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You're by Russell Crowe. By the way, that's a conversation you missed with Brian Callen. He's telling me how in love he is, how busy his life is with four kids. We're part of the 4 Kids Club. That's right, brother. It's exciting, right?

It's the best. It's the best. What else are you going to do with your time?

Best alarm clock.

Look at Adam, looking at Adam. Adam's like a deer in a head like, You guys are so on to my two guys that don't have kids.

And we're like, What is it like?

You know what it's like? It's a blast. And here's what's refreshing. Somebody else in your life is happiness is more important than your own. And that's how a man should walk through the earth eventually.

No, that's exactly it. Who was I talking to? I was talking about the Sam and Nicole got married last night. Congratulations. Sam Bell and Nicole Carvajal And I was talking to Nicole's parents and Italian, real nice guys, August and Joanne, and they said, We wish we would have had more kids. We wish we would have had 10, 20 kids. I think it was five or six kids. But yeah, that's a whole different conversation we'll get into maybe later All right, we got a lot of stories to go through. One, using deadly force is typically not a good thing against the President. I don't know if you know that or not, especially if you put on a contract to say, Hey, guys, go get whatever you want using deadly force. At all costs, we got a couple of clips to show you about Merrick Garland, what he says with the AG and him going back and forth with the questions of Josh Hawley will show that. Komi, absolutely the most animated you've ever seen him saying, make sure we We cannot vote for Trump. We have to vote for Biden. Now, Trump was in Bronx yesterday, and a few people weren't happy.

There's this girl, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that wasn't too happy about it. Really? When he was coming to my place, to my city, to my town, right? Yeah. And thousands of people showed up. Logan Paul and Ryan Garcia. There's a feud going on with Prime. And apparently, Logan Paul is talking about suing Ryan Garcia. We'll talk about that. Cameron, awkward interview on CNN about Diddy. If you've not seen this, have you seen this? I've not seen that. I'll show it to you. It's so awkward. It's not even funny. You got to see when we go through it. Good. A couple of other things here. Germany decriminalizes child pornography. Really? Yeah. They're thinking The Germans. The Germans. The Germans. The Germans are doing that.

A lot of people don't realize that if you want to get good videos on scat, which is another word for a pooh, they've got pooh videos. That's the mecca of all those videos, those weird- The two girls want to come. They've written books about this.

We'll go into that. We'll go into that. Do you know that? Google cuts check for DOJ while trying to dodge jury trial in digital ads lawsuit. Trump campaign says they will sue The Apprentice filmmaker. Have you seen this new movie? What they're talking about is I haven't seen it, but I've heard about it. Kansas. Kansas City, Kansas Film Festival. This garbage is fewer fiction. So next we have Disney bleeding. Pixar slashes 14% of their workforce. They made brutal budget cuts. We'll talk about the Logan and Paul. Washington Post lays out an optimistic news strategy after grim financial numbers. They're down $77 million. Wapo is, and that's the company I think Bezos bought for a quarter of a billion dollars. 50 Cent sells his documentary on Ditty to Netflix after bidding war. What a brilliant guy. Cassie speaks out after the release of Ditty's assault video, No one should carry this weight alone. America's most powerful banker issue is ominous, warning about the US economy. Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase implies he may be retiring soon. I don't know if you know this or not. The reason why Kaitlyn Clarke in the NCAA is having all the success that she's having is because she's white and That's the reason.

If it wasn't because- So no basketball, no talent, no freak of nature.

Just the skin color. Got it. It's a very problematic- She's very white, by the way. She's very white.

You can go snow blind looking at that skin.

She puts the.

Maybe we start with that one first. Tucker Carlson says, Reports of Russian TV show our pure nonsense. Then we have, Teen Girls Stunning Smartphone Usage Revealed. Data, how much usage of a smartphone they use. Who lose a new show coming out. I don't know if you've heard about this. Very interesting. It's called Virgin Island, a dating show for celibates.

Sounds boring. Sounds so boring.

God. Germany says it would alas Netanyahu as Israeli envoy appeals to Berlin to defy ICC. Vivek buys 8% of Bus feed. Pretty wild. What is Bus feed? Bus feed is a very, very... It was a very, very popular site. They took a lot of hit.

Buzzfeed. Oh, I thought you said Bus feed. Bus feed. Got it.

Why are you. No, the Aramaic accent.

In Aramaic, buzz is bus. That's it.

Buzz. Did I say Bus feed?

You said Bus feed. I said Bus feed. It's okay.

Let me do it right. Buzzfeed. Com. Sorry, guys. Buzfeed. Com. Buzfeed. Com. Florida, 125% surge in property insurance bills shows havoc. Okay, so before we get into this, let me share with you guys what we got going on this weekend for Memorial Day weekend. I brought something very unique that I've never shown. I don't even know how I found it yesterday. I found my army greens. No way. Yeah, I found it. Do you still fit in?

Are you serious? Oh, there's no way.

There's no way in the world. Check this out.

What?

Yeah.

That sounds like a museum.

It feels like a- By the way, I found this, and you know how crazy this is? I'm like, Where's my name tag? Because in the army, they made a mistake with my name tag. If you go in, look at the way they spell my name. Check this out. Can you see it? Bet David. Bet David. Not Bet David. Bet David. Bet David. Bet David.

This is the uniform that I had.

I was just a regular specialist at the 101st Airborne Division. Why am I showing you this? I even brought my coin from my unit. Let me see if I brought it. I think I brought it.

How long were you I was in the army two and a half years.

I didn't do long enough, but it was the greatest experience for me. I don't have the coin. What the army did to me is the following. I liked America. The army made me fall in love with America. The army made me realize what Memorial Day Weekend was all about. I saw grown men and women standing in uniform, emotional. I'm like, why are they emotional? Because they lost their friends who put their lives on the line. It's the ultimate cost for you and I. The more and more I was in the army, for me, at least some people have different experiences, the more and more I just was like, this is the greatest country in the world. I'm so proud. I remember the first day, what's the movie that came out? What is the movie with Tom Hanks who was in it? Saving Private Ryan. Oh, yeah,Of course. They come and they come and they said, there's a movie about your unit and your division, 600. I just got to 101st Airborne division. You're the first to watch it before this goes live. We're in the audience and we watch Saving Private. Oh, wow. Dude, 600 of us are crying in tears I'm saying, America is the greatest country.

I love this place, right? And the pride has been there ever since. Now, value tame. Anything about this logo, anything about this brand, anything about what we do, the brand is about future looks bright. The brand is about Optimism, capitalism, debate. The brand represents all of those things, entrepreneurship business. So here's what we're doing for this weekend. We have a full-on new merch drop being done today, this weekend. This hat I'm wearing, let me show you guys what's What's special about this hat. The last time we did numbered hats were this. This is the numbered hats we did. These were limited out of 200. This is the actual last one that we kept, 200 out of 200. These hats sold for $99. They sold that within the first couple of hours. If you go on eBay right now, Rob, and you type in Future Looks Bright hat, they're selling these at $3.50, $4.99, $9.99. No joke. On eBay? Of course, because they're numbered. They're limited edition. $350? That's one of them. I think there's a few more. Maybe that's the only one. Look at the top if there's a couple more, Rob. There's one at 499.

There's another one over there, even at 999. You pick and choose what the numbers they are. It'd be funny if you saw. But we are releasing the... Look at this green and black, Vinnie. We're releasing these limited edition, one out of 250, and the year on it is going to say 2024. Obviously, it's military green. And on top of that, we got a bunch of other stuff on there for you to go out to an order. Here's what we're doing. This will not be discounted. These hats will not be discounted because they're limited edition. First come, first serve, you go place the order, you get it. However, for Memorial Day weekend, anybody that places an order for $79, can you go back to the discount numbers? You get a 20% discount, 79 plus, 25 on 199. You get 35% on 399 and up. First 25 people that place an order for $400 or more, I FaceTime call you. You literally are going to get a FaceTime call from me for those that placed the order. If you're listening to this on Spotify or Apple, go to vtmerch. Com. Vtmerch If not, there's a QR code.

Go to the store, place the order. I see more people wearing Valuetamen gear in future looks bright gear than ever before, and I absolutely love it. I'll stop by and take pictures with people that are wearing this gear. If you love the brand, if you love America, If you love capitalism, if you love freedom of speech, if you love free enterprise, this brand represents that. Support the brand, go place the order. Looking forward to seeing you guys, support the gear and represent this in the marketplace. Anyways, happy Memorial Day weekend. Adam, why don't you start us off? The first thing you said when we came in, you said, I don't know why we're no longer playing the pledge of allegiance in school, right? Tell us about it.

Well, this weekend is Memorial Day, and We've covered this on the podcast before, The Wall Street Journal, The Decline of Traditional Values in America. And this bothers the hell out of me. Rob, do you have that? I think it's on Slack. And they covered basically five traditions, values that we value here in America. Number one is patriotism. Number two is religion. Number three is having children, which Vinnie and I are working on, some more than others. Number four is community involvement. Number five is money. What bothers me the most, do you know which of all these things, these five things, had the highest score? Going back to 1990, kids, money, community involvement, religion, patriotism. Do you know which one? Which one? Patriotism. 70% of Americans had a, quote, unquote, very high, important view of patriotism. That, of all those five things, have plummeted the most. Now, you can make an argument, Well, the fastest growing religion in America is what? Atheism agnostism, agnostism, whatever. People are waiting longer to have kids.

I think the fastest growing religion in America, to be honest with you, is LGBTQ. That's true. I'm being honest with you. Wokeism is a fundamentalist religion.

For sure. That's exactly right. It really is. Immunity and When you start talking about being traditional, like you just said, what you are labeled now is far right. Yes. They have hijacked the narrative. People get behind narratives. It's the story you tell. That's really what it's about. And you have to take back that story. You've got to fight. You've got to have the intellectual architecture to mount a defense against that. This idea that the United States is a patriarchy and an oppressive imperialist regime is not true. It's actually just not true. You've got to mount that defense, and you've got to do it in a colorful and even humorous way. The problem with defending tradition is we tend to get very boxy about it, where the other side is playing loose and frivolous with it. I don't know. We've got to take back the story, and we got to make it colorful so people can get behind it because they have won that for now.

You know who You know who it's on, though? It's on the parents. Let me explain. I didn't just wake up and be like, I really want to talk about this today. I read the Wall Street Journal pretty much every day. Pat advocates whether you're left, right, center. That's a great outlet. You can get a lot of information. One of the articles I was reading was by a lady called Peggy Nune, and she's one of the big opinion writers on there. Speech writer. Exactly. She wrote an article about American parents need to teach their children to love America. And she cited this story from 1900. Imagine this What's happening in New York City today. You ready? In 1900, there was on the heels of the Civil War, two decades after the Civil War ended. Ulysseses Grant had just died. There's a crazy story about Ulysses Grant. At his funeral, there was four pallbearers, two generals from the Union, two generals from the Confederacy. What a symbol. So they introduced this book into New York State. It was called The Manual for Patriotism for the Use of Public Schools in the State of New York. Essentially what they wanted school system to do is do the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag, the United States of America, the Republic of which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible. You know the deal. Imagine in New York today, they're mandating this in New York. Oh, forget it. The reason they did this was because we're the land of immigrants. We all come from immigrants, whether it's from Asia, whether it's from the Middle East, whether it's from Latin America. They don't know our culture. They have to come and adapt to our culture. Great. Welcome to America. We don't care for where you're from. One rule, love America. Now we're seeing what's happening with this TikTok generation. Not only do not love America, they don't like America, they hate America. That's right. It's so weird to me because it used to be, whether you were a Democrat, whether you were Republican, yeah, I love America. Jfk, ask not what your country can do for you. What can you do for your country? We know the speech. The TikTok generation, blame it on China, TikTok, blame it on the Marxist globalists, blame it on the professors in school, blame it on Klaus Schwab, whatever it is. If you're 25 and under, you've grown up to basically hate America.

So bring back the pledge of allegiance.

Yeah, my 16-year-old daughter, I watched as I tried to educate her, tried to get her. I watched not only her school, but mainly she got onto social media. That phone will indoctrinate a child. And before I know it, she's talking about this gender spectrum and things like that. And of course, me, I lost my mind. But I'm battling Google. I'm battling the software engineers and the people that came out of these elite universities. They've already been indoctrinated. Now they get into a position of power. So that is what's so insidious about this. They started. It's the long march through the institutions. You start when they're very young. I saw them try to do this with my son in a private school in Santa Monica. You've lived in. It ain't happening soon. Now, what's interesting, however, is that if you look at the twelve-year-old kids, like the boys especially, they're pushing back. It's the strangest thing. I'm telling you, my twelve-year-old is like, he's a little bit right of Genghis Khan at this point. You're spot on. What happened?

You know why I'm laughing?

I know exactly what he's talking about.

Have you seen the stats about boys versus girls? No. In high school? No. There's an article from The Hill that's basically confirming exactly what Brian Callen is saying. That's right. There's two things. Number one, the boys are trending more conservative. They're following the Andrew Tate's of the world or the PBDs of the world. People that just makes sense, especially when it comes to... There it is. And the girls are becoming more liberal. And I say this all the time. The last thing you ever need is just five girls talking.

You mean the view? Like the view?

Yeah, because they don't G-check each other. You're at 10. Of course, honey, it doesn't matter.

You're 340 pounds. You're 340 pounds. You go, girl. Sometimes it takes a dude to be like, Yeah, I don't know about that, bro.

That's right.

But then there's another stat. This is just straight up. That's the one. Yes. Boys going more conservative, girls going liberal. But then it goes further. You talk about the religion of LGBTQ. This is just normal high school kids. Here's what's interesting. They tracked it back, I think, to 2000, I want to say. Boys who identify as LGBTQ, it's gone from 2% to 2.5%. Nothing crazy. Girls have gone from 2% to 20%.

Social contagion. They tend to achieve status.

K, pressure.

Yeah, they're very socially aggressive, apparently. And so girls will engage in reputation destruction and things like that. So you've got to be very careful with how you speak when they play with each other. If there's a disagreement, they'll stop playing. Boys will just barrel ahead and figure it out.

So what can the parents do?

I actually think that I'm way more optimistic. I don't think you can apply this far left authoritarian ideology to the level of detail. And the reason you can't is a couple of reasons. When you start talking about gender being a spectrum, for example, I'm a man now, I'm a woman, I've decided. There's no way, logically, to take that scaffolding, that bedrock. There's nothing to anchor into. If everything is my perception and my feeling, we're all over the place. I think that's by design. That was originally by design. The idea behind the Marxist, postmodernist, liberal way of thinking, and I'm not talking about in the old school sense, I'm talking about this new ideology, is not construction, deconstruction. We want to destroy. You've got to tear the institutions down and rebuild them in your Marxist viewpoint to make everything equal.

