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Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. A handshake is better than anything I ever signed. Right here. You are a one-on-one? My son drives every day. I don't think I've ever said this before. I'm the one.

Okay, gang, it feels like we haven't done a podcast for a while, but it was Saturday when we did the emergency podcast, and a lot has already happened since then. A lot has happened since then.

There is a feud going on between Tucker Carlson, President Trump, and a Republican faction, different factions that they're debating each other and arguing on what's about to happen with Iran and Israel. The tension of that is not decreasing at all whatsoever. The current count, when you look at war, what's going on with Israel and Iran, numbers-wise, you have 224 reported dead, including military personnel and civilians in Iran,

from the Israeli attacks. Independent sources say it's as high as 406 killed, 654 wound. And in Israel, you got 24 fatalities confirmed and 592 wounded and a lot of thoughts and a lot of opinions, whether we're going to go into war, whether some are saying it's about to be World War III. Some are saying there's a deal being done. Last night at 1.13 a.m., President Trump tweeted,

Something after Macron said it looks like President Trump is leaving G7 because there's going to be a peace deal getting done and President Trump's like, no, not at all. So there's just a lot of commentary. We'll talk about all that stuff as well. Let me kind of go through some of the stories. We have a friend here with us, Ricardo Aguilar. He's here with us legally. He's very legal, just so you guys know. He's one of the favorites. He's been here many, many times and he's back. We had a great meeting yesterday.

Lots of friendly fire yesterday, but it was a great meeting. A couple updates on stories for us to cover. Apparently, one million illegal immigrants have self-deported. Wow. Can you imagine? They're like, I'm not dealing with this shit. Let's go back to Mexico. Hey, I'm on my way. Yeah.

One million, according to, I don't know if they talk like that, but I'm just saying one million left, back to, according to New York Post. Didn't they all get a little money on the app? I don't know what happens, but they're back. Netanyahu speaks to the Iranian people saying, stand up for your vision, for your freedom.

And in Iran, civil war as Ayatollah Khamenei faces backlash from his own inner circle. Cracks at the top is Iran's inner circle trying to flee. There's videos of Iranians inner circle leaving Iran. Where they're going, who knows. And the credibility of this story, who knows. But we'll definitely talk about it. Israel asked U.S. to join military campaign against Israel. But U.S. rejects the request.

Trump defender Scott Jennings argues U.S. should bomb key Iranian nuclear sites. And Scott Jennings is a player saying something like that, so we'll talk about that. Israel planned to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei, but Trump said no report that such thing happened.

Then he got Trump's vote with the media, House votes to cut $1.1 billion in corporation for public broadcasting funding. That is a scary thing there. Bill Maher sits down, Sean Penn sits down with Bill Maher, and he says, even if I got an invite to go to the White House, I wouldn't do it. And then immediately...

That triggers Bill Maher because Bill Maher wouldn't have met with Trump. He says, oh, yeah, yeah, so you're not going to go meet with President Trump, but you're going to go meet with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez? Well, I feel like I got more done there. You just have to see that reaction. Good for Bill Maher for standing up there. And then a couple other stories here when it comes down to ICE and L.A. Still going on. Newsom, a couple commentary, what he's saying with no King's Kings protest. Republicans' interest for Musk cools after his feud with Trump. New polls show.

uh uh poll finds and i think even elon musk did a physical yesterday showing the fact that he's negative he did the test at austin it showed that he wasn't on any drugs any of that stuff he publicly put it out there and said lol we may even address that nancy mace blasted him waltz after he fails to answer one simple question and you know what it was what is a woman you have to they still don't know how to answer a basic question like that market fear

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And so now she's denying that she said that. Look, I'm not trying to upset some of the people, whether it's he or she. I'm just saying she denied, you know, this person denied some of those claims. Macron will cover what happened there. Trump swipes that Tucker Carlson will cover. Netanyahu tells ABC he's not ruling out taking out Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. And then there's a couple things going on right now saying let's make Iran great president.

Again, Netanyahu urges dissidents to topple regime. And then a few other things here on the bottom. Apparently on TikTok, video came out showing the fact that they're paying guys $200 per day in L.A. to go protest. Again, this no king, you know, no king protest. The anti-ice Jimmy Kimmel came out, was even out there. And I think even Logan Paul was out there. It's funny. I saw Logan Paul. Logan Paul was out there. Logan Paul was in L.A. protesting.

Very interesting. Newsom tells Trump's mental fitness that he's lost it. That's what Newsom said, and we've got a couple other stories we'll definitely get into. Gang, for those of you guys...

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and says a few words on, I think it was the Steve Bannon. And he had a couple different tweets, Rob. I don't know if you have the tweets. I don't know if you have the videos. Whichever ones you want to prepare. I'm just going to go right into the story here of what happened with Trump and Tucker. Is this the clip of him and Steve Bannon? So here's the issue with Israel, Iran. There's a camp that says, attack, let's take out Iran. You know, Scott Jennings from CNN comes out and says that

argues U.S. should bomb key Iranian nuclear sites, and a lot of people are on the same page with him, but there's a complete different side. Jennings, one of the most effective defenders of President Trump on cable news, wrote from Jerusalem, Israel, on Sunday that U.S. should bomb Iran nuclear facilities at Fordow. My thoughts from Jerusalem, Israel is on a brink of remaking the Middle East and ending the biggest sponsor of radical Islam terrorism in the world. Trump's strategic part in this move was brilliant. Trump has stated,

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I actually really love Trump. He's a deeply humane, kind person. And I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my country is going to be further weakened by this. I think we're going to see the end of American empire, obviously. Other nations would like to see that, and this is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end, I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it.

And so that's why I'm saying this. What do you mean by that? That's coming from you. You get... Look, I knew Bush. I knew George W. Bush. We had family connections to Bush. I knew Bush. Personally, I still see Bush sometimes. And...

You know, of course, he hates me, and he does because I criticized him on Iraq, and that war is the sum total from historical perspective of his administration. But I knew him, and he had all kinds of plans for the things that he wanted to do. Domestically.

domestically to improve the country right and you may agree or disagree but like in his mind he wasn't just about the invasion of iraq in march of oh no no he was going to redo social security he had all this all types of he was going to take care of the entitlements issue and he really thought it was going to work yep and you could laugh at that or whatever but the point is the second you get enmeshed in a real war not a fake let's go bomb the villagers and declare success though we don't even have a good track record like why are the houthis still there

There's a whole other question, which is how prepared is the U.S. military for a real conflict? And the answer is totally unprepared.

Scary unprepared. I don't think people understand that. Do you have the tweet, Rob, of what Tucker said? Do you have the tweet on Mark Levin, all these other guys? I can find it. So anyway, so while that's happening, somebody asked President Trump about Tucker Carlson. I don't know if you saw this one. Did you see what he said? Live? Live. Somebody asked President Trump, Rob, I sent you the clip if you have that. Here's when he's asked out of nowhere, hey, about Tucker Carlson. Watch what he says. Go for it.

How does he respond to Tucker Carlson criticizing you, saying that you were complicit in the war? I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen. Thank you.

Well, damn. Vinny, thoughts on this entire exchange? On this exchange? Not just this exchange. You know, you have Scott Jennings, one camp that's saying attack, take him out. You got one camp saying no, don't do it. What are you at with it? Just in a nutshell, Pat, I mean, listen, you got to tip your hat to Bibi Netanyahu. Just from the jump, every single time this guy has asked for war and wanted us to get involved, it has worked.

Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, every time from if Trump is warning and we're sending airplanes and we're sending all this stuff, that guy wants it. That guy gets it. OK. And in this whole situation, Pat, like let's just be honest. Tucker has not shifted besides being America first. We don't want any new wars. This is this is what we were talking about. This is what we were promised. I don't.

don't want another war period and i don't know how you how does it flip and that's my question back to you guys how do you go from no to peace treaty to this to absolutely no war and then all of a sudden it flips it's just a complete 180 and it's like i i don't understand it he was he was pro uh peace and then mike waltz got caught in the in the in those rooms with the israeli signal chat pat

Trump got pissed off at Bibi. He's like, what the hell are you doing? He goes overseas for those meetings. He doesn't even meet with Bibi. So there was beef there. And then all of a sudden, now they have nuclear weapons. And if you saw Tulsi Gabbard in March, in March, she said, the United States intelligence community continues to assess that Iran is not building

a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized a nuclear weapon program that he suspended in 2003. Okay, by the way, and then Trump says she has no idea what she's talking about. So you mean to tell me the director of national intelligence isn't intelligent on this topic? And it's like, here's my thing, Pan. I've been getting a lot of messages from people from Iran and everything like that.

I just hate the games that are being played, especially with Bibi Netanyahu. If you want regime change, which I know he does, just say it. Stop with the nonsense about Iran trying to assassinate Donald Trump and trying to drag us into it. You don't need to do all that shit. Just say you want it. There's 90 million people there. I got a message on my neck this morning. I got to show you this.

Just really fast. This is a guy on my neck that's Iranian. And you know what his attitude is? He's like, listen, you guys are on. You guys are getting pulled into another war. He goes, the Iranian people need change, but not through war, through their own will, through protests. That's how real, lasting change happens. Not other countries going in and saying, this is what you need. And in regard to the nuclear stuff, Pat, this is my assessment is...

That every country has. I know everybody's attitude is, well, why do they have nuclear facilities and all that stuff? Every country has nuclear energy. That's not the issue. It's transparency. That's why we have the IAEA. It's the International Atomic Energy Agency. Their job is to verify that nobody's building bombs. OK, Iran signed it. They go there. They check on their shit. Israel doesn't sign it. Israel's not involved in it. And as everybody always says, and Adam, you've said it before, Israel doesn't have bombs.

Nuclear weapons? Yes, they do. And you know why? Nobody can go in there and see what they're doing. I don't like the attitude. I don't like the flip-flop. I don't want, because everybody's going to say, well, we need to take them out. They're building a bomb. He's been saying it since 2012. I don't believe it. That's my point of view. Tom, thoughts?

So there's a lot there to unpack. I mean, we're seeing Netanyahu. We're seeing Scott Jennings, just seeing things. So let me start with Scott Jennings really, really quick. Scott Jennings is not out there like a Nikki Haley war hawk. Let's go fight. Let's just go dive in. What Jennings said, he used the word Trump can't miss. Let's not miss the opportunity to conclusively end the nuclear threat from Iran. And let's not miss the opportunity to remake the Middle East and

if Trump did something supportive, he would be justified is what Jennings said. And I think you should get the peace prize. That is a hell of a lot different from the war hawks that are out there saying, you know, there's just sheer blood loss. Let's go, go, go, go, go. So I think the media is trying to make Jennings sound a little bit more war hawkish than he was there, especially because he, he talks about a quick action and then ending with the peace prize now to Netanyahu. Yeah. I mean, what the,

There haven't been—we can talk about inspectors throughout the Middle East, but, you know, there have not been inspectors that have successfully, you know, gone through Israel. And, by the way, Arab countries who have their motives and they're trying to start trouble of their own, you know, have said, you know, hey, if you're going to inspect us, you've got to inspect everybody.

And so that's how I feel about that. But right now, I also think Netanyahu's being pretty shrewd because they say there's 60% of the people in Iran want regime change. We've seen the videos of people cheering. And so when Netanyahu goes out and says...

Let's make Iran great again. I don't have a problem with you. I have a problem with your government. He's really trying to stoke the protests and stoke the opposition party to go do its thing. But, you know, he's no saint, but that's what's going on in my view. Adam. Bibi Netanyahu will probably go down as the Winston Churchill of Israel. So you can tell a lot about regime, not how they deal with external forces, on how they treat their own people.

I would argue that the Ayatollah and the regime in Iran treat their people worse than any regime in the Middle East, possibly the world. You know, we've seen all this free Palestine, free Palestine, free Palestine movement. Cool. I get it. You know what movement I'm all about? All about free Iran.

I'm all about free Iran. Iran has been hijacked by this theocratic, thug-like Islamic regime since 1979. I also believe in symbolism. They've been in power 46 years to be exact. Trump is president number 45 and 47, is he not? Smack dab in the middle of that is 46. I believe that Trump, when he says...

Iran cannot and will not obtain a nuclear weapon. I believe he knows what he's talking about. I believe that Trump believes in what he's saying. I believe he believes in his intelligence. For all the people out there that don't think Iran is working on a nuclear weapon, what the hell do you think they've been doing? What the hell do you think they've been negotiating? What the hell do you think they've been working on for a decade?

You think they're just having fun, peaceful conversations over nothing? They're developing a nuclear weapon, and Netanyahu's looking at them, and he's saying, this is the line in the sand, and we're not going to deal with it. But, Adam, we said the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they didn't have anything. We went to war for 20 years. Yeah, were we doing nuclear negotiations with Afghanistan? Of course, we sent inspectors all the time. We sent inspectors.

I want to understand one basic thing. Do you think Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon? Is that what you're saying? Adam, here's the thing. Do you think they're not developing a nuclear weapon? It's not about what we think. We can't start a war over a hunch. There's already a war going on. But we can't get involved in a war over a hunch. America's not involved. I totally understand that. I understand, but when we're moving our fleet down there and we're getting our army ready for it, our military ready for it...

We're showing signs of aggression. That's the way I'm looking at it. On top of that, when we voted Trump in, he said as of day one, we were going to stop the war with Russia and Ukraine. That didn't happen. And then as of day one, that we were going to have the Palestine-Israel things solved. That didn't happen. On the complete opposite, now here we are 100-something days in, and now we're getting ready to fund another war or help them with another war. That's not what we signed up for. I totally understand, and I totally appreciate why the American people are completely over...

funding foreign wars. I totally understand that. I'm with you. I don't want any American troops on the ground. But people have to understand there's nuance in this conversation. We don't have to have any American troops on the ground. If we want to live in reality, let's live in reality. Have American troops been in Gaza? Zero. Have American troops taken out Hezbollah? Zero. Have American troops been in Syria?

Why is that any different in Iran? I hear you loud and clear. No American troops on the ground. No American lives lost. I'm with you. Israel has the ability to fight their own battles. Let's give a little credit to where to credit to. They've taken out every single terrorist regime around them. And now they're about to knock out, blow Iran. And America hasn't to do anything.

