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Fun delivered right to your home with target circle360. Membership required, subject to terms and conditions. Applies to orders over $35. Did you ever think you were made for me, Adam? What's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here. You are one of one my son's right about. I think I said this. Yo. Yeah, okay. All right. So a lot of stories. Just this morning, the big beautiful bill passed Speaker Johnson. All of them are giving the speech. We'll talk about that. A lot of thoughts on that one right there. I want to read a story to some of you guys parents. I'm not going to say earmuffs. I'm going to say be by yourself because you're probably going to get emotional. Last night my wife is telling me, babe, read this Instagram thing and she sends it to me, was sent to her by Merall. And I'm sitting there reading it. I'm like, are you why you haven't made read something like this at 10:30 at night? I have to read it to all of you parents. You're going to love it. And then I got something I want to introduce to you guys that has to do with that, which I think the timing is perfect. Trump says Biden didn't destroy the country, accuses other treasonous thugs. Instead, he actually was complimentary about Biden would never open the border. He said the Biden we know would never open the border. Dan Bongino drops truth bombs about FBI assassination investigation with Epstein and he says Epstein didn't kill himself. Somebody killed him. Now Epstein killed himself. He committed suicide. And I mean, obviously I have a lot of thoughts. Vinnie has no thoughts on that, but some of us have some thoughts on it.
Adam
Okay.
Pat
Vinny Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with claims of white persecution. Keep that word in mind. Ambushes. Okay? That's the new word. Remember insurrection. That nobody had ever used that word, insurrection. Remember all those words that you all of a sudden learn, like they teach you vocabulary. You're about to learn the word ambushes by so many different outlets. Rob, I'm sure you have that video and the story as well. We'll cover that here. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough had a rough, just a rough day. Man, you got to feel bad for this guy, but maybe you don't. Joe Scarborough forced to explain why he thought Biden was at his best year. And he was confronted over and over and over again. It was uncomfortable. So was Jake Tapper by Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly showed to the market why she's one of the best journalists in the world. You don't have to like her, but you have to respect the fact that she's one of the best journalists in the world. So talented. So talented on what she did. And we'll definitely show that as well. The View had a meltdown over Tapper's Biden cover up. Slam CNF for hawking it. And John Stewart wasn't even happy about it. John Stewart said this guy's just out there trying to sell books. And by the way, it's not really. The book is not, isn't doing that well. If you go look at the reviews, I don't know if I see a lot of good over there. Mortgage rates move above 7% after Moody's downgrade of US credit. Israel preparing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities even as Trump tries to negotiate the deal. And just is it last night or this morning? Just this morning, two people, two Israeli folks were killed at the Israeli embassy. And you see the video of this man running around screaming, hollering. This just happened, I think, this morning.
Adam
In Washington, D.C. in Washington, in America.
Pat
We're not talking about another country in Washington, dc. Rob, I don't know if you have that clip. We won't show the shooting, but we'll show you the clip. Ron DeSantis fall from grace. He'll completely crash. He completely crashed out to the ground. This is from the Guardian. And there's some accusations with this 10 million dollar stuff that he and his wife are a part of. I have some opinions on. That's not going to be what you think. I'm going to say but I have some opinions on that. AOC seen as face of Democratic Party and it's not even close. AOC is now the face of the Democratic Party. Biden official knew about downplayed my myocarditis risk from COVID 19 vaccine Senate report alleges you have to see the hearing on rfk. Is that the one with RFK rap? If we have that RFK one as well.
Vinnie
Peter McCullough. Peter McCullough as well.
Pat
I got to get some clips of him. We'll show that. Make sure you send it his way so he has some business news. Remember when we said State Farm California approved that their rates would increase by 17? They're not happy about it. They said they need a 30% which could cause State Farm to possibly leave the great state of California and go to a different place. Imagine being the fourth biggest economy in the world and people don't want to do business with you. Why do you think they don't want to do business with you? Majority U.S. companies say they have to raise prices due to Trump's tariffs. Home Depot says it will keep prices low despite pressures from Trump Tariff. Jaguar, remember Jaguar? They did this ad that we were all supposed to turn transgender and buy their new car.
Adam
Oh no, I did.
Pat
Well, we know you did, but I'm just saying most people. Right. Jaguar says it has no intention of manufacturing cars in the US and have to now change their campaign because that last campaign they had didn't do that well with the new car that came up. Rob, if I don't, if you don't have that story with a maybe combine it with the other one. Did he carry pills? This is a little weird. People magazine, this is coming from People magazine. Did he carry pills with Obama's face on them?
Vinnie
Weird.
Pat
Ex assistant testifies Weird. It's a little weird. I don't know what it is.
Vinnie
And they have some they still familiar with.
Pat
Yeah, it's a little, little weird. But you think two huge names on the verge of quitting CBS News amid Trump's lawsuit. Gayle King's 13 year career at CBS News may finally be coming to an end. And you know, Tom's got some thoughts on that. Joe Rogan left, shocked by sinister Mark Zuckerberg's brainwashing experiment. That warped minds of 700, 000 people. I don't know much about that story but we will definitely see what that clip is about.
Vinnie
And Pat, just not to cut you off. So the, the shooting of the two Israeli embassy staffers was last night.
Pat
Last night, not this morning. Yes. Okay. And then South Africa will talk about that when he. When the president's like, oh, really? You don't do anything to white. There's not a. Can you play that clip? Can you turn off the lights? You have to see what this guy does there. And those are some of the stories. Now let me read you the story that I want to read you before we start the podcast. Parents just realize it may get you a bit emotional because it definitely got me thinking about certain things. All right, so let me play this to you. Let me read this to you for what it's worth. Let me see where this one is. It was a boom, boom, boom. All right, let me go from here. I'll find it from this.
Vinnie
Are you trying to make us cry?
Pat
Let me tell you, man. You know, there's something about family, right? There's something about family, beautiful families, you know, people you love. This story is sent to me yesterday.
Vinnie
Okay?
Pat
It says, I'm 85 years old and somehow I woke up in my 36 year old body. Okay, just for one day. This time I knew what to treasure. Let's go to the next one. So she's 85 years old, wakes up in 36 year old body. I hear a tiny voice before I open my eyes. Mama, wake up. I blink. He's standing there. Bed, head, pajama pants. Too short. My little boy. He's small again. Go to the next one. He climbs into my bed, laughing. He wraps his arm around my neck. I used to check the clock, rush the morning. But not today. Today I hold him tight. Long and deep. Go. Next, I walk to the mirror. No gray, no wrinkles, no aches in my knees. Just me, 36, tired but strong. Go ahead, Rob. My husband is in the kitchen making coffee. He smiles when he sees me. Younger, softer, so familiar. I wrap my arms around him. This time I don't let go quickly. We used to rush past each other. Today I hold him close and whisper, thank you. The kitchen floor is sticky. Lego underfoot, socks on the counter. I used to sigh, feel behind, get frustrated. But now I stand still and just soak it all in. My little son chatters all through breakfast. Stories about superheroes and questions about monsters. This time I listen, really listen. No phone, no distractions, just him. All his beautiful, curious voice. In the car, he sings loudly, kicks the seat, spills a snack. I used to snap. Now I smile and enjoy the moment. Because one day the seat will be empty and I'll miss the noise. In the evening, I pick up the phone and I hear my mom's voice. Tears fill my eyes. Before I said a word. I forget how much comfort lives in her voice. We talked about nothing. The weather, what she is cooking. But it means everything. I tell her I love her again and again. I don't want to hang up at bedtime. I didn't rush. He picks his favorite superhero book, the one I've read a hundred times tonight. I read every single word, slowly. And then I ask one more. He nods. I don't want this night to end. He whispered, you're the best, mom. I hold his small hand, kiss his soft cheek, whisper how proud I am. His lashes flutter. His chest rises and falls. And I just watch soaking it in. Tomorrow I will be 85 again. And he will be grown busy bigger out in the world. But tonight I got this precious moment. And now I know. This was joy, this was love. This was everything. If you're living in the moment now, don't rush through it. The little hand in yours, the bedtime stories, the mess, the noise. It all matters more than you know. When you read a story like this, man.
Vinnie
Jesus.
Adam
I mean, we want to start us off by crying.
Vinnie
Rob's a mess. I love you. Tom's a mess. Everybody's.
Pat
Let me tell you the fact that.
Adam
Tom isn't actually crying right now. He is. I see it.
Pat
I read this. I'm reading. You know what's crazy? You guys sent me this video last night with, you know, this lady that hit the ice agent, and she's singing this song, right? I know it's going to make no sense, but if you play this here, I'm going to tell you how all this matches up together. Go and play this.
Tom
You are now facing a federal charge, though.
Pat
Are you afraid of what's going to transpire? Now you fight all quickly.
Adam
You fight on.
Pat
You fight on when you're gone. So, I mean, how did she not respond? Let me tell you what happened, Tico. Yesterday. School's coming to an end, so they're doing swing and all this stuff. So he's been out in the sun for eight hours. His body is red, so he can't put a shirt on. And we have this, this. This aloe that you put, but it's old. Said, take him to Publix. And that's the moment you send it. So I'm playing this. He said, what is she doing? I said, watch. I'm gonna sing it in Publix in.
Adam
Front of everybody for you.
Pat
We're in the Publix, Tico. Gets embarrassed. I am screaming this song off the top of my lungs. And he is hugging. You know how he pushes, like to not do anything. We had the most incredible 30 minute drive going there, fooling around, bought some carrot juice, finally found the aloe. I asked this lady, I need some aloe gel. The lady takes me and gives me coconuts and aloe. I didn't say I want coconut, I want aloe. The gel, right? We come back, we're laughing. Then we're in the house, we're sitting there, he's showing me all this stuff from Stranger Times, Stranger Time, whatever, Stranger Things, the shows. And he's like, but this and this. And I'm like, dude, I really don't want to hear this stuff. And I'm just listening to him say the stories. And we're in bed, it's 10:15, 10:30. He's still talking. Altico, you got to go to sleep. Then I go to my bed. Then Jennifer gives me this. I read this. The moment I read it, I get up, I'm like, dude, I got to go. She, where you going? I go back to Tico. I said, finish your story about Stranger Things. What was it? And he sits up, dude, he was so excited to tell me all about it. And he says, will you watch it with me when we go for vacation? And all this other stuff. Is that not awesome, bro? Like when you get some messages like this that inspire the hell out of you and just kind of. We're 46, 47, Vinnie, the famous line.
Vinnie
Yeah, we're going to be in 20 minutes.
Adam
You're going to wake up tomorrow called.
Pat
Family is so awesome. But it's going to go by so quick, man. It's going to go by so quick. And it's so weird because I had no intentions of showing this to you guys. But you know, for me, we're sitting there, we're thinking about. We have the Vault conference that's coming up. We do this once here. This year we're expecting 12,000 people. The last year we had 1500 husband and wives that were there. And one of the things, the guys, the Debbie consultant, they say, a lot of people ask about, you know, how to balance this with family and the kids and all this other stuff. How do you do this? I said, listen, why don't we just do this? Why don't we just do a free webinar on family, how to be a killer in business without killing your marriage. And I said, I'm going to talk about all the mistakes I've Made. Okay. And we're going to talk about how we balance all this stuff together. So that picture they put together, for some of you guys that think that's really me with all those hands, it's not. That's just great job. Shout out to our guys at graphic design. Rob, if you want to play the clip, go ahead and play the clip and put this in the calendar so you know what the date is. Go ahead, Rob. You know what's scary for some people is they want to be a killer in business. They want to do a great job as an executive, as a CEO, entrepreneur, business owner. But they don't want to kill their marriage. So how do you balance that out? You want to go make all the money, travel, win for your family, but you want to stay married. You want to have good relations with your kids. You want your kids to still want to see. How do you do this? There's four things, by the way. You ready? Write these down. Number one, you're allowing your family and friends make you feel guilty for your vision, which is going to create resentment towards them. You don't want that. Number two is you lack clarity on the vision. You don't really know what you're doing it for. So work life balance is a question that comes up for. For people that are not clear of what they want to do, they haven't had the conversation with their family. Number three is the concept of being intentional with the time you're spending with your family. And number four is maybe you're just looking for an excuse to not work that hard because your family is not bothering you. You're just looking for it. This concept of work life balance comes up every single day with people who ask me this question. On June 11, I'm hosting a free webinar for one hour to talk about work, work life balance with the people that don't have the answer to the questions there, just like I didn't have it at that time. I'm married now with four kids running all these businesses. Some days you feel like you can't. You don't know what the hell you're doing. All I'm going to do is share with you mistakes I've made and things that are working for me. So if it's important to you, get registered, tell your wife, your husband, get everybody on together to listen up. We're going to go through it for one hour again on June 11th. Register because it's limited seating on this webinar. I'll see you there. Come join us, guys. June 11, 12:30, put in your calendar. By the way, I may have my wife and one of my kids maybe join me as well. Rob, what is the website for them to go register for this free webinar? Vtwebinar.com Vtwebinar.com we have limited to 3, 000 seats, so just make sure you go get registered again. Vtwebinar.com Can I say one thing about this? Of course.
Adam
Because you've done how many webinars? I mean, the last.
Pat
I've done a lot of webinars, but we've never done a webinar on this. This has been coming up a lot. The last six.
Adam
In my opinion, based on the conversations I have with everyone out there, this actually might be the most important webinar you've ever done, in my opinion, because sometimes when you do an AI webinar or a business webinar, real estate webinar, it's very specific and very niche. And that's great. Everyone deals with this.
Pat
We're all dealing with, you know, why I've never done this? You know why I don't like to do a lot? Like they asked me to write a parenting book. Because you're still figuring it out. Like, I'm in the process of figuring it out. I'm in the process of learning this stuff. But I can't wait to have this one with you guys. Well, you know the secret, we're going to have a lot of fun with this path. Stay single, don't own a car.
Adam
No, no, no. That is actually a vampire. He does not sleep. I know Vinnie dressed up as a.
Vinnie
Vampire one time in Romania.
Pat
Anyways, okay, pbd, don't sleep. Let's get right into it. And you know what? I want to start off with business. I want to start off with business because there's a lot of stuff that's going on right now. And the business part of it is the new bill, the big, beautiful bill that the president was talking about. Because this has to do with taxes. This has to do with how you're going to be paying taxes moving forward. A lot of people didn't think this was going to get done. There was a lot of challenges with it, but it eventually ended up happening. And I'm going to read some stuff here. Rob, I think you also have the whole thing in place if you want to play the clip. The House Rule Committee approved President Trump's big, beautiful bill in an 8 to 4 vote, with Speaker Johnson stating at 1am Wednesday, very close to resolving GOP disputes enabling a potential housewide vote by Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. That's Thursday morning here today. A key amendment introduced at 9pm Wednesday accelerated Medicaid work requirements from 282029 to December 2026 for able bodied recipients and ends green energy tax subsidies by 2028 unless they show quick returns. Addressing demands from blue state Republicans for higher salt deduction caps and conservative like Representative Chris Chip Roy and Ralph Norman for strict, stricter Medicaid rules and repeal Biden's inflation reduction act subsidies. Rob, if you want to play this clip and then we'll get right into.
Tom
It, we look forward to the Senate's timely consideration of this once in a generation legislation. We stand ready to continue our work together to deliver on the one big.
Pat
Beautiful bill as President Trump named it himself.
Tom
We're going to send that to his desk. We're going to get there by Independence Day on July 4th and we are going to celebrate a new golden age in America.
Pat
Tom, what's in this big beautiful bill and why should everybody be paying attention?
Tom
Well, you know, when Biden had the inflation Reduction Act, a lot of people including us looked into it and said what the hell, right? What's going on? Well, this is a continuation. This means that the Trump tax breaks that have all been part of the budget of the United States and they've been in place for years, including during Biden, will not be expiring. So taxes are not going to go up on Americans at the time where they could least use them. Going up right now as with the economy adjusting. So that was number one. But then some good things happen. There was a bunch of green energy stuff in there that even at the time people said you're giving away subsidies for nothing. They're not, you're not showing that the green energy was saving money or saving on investment and new energy plants. Cause we need nukes. Thank you. And they put a work requirement in that. If you're gonna get Medicaid, you're gonna get food stamp, there's a work requirement and if you work, Vinnie, what do you gotta have? You gotta have a green card. So guess what? So they're arguing, the Democrats are arguing, hey, you know, there's, you know, 3 million people aren't gonna be able to get to the SNAP program. Well, that's like an EBT card that you can go buy food with. Well guess what? No, no, no, no, no. If you're working or you're trying to work or you have a green card, you can take advantage of it. As low income. But if you're, you just, you know, walked across from some foreign place and you're not supposed to be here, oh, you can't use it. So all that was good and I think this is a really good bill. Now what we need to get is the fine print, Pat. And we don't have the fine fine print and we're going to see that because July 4th he's talking about is it's got to go the Senate and Senate's going to arm wrestle over but then Republicans are going to, you know, pass it. It's going to happen and then he's going to sign it. I think he's absolutely going to sign it on July 4th. And as a matter of fact, I don't think he wants to sign it, Pat, until July 4th because they need to sign it till then because the tech cuts were the end of the year. So I think there's a, I think it's a good thing. Is it a celebratory thing on a 1 to 10? I'm at about an 8 and a half because it continues the tax cuts and they're moving forward and they're actually putting some requirements on things and no taxes on tips. I like no taxes on overtime pay and no taxes on car loan interest. Now when you hear that one, that's part of fine print because who's that going to help? The auto industry that's trying to sell cars.
