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Miss today Prior to this was eight men standing here watching Colin Farrell Perform a song called crazy Heart in this movie called you know, you're all gone don't lose, you know, yeah, Colin Farrell and everybody for a second forgot about it and I said no we're getting started at 859 and we got started on time I said get out and everybody ran out and Adam went out there finished the song with Colin Farrell and came back in

because he wanted he already had to say Colin Farrell 20 years ago something like that. I'm at a spa in Melrose called Voda and I would go there was a great Russian spa and I would take my guys to I'm sitting there. He said that's the one right? That's it. Yeah, they would have good. What do you call it caviar? And it would make good borscht believe it or not But I didn't take him down there and he's guy starts talking me to my left with an accent. Who is this guy? I'm like, oh shit. It's you. Are you I think yeah

So we did we did a we did a survey this morning If anybody remembers his first movie first big movie that he was a if you can get it without Google, in a comment in the comment section. No chat, GBT, no Google, no perplexity, no grok, nothing, see if you can get it. Anyways, we're gonna continue. Stories we got today, okay? Stories we got today.

Ketamine Queen takes plea deal in case that shock Hollywood. Tom's got Taiwan. Trump pushes for eliminating use of mail-in balloting and voting machines and let me tell you Newsom and others have lost their mind Michigan City Councilman caught on camera

Stuffing election drop box with absentee most anti Trump Americans so my root and hatred they reject his success Security guarantees discussed which by the way the way he did it is actually very interesting he got the EU to buy 90 billion dollars of weapons to give to American people which is great to see that I think moving forward Nobody should be able to become a president without being a good negotiator Like you know how you think about what values you want the president to have they better know how to negotiate Tom

Don't you think absolutely we're seeing it We need bureaucrats out and then and a businessman in and guess what look at the results America the president to have, they better know how to negotiate, Tom, don't you think? Oh, absolutely. We're seeing it. We need bureaucrats out and a businessman in. And guess what? Look at the results, America.

We need more than sniffers to become presidents. We need the ability to, yeah, that's right. So Democratic Texas lawmakers spend the night on state house floor after refusing GOP demand for law enforcement escort. That's an exciting story. Workers are now job hugging or clinging to their positions for dear life. You could have said workers are now job spooning.

They don't want their jobs to go away. Adam does this every day before podcasts I tell him to move away. America's tipping culture spirals from 15% to 30% as digital guilt trip kicks in. You know how you go to a regular store, they sell shoes, you buy the shoe, would you like to tip 22%? I just bought a shoe buddy, you didn't bring me an Arnold Palmer, I didn't get balsamic

glaze, I didn't get anything else. You want me to tip you for 30%? And Vinny loves doing it. Vinny says, why only 22%? Can we go 30 or 40? It's just Vinny's culture. It's a Middle Eastern side of things. It's unbelievable. It is what it is. Unintended consequence of technology. Housing starts climbed unexpectedly in July, Wall Street Journal story. Young

adults say friendship is getting too expensive. Folks, we can't be friends. I lost three people today. New survey finds 44% skip major events due to cost. So that old song, remember? Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? That's it, you can't do it anymore. Christian revival, believe in God, triples amongst 18 to 24 year olds and a 45 year old allegedly is going to Christian. I that's I'm that's I'm sorry Christian revival and belief in God triples amongst 18 to 24 year old Britons I thought there was like a Jewish guy that was gonna go to Christian Church

MSNBC change the name folks. I don't know if you saw that or not Unbelievable change is that official it looks like they went to Hillary Clinton's marketing team with a new name I mean, you just got to see how it looks. MSNBC to change the name to MSNOW. So they could have said MS13 now. I don't think their marketing is that smart. It would fit. You know what it is? All of a sudden their Mara Savatrucha ratings went up. Oh yeah. What channel do you watch? Hey Vato. Hey, that's just taking up for illegals, fool. He's so funny. An upcoming Comcast spinoff deal.

All right, Joey Reed is upset at Elvis. And listen, I'm going to play a clip. If people forgot the greatness of Elvis, I'm going to show you something that maybe 95% of you haven't seen. You're going to get the chills all over your body. And if you do get the chills all over your body, just go say something to Joey.

Say Joey, go do your podcast and go after other singers. Leave Elvis alone. But Joey Reid launches finger-jabbing rant against Elvis and says, nicknaming him the king was racist. So now it's racist to call Elvis the king. By the way, did you ever hear what Elvis said when they asked him about politics?

His answer, it's beautiful. Rob, let's find out what's an awesome, awesome answer. He had strong opinions, but he went away from it. So we'll talk about that. Ashley St. Clair. I don't know if you guys know about this girl. Ashley St. Clair claims she's broke and facing eviction from New York City apartment. I don't know how did she ever

end up getting money from Elon? Settlement I forget how much but it was I believe in the millions and then it was five hundred thousand dollars a year

annually for the child. Oh so she's she's trolling is what she's doing she may be trolling. Okay Andrew Tate sues TikTok and Meta apparently hundred million dollars he said four hundred million in a video but apparently hundred million dollars. He said 400 million in a video, but apparently 100 million dollars alleging the platforming collusion Apple expands iPhone production in India For u.s. Bound new models, which we'll see what's gonna happen there I think I have a theory of what happened with that six hundred billion dollars that

Apple raised from 500 to 600 Tom brought up a story about target versus Walmart Tom. I knew you just show me that it's not in the stories We have to talk about that. We absolutely have to talk about that's a brilliant story. I'm gonna come to you It may even be one of the first three stories. I'll come to you with bad leadership That's right. Carney left out a White House meeting with Trump Zelensky and European leaders. It was illegal trucker behind fatal U-turn failed English language test.

Oh, that video that everybody sees.

Yeah, we can show it because it's not...

Russia open to bilateral or trilateral talks with Trump and Zelensky, Putin foreign minister. Amanda Seals takes on 20 black conservatives in a debate bound to make your blood boil. Anthony Weiner predicts Zoran Mamdani will secure democratic endorsement in New York City race. Well, you know, I mean, if Anthony Weiner says it Zoran Mamdani will secure Democratic endorsement in the New York City race. You know, I mean, if Anthony Weiner says it, it's done. So I don't know about Koran.

He is reading Eric Adams slams Zoran Mamdani over prostitution stans. Questions, religious values. Okay, so we'll see what happened there. Now, today, a couple things I want to share with you. It happens to be the National Lemonade Day, okay, today. It's actually the National Lemonade Day, okay? So when you think about the National Lemonade Day, we launched this campaign a few months

ago, if you remember, Rob, if you can go to it, it was the Zested Forward Lemon Box, which ended up becoming a hit. And we got so many awesome stories and testimonies. The other day I was reading all the reviews at the bottom of what stories people were saying and the reaction they got from folks. It's absolutely awesome.

I'm going to read this to you. Imagine someone's having a bad day. Things are not going the way they want it. This box shows up. Valuetainment. There's a message there, an inspirational message there that they hear and then outside of the inspirational message, there's a few items.

It's a way . . . what is that audio Rob? Is that Adam? You? Okay. So I want to read some of these stories to you of people who use this and send it to others and what their experience was from the people that received it.

So here's one. Hello. Yes, yes, yes. Amazingly zest. Help me surprise. Help me to surprise gentleman who has everything and more for his 98th birthday.

That's awesome. Touch the heart. Me too. Thank you. My appreciation is going out to you. Lilia.

Okay, so that's one right there. Next one. My sister-in-law is such a lovely gesture. God bless you. Here's another one from Eric Stewart. My customer is going through some hard times with business and family. The VT Lemon Box put us in a situation where we're going through some really challenging

times. I'm going to give you a couple of tips. Folks, if you know a friend or family that's going through challenging times, go to VTMerch.com, Zest it forward to somebody. Make someone's day. Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't receiving a gift. Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't you getting the promotion, isn't you getting all of that. Sometimes it's just doing it for somebody else.

So if you want to start your day, you know, for me, any time I was having a bad day in sales the last 25 years, the first thing I would, and I would tell them how amazing that I would find a way to make somebody else's day, then my spirits would come up, then I would perform and go out there and make my calls and meet with my clients that I needed to. So if you want to be able to do that for somebody else, send this to someone. Not only will you bless someone's day, but it's going to come back and do the same thing to you.

So that's one. I want to remind you guys of what's happening here on the campus. August 27th, we're giving private tours of the entire campus. Right now we're building a soccer field here. Literally we're building a futsal field here, one of the biggest futsal fields in all of the state of Florida that's being built right behind me as we speak. Every time people come and see our campus, they're like, we had no idea you guys had nearly 200 employees and you guys are doing all this stuff. Yes, this is what we do. Really, yes.

So if you're somebody that wants to come and get a private tour of what we're doing here, at Valuetainment, line holding, all you need to do is have a ticket that you bought to go to the Valk Conference. So if you're somebody that's going to the Valk Conference, if you get a general ticket, you can come here to network in the hangar. There will be a lot of surprises there. But if you're somebody that gets a platinum on executive, our guys will give you a tour of the entire operation.

Obviously, no cameras when you come to the executive floor. And if you get a founder and a CEO ticket sold out, but if you get a founder ticket, and even if you're an existing CEO ticket holder, you come through, I'm going to give the entire property multiple times with all the other people that are coming down. We've already had hundreds of people that have registered. This is limited to a certain amount of people because we're going to have security all over the place. If you want to go out there and get registered, get yourself a ticket.

Rob, how does somebody register to put their names on the list?

I'm putting the link in the description right now and it'll also be pinned in the chat.

Okay, perfect. gonna put in the link in the description and it'll be in the chat so those two things either make someone's day or get yourself a ticket to go not covered with what happened Monday the meeting that they have we've not covered any of it

right about Alaska the summit in Ukraine and Russia we just had I mean the flyover

we talked about with the b2 bombers pretty gangster but the Europe Zelensky that meetings that conversation we haven't had yet. No, so let's go through that. So at first you see Zelensky posts a video of Meeting some of the guys of what he was gonna wear and everyone's like dude This guy's not gonna show up with it. Are you freaking I was I was myself annoyed saying are you kidding me? What a terrible diplomat this guy's if he's not showing up with a suit He showed up like this at first look at this a pre-meeting This is a pre-meeting the t-shirt all this walking around still disrespectful

Look at everybody's dress like the rehearsal dinner, but this is the rehearsal He's meeting everybody and still got a t-shirt on So then all of a sudden Trump is doing his Waiting to see what the guy is wearing when he gets out of the car and here's what it looks like when Zelensky shows up okay show this clip watch this one here go ahead Rob for the cameras watch yeah there you go that guy dare you not to wear a suit okay

dude if he walked out with t-shirt and shorts Trump would have slapped him

right in the face

we love them. We love them.

So that's the visit. They go in.

All that looks like Johnny Cash looks like me standing on the porch waiting for a guy to come take one of my daughters out, you know, and you just stand on the porch. He walks up there and you compliment the kid. He's like this tall.

He taps him a little bit.

You know, it's just like, because who was the alpha there? That was Trump's body language, everything's sitting there. Trump didn't move an inch.

Zelensky had to move out of the car toward him. and some young man came to pick up Senna, you'd probably have a gun or what would you have? I don't even want to go there. I mean, I've been having such great conversations.

Video behind in the bushes.

Make the move, buddy.

Let me show you guys this.

Let's stay on this. Let's stay on this topic. Let's not get distracted. Rob, can you do me a favor? I just want to show you Rob if you can show this clip here This is a clip of how heated it got last time in the Oval Office And by the way, I'm telling we've not even reacted to this couple months ago. Yeah, okay

I want you to see how heated it got the last time where Trump pushed him in ways Where you can really tell he was not happy and you can tell diplomacy lacked from the other side being entitled coming in with what America has done for him. So just listen to the exchange. This is the last time folks. This is not just a couple days ago.

Go ahead Rob.

