Rob
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Susan Morrison (on Lorne Michaels)
Are we just hyper aware or? Yeah. I don't hear it from you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Susan Morrison (on Lorne Michaels)
It's not driving me nuts. You're just aware of it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Susan Morrison (on Lorne Michaels)
No. It doesn't bug me. It's just if I think it's an audio issue. Yeah, so you notice it during the... Well, you think there's like pops in the microphone or something? Well, sometimes if an edit's not smooth, it will create a pop. But sometimes it's just your teeth.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Susan Morrison (on Lorne Michaels)
I think it's usually after the mix in master.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Mary Claire Haver (on menopause)
I looked at Dax's notes for the episode. And saw what he wrote down.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Mary Claire Haver (on menopause)
Do you want me to spell it for you? Splabowski. Yeah, let me find it again. Splabowski and Travowski. C-H-L-E-B-O-W-S-K-I. Chlebowski. And A-R-A-G-A-S-K-I.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Mary Claire Haver (on menopause)
No, I almost did. Yeah. To put in here.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chris Nowinski (on CTE)
I have a quick David Chang update if you want to. Oh, yeah. David Chang update.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chris Nowinski (on CTE)
I mean, I was also the one doing it, so depending on what it was for, too. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chris Nowinski (on CTE)
Hockey gets that a little bit because you've got four offensive lines and— Three defensive lines.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yeah, Seuss landing in Orlando, Florida. In Orlando, Florida. I should go.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Yes. Okay. I do. I like the like yellowy. Kind of warm gold. Yeah, white lights.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I mean, there's shades of white, too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
I have white lights, but they're kind of yellowy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Do you want me to Google? Yes, I do.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
And pictures? And pictures.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
It removes most or all of the hair from the pubic region, including the front, sides, back, and often the area around the anus. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
You have? For Natalie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI)
Did it make her horny? No. It was not meant to be.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
And think you're at the. Yeah. I see where you're going. I honestly hadn't ever thought of this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
I don't know. I really don't know. Oh, my gosh. I'm looking at things in my life. I don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
It could be. I mean, yeah, that's the best. I think that's the best we have to work on right now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
There's got to be. Monica's house was super close to mine. The other friend also lived like right down the road, too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
Yeah. Honestly, if you draw like a polygon of the four points, it's like a very small area. And so likely shared whatever water source. Oh, yeah. It's pretty, pretty.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
Oh, fuck. You're going to have to do a new podcast. You're going to start a new podcast where you investigate this issue.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
I will. Yeah, I'll report back. Yeah, I'll just start kind of casually throwing that into each conversation I have. So, by the way, this is kind of weird, but... You have a history of epilepsy and just kind of move on from there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
They're still in it, yeah. So they have a tough matchup against Ohio State because Ohio State looks really good right now. But, yeah, they're still in it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
Shut up. Well, it can't be a fluke because the only team to beat Texas this year is Georgia. Georgia's beat Texas twice this year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
Yeah, you know how it's like, how can Federer be the best ever if he can't ever beat Nadal? You know? It's very similar.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
I'd love to help you. Let me know. I'm a hard worker, too, so just let me know what you need. All right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)
Don't make me. Okay. AI Google says that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)
Yeah. That's a great name.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)
Well, maybe you have a bug.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)
I think I have a bug.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)
We can fact check it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Adam Scott Returns
We're going to pull it for the fact check. Both of you saying it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, I'm Googling it already. She has several dogs. Myron, a pit bull mix that was left behind by rapper Mac Miller.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
They do a dimpleplasty to make an incision in your cheek, remove a small amount of muscle and fat, and it creates a dimple.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Jesse Eisenberg
Well, they're they're invested in the garage rubber because when we do when that new couch came, Carly and I opened the garage to move it in and probably 400 crickets came out. So we need to get some cricket poison.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Lauren Graham Returns
So I'm getting 50,000 or more. There's 510 urban areas in the U.S. with a population.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Chelsea Handler Returns Again
Oh my God. In class. That was the joke?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tyler Perry
He's an object expert. Would you like a coffee or a Diet Coke?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tyler Perry
To be fair, I'll buy that. It looks blue on the TV back here, too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tyler Perry
Those are good metrics. Right. In 2020, there were 40,000 in Utah. Oh, come on, guys. There's that many.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tyler Perry
And then Montana, Vermont, Idaho, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, North Dakota, Utah. It's 11. OK, so I'm kind of wrong on that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Tyler Perry
The Internet says it's usually because of lack of cultural knowledge that the phrases are offensive.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
I have so many moose things because of this attack. Everybody's in something from a moose.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Bucks County.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
And I used to travel to Alaska every winter with our sled dogs. I did that for 20 winters.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
No, the Adidarod is a distance race where they go about five to seven miles an hour. We do sprint mushing, so our average speed is over 20 miles an hour. Wow. And the advantage is it's only 10 to 20 miles, so I get to sleep in a warm bed at night, as do my dogs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
Yeah, big truck. They got to be let out about six times a day. It's about an eight to ten day drive. And we do it in the winter. We go up around Thanksgiving and come home around Easter.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
I look back on it now and I wonder what was I thinking.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
I don't know what you know about moose, but if you travel out to the parks out west, they will tell you the single most dangerous animal you'll see out here isn't a grizzly bear, it isn't a timber wolf, it's a cow moose with a calf. And so in Alaska, it's always a concern because if you run into one with a calf, I've had friends that have had dogs that were stomped and killed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
Typical in the winter, a moose eats about 40 pounds of willows a day, which fills a 55 gallon trash can. And on cold winters, of course, the caloric needs are up. So they eat even more. So they tend to be more irritable. and a little more aggressive. So it adds a whole new layer to the word hangry.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
But they don't necessarily want to get out of the way, because they're six foot at the shoulder, and they weigh about 1,400 pounds. Oh!
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
So when I'm out with a sled dog team, you don't have reins on them. So your leaders are your steering wheel, and your lead dogs might be between 40 and 70 feet in front of you, depending on how big a team you're driving. So they don't always see what you see.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
And so on this particular training run, I was out several miles from our cabin and I went to make a right hand turn into the bush to go around a big loop. And as I told them to turn right, the leaders backed off like they saw something. I thought it was a squirrel or a rabbit. And then we turned behind and went around this big looper about 300 yards back in the bush. I come around the bend.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
and it wasn't a rabbit or a squirrel, it was a cow moose with a calf. I don't blame the moose, because think about what she's thinking. We went by her once, now we're turning around, she sees it as aggression. So I slam on the brakes, I have to make a split-second decision. I'm a dog lover. I've been in dogs my entire life.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
I started screaming, waving my arms, trying to make myself big, hoping that she would leave the dogs alone and maybe wander off. But she did something that nobody expected, and certainly I didn't. She ignored the dog team and comes charging at me. So she leaves the dog team right next to her calf. I want the dogs out of there. I let go of the dog team, told them to go home.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
And they take off and they're like, see ya. And I stupidly thought I could get to a birch tree behind me, climb the birch tree. Once the moose calmed down, then I could walk those miles back to the cabin. Bad idea.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
They were very afraid of the moose. They just sort of laid down. Thank you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Animal Attack II
Thank you. Thank you. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll be right back.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
I think that would have crossed my mind. Like, well, he's dead. He doesn't need this package. I was just trying not to get eaten alive by the cats. That's all I was worried about, just getting the fuck out of there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
You wouldn't be flattered if you died and Rob and I wanted to eat you?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
This is relevant to the gym. I'm just laughing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Best of Friday 2024
All right, I'll let Steve in and I'll go grab them. Hello. Hi, Steve.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
That'd be nice. That'd be nice. Which would you rather happen? The proposal on the Jumbotron from last week or this?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
I'm gonna text you guys photos for the next one. Don't look yet.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
Rob, did you have a ring for a while? Yeah, it was my grandma's ring that I got the diamond reset. I made a website for a fake restaurant that was like a prefix pop-up. Okay, this is very wob. And it was this Airbnb I rented on the lake in Chicago. And it had this whole outdoor balcony. And I had a friend that was a chef came and cooked an eight-course meal. Oh, my Lord.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
So we got to the Airbnb, and he was there cooking. And so did you propose a baby?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
No, it was by the end of dinner. But we got there, and it was just for us. And she saw him there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
Started putting together the pieces. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Bad Proposals
Do you want to sing a tune or something? We don't have a theme song. Oh, okay, great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Meet Cute II
Well, congratulations. You guys are such a cute couple. I'm so happy for both of you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rerelease: Roy Choi
What's your name? You got to introduce us. Yeah. I'm Rob. Have you ever heard the show? AKA Wobby Wob. This is Monica Padman.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rerelease: Roy Choi
We're picking our favorite episodes of the past. And my pick is Roy Choi.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rerelease: Roy Choi
He doesn't like to sleep much, but he's a good boy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rerelease: Roy Choi
You're not. Rob is. Well, does Vincent get more since I was 12 and a half when I had him? Great, great point. Yeah, so mom was 50. You were 12.5, so I don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rerelease: Roy Choi
I just loved him. The Asian-American journey he takes us through and kind of his outlook on food and making it kind of attainable for people and not just this high-end level of elitism. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rerelease: Roy Choi
Furries? I mean, people dress for cosplay for, like, comic books.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Guys, I'm trying, all right?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, I think I was. You know, after being on your show, like, she pretty much told me she wanted me to be more romantic. Yeah. So we went on a second date, and I kind of went over the top, I think. I hired, like, this 20-person flash mob.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
To take us back home. Dude. I had her favorite song playing on my phone. You know, we both did this thing together. Okay, but we asked, did you do anything romantic, though?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Well, after I did all that, she didn't talk to me for, like, two weeks. What?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, I made her this photo scrapbook of pictures of us. There's only like two pictures, but she liked it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, I think so. I hope she likes me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
He's like, I'm not sure.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, well, you know, I'm trying, and I'm also not trying, and so I'm keeping it in the middle. Okay. Oh, my God.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
yeah i don't know i just found it endearing i thought she was kind of wholesome and not really the type of girl that i would normally go for but it's interesting because it could be wholesome or it could be that she's done all those things so much that she can't do them anymore party life okay well what's her name her name's maggie all right how'd you meet her
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
We met online, but I just thought her pictures were so natural. She was very naturally beautiful. Oh, that's sweet. The pictures weren't Photoshopped, and she wasn't out at the club. It was just kind of pictures of her hanging out with her friends, and I just thought it was nice.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Well, so she doesn't like to drink, so we got ramen and And then we went and got ice cream.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Well, I learned that they actually have vegan ice cream. Oh, no, Jeff. Oh, cool.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
So how did date number one end? So there was no kiss at the end, but it was like a long hug. Okay. And she actually suggested that we go out again the next day.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
So the next day, I was like, you get to pick where we want to go. So we went to a vegan restaurant.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
How was it? I mean, it was okay. I didn't mind it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
I mean, after that date, we definitely kissed.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Well, so then after the date, she starts texting me. And like, it's text like, I can't wait to see you. There's a lot of love gifs and memes about love. And she was really accentuating the love aspect of everything. And, you know, it was a little bit much.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, well, what happened was she sent me a Spotify song. It's a song by Starship called We Built This Thing Together. I don't know if you guys know that song. Oh.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Well, I said, oh, that's a nice song. I'm not really into the song, though. I'm not really a big fan of it. And that totally changed things for her.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
I was just a little confused by it. Yeah. Okay.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, I just want to see where she's at, and I hope I didn't offend her, and I just want you to check for me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, I don't know how to tell her that politely. If she is that kind of person, I don't necessarily want to change her, you know? Okay. We'll let Brooke tell her to cut that crap out.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
Yeah, I mean, the way you put it, I guess I kind of see it like I was being a little rude. So, yeah, I would like to apologize.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
How you doing?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
could you know i just i wanted to apologize for blowing off your song i didn't realize that it meant so much to you but you know i hear what you're saying about um being more romantic it's you know we've only been on two dates so maybe i need a little bit of a build-up take my time a little bit okay rob's a little bit more of a slow burner but he's willing to burn a little bit faster for you
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update UPDATE: We Built This Thing Together
It'd be that song, Maggie, by Rod Stewart.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I called my family. They gave me my phone on the way to the airport and I knew I wasn't going to have service. So I called my family in like a group chat FaceTime, you know?
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
They put in the whole clip because it was that. I said, I hope she has a terrible personality.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
She's not a blonde. She's brunette. She has blonde hair, but she's not a blonde.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. She's got brown eyes, dark features. She's not a blonde.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, but it doesn't, come on. It's not the hair. That's not what makes you blonde or brunette to me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Well, also like, I don't follow like a rubric of like, She has blonde hair. Done. Like that's not, I don't really, when people ask me, I say I don't have a type.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
First conversation, It was nice, but it wasn't like romantic. Like I didn't feel, I enjoyed talking to her. Like we apparently talked for like a really long time.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Immediately. I saw all their faces and I was really nervous because I was like, I was either worried that they were going to be like, But they were all like, hey, like they were so happy to see me. And they seemed like they were so proud of you. Like you did so good. You were yourself the whole time. And I was like, oh, what a relief.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And I didn't realize that we were talking that long. So like it went really well. But it wasn't like, like it wasn't like, I was, I was still like pretty all in on Leah at that point.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. Before, before the next day she took me on a date, but that night we just had one conversation.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Of course. Cause I didn't want to hurt her. I still really liked her. Like I was like, That's something I think that people don't understand. Like, there was never a point where I stopped liking Leah. And when... Well, I guess we'll get to that. But yeah.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. Definitely. It was stressing me out. Like, it was stressing me out because I was... I told myself... That I was going to get to know every girl and I was going to try to figure out who was going to be my best match, no matter how much I liked the girl I was with.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Because that's what the level of experience, that's what you're supposed to do.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And that, you know, that's what they tell you. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going to do that. And so I was like, I got it. And it was like a good enough conversation where I was like, I'm giving this a chance. Like, I'm just going to see where it goes.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Not really. I'm not really like, I don't like talking to people that much. So like it's usually.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean, yeah, like it's definitely, it's definitely happened. Like I've definitely been, but I mean, that's when you're single, like, yeah, you're going to get to know multiple people at a time, but like, it's not like I've never like dated multiple women.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't know. It seemed pretty special to me. The moon was out and it was like, it was really nice. I enjoyed it a lot. It's quiet. It's kind of scary. So she's like, wants to be close. And it's like, I don't know. Turtles are cute.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't know. Most romantic thing. I can't think of that off the top of my head. I used to, I like making things a lot.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I made an emerald necklace for my first girlfriend from an emerald that I mined in North Carolina. Wow, that's romantic. Yeah, I like making stuff. I'm crafty like that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I just didn't know. Like I didn't know because like it's a TV show, right?
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It wasn't for me at all. If it seemed that way, that's not how it was really. It was like, I don't know. I haven't seen it, so I don't know, but I've seen clips obviously like on TikTok and stuff. I feel like it was condensed down to like, I don't know how long, but like it was a pretty long conversation that slowly got worse and worse and worse and worse. And it was kind of,
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like, Leah was coming at me, like, saying what she was saying, which I thought was, like, perfectly valid. And I kept telling her that. I was like, I get where you're coming from. And, like, I'm trying to see from your perspective. Because I get that this is hurting you. It would hurt me, too, if I was in your shoes. And then every time I tried to talk, she kept, like, cutting me off.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And she wouldn't let me speak. And I started getting emotional. And then I was like, I just need to step away. And then I started crying and I was like, bro, what the fuck are you doing? And I think just crying induced like a panic attack. Like I was just, I was, I was fully freaking out.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I knew that I was authentic the whole time. Right. But it can get clipped and it can get edited. And like, yeah, you know.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
absolutely freaking out and then I kind of got it together I went back down sat with her and she just started talking again like saying the same things and and just didn't like act like what what set me off was she just didn't ask me like how I felt which I think that triggered a lot of people they were like it matters more what she feels in that moment and 100% I was the one causing this situation yeah and I was taking responsibility for that I was trying to
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But also, I just needed someone just to check on me in that moment. And for me, up until that moment, she was that person. And I kind of felt like just that she didn't care at all, which isn't true. It was just she was really upset. And rightfully so.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
it was everything it was it was knowing that i was gonna have to choose between these two girls one that i just met but i was really like want to give a chance and i liked and then leah that i've just been so it's been great the whole time and honestly like i had no idea what i was gonna do yeah i really like i like and i didn't know it's very short windows of time where you have to make decisions and stuff and like i knew leah wasn't going anywhere yeah so i don't know
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I fucked up I was just like I think honestly had that not happened I probably would have stayed with Leah I think because that was after that happened I was like I was like well that was terrible and then at that point like my head was I feel like after that my gut was telling me like like you should just go with Andrea but my head was still like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
you really get on with leah like it's really good but i was hurt and i should i i wish i could have just something i needed to hear in that moment that i wish someone would have came up into me and said was advice that i gave everyone else later down the road was you need to just take yourself out of love island for like 10 minutes and just realize you just met these girls it's not that big of a deal
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It's honestly like at this point, like too much to even, it's just a refresh and then it's like a new page.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
why are you so emotional like really like pick it apart because i didn't know i was like why am i crying so much i like and i thought that but i didn't take myself out of it completely and i think if i had done that i think it would have been a lot different
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I had a really good conversation with Noah from Stranger Things.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, it was, I felt like our, we weren't, like, we didn't know what each other wanted. Like, it was kind of, like, a weird thing.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, we made out, like, a couple times. And it was good. It wasn't bad. I was just, like, I don't know why that came up, but... But yeah, I was just letting her know. And there, like you said, anything you don't say to somebody is wasting their time. And I felt like I needed to be as transparent with everyone as I could.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, but it wasn't like, I feel like we didn't click sexually. Does that make sense? Found her really attractive, everything. But when we kissed and stuff, it was like, it felt like she was holding back. She told me, and she said she was. Like she said, oh, that's because, she said it was because the first night when we had our first kiss, I said, please be gentle. I was joking.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
before we kissed and she said that's why she said that from then on she like would like hesitate like kissing me and stuff and she said that was why and do you think if that i was like i was like well that makes sense because that's what it felt like it felt like i couldn't tell if she wanted to kiss me whenever we would we'd like make out and i'm like does she want to stop like i couldn't tell he was really weird and i'm glad i told her because well i don't think we made out again after that but but i i told her that and she was like oh yeah i was holding back um because you said that the first time we kissed i was like that was a joke
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But it was so funny. And then we just talked about the show. He was just a big fan. And I just talked to him about it. Oh, wait. Should I not say it? Well, he just said it was fine. He said, I love you on Love Island. You stole my heart. And I said, thank you so much. I love Stranger Things. Thank you, Noah Schnapp from the hit TV show Stranger Things.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean, maybe. But no, like it was more of just telling her everything about us, like on the table. So if that did happen, like she understands where I'm at. Like I didn't want, I didn't want to blindside anyone. And I feel like I ended up blindsiding her because I didn't get the chance to talk to her before the recoupling thing.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
That was like, that's one of my biggest regrets is I should have insisted because I wasn't able to get to her and I should have been like, no, we're not, I need to talk to Leah before this. Like, cause I knew it was going to happen, but yeah.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I wasn't able to talk to her. That's all I can say. I didn't get the I didn't get the chance. I didn't get the chance to talk to her.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
make it look kind of like oh i'm this sucks for me too and like kind of get you out unscathed what do you say to that that's completely not true i mean you can ask anyone that i would never never want to cry like no definitely not that was completely genuine okay unfortunately um i wish it didn't happen at all the pool was there nowhere else to go So this is one of those things I should.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
So in my head, I wasn't planning on going to the pool, but I saw it. I walked down the stairs, saw it. I was like, oh, I had noticed earlier that day you could go up onto the deck and there's no cameras. There's no mics. I just wanted to be alone. I was like, fuck this shit. And I was like, all right, I'm going in there. And so I took my clothes off. I jumped in.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I went in there and then I got in there and I was like. They probably think I'm killing myself or something. I was like, this is a terrible idea. This was an awful idea. So then I got out and then I just walked out. And that's what I should have done. I should have just walked out because I needed to be alone. That's what I needed. But I knew they were going to stop me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I knew if I walked out, they were going to stop me, whatever. But I knew there, I'd get in the pool. What are they going to do? Fish me out? But yeah, it was, yeah. Hindsight, not the best choice.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think I definitely learned from this that I have an issue with letting people in and letting my walls down. I think I also struggle with communication. I struggle with, I think I procrastinate My feelings. I think I'm feeling them, but I don't, I don't process them in my brain until I have to. And that is probably one of the biggest things.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like that's what I think happened with the Leah and Andrea situation where I think if I had just like, but then again, I was never alone and I have to be alone to do that kind of thing. And I think if I was able to do that, it could have been so much better. I could have communicated to Leah a lot better because something about it is like you can recouple, but it doesn't mean it's over.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And I still had those feelings for Leah. And I think if I could have talked to her about it,
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
i don't know what happened but like it would have been different why do you think you have such a hard time with letting people in probably just the way i grew up okay probably just like share kind of well like i'm a family i'm one of four and i was just always more of the quiet one kept to myself didn't really i was like the middle child there's four of us but i was like you know what i mean like i just was like kind of independent um
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And I think a lot of times I just felt like people didn't care. So I just didn't ever. And I still feel like that. I feel like people don't care because they don't like realistically, most people don't give a shit. Like they'll ask you, but they don't really care.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
So I just don't waste my time and telling people like usually I just kind of like keep on going until I feel like it's something that matters, I guess.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You know, that's why I think it's only in one on one conversation that I can like actually let my walls down and talk because I think I gave every girl a chance and I tried my best. But looking back, I was like, damn. Especially after the Andre and Leah thing, it just tightened me up even more. Because I hurt them, and I knew that, and it wasn't my fault. I fucked up.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. It was also worse that like I just didn't even think about it and I was talking to him. And then my sister was like, what are you doing? And I was like, I'm actually having just a casual conversation with the guy from Stranger Things right now. But it was funny.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It's good. Yeah. My mom is a lot like me. She's like very witty and funny. She's hilarious. You would love her. And then my dad is really artistic and he's very handsome. And that's like his thing.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I got both. I got both those things. I got some of their best traits and I got both of their worst traits.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
My mom is really emotional and sometimes says and thinks things emotionally sometimes, which I do, which I've really worked on, I think. And then, yeah, I got some stuff from my dad, too.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, I think I think there is. I don't this is really going to be sad, but it's just I don't think that I can. I've been able to let someone all the way in.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I feel like I reach a point and they keep going and I can't.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I didn't know this was going to be that deep. Also, I need to turn my phone off.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Why do I think that is? I think I have... Gosh, this is really... I thought this was going to be more fun. I don't know.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think I need therapy. To be honest, more therapy. Yeah.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think I don't love me. And I really don't give a shit what people say about me because most of the time I'm saying it to myself already. Like when I got out, I saw all the horrible things people were saying about me and I was like, ah, beat you to the punch. Like I've been saying that shit this whole time. So I think I need to get over that before I can like really, and I'm a lot better.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm way better than I used to be. I used to be like really bad. Like I'm my number one.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
i'm just hard on myself and i think that comes with being an artist i consider myself an artist i love creating things i love making things and i think that's just part of the mentality is like you can always be better like it's never perfect yeah which is not a good mentality to have like you can't be perfect it's literally impossible um but i know i'm very far from perfect and i'm starting to accept it more and more and i think like i don't know i've i've like hurt people in the past like i like i said with my last girlfriend like i fucking hurt her
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And it still tears me up. And it's completely my fault. There's no one to blame but me. There's no good excuse for it. And it's just like... Fuck. I just carry it around.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Well, I think right now, at this point in time, I'm pretty emotionally drained. I don't know if I'm ready for anything like that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. Actually, yeah. I do think I am a good person. I think of others often and I try. But I'm not perfect and I mess up. And I want to be better, I guess, is what I'm saying. Like, I've never been in a point in my life where I'm like, this is as good as it gets. I'm like this. But no, I always want to keep getting better. And I think I have.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean, like, I was working on myself before it, but like, that's one of the valuable things I got from this is I was able to look at myself in conflict. Like how do I react in like when I'm angry, how do I act when I'm really hurt? Like I can literally go and watch it. Like, um, And that's like super valuable. It really is because you can see, and that's something that Leah got from this too.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Because Leah was, I mean, she said some awful things about me and claimed to never have said them when she talked to me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
That she said that I was a little bitch and that I gave her the ick because of it. And like, just like some crazy shit that I've seen. I mean, I've seen some clips.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
but she never admitted to that once until movie night like she's she said she didn't say that and then at one point she's like i may have said some things and i was like but i fully fully believe leah didn't she didn't like i think she says things that when she gets emotional and then it just never happened like she doesn't actually feel it she didn't say i think that kind of happens with her at least i don't know in that in that regard
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I would say – Yeah, at times. But also I would say I have to do that sometimes because like I said, I'm serious. If you were just sitting in a room with me, I wouldn't be able to think about my feelings. It's really weird. I really need to be alone to process how I'm feeling. And journaling helps a lot. And I couldn't do either of those things.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You can't. No, because Beach Hut is your journal. Sorry, I'm not supposed to talk about that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Also, like the amount of things I've written in my journal that I don't mean. You just say it to get it out. And then I'm like, OK, I don't feel that way. Move on. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's just how I process.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
So after like everything that happened with Leah, I was like, OK, I made the right decision. Like I just that's just the way I saw it. I was like I was like, this was nuts like this. We've not known each other that long. We had this whole thing, which it was mostly my fault.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like I feel like it was mostly my fault that it happened that way. But I mean, I mean, she'll admit some fault in it as well, but I feel like it was most of my fault, but it just didn't work. And I thought it was like, okay, our communication styles, whatever. I was like, I was like, okay, well I made the right choice. Like things with Andre are really great.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And it was, it was an amazing four days we had. Like I was like smitten. Like I really was like, I was having a great time and you can tell.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You can tell. I just thought she was like so much like just good. Like, I don't know.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
like talking to her i love the way she talked about her family and it just felt really romantic like it just felt romantic that's like the best way i could put it i felt romantic when i was with her in the moment of those four days and i want to clarify because i feel like a lot of people are like you knew each other for four days like four days seems like what in love island time that's like a month like like a week a week is like a month it seriously is like it feels like you've known them forever because literally
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
you're with, like usually you date a girl, you may go on a date, you'll see her maybe next week or in a couple days, and you're like, you'll text the whole time, whatever, but like there, you are with them at any opportunity you can, and you have to talk about how you feel about everything. You're immediately talking about how many kids you want.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I had to wear them, okay? Don't come for the overalls. I had to wear them. I saw the memes and everything and I was like, bro. I was like, you know, might as well.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And then if, so if you like them, that progresses really, really fast.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
At first, I was just mad. I was like, this makes no sense. This makes no sense. We had the strongest connection of most of the people in the villa at the time, like let alone who was up for elimination. And I was like, I was just baffled. I was baffled. I was like, how does this make sense? And then I was like, fuck it, I'm leaving.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
yeah so you immediately stood up and you were like now you're sending three home like well it wasn't immediate that that probably that's longer okay but it was like we're sitting there we're talking we're like there's a back and forth between the girls and the guys okay blah blah blah and then finally like i'm sitting there and i'm like all right yeah nah and then aaron's like no no no no no no no and i got up and i was like yeah i'm leaving
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
All right. Once again, that was a three hour process of me trying like wanting to leave and like having conversations with people and they're like, no, you shouldn't. So it wasn't 30 minutes? No. Okay.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
no she that she did have 30 minutes back and i had that conversation with her but after she left i was like no no like i had a conversation and they were like no you should say blah blah like it's so dumb you've only known her for four days blah blah and i'm like okay fair enough but then right after that i was like no i'm leaving like i'm like no like i'm i'm actually leaving and i just had a lot of conversations blah blah and they convinced me to stay the night and then the next day i calmed down and i was like okay yeah like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I came here to find the best connection. It was going amazing with her. And I think, like, you know, like, the honeymoon stage of a relationship? We were at that. We were at that point where I was like, this girl could do no wrong. I was just, like, so keen. Like, I was just happy. Gone. And I was like, fuck. Like, I don't know. Like, it was just a bad time.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, I didn't even plan on wearing these. So I brought these. So Love Island, usually the intro is you're like doing your job and you get a text. You're like, oh, time to go to the villa. So that's what these were for.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like, literally the next day, I could have been like, oh, like, I don't know about this. You don't know. But I... I was like, who knows who else might come in here? Like, you know, because it was still early days.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And so I was like, I mean, yeah, it does. I don't want to get out of here, get with her. It doesn't work out, which statistically very high probability that we would not work out. And then I'm like, damn, what could have been?
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. A hundred, a hundred percent. I regret it. I wish I wouldn't have said it, but in that moment, that's what I was doing. Like I was set on leaving. Like I, and for a while after that, I was set on leaving even the next day. But yeah, of course you don't see any of that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't know. I don't, I don't know. I don't know if it would have worked out. I really don't. It was really, really great, but like it was still early days.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like we had a lot to learn about each other and you know,
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, yeah. No, Leah's hilarious. Like I love like Leah's great.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
From the girls to me, from me to Leah. And so... First of all, I did not think Leah was capable of lying to me. I really thought that we had, I thought we had something special and I did not think she was lying to me at all until that conversation that she had with me It was up on the upstairs thing. She was, she told me like, and once again, I haven't watched it.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Sometimes, yeah. Often, sometimes. Yeah. So yeah, so I brought them for that part.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't remember exactly what she said, but I, she basically said like, she didn't talk shit about me and Andrea. She didn't talk shit about me or like shit like that. And I knew that wasn't true. And I was like, damn. And then she said, I took a backseat in the decision. And I was like, interesting. And the point of that conversation was not about that at all.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
For me, it was more about, is this girl lying to me? Because like, I still had feelings for her. And like, I was thinking at this point, I was like, okay, maybe I should give this another shot. That's what the point, you remember when I pulled Liv in?
