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What's your point?

The future looks bright.

My handshake is better than anything I ever signed.

Right here.

You are a one-on-one.

My son's right there.

I think I'm...

I think I said this correctly.

Okay, alright.

Episode, what do we wrap?

650?

Is it 649 or 650?

No, today is 635.

635.

I'm looking ahead.

You're living in the future, man.

Back to the future, VBD.

The future looks bright, buddy.

Not to cover.

Hope you guys had a good weekend.

We have Jelaine Maxwell, apparently the six-hour interview that she did with...

What's his name?

Terry Blanche was just released over the last couple days.

The July 24, 25th was released and there's a bunch of claims.

Todd Blanche.

Todd Blanche.

What did I call him?

Terry.

Terry.

No, Todd Blanche.

Todd Blanche.

His middle name is Terry.

Todd Wallace Blanche had the meeting.

With his brother.

Yeah.

So, by the way, everyone's wondering.

So think about this as like a six-hour podcast.

What did she really reveal?

Maybe she revealed something big.

Maybe she revealed nothing.

We'll talk about it today.

Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with NBC.

He did a podcast.

Yeah, Kristen Walker, which I thought was a very good interview.

As they're going back and forth, he just

kept pushing back on claims that she was making.

So you're telling me the attack, you're taking responsibility for it.

Don't put words in my mouth.

You're saying that.

I did not say that.

You're asking me, and you're not listening to what I'm telling you.

It's a very good interview.

Federal Reserve Minutes highlight splits

over effects of Trump's tariffs on inflation.

You have to hear this one part where Jerome

Powell has to almost say that these tariffs

have done little to no effect on the, what do you call it, on the inflation.

Yeah.

Seventy-nine national guard troops deploy in 19 states for immigration.

Baltimore is pissed.

Chicago is pissed.

A lot of these cities are like, don't come to us.

But a lot of the people who are working in the streets are like, please come to us.

There's even a man who's working in DC is like, look, I'm comfortable now.

No murders in DC for the last, what, 10 or 11 days?

I think 10 days now, 11 days now.

Great.

Yeah, so something's working, folks.

Something is working.

Then you have tariff revenue will cut US

deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade.

Fiscal watchdogs says, this is a Financial Times article.

DC crime stats plummet during Trump's federal crackdown.

Again, we'll talk about that.

Political divide between young men and women fueling dating app distrust.

Kamala Harris is apparently going on a 107 day tour to promote her book.

The Invisible Book Tour.

Yeah, the 107 day tour to promote the book.

She's more committed to promoting the book than becoming a president.

Go figure that one out.

Texas GOP passes house, gerrymander, Trump asked for, again, political article.

It's titled that way, Trump administration to

better legal immigrant applicants for anti-Americanism

and anti-Semitism.

Retirement age should be 58.

I have a such a strong opinion on that, on what retirement age should be.

I know you do as well.

Snoop Dogg takes his grandson to the movies.

Snoop-a-loop.

Yeah, he takes him to the movies and

they're watching Lightyear and a lesbian mom scene

comes up.

And then next thing you know, the two lesbian moms have a kid.

And so the grandson asks Snoop, hey, grandpa, what's that all about?

And you have to hear what Snoop said.

He didn't have a reaction.

By the way, the podcast host herself is

trying to be diplomatic while you could tell she

has common sense in her and she has no clue what to say, right?

They're all trying to, we need sponsorship

money from this leftist organizations that

give us money because we don't want to upset them.

Rampage Jackson's son allegedly attacks

wrestler, I don't know if it's allegedly, I mean, it's

on video, CNN uses allegedly.

The guy got destroyed and he starts, you

know, punching his face left and right, literally

left and right and then Rampage even reacted to it.

Doesn't look good.

Not sure what's going to happen, but didn't look good.

U.S. officials confirms Pentagon planning National Guard deployment.

In Chicago, Mayor Johnson responds.

JD Vance schools NBC's Kristen Walker on

Russia Ukraine diplomacy like he's talking to fifth

graders or on Mamdani fills at bench press.

But folks, what do you bench press?

Can you please comment below what you can bench 10 times?

Can you just comment below what you can bench 10 times?

I'm just curious.

This is a terrible, like you're not Bobby Kennedy, buddy.

If you don't know how to bench press, don't do it.

You didn't make it.

He doesn't, he never even held a walk.

That was pretty bad.

So embarrassing.

How many times can you do 135?

135, me?

Just 45, maybe 20 times.

Maybe 20 times.

Maybe more.

Yeah, no, you could do 20.

I mean, I'm not bad.

Vance Rivie, I was 21.

Vance reveals Putin has conceded in Ukraine peace deal negotiations with Trump.

And then, you know, Newsom stat comes out

saying Newsom's new publicity stunt has increased

online following for him by 450 percent.

Harry Ensign says, Rob, let's get that clip ready as well.

We'll definitely talk about that.

And yesterday, you know, one of our girls, Mickey, she goes to sell her car.

And it's so funny what happens to sell her car.

Such great, basic, simple advice for everybody.

I'm going to give it to you the moment we get into it on first offer, second offer,

third offer.

You won't believe what that process was like.

It's just such a weird thing that a lot of regular people don't do anymore.

They just go right after the first thing they get.

It's a good thing.

I'm going to go ahead and sell it.

But anyways, let's get right into it.

Couple things.

Today is Monday the 25th.

This Wednesday, last chance, August 27th, we're going to have a private tour of our

entire facility here.

By that day, the Futsal Field may be done.

You'll see the entire vision of what we're building.

I was on a call with a friend of mine this morning.

He sold a record-breaking card for $12.9 million.

They bought it.

They bought a card for $12.9 million, him, O'Leary, and a couple others.

They literally just bought it.

He's out of the country.

We're having a conversation to get.

I'm telling them what happens here on campus when people visit here.

We want to show you the campus, especially

those of you guys that are going to the vault.

So if you've already bought a ticket, great.

I was going to put the link here for you to go register.

If you bought a ticket, you get to bring a guest with you just to see the tour.

Some of you guys are going to be able to get

on private jets and actually see what a private

jet's like.

And some of you guys are going to see some exotic cars.

And I'm not just talking about some regular cars.

I'm talking some very weird-looking cars that cost a couple million dollars.

That'll be this Wednesday if you haven't yet bought your ticket.

We are literally two weeks away from the vault conference.

This is when all of a sudden everybody

starts buying the tickets and, "Oh my God, I got

to get to the gate.

I got to go.

I got to go."

Which is great, but this is causing tickets to sell out as well.

If you're somebody that hasn't yet

purchased your ticket, go to thevaultconference.com.

Rob, can you put the link below?

Thevaultconference.com.

If we have a QR code for them to go there as well, get yourself a ticket.

Generals will be able to network with around 4,500 people.

Plantnams and executives will get a tour by a couple of our associates.