I don't want a ceasefire. I don't want a ceasefire. I want to go and I wanted this. Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you take it. So the bullets stop flying and you meant stuff. Of course, we want to stop the war. But I'm saying you don't want to see you. I want to see you guarantee because you get a ceasefire faster

than any green. Ask our people about ceasefire. What do you think? That was me for you. What that was it with me? That was with a guy named Biden, who was not a smart person.

That was your that was with Obama.

It was your brother.

Excuse me. That was with Obama, who gave you sheets and I gave you javelins. Yes, I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks. Obama gave you sheets. In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins. You got to be more thankful.

I don't know, they broke it with Biden because Biden, they didn't respect him. They didn't respect Obama. They respect me. All I can say is this. He might have broken deals with Obama and Bush.

And he might have broken them with Biden. He did, maybe. Maybe he didn't. I don't know what happened. But he didn't break him with me. He wants to make a deal. I don't know if you can make a deal. The problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy. I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the United States. You people are very brave. You either make a deal or we're out. And if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out.

I mean, that is by...

But you don't have the cards.

Yeah.

Okay, so we heard this.

Yeah, that's the part we don't have.

Pause it right there, Rob.

It's like yelling at your car. You don't have the cards. So just want to put this of what happens with this meeting right when they're together this time around He's got everybody sitting in front of his desk. He's got all the guys there. That's him Macron sitting in front of everybody sitting there go ahead and play the clip on this is actually an interview that he did with

Fox News where it confirms that the US will provide air support for Ukraine if they come to a peace deal with things, especially

Probably if you could talk about Bayer because there's nobody has the kind of stuff we have. Really they don't have. But I don't think it's going to be a problem. I think if a deal is made, you know, famous last words, right. But I think if a deal is made, I think Russia's had it.

They've all had it. And for a very extended period of time, I don't think there'll be a problem. But so there'll be some form of security. It can't be NATO because that was that's just not something that would ever, ever happen. They couldn't do that. So I want that. I mean, if you were Russia, who would want to have your your enemy, your opponent sitting on your line? You don't do that. So it was always thought that that Ukraine was sort of a buffer between Russia and the rest of Europe. And it was, it was a big wide buffer. Everything worked out well until Biden got involved.

Okay, so Tom, your thoughts on this meeting, the visit, the videos, the clips, what are you thinking?

Well, I love the fact how the meeting ended. And it ended without any of the Europeans going to the newspaper and saying stuff. You remember when the fight happened in the Oval Office, what you were showing there. And you remember what happened? Starmer popped off to the newspapers and the first place that Zelensky went, remember this Vinny? Zelensky is now shaking hands, going around Europe with a pat on the head tour.

That didn't happen. I love point one. I love the fact that didn't happen. Zelensky says no to the American media, specifically Fox. He said, nope, I'm going home. I'm not going to do any interviews. Thank you very much. So everybody left the negotiation table, not leaking or popping off. They went back to their respective corners. That tells me that the,

that the moderation that Trump provided got people to talk and then not leak and go home. Point one. Point two, it says you suddenly had Putin from afar saying something halfway positive about coming together to talk.

So guess what? Whatever you did, Putin is suddenly not over there, oh, we'll never do this, forget it, nevermind. You know, you didn't get that from Putin. So what I'm seeing, the word trilateral is working and people are gonna understand what this means.

Trilateral, I am here and I will try and the triangle is the two people that are fighting. And I believe this is a master class in negotiation. He got everybody in the room, he got Zelensky there, nobody leaked, they all went back to their corners and then Putin speaks up and says well maybe maybe in the next step we will get together, we will have the meeting which

is what Trump said he thought would happen after he met with Putin. So it's coming true and it's not falling apart. The thing that I don't like is the way the American media is trying to kill it. I feel the American media MSM is like actively trying to kill. What about this? And what about that? And this didn't happen and that didn't happen.

It's like and you've got people like Rubio who are speaking back. No, no, no, no, no, you don't know you know this, but you don't know the other five things. We did. That's what I think yeah

And it's funny because when you're talking about media The fact that Zelensky is like I'm not going to Fox. I'm not doing any interviews I wonder how much of that is Trump saying don't even do any interviews with anybody. I don't want anybody to talk about it Go home. I'm gonna call Putin. I have one request from all of you guys. don't talk to media go home? Let me call Putin and handle this and then I'll follow up with you guys and tell you what's happening next I don't know whether that was the exchange or not But that's the vibe I got and now the conversation becomes would you have said that you negotiate?

I would have said that I would have said this gonna work folks. We all got shut up. I would have said that but you know Mainstream media talking about why I can't believe it was like a friendly thing and then clips came up president Bush invited Putin and to Go with his younger older son to go fishing together Clinton's met with them laughing Obama's there's all these meetings with other people that they had these you know Obama when I sat down with a communist at a baseball Game for a couple days and they're laughing in a media of celebrating. Oh look what's going on over here But no no no if this guy wants to come in and create a peace deal

No, he is a guy that's you know, totally owned by Putin and all the other guys But this is the part where I'm at. I don't think it works anymore He's destroyed mainstream media so bad that MSN 13 that they changed their name to MS 13 NOW. I thought it was Multiple Sclerosis NOW. The only thing it's missing is the 13 in the middle. If I was Mara Savatrucha, I would actually sue them for using our name. This is like, you know, what do you call it? A patent law. You should go out and say, what are you doing using our organization's name?

You're using our copyright? Where is that trademark on the bottom right? What's this one here Rob?

I'm waiting for Rachel Maddow to get a Roman numeral 13 on that.

As if MSNBC thinks that that's going to change it. Like the people are going to go, oh this is a new network. Nobody's going to forget. The numbers are all time low in the past in regard to Russia. What people don't understand in all these morons on the left with the media, Bush in 2008, that's during Bush Russia went to Georgia, right, invaded Georgia. Obama in 2014, that's when Russia seized Crimea.

And then Biden in 2022. None of this has to do with Trump. He's trying to fix it. And that first meeting was like the arrogant kid Tom that spoiled that comes in and the father who's been away is like, hey listen, we're not playing that crap anymore. The old guy who doesn't even know what the hell day it is or what his name is or who

his son is, he's out and I'm the new guy and this is a great example of a freaking alpha.

He's back, he's back in charge and that's what the hell we need. That's what we've been lacking and as much as they can say But it's not gonna do anything. It's not gonna change anything change the name of your network

Yeah And by the way a part of this a part of this was the fact that he agreed To sell 90 billion dollars of a weapons package and the way apparently brokered this deal, which is brilliant Rob I think you got a clip on this the way he brokered this deal is he got, I believe, EU to buy $90 billion of weapons from US to send it to them. So guess what, taxpayers? You didn't pay for it.

EU paid for it, the way they structured this deal. So yes, he's getting the weapons, but now it's like, hey, EU, if you guys want me to keep sending stuff, you guys want the war to end, well, guess what? Spend your money. No, no, no. We don't want to spend anymore. Well, then let's, well, let's get a peace, peace deal here. Yeah, we do want a peace deal. Then great. Then because you don't mind spending

our money, everybody spends some money, but he's now putting more of the onus on them.

Adam, your thoughts on this? Trump. If Trump didn't want to, if Trump didn't have an issue with the suit, the guy would have showed up in a t-shirt. We all know that. For as MSNBC, one of the main reasons they probably changed their name is because it, how many times has Trump go MSDNC. All right. We don't like that. Uh, they're very sensitive over there. The snowflake mentality. Now, as far as Vinny goes, you said that, you know, I'm not trying to pick on you or anything like that. You said that, you know, Trump had nothing to do with it, with Ukraine, what have you.

However, he was impeached over Ukraine. It was a perfect call, I swear to God. It was, you know, there was an impeachment.

It was all BS. Exactly.

It was all BS. But my point is he was almost impeached over it. was quit pro quo. That's why I learned that I'm not getting into all that. I'm just letting you know, there is some history with that, but probably the most important thing that Trump said, uh, and this is a global thing, not just Russia and Ukraine. He goes, why would you want an enemy at your gates? Basically, you need to have a buffer talking about almost putting yourself in Russia's position when it comes to NATO and that is very true. You don't want an enemy at your gate Why do you think we want a wall put up between the border of United States and Mexico?

Why is the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea? Why does India and Pakistan fight over the little piece of land? Right there. Why why is this land in Israel and Gaza need to have a buffer go further? So I and I after the war with Egypt. Exactly. So when you have enemies at the gate, you better have a fricking buffer, whether it's a wall, whether it's a DMZ zone, whatever it is. So Trump is absolutely right.

Putting yourself in Putin's position, I totally understand why you wouldn't want Ukraine as a part of NATO. So last point, could you imagine if Kamala was negotiating this deal right now? Could you just picture Kamala in the Oval Office meeting with Putin, with world leaders, Zelensky, Kirstarmer, Macron, Georgia Maloney? Could you just, how much would she fumble the bag if Kamala was in office?

Thank God we have that.

Go ahead, Vinny.

Well, I just want to say that fake impeachment with Vindman and all that, that has nothing the bag if Kamala was in office. Thank God we have... Yep, but... Go ahead, Vinny.

Well, I just want to say, that fake impeachment with Vindman and all that, that has nothing to do with them going to war. It was a... By the way, it was someone who heard from someone else that they heard him on the call saying something. It was all BS and they even released a transcript that it was a perfect call. So I don't know how you're correlating that with an actual invasion and Joe Biden saying, yeah, they can do a minor incursion. He was inviting them to attack. So that's what I'm saying. You weren't picking on me because it doesn't, it doesn't correlate. My point is that's why I gave you the disclaimer. I'm not, I'm just saying he did have something

to Ukraine. He got impeached over Ukraine. That's my point. Whether it was a perfect call or a horrible call. He got impeached. Russia, it's all bullshit. Everything with that is BS. Correct.

We're not disagreeing here.

Everything is BS? Well, and with the impeachment.

Is everything also BS?

Is all this stuff BS?

No, that's not.

Don't get him started on that. No, what I'm going is, I had Michael Wolff on a couple days ago. him and I was expecting him to go hardcore Trump all this other stuff he actually didn't this is the first time I saw him where he wasn't fully it's all his fault what he did say is he says they were friends in the 90s and whatever 2000s data 15-year friendship because they would they would spend some time together but I was expecting more to come from Michael instead a lot of

other things came up about other folks but let me let me stay back on this because I went off a little bit the point you were making here Vinny is On what happened there? It's it's true when you're when you're thinking about the timing back then but today now if they hold this meeting with everybody Where did they do it because some places if he travels to those countries can arrest him on crime What do you call it crimes against humanity crimes against humanity. I don't think he can go to Germany. I don't think Putin can go to Germany.

Putin you're talking about? I think Putin cannot have the meetings in certain places. They're talking about, you know, I think Putin wants UAE or Russia. They're talking about back to Alaska again. I think there was Budapest, Geneva, Switzerland came up so this next meeting for them to be had you know could be a lot of different places but there's there's a few other things in the visit Rob can you pull up the clip of when they're standing there and he says wow

look at that picture right there yeah bad day bad day remember that yeah that's a bad day you know which one I'm talking about oh this is a great clip so watch this what he does it's pointing to the butler pan so watch this go back to my fight watch this I got shot in the ear was not my mom and stands by the way let me tell you that moment was 12 seconds. That probably got 50 million, 100 million online views, right? He understands

that's 12 seconds. That's what you call a brilliant marketer and a negotiator in one. That's what he's got for everybody looks at him like, ah shit, it's been a good day for a lot of us, we're gonna live a better day. So it's interesting when he's got for everybody looks at him like, ah shit. It's a good day for a lot of us. So it's interesting when he's playing all of those things and then afterwards there was a hot mic moment that was released on both sides. Did you hear this hot mic moment?

Hot mic!

So there was two hot, no, hot rock.

Hot rock!

Hot rock! There was a couple hot mic moments that took place. One of them was with European leaders the other one was with Trump

Which one do you have brought the hot? This is where the European leaders praise Trump for dealing with the press

Okay, go ahead. That's all we ask for is fairness with the media. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you very much What's the hot mic?

Right here.

Thank you for being so fair. Thank you Donald. Watch this. Oh look at that. But he loves it.

