WHCD Shooting + Cole Allen's Manifesto | PBD #785

Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. You know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My hand shake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here. You are a one-on-one? My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before. Okay, so we've got a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stories to cover. Obviously, the White House correspondents, they're no shooting. We have so many things to cover with that, different angles. Zero to Trump being escorted out. Zero to other people being escorted out after they heard the gunshot. And this guy, this character with the stories of him, his sister calling in, telling the manifesto he wrote, then the president going and doing 60 Minutes yesterday and the question being asked and calling on nasty. And then Jimmy Kimmel just a couple days ago is doing a spoof, White House Correspondents Dinner type of a thing, and he takes the shot at Melania saying what Melania looks like, which was absolutely out of line for him to make a comment like that. And for this to happen at the same hotel that Reagan got shot at, this was the third one that took place with the president. So we have to talk about that. And then number two, the president pulled out the negotiation of having Witkoff and what do you call it, Kushner, going to Islamabad, Pakistan. However, Abbas al-Ghachi went to Pakistan, then went to Oman, then went to Russia. I think he's meeting with Putin today. Then there's a story that came out about cars like surveilling you, like effective 2027. And, you know, apparently they voted for this and a lot of Republicans voted for this. And a part of it was mad. I don't know if you know what mad is. M-A-A-D. You've heard of mad. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. Yeah, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. It's kind of like this is the reason why M-A-D-D. This is the reason why they're supporting Republicans did because we have to protect kids. And what's happening if someone's drinking? There's a lot. And by the way, shout out to Ana Paulina Luna was like, look, I'm not for this. I think this is a bad idea, but we're going to talk about that with cars. So watch, imagine if they start doing this in 27. Imagine people only buy 20, 26 cars. And they ask, is this a 27 or 26 model? It's a 27 model. I'm not interested. I only want to buy 26. It would be interesting because they can't go back. It's only 27 and forward. So California wealth tax, Chamat Apollopatio, who is a very successful businessman, he found something that was being shared in that little wealth tax that they want to do to billionaires. and in there they realize this isn't about billionaires. This is about you. They want your money. Not the billionaires and millionaires. They're really putting it in there that, hey, if you say yes to this, eventually we can tax you too, and that's kind of cool because we really want your money. It's not that much money for billionaires. The money we want is from everybody in the state of California. We have to address that. By the way, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, apparently Jim Acosta got into a bar fight. Tom's Insiders, Tom's community, man, they're tight. They told him, they said what happened at the bar. He called the guy out. The guy goes outside the bar, posts a picture saying, I'm waiting for you. All of this happened while Jim is saying everybody should walk out. If the president, you know, reporters have to walk the F out if Trump launches revenge attack at correspondence dinner. And then we know what happened there with the revenge attack. The 60-minute interview, there's some other things that was discussed there as well. We'll probably get into that. Trevor Bauer got a no-hitter for the Long Island Ducks. I got a prediction what I think is going to happen with Trevor Bauer here soon, and maybe I'll make that prediction on the podcast and get myself in trouble again. But don't do it, Bauer. I'm going to do it. Don't do it. I'm going to do it. And then this whole thing with the blockade, some people are noticing that Trump's not really moving that quickly with the blockade. He's just kind of like not really moving too urgently with Iran. It's like, hey, wait a minute. How come you're not moving that urgently? Well, guess what? But the longer that oil sits, the infrastructure may explode in three days. He claims due to the blockade. So because you can't just put it on and off like a switch that Humberto was talking about early this morning. So we'll talk about that. And then aside from that, we've got a couple other things that we have to get through as well. Jamie Raskin said some weird things. And story-wise, you have Pope Leo. Come on, guys. Pope Leo takes another shot at the president. I mean, the moment you try to be friendly to this massive 1.4 billion people around the world, and Pope goes nice one week, the next week, he probably listened to some hip-hop this weekend. He definitely did. He probably listened to some Tupac, and he's like, you know what? Screw it. I'm doubling down on this. And he goes after him. And then winery, okay? Winery belonging to Ilhan Omar's husband shut down amid financial spotlight. Come on. It's a little too much, Vinny. It's a little too much. And Minnesota lawmakers demand records after Ilhan Omar skips fraud hearings. I don't need to do it. Why would I go to a hearing? You know, she did this podcast with people that have breakfast, and she talks about it on that breakfast podcast. Really? Yeah, Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Yes. With your good friend Charlemagne. Yes. Yeah, the nobody. Why Gen Z and millennials might ask for your credit score on a date? Would you ask a credit score on a date? Have you ever been asked for your credit score on a date? No. Has a girl ever said, what's your credit score? No. Has a girl ever asked you for your credit score? They've asked for me to pay the bill, but a credit score. You're not going to pay the bill. I've had to let me see your bank account once. Let me see your bank account? She didn't say, let me see your bank account. She said, show me your. Is that what they call it nowadays? Is it a bank account? You didn't get it. I'm going to go with that bank account. Show me your bank account. Oh, come on. You're just trying to get the bag. so every new car okay we talked about that uh then russell brand russell brand was doing a bible study with pierce morgan and it became the by the way just so everybody knows it became the biggest most public bible study of the year i don't know if there's been a bigger bible study than this pope you know the pope of uh you know is taking shots at the president but you know at least pierce sat in the bible study with uh it took a couple minutes to get to the right scripture but He's still turning the pages right now. He's still learning what Rod is. No, Mike. I'm all fine. It was funny. Did you learn something? I learned something. I didn't know you'd pronounce Isaiah that way. And last but not least, a story by Wall Street Journal. We're all talking to each other less than we did a year ago. Then I got a question I want to ask you guys. I got a question I want to ask you guys. And then we're going to see where these questions are going to go to. It's not like a tricky question, but it's a question I want to ask you. And I want to give some advice on charities. Something you probably don't typically hear, you know, where people give advice on charity and, you know, give money to charities and all this other stuff. Mine's going to be a slightly different angle. And some people are not going to be happy about it. But you may want to listen up to it because it has to do with legacy and raising the right kids and, you know, the right way and how to make sure they don't become spoiled and how to set them up so they win in the future as well. And it has to do specifically with charity because we're going through it today. There was an article done by this socialist magazine called Forbes. And this Forbes, that's a socialist magazine, I don't know if you guys saw that or not. They took shots at Elon Musk having only given a half a billion dollars to charities. Only. What a shame. And so we have to call them out because the socialist magazine Forbes does a great job at highlighting socialist causes. And they just happen to, you know, the owner happens to be 51% out of China, Hong Kong. And so, of course, they would never write stories to divide America. They would never do such a thing because, you know, the reputation there, you would never do such a thing like that to divide. But we will get into that story as well. And aside from that, I don't even know what I'm driving to today, but I'll get into it here in a minute. Just, oh, there you go. That's what we're doing. By the way, just so you know, I'm telling you guys this. I can't tell you. Yesterday I'm at a football game, and a lady pulls up to me. She says, when are you guys going to get size 14? I'm like, ma'am, we just got size 7. We just got size 8 1⁄2. 14 is coming here soon. We got 7 1⁄2. He says, my husband, I need size 14. My dad comes home from church. We're done eating. We're at the house with Sean and Grace, and my dad says, when are you getting size 14? I said, what do you mean size 14? Today at church, somebody saw my Valuetainment logo. They came to me. They said, are you getting size 14 or not? So I'm like, is there like an epidemic going on with size 14? Who needs new Shaq? Yeah, well, Shaq needs size 22, 23. Wow. But let me tell you, it's exciting stuff that's going on with the shoe. But everywhere I'm going now, people are asking about how come my husband bought it. We were at first skeptical. Why would somebody like PVD come out with shoes? You're not a shoe company. Why would you come out with a shoe? I know you go to Italy to do it. I know it's designed in Florida, and it's got the super foam technology on the bottom of it. It's super comfortable. Yes. Every day I've been wearing these things. On September 9th, I've worn the shoe every single day except for eight days. Now, I've not worn it. since September 9th, just to see what it feels like, what it looks like, does it tear, does it have any damage, it's the most comfortable thing I wear. And if you haven't yet gotten yourself an FLB shoe, watch this commercial. Hopefully this will persuade you to place an order for yourself, your husband, or your son. Go ahead, Rob. When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort, function, and luxury, we had the choice to make it fast. We had the choice to make it cheap. We chose neither. Instead, we chose Tuscany. We chose true Italian craftsmanship. Each pair touched by 50 steel panels. We chose patience, spending two years perfecting every detail, and we chose the finest quality at every step. Introducing the Future Looks Right collection. Not rushed, not disposable, not ordinary. Rather intentional, luxurious, timeless. Go to vtmurch.com, place your order, handmade, Italy, Tuscany, super foam technology. Your husband will thank you for it, your son will, and you will if you buy it for yourself. Get it in white, black, brown, or navy blue, and new colors will be launched here in August. But for now, we have a lot of sizes. Get them before they sell out because the sizes go out quickly. Having said that, let's get right into it. White House Correspondents Dinner. Everybody's expecting to see what the president's going to be saying. All of a sudden, I'm coming out of my daddy-daughter dance. Okay, I'm with my daughter. Rob, if you want to show the picture, me and Sen, I'll go on Twitter, show the picture. Me and Sen, I did the Zoolander picture of me. We're at this place. I come out. I'm seeing a PBD podcast. I'm like, when did this happen? You're like, Pat, this just took place. I'm like, what are you talking about? So, you know, some people didn't like the hat. They said, why would you represent a hat that you're part of a community? I'm like, listen, man, I just put on a hat. I think that works. But then all of a sudden, there's a shooting. There is this, there's that. I'm like, again? Again. There's no way. So then we come home, and we see, and here's what we have. And what we've learned about the shooter who was there, who wrote a manifesto that we got to get into. So I'm going to go through this here, and then, guys, I'm going to come to you. So Cole Thomas Allen, what do we know about this guy? Rob, you have the video of him running. if you have the video of him running there's a surveillance camera showing this go ahead rob this is the guy he runs a 40 apparently in a 4-2-4-1 you should go to the combine watch this here the jets how fast even the president says this guy was running so look at him how fast he's running okay some said they shot him some said he's dead he wasn't he did hurt his ankle they eventually did get him and then when the president was on stage with his wife the first lady this is what was taking place they're having a conversation the mentalist is doing a not this one go to the other one rob you can see the president right there and then watch uh the first lady's reaction i think this is the or this is a long one you have rob does he get right into it right off go for it go for it so this is the president first lady he's pulling a trick and you can tell presidents very interested and the trick is caroline levitt baby's name which i found out what the name that Look, I thought it had my name. Can you see V on it? Watch. Watch this. Guess her name. Turn it. Look at Trump. He's really interested. They're going to start to see loud noise. They're going to clank him. They're shooting already. The guy's already shooting. You just heard him. And look, they're shocked at the name. Look, right now. Whoa. What's happening? J.D. Vance is out. They're not yet. The president's still there. Oh, wow. So it takes about 13 seconds to get him from the president. 