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[00:00:07]In reality, uh, if they don't make some type of a deal later on this evening or early tomorrow, things are going to get a little crazy.

[00:00:16]>> So, y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband cuz they raping everybody out here.

[00:00:21]>> I don't know that it's going that far.

[00:00:23]But, let me just give you so we're all on the same page.

[00:00:27]a clip from 60 Minutes so you understand Matthew Bun, who has worked in previous administrations, might have even advised a guy by the name of Barack Obama, is telling you flat out here on 60 Minutes that for all the people criticizing Donald Trump, the fact remains that Iran has been lying about nuclear weapons for over 20 years now. Here it is, clip seven. Iran has been lying about its nuclear weapons effort for over 20 years now. They have always claimed our program was 100% peaceful. We were never pursuing nuclear weapons. That's a lie.

[00:01:04]And then once the international inspectors got in and started finding some things out, um the Iranians kept lying to them.

[00:01:14]>> Imagine that. The Iranians kept lying.

[00:01:18]You know the people who chant death to America, they lie to America. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?

[00:01:26]You know who? Barack Obama. Okay, >> don't be thick. All right.

[00:01:31]>> Barack Obama gave the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the history of the world. $50 billion in sanctions relief, $1.8 billion on a unmarked plane. Okay.

[00:01:45]>> Paying in cash.

[00:01:46]>> True story. $1.8 8 billion in cash in exchange for their word that they weren't going to enrich uranium. Well, lo and behold, despite that deal, Iran was ready to make 10 to 11 bombs by the time we started hitting them. Here is Matthew Bun on that clip six.

[00:02:03]>> UN inspectors believe Iran has close to 1,000 lbs of uranium enriched to 60% nearly ready to be used in a nuclear weapon. 970 lbs of 60% highlyenriched uranium. What can you do with that?

[00:02:20]>> So that is enough material for if you enrich it just a little bit more for 10 to 11 nuclear bomb.

[00:02:29]>> 10 to 11 nuclear bomb.

[00:02:32]>> This could be a problem.

[00:02:33]>> It's a big problem. Iran, as we know, killed 35,000 of its own citizens for protesting this government. If they're willing to kill 35,000 of their own citizens, how many citizens? Like, do you think there's a cap on it in terms of other people's citizens they'd be willing to kill with that nuke?

[00:02:53]>> The answer would be no.

[00:02:54]>> The answer would be no. If Mran religious fanatics who don't value human life the way we do, got their hand on a nuclear weapon like right now in the engagement we're currently in, they would have shot it off by now. If their Ayatollah thought they were going to die, they wouldn't just go like, "All right, virgins, get out the lube.

[00:03:10]Daddy's coming home to heaven. Okay, most of these guys are gay. They don't want the female virgins. They would have just set the rocket off. They would have set a nuke off. They would have killed, you know, hundreds of thousands of people. That's reality. That's what we're dealing with. And that's why they can't have a fanatical regime like Iran get enriched uranium. Okay? It's why we had to go into Kazakhstan in a highstakes top secret mission 20 years ago after the breakup of the Soviet Union to retrieve their uranium. These are real things that we have to deal with. And I bring it up because what people outside the huddle continue to do is criticize Trump. I don't mind that.

[00:03:48]We live in America. You have a first amendment. But they're not criticizing him in good faith. Okay? The people who say we shouldn't have went to Iran.

[00:03:55]Okay? Every single government that every president going back to 1979 says Iran is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. We've got to get rid of them. the intensity only increased in the last 20 years as they began to enrich uranium at which point everybody agreed we had to go stop them from doing that at some point. Okay, so the jump off to this was not a good faith argument against Trump. Okay, but because there are a lot of people in this country right now who probably hate Trump more than they like the country and in a lot of instances they just hate Trump because they don't want to deal with things that they hate about themselves. I mean, that's a big faction of the people who really like open every conversation with like, "Did you see what Donald did?" Like, they talk about him like he's a guy who dumped him in middle school. Like, you can't, hey, do you want the grilled cheese or the burger? I don't know. What did Donald have? I bet it was gross. And you're like, I don't know. We just asked you if you wanted the cheeseburger. Did he have another Diet Coke? I don't even think I like soda now. He's gross. There's so many of those people. And it's driven them to this place where they are being denied self-awareness. something Trump talked about uh at the White House. He was talking about liberals who support Iran in this conflict. You know, the ones who got out into the streets and held up pictures of the Ayatollah and said, "We shouldn't have bombed the guy." Do you know what the Ayatollah would do to every one of those progressive gay people who was protesting on his behalf? Killed him.

