FBI Wire on Newsom, Empire State Proposal & Mamdani's War on AC | PBD Podcast #827

Great to be with you. Last night we hosted the first Florida gubernatorial debate. We had a great time. We got a lot of comments afterwards of people wanting to do others, and it's exciting because it was many heated moments, some controversial moments. Maybe we'll address some of them. Aside from that, Newsom had a rough last 24 hours with FBI infiltrating Gavin Newsom's inner circle by convincing governor's ally to wear a wire. Lawyer. This is a New York Post story that just dropped, and they've been quiet about it. They've not been commenting about it. So we'll address that. Obviously one of the bigger stories, folks. I hope you're being read. I hope you're being responsible today while you're watching your podcast. For some of you guys in California, it's 6-something in the morning. You're watching this 4th of July weekend, 250-year anniversary tomorrow. You better not have your AC below 78. Oh, wow. I'm telling you, you better do the responsible thing, folks. Do what Mamdani said. Turn your heater to 78. Can you imagine? Everybody, you sleep with a – I don't know what temperature you sleep with, Adam. Are you like a 68? 72, buddy. Tom, what are you? What temperature do you sleep with? Well, we're very patriotic. Kim likes it cold at night. She puts it at 17, and I am in the kitchen trying to keep it warm. I have it at 76, so we feel very patriotic. That was supposed to be funny, but what's yours? I didn't get it. I live in a one. I need a simple answer. What's your number? 74. Okay, 74. These are reasonable people, but Mamdani wants it to be at 78. He wants you to lose weight. He wants you to be sweating bullets. And while D-Rabby at CNN was trying to defend Mamdani when asked about lowering the temperature, it's like, hey, why don't we lower the studio at CNN to 78? No. Are you kidding me? Are you – Can you imagine how great it is when hypocrisy comes out? Then we have next one, which is public trust and polls. Tom was talking about this pre-podcast. What's going on with that with Jill Biden's book is all of a sudden off list. This was the first lady. You came out with your book. How many copies did you sell? Did people buy them? Did people buy them in bulk just to help out? Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody knows. And then even Spotify deletes a couple of the charts. We'll get into that. This is why the CalShe model is working so well. Even yesterday while we were doing the debate, everyone was like, well, let me tell you, Byron Donald's this and that. That's great you're saying this. Why are people putting nearly $9 million of money on CalShe and Byron Donald's at 95% of it? I think after yesterday's debate, the plus minus was what? Fishback went from 2.8% to 4%. Collins and Paul Renner came up a little bit. It was a very interesting thing. It was a very interesting thing that happened. But people are paying attention to CalShe. People are paying attention to what's going on there. And they're saying if a person is willing to risk their money like that, there's got to be something behind it. And then aside from that, these two beautiful Russian couple did something I would never do. I love my wife. I would never climb up, what was it, the Empire State Building all the way to the top and then propose. I'm proposing on ground. That's what we're doing right here at a restaurant or whatever. These two Russian good-looking. Attractive couple go all the way to the top, put a message, which, by the way, one of the funniest things I saw is some people posted saying that's actually not what they put up. They put up something else. I'll share it with Connor. And, yeah, they put up this whatever. Yeah, there's a lot of funny banners that people are putting up. And then he proposes to her. They come downstairs. You know, eventually they get arrested. They get multiple felonies, but they're released. But, no, they were everywhere. Every channel, everything you watch, they were climbing. Who is this good-looking, attractive Russian couple? All the money in the world. You couldn't find me doing that. Literally all the money in the world. We're going to give you all the money in the world. What did you do? $100 million cash right in front of you. $100 billion. I don't do it. I'm telling you right now. I have zero desire to do something like this. They're hanging off. No rope, no nothing. Does that bother you? Just looking at it. Tell me what's exciting about that. Tell me what's exciting. That's why I sold insurance. I went into business on ground. I don't sell insurance on the top of a tower there. Hey, John and Mary, let me tell you about insurance. We're not doing that. Anyways, there's another story of a mother who loses her child. And one of the congressmen, J.A. Paul. Congresswoman. Congresswoman is like, listen, this is our fourth one today. Can we please like, she's like, I'm sorry. You're so busy with all of these. You don't want to address it. You have to see this. It's disturbing conversation they're having. We're going to talk about 50 greatest movies because allegedly Adam wants to share his 50 greatest movies. I don't know if Adam's even seen 50 movies. Not in the last 10 years. Adam watches Wedding Singer on repeat. That's Adam's attack. Wedding Crashers, Wedding Singer movies. All right. Big fat Greek wedding. 30 years ago. If you were tracking this 30 years ago, a man sued Pepsi because they said we're going to give a jet. Was it a fighter jet or what kind of a jet? Yes, it was a fighter jet. They said fighter jet. They're going to give a fighter jet. And you have to do this thing that was mathematically impossible to do. And so like no one's ever going to do it. It's kind of like when Buffett says anybody gets the perfect brand. It's a bracket for college. You know, what is it? March Madness? Yeah, March Madness. We're going to give you a billion dollars, right? And no one's going to hit that. Well, guess what this one guy did. 30 years later, he's still collecting his jet. It's like, where the hell is my jet? Finally, they gave him something, but it's not the jet. But we'll talk about that. It's a funny story. The Rock is being bothered by Hollywood elitists. Tell us your position. Criticize Trump. Say how much you hate Republicans. Like, dude, I'm just trying to make movies and be a celebrity and get my business model. I'm not trying to go into politics. I'm not interested in any of this. I've leave me alone. No, you got to say something bad about the president. Guy's not willing to do. We'll talk about that. The game with Portugal against Croatia. What the hell? You know what? It came down to, you know, I looked at it. You know what? It came down to hair. You know, it came down to hair. You know, this the ball that they added for the first time in the history of World Cup. They added that sensor inside the ball. The chip, the chip didn't feel the hair. If it feels the if it doesn't, it's a goal. Oh, damn. It was all based off of the chip. And so they're saying right there. It's all based off the chip. And that's why Portugal and you know, was we're at the lounge last night. And the whole thing is did it touch or did it not touch? So we'll talk about this. We'll address this and Portugal is going to be playing who Spain Spain Tom is saying. Spain is going to demolish Portugal indirectly. I think Tom you said that I based on what we saw yesterday on Spain. I don't know if that team and USA is going to play. Belgium down our best player, but guess what? I think us is going to us is going to win. And then Argentina is playing capa verde and Humberto is watch out for my capa. Verde's out there. They're going to get them as much as you're being sarcastic. Oh, no, they could. Don't sleep. I don't know. I don't know. Don't sleep a Verde guy. We'll see what the same size as Miami. They're the exact population. And then we got a couple other stories. One of the stories is kid maxing this New York Times story about the ultimate status. Simple that some wealthy men are doing with kid maxing and the 11 next story is PlayStation Sony. People are furious. What do you mean? I'm not getting the box. If I'm buying the video game, I want the damn box. No, we're not doing the box. You're just going to get the download. No, I want the box. You know, and why because of ownership, there's pride. I want to get this. And so Sony had to adjust with some of the stuff that they're doing because apparently one of the stories Tom was about movies that people had him because their licensing agreement was gone. You paid the 20 bucks for the movie. It's gone. Even though you pay 20 Sony keeps us. So people like wait a minute. Why are you not renewing your licensing agreement? So it's interesting. And then the NBA Stephen a Smith says what team wins being all white? And Vinnie doesn't like it. Oh man, Vinnie doesn't like it because Stephen a went went after white folks, you know, say the proper way. Why why right? Why why it's not cool. Watch out for the not cool because LeBron is no longer in the Lakers. You know, he got kicked out or whatever. He left one of those two and I will tell you guys about a story of a billionaire who build a team winning championship with 71% white team and I'll show the story. It's his most hated story. He doesn't like this story, but we're going to talk about the story. And then I got to show you an emotional video man, because you know, who's becoming the MVP of you know, who's becoming the MVP of the entire World Cup to guy named Zlatan. I think Zlatan is absolutely crushing it with what he's doing with the way he's handling. Himself everything that's going on by the way is audio in or out because I'm seeing comment section with audio being in or out. Can you guys tell me in the back of audio is good or not Humberto Andres. Can you guys give me a thumbs up if audio is in or out? Okay. Okay. Was there an issue and if there was an issue, how long was the issues? I'm seeing the comment section saying there was an issue. Is that the only issue that we had? Okay. All right. Sounds good. So with that being said folks before we get started, this is 4th of July and there's obviously a lot of stuff. That's going on about 30 40 billion dollars going to be spent on 4th of July and we decided to do something special for everybody, especially for the VT and the future looks bright audience. I want you to watch this clip here. Go for it. You know what I love about the World Cup people around the world came to America and realize how awesome this country is. They're making videos saying I love America. 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the guys that look a little crazy the 2000 will invite you to have you on the podcast and have dinner with you so having said that let's get right into it first story i want to go to is fbi infiltrated gavin newsom's inner circle by convincing governor's ally to wear a wire this is a new york post story the fbi had a mole inside gavin newsom's political orbit before the agency's corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife the post has learned democrat and senator gavin newsom's inner circle by convincing governor democrat insider alexis podesta 45 secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into newsom's then chief of staff dana williamson 53 who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in may according to williamson's attorney the revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as june 2024 damn this is like joe pistone donnie barrasco type of stuff explains why a swat of sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive fbi letters last fall in june 2024 this is a new york post story the fbi had a mole inside the agency's office informing them that their phone calls have been intercepted during the investigation despite many have little or no connection to williamson alexis wore a wire and dana did not said mcgregor scott williamson's lawyer and a former u.s attorney for eastern district of california which is now investigating the newsoms the disclosure comes as newsom announced last month that he and his wife whose non-profit had been burning through money in recent years as well as members of the governor's inner circle are under federal investigation within hours of that announcement newsom blasted out an email to the fbi and said they were not to raise money for political action committee tom what's going on over here well i'll tell you what's going on over here uh williamson we know what happened there dana wills williamson pleads guilty has the situation come up however now we find out that there is a wire on this so we're in a wire and they are now investigating the newsoms specifically the only reason they're investigating the newsoms is because something came up on the wire and so they got williamson and williamson the wire must have been very compelling because he pled before plea i looked it up okay you know what pleading before plea is is where where your lawyer basically tells the the government says look we're going to plead guilty on this we want to figure out what are we going to do here on sentencing you go straight to sentencing you assume that the government's going to get you on one felony or two felony and so you're suddenly now worried about sentencing not how many or what charges like if it's going to one felony or three felonies um adam you know how this works you hear people talk about it he will serve those concurrently yes so even though you've done three things you're three things it should be five years each but you're only going to serve the five years once and the six uh weeks eight weeks two months that they had you in in uh temporary jail waiting trial they credit that as time served so this is what's and so now check this out it's the eastern district of california the closer you get to the eastern district the more moderated you get in california because you're going east and so they're investigating newsome he said nothing about it he hasn't come out you see gavin newsome come out talking about these guys i don't know what they're talking about you know this president he's absolute joke he's despicable he's horrible you know when are you doing a trump newsome combo no he does no it's but it's gavin newsome okay okay you don't see gavin newsome sitting out there i don't think we know what's newsome is not out there saying things screwing around with the doj i think there's something big coming because now they've said we've got williamson dead to rights gonna sentence now we're also investigating the newsomes and there's two things there one what if anything did they have to do with the williamson crimes and now they're investigating specifically the leak the um doj leak when a leak statement is their non-profit and remember we know about the non-profit we know about the diaper math and we know about a few things so pat it appears that there's some very real things going on will it amount to anything will aunt nancy pelosi step in tune in tomorrow and by the way tom great freaking take and just throwing this out there the fbi doesn't put a wire on someone because of a rumor a judge has to sign off on it so that means they have freaking all the evidence that they needed for a judge to sign off and go go this isn't just a rogue i believe this guy is dirty we want a wire on this person and we want by the way there was more than just the wire yeah you know what they had what they had cell phone warrants and so they said they've been listening to calls it's in the statement oh and by the way alexis podesta people got a letter that said by the way your phone messages everything now not for the last two months hope he didn't say anything yeah yeah imagine the stuff that they said but but by the way bubbles pimp left you a message just now so alexis podesta is like by this is a close ally to some thought so this is like this isn't just some random person and tom once they have dana williamson okay she helped move 225 000 out of a dormant campaign account and she was disguising it as as consultant fees no show jobs anything tom for them the less the thing about tom and that's the only time she ever did that yeah exactly one time yeah so once you get caught with something that massive pat think about what you want to talk about people ratting if you ever watch the first 48 tom my favorite show those people go into the interrogation room and they're like oh my god as soon as they know that they're done they give them a coca-cola they start ratting on everybody you don't think dana williamson is like listen i will tell you everything just as long as i don't have to spend the rest of my life in jail and mind you all this time all this points to what happens in california they keep pushing remember they did they stopped the nick shirley act keep anything to stop anybody from investigating all the fraud