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And then I was like, oh, fuck it. So I just threw them in the villa bag that goes in. And then I wore them and I was like, dude, this is the move. Because Fiji is really hot, right?
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Kaylor, sorry. Yeah. I can remember Kayla's name. Kayla, I love you so much. You're like a sister to me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Okay. Okay. Yeah. When I pulled them, the only reason I did that is because I didn't want to like, I knew Leah was going to get upset and I just didn't want to have the conversation at all. If they were like, oh no, she did. I would have been like, okay, cool. And I would have dropped it. The only reason I pulled them is because I just wanted all the facts.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
also if she had been lying to me i knew she was gonna lie and she did kind of deny everything when we started the conversation and i was like oh okay and then i just kind of felt lied to and then they just kept yelling at each other and i was like i don't even want to be a part of this anymore that's not what i wanted at all also people were saying like we teamed up on her i talked to leah by myself and she called live over she kind of i think she kind of thought live was going to be on her side and she just wasn't at all and then it was like bad it was i hated that moment because it was just like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Leah was just in between two people that disagreed with her and it just wasn't fair for her at all.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
you and Leah need to have a conversation alone let's you and I finish our conversation because I agree it became ganging up but then it was also tough because it's like yeah but you asked Liv and Liv's telling yeah exactly she asked for that yeah and and she was trying to team up on me yeah but I wanted the conversation to be really calm like I was trying to be really really calm yeah and then she just kept like saying these things and I was like this is not true and that's when I like lost my shit and I was like can you just wake the fuck up like we like just be real with me
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I didn't have to wear a shirt, basically. It was like pants, a little bib, but it's very breathable. It was comfortable.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Based on what the girls have told me, I don't think it does that. I don't think it clears your name.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
clear clear everyone's names get the truth i don't know production i would have loved to see that as well maybe i heard i heard like i heard what was said you heard what was said yeah did they ever hear that no i was told like specifically what she was saying why after that share it with the class i don't want to because i don't know it's true who told you I don't want to say that either.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It's just drama. To me, that's drama. I like to know facts. And if I know facts, I will call you out on it. And I'll be like, hey, let's talk about this. But I'm not going to start something over something I don't know is true or not.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And it became about the decision. I was just trying to talk about how honest she had been with me. And I feel like the way she reacted made me feel like she wasn't being honest at all.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Definitely not. They didn't like them there. Like, it wasn't a no.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, 100%. It wasn't all on her. And I didn't care about that. Yeah, that wasn't what you were asking. She made the decision. I just wanted to know if she was being honest about taking a backseat. I think that's what it became about. It was never about that. Even if she was full like, we need to get Andre out of here, I wouldn't have been mad at her.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I would have just liked to know if that was the truth. I just wanted honesty. That's all I wanted. I wanted to know that I could trust her.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, I didn't. I felt like I couldn't trust her at that time. I was like... And, like, now, like, looking back, I don't know. Because I think it was really getting twisted around.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But myself included. I think that I didn't remember things right from our first conversation. But, like, I think everybody involved in that had a different narrative. And then there was the truth. And none of us were on it. I don't think.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
When I first start something with someone, I fully trust them. That's like, I'm not going to date you if I don't. And that's why I was like, okay, well, I guess I'm not going to date Leah.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, once. Well, like my first, so my first college girlfriend, that was the most toxic relationship I've ever been in.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
On both sides. I was toxic. She was toxic. We could not stay away from each other to save our lives. Broke up a million times. Got back together a million times. Of course. Craziest things. Also, we're drinking all the time because it's college. So like that's the most toxic relationship I've ever been in.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
it was it was crazy but yeah i went through her phone for sure she went through my phone too i would wake up and she'd have my phone she'd be like you motherfucker like like the crazy we have i have the craziest stories of like between us but did you find anything incriminating yes i know so have you been cheated on I mean, we weren't together at the time.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Because she's a good girl, and I wish her the best, and we both grew up. People can change, and I don't want people to be like, you did this, you know what I'm saying?
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But I wish her the best. I think she's about to get married.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, no, no. It's not like that. You should. Well, you can't try it, but I would encourage anyone out there to try it. It's your penis list, so it's not going to work for you, but it's breathable and like it's just nice.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, I think a lot of my ex-girlfriends are about to get married. I prepare them. I'm like the stepping stone.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Sad. you're gonna find your person maybe are you the jealous type yeah yeah 100 okay 100 like how jealous jealous i'm like more of like a protective jealous but like when i'm dating a girl like i like i'll kind of make it now and like i'll put myself in between her and whatever the situation is um yeah that's kind of like that okay um can we talk about aaron
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think, like, at first, I was like, I'm not so sure about this guy. He's, like, kind of the opposite of me in the way that he's, like, really loud and, like, loves to, like... He's just silly and, like, goofy and... And I'm like that, too, but, like, only when I'm, like, really comfortable with people. But then, like, I got to know him and, like, he felt like family.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like, he's, like, really, like... He's really sweet and he really, like, cares about everyone. Like, he really did. Like... Like, he would get sad when anyone was sad.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah. Yeah, well, like, we, like, became really, really good friends. Like, he seriously felt like my brother.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm not going to lie. When I saw the clips, I was shocked.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I was shocked. And I was shocked the day that I saw him kissing her on the beanbag. I was shocked.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Well, I'm wearing my lucky underwear. I thought I might need it.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Well, I wasn't really getting on with it. Like I got to know the girls. They were great girls. Sydney, so funny. Like I thought they were really great girls, but I didn't see like long term relationship type things with most of them. And Daniela had been talking with Aaron most of the time. And we have like similar type as far as personality.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
uh and the first conversation i had with her i really liked and he was telling me the whole time that i should talk to her and i was like i was like what and he was like yeah like you like i think you guys really get along and i'm like but because he i think he knew he wasn't gonna take her back and at that point he was like you should you should at least talk to her and see even though he loved her he loved her he told her that he loved her twice daniella yes you have seen this
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Really? I haven't even seen it on like anything. I haven't seen it clipped or anything.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
what was the question anyways so how the fuck did you come back to the villa with daniella well yeah so i literally didn't get a chance to talk to her that much at all um and then i did i talked to her and i was like i was like i liked her value like where her values were and i liked like once again like she's very family oriented like me and she loves animals she wanted to be a vet i was like okay i could see something here so i was like my and like what am i gonna do go back single
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I was actually really close to doing that exact thing. I was really close to going back single and just being like, Liv, what's up? You want to hang out? Yeah. I was really close to doing that. I seriously thought about it. But I was like... Liv and I both knew we get on and we get each other's humor and I find her really attractive. But it was like... It's more of a friendship for sure. Yeah.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No. Hell no. Hell no. He didn't want me to bring her. Oh, actually, he did.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
He did. But then after that, right, like immediately after that, he was like, terrible idea. Don't bring her back.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Oh, fuck. I don't really remember that well. But he was like, he pulled me for a chat. And he was like, oh, yeah, she took it really, really well. The way that when he said that he was done, like he wasn't going to take her back or whatever. She took it. He said like she took it with like such grace and like she was so kind and she just said really nice things about him and stuff.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And he was like, oh, dang, like that was really cool. He's like, you're going to like her a lot. You should hang out with her. But like, yeah. And he was like, you should take her back. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot about it. I forgot. I totally. But it's because the reason I forgot about it is because.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Well, he did not say – he said only if you see something with her. Like, if you want to bring her back, do it. But, like, it was like – yeah. It was, like, I guess implied, like, that he thinks that she's cool. But I don't – but I'm telling you, literally 10 minutes after that, he was like – Freaking out. Everything I said, so wrong.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm a dumbass. Do not do that unless you really want to. And then I was like – I got to know her and I was like – There's enough there that I want to see where it goes.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, I did because I care about Kayla. She's like a sister to me. But I also thought about it like, OK, well, at least like. She's going to know like and I was wrong, but at least she's going to know that he's being honest because she'll tell him everything. And then she didn't. I've seen that as well.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, I know. I know. But that was like my silver lining. I was like, OK, yeah, like this is going to be weird. And it sucks because like Aaron's my best friend and Kayla is his girl. And like I want to be able to hang out with them all together. But honestly, like Kayla really took it with grace. Like and and she got along with Daniela enough that like we could all kind of hang out.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And I think he's going to be okay because I think what I've just told him over and over again is you fucked up. You got to take accountability. And as long as you keep doing that, I think it's going to be okay. Because I promise you this. He loves Kayla. He really does.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
He cares about her so much. And it was killing him even in Casa. I remember one day specifically. It was after he kissed her. He sat in the room for like hours and just stared and was like, what the fuck have I done? Blah, blah, blah. And he really cares about her a lot. He really does.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I've seen a ton. I mean, how could I not? They're fucking everywhere.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think after everything, I think we will be amazing friends. And I think I'd rather just focus on that for now. Like, love being around her. She's an amazing person. She's so fucking funny. Like, I'm, like, laughing the whole time I'm with her, usually. But, like, I mean, I think... I also think Miguel is a really great guy. I love Miguel.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And we're actually really similar, which I didn't see coming at all. Like, some of the way we think... But, yeah, I think... I don't know what's happened, obviously. But, I mean, no. I mean, I'm going to respect them and her. And, like, I just don't think that that's, like, necessary at all. I think that we're great friends and that's, like, a great spot to be. And I'm happy with it.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You know my story. You know my name and my story, but you don't know me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like, I'm content in that. Like, I would be content being friends with her.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, like, I'm okay with being friends and I want to be friends.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
america is rooting for you and leah even though she has something good with miguel probably all the edits probably all the fucking edits you guys have made of us looking at each other and like i mean and we care it's like it's not built on nothing like we care for each other for sure i like i feel that she cares for me and i care for her um
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But yeah, after everything, I think it would be really, really hard. I mean, it's kind of like the Aaron Kaler situation. That's going to be such an uphill battle for them to get through. And I think the best thing for us is just to move on and be friends. Seriously, I think that's just the best thing.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Most of the time, no. There was definitely some moments where I was like, damn. I cannot lie. There was definitely some moments where I was like, damn. But... Most of the time, like a lot, like I've seen a lot of them. I'm like, I'm like, I don't think she was looking at me in that. Like, like, like some of them. I'm like, OK.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But yeah, like other times I'm like, yeah, I mean, that was a nice moment for us.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean, you're not lying. No. Like, I don't really want to talk about it.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But the edits have made it really like it's it's definitely like hype hyped up.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
grand final moment with her where you run up so funny didn't feel like that at all like really I mean in the moment it did but like I literally just wanted to say bye and like let her know that I cared about her and I thought she was great and I'm glad that we got to get back to that point that's all I wanted to say but then it was like I don't know.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It was so much more emotional than I thought it was going to be. Like in my head, I was like, this is not a big deal at all. I'm just going to let her know these things. And then I let her know. And then I was like, oh, that was kind of crazy. Like a little bit. It wasn't that crazy. But like, it seems a lot crazier on TV, I think.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, like other than like the lines they wrote me. No, I'm playing. No, that was.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you say that, it's like I love you as a friend. Yeah, for sure.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't. Yeah, I don't. I mean, I've been talking to her a little bit, but it's not like... I think, once again, it's probably better if we just kind of keep our distance for now. A lot has happened, and she's been posting a lot.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, which is... I'd be lying if I was like... I was kind of like, oh, that's a lot of things to post about... which sounds really bad, but like, I do think she's a great girl. And I think she got it. Like, I think the reason she did that is like, she was, she went in there and did what she was supposed to do. She did nothing wrong, literally did nothing wrong. And she was always kind.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like she, when she left, I don't know if it was, I haven't seen it, but I don't know when she left. She was in a position where she could have said a lot of mean things and been like, y'all are some bitches for doing this, blah, blah, blah. Didn't not say a word. All she said was like how much she cared about me and then left. Like, I thought that was like so good.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And like, I thought she handled herself so well the whole time, which is why I was kind of surprised. Like she was like posting a lot of stuff. But like, I guess she was, she got like the most hate from anyone from the show.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I texted her. I texted her. I just said, hey, how are you? And then I called her. Well, yeah, we called. We FaceTimed for a little bit. Didn't talk about anything crazy. Just wanted to see how she was doing. Because at this point, I hadn't looked at really anything online. And I was just like, how are you doing? Everything. I was thinking about you a lot.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
like blah blah told her my because i knew once she left she didn't know what happened and i think it was made to look like she left i was like i'm leaving i did it and then i didn't give a fuck that was not the case yeah i was like you can ask as any person in there i was like i was so fucked like for that week after that like it was tough but like i did i did get better and i got over it like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
towards the end so like and I told I let her know like all that and I was just like because I felt guilty I felt really guilty about it and at times I was like I should have just left like I'm such a bitch like I don't know I mean like I said I tear myself up like But rightfully so. It was such a lose-lose situation at that point because I got emotional and said that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But yeah, I just kind of let her know how it went, how I was feeling and everything. And she told me a little bit about what was going on with her. And then that was it. And then we've texted a little bit. But I did start to see all the stuff that she was doing. And I was like, that's something that I did not see coming from her. She just seemed very no drama. Like in the villa, so no drama.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You don't understand. I saw a clip of that. And I think that really was a part of why I was so emotional. Going into Love Island is crazy. You don't understand. You're on no sleep.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like she said that like, yeah. Yeah. And I just was really kind of set back by that when I saw that. I was like, oh, interesting.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But it's not like the reason I'm having those thoughts. It has nothing to do with me being out. It has to do with me seeing what she's been doing while I was out. Like I was like interesting. And but I will just like last thing on it. Like I will give her like credit. Like I do get why she would be doing that if like people were coming at her. But it was a lot.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You have no alone time, which is huge for me because that's how I process my emotions. I have to be alone.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It had been a really, really, really long time. After, I was like, fuck, Rob. You made it this whole time. You didn't have sex on TV. Your poor mother. Everyone's going to be like, he never cared about any of those bitches. He's just going to fuck. Then I was like, you know what? I'm an adult. She's an adult. It felt right in the moment. It happened. I don't regret it. It just happened.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You really have. You're good at this. I will give you credit.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
So I couldn't figure my shit out. And also I was horny as fuck.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
That is tea. I've said no words for what you're saying.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No one knew. That was the funniest part. I don't know how many conversations they put in, but Miguel, like, I think it was literally the next day. He was like, he was like, yeah, bro. I just don't think that I could have sex in here. Like, it's just not something I'm going to do. And I'm like, dude, me either, bro. And then Cassie was sitting right next to me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I was like, I was like, dude, me either. Like, especially like in the room with everyone could never do that. He's like, he's like, yeah, bro. Like, I mean, honestly, if someone did, I would rate it. But, like, it's just something I wouldn't do. And I was like, yeah, bro. Couldn't be me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean to, like, release. Oh, I was, like, built up.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It's alliteration. Lovely Leah. Like, come on. Chill the fuck out.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Stop. You're just saying that because of the edits. You watched the edits. They worked on you. And that's what you want.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
That's nuts. That's nutty. Ariana. Anyways, next question.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
she looked fucking amazing this season so good she was always wearing see-through clothes i was like what's up with her not really wearing clothes all the time how many times did you guys think she was a bombshell walking in um once but also i thought she was an islander when we she was sitting there with them when we walked in and i went around and shook everyone's hand i shook her hand i was like nice to meet you i'm rob and then i was like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
yeah it was really there's a clip of like cordell at one point and everyone's like it's ariana it's ariana and cordell comes out he's like who the fuck is that he's blind as a bat he can't see shit it's so funny serena and cordell are so cute now i love them i love them both individually yeah so it makes me easy to like them as a couple you know what i'm saying like they had their struggles they're really dope but that's why i think they'll they'll be good i think because like they had a hard time they got through a lot yeah but like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Is it? Oh! No, it's not. 23 is a lucky number. Fuck. Passed it.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean, you could hardly say that. I was here for a year.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Work. Yeah, what's going on? Rob Thunder. What? Just kidding. It was a joke.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
That was a joke. So Connor, yeah, yeah. So the picture they took for me, for like my picture, everyone thought I looked like a porn star. And so Connor came up with the name Rob Thunder. That was like me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I can't imagine trying to get to know someone right now. I can't imagine giving someone my full attention and actually being able to be present.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, get in the woods and leave my phone at home. I need to go in the creek. Yeah, I'm not kidding. I really need that. It's like my therapy.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
if the mood is right the mood's right we'll give a little little cutie okay so you're ready to get back to the woods yep are you going to continue to be a snake wrangler are you gonna like start popping up are you gonna do the reality stuff are you gonna go back on another reality show like what do you think survived i have no idea they like they've asked me a lot like what i want to do from this because like the show did the best it did it's number one it beat every other show in america yeah it was the number one streaming insane uh which i did not see coming so like yeah like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think I'm just going to keep catching snakes. I mean, like, if I get a really good opportunity, like, like I said, I'd be like, ah, fuck it, whatever. Like, that's kind of how I live my life. Like, that's why I went on Love Island. That's why that situation happened. Like, I didn't apply for that, you know? Right. So, yeah, something that comes across. Like, Survivor. Oh, I would do that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't know. I don't know. Just when I think about that, the stress chemical in my brain comes out.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Well, I feel like... I feel like... I don't know. I'm just interested to see who's still together and how everything is going for everyone. And just everyone together again. I think a lot of people went to the internet and maybe some things have been said that are not great about other people. And that's going to be a thing for sure. I mean...
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
but I'm hot enough that it doesn't matter. That's it. That's the consensus I've gotten. I've seen so many TikToks of like, this man is a red flag. He's terrible. I hate him. I can't stop looking at him. I love him so much. It's just weird.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm just being honest. Like anything I've said, I'll be like, yeah, I said that. I meant that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
No, no. Just the situation in general. Gives you anxiety. Yeah. That's just going to be like not just me. No, not with me. I'm thinking about other people. I'm like, how the fuck is that going to go? Yeah.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Hate is the closest emotion to love. I'm just kidding. Thank you. I don't know. It's confusing. I'm confused. You know, something I kind of saw myself like after. Obviously, there was a lot of drama at the beginning. But after that, I just thought I was kind of a background character. I didn't really feel in the show anymore. So I just kind of like, yeah, whatever. I'm just chilling.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And then I was surprised when I came out. It was like a lot of buzz about.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I mean, I mean, why would you want to talk about that? Why would you want to focus on the negative? I know, I know you're saying you're not.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Yeah, that was great. Oh, yeah. That was... Okay, so... How did you feel about that? So after not leaving, after Andrea left, I was like kind of regretting it a lot. And that moment made me the most happy I was about staying. That moment was...
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
so great for me like and for us i thought which was i really liked it gave us closure and it was in front of everyone which i loved because i'm not the kind of person that like i feel like there was weirdness in the villa about leah and i but i'm not the kind of person that's gonna go to everyone and like give my side of the story blah blah like i'm just gonna like let my actions speak for themselves yeah um but in that moment i was given the opportunity to like talk with her and stuff and i thought it was really good for us and then we had a great conversation after that and yeah we just like we got back to being friends and like it was good
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I feel like it's not true, but it's kind of true. What? I don't feel like I gasped.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I hate LA. That's why I moved. No offense. It's great for other people. Too much concrete for me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm sure after this, I'm going to think of a million things. I'm like, damn, I should have said that.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Not really, but I like him. He's just like... Cool. I know people hate him, but I like him.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
He's just Dave. I like genuine people. It was the same... Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like genuine folk. I like people that are just themselves and they don't really give a fuck.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
He's going to be honest. He's going to be Dave. I like that about him.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Do I regret things I did? I think every decision I made, I would have eventually made. I think I was put in these like small timeframes where my issue was my communication. And it partly was because I didn't know how I was feeling.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm not a people person. But I love my friends. Hmm. How do I get into this? Okay. Let's say, all right, let's say we're going to go on a date. Okay. Let's just say first date. Okay. I would like prefer to do something where it's just the two of us and like quiet. We get to know each other. Like I'm not like a big concert guy. I don't like going to the club. I'll go to a bar.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But even then I'm like, there's too many people here. Uh-huh.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Go to the creek. Go to the river. Go to the beach. Okay. Bodies of water are typically good for picnics.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I think... My last girlfriend would have a lot of good things to say and a lot of bad things to say. The one before that, same. I think same. I think with my last relationship, I mean, I don't want to talk too much because that's her business too. But I think the wheels kind of fell off at the end and it went longer than it should have. And I think that was really...
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It's really, really strange. One of the big things is like neon isn't on everything. Like neon signs, like the lights there. I got really used to just seeing that every day. I got to my hotel room and I was like, it's so dark in here.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
came down to like communication and and i think it was hugely on me um and it's like one of my biggest regrets uh is like putting her through the months of like the end of our relationship like yeah because i did love her and like i i fully believe she loved me too and it was like just knowing you did that to someone that you care about what you just like weren't communicating with her how you were feeling i i just was like
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
When you care about somebody, you still have to, like, figure that out. But, like, I didn't know how I felt about myself. And I just couldn't give her what she needed. And I just should have walked away way sooner.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
Like, on and off. Like, we broke up. We got back together.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But, like, yeah. It wasn't, like, back and forth, back and forth.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
They called me. They said, what are you doing? And I was literally saving a turtle crossing the road. I was in a great mood. I was on my way to Arkansas to go catch a bunch of snakes. I was wearing these overalls. Like, true story. I was wearing these overalls. I had just caught a copperhead. I was on cloud nine. I was having a great day. And someone called me.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
They're like, hey, Rob, what are you doing? You single? I said, why? You interested? And they're like, no, you want to come back to Love Island? I was like... I thought about it and I was like, you know what? Like my plan for the summer was just to catch snakes all summer and just like make videos and stuff. And I was just like, fuck it. Like I'm not really doing anything. Might as well.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I'm looking for a girlfriend that I would marry. Okay. Like I do. I do. I'm like dating to marry at this point.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And that's why I'm not wasting anyone's time. Like I'm not going to get...
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
into something that i if at any point i don't see that future progressing to that like i'm gonna get out how many times have you been in love i think once okay i told two of my girlfriends that i loved them and i think i meant it with the girl yeah but then i i realized i really meant it with yeah yeah do you think that your ex-girlfriend watched the season of a lion no definitely not but she definitely saw stuff
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
You get used to it. You get used to like just being around like literally there's a neon sign on every surface. Like it's like lights up.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
It's very fresh. And like I said, like it takes me a while to process.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
My emotions and how I feel about everything. And right now, I think some of the things I'm not, like, I'm not, I haven't processed it. So, like, this is, I mean, I just got back from Fiji. I just left.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And so, like, right now, it makes me nervous to talk about these things because, like, emotions are kind of high and, like, I just don't want to, like,
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And I got out and I was like, it's so dark out here.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I really liked her a lot. I felt like, I think it's pretty obvious that I'm a bit odd and I can be hard to read. And I think it's hard for people to understand me, especially my humor. She got it right away. And I loved that. I loved that. And I also thought she was really funny. And obviously she's gorgeous.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
But seriously, from the first night when I walked in there, we just kept like locking eyes.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
And I was like, man, I really hope that we get coupled up tonight. And we did.
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
two days well like yeah technically like it felt like a week but it wasn't because Liv came in and stole me first right but that was like I mean like I was with like there was never a moment where I thought I was gonna go with Liv instead of Leah like it kind of got clipped that way but like I was telling Leah the whole time I was like you have nothing to worry about like because I was shocked when Liv picked me like we all were we all were so sure she was gonna pick Kendall
Call Her Daddy
Rob’s Love Island Tell All (FBF)
I don't, I don't remember how that went down. I just know that it was a thing and that we would give it to each other when we were talking because we were like, it was a lot. I mean, like we didn't sleep the first night. Like we were like,
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It'll all be fine once we get to Wintery Bay. Yes. Perfect wintery bay. You want to explain on that further? Good night. Clyde snores. Yeah, she, like, unzips her tent.
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I know I don't talk much, but I'm going to scare the shit out of you immediately.
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Sir, if you've been there for so long, how do you not know how to say it?
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Did you find anything in the Agahari? Awakagahara. In the unaliving forest.
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I wouldn't say I'm a cultured woman. I just wanted to know if you've seen any... Oh, I see how it is.
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Yes. Rob, I need you to just get back to the fucking story with the ranged old man.
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Quiverfull
Yeah. I feel like you're tricking me and it's some kind of, like, sex toy.
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Quiverfull
You just always try and have a quippy response to however I pick up. And I guess you're not as on when we're just chatting.
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Quiverfull
I just felt dredged when I realized I picked up in such a rude way and I realized you were recording me.
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Quiverfull
Quiver full. Is this a product or a service or am I guessing that as well?
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Quiverfull
Movement. Okay, quiver full. Maybe, okay, it's not this, but it could be something that tracks how many arrows you have left. If you're really into archery, so that you always have a full quiver.
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Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
And one of the first games I ever played was called Oregon Trail. Is the Oregon Trail in Oregon or is that somewhere else?
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Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
Well, that's just how I imagine the world of the game. Like, you go to a saloon and there are some barrels outside. And sometimes the barrels are the table, you know?
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
I have this fear that the more I talk, the more likely it is people are going to start thinking, I can see why you smashed an egg on her head.
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
Your friend is doing good. How is my friend doing?
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
Not just America. Anywhere. Anywhere can go bad, but especially America.
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
I'm not sure. I've just been in my room all day.
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
I'm tidying up. It's time to get clean in my world. Are you recording me?
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
Oh, no. God, it's so mortifying. Why am I like this?
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
Oh, well, you know, there's like this big stereotype of Portland being the home of the hipster. I want to say barrels. Do they have a lot of barrels?
Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
like an oak barrel i just like when i picture portland i can imagine there are lots of barrels everywhere i've never been there and i don't know anything these these questions are a constant ploy to humiliate me where are these barrels at bars and pubs and stuff Well, I don't know, but when I was eight and I lived with my granddad and he had one of those old computers with text-based games.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
I'm like, I remember when Marvel films used to be... Oh, this is a Marvel film? This is a Marvel film.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
That sounds about right. Is that about right? 1,000 feet to 10,000 feet? I'm so bad with distance. Because I think, what, airplanes are like 30,000 feet? They're 30,000. So a third of where an airplane is, a blimp seems higher.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
You said 1,000 to 10,000? Yeah. You were not that far off. I wasn't that far off. You were within the range.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
What year did this blow up? I don't know. I don't fucking know. It was in the dock.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
so they don't think i'm gonna take a shit yeah they just now think you're masturbating it's a good little gag there um but my point is like if people know i think that's why on a plane they don't know if you're going one or two what is what i'm saying is very obvious on a blimp look it's very specific It's a small space. It's just because you know everyone on there. You know everyone.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
Or in the country? Blimp pilots. AIOview, 17 full-time blimp pilots in the US.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
No, I really don't think they are. I'd like to think she was being honest and very stern.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
Yes. So yeah, go to that form one more time, Rob. It's bit.ly slash fbfancy.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
And if, Kate, you're watching or listening to this... FlightlessBirdChat at gmail.com.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
This is awful. I have, I've turned into that thing that I hate. You've got this whole flock of birdies that are, uh, well, I get great answers.
Flightless Bird
Goodyear Blimp
What's it made from? I couldn't even tell you. Oh, you don't even, it's. No, it's just, I just love it. Like, oh, you like it. Oh, I love it. Yeah, no. But it's a dark brown sludge. Yeah, dark brown sludge. And you put it on toast.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
The chicken Madeira. And then I'm going to do the nachos. Can I do no sour cream?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I got something like Lord of the Rings, Sauron. Fucking right, it is. It's the Eye of Sauron right there. It's kind of Celtic as well, but then a lot of blown glass fixtures and a lot of patterns.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah, this is a very large plate of nachos. And your chicken, I don't even know. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at. I'm seeing a lot of mushrooms. I don't think I've ever seen a piece of chicken that shape or size, I guess.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Are you the type that feels any codependency with the food, what you're leaving on your plate, and will you force yourself to eat more, especially if a waiter recommends an item for you?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I mean, this is also bigger portions, even within America, because I've maybe had a fourth of my nachos, and I'm full and do not want any more.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I don't know that I, when I think of Cheesecake Factory, that I necessarily go immediately to unhealthy food.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah, I agree. And both of them are, have just kind of melded to slop at this point. Mine's just a puddle of cheese and soggy chips and you, I can't even tell what's chicken and mashed potatoes anymore on your plate. And now we're about to have a bunch of cheesecake. Maybe we only do two pieces. We were talking about how many we needed to get, but I think two is probably enough.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah. I mean, that's not normally my choice, but if, uh, I'm normally like a pretty classic cheesecake. So all of the bells and whistles of most of these are not what I would go for. Yeah. I would either do the original or the red velvet if I was coming here, but you're a big candy sweet guy. You should definitely do, you should do the Oreo. We do the red velvet cheesecake.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
This says 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutritional advice. I think my nachos were 2,600. I'm glad I only had like five of them.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yes, very, very, very rich. Do you guys have cheesecake in New Zealand?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
My grandma used to make us cheesecake. Like, very simple cheesecake. My grandma was not layering in red velvet cake and putting Oreo crumbles and frosting on hers.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah, she made a really good cheesecake and she made a really good cinnamon bread.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah. And cheesecake. I mean, this is going to sound bad. Yeah. But growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Cheesecake Factory was one of the nicer places.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I did that this summer with my dad. Oh, get out. When we did that road trip from LA to Chicago and back. And he came with me and Calvin. Yeah. And me and Calvin kind of interviewed him throughout the trip and recorded it and just... Asked him about growing up and what his dad was like that I'd never met.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I had an official recording, so what you go out and do. Yeah, a little field recorder. And I had some general directions on which I wanted to spend each day talking to him about. I didn't want it to just be like, okay, cool, let's have a two-hour conversation about this.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Let's talk about what your parents did before you were born and what you remember as a little kid and then what high school was like and then how you chose what you wanted to do for college.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah, it was fun incorporating him, but he oftentimes would just fall asleep like 20 minutes into it and just got bored and would ask the same questions of like, what were your favorite toys?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I think you were steered in the wrong direction on what you ordered.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
You ordered a very heavy... I mean, not that the nachos were any lighter.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I was very like non-committal. It was kind of like an appetizer that I ate very little of.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I'd hate saying yes to both of those. That's all right. I don't have those feelings now, but in like high school, there was a cheesecake factory at the Woodfield Mall. And that was like one of the nicer places to go. Maybe it was just, it was more expensive too.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
But I will say I do love their cheese... I do love their cheesecake. How is your Red Velvet? So, a couple days ago, last weekend, Calvin went to a birthday party at the movie theater next to the Cheesecake Factory we went to. And then after, they went to the Cheesecake Factory. And Natalie went to pick him up. And I was like, hey, will you bring...
