Tom

30 seconds.

Patrick Bet-David

Did you ever think you were made again? Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever saw.

Clip/Interviewer

It's right here.

Patrick Bet-David

You are a one of one. I don't think I've ever said this before. Great to be with you. Last night we hosted the first Florida gubernatorial debate. We had a great time. We got a lot of comments afterwards of people wanting to do others. And it's exciting because it was many heated moments, some controversial moments. Maybe we'll address some of them. Aside from that, Newsom had a rough last 24 hours with FBI infiltrating Gavin Newsom's inner circle by convincing governor's ally to wear a wire lawyer. This is a New York Post story that just dropped and they've been quiet about it. They've not been commenting about it, so we'll address that. Obviously one of the bigger stories, folks, I hope you're being responsible today while you're watching your podcast. You know, for some of you guys In California at 6 something in the morning, you're watching this 4th of July weekend, 250 year anniversary tomorrow. You better not have your AC above 70, below 78.

Adam

Wow.

Patrick Bet-David

Telling you, you better do the responsible thing, folks. Do what Mamdani said. Turn your heater to 78. Can you imagine everybody. You sleep with us. I don't know what temperature you sleep with, Adam, are you like a 72 buddy sometime? What are you. What temperature do you go to sleep?

Tom

Well, we're very patriotic. Kim likes it cold at night. She puts it at 17. 17. And I am in the kitchen trying to keep it warm. I have 76.

Adam

So we feel very.

Patrick Bet-David

That was supposed to be funny, but what's yours? I didn't get it. I live in a. I need a simple answer. What's your number?

Vinny

74.

Patrick Bet-David

Okay, 74. These are reasonable people, but Mamdani wants it to be at 78. He wants you to lose weight. He wants you to be sweating bullets. And while Dee Rabbi at CNN was trying to defend Mamdani when asked about lowering the temperature, it's like, hey, why don't we lower the studio at CNN to 78? No, that's. Are you kidding me? Are you there? So can you imagine how great it is when. When hypocrisy comes out? So we'll address that. Then we have next one which is public trust and polls. Tom was talking about this pre podcast is what's going on with that with Jill Biden's book is all of a sudden on off off lists. This was the first lady. You came out with your book. How many copies did you sell? Did people buy them? Did people buy them in bulk just to help out with. Nobody knows. And then even Spotify deletes a couple of the charts. We'll get into that. This is why the cow she model is working so well. Even yesterday while we're doing the debate everyone's like well let me tell you by Rondonald's this and that. All the that's great you're saying this. Why are people putting nearly $9 million of money on Kelshi and Byron Donald said 95% of it. I think after yesterday's debate the plus minus was what fishback went from 2.8 to 4%. Collins and Paul Renner came up a little bit. It was a very interesting thing that happened. But people are paying attention to Kalshee. People are paying attention to what's going on there. They're saying if a person is willing to risk their money like that, there's got to be something behind it. And then aside from that, these two beautiful Russian couple did something I would never do. I love my wife. I would never climb up, what was it, the Empire State Building all the way to the top and then propose. I'm proposing on ground that's what we're doing right here at a restaurant or whatever. These two Russian good looking attractive couple go all the way to the top, put a message which by the way one of the funniest things I saw is some people posted saying that's actually not that what they put up. They put up something else. I'll share it with Connor. And yeah, they put up this whatever. Yeah, there's a lot of funny banners that we people putting up. And then he proposes to her. They come downstairs. You know, eventually they get arrested. They get multiple felonies, but they're released. But no, they were everywhere. Every channel, everything you watch it were climb. Who is this good looking attractive Russian couple? All the money in the world. You couldn't find me doing that. Literally all the money in the world. Intention. We're gonna give you all the money in the world. Would you do it?

Vinny

$100 million cash right in front of you.

Patrick Bet-David

100 billion. I don't do it. I'm telling you right now, I have zero desire to do something like this. They're hanging off no rope, no nothing.

Vinny

Does that bother you?

Patrick Bet-David

Just looking at. Tell me what's exciting about that. Tell me what's excit. That's why I sold insurance I went into business on ground. I don't sell insurance on the, you know, the top of a tower there. Hey, John and Mary, let me tell you about insurance. We're not doing that. Anyways, there's another story of a mother who loses her child. And one of the congressmen, Jaya.

Adam

Paul.

Vinny

Congresswoman.

Patrick Bet-David

Congresswoman is like, listen, this is our fourth one today. Can we please, like, she's like, I'm sorry, you're so busy with all of these. You don't want to dress. You have to see this. It's disturbing conversation they're having. We're going to talk about 50 greatest movies because allegedly Adam wants to share his 50 greatest movies. I don't know if Adam's even seen 50 movies. Adam.

Adam

Not in the last 10 years.

Patrick Bet-David

Adam watches Wedding Singer on repeat. That's Adam's attack.

Adam

Wedding Crashers. Wedding Singer movies. All right, Big fat Greek wedding.

Patrick Bet-David

30 years ago, if you were tracking this, 30 years ago, a man sued Pepsi because they said, we're going to give a jet. Was it a fighter jet or what kind of a jet?

Tom

Yes, it was a fighter jet. They said fighter jet.

Patrick Bet-David

They're going to give a fighter jet. And you had to do this thing that was mathematically impossible to do. And so, like, no one's ever going to do it. It's kind of like when Buffett says, anybody gets the perfect bracket for college, you know, what is it? March Madness?

Adam

Yeah, March Madness.

Patrick Bet-David

We're going to give you a billion dollars. Right? And no one's going to hit that. Well, guess what this one guy did. Thirty years later, he's still collecting his jet. It's like, where the hell is my jet? Finally, they gave him something, but it's not the jet. But we'll talk about that. It's a funny story. The Rock is being bothered by Hollywood elitist. Tell us your position. Criticize Trump. Say how much you hate Republicans. Like, dude, I'm just trying to make movies and be a celebrity and get my business model. I'm not trying to go into politics. I'm not interested in any of this stuff. Leave me alone. No, you got to say something bad about the president. Guy's not willing to do it. We'll talk about that. The game with Portugal against Croatia. What the hell? You know what it came down to? You know, I looked at it. You know what it came down to? Hair. Do you know it came down to hair? Do you know this? The ball that they added for the first time in the history of World cup, they added that sensor inside the ball. The chip. The chip didn't feel the hair. If it feels the. If it doesn't, it's a goal.

Vinny

Oh, damn.

Patrick Bet-David

It was all based off of the chip. And so they're saying, like, right there, it's all based off the chip. And that's why Portugal and, you know, was. Were at the lounge last night. And the whole thing is, did it touch or did it not touch? So we'll talk about this. We'll address this. And Portugal is going to be playing who? Spain.

Vinny

Spain.

Patrick Bet-David

Which Tom is saying Spain's going to demolish Portugal indirectly, I think. Tom, you said that.

Adam

I.

Tom

Based on what we saw yesterday on

Adam

Spain, I don't know if Portugal wants that team.

Vinny

And USA is going to play Belgium down, our best player. But guess what?

Patrick Bet-David

I think US Is going to win.

Vinny

US is going to win.

Patrick Bet-David

And then Argentina is playing Capa Verde, and Umberto is.

Adam

Watch out for my Capa Verdes out there. They're going to get them.

Patrick Bet-David

As much as you're being sarcastic. Oh, no, they could.

Vinny

I.

Patrick Bet-David

No, no, I don't. We'll see.

Tom

They're the same size as Miami. They're the exact same.

Patrick Bet-David

And then we got a couple other stories. One of the stories is kidmaxing, this New York Times story about the ultimate status symbol that some wealthy men are doing with KidMaxing 11. Next story is PlayStation. Sony people are furious. What do you mean? I'm not getting the box? If I'm buying the video game, I want the damn box. No, we're not doing the box. You're just gonna get the download. No, I want the box, you know, and why? Because of ownership. There's pride. I want to get this. And so Sony had to adjust with some of the stuff that they're doing because apparently Wonder Stories, Tom, was about movies that people had. And because their licensing agreement was gone. You paid the 20 bucks for the movie, it's gone. Even though you pay 20, Sony keeps it. So people are like, wait a minute. Why are you not renewing your licensing agreement? So it's interesting. And then the NBA Stephen A. Smith says, what team wins being all white? And Vinnie doesn't like it.

Adam

Oh, man.

Patrick Bet-David

Vinnie doesn't like it because Stephen A. When. When after white folks, you know, say the proper way, right? It's not cool.

Adam

Watch out for the not cool, because

Patrick Bet-David

LeBron's no longer in the Lakers. You know, he got kicked out or whatever. He left one of those two. And I will tell you guys about a story of a billionaire who built a team winning championship with 71% white team. And I'll show the story. It's his most hated story. He doesn't like this story. But we're going to talk about the story and then I got to show you an emotional video, man, because you know who's becoming the MVP of. You know who's becoming the MVP of the entire World Cup? It's a guy named Zlatan. I think Zlatan is absolutely crushing it with what he's doing with the way he's handling himself, everything that's going on. By the way, is audio in or out? Because I'm seeing comments section with audio being in or out. Can you guys tell me in the back if audio is good or not? Humberto Andres, can you guys give me a thumbs up if audio is in or out? Ok. Ok. Was there an issue and if there was an issue, how long was the issue? 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First story I want to go to is FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom's inner circle by convincing governor's ally to wear a wire. This is a New York Post story. The FBI had a mole inside Gavin Newsom's political orbit before the agency's corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, the Post has learned. Democrat Insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May. According to Williamson's attorney, the revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024. Damn, just like Joe Pistone, Donnie Barrasco. Type of stuff explains why a swad of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls have been intercepted during the investigation, despite many have little or no connection to Williamson. Alexis wore a wire and Dana did not, said McGregor, Scott Williamson's lawyer and a former U.S. attorney for Eastern District of California, which is now investigating the Newsoms. The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife, whose nonprofit had Been burning through money in recent years, as well as members of the governor's inner circle are under federal investigation. Within hours of that announcement, Newsom blasted out an email to raise money for political action committee. Tom, what's going on over here?

Tom

Well, I'll tell you what's going on over here. Williamson. We know what happened there. Dana Williamson pleads guilty. Has the situation come up? However, now we find out that there was a wire on this. So wearing a wire. And they are now investigating the Newsom specifically. The only reason they're investigating the Newsoms is because something came up on the wire. And so they got Williamson. And Williamson, the wire must have been very compelling because he pled before plea. I looked it up. You know what pleading before plea is? Is where your lawyer basically tells the government, says, look, we're gonna plead guilty on this. We wanna figure out what are we gonna do here. On sentencing, you go straight to sentencing. You assume that the government's gonna get you on one felony or two felony. And so you're suddenly now worried about sentencing, not how many or what charges. Like if one felony or three felonies. Adam, you know how this works. You hear people talk about it. He will serve those concurrently.

Vinny

Yes.

Tom

So even though you've done three things, three things should be five years each. But you're only gonna serve the five years once. And the six weeks, eight weeks, two months that they had you in temporary jail, waiting trial, they credit that as time served. So this is what's happened with Dana Williamson. And so now check this out. It's the Eastern District of California. The closer you get to the Eastern District, the more moderated you get in California because you're going east. And so they're investigating Newsom. He said nothing about it. He hasn't come out. You see Gavin Newsom come out talking about these guys. I don't know what they're talking about. You know, this president, he's absolute joke. He's despicable. He's horrible.

Adam

You know, when are you doing Trump Newsom combo?

Vinny

No, he does.

Adam

No, it's.

Tom

But it's Gavin Newsom.

Adam

Okay. Okay.

Tom

You don't see Gavin Newsom sitting out there. I don't think we know what's going on here. I think we do know. We got this. Newsom is not saying that. Newsom is not out there saying things, screwing around with the doj. I think there's something big coming. Because now they've said, we've got Williamson dead to rights, going to sentence. Now, we're also investigating The Newsoms. And there's two things there. One, what, if anything, did they have to do with the Williamson crimes? And now they're investigating specifically the leak. The DOJ leak statement is their nonprofit. And remember, we know about the nonprofit, we know about the diaper math, and we know about a few things. So, Pat, it appears that there's some very real things going on. Will it amount to anything? Will Aunt Nancy Pelosi step in? Tune in tomorrow.

Vinny

And by the way, Tom, great fricking take. And just throwing this out there. The FBI doesn't put a wire on someone because. Because of a rumor a judge has to sign off on it. So that means they have freaking. All the evidence that they needed for a judge to sign off and go, go. And this isn't just a rogue cash.

Tom

Your Honor, we believe this guy is dirty. We want a wire on this person, and we want. By the way, there was more than just the wire.

Vinny

Yeah.

Tom

You know what they had?

Vinny

What?

Tom

They had cell phone warrants. And so they said they've been listening calls. It's in the statements.

Vinny

Oh, and. And by the Alexis Podesta that people

Tom

got a letter that said, by the way, your phone messages.

Patrick Bet-David

We have everything now.

Tom

Not for the last two months. Hope he didn't say anything.

Vinny

Yeah, yeah, imagine the stuff that they said.

Patrick Bet-David

But.

Tom

But by the way, Bubbles pimp left you a message just now.

Vinny

So Alexis Podesta is like, by the way, this is a close ally to Newsom. So this is like, this isn't just some random person. And Tom, once they have Dana Williamson, okay, she helped move $225,000 out of a dormant campaign account, and she was disguising it as consultant fees. No show jobs, anything. Tom. For them, the less think about Tom.

Tom

And that's the only time she ever did that.

Vinny

Yeah, exactly.

Tom

One time.

Vinny

Yeah. So once you get caught with something that massive. Pat, think about, like, you want to talk about people ratting. If you ever watch the First 48, Tom, my favorite show, those people go into the interrogation room, as soon as they know that they're done, they give them a Coca Cola, they start ratting on everybody. You don't think Daniel Williamson is like, hey, listen, I will tell you everything, just as long as I don't have to spend the rest of my life in jail. And mind you, all this time, all this points to what happens in California. They keep pushing. Remember they did. They stopped the Nick Shirley act. Keep anything to stop anybody from investigating all the fraud because it's. It's rampant. And I pray. I pray, Tom, that they go down. They all go down and they all do the perp walk. That everybody in the Trump administration.

Tom

So she had control of the accounts and she was moving the money. How did they eventually get Al Capone?

Vinny

Tax. Tax fraud, tax evasion.

Tom

But which. What guy did they get? His accountant.

Vinny

His accountant. They grabbed that guy.

Patrick Bet-David

So you're saying something could actually happen here? I, I.

Tom

Look, this is the Department of Justice saying they're investigating. Newsoms, are investigating their. Their charity. And we already know the diaper math, the headlines stunk, so it's like, who was getting the money for the diaper? Remember that math? It's like, this is impossible. Somebody was getting money for diapers because it was impossible to be paying that kind of money for diapers.