He loves it. He does it always.

And he's so good.

He's so good.

He's so good.

He's so good.

He's so good. He's so good. He's so good. Watch this.

Who's saying that, Georgia Maloney? Ah, the moment she says it, you speak.

This guy, go back a little.

You speak Italian now?

I never wanted to speak to my press she doesn't that was Georgia Maloney Yeah, because they they see the issues with the press right, but then there's another hot mic moment Rob right where you know Trump is talking is this the one and go ahead Rob go ahead You want to make a deal with me?

Trilateral.

Yeah.

You want to make a deal with me. Trilateral. Yeah. He wants to make a deal with me.

Can I ask you a question about?

Yeah. Honestly, how much of a percentage do you think, because I think he'd be safe. Putin's not stupid, okay? Trump going to meet him in Moscow, how much of a statement would that be? Like, listen, the guy is cool. He's going to treat me with respect. I came to Alaska. I'm gonna go there and show everybody like this is the

respect that he's gonna show me and I'm gonna show him. What do you think, Pat? Listen. To go into the belly of the beast. Yeah, so when you think about that, there's a couple things. In negotiation, you want the other person to come to you. That's a power, a sign of strength. And the part here that Trump doesn't have to Think about that. He still may they all came to you Putin came to Alaska came to you

Zelensky and the leaders came to you. I think it would be wild if this was done in Russia I think that would be epic if it was done in Russia I don't think the EU leaders would agree

No I think that would be epic if it was done in Russia. I don't think the EU leaders would agree.

And I don't think Zelensky would agree. Because the same way Putin wouldn't go to Germany, Zelensky wouldn't feel safe going into Russia. He wouldn't want that. But if I'm Trump for optics, dude, I'd love this thing to be in Russia.

It usually happens at a neutral foreign site. The Camp David Peace Accords gave a place for Egypt and Anmar Sadat and Hakim Begin to come together. And then the Helsinki Accords. And then Reykjavik, where the US and Reagan and Gorbachev met to talk about salt, and salt too, I think it was called.

So it's pretty traditional to pick a place that's sort of like a Neutral field go play the Super Bowl in a separate city where nobody has their own fans there and nobody claims favoritism or power

Moves well Reagan was West Berlin right when when he announced tear down that wall

Oh, yeah, that was a speech he made there But it was in Reykjavik when he said to Gorbachev Gorbachev's what did you want me to say? And he and he turns to him and he said you should haveachev, Gorbachev's, what did you want me to say? And he turns to him and he said, you should have said yes.

That's right.

That's right. Well, this, you're, Pat, you're absolutely right. Don't forget, who's the big boss right now? It's Trump and it ain't even close. Every world leader is coming to the United States, whether it's Alaska, to meet with Trump. US is still the world's number one superpower. And you know who's conveniently just like

not involved in this whatsoever? Canada. Is China. China, I mean, they're not invited. We don't need them around. They're not involved in the war. The whole world is trying to figure out this

peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and China's over there sort of excommunicated doing their own communist thing over there. Let's leave them be

Yeah, and by the way, there's a reason but I promise you you know, I had Ray Lewis here yesterday We did a couple hour podcast and he was telling me when one time, you know Bernie Sanders the running back. Okay, obviously Barry Because that lady on ESPN didn't even know when Drewski was wearing a Barry Sanders jersey And she claims Shadour Sanders. So he tells me one time that Barry Sanders is coming in at a game where he's fighting for record or whatever

He says listen, we watched him. We know he was coming. You know what we did We said to the team nothing's gonna happen and the guy ran for 41 yards. 2.2 yards of carry He's telling the story right? You know who's watching the every single clip as if a team that's sitting on the sidelines that they're about to have a bye week because they got another game coming up next week, but they're studying the tapes? China's watching everything. China's watching every, they've watched that thing, the mic,

what do you call it? The hot mic? they've watched that Probably 600 times and they have probably used AI Technology to hear other conversations from 20 other people with 60 different screen study and everybody's body language how people reacted That's probably how in-depth they've got that's my assumption because you know They have a target on what they need to go after and that's Taiwan and they almost need to do that Because you know what what you see with the numbers that are coming up with China that they really were affected by tariffs

and

Now the story comes about with Apple, you know moving their Expanding their production to India that 60 million iPhones per year away from China to India What that's a lot of phones? That's a lot of phones. That's a lot of jobs. China's losing a big account of a 3, 4 trillion dollar company that's going away from them. What if people all of a sudden realize that we no longer need to go to those guys?

If Apple's leaving, who else is leaving? Who else is watching? And so when you got Taiwan that's got 61% of the semiconductor chips with TSMC, which it stands for Taiwan Semiconductor Chips. They know there's a monopoly there. Not a monopoly, but they have a linchpin.

They got control. You got to go through it. China's not happy about it. But Tom, I'm going to come to you with a story from Bloomberg. Is Apple expands iPhone production in India with US-bound new models. And there was some issue with US and India as well, but this is a complete separate issue.

Apple is expanding iPhone production in India at five factories, including two recently opened plants to reduce reliance on China and US-bound models, with operations scaling up to produce all four iPhone 17 models. Ahead of their September debut, this marks the first time all new variations, including pro-level versions, will ship from India from the outset, per people with knowledge of the matter.

The more move aligns with Apple's strategy to diversify its supply chain amid US-China trade tensions, with India now accounting for 10% of global iPhone production per Reuters. Tom, what's the story here?

So what's been going on is Apple has been preparing for the China situation for about five years. Apple has sensed very clearly discontent from the GOP side for years, and they have also been, remember, the last thing you just said, 10%. 10% of iPhone production, so it's not everything. Moving 10%.

So they went to India so that they could get cheap labor rates in a country that got them less heat, and, that's politically, and logistically, now if something does happen in China like what if China attacks Taiwan and we put the hammer down and say okay embargo no ships to any ports coming from China right now no exports we would do that like if they invaded China they invaded Taiwan and

just went there in addition we'd be worried about chips but we'd put the hammer down and say economic embargo embargo right now, nothing moves. And then Apple would be like, oh crap, I can't get phones. So they had a political side of it and then a practical side. The practical side was, it's never good to have all your manufacturing in one place. Something happens. It could be the environment, it could be a war, it could be all these things you're talking about. And so they were already doing that. The punchline was Tim Cook telling Trump, well, we've been planning to move stuff out of China for a while and

we're moving stuff to India and, and expecting Trump to be happy because it's hurting China. But Trump moved your next five moves straight down. Why don't you build them here? Bring them here. Why don't you build them here? Bring them here. Why don't you bring it here to the USA? I appreciate that you're helping that that helps me with China.

Thank you. He didn't say it like that, Tom. He wasn't friendly about it. No, he was. He says, I'm not happy. His key words were correct.

I'm not happy that you're moving them to India. And I think that's the reason why he raised it from 500 billion to 600 billion, that additional 100 billion.

Apple thought that he'd be... Apple thought that, okay, enemy of my enemy is my friend. So Apple thought, hey, I'm moving some stuff out of China. It gives you... it's going to help the bargaining chip. And you get the response from him, no, that's, you know, one side that may be okay, but you know what? Where is it here? You know, I'll be right back. You know, printers moving and everything. Next day, Tim Cook, ah, this just in, 500 billion dollars. I mean, 600 billion dollars. I'll be building chips. I'll be building all the things here.

That just shows you, again, the power of negotiation. Because, by the way, moving to India does help Trump, but he's not going to give that to Apple. He's gonna say no. No, I want the next steps. I want it here

Let me tell you this move into India may hate help Trump, but don't forget this Here's here's what you never forget and and people tend to consist and consistently forget my opinion

so

How many years ago did us not worry about China's power and they were worried about Japan, right? You go to the 1980s. Yes So that's a with the auto industry the ping-pong the Xi Jinping or you know, the will not Xi Jinping. What was the guy's name? pong diplomacy ping-pong diplomacy, but was a guy's name That that did the whole thing brought this up in California. So so when you when you think about was What was his name Rob? What was his buddy's name? Jean...uh...uh...anyways... Pat, you really gotta practice your Mandarin. No, but let me go with this.

The part to be thinking about here is... nobody... Nixon didn't think China was going to end up being this powerful and this ambitious to want to beat America when he did the deal. That was in 1972, 71, when he brokered the

deal with China, the ping pong diplomacy.

Everything that Kissinger talked about was like low cost manufacturing.

And Japan taught China how to have 5,000 banks with 35 loan officers each with 35 locations, you know, taking 5.25 loans, all this stuff that they had in place. That was at a time where China was not well-respected. And then all of a sudden, they're number two, about to be number one. So you know what India's at right now? Number four.

They're about to pass up and be number three. India's about to be number three. And guess what happens if you keep strengthening India? India becomes China 2.0. Now they will say India's not one that wants to do war and India gets along with all their enemies.

They get along with China and US and Russia and everybody. They don't want to have a war with anybody. That's India's, what do you call it, identity.

Except Pakistan.

Except until when you all of a sudden get a new leader in that maybe is not Modi and realizes that, hey, maybe we can beat China and US. Let's go for everything. And then India starts using the leverage. So the way to fix it long term is to make sure you don't have 100% of your iPhone production being in China and India.

Why don't you bring 30% of it in US? Why don't you bring 30% of it in US and allow some people in America, guess what? What if we did this? What if Apple did this? What if Apple did this? How do you think this would work out? Just a thought. What if Apple decided to sell 25% of their iPhones in America, numbered, that says Made

in America? Oh wow. You think people would pay $500 more for it?

I would do it.

Believe it or not, I actually think there are Americans that would pay the premium To get I would a made in America phone and they would brag about it and that would be a test So what if you go do a small number of tests? You don't need to do a big one do 5% do 10% Go do a small production of your phones made in America pass the cost down to some American by see if they'll buy it Maybe they will maybe they won't but I think that's what Trump

Is trying to say I didn't tell you to take this stuff to India I told you to bring this stuff to America Tim Cook. Why are you moving India? I'm not gonna feel it So that that's that's what I see happening here

But you know some there's still some feud going on with India in America Adam. Do you have thoughts on the story? Well, as far as far as India goes, as far as Apple goes, as far as China goes, there's plenty of companies that America that operate out of China. I think Apple's the number one company. McDonald's is expanding. Yum brands. That's KFC.

Starbucks operates there. It'll be interesting to see how many of these companies basically maybe stop trying to make their way in the Chinese market right there. As far as India goes, as far as India versus Pakistan goes, I'm on team India. But at the same time, India is two-faced. They're friends with everybody. Oh, we'll be friends with Russia.

We'll buy this. Yeah, we're friends with America. They're, you know, Modi is India first. He's trying to make India great again. They're trying to like your friend that you don't trust. That's your friend, but they're kind of a fake friend. They're not a frenemy.

India is an interesting country, but I'd rather be seeing American operations operate in India,

not China, that's for sure.

Yeah, I get that. By the way, you just ran the poll, Rob. A thousand people voted. Watch this. Would you pay 500 extra for a made in America phone? Look what it is. 50-50 basically.

By the way, that means yes. Yes. That means yes, people would. That means I would pay for it. I do believe that's how you sell it. You literally, here's what Apple does.

Think about the Apple box that's got American flag on it. Oh man. Okay? And it's only made for America. You only got to do 5% of it just to test it. There is a market of people. You know what would happen? Let me tell you what would happen. There would be thousands and thousands of influencers that would buy the made in America

phone and post it all over social. You wouldn't need to spend a single penny of doing a commercial on it. You would gain a loyalist customer coming to Apple that 2,000 votes it's still at 53 47. They're saying yes, I would pay that additional 500 bucks We're up to something here guys. I would pay it

We're supporting American jobs American workers Vinny Would you rather do it that way by paying more more for an iPhone, or would you rather wait for the government to tax you and eventually give somebody a nickel?

I'm for the American.

What year did Nixon go to?

71, 72. So we're talking, so.