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Bring some red velvet cheesecake while you're picking up Calvin. So I had it a couple days ago again. Solid. Yeah, their cheesecake's great.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
And every single one looks exactly the same. Which is, I mean, typical of a franchise. Yeah, it's a comfort thing.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, Cheesy Factory's just so specific.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah. Yeah, cool. It wasn't like popping over to Sbarro for dinner. What is that? I love Sbarro's too. What's that? The pizza.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Can you imagine that corporate meeting where they were talking about how to design this?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
And the CEO being like, I just think this Egyptian style looks really cool. So it would have been a PowerPoint presentation. Would have probably been mostly white people sitting in this room.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
They don't do it in an offensive way, I don't think, either. No. It's offensive from a design aesthetic. From an aesthetic point of view, it's nasty. From a cultural standpoint, it's, I don't think, offensive.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
We should find out how many there are. And just like one a week. One a week. You can have half a slice of cheesecake.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
And you can try every single flavor. It's not that much of a crazy idea. If that's your dessert for the week...
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
When I have a slice, even like last week, I have like a third and then a third. It lasts for a while. You pour it back in the fridge? Yeah. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I don't know. So yeah, like Woodfield Mall, it's a really big mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. I think it's one of the biggest in the country at least 20 years ago. Okay. It was one of the biggest in the country under a single roof.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
The idea of that original 700-square-foot shop... It's amazing. Yeah. But that's enough. And then the dream of then, let's make this bigger and bigger and bigger, and then franchise, and then... Quality probably starts to degrade. I like their cheesecake, but I bet those cheesecakes out of her basement were incredible. Would have been exquisite.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Is that sort of like, do you know where that... I think that's a very American thing. I mean, we did it with this podcast. I guess so. Let's go on video. Let's go do live shows. Let's go video. Let's do live shows. Let's not be content with what it is.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
And its ambition. It's just interesting how the mindset changes when it starts here. Even as just like...
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Multi-leveled, but also very large. I'm sure it's changed. I'm sure they've built bigger ones. And like Mall of America was, I think they had like, they had weird like carrots next to like largest malls. with like these stipulations that made it. You mean like a decorative carrot, like a statue? No, just like a, a stipulation on what made it the largest mall. Okay. I see. Did you say carrot?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I feel like there's some clickbaitiness to this headline. Just a little bit. But we'll see where this goes.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Oh, now she's seeing the man. It wasn't a potential sooner? Yeah, it's changed now.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I do remember the Cheesecake Factory being one of the first places that I remember seeing the calories next to a meal.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I did. Or like an, an asterisk. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. I understand. Yeah. I got very confused for a second. A footnote on it. Carrot's probably not.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
At that time, I would say P.F. Chang's and Cheesecake Factory would be towards the top. Okay, cool. And then Texas State Brazil would have been like the number one.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
If there was one really close to us, I feel like that challenge would be a little more attainable. It's a little easier. Just that it's hard to get to that one.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
But so like the restaurants there, there was the Olive Garden. P.F. Chang's? P.F. Chang's. Okay. There was Sbarro. There was Cheesecake Factory. There was a Texas Day Brazil, which was like the nicest place at the mall because it was also like $75 a person. Right. It's an expensive restaurant. It's a Brazilian steakhouse.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
It's sweet and savory. What kind of a... It's a beautiful fusion.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
This on a cinnamon sugar donut, is this going to taste weird? I've never tried it. Because I've had a sprinkled frosting donut. I don't... A savory paste. Have a sniff of Vegemite and see what you think.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
All right. It's kind of like... It's a little fudgy smelling. Okay.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I can see there's... You're one of those people that doesn't clean his... We don't need to get into my... Clean his spoon or knife before dipping it in another shot.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
It's very potent. It's potent. It's a very strong flavor. Yeah. That was too much. It was too much. And to be clear... And I thought it was not enough.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
That was the blimp episode because people knew what you were going to do with it.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I had only gone there once. It was like the rich people in the area would go there.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah. And like the bullshit Google AI stuff that is more and more wrong. Quite wrong. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I was searching if someone was in a movie or not, because it wasn't on the IMDb. And it made up in the AI that this person was in the movie.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
So you have a coaster on the table. One side's red, one side's green.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
it was the music they were listening to. They were just a fan of the band.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
And you turn it over whether or not you want more meat served to you. And then they have like a giant salad bar that you can eat. But it's just like chefs coming with giant... preparations of meat that they're slicing off on your plate. In front of you. Yes, if you have your card turned the right way. Incredible.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah, it seems smarter than the episode that we've put together.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
But it was a Brazilian steakhouse, so... Yeah, Brazil, but done in an American way. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Which, though, may be how the Brazilians do it. I don't know if that was... We will find out in the episode about that particular establishment.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I don't remember doing it a whole lot. Okay. I did have a friend, though. He was a little bit older. His name was Mikey. Sounds like trouble. He was. He would... You would... If you go to Woodfield with him, because he grew up in Schaumburg too, he would go through the dumpster entrance where the employees were and go the back hallways of the mall. This is baller as hell. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Well, you just stroll in the place and no one like... No. Incredible. So there were a few times I went with him where it was... Mikey, king of them all.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
With all that said... Do you think it was, like, down the pee hole?
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
These are pretty great pranks. Should I start doing some in the flightless bird office? Hypodermic needles. I'm just curious as to how that prank plays out.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I mean, on a related note, let's listen to us eating at Cheesecake Factory.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah. I mean, they do a pretty good job. This is what the one in Chicago feels like, too, in the suburbs.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
In California, I've probably been about three times. For a long time, my birthday cake was a red velvet cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
Yeah. The one I went to is at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg that I went to all the time. But being in the suburbs, you're a little more handcuffed to chain food. So, but this was like the nice place if you wanted, if there's a special occasion. I can hear part of you too. That's us. It's happening. Hello. Hello.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I don't know if you know this, but the other thing about Cheesecake Factory that it's known for is they have a ridiculously massive menu. I actually remember getting anxiety having to go through this entire menu and figure out what to eat.
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
19 pages. I remember many times just going through this, not retaining what I'm reading, and just...
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
flipping through these pages they have cheeseburger spring rolls followed by mozzarella sticks and then crab wontons yeah they offer everything for food i mean i really just came here for the cheesecake hello how are we doing today we're good it's my first trip here so i'm documenting it for old time's sake i'm gonna i think i'm gonna get a root beer i think yeah
Flightless Bird
The Cheesecake Factory
I might go old school and I used to order the factory nachos. Might do some nachos today. How much cheesecake do you anticipate on eating? Because we might want to plan our meal based on how much cheesecake we want to add to the mix.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, yeah. I can see that. I just feel like it used to feel more infinite. Yeah. Where I used to spend a lot more time. We'd be like, all right, what do we want to watch tonight? It'd be Friday night. An hour later. An hour later, it's like, all right, I guess we don't have time to watch a movie because we spent an hour.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But I think that is so reminiscent of wandering a blockbuster and being like, all right, what are we going to watch tonight?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But I do think how infinite it feels is a thing. For a long time, even with my music, I was a holdout on having an iPod Classic. Because I was like, I want my catalog of music because I want to be able to scroll through my music.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I just wanted like, here's my catalog of music. I understand. Versus like, here's this infinite abyss.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And when I started driving, I remember having a car with a cassette player. Amazing. It was important only because I had the cassette tape adapter that would plug in.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
that's right to my ipod and before like line in was a thing like you couldn't do that the cd we're dating ourselves there are kids listening to this going like what are you talking about yeah that was wild having a cassette tape that then had the adapter i remember that but that was very important when i when i was a kid and i was like i i just want a car that will have a cassette i don't want a cd player that's so funny you can't play my ipod classic
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, and you are notoriously known for having a ton of back pain. Bad back. When you first moved to the States, you were dealing with a bad back and moving into a new apartment without furniture. Luckily for you, we decided to start this podcast and you got a Helix mattress.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
That's helixsleep.com slash bird for 27% off site-wide and a free bedding bundle, which includes a sheet set and mattress protector with any Lux or Elite mattress order.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, most of the time you're probably fine. But what if one day you come out of the bathroom and your laptop's gone, David? It's not good.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, it doesn't take much technical knowledge to hack someone. Just some cheap hardware is needed. A smart 12-year-old could probably do it.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Plus, it's easy to use. You fire up the app and click one button to get protected.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, I mean, and the best part about airplane movies was they had stuff that was like still in theaters or like had just left the theaters. It was exciting. I still get excited on a plane. But that's still like what streamers are now. You can go rent something that's still in theaters for $20 now.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I feel ripped off, but then I try to convince myself that like, all right, if two of us are watching, that's the same cost as if we went... Yeah, you're dividing it up into like a cinema vibe. But then it's like $5 more and you can own it.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Like they have just the right amount where I'm just like, oh, I guess if we don't finish it tonight, I can spend a five extra dollars, but now I own a bunch of movies I don't want on my Apple phone.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a fine... Early blockbuster days, if you brought back a movie and didn't rewind it. Even though they just, like, behind there, they had all the rewinders. Yeah, totally. Which the fact that that was a thing, like, a rewinder for VHS that just was a staple next to a TV.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah. And then they had, there was a period where they did guaranteed in stock movies. What is that? Where if it was a new release during a certain window, they'd guarantee that they would have a copy that you could rent. And if not, you got it for free or for 99 cents whenever they did come back in stock.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But you wanted to see it. When a new release came out, it was a big deal.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I feel like Blockbuster's marketing and gimmick game was much better than a lot of businesses these days too. All of these kind of aspects of it. Yeah, guaranteed in stock. I remember these, and they were the movie pass.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
It was similar to the theater movie pass, but where it was, yeah, you could rent a movie a day.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
yeah there was like a Hollywood video I think was the other one but yeah it got eaten by Blockbuster pretty quickly I think like out in the suburbs of Chicago it was those two for a bit and then like just Blockbuster was it
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
So many times, Dean and I, the sun coming up, and we're still playing video games the next morning.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I wonder if... It's so fun. Too much of a tangent. But those games feel less... They feel more like intentional dopamine hits that are like trying to get kids addicted to them versus like... Yeah, no, totally.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But, I mean, Goldeneye, I remember renting that from Blockbuster. Yeah, totally. And it was in the little gold. They changed the color of that one.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Skipping at like the time And it was just like Fuming about it And having to bring it back This is damaged That was a huge thing But they had the machines that they would clean them Where they just had the like Disinfectant solution And I remember I can smell that I forgot all about the cleaning, the DVD cleaning.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, I haven't been that size full of DVDs in my garage. Yeah. I don't have a DVD player currently, though. No, but you never know. I think you can probably go online and buy one for $15. Oh, you absolutely can.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
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Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
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Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
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Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, I remember there was a period as they were all shutting down. We had one really close to our house growing up.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Walk down to it, and then that one closed, moved to another location, then that one closed, and... Did it all feel like it was happening quickly?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
It was years and years of it happening. But I think the last one I went to, I went and they had, like, the dollar DVD bin. And I just bought a ton of DVDs that I can no longer play. I still have them, though.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
It's like carpet and VHS. I don't know. I think it's maybe the plastic from the cases.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
There were... So many like vivid memories I had that I had forgotten about.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, so they were second to last. No, that's what I'm saying. Not even like before. Okay. No, yeah.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, they could have still been a Blockbuster. The movie theater I worked at was Century Theaters, but Cinemark bought it. Yeah. But it still had Century Theaters up for a while. I don't know if they ever changed it.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
No. They're losing... Oh, they're losing the big Lord of the Rings? They're getting rid of all the Lord of the Rings.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I feel like that was 40% of the reason why I was... Kind of willing to go, and now that that's not there... Oh my god.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Seeing the new releases coming out and the dates, that brought back a lot of memories of like, ooh, this is what's coming in the next couple weeks.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I think what we've lost a lot without... this kind of uh high traffic video rental is just how much um cover art really mattered for movies like i get we still have movie posters and billboards and whatnot but that's not the main cell no the design of a movie cover was so important
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah. There was just, yeah, like a good cover could make or break a movie. But then there was also the other thing where you would see the same kind of style recycled through designs. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, and then there was a thing that used to drive me nuts that I think started at Blockbuster and then continued to movie posters at the theater. This is your version of Grinds My Gears. Yeah, Grinds My Gears. When you have the people in the movie... on the cover, and then the names are at the top. But the names are wrong based on the order that they're appearing. That is such a funny nip.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I know exactly what you're saying. You've got Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, but Keanu Reeves is billed first. Just flip the cover art then at that point. But don't put Sandra Bullock above Keanu Reeves' face.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
It's literally like... Here's two faces on the cover of this, and the names are switched because one is... I'm assuming the reason for it is one is contractually obligated to be first on the call sheet?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
The other thing that streamers, I think, do now, even on Netflix, have you ever noticed, maybe not since you don't have a partner. Oh, burn. What do you know? Maybe I do. Maybe they're secret. My account for movies looks different than Natalie's. The cover art changes based on the viewer. Yeah, interesting. They'll be like A-B testing stuff. And like, there'll be a still that's totally different.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
What did you think it was going to look like? Or what was your reference for what it was going to look like?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I think I was arguing semantics that like it exists somewhere, whether it's like in a vault at Netflix or,
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, the vault's no good Or someone made a torrented copy Made a torrent copy of it Or did a bootleg on YouTube Yeah, God bless torrents As a backup That was a very Rob argument Arguing annoying semantics I will say I have since heard of an example Of that show Made for Love On HBO It's just gone You can't watch it anywhere now No, exactly. It's vanished. It's just gone, yeah.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, which I think they're making less and less. I doubt, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know. You can get Fleabag on DVD or Blu-ray right now.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But then I do also start to think you start walking a fine line of becoming a content hoarder. You say that like it's a bad thing. Yeah. Where it's like, I need physical backups of everything. That's the way my brain goes. I think it makes sense for, like, have a copy of Dark Tourist somewhere.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I don't mind you having that either. I'm just saying, like, if you were to buy a physical copy of every show you enjoy, because you're like, I'm afraid that this is going to get taken off streamer. Like, Baby Reindeer, I gotta go grab that on DVD.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah. And just space for it, and from an environmental standpoint, it's probably better not to have physical copies of everything.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
It's crazy Wasn't there another recent thing censored? Nathan Fielder And The Summit Ice Of course
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I don't blame you. I'm just asking the question of when does it become too much? And how much are you going to suffer in the future if you don't have a copy of Armageddon to watch? Can you tell me the last time you watched Armageddon?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Do you know what I mean? I do, but I can contradict myself now. Yeah, go for it. Because I buy vinyl records a lot. I don't know why that's different. I don't see that there's an inherent quality difference between a CD-ROM and a streaming record.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
version but i get that like film versus film in a theater feels different to me than a digital episode and seeing like a little splice mark it looks different in the corner and like the dirty film and some of the scratches watching that oh my god giant film 70 mil film amazing like i can appreciate that um and same with like a vinyl record i I like how that sounds versus a CD. Totally.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But I don't know that a Blu-ray or a DVD, I like the quality any better than a 4K version.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I do remember that being a thing where you had the stereo version of it when you would plug in a DVD. Yeah. And feeling that. Yeah. And the voices off in that speaker. The days of having a surround sound system with speakers that's not just a Sonos bar on your TV.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And a lot of vinyl purchasing for me is more to support indie artists. I go to a show, I want to buy a record to support the band. That's a good argument. And same with buying it. And I'm buying it either directly from an artist or I'm not buying the vinyl from Best Buy.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, they had that little station set up there too, or I think... Yeah, there's like a little couch area right over there. That they recreated there that I feel like they said you could... Didn't they say you could... No.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, like you would get it from Pat's Pantry, which was just this convenience store down the street, or White Hen.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Also, you could have saved on Post-it if you just mailed it to them directly.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
That there was not a bunch of emo kids coming after us for misrepresenting the genre or missing things.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
White Hen was another convenience store that no longer exists, like 7-Eleven.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
It was an old news story, I think just had footage of them, and they were, so I don't even think you mentioned it.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
That was more like when you're playing baseball. Oh, you're chewing at the... You chew on that. Yeah. What do you call them at the... Sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds. At the bases.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, because that's what a lot of baseball players, they would dip. Right. That's the thing. So when you were a kid, it was just kids like... Okay.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
That's the fun thing So many of these bands are touring again Like Spill Canvas is coming through LA in September I hadn't even thought about that They're all doing like 20 year tours You're rambling on about bands that have like gone I mean a bunch of them A bunch of them have But a bunch of them are doing Well a bunch of them had been gone too And are now Touring like on anniversaries Of these albums Kind of a perfectly timed episode
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah. A bunch of people had asked. They wanted to see some of the shirts that was designed. Oh, my God. I have a bin of a bunch of old band shirts.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, I couldn't find any of the old, like, Fall Out Boy ones, but I did have... Like this was a scary kids, scaring kids. Oh, dude. Shirt.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And a lot of these are just drawings. Yeah. I had a clothing line called Apparition Industries. Dude, that's dope as hell. When was this happening? This was end of high school. Okay. But then I had a bunch of designers from different bands also designing shirts. It was like a design company. Amazing. Let's see. This was band Small Towns burn a little slower.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Was it fresh, or was it like... No, they just had their own brand of microwave popcorn. So just microwave.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And then this was another apparition. I remember drawing this. It's a Beelzebub going down this man's... Broke and out of the pocket.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I did forget the different printing was a big thing of that scene. The side of the shirt. I see. Not just on the front. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, that's a couple that I could find. And we had our own tags. You can see sewn into the... Put these up on eBay. My favorite shirt we did with Apparition, we had... There's this band, Dr. Manhattan. And we made these shirts. My friend that I did it with, his sister was like a fashion student.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And we made these shirts that had a giant pocket that was a giant functional pocket with the design printed on it. Alright, so the whole front of the thing was a big pocket. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And then being able to collaborate with different artists. Yeah, totally. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I just showed you a picture of the inside. Do you want to describe to me what you're looking at?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And then you just targeted any of the like dorkier looking people that were like, oh, this person can't ski. And then went up to them and asked if they were here for the Shining. Yeah. And I was right. To your credit, you were right.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Which I forgot I had gone there with my dad. a couple years ago oh so you went there but you had no idea it was the shining location no i i remember now yeah that i think we did find that out yeah right um but we just went there for like lunch what was the lunch like Scary? Couldn't tell you. Yeah. The whole thing not very memorable. Not super memorable.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
But when we pulled out of that parking lot, I was like, I think I came here.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
So your video store experiences, what was that like? Was it a like hangout and browse every week?
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I think it was like $2.99 for a rental when we went. We'd go every Friday. It was usually me and Dean. Which was Dean. You've met Dean. Have I met Dean? Yeah. Dean from San Diego. Oh, you were friends with him then? Yeah, I've known him since like fifth grade. That's cute. But yeah, Dean and I would go and you just... So Blockbuster, the perimeter was all the new releases.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
So you'd start on one end and just walk all the way around. And then the interior aisles were all of the like...
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
older releases yeah right by genre yeah so then you you like all right i couldn't find anything i want there average time in there before you made your decision i would say i was about half an hour yeah i would say 30 to 45 minutes of of browsing my other key memories i got very excited about the promotional posters that they would sell for like a dollar
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah. For like the employees, we just have a bin of all of the posters once they came out of the display case. You lucky bastard. Did you have them up in your room? I had so many at that point. Yeah. I just had like poster tubes.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Well, the best part was when I became an assistant manager at the movie theater. Yeah. And a projectionist. I got the key for the movie poster case. Oh, my God. And like one company made them, I think, for all of the theaters. Yeah. Because I'd go to an AMC and I tried the key ones and it unlocked the movie posters.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
So Blockbuster didn't get that, because I think it was more family-focused.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
When I ended up moving into the city, we had Facets, which was a video rental place, and Odd Obsession. Odd Obsession. Those had the more obscure things. Right, okay. So they had, like... They had, like, movies that were banned. They just had, like, thousands upon thousands.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
Yeah, yeah, yeah. From Facets, they had a, like, program where if you were a college student, you could rent... It was, like, 20 bucks a month to have three movies out at a time. Okay. So I...
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
yeah i was just i'd watched i'd watch three movies a day oh you'd just be made yeah oh heaven um and i'd find like the weirdest stuff but that that place had the weirdest stuff where they they had like cannibal holocaust yeah famous because famously they used animals in the making of it which is awful and nothing was fake and like awful titty cut follies never heard of that it is a documentary that um
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
And there was just all this lore around it. So you're like, all right, I need to go rent this thing. And what's the most...
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
I will say, though, I made this realization recently. Browsing at a video rental place, I love doing that. And browsing streamers feels very similar.
Flightless Bird
Blockbuster
No, not necessarily that. I'll spend 30 minutes scrolling through movies. I see. I feel like it's becoming less and less now that there's so many different streaming platforms. you get through pretty much everything quicker now. Do you think on streaming services? I think unless you're on like Prime, because you can like rent almost anything on Prime.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
The big events are three-day retreats, and we'll go in with maybe 25 volunteers. to an audience of 35 to 45 residents and basically lead discussions on a pretty wide range of topics and get them involved. A lot of it is based on personal experience in whatever the talk may deal with. Some is forgiving yourself, forgiving others.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
I know there's fights. I know there's, you know, sometimes there's a lockdown because of a fight that prevents us from going in. But it's not a bunch of hoodlums that are looking to do damage to anybody and everybody. And that I'd say would be the biggest misconception that people would fear that it's that. I mean, they're human beings and unbelievably candid.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
As you've stated, you look in a public prison. These are not great spaces. Right. And for a private company to come in and say, we're going to do this in a way that's cheaper than the public can do it. Right. Because that's the only way it makes sense as a private business is they have to be able to create some profit margin. So like they're going to have to be able to create profit.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
a system that runs more cheaply than what's already a very, very bare bones system. You know, so they have to figure out some way to do that. And it's hard to imagine them being able to create better physical spaces when they have this financial necessity to create a profit margin on already, you know, something that's run at a razor thin margin level.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
We're not taking the position that government has to operate everything, right? There's clearly some spaces where there's opportunities for private companies to be more flexible and change things around very quickly and innovate and all of that stuff. We have no problem when private companies are getting contracts to build roads or things of this nature.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
The real fundamental problem here is when a person's liberty is at stake, There's sort of two reasons, two different avenues to think about it. One is sort of like a moral philosophical position is that like when it comes to taking away someone's liberty, only the government sort of has the moral authority to do that.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
And, you know, a private company having just the ability to profit off the fact that somebody else is incarcerated, it just has this like philosophical problem.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
There's also a functional problem, which is that when the corporations have a financial interest in keeping their beds full, and every person that's in there, they're making more money, they have this financial interest to work in the legislative space and the advocacy space against sort of common sense policies. criminal justice reform.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
And so they're always going to be pushing for the kinds of things that make them more money. And so at its core is they have this vested financial interest that's at odds with individuals liberty.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Rob, how are you? Are you well? I'm good. I like that this has become the new way of starting every episode.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
He is full of surprises, very intelligent, very liberal-minded, which compared to some of my kids, I really appreciate.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Yeah, he could probably go a little easier on joking with his mom when she doesn't know it's a joke.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Did you ever see the show The Night Of? It's on HBO with Riz Ahmed. Yeah, I did, but I have no recollection of what it was about. That show is like my nightmare. He gets put in jail for something he didn't do. Oh, okay. And then it's him trying to deal with that, but then you also watch this progression of him having to double down and just kind of... Just adapt. He had to adapt to the situation.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Let's drink all the tea and all the coffee. I support both. And there's a very amazing restaurant I have not gone to that I want to go to. Okay. What kind of food? I think it's Creole food. Will you look up really quick? K-A-N-N. Portland. K-A-N-N. Con Portland. Portland.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
The recidivism rates once you come out, like, once you're in that system, like, how much more likely you are to return to it.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Well, and the fact that there are privatized prisons, and, like, there's people making money off of keeping you in prison. Yeah. And keeping you from getting better. Like, the fact that there are potentially... People gaining from it also seems not great.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
It's Haitian food. Okay. But I mean, if anyone works there, this is why you bring it up. No, no, it's not at all. I'm watching reservations so that I can get in there while we're in town. But that's mostly what I'm excited for besides the show in Portland. And then San Fran. April 18th, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, which looks way too nice for us.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Would be keeping people unjustly there. And I don't know that there's a lot of hope or trust that that's not the case.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
I knew that that existed in prisons, but I didn't realize it was like the prisons organizing it in that way. Yeah. And that you were just put in your group.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
And if they have a baby, you'll do the umbilical cord circumcision part two episode if it's a boy. That's a great idea. And yeah, cut the umbilical cord.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Maybe all along you were secretly, what was his name? David D'Amato. David D'Amato. I am David D'Amato.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
If you're a taxidermist in either of those cities, we'd love to borrow some birds.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
I don't recall, like, there being a movie report. Was it more, what did you do? I mean, there were, like, I remember educational shows. There was the show Voyage of the Mimi that we watched in, like, fifth grade.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Which starred a young Ben Affleck. Oh, seriously? When he was a kid. Any good? I remember learning about, like, hypothermia from that. Of, like... And the fact that you have to, like, get naked and put your bodies together to get warm. And I still reference that any time Natalie is, like, too cold. Right. I'll say, like, well, we have to get naked and put our bodies together.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Really good knowledge to take away from that film. Yeah, it'll warm you up very quickly. Yeah, because they get in, like, a sleeping bag and warm up. What's the film about? It's a show. Okay. That's about all I remember from it. It's a show. There was a boat. Okay, and they get naked at some point. I think they're on an island. Okay.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
I liked it too. I'd put like True Blood in a similar place. True Blood had like a bit more class. No, it didn't. You don't think it did? Well, I don't know. How much do we want to shit publicly on a show?
Flightless Bird
Prisons
I couldn't stop watching it, but also, like, I don't look back at that being, yeah, great. But Prison Break was the same. I watched, I was really into Prison Break when it came out.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Well, I remember by, like, the second or third season, they were out, and it was just like, okay, this show's called Prison Break, what are they doing? What are we doing now with them out?
Flightless Bird
Prisons
What, who would have thought? That's like when you find out that Justin Theroux wrote Tropic Thunder.
Flightless Bird
Prisons
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. But, I mean, look up what else he wrote. He wrote, like, he's a great comedy writer.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Thank you for helping us. You've been a wonderful way to kick off this segment more soon. We'll loop back for more cheese.
Flightless Bird
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Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It's all right. I've been behind all day. It's one of those days where I feel like the whole day I'm just furiously behind and I feel stressed, you know? Yeah. We're doing an episode called Flights of Fancy where basically listeners call in to submit topics that they want me to look into. I don't know what they're going to be calling in about. Rob has kind of been corralling all of those, but...