Pat
But is it car loan interest of automakers that the cars made in the US or any car loan interest we need to.
Tom
This is part of what I want.
Pat
To specify that, Rob.
Tom
I want to find that a fine.
Pat
Print car loan interest is for because what I heard is the fact that car loan interest is specific to cars that are made in America. And by the way, to add a few different things, here's what I looked up. Adam, before I come to you, I asked the question this big beautiful bill that just passed, I want to know specifics of how it impacts the poor, the middle class, the upper class and the super wealthy. So here's a low income bottom 10%. Household resources are projected to decrease by 2% by 2027 and 4% by 2023. Medicaid cuts. Approximately 8.6 million people could lose Medicaid coverage due to 716 billion dollar in program cuts and new work requirements. You have to have certain requirements to get that apparently. And of course we're going to learn more about this. This next one is very, very important. This next one says an estimated 3 million individuals may lose monthly food assistance benefits as a result of a nearly 300 billion dollar cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional System. The SNAP program. Right. So guess what? If you're no longer getting the welfare program, you have to go get a job under Obama. If you guys remember, the unemployment checks went from 90 days to 6 months to 12 months. I even believe at one point they hit 24 months. Guess what people were doing? Nobody was looking for jobs. The moment they cut that unemployment rate to like 90 days or six months, everybody started looking for jobs. So this 300 billion dollar, that's cut on SNAP. They have to go get that money somewhere else. Middle income. Temporary increases in child tax credit up to $2,500. No deductions on tips, overtime and car loan interest. I want to know the car loan interest, Rob, if that is a US Car loan interest or any car loan interest. And then there's a couple other things there. Elimination of federal subsidy. Student loan for undergraduates. Potentially increasing higher education expenses. High income individuals. Top 10%. Household resources are expected to rise by up to 4% in 2027, primarily due to tax cuts. Extension of 2017 tax. Trump era tax. Increased state and local salt deduction up to $30,000. That's the cap. Creation of a thousand dollar mega saving account for children. Creation of a thousand dollar Make America great against saving accounts for children.
Tom
Everybody born after 2024.
Pat
Everybody born after 2024 gets a thousand dollar mega savings account for children.
Vinnie
That's sick.
Pat
That's awesome.
Tom
It's tax advantage so that the parents can keep it and keep contributing. And as it grows, it's tax advantage.
Pat
Go make some babies but still have a job. And don't rely on snap. Go make some babies and do it right.
Adam
Oh, snap.
Pat
Estate and endowment tax. New taxes on large university endowments. And that's kind of what you have. Extension of 2017 cuts. Couple other things that they had there, but that's pretty much it. Adam, your thoughts on this?
Adam
I think Tom nailed it. You know it's going to be one beautiful bill, one big beautiful bill and I think that's what going to good to see that Congress still exists because Trump has just taken all the oxygen out of the room since he became president. Everything is going on with the Trump show, but this is going to pass and I'll tell you why. Who controls Congress and it's not even close. It's the Republicans. So how many congressional districts turned Democrat in this past election? I think it's zero. Everything went towards the right. Everything. Everything. So you Know the whole conversation with Vinnie's best friend, Stephen A. Smith. It's a mandate. Not that kind of mandate, Vinnie, but everything is going to. You like that, Tom? Everything is going to pass because they control Congress, by the way. Congress, the House, they have, I think they're plus eight seats, 220 to 212. In the Senate, they're up, I think six seats, 53 to 47. This is going to pass and it will probably pass exactly as Trump wants it on July 4th. Happy anniversary. Happy birthday, America. This is what's going to happen. By the way, I was at the Wall street conference yesterday, Jason Lyons event, and Byron Donald spoke and he talked about this exact bill, this big beautiful bill. And he said this, he goes, you know the Trump tax cuts that they passed in 2017, you know how I know that they're actually going to stay and how they're legit and why they're so good? Because the Democrats didn't do anything to try to reverse them in the last five years. It's almost like. Did you notice that Biden didn't do anything to reverse all the policies against China? Nothing. He kept the Trump's policies, the tariffs on China, nothing changed. Now Trump's doubling down. But the Democrats apparently from Byron Donald did not do anything to reverse the Trump tax cuts. So it looks like this big beautiful bill will pass.
Tom
Great point, Adam. And I'll add one thing in one sentence. Neither did Bill Clinton when he got to office. He didn't touch the Reagan program, which was consistent.
Pat
There you go. That's interesting.
Adam
He was touching other programs.
Pat
And by the way, I just asked right now, I just found that the interest, the car loan interest applies only to cars assembled in the U.S. if it's not, you don't participate in that. It's only assembled in the US Is what that's all about.
Adam
You think this is going to pass.
Pat
PBD just like this, the way it is right now with the Senate, like.
Adam
It passed the House, now it's going to the Senate.
Pat
Look, when Hakeem Jeffries, who is, who is the minority, the dream.
Adam
He's the dream, right.
Pat
When he only gets up for 30 minutes to debate and fight this. And if you remember Kevin McCarthy, he stood up for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours talking about how this is terrible, guess what they're saying. They're not fighting.
Adam
Yeah.
Pat
They're accepting. Well, it's gonna, this is passing.
Adam
Tough to find.
Pat
Yeah. There's not a fight.
Vinnie
How much? And Tom, you said that this was an eight, eight and a half as, like as a pot from one out of ten.
Tom
Yeah, I think, I think this is an eight and a half. And I want to see the fine print because they really went down through multiple areas and that's the purpose of, of Congress to do. That's what they're supposed to do.
Vinnie
How and how much.
Tom
Remember Nancy Pelosi? We'll find out what's in it after we.
Vinnie
And, and how much. How much does this help towards a victory for the midterms? Because, I mean, at the end of the day, that's what, that's what he's going for.
Pat
Let me tell you how I work, Vinnie. I'm a businessman. When on day 99, I gave it a C minus, I gave it a C minus on what's been done, not what's pending. As a salesperson or person that runs business, you have a lot of things that's going on. Unless if you close the deal, it's just a good idea. Yeah, right. So today, from there at C minus to where they're at and they get this done by 4th of July, that C minus could be a B plus like this, with everything that's going on headed towards an A, A minus.
Adam
And it's getting there.
Pat
And I think, by the way, I'm telling you this, I'm going to keep repeating this. I said this everywhere I go right now. I was on Jesse, I said this, I was on Benny yesterday, I said this. Brace for impact. 2026. If you haven't heard me say this already, President Trump turns 80 on June 15th. Next year, America turns 250 years old. Next year, World cup is coming here. IPO market's going to open up. 2026 is going to be the most magical year to be living in America in our lifetime. Let me say it again. 2026 is going to be the most magical year you've ever lived in America in our lifetime. Again, 2026 will be magical because of everything that's coming together right now. It's very simple. What he did the other day, the South African leader comes to the White House. When he comes in, he first shakes his hand, we're like, hey, everything's going to be all right. All this other stuff, so it looks friendly. And then he sits in front of him and he says, yo, so tell me, what is all the stuff that you guys are doing? Rob, I don't know if you have the handshake or not. If you do, you don't have it. Is this the One that he turns over to the video.
Tom
Yes.
Pat
Okay. Well, at first he comes in. It's a very friendly handshake. Now, this is South Africa, which, when, you know, the stories with South Africa, they have been going through a mess. The ANC has been running South Africa since 1994, right after Nelson Mandela. And for the first 10 years or so, it was good. Then all of a sudden, the extremists took over South Africa. They started, you know, losing their mind. And a level of racism towards whites went to a whole different level in the country. A lot of chaos, a lot of weird things. You hear people that there's a leader of the EFF I think that got up. I, I, I, we will get his name. He got up and he gave a message saying, you know, we have to take out the whites and all this stuff. So he's sitting there, look at all the cameras. Hexit is right there. Lutnick is right there. Look at Musk, who is from South Africa, standing to the right. Okay? And then you see J.D. vance, VPJD Vance. Everybody is waiting for this meeting with South Africa. Here's how it goes. Rob, is this when he turns over to the tv?
Adam
Yep.
Pat
Please go on and play this clip.
Tom
Turn the lights down and just put this on.
Pat
By the way, Rob, if you do this, the reason why you have to see 30 seconds prior to this is because 30 seconds prior to this, he was asking him what happened? Why is there a genocide going on in your country? Why is there such a thing going on? And the president of South Africa tries to explain himself and say, that's not true. You can't believe this. And in South Africa, this. And what we learned from Nelson Mandela is this. And then he flips to it. Is that the one, Rob? Because for this to make sense, you have to see the 30 seconds prior to that, South Africa, Trump. Do you know which one I'm talking about, Rob or no, we have to show. I don't want to show it without that. Because you have to see that whole exchange for the world to realize, oh, I just found it. Here we go. Okay, I'm going to send this over to you, Rob. And do me a favor first. Show. Fast forward to it. Hang on, I'm going to send it over to you in Text the audience. Folks, you have to see this. Okay, so he tries to explain himself. He wasn't automatically wanting to go to the video. He had that as a backup in case he was going to be reasonable. So when the president of South Africa comes up and tries to spin and say that there's nothing going on in South Africa. It's peaceful, there's no issues, no whites are not facing any racism. Everybody is safe, nothing's going on. The president flipped. You can play this clip here. Robin, go to the part where the president starts speaking. South African president starts speaking. Okay, go for it. Go for press play. It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here. When we have talks between us on the quiet table, it will take President Trump to listen to them. I'm not going to be repeating what I've been saying. I would say if there was Africana farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including.
Adam
My Minister of Agriculture.
Pat
He would not be. This is what you needed to see. So it'll take him.
Tom
He's had enough.
Pat
Look at the way he's speaking to us. It takes President Trump listening. That is the answer to your watch this. But Mr. President, I must say we have.
Vinnie
No, no, wait.
Tom
We have thousands of stories talking about.
Pat
It and we have documentaries, we have news stories and that is Natalie here. Somebody here to turn that. I could show you a couple of things and I would.
Tom
I just, I have to.
Pat
It has to be responded to. Let me see the articles, please, if you would. And turn.
Vinnie
Excuse me.
Pat
Turn the lights down. That's what you needed to see. Turn the lights without the first minute. Watch this.
Tom
That's a nervous smile there.
Pat
With or without you, people are going to occupy land. We require no permission from you, from the president, from no one. We don't care. This guy speaking is Julius Malema. Who are you to tell us whether we can occupy land or not? He's the leader of Africa's EFF political party, which is about 10% sense support. That's who we are. Fast forward, Rob, because they're not showing the clips. Can I go to the reaction of both of them? When that is over with, I'll show one of the clips so they know who it is.
Adam
Are you still quoting 30 year old movies?
Tom
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Tom
Over a thousand of white farmers. And those cars are lined up.
Pat
Wow. To pay love on a Sunday morning.
Tom
Each one of those white things you see is across and there's approximately a thousand of them. They're all white farmers.
Pat
The family of white farmers. And those cars aren't driving.
Tom
They're stopped there to pay respects to.
Pat
Their family member who was killed.
Tom
And it's a terrible sight.
Pat
I've never seen anything like it. Okay, Rob, do me a favor. Play the clip I just sent you.
Tom
Did you see him shifting in his chair?
Pat
Well, you have to see this because the guy, the clip, the first clip that he played is this guy, Julius Malema, okay? Watch what he's saying here. And look how many people are in the crowd.
Adam
Sweetheart of a guy.
Pat
Watch. 10% of the voters support him, give or take. Farmer, kill the poor farmer.
Adam
Kill them is what he say.
Pat
Did you hear that? Watch what he said. Killed the farmer, killed the poor.
Adam
Shoot to kill.
Pat
So now the president of South Africa in that position is saying, that's not my party, that's not me. I don't stand for that.
Adam
Did you condemn it, though?
Pat
Exactly the point. You nailed it. Rob, can you show the clip where Julius Malema is being interviewed about killing white people? And what he says, you know which one I'm talking about? The 32nd one. He says, you can't say something like that. He says, well, I'm not telling you. I'm not condemning it. But not yet, not yet. Maybe crybabies, but not yet, not yet, not yet. If you have it, he's sitting to the right. Not that one. There's another one. I can send it to you, but this is all I typed up, Rob. I typed them, Julius Malema. Not yet. If you type in Julius Malema, not yet, it'll show up. Just type in Julius Malema not yet. It'll show up. If you don't have it, I'LL text it to you here, I believe.
Tom
Is this the one?
Pat
This is exactly the 1.41seconds. Go for it. Watch this, folks. Employment is in the land. Let's get our land and let's work our land. I'm hated for that. What? What? Where? I mean, I don't. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I'm saying to you, we've not called for the killing of white people, at least for now.
Adam
I can't guarantee that.
Pat
Not yet. Yeah, but I mean, you'd understand somebody especially. Go back on Twitter. Go back 10 seconds. If you could go back a little bit more. Right. Keep going back, keep going back, keep going back. Go back five more seconds. Watch this. I'm saying, you. We've not called for the killing of white people, at least for now.
Adam
I can't guarantee the future.
Tom
Yeah, I mean, you'd understand somebody watching that, especially as it gets shared on Twitter.
Pat
They freak out.
Adam
It sounds like a genocidal crybabies. Crybabies.
Vinnie
I'm not calling for the slaughter of white people.
Pat
At least for now.
Adam
Yeah.
Pat
Of the future. Especially when things are going the way they are. Sub employment. Okay.
Vinnie
And it.
Pat
So you see that taking place. Tom, your thoughts on this?
Tom
Yeah, well, he was saying most people in America maybe don't know. He's not saying poor P O O R. He's saying Boer B O E R. And those are the white Dutch settlers that are farmers in South Africa. So when he says kill the farmer, it's what the common people refer to them. The white says. And when he says kill the Boers, he's referring to their ancestors who were Dutch settlers. This guy is calling for an ethnic cleansing. That's what he's talking about. And so he's saying all the Dutch that came here over those years, goodbye. And he's making the machine gun sound. And Papa, that's what he's making this. I am very proud that Trump called it out with a what the hell are you doing? Because it's time that we use our strength and influence around the world not to ignore things. And there's so many things to do, so many things. Darfur and there's all these things. But I love the fact that Trump called it out. And Americans need to understand what's going on here. When he says kill the boar, that's all the white Dutch people that settled and killed a farmer. Those are the white people that are running farms. That's what he's talking about. This guy. This guy is no. Good.
Pat
Yeah, he's not good. Adam, do you have any thoughts on this?
Adam
Yeah, I do have major thoughts on this. Number one, from a macro perspective, if I'm a world leader, I would think twice before showing up to the Oval Office is the same room that Zelensky got dressed down and basically had to go back with hat in hand and his tail between his legs, back to Ukraine. Unless it's the same room that the President of South Africa, Ramaphosa, just basically got exposed as being, at the very least, a liar and at the very most, calling for white genocide, but not yet.
Vinnie
He's a terrorist in a couple days.
Adam
A couple hours, maybe 30 months, depending on how I feel. So be very cautious when you go into that room. By the way, where do you think he got the. Hey, roll the tape. I think that's a shout out to Rob right there. Just a PBD thing right there. Number two, gotta give a major shout out. Talk about timing. Robert Herzog that just was on the podcast that just came out, I believe, yesterday.
Pat
Yep.
Adam
South African billionaire stud of a guy came in and had this exact same conversation the day before this took place. And if you're paying attention to what's going on in the world, not many people are familiar what's going on in South Africa. And in fact, you actually led the conversation off with, we kind of know what's going on with China. We know what's going on with Russia, Ukraine. We hear what's going on in Israel, Gaza, Mexico. Not a lot of people know what's going on in South Africa. Why don't you enlighten us? And he goes, listen, there is a genocide. Now, genocide gets thrown around way too frequently these days. So what I'll tell you is this what I learned. There is definitely an economic genocide going on in South Africa because it's basically as he described it. If there's a living manifestation of what DEI looks like as a country, it's South Africa. Okay? So they have something called the. The Black Economic Empowerment. They're basically just simply saying, listen, if you own a business, if you're white and you own a business, you have to give. And especially I think, as it's funded by the government, you have to give 30% of your business to the Black Economic Empowerment Movement. This is Marxism. This is socialism. This is reverse dui. One thing that I learned is reverse racism is racism. That's just kind of how that works. So I also have a good friend on the inside in South Africa that's been on the PBD podcast before Rand Nooner, shout out to him. He goes, oh, everything that he's talking about is accurate. It is true. Did Trump ambush him? Yes, just like these guys are ambushing white farmers and the Boers. So I'm so glad that Trump just exposed this dude. And to put the finale on this, what's the one country, the one country in the world that brought the case against Benjamin Netanyahu to the International Criminal Court? What's the country? Well, it's South Africa. Who's funding South Africa? Apparently? Well, apparently it's the Islamic regime in Iran. So it's very, very ironic, don't you think?
Pat
On here, you know, let me show this, if I may. And Vinny, I'll come to you. So remember the word ambush. Two things. First, watch this clip with, with Elon Musk. Look how Elon Musk is looking at this man. And Elon, look at the. Look. Look at the look on his. How he's looking at him. Look at this. While the entire conversation is taking place, he's looking straight at him. Because, you know, he. The President of South Africa said, elon and I have spoken. He says, elon, you made a lot of money. He says, but why don't you come here and do stuff with me? Why don't you come here and do stuff with us? Do you know what Elon just tweeted about Starlink?
Vinnie
No.