Isn't that the premise of critical race there in the '1619 project? Yes. That's not basically what it is. Yes.

That's why they'll call a black person like Larry Alder a white supremacist, because what they're saying is that you're part of the system that is already propping up, say, whiteness or men or whatever it might be. And so the idea is you've got to tear down the entire institution. Do that by making no sense.

Watch this. We can transition that into a lot of different stories, but I'll go into the best story that maybe makes sense because we're talking about girls here. So NCAA Leading score, Kaitlyn Clarke is only popular because she's white, says Race baiting commentator Jamil Hill. Now, let's go to it, Rob. If you want to pull it up. Here we go. Jamil Hill claims Kaitlyn Clarke's popularity is influenced by her race and sexuality, stating, We would be very naive if we didn't say race and her sexuality played a role in her popularity. Hill as, There is a part of it that is a little bit problematic because of what it says about the worth and the marketability of the players. Who are already there. Hill acknowledges Clark's difficult position in the race debate. In that regard, I feel bad for Kaitlyn Clarke because she didn't ask for any of that, but criticizes Hill for placing this nonsense on Clark's shoulder despite Clark's massive platform and impressive achievements. Clark's debut, the most watched game in 23 years with over 2.3 million viewers on ESPN and mentioning the new chapter, Flight Policy due to security concerns about the mega star, Clark.

Think about this, 2.2 million. Wnba, 2.2 million because of a white girl. You think it's because of a white girl? It's because she shoots the lights out from the, what do you call it, the logo? She's like the modern day Steph Curry. You know what's the closest thing she reminds me of? The closest case study. That was an anomaly. Okay, baseball. Is it a white sport, black sport, Hispanic sport?

Right now, it's a Latino sport, but it used to be white.

It's Latino now, but white. Then white, then black. No Middle Eastern.

I'm offended. I want to clarify that because that's out of control. But if we go to football, is it white, black, or Hispanic? Black first. And then what?

Black first.

Samoan.

Samoan, lineman, and then white people.

White people, right? Okay, if you go to NBA, what is it?

It's all white. It's all white and European. Black and European white guys.

You're actually right. Black and Serbian, Slovenia, some of those guys that have come. Luca, Joker, Giants. Except if you're the Dallas Mavericks, they have been the whitest team since 2001. But Mark Cuban body, he is so committed to DEI. According to the Guardian, for the first 20 years or so that he owned the Mavs, it was the whitest team in the NBA. Dei. Mark Cuban, who supports DEI, he has had the whitest team in the NBA for the first 20 years or so of owning the team. Something I'm sure he's very proud of. But if you go to golf, is it white or is it black? White? It's white with Tiger. Until one guy showed up. One guy.

Yeah.

One guy showed up.

He was tie and black and a lot of other.

That's right. He was a composite. I've never cared about golf ever. Bro, we're from Iran. You don't give Middle Easterners a club to say, Hey, go play.

No, you give him a rifle, you say, Protect the country. Yeah.

So golf, no one's going to watch it. Then a Tiger Woods shows up and he's dominating. So it's not that we're attracted to his skin color. We're attracted to dominators. I was going to say- Caitlin dominates the game. So what are your thoughts with some of the stuff that's happened? They're complaining. First, they're complaining that they don't get paid enough money. Then a girl like this shows up that's about to increase everyone's pay, and they're still bitching about it. Your thought?

Well, I just think that also, keep in mind that Katlyn Clarke, there's a lot of white people in this country. And when you see a white person in basketball standing out, it's like, oh, dude, look at her fundamentals. She's unbelievable. Have you ever watched her practice, the thing she does? She's ridiculous. So there's something about that. People are tribal. Obviously, it's going to stand out. Obviously, you're going to watch someone like Kaitlyn Clarke, who does look very white. And she's like, what, 6 feet? She's not dominant physically, and she's that good. It's It's an anomaly. It's still rare.

But I just hate the fact that everything has to... I don't know if it's for eyeballs or if it's just actual hate. It's like, bro, you nailed it, too. Shut up. What are you even talking about? Why does it have to be... Everything has to be about race because look what it makes us do. It makes us talk about it. It makes us even get angry. But at the end of the day, we're never... Because we talked about just about the flag and God and LGBT. Unless the other side, we call out stuff like that and check that person vocally. Make her have to fess up to her ignorance and her hate. You're not doing anything for the game. You're not doing anything for humanity. Because you know what? Look how we're responding. What about the people are like, Yeah, the hell with that white girl? You're bringing hate and animosity to a girl that's busted her ass to bring... How many million was that, Robbie? How many? Two million?

Listen, dude, this is intersectionality. That's the idea. You got to break it all into little groups. You know who's never represented? Dwarfs.

That's a stuff. They're great at basketball. Yeah, they're great.

But I never hear anybody.

It's a little offensive, though. It's a little offensive for you.

But he's being right.

Is dwarf not the right word? Think about being somebody who's very small. That's the only group I never hear represented, and I'm not kidding. Peter Dinklage was the only actor. Because of DEI- You know what? I'm going to turn it. I wish I could.

Callen, you would know about this. I'll get to Kenan Clark. You're in Hollywood. We've seen you in all the bovies. Eddie, we know who you are. You're a star.

Thank you, sir.

The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, because of DEI, they didn't hire Seven Dwarfs anymore. They needed a fat guy. They needed an Asian guy. They needed a tall guy.

They're the Jamaican guy.

What's going on here? They stopped doing that. Why?

But they were doing that.

Yeah, but all the DEI officers in Hollywood were quietly, quietly fired. I don't know if you guys know that. Yeah, about a year ago.

Quiet Quitting? Quiet Fired?

Yeah, they've all lost their jobs because what happened was-They're losing money. Dude, Hollywood is the ultimate capitalist. Thank you. If the country was run by people who run Hollywood, we'd have no problems. They solve problems that fast because it's all about money. And what they do is they go, hey, dude, hey, guys, this whole DEI thing, it's not working. I know very big directors who stepped off movies, big movies, 10pull movies because they wrote a character, for example, who was in a wheelchair or maybe a handicap, and the notes were something to the akin of, Hey, that person can't be that way. They have to be empowered. Well, no, actually, they don't have legs. And it's not working. It's not working for my movie, bro. Play basketball with no legs. And they were like, sorry. And this is what they were dealing with. So what happens, obviously, is when they start losing hundreds of millions of dollars, they're like, hey, this ain't you.

Out.

By the way, just to clarify, you said hundreds of millions of dollars. Brother, they're not losing hundreds of millions of dollars. They're losing hundreds of billions of dollars. Is that true? I don't know. Disney stock from $380 billion market cap to $180.

Okay, but let me ask you this. How much of that is because streaming got atomized?

No, they were killing it on streaming. The market is just getting sick of it. The market It's getting sick of what they're doing. A very godmother of the man. Yeah, the market just... And by the way, let me just say this. If you're on this story, I think we've already transitioned. You're going to Hollywood.

I just want to say one thing about... It's bringing it back to Kaitlyn Clarke. I was so freaking offended. Last year, When Kendrick Perkins, NBA analyst, was like, the only reason that the Joker, Jokic, was an MVP candidate is because he's white. He just won his third MVP in a row. That's hilarious. Okay, so this-Is that what they said?

Who said that?

Kendrick Perkins. Basically, he's a big dude. If I ever run him in the street, I'll probably not say it to his face online. I'll say it easily. This guy was a fledgling NBA Career Center. Not a big deal. The Joker won an NBA Championship last year. He basically said, Joel Embiid should get it. Embiid is an amazing player. But stop. This guy's incredible. That's like Tom braided. The only reason that he's getting success is because he's white. Ohtani, the only success he's getting is Asian.

Let me ask you a question. Do I have a reputation for defending LeBron James? Not at all. I do not. Rob, can you pull up the clip I just texted you? If you have it, the one I just sent you. Here's what LeBron James just said. Go ahead and play this clip. This is him with Redik, which Redik is interviewing LeBron regularly because he trusts him. Go ahead and play this clip.

He might be his coach, actually.

The one thing that I love that she's bringing to her sport- Caitlin Clark. Yeah.more people want to watch. There you go. More people want to tune in. Don't get it twisted. Don't get it fucked up. Caitlin Clark is the reason why a lot of great things is going to happen for the WMD. Good for you, LeBron. But for her, individually, I don't think she should get involved. Nothing that's being said. Just go have fun, enjoy. But I'm rude for Caitlin because I've been in that seat before. Good for you. I've walked that road before. Good for you. I hope she kills. You can pause it right here. Listen, got to give him credit. Good for you, bro, for saying something like that. The fact that because he knows what it's like to come in and from the moment you're getting all criticism. He relates to him from that side. But I'm glad he didn't use any race baiting card and say anything like that.

I thought that was what was going to happen. No.

I'm actually impressed with the position he took.

This is why I love comedy. Comedy, you either have it or you don't. Couple of things you can't fake, fighting, dancing, and comedy. Try faking those things. People will find that out. You're either funny or you got it. Try dancing if you can't dance. Try getting in a ring if you can't. You're going to get knocked out. I love the truth. There are certain things you can do that you cannot. I don't care who your agent is. I don't care how much hype you have behind you. Do you have the goods or don't you? If you don't, I've seen famous actors try to do comedy, it gets quiet, quick.

Yeah. Let me go to the next story. By the way, before I get to the next story, just want to let some of you guys know. Added the numbered hats, 250, 108 is already gone in the first 30 minutes of a night. 108 is gone of the hats being ordered. So if you haven't yet ordered yours, go get one of the numbered hats. And by the way, the only shirt I officially work out in is these. This is all I wear. It's the most comfortable shirt I've ever had for sports, working out all of it. And I've had many by far. So get the PVD podcast, value tame in, future looks bright when you're ordering these as well. Let me continue. Okay, so we talk Disney briefly, right? Here's what's going on with Disney. Disney bleeding, Pixar, slashes 14% of workforce amid brutal budget cuts. Okay, let's see what's going on with Disney because this is Hollywood and this is something you can speak on. The Once, Mighty Pixar has laid off 14% of its workforce at the Walt Disney, as Walt Disney continues to make brutal budget cuts across its many businesses. Pixar Animation Studio is slashing about 175 jobs due Due to its large part to Disney plus reducing the number of series it is putting out, according to a deadline report, earlier estimates had put the layoffs closer to 20%.

The cuts come after Pixar laid off 75 jobs earlier this year, putting two executives behind a box office flop light year. Ceo Bob Iger recently acknowledged Disney massively overspent on streaming content in an attempt to draw more subscribers to Disney Plus and its other services, causing a company to lose billions of dollars. Thoughts this?

My thoughts on this are, I think, first of all, to make a movie like any Pixar movie is so difficult. It's so difficult. And I think we are suffering creatively as a result of all these enforced notions of inclusion, et cetera. I'm going to go back. I think to have to create some of the movies that all of us love. I just watched, what's that time machine? A Hot Top Time Machine. You couldn't make that movie today. It was so irreverent, and there were so many, what's the word, triggering words and things like that. I know that they would leave those out, and they were a huge part of the comedy. And I think in order to be creative and in order to write these amazing movies, you have to be in a room where everything is allowed, where you're allowed to be absolutely irreverent, insulting, dangerous with your ideas. You've got to be able to throw everything up on the wall. And we used to have that in a writer's room. Writers rooms were outrageous. It was like people would be like, if somebody recorded this, we'd all be, we'd probably be put against the wall and shot.

You have to do that. Comedy, when it comes to standup, one of the things I loved about the Tom braided roast was for the first time. And thank God to Netflix. They were up there doing the craziest, most irreverent things in the world. And people went, oh, that works. Oh, yeah. That's what it takes to be funny. Listen, let me give you another example. People talk about the men and good old boy networks and all that stuff. Cool. Ready for this? Where do you think all these things start? Who created the tech industry? A bunch of dudes in their garages. No women, just a bunch of guys who are probably interested in their tummy, and they were doing everything so that they could get laid. Ufc. Did the UFC start with a bunch of politically correct men and women and inclusion? No. It just started with a bunch of outlaws. The X-games, how'd that start? Just a bunch of outlaws. These are subcultures. These were outlaw subcultures of men, of groups of men competing trying to kill each other and also cooperating well. It gave us some of the most... That is what our economy is built on.

Our economy and our art and our artistic expression. Hollywood. How was Hollywood created. It was created by a bunch of European refugee Jews, men, cutthroat, who said, You know what? Let's tell stories. Why don't we tell the great stories? And some of the greatest writers, some of the greatest musicians, some of the greatest producers, the people that put everything together and created the stories that we stay alive for. The cornerstone of our American culture is what? Is the movie, are the great movies we all talk about. Good old boy networks, boys, men getting together, competing, cooperating, trying to beat each other. That's what it was about. Let me tie that into your book. I'm going to give you a compliment. I read a lot. I read a lot. I was worried about reading your book because I like you so much. I didn't want to read it and be like, Man, Patrick, he's going to write a book. I got to read it. He's my boy. I'm going to say this. I'm an old man now. I'm older than you are. I rarely read things where I learn something new. A lot of times it's a reiteration.

It's what happens as you get older. I never thought that having enemies and embracing and dilating down on who my enemies are was something that could help me and motivate me. I was always trying to say, I don't have any enemies because that was bad. I was always trying to say to myself, Don't think about that. Don't try to be as competitive as you naturally are. I read that book, dude, and I got to tell you, what a gift because I I went, Choose your enemies wisely. Your enemies, I thought to myself, I thought, I'm going to embrace. I'm going to embrace the people that I think that I just can't stand. That screwed me over. I've never done that. I'm going to embrace the fact that it bothers It bothers me that in my opinion, I mean, I'm a pretty good comic. Vinnie, by the way, Vinnie and I are going to be at the Danny Improv. Tonight, two shows, tomorrow, two shows. And Rob's going to be there, too. I love it. Rob's going to be there, right away. And then Sunday. But I'm I'm going to embrace the fact that some people are doing better, and it bothers me.

