.

[Adam]

The decimal 1 and 3 and 8. But, but here's, here's the point is, listen, nobody becomes billionaires. This is, this is the part to be thinking about when it comes down to this, okay? It's there's nothing worse for you to do than you compare yourself to somebody else without you willing to do what that person has done or is willing to do. It's very simple. You know, we were having a conversation. Are three of our highest paid employees in a company are all in sales? All of them here, they work for BED David Consulting. And if you're somebody that's in sales and you have experience with SaaS, software sales or you've done consulting sales, go to beddavid.com apply for the company. Okay, but David Consulting, these three guys are all above a half a million and they're all going to make a million dollars net. They've only been with us for a couple years. It's not like they've been with us for a long time.

[Vinnie]

I just applied by the way.

[Adam]

But, but you know, when. Oh my God, why don't I get paid more money? Why don't I do this, why don't I do that?

[Tom]

Guess what some math requires.

[Adam]

It's, it's, it's not some math requires. They're taking client calls on Sundays, they're doing stuff on Saturday, they're working till 8 o' clock at night. They're, they're choosing to go above and beyond to make the kind of money they want to make.

[Pat]

Great.

[Adam]

Don't be upset. I can't believe that guy drives that car. No, don't be upset. That's that job they chose to take. The, the one of the guys at Jubilee asked me a question. He says, how do you feel about nurses? I said to me, they're in the top 10 most honorable professions in America. Do you think it's fair that nurses don't make as much money as hedge fund people do? I said, that's not how life works. Hedge fund solves a bigger problem and nurses is not a high paying job, period. If you want to go compare the two, the market pays better for somebody that's able to make financial analysis. And it's not about financial feelings. Not feelings. It's what the market pays better for. But if you love being a nurse, guess what? Be a nurse. Yesterday I asked a question from my oldest son, dropping them off and I made a video. And I said, vinnie, check this out. And he we, yeah, we're driving. I'm like, tico. I just asked him, I'm like, maybe this guy wants to be a teacher one day. I don't know. I said, tico, would you want to be a teacher? Oh, absolutely not. Why not? He said, I'm so Sick and tired of these kids. Okay, you're a kid, but he's like.

[Vinnie]

A 70 year old kid.

[Adam]

He's 80 years old.

[Vinnie]

He's 80.

[Adam]

You know what it is? And Tom, you're laughing because you know, that's his personality.

[Vinnie]

He's not 13.

[Tom]

I've had these conversations with.

[Adam]

I know. So, but, but the point is what you choose to do. Now, let's go the other way around. Let's say you chose to be a nurse. Let's say you chose to be a. Whatever the job is, a supporting cast, hr whatever you're doing. How can you now maximize your earnings potential to later on have a few million dollars 40 years later, 30 years later? Be better with your money. Be frugal. Start investing early. Create better habits. Fight to get equity in the company. Work your butt off to move up. So maybe you're going to participate in bonuses ltip all these other situations and then you're putting yourself in a. And don't make some dumb mistakes. Avoid the alcohol, avoid the drugs, avoid the bad, stupid things that can potentially cost you so much money. If you don't do those things, you put yourself in a position to be financially free. Right? That's what you end up doing. Now, having said that, for somebody else, that is, you're going for all the marbles and you're working in ways that nobody else is. Yeah, you could have an expectation of. We were just in Arkansas visiting a business. We went to this place called Hot Springs, Arkansas and we visited this two business owners, Sean and, and, and Morgan. And we're there and we're driving around, we're meeting these 250 employees in their city. They're rock stars. 250 employees work for this company. Okay. They're, they went from being regular guys to building a business that's probably worth right now $150 million. And they're probably going to be able to build this company potentially to half a billion, two billion dollar business. They're at that level now what they've gotten themselves that, that there's a possibility with that, but that doesn't mean everybody is capable of doing that. Nor do they want to. Nor do they want if you don't want to. Also don't be envy of the person that becomes that, okay? That's the key. If you don't want to, don't be envious of the guy that becomes that as well, because that person wants to. It's a very big difference. Anyways, Vinnie, we're very honored to know that we Do a podcast with somebody that's about to be a billionaire yourself.

[Vinnie]

I appreciate it.

[Adam]

And the way you dress today, honestly, today dress like he owns all of Fort Lauderdale. He's running for mayor. He's it works. By the way, if you ran for mayor in Fort Lauderdale, it would be the funniest campaign. One of you guys is going to run for mayor. You, Tom? Definitely not. Adam. Adam's going to run mayor Miami. But for a lot of the one of you guys, it's going to be interesting. 20 years, guys. Today's what? Friday. First week. We did three days. We did it. Remember, remember, remember the hats. If you didn't get them, these two are going fast and it's not a lot of them. So if you wanted one person just ordered a bunch of them for the entire office. Go to vtmerch.com place the order with the different ones that we have. One is a speckled one, snack back. The other one is the gradient snapback black and then the white gold one which is pretty sick as well. Any of these, go to vtmerch.com place your order and add a future looks bright shirt with it. God bless everybody. Have a great weekend. We'll do it again next week. Take care. Bye bye. Bye bye.

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