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Go ahead, Rob.

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We're just learning. John Bolton. It happened at 7 a.m. this morning. Shortly after the raid began, FBI Director

Kash Patel posting on X quote, No one is above the law. FBI agents on a mission. David Spunk

joins us now with more on this breaking news. Hey, David. Hey, guys. Not much we can say at this point, but information will continue to develop. As you mentioned about seven o'clock this morning, FBI agents raided Ambassador Bolton's home. Notable, we're being told by two government sources that they are looking for classified documents as part of a potential leak investigation. We're told that Ambassador Bolton is not in custody. He's not under arrest. But it is notable they are at his Maryland

home right now. We don't know how many agents are there. We're waiting to get a picture of the scene coming in right now, but we're told ambassador Bolton who was just on TV on another network a couple of days ago talking about the Russia Putin Trump summit is now under FBI investigation.

Now I want to.

Okay.

Tom thoughts. No, no.

Tom, what's your point?

Tom, you're gonna say something.

It's your point.

I do it, well, you know what?

FAFO, you know, you wrote a memoir, you leaked information, you were a pain in the neck during the last year of his administration. You got the Biden administration to actually drop the suit that the Trump administration justice department brought against you, Biden walks in, Justice Department, John Bolton, any enemy of my enemy is my friend is what he does and Biden does it

and so now they're they're going around. Now the headlines are gonna be Trump is no no no this guy was a leaker, this guy was a national security guy, this guy was was not good, this guy was like the hidden ghost of

Soul of the Warhawks and once where they they had this picture said John Bolton stumbles into capital claiming Iran shot

It's what's new come here's what some people said this morning about it Kash Patel said no one is above the law exactly on mission Dan Bongino said public corruption will not be tolerated Pam Bonnie said America's safety isn't negotiable Justice will be pursued always Megan Hayes from CNN a Biden adviser said seems extremely political extremely petty Suggested it smacks of pure revenge and represents poor use of a BIA FBI resources Vinny

What do you think well first of all it drives me nuts that the other side has the freaking gall to even to what we're doing for Trump for years, for years now, this was, I was celebrating in my car, Tom, on the way, and by the way, they were looking for documents, they're probably hiding in his mustache, but this guy is the epitome, this is the epitome, Tom, when they talk about the swamp...

I'm with you, preach!

Yeah, when they talk about the deep state, when they talk about the swamp, that's the guy. That is the face of the deep state. Okay, he wanted war with everybody, war with Iran. Model time where he said...

Intentionally, he did it.

Yeah, he said, he basically telling Kim Jong-un, you're next, right?

Yeah, well, Trump's heading over there.

Yeah, exactly. And then he fought Trump on Afghanistan. He blocked the peace deals and then you write a book talking crap about the book that got him sued by Trump's Justice Department And good for him. I just hope and mind you again guys. This is we're less than one year in They're making all these promises. Let's put the Epstein and all that stuff aside I hope this is the beginning of the of everything else accountability. I'm happy

It's starting with this guy, but I hope it doesn't finish. I hope it keeps going Well, John Bolton is known for war first ask questions later Trump is if there's any difference between the first term with Trump and second term with Trump Trump's bench that he was dealing with back then was so limited and so just Not with talent and people that were on his side. You would hire a vocal critic. Yeah of

Trump now Trump is like last decade and now I don't know some are calling it retribution We'll see what happens here, but no man is above the land and you said this before and I've heard other people Are you the fact where they're like? Well, he assigned him just like Christopher Ray They're like, well if he's such a corrupt guy and it's like well Trump when he first won he didn't go hey that's a great guy

Christopher Wray hire them but you made it that's a great point. Exactly Eric Trump was on this podcast and said what happened the first time versus the second time with the people we put in to vet our selection. FBI resources remember who

were the buffoons that sent those same FBI resources to- Clock in the morning.

Oh, watch out, Pat.

Pat, Pat, Pat.

Oh, there we go.

Oh my God, he saves his life.

Tell me. Pat, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if this guy's in my top 50 list of people to go morning on Manect. He got into trouble. He hasn't drank for three years. He is at an airport, he drinks, it's public, drank for three years.

And somebody who hasn't, who has drinking issues, or you've tried to get off alcohol, you know how tough it is. You say, I can get away with just one glass of wine or whatever. And the next thing you know, you're...

I mean, he's like, save that money!

Yeah! This is the most entertaining encounter I've ever had. I'm always audited but damn this guy's fun to be with. Look over there and really look over there because something's there. So if they go after this, go raid his house and they find nothing, they're gonna look just like, you know, what was the guy that did it here. So people on the left, that's like, I can't believe he's going after John Bolton. If Trump did this ass to Biden, okay, he's not necessarily been like Obama every time

Obama. to Biden, okay? He's not necessarily been like Obama every time Obama I inherited and and all these liberals get up and they say well you know you don't ever blame the previous one it's all Obama did for the first four years all go back and play the tapes it's out there about Bush everything was about Bush's fault Bush's fault Bush's fault Bush's fault Bush's fault it's like dude kudos to Bush love him or hate him, when he became president and he got out, never said anything. He said nothing that's been that influential. So I don't know what they're doing here.

Maybe there is something there. Maybe it's really...

With Letitia James, you don't want to be Letitia James by mistake.

Yeah, you don't want to do that. I agree. You don't want to do that. Um, Hillary Clinton all all of the cases that they're gonna talk about then die I think there's a 25% chance someone I don't know who exactly but I think someone we deserve There will be a fall guy. I think there's gonna be someone that goes who I don't know Let me tell you what's the weirdest thing?

You know podcasts and we've been speaking a lot lately because the interest in this topic last night I'm watching the you know, Jelaine Maxwell documentary. Have you watched it on? Highly recommend you go watch it. Let me say it again highly Yeah, we were glued to the stream screen me my dad and my son Okay, hey her father died how close her and her were, and some of the things that he taught her. Some things that I never knew about her, their methods, some of the clients that we're talking when they were taking them upstairs and literally they would bring 16 year old girls upstairs

to their penthouse, hey can you bring the clothes upstairs and they would bring them upstairs and they would go in the room, change in the robe, come out, to imagine the 16 year old girl is sitting right there They right in front of her come join us like that was their method of doing it right very interesting when you see that so For me I talked to Michael Cohen a couple days ago. We're having a conversation together about you know What's really going on? What's and his position has changed all of a sudden now? He's complimentary you know all of a sudden now He's you know a little bit more complimentary to the president all of a sudden Hillary's

Complimentary to the president weird all of a sudden, you know, Joe Scarborough's compliment You want to say Newsom's trying to be like Trump all of a sudden a lot of people are complimentary So the moment people dramatically switch that aggressively it's one of two things There used to be a song You know the head, you know, player in charge, you can replace the player with another word. And, you know, but I swear to God, if you

do something, I will destroy you. And they believe him. There's a big difference when you build a reputation like that. To be who he is today took you're an asshole and you're comfortable being that person. So you create friends and allies and some that always know behind closed doors, holy shit, this guy can destroy me if we really wanted to. And so that's his rep. And people are kind of starting to realize maybe this is somebody not to mess with. First thing Tom said is what? You know, FAFO. F-A-F-O, right? F-O. F-O and find out. That's exactly what's going on right now.

So, but I will tell you, if you do this and you don't find something, they're going to say you're just like the previous administration. You're using the DOJ. Trust me. All day today, this happened what time? 7 a.m. Watch how all day today. This is the easiest content for Newsome

Warren every AOC mom Donny Everybody on the left is gonna say they're using the justice system to go after their opponents They're using the justice and this is such an and in the next week two weeks four weeks six weeks. They show something. Holy shit

That's credibility hypocrisy, which I think is the point that you're making here is that all they did was weaponize the law fair all they did was and then to do this speaking of hypocrisy one thing I just want to speculate served in the military whatsoever I think a lot of people are frustrated by people have never served or are not Trump never served in the military but he's not a warmonger if anything he's a dealmaker trying to make peace so I feel like people are a little disgusted

by the hypocrisy for someone like this.

And the mustache. Okay, so let's go to the next story that we got here. The next story I wanna go to, believe it or not, is Walmart and Target, Rob. Rob, I wanna combine this with Walmart together, Rob, and then Tom, I'm gonna come to you, for this one. All right, so let's do this one here. 100%. Target shares dropped 7% to 98% after naming chief operating officer Michael Fidelke.

We're disappointed. Gerald Storch, former Target vice chairman and ex-Toys R Us CEO, told the Post, this guy's apparently got credibility, he was the ex-Toys R Us CEO, the stock price reflects that there won't be change when change is needed. Fidelkey, 20-year veteran at Target, responded during an internal meeting saying there's no shortage of critics out there today. The way to prove these critics wrong is with action that leads to results.

Target reported a 1.9% decline in same-store sales for the second quarter ending August 2, 2025, with customer transactions down 1.3%, and average spending per transaction down 1.3% and average spending per transaction down 0.6% despite beating Wall Street earnings estimates. Fidelke noted on a post-earning call, now we need to move a ton of confidence that we're on the right path here, citing improvements in home goods like Disney and Marvel.

Now while this is happening, folks, the complete opposite is tariff push prices higher. Those are two separate stories. Rob, is this a tariff story or the target story? This is Walmart and the tariffs. Okay. Did you have the target story as well? You had a clip on target. Is this the pastor? This is the pastor. Okay. So CNN does a story on this one pastor. I don't know if you got this black pastor was driving saying black Americans spend $ million dollars a day at Target but Target doesn't listen to us. Watch this. Leave the fast would work. Yeah where we

are right now is the stock has plummeted the evaluation has dropped by 12 billion dollars. Salary was slashed by 42% and now they got a new CEO. Well this is the most effective and sustainable boycott for black people in 70 years since the Montgomery bus boycott. And so it was not unity in that you don't see it overnight, but it's a protracted process.

Look, if you... And I couldn't think or find one black company that earns $12 million a day. People begin to have the light bulb go off think or find one black company that earns 12 million dollars a day. People begin to have the light bulb go off and say I can't spend my dollars where I'm

not getting dignity. Tom thoughts? Well there's three things here. First, Target in 2023 they had that they go back they had a CEO that came from the outside world and kids bathing suits for six-year-olds that contained instructions and said they were tuck friendly. So tell your six-year-old boy, don't worry about this little extra equipment you came with,

we're just gonna tuck it in here. Mommy, you're hurting me! And so, he had that and everybody freaked out. And meanwhile, there was also these churches that were looking at it and saying, wait a minute, we don't think this is dignified. And it wasn't a weekend boycott.

This has been multi-year and it's been very effective. It's been over two years that this has been working. And what they do, targets like, you will fast from something, meaning you will abstain from it. Hey, I'm fasting except water on Friday and I'm having a day of reflection and prayer.

So you're fasting from food. So when you see those signs that say Target fast, it says time to fast from Target, meaning abstain from Target. It's been very, very effective. Meanwhile, when all of this went down, what did Walmart do?

Hey, remind them that we're from Bentonville, Arkansas. Remind them what we stand for. And Walmart said, guess what? We are seeing, which was America's big box retailer. And so Target takes the L. Then what do they do?

They say, hey, we have a great idea. The COO who's been here, who's part of this executive team, we're going to put him in charge. And he's been around forever. It's like, what? What? It's like I have two kids, let's say. I got two 15-year-old sons. They're both delinquents. One of them breaks a bunch of windows in the neighborhood. That's okay. This is what I'm gonna do. My other son is gonna be president of Neighborhood Watch That'll work. Yeah, right. Wait a minute. He was running with a very good example. You're using their

Same so let me ask you though. Would you bring somebody from the outside in this situation? Would you use the same would you somebody internally because maybe you know of this guy Michael Fidelke This guy was the other guy's right-hand guy. It's made

Hey We chose the other guy's right hand guy. Hey, we chose the wrong guy, goodbye, and we're going to bring somebody from the outside because we want the outside guy to address everybody on the inside.