Anybody that's got a founder or a CO ticket,

I'm going to be giving you a tour of the entire

facility.

I'm excited to see everybody here.

We're going to have some hors d'oeuvres, some food.

It's going to be some ... You'll see stuff

before a lot of other people will see it.

So again, if you're in South Florida or

surrounding, people are traveling from other countries

here to just come for this.

But if you haven't yet, go to thevaultconference.com.

Get your ticket and go register with the link below.

Add a guest.

We'll see you here in 48 hours.

Okay.

So let's talk about what happened this week

and some basic simple advice for everybody.

So you know who Mickey is, right?

We all love Mickey.

I love her.

She's trying to buy a new car.

And she goes out there to sell her car at the first place that she goes to.

Toyota.

She's going to do an exchange.

I'm trying to buy this car.

Forerunner.

And yeah, we'll take your car.

How much are you guys willing to give for my car?

1,400 bucks.

How much?

1,400 bucks.

Wow.

It's like, yeah, it's really only worth $1,400.

She's like, man, maybe it's only worth $1,400.

She leaves.

She says, what should we do?

Why don't you go to Carvana and see what they do?

Go to Carvana.

Carvana offers $4,000.

And then she comes back.

She says, they offer $4,000.

That's awesome.

Should I take it?

Like, well, we did one of our stuff with Suburban.

Go try CarMax.

You know, Suburban with CarMax.

So she said, let me go to CarMax.

Goes to CarMax.

$5,500.

So she went from Toyota 1,400 to Carvana $4,000 to CarMax $5,500.

And this is not even brought to you by CarMax.

But this is like the biggest commercial for them, right?

You go to a place like that.

What's the point?

Take three offers when you're trying to sell something.

Don't jump on the first one.

She went and got her $5,500.

Went about a brand new Toyota 4Runner for herself.

She's super happy.

It's amazing how many people right after, oh my god, this is good.

Do it.

I'm going to take it.

No.

Pump the brakes.

Don't be that in a hurry to buy a car.

I was telling Jenna and Mickey this morning.

You know, sometimes when people see us and

they're selling us something like that, Pat

can't afford it.

Sell them more.

Yeah.

Yeah, asking for more.

I'm Armenian and I'm Assyrian and I'm born and raised in Iran.

And I sit next to him and, you know, and

I've been in financial services my entire life.

You know, when you make money yourself, do

you know how careful you are to know your

radars are always up to know that people are

like, oh, he can pay more for all this other

stuff.

So anyways, food for thought.

This is not a story.

This isn't anything.

This is just for the right 82 people that

are listening to this that are saying, you

know what?

I got to go to three places before I sell my car.

That's all I'm telling you.

I'm glad that I'm rubbing off on you in the right way.

It's PBD.

Well, that was such a great opening for me.

But I think kids are watching this.

Kids are watching this and we're just going to stick to G.

No, go for it.

I'm not going for it.

That was a little too easy.

But cameras are on.

All right.

Let's get into the story.

First story.

Want to start off with Rob.

What's the, what's the first story we got to go with?

What was the, what that audience asked for?

New York City and Chicago takeover by Donald Trump.

All right.

So let's go through the whole, what do you call it?

National Guard.

Stories of what's going on.

All right.

1700 National Guard troops to deploy in 19 states for immigration.

1700 deploy National Guard in 19 states.

And this is a Fox News story.

So including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana,

Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,

Utah, Virginia, Wyoming, to assist the

Department of Homeland Security with President Trump's

nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration

and crime with Texas projected to host the

most significant Guard presence.

The service members with support will support

ICE by performing case management, transportation,

logistical support, clerical functions, which may

include personal data collection, fingerprinting,

case-wabbing and photographing of personnel

personnel in ICE custody at a US defense official

stated National Guard soldiers being

mobilized will effectively serve as a support pillar

to a sweeping federal interagency effort will

also serving while also serving as a visible

deterrent force.

Tom, your thoughts on the story?

Well, first of all, this is great.

You know, DC last week, we didn't cover it,

but there's a little story that slipped out

last week of why this is good.

They said that under pressure, political

pressure, but they didn't say who they didn't say what

they had actually been fudging crime stats in Washington, DC.

Can you believe that, Vinny?

That the police department, there was two

stories I saw that they were actually fudging

crime stats.

So it was probably it was probably worse.

These were people that were part of the police

union that had since retired that said, yeah,

we had been asked to move these stats.

We've been moving these stats.

The crime in DC was actually worse than reported.

Yes, this is the Washington police

commissioner, Greg Pemberton, talking about the manipulated

stats.

Let's hear it.

Well, this is it.

Absolutely.

That's one of the chief complaints of our

members when we go around and talk to them

is that they respond to the scenes of these violent crimes.

And inevitably, you'll have a captain or a

commander or sometimes a lieutenant show up

on the scene and advise them to take a report for a lesser offense.

One of the things that we see them do often is

sometimes there'll be a shooting or a stabbing.

And if the victim is uncooperative with the

police, which is not uncommon in some areas

of the city, they'll be directed to take an

injured person to the hospital report, which

is not even a crime at all.

It's an incident report.

Sometimes you'll have a robbery.

It'll be reported as a theft.

That's right.

And other times you'll have burglaries

that are reported as unlawful entry or thefts.

This is something that's been unfortunately

part and parcel of the police department for

some time.

And we're very skeptical that these crime stats are accurate.

Tom, there you go.

There you go.

This is the guy who's with the union trying

to help the cops have good jobs and you have

a lieutenant or someone goes on the scene.

This isn't a shooting.

This is just an injured person.

You know what an injured person is, Vinny?

I looked it up.

An injured person report could be this.

A crackhead, let's just say, unfortunately, is out there and he falls.

He goes, knocks on someone's porch, panhandling for money.

He falls down the stairs and he's unconscious on the sidewalk.

You know that this is not far fetched.

That's an injured person incident.

Instead, they take a shooting and turn it

into injured person because it affects the

stats.

So guess what?

Not only is the National Guard needed in

these cities, these blue cities, and these blue

cities are trying to sound less blue, but the National Guard is actually helping.

There were clips over the weekend of

people that are doing summer jobs selling stuff

on the street.

They were selling Gatorade and water and everything.

They bought these big bags full of it at

Costco, selling that $2 a bottle to tourists that

were walking around going to see the monuments and stuff in D.C.

They asked them what they thought about it

and they were like, "Well, I think it's pretty

good."

"The police were just kind of casual about things.

I think this is good.

It makes me feel better."

And so this is Trump doing exactly what a leader should do to address a problem and

instead you have the Dems that don't care about what's going on in their cities, in

my opinion.

They just don't care.

Yeah, so by the long this is going on in San

Francisco, I don't know if you saw what happened

with Adrian Guerrero.

I watched a video this morning.

So there's this guy, Adrian Guerrero, who knows if it's a guy or a girl.

