Minneapolis Trans Shooter, Newsom FEAR MONGERS, Trump's Health & Influencer Dark Money EXPOSED | PBD

You Alright gang, so Rob, episode 639, great to be with y'all, we got a lot of stuff to cover here today. We got some dark money being sent to Democratic influencers, which is very interesting. Paying them $8,000 a month. This is a New York Post story. And apparently they came up with a list of some of the names that they're speculating.

Correct or not, we don't know. Obviously, we have to discuss the tragic event that took place with the transgender Minneapolis shooter exposes the spiritual warfare in America. We got many, many stories with that one.

Many videos and things to many stories with that one many

Videos and things to react to with that one Gavin Newsom on another interview I think every time he goes and does these interviews. It's almost like he's pleading for people to feel sorry for him I can't tell you how many times people send me Trump 2028 hats. They send me two more the other day Do you realize like a troll when they see that that's like an opening? It's like thank you. I know how to upset this guy I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a thousand of them sent to him the next couple weeks Not something to do is let's send him a future look bright hat. You know what he did the other day

He said you know how tough it is when somebody calls you news come the next day that Newscombe was trending on X. Stop talking about it. You're bringing the attention to it. But he's definitely out there campaigning to be the president. Beverly Hills Unified School District board members vote to fly Israel flags inside their schools. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump. Tom's got a lot of things to say about that.

Trump looks terrible. Why won't the press ask him what's wrong? A lot of people are talking about his hand health, videos going around saying he's not doing well. Trump's approval rating up five points. Vanity Fair staff, ready for this, folks? Threatens to walk out the mother-effing door if Melania Trump is on the cover.

Can you imagine that? You're working there. They're thinking about putting Melania Trump, the first lady, on the cover. Can you imagine that? You're working there, they're thinking about putting Melania Trump, the first lady on the cover. I'm going to walk out if you put her on that magazine. In a heartbeat.

I'm not only going to put her on the cover, I'm going to put her on the back, in the middle, posters in the office, next to that girl's desk to say, you don't make the decisions here, buddy. We're gonna make that on the cover of it, but and it would improve the quality of the magazine if all those people left Yeah, Trump's DC takeover caused violence ready for this to plummet 45% Dem mayor admits as residents biz owners say we feel much more safe Shocking poll shows how many Americans really back Trump's military takeover of top crime crime-ridden cities. I got a I got a poll I got a stat. I want to share with you guys that I shared I think yesterday.

I don't know when it was. A couple days ago when I shared it about, Rob, if you have that one, mass shooting rates by demo from 2015 to 2025 and it breaks down Native Americans, Hispanics, whites, we'll get to this, black, Asian, trans, non-binary. Wait till you see some of these stats here. Again, I said we got some things from Newsom. We got a lot of stuff there.

US tariffs on India hit 50% as Donald Trump and Modi ties sour. Modi ignoring Trump's call after tariff crisis. That's interesting. Annunciation Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis. What we know about the suspect. Of course, we got a lot of things to talk there. Iran, after the shock of war, Iranians yearning for change.

They want a revolution, something to change with a new person taking over. I wonder who that's going to be that's going to go out there and do the work for that to become a reality. Maybe someone's going to be able to go out there and make some noise, but we'll see. Russia warning as Vladimir Putin close to first nuclear bomb test in 35 years you think maybe he's sending a message to a guy right next to him That's a good dancer. Maybe who knows And by the way Russia's at a point right now where this story is a very interesting story New York Post

They're at a point right now in Russia that they're recruiting the last chance for soldiers with HIV and STDs With promises of free health care if they fight against Ukraine I mean some of these things it's just you're not gonna be able to fix some of the things that these guys are dealing with But it is what it is. Maybe the way they're gonna scare them. They're gonna, but I'm sure they're thinking about some strategies. U.S. economy surges past expectations as spending investment soar. The economy expanded 3.3% in Q2, with growth even stronger than initially thought, and jobless claims edged down to 229.

And last Wednesday, we didn't cover the little Nas X stories, so we definitely have to go to that for Vinny to share what happened there and we're excited about that story. I know it's a lot of exciting clips, you know, when he's walking around in his white thong or whatever you want to call it. With his boots, white boots.

And then, you know, something happened which I appreciate. I think we need more of this that I don't think we do enough. I think this is what's missing in American politics, that we just need to get down to business. Mexico senators fight during session over speaking rights. It's awesome. When you see it, please share this with a local senator of yours and get a little bit

tougher. You know, we need some more eyeballs when senators get together. And these guys actually kept going, fighting,, you know pushing the camera guy down the sound guy like Kevin James I'm not even doing anything that guy gets pushed to the ground and he's standing over him. You got his it's great highlights and You know how four weeks ago. We went to LA for the Jubilee thing the Jubilee Rob I don't know if you have that clip from Jubilee

I'm gonna show you because they just told us we didn't even know when it was gonna come out, but it's coming out this Sunday I hung out with 20 of my best friends in the world and I actually I have to tell you I enjoyed it And the first one she just went after me hard listen to this one. Go ahead

States of Patrick, but David this is the United States of America

Would you take money from a capitalist to help you go see specialist? I mean, yeah sure why not, But would you also be open to seeing My first claim is incentive is the engine of capitalism. Remove it and the system fails. My next claim is capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system. My next claim is if all the money in the world were divided equally, it would return to the same pockets within five years.

My final claim is the US is more socialist and capitalist today. If you hate the system, you're anti-socialist. I'm Patrick Bedevin. I'm an entrepreneur system, you're anti-socialist. I'm Patrick Bedevin, I'm an entrepreneur and founder of Peabody podcast. Today I'm surrounded by 20 anti-capitalists. I was there. I was there.

Sunday, Sunday it comes out. I don't know what time but apparently Sunday is gonna come out. I'm so disconnected from it that I myself want to see it to see what happened because some of these guys were screaming, upset, you know one guy was there he was Adam's favorite you know she was very you know so yeah and we said we spoke but but the reality of it was it was awesome okay it was awesome handful of them were educated you know telling history and it was awesome. Handful of them were educated, you know, telling history.

And it was actually a very, very good exercise. I enjoyed it. And I'm looking forward to doing many of these. So Sunday, sometime this will come out. And aside from that, guys, remember this. Moving forward on Manect, on The Circle, all the notes we have, it's free.

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If you want to be able to communicate with others, pay your $10 a month. I think whatever the next rate is, and then the next rate will give you more access, videos, all that other stuff and especially last week when we posted a video with Tom doing the push the what do you call a bench in a 135 pounds absolutely crushed monster killed it it was not here the new mayor real and I got so much hate telling me I was doing half what bench presses so I have to go and do it again and I'm gonna pause and I'm gonna do this and I'm

gonna pause and what I'm probably gonna do after today is I'm gonna pause and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna pause and what I'm probably gonna do after today is I'm gonna do that with a pause to see how many I'll do but it'll be only a circle.

Do a pause, do a story, then do another.

I'm gonna do a pause, I'll be like, how you doing and then boom.

But also you do the whole leg up, like this whole deal.

This is a different thing. Enough and I like being challenged so maybe if I do straight arms I can only do three of them for them, but we'll test it out. We'll test it out. Okay. All right So let's get into the story. Let's get into the story. Let's get into the story first story I want to get into is the tragic event that took place in Minneapolis, okay Annunciation Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis what we know about the suspect Rob is this a video you got on it or is this something I'm reading?

I do.

I have some video. Let me just read this to you and then I'll come to you, Rob. So the suspected shooter of Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis, identified by law enforcement sources as Robert or Robin Westman, Jake Tapper likes to call him Robin, opened fire during a morning mass in Wednesday, killing two children and injuring 17 others, including 14 children with two in critical condition, according to police reports, court records

indicate that in 2019, a juvenile named Robert Westman, whose mother, Mary Grace Westman, was the parish secretary at Annunciation until her 2021 retirement, legally changed their name to Robin, with the mother stating minor child identifies as female and wants her name to reflect that identification. Police described the attacker as a male dressed in black, carrying a black rifle, who committed suicide after the shooting, with Minneapolis Police Department stating there is no active threat to the community at this time and shooter is contained.

The suspect's relationship to the school remains unknown unknown and is unconfirmed whether Westman had any condition connection to school students or staff though disturbing YouTube videos since deleted and unverified by authorities posted under the name Robin Westman showed handwritten notebook pages and weapon with messages painted on them go

ahead Rob the Minneapolis Star Tribune just as another piece of the puzzle as to who the shooter was, the Minneapolis Star Tribune says according to court records because there's been some confusion about what the shooter's name was. Yes. Robin Westman's mother applied to change her child's name in 2019. It was at one point Robert Paul Westman. Correct. But since she identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification, was underage.

That's what they call Robin Westman. You're still doing that. And you're wondering why, Rob, can you pull up that data? And then I'm going to go to a couple of you guys. Tom, I'm going to come to you first. Can you pull up that stat?

Check this out, folks. Shooting rates by demo from 2015 to 2025. Look at the one to the left. Trans non-binary is the highest. Then it's Asians. Then it's blacks. Then it's whites. Then it's Hispanics.

Like Hispanics, this is not their, you know, anything they do. Then it's Native Americans. Not at all. But why is that? Why are we not paying attention more to data to see what's going on here? You think we could prevent maybe some of these things that happen in the future? You know how many parents are concerned nowadays?

I'm at a game the other day with another parent, and this parent who's got his daughter there, 13-year-old daughter, tall, she's coming talking to us. There's a couple thousand people there. The entire time he's looking at her hey look at that guy, who is that guy, do you know that guy? Why is that guy walking around?