So what if this guy's the interim guy until they find a guy to get the full-time job? Because Rob, can you pull up the picture I just sent you right now? It's going to show you where Target's stock price was a couple years ago compared to where Walmart is now today. Watch this. Bingo.

The red is... Actually, look at that number. Target was close to $300 a share. Walmart was at $80 a share. Fast forward to today. Walmart's nearly $300 a share.

Target is at $60 a share, give or take. One bad leap on Walmart. But you know what? The moment you forget who your customer is, who shops at your place, families, families who can't afford, this is low and middle income families that are coming to your place. Hell, we would go shop at Target.

I'm telling you ourselves we would go shop at Target. And I'm a Sam Walton guy. But you make decisions like this, you lose him. The thing that this was a double whammy Tom, this is the part that was a double whammy. Not only did they lose the family guys by going woke with the whole trans, all that stuff, but you lose the black vote. How do you do that? You lost both of them.

Go woke, go broke. I mean, that's a similar theme here. I mean, target is basically the Disney of it is Minneapolis, Minnesota. Weird. So interesting. The George Floyd headquarters is where Arkansas pretty red state almost somebody call it one of the red estates in the no Walmart in South beach. So I haven't been to Walmart in years. The only time I actually did spend time at Walmart is when I live in this beautiful, beautiful town, town called Addison, Texas. I went to Walmart after living

in Miami my entire life. I was like, Oh my God, everything's free. Everything. 92 cents, 44 cents, a dollar 29. Like anything you could buy anything you want. It was crazy. Save that money. Uh, there is a target in Miami beach. Oh in Miami, that I'll go to from time to time. And I understand why he said that, you know, certain people call it Tar-jay. It is a classier type of shopping experience.

From this path, like what, I don't see Target going out of business or anything like that. Well, here's the interesting thing. This is the part I'm really trying to find out. in community with that pastor who looks like he's a second away from singing a song called My Mind's Telling Me No. If you, Rob, can you pull up, did Walmart have DEI and can you compare DEI policies between Walmart and Target? Compare DEI policies between Walmart, yeah Walmart did it as well, just not at the level.

They didn't make the headlines for the talking heads.

There you go, full reason.

So a reason full.

So a rollback of shifts. So they ended their DI program November of 2024 Trump got selected significantly scaling back the DEI Including sun setting a racial equity center established for after George Floyd Phases out DI language replacing it with communication with terms like belonging and experience Though still asserting that equity and non-discrimination remain core. Okay, stop prioritizing suppliers based on racial gender Diversity and also also removed certain transgender. Okay, stop prioritizing suppliers based on racial gender diversity and also also removed certain transgender

Okay, so they had it they removed it very quick, but they did have it Yes, so external reaction shareholders Democratic Pivotal pushback requesting rollbacks lawmakers Arkansas members of the changes Okay. Now, let's go to target policy changes Concluded major di initiatives early 2025. Okay, so they waited a couple months later Including wrapping up the three-year DEI goal and reach whatever. Okay ended part involving external change significant consumer pushback including boycott and loss of market value target reportedly shed two twelve point four billion dollars of market value and faced a

40-day boycott After the rollback, so it's interesting African-amer Americans at that church went after Target but not Walmart. Why not? Because perception is reality. Yeah that's so.

They think that Target is more woke than Walmart. Just a few months moving faster for Walmart. But it's not even the African American rollback because if you go back up to Walmart, go back up a little bit more, look what it says right there. External reaction, shareholders and democratic officials push back, requesting explanations for the rollback, calling it disheartening.

Well the stock went to 300. State lawmakers in Arkansas questioned Walmart leaders on the changes and Walmart responded by emphasizing that associate treatment, hiring practices and supplier efforts have not changed. Backlash from customers and staff followed, including boycotts over the rollback Walmart defense. So, so I don't know.

DEI may look somewhat similar here.

I don't know.

Bard did the hoop on trans and they did it around kids, then trans kids. So when you look at DEI, compare Trank went on board.

Yeah, but guess what?

I think Shane Gillis is now a spokesman.

That boat still has water in it. But meaning they're getting more in line with who their customer is. Man, they drink beer. Yeah, but would that blow?

Truly Walmart got lucky here because Walmart also had the trans stuff in their company as well. They simply got targeted and the CEO had no clue how to handle it better. Their marketing team probably had no clue how to do it. Their PR team didn't know how to handle it better. That tells you bad PR, bad marketing, bad storytelling, bad leadership moving too slowly cost them $12 billion and Walmart moved faster by a few months. Just by moving a couple months faster, saved yourself $12 billion.

I don't know how much it cost Walmart. Can you go to Walmart's stock price, please, Rob? Go to Walmart's stock price. Let's just kind of go five years, if you don't mind. Go to the five-year right there to the right, all the way to the right. Zoom out a little bit.

Okay.

So let's see right there. So what? Oh, interesting. So market cap, can we go to market cap? It's now 784. 2020. What was Walmart's market cap 2020? Just ask the question. And Target's market cap in 2020 versus... So end of 2020, Walmart was a $408 billion company. Now it's a $781

to $819 billion company. Target end up in 2020 was a 88 billion out of company. Damn. They're now only a 44 billion out of company. So Walmart doubled in valuation target split. So COVID destroyed Target while Target was getting close to competing with Walmart. Walmart is officially look, look what it was in 2020, Tom.

Walmart was only four and a half times bigger than Target. Walmart is now 20 times bigger than Target. They got destroyed. Very, very interesting, because it's not as black and white as you see it here.

It's not.

It's not just DEI. Walmart's a better run organization. Organization, yeah. I think there's more to it than we're looking at. And so anyways, we'll see what happens with these guys.

Do you think people are just deciding, all right, I'm not going to go shop at Target,

I'm going elsewhere?

A part of it could be, so for example, the three words at the beginning of the year, speed, signal, product. Speed, signal, product. Look at this. That's the word I announced beginning of the year this year, right? Speed. How fast did they address that DEI wasn't working?

Not as fast as Walmart.

How fast did they replace leadership team that needed to be replaced? Not fast enough. Okay. Signal. How much noise did Target create and not know how to handle the noise? Way more noise with Target than Walmart.

Way more noise with target than Walmart way more noise and last but not least product What did they actually buy invest in and and develop? What what the target do to make the product be better? Who knows what did Walmart do they made the investment time you look like you want to say something? I want to ask you a question, please Pat. You're now on the board of Target. Yep that right there

Do you take the CEO of the last 10 years and put them in a chair? I don't I don't know it

No, no, you're right. That's what I'm saying. The more I'm thinking about this the more I'm going I don't even think it's the EI only I don't think it's ESG only I don't think it's called, hey, you know, here's a question Rob. Can you do me a favor? Can you find that if Target ever reached out that pastor? You know that pastor from that church that the video came up What's his name? Jamal Bryant. Can you ask if Target did Target ever reach out to Jamal Bryant to have a conversation with him? I'm curious I'm actually curious the target of a reach out to Jamal Bryant Let's see here.

You're asking what the Target... Yes, there was one meeting with Jamal Bryan, Target leadership. According to the Guardian, June of 2025, Bryan... Okay, that's too late though.

That's way too late.

I mean, that's after the bomb has gone off. Yeah, that's way too late. More recently, as, Brian stated he is open to meeting with Target's incoming CEO to negotiate a resolution. Target did reach out as evidence that the first meeting with Brian Cornell, however, no further communication has taken place.

Brian remains hopeful and willing to meet with the new CEO. Yeah, I don't know.

Why do you ask that?

Because you're saying that they should have met with him.

Yeah, I don't know. I just think like for example this takes me like you know NFL is going back to playing games again You got freaking male cheerleaders. You really think the product wants to see male cheerleaders You know what city you in Minnesota You really Minneapolis we want to go in there and see male cheerleaders I'm a tissue like you think we're going to a game. I want to see this guy shake his butt you think I'm like Oh my god. I was so fantastic Let me buy Phil 40 other tickets and take my kids to the flipping game And then they still have those three things love and all these things you got to choose that race and zone and racism

It's just dumb every time you think they're making some kind of progress They go back to this bullshit of bringing it back up and putting back into the American faces. It's so disappointing Stop playing this flipping game when Colin Kaepernick's deal happened in 2017. You know, it's the first question I was asking is did Roger Godel meet with the leadership team fast? No, they didn't what happened and if all went to shit show and lost a bunch of customers and now they have this thing Going out right now, but NFL is a number one product in America, but it's a number seven product worldwide

So if you want to if you want to improve and you know who your clientele is you want me to go look at male? cheerleaders Seriously, we're talking about male cheerleaders Roger you think that's what we want to do. I don't know Let me say by the way it may be left to owners So maybe if the onus is not on Roger Goodell for the owners choose to have male cheerleaders. Okay, so double, what percentage of NFL teams have male cheerleaders?

Can we figure this thing out? And I'm not even talking about the holders.

Patriots.

Because the holders are big boys. I'm talking about.

I would say seven or eight. Patriots. What percentage?

Minnesota.

Oh, percentage? Have one male cheerleader. No, there's a couple of them. Twelve. Ravens. Twelve now have male cheerleaders. Yeah, but I want to know what these cheerleaders look like. Are they holding the pom-poms?

So, yeah, that's one. Here's the thing. What? So so this put it on the teams. Can you ask the question who in whose discretion is it? Can the NFL can the NFL, can the NFL, um... Force?

No. Mandate? Uh, uh, uh, mandate that NFL owners can't have male cheerleaders.

Jeez.

Can the NFL mandate that NFL owners can't have male cheerleaders? Let's just, great question, break down the difference. League authority with their, the NFL is a private league, the team owners operate as franchises, the league does not have authority to impose uniform rules. Okay. In theory, NFL could adopt a rule requiring all cheerleader squads to follow certain guidelines.

However, employment practices including cheerleading and hiring are landed at the team level, not centrally. Cheerleaders are generally hired by teams management, not by the league. A blanket ban on male cheerleaders would likely face legal challenges. Okay, that's exactly where I thought it was gonna go. So, okay, I understand that part that if you do that. Now, but for you to put the other stuff, which is what?

End racism, start with love, can you, what were the phrases, Rob, that you're doing?

And they have to, by the way, they have to pick one.

That's dumb. this. Male cheerleaders sometimes means the big strong guy that's helping to make the pyramid. I want to know if it's trans cheerleaders. Let's ask how many NFL

teams have trans cheerleaders. So we have to put end racism, stop hate, choose love, inspire change. It takes all of us? Change what? Change what? Give me a flip and break. Like I was done watching the NBA product but playoffs. I was done. I haven't rooted for the Lakers since the day they signed LeBron. You want to bring this back? Seriously? You want to bring this back? What in racism, bro? What? What in racism? You talk about in the 1800s, we looked at data the other day, only one and a half percent of people were slave owners, white people were slave owners and

was mostly in the South. That was mostly Democrats. And I want to put it on our face that we have to end racism. Oh my god. Let me just watch the damn game touchdown field goal Interception wiped out big hit great catch and racism CT give me a break Give me a flippin break, dude

Holy shit, like give me a break, Roger. You're getting this close to bringing the product back and you put this shit on our face again? Oh my goodness, like this is so annoying. What else needs to happen for you to see this? Why do you think people... Anyways, man, this is just annoying to no like I'm so glad I'm not even ah you okay pal I'm not it's not it's annoying because you almost had it what are you doing? Why go back? What are you doing? It's 2025. Did you not see who won the presidency? What do you mean and racism?