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Hi, Lily. How are you doing?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
You're on the TV. Thank you for doing this.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh my God. Look, I feel like so we don't run out of time. I think we should get straight into it. I would love to know your name and please tell us your pitch.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, okay. I got goosebumps when you said that, because I have certain emotional reactions to this, but I've also kind of forgotten everything about it.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
So, get ready to hear from a bunch of flightless bird listeners, aka birdies, who are involved in something interesting, surprising, weird, and educational, because this is the Flights of Fancy episode.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
uh for the whole year of 2012 so i came in right before it started and left after it ended in new zealand coney 2012 made it to new zealand i have a coney 2012 t-shirt so you obviously did a very good job but for someone listening to this has no idea what this what the hell you're talking about can you just explain what this movement was
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Okay.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
He's hobbling around.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, you've been around for a while.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This was a real horrific thing going on, and Invisible Children was there to raise awareness in America and beyond, raise money, and then put that money towards stopping this particular conflict.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Rob, I'm excited to get into this. Me too. We had quite a few submissions. You were combing through them.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It sounds like what a religious organization would say. That's exactly what I'd say.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Okay. Yeah, they're out to, like, make the world a better place, essentially. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Okay, so what's the problem? What's the problem with all of this?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Holy shit.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Aha, kids.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Okay, so this thing goes mega viral. I'm in New Zealand suddenly hearing about Joseph Kony, having never heard of this person before. I imagine a lot of money is flowing into your organization. What happens from there?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, and not pro-Kony. Yeah, Kony was very bad. And for the record, he was genuinely not a great guy. So, okay, you're an intern and things are going well. I know this story does take quite a dark, odd turn. I'm wondering, I don't know how you can even explain what happened because my details are vague in my own brain, but what happened? What went wrong?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I see. Right. So suddenly a lot of hatred and negativity, social media and being viral is like a relatively new thing. And you guys are getting slammed by a whole lot of like weird negative shit.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
difficult to pick yeah it's always a little difficult to pick but there's some good ones and i think we've got enough to do a couple of these i get excited by this because a i can sort of take a week off yeah and also this is quite a compelling episode we're going to make but then also it's just ideas for like other amazing episodes down the line
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
So just to say, I absolutely want to dive into this topic. Like Rob and I, like, how can we not look more into this? Um, we'll loop back to you and get more details about your world in this and other people as well. He basically stripped off naked, right? On the street, filmed it. And that would have been a bad day in the office. I imagine for all of you, like that must've been a thing.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, I mean, what a thing to go through as a bunch of kids, your interns, you've just had this incredible ride. You're all doing this thing, which is positive. The internet slowly turns on you because they're suspicious of what you're doing. And then you have someone with mental health issues collapsing and then it all suddenly turns on all of you.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I can't think of a more horrific day in the office. And it's such a story of what's everything about this is so incredibly American, right? And I love that it's like the early days of things going viral and like an early indicator of how much that can mess with your brain and how suddenly being famous overnight can seem good, but can sometimes be very, very bad.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Little Davids. Little Davids. Yeah. How did the Kiwis cope with what was going on?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It's three birds with one stone. I kind of hate you for saying that. A tiny bit of admin before we get into it. We have a website now where we sort of want to put all the things. So it's flightlessbirdpod.com. And on there, we've got the t-shirts that we have for sale. If you want a Flightless Bird t-shirt, we have the ticket links for the two live shows we've got coming up in San Francisco.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Timmy did you such a solid. That's really, that's really great. Again, that speaks to America as well, right? You're having the worst day of your life. And there is the media with a camera filming you talking to your mom. That's all wild. My God.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I have about a million more questions, but I think I'm going to hold off on those until we do a whole episode dedicated to this. And I want to find Timmy. Timmy, if you're listening to this, email in because I kind of want to talk to you as well. I love that there were Kiwis in that house with you guys. That's amazing. And I'm sorry it all went so pear-shaped.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Do you feel like when you think about this, you're talking to us, you're holding it together. But I imagine it brings up some pretty not great feelings. And it sort of turned into a bit of a joke as well for a lot of people. But for you, this was this huge part of your life. The intentions were so good of it, too. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Well, look, thank you for sharing all of this and we'll loop back and I want to learn more.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
And I think it's, I think looking back at something like this that was talked about so much in the moment, but having the chance to have time pass and to be able to reflect on things and what things actually mean, I think is a really great opportunity to look at a bunch of different things in American culture. So thanks for the pitch. We'll have you back. Thank you.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
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Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
There are. And so that is on flightlessbirdpod.com. And you'll also find where to watch us on YouTube there. And there's another tab for like all the audio places. If you haven't figured out how to listen to this yet, there's a real problem. But it's got lists where you can listen to the show. I know websites are a bit like 1999, but I think occasionally they're helpful just to have a central spot.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I might be a good communicator on this podcast, but in person, from New Zealand, I'm shy, I'm nervous, I don't know how to talk about things that are actually important, and therapy has been helping me with that. Hi, Paddy, how are you? I'm good. Thank you. It's nice to see you. Thank you for doing this.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I think we should just get straight into it. Patty, I would love to know where you are in the country and what your pitch is for the show.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
So I'm a snowbird. What one do you prefer? Which area?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Beautiful. Okay. And what's your pitch for us?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, I'm scared of them. I'm deeply cautious and scared.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Are you involved in the space or you're a fan? Are you a balloon enthusiast? Are you a pilot?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Well, I'm so curious because what is involved in the competitive side of hot air ballooning? Because, you know, you take off very slowly, you sort of float, and then you descend. What's the competitive element?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
spots in the air oh wow that's that's amazing so yeah you're trying to fly to an altitude and to a certain actual spot um that would have a latitude longitude it's like a mario card game yeah it's like playing mario kart yeah that's kind of wild and i imagine the pilots that are doing this um are they have they been doing this forever are the new players in the game
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, wow. Oh, no, there are a lot of balloons in the air.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, that's insane. How are you not, this is a very amateur question, but how are you not just banging into each other because you're moving so slowly, correcting seems difficult?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Rob's playing that now. Oh, yeah, this is going at. Yeah, that's coming in at speed.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
So these balloons, they look a lot more sort of light and technical than the balloons I'm imagining. And I'm just thinking now there's probably a lot of different types of balloons you can get into. Right.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It's harsh, but accurate. But no, also, and I didn't really want to start a flightless bird Instagram because that seems like too much hard work. So flightlessbirdpod.com. It's all there. Other than that, is there anything else we need to sort of get out of the way before we talk to the people?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, yeah. I just want to watch this. It is. It does feel like a video game. We are coming in, tagging, carrying on.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
You've got to be biggest. In the country.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, I mean, I'm sold. I love all of this. I mean, it doesn't make me want to jump up in a balloon immediately, but I definitely want to be on the ground watching the competition.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I love all of this. No, count me in. I'm going to look at the calendar in June and see what's going on. This is amazing. The final question I have for you today, just because I'm curious, if I did want to get into this particular sport, how much would it cost for, say, a cheap starter balloon?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
And then if I'm going to get really good and I want the best balloon available, what would the upper tier of costing be?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, used balloon. I don't know if I want that.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I don't want a used balloon. Okay, how much is a used balloon in a basket?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I don't think that's a good idea.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
No, I'm okay. I'm okay with that. Although I imagine, of course, they're skilled and amazing. But it's just, yeah, the whole, I mean, that's the thing. I'm talking as someone so ignorant to all of this. It's just I've literally watched some videos and it feels scary. So I'd love to be on the ground or maybe in the air seeing what it's all about. I've been in a blimp.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
A balloon can't be that much scarier.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah. The descent, the descent is quick. Yeah. We had a very smooth landing, which was great, but yeah, you do come down there pretty quickly. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Thank you so much. This is amazing. I love the pitch. It's a whole world. I was unaware even existed competitive ballooning. So thank you.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
We'll be keeping an eye on it, what's rolling through.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Thank you so much. We'll be back in touch and have an amazing rest of the week.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Thanks, Patty. Bye.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
All right, Chris, we got you. Hey, thanks for doing this. Thanks for having me. Chris, hello. I would love to know your pitch for Flight of the Spirit. I'm going into all of these colds, so I'm so fascinated. Perfect.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
No, I mean, that was going to be my next question. I mean, a million things are going off in my brain right now. But what is your involvement and what makes you passionate about this topic?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
And yeah, it's nice because as we found out last time and this time, you listening to the show often have something incredible up your sleeve that I would never and Rob would never think about otherwise. And so this is like fun for us.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, my God. Wait, so you're the troubled teen. You're the one who has been up to some shit and... you've been put in this program and you had no idea it was about to happen.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Okay. So you're, you're woken up in your bedroom with, with some big dudes with, um, zip ties.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
A little bit. Yeah. Just a little.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Jesus. So it's like, it's sort of like you're being inducted into prison or something like that feels pretty intense. Well, the whole thing's intense. You've got two guys in your room with zip ties and flying you, you know, you're not going down the road, you're being flown somewhere else. And then you're being strip searched.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Is any of this being explained to you at the time or you're still unaware of the whole time?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
If I get this right, it's basically you're a bad kid, whatever that is. You're ripped out of home and you're shocked into living in the woods so that you...
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
what can see your life more clearly or become more sort of what's the purpose and i guess my ultimate question is looking back at this now you seem like lovely and very well adjusted what do you make of what happened to you and whether it was a good thing or a bad thing or a complex mixture well and also what age are all the kids that are being sent here it's like 15
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Everything you've said sounds horrific and very bad, but what's your take on how all this went now as an adult?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, so the methodology, horrific. Yes, the concept of getting you out in nature and learning how to fend for yourself with caring people is a good thing. But this program sounds like it takes this idea and just sort of turns it into this weird for-profit thing. Shop tactic.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, it's funny, like, coming up with topics for the show, because there are certain topics that seem like they're going to be really big and interesting. Like, I'm trying to think of an example now. But, like, this is sort of a boring example, but I always think, like, banking would be a great topic.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Are these programs still running in any way, or are they a bit more tame now? What's the situation today?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Holy shit. This is all new to me.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, right. And I feel like now you're talking about this, I feel there's been a documentary one-off or series about one of the more problematic camps or camps.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Holy shit. This is so, I guess my final, I mean, I absolutely want to dig deeper into this. So thanks so much for reaching out. And you also clearly have very good musical tastes. So like sign yourself up. Have you talked to your, your parents about this at all? Like as an adult, or is this just like a big falling out point of like, how could you assign me up to this?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
And you don't have to answer this if it's too personal.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Well, thank you for sharing. And I'm absolutely want to follow this up. I've got a million more questions and yeah, I'm glad you're okay today. That's, I can't imagine. I don't know. I was a pretty cowardly kid. I was pretty scared of everything. Like I was scared to have sleepovers at friends' houses when I was like that age you got taken.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Like, just the way, like, the banking system works and money and why I'm still writing out a check to pay my rent. But things that seem really good on paper, if you don't have this central character. Like checks?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
So to have some big dudes turn up into my room and, and sort of,
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
zip tie me and put me on a plane it sounds like a weird joke or like it doesn't sound like something that is real or is allowed to happen so i want to know more so thank you no thank you guys all right we'll loop back thank you um actually one more question maybe it's a hack question but like how bad were you as a kid like what were you up to maybe you deserve to be zip tied and hauled away were you murdering kittens or something yeah he was the kid from adolescence
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, with the adolescence child. And you just stabbed a female. I shouldn't lie. You know, what had you done?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
i i always wanted one i thought it'd be a fun kind of uh party van kind of thing um so you bought a hearse and your parents it's like this is the last step this is the last thing transgression we're calling them in yeah that was this trial that broke the camel's back i think i'm
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Incredible. So yeah, you just like weren't following the rules.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah. Oh my God. Thank you so much. We'll loop back and talk to you more about this because this is a really, really good topic to dive into. Awesome. Thanks, guys. Have a good week. You too. Hello. Can you hear us?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I was wondering if Rosabelle wanted the hit podcast, Flightless Bird, to look into a big issue about America. And apparently I always say issue. I need to say issue.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yes. Hi, Madeline. Thanks for doing this.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I don't know what any of these are going to be. Rob has been organizing all this, so I'm super curious.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I love this. During the ice episode, you know, it's like once you... you become aware of a topic you've never thought about before you start seeing them everywhere. And I feel like ice machines.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I couldn't. I see ice all the time. I was in a 7-Eleven and was blown away the other day by just the size of that ice machine. And obviously in hotels, it's a hugely iconic thing in America. What was that like working in that space?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah. And people need their ice. Americans need their ice when it gets hot.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I feel like because I know very little about this topic, I almost don't know what questions to put to you. But are there sort of things you've learned in this industry or about ice machines or making ice that maybe someone has never thought of? I mean, I feel like ice is just so... Look, I'm literally drinking an ice coffee right now. It's full of ice. It's such an American thing.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
But are there any sort of aspects of this that your typical person might not have thought about that you're like, this is an interesting ice fact?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Already love this. I love this sort of shit. This is my jam. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
coffee shops or whoever like i get dunk in and i see that as i know what it is i see that it's half ice right so that's what i've been consuming here yeah yeah because i've never thought about this i love one of my favorite things about getting iced coffee is chewing on the ice but obviously it's not great chewable ice i've never thought about what makes a good bit of chewable ice and obviously i want the nugs right yeah that's what you want to do send me to hospital get me those ice nuggets basically what's it what's america's most sort of popular form of ice would you say
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah. Let's go. If you have any feedback to this episode, as always, it's flightlessbirdchat at gmail.com. Always nice to hear from you. But should we get into the calls? Yeah, let's do it. Hi, Ellie. Are you there? Good.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
You've been doing this for three years. Do you get a sense of whether America's appetite for ice is on the rise? It's plateaued, it's decreasing. Do you get a feel for that?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah. Bad, bad out there.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I love this so much. Do you find yourself, you know, before you started this gig, did you ever think about ice or is this like a whole new world you're in?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
And, you know, I feel like since I've been in America, I've come to like ice a lot more than I used to. If I came into like a lot of money, I got like a lucrative deal. What would be the ice sort of machine that I would get for my home? Would it be built into a fridge? Is it a separate machine? Like say I just, I really want good ice. What am I buying as a consumer at home?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
How are you?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
We're really good. Hello. We're just getting things set up in our studio. You look amazing. Okay. We should just get into this. I'd love to know your name and then I would love to hear your pitch for the show.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
But if I wanted to start making good chewable ice for my house, I'd probably have to get some industrial-grade machine that hospitals use.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I kind of like the idea of this. I have the tiniest kitchen known to humankind. And I like the idea of like making like my available beach face, just being this ice machine. I love it. Thank you so much for this. I, it's a,
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
whole new world i haven't thought of as far as ice dispensing goes so thank you so much for doing this yeah thanks for having me what's your favorite type of ice by the way um i mean i like to chew on it so nugget but i like half the ice better than pool dice for something like in my coffee i think there are two types of people i think there are people that like to chew ice and people that find that repulsive i think those are two kind of humans yeah do you have any thoughts on ice the immigration and customs enforcement agency
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
You're amazing. Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate it.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Cool. Have a good rest of the week.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Did you have already a good time?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
What? Go again. I don't even want... No, do it. Do it again.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Is that a type of cheese? Yes. Havarti cheese. Over my head entirely. I mean, I clearly need to do that cheese episode because I need to learn about cheese.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This was... it's amazing i'm blown away by all these topics like i am like they're all so wildly different and they all make my brain go i want to know more about this particularly amazed that that guy got kidnapped um in the middle of the night as like a child we got multiple submissions about that specifically multiple people that have been kidnapped and brought to these uh facilities
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
sort of harks back to last week's episode about americans being kidnapped or like it starts young but i i like the ballooning is amazing competitive ballooning i'd never thought about that back to the kidnapping yeah do we over index and troubled teens that listen to this show maybe I wonder if that is. It's funny.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It's interesting because we look at who's listening to what shows because we sort of want to see was this episode a massive flop or did people share it and like it? And we've been finding something really interesting where the episodes about religion, the numbers spike for those ones. And so I wonder if our listeners are like... I don't know.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, no, it's just interesting to think of because I'm always curious about how people come to the show.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It's like when they go camping, like the one podcast they can listen to.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Really, really, really good. Actually, something I keep forgetting to say, if you like the podcast, it's super helpful if you share it. Because one thing like we have some very dedicated listeners, but we're keen to get new people involved. So if you listen to an episode and you love it.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It's unbelievably helpful if you can either like physically tell a friend, like there's a podcast I like, you should listen to it. Send them a link to your favorite episode. Yeah. And a link, that's a huge thing. If you can share a link, um, via like, I feel like I'm like being very basic here, but like send them an email or just share it on your social media.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Cause it's one thing to be like, we love the show. Keep going. It's so like a way you can really help us is to spread a link to a specific thing that If you're on Instagram, share a story. If you're on Blue Sky, Blue Sky about it. Facebook, post it. It helps.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah. For instance, if you are someone that loved one of those religious episodes, share it with someone you used to go to church with who's also left.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, if you can start also tithing Rob and I 10% of your yearly income, that would be really helpful. You won't get anything out of it except knowing that we really love you eternally. That would be really great. But no, that was fun, Rob. Thanks for setting all of that up.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I know, like, I'm also amazed that you can sort of, because we recorded this in one session, that you can kind of organize everyone to zoom in to us at a certain time of the day. So, like, also thanks to everyone who made that time in that episode to actually turn up.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I emailed five people and the five people were like... Our audience is... I genuinely... From the submissions to the email address, the submissions to this particular topic, we do have really good people. And I'm incredibly reluctant to call them birdies at times because I... That...
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
word gives me the yuck but i also kind of love it and it's perfect and i really like it so birdies it is um okay we will um we'll catch you next week and thanks for listening to the show as always and uh see you soon
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Amazing. So you were working for Big Cheese?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I do remember these DMs, but it gets murky because the number of people that have sent me messages about the cheesiness of Wisconsin and the surrounding areas, I'm like, how cheesy can it be? Like, how big is this?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
A lot of people complain that I say issue instead of issue.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Yeah, Packers are a football team. And cheeseheads, is it picturing a big slice of cheese on a hat or something? It's like a block. It's like a cheddar block.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I'm still stunned at how you talk about all this stuff like it's normal, but it's so deeply strange.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
And again,
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh my God. That sounds horrific.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Did you develop a particular... did you leave all of this still loving cheese, or did it make you dislike cheese because there was too much of it in your face?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I-S-H annoys people. Issue? Issue. Anyway, let's not worry about it. Okay. If I was to look into a topic for Flightless Bird, what would Rosabelle want David Andrew Farrier to look at?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh my God.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Oh, okay. This is big. But this is big cheese.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Excuse me? Like, what does that even, what does that look like? Have you, what?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
You've met like Miss, Miss Cheese or 2024 or something.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Okay.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Hi, Rosabelle. How's your day going?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Incredible.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
international sorry world's championship that's what they call it i need to go to one of these cheese competitions right i think we need to do just missed it by a few weeks the u.s one was a few weeks ago oh my god okay so this is something for 2026 i need to be there well or when we get to the midwest yeah you need to go up to wisconsin Okay.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Wisconsin, just to be clear, they're deeply proud that there are cheese people. It's part of the culture. They're wearing cheese hats. They're having cheese competitions. There's Miss Dairy beauty pageant, which is incredible. Just one quick question about that. What do you need to do to win that?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Is it like a similar thing to other beauty pageants in America or do you have like a cow with you or do you have to have cheese? What makes Miss Cheese like cheesy, you know?
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This is amazing.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I love all of this. I love that this is this place that is just known for this one thing. I love cheese.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I think we should eat so much cheese and then get into the water parks. Because I'm going to be full of cheese sliding down some of those slides, you know? Diarrhea all over the slide. Just feeling like I want to vomit the whole time. But for the record, I love cheese.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
It sounds a bit like Doge.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This is really good. Well, I love your pitch. I love everything about it. There's not one thing you've said that I'm not ridiculously intrigued by.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
I'm David Farrier, and New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick. And no, Rosabelle, I will not allow you to air my dirty secrets on this podcast, ever. I'm very excited about today's episode. We tried this out ages ago, and it was a blast.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Please.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This is great.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This is incredible. So it goes from pizza to American pop culture to changing the way other countries formulate their pizza.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
This is really amazing. Yeah, I love this. I love every element of it. I'm a big Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan. Pizza is a huge element. Yeah, I mean, who isn't? I love everything about this. There's no negatives. There's no negatives, except we're going to get sick and probably get some bugs internally, but that's fine.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
How long do we have, Rob? Do we have a couple of minutes? I mean, we're already past. Okay, we can't get into lobbying. You're amazing.
Flightless Bird
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
Thank you, Big Cheese. We're adding it to the list. Thank you.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So he had an album makers. Did you have those albums that you, when you went through a breakup, it became your breakup album?
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
this album was one of those for me. It was one of my, it was like my high school breakup album. Oh God. So yeah, this is, this is that.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I think my memory of it is more like driving at night listening to this. That's so emo. Driving at night is so emo.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Alright, so then Owen as number four. Okay. He's done a ton of other projects, too, as Mike Kinsella. He did American Football, Cap Jazz.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah. Um, and then my last one, which I think may be controversial, you know, this, I think this bread chat at gmail.com. I think I would call Bright Eyes like... I went to a Bright Eyes show with you. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, and I do think there are some more like indie bands that don't love getting called emo.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Bright Eyes fans would kind of maybe hold him to a higher standard than emo music.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Elliot Smith, too, I think fits the dude with the guitar singing about his emotions. But to me, for some reason, maybe that's me being snobby about music. A bit of snobbery is allowed on the show. But here's what I mean.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, which though, so is like Elliot Smith. I'm sure there was plenty of music prior to me getting into music. I know there is. That was that as well, that I am only not lumping in with this because it was before my generation. And I think the term emo wasn't coined yet.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Well, okay. So, I do think a lot of this music scene was about these different regions that these bands came from. Right. Which was... What I think was really cool about it was... the community behind this genre. Whatever you're calling it, emo music or pop punk or whatever it is, there was kind of this camaraderie between all these bands and they'd all tour together.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And to me, that's where I fell in love with music. That's where I made a ton of friends within that. That's where I found my tribe of people. was within this music scene.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So then, Illinois, these were the big, to me, the emo bands. Fall Out Boy came from there. The Academy is Plain White Tees. The audition, the hush sound. 504 Plan was one of the lesser known but earlier versions of this music. Like 504 Plan members, one of them ended up joining Panic! at the Disco. Another one joined The Academy Is.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And the drummer became like business partners with Pete Wentz and like designed all of his stuff and was really like all of these bands like were a family. Yeah. And Spittlefield. So the guy from 504 Plan, like I just saw Spittlefield two months ago and he's playing with Spittlefield on their 20 year reunion tour. Holy shit. Yeah. I still talk to a lot of these people. It meant a lot.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So, yeah, we had Bio4Plan, like I said. A lot of them went on. Fallout Boy. Uh-huh. Like, this album, Take It to Your Grave, I remember... going to the music video shoot at the Knights of Columbus.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Amazing. Sweep. Oh, that's so cute. And then do the register. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Check people out.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
It was my first job. I needed a permit because I was underage to work there. But next door to it was a record shop. Yeah, that's where you'd spend the money that you earned. I'd just take my breaks there and hang out there.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And working at that record shop was this guy, Johnny, that he, in I think high school, started a record label called Little League Records, put out the Academy's first record, put out a Gatsby's American Dream record, which is Kirk's band. You talked to him. He's like a big A&R guy now.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And I remember him showing me demos from Panic at the Disco. Because he ended up going to do A&R at Feel By Ramen, which was a big record label that a lot of these bands were on. And getting demos for Panic at the Disco before they had played a show yet.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I think I had a weird relationship with it, though. When I found this music, I found my community and tribe through it. kind of this music scene.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
But they were all like slightly older than me, not at my high school. So like I went to high school and was like kind of a loner at school.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
but then had this community of friends outside of it yeah and like way more interesting yeah and like cooler but then what what started to happen was like those bands started getting bigger and popular within my high school so then there was this weird thing happening where like oh they don't know panning at the disco shirts were being worn or like things that i had designed
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And if I get down to it, it's probably the people that I was like rejected by friendship wise when I was younger. It's why you listen to the email music. I'm going to go make my own friends and leave this group.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
It was just this weird juxtaposition happening. Oh, the weirdest juxtaposition. So we got Plain White Tease, which Damar's still a really good friend of mine, the drummer from this band.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
they wrote hey there delilah which was like peak emo like when we were in san francisco there was a guy playing it on the street with a guitar yeah hush sound another one that came out of that era the audition spitalfield all right so then we're gonna go We're moving a little outside of the Midwest. Okay. You've got Motion City Soundtrack and Hawthorne Heights.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And it's getting a little punkier, a little, like, screamo music kind of bleeds in a little bit. Okay. Because even Fall Out Boy had that a bit. Like, Pete Wentz came from a screamo band before called Arma Angelus. Right. Which, like, there are some older Fall Out Boy tracks where he's yelling. He's yelling, right. Yeah. So like Hawthorne Heights is starting to move into that direction.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And there's like this rival record label that comes up in Chicago, Victory Records. So you've got Fueled by Ramen in Florida, which is Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is, Panic at the Disco, Paramore, Hush Sound. And then you have Victory Records, which comes out, which is Hawthorne Heights and Bayside. Right.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Victory's a little more punk. They got Atreyu. Do you know Atreyu? No. Yeah. They're a little heavier, a little cooler. Okay. And then Motion City Soundtrack... I know motion city soundtrack. Um, all right. So then New Jersey had a ton.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I almost feel like there was the same thing happening in Chicago and Illinois happening out East where you've got my chemical romance, which this was the record that I knew the most.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And that's a little later. That's 2006. So this is happening... That's when I graduated high school.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So that first record is 2004. So that's like right around that same era. You've got Armor for Sleep. Mm-hmm. which is another band I was designing t-shirts for at the time, early November, Saves the Day. And then you've got this New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts area where you've got Taking Back Sunday, which I feel like is kind of peak emo.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Straylight Run, which was kind of an offshoot of Taking Back Sunday. It's Michelle Nolan and her brother who was in Taking Back Sunday.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
We've done the same to my mom, but I think maybe this year we'll send her another one because right now our Aura Frame, all of the siblings send in. It's all connected.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, I think we're going to get her a second one so she can just stick that somewhere. AuraFrame has been named the best digital photo frame by Wirecutter and it's easy to see why. There's unlimited storage. You can add as many photos you want, videos and funny memes that you find. So simple to set up. You just plug in and share away.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And like I said, we share photos across the country so my mom can see our kids grow up.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
That happens to me a lot now, where if I really like something, I want to wear it a bunch. And if I really, really like something, I'll end up buying a second one.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
That way I can just keep it in case it gets worn out because I'm wearing it too much. And that's what's happened with Quint's cashmere sweater that I bought from there. It has become a staple to my wardrobe and I've needed another one and I'm worried about if it gets worn and then I can't find it. So I just buy another one.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
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Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Then we got the receiving end of Sirens, which then Casey left that band to start the Deer Hunter.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Alright, so then we're going to go Pacific Northwest. Because there is... All these bands would tour with each other. And I think you would come into these markets and they... I saw Gatsby's American Dream at that same VFW that Fall Out Boy was playing at. So you just watched the shows that were coming through and really just go to any of the ones. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So, we've got Gatsby's American Dream, which is Kirk from Real Dawn, who played our Seattle show.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And we've got Rudy from Susilo, the drummer. Oh my god, this is like Inception level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you've got Forgive Durden, which is another Seattle band. Days Away, which they were another Feel By Ramen band. Acceptance. And then we go to like LA, Arizona, Nevada area. I know three out of four. Say anything. So Max Bemis is the singer of this band.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
A bit more heady A bit more heady There was just something different A little edgier One song was spoken word Him talking about all these cliques That he didn't want to be a part of Then we got Pierce the Veil I spoke for this episode I spoke to Vic for Pierce the Veil We'll play that a little bit later Vic took me to my first emo night Like 2-3 months ago This is all folding in on itself
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
yeah they've all been or australia yeah i do i feel like there's some shared dna yeah of new zealand to this emo world oh i i get like new zealand absolutely was on board with the emo scene like in a very big just like sad boy music that everyone could relate to yeah we're just trying to relate to our emotions you know we're desperately trying and emo music helped us
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And a fun backstory. I think a tornado ripped through his town yesterday. Oh, God. And he lost power. And he just got that finished like 20 minutes ago.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So I wanted to kind of get their take on how they feel about the term emo. So maybe after we get through... Oh, I love this.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Good responses from everyone. But there was like three clear buckets that people landed in.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I do remember Pete was kind of an anomaly, because he was like the front man of the band, but he wasn't the lead singer.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I feel like almost out of every topic, I don't want to say an expert at it because I think the term can be debated. Yeah. But I know a lot about this era. That was growing up in the suburbs of Chicago. Right. A lot of emo music, I think, came from there.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
What is an emo? Those are good. I like the... I mean, maybe that's just how I sounded the last half hour, but... someone trying to speak technically on like just the stereotypes of like I mean the long hair swoop and the lip ring and the like guy liner was definitely a thing um
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I was letting him crash at our house. And I was like, all right, I guess. Just like the old days. I'll come to this. And yeah, I think they bring in, this was like some emo night festival. So they ended up having a lot of bands playing too.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Damar recently went and DJed. Really, they're just picking their favorite songs from that era of music. So Vic made me come up on... It was a double-decker bus with a DJ booth on top of... He dragged you up? Yeah, he dragged me up with him. I love this for you so much. Which was my nightmare.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So it's like me just trying to like hide behind him as he's playing a Spotify playlist.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Well, I think also the lines are blurred between emo music and pop punk. I think that's where a lot of debate about emo music comes.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Alright, so I made a little presentation. Oh my god, Rob. There is so much within this genre. Yeah. That, I mean, on our drive to Bend...
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Our first show in Seattle, we did not have Square Reader, and we had to either take cash or people had to send you money directly, which was not the best way to sell merch at a live show.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, I was able to program it all ahead of time. So we just handed it over to the merch seller and it goes directly into our account. And you can run a little report at the end of the night. And it made everything so much easier for the live shows.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
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Flightless Bird
Emo Music
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Flightless Bird
Emo Music
That you were ashamed of doing. And now it's almost you're ashamed if you're not in touch with your feelings and talking to someone about it.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And the nice thing is you can easily switch therapists at any time if it's not the right fit at no extra cost.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I think they do touch on something that is kind of important in this whole thing and is just the nostalgia factor of this generation.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Well, and I remember like part of the scene at that era was like sidekick phones.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
It was like a smart, one of those first smartphones. They were like BlackBerry and you had sidekicks. Sidekicks were like what the kids had and it would like flip open and you had a keyboard and like you weren't really quite at this plugged in age of technology yet, but it was kind of there.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
yeah right you had myspace and pure volume what is pure volume i know myspace i had a myspace page pure volume was uh like a music website right and they would have the like top bands it was kind of like spotify okay at that time but i remember the charts being like a big thing you'd get like featured on pure volume and you'd see these bands kind of
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I'll be like, I want to finish this track. So as a result of that, I didn't want this just turn into rambling and sounding like an idiot without any coherent through line. I love this. So I put together a little mini presentation before we get to your doc stuff.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
You had MySpace friends. And I think to me that was like... Finally bridging this gap of, like, connecting to these artists. You were messaging and commenting with them.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
That's how I've got a lot of, like, work designing shirts, was just, like, I'd hit up bands, I'd message them on Myspace and be like, can I design...