Why is this guy doing this? He was so paranoid the entire time I said, what's your concern? And he says, what do you mean what's my concern? Are you not worried about all the school shootings that's happening? This was a week ago, now this happens. Parents are truly worried about what's going on because they don't want to see something like this happen at their school. Tom, your thoughts on this story here.

So I have a couple different thoughts. My wife is a teacher, and she's at a school here in Fort Lauderdale. She does training every year, lockdown training, God bless the entrepreneurs that are inventing new devices that are helping, that are quick locks and things

to help contain schools and things. But we talk about this every year and there's two elements here that really that anger her and anger me. And the first element is the way the Democrats handle this. And I'm not making it political, I'm just describing. The playbook, find a victim, politicize it, push that victim against conservatives as being absolutely repressed. And trans is the new victim.

Protect trans, politicize trans, push them against conservatives. Conservatives are trying to repress the trans. Well, look, that may be a tremendous, you know, effort of change that happened in 1968 with civil rights legislation when it was needed. Now you're finding made up victims and we're not getting to the root cause. There are some people who are trans that really are sexually confused

and are peaceful people and they don't know what's up and they feel this way and so they want to be this. There's other people.

The data is in. The data is here. That there is a number of people and it is a significant percent of people in the trans community who are trans and talk about it. Friends of trans talk about it. That say there's something going on.

That there's something deeper and emotional and troubling. The data is in now. In Tennessee, it was a trans shooter. Now in Minneapolis, it was a trans shooter. This is bothersome because you see it in the people. They need help.

They need assistance. They need people to come alongside. They don't need the mom right now refusing to cooperate with authorities on interviews. now the mother of the shooter this morning two different articles I read is allegedly refusing to cooperate with authorities and ask questions as they are trying The shooters gone the shooter took his referred to as her by identification. He said I'm identifying woman

So Robert identifying as, took his own life. He's gone, but they're trying to get to the mother. They want to talk to her, not in her moment of grief. They want to understand this. The police, this is like FBI profilers. They want to understand what's going on here.

And we as a nation, the media is flying, absolutely staying in lockstep with the liberal Democrats. Find a victim, politicize it, push it against conservatives. They are the ones repressing it. No, in this case, that's what's going on. We have data and in the trans community, we need to come together as a nation and say, wherever you are, if you're troubled, you've got things going on, you need help. And then parents, as the ones that were prosecuted in Michigan, have to lock up their weapons.

There's a responsibility there. But gun control is not the full answer here. You've got people that need help.

Yeah, when you're seeing stories like this, that's what?

That's a magazine called Eugene Weekly, Pat. And look at the subliminal message, are you triggered? And they put, as the Trump administration attacks trans people, some queer folks are armed and ready to push back. What the hell are you talking about?

Conservatives are repressing you. You need to fight back. And look at that symbol, what are you trying to say, bro? Bro, because that's a bro. Mumat, what are you trying to say, bro? Bro. Cause that's a bro. Moomat.

Like, what are you talking about?

Or do they know what's going on?

By the way, can you get to that one video? I sent you Rob. This is a video of say, you know, the trans guy, you know, the famous trans guy on Tik TOK. Get angry. Oh, have you play uh, uh, uh, I think that yeah this one. Oh my god. This is so scary. Look at this

Angry. Oh god go out buy a gun. Jeez. It's okay to be angry. Oh my god

If you try to stop me from going into a woman's bathroom, excuse me, it's man

Be the last mistake you ever make it is is ma'am. Find that anger.

Just for those people.

Hey!

Harness it to do good in the world.

These are the things that guy drew up? Yes.

Killed those kids?

Yep.

This is what the female guy.

This anger.

You're f***ing done, man.

We can just make a f***ing batch of data, someone f***ing well.

There will be no question about it.

No question about it.

You wanna call me sir again?

The thing is, you don't have to leave.

You're a loser, bitch.

For everything that I do.

Cut that out now, or you'll go home and be a mental.

I'll f*** you up! It was a call to action or call to arms

Don't be afraid to show your anger

What is let me tell you it's deeper and it's also spiritual folks. No one wants to talk about it There is a spiritual side to this that these people in their confusion in their gender dysphoria are Also, you don't tell me that that is normal, rational people. There is a spiritual side to this and people who understand

it know I'm speaking the truth. And I'm going to ask, remember, and I've told Pat and the crew three times during his 11-minute video, and I had to watch it for context. Before I get into this, Pat, if you don't mind, this is just the beginning of the video. Guys, tell me. That's him. This is his voice at the beginning. He has a Walter White photo from Breaking Bad. His normal voice is like this and I've got goosebumps right now Pat. Tell me how demonic and possessed this voice is. This is the video he did before he went on shoot. Listen to this voice that's him that's him and then the video

starts in his house okay and there's three different instances Rob that we don't have to show right now but I want to say this right now this is what makes people transphobic okay not your identity but the fact that you have a clearly have a mental issue and then it manifests into killing innocent people, innocent children, praying in church. That's what makes me transphobic.

Not because you want to call yourself Sarah and you were born John. All right. And this guy, by the way, the mom co-signing and look about his, this wasn't random and listen to the mentality guides of how lost and confused this kid is. These are quotes from his manifesto. I only keep the long hair

because it's pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans. I wish I never brainwashed myself. I regret being trans. I wish I was a girl, and I just know I cannot achieve that body

with the technology we have today, and I can't afford it. Okay, this wasn't some happy or fulfilled person, all right? It was eating him alive by confusion, illness, and despair. And when you have a system, Pat, when the world is telling him, hey, it's okay, it's okay, live your truth, you wanna chop off your genitalia? Go and do it.

Hey, kids, is this what you want? Do it. And this is a pattern, all right? Minnesota, this guy, trans. Republican Party, firebombing, gender fluid. Nashville shooter, trans. Colorado, Tesla arsonist, trans. Colorado shooter, nine binary.

Aberdeen shooter, trans. Denver shooter, trans. Iowa shooter, gender, trans, fluid. AMC, the guy that was stabbing, trans, okay? And we know, and this is the one thing that got me, me and Rob were talking about this, is it weird to anybody else,

the moment this happens, within one hour, we know who he is, his history, his family, his school, the videos, but when a guy, Thomas Crooks, who's kind of in the same, stay here, no I am, he shoots the president, Tom, we don't know nothing about that guy I'm definitely staying here. And then you hear the guy's voice, and you know what? I thought about this. It's not their fault, okay?

It's not this trans confused mentally ill person's fault. It's the media, okay? It's academia, and it's politicians who don't say, hey, you should stop. They promote a time. Like Tim Walz, the Minnesota's governor has turned his state, he turned it into a sanctuary place for kids to receive trans medical services.

And he bragged that making Minnesota a safe haven for trans people. And Pat showed the chart. I'm just done. Guys, I am done enabling, I'm done pretending that this is just another lifestyle. It's not. They're mentally unstable, they need help.

They don't need us cosigning, they need actual psychiatrists, they need people to help them, not cosign their freaking delusion. And the LGBT community, this is the T. The T's have single-handedly dismantled the progress that gay people have made to gain the public's trust. Shame on them. And all these guys that are, all these fake politicians saying that good save your thoughts and we don't need thoughts and prayers shame

on you yes the hell they do Adam no you're absolutely right Vinny Vinny's a absolute right so it's Tom about the lack of God in society so there's three types of genders and I think it's fair to say this there's men there's female and then there's the mentally ill. And I think if we can't identify the fact that a lot of these shooters are trans and are dealing with massive, massive mental problems,

what are we talking about here? You know, step number one is admit you have a problem. Here's something that we've talked about. I think Bill Maher made this famous about how every generation is becoming more and more LGBT-friendly. Bill Maher made this famous about how every generation is becoming more and more LGBT friendly or identifying as that. And I got to be honest with you, we talk about every single topic here. Nobody's scared of the L's, the G's, the B's. We're focused squarely on the T's.

What is going on here? So all these shooters happen to be T. We saw that previous stat I don't know if you could show that again Rob just for the audience Something's going on here with the T's. How can we not address this? So I broke it down to three. There it is right there I broke it down to three major reasons why these school shooters happen and I would love to get your guys input number one there's just massive massive hate and

grievance and resentment and revenge and v for vendetta. I think we can all agree upon that. Number two is social isolation. They're isolated. A lot of it is sexual frustration. They don't know what's going on. They're young, they're 18. They don't know how to... this outlet. And I'm assuming a lot of them haven't had sexual outlets to deal with any of this. The last one is the biggest problem I think going on with all young people. It's a lack of meaning and purpose in your life.

We covered this the other day about people don't have meaning anymore. They're looking for meaning. A lot of times you find meaning in community or in religion or in God or in family. COVID basically exacerbated this problem. But what happens is, you know, a lot of these kids, the average age of a school shooter is guess what age? 18. So they're high school

seniors on average, and they're filled with rage and resentment, and they lack meaning and purpose, and they write a manifesto, right? Talked about this. And what I've uncovered is this following thing. They'd rather be dead and infamous rather than alive and irrelevant. And that's a shocking statement because all of them basically trace their inspiration to Columbine. Remember when that happened? I believe in 1999. So a lot of these people copycat Columbine and this is the only way that they're

going to find infamy and fame. And I don't actually don't think we should talk about their names ever because you're giving them their shine when they deserve none of it.

But it doesn't help when the mother is you're 17 Pat and the mother's like you know what change your name do this yes your governor and all these people are

making you got it's your fault Vinny great made this they made

I've talked about parents being held accountable They should go to jail for a mass shooting and people thought it was crazy a few years ago remember this And then in Michigan they actually threw parents I think in jail for a shooting Transparent weapons that's a trans parents when they commit something like this. There's evidence all All right, so hold on, what? You're on these... Bob, what did RFK say? This is RFK, I believe yesterday

where he talks about the amount of SSRIs connected to school shootings. Go for it.

I certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis and we are doing for the first time real studies to find out what the ideology of that is. And we're looking for the first time at psychiatric drugs. You know, these kind of mass shooting, people have had guns in this country forever. I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at our school. People, kids, my classmates, other people,

would bring a .22 rifle with their guns to school and park it in the parking lot. Nobody was shooting since. There's never been a time in America, in the history of humanity, and people walked into a crowd, into a church or a movie theater or a school or a crowd of strangers that just started randomly shooting.

It's happening in our country. It's not happening around the world. And there are many other countries that have comparable levels of guns that we have in this country. We had comparable levels in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and people weren't doing that. Something changed, and it dramatically changed human behavior. And one of the culprits we need to examine is whether the fact that we are the most overmedicated

nation in the world. And a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have black box warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideation.

So we are doing those studies right now for the first time and we will have an answer. And by the way, you know what else he said he is there. They're about to release as well the link to autism Did you see that what they're about to release? They're about to release the report if you go on X and just type in RFK Autism they're about to release What they figured out is the link to? Is that yeah, that's the one right there go ahead Rob from the beginning

if you could.

I mean autism if I could just I don't want to go too long because we have a lot of people but the autism is such a tremendous horror show what's happening in our country and some other countries but mostly our country how are you doing on that?

We are doing very well we will will have announcements, as promised, in September. We're finding interventions, certain interventions now, that are clearly, almost certainly, causing autism. And we're going to be able to address those in September.

It's such a big day. I'm looking forward to that day, because there's something wrong when you see the kind of numbers that you have today versus 20 years ago. That's right. And those numbers, what are those numbers?

In 1970, the biggest epidemiological study in history was done in Wisconsin. They looked at 900,000 children and they were looking for autism. They knew what it looked like and they were very, very precise about it and they found an incident rate of .7, in other words, less than one for every 10,000 children. Today, our most recent numbers are one every 31 kids. It's probably actually much worse than that because California, which has the best collection

system is reporting one out of every 19 children, American children, as autism, one in every 12.5 boys. Oh, it's gone from one less than one in 10,000 in 1970, one in 12.5 boys.

Think of those numbers.

35 years. So there has to be something artificially causing us meaning a drug or Something and I know you're looking very strongly at different things and I hope you can come out with Edison as well

So one in ten, it's it's great That a guy like that is in there. Yeah investigating this. I just hope there's no games no cover-up No, nothing. Just tell us what happened Because you know one of the one of the biggest things that we learned from the last time the transgender typically linked to Medication what they're taking what they're on you have to find out if there's a pattern there the entire time while I'm sitting here all

I'm to all I'm typing is what's the pattern amongst all the transgender shooters? What do we know about the pattern? Family and upbringing patterns troubled childhoods are common many shooters come from broken families divorce or unstable home environments exposure to domestic violence or absent fathers is Disproportionately reported there is a pattern that is taking place. If you keep pitching woman power and all this other stuff, you know, we are equals and we're

this and we're that and we're this, guess what you're going to do? You're going to continue having broken families. Women are going to be like, I don't need a man. There was a video the other day. They went to Russia, I think it it was and they're walking around asking women Hey, do you see yourself equal as man? Would you want to know I don't want to do his job

I just want to be his wife. Do you see yourself as equal? No. No, I don't want to be a man I want him to do it I just want to be I can't do what he does and it was such a Such a constant, and you've seen these clips from back in the days where they're interviewing people as the man, the leader of the household. Yes, he is the leader of the household, not me. So if we continue going this direction, these patterns are going to show up. I'm glad there is logic in the White House that's going to get to the bottom of this

to see exactly what is taking place with these different issues. Let me get to the next story here that I got. Rob, can you pull up a couple of the clips with Gavin Newsom? So you know how a lot of people are wondering, they're asking the question, they're saying, is this guy posting the tweets or is somebody else doing it? Who is posting it? Who's sharing these things?

I'm trying to find out. Is it really him? And people are like, no, it's probably him. Democrats are like, no, it's probably all him. He's doing such a great job. He finally was asked about it, and look what he said. I don't know if you guys have seen this or not. Rob, go ahead and play this clip, go for it.

Personally approve the press office tweets that go out from your...

There is a little, we have a kill switch.

Yeah.

So to the extent that I don't kill it then I guess how many do you kill?

Less every day

So now we know I'm not doing it those are not him of course not somebody else is doing it for him It's not him doing it other guys are sending it to him by the way while he's there There's a few things that he said everybody knows right now guys. Just get ready. You're gonna see this face 24-7 in 2027 I just want you to get ready 2728 it's gonna be non-stop. This is gonna be the Democratic candidate Pritzker is constantly trying to get in there Pritzker in my opinion is gonna be the Jeb Bush that he's gonna get all the money like the 140 million and

Then this guy's gonna come up and be the candidate that's gonna fight Now it may be different Pritzker may have the momentum something may come off with this guy and embarrassing stories But how many more embarrassing stories gonna come out then you're hooking up with your campaign manager your best friend's wife This guy the amount of stories that's gonna come up with this guy's endless, but this is him complaining about Rob Is this the hat situation? Yes watch this one here

Republicans are gonna stop I don't think Donald Trump wants another election. Nobody clap. You think for a second you want, I have two

dozen Trump 2028 hats. He's about to get a thousand.

His folks keep sending me. And you think he's gonna run again?

Who spends $200 million on a ballroom at their home and then leaves the house?

What?

He's trying to say the ballroom he's building. By the way, go to the ballroom at the White House, Rob, if you can show the clip. They're building a ballroom at the White House and he's saying he's building a ballroom to not leave the White House because he doesn't want another election in 2025. In 2020, whatever, 2028. That's the ballroom they're talking about at the White House.

Nice ballroom. Beautiful. That many other presidents will be able to use. And Dana just confirmed that the UFC is going to be there. He flew back from the event. So Trump's trying to bring something else to the White House that maybe we've not seen

before. You know, he's bringing a complete different level. Is this the one about the...

This is Caroline Leavitt talking about who's funding the ballroom because it's coming from Trump and donors. Everybody... Yeah.

Before we get to questions, I do have one other announcement from the White House and from the President. We are proud to announce that the construction of the new White House ballroom will begin. For 150 years, Presidents, administrations, and White House staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed.

President Trump has expressed his commitment to solving this problem on behalf of future administrations and the American people. The White House is one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in the world. Yet, the White House is currently unable to host

major functions honoring world leaders in other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away from the main building's entrance. The White House State Ballroom will be a much needed and exquisite addition of approximately

90,000 total square feet of innately designed and carefully crafted space with a seated capacity of 650 people, which is a significant increase from the 200 person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House. In recent weeks, President Trump has held several meetings with members of the White House staff, the National Park Service, the White House Military Office, and United States

Secret Service.

That's it. That's it. Okay, sounds good. Yeah, so you got a lot of other things that's coming up. You know, Trump doesn't want another election. You know, Newsom talking about it sickens me to the core.

Back to back to back. Is this another one Rob or I know I can get that sickens me yeah it sickens me to the core just non-stop so we know the guys campaigning Tom when you're seeing these types of exchanges you know two dozens Trump 2028 hats you know somebody else tweeting for him are you still in the same mindset Tom that

Pritzker is gonna be the leading guy for the Democrats in 2028? Oh I'm gonna I'm what I've said is the DNC wants Pritzker and Pritzker is the guy in the Midwest and I believe that's what the DNC card they want to play. I think they're worried about Gavin Newsom in Texas. I think they're worried about Gavin Newsom in Florida and I think Gavin Newsom is going to discover that there is life on the other side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. And as much as he's getting momentum through

rage and anti-Trump and rage, and he's getting a lot of followerships, he's getting a lot of attention. I still think that the DNC want to put their number on it, but I think he's not, he's campaigning and we're going to deal with three years of this. Yeah think he's not he's campaigning and we're gonna deal with three years of this

Yeah, he's not going away. He's not going. Oh, no, he's not going away

He's gonna be in all those primaries, but I wonder is the DNC gonna South Carolina him. We'll see

well You know, we just talked about the shooting in Minnesota and I'm gonna tie it to basically what California has done to America. Minnesota is the California of the Midwest and what California has done is they've exported all their weirdness and their dysfunction and their failed policies and their high taxes and their Holly weirdness and trans is the new trend and it's seeped its way to the rest of America. You know, America, as proud capitalists here, we've gotten a lot richer.

GDP is up massive. Everyone's, if you own any assets, richer and richer and richer. At the same time, there's a weird thing going on in America where we're all fatter, sicker, dumber, woker, gayer, lonelier, and depressed than ever.

Speak for yourself. So that's, I'm doing better than ever. I don't know, are you lonelier than ever? Not me. But the reality is, whatever, you know, they say that politics is downstream from culture. Now culture kind of comes from Hollywood and movies and social media and look no further than California of where it kind of happens. And make no mistake, look at what's happened in Minnesota in the last five years.

This is where, don't forget, Covid, George Floyd happened, all the riots that were going on there. Tampon Tim, we know that, he couldn't identify what a woman was. This is where Ilhan Omar and the progressive Islamist extremism of the Somali community that has basically taking over you have a weak ineffective governor like Jacob Frey who probably prays to a

guy named Gavin Newsom. It's a disgusting thing to see a great American city like Minneapolis and they're taking their lead from the disgustingness that comes from California. What an amazing state that has basically been wrecked. So it's a- I, well- Newsom.