Adam

Remember all that?

Tom

Of course.

Patrick Bet-David

Adam, your thoughts?

Adam

Pat, I gotta tell you, man, starting to think Gavin Newsom might not be this good at this leadership thing. I don't know. I think he looks the part. I think he could pretend to be the part. I just don't know if he's actually doing the thing. You know, this is completely his leadership under question. We all know what's going on in his state. We see California literally burning down, God forbid. But also behind the scenes in his administration, it seems like there's some shady stuff going on. Remains to be seen. It's like, at the end of the day, this is a failure of leadership. If you're the CEO of a state or of a company, let's say you might not be under investigation, but, you know, they say when they smoke their fire, it's like, if your coo, your cmo, and your chief of staff, they're all under investigation and they're being questioned, it's like, what kind of culture are you building there in your administration in California? For me, it's pretty simple. Do what you got to do in California. Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, do all that. But don't Commie Fornia my America.

Tom

I agree.

Patrick Bet-David

Is that. Is that the mic drop statement that you're making? Is that what's going on there, Pat?

Adam

You know what?

Tom

I like that.

Patrick Bet-David

It was okay.

Adam

It was.

Patrick Bet-David

Well, listen, I mean, if this is who. Who do you think? The part I'm trying to find out here is who's setting them up? Who's setting him up? Because, Tom, you said something you said, is the DSA his enemy right now?

Vinny

Is it.

Patrick Bet-David

Is it the Democratic Socialist section that's sitting out there and saying, hey, let's get this guy out. Let's get aoc. You guys saw the other day JD Vance gave a shout out to AOC as a possible candidate of the Democratic party to the point that they even ask AOC the question and they said what do you think about what J.D. vance said about you?

Adam

Yeah, I saw that.

Patrick Bet-David

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Adam

I mean,

Clip/Interviewer

you know,

Adam

I hope he is.

Vinny

That's what I'll say.

Patrick Bet-David

What do you say? I hope he is. What was the question?

Vinny

Do you hope JD thinks.

Adam

He thinks that you could be the nominee.

Patrick Bet-David

Why would JD say that? Because JD actually thinks it could happen. And if they're working together, who is. Who is more united under who is more true believer in their cause? Socialists or Democrats?

Tom

Dsa. Social socialist.

Patrick Bet-David

DSA Socialists are more true to their cause, right? Of what they believe in. Ok, so if that's the case and they really believe in their cause, do you think they have enough true believers that would find a way to destroy their candidates with Newsom being one of them?

Tom

Absolutely. I have not. I've been unwavering in my position that I don't believe that the core DNC wants Gavin Newsom. The core dnc. And I believe what I said because I was reading the tea leaves. I think it was a right read that. Nine months ago they were thinking about JB Pritzker. He's Illinois, he's from the Midwest he's got a lot of money. I don't think that's the guy anymore. But I think the DNC pat is still not on Newsom. They know there's too much baggage and they don't need California. They're gonna win California anyway, and he has a lot of baggage that comes with it. So do I think the dsa, which is more split from the DNC than MAGA ever was from the rnc, Do I think that they're pulling strings and doing things? Could they be whispering? Maybe go talk to this person, too. They do it to each other all the time in the primaries. They kill each other in the primaries. But then they're better at waving a flag and getting everybody together for the election.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah. So I don't know. I think if there's something going on there, I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to get rid of their number one candidate, number one opponent. And that being Newsom and having the socialist stuff coming up. Why? The reason why I say this is because the Socialist party is part of the 78° party.

Adam

Okay.

Patrick Bet-David

And a 78° party is very important. Then you have to realize you have to make sure you don't turn the AC below 78 degrees because it's not proper to do so. And a person that said this was the face of socialism today. Mamdani. Mayor Mamdani from New York, if you guys want to pull up that story on page eight, I don't know if you guys got a video of one of his tweets. He comes out, Momdani gets roasted after telling sweltering New yorkers to set AC to 78°. And everybody calls him a commie. You're a commie. You're a commie. You're a commie for doing this. If you guys got the tweet, if you want to pull it up. So there it is, New York. It's hot out there, and a power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off the lights, electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can. Our city is doing its part two, maintaining the 78 degree rule in our building. Dimming, turning off our lights during peak electric electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non essential equipment. A stable grid means the AC stays on and lives are saved. Let's ease demand and get through the heat together. That's an Almost a chat GBT type of a tweet right there with those two lines that you see on the bottom, so gets 58 million views. Not for a good thing. Even CNN. There's a clip, Vinny, if I'm not mistaken, Right. CNN reacts to this. If you guys got that with one, I think it says a troop that was sent. Before you guys find it. I'll come to you first, Vinny. So what do you think about this to it? Why do you think the audience reacted the way that they did?

Vinny

I, I, Pat, nobody wants anybody telling them how to live their lives. People are out there busting their butts. They're paying their bills, they're doing everything. Who, who's going to listen to this? I don't care. Republican, Democrat, communist, you know, independent, republic, whatever the hell nobody wants them to tell them. By the way, I'm from New York. Do you guys have any idea what 78 degrees is in your apartment? Have you ever felt that before, like, over here? Tom, I'm lucky because remember how you taught me about where the sun comes up and where the sun sets? My apartment is good because I'm covered by trees and I'm not affected by the sun. That's why I'm pretty sure at the beginning when I said my apartment's 74 degrees, people are like, wait, what are you talking about? It's so cool in my apartment. But people don't want any, by the way. And again, these are the people that are free and love and life. And now they're already starting to do that. You know, do this, do that. We're asking you this. And imagine once they're in power, Tommy, where it's like, they're not going to request. They're going to say, hey, listen, we're going to put something on your thermostat that's not going to let you go above this type of temperature. That's where it's heading.

Patrick Bet-David

Well, by the way, if, if you look at a lot of other countries, which we'll get to here in a minute, I want Dear Abby. If you can play this clip here from cnn, go for it.

Clip/Interviewer

Ben, I don't understand this.

Tom

Do you support it?

Clip/Interviewer

Ask Nikki Haley.

Patrick Bet-David

No, my master.

Tom

Do you think when you saw that, you're like, hell, yeah, let me walk over there and knock that number up

Clip/Interviewer

to say, let me ask you the question. Is the Republic of South Carolina?

Tom

I'm not going to say

Adam

it's 78 there a lot. It's 78 there a lot.

Patrick Bet-David

What am I supposed.

Clip/Interviewer

And Ben, don't you live in Texas?

Patrick Bet-David

I live in Texas. There's no Way in hell we're putting it on 78 degrees.

Vinny

That's why your grid falls apart.

Patrick Bet-David

It's not 78 degrees in here right now either.

Adam

Like, like no one's going to buy that.

Patrick Bet-David

Like it's absurd.

Clip/Interviewer

But Ben, I'm just saying this is a weird hill to die on. When Nikki Haley says. Hold on.

Patrick Bet-David

When Nikki Haley says, we ask that

Clip/Interviewer

you set your thermostat to 68 or lower by doing in the win 78. In the winter. This is for the winter energy conservation.

Tom

So in the winter.

Vinny

Who's talking about Nikki?

Adam

They got to pull up something from

Patrick Bet-David

11 years to 68, 12 years.

Clip/Interviewer

And also this doesn't come from the politicians. This is also coming from, as I pointed out, the Department of Energy. It's coming from the power company Con Edison.

Vinny

You guys understand that she's sticking up for mom Donna running the power.

Tom

She's campaigning. She's campaigning.

Vinny

CNN is sticking up for a freaking communist mindset. And because they're in New York and he's the mayor. He's the mayor and she's there. They're in the city. That's unbelievable.

Patrick Bet-David

So let me read you a couple other pronouncing campaigns. In Japan since 2005, the government's cool biz campaign has encouraged officers to keep their conditioning at 28 Celsius, which is 82.4 in summer. Many government officials follow these guidelines, although it's generally recommendation rather than a criminally enforceable law. In Spain in 2022, Spain required many public buildings and offices, shopping centers, hotels, train stations and airports to not cool below 27, which is 80.6 again for same thing energy. Italy did the same thing, 80.6. Greece, it's just forget about Greece. France has encouraged limits on cooling on public buildings as part of a national energy conservation plans at 78.8. Germany during the 2008 energy crisis did the same thing. And then you have a few others. But are we, are we trying to be the leaders? Are we. Can you imagine like if all of a sudden because of the, you know, they're doing surveillance with flock and that was one of the main topics, topics we talked about yesterday. What if there is controls? What if there's controls and state level, some blue states decide to say hey, whether you like it or not, it's going to be 78. And the way they're making the surveillance and the technology, what if they get

Vinny

to that point it just starts lowering,

Patrick Bet-David

lowering or raising because they control. That would be. But, but you know what I would like to see. I would actually like to see a couple blue states do that. I would like to see a couple blue states flirt with that.

Vinny

Really?

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, I would. I want to see how people react. I would love to see New York City flirt with that. Hey, we're all about the people, and we have to be careful with climate change. The, the state has control over it now. And I, I, we appreciate your support for this. We're going to 78 whether you like it or not.

Vinny

I would, I would be very interested

Patrick Bet-David

to see how these, what causes people to leave more? The wealth tax or AC to 7.

Tom

Okay, thank you.

Adam

That's. By the way, by the way.

Tom

Well, let me share something with you. What kind of thermostat you have in your house? You have a nest?

Vinny

No. Yeah, yeah.

Tom

By the way, if you call fpl, you can get a nest. Oh, really? And they'll go stick it in your house. And as soon as you have a nest in your house, you know what they know what they know every time you move it. And they know your habit. And they also, if you read the fine print, if FPL provides that, by the way, this is not just Florida power and light. This is everybody. If you have a connected thermostat path in this country, if you read the fine print, your power company, if they declare a power emergency like a summer brownout, and you live in Louisiana, they can turn that thermostat up.

Vinny

Oh, really?

Tom

Damn straight.

Vinny

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that. I don't want anybody controlling my Adam.

Patrick Bet-David

Your thoughts, Pat?

Adam

I think Mom Donnie might have lost me. I was going to go with the high taxes and the seizing the means of production and the redistribution of wealth. And I was even considering getting my 18th Covid jab and wearing a mask. You know the famous line in take my eyes but not my shirt? This is where you're going to lose me, Mom. Donnie, 78 degrees. You're talking to a Miami boy who sweats the second he walks out the door. When I leave my house in Miami, I put the AC at 78 when I'm not in the house. That way, the AC is kind of like doing its thing while I'm gone. And when I get back, I'm putting that thing to 72. You can do a lot of different things to people, but when you literally start going into their houses and telling them what to do in the confines of their house, and not even if. Listen, if he said, listen, I'm recommending Everybody goes to 74.

Patrick Bet-David

Everyone be like, you know what?

Adam

This guy, Mom, Donnie's maybe got something. 78. This is.

Clip/Interviewer

Who.

Adam

Who functions like this? If I walked into anybody's house and it was 78, I say we're getting out of here. This is crazy. We live in the summertime in Miami, right here in South Florida. What do you think it is in this room right here? Next door?

Vinny

We're outside right here. It's hot out there.

Adam

Hot as hell. Do you think you're trying to hang out in that room out there in the garage? Unbelievable. This proves one thing. BBD. Our country started in 1776 with a don't tell me what to do with my life. A lot of these communist Marxists, they don't believe in 1776. You know what they believe in? 1848. That's their origination. Why 1848? Because what book came out in 1848? Their God, their lord, Karl Marx came out with the communist manifesto in 1848. This is where they're going to tell you what to do with your life. Seize the means of production. Redistribution of wealth. Don't commie fornia my America. Like I said before, you can take your 78 and stick it up your. You know what, Mom Donnie?

Patrick Bet-David

All right, so there you have it. That's. That's Mom Donnie for you. We'll see how this reacts. Obviously, the market reacted to it and told them what they think about it. So we'll see what happened next. Let me get to the next story that I want to get into. Since we're on New York. There's a couple that decides to climb. What do you call it? The Empire State Building. Just a little Russian couple, and they go all the way to the top, and a guy surprises him by proposing to her and kissing. And then they have the sign that they put up all the way at the top. And then while they're coming down, the cops come up and they get arrested. They get a felony. And eventually, while they're getting the felony, they were released. But this was it. If you want to show it. I don't. I don't know if you have the clip or not. Do you have the clip of them climbing up? I think this is it. This is him right there. I think he's about to. They're taking pictures. Can you make it bigger, by the way? No ropes around them. They're standing there, you know. Let's take a selfie, babe. Let's do video. Let me call my mom. Hey, Mom.

Vinny

Is there a few on top of it?

Patrick Bet-David

And look at these guys looking like Calvin Klein type of model coming out with his black shirt on. Him and his girl climbed the entire thing up. And they had this sign all the way up. She looks like the girl from the Girl with the Dragon tattoo.

Vinny

Yeah, yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

And so do you guys have the clip of what they actually had the banner. It's about love or whatever it was. I don't know if you guys have that or not. There was a banner at the top.

Vinny

Is actually a good message.

Patrick Bet-David

It's a good message. It's a good message. Of all the. All the way at the top state building banner. Anyway, so what did you think about this, Vinnie, when you saw this?

Vinny

Well, I mean, Pat just. Well, first of all, I don't even have a speeding ticket. So when I saw. Faced burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal trespassing, criminal mischief buddy, for this one. Possession of burglars, tools. I don't even know that that is a crime. Possession of burglars, cruels, criminal tampering and disorderly conduct. Like, you know, what does it say

Patrick Bet-David

when the power of love beats the power. Love of power.

Vinny

The world peace. Beautiful, beautiful thing. You could have emailed everybody. You could have done a mass email. But I think this guy. And by the way, there's a photo.

Patrick Bet-David

They fall, they're done.

Vinny

Absolutely, absolutely.

Patrick Bet-David

Look how calm they are.

Vinny

But this is New York, Pat. If she falls and splatters, her diamond ring would have been gone in three seconds.

Patrick Bet-David

She dressed as. Is she dressed as Catwoman? Is that kind of what they're going.

Vinny

No, they just. They just wanted to cover their faces like they thought they're going to get away with it. But you know what? You know what hit me about it? Kind of. Do you have the photo? But that gets me nauseous. Where she shows her ring. She's showing her ring, which is actually a bad, badass photo. If you have that. Show that. But this is the one thing that hit me is this guy just ruined. Where is it? Let me see. Is there a photo of her with the ring? No. Yeah, that's them. Afterwards, that's them. Come out. But he just ruined marriage proposals for every man. Every guy out there that thought, is this them? That's AI. That's AI.

Patrick Bet-David

That's not them.

Vinny

Yeah, but think about it. Every guy out there that thought it was cute to hide, like the wedding

Patrick Bet-David

ring and the dessert.

Vinny

And the waiter brings out dessert. Look at that. Ivan is on top of the freaking Empire State Building, bro.