because it's it's rampant and i pray i pray tom that they go down they all go down and they all do the perp walk that everybody in the administration so she had control of the accounts and she was moving the money how did they eventually get al capone tax tax evasion but which what guy did they get his accountant his accountant they grabbed that guy so you're saying something could actually happen here i i look this is the department of justice saying they're investigating newsom's or investigating their their charity and we already know the diaper math the headlines stunk so it's like who was getting the money for the diaper remember that math it's like this is impossible somebody was getting money for diapers because it was impossible to get money for diapers because it was impossible to get money for diapers impossible to be paying that kind of money for diapers remember all that of course adam your thoughts pat i gotta tell you man starting to think gavin newsom might not be the good that's good at this leadership thing i don't know i think he looks the part i think he could pretend to be the part i just don't know if he's actually doing the thing you know this is this is completely his leadership under question we all know what's going on in his state we see california literally burning down god forbid you but also behind the scenes in in his administration it seems like there's some shady stuff going on remains to be seen it's like at the end of the day this is a failure of leadership if you're the ceo of a state or of a company let's say you might not be under investigation but you know they say when they're smoked they're fired it's like if you're coo your cmo and your chief of staff they're all under investigation and they're being questioned it's like what kind of culture are you building there in your administration in california for me it's pretty simple do what you got to do in california gavin newsom karen bass do all that but don't california my america i agree is that is that the mic drop statement that you're making is that what's going on there pat you know what i like that it was don't okay it was well listen i mean if this is who do you think the part i'm trying to find out here is who's setting him up who's setting him up because tom you said something you said is the dsa his enemy right now is it is it the dsa is it the democratic socialist section that's sitting out there and saying hey let's get this guy out let's get aoc you guys saw the other day jd vance gave a shout out to aoc as a possible candidate of the democratic party to the point that they even ask aoc the question and they said what do you think about what jd vance said about you yeah i saw that and if you were to think about who would be more conniving and strategic to get somebody out who would it be this is it watch this watch this folks J.D. 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big mac meal only at mcdonald's price and participation may vary promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing i mean um you know uh i hope he is that's what i'll say what do you say what was the question do you hope jd thinks that he thinks that you could be the nominee why would jd say that because jd actually thinks it could happen and if they're working together who is who is more united under who is more true believer in their cause socialists or democrats dsa social socialists dsa socialists are more true to their cause right of what they believe in okay so if that's the case and they really believe in their cause do you think they have enough true believers that would fight for them find a way to destroy their candidates would newsome be in one of them absolutely i i have not i've been unwavering in my position that i don't believe that the core dnc wants gavin newsome the core dnc and i believe what i said because i was reading the tea leaves i think it was a right read that nine months ago they were thinking about jb pritzker he's he's illinois he's from the midwest he's got a lot of money i don't think that's the the guy anymore but i think the the dnc pat is still not on newsome they know there's much baggage and they don't need california they're going to win california anyway and he has a lot of baggage that comes with it so do i think the dsa which is more split from the dnc than maga ever was from the rnc do i think that they're pulling strings and doing things could they be whispering uh maybe don't talk to this person too they do it to each other all the time in the primaries they kill each other in the primaries and but then they're better at waving a flag and getting everybody together for the election yeah so i don't know i think if there's something going on there i i wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to get rid of their number one candidate number one opponent and that'd be a newsome and having the socialist stuff coming up why the reason why i say this is because the socialist party is part of the 78 degree party okay and the 78 degree party is very important then you have to realize you have to make sure you don't turn the ac below 78 degrees because it's not proper to do so and the person that said this was the face of socialism today mamdani mayor mamdani from new york if you guys want to pull up that story on page uh uh eighth i don't know if you guys got a video of one of his tweets he comes up mamdani gets roasted after telling sweltering new yorkers to set ac to 78 degree and everybody calls him a commie you're a commie you're a commie you're a commie for doing this if you guys got the tweet if you want to pull it up so there it is new york it's hot out there and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool set your ac to 78 degrees turn off the lights electronics you're not using and unplug what you can our city is doing its part to maintaining the 78 degree rule in our building dimming turning off our lights during peak electric electricity demand asking private partners to do the same and powering down non-essential equipment a stable grid means the ac stays on and lives are saved let's ease demand and get through the heat together that's in almost a chat gbt type of a tweet right there with those two lines that you see on the bottom so gets 58 million views not for good but for good thing even cnn there's a clip vinny if i'm not mistaken right cnn reacts to this if you guys got that with uh there's that one i think it's a group that was sent uh but before you guys find it i'll come to you first vinny so what do you think about this to it why do you think the audience reacted the way that they did i pat nobody wants anybody telling them how to live their lives people are out there busting their butts they're paying their bills they're doing everything who who's gonna listen to this i don't care republican democrat communist you know independent republican whatever the hell nobody wants them to tell them you by the way i'm from new york do you guys have any idea what 78 degrees is is in your apartment have you ever felt that before like over here tom i'm lucky because remember how you taught me about where the sun comes up and what the sun said yeah my apartment is good because i'm covered by trees and i'm not affected by the sun that's why i'm pretty sure at the beginning when i said my apartment's 74 degrees people are like wait what are you talking about it's so cool in my apartment but people don't want anybody and again these are the people that are free and love and life and now they're already starting to do that you know do this do that we're asking you this and imagine once they're in power tommy where it's like they're not going to request they're going to say hey listen we're going to put something on your thermostat that's not going to let you go above this type of temperature that's where it's heading well by the way if if you look at a lot of other countries which we'll get to here in a minute i want dear abby if you can play this clip here from cnn go for it ben i don't understand this do you support it uh no my master like do you think like when you saw that you're like hell yeah let me walk over there knock that number up to 78 let me ask you a question is the republic of south carolina it's 78 there a lot it's 78 there a lot it's not 78 degrees in here right now either like like no one's going to abide by this like it's absurd but ben i'm just saying this is a weird hill to die on no it because when nikki haley says hold on when nikki haley says we ask that you set your thermostat to 68 or lower by doing in the winter 78 in the winter this is for the winter energy conservation so in the winter and also this doesn't come from the politicians this is also coming from as i pointed out the department of energy it's coming from the power companies con edison you guys understand that she's sticking up for mom she's campaigning she's campaigning cnn is sticking up for a freaking communist mindset and body because they're in new york and he's the mayor he's the mayor and she's there they're in the city that's okay so let me let me read you a couple of the pronouncing campaign japan since 2005 the government's cool biz campaign has encouraged officers to keep their conditioning at 28 celsius which is 82.4 in summer many government officials follow these guidelines although it's generally recommendation rather than a criminally enforceable law in spain in 2022 spain required many public buildings and offices shopping centers hotels train stations and airports to not cool below 27 which is 80.6 again for same thing energy italy did the same thing 80.6 greece it's just forget about greece france has encouraged limits on cooling on public buildings as part of a national energy commerce conservation plans at 78.8 germany during the 2008 energy crisis did the same thing and you have a few others but are we are we trying to be the leaders are we can you imagine like if all of a sudden because of the you know they're doing surveillance with flock and that was one of the main topics we talked about yesterday what if there is controls what if there's controls and state level some blue states decide to say hey whether you like it or not it's going to be 78 and the way they're making the surveillance and the technology what if they get to that point it just starts lowering but they'll lowering or raising because they control that would be but but you know what i would like to see i would actually like to see a couple blue states do that i would like to see a couple blue states flirt with that really yeah i would i want to see how people react i would love to see new york city flirt with that hey we're all about the people and we have to be careful with climate change the state has control over it now and i we appreciate your support for this we're going to 78 whether you like it or not i would i would be very interested to see what causes people to leave more, the wealth tax or AC to 70? Thank you. By the way, let me share something with you. What kind of thermostat do you have in your house? Do you have a nest? No. By the way, if you call FPL, you can get a nest. Oh, really? And they'll go stick it in your house. And as soon as you have a nest in your house, you know what they know? What? They know every time you move it, and they know your habit, and they also, if you read the fine print, if FPL provides that, by the way, this is not just Florida Power & Light, this is everybody. If you have a connected thermostat, Pat, in this country, if you read the fine print, your power company, if they declare a power emergency, like a summer brownout, and you live in Louisiana, they can turn that thermostat up. Oh, really? Damn straight. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that. I don't want anybody controlling my- Adam, your thoughts. Pat, I think Mom Donnie might have lost me. I was going to go with- I was going to go with the high taxes and the seizing the means of production and the redistribution of wealth, and I was even considering getting my 18th COVID jab and wearing a mask. You know the famous line in- Take my eyes, but not my shirt. This is where you're going to lose me, Mom Donnie. 78 degrees. You're talking to a Miami boy who sweats the second he walks out the door. When I leave my house in Miami, I put the AC at 78 when I'm not in the house. That way the AC is kind of like doing its thing, while I'm gone, and when I get back, I'm putting that thing to 72. You can do a lot of different things to people, but when you literally start going into their houses and telling them what to do in the confines of their house, and not even- Listen, if he said, listen, I'm recommending everybody goes to 74, everyone would be like, you know what? This guy, Mom Donnie, maybe got something. 78? Who functions like this? If I walked into anybody's house and it was 78, I'd say, we're getting out of here. This is crazy. We live in the summertime in Miami right here in South Florida. What do you think it is in this room right here next door? We're outside? Right here. It's hot out there. Hot as hell. Do you think you're trying to hang out in that room up there in the garage? Unbelievable. This proves one thing, BBD. Our country started in 1776 with a don't tell me what to do with my life. A lot of these communist Marxists, they don't believe in 1776. You know what they believe in? 1848. That's their origination. Why 1848? Because what book came out in 1848? Their God, their Lord, Karl Marx. Came out with the Communist Manifesto in 1848. This is where they're going to tell you what to do with your life. Seize the means of production. Redistribution of wealth. Don't California my America. Like I said before, you can take your 78 and stick it up your mom Donnie. All right. So there you have it. That's mom Donnie for you. We'll see how this reacts. Obviously, the market reacted to it and told them what they think about it. So we'll see what happened next. Let me get to the next story that I want to get into. Since we're on New York, there's a couple that decides to climb. What do you call it? The Empire State Building. Just a little Russian couple. They go all the way to the top and a guy surprises him by proposing to her and kissing. And then they have the sign that they put up all the way at the top. And then while they're coming down, the cops come up and they get arrested. They get a felony. And eventually, while they're getting the felony, they were released. But this was it. If you want to show it. I don't know if you have the clip or not. Do you have the clip of them climbing up? I think this is it. This is him right there. I think he's about to. They're taking pictures. Can you make it bigger? By the way, no ropes around. They're standing there. You know, let's take a selfie, babe. Let's do a video. Let me call my mom. Hey, mom. Copy. You might see a show. He's not. He's not. You on top of it. Look at these guys looking like Calvin Klein type of model coming up with his black shirt on him and his girl climbed the entire thing up. And they had this sign all the way up. She looks like the girl from the girl with the dragon tattoo. Yeah. And so do you guys have the clip of what they actually had? The banner. It's about love or whatever it was. I don't know. I don't know if you guys have that or not. It was a banner all the way at the top. It is actually a good message. It's a good message. It's a good message of all the way at the top. State building banner. Anyway, so what did you think about this, Vinny, when you saw this? Well, I mean, Pat, just. Well, first of all, I don't even have a speeding ticket. So when I saw faced burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal trespassing, criminal mischief. But for this one, possession of burglars tools. I don't even know that that is a crime. Possession of burglars tools. Possession of burglars tools, criminal tampering and disorderly conduct. Like, you know what hit me though? What does it say? When the power of love beats the power, the love of power, the world will know peace. Beautiful, beautiful thing. You could have emailed everybody. You could have done a mass email. But I think this guy. And by the way, there's a photo. Vinny, they fall. They're done. Absolutely. Absolutely. But look how calm they are. But this is New York, Pat. If she falls and splatters, her diamond ring would have been gone in three seconds. Is she dressed as Catwoman? Is that kind of what they're going for? No, they just wanted to cover their faces like they thought they were going to get away with it. But you know what hit me? And by the way, Connor, do you have the photo? By the way, that gets me nauseous. Where she shows her ring. She's showing her ring, which is actually a bad, badass photo. If you have that, show that. But this is the one thing that hit me is this guy just ruined. Where is it? Let me see. Is there a photo of her with