How close was that to Mao's great leap forward in the cultural revolution? That was right around that time, right? Where are you going with this? No, I'm just wondering. I mean, it's interesting how China and America at this point are competitors. Some might call them enemies. We conveniently forget that 25 to 40 to 50 million people, million people just died in China.

How they died. He killed them.

I mean, there was famines there was communism we forget

about all the deaths in communism but you know we get cheap iPhones so let's

see what we can do with that okay so Trump tells Fox News he believes she won't act on Taiwan Rob if you got this clip here on a Fox interview news interview at a summit Russia Russian accident, Vladimir Putin, President Vladimir Putin, ceasefire, told him he would not move on Taiwan as long as Trump remained in office. Trump argued that world leaders, including Xi, would not attempt. Is this the one, Rob? Yes, sir.

Go for it. You know, you have a very similar thing with President Xi of China and Taiwan, but I don't believe there's any way it's going to happen as long as I'm here. We'll see. He told me I will never do it as long as you're president.

As President Xi told me that. And I said, well, I appreciate that. But he also said, but I am very patient and China is very patient. Say, well, that's up to to you but it better not happen now.

Okay Tom, Adam thoughts on this? Well deterrence is a hell of a viable option. You don't think China, you mentioned earlier, you don't think China's looking at exactly what's happening going on with the EU leaders and Ukraine. If we let Russia invade Ukraine, what kind of signal would that deploy into China's mentality? Do you think that if we didn't do anything, if we didn't fund Ukraine, if we didn't basically help our allies, whether it's Israel, whether it's Ukraine, whether it's whatever allies around the world, whether it's NATO, you don't think that's

a telltale sign to China? All right, now's the time. So things were heating up under Biden. How much do we hear about Taiwan under Biden? We don't really hear much about Taiwan under Trump right now. Here's a perfect reason why, because Trump is basically like, eh, eh, eh, not on my watch.

Yeah. Again, these are more things that when you see, you think about and say, this is why they're watching it. But guess what he just said if if what the president is saying is true And he's not adding 20% of what he called hyperbole Which he probably is if he says I?

Mean that that's a campaign for the third term Somebody can listen to that and say that's a third term type of a campaign Which there's a lot of Americans that wouldn't mind having a third term with them Constitution doesn't allow But a lot of people wouldn't mind having him for a third term But if he says that and it's true and china's patient that means eventually they're gonna go there You're one week leader away from that

Happening one week leader away from that happening assuming xi passes away You don't think whoever takes over the leadership is going to be Having the same level of ambition to go out there and take over Taiwan. Do you think that's ever going to go away, Tom, with the ambitions of wanting to go and attack Taiwan?

No, there isn't. And I have something to add really quick. This is buying time for the semiconductor companies to be building their fabs in the United States. Check this out. TSMC is building a fab in Arizona that's equal to 25%

of what they have in Taiwan. Intel is building in Arizona, Ohio, and New Mexico, expanding their fabs. Samsung is expanding. These are all things that have started since 23, Pat, that are going to be done by 27.

Texas Instruments, $30 billion fabrication, $30 billion factory in Sherman, Texas. Micron is in New York, but a large memory fab. And Bosch is in Roseville, California, which is outside of Sacramento. And there is a article that was in Satista,

but I couldn't find the link to send it to Robin Time. But it talks about this, this map that they've got Vinny look at that map they're building everywhere, so if Trump serves the 28 and then hell freezes over and a Dem is elected it Changes the Taiwan dynamic because we've got the fabs in place here to build the chips So because it'll still hurt it'll still hurt

but we're bringing chips back here to mitigate the risk of China and Taiwan in future administrations that they don't happen to have the same policies as Donald Trump.

And Pat, your conversation was interesting in your conversation with Andrew Bustamante the CIA guy. It's interesting when you go multiple layers deep to figure out what happens if you don't make certain moves. So, for instance, who is the axis of evil, the axis of resistance that they talk about right now? Well, there's like five countries. It's China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and maybe you want to throw Venezuela in there.

I mean, they're a little bit different, but all those countries are certainly trading together. They're operating together. And then it's obviously the rest of the world, the democratic world. When one thing happens. So for instance, Russia is embroiled in a, in a conflict, a war with Ukraine. When Iran is trying to do their thing and they go, Hey Russia, we need some drones. We need some warheads to go. Sorry, bro. We're preoccupied Iran goes and then what happens to Iran they fall and then all of a sudden Syria who was backed by Iran

When they're getting taken over by terrorists, they go. Hey Russia Iran. Can we have your back? Sorry? We're at war with Israel right now. So all these things have ramifications. It's a domino effect So it's one, you know people are like why are we funding Ukraine? Why are we funding Ukraine? It's more than just funding Ukraine because there's multiple layers deep because Ukraine is embroiled with Russia. Now China has to basically step in. They don't want to do that

because they don't want to help invade Taiwan without knowing that all these multiple layers

basically happen because we're doing one thing. You know what's been really quiet? Like North Korea, have you even heard of anything from Kim Jong-un? I haven't heard anything. He hasn't had electricity for six months. That's what it's been? I haven't heard a peep from that little guy. They're trying to get their power back on. I'm being sarcastic.

He has been no testing nukes, no nothing. He's quiet.

There was some news that health-wise he wasn't doing the best, but that news comes along

a lot. I mean, he looks like a healthy guy.

His barber, Pat, his barber is like the guy that cuts your hair.

He definitely doesn't look overweight.

He's good. Look at, he has a fade. High cholesterol. Look how, I mean the bottom one is a little weird, but he has some clean fade.

No, that's my favorite though. Click on that no, no.

It's called the Moses.

Yeah. Can you imagine if Barbara Lopez deserves?

Him and Andrew Schultz got that same barber.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

No, no, no. I cut his hair off. I picked on my dad.

Do you know the lies that he tells his people? I mean, he's like I I played golf. I shot an 18. I did

His dad published Let's go to the best-looking guy in North Korea, I want to go to the next story next story I want to go to is the story with Trump pushing to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines Okay, Rob, if we can go to this one here. And this is obviously not popular for a lot of people. He announces on Truth Social that he will lead a movement to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines stating, Rob, if you have the tweet, I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, seriously controversial

voting machines. If he can zoom in a little bit, which costs ten times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark But by the way, can you tell Mateo to just have one of my glasses here? We're there guys I'm 46 and I need glasses

Oh

Wow ten times of one of them sophisticated paper which is faster and leaves no doubt at the end of the evening as To who won and who lost the election? We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting all others gave it up Because of massive voter fraud encounter. We will begin this effort, which will be strongly opposed by Democrats because they cheat at levels never seen before by sending an executive order to help bring honesty to the 2026 midterm

elections. Remember, the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, represented by the president of United States tells them for the good of the country to do With their horrible radical left policies like open borders men playing in women's sports transgender and woke for everyone and so much more Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using the completely disproven mail-in scam

Elections can never be honest with mail-in ballots voting and everybody in particular the Democrats know this I And the Republican Party will fight like hell to bring honesty and integrity back to our elections. The mail-in ballots hoax using voting machines that are a complete and total disaster must end now. Remember, without fair and honest elections and strong and powerful borders, you don't

have a semblance of a country. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. Tom, your thoughts on this story?

Well, you know what he's right and there's been people been talking about it in the back rooms of discussions of Bitcoin there's also discussions of blockchain and blockchain technology would make one person one vote you got to be alive all those things set up and guess what it would also increase turnout so all of the probably there's a guy in Michigan that was just caught stuffing ballots.

I have the story, yeah.

Just caught. And it keeps going on. So the elections were 99.8% correct. No, they weren't. They're not. The media's covering that up. It's been covering it up. We've seen it. We've seen pictures. Now we got councilmen coming in there stuffing the ballot box. Trump is right. The current system is broken and the only people that don't want to fix it is the people that benefit from it being broken. That's

it.

The Democrats.

Correct. And so he's, he's, what he's saying is correct. But what I'm pointing out to people is if you also, and Peter Thiel talks about it in the big bill, oh no, not Palantir, not Thiel, not those guys. No, no, no, no, no, no. Blockchain technology across the board, if you used it for our elections, you would basically, one person, one vote, that's it,

and turnout would go up, and Trump is right. You get rid of this, you get rid of... Remember, when you ever announce to get rid of something, the louder they scream, the more you're right.

Exactly. And listen, I get... What was the settlement with Dominion?

Oh, there was the big one, and then there was the one that was just like $70 million, $100 million or something. And at the end of the day, who was the guy that was on the show Rob that said any computer can be hacked.

Any computer.

Harry Hurstie.

Harry Hurstie. Okay so in that sense you're right. Covid's done. There's no excuse for everybody to just sit home and do it. Get your ass up. Go stand in line and vote.

That's the American way and that's a different case but for the majority of it it's always going to be the democrats it's always going to be places like california that have made it illegal to even ask for identification to vote what is that saying what is that saying to

you we don't you don't need an id it's don't even ask for it okay bring you out just like we did and california will give uh driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Oh yeah, we're gonna get it. Like the nice man that made a U-turn in a truck.

Yeah, I love it. I absolutely love that he's doing this. And guess what? Play fair. Level the playing field and we'll see. They're panicking, Tom. They are panicking because they know what this freaking momentum that Trump is doing, it's a wrap. Republicans are going to be in there for a while, bro,

unless something crazy happens. Yeah, I think we need a doge for our voting systems in America right now. It's crazy that we can do anything on our phone right now. I can open up my iPhone right here and get access to the entire world. I can't vote on my phone. What's going on here? So if we learned anything from doge, you know, dealing with waste, fraud and abuse. How much how many terms did we learn during covid absentee ballots mail-in ballots ballot ballot fraud

ballot stuffing ballot harvesting dead people voting voter I D's what kind what states you have to have I D's what states you don't I fully agree with Trump about bringing back. Honesty and integrity to our voting systems right now we saw what happened with dominion and that lawsuit and Tucker Carlson and his not so nice words about Trump. But you know, at the same time, let me give,

uh, let me give credit to America. Do you know what percentage of the world has free and fair elections? 40% of the world, 40% of the world has democratic, fair, and free elections. Yes, there's problems, waste, fraud, and abuse. United States, Canada, the EU, Japan, South Korea, certain countries, democratic elected countries, 40%. Another 40% of the world has what is called flawed elections or fraud elections. Turkey, Mexico, India, you don't even know

what's going on over there, who won, who didn't win. But then there's 10 to 15% of the world where it's just complete sham, fraudulent elections, or there's no elections whatsoever. Russia, Iran, Venezuela, sham elections, and then you have countries like Saudi or monarchies,

EAU and all that, that it's just there's zero elections right there. So as much as our election system does need to be held accountable for the infractions that definitely happen during voting, let's not forget living in America, you still have a voice much like unlike other countries.

Yeah, but we got to fix it. You know that argument that says, oh, it's so bad, all these other things here. That's kind of like the mainstream media. Oh, it could be so worse. It could be like this. It could be like they just declare the results in North Korea. He wins again. No, I want to fix the one we got. And if we're the greatest country in the world, we got the technology to do it. Let's fix what we got. Hey, Tom, I agree with you. I feel like

that we just went through COVID. During COVID, we found out all the different ways that elections can be flawed and ballots can be stolen and stuffed in this country. It's like the Center for Disease Control saying, let me tell you about the nine new cancers we just found. But, by the way, everybody's healthy, and that's baloney. That's kind of the way I feel about it.

During COVID we found out all these ways. Ballot harvesting, what's that?

I'm with you.

I agree with you Tom, it is alarming. If we've identified all these ways, why don't we go fix it?

So here's the part and that's what he's trying to do. I think that's what he's trying to do, of course. I'm with him. But the part with this that's super scary, if he does pull this off, do you know what though America could finally see? I don't know if you noticed, there was a story that came out from, maybe it's MSNBC, I think it's MSNBC.

MSNBC.

Oh, forgive me, Mara Sabatrucha. So this came out from Mara Sabatrucha Now.

It stands for more so now.