I did it because Rob did it for all odds. I did it for just the Democrats. Gavin Newsom is number one right now, polymarking election betting odds at 31%. AOC is number two. Pete

Buttigieg, Wes Moore, Shapiro, and Kamala. And Pritzker's not even in the top- Go back up, Rob. Go back up. Dwayne the Rock. No, no, the one above it. Zoom in a little bit. Josh Shapiro, Donald Trump Jr., Whitmer, Obama, Ron DeSantis, Haley.

Nikki Haley.

Nikki Haley. They got AOC as the number two for the Democrat frontrunner for—that's crazy. She's formidable. Yeah. She's formidable, but she's gonna have a hard time with some of the states, and Tom's right. See, Newsom was on track when he was going a little bit more to the center to have a shot, but he missed out.

You know, he went so aggressive. Look, Kamala was the leading candidate for Democrats. She lost seven states. Yep. OK? So the same strategy.

Swing states that you know, Pennsylvania was at Arizona name them. Yeah Yeah, so so the point the point when you're going through something like this and so Democrats are Trying to find ways to find a Rogan all that other stuff story comes out from Taylor Lorenz dark money group paying pro Democrats influencers up to $8,000 a month, New York Post. What's the story Rob? This is a... Do you have a video on it or no? It's just a story?

Just a story.

Okay, let me read it. A secretive dark money group tied to the Democratic Party, the 1630 Fund, is paying online influencers up to $8,000 a month through their coerced creator incubator programate disseminate left-leaning talking points with participants including Olivia Juliana the Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 DNC convention Lauren Pierta a former Playboy executive turned to Occupy Democrats youtuber Barrett Adair who runs a viral America. Do you know these people or no right? viral American girl dot themed meme account

Susan Lambert who style herself as a Regina, Georgia Liberal that is yeah mean girls reference a R is our girl fedora. She is Arielle fedora who is a teacher would 1.4 million tick-tock followers Sandor Jennings TLC reality star and older brother of trans influencer jazz Jennings David Pacman host of YouTube show boy Pacman's on this list. Oh weird, but Pacman's got a couple minutes Why does he need $8,000 a month?

Pacman okay, so along with Leigh McGowan, better known as Politics Scroll, so it's just in 31, told the Post that it is a fiscal sponsor of course, receiving donations on course, we have providing operational administrative support, but it is not the original source of financing and the fiscal sponsorship model is common across philanthropy and in compliance with all laws. Is that what this is?

Rob, do we know anything else about the story?

That's all that I know right now.

It said how many people were involved? 90 of them. 90 influencers were expected to join. Go a little bit lower according to WIRED. Go a little bit lower. So that's Pacman right there.

Lower, lower, lower. Is there a, let me see what it says, Sambal Kat, the group, Channing Influencer, debating the terms. One pro-abortion creator, Perry, would have quipped, I believe we are in stage five acceptance. Aaron Parnas, Gen Z influencer, once hailed a Gen Z. Walter Cronkite is reported to have told the colleagues it was take it or leave it. The program's secrecy clause was deliberate.

It avoids a lot of public disclosure that you see on political ads. A lawyer for Chorus said in a Zoom call with creators according to Wired, your names aren't shown up on reports filed with the FTC. Well he was wrong. Go little old Rob. So they were thinking their name wasn't going to be on the list, now it is. That's not good.

Okay, so why is this not good? Tell me why this isn't good. I mean they're paying them like when it's dark secret money who's paying is it a specific candidate? Is it a campaign? When they say Democratic Party Pats like who is it? I'm just curious to who and who's leaking the story.

So what's the difference between this and the Russia thing that they were paying people $100,000 you know Dave Rubin's name was on there and a couple other people's name was on there. Yes. was on there and a couple other people's name was on there. Yes, I think it's kind of the same because like when they say dark money Pat, where is it coming from? Who who's paying to influence these people to use their influence?

Because if I'm a Democrat, you know how I'm arguing this? How cheap are you guys? You guys are so Republicans cost money. Apparently, if you want Ruben, you need 100 grand or these guys. These guys are like for $250, they're interested in. So these are the names from Coors. Coors is a creator, a nonprofit organization

dedicated to expand their reach. I'm saying of course is recruiting, training and supporting independent online voices and building the next era training. See, that's the part I have a problem with. Go a little bit lower.

What does training mean? Go lower Rob, go lower. Okay, can you go to the top that says get in touch? What does get in touch mean? But still stays there? Nothing newer?

Okay, then go to the other one that says join course. Apply now. Go a little bit lower, see if there's anything else. Okay, let's see the FAQs. What are the benefits of joining Quorus? Please, let's do an ad for it. But guys, if you want to join, I think it's gonna happen. Quorus incubator program is vibrant,

pro-democracy learning community for participants receiving a monthly stipend. So they're open about it.

So join, we'll give support.

Okay, go to the next one. Support and mentorship. create content. Nope. Nope. Oh, they've noped. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't like that. Chorus is a creator led nonpartisan nonprofit for a really different model. So we don't pay creators to produce content. Keep reading. Just give you space to learn more about how to communicate. Please note that we do ask incubators to submit one piece of content for growth analysis. Keep going. What is applicant to be a part of?

Okay. Online applications, information, your applications reviewed five member panel, the top scores for K go a little bit lower. Who funds us? There's a 501 c three pound with grassroots support from hundreds of individuals. Okay. All right. Can we find out who funds course go last one? Will I be publicly listed your privacy and safety is top security? Well, you got screwed up. Shit.

Whoopsie.

If you do apply, they're gonna know.

And doesn't this show you how the Democratic Party is in shambles? They're going behind closed doors, dark secret money. Notice how the Republicans have, you know, it's just organic. The influencers are out there, they're out in the open,

they're kicking ass because of Republican Party is, this shows you that they have to literally pay people like, hey, please talk positive about us, make us look good, because the policies and everything is right in front of their face. We need you to kind of slowly build it. And that's where they're at, Tom. They're in bad shape.

It's very, very simple. Chorus coordinates consistent messages among these influencers. Anti-conservative, whatever you want to call it, they coordinate those messages. The chorus sings together. The chorus stays in tune. Their branding has got a reason behind it. The 1630 Fund is sending money to chorus.

We like what you're doing, here's some bucks. And then they get a monthly stipend to do what? What is the monthly stipend? To do what? Oh no, no, we don't pay you to make content. Nope, we give you your stuff.

And then 1630 says, we invest in organizations that provide operational support to other groups. So chorus, so 1630 says,

Vinny, I'm gonna give you money for operational support. Yeah, what does that entail?

Operate.

Keep those liberal voices operating.

Yeah, exactly.

And keep them singing the same tune.

Yes, sir.

That's it.

There it is. I have nothing more to say. That's what's going on here. So they are, and by the way, it's the same thing that we were concerned about when we would show all Media do they all get a notice in the morning from somewhere remember those those all those clip generator those a clip assimilators

Yes

That would put together and you find out the news media was saying the same thing in the same way on the evening news all Across USA gosh, where did they all get the playbook?

This is just a playbook for influencers Rob

Can you go back and ask a chat GBT to follow in question ask the question of? Where who funds chorusorus Dark Money? Okay, there you go. So let's see this. Primary funder, 1630 Fund. Okay, so the 1630 Fund, a prominent liberal dark money nonprofit that operates fiscal

chorus and collects and administers donations. 1630 Fund has dispersed up to $8,000 a month to about 90. Okay, we read that larger network and known backers Larger networks are known backers are Bella advisors, Washington DC based lamp philanthropic Philanthropic consulting and minister 1630 fund or Bella manages a network of politically oriented nonprofits including new venture fund Hope of fund windward fund North fund and others Okay, known financial contributors are hunsorg with a Swiss billionaire who has donated $245 million.

Interesting. Okay, so we've got to come back and see who he is. Rob, can we actually go to see who that guy is, Hans-Joerg Wyss?

Pierre Oudmidaerts is co-founder of eBay.

Who is Hans-Joerg Wyss? So Swiss billionaire. He's a Swiss billionaire entrepreneur. Why does he have interest in politics? That's what I'm trying to find out. He launched a pledging of billion dollars towards 30% of Earth's land and water because

he's a climate change guy. Go a little bit lower. Major contributor to Democratic and Progressive caucuses. Got it. Wasn't going to go online. Chelsea.

Okay. The horizon burnt. Okay. So go back and can you ask the question, what's his relationship with George Soros? What's his relationship with George Soros? See what it says, zoom in a little bit.

Relation with it, there is no personal relationship. They do, however, they do operate in overlapping spheres. Both have major philanthropic donors, US Wyss Foundation, okay, 1635. All right, go back, George Soros through Open Society, similar funds, okay.

Go back to the chat, GBT, to continue reading it. Other disclosed, Nick Hohner, American Federation of Generals and Mike Bloomberg, okay. 45 million, major of its funding, eight and a half million dollars. These are the anonymous ones.

When was it founded, 2009,

left-leaning organizations. Pierre Omedair, he's the founder of eBay and the grandson of a general in the Imperial

Iranian Army.

Really?

Who served under Palavi.

Wow, okay, keep going a little bit more.

Now he's liberal, grandson, liberal.

So yeah, I mean, so what they're trying to do is what? Just to give you talking points to say, can you talk about these points and be favoring what we're talking about? Is that kind of what they're doing?

It's all about, right, social media is about trend. Trend is momentum, momentum is reach. All they're trying to do is put together, I shouldn't say all they're trying to do, is they're given a bunch of money, dark money. The dark money comes from all these people

that don't want to be listed. Whoops, there's a list. And then 1630 gives that money over to chorus. Chorus makes sure everybody is singing the same

tune. And today, the word of the day today is authoritarian Trump gun control. Go.

Adam.

Yeah, great point.