the ring? No, yeah, that's them afterwards. That's them come out. But he just ruined. Ruined marriage proposals for every man. Every guy out there that thought. Is this them? That's AI. That's AI. That's not them. Yeah, but think about it. Every guy out there that thought it was cute to hide like the wedding ring and the dessert and the waiter brings out dessert. Look at that. Ivan is on top of the freaking Empire State Building, bro. Your dessert. You having the dog come out with like the ring tied in his collar is nothing compared to this. Can you imagine? It's like, so how are you going to propose? To me, baby, I was going to on the ground, bro. First floor. Yeah, my knee. Are you going to climb up Empire State? Yeah. Hell no. What in the mall parking lot garage? No, no, no. Just some pursue floor is what we're doing. By the way, my favorite was that what some people did, which I prefer more. So this other couple climbed all the way to the top. I don't know if you guys have what I just sent you. That's it. Look at that shot. I mean, come on. That is a sick. That actually is a great shot. That is. But you know what? You could have done that with AI in five seconds. And people would have believed it. No matter. But this is the real one. A couple of guys climbed all the way to the top to Laker fans. And they said, by LeBron, we like Kobe way more. Look at this. This is the right way to do it. That's so if they would have done this, I would have supported this. This is a good move on what people were doing. Tom, how did you do your proposal? How did you propose? We went to a place that we've been many times before. I proposed. And Kim was very emotional. It was wonderful. Wonderful. We went down to have dessert. I had already talked to. I talked to her parents that day. And I asked them to come by where we're having dessert, like at 9 o'clock. And we're in there having dessert. We're just talking. I'm waiting for her parents to show up. And Kim is so stunned. She looks up. She goes, what are they doing here? It's a true story. That is so funny. They're walking in. Yeah. Yeah. Similar with mine. We did one as well. I have the video when I propose. I'm like, so we're celebrating Veronica's birthday. And on the way there, me and Jen are fighting. And I keep saying, I don't want to go. I don't feel like going. I don't want to go. And she's like, babe, what's going on? I said, babe, I don't feel like going. So eventually, we show up there. And she's like, why did all these weird people show up to Veronica's birthday? I said, I have no idea. She knows everybody. She's my assistant. She's been with me for a while. And then Veronica gets a, hey, thank you so much for everybody showing up to my birthday and all this other stuff. And da, da, da, da, da. And Patrick, did you want to say a couple words? Yes. And then that's when I propose. Got him. Wow. Yeah. So it was at a restaurant in Laguna or Manhattan. I don't know where we were at. Did you cry or did she cry? Did anybody cry? No, no, no. OK. She definitely did cry. The video we have, and it's somewhere on Facebook on how the proposal was. But if Jennifer would have said, you know, babe, if I told Jen right now, babe, how much would you like us to climb up the empire? Oh, Jen? She would say, babe, zero interest for doing that. We'd be in the same place. Adam, what do you think about this crazy story here? These two, this couple that climbed the empire state building and got engaged? Let me tell you something, Pat. They better make it. Oh, yeah. They look amazing. This marriage better work. If you're going to do all this and then you announce three months later, yeah, guys, we're actually having relationship issues. We're breaking up. The whole world will melt down. You just climbed the empire state building because she said she wanted to do something special for his engagement. If anybody out there has ever been maybe kind of like in a situation where your significant other maybe is pressuring you, honey, what are we doing? What's going on? And you feel the pressure and you want to do it the right way. Yeah. This guy just ruined it for everybody. It's over. You got engaged at a restaurant, Pat, you said? Yeah. The biz doc, babe, got confused. She's like, what are their parents doing here? Exactly. They better make it or there's no hope for anybody out there. You know how they say every guy is looking for his ride or die? Yeah. This chick was willing to die and jump off the empire state building and show her little rock off. They better make it for all mankind and for all marriages. I hope they make it with their marriage or we're all doomed. They're kidding. Like anybody they go on dinner with the double date. Exactly. Those couples are going to hate them. Oh, absolutely. Okay. So how did you guys meet? Oh, Patrick. Oh, my God. You know, Serge took me. What's his name going to be? Give me a Russian. And Vladimir took me home with the cop. And he was like, you know, and then it was like, we got married. Oh, my God. How would you guys get married? Why did you propose? Baby, let's get out of here. Check, please. We will never go out with this couple ever again. Yeah. We met in sociology class in college. Yeah. Let me get. What happens if they wanted to do their wedding on top? of the Empire State Building. We're all invited. We all get to show up. That's a small guest list. I'll text you. How much money, Pat? How much money are you going to do this for? Zero. Zero. All right, next. So this next one I want to get to is a little bit disturbing, guys. I don't know why. So Jay Paul, which is a congresswoman, okay, tells murder victim parents Congress has other things to do. Can you imagine? Parents are there. They lost their kid. And Jay Paul says we have other things to do. Yeah, we've already had four. She's like, this is the fourth. Yeah. Representative Pramila Jay Paul told the parents of children murdered by illegal immigrants that Congress has other things to do. Unfortunately, this hearing is the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities, the fourth time. There's many other things that we could be doing than this, Jay Paul said. I don't know if you guys have the clip on this or not. 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Do you know what I'm thankful for? This is so messed up, I'm going to say. I'm thankful. After hearing, I didn't even know what an angel family was. Had no idea. Never even heard about it. There's so many out here. You know what I'm thankful for? It's crazy. I'm thankful that my daughter. My daughter was just shot in the back of the head. Not raped, murdered, dismembered, put in a garbage can like Megan Boss with bleach poured on her. They didn't fire a fighter for 50 days. And you can actually dismiss the angel families. You can say, but. You don't want to hear four sessions on angel families. I'm sorry. You need to. You need to. I'm actually thankful that my daughter wasn't raped. How messed up is that? I'm thankful. Every day that she was just murdered, not raped and dismembered. Like, think about that. Like, how messed up is that? Do you know what I thought of this morning when I got up? What the joy of, anyone have a baby here? The joy of picking out their first outfit that they're going to wear on their ride home from the hospital. I had to pick out my daughter's last outfit. And she was a fabulous dresser. We had a hundred people come to our home. A hundred friends and family came to her home. That's somebody crying in the back, by the way. Actually, after. And they all decorated her urn with rhinestones. All of them put it on there. She's fabulous even in death. But the first time, all the excitement of having a child. Oh my goodness. And then having people make excuses and buts. I'm sorry. No buts. This is unacceptable. You know, there are so many angel families out here. And the day that I have to wake up and be thankful that my daughter was only shot and not raped. That's probably her mom crying in the back. Should tell you something. It's crazy. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen. Wow. The Democratic Party just in front of your face. Pissed off. Pat. Inconvenience that this is the fourth, not the 20th, not the 50th, not the 100th. The fourth time that they're having this type of meeting so that mothers of girls that were raped, murdered, dismembered, bleach poured on them. That it's an inconvenience that they're even speaking to them. Okay. And mind you, I don't even want to say her name, this Representative Pramila, whatever the hell. Not born in this country. You're not born in the country. You're a naturalized American citizen that's sitting in freaking Congress. And your attitude is who can -- we have better things to do than talk about the murder and rape of these little girls. Because Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, one of the most disgusting human beings in that freaking administration, led in almost 15 million people. And they don't care that they were raped and they were freaking murdered. Yeah. They have better things to do. Give me a freaking break. You -- by the way, she wasn't -- I don't mind. I don't mind. I don't -- why would you even -- I shouldn't expect anything more from her. You weren't born in this country. Why would she give a damn? She doesn't give a damn, Pat. Because that's the Democratic thing. Bringing as many people in as we can. Give them sanctuary. This is in Chicago. If you guys remember, Tom, Jessica Sheridan Gorman was the girl who was 18 years old, Loyola University in Chicago. She was out walking on the lakefront. And this dude who was already arrested before, shoplifting and all that, they kept releasing him, shot her in the back of the head, and killed her. Okay. Imagine, imagine, Tom -- I don't want to put this in your guys' head. Your daughter -- God forbid something happens to your daughter. You go in front of Congress and you're trying to plead your case because you're like, hey, listen, enough of this sanctuary nonsense because you guys don't care about our children. You care more about them. For her to say, this is number four. We have better things to do, Tom. We have to talk about Trump, not about your daughter. And for a mother, Pat, to sit there and say, I can't believe she said that. When I first heard it, Pat, I got emotional. She's like, I never thought I'd say this. I'm glad she was just shot in the back of the head. Can you -- guys, it's hard because you can't fathom it. Imagine a mother, the words coming out of your mother's mouth that she's happy that you were just shot in the back of the head and not raped and dismembered. Pat, shame on her, but it doesn't surprise me from the Democratic Party and a person that's not even born in this freaking country lecturing a freaking angel mom about her daughter and them wasting her time. Well, let me tell you about her. We know who she is. Exactly. I know a little bit about her. And she is from Seattle. She also created the hate-free zone after 9/11 because she felt that immigrants were being unfairly targeted. After 9/11, she created this. She renamed it and she rebranded it. But she didn't even grow up in this country. You know where she grew up? She grew up in Indonesia, I believe it is. And then she goes to Georgetown. Georgetown, gets a bachelor of arts degree. And then she gets a bachelor of arts degree. And then she goes to Georgetown, gets a bachelor of arts degree. that we have is the audience gets to see and decide on how heartless some of these folks are and how much it's politics over actual things that are happening. You know, one can mourn for another person who politically is not on the same page as you and still mourn the loss of that individual and feel and sympathize with the parent, especially if this is your job. Your job is to protect the next kid from that happening to them. And you say you're busy? You say you're busy? It's like that one, Tom, what was that story with Shell CEO when he got up and he said something like, you know, the last 24 hours have been the worst something of my life. And then they're like, your life? That person lost their life. Who are you? Who was Shell CEO? Who was the person? Do you remember who it was? Was it Exxon or Shell CEO? I don't know if you remember the story or not. This was three or four years ago when somebody said something about the big oil incident that happened. I don't know if you guys remember this. You have to understand the moment of it, of what that person's going through. It's a shame. It's a shame to me to see what happened here. But I think it's good for the audience to see exactly where people's values lies. You have to have empathy when somebody goes through something like this. What is worse than losing your child? Nothing. Nothing. And they just went through and that's how you want to answer? Well, guess what? Now we see where you stand. Adam, your thoughts on this? This is an incredibly sad story. This comes down to one thing. Do you remember during the State of the Union when Trump stood up? And this was sort of like the biggest takeaway when he stood up and he said, all right, guys, stand up if you prioritize American citizens over illegal immigrants. And half the room stood up and half the room sat down. And you know what? I respect it. They completely revealed their hand. They just admit it. That they literally will not stand up for American citizens and they will put illegal immigrants above American citizens because this is part of the whole open border strategy. And open borders have consequences and they don't want to own up to their consequences. I'll tell you a quick story about these angel families. Speaking of the State of the Union, when Trump gave that speech, do you remember where I was? I was in D.C. interviewing all the congressmen and congresswomen on the invitation of Lisa McClain. There's a quick video that I could show right here. I think it's five seconds. And I got to witness Republican congressmen and congresswomen honoring the angel family right after interviewing all these guys. And they were basically saying, like, stand up and say a few words. It was Lisa McClain, chairwoman. Lisa McClain put it together. Byron Daniels gave a speech. The great Brandon Gill had a few things to say. And they were all basically saying, hey, guys, let's stand up for victims of illegal immigrants who have killed people. And by the way, Democrats, you're invited to be here. And guess how many Democrats showed up? Precisely zero. And that's the biggest problem. Guys, I totally understand if you have empathy for immigrants. We're a country that, you know, we're open arms, but you have to do it legally. And when illegal people start murdering and killing, and you can't say that that's wrong, that's the biggest challenge that I have with the Democratic Party. But you're and again, and I'm not I'm not judging them, but I don't understand what what type of brainwash has to happen to an average American. And I get it. I get the message. I get what they're doing to think. That because of their policies, Adam, for four years, board open border, bring them all in because we want the votes. Don't don't. That's why they're fighting. Save America Act, all that stuff. It's votes. Put that all that all that mumbo jumbo. They're looking for votes so they can't admit it. They can't say, hey, listen, you know what? Because of this, because we want to keep our power because we have to cheat to win. Yeah. You know, only 6000 kids were raped or killed or or murdered. And then you can't even admit that it's sad. It's you can't even give like some type of empathy. To a mother, you have to say, hey, this is the this is the fourth time we have better. I'm going to show you this. So this is Tony Howard. OK, Tony Howard, in this instance, BP CEO. He makes this comment. I don't know if you guys remember this after. Do you remember this time? The well, the deep water horizon explosion happens. He loses. Employees after an employee was killed, has spoke emotionally about how the death affected him in the company. And then here's what he says. I sent a video clip to you guys. If you want to pull it up, I literally just text it to you. You have it right there. If you guys look at your phones. Yes. Right here. Watch this. OK. Apologize. I'm sorry. We're sorry for the massive disruption that's caused to their lives. And, you know, we're there's no one who wants this thing over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back. I'd like my life may never be the same. I'd like my life back. And people are like, you would like your life back. What about the your employees dead? What do you mean? So every once in a while you're going to you're going to show, you know, with words, you have to be careful with words. And this was a bad look for her. So I'd like to go to the next story. I don't want to stay on this story. Let's go to the next one. So