So when it came out, what they talked about is, Rob, to their YouTube channel if you could, go to their YouTube channel, MSNBC. You'll see this. They're trying to say that everybody is going to the way that Trump campaigned. Go to videos if you could, Rob. Just go to videos and go down. You'll see the title, right there, all the way to the right.

Don't play it, just go to the, zoom in a little bit. Zoom in a little bit, look what it says. It says Democrats are getting a MAGA like makeover to take on Trump. This is an Axios clip, right? And you're seeing Newsom attacking you're seeing Mamdani attacking you're seeing AOC Attacking they're planning on 2028 right now obviously Mamdani is not gonna be a part of that AOC could be a part of 2028 so could Newsom but the reality of it is if

Trump is able to do this with mail-in ballots and Americans are witnessing how embarrassing the Democratic Party is this is either gonna be a dominant the next decade of the Republican Party or the best opportunity ever for a third party ever For a third party that we've had it's truly one of those two things did it's not like I don't know if you guys see this, go to go to his account his personal one Rob And he says this you yeah this you okay. This is how long ago. This is how long if you can go to it that was

This morning 155 a.m.. Okay, so 155 a.m.. He tweets this matter of fact I'm about to tweet something right back at him right now as we speak and I'm gonna say this you Rob can you type in? Newsome favorable unfavorable ratings? You can you can tweet it anywhere on you know X or ChadGBT or any of that let's look at the numbers as of yesterday okay just go as of yesterday if you can type that in somewhere okay watch this what everybody is telling us, okay? To one from yesterday, that's Drew Kent.

I went from yesterday, Rob. Just go to Google. Just go to Google.

Yeah. I think it's Sourcepad's leading report by YouGov.

Okay, if you look at this, I have it right here. If you can't find it, Rob, I'm just going to airdrop it to you so you have it and you'll see what it says. His approval rating right now is in shambles. Numbers just came that shows Newsom has a 27% favorability rating based on 30 polls. Let me say that one more time, folks. 27% favorability rating on how many polls?

2730 polls.

Great.

That's horrible.

That's unfavorable.

Great.

That is so underwater.

No, no, Adam, Tom, you guys follow this stuff closely. Tom, can you tell me how horrible this is?

This is bad, as in very bad. And this is why I keep trying to point out to people, I believe Pritzker is the choice of the DNC. He may not have the power on a national stage, but I think he's the choice of the DNC, the establishment deep down underneath, because of this. This is like legendary.

Now you'll find other politicians at times when, know that they may see this but for right now this is bad and I believe it's because the average voter sees behind and sees all the things going on in California and how can they not? Now you ask yourself a question Pat, why are they so unfavorable? Well guess what? All you have to do is go look at them. You can go look at the fires, you can go look at what's going on, you can look at what's happening, you can look at the unemployment, you can look at the drugs in the street, you can look at everything happening.

Rational people see this and go, that guy's not a very good leader, and they don't have to live in California, and you end up 27%.

Yeah, so where I'm going with this with the polls, and Vinny, I'm sorry, I'm going to come to you. Does this mail-in ballot and is gone guys this could be like the biggest? expose of the Democratic Party ever that Most of Americans didn't agree with you on your policies You just had a massive monopoly and control in so many different states Rob How many states in America do I not need an ID to vote in remember when we go through this number?

Oh, I didn't didn't didn't need to have a state? There was dozens of states. Dozens of states that I don't even need to show an ID. What do you mean I don't need to show an ID? Some states it wasn't even a photo ID. I think it's only 16 states that you actually require a, what do you mean I can't provide

a voting, of course you can provide it, you've provided it in the past before. What? Chad, UBT's now saying you can't provide it. Here we go. Yeah, go to another one and ask them. I think it's only 16 states you don't. So my point here with this is, Vinny, if this happens and they get demolished and it goes back to common sense, what the hell is the Democratic Party going to be doing next?

That's a great question.

I have no... There it is, there it is. Back up, back up, back up, back up. The gray, Pat, is no ID required.

What is the orange?

Scroll up, see it?

Orange is non-photo ID.

Which one is photos required? The blue. Okay, so let's count how many blue it is. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, around 23 of them require photo ID. More importantly, New York, Illinois, and California, which is a mass stock of- 11 Pat are non-photo. 11 is non-photo.

11 are non-photo. And just photo ID, and no ID required period is how many? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12 or 13 states. You don't even need an ID to go vote. Are you kidding me in what country a third world country no in the greatest country in the world so if he pushes this and This leads to Rob just save this one because we're always gonna come back to this right put it in your safe stuff

If he goes to the common-sense route It's just gonna be a bad

next couple decades for them and I hope and I hope so because at the end of the day guys we have to understand like People like Gavin and I know a lot of people are like whoa he has a family they look healthy okay family aside he is the enemy that type of attitude that type of leadership that type of the transgender stuff in the schools the way that he's by the way his resume Gavin Newsom's resume is California look no further Americans and people are like yeah but he knows how to speak and he's tall and he's like I don't give a damn about

any of that crap and the biggest problem that he has Tom is him and AOC and they need to fight MAGA. What are you talking about or fight Donald Trump? You're not going up against Donald Trump. 2026, 2028 it's not about Trump it's about you. What is your message, and I'm telling you right now They don't have anything Adam It's zero and you know who's gonna be the runners the Rubio's the JD Vance and then all of a sudden you're gonna be fighting

This way orange man bad Hitler, and then you turn and it's JD Vance and it's Margot What's a good point things out of who are gonna tear your ass apart because those guys are locked in and they're waiting for you. They're in the bushes like a lion. They're just sitting there waiting while he's up there. And it's like, give me, name me one thing, Adam, and I know we can't name one thing that he's doing positive, Tommy.

Give me, give me one thing where you could go. I'm proud to be a Californian. Yeah. Give me a freaking break. Once that happens, it's a wrap. Can I tell you how bad Newsom's approval ratings are, how much they're underwater and Tom destroyed him and Tom was actually even being too nice to him on Trump's worst days, lowest approval ratings ever. Charlottesville find people, both sides.

That was misconstrued Russia, Russia, Russia, all the impeachment stuff. COVID George Floyd, Gavin Newsom's approval ratings are still worse than Trump's worst days. That's how much Gavin Newsom is underwater with his approval ratings. So you mean the podcast didn't help him sitting there with his legs folded? I don't even know if he's doing the podcast anymore. You know, he did it like two or three times and that was it because people are tired of

it. Turns out this podcasting thing is pretty tough. And again, we give credit where credit's due. The BSing and the professional lying, like, character politician that he is, and Trump, and it's Trump, and it's, he's doing this, and he's always, it's not, bro, none of these people, and I don't care what they're doing to shift, if you take a bag of poop and you just put it in another bag of poop and just label it different, it's still a bag of poop. And that's what they are.

That whole freaking party, by the way, the Democratic Party is finished. It's done. Let's not forget, we covered this a couple of weeks ago. This is the lowest the Democratic Party has been in our lifetime. And wow, I hope they improve because we need two parties that actually are doing something for the American people.

I do agree with that. Other than just complaining about how bad Trump is.

I do agree with that. They need to get their crap together but unless they do major shifts and change the gender ideology or the IDs or the open border because at the end of the day, Adam, what scares the hell out of me is when I call him the enemy and you know, choose your enemies wisely I'm being dead serious Gavin Newsom is the enemy because the moment he gets in the borders gonna be open who's to stop him Yeah, the board is gonna be open. You think he's gonna have conversations with Putin and all these people hell No, I mean they want war when she comes he'll clean up the streets You get what Pat always brings up, they're taking the 20% on the 80% issues. Exactly.

80-20 issues.

I agree.

And they reap what they sow. And by the way, we were complementary when Newsom was trying to go to the center. Yes. If you remember this. Yep. Everybody here was complementary, but guess what happened?

He went back. He can't help himself. Well, no. He can't help himself. He's in California. He's owned. And it's not even that, he's owned by them. So he still campaigns as if he's running for California instead of running for the States. And it's actually great because the world, everybody is seeing what the guy's all about. Fantastic.

But numbers don't lie. Just like when he likes to go after Trump, unfavorable ratings, as bad as it is today, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad when you're looking at those numbers. But let's continue, let's continue with a couple of the stories that we got going on here. I wanna go to the story of Joy Reid and Elvis Presley.

This one just really is, I don't understand it. I don't understand to go after something like this. It's almost like she wakes up in the morning saying, how can I be viral for the dumbest idea ever? And thinking, guess what? I'm relevant. They're talking about me. And not realizing this is definitely not the way of doing it, but maybe

she thinks she is. So Joy Reid launches finger-jabbing rant against Elvis and says nicknaming Kim the King was racist. I don't even want to go through this. Rob, do you want to just play this clip and let the audience see it? Go for it.

They can't fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell. But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got PragerU. They can lie about the history to the children. They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music. We black folk gave y'all country music, hip hop,

R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn't even invent that, but they have to call a white man the king because they couldn't make rock and roll. So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

Oh, her?

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Look at her hat, by the way, just look at her hat. The fact that her true colors, remember she was on MS Now, I'm sorry, it was MSNBC, let's see the change soon, the FDT hat. It's like that's your your true colors

That's a political activist talking her crap and like I don't understand like how how you nailed it How do you wake up in the morning? And that's what you're talking about. That's what it's talking about mind you. It's 2025 and people like Joy Reid Pat. That's all they want to keep bringing up is Racism and slavery and guys we're not trying to erase history. It's history. It happened.

Okay. What year, what year was it, Adam?

What was the height of what of slavery?

I mean, the civil war was 1861.

Yeah.

And then guess what? Like think about it. When slavery was abolished when?

Yeah. When Abraham Lincoln in the North won 1865. It happened.

So when you hear it happened, but when you hear people like this, it's almost as if when you hear white supremacy and white this and racism and slavery, it's as if it was yesterday. OK, it's been done for a long time. We're nowhere near where the hell we used to be. OK, I hate that attitude.

It's divisive. It makes people want to hate. It just keeps reminding you of shit that happened in the past. I'm not saying forget it, but can we move on?

Did you guys see the Jillian Michaels clip on CNN? How's our girl doing? When she said 2%. Oh, they lost their minds?

Have you seen this?

They lost their minds? with Jillian Michaels. Jillian Michaels again same thing she's on there they're talking about what percentage of Americans own slaves watch this why and they've been trying to target her since that day till today go ahead Rob.

Right so we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture to make sure it comports with dear leader and what the

MAGA organization wants. Can we address some of those things that are in there? Because have you looked address some of those things that are there because have you looked at some of the? Things yeah slavery. Yes slavery was a bad thing to talk about okay like he forgave whitewashing slavery So he's not not no okay. He's not and you cannot tie imperialism and Racism and slavery to just one race which is pretty much what every single exhibit does well Let's talk about the fact that when you get to the fact

that slavery in America was less than 2% of white Americans on slaves, but it was a system of white supremacy. You know, African-American is thousands of years old. In America, first race to try to end slavery.

I'm very surprised.

Do you realize that I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate... I can't stand it. I'm really surprised. Jillian, I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery

and who was not.

I'm not.

What I'm trying to tell you is that... In the context of American history, in the context of American history, what are you

saying is incorrect by saying that it was white people oppressing black people? Every single thing is like, oh no, no, no, this is all because white people bad. And that's just not the truth. Like, for example, every single exhibit, I have a list of every single one. Like people migrated from Cuba because white people bad. Not because of Castro. Yes, no, it's in there.

That's what I'm saying. You don't actually know what's in there. Do you know that when you walk in the front door,

the first thing you see is a gay flag? Jillian, you have a lot of stuff. Yeah, I do. Because I don't, because here's the thing.

What exactly are you talking about? Okay, I'll give you an example. Yeah, please. there. Is gender testing fair in sports? Does that, and then it goes on to talk about how it's complex to do gender testing in sports. It's not complex. It's basic science. That's untrue. It's XX chromosome, XY chromosome. That's sports. Is it fair to have biological men competing against biological women in sports? No. But why is this in the Smithsonian? So it's, look, it's been completely captured.