Ah double down. Woke agenda. Can I just say one thing about Minnesota? Because you know my mom's from Minnesota. I got a love for Minnesota. What the hell is going on in Minnesota these days? You know, the, the slogan for Minnesota is Minnesota. Nice. Everyone's nice in Minnesota. Oh, Hey, how you doing? Well, there was a famous, Tim, Tim walls, target their headquartered in Minnesota. We know what's going on there. George Floyd.

We've saw what happened with that. Ilhan Omar, the squad leader of the squad doing her thing. Little Mogadishu. We see what's going on there. Our mayor, Jacob Frye out there speaking Somalian to basically pander to voters. This dude, whoever this guy is right now, if you could show a picture of this guy, male cheerleaders, something's going on in the waters of Minnesota

and it ain't America, it's Somalia. And this goes back a long time. Walter Mondale was out there and it's the only state that Reagan didn't win. And then they asked Ronald Reagan, what do you want for your birthday? And he said, how about Minnesota? And that would have been a clean sweep first time in history. But it goes back to there, it goes back to George Montgomery. You go back and Minnesota has been this outpost of weirdness going back 50 years.

Yeah. Alright, let's transition away from... No, not transition. Let's move on to the next story, Pat.

Move on to the next story.

I want to get to the next story Pat. Move on to the next story.

I want to get to the next one Pat. I want to get to the next one. Where is the story about gerrymandering with Gavin Newsom? Is that in the addendum? Could be in the addendum that we're looking at. You know what, matter of fact, since we're already in this story, let's just wrap this

up with the story because it's all coming together. Okay, okay loses almost a hundred million dollars in value as stock plunges after new logo release. Okay, Rob if you can pull this up please and and show this and then you have the clip that I sent you or is it a different one? So this is the CEO of Cracker Barrel, okay, they went from the stock went from a drop 422, to 7.2%. You'll see the clip here.

This is what the CEO had to say about changing the logo from what it was before to what it is today. We don't have to show the whole thing, but you got to see the first 10 seconds. Go ahead, Ron.

It's been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we're doing. Honestly, the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we're doing. The feedback and the buzz is so good, not only from our customers, but from our team members.

Okay.

How?

How?

Okay, so Rob, can you go do me a favor and go to Cracker Barrel Stock? The response is overwhelmingly positive. From who? The LGBTQ community? From who from who is positive I actually want to know look out what what looks overwhelmingly positive about that decision that you made I want you to make that argument what is over one

more employees said they liked it yeah so it dropped now here's the thing no they didn't Tom what what is the what is the big deal of this story is this even a story should we just skip it and say, who cares, let Cracker Barrel do whatever they wanna do with their logo, not a big deal. Redskins changed their names to Commandos,

and I know, I know, I'm just calling it Commando, but you know, whatever they wanna call themselves. Why is this such a big deal?

Here's why it's a big deal. Because she's not just changing a logo, it's changing a culture. Now, if you've been into Cracker Barrel, they're connected to a lot of big service stations and you can go in there and grab a beverage or something. You know what I'm talking about?

I love Cracker Barrel.

We've been there. And I do too. We had this one, there was a Cracker Barrel that we used to stop at. We drew from Dallas to Atlanta to see my mom. And we would stop at this one cracker barrel in the same place.

And the girls just thought it was hysterical. You know, the kind of old folksy, homey, and fried chicken and southern stuff. And you know, we thought, this is kind of cool. And they serve alcohol. you could drink. Well, we didn't do that while we were driving. So the they didn't just pull over and take me to the point. I usually let Bailey sit up front and I'm back in the back seat making Pruno in a plastic bag. So it's like, so just bored on the trip to Atlanta. So Cracker Barrel is not just changing a logo. They say, Hey,

we're changing the logo, and we're cleaning it up. Companies change the logos all the time. They freshen them up. They change them a little bit. This, they remove the icon of the folksy,

you know, general store that it was. And says, we've also moved items that aren't selling. That's not a big deal either. Stores do that every day. Hey, you know what? You know, honey roasted peanuts aren't selling. Let's have regular peanuts in bulk. They make decisions like that all the time.

And they cleaned up the store a little bit. They said they're gonna lighten the decor inside because every so many years they're changing tables and stuff, they get old. And now it's like they're moving the culture. That's what's going on, Pat.

And people are reacting very similarly to when Coke changed Coke. Yep. And that goes back 40 years now, as Sergio Zeiman, I believe it's like 40 years now where Coke changed Coke.

And it's a culture. They're moving culture, not just changing a logo, and CEO Julie Fels Massino has stepped on the third rail here and she's out there just using words along with the CMO and you are getting obliterated from X to Reddit to Wall Street which means that as a leader she's handling a change terrible. Forget

what it is. As a CEO you you're handling a change horribly, but you're touching culture.

There's one person that I believe can change it. One person that I believe could change it. If you hired this PR person overnight, crack a barrel, let me tell you who it is. I want you to look at me, Rob. If you're ready, there's one person that can change it.

Hold on.

I want to be serious. She can change it. She can change.

Wow.

I'm getting really hungry for some reason.

Except the shirt is not the proper shirt, OK? But if the old country store, if Cracker Barrel goes, hires a country boy CEO, he comes up and says, hey, Sid Sweeney, you know, it's an AI version of Sydney Sweeney. We kind of, you know, she's like nine fingers.

That there is kind of who to talk for Texas.

Can I make an observation? Tom, can you show the CEO of a crack?

No, no, no, no.

Folks, I just want to prepare you guys. It's not Sydney Sweeneyey, the CEO somebody else. So you have to go for it. This is the CEO of Cracker Barrel.

Yeah, those those glasses, anybody that wears those glasses, Stephen Colbert, Rosie O'Donnell, Rachel Rachel Maddow, Mark Cuban. They all want you to put those on something bad's coming. And your brain is right.

Your background, Rob? Can we see what her background is? Maybe we're being unfair.

And where does she buy those glasses?

Can you go to her LinkedIn profile? Maybe she was-

She's been there since 23.

I just want to know where was she at before and where did she come in from? So here's Julie Cracker Barrel, CO Income and Board Member, Vivid Seats. Okay. The Kohan. Damn. Well, she was a board member of Kohan. So it's all board member, board member. She was at Taco Bell.

She was the president.

Five years and six months. And by the way, you know who was at Taco Bell? If I'm not mistaken, Brian Nickell was at Taco Bell at one point in time. Was he or was he not?

The CEO of...

Can you go to Brian Nickell? Was he at Taco Bell or... Go to- The Yum Brands. Yup. Yeah, so he was from- The Yum Brands, KFC. So 2011 to 2018 he was there, so she came after him, which means they didn't work together, so probably not the same idea. So if you can go back to her resume, go to show all previous- Okay, there it is.

Go a little bit higher, Rob. Go a little bit higher. Right after Taco Bell. Where was she after Taco Bell? Go a little lower, SVP. She was sprinkles in LA. Fisher Prince. And at Starbucks. Sprinkles.

I've seen enough.

Board of directors, Starbucks, 12 years. I don't know. I don't see if I see a pattern of making this dumb of a decision. I don't know if I see coach, my favorite purse. I don't know if I see any kind of a-

But I don't see a line in law, I don't see a brand line that lines up with Cracker Barrel. You see that? Yeah.

You see the brand she's been associated with? Then you know who that's on? Then you know who that's on?

It's on the board and who hired her.

What the hell were you thinking hiring somebody like that? Well, I mean, I remember one time we hired somebody, okay? And one of our guys brought the story up to me yesterday. I don't know how much of this I can... let me just tell you what happened. We're at this meeting, okay, and we're sitting there with a bunch of people that run massive hotels, okay, and this person we hired, we don't know what side they're on and, you know, they're having conversations. These are pretty 20-30

heavyweights. And somebody asked the question of who is your hero? And this person chose to go first.

All right.

Now, you have to realize this is this person's first week with us. Okay. Loaded resume. And this person says, two of my biggest heroes in my life are Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden. No. Representing us. So I'm

sitting there, a couple of my employees who are sitting there, they, what do you call it, they, no no, they can't hold it back, they like, you know how you come kind of like, you know, one of those moments. Spit it out. Yeah I'm like, that's great and what can I say? Oh my god. So I'm like, that's great. And then The guys over there that we don't know where they're at politically. Yeah, you understand what I'm saying? Like all the big hotel. No, we don't know them. So it's not like we're friends We're just all trying to do business together and I'm trying to see like we're building rapport

Then I'm looking at their body language and couple of them are like, yeah, I don't know about that. Anthony Fauci, you know. One of them says Joe Biden's a nice man and, you know, obviously they would. And another person's like, I don't know if I would say my hero. It's a good president. They were both liberals, but you could tell the hero for them would be more like Obama or something like that. Hero's up there, baby. And kind of see where people are at because if your brand is a very bold brand that actual

audience on that side has to trust You have to do a little bit more digging for that individual to match Your brand does that make sense like for example if if CNN all of a sudden went and hired Charlie Kirk as a CEO That's a shock to CNN's audience And if and if Fox all of a sudden went and hired Jeff Zucker as a CEO. That's a shock to CNN's audience. And if Fox all of a sudden went and hired Jeff Zucker as their CEO, the audience will be like, what's the announcement?

Breaking news, Fox News just hired Satan. Stock market crash. To the audience, that doesn't make sense. So I put the onus on Cracker Barrel. Why'd you hire her before you brought her on board, Adam, thoughts before we move on here. The big thing is they changed their logo. That's it, they changed their logo.

They just hooked the old guy out of the freaking thing.

Because it's offensive.

It's offensive because he's what? He's what? But talk about Cracker Barrel. Okay, well, that's a cracker. So the big deal for Cracker Barrel is they removed the cracker and the barrel from Cracker Barrel. That's like taking Aunt Jemima off of the bottle. It's like, what are you doing, you dumb ass?

Okay, if you really actually care, don't call it Cracker Barrel. Well, I mean. I mean, I think we're missing the point here. They removed the subtle crack messaging here. I just call it the Whitey Waffle House or something like that. Well that's not even the barrel, it's just flat people showing up.

Could you imagine if this were a different restaurant?

Cracker Barrel.

What you'd call it? If you're looking for a replacement, Adam's awesome.

Yeah, let Adam just lean up on there and be like, eat here. We're gonna call it Bagel Barn moving forward.

Adam would call it the, you know, the locks. You know, the locks.

Hey, no, taste the soup, you'd call it taste the soup.

What's wrong with the soup?

Try the soup.

Let me tell you something, my dad was notorious, me and my dad had a very contentious relationship and every once in a while, when we were ready to meet, we would meet at a local restaurant. Usually it was Denny's, it would always be Cracker Barrel.

Nice.

Five world cow.

And then, no, we were always there and obviously, you know, we did our cracker thing. But then it's interesting enough, my dad, shout out to you, dad, rest in peace. He started dating a black lady. Really? Yeah, no, straight up. and next thing you know he's like meet me a Waffle House and that's what that

is not a joke there's not a joke so it was a lady's name what was the ladies I

can't talk about that however that's my dad would roll with that what would roll with the punches here a little depending on who was dating you know we'd meet at the different type of restaurants we used to be Cracker Barrel by the way you

got risk that's so good I'm telling you right now, I have a whole different little respect for you. Oh no, no, no, you don't understand.