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So Nick, that did our theme song, told me that Morgan and TJ specifically have helped him kind of come to terms with emo and what it is and embracing it. Oh, right. Not being like, not being... Not being ashamed of it. And I think, I think everyone is so far beyond... No, and it's that nostalgia thing.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
It's really interesting that it's finding the next generation. Yeah, it's incredible. I went to see Fall Out Boy for the first time in 15 years when they did a stadium show a year or two ago.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Just on my thoughts on emo and my journey through it and what I think about it.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, it's just like... It was funny to me to see them playing this song that I remember...
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
He's their second kid, but he's also doing a massive tour. They're doing three nights at the Forum in LA that have sold out, which is 18,000 people each night. So that, again, huge.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
festival i remember i went i was selling merch at one of 2005 and um there was this my i think it was a myspace minivan stage which is this pink van that they converted into a stage and paramore played it oh my god little power to like 15 people and then our merch table was right there and we were right next to their merch table that's freaking surreal it's like emo coachella kind of yeah
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And it was all over the country. I do remember, though, it being like a really grueling tour for bands to do if you weren't on a bus. I'd have friends that would try to do that. Just driving around. And it's driving through the night for like a call time the next morning in the next city. And like, unless you had a driver, it was a beat down to do.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I just thought, yeah, it does look a lot like you. Well, speaking of playlists, we did make a playlist for this episode that we kind of dumped a song from all of these bands that we've been rambling off. So go into the show notes and you can find a link to this playlist.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, I guess I do remember that being a little bit of a thing. Not in mass like that, though.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I feel like my high school at that time, there were like 10 emo kids. Really?
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, there were more emo kids than goth kids at my high school, for sure. There was like three goth kids.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Well, I feel like the goths maybe had a reputation of being a little angrier. Yeah. And the emo kids were just like quiet and sad. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I talked about this a little bit earlier. I feel like emo, I feel like emo music was kind of a gateway into all these different genres. Cause I remember like making friends with this Japanese kid that loved rancid. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like listening to them. And then it eventually like, that's how I found Mars Volta was someone within that.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
One of the dudes within that group, like Francis, the mute came out and we both were like, this record is yeah. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
But I also think at that time it wasn't super judgmental. Like the whole point of it was people were sick of being judged and there was this openness to kind of these other genres that splintered off from it.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And I also think the way people take that music in, like going to shows like that... even compared to shows I will go to now, like, the level of emotion that people are having at, like, a club with 1,000 people in it instead of a stadium with 18,000, like... It can feel so big when everyone knows every word of every song. It's like church, right?
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
and like you'll be silently judging them from the sidelines being like no i know no i mean calvin i've gotten lucky like calvin comes to a lot of his like his first concert was portugal the man and alt j and then oh my god yeah now you're guiding him down a path yeah he's seen some cool concerts and like vincent when he was i think six months old saw andrew bird play in a backyard oh my god this is absolutely ridiculous yeah
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
All right, so we teased this earlier on when I was putting together my presentation for this episode. I decided to just text a lot of these people that I still am friends with and talk to.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So these were people that were kind of anti-emo. Okay. So Rocky Votolato. Okay. I personally would consider my solo records more indie folk or singer-songwriter albums. But coming out of the punk and hardcore world and having so many friends related to that scene, I could see why some people might call it that. And that's fine with me as well.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
These days, I'm fine with people calling my music whatever genre they want, as long as they listen to it and hopefully come to a show.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So Damar told me in regards to plain white tees, I'd ask, is Jimmy world an emo band? Because that's what they sounded like when I first heard them. And they were a part of the DIY Chicago scene.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
We did have a... Because Jimmy E. Whirl isn't an emo band. Or are they? I would consider them. But then I also told him, I was like, you don't think Hey There Delilah is like quintessential emo?
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I get lots of cum tree stuff forwarded to me. So I don't watch all of them because a lot of them are the same.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
People really resonated with this question, which is what I liked. You know, it's great. I did like one or two and was like, let's see. And then I was like, oh, this is... Because I thought you would just get an answer back like, no, we're not emo.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Emo music had a lot of rough lyrics. It was like a lot about suicide and cutting your wrists. Right.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I don't know. Maybe I'm looking at it with the wrong lens. But to me, I don't... You're going back to that first breakup.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
You know music too much as like a misogynistic, like anti-woman thing. Because there were still also bands like Paramore and... So this last quote that he's given you here. This is a line from, I guess, his American Dream song.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah. He's lived through this music. Like, he's been a part of this. He was in... There's Steven and the Sirens, A Rocket to the Moon. He plays with Dan and Shay now. Right. Which is like a country band. Right. So he has a good interpretation, I think. Yeah, I think he's accepted it more. All right. So then I asked Vic if he would call Pierce the Veil an emo band.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
He said, well, that's a loaded question. I think... For the purpose of the show, you can totally call us an emo band. We definitely fit that category since we grew up in it. Typically, if I'm in an Uber, I just say heavy rock or alternative rock because I don't think they'll know what emo is. We self-proclaimed ourselves as a made-up genre called Mexicor.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Ben from Armor for Sleep said, ha, that's a loaded question, but yes, in the grand scheme of things, I do consider ourselves an emo band.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I think there's been this acceptance with a lot of this. And then Nick, again, theme song, do you consider The Spill Canvas an emo band? No.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Got two last ones. And these are, I think, the people that really embraced it. So, Max Bemis, I asked him if he would consider saying anything about a band. Big time. I just think a lot of bands are emo. That are kind of not. I mean, the song Wonderwall by Oasis is emo. Weezer is emo. Drake is emo. Roy Orbee.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Well, so for emo music for me, when you get down to it, to me, I always considered it more of a dude with a guitar singing about being lovesick. Okay. And then I think it kind of took on this...
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
He's an emo elder. I would put Justin up there too. Really appreciate that. You tour with all those bands.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
bigger meaning which i do think was a lot about the music scene in these different regions that came out of it and it is more of like a time and a place to me than it was a larger genre because all these bands are touring together right and there's like there's a reason obviously that it came out of america and you're saying that this setting has a lot to do with what generated this stuff in the first place yeah yeah so i'm wanted to start with just
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
some people don't have an inner monologue yeah i've heard that too that's what's going on in there how can you not have that or just what your inner monologue is like i've heard some people say it's like a drill sergeant coach and yeah cheerleader and is yours just you i think so or someone else i think mine's me it's me just prattling on like i'm prattling on now it's like i have to suffer through me every second
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
There was a lot of feedback to the autism episode. There was one point that I think resonated Regarding the girlfriend in the episode, her bluntness, which was it seemed like something that a lot of people maybe with autism would appreciate that bluntness since there is social cues that are hard for them to read.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, like not having to read into these things. Like, that bluntness is helpful for people that have that condition.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I just found it interesting, like, how it could have been misconstrued or we even, both of us took it.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
in this case to where, to me, if someone was talking to me like that, it would make me insecure and I would feel like I was being talked down to.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Emo elders, like, who I would consider... Emo elders is such a great term. It's a term. Who I would consider, like, top five emo bands to me. Not necessarily, like, my favorite. So that's not a whole other thing. Preference. Emo music, to me, was a nice, like, gateway into... Other genres and other music. It was a really meaningful genre to me at that time. Because it was...
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
I mean, I guess if they're burying them, you would think it was just like a gravesite of... Yeah, so a human, not a Bigfoot.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, that's where they are. They're living in homes within the mountains there.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Vic recorded us a special song to take us out of the episode. I love Vic. Here's a version of Bulletproof, recorded just for Flightless Bird listeners.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah, well, and before that, I remember, like, when I was younger, I listened to a lot of, like, rap and, like, hip-hop stuff. And I think it made me... I had a hard time controlling my emotions as a result of it. Like it riled me up too much. It like made me angry, I think. Yeah. And temperamental. Yeah, right. And like this music really kind of helped a lot.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
What they're singing about is so much different. And like what, what the lyric, lyrically is, is so much different.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So then, I think, seventh grade, I remember very distinctly that there was this weird, like, punk kid in one of my classes, had a burned CD, and I asked him what it was, and he was like... He got real cagey and was like, no one would like this. It's my favorite band, but you wouldn't get it. And I remember he let me listen to it. And it was Dashboard Confessional.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
And that was my first introduction to emo music. And I think to me, that is emo music. It was him with the guitar singing. This was one of their songs. Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Yeah. Another fun thing I realized when putting this together, Aaron Paul's in the music video for that song. Oh, this is incredible. Young Aaron Paul on MTV2.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
Alright, so next was Spill Canvas. I've never heard of Spill Canvas. That's who did our theme song. Oh, amazing. So, I remember hearing... I think like freshman year of high school, I heard about this from a friend and he would just play like these house shows around the suburbs. He's from Sioux Falls.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
But yeah, he would tour around and just do these house shows. And right around this time, I started getting into graphic design.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
So I ended up designing t-shirts for him. Okay, out of town. My foray into a lot of this music was designing shirts for these bands. Like Fall Out Boy was one of the bands that I would design shirts for. No way. Yeah, in my sophomore year graphic design class.
Flightless Bird
Emo Music
That informed a lot, too, was, like, seeing these bands from the neighborhood. Yeah. They were a little bit older than me, usually, but that we'd see at, like, the VFW or the Teen Center, they'd play shows. Fall Out Boy was one of those that, like, seeing them come from, like, watching them play at Tower Records and the record shop down the street and the VFW was...
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
godfather of all we're dealing with now kind of like the parallels of this and hearing about this with what's happening now is is very bleak like the i mean just how they vetted all the media and like oh yeah pinned it as yeah this in factual
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I mean, just, like, how deep and diabolical all of it is. All of it is just, like...
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
to get compliance and obedience from people in the future of like break these kids to train them to be humans that when they're older that we can control and that we have these like masses that won't ask questions it follows through into adulthood it's like creating these compliant people who are always looking for an authority figure to tell them what to do yeah
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
And that won't question authority when authority is doing something fucked up or wrong. Just, oh, I'm going to believe what they say and I'm going to do and comply with what they want.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Yeah. I mean, the connection to the lobbyist stuff just seems so prevalent today.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
A little dangerous to touch. It's dangerous and it's just so big.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
And then on April 18th, we're going to be in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, which is also very beautiful.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Different thing. They had that song, uh... It was like on the Benz tour, I think. Yeah. They debuted it. Right. And then it eventually came on a moon-shaped pool. Right. But I had a friend that had True Love Weights tattooed on his neck.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
It was a Radiohead tattoo, but he also grew up with a religious family, so his mom thought it was like, I'm waiting for marriage. Parents loved it. Really good.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Did you guys have VeggieTales? That was the church programming I remember. I think we did. I looked up Adventures in Odyssey and it looked a little familiar.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
That rings a bell. VeggieTales was the one. It's like a massive, I think they're still making.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I have a friend. He's got a band, Jaws of Love. So I would... Oh, amazing.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I just mean more, was it like Disney or like a record label coming and putting this boy band together?
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Music is so much a part of a church. My mom still plays the flute at the church. Oh, that's really cute.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I texted my dad during this doc to ask if he knew about Dobson. Oh, and had he heard of it? No. He somehow missed it. Missed it. But the church that they took us to, it was always like a pretty progressive church. So I feel like they would have shied away from something this strict.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
It was maybe like generationally what his parents did. Yeah. Would have been more about.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
A little bit, but then I think they realized that that was not the route. It wasn't the way to go. I think especially my brother liked being spanked when he was little. Are you just doing this to get at your brother right now?
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Did he do a lot of litigation against people smearing his name? I don't know if it just went over my head that he's not a known terrible person.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
How was he not seen as more of an evil figurehead in today's world?
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I got one for you. Hit me. What is bisexuality and why are we hearing so much about it now? I love this. What does James Sullivan have to say? A bisexual is someone who participates in both heterosexual and homosexual acts of passion. At the time of this writing, bisexuality is the fad among swingers. It is getting enormous amounts of publicity in...
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Yeah, I mean, these all just seem like brainwashing tips for parenting. It is.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
And the fact that he's a psychologist? That's what legitimized him.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
He would swear a lot as a kid, and, like, his punishment was, like, soap in the mouth. Oh my god, that's kind of amazing. Which then he, like... was fine with. So then it became like hot sauce instead. What? Hot sauce in the mouth? Tabasco.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Well, and then you go to the Mike Pence's. Oh, yeah. And just how prevalent this type of thinking still is of people in power and people with control.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Yeah, drawing to his website. Yeah. They had a bunch of stuff up on it, but then... Eventually all that was left was the swastika t-shirt.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I also saw that he sold like $65,000 worth of that shirt. So people are buying them? Yeah.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I still think it's a stretch to purchase that tee to support your artist. Well, Natalie and I had that conversation too. At first, it was Kanye fans that were going to that site because of the Super Bowl commercial. They were like, oh, what am I going to get? I like him. Merch drop. And his merch is huge. What percentage of Kanye fans would want a swastika shirt is probably fairly low.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I think low. But then the media and the news picked up that he did this. So then, what, probably a bunch of white supremacists went and bought these shirts?
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
We talked about this in the episode, too. White supremacists... Probably don't want to buy a shirt from Kanye because he's not white.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I'm just glad some crazy news on Gallagher didn't come out the day after we recorded that.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Yeah, and don't expect there to be that big of a change in the wind.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
It's going to be April 13th in Portland and April 18th in San Francisco. Great.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
It's like an urban legend where you go say Bloody Mary three times, look in the mirror and turn the lights off, and she appears. Oh. He told me that scientists... It's like Candyman.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
yeah yeah that scientists have done it and like proved it so if he was just so matter of fact about scientists have done scientists have done this yeah and and bloody mayor it's real and seen her oh he's so earnest that's have we checked scientists haven't done this i did it as a kid
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
Yeah, we had to... We had to stop having Calvin watch Ryan's World. Okay, what is Ryan's World? He's just this kid making YouTube videos and his parents like taking him everywhere. And Calvin wants to go do this and that and this. And we were like, no more Ryan's World.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I feel like we're more of a parody on this. Oh yeah, for the record, we are. We're not seriously.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
It's a bit and it's cute when he says it because he can't say it.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
My good friend who is a Norwegian living in Texas texted me that she has rediscovered the show and loves it. Oh, amazing. I love the international... International's good.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
But do Portland first and then San Francisco. Portland, then San Fran. Just so we chronologically have things planned out. Oh, and if you're a taxidermist in either city and want to lend us some birds for five or six hours to sit on stage... Yeah, please.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
No, it's bit.ly slash Lost Kiwi, all lowercase. And then either PDX cap in all caps or SF in all caps. The Lost Kiwi PDX, Lost Kiwi SF.
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
great name do you get concerned ever that you're getting put on lists and like targeted when you're buying oh and i am already yeah i mean if i go on to any of the places i buy books it's now just being advertised like conservative christian parenting books right are you concerned like you're at like a coffee shop and someone's looking over your shoulder and seeing what you're being targeted for and i want to have all this stuff yeah oh
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
I believe it's not harmful to have sexual intercourse before marriage if a couple has a meaningful relationship. Is that a question or a statement? No, that's what you highlighted. Oh, really?
Flightless Bird
Focus on The Family
So that's someone saying, is it okay? Metallicized is, okay. This item represents the most dangerous and popular misconception about romantic love, both for individuals and for future... and for our future as a nation. During the past 15 years, we have witnessed the tragic disintegration of our sexual mores and traditional concepts of morality.
Flightless Bird
Deported
When you're abducting people into a van and you're wearing a dark hoodie to do it and you're sneaking into their apartment building, do you ever sort of start to think, Hey, is this a bit fucked, guys? We seem to be just like, we've like gotten in disguises and we're just abducting this dude. Is that what the goodies do?
Flightless Bird
Deported
Well, for me, that's a pretty exciting prospect because I just feel like we haven't hung out in a while and it'd be cool to have you back. That's one of the nicest things you've ever said to me. Yeah, I just need someone to babysit. Honestly, I'm dying here. And the other thing that I'd say is, you know, there's genuine oppression happening of people across the United States.
Flightless Bird
Deported
But I have to congratulate you that you have found a way to make it about yourself.
Flightless Bird
Deported
Yeah. This seems bad. And the reason it's bad is because maybe it could happen to me, the main character.
Flightless Bird
Deported
Well, I don't think it's good. Dave, I don't know how you, I don't know much about international law, but when you deport people that are legally in your country, is that like, is that still deporting them or is that just kind of like abducting them and putting them on a plane?
Flightless Bird
Deported
I saw a video and it was like ICE agents arresting some activists on her way home because she had said something about maybe not committing genocide or something in Palestine. And it was just like people in hoodies coming up to her and just loaning her into a van. And you'd have to say that if that was happening in...
Flightless Bird
Deported
some developing nation in Eastern Europe or Africa or South America or something. America would be like all over it being, this is barbarous dictatorship. But when it happens at home, it's more like kind of sort of sparkling authoritarianism. You know, it's... It's not the real deal because it's happening here and it couldn't possibly happen here.
Last Podcast On The Left
Side Stories: Back in Schabusiness
there's no place to escape to this is the last on the left side stories that's when the cannibalism started side stories yes
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Side Stories: Back in Schabusiness
Look at what he just did. She got nailed. She got leveled immediately.
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Who's that lady? Shaka, shaka, shaka, shaka Khan.
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But I don't think that's what was happening here.
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Side Stories: Back in Schabusiness
Except it's going to be you as the bad guy.
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Coming out to Lost at Sea. Over here, you're going to have that we're all going to rape each other daiquiri.
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That's a resilient woman. That is a contradicting statement.
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I dare you. I dare you, fuckers. No. I fucking dare you. You can't get me, dude.
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Or it's just a bunch of goo. God's a bunch of goo. Yeah. Yes.
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I don't think I'll ever have that kind of money. Is that a UFO home?
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Hey, guys, this is Dan. I'm here right at the museum right now. I just want to show you guys that Annabelle is in the Warrens of Colt Museum. And let's go inside and let's check. Cuts to footage that he's not in that could have been done at any corner. And who's there?
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Annabelle. He could have recorded this over this. Annabelle's not missing. And now he's put himself in Chicago. Although it looks like he's there. Look at his hat. That is a green screen, dog. That is it.
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If you guys want to get tickets for that, you guys go to warrensconvention.com.
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No. So I find that extremely compelling. If anything, you'd say it was all fake.
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Last update on the left.
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A handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here.
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This is, I believe, the WebGPT paper that you had discussed earlier that he wrote while in college.
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Kensington, we believe it was fentanyl is what everybody's on. I'll find the clip.
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Yeah, exactly.
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We've got to find it. That's eight minutes. Let me find an actual version of it.
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Clean and sober is one of the biggest damn mistakes this country's ever made. I know it's a hold-your-hand idealistic point of view that somehow magically, I mean, God bless some of you. If you're like me, I've been known to have a glass of wine at night watching some of the nightly news. We all need to self-medicate periodically.
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Correct.
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A combination of all three, I think.
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Yes.
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Because I've gotten to a place where my hard work is deserved to be rewarded.
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I don't think I've ever said this before.
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Unaffiliated.
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73.
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Walter Washington.
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1.5 million. Yeah, out of 200 million.
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Let's see.
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Oh, my God. This is ridiculous. Now, let me ask you, what do you think about Haagen-Dazs? It's really good ice cream. It's not the best, but it's really good.
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You're saying he worked for Ben and Jerry's? No, no, no, no. He was a senator. He was a U.S.
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"Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist" - Ben & Jerry’s Founder SLAMS The Rich, Capitalism & Corporate Greed | PBD Podcast | Ep. 560
No, this is the best one. It's not even close. What is that, dirt? Dirt cake. It's not even close. You know, I've never had dirt. Yeah, pass it over. This is ridiculous. What's this one? Cherry Garcia. Let's see what Cherry Garcia is.
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Just so everybody knows.
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Cherry Garcia.
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I'm the marketing guy.
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Let's see if he's going to get it.
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Will he get it? He still doesn't have it.
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After a lot of trying.
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This is too much for me. Here, here. Shove that in.
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"Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist" - Ben & Jerry’s Founder SLAMS The Rich, Capitalism & Corporate Greed | PBD Podcast | Ep. 560
Let me see. It's like medicine. What the hell is this? This is salted caramel truffle? This is a bad look. They're going to have to edit this video because... No, doesn't work for me.
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$90,000.
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I had a good time.
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No, go for it. Do it.
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That is super cool.
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You're amazing.
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Do you see it, Rob? It's pretty sick.
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$7.20.
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To calculate, it'd be annually $22,000 a year.
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No.
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Not when I was making $22,000 a year.
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: USA vs China Trade War w/ Richard Werner | PBD Podcast | Ep. 574
I saw that it would be quite a bit. Yeah, $3,000 is what I saw.
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: USA vs China Trade War w/ Richard Werner | PBD Podcast | Ep. 574
Thank you.
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: USA vs China Trade War w/ Richard Werner | PBD Podcast | Ep. 574
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: USA vs China Trade War w/ Richard Werner | PBD Podcast | Ep. 574
Deng Xiaoping.
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: USA vs China Trade War w/ Richard Werner | PBD Podcast | Ep. 574
Excellent. Thank you.
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: USA vs China Trade War w/ Richard Werner | PBD Podcast | Ep. 574
That sounds right.
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“BIGGER Than The Nuclear Bomb” - Dr. Steven Greer REVEALS Suppressed Energy Tech & Biden UFO Truths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 544
The NewsNation clip, and then I also am looking for the Tim Burchett clip.
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“BIGGER Than The Nuclear Bomb” - Dr. Steven Greer REVEALS Suppressed Energy Tech & Biden UFO Truths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 544
Yes, give me one second.
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“BIGGER Than The Nuclear Bomb” - Dr. Steven Greer REVEALS Suppressed Energy Tech & Biden UFO Truths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 544
Here we go.
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“BIGGER Than The Nuclear Bomb” - Dr. Steven Greer REVEALS Suppressed Energy Tech & Biden UFO Truths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 544
So this is from Entertainment Tonight. It's an interview they did with Buzz Aldrin. The date is 10 years ago, and this is where Buzz Aldrin talks about seeing what looks like UFOs when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
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“BIGGER Than The Nuclear Bomb” - Dr. Steven Greer REVEALS Suppressed Energy Tech & Biden UFO Truths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 544
67.
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“BIGGER Than The Nuclear Bomb” - Dr. Steven Greer REVEALS Suppressed Energy Tech & Biden UFO Truths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 544
100%.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
75%.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
It is. It's a Fox News report on this.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
I just have a clip of Jimmy Kimmel as well as a clip of Stephen Colbert. Just a good example of their jokes about Trump. Go for it.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
I'm taking the over on Leno.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
17 years. And then he came back and re-hosted again from 2010 to 2014.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
60.
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Elon & Vivek H1-B Visa Debate, Trudeau's Ministers Meet Trump, Late Night Ratings Drop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 526
September 19, 1978.
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Carney's Win SHOCKS Canada & Trump's First 100 Days w/ @VivaFrei | PBD Podcast | Ep. 581
Go ahead, Rob.
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Macron Shoved, Trump BLASTS Putin, Jordan Peterson DESTROYED & Ron DeSantis BOOED! | PBD Podcast | Ep. 592
4.50?
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Macron Shoved, Trump BLASTS Putin, Jordan Peterson DESTROYED & Ron DeSantis BOOED! | PBD Podcast | Ep. 592
Okay.
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Macron Shoved, Trump BLASTS Putin, Jordan Peterson DESTROYED & Ron DeSantis BOOED! | PBD Podcast | Ep. 592
From the Kremlin now. This has been brought to us by the Reuters news agency. Responding to those remarks made by Donald Trump regarding Vladimir Putin. And the Kremlin says there is some emotional overload at this crucial moment. That is the line being brought to us.
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Macron Shoved, Trump BLASTS Putin, Jordan Peterson DESTROYED & Ron DeSantis BOOED! | PBD Podcast | Ep. 592
quoting the Kremlin, saying, though, that despite Donald Trump saying that Vladimir Putin has gone, I quote, absolutely crazy, the Kremlin saying we're grateful to Trump for assistance in launching the Ukraine peace negotiations and that Russia, it says, had taken decisions necessary for the security of Russia and that it claims that the strikes on Ukraine were on military targets.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
This is Karen Bass. Yes, the governor, I'm sorry, the mayor of Los Angeles talking about how the buck stops with her at the firing of Kristen Crowley, the L.A. Fire Chief. But just a week earlier, she then also blames Kristen Crowley. It's a good...
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Und dann, als du die Verantwortung akzeptierst, sagst du, dass Buck mit mir stoppt. Aber du hast sofort die Blamierung zurückgegeben. Und sie hat sie gefeuert.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
This is your video? Yes, my video.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Ich habe einen Clip von Elon Musk. Das ist im Januar, als er darüber sprach, wie die Größe des Governments verringert wird und wie das die Wirtschaft benötigt wird.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
8%!
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Those spikes, look at where those spikes come. June, the assassination attempt, and then November. So the only time people are watching are when things dramatically happen.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Down here it says the episode dates, but it's looking like she's doing every night. She... So maybe it's a one-hour show.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Well, this is possibly why Dan Crenshaw said that he wanted to kill Tucker Carlson.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Today is 14 days.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Which was last Friday. No, last Thursday he was confirmed.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
So he did a bunch of voice work and then he did Louis the...
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
34.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
If the guy on the left wins.
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Joy Reid FIRED, Alec Baldwin vs Trump Impersonator, Crenshaw Threatens Tucker | PBD Podcast | Ep. 551
Yes, sir.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
This is Anthony Fauci. The first time that he publicly denied that the COVID virus originated from the Wuhan lab and says it could have only come from nature. Go for it.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
Yeah, I know, but the other video doesn't show the entire interaction. It shows where Nancy Mace picks up and starts recording. Yeah, got it. So now, yeah.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
What is this, Rob? Don't be out in public. This is a video Nancy Mace released after the confrontation with the man in the Daisy Dukes at the Walgreens where she talks about the confrontation. Got it.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
So I actually pulled a clip. This is from January. I don't remember. I don't know if you guys remember this, but this was Governor Newsom talking about why they needed to rebuild California during the wildfires and how it ties back to the Olympics.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
This one was Gavin.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
We were going to do it Thursday, but we can put it out tomorrow instead. Oh, no, no. Put it Thursday. Thursday at 9 a.m.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
And the link's in the description and in the chat.
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White House COVID Bombshell & Nancy Mace's Daisy Dukes Fight | PBD Podcast | Ep. 579
Yeah, I think so. Yeah. April 22nd, 8 or 3 a.m. Go for it. Go for it. Watch this, folks.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
He's Captain America. Captain America.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
Yeah, I'm going to have to grab them. Give me a second.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
You don't have to have an Asian accent.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
It says at the bottom, it doesn't say a time from a study of 320 online shows with a right-leaning or left-leaning ideological bent, including 111 shows that self-identify on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. So it doesn't give an actual time frame.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
National Reading Month.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
So Rachel Maddow's contract, the one that she had a 30 million dollar contract, they renegotiated down to 25 million dollars a year. That 25 million dollars a year is for a once a week episode, with the exception of the first hundred days of Donald Trump's presidency, in which Rachel Maddow has contractually obligated or committed to broadcasting nightly.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
on MSNBC, but once that 100 days is done, she goes back to $25 million a year for one night a week, an hour-long show.
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Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
Yes, with Andrew Schultz. And then Friday we have Dr. Ron Paul on the program.
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ABC Pays Trump $15M, January 6 Cover Up, Trudeau To Resign, NJ Drone Theories | PBD Podcast | Ep. 521
Yeah, I have two short clips. One of him explaining what he believes the drones are and then the second about a nuclear warhead.
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ABC Pays Trump $15M, January 6 Cover Up, Trudeau To Resign, NJ Drone Theories | PBD Podcast | Ep. 521
Great.
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ABC Pays Trump $15M, January 6 Cover Up, Trudeau To Resign, NJ Drone Theories | PBD Podcast | Ep. 521
Five and 17.
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ABC Pays Trump $15M, January 6 Cover Up, Trudeau To Resign, NJ Drone Theories | PBD Podcast | Ep. 521
Yes, this is from Meet the Press, and then I have Adam Schiff.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
Yes, I can find that. I have Howard Lutnick right here on MSNBC talking about the odds.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
Yes, because this is Meet the Press, so this is Sunday.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
This is with Maria Bartiromo where he talks about he doesn't like to predict things like that.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
I can give you the results. So in total, securing the border, 33%. That's in first place. Second place, battling the woke agenda at 28%. In third place, making the economy great again, 27%. And in 10%, the transparency.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
I do have this video. Yeah, I don't know if we can show that for you. How graphic is this one? But this is an unidentified Assyrian Christian talking about how the media is not reporting on what is going on, that there are people going through and killing women and children in the region.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
This is what was sent. This is President Trump, I believe, 10 years ago regarding Assad. Let's hear the clip. Go for it.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
Go for it, Rob. What is she saying here? I believe so. I can play it. I have not listened to it yet.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
I have this one where he talks about Donald Trump.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
No, I'm looking for that as well right now. But this is another clip of him where he talks about the tariffs from Trump and their effect on the Canadian economy.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
And then here's the final clip. I believe this is the one you were looking for. Go for it.