Well, this is why people want to get big money out of politics. I mean, this all traces back to the big decision in 2010, I believe it was, which was citizens United. And it happened under, uh, I don't know if it was under George Bush or it was under Obama right around that timeframe when there was a John Roberts limited corporate giving. Exactly. And we all remember when Chris Cuomo shout out to you, buddy, uh, basically called out the big money, dark money donors,

whatever you want to call it at at the DNC and this was following Bernie on stage like, we gotta get the billionaires out of elections, we gotta get the money out of this, the billionaires, the billionaires, please welcome to the stage your next speaker billionaire governor JB Pritzker, hey how you guys doing? So if you want to see cognitive dissonance look no further than the Democratic Party but here's

Chris Cuomo basically calling out essentially what we're talking about. How long is this clip

Rob? One minute 58 seconds. Greg look at the ring of sweets okay this is not unique to Democrats there is a game of money when people talk about uniparty we are strangled by the money reality in our politics those sweets start at 500 grand. You think there's like a teacher group up in there? You think it's like the Cub Scouts of Columbia County, South Carolina, that's up in those boxes?

Some of them are lobbies and good things. The media boxes, you think they're free? Why do you think I'm on the floor? News Nation is not a broke company. Nextdoor is a massive organization. We are corporate media.

We don't have one of those boxes because that's the game. You pay to play. Those boxes are filled with the same people that they say they're going to regulate. They are literally looking down on the faithful and being told. This is a clip that's going to be around forever. Rob, yeah, we're gonna break down on them.

We're gonna make them pay their share. Rob, you can pause it right there. We played this clip multiple times. Great messaging. It'd be great to get rid of lobbying, but in able to do that, it's gonna be,

it's gonna be a lot of fighting going on. But it won't, Tom, what would happen? Actually visualize 100% of lobbying is gone. The biggest one being big pharma. I think it's $350 million, whatever the number is. Take all the lobbying out. Pharma, real estate, insurance, APAC, take every one of these guys out. What happens?

Well, if you take the lobbying out of it, there's going to be a lot more variability in our elections because someone who's in the seat who now has the people in their pocket that's very hard to overthrow it is very very very very very hard to defeat a US senator go look at the number of incumbent senators absent some terrible scandal they get over thick it I shouldn't say overthrown, that sounds revolutionary, that are defeated. The most powerful word in American election lexicon is incumbent, because incumbent means there are people

that you are serving that want you to stay there, and the industries have the lobbying behind it. Pat, if that wasn't there and those lobbies weren't there, then it would be much easier for people with new ideas and new focuses to run against, especially in the perpetual two-year race, because it's every two years for a congressman,

every two years. Without that incumbent label, without all the lobbying money that they get, they would now be raising money from grassroots, people like you and me, or unions could give directly, but you wouldn't have the active lobbying groups.

Remember, there was one of the biggest white collar crimes in Washington was, what was his name, Jack? He always wore the little black bowler hat. And he was a paid lobbyist. Help me out, Rob. You know who I'm talking about?

And he ultimately, no, we'll find him. He used to wear that dark black jacket all the way down and the hat. But anyway, there's an example. Sounds pretty shady is what you're saying. It was criminal lobbying that was going on, where the

lobbying was going beyond. And so without the lobbying, Pat, elections would normalize quite a bit. And you would also have the following happen. Laws that get passed would have more scrutiny. Because the lobbyists, if you go look at it, what percent of laws that are sponsored by a congressman

are actually written by lobbyists. That's him right there. That's a jacket right there. That's him. Yeah, that was him.

He was the OG badass of lobbying until he got busted.

Pat, it reminds me of a picture that you showed about some scary guy in a movie.

So there's the two things, Pat. Elections would be easier for new people with ideas and laws would no longer be written by lobbyists and then just say, okay, Patrick, we got you elected. Here's the thing, put the bill through and the lobbyists are writing the bills. Dirty secret.

Who could get rid of them and who doesn't want to get rid of them?

We need a Buford Pusser type character.

Would Trump get rid of him?

I would hope.

I would hope. He's never talked about it though.

He could be our Buford Pusser. Because let me tell you, all of corporate America wants to lobby us because it makes their lives more stable because you don't have regulation coming and going. Corporate America wants it, especially energy and pharmaceutical. They want it. Who else wants it?

The unions want it. It makes their lives more stable. And what in what way do they play a positive role? Is there anything positive that they play? Well, when you see when you see parent groups joining, when you have, okay, I'll give you a great example. There is, oh, I just blanked on her name. She's in Texas. She's a doctor that was anti-vax. She works at Houston Hospital. She has a very vibrant Twitter account But she's been out there with grassroots people talking about

Mary Bowden, yes, Mary Talley Bowden, and she's been out there with Citizens Group. There's an example of good They have been trying to lobby and get their voice heard about you're wrong about the vaccine we have other data, but they get drowned out by the big money. And so small lobbying efforts, you know, that have a cause, sometimes they get vindicated like she, they tried to cancel her how many times? And now she's been vindicated that her and all the parents and the citizens that were

saying there's other data, please listen, please. They're pleading like little tiny voices in the night. This is an example. And now she's vindicated. They were like, you're going to lose your medical license. You won't be practicing. And as soon as you lose your license, we're going to go after you for disseminating fraudulent information.

Well, guess what? Guess what?

She did?

She's vindicated. And now she's out there on podcast and on TV saying, and you'll see things. Mary, how did, how did you, Dr. Bowne, how did you bear up under it? We knew we were right. We knew we had the data. How did you get through that, that, that fog?

How did you move it? I had the support of all these people that agreed with us. We're doing it. And that's an example, Pat, of a good lobby. And now we find out that she was absolutely correct.

I don't think lobbying is all bad. There's certainly pros and cons in it. Like for instance, you know, when I go to these Finceca insurance type conferences, we go to the Hill and try to educate our congressmen on the benefits of financial services and, you know, using our expertise that helps the general public and representing interests. And all these groups are special interests.

I don't have a problem with that. The problem when you can just, you know, you hear they're bought and paid for, bought and paid for, bought and paid for when you have so much money, whether it's the farmer groups or whether it's big oil or whether it's a big war, you could buy these politicians and put them in your pocket and then that's how you get crony capitalism.

That's how you get corruption.

So I don't know the happy medium of it, but it's certainly getting out of hand. Rob, I think maybe the solution is the following, and Mexicans have figured it out. Because I think for us, like we got to graduate this way we're going, And maybe we just got to go back to the old school way of politics.

Duels?

I mean, just watch this one here. They're having a friendly conversation. Look what happens. This is what? Mexico senators fight during session over speaking rights. Go ahead, Rob. Oh, yeah

Okay

Look back standing over me right look put your camera stay down. Oh, yeah me hinting

Yeah, this is awesome. This guy's like a gangster of Mexico

And then afterwards I have a beers together

And these are the civilized ones. These are the politicians wait till till you get the, do you have Taiwan gangs involved? By the way, Mexico's or junior league. Let's go to Taiwan. You know what Dana white? I don't need you at the white house. I need you on Capitol Hill. Yeah. Taiwan, Taiwan, parliament fight. Oh, December of 2024. I think some guy, a guy had nunchucks in this one. Look at this, they're stacking the furniture and there he is. He's making a tackle.

That's a chick.

That's not real.

Look at, no, no, and look at the chairs.

There is no way that's real. No, no, no.

Are there videos or no?

Yes, there are.

Go to media.

That's it.

That's it. Look, oh, he took the notes.

He's got the legislation. He's headed to the goal line.

He could go all the way.

This is in Taiwan?

Yeah, this is Taiwan. This is Taiwan parliament in December 2024. They ended up stacking the furniture. They stacked the furniture up to keep others from getting in here.

Here she goes.

What are they fighting about?

Probably not wanting to be taken over by China. Look at that. Yeah. They're throwing water. Uh oh. Uh oh. Hey. Oh. Here

come the chairs. Get them. That's great. Well now I'm hungry. You can pause it Rob. So.

So I think we should say that our congressmenmen have it under control and congresswoman are wimps. It's hilarious. Well So maybe that's also lobbying makes you weak. Can you imagine Chuck Schumer like not even sure like like Jerry Nadler Fighting like what's that old guy who's the old?

Brassley, but you thought he'spped in his pants once what would happen here? I actually totally I totally approve of what they're doing over there and what is this Mexican Congress right now? I'd pay for it. Because the old vigilante justice that you see what's going on the cartels we talked about like the most dangerous cities in the western hemisphere I think seven out of the top ten were in Mexico you know my buddy Adrian just got back from Durango Mexico and I and I was like, how was it? He said, oh, it was amazing. I go, what's the corruption like? Do you fear for your life? No, it's safe. It's safe. I go, you sure? Because all I hear is, you know,

politicians end up dead and all the craziness going on.. I was like, oh, that's so that's like a new thing. No more kidnapping innocent people. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was pretty safe. I was waiting for President Trump. I'm Donald Trump and I approve

of this fight. Killed it, Tom. All right. OK, so let's go to the next story here. Next story is Donald Trump looks terrible. Why won't the press ask him what's wrong? Okay, and I don't want to talk about the story so I don't come to you first. Okay, Donald Trump looks lousy. He is unexplained Bruises on his hands. His ankles are swollen. He's walking oddly He keeps mixing up names or using the wrong word during press Availabilities the question about what's legitimate illegitimate in diagnosing presidents and afar has become more than just an academic exercise and given the indoor world's most demanding job the debate

has also been fueled about age social media has no such complications about speculation the last few weeks have been considerable focus on Trump's ill health with his hands Rob is this what he's been asked the question about his health?

So this is last month because President Trump's hand was seen bruised last month and Caroline Leavitt was asked about that. And here's what she said about his health.