Adam

Your dessert.

Vinny

You having the dog come out with like the ring tied in his collar. Is nothing compared to this.

Patrick Bet-David

Can you imagine? Like. So how are you going to propose to me, babe?

Vinny

I was going to.

Patrick Bet-David

On the ground, bro. First floor.

Vinny

Yeah. My knee.

Patrick Bet-David

Are you going to climb up Empire State?

Vinny

Yeah, hell, okay.

Patrick Bet-David

What?

Vinny

In the mall, parking lot, garage.

Patrick Bet-David

How about just something? Pursuit floor is what we're doing. By the way, my favorite was that what some people did, which I prefer more. These. So this other couple climbed all the way to the top. I don't know if you guys have what I just sent you.

Vinny

That's it. Look at the range. I mean, come on. That is a sick.

Patrick Bet-David

That actually is a great shot.

Vinny

That is.

Patrick Bet-David

But you know what, though? You could have done that with AI in five seconds and people would have believed it. No matter. But this, the real ones, a couple guys climbed all the way to the top two Laker fans, and they said, by LeBron, we like Kobe way more. Look at this. This is the right way to do it. That's so if they would have done this, I would have supported this. This is a good move on what people were doing. Tom, how did you do your proposal? How did you propose?

Tom

We went to a place that we'd been many times before I proposed, and Kim was very emotional. It was wonderful. Wonderful. We went down to have dessert. I had already talked to her parents that day, and I asked them to come by where we're having dessert, like at 9 o'. Clock. And we're in there having dessert. We're just talking. I'm waiting for her parents to show up. And Kim is so stunned. She looks up, she goes, what are they doing here? It's a true story.

Patrick Bet-David

That is so funny.

Vinny

They're walking in.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah. Yeah. Similar with my. We did one as well. I have the video when I propose, I'm like. So we're celebrating Veronica's birthday, and on the way there, me and Jen are fighting. And I keep saying, I don't want to go. I don't feel like going. I don't want to go. And she's like, babe, what's going on? I said, babe, I don't feel like going. So eventually we show up there and she's like, why did all these weird people show up to Veronica's birthday? I said, I have no idea. She knows everybody. She's my assistant. She's been with me for a while. And then Veronica gets a hey, thank you so much for everybody showing up to my birthday and all this other stuff. And da da, da, da. And Patrick, did you want to say a couple words? Yes. And Then that's when I proposed. God. So it was a. It was at a restaurant in Laguna or Manhattan. I don't know where we were at.

Vinny

Did she cry or did she cry? Did anybody cry?

Adam

No, no, no.

Patrick Bet-David

She definitely did cry. The video we have, and it's somewhere on Facebook on how the proposal was. But if Jennifer would have said, you know, babe, if I told Jen right now, babe, how much would you like us to climb up Jen? She would say, babe, zero interest for doing that. We'd be in the same place. Adam, what do you think about this crazy story here?

Adam

These two, this couple that climbed the Empire State Building, got engaged. Let me tell you something, Pat. They better make it.

Vinny

Oh, yeah, they look like this marriage

Adam

better work if you're going to do all this and then you announce three months later, yeah, guys, we're actually having relationship issues. We're breaking up. The whole world will melt down. You just climbed the Empire State Building because she said she wanted to do something special for his engagement. If anybody out there has ever been maybe kind of like in a situation where your significant other maybe, is pressuring you, honey, what are we doing? What's going on? And you feel the pressure, and you want to do it the right way. This guy just ruined it for everybody.

Tom

It's over.

Adam

You want. You got engaged at a restaurant, Pat, you said, yeah, the biz dog. Babe got confused. She's like, what are their parents doing here? Exactly. They better make it, or there's no hope for anybody out there. You know how they say every guy is looking for his ride or die?

Vinny

Yeah.

Adam

This chick was willing to die and jump off the Empire State Building and show her a little rock off. They better make it for all mankind and for all marriages. If I hope they make it with their mother, we're all doomed.

Patrick Bet-David

Their kid, like anybody, they go on dinner with. The double date.

Adam

Exactly.

Patrick Bet-David

Those couples are gonna hate them.

Vinny

Oh, absolutely.

Patrick Bet-David

Okay. So how did you guys meet?

Adam

Patrick.

Patrick Bet-David

Oh, my God. You know, Serge took me. What's his name gonna be? Give me a Russian. And Vladimir, and he was like, Niz Nayo, you know? And then it was like, we got married. How would you guys get married? Why'd you propose? Baby, let's get out of here. Check, please. Never go out with this couple ever again. We met a sociology class in college. Yeah, Let me get.

Adam

What happens if they wanted to do their wedding on top of the Empire State Building? We're all invited. We all get to show up.

Tom

That's a small guest.

Patrick Bet-David

I'll text you how much money? How much money you're going to do this for?

Adam

Zero. Okay.

Patrick Bet-David

Zero. Zero. All right, next. So this next story I want to get to is a little bit disturbing, guys. I don't know why. So Jay Paul, which is a congresswoman. Okay. Tells murder victim parents, Congress has other things to do. Can. Can you imagine? Parents are there. They. They lost their kid. And Jay Paul says, we have other things to do.

Vinny

Yeah, we've already had four. She's like, this is the fourth. Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

Representative Pramila J. Paul told the parents of children murdered by illegal immigrants that Congress has other things to do. Unfortunately, this hearing is the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities. The fourth time. There's many other things that we could be doing than this. Jay Paul said, I don't know if you guys have the clip on this or not. During a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity and Security hearing on Tuesday. During the hearing, Jessica Gorman, mother of Sheridan Gorman, an 18 year old Loyola University student who was fatally shot by an illegal immigrant, criticized Democratic member of Congress saying, I don't understand why it's only the Republican side that cares about our American children. The hearing was focused on sanctuary cities. If you want to play this clip, go for it. This is the exchange. Go ahead.

Clip/Interviewer

Unfortunately, it's the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities. There's many other things that we could

Tom

be doing other than this.

Clip/Interviewer

It's so upsetting with your butts and you don't want to talk about this. This is the fourth hearing. Do you know what I'm thankful for? This is so messed up. I'm going to say I'm thankful after hearing I didn't even know what an angel family was. Had no idea, never even heard about it. There's so many out here. You know what I'm thankful for? I'm thankful that my daughter was just shot in the back of the head. Not raped, murdered, dismembered. Put in a garbage can like Megan Boss with bleach poured on her and they didn't fire or fight her for 50 days. And you can actually dismiss the angel families. You can say, but you don't want to hear four sessions on angel families. I'm sorry. You need to. You need to. I'm actually thankful that my daughter wasn't raped.

Adam

How messed up is that?

Clip/Interviewer

That I'm thankful every day that she was just murdered, not raped and dismembered. Like, think about that. Like, how messed up is that? Do you know what I thought of

Vinny

this morning when I got up?

Clip/Interviewer

What? The joy of. Anyone have a baby here. The joy of picking out their first outfit that they're going to wear on their ride home from the hospital. I had to pick out my daughter's last outfit, and she was a fabulous dresser. We had 100 people come to our home. 100 friends and family came to her home.

Vinny

That's somebody crying in the background, actually, after.

Clip/Interviewer

And they all decorated her urn with rhinestones. All of them put it on there. She's fabulous. Even in death. But the first time, all the excitement

Vinny

of having a child and then having

Clip/Interviewer

people make excuses and buts. I'm sorry. No, but this is unacceptable. You know, there are so many angel families out here. And the day that I have to wake up and be thankful that my daughter was only shot and not raped.

Vinny

That's probably her mom crying.

Clip/Interviewer

She'll tell you something. It's crazy.

Patrick Bet-David

Wow.

Vinny

Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Party. Just in front of your face. Pissed off, Pat. Inconvenience that this is the fourth, not the twentieth, not the fiftieth, not the hundredth, the fourth time that they're having this type of meeting so that mothers of girls that were raped, murdered, dismembered, bleach poured on them, that it's an inconvenience that they're even speaking to them. Okay? And mind you, I don't even want to say her name. This representative, pr. Whatever the hell. Not born in this country. You're not born in the country. You're a naturalized American citizen that's sitting in freaking Congress. And your attitude is, who can we have better things to do than talk about the murder and rape of these little girls? Because Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, one of the most disgusting human beings in that freaking administration, let in almost 15 million people and they don't care that they were raped and they were freaking murdered. Yeah, give, give. They have better things to do. Give me a freaking break. You. By the way, she was. I don't. Why would you even. I shouldn't expect anything more from her. You weren't born in this country. Why would she give a damn? She doesn't give a damn, Pat, because that's the democratic thing. Bringing as many people in as we can. Give them sanctuary. This is in Chicago, if you guys remember, Tom, Jessica Sheridan Gorman was. The girls. 18 years old, Loyola University in Chicago. She was out walking on the lakefront and this dude who was already arrested before, shoplifting and all that, they kept releasing him, shot her in the back of the head and killed her. Okay, imagine, imagine. Tom, I don't want to put this in your guys head. Your daughter, God forbid something happens to your daughter. You go in front of Congress and you're trying to plead your case because you're like, hey listen, enough of this century nonsense. Because you guys don't care about our children. You care more about them. For her to say, this is number four, we have better things to do. Tom, we have to talk about Trump, not about your daughter. And for a mother, Pat. To sit there and say, I can't believe she said that. When I first heard it, Pat, I got emotional. She's like, I never thought I'd say this. I'm glad she was just shot in the back of the head. Can you rap? And guys, it's hard because you can't fathom it. Imagine a mother, the words coming out of your mother's mouth that she's happy that you were just shot in the back of the head and not raped and dismembered. Pat. Shame on her. But it doesn't surprise me from the Democratic party. And a person that's not even born in this freaking country lecturing a freaking angel mom about her daughter and them wasting her time.

Tom

Well, let me tell you about her. We know who she is.

Vinny

Exactly.

Tom

I know a little bit about her. And she is from Seattle. She also created the hate free zone after 911 because she felt that immigrants were being unfairly targeted. After 9 11. She created this, she renamed it and she rebranded it, but she didn't even grow up in this country. You know where she grew up. She grew up in Indonesia, I believe it is. And then she goes to Georgetown. Georgetown gets a bachelor of arts degree, worked in financial services, I believe none of. There's no law against any of that. And by the way, welcome to the United States. I hope you do well and pay taxes. But she turns around in Seattle and she's part of this King county narrative, this deep blue in the middle of Seattle, Defund the police, protect, you know, the immigrants from, from being besmirched after 9 11. I guess maybe, maybe there was a small reaction from the American citizen after 9 11. And then she's forming these committees. This is who she is. And if you saw that picture there, you know who was sitting next to her smirking in that picture. If you go back, guys, that you said the picture of her in the committee, you may have already lost it. You stop the video, it's Omar smiling and smirking next to her at the time of that, when that was finished. That tells you everything you need to know. She doesn't like. She doesn't want any of the things that this woman was talking about about her dear daughter. She doesn't want to talk about any of that because it's inconvenient to her, driving her narrative and what she's doing. And right next to her, you have. Omar was sitting there with.

Vinny

In the X video, you guys, she's

Tom

leaning down with a smirk.

Vinny

Pat, I'm really curious. You're a freaking father. You have daughters. God forbid something happens and you're there. How do you react to a sitting member of Congress looking at your face, going, we have better things to do than talk about. This is the fourth time. How do you take that?

Patrick Bet-David

How do you. Is different. It's the great thing about everything that we have is the audience gets to see and decide on how heartless some of these folks are and how much it's politics over actual things that are happening. You know, one can mourn for another person who politically is not on the same page as you and still mourn the loss of that individual and feel and sympathize with the parent. Especially if this is your job. Your job is to protect the next kid from that happening to them. And you say you're busy. You say you're busy. It's like that one. Tom, what was that story with Shell CEO when he got up and he said something like, you know, the last 24 hours have been the worst something of my life. And then they're like, your life. That person lost their life. Who were you? Who was Shelseo? Who was the person? Do you remember who it was? Was it Exxon or Shelcio? I don't know if you remember the story or not. This was three or four years ago when somebody said something about the big oil incident that happened. Don't know if you guys remember this. You. You have to understand the moment of it, of what that person's going through. It's a shame. It's a shame to me to see what happened here, but I think it's good for the audience to see exactly where people's values lies. You have to have empathy. When somebody goes through something like this, what is worse than losing your child? Nothing. Nothing. And they just went through. And that's how you want to answer. Well, guess what? Now we see where you stand. Now we see where you stand. Adam, your thoughts on this.

Adam

This is an incredibly sad story. This comes down to one thing. Do you remember during The State of the Union, when Trump stood up, and this was sort of like the biggest takeaway, when he stood up and he said, all right, guys, stand up. If you prioritize American citizens over illegal immigrants, and half the room stood up and half the room sat down. And you know what? I respect it. They completely revealed their hand. They just admitted that they literally will not stand up for American citizens and they will put illegal immigrants above American citizens. Because this is part of the whole open border strategy. And open borders have consequences, and they don't want to own up to their consequences. I'll tell you a quick story about these angel families. Speaking of the State of the Union, when Trump gave that speech, do you remember where I was? I was in D.C. interviewing all the congressmen and congresswomen on the invitation of Lisa McClain. There's a quick video that I could show right here. I think it's five seconds. And I got to witness Republican congressmen and congressman women honoring the angel family. Right. After interviewing all these guys, and they were basically saying, like, stand up and say a few words was Lisa McClain. Chairwoman Lisa McClain put it together. Byron Daniels gave a speech. The great Brandon Gill had a few things to say. And they were all basically saying, hey, guys, let's stand up for victims of illegal immigrants who have killed people. And by the way, Democrats, you're invited to be here. And guess how many Democrats showed up. Precisely zero.

Vinny

Yeah. Weird.

Adam

And that's the biggest problem, guys. I totally understand if you have empathy for immigrants. We're a country that, you know, we're open arms, but you have to do it legally. And when illegal people start murdering and killing. And you can't say that that's wrong. That's the biggest challenge that I have with the Democratic Party.

Vinny

But you're. And again. And I'm not judging them, but I don't understand what. What type of brainwash has to happen to an average American. And I get it. I get the message. I get what they're doing. To think that because of their policies, Adam, for four years, open border, bring them all in. Because we want the votes. Don't. Don't. That's why they're fighting. Save America, act, all that stuff. It's votes. Put that. All that. All that mumbo jumbo, they're looking for votes. So they can't admit it. They can't say, hey, listen, you know what? Because of this, because we want to keep our power, because we have to cheat to win. Yeah. You know, only 6,000 kids were raped or killed or murdered. And then you can't even admit that it's sad. You can't even give, like, some type of empathy to a mother. You have to say, hey, this is the fourth time we have better.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah. I want to show you this. So this is Tony Howard.

Tom

Okay?