I never, ever was that way. I fought that tooth and nail. I read your book, I looked at my wife, and I swear to God, I said to her, I go, this book has just changed the way I'm going to move forward. I'm serious, bro. So what a gift. I love it. I can't believe I read a book from somebody, and I'm telling you, I got to read it. And that was a gift. So I'm kissing your ass a little bit right now. But that's all I'm going to say about the book. I'm going to that that was a new idea. It was something that I always resisted. And after reading it, I have now embraced it, and it is my fuel. I woke up, pumped. And so thank you.

I feel the fire. I don't know what you're doing. Bro, I'm telling you. I love it. That's great to hear.

I'm telling you. It's your enemies are your best friend. That's your fuel. Choose your enemy. And it doesn't have to be a person. That's the other thing I got from the book. It does not have to be in person. That story you tell about your father is so moving to me because I love my father. And that humiliation that you felt for that great man that you still love. That's a movie, dude. That's a movie. That's how it starts. That was that thing that caught you where you just went. And what motivates you? Love. Deep, deep admiration and love for a man who never even saw you because he was always gone. What was he doing? The other thing he said, I love us. He was out there slaying Dragons. Don't have time for me. I can't see you, but I love you. And you know my father was the same way. I didn't see my dad a lot, but I knew at the end the day that he was out there slaying Dragons for me. That's what mattered to me. My man. That's it. So anyway, thank you. That's the book. That's sick. Back to what I was saying about good old boy networks, back to what I was saying about being outlaws, back to what I was saying about why competition is so important because competition, when you have enemies, when you have people you're trying to beat, what does that do?

It also bonds you to the team that you are forming that is going to war with those people. There's nothing more bonding than when you're up against it. It creates that thing called oxytocin. They figured that out in combat. That's why men who've been to combat, forget it. They're bonded for life.

It's so crazy you're saying that, right? When you have a similar passion and emotion about an enemy and you find others like that, good luck trying to go up against people like that. Just yesterday, right, Bronx? I don't know if you watch any of the interviews when they're talking to people. Did you see some of those- Of the New Yorkers in the Bronx? Is this the highlight? Is this what it looked like, or is this the interview?

This is just the crowd.

I can play this while I look for- Okay, play this. People don't realize New York is... I'm from New York. New York is conservative. You got a lot of people. If they tried to invade, if anybody tries to invade the United States, Come through like Seattle, please. Come up through. Don't try to come to the Eastern Seaboard. Too many roided out of towns and Irish dudes. They got baseball bats in their trunk. They're going to be like, what?

You ever been to Yonca? Yeah, yeah.

Forget about.

You're coming over with your destroyer ship. Come over here right now. I'll brain you.

Show that highlight real quick and then go into one of the clip. Go ahead and show this.

A lot of people A lot of people of color, by the way. Oh, yeah. A lot of people of color. Yeah.

I'm having a hard time finding a white guy. Okay, there's one. There's another one. Wow, look at this. Look for white people. Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, there's one.

That is white. There's a secret service. At least one of them is there.

Look at DJ T, chilling. Well, imagine that job, no secret service.

But I'm going to tell you what's wild. This is the one. So there is this. There's interviews, Rob. There's interviews where people are talking to and saying, Hey, Why are you here? Matter of fact, it's the one with the go a little lower rap. Go a little lower. Okay, right there, the pink-colored lady. No, one right there. Watch this. Play this. Are you from?

The Bronx, actually.

I'm originally from from the Bronx and from New York. I'm from the Bronx. Right here in the Bronx, New York. This is home right here.

Aoc says, If you're not a Democrat, you don't belong here in the Bronx. What do you say? I disagree with that.

I don't think she should be here in the Bronx.

I actually don't know any Democrats living in the Bronx.

Look, AOC, look at the tremendous support for Mr. Donald J. Trump. You need to tell her that she need to stay out the Bronx because look at all the people around. Everybody's here for Trump. I am a Democrat, and I belong here.

Oh, snap.

I know you're going They need to vote AOC. Donald J. Trump.

What has AOC done for the Bronx? She's done nothing for the Bronx. Nothing. Nothing's changed.

Nothing's gotten any better.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Now, I'll come to the Bronx and let her come among us people that struggle. She doesn't even know what struggling is.

Oh, snap. Puerto Rican girl going crazy.

The question becomes, why did you vote her? Why did you vote? Adam's got a good point. Go ahead, Adam.

Yeah, well, let's just see if they vote her out. But can I tie this all in? Because I'm going to pay you respect right now. You just paid him respect. This It all comes... You talked about Disney. We talked about having the ability as a comic or even as a writer to try new things out, to offend people. Two weeks ago, a week ago, we had Vivek on the podcast, and that was when it was going viral, when Ann Coulter was like, Yeah, I wouldn't vote for you because you're a Brown Indian guy.

What? Ann Coulter said that? To his face. Ann.

To his face.

Because he's Hindu and she doesn't want a non-Christian comment on it. And you know what he did? You know what he did, bro? He goes, Yeah, it's fine. I'm cool. And it made me think, because in that episode, we talked about a few things. One of the things that we played, we could probably play this clip, was Seinfeld getting booed as he was giving the commencement speech at Duke, I believe. And people laughed. He was getting booed. He goes, Hey, guys, life ain't easy. What do the Buddhist say? 70% of life is struggle? You got to have a sense of humor. Take a joke. We've seen over the last decade or so, people are so soft. They get so offended so easily. Humorless. Have a sense of humor. Why am I bringing this up to Brian Callen. I went and I said, What are the top 100 funniest movies of all time? Do you know the last funiest movie of the top 100 that was made? Of the top 100, Blazing Saddles, Old School, this, that, every funny movie. You know the last one that was made? What's that? You were in it, bro. 2009, The Hangover.

Check IMDb. Every movie, 1972, a Black Sheriff, the Blazing Saddles. Oh, my God, the history of the world. The most hilarious movies of all time. Training Place's Coming to America. 2009. What am I saying? Since 2010, no funny movies were made. We can't offend. We can't have cancel culture. We're not going to get canceled. Do you know what? They're so worried, and you have to take chances. You have to take risks. It's for people to boo you and not like you. That's what they're not willing to do.

Todd Phillips. Todd Phillips, who wrote and directed The Hangover, I don't know a couple of movies like Joker, old school, Bad Santa. Nobody knows that. Page one, rewrite. That was his movie. A genius. Todd Phillips is a genius. After The Hangover was a huge hit, you'll love this because this goes right back to Choose your enemies wisely. I said to him, I said, What motivates you, dude? Because I was in the car with him while we were driving in Montreal. He was setting up due date. So he was talking about actors. It was pretty cool to listen to him talk to the brass. I said, What is it that motivates you? And he goes, Revenge. Fuck these bitches. That's what he I go, What do you mean? I'm sorry, Todd, if I'm speaking. He goes, he goes, because he was trying to get Old School 2 written, done. Everybody was like, I'm busy. No, no, no. He was like, Oh, wait, you guys don't want to do the sequel to the best movie ever? Old School?

The That's hilarious.

How about this, guys? I'll tell you what, I'm going to write a movie called Hangover with nobody you know. I'm going to cast... I remember he called me about Zack Galfinax. He goes, Is that guy funny? I go, He's the funiest guy on the planet. His eyes make me laugh. I go, Hire him. I'm not saying he hired him because of that, but I remember. So he basically said, I'm going to, how about I write a movie on my own? And then I'll just with my buddy Scott, and then I'm just going to hire a guy named Bradley Cooper. No one knew. No one knew. I'll put this guy, Zack Galifanack, in there. No one knew. At Helm, no one knew. And then I'm going to take no money. I'll take no money. I remember I said, How much are you making? I said, I was shooting the movie. I go, How much are you make him for this? He goes, You're making more than I am. I was making like two grand or something. I was like, What? He goes, I know. I'm getting the back end. And I thought to myself, I go, You're so crazy.

You're not going to get money from the back end. Nobody knows these people. Nobody knows anybody. It's 2007. Nobody knows them. And he was like, whatever. Sorry about the old school, too, guys. So right back to that. That's what motivated me.

I wonder where Pedro is now at this point.

Let me ask you a question, though. So it has been since 2010. Carlos, my bad.

My sorry, that culture That Adam pointed out.

Okay, do you think it's going to start to change? Because we're being optimistic with the future being bright. Or does it... Because think about it. If you have a funny product, we've read a script, you read a script and it's hilarious. And yes, it's going to be art. It's going to be pushed an envelope. It has to be an undeniable thing for Hollywood, or does a new Hollywood have to be built for us to do our own shit?

No, we'll get back to it. Look, comedy and art disturbs. Comedy and art disturb. They're writing love notes. Comedy and art, they have to disturb. Art, good art, is supposed to shake you out of your complacency.

When's the first time you watched Hangover?

I watched it- Did you watch it with Bradley and everybody, or when did you watch it? Nobody's going to believe me, but I didn't go to the premiere, and I watched it. I watched it once, and I've never watched it again. Stop me you're joking. And not only am I not joking, I've never seen Hangover 2 all the way through. I can't I hate everything about what I do.

Oh, bro. Let me tell you, you for me, I'm telling you, you stole the show. I don't know if you understand this. I'm telling you, if I tell you what scenes I remember, I remember the number one scene I remember when they show up to the, what do you call it? He's like, You motherfucking with your put the hand on the face. I've seen that thing on repeat.

Well, that's why Todd started laughing so hard because I said to him, I said, Instead of being from New York, the guy was Eddie from in New York. He was supposed to be a guy like, You don't remember me? What happened? It's a different tempo. It's a little bit more macho. I said, Dude, he owns a wedding chapel. That's an Arminian. That's a Lebanese guy. That's someone who can get you anything. I can get you. I'm always selling something. Because I lived in Lebanon, I said, So in the reading, I said that he started laughing when I even did that. He started to go, Do that, do that in the reading. It's all of us like, that's where we were doing all the actors and stuff like that. When I get shot, all I did was I went,. I swore in Arabic. They all fell out. They all fell out. That means your mother's a whore. I got shot, and they all fell out, and that was it. Todd was like, That's it. Do that character. So good.

Callen. When people are like, Oh, Brian Callen. Who's Brian Callen? I'm like, I show them.

Oh, I love that guy.

It's such a memorable scene. But this is the reason, circling back to Disney and everything, the whole cultural appropriation. If this movie was made today, they were like, Are you even Romanian? Are you even Lebenese?

But let's ask that. Let's ask that. Why can't you make this movie today?

You can now.

Yeah, I think you can.

You can now. If it's funny. Now?

Yes. But what about the last 2, 4, 5, 10 years?

Because there was so much... First of all, there was so much pressure. And most importantly, please understand and remember that you could lose your livelihood and people did. And I'll give you one example. The guy who was high, high up in Netflix, what he was saying was that he was using the N-word as an example of what not to say. He was saying, we cannot say this word. And he was saying the word. And he was admonishing people about the word and why you can't use the word. A black executive, Selton, said he felt uncomfortable in the meeting, and that guy was fired publicly and very publicly just for saying the word and that you shouldn't say the word. And everyone in that room knew what he was saying. So it no longer became even about the intention. It became just the word itself. That's directly out of the universities. And you see this far left, insane and destructive and frankly, evil ideology that now started to permeate. That's why you started getting people to say she's a woman because trans women are women. You don't know that. You're just saying that because that's what you've heard and you're aping it.

You're parroting it.Was that for the movie that came over?Look, I'm going to tell you what started happening because I have friends who were creating shows. In the writers room. How about this? Somebody comes up with an idea. Okay, so you're a Syrian. You grew up in Iran, and you come up with an idea. Not a good idea. And I go like this, and I'm running the writers room, and I go, That doesn't Let's try. Well, guess what? Sorry, that's my experience. That's my lived experience. It's my lived experience, and you just devalued my lived experience. So it is going to go in. And if it doesn't go in, I'm going to stage a protest. This was what writers readers we're having to deal with.

There's no way that's what- Brother, I'm telling you, I have friends who told me, I know a friend who's a big time. Can you imagine? I'd be few.

This was a story that came out from a very, very well known, a friend of mine who's created a lot of shows. And he goes, Dude, I got to be careful in the room. I can't even tell these people that are hired. These people are just all hired there. They have no track record at all. But remember what they were doing. What is DEI? They were enforcing. What you do is you just put people in. That's what you do. You have to enforce that. You have to enforce equality. It's not equality of what? It's not equality of opportunity. It's equality of outcome.

You said, When is it going to happen again? We're going to to see it in the theaters. You talked about the hangover, the opening scene or whatever, when he goes, Paging, doctor. Starts with an F. Imagine saying that- But you know what- You know when we'll actually get? When are they going to have another hangover? When are they going to have another old-It'll be an accident. When are they going to have another Wedding Crash, another Knocked Up, another Step Brothers, another Superbad? Until that happens.

Before we transition to the next one, top three favorite comedy movies of all time.

Top three. Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Wow.

Of all time comedy.

Then your movie guy. Holy crap. Dumb and Dumber.Mine.

Is going to be very simple.Wait, wait, hold on. I think, wow, funny of all time.

Damn it. Mine's going to be simple.

Spaceballs. Spaceballs. I'm also going to put airplane. I'll put airplane in front of... I'll put airplane in front of spaceballs, and I'm not going to front...

Airplane.

Wedding Crash is up to me.

For me, it's Wedding Crash couples retreat hangover.Couples?

Patrick, listen to me. I told you, I'm not going to disappoint you. You're not saying that. I need you to go home and watch Monty Python on the Holy Grail and Life of Brian. You ever seen him?

No.

Okay, well, we have to get... I got to get you more film literate. I need help. I'm going to make you list because I need you more film literate. You're very busy, man, so you don't have time.

I get it. Listen, I'm a movie guy, but you have I have to realize I came to the States November 28, 1990. That's why I am. For me, I've skipped, guys. You tell me basketball players, 88. He's got them all. I'm 1990 is what I am. That's fair. Adam, what's your word?

The hardest I've ever laughed in a movie is in old school, is you got a dart in your neck. That scene? Yeah. Great movie. Okay. Are you kidding me? Pat, you'll appreciate. Borat?

Yeah. Great movie.

I mean, are you kidding me? You got to give it up. My favorite movie, I don't know if it's a comedy, a drama, whatever. It's like the camera guy is crying. I don't know why you're crying. Swingers.

Great, great.

Most underrated, what the hell happened to the legend of all time?I.

Think that's the goal.Vince Vaugh. Can I ask you guys a quick before we move on? That's the hardest he's left. What's the hardest moment? It doesn't have to be a movie. When's the hardest moment that you've ever laughed in your life? Do you two know? Because I'll tell me mine while you guys think. My cousin, I got a white VHS of the Jerky Boys, and I'm a child.