When you said she dated a sister, I thought it was like a nun, not an actual sister. Oh no, he was smashing the sister. Well actually, a Jewish guy dating a nun is also kind of weird. That's true. That's very weird. Because nuns aren't supposed to... Then he would take his black girlfriend to Cracker Barrel.

Everybody was...

I think the story just went...

We have lost control. Full ball, cracker.

You know.

Yeah.

First we're talking and racism.

Welcome to Honky House.

Okay.

All right. I think we should make racism great again. Yeah. You and I only have to end it. It's not racist if you make fun of it. We've made insensitivity epic.

Let's just head to racism.

I was so looking forward to watching football. I'm not watching nothing. I was so looking forward to watching football, and you do something stupid like that, something stupid like that, after watching...

Now when you get to fumble the balls,

it's going to be something because Roger Goodell has CTE. And by the way, Roger Barrow, Roger Barrow, Roger Goodell was just standing behind Trump a couple weeks ago at the White House. Weird. I don't know about this. All right, let's go to redistricting. All right, California Democrats pass Newsom's redistricting plan.

Rob, if you want to pull up the clip as I'm going through the story here. So they finally get this thing passed and he blames Trump and Texas for it. Here's him celebrating. Do you have the, where afterwards he's saying a couple things? Yeah, right there. If you can do that.

So here's Gavin Newsom accelerates the process and Democratic controlled legislator formally approved a plan Thursday to redraw the state's congressional lines, teeing up a special election We got here because the President here Rob, go for it. We got here because the President of the United States is struggling. We got here because the President of the United States is one of the most unpopular presidents in US history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election. Congress will go back into the hands of the Democratic Party next November.

We got here because of his failed policies. Those are being exposed hour by hour, reinforced today by Walmart announcing they'll be raising prices because of the tax increases, because of the tariffs. Reminded every day by slowing economy, growing mistrust, distrust all across this nation, across the board, he is failing. He recognized that and that's why he made a phone call to Greg Abbott asking for

five seats. Can't win by playing by traditional sets of rules. He plays by no rules. I remind you all the time it's not the rule of lots the rule of Don. You're so funny. Pause it right there Rob. Do me a favor Gavin I got a question for you Rob I just texted you something. Have you read this article at all? Have you gone to this article, Gavin, respectfully?

Can you tell us what happened here? Why is it that Democrats get lowest rating from voters in 35 years? Why is that? I'm actually curious. Why do you think that is? Why do you think that it's gotten to a point where you had to either hire two trolls, three trolls as a team to tweet like Trump and send messages like Trump nonstop and you know,

to think and to see if you can beat the guy by trying to be like him. Why is it that you're such a, honestly, and by the way, there's a part of me, you know when I was younger, my dream was to be an actor, okay? And I even went to acting coaches.

You're still good though, I'm gonna throw that out there.

I don't know if I'm a, you know. You're good. But listen, but it was a dream. Like this is why I love movies. Next two to five years. We're building a lot of stuff here on our campus if you see our campus every day There's something new that's being built. We're gonna build a massive amphitheater. We're gonna build a Three eight story buildings here to house fifteen hundred employees two thousand We're doing a lot of stuff here that no one's aware of what it's exciting times that we're going through right?

but I wanted to be an actor and you'll watch a movie and you'll see someone act a part and I'm like, that was horrible, I think I can do better than that guy in that part. I just didn't feel the emotion in that part. I would have taken this angle, right? You do this all the time because you're a phenomenal actor, right?

Thank you.

It's natural for you, okay? And listen, I don't want to undermine Chad, he's also a great actor, but I put you at the top. Don't be upset. God bless you. But he's really good too. I'm watching, I'm watching Gavin Newsom, okay? Like the younger guys out there that can cut clips, you know what would be a great clip to cut? If somebody shows how many personalities this guy has, okay?

The hardcore liberal, the tough guy, the independent centrist, the guy that wants to sit down and talk to Charlie Kirk and other Republicans and move a little bit more to the center, okay? Then the guy that's willing to go AOC, you know, all the way to the left. Then the guy that wants to go blame Trump. Then the guy that wants to take responsibility. Then the guy, I mean, who are you, buddy?

Cybill. Are you somebody that's just a chameleon that's trying to adapt and fit? And no one knows. Do you know what's the most attractive thing about Trump? Do you know what the guy's about? You don't have to like it.

He's going to tell you what he stands for. What the hell do you stand for, buddy? What do you stand for? And everybody knows you're trying to run for office. Everybody knows you're dying to be a president. Everybody knows that.

Kudos, because people are talking about it. So you've got to give him credit, because he's getting the eyeballs. So he's definitely know how to get the eyeballs there. But you know if this thing passes, Tom, if this thing passes, what was it, prop what prop was it, Rob? Prop what?

Prop 90? Uh, uh, whatever the proposition was that he talks about in the, let me read this real quick so I, I give the right prop credit. So proposition, uh, 50, right? November 4th. So you, this, this proposition 40 is going to pass. There's 80% chance this thing's going to pass.

80? 80% chance this thing's going to pass. 80? 80% chance this thing's going to pass. So then it goes from a 43 to 9 House of Representatives in the state of California to 48 to 4 Democrats to Republicans. Guess what, Republicans? You're done in California. Your voice doesn't matter.

And FYI, America, who likes Newsom, if you guys for a second start getting with this Trump is bad, and he is horrible, and all the people that voted for him and now are like, I just don't like him, and he didn't keep his promises and all this other stuff, no problem. This guy's going to come in and do the same thing to America. Just letting you know. Okay?

Just letting you know. So the good news is the fact that Republicans' bench is going to be very deep for 2028. It's going to be a dogfight. But this guy is playing games and he's acting nonstop and he cannot make up who he wants to be. He reminds me of what Romney did when he almost beat Obama and he listens to one of his campaign

marketing rules that said, don't be too tough on Obama after Benghazi. You were too strong and you won that debate when he beat him. He destroyed Obama in the second debate, absolutely destroyed the guy. And in the third debate, he doesn't want to bring up Benghazi and he wants to win over female voters because, hey, talk about salad and health.

What? Romney could have been a president, but he listened to somebody confuse the hell out of him. And it looks like this guy's marketing team can't make up their minds what side they're on. Tom, what are your thoughts with this, him passing and he putting all the blame on Trump? Where do you see this thing taking place?

Well, first of all, Gavin Newsom has become Sybil. Sybil was a movie way back late 70s, 80s about this poor young woman suffering from split personalities. And so here we have Gavin Newsom, a poor young woman suffering from split personalities. And I look, I'm going to read some things that this says. I don't even need to say anything. I don't have to conjure up a feeling or a synopsis here because I have from one of his

harshest critics right here. It's quote, it's quite embarrassing actually how Newsom is arguing and targeting the wrong opponent. Donald Trump's not on the ballot in 2026 for midterms. He's not on the ballot in 28. You're not running against Donald Trump. Says your posts using all caps and inflammatory language are trying to capture attention. This is the attention economy you're going after. Why don't you talk about affordability and policies and good ideas. You've got to get attention somehow so you're on social media doing

parodies of Donald Trump. I think you need to look behind beyond 26. Your approach includes these AI generated visuals and phrases. Please.

Vinny. And guess who that was? Who? Joe Scarborough. Rob I just say Rob can you show us?

His harshest critic. By the way good call. Play this clip Rob. When you? Joe Scarborough. Rob, I just think, Rob, can you show us? His harshest critic.

By the way, good call.

Play this clip, Rob.

When you've got Scarborough saying this.

Play this clip.

Go for it. Democrats are trying to find their footing and it's quite embarrassing, actually. I mean, Gavin Newsom, I mean, have you seen what he's doing online? Say, just take a deep breath. Don't try to turn the ship 180 degrees. And they don't know what to do. I have a good idea. Instead of trying to school Donald Trump,

talk into the camera about affordability. Talk about making groceries more affordable. Talk about what you're going to do for housing. Talk about what you're gonna do for housing. Talk about what you're going to do for energy prices that continue to go up. We heard the congressman yesterday talk

about energy prices skyrocketing in New Jersey. You know, don't try, yeah. As I've been saying, Donald Trump's not on the ballot in 26. He's not on the ballot in 28. I said that last week. Why try to drag Muhammad Ali in the ring when you got Chuck Wepner standing right in front of you. Wepner's a bleeder. He's a bleeder. You want him. So why are you

going I'm going after Donald. No you're not. You're not running against Donald Trump. Go after Tweedledee or Tweedledum. You know, Chuck Webner, a bleeder, go after him. That is respect to Chuck Webner. Yeah, all due respect. He kind of held in there long.

Inspired Rocky, many people say. Isn't it... Rob, who are the two people that are behind his Instagram and social media push? Where are those people at? Do you know where they're at, Rob? You guys have to see it.

And again, I have a feeling one of them has dark glasses. Let's see.

Let's see. Come on. Come on. It's two younger looking people that are behind... It's all good, Rob. Can you, can we play the clip back? Cause I want to, I want to go in on Gavin a little bit.

Can you show the clip of him saying what he wants them to start doing to, to Republicans, which I think is a call. It's a call to action. And if he wants to play that game, he says, punch him in the, oh yeah, yeah. Can we show that? And guys, and again, I want everybody out there, remember when they hit us low, we go high, all that BS that you heard from all these fake ass Democrats, okay, they're the

party of violence. Don't forget that, okay? These are the people, and this is a call to action, because those two people, and Rob's gonna find who they are, this is the type of attitude that they're telling Democrats to have. Rob, go ahead yeah oh by the way oh weird they both have the glasses. Get out of here. These are the two people that are in charge of his social

media. These are the guys and the girl. They always have dark glasses. I'm on to something. Rob play the clip of him. The bow tie also. Yeah play the clip. I don't care about their looks their

work is what is terrible. Yeah well the glasses that tell. Go ahead Rob. This is radical rigging of a midterm election. Radical rigging of an election.

Destroying, vandalizing this democracy.

The rule of law.

So, I'm sorry, I know some people's sensibilities. I respect and appreciate that. But right now, with all due respect, we're walking down a damn different path We're fighting fire with fire and we're gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth. Okay, okay

You know, you can't say that we're in that shirt in that studio

I mean you just don't look like Rob play that does not look like a guy that's gonna come down there and pop somebody

No fast forward a little bit more to when he starts in punching. Yeah, go right there. Thank you Appreciate that but right now with all due respect

We're walking down a damn different path fighting fire with fire and we're gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth

we're gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth like what like if that's not a Call to action meaning we're going to fight like we're to get violent. Can I just break it down really fast? He said this is a radical rigging of a midterm, says the guy who's made it illegal to ask for identification to vote in his godforsaken state. Okay, and he said destroying, vandalizing this democracy. We live in a constitutional republic.

I'm breaking down everything. He's full of shit. Sorry for my language and the rule of law He's talking about the rule of law again Democrats are the going against everybody with law using lawfare and then he said fighting fire with fire Saying the guy that his state can't fight fire with water because there isn't any okay

This guy's an absolute joke and I just hope like because he has a backing obviously people are gonna vote for this guy Californians wake up do you see what this guy's if you can't see that he is a slithering freaking snake number one in homeless number one in unemployment okay when the fires are raging nobody's to be found and then they're buying up all the land that people in the Palisades can't even buy their freaking land or build houses there I hope you guys wake up maybe up. Maybe it's time for a change. Larry Elder had a chance.