Patrick Bet-David

Tony Howard, in this instance, BP CEO, he makes this comment. I don't know if you guys remember this after. Do you remember this, Tom?

Tom

The well.

Patrick Bet-David

Deepwater Horizon explosion happens. He loses employees after an employee was killed. Hess spoke emotionally about how the death affected him in the company. And then here's what he had to say in the interview. I send the video clip to you guys. If you want to pull it up. I literally just text it to you. You have it right there. If you guys look at your phones. Yes. Right here. Watch this. Okay.

Tom

Apologize.

Clip/Interviewer

We're sorry.

Tom

We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused to their lives.

Vinny

And, you know, weird, there's no one who wants this thing open over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back. I'd like.

Tom

My life may never be the same.

Patrick Bet-David

I'd like my life back. And people are like, you would like your life back. Your employee is dead. What do you mean? You want you. So every once in a while, you're gonna. You're gonna show, you know, with words. You have to be careful with words. And this was a bad look for her. So I'd like to go to the next story. I don't want to stay on this story. Let's go to the next one. So next story I want to get into is what happened there with public trust for polls. And so, Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one. This has to do with Jill Biden and Spotify. Both stories kind of have to go together. You'll see why as I read this to you. First. Jill Biden's memoir sell appear to be manipulated by bulk sales. This is a Zero Hedge story. So bulk sales. Why would it be manipulated by bulk sales? Joe Biden's memoir, View from the East Wing, debuted at number one on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, with a dagger the symbol on the paper uses when it believes sales include a mix of organic and bulk purchases. The book quickly fell to number three the following week before disappearing off the list. Circana Book Scan reported a similar decline, with a memoir dropping to number two and number five and number 16. It's hardcover non fiction. By the weekend, June 20th, it had sold 3221 print copies. Bringing u. S. Total sales to 29,000. You know how terrible that is? Jeez, you're a first lady. You sold 29,000 copies. Just to kind of put in perspective, do you know how many copies Michelle Obama's book sold? You know how many copies Michelle Obama's book sold?

Adam

A million.

Patrick Bet-David

No, no, no, no, no. Michelle Obama's book, if you can pull it up.

Tom

Is this becoming.

Patrick Bet-David

No, no, that's actually the name.

Vinny

Is it really?

Patrick Bet-David

How many copies did Michelle Obama's book sell? The number is an insane number. Michelle Obama's book. Look, lover or hater. First day, she sold 725,000 copies of any first day. Oh, wow. First 15 days, 2 million. First four months, 10 million.

Adam

Oh, wow.

Patrick Bet-David

By 2020, 15 million copies. She sold six. She sold 20 million copies off her book. That's Michelle Obama and there's no fixing and all that. This is actually. People wanted to buy her book. Of course, $65 million book deal is what she got with penguin, ranhouse, random house. When people say how she made her money, they actually wanted to read her book. She had a fan base. Joe Biden, 29,000 copies. You're a first lady, you sell 29,000 copies of a book. Statistician Nate silver highlighted that the usual pattern after the rankings were released, not everyone viewed the dagger as evidence of manipulation. Lauren cavillo, founder of leverage media PR Said, I don't think there's anything sinister about it. Arguing bulk purchases are common for book tours, book tour events and conferences. Which is true. She probably had bulk purchases. But because she's on the book tour, that would make sense. She also noted that the memoir remained on the USA bestseller list, that our article counters that many bestselling authors go on book tours without receiving the dagger designation, suggesting Joe biden's bulk. So to get a dagger, you know who gets the dagger on that list? Vinny and Tom, Correct me on this business. Authors. Self help authors. Because they'll order 10,000 copies themselves for an event and they'll give it away or they'll run an event. So you'll get that little dagger on.

Adam

What does the dagger signify?

Patrick Bet-David

The dagger means that there's bulk purchases that you make to get on this list. Yeah, but for you to get that as the first lady. Yeah, as the first lady.

Adam

Who's buying this in bulk?

Vinny

Maybe donors.

Patrick Bet-David

It is events though. But donors is the one that they're going through. So that that story is a little bit weird for first lady. And by the way, this clip when we post this Clip. This is not going to perform that well, this clip. You know why? Because most people are not interested. If only 29,000 people bought Jill Biden's book, who is the first lady? Yeah, the most important woman in the world is president's wife. You only do 29,000 at the time. That's embarrassing. And then this kind of goes to the story with Spotify now Tom, I'm going to read both of them and I'll hand it over to you to go through. Then Spotify deletes some stream charts because their concern is a similar thing. Hey, is there some manipulation going on right now with some of the music that we have? Spotify has removed more than a half a million streams of a song that shot to number one in the US chart after discovering that the surgeon streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction markets. Cal sheet the US streams of earnings earrings on the indie pop track by singer songwriter Malcolm Todd rose to almost 70% between Sunday and Monday on Spotify. That propelled the song first release in 2024 to number one on platforms daily US chart. Tom, what do these two stories have in common?

Tom

What they have in common is that we are being gaslit and we are being manipulated as consumers. They want us to believe, well this is number one and you have things happening. This is the number one song. Well, maybe I'll go listen to it. Maybe I'll go do this. Oh, this is the top book. Oh, maybe I'll get a copy of that. They're trying to create momentum for themselves to manipulate the marketing to the consumer. And by the way, that's the same thing that they've done in political polling which is why we went 16 weeks being very careful of the pollings we found and we found out that Atlas intel and Rasmussen were the most accurate. How do we know? We looked at the results of the election and then we went back 10 weeks and said, who's telling the truth? Who appears to be there? This is an erosion in public trust. The public can't trust what they see. Which is the top ranked book on this topic? Well, this one, how do I know? And I'm putting my $25 to buy a book on whatever it is, self help or whatever. And I want to see this. And then you see this manipulation. And by the way, you know, I don't know which donors were bulk buying for Joe Biden. They certainly weren't paying for the library which hasn't got above $4 million yet. And it's just, it's disgusting. Pat, I really think it's disgusting and it comes out it's about to happen. Because if you think that the Russian hoax and everything they wanted to do on Trump was, wait till you see what they want to do to conservatives. Wait till you see what the major news networks use. Atlas Intel, Patriot Polling, Emerson College, all showed really well for us. Remember those days, talked about it and then you had all these others. So this is an erosion of public trust. But you know what works good when, when Kalsh and Prediction come out there. It's very different when 1,000 people put $2 each down and said this is who I think's gonna win the election in my city. Based of what I'm seeing, that is far more accurate and it's proving to be accurate. Cuz we look at the before and after, we look at what happens before,

Adam

look at what happened. I think God just agreed with you. Tom, I don't know if you heard that thunder right there.

Tom

No, it's Steve.

Patrick Bet-David

I wanna read this.

Tom

The Democrat God of polling.

Patrick Bet-David

So let me tell you, let me tell you, Tom, I just pulled up which first lady has sold the most copies of their memoir. Let's just kind of find out how they've done.

Tom

Okay?

Patrick Bet-David

And here's the numbers that came up. Let me just kind of pull it up for you. Who do you think is number one? Should be very easy.

Adam

I think Obama.

Patrick Bet-David

We just talked about it. Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama sold more copies with her memoir than all the other first ladies combined. I believe that Hillary Clinton sold 3 million copies, give or take, of her memoir.

Tom

Maybe.

Patrick Bet-David

Laura Bush, 1 million. Barbara Bush, 1 million. Nancy Reagan, few hundred thousand. Rosalynn Carter. This is Jimmy Carter's wife. They say Jimmy Carter is the worst president of the last 56 years. He's on that list. His wife sold half a million copies, 400,000 copies. Betty Ford, next. Lady Bird Johnson next. Melania Trump on her first print. Live sales, not yet public, first week U.S. print, 85,000. Jill Biden, 30,000 copies sold. Can you think about that number? 30,000 copies sold. Jill Biden. Very interesting when you look at these numbers to see what they've done and where they're at for the little interest they have for Jill Biden.

Vinny

And you know why, Pat? Why do you think so? I think it's because, I mean think about it. They were sold this Joe Biden, he's gonna say, oh, cuz it was anti Trump, Anti Trump, anti Trump. Then after all the four years people realized like, oh my God, he's not even Mentally competent. He's a shell of himself. She's the one taking photos, Tom. Air Force One. Like, she's the boss and she's doing this. All the reports coming out that it wasn't Joe. She was kind of running the show with a couple of aides. Hunter was apparently in meetings that he shouldn't have been in. And you know what the market found out all these people that were lied to that, hey, you know what? Nobody really cares about her. She doesn't look like a pleasant person. She just comes out. She wheels him out to try to sell a book. And no matter what happens, you can't lie to people for that long because

Tom

at some point, she goes on the View and slips up and says she's not a doctor.

Vinny

Yeah, exactly. We all knew.

Adam

Remember that?

Tom

So it's like, yeah, yeah, Joe is mentally competent. I'm not even a doctor.

Clip/Interviewer

Whoops.

Vinny

Wait.

Adam

Whoa.

Vinny

Yeah, exactly. And what's. What's her. I could see Michelle's. Okay, Michelle, yay. We're in the White House. Probably complained about everything because that's all she does. But with Jill Biden, like, what. What's in her book? What would it be? I had to take Joe from here to hear. I. To remind him. You did a good job, Joe. You got every question right, Joe. Like, people realize. Well, those people. Because, mind you, she's not selling this to Republicans. What Republican woman is going to buy Jill Biden's book? It's all the leftists. And you found out that none of them support you because they all know that you guys are all full of crap.

Tom

And you don't have a library, either.

Vinny

Yeah, you don't have a library. You don't. Nobody cares, guys. Everybody knows what Joe Biden was. Joe Biden was put in there, put in there, propped up in there, because it was anything but Trump. Anything but Trump. And then we all got to see what he was.

Tom

Just dropped the mic right here. You don't have a library, so you don't need a book.

Vinny

Yeah. Bye.

Patrick Bet-David

All right, let me get to the next story. Adam, if you got anything you want to say about this.

Adam

Yeah, just. It proves one thing, that the Democratic establishment is cooked. You know, a Nancy Pelosi or a Joe Biden or a Chuck Schumer endorsement from a candidate will actually hurt you at this point. Unless you're a DSA member and you're endorsed by Mom, Donnie, and you're advocating for literal communism. The Democratic Party wants nothing to do with you. Just as one little evidence that nobody wants Jill Biden's book.

Patrick Bet-David

Nobody wants what Jill Biden's book.

Adam

Yeah, I mean, or anything to do with the establishment Democrats.

Patrick Bet-David

That parts. That part's pretty obvious on what happened over there. So let's get to the next story. Next story I want to get to is kid maxing. Ultimate state status symbol. Kids maxing. Kids maxing. I mean we've heard about looks maxing, all this stuff. Kids max. And this is a New York Times story. It's not like it's a. Yeah, it's a New York Times story. So let me get to it. What is this kids maxing stuff? And birth rates are falling across much of the developed world. But some ultra wealthy men are pursuing fatherhood on an unprecedented scale. Using surrogacy, sperm donation, IVF and other product reproductive technologies, they are creating dozens or even hundreds of children highlighting what is described as inequality made flesh at a time when many ordinary families feel they cannot afford even one child. Examples include Stefan Soloviev, who has 22 children. Pavel Dvor Durov, who is a telegram guy who says his sperm donations have produced more than 100 children. Greg Lindberg, who reported expanded his family to at least 12 children through what he called a baby project and claims that some wealthy Chinese businessmen have eight have sought to father hundreds of children through US surrogacy agencies. Elon Musk, who has 14 known children, reportedly who wants to use surrogate to reach a legion level and joke that Dirov's total represented rookie numbers. Laugh on my ass off Genghis Khan. Many of these men appear to view spreading their DNA as a public good. Musk has said smart or even rich people should have more children. The ROV called the sperm high quality donor material. Jeffrey Epstein reportedly admired a sperm bank associated with Nobel prize winners. The common thread is a belief that their bloodlines deserve to be multiplied. Modern reproductive technology allows these ambitions to expand far beyond historical limits. IVF and surrogacy make it possible to create many pregnancies simultaneously while selecting traits such as sex or screening embryos for disease. One egg donor said Lindbergh wanted 12 blonde haired blue eyed boys. While Epstein's email reflected a similar fixation on blue eyes. Musk has reportedly used polygenic embryo screening. Tom, what do you think about the story?

Tom

So I wonder if the New York Times understands that kid maxing involves not having abortions.

Patrick Bet-David

It seems like the funny. You are so funny.

Tom

It seems.

Patrick Bet-David

You know what, you're a comic. Tom.

Tom

No, no, no. I'm just wondering if the New York Times.

Adam

I'm Actually, with Tom on that joke, I wonder if they.

Tom

I wonder if they realize that he deserves. I wonder if the editorial board realizes what this story actually meant. So you know what? This has been going on for a while. I mean, you go. You go back. The reason they bring up Genghis Khan is because there were these leaders in history that wanted to have many kids and they wanted their heritage to be spread. And so do I think that there's people out there doing this? Yeah, I do. I think it's kind of messed up. I think if you're gonna have kids, make them yours. You and your wife raise them, build great citizens out of them. Build great people out of them. That's what I think. Just creating a larger mob in the name of yourself. And we saw the flaw in the Epstein where he wrote about that. We saw that terrible, terrible flaw where you're just out there trying to spread your progeny everywhere. And so I see the impulse to it. But if you want to have a big family, make it yours. Raise them yours.

Adam

Adam, this is an interesting conversation. Obviously, Elon Musk is leading the league on kidmaxing, but it's just evidence that as a man, they say the rich get richer. You're familiar with the K shaped economy. The top is doing well and the bottom is doing poorly. This is just evidence that if you're a man and you kind of get your stuff together, you have options. Now, I'm not condoning something like this, but I understand that there's a lot of guys that do. I'll actually tell you a funny story about that. But the top 10% of men, whether it becomes looks maxing or money maxing or status maxing, you have options. And what are the options that you have? Where to live, what to do, what women and what you want to do with your children. So juxtapose that with the bottom 50% of men are just trying to get a girlfriend, much less married, much less kid maxing out here and having multiple kids for multiple moms. I'll tell you a quick story. I don't think it's a secret. The Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate and some of their friends we were talking about this one time, and they were like, listen, I have this thing, and I have this thing, and I have this thing and all these different women and these different kids. And I said, I hear you guys. And they're kind of advocating this is maybe something you're interested in doing. I go, guys, this sounds really complicated. Like, how are you dealing with time zones, baby? Mama drama, baby drama. They're like, listen, you got to be built for this. I go, guys, respectfully, I don't think I'm built for this. I'm just trying to do one right now. So I understand that really, really rich guys maybe want to do something like this, but I just want to give PBD a shout out 4 kids leader. I think most men understand that, you know, have a family, have kids, raise them, be with them together, and that's probably the best approach. But again, I'm not going to hate on the guys that want to have the benefits of success.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question. If all of a sudden I sat down with you guys and I said, vinny, let's just say, Tom, we're having a conversation, the three of us and the four of us. And I said, guys, I want to go out there and go to a sperm bank and donate 100 because I want to have 100 bed David kids out there. What. What would you tell me? Just have a conversation as if we're friends. What would you tell me, Finney? Here's what I want to do. It's going to cost me. Surrogacy is going to cost me $100,000 a pop. I get to pick the mom to make sure they're healthy, and I'm going to do at 100 kids is what I want to do. It's going to cost me $10 million, but I want to make that investment. What do you guys think about it?