[00:05:18]Okay? If you uh are in Iran and you are a gay man and you get seen with another gay man, the story does not have a happy ending. And if it does have a happy ending, you better hope nobody catches you doing it in whatever closet you're doing it in or you're both getting a firing squad to go with it. Okay? If you were a woman, you cannot show your face in public. If you were a protester, they kill you. So this idea that progressives are out there supporting Iran just the same. We're not arguing over the reality on the ground. That's the point I'm trying to make. Iran has uranium. They are terrorists. They kill gay people.

[00:05:57]They deny women their right to exist in so many ways that oppress them. Okay? If you protest the government and get killed by it, they charge your family for the bullets. Think of the insanity of what I'm saying to you. Yet, there are people at this late stage in the conflict that are still hoping for Trump to fail or to be able to characterize what is very clearly an a huge lead, if not a win, okay, as something else. But here is Trump talking about the progressives who support Iran. Clip three.

[00:06:25]>> Women's rights. You want to see women's rights? You're not going to see it there. It's amazing when I see some of the stupid people like, you know, AOC plus three, all that group. They talk about, oh, freedom for Iran. They don't tell you the real facts. Women, men, gays. How about gays for Iran? They kill the gays. They throw them off buildings. So, I I wonder what what's going on. I I can only say this. They want us to keep bombing.

[00:06:55]>> It's It's telling you the truth. There's a lot of stupid people whose emotions are their facts who have convinced them that in any conflict whatsoever involving Donald Trump and anyone else, Trump must automatically be the bad guy.

[00:07:09]And they must stick up for his opponents even if his opponents would actually kill them. Like guys, let me give you a little quick backstory on the Trump man.

[00:07:17]Just if you want to just deal here at a ground level, you don't have to like Trump. I don't care. I don't run the Donald Trump radio defense fund. I am indifferent to the idea of a Donald Trump because he's been in my life since I was five. Okay? He has been a public figure since I was five. At the Mike Tyson, Michael Spinx fight in Atlantic City in 1987.

[00:07:37]Okay? By the time I watched him in the ring, they introduced him because it was at Trump Plaza down in Atlantic City.

[00:07:43]They fought in the Boardwalk Convention Center. He came in the ring before the fight. Don King was there, everybody else. Okay. Uh he was a fixture in my life at that point. Okay. It's that long that I have known him as a part of the fabric of polite society. I remember him hanging out with Barbara Walters quite publicly. I remember all of his public romances. I remember dozens of appearances on the View. A lot of my friends listening right now would tell you that he called into Howard Stern show at least once a week, including on September 11th. They were regular friends. So, the idea that Trump was this fringe lunatic that we had never heard of was all a manufactured hysteria. It was performance art. Trump had the highest rated TV show on NBC for 15 years. Yet NBC cried when Trump won the presidency. They cried on Saturday Night Live because they said he was literally Hitler at a time when they were literally paying him royalties.

[00:08:35]>> That was embarrassing.

[00:08:36]>> Hey, that's Hitler. All right. Well, just make sure his check comes in on time because Hitler was your biggest star for 15 years now. You can make stuff up, okay? But you can't pretend you don't own the royalties. Send him the damn royalties. Hitler wants his money. Okay, it was all absurd. Absurd on its face. Okay, but for all of the manufactured hysteria around Trump as it pertains to women, as it pertains to gays, as it pertains to minorities, I don't care if you like the way he talks, but his records his record. Okay, in 1984 when Jesse Jackson started the Rainbow Coalition, you know who gave him free office space? Donald Trump. Do you know how many awards Donald Trump has gotten from the NAACP? Okay, about 15. Do you know who the first female construction for a woman was in the history of the United States of America? It was a woman Trump hired in 1986. Okay. The point is he came out in favor of gay marriage at Elton John's wedding in 2005, nine full years before Barack Obama.

[00:09:37]>> I don't see you doing any better in the booty department.

[00:09:40]>> Okay? And I know that rubs a lot of liberals the wrong way, but understand Trump was one of you. Trump was uh predominantly a left-wing guy for most of his, you know, the '9s. He was okay.