They're saying female, male.

I don't know what the individual is, whether they're male or female.

The name is Adrian Guerrero.

He goes up, pulls up to them and this is what he's telling to ICE.

This is just a video that's disturbing to watch.

He starts screaming at the ICE agents, saying, "I'm going to F you up."

He also threatened to go after them and

their family going to stab you during the attack

by 15 anti-ICE writers who used pepper spray and punched officers.

Homeland Security, Christian Nome, our brave

ICE law enforcement are now facing a thousand

percent increase in assaults against them

as they risk their lives to arrest the worst

of the worst criminals.

These acts of violence are fueled by sanctuary

politicians, rhetoric vilifying our law enforcement.

This follows a July incident where 10 armed

asylum in tactical gear opened fire on ICE

agents near Dallas, all were charged with attempted murder.

If you look at this, this is the black knife that he had.

This is Adrian Guerrero.

Who knows, again, I don't know if it's a guy or a girl.

Does he refer him by he or she?

Can you look at that?

Because Fox referred him by she.

Okay.

So go, go, keep going.

Now watch the bottom one, the Pam Bondi tweet.

Can you go to the tweet?

He's wearing the terrorist rag.

Right there.

Watch this.

Click on that picture, Rob.

We've now made a total of 630 arrests and sees 86 illegal guns in D.C.

53 arrests were made yesterday, plus 24 ICE

arrests and 10 guns taken off the streets.

Our incredible U.S. marshals even helped recover a missing child.

Our mission to make D.C. safe again isn't slowing down.

Go a little bit lower on the data right there.

630 arrests, August 21st, 86 guns seized.

Tom.

Additionally, we have statistics that came

out over the weekend that we are now entering

our ninth and now tenth day in D.C. without a murder.

And guess what's happening to the police officers?

Vinny?

What?

Guess what?

The regular police officers have increased

the energy that they show on their patrols.

You know why?

They're not walking around casual anymore.

You know why?

Because there's leadership there and the gig is up with the false statistics.

So the police that are on duty there are

now actively doing their job, not just sort

of hanging out and let D.C. happen around you.

It's all around good.

This is leadership by the president.

Well, here's what the Westmore--

And it's a proof point.

It's now a case study.

This is what Westmore said.

I don't know, Rob, if you have that clip.

Westmore responded to the president

saying, "Keep our city's name out of your mouth."

Kind of like a Will Smith moment.

Is this it, Rob, or is that a different one?

I have a different one.

I can play this and find that clip.

Is that about the--

Is this about sending the National Guard to--

Baltimore.

Go for it.

Are you so opposed to this deployment?

There's plenty of reasons.

One, it is not sustainable.

You cannot continue this type of pace of

operations, particularly when it's costing over a million

dollars a day in order to do this.

The second, it's not scalable.

You're not going to be able to do this in

every single major American city, particularly

when many of the cities that have the highest

crime rates are the places that have actually

deployed their National Guards to Washington, D.C.

So who's going to go do the work in their cities?

The third, it's unconstitutional.

It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment.

And for a party that talks about state

rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big

government approach in the way they're conducting public safety.

The fourth reason is because it's deeply

disrespectful to the members of the National Guard.

As someone who actually deployed overseas

and served my country in combat, to ask these

men and women to do a job that they're not

trained for is just deeply disrespectful.

And so when we're thinking about all of these

lasting factors, when we think about the fact

that it serves as a distraction from the fact

that the president's disastrous economic policies

are making everything more expensive for

everyday Americans, is making life harder for everyday

Americans, there's a multitude of reasons

that I'm against this and I will not authorize

the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this.

I have two quick questions and I yield the floor.

Question number one, how many times did he mention the stats in Baltimore?

How many times?

Zero.

How many times did he mention protecting the citizens of Baltimore?

Zero.

I'm done.

Okay.

Well, by the way, what they're saying right now, Tom, they are giving stats.

And what they're saying is the fact that

crime in Baltimore is down year over year, crime

in DC is down year over year, and crime in Chicago is down year over year.

Now keep this in mind.

This is the data that's being reported.

So who knows what they're comparing it to?

Like going back to the data you were talking about earlier.

Yes.

So it's not, their argument is it's working.

What we're doing is working.

Leave us alone.

We got it.

But the people are not agreeing with them.

The people are saying, no, man, National Guard, come over here.

Please.

We need you.

Vinnie, your thoughts.

I think it's ridiculous.

Him, you know, mayor of Baltimore, mayor of

New York had their problems and then the mayor

of Chicago.

And mind you, but I'm going to say this,

Tom, I don't want the National Guard deployed

anywhere.

I don't want government overreach.

Nobody, like any sane person, I don't want

the National Guard in these major cities,

but you know what?

This goes on the mayor.

This goes on the governor.

Right.

Maintain your freaking state, you idiot.

Well, let's say you don't need it.

No, I'm being dead serious.

The worst out of all of them is Chicago, the

nightmare under Brandon Johnson, all my Chicago

folks, all the Syrians in Chicago.

You guys know what I'm talking about.

In 2024 alone, 581 homicides.

And you're right, Pat, when they're talking

about the numbers, it's still almost 600 people

dead, 2,600 shootings.

There's more mass murders happening every freaking weekend in Chicago.

The numbers are crazy.

All the robberies, 1,600 carjacking.

It's a war zone.

They call it Shirek for a reason.

All right.

And he told those the money he thought,

buddy, this is the guy that should be giving money

to fund the police.

He had $600 million so far went to illegals

and that they're $70 million in new property

taxes to pay for that crap.

All right.

And meanwhile, his approval rating, 6.6 percent, pathetic.

Okay.

And then he announced Pat Chicago will refuse to work with ICE.

And this is him basically saying like, all

rise up to the citizens, which is to me is

a call to action about all the national government.

Rob played this clip.

And so, you know, look, we're going to remain firm.

We'll take legal action.

But the people in this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny.

And if that's necessary, I believe that the

people of Chicago will stand firm alongside

of me as I work every single day to protect the people of this city.

And as a Chicago did he do a Bill Clinton rap?

What did he do for second thing?

Go back about 10 seconds.

Watch the two times, three times right there.

That's perfect.

Watch this.

I did not against tyranny.

And if that's necessary, I believe that the

people of Chicago will stand firm alongside

of me as I work every single day to protect the people of this city.

Like literally, in my opinion, the worst mayor, and this is like going up against

Karen Bass and everybody.

He is the worst mayor.

Just in 2021, they had 797 homicides.

The entire he has more deaths in Chicago than Canada and UK combined.

And forget about Lori, Lori life.

2021.

Lori life.

What I'm going up.

You're going back.

Yeah, I'm going back where he's at under him right now.

What?

So 23 they were at.

So it went from 700 right there.

That's the one.

So 2020 was 779.

2021 goes to 805.

2022 goes to 715.

Then 2023 621, then 581.