Adam

I would just ask you why you want to do something like this.

Patrick Bet-David

Why? Because the birth rate is low and I want to be able to again, I'm just role playing. Yes, of course the birth rate is low. I can afford it. I'd like to contribute to society. And this is one way of me

Adam

doing, planning on taking care of these hundred kids.

Patrick Bet-David

I, I would be willing to give a certain amount of money to them, but upfront, $100,000 to the mother who chooses to have this baby.

Adam

And then what is the benefit of you doing this? I know you want to contribute to the birth rate, but 100 kids is not going to change the birth.

Patrick Bet-David

They say the argument would be, you know, the, the access to a good DNA, strong DNA, strong genes, that these kids could go out there and be a net positive to society.

Adam

I'm just role playing. Then I'll take over. Is this more about your legacy and, like, and the world being shaped by you, or do you actually want to be a father for all these Kids. Which one is it?

Patrick Bet-David

Little bit of both. But the bigger part is the 1.58. 1.58? Birth rate.

Adam

Yeah, but you're not really moving the needle with 100 kids.

Patrick Bet-David

I think I'm. I'm helping it. I'm helping someone.

Adam

You're doing your part.

Vinny

Yeah. Here's my thing. From, from a, from a Christian perspective, which I know that you are, I think you know this. Children are a blessing. It's not a trophy. God doesn't care if you have one or if you have 10. But I think God cares about how you raise them. And being a father isn't just making babies, it's raising them okay. And a woman, man and the woman who love God and have character and make the world better. If you're just putting them out there, Pat, that's a hundred moms that have this kid. No father. No. They're not watching the social media, the pornography, the school, the trans. The. I get to see you. My father was there, but he wasn't there. I get to see how Tom raises his daughters. I get to see every single day how you do it with, with all. With the girls and the boys. And I see it, and I don't even know how you do it. The work that you guys put into these children to make them amazing human beings. And I'm seeing, for the past four years, I'm seeing it, Pat. And I don't think it's possible to do that with all these kids. God forbid, Pat, what if they all turn into some America hating socialist, you know, what is the Adam, the Sharia law loving?

Adam

Oh, okay.

Vinny

You know, everybody hating America. Like, the odds of them, Pat, turning into the kids that you have made up to this point, I think are slim to none. The goal isn't to have the most kids. I think it's to raise adults.

Patrick Bet-David

Would you say to me, stand on their own?

Tom

Well, I would say this. I would say, Pat, you know what? You can have those surrogates, 100,000 each, deliver a baby. How do you deliver a great person into that society at 18 years old to live, work, and be what you want? Because you're not. I know you, Pat. You're not just thinking about the birth rate. You're thinking about the quality of those people and what they believe in, what they do. How do you deliver that? Deliver the baby? Why don't just adopt a hundred today and shape them?

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, but it's the DNA. It's the DNA, the wire. So, so the audience, the, the argument to that would be the DNA, the wiring, the genetics, the bloodline, you're coming from that bloodline. And that's, that's. Man wants to procreate. That's what man wants to do. They want to procreate. You know what it would make me think about with this? And listen, we're just having this argument right now, just a very basic conversation is back in the days, how many times would kids see their fathers actually think about it? Your wife got pregnant, you're going to go out there and hunt and then you come back, you would go to war, you would protect, you would do all this other stuff. And I'm not talking about 50 years ago, I'm talking about for a couple thousand years. That's kind of what life was like. So this whole thing about being here all the time around your kids, this is a new thing. This is a 50, 60, 80 year thing. This is not a 500 year thing. This is not even a 300 year thing that we have. But let me, let me give it on the opposite side and argue my own point. Raising a kid is about 500 five minute conversations. Not about one or one weekend spending time with them or, you know, five weekends spending time with them. No, it's about 500 five minute conversations that they want to have with daddy while they're going through different issues in their lives. And that's how you shape them. There are a lot of parents who, same genetics, same mom and dad. One kid comes out and say that person didn't get a lot of attention and they end up being a rebel and then they don't do anything. And then there are those that you can shape their mindset and they can do a good thing. So it's not just DNA. This thing is hard. Like this webinar that we did last week for Father's webinar. I've never done a webinar that the show ratio was that high. It was the biggest showing we ever had on the webinar where I talked about the 20 rules for fathers. The, you know, the phase that every man needs to go through, how fathers are judged. It takes 40 years for us to be judged. Then are your kids a net positive to society? And last but not least, do they yearn your company years after they no longer need you? Do they want, I don't know, it's

Tom

like, hey man, six types of fathers I thought was so powerful.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah. And so, you know, by the way, if you didn't get a chance to watch it, if you go to vtwebinar,.com register, they'll send a link to you. I don't know, there's a part of me that likes that these guys are using their resources. If you have to choose between one of two, I want you to process this. And audience, I'd like to hear from you as well. You got one guy who's a billionaire who is willing to put his resources, IVF, whatever it is and have 100 plus kids. Or a guy who's a billionaire and says I don't have any kids. Which one is a net positive to society? No family, Neither one wants to get married and have married and have kids. One guy saying I'll give the money away and hey, hundred kids, 100 girls, you guys go do your thing. The other one, nope. I just want to live for myself. Selfishly, who's a more net positive to society? Neither wants to get married, neither wants the responsibility of the day to day father.

Tom

On the surface it's a procreating one. But I really want to know his motivations and how he's going to ensure that those kids are not like look at the Kennedy grandchildren, delinquents. From A to Z, there's like two, three. You go take a look at it. If you don't get involved, 505 minute conversations. Great. Then you've got a bunch of rich kids that are delinquents that are impacting the rest of us.

Adam

I think what you're saying with raising the kids pad is more is caught than taught. I know you've talked about this pvd.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, yeah.

Adam

Okay, gotcha. I want you to react to this. You know the famous quote, any man can be a father but it takes a special man to be a dad. I think that's kind of what you're saying, is it not?

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, yeah I am. But what I'm trying to say is I'm wondering if you have between the two, who is going to be a bigger net positive to society? We can transition to the next story because this one I kind of got the gist of what I wanted from this story. Next one is PlayStation Video Games. Okay, no more discs. We want discs. We want the ownership. We want to feel like we got a disc. No. Well, we're just going to give it a, download it on your system and that's all it's going to be. No, no, I want my disc. I want to make sure I have the disc. I'm going to read this to you and I wonder how you process this. And Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one because it is a big story. A lot of people are not happy about this story because they're sitting around saying, hey, if I'm buying this thing, I want. Let me see what page. I want a physical. I want a physical disc of the video game to be given to me. That's what I want. No, you know, you're going to be fine just with the download. No, I want the disc. So let me read this Brand smell blood in the water after PlayStation Access game discs and they're roasting Sony for it. This is a Business Insider story. This is a Business Insider story that we have here. Okay, so let me go through it. Sony's decision to stop making physical disks for its PlayStation game starting in 2020. It has opened the floodgates for brands eager to score points online. Within hours of the announcement, companies ranging from creators of privacy software to fried kitchen chains piled on using the PlayStation All Digital Future as fodder for jokes. Sony said the shift reflects the fact that the general preference for digital media significancy significantly outpaces that for physical disk. The post tapped into a broader backlash from fans who have expressed worry about ownership, media preservation and what happens when everything lives behind a download. Tom, what is your position with this?

Tom

I'll tell you where position. I was part of one of these suits. So once upon a time there's a company called Vudu. And guys, if you could go look that up, V U D U and look up voodoo box like 2010.

Adam

I'm on it.

Tom

Yep. And you'll see you bought a physical box that would download movies and then you own those movies and they were the quality of laserdiscs. It was a set top player, but it was high quality. So I jumped in because Vudu was invested in by Benchmark Capital and a guy named Bill Gurley. And so I heard about all this. I said, wow, this is really cool. I can own the content digitally stored in my box. Real cool. Well, Walmart buys Voodoo and then subscriptions comes along and it change and then you ready for this, by the way? These things had at the time one terabyte hard drives. Back then, back then, back then, back

Adam

then they didn't want me. Now I'm hot. They're all on me. You know that song?

Tom

Exactly. And so what happened was you had all of this stuff being stored there. Walmart buys Vudu and then Walmart decides they're not gonna do it anymore. They shut down the box. I own the movies. I bought the movies. And it gets over to Fandango. And then you know what Fandango did, Pat? What'd they do? They changed the pricing and changed the subscription.

Adam

Damn Fandango.

Tom

Wait a minute. When you were Voodoo, I bought copies of the Godfather at Vudu and then I bought copies of Jaws. Those were mine. Then it gets sold to Walmart. Get it? And then it gets sold to Fandango. And finally Fandango. It was like a $9 million lawsuit. Nine or $10 million, Pat, that. And by the way, you know who that money went to? The Voodoo users. And so this is the tip of the iceberg.

Adam

I love you, Tom.

Tom

Do you see how it came back? Yes, it came back. So this is people saying the same thing. Wait a minute. If I buy Call of Duty, I want the disc. If you ever go away, I want the ability to keep the game I bought. And in the area of. And by the way, what if you sell to somebody else? What? Because they've seen this movie before, Pat. So the video game people are well aware of what happened. The Voodoo box, one terabyte drive downloading movies sold to Walmart, they screw it up. Sold the Fandango, they screw it up. My opinion as a consumer, I think those both of those things are screwed up. That's my assessment. And then you end up in a class. Do you understand, Pat? Everybody thought they own their movies.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me ask you, how often, how often has Apple removed movies that users bought because licensing agreement expired? How often has this happened with Apple? Who else should I put their Netflix.

Tom

Hang on. I did a case study on Netflix and I had Brooker come on at 10 years old and you know what she did? She comes on there and says, well, the biz doc now got us Disney. Cause all my movies disappeared from Netflix.

Patrick Bet-David

But that's different though, Tom. That's different because Netflix and you know, Disney left and started their own ott. I'm talking about something else. That is one, but I'm wondering. So it says it actually hasn't happened. It's rare. In 2018, a few user movies disappeared from their libraries after studio licensing changed. Apple restored access for some customers and explained that rights issued can't can affect availability. Country changes. Some users have temporarily lost access after changing the country associated with their Apple account. Okay, so that one makes sense. There's no evidence that Apple regularly removes purchased movies. Considering Apple has sold hundreds of millions of digital movies for nearly 20 years. Only a small number of cases with Netflix is different because it doesn't sell digital movie purchases. Netflix licenses movies, TV subscription. When a license agreement Expires, the title simply leaves the catalog. Since users have never purchased a movie, Netflix is now removing it. Which makes sense. Sony PlayStation announced it would remove 551 purchased movies because a license and grid. So that one is true. So Sony screwed up there. And Sony in 2022 removed 314 Studio Canal titles and part of Europe after a licensing dispute. And then in 2023, Sony Discovery content plan to remove purchase discovery shows, but reversed course after public backlash and reached a new licensing agreement. So then that makes sense. So Apple I'm buying hasn't happened. Netflix, they're buying licensing and I'm paying monthly. So it's okay if it happens. Sony's the only one that screwed up here, which we'll see. What happened with the market reacting to the video games you're talking?

Tom

Okay, I'll give you one more angle. What if. What if a new president doesn't like the games that are on there because they think they're too violent? Or in Call of Duty, you're shooting people from another country and they decided that country's not so bad, and they tell Sony to take that game down. And people have paid 34 bucks for the game and they're sitting there, right?

Patrick Bet-David

Yep.

Tom

That's that. That's what I fear. What I fear is content censorship. When somebody legitimately bought a piece of content, they want that disc so that they know they own Call of Duty or whatever the game is. They own it forever. And is it feasible that you could have an administration that doesn't like this content or that content or doesn't like how this works and then can turn it off? What do you think Brandon Carr's job was on day one was to protect podcasts like this one. Brandon Carr's chairman of the FCC was to protect us from being shadow, banned or crippled or taken off.

Adam

Thank you, Brandon.

Patrick Bet-David

Adam, your thoughts?

Adam

They just pull up the wrong. Brandon Carr. They pulled up an NFL player. This is, you know, me and my video games. I don't endorse it, I don't play it. In recent memory, it's the second time I think you've brought up video games. You talked about Grand Theft Auto. You're bringing this up. What's going on? Is there something that you, you know, how do you feel about video games? Why? Is this something that you want to talk about again?

Patrick Bet-David

No, no, I think it's business strategy that's dumb. You can't lose your customers. And to me, there is an element of like. Like, listen, a lot of people have moved over to Kendall. Okay. And they like Kindle. Reading Kindles, I'm not a fan. I like, if you see me, I always have a physical book with me.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

Because I like the sentimental meaning of reading a book. I get some people that I, I like that. Now don't get me wrong, I don't listen to music on cassette tapes. I don't have that sentimental. Even though easy. Back in the days. Real mother. You know what? Geez, you're gonna hit him up. We know you're gonna hit him up. I didn't listen to music back in the days. But, but to me, I think it's the sentimental side of having that. The movie side, where, you know, back in the days, like my sister had a collection of all the Disney movies. It was a big deal, the VHS Disney. Because some of these things are very, very expensive. My dad had it as well. And so you collected it. It was something that we have in our family as well. Those DVDs you collect. I, I, I just think, I just, I understand the nostalgic desire of. Yeah, these things, like people have these types of collections. There's something special about it because it's a bond. So for video games, I get the younger audience saying that I got you now.

Adam

Now I want to understand this. One of the things that people are fascinated about when they come to valuetainment. There's the hanger, there's the car. They come and see the thing in front of your office. The read.

Patrick Bet-David

Yes.

Adam

Filled with books. Go. Oh my.

Vinny

Is that what it's.

Adam

It says? I know you thought you said Riad. I know Road. Also for roads.

Tom

But I get it.

Adam

I'm going to teach you how to read one of these days. But there's something nostalgic about that. For instance, I have all my CDs in a case like this collecting dust. There's certain things that we don't have that people like the physical touch. Like for instance, why do people invest in real estate? They want to be able to touch the assets. I invest in REITs, real estate investment Trust. Because I'm not trying to get my hands dirty. Trying to be a pretty boy out here. But there is something nostalgic you about holding a book and reading it, even if you use an auto.

Patrick Bet-David

This used to be one of my bingo sets back in the days. That was.

Vinny

Look at you.

Patrick Bet-David

By the way, good work team in the back. You guys are speedy today.