[00:09:51]And he kind of had a pivot as he saw the impact the government was having on our lives, the mismanagement from the establishment that was kind of upending the quality of life here in this country because his superpower is the guy has a sense of humor. So, he's very relatable when he's around regular workingclass people. But when you see Trump with auto workers, you know, you see Trump at a steel mill, you see Trump at a fast food place, what is he doing? He's making people laugh cuz his sense of humor, okay, is boundless. Everybody likes to laugh. Everybody knows what it's like to be around a genuine person that puts them at ease and kind of gives them a good time. And Trump has that ability with every group, ethnicity, and sexual orientation there is. Do you think somebody as famously and flamboyantly gay as Elton John is bringing Donald Trump to his wedding if he thinks he wants to kill all the gay people?

[00:10:43]>> The answer would be no.

[00:10:44]>> Okay. Do you think Jesse Jackson is hanging out if he thought it?

[00:10:47]>> The answer would be no.

[00:10:48]>> No. That's the point. It's all pretend stuff. So, when it comes to this Iranian thing, there's a lot of people rooting against Trump because of reasons they made up in their own head. Okay? Okay.

[00:11:00]But when it comes to Iran itself, there's nothing here made up at all.

[00:11:05]They are the biggest state sponsor of terrorism, if they get their hands on a nuke, they will kill a lot of people.

[00:11:12]That's what they do. That's what they spend their money on. They chant death to America. Okay? And I know there's a lot of people arguing about this. Oh, he's going to go in. He's going to blow up the infrastructure. Okay? The unfortunate nature of war is that sometimes you're choosing between their infrastructure and ours. And the reality is tonight, you should be really thankful that whatever happens with this deadline, you've got a president that's putting us and our infrastructure above everything else in the world, including the madeup fantasies about what a bad little man he is.

[00:11:44]>> And I'm out here in the real world and I know what's right or wrong or fired up to talk to this next guest who hosts three hours of business television a day. A true TV Iron Man if ever there was one. Brian Brenberg in the studio.

[00:12:03]The crowd goes wild. Hey man, >> we're throwing a complete game every time.

[00:12:06]>> You kind of are the Cal the Iron Horse.

[00:12:08]>> No pitch count here.

[00:12:09]>> Yeah. Yeah. They just You're old school baseball when it comes to cable news.

[00:12:12]>> I'm managed by Billy Martin. He doesn't care. Just get him in there and throw.

[00:12:16]>> Billy, his arms hanging. Try the other one. He's got two. Try the other one.

[00:12:21]That's all you got to do. Uh, good to see you, man. Last the last we met, we were eating a pork chop at Bobby Vans.

[00:12:26]>> Oh gosh.

[00:12:26]>> If you're listening on W, this is not a paid advertisement. I talk enough about I don't want to be their guy. That's right.

[00:12:33]>> Cuz they don't leave us alone anyway.

[00:12:34]They're the greatest people in the world, but when we go to Bobby Vans for dinner, we're now just hosting a cable news show >> and everybody stops by and gives us their opinions and tells us what they would do differently in Iran and you know the thing about the midterms. I'm like, can I have the steamed spinach, please? I'm fat. I'm trying to make a teleathon, man.

[00:12:51]>> I love them all like they're my children. Uh but they made a pork chop for Brenburg and I the other night that was a life-changing pork chop.

[00:12:59]>> I I've never had anything like this. I like you talk about something that melts on your tongue when you eat it.

[00:13:06]>> It's what that pork chop did >> and we don't understand it. We didn't ask enough questions because we should have we always go there and eat a bone and ribeye and it's it's pound-for-pound my favorite steakhouse. You guys should know this. I was going there as a cab driver. I was going me and my buddy Dean Imperial would save up and eat one meal a year there. So I went there 20 years anonymously, maybe 22 years anonymously before I walked in and was the guy from the thing. And by the next year I was Jimmy Thalia. And by the year after that it was like, "Hey, we love your show."

[00:13:32]You know what I mean? But you go through the stages of recognition. It never begins with them knowing who you are.

[00:13:38]They just recognize your face and they don't know from where. But anyway, I said this yesterday on the show. I met a guy at the Buffalo airport the other day. I was walking through the airport Sunday morning in one of those states of disrepair where I can't unlock my iPhone because it doesn't recognize my face.