First of all, I don't think we totally,

we don't, first of all, we don't. And if you notice, I'm kind of, the part I'm surprised with is when she's going through it. Scott Jennings is sitting there, hasn't, by the way, I don't know if you know or not, Scott's sitting right across from her. single goal. Can you keep going Rob to see if he says anything at all or he's letting go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,

go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, You keep calling... she opened up the Pandora's box. I love it. She opened up the Pandora's and they're losing their absolute mind when she opened this up. Wait, don't say that only 2% of whites own slaves. All whites were slaves back in the day. That's what they want people to believe. But no, it's not. Tom, you look like you want to say something about this.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, this is why people will start to freak out when you bring numbers screams so glad she's doing it to it and because It's the step. They don't want to talk about and you know what that step is. It's a boat trip back to Northern Africa when the tribes enslaved each other and they sold their prisoners for profit slavery started with blacks enslaving and imprisoning blacks tribe by tribe in northern Africa and selling them to people that then traded them elsewhere. That doesn't make it right, that doesn't

mean we didn't need Abe Lincoln, we needed Abe Lincoln. That doesn't mean we didn't need 1864, 1865 and legislation, definitely we needed that. That doesn't mean we didn't need 1864, 1865 in legislation. Definitely we needed that. That doesn't mean we didn't need civil rights in 1968. We needed that. But it also means no one wants to talk about the scope of the problem because it's their blankie. And they can use that to keep doing things and to keep pushing things and to keep punishing and going back in retribution because their feeling is, it says, reparations and retribution is

forever. I want that forever and I want to use it forever and I want to beat you with it forever and I want to get stuff forever. We're not gonna let it let it die. It should never die in the pages of history, incorrect or edited or change ever, but we need to have the full story. There was a, there was a very famous video that was a, um, a British teacher going after, uh, and, uh,

I think it was BBC absolutely going after the newscast and saying, you know, slavery started in Northern Africa when tribes enslaved tribes after wars and they deliberately didn't kill their prisoners so they could sell them for a profit. Of course, this is their history, not our history. It's what they wrote. Yeah. And it's what's there was there. And so it's like, no, no, no, no. You're not changing history. No, we're not. That's the record of what was there. They kept records of it because they conquered other people. They were proud of conquering. And then they sold them to, you know,

to explorers and traders. And so nobody wants to talk about that. Nobody. They want to take, remember, take a small percent, give them victimhood, make them a voting block, and then make them see bigger than everything else.

That's trans, that's all the things you see. That's the Democrat playbook. We should never, ever walk away from the horrors of slavery or the need for it to be changed or the brave people or the fact that it was the Southern Republicans that had to get it through because the Southern Democrats wouldn't work for it. That history has been changed, ladies and gentlemen. We should never forget what happened and how it changed for the good, but to go back the way Abby and those who are trying to do it now and getting in Jillian's face when Jillian is bringing receipts.

And Tom, you want me to do this? I'm going to come to you. Meanwhile, Rob, can you go up on chat and type in the following question? Okay, I'm going to text it to you if you can just literally type this in, exact question, and I'm going to give you follow up on it. It says, Jillian Michaels recently talked about only 2% of whites were slave owners.

Can you show where most of the white slave owners were? What percentage was part of the South versus the North? If you can just take that copy paste, put it in there, and we'll go through it.

Go ahead, Daniel. Yeah, and Tom, I love that you're saying that. Nobody is saying, I'm saying they're acting as if we're going to forget. Nobody forgets it was a horrible part of our history but it is our history. But what drives me crazy is people like that with the attitude that America was built on slavery. The truth of the matter is America took a very small percentage when it came down to it. Out of the 12 million Africans that were shipped across the Atlantic, guess how many came to the United States? Less than 400,000.

Okay, you know what the majority went to? 4 to 5 million went to the Brazil and the Caribbean islands, okay? Correct. So to act like, you're talking about numbers, scream, how much more screaming? And again, horrible, horrible history part, but that victim, that whole, like it's happening, still happening, that white supremacy, that

slavery, it's like, move on. My favorite interview, Pat, was with Don Lamond and he was with Morgan Freeman. And he goes, so you mean to tell me that slavery, he goes, how do you fix it? He goes, stop talking about it. He goes, you're a black man, I'm a black man, look at us right now. Look where we are.

He goes, who's holding you back? He goes, you find that thing that you want and you go get it. That's that non-victimhood mentality.

Rob, you have that one little clip?

Yes.

It's like, it was such a beautiful moment. He's like, what excuse?

Yeah, this is it.

Can you play it?

He's a part in wealth distribution No, you don't. No, I don't. I don't. Hey, you and I, we're proof. Why would race have anything to do with it? Put your mind to what you want to do and go for that. It's kind of like religion to me. It's a good excuse for not getting there.

Yeah. You know, I said-

Wow.

It's probably getting me in trouble, but I said to some seems like every single day on television I'm talking about race and it's because of the news cycle. It's in the news, but sometimes I get so tired. Oh, no

No, you don't want to just go this is over. Can we what a lot and if you talk about it it exists, right?

It's not like it exists and we didn't refuse to talk about it. So let's come back to this. Yeah, can you do me a favor go to that chat GPT what the question answer? Okay. So here we go. Good question Jillian Julie Mikers collect that only small minority Americans own slaves about 1.5 to 2 percent of population 1860 And then if you go a little bit lower the US population 31 enslaved people 4 million white slaveholders 385 8 million families That's 1.5 to 2 percent overall. Okay, so that parts accurate accurate. Now let's continue. South versus North. Almost all slave owners, holders, were concentrated in the South. About 25 to 33% of white families in the South owned slaves.

This varied by state. Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia. Ownership was highly unequal. Northern states by 1804, all northern states had enacted gradual emancipation laws by 1804. By 1860, slavery was virtually extinct in the north not the south Okay. So now here's the next question. I want you to ask. I want you to ask where most of the South

Democrats that's all I want you to ask where most of the South Democrats, okay, we're more. Yes. This is Chad GBT. This isn't Grock owned by X weird Elon. This is Chad GBT. Let me read it to you Yes, the South in the 1800s was overwhelming mongolian Democrat Southern politics before during Civil War the Democratic Party was dominant across the South Democrats on the South were the party of slavery and

State rights they defended the institution of slavery as essential to their agricultural economy. By contrast, the Republican Party, founded in 1854, was based in the north and opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories. The opposition has triggered southern succession after Lincoln, a Republican, was elected in 1860. In the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln got almost no votes in the South Southern states mostly voted for Southern Democrats John C Breckenridge or

constitutional unionist John Bell after the Civil War during the Reconstruction Republicans briefly gained influence in the South. Thanks to the freedom of Norton Carpetbaggers, but but this ended by the 1870s that the South then became the solid South, voting almost exclusively Democrat for the next 80 years. The Democratic Party in the South was deeply tied to segregation and Jim Crow law. So, I mean, this is the part where Jillian kind of goes in, not on Fox, on CNN, boom,

drops a bomb.

And then what happens? By the way, you want to talk about the amount of hit pieces she's going to get, it's just the beginning. She's going to get so many more hit pieces of people coming after her, trying to defame her, say whatever they want to say about her. But good for her for doing that and then showing the receipts afterwards. Because even a Chad GBT that some would say is more left-leaning defended the argument

of what Jillian presented. Adam. Yeah. I used to be obsessed with the civil war. Uh, if you looked at it, when I was a kid, I saw a movie called glory. And if you've never seen the movie glory, Oh my God. You talked about Morgan Freeman. He was actually in that movie. Denzel Washington, uh, Matthew Broderick, Carrie Elwes. What a fricking movie. I watch his movie. I think I was like nine or 10 years old. I was like, what is this all about in America? Right? And it was just so shocking and so crazy and

just such an emotional roller coaster. And you're like, this happened here in America? Oh my, I'm a kid. And it was so interesting. If you came into my bedroom when I was a kid, I had Pamela Anderson posters, a life-size cutout of Isaiah Thomas basketball and the glory poster talking about the North versus South Civil War. Very weird sort of dichotomy going on there. But here's what I understood about the Civil War. You know, racism, America, what's going on here?

Jillian Michaels, great point about only 2% of Americans or even the Confederacy owned slaves. Flip it. Do you know how many Union soldiers fought to free the slaves? 2 million soldiers. Do you know how many Union soldiers died? White people died to free the African-American slaves? 400 to 500,000 deaths to free the slaves.

So Joy Reid, spare the racist drama because it was white people that died to free black people from crappy white people that wanted to run and operate their business in the South. So it's so easy to be like slavery, racist. You know, the least, uh, the word

that has the least meaning to it these days is, is racism.

It's true.

It's where you're racist.

You're racist.

Okay. Now what I'm racist. Okay.

Now what?

Can you show the poll? Can you show the last three polls? Can you show all three polls or no? It'll just show the recent one. Okay, so go to the recent one. Think about how our audience is today. Before you pull it up, Rob, I hope they don't see. Don't look, guys, don't look. Okay.

Tom, don't look, Tom. So the poll is, is Joy Reid right that White's calling Elvis King is racist? What percentage of our audience do you think said yes?

35%.

Of our audience?

No, no.

Our audience? No, our audience, 10%. You looked at it. I swear to God it's not... Okay, Tom, what do you think it is? You didn't put it up. I think it would be like 17, 20%. 10% said it. And we would look at this and say, oh my god. So Adam's right again, Tom. 10% said that he is racist, right, with the poem. By the way, 5,000 people voted for this. By the way, he didn't call himself the king, people called him the king. Oh by the way, James Brown is the godfather of soul. Oh now we're racist. But I want to do this guys. Guys, if there's a clip that, I'll be with my kids, Vinny I've showed it to you as well. If I've shown, Rob do you have this

clip or not with Elvis? If there's a clip, I'll send you the last performance, specifically the one I like. Yeah, this one right here. So this is a couple months before he dies. This is the first time ever he performs Unchained Melody publicly. The world hasn't seen this song. It's coming out in two weeks. You can tell he's either inebriated, he's either on drugs. He is not doing well until he opens his mouth.

And you realize the magic of this guy, no matter how drunk he was, no matter what was in his body, he still, just watch this, and you tell me if you would call this guy king or not. Go ahead, Rob.

This is a song that I just recorded. It's an old song called Unchained Melody. I had to play the piano, so it'll take just a second. I don't know all the chords. Breathe in heavy. just a second. I know all the chords. If you hear me, give him fingers cotton. Keys back here again. Look how big he was. Wow. You got to make it your mind son. Hold the microphone,

put the scarf on, hold the ring, show me the right keys. Got breathing heavy. Yeah, well watch There's a reason why they call him King and never performed internationally because of his manager. Yeah, that's right I just recorded in it

Is it out two weeks

Two weeks to be on this song's been in so many movies. Ghosts! Ghosts! Brace for impact. Sit down. You'll see why.

I'm gonna cry.

It's gonna make you sit down. I'm telling you. You're gonna have the chills all over your body. I'm gonna stay quiet and just listen.

How you like it so far?

How you like it so far?

Listen. Listen.

Oh my God. listen oh my god Oh my darling I hunger for your touch alone wow time goes by so slowly and time can do so much for you Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God

lonely rivers flow to the sea to the sea watch the upper arms Wait for me Mr. King i'll be coming home You can pause it right there, Rob.

Listen, I can listen to this.

The ending note when he goes when he goes all in.

Yeah, I mean listen, there's a reason why they call this guy the king. He was asked about his political views. Look what he said. This is what he had to say when they asked him about his political views.

Go ahead Rob.

Mr. Presley, what is your opinion of war protesters and would you today refuse to be drafted. I just, I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself.

I'm just an entertainer and I, I really not say you think other entertainers should also

keep their views to themselves.

No, it's their business. He joined the military. He served in the US army.