20 seconds to get him out. Took about 7, 8, or 10 seconds to get J.D. out. There's a lot of speculation there. Why did they get J.D. out of there before they got the president out of there? And so this is all going on. Now, here's the thing about what we know about the shooter, Thomas Allen Cole. If you want to pull up his picture, Rob. Allen, having sent a 1,052-word anti-Trump manifesto to his family roughly 10 minutes before the assault, It is the third reporter time on the president's life after two 24 assassination attempts in Pennsylvania and Florida. There were twenty six hundred attendees at this event. Everybody was there. And as they're going through this whole thing, Cole Allen attended, checked into the Washington Hilton as a registered hotel guest the day before on Friday, April 24th. And he wrote, which I'll read to you the manifesto here in a minute, Rob, if you want to pull it up. That's him. Allen was confronted by security near main metal detector screening area of Washington, Houston at 8.36 p.m. He ran past the security checkpoint and fired at least one shot. CNN ankle Wolf Blitzer, who was just outside the ballroom at the time, reported being only a few feet from the gunman when the shots were fired. A very serious weapon. Allen himself sustained a knee injury while he was going through it. Initial Secret Service agents fired approximately three to four shots, and Allen fired one. He had a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. His sister told investigators that Alan purchased two handguns and a shotgun from CAP Tactical Firearms and stored them in the family home without parents knowing about it. And so his 31-year-old hometown Torrance, he went to Caltech University. If you know Caltech, that's not an easy school to get into. It's a very, very reputable school, Caltech. He did intern at NASA in 2014. Alan completed an internship at NASA working for Artificial Intelligence Models, for planetary mapping. He was a part-time teacher, tutor at C2 Education in Torrance since 2020. He was the Teacher of the Month in December of 2024. Okay. And so this is not like it's a regular guy. Independent video game developer is who he was. He gave $25 to ActBlue, the Democratic Party PAC, in October of 2024, directed towards Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. A yard sign at his family home endorsed a local judicial candidate backed by the L.A. County Democratic Party. He was registered to vote without party affiliation. He participated at the No Kings protest in California. And social media accounts attributed to Allen containing anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. He frequently trained at a shooting range and had undergone firearms training. His brother, residing in New London, Connecticut, contacted the New London Police Department about Alan's manifesto. However, that call came approximately two hours after the shooting had already occurred. The brother was the family member who alerted law enforcement. As of Monday, Alan has not cooperated with the local in custody. He's not talking to anybody whatsoever. And as you're going through this in the manifesto, which I'll read here in a minute after getting the team's reaction, There's a bunch of other things. He's facing a minimum of 10 years in prison, up to 20 years. Caroline Levitt stated, Alan sought to assassinate the president and kill as many top Trump officials as possible. He came to this place on a Amtrak from L.A. to Chicago and then Chicago to D.C., not a flight. So he used Amtrak while he's coming down here. So anyways, I'll pause right there before we read the manifesto and show a couple other clips because I'm going to get into that next. Tom, your thoughts on how this happened and the story of it. Well, I have two things to say. One is clever. The other is radicalized. Clever. Why did he take a train? Because you would have to check bags and declare a weapon and have it in a locked weapons box. Vinny, you and I have traveled, you know, with like a hunting gear, a shotgun. You have to have it in a locked box. You check it in. You declare it. They inspect it. And then you get on the plane because obviously it's not in your carry-on. Well, he would have had to do that. So the reason he takes the train, in my opinion and the opinion of people that have been analyzing this, he doesn't have to declare anything. He just hides it. He just puts it in his bag there and he takes it in, takes a seat and goes on the 72-hour train ride. And so, number one, he seems very clever. Number two, when you read the manifesto, he seems very clever. But I'm going to put all that aside, Pat. The word is radicalized. This is a guy who, by all accounts, is smart. You're not dumb to go into Caltech. and you're studying AI and you're working with NASA and you're working with high-end things, and now you're a teacher. And the teachers in L.A., whether you're in Manhattan Beach or Hermosa Beach or, you know, L.A.USD, which is L.A. Unified School District, largest school district in the United States, says these are radicalized. Kim taught at L.A.USD back in the day. They are absolutely radicalized. They are anti-conservative, anti-Christian, all of that. And so it appears what takes him from being at Caltech, Pat, to riding a train with a shotgun and to writing that manifesto? The answer is radicalized. Someplace the bit flipped and the guy was completely radicalized and decided he could do this. But you can see there's a rational side of thought. First, I want to apologize to my family. I apologize to my friends. You're talking about the manifesto? The manifesto. It's well written. Well, let me read that. Let me read that first, and then, Vinny, I'm going to come to you next. That's what I think. Hello, everybody. So I may have given a lot of surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whom I trust. Rob, can you zoom in a little bit? I apologize to my parents for saying that I had an interview without specifying it was for most wanted. I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency. By the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly do need to go to ERR, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status. I apologize to all the people that I traveled next to, all the workers who handed my luggage, all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger and simply by being near. I apologize to everyone who abused or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt to do this, to all who may still suffer from this regardless of my success or failure. I don't expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies. On to why I did this. I'm a U.S. citizen. What my representative do reflects on me. I'm no longer and I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and a traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing to a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity. You have to do something about it. Go to page two, Rob, if you could. While I'm discussing this, I'll also go over my expected rules of engagement, probably in a terrible format. But I'm not military to I am not military. So too bad. Administration officials, not including Mr. Patel, why he said that, it's interesting. Very weird. They are targets, prioritized from the highest ranking to the lowest. Secret service, they are targets only if necessary and to be incapacitated, not lethally if possible, a.k.a. I hope they're wearing body armor because center masks with shotguns mess people up who aren't. Hotel security, not targets if at all possible, a.k.a. unless they shoot at me. Capitol police, same as hotel police. National Guard, same as hotel police. Hotel employees, not targets at all. Guests, not targets at all. In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs. Less penetration through walls. I would still go through most everyone here to get the targets if it were absolutely necessary on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor and are thus complicit. But I really hope it doesn't come to that. There's more, Rob, I think, because there's something he says about Iran. Do you have the one where he says, quite honestly, it wasn't that hard to get into? he says, hey, it's the PS part, Pat. Once he's done, he goes into a PS. You have the PS? Read the PS. He goes, PS. Not POS. PS. Yeah, PS. Go ahead. Okay, now that all that sappy stuff is done, what the hell is Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant here for a bit and drop the formal tone. Like I expected, security cameras at every bend, bug hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got, in parentheses, who knows, maybe they're pranking me, is nothing. No damn security, not in the transport, not in the hotel, not the event. Like the whole thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is a sense of arrogance. I walk in with multiple weapons. Not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat. The security at the event is all outside, focused on protesters and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before. Like this level of incompetence is insane and i very sincerely hope it's corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again like if i was an iranian agent instead of an american citizen i could have brought a damn madus and madus for you guys that don't know is where you have to sit down and it's one of those that thing is it's huge he's saying i could have brought a madus in here and and um no one would ever notice s-h-i-t actually insane is what he says so what do you what do you think about the what do you think about the whole thing first pat reading like it's freaking sad like he was captured by the political propaganda full stop like look at how he sounds he sounds like a nice carrot like i know he's kind of off but think about it he's apologizing for the people adam that even handled his luggage getting them on the train to get to the place i'm sorry to my parents i'm sorry he's even going through rules of engagement of you know i'm not going to the capital police are not this it it's really really sad uh pat and the manifesto tells you that he was you know uh you know radicalized but you know what parts took out of me he checks into the hotel on friday case the place you know he's been at the uh no king's rally the messaging inside the rest of the manifesto was anti-christian um and the fact that this is the scary part and i'm going to get to the security right now i'm going to have rob play the video of jd vance uh the vice president and the president pat he was checked into the hotel since friday no security no nothing the arrogance part really stuck out for me can you imagine just remember the shooting in las vegas how much arsenal rob did that guy bring upstairs it was insane at the mgm was it the mgm shooting top yes okay rob mgm think about this ladies and gentlemen if he kept doing multiple trips and kept bringing up explosives explosives he could have blown up that entire freaking building if he wanted to and taken out the vice president, the president, all of our leadership all in one spot. And I think it's actually ridiculous that they let him get to that. And I want to point out this failure by Secret Service. This is my opinion. I know Trump always praises them. There's a shooting. And a lot of people were trying to come at me online like, what do you mean? They weren't even close. If the president is sitting there and we can hear pop, pop, pop, pop gunshots, he was close enough. Okay? If he had an explosive, he's close enough. Rob, can you please show this video? I want everybody to know, it's a security protocol, and I talked to Dan about this too. There is somebody who's an active shooter, okay? Your number one goal, the chief, the number one president should be the guy that you get out first and foremost. Play this video. They, Secret Service, grabs J.D. Vance, is gone. And watch this. He's off the stage. The president is sitting there. Three, 1,000. Four, 1,000. Five, 1,000. Still staying on stage. Still a target. And now they just slowly get the president off stage. He was up there for like 30 seconds. And fully hard-armed, meaning with the armor and the helmets and everything. Five to seven seconds. After Vance is off, you have the hard-armored guy, which was supposed to put themselves on the vectors. 100%. So they protect. Tom, there's been a shooting. You hear shooting. I'm diving on the president and getting him out. J.D. Vance got the treatment that the commander-in-chief should have gotten. Totally unacceptable. And you're hearing from the shooter himself that he was amazed. He thought he was getting pranked because there was no security because the president wasn't there yet. And again, I'm going to say the word arrogance. Arrogance. You're just – what are we doing? As if you haven't learned the first time and the second time. And I'm not going down any crazy rabbit hole or anything. There was one interesting – we'll get into Obama's statement at the end. But there was an interesting tweet I sent to Rob this. The one thing that kind of made me bug out, I'm pretty sure you guys all saw it. There was a tweet by a guy named Henry Martinez in 2023, I believe. Pat, the only message this guy has ever put on his – look how many views he got – was Cole Allen. And that's his only tweet. And it's a frog in a tuxedo with a champagne glass. People have been going crazy dissecting it. What does that mean exactly? Well, I don't know, Adam. In 2023, this guy, the one tweet he's ever – Go a little bit lower, Rob. is that henry the fbi would like to speak with you what in the world like how do you is that is that random col allen had a picture of himself on instagram okay so that's a different one that's what yeah i wonder yeah that's a i can about keep going you want a time machine study keep going a little bit lower okay that's pretty wild that's something like that and then can i mention barack obama which pissed me off the most rob if you could please do that and before i get into this Let's not – the fact that he said pedophile, rapist, traitor, where is he getting that rhetoric from? Where is he getting that from? Who have we heard for the past four years on mainstream media from Tim to every single body brainwashing the American public of these things? Traitor, Hitler, boom. Call it what it is, gaslighting. It's mainstream media gaslighting the American people. 1,000 percent. that and guess who captain gaslighter is is barack hussein obama who said although we don't yet have the detail this is well after the shooting and the the manifesto came out although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the white house correspondent i want everybody to understand this barack obama is the most divisive president ex-president in the history of this country. Him saying we don't know the motive isn't about facts. It's about slowing people down from reacting to what already looks completely obvious. All right. He's trying to plant doubt where people already feel clear. So they hesitate instead of judging the actual situation. So it gives his side cover. All right. People don't want to face what happened. Now they have an excuse to avoid it. And he's the one doing it, Tom. I love that you said gaslighting. it's him it shifts the fight instead of focusing on what happened now people are going to waste time arguing over if is it clear pat did he talk about that did we you just read we just read what he said pedophile rapist traitor we know his motive okay and then obama likes to flip the script anyone who calls it out is going to get labeled an extreme or partisan so bottom line it's not confusion what he's doing obama is control it's about buying time protecting the narrative and turning reality into an argument instead of something that people could just recognize. I actually feel bad for this guy, Pat. This guy was radicalized by a machine, political propaganda machine that made him literally go there to try to kill the president of the United States and anybody that got in his way. Adam. Yeah. I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting this feeling that they really want to kill Trump. so how much more evidence do we need that people are dedicating their entire lives and willing to die in order to kill Trump and we can have a whole conversation of how they got to this point aka the left I would say that the left has a violence problem at this point that needs to be addressed Charlie Kirk Steve Scalise how many times did Trump assassination of Butler Florida that we know about You know, this room, which I've been into, we can discuss that in a second. This might be one of the most important rooms in the world, certainly in America. Why? Was this not, PPD, the room that they tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan? Outside. 