So meanwhile, we've given Ukraine more money in the last two years than we've given Israel in their entire lifetime. We don't have to physically be their support. As a matter of fact, the people in France, just all of them at the bay just said, hey, we're not going to be loading these weapons for them. In France, they're doing that right now. Well, French is a bunch of gay frogs. What are we worried about? But Adam, here's the thing. You're saying the director of national intelligence, because you were saying –

If Trump says it's there now, just in March, they said he's not doing anything that you guys are claiming that he's doing. Zero. He's not going to try. He's not trying to make a bomb. Why the flip? So from March, April, May, June. Now all of a sudden in three months, what they've been saying, this is the clip right here, Pat. And then this is what he says about, is this the both videos, Rob? Yes. Okay.

The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.

The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. Okay, this is March, guys, mind you. In March, Adam, they're not making a bomb. I trust the intelligence coming from the director of national intelligence. Maybe we're living in two completely different realities. Because every piece of information I see out there is that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.

What have we been doing then? What have we been talking about? Hold on, Adam. Everything that you're getting is from Israeli intelligence and Bibi Netanyahu, hold on, that's been wanting this war forever. He wants this war. Just because you're yelling doesn't mean you're right. Control your emotions. No, because you say stuff like free Iran. What's the plan, Adam? What's the plan? What's the plan? Look at the...

It's not... The play is looking pretty damn good right now. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question. I'm listening to this, and I'm trying to hear everybody out. I'm really trying to hear...

Scott Jennings saying, you know, bomb Fordo. And I'm really trying to hear Tucker saying, hey, don't go. And do you have the Tucker tweet when he says about Mark Levin and he's got all the names? Not this one. There's another one. Just go to his handle and you'll see it if you go a little bit lower. Go a little bit lower. Go a little bit lower. Go a little bit lower. Let me see what that one is above it.

Click show more please. Yeah, this is the one. The real divide isn't between the people who support Israel and the people who support Iran or Palestinians. The real divide is between people who casually encourage the violence

and those who seek to prevent it, between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who's calling Donald Trump today to demand airstrikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter, and Miriam Adelson. At some point, they will have to answer to this, but you should know their names. Okay, so I think we talked about this on the podcast last week. I'm trying to understand...

What he's saying. Got it. So I'm trying to understand what President Trump is saying. Why is he attacking? Who has the most intel between you, between Tucker, between Jennings, between Trump, between all these guys? Who has the more intel on what's going on? So then the question for me goes to the following. Remember when he killed Ghassan Soleimani? Do you remember when he did that? Okay. Were you supportive of it?

When he killed... Ghassan Soleimani. Yeah. Why? Because he was trying to do damage here in the United States. So Iran's no longer trying to do damage to the United States? No, I didn't say that, but the conversation is nuclear. No, no, stay on this. This is my question. It's what I'm asking. You'll see where I'm going with this. Because I'm trying to watch, truly, I'm sincerely trying to watch everyone's patterns. My position's been the same for 46 years. Okay? Okay.

when it comes onto this topic. 'Cause I lived there, I saw what they're all about. All I'm trying to ask is the following. When Trump killed Ghassan Soleimani, how many Republicans who voted for Trump celebrated that day? - Every single one of them. - Why did they? - 'Cause they recognize a threat when a threat is seen. - So, but isn't that an act of war? When we killed their number two guy that was supposed to be the president and be the leader of Iran? - Yes. - So why did we celebrate? Why were we not upset?

Actually answer that question, Vinny. Think about it. All of us. I'm asking that. I'm asking why did that not upset and why were so many people? Go back, time the tweet of what people said at that time. Show strength. Took them out. When you try America, check yourself. See what happens. Why were you not upset? And why are we upset now? What is the only difference between why were we upset, why were we not upset then versus now?

I think with Soleimani, it was a strategic thing that took him out because he was trying to do stuff on our soil. This situation— But what hasn't changed, though? Meaning, it has to be at that time, if they did, because they were trying to do something on our soil, and after we kill them, they no longer want to?

You don't think they no longer want to do anything to U.S.? You don't believe them when they say death upon America? You don't believe them? No. You think it's just an act? No, I 100% believe them. There's only one thing that's changed. What's the only thing that's changed? At Capella University, you can learn at your own pace with our FlexPath learning format.

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If you went on a road trip and you didn't stop for a Big Mac, or drop a crispy fry between the car seats, or use your McDonald's bag as a placemat, then that wasn't a road trip. It was just a really long drive. The way that the, what they call, woke right views Israel. That's it. The only thing that's changed is there is a community of people in the last since October 7th

that absolutely cannot stand, trust anything with Israel, and that triggers them. You know, when I watch everyone, I listen to everybody, and I'm not listening to people that disrespect. Anybody that disrespects, boom, muted block, go away, I don't need you. But if you say something to me respectfully, I want to hear it. Okay, I want to hear it. So think about people, rank things that trigger people the most.

Can we agree that number one is Trump derangement syndrome? Oh, yeah. Do you see what happens when you see someone that hates Trump?

How they react, they're like, hey, I want to read you some of these tweets of what Barack Obama said. And they'll read it. Oh, wow, that's powerful. That's amazing. That's this. Oh, that was actually Trump. Oh, really? Yeah. I want to read you what Trump said. Oh, that's why he's a white nationalist racist. Oh, these were actually said by Obama. Obama never said that. Let me play the clip. You ever see that? What does that tell you? TDS. TDS, absolutely. Rank me the top five deranged syndromes.

If number one is TDS, what's two? Number two is Israel. I guarantee you number two is Israel. 100%. And by the way, most of you are in one of the two camps. If not both. Yeah, some are in both. But most of you are in both of the camps. So then what happens? Which one are we falling for? I'm trying to be as reasonable as possible. Okay? I'm trying to see like when Netanyahu says, oh, they try to kill the president. Stop it.

Stop it. It's like dude. Don't talk like that I don't even like you talking like that that that doesn't you like as a president, you know When did when they when they're seeing this is this the one Rob? Yes, how long I don't is does he get into it right off the bat Yeah, pretty quick go for it. Watch this unit. Do you have the one of Trump reacting to it? I can find okay play this clip here

I want to talk about President Trump. You just said Iran tried to assassinate President Trump twice. Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on President Trump were directly from Iran? Through proxies, yes. Through their intel, yes. They want to kill him. Look, he's an enemy. What was the answer? Through proxies, yes. Through their intel, yes.

You didn't say, yes, we have it. Because if you got the intel, give it to me if I'm U.S. Okay, so one, why are you saying that? Are you saying that because you want the people to be even more like... Okay, so that's one part. The other part, when people say, you know, Trump is owned by Israel. You know, U.S. is ran by Israel. Come on, guys. I mean, both sides are playing the game to get eyeballs. And if the success is based off of how well your tweet did...

And then that's like, oh, okay. No, that could also be the mob being on your side. But if we were happy when Ghassan Soleimani was killed and we thought that's showing strength, what changed? My concern, Vinny, right now with this is I do think Iran is going to be, U.S. is going to be pulled into war. I do think that. I do think it's going to be nasty. I do think the Iranian people want this.

And I know this is going to sound weird, guys. When it was 1977, 78, 79, when eventually the revolution happened, the Iranian people, 9 million revolted in the streets. They wanted the shot to fall. They wanted it. And it fell. I think the Iranian people right now, if you go look at some of the protesting videos that are being sent, they're celebrating saying we're going to be free again. Do you realize, like, think about the most basic stuff.

If you think about the most basic stuff, I'll come to you Ricky. If you think about the most basic stuff, you think if you're living in Iran, you don't think you want tourists to come in? Think about if you live in Iran, Vinny. Say you love your country. Do you want tourism? Of course. Do you want Sprint to be able to advertise? Do you want the TV to have access to NBC, ABC, HBO, WBZ?

Would you like that? Would you like to be able to get on social media without having to get a star link that's being given to you? Would you like to be a Christian walking the streets without having to worry about what's going on? Would you like that? You would like that. I would like that. What if...

What if you're like Ricky? Ricky is not wanting to leave California. Okay? You don't think Ricky wants California to change? You don't think Ricky wants to see a red person come in there? Of course they do. The Iranian people who are living there, the Iranian Iranian people, want this to be done with Khamenei and their people. They want to be good with everybody around the world. And they're not today. They're not today. And so there is that camp.

So to me, I'm simply watching everybody's position to see what argument they're making

to see where they're coming from. And in my eyes, whatever way this can get done with the least amount of friction is the best way. But at this point, it looks like we're headed in the direction of going to war. That's what it looks like as of right now. Yeah, I think my question would be to you, Pat, was obviously, as many other viewers may or may not know, you're in a lot of communication with people that are involved directly with this, even people with Iran living in Iran, same thing with you, Vinny. But my question would be,

They want that liberation. They want a regime change, but at the cost of a war? Or is it a revolution they want to start and they want help with it? That would be my question. There's many angles of being able to achieve any goal. But do they want that war? Because that's going to come at the cost of their lives as well. It's going to come at the cost of their destruction as well. So I have no doubt that they want to change. But what avenue would they rather take?

What are their options? For 46 years, they've tried every peaceful avenue. Well, they revolted. I remember you told me when you were living in Iran, there was a revolt because of what happened with the theater. They killed people. But at that point, that's because the US CIA got involved. MI6 got involved. A lot of them got involved because they were fearing the Shah was getting too powerful. Iran was getting too powerful. And the Middle East was at peace. Even though...

Guys go up there and you know say oh my god You keep talking about the Shah you ought to be done with talking about the Shah and you know that it's the truth When when it doesn't mean Israel did it start wars? It doesn't mean Israel didn't go out there and look at their threats and have their motives Mike my basis was when Iran was ran by the Shah There was good relations with Iran and there was no war there. They weren't causing wars. I

Iran was peaceful. It's bad to the point where MBS, you think about what MBS is trying to do, right? Saudi Arabia. They're getting tourism. They're getting guys like Ronaldo. They're getting fights over there. They're getting the live golf. Did you hear what he had to say on 60 Minutes? Did you see what he said on 60 Minutes? Have you seen this? I saw a section of it. Watch this here. Go ahead, Ryan. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Not a rival to Saudi Arabia.

Its army is not among the top five armies in the Muslim world. The Saudi economy is larger than the Iranian economy. Iran is far from being equal to Saudi Arabia. But I've seen that you called the Ayatollah Khamenei the new Hitler of the Middle East. Absolutely. Why?

Because he wants to expand. He wants to create his own project in the Middle East, very much like Hitler, who wanted to expand at the time. Many countries around the world and in Europe did not realize how dangerous Hitler was until what happened happened. I don't want to see the same events happening in the Middle East. Does Saudi Arabia need nuclear weapons to counter Iran? Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb.

But without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible. Okay, so here's a question. That is MBS from Saudi. Here's a question. Sounds pretty reasonable. But here's a question I want you to think about. Okay. What do you think his motive is? What do you think MBS's vision is? To make Saudi Arabia one of the biggest, most powerful tourism. Is that the impression you're getting? Yeah, he loves his country. Have you been to Saudi Arabia? I have. Have you been? Yes. Did you feel safe?

Kind of, sort of. Where was it? When was it? I was in a couple of places. What year? What's the last time you were there? I came here seven years ago, six years ago. So seven, six years ago you were in Saudi Arabia. Okay. Have you been to Iran? No. Why not?

It never crossed my mind. If you got a comedy skit right now to go to Iran to do a show, would you go? Right now? Two years ago. Probably not. Probably not. Why not? Just say I'm an American. I'm a veteran. But do you feel safer going to Saudi versus going to Iran? Oh, for sure. Okay. So when you think about Iran, what do you think Khamenei's vision is for Iran? What do you think their number one is? So MBS is what? To be like, you know...

Nice place to go, you know, events, sports, all this kind of stuff. What do you think Iran's vision is? What do you think Khamenei's vision is? I honestly don't know. Have a great country, you know, economy. You think it's economy? Do you really believe that? Because let me ask you this question.

Say, for instance, if somebody wants a good economy, say you're saying you want them to have a good economy. All right, if that's your number one, what would you do for your country to have a great economy? What would you need to do to have a great economy? Tom, if let's just say Khamenei or the leaders of Iran want to have a great economy for their country,

What are some five things I can do to make my country better for my people? Oh, my gosh. You would open up trade discussions. You'd try to get some trade treaties put on. You would try to get invited as a guest to things like G7 and get diplomats together. You would try to play nice with the world stage to get people to recognize you and to step it back.

Look what Saudi's doing with sports, with F1, with soccer, with live golf. They're trying to bring people in there. They're trying to engage the rest of the West and be an active, good participant in all that and get trade with, you know, they've got a lot of Petro, of course, and get trade and things set up with the rest. Iran doesn't look like it's doing any of that. So, Tom, your impression of Iran is that's not what they're trying to do.

That's not what they're trying to do. What do you think Iran's number one is? The current leaders of Iran, what do you think their number one is? I believe they're on a...

Islam driven mission to destroy what they feel is their enemies. Do you believe that Vinny or no? Yeah. You do believe that? Yeah. What do you think they're, and when it comes down to having relations with other countries to open up the economy and allow other companies to go there, what do you think that ranks for Iran? Right now? Period. Ever. Like in the last 46 years.

How important do you think that is to them? I mean, I don't know. I don't follow their... Like number 68? You don't have to follow it to see motives, right? You don't have to follow it to see motives, you know, because when we're commenting on things like this, if last night I had a meeting with all my insurance executives, top players. Meeting started at noon and it finished at midnight. Midnight, 1230? Yeah, we finished at midnight, yeah. Okay. We're at the lounge until 12 o'clock last night.

It was a room of a bunch of people that some get along, some don't get along. Some wanted to be there. Some really didn't want to be there. It was a tough meeting that we had. Sure was. But you know what was the equal, what brings everybody together? It's one question. What is it? What's in it for me? What's going to happen for me? Pride. Some of the people are like pride. Hey, I built this company. I want to take it to the next level. For some people, it's what's in it for me. And what does what's in it for me do?

It gets everybody to know, okay, you're going to make money? You're going to make money? You're going to make money? Okay, cool. All right, sounds good. Let's roll. I trust, right? With MBS, if you know his main motive is what? I want to open up the economy. I want tourists to come here. I want people to feel safe. I want all that stuff to be taking place. Rob, can you pull up the map of the Middle East? I want people to feel safe. He has to be thinking about what do I need to do to make this entire region safer so a guy like you that's coming in is not even worried about it, right? Look at that. Saudi Arabia.