[00:13:54]And there was an operations guy pushing a garbage can behind me like he was trying to hit me with it. Lincoln does it in the grocery store. If he has the the carriage, he tries to hit me in the shins. My brother Mike used to do that when we were kids. So I know when a guy's on me with a rolling device, I'm like, "Ah, somebody I know this is a problem." But he wasn't trying to hit me. He was just catching up with me to go, "Don't turn around. I know who you are." He's like, "I just, you know, want to say hello, tell, you know, tell you a little bit about me." He goes, "I always see the Bills players in here, and I just I tell them not to talk because people hear your voice, they'll come over. They'll never leave you alone in this place. Believe me, they never leave you alone." So, this guy Shu, who was an operations guy who kind of told me his life story, was a very cool guy. Okay.

[00:14:30]If you go to Bobby Vans, you get 75 shoes.

[00:14:35]And in this instance, I loved Shu. Okay.

[00:14:38]He's hanging out, keeping me company.

[00:14:39]I'm playing Retro Bowl on my phone before I board the plane. Nice.

[00:14:43]>> I'm not uh ordering a steak and trying to catch up with Brian Breber, but we caught up and we were fed like, you know, they said no kings. We were kings.

[00:14:50]>> No, no, we were kings. Somebody should have been pro. Maybe that's what it was.

[00:14:53]They were coming to the table as a protest cuz we were eating like kings that day.

[00:14:58]>> Now, my only reason I know that's not true is because they were all under 107 years old. So, it couldn't have been a no kings protest. But, if you're listening on W, I've given you two New York restaurant recommendations in my life. neither of which I am endorsing or paid to do. Uh I always say go to Bobby Vans. It's the best steak I've ever had in the world. Uh and we go to Paty's now. And I've only been there once, but they let me, you know, s let me sit at the Sinatra table. It was amazing.

[00:15:22]>> But they gave me a stuffed ve chop, man.

[00:15:25]>> We have to go to psies cuz guys like us appreciate this sort of thing.

[00:15:30]>> You know how good a stuffed ve chop is done right by the Italians with and the ham and the cheese and you're you're sitting at Frank Sinatra's tape.

[00:15:38]I mean, what are we talking about?

[00:15:39]>> Do you get when you're when you're at his table, do you feel like his energy starts to consume you a little bit? Do do you get any kind of like uh >> do I punch someone for no reason?

[00:15:50]>> Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, is there violence? You know, >> start calling people pi and my friends put them in a chokeold so I can punch them. No, there wasn't as much of that as I thought. Uh, but no, it is there is absolutely so much aura in a place like that. And it's not the thing about pies, which really works, is it's not super expensive. Not even kind of close. I think I ate a $30 veh.

[00:16:10]>> That's it.

[00:16:11]>> Yeah. If you go to one of these fancy Italian joints, $30, you might get a picture of a ve chop. Uh for 30. Well, we'll hold black and white picture.

[00:16:21]>> You wanted the You want the picture?

[00:16:23]That's 35.

[00:16:24]>> Did they upsell you to the color picture?

[00:16:27]>> No, you go there. It's great. It's good food. And I bring this up because I'm a budget conscious guy because we've got a standoff in the Straits of Hormuz.

[00:16:34]>> Oil got back above $90 a barrel today. I believe it got close to a hundred by the time this was over >> because when it comes to commodities, what they don't like is uncertainty.

[00:16:43]>> And we've had an open straight, a close straight. I can't believe it's not straight. That's the ayatollah. Uh, and there's been an unpredictable I know we're so good at this. There's an unpredictable nature to what's going on that the commodities market doesn't like. So, I think for our purposes, if we were trying to reassure the weary traveler, the otr trucker, heaven forbid you're a cab driver out there, okay, it's that this conflict will resolve.

[00:17:08]There is an endgame >> and at some point that stability is what will ultimately lower the prices. Is that correct?

[00:17:13]>> Yeah. Yeah. And uh so, right, and we were I was looking at diesel prices yesterday and I can't I think it was around 550 553 that they've taken a big hit. That's tough especially for the guys who are relying on this for commercial purposes. Um, here's what's interesting though. Oil prices are back up high. I agree with that. And that that's made it tough. Gas is above four bucks a gallon. But I would actually say markets, so both the stock market and oil markets do seem like they're kind of looking to the other side of this thing.

[00:17:45]I I would The president said, I think it was yesterday, today, said, "I'm surprised oil didn't go to $200." I I think he's probably embellishing a little bit there. But I am kind of surprised that we're still under 100 bucks. We've got a blockade.