1981? Yep. This was also the room, if you recall, in 2011, where Obama gave the speech about the Donald that basically motivated Trump to run for president. And the other comedian, what was the other comedian that said, the president is sitting there and he just keeps taking shots at the president. Not Stephen Colbert, the late, late. Seth Meyers? Seth Meyers. Yeah, you're right. Yes. So needless to say, now there was a performer, Oz Perlman, the mentalist. This isn't a good look for you, buddy. How did you not see this one coming? You're a mentalist. So this room changed everything. This is the room that basically motivated Trump to run. And this is the room that now a psychopath shooter who wrote a manifesto tries to break in and try to kill the president. At what point is Secret Service and are the feds going to say, guys, what are we doing? How does this continually keep happening? We need to clean this thing up because I'll revisit what I said at the beginning, guys. They're trying to kill Trump. You know how you always hear, protect this man at all costs. Could be some Internet comedian. Protect this man at all costs. Trump is the most important man in the world, the most consequential man in the world, making the world's most consequential decisions. This is the first White House correspondent's dinner that he shows up to as a sitting president. And this is what happens. And by the way, whether it's balls or whether it's just lack of care, Trump wants to do the event again in the next 30 days. Let's make sure that our Secret Service and our security is up to par. Yeah. Can I also say one more story about the White House correspondence security? I went to this event in 2017. I told the story about where I met Eric Swallow at the bar. Here's some pictures while I was there. So the funniest thing about this event and me getting in, you want to know what? I didn't have a ticket. I wasn't invited. One of these ladies here said, yeah, come, you can come just join me here. I said, how do I get in? They go, we'll figure it out. I got in without a ticket. I got to the red carpet by this is 2017, three years before we start the podcast. Look, I've been fortunate enough to go to the White House now multiple times tomorrow. We know that Trump We just did a massive event there, which they announced they're doing the G20 at. It easier to get in the White House Correspondents Dinner than it is to get to a sporting event or a concert How is that possible Reagan was shot there This is continually a scene of the crime so now if you want to take out the president you know now this is probably the easiest room to get into but you're ready for this better please like well hold on and then adam crap hits the fan the vice president is grabbed and thrown off the stage and the president's still they're all looking around with captain magic boy they're like hey what's what's happening get the president off the Trump addressed this in his 60 Minutes interview. Did you hear that? Yep, yeah. Were you able to see that? The whole thing. Yeah, but as a security protocol, there's no excuse. Yeah, so let's cover a couple of different things while this is going on. Tom, I think you've been dying to say something. No, I was saying we're being a little hard on the Secret Service. There's four layers that I was reading about this weekend. The first is Vice President and President each have their own detail. Clearly the detail that's on J.D. that knows him and knows him, they reacted quickly, quickly grabbed them by the shoulders, got them out of the chair and up. The president's detail apparently was slower. Then you have two Secret Service details. We went through it when we had Trump on the podcast. An incredible group of people that showed up, remember this, Pat? And they do what's called the advance. And they sweep and they do all this advance work and everything. The question is, how do the advance, how does a guy get a gun into a hotel room at the very hotel? That's on the advance side. But then there's perimeter day of. And apparently that was a metal detector and that he ran through that perimeter checkbook. Guys, can I just say something? Listen, there's two things. One, yeah, Secret Service, you know, you can find a million ways to do your best to get better. But you're dealing with a client that's very public. You're dealing with a client that is not very, you know, like if you look at JD, JD's natural reaction was flight. Just play it. if you just look at it like to him he was alert the president is having a conversation right here yeah to the right if you can just put the arrow on it he's about to get up you see how you back up like you want to get up and then they got him let's go and boom he's out right so the president that guy's standing in front of him he's still having a conversation and they finally come up and they're in the front and then he leaves he says get down he gets down and then they get him out, right? And that lady in that dress that you saw, she's the president of the White House Correspondents Association. Asian lady? The Asian lady is the, Jank, I believe is her name. In the light color dress. In the light color dress. So she's the president. So if you go look up who's responsible for the White House Correspondents Dinner, they ask Scott Besson. So Scott, you know, how do you manage your finances for an event like this? He says, I don't. This is not something the White House does. It's not our job. Somebody else does it. So it's its own thing that the media runs. She is the pre you know, who was the previous president of the White House Correspondents Association? Can you type in the previous? His name was Eugene Daniels. Do you remember Eugene Daniels? You should know who Eugene Daniels is. This is Eugene Daniels. You've seen him on MSN many, many times. Are you serious? That was the previous president of the White House Correspondents. Right there. He served as the president of White House Correspondents Association. The new one, click on that, Rob. If you just click on White House Correspondents Association on his profile, it'll go to it. The new one is right there, Wijai Jank. This is her, and this is who was sitting to the left of the president, to his left, to our left, if you're looking at the stage. That's her. So the security responsibility falls a little bit on the president who was putting this event together. Two, it falls on Secret Service protecting the president on the outside. And three, it falls on the hotel. The hotel who is, but the hotel is like, what do you want me to do? You guys put events together here. We do hotels here all the time. Like I remember one time, you know, we went and looked at that same exact hotel. We were going to do SLS at this hotel, right at this hotel. It was dated. It's actually a very dated hotel. It's not a nice hotel. It's not nice at all. It's dated. And so we said, no, we're not going to go to this hotel. And at the end of the tour, they're like, by the way, this is where the president, Ronald Reagan, got shot. I'm like, oh, that's awesome. Not a selling point, you know. And right here, we looked at that as we're going through it. So to me, I think a few things that I like. Let me tell you what I liked. And this is the stuff I am attracted to. One, I love that the president was poised. I love that Stelter said when he was in there, the guy that came and checked on him was the president of FCC. Okay, is this it, Rob? This is what I love. Play this. Brendan Carr. One of the first people who checked on me into the ballroom was Brendan Carr, who is the Trump SEC chairman. And some of you might know I've been rather critical of some of our actions in the last year. This is what's beautiful. But we were talking a couple of times right afterwards. And that's the point, Scott, right? Is that this was for everybody in the room. You can pause it right there. The president said everybody was getting along. He said the people that have said some foul things about me, we were talking. It was united. The energy was good. We were feeling good about it. Things were going great. So whoever was in there, it was like one of those things where, by the way, even the 60 Minutes lady that interviewed him, I watched the whole thing. I didn't watch the 13-minute clip that they put on. I watched a 43-minute clip of the whole thing. And I have my own assessment. If you want to play the nasty clip that the president wasn't too happy about, I'll tell you how I felt the interview went. If you want to play this. Norah O'Donnell, I believe, right? Is this with the manifesto thing, Rob? Go for it. The so-called manifesto is a stunning interview, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive. In the interview, he writes this quote, Administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this. I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction to that? Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would. Because you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. Do you think he was referring to? Who do you think he was referring to? Come on. Oh, come on. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with all the stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. but I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview. I read the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. Mr. President, these are the government's words. Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that in 60 minutes. You're a disgrace, but go ahead. The other thing that he wrote in the... By the way, just so you know, in the complete interview, in the first 60 seconds the president says he read the manifesto yeah so the first person that brought up the manifesto was the president and you could tell she really didn't want to read that she was uncomfortable i don't know whether somebody asked her to read it or not because even at the end what he said what she said is hey mr president thank you for your graciousness thank you and it was a very i've never seen them specifically her talk to the president respectfully where you could tell she was uncomfortable with this interview. Like, she has to do her job. She had to read that because out of all the interviews, everything that was discussed, there was nothing else to address but that, right? Like, I actually don't think she is a, what do you call it, like one of the Jamie Raskin type of things. Jamie's a complete different story, and we can go to Jamie right now as well. If you want to see the complete opposite of the nasty, I thought there was good things going on. I thought it was like, all right, this was good. Hey, let's go. Let's do the thing. Let's have the fun. Let's take shots at each other. But the two things that I couldn't stand, and one of them is like above it all, and I want to play another clip that nobody is paying attention to, that I think is the most important message that was given by Van Jones. Him and I were exchanging messages last night, is the following. I'll show you. But go to Jimmy Fallon first, Jimmy Kimmel first. So this is Jimmy Kimmel a couple days ago. So while he's doing his monologue, they shoot this to make it seem like he's the comedian for the White House Correspondents dinner. And in it, they use images of Melania, the first lady, to make it seem like she's in the audience. She's not. This is just B-roll that they're adding. And here's what he had to say. Go ahead, Rob. Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. you have a glow like an expected widow yeah so so this is the part where i have a problem with things like this so people came back and they say oh yeah are you okay with the president saying you know an entire civilization iran well that that is the enemy he's calling out for somebody in the mainstream who has the biggest show that's on tv like this is the modern who is the modern day replacement of a Carson Letterman or Leno. It's two names. Kimmel and Fallon. It's those two, right? So you get up and you say something like that about the First Lady. Nasty, disgusting, ugly. You don't want to see anything like that. I know what does Raskin say, Rob? I think you have a Raskin clip as well. So to me, you know, while you're watching this stuff, did he get punched in the face? Or is it pink eye? Okay, I hope he recovers. Go ahead, Rob. Play the clip. And you have, as many of your fellow Democrats, have used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that when something like this happens? What rhetoric do you have in mind? Well, she's talking about some of the fact that he, you know, is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand that that's your democratic right. But overall, do you have a responsibility? I have no personal problem with Donald Trump at all. I mean, I talk about the policies of this administration, the authoritarianism like we saw on display in Minneapolis. We can play clips in the greatest hits of what things they've said about the president, which is absolutely nasty. There's a lot of it. Okay. But the president said something. He says, look, I study assassinations. He said this right afterwards because he wanted to go on. He's like, I don't want one person to stop the entire thing. I want this thing to continue. But he is being interviewed. This is it. Good, good, fine, Rob. He's being interviewed. And he says, look, I've studied assassinations. I've studied what happens with this. I study why they do this. It's typically the people. I'll let them address it. Go ahead, Rob. Thank you, President Trump. There's a report in the New York Post that this assailant assembled his weapon somewhere on site at the hotel. What do you think about that? And I ask respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening to you? Well, you know, I've studied assassinations. And I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most, you take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, you go through the people that have gone through this where they got them. But the people that do the most, the people that make the biggest impact, they're the ones that they go after. They don't go after the ones that don't do much because they like it that way. And when you look at the people that have either, whether it was an attempt or a successful attempt, they're very impactful people. Just take a look at the names here, the big names. And I hate to say I'm honored by that, but I've done a lot. Pause, pause, pause, Rob. You see, this is the part where, you know, to have a job like this and make the changes that you want to make that are massive, massive changes, it has to be by a leader that understands what the risk is. Like, he's accepted the fact that every day someone's trying to kill him. He's accepted the fact that that comes with the territory. And by the way, he didn't move that fast. Now, Van Jones said this, and then Vinny, I'm going to come to you right after this because this is what I want to get you from. Van Jones said this, and he said, this may be the biggest concern, and we're going to find out today because the shooter is alive. He's not dead. He's not talking. Which means he's making a comparison of, imagine the amount of, like, people going, oh, my God, man, Gioni killed the guy, the CEO, and he's alive. So what happens? People are outside celebrating and all this stuff. Get your cover shot on your own. Van Jones took a very, very unique angle here. Go ahead, Rob. Starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he's going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi, who shot a CEO to death and somehow became a hero. So they said tonight you saw the worst of America, you saw the best of America. Tonight you definitely saw the best of America. I hope on Monday we don't see the worst again. I just want to say very clearly, this kind of despicable behavior has no place in America. It has no place on the right. It has no place on the left. We don't know if he was there because he wanted to hurt Democrats or Republicans. Both were there. We don't know if he wanted to hurt journalists or politicians. Both were there. this kind of behavior has no place in america and it is vinnie thoughts it's kind of like and i i'm i'm with you one thousand percent when there's a moment pat where they're in there and stelter who i don't agree with at all that i'm actually upset but i'm happy that he was fired like these these people these people created this monster okay and then they cry after about the monster that they created. Okay. We want to heal Pat. We want to be better. We want to be better as human beings. This is a Christian nation. We're trying to be positive. And that's a messed up thing to even say because it's happening probably right now. He's in court. It's what, 10 o'clock in the morning. He's probably going to be in court in the next couple of minutes probably. But it's just a sad thing that the Brian Stelters, the Jamie Raskins, the MSNBC, the, from the Chris Cuomo to every single body for the past nine years that have been telling us every single day. It's not it's not penetrating us, but a lot of Americans that that have this brainwashed Trump derangement syndrome where it's past just anger and yelling at your family members. And I'm not going to go to Thanksgiving because, you know, John is going to be there and he loves Trump. It's where they're they're getting armed and they're going to arm and they're going to kill and they're going to kill. So I'm all for I love the positive positivity afterwards. Okay, love each other. But it's like you guys have created this monster. And guess what? How many other monsters are out there that we haven't even seen? You haven't seen anything yet. They're out there. And Trump's going to have to be. By the way, not only President Trump, when he gets out, his family, his family's kids, Barron, everybody is going to have to deal with this forever. And it's because of them. It's because of CNN. It's because of MSNB. What an MSNB now? You want to change your name like we forgot who you were? It's all these people. I do think what he's saying is a valid point. They're going to have people falling in love with him. in love with this guy oh he's a hero and who is it going to be coming from you think any republicans are going to be over there patting him on the back this is a left issue that needs to freaking change that and it's the accountability of saying i hope you die i hope you wake i'm all for free speech but when you call for somebody to die