You guys had a chance to recall this guy and you didn't. It's Stockholm Syndrome, Pat. It has to be. You guys love abuse. You love the high taxes. You like the crime.

Keep doing it. Keep doing it unless you want a change. And I'm tired of all these people calling me and complaining about California. What am I doing? What the hell am I doing? It's your fault. You guys keep voting for this shit because The other sides Hitler and the other sides bad No, you guys need to wake up man, and I get it people my whole family lives there My whole family's there, but unless you guys make radical change it ain't gonna happen. Amen

Well, I don't think Gavin Newsom could run again for governor of California

president Well, I don't think Gavin Newsom could run again for governor of California. No, he's going for president. He's 2026, I think he's done. Okay, correct. So, I mean, he's just, at the same time, he's trying to basically play to his base in California that basically will do anything other than appease Donald Trump. We know that about Newsom. But don't be surprised when he runs for president and he tries to do what he did in San Francisco and just clean it all up when she and the

Communist Party and he's gonna put lipstick on a pig and he's gonna try to pretend that he's doing a great job and he's gonna try to just clean it all up and we know what Gavin Newsom is. He's a complete actor, he's a complete chameleon and he's the best politician in the United States. If you want to know what an amazing politician, what a disgusting human looks like,

look no further than Gavin Newsom. He'll flip flop, he'll change, he'll act, he'll put on a tough guy act, he'll be LGBT friendly, he'll protect families all in one sentence. You know, California,

good luck to you. Bless your heart. Yeah, well, we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen here as we're going through the next phase. November 4th is when the vote is. There's a lot of stuff going on on November 4th. You know what else is going on November 4th? Mamdani, New York, the mayor. I saw a clip the other day of him crying, of saying the amount of death threats he's

getting for being Muslim. watching what this guy's doing slowly but surely, slowly but surely. He is winning the naive voters over and you're gonna see suddenly him showing up and becoming who a lot of people didn't think that an outsider could win there. But it looks like he's gonna be doing that. Anyways let me get to the next story here. Next story I want to go to is... I'm trying to see which one. Okay let's go with this story here. Next story I want to go to is... I'm trying to see which one...

Okay, let's go with this one here. Military preparing attacks on Mexican cartels. Okay. So this story came out because they've been going back and forth with the President of Mexico and it's been a lot of weird stories back and forth. The Trump administration directed the military to prepare

lethal strikes against cartel targets in Mexico with a top secret order issued in late spring 2025, tasking Norton Command to manage attacks by mid-September. As a senior intelligence office stated, not only is Donald Trump unequivocally, ununiquely focused on TCOs, having designated them terrorists is one of his first executive orders But he has shown himself to be willing to take unilateral action despite potentially negative political ramification

The order discussed at a July meeting in Colorado Springs led by Colby Jenkins unconfirmed assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity Conflict could involve unilateral actions without Mexican approval general Gregory M Gilot North come commander hosted Mexican military leaders

Mexican Navy Secretary of Administration Raymond Pedro Morales Angelus emphasized joint operations saying today more than ever the challenges we are face we face demand a joint coordinated and adapted response Tom thoughts

I'll tell you the Mexican president she is out there saying oh you will not do things here you will not do things here and they're cutting deals where that they've got drug dealers on death row we'll ship you to the United States if you agree that they're just a life without parole and we'll do this. We're making these prisoners, not even swaps, they're just sending them. So you've got that president going out saying all that.

Meanwhile, Vinny, look at this, in February 2025, her own Navy admirals and Admiral Secretary were getting together with our military talking about you know Aegis class cruisers and destroyers coming up to the coast of Mexico and there's three of them that have been sent down there that have all of this radar and missile warfare stuff and then they have these Poseidons which are these great big radar airplanes that fly over. They already have the targets. They know what they're going after.

And they're going down here just waiting for them to push the button. And the hypocrisy that's come from the Mexican president, you will, last week, remember she's screaming, you will not step foot over here. OK, we won't step foot but we'll wheel up three of our baddest destroyers,

all these missile guided ships, we'll put three of them over here, we'll fly the Poseidons over Mexico and then we will go pinpoint, take out people we want to take out. And so what I think that the really funny thing here is Trump is saying, hey if you don't do it, I will do it, number one. And then she's saying you won't step foot on soil It's almost like maybe she chose her words carefully. You won't step foot on soil Yeah, but you will sail up right next to us and launch a bunch of

Extremely loud damaging firecrackers. Yeah, I mean, there's a there's a Wall Street Journal story I'm gonna come to you Rob if you want to prepare this clip Trump orders Pentagon to deploy three warships against Latin American drug cartels. Did he say three warships? Yes, three warships. And by the way, this is a Wall Street Journal story. Rob, do you have that clip on this

one? I do. This is Pam Bondi talking about Maduro and why they are sending

the ships to Venezuela. Go for it. Today, the Department of Justice and State Department are announcing a historic $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro. Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like TDA, Sinaloa, and Cartel of the Sons to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country. To date, the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his

associates with nearly 7 tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico. Cocaine is often laced with fentanyl, resulting in the loss and destruction of countless American lives. The DOJ has seized over 700 million dollars of Maduro linked assets, including two private jets, nine vehicles, and more. Yet Maduro's reign of terror continues. He is one of the largest narco traffickers

in the world and a threat to our national security. Therefore, we've doubled his reward to $50 million. Under president Trump's leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes. If you have any information to bring this criminal to justice, call 1-202-307-4228 or go online.

Sounded like one of those lawyer commercials.

Yeah.

Have you been injured in a slip and fall?

Vinny, go ahead.

It's my money, I want it now. Listen, I absolutely love this, okay? Like, if you think about it, think of all the countries around, you know, Russia, we have our thing with China, all these different countries.

Why are we looking, like the real war is literally right beneath us. It's freaking Mexico. And I absolutely love that he's doing this. Just think, just Rob, what is the death count of Americans? Guys, we're not losing Americans in any other capacity, accidents and stuff like that, okay. But how many fentanyl deaths are happening every single year in the past couple years in the United States?

Rob is it a hundred thousand? What's yeah? It's a hundred Think about that number. We're losing that many people every single year, okay? They're sex trafficking all those three hundred thousand children missing from the freaking border you have all the drugs You have all the guns coming it was it Rob

around You have all the drugs, you have all the guns coming in. Where was it, Rob? Around 331,000 deaths in the United States due to fentanyl-related overdoses since 2020.

In four years, that's, yo, that's war numbers. Those are war number deaths, and I'm telling you right now, and the cartel, I didn't wanna see it, Pat. Somebody showed me a video of how ruthless these guys are. I don't wanna get into major detail, but they had this guy, hands on a fence. He's alive and they're literally cutting open his chest

and taking his heart out while he's still alive. These guys are freaking brutal. They freaking killed Americans. So guess what? You want to talk about Gavin's fight fire with fire? That's, I'm so happy that they're doing that shit.

Cause this is sending a message and if the president doesn't want to get involved, guess what? Then you're the enemy as well. We have to go in.

You know what that is every year? You know how many US servicemen died in Vietnam?

How much?

58,200.

In the whole war?

The entire war.

And we've lost that in four years.

Every year. Every year we have, we lose a Vietnam war and more.

That is insane. How do we stop it? That's how you stop it. Yeah, I mean It's almost like you don't want terrorists living right next door to you It's almost like you kind of got to do something about it or they're gonna overtake your entire country I'm not talking about Gaza right now. I'm talking about America

I'm fully supportive of Trump building the wall and taking down Maduro and taking down anyone that's trafficking drugs to terrorists

Mexico has the most say something Mexico has the most. Are you trying to say something?

Mexico has the most.

Did you catch that?

You caught that, guys.

I caught it. We got it, bingo.

I know what's coming. It's almost like you wanna live peacefully and safely without psychopaths trying to kill you and all your people. I'm talking about San Diego here, guys, not Tijuana. Mexico, we talked about this a couple of podcasts ago, has the most dangerous cities in the Western Hemisphere. That's six months ago, maybe a year ago before the Mexican

election. Do you remember how many politicians were killed just on a weekend? Like 50 politicians killed. Could you imagine if 50 American politicians were killed in a weekend? I'm sure there's people who'd be rooting for it, not me. But listen, it's a dangerous world out there. And Trump, he, Trump ain't playing around at this point. Like he's gonna take over DC, he should take over Mexico,

put a reward for Maduro. The funny thing is, if you know of any information about where Maduro is, we know where he is, guys. They know where he is guys. He's in his house doing his thing. I'm fully supportive of this.

You find Maduro. They're kicking it together. Those two are best of buddies right now. It's interesting because seven years ago, eight, no six years ago, I almost interviewed Maduro where I was going out there to interview the guy. And last minute it was during a season where things got chaotic. And that was when he was going back and forth with Juan Guaido or you know Juan Guaido. They were going back and forth that's what was going on at the time. Here's what we do Pat, here's what we do. We lower Maduro with a 50 million

dollar podcast fee. We say listen buddy, we're gonna pay you $50 million. Maduro shows up, si, yo quiero dinero,

and then he shows up. Pam Bondi, films are commercial, live on the spot. Right there. We break even, but we break the internet.

By the way, I wanna go to a couple of these stories with talking about the fire, as well as actually St. Clair, but a major update happened with my neck yesterday If you haven't updated the app a bunch of new updates happen if you download the app and you go to the bottom, right? There's now an events category for vault conference that's coming up

But also moving forward you can officially manect anybody in audio so if you guys are connecting Vinny Tom myself, you know, Adam or Ray Lewis or Terrence Howard or Cuomo or Kasparian or you know, whoever, you know, Saladino, Lindley, any one of these guys, DJ Shipley, any one of these guys you Manect moving forward, you can do it in audio. You have 30 seconds to ask the question, which is exciting. So if you have a question or anything you want to say, you can officially Manect individuals

in audio. I wish everybody knew the new updates that's coming up and we're officially one from 43 countries and 100 plus countries and very soon it's going to be even a bigger announcement. So hang tight, hang tight. After VOLT we'll be making one announcement that no one's going to believe, but it's going to be exciting. Let's continue.

Let's continue with this. Claims she's broke and facing eviction from What is that New York City apartment? Okay, and by the way, I don't know if she's trolling or if she's not here I don't know. She's very capable of Trolling conservative influencer Ashley Sinclair who claimed to be the mother of Elan must 13 child. This is a realtor duck But this is a realtor.com story Romulus announced on her new podcast that she is broke and facing eviction from her $15,000 New York City apartment, stating, well, after a year of unplanned career suicide,

many questionable life choices, a gap in my LinkedIn profile can make some podcasts. Sorry, podcasts, I'm taking a polymark here, $10,000. Yeah, can you show this clip, Rob? Can you show this clip? This is her starting a new podcast. Is that what this is? I believe so. Okay, go for it

Cautionary tale Also, I'm getting evicted and Polly market offered me $10,000 to do an ad read So with that the roof over my head has been brought to you by Polly market God bless Polly market the world's largest prediction market where you can place bets on who's gonna win the midterms, whether Trump will release the Epstein files or how many posts Elon Musk is gonna send in a day.

You can put that right there, Rob. And this story says her financial struggles followed 2025 claims that she gave birth to Musk's child September 21st. Musk responded on March 31st stating, I have given Ashley $2.5 million in direct payments

to date, as well as continued annual payments of $500,000. The Manhattan apartment leased for one year at $180,000 annually. Was part of Musk's support with a source telling Realtor.com, Elon leased the apartment for Ashley and Romulus, but she's been unable to maintain the lifestyle without his continued financial support.