Qatar, and who's right next to them? Iran. You see where Iran is right across from the water? Boom. So they don't want that. Iran doesn't want an open economy. Saudi doesn't get up and MBS doesn't get up and say, death upon America. Screw the infidels. They should die. We should kill them. That's not how they negotiate. So again, I'm not sitting here saying let's go to war. What I'm saying to you is the Middle East would probably be

a better place if a different regime was running Iran. And if that was the case, we would be more at peace. It doesn't mean Israel's not going to change being, what's the word? Ambitious. It doesn't mean Israel's going to change being less ambitious and wanting to get their Mossad to lower all this. AIPAC's going to slow down. No, they're going to keep doing their agenda. None of that's going to slow down. But the common denominator here is everybody on the right was happy when Hassan Soleimani, oh my God, that's my leader.

That's my president. He's shown strength. But now, no, no, no. Why? Because there's Israel derangement syndrome. And guess what? You either have TDS or you have IDS. We have one of the two. Here's my question. So how does this play out to help Iranian people? So they're going to go in there. They're telling everybody to get out of Tehran, where my mom and dad are from, where your whole family is from, where you're from.

I want to know what is the... So kill... They're already taking out the leadership, which is a great thing. Then you're going to take out... I'm just curious. What is the plan? Your question is, what's the end goal? I don't...

I love plans. By the way, I'm not sitting here advocating for Iran or their leadership at all. I'm just curious. OK, Israel is doing it. We're going to get we're going to get put into it. What is the end game? Now you take out Khomeini, you take out all the nuclear stuff. OK, then what? Israel is going to put somebody in or they're going to have elections. I don't know what that looks like. That's what I'm curious for. And again, not pro-Israeli.

Iran or what's happening over there. I am just anti-United States as a veteran going to war. That's it. I'm simple. Let me respond to Vinny. I totally understand where you're coming from. More than you actually think. Because I think as an American, we look at what we've done over the last couple decades, getting involved in foreign wars, and there's a lot of Americans who are just like, I'm so over this. Afghanistan, Iraq, what we're going on out there.

But just because you're over that, it's almost like we're playing scared now. Now we have a trillion dollar military budget.

Why are we spending so much money to let our machinery and defense capabilities rust like we're the old Soviet Russian military? In my opinion, a lot of you guys are playing scared and don't recognize what's actually happening in front of your eyes. Not hypothetical, not playing scared. The Iranian regime is teetering.

And at any point might be eliminated. By the way, the Ayatollah Khomeini is 86 years old going on to meet his martyr pretty soon. And Israel, this little country that could, has eliminated every terror threat around them. And they're probably looking at Iran and being like, we've taken out their air missile defense capabilities. We've just taken down their nuclear facilities, despite people thinking they don't have nuclear capabilities. And in Israel...

To the point where Iran is now calling Qatar, Saudi, countries around the Middle East, basically saying, please help me. We need your help against Israel. This is the same regime that's talking tough, chanting kill, death to Israel, death to America, death to England, death to the infidels. So...

In my opinion, I totally understand why you're frustrated. But if I could go and recreate everything we've done over the last 20 years, I wouldn't be in Afghanistan. I wouldn't be in Iraq. I wouldn't be in Libya. I wouldn't be in Syria. I wouldn't do any of this. I would stay laser focused on the massive problem in the Middle East, and that is the Islamic Republic of Iran, period. If the Yahoo had a blank check...

to do whatever he wanted to do in the Middle East with nobody stopping him, what do you think he would do? So, good question. I firmly believe that every leader that we're talking about is their country first. So I believe that Trump is America first. I know, I understand, but that wasn't my question. I'll answer your question. My question is not that. My question is, it's not just his people first. If he had the opportunity to do anything unstopped and unchecked with no balances...

Do you think he would want to further the Israeli border? Do you think he would want to dominate other countries? What do you think? If we just let him do whatever the hell he wanted to do, what do you think he would do? Okay, and I'll put this back to you because I want to know what you think he would do. I believe that Bibi is Israel first. I believe that Xi is China first. I believe that Putin is Russia first. I believe in a weird way that the Ayatollah is kind of Iran first, but more Islamic revolution first. So the argument that Israel wants to expand its borders and what?

govern a billion Muslim Arabs as if that's what they want to do is to me so far-fetched and nonsensical that it actually doesn't make any sense whatsoever. So let's go there for a second. I'm not sure what you're speculating. I'll let you answer this. It was just a sincere question. Okay, are we saying, because I've heard this argument, that the Israeli aggression and the Israeli expansionism is trying to take over the Middle East. To me, that's so stupid.

Are you trying to tell me that Israel, the size of New Jersey, is trying to... Can we pull that map up one more time? Please. Are we trying to say that Israel, which is trying to defend itself, is trying to govern all of that?

Vinny, did we forget? To me, they can barely govern the people of Gaza and Palestine, much less Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Saudi, Qatar. He's asking you basic questions. Yeah, but do you remember? I'm trying to see where you're going. I think they just want to have their own borders and stay in peace and chill. But to assume that a small country can do damage, did we forget what Japan did to China?

And went in there and take over China. Well, brother, we're throwing up babies and landing them on the batonets of their rifles. I mean, to tell me your country, tell me your point. I just don't. I every time. And again, I am not. Just so you know, I am not an entry anti-Israel person. I am not any of that because I have a lot of, you know, friends. And I see both sides. I listen to Vinny. Vinny has his side. You have your side.

But when I listen to Netanyahu, it just seems like he's always wanting to instigate some shit. It just seems that way to me. I could be wrong, but it seems that way to me. It's always like, for example, when they ask them, oh, you have credible threats that Trump, they wanted to kill Trump. Well, yeah, we have this proxy. Like, bro, you're making a big, that's not something small.

That's not... Trump reacted to that. Rob played a clip of Trump reacting to that. Yeah, that wasn't something small. That was a big statement to make. Do you have it? No, I couldn't find it. I thought you had one of them up there that you were showing. No, but you know what? Here's a question for you. Yeah. Question for everybody here at the panel. Okay. Do you think there is propaganda going of people being anti-Israel? Do you think propaganda is taking place right now to be pro-war? Do you think there's actual money being spent right now on propaganda that

Whether it's AIPAC, Qatar, you know, different people that are putting up there. Do you think people are being paid to spew propaganda today? Yes. Do you think they are? Okay. So then let me ask you this question. Do you think any of it has worked on you?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I would be, yeah. Anybody who says no is a liar. Everybody's swayed a certain way by stuff that they see and they read. So then what do you do so it doesn't get a hold of you? Facts. Facts don't care about if you are going for facts, actual facts, then you're going to get swayed either way. If you watch Fox, you're going to have this point of view. If you watch CNN, you're going to have this point of view. If you're just out there trying to get the truth out,

I think the truth stands on its own merit. You don't have to go, well, I'm kind of swayed. Show me the facts, and then I'll make a decision. Does that make sense? I don't think that's it. You don't think facts? No, because even facts can be, you know. But the truth is the truth. It is, but it's not like if I give you data right now and I tell you,

uh you know from 19 even the other day guy responds from 1941 to 79 77 how many people died in the middle east because of wars since so what year so so it's very simple go to chat gbt rob ask this question from 41 when the shot was president to 77 okay till 77 this video i posted uh

retweeted because of Bill Ackman. Bill Ackman retweeted this video, something we talked about on the podcast a couple days ago. It was posted on

This other parody account, and it got 10 million views, but it also got a lot of hate and commentary on it. I can't believe you said this. I can't believe you said that. It's one of the videos. Rob, is that the one? I believe so. 9.1 million views. Yeah, so this one right here, right? Which is the not-PVD account, but it's from our podcast. So the video is an actual not an AI video, but it's a video from us. So go back to ChatGBT, Rob, and ask the question from 41 to 77, right?

How many wars were started by Iran, Israel? And then ask the question, how many people died in the Middle East during that time? And what is 41 to 1977? How long is that, Vinny? 30 years. 30 what? 30 to be exact. 36. So what we're going to do is we're going to measure 36 to 36. Pre-Shah, post-Shah. Okay. So Israel wars and conflict wars, Israel was involved in.

Arab-Israel war, war of independence. Death toll, 15,000 to 20,000. 6,000 Israelis, 9,000 to 15,000 as Arabs. Suez crisis. Israel-UK-France, 3,000 total. Egyptians-Israelis, British-French. The Six-Day War, 1967. 20,000 Arabs, 800 Israelis. The Yom Kippur War, 8,000 to 19,000 combined, 2,600 to 1,200 Israelis. Iran did not start any major wars. None. None.

Under Pahlavi. Iran was involved in some border skirmishes, but no declared wars. That's my point. I don't care what Israel does. Iran is my main point of common denominator here. Vinny, this is how many people they started wars with. Iran.

Okay? 36 years. And by the way, all of these wars that Israel started, yes, they get credit for starting wars. Well, I wouldn't say starting. Hang on a second. Some attacks. But what I'm trying to say to you is, yes, some of them was instigated by Israel. Safe. Okay? But what do you see with Iran during that time?

What does it unequivocally say? Iran did not start any major wars during this period. The only thing they did is what? Protect their border. Yeah. That's how many years? That's when the Shah was under leadership. 36. Now, do me a favor. What's 36 plus 77? What's 36 plus 77?

So you got 23, 2013, I think. Okay. So if you go to now do the same thing and type in the same exact thing, except change it 78 to 2013. This is data. You said you like facts, right? That's how to not fall for propaganda. Let's do it. I don't know what it's going to say, by the way. So wars and campaigns. Watch this. 82, Lebanon war, first Lebanon war, Israel invaded Lebanon, blah, blah, blah, PLO, 15 to 20,000.

Gaza wars, 1,400 Palestinians, 160 Palestinians. So you got two of them right there that Israel started. Iran, ready? Iran was a major city in proxy wars. Iran-Iraq, 1980-88. 500,000 to a million support to Hezbollah, okay? Then you got post-2003 Iran conflict. Death toll, what's the total count there? Go a little bit lower. What are you looking at there? Estimated death toll, 825 to 1.6 million. Who's the common denominator? Iran.

Is it still, you're still going to, what is it? I thought like Iran is a peaceful regime. I never said that. I never said that. Vinny, but what I'm trying to say is if we know that the common denominator that gets people to shake and shiver is one country, it's only Israel.

And I don't blame you. I get it. Like sometimes, like even when people have TDS, you know what I say? I get it. Cause Trump is a little bit. What? What's Trump? Is Trump cocky? Yeah. A hundred percent. Is he super confident? Yes. Is he a guy that'll call your ass out nonstop? Yes. Does he give a shit? Whether your name is, you're an ally, you're this, you're that. He does that nonstop, right? Okay. Guess what? That's Israel. Israelis. That's Israel.

think a little bit highly of themselves? Yes. Do they think they're better than you? Yes. Do they sometimes give you the vibe that their shit don't stink? Yes or no? Yes. And how do we feel about people like that? We don't like them. I never liked them when I was in high school, people like that. I didn't get along with people like that. I'm a one-pointed GPA guy in school. I'm a regular guy that came up in school. So I understand both deranged syndromes. But you said facts are facts. Those are facts for you. Pre-'78, the Middle East was at peace for the most part.

Post-chaos. What is a common denominator? The Hezbollahs, the Mullahs, Khomeini, Rafsanjani, all of those guys cause chaos. And they don't want to do business with you. They don't want to do business with capitalism and all these other guys. They don't. So this is the part when I say, has propaganda ever gotten a hold of you? Like, hey, I know for a fact these guys are Zionists funded by the XYZ. You guys know.

By the way, to all the people that say we're funded by Zionists, how many sponsorships do you see we do? Tell me. Go ahead. I'll wait. How many NFT sponsorships did we do? You don't think we were offered millions of dollars? The other day, my sponsorship guy back in the days who we moved on with texted me. He said, Pat, I still tell people how much you ate sponsorship money.

How much sponsorship money have we taken, Vinny? Zero. Who controls us for us to be able to say what we want to say? Nobody. We say what we want when we want. We talk openly about it. So you guys have Jewish money, Israeli money, Zionist money, whatever, Qatar money. Russian money. You never heard our names in any one of those things. None of it. You heard none of it.

And by the way, I can't believe you're selling merch. I can't believe you're doing this. That's our way of saying if you support what we do, it's our way of saying we don't want sponsorship money because we want to be able to talk openly. Does this mean eventually we'll do some sponsorship with some companies? Yes. But it's going to be stuff that we want.

It's going to be stuff that we like. Stefano Ricci, we believe in the brand. I've been buying it for many years. I'm at their house having dinner with their family. I spend the night. We have a relationship. We're there in Italy. There's something going on. There is a relationship because to me it has to be a relationship that you're talking on something that you're using. But we're living in a time that propaganda is just – I'm getting the messages that I get. You know, if I say something about Israeli people, you know what they'll say? They'll send me a book. Watch this. Do this. Watch that. Watch this. Watch that.

You know, you're this. And they'll say stuff like, oh, this is MLM, insurance MLM. That's what they'll say. But do you know if I say anything about Iran and Islam and Muslim, what do I get? Death threats. Do you know how many death threats I got about my family, my kids in the last week? That's the difference in the character. That's the difference in their character on how it is. And by the way, you ain't never going to win me over there because I watch behavior. Your behavior is death threats. Tells you what you're all about.

The other behavior is you want to hurt my business. Both of them are hurting. What wants to kill you, the other wants to kill your business. I have a problem with both, but guess what? There's a very obvious window and a line there. And by the way, again, I understand a lot of people, oh, God, you know, he's such a this, he's such a that, he's such a this. Nope, I don't fear any man.

I don't care if you're Scientology, Christian, Muslim, Islam, seven day, I'll talk to anybody and I'll break bread with you and I'll enjoy it. No matter what time of the day it is. We have God on our side. Every day when we're walking, I don't let fear get a hold of me. The man upstairs made such major miracles happen in the world since day one. I rely on that. That's where my confidence comes from. So all those messages doesn't do anything to me. But we're at a point right now that we have to, all of us ask ourselves,

What propaganda has gotten a hold of you? Which one? Which one got a hold of you? And none of us want to tell the truth. Yeah. But it's getting a hold of all of us. And we have to kind of step back and say, whoa, mom and dad get divorced. They're...

Each family side is selling me propaganda. You know your dad is really this, right? You know your mom is really this, right? I'm like, look, we're going to find out in 20 years who's right. 20 years later, we found out who was right. My dad's family did a lot when my parents got divorced when I was six. So, Patrick, just really, really fast. I know you want to move on to another story. So what would be the best case scenario? Meaning we go in with Israel. We attack. We kill the leadership. How would we...