somebody should go and kill the president those people should be like you're inciting an assassination that you want somebody to go and kill somebody and it's ridiculous i think it's ridiculous look in their minds trump is the enemy. So, you know, you said a second ago about, you know, what Trump said about killing a civilization, which obviously was hyperbolic and not true, but they're the enemy. I truly believe that there's a massive faction on the left and somehow on the right now that doesn't view China as the enemy, that doesn't view Russia as the enemy, or even Iran as the enemy. There's a singular enemy and his name is Donald Trump. Imagine that. You're an American, you're a citizen of the country, and your number one enemy is Donald Trump. I don't think we can understate this even more. How do I have so much conviction? How do I know that it's to be true? Because TDS is a real thing, and I had it. Have you ever had TDS? Never. You ever had that, Pat? No. You ever had that? For four years during his first term, when I watched MSNBC and Morning Joe and CNN, I watched a whole onslaught of news i was like this guy's a russian asset and he's trying to ruin the country and he can be bought and pay all that thank god i've snapped out of it i mean do you know anyone else who despised trump and now absolutely admires him no because you want me hold on but let me just finish this i don't forget it's it's something that needs to be studied and cannot just be dismissed why these people view trump as the enemy and here's what happens let's use jimmy Campbell as an example, not only is he condoning killing the president, making a joke out of it, saying, Melania, you have the glow of a beautiful widow. They're promoting it. They're putting it on TV, saying, guys, they're inserting the last track and saying, this is hilarious, guys. And don't tell me that a large percentage of the country would not celebrate if Trump got shot, because I'll give you exhibit a Charlie Kirk while they're dancing on his grave or i'll give you exhibit b how many people oh they wish they got him in the ear i wish they would have got him so don't tell me there's a huge population in this country that wouldn't be gleeful if trump got shot yeah and that to me is disgusting that's one question and do you remember and do this really fast i know he wants tom to say his piece what what's the moment do you remember the moment because you went from i hate him russia everything what was the moment do you remember the moment where you went, oh my God, I was, what the hell? Like there had to be a moment where you switched. What was it? Number one, I never hated Trump. I don't use that word. Pat knows I never, I don't like the things, but I think COVID was, I think everybody had to wake up during COVID. Everybody. We had to realize what is this true? Do we need to wear a mask? Do we need to get a jab? What's going on? Who do we trust? Who do we not trust? And then it all just unraveled. And And then there was no singular moment. But if you just look at what was going on during the Biden administration, what did he do that you could say, that's my guy? Vinny, I will tell you from the outside, okay, because Adam's not the only guy. You know, he wants to think he's the only guy. Millions. On this podcast. On this podcast, fine. But millions. Rob was a guy. You know, and just Rob doesn't say it. Rob didn't come here being in full agreement with me politically. Are you kidding me? No. So a lot of people, as you're going through it, you know, and by the way, I remember also there were some guys that had left him that had gone to DeSantis. They're like, DeSantis is the guy, which, by the way, the market's going to be very confused with me because do not be surprised if in 2028 I'm, you know, a guy that wants to see DeSantis make the next move. And I got a couple guys. I actually think he – I just didn't want DeSantis in 24. But you know what it is? Here's a part that I want everybody to be thinking about. You know, my dad would say something. He says, Pat, when you were going through trouble and a lot of people had written you off and you would act like you were not listening to me, I knew you were listening. I knew you were still listening. And as a father, I would pray every night that my son, my only son, would figure out to do something with his life and i knew what i wasn't going to do is stop talking to you and stop giving you what i thought you needed to do whether it was life is getting late it's getting late do something with your life stop because i was in a club six days a week i was partying and not doing anything useful with my life it was just bodybuilding girls and you know partying and that was it it's like hey get your act together and i'm like i don't want to hear it i don't want to hear it you know you can't tell me anything and then all of a sudden it happens, right? So I don't think it's a one-day thing. I don't think it's a one-day thing. I think it is like gradually, eventually, it lands. By the way, this is good and bad. I mean, I have a question to ask you that's going to be a bigger question to ask. I want the audience to process this, and I know what we're going to get already with this. I'm very comfortable. Like the other day, I've been trying to get all of these people that are making the claims, the biggest names, get the biggest names that are criticized to taking money from Qatar or Pakistan or China or Israel or anybody. I am willing to do a full-on audit on me and my wife's finances. I publicly called out the biggest players to get this out there. Call me. I called it out. because what upsets me the most is the following. What upsets me the most is the following is the fact that people who are not fully in it, they will – propaganda works, Vinny. It's a very beautiful thing. Nasty, but it works. And so to me, I've got a question for the three of you guys. Say you have a billion dollars to use for propaganda, okay? You have a billion dollars to use for propaganda. And Vinny, I'm going to come to you first, then Tom, I'm going to come to you, and then I'll come to you as well. Billion dollars of using propaganda. And by the way, Rob, run this poll. And Humberto, I want you to text me which one you're going to choose, okay? You have a billion dollars to buy any one of these three communities. Which one do you buy? You ready? Go for it. Do you buy Congress, politicians? Do you buy podcasters, influencers, or do you buy the youth? Rank it from one, two, three. You have a billion dollars. Which of those three do you want to buy? So Congress would be what? You're able to change policies to protect for your nation, to protect for you. The youth is long-term. My God, right? And then you have what? The next one is what? Podcasters, influencers, streamers. Right? My God, let me get the kids. Let me get the streamers. You have a billion dollars. You're another country. Where do you put your money? Which of those three do you think is the most powerful place to put your money to brainwash, to get them to think the way you think, to control the minds? Where do you put your money? Rank it. One, two, three. Rob, have you already posted the poll? Yep. Okay. Go ahead. A billion dollars? You have a billion dollars to buy a propaganda to push your agenda. Which of those three do you want? Number one would be the youth. I put the majority of my money into the youth to get them early change of mindset. I see it with my own eyes, and it's insane because I see the machine speaking out of their mouth. They're not coming up with these ideas on their own, number one. Number two, podcasters. Every single day listening to these people, follow streamers, like the amount of people, because nobody's following Congress. People are following podcasters. And once you have an audience that's watching millions and millions and you have, you know, five to ten million subscribers and they're listening every single day. And by the way, they're not fact checking you. You become their their fact. It's whatever this person say. So I go number one, youth, number two, podcaster, number three, Congress, because, yeah, they're doing the laws, Pat, but they're not moving the needle. So for you, it's youth, podcaster, Congress, Congress. Tom, first, I'm going to go podcasters and media, because with podcasters and media, I pick the right podcasters. podcasters, I get the youth. The youth is number two. And number three is Congress. Because if I get the podcast and media... When I get Congress, I mean politicians. Then politicians is number three. I get politicians. If I get number one, pocket media. And I'll tell you why. The late P.G. O'Rourke wrote a fantastic essay about 25 years ago. And it was called The Three Branches of Government. Money, Television, and Bullshit. And that's, sorry to say that, but that's what he called it. And he pointed out that with the money, you now get everything you want on television, and with television, you then get the BS, which is the propaganda. I think it was as real when he wrote it as it is today. That's my three. Beautiful. I'll rank them one, two, three. Number one would be youth. Number two would be the podcasters, and number three would be Congress. If I had to allocate $1 billion of resources, Congress would get zero. The podcasters, influencers would get $100 million. $900 million. $900 million into the youth, a.k.a. TikTok. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. So to me, you know who made a mistake? You know who made a mistake? Okay, so let's go to countries. Allies and enemies. Give me the most important countries that get alleged for buying influence. Give me the top five countries. We're number one, by the way. We buy influence like no other, right? We're selling capitalism, free market values, all this stuff. But give me countries, foreign countries that are trying to do by influence in America. Give me the top five countries. Israel's obviously going to do it. Israel's on that list. Who else? No, China's my number one. China's number one. Who else? But he said Israel, though. Watch what the market does. This is where I'm going with this. So Israel, China, what other country? Saudi. Saudi, what other country? Qatar. Qatar. What other country? Can we just put those? Because I don't even think Russia's doing a lot of this. But we can put Russia in here as well. Russia might not give as much money, but they're going to use probably. Now watch this, Rob. Pull up this chart. India is doing more than a tank. Before you pull it up, can you tell me what country right now is putting the most money into our educational system right now? China. Pull it up, Rob. How much? Pull it up. Pull it up. China and Qatar. Pull it up. Number one is Qatar. Yep. In universities, in universities, $6.3 billion. And number two is China. Foreign funders of U.S. colleges and universities. What do you think Qatar is doing? They know, let me get the youth and I'll confuse the shit out of them for two decades. Go pay like AIPAC has given money to who? Congress? What a waste of money. What a waste of money. So they lost the propaganda game. And Qatar is winning the propaganda game. China is winning the propaganda game. Israel is not on that list. Bermuda is at $1.7 billion. May I make a short observation? Of course, yes. What are the last two words of the headline? All time. Qatar, all time, which means that the bulk of that just happened now. Yeah, exactly. And China's been doing this for all time? So do you know what this means to me? Let me tell you what this means to me. Am I wrong? No, you're absolutely right. What this means to me, you know what Lenin said many years ago? Here's what Lenin said many years ago. Lenin said this many, many years ago, okay? Many, many years ago. He says, give me control of a nation's music, and I care not who makes the laws. Yeah. Give me control of a nation's music, and I care not who makes its laws. What is he saying? Who listens to the music? The culture. The youth. The culture. The music come through you. So Qataris are sitting there saying, hey, let me go get the youth at these universities. Let me go win them over. Let's give $6.3 billion to the U.S. universities, and we'll get a hold of all these kids. And guess what these kids do? Who uses most social media, youth or older? Older people. Youth. And what are they going to do on streamers, gaming, all that stuff? And you see some of these guys right now are like, I hope their capitalist blood, don't say the name, the capitalist blood is all over the da-da-da-da-da. And who's listening to them, streamers? All the young people. Of course. Of course. So the part you have to respect the enemy is good on the enemy side. Look what they did. They sat there in a meeting and they said, forget about the politicians. Those guys are idiots giving money to Congress. They don't do shit. Let's go buy the youth. Put the money in the youth. Let's go get the universities. Qatar followed China's lead. And what happens now to these universities? Imagine you're a head of a university. And so you're on the university. And I'm Qatar. And I just gave you $150 million. What phone call are you picking up? Qatar. What influence? Are you more loyal to America or the guy that's giving you $150 million? The guy that gave me $150 million. If I'm not the guy, you've got the money. That is the part. So when everybody's saying, oh, $7,000 or this or this or that or not, even there was an influencer that said, look at all these MAGA influencers that they all retweeted immediately and said, this is why we need the what? This is why we need the ballroom. The ballroom. The ballroom. But I don't even care about the ballroom. Like you do it or you don't do the ballroom. I don't even know what the budget for that is. Who cares? I never once have commented on it. It's not a top 50 issue for me when it comes down to the ballroom. You've never heard me talk about the ballroom. Although we're building an amphitheater ourselves here. We're building a kitchen. We're building a, what do you call it, a meeting room, and we're building a facility, 10-story facility that's going to have a penthouse conference center. Why? Because, you know, we keep going to hotels. I want to do the meetings here. It's a lot easier, secure. We build the wall. You know, a lot of people have been texting me over the weekend saying, I just finally saw the gate. It looks like a Jurassic Park gate that we got outside. I don't know if you saw it coming in today. Did you see how it was? I saw T-Rex. Yeah. They didn't let me in. That was intentional. But there's a part of it that – a part of it is that you have to pay attention to where they're giving their money to. The same way you invest in equities, real estate, crypto, Bitcoin, governments, countries, ideologies, they don't care about that stuff. They're buying ears. They're buying ears, and the best way to do it is get the youth because you have them for two decades if you get them. It's a 20-year run rate. They'll come out of it in 20 years. Why? Why will it come out of it in 20 years? Because what's probably going to happen between 18 and 38? What's probably going to happen between 18 and 38? You're going to grow up. You're going to have a family. You're going to have kids. You're going to get a job. You're going to pay taxes. You're going to do all that stuff. You're going to do all of that stuff. Then what do you do? What the F am I doing? Yeah, of course. Why am I a feminist? Why do I hate America? These conservative ideas are better ideas. Get them early. Put the hate and rage. And America's not the greatest country. It sucks. And then slowly it tips. Slowly. And so I call our audience the smartest audience out there. If you watch it because you agree or disagree or whatever you are, I think you're the smartest audience out there that we have. And we're going to keep talking about this kind of stuff. But I'm just telling you right now, guys, be very, very intentionally careful of the propaganda machine that is taking place from our enemies. They want to see a massive division in America, massive. This guy goes to Caltech, smart guy, comes out, you hate America? You hate you want to kill this guy? Look at the power of propaganda. We have to pay attention to some of these things that are taking place. Yeah, I'll give you another one to go to, Rob, and Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one here, is think about Forbes