Adam, what do you think about the story here? Well under legal orders, I'm under a gag order and it's not so much a legal gag order, it's a ball gag order right now. I don't know much about this. Here's what I know about Ashley, who's a very good friend of mine. Ashley is trolling everybody.

She's funny, she's witty, she's cool. She ain't broke So I think we all just fell for it. I don't know if you guys have different takes on this I can conclusively tell you with utmost conviction that Elon Musk is the father It's a look. Oh you were you were you were present? Yeah, I was there. I saw I saw I go down Holy I am NOT the father if that's what you're asking.

Oh, the test ruled you out? I didn't know.

Some announcements?

Ashley's a nice girl. She's a friend. She also used to work for the Babylon Bee. So if you don't speak sarcasm, and if you're not witty, Tom,

this is a troll. She has money, and I think she'll be okay good for her. Yeah, we met her at the Manecte event and she was very friendly that day. We met her at What was it? Which by the way, I don't know if you heard what happened with Soho house tell me what they took it off of They went private. Did you see this Rob if you tap in Soho house? Two point two point two billion dollar Ashton Kutcher's involved in this deal I think. Let's see what that is. Soho House is being sold for $2.7 billion and Ashton Kutcher is one of the buyers. They're going private in a multi-billion dollar deal that they're doing so good for them.

Soho House going a very different direction. Who knows? I'm sure they got some plans of what they want to do with it at Soho House, but that's where we did our annual Manek party, which took place on the rooftop. Why do you want to talk about this story, Pat? This story? No, this story was brought up by our friend Rob Gargoyle.

Why is that? Well, I mean, it's just that. Because it says to me, Adam wanted to talk about it. The letter's right next to it.

Oh, really?

Vinny.

So well, Adam, because since. But like, and I remember, so was the returning the Tesla a troll too? Like when she's like, I mean, just think about, I get it. If you're trolling, you're trying to do the poly market thing for clicks. Okay, I get it. But just like, what do you do? Like, is your existence now just going to be-

You know what?

Let's call her and speak, I wanna know, like what are you doing right now? You're rich as hell. Dude, $2.5 million up front, you should be set for life. How much is that kid eating? $15 million, you can impregnate me, Elon Musk.

Give me the kid, give me the, I'll take two of them.

V and I will chest feed your kid Elon Musk. Yeah, are you there?

What are you wearing baby?

Okay, so let's go to the next story is what we're gonna go to. We're gonna skip the story here because it upset Adam. We don't want to upset him.

No, I'm the only one actually commenting.

I commented.

Okay, so what else do you guys got?

I'm not running from it. Wait, guys, Rob, why did this story even get added? How did the story get added? Do you remember?

I don't remember, to be honest with you. I think Adam requested it.

It was a crazy morning. Yeah, okay, so that's what I'm saying.

Zero percent chance I requested it.

The story is here. I'm giving the instruction. I follow what I'm doing.

I'm trolling myself.

You just told the big man something no no I'm gonna go to something different this story having trouble with housing transition to a different story Christian revival believing God triples amongst 18 to 24 year old man and this is in Britain by the way so let's go to page 14 and see what these guys are doing in the UK because we had some issues with the UK this past week. Apparently they're not fancy in the UK and the Times wrote a story about this but let

me go to the story here for you guys. Here we go. You gobs tracker and religious belief show the number of 18 to 24 year olds in Britain professing belief in God rose from 16% in August of 2021 to 45% holy 181% increase with Lancastrian priest Father Damien Feeney stating the grown number of young people interested in faith comes from a need for

structure shape and routine in their life and a desire for stability at a time when otherwise life can seem destabilized. A 56% increase in monthly churches attendance from 3.7 million to 5.8 million between 2018 and 2024 was driven by younger men from 1 in 25 to 1 in 5 when women from 3% to 12% the 18 to 24 age group is now the second most likely to attend church monthly.

Feeney noted the desire for structure and order previously mentioned has led to a renewal of interest in traditional worship among young adults. The use of beauty in language, color, music, drama, and fairly classic ways has grown in appeal belief amongst 25 to 49 years increased 21% in 2021 to 33%. So let's see who wanted to talk about this story. Adam, I'm coming to you. What thoughts, what do you

have thoughts on this story? Well as the only true Christian on the panel here, the original OG Jew in the house, I think it's great to see Christianity make it a comeback, especially in the UK. I think if we learned anything like in America right now, you see that it's cool now to be conservative It's cool. It's counterculture to be like, yeah, I know the difference between a man and a woman So I think it's what's happening in the UK is they've gone so woke. They've gone so leftist

They've gone so secular that young people Gen Z are the ones that are leading this charge are basically saying no no, no, no No all this woke government infused nonsense. I'm done with this. And then returning back to churches. And I think that's a great thing. I think there's another element to this because there's religion and there's culture. I think religion is one component. I think what's happening in the UK is they're seeing their culture UK. It's not James, it's not Henry, it's Muhammad. And I think there's a lot of Brits who are like, all right, we're tolerant, we're

nice, we'll be appeasing to you, and there's a lot of people are starting to say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not on my watch. And I see simmerings. I see on the internet, not that the internet is the tell all, be all, especially Twitter, but I see this urge, this urge for a holy war, and that's where it's going to happen first, right in the UK. God bless. And I'm, and I know Tom's going to go right after me, but I mean, I am so, what great

news. I know we always talk about this and politics and Newsom and the end of the world. Thank God that people are going to God and Christianity. That makes me so happy because listen, it's undeniable. Okay, go do the research. The book that you told me to read, A Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. Guys, the guy was an atheist and was like, I'm gonna prove that Jesus wasn't here and he wasn't who he says he was. Guess what? He made a case for Jesus Christ. He was here. Whether you believe

what he was, if he was a magician or whatever, whatever you want to believe, he was here. He's the Savior. I think it's awesome that it's happening. And it's not just happening there, Adam. It's happening here in the United States, okay? And Louis CK had a really the best ever. He said, you know what religion won? Christianity. He goes, what year is it? 2020, it was 2023. He goes like, right now, it's 2025, right? Since when?

We all keep the date, everybody, Muslim, Buddhist, of when Jesus Christ died, okay? And I think it just proves how real, there's a battle right now bro with evil. Was it Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12? For we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but principalities against powers and rulers of darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness

in high places. Guys, the table is set, okay? And which side, where are you going? And I think the darker it gets, the brighter truth stands out. And I'm telling you guys guys from personal experience the Syrians We're you know a Syrians are mean is like that the battle of who were the first Christians

There's something going on in the world and I'm telling you the better my life has gotten the more truth I'm telling you Adam It's going to God and going to Jesus Christ because I'm telling you right now Especially with all this stuff that we talked about Epstein and this and that the only accountability factor is gonna be God, period. That makes me sleep well at night because I go, if it doesn't happen here, he's gonna hold everybody accountable.

Are you saying that Assyrians and Armenians were the battle for who the first Christian was? I think Armenians actually have a good.

Is this your jihad, Pat, your struggle, your internal struggle between Assyrian and Armenian?

Who was the first Christian?

You're both. and Armenian, who was the first Christian? It might have been, I think it might be Armenian. I know for a fact, one of my bloodlines was for me.

So he's good.

I'm good, Armenian and Assyrian. But let me go to this, let me give some thoughts on this and then we can get to the next story. You know, we'll sit here and we'll banter and we'll say all our stuff and some of it is fun and some of it is appropriate inappropriate. Sometimes we get emotional and I can't believe this and I can't believe that and sometimes we drop the f-bomb too many times and someone's got

to call you out and say hey get your act together and don't do this I don't like it kids are listening and by the way sometimes we we say things to people and we take personal shots which I don't like because I want to talk to a lot of these guys like as much as I don't agree with Newsom on politics I want to sit down and have a conversation with them. I have nothing personal against the guy. He does what he does. He's got a family. He's got kids. He wants to be a good father to his kids.

There's nobody that's not trying to do their best in their lives for the most part. The benefit of God entering my life and me becoming a Christian, the biggest part of it was that you had to learn forgiveness. And you had to learn that as much as you try to judge everybody else, hey brother, you have a lot of stuff and a lot of things you did wrong, that you screwed up with. That we have to get on our knees.

The other day I'm with the boys, Tico and Dylan, and I said, guys, whatever you do, pray a little bit longer tonight. And I get on my knees and they're sitting there with me there something happened daddy to something I'm just just just pray a little longer today Just pray a little longer today talk to God and I sat down and I'm having the conversations I wouldn't be who I am today without

God in my life I've said this so many times and I'm so comfortable saying it, the fact that I'm a nobody without him, just a regular guy. I'm sitting there the other day at the cigar lounge with one of our founding members who's saying stuff to me about, well let me tell you what about God this and what about God that and what about God this. I said listen bro, when I think about God I don't think about the judge pastor that you're going to hell God. I look at in a complete different way

You know, I know I desperately need God. He changed my life. My life doesn't make sense I can't believe I got lucky enough to get a green card to come to America legally I can't believe I met a Jennifer Hudman That's now my wife that gave me four kids who are my four, five favorite human beings in the world when I'm around them. I cannot believe somehow I got lucky enough to get a job at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

after the army, not having a four-year or a two-year degree. And a Dave Kirby, who I keep talking about him him I haven't seen this guy since 2002 Dave Kirby gave this guy a regular guy a job at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter who didn't have a four-year or a two-year degree when I was going up against another girl named Solmaz Rashidi who was brilliant got a 1560 on her SATs ran a nightclub in Berkeley did a four-year program in three and a half years sharp as hell it was so great sitting next to Solmaz because she was such a you knew she was gonna do

something big in her life you just knew it and we sat there at the same cubicle and going back and forth and somehow I got a 78% of my series 7 the first time I took it and I stayed in the financial industry then went went into insurance industry and then this happened then a life now, you guys listening to us? What? Vault conference, nearly 10,000 people to come with their husband, wife, and kids, and a 21-year-old guy goes and watches Tony Robbins at, you know, what do you call it, at San

Diego Convention Center, at Long Beach Convention Center, and now he's doing two hours. We're going to have some massive announcements we're making at the vault. This guy, this regular guy, You're telling me I deserve this? I don't know about that. So somehow, some way that favor changed this guy's life. He made me, as much as this doesn't make sense to you, to the people who know me, my dad would know this, he made me softer.

My heart, deep down inside, there is rage in here. There is so much rage in here. There is so much rage in this. And he just said, Hey man, these things are not on you. I got this. You go do all the other stuff. It's like, all right, I got it. So I'm so glad younger folks, 18 to 24 are getting exposed to this and they're finding God. They're finding church. I'm so happy that this has taken place. Uh, and they're finding God, they're finding church. I'm so happy that this is taking place and they're going through it. And it's a beautiful thing.

It's a life, who said this? Somebody said this, I think it was Johnny Cash, being a Christian is one of the hardest things to do or something like that. Rob, can you pull up what Johnny Cash said about being a Christian?

Johnny Cash, Christian, Johnny Cash, Christian, he said something, quotes, quotes, if you can just type it, he said something about being a Christian, being a Christian isn't for sissies, that's what he said. It takes a real man to live for God a lot more than to live for the devil. It is hard. Of course.

It is hard guys to do this. So anyways, life changing, happy for those guys in UK and I'm happy for all the other guys in America that that are doing the same thing as well let's go to next door here. Next story I want to get into is I'm debating between a couple these things to get into or not. Okay let's go on to this one I like what Marcus Lamona said on this one here um, Apologize Texas saying Vinny has become a preacher

you've become the preacher awesome okay so major retailer says no to California, pull zero punches, outlining economic reality. All right, let's see what this means. So first of all, Bed Bath & Beyond comes out and says they're not going to be expanding in the state of California. Rob, I think this is the post video, right? This is the pre.