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S&P 500 Dives As Trump Hints At Recession | PBD Podcast | Ep. 559
The actual election is October 20th of 2025. You are way off.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
Yes, four federal emergency management agency employees who were the ones that diverted the money to house the illegal migrants in New York City are going to be fired by FEMA today.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
Yes.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
The public is aware of the mismanagement, the improper payments, et cetera.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
09. 09.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
85?
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
The only thing that I can show from the Super Bowl is this commercial that was released.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
I can show that to you guys if you guys haven't seen it, but we just won't show it.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
The Compton connection. She's from Compton. We know.
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Trump's Third Term, DOGE Exposes FEMA, Epstein Files Release, Fauci Prosecuted w/ Glenn Beck | PBD Podcast | Ep. 546
RC, you and I both know. Even if she's not from Compton, everybody knows her and Drake were together at one point in time.
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Iran Threatens Trump As Tariff Trade War RAGES | PBD Podcast | Ep. 572
This is Donald Trump yesterday with Bibi Netanyahu from the White House.
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Iran Threatens Trump As Tariff Trade War RAGES | PBD Podcast | Ep. 572
I'll find a shorter one.
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Iran Threatens Trump As Tariff Trade War RAGES | PBD Podcast | Ep. 572
This is President Trump yesterday with Netanyahu from the White House where he talks about possibly meeting with Iran this Saturday for a nuclear deal. Go for it.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
About the entire conversation?
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
He got very emotional towards the end. Tears.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
February 9th, 2025.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Around 10.30.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
According to CBS News, yes, it's Don Junior.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
90%.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
This was the 6th, so yesterday.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
comment with this interviewer trying to shut them up and saying white people do you know have you know rape people and stuff too go and play this rob the only one who's been murdered by a muslim gang you probably don't i do you're only 15 year old girls that you know that you've grown up with that have been raped or pimped you don't so i don't expect you to understand these are all personal issues of yours personal issues in towns and cities like mine that are happening and they're not happening with the Sikh community they're not happening with the Jewish community they're not happening with most muslims
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
No, they're happening within the Islamic community. This one's saying that it's an Islamic problem. And I'm just a simple person, so I'm just a normal person. But when I'm looking at it, I have to look for where this hatred is coming from.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Of course I'm not. No, but I'm saying some of these specific issues are coming from the Islamic community, solely the Islamic community. Terrorists wanting to blow us up, constant hostile activity towards our youth, all these problems. And from sitting back, there's got to be something it's coming from. None of the other communities are spreading it. You're trying to point out a fact.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
We're a symptom of the problem. The English Defence League are a symptom.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Yeah, similar to what Vinny's saying, different father who had to contact the police 200 different times to try and get help after his daughter was being gang raped, according to Tommy Robinson by a group of Muslim men.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Yes.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
The Victory Rally is on the 19th.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
529.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
This is Mohamed Hajib. I believe he was on the podcast before. Pronounce his name, Chris. Hijab. Okay.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
They're defending. He's defending. Mohamed is sex with children and calls pedophilia relative.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
The whole clip, you need the context.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Yes, according to traditional Islamic sources.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Oh, I asked, according to Islam, did Muhammad marry Aisha at six years old? And it says, yes, Aisha was one of the wives of Prophet Muhammad who was betrothed to him when she was around six years old.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
I'm not sure. I'll have to look.
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Trudeau Resigns, Skip Bayless Sued, DC On High Alert, Andrew Tate For PM | PBD Podcast | Ep. 529
Well, conflicting reports. So at first it came out that the police verified that that email was true. However, over the weekend, it turns out that according to the police, that email is not accurate. And then Sean Ryan, I believe, released an apology or a statement stating that he was misinformed when he released that.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
Play both of them.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
Unemployed insurance benefits?
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
This is Danielle Smith.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
So apparently there are students from Temple that had bottle service at one of the clubs or bars that Dave Portnoy owns in Philadelphia. Part of the bottle service, you get this sign that you can put anything on the marquee. The people that were in that bottle service area put this on there and then it went viral all over the internet Saturday into Sunday.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
Ja, wenn du jemals über einen McDonalds fährst oder wo sie die Läufer vorne haben, ist es die gleiche Läuferung, die sie aufsetzen. Also ist es nicht ein digitaler Läufer. Jemand hat das tatsächlich auf der Läufer geschrieben. Verstanden.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
No, you'd have to go and find all of these letters, then put them in. Yeah.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
Yes, I have his initial reaction.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
M-O-Khan. According to Temple News, which is where they're saying he's a student at, that is who they identify as being responsible.
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Trump's Film Tariffs, Alcatraz Reopened, China Shut Down | PBD Podcast | Ep. 583
Es ist interessant, dass du den Boden dort schießt. Es ist günstiger, 100 amerikanische Leute nach Irland zu bringen, als den Fuchs über die Lotte zu fahren. Richtig. Über die Soundstage und es dort zu machen. Wahnsinn. Glaubst du, wenn wir jetzt Parks schießen, wären wir in Rudabas? 100 Prozent.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
1987.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
3.4%.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
48.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
This is Trump yesterday, late last night, discussing the United States seizing some of Ukraine's precious metals in return for the foreign aid.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
I do. I have Jamie Raskin. I have a few clips. I can start with the Ilhan Omar.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
So here's Trump actually stating that. I also have Caroline Leavitt who issues, she reads some of the waste from USAID and then I have Jamie Raskin.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Yeah. And this is who, Robbie? Caroline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, talking about some of the waste.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
There's a few clips. This is where he says specifically 25% retaliatory tariffs against the United States.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Thank you.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
No, no, no, no.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
After observing differences between a preview clip and the full broadcast, President Trump's legal team became aware of potential editing discrepancies. Wow. That's good on his team. Going, wait a minute. She didn't say that. Yeah, by the way, the interview lasted 45 minutes, but it was edited down to a 20-minute segment for broadcast. So they chopped out 25 other minutes.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
But that's not a big deal. No, no. They do that often.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
I have it.
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
This is some of the liberal reaction to the rumors.
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
I have two. The one... I have a clip of him talking about Stormy Daniels, so this has to be sometime in early 2024. And then the only other clip I have in our archive, and our archive goes back to the beginning of January 2024 until now, there's two clips. The one we just played of Day 52, and then one of him talking about Stormy Daniels from May 9th of 2024.
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
It's not loading. Normally when I do the view clips, I label it with the host name rather than the show.
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
$25 million a year.
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
I can read it. I can't zoom in because it's a video, but it's 270,425.
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
And then this year, in the first few months,
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
And he called back, right?
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Trump’s Third Term Triggers Liberal MELTDOWN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 569
It keeps coming back to 2024.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Yeah, we have that one here.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
I'll comply with all the ethical guidelines.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
You're asking me, Senator, you're asking me not to serve vaccine.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Senator, I support vaccines. I support the childhood schedule.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Correct, and there's more, actually, if you give me one second.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
This is RFK finishing the confirmation hearing, his final message. And then I also have the reaction from inside the confirmation room.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Yes.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
That was Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
This is him talking about how he prays every single day for the last 20 years to be able to be in a position to do something about the health pandemic, which is a good juxtapose to him being a predator from his sister, or Caroline Kennedy. And then I also have the McDonald's clip.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
in this country that we must face honestly. And the first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and to help America's children. That's why I'm so grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to sit before you today and seek your support and partnership in this endeavor.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
This is the McDonald's clip.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Go for it. Understand it and make sure that Americans are away. But I don't want to take... Food away from anybody. If you like a cheeseburger, a McDonald's cheeseburger, a Diet Coke, which my boss loves, you should be able to get them. If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that. But you should know what the impacts are on your family and on your health.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
So it's two separate clips, but they're both very short.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Should I be so privileged as to be confirmed, we will make sure our tax dollars support healthy foods. We will scrutinize the chemical additives in our food supply. We will remove financial conflicts of interest from our agencies. We will create an honest, unbiased, gold standard science at HHS, accountable to the president, to Congress, and to the American people.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
We will reverse the chronic disease epidemic and put the nation back on the road to good health. Thank you.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
And here is the reaction as he finishes. This is awesome. Can you see this?
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Mr. Kennedy, I look forward to working with you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We're adjourned.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
That is a pejorative, Senator, that's applied to me mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions of powerful interest. I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist. That label was applied to me because I said that the vaccines, the COVID vaccine, didn't prevent transmission and it wouldn't prevent infection. When the government was telling people, Americans, that it would.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
I was saying that because I was looking at the monkey studies in May of 2020. I was called a conspirator. Now everybody admits it. I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said red dye caused cancer. And now FDA has acknowledged that and banned it. I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said fluoride lowered IQ.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Last week, JAMA published a meta review of 87 studies saying that there's a direct inverse correlation between IQ loss. All right, so I'm going to assume a lot of... I could go on for about a week.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
I have a few. I have the tweet that you put out last night, if you'd like, that video where Trump talks about people being fired if they don't return to the office by February 6th.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Will Trump make an in-person appearance at the Super Bowl?
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
No, I have that. Hang on one second. That's Stephen Miller right there.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
So there's two instances. One happened yesterday where they caught 40 migrants. And then nine days prior in the same town, they found 26 Chinese migrants. This is the overhead helicopter news coverage of them busting the 40 in the van yesterday. Go for it. Go ahead.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
So this is the very first instance, which happened about 12 days ago, and this is in Coral Gables. This is the story that you just read, the 26th, I think. Go for it.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
So I found a bunch of different clips. I'm waiting for Brandon to send me the right one.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
That's it.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Yeah.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
I haven't been able to hear that or listen to that, but yes.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
This is the farewell to CNN viewers, and then the second one, I have that as well. This is the tweet that he put out about his substance.
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RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
This was, yes, this was the tweet that he put out.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
So my six-month premium came up this week, and I had to re-sign with my auto insurer. And my auto insurance went without any accidents, without any tickets, without adding any new vehicles. We went from $350 a month for four different vehicles. I have two Jeeps, a camper van. Those are all $70, $70, and $90. So in total, I'm paying, what was it, $230 for those vehicles.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
And then on top of that, I was paying an additional $120 for my Tesla each month. All of a sudden, I got the new six-month premium. It went from $350 a month to $460 a month for all four vehicles. The only thing I can think of is that my Tesla is costing more because the other vehicles haven't. It's a 2012 Jeep, a 2008 Jeep, and a 1997 Dodge camper van.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
It's not like State Farm is trying to milk me on the cost for this. So the only vehicle that we have that could see that price increase was the Tesla.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
She didn't get fired. She on January 20th of 2025, when the Biden administration left and the Trump administration took over, she stepped down. But she was not fired for that. OK. And she was moments later. What would have happened? She was the head of FEMA.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
I couldn't see. It's cut off, so I'm not sure.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
562 user reviews. No, that's not the one, Rob.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
163,000 reviews. I just texted it to you.
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Zelenskyy's OMINOUS Putin Threat | PBD Podcast | Ep. 568
No, Monday we'll have an interview coming out. Stay tuned for more.
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"This Was A Bad Idea" – Andrew Callaghan’s WILD Coverage Of BLM Riots, COVID Protests & Border Chaos | PBD Podcast | Ep. 580
28.
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"This Was A Bad Idea" – Andrew Callaghan’s WILD Coverage Of BLM Riots, COVID Protests & Border Chaos | PBD Podcast | Ep. 580
I love it. Keep going, bro.
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"This Was A Bad Idea" – Andrew Callaghan’s WILD Coverage Of BLM Riots, COVID Protests & Border Chaos | PBD Podcast | Ep. 580
Channel 5. 5 is the best number. 30 seconds.
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"This Was A Bad Idea" – Andrew Callaghan’s WILD Coverage Of BLM Riots, COVID Protests & Border Chaos | PBD Podcast | Ep. 580
I got every problem with the government saying we can't go out. That's a prohibition. It's illegal. It's against the Constitution. I'm immune compromised.
PBD Podcast
"This Was A Bad Idea" – Andrew Callaghan’s WILD Coverage Of BLM Riots, COVID Protests & Border Chaos | PBD Podcast | Ep. 580
Freedom!
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
$42. $42.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
This is a clip from earlier this month. He's talked about this a few times, but this is him explaining exactly why he wants to run for president.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
It's only 39 seconds.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
52.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
11.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
Trump. Trump. Orban, Millet, Orban, and you. And PBD.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
So I have both Harry Enten and I also have Trump.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
I'm not sure. This was her response to Elon Musk and everybody saying she was trying to get Elon Musk's attention. And the entire release of the information regarding her being pregnant with his baby was because he was ignoring her calls. So she went public with it on Twitter. I believe I cannot confirm this, but I'd have to look further into it.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
I believe the tweet has been deleted that Ashley put up.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
Yes. This is apparently from, I believe, 2023 or 2024 when the first two met.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
The reports are that he unfollowed her, but I can't substantiate that through any type of credible news source. It's just people on Twitter stating that.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
This has been the case. We cannot show it, Rob. We can play it and dispute it because it is covered under fair use. So we should be fine to play it.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
2023.
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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
2020.
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Diddy Trial BOMBSHELLS, Trump DESTROYS Neocons, Putin BAILS On Peace Talks | PBD Podcast | Ep. 587
Look at this.
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Diddy Trial BOMBSHELLS, Trump DESTROYS Neocons, Putin BAILS On Peace Talks | PBD Podcast | Ep. 587
Bring it out.
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Diddy Trial BOMBSHELLS, Trump DESTROYS Neocons, Putin BAILS On Peace Talks | PBD Podcast | Ep. 587
The previous administration had priorities about who to let in, including, you know, all kinds of folks who I would argue shouldn't be here. This administration, I guess, is going to set priorities about who and who not to let in.
PBD Podcast
Diddy Trial BOMBSHELLS, Trump DESTROYS Neocons, Putin BAILS On Peace Talks | PBD Podcast | Ep. 587
But you voted for him.
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Diddy Trial BOMBSHELLS, Trump DESTROYS Neocons, Putin BAILS On Peace Talks | PBD Podcast | Ep. 587
But you voted to extend the immigration policies of the last administration.
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Diddy Trial BOMBSHELLS, Trump DESTROYS Neocons, Putin BAILS On Peace Talks | PBD Podcast | Ep. 587
The point is, you're in a party that opened the borders, and I'm in a party that closed the borders, and I think the American people prefer our way. Well, he's closed the borders.
PBD Podcast
Canada CAVES To Trump Tariff Threats In Trade War | PBD Podcast | Ep. 561
You want to go to Marco? We'll do this for crime.
PBD Podcast
DOGE Audits The Fed, Pam Bondi vs New York, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, JFK Two Shooters? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 547
David Walker.
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DOGE Audits The Fed, Pam Bondi vs New York, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, JFK Two Shooters? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 547
109.
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DOGE Audits The Fed, Pam Bondi vs New York, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, JFK Two Shooters? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 547
Right. It's kind of weird that you can say he has no power, but he's in charge of the city. And when they went after Pritzker in Illinois, they named Chicago and they went after the mayor. I'm just saying, you know, if you're going after the city of Chicago, you name the mayor.
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DOGE Audits The Fed, Pam Bondi vs New York, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, JFK Two Shooters? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 547
Yes.
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DOGE Audits The Fed, Pam Bondi vs New York, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, JFK Two Shooters? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 547
100%.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
So this is the Deputy Defense Press Secretary, Sabrina Singh, where she came out yesterday after Congressman Van Drew said that they were from Iran. She came out and said that they were not.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
No, this is actually, he is the CEO of the parent company that owns The Onion. This is back from November where he talked about them winning the bid, The Onion winning the bid.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
You want to play Alex first? Because Alex lays out what exactly happened.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
No, Alex's clip is from November as well. It's when he first finds out.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
Alex came first. This came second.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
Go to the other clip, Rob. And this is Ben Collins, the CEO of the parent company of The Onion, talking about why they wanted to own Alex Jones' InfoWars. Let's hear it.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
It's ahrefs.com.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
Let me try a different way. Give me one second.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
So who is ahead, Rob? It says, according to this website, Babylon Bee is at 95.5 thousand and The Onion is at 273 thousand. So Onion is still ahead.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
$1.75 million in cash, and then part of that settlement was $750,000 that would go to the families of the Sandy Hook victims.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
It didn't. It said that the financial terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
Play this clip. So I can't play it. She has music in the background, but this is the clip.
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New Jersey Drones, Luigi Magione's 90-Day Mystery, Alex Jones InfoWars Win | PBD Podcast | Ep. 520
No, next week, Oliver Stone, Tony Robbins, and two home team podcasts. Oh, we have a bunch of things tomorrow. Okay, sounds good.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
This is Caroline Leavitt announcing that yesterday. Go for it. Play this clip.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I can find it while we play the video.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Hat number one.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I do. This is Governor Ron DeSantis talking about the bill. Go for it.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Well, so the Russians tested the skull that they found in the bunker. And what they say, the skull that they claim belonged to Adolf Hitler was actually the skull of a woman in her 30s or early 40s. Which would have been Eva Braun. So the CIA... Wait a minute.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes, and that's him with another guard from the SS who had escaped to South America.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
This is Pete Hegseth. He was at the canal. I believe this was yesterday or on Tuesday where he talks pretty much about what Penny had said.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes, this came out at 2.19 a.m. our time this morning.
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Epstein–Prince Andrew SHOCKING Update, Trump HUMILIATES Carney, India v Pakistan | PBD Podcast | 584
Kind of reminds me of what happened in Canada with the truckers.
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Epstein–Prince Andrew SHOCKING Update, Trump HUMILIATES Carney, India v Pakistan | PBD Podcast | 584
I mean, they froze their bank accounts. Yeah. Or people who donated to them.
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Epstein–Prince Andrew SHOCKING Update, Trump HUMILIATES Carney, India v Pakistan | PBD Podcast | 584
People who donated to them got their bank accounts frozen.
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Epstein–Prince Andrew SHOCKING Update, Trump HUMILIATES Carney, India v Pakistan | PBD Podcast | 584
If they didn't have good bear hunting, I would never go there.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Let me, I have a different perspective on this than you guys do. And I'm doing a podcast on this later today. My podcast can't cancel. Go ahead. Definitely check that out. All right. So there's multiple strategies going on here. First of all, we say the Democrats can't stand up for this child, can't applaud anything that Trump is doing. Yeah, gross. We all know that, right?
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Because, you know, I used to be a Democrat. I'll never vote for Democrats again as long as I'm breathing on this earth. It's just never going to happen. But you have to understand that there's a two-pronged strategy going on here right now with Democrats. First of all, all of these people that are pulling these stunts in the State of the Union, and by the way...
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I was actually able to go in that room. Speaker Johnson had a couple of us on a private tour. Have you ever been in that room? The power in that room is unbelievable, right? So they're obviously very disrespecting of that. But this is all about the social media cloud. This is what they're doing. So they have the Jasmine Crockett's of the world. They have the Al Greens of the world.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
They have all of these people pulling these sons for social media because this is what their base wants, right? So that's one part of the strategy. Der zweite Teil der Strategie ist, dass Sie haben, und wir werden darauf später in der Show eingehen, Sie haben diese zentrischen Demokraten, die sich in die Medien bewegen, und Sie haben Cuomo wieder in New York für den Bürgermeister.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Sie haben Stephen A. Smith, der seine Sache als politische Figur macht, der ein Demokrat ist. Sie haben also alle auf der Internetseite gegründet, indem Sie diese Stunts auswählen, weil das ist, was die Demokraten sind. Sie müssen verstehen, dass ihre Basis das mag. All right. So this is the first year and a half of this, by the way, because the midterms are next fall.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Now we're going to start seeing them become a lot more moderate when it comes closer to 2028. So my argument to all you guys is that is gross is what they are doing is they are doing the right thing for their base.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Für ihre Basis. Pat, ich tue das absolut. Sie machen das Richtige für ihre Basis, weil sie eine Low-IQ-Basis haben, die nichts hat, aber... Nein, ernsthaft. Nein, ernsthaft.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Also, schau, die Demokraten haben eine Low-IQ-Basis, die keine Fakten kennt, die überall auf Social Media sind. Und für eine Low-IQ-Basis, die keine Fakten kennt, die überall auf Social Media sind, kann Jasmine Crockett twerken oder was auch immer für sie funktionieren. Ja. Al Green disrupting and being removed works for them.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
These stupid signs that they're putting up in the State of the Union, this works for that base. You have to understand who these people are, right? Who at this point would you say is the democratic base? Childless women and gays?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Okay, so, Democrat base, childless women, gays, definitely blacks are still a part of the Democratic base, I would say black women. 92% of black women voted for Democrats and still will. So black, childless, gay women. So the WNBA. They're voting for the WNBA.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So like, you know, I'm telling you, this is the strategy. I think that it works for that base.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Nothing. Which is the problem. I am not disagreeing that they're in trouble. I am not disagreeing that they don't have a leader. They have no message. Their ideological agenda is being roundly rejected by the American public. But I'm telling you, I know these people. These people attack me on social media every single night. I have this TikTok account. They're all over me, right?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So I look at some of these comments and this is who these people are.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I call it a New York City Republican. It was always a New York City Republican, right? Because, you know, your New York City Republican and your Mississippi Republican are two different people, right? And I think that you really make a good point, because where we're moving now as a society is kind of away from these red-blue binaries. And I think that the tie is a really good example of that.
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Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Because, look, you know, I made a little video of my ex right before I came here, kind of like promoting the podcast. And the reason that I love Miami, the reason that I love Florida in general, is because you have a lot of people here that are super conservative, super based, but they're not necessarily going to wave the flag like I'm a Republican. They love Trump, right?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
But the vast majority of people can't sit here and talk through these issues the way you can. or the way the Hollywood guys that reach out to you can, because they're entrepreneurs. They know business like that, right? The vast majority of people don't. And that's why I do slightly push back on the idea that the Democrats are so lost. They are lost. I think that they're finding their way.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
And it seems like I'm advocating for them. I am not. What I'm saying is that there's a strategy at hand here. And so if they have somebody like a Cuomo, like even a Manchin, like these figures, somebody that rises, and I think that there's somebody who we probably don't even know who they are right now.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Die Slogans, die die Demokraten haben, wenn sie diese Lügen erzählen, dass Trump ein Abortionen will oder er will das Gutmedikament oder all diese anderen Sachen, richtig? Hitler. Ja, all diese Sachen, richtig? Es funktioniert nicht für dich und ich, weil wir besser wissen.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
But you wrap that messaging up in a masculine male, like white male package that says I'm a Democrat, because the next person that's going to rise up in the Democrats will absolutely be a traditionally masculine white male. All right. And if that person is able to articulate that messaging, they will make a comeback.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
It seems like they're in disarray right now and I want them to be, God knows, because I would love to have four years of Trump and eight years of Vance. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but there's parts of Vance that appeal to me even more than Trump does in a lot of different ways. But I'm telling you, there's a strategy here and I don't want us to lose sight of that.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Wir spielen das Video hier in einem Minuten, was Newsom, der Podcast, über Charlie Kirk gesagt hat.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Does anybody remember what Zelensky said to Trump to really make him pop off? Do you remember that moment?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
You don't tell me what to feel. You don't have the cards, Rob. And there was not enough time spent in all of media and people like, you know, everybody on this panel and all over social media talking about how outrageous that was.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Wie furchtbar es war, dass er hier kam, dieser Welfare-Queen Zielinski, der sich im Grunde genommen rund um die Welt rumgerufen hat, um Geld zu bekommen, als diese Kriege vor drei Jahren stattgefunden haben. Es ist furchtbar, hier neben dem Präsidenten der USA zu sitzen und zu sagen, dass der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten sagt, dass er es fühlen wird. Das war, als Trump aufgefallen ist.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
That's when he had to sun Zelensky in front of the whole world. And what happened with that is, like you guys said before, this is somebody that went into this meeting performing for the globalists that are pulling his strings, but also for the American media. Because the American media had propped him up for so many years under the Biden administration.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Remember, he was addressing the Oscars and he was going to the Grammys. He was begging for money in Hollywood and all this stuff. Man of the year. Yeah. Yeah, that is over. All right. That has ended. And so that's why he came back, by the way, willing to sign that deal when he didn't want to sign it before.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
And by the way, Trump did another presser right after that meeting where they said, oh, do you think that you'll invite someone to come back to the White House? He's already begged me to come back right now. I don't think it's going to happen right now.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Geh vor. Lass uns über die ganze BLM-Ära sprechen, die ganze Defund the Police-Ära im Jahr 2020, richtig? Ich habe mich einfach in New York verlängert, nachdem ich dort seit vielen Jahren gelebt habe. Wer waren die Leute, die für das Befunden der Polizei antworteten, dass die Polizisten schlecht sind, all diese anderen Sachen? Es waren im Grunde weiße Lippen.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Weiße Lippen, die sowohl lokale Aktivisten als auch Menschen wie Cuomo, AOC, Cory Busch, die Squad-Mitglieder, all diese Leute, AOC, all diese Leute, die die Polizei für sich selbst beschützt hatten. Weißt du, wer dafür nicht antwortete und wer nie dafür antwortete?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Die Leute, die in den gefährlichen Gemeinschaften in diesen Städten lebten, die wahrscheinlich nicht Afroamerikaner waren, waren Black-Amerikaner. Diese Leute haben nie dafür geantwortet. Sie würden also die lokalen Nachrichten schauen und diese Leute würden sagen, was sagen diese Leute? Wir wollen mehr Polizisten hier. Die Polizisten machen mich sicher.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
None of the people that were advocating for any of that had to live in any of these cities. They walked around with police protection. It was the height of hypocrisy. And I give Cuomo less credit than you, Pat, for coming out and saying this now that it is the safest possible time for him to ever say this. Because if he was a true leader, he would have gotten up and said that right then and there.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
If he was a true leader, he would have stood up to the far left right then and there.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So remember what happened in this country during the Kavanaugh confirmation here. It's completely ridiculous, right? But remember that there were all these leftist protesters that were being activated that were at Kavanaugh's home. This is what I believe. Because Amy Coney Barrett consistently votes against, you know, conservatives, Trump's agenda, etc.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Wer weiß. Ich meine, wir reden immer, Leute wie wir reden immer über Globalismus, über die Agenda, etc. Ich gehe regelmäßig nach D.C. Right. I've been there more in the past six weeks than I've been, I would say, like in the past five years. And if you think that that's not a swamp, if you think that there are so many people in D.C.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
at every level that are not being influenced and persuaded and blackmailed and pressured by people, it's 100 percent. I mean, you feel it the second you get off the airplane at Reagan. Right. So I think that she's actually being influenced. Very much influenced, very much strong-armed by some people behind the scenes. Because even constitutionally and legally, her rulings make no sense.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Weißt du, was verrückt ist bei DC? Und ich hatte diese Gespräche mit einem der Produzenten, bevor ich auf den Set kam. Wenn du da viel Zeit verwendest, merkst du, wie alt die Leute sind. Und ich meine, diese Leute sind alt, Mann.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
They look old, they move old, and it just... When you think about why we have gotten to the place where we have gotten in this country, to where we needed Trump to really come in like a sledgehammer, it's because so many people are so old and out of such... It really is this bubble of just antiquated ideas, antiquated people, and I just... Rob, come on, dude.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
You're saying that Nancy Pelosi is old? Come on, man. If we're going to talk about the Supreme Court, it is a good point that Trump should replace one or two of these people.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I'll take it. It's cool, but it's just radical to think of somebody that young on the Supreme Court.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Yeah, but they know that when Trump says something on Truth Social, it goes around the world, right? Everybody knows that. Look, I think that... Around the world in 17 minutes. This is the peacetime president. Trump wants peace. He made it very clear in that Truth Social Post what Hamas needs to do.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
What I will say is that the extent of America's involvement in this, if it goes to a certain point, it's likely not to be very popular with Trump's hardcore base. So I think that there's a lot of very delicate ways that this needs to be played. I think Trump controls his hardcore base.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Oh, I don't know. That's why I'm here and not in D.C.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Ich glaube nicht, das ist die Verschwörung, weil ehrlich gesagt, das Pro-Palästina-Stuff und all diese Proteste sind nicht besonders populär zwischen den Mainstream-Leften jetzt. Du hast gesehen, als viele dieser Proteste stattfanden, erinnere dich, sie protestierten in den Mitteln von Broadway-Shows und sie schreien an die Füßen von Menschen und Abendessen.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Also wer sind wir, die wir hier reden? Reden wir über uns als Amerika, oder reden wir über uns als Israel, um zu finanzieren, um hierher zu gehen? Genau.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
What do you need? I feel like when he says he's sending Israel everything it needs, I believe that that's funding. I don't think that he's sending our American soldiers. That's not happening. So when I read that, my first thought is when he's saying I'm sending Israel everything it needs, it means American funding to go wage the war. Let's see.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
What's a different definition of a mandate, I guess?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Rob, do you know how uncomfortable all those women in the panel were by literally sitting next to a black man that's not just going to nod on like a bobblehead and go along with all their Democrat talking points? So look, the Democrats have a black male problem, right? Everybody knows that. And Stephen A. Smith has been very savvy in kind of like coming from the sports commentator world.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
He's extremely successful and then kind of putting himself into the space. where I'm going to say I'm not for Trump, but I'm going to sit here and I'm going to tell you the truth about everything that is going on right now. It's very savvy, because, and this is where I'll throw the black card down on the table, if you are a black man, Democrats have absolutely nothing to offer you.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
The black men that Democrats push forward are either gay, drag queens, the Cory Bookers of the world, the people that are just going to sit there and basically be dominated by loud, masculine black women who are the face of black people in the Democrat Party. So there is a real opportunity there. And Stephen A. Smith, I think, is positioning himself perfectly.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
And he's going to run with this, right? So I think that this going viral speaks to how not often, how rare it is that we actually see a black man literally stand up and say, well, no, I'm not going to sit here with these Democrat talking points. I am going to tell you exactly what it is and be unapologetic about it. If the Democrats, again, it seems like I'm advocating for Democrats. I am not.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I'm telling you, I despise these people. I'm not a Democrat. I am not a Democrat. Literally. Not a Democrat. Never will be.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
But if they lean into the Stephen A. Smiths of the world and they lean into this messaging, those black men that they lost to Trump, just your run of the mill, you're working at the barbershop, you're working class, whatever, that is the black man that they lost to Donald Trump, right?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
And I am not going to say that those black men will never go back to Democrats because it is still deeply unpopular to be a Republican in the black community. So, Stephen A. Smith macht das gerade, und der Fakt, dass das viral geht, sagt mir, dass er weiß, was die Zeit ist. Und die Demokraten werden das vielleicht später, anstatt später, herausfinden. Adam.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Hold on, can I get a sauce appreciation moment right here? Because this is the most versatile man in podcasting. You go from old Jewish woman to sassy black girl to like finance. Ich mache alles. Ich mache alles.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Yeah, last topic. Yeah. in the coming decade.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Oh, you think Stephen A. Smith hasn't seen Lean on Me 10 times? Every black man in America has seen Lean on Me. Come on.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Rob, go for it. Rob Smith, go for it. What? Oh. You talk about Rob. Alright, so look. Es ist ein politischer Spiel von Team DeSantis hier in Florida. Ich denke, um einfach raus zu gehen und den Staatsanwalt zu sagen, dass wir investigationieren werden, etc. etc. Was das mit dem Faktum hat, dass Casey DeSantis vermutet wird, dass er für den Gouverneur läuft. Also das ist alles Politik.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Und was mir spricht, und das ist der Grund, warum DeSantis in der Primärwahl zerstört wurde, ist der Grund, dass ehrlich gesagt viele Leute, die auf Team DeSantis waren, so tot sind in D.C. und Maga-Welt jetzt, weil sie nicht den Raum lesen. They're all about politics. Now, Florida politics is very insular in the way. And I understand that Byron is running for governor of Florida as well.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Aber wie gesagt, das kommt alles aus dem DeSantis-Welt. DeSantis war ein guter Gouverneur in Florida. Ich war ein großer Fan von ihm. Ich bin es immer noch, was er in Florida macht. Aber das ist nackte Politik. Und das ist auch Team DeSantis, die versucht, auf die Linke zu gehen, was sie als unbeleuchtend sehen. Oder irgendwelche kulturellen Figuren, die in Maga-Welt sehr mächtig sind.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Das ist der Grund, warum sie in DC tot sind. This is the reason that Ron DeSantis spent a lot of his political capital running against Trump. I do not think that there's any real particular reason why they wanted to pick this fight other than to try to look good or more moderate or to the left of what they see as hardcore MAGA or even Trump in some way.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Mein größtes Ausdruck, Trump war ein veränderter Mann. All right. And I brought this up to a lot of people that I was talking to and texting with back and forth during the State of the Union, is that this is somebody who was very statesmanlike. All right. And so we've seen states of the Union in the past with Trump. You know, you... Sometimes things are a little bit more combative.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Maybe not 250 grand. I think going back to this Florida thing and another point that we should make as well, knowing that Casey DeSantis is likely going to run for governor, that this is all about, you know, a female, a woman running for governor being tough on basically one of the biggest, you know, figures of masculinity that exists in the world today. Right.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Sometimes things are a little bit more rougher, like, you know, rougher on the edges, because Trump can be sometimes. But this is very much statesmanlike. And this is somebody that does not care what Democrats think, that does not care what anybody thinks about him nowadays. And that's what I think the power of Trump 2.0 is.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So visually, that's what that's about as well.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So I saw a lot of that, even when there were the disruptions from the Democrats, which we will get into. I'm sure that we all have a lot to say about that. I think that I have some ideas about that that may be a little different from other people on the panel. But he looked at them like you would literally look at a misbehaving grandchild.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I hate this so much. I will tell you exactly why I hate this number one. There is absolutely nothing beneficial that pardoning Chauvin would do for the Trump administration, for this country, for race relations, for anybody else. It is absolutely destructive. It makes no sense. And so for me, when I first saw this. Normalerweise kommen die Gespräche von der Grundlage her.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Normalerweise gibt es eine Art Geräusch und dann kommt es zu einer nationalen Konversation. Das scheint eine sehr top-down-Konversation zu sein, die von jemandem mit enormer Influenz kommt. Das ist nichts, was jemand darüber gesprochen hat oder darüber nachgedacht hat. Es stellt mich also die Frage, warum diese Konversation gerade stattfindet.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Es stellt die Frage nach, warum Ben Shapiro diese Konversation jetzt anfangen wollte. Wer hat diesen Vorteil? Trump hat keinen Vorteil. Amerika hat keinen Vorteil. Rassismus hat keinen Vorteil. Und der letzte Punkt, den ich annehmen werde, ist das. Es gibt sehr wenige Leute, die wirklich in Detail sprechen können, was in diesem Trial passiert ist, wie George Floyd tatsächlich gestorben ist, etc.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
etc. Es gibt wahrscheinlich fünf Leute, die den ganzen Tag auf einem Podcast setzten, jeden Tag, wie Ben Shapiro, wie vielleicht zwei oder drei andere Leute, die wirklich in Detail darüber sprechen können. So then they're positioning themselves to say, no, listen to me. I'm the one who really knows about this. So what? Trump's agenda is supposed to be derailed.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Where we're at as a country right now is supposed to be derailed because these leftists and these Democrats are looking for a reason to have another race war. That is what they love. So why this conversation is happening right now, I have no idea.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Because the theme of Trump 2.0 right now is that the adults are back in charge. The adults are back in the room. Daddy's home. And I am going to tell you every single thing that we are accomplishing for the United States of America right now. So that's what it said to me. They are no longer trying to play games with Democrats.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
He is no longer sort of, you know, trying to placate, you know, to what CNN or the New York Times etc. wants, because I think that one of the issues with Trump 1.0 is that he was almost a little too magnanimous and trying to work and operate with the left. And they took advantage of that. Now you have somebody that does not care. We are doing things that Republicans want done.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So, we're missing why Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh were there. Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire, were instrumental in bringing the no boys and girls sports. They were instrumental in mainstreaming that conversation in a way that I had never had before. And even Matt Walsh was instrumental, even locally in Tennessee, ending some of that stuff, right?