magazine. Forbes magazine comes out and tweets this, okay? This is Forbes magazine's tweet. Can you zoom in a little bit to that and then we go to my comments Elon Musk is planet richest person by far worth billion as a Forbes annual World Billionaire List He ranks on the little fund, but he also ranks amongst the least philanthropic billionaires. Sure, Musk has transferred $8.5 billion of Tesla stock to his charitable foundation, but nearly all of it is still sitting there idle. only an estimated $500 million or .06% of his vast fortune has ever been dispersed to those in need. His lack of giving raises a question. What would our billionaire's ranking look like if the most generous people had ever donated a dollar? To who? To who? Who do you want them to give it to? Can you go back one real quick on my message about Forbes? Who the hell approved a Chinese investor to buy 51% of Forbes? Why would Steve Forbes, Malcolm Forbes' son, sell 51% control to a Chinese investor since 24? Why would you do it? He sounds like a nice guy. He sounds like a noble guy. His father did amazing things. If you type in capitalist tool, this guy had a private jet, covers a capitalist tool. He had a yacht, capitalist tool. He had a helicopter. Guess what it said on it? Capitalist tool. Just type in images, Rob. If you want images, you'll see all of the stuff that I'm talking about. That was his jet. What does it say at the end of it? Forbes capitalist tool. Go to his helicopter. Go to the yacht if you can. This guy was selling capitalism, and Forbes today is selling socialism. Everything about this man. This man turned 70 years old. You know what he did at 70 years old? 70 years old, he put on a party. He was best friends with, look at the helicopter. What does it say? capitalist tool on his helicopter. Vinnie puts a party on his 70th birthday party. Everybody who attends, you know what gift they got? Everybody got a Rolex as a gift for attending his birthday party. Wow. Okay. Elizabeth Taylor, him and her, would always write the Harley Davidson together. He had the biggest collection of Fabergé, you know, the Russian Fabergé. Nobody had more than he had. Scott was a billionaire. He would put lavish parties, celebrate capitalism, celebrate victory. Now there's Socialist Magazine. They have to change the name. Change the name to Johnson or change the name to, I don't know, whatever you want to put it, but change the Forbes name of the magazine at least. Or they need a new buyer. By the way, remember that one guy, Tom, that the rumor had it this guy bought Forbes for $800 million at a 75% part of the Forbes? That deal never went through. So the company that owns Forbes still today, do you know who Forbes announced as the International Woman of the Year in 2021? and put Hillary Clinton, Rob. Just tap in Hillary Clinton. Can you imagine who they have to have there where the lifetime achievement medal for Forbes International Women's Day goes to Hillary Clinton in 2022? Seriously? For what? What part of that is capitalism? Is that capital going to Haiti? Is that capitalism? What part of this is capitalism? And by the way, these people that are forcing charity on people These people that are forcing charity on. First of all, Tom, I'll come to you and I'll read what I have here from this book. Go ahead, Tom. Your reaction to this. So my reaction to this is, you know, for them to say this and go out like this. First of all, I've read about about the one of the producers, not producers, but like the lead editors. And I mean, I'm not being given the liberty and the recognition of saying his name. But he went to Columbia School of Journalism and he's like 28 years old. Pat, that's the guy that wrote that article about philanthropy. So, gee, what do you think his position is, right? That's a good point. What is his bias? And also say this. You mentioned something about Nora O'Donnell. You said maybe she didn't look like she wanted to ask the question. The key is every two weeks we're hearing about Barry Weiss. This person leaves or that person leaves. Barry Weiss apparently is trying to clean things up. At least that's what we hear from the outside, right? The producers are the ones. You know, it's people like Keith Sharman and Julie Morsgroff and Roxanne Fytel. Those are the producers at CBS, and the producer is in the earpiece asking her to say things. And those are the people to watch out for because they're driving the narrative. So I want to know who Forbes editors are. And guess what? To control a magazine, all you do is control the editors because the editors greenlight the stories. So greenlight the stories. All you need to do is have the guy that owns 51% Pat. All you need is four editors, believe it or not. I looked it up. They say four editors, and the editor-in-chief and three editors can control the entire narrative of the magazine or of the channel. That's all we need, and this is who is doing it. To me, this is horrifying. And by the way, if you're asking me also what I feel about philanthropy, charities most of the time, they become perpetual motion machines. Charity is supposed to be in place to fix something. Save the whales. Well, how do we know when we're all saved? Do we move on to something else? No, we keep saving the whales, and you keep raising money for us, and you keep doing that. Most charities never end, and what happens is the original mission gives way to the bloat of everybody being part of the charity, and it's a tax deduction and all this. I only give, and Pat knows this, for something beginning, middle, end. What do we need to fix? Do we need a pool? Do we need this? What do we need? I'll get involved. But onward, onward, onward. It's very, very difficult for me. And Forbes, I think I think somebody should step in here. This is once upon a time. It was the vision of capitalism, Pat. And I believe Forbes can be that again. But it's going to take it's going to take somebody else at the helm. Adam. Well, you talked earlier about capitalism, and I'm just comment on that for a second. In our group chat, there was a something that the guy Sean McGuire had to say. And this essentially I'll just sum it up real quick. The Democratic Party that we were all used to no longer exists. And he basically says that the DNC has now been replaced by a coup with the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America. And I've said this before on the podcast. Do you remember a time where socialists would openly, proudly say, vote for me, the socialist candidate? It used to be a communism, a socialist. Let's keep it a secret. And then what happens is this over time. You talked about paying and getting hijacked. Words have meaning. You say words have power. Words can change things. You know what bad words are now? Capitalism is a bad word. Trump is a bad word. Israel is a bad word. America has become a bad word. Patriotism is a bad word. But you know what good words are? communism, socialism, trans, free Palestine. All the things that were bad 20 years ago are now good in the Democratic Party, the DSA, and all the bad things, all the good things are now bad. Things have flipped. Who has changed more over the last 20 years? Republican Party, conservatives, or Democrats, liberals? To me, it's not even close. Republicans have maybe moved further to the right more patriotic the left has gone full progressive and they're all socialists and communists so you have trump on one side then you have ilhan omar and mamdani on the other side those who weren't even born in america there's the problem let me read this to you so in 1935 you know who was the richest man in the world rockefeller well you know who number two was henry ford the second you know what henry ford the second wanted to do entertain charity let me tell you what he ends up regretting okay what he ends up regretting why I no longer believe in this whole concept of when I die, I'm going to die with zero and leave it all for charity. The dumbest idea in the world, after I read this to you, the dumbest idea in the world. Give to charity today if you trust the person that's running it. Do not leave in your inheritance for a charity that is going to be anybody else that could be running it that things could change. Look what happened to Henry Ford that he eventually resigned from the charity that He started himself. So it was in the home that Edsel Ford was confronted with a greater challenge. In 1935, Roosevelt administration pushed through tax reforms that demanded 70% of large inheritances. When his father died, Edsel realized the family would be forced to liquidate their stock and lose control of the company, which bore their name. So Henry Ford, despite his reputation as what he stood with charities, historian William Greenleaf estimated that Elder Ford donated $37.6 million to charity during his lifetime. He built a world-class hospital in Detroit, as well as a Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village in Dearborn. It was one of the most important institutions dedicated to American history in the hopes preserving at least a part of our history and tradition. He did not believe that charity meant for more financial donation but involved a living activity stating, I do not believe in giving folks things. I do believe in giving them a chance to make things for themselves. So look how the story goes. So Esso seemed to have worked. Henry Ford II in control was the most powerful person in America. They started donation. There were only two other foundation trustees, both men employed by the Ford Motor Company. So they started charity. They're running it. There's only two other people part of the board, Tom, and they're both working for who? Ford Motor Company. The chaos came slowly, then all at once. Henry Ford II was persuaded that he had a moral responsibility to democratize control of the foundation as was increasingly regarded as best practice for charitable organizations at the time. So he's trying to be noble and saying, hey, you know what? Let's open it up and let's have more people on the board. Not just me since I started it and I'm giving all the money. 100% of the money is coming from me. Well, let's open it up. The number of trustees does increase, and over time, these trustees over-increase in boldness and challenging Ford's opinion. He's giving the money. Now they're telling him, we're not going to do that. So watch this. As the influence of those outside of family grew, priorities shifted away from traditional Michigan focus of Henry Ford to now other places. In 1950, the trustee signed the report of the study of the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program, announcing five areas of action, economic improvement, education, freedom, and democracy, human behavior, and what? World peace. They decided that their responsibility was no longer to just Michigan, which is where he built everything. It was to who? The world. 1953, the foundation transferred its base of operations from Detroit to where? New York City. It continues. Henry Ford's Detroit was left to crumble. By 1970s, Henry Ford's second loss of control was near total with then-President McGregory, McGeorge, Bundy, flatly denying George's request. Vinny, check this out. Henry Ford is putting money on the charity. He's saying, I want to give money to Henry Ford Hospital. The president of the charity, named the Ford Foundation, says I'm not going to – he flat out denies Ford's request for donation to Henry Ford Hospital. Bundy had more important things to focus on on matters of the world. Author Heather McDonald summarized that his focus became the world. So imagine you're – I'm like, hey, Vinny, you're running my charity. Hey, can you give some money to my hospital? No, we got better things to do. I got other stuff going on. We got to solve it. But watch what ends up. More radical still was the Ford Foundation experience of eugenics and population control in the 70s. Motivated by the belief that global starvation was imminent of the population bomb was not addressed, for example, foundation official Douglas Ensminger created a large-scale sterilization program in India offering vasectomies to millions. This program infrastructure was then co-opted and made mandatory by Indian prime minister at the time, And, Indra Gandhi, likely influenced by Ford Foundation, who ordered a declaration of national emergency and embarked on a forced sterilization drive, which sterilized over 6 million men in 1976 alone. Ford Foundation. 6 million men? 6 million men were sterilized. In India. In India because of Henry Ford's foundation. Jeez. So, in December of that year, 1976, Henry Ford lost all control of the foundation. He resigned his role and said the following in protest, a public letter that he wrote, front page news, 1976. The diffusory of enterprises upon which the foundation has embarked in recent years is almost guaranteed that few people anywhere will share a common perception of what the foundation is all about, how it sees its mission, how it serves society. It's a dangerous sign. At the time, I did it on purpose because I thought it was the right thing to do, beginning. Now I think I made a mistake. I should have kept control. And this is at a New York Times story. Do you know what these guys end up? The Ford Foundation remains a raging bull on this day, now totally divorced from anything the original Ford family members have recognized in the last decade. You ready what they put their money into? They have given millions to Southern Vision Alliance, a creation of the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist group, the World Workers' Party. That's not what he stood for. The foundation grant database, accessible online, lists innumerable bizarre donations, $300,000 to build grassroots Muslim power, $600,000, a Chinese state think tank to promote the formation of an internationally accepted ESG system with Chinese characteristics. In 2020, their blog proudly announced, we're seeing grantees at the forefront of change that's taken place over the last few years. The Lake Council of Minneapolis pledge to dismantle the police department. Their work is far from over. This charity started good, and now they want to get rid of the police? And so when you look at this, American Red Cross, half a billion dollars after the 2010 earthquake that took place, they raised. They raised a half a billion dollars, of which $170 million was earmarked for shelter, but just six permanent structures were built. The Gates Foundation spent billions of dollars to reform the U.S. school system. The effort ended after investigation found the interventions were ineffective. Madonna's $15 million raising Malawi Academy for Girls Project was destroyed before it broke ground, having wasted millions on salaries, cards, and golf memberships. Weird. And this I Promise School that LeBron James started in 2023 had not a single eighth grade student passed the test for math in three years. So guess what when it comes down to charity? Unless if the person running the charity is active today, leave 100% of the money to your family and your kids. and do it in a proper way on what it goes to them. There's so pressure about putting money into charities. You know who's given the most money to charity in a single year in the history of America? You know who? A guy named Elon Musk. He paid $11 billion in taxes. That's charity. And you want to say these billionaires, freaking Forbes magazine becoming socialist, should have never sold to China. Why would you sell to China? 41%. 51% to China. What do you think they're going to do? Oh, they remain a small percentage on Forbes family. They own you. You do what they do. Your dad would have never approved of this. So I think this whole concept of what they're doing right now to pressure billionaires. You know what Warren Buffett just announced recently? Guess what Warren Buffett just said? I'm out of Bill Gates. I'm not doing this no more with you. I'm out. I'm out. Give money to today. Never leave a penny to a single charity after you die. Not a single penny. Control it to go to the right causes based on the right values. Write it in your trust. Write it in your will. If it's not a cause that matches the values and principles, not a penny can my kids give to that organization. So I think this is a very weird time we're living in, but we've got to go back to teaching people history, what mistakes people made, how to do it better. You're creating the wealth. The ultimate wealth you're making is for who? Yourself and your family. Yourself and your family. So you set up your kids to have a chance. You're setting it up so your kids have a chance at winning in life. There is nothing wrong with giving your kids a head start. If you work your ass off for all this money, give it to them. Leave it to them. Not to charities. These charities don't care about you. They don't wake up in the morning thinking about your kids and your family. Well, you just made a great point, too. They raised how many millions and millions of dollars, and they couldn't even build the thing because they were golf court, golf memberships and cars, and what the hell? Well, 2 Corinthians 12, 14. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but their parents for their children. Let me read it again. Corinthians, after all, children should not save up for their parents, but parents for their children. It's our job to take care of them, not their job to take care of us. We're supposed to set them up. It's our job to give them a head start, not the other way around. There's so much confusion out there with what we're talking about. And then, oh, kids have to take care of their... I mean, don't get me wrong. I do it proudly. I'm grateful in the biggest way. So it's not like it's a burden. Oh, my God, I feel burdened by it. But it's our job to set them up. Not these freaking charities. Who the hell are these charities? Be charitable. Give to your church if you trust where the money is going to. Like Tom and I, we sat down, they're coming up to us and say, can you give us money? Where is this money going to? Swimming pool. His daughter swims. Let's support. Where is this money going to? To a library. What is it going to have? Great support. Where is this money going to? No, instead of doing this. No, no. No, sorry. I don't know. I think this whole thing, as you go deeper into it, folks who are making money, and our audience, a good percentage of you guys are fairly wealthy. Get very serious about estate planning and your living trust in place, or else the money is going to get wasted by somebody that doesn't have the similar cause as you. Pat, how much crossover is there with the barbarians and bureaucrats that you always talk about? Is this basically that? You start as the barbarian. You start as the prophet. And then the bureaucrats take over. And they start basically imposing their will against whatever you want. It's the guilt. It's the guilt of being wealthy. It's the guilt of being successful. It's the guilt of, oh, my God, I'm so guilty. You know, I have too much money. I have too much this. Stop it. Stop allowing people. Oh, you think that the founder or the person that made the billions has almost like survivor's guilt? Yeah, so Henry Ford that started the charity, he felt guilty that he was too rich, so let's give some money away because that's the right thing to do. And you know what? Let's extend the board. Let's extend it because these are nice people, and the people you extend the board to come back and tell you, no, you can't give money to a hospital, you start. It's like, wait a minute, did I resign? No, we're not doing it that way. I always find it so interesting when you see someone like Mark Benioff. How do you start from being an ultra capitalist and then becoming basically a socialist? We talked about Starbucks moving their headquarters. There's a lot of different things that you can go with that. But anyways, this was something on my mind this weekend. I want to let it out there, let the audience do whatever they want to do with it. By the way, let me go to this next one, then I'll come to you guys. Pull up the Shema tweet if you could, Rob. Pull up the Shema tweet. Tom, I'm going to come to you first and then Adam to you next. So here's Shema. We know about the billionaire tax that California is talking about, right? 5%, but it's just the billionaires. Just the billionaires. And then Shema Palapatiya posts this tweet that I retweeted. The devil's in the what? You ever hear the line? The devil's in the what? So the billionaire tax is actually on everyone tax. The billionaire tax is a new tax protocol written by four professors who don't believe in the American dream. Some of them aren't even American. Go figure. Despite its name, it applies to every Californian resident who currently has assets or ever. Well, the creators named it the billionaire tax so you would get into a fraud and wouldn't look closely at what it actually does to you. On page 26, it explains how the government can convert to an everyone tax without voter approval. Bingo. motive. They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just a one-time thing. Again, without your what? Approval. Here's how the tax would work. As a voter, you're being asked to approve a tax that would require you to, one, list all your assets and the value of each and submit them to California Franchise Tax Board. Two, authorize the tax board to praise your assets and confirm the value of each. Three, pay a penalty of up to 40% of your tax bill if the determines your reported value was too low in their opinion. Four, allow the tax report to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing. This everyone tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself. If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be three pages. It's 34 pages so it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you. Go a little bit lower, Rob, if he has the picture on there or not. I thought he did. California. I thought he did. So, Tom, before we find a picture, Tom, your thoughts on this, because the average person is like, we should tax the billionaires more. Where do you stand with this? It says if you only vote on headlines, you deserve the fine print. If you read everything through and you're an informed voter, then you should be evangelizing and being an ambassador of truth in your circle around the people you work and you live and you go to church and soccer and everything else with. This reminds me of when Nancy Pelosi was cornered. Vinny, you remember this? Nancy Pelosi gets cornered on what was the bill, the health care bill? Says, well, we'll know what's in it after we pass it. Do you remember that? Yeah, of course. She gets cornered. Guess what? This is the same thing. This is not a coincidence. This is the way government works. The way government works is you run headlines to create emotions. This is the Democrat playbook. You run headlines to create emotion. People go, oh, my gosh. And they say, good news, we're taxing the rich. Bad news. Now I think you're rich. And that's the way this is working. And Chamath has pointed it out. This is government at its worst. This is the way Pelosi talked about it. Pat, I am unsurprised. I knew it was coming because I said, you just wait. It's going to be the opposite of Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders was, all the millionaires need to go. All the millionaires need to go. Then it's all the billionaires because Sanders became a millionaire. Remember, he shifted all of his rhetoric and there's all those funny videos how he doesn't say millionaires anymore. He just says billionaires because he joined the club with three houses. Well, guess what? It's here. This is exactly what we said was going to happen. Pat, people got to be educated voters. Don't vote on headlines. Find out what it says. We've been taught to pick up juice. I see people picking up juice at Trader Joe's, at the supermarket, and I'll see them look at the back. And I have personally heard people saying, honey, that's not juice. That's 180 calories of sugar. I've seen it. So we're learning to do that. We have to do the same thing with the bills we're voting on. Check the ingredients because it doesn't – government is just not out to take from one or to impugn one. They're out to impugn and control all of us. Rob, is that the page of what it says? I believe so. 25 of 32. 25 of 32. Where is the part that it says at any point? Did you find that part or no? Okay, Adam, I'll come to you. I'll look for this here right now. Adam, go for it. Yeah, well, we need to stop villainizing rich people because it's the easiest thing to do. Well, the rich people did it. Well, you know, the capitalists, it's their problem. The victim Olympics is a real thing. Let me say something. You know, every year I go to the Special Olympics. My friends put it on. You know, we have a problem with entitlement and welfare in this country. Let me tell you something. Unless you qualify to compete in the Special Olympics, meaning like you just literally can't take care of yourself, I don't want to hear about your problems. Nobody cares. The victim Olympics, the blame, why do the rich people do this? They can't do this. Remember when AOC showed up to like the Met Gala and taxed the rich? This is their whole notion right now. I think there needs to be a new conversation in this country between what capitalism is and what socialism is. One of your most viewed things you've ever done, Peabody, was the Jubilee debate. People would hit me up. You know, people would hit you up. Oh, I saw this. Oh, I saw this. People were fascinated about that because that's a conversation that needs to happen. I truly believe that capitalists, the business owners, need to educate their workers how salaries work, how taxes work. because if you ever hear the socialist talk, the Democratic Socialists of America talk, they talk about we represent working people, working people. We're all working people. So remember you told a story about when Trump did his tax cuts about you said, however long you've been with me at the company, for every month you've been here, you're going to get $100. Is that the correct story? Yep. So someone who's been working there for three years, oh, my God, Just got $35,000. It's incredible. That, you know, you say don't show, tell. It's better to – what's the thing you always say? I don't know. Which one are you talking about? You say it's better to show than tell, essentially. Yeah. There's a phrase you always talk about. Yeah, yeah. But you showed them what it's like when you get a tax cut. You're going to reap the benefits of it. Yeah. There's too much of a gap between the rich people and the working class. and I think a conversation is due to say I'm paying you yeah but the two different things I see what you're saying you're talking about the taxes but the reason that people are advocating for the taxes is because the poor people don't understand the benefit to the rich person the job creator, the entrepreneur they took the risk and you have the benefit of it no question about it for me when it comes down to a conversation like this when they think they're just targeting billionaires They're not targeting billionaires. Mamdani is not going after billionaires. Mamdani is, you know, he's a guy that he would like to eventually. In an ideal world, Mamdani would like to be a communist is what he would like to be. He would like to get rid of all the billionaires, and he would like there to be no existent of any billionaires. I even think he said that in the past before. Yeah, that he thinks we don't need billionaires, right? And many others have said that as well. The issue with affordability is something that we have. Whoever is able to figure that part out is going to win elections, whoever. The other day I had Dominik Tarzinski on. And you know what's the one thing they do in Poland now that they came up with three years ago? I think it's a brilliant idea, Vinny. It's in Poland now, if you're 26 or younger, you pay no federal income tax. If you're 26 or younger. So if you make $100,000 a year, guess how much you keep? $100,000. If you make a half a million dollars a year, you keep a half a million dollars. So I said, what if we did that for 30 or under? What if you're under 30, whatever you make, you keep? What if you did that? What would happen to the youth? And what if you said, if you have four kids or more, if you have four kids or more, from the age your kids are zero to 18 years old, you pay no federal income taxes. Think about that for a second. But it's four kids, husband and wife, the two of you guys. Not like the Middle Eastern way. I'm talking like the traditional way, four kids. I don't want you to accelerate it and go and say, let's practice polygamy so I can get four kids in one year because I'm making $100 million this year. I want to accelerate the process. Create a charity. Yeah, but I do think there's going to be someone in the next 12, 24, 36 months that's going to come out with some creative ideas to make sure the youth don't pay any taxes until they're 30 years old. Because you're going to incentivize that kid to hustle and bust their butt and make money, and then you're going to have other people to have a bunch of kids. It is a real issue. Can we get to the next hard thing by Vinnie Doesn't Want to Buy a Car in 20 years? The thing I just want to give you credit, you always talk about more is caught than taught. That's what I was thinking about. Did you hear what Bill Maher said? So if you want to go look at this story, Bill Maher basically called out Bernie Sanders about taxes. I think it's an important addendum to basically the story. I saw that. You were about to go to it. I paid the government if you had state tax, local tax, sales, property, and Obamacare, probably almost 60% of what I earn in California. He said, while I'm sure the super rich with our army of accountants and corporate loopholes get away with murder, us regular rich people pay a ton of taxes. And here's the number. The top 10% of America pay 72% of all taxes. Top 10%, the bottom half, so the 50% of this country that's basically earning less than $40,000, do you know how much they pay in taxes? 3%. So this whole taxing the rich, taxing the rich, taxing the rich, federally, where can they go? They'll leave the country. But if you do it in a state, how many people are going to leave California? You left California at 13%. How many people leave New York? So more is tough than soft. When it affects you. This is just the beginning. This is just the beginning. But let's go to the next story. Next story I want to get to is Trump abruptly cancels Kushner with cops, Pakistan trip. And so they won't be going. And at the same time, the Iran guy, Abbas, I believe that's his name. He went to Pakistan, then went to Oman and is in Russia. And I think he is meeting with Putin as we speak, if I'm not mistaken. OK, that is going on right now as we speak. They just landed in Russia. They're about to meet with Putin. allegedly is the story that we keep reading about that this may be taking place right now. Trump also said he's taking the nukes off the table with Iran. He doesn't have any interest in doing anything with nukes. And if you go in the market, look what the market is doing today. Gold is back up to 96. I don't know where it's at. Not gold. Oil is back up to 96.30. Market's down slightly. Nothing major. It's down slightly. But oil is up. So in a part of this oil story, Tom, I'm going to come to you, is I think it's in the addendum. with what the oil is doing. Trump claims Iran's oil infrastructure may explode in three days due to U.S. blockade. So, Rob, if you have that clip, go for it right there. Can't hear anything, guys. But what you're referring to is that when you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you can't continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them. They have no ships because of the blockade. What happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth. Something happens where it just explodes. They say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was. In other words, it will always be if you rebuild it, it's hard to rebuild it all, but it would only be about 50 percent of what it is right now. So it's a very powerful thing that takes place, sort of having to do with nature. But when when that gets clogged at the end, in other words, when you have to turn it off because you have no place to store this oil, either put it on ships or storage tanks, which they are just about finished with, a very bad thing is going to happen. So I think they're under pressure. But Tom, so Iran's under tremendous just mechanical pressure. They need, I'm not going to comment on the explode because I don't, I have not found the explosion comment. But I