[00:17:57]>> Yeah.

[00:17:58]>> On the straight of Hormuz and we've had West Texas crude below 100 bucks a barrel. So I I do think that's even though it's not good news right at the moment in terms of the gas price you want versus what you're paying. I do think what markets people with money on the line, let me put it that way. I keep saying markets, forget about it. Not politicians, >> people who have money on the line >> are saying, "We don't think this is going to last forever and we think there's going to be a peace dividend on the other side of it."

[00:18:23]>> I love that we're talking to Brian Brenberg, host of the Big Money Show, host of the Bottom Line. Some never sets on this business empire. That's right.

[00:18:29]>> Okay, you can close the straight. It doesn't It's daylight somewhere for this guy. He never leaves the TV set. It's just a hamster wheel with hair and makeup, actually. And uh when I'm not talking into the mic at him, he's mouthing the words, "Help me," to anybody who will look at him. He says quietly >> once >> quietly mouthing the words. But you're right to say all the indicators are there. It's restrictor plate racing right now in NASCAR because Bill Elliot was in that McDonald's car at Tallaladega doing 232 mph when his car went airborne and did about 75 barrel rolls and he lived to tell the tale.

[00:19:03]>> But it was such a garish crazy sight that they implemented restrictor plates to the NASCARs after that so they could reduce the flow of air and bring down the speed of the car.

[00:19:12]>> Okay. The straight of hormuz is a restrictor plate on the economy, but everybody who is invested, as Brian just said, is looking at this like the plates's coming off any minute now and we're going to be doing 232 mph. Didn't a retail jump. I heard retail jump today. Uh not massively, but I heard the expectation was 1.4 and it came in at 1.7. If that's true, it's better, not worse.

[00:19:33]>> Yeah. I mean, and and that's been true throughout. People have kind of been amazed by how strong retail sales have been. Um but you the other part of this I I like your analogy on the restrictor plate but the other piece of this one is they bet the straight horses is going to open up and I agree in the short term that matters a lot.

[00:19:49]>> Uh but the other thing everybody's looking at who follows oil markets is all the adaptations. So to follow the analogy like they're kind of reinventing the car a little bit too. So they're they're saying how do you just how do you get oil and move it out of that spot without having to go buy Iran. Yeah. So it's more pipelines. It's actually more investment in different places around the globe. So if you look at a lot of these energy companies, they're all kind of looking, okay, there's spots in Africa we want to look at, Latin America, >> and they're all basically saying, how do we not have to do another one of these with Iran and the strait? And that's really important because even when this gets resolved, that stuff's probably not going to slow down.

[00:20:26]>> Yeah. It's still its own thing. And I mean, to that point, how does something like Venezuela impact this situation?

[00:20:33]Does it have a bigger impact on the fact that China I believe was using Venezuela and buying a lot of cheap oil off them.

[00:20:40]>> Is that what was happening?

[00:20:41]>> It's it's like um I'm not a uh chess player at all but or checkers. But it's like you know when you're playing your kid and and you you make a few moves and you're like okay it's going to be a matter of a few moves and we're going to be like closed in you and it's game over. That's kind of Venezuela is one of those moves. So right at the present moment it's helping a little bit.

[00:21:02]>> Okay. But it's one of these deals where if Chevron, who's got the big investment there, does what they say they're going to do and others get involved, you get to a point fairly quickly in terms of geopolitics where you've really neutralized Iran and you've really neutralized China because they were banking.

[00:21:20]>> They were banking on that Venezuelan regime. They just were. And that's gone.

[00:21:23]And now, in fact, I I just it's it's being reported that they're trying to make overtures of the Saudis.

[00:21:29]>> Wow.

[00:21:30]>> Right.

[00:21:30]>> Wow.

[00:21:31]>> Which they've done in the past. I mean, they they've tried to do things there in the past, but you know, they've they've got talk about rosters, they've they've got a lot of players on their roster with a lot of off the- field issues.

[00:21:43]Okay? And and and those off the- field issues are starting to become issues in terms of the game China wants to play.

[00:21:51]>> Brian Brenberg saying live golf is about to become Xolf.

[00:21:56]CHINA'S LIKE, "WELL, SAVE THE GOLF TOUR.