I'm listening to it. I knew that guy was.

Bro, I am not joking because we couldn't listen to it.

Pablo, honey.

Pablo, honey, you're watching your ass?

Come to Florida.

Guys, I'm crying. My mom runs in. She goes, What happened? She thought I was crying in pain. My cousin's like, Don't, because we weren't allowed to hear cuss words. It was the hardest I've I've never laughed in my life. Do you remember that?

I'm calling because I want to buy a small machine. Is it okay if we put some potatoes?

Put some potatoes in and put some Vaseline on the showman. If you guys haven't heard Jerky Boys, put Greatest Hits. What's the hardest you've got?

You're like, Rizzo.

Frank Crizzle.

Crizzle chest.

What do you think?

That's so good.

Go ahead, there, Cal. Frank Crizzle. I'll wrap you head in with a ratchet. It's so funny. That was incredible. That's a good call. For me, I'm just going to give a shout out to Dave Hattel. It might have been when I saw Dave Hattel when he was younger, and I'd never seen that comedy. I was like, if I got to be that, I don't know how to write that comedy. I think it was 1993, '94, and I was with my girlfriend at the time, and we were... I mean, I was dying. I He's such a genius. What got him to the dance is... Well, he's the comic, he's the comics' comic. We used to just sit there and watch him. Like, Ardiland tells a story about he would just do crazy things. It'd be like Tuesday, 12 AM at the Comedy Cell, there's four alcoholics in the room. And he'd be like, You guys are probably wondering what I'm doing here at Tuesday at 12:00 AM at the Comedy Store in front of four alcoholics. I'm not a comic. I've just lost my daughter. Nadine. Nadine. He would just do the weird things.

Just in the moment. I love it.

Was his show that he did Insomniak?

Yeah.

But he was so good. But he was so unbelievably funny.

All right, let's transition to the next story here. I saw this statistic that I don't know about you guys. To me, every once in a while, I see certain data that just gets me leveled. This thing for me was absolutely insane. Rob, can you pull up the type infertility rate WSJ? We've talked about this, but we have not talked about this specific data. I want to show this to you. Go all the way down to three charts below. Keep going down, keep going down, keep going down. If you go three charts below, are you on Wall Street Journal, Rob? Yeah, but I'm blocked. Okay, so let me send you the story here that I have because I'm not. You're blocked by the Wall Street Journal?

What happened?

Rob, what happened? What the hell do you do to them?

By the way, you know what it's about? Let me tell you what it's about. It's about how many people die per year to how many people are born every year. So you're like, okay, it's not a big deal. This number shouldn't be a crazy number here. I'm going to take a screenshot. That's not it, Rob. Hang tight before I give it to you.

This is the case with so many different developed countries.

Guys, when you see-Major, major demographic. You would think this is another country, but it's actually America is that we're looking at here. Let me see if I can even send it to you, Rob.

That's why Europe has no choice but to import all that labor. They're not sustaining their populations. And that's why people are like, Well, Europe is turning into this, that, and the other thing. Well, they're not reproducing enough to...

Watch this one here. Rob, if you can pull this up, you got both of them. I send it to you on your phone and your computer. So this chart here shows from 19, I want to say 50. Rob, did you get It's a little bit from 1930. You're pulling it up. From 1930 till today, how many kids are born every year to how many people die every year? Zoom in a little bit. Vinnie, look at this. So in 1960, roughly 4.3 kids were being born every year. And in 1960, 1.7 million people were dying every year. So your net positive was 2.6 million. Look at it today. 3.6 million kids are, 3.59, 3.6 million people born in 2023. But look at the death. This is post-COVID, by the way. We're not talking 2021, 2022. It's 3.1 million. So we went from being net positive by 2.6 million down to 500,000 more people being born than dying.Unbelievable.Unbelievable. Yeah, fertility rate for us is at 1.6.Yeah. Nobody's having kids.Nobody's having kids.

And men aren't getting married until they're 40 and 50 or not even married at all because there's access to all that for a lot. It's a disaster.

What's the risk for this? So when you look at this, I just want natural, immediate reaction. What's your first reaction when you see something like this?

In my opinion, I don't think we're to have young people who can support our older people and support our economy. I think that's what happens. That's certainly what's happening in Europe. I mean, what Germany's birth rate has been zero negative. So what they've had to do is import. That's why there are so many Turks, for example, in Germany. And so people say, well, we're losing our culture. Well, you don't have enough people to preserve your traditional culture. Your traditional culture is literally dying off. The indigenous people, quote unquote, of Germany, for example, or what you would think of as German, is simply just not able to sustain itself. So to keep the economy going, a huge economy like that, you have to bring in young people from other countries who are motivated, and that's what's going on. So when they say things like Islam is the This is growing religion in Europe. Part of that is just because a lot of young Islamic people from Islamic countries are coming in because there's work, because there's work. Nobody wants to talk about this, but in Europe, they need that labor. When you're in England, the people that are building your house are probably going to be from Poland and Hungary and Bulgaria, because that's where the work is coming from.

And then they import from other parts of the world as well.

And I'm bothered. Did you see that article, too? Because we're talking about fertility and men. And there's an article I just sent Rob on New York Post that microplastics found in testicles and blood clots are sparking health concerns. And they're saying that the microplastics are making their way into various humans and animal bodies, including testicles, and their implications for their dangers for our sperm, fertility.

Not for mine. Not for you. My sperm moves them out of the way like they're a floaty in a pool.

Four kids. Dead guys, and when they're doing their autopsies or whatever, and then dogs, they found that from cadavers of people in ages 16 to 88, they found that ours had three times more plastic in our testicles that are really dangerous levels that are affecting us having children, too. It's insane. And the photo that they showed in there, Rob, is one of the photos. It's just microscopic stuff that's sitting in our... From microwaving and plastic and water bottles as it has- That makes sense. Look at that. We eat a credit card a year. You eat a credit card? No, I thought it was a week. Maybe a week? I thought it was a week, but it's-I'm here. And it's everything. It's everything, but it's that. It's the culture. It's the...

It's very similar to the story we did about a week ago with the population.

List of 12, 13 reasons. The reasons.

It's funny because everyone had their reasons. Vinnie was like, Well, maybe because it's some jab, whatever. Everyone had their thing. I just was like, it's baby mama culture. It's feminism. What's what's going on? It's a working women. It's what's going on around the world. It's traditional values, the Everything talked about. But then there was a glaring omission on my part, and it was abortions. Who would have think that birth control, you ready? Breaking news controls birth. It's interesting. The The amount of abortions. Kanye has gone crazy.

Does that guy, Manec, you and bring this up or no? The guy from insurance? Because he said, You guys talk about what you talk about today. You guys didn't talk about birth control. I said, Manec, the animal. No, I don't believe so.

But I'll get back to you in a few days. But yeah, abortions, listen, despite contrary belief, the women are 100% of the times having the babies. So we could say all these things we want about men. Define a woman. Adam.

I don't know. You're not allowed to do these things.

It's hard You ever heard this theory? It's hard to do. You ever hear this really interesting theory? So men in prison, I think they did this study. A lot of men in prison, long term prisoners, have higher sperm counts. And also they found that They were like, a lot of men get jacked in jail. Like you lift weights, but you're not eating a lot of starchy food. But a lot of guys.

They got a lot of time on their hands.

No, it's not. This is interesting. I don't know if this is true. It's an interesting theory. Well, jail is a dangerous place. And as a man, you're always on guard and you always have to be ready to fight. And what that does is it keeps your testosterone levels spiked. It actually increases your testosterone levels. So they think maybe that's the reason people put on. I don't know, but it's an interesting theory. That might be one of the reasons they put so much muscle on quickly in jail. When you're in a dangerous situation, you're going to you're going to evolve to put, you know. And when we live in a society where you're never going to get punched in the face, you're never going to be physically assaulted because there are cameras and sometimes you will. But for the most part, most of us feel pretty safe. If you look at back in the '50s and the '60s, even the '70s, when I grew up, in the '80s, you could go to a bar and nobody had cameras out. You could get your ass kicked before anybody jumped in. And you always knew that there was a situation where you might have to use your hands.

I mean, my friends would never go out without shoes they could move in. They weren't going to go out. There was always that paranoia. And I just wonder sometimes if just the fact that everybody's got a camera in their hand, that everybody is basically always being watched. People feel a lot safer today than they did. I wonder if that has anything to do with. It's my bro science.

I like the theory, though. And maybe we could test it here, Pat. We'll put out a slack and be like, Hey, listen, if Vinnie sees you, he's going to punch you in your face. Maybe people just start getting your survival.

I'm very happy with this guy.

This guy is jacked up.

But by the way, May 31st, one year, no alcohol. It's over. He's at 33 days, I think. 34 days.

How many days? Patrick? Yeah.

On Monday, it'll be 35 days.

Is that why your face is so radiant?

I don't know, man. He's glowing.

I'm just happy to see you.

I don't drink. I don't miss it at all.

It's not like Vinnie, if I may, Vinnie admittedly had a drinking problem.

I mean, I drink- You can take Soda out of that.

Okay. Yeah.

Why don't you go ahead and take soda out of that?

I don't want to put my guy Vinnie stuff out there.

But I call him. I I call him periodically. I go, Dude, you look phenomenal. I didn't recognize him.

You know, the first time I took him out in Miami.

I tried to beat up literally his best friend and the everybody. I was trying to kill everybody.

I had a couple of girls.

I was like, Vinnie, let's be friends with a girl.

I've said this before. I'll say it again. Vinnie is One of the most talented comics ever, period. I'm telling you, I'm saying this, and it puts responsibility on him. He has greatness inside of him. And that's why when I came here to do comedy, I don't like following this guy. I can follow anybody.

I don't like following the dude. Remember the last thing we did in Evan Turf? It's incredible.

I don't like following the man. That was awesome. I can follow anybody. I followed everybody from Chris Rock to Seinfeld, you name it. I followed everybody. I don't like following that guy. I got to dig myself out of a hole. He's that funny. I'm not kidding. So we'll be at the Dania Improf.

I love it. Choose your enemy as well. I'm not your enemy, but I'm going to... Bro, bro.

But you don't much- He puts me on notice.

But can I say something, though? Can I say something about that type of time?

I want to watch him. I don't want to go back upstairs.

That's why I only open for Vinnie these days.

But Pat, and That's right. Just 30 seconds. This type of comic, though, the real people out there that are listening, to say that and do that, people do not want anybody shining in front of them before you take the stage. It's true. You remind me of Damon Wayne senior. Damon Wayne senior used to tell me, Vinnie, you go up there and you freaking kill them because you're going to make me have to step in my.

That's how I look at it. You make the show better. A hundred %. Yeah, and most people would never have you. You're actually a nightmare for anyone. And I don't care who it is. You're a nightmare because you just kill the room too much. But Rogen is the same way. You got that good energy. Rogan is the same way. Rogan wants the funiest MFs up there.

It was fun, and then he goes up at this hour.

Yeah, I mean, Andrew had this guy that came up, Mark, who told the funiest story, man. I mean, he was Fantastic. He says, Look, everybody asks me, and says, Why would you marry somebody as a... I'm telling this joke, but he says, Why would you marry somebody as a virgin? You've never been with anybody. I said, No, it's true. I've never been with anybody. He says, So how do you know if you're good and better or not? You don't know. You've only been with one girl. He says, No, listen, I don't have a problem. I come every time. My wife's got to figure it out.

I'm good at sex. I'm good at sex.

Every time.

He's got a lot. I couldn't stop. That's laughing. He was so funny. I know what I'm doing. All right, next story. Logan Paul, Prime, sued Ryan Garcia for defamation. Logan Paul is going head to head with Ryan Garcia, but not in a ring or the WW, the WW superstar. Prime Hydration, Just hit the boxer with a defamation lawsuit. The Maverick aird his frustration on social media just minutes ago. Claiming his drink company is under attack by false narratives being thrown around on social media, and it's time to take action with King Ryan being the first on the list. Today, we begin to hold those accountable who've damaged our brand for attention while we correct the narrative. Paul said on Instagram, we're here to stay and we'll continue to change the world of Hydration with bold flavors and creative innovation. In a lawsuit, Prime lays out Garcia's alleged wrongdoing, pointing out on a social media rant about how the drink will kill your guy's sick brains, mess up your guy's liver, and hurt you big time, among other harmful side effects without supporting the claims. What do you know about Prime Drink, Vinnie or Brian? What do you guys know?

I've tried it twice, and both times it was nasty. I didn't like the taste. I didn't like any... And by the way, I heard in one drink, the caffeine level is ridiculous. I can't handle that type of caffeine, but I wasn't a fan at all. Marketing and all that stuff, obviously, but what's actually in it is-Rob, can you go to the WAPO story?

I just texted it to you.

Have you heard, Patrick, because as a businessman, you'd appreciate this. I had somebody explain this. I don't know if I'm right, but I had a guy who's in the know who is a business guy. So when you have a drink like Prime, one of the things is you build recognition the way they've done a great job of doing. So without going into it, I'm probably not going to drink. My kids usually like Prime. I think for me, if it's not an organic protein shake, as you can tell, I ain't touching it or raw milk. But one of the things What they'll do is this. There are four beverage companies, what, Pepsi, Coca-Cola. I think it's Dr. Pepper and L. A, Luminary, something like that. There are four major, and they have shelf space. And on that truck, they have a slot an empty space on that truck. You buy that, you can buy space on that truck, and then you can buy shelf space to put your new drink on there. Now, watch this. This is what a lot. I'm not saying Prime does this. I'm just saying this is what some beverage companies will do.

I didn't know this. I got a beverage company. It's going to cost me, start out $250 million no matter what. I got to buy shelf space in different supermarkets. I got to buy space on those trucks to distribute that particular beverage. Now, I want to be able to say that my sales are very good. So what I'll do is I'll have, say, this beverage on the shelves. Then I hire a company to buy that to buy those drinks, to buy that off the shelves. And that is legal. I can then give a company, I think it's called, one company is called Ibotta. Ibotta? Ibotta? Ibotta? I'll give I'll give them $100 million or $10 million to go buy all of that and do these promos of buy one, get one free. Oh, wow. And that creates what you could call demand. I mean, I'm selling this and that's on my books. Now I can go and raise more money because my product is selling well. Do you know anything about that?