next time I want to get into. Is what happened there with public trust for polls? And so, Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one. This has to do with Jill Biden and Spotify. Both stories kind of have to go together. You'll see why as I as I read this to you. First, Jill Biden's memoirs sell appear to be manipulated by bulk sales. This is a zero hedge story. So bulk sales. Why would it be manipulated by bulk sales? Jill Biden's memoir View from the East Wing debuted at number one on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list with a dagger, the symbol on the paper uses when it believes sales include a mix of organic and bulk purchases. The book quickly fell to number three the following week before disappearing off the list. Sir Connabook Scan reported a similar decline with a memoir dropping to number two and number five and number 16. It's hardcover nonfiction. By the weekend, June 20, it had sold 3,221 print copies, bringing U.S. total sales to 29,000. You know how terrible that is? You're a first lady. You sell 29,000 copies. Just to kind of put in perspective, do you know how many copies Michelle Obama's book sold? Do you know how many copies Michelle Obama's book sold? A million? No, no, no, no, no. Michelle Obama's book, if you can pull it up. Is this Becoming? No, no, that's actually the name. How many copies did Michelle Obama's book sell? The number is an insane number. Michelle Obama's book, look, lover or hater, first day, she sold 725,000 copies of any first day. First 15 days, two million. First four months, 10 million. Oh, wow. By 2020, 15 million copies. She sold 20 million copies off her book. That's Michelle Obama. And there's no fixing and all that. This is actually people wanted to buy her book. Of course. $65 million book deal is what she got with Penguin Random House. When people saw how she made her money, they actually wanted to read her book. She had a fan base. Joe Biden, 29,000 copies. You're a first lady. You sell 29,000 copies of a book. Statistician Nate Silver highlighted that the usual pattern after the rankings were released, not everyone viewed the dagger as evidence of manipulation. Lauren Cabello, founder of Leverage Media PR, said, I don't think there's anything sinister about it. I don't think there's anything sinister about it. Argue and bulk purchases are common for book tours, book tour events and conferences, which is true. She probably had bulk purchases, but because she's on the book tour, that would make sense. She also noted that the memoir remained on the USA bestseller list, that our article counters that many bestselling authors go on book tours without receiving the dagger designation, suggesting Joe Biden's book. So to get a dagger, you know who gets the dagger on that list, Vinny? And Tom, correct me on this. Business authors, self-help authors, because they'll order 10,000 copies themselves for an event and they'll give it away or they'll run an event. So you'll get that little dagger on. What does the dagger signify? The dagger means that there's bulk purchases that you make to get on this list. But for you to get that as the first lady, as the first lady. Who's buying this in bulk? Maybe donors. It is events though, but donors is the one that they're going through. So that story is a little bit weird for a first lady. And by the way, this clip, when we post this clip, this is not going to perform that well, this clip. You know why? Because most people are not interested. If only 29,000 people bought Joe Biden's book, who is the first lady. Go back to school with Welch's fruit snacks. Now made with no artificial dyes. Sunscreen, snacks, a stapler. The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money. Shop, pay, manage your account and earn rewards all in one place. And with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security and pass keys, you're protected at every step. See PayPal app.com. When you need to build up your team to handle the growing chaos at work? Use Indeed Sponsored Jobs. It gives your job post the boost it needs to be seen and helps reach people with the right skills, certifications, and more. Spend less time searching and more time actually interviewing candidates who check all your boxes. Need a hiring hero? Pricing participation may vary. The most important woman in the world is president's wife. You only do $29,000 at the time. That's embarrassing. And then this kind of goes to the story with Spotify. Tom, I'm going to read both of them. I'll hand it over to you to go through. Then Spotify deletes some stream charts because their concern is a similar thing. Hey, is there some manipulation going on right now with some of the music that we have? Spotify has removed more than a half a million streams of a song that shot to number one in the U.S. chart after discovering that the surge in streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction markets, Cal Sheet, the U.S. streams of earnings, earrings, on the indie pop track by singer-songwriter Malcolm Todd, almost 70% between Sunday and Monday on Spotify that propelled the song first released in 2024 to number one on Platform's daily U.S. chart. Tom, what do these two stories have in common? What they have in common is that we are being gaslit and we are being manipulated as consumers. They want us to believe, well, this is number one. And you have things happening. This is the number one song. Well, maybe I'll go listen to it. Maybe I'll go do this. Oh, this is the top book. Maybe I'll get a copy of that. They're trying to create momentum for themselves to manipulate the marketing to the consumer. And by the way, that's the same thing that they've done in political polling, which is why we went 16 weeks being very careful of the pollings we found. And we found out that Atlas Intel and Rasmussen were the most accurate. How do we know? We looked at the results of the election and then we went back 10 weeks and said, who's telling the truth? Who appears to be there? This is the top book. This is an erosion of public trust. The public, Pat, can't trust what they see. Which is the top ranked book on this topic? Well, this one. How do I know? And I'm putting my $25 to buy a book on whatever it is, self-help or whatever. And I want to see this. And then you see this manipulation. And by the way, I don't know which donors were bulk buying for Joe Biden. They certainly weren't paying for the library, which hasn't got above $4 million yet. And it's disgusting, Pat. I really think it's disgusting. And it comes out. It's about to happen. Because if you think that the Russian hoax and everything they wanted to do on Trump was, wait till you see what they want to do to conservatives. Wait till you see what the major news networks use. Atlas Intel, Patriot Polling, Emerson College all showed really well for us. Remember those days we talked about it? And then you had all these others. So this is an erosion of public trust. But you know what works good? When calcium prediction come out there, it's very different. When a thousand people put $2 each down and said, this is who I think is going to win the election in my city based on what I'm seeing. That is far more accurate. And it's proving to be accurate because we look at the before and after. We look at what happens before. I think God just agreed with you, Tom. I don't know if you heard that thunder right there. I want to read this. The Democrat God of polling. Let me tell you what I just did, Tom. I just pulled up which first lady has sold the most copies of their memoir. Let's just kind of find out how they've done. Okay. And here's the numbers that came up. Let me just kind of pull it up for you. Who do you think is number one? Should be very easy. I think Obama. We just talked about it. Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama sold more copies with her memoir than all the other first ladies combined. I believe that. Hillary Clinton sold 3 million copies, give or take, of her memoir. Maybe. Laura Bush, 1 million. Barbara Bush, 1 million. Nancy Reagan, a few hundred thousand. Rosalynn Carter, this is Jimmy Carter's wife. They say Jimmy Carter's the worst president of the last 50, 60 years. He's on that list. His wife sold half a million copies, 400,000 copies. Betty Ford, next. Lady Bird Johnson, next. Melania Trump on her first print, Life Sales Not Yet Public, first week U.S. print, 85,000. Jill Biden, 30,000 copies sold. Can you think about that number? 30,000 copies. 30,000 copies sold. Jill Biden. Very interesting when you look at these numbers to see what they've done and where they're at for the little interest they have for Jill Biden. And you know why, Pat? Why do you think so? I think it's because, I mean, think about it. They were sold this Joe Biden. He's going to say, oh, because it was anti-Trump, anti-Trump, anti-Trump. Then after all the four years, people realize, like, oh, my God, he's not even mentally competent. He's a shell of himself. She's the one taking photos, Tom. Air Force One, like, she's the boss and she's doing this. All the reporters. There's reports coming out that it wasn't Joe. She was kind of running the show with a couple of aides. Hunter was apparently in meetings that he shouldn't have been in. And you know what? The market found out all these people that were lied to that, hey, you know what? Nobody really cares about her. She doesn't look like a pleasant person. She just comes out. She wheels him out to try to sell a book. And no matter what happens, you can't lie to people for that long because at some point. She goes on The View and slips up and says she's not a doctor. Yeah, exactly. But we all knew. Remember that? So it's like, yeah, Joe is mentally. I'm mentally competent. I'm not even a doctor. Whoops. Wait. Yeah, exactly. And what's what's her book? I can see Michelle's. OK, Michelle. Yeah, we're in the White House. Probably complained about everything because that's all she does. But with Jill Biden, like what? What's in her book? What would it be? I had to take Joe from here to here. I had to remind him you did a good job, Joe. You got every question right, Joe. Like people realize, well, those people because mind you, she's not selling this to Republicans. What Republican woman is going to buy Jill Biden's book? It's all the leftists. And you found out that. None of them support you because they all know that you guys are all full of crap. And you don't have a library either. Yeah, you don't have a library. You don't. Nobody cares, guys. Everybody knows what Joe Biden was. Joe Biden was put in there, put in there, propped up in there because it was anything but Trump, anything but Trump. And then we all got to see what he was. Just drop the mic right here. You don't have a library, so you don't need a book. Yeah. Bye. All right. Let me get to the next story. Adam, if you got anything you want to say about this. Yeah, just it proves one thing that the Democratic establishment is cooked, you know, and Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden. Or Chuck Schumer endorsement from a candidate will actually hurt you at this point. Unless you're a DSA member and you're endorsed by Mom Donnie and you're advocating for literal communism, the Democratic Party wants nothing to do with you. Just as one little evidence that nobody wants Jill Biden's book. Nobody wants what? Jill Biden's book. Yeah, I mean. Or anything to do with the establishment Democratic. That part's pretty obvious on what happened over there. So let's get to the next story. Next story I want to get to is kid maxing. State status symbol. Kids maxing. Kids maxing. I mean, we've heard about looks maxing, all this stuff. But kids maxing. And this is a New York Times story. It's not like it's a. Yeah. It's a New York Times story. So let me get to it. What is this kids maxing stuff? And birth rates are falling across much of the developed world. But some ultra wealthy men are pursuing fatherhood on an unprecedented scale, using surrogacy, sperm donation, IVF, and other reproductive technologies. Creating dozens or even hundreds of children, highlighting what is described as inequality made flesh at a time when many ordinary families feel they cannot afford even one child. Examples include Stefan Soloviev, who has 22 children, Pavel Durov, who is a telegram guy, who says his sperm donations have produced more than 100 children, Greg Lindbergh, who reported expanded his family to at least 12 children through what he called a baby project and claims that some wealthy Chinese. Businessmen have eight have sought to father hundreds of children through U.S. surrogacy agencies. Elon Musk, who has 14 known children, reportedly who wants to use surrogate to reach a legion level and joke that Durov's total represented rookie numbers laugh on my ass off Genghis Khan. Many of these men appear to view spreading their DNA as a public good. Musk has said smart or even rich people should have more children. Durov called the sperm high quality donor material. Jeffrey Epstein reportedly admired a sperm bank associated. With Nobel Prize winners. The common thread is a belief that their bloodlines deserve to be multiplied. Modern reproductive technology allows these ambitions to expand far beyond historical limits. IVF and surrogacy make it possible to create many pregnancies simultaneously while selecting traits such as sex or screening embryos for disease. One egg donor said Lindbergh wanted 12 blood, a blonde haired blue eyed boys, while Epstein's email reflected a similar fixation on blue eyes. Musk has written. He has reportedly used polygenic embryo screening. Tom, what do you think about the story? So I wonder if the New York Times understands that kid maxing involves not having abortions. It seems like you are so funny. It seems you know what? You're a comic, Tom. No, no, no. I'm just wondering if the New York Times. I'm actually with Tom on that. I wonder if they realize he deserves. I wonder if the editorial board realizes what this story actually meant. So you know what? This has been going on for a while. I mean, you go you go back. The reason they bring up Genghis Khan is because. there were these leaders in history that wanted to have many kids and they wanted their heritage to be spread. And so, you know, do I think that there's people out there doing this? Yeah, I do. You know, I think it's kind of messed up. I think if you're going to have kids, make them yours, you and your wife, raise them, you know, build great citizens out of them, build great people out of them. That's what I think. You know, just creating a larger mob in the name of yourself. And, you know, we saw the flaw in the Epstein where he wrote about that. We saw that terrible, terrible flaw where you're just out there trying to, you know, spread your progeny everywhere. And so, you know, I see the impulse to it. But if you want to have a big family, make it yours. Raise them yours. Adam. This is an interesting conversation. Obviously, Elon Musk is leading the league on kid maxing. But it's just evidence that as a man, you know, they're not going to be able to do that. They're not going to be able to do that. You know, they're not going to be able to do that. They say the rich get richer. You're familiar with the K-shaped economy. You know, the top is doing well and the bottom is doing poorly. This is just evidence that if you're a man and you kind of get your stuff together, you have options. Now, I'm not condoning something like this, but I understand that there's a lot of guys that do. I'll actually tell you a funny story about that. But the top 10 percent of men, whether it becomes looks maxing or money maxing or status maxing, you have options. And what are the options that you have, where to live, what to do, what women and what you want to do with your children. So juxtapose that with the bottom 50 percent of men are just trying to get a girlfriend, much less married, much less kid maxing out here and having multiple kids from multiple moms. I'll tell you a quick story. I don't think it's a secret. Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate and some of their friends, we were talking about this one time and they were like, listen, I have this thing and I have this thing and I have this thing and all these different women and these different kids. And I said, I hear you guys and they're kind of advocating. This is maybe something you're interested in doing. I go, it sounds really complicated. Like, how are you dealing with time zones, baby mama drama, baby drama? They're like, listen, you got to be built for this. I go, guys, respectfully, I don't think I'm built for this. I'm just trying to do one right now. So I understand that really, really rich guys maybe want to do something like this. But I just want to give PBD a shout out for kids leader. I think most men understand that, you know, have a family, have kids, raise them, be with them together. And that's probably the best approach. But again, I'm not going to hate on the guys that want to have the benefits of success. Let me ask you a question. If all of a sudden I sat down with you guys and I said, Vinny, let's just say, Tom, we're having a conversation, the three of us and the four of us. And I said, guys, I want to go out there and go to a sperm bank and donate a hundred because I want to have a hundred bed David kids out there. What would you tell me? Just have a conversation as if we're friends. Vinny, here's what I want to do. It's going to cost me. Surrogacy is going to cost me a hundred thousand dollars a pop. I get to pick the mom to make sure they're healthy. And I'm going to do it. A hundred kids is what I want to do. It's going to cost me $10 million, but I want to make that investment. What do you guys think about it? I would just ask you why you want to do something like why? Because the birth rate is low and I want to be able to, again, I'm just role playing. Yeah, of course. The birth rate is low. I can't afford it. I'd like to contribute to society. And this is one of me planning on taking care of these hundred kids. I would be willing to give a certain amount of money to them, but upfront a hundred thousand dollars to the mother who chooses to have this baby. And then what is the benefit of you doing this? I know you want to contribute to the birth rate, but a hundred kids is not going to change the birth rate. Say the argument would be, you know, the access to a good DNA, strong DNA, strong genes that these kids could go out there and be a net positive to society. I'm just role playing and I'll take over. Is this more about your legacy and the world being shaped by you? Or do you want to be a father for all these kids? Which one is it? A little bit of both, but the bigger part is the 1.58, 1.58 birth rate. Yeah, but you're not really moving the needle with a hundred kids. I think I'm helping it. I'm helping. You're doing your part. Here's my thing from a Christian perspective, which I know that you are. I think, you know, this children are a blessing. It's not a trophy. God doesn't care if you have one or if you have 10, but I think God cares about how you raise them. And being a father, isn't just making babies. It's raising them. Okay. And a woman, man and the woman who love God and have character and make the world better. If you're just putting them out there, Pat, that's a hundred moms that have this kid, no father. No, they're not watching the social media, the pornography, the school, the trans, the I get to see you. My father was there, but he wasn't there. I get to see how Tom raises his daughters. I get to see every single day, how you do it with, with all the, with the girls and the kids. I get to see how you do it. The work that you guys put into these children to make them amazing human beings. And I'm seeing for the past four years, I'm seeing it, Pat. And I don't think it's possible to do that with all these kids. God, Pat, what if they all turn into some America hating socialists, you know, uh, uh, what, what is the, um, Adam with the Sharia law loving, you know, everybody hating America, like the odds of them, Pat turning into the kids that you have made up to this point, I think are slim. So none, the goal isn't to have the most kids. I think it's the raise adult. Would you say to me stand on their own? Well, I would say this, I would say, Pat, you know what? You can have those surrogates, a hundred thousand each deliver a baby. How do you deliver a great person into that society at 18 years old to, to live, work and be what you want? Because you're not, I know you, you're not just thinking about the birth rate. You're thinking about the quality of those people and what they believe in, what they do. How do you deliver that? You can deliver the baby. Why not just, why don't just a, a hundred today and shape them. Yeah. But it's the DNA. It's the DNA, the wire. So, so the audience, the argument to that would be the DNA, the wiring, the genetics, the bloodline you're coming from that bloodline. And that's, that's man wants to procreate. That's what man wants to do. They want to procreate. You know what it would make me think about with this. And listen, we're just having this argument right now. Just a very basic conversation is back in a days. How many times would kids see their fathers? I actually think it's a very basic conversation. I think it's a very basic conversation think about it your wife got pregnant you're going to go out there and hunt and then you come back you would go to war you would protect you would do all this other stuff and i'm not talking about 50 years ago i'm talking about for a couple thousand years that's kind of what life was like so this whole thing about being here all the time around your kids this is a new thing this is a 50 60 80 year thing this is not a 500 year thing this is not even a 300 year thing that we have but let me let me give it on the opposite side and argue my own point raising a kid is about 500 five-minute conversations not about one or one weekend spending time with them or you know five weekends spending time with them no it's about 500 five-minute conversations that they want to have with daddy while they're going through different issues in their lives and that's how you shape them there are a lot of parents who same genetic same mom and dad one kid comes out and say that person didn't get pregnant and they're like oh my god i'm not going to get pregnant and they're like oh my god i'm not going to get pregnant and they're like oh my god i'm not going to get pregnant and they're like oh my god i'm not going to get pregnant and they end up being a rebel and then they don't do anything and then there are those that you can shape their mindset and they can do a good thing so it's not just dna this thing is hard like this webinar that we did last week for father's webinar i've never done a webinar that the show ratio was that high it was the biggest showing we ever had on the webinar i talked about the 20 rules for fathers the you know the phase that every man needs to go through how fathers are judged it takes 40 years for us to be judged then are your kids a net positive to society and last but not least they yearn your company years after they no longer need you do they want i don't know it's like hey man six types of fathers i thought was so powerful yeah and so you know it by the way if you didn't get a chance to watch it if you go to vtwebinar.com register they'll send a link to you um i i don't know there's a part of me that likes that these guys are using their resources if if you have to choose between one of two i want you to process this and audience i'd like to hear from you as well you got one guy who's a billionaire who is willing to put his resources ivf whatever it is and have a hundred plus kids or a guy who's a billionaire and says i don't want to have any kids which one is a net positive to society no family neither one wants to get married and married and have kids one guy's saying i'll give the money away and hey 100 kids 100 girls you guys go do your thing the other one nope i just want to live for myself selfishly who's a more net positive to society neither wants to get married neither wants the responsibility of the day-to-day father on surface on the surface it's a procreating one but i really want to know his motivations and how he's going to ensure that those kids are not like look at the kennedy grandchildren delinquents from a to z there's like two three you go take a look at it yeah yeah you don't get involved 500 five minute conversations great then you've got a bunch of rich kids that are delinquents that are impacting the rest of us i think what you're saying with raising the kids pad is more is caught than taught i know you've talked about this pbd yeah yeah okay gotcha i want you to react to this you know the famous quote any man can be a father but it takes a special man to be a dad i think that's kind of what you're saying is it not yeah yeah i am but but what i'm trying to say is i'm wondering if you have between the two who is going to be a bigger net positive to society we can transition to the next story because this one i kind of got the gist of what i wanted from this story next one is playstation video games okay no more discs we want discs we want the ownership we want to feel like we got a disc no well we're just going to give it a download it on your system and that's all it's going to be no no i want my disc i want to make sure i have the disc i'm going to read this to you and i wonder how you process this and tom i'm going to come to you with this one because it is a big story a lot of people are not happy about this story because they're sitting around saying hey if i'm buying this thing i want let me see what page i want a physical i want a physical disc of the video game to be given to me that's what i want no you know you're going to be fine just with the download no i want the disc so let me read this brand smell blood in the water after playstation access game discs and they're roasting sony for it this is a business insider story this is a business insider story that we have here okay so let me go through it sony's decision to stop making physical discs for its playstation game starting in 2020 it has opened the floodgates for brands eager to score points online within hours of the announcement companies ranging from creators of privacy software to fried kitchen chains piled on using the playstation all digital future as father father for jokes sony said the shift reflects the fact that the general preference for digital media significance significantly outpaces that for physical discs the post tapped into a broader backlash from fans who have expressed worry about ownership media preservation and what happens when everything lives behind a download tom what is your position with this i'll tell you we're in position um i was part of one of these suits so once upon a time there's a company called voodoo and guys if you could go look that up v-u-d-u and look up voodoo box like 2010 i'm on it yep and you'll see you bought a physical box that read that would download movies and then you own those movies and they were the quality of laser discs they were it was a set-top player but it was high quality so i jumped in because voodoo was invested in by benchmark capital and a guy named bill girl and so i heard about all this i thought wow this is really cool i can own the content digitally store to my box real cool well walmart buys voodoo and then subscriptions comes along and it changed and then you're ready for this by the way these things had at the time one terabyte hard drives back then back then back then back then they didn't want me now i'm hot they're all on me you know that song exactly and so what happened was you had all the all of the stuff being stored there walmart buys voodoo and then walmart decides they're not going to do it anymore they shut down the box i own the movies i bought the movies and it gets over to fandango and then you know what fandango did pat what they do they change the pricing and change the subscription damn fan wait a minute when you were voodoo i bought copies of the godfather at voodoo then i bought copies of jaws those were mine then it gets sold to walmart get it and then it gets sold to fandango and finally fandango it was like a nine million dollar lawsuit nine or ten million dollars pat that and by the way you know who that money went to the voodoo users and so this is the tip of the iceberg i love you tom do you see how it came back yes it came back so this is people saying the same thing wait a minute if i buy call of duty i want the disc if you ever go away i want the ability to keep the game i bought and in the area of and by the way what if you sell to somebody else what because they've seen this movie before pat so the video game people are well aware of what happened the voodoo box one terabyte drive downloading movies sold to walmart they screw it up sold the fandango they screw it up my opinion as a consumer i think those both of those things are screwed up that's my assessment and then you end up in a class in law school do you understand pat everybody thought they own their movies let me ask you how often how often has apple removed movies that users bought because licensing agreement uh expired how often has this happened with apple who else should i put their netflix hang on i did a case study on on netflix and i had brooker come on at 10 years old and you know what she did she comes on there and says well the movie's not as disney plus because all my movies disappeared from netflix uh but that's different though tom that's different because netflix and you know disney left and started their own ott i'm talking about something else that that is one but i'm wondering so it says it actually hasn't happened it's rare in 2018 a few user movies disappeared from their libraries after studio licensing changed apple restored access for some customers and explained that rights issued can't can affect availability country changes some users have temporarily lost access after changing the country associated with their apple account okay so that one makes sense there's no evidence that apple irregularly removes purchase movies considering apple has sold hundreds of millions of digital movies for nearly 20 years only a small number of cases with netflix is different because it doesn't sell digital movie purchases netflix licenses movies tv subscription when a license agreement expires the title simply leaves the catalog since users have never purchased a movie netflix is now removing it which makes sense sony playstation announced it would remove 551 purchased movies because a license agreement so that one is true so sony screwed up there and sony in 2022 removed 314 studio canal titles and part of europe after a licensing dispute and then in 2023 sony discovery content planned to remove purchased discovery shows but reversed course after public backlash and reached a new licensing agreement so then that makes sense so apple i'm buying hasn't happened netflix they're buying licensing and i'm paying money to buy a new netflix so it's okay if it happens sony's the only one that screwed up here which we'll see what happened with the market reacting to the video games your time okay i'll give you more more angle what if what if a new president doesn't like the games that are on there because they think they're too violent or in call of duty you're shooting people from another country and they decided that country's not so bad and they tell sony to take that game down and people have paid to 34 bucks for the game and they're sitting there right yep that's that that's what i fear what i fear is content censorship when somebody legitimately bought a piece of content they want that disc so that they know they own call of duty or whatever the game is they own it forever and is it feasible that you could have an administration that doesn't like this content or that content or doesn't like how this or that and then can turn it into a game and then you can turn it into a game and then you can turn it off what do you think brandon carr's job was on day one was to protect podcasts like this one brandon carr's chairman of the fcc was to protect us from being shadow banned or crippled yeah we're taking off thank you brandon adam your thoughts not they just pull up the wrong brandon car they pull up an nfl player this is a you know me and my video games i don't endorse it i don't play it in recent memory it's the second time i think you brought up video games you talked about uh grand theft auto you're bringing this up what's going on is there something that you yeah how do you feel about video games why is this something that you want to talk about again no no i think it's business strategy that's dumb you can't lose your customers and to me there is an element of like like listen a lot of people have moved over to kindle okay and they like kindle reading kindle i'm not a fan i like if you see me i always have a physical book with me yeah because i like the sentimental meaning of reading a book i get some people that i like that now don't get me wrong i don't listen to you listen to music on cassette tapes i don't have that sentimental even though easy back in the days real mother you know what geez you're gonna hit him up we know you're gonna hit him up so i didn't listen to music back in the days but but to me i think it's the sentimental side of having that the movie side where you know back in the days like my sister had a collection of all the disney movies and it was a big deal the vhs disney because some of these things are very very expensive my dad had it as well and so you collected it it was something that