Pat
Did you see that rap? Let me tell you what he said about Starling. He's like, hey, you know, Musk, Starlink, South Africa. He says, I'd love to bring it in South Africa, but you don't allow me to do it because you only want it to be for. I want to read exactly what he says. It's such a shocker on what he says about Starlink. Rob, did you find it or no? You have to see this. I hope I can find this, because Elon tweets a lot, but let me see if I can go through it. He says, I would love to, but they don't allow. They don't allow Starlink there because it's a racist country. So whites can't get access to Starlink. Some. Some words like that. Again, I want to get specific on what he says. Rob, if you can look for it, there's something about those two taking place. And then while that is happening, what does the media do? Here's what is that. Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa because I'm not black. It unstopped the victim complex. Starlink isn't Banned in South Africa because of your skin cuts, because you refuse to comply with local laws like every other telecom provider. Play by the rules. Okay, so they're saying, what is the rules? What are the rules with Starlink being there? Okay, he offered it to Zelensky Ukraine. He's offered a lot of other people. If other people are allowing it, what other rules and guidelines would be there for South Africa that you're claiming he's not allowing it to be out there. And then how does the market react with the way President Trump handled it? Rob, can you pull up the video of what the market's been saying? Everybody, the mainstream media, there's a video of all of them saying the same exact thing. I'll just, you know, there's one clip of it. I'm sure Rob has it. Watch this here, folks. This goes back to what we saw many, many times where the mainstream media says the same exact thing. Watch this. Somebody sent an email saying, guys, this is the word to use today. Go ahead, Rob. Today, the tense confrontation.
Vinnie
President Trump ambushing the president of South.
Pat
Ambush.
Adam
With that music. Yeah.
Tom
Video in the background.
Vinnie
It's that other one. Yeah, it's all good. It's that one.
Pat
Watch. Watch this, folks.
Adam
Roll the tape, Rob.
Pat
Office Today, the tense confrontation. President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa. Next, another Oval Office meltdown.
Tom
President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa.
Pat
President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a diplomatic ambush of South.
Tom
Africa's president in the Oval Office.
Pat
Good to be with you. I'm Katie Turner. President Trump orchestrated another Oval Office ambush today.
Tom
Today, Donald Trump meeting with the President of South Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate things. Zelinsky territory where essentially he was a.
Pat
Bit ambushed inside the Oval Office.
Tom
Felt like an ambush in there. Kind of like the President Zelensky meeting.
Adam
In the Oval Office.
Pat
Who sends the email.
Tom
So I wanted was orchestrated.
Pat
Ramaphosa brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush.
Vinnie
What started as to some degree an ambush.
Adam
Well, Katie, I mean, it was an ambush.
Vinnie
Great question. Abc, msnbc, cnn. It's like they send out a back signal that says, just don't think for yourself. Do the same BS talking points. These people are never going to learn. They never learn. They can't get out of their ways.
Pat
They.
Vinnie
And I'm so happy because none of them could get back in the power pad. So that's one thing. But you guys said, so how much. How much percent of these people of South Africa support the crazy guy.
Adam
10%.
Pat
10%.
Vinnie
There's how many people in South Africa population? 60 million. So 6 million of those people are kill, bore, kill all that stuff. And Umberto sent this to me. In the early Nazi party support was initially low. Guess what? How much was the percentage of support in 1929 for the Reichstag elections? The party received how much percent of the vote? You know, 3%. 3%. And it dropped in 1928 to 2.6. They're at 10%. If the. And if the president is like, nah, it's not a big deal. They're trying to deny it. It's not a good look.
Pat
Best part right now with what's going on. Cyril, the president.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Pat
Doesn't like Malema. Julius, the other guy. And there's one other guy as well that was a former guy that is more evil than any of these other guys. His name is Zuma. Right. I don't know if you know anything about Zuma.
Vinnie
I've heard the name.
Pat
So Zuma. This is Zuma. Jacob Zuma, who. He's the guy after Mandela that pretty much destroyed South Africa. Do you know, one time this guy had sex with a. A person that had HIV positive. And you know what he said in the interview when he had sex with this person? Unprotected sex. He says, I did have unprotected sex with somebody that was HIV positive, but I took a shower afterwards, so I'm fine.
Vinnie
No, he didn't.
Pat
Rob, can you please fact check what I just said?
Vinnie
Wow.
Tom
Nobel Prize in medicine, right?
Pat
Check me right there. Okay. Oh, so here. There you go. So in. Zuma's admission was controversial as he stated that he has not used a condom while having. He had not used a condom while having sex with. With Kazi, despite knowing she had HIV positive and having been, as deputy president, the head of the National AIDS Council and Moral Regeneration Campaign. He told the court that he had taken a shower after the fact, claiming that doing so reduced the risk of. So you know who this is? Go all the way to the top. So they know who this is. This is the former. The former president. He is the former president. 09 to 18.
Adam
Wow.
Pat
So this is Zuma. Then you have Julius who gave, say, kill the boar, killed the farmers. Then you have Cyril. Between the three, Cyril is the most normal one. But all three hate each other. The best thing that's going on is the fact that they all hate each other.
Vinnie
God, they don't love each other.
Pat
But Cyril needs to have the audacity to do something about Malema and Zuma. Because the way they're going, if one of these two guys ends up being there, you know what's happened the last 40, 30, 20 some years? 1 million of the white Africans have left. They have left. It's called brain drain. You know what brain drain is? Is what happened to Iran, is what happened to Russia, is what happened to a lot of countries, is what happening to Venezuela Right now. Those who are the smartest, the job creators, they leave. The immigration of highly trained, intelligent people from a particular country, these are the people you don't want to leave. It's like you're running a sales organization and your top 20% of sales guys leave. Not the bottom 50%, the top 20 leave. Okay? When your top 20% of people leave in a company or country, you have problems. That's what's going on.
Vinnie
It's like California.
Pat
Yeah.
Vinnie
Brain drain.
Adam
Can. Can I highlight one last thing, please? Ambush. That's on mainstream media. I want to talk.
Pat
Just go to the next story. Let me just go to the next story. Rob, can you pull up the Morning Joe story? Okay. Pull up the Morning Joe story and I'll come to you first. Okay?
Adam
Okay.
Pat
Go to the Morning Joe story. This is Morning Joe being ambushed. We're going to use the same word. Okay. Except he's ambushed with facts. Okay. And. And watch how this exchange looks like on Morning Joe. Joe. Protecting Biden even though he knew he wasn't doing well. And he keeps trying to dodge it. And the interviewer doesn't stop. Rob, is this the one?
Tom
Yeah. So I actually have the clip that he's referencing. If I can play that first and then play.
Pat
Okay, do that. Go for it, do that. And then we'll go to this. So here's Morning Joe. And then you see the other fellow asking him the questions. Go ahead, Rob. But comp. Comparing that guy's mental state. I've said it for years now. He's cogent. But I undersold him when I said he was cogent.
Vinnie
Code.
Pat
He's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been intellectually.
Vinnie
Analytically, because he's.
Pat
Been around for 50 years.
Vinnie
And, you know, I don't know if.
Pat
People know this or not.
Tom
Biden used to be a hothead.
Pat
Sometimes that Irishman would get in front of the reasoning. Sometimes he would say things he didn't want to say.
Vinnie
This is.
Pat
And I don't really. You know what?
Vinnie
I don't really.
Pat
Start your tape right now, because I'm about To tell you the truth.
Vinnie
Here we go. We started.
Pat
If you can't handle the truth, this version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
Tom
Not a close second.
Pat
Rob, you're doing it right for playing this first, Rob. Perfect. Great approach. Now here's the podcast. Go for it. Well, it was misleading to say Best Buy never without caveating it and say, except on the days when he's not the best Biden.
Vinnie
Well, but, but I never, I never saw those days personally. You did, you did because you saw.
Pat
Him address a dead congresswoman. And, and you saw him in South Carolina. The dead congresswoman.
Vinnie
Yeah, yeah.
Tom
Well, more than, I mean, I can.
Adam
Show you, I can show you the RNC clip reels.
Pat
There were plenty of days in public when he, when he was not the best Biden ever.
Vinnie
And of course, shortly after stumbled and he stumbled, he stumbled and bumbled around, Mark.
Pat
I mean, yeah, he, he certainly did. Donald Trump did.
Vinnie
Other politicians did again.
Pat
But, but, but it, and it's actually.
Vinnie
The same case as a lot of times when I've gone in and talked to Donald Trump, we go on to Donald Trump.
Pat
And I've heard the media narrative around.
Vinnie
Donald Trump, and certainly I've been very critical of Donald Trump. And when I leave, I have a better understanding. Just like Jeffrey Goldberg did a couple.
Pat
Of weeks ago, I have a better.
Vinnie
Understanding of where Donald Trump is mentally, if Donald Trump is losing it, like.
Pat
People have said through the years or not. And so again, am I going to.
Vinnie
Look at a clip that's gone viral and pay more attention to that than two and a half, three hours I had with a guy one on one, going around the world?
Pat
No, I'm just not going to. Are those, are some of the clips bad?
Vinnie
Yeah, they certainly, they certainly are bad. I can understand why people would see that without the context. What context?
Adam
And, and say, say that there was.
Vinnie
A, a problem with that, especially because.
Pat
I said, start looking. Tape right here.
Vinnie
But, but, you know, when I look.
Pat
At that as a pushing back. Robert, is it just going to do that?
Vinnie
I saw it just keeps double based.
Pat
On the time so he doesn't challenge him anymore. From here, based on hundreds of hours. You can pause it right here. This is, this is one example with him. Okay. Then you have, you know, another example. But I'll pause right here. I'll go to Adam and then I'm going to show you what Megan Kelly does to Jake Tapper. Okay. You have to see. How long is this one, Rob?
Tom
Three minutes.
Pat
Play the first minute. And I'LL go to it because they're the same thing. Jake Tapper, Morning Joe. Go for it. I did ask Joe Biden to be.
Tom
Transparent about his health records in an interview in 2020. I did ask him about the fact that voters. But then he wasn't.
Pat
Thought that he, he was not transparent at all.
Tom
No, he promised you that he would.
Pat
Be transparent about his health records, and then he wasn't. And when you sat with him again at all, including one month, including one month after the Jackie Walorski thing, you didn't ask him about it. You didn't follow up on the fact that he was falling up the stairs, that he was losing his train of thought regularly, that he was slurring, that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting lost on the White House lawn. You sat right across from him and you asked. None of that, notwithstanding the fact that he had promised you he would be fully transparent about his health issues. You know as well as I do that there's a way of, you can.
Tom
Say, hey, there's this poll on your.
Pat
Age, or you could say you just forgot that Jackie Walorski was dead.
Tom
You, you asked where she was moments.
Pat
After watching a videotape tribute to her. You lowered the flags at the White House after she died. This happened 13 days before you sat with him. There is a way of pressing a man like that on the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and to the audience. And you didn't do it. It wasn't just, I mean, you sat with him a couple of times in the course of his presidency and these issues were not pressed. Well, there was at least that time, and then there was the time at.
Tom
The beginning and, but separate and apart.
Pat
From that, you covered the Biden's presence. No, no, no. Let me, let me just finish my point.
Adam
I'm just saying.
Pat
And it was 13 days after the Jackie Walorski thing. But you covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years, and you didn't cover mental acuity hardly at all. You can pause it, right? I mean, so this is how I'm going to bring it over to you. So mainstream media hasn't learned their lesson.
Vinnie
Nope.
Pat
The Internet saw the clip of you guys saying the same exact thing. You're doing it again with Trump now. Ambush. And you see, his popularity is increasing. Yours is decreasing. The governor of New Jersey, it's a left state, has a worse popularity approval rating than Trump does in New Jersey. Go to Rutgers. See what they teach you about Trump. What happened there? What's going on with them. And then I'm mourning Joe and Jake Tapper, who have been looked at as these incredible journalists are sitting there being questioned by others, and they don't know how to answer the question. Adam, your thoughts on this?
Adam
Let me tell you, this pisses me off more than maybe anything because this is the reason I became so anti Trump for many years, because they lied to me. Like, there's nothing worse than thinking that you're on the right side of history, but you've been lied to this whole time. This is why, you know, you joke about that. I'm more MAGA than anybody these days. I wasn't MAGA at all, but now I'm definitely mag. I want to make America great because I've been lied to. Because in 2016, I had a nice situation at work where I started working remote and made some money. And I was watching Morning Joe every single morning.
Tom
What?
Adam
Why did I watch Morning Joe every single morning? Because I like the fact that Joe Scarborough was a Republican and Mika Brzezinski was a Democrat, and they had an entire conversation of panels and they made it seem like it's an open discussion discourse. What I didn't fully realize is this guy hates Trump with every fiber of his being. And that's the biggest problem with a lot of these people, whether it's the Jake tappers of the world, whether it's the Joe Scarborough's of the world. They hate Trump so much. Even Megyn Kelly hated Trump because you remember that situation when he had blood coming down, but she at least has come out of TDS and defends the truth. So the, the question is, you know, talk about the red pill. Would you rather be lied to and people tell you what you want to hear, or would you rather hear the truth, but people tell you what you don't necessarily want to hear. That's who Trump is. So I fell for it. I see. And I'm, and I'm, I'm like, I see what's happening in real time where these people are not willing to admit that they basically the walking dead. Joe Biden was pulling a Weekend at Bernie's, and you defended him like he was completely cogent and cognitive.
Pat
First time, it upsets the hell out of me. Yeah. First time Adam and I speak, I go to Miami. Not the first time when it got to the point where he calls me, says, pat, I just want to drop everything. I want to come and work with you and run with you. I want to come to Texas. I'm like, you want to do? He said, I want to come over to Texas. Are you okay with that? I'm like, look, take a fly out here. Let us see what's going to happen. He comes down and he's walking around and you know Adam, one of the most charming, charismatic guys you'll meet. Everybody likes him. And then he leaves. So then I go to Miami and I meet with him. We're having lunch or something. I don't know where we were at. Then I fly back. By the way, that was a trip that I was shooting some videos. But anyways, that's a whole different thing. I don't want to get, yeah, helicopter thing. And then I fly back and I call him and I say, so, Adam, it's the interview. How do you feel about Trump? Adam's like, what do you mean? Do you remember this? How do you feel about it? How do you really feel about it? Because, you know, you know how I feel about him. But how do you feel about him? Well, you know, I don't know. Watch this clip. This is podcast from four years ago. Okay, Go ahead and play this clip. Rob, watch this.
Adam
Trump doesn't, doesn't bring that out of question at all.
Pat
For the fifth time, this is where the audience gets upset sometimes because you don't answer questions no matter what you say.
Adam
You're not going to convince me to vote for Trump. I'm not going to say.
Pat
You got FYI. That's when you lose people, brother. You can watch when you lose people. Okay. Yeah. So this is.
Adam
And I voted for Trump this time.
Pat
But I'm four years. But let me tell you, I'm telling you guys, he may be the biggest supporter now, okay. Than anybody in this room. And so, and here's the other part I want to add to this.
Adam
It's crazy.
Pat
There are a lot of people like Adam. Adam's not a high school dropout. Adam had good grades. Adam went to college. Adam got a degree. Adam, you know, was involved that he followed the news. You drop names. He knows congressman's names from 30 years ago. He'll drop them. So it's not like he hasn't been following it, but he's the guy that followed mainstream and it leads to now Jon Stewart calling out Jake Tapper. Rob, if you got this clip, watch this one here. Jon Stewart's not a Trump guy. He cannot stand Trump. Watch Jon Stewart here.
Tom
We're back with breaking news and our.
Vinnie
Politics lead and a brand new excerpt.
Tom
From my upcoming book with Axios, Alex Thompson. It's called Original sin.
Adam
Not sure if you've heard of it.
Vinnie
It's on Biden's decline.
Tom
It's called Original sin. I'm sure you've heard on May 20th.
Pat
That's Tuesday.
Vinnie
Original sin that's coming out in three.
Tom
Weeks on May 20th.
Vinnie
That's just 19 days away.
Adam
One week in one day. Coming out in just a few days comes out Tuesday.
Vinnie
You will not believe what we found out.
Tom
I love this watch.
Pat
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Adam
Don't news people have to tell you.
Tom
What they know when they find it out? Isn't that the difference between news and a secret?
Pat
You won't believe what we found out. No, that's why I'm watch.
Tom
Breaking news in a week.
Pat
You can pause it. You can pause.
Adam
So let me just say one thing about John Stewart. By the way, how much better is the Daily show with John Stewart back? I know they had the dei, her, Noah, Trevor, Noah really bad. But they also have other people on that show that are amazingly anti Trump. Amazingly. Are you familiar with the Asian guy? They have some incredible people there. Jordan Klepper is great. The, the, the, the, the blonde girl. They have some great people. This guy Ronnie Chang right here. Horrible. Horribly not funny. But here's what they're telling their audience. They say the fact they're talking about the white genocide. We just basically had a conversation about that. He goes, you know how I know there's no white genocide? Because Trump said there was a white genocide. So basically already saying if Trump said it, don't believe him. That's how he frames the entire conversation. And this is what they think about you. If you vote for Trump, go To the part where they talk about the watch. Like some person got a, got a Trump watch and it showed up and the T dropped off and it said rump. Right? And he goes, I'm actually shocked that these people actually even know how to read. That's crazy. Like this is what they think of a, of a voter who votes.
Vinnie
Yeah, we're deportables, we're deplorable.
Adam
So the T dropped off and they're like, oh my God, where's the tea? And then so it says rump. Hahaha. And he says, I actually didn't even expect them to read. And this is what they're doing. And the last point is this. And just to address exactly what you.