So what they're saying is it is declining.

So their argument is leave us alone.

We are figuring it out.

Right?

Yeah.

The same thing they're saying with Baltimore went from 263 and 23 to 224.

The same thing with DC went from 274 and 23 to 187 and 24.

And these are report.

These are deadly.

What they're measuring here is violent crime, including homicide robberies.

Carjacking has fallen to its lowest in 30 years.

That's what they're saying.

According to DOJ, right?

However, this is the part they're not saying

what they're not saying is it is higher than

any other city in the area.

Yeah.

So you're sitting there saying, well, give it a break.

We're making so much progress.

Yeah.

You're still some of the most dangerous cities in America.

You can't get it together and we got to find a way to get even safer.

Yeah.

And if the president wants to do that, he's going to clean up town.

Now, the locals, what are people saying?

If you can find a clip of that one boy that's

walking around in DC saying, how does it feel

not being out?

I don't know if you have that clip or not.

Go ahead, Adam.

Your thoughts on this.

Yeah.

Well, the reality is American cities are unsafe.

We see it all the time.

Vinny brought up Shirek.

Anytime that you're comparing an American

city, a great American city like Chicago to

Baghdad, Iraq, you might have a problem in some of your cities.

And they brag about it, Adam.

They brag about it.

And Chicago is not even the worst.

Memphis, Detroit, Baltimore, Philly, DC, New Orleans, you know, Fort Lauderdale.

Sometimes I hear some stories, but a lot of our American cities are unsafe.

So Trump deploying the National Guard.

I'm trying to see the downside from this.

So it reminds me of like a story of, you

know, the joke with with NATO, how like daddy's

going to take over.

This is sort of a weird story.

So my friends back in the day were in like

middle school and we were home alone with

all our buddies all day.

And our friend's mom was kind of do whatever you want, boys, do whatever.

But wait till dad gets home and you're

going to you're going to see what's going on.

We decide to put on our own version of the WWE.

We all picked our different wrestlers and combatants.

You would have been the Iron Sheik.

I'm doing the Hulk Hogan, Ultimate

Warrior, Junkyard Dog, super fly Jimmy Snooker off

the top ropes.

It's chaos in the living room.

Pillows, fights, food fights, just absolute WrestleMania.

The place is absolute crazy.

All of a sudden ding dong.

Dad shows up.

We freak out.

We all run through the hills high because

we understood when dad came home, there was

going to be hell to pay.

What's happening here is these cities have

been run amok by single mothers, so to speak,

and daddy's home.

Trump called a National Guard and he's cleaning up the streets.

So what's wrong?

You don't want less murder.

You don't want less crime.

You don't want less rape.

What's the downside?

The political perception of law and order being brought to your city.

To me, as long as you clean up these American

cities that are held hostage by literal gang

members and gun violence, I see no problem.

Pat, can we play devil's advocate for a second?

Like you know, I mentioned a little bit.

I don't want them.

I don't want the National Guard deployed in these cities.

Okay.

And obviously it's their fault, meaning these Democrat horribly run cities.

How long are they going to say Adam?

Because you know what?

This is how it happens, Tom.

They bring them in.

Hey, we're doing it because these people aren't doing it right.

You think they're just going to pack up and

leave because you know what's going to happen.

People are going to get used to it, Tommy.

And they're going to be like, you know what?

I'm kind of cool with the surveillance.

I'm kind of cool with this.

And then it becomes a freaking police state.

So I'm playing.

I'm pissed off that the Democrats let it go that far, Pat, at the same token.

I don't want the National Guard because then who's to say they go like this?

Florida's going to go, you know what?

Like you mentioned, it's not that bad in Fort Lauderdale, but you know what?

Give us 20 National Guard homers, Pat, and let them patrol the streets.

There's a very thin line.

No, you're making a very I like that you're being a being reason.

I like that you're looking at both sides.

I like that you're doing because that allows us to see both sides.

Here's a message from this is Seattle.

A woman homeless.

Rob, go to play this clip.

Watch what happens to you.

Homeless woman breaks down crying as she pleads for help in Seattle.

I think it's necessary for President Trump

to help cities in America by bringing the

National Guard troops in for extra backup.

Absolutely.

Wow.

Yeah, absolutely.

We need it.

Come help us.

We need it.

We really need it here in Seattle.

Seattle used to be a pretty city.

It used to be a nice place, but now it's not.

Everything's closing up, shutting down because people just had it.

I don't feel safe.

Remember myself?

I'm scared a lot.

I had to keep my phone in my hand because I don't know what's going to happen.

Yeah.

The day the smoke shop got robbed.

Yeah.

I don't think there's much business that there

used to be because people are afraid to come.

Yeah, absolutely.

People don't want to spend their money when they fear walking to the store.

I wouldn't bring my kids down here.

I get a baby.

You're seeing this random.

By the way, this is coming from.

I don't think she's I think she's just there.

Big guy should he save again?

He could do it.

I know he has the power.

So you see this.

It's a five minute clip.

I don't want to get into it.

Now there's the opposite of this.

Rob, play the other clip of the National Guard.

The Humvee is driving around and this man is yelling at them.

Don't let them do this to you.

Man just now yelled at National Guard to patrol in Washington, D.C.

These are your own citizens.

These are homeless people.

Watch this one here.

This is a very, very different reaction than what you just saw.

These are homeless people.

You got the fucking group don't let them do this to you.

It's abusive to you and now you're going to get fucked when you're fucked up.

You have to go to the VA and take out all your services.

Confused now.

Do not do this. Do not do this.

Do have the obligation to refuse.

I'm going to the war.

Okay?

So whether this is a--

Do not.

Do not.

Do not.

Do not.

Do not.

Do not do this.

Don't go patrol, leave it alone.

Don't clean up the streets?

If you're not going to do it yourself, if

you're not going to do it yourself, they're not going

to do it.

They're just not going to do it.

The reality is it comes down on the

individual, on the leader at the top, the president,

who's like, "Look, I'm going to expose you.

You can say whatever you want.

Pritzker is not happy.

You think this is a good look for the governors of these states?"

No, no.

"Westmore is trying to run for president."

Yep.

Okay.

"Pritzker is trying to run for president, and

Gavin Newsom is trying to run for president."

Okay.

Gavin Newsom is trying to run for president.

And you can tell when you see these guys, they themselves are around 2028.

And Newsom, I want to go through some of

the stuff that he's done, but prior to doing

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Let me get back to the story here.

So as we're talking about this, you see

Newsom completely change the way he's campaigning,

completely change the way that he's campaigning.

Rob, can you go to his Twitter account first?

Let's kind of go through his Twitter account.

And by the way, believe it or not, this is helping him.

It's bringing eyeballs to his Twitter account.

It's not like it's not working.

So he's put this up there saying the Patriot Shop is now open.

Look at the hats that he's got.