I'm genuinely curious. How would it look? Because if you take them all out, then what happens? Does somebody else take Khomeini's? Now you're talking, Vinny. Yeah, there we go. And that's my concern. Yeah. That's my concern. That's the problem. That he gets replaced with another one like him. No, we don't have somebody right now. Reza Pahlavi, nice man. The prince. Now, we've had him on two times. He told me straight up he doesn't want to go back. And now you want to go back? What do you want to do? So I don't think he's going to go back.

Do I think he can play a role like a, what do you call it, an advisor or something like that? Yes. But somebody needs to be vocal. I got the weirdest call Saturday morning. Weirdest call Saturday morning. It's so funny, like all this stuff is going on. On Father's Day, my dad gives me the weirdest gift. One of my dad's biggest fear was when we came here, what was going to happen to my mother if my mother was going to take me back to Iran? Do you know on Father's Day, my dad gives me my Iranian passport? What? What?

He had that? He gifts me my Iranian passport. Wow. Yeah, from 1986. This is me. Wow. Crazy, right? That's crazy. Did you know he had it? Yeah. No, I had no clue yet. He's never told me this. Wow. And he somehow got a hold of this passport just so I could never go back to Iran because I needed this to go back to Iran. He got this just so I couldn't go to Iran and I joined the army. He wanted me to get the hell out of LA. Wow, Gabriel. Crazy, right? When you hear these stories. But to me...

My concern there is, Vinny, there isn't anybody we can get behind. Like at least in America when shit hit the fan, Trump. Okay, great. There's somebody. Okay, great. You know, there's Millet. Okay, great. There's Bukedi. Okay, great. There's no alternative right now. Who is it? This is a sweet man right here. Is he a strong enough man to go up against them? I don't know. I don't know. Because the job of the person to be able to do that

It's going to take brass. You have to understand games, deception, wars. You have to understand all of that stuff. And you steal...

Got to want to do it. It's a big job. It's not a small job. So I want to give you the last word and then we'll go to the next story. Yeah, I don't understand. And you would know better than me. I don't understand why people are saying, well, who's going to if we do regime change, who's going to be next? We do regime change. Who's going to be next? Why don't we worry about that when we change the regime? Because I'm very convinced of one thing. It's not how it works. Hold on. Hold on. Let me tell you how it does work.

Because you saw what happened in Syria. They took down Assad. Now you have an ex-ISIS leader running the country. He's dressed up in a suit. They put lipstick on a pig. Meeting with Trump. Meeting with MBS. He's doing a pretty good job, apparently.

Now, when you do regime change, I'm pretty sure we changed Hitler to a democratic leader. That worked out okay. I'm pretty sure that we changed Imperial Japan into a democratic leader. That worked out okay. So I know we don't know who the next leader of Iran will be, but here's what I can freaking guarantee you.

Can't be worse than what MBS called the Ayatollah Hitler. I hear you. I got you. I know what you're saying. Do you think there's anybody worse than the Ayatollah? You're talking to the wrong guy here, bro. So which one is it? No, but you need somebody to rally behind. That's it. You need somebody to give the freaking rally cry. You would know better than me. The rally cry is freedom.

No, it is. No, no, you're right. It is. But someone needs to sell that. Okay, well, you're telling me there's not one Iranian person that they respect and they can lead them? Is that what we're saying here? Let me ask you a question. When Argentina was going through the mess of being a freaking socialistic country and at one point being known as what? The Paris of whatever, Buenos Aires was known as a Paris of what did it call? South America, yes.

What caused us to be interested in Argentina? What, Eva Peron singing Cry Me a River? No, it's called Afuera. Afuera! Afuera! Oh, that was 75 years later. Bukele. But the point is, you need a vocal leader.

You need somebody that's selling it, that's going out there campaigning, sitting in front of media, telling what's going on. Who is that person? How do we not know that person in Iran right now? Well, because they can't speak up in Iran because they'd be probably hung with the news. Musk just gave them Starlink. Okay. But that's not even a point. It's not even a point. Even with that, somebody— You tell me. Who's the leader? That's the— If I don't know, that's the problem. But they don't know.

That's a you problem, not a me problem. Are you trying to tell me that... No, that's not what I'm saying to you. I've met so many Persian leaders, entrepreneurs, smart people. Oh yeah, they're going to take over Iran, Adam? Excuse me for a second. You would know better than me. Where did the Ayatollah, where was he living when he was implanted in 1979? Was he not in Paris? I thank you for saying that. Did they not bring him in? I appreciate you for saying that.

I'm so glad you said that. I'm so glad you said that. You know what happened in the streets of Iran? Do you know in the streets of Iran, he would send cassette tapes in. And the guy that I had on the podcast that was the founder of IRGC with Khomeini, he was the one that would record the tape. He's the first voice in the cassette tapes. The guy that was sitting here. He's introducing Khomeini, edifying Khomeini.

The tapes would come to Iran, and you know what people are doing all day, every day for months at a time? Because back in the days it would take a while to do. They're recording tapes and say pass it out. They're recording tapes, pass it out. Recording tapes, pass it out. Millions. You know how long it takes to dub tapes back in the days? Because it was only two. Boom, 45 minutes, go. Boom. So you have hundreds of those machines in a place, and they're just going like this, go. Going like this, go. How long does that take?

How long does that take? Years. And every time he would give the speech, boom, propaganda. But there was a vocal leader who was in France that was screaming and saying, Dushan's taking all your money. If I come back to Iran, I'll give you free rice. I'll give you free electricity. I'll give you free home. He was full of shit.

But he said all that stuff because he was a vocal leader. The Iranian people are like sitting there saying, watching all these people become rich in Iran. They're like, yeah, maybe that's going to happen. That guy right there, Mohsen Sazeh, he was the voice of that tape. So yes, you're right. There needs to be a voice. By the way, you know how quick that person can rise? Like this.

That person can rise very quickly. But the way that person needs to do it, guess where that person needs to go? He needs to go sit in front of 200 meetings like this, in front of camera. You just heard MBS. He said what? He gave his position. Here's how he feels about Iran. Oh, shit, I didn't know he was going to be that strong about it. He called Ayatollah Hitler. That's MBS saying this. And guess what? Who's doing that? Do you believe him or not? Someone from Iran needs to be doing that. They don't have that leader. Can I make a friendly suggestion? Sure, of course. And come at me either...

Reza Pahlavi is the guy or move the flip on and nominate someone else. Because if you're trying to rally around a leader, either you're the guy or you're not the guy. A lot of people agree with you. You're the guy or you're not the guy. A lot of people agree with you. Because Ayatollah, when he came in in 1979, he said, I'm the guy. And everyone said, okay, let's rally around this guy. Either the Shah's son needs to step the flip up

And be the guy. Or go nominate someone else and rally around him. Well, guess what? Enough's enough. Because you don't want to have Israel be the person that puts your next leader in charge. Pick your leader, and Israel, do your dirty work. Let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. Because guess what? We tried for an hour, folks. I know we disappointed you. We were not able to solve the world. I think we were. I think we were. I thought we almost had it, but we failed again. I think we're a little bit closer. We failed again. Maybe one of these days we'll figure this stuff out. But who knows? Till then, we're going to keep...

talking freely and seeing what direction we can go with this all right so I can't talk freely in Iran I know that

Can you run a poll, Rob? Run a poll. Say how many of you guys would like to see us do a case study of sending Adam to Iran for a week? And, you know, maybe he goes as a street team. 95% are going to say yeah. 95%. It's just a poll. I mean, if the poll is really above 90 plus percent. I'm a Syrian. Isn't your mom from Iran? Adam goes to Iran. And I don't know if you ran the poll yet or not, Rob. It's running right now. Let's see how many times.

With the Supreme Leader, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler, running Iran. I have no interest in this guy's Adam. Let's send Ricky back to Mexico. Newsome, with all the riots in L.A., all the riots going on in L.A., we got Ricky here. The reason why I got Ricky is because Ricky is as qualified to speak on this as possible, and I'll tell you why in a minute. Why?

I actually want to hear Ricky's perspective. The riots in L.A. have been a mess. No kings, you know, whatever riots across the country that they did, which will probably go down as the dumbest campaign ever in a history of trying to do community organizers to go across the country to disrupt. It's the dumbest campaign ever, the most embarrassing campaign ever ran by the left or the right.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of somebody's money was wasted. But here's Gavin Newsom, OK, talking about the president and how he feels the president is doing. Go for it, Rob. Because the other night he came out and said that when you guys spoke, he warned you that if you didn't get things under control, he was going to bring in stone cold liar. Look at this guy. Stone cold liar.

He made that up, like he makes up so many other things. He never said that. Oh, my God. And he also seemed to make up this idea that the National Guard did a great job last night when they weren't here. They weren't even deployed, and he claimed victory. He's lost it. He hasn't lost a step. And I saw him trip on the steps today. I mean, he, this is serious. This is a serious, this, he is not the same person that I dealt with

Just four years ago. Mm-hmm, and he's incapable now of even a train of thought He's making things and he's putting people's lives at risk And he's got a band of people that are complicit in this and that's what's so damn alarming. So but I

Oh, God, look at that. Okay, so Vinny, I mean, not Vinny, Ricky, your thoughts on the L.A. riots, on Newsom, the comments, stuff that he's saying, and we'll come back to this here, but I want to first hear Ricky's thoughts. Go ahead, Ricky. First of all, I want to, let me make two full disclosures. Number one, I don't speak on behalf of all the Hispanic community because I always see those comments, oh, you don't speak on my behalf. I'm not speaking on your behalf. I'm not speaking on your behalf. That's number one. Number two, I'm not speaking on your behalf.

There is a portion of this that is emotional for me, and I'll explain why. I mean, I'm not going to, I can't sit here and not tell you that I don't have an emotional factor to this. Let me explain why.

My parents came here. My mom was six years old when she came to this country. My grandmother had already had five kids. My grandmother came over here. She was six months pregnant with my tia Teresa. My tia Teresa was born in San Francisco.

She jumped aboard her pregnant, and they lived in San Francisco. So my mom was here, a beautiful little redhead girl when she was six years old. My dad came here when he was 18 years old. My mom's side of the family, they worked in the fields, picked grapes, you name it, all of it. My uncles were mayordomos. My mom picked grapes. She did the field work, all of that, because we live in Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley.

And my dad and his family and his brothers ended up in the restaurant business. So my dad was a dishwasher. My dad was a waiter. My dad never did the fields, but he did do that part. And all his brothers did the exact same thing. They ended up moving on to become entrepreneurs, owned restaurants that came out on Time Magazine. My dad and my uncle's side of the family became very successful entrepreneurs. So there is an emotional side to this.

And I would be lying if I didn't say that. However, one thing that we also have to understand is that no matter what way you look at it, the law is the law. And you could say, oh, sellout, coconut. I've already heard all this other bullshit. I've already heard all of it. And I've been called all of it. But I will tell you,

that a lot of people also agree with that. For example, I know that a lot of the protests are being funded and they're out there burning cars, waving the Mexican flag. It's wild to me that you come to a country that we broke into, let's call it for what it is, even though it's emotional to me. I come from illegal immigrant parents. I have illegal immigrant family members to this day.

And that you're demanding something as if you're entitled to it. And you're waving the Mexican flag in America and saying, oh, F-I-S-E. I was telling this, I was having a conversation with somebody on Instagram the other day. We were going back and forth. I said, let's say right now with all your stupid ass little signs, if we sent you to Congress and you represented all the Hispanic community,

How would we end up if everything was on your shoulders with your FIs stolen land? This used to be Mexico. Is that what you're going to go tell these congressmen? If if amnesty was on your shoulders, is that the route that you're going to take?

And that's the irritating part, I think, for a lot of us. I understand, for example, 1996 and 1986, which that's how my grandfather became legal here. And my uncles and my mom did was because Ronald Reagan gave amnesty. And here's my emotional part. Here's my emotional part that a lot of people won't agree with on the right. OK, but I'm going to speak from I'm just going to be very honest, OK?

When when when when we vote for example when Trump by the way just to make one thing clear I do not regret it. I do not regret it I don't like everything that Trump does but I don't regret it I much rather have a Trump than a Kamala when Trump said hey, this is the people were going after he was we were being told that there was people eating cats and dogs in apartments in Denver Colorado and the trend the agua and this and that's what we were being told and

So therefore, when we're saying, hey, they're going to go after all these guys that Biden let in, they're saying anywhere between 11 and 15 million people, that's who we assumed they were going to come after.

Your first raids are in freaking LA. Like you're like, what the hell is going on here? That's the emotional part. Logically, it's the law. That's the logical side. And any Hispanic that comes from immigrant parents, whether your parents are immigrant or Hispanic here, or any minority, you have to see things for what they are. It's the law. Like no matter what, it's the law. Matter of fact, Rob, can you play this? Let me give context before Rob. This video...

It's in Tijuana. The Central Americans showed up in Tijuana. Nobody likes illegal immigration. Let's see what the Mexicans in Mexico did to the Central Americans, please. Shoot it, Rob.

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What's this, Ricky? This is in Tijuana with a Central American caravan came to Tijuana. And look at the signs. Well, you'll see them right now, Pat. It's only a minute-long video. No a la invasión. No to the invasion. No a la invasión. This isn't Mexico. This is not L.A. Those are the Mexicans on that side. Look. Look how they're treating the Central Americans.

Look. Give us a little subtitle, Ricky. Mexico does this, you hypocrites. That's what pisses me off. Mexico does this. You want to make, oh, racist, fascist. If you don't support the cause, then you're just, you're implicit. Silence is implicit. What about this shit?

What about this? No country likes illegal immigration. There's no racism involved. There's no fascism involved, whether we like it or not. And if and if and if Trump and if ICE were to pick up, I would be personally affected in a very, very, very, very, very close manner to me.

But the law or the law, this president and by the way, nobody said anything when Barack Obama deported three million people. And I love this. Oh, he did due process. No, he didn't. In 1996, Bill Clinton signed a bill that allowed expedited exportations. He used it. Bush used it. Obama used it. Biden used it. And so did Trump.

There's no due process. 75% of the people that Barack Obama deported were deported immediately using the expedited deportation. But it's so crazy that you say these facts to Mexicans, to Hispanics. Oh, no, because now no Mexican used to know what the word due process was, Pat. Not all the Mexicans know due process. They're all lawyers now.