[00:21:57]WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US? GIVE ME SOME BIG PRIZE MONEY. What do you want from me?" It's crazy, but that is happening.

[00:22:03]And I don't think people understand, but you made a good point when you talk about the chess thing and the checkers thing and how these are sequence of moves. And I'm not a big chess cher the burger chain. Yes.

[00:22:15]>> Yes. Thank you.

[00:22:16]>> We have a checkers by us on Long Island and a checkers in the Midwest >> is becomes it's called Rally. Did you know that? Are you familiar with Rally?

[00:22:23]Rally is Checkers. They're own by the same company.

[00:22:25]>> Is that more like Ohio Midwest? It's like how Hardys becomes Carl's Jr. Yes.

[00:22:30]>> When you get west, but it's the same place. A lot of people don't know that.

[00:22:33]I >> I did not know, but I don't think we had a lot of rallies in the upper Midwest.

[00:22:38]>> Yeah. I mean, >> that might be more.

[00:22:39]>> I know. As a Twins fan, you haven't seen a rally since 1991.

[00:22:43]>> I walked right into that one. What did I say?

[00:22:45]>> Come on. They're in town to play THE MOM DONNIE METS.

[00:22:48]>> I know. I I I'm hoping mom Donnie gets back down there and does another handshake or hug or something.

[00:22:52]>> You have set up the finale of today's show.

[00:22:54]>> Okay. I was hoping it would.

[00:22:55]>> There is a belief everywhere in social media and in a lot of sports media circles that Zoron mom Donnie put a curse on the New York Mets by hugging their mascot and the mascot's wife.

[00:23:08]Okay. Because the Mets have lost 11 consecutive games since this happened.

[00:23:12]Again, governmentr run bases was not a good idea. It's not a good idea.

[00:23:23]A lot of people have lost sight of the fact that we're doing really well, you guys. Like, we're doing really well. Are a lot of you out there in the audience struggling today? I don't doubt you are.

[00:23:33]Most of my life's been a struggle of one sort of another. Okay. Now, I mean, in theory, it would look like I'm doing better cuz I'm a radio host and I'm a TV host, but I'm not allowed to eat anymore. Okay.

[00:23:44]>> Put that COOK IT DOWN. NOW, >> MY MONDAY through Friday is brutal. Uh when I get once we tape that TV show, I have like a 24-hour Ramish um Springer Amish Rum Springer where I can eat whatever the heck I want. I get a little crazy and that is f you know that's the fun part. You know >> that boy is a pig pig, >> right? Straight belucian animal house.

[00:24:05]But the point is we all have different struggles.

[00:24:08]But you have no bigger opportunity to turn your life around or to expand on the success you're currently dealing with than you do in this country. It is the most tolerant country religiously, sexually, uh it it is the most inclusive country ethnically in the history of the world. We are okay. Gays have more rights here than any other country in the world. Women have more rights here.

[00:24:30]Black people have more rights. More rights here than you do anywhere else in the world. And so much of our politics is grievance mo motivated that we obsess over the things we don't have. And I understand we all want things we don't have, but what do you have? You live in the safest country statistically of anybody. You have your safety above all else. Unless you live in a sanctuary city, in which case, you know, you're on your own. You got to work on your hand speed. Buy a heavy bag, hit it on the weekends. I don't know what to tell you.

[00:24:59]But the fact remains, statistically, this is the safest we've ever been. It's the most convenient life has ever been because how technology has given an immediiacy to every single thing you want in your life. Okay, so that part is good. There's better access to technology across the board than there's ever been. Access to mass transit, the quality of which has drastically improved. You know, again, unless you live in one of those blue cities or states where they're $200 billion over budget and they haven't built a mile of train track yet, and the train you do get on has some kind of hobbit with no pants on 90% of the time. Yeah. Well, that's uh welcome to the New York City subway. I don't know what to tell you.

[00:25:38]But the point is we're doing really well here. And I know so much of our politics tells you that we aren't. That the system is broken. That it needs to be gutted from within. Eat the rich. They have too much more than us. But did you work as hard as those people did?

[00:25:56]>> The answer would be no.

[00:25:57]>> Did you maybe like invent something like those people did?

[00:26:00]>> The answer would be no.

[00:26:01]>> No. Are you a job creator?

[00:26:03]>> The answer would be no. M Donnie, the socialist Democrats, the people that are now trying to expand his New York philosophies to the rest of the country, they're catering to losers.