It's literally everything that Trump does he copied.

Newsom was right about everything that

Trump said that he was wearing just last week.

Trump is not hot, a real Patriot.

Newsom 2026, even though he's not running in 2026, he's talking about the midterms.

Go a little bit lower.

One by one by one, he's taking shots at everybody, okay?

One by one by one.

He said, "We just sold $100,000 worth of material."

This is what Donald Trump was what?

What does he say?

Donald Trump was president during the last census, okay?

So he's talking about the census.

Every chance he gets, whether it's him, his

team, or somebody doing it, it's calling him

out.

So the question becomes, is it working?

Is it not working?

Here's what Harry Anton has to say with data.

And by the way, we report whether we like the news or not.

We're reporting it for you.

So go ahead and play this clip.

Get this.

Up 450% in terms of the number of followers since mid-June.

And it's not just on Twitter, X, where

Newsom is gaining, even on TikTok and Instagram,

his followers are up over a million since January alone.

My goodness gracious.

And more than that, Laura, more than that, what about Google?

What about those Google searches for him?

Get this daily Google searches for Gavin Newsom, up like a rocket.

What are we talking about?

Since June 1, up 1300%.

Compared to August 1st, look at that, up 500%.

So the bottom line is in politics, especially

if you're thinking of entering in 2028, it's

all about generating attention.

And so far, Gavin Newsom has done a good job of generating attention.

Democrats want it.

Do Democrats want it?

Okay.

Do Democrats want it?

Of course they do.

What do you mean?

Like, do Democrats want it?

Do they want to Gavin Newsom?

Yeah, because they're freaking stupid.

Look at.

They're not stupid, Vinny.

They're not.

We don't need to.

We have friends that are Democrats.

We have friends that are.

What they are is, they, okay.

If they keep voting for these people.

Yeah, but we can't call them stupid.

Like we can't tell people they're stupid.

There are people that are born in a certain way and they become Democrats.

Okay.

You know, like I'm sitting there right now

and I'm watching this video, Vinny, which

is about parenting.

And I'm going to play the clip here in a few minutes.

I didn't even find a way to go to it.

I just want to make sure we're not going

out there calling all these guys dumb, stupid,

all this other stuff.

I had a girl in my office one time.

She's the spouse of one of our guys, ex-spouse of one of our guys.

And we're sitting there and I'm asking her, she's a diehard AOC person.

This lady can't stand me.

She does not like me at all.

Okay.

Everything that happened, she's pushing the guy away from me.

Okay.

So I said, let me ask you when you were in

school, were you a English person, literature

person, or were you a science person?

Were you a math person?

I hated math.

Really?

What did you like?

I love English and I love journalism.

I like writing.

Fantastic.

What else did you like?

Did you like chemistry?

Did you like physics?

I hated it.

What did you like?

Like I told you, writing is what I like.

English is what I like.

Okay.

I watched this video that's talking about parenting.

I learned whether we like it or not, people are born a certain way.

Some people are more cutthroat.

Some people are more logical.

Some people are more emotional.

Okay.

They're not stupid.

They're born that way.

I've come to the conclusion.

Believe me, they're not stupid.

You are born that way.

I run an insurance company.

I'm watching everybody.

We come up with announcements.

It's the right announcement.

But somebody says, that's not fair to those people.

That's not fair to that person.

And typically the that's not fair was to the

people that are not working the hardest and

they're just kind of wanting everything to be easy.

So it is not a stupid thing.

Believe it or not, we're trying to force these people to change.

They're emotionally more caught up by the feeling.

The question I got for you is, do you think the approach he's taken, Newsom, Vinny?

Yeah.

1,000% up, June.

500% up, August.

450% up, activity on social media.

Do you think this is going to work for him to be the leading candidate for 2028?

You think he's going to?

Because I called it that he's going to be the front runner for the 2028.

I don't think I know Tom's, Tom's JB

Pritzker with the money and the, and I get that.

And you know what?

And you're actually right.

I don't think that they're stupid.

What's the word, Pat?

If it's your, if you're just blind, emotional

to the party, meaning, and you're right, you're

right about what I don't think that they're all stupid.

I take that back.

What do you call a person that is just loyal

to the party but sees the crime, the border,

the lying, they know exactly who he is, but

they're still going to vote for this guy because

it's not the other side.

What would you call them?

You know what I mean?

Instead of stupid, what do you call somebody

that knows that the ship is sinking and they're

still going to jump on the ship because the

ship has their name on it, has their group's

name.

This is, this is what I've learned.

This is what I've learned.

And Tom, I'm going to come to you because

there's a lot of other clips that Rob, can

you find a couple of the clips from Newsom,

the old mayor interview when he didn't want

to talk about anything or, you know, there's

a couple of clips I'll show you about Newsom

that's just embarrassing.

And it's so old.

I don't even know who sent it yesterday.

Was it a Humberto?

It was me.

It was me.

What a great clip you sent.

This is when he was mayor.

Yeah.

So there's a couple of them.

There's three clips.

There's a debate moment.

There's that clip.

We have to see, but you know, Vinny, this is what it is.

This is what it is.

Do you think there are people that if we get

the worst Republican candidate ever, criminal,

terrible guy, horrible human being, they're still going to vote Republican?

Yes.

Yes.

What percentage?

90 percent.

Of the current Republicans?

Like they're going to vote for somebody.

What do you think, Tom?

What would you say?

So, people that are dyed in the wool that don't cross.

No matter what they're going to vote Republican

and no matter what they're going to vote Democrat.

My understanding is that it's that there's 24

percent on the GOP side and about 27 percent

of the total voting on the Dem side that will stay red or blue no matter what.

So that's a no matter what.

Right.

So you know what conclusion I've come up with?

That's what you're asking.

That's what I'm asking.

The conclusion, I actually put it at 40, 44, give or take.

40 percent of the Republican.

That's party affiliation, but you're asking me for the no matter what's?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're right.

And let's qualify both.

Okay.

That's not you.

Party affiliation, 40 Republican no matter what, 44 Democrat no matter what.

Okay.

Yeah.

So when you look at these two things and you say, "What's wrong with you?

What's this?

What's that?"

I'm telling you, I'm going to show you

this clip by this doctor that's going to break

it down.

You're trying to change people.

You chant.

You're not going to change this 40.

You're not going to change this 44.

They're going to drive you insane.

If you truly want to make change in the world,

and it's taken me 46 years old, having worked

with so many different personalities, you're

literally only dealing with 15 to 20 percent

of people that you're talking to.

Nobody else.

It doesn't matter what you say.

You're not changing them.

You're dealing with 15 to 20 percent of people.

The 40 and 44 percent that ever change on both sides, it's because someone offended

them.

Somebody from their party, their own party let them down.

Like if you're seeing right now, hardcore

conservative, pro-Zionist, pro-Jewish, all

of a sudden hardcore anti, what happened?