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
So that's why the two of them were there, because they were sitting right next to Riley Gaines, obviously an icon in that movement. So that's why they were there, I think. I don't think that it had anything to do with the fact that Trump loves them or anything like that. I think it was very specific to that, and he brought that up in the Union Address.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I think and I tweeted this yesterday. You can follow me on X at Rob Smith online that. The changes that Trump 2.0 and the team are making right now are generational changes for this country and for the Republican Party. So I made that statement. I stand by it. That's what's different to me.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
No, DeSantis is not irrelevant. He's the governor of Florida. You think that Florida, that's false.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
It's a second term. So this is what I think. There's two different types of Republicans and conservatives right now, right? And so we're definitely like MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, and I get that. But there is a group of conservatives, Republicans that is more in line. And so when we talk about the DeSantis vs. Trump thing, it's not necessarily about DeSantis vs. Trump, because that's a tired conversation.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I don't think anybody's having that conversation. But it's about the type of people that are really drawn to Trump and the type of people that are really drawn to DeSantis. And there are some people, some Republicans in D.C. right now, that do not like these things that Trump are doing. Okay, these are establishment conservatives and Republicans that have been around for a very long time.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I think that people really don't understand how brainwashed people in these places are. Thank you. You do not understand. I lived in New York for over a decade, probably for about 15 years. These people are so locked into their ideological agenda that they will not move away from it. And by the way, Karen Bass is a black woman. And that is God to Democrats.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
And anybody that is criticizing a black woman or will literally say, this is what you should have done, that was not done. Automatisch werden sie als rassistisch oder sie hassen. Und Nummer eins, denkt nicht, dass sie nicht diese Karte spielen werden, weil das ist die erste Karte, die sie nehmen werden, wenn Menschen tatsächlich anfangen, sie zu kritisieren.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Sie haben bereits, es gab ein paar dieser Hollywood-Aktressen, Black-Women. Sie waren in etwas oder anderem. Und ich erinnere mich, als ich sie gesehen habe, sie machen viel Social Media-Stuff, wie jeder so rassistisch und so gemein ist zu Karen Bass. Ich dachte, oh, also werden sie bezahlt. Und es wird viel mehr Geld verbreitet, um viele dieser schwarzen Unternehmensfiguren in L.A.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
zu stehen, um, Quote, Quote, Karen Bass, richtig, Adam? Ich denke, das Brot ist fertig.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
Great conversation. Great being here. And if you guys liked me, if you like what you heard, definitely go download my podcast, Can't Cancel Rob Smith, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Podcasts, wherever you find your podcasts. And if you hit me up on Manect, I talk about building a social media brand from zero to 1.6 of my own personal brand. I talk about fitness. 1.6 million, yeah.
PBD Podcast
Trump’s Speech STUNS Congress | PBD Podcast | Ep. 558
I talk about a whole lot of stuff. So definitely Manect me.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Yes.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
They released a statement. There's no video to the backtracking.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Yes, it's Tom Holman saying they're going to possibly prosecute Phil Murphy.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
The only clip that I could find was her. This is a dated clip, but this is her talking about ICE arrests in the state of Florida.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
That's all that they had posted.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
No idea. Rob, is this the clip? So there's two clips. I don't have the isolated. This is the isolated version of BB's reaction. But do you want Trump making the announcement and then we play BB's?
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Yeah, so this teacher, Ellen Greenberg, was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment back in 2011. And her family has been fighting the state of Pennsylvania to have the case reopened. They originally, the medical examiner in the case, ruled that the death of Ellen Greenberg was a murder. However, he then met with the police and the district attorney.
PBD Podcast
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who at the time overseeing that case was Josh Shapiro, and that ruling was overturned, and she was listed as the cause of her death as suicide. But we have some images, and I'll pull those up real quick.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Go ahead, Rob. So the fiance of this woman, Ellen Greenberg, his name is Sam Goldberg. He is the one that discovered her body. According to Sam Goldberg, he went to the apartment, was with Ellen the night that she was murdered, went downstairs to their apartment complex's gym, worked out for 45 minutes. When he came back upstairs, he found Ellen Greenberg and called 911.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
However, according to an investigative reporter named Gavin Fish, before Sam Goldberg called 911, he made two phone calls. Those two phone calls were to two prominent Philadelphia attorneys, one James Schwartzman, and then his son, Kamen Schwartzman, who happened to be Sam Goldberg's cousins. This is where it gets weird. The family of Schwartzman.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
the same family that Sam Goldberg called, they have direct ties to Josh Shapiro. Dating back to high school, James Schwartzman's daughter, who is Cayman Schwartzman's sister, Kimberly, I forget, Kimmel Schwartzman, she went to high school with Josh Shapiro. Her daughter goes to the same high school or Hebrew Academy that Josh Shapiro's daughter goes to now.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Josh Shapiro was the district attorney overseeing the case at the time. And there are financial ties to Josh Shapiro's district attorney campaign from both Sam Goldberg, the fiance's family, his father, as well as the Schwartzman's, the family that is connected to Sam Goldberg. So what it looks like to people who are
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
looking into this case is that there were calls made behind the scenes before 911 was alerted. If you believe the investigative reports into this, that there were calls made to 911 before that to family members who may or may not have contacted Josh Shapiro, but definitely have ties to Josh Shapiro. And there's, I mean, here's the financial records from open secret.
PBD Podcast
Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So you can see, but these are, and they're small, small contributions, $250 from the father of Sam Goldberg too. And then there's another financial contribution as well.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
No, they just overturned the ruling and reopened the investigation into the death. What's super interesting is that all of this came out on August 8th of last year. But if you remember, this video was released and we'll play it real quick. We don't have to play the whole thing.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
But do you remember when the mayor of Philadelphia accidentally tweeted a campaign video announcing support for Josh Shapiro as vice presidential candidate with Kamala Harris? We played it. This video comes out on the 5th, and then the news breaks on the 8th that this investigation may be reopened, and all of a sudden the Josh Shapiro for VP candidate rumors disappear.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
So this is actually the audio from KCBS where they issued a warning about the ICE raids. Okay, go for it.
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
Is this where he talks about playing in front of President Trump or –
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Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545
B-I-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-S.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
This clip right here is them discussing the evidence that was found in the back of the Cybertruck and why more people weren't injured when the Cybertruck exploded.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
This is where they credit Elon Musk. Elon Musk helped investigators determine who the driver was by tracing down the route that he went through the different Tesla supercharging stations. He also helped them get inside of the vehicle because the vehicle locked once it exploded.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
It's all in a computer. There's a monitor inside, a camera inside. So the way that the autopilot works for the Tesla... You have to have a monitor inside that's recording you at all times, and it actually monitors your eyes to make sure that your eyes are on the road.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
If you divert your eyes from the road, say you look down at your phone, the system inside the car will notify you so that you then have to manually steer the vehicle. So there's always a camera running inside of the Tesla vehicle at all times.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
I don't like it, but unfortunately, I've traded the ease of convenience for privacy. I'd rather be able to drive automatically, and I just know that everything that I'm saying inside of that car is being recorded. It could be accessed at any point.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Yeah, one looked like the daytime. 8.39 a.m., but that's the West Coast time, so it would have been 11.30 our time.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
They're a five-year difference because Matthew's 37 and the guy from New Orleans is 42.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Here's my thing, Adam. They raided his home. I have a news clip if you want to hear that.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Yeah, he lives in this is so he originally lives in Colorado Springs. The vehicle was rented out of Colorado on Toro. And here is the news outside of his home.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
I think that besides the four brag connection, the other big connection here is the Toro app. It's not an app that's used in every state, not every state, not every city has access to the Toro app. It's still rolling out and in development. I don't know if you guys have ever used a Toro app. It's basically like using enterprise rental car through an app.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
But you're renting people's personal vehicles. Not like an actual company's vehicle. If I want to borrow Vinny's Toyota Celica or whatever.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Have a little respect. I would use the Turo app to rent it.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Here's the news reporting on the raid of the guy's home. And yeah, she's cute.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Yes, her name is Special Agent Duncan.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Go ahead, Rob. It says she was born in 1959.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
$13,000.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
$5,000.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
I'm looking for California.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
Yeah, it's up to 16, I believe.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
2%, 3%?
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
$8,000.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
It says 2016, April 28th.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
This is the one where he tells him to sit down and watch.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
No, I don't have that clip. I have a separate clip.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
So this is the clip of the truck. I have it before it goes into the crowd if you want to show it.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
And then I also have other B-roll of the truck as well.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
$2,800.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
$800. $800.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
It is. You'd have to read this. Subtitles are in English, but his actual... Okay, go ahead.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
People, everybody gets out of the way in this video, but, yeah, you just want to see how quick.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
And we're not going to play the video because I don't want to put that out there, but we will play the audio so you can hear. As soon as he gets out of the vehicle, then you can hear the gunshots ringing out and people fleeing.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
The only video that they have released is the video of him talking about being a realtor.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
No, we'll be back live Tuesday morning.
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New Orleans Bourbon Street Attack, Cybertruck Explosion, Whitney Cummings ROASTS CNN | PBD Podcast | Ep. 527
I think that's his passport picture. It doesn't say here in this photo. I'm pretty sure it's his passport.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Yeah. Sports was a big piece. But for me, it was books. I decided to take a speed reading course when I was 15 years old. And I was going to read a book a day. And I didn't do that. But I read 700 books in seven years. All in the year of human development, psychology, physiology. Pre-18. Pre-18, well, over seven years, so starting at that time.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I'm not here to say I'm the right thing for everybody. I'm not some celebrity telling you what to do. I'm here for you to do what's right.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And what it was was I just got obsessed with wanting no answers, because early on, for example, I was really small in high school, in junior high school. I was 5'1", my sophomore year in high school. I'm 6'7", now. I tell people the difference is personal growth.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Yeah, but I had a tumor and didn't know it. A pituitary tumor. It made me explode in size. And when people talk about growth pains, I mean, your muscles are stretching. It's brutal. But the point is, as I went through that process, I found myself in a place where books where I could... I could go to another world. I could read Emerson's essays and I could feel that sense of autonomy and freedom.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I could read Man's Search for Meaning and say, no matter what you went through, you know, this guy went through, you know, Auschwitz and survived and turned things around. How did, how can I make my life work? And so, especially biographies, because when you read a biography, not an autobiography, but a biography written by the actual author, you're thinking their thoughts.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And whatever thoughts you think over and over again develop habits and emotions and meaning in your life, right? So that became my way between that and sports is how I really managed it. But I also, early on, when I was 17, I went and heard this man named Jim Rohn, a personal development speaker, I think you've probably heard of him. And it was really amazing.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
He used to do this three and a half hour seminar on how to, you know, he turned his life around, became successful in various ways. And I was working for this gentleman. I was in high school and I was, you know, it's got my little growth spurt. And so the guy's like, he was successful flipping houses and, And my family said, he used to be such a loser. My father said, now he's so successful.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And so one day he called and said, listen, your son looked to make some extra money. And I was always doing that. We were poor. I had to help support the family. So I had two jobs working as a janitor. I was like, yeah, I'll work on the weekend there. Let's do it. So I'm moving all the stuff. But I had a goal. I really want to know how he became so successful.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Because my idea of success then is when you're poor is like you've done well in achievement. You've done well in economics, finance. And so one day he took me to lunch. He goes, you're such a hard worker. I'm taking you to lunch. And so he asked me a bunch of questions. I said, I want to ask you some questions. He said, what do you want to know?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I said, well, my father said you used to be such a loser and now you're so successful. I wasn't trying to be negative. As a kid, you don't think, right? And he started laughing. He goes, your father said, well, it's true. I said, well, what changed you? He said, I went to a seminar. I said, what's a seminar?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
He said, this man comes and he takes 20, 30 years of his life and he crunches that down to like three and a half hours and shows you the shortcuts to make your life as successful as it could be. I said, well, I'd like to go to that. He said, I think you should. I said, well, how much is it? And he said, $35, like $250. This is still Jim Rowland. This is Jim Rowland.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But this is the guy that had gone and attended, right? And he goes, it'll be like $250 in Teddy's dollars. But for me, I'm making $40 a week as a janitor. So it's a week's worth of pay. And I said, well, can you get me in? He said, sure. I said, well, will you? And he said, no. I said, why not? He goes, you won't value it if you don't pay for it. And I go, look, man, I'm making 40 bucks a week.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
That's a week's pay. He goes, okay, well, figure it out on your own. Take 10 or 20 years and figure it on your own if you want to do that or learn faster through this and make the investment in yourself. So it was like, to me, the biggest decision of my life at that point, it felt like, because it's like a week's pay.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
If you're real and raw and you truly serve, popularity doesn't matter. You'll get through to people.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I mean, and I went to that seminar and I took notes like a crazy person and I was finishing some of the general statements because I read all these books. So it's like, I recognize them. I was like this wild person in the middle of the event. And afterwards, I went up and I thought, I'm gonna change the world. You know, I'm 17 years old. I'm gonna run for president. First, I'll run for Senate.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Before that, I'll do Congress. Before that, I'll do local state assembly. Yeah, I thought that how they'd serve most. And then I'll start by my high school. I'll run for my student body president in my high school. And I was not the most popular kid in school at all. And I did it in a real campaign.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I went and talked to all the groups and found out what they wanted and told them the truth, what could be done, what I thought couldn't be done, and I won. I beat the most popular kid in school. And so that taught me that if you're real and raw and you truly serve, popularity doesn't matter. You'll get through to people. And it was a marker in my life to make those things happen.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But all of these situations stacked. And then I was so involved in personal development, I really wanted to learn how to do more. And I finally got a chance to go to work for Jim Rohn at 17 years old. And my mom kicked out my father. He went back east. And on Christmas Eve, she kicked me out and chased me out with a knife.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I knew she wasn't going to kill me or stab me, but I wasn't going back in the house. She kept my 1968 Volkswagen. I'd worked $40 a week to earn. And I slept on the hill one night. It was raining. And then the next day, I was like, I can't stay in the rain. I went to this girlfriend's house, a girl that was a friend, not a girlfriend.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And they let me stay in their little, what do you call it, washing machine room. And then I took the little swoony I had, and I took these buses, and I bought a book. I went to Claremont, California. It was about 15 miles away. And I bought this book at this bookstore called The Magic of Believing by Claude Imbristel. And it talked about how to program your mind.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And I was writing on the mirror in the laundry room all of my goals. And I made these posters that only an idiot gets depressed, only a loser gets depressed. It's not true, but that was my way of leveraging myself, right? Sure. And I started to make these changes. And then I tried to go to work for Jim Rohn and it was Christmas, so I had to keep working as a janitor.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And what changed my life was finding that part that's inside of all of us that will not give up. And I was going, taking buses now, because I had no car, to go to San Marino, California. It was about, you know, about an 18-mile place. But the number of buses you had to take took about, you know, almost two hours, 90 minutes to two hours. I go clean the banks because I could do two banks.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I wasn't paid by the hour. It was by performance. And I could do an amazing job. And I'd have notes for people as if, you know, I was there. I was so connected. 2 a.m., I was on that bus to get home. And 3.30 a.m. or 4, I was going to bed and getting up four hours later to go to school and be student body president.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And I was burning out, but one night, I got to the bus stop on time, made it there at 2 a.m., no bus, 2.15, no bus, 2.30, no bus, 2.45, no bus. I have no one to call. I'm 17 miles from home at least, right? Like, what am I going to do? And then all of a sudden a car pulls up, rolls down the window and goes, hey, bud, didn't you see there's a bus strike? There's no buses coming.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Oh, you got to be kidding me. No. And so I was like... what am I going to do? And what am I going to do? And I was like, I'm going to run home. I am going to run the entire way. And my first starting out was this rage. It was like, I'll show her, my mom for kicking me out. We're, we're super close.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
No, she's passed away, but we weren't at that time, as you might guess, but anger only gets you so far. It's the fuel that burns out very quickly. So I started thinking about those books and programming your mind. I started doing these, not just affirmations where you go, I'm happy. I'm happy. But were you shout it, you engage your body. And I was running every day in every way.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I'm getting stronger and stronger. And I do that. And then change the word every day and every day, stronger and stronger. And then I do that for 20 minutes and then I do healthier and then I do happier. And I ran 16 of the 17 miles. Last mile I walked and it changed my life forever.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Good times create weak people. They're not bad people. They just have never been challenged. It's like a muscle. You're a bodybuilder. I built my body. You don't get it by taking something light. You do something unbelievably difficult, and you're going to do 10 curls, and you can barely do 10 curls. You know that 12 is where all the growth is, right?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
So I had these experiences that challenged me so strongly, and I met the challenge, and it changed my sense of identity about who I was and what I was capable of. And then I couldn't help but spread that. I lost 30 pounds, and helped my friends lose 30 pounds, and they started getting girls.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And then I got addicted to knowing the answers, like being able to give people the answer to anything, their body, their emotions, their relationships. And so that obsession still continues to this day, and I've been doing this 48 years.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
What a great storyteller, right?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Well, I got close to him because I became the top guy in his company very quickly. But his company fell apart right at that time. He had all these offices in California, like 10 offices. They had about 20 salespeople in each. And I accelerated. I did better than anybody there only because it wasn't for me about money. It was about mission. It was about I wanted to change lives.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I was a zealot, you know. And I found the way. And I was so persistent. And so I moved up in his company. And then gradually they called me one day. And, you know, the goal was to be an area sales director. You had your own office and 30 people. And they called me and said, Tony, we want to move you up. You're the best in the whole country.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
We're going to want to sit down with you and chat with you. So that's when I got to sit down with Jim. And he said, you're unbelievable. This is what you've done. And he says, we're having a little bit of a change here. And he goes, so he goes, uh, how would you like to take on a city in L.A.? I said, I'd love to. He goes, what city do you want?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I grew up poorest out in Beverly Hills, thinking they were giving me the money. And then he goes, how many people do you want? I said, 30. It's the most anybody had, right? He goes, okay. He goes, when do you want to start? I said, tomorrow. He goes, great. You're in. I said, okay, who do I call to get the check? He goes, oh, no, it's called phase two.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
We have this new program where you're in charge. It's your business. You hire me to come in. You're a broker, and you fill the event all by yourself, and then you keep half the profits.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But I'd never put 1,000 people in a room before, right? You know, the theory was you put 30 people in a room, you followed up, and you sold his other products and services. That was the business it was in. But I learned to book myself three times a day. I talked to groups where there was supposed to be 20 people there, and four showed up, and two were drunk.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And I learned how to just take control and make an impact. And I filled these events up and I had my own business. All of a sudden I was a broker in business. So he made that happen. So the answer to your question was he was very separate. He had built his business in a network marketing business originally. And so he was protected and no one really was around Jim.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But I got a chance later in life to get more connected to him when he was feeling his mortality and I spoke at his funeral. And he was just a very, very loving man who found answers that were of common sense. And he was really moved by delivering them to people the same way I am in my life, but a very different style, as you know, than I do. He talked one-tenth my speed, right?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And he had this great rhythm. He was a really, I look at him as a business philosopher, is really what he was. But I learned so much from him, and it was a good basis. But the tools that made me grow even more, he gave me the philosophy that if you want things to change, you gotta change. You want things to get better, you gotta get better.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But what changed me was learning the tools of neuro-linguistic programming from John Grinder, where I learned how to take somebody with a lifetime phobia and wipe it out in 20 or 30 minutes.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I've got to rent the hotel. I've got to open the office. I've got to do it all myself. You're painful.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Almost all California. Mostly California. And we do like three seminars every eight weeks, right, for about three and a half hours. My schedule is a little more intense than that.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I was with him for 17 to 21, basically, 22. So about four or five years almost.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Unbelievable what a chance to learn.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
It'd be 1981, 82. Okay, so 81, 82.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Well, someone who came to work for me when I started my new company, it was, you know, achievement enterprises there in Beverly Hills. And this guy was very interesting. And then a woman came to work for me and they were both really into NLP. And so I said, explain it to me. And I started reading the books and then I went to a class and I had to talk my way in.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Cause in those days it was only therapists that were going there. And then he was working with the government on some of the individuals that you're describing, some of the three level agencies per se. But I went and I basically went to him and said, look, all these people here have been conditioned to do 20 years or 10 years or five years or three years of therapy.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I said, that's their limitation. I don't have those limitations. I'll take this stuff and I'll implement it. Should bring somebody from the outside. And I said, besides that, I'm gonna stick my ear against the, this is the Holiday Inn outside. He was doing this six month training at the Holiday Inn outside of LAX. I said, I'll just stick my ear and listen.
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So he let me come in and I proved myself because he would leave and like a person started breaking down and having these multiple disassociative patterns and freaking out. Everybody's freaking out. I just got up and boom and handled it. And everybody's like, this kid got up and did all these things. And it was just because I was obsessed with mastering the skills. I didn't want to just...
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I wanted to help people to change now. Again, it was my drive that made me, my hunger to really learn that made me strong. And I was also willing to try anything. I wasn't afraid of failing. And so gradually he and I eventually became partners. And then we went to, you know, I got a chance to go through top secret clearance. And I went to the U.S.
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Army at one point with him and convinced this general that I said, you know, I can take any training you do in the entire army, cut the training time in half and increase the competency. He said, you're crazy. And I said, no, I'm expensive. And we negotiated this deal. But I thought John was going to be my partner.
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And the first deal they created for me was to do a four-day pistol shooting program where 70% of the people qualified, 30% didn't. And that's the best they've done since World War II. So I said, I'll turn that around. I'll cut it in half, right? That's great confidence. But I also knew that John Grinder, Dr. Grinder, he had been in the Special Forces.
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So I figured between he and I together, we'll do this. He's my partner. And the day I'm supposed to go there after going through a year of top secret clearance, all that stuff, I'm going to Langley underground place. And I said, give me the best in the army, the best in all the armed sources and give me the best shooter coach. And I'm going to model them.
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I'm going to find out what is that they all do in common. And we'll put that into a training and we'll excel at their training. And John Grinder calls me and says, Tony goes, I'm really sorry. I've got an emergency. I got to fly to Germany. You're on your own. Click. And I start to go in a bit of a panic, right? But then I can't step out of it.
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And one of the great gifts of my life is I've done so much in my life where there is no net. I'm sure you understand what I mean, right? When there's no net, you find a way to, I always tell people, if you want to take the island, burn your boats, right? So that day I burned my boats.
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I called one of the guys in the community of NLP that I knew disliked me because I dislodged him, you know, being this kid who came up with batter very quickly and became partners. And I said, I'm doing this deal and they're only going to pay me. You know, my deal is I only get paid if I cut the training time in half. And if I fail, I get nothing.
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I thought I'd tell you because I know you want to cheer me on. So it just made my I couldn't go back. And I went in and, you know, these guys walked in and. I'm 24 years old, and I'm wearing jeans and a T-shirt. And they go, where's the teacher? Where's the trainer? And I said, I'm him. You know, these guys were 35 years old. One was 40. And he said, you're him? How long have you been shooting?
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I said, shooting what? He said, guns. I said, oh, I've never shot a gun. And you're going to train us? He said, yeah, I can do this, no problem. And I said, close your eyes. And I had all of them go through their rhythm to shoot. But before I do that, they're like, no, we want to see you shoot. I said, I don't know how to shoot. So I get up there. I'm underground.