Pat
Said doing this, let me tell you.
Adam
He said, I truly did not expect them to be able to read because they voted for Trump. Here are the conversations, you know, when it hit and like, manifested the exact moment where I was like, oh my God, I know I've been lied to, but now I'm already seeing what's going on. Do you remember the Trump Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden? Yeah, Right before. This is the famous Tony Hinchcliffe, Puerto Rico. We, we went to New York. That's when you did your interview with Piers Morgan. And I would hear from all my friends. I can't believe you in New York. You're at the knot, you're supporting Hitler. Unbelievable. I go, okay, the next night we went to Mar a Lago. You were there, you were there. We were all there to see the movie. The, the man you don't know, right?
Vinnie
Yes.
Adam
Okay, you guys left a little early that night. When I tell you it was so pro Israel, it was so pro Netanyahu, was so pro Judaism that I went up to Jewish people. I was like, take it down a notch, buddy. We're in America. I'm Jewish, so I'm with you. Yeah, but take it down a notch. Yeah, let's be pro America, pro allies. So I'm telling my friends, arguing with them Jewish guys, I'm like, you know what? You fell for it. Guys, you're exactly who I was five years ago because I was at Mar a Lago and it was the exact opposite of what they're saying about Nazi rallies. You fell for it.
Vinnie
And Pat, question, you've written books, you've been multiple books. And this is, I had this before we saw the Jon Stewart thing. How long does it take to write a book?
Pat
Oh, it takes a while.
Vinnie
How long do you think it took Jake Tapper, the frickin Hack that. He is the BS artist and that guy. To compile everything. Just, just if you have to say, ballpark, how much to compile it, write it, rewrite it, editing, da, da, da. All that. Just give me a time frame.
Pat
Well, in a case like this, I know where you're going, so I'm going to say six months. But something like this could take 18 months.
Vinnie
Eighteen months, maybe even more.
Pat
Yeah.
Vinnie
So he knew. He didn't do anything. And I'm happy that you were saying what you were saying during this. I don't want them to change. I don't want. I want them to keep doing this ambush. Keep doing all this Nazi Hitler.
Pat
Over it, though, But.
Vinnie
Over it. But let. I don't want them to start sounding like they're. Oh, no, we've all changed. We've all adjusted. Because the moment these people let their party back in power, every single thing that Trump has done is going to be undone. And that's why, when I say, Pat, they're the enemy, this party. And we have a bunch of stories that we're going to get into with assassinations and all that this party has lost their freaking mind. They have no morals, they have nothing to stand on, and I don't think they could ever get back into power, period. Done deal. I'm saying we shouldn't let them.
Pat
No, no, I get what. Give me what.
Vinnie
Give me a policy that they're doing.
Pat
I get what you're saying. Rob, can you play this? Here's the. You reacting to Jake Tapper, and then, Tom, I'm going to come to you and I got something. I'm going to show you guys a show that's going to rival these guys that I want you to tell the world about. And I got a clip of you of that to show you. Go ahead, Rob. Why is this important to know now?
Tom
Yeah.
Vinnie
Oh, God.
Tom
It seems to me, you know, we.
Vinnie
Got a lot of stuff to be.
Pat
Concerned about at the moment.
Vinnie
No accountability.
Tom
So I whisper, yes, yes, please. Here's the Trump's atrocities. I'm going to list them for you. Cutting Medicaid. Yeah, well, this is what we're concerned about now. I got you.
Adam
Okay.
Vinnie
Cutting Medicaid.
Tom
Slashing funding for cancer research. Rising prices because of tariffs.
Vinnie
Dismantling usaid, which helps children and people.
Tom
Who are poor around the world. Fears of recession. Destroying due process, ending birthright citizenship. Dismantling the Department of Education. Rolling back regulations on air and water quality. Destroying our retirement relationships with allies like Canada and the UK and targeting his political opponents Preach.
Pat
And that.
Tom
Not only that, but he also said that Joe Biden has stage nine cancer. Oh, really? Where did he come up with that?
Adam
Because he had a gleason score of 9.
Tom
Gonna write a book about the cognitive decline of the person who is in charge right now.
Vinnie
Oh, yeah. You're so cool.
Adam
I wasn't as extreme as watching this ridiculous show, but I understand why people fall for their nonsense.
Tom
Joy Behar died two years ago. No one told her. You know what's interesting is they're gonna lose their megaphone. They're losing their megaphone right now. And to Vinnie, I'll tell you, it's very ironic. We were just talking about the Daily show and there was something that John said at the end of that clip, far at the end that I watched last night. It was interesting. Pat, he says, and why am I paying $30 to read in a book what you should have told me three years ago for free? If you go find that, there's a quote from Jon Stewart where he says, free, and why am I buying a book when three years ago you should have told me for free? So, but remember, Adam, you'll remember this because I know you were up on media in this. Remember when the people started doing surveys and they found out, hey, did you know that some of these Gen X's are getting their news from the Daily show more than they get it from regular news sources? Remember when those first things came out? Well, guess what? It's a tsunami and we are causing it. This podcast, what we're doing is causing us. Check this out. The shift in cable as people get to Hulu and they go online and they don't even get cable anymore. You know, the Gen Zs, Vinny, they don't even buy cable. So guess what? All the old cable going away and with it, the unprofitable news. Versant. You know what Versant is? It's a company being spun out of Comcast and NBC. And what are they putting in it? Usa, Oxygen, MSNBC and cnbc. And CNBC they say, is the only real jewel because the way it covers business and it's actually a profitable point in there, and it doesn't have a bunch of hosts with $10 million salaries. Well, get this. It's being spun out as a thing called Versant. And now David Zaslav, after he has lost NBA. NBA was on Turner for how many decades and they've lost that NFL Sunday ticket, is going to YouTube. YouTube TV. It's. The ice is melting below the feet of the cable empire. And people are turning for their news elsewhere. And David Zaslav has got to take Turner and CNN and spin them out and sell them at a garage sale. And David Faber caught a whisper.
Pat
He's a. I know somebody that'd be interested if it was a garage sale number.
Tom
I ready for this. Cnn, this is. David Faber was talking. There's an article that's written this and then there is a attributed quote that they won't put the name on. So they said there's a direct quote, won't put the name on. This is a high level media executive in the US Zaslav has no choice. He has to spin it out and he has to keep CNN in the basket because the rest of the basket's worthless. CNN quote will be orphaned without any real investment or future. I see no future in it personally. So what they're talking about.
Pat
I do. With the right owner.
Tom
Yes, I do. I agree with that. But the point is, with their current economics, why are they cutting everybody's salary? Because the viewership's down. Why is the viewership down? You're putting out the wrong product. If the product was different, it would be different.
Pat
Let me show you something. With all the frustration people have with the View, a lot of people were talking about. We took action. We came up with a new show called Her Take. We have the next episode that's going out tomorrow. 11:00, folks, if you want to see another show rival the View and compete against it, watch this preview of tomorrow's episode that's coming out. Real debate. These are real people debating and pushing and challenging each other. Just support it. We want this thing to get to a million subscribers. Watch this clip here. Go ahead, Rob. I will call that and effort.
Tom
Why were you raising money for Biden then?
Pat
Because I need to understand.
Tom
No, no, no.
Pat
I know you get real angry when people ask you that question, but you need to answer it. Don't yell at me.
Adam
No, no.
Tom
Do you understand English?
Pat
I just said I do. You're lying though. Do you really think that we can trust Iran?
Adam
We allow them to.
Pat
Yeah, we had in Iran. I don't trust Iran.
Adam
We deal with Saudi Arabia.
Tom
Seriously, after 9 11, I wanted to.
Pat
Bomb the crap out of Iraq.
Adam
When is American policy no longer made in America?
Pat
I don't. Why are we doing that?
Tom
Because it's not. Because it has no effect on any American's life.
Pat
Who cares?
Adam
Who cares?
Pat
Because naked and shot.
Adam
It doesn't affect any of the.
Pat
I actually, I agree with Anne. We are human here, guys. But why is that a responsibility? Why do we need to be the sheriff of the entire world? We are so overrun here in America due to the illegal immigration. How we meant to go on. Police on.
Tom
There's something else.
Adam
Shout out to Jillian, Mike.
Vinnie
The fact that they're not agreeing on.
Pat
Every single thing on why it's a real show.
Vinnie
Oh, thank God.
Pat
Rob, can you put the link below in the description? Guys, do me a favor, please go support this show. We want the View to react to something that these guys are talking about because the direction America wants to go to is this direction. They want to see these types of discussions where people are sitting there arguing with each other, debating with each other, and you get to see both sides of the story. If you want to see us take this thing even to more, you know, active show, maybe even soon, do a live show with live audience attendance. Go support the channel and subscribe to it. All right, let's get to the next story here. Let's get to the next story here. Trying to see which one to go with. Let's go with this one here. Dan Bonjino drops truth bomb. Vinnie, it's a truth bomb. FBI's assassination investigation. He's sitting with Cash Patel. They're asking about Epstein. Have we reacted to this yet?
Vinnie
I don't know.
Adam
We did do the Epstein.
Tom
This is a separate. It's from the same interview, and it happened on the same day, but it got overshadowed by the Epstein clip. This is where they talk about the July 13 shooting, attempted assassination of Donald Trump by Thomas Crooks. And this is where Dan Bongino says, if there was anything there that was bigger than just one guy doing it, I would tell you.
Pat
Play this clip. You know what, Maria?
Adam
Cash is not kidding. We've been personally briefed extensively on every single detail, nugget, tendril of this case. One is actively in court right now.
Pat
So out of respect for the case.
Adam
It'S probably more appropriate that I stay quiet on that. However, I'm not going to tell people.
Tom
What they want to hear.
Pat
I'm going to tell you the truth. And whether.
Adam
Whether you like it or not is up to you. If there was a big explosive there, there.
Pat
Right.
Adam
Given my history as a Secret Service agent and my personal friendship as a director, does with the president, give me one logical, sensible reason we would not have.
Pat
If you can think of one. There isn't. There isn't there in some of these.
Adam
Cases that there you're looking for is not there.
Pat
And I know people.
Adam
I get it. I understand.
Pat
It's not there. If it was there, we would have told you. Okay, Vinnie, okay thoughts. And by the way, I got a clip by Alex Jones. I want to show afterwards his reaction and another clip of before and after. But I want to go to you.
Vinnie
And Rob, that was in reference to.
Adam
Which assassination attempt, July 13th, Thomas Cross.
Vinnie
Okay. I don't know about you guys. I saw a couple of videos, body language professionals, what he said about the Epstein thing. And by Joe, I'll show there are clips of Dan Bongino going in on everything and all the. And then now it just seems very calm. It seems like he doesn't want to be saying the words that he that are coming out. Is this it, Rob? Could we play this, Rob?
Pat
Yep.
Vinnie
It's okay, Pat.
Pat
Go for it.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Pat
Listen, that Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal. Please do not let that story go.
Adam
Keep your eye on this. Katherine Rumler, I want you. We need to keep the heat on this case, folks.
Tom
There are a lot of people who.
Adam
Are knee deep in the Washington swamp.
Pat
Who are not telling you the truth.
Tom
About serious allegations out there that Epstein.
Pat
May have had video and audio of people out there doing things they shouldn't have been doing. And you should be asking yourself the question, how is it that all these.
Adam
People, the CIA director, the Obama fixer.
Pat
Bill Clinton all intersected past with Jeffrey Epstein? Jeffrey Epstein isn't with us anymore and.
Tom
Nobody seems to want to talk about.
Adam
It outside of a few entrepreneurial media.
Pat
Outlets saying, hey, this is a big deal. He killed himself.
Adam
Again, you want me to. I've seen that.
Pat
Okay.
Vinnie
And listen, he killed himself. I'm Pat, we've hung out with. I respect Dan Bongino immeasurably, but especially when it comes. Let's put the Epstein stuff to the side. You mean to tell me Thomas crooks that case just some white dude figured, by the way, flew a drone? Nobody said nothing. He was walking around. There's footage of him pointing and doing this. Police officers everywhere. He gets on the roof, people see him. There's Secret Service people in the building. Ok? He does all that. He has six cell phones on him. They get off. He's allegedly put off a shot. The parents are basically protected. And you want me to believe that just this random white kid set up in the perfect position and they all lied about the slanted roof. And out of all that, let's say even God forbid, Trump was shot and he died there, what would have happened? Kim Cheadle would have stepped down and got fired and case closed. Okay? I do not Believe you. I understand they're in a different position, Tom. And, and there's certain things you can't say, but if you think us, the American people, are going to believe that this lone gunman BS story is true, you have another thing coming, all right? Period. Period. And the Epstein thing, Pat, I don't give a damn, okay? Killed himself, whatever. I don't believe the noise. Who gives a shit? What about the 10 thousands of. 10 thousands of hours of young girls, children getting raped and whatever. Those people are still walking around. You know what I mean? You have the footage. They're still in society and they're still walking around. So how long, how many more hours are you going to watch while these people walk free? That's what I don't understand. Make a arrest. Give us one person. One. I don't care if it's Bill Gates. I don't care if it's Bill. I don't give a shit. I want somebody. Give us somebody.
Tom
I agree. I don't need to speculate. You know why? Because Pam Bondi walked up to a microphone and said there are 10,000 or tens of thousands, tens of thousands of videos and clips and we have to be careful about the identities. So I'm not out there. I'm not out there on the. With a tin hat, crazy train. I listen to Pam Bondi and I respect Pam Bondi, but I want her to finish up and put some dates and timelines on what she came out and she told us. Where is this? And I also want to see if there are people there that are. See, I'm not as worried about a congressman that went to Epstein island and had sex with a girl who was 17, not 19. I'm. I worry less about that. I want to know where are the people that were part of the feeder network that are running networks of this because they were in business and they're probably still in business trafficking kids to God knows where. Those are the people that I want stopped because this was a criminal enterprise. There was a constant flow. So I'm not ready again to put on my tin hat and get all freaked. Freaked out on one thing or the other, or whether a senator did this with somebody or Prince Andrew, they called him Randy Andy. He already had a reputation. There's nothing more to the story of Andrew is that this guy was an entitled royal who was just basically humping his way around the world. I'm not worried about that. I want to know where are these children now? And I want to know where are the people that were Trafficking them in. Because that's where it is.
Vinnie
Yep.
Pat
And.
Vinnie
Exactly. And unlike, like Tom, I used to drink. I haven't drank on May 31st is going to be my two year mark. Right. I have urges, but not like that. These pedophiles that are on this camera, they don't stop being pedophiles. You don't recover from being, you know, you're not a recovering pedophilia guy. You know what I mean? Like, that's horseshit. Those people are still walking around, Alex Jones. And they know who they are. They know where they are.
Pat
Watch this and tell us. Oh, we've closed it. He acted alone. We have the files. Don't. If you're going to crap on me or piss on me, don't, you know, don't rub it in. And don't tell me it's raining.
Tom
Okay, Please, please, just. I mean, can you not just as a PR issue.
Pat
Will you stop it? Kosh and Bongino. I know obviously, Dan, nobody's smarter than you, but if you want to go from being very popular to very unpopular and thus hurt Trump as well, just keep, keep going, Keep going, tough guy. Okay, I'm going to stop right there.
Adam
I'm getting angry, Alex.
Pat
And it's very insulting the American people to say Epstein killed himself. No one buys it.
Tom
It's very insulting to say that that.
Pat
Brainwashed mind control, classic mind control operative, acted alone. Please stop. The one that trained where the federal law enforcement trained all that.
Tom
His cell phone.
Pat
All around the federal building in dc, the FBI headquarters. Stop it. If you're not going to do anything.
Adam
About it, just shut up about it then.
Pat
Yep, but that's only going to encourage the group inside the government, the faction, to try to kill the big guy. Again.
Tom
I'm not trying to create some controversy.
Pat
Alex Jones turns on Trump, turns on the, turns on Bonjino. It's not that. I just. Please don't insult us anymore. Please, please, please. God. I mean, it's like getting up at a dinner party and taking a dump on a plate and telling everybody it's chocolate ice cream. I mean, you can possibly do that.
Tom
We can.
Pat
Well, that's what it ends well.
Adam
Look, you might not like what I have to say, Vinnie. Tom, it's amazing to see people that were avid supporters of Cash Patel and Dan Bongino just a week ago, a month ago, a year ago, completely turn on them. Because as he said, I'm not going to tell people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you the truth. And whether you like it or not, it's up to you. I know people, I get it. I understand it's not there. If I was there, we would have told you. So I'm going to take these people at their word, unless you think they're a liar. Because I had a conversation with somebody that's very in the know and he goes, sometimes, don't rule out sheer incompetence. Don't rule out people just messing up. Sometimes it's not a cover up. It's just a complete screw up.
Vinnie
Can I show.
Adam
So there is. Hold on.
Vinnie
Okay.
Adam
Because I know you just want to talk and not listen.
Vinnie
I'm listening a lot.
Adam
Sometimes.
Tom
Wait, wait, wait.
Adam
Sometimes incompetence.
Tom
All right, checking my notes.
Adam
The world's most underrated mastermind, if you would.
Pat
So you're saying you believe them?
Adam
I would say. Epstein, I'm not talking specifically about Trump and the Butler situation.
Vinnie
Okay?
Adam
That's not what we're talking about.
Pat
Go Butler and go Epstein.
Adam
I will do that.
Vinnie
Go ahead.
Adam
Okay, so I know a lot of people want to say, oh, it was the FBI, was the CIA that did this. That's the director of the FBI.