we have in our family as well those dvds you collect i i just i just i understand the nostalgic desire of yeah these things like people have these types of collections there's something special about it because it's a bond so for video games i get the younger audience saying that i got you now now i want to understand this one of the things that people are fascinated about when they come to valutainment yeah there's the hanger there's the car they come and see the thing in front of your office the read yes filled with books people go oh my is that what it's it says i thought it said i know you thought you said re-add i know rowad also for roads but i get it i'm going to teach you how to re-add one thank you but there's something nostalgic about that for instance i have all my cds in a case like this collecting dust there's certain things that we don't have that people like the physical touch like for instance why do people invest in real estate they want to be able to touch the assets i invest in reits real estate investment trust because i'm not trying to get my hands dirty trying to be a pretty boy out here but there is something nostalgic you about holding a book and reading it even if you use an audible to go along with this used to be one of my favorite books bingo sets back in the days that was the set look at you by the way good work team in the back you guys are speedy today oh yeah today i'm impressed so yeah this used to be the first uh uh how old were you here i'm probably 18 years old now this is 36 this is i'm 36 i'm 36 37 years you know how i always know how old pbd is i can do it every single time show me his haircut yeah yeah show me his haircut show me his goatee let me get to the next exactly how it is let me get to the next by the way there's a list that comes out i'll get to that here in as well but this is a funny story a man sues pepsi 30 years ago because pepsi did this campaign if you can't even pull up the campaign when they did this back in the days because you guys showed me this video yesterday they they do this thing about hey we're going to give a fighter jet and so this one guy decides to go and do every single thing required to win this thing and then all of a sudden i don't know what page the pepsi story's on oh there it is i found it man who sued pepsi over fighter jets finally gets his reward 30 years later this is the original commercial by the 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indeed.com slash podcast that's indeed.com slash podcast terms and conditions apply need a hiring hero this is a job for indeed sponsored jobs for a limited time you can get a big mac mule for just eight dollars that's a bird fries and a drink they don't call it an extra value meal for nothing get a big mac mule only at mcdonald's price and participation may vary promotion pricing may be lower than real pricing introducing the new pepsi stuff catalog now the more pepsi you drink the more great stuff so they put this saying if you get seven million points you're gonna get a fighter jet and this one kid gets it done that's so freaking and they they're like they never thought it was gonna happen so they never gave him the jet what are you gonna do deliver the jet to the guy's house can you imagine how crazy this campaign was what if he's a middle eastern pepsi's like holy shit three decades late after suing pepsi for refusing to give him a fighter jet john leonard pull up his picture i actually want to see what this man looks like before and after what he looked like as a kid finally got a reward that may be even better according to a post that super blondie uh super car blondie leonard became the center of all advertising most famous legal battles after taking a 1996 pepsi commercial at face value the ad promoting the company's pepsi points loyalty program jokingly claimed customers could redeem seven million points for a military harrier jet rather than laughing it off the seattle college student raised enough money to buy the required points and submitted a claim for the aircraft pepsi rejected it insisting the jet was never a real price the article says that the case went to court where a judge ruled that no reasonable person would believe pepsi was seriously offering a fighter jet and a soft drink promotion although leonard lost the lawsuit the bizarre dispute became legendary and was later chronic chronic out uh uh what do you how do you pronounce this word chronicled sir chronicled in the net don't worry about it i got you every time where's my jet now nearly 30 years later frontier airlines gave this story a happy ending as part of a super bowl campaign called the big redemption the airline converted leonard's original seven million pepsi points into seven million frontier miles effectively giving him free flights for life the airline even featured leonard in a tongue-in-cheek commercial handing him the keys to an airbus a320 neo as a nod to the decades-old saga now in his 50s with a wife and children leonard joked that unlimited airline miles are far more practical than only a few minutes of flight time to get to the airport yeah you think military jet after waiting three decades he never got the harrier but he may have received an even better price tom so marketing has consequences and i think if you're gonna do this you know this is him this is him as a kid a college student isn't that great and by the way can we see him today can we see him what did he do what business did he get into for a guy to be this resourceful i hope this guy became like super successful if he used his ability to get those seven million points your your ability to be resourceful is off the charts this is him now that's so fun is there a video can we hear how he speaks actually wanted to hear how he speaks i'd laugh if he became like a consumer protection attorney i actually wanted so this is the commercial they're not showing pepsi this is frontier airlines ran a promotion collect enough points and you could trade them for a jet one man tried to claim it but the courts ruled it was a lie and the courts ruled it was a lie and the courts ruled it was a but the courts ruled it was a lie and the courts ruled it was a joke joke joke and the plane never came leonard's case was and the plane never came leonard's case was and the plane never came leonard's case was dismissed by the way frontier's marketing team by the way frontier's marketing team by the way frontier's marketing team should get a freaking raise oh yeah should get a freaking raise oh yeah should get a freaking raise oh yeah nine hundred nine hundred didn't get a nine hundred nine hundred didn't get a nine hundred nine hundred didn't get a jet it's a deal frontier redeemed john's it's a deal frontier redeemed john's it's a deal frontier redeemed john's seven million old soda points for seven seven million old soda points for seven seven million old soda points for seven million miles enough to fly free for million miles enough to fly free for million miles enough to fly free for life life life look at this guy look at this guy look at this guy what they're making a money you can what they're making a money you can what they're making a money you can turn loyalty points from any other brand turn loyalty points from any other brand turn loyalty points from any other brand oh my god oh my god oh my god redeem your points at redeem your points at redeem your points at respect to frontier miles respect to frontier miles respect to frontier miles don't you love the story tom i love don't you love the story tom i love don't you love the story tom i love this story you know there's the this story you know there's the because somebody even if they're going because somebody even if they're going because somebody even if they're going to do it is going to to do it is going to to do it is going to it's going to blow the thing up yeah do it's going to blow the thing up yeah do it's going to blow the thing up yeah do you remember when i think it was you remember when i think it was you remember when i think it was american airlines once upon a time had american airlines once upon a time had american airlines once upon a time had the 300 000 the 300 000 the 300 000 um pay once and you're first class for um pay once and you're first class for um pay once and you're first class for life life life and i think there were you know who the and i think there were you know who the and i think there were you know who the lot there were three remaining lot there were three remaining lot there were three remaining members of it because they kept trying members of it because they kept trying members of it because they kept trying to buy them out to buy them out to buy them out and you know who one of those last and you know who one of those last and you know who one of those last remaining members was remaining members was remaining members was mark cuban because it was 300 000 mark cuban because it was 300 000 mark cuban because it was 300 000 about the american and so and by the about the american and so and by the about the american and so and by the way american never thought people way american never thought people way american never thought people the number of people would do it and the number of people would do it and the number of people would do it and they nearly went broke not broke but they nearly went broke not broke but they nearly went broke not broke but they were losing money they were losing money they were losing money on like three of them there was a guy on like three of them there was a guy on like three of them there was a guy that decided that every other week he that decided that every other week he that decided that every other week he was going was going was going to the uk and apparently you had the to the uk and apparently you had the to the uk and apparently you had the right to take a um american fly for life right to take a um american fly for life right to take a um american fly for life or whatever it was you could take it or whatever it was you could take it or whatever it was you could take it you just i love it when when it snaps you just i love it when when it snaps back back back uh and so that's what i think i love it uh and so that's what i think i love it uh and so that's what i think i love it when it snaps back when it snaps back when it snaps back but you know what i love even more is but you know what i love even more is but you know what i love even more is when companies do something for good when companies do something for good when companies do something for good even if they're doing it for funny what even if they're doing it for funny what even if they're doing it for funny what front what is frontier really saying front what is frontier really saying front what is frontier really saying here here here we'll go the extra mile for you when we'll go the extra mile for you when we'll go the extra mile for you when somebody else wouldn't somebody else wouldn't that might be a slogan right there they that might be a slogan right there they that might be a slogan right there they should pay you for that tom should pay you for that tom should pay you for that tom that's what i think how do you feel that's what i think how do you feel that's what i think how do you feel about this adam about this adam about this adam great marketing by frontier way to great marketing by frontier way to great marketing by frontier way to deliver on this i mean look at the end deliver on this i mean look at the end deliver on this i mean look at the end of the day of the day of the day if i order a coke at a restaurant and if i order a coke at a restaurant and if i order a coke at a restaurant and they go sorry sir we only have pepsi they go sorry sir we only have pepsi I'm disappointed. I went a totally different way on that. Can you run a poll, Pepsi or Coke? Diet Coke. Run a poll, Pepsi or Coke. I want to know which one our audience is better. There's nothing better than having a meal and then just say, hey, can I get a Diet Coke? You know what's funny? And it feels good. I know you don't drink soda. I haven't had it since July of 19, and I miss it. I'm not going to lie to you. Not having a Coke Zero. I'm a Coke Zero. No, no, I'm not going to drink it. You know what I do, Pat? What was the Coke ad you talked about? Remember the Coke ad? $5 million. I would do a Coca-Cola commercial to come back. I don't always drink soda, but when I do, I'll do it for $5 million. I go to Whole Foods and stuff, and I get just, you know, like the black cherry flavor. Yeah. And then you put Stavier drops. I know it's not the same, but if you want to get the soda carbonation taste. What's going on with your voice? By the way, do you remember RC Cola? Remember RC Cola? Royal Crown. Did you ever drink it or not? I would have called it Royal Crown. By the way, RC was better than Coke, if you asked me 30 years ago. Hey, hey, hey. The blue bottle. The blue can. I agree. I don't know. The OG RC Cola. Yeah, right there. That's OG. Probably like they must have had horrible marketing because it doesn't exist now. We're all into blue pills. First of all, if you drank RC, you were poor, but you got, you know. But rich in substance and health and life. But the drink was good. And then when's the next time you think you'll have a soda, Pat? I don't know. about that right now at this point with what i'm going through but hey an arnold palmer that'll serve you well yeah and then we're working on it let me get to the next one let me get to the next one this was a good story next one so the lakers get rid of this uh black man lebron james or lebron left and stephen a smith's like what team's gonna win with all white i mean who and he reacts to this i don't know if you guys have seen this or not and so some audience like wait a minute what are you talking about who cares about whether they're white or not come on stephen a right even vinny's sitting here like upset about this whole thing but there's somebody that you know you said what team has won being white this is it let's play this clip and we'll all react to it go for it where the hell the los angeles lakers think they go on with a bunch of white your three top players are white dudes really this ain't golf this ain't baseball hell it ain't even soccer what y'all think this is basketball in nba history when have you seen your three most prominent players on a basketball team all be white and that takes you to the promised land somebody gotta say it so i'm saying it this is basketball i'm not complaining i'm simply making the point the los angeles lakers you ain't going anywhere being led by three white dudes in today's generation of basketball i'm letting you know right now they're happening and lucas is a bad brother and austin reeves is no scrub and they both have earned what they have earned and then with lebron james or some other brothers i get right but don't you why do you have a problem with steven i don't have a problem with it i just because i i love steven a he knows i love him to death but can you imagine if a white guy on espn said what the hell they think that they're doing with a bunch of black guys xyz or like a white doctor walking into an operating room going oh i'm not black three black surgeons are you i'm not gonna have surgery they would lose their black sheriff a black for that yeah i mean i'm just saying if it was the other way around it would be horrible but at the end of the day pat is he wrong do you really think the lakers have a chance let me tell you who any other tell you who banked on this a guy named mark cuban yep if you want to pull up the story from the guardian pull up that story from the guardian so this is the story of guardian that said that that's the story of guardian that said that that's the story of mavericks are consistently white in a black league and this is when mark cuban owned them okay so the article highlights that it cited nba was about 74.2 percent black and 16.9 percent white but it observed that 15 out of 21 seasons the mavericks had at least three white players on their active roster and are in more than half of those seasons they had four or more it did not say the roster was 70 so you look at this number and saying hey this is the whitest team in in uh nba and mark cuban won mark cuban won with nowitzki and you know who they beat do you know who they the guy that's leaving the lakers lebron james remember when lebron james and they uh what's his name uh miami no no duane wade they were making fun of nowitzki he's he's coughing because he's sick and then nowitzki came back and was 24 for 24 on free throw shots 48 points destroyed the maps and who's the guy finley who already had the championship tattooed on his arm pre-winning it do you know he did that i don't know if you know the story or not i know you don't follow closely so he had he had a tattoo can you get michael finley's tattoo