They're all lawyers now. They're all lawyers. All of them are lawyers. Due process, Barack Obama did it. You know what Mexicans remind me of? It's like when you're with that boyfriend that beats you up, but at the end he tells you he loves you, he'll never do it again. That's how they are with the Democrats.

By the way, what happened last year when they were questioning the lady that was responsible for the kids, the immigrant kids? They couldn't track 300,000 immigrant kids in one year. Where was the protest for that shit? Zero. They're our kids. 30% of women coming up to the border from Central America, our women, are getting raped.

On the way up. Because what happens in Mexico, and let's call it for what it is, and you can get all emotional and stupid about it. Here's the reality behind things. Mexico is corrupt. So when you go and do some shit like that, and you say, okay, well, there's two choices. You're either going to go to jail, and I'm going to deport your ass back to El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Chile, or this is what your option is. 30% of the women coming up to the southern border are being raped. Our people are dying in those deserts.

And then there's the argument of, oh, I love this one. Oh, then who's going to mow your lawns? Who's going to do the construction? Who's going to pick the grapes? So you're okay with our people being exploited then. They're getting paid minimum wage. My grandmother worked in the fields. My mom worked in the fields. My grandpa, my uncles. They would tell them, either you work longer and you don't get paid overtime or we're going to call immigration. Our people have been threatened by this for years. Wow.

For years. I grew up in the heart of it. Cesar Chavez, my grandma and my grandpa and my mom worked in the fields when Cesar Chavez was there.

Like, you don't tell me. I'm sitting there. I went to go have lunch. My grandma made sopitos for me the other day. I was there in Lamont, California, Woods Edition off of the Georgia. And I'm talking to my grandma. Because I wanted to go learn. I'm like, what am I missing here? I said, grandma, tell me. My grandma's been here since 19. My mom was born in 1969. She got here in 1975. She remembers all of it. And I said, grandma, how do you feel about these posters? Que pendejos. Why would you do that? You're making us look bad. Wow.

She says, you got to love this country. Oh, my God. But it's all the new woke pendejos. It's not, you know what? I feel bad because I know because people like my grandparents and my uncles, they're sitting there like, bro, you're making this worse for us. Why are you doing that? But I understand to a certain extent there's organized, it's organized chaos. They're paying people to do this, right? But I think that that's the annoying part of Hispanic. You're burning down the city. But like, for example, I'll tell you,

And it's so funny to hear people like in other states that were not raised in California or not live in California don't understand how this works. Because in California, this is the state that everybody came to first. Now you have Mexicans in Utah, Nebraska, Ohio, you know, Pennsylvania. Shout out to Sal Rodriguez, one of my guys in Pennsylvania. He owns a bunch of business over there. Comes from immigrant parents. We were not in those states originally. In the 60s and 70s, we landed in California.

It's insane to me. And they really think they're making a difference. But again, emotionally, emotionally, Pat, I want amnesty. Emotionally. But I also understand how the American people can say no. And I can't get mad at that.

There's got to be a part of you as a minority that's here illegally. Say, hey, listen, I was watching this video of the Venezuelan lady. She made such a great point. She says, why do you blame Trump for everything? How come you don't blame the presidents of the countries we're fleeing?

How come you don't blame Maduro, Chavez? How come you don't blame the president of El Salvador before Bukele? How come it's all Trump's fault? You do realize we didn't want to come here. The only reason we left is because we're fleeing tyranny. We're fleeing communism. We're fleeing corruption. We didn't want to come here. Why do you come and protest a president that's taking... And then the lady says, it's Venezuela. Oh my God, I'm getting the chills. She says, I wish...

that our president in Venezuela, Maduro and Chavez would take care of us the way American president takes care of his people. I wish I wouldn't have to be here. I don't want to be away from my land.

It's just it's the it's the hypocrisy. But again, it's the leftist hypocrisy. But again, but I will tell you again, emotionally, if if if hey, and we talked about this last night, Pat, when we were having dinner. Yeah. Hey, you've been here for 10 years or more. You've got to pay a hefty fine. You've got to do this, this and this. I would ask for Irka of 2025 the way it happened in 1986.

is to give amnesty to the people that have been here for 10, 15, 20 years, to have paid their taxes, to have not committed a crime. Let them stay. I know that's emotional. You heard what he said. You said what Trump said about farmers, right? Yes, farmers. Can you pull that up, Rob? It was farmers, hotel workers, and construction workers to let them stay. Yeah, I want to say it was those three. Okay, are great farmers, people in the hotel leisure business, have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is,

taking very good longtime workers away from them with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases, it was the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open board and policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our farmers, but get the criminals out of the U.S. Changes are coming. So it's interesting what this means is he's paying attention. And you know who else is paying attention? Rob, go to the New York Post story. The fact that one million.

Illegal immigrants self-deported themselves. Vinny just showed it to me right before the podcast. Watch this, guys. Okay? One million. By themselves. By themselves. Nearly one million illegal immigrants have self-deported themselves.

Can you get rid of that Victoria's Secret? I don't know why that's there. It knows what sites you go to. Enough shopping for stuff like that, buddy. Seriously, it's a little embarrassing. But go back up to the top. It's back up again. Is that your car? Nearly one million illegal immigrants have self-deported under Trump, which has led to higher wages. Go a little bit lower. Now we know it's freaking like...

While ICE arrests and deportations, separate compliment mass deportation, and reports are correct that the plan is more successful than anyone would have managed based on government data, my organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, has conservatively estimated that about 15.4 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., 50% over the four tumultuous years of Biden administration. Go a little bit lower. Ricky, I'm going to come to you. That's no surprise given about a lot of them could go a little bit lower. I'm going to go to the data side.

Trump wrote a wave of concerns about high-cost hospitals, housing, essential government, cities, towns across the U.S. second term. Now that he's back in the Oval Office, it's up to Border Czar Tom Holman to drive unauthorized population down and restore credibility to our immigration system. Is there anything else written on the bottom? I want to go to the numbers.

Boom, boom, boom, boom. Is there any numbers that is where the rebranding coincides? There he is. Okay. The rebranding coincided with an offer of financial incentives for aliens who leave voluntarily a stipend of $1,000 that's in lieu of

costly physical deportation can be about $17,000. I think that's a brilliant way to do it. Here's $1,000 go, but they paid many cases to those coyotes, $5,000, $10,000 to come here. So $1,000 to leave? Yeah, but you know what? By the way, I know people have self-deported, but let me tell you, those people that are leaving, Pat, is because they came here, they were here 15, 20 years, and they built their house back in Mexico, and they saved up money.

And they have a lot of debt. I have family members. My brother just left to Mexico to live in Mexico. My dad lives in Mexico. My dad says, I don't have any debt here. I have my house in Mexico. I'm gone. My uncle, my uncle Rafa left to Mexico. My uncle is getting ready to live. Like a lot of my uncles are getting ready to go back to Mexico because they built houses. They built they built something there. They have no debt.

They did things the right way as far as saving and building a house, and they went back. So self-deportation is not, to them, some of them are like, hey, look, we've already been here X amount of time. We made our money. We saved up. We built our house in Mexico. Let's go home. Let's go home. And that's the part that I think a lot of times we don't see that, is that, for example, my dad's goal was never to be in this country forever. My dad left when I was 18.

15 years old i'm 37 years old my dad left many many years ago his goal was never to be here forever and there's that element of a two of when you when you come into a country illegally you you kind of have to have a sort of plan that know that at some point that might backfire time is coming yeah you gotta you gotta know that the time is coming where somebody's gonna say hey by the way

You know, it's time for you to go home. And again, I think that just kind of last point on this, Pat, it's again, it's I'm very, very, very split emotionally because I do come from illegal immigrant parents and I'm split legally. I look at things logically working alongside you almost now 10 years since 2016. You've learned, you've taught me how to process things that way where it's not all emotional. And this country has laws and Mexico has laws. By the way, just so you know,

I landed in a, I forgot where I, I forgot where I landed. It's been a while. I was in Mexico. This is a couple of years ago. I saw a plane come in from Columbia. They turned 20 Colombians back.

That plane landed at the same time as I landed. They sent them back. Mexico has extremely strict immigration laws, and they do not like foreigners that don't come in the country legally. But nobody tells you this because everything is racist. This is why I said you have a very unique perspective on this topic. By the way, one financial wish cited by the Wall Street Journal calculated a decline in the immigrant population by 773,000 in the first four months.

WAPO claims a million foreign-born workers have exited the workforce since March the post-

framed this as a sign of weakening labor supply, yet the paper also notes average hourly wages accelerated, rising 0.4% over the last month to $36.24 in May as earnings continue to beat inflation in a boost to worker spending power. Very interesting number right there. Tom, your thoughts on this? Because you see what WAPO is trying to spin it as, right? Hey, low-wage workers are leaving. What are we going to do? Tom, your thoughts?

Yeah, so there's a dark side of a couple business segments in the United States. And one is agriculture. One is a cousin of agriculture, which is livestock agriculture and the slaughterhouses.

And you have people that are working without proper protections. I grew up in California. I know the split opinion on Cesar Chavez, but I also know that he was out there getting a lot of awareness on these people that were working unprotected in the fields around pesticides and with things that were happening out there to them.

And so what do I see here? I see the math that they're saying, OK, there's a lower supply of workers. So now people have to raise the wage a little bit to attract the workers they need. OK, that's just that's just basic economics. I see it. And I think that's so that math problem is correct. That is what happening. And there are people that are saying, hey, it's getting a little too hot. It's getting a little too difficult here. I'm going to take the app.

I can get my $1,000 on the app because remember they rebuilt the Biden app. They've kind of flipped it over, correct? Yes. And you can get the opposite. So you say I have the app, I'm self-identifying, and take my $1,000 and I'm going home. Okay. So, you know, I...

But they're not even doing it for the money, just knowing my people, Pat. Yeah, no, it's not for $1,000. You can't get home for $1,000. Are you saying you can buy Mexican for money? Is that what you're insinuating? No, no, no, no, no, no. I knew it. No, not at all. I knew it. But I think you've got to look back to Reagan and the proper amnesty programs. And when I say a proper amnesty program, a law-abiding citizen that has been here forever...

I believe there should be a path and a path to cure the status. It said, so what have you done? Well, I've been working here. I've been working there. I've been doing this. Because you also have to remember something. You know, a lot of these people are working on fake Social Security numbers with the complicit, you know, participation of the companies who know those people are probably not going to see Social Security.

Because at some point in time, at some point in time, they audit and flip it. And so I believe in long-term amnesty, but I also believe that we had a near-term invasion that was ridiculous. So now they don't deserve Social Security now? Is that what he's saying? No, no, what I'm saying is if you use a fake Social Security number and they audit and sweep the system later and says, he says,

So your name is what? My name is, you know, Jorge Ramos. Really? So you're not Irving Salzberg, 104 years old from Newark, New Jersey. Okay. Well, because that's who the social security number is. And they flip and they turn it off. No, the audit turns it off. So guess what? That person was staying quasi in the system. Yeah. And the money was going in until they audited it and they shut it down. Yeah.

Where did that person's FICA go out of their paycheck? I don't know. You know what I like about the president? Let me tell you what I like about the president. You have to freaking love the way this guy does what he does.

Do you realize this is like a 180 that quickly because he listens to the people and says, okay, great. All right. Our great farmers and people of hotel leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy. He's not saying our perfect policy. Our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good long-time workers away from them.

Like he took a shot at himself. You know what I'm saying? But he's like, hey, people are saying, all right, cool. Here's what we got to be doing. Change. Hey, go. How quick? So I think the part, if you're able to deliver a message in a very reasonable way, I would add, if I was to do amnesty, I would say, okay, you're legal, but you have a 10% tax on top of everything else until you pay off.

$100,000 to the U.S. government, $200,000, $300,000, and 500 hours of community, or join the military, depending on your age and where you're at. But there's got to be something that you give to. You have to speak English. You have to go through certain criterias and timelines. Some people don't agree with that because— Can I say something about that, Pat? Let me tell you, as a dual-citizen Mexican that also lived in Mexico, that was raised by immigrant illegal parents—

You give that, my dad's an American citizen now and so is my mother. Okay? But have these been the times where they weren't? I promise you. I promise you. My dad would say, no problem.

You want me to pay back $100,000? I believe you. I promise you. I believe you. My uncles would do it. You know why? Grandparents would do it. You know why? It's so funny you're saying this. So when I was interviewing Tommy Robinson, he says, you know what? He says, I wish our invasion was by Mexicans in UK. He says, because what do Mexicans do? Work. They work. We work. He says, the difference between the invasion that we have in UK is...

Those who come there, 41% of them don't contribute to the economy. Right. Comparable to the average of 24.7%. But when Mexicans come here, what do they do the next week? They're working. We work. You know, they're working. My grandmother gave birth to my Teteresa. She was sewing the next day at the sewing factory. I believe you. I believe you. Well, Teteresa, that reminds me of Jennifer. Jennifer gave birth the next day she was working. So Teteresa, Jennifer, you're part of that community. Well, guys, breaking news. The poll numbers are out.

for Adam. Can we guess? Yeah, yeah. Before you pull it up, let's guess. What do you think it is? What do you think it is? What percentage want to see Adam go to Iran? I'm going to stick with my original. I'm going to say 95%. What do you think it is? Tom, what do you think it is? 75%.

Ricky? I'm going to say 90%. Okay, let's see it, Ryan. Guys, if it's over 95%, I'm going to be wrong. Let's see what we got. 78%. They want me to stay. They love me. By the way, to the 22%. Guys, can you do me a favor? To the 22%. Do you have $18 to send a message to Adam and tell him you love him? Can you pull up to my neck there? My neck to Adam and tell him you love him. For all the comments section, like I swear to God, if I got...

$10 for each email I got about firing Adam or DM on Instagram or X.

I would be financially well off right now. Okay? Send a Manech to Adam. Give him some love. And if you're an angry patriot loving what Vinny's been saying today, send a message to Vinny as well. Oh, this is like a bad charity. For $15 a day, you can keep Adam in Iran. You know who else is on Manech? A guy named Ricky Aguilar. But I think on Manech, his name is Ricardo Aguilar, right? Yeah, Ricardo Aguilar. Ricardo, R-I-C-A-R-A-D-O, Aguilar. And if you Manech Vinny or Adam, ask him, can you give me Ricky's Manech? Yes, sir.