Yeah. And they do that with books. They do that with a lot of different things. Really? They do that with books. We were even talking I don't want to say the book, Rob, but you know what I'm talking about. They'll give New York Times best seller lists with an asterisk saying there was one order of 50,000 or whatever it is. And by the way, let me tell you what happened. There's even a company that helps you become a best seller where they have 50 buyers of the book in 50 different cities that go to show Barnes & Noble. These are guys that you pay 50. You know how you do focus group? You know the focus group model where you go, so what do you think about this? Here's 75 bucks. What do you think about this? Here's 75 bucks. And you sit through a two-hour thing. They pay you 50 or $75 to go buy the book off the shelf. You show the receipt, you bought the book, come in, and then you do what you do with the book. And then Barnes & Noble gets a order saying, wow, we sold that out all the books at 50 locations in 50 cities.

That bumps you up. There is a- Dude, that's so crazy.

And it's legal.

No, it's actually So what have you got? Oh, it's not. Meaning when you say it's legal, of course it's legal. But when they find out with the ranking that you did that, tainted permanently. Yeah.

Well, Triller. So Triller raised something of $423 million. That was the Jake Paul fight. And I guess from what I've read and what I've seen, and this guy was telling me as well, because he's in this particular part of the business, he said, I think they bought something like 220 million bots. And so And then they found out that that was the case. If you look at this, but that's why Triller now has basically got $90,000 in the bank.

See, this is why, for example-But they raise money based on-I'll bring this up to Manek. I'll bring this up to Monak. I'll bring this up to Monak to seehow this thing work. Okay, and by the way, you can put up Manek for Brian Callen's Melek. He's on Melek, you can Melek with him and ask him any questions you want to ask him. That's his QR code.

I've been having a good time with this.

The thing with Melek is user response rate. Everything is about actual activity. You can say you have people that join your website or download the app. How many are active? The key is activity. Right now, the average response rate for last month on Melek, when you ask a question, 94% of the time they respond to you, 94%, 50% of the time, the answer you get is within 24 hours. So think about that. Where, again, I can send a cold, whatever, email or any of that stuff on my neck, you get a response like this. I'll A lot of these things that come out and they try to fabricate a way to get the eyeballs, you can do that. I don't think that's what Logan Paul is doing. I think Logan Paul legit is selling a shit ton of-I believe that.

Yeah, I don't like bashing the Paul brothers. I actually like those guys because I think what they've done, I'm a fan. So I think what Jake is doing and stuff and Logan, I don't like... People love to bash those guys. I don't like... They work their ass off. But I will tell you this.

Here's what I will tell you. If you want to pull up the WAPO story, this is the part that as a drink company, you have to answer to, okay, Prime Energy has 200 milligrams. This is according to WAPO. It has 200 milligrams of caffeine in it in a 12-ounce can, which is about six times the amount of caffeine in a comparable can of Coca-Cola. Damn. Kids are drinking this. That's the problem. That's the problem. Give me those numbers again. Let me read this to you one more time, okay? Rob, you can go lower. Just type in 200, it'll go to it. Control F 200, you'll find it. It I got to go to it. Rob, why don't you go back and search this word, prime drink caffeine levels. Go on Google, type in prime drink caffeine levels, and you'll see what numbers it'll come up. Prime drink caffeine levels, right there. Zoom in. 200 milligrams, prime has 200 milligrams of caffeine in a 12-ounce can, which is about six times the amount of caffeine in a comparable can of Coca-Cola. It also has taurine, innosol, iethine, all these other things that it has in it as well as energy drink.

Nobody is saying they're not doing well. They're actually doing, I think even their revenues are over $2 billion.

I believe it. These guys, these brothers have done a great job.

But parents need to know that your kids are drinking six Cokes every time they drink a prime.

That's what parents need to know. And also, besides filtered coconut water and caffeine and all the flavor agents, electrolytes, what have you, it also could change. I don't know if you said it, PBD. Sucralose, which is an artificial sweetener that some studies have linked to DNA damage, weird, and a leaky gut, which I don't even know what the hell that means. But if it's damaging your DNA, and again, but more power to that- One thing about sucralose, that component of the drink that they put, for example, the main reason why you put that in a different sugar because it makes the flavor better.

The problem with energy drinks, if they don't taste good, people are not buying it. At all. So number one rule, as weird as this sounds, the marketers will come and tell you, you need to make sure they taste good or else you're not going to sell it. That's right. If you type in prime energy drink, top-line revenue. Prime energy drink, top-line revenue. There you go. Look at this. $1.2 billion in annual sales in two years, and that's an old story.

The number two hydration drivers.

Behind Gatorade.

Think about Gatorade is the king. That's impressive. But we were in the-That's impressive. In the PBD group chat, maybe yesterday, we were... Can I tell that story? Which one is that? About a guy who was maybe going to come on the podcast and what he talks about with what's in these drinks. He was talking about Celsius. Did you see that clip?

Oh, yeah. Tell me about it. Okay, got you.

It was Breca.

Yeah, because there's a chemical in Celucia that actually blocks the ability to break down the caffeine, right? So the caffeine stays in your body for five, six hours.

So he basically was saying, Hey, listen, we know the energy. Look, there's an energy drink war going on right there. Gatorade is the king. Prime has showed up out of nowhere. Yeah. And he basically saying, If you see the following word Cyanocoblamin. Cyanocoblamin.

You can probably play it here. That's Gary Brecker.

It's like, Dude, stay away.

Go ahead.

He's heard of a Celsius energy drink? Celsius energy drink has four times the amount of daily cyanide that a human being is meant to ingest four times. That's just one sample. So drink Monster or Bang. I mean, drink Bang, not Monster or Celsius. Bang has Methylcobalamin, this has Cyanocobalamin.

We wonder what we're putting these toxic chemicals.

You know where we get the hydrogen cyanide?

Don't make me take you to that website because you'll just get up and leave.

Do you know where we would get Hydrogen Cyanide?

Because these facilities that actually compound this P12, they don't even pay for the Hydrogen Cyanide.

You know where they get it?

Human sewage treatment plans.

It is the waste from a human sewage treatment plant.

It's called sludge. It's foamy yellow sludge.

They scrape it off the top, they dry it, turn it into a powder, ship it to a facility, synthesize it with a metal, and put it in your body.

That's not true. This is allegedly the second story.

Gary Brack is also the guy who said that the best thing you can do to melt fat off your body is to sit in icewater. And there's zero human studies to prove that. They took rats and brought them up. They almost died in hypothermia, and they lost some weight. So I'm sorry. That's a very simplified idea. Gary Brucker is not a chemist. He's not a chemist. You could say that about a lot of chemicals.

You're familiar with what he talks about? Yeah, you can say it.

It sounds like you are. That's not that relevant. He uses all these things like cyanide and stuff like that. No, sorry. I just don't buy it from him.

So would they be able to get them in trouble for saying something like that?

I don't think Celsius is necessarily bad for you. I mean, good for you. I don't drink it. I'm a coffee guy. But overall, I think the more relevant, the relevant thing is that if you have that much caffeine and kids are taking it or you have a chemical that stops the breakdown of caffeine, that's why your heart's going to be beaten for five hours. You tell me if that's good for you.

What do you think about Breca? It sounds like you follow him closely.

I just am friends with too many scientists, and especially nutritional scientists who work with the biggest athletes in the world, like LeBron James and guys who really need to see results. So you have friends that run the biggest performance sports lab in the world, and you listen to them talk. What you hear from them is things like this. Watch. If you're a scientist, you hear them use these words. Elaine Norton and those guys, they'll use words I don't know, sometimes, maybe it depends. When I hear somebody talking about, with all due respect for Gary Brekfa, I don't know him. But when you hear somebody talk about how good for you and how effective a coal plunge is at losing weight and melting fat off your body, and then they sell coal plunge's on their website, I tend to go, I just... Things that make me go, that's all I'm seeing.

The CNC Music Factory.

Yeah.there's a lot of stuff there. That's a long school reference. Again, Gary Breca, who helped Dana White, and I don't know him, and I'm sure it probably worked. Calorie restriction and all the things. God bless. And a good businessman. But I think he has a biology degree. We'd have to look it up, but I don't know that he's a scientist, and I don't know that necessarily when I hear people talk in definitive terms about certain things, I always go, especially when I have scientists friends who go, Bullshit.

That's all. Rob, go to his Wikipedia account.

Yeah.

Go to Gary Breca.

Now, Dana White is-I'm not seeing one for Gary Breca.

There's no way. There's no way he doesn't have a Wikipedia Yeah.

There it is, Rob. Good job.

They don't have it.

You ready for tonight, Rob? We got two shows. Are you ready? Are you ready, Rob?

All right.

Get your shit to your stuff, Rob.

You know his background from back in the day.

No, I know. Here we go. So the co founder of 10XL Systems, Gary Bercker, holds degrees in biology and human biology, but he is perhaps best known for his work with high-profile clients like UFC President Dave White.

So just stop for a second. So he's got his degrees in biology. Is that a B. A?

B. S. In biology.

Okay, so he's got an undergraduate degree in biology. Okay? I have an undergraduate degree in history. Don't ask me about history. I ain't a historian. I'm serious. I mean, this is where I get very... I go, This is interesting. What's your background? What did he do before this? Was he a businessman? What was his thing before this?

He was in the life settlement world.

He was in the what?

Life settlement business.

Life settlement. What does that mean?

I can tell you all about it if you want.

Life settlement is you say you have a $5 million insurance policy. Guys like him come, you can't afford to pay them anymore. That's all I need to hear.

I'm already blazing over.

Let me tell you what happens. They come and they say you're how old, 78. They'll do a testing on you. Okay, we'll buy your policy $5 million dollars for, let's just say, 20 %. I'm just giving a million bucks. We'll give you a million bucks. You give us the $5 million dollar policy. You die, they get the $5 million dollar policy. So they lost a million. We paid the premium of 50 grand every year. And then they do the math on when you're going to die and the death benefit goes to death.

Why am I going to ask that guy about health? That's not somebody I have a question.

Let me flip it on you. Let me flip it on you. And I'm not a Gary Brecka guy. This is not a guy I broke breadwood. We saw him one time at the UFC thing in the back, and that's it. I would flip it on you and would say, Why should I take advice from Rogan on Ivermectin?

You shouldn't.

But believe it or not, Rogan did a lot of good for a lot of people.

I agree with you, but I still wouldn't take my advice on anything from somebody who's a non-scientist. Joe's a comedian. He'll tell you that himself. Don't listen to me. I'm a comedian, and that's what I do first in a podcaster. So anybody who's taking their advice from comedians or podcasters, anybody who's taking their advice from somebody who's not a credible scientist who's done peer-reviewed research and human-controlled studies, you better be careful about that stuff.

But I would be careful with the other side because during COVID, we were also told to trust the science. So to me, I love what you said about the guy that said, It depends. Maybe. Sometimes. Not all the time. That's what I like as well.

Covid created a lot. I'll never forgive them. That's right. I'll never forgive them. They put my daughter in a mask for two years. People like this have lost my trust. I am right with you on that. I was against this mask policy and shutting down the economy from a bunch of bureaucrats who don't pay a price for being wrong, who've never started a business in their life, who have no idea what it is to build a brand over 30 years, who have no idea. They're just bureaucrats. I have a huge problem with that, which is why I'm a conservative. I believe in small government, not a a giant, massive bureaucracy with no accountability. We can get into that. What I'm talking about here is I've seen that guy talk about a wand that you can put in water to hydinate your water. I'm sorry. A wand? A wand, sir. You want to hydrogenate. Bring it up. You want to hydrogenate your water with a nitrogen wand. These are the kinds of things that make me a little... There it is. Click on what the guy said. That's my boy right there, Lane North. Click on that.

Lane's a PhD and a world... Watch this. It's Friday, and so you know what time it is. Stop for a sec. World champion power lifter right now holds the world record of power lifting, and he's a PhD, and he's a guy who says, The reason I don't have a yacht is I'm never going to tell you that this is a catch-all. This is all good. I'm not going to say sugar is bad for you across the board. I'm not going to do that. There are a lot of studies that show this, that, and the other thing.

So go ahead. Go ahead and play from the moment it starts. Watch this. A limo.

What this will do inside this stick is something called mother water.

Takes a year to make this. I travel with this, so this thing doesn't break.

You can either use it to stir a glass of water for about 30 seconds, or you can stir this entire pitcher. What it'll do in about 30 seconds is it will restructure the water. Remember, water doesn't just have chemical properties.

It's got physical properties. Have you ever seen any of the research on praying over water or actually speaking to water or playing music for water?

We now know beyond shadowed out that water will organize into these beautiful hexagonal structures.

It's not only more hydrating, it actually changes the charge and makes the water more viable. This will restructure and make the water what we call coherent.30.

Seconds.it's.

Coherent. I thought we were done with this with Any pelts.

Okay, guys, guys. I don't like charlatans and people that make it up.

I really don't. But at a certain point, when a guy is stirring a wand in water, saying it makes it more coherent and changes the structure of the water.

You deserve to get scammed.

I'm sorry. My hands, I can change. He's selling that. He's selling that. Did you buy that?

No, of course you didn't. So why would you buy this?

Yes, water organizes itself into a structure based on hydrogen bonding. But if you could change the structure of the water significantly, it just changes its state.

It either goes in the gaseous form or it goes into ice, crystalline structure.

Changes the charge.

Based on what? You can probably write that, Ron.

I understand.Guess what?I'm turning my wand.

I've never done that in my life. Have you? I've never done that. I've never said, I have an app right now that's going to change your aura. Where is your pain? In your shoulder? Just hold on for a second. Yeah, on his back. I have to hold this there a sec. No, lick your lips. And then we have to get you in black panties, actually, because I got to... You know, like, shut up. Come on, dude. Come on. There's a limit now, Rob.

What was the term for in the Old West when the guy would sell you the elixir?Snake oil sales.Snake oil sales.

The water becomes more coherent.

Is that where you're going with this?

The water becomes more coherent, sir.

He sold a lot of guys out of your friends. He sold a lot of All I'm saying, Patrick, is we got to look at the evidence.

We're on the same page. What you're saying is, I don't know, sometimes maybe- Maybe, allegedly- Things that make me go.

That's all I'm saying.

You don't remember, Eddie?

That's all I'm saying. I don't want to cause any problems.

All right, let's go to a different story here, Rob. Can you pull up the James Comey, his reaction, losing his mind with us? We have to vote for Biden based on what Comey is saying here. Go to and play this clip. Watch this. Look at him. He just loses it.