Vinnie
I think you would know now. Now he is.
Adam
So. I think you would know.
Vinnie
Okay?
Adam
So I just find it hilarious that the person that everyone was so in favor of, once they tell you what they know and the truth and it's not what you want to hear. Now you have an issue with them on this particular situation. Who has. And I love you. Who do I think has more credibility? Cash Patel, Dan Bongino or Vinnie? Okay, I love you.
Vinnie
I know where you're going to go with them. Okay? But I know you're going to say no. What am I going to say?
Adam
You're going to say, well, I don't believe them.
Vinnie
No, no, I don't believe Adam.
Pat
I don't believe.
Vinnie
What I'm saying is, Adam, you tend to believe them. You could talk to talk.
Adam
I'm not talking anything.
Vinnie
I'm believing them, not you. I'm saying they can make all the promise then, Adam. Then once they come in and the tune changes, yeah, we're going to talk because we.
Adam
So you're saying they're compromised?
Vinnie
No, I. I don't. Hold on.
Pat
Go ahead.
Vinnie
I don't know. I don't know what it is. But you know what I do know, Adam? From a ex military sniper shooting point of view, militant secret service, slope roof bullshit. None of it makes sense. None of it makes sense. And I understand that they have the behind the scenes and all the facts and everything. You can't tell me that Thomas Crooks, with his six cell phones and his parents being protected and his apartment being wiped out clean. Okay. And all that information. He acted by himself, Adam. Because you know what I believe in going back to the spirituality is evil. Evil. The left, that party, the deep state. I'm not saying all Democrats, their goal was to kill Trump, plain and simple. And it failed the first time they did the switcheroo with Kamala. Then Ryan Routh, Mr. Ukraine lover.
Pat
Weird.
Vinnie
Ukraine. You think Zelensky and them love Trump? No. They would have loved to have this guy taken out to get the money. Keep flowing in. Okay. I'm just not naive, Adam. Those two guys look like they've. They've been told to shut the hell up.
Adam
So they're compromised.
Vinnie
They might be compromised, Adam, when it comes to the Epstein thing, my question to you. Do you think in this four years we're going to find out anything about Epstein or we're going to get any closer to the truth?
Adam
I hope so. But you might know.
Vinnie
What do you think?
Adam
If there's.
Vinnie
Do you think we're going to get anything, like, from today?
Adam
Do you want me to answer the question? May 22.
Vinnie
No, May 22. Till Trump is gone. Anything?
Adam
I. I would hope so, but it's also probably doubtful because in my opinion, they don't want certain names who were on that island to come out. And what's the reason they don't want those names to come out?
Vinnie
The system will collapse.
Adam
Assuming.
Pat
Yeah.
Adam
Is those people probably run the world or at the very least, run the country.
Tom
Oh, yeah, Vinnie, you're going this way. And you're very clear about what you just said. I don't need to summarize it. And Adam's very clear on that. What I said is they both looked a little bit. A little bit stiff and a little bit uncomfortable there. But I don't. I. I'm not an expert. I don't know how to read that. But I. But I looked at it.
Adam
But don't you.
Tom
However, I. My point was, I just want Pam Bondi to finish the sentence she started when she walked to the microphone without speculation. So I'm probably, you know, that that's where I'm at. It's like, okay, Pam, then tell us, and then let's go after the criminal enterprise that was trafficking the kids.
Adam
Can I ask pbd, because basically what we're saying is the following. Do you believe Cash and Don Dan Bongino or Not so in my opinion, I actually believe them. Okay, so because you're basically saying, nope, they're not telling me what I think. So now I don't believe them. And there's nothing you could tell me otherwise. Do you. Do you think these guys have high credibility? Do you think they've been compromised since they entered office?
Pat
Dan Bongino said, please don't stop investigating this. If you're running a couple entrepreneurial organizations are the only ones that are talking about it. He specifically said that pre. Getting in his words. Right. So his words conflict with today's words. Now, that doesn't mean that can't happen many times, you know you will. Like for example, the whole story with the Rock going to Vince McMahon saying, I need you to pay me $2 million a year. And then he says, wait a minute, do you know how we make money here? Says, no. So why do you want me to pay 2 million? Because you just said you pay Stone Cold a million. I want to get 2 million. Vince says, Would you mind the next 90 days working with our CFO and accounting department to find out exactly how we make profits and how much our events cost? I don't mind doing it. Goes through it, comes back, says, you know what? After finding out exactly how you guys make money, you don't make a lot of money. It's a lost deal. I'll only take a million bucks. It says, great, but if you drive next year, he says, you know how much money you made? How much money did I make? I made 15 million bucks. You got to be kidding me. No, because you finally went in and saw the numbers. I'll give some credence to that. It's like when somebody wants to buy a company, oh, it's worth $200 million. You do quality of earnings. It's only worth $92 million. It's only worth 80. We're trying to buy this building here. The guy says, we'll sell it to you for 75 million dollars. I said, really? Yeah. I said, I'll make a 60 million dollar cash offer. Well, our net income, what is it? Net income, revenue, whatever. What was the net income?
Tom
Net rentals.
Pat
Net rentals they had was 5.2 million. Great. The moment the offer was made, they had to show it that 5.2 million very quickly became a couple million dollars. We're like, wait a minute, why would I pay you $60 million if it's only making this kind of money? So there is the element of finding out after you get in. However, however, however. For Me. You know, you have two of the biggest supporters of not believing what happened with Epstein. You want us now to believe it. You want us now to believe that the. The people that were trying to take out Trump, nothing happened there. There's a part of me that believes Trump is behind all of this. Not in the way that you think about it. There's a part of me that thinks Trump's behind all of this because Trump wants to use this as a leverage of negotiating against the enemy. So think about it this way. What if they had proof on what happened with Crooks? Should you drop it now, or do you need to hang on to that for the next four years to have control and authority? What happens if you hang on to that?
Adam
You're saying he's playing his cards close to the vest.
Pat
All I'm saying something.
Adam
And he's. And he's doing misdirection.
Pat
If I knew Crooks was an asset that was mind control, tied to somebody, somebody else was working with them, why would I release it now? Why does he need that ammunition right now? He doesn't need it yet. He's going to need it, trust me. The war hasn't even started yet on what they're going to try to do to destroy this guy. The war next year, I keep saying 2026 is going to be the greatest year in the history of America with, you know, July, June 15th being his 80th and 250, America's birthday, then World cup coming here. They're going to do everything in their power to make him and America look bad. He needs all of these pieces, all these cards for next year, all of them. My opinion, if I'm the President, I'm not going to leak that information today. I'm hanging on to it to know when we're going to drop the news. And when we do, it's got to be at a time that I'm going to destroy your party. I'm going to make sure the world knows about what you're doing. You best get your act together or else. You don't think he's capable of talking like that behind closed doors. So to me, all I'm thinking about is that right now he's saying, guys, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay. Because I'm going to need to stuff the next four, three years.
Adam
Mm.
Pat
Delay. All of it. I'm gonna need it the next three years. Because shit's gonna get nasty the next three years. It's going to.
Adam
But can I Respond real quick. Yeah, I think the way you think is incredible. And that's admirable because a lot of people don't think that, like, you're already, like, you, you wrote a book. You know your next five moves, you're thinking five, 10, 15 moves ahead. And Trump would be doing that in this regard for sure.
Pat
Thinking.
Adam
Okay, so my only counter argument would be, then why come out and make a statement that he didn't do it? All you would have to say is, it's still under investigation.
Pat
And no, because what this does is this stops it. It's like, done, go.
Adam
Yeah, but now we're talking.
Vinnie
Yeah, but, yeah, but you know, you.
Pat
Know what you could do later on? You could say, you want to believe what you just got. We got new information that we never had before.
Adam
It's script season two you're bringing back.
Pat
These are professional communicators. This is not a, this is not a regular. Like, these guys that do this job. You have to learn how to do this. The enemy is watching every single one of your moves. Remember, we have freedom of speech. China does not. Iran does not. Russia does not. We have freedom of speech. What is the benefit of not having freedom of speech? Your enemy is not able to see what you're doing. What is the benefit of having freedom of speech? You can't silence people that want to say stuff like we're saying right now if we had no freedom of speech. I can't. We can't even say what we just said right now. Yeah, because somebody told, well, listen, these guys are Trumpsters. This is not a good. Look, we're not sitting here saying we agree. So it's not. This is the part where the, the audience is kind of like, so what are you guys, Are you for it or are you not for it? No, look, we voted for certain things we want to know. But having said that, Vinnie, I still understand the idea of knowing, keeping a card because you know they're going to try to destroy you.
Vinnie
I, I, I get that, but I'm not comfortable with any leverage, any negotiations with kids being raped. Like, if the information is there, we deserve those kids deserve justice. Now, if it's a leverage tool with Trump and he's biding his time, I am 1000% not comfortable with that. Biting and waiting and, like, saving it. I understand it's a tactic move and he's trying to save it for the end game, but we're talking about kids that are on camera getting raped and they have it. And it's a. I am 1,000% against that.
Pat
If that's the case, there is a reason why there's a. When. When you choose to become the leader of the free world, there's only 46 people that have been able to do it. It's not a job for everybody, okay. When you get that job, it's very easy for everybody to act emotionally about everything. You're not cut out to be a president. You're too emotional to be a president. Makes sense. The job isn't for everybody.
Vinnie
Talking to Vinnie on that one, I would be horrible.
Tom
No, no.
Vinnie
I love America, but I'd have a heart attack.
Pat
Is a guy. You go to war and you say, go kill everybody. That's the bad guy. That's Vinnie. Vinny will get the job, guys.
Adam
Metaphorically speaking, yeah, of course.
Pat
But all I'm saying is to be a president, you know, it's kind of like this. How do you do with blood?
Vinnie
Meaning?
Pat
Could you be a heart surgeon? Me?
Adam
Yeah.
Vinnie
Yeah, for sure. Blood doesn't bother me.
Pat
You can cut skin open. It doesn't do anything. Do you remember when you were in boot camp and you had to give IV to somebody else?
Vinnie
Yeah.
Pat
Okay, how many people passed that? One? A lot of people just would pass that. Like, you have to give IV to another guy. There were linebackers that were passing out left and right. But what happened before they went in? Oh, it's gonna do nothing for me, dog. I'm gonna be the one, dog. I'm gonna be tough guy. And I was like, oh, the gangster just passed out.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Pat
What happened to the gangster? No, there is talking and then there's. You go in and you see the blood, and the average person can't handle it. And then the surgeon just cuts. Boom. Boom. Can you give me this? Boom. Boom. Boom. So what happened today? So can you give me that? Boom. Can you take this heart over here? Put it here? Boom. Okay. Boom. Let me see this. Boom. Only 1% of people can do that job. Less than 1% to be a president, it's not 1%. It's less than point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent can do the job. And to be able to do that job, you have to be able to see blood. Chaos, travesty, nasty bunch of stuff. And you not being emotional to go out and react like an emotional human being, it's not the job for everybody. I understand what you're saying. It's a very noble way of viewing it. I am right there with you. We're together. When something happens with the kids, we react in the same exact way. But you lose the ability to react that way when you're the president. You have to be more intentional. I understand. No less than 1% of people are going to agree with what I'm saying right now. Trust me. They're going to be like, this is the part that I'm going to side with. Vinnie. I get it. Me too. Even though I'm debating, I'm citing. But I, I, you have to understand this is a very, very difficult job. And there's some faces of this job that you have to be. What do you know what it is? Do you know what is one of the most important qualities to be able to be the president of the free world?
Vinnie
Not level head.
Pat
You have to be ice cold.
Vinnie
That's all I was just going to say.
Pat
You have to be ice cold.
Vinnie
Measured's the word.
Pat
It's no, you have to be ice cold. Ice cold to see what they did. They did that. Is this what they're doing? Okay, no problem. We'll never forget this. But let me tell you what we got going on. When is that event coming up? In seven months. On, in seven months. We're going to do this, this and put it in front of their faces so everybody sees it. But hang on till the seven months. Hang on till the seven months. That speech that Trump showed today in front of South Africa yesterday, he showed. How long has that been going on? Long time. How come he didn't show it early? How come he just showed it now? He's known about this. Is that a bad person? You have to wait till timing. You have to wait till timing to take somebody out. I watched a movie many years ago by the actor, what's his name? The guy that played 300. What is the guy's name? Gerard Butler. Yeah, he played a movie of a guy that I believe killed his daughter. Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this but anyone can get the same Premium Wireless for 15amonth plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities. So do like I did and have one of your assistants assistance. Switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do. @mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate first 3 months only then full price plan options available, taxes and fees, extra fee, full terms@mintmobile.com this episode is brought to you by Amazon Business.
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Pat
Oh, man. He kills his daughter.
Adam
Oh, man.
Pat
And this is a regular guy that goes out there and prepares for his vengeance.
Vinnie
Damn it.
Adam
For years, this one law abiding.
Pat
I don't know if it's that one or not. No, it's not Gerard Butler.
Adam
Gerard Butler was Jennifer Anderson in it.
Pat
So he prepares for this movie, revenge. Just type in revenge movie. Gerard Butler revenge movie. I think it was him. So he does a. I don't know if that's that. So maybe it wasn't Gerard Butler. He prepares for this revenge on this guy and he eventually buys a property behind his property of where he works. He starts developing a surgery center. He learns how to do surgery. Then eventually he befriends this guy, brings him in, sets him in there, drinks something, passes out, is laying on the bed, wakes him up to stay awake so he doesn't fall asleep. Gives him a medicine and he conducts surgery while he's alive, feeling everything with the pain, saying, this is what you did to my daughter.
Adam
Jesus.
Pat
That took 10 years.
Tom
That's the movie Citizen?
Adam
Yeah.
Pat
Is that the story, what I just said? Is that the one?
Vinnie
Yeah, yeah.
Pat
He waits 10 years to do this to the person. Ten years later, look at this. I haven't seen this movie for 15 years.
Vinnie
This was it.
Pat
Ten years later, he gets his revenge on the person that did what they did to his family. How soon do you want it? Do you think this guy wanted to kill the guy that killed his wife and daughter? How soon? Tomorrow? Yeah, but this is the way to do it. This is the way to do it and to be that ice cold and patient. It's not for everybody. The irrational emotional person is not capable of running the free world. You're just. It's not for everybody. It's a very tough job. And I understand where he's at. I don't understand what Bongino and Cash and some of these other guys are at. I respect these guys. They're formidable guys in the space and hopefully they'll come through and do their part. But I know where he's at and he doesn't have a job. That's for everybody. It's my position. I'll go to the next one. All right, Ron DeSantis, can we talk about this? Yeah. Ron DeSantis. This is from the Guardian. Fall from grace. He's completely crashed to the ground. Okay, so let's go over here. Crash to the ground. Rob, do you have a video on this or what is it?
Tom
I do. And this is regarding the Hope Florida investigation into Ron DeSantis.
Pat
What is that by the way? It says it here as well. Has lost his grip on the state legislative. Florida Republican House Speaker Daniel first accusing him of telling lies and stories that never happen. And this displaying temper tantrums. Political science professor Aubrey Jett noted that he's completely crashed to the ground at the point and certainly being treated like a more standard average governor. Now citing DeSantis autocratic style as a factor. DeSantis faced backlash over a 10 million dollar charity scandal involving his wives. Casey DeSantis hope Florida nonprofit with Perez questioning his transfer to political action committees while DeSantis dismissed the legislative agenda as pathetic. Jupiter observed at one point KC looked like she was going to be there. The heir apparent to Ron DeSantis. But a potential 2022 gubernatorial run is now challenged by Trump endorsed Congressman Byron. Byron Donalds. Rob, what is this?
Adam
This is Governor DeSantis.
Tom
I believe this was yesterday when he signed the Stop Swatting bill here in the state of Florida to ban swatting incidents for where, you know, SWAT teams are called your house under fake premises and they break in your home. And this is where he discusses the Hope Florida investigation into he and his wife.
Pat
The 10 million. He discusses it, yes.
Tom
He actually calls out the guy who is opening the investigation. Just understand, just understand what's going on here because I think you guys kind of twist and try to create narratives.
Pat
Rob, I can't hear.
Adam
Can't hear.
Tom
Rob One.
Vinnie
It's his mic. It's the guy's Micron's mic.
Tom
And he has a political agenda to try to smear Hope Florida to try to smear people associated with the administration. Even my wife, who's done a great job for this state by the way. Not just on Hope Florida, not just.
Adam
On Hope Florida saving taxpayers $100 million, getting 30,000 people off means tested welfare.
Tom
That's show me someone else in this country, country that has been able to do that. Not just that. The cancer initiative and the collaborative and the Innovation Fund. She obviously has experience with that. Also. She led the effort on school mental health. She worked with people like Ryan Petty and all this. You know how much she's ever gotten from anything she's ever done? Not one Red Cent, not one. She has led an initiative to help people and you have One jackass in the legislature.
Pat
I'm sorry, it's true. Who's trying to smear her?
Tom
Smear good people and just understand what happened. He took documents and he dropped them in a prosecutor's office. That is not an organic investigation. That's a manufactured political operation. That's all this is. Somebody with an agenda dropped off documents.
Pat
And that's all that.
Tom
That custodian of record said there is no basis to do an investigation on these facts. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows that this is political. And I can tell you she is more determined than ever to make a difference in the lives with Hope Florida. I'm more committed to Hope Florida than I've ever been.
Pat
And I think that. Okay, Tom, what do you think is going on here? DeSantis?