pre-winning the vinnie do you know what this guy did genuinely do you know what he did michael finley got an nba championship tattoo before winning it he said wow no one in the history of the nba had ever done this and they beat lebron james no it wasn't michael finley what was it guy's name it's not finley jason terry jason terry i'm sorry okay so people let me help you out here there it is that's a tattoo can you show it he coming out with a new book he gets a tattoo about winning a championship before they won the championship then he got dunked on by brown the next no with it doesn't matter man you got that championship you got that lebron wants highlights the maps wanted a championship that's the difference so i don't know i look do i think the lakers squad because the challenge with uh the luca is the following here's a challenge with luca luca can do 35 10 10 but he won't come back to play defense he's not a two-way player so the two way players you know you the great ones were who quay leonard he'll come back jalen brown just went to uh philadelphia 76ers i don't know if you guys saw that on our portray for paul george some call us the worst trade oh yeah because you know they said you know and they said well you know jalen brown said i'm probably the smartest guy in the room because it's not too hard in the nba to be the smartest guy in the room i think a part of jalen brown is also you know why would the you know why would the jalen brown be the smartest guy in the room because it's not too hard in the why would brad stevens get rid of jalen jalen brown maybe you're not a good locker room guy i don't know who the hell would get rid of a guy that did 28 65 last year i think that's what you average anywhere do you finals mvp maybe you think too highly of yourself maybe you're not a guy that brings a team together maybe you're not a team guy maybe you're a selfish guy maybe you think so highly of yourself that people don't want to play with you i don't know why do you get rid of a jalen brown at his peak for paul george at the end of his career and i love paul george why do you do that but you're seeing a lot of stuff that's going on over there i know i don't know i don't want to go into my sports analyst side and go ahead i don't i don't want to embarrass stephen a smith i don't want to do that stephen a bet i'm a fan i'm a fan of stephen a smith first take stephen a is the first take we're the last take so we're gonna give the last take on this yeah but uh adam with your amateur ability yeah yeah what do you want to add yeah let's go ahead let me let me defend the white jewish community go ahead let me defend my white people right now who's by the way the greatest jewish nba player of all time well right now he's playing right now oh he's the guy that's playing right now he's pretty good he's pretty good he's incredible yeah he's pretty good but you rarely hear berkowitz with the dunk you never you don't listen you're talking to the jewish jordan right now a little respect sorry so stephen a i would typically agree with you homeboy but times have changed i don't know why people are back in the nba if you look at the top five players in the nba right now boys are back in town luka jokic jokic white jokic jokic go ahead luka donchik white white you have yannis you have wemby black and you got steph curry he's gone on he's what which side is he i don't know the point is this white people are making a comeback i'm not just talking about uh steve nash i'm talking about dirk nowitzki i'm not even talking about mark price i'm not even talking about craig elo the days of the blacks owning the the nba are over but by the way they they've had it for a long time ever since larry bird had this thing but you know what uh we have to be the most concerned about this is what i'm actually most concerned about because i'm actually not into the black and white thing i'm more into the usa thing know what i'm more concerned about that the top 10 players in the nba the vast majority of them are no longer american greece they're international think about this yannis greece luka slovenia the joker slovakia serbia wherever he's from sga canada wemby borat outer space i don't wherever this guy's wasn't that where wasn't that what's going on is nba american nba players forget about the black and white thing just put the ball in the hole and start beating these international things globalism's taking over next thing you know y'all mings didn't start dunking you what you're ready for this by the way adam adam wasn't that where mark wasn't that where mark cuban drafted his guys all the europeans by the way when i did a shootout they weren't white americans with the great steven a smith we tied he had he had a good shot and he was he wasn't even dressed for it but here's my thing oh you're making excuses all the black men now all the stuff that this is what you're doing all the cultural appropriation all the stuff that you talked about about elections and stuff what does vegas say las angeles lakers to win plus 4 500 you would have oh no no no they're not doing no they're not doing good like jesu crystal would have to come and be on the starting five by the way i just want to make a public announcement here pbd if i may lebron i want you to make this decision come to miami come to florida don't start you forget about the high taxes in california all right forget about all the nonsense come back and run back to eatles with yannis and bam 305 till we die all right so let me let me let me go to this next one which is kind of uh i don't know if we have this clip or not this this uh this brother says what he says about caitlin clark saying the wmba has just got to get rid of caitlin clark have you guys seen this clip it's so this clip about caitlin clark tom i think you commented on this i don't know where it's at when you commented on it or not if you can send it to the crew in the back so he says look it's time it's time for the wmba this is it right there yeah the wmba would be better without caitlin clark just listen to him this is an nfl player okay go go with this junction time would be better without caitlin clark because she is a bigger distraction than she is an additive oh god caitlin clark has gotten the wmba over the necessary threshold they needed now people are watching now we realize oh there's talent in the w talent that's actually even greater than caitlin clark and i'm not just talking about bigs like asia i'm talking about the olivia miles i'm talking about the page beckers hell i'm talking about the kelsey mitchells okay nobody's ever heard of these the necessary eyes there but now that the i'm talking about the page beckers hell i'm talking about the kelsey mitchells guys are there we don't necessarily need her anymore caitlin did that's the most thank you for all your contributions anymore thank you caitlin we can take it from here now you're saying that the wmba needs to be cognizant of where they put caitlin clark on posters the wmba and the officials need to alter the rules for the league the wmba and opposing players need to treat caitlin clark more gently caitlin clark's coach needs to be cognizant of the rules for the league the wmba needs to be cognizant of the rules for the league the wmba needs to be cognizant of the rules for the league the wmba needs to be cognizant of the rules for the the head down i need her in the crotch too yeah and and you're watching this the caitlyn clark foul uh uh take the t out yeah foul and you look at this you're like wait a minute what the hell is this and she's smiling at her while she's doing this you know with the with the what do you call it with the hand on the face tom first of all before we find that clip what do you think about what she's saying right here what he's saying here about caitlyn clark that right there watch this this is it look at that and there's even another clip of her smiling at her and smiling and smiling so you know do you do you agree with what he's saying and if not is this it yeah watch that watch that what are you doing what's the purpose of that tom go ahead um i don't need to go down the path of just how much envy and jealousy there is in the uh in the w uh toward caitlyn clark number one number two what this guy was talking about was so selfish and wrongheaded who was he by the way he was an nfl player no no no no no no this is emmanuel ancho he was drafted in the uh ancho he was drafted in the sixth round by cleveland he barely played he was hurt and he never was an nfl player barely he didn't play a full season he got traded three times so he tried to make i'm going in on the nfl no he tried to make it in the nfl and either his body or his talent didn't get him there one or the other but he never had an enduring position on one team for like a full season without getting hurt in anything and he ultimately was out he was one of many rookies that get to the nfl and don't quite are able to stay happens in basketball too you could give me examples adam and this guy is now a podcast and on media as a pundit and what he was saying was that they don't need her anymore why because caitlyn clark helped the wmba get a huge new digital rights and tv deal and that's got the and she helped the salaries go up and people hate the fact that she did it and there's huge jealousy why weren't we paid why weren't we paid you heard all kinds of them and so what he's saying pat he's saying oh we don't need her anymore we got our tv deal we got the salaries up now you can go away because they're jealous of her she didn't come from the zone in the area she came from the american midwest the wmba's culture and everything about its overall you know positioning is not midwest let me give some numbers here i'm going to give some numbers pre caitlyn clark going into the wmba to post ready pre 2023 she went in 2023 average viewership vinny national tv audience per game 462 000 after clark one year later 2024 not today today's even higher one year later 1.32 million up 186 percent come on regular season attendance average per game 66 15 fans one year later the entire wmba goes up 48 to 9807 total attendance 1.59 total attendance 2.35 48 up sellouts went from 45 to 154 242 growth espn viewership 440 to 1.2 million 170 up merchandise sales 600 up league wide in one year caitlyn clark increased merch sales for everybody league pass subscription up 366 percent who did that caitlyn clark and by the way you know that girl you just showed what's her name sophie cunningham i love her she's a gangster you know what you you the biggest highlight of the nba this year is a woman pointing at another woman that's the best play of the year it's tough she's like the bill lambert defending her teammates find the other one she's doing like this sophie if you're watching this keep doing your thing you got a big fan base three-pointer i love what she does so anyways we'll see what happened here do you have any thoughts on this you think it's just disrespectful like at the end of the day let's be real here if caitlyn clark was not in the nba we would not be talking about the nba it wouldn't be in our top 10 topics it's always going to lose money it's never going to make money it's a zombie company we're not even talking about that we're going to talk about the fact that caitlyn clark at the very least is the reason that we're actually even getting any shine to any of these players i've never heard of asia wilson i guess she's the best player in the nba we wouldn't be talking about her by the way if you just look at the stats caitlyn clark is a top three player in the nba she's top three in the league in points assists three points she's going to be one of the top three uh mvp candidates listen i'm no fan of the nba i will crap on the wmba all day every day i can at the same time i can acknowledge that caitlyn clark is the reason that we're even talking about this disgusting horrible useless league so two things can be true at once the league is useless but she's a great check this out this is the wmba 30-year poster that they did to recognize wmba's history and you know who's missing on that poster a white woman oh sorry caitlyn clark is missing from that poster they decided she wasn't big enough to put her in there by the way i love that wmba is doing this because it's showing what you guys are really all about well the entire league is being exposed and fyi with with with caitlyn clark she's going to keep doing her thing and the more they do this eventually everybody goes through three phases first you are ridiculed then you're violently opposed then it becomes self-evident she has not yet made itself evident she's going through that phase that michael went through that all major athletes had to go through and she's going to get through it and her supporters are going to behind her i hope she continues let me get to the next story next story i want to get to is a story about uh the rock which is like hey rock we want you to talk politics you're famous you got 500 million followers on social media why are you not bashing trump and the rock's like dude let me just do my thing leave me alone man let me just go out there and do my uh what is the the show and the cartoon and all this stuff that i'm doing why are you bothering me let me live my life nope we need you to criticize so let me read this to you hollywood star stars began lashing out at dwayne johnson on monday after he reiterated his stance to keep his personal politics out of public eye after telling esquire earlier this month that he hates dwayne johnson of modern politics star trek alum george takai and standby stand by me actor will wheaton took to social media to slam johnson uh with taki uh uh arguing that his stance his silence makes him complicit the rock's recent comments to esquire about wanting to keep my politics to myself has divided fans with some calling his silence uh taki wrote on on threads he then replied to his post on monday writing silence is complicity he also called out johnson in a thread post later deleted that was reported by entertainment weekly writing so disappointing to find that he is such a coward however some came to johnson's defense online including comedian matt rife who took on x to mock wheaton's coward comments i love how he's a coward but could quite literally tear will's throat out of yeah out through his uh asshole rife wrote on a wednesday adding this internet comment world is so bold the controversy stems from johnson's esquire interview for the magazine summer 2026 cover story the uh actor known for starring in the fast and furious franchise as well as jumanji films explained why he'll be keeping his political view is private from now on what i learned through experience is that i need to keep need not want the main thing the main thing i said and the main thing for me is the thing that in the morning i swing my legs out of bed and i run towards is creating it's art it's storytelling i've learned i'm going to keep my politics to myself good for him what do you think about what he said here listen pat i'm i'm for someone that was in hollywood and learned really really quick you open your mouth or you say something funny i said something about because this was by i was in during 2016 15 i was going on stage i was making funny jokes i was seeing trump i never cared about trump when i saw trump at the apprentice you're fired i was just like yeah whatever whatever so i went on stage and i was making jokes i got off stage and the owner of the comic club and i'm not going to say who it was was like this hey you can't you can't be going up there and talking positive about this and i'm like wait what i go i thought this was a comedy club so i wasn't getting stage time because i was talking positive about trump so that being said it could ruin your entire career because this game and we all know this oh also this i went to get a comedy booker a person to book me for comedy and they were like i came to see me headline crushed it standing ovation i went for the gusto you know what he said yeah i can't i can't sell you you're not you're not mainstream i'm like what are you talking about i go on middle eastern i could i think the ambiguous i could play whatever they're like yeah you're a republican literally said that and this is a big comedy booker manager agent whatever they want to call them and i realize it either you go listen either you're political or you're not this is a business decision and good for him because once you go full you know i mean there's no coming back once they label you as past especially hollywood it's over for you but what do you think what do you think because i think he's one of us what do you think rock is deep down? if i had to bet all my money he's one of us i think he's a center right guy absolutely socially maybe liberal or whatever but i think that the guy's a the guy's a capitalist he