Are you concerned that it may get a test unlike any other if Donald Trump is reelected? When you think about a second Trump administration, what do you think the implications would be for the FBI?

Serious, for the Justice Department and the FBI, because Trump is coming for those institutions.

He knows their power, and I think he has regrets that he didn't work hard enough to corrupt them last time.

So he's coming for them, and that's a danger for all Americans. He's going to put people in positions in those organizations He didn't have All-Stars the last time.

He'll have the bottom of the barrel this time. But people who will want to do his will, and that should worry every American.

This election matters because of a reason like that.

People have to participate.

You cannot sit on the sideline.

I don't care how you feel about Joe Biden.

You must vote for him because the consequences on the other side are too severe. The MAGA Mafia. Look at this. That's not biased, is it?

Dude, that makes me want to go for him. But what do you think about it? Because I'm going to go in on the FBI. Go for it. Go ahead. First of all, for everybody that remembers who this scumbag is, protected. Yeah, he brought up the story about Hillary, but the whole thing with Trump and the collusion and everything. I want everybody to remember who James Comey is. He's a scumbag, and that's my humble opinion. I don't know if you guys remember the FBI, Pat, if you don't mind, he's a part of the same FBI that nobody trusts anymore. From Peter Strouck with the Russia collusion with everything. Remember when they did the raid at Mar-a-Lago, the FBI, the actual agents, they didn't want to do the actual raid, all right? Merritt Garland overrode them, and he added that he wanted to add deadly force, okay? They're looking for documents, but if you're looking for deadly force, that means you want a gunfight. You want something to happen. You know secret service is there.

You know Donald Trump- What you're saying deadly force, actually, for audience that doesn't know, you want to tell them what you mean by the deadly force?

Well, I'm saying The deadly force.

So Mara Garland was-You want me to show the words? Yes. Can you pull this up so I can just have any go? Okay. New Doc reveals FBI was authorized to use deadly force during Mar-Lago raid. Independent journalists like Julie Kelly reported on new information unsealed. As part of a legal case, Donald Trump is fighting regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents, which included proof that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force when necessary on both Trump and secret service during their Mar-Lago raid. By filing an exhibit in motion to supreme evidence from 2022 Mar-Lago raid, Trump has inadvertently discovered new information about FBI's permission to use force, even deadly force, against him and his secret service. That's the story that came out.

It even Trump-Can I tell you I really know. Don't you feel so nice you're being gamed? When I hear this, I think to myself, the FBI overall, first of all, if you really see it, it is made up of very conservative people and real patriots, actually.

Like the majority of them? Oh, yeah.

You'd be very surprised. I mean, the FBI is an outstanding institution with an unbelievable track record. Of course, like any institution, you've got rogue actors, you've got people that make mistakes. But for the most part, most people would probably say the FBI in a lot of ways, is a pretty impeccable institution in a lot of ways. And the people in that institution, they're very conservative. They tend to be very conservative.

Brian, it's crazy. I'm going to disagree because from what I've seen from the past seven years, from how they treat Hillary, how they treat conservative presidents or potential presidents to Hillary and all them, Peter struck and all them. And you're right, the internal, the ages, mind you, I know a guy that I talked to on Monique, Brian. He's one of us. I agree that there's some. But as the institution, we can go all the way back to- I agree.

I'm not saying that there are... Obviously, any institution is going to have corruption. It's going to have- Of course. I think what I worry about with this report is I say to myself, Hold on, am I being gamed? In other words, if you're an FBI agent and you send agents in, they have guns, the mandate always is if you are attacked or shot, you have the ability to use deadly force. So there's no such thing as an FBI operation where they're not allowed, that they don't have the potential to pull a gun and shoot you. One thousand %. So that's what I worry about when I see this. I go, Am I being gamed here? Is somebody on the other side trying to use this to whip up a whole bunch of craziness.

But here's the thing, Brian, you are going to the ex, the President of the United States's private house, okay? You know for a fact, their secret service and private security. Donald Trump has... Dude, we've been there. It's massive. It's ridiculous. And Thank God they have it like that. But the reason they're looking for the fight, that's my opinion. The reason that they rated it is because they were trying to look for the crossfire hurricane documents, which Donald Trump said, if he's elected for the 47th President of the United States, all those documents, this is the Russia collusion thing, have incriminating evidence on Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the CIA that's going to show treasonous shit that they did to the country. No wonder why they're wheeling out James Comi. It's all timing. They bring them out to be like, Everybody back. Scared, scared, scared, scared. I hope people aren't dumb to realize what's happening, to go to the President's house and say... Because the regular agent, and Rob, you have this video. Senator Hawley is drilling AG, Merrick Garland. And it's pretty revealing on why he did it. I know what you're saying about the blip.

I don't know. I'm just saying, I appreciate and love your cynicism here and your question. Because as an American, you should always be asking this question.

I'm not one of those. I don't trust. I'm not saying I don't trust. Like you said, there's good people. But, Brian, there is a reason Donald Trump cannot win. I've said this before. They cannot let this guy in. The ex-FBI head of FBI, is panicking and saying, You have to vote for this other guy. This is Senator Holly, who I freaking love. He's one of the true ones, going after him about the raid.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Attorney General Garland, you said in our last exchange that it's your practice to defer to FBI agents in the field when it comes to investigations, apprehensions of subjects. I was interested, given your answer to read in this morning's Washington Post, that the FBI is saying that you overruled them when it came to raiding ex-President Trump's personal residence. Washington Post reports this morning, showdown before the raid, that senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search, resist resisted doing so as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump's permission to search his property. These field agents wanted to shutter the criminal investigation altogether in early June, the Post reports, but they were overruled.

Because they I have more concerns.

By main.

So I guess in light of your earlier testimony just this morning, my question is, how often do you overrule FBI field agents for political purposes? I've skimmed that article.

That's not an accurate reflection of what the article says, and I'm not able to comment on the investigation. My comment earlier was about tactics on the ground in particular cases. Wait, you said it's not... I'm reading to you from the article, Senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump's permission to seek his property, according to four people who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive investigation. I love hard democracy. I wanted to describe the investigation. I will say as a general matter at a high level of generality, that in my experience, long experience as a prosecutor, there is often a robust discussion And in the end, it's encouraged among investigators and prosecutors. Attorney general, my time is very- I love that. Yes, and you made the decision. I did.

That's right. You said you did.

No, I'm sorry. What I said was I approved the decision. So you didn't make the decision to raid? I approve the decision to seek a search warrant after probable cause with- Overrueling the FBI agents who did not want to do so. Did you talk about this with the White House? The memorandum does not- I like calling it. Please tell me. Washington Post article does not say what you're saying. I'm sorry. I'm not able to describe this in any further detail. Well, I think given that, Mr. Chairman, I'll just ask that this entire article be entered into the record.

You know this from smart Ted Cruz. We can read for ourselves.

I invite people to go and look. It says exactly that FBI field agents did did not want to conduct the raid, and they were overruled by DOJ. It doesn't seem to me, attorney general, that the FBI has a lot of confidence in you, because what they're doing, clearly, is trying to distance themselves from your decisions. They're out there leaking left, right, and center and saying, It wasn't us. We didn't want to do it. He made us do it. What's that say about their confidence in your leadership? The previous senator said that they're leaking all in favor of the left. Now you're saying they're leaking all in favor of the right? I'm asking you my question. Answer my question based on this evidence. Don't dissemble, attorney general.

Time has expired.

That's why- Answer my question. Time has expired.

He won't. Brian, that goes to your point. That's exactly what's happening right there. Yes, there are amazing agents. He's a dog. Yeah, I love him. There's amazing agents. They are conservative. He's a dog. But, Brian, what do you do when you have the conservative good agents that are trying to open their mouths, but the leader of the organization is a scum man? You know what I'd say? What?

That is democracy at work. It's never been any different in our Republic. And as long as we have that, as long as we have back and forth between right and left or Democrats and Republicans, we are A-O-K. And you know why? It keeps government grinding at a very, very slow, laborious pace. You want government going, One step back, because they stay out of our lives. Checks and balances. You want checks and balances? The founding fathers wanted that right there, yelling back and forth, holding each other accountable, making you look stupid. I'll make you look stupid. Debate. And what happens? We just waste a lot of time in a chamber. Yes. So the rest of us can get on, make our money, not get taxed to the gills, and keep on going.

I think that's a very good point. For those of us who don't remember Komi, the last thing that I remember from Komi, if you remember this, was in 2016, Trump got elected. There was a meeting in the oval office. You could probably find this. Komi is 6'8. Yeah, he's a big-He ain't a small dude. No, he's a big- He's the former director of the FBI. He was preceded by Bob Mueller, a. K. A. The Mueller Report. And the new director of the FBI since Trump is Christopher Ray. There's this meeting. And in the meeting, 6'8, James Comey is trying to blend in with a blue curtain. Can you punch it? Is this the picture? Yeah, that's so funny. Trying to blend in. And what happens is, by the way, James Komi is a lifelong Republican, but he's also one of the never Trump Republicans. In 2016, after his firing, basically right after this meeting, he switched to independent. He's like a Bush establishment. You talked about institutions. He's an institutionalist. He's an establishment Republican. That's who he is. Now he's officially an independent. What's my point? After this, the story with Komi was that Trump asked for what?

What's the one thing that Trump asked for from Komi? His loyalty. And he said, Sir, I cannot promise you undying loyalty, but I can promise to always tell you the truth. You'll always get the truth from me. I like that. And he got fired. And do you know what the book he wrote was called? A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.

But I like that Komi said that, Adam. Because you do? Yes. Because the FBI director cannot be loyal to the President. The FBI director has to be loyal to the law. This is not rule by man. This is rule by law. Very, very important distinction in democracy, guys, is that you cannot You have a man setting the rules. The President is responsible to the law and is under the law. You need to preserve that. I don't think that because... Remember, Comey is the one who's blamed for making Hillary Clinton lose the election. He opened that investigation.

One week before the election, floppy emails.

He doesn't come out. Trump doesn't win. You know what it's like? It's like this. It's like if Twitter allowed for the New York Post to stay, Biden doesn't win. Exactly. That's how close this was.

Yes. Hillary hates Komi and Trump hates Komi. Yeah, but I think- Hillary probably hates him more about it.

Yes. And so what I think is, again, I don't think you're a bad person if you're a conservative and you have big problems with Trump, right? You're allowed to be a conservative and say, I think Trump is a con man or whatever it might be, and have a problem with his character, and have a problem with the fact that he's all about Trump and not about the higher principles. That's a legitimate argument you can make. I think we have to be careful about that. I do also think that the stakes are very high, and I think the fact that in a lot of ways, Biden has been hijacked by the radical left is a very big problem. I find that to be a much bigger threat than, say, a narcissist in the White House like Trump. Frankly, I think Trump is very funny. I think he's got a pretty good command of foreign policy. I think he has a very good command of the economy. I just do. That's my personal opinion. I got other problems with the guy, but I'll take him probably over somebody who I think is probably pushing. I mean, Biden is It doesn't just have a stutter.

He does seem to be having some cognitive issues. Watch when, please watch when he walks anywhere, his staff creates a phallus. They're like, hey, they're There might be a strong wind. We got to make sure we wait until the wind dies. I'm not joking.

I will say one thing about Komi, though. Komi is, if you were to go the last five years, people that you can't figure out, right? Think about the people that you can't figure out that are complicated. Komi is on the top five list. You can't really figure him out because he's the reason why Trump is President. Yes. Think about it. Pfizer vaccine, announced as the vaccine two days after the election is over with. What if they came out four days before? What if vaccine was announced by Pfizer a day before before election, who would have said, I got it done?Operation Warp Speed.Trump. So Trump, so that hurt him, right? What if New York Post Twitter? To me, Komi is an interesting guy. Now, having said that, when he's saying in that meltdown, saying, We have to be careful because if he comes in, he's going to replace this and he's going to replace that. Why are you worried?

Exactly.

What's your worry? Why do you care? What is it such a big concern of yours right now? You did your part. Salute. Good for your service. Go make your whatever money you're making per year. Why shouldn't we be looking at what Ray is doing? Or Merrick Garland. Oh, I approved it. Oh, no, I didn't approve it. Or they're going against you. Or they're not going against you. Why? No, the part in the last two years, in the last 12 months, that in my lifetime of living in America that's very weird is actually seen because historically, you lived in Iran, the government decides who wins and who doesn't win. They're going to destroy the opposition. Putin, what does Putin do? You think Putin uses the Department of Justice? What do you think? We think DOJ here. Do you know how he uses the DOJ?

You get poisoned.

I'm actually being very serious with you. What do you think the DOJ in Russia looks like? Oh, my God. So The only thing that's very different about the last twelve months, we actually are seeing what it looks like when the President uses the DOJ against you. We learned about it that Obama did that, but we didn't fully believe it. I agree with you, Patrick. I don't know.

That's a big difference.

The last twelve months is like, Hey, wait a minute. Not cool with this, bro. I agree. So dismantle that entire thing is what I would say.

I think also you've got these very creative DAs, and they are doing whatever they can. You've got Fannie Willis, you've got Alvin Bragg with that ridiculous case. This case with Alvin Bragg, where that's a misdemeanor, paying hush money to a porn star, and you're saying that influenced the election. Where is this? In your chief, your number one witness is Cohen, who's a known purger, went to jail for it. What are we talking about here? That is a misdemeanor, by the way. It's a misdemeanor, writing checks to a porn star to keep her quiet. That's not even a... And you've got Alvin Bragg in New York who's shooting it up to a a felony while he isn't even prosecuting real criminals on the street who mug people. So I agree. My biggest worry here is that the Justice Department, very creative DAs who make no zero Bones about saying that they are far left candidates, usually put in place by people like Soros and stuff, who are doing whatever they can to use the legal system as a weapon to essentially put this guy in jail for the rest of his life. Or at the very least, have him stuck in court where he can't campaign.

Trump right now can campaign one day a week. Do you know that? Wednesday. You know the rest of the time? He's in court. Really? Yes. So you tell me. So now that's what I worry about, to your point. I've Have you ever seen this before. This is what other countries do, where every president now has to worry, and I promise you the Republicans are going to do it to a Democrat. Every president now has to worry about spending the rest of their life in court and going bankrupt.

And that's why when When I say, I think Merrick Garland overriding and saying, I want deadly force, to me, that is an attempted assassination attempt because you are trying to tell them, Guys, go in there and get these documents. If you even have any hesitation, you just start shooting.