[00:26:15]Straight up losers. People who don't want to do the work and think they should be handed the success without doing the work.

[00:26:24]>> Wrong.

[00:26:25]>> It's one of my favorite things about slanders against Donald Trump. One of my favorite ones is to be like, "Oh, his daddy gave him a lot of money."

[00:26:35]How many people do you know who have rich parents who contribute absolutely positively nothing to the world? And the God's honest truth is a lot of them. The fact that Trump had money, didn't need to work this hard to be that much more successful than his father, to ultimately become president of the United States, speaks to a level of self-motivation that he probably would have had if he grew up poor. Okay, regardless, we can't quantify that because he didn't. But the reality is, if most people have enough money to never work a day in their life and it was given to them, they never work a day in their life. Most of the people who have created enough money to never work a day in their life never stop working.

[00:27:24]>> He knows what he's talking about.

[00:27:26]>> Every time you hear somebody say, "If I had Bill Gates's money, if I had Elon Musk's money, I wouldn't be working right now." And that's why you don't have their money.

[00:27:37]>> Bingo.

[00:27:38]>> They're wired in a different way. Some people are just workers. I certainly don't have that kind of money, but if I ever did, I don't doubt I'd still be working. I host radio Monday through Friday, a Saturday night TV show, and the second it's over, I get on a plane and fly somewhere to do standup comedy 40 weeks out of 52 this year. I mean, maybe my wife just wants me out of the house. I don't know. But the point is, it's a lot of work, but I like doing it.

[00:28:05]I don't actually come home and people go like, "Oh, that sounds terrible." I'm like, "No, no, I I don't have to do it.

[00:28:10]I want to do it. It's amazing. It's fun.

[00:28:12]like meeting the people. There's nothing cooler in the world than going on the road, meeting a thousand people who know everything on earth about you and it's somewhat of a significant life experience to them to get to meet you.

[00:28:23]That's the coolest thing in the world because it means you're building something of value. And that to me is cool when it comes to mom Donnie, when it comes to socialism, when it comes to this national outgrowth. Now, the Democrats, remember this, I said it during the election. I said, I know none of you care about who the mayor of New York is. I said, "But if he wins, the Democrats are going to embrace socialism because his victory will be proof that there's enough lazy people out there that they can start their voter outreach with them." Socialism is the official offramp for people who suck in life.

[00:28:54]Well, I can't get anything right. That must make capitalism bad. Think about a guy like Mom Donnie. He's no different than any other socialist kid out there in their 20s and 30s. They're always the sons and daughters of really, really rich people. They want the benefits of mommy and daddy's prosperity. They just don't want to do the work to create their own. So, they get out there and say, "Well, the system's bad. Look how much more money these people have than you." But why do they have the money?

[00:29:21]Okay. Why do you think I have a TV show and a radio show and there's a lot of comics out there that don't? Do you think I'm more TALENTED THAN PEOPLE?

[00:29:28]>> NOT EVEN CLOSE.

[00:29:29]>> I mean, seriously, honestly, you think it's just cuz I'm a better comic?

[00:29:32]>> That is a fact check false.

[00:29:33]>> It is all work ethic, dude. There's a lot of really talented people that never amount to anybody because they don't do the work. Think of pro sports. Do you know how many NBA guys there are? You know, you hear stories like the legendary Earl the Goat Managat who was a New York City street ball legend who was as good of a basketball player who ever lived, but he wound up on heroin, was a mess with drugs, never made it into the league, but he was regarded as one of the best players to ever play.

[00:29:58]Okay. But he didn't have the personal discipline and the work ethic to harness that talent, diminish whatever, you know, you know, internal demons were guiding him down the wrong track. And unfortunately, sadly, tragically, it got the best of them. But that's the reality. People who succeed are driven to succeed. They value that success on a level that it instills in them a level of self-determination that makes them often times not feel how hard they're working. Because there's a gravity to working towards something that makes life so much more fun, that gives it so much more altitude. When I was a cab driver, driving a cab from 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., me and my buddy Dean Imperial were writing screenplays every day from 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. Because the idea of working on a screenplay and maybe selling it someday gave life a gravitational pull cuz we were always talking about it even during my taxi shift sometimes to the point that it was distracting while I was you know but what mom Donnie and the socialists are catering to are not the people who want the gravitational pull of ambition of self-reliance. They just want to pull down the folks who already pulled it off. But the reality is those people didn't become billionaires because they were stupid with money or because they had any respect whatsoever for incompetence or laziness. There's nothing they hate more. Do you want to hear a funny story? Somebody who works in media, let's say mass media, let's say a big cable news channel that I know a thing or two about, once said to me in a meeting, they said, "The minute we talk to someone about a job here and they ask what the hours are, our first reaction is they're not going to make it in in cable news. They're not. They're just not." If you're concerned about the hours, if you're concerned about the in time and the out time, it means you don't actually have that, you know, wherewithal to be more concerned with following the story wherever it takes you and looking up and noticing it's been 8 hours since you normally go home.