have found all of the comments regarding storage. Right now, you pump the oil out of the ground and you store it in these tanks. And then guess what? Empty tankers come up to Karg Island. They hook up. They take your crude oil and they go to wherever they go and they refine it into aviation fuel gasoline jet fuel you know all the all the kerosene everything else that they they need to make out of a barrel of oil But right now once you got oil in motion what I been reading about once the oil is in motion that a sudden halt creates a problem where they have to restart the well and repump the well. Because remember, like in the U.S., we do fracking and stuff. And so there is mechanical things, Pat, that if they stop right now, number one, they're full. It means they can't offload it to anybody, which also means that they're not selling as much of it per day. And we've already talked about the, what is that, $444 million a day or whatever it is. It's crazy. So he's right. They're coming up against an infrastructure deadline where they have no place to put the oil. And if they shut down the pumps, they're hard to restart. And there is certain damage it can be caused. And so they're really up against it. they need all of these empty tankers to immediately get to Karg Island so that they can be offloading this stuff that they're pumping into these storage facilities. Yeah, when you're reading this, it says experts have warned that Iran could be forced to shut down its oil fields as early as April 29 because the U.S. naval blockade risking long-term damage to its crude production. So that's because Tehran is effectively running out of storage space like we talked about earlier. both the critical threats project of the American Enterprise Institute and Energy Aspect, UK-based fuel analysts from Estimates, that Iran's storage space will be up in the coming week, like now. And so if that's going on, Tom, the question becomes the following. Is this one of the reasons why the president is just kind of cool, calm, and collected right now? Does he know that Iran is super desperate and they can't, you know, they have no leverage? because, you know, Trump knows the cards. And it doesn't seem like he's pushing that hard. He's just kind of like, yeah, okay, take your time. You don't want to talk to us? No problem. We also won't come down. What could Russia do right now to help them to extend a life? What could Russia do to help Iran? Russia needs to get in and say, buddy, you know, we need to be working together for the next century, and you're coming up against a very, very tough time. We've got to figure this thing out. You've got to figure this thing out. And I think that's why Trump is saying we have all the cards. We've got five days. They've got five days. Our five days is we can wait. Their five days is a deadline. So if you think of it that way, our five days is patience. Their five days is a mechanical oil pumping deadline. What could Russia do? Russia could help. Russia could say, look, I know I haven't been really as cooperative with Trump as I could have been. And I got my own Ukraine war going on. But you guys, you need to figure this out and you need to figure it out in a hurry. I think now is Putin going to call Trump and say, you know, Donald, you know, Mr. President, what do you want me to do? That's not going to happen. But I think, you know, Russia could be an intermediary, not for the U.S., but simply because they need Iran to be pumping. And Russia's other friend, China, is probably whispering around saying, hey, somebody, we got to figure this out. We got to figure this out. We need all those empty tankers to be at Karg Island to be pumping off right now. So I think it's Russia and China behind the scenes, Pat. They have to be. If you're dependent on Iran for oil the way China is, you've got to be whispering right now. And supposedly what? Putin was going to Oman, right? Yeah, exactly. Adam, your thoughts? Well, if there's one thing we know about Trump is that he's ready to make a deal. That guy wants to make a deal, whether it's a real estate deal, whether it's a peace deal, whether it's a weapons deal, whether it's a financial deal, he's ready to make a deal. He also said he's in no rush. Think about that. Everyone's trying to give him like, you've got to hurry up. You've got to end this. He basically said, listen, we were in war in Afghanistan 20 years. We're in Iraq for almost a decade, whatever it was. Vietnam was X amount of years. World War II goes, we've been doing this six weeks, guys. Pump the brakes a little bit. By the way, there was also another quote. He goes, nobody's telling me what to do. Nobody. I'm making the decisions. Whether you agree with them or not, that's on you. But it's on Trump. But you know what this reminds me of? this whole Pakistan thing. Remember when we had the live event for the Reagan movie with Dennis Quaid, right? Great movie, great actor, giving a shout out to Reagan here. They had a challenge when he were negotiating the nuclear peace deal with the U S and the USSR of getting USSR to the table. And here's what we learned about the negotiation goes, just get them in the room. If they're not in the room, what are we negotiating? So right now we're just trying to get to the, But the leaders of Iran, whoever they are, whoever it is at this point, you said it's this guy, whatever his name is now. It's not the supreme leader. He's dead. The supreme leader's son, he's getting a facelift apparently, missing a leg. Okay, so let him know who negotiating with. The negotiator, Abbas Agar. Yeah, this guy. So what happened was, this is what I think will make Trump so unique. You tell me if you guys agree. What Reagan did is when he got them in the room, he killed them with kindness. He did unreasonable hospitality. And they felt, these guys were Cold War enemies. I would argue that Iran and U.S. are actually worse enemies because we're actually fighting. U.S. and USSR never fought. But they got them to the table. He killed them with kindness, and they worked out a deal. The whole thing with Iran, I think Jake Sullivan basically said when they were doing the nuclear deal, he goes, you know they say trust would verify? He goes, with Iran, don't trust and still verify. Bottom line is we've got to get them in the room. We have to figure out what they want. And Trump, if there's one person you trust in a room negotiating a deal, it's Trump or his liaison. And that's where I think this is going to go. Vinny. Yeah, I mean, dude, all the craziness, all the noise from the past two, three weeks, now it's like everything's just calm. Everything's like chill. not because now it's like the chess moves that are being made right now, or like now it's like real stuff. Because think about it. These guys are traveling to – where are they right now? They're in Russia. Who? The leaders of the world? The boss and all these guys? I don't know. I'm not sure. Bob, where was that? Yeah. He's in Russia now. They're in Russia right now. By the way, because mind you, Russia's been – have you heard – I haven't heard Putin at all. I haven't heard anything from Xi Jinping. I haven't heard anything. We obviously know that they're doing stuff behind the scenes because they're so, you know, relying on Iran's oil. But I'm very, very interested to see what this week is going to be a very, very telling week, Pat. I think this is going to be a week because what's that conversation like right now? What's the conversation like in Russia with Iran? You know what I mean? What are they talking about right now? So I'm very curious to see what the end of this week is going to look like with that. What do you think it would be? I mean, what do you think Putin is saying to him? Tom, think about that a lot. But think about that. We're at war with them, us, Israel, Iran. And the quiet people in the war, China and Russia, haven't heard a peep. Now they're openly going to meet with them. And I think that conversation is like, listen, whatever the hell is going on, whatever you guys need to do, you need to make this happen fast because we need the oil. They need the oil. This is all coming down to oil. Am I right, Tom? Oil and weapons and money. That's what I'm saying. Follow the money here. Yeah. We'll see. Let me get to the next story. Cars. Okay. Effective 2027. Rob, what page? It's a car, I think that's on 26th, 27th. Yeah. So this is a little weird. I want to actually get the audience's thoughts on this. So every new car could become a surveillance machine by 2027, and it may decide if you can drive. I mean, this is like, this is exactly what these movies, the surveillance movies talk about, like what you don't want it to be is what it's showing. So let's read this through. This isn't some distant concept or experimental feature that might come up in a few years. By 2027, every car sold in the U.S. could be required to actively monitor the person behind the wheel. That means watching your eyes, tracking your behavior, and constantly evaluating whether you're alert enough to drive or not. For a lot of drivers, that starts to feel a lot less safe and more surveillance. So the law that's quietly changing cars, tucked into a broader federal safety initiative, is a requirement for impaired driving detection technology in all new vehicles. The goal sounds simple enough. Reduce crashes caused by drunk or fatigued drivers. It's a problem that has been around for decades. And to do that, automakers will need to install a system that monitors drivers in real time. Vinny, your thoughts on this? Well, when's the last time we heard something like this? Do you guys remember after September 11th, they gave us the Patriot Act, and they sold it as protection, Pat? Like, stop terrorism, keep everybody safe. Next thing you know, they collected all of our data on everybody. Every single American, they were like, well, guys, terror. The war on terror, that was Bush Jr. on his favorite thing. But now the same idea, different excuse. Back then it was terrorists. Now it's unsafe drivers. But the move is the same. more surveillance more control that's why people don't trust this and i'm not a fan a fan of that it sounds so good on paper it's a nobody i mean you're a moron you want drunk drivers on the road but the part that people are waking up to this isn't just going to sit there quietly it's collecting your data a lot of it and then once that data exists it doesn't just disappear it gets stored it gets analyzed it gets potentially shared remember time they're trying to do that predictive like crime, pre-crime, if you're going to do this, or you're going to kill somebody, and then they'll stop you. It's almost like a minority report. But insurance companies already want access to this kind of data, obviously. Regulators want more control, and now you have AI making judgment calls in real time. And I'm just not a fan of it, Pat. Like, who's to say my eyes are kind of yawning, or I'm not even yawning, Pat. I have something in my eye, or I'm squinting. What, they're going to monitor me and shut my freaking car off? I'm not a fan of it at all. Well, listen, a lot of Republicans voted for this. Anna Paulina Luna did not. She even tweeted about the saying, I'm not part of this. But some 55 Republicans voted for this. And some of them said the reason for it is the mad mothers against drunk drivers. So this is a way for us to protect the kids. Tom, what do you like with this? So not well. I do not want to take the autonomy from the human that owns that vehicle. There is already things like Mercedes. Mercedes does a driver attention, and it gives you a beep, and it tells you you have to grab the steering wheel. And it'll say, like, are you dozing off? Take a break. So there's things in Mercedes that Mercedes is advertised broadly, even on the little basic Mercedes, Pat, where they detect if you're, like, maybe getting fatigued and the car starts reacting. But a car doesn't drive for you. I want to know how they're going to underwrite this. We know insurance. So if the car has the ability to take over for me if it thinks I'm in capacity and the car makes a mistake and has a collision with somebody, who pays for that accident? Does Ford pay for the accident? I would argue I didn't cause the accident. So let me tell you, what closed the Strait of Hormuz? Lloyds of London. You could argue that the first closure of the Strait of Hormuz before everything started. These insurance people, man, they're always. Those guys, man. Be careful for those guys. So I don't want to see this, but I think there's also a worse thing happening. What people need to understand is what's about to happen is your car is about to become a subscription service. You know, that's just kind of the direction where it's going. You're going to buy the car, and then you pay for the advanced subscription for all these things. Like you buy an iPhone, and then you get in-app purchases if you want to buy deluxe or all these other features. That's where the cars are going to be going. And just like full self-driving, you can pay a subscription to Tesla for that if your car is equipped. But I don't like this because it's unproven, and I really – full self-driving has to be fully in place and proven. Otherwise, what do we do if a car makes a mistake? If they do this in 27, would you buy a 27 model or would you not buy it? No. And, by the way, the auto industry is already being shifty. Did you know that right now the auto industry is already testing, not letting you work on your own truck? on certain trucks. Ford did it. So what it is, is you'll go in to do things and you want to, you'll work on your own brakes. It doesn't let the system retract. So you can't change brake pads. You can go read about this, how the auto industry is trying to prevent DIYs from going down to AutoZone and picking up parts and working on their own vehicles. They want you to go to the dealer. Or, DIYs like me refer to it as the stealer. Yeah. They want to force you to go there. So there are things happening in the auto industry, Pat, that I am not in favor of. Safety things, you know, preemptive braking. I think these are good safety features, but now you're stepping over to take over for somebody? I don't know. And, Tom, who's to say, let's just say, I don't know, a pandemic that comes out of a lab of somewhere that we own. Ring the bell. Something happens like that, Tom, and the government taps and pans. And they go, guys, we don't want anybody driving today. And they just shut off every single video. I'm good. I'm, yeah. I will go back to stick shift, 1980s, BMW, two-door, you know. Remember the movie The Kingsman? Kingsman. Yeah, of course. It's a great movie. And Valentine, Samuel Jackson was Valentine, the bad guy. And he sold everybody the chip in their phones. And then he caused the chips to go crazy. And there's this bizarre scene in the middle of it to the song Freebird by Skinner. because he caused all the chips to go crazy and impact all the people. That's exactly what you're talking about. You don't want, at some point on some day, some havoc to break out. Yeah. Well, let the car guy explain what's going on here, guys. Sure. Okay? Go ahead. You're an Uber guy. You're an Uber guy. Well, I generally think that the way that we as Americans, or even humans for that matter, the way that we interact with cars is completely changing. Completely. And to me, it comes down to one of two things. Control versus freedom. So I remember when we had Jordan Peterson on. This one might have been in like 2022. Yeah. By the way, I don't think he's doing well these days. How do you talk about control from the backseat? So I remember asking, what kind of car do you drive? And he goes, yeah, I got this old Mercedes. I have a top goes down. I do a thing. He goes, you know when we won the Cold War? Speaking of that again. He goes, because they saw what type of way we lived our lives. It was our jeans. It was our Ford Mustangs. And people in Russia said, we want that. We want freedom. You know, what did they have in the USSR was all control. In America, you're top down, driving on the highway, doing this, you know, in California. It's all freedom. And basically, all this is basically coming down to is they're taking away your freedom one little drip at a time. So libertarians are not going to be happy about anything like this. By the way, you see what they do with social credit scores in China? The central