Rob, if you can put Ricky's meneque below. Hey, your manager, she got me in trouble. Right there. She's like, hey, you need to reply faster to people. I'm like, oops. I didn't know you guys had a meneque. Ricky, anybody that knows you in real life knows that you're a living gangster in real life. Why do you look so soft in your picture? Yeah.

Hey, guys, this is my Grindr profile. Ricardo. This is on the weekends. He's a model for Warby Parker. Let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. I'm going economy, Tom. Tom, we want to know what's going on with the economy. I'm coming straight up to you right now. So do I. All right. Entry-level workers are losing confidence in the job market, says Glassdoor.

I applied to over 200 to 300 jobs, CNBC. Two to 300 jobs. They're having a hard time getting a job. So let me read this story, and then, Tom, it's on you. Okay, so here we go. Which one is it right there? Employee confidence dropped to 44.1% in May, the lowest since 2016, with entry-level workers particularly pessimistic at 43.4%, driven by economic uncertainty from potential tariffs and a 9% surge in

and layoffs mentions on Glassdoor alongside a 47% increase in U.S. job cuts to 93,816 from 63,816 in prior. Mayor Per Challenger, Gray and Christmas. Catherine Diep, a 21-year-old University of California Irvine graduate, said, I applied to over 200 to 300 jobs in events marketing, event marketing without success, reflecting a tough job market for young graduates. Entry-level workers face limited opportunities due to low hiring environment with lead economist at Glassdoor, Daniel Zhao, said,

stating it's hard for younger grads to get onto the career ladder in the first place as employers hesitate to open new roles. Zhao added that employees have less leverage to climb the ladder internally and face increased competition from laid-off, experienced workers, reduced promotion, and raised prospects for young workers starting their career. Tom.

Well, I got two things to say about this. First of all, let's dive in to the source. This is Glassdoor and CNBC, all right, neither of whom are a capitalist lobbyist here. So they're not talking about the unemployment rate. They're talking about the feelings, feeling pessimistic. Okay, so...

unemployment is sitting right now at like 4.1 to 4.4, depending on the sector you look at. I think nationally we're 4.2. And people are saying entry-level workers are having a tough time finding their first job. Okay. Both of those things can be true. You're having a tough time finding your first job, and you're also – it's a 4.1, 4.2 percent unemployment rate. So it's not like everybody's, you know, out of work and there are no jobs. It's just no jobs –

And what's very interesting, what I've been looking at, and I looked at this over the last...

I've been off and on diving into this. And guess what? People that get degrees that point to nothing are having a tough time finding a job. I have a degree in art history, and I'm having a tough time finding a job. Wow, what a surprise, right? I got a job in software engineering, and I had my pick of two positions, entry-level pay, but two positions. Wow, what a surprise. You get a software job, and you can find two jobs, right?

And neither one of them are going to pay you a million bucks a year, but it gets you off and running and gets your career started. So that's what's going on here. And what you've got is CNBC is grabbing... This is a clickbait from CNBC, grabbing a couple stats, thrashing...

Throwing it up there to say that everything is bad. But unemployment is 4.1 to 4.4 percent. And people that have degrees in majors where jobs are are finding jobs. People that got liberal studies or studied, you know, English or whatever. Not that those are bad majors. They're having a tough time finding jobs. And by the way, what do they want? Let's also talk about this generation of people.

that feels increasingly entitled about the job that they expect to be given. So are there some things going on here? Yes. Is it dark and gloomy? No. Is it really hard to find a job? Yes. Do you think maybe having internships and doing other things would help you out? Yes. By the way, here's what I've got to say about that. Go on ChatGBT and type in the following word. Is job anxiety at an all-time high? Just type in, is job anxiety at an all-time high?

You're telling me that you can't have a major in North African lesbian poetry and get a job? Well, if there's some lesbians in North Africa, then I want to have you read to them and you can get over there. Maybe you could be their buddy. Consumer expectation of jobless is at a 10-year high. March 2025, 66% of U.S. consumers expected unemployment to rise.

in the year ahead, high since 2015. But look at the second one. Layoff anxiety in the great state. A January 2025 survey found that 81% of workers fear losing their jobs while 76% expect more layoffs. This has sparked a great state trend. Workers cling to current jobs despite poor satisfaction because they fear instability.

Burnout and stress surge. Job burnout hit 66% in 2025. Around 75% of employees report low mood and there's a strong desire for mental health support. Anxiety is now the top mental health issue. Digital overload and extended work hours. Evening work emails and late night meetings, 16%. 63% of workers asked to shoulder more responsibilities, 2023.

Sunday scaries and pre-work jitters. Wow, this is like a scare. I'm reading this. I'm like, I'm having feelings. Pat, these are real things, but these are also feelings to be fair. But let's go look at two things in there for you and me. Let's look at that. You're being asked to shoulder more responsibility and people are doing emails in the evening. Well, which is it? You think they're about to lay you off or they're giving you more responsibility and you've got an opportunity to show yourself?

But, hey, with the tariffs, with the market went up and down, you know, it is perfectly reasonable that people have these feelings. But the reality in the numbers, the feelings don't match the numbers. Have layoffs gone up in certain sectors? Yes. But the unemployment rate's only 4.1, 4.2. You know what's crazy, Tom? You know what's crazy? All can be true. One of the things that I look at so close, and by the way, every time I say this, people will go, oh, my God, it's not true.

When I look at resumes and I see one year at the last job, 16 months at the previous job, 18 months at the previous job, eight months at the previous job, 12 months at the previous job, 14 months at the previous job, 22 months at the previous job, two years at the previous job, one year at the previous job, six months at the previous job. I mean, I'm not hiring you for a six month job. Okay. And if you remember during COVID, there was a podcast. I'd love for us to find it where the podcast was about, you know,

If you can leave your job right now and get a different, I don't care what it is, leave and get another race and get another race and get another race. That may have been the worst career advice given to people, period. Because you know when relationships get deeper? During good times or bad times. Bad times. Period.

When you go through some things, you stick it out. That's right. Our relationship, you know, marriage, business partnership, yesterday's meeting, Ricky. Yes, sir. How would you rate that meeting, 0 to 10 in intensity? Intensity, 15. Yeah, and it was a straight up, but how great of a meeting was it? It was phenomenal. It was the best meeting. We needed it so bad. We needed it so bad. It was necessary pressure. So intense, but quality.

How crazy is the announcement going to be on July 1st? It's going to be sick. I'm excited for it. Yeah, it's going to be wild. We're fired up. Me and Eric are talking about it on the way to the hotel yesterday. We're super excited for it. It was a great meeting, but you know what it was? You're looking at everybody in the room, and I haven't called an emergency meeting for how long? That's right.

The last time we did, I think we were, there was an SVP one, three years ago, maybe? Three years ago, yeah. Three, four years ago was in Dallas that we had the replacement. In Dallas, it was in Dallas. But you know what it was when we were in the room, you're looking around everybody, there's a bunch of scars, wounds, shots. Some made it past, you know, bombs and all this stuff in the industry as we're going through it. But relationships are built during those times.

If you're with a company long-term, you have the biggest leverage to be able to ask because you have social capital, you have a relationship, you know how the company works. This is a very, very good time for you to watch

who in your company is putting their head down and improving. Those guys may be deserving of a promotion or a raise. And this is also a very good time for you to show the company that you are different than all your peers. Let everybody else panic. Let everybody else worry. Let everybody else trash the company. Let everybody else go on TikTok and talk about how much they hate their job. Or Glassdoor. And you stay solid. The future looks bright for people like you. Adam, you look like you want to say something. Yeah, well, this article is very interesting to actually diagnose because...

The title of the article, Entry-Level Workers Are Losing Confidence in the Job Market, says Glassdoor. Quote, unquote, this one particular applicant, I applied to over 200 to 300 jobs to no avail. Well, maybe you're a loser, bro. You applied to 200 to 300 jobs and you can't get one? You're a loser.

So, do you know anybody that's applied to that many jobs and can't get a job? So maybe. So nobody's going to feel bad for these college graduates. Because I remember when I graduated college, it was right after 9-11. Pretty tough job market at that point. I remember people that graduated during the Great Recession in 2007, 2008. Pretty tough job market at that time.

People that graduated 2020, pretty tough job market. So nobody feels bad for you college graduates graduating in 2025. Why? Because there's a little Trump trade war going on? Nobody feels bad for you. Ricky and Tom both basically summed up what's going on. We're no longer living in the days that just because you graduate college, you're automatically...

for a job. Skills pay the bills. Degrees pay fees. The cost of college has gone up. Gang, gang, gang, gang, gang. The cost of college has gone up 1,000%. Has your ROI gone up at all? I would estimate it's gone down. But there's plenty of job openings in certain fields. By the way, can you give a tip right now on getting a job? Can we just give a basic tip on getting a job right now? You're going out to market. Tom, you wrote a book. Believe it or not, Tom wrote a book

You know, that was called the rat race, if I'm not mistaken. The rat, the race, and the cage. The rat, the race, and the cage, which is about getting a job and getting your career going, folks. Tom, watch us sell 1,000 copies of the book right now. Go, Tom. When did you write this book? This is Tom's book. The rat, the race, and the cage, a simple way to guarantee job satisfaction and success, secular edition. This is almost 20 years ago. This man, Tom, was a professor. Wow.

at Biola and Pepperdine adjunct professor. Tom, if you're going to give somebody a tip right now on getting a job, give three good tips, what would those three things be? Tip number one, three words, I'll do it. Yeah, right. You know, tip number two is to walk in expecting to adapt to them, not them adapt to you. I want one really good one, Tom. Come on, Tom. Give me a life-changing one.

A life-changing one? I want to say hallelujah. Go ahead. No, the third tip I would say to somebody going in to find a job right now is to basically go look at where the jobs really are and go look at what's out there and try to go solve a problem for somebody.

Solve a problem for somebody, say, I'll do it, and adapt to the job. Don't ask the job to adapt to you and your dog coming to work and Fridays off and all this other stuff that the generation seems to be entitled to have. Dude, whatever the job is, if it's a company that's a pollster, they want somebody to go to Ford or Iran to do a poll on how the people feel over there or going to God, go do it. Say yes to the job. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'm going there right now. I'll give you three words. Oh,

Shoot. From the guy that... Give us the three words. So for anybody that's out there for the job, I'll give you three words. Just get started. It doesn't matter where you start. It really matters where you end up in five, ten years from now. I would argue that a job is meaningless. A career is what you want to solve for. Oh, wow. That was good. Bing, bing, bing, bing.

A job is just a starting point. Nobody here is still working at the same job they started at when they graduated college, when they had that amazing 1.8 GPA, or when you were telling jokes, or when you were doing Vatos Locos in Mexico, or when you were living in Canada, Tom. We all have different career paths.

So just where you start does not mean where you'll end up. Get started. Get experience. Not a five-minute tip. Work in the office. And have a mentor. I'm going to ask Rob. And there you go. Rob, for you. Yes. Job market, okay? How much is your job anxiety right now? It's still pretty high, Patty. No, I'm being serious. It's difficult because job confidence, 100%. Job stability in this industry, it's tough.

50%? For your job right now? Yes. Okay. So tell me what tip would you give to somebody who is looking at succeeding in their jobs? Because you've now been with us how many years? Four years. Four years. What tips would you give to people? Outwork, outlast, outstrategize. I mean, that was simple. We're very aligned on those three things. I've learned from a good leader. Yeah, we are on the same page. Notice how Rob left out outimprove.

No, I mean, I understand what he's saying. We just made a big investment last week, and we had Dale Carnegie come and talk to us about how to win friends and influence people all day. The real Dale Carnegie came in? Listen, the type of context that we have, bro, we're not going to open up a roller coaster. We have access to dead people. The technology, we have something else. All right, let's talk about somebody that Adam's a big fan of. I'm going to go to this next story here. Brittany Griner breaks silence on footage of angry moment versus fever. And so...

For some of you guys, I wish you know the level of passion Adam has for this player. Like if we get Jersey, all of it. Anything WNBA. A 34-year-old Atlanta Dream Center denied using racial slur.

in a viral clip from last month. Rob, maybe show the clip first and then let's go because I thought OutKick did a great job. Whoever that guy from OutKick that did the interview, phenomenal. The way he was questioning it. Yeah, you have to hear how he does it. He did it the best. They're not using racial slur in a viral clip from last month game against Indiana Fever where she asked, she was fouled out and caught ranting on the sideline telling OutKick reporter, no, I would never say that. There's no place, you got to watch that. But here's what she said. So watch this.

Watch it again. Trash. F'n white girl. First white trash and then F'n. Okay. So now, OutKick goes and interviews Brittany. Rob, go ahead. I wish I just left her ass in Russia. Watch it. We traded her for the merchant of death. Rob, I can't hear you. I can't hear you, Rob. Something on the bench. It's hard to tell what you said. Can you tell us what you said? I remember falling out being mad. I believe it was Howard driving to the basket. They set up with my hand in.

But, hey, you never really have to look at the shame. But what did you say? I really can't remember what I said, honestly. If I showed you the video, would that help? No, it wouldn't help. Then that's when you know. That's when you know. That's when you know he said what he said. If I showed you the video of exactly what you said, would that help? Nah. By the way, I'll pause on this here. Adam, your favorite player in the WNBA, what do you think about her saying what she said here? Well, she said it. I mean, you don't need to take a lip reader to say –

to understand what she said. She basically was called an effing white girl. Now, I'll tell you this. Do you think she said that? Yes. Do you think she meant it? Yes. So you might know this. I used to play a little ball, okay? We know. I have a little skills. I forgot you're in the WNBA. I can't tell you. Tom, let's let athletes talk. You just sit in your little mini race car out there, and we'll circle back to you when you're ready.

You know how you had $10 for any time anyone said, hey, fire Adam? If I had $10 for any buddy time, they said, yo, this puss-ass white boy, this crack-ass white boy on the basketball court, I'd be a gazillionaire right now. But when you play basketball, which is shout out to— I have to say, he actually knows how to play. No, he's a baller. Thank you. Truly, he knows how to play. Thank you. You guys know, with Adam, I try to keep my compliments to one a year.

Sometimes I make a mistake and I go two times. But he actually knows how to play. Well, in the contract, it's once every five years. So thank you for that. I'm keeping my commitment. So we wrote it down. That's it for 2025. That's part of what you do. If you ask Caitlin Clark or Luka Doncic or Jokic, any white boy, you're going to know that they're going to say, how many times has somebody called you a trash-ass, puss-ass white boy? The numbers are infinite.