You're putting words in. I don't know if that's true, Vinnie. That's the only thing I'm saying. What?

That you authorize-Yeah.

I think what I'm saying is that be careful because we might be getting gamed. If you really knew the whole story, you might be like, Oh, damn, I shouldn't have said it. I don't think that happened. I I actually don't. I don't think that's what's really going on. I think we might be looking at this technical law that's now being blown up for political purposes.

Okay. And by the way, this is what I'll say. This is what I'll say on why I lean towards what Brian is saying here is sometimes in insurance policies, can you pull up the terms and conditions agreement for social media companies? Have you ever seen this? Have you ever seen the terms and conditions for social media companies? Just type it in and then go to images. It's crazy, right? Well, you have to see, believe it or not, the person that's the longest, the contract, if you look it up, social media. Can I give a prediction? Who's the shortest?

Tiktok. Can China use all your data? Sure. Click here. Boom.

Do you know who's his longest? Microsoft. So anyway, there's an image that shows how long it is there. I found it. Rob, I'll send it to you. You guys have to see this visual because it's a visual thing. Just pull up when I'm texting you, Rob. And where I'm going right now with this is the following. Sometimes you keep adding stuff to a contract and an agreement that you always reuse. So the way I would want to see this is the final. This is when I'll lose it if I see it. If the last 50 times you rated someone, and in there never said use of deadly force, but it is in this one problematic. This is where the people who are supporting... This is terms of service. Look at this. I think the longest one is Microsoft. Keep going down to see how They are. Look at this. Keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on, keep going on. Second to the right is Microsoft. Microsoft keeps going. That's Microsoft.

Look at the Microsoft. Keeps going. They have the longest one, by the way. But sometimes you just add this stuff in there after a lawsuit, you had it again. We killed that person. But you know what? Why don't we put in the terms and condition that if the FBI accidentally does, well, guess what? Use of deadly force permission was given, right? So a guy doesn't go to jail. If someone who's a lawyer employer who actually is able to find out the last 50 times they rated what terminology has been used, and it's been used, fine. Cool. If not, let a rip. Let a rip. If you only isolated the contract on this specific case. That's right.

This happened to me. Caa was my agent. And when you go and you go to a club, you do a corporate gig, you have a rider, right? You have a thing on what the artist needs. Now, I I get to this corporate gig and the woman comes in out of breath and she goes, I'm so sorry. I go, what? She goes, we can't find this a freestanding armoire. And I go, what's an armoire? She goes, an armoire.

You mean from Seinfeld?

Yeah, hanging your closing. I said, an armoire? Well, I'm doing standard. She goes, yeah, but your rider, we have an armoire and we have the sandwiches. And I go, I don't have anything in my rider. A rider? What rider? I don't ask for anything. Nothing. Yeah, my rider says nothing. And she goes, we have in your rider says you have to have a free standing mirror. You have to have an armoire and you have to have a plate of sandwiches and then a couple of other things. And I went, what my agent had done by accident is he had taken someone else's rider. Oh, wow. They didn't erase this for years, bro. So I didn't know. I never even noticed this. I'm not eating those sandwiches. Are you kidding me? So I was like, I've been the biggest a-hole on the planet. They've been getting this thing, and they've been trying to run around an armoire.

We got to get deep up for my suit.

What is an armoire? It's It's a free-standing closet. It's like a closet. It's a big wooden thing.

To hang your stuff. Armoire, you show me what an armoire.

How do you spell an armoire?

Can you imagine doing this?

You know what the Seinfeld episode that he did about an armoire? That's what I need?

I need that? Bro, I'm in a hotel in the convention area where they're trying to get that thing.

I don't need that, bro. Alan, tell me you know the Seinfeld episode about the Armoire?

No.

Rob, one of the best episodes.

The That's a $4,000 piece of-Armoire. This is what I had no idea.

But that's the part. I think this is why it's important to do some digging on this. Any lawyers watching, dig it, me, me, me, me, The R-Code right there, you can connect them. Right there, you see it.

Guys, let me ask you a question, and I've never asked you this. I want to know, do you think it's feasible or possible, it's actually happening right now, that if the left, the really far left, the deep state, had an opportunity to take out Trump, would they take it? Is there anything, do you think, in your heart of hearts, because of everything that's happening about it? I have one correction, but go ahead. But, Brian, from what I'm saying, they cannot let him win from 2016 till now. Look at what they're doing. The lawyers, the judges, the Adam the other week was like, Fannie, you think the courts and the judges? Yes, I do, because they all are bought and paid for. Do you think if they had an inkling, an opportunity to take this guy out, because I think if it was the '60s and only Sapruder, 1,000 %, they would have tried it already. You I think it's...

So the founding fathers, especially James Madison, when he wrote the federal papers with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, I believe, which is considered one of the great ideas of philosophy. I love what Callen does. It gave birth to the Constitution, guys. I mean, it's... So what was James Madison? What was he spending most of his time worrying about. Faction. How do you keep a... Powerful factions from forming in government? And then finally, one faction that was more ruthless, smarter, and maybe even more violent, taking over all the other factions. And now you've got basically a mob, a mafia-like structure in your government that's running everything. How do you stop that? That was his greatest contribution was that he figured out a way to create these things called checks and balances. So we don't have factions grow. So the founding fathers knew that, of course, you will always have ambitious people in power. And what do ambitious people in power do? Whatever they have to to stay in power. Let me quote Lord Acton, powercorrupts an absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human beings, everybody in this room, all of us would be the same way. You got to remember that about your own personality, that I have a way of, I know how I want to make the world, and I would be, we can't have this.

We can't have that. Then you look at my search history on my Instagram, and it's animals eating animals. It's armoires. Armoires galore. My wife was like, Why do you have these women with these impossible tits? I was like, I don't know. I fell down. I faked an injury. I was like, Somebody got I don't know. I don't look at that stuff. It was so embarrassing. I'm an old man. I'm disgusting. But the point is that the founding fathers knew that. That, yes, they will try to kill you.

I want to transition to the next story. I want to transition to that. I agree with you.

You didn't write anything I wrote down.

I'm going to go to the next story. But by the way, no, for what it's I actually really like the position Callen took because Callen went to the reasonable side, tried to get all the information before jumping a conclusion, assuming that automatically it's that. I want to know what's in the agreement, but I want to go to the next story. I got a few more stories to go through here. Jamie Dimon, check this out. America's most powerful banker issue was ominous warning about the US economy. Jamie Dimon warned that a hard landing for the US economy is possible, noting, Could we actually see one, of course, and express concerns about stagflation, which he described as the worst outcome, which inflation rising high unemployment, and slow growth. He remarked, The odds have been higher than other people think. And noted similarities to the 1970s economic conditions. Dimon highlighted ongoing economic challenges, stating unemployment has been below 4% now for a year and a half or two years, and added that despite a potential recession, consumers are in pretty good shape. However, he warned that inflation is stickier than people think and suggested that interest rates might still increase a little bit due to persistent fiscal and monetary stimulus.

Okay, this is the same guy that just announced that he will be retiring fairly Daily soon. Not something that his timetable isn't five years anymore. It's a lot shorter than that. He's 68 years old. I mean, some people at one point were talking about potentially this guy running for president. This guy's a pretty heavyweight guy. I vote for him. What do you think about Jamie, and what do you think about what he's saying with the economy?

I always think, and I'll ask you a question with this, I always think that no matter how good you are as an economic animal, trying to predict something with that many moving parts over a period of time, you're always going to fall short in one way or another. And so I think when you are an investor, you should always assume, err on the side of caution and assume everything's going to go to shit. That's why you hedge your bets. But so I always, no matter who it is, even if it's Jamie Dimon, I'm going to listen to it, but I'm probably going to take it with at least a grain of salt. I'm not saying it's not right, but really trying to predict something with that many moving parts, an organism as complex as the US economy, which is I don't know how many trillions of dollars. You think about that. What is it? A five trillion dollar economy? Do you know how long ago a billion seconds was? 32 years ago. Okay, so a trillion seconds, I think is 32,000 years ago. That would be how much a trillion dollars is. Just think about that for a sec.

So that's a trillion seconds. That's how much money a trillion dollars is. So you're dealing with a huge thing. So let me ask you this question. You've done very well as an economic animal, man. And how much, how right have you been in your predictions?

51 %. Thank you. Oh, you're kidding me. No way.

Thank you for that honest answer. No, no way. And you're a smart dude who has made his money.

No, I mean, to me, everything is like, look, obviously, what I know I can bet on that I have 90 % confident in is whatever I operate. Anything I operate, I got confident in. Okay? So if anybody thinks the the future doesn't look bright is because you don't have confidence in your ability to work, improve, and strategize. If somebody is willing to work, treat people fairly, work their asses off, keep trying to find ways to recreate themselves and improve them, it's impossible for you not to be optimistic about the future. I don't know if that makes sense. The number one step of where confidence for a person should be coming from, that everything's going to work itself out, is in your abilities to improve and figure things out. That's one. Two, let's talk finances, things we have no control over. Remember how I said there's a handful of people that are part of it, you can't figure them out, where they are? And I said, Komi is one of them. This is one thing that's happened in the last four years with the economy that's weird. Almost every single time we've ever printed money, gold's gone up, and not by a little bit.

It's gone up a lot, every time we print money. This time around, we printed money, gold didn't go up. Now, I had Dan Mangino on here yesterday, and we're having a conversation with He said, Well, because the money that would typically go to gold as an asset class went to Bitcoin, which he may not be wrong, by the way. He may not be wrong because Bitcoin now as a market cap itself is a trillion dollar market cap. So what if there was no Bitcoin? Where does that money go to? Where do libertarians typically put their money in gold? So it's an interesting breakdown to see. Again, the last few years, it's been so fast. It's hitting so fast that we're watching and thinking, Man, this is That's exactly what's going to happen. That's exactly what's going to happen. And it hasn't happened yet. The other one that's complicated is the following. Mortgage rates have been high. 7% for how long now? Year and a half that the rates have been gone up, and they haven't lowered them. Whatever the timeline is, how come there's not been a crash in real estate yet? Why is that?

Why haven't properties dropped 25 % or 20 %? And you know what's the one of the things that the argument that we brought up yesterday is, hey, when you print as much money as that we printed in the last few years, that money's in something. It's in circulation. So maybe everything just went up 40 %. So even if there's a crash, maybe right now we are experiencing a 40% crash, but we don't see it and feel it because there's 40% more money circulating in a marketplace. Maybe we are having a 40% crash. These are the things that ever since we started printing money in '08, the way we did, and that's become a habit, the way of measuring and predicting the economy has changed drastically. So interesting. So that's the part where, Ray Dalio has been saying for how many years when he wrote, When did Ray Dalio write Principles? When did we read Principles? Five years ago? Was it 1920? What year would you say?

Love him.

You know how many years he's saying the next great depression is on its way? Yeah. This is a $20 billion guy saying the great next depression is on its way. He's been wrong for how many years now?

He's been wrong for it. That's what I- He's also the guy that said cash is no longer king in 2019. And then COVID happened. All of a sudden, cash is king.

You know what I like about him, though? The one thing I took from him, he goes, Can't beat the market. I beat the market for a long time. Can't beat the market. Just keep that in mind over the long haul.

If I can add to this. When these people make these predictions or give their forecast, I always ask two things. What's their level of credibility and who's their loyalty to? We talked about the loyalty with Trump a second ago. All right, let's go through the list. Ray Dalio, high credibility, loyalty, Bridgewater capital. Okay, he's one of the top hedge fund guys in the world. You have someone like Jamie Dimon, high credibility. Who's his loyalty to? Chase Bank of America. Then you have other guys like, all right, so Robert Kiyosaki, he makes predictions all the time. Who's his loyalty to? To his brand. He's also selling books, courses. He predicts doomsday type stuff. And then you have these extremists like, what's that? Dent, Harry Dent, this guy. He came out in 2023. This year, mark my word, it's all going 90 %. It's done. It's over. He's a complete doomsday economic prepper type of guy. Yeah, the economy, the stock market was up 25 %. Where are you at, Harry? So what there are crashes all the time, aren't there? You talked about these snake, but crashes is different. 50 % crash, 25 % crash. It's different.

90 %, he said. Do you remember that? Was that the number? Yeah. So what's there? You talk about snake oil salesman we just talked about in the last segment. There's people that you can trust. There's people that have loyalty, credibility.

I don't know where this guy is. I think it goes back to the same thing. People that are like... Gary Breca, he had a problem with at the beginning. We're going back in for why? Because it's like, I know. It's like, that's the problem. So there's some people like that in finance as well. No, look, the key in life is, man, you're not going to get all your decisions right. Everything in life is like shooting free throws. You just want to keep going up 60% of the time. You're right with your parenting style, 70%, If you're in the 60 to 80% mark, you're doing good. You're getting better in life. But that's not-You can make a lot of money selling. You're going to... But this is the part of it.

I was a 90% guy.

Think about it. Were you really? Yeah, free throw shooter. You were a 90% free throw shooter.

Yeah, not a great three-point shoot.

Patrick, the question is, who was in your face when you were taking those shots?

Yeah, I mean, listen, my L was on the side. Free throw, nobody. All right, we got a couple more stories here before we wrap up. All right, let's go to 50 Cent and Ditty. I don't know how close you're following this story. I'm curious to know what your thoughts are going to be on this. So let's go through this. By the way, for those of you guys that are texting, 47 left. Out of 250, 47 left. Go to vtmerch. Com. Get your new green hat. Memorial Day weekend, 47 left before they sell out. Okay, so pull up the Cameron. Camron. Camron. Tells you how much I listen to Camron. But to pull up the Camron video here. Vinnie's telling me he was a respected rapper. Who is this guy? This guy is a respected rapper in New York.

He's both rapper, Dipset, Jay-Z. Dude, he's as hip hop, New York rap as it gets.

Okay, I love it.

He had a couple of big songs in the '90s. When he's opening up the drink, maybe, I don't know if you know exactly where it's at or not. Right here. Go for it. Play the clip. Watch. It's very uncomfortable. She's asking him about what happened with Diddy in the Apology video. Go for it.

Can you tell us a little bit more about that?

I mean, is Is there something known in the industry about how Diddy treated his artist?

I'm going to get some cheeks after this horsepower drink.

Some cheeks. You know what that means?

I'm just going to do what Mace said. Do you think she knows what that means?

Yeah, she knows what it means. Look at her face. She's so disappointed. Mace no Puff.