lives like a capitalist he lives like a conservative now leave him alone yeah and by the way i respect the hell out of him for doing this good for him let him go create his art and i hope eventually he chooses to run i hope eventually he chooses to run uh but i don't think he's done creating i don't think he's done creating i think what is rock's age by the way? how old is a rock is he uh is he in his 40s is he in his 50s he's got to be in his 50s something yeah well good for him and he looks great so he's in his 50s 54 years old lucky Look, when that age hits six and you want to kind of go and, you know, be a trifecta because he's going to be a billionaire. He's the biggest superstar, bigger than Arnold ever was. Okay, so if he's a billionaire, Arnold never became a billionaire. If he's a superstar and he becomes a president, then he officially becomes one of two. You know why he becomes one of two? Because it's him and Trump. Trump was a billionaire, superstar on TV, and he goes and becomes a president. It could only be two of rocks, and he's in the camp with Trump. He could pull it off. But take your time. Pick your time. Adam. I think Rock, at the end of the day, he's just a talented dude. I don't think he wants to be in politics. You interviewed him. You had a great interview with him. His story's amazing, his relationship with his father, his ex-wife, everything that he's doing. I think Rock, at the end of the day, you know the one thing that he wants to be? I think he wants to be liked. I genuinely believe that. I think when he was younger and more of a football player and a wrestler, he was clearly more pro-America, conservative-type values. Then he got into Hollywood, and I think at one point he had to literally put on a dress and to see that side of the things, right? Twinkle, twinkle, that whole situation. I think Rock is someone who doesn't look in terms of politics and divisiveness. I think he's generally a synergist. I think he's the type of person that any reasonable person on the left or on the right says, I like The Rock. Now, if you're a hardcore person on the right, you're not going to like The Rock. If you're a hardcore person on the left, if you're a weak coward like this guy calling out The Rock, who would never like The Rock, who would never like The Rock, who would never like The Rock, who would never say anything to his face, calls him a coward, you're probably not going to like him. But at the end of the day, Rock is a likable guy, and he will be a billionaire, and he loves America. That's what it comes down to. Let me tell you, to say he's likable would be an understatement. To say he's likable, I learned so much about the guy when we had him at the vault two years ago. Based on, he says, Pat, whatever they're doing lets you and I talk. And we would talk on Sundays, like, okay, are you good with this? Are you good? He said, Pat, I'm good with that. Okay, great, let's go. The interview. No, we need it to be cut down to 20 minutes. And Rock's like, let's talk. We talked on the phone. He's like, no, I'm good. Let's release it. Boom. Great. I learned so much about how he deals behind closed doors. Like, you know this Republican gubernatorial debate that we did? Yeah. I learned about every candidate, not on stage, behind closed doors, how they were. You'll learn about them behind closed doors. And then you give them props in front of everybody to showing up, which they did. Yeah. So I learned a lot about The Rock dealing with them behind closed doors. I was very impressed with them. What was the one thing that you remember about dealing with The Rock? What impressed you? He's a guy. He's a man's man. He's a freaking dude you would like. He's like. He's a G. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's. And by the way, at the highest level, I mean, it would be an understatement. He's a capital G is what he is. By the way, we got to give a shout out to The Rock. He's got very personal charisma when you meet him. He doesn't fake it. He talks to Dylan. He talks to the kids. He talks to everybody. No, he's cool. Can we give a shout out to The Rock's low cousin, Matt Cipolla? Can we do that? You're so funny. You are so funny. All right. But he's a great guy. I think he's very likable. Let's go to the last couple of stories I want to wrap up with. The last couple of stories I want to wrap up with is World Cup being one of them. Okay. And I don't know if you guys saw this or not. Yesterday, Portugal's playing Croatia. The debates. In the middle of the debate, they're playing. And I'm checking the score. And so we're in the boardroom cigar lounge. Shout out to the crew over there, Mikel, if you're not a member. By the way, if you were a member, you were invited to the debate last time. For some of you guys that are not a member of the boardroom cigar lounge, there's so many deals that are getting done. You put the link below for people to go to it. Boardroom cigar. Lounge dot com. Can you go to the website? Guys in the back. Boardroom cigar. Lounge dot com. Right there. And put the link below if you want to be a member. Send your information. We do background checks. There's no phones in sight. And there's a lot of deals. Everybody was watching the game after the debate. It was phenomenal. If you were a member, you would have been at the debate. And so we're watching Croatia and Portugal. And a lot of people are like, oh, Croatia. You know, what's the big deal with Croatia? Croatia, like, knocked out Argentina a few years ago with Messi. Yep. And they knocked out Brazil. I mean, the players. The players that they have. You know their main player. Luka Modric. He is ridiculous. The guy with the rubber band. The guy is ridiculous. And yesterday's game came down to hair. Yes. Not his hair. He's got great hair, though. The ball goes over, and they call the offsides with VAR. And there's, like, 15-minute stoppage time. We're like, oh, it's over. Yeah. And I'm like, no, they scored a goal. Croatia scored a goal. And in the goal, they found this thing. Let me send this to you. I saved the clip. I don't know if you guys have it or not. That right there. So when you see this, it's such an interesting. Some are saying the whole thing came down to the technology they used because they put sensors in the ball, and the sensor, the ball didn't feel that player's hair from Croatia. That's all apparently they needed for that ball to hit the hair of the Croatian player. And they said the ball didn't feel the hair. The ball don't lie. So there are soccer experts today that are saying, this was not offside. I'm going to send this to you. I want you to do this. Yeah, a lot of people are talking about this because this would have gone to 2-2. And remember, Ronaldo was out. So he wouldn't have been part of the penalty or an OT when they go and play the thing. Can you play this clip I just sent you guys? He'd been replaced by fresh legs and speed. Yeah, watch this. Go for it. Refresh if you could. Watch this. Watch this. But choosing a snack you enjoy, and your kids can both get behind, doesn't have to be. Stock up on Welch's Fruit Snacks. Made with whole fruit. 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You know what this means? Some people are saying you can't say this to Argentinians because they would lose their mind. They're saying if VAR, if VAR was around back in the days, England wins. Maradona doesn't get it because it would have shown the hand of God. I don't know if some like it or some don't like it. And that means Portugal is not going to be playing who? Portugal's playing who? We just talked about it earlier today. Yeah, and Spain won yesterday 3-0. And so Ronaldo did score a goal yesterday. The reality of it is everybody wants to see one matchup. Everybody wants to see Portugal against Argentina. Vinny, that game will be bonkers. And the U.S. playing Belgium Monday. You got two big games on Monday if you look at it right there. Look at that. So if you look at the brackets now, how do they play Argentina? Go up a little bit. So you got U.S., Belgium, and you have Portugal, Spain. Whoever wins, they face against each other. So U.S. could face Portugal, which would be epic, but that means they got to beat Belgium and Spain. And Spain's not. Tom said that Spain played lights out. If you go a little bit higher, today Paraguay plays France. Okay? France is going to win that. Canada, Morocco. I got to tell you, it's going to sound weird. I kind of don't know. I like the way Morocco played. They're tough. I really like the way Morocco plays. They beat the Netherlands. Who else do we have? I like the fact that they're uniformed. We got Viva Mexico. Mexico's playing England. You got Brazil, Norway. Brazil, Norway. Which, by the way, just so you know, people are not going to. I don't even want to say who I'm going for in that game. I'm rooting for our friend from Norway. Yeah, he's playing good. Mexico, England should be good. And then go a little lower. Switzerland. Where's the Argentina one? Isn't Argentina. They're playing Capo Verde today. Argentina playing Capo Verde. And then Australia, Egypt, Colombia, Ghana. Wow. And I'm rooting for my Colombian man today. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. What's the deal here? I am wanting to see history. That's what I want to see. What do you want to see? I want to see the most watched game of all time because I want the argument. I want Portugal to play Argentina. What do you think the argument is? I think it's done if it happens. Well, what do you mean? What's the argument? You're thinking that Cristiano is. You know who else we're not even talking about? Can you go back to the brackets? Can you go back to the brackets on what you had? The other thing that no one is talking. about is France because France France is dominating. People are talking about France. They are dominating. Can I say something that's going to piss people off, Pat? Because I've watched a couple of games at this point. The passion, we saw it. I don't think Portugal has it this year. Let me finish. I see Cristiano. He's ridiculous. He's nasty. He's 41 years old. He's on the pitch with people that are 22 that are. By the way, I was watching the France game, Pat. Nobody's out of breath. Mbappé's running around playing defense like a freaking maniac. They are off the charts. Argentina is so methodical with their passing. And, yeah, Messi's older, Tom, but he's freaking. Why was Ronaldo off the pitch at that moment again? He was tired. And the answer was speed, legs, and defense. Of course. He's tired. He's older. He's older. And it was the right coaching move. Guys, if you're watching this and you're offended by what Tom just said about Ronaldo Manechtem, call him out. Yeah. How dare he talks about Ronaldo like that. But are you ready for this? Oh, my God. What an attack. What an insult. Listen, I'm not trying to insult the 11th greatest player in soccer history. And I'm going to say this. We watched America play. Listen, and America's not going to have their floor. What's his name? Float. The dude that scores the goals. No, our nastiest player's out because of a BS red card. I'm telling you right now, America has it. America could beat Belgium even without him. Then we get him back, and we could win the winner out of Portugal. And Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a reporter asked him. She goes, Zlatan, one word. Can the United States win the whole thing? His answer. He went, yes. Fun deal. If Zlatan says it, take it to the bench. If the U.S. win, I'm going to show a video that no one's going to believe. But if the U.S. win. I'm not even going to say it. But if the U.S. win, it's going to be a good conversation. Let me wrap it up with this here. What do you mean by if, though? Let me wrap it up with this. You know who? Is my favorite personality in soccer, period. It's not even close. It's Zlatan. It's not even close. If there was somebody I would want to sit down and have a conversation with and just dinner with, it would be Zlatan. Out of all the soccer players, any one of them, pick any one of them, it's Zlatan. There's something very, very special about Zlatan. You know when Zlatan played for AC Milan? He goes to Italy. He's there for three years. And he goes to a bunch of. Then he comes back to AC Milan to retire. They create a tribute. They said it's the only time he cried. Two times he cried. The first time he cried is when the first team he played for, he let the team in goals. And there was an issue with the bank account and money and different things. And the second time he cried is the way AC Milan gave him love. There's this video I've played over and over and over again. I've watched this thing at least 50 times the last 48 hours. It's the only time I've played. It's the tribute video with this song that I can't play because we will get a copyright. But if you send me a message, I'll share this with you. It's the song with RK Duncan Lawrence featuring Fletcher is in the video. I can't play it. Can you show Zlatan's reaction when he's coming out? Watch the way the fans are crying and look how he starts shaking. It's the most beautiful cry a man has when this happens to you because the world appreciates how you played for them, how you showed up for them. Their fans were in love with them and this reminded me of a moment in my life which I'll share here in a moment. Go for it. Play this clip. Watch this. And they're playing the Gladiator theme song in the background. Look at this. Watch what happens in a minute. They played with them. They love him. Can't even hold himself. Look at this. This is one of the biggest alphas in the world. Do you see that? Such a beautiful freaking thing. You know, we're taking family pictures with everybody wearing their own jerseys. You know, we're a proud family. The one jersey I will comfortably put on, you can pause it right there, is Zlatan. You know what this reminded me of? Many, many years ago, I'm teaching PHP University at a hotel in Dallas. I'm wearing my Yankees jersey. I don't know if you remember that video where I'm coming, I'm going like this. There's a video of that one. You'll remember this when we're doing this thing. And we are leaving this meeting in Dallas. You're not going to find it, so don't worry about it. It's fine, guys. You're not going to find it. We are leaving this meeting. And while we're leaving this meeting, I am myself. I call my sister. My sister's with me as well. We go to our house in Plano. While we go to the house in Plano, we watch the last game of Kobe Bryant. And Shaq tells Kobe, go for 50. Go for 50. Shaq tells Kobe. Yeah. Yeah. Go for 50. So he says, go for 50. And Kobe goes for 60 points that night, his last game. 60 points. It was against Utah. And the guy that was guarding him was a Gordon Hayward? Brandon Hayward. No, no, Gordon Hayward. No, no, it's a different first name. Is it Gordon Hayward? It is Gordon Hayward. Brandon Hayward was a powerful one. And he scored 60. Yeah. And I just sat there and I'm watching this. His last game, he scored 60. Everybody in the audience. Everybody in the audience is in tears. Emotional when this guy scored 60. And afterwards, he goes, kisses the floor, leaves. And you think about the 20 years this guy gave to the Lakers. And when he came on and we had him at the event and we're having a conversation together prior to the event and all that stuff. And then the day we get the news that he passed away, we were at Seasons 52. And my phone, all the alerts, everybody, my phone. It's the first. All of a sudden, I get 50 text messages within two minutes. And I said, there's no way this is true. And then CNN reports and the Fox reports and then ESPN reports it. And you realize Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter accident. This could have been prevented. There's something very emotional about sports. And I think what the World Cup is doing. And I posted this on Twitter yesterday on my account saying there's something very emotional about soccer because when they lost, the teams lost, Bosnia lost, and a coach went around to their side to thank the audience on their side, you could tell how emotional the audience was because you're fighting for your country. There's something very, very emotional about the game of soccer. It's very weird. I root it for Morocco. I've been critical of Islamists. And, you know, when we talk about politics, I can't believe you're this. I'm rooting for Morocco. It's like I want to see these guys win. Everything leaves. Religion leaves. All of it leaves. You see stories of. These kids who have gone out there and done what they've done. It's such an amazing sport of bringing the world together. And so I'm excited. I'm excited to see what's going on. I hope to see everybody, you know, these couple games that all the country's rooting for their own thing. 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