Well, that's fair. It kind of goes with the territory. But, you know, reverse racism is still racism. So Brittany Griner, this apparently a woman, is now...

Out loud, on camera, not owning up to the fact that she said what everybody says a million times and we all know it. By the way, you know what's crazy? So check this out with Caitlin Clark. She's injured for two weeks. She leaves. Viewership drops 55%. Yes, I saw that. From 1.81 million to 0.85 million, right?

The moment she came back, viewership went back to the same. Immediate viewership went back to the same. I think she had like a sick game. Caitlin Clark effect, back in full fever. Liberty draws 2.2 million viewers. Do you know how crazy that is? By the way, just so you know, 2.2 million viewers. In the NBA championship, it's 6 to 8 million views a game. She's getting a third of it in the first half. Regular season. In the first half, she got...

25 points in the first half. Wow. She played lights out. She played lights. She ended it with 32 points. 25 points first half. And on the other side, you watch these videos with Angel Reese. She's literally throwing the ball off the backboard. Like, honestly, she must – there's a part of me that wants to compliment her. You know, I take a lot of shots at Angel Reese. I don't want you to think the only thing I do is take shots at her.

I don't think anyone in the NBA has the level of faith that Angel Reese has because she goes in and she just throws the ball up. She doesn't even care where it goes. She doesn't know where it's going. But the level of faith to have to believe that the ball is going to go in, I don't think anybody in the WVU has. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. I mean, she goes in and it just goes like this. And I just watch it. It's a moment of faith. I have an emotional connection with God when I watch her play because she

You know, you tell me you believe in God like Angel Reese does. Yeah. I don't know a lot of people that have her level of faith. You mean the Michael Jordan of the WNBA? Rob, can you just show highlights of her, you know. Do she six feet? Yeah. Can we? Gosh. You know, at this point. There's a highlight of Angel Reese laying it up. It's like 50 times. No, you have to realize there is. Three points? Missing the three points? No, no. It's a layup, layup, layup. Is this it? Is this it? Let's see. No, that's Tempers Flair, Rob. No, not Tempers Fly. It's Tempers Flair.

It's seriously you watching her. It's Angel Reese. Angel Reese misses so many shots. Angel Reese misses. That's her twerking. She's very good at that. So if you see it, video, see if we got one. I mean, it's true. I think that might be it, Rob. Watch this. Go ahead. Look at this. Not a care in the world.

Look at this. Michael Jordan. Jordan! No. You tell me. Michael Jordan. Do you have that kind of faith? I don't have that kind of faith. One more. What is it? Jordan! I don't have that kind of faith. Hold on. Isn't that double dribble? I don't have that kind of faith. Is this the Harlem trans-trobbers? Look, I am at a point right now where I'm wondering, okay, Adam's birthday is not coming up for another eight months. But I'm thinking about for Adam buying a courtside ticket to Caitlin Clark's...

You know what game I wouldn't mind going to? Save that money, PB. You know what game I wouldn't mind going to? When they face each other. Do you know why? Because there's one thing I love about sports. That's very honest. Animosity. Yes. Animosity. We had Ron Artis on a podcast that went on World Peace last week. Yeah. It was the funniest part. Rob, can you pull up the funniest part? We're doing a podcast, Vinny. This is so funny. It's me, Adam, and Meta. And we're sitting there, and there's a moment where...

We're watching the malice at the palace. Okay? And he's saying, it wasn't even that tough of a foul. Him foul. Yeah. He says, dude, it wasn't that. And I don't know why he got upset because a foul was a regular foul. Okay? And we're going through it. And while I'm showing him this, Rob, do you remember this? Did you have the transcript to find it? Yeah, I'm finding it right now. You showed it to him from a different angle from the person we ever saw? Rob finds a clip. So we show it and he goes like this.

Oh, shit. That's a flagrant. Right here. Watch this. This is it? This is his reaction. It's not a soft foul. Let me be honest. It's not, but it's not a flagrant two or flagrant one foul. Did they call a flagrant one on that or no? That was a, you know, it could have been a flagrant, but, or it could, that's a flagrant. Okay, that's a flagrant. Now I can see why I've been here. Okay.

He said, I never saw it from that angle. I didn't. I never saw it just angle. He's like, look at this.

Bam! Ben is like, what are you doing? Well, I'm calling out a, that's a flagrant. Because you didn't make a play for the ball. Well, I wanted to make a play just to grab him, but it was a weird angle. I don't know. Look at my eyes. Is that left hand? No, that's a flagrant. That's a flagrant. This is him recognizing. 20 years later. By the way, he didn't know. He's so funny. Pete.

It didn't do that. The podcast didn't get that much viewership. I had the time of my life talking to him. It was such a great conversation. As if he wasn't there. Like, he didn't do it. It was so cool. It was so cool having a conversation with him. But when I asked about Caitlyn, he says, no, Caitlyn Clark's a dog. She's from Indiana. She's a dog. She's built different. She's from Indiana. He kept going like that. And I was showing the comparison about how LeBron always flops.

and Caitlyn gets back up, and his relationship with LeBron, so he defended LeBron. Anyways, if Angel Reese and Caitlyn Clark play, would you want to go to the game? 100%. Courtside. 100%.

Would you actually want to go to the end? Why don't you invite him to the podcast? For both of them? Yes, at the same time. It would be Angel Reese. No, we'll do the podcast from Courtside. So you put Angel Reese over here, you put Caitlyn over here, and then you put Steve A. Smith right here. That would be a good one.

can you show the other video of Brittany Griner so two things Pat here's my question her injury how much of Kaitlyn Clark's injury do you believe I'm not saying that she wasn't injured how much of it do you think that two weeks she was like you know what I'm going to take an actual break that to me could have been a way for her to say I'm going to prove to all of you she's that dark

She's not that dark. I don't know. To like, to like Adam, to like stretch it out to two weeks and just, and that's one question I want to ask. And number two, and I'm not taking personal shots. I'm just asking Adam a real genuine question. Have you ever in your 40 some years of life on this planet have ever heard a woman, a woman, a female talk like this? Listen to the, didn't remember what you said.

during that viral moment after you filed out against the Indiana Fever. A lot of people believe what you said was effing white girl or effing white girls. Is it possible that's what you said? No, would never say that. Like, there's no place for that in our league. Wouldn't say that. So even though you can't remember, you know that that was not what you said? I know it wasn't that because I wouldn't use that type of language. Okay.

Thank you very much. It's insane to me. I've never heard a female talk like that. Yeah, all right. Her voice wasn't like that until her voice changed. Yeah, let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. So the next story is about Dodger star Kershaw, Clayton Kershaw. Controversial message on pride theme hat divides fans. Divides fans. Okay, not separate, but separate like divides fans.

Fans, and here's what happened. L.A. Dodger Kershaw, a devout Christian, wrote Genesis 9-12-16.

On his pride-themed hat during Saturday's game, referencing a Bible passage stating, This is a sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you. For all future generations, I have set my bow in the cloud. Claiming the rainbow symbolizes God's covenant, not an LGBTQ symbol. Sparking debate amongst fans. Social media reactions were mixed.

With some praise in Kershaw's stance and one other user writing, classy move by Kershaw, the rainbow he supports has nothing to do with Pride Month. And another saying, courage to stand up for the truth. While critics argued the rainbow can have multiple meanings, why can't the rainbow mean both? And one stated, what a disappointment, urging him to stick to sports.

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Well, he plays baseball, so... It's a reference, Tom. I was just... Okay. I didn't mean to. Tom, don't disrespect my English. No, I mean, look, the rainbow has been appropriated by LGBTQ, and he's pointing out, rainbow means something different to me.

Rainbow means this in my faith, and this is a verse. And by the way, there's nothing anti about anybody on that. He's saying this is what the rainbow means to me, and that's all he's saying. And I think he's pointing out is like the underlying message here is, hey, if you're going to appropriate it,

It doesn't appropriate and then belong only to you. It means different things to other people, and this is what it means to me. And so he took a stand for his faith, but without coming out with statements of hate. So people got to make it into something, don't they? I like that. Rob, can you do me a favor, Ron and Paul? Folks, be as honest as possible as possible.

as if you would actually make the investment. Be straight up and just say no, not interested, or yes. If we were to do a Future Looks Bright hat, if we were to do a Future Looks Bright hat with value attainment and it's the rainbow color here,

And on the side of it, we put Genesis 9, 12 through 16. And we actually wrote the scripture inside the hat. Okay? And on the bottom here, it says, Future Looks Bright. So again, you got the rainbow flag, Genesis 9, 12, 16 on the side. And the scripture's in the middle. Would you actually wear it to create conversation with people to say...

What does that really mean? Wait, what's the symbol? Is it just our lion? You got the Valuetainment Lion logo. I got you. I got you. Like that. The Valuetainment Lion logo. A rainbow. Except it's rainbow. Got you. Okay, just to be clear. On the side, it says Genesis 9, 12 through 16. The entire scripture is inside the hat. Okay. Would you wear it?

Me? I mean, I'm just wondering what God is going to say. Yeah, okay, that's a question. Okay. I would definitely rock it. So Vinny, your thoughts. What do you think about what Clayton Kershaw did here? I absolutely love it. It's about time somebody in sports actually put God first instead of walking around scared of offending anybody, especially the small individuals

minority group that it's still, listen, say what you want, that whole LGBTQ, not the gays, just that whole thing, they're still hanging on to that little bit of power that they have, okay? We live in a country where, you know, guys can put all kind of nonsense on their jerseys, on their hats, and nobody says one thing. All the BLM, all that crap, but the second somebody brings up the Bible, everybody gets nervous, okay? And that's the problem. This country was built on

On that book, we are a Christian country, and these athletes make millions and millions playing a kid's game. Let's not forget, this is a kid's game on the greatest country on the earth, and Kershaw is showing where his blessings came from, and I respect that. I think we need more of that and not less of it. By the way, just to give credit where credit's due, the first athlete, superstar that I saw do that was Team Tebow.

Oh, 100%. Tim Tebow with the time of 16 on his – oh, my God. By the way, he left the league because of it, if I'm mistaken, or something like that. But Tim Tebow – Adam, your thoughts on this? He was the main guy. He was the main guy. Oh, my God. So, to me, this just comes down to choice. You know, if the teams are basically celebrating Pride Month –

That's fine. The team made that decision, but each player should be able to decide whether they want to stand for that or not. The fact that you're forcing players to celebrate Pride Month when they're clearly straight doesn't mean that they're anti-gay. That just means that's something that they want to stand up for. That's fine. Just like how some people, like Colin Kaepernick, kneeled during the American flag. That was his choice. Don't agree with it, but that was his choice. It was also everybody else's choice to not kneel.

Just like during the bubble in the NBA, if you wanted to wear a social justice slogan, go for it. If you wanted to not wear it, go for it. The one guy who basically became famous in the NBA for not kneeling and doing the whole bowing the knee for the BLM was a black guy named Jonathan Isaac.

for the Orlando Magic. The guy made headlines for just saying, no, I love America. I don't think America's racist. I love being here. And that's my choice. But when you're giving mandates, almost like a COVID vax, that's where people have an option. So everybody's kneeling. Black Lives Matter. Here's a black live. Jonathan Isaac who said, no, I love America. I'm not going to kneel. So

So when you're getting into force, when you're getting into mandates, when you get into basically saying you have to do this is where you have a problem. If Clayton Kershaw or whoever it is wants to rock the LGBTQ, I'll go for it. If you don't go for it. But that doesn't mean that you're racist. It doesn't mean that you're anti-gay. It just means you stand for what you stand for. And that's how I feel. Yeah. So in other words, you know, by the way, and I think in the side, it could say take back the rainbow.

That would be so funny. Or taste the rainbow. We got here. You got the Vitae-Tayment. You got Take Back the Rainbow. You got Genesis 9, 12 through 16. That would be interesting. You know what would happen? That's a conversation star. I love it. Hey! Oh my God! Wait, what the hell is that? Let me talk to you about Jesus Christ. No, no. You tricky son of a bitch. What is that? At what point will people actually get a little frustrated? Because June is Pride Month, yes? Yes.

You've covered this a million times, but imagine if every sports team said, you know, it's not just pride month that we're going to celebrate all of June.

The entire month, you know, Mother's Day gets one day, Father's Day gets one day. We're going to celebrate in October National Coming Out Day. In March, it's Transgender Day of Visibility that might replace Easter. International Day Against Homophobia. Transgender Day of Remembrance. How many different holidays are there that they're going to implement? You're saying they don't have enough days. You want them to have more days. I want Gay Uncle Day every day. So let me go to the next story here. Keep that, folks. You can clip that and put it up there because it's official. We know the truth about this guy. Bill Maher.

roast Sean Penn for meeting with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, but not with Trump. Now, Sean Penn, my opinion, one of the greatest actors of all time, I watch him in Mystic River. It was insane how incredible he was in that movie. But watch him here with Bill Maher talking about even if he got an invitation from Trump, whether he would take it or not. Go for it. I would not accept an invitation. It's because I see no...

It's a long flight. I see no... Really? You mean the fucking Castro and Hugo Chavez, but not the president of the United States? Yeah, I saw good results come out of some of those things in terms of agendas that I had. I don't think that there's anything that I would... I just personally wouldn't trust anything that was said in the room.

including the personality. It's not a matter of trusting it. It's a matter of seeing it, a matter of experiencing it, a matter of knowing it. It's like saying, I don't want this medical test because I don't want to know. I want to know. Yeah, fair enough. Okay. Fair enough. I have some good friends that are on it. I said this many times within the piece when I did it, that I'm just giving you the report.

It's up to you to make the decision. Who do you think is the real guy? I'm telling you, there's a very different guy behind closed doors in a different setting.

Vinny, thoughts? No, I just, I mean, and that's the, remember we were talking about the propaganda? This is it full set. Like you can't even sit in a room and talk with somebody. For Bill Maher, Pat, Bill, of all people, for Bill Maher to be schooling him, I think that just shows like what that side's mentality is. And I think that's, go ahead, Rick. Let's not forget that he also met with the chapel.

Sean Pendid. That's right. So you're willing to meet with the guy that poisons millions of people, but you're not willing to meet with the sitting president? That's wild. But when he met with El Chapo, they also claimed that that was the way that he got caught.