This is the announcement.

Play the pre. Fantastic. Thank you for doing that. Go ahead. Watch this, folks.

We made the decision to not open in the state of California. And while it was a big place for business in the past for Bed Bath & Beyond, it's just too cost prohibitive. prohibited. At some point, some business needs to take a stand and remind the state of California that while they keep reminding us that they're the fourth largest economy in the world, that's going to dissipate over time.

Thank you. And by the way, you know what Newsom says? I thought Bed Bath & Beyond filed bankruptcy. There's another one by him, but let me read this as well. After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed Bath & Beyond no longer existed we wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a second store now he was a little bit more direct than that so Marcus Limonis when you think about him he had a show what was it called the Prophet or something I think was called the Prophet the Prophet he's actually

very good he's a very good at what he does NBC very fair you know we had an exchange once on X and then I don't know what happened afterwards But he actually has a lot of good things to say here Rob if you want to play this clip on Him reacting to what Newsom said to him go for it

Well, I think the thing that was really surprising to me is that I tried to articulate in a non-aggressive way Exactly why our company wasn't going to reinvest capital in California. And what I found out this afternoon is that Governor Newsom has enough time to respond to a tweet, as opposed to a private DM or having somebody reach out, to remind everybody in America that in 2023, before we bought the intellectual property, that the company went out of business. We all know that Bed Bath went out of business a few years ago.

Now we're trying to make a comeback. And I would think that a governor would want to attract investment, attract capital into the state. In fact, he did the opposite. He rejected it. It's a very simple model for me. As a capitalist myself, I want to do business in all 50 states and I want to do business with all people of all political parties. That's part of being a capitalist. But what I don't want to do is put my shareholders, my employees, and myself in a situation where

we're regulated to a zero. And we don't want to spend $100 million coming into California and then find out that the

state's going to take it all and waste it all.

Sounds reasonable. Sounds fair. Sounds like common sense. Tom, your thoughts?

Well, it is common sense and it is reasonable. And he was being fair about it. He was saying, you know, words talk, numbers scream. The regulatory environment and these taxes and this and this and this is making it tough for us to make a comeback. And I don't think Gavin Newsom was 100 percent briefed on this.

Because if he was fully briefed, after their bankruptcy and closure of his store, we thought they no longer existed. You know, I don't know if he understands that this is a comeback. I don't know if he understands that this is jobs to come back. Because if I was a governor, why would I

say something like that, unless maybe I just take my economy for granted or I really don't care or I've just got other other motives and other things that I'm planning. I hope Marcus and them who are taking the intellectual property and what he means by that he's taking their brand and he's trying to make a comeback and to do so in a way that would make it a profitable enterprise and he's being

very reasonable about it. And the comment by the governor, I just don't think that's a good comment. Maybe it's coming from the group of social media people that don't look like they are operators and run businesses. I'm not going to pick on what they look like. I'm just saying, are they operators?

Do they run businesses? Oh, this guy said something about California. We have to punch back. That's what it kind of feels like. And so Gavin Newsom dutifully goes out and punches back when he should be lending a hand up.

And you know who lends hands up? Guys like Greg Abbott, guys like Ron DeSantis. They're like, really? You want to make a comeback and get jobs here? How can we work together on this? How can I get Jimmy Patronas, the CFO, to talk to you and help you here in the state of Florida? How do I get Economic Development Commission to maybe give you a hand? And where are you going to put your warehouses?

Where are you going to put jobs? You know, if you looked at some of to me seems so kind of tinny and

deaf. And it's just, but Tom, it's like we just showed like that's not even Gavin Newsom, it's that team of people having that freaking attitude and like I'm crediting that. You're number one. You're going to a good place, Please keep going with your savings. So what I'm saying is that's not you and you nailed it when you're like he's like when you guys are both like he's wishy-washy chameleon. Now you hire this PR team whatever the hell they're called to have this attitude of like this and you're going against the system.

You're not going against Trump. This is a guy that has a freaking company bro that Bed Bath & Beyond I would go there almost every other week for buying stuff for my freaking apartment in LA. And you're number one in unemployment. Now you're losing another freaking company. People are leaving your state. Companies now are leaving your state. And it's like, what are you doing?

Can anybody name one thing that's honestly, and I'm being dead serious, what's one positive

thing that the governor is doing to California?

Anybody?

Bueller?

Bueller. Bueller. governor is doing to California. Anybody? Buehler?

Anybody? Nothing is going right. Nothing is going right. And you mean to tell me this guy is the front runner for the president of the Democratic Party?

Guys, when I'm telling you, and I'm not being that guy.

I don't think he's there yet, but.

Tom, OK, if you guys have to pick right now,

right now who the Democratic Party besides you saying J.B. Pritzker? It's J.B. and who?

Let me tell you, Gavin Newsom's going to be on stage with all the rest starting the primaries, but J.B. Pritzker is the one that's got the support of the machine. And so you always got to wait. Remember, you have all this buzz, all these things. Mike Huckabee all of a sudden was knighted that he was going to be the candidate. later it's like oh well it may be in your zone you are I want to see I'm gonna see Gavin Newsom in a primary that is somewhere east of Reno yeah no I don't

think he's gonna play very well. Here's how this works let me let me tell you how this works you know people people see a guy and they try to be like him there's only one guy that was able to be like Mike. His name was Kobe Bryant. He's no longer with us. Okay? He was fantastic to watch. Everybody else tried to be like Mike. There was only one guy that was like Mike. Okay? You know, when you think about Rodman, there was only one Rodman. A lot of people try to be a Rodman. But there's

literally only one Rodman. Rodman would average two points a game and 19 rebounds a game. He really didn't like to score. There's only one Rodman. He was weird, bless you. Just a different type of guy. Right? You know, there's only one Trump.

There's going to be a lot of people that are going to try to be Trumps. Trump, trust me, there's a lot of guys that are trying to be that guy. deals and he understands black people. He understands business owners. He understands what people who are pro-Israel and what people are anti-Israel. He understands both of their arguments and say, I don't know why I get it. Hey, he's starting to be a little bit too much. Why are they doing this?

He understands, but he tries to understand both sides and then he pushes his agenda. I'm not telling you he's going to support you, but he at least sits there and tries to understand. You talk to small business owners like you're above business owners, Gavin. You're not above business owners. You talk to business owners as if they need you.

They don't need you. You need voters. Voters don't need you. You need voters. Voters don't need you. See for us, we run a business. Last night, we had seven people that flew in in a private jet. They flew in here, business, walk through, they did their meeting, they left.

And then last night on the way home, I stopped by the cigar lounge and I see them outside, they're doing a video and I just pull up. And I'm like, oh shoot oh shoot the guy wait what we're not oh my god, and I'm talking to them, right? I'm just having a conversation with them. He says, you know what we've been to a lot of businesses Everybody here at value team and treats us royally Everybody I said, you know, what's funny when you say that so do you know why I said because since I was 24 25 years old

I So do you know why I said, because since I was 24, 25 years old, I demanded good treatment of me. I wanted it, but I was a nobody. And so to get that kind of treatment, guess what you got to do? You have to work your ass off to be somebody to get that kind of treatment. You got to pay for it.

Because high quality service costs money. You want to go to Ritz? High quality service. You want to go to Motel 6, $49 a night. Pick and choose. You ain't getting no service at Motel 6. You want high service? Go to a three Michelin star restaurant.

You should demand high service. Go to Le Louis. Go to some of these big restaurants. You go to McDonald's expecting a five-star service, you're a fool. Now, In-N-Out figured out a way how to do it. Chick-fil-A figured's an owner of Chick-fil-a been with the organization 15 years

But he's been an owner for about a year and a half one Chick-fil-a restaurant of is the 16 million dollars a year 16 1 6 1 restaurant the 60 million dollars a year right ham, but it's what treatment Newsom Doesn't treat business owners, right? If I ever had the itch of like there's a part of me is like just drop the whole thing and go for run for Governor in California Zero chance I'm doing it. So don't manect me. I'd save your money zero chance

I'm doing it But if I ever did and I wanted to go back just a frickin itch that I got to go and say here's what we're gonna Be doing dude. We would bring so many businesses back with a handful of policies. We would bring so many businesses back with a handful of policies, but unfortunately this guy's got no appreciation for small business owners.

Adam.

I fully agree with you. I mean, this is why America is so sick of politicians. This is why everyone you talk to is like, I just want a business owner. I want a businessman in the Oval Office. I want someone who actually has done something before to lead this country or to lead my state or to lead my community here, not just some politician. Because in business,

we all know that if your product sucks, you go out of business. If your policies suck, like Gavin Newsom, you'll get reelected. No problem. The difference is in business, and I learned this being around Valuetainment and BDC every single day, is a business owner will put their own money on the line, and if it doesn't work, they're out of business. A politician will take your money and tax your money. No problem.

It's not their money. We have $37 trillion in debt, and we're talking about nonsense every day. I actually totally respect Marjorie Taylor Greene. Yes, MTG. She went on Megyn Kelly the other day and I totally understood what she was coming from because she's like from a business perspective, stop spending all this money on other things that don't focus on the American people. I was like, I agree. I totally agree in business. It comes down to results and politics. It just

comes down to broken promises. And that what's going on here. By the way, Marcus Limon is a little fun fact. He's gonna be a billionaire if he's not a billionaire already. I had the opportunity to speak with him on stage a couple of years ago. My friend Melissa was putting on an event here in Miami, Epic Talks. He was the keynote speaker and I spoke right before him

and I gave a speech about the key to success is what I call the three R's. Relationships, reputation, and revenue. Relationships matter, obviously, whether it's relationships, friendships, partnerships, reputation. Your reputation precedes you. Before you walk in the door, your reputation is what it is. And at the end of the day, revenue, if you're not making money,

what's the point of doing this? He gets up there, he goes, he had a nice speech, that's great, and gives an hour's speech about the importance of relationships. If you've ever watched his show, the prophet, Marco Simoni, shout out to you. He's getting his hands dirty. He's in there. He's talking about people.

He's giving people hugs, relationships, relations, relationships. This guy would be a great politician. He's like the, uh, the anti Gavin Newsom because he's actually done it before.

So respect to him.

All right, let's go to let's do one or two stories here and Wrap-up in eight minutes. I'm trying to see which one do we want? You know what story I want to show Rob? I don't know if we can show this video or not But what happened with Kentucky judge the guy that got gunned down we probably can't show that clip I think I think they stop at PBD every single time something happens, they pause it. So you're not going to see anything graphic. You don't see, they don't show anything graphic.

Okay, well, guys, I'm going to show you this, and I just want to, I really want to show this because of what people do when they use their power in this way. So but I'm giving you in a way to brace for impact. Kids, give you five seconds. Don't move the clip, yeah. Give you five seconds. Kids don't need to watch this clip here. Adults only, and I'm giving you the warning in advance. Here's a judge in Kentucky, okay?

Who was gunned down by sheriff.

What?

By a sheriff.

Okay?

Allegedly ran sex rings in his chambers.

What? Yep.

True story.

A judge? Yes. So Rob, can you do me a favor? Can you separate the two clips, right? Find the lady above first, then we'll show what the sheriff did to him, okay? You know, yeah, if you can do that.