Recent photos of the president have shown minor bruising on the back of his hand. This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent hand shaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen. This is a well-known and benign side effect of aspirin therapy. And the president remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here. So the president wanted me to share that note with all of you. I'm happy to take further questions on it.

Gotta love it. You know, where baloney says, I hate my press. And the president is like, no, I do this every day. And by the way, do you remember how many times Biden took questions during the four years he was in? Do we actually know the stats? stats. How many times did President Biden allow press to ask him questions, okay, live

during his term? Do we know that? It has to be a handful. It's not a big number. By the way, who knows who's going to be coming out with these numbers? They're probably going to get bigger numbers than what it really is. Approxim approximately 36 times amongst seven most recent presidential presidents. I'm running again. What's the number? 36 but look at how many Trump had, Obama and Reagan had. Trump had 468, Obama did 570 in his eight years, Reagan did 262, Biden did 33, just so you know that. 33 is what Biden did 33 just so you know that

33 is what Biden did okay? What's the bottom one saying the 588 owner found a human a second 26 under 64 Trump

Okay, so yeah this guy's not out there and what Trump is doing is he's completely out there talking everybody but Adam What are your thoughts about this whole health scared that people are talking about yeah?

Well Donald Trump is probably gonna die the good news and bad news depending what you feel about Trump, is it's not gonna happen anytime soon. He's gonna live at least to age 90. Now, where am I coming up with this? Two different reasons. My expertise is literally in longevity and longevity markets and life expectancy. That's my industry. And then number two, precedent. So with the exception, since 1980, talk about president deaths, with the exception of Richard Nixon, who died at 81,

every single US president made it to at least 90. Reagan was 93, Ford was 93 as well, Bush senior 94, Jimmy Carter, your favorite president, Pat, made it to 100. I believe he died last year, although Vinny preemptively thought he died much earlier.

Biden is what, 82 going on 102? We'll see how long he lasts. He's still there. Trump is 79. He's lean, mean, and orange. He's doing his thing. He's high energy. He's active. He's a fighter. He's a survivor. Based on my indications, based on whatever health issues we know, get used to seeing Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Whether he runs in 2028, I think is a farce. But Donald Trump, for all the betting people out there, will make it through his final term in office.

And then he'll have a sunset.

I mean, but in regard to this, Tom, sorry not to cut you off, Tom, I mean, aspirin, what she's talking about is, you know, baby aspirin for your, for your blood. Like a lot of people might, even my doctor's like, take a baby aspirin, chewable at night before you go to sleep. It helps with your circulation. But it's, it's, and I mean, let's, let's be honest. He does shake hands and he's aggressive when he shakes hands. That might be Tom. I trust me.

He's shaking my hands. Tom's hand stronger now. I think you mentioned this yesterday too, it's not like guys, he doesn't hide. He eats Big Macs. When you go on Air Force One, there's nine Big Macs and you have to eat it because that's all they have is Big Macs and McDonald's fries and he drinks Diet Coke.

And R.K. sitting there going, I wish I wasn't in this photo.

Yeah, exactly, but the only thing that makes me laugh that the media is worried about him when for four years Biden was falling upstairs Forgetting everything shaking hands with ghosts lost his mind They didn't say he was literally shaking hands with nobody and they said nothing and now they're like, oh Trump is in bad shape I'm gonna be honest. Oh, but he doesn't look that great. He's in his 80s, like you said, he's eating unhealthy. 79 Vinny, have a little respect.

He's 2026 is going to be the greatest year of our lives right now. He's going to be 80. The country's going to turn 250. I wish he were all over here. I want to live as long as he can.

You're not going to change somebody at that age and you're going to happen. Hey, I think we've got a lot of octogenarians in Congress and the Senate. And I think what we just went through with Biden, where now we find out he was honestly incapacitated in some way. That's terrible.

And since he was incapacitated and went through all this, I think it's a fair question by the media. The media sits there and looks, hey, the prior president, now we know, some of us covered it up, okay, maybe shouldn't have done that, not going to admit it, but it's a fair question we need to ask. How is the health of our leader with so much to do on a world stage?

He's doing just fine, I don't want to hear it.

And it would appear that there may be some stuff going on with a 70-something year old

president, but- 79. 70-something year old president, but other than that he's in good health and moving forward. And it's not the visible things that we saw previously. And it's not Mitch McConnell basically having, you know, like Mike, I don't know what you call it, but he would freeze up. If someone, I mean, Adam and I have been around a lot of older relatives and stuff.

If we had an older relative freeze up at a dinner the way McConnell did, wouldn't we start going through? No, I'd reelect him. No, no, no, you and I would go through the stroke checklist, try to get him to say something, try to do these things.

Remember McConnell freezes up?

Yeah, multiple times.

And so you would get concern for a family member and say, hang on, let's go through the stroke checklist is called 911. And so it's a fair question by the media, but it looks like Trump's in good health

and all things considered.

Well, I wanna get Patrick's perspective on this, because you said something the other day, it's not about lifespan, it's about healthspan. Unpack that a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, we just met with a guy who is one of our neighbors, brilliant guy, doctor, cardiologist, he says life is about healthspan, not lifespan, how long of a healthy life you live. It's not about you could live up to 90, but the last 20 were miserable, you know, versus you live 85, but you live a healthy 85. He's golfing out there. You know, he came back from Alaska, gets a couple hours of sleep, gets

back on a golf course, knew when he's golfing. So, you know, yes, that hand stuff, you gotta look at it, make sure everything is good. What I do know is, you know, with the help of Tom's, you know, a lot of the content he talks about, we have a massive surge in our octogenarian audience that watches the podcast, and we welcome all of you, and it's just an awesome audience. And, you know, they still buy Future Looks Bright. They still are like, no, I'm still excited about the future

I don't buy green bananas, but they'll buy some future. They believe the future looks bright. Definitely. All right Let's go to another story of this guy that Decided to run the middle of the street gets arrested. It's guys name is little Nas X Rob if you want to pull up this clip, I don't even know. I guess we have to show the clip for it to make sense. So this guy is, I mean, look, before you watch it, he's in his white, I don't even know what that is. So let me just kind of read it to you.

Vinny was like sent emails. Can we please cover this? Twice we did not. So I'm only doing this because Vinny really wants to cover this story because it has a lot to do with the economy and politics. But let me just set it up and then I'll give it to you. Little Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, was released from jail Monday after posting $75,000 bill following his arrest on Thursday in Studio City, California, where

he was seen walking naked down Ventura Avenue, at 4 o'clock in the morning leading to a confrontation with police user at taser to subdue him as Reported by TMZ. He was charged with four felt four felony counts Including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer with a criminal complaint stating he did unlawfully use force and violence and inflict an injury on three officers he reasonably should have known were peace officers performing their duties.

LA County District Attorney Nathan Hockman, no relation to OctoolGirl, stated attacking police officers is more than just a crime against those individuals but a direct threat to public safety emphasizing that anyone who assaults law enforcement will face serious consequences the 26 year rapper known for his 2018 Old Town Road pleaded not guilty during his Raymond Monday Vinny tell us. You want to first show this clip? This is it.

Imad Jafet you know where this is this. And Majumdar, you know where this is. This is Ventura Boulevard. I know exactly where this is. You know exactly where this is. Khawish Malhi.

And they claim that he OD'd on drugs. Show this.

Hey, don't be late to the party tonight.

Where at?

You know where it's at.

In my pants. I do. Go ahead, babe. Didn't I tell you to put the phone down?

Like oh my goodness.

Uh oh, somebody's going to have to pay for that.

You know exactly where this is.

This is Ventura.

This is Ventura.

Four o'clock in the morning.

And that's, hey-o.

Fast forward, Rob.

Okay, fast forward, fast forward, fast forward.

You know that's California Pizza Kitchen.

It's right there!

Wow. That's a man right there.

Boom! Boom! Everything looks normal to me except he's not in a crosswalk. Boom! Nothing crazy Pat, he's actually having a good time. So do we see cops actually get in a police car? No, no, no fighting, none of that, but there is a video Rob if you could find the aftermath. Why was he arrested? arrested just first of all they said he was ODing but guess what yeah this is and like Pat just look at the spiritual like look where he's at could show this

clip this after jail your girl is gonna be okay your girl okay

okay she's gonna be alright she's gonna be alright yeah okay yeah look at him Tommy's lost that was fucking terrifying. Look look Tom. That was terrifying. Yeah look at his eyes bro. That was a terrifying last four days

but your girl is gonna be all right. Something tells me that when he went to jail he dropped

the soap on purpose. Well well well here's my thing. Multiple times. Guys and listen I don't judge I'm just I'm just my my opinion Tom. I know we were talking about the spirituality I want you to piggyback on but that's not back. Was that? Please Excited about this girl. This isn't drugs. This is by the way I've been on drugs before nothing made me want to get in my underwear and white boots and go on adventure

Yeah, but you're not flaming homosexual Vinny. I understand, but Pat, that's not drugs. That's something deeper. And a lot of people say when you get to the industry, you sell your soul. Adam, I don't want to say the name. We talked to a guy that said to us, Pat, by the way, this guy wasn't a Christian.

He was at a house party, very talented guy. guy and he saw things and he admitted to me he looked like he saw a ghost and he goes this made me become a Christian and remember guys let's do a little backstory this is the same guy that teamed up with MSSGCHF remember they made the Satan shoes they were altered Nike Air Max 97s they had a bronze pentagram inverted cross do you remember these yeah red accents and guess what they only made six six pairs, 666 pairs.

Well remember, this was a fact check.