When his career was taken off, he was like, I'm going to go serve America. Yeah, he did. Let me tell you, he loved America. Yeah he did. Let me tell you he loved America and guess what if they called him the king and Amarkia wanted to call him a king good for him that they called him. If the man wanted to be called king, we call him king. Want to be called Clay? So anyways. By the way just how you're saying that Elvis

loved America I don't think this is a shocking statement I actually don't think that Joy Reid loves America. I think she doesn't actually hates America. Yep

She can go back to wherever

Her family came from I don't think you're wrong, but you know what she is doing She tried to job hug and she lost her job Oh, yeah, so workers are job hugging or clinging to their positions for dear life This is according to New York Post folks. Let's read this story. Okay, so The quits are among US workers dropped to 2% in June 3.4 1 4 million people quitting compared to four and a half million in November of 2021 reflecting a shift from the great resignation to job hugging as

Consultants at corn ferry road employees are holding on to jobs for dear life. Ultra Ulrich, Laura Ulrich, a director for economic research at Indeed, there is a stagnation in the labor market where the hires quits and layoffs rates are low. Job growth has slowed with the hiring rates at its lowest in over a decade, excluding early pandemic days, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. Matt Bone, an executive search consultant at Corn Ferry said, there's quite a bit of uncertainty in the world, economic and political, global.

And I think uncertainty causes people to naturally remain in a holding pattern comparing workers to skittish investors. A conference board poll found 34% of CEOs plan to shrink their workforce in the next 12 months versus 27% planning to hire the first such imbalance since 2020. Tom, thoughts on this story?

You know what, the word that comes to mind, appreciation. So now we're not printing money, we're not just giving you stimulus checks, and there are some bad things that happened there and some people needed those checks, I get it. But you know what we have now? We have people looking around and they can't just on a whim flip off their employer and go across the street at lunch and say, and I want 20% more and I want to bring my dog to work and never mind, my work will

be my living room. I want to bring my dog to work. I'm going to work from home. And all of this went over where there was a certain arrogance in the American workforce about it. And now people are appreciating what they got. And now maybe AI taking jobs, maybe not. And maybe it's just we're coming to an adjustment in the economy,

or maybe not. Or maybe people are just, take a look at the stock market. There's profits. So evidently CEOs are making good decisions because people's retirement funds are doing well. And they're saying, well, Main Street's different, Tom.

Yeah. I think what we have here is people are realizing that it's not easy or automatic. Great people can go, Vinny, think about it. Who do you know that's really great at their job that couldn't go find another job right now?

That's really great, that can't? No, I just can't. Nobody, they're gonna go. Whoever's kicking butt at their job anywhere can go get a job somewhere. Exactly.

Never struggle finding a job if you're great

at what you do. Yeah jobs that are out there. But for the people that are on the edge that maybe have a little bit of attitude. And now I disagree with this. Oh, they're hanging onto their job for dear life. Wait a minute. I'm hanging on to my wife for dear life. I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose my kids. I don't want to lose a great job. I don't want to lose a great opportunity. So why is that so bad? I think that what we're seeing is appreciation

and it's harder for people on a whim to trade jobs right now, and so they're not. That's the headline. It is harder to change jobs on a whim. So some people are not changing jobs, but great people that reach milestones in their careers are able to find that next job because there's tons of jobs that are available. And I love these headlines that are just made to create clicks

and the underlying message is the economy's just fine and great people that invested themselves with great attitudes and great skills are finding good careers. And maybe people that are on the edge of that have to keep the job they got and maybe appreciate

what they got. By the way, you know what's the one thing about this story, Tom? Who are the two people that they quote from what company? Corn Ferry.

Corn Ferry.

What does Corn Ferry not like? Job huggers. You know why? Because Corn Frary wants you to quit your job and go elsewhere once every other year. Because the more you quit your job and go elsewhere, it's a new 25% commission they're making. And they want you to go and stay out of the company for one year so they get 100% of the

commission. Two years later they want you to quit to move you to another company again because that's how they make their money. They can have one executive that changes jobs five times and they get paid five times on same exact employee. That's their business model. I don't know if you understand what I just said to you. Their job is to call you to be open-minded so they can move you five times. They don't care about your, let me stay there and you know, what do you call it?

Stay with the company for 20, 30 years. If people stay at companies for 20, 30 years, corn ferry doesn't exist. Just so you know that. They don't want that business model. They sell moving. So during COVID, when I was like, dude, they don't appreciate you. You should do this. That was the script.

They would call and say, do you ever feel like you're not appreciated with the-

Unappreciated.

Oh my god.

Overworked.

Pushed too hard.

I don't know a lot about the company, but Vinny, It's becoming where, I'm not trying to say these companies are becoming, they take their employees for granted. Yeah, they take their employees for granted. And look, if you were ever open, I have three qualified jobs that they're willing to pay you bonus, that they're willing to do this, and they're willing to do this.

And I know these guys, they would appreciate you. And let me know if you're open to it. Maybe simmer on it, let's you and I talk on Monday. I know you're at work right now. That's the script. I'll simmer.

That's the script.

By the way, now watch this.

You want to see part two? Part two. So that's Pat from Corn Fairy gets you to move value team. And let's present Adam as the CEO.

Hi Adam, this is Tom from Corn Fairy. you find some people. Go right ahead. Corn fairy makes a double. Double dip in corn fairy. Yeah did you get it? So then they move you, by the way they're not bad people, it's a multi-billion dollar company, we've used them. They're very good at what they do by the way, they're very very good at what they do, but that's the business model. How does a divorce attorney make money? Divorce. You think, imagine if the statistic came up and said 99% of marriages are living, staying together 30 plus years. There is no divorce attorneys. No, they're done. Divorce attorney's got to be like, hey, I'll throw a couple of sky miles your way.

Well, you seem really nice. Maybe he doesn't appreciate it. So you bring up the word appreciation. I think there's another word that comes down when you're talking about employees and employers and it's loyalty. I've been with the company. I worked welcome funds 18 years. I'm a pretty loyal person. Every time I would go to Nalba, I would get recruited by some insurance company, some carrier. I said, listen, they treat me fairly. The company said me, well, I'm staying here. It always weirds me out when I hear people. I said, you don't do, are you friends with anybody from high school? Now I don't talk to anybody from high school.

What about from college? I don't talk to those people. I'm still friends with people from elementary, middle, high school. I'm loyalty, loyal to a fault. I have friends for 20, 30, 40 years. Do you know how hard it is to stay at a job for over a decade? The average person in America, do you know how many jobs they have in their lifetime? A dozen. A dozen. I've been at the same job 18 years. And if Pat will have me, I'll be here another 18 years. Sorry, guys out there.

They tried to fire me the other day. I showed up the other day. I said, I don't even work here, guys. That's what makes this thing so difficult. Shout out to Seinfeld. fairly and you're treated well. It's a two-way street and appreciate the opportunity and

also appreciate the employee.

All right, let's go to the next one here. This next one, Vinny, I'm coming to you first. A tip. I'm going to give you a quick tip here.

Oh, corn fairy.

America's tipping culture spirals from 15% to 30% as digital guilt trips kick in. Rob, can you run a poll? Is this about Moyles? How people actually treat these things, because I see it now, I'm buying clothes, they're asking for tips. I'm like, I just bought clothes.

To the traditional US tipping went from a norm of 15 to 20% for goods or service has escalated from 25 to 28 and 30% driven by point of sale systems like Square, Clover Toast, which flash preset tip buttons. The rationale behind this is the most people emotionally don't want to feel cheap, so they won't pick the lowest option. These systems often hide the custom option, creating pressure as the person who just rang

up flips a screen around and stands there watching while you make your choice. This shift, termed guilt tipping, is fueled by technology, inflation, and pandemic-era habits, pushing consumers To tip out out of shame rather than appreciation Vinny your thoughts on this

Well, it's crazy that this story came up yesterday because right before the podcast prep meeting I was at Starbucks and I'm not even joking I just went in for a muffin the girl went a muffin a banana banana Right there Tom grabbed it gave it to me, swung the thing around, and the options were 25, 28, and 30. And I was like, and they're looking at you like a puppy, and I was like, listen, you

didn't do any, if you grabbed the muffin, because I like it warmed up, if you grabbed it and you threw it to some other barista like you know the fish vendors and and you grab it and they slanted the microwave I'll give you 25% but 30% it's absolutely ridiculous and you know what it makes me feel like like you know that awkward uncomfortable moment Rob have you guys been to Publix in like the past couple months where you're standing there checking out but getting your groceries and then loud as hell the girl that's running it goes

would you like to donate to the Children's Hospital and it's just a moment cuz everybody looks at you and you're standing there with ice cream and lottery tickets you're like I can't I can't afford it it's just that everybody hates you but it's just putting me in that awkward situation if I want to tip I'm gonna tip but you have to do something for it you literally can't grab something. You gotta dance, you gotta do something. You know what somebody told me the other day too? They went to go strawberry picking in California.

I'm not joking. You know when they go to check out the thing, it was 25? I think it was somewhere like Bakersfield. 25, 30, 35% on the thing to tip for you going to pick your own strawberries. I went into the field here, giving you that good positive energy for you to pick the right ones.

Remember when I told you no state of the right state of the right? That's 30%. Unbelievable.

Adam, your thoughts on this tip?

Yeah.

Well, so you ever go to a store and you order Starbucks, whatever it is, and they flip the thing around and then it's just like, you feel like Clint Eastwood and the good bad. They like feel like Clint Eastwood and the good bad. They're like, awkward 10, 20 or 30%. I'm like, dude, all you did was hand me a sandwich. You've provided no value. You turned around and did this. I'm not tipping you $7 because you gave me a sandwich.

It's not happening right here. So I feel you on this. It's it's making things very awkward. You know, Trump talks about no tax on tips. We're not going to have any tax on tips. How about no tips for no value? If all you did was flip this, I'm not going to do a Russian roulette standoff with you right now to give you $7 for handing me a sandwich. Save them. What's it? Well, I mean, you Uber, you Uber, that's something like the guy's driving me somewhere safe. You know what I mean? You tip, correct?

Safe.

But you know what I'm saying? Like you tip, like what, what are the top?

Wait a minute, Uber driver's performing a service, number one, and there's a fee for the service. And you know that the service fee goes mostly to Uber and there's a part for him. But when you get into Uber and they say, is the temperature OK for you like this? Yes, he's giving me a service. Would you like music on? I've got, and there's sometimes Sirius satellite radio

and they'll say, would you like? And I'll say, no, thank you. I'm gonna make a call and everything. But they're being very nice and they're polite. And there's a bottle of water and then there's- Some mints. and it's clean. Yes. I appreciate that. Yeah. This guy's working and so now he's going to drive 30 minutes from the airport for me.

You know what?

I'm going to give him a tip.

Yeah. Especially if he's a safe driver and it's a safe ride and it was clean and everything. Now you're tipping for experience and effort above neutral.

Yeah. The only time I give a tip when I'm doing an Uber in Miami is if they speak English, because no drivers speak English in Miami, zero, none. If you speak English and you're driving Uber, no offense, you need to find a better profession because you get paid on the amount of value that you can provide. Why do they not pay maids a lot of money? Because anybody can clean a floor. Anybody can drive a car. And I know that I'm coming at the English speakingspeaking mi gente out there but anybody can drive an Uber. I don't even know how these people, these people are

probably not documented. If I needed to, I would like to see what Uber is doing in their hiring process. Not one Uber driver in Miami hablas ingles. Well, they say hablas espanol which I do. How do we go from tipping to racial I'm just letting you know. Adam, what's your point? I'm just letting you know, Tom, you've probably been in an Uber twice in your life. Let the expert handle this. They need to handle-

Actually, how many times do you think you've been in an Uber or Lyft?

I mean, I can give you the number. Thousands and thousands and thousands of times.