bank digital currency, the CBDCs, it's all about control. It's all about control. Driverless vehicles, what are we going to do with that? So I don't know, but do you know who should definitely qualify for this? I don't think the average person. You know who should? A hundred percent. You know who should? If you're driving a work vehicle. Like if you're driving a truck on the highway, oh, we want you, I want recording the whole time. It's almost like police cameras, police body cameras. Amazon has dash cams on their trucks for insurance. Yeah, but remember these stories like in California, some illegal immigrants. That's how we know that the FedEx guy did that terrible thing with the child. So individuals, liberty. I think that's a good point. By the way, it's like saying right now, I'm recording mono. He's got your car. Yeah, it's so fun. But any hoovers, they're recording. I'm not with it, man. All I can tell you is, look, man, I'm just going to whisper something. Rob, can you type in Mercedes Maybach SL680? Tom, have you seen this thing? No. SL680? Mercedes Maybach? Go to images. I've never, ever thought I would be turned on by them. Not that one. Go to the second one right there. Look at that, Tom. Vinny, do you see that? Like the Maybach SL680. I saw two of them in the last couple of weeks. I don't know, man. And I'm kind of like, don't be surprised if one of these guys appears out of nowhere. You know what me and Humberto are looking at? Humberto, what was the name of that Ford, the Mustang? Pat, I already have a Ford. Did you see the one? What's a really expensive one? Rob, there's a Ford Mustang. It's called a dark horse. Pat, what do you think about this one? Look at the images. Look at this thing. Damn. Look at that. How bad is that? Oh, it's like Batman, the dark horse. You know how much that is? About $120,000. Not that expensive. Guys, $120,000. I think that's actually a little bit less, too. By the way, how thick is that with my truck? Of all you guys? Oh, my God. I know Dilly's going to love that one. It's called a dark horse. Actually, I think I saw one of those stuck in the wheel well on the back of your truck. I think you hit one on I-95. I might have. Of all you guys, who's the biggest car guy here? There's a cat stuck in a grill. Car guy? Tom. Who's the biggest car guy here? Tom's not even close. Tom's a car guy? It's not even close. Because he's an F1 guy? No, no. None of us are as big of a car guy as Tom is. Tom is number one. Tom's 10 out of 10? It's not even close. What are you? I'm probably second. But like out of 10. I mean, you know, my reason would be I don't drive as much as I do anymore. So every time I think about buying a new car, I'm like, I'm not going to drive it anyway. So what the hell am I going to be doing? So part of it is kind of annoying. You're a car guy, Vinny? You're a truck guy now. Can we have a moment? Like, I want to have a Bible study moment, if you don't mind. Let's do it. Rob, can you pull up that clip? Because to me, this was known as the greatest moment of Bible study we had in America in 2026. I thought it was great. but the moment of pause so here's uh russell brand who are our boys love this guy from uh forgetting sarah marshall oh not the shirt you know take my arm watch that how many times yeah and then he thinks he but so yeah exactly so but this is pierce morgan asking a very innocent question saying, is that the Bible you took to court? I would have never guessed that. By the way, this probably got hundreds of millions of views. Literally, it got hundreds of millions of views. So, go ahead. Here's Pierce Morgan and Russell Brand. Go ahead, Rob. Can I go back to asking a question about your Bible? Yes, if you want to. Was that the one you took into court? The very one. What was your thinking of taking it into court? You were seeing, looking at some passages. What were the relevant passages for you? Alright, thank you for asking me. Thank you. That didn't hurt. I feel like it's like a movie scene. It was this from Isaiah. Isaiah. You're right, be at this, you know, be chilled. I just didn't know your pronounced. I said, yeah, that way. It was a chill man. It's free. Here isn't brilliant, just crying. And then he looks into the camera. It's this. I don't like that. It has to be an act. You can do it as a purpose. This is from Isaiah. Isaiah. Or Johan. I call him John. Johan. I had to walk away. A part of me is, is he trolling? He's trolling him. You don't troll God like that. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Look at Pierce. This is still going. It's a minute 20. It has to be a joke. Look at Pierce. I respect Pierce so much. Just let it simmer. It says here. The verse that I was looking at that day was not this. I can't actually find the verse that I had that day. But this is good enough. This is from Isaiah 12. Did he actually end up giving a quote? I think he did. What do you think? What was that? Listen, honestly, these are moments on TV. Everybody has moments. The longer you're on, if you're going to create content and you're going to be on TV. It's going to happen. It's going to happen to you. No one's free from it. You know, Russell responded as a funny thing. He's like, I'm still looking for it. He didn't want to. Have you go to his Instagram, Rob? Is that it, Rob? I'm a joke. I think he, this is actually funny. He goes. This is him? Yeah, on the bottom right. What? Passage, actually, from Isaiah. Oh, God. From Pierce Morgan. Wait for it. Wait for it. It was marked all along. This is it. It's where everyone was on. It was more than the other day. I was looking for it. I thought I should find the actual right passage, the exact one that I was looking at. Pause it. Okay. I think it was real. He was lost in the sauce. By the way, the Bible, unless you have something like pointing out, Pat, written, like court, something, it's so many books. It's so many different verses. I mean, you would think somebody would memorize it. But that aside, I mean, I still respect that he's, you know, before a podcast, he's praying. He's changed his life. He's, you know, he's trying to be a better person. I mean, what he said about the, you know, 16-year-old and 30-year-old with the, what was it, Rob, that he said, you know, it was consent or he was living a different life. I don't agree with that one at all. But he's trying. What was that? There was a, he was on. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Megan Kelly clip. The Megan Kelly clip with that, like, that kind of threw me out. Is that Rob? I do. Hang on. Yeah, can you – and why are you looking at that? Because you know where I stand. Anybody that's trying to be better, anybody that's in the book, anybody that's trying, I commend them and I pray for them because he is – I don't think he's a fake. He's not being a fake Christian. He's actually – I could see the Holy Spirit in him, but like – Go ahead, Rob. Still messed up. You're up in the United Kingdom where I'm from. The age of consent is 16, and I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30. but when I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old. Consensual sex, actually, with a variety of people, when there is a strong power differential, as there is when you're a famous man that has the ability to attract women that I had at that time, I think involves exploitation. I think it is exploitative. And again, A, coming clean, saying it, being honest about it, I'm all for that. Number two, the thing itself, it's not illegal there. But just as a man, I don't think at 30 years old I was ever thinking about anything with a 16-year-old. That's just me personally. Tom. So every now and then God shows up. And I think that sometimes celebrities have to be very careful when they put the Christian faith, or any faith for that matter, out. And somebody who's knowledgeable asks you a question. I think Russell Brown right there in that clip with Megan was trying to not, you know, I think he was trying to explain the situation. He was saying, hey, I don't think what I did was right. I don't think it was there. Al Gore was asked, Pat, while he was trying to show that he's so in with the Christians. He was asked, and we can find it somewhere, what his favorite, one of his most notable or favorite verses is. And he said, show it to me, Rob, John 16, 3. He scrambled John 3, 16. He meant to say John 3.16 because he sees that on T-shirts. He said John 16.3. And John 16.3 is, they will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. Al Gore did it. Wow. And it was like everybody blew up for a week because it was like, you stupid punk. It's like, you can't. But look, Tom, listen. Is that great? By the way, it's not just Al Gore. Anybody that tries to ask the president, try to look. Did you see when they asked the president what he said about scripture? Have you ever seen that? Oh, no. And by the way, this is 90 percent of people, maybe even more when you ask him, what's your favorite scripture? You know, some will say, you know, my favorite scripture is never, ever give up. That's Churchill. Well, it's somewhere in the Bible. It's great. Never, never, never. Yeah. But, Adam, your thoughts, because I know you're very close to this. Of course. Well, listen, I don't know anybody other than Russell Brand that's basically caused a frenzy on Pierce Morgan that maybe he didn't over deliver. I don't know anybody that would fall into that category. So shout out to you. And congratulations, Russell Brand, for going back in your Bible and founding Isaiah. Wait, wait, wait. I just thought of another guy. Tom, stop it. But listen, shout out to him for showing up. Shout out to him for basically owning what he's done. And I guess technically, legally speaking, what he did when he was 30 with a 16-year-old is legal. But from a moral perspective, that's completely disgusting. 16 years old, you're 30? Unbelievable. Although there's, I think, 35 states in America where 16 is legal. It's a weird loophole. But I will give him credit. I will give him credit. Tom, why do you keep talking when I'm talking? What is your deal, buddy? um one thing was it how i'm talking go ahead answer for me i said it's habit and tradition i like that habit and tradition okay anyway speaking of creepy people thank you tom what we're solving for i guess what russell brin is doing is for progress not perfection that you always talk about right but um listen russell i get it you're creepy i'm surrounded by creepy people sometimes just do better right tom yeah that was awkward but okay all right so Let's go to the last one here. All right, Trevor Bauer throws a no-hitter. What a joke. For who? The Long Island Ducks. Nice. In just second U.S. start since 2021. This is him. Go ahead, Rob. Long Island Ducks. Bauer's 2-2. Fastball taken on the outside corner. Struck three called. It's a no-hitter for Trevor Bauer. The third no-hitter in Long Island Ducks history and the 10-year Major League veteran gets it done here in Lancaster as Long Island wins his 13-0 over the numbers. 13-0. Man, I'm going to make a crazy bold prediction is what I'd like to see happen. I'm talking as a fan, not as a minority owner of the Yankees, so don't take these two and confuse the two. I'd like to see him before the end of the year be a Yankee. And I wouldn't be surprised if it happens. I would love that. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens. Because I think we learned from this other team who used to be in the city called Brooklyn, who they couldn't handle it in Brooklyn. There was too much pressure. They were called the Trolley Dodger. And they moved to the city called LA. Yes. The worst fans. You know which one I'm talking about. They have the worst fans in the world. Los Angeles, they dodge a lot of things. They dodge a lot of things. First it was Trolley, and now it's just. So they dodge Brooklyn, and then they go, and they move to L.A. And their fans, which, by the way, this year for some of you guys that would like to go to the Yankees-Dodgers game with us, go to beddavid.com and fill out your information. I think we have three suites at one of the games that we go to, and we're going to spend a lot of time together, dinner, conversation, strategy session. But go to beddavid.com, fill out the information. Somebody will get a hold of you. Is there even a phone number there, Rob? I think we have a phone number for people to call to get, go all the way to the bottom, go all the way to the bottom, go all the way to the bottom. Is there a phone number? There should be a phone number. Anyways, maybe go to vaultconference.com. There may be a phone number because we do have a phone number for them to call. But I think that, you know, we learned from the Dodgers how important pitching is. We learned last year. Yeah, if you want to learn more about joining us at the Yankees, call 561-821-8130, 561-821-8130. roll um so pitching is it and the yankees you know this season ends up being a full season because we know the collective bargaining agreement we know that could be a strike the base is nasty right now of what could happen but if it's a full season and bauer comes in his opening day he's pitching if we got nothing going on we're flying out to go see him pitching opening day okay when he won the cy young what did he call it the mickey mouse award Mickey Mouse Cy Young. He came out and he sat on kind of a lawn chair just sitting out there just at Cincinnati, I believe it was, and he said, that's Mickey Mouse Cy Young. Yeah. And, boy, that and other things caused baseball to get upset with him. But this guy is one of the best, you know, I'll tell you, he should not only be in baseball as a pitcher, Pat. He will be probably one of the best pitching strategists and pitching technicians in history if they let him become a pitching coach because his knowledge of just mechanics, grip, and change. Rotation, the velocity. He's a genius. He is a genius. And look what he's been, but look at what the girl that tried to literally destroy his life, come to find out that it was all nonsense. Pasadena DA or L-A-D-A, whatever. All BS. Similar to the Duke DA. All BS. And you want to talk about never giving up and fighting and going to the leagues, wherever. Where was he? Was he in Mexico playing at some point? He won a World Series. He won a World Series. And look at this cat coming back. Good for him. I want to see him pitch. Good for him. By the way, I could care less about the pitching. I know that that's your focus. The real story to me is this guy lost how many? Hundreds of millions of dollars? Probably $200,000,000. Okay. Accused. Yeah. Was never found guilty. The whole believe all women thing. No, exonerating. Stop it. Exonerating. Thank you, Tom. I wouldn't have been able to communicate a sentence without your brain. The point is this. He's been – his reputation has been through the mud. He's completely been thrown out of baseball, but he still keeps going. And by the way, was there any accountability for the women that wrongfully accused him? Or the girl that – I think it was one girl. To me, there's a bigger story here than baseball. It's that there's going to be things that come into your life that are going to basically ruin your entire existence. And do you fall down 10 times or get up 11 or stay down? So I give him a major shout-out for coming back and pitching a no-hitter. We're going to follow the story very closely. And the day he plays, if it's the Yankees, we're going to go to the game. The day he plays, if it's the Yankees, it'll be a great story. I don't care if I'm getting my height surgery that I'm trying to get. I don't want to say that public. What the hell are you laughing at, Rob? I was going to announce it publicly. Even if they're like, hey, it's on that day, I'm going. Yeah. Okay. Congratulations. I've got to jump on a quick flight, and I'll be back this afternoon. But tomorrow, Rob, do we have anything tomorrow or no? We do. We do. Do I know it or no? We recorded it during a backgammon. Oh, shoot. That's right. Armand. UFC. Armand Saruqian. That goes out tomorrow. That's going to be sick. The guy's funny. I like him. The guy's funny. And it's the fight everybody wants to see. Armand Saruqian. Funny how? Funny how? And again, Tuporia. Against Tuporia. Anyways, gang, do your thing. We will see you tomorrow. and then again on Wednesday Business Wednesdays. Take care, everybody. God bless. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.