Tom
Well, there's definitely political stuff going back and forth. And I think the guy that he referred to as a jackass, he's talking about the Republican House Speaker, Daniel Perez. I think so, because Perez says he said the media, that he accused DeSantis of, quote, telling lies and stories that never happen and having, quote, temper tantrums, unquote. So that's from Daniel Perez. So I had not thought. I have not seen this particular clip in the research I did for this story. I didn't see that. And I had thought he was more quiet than that. But that was a full blown defense that you just saw right there. And this is political, but now the real question is it can be political and there also can be something there. And Hope Florida, you know, it would seem to me that all you have to say is, hey, come audit the books, did 10 million go somewhere that it shouldn't have gone? That's all you have to say? He dropped it off here. He did that. That could be true. But you can also just say, you know what, let's have a hearing and let's audit this. And I'd like DeSantis to see that. Now, the other side of it is the guy said he's completely crashed the ground. That's a political science professor saying that. And that's an obs. That's a pundit observation from the outside. So I don't know, but it sure seems like a lot of people are ticked off, including DeSantis. And if there's nothing to this, have a hearing, open the books and clear it up.
Pat
Who runs Hope Florida Foundation?
Tom
I do. I thought that is Casey DeSantis established it and she's on the board along with, as you would imagine, people that have worked with and for the government.
Pat
Gubernatorial campaigns Foundation was established in August 2023. The Hope foundation nonprofit affiliate with Florida's first lady Casey DeSantis is overseen by board of directors as seen 2025 board includes Joshua Hay. President Fatima Perez, Tina Vidal Dort, Stephanie White, Wendy Nissan. In 2025, the foundation faced scrutiny over 10 million auto donation received from a Medicaid settlement with Center Sentine Corporation. The funds were subsequently distributed to two nonprofits which then contributed to political committees opposing a marijuana legislation ballot measure cause Governor DeSantis opposed. Amid the controversy, several leadership changes occurred. Eric Dellenbeck, who had been serving as the executive director of Hope Florida program resigned from its position May 2025. Board members Mohamed Jaziel and Jake Farmer also resigned from the foundation. The foundation's leadership acknowledged opposed. These developments have prompted ongoing investigations. Yeah, I mean, the easiest thing to do is to just show kind of what happened here. Because if you don't, then they're saying this is gonna be the bill in the Hillary Clinton of the right.
Tom
That's right.
Pat
That's the last thing you wanna do.
Tom
What they're saying. 10 million left and it went to a donation and then those donations went to PACs. You can't do that. You're bouncing the money. You see what I mean? It's like if I gave you 5 million and I said, oh, I just paid Vinny a consulting fee for two years for, you know, media and other things like that. And then you turned around and donated that to a pack that was supporting something that. And I'm screaming about education in schools. And you gave it to a PAC that's putting money out there for education in schools.
Vinnie
You see that conflict of interest.
Adam
Yeah.
Tom
Yeah. Well, and it also kind of. It's the way money. This is what we've talked about. Ukraine.
Adam
Yeah.
Tom
Money goes Ukraine and it comes back into US packs or it comes back into US defense contractors that then really like Senator Oshana for some reason.
Vinnie
Vote for me.
Pat
I mean, but here's the part.
Tom
Just show it. Didn't say that's not what happened.
Pat
Guys, there is a guy that knows you're going to get caught with this. Wasn't he a lawyer in the military?
Adam
Jack.
Pat
He was a Jack lawyer. Yep. Wasn't he?
Tom
I mean, he's Judge Advocate General.
Pat
Yeah. He's been. He's been doing this for a minute. Doesn't he know this is a. Probably not a good idea? The last thing you want to be is the bill and Hillary Clinton of the right.
Tom
You don't want this to be your.
Pat
Whitewater no, you run. You. So anyways, I'll give my final thoughts. Adam, your thoughts on this.
Adam
Seems like a job for Dogeman to show up and figure out what the hell is going on here, because this is not a good look for DeSantis. Then again, could this just be a political hit job? There's some truth to this. I don't know. Here's what I do know. In 2024, legalization of marijuana was on the ballot in Florida, and it's been inching closer and closer and closer in Florida, and it failed yet again. And it passed in Nebraska, which is, I would assume, a little bit more conservative than Florida. So I don't know what the hell's going on with these initiatives, but in my opinion, I would like to see marijuana legalized in Florida. I think marijuana is a way less addictive, way less dangerous substance than alcohol. I think the worst thing you can do on marijuana is like not do for a little bit.
Tom
Okay, Marijuana. Do you think it hurts or helps? DeSantis, I would love to do one.
Adam
Of your bong noises right now to coincide with this, but I. This is not a good look for DeSantis or Casey, and I don't know what's going on with it.
Pat
Let me tell you. Let me tell you with that.
Adam
But Byron Donald's is running for governor, so we'll see what he has to say.
Pat
Here's. Here's a challenge I have with this year. He doesn't give me the vibes that he's capable of doing something like this. So, look, a lot of desantis people cannot stand me. They cannot stand me because they blame me for the end of his campaign. And you. The last day his campaign was. We came on your podcast and, you know, everybody talked about the shoe gate and all bootgate and all this stuff. And you're the one that did this. Okay, I got it. I. Trust me, I get it. Till today, Desantis, people walk up to me and we talk and all this other stuff. I said, don't blame his lack of marketing on me. One podcast, okay? He. He made very bad moves when it comes down to marketing. But as much as I see that as a terrible marketer, I don't see the guy doing something like this. I don't see him as a criminal. I don't see him as doing anything like this. Now let me give you the other part. That is a problem sometimes, which is why I prefer people who have been in business and have made money that eventually have high level positions that they're running states. You know why I like that? Because when you run a business, you've gone through plenty of lawsuits and you've had issues and you've made money and you're not tempted to for a hundred thousand dollars or half a million dollars or $5 million or $2 million, you know, you're like, whatever. I don't, I don't need any of that stuff. I've already made the money. I don't need the money from you. Right. It allows you to be a little bit free. But sometimes when you're in moments like this. How many parties do you think he's gone to where he's around rich people?
Vinnie
So many.
Tom
All of them.
Pat
All of them. And how many times do you think he comes home with his wife and is like, you know what? When are we going to have some money? You know what? Why don't we do this? Everybody else does this. Why, why don't we do it? So they, they're doing this. They're. How about we make some money? It's about time with all the service that we make some money here. And I don't even know how they made money here. How's the money made here? Tom, what does this do? Like, can we find out what her salary is with Hope Florida Initiative kickback?
Tom
That's always, that's always the issue with nonprofits is salary and then getting paid to speak.
Pat
Yeah. What is Casey DeSantis's income from Hope? It should be public right from Hope. What is it called? Hope Florida. What is it called? Hope. What? Give me the name.
Tom
Hope Florida.
Pat
Hope Florida. Oh, it's not telling you. Does it show you what her salary.
Tom
It says first lady Casey DeSantis does not receive a salary from the Hope Florida Foundation.
Pat
That's what I'm saying. Look, I've, I, I spent some time with him and 3, 4 hours just to watch how she is. They don't give me the vibe that they're doing this. They give me the vibe that they love America. They give me the vibe that they're very ambitious. They give me the vibe that he's a very good fighter, that he fights. He's just not as good of a marketer and stage guy as Trump is. He's not. And by the way, this could also be some of the people that are wanting more Byron Donalds than him to win. This could be a very simple, you know, little thing that you throw in there that, you know.
Vinnie
They'Re talking about it.
Tom
There's no reason to, there's no reason to, to shoot at him politically because there's just going to be.
Pat
He's works, though. I know it does. But Casey can't run because this, this goes with her and they want Casey to run. And by the way, I'm not even a fan of Casey running. I'm not even like, you know, so they neutralize. Yeah. They're trying to eliminate her running. It's actually a good strategy, but it's deceptive and dark.
Tom
Yeah.
Pat
And you got to get ahead of it. There is 5% chance that I believe they're capable of doing something this dumb to tarnish a good reputation that they have. Do they have a reputation of being arrogant and not calling Trump? Yes. Do they have a reputation of being a little bit insecure and trying to seem bigger than they really are? Yes. Do they have a but do they have a reputation of running the state incredibly well during COVID and making the world want to come here? Yes. So now I, I, I have a hard time with this one. I have a hard time with this one. But you know, if there's proof, there's proof. If she's not taking any income. So how did this financially benefit? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what's going on here. But we'll find out. We'll find that. Stories come out. Okay, let's go to the next story. California. We haven't forgotten about you guys. Every time we don't do stories about California, people in California get upset. Let us do a story for you guys to excite you a little bit. State Farm not satisfied with the 17 rate hike in California. They're asking for nearly 30% and you know, California politicians are not going to be okay with this, but Tom's got an opinion on this. So the 17 hike. California homeowners plans to request an additional 11% to get nearly to 30%, San Francisco Chronicle reported. A week after securing approval to raise home insurance rates by 17, State Farm General revealed plans to ask regulations for an additional 11% following an emergency approval by Commissioner Ricardo Lara due to recent LA fires. California wildfire victims criticized State Farm for low ball and damage estimates of practice. Senator Josh Hawley said the company has been accused of in other US disasters. Despite this, Laura granted the 70% hike, 17 hike effective June, though State Farm originally sought 30% increase in June 2024. Tom?
Tom
Well, this, the story won't die. And the reason it won't die is because the problem can't die easy and it won't die Easy. And so State Farm is saying, I need more money to run my company effectively and provide coverage in California. And I think State Farm was frustrated that they didn't get the increase they wanted, but they saw the backlash. They saw what's going on in the media. They saw that the consumer, the people that were surveyed was like, hell no, I don't want to be put on Fair Plan by accident. So it's like, Pat, you and I could own houses in Malibu and get forced on the Fair Plan. Now we have no choice. And we're like, wait, we don't want to be on Fair Plan. Sorry, dude. You get Fair Plan, which has a cap, Remember cap of $3 million to three and a half million dollars. I think it's being raised to 4 of coverage for your house. So, Vinnie, if you're forced to go on Fair Plan and you have a $10 million house in Malibu, guess what happens? Burns the ground. You get 4 million, 3 million from Fair Plan and the rest you eat because you're rich and you can afford it. There's a lot of people that are frustrated by that. And so I think State Farm read the tea leaves and said, you know, if we leave California, Newsom and everybody here have got more trouble. And let's face it, State Farm wants to operate at a profit, but they have paid out record amount of dollars. Now, to Josh Hawley's point, have those payouts been fair for each and every policyholder? Like, did you, you needed 400 for your house and they said, here's 360. Take her to leave it. And you had to eat the 40. You know, that happens a lot with adjusters. But this is State Farm saying, look, you want me to. There's a little bit of. State Farm can do this at gunpoint now, and there's a little bit of California kind of screwed this thing up. And then. And now you've got this playing out. This wouldn't be happening if, if California had good management of the infrastructure systems, of the water systems or reservoir systems, a well and a well vetted and well equipped fire department, they would have been ready for this. Would the, would the wind, you know, driving those fires still have caused tremendous damage? Yes, but would have been tremendously less. And you wouldn't have State Farm on the brink of leaving the state, which puts all these people in a pinch. So you know what I'd love to see, you know, because I have sat down with people that have brought me business plans. So is Pat. I'd loved Gavin Newsom to Sit down and say, look, you've got aspirations to run on a national stage, but what's your business plan for California? How do you make this work? Take me through the plan. How do you deal with the big three in California, which right now is border, you know, homelessness insurance. Those are like the three that are bouncing around regardless of who you survey. I'd love to see Gavin Newsom sit down with somebody and talk about what are you gonna do? And you know, set aside some of your hand gestures and stuff and just sit down and say, here's the fix for insurance in California. Because I, you know, I got a lot of friends that still live there that are asking that exact question. Hablas espanol spries Tu deutsche nosch.
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Adam
So it really sucks to live in California. From a math perspective. I get it that there's mountains and there's beaches and it's you can ski and surf on the safe day, but to live and to afford California. Show me how the math is mathing on this one, guys. Here's just some quick numbers for you. The median household income for America is $80,000. The median household income in California is $90,000. Okay, so it's a $10,000 difference. Now let's talk about homeownership. The average homeownership of America is between 4 and $500,000. So if you're looking at a home in California that's going to cost you between 800 and $900,000. So it's almost double the price of a house in the rest of America. But the average income is 20% more. How the hell do you afford to live in California?
Pat
What opinion do you have specifically about this?
Adam
So now you own this house and. And now you can barely afford it. So now you have to pay 30% premium on insurance that you didn't necessarily account for. So just. This is a math issue. You know what this reminds me of is almost like the reverse Covid thing.
Pat
Let me ask you this, though, but here's the question. You're the governor of Florida, you're the governor of California.
Adam
Sure. All right, here we go.
Pat
I'm State Farm, and I tell you, hey, Gavin, respectfully, if. If we can't go to 30%, I'm at a loss. My board is not going to let me stay here. I have to leave the state, and I'm going to have to give you 12 months.
Tom
Yep.
Pat
So I can't afford to pay all these fire stuff that just happened, and I can't comfortably stay here. It's costing the company a lot of money and it's making a very challenging. So what can we do here?
Adam
Well, is State Farm the only option?
Pat
They have a few options, but they've lost a lot of options.
Adam
Who else have we lost?
Pat
You want to know how many they've lost? A handful of options. Okay, a lot of options, but. But you already know you have a homeowner's insurance problem in the state of California.
Adam
Yeah, exactly. So, you know, what business are we in? We're the insurance business. But not only in the insurance business. We're in the brokerage business. Right. So what happens when only one carrier is the only option? Well, you're going to get screwed because you only have one option.
Pat
Yeah.
Adam
One of the best things in life is having options. So you work through a whole a wholesaler or a BGA or an agent.
Pat
So right here, let me just says you have 10 different options in 2022. Allstate paused sales of new homeowners insurers in California due to wildfire risk and higher operational costs. This is 2022 before the fire. Farmers Insurance Group began limiting coverage in California in 2023, and one of its subsidiaries, Farmers Direct Property and Casualty Company withdrew from the state entirely later that year. Nationwide, a company informed California in 2023 that it would stop renewing all of its homeowners insurance policies in the state by June of 2025. Next month Chubb announced in 2021 it would significantly reduce homeowners coverage in California, pointing to wildfire risk. Hartford stopped writing new homeowners insurance policies early 2024. This is a year ago. American national announced in 2023 would stop offering homeowners insurance policies in California. Travelers announced it would not renew homeowners insurance policies for thousands of California properties in 2022 and 2023 due to wildfire risk. This is all before the big fire that happened in Malibu Palace Verdes. So your options. They're all leaving.
Adam
Exactly.
Pat
So, so what do you do? You're the governor.
Adam
So listen, what's the basic premise of, of economics? Supply and demand. Demand is super high because you need homeowners insurance because you know fires are burning down your house and the supply is completely limited. So who gets screwed here? The average person that just wants a house, how the hell can they afford it? That was my initial point, is that the homeownership already caused so much.
Pat
My question, I get your argument. What do you do if you're newsome in the time? What do you do if you're newsome in this situation?
Tom
Gavin Newsom, I have to.
Pat
I ask you publicly. We're doing the interview similar to the way Megyn Kelly did with Jake Tapper. You have you asked the question? State farm goes to 17. They're still at a loss. Okay, they are still at a loss. If you don't take them to 30, they're shutting down. Like nationwide, like farmers, like all state, like others. What are you gonna do, Governor, if.
Tom
I'm Newsom, this is not a politically good answer, but this is what he has to say. And I'm not gonna imitate him. You can do that, Vinnie. But he's gotta say there's gonna be some short term pain because I gotta give a State Farm the rate increase. And I'm meeting with all the insurance companies and I'm talking about a multi billion dollar plan for forestry management and reservoir management. And I'm putting these things in place in these bordered areas so that we can reduce the risk of loss when wildfires happen. And I'm putting pressure on PG&E for more active forestry management in the smaller communities like where they had those wildfires and Entire communities of 3,4000 homes were wiped out. So I have to put it in two sides. California, we're going to have pain. But I am, because I got to authorize this. Otherwise you don't have carriers to offer it. I'm going to talk to the other carriers and I'm going to show you, show them what California is doing with active programs to reduce the risk of loss because wildfires will happen. But we can have reservoirs, we can have more fire teams, we can have response rates that are going to be there to react to it. So reduce the loss. Okay, that's, that's if I'm governor, that's what I have to do. And I got to sit down with travelers and say, will you, will you at least renew?
Pat
So now I'm going to turn around with the question with Governor Gavin and you're the governor, I'm going to say that's a great answer and that's fair. But let me show you this other thing here. This is as of seven months ago, 10 months ago, California is home to nearly 40 million people, 55% of whom are estimated to own homes. If you are a current prospective California homeowner, finding home insurance may be a challenge. In fact, the California association of Realtors 2023 Annual Housing Market Survey found that nearly 7% of real estate deals in the state fell out of escrow because buyers couldn't afford insurance. So Gavin Newsom, question for you. If State Farm is asking for a 17% rate, that means with their current rate, 7% of buyers are still following through. What will this 7% be? If you allow State Farm to raise their insurance policy prices, which they have to 30%, what is that 7% going to?
Tom
I have analysts in my office looking at this and we're hoping to cut that in half.
Pat
How are you going to do it?
Tom
Because you have to, you, you have to get carriers that are willing to.
Pat
Write these politics, but you talking politics. So this is the part that he has a very, very big problem at his hand and I don't know quite frankly what he's going to do with it. So Adam, unless if you have an answer, I'm going to the next one.