Because I want to show exactly what she said. The clip is out there. Ty Adams alleged on News Nation Banfield that District Judge Kevin Mullins, shot by Sheriff Sean Mickey Steins in his Letcher County chambers on September 8, 2024, ran a sex for favor scheme stating, we would do sex parties and perform shows and have sex with them for money. Things like that.

Watch this interview and just see what this judge was doing.

Go ahead, Rob. You're saying it like it's so normal, but I just want to make sure. The judge would have sex with inmates from the jail? Yes.

And you saw it?

Yes. I was part of it. I was one of them. Not just from being in jail, but coming in off the street and seeing him.

Yeah.

How did they keep it a secret?

It wasn't a secret.

Wasn't a secret.

Why did you feel like you had to have sex with the judge?

Because he's the one with the power. He holds my entire life in his hands. He's the one that makes the decisions over whether I get to keep my children or not. He's the one that makes the decisions over whether I get to keep my children or not. He's the one that makes the decisions on whether I go to jail.

Did anything ever happen to you in the jail? Yeah, I'll say this. I mean, because you talk about having sex with the judge, but that was mostly when you were out, right, trying to avoid. Yeah. Did the judge ever say, to do this or if you do this you can you can see me 3 times and we'll take care of this if it's a ticket or you know where

you get some minor charge some petty charge. Come visit me a few times will will take care of it.

You would say that

and how many women do you think we're also doing this.

Total over the years, hundreds. Hundreds? Hundreds?

Hundreds.

Yeah.

Hundreds.

And not just for the women who had charges, like if your man or somebody, your child is in there, then you could go see him for that too.

Okay, so you saw that, okay? Then, this is what happens. Now you can go back to the clip on the bottom and show what happens watch this folks So that's the sheriff. Yeah, just the judge is sitting there to the left once again kids. Yeah, they're not watching this. Go ahead Rob

It's so normal guys want to make sure so the judge would comes in with inmates from the jail

So boom, you shoot someone's you're not gonna see it. He's down. I was one of them and then the sheriff not just from being in jail

But coming in off the street and saying you can't see it. Well, they pause

How does it he's about to leave? He's always about to leave And again, he wants to go by make sure he kills him. Why did you feel like you can pause it right there? So yeah, that's a very strange story Vin Vinny, your thoughts on the story here? And think about this. I mean, it's taken into your own hands. I mean, in that moment, the heat of passion,

I mean, unless it was somebody that was directly involved.

Do we know why the sheriff did that? Tom, you wanted to talk about the story. Do we know why the sheriff did that?

It appears that the sheriff had a nervous breakdown and took the law into his own hands and just decide, this is what I'm gonna do. Because that was, if you take a look at that, he's in there, he's standing there, he looks like calm, like rational, and then he just executes him.

Do you see how steady he was? That was just like a straight execution. And the story coming out leads you to believe, it's like, you know, there's a trial that happened in Europe a long time ago where a woman walked in and executed the guy that was on trial,

who was on the stand and she just walked in, pulled it out, leveled up, and then fired three shots, killed him. You have the story of the man whose son had been abused and he knew that the perpetrator was gonna be, go through the airport with the police escort,

and he acted like he was on a payphone at the airport, and as the guy walked by, he turned, boom, executed him, and then dropped the gun and raised his hands. And you heard the cop saying, no, Gary, no, not this way, not this way, because they knew it was the father.

When I think of those and I see this, it just appears that this sheriff, apparently they said he had like a nervous breakdown, but he also said, I'm sick of this and I'm taking care of it. And that's what appears that has happened here.

And this is not the way to do it. This is not the way to get justice. But if that woman is right, and you're talking hundreds of people, then this is like walking tall, where the mob ran the the county the rock until

right until sheriff Buford Pusser took thing but he did it the right way remember he did it the right way to get justice nailed and the mob ultimately

yeah they call the sextortion you know and there's multiple cases another one is another individual Sabrina Atkins reference videotapes on sexual activities in the judges chamber involving malays these recordings emerge from a two uh... from an unrelated twenty twenty two investigation into a deputy sheriff found

guilty of sex crimes when they ask what the defense is the the motive was unclear motives authorities have not found a clear motive tied to uh... the alleged sex scandal and possibility remains under investigation defenses emotional disturbance and potential insanity, please die Stein's defense defense has indicated The shooting was not premeditated premeditated

Framing it as crime committed in the heat of passion due to extreme emotional disturbance They have even signaled intent to use an insanity defense in some filing. So as of August 2025, as of right now, Steins, the shooter, the sheriff, is still in jail without bond. Defense lawyers have requested a $50,000 cash or property bond, arguing he poses no flight risk where prosecutors oppose citing Kentucky law that bars bail for capital offense charge.

Adam. Adam.

Yeah. Well, there's two crazy stories happening right here. Uh, number one, uh, we're getting a little too comfortable with this vigilante justice thing that's going on here. Obviously the biggest story with that we know about that was the whole Luigi Mangione thing, just gunning down the CEO, uh, of United healthcare, just cause he felt some type of way, completely

unacceptable. Now we have this sheriff in Kentucky, what, not premeditated, just showed up, got in an argument and just boom, just V for Vendetta style, executes this guy. Absolutely disgusting, uncalled for, this should not happen in America. We're not living in the wild west, this ain't Tombstone, this ain't Wyatt Earp, relax with all that.

At the same time, if the inmates are running the asylum, so to speak, and the judge is running a whorehouse, it would seem, in the judge's chambers, how has this not been dealt with prior to whatever happened here? Because if the sheriff knows about it, how has not, this not been dealt with prior to whatever happened here? Because if the sheriff knows about it, I would assume,

that people doing interviews about this allegedly, how did this not make it into the news, into the zeitgeist of the popular culture in Kentucky? Something's very weird about this story. I don't even know if we have all the facts. I'm just putting allegedly all over this story right here, but it's disgusting. You have right now on the very

surface a judge murdered in his chambers by a vigilante sheriff. Yeah, it's so freaking weird, isn't it? How does a guy in West Palm Beach, Florida, you know, get off on a crime and continue for 13 more years? God, how weird would that be? Tom, I love that you went there, because a fantastic point, and Adam, I 1000% do not agree, like him taking it in his own hands. No.

I don't, like, it wasn't like somebody in his family.

We have a justice system, not vigilance.

Yeah, yeah, well, I sometimes call it the injustice system, but Tom, at the same point, we just went on the pad, did a good talk about God just freaking five minutes ago, when you get away from God and you're taking advantage of women, when you're in that dark world, that's the type of stuff that happens

because that's evil coming right back at you. I don't agree with it, but that's the world that you're playing in. Okay, and this, mind you, from a low- You're saying it's karma. I don't believe in karma, I believe in Adam. If you hang out with pimps, you know what I mean? People see you, what are they going to assume that you are? That you're a pimp.

When you're doing this type of stuff, bro, that energy is coming around you. My point being that this guy's a low-level judge, okay? He got careless. He's drunk with this power. with all these girls and I'm gonna give you this I'll keep you out of jail I'll let you see your kids this is one instance look at our how many judges are in the country just this past eight years what have we seen that these corrupt judges that go after a freaking ex-president they don't give a damn and

Tom made a great point look at the justice system with what happened with Epstein and and and getting let him get off and giving him a sentence where he's in a jail that the doors open, he can leave and go in. Imagine that level. Imagine when we talk about, this is a careless judge. What happens when it's high-level ranking ex-presidents,

the Clintons, the this, the that, bro, they're protected beyond belief. And if something leaks and the main guy behind it gets a little bit too loud or gets arrested, he gets suicided in jail. So it's corruption at the highest level.

This guy was a low-level guy. It's messed up.

But it happens. Listen, it's, it's, you, there's certain people, and this is what I said, my, my thing with Epstein is, if that happened to someone's daughter, it takes me back to Gerard Butler's one movie that was payback, that he seeked revenge. I don't remember the movie's name. It could have been Payback.

There was another movie that Mel Gibson did that I think was called Ransom, right? When a kid starts peeing, right? That one scene with that Christian act. So when you see this kind of stuff that happens, you know, some people are going to take it to certain levels if you do something to their daughters or their kids. Some people are capable of doing stuff like that. Does it make you right or wrong?

No, but some people are capable. There was a UFC fighter a couple years ago that somebody was doing something to one of his kids, you know who I'm talking about. To his nephew, and he just came back and went to jail. The Latino, the Mexican fighter, Ortiz?

Kane or something like that? Kane. Kane. Kane. Kane Lopez? Velazquez? Velazquez.

Kane Velazquez is who it was.

He went through every Mexican name.

Yeah, Kane Velazquez is the one that went to extreme measures to go fight and defend

his family. I think he shot at the guy, right Pat?

Yeah, it was February 27th. The man who Velazquez already intended to shoot had been arrested prior to shooting the allegedly committing child sexual abuse on Velasquez's son at a daycare. Oh my god. You know family was later released from custody on a personal recognizable bond. So this is the part every once in a while in life Mike Tyson said something okay you can you can act as hard as you want until you get punched in the face every once in a while you meet someone that handles vengeance in a different way.

Okay, they say leave it up to God. You know, uh, uh, uh, there was a story of a teacher who's an atheist, gets up and says, Prove to me there's a God. If there's a God, right now prove to me. Prove to me there's a God. Show me a sign. Lightning, something. A guy gets up, a Marine gets up and goes punches a guy in the face

He says what are you doing? He said well God told me to you said show you some Punch in the face right now So I mean obviously we're not saying guys We're not saying go teach you punch your teacher in the face All we're saying is every once in a while in life you meet

The types of people that are true believers that are willing to go to measures others are not. Rob what is this that just came in right now?

This came out about an hour ago. President Trump has had the press loaded into vans at the White House for an unexpected movement and then there's reports coming out that there's an emergency statement coming from the Oval

Office today at noon. Now he's not deporting the press, they're not being put in those vans. They're just going to another location where the president is going to have a press conference.

So we're going to see the president at noon today for an announcement. The basis of that, we don't have full information yet, but we also just got a notice from the pool that they've been loaded into the vans for a movement this morning that was not on the schedule. No clear details yet on where the president is going, but it sounds like they might be on the move here very soon. I love off the records. Okay, well stand by and let

us know what you hear. Thanks. So Rob we have no clue what it is. No and then

Trump did speak this morning about the John Bolton raid. Let's see what he said

real quick let's see what he said here. What'd he say?

When I hired him he served a good purpose. Trump was right about everything. Because, as you know, he was one of the people that was pushed to do the ridiculous bombings in the Middle East. He wants to always kill people. And he's very bad at what he does. But he worked out great for me because every time he doesn't talk, he's like a very quiet person, except on television.

If he could say something bad about Trump. I'll always do that. But he really doesn't talk. He's quiet. And I'd walk into a room with him with a foreign country, and the foreign country would give me everything because they said, oh, no, they're going to get blown up because John Bolton is there. He's a not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic. I mean, we're going to find out.

I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning. They did a raid

Yeah, they'll be they'll break me probably today sometime I

Don't want I tell Pam and I tell the group I don't want to know but just you have to do what you have to Do I don't want to know about it. It's not Necessary. I could know about it. I could be the one starting actually the chief law enforcement

But I feel that it's this way. Can we acknowledge it? Cause you said it. The president of the United States is wearing a hat that says I was right about everything.

So what is his numbers on the sides? Don't brief me later, I don't know about it. I could know about it. I'm the top law enforcement guy, I might know about it. I wouldn't, but you know, I don't know. They'll tell me later, I don't know.

It wasn't everything, but he's been right about a lot.

Okay, alright gang, those are the two stories we wanted to see you guys next week. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. Peace .

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