Adam

Oh yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

Today I'm impressed. Yeah, this used to be the first.

Adam

How old were you here?

Patrick Bet-David

I'm probably 18 years old

Vinny

now.

Patrick Bet-David

This is 30. This is. I'm 36. I'm 36. 37 years.

Adam

You know how I always know how old PBD is? I can do it every single time. Show me his haircut.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, yeah.

Adam

Show me his haircut.

Vinny

Show me.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me get to the next.

Adam

Exactly.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me get to the next. By the way, there's a list that comes out. I'll get to that here. And as well. But this is a funny story. A man sues Pepsi 30 years ago because Pepsi did this campaign. If you can't even pull up the campaign when they did this back in the days, because you guys showed me this video yesterday, they do this thing about, hey, we're going to give a fighter jet. And so this one guy decides to go and do every single thing required to win this thing. And then all of a sudden, I don't know what page the Pepsi stories on. Oh, there it is. I found it. Man who sued Pepsi over fighter jets finally gets his reward 30 years later. This is the original commercial, by the way, from October 30, 1995. Watch this. Go ahead. Oh, my God. This is how it sounded.

Vinny

Hear the audio.

Patrick Bet-David

That is terrible. Can we get past the six seconds? Yeah, go a little bit. All right, let's see it. Oh.

Tom

Boom.

Patrick Bet-David

Introducing the new Pepsi stuff catalog.

Adam

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

Now, the more Pepsi you drink, the more great stuff you're going to get.

Clip/Interviewer

Sure.

Tom

Beats.

Vinny

The bus

Patrick Bet-David

is saying, if you get 7 million points, you're gonna get a fighter jet. And this one kid gets it done.

Vinny

That's so freaking.

Patrick Bet-David

And they. They're like, they never thought it was gonna happen, so they never gave him the jet. What are you going to do, deliver the jet to the guy's house? Can you imagine how crazy this campaign was?

Vinny

What if he's a Middle Eastern guy?

Patrick Bet-David

Pepsi's like, holy shit. Three decades later, after suing Pepsi for refusing to give him a fighter jet, John Leonard. Pull up his picture. I actually want to see what this man looks like before and after, what he looked like as a kid. Finally got a reward that may be even better. According to a post that Super Blondie super car Blondie Leonard became the center of all advertising most famous legal battles after taking a 1996 Pepsi commercial at face value. The ad promoting the company's Pepsi points loyalty program jokingly claimed customers could redeem 7 million points for a military Harrier jet. Rather than laughing it off, the Seattle college student raised enough money to buy the required points and submitted a claim for the aircraft. Pepsi Rejected it, insisting the jet was never a real price. The article says that the case went to court where a judge ruled that no reasonable person would believe Pepsi was seriously offering a fighter in a soft drink promotion. Although Leonard lost the lawsuit, the bizarre dispute became legendary and was later chronic. Chronicled. What do you. How do you pronounce this word Chronicled, sir? Chronicled in the net. Don't worry about it every time. Where's my jet now? Nearly 30 years later, Frontier Airlines gave this story a happy ending. As part of a Super bowl campaign called the Big Redemption, the airline converted Leonard's original 7 million Pepsi points into 7 million Frontier Miles, effectively giving him free flight flights for life. The airline even featured Leonard in a tongue in cheek commercial, handing him the keys to an Airbus A320neo as a nod to the decades old saga. Now in his 50s with a wife and children, Leonard joked that unlimited airline miles are far more practical than owning a. Yeah, you think Military jet. After waiting three decades, he never got the hairier. But he may have received an even better price tomorrow.

Tom

So marketing has consequences. And I think if you're going to do this, you know, this is him.

Patrick Bet-David

This is him as a kid, college student. Isn't that great? And by the way, can we see him today? Can we see him? What did he do? What business did he get into for guy to be this resourceful? I hope this guy became like, super successful if he used his ability to get those 7 million points. Your ability to be resourceful is off the charts. This is him now.

Vinny

That's so funny.

Patrick Bet-David

Is there a video? Can we hear how he speaks? Actually wanted to hear how he speaks.

Tom

I'd laugh if he became like a consumer protection attorney.

Patrick Bet-David

I actually wanted. So this is the commercial they're not showing Pepsi.

Clip/Interviewer

This is.

Patrick Bet-David

Frontier Airlines ran a promotion. Collect enough points and you could trade them for a jet. One man tried to claim it, but the courts ruled it was a joke and the plane never came.

Adam

Leonard's case was dismissed.

Patrick Bet-David

By the way, Frontier's marketing team should get a freaking raise.

Vinny

Oh, yeah.

Tom

Nine, nine, nine, nine.

Adam

Didn't get a check.

Vinny

Seven million.

Patrick Bet-David

It's a deal. Frontier redeemed John's 7 million old soda points for 7 million million miles. Enough to fly free for life.

Adam

Look at this.

Vinny

Guy.

Patrick Bet-David

Can turn loyalty points from any other brand. Redeem your points back to Frontier miles. Don't you love this story, Tom?

Tom

I love this story. You know, there's the business side of me says, listen, you got to be careful about doing, you know, sweepstakes or commenting because somebody, even if they're going to do it, is going to. Is going to blow the thing up. Yeah. Do you remember when I think it was American Airlines once upon a time had the $300,000 pay once and your first class for life. And I think there were, you know who the. There were three remaining members of it because they kept trying to buy them out. And you know who one of those last remaining members was? Mark Cuban, because it was $300,000 and he bought the American. And so. And by the way, American never thought people, the number of people would do it. And they nearly went broke. Not broke, but they were losing money on, like three of them. There was a guy that decided that every other week he was going to the UK and apparently you had the right to take a American fly for life or whatever it was. You could take it. You just. I love it when, when it snaps back. Ah. And so that's what I think. I love it when it snaps back. But you know what I love even more is when companies do something for good, even if they're doing it for funny. What front? What is Frontier really saying here? We'll go the extra mile for you when somebody else wouldn't.

Adam

That might be a slogan right there. They should pay you for that, Tom.

Tom

That's what I think.

Patrick Bet-David

Okay, so how do you feel about this, Adam?

Adam

Great marketing by Frontier. Way to deliver on this. I mean, look, at the end of the day, if I order a Coke at a restaurant and they go, sorry, sir, we only have Pepsi, I'm disappointed by the way. I went a totally different way on that.

Patrick Bet-David

Can you run a poll? Pepsi or Coke?

Adam

Diet Coke.

Patrick Bet-David

Run a poll. Pepsi or Diet? I don't know which one. Our audience is.

Vinny

Nothing better Big Mac than having a

Adam

meal and then just say, hey, can I get it down?

Patrick Bet-David

You know what's funny?

Adam

And it feels good. I know you don't.

Patrick Bet-David

Haven't had it since July of 19. And I miss it.

Adam

It.

Patrick Bet-David

I'm not going to lie to you. Not having a Coke Zero. No. I'm not going to prank it.

Vinny

You know what I do, Pat?

Adam

What was the Coke ad you talked about? Remember the coke?

Patrick Bet-David

$5 million. I would do a Coca Cola commercial to come back.

Adam

I. I don't always drink soda, but when I do, I'll do it for $5 million.

Vinny

I go to Whole Foods and stuff and I get just, you know, like the black cherry flavor. And then you put Stavia drops. I know it's not the same, but if you Want to get the soda Carbonation.

Adam

What's going on with your voice?

Patrick Bet-David

By the way, do you remember RC Cola? Remember rc?

Adam

Royal Crown.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah. Did you ever drink it or.

Vinny

No.

Tom

Royal.

Patrick Bet-David

By the way, RC was better than Coke, if you asked me 30 years ago. The blue bottle, the blue can.

Vinny

I agree.

Patrick Bet-David

I don't know the OGRC code. Yeah, right there.

Adam

They had a great product. They must had horrible market.

Patrick Bet-David

Now we're all into blue pills. Rc, you were poor, but you got, you know, you. You.

Adam

But rich in substance in it.

Patrick Bet-David

But the drink was. Drink was good.

Adam

And then. When's the next time you think you'll have a soda?

Clip/Interviewer

Pat?

Patrick Bet-David

I don't know about that right now at this point with what I'm going

Adam

through, but, hey, an Arnold Palmer. That'll serve you well.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, let me get to the next one. Let me get to the next one. This was a good story. Next one. So the Lakers get rid of this black man, LeBron James.

Tom

Oh, man.

Patrick Bet-David

Or LeBron left. And Stephen A. Smith's like, what team's going to win with all white? I mean, who? And he reacts to this. I don't know if you guys have seen this or not. And so some audience, like, wait a minute, what are you talking about? Who cares about whether they're white or not? Come on, Stephen A. Right. Even Vinnie's sitting here, like, upset about this whole thing. But there's somebody that, you know, you said, what team has won being white? This is it. Let's play this clip and we'll all react to it. Go for it. Where the hell the Los Angeles Lakers

Vinny

think they going with a bunch of white?

Patrick Bet-David

Your three top players are white dudes. Come on, Stephen A.

Vinny

This ain't golf. This ain't baseball. Hell, it ain't even soccer. What y' all think this is, basketball? In NBA history, when have you seen your three most prominent players on a

Patrick Bet-David

basketball team all be white?

Vinny

And that takes you to the promised land. Somebody gotta say it, so I'm saying it. This is basketball. I'm not complaining. I'm simply making the point. The Los Angeles Lakers. You ain't going anywhere being led by three white dudes. In today's generation of basketball, I'm letting

Adam

you know right now it ain't happening.

Vinny

And Luka's a bad brother, and Austin Reeves is no scrub. And they both have earned what they have earned. And then with LeBron James or some other brothers, I can't.

Patrick Bet-David

But why do you have a problem

Vinny

with Stephen A. I don't have a problem with It I just. Because I love Stephen A. He knows I love him to death. But can you imagine if a white guy on ESPN and said what the hell they think that they're doing with a bunch of black guys? Xyz or like, a white doctor walking into an operating room going, I'm out. But three black surgeons, all right, I'm not gonna have surgery. They would lose their black sheriff. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying, if it was the other way around, it would be horrible. But at the end of the day, Pat, is he wrong? Do you really think the Lakers have a chance?

Patrick Bet-David

Let me tell you who any other. Let me tell you who banked on this. A guy named Mark Cuban.

Adam

Yep.

Patrick Bet-David

If you want to pull up the story from the Guardian, pull up that story from the Guardian. So this is the story of Guardian that said the Dallas Mavericks are consistently white in a black league, and this is when Mark Cuban owned them. Okay, so the article highlights that. It cited NBA was about 74.2% black and 16.9 white, but it observed that 15 out of 21 seasons, the Mavericks had at least three white players on their active roster and are in more than half of those seasons. They had four or more. It did not say the roster was 70. So you look at this number and saying, hey, this is the widest team in the NBA. And Mark Cuban won. Mark Cuban won with Nowitzki. And you know who they beat? Do you know who they beat? The guy that's leaving the Lakers. LeBron James. Remember when LeBron James and Dan. What's his name?

Vinny

Miami? Chris Boss.

Patrick Bet-David

No, no. Dwyane Wade. They were making fun of Nowitzki. He's. He's coughing because he's sick. And then Nowinski came back and was 24 for 24 on free throw shots. 48 points destroyed the Mavs. And who's the guy? Finley, who already had the championship tattooed on his arm. Pre winning it. Do you know he did that? I don't know if you know the story or not. I know you don't follow closely. So he had. He had a tattoo. Can you get Michael Finley's tattoo? Pre winning the chat, Vinny, do you know what this guy did? Genuinely, do you know what he did? Michael Finley got an NBA championship tattoo before winning it. He said, we're winning it.

Vinny

Wow.

Patrick Bet-David

No one in the history of the NBA had ever done this. And they beat LeBron James. No, it wasn't Michael Finley. What was the guy's name? It's not Finley. Jason Terry. I'm sorry. Let me help you out here. There it is. That's a tattoo. Can you show it?

Adam

He coming out with a new book.

Patrick Bet-David

He gets a tattoo about winning a championship before they won the championship.

Adam

Then he got dunked on by Brow.

Patrick Bet-David

The next no wit. It doesn't matter, man. You got that championship. You got that. LeBron wants highlights. The Mavs wanted a championship. That's the difference. So I don't know. I look. Do I think the Lakers squad. Because the challenge with the. The Luca is the following. Here's a challenge with Luca. Luca can do 35, 10, 10, but he won't come back to play defense. He's not a two way player. So the two way players, you know, you. The great ones were who qu. Leonard. He'll come back. Jaylen Brown just went to Philadelphia 76ers. I don't know if you guys saw that for trade for Paul George. Some call this the worst trait.

Tom

Oh, yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

Because, you know, they said, you know, and they said, well, you know, Jalen Brown said, I'm probably the smartest guy in the room because it's not too hard in the NBA to be the smartest guy in the room. I think a part of Jalen Brown is also, you know, why would the. Why would Brad Stevens get rid of Jalen? Jalen Brown? Maybe you're not a good locker room guy. I don't know.

Tom

Who.

Patrick Bet-David

Who the hell would get rid of a guy that did 28.65 last year? I think that's what you average anywhere. The Finals mvp. Maybe you think too highly of yourself. Maybe you're not a guy that brings a team together. Maybe you're not a team guy. Maybe you're a selfish guy. Maybe you think so highly of yourself that people don't want to play with you. I don't know. Why do you get rid of a Jalen Brown at his peak for Paul George at the end of his career? And I love Paul George. Why do you do that? But you're seeing a lot of stuff that's going on over there. I don't want to go into my sports analyst side.

Vinny

Go ahead.

Patrick Bet-David

I don't want to embarrass Stephen A. Smith. I don't want to do that. Stephen A. Bet. David. I'm a fan of Stephen A. Smith. First aid. Stephen A. Is the first take. We're the last take. So we're gonna give the last take on this. Yeah, but Adam, with your amateur ability.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

What do you want to add? Yes, go ahead.

Vinny

Wnba.

Adam

Let me.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me defend my white Jewish community. Go ahead.

Adam

Let me defend my white people right now.

Patrick Bet-David

Greatest Jewish NBA player of all time.

Adam

Well, right now. He's playing right now.

Patrick Bet-David

Oh, he's the guy. He's pretty good. He's pretty good.

Adam

He's incredible.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, he's pretty good.

Adam

Really.

Vinny

Here, Berkowitz with the dunk. You never. You don't listen.

Adam

You're talking to the Jewish Jordan right now. Sorry. So, Stephen A. I would typically agree with you, homeboy, but times have changed.

Vinny

I don't know.

Adam

White people are back in the NBA. If you look at the top five players in the NBA right now, boys

Patrick Bet-David

are back in town.

Adam

Luka Jokic. Jokic. White Chocolate Jokic.

Vinny

Go ahead.