So he almost helped them cancel Chop. I don't know if you remember. Yeah, but the reality is that there's a lot of things. They wanted to blame her, but the reality is, Pat, that, yeah, he met El Chapo. But the reality is that Chapo's family comes up to see him all the time. They could attract his family at any time. It's not just Sean Penn. They could attract the family coming up from Culiacan to where he was at in the mountains. I mean, at any point in time, they were going to. It was not there. But the point is, look, there he is meeting with the,

El Chapo, but he won't meet with the president. Just the hypocrisy of the left is wild. Now he's freaking libtards. Tom, your thoughts. You know, I'll give my thoughts, and I'll go back to Bill Maher. When you're willing to go sit in a room...

With someone you don't think you're going to agree with or someone who has a well-known opinion and engage in debate, we are taking America back to where my grandfather and my father went when they would go to the barbershop and have a civil conversation with their neighbors about people and about politics and things maybe they didn't agree with.

And Bill Maher is saying he went to the White House. He sat down and talked with him and came away with a different perception. And he's not pro-Trump, but he does sit there and say objectively, I'm telling you, there's a different guy behind closed doors. And I went there. Why don't you go there for the experience of it? We need more Bill Maher on.

willing to come across and have the dialogue. And I tip my hat to Bill Maher for that and what he's done. You know, go sit down and talk to the other side. You know, something may be learned. Something may be exposed. Some perspective may be gained. Go get it. So, Tom and Vinny, a question for you guys. Would you meet with –

Gavin Newsom? Would you meet with Bernie Sanders? Would I meet with Bernie Sanders? Yes, I would. I would love this. Would you meet with Putin? 100%. Would you meet with Xi? Yes. Would you meet with Netanyahu? Yeah. Security. I mean, obviously security. Everything is secure and safe. 100%. Is there anybody you wouldn't meet with? Would you meet with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un? All of them. Who wouldn't you meet with?

I don't think there's anybody out there that I wouldn't meet with. Vinny, you're on record saying you would not meet with Gavin Newsom. Don't make me roll the tape. I said podcasting and stupid stuff like that to give him a platform to make him look good. Is this in front of a camera or just sitting down and have a conversation? Either way, just sit down with him. If it was a safe environment. Is there anybody you wouldn't meet with? Kamala. I wouldn't meet with Kamala. You wouldn't meet with Kamala? What if it's dinner? No.

What if it's good Mexican food? No. What if it's doing shots of like some— What if it's dinner and drink? I mean, with Biden, because I really think that he wasn't running shit. I think he realizes they were using his auto pin for everything. So you wouldn't meet with Kamala? No. Do you have anybody you wouldn't meet with? Like, actually think about it. Tom, was there anybody you wouldn't meet with? Like, you may not want to meet with Aaron Judge. As a Dodgers fan, I know how much you don't like—you hate the Yankees. Is there anybody you wouldn't meet with?

No, as long as it was a safe location. I mean, I'm not going to go into... I said the criteria is they're very safe. I'm going to personally make sure the security is good. Yeah, there's nobody I wouldn't meet with. Now, would I... The order of which and who I would go meet with and my priorities would be very, very different. See, that's the part I don't understand. Why would you say you wouldn't meet with freaking...

the president who was... No, no, I said I would. I'd meet with anybody. I'm not saying you're talking to Sean Penn. Yeah, but the list of people that I have, you know, I wouldn't have Kamala at the top, I'll tell you that. But I'd meet with her. I think Trump deserves a little bit of credit because if there's anybody that Trump's not willing to sit down with, I can't find them on the list.

Trump will go to North Korea. Nobody does that. Trump will go to talk to Trump. He was the only American president to ever sit down with a North Korean president. So you don't make peace with your friends, you make peace with your enemies. The Hollywood hypocrisy.

Coming out of the left is just so absurd. You'll sit down with Hugo Chavez, who basically is the dictator, former dictator of Venezuela. And then hold up a bloody head of Donald Trump. You'll sit down with Castro. You'll sit down with Marxists. You'll sit down with communists. You'll sit down with socialists. But you won't sit down with the president of the United States? Makes no sense.

It makes no sense. But that's why you understand that the Hollywood hypocrisy is as real as it gets. But TDS is even more real than that. Let's go to this other one to see if there's such thing as an EDS. OK, because maybe there was, but it doesn't seem like there is today. Republican interest for Musk calls.

After his feud with Trump, new poll finds New York Post. Tech billionaire Elon Musk's favorability among Republicans has declined since his feud with Trump. With an APNORC Center for Public Affairs research poll shown that the share of Republicans viewed Musk very favorably dropping from 38% in April to 26% after Musk criticized Trump's tax and spending legislation poll.

Calling it a disgusting abomination. Katia Long, a 34-year automotive component factory employee from Woodstock, Alabama, said, Some things have happened lately that have changed how I feel about him a little. I liked what he was doing when he was helping, but now I feel like he's kind of hurting.

is what she said, somewhat favorable. Must clash with Trump, which included claiming X without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would have controlled the House, and Republicans would be 51 for none, and alleging without evidence Trump ties to all this other stuff. So what do you think happened there? Do you think that is a factual, like do you believe this dropping from 38% favorability to 26% in June? I know it did for me, Pat, as a Trump supporter. For you? Yeah. Tell me why. Um...

Not so much them having a falling out because that happens, but then you go in talking about Epstein list and basically saying he's a pedophile. You went too far. Like one thing is us having a disagreement. A whole nother thing is you trying to demolish my character afterwards. You can't be trusted. You know, I grew up on the streets. I grew up in the hood. You know what I mean? And I have enemies that I don't have enemies anymore. But when I was younger, I had enemies that I respected because they wouldn't cross the line.

uh and there's a line that you just don't cross even even with enemies you know you like i'll tell you like let me give you a hood rule you know you don't you don't you don't call even an enemy you don't call him a rat or a snitch um unless you got paperwork on him but you don't you don't even there's there's boundaries you just don't cross and i think that um he crossed that boundary when when he was saying hey the epstein list like you went really far and at that point like at that point i lost my interest in and you know i'm i'm i'm

You know how much I support him. You're team Trump. I'm team Trump. Like it is what it is. You know, not with everything that he does, but for the majority of the part, 90% of the time. And with me, I'm like, and by the way, my wife's in the next room. She straight up said, fuck Elon. Like straight up. You know, and us, we're both very politically involved. You don't want to piss Eric off, bro. I know that off the top. She's a Mexican from Michoacan. You know, she's a Mexicana. I'd piss Ricky off all day, every day. Not Erica. Not my wife. She's a silent killer. I told her to leave the shank. Don't.

Don't bring it. Yeah, but no, but that's our sentiment. We talked about this, and our sentiment is that. So I can believe that people have that sentiment. How about you, Adam? I agree with Ricky, and I'll tell you the exact point where I think Elon lost credibility. It was the second that he deleted the tweet. Because if you're going to say some foul-ass stuff, you leave that thing up there. Again, as if we're just going to forget...

That he tweeted that Trump was hanging out on Epstein Island and he was on the list. Oh, did anyone not forget that? Everyone remembers that. So the tweet didn't do it for you, Adam? No. It was that he brought it down like he didn't stick to his gun? So two things. When he tweeted that, I was like, oh, that is some foul, nasty stuff. We did an emergency podcast and I called him out. I said, that's weak.

But then, if you're going to make that claim, yo, stay with your chest. Double down on it. When you delete it, you automatically look weak. I don't know. You automatically look. I don't know. But all the way, hold on, Tom. The way that Trump handled it. I don't know about that, Tom. The way that Trump handled it was completely measured and probably the most respectful way I've ever seen Trump ever deal with any sort of backlash. He's like, well, look, you know, Elon, he's a nice guy. I think he's wrong. And, uh,

I feel bad for Elon. Maybe he's on drugs. I don't know. But he just kind of backed out of that, and we haven't heard anything about the Trump-Elon situation. In a minute, I'm going to show you Elon's most recent physical. I want you to see what he was on, what he wasn't on. Go ahead, Tom. So I kind of look at it this way. Ricky, let's say we go back 20 years, okay? And I post something in early Facebook, and we both went out one night.

Got a little tipsy. And I sent kind of a nasty post on you. And the next day you call up and you go, dude, at 2 a.m. you posted something on Facebook. What the hell? And I'm like...

Oh, wow, Ricky, man. I was a little drunk at times. You know what? No, no, no. I'm not taking it down. I'm sticking to my guns. No, that's stupid. That's not going to happen, is it? That's a stupid-ass argument. I'm going to take it down. I'm going to take it down. That's so dumb. Like, that shit makes no sense. Why would you double down? Like, you want to make things right. You're like, yeah, hey, my bad, but I'm going to leave that shit right there. What the fuck?

And you know what? I'll be over in 10 minutes, Ricky. Does anybody forget that he took that down? Is anybody going to forget that? Are you that stupid that you forgot that, Ricky? No, he's not. But, bro, he should have done that. Of course he shouldn't have done that. So why would you double down on that? You don't double down. You take it down. You go, dude, man, I'm sorry. My bad, bro. I just called you a pedophile. It's so stupid to begin with. And that shows his character. But here's the question, Tom.

The question is, are you assuming he was drunk or on drugs? Because that analogy, you have to qualify that he was on drugs. So, yeah, I'm not accusing him. No one knows what he was.

Or wasn't. But it was late at night and it was rapid fire. So we can say that he was emotional and upset. I think we can say that pretty objectively. If you were to say plus minus on him being drunk or being on drugs, what would you put him on when that tweet came out? I'll put zero on drunk and maybe 30% chance ketamine or something. Maybe it's a good time to use your bong noise now, Tom. Don't do it. I'm not doing it.

You know, it's really, really late when he did it, and it was rapid fire, two or three of them. So here's his physical. So he got so pissed. We've had friends that did this. We see the behaviors. Go back, Rob, to the tweet on what he said. Tom, make the noise. Here's his physical, okay? Elon Musk fires, but please don't do it, Tom. I'm not on drugs. We sometimes light their ass off. Elon dropped his own drug test on X, negative for ketamine, coke, ecstasy, amphetamines, the works.

This after New York Times wrote a whopper of a lie article that he was pill popping through White House meetings while advising Trump. OK, go a little bit lower. Let's take a look at this physical. Can you put up the physical round? Zoom in a little bit. No drugs found. So you got what? Amphetamines, ecstasy, negative, negative, negative cocaine, ketamine, methadone, opiates, PCP, nothing. Nothing.

Validity, normal. Creatine, sugar, normal. Not even creatine. Wow. Can you make one of these charts on ChatGPT? We know that this is for sure. Well, yep. I guess case solved. Elon Musk that owns Gronk and AI companies can't put together a fake drug test. Buddy, if you want a fake drug test, I'll send you down to 20 people I know in Miami. You don't think that Elon Musk can figure this out in two seconds? Stop it. Do you believe this?

I don't know. Do you believe this? I don't know. I don't know. Shakespeare said. Listen, I think you protest too much. My thing is this. That whole situation, because you asked, I didn't get to get to it. You want a fake drug test? I'll get you a fake drug test in 20 minutes. In three minutes. You want to pass that test? He definitely doesn't do cocaine. You don't believe this. I'm just saying, if Elon Musk wanted to get a fake drug test, he's the richest man in the world. Who's the doctor that he just basically puts on blast? Jennifer Taylor? What's her name?

I think that let me get many thoughts and then I'm going to... I could see your name. If I allegedly got punched in the face by a gay guy that wears glasses in the White House, I'd be smoking cannabinoids. What is it? Cannabinoids? I'd be getting high just to be able to deal with it. But I've heard a lot... You've heard the doctor's name on me. I've heard a lot of rumors, but I don't know. You've lost total control.

You saying something like that, bro, there's no coming back from it. Jennifer Taylor, there she is. Let's have a question with her. We had that conversation, right? Something like that happens. Listen, even if you apologize and I love you and I can still hang out with you, you're never going to get that level ever again. This just happened to me yesterday.

Oh, seriously? A situation like this happened yesterday where it's like, okay, I got it. I'm out. Oh, really? Like it's never going back. I'm not getting stuck. I get it. I get what happens. There are certain things you don't do where you lose a Trump. You have a Trump type of guy in your life, and then all of a sudden you do this. You see, the part that you can never forget. Do you remember when Trump is running the RNC? He begs. He asks. Not begs. Asks Dana White to come to his event.

Yes. Dana White comes to the event and speaks. And you know what most people didn't know about? He was on a trip, on a yacht, a couple million dollars, in Italy with his family, had to get a jet, had to get away for two or three days just to come. You know why? Because he never forgot what Trump did for him 20-something years ago when nobody would allow him to fight any place. He allowed him to have his fights at his place in Jersey. Who is the character there, Dana or Trump?

Who gets the credit for the character that 20-some years later? Dana White. Because 20-some years later, he's still grateful for what happened. He's like, my loyalty is this guy changed my life, right? There are certain things you don't do. But in this case with Trump and Musk, by the way, there are some people that side with Musk. If you've seen that poll, that poll shows 38-26. There are some people that still say, I'm with Musk, not with Trump. You know, it's a back and forth. Look, what I did get from this last exchange is,

So allegedly, Adam claims he knows people in Miami that can give you a drug test. So I don't know if that's worthy of a Manecht or not, but here's what I can tell you about it. If you can pull up the Manecht questions, there is Ricky's QR code. If you like what Ricky had to say, and you don't like what Ricky had to say, ask him questions. Let's see how quickly Ricky's going to get back.

And there's a good-looking guy in the top right as well, Tom Ellsworth. Gorgeous. Pretty smart guy. Married, but pretty smart guy. But you can ask him any questions you want. Let's give a shout-out to the guy in the top left. I heard he's hurting for cash. $200 million ain't what it used to be, guys. We got to get that guy a couple bucks. It's only $100 for him next. Had a good time with you guys today. Great conversation. Ricky, it's great to have you here. We had a great conversation with Ricky. Ricky giving his perspective. Yes, thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. We have...

Dwight, I think we've got a couple podcasts that's going on, Rob. And then Thursday we're doing another home team. But tomorrow there's going to be a podcast going on. Do you know which one? Dwight Howard's going on tomorrow. Dwight Howard goes out tomorrow. Dwight Howard's going on tomorrow. Stay tuned. That's going to be another one of those NBA conversations where people in the chat are going to say, what does he think about Israel? He's going to be talking about that with Dwight. We're all going to talk about Lance Stevenson and some of the other questions that you may have. We'll have that conversation with you. Take care, everybody. God bless. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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