Give me a number. Like, what is it? 5,000 times. Oh, Pat. What's the average? 40 bucks. Okay, so 200 grand on 5,000, so 200 grand spent in how long? 10 years? It's been about 10 years, Pat. 10 long years. So if you had an $800 monthly payment, so it's

cheaper to own a car than Uber. 100%. Here's the interesting thing. I could buy a Bentley. With a chauffeur! What does a car run on? Gas. Don't you need insurance? Don't you have a LA ticket? Didn't you have a flat tire the other day? I got you buddy. I got you. You keep doing it. Yeah, but you keep doing it. There was no way of speaking English on him so for you know listen yeah so let's go like a rich limousine ride but it's a Toyota Corolla that's that's good for you buddy you keep doing that we're proud of you I appreciate next story I want to go your sarcasm this is not sarcasm I'm actually proud

of you that you're you're listen it's a lot safer for me ketamine not be dry mean Pat please take a plea in case that shook Hollywood. This is actually a terrible story folks. Ketamine Queen. When you think about the story with Matthew Perry, this story was just dropped. Okay, Rob you got a clip on this or no? I do. Jasveen Sangha, also known as the Ketamine Queen, accepted a plea deal admitting she supplied ketamine that contributed to Matthew Perry's death in 2023, with court documents stating

she admitted to maintaining a drug-involved premises, distribution of ketamine, and distribution of ketamine resulting in death and serious bodily injury. Federal agents raided her North Hollywood home in March of 2024, seizing 1,700 grams of methamphetamine pills, 79 vials of liquid ketamine, MDMA, counterfeit Xanax, cocaine, and $5,723 in cash, with prosecutors noting she ran a drug trafficking operation catering to celebrities. Sanga sold 50 vials of ketamine to Perry via Eric Fleming and Kenneth Iwamsa, including

ketamine-laced lollipops. And after Perry's death on October 20, 2023, instructed Fleming to delete their signal messages per court records, Sangha faces up to 75 years in prison and $2.5 million in fines with a plea requiring forfeiture of seized cash and restitution to Perry's estate and other victims and she admitted selling ketamine to CM in

2019 who was CM is this? What is the C dot M 29 who died from an overdose per court documents Rob is this the clip from? Yes, ABC News go for it tonight

The accused drug dealer known as the ketamine queen has agreed to plead guilty to charges connected to the death of actor Matthew Perry. Prosecutors say she illegally sold him the drug leading to his fatal overdose. The fifth and final plea in the case.

Here's ABC's Trevor Ault.

Nearly two years after the fatal overdose of Friends star Matthew Perry, the so-called ketamine queen is now expected to plead guilty for supplying him with the dose that ultimately killed him. Has her? Yeah.

According to court documents, accused drug dealer Jasveen Sangha offered Perry a sample of ketamine through a friend and within weeks, 50 vials would follow. The actor had been open about his long-time struggle with addiction, speaking with our Diane Sawyer a year before

his death. Addiction the big terrible thing is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together one day at a time. We can beat it down.

Your disease is just outside just in one push us is waiting just waiting for you we're going to get you along.

Court documents show after Perry's death, Sengha tried to destroy evidence of her involvement, texting their mutual friend, delete all our messages. Sengha is the fifth and final person charged in Perry's overdose, all of them pleading

guilty.

In the end, these defendants were more interested in profiting off Mr. Perry than caring for his well-being.

Mary, Sangam was just weeks away.

We'll pause it right there. Vinny, thoughts on the story?

I mean, finally justice is served. I mean, it was still a horrible thing with him, with, you know, the addiction part of it. And, you know, a lot of people were going to say, well, if it wasn't her, it was going to be somebody else and it was only gonna be a matter of time. I, you know, before, you know, before I've, God had me find you, Pat, I was,

I was in that, not the ketamine in this crowd, by the way, I lived in North Hollywood right next to this girl, apparently, I had no idea, in Doha, but, you know, hanging out, partying, and doing all that Hollywood lifestyle stuff, big, huge,

A-list celebrities that had these people that would come in the hills and serve them all the time, and then it was only until I lost two friends, because I don't know, like again, did he OD or was it accidental or was it too much, because when my friends passed,

people automatically were like, oh, they OD'd. And they were poisoned because the cocaine that they did, they both did one little thing of cocaine. Both of them died right there and then one of their girlfriends. So I mean, I think it's good that he has. Finally, they're coming clean.

She's admitting what she did. I don't know what. So if she was facing 75, what is, if you plea, what does it come down to? That she's not gonna spend the rest of her life in prison? I don't know what it is, Rob, probably what, 20 years? 20 or 30 years, but I don't know.

I'm just happy that finally they came out, and they found them. So that's all five people now, so justice is gonna be done.

How old is the girl, the ketamine queen? How old is that girl? I want to say 40 Rob, where is she? 42 years old.

And she's from the United Kingdom. So she's not, she wasn't even born here.

There were so many guys like this man. There were so many guys like this in LA. Guys that would buy a hundred thousand ecstasy pills at the time. Guys that, this is, this is a very, very sad story of something like this happening, but you know what Matthew Perry said which was tough? Waiting, because let's just say that's a friend of yours. And you're like, I want to be around him all the time.

You have a life. I had a friend of mine that we had an accountability deal. And I would say, you got to call me, because he would take 10, 20 vacations at a time. Died taking 50 at a time. And he would call me. And I would call him four or five times a day. And I knew when he was on something,

because this is how we talk.

Hey, love, man. You love me so much.

He got into two or three accidents in a week of him just hitting people.

Driving?

Driving, hitting people. So eventually, I'm like, let him stay in prison a couple weeks so he can get it out of his system because he has to agree to go to a rehab facility. You can't force somebody to go to it. You can't put somebody in there. But he said the most magical thing, couldn't wait until he was alone.

He couldn't wait until he was alone to manage his temptations while nobody else is around. And the reality of it is, you're eventually gonna be alone. And when you're alone, what do you do? Boom, the dark energy shows up and you're like, hey man, I'm going to take something. That is the, this leads me to the next story,

unless if Adam, you want to say something about this.

I mean, I've literally lost a handful of friends to drug overdoses. I mean, I'm born and raised in Miami. I've been in the nightlife scene. I've owned bars. I've been to clubs, I mean, it's all fun and games until lights out. So speaking of ketamine right here, this ketamine queen lady, in my experience there's three different types of tiers of people that end up using the drugs, whether it's ketamine or other drugs. Ketamine specifically, so you know, you're using it, it's trippy, it's euphoric, you're

hallucinating, you're having a good time, you're in the club, the lights, you're having fun, all right, you're having an out-of-body experience, okay, that's one option. The second thing is you end up in what's called a K-hole and you're off in another dimension, you disassociate, it's an out with this? I'll leave her alone. Let's go. She's okay.

And then the third thing is you don't wake up and you overdose and you're gone. And what happens is you build up a tolerance. Oh, I used to take just one little thing. Now it's two. Now it's like you said, there's a guy who took 50 at a time. This is insane. So if you manage it, which I don't necessarily recommend, you know, I think Elon Musk has been on record allegedly saying that he's been prescribed

ketamine for whatever, uh, allegedly, but you do too much. I mean, you're not showing up to work the next day. Uh, here you go, Elon right there, but it's a sad thing. And if you have friends that are doing this, just be like, I love you, man, please just relax with that kind of stuff. Because you never know when they're gonna be alone, and they hit that thing one time, and the cops show up, and they drag their body out.

This is a business model that people need friends. They need the depth of friends around them, and they need the Lord, and they need the Lord and they need faith, because otherwise you end up in these dark places. Who's George Nicopolis? Dr. Nick? Elvis Presley's doctor, who was put on trial and acquitted, lack of sufficient evidence, but he was prescribing Elvis Presley. He had this big white haircut and everything. Who's Conrad Robert Murray? Dr. M. Right. Dr. M. Mike Jackson?

Following Michael Jackson around and prescribing to him. And then they all know it. The celebrities and the athletes, they know what's out there. Athletes at least have to pee in the cup and get tested. And it kind of helps keep them in their entourage

kind of at bay a little bit. But Nickelback said it in their song Rockstar. They'll get you everything with that evil smile. Everybody's got their drug dealer on speed dial. And I would-

♪ They're now gonna be a rockstar. ♪

And you hear that and you realize there is a business model that's just preying on these people and she's just the latest, you know, leech preying on people.

There was, I'll never forget the interaction because we had another friend who I met him and his sister when they were 18, 19 years old. And I went to one of his games that he was playing. He'll remember this. I'm not going to say his name. I went to his game because he was using the same thing that the other guy was using.

And I went to him and I spoke to him and I told him, you know, I talked to the other guy, the guy that was doing, because I found out who he was and I want to spoke to that guy. I told this guy, I said, I swear to God, if you continue with this stuff,

it's going to be a bad situation for you. Two years later, that guy stopped. wife, kids, beautiful sister, beautiful family. I love that family. I love being around the family. He did some things that I chose to not do business with him 18 years ago. Dumb mistake he made 20 years ago, 18 years ago. But there are these guys that go around that sell these pills

and they don't know what they're doing, but you're going to destroy someone's life. And that person is someone's son someone's daughter someone's family I've told the story so many times with this one. We'll wrap up on the story One of my friends one time is on PCP And he in middle of the street

There's a basketball tournament going on he gets out of the car goes up to an innocent kid didn't do anything Just punch him in the face with brass knuckles man Shuts the guy's jaw. 30 days, he's eating through a straw. He took, by the way, this is a guy that was never a Christian. He was like one of the crazy kids that I knew from high school.

And he says, you have no idea what happened to me. The father of the son shows up to the house. Have I told you this story? The father of the son that he shut the jaw, punched him in the face with a brass knuckle, shows up to his house, knocks on the door,

somebody else opens the door, says I want to talk to your son. He then comes to the door, looking at the phone, he has no clue clue this man is this is yes, hope our uncle What can I help you with says you know why I have no clue who you are shows the son's picture So this is who I am

You did this to my son He's I'm not here to do anything to you. I just wanted you to see my pain Wow, cuz one day you're gonna have kids and I would never want you to have the pain that I have right now as a father. But I wanted you to remember this face. Jeez.

And the father's in tears. He says, I can't talk to my son for 30 days. Listen, I'm not sitting here telling you I walk on water and the dumb mistakes that I made as a kid and stupid all this other stuff because some friends are doing it, so you kind of want to be part of the cool camp as well. That guy ends up becoming the reason why, the guy that stopped and became a Christian.

He's the person that influenced me to go to Bible studies Friday nights from six o'clock in the morning to two o'clock in the morning every other Friday night.

Wow, so he cleaned up.

Because I never thought he could change. He was the one guy that I never thought he could change. And we went to Bible study together for a year and a half. Year and a half later, I'm the guy at Pasadena in Colorado at 25 years old holding up sign John 3, 16, Jesus is coming. And the one guy that I told the story of took the 50 Vicodins, me and that guy invited him to Bible study. He came one day, he cried so loud,

hope was painful, we took him to a restaurant called Shakey's in Glendale. We just drove past it the other day. And in Shakey's it was when at one o'clock in the morning he steps out to go out to the car to get some Vicodin and we followed him. And he opens the black Mustang.

And he opens it up and I took it away from him. And I'm like, dude, you can't do this. Don't do this to me. I know, no, you can't. No, it's not that one. It's a different one. They actually just showed.

We drove by it the other day.

We just drove by five days ago.

You told the story a week ago.

This is the story.

That's crazy.

That's the story, bro. Right across from Conrad's that just shut down. favorite people in the world who died. And I miss them every day. So anyway, sometimes the role that we play as friends is to ask, encourage, challenge, push, get involved as much as you can. But at the end of the day, man, they got to want to do it as well. They got to want to do good.

The good solution is just never get involved. Just never get involved. Anyways, Genk, great spending time with you guys. Again, reminder, August 27, for those of you guys that want to come see the campus, you want to see the podcast set, you want to see the studio, you want to see the hangers, you want to see everything that we got going on here, for those of you guys that are going

to the VOL Conference, go to volconference.com, again, thevolcon And then if you buy the ticket on August 27, you can come here and get a private tour from us. And Rob's going to put this link at the top for you guys to have. All you got to do is own a ticket. If you're general, you'll be at the networking and with 400, 500 other people. If you're a platinum executive, you'll get a tour.

If you're a founder and register that they'll be attending you'll be able to bring one guest with you while you come into the event anyways having said that God bless everybody we'll do it again on Friday

take care bye bye . . . . . .