Adam

Luka Doncic. White. White. You have Giannis, you have Wemby. Black.

Vinny

Black.

Adam

And you got Steph Curry. He's kind of. Which side is he on?

Vinny

I don't know.

Adam

The point is this. White people are making a comeback. I'm not just talking about Steve Nash. I'm just talking about Dirk Nowitzki. I'm not even talking about Mark Price. I'm not even talking about Craig Ehlo. The days of the blacks owning the NBA are over. But by the way, they've had it for a long time. Ever since Larry Bird had this thing. But you know what we have to be the most concerned about? This is what I'm actually most concerned about. Because I'm actually not into the black and white thing. I'm more into the USA thing. You know what I'm more concerned about? That the top 10 players in the NBA, the vast majority of them are no longer American.

Vinny

Greece.

Adam

They're international. Think about this. Giannis, Greece. Luca, Slovenia. The Joker, Slovakia. Serbia. Wherever he's from. Sga, Canada.

Vinny

Wemby.

Patrick Bet-David

Outer space.

Adam

Out of wherever this guy's. So what's going on is NBA. American NBA players. Forget about the black and white thing. Just put the ball in the hole and start beating these international things. Globalism's taking over. Next thing you know, Yao Ming's gonna start dunking.

Tom

You ready for this, by the way?

Adam

Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam.

Tom

Wasn't that where Mark. Wasn't that where Mark Cuban drafted his guys? All the Europeans, by the way, when

Adam

I did a shootout, they weren't white Americans. With the great Stephen A. Smith, we tied.

Vinny

Yeah, but he had. He had a good shot, and he was. He wasn't even dressed for it. But here's my thing.

Adam

Oh, you're making excuses.

Vinny

All the stuff that.

Adam

This is what you're doing.

Vinny

All the stuff.

Adam

Cultural appropriation.

Vinny

That you talked about and stuff. What does Vegas say? Los Angeles Lakers to win plus 4,500. You would have to.

Adam

The Lakers are not doing good.

Vinny

Like Jesu Cristo would have to come and be on the starting five.

Adam

By the way, I just want to make a public announcement here at pbd, if I may. Lebron, I want you to make this decision. Come to Miami.

Vinny

Oh, don't.

Adam

Don't even come to Florida. Forget about the high taxes in California.

Patrick Bet-David

Forget about all the n. Go to the next.

Adam

Come back and run back the heels with giannis and Bam. 305 till we die.

Patrick Bet-David

All right, so let me, let me, Let me go to this next one, which is kind of. I don't know if we have this clip or not. This, this, this brother says what he says about Caitlin Clark saying the WNBA just got to get rid of Caitlyn Clark. Have you guys seen this clip? This clip about Caitlyn Clark? Tom, I think you commented on this. I don't know where it's at when you commented on it or not. If he can send it to the crew in the back. So he says, look, it's time. It's time for the wnba. This is it right there. Yeah, the WNBA would be better without Caitlin Clark. Just listen to him. This is an NFL player. Okay, go, go at this junction. Would be better without Caitlin Clark because she is a bigger distraction than she is an additive. Caitlin Clark has gotten the WNBA over the necessary threshold they needed. Now people are watching. Now we realize, oh, there's talent in the W. Talent that's actually even greater than Caitlin Clark. And I'm not just talking about bigs like Asia. I'm talking about the Olivia Miles. I'm talking about the Paige Beckers. Hell, I'm talking about the Kelsey Mitchells.

Adam

Nobody's ever heard of these.

Patrick Bet-David

The necessary eyes there. But now that the eyes are there, we don't necessarily need her anymore. Caitlyn did.

Adam

That's the most outlook I've ever heard.

Patrick Bet-David

Thank you for all your contributions do anymore. Thank you, Caitlyn. We can take it from here.

Adam

Saying it again.

Patrick Bet-David

Now you're saying that the WNBA needs to be cognizant of where they put Caitlyn Clark on posters. The WNBA and the officials need to alter the rules. The WNBA and opposing players need to treat Caitlin Clark more gently. Caitlin Clark's coach needs to be cognizant how she talks to her in public. Okay, watch this. Do you see the foul that this other girl did on Caitlin Clark and is pushing the head down.

Vinny

Yeah. Neither in the crotch, too.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah. And you're watching this, the Caitlin Clark foul. Take the tee out yet? Foul. And you look at this, you're like, wait a minute, what the hell is this? And she's smiling at her while she's doing this, you know, with the. With the. What do you call it? With the hand on the face. Tom, first of all, before we find that clip, what do you think about what she's saying right here, what he's saying here about Caitlin Clark? That right there. Watch this. This is it. Look at that. And there's even another clip of her smiling at her and smiling and smiling. So do you. Do you agree with what he's saying? And if not, is this it? Yeah. Watch that, Watch that. What are you doing? What's the purpose of that? Tom, go ahead.

Tom

I don't need to go down the path of just how much envy and jealousy there is in the. In the w. Toward Caitlin Clark, number one. Number two, what this guy was talking about was so selfish and wrongheaded.

Patrick Bet-David

Who was he, by the way? He was an NFL player.

Tom

No, no, no, no, no, no. This is Emmanuel Ancho. He was drafted in. Ancho. He was drafted in the sixth round by Cleveland. He barely played. He was hurt and he never.

Patrick Bet-David

He was an NFL player.

Tom

Barely. He didn't play a full season. He got traded three times. So he tried to make. Tom's going in on this in the NFL? No, he tried to make it in the NFL and either his body or his talent didn't get him there. One or the other. But he never had an enduring position on one team for like a full season without getting hurt in anything. And he ultimately was out. He was one of many rookies that get to the NFL and don't quite are able to stay. Happens in basketball, too. You could give me examples, Adam. And this guy is now a podcast and on media as a pundit. And what he was saying was that they don't need her anymore. Why? Because Caitlin Clark helped the WNBA get a huge new digital rights and TV deal. And that's got the. And she helped the salaries go up. And people hate the fact that she did it. And there's huge jealousy. Why weren't we paid? Why weren't we paid? You heard all kinds of them. And so what he's saying, Pat, he's saying, oh, we don't need her anymore. We got our TV deal, We got the salaries up. Now you can go away. Cuz they're jealous of her. She didn't Come from the zone in the area. She came from the American Midwest. The WNBA's culture and everything about its overall, you know, positioning is not Midwest.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me give some numbers here. I want to give some numbers. Pre Caitlin Clark going into the WNBA to post ready pre 2023. She went in 2023. Average viewership Vinnie. National TV audience per game 462,000. After Clark, one year later, 2024. Not today. Today's even higher. One year later, 1.32 million up 186%.

Vinny

Come on.

Patrick Bet-David

Regular season attendance average per game, 6,615 fans. One year later, the entire WNBA goes up 48 to 9,807. Total attendance 1.59. Total attendance 2.35, 48% up. Sellouts went from 45 to 154, 242% growth. ESPN viewership 440 to 1.2 million, 170 up. Merchandise sales 600% up leaguewide in one year, Caitlin Clark increased merch sales for everybody. Leak Pass subscription up 366%. Who did that? Caitlin Clark. And by the way, you know that girl you just showed? What's her name? Sophie Cunningham. Freaking. She's a gangster. You know what the biggest highlight of

Adam

the NBA this year is? A woman pointing at another woman.

Patrick Bet-David

She's tough. She's like the Bill Lambert defending.

Adam

Find the other one. She's doing like this.

Patrick Bet-David

Sophie, if you're watching this, keep doing your thing. You got a big fan base.

Adam

Three pointer.

Patrick Bet-David

I love what she does. Anyways, we'll see what happened here. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Adam

You think it's just disrespectful. Like at the end of the day, let's be real here. If Caitlin Clark was not in the NBA, we would not be talking about the NBA. It wouldn't be in our top 10 topics. It's always going to lose money. It's never going to make money. It's a zombie company. We're not even talking about that. We're going to talk about the fact that Caitlin Clark, at the very least, is the reason that we're actually even getting any shine to any of these players. I've never heard of A.J. wilson. I guess she's the best player in the NBA. We wouldn't be talking about her. By the way, if you just look at the stats, Caitlin Clark is a top three player in the NBA. She's top three in the league in points, assists, three points. She's going to be one of the top three MVP candidates. Listen I'm no fan of the NBA. I will crap on the WNBA all day, every day. I can. At the same time, I can acknowledge that Caitlin Clark is the reason that we're even talking about this disgusting, horrible, useless league. So two things can be true at once. The league is useless, but she's a great player.

Patrick Bet-David

Check this out. This is the WNBA 30 year poster that they did to recognize WNBA's history. And you know who's missing on that poster?

Adam

A white straight woman.

Patrick Bet-David

Caitlin Clark is missing from that poster. They decided she wasn't big enough to put her in there. By the way, I love that WNBA is doing this because it's showing what you guys are really all about. Well, the entire league is being exposed. And FYI, with, with, with Caitlin Clark, she's going to keep doing her thing. And the more they do this, eventually everybody goes through three phases. First you are ridiculed, then you're violently opposed. Then it becomes self evident she has not yet made itself evident. She's going through that phase that Michael went through that all major athletes had to go through and she's going to get through it and her supporters are going to behind her. I hope she continues Let me get to the next story. Next story I want to get to is a story about the Rock, which is like, hey Rock, we want you to talk politics. You're famous. You got 500 million followers on social media. Why are you not bashing Trump? And the Rock's like, dude, let me just do my thing. Leave me alone man. Let me just go out there and do my what is the the show and the cartoon and all this stuff that I'm doing. Why are you bothering me? Let me live my life. Nope, we need you to criticize. So let me read this to you. Hollywood stars began lashing out at Dwayne Johnson on Monday after he reiterated his stance to keep his personal politics out of public eye. After telling Esquire earlier this month that he hates the slinging of modern politics, Star Trek alum George Takei and standby Stand By Me, actor Wil Wheaton took to social media to slam Johnson with Takhi, arguing that his stance, his silence, makes him complicit. The Rock's recent comments to Esquire about wanting to keep my politics to myself has divided fans with some calling his silence, Taki wrote on on threads. He then replied to his post on Monday writing silence is complicity. Wheaton also called out Johnson in a thread post later deleted that was reported by Entertainment Weekly writing, so disappointing to find that he is such a coward. However, some came to Johnson's defense online, including comedian Matt Rife, who took on X to mock Wheaton's coward comments. I love how he's a coward, but could quite literally tear Will's throat out of out through his, rife wrote on a Wednesday, adding this comment, World is so bold. The controversy stems from Johnson's Esquire interview for the magazine summer 2026 cover story. The actor known for starring in the Fast and Furious franchise as well as Jumanji films, explained why he'll be keeping his political view is private from now on. What I learned through experience is that I need to keep, need not want the main thing. The main thing I said, and the main thing for me is the thing that in the morning I swing my legs out of bed and I run towards is creating. It's art, it's storytelling. I've learned I'm going to keep my politics to myself. Good for him. What do you think about what he said here?

Vinny

Listen, Pat, for someone that was in Hollywood and learned really, really quick, you open your mouth or you say something funny. I said something about. Because this was, by the way, I was in during 2016 15. I was going on stage, I was making funny jokes. I was seeing Trump. I never cared about Trump. When I saw Trump at the Apprenticeship fight, I was just like, yeah, whatever, whatever. So I went on stage and I was making jokes. I got off stage and the owner of the Comic club, and I'm not going to say who it was, was like this, hey, you can't. You can't be going up there and talking positive about this. And I'm like, wait, what? I go, I thought this was a comedy club. So I wasn't getting stage time because I was talking positive about Trump. So that being said, it could ruin your entire career. Because this game, and we all know this, Pat. Oh, also this. I went to get a comedy booker, a person to book me for comedy, and they're like. And came to see me headline, crushed it. Standing ovation. I went for the gusto. You know what he said? Yeah, I can't sell you. You're not. You're not mainstream. I'm like, what are you talking about? I go, I'm Middle Eastern. I could ethnically ambiguous. I could play whatever. They're like, yeah, you're a Republican. Literally said that. And this is a big comedy booker, manager, agent, whatever that you want to call him. And I realize it. Either you go, listen, either you're political or you're not. This is A business decision. And good for him. Because once you go full, you know what I mean? There's no coming back. Once they label you, especially Hollywood, it's over for you.

Patrick Bet-David

What do you think? What do you think?

Vinny

Because I think he's one of us.

Patrick Bet-David

What do you think? Rock is deep down on us.

Vinny

If I had to bet all my money he's one of us.

Patrick Bet-David

I think he's a center right guy.

Vinny

Absolutely.

Patrick Bet-David

Socially, maybe liberal or whatever, but I think that the guy's a. The guy's a capitalist. He lives like a capitalist. He lives like a conservative. Now leave him alone. And by the way, I respect the hell out of him for doing this. Good for him. Let him go create his art. And I hope eventually he chooses to run. I hope eventually he chooses to run. But I don't think he's done creating. I don't think he's done creating. I think. What is Rock's age, by the way? How old is Iraq? Is he. Is he in his 40s? Is he in his 50s?

Adam

He's got to be in his 50s something.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, good for him. And he looks great. So he's in his 50s, 54 years old. Look, when that age hits six and you, you want to kind of go and, you know, be a trifecta because he's going to be a billionaire. He's the biggest superstar, bigger than Arnold ever was. Okay, so if he's a billionaire, Arnold never became a billionaire. If he's a superstar and he becomes a president, then he officially becomes one of two. You know why he becomes one of two? Because it's him and Trump.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

Trump was a billionaire superstar on TV and he goes and becomes a president. He could, it could only be 2 of rocks. And he's in the camp with Trump. He could pull it off. But take your time. Yeah, pick your time, Adam.

Adam

I think Rock, at the end of the day, he's just a talented dude. I don't think he wants to be in politics. You interviewed him. You had a great interview with him. His story's amazing. His relationship with his father, his ex wife, everything that he's doing, I think Rock, at the end of the day, you know, the one thing that he wants to be, I think he wants to be liked. I genuinely believe that. I think when he was younger and more of a football player and a wrestler, it was clearly more pro America, conservative type values. Then he got into Hollywood and I think at one point he had to literally put on a dress and to see that side of the thing. Right. Twinkle Twinkle, that whole situation. I think Rock is someone who doesn't look in terms of politics and divisiveness. I think he's generally a synergist. I think he's the type of person that any reasonable person on the left or on the right says, I like the Rock. Now, if you're a hardcore person on the right, you're not going to like the Rock. If you're a hardcore person on the left, if you're a weak coward, like this guy, calling out the Rock, who would never say anything to his face, calls him a coward, you're probably not going to like him. But at the end of the day, Rock is a likable guy, and he will be a billionaire, and he loves America. That's what it comes from.