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And I shoot the thing, and I'm shooting a .45 caliber pistol, which, you know, I didn't know it has a product kick. I put the bullet in the ceiling. This did not build confidence. But by the time I was done, I'd figured out every aspect of what each of them did that was not unique to them but was consistent.
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And one of the most important things I found besides the motions, the movements, the preparation, the breathing, was that mentally they didn't realize it, but they brought the target closer. So when I went to train people, I made the target four feet in front of them. Because when I tried to do it, it seemed forever. Boom, boom, boom. You build on success right through the center. Oh my God.
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Then five, 10 feet, then 20. And when we, by the time we done, we did a one and a half day program called divide 100% of the people. And the colonel wrote a letter to the general saying it's the first breakthrough in pistol shooting since World War I. So that took me to a different level. Then I started knowing, man, I can model anything. I can make it happen. Then I modeled firewalking.
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So it just all expanded. And over the years, then I modeled whatever I wanted to learn, like business. So now I'm fortunate enough to have 114 companies. We do $8 billion in business now, and I have no business background. I learned it all by learning from the very best people in the world and modeling their strategies and compressing the time. And so it's now one of my great passions in life.
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Well, I'm sure there were. But, I mean, when I was, because I was on the other side of the track, so to speak, I had a chip on my shoulder, right? You know, these people I thought were wealthy. They weren't even slightly wealthy. But when you don't have money for food, somebody that's well-fed looks like they're rich, right? And there were cliques, you know, if you weren't part of the clique.
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And I wanted to be an athlete. But we had no money to go to Little League or things of that nature. But when my forefather, Jim Robbins, came along, who adopted me, he was a former semi-pro baseball player. So we started playing and everything else. But, you know, I started when I was like 15 instead of like kids in my community were like eight, you know, playing rookie league.
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But I was so driven. I wanted to – it was a way of – finding love with my father was by becoming better. And I also had, I had huge drive because I just wanted to be more. I didn't want to settle. I looked at our family and all the pain that I saw my mother go through and we would go through and I was like, I'm not going to have a future like that. I'm going to find some way to do more.
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So it produced drive. So even when I was in sports, I was so competitive in junior high school that like, you know, I was a little guy, but I played linebacker and quarterback. And I would, during practice, guys would complain because I'd stick them so hard. And I'd say, you get strong. I mean, I'm half your size, but you know, you get low, you can take anybody out, right?
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So I had this intensity and that level. But when I got to serving people, That disappeared. It wasn't like I wasn't competing with anybody. I was competing with what I was capable of. And, you know, I'd read so many autobiographies. And I remember Dr. J saying, in fact, when I met Jordan years later, I asked him, you know, what is it that's made you the best in the world? Is it God-given talent?
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Is it skill? Is it ability? What is it? And he was cool. He said, listen, I don't have fame, you know, anything with you. It's like I got a lot of God-given talent. But he told me about when he was in high school and the coach cut him because he said, you're not the best player because you're not maximizing your abilities. That's great. And he said, so now I don't compete with anyone.
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I compete with the best I can be. Every day my goal is to find a way to do more than I've ever done before within me. I'm not competing with anybody else. And I called him, I said, that was Dr. J's philosophy. And I'll never forget his face. He goes, you know that? Because I read his autobiography.
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Got it, yeah. And he was the champion at his stage of life, right? He was a Michael before Michael. Yeah, so from early on, it's like, I'm competing with the next level of who I am. I'm not competing with anybody else. There's nobody to compete with. You know, it's like there's a different level I'm here to deliver.
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He still is. Go play golf with him or anything else. I've not done that.
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My early one was watching people in therapy for five years, 10 years, 20 years. And when I got involved with NLP, seeing it could be done in minutes. And I was, I used to destroy therapists. I used to attack them. Now I've trained, you know, literally hundreds of thousands of them. Got it.
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In fact, they can watch my stuff now and get credits to remain a therapist, even though I'm not a therapist myself. So that drove these activists.
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Because I was so mad that somebody would be 10 years still dealing with a problem that I knew could be dealt with in a day or two or an hour or two. I got it. And so I remember I got on a radio show in Vancouver. And I went on the show. And I didn't know it was a shock jock. I didn't know what a shock jock was then.
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And so the guy starts, you know, setting me up and attacking me and saying, well, you know, how old are you? And you don't have a degree. And how are you going to do this? And he just starts going after me in every way you possibly can. And then he brings a psychiatrist on who starts attacking me verbally because he said, there's no way you can wipe things out as fast as you're saying.
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There's just absolutely no way. You're a liar. You're a charlatan. This is on national radio. And so my competitiveness came out in that moment very intensely. And so I turned to the guy and very calmly said over the radio, I said, sir, I said, are you a scientist? He said, of course, I'm a physician.
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I said, good, so if you're a scientist, you must be stating your hypothesis because your hypothesis is I'm a liar and a charlatan because you've never met me, right? You never met my clients. So you can't, you can only sell me what you believe. I said, so if you have a hypothesis and you're a true scientist, you have to test it, right? And the voice goes, yeah.
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And I said, well, I'm doing a free guest event at the Holiday Inn tomorrow night, 7 p.m. I'm going to do a series of demonstrations. I suggest you come and prove my charlatan. Bring me one of your worst patients. Bring me somebody that you've worked on for years and not be able to change. I said, I'm sure you got plenty of those. You want to play hardball?
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I can play hardball, especially in those because I'm a lot softer today. But I was still proving myself to myself and other people, I think, at that stage. You know, you're immature. So I was intense. And so the guy goes, we all have people that aren't ready to change yet. I said, well, that's funny. I haven't found any.
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Of course, I'd done four therapies at that point, but I didn't mention that, right? And he goes, well, I have this one woman, you know, she has this snake phobia. She goes to sleep at night. She has a dream. Snake bites her in the face. And if you ever had an intense dream like that, it fires off your adrenal glands and you wake up. How often? Three to five times a night.
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How many years have you been treating her? Seven years. I said, bring her down. That should take me 10 or 15 minutes. And I said it directly. And that guy goes, ah! The guy cuts him off, says, see you're right at the Holiday Inn. So I show up the next day at the Holiday Inn. I'm hoping in those days to get, you know, 150 people to show up for a free guest event. 500 people show up.
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I mean, there's not seating in a room. People are standing on the walls. If the fire department comes in, they're going to empty. Just to see. Because they want to see the shootout.
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He shows up. But he's not there. I'm looking around. I don't know. Do you do this when I meet somebody on the phone? I can't help it. I make a picture of mine, what I think they look like. So I'm picturing, okay, oh, be there. I'm picturing this giant guy with a scared woman on his arm. And I'm looking for something. Nobody liked that. So I get up to introduce myself in those days.
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Hi, I'm Tony Robbins. I said, I'm going to do some demonstrations today to show you can make changes in minutes you thought would take months or years. And right when I say this, the side door bursts open like a movie. And this guy about half my size up to here walks in with this woman on his arm. Walks straight to the front and stands there while I'm speaking.
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And I go, excuse me, looks like I have a visitor. I just go down and shake his hand. He wouldn't shake my hand. He just goes, here's the woman. And my whole career was made in that moment. I brought her on stage and I said, ma'am, I understand you've had certain phobias to certain things for a period of time. How do you feel about snakes? And I shouted it.
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If you've ever seen a phobia, it's not just fear. It's uncontrollable shaking response. And then I calmed her down and I said, Dan, you've been treated for seven years by that psychiatrist right there? And she goes, yeah. And I said, okay. And then I started doing this work. It took me about 15 minutes. And when I was done, everybody's watching the whole thing.
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I said, how do you feel about snakes? No response. I was totally fine. I said, that's great. So, you know, I've always been about demonstration to make it really clear. So there's a piece back here on the table and I grab this bag and I pull the bag out and the bag's moving slightly underneath and the people in the audience see it and they start to anticipate.
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And I pull out just a little gardener snake, pull the gardener snake in front of her. And instead of screaming or shaking, she knew that she just pulled back. And I said, how do you feel? She goes, they're not very attractive. And I said, well, I know you feel some fear, but notice there's no spitting, no shaking. You're not screaming. I said, I wanted you, you know, why don't you hold it?
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She goes, I don't know. And the audience starts going, hold it. It's like a movie, man. You can't make this stuff up. And so finally the lady grabs it, squeeze the snake. I said, don't kill it. Right. And so that launched my career. So then every night I was doing a different type of event. I had, I had every kind of change you can imagine. And I started doing these impossible interventions.
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I'll do one session. I don't care what it is. You're addicted. It's something I'll turn around. You pay me nothing. And it was $1,000 in those days, which was a huge amount of money. But I did it to put it on the line. I'm putting myself on the line. If I don't get a result, I don't get anything. And that's how I built it. And then I had a woman who had an orgasm in 10 years.
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And I gave her an orgasm without touching her. And guys are like, can you teach me to do that when I'm tired? And then I started working with sports teams.
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I didn't teach her. I didn't touch her. I just... I eliminated the barrier that she had. What was the barrier? In her head, she was constantly analyzing every single moment. Well, a woman is very different than a man. They can't have that experience unless they let go completely. So I got her to let go completely and then experience the joy that she wanted to have.
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But she had all these blockages, all the pain of other relationships, problems, it was complex. Sure, sure. But it took me about 45 minutes to do it. But when I started doing that, then I had all of a sudden politicians. I had sports teams.
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They might have needed that also. By nature, they're politicians, so I'm sure they don't have that many orgasms. But all of a sudden, you know, I'm working with Olympic athletes in 1984 in LA. That's how long I've been doing this. And the guy I worked with wasn't supposed to win the team. And he ended up winning the 1500 freestyle and swimming. And that gave me another notch. And then the army.
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And then all of a sudden, then all of a sudden, we're working with Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa and Gorbachev and Clinton. And I mean, and I'm only 32. So, you know, I'm stuck. I'm going to be 65 in about 30 days here. So it's been 48 years of that continued growth and expansion. Then I got into businesses and figuring out the patterns in businesses. It's all patterns, as you know, Patrick.
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Like if anyone listening wants to say, okay, the world seems uncertain. And yeah, I have five kids and five grandkids. So I have a 50-year-old daughter and I have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter because three of my kids I adopted early on when I was just 24, 25 years old.
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And so I look at my grandkids, especially, and my youngest daughter, and I think 40% of the jobs, if you believe the studies, are going to be gone because of AI, because of robotics, because of nanotechnology and so forth. So how do I arm them to do well in the future? And the answer is there's three skills everybody needs, and they're so simple. And they're the skills that make anybody masterful.
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It's not you successful in your insurance business. It's what's made you successful in this business. The first thing is pattern recognition. If you start recognizing patterns, fear disappears. Because like right now when people say, oh, we've never been so divided or now we're, you know, the country has a little more optimism, but we've never been so divided. It's total BS.
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I can show you the letters that are put out that were posted between Jefferson and Adams. And if you read what they wrote, it makes anything the left or right has said about each other look calm compared to that. So it's like we go in cycles. So when you recognize a pattern, you no longer react. It's like losers react, leaders anticipate. Anticipation is power.
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So when you know the pattern, and that's what makes anybody great, they see the pattern. But what makes them really great is the second skill when you learn to use the patterns. So if you and I look at anybody, you see somebody that's great in investing. I've interviewed more than 50 of the very best in the world. The Ray Dalios, the Carl Icons, the Warren Buffetts, all the best in private equity.
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And what you begin to see is there are certain patterns, even though they go about it differently, that are universal. If you sow the same seeds, you reap the same rewards. But they know how to use it. If you see somebody great in music or dance or a movie maker, they know where to move the camera to move your emotion. They bring it in close, when to bring the music up, how to do it. They know it.
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That makes them masterful. But the third level skill is pattern creation. That's what you've begun to do. That's what I've begun to do. It's like when you learn to play a piano, most people learn someone else's patterns. You learn to see the patterns, recognize them, then you learn to use them. But if you do enough other music, then now you get to come out and you start creating things.
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So I'm standing on the shoulders of all the people before me, as are you, because I learned so many things from them. But now at this stage of my life, the last 15, 20 years, I've been able to create things because I know what those patterns are. So those skill sets... That's how my kids will do well. Because if you can learn rapidly and recognize patterns, there's nothing you can't do well at.
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And that's really, and by the way, noting the patterns of where we are in history, the pattern of where you are in your own life. I'll give you a simple example. What made human beings go from survival, living in fear, where we're hunter-gatherers, to where we could stay in one place, build communities, build cities, build countries, have homes, have the education.
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What made that possible was one pattern recognition that changed humanity. Do you know what it was?
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Until we understood seasons, we had to constantly move from place to place and hope we could find our food. But once we understood seasons, we knew if you do the right thing at the wrong time, there is zero reward. But if you do the right thing at the right time, the rewards are immense. So if you plant in the winter, I don't care how hard you work or the summer, you get nothing.
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It's like recognizing the seasons changed humanity. Well, there's a season in your own life. Some of your viewers are younger, maybe zero to 21. Think of that as springtime. When it's springtime, what does spring have? Everything grows easily. If it's a springtime in business, you think you're a genius because your business grows.
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Everybody's business grows because it's a time of tremendous optimism and immense growth. The environment's different. People's attitudes are different. But these cycles go through 18, 20-year cycles. If you study 1,000 years of Roman history, which I've done, or 500 years of Anglo-American history, You see, about every 18 to 20 years, there's a shift. It's kind of like we exhaust an emotion.
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Do you ever smile so much your face hurt? Yes. You know what I mean? So you need a change. Sure. Well, after springtime, the easy time, comes a summertime. And the summer is always a testing time. It's tougher. A lot of people plant in the spring and they go, where's my crop? Are you new? You have to get through all the seasons, right? So summer tests people.
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And then you go to another reaping time. You go to the fall where it's easy again, where now things flow. Economies go crazy. People want to give you a mortgage even though you barely have a pulse and not a job. You remember those days. Of course, no income, no assets. Boom, just give it to anyway. And markets go through the roof. But again, what follows that is winter.
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And the great thing about life is you never skip from the fall to spring. You always go through winter. Some are short. Some are long. Some are hard. Some are easy. But we go through them. They have a purpose. They weed out the weak. They make us, if we push through it, stronger. They make everything better going forward. So there's a purpose in every season.
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So zero to 21, you could call the springtime of most people's lives. where some of us had to go to work at seven, eight years old to support our family, but still, you were still protected. If there's a war, you're not going to war. Someone's protecting you. Someone's mostly providing for you, usually providing for you. You're being fed information. You're learning.
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22 to 42, that's the summertime. That's the testing time. That's when most people come out and go, I know I was taught all this, but I'm going to test what I believe. You know, and you're very optimistic. In fact, you think you're invincible at 22, 23, 24.
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You go like, I'm gonna be president of the United States, I'm gonna be a multi-billionaire, and I'm gonna have 100 relationships simultaneously and everyone's gonna be happy. And then you're 30 and you're going, I can't even keep one relationship happy and I'm burnt to the ground. So you go through the phase. But think of 22 to 42 as being like the soldier of society.
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In fact, if we go to war, you're the ones going to war 22 to 42. In business, you're the soldier. You're learning, you're growing, you're grunting it out, you're hustling, right? If you work hard during that time and you've done well during spring, You come to the fall, which is, you know, you look at 43 to 63, that's your power period, right?
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That's the period where you had explosive growth in your business, as an example. That's when you became who you are, where your name became known. That's where all of a sudden you can do probably more today with your pinky than when you work 20 hours a day. And now if you work 20 hours a day, it's produced generational impact much greater than that.
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So that period of time, by the way, 22 to 42, if people are in that stage of life right now, it's statistically the most unhappy period. Because people are trying, they thought it was gonna be easy, it's not so easy they eventually learn. Usually they're 42.
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And what they learn is, well not as easy as I thought, I'm not as invincible as I thought, and they have to figure things out, and they're trying to prove themselves to themselves and others, they haven't figured it all out yet. Now some people do these seasons earlier, some later, but it's a good range. In that power period, that's when you have the greatest economic growth.
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That's when you start having long-term relationships. But the ultimate time, and I say to you this as a brother who's heading in that direction, because I never would have believed it, is really when you get to 63 to 83 or 63 to 103 or 63 to 120, which is the oldest humans, the final season, the winter season. But that's the season in which you really are the elder of society.
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And if you've done your job up front, You've reaped so much. All you want to do is give back. And you don't worry about what people think about you because you sure would like to make everybody happy. But you know, you know, unless you got holes, you know, Jesus couldn't pull it off. So I don't know if you're going to do that. Right. So it's like, I'm here to help the people that are interested.
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I'm not here to say I'm the right thing for everybody. And you own yourself at a different level and you really can move a pinky and make things happen.
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Yeah.
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If you please let me, the same thing happens in history. So just for a second, if you're born in 1910, you don't have to be a historian to think about this, and those first 20 years are protected. People born in 1910 were born at a time when World War I was going on, but then we went and solved the war, won the war, came back and had the roaring 20s, had this incredible economy, right?
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So when they're 10 years old, the economy's going crazy. We got all this new technology. We got cars, we got planes, we got radio, we got television. And that generation was called flappers. Because they were looked down on like a lot of, let's say, Z generation or millennials are by X generation people or sometimes baby boomers. Because they didn't have to go through the tough times, right?
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And they didn't. They frankly didn't. But what happened to that kid born in 1910 and 1929 when he's 19 thinking he's going to go get a car and he's going to go get a party? The whole world turned upside down. The Depression. People jumping out of buildings. The Dust Bowl. People standing in line for bread. And by the way, they made it through 10 years. 10 years of depression.
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Now, that doesn't mean every day is dark. You know, you can be in winter and have beautiful days, 31, 32 were nice times. But the overall thing was testing and they became strong because they had to be. Then right when they turned 29, 1939, what happens? World War II, you and I weren't alive then, but anybody was alive then, it looked like the world was ending.
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Hitler was taking over countries in days, blitzkrieging everywhere. And so what happened is that generation volunteered and went to war, and they won the war, and they came back the heroes. They're now known as the greatest American generation, and they were known as flappers and losers. What made them strong was pushing through winter.
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Everybody, listen to me now, everybody goes through winter if they live 80 years plus. You don't have a choice. It's just which season. Are you going to do it in the early stage, middle stage, late stage? It's coming. But watch this. Think about those people. They come home.
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And think how the world changes when after winter it's now springtime and the vets are now moving out to the suburbs and they get basically a free down payment on the home and we have all these new technologies. Think about the 50s and early 60s until Kennedy is killed. There's a level of optimism in this country that's amazing. Springtime.
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After Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, it's a different world. It's a testing summer where young and old fight each other. It happens every 80 years. Generational fights. I'm not going to war. It was a completely different mindset. Those people raised kids differently than they did. They weren't around. They were doing their mission or doing whatever their love in.
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And so their kids became latchkey kids, kids that would let themselves in the house and watch the television and have fun for themselves. So they developed different values as a generation, the X generation, more pragmatic. If you ask people during the 60s and 70s, which they did in the universities, what's more important, a philosophy of life
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that will make you happy, or the pragmatic skills to make you financially secure or free. 82% said philosophy of life. 80s, 90s, 2000s, they asked the same question, complete reversal. 81% saying no, pragmatic skills to be financially free. And what season are we in now? Winter. And when it's winter, everything's exaggerated. It's World War III, we're all gonna die.
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Some of the same things were happening before. You don't have that mindset. It's a fear time. We're about three quarters of the way through it if you study historians, fourth turning guys, various people will tell you that. We still have to go through some more economic challenges. We still have to go through probably some form of war, even a cyber war with China or something.
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But on the other side of it is another springtime. What I want people to get is, You've got to know where you are in your life and where you are in history, and you've got to learn to take advantage of it. You can't complain that it's winter.
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During winter, if you start a business in winter and you succeed, 60% of all the Fortune 1000 companies that are alive today, the biggest successful companies could have been born in any one of those four seasons, they were all born in winter. In a recession or a depression. From FedEx to Disney, Disney was depression. FedEx was a recession. I could walk you through them all.
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So that process makes you strong. And that is why, here's the history of the world in four sentences and I'll shut up. Good times create weak people. They're not bad people, they're just weak because they haven't been challenged. Weak people create bad times. Bad times create strong people. Strong people create great times. So millennials and Zs are the next heroes.
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And they're already starting it because they're starting to go through winter. We're not done with it. They're going to open up things up. I'm very excited about what the future will have. I'm very optimistic about it because studying history shows you patterns. There's no guarantees. But there's patterns. And when you understand the patterns, fear disappears.
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Yeah, 46. So I'm 65. I can remember 46 so vividly, what it was going through. You know, you and I are different in lots of different ways, but there's certain patterns that are immutable. And so if I can help in some time for someone to say, hey, here's some opportunity, here's the challenge you can face, so you can anticipate the challenge.
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then I can help you have a lot less suffering, a lot more joy, and that's my mission.
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It doesn't matter what business you're in. It doesn't matter what business you're in. But you have to become a business owner, not an operator. The death of most young entrepreneurs and even older entrepreneurs is you'd get in and then you hire the person who's most talented for the least amount of money, you. Then the next people you hire are not as skilled.
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And so you know you can do it better, so you end up doing everything. It's funny, yeah. I could not run 114 companies at the size and scope at $8 billion doing everything else that I do and be a father and be a human, but I became an owner. So as an owner, I'm strategic. There's a dozen I run real directly. The rest of them, I'm strategic. I come in and do the very thing you're doing.
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Patrick, nice to have you. Of course. Thanks, buddy.
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I do my business mastery programs. It's like a boot camp for businesses twice a year. And I don't care. We got people in there with a billion-dollar business. We got people just getting started with the business. And we guarantee them they'll come back if in 18 months or less they don't at least grow their business 30% to 130%. And they all do it because the pattern is so simple.
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On a big company or small company, there's still core patterns.
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All of the above. But 80% of success in life and in business is psychology, meaning the mindset and the emotion. You can get the answers if you have the right mindset. 20%, and it's a very important 20%, is the strategy. The right strategy can save you 10 years. So I'm a strategist.
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But I always know I've got to make sure your psychology is strong enough first so that no matter what season we're in, you can do well.
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No. I do believe we have nature that we're born with, and I look at lots of different patterns to understand what makes somebody tick, not just one. I use Chinese medicine as one to notice, is this person more water? Are they more wood? Each of those qualities, you're kind of born with certain things. If you're wood-driven, as an example, in Chinese medicine, you're a pioneer. You're driven.
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You push. This would be a very strong one for you, for example. That wood person has got to grow. That wood person, they face challenges with more intensity. every one of these also under stress or in a negative state, their positives can become a negative. Those people get angry very easily if it doesn't move forward, right? Steve Jobs would be a perfect example of that, right?
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It's like if you know Steve Jobs, he was brutal, right? But he was committed to the outcome, whatever it takes. If you get around somebody who's fire driven, this is somebody who's born where they're always joking. They're super optimistic, everything's funny. And some of you are irritated by them because they're cracking up about when they're talking about something serious, right?
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But fires burn, they have this tremendous energy. But fires also, they burn out very quickly. If one of the things they have physiologically, because Chinese medicine treats everyone differently based on your constitution, right? Physiologically, if they don't eat, they get hangry. My wife has a fire, by the way, and I've got very strong wood and a lot of strong fire.
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So she has got this tremendous energy and excitement, but we don't go anywhere without food because we know what's going to happen, right? The sweetest person on earth is going to become crazy. If you're somebody more earth, you're more the person less extroverted, more, you know, you're the peacekeeper. What you care about is everybody getting along. You care about harmony and the community.
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My second strongest is actually earth because that's how I build communities. That's what I do. That's why I care as deep as I do. Then there's some people that are metals. By the way, these are based on the seasons. They just look at fall in two levels. They look at the beginning of fall, end of fall. Beginning is earth. The end is metals. And metals is someone who is very, very precise.
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Everything has to be a very specific way. They're very elegant in their delivery. They think things through very, very specifically. And the challenge for them is if it doesn't go exactly that way, they can get very frustrated and get a lot of grief in them.
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And then there's water, water's like the philosopher, the person that they lose themself in things and they go off, and by the way, we have all these qualities, but it's which one's strongest in it, right? The water will, wants to know truth and they think it through and they'll, they lose themself. So just as an example, understanding those, just that's one typology, I use dozens, right?
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That helps me know that, okay, in my life, my wife's fire. I know that this is my fire. She's going to burn this way. I don't get upset by it. I don't think she should be like me. If I got a son, which I do, that's more earth. He's not going to be as driven as me. I used to think he's got to have the same drive. Yes, he's unbelievable.
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You had a yellow tie on. Gold tie, yes. Gold tie, yes.
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He's got a heart of gold, and he works hard and does a great job. He's an unbelievable coach. You can say he's a sweet guy. He's sweet. He's got more earth. Right. He can fire off his wood, but it feels a little not natural for him. Sure, sure. And then I can look at my other son is fire. He's always cracking up. So each of my kids are differently as well.
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I've got, in my life, you know, my wife couldn't carry. So we have a woman who'd been with us for 12 years, a dear, dear friend, traveled with us everywhere. Her name's Mary, and Mary's part of our family, and she carried our child, our latest child, because my wife couldn't carry. So we're a family. We didn't send her away. Yeah, she's our surrogate, but we kept her.
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So we even made her, if I die, if Sage Wave dies, that she also, that she's the person that ends up with our child. That's how deep it is. But she's very much a water person, Mary is. And so, like, if we want to go to a movie, And I'm going to a movie to escape. I want to go take off. Here's the time of the movie. Let's go, right? And then I'm like, where's Mary? She got caught up in something.
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And I used to get frustrated about it. Now I anticipate it. Mary's going to get lost, so I'm going to let her know it's 15 minutes earlier. I'm going to go find those reminders, and I'll get upset about it. So my point is, I could give you a dozen of these examples. This is only one example where understanding people's nature
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is where now you can empower people the most, not making them be like you. That's the problem people do with their kids. You have how many kids? Four of them. Four kids. I know I'm sure you don't have a favorite kid, but do you have an easier kid? Do I have an easier kid?
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Yes.
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Yes. Yes. The one that's most likely is usually the easiest to influence because you try to influence them the way it would influence you. If you clean your room, what worked for you, you'll do with that kid and he'll respond. The other one might say read between the lines or maybe he won't do that, but certainly not going to respond, right?
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I love that. No, I'm just suggesting that most people are good at influencing people that are like themselves. And that the more you understand how people are different, to influence another person, you have to know what already influences them. And so when you talked about these people that you're describing in salespeople, here's a question for you. Can you take a very non-social person and...
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Can they be a great salesperson? Could they do well in a sales job?
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You could probably do a 9 for a short period of time when they're really hungry and driven. But the second question is, will they do the job well long term? And the answer is no because it doesn't match their nature. That's right. If you take someone who's very super social and make them an accountant, can they do a good job? Yes. Will they do a good job long-term? Bored out of their minds.
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They got to get out. They got to be around people. So you have to match the nature to the person as opposed to saying, this is the wrong person. You've got people you've brought in that maybe you didn't recognize the patterns yet of who are the best. I, one of the ways we do it in salespeople and all my companies, I learned this from a partner I had years ago who passed away. We, we,
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We know that we need somebody in that position. I want someone in that position that cares, that connects with people. But if they care so much, sometimes they just accept limitations. If I accept your limitations, then there's no growth for you, right? A sale's always made. Either I persuade you what's possible, you persuade me what's not. Sure, yeah.
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So you need someone with ego strength who can take rejection. So what we do in our companies, we have a standard process. We put out an ad, let's say, that says looking for the very best influencers, top of the line, world class, nothing less, great opportunities, great economics. Call only if you're world class. And then they call and they say, I'm calling for this job.
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And they talk for a few seconds and we say, oh, yeah? Well, you don't sound world-class to me. The person says, well, can you tell me about the job? No, tell me about you. And within a few seconds, we usually hang up the phone. Now, we do that with everyone, even the most talented people. Why?
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Because we're working for the guy that calls back, you know, and he'll say, oh, you know, it must've been a bad connection. You disconnected from me. We said, no, we just weren't getting it. And we'll hang up again. The person will come three times and we'll use humor or connection or break our pattern. That's the person we now take to an interview.
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When we do the interviews, we do the same things. You get rejected so many times going through our process that only the absolute strongest ego's there, but we're also looking for the strongest caring. So we look for someone, I think of it this way. Good people are found and then trained. not just trained for a particular position. It's different for everybody based on their nature.
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Well, it happened at a much earlier age, but it also happened because I looked at somebody who had taken a company. I've known this person for more than 10 years. Wanted to do business with them. And he worked with a large network marketing company at the time. He took them from losing a million dollars a day to making 1.6 billion in EBITDA. So the track record is pretty- 1.6 in EBITDA? In EBITDA.
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And I won't tell you the company, Amway. And so they were losing money. He turned them around. His name is Bill. And Bill always wanted to do business with me, but he'd been there for a long time. And then one day, you know, he had had a meeting and the founders weren't involved and the kids were involved.
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And the kids were in a situation where he wanted them in Grand Rapids, Michigan with their base, you know, take on and help sponsor this, you know, the center for kids that were left behind. And you only want a million dollars from each and they all have more money than they could ever dream of. And they all turned him down and they all bought brand new Gulfstreams, each of them.
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And it pushed him over the edge and goes, Tony, I'm out of here. I'm leaving. I'm going to come join you. So we came. We're going to form a company and go overseas and do this. And then he didn't call me for three weeks after this. And John Paul DeGioia, if you know Paul Mitchell hair care or if you know Patron Tequila, multibillionaire, he was my partner as well in doing this.