They got sued, they got sued. Nike had nothing to do with this. Nike had nothing to do with this. They sued, they took it down, and they forced, and by the way, they had a drop of human blood in it, okay? And at the same time, he released that music video,

Montero, when she pulled dance from hell, gave the devil a lap dance, snapped his neck and then took his throne. And I know I mentioned this earlier in the week, when we're talking about the fight, the battle, it's about, it's not flesh and blood, this is Ephesians, but Galatians 6-7 says, do not be deceived, God is not to be mocked, for whatever one sows one will reap. Okay, and this is what the industry she does. They sold us on this and Luke what's that Luke 10 18 Tom could you read it what does it say? Luke 10 18 I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven as he was banished. And guys a lot of people go oh you're just you're just connecting dots and no no all these guys all these industry people they do

this stuff uh remember I spice? That's not a Bible verse that's a proof of existence. Yes of Satan. That's what they're verse, that's a proof of existence. Yes, of Satan, correct? That's what they're doing. And then remember Ice Spice? She's in the booth with Taylor Swift. When the camera hits her and she knows, she does the devil horns and she picks up an upside-down cross. And everybody's like, yo, you're crazy. That's just, they're just messing with you. And no, and this is them giving like credence and like respect to their God. And Rob, Bob Dylan, I know we showed this once, if you don't mind, Pat.

Bob Dylan was asked by who? Ed Bradley?

Ed Bradley.

It's 60 minutes way back when 60 minutes.

Yeah.

He's asking him like, how do you keep, how do you keep going? You're you give credit to your industry and look who he says he, uh, he made a deal with.

Go ahead. Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?

Well, it goes back to the destiny thing. I made a bargain with it, you know, long time ago, and I'm holding up my hand.

What was your bargain?

To get where I am now.

Should I ask who you made the bargain with?

With the chief commander.

On this earth?

On this earth and in a world we can't see.

Okay, so guys, it's not like they're hiding it. It's in your face. I don't want to interrupt, but I assume that's the devil, but it could be God. I don't know about that. Talking like that, I don't God. I don't know about that. Talking like that, I don't know. I don't know.

My thing is this, Adam, I think these people like Lil Nas X, to go to the story, there's something off. That guy made a deal with the devil, for sure. When you go into this industry, you're lost. You're spiritual.

And Tom, I know, I don't normally mention specific books, but I'm going to mention one here, and it's Spiritual Warfare by Dr. Carl Paine. It's a very, very balanced book. Read chapter two with an open mind, and just tell me what you think is happening here, and what's happening with people. This is not, you know, I think that pastors that are out there that are doing, you know, these fake exorcisms and these stage shows, I think that's a sham. But I

think that people that fail to understand that our prayer life needs to include protection from the dark forces, that's a shame. If you don't see that and you look at the amount...people say, you know, look how much Jesus talked about money. Well, you need to also look at how much he talked about spirit forces, and saying, these only go through prayer and fasting. You know, there is the...in Acts, talks about the seven sons of Sceva, and this priest, self-appointed priest named Sceva, will go

around collecting money from people to say, I'll make the demons go away, I'll make the demons go away, I'll do all this. And they say this man that was overwrought, you know, turned to him and looked at him, and he said, in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches, get out of him. And so in other words, he didn't have the belief. He's referencing Apostle Paul, and it says, the man looked at him and it says,

Paul I have heard of, and Jesus I know. Who are you? And basically he was saying you're unarmed. You are not covered by the Holy Spirit, you're unarmed, and it says he gave him and his seven sons a massive beating and they fled the house naked and bleeding. And so, you know, you see all that. And so Spiritual Warfare by Dr. Carl Payne, you know, take a look at that. It's not about sensationalizing the devil, it's understanding that there are dark forces on this, which is why we need

Christ. Well, there's, I mean, this is a Chachibiti thing, but here's allegedly a list of famous musicians and actors who have quote unquote, made a deal with the devil. This is Chachi Beauty, check it out. Number one on the list is Kanye.

Number two, Jay-Z, Beyonce, obviously Jay-Z had a relationship with Kanye. Rihanna, Katy Perry, who jokingly said, I wanna be the Amy Grant of music and I sold my soul to the devil. Those are her words. Lady Gaga, Eminem, Lil Nas X on this list right there. In the acting world, we saw what happened with Heath Ledger when he played

the Joker and he literally got possessed by the devil. Apparently Keanu Reeves on this list, Madonna, Doja Cat, we've seen what she's done in her music and she's song about the devil but you know when they said there's smoke there's fire, we've seen multiple, multiple stories of people who have had fame and have kind of gone out of it and said you don't want to see what's going on in this occult house back here. And they get out of it.

But some people, fame over being a decent person is a higher priority.

Well there you go. That's Lil Nas X for you. With what he's got going on folks I mean the basic premise of this message is don't run around and you're under at four o'clock Yeah, I don't care. What street it is Ventura Preston hollow, you know Broadway

Main Street

Dixie Dixie Don't do it. It's not a good idea. If you're gonna run around your house fine. Don't do it in the street That was a main purpose there. Don't tell us we didn't give you a good tip today of watching the show life-changing All right next story Russia warning as Vladimir Putin close to first nuclear bomb test in 35 years nuclear bomb test why is he testing a nuclear bomb?

Who wants to see that he's testing a nuclear bomb is this message to his? Neighbor private leader that's a great dancer great shaker Who is he who is he trying to show this to that they're doing this with so let me read it to you Russia's getting closer to renewing nuclear bomb test for the first time since 1990 and a former Soviet Arctic test site in Zavoya Zambia Arctic test site in Zavoya, Zemlya, Archipelago, and with military specialist Dmitry Stepanovich of the Russian Center for International Security and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

warning we are closer to the situation than any point in North Korea since last nuclear test referring to North Korea's test in September 2017. The director of the facility confirmed readiness, stating the test site is ready to resume full-scale testing activities. It is fully ready. The laboratory and testing facilities are ready.

The personnel are ready. If the order is given, we will begin testing at the moment. Russian politician, including Lieutenant General Andrei Grolov, who posted from the side, you know there's a lot of fascinating stuff I could say about the test site, but sadly I cannot. The only thing I can say is we're fully combat ready.

So what are they saying? While that story's breaking and they're sharing that, another story comes out that Russia is trying to recruit soldiers with HIV and STDs With the promise of free health care if they fight against Ukraine So he's actively recruiting people civilians with HIV hepatitis syphilis and other diseases in occupied regions of Don Tech With health care access to is restricted to Russian passport holders

But using signs at recruitment center stating this is your last chance to pressure them into enlisting with the promise of life-changing health care. So Tom, when you see something like this with what they're doing, first testing nuclear site, two stories about them recruiting anybody and everybody with STDs and HIV, what do you think? Do you think this is all smoke signal? Do you think they're all sending messages?

Or do you think there You think this is all smoke signal? You think they're all sending messages? Or you think there's any credibility here? No, I've been reading behind behind the headlines on a lot of stuff in the Ukraine war. And it is a fact that as of about 100 days ago, this became more of a manpower war than a technology war. And that the drones that we're seeing flying around is not simply because of drone technology. It is in part, but the other problem is they are out of manpower.

And we've seen the kidnappings and conscription that have been going on in Ukraine. And we were also seeing, we also saw some very disturbing behavior of men that were in a gay club that were being pulled out of the gay club in St.

Petersburg. I think it was. I think the audience can help me here, but that was a gay club that was in Russia and these guys were getting pulled out and forced into draft. And so it is a manpower problem that both sides are facing right now of military age, typical soldier age people.

And now we're seeing the next list of this, because this has been going on so long, they don't have infinite populations of young people that are joining the armed forces out of pride. They are having to basically enforce a draft, and when that's not working,

they're having to kidnap on the streets, which Ukraine has been doing, and we've seen the videos, they're having to kidnap on the streets, which Ukraine has been doing, we've seen the videos, how much, don't have exact numbers, but they've done it, and now you've got Russia raiding a gay club, and now saying, look, if you're sick, you've got controllable communicable diseases,

HIV positive, no problem, I'll give you free healthcare

for life if you still have a life when you're done in the military.

Yeah, by the way, while you're saying that, at the same time, Putin, Kim Jong-un are to attend the Chinese parade in a show of defiance against the West. So look at that team right there, folks. Kim Jong-un, Xi Xi and Putin are gonna be together

Why maybe they're sending a message, okay? So they will attend a military parade in Beijing September 3rd a week from now Marking their first public appearance alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping With Chinese system foreign minister announcing at a news conference that 26 foreign heads of state and government including Belarus president Iranian president Indonesian president South Korea National Assembly speaker will join with no major Western leaders except for Slovakia's prime minister

Robert Ficu Will be president the parade commemorating the 80 anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War two will feature

Ji Jinping surveying tens of thousands of troops

at the Tiananmen Square showcasing China's advancement military equipment like fighter jets missile defense system and hypersonic weapons The event projects a major show of solidarity among China Russia and North Korea against Western pressure with Russia facing multiple

rounds of sanctions

since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine described of Beijing as a strategic partner a North Korea former treaty ally of China under UN Security Council

Sanctions since 2006 for its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program Adam. What do you think with these two these three stories? Yeah well show me your friends I'll show you your future this is the gang gang gang right here you got China you got Russia you got North Korea you got Iran you got Venezuela and then just throw in whatever autocratic regimes aligned with these guys. On the flip side you got our gang which is the United States and all the five eyes which is Canada, UK, New Zealand you know, you

throw Israel in there, you throw these democracies where people actually get elected and they're held accountable by the people, not just autocratic leaders, thug-like leaders who just do what they want. That's the way of the world. So you know how they say that you are the sum of the five people you hang out with the most? This is their crew. This is the axis of evil, this is the sum of the five people you hang out with the most, this is their crew. This is the axis of evil. This is the axis of resistance. Not the people of these countries

aren't necessarily evil, but the regimes typically are.