I appreciate what Mace said, and of course, that's my brother. If he felt that way, then he felt that way. I can't really tell you how Puff moves or anything like that. Mace may know better than me because he was signed to Puff. I wasn't. But my show does come on at 08:00 AM Eastern on YouTube. It's called It Is What It Is. Make sure you all check it out. I might get some more information out of Mace from there, but for me to tell you how Puff acting with that, I don't know. I never was signed to him.

Yeah. What about the industry in general? I mean, so many people have pointed out that Diddy couldn't get away with this stuff if there weren't a lot of people protecting him. Do you think that's the case?

Who the talent agent for this joint? You think I'll be sitting around watching what Diddy do and all this? I didn't know this was a Diddy joint that I was inviting me to. Who booked me for this joint? I don't be sitting around watching Diddy and all that.Yeah, come on, man.

Thanks for joining us. Thank you for your time tonight.

Thank you for having me. You enjoyed.

You enjoyed.

That poor woman, she's like, Oh, God. I was going to get some cheeks.

I'm going to get some cheeks after this.

Yeah, he sounds... Yeah, okay.

What do you think about the whole scandal? What do you think about the whole Ray, Diddy, everything that's got an apology, Cassie?

I think Diddy is a bad guy, and I think, I'm sorry, but I've had my issues with the me too thing. But also when you have that many women with the same story and you have a video of you beating a girl up like that. You're a scumbag. And then you have this apology, which is all about him. You notice his apology had nothing to do with her. It had all to do with him. Me, me, me, me, me, I, This, I that, I that. And again, when you see people like this in Hollywood, when they do this stuff, there are many, many, many stories over many, many, many years of this guy being not such a good person. And I'm not just talking about, even if you didn't hear about the sexual stuff, it's more about him as a business guy, him taking credit for things. Hype Williams. Hype Williams. A friend of mine worked with Hype Williams and P. Diddy back in the '90s. And Hype was the guy who directed all those music videos. When those music videos showed up on MTV back in the day, P. Diddy was put on those videos as the director.

My friend walked up to Hype at a party and said, Hype, I was there. P. Was walking around with a megaphone talking once in a while. You directed it. That was your vision. You did everything. And Hype's the artist. And Hype went, I can't even talk about it, man. I can't even... That's what he did. I can't even talk about it. And walked away. I heard that story, I don't know, 20 years ago, whatever I've never forgotten it. And I see this guy releasing doves for Jennifer Lopez. It's all about him. It's always about him. He buys his 16-year-old Maybach. It's all about him. The guy has no values, really. It's all about him. Whether he's given his kid a present, whether he's honoring his wife by releasing doves. I've never seen a bigger narcissist in my life. He's a pathological narcissist, not a good guy.

Again, maybe- You ever had interaction with him? You ever met him?

No, I've heard things and stuff, I never went to his party.

You ever heard things from people that are close to them that you don't want to give the names?

Yes. Yes, the answer is yes. I know a lot of things. Yeah.

But how crazy of a thing have you heard?

The reason I don't talk about that is, I don't, again, I wasn't there. I don't know. But I saw that video. I saw that. That's all I need to see. Well, all I got to see is something like that. And I believe everything she's telling me. Everything.

I agree. I agree. That's what we saw in a hallway video of a hotel, right? If he's doing that in the hotel in front of everybody, what is he doing outside of that?

You feel me? Sometimes people are so bad. My buddy's a billionaire, and he said to me, I'm naive. I always tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. And he said, Brian, the problem with you is that you see the a-hole after five years. We see the a-hole in five minutes. And he goes, you got to start realizing there are people that are very, even though you can't imagine people being that big of a shithead, they're out And he's just a bad guy, I think. He's a bad guy.

I think with Diddy, you're absolutely right about the apology video. He's not sorry. He's sorry he got caught. Yeah. Period. And that's what's going on there. And you've been in LA, how long now?

I've been there for a For the years, I was.

Okay, so Diddy has two houses where? One in Miami, one in LA. And he's from New York. I don't know how much time he spends in New York. You've been to the Playboy mansion ever? Yeah. So have I a few times, right? What's That's my point. I've been to a Diddy party also before. But there's a big difference between going outside on the lawn in the Playboy mansion between getting versus getting in the house. You don't get in the house. You maybe been to the grotto, and you're certainly not going upstairs to the bedroom. I appreciate you. You don't really know what's going on inside the house.

I do.

But I have no clue what's going on inside.

You had no clue when you went. That's a party. No, no. What I'm asking is, I get that. But was there like, even when you were going, were the streets in Miami talking about it? No, zero. And I know guys-What year, how far back are we going? 2010.

But see, it's not even about being free.

But I know guys that ran Sourak. I mean, buddies of mine that ran Sourak in the clubs in Miami. They would show up. They got the Sourak boys, all these things. But you would hear Diddy Parties stories, but nothing like this. We never talked about Diddy like this.

But it's not. But you guys, it's not. Five years ago.

So they've been tight-lipped.

No, I've never been a fan. I've And I've always, in my eyes, based on what I've read and the people I've talked to, I've always seen him as the reason why Tupac's not here. Oh, wow. I've always seen that. So for me, it's not even this. For me, it's just I don't... Tupac was your guy. He gives me the wrong vibe for From day one for me.

Yeah. There's something about... I love what Jordan Peterson said. As I get older, I get more religious, or at least God is in my life. And he said something really interesting. When you violate every principle, every rule, let's just take the Judeo-Christian ethic. When you violate basically every rule that has been laid out for you and say something like the Bible. Now, you can say whatever you want about the Bible. It still seems to be relevant. Why is the story endured after all this time? Maybe there's a reason. I don't know. But Jordan Peterson said something really cool. He said, When you embrace that dark side, when you are your own God, which is what it is, when you are your own God, which is a form of idolatry, God's fire will feel like hell. Right now, bro, everything he's built is being burned down. And he was realizing he's been living in a house of cards. And that fire is burning down his status, his power, his wealth, maybe even his freedom. Everything about him that he was standing on is being reduced to ash. And that can be looked at as a purification.

He can bear his cross, get closer to the truth, or he can decide to fight it and continue down this path to health.

I love the fact that you brought up Jordan Peterson, Callen, because I did my other show that I do, SAWSCAST, here. I had the guy Rob Smith on the gay Black Conservatives. We had this conversation, and we talked about him having a God complex, Messiah complex. When you have that much status, wealth, notoriety, everything, what else is there? And he talked about how in Hollywood, when you have all this, even straight guys are like, All right, I've already had all the chicks. Let me go try something new. And he equated that to Diddy. And then Jordan Peterson had a quote, Every man must learn to be a monster, an absolute monster. But then you need to learn how to control it. And What did he wasn't able to do? He was a savage. You've seen that video? I'm a freaking savage. I could do any... I get whatever I want. He was an absolute monster, savage. He just didn't know how to control it. And then Rob said, he said he's going to get redemption. He said he's going to get... I said, is he any way he's going to get redemption? He goes, Yeah, he can get it.

I go, How? He goes, Through the black church, they'll embrace him. I said, What do you mean? They go, They'll embrace him. You talked about the Bible. Christianity will embrace him. He's going to say, God has... I've restored my faith. I've asked for forgiveness. He goes, Call it right now. 6, 12, 18 months, whatever happens with Diddy, he's going to go through the churches to get redemption.

But that's a Christian thing, isn't it? It's like you've been lost and now you're found.

Yeah, but you know what? I don't respect people like that. If he goes to the church route, mind you, I am a Christian. I'm a practicing. I go to church. I pray every single morning. I pray at night. I pray during the day once in a while. For somebody like that that's just going to use Christianity and God and Jesus Christ as an insurance policy, oh my God, I better have it. No, no. That Christianity has to be a way of life, brother. If God isn't... He needs God more than anything. But this is like that last minute, well, oh, forgive me. No, no, no. It has to be embedded in you. Bro, I've heard stories about him, Brian. We're from... Bro, we live in Hollywood. I lived there forever.

You know.

These types of things, what he does, and I'm not even going to say the names because I'm not that guy. Very prominent, huge actor that loves me. We go to the house, we chill. These dudes will be like, Yo, this shit's about to get crazy right now to some of the girls, too. You guys should leave.

I know who you're talking about.

I know you know who I'm talking about. Pbd, think about this. You all, because they respected us and they know who I was, they're like, Listen, we love you, but this is the part where you all should just bounce because it's going to get crazier than what I'm being.

By the way, there's a difference. If you want to get Freaky? All good, man. You want to get weird and freaky good. It's when you start getting abusive. It's when you're hitting people. It's when you're doing all this weird shit. Like, come on, man. And by recording people and having cameras in the room where you leave, Brian, and somebody goes, Hey, Brian, I need this.

I want to be in this movie. I want this. And you go, No, dog, I'm sorry. And they go, Oh, really? Look at that.

That's you in the room with that girl. If you want to get, What's the best song about Freaky Man?

Freaky You, that's all I need.

I feel so Freaky tonight. Freaky tonight.

Hey, maybe Ditty was also a gay man, and his brand and his sexuality didn't meet. There's a lot of stories about him basically being like, Hey, look, there's your dick. That's my dick. She's between us. Now, she's not. I mean, that's what it sounds like.

And by the way, the guy that's capitalizing off of this is 50 Cent. He sells his document on Ditty to Netflix after bidding war. Amazing. Reportedly sold his documentary on the sexual abuse allegations against Diddy, the multi-part documentary titled Did He Do It? Produced by G-Unit, film and television studios, was a subject of a massive bidding war between multiple networks and streaming services. 50 Cent confirmed that the sale, by the way, of commenting on TMZ's article on X. He first complained that they used a fat boy picture of him speculating that the reason was to do Netflix choosing his Diddy documentary over theirs, which was sold to 2B and premiered on April the 28th. It's okay, guys. We're all making great television. Mine just happened to be the best. Netflix wins the bidding war. But if more victims keep coming out, I'm going to need more episodes. He wrote. So he's not playing around. The picture is right, too. Look at the picture of 50.

You know what Russell Simmons did? That's how he's up there.

Reminds me of this picture right here, right here.

Russell Simmons, 12 women came out with hard R rape allegations. He just went to Thailand. He was like, I'll see you later. He just went to Thailand.

People forgot.

Yeah, he's living in Bali.

You're talking about Russell Brand? No, Russell Simmons.

By the way, 50 Cent, you talked about checks and balances earlier.

What percentage is he just capitalizing on just, I'm this dude's enemy? And what percentage do you think is credible? Because they have a major history together.

He hates him.

There's hatred there, bro. Is there credibility?

There's hatred.

Right.

Or is there vengeance? No. No. If 50 Cent made no bones about trolling him the minute this stuff came out, it was crazy.

He's been trolling, too, about the suspect behavior. He is, did he is, and even Andrew Schultz can attest, a true gangster. Like, yeah, he made his money.

When the FBI comes in with a battering ram and takes down restraining walls or whatever it's called, retraining walls, they're not doing that because they don't have anything. They have a lot. My friend who went to jail for six years for drug trafficking told me, he goes, When the feds show up in their black SUVs and there's a line of them, please understand, you're done. They've got my buddy goes, How long have you been watching me? They were like, A year. And they go, The good news is if you turn on X, Y, and Z, you're not going to do a day in jail. And he goes, I'm not doing that. So he spent six years in Fort Dix. When he came out, they were like, Hey, we'll take care of you. And when he got into Fort Dix, he gets there, they loved him right away. And they were like, Man, I hope you're not a narc. I hope you're not a snitch. If you're a snitch, man, it'll be a bummer. And when they found out he didn't turn, they threw a party for him. And he said, If I had had women there, I never would have left.

He said, I had a black. He goes, Shitty food, miserable. The roof was off the thing. I hated it. But if I had had women, access to women, I wouldn't have left. We hung out all day and lived in the sole.

How about that? What's this whole story that they're going to maybe try to get him with the Riko Act? Obviously, you've done all your Mafia interviews, so have you. What's the Riko?

There's a whole different story here with Riko. We'll just wrap up. I'll read the story and we'll wrap up because 11:30 is here. That he reportedly prepares for a possible Riko indictment. Sean Dade comes maybe praying for the best, but he prepares for the worst. Rumor has it that the embattled hip hop figure has put together a legal team, Dream Team, as he anticipates a possible recall indictment any day now. Source tells media take out that the rapper's legal team has warned him of the aftermath of the federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking and other allegations against him. They believe that federal indictment could be handed out any day now. By the way, While I had did his lawyer on. Rob, you remember when we had his lawyer on? I asked his lawyer, wasn't he the lawyer that was the $30 million case lawyer? He's the lawyer that represented him, that negotiated the $30 million with his lawyer, that negotiated with his lawyer. Just a year ago. But now for this time around, he chose not to represent him. I asked a question. I said, Any reason did he call you to have you represent?

I can't answer that question. It's a client. I said, But he must have called you. You've always done good Why did you say no to him? Like I said, I didn't. I said, But you know he called you. We know he called you. Are you very good at what you do? Yes. This is the guy, Benjamin Braffman. If you don't know who he is, he's like the godfather of lawyers. The way he dodged that question. So he's called him and he said, no, if the recall thing goes, I am so curious to know if he's going to come out wanting to represent him because there's going to be a lot of money on the table as well. This guy's going to be making money on this ditty case, but I'm watching to see if this guy come out. Anyways, gang, if you enjoyed today's podcast with Brian Callen, send him on my neck. Give him some love. If you got questions, thoughts on anything we talked about, Send them a to Brian. If you're in South Florida watching this, the great Rob will be opening. Rob got too long. Actually, I watched him. I was so flippin' blown away by Rob as an opener for Vinnie.

Vinnie, you He heard what Brian said about Vinnie. He'll be there, and Brian will be there. Dania Beach, two times tonight, two tomorrow, and Sunday.

Daniaimprov. Com. Is that the website? Daniaimprov. Com.

What times?

7:30 and 10:30 tonight, Rob?

7:30, 10:00 tonight, 7:00 and 9:30 Saturday, 7:00 PM Sunday. I didn't know that.

I'm pretty sure Pat's going to come out. Guys, we have some special people that I want to talk to you about that want to come out and see us perform.

Only if you like laughing really hard for an hour and a half. Otherwise, don't worry about it.

Then stay home and be depressed.

If you hate laughing really hard.

As Seinfeld said, you got to have a sense of humor.

Rob, put the link below for them to go get registered, gang. Have a great weekend. We'll do it again next week. Take care, everybody. Bye, bye, bye.