You got offended.

Somebody did this.

And guess what?

There's nothing you can do about it.

You're not going to change that guy.

You're not going to change that girl.

That's not going to happen, right?

Or a massive crisis happens in their life.

Death in the family, betrayal, some kind of

a let down, some kind of a chaotic situation.

So my focus has been trying to talk to the

people in the middle that will sit there and

say, "Well, I didn't know that.

Did that really exactly what happened?"

Yeah.

So to me, what I think with what Newsom is

doing, this is the case study on how I'm looking

at this, Tom.

I'm looking at this, okay, go to 2027, 2028.

All of these videos are going to recirculate.

Rob, play any one of them that you have, okay?

Which one?

Okay, this is the interview.

By the way, it's uncomfortable to watch it, okay?

It's uncomfortable to watch.

Keep going, keep going until it starts.

All right, watch this here.

Starts from here.

Right off the bat, watch what he tries to do.

He's a mayor here.

I don't know what the year is.

This could be 06-ish.

Rob, if we can find the year for it.

Oh, this is the instant redirect, right?

Yes.

Within three seconds, watch what Newsom

does and see if that reminds you of him today.

Go ahead, Rob.

Mr. Mayor, good to see you.

Let me start by asking you, where have you been?

$522.2 million shortfall.

Last year we had a $500 million shortfall.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

5.6.

Hank, I'm here to talk about today and tomorrow.

Now yesterday I've been working my tail off.

I've been out, I think I had 69 public events in the last two and a half weeks.

You know, I heard you say that on the radio

today and then I asked your staff, well, where's

the printout?

Where are these events?

And your press person said, well, this is stuff he just goes to.

These are all public events, yeah.

But look, you know the criticism that you have been dodging not just the press, but

also the public, that you have been sulking

after dropping out of the governor's race,

that you're having a temper tantrum.

What do you want to say about this?

I want to say that I've been working my tail off.

I've been here focused in San Francisco.

I think I was gone two days out of the city in the last three weeks.

We've done 69 public events.

I've been as engaged or more engaged than ever.

I don't read the press.

It is comical, some of the things that have been written.

So the cartoon in the Chronicle that depicted

you as a crying baby with the headline mayor,

mayor off the wall.

You didn't see that.

No.

You didn't see that.

Why, who reads that stuff?

I don't read that stuff.

I focus on work.

I focus on getting things done.

It's not just the press.

The way he walks off.

Go back a little bit, a little bit forward.

Go forward, forward, forward, right there.

Go ahead.

At the end, he couldn't leave the room fast enough.

Off the record, I'm amazingly disappointed.

Amazing.

I just am, personally.

Well, I did draw him out more about the asking questions.

And he will see what he says right here.

He goes, just because you say off the record doesn't mean that I said it.

I agree.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

It just shows how long he's been doing this.

Oh, man.

He's amazing.

He's amazing.

And so the question becomes, Rob, if you want

to play this other clip, when you go through

these back to back to back, the question

you ask is, is he still able to overcome this

to go become a president?

Maybe maybe not.

I mean, there was a point that they talked

about the debate where the guy who was debating

him, he says, listen, if his own best friend

can trust him with his wife, what makes you

think you can trust him?

Right.

Make that a little bit bigger.

Rob, watch this clip.

Go ahead.

Coming here in short notice, I want to

make it clear that everything you've heard and

read is true.

And I am deeply sorry about that.

I've heard someone I care deeply about, Alex Turk, his friends and family.

And that is something that I have to live with and something that I am deeply sorry

for.

I am also sorry that I've let the people of San Francisco down.

They expect a lot of the mayor.

I don't know if he's going to explain this here or not.

You know what it was, Rob.

It was him in 2000, 2005, getting a fair with

Ruby Tippey Rourke, who was his best friend's

wife.

Okay.

Best friend's wife.

And listen, and I know people watch his clip on the debate.

This is it, Rob.

I just found it.

Play this clip, Rob.

This is during the debate, race for governor.

His opponent says this to him.

Guy.

Awesome.

His opponent says this to him.

The question is very simple.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you can't trust Gavin

with his best friend's wife, how can you trust

him with your state?

Oh, that is like best friends.

I did not know that.

Oh, he slept with his best friend's wife campaign manager.

Bro.

Yeah.

Like that.

You know what I'm talking about, Gavin Newsom?

You know why he apologized?

He got caught.

He got caught.

That's why you're apologizing.

So Newsom had an affair with his secretary,

Ruby Rippey Tork, the wife of his campaign

manager and good friend on January 31st, 2007.

Newsom's campaign manager and former deputy

chief of staff, Alex, resigned after confronting

Newsom over a sexual affair the mayor had with his wife in late 2005.

And it was done with.

But here's the question.

What was Newsom in 2007?

What was Newsom in 2007?

What was Newsom in 2007?

Job title?

Mayor of San Francisco.

He was a mayor of San Francisco that personally

presided over a same sex marriage that I believe

he officiated with a judge on the steps of City Hall.

Perfect.

So in 2007, he was a mayor.

That's all I'm asking.

I just want to know if he's a mayor.

So he was a mayor in 2007.

So he goes from mayor to governor to

recall winning again to now he'll be the leading

candidate for 2028 Democratic.

So here's what happens.

And the real question for me, the more I'm

processing this from the business standpoint,

and I want to ask you guys and butcher the

argument, I want to see what angles you're

going to take.

So in California, it's not as if they're going to have a Republican beat him.

It's not going to happen.

And the guy that was standing to his left

in the debate, I think that was Mayor of the

Rosa.

That was a former mayor of L.A.

But I remember.

Yeah.

So he lost to him.

They chose him.

The money is going to be behind him.

The backing is going to be behind him.

But the question becomes the same exact way

where a lot of Republicans had given up on

Trump and they had said DeSantis is the one

that's going to do it because look at DeSantis,

the way he did Florida, he did this, he was fighting, he was doing that.

Is this going to work across the country nationwide?

I don't know.

You just passed the gerrymandering that's

going to be on the ballot on November 4th,

which is going to make the state be 48 to 4

House of Representatives on the Democratic

side.

It's going to go from 43 to 9 Republicans to 48 to 4 Republicans.

It's a monopoly.

California is going to have, right?

Do you think the voters, not the 44 percent,

not the 40 percent, do you think the middle

15, 16 percent is going to look at the sky

and forget these moments or do you think these

greatest clips are going to run against them

in ways that is going to be forced to disappear

and never ever run again?

How shameless is this guy that none of

that stuff is going to affect them to become a

president?

What do you think?

He's completely shameless at a level that

we haven't seen in politics in a long, long

time.

So I have three points.

Point number one, the attention is working.

He is getting the attention of Dems that are

upset about the economy, upset about the way

immigration is being handled, upset about the tariffs.

They were scared about inflation even though the facts didn't come true on it.