Patrick Bet-David

Let me tell you. To say he's likable would be an understatement. To say he's like, I learned so much about the guy when we had him at the vault two years ago. Based on. He says, pat, whatever they're doing lets you and I talk. And we would talk on Sundays, like, okay, are you good with this? Are you good? He said, pat, I'm good with that. Okay, great. Let's go. The interview. No, we need it to be cut down to 20 minutes. Rock's like, let's talk. We talked on the phone. He's like, no, I'm good. Let's release it. Boom. Great. I learned so much about how he deals behind closed doors. Like, you know this Republican gubernatorial debate that we did?

Adam

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

I learned about every candidate not on stage, behind closed doors, how they were. You'll learn about them behind closed doors, and then you give them props in front of everybody to showing up, which they did.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

So I. I learned a lot about the Rock doing, you know, dealing with them behind clothes. I was very impressed with them.

Adam

What was the one thing that you remember about dealing with the Rock? What impressed you the most?

Patrick Bet-David

Guy, he's a man's man. He's a freaking dude. You would like. He's like. He's a G. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's. And by the way, at the highest level, I mean, it would be an under. To me, he's a capital G is what he is.

Adam

By the way, we got to give a shout out to the Rock.

Tom

Very personal charisma. When you meet him, talk to Dylan.

Patrick Bet-David

He talked to the kids. He talked to everybody. No, he's cool.

Adam

And we give a shout out to the rocks low cousin Matt Seala. Can we do that?

Patrick Bet-David

You are so funny. All right.

Adam

But he's a great guy.

Patrick Bet-David

I think he's very like, let's go to the last couple stories I want to wrap up with. The last couple stories I want to wrap up with. Is World cup being one of them. Okay. And I don't know if you guys saw this or not. Yesterday, Portugal's playing Croatia, the debates. In the middle of the debate, they're playing and I'm checking the score. And so we're in the boardroom cigar lounge. Shout out to the crew over there, Mikhail, if you're not a member, by the way, if you were a member, you were invited to the debate last night. For some of you guys that are not a member of the boredom cigar lounge, there's so many deals that are getting done. You put the link below for people to go to it. Boardroomcigarlounge.com can you go to the website guys in the back, can you go to the website boardroomcigarlounge.com right there and put the link below. If you want to be a member, send your information. We do background checks. There's no phones in sight, and there's a lot of deals. Everybody was watching the game after the debate. It was phenomenal. If you were a member, you would have been at the debate. And so we're watching Croatia and Portugal and a lot of people like, oh, Croatia, you know, what's the big deal with Croatia? Croatia, like, knocked out Argentina a few years ago with Messi.

Vinny

Yep.

Patrick Bet-David

And they knocked out Brazil. I mean, the player that they have, you know, you know, their main player, Luca Madri, he is ridiculous with the rubber band. The guy is ridiculous. And yesterday's game came down to hair,

Adam

not his hair, over.

Patrick Bet-David

And they called the offsides with var. And there's like 15 minute stoppage time. We're like, oh, it's over.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

And I'm like, no, they scored a goal. Croatia scored a goal. And in the goal, they, they, they found this thing. Let me, let me, let me send this to you. I saved the clip. I don't know if you guys have it or not. That right there.

Tom

So.

Patrick Bet-David

So when you see this, it's such an interesting. Some are saying the whole thing came down right there to the technology they use because they put sensors in the ball and the sensor. The ball didn't feel that. That player's hair from Croatia. That's all apparently they needed for that ball to hit the hair of the Croatian player. And they said the ball didn't feel the hair and all.

Adam

Don't lie.

Tom

So there Are soccer experts today that are saying, this was not awesome.

Patrick Bet-David

I'm going to send this to you. I want you to do this. Yeah. A lot of people are talking about this because this would have gone to two. Two. And remember, Ronaldo was out, so he wouldn't have been part of the penalty or an OT when they go and play the thing. Can you play this clip I just sent you guys?

Tom

He'd been replaced.

Patrick Bet-David

Watch this here. Yeah, watch this. Go for it. Refresh if you could. Watch this. Watch this.

Vinny

Come on. And the sensor is the reason why that they have sensors in the ball, and the sensor is the reason why that goal was disallowed.

Patrick Bet-David

That's the first time that we've seen

Tom

that in a game.

Vinny

This literally comes down to if this comes off of enough of Renato Vega's

Patrick Bet-David

hair to determine whether or not Croatia goes through or not.

Adam

I mean, that is a level of detail that I don't think the founders

Patrick Bet-David

imagine time they have said, you know what this means? You know what this means? Some people are saying, you can't say this to Argentinians because they would lose their mind. They're saying if Var was around back in the days, England wins. Maradona doesn't get it because it would have shown the hand of God. I don't know. I don't know if some like it or some don't like it. And that means Portugal is not going to be playing who. Portugal's playing who we just talked about earlier. Yeah. And Spain won yesterday. Three, zero, lights there. And so Ronaldo did score a goal yesterday. The reality of it is everybody wants to see one matchup. Everybody wants to see Portugal against Argentina. Vinnie, that game will be bonkers. And the US Playing Belgium Monday. Okay, you got two big games on Monday. If you look at it right there. Look at that.

Tom

So if you look at Spain now,

Patrick Bet-David

how do they go up a little bit? So you got us, Belgium, and you have Portugal, Spain. Whoever wins, they face against each other. So US could face Portugal, which would be epic. But that means they got to beat Belgium and Spain and Spain's not. Tom said a Spain played lights out. If you go a little bit higher today, Paraguay plays France.

Adam

Okay? France is going to win that.

Patrick Bet-David

Canada, Morocco. I gotta tell you, it's gonna sound weird. I kind of like the way Morocco played. I like the way Morocco played tough. I really like the way Morocco plays. And in the Netherlands, who else do we have?

Tom

Who else do we have there? Uniform?

Adam

We got Viva Mexico. And today goes playing England.

Patrick Bet-David

You got Brazil. Norway.

Vinny

Brazil.

Patrick Bet-David

Which I'm, by the way, just so you know, people are not going. I don't even want to see who I'm going for in that game. I. I just.

Adam

I'm rooting for our friend from Norway.

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, he's. He's playing good. Mexico. England should be good. And then go a little lower. Switzerland. Where's the Argentina one?

Adam

Isn't Argentina Capo Verde today?

Patrick Bet-David

Argentina playing capo version. Australia, Egypt, Colombia, Ghana.

Tom

Wow.

Adam

And I'm rooting for my Colombian, so.

Patrick Bet-David

So we'll see. We'll see.

Tom

What's the deal here?

Patrick Bet-David

I am. I am. I am wanting to see history. It's what I want to see. What do you want to see?

Vinny

I want to.

Patrick Bet-David

I want to see the most watched game of all time, because I want the argument. I want Portugal to play Argentina.

Adam

But what do you think the argument is?

Tom

Hang on the way the first it's

Patrick Bet-David

done if it happens. Well, what do you want?

Adam

The argument and thinking that Cristiano, you know who else.

Patrick Bet-David

We're not even talking. Can you go back to the brackets? Can you go back to the brackets on what you had. The other thing that no one is talking about is France, because France is dominating.

Adam

People are talking about France.

Patrick Bet-David

They are dominating.

Vinny

Can I say something?

Patrick Bet-David

Yeah, go ahead.

Vinny

Because I've watched you do it all the time at this point. Think the. The passion. We saw it. I don't think Portugal has it this year. Okay, let me. Let me. Let me. Let me finish. I see Cristiano. He's ridiculous. He's nasty. He's 41 years old. He's on the pitch with people that are 22, that are. By the way, I was watching the France game, Pat. Nobody's out of breath. Mbappe's running around playing defense like a freaking maniac. They are off the charts. Argentina is so methodical with their passing. And, yeah, Messi's older, Tom, but he's freaking.

Tom

Why was Ronaldo off? Why was Ronaldo off the pitch at that moment?

Vinny

Again, he was tired.

Tom

And the answer was speed, legs and defense.

Vinny

Of course he's tired.

Tom

He's older.

Vinny

He's older.

Tom

And it was the right coaching.

Patrick Bet-David

You're watching this and you're offended by what Tom just said about Ronaldo. Menekta. And call him out.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

How dare he talks about Ronaldo like that?

Vinny

But are you ready for this?

Patrick Bet-David

What an insult.

Tom

Listen, I'm not trying to be the 11th greatest player in soccer history.

Vinny

And I'm going to say this. We watched America play. Listen. And America is not going to have their. Their floor. What's his name? Fl.

Adam

The dude that scores the goals.

Vinny

Now our nastiest players out because of a BS red card. I'm telling you right now, America has it. America could beat Belgium even without him. Then we get him back and we could beat. We could win the winner out of Portugal and. And Zlatan Ibrahimovic. A reporter asked him. She goes, latan, one word. Can the United States win the whole thing? He went, yes. If Zlatan says, I'm gonna take it to the bank.

Patrick Bet-David

If the US Win, I'm gonna show a video that no one's gonna believe, but if the US Win, I'm not even gonna say it, but it's gonna be. If the US Win, it's gonna be a good conversation. Let me. Let me. Let me wrap it up with this. Here on this. Let me wrap it up with this. Let me wrap it up with this. You know. You know who is my favorite personality in soccer, period? It's not even close. It's Zlatan. It's not even close. If there was somebody I would want to sit down and have a conversation with and just dinner with, it will be Zlatan. Out of all the soccer players, any one of them. Pick any one of them. It's Zlatan. There's something very, very special about Zlatan. You know, when Zlatan played for AC Milan, he goes to Italy. He's there for three years and he goes to a bunch of different teams. Then he comes back to AC Milan to retire. They create a tribute. They said it's the only time he cried. Two times he cried. The first time he cried is when the existing. The first team he played for, he led the team in goals and there was an issue with the bank account and money and different things. And the second time he cried is the way AC Milan gave him love. There's this video I've played over and over and over again. I've watched this thing at least 50 times the last 48 hours. It's the tribute video with the song that I can't play because we will get a copyright. But if you send me a message, I'll. I'll share this with you. It's the song with Arcade Duncan Lawrence, featuring Fletcher is in the video. I can't play it. Can you show Zlatan's reaction when he's coming out? Watch the way the fans are crying and look how he starts shaking. It's the most beautiful cry a man has. When this happens to you because the world appreciates how you played for them, how you showed up for them. Their fans were in love with them. And this reminded me of a moment in my life which I'll share here in a moment. Go for it. Play this clip. Watch this. And they're playing the Gladiator theme song in the background. Look at this. Watch what happens in a minute.

Clip/Interviewer

It.

Patrick Bet-David

They played with them. They love him. Can't even hold himself. Look at this. This is one of the biggest alphas in the world. Do you see that? Such a beautiful freaking thing. You know, we're taking family pictures with everybody wearing their own jerseys. You know, we're a proud family. The one jersey I will comfortably put on. You can pause it right there is latan. You know what this reminded me of? Many, many years ago. I'm teaching PHP University at a hotel in Dallas. I'm wearing my Yankees jersey. I don't know if you remember that video where I'm coming, I'm going like this. There's a video of that one. You'll remember this. When we're doing this thing and we are leaving this meeting in Dallas, you're not going to find it. So don't worry about it. It's fine, guys. You're not going to find it. We are leaving this meeting. And while we're leaving this meeting, I am myself. I call my sister. My sister's with me. But we go to our house in Plano. While we go to the house in Plano, we watch the last game of Kobe Bryant and Shaq tells Kobe, go for 50. Go for 50. Shaq tells Kobe, yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, go for 50. So he says, go for 50. And Kobe goes for 60 points. That night, his last game, 60 points, it was against Utah.

Adam

Utah.

Patrick Bet-David

And the guy that was gardening was a Gordon. Gordon Hayward. Brandon Hayward. No, no, Gordon Hayward. No, no.

Clip/Interviewer

It's.

Patrick Bet-David

It's a different first name. Is it Gordon Hayward? It is Gordon. Brandon Hayward was a power forward. And he scores 60.

Vinny

Yeah.

Patrick Bet-David

And I just sat there and I'm watching this. His last game, he scored 60. Everybody in the audience is in tears, emotional. Everybody in the audience is in tears, emotional. When this guy scored 60. And afterwards he goes, kisses the floor, leaves. And you think about the 20 years this guy gave to the Lakers. And when he came on and we had him at the event and we're having a conversation together prior to the event and all that stuff. And then the day we get the news that he passed away, we were at seasons 52 and my phone all the alerts, everybody, my phone is the first. All of a sudden, I get 50 text messages within two minutes. And I said, there's no way this is true. And then CNN reports and then Fox reports and then ESPN reports it. And you realize Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter accident. This could have been prevented. There's something very emotional about sports, and I think what the World cup is doing. I posted this on Twitter yesterday on my account saying there's something very emotional about soccer because when they lost, one of the teams lost, Bosnia lost, and the coach went around to their side to thank the audience on their side. You could tell how emotional the audience was because you're fighting for your country. There's something very, very emotional about the game of soccer. It's very weird. I rooted for Morocco. I've been critical of Islamists. And, you know, when we talk about politics, I can't believe you're this. I'm rooting for Morocco. Yeah. It's like, I want to see these guys win. Everything leaves. Religion leaves. All of it leaves. You see stories of these kids who have gone out there and done what they've done. It's such an amazing sport of bring the world together. And so I'm excited. I'm excited to see what's going on. I hope to see everybody, you know, these couple games that all the countries rooting for their own thing. It's going to be an amazing next few couple weeks. This thing's going to be done like this. You know that, right? In a couple weeks, we're selling. July 19th is the last game. Today's what? July 1st, July 3rd. Wait, the second or third in 16 days is the championship match. Yeah, in 16 days. It's not like baseball or football in 16 days. So anyways, gang, for those guys that tuned in, the true believers on debut, we were debating, should we do Shabbat? We're going to be doing this effective next week. Remember, it's only two times we're doing podcasts a week for the next three weeks. Mondays and Thursdays. Put it in your calendar. Mondays and Thursdays. And for some of you guys, we may not be giving away a private jet, but we are giving the ability for you to come and join us on the podcast if you place your order over 2000. And I know a bunch of people are doing that thousand dollar orders on vtmerch.com we will FaceTime you. The first 50. The first 200 orders will get the golden bottle. And then we have buy one, get one free. We have a But even if you're watching this saying, I'm not going to spend that kind of money, go get yourself a Future Looks Bright hat. Yesterday there was 80 future looks bright hat that was given away to the people that were there with Florida on it. There's so many different things. You're going to get a lot of discounts this weekend for Fourth of July. And if you're somebody that wants to develop yourself and grow yourself and invest into online courses, we have the Art of Public Speaking, PBD Sales System strategy. Five of them you're going to get in a bundle. Or you can get your Future Looks Bright shoes. Go to vtmerch.com to place your order. Enjoy. 4th of July, 250 year anniversary. What a special moment this is for American history as well. And we will do this again next Monday. God bless everybody.

Adam

Take care. Bye bye, bye bye fourth everybody.