How do you think Trump views this?

I was just thinking, that's what I was thinking. You just sat down with him. You had a good talk. You know, we're doing peace talks, we're hopefully to end this thing with Ukraine, and then you go and you're gonna go hang out with Iran's president, just right there, I mean, he has a relationship with South Korea, with Kim Jong-un, but that's a-

North Korea, North Korea, big difference. Isn't that a spit in the face? Like, you're showing your defiance to the West,

we just sat down with each other. Yeah, but why would you think that there are friends? There's no indication that there

are boys.

No, I necessarily say friends. As much as we're not fans of what Zelensky's doing, we're on Team Zelensky. We're on Team

Ukraine. I know you don't want to admit it.

I'm not on Team that guy. No, no. I'm on Team Ukraine. Our country is yeah the country the country is I mean but you're American but Russia like Russia But we were told to hate Russia Russia I don't necessarily think he's a friend, but you just came here, and we're talking peace now

You're gonna do a parade going hey, we don't like y'all like I don't it's it's counterproductive What the hell are we talking about is a former? letters that he's former what? KGB? KGB. You trust KGB? Not me. You down with KGB? My whole

family. Is there anything here or this is just a ceremony that they're paying support

to? Yeah I think it's a ceremony they're paying support to. I mean we met Robert Fico at a turning point event. He was a guy that was shot five times, I believe, and survived. That was 50 Cent. Slovak? No, I think Robert Fico was shot several times and attempted assassination during election season. And we have South Korea's National Assembly Speaker, Woo Won-Chik.

So it seems like there's some people from the... Yeah, that's him. Look, that guy was shot several times during an election, attempted assassination, and he made it and survived it. And so I think, and by the way, he's a friend of the US,

and he's sitting here at Turning Point USA.

We met him.

We met him.

Yeah. And so I think there are some people that are there, okay, I'm being invited to this, I'll go, because they're having a gathering. It would be different if it was just the three, China, Russia, and North Korea, standing doing a missile test,

sending a missile over the- That's next.

Over the end of North Carolina, North Korea toward Japan, that would be annoying. But right now, I think they're getting together for this parade. The people that like each other are there, and there's a couple people from the rest of the world

that are coming there, basically pay their respects.

That's what I think. What do you think, Pat?

What do you think's going on with all this?

I think you're the same way like he's talking cards. They're trying to say, hey, we're unified.

And we're also pretty strong unified group for you to be paying attention to.

China and Russia being unified and Iran, those three countries are in our top five enemies list, if you think about China being number one, Iran being probably number two, Russia being probably, I don't know, they're in the top five. So I think if you were them, you'd probably do it as well. If you were them and you are representing them, you'd probably hold this meeting to use as a leverage point that we're unified. Yeah, but I don't know.

I don't know if it's going make the relationship better or not and a part of it Maybe even in the meeting with Trump. He may have said hey, I just want you know I'm gonna be at that September 3rd meeting with China So, you know, these are things like don't read into it. I've been committed to that for two years I've been committed to that for six months. Who, this is like, you know, how your calendar things out a year in advance Yeah, these guys calendar things out three four or five years in advance They're world leaders. The average person doesn't understand the calendar of a world leader. So I'm not expecting everybody understand it

Okay, so let's go to the next story. I want to talk about the economy. Tom, so U.S. economy surges past expectations as spending investment roars. U.S. 3.3% in Q2 with growth even stronger than initially thought. And this is a story by CNBC. Rob, I think you have a video on this if I'm not mistaken. But I'll read this, Tom, and I'll come to you. The U.S. economy grew at 3.3% in the second quarter, surpassing the Commerce Department's initial 3 percent estimate and 3.1 percent Jones consensus forecast, driven by consumer spending rising 1.6 percent from 1.4 on health care,

pharmaceuticals, and dining out, with final sales to private domestic purchases, a key Federal Reserve metric, increasing 1.9 percent compared to the 1.2 estimate. Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union stated the good news is consumption came in higher than previously thought. Americans are continuing to spend despite the tariffs and uncertainty albeit a lower, slower pace than past years projecting future growth at around 1.5% Tom, thoughts on this?

This is good news. Things are working. Is everything perfect? Is everything perfect in every state? Is energy perfect in California, where they've kind of screwed up their green tariffs

and the taxes they have on it? Sure. And guess what?

Stand by for a tall presidential candidate,

hopeful, to be saying things about that. But just remember how bad it is from the taxes in that state. a tall presidential candidate hopeful to be saying things about that, but just remember how bad it is from the taxes in that state. But the overall US economy is growing, but not too fast. If it grows too fast, that can be inflationary. And jobless claims were also down.

So the number of people that turned in claims for relief, you know, that was down. So that was good. There's still a lot of things that need to happen. We need the manufacturing that's coming back on shore. We need those facilities to get built

so we can get the jobs going there. But overall, this is good. And I'll show you a chart. This will be interesting to you. It involves numbers, but it's okay.

Okay, thank you, Tom. Don't get a rash. It's interesting to you. Okay. It involves numbers, but it's okay. Okay. Thank you, Tom.

Don't get a rash. Thank you.

Too late. Give me the Fed St. Louis, the 30-year mortgage rate, and go ahead and make that the beginning of this year.

Right over there, that little box, just make it 2024.

That's fine.

All right.

Which little box? Yeah, right there. Right there. Make it 2024. Yeah. Nice. So, and... Yep. So now we see that, guess what? We have just dipped under six and a half percent for national mortgage rates for the first time since the blip we had with the elotion, the election. That little down... I love elotion.

Yeah, I just... The lotion? I love a lotion. I love a lotion. Put the economy in the basket with the lotion.

In the basket, Tom.

Hang on a second.

Yeah, hang on.

Tom, have another sip of that funny juice. Dropping all these words.

Now it's the, it's my Bailey's and coffee.

Octogenarian, a lotion.

That's right. So anyway, there is a motion in the ocean. Whoa, Tommy! Tell me! That's what's called dynamic growth of the economy. Right around the election you saw when the interest rates went down because of manipulation and pressure that was put on by the Biden administration. However, we have not been to 6.5% for two years, and we have just touched under 6.5%. So in addition to everything we're seeing here in the economy, with the Fed coming out

and saying, aw, scred, all right, I'm going to lower rates on the 17th and 19th of September. I'm going to do it. And he gave that speech and he says, you know, I've been waiting for inflation from tariffs. And this is what he said, which doesn't appear it's going to happen. So in other words, that was the Fed saying, I think there's going to be inflation from tariffs. Well, you know what? I've been waiting long enough it doesn't look like it's gonna happen so rather than just saying I was wrong and then there's a lot of good I like about Powell there's a lot of good he's had a steady hand but on this he'd think he waited but right now we've got interest rates coming down a bit and

there's gonna be another quarter point that comes out of the Fed funds rate that'll influence the 10-year treasuries which influences our mortgages. So in addition to what we're seeing here, we may get in the fall, Pat, mortgages at, could it get to 5.99 for the best qualified people? Maybe, we will see, but right now, the numbers for the economy look good,

but we still need factories brought back and jobs coming here. And we need the interest rates to go down for real, because that also helps the interest we're paying on the U.S. debt.

It's 599 and moving out of that trailer park right quick, baby. Well, the American economy right now, it's almost like the old book, Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times, the worst of times. And during COVID, we learned something about the K-shaped economy, about the richer getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and basically the wage gap that's going on right there. There is a big difference in this country

between Main Street and Wall Street. Now, if you own assets, you're probably doing pretty good right now. Assets are inflatedated whether it's crypto, whether it's a stock market, whether these are housing prices, but if you're not invested and you don't own appreciating assets and you're just the average guy out there, I understand why it's very frustrating. The mainstream guys out there, you know, wages are not up big time and you're not really participating

in what makes America incredible, which is the stock market. So save that money and start

investing is what I'm saying. There you go. Okay, gang. Well, it is Friday, weekend's around the corner, and we are officially, to be exact, how many days away from the vault, Ron? We are officially 10 days away from the vault.

I cannot wait to see all y'all here. The event we had Wednesday night here was Ridiculous of people being here. I give a couple tours It felt like 120 degrees outside when I'm in you know suit walking around with these folks great conversations great moments I we had a eight million dollar sp3 of Ferrari You know one of them just sold at an auction a few weeks ago for 25 million dollars 26 million I made an offer of seven mil. It was just no they said no because it's just you know, one of them just sold at an auction a few weeks ago for $25 million, $26 million. I made an offer of 7 mil. It was just not allowed.

No, they said no because it's just, you know, they didn't want to take your money.

They can't mail me in a car.

But we had a great time. Most importantly, so many networking, conversations, strategies. It was fantastic. And Valk Conference, we are 10 days away. Tony Robbins, Martha Stewart, David Falk, myself, three and a half days, 296 page manual, the event's gonna be the title sponsor of the event Goliath Ventures founded in 2019, Goliath Ventures is a global private equity firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance founded by Chris Delgado, it's built on three pillars, technology, opportunity, and community. Core

belief blockchain is the foundation of a generational wealth shift. Their crew will be there first time when you get there on September 8th. We have five hours set up for networking by 10 industries. So if you're wanting to go out there and meet others, whether you want to raise money, whether you want to find partners, whether you want to find out how other podcasters and YouTubers are doing what they're doing to grow their businesses, this is an event you go to where you get strategies and you leave.

And not only that, you build great relationships. Don't come by yourself. Come with your spouse. Come with your business partner. Go to thevolt 10 days. I'm going to get into the next 10 days. I'm going to get into the next 10 days. I'm going to get into the next 10 days. I'm going to get into the next 10 days.

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