And so those people were upset and they

love seeing now a nationally visible Democrat

fighting for them and they love it that he's calling Trump names.

So point one, the attention is working.

They're coming to his socials.

The second, we got to wait and look at the DNC.

Bernie was leading until South Carolina and

the DNC said, "We don't think Bernie's electable

on a national stage."

And I believe that that is the opinion.

And I'm not a supporter of J.B. Pritzker and I'm not a tea-leave reader.

I'm looking at real data from DNC.

The DNC believes that J.D. Pritzker is the

guy that's electable on a national scale.

And I'll tell you why you can ignore Gavin

Newsom because the DNC takes California's

electoral votes for granted.

We're going to win California anyway.

We don't need Newsom to carry a key state.

We want J.B. Pritzker here because what is

surrounding Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, and

that's where the Dems need to have a resurgence of

a visible candidate in those battleground states.

So I think the DNC is going to pull strings on it.

My third point is, to your point about who

we can move, I'll give you two charts really,

really quick.

The first is, there's an organization, and

I'm not plugging them, I'm just telling you

what they do, Pat.

The Johnson O'Connor Research Institute have

been, I believe in San Diego, and they have

been forever doing analysis on human beings.

And they will tell you that what you just said a moment ago is true.

You have normal aptitudes that are with you when you're born.

And you can cultivate them over your life or you can fight them.

An example of fighting, you have a very

creative son, but it's like, dog on it, I was a doctor,

your grandfather's a doctor, your uncle's a doctor.

You can make a great doctor, and you can be

safe and have a good career, and we'll help

you get in.

And you have a creative son, not gay, just

to say creative son, who's into architecture.

No, I'm saying that when I say creative, I'm not speaking in code.

Vinny doesn't have a gay son, because he was looking at me.

That's really creative.

But you have a son that wants to be an

architect, and the rest of the family is fighting his

aptitudes.

It's natural.

The last thing that I'll take you to, Rob, I need the Arizona chart on the voter.

There's been all this talk going on about, I just need the Arizona stats.

Go back to Arizona right there.

There's been all this talk about who's

registering the most, who's not registering the both,

and to your point about the 15 in the middle,

would you like to know what almost the lowest

largest party in Arizona is?

At 1.53, it is independents.

Libertarians and greenies are small.

Can you find me the exact numbers on that?

I think we found that earlier in one of the links.

It was the numbers for Arizona.

Tom, did you say 1.53 million is independents in Arizona?

That's correct.

I want to find the exact numbers.

Because they're Democrats?

Yeah.

Amy and I covered this when we did Decision 2024 brought to you by Value Tainment.

That's the part.

I need that one in a second, Rob.

It is the independents are almost as large as the Republican registered in Arizona.

That is where the battle is made.

Now go to the Gallup.

Take a look at this, Pat.

You're right.

These are the people since 2023, who do you identify with?

They're saying, who do you call you?

This is also the independents.

This isn't how you're registered.

Do you identify more right now as a Republican or a Democrat?

With all the mayhem and things that have been going on in the spring here.

This is Gallup.

Gallup.

46% no matter what, they still identify as Democrats.

That is correct.

43% is Republican.

You can see the surge that happened, the shift in Q1.

That was, guess what?

Q1 last year, that was the shift.

The primaries, Trump comes back and look at

the surge as the people said, "I really feel

more like a Republican."

But guess what?

46, 43, that's only 89.

There's your 11%, which is closer to 15%,

where you're exactly talking a minute ago,

where the battle is being fought.

I got it.

Go ahead, Adam.

The question is, does Gavin Newsom have a chance?

What's the exact question?

Does he persuade that 10 to 15% that are just kind of on the fence?

Like, well, I don't know where to, who's, what message?

We'll Newsom with this approach that he's taken.

Will this work on the national scale, not just on California?

Yes, it will.

Gavin Newsom is a snake oil salesman.

We all know that he's in a version of American Psycho.

He looks the part, he acts the part.

Don't forget, you know, we're a bunch of

guys talking politics, talking current events,

talking social issues.

You know, what we don't have on this stage

right now on this podcast are females, are

women.

And there's a story here about the

political divide between young men and young women.

We use it as an example.

Young men, if you look at the stat, I

don't know if you can show this, Rob, you know,

they're like, men are moving more to the

right and women are moving more to the left.

Men are more conservative.

Women are more progressive.

Not really.

Men are actually just straight up in the middle.

Rob, do you have that?

Women have gone off the deep end politically.

So we tend to think of, well, you know,

since Trump, since what's going on here, men have

become way more conservative.

That one right there.

Right here, if you see the zero, that is the bottom line.

This is young men in America.

So if you're above zero, that means you're a little bit more liberal.

If you're below zero, you're a little more conservative.

Men are basically at the zero line.

They're not too liberal.

They're not too conservative.

That's the green line.

Men, women are off the deep end progressive.

So what we're creating in this country

since basically 2000 are angry, liberal, single,

lonely, depressed feminists.

Not my opinion.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Numbers don't lie.

Words talk.

Numbers scream.

Men are not crazy, maggots, extremists.

They're just dudes who know who they are.

Women have gone not 10, not 20, not 30, 40% off the Richter scale.

So you asked the question, does Gavin Newsom have a chance?

You betcha.

Is he good looking?

Yes.

Does he got great hair?

Yes.

Does he talk very handsy and do women compel him?

1 million percent.

So if you put up JB Pritzker's sloppiness

against Gavin, women are going to pick Gavin.

You put a name recognition.

Don't forget about name recognition.

Nobody knows Wes Moore.

Nobody knows Andy Bashir.

People hardly know Gretchen Whitmer.

We all know Gavin Newsom.

I'm not saying he's good.

I'm not saying he's qualified.

I'm saying he'd be a disaster.

But I'm saying he could win.

And I think, and Pat, your question about that 10 to 15%, I hope.

And that's why I think it's our job for

podcasts like this and us to remind people who this

person is, to show the receipts of who this person is, show them what they do.

And Pat, just FYI, Rob, do you play that clip?

I think it was CNN that the Democrats have a deficit of 4.

Play this clip.

4.5 million voters.

See.

In all 30 states that track party

registration, we're putting on the screen the data.

It shows altogether Democrats have lost 2.1 million voters.

Republicans have gained 2.4 million.

That's a deficit that you have of 4.5 million voters.

So I'll apologize because I chose the wrong wording.

Democrats aren't stupid.

It's just this blind loyalty and not

knowing the actual history and what this person is

doing.

I think it's a wake up call to let these people know that 10 to 15.

Guys, this is who he is.

This is what he's about.

Nothing is going to change.

But for sure.

The angle I want to take is where I'm going

with this is I've always, if I've had a goal

on who I want to track to listen, is the

guy in the middle that is still thinking about

which way should I go.

The guy that wants to be, that's fairly

reasonable, that maybe was raised a Democrat and is like,

let me tell you, some of this stuff just doesn't make sense to me.