[00:32:02]That's the difference. And what mom Donniey's catering to when he says, "Oh, you know, got to tax the rich.

[00:32:10]We shouldn't have billionaires." Guys, if we banned billionaires, do you know what else? We wouldn't have millionaires. And if we banned millionaires, we wouldn't have people with hundreds of thousands of dollars because you're putting a limit on ambition. Do you know the old shoot for the stars and settle for the moon? Well, if they tell you to settle, shoot for the moon, you're going to wind up settling for the clouds. But here is mom Donnie talking about the importance of taxing the rich. Clip 15. Will you be able to deliver on your promise of taxing the wealthy to help pay for your programs?

[00:32:43]>> Absolutely. And I'm actually happy to tell you that that pedare tax that is an agreement that we have to tax the wealthy. I always said that I believed in the importance of taxing the rich.

[00:32:52]This is taxing the rich.

[00:32:54]>> Oh god. This >> this is the biggest schmuck I've ever met.

[00:32:58]>> Here's a little more of it. Okay.

[00:32:59]Because his parents are the rich. His parents are multi multi-millionaires and they'd like to be billionaires. In an ideal world, they would. Nobody puts a limit on how prosperous they want to be. That is insanity. Here is mom Donnie. Clip 16.

[00:33:15]>> Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?

[00:33:19]>> I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.

[00:33:32]And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.

[00:33:38]>> Oh, good gosh, man. You are a sad, strange little man.

[00:33:43]>> Mom, Donnie, I don't think we should have billionaires cuz it's so much money in a moment of such inequality.

[00:33:50]And he keeps doing this thing. Ah, we're going to tax white people because the average white household has more money than the average black household. But you know what he doesn't mention, and this is so infantilizing the conversation, is that sadly, tragically, unfortunately, the average black household, 85% of them are single parent households.

[00:34:11]So, you're cutting the household income in half. And it's something a lot of people advocated against when they expanded the welfare state back in the late 60s and early 70s and said, "Hey, you're kind of incentivizing people to have kids and not stay together cuz they'll get more money from the government if the household is poor than if you have a combined income living under one roof." And a lot of people considered that to be the biggest salvo in the destruction of the nuclear family. Is that if you go back to 1955, black Americans had a higher percentage of home ownership than they do now.

[00:34:44]And we talk about it being some type of racial animist like society has stacked the deck because there hasn't been a racial law on the books in this country in 50 years and everybody living in the modern day America has as many rights if not more than you would argue white people because there are no diversity quotas that say hire white people that they do exist for other ethnicities.

[00:35:08]That's where DEI came into play and undermined the success of a lot of successful minorities as people said, "Oh, did they just get hired because of the," you know, and unfortunately when you implement DEI at the highest levels like Katanji Brown Jackson and Kla Harris, yes, you walk away thinking to yourself, you know, uh, >> some of these these women, they're so they're so stupid.

[00:35:30]>> They're so stupid. Maybe they did get the job just cuz we needed a DEI hire.

[00:35:35]Maybe not. I don't know. But that's definitely an opinion people form. And you only wind up in these situations because people are misrepresenting the conversation about America. America is a place right now, right now, where it's easier to get ahead than it was for a black American 50 years ago, 75 years ago. Okay? Yet they were doing it. Barry Gordy founded Mottown and turned it into a billion-dollar entity in 1958. That predates the Civil Rights Act. We're now living in a world where we've had a black president, not once, but twice, and he wasn't even any good at the job.

[00:36:06]And every time you put a camera in front of the Democrats face, they say, "You got to vote for us cuz this whole thing is bigoted and minorities don't have a chance."

[00:36:14]>> Democrats just call everyone racist, so they go along with their stupid ideas.