Adam
So you say all the time that bad policies have consequences. These are the, these are the consequences of basically all the policies that have led to this. If you want an answer, you know, how did you end up in Texas? You got recruited for the most part. You tell the story about Governor, I think it was Rick Perry at the time.
Pat
Yep.
Adam
That took you to a, I think.
Tom
A baseball gamer at the time, an expansion minded mayor named Masso.
Adam
Thank you. They recruited. So if I'm go, if I'm Gavin Newsom, I need to go back hat in hand to the rest of these carriers and start recruiting. You've been in the insurance business for 20 plus years. You understand what it means to have relationships with multitude of carriers.
Pat
Adam, I'm already. But what I'm saying is you need a recruit.
Adam
You need to recruit.
Pat
They're not coming. Well, then they're not coming.
Adam
Then you need to bring them back.
Pat
No, you need to figure out. But you don't understand what I'm saying to you, Adam. On one end, if you don't allow the insurance company to raise their rates 30%, they're leaving. On the other end, if you allow them to increase the rates of going up 30% for them to be profitable. If you do that, homeowners are not buying houses. This is a double edged sword for the state of California that is not going to be addressed that quickly. This is not going to be addressed. That this is a travesty. This is catastrophic. This is. This is not something small.
Tom
This is 20 years in the making.
Pat
Not something. This is why I'm going to. And guys, I don't mean to push you guys around. What I'm trying to get to is there is no answer to this. Right.
Adam
What would you do?
Pat
He doesn't have it.
Adam
So you tricked me. Of course, no matter what I said.
Pat
You'Re like, no, the point is there is nothing. Unless if you guys come up with a creative idea. Yeah, there is nothing he can do.
Adam
Here, here's an idea. Or run for president and get the hell out of California. Newsom.
Pat
But do you know, do you know what the real, real answer is here? Do you know what the real answer is here? If you have to choose between the two pills, which one do you take? Allow the insurance companies to raise the rate or. Now that 7% becomes 20% of people are not buying their homes because they can't afford homeowners insurance. Which of those two pills do you take?
Adam
You got to raise the rates.
Pat
You got to raise the rates. You got to raise the rates because guess what? You know why you got to raise the rates? Because I'm not buying a house if I don't have insurance. Because I don't think you're taking care of the fire stuff anytime soon. Nope. I don't know if you're taking care of the earthquakes anytime soon. Why would I buy a home without a homeowner's insurance? I'm not going to be doing that. There's a name for. They called. Right. What do they call it? The people that free. Free ball.
Tom
Fair plan.
Pat
No, no, no. There's a name for people that go.
Adam
Oh, they're just Free ball. Yeah, they're free Ball.
Pat
There was a name for it that they don't even. Anything. There's a term they use in Californ. No, no, there's a term they use in California for those who go without having homeowners insurance. There's a term they use. I don't know what the term is called on. There's a term for it or they're.
Adam
Just rolling the dice.
Pat
No, there's a. There's a term they use.
Vinnie
Anyways.
Pat
Okay, so that's California.
Adam
Why the hell would you buy a house at this point?
Pat
Let me go to. Let me go to the next story here about what President Trump did. Rob, what page is the one with the Golden Dome? What page is the one with the Golden Dome? I don't know if we have it here or not.
Tom
Golden Dome is page four.
Pat
All right, let's go through Golden Dome. Obviously, dude, Adam, Vinnie and Tom had strong opinions about this. Trump unveils ambitious and expensive plans for Golden Dome. Vinny Missile defense. So this is what Israel had. But I love the way he did this deal. I absolutely love the way he did this deal. Rob, please play the clip. I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state of the art system that will deploy next generation technologies across the land, sea and space, including space based sensors and interceptors. And Canada has called us and they.
Vinnie
Want to be a part of it.
Pat
So we'll be talking to them. They want to have protection also. So as usual, we help Canada do the best we can. This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we'll have it done in about three years. Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of.
Tom
The world, and even if they're launched from space.
Pat
And we will have the best system ever built. As you know, we helped Israel with theirs and was very successful. And now we have technology that's even far advanced from that. But including hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air. We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland. And the success rate is very close to 100%, which is incredible when you think of it. You're shooting bullets out of the air. I'm also pleased to report that the.
Tom
One big beautiful bill will include $25.
Pat
Billion for the Golden Dome to help construction get underway. That's the initial sort of a down positivity. And we have probably. You're talking about General, we're talking about $175 billion total cost of this when it's completed. Okay. So, Tom, thoughts on this?
Tom
Well, there is a comment. First of all, I like it. We have to do this. And if anybody has seen what the Iron Dome has done to protect the citizens of Israel who have all these rocket attacks coming at them and what they've done and how they've been protecting it, you can see these are the kind defense systems at work. And thank goodness that they exist. And now we're just talking about taking it to next generation. Next generation. And by the way, I love the quote. Now, it's not that I love the quote like, I like the quote. It was very ironic quote from the Foreign Ministry spokesperson of China, Mao Ning, who goes by Mao, Gee, that's appropriate. He said, quote, the U.S. by putting itself first and being obsessed with pursuing absolute security. Yeah, yeah. Protecting our citizens. Right. He continues, this violates the principle and diminishes the security for all and undermines global strategic balance and stability. Wait a minute. It doesn't undermine balance. It helps ensure balance. Because you're trying to build stuff like this.
Vinnie
You're.
Tom
China is saying this. You're undermining the balance. Yeah, the balance with your thumb on the scale, Mao and the underlying global stability. No, you're undermining stability. We're bringing stability back. Because when the Pershing missiles were threatened to go to Germany, the Berlin Wall came down. There's a lot of things that came before Reagan's speech. Reagan's speech was tremendous, and it was a challenge. But guess what? It brought stability and balance into Europe. And this brings security to the US People can talk about, oh, well, it's unproven technology. Well, that's what the money is for, is to go do it. But it's pretty comical to have Mao from China saying, oh, the US Putting itself first and being obsessed with the personal security of its citizen is undermining global balance and stability.
Pat
That statement alone says a lot about their motives.
Tom
Oh, my gosh.
Pat
Oh, nothing revealing. Revealing insecurity and concern of ways they'd want to attack. Adam, you've been to Israel many times.
Adam
Oh, yeah.
Pat
And you've been. Have you ever been there where there's an attack and seen what happens with the Dome? Yeah. Okay, what does it look like?
Adam
But actually, I'm not saying this is like I've experienced it all. It happens all the time, Rob. Look at What I just sent you, these are just typical. This is my buddy who's in Israel as we speak. This is a Tuesday. And he goes, these are the missiles the Iron Dome just intercepted on a Tuesday. So people won't understand what's like, who's Israel fighting? It's the same enemy that America will be fighting if we don't recognize the danger of radical jihadist terrorists all around the world. Imagine you're in San Diego and Mexico shooting missiles, whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis. Rob, there's multiple images. I don't know if you have more than that. That's the, the major city, Tel Aviv. Do you see how many missiles are flying? This is not casual, guys. You're in San Diego, you're in Miami, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, almost at the war over it.
Pat
So now they're doing this. He wants to do it here. So.
Adam
So, yeah, so people understand. What's a strange relationship that Israel has with America? Well, we sort of help fund the Iron Dome. And there's been many questions. Why are we funding a foreign country? Why are we doing this? Well, it's called, let's see how it works over there. When people are getting bombed on a daily basis, missiles on a daily basis. See what works, see doesn't, what doesn't work. And now when we bring it here to America, we'll know the pros, the cons, the, the leaks, the opportunities of what we're going to build here. So Israel is on the front lines of exactly what United States is preparing with this Golden Dome. I think it's amazing what Trump is doing. And they used Israel as a tester, startup example of what works and what doesn't work. You know what I like about the.
Pat
Way he did the deal? Here's what I like about the way he did the deal. The deal. 25 billion to start off, going to end up costing 175 billion. He's making Canada participate and pay for a portion of it. Why? Because Canada's military expenditure is only 1.2, 1.3% of their GDP. We're on 3 and a half percent, Mexico's 0.7%. So the way he's doing the deal is great as a. Canada's going to pay for it as well. Carney has apparently agreed to do this. And then the way he says it, when is it going to get done? Did you see when it was going to get done? Right before the end of his term. Why does it get done right before the end of his term? Weird. It is Kind of weird.
Adam
By the way, in your opinion, why are we creating this? Meaning what countries or organizations are we most worried about would potentially shoot missiles?
Pat
This is life insurance.
Adam
Okay.
Pat
This. You're not doing it because of anything. You're just buying insurance.
Adam
But. But go there. What countries do we fear that would potentially do this?
Pat
Was the first person that reacted to it?
Vinnie
China. China.
Pat
China reacted to it. Right. You got.
Adam
Who else?
Pat
I. I don't know if it's that many. I don't know if it's that many.
Adam
You know, I have four on my list.
Pat
Okay, who do you have? China, Russia, Iran. And who's your. I have North Korea.
Adam
In a very particular order. I have North Korea, last of these four. I have Russia.
Tom
Third.
Pat
Okay.
Adam
I have China, second and first, and it's not even close. Is Iran.
Pat
Okay.
Adam
Why is Iran the most dangerous, in my opinion? Because they believe in the afterlife. They don't believe in life. They'll take us all to heaven or hell to go see Allah and not even blink twice. China. What's the religion in China? Nothing. They believe in the state. Communism. What's the religion in Russia? I don't know. Whatever Putin allows you to do. North Korea. They pray to the dictator in Iran.
Tom
Christian.
Adam
Okay. Yeah. Well, allegedly.
Tom
Well, Russian orthodox.
Adam
Iran, they will take everybody to hell in a handbasket and not even think twice. They're playing by completely different set of rules.
Vinnie
Just trying to have nukes.
Adam
Yeah. China has nukes.
Vinnie
Iran doesn't have. China has to be.
Pat
That we know about.
Vinnie
Yeah. China has to be number one.
Adam
And that's.
Vinnie
China is our biggest threat, hands down, plain and simple. Those. And mind you, those spy balloons that were flying over. I know Biden reversed a bunch of policies that Trump made. And by the way, Trump made space force for a reason. Everything is strategic with him. And guess what? I did some research. You know what? China's way of dropping an emp, which, mind you, it's only a matter of time till they go off to the grid. That's how they do it, Tom. They fly these balloons because they can't really be detected, and they drop them at high altitude and a large area is finished. Adam, I get it. Iran is bad.
Tom
Especially creates that electrical pulse you can read about in physics that neutralizes things that are passing electricity.
Vinnie
Yeah, Iran, Yeah. Screaming it. But yo, China's been at war with us and they have all multiple fronts. The brainwashing of the kids, the flying the balloons, the monitoring, the trying to screw us over with money. Covid.
Tom
By the way, say what you will about all these things. If your enemy, the weapon of militaries is the nuclear sub.
Vinnie
Yes.
Tom
That is the weapon instead of arsenal. And Iran has 19 subs. They have a reasonable, not a formidable, reasonable navy. But China and Russia have formidable navies.
Adam
Exactly.
Tom
And you don't want Iran to have nukes and then now have a nuclear sub where you can, you can get pretty far.
Pat
Let me go to a story that I think all of you guys have opinions on Israel preparing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities even as Trump tries to negotiate the deal. Report says. Okay, so Rob, if you can, if you have a clip. I don't know if you have a clip on this. No, you don't. I don't. Okay. Israel, US Intelligence officials. This is from New York Post cited by CNN report. Israel is preparing a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facility with a source stating the chance of an Israel strike on an Iranian nuclear facility has gone up significantly in recent months. And a prospect of a Trump negotiated U. S Iran deal that doesn't remove all of Iran's uranium makes the chances of a strike more likely. Interceptor messages and Israel military movements including air munitions and exercises indicate an imminent attack. Despite President Trump's diplomatic efforts, Israel feels caught between a rock and a hard place due to the stated stalled U. S Iran talks. With former intelligence officer Jennifer Pannikov noting at the end of the day, the Israeli decision making is going to be predicated on U.S. policy determinations and actions and what agreement President Trump does or does not come to with Iran.
Adam
Adam Vinny, you go first. Go ahead. Let me just. I'm sending Rob.
Vinnie
Okay, well, listen, Trump is trying to work out a deal to keep things from spiraling.
Pat
All right?
Vinnie
He's working on diplomacy. That's the angle, the anti war angle and trying to avoid another pointless war. Okay. And Israel is moving like they don't give a damn. And I get it. Iran is bad. Let's put that to the side. But like diplomacy is just a stall tactic. And they what, what they really want is strikes. Okay? Bibi's. It's not like he's hiding it. He wants us and them to go to war with Iran. You guys remember last week when I reported about Mike Waltz using the Israeli signal chat? What was he doing? He wasn't messing around. He was in contact with Israeli officials that they were discussing national policy, Iran being on the forefront and he was trying to quietly help persuade to pull us in a conflict that we're watching unfold in front of our eyes. Okay. But even with Them gone. Israel's acting. They're still going to move without us. The reports are coming out that Bibi and Trump, they're not really cool, they're not really on talking terms. But listen, this Iran strikes, it's going to lead to a freaking war. Israel's our allies. We're going to get dragged into this shit. I don't want any American troops or any other war. Trump is trying to avoid it at all costs. But Bibi, if Bibi wants it, Bibi's going to get it. If he wants to do it, good luck, go do your thing, okay? Don't be dragging us into that shit, because we know that's what's going to come out. And I don't care about any other country except America. And I want 00American troops to be in harm's way because of a guy that's been begging for a war. Yes, there's. They're bad. And there's other ways to take care of Iran, but bombing and starting another war, I'm not a fan of it at all, period.
Pat
Adam.
Adam
Well, listen, Trump and Bibi Netanyahu, I think they're on the same page. They have aligned interests, but they don't have the exact same interests. So you're going to disagree with an ally of yours, you're not gonna agree on everything, because there's two totally different things going on here. Trump at his fiber of his being, he's a dealmaker. He wants to make a deal. He wants to show, yeah, that deal that Obama did was a bad deal. I wanna put together a good deal. Trump wants to win Bibi Netanyahu, he's worried about his existence. You've heard the term existential threat. Iran is an existential threat to not only Israel, to the rest of the world, to the rest of the region. Why do you think to Saudi Arabia, why do you think even Qatar, Why do you think UAE is so keen to do a deal here? Because they know that the threat to the Western civilization or to the modernization of the world is the Islamic regime in Iran. So Trump's concern is not as extreme as Bibi Netanyahu's. So would Trump like to see a deal? Hell, yeah. Would Netanyahu like to see some function of a deal? Hell, yeah. But if a deal isn't done, in my opinion, there's one thing that the Israeli government, whether it's left, right, center, is not going to allow happen, and that is the Islamic Republic of Iran to get a nuclear weapon. We all know that they have allegedly taken Out. Some of the scientists, the nuclear scientists, they go missing, they take these people out. They all know that they have taken down some of their defense missile capabilities. So the next logical step is if someone's an existential threat. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Death to America. Death to Israel. There's a clock, I don't know if you can find this. There's a clock in Iran and it's the Israel death clock. So you're not, this is what I was talking about earlier. You're not dealing with logical actors. They believe in jihad, they believe in Sharia law, they believe in the afterlife. And if that's what you believe, you're willing to take out everybody around you to accomplish that goal. Here's Iran's doomsday clock for Israel, For Israel's end. Well, ironically it ran out of power right there. But they're an existential threat. And yeah, they might be coming for Israel, but they're also coming for the Western world. And how many. Do you see these stories, by the way, shifting gears about people just out there saying they're, they're Islamify, Islamifying churches now? Because in my opinion, you'd correct me if I'm wrong, first they come for the Saturday people, the Jews, and then they're coming for the Sunday people, buddy, that's you guys. So you might be thinking, wow, look, you know, just let them deal with the Jews. That's no big deal. You think they're stopping there? My Christian friends, my Catholic friends, they're coming for you next.
Tom
And the useful idiots die last.
Adam
And then they're going to recruit.
Pat
Go ahead and play the clip.
Adam
Dumb Americans. Go ahead. Who's this guy?
Pat
We are buying these churches. We bought three churches so far, converted them to masters and now we have one. We are buying with a school to make it because we have to serve the same people, the people who were part of that community. One day they will be Muslims. So we will make it into a masjid and an Islamic school for our children and their children. Inshaallah hundred years ago they invaded the Muslim world and they built missionary schools and destroyed Islamic schools and masjids. Today we bring the favor back.
Adam
Turn their churches into masjids and their.
Pat
Schools into Islamic schools. Bring the light of Islam to here. We're able to buy ready to go institutions that have been there for a long time. But they emptied out. And now it is time to be filled with Muslims with reverts converts. This is an election year, but we're not going to be happy with either candidate. We have to be happy when Islam becomes the best candidate for us. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta' ala to give Islam the victory in this country. Tom, your thoughts on what's going on with Israel, Iran, Israel attacking Iran? Are you uncomfortable with it? Where are you at with that?
Tom
No, look, the fact that it's in a headline doesn't mean that it's not happening if there's no headline. The US And Israel strategically work to neutralize assets all the time. And it just happened that Soleimani and a motorcade around the back of a. The airport was a high visibility target. And you know, that missile made a loud sound. But there are underlings in people that are getting neutralized all the time. You see, just. And so I do not believe for a minute that the U.S. and the U.K. by the way, even though the U.K. is teetering because of its government, they are still supporting the neutralization of the nuclear capability. And if the rumor is that Israel's gonna do it, Israel may do it, but the dog don't go off the leash unless we unclip it, and the US Is right there with it. So Israel's not gonna be acting alone on there, because to take out centrifuges and capabilities, that's in everybody's interest, and we're right there with them. And so do I think that there's. Where there's smoke, there's fire, that there's something cooking here? If our intelligence tells us that they are really close on the systems and everything where they can do that with the uranium, now you've got core, it's not terribly hard to build the bomb around that. And then you just. You deploy the bomb, which is why Japan's been getting so nervous for the past 15 years when North Korea keeps building slightly better and slightly better and slightly better, you know, missiles that they casually launch into the water, and they have these.