Why is this happening?

That's all it is.

Sometimes when you present the argument,

the person listens to it and then you're like,

okay, now don't get me wrong.

You need the marketing.

You need all that other stuff.

You need the shamelessness.

You need all, I'm talking to Tony Robbins.

I'm like, hey, he says, what do you think is

the number one quality of somebody becoming

a president?

I say, you have to be shameless.

I never thought about it that way before.

You have to be shameless to become a president.

You have to know that.

Think about what's your most embarrassed about your mistakes the last 10 years, 20

years.

Are you comfortable with everybody around

the world talking about that and you're still

shameless enough to go out there and become a president?

That's what you need.

Trump has that.

Newsom has that.

Some of the people have that.

I don't think Kamala had that.

I think Kamala was, I think Joe Biden had

it, believe it or not, Joe Biden, some of the

stuff you go back and the guy was shameless as hell is what he was.

Clinton, shameless.

You want to go through a list?

Hillary Clinton, the ultimate shameless.

You just did it because she had a terrible personality.

She wasn't attractive, but you need that quality.

I do want to show this clip about parenting.

Vinny, I want you to watch this.

Rob, if you can pull this up.

This is a gentleman speaking about why

parenting has almost no effect, Tom, after age 15.

Look at the way he breaks it down.

Go ahead.

It's where you live.

Why?

Out-of-home influences are more powerful in

shaping the life course of your child than

in-home influences are.

And those out-of-home influences are peer

groups, other adults, neighborhoods, resources,

schools, and the larger community that you made available to this child.

That is how you shape your child's life course.

The second biggest influence is also out of

your hands, and that's genetics, and you don't

get to determine that.

But if you think parenting is so

influential, let me give you two findings that have been

replicated many times.

When we follow up twins, we are able to

calculate how much of their behavior is due to parenting

within family environment.

And here's what we find.

The peak years of parental influence are below seven.

From seven on to 12, it drops dramatically.

After 15, it's 6%.

Six percent of the variation in a

teenager's behavior is how their parents raised them.

That's it.

And after age 21, it's zero.

There is no influence of parenting on any psychological trait after the age of 21.

Now do not mistake what I'm saying.

The knowledge your child possesses, what

they know, is clearly a function of exposure in

the environment.

But their traits, their abilities, their makeup, their personality is not.

Tom, do you agree with them?

I agree to a certain extent.

I mean, remember, you're talking about this

is the psychological environment in industry

speaking.

And it's based on their observations.

However, there is truth in what he's saying

is that you get really two bites at the apple.

Bite number one is underage 13 before

puberty because puberty brings emotions, hormones,

and changes in behavior that we all experience ourselves.

The second bite you get is between 13 and 18 when they leave the house.

Now the first bite is much bigger and more impact.

But you do have a chance between 13 and 18.

And the angle that I chose, which was based

on a lot of research, was I taught my daughters

to reason and resist, to reason through the

situations of life and resist the easy for

the best.

Resist the easy choices for the best.

And I constantly pointed out perspectives.

I didn't just stay in the echo chamber of our dinner table.

I pointed out, hey, did you see what happened to that kid at your school?

Yeah.

Do you see?

Do you see this?

Do you see?

And so when you start pointing out things

that are happening in their environment and

you teach them to reason and resist, that's

what you get the second bite of the apple.

But he's correct in that.

Look, when the kids are young, you got to

get them young on the things that you want

them to respect, to do, and to have a natural inclination to.

Because after puberty and all those hormones hit, it's really difficult.

They're fighting two things.

Structure you're putting around them and the

natural hormonal zaniness, especially in young

boys, it just happens to you.

And then where do they spend most of their day?

They spend most of their day in school.

And so you need to know what is the makeup

of the most influential kids are at their

school and what are those households looking like?

And I've been fortunate that the households

that the girls are being influenced by are

well structured and well behaved households.

You know, you watch this and when he says

after 15, after 21 years old, the influence

is zero and is zero.

I don't agree with that.

It's more about parents, the community more than it is the parents.

Okay, fine.

Yes, I do believe that because purely the

hours, number of spend with different people,

it's important to put your kids in a

school that's teaching the values that you agree

with and the risk is involved on.

Somebody may disagree with this, Vinny, and they may say the following.

They may say, "Well, I don't agree with this guy."

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah, because the influence is more on parents and that is why.

Tell me why the LGBTQ community is growing under kids.

You think the parents are doing it?

You think most parents are sitting there telling their kids to be gay?

Forget about the Megan Foxes and forget

about the Hollywood folks, you know, the Dwayne

Ways.

I know since my kid was three years old, he was a transgender, whatever.

I'm not talking about those guys, but who is doing this?

School's doing this.

Who is doing this?

Communities are doing this.

There's a part of what he's saying is so

true where if you build a community like the

way we are when we're around each other, our values are similar.

I don't mind if my kids are with Tom and I'm not there.

He doesn't mind if his kids are with us and we're not there.

We don't have any problem there because we know what we're teaching, right?

And neither one of us are undermining each other.

Like I don't undermine Tom and Tom doesn't undermine me.

You can have some other people that are

around us and they take shots and you see the kids,

when you see the kid disrespect you, the kid never disrespects me.

The parents disrespect me in front of the kid for the kid to disrespect you.

So never think it's the kid.

It's not the kid.

The parent is influencing that.

So you're like, no problem.

If that's the case, I'm not trying to get involved.

It's your kid.

You handle your thing.

But on the part that I want to talk about here is the info inside.

The other night we're having dinner.

And we're at dinner, a restaurant we've never been to before.

Some of you guys should check it out.

It's called Casa de Angel.

So what happened there at this place?

There's a guy that made a video with 40, 50 times me saying it.

I just love the place.

So we come back.

You're there.

We're in the car.

You drove us home.

We're in the car with the boys.

We come home that night and I sit down with me, Tiko, Dylan and Senna.

I take out a piece of paper.

And I said, guys, let's play a game together.

And this is the game that we played.

We played the game.

I said, tell me you can see here what it looks like.

I said, tell me you're 30 years old.

What would be four to five things that you

would be proud of if you're 30 years old that

you're doing?

OK, so I'd want to be a soccer player.

OK, great.

What else?

I want to run my own business, insurance.

OK, great.

What else?

I want to be a palantial--

Palantialgist.

What is that?

That's like the study of--

The dinosaur person, Tom.

Paleontologist, I think it's the--

Paleontologist.

I'm not going to make it.

Study of animal history.

So that's what I want to do.

OK, great.

What else?

And I'm going through it.

I'd want to-- OK, what else?

Next one.

I'd want to be the CO value tainment.

What else?

I want to be able to do this.

I want to be able to make movies.

I want to be able to write scripts and my characters actually become-- what else?

I want to be able to have them on bakery.

I want to be able to do this.