Adam
And South Korea is even more concerned.
Tom
Than South Korea is. Like, that thing just flew by us, and everybody's concerned about it. So. And. And that's why. What did Trump do? Trump went over there and talked to the kid, right? In North Korea, Kim Jong Un. Yeah, yeah, the kid, yeah. Because his dad was even more bonkers. So what do I think? I think that you have to neutralize what's going on there in terms of nuclear capability.
Pat
What if Israel doesn't listen? What if Israel says we're going to.
Vinnie
Do it anyways without Trump, without Trump's approval? And after a week, after they were trying to go behind his back to push him to go and fight.
Pat
What if they don't listen?
Adam
Well, why would they have to listen? Meaning?
Vinnie
What do you mean? I want to hear this. I'll tell you.
Pat
Hang on a second. I actually agree. Yeah, but go ahead. What if Israel's like, dude, we're going to attack?
Tom
There's. Half of our government will be very happy about that, more than the hawks. And the other half of our government will be, you know, gritting its teeth and hoping that it's a surgical destruction of it. And everybody else stands down.
Pat
Adam, thoughts? Listen, what is this, by the way, you put up here?
Adam
This is a senior Hamas official basically saying that they're. This is why they advocate for the war, because they play down the significance of the casualties in Gaza. He says, you know, there's been. Our women's wombs will produce many more babies. 50,000 or 50,000 people were born in Gaza during the war. Just like the number of casualties, thanks to the war, Westerners convert to Islam. US students support Palestine liberation. From the river to the sea. Useful idiots. So back to the initial question about the Iran. Why would they listen? I don't think we fully understand in America, there's a big difference between the Midwest and the Middle East. In the Middle east, unfortunately, the reality of life there, in many cases, it's kill or be killed. It's eat or be eaten. It's a totally different world of what's going on in the Middle East. It's so funny. I never saw any protests on any college campuses when hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people were dead in Syria, in Yemen, in Sudan. To this day, nothing. Zero. Zero. Protests. Zero. But when Israel gets attacked and they try to basically eliminate Hamas, it's a genocide. We all know what's happening. It's been fooled. And the smartest people at the nicest college campuses on the world. On the world have been fooled. So as far as your exact question about why would Israel listen? I think they will listen. Listen, listen, listen up to the point where they're like, we can't listen anymore because they're a week away from a bomb, and it's us or them. By the way, here's a little fun question. Do you think Israel has a nuke right now, today?
Pat
Of course.
Adam
Do you think they have one?
Vinnie
Of course I do.
Adam
Okay.
Vinnie
Of course I do.
Adam
So almost. So, okay, so if. Of course they have it. If they're so interested in doing genocide, why don't they do it?
Vinnie
Because if they want a nuclear weapon. Adam. At anybody, if who's just gonna. Everybody has nukes.
Adam
Not everybody has nukes.
Vinnie
The majority, the major, like us or China. If Israel.
Adam
You're saying if Israel nuked Iran.
Vinnie
Yeah.
Adam
Or nuked Gaza. Okay, Iran doesn't have a weapon.
Vinnie
Okay.
Adam
The Gazans have missiles. They could do this. But they have no interest in this. Well, they know that the whole conversation.
Vinnie
About not be good if Israel.
Adam
But. But nobody wants that. But when you say everyone has nukes. No, nobody in the Middle east has nukes. Only Pakistan. And they're more concerned about India. Believe that. So when you say, well, everybody has it. No, they don't.
Vinnie
The majority.
Adam
But if Israel was interested in using it, if they had nukes, they would do it. It. What's the whole conversation about? You know, if Israel puts their guns down, if the militants put their guns down, there'll be peace. If Israel puts their weapons down, there'll be a slaughter. You know the conversation that Joe Rogan had with Tim Kennedy?
Pat
Yeah.
Adam
Do you have. Do you know that? Have you ever seen this clip? Can we play this? I fully believe in this.
Pat
You think I'm Israel, you're the Palestinians in Gaza. If everyone, every one of the people in Gaza laid down the arms and stopped attacking, what would I, Israel, do to you? Nothing.
Adam
They tried it five different times.
Pat
It literally, like, stopped it. Israel has done never, not one time.
Tom
In history.
Pat
Initiated any conflict.
Tom
Every single one of those things that.
Pat
You'Re pointing to is a retaliatory attack by a terrorist organization.
Tom
What do you think?
Adam
Yeah, I agree with that. If the.
Pat
Where are you going right now? You're saying what you're saying? If Israel has nuclear warheads, I think both Israel and Iran have them.
Adam
I don't think Iran has them yet.
Pat
I think they have.
Adam
Want to know why I don't think they have them?
Pat
Tell me.
Adam
Because they would use them straight up.
Vinnie
Then it'd be the end of every.
Pat
No, I don't think so. There's no. Does North Korea have nuclear weapons?
Adam
They do.
Pat
Okay, so how come they haven't used it?
Adam
Because. Okay, what country is constantly shouting death.
Pat
To fill in the blank countries after death to America. It's us, It's a North Korea, and it's Iran. But how come he hasn't used it yet?
Adam
Because North Korea.
Pat
But this is kind of where I'm going with this. You said something. I want to tighten it up and we got to wrap it up because we got to move on. If you were going to get to a point, I'm going to just say my point. On this thing here. On what question I asked.
Adam
Yeah, I said, I said, why would they listen?
Pat
Why would they listen?
Adam
Okay. Because at some point you either have individual autonomy as a country or you don't. This whole conversation of Israel controls America, really, that, that seems completely far fetched to me. I thought that Andrew Schultz made a great point that if some country controls another country, it'd be the country with the greatest GDP and the greatest military and the greatest economy in the world, not a tiny little country in the Middle east that's controlling the other country. It would seem that Israel is the bagman for the United States, not the other way around. So if Israel, any country that has to listen to another country in order to survive isn't a country at all. So I, I think that they will listen. Like I will listen to you as my boss, as my CEO, as my mentor, but I'll live my life.
Vinnie
I think Israel has a huge influence on America.
Pat
I didn't say that. Question is do you think Israel controls Trump?
Vinnie
No. Okay, so I don't think, I don't think Israel controls Trump.
Pat
Do you think Israel controls America today?
Vinnie
I don't think it controls America. No. I think has a major influence.
Pat
So does China. So do, so do a lot of different people.
Vinnie
I don't think, I don't think anybody.
Pat
Who has more influence over America, China or Israel? Think about the amount of money they're putting in schools, universities, who has more influence, the amount of land China's buy, the amount of people they're buying, the amount of who has more influence in us, China or Israel. What do you think?
Adam
If you're going to talk about China.
Pat
I want to, I want to see what he's going to say. I want to see what Vinny's going to say.
Vinnie
But China has to register as a foreign agent, don't they? They have to. Israel does it.
Pat
Sure. Yeah, but, but to me, and the reason they did that is because they wanted people to go back to this. Like imagine right now, we get close to Trump and President Trump allows Syria to be a nation. And the first thing they're going to do is they're going to reach out to all the famous Assyrians around the world and they say, patrick, Vinnie, why don't you guys come to Syria? Buy land, buy, buy some home, buy, do something here. What are we going to do? What are you going to do if the president allows you to have a passport to go and be a. What do they call it when they're dual citizen here in Assyria? Would you take it to have dual sense to go here in Assyria. Assyria got a land back. Would you take it?
Vinnie
Yeah, okay, of course.
Pat
But Shmim.
Vinnie
Yeah, that's.
Pat
They're Jewish, they're proud, they're gonna take. But this is the part where I'm going. Let me tell you where I'm at. Which my position is a little bit weird. He goes to the Middle east, doesn't go. Meet with who?
Vinnie
Bibi Nanya.
Pat
Yeah. And he meets with everybody else. It's a one hour flight, two hour flight, doesn't meet with him. Okay, no problem. And well, it's not a big deal. It wasn't their meeting. And no problem. If Trump publicly says don't attack and Israel attacks, there's a part of me that is okay with that. Not likes that, is okay with that. Cuz we didn't say attack. So now if you go, you're on an island, on your own. Don't call me. Now. That's not a fight I wanted to be a part of. It's a fight that you chose to be a part of. Makes sense. Guys, how many times in school would they come up to you and they said, there's a fight after school, come with us.
Vinnie
Of course.
Pat
I'm like, bro, you hooked up with his sister. I'm not. What are you doing? Like, what are you. What are you doing? You started this. I'm not coming. Participating in this. It's like, no, here's what happened. Okay, let's go. What's going to be happening? Right? And it's a, it's a different approach to defend your friends versus not defending your friends. In a case like this, the guy is saying, don't start the fight. Then he says it publicly to everybody, don't start the fight. And then if you want to start the fight, guess what? Start the fight. I'm just not there. If you win or lose, it's your fight. Don't get me involved. But I want to publicly make sure Iran knows we don't want a war. Right? We don't want a war. So if Bibi wants to own this thing here and be his thing, go ahead, Bibi. But the world knows this is not the US Supporting your attack. This is your attack. Your attack alone that you're making a decision of, go ahead, do your thing.
Adam
Can I flip it on you? Sure. How much longer are you or the proud Persian Iranian people willing to just see the Islamic ayatollahs run your country? Do you want, like, do you want to go your Entire life never being able to go back to Iran. Serious question. Because when they're running that country and they have that mind frame, you're never going to go back. Your kids are never going to go back. But my point is this, it needs to come to an end at some point.
Pat
Those are two different conversations, but I.
Adam
Think it's one, I think it's two different parts of the same conversation. So of whatever is going on with this regime at some point needs to stop.
Vinnie
Is there a different way of doing it instead of bombing them and which is going to turn into a full on war that. Say what you want, we're not, we don't want it. We're going to have to get involved. We're going to have to. Especially if it escalates to Israel, just against Iran.
Pat
Not under Trump.
Vinnie
You don't think so?
Adam
I don't.
Pat
Not under Trump.
Adam
I don't, I'm not, I'm not supporting any US troops being on the ground at all.
Pat
Not under Trump, under any other president, under Nikki Haley, 100% under anybody else, not under Trump. But the other part, to say what he's saying, okay, sometimes there's a guy that everybody wants to take out but you don't want to fight them for many different reasons. But if somebody wants to go fight him and take them out and you think you can do it, go at it, just don't involve us. If Israel thinks independently, they can go do it. Go ahead, do your thing. Don't call for help. Because Israel always says we don't ever ask him for help. We know, of course we've given some money to them. Not as much as we've given to Ukraine, not as much as we've given to other places. But we've given money. And every time they give the number that it's accrued and compound if it wasn't today's money, it's this. I get it. We've given way more money to Afghanistan. We've given way more money to the war on, what was it? The, the, the $3 trillion we spent, the $8 trillion we spent on Iraq, Afghanistan, funding wars, all that the weapons of mass destruction bs. This is not the weapons of mass destruction. This is a very different thing. So anyways, we'll see what happened there. Kank. It's one of the longest podcasts we've done on home team. A lot of topics we covered and a big part of it is because next week we may not do any home team podcast because we may not be here. So we're gonna rob. We're gonna try to figure out to be able to do one at least while we're out. It's gonna be, what do you call it? Like, the way we do it, where it's like a zoom type. But I'm sure there's a lot of things that's gonna happen between now and next week where we may have to do an emergency podcast. Stay tuned for that. We will keep you guys posted in the interim, if you haven't yet registered for this, how to be a killer in business without killing your marriage. I'm gonna talk about a bunch of different things. Go to vtwebinar.com vtwebinar.com register and tomorrow, the third episode of Her Take goes live at 11 o' clock on Her Take YouTube channel. We'll see you guys there. Have a great weekend, everybody. God bless. Bye bye. Bye, bye.
PBD Podcast Summary: "Trump's BIG Beautiful Bill, Golden Dome SHOCKER & South Africa SHOWDOWN" | Ep. 590
Release Date: May 22, 2025
Host: Patrick Bet-David (Pat)
Patrick Bet-David opens the episode by discussing the passage of what he terms the "Big Beautiful Bill," a significant piece of legislation championed by former President Donald Trump. The bill focuses on tax reforms and includes several key provisions:
Tax Continuations and Cuts: The bill ensures that Trump-era tax breaks continue, preventing immediate tax increases amidst economic adjustments. "Taxes are not going to go up on Americans at the time where they could least use them," Pat explains (17:59).
Green Energy Subsidies: It reduces subsidies for green energy unless they demonstrate quick returns, addressing concerns about the efficacy of such investments.
Medicaid Work Requirements: The bill accelerates Medicaid work requirements, extending them to December 2026, and imposes stricter rules on eligibility—"if you're working or trying to work or have a green card, you can take advantage of it," Pat notes (18:08).
Support for High-Income Individuals: It introduces benefits like no taxes on overtime pay and car loan interest for U.S.-assembled vehicles, alongside the creation of tax-advantaged savings accounts for children.
Notable Quote:
"Taxes are not going to go up on Americans at the time where they could least use them."
— Pat (00:17:59)
Adam adds that the bill is poised for success due to Republican control in Congress, emphasizing, "This is going to pass and it will probably pass exactly as Trump wants it on July 4th." (25:14)
Pat breaks down how the bill affects various income brackets:
Low-Income Households: Projected resource decreases by 2% by 2027, potentially resulting in 8.6 million people losing Medicaid coverage and 3 million losing SNAP benefits due to a $300 billion cut. "If you're not getting welfare support, you have to find other means," he explains (22:51).
Middle-Income Individuals: Temporary increases in child tax credits and elimination of certain federal subsidies, which may lead to higher education costs.
High-Income Households: Household resources are expected to rise by up to 4% by 2027, benefiting from tax cuts and enhanced savings options for children.
The discussion shifts to the current political atmosphere and media dynamics:
Media Bias: Pat critiques mainstream media's portrayal of President Joe Biden, citing instances where media figures like Joe Scarborough and Jake Tapper fail to hold Biden accountable. "If you can't handle the truth, this version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever," Pat asserts after playing a clip (50:54).
Public Perception: Adam shares personal frustrations with media narratives, emphasizing the shift in his political stance due to perceived misinformation. "I'm more MAGA than anybody these days," he confesses (55:58).
Notable Quote:
"If you can't handle the truth, this version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever."
— Pat (50:54)
A significant portion of the podcast is dedicated to the escalating tensions between Israel and Iran:
Trump's Diplomatic Efforts: Pat highlights Trump’s attempts to negotiate with Iran to prevent military escalations. However, Israel remains poised to take decisive action regardless of U.S. involvement. "Israel is not gonna be acting alone, because the U.S. is right there with it," Tom comments (132:32).
Golden Dome Project: Pat discusses Trump's ambitious plan for the "Golden Dome," a next-generation missile defense system costing $175 billion, aimed at intercepting a variety of missile threats. "Golden Dome will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago," Pat mentions (127:04).
Notable Quote:
"Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even from space."
— Trump (127:11)
Adam underscores the existential threat posed by Iran, advocating for strong defensive measures. "They believe in the afterlife. They'll take us all to heaven or hell to go see Allah," he states (148:08).
Pat addresses the recent scandal involving Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Charlie DeSantis and Hope Florida: The foundation faced scrutiny over a $10 million charity scandal, leading to leadership changes and investigations. "Eric Dellenbeck, the executive director, resigned," Pat notes (103:09).
Political Fallout: DeSantis is criticized for mismanagement and allegations of financial improprieties, potentially weakening his gubernatorial standing. "He's a very good fighter, but he's not as good a marketer and stage guy as Trump is," Pat observes (110:20).
Pat shares an emotional story meant to resonate with parents:
Pat announces upcoming initiatives aimed at helping listeners balance business success with family life:
Free Webinar: "How to Be a Killer in Business Without Killing Your Marriage" scheduled for June 11 at vtwebinar.com, limited to 3,000 seats.
New Show Launch: Introduction of "Her Take," a new show aimed at providing balanced debates, set to premiere the following day at 11:00 AM on YouTube (15:40).
Notable Quote:
"I'm telling you, 2026 is going to be the most magical year you've ever lived in America in our lifetime."
— Pat (27:11)
As the podcast draws to a close, the hosts reflect on the interconnectedness of global politics, media influence, and upcoming legislative changes. They emphasize the importance of staying informed and actively participating in political discourse to safeguard American interests.
Key Takeaways:
The "Big Beautiful Bill" aims to sustain tax cuts and impose stricter welfare requirements, benefiting high-income individuals while posing challenges for low and middle-income groups.
Media bias continues to shape public perception of political figures, necessitating critical consumption of news.
International tensions, particularly between Israel and Iran, are escalating, with significant implications for U.S. foreign policy.
Domestic political landscapes are fraught with scandals and leadership challenges, exemplified by Governor DeSantis.
Personal stories underscore the value of balancing professional ambitions with family commitments.
Timestamp Reference Guide:
Note: This summary captures the core discussions and insights from Episode 590 of the PBD Podcast. For a more immersive experience, listeners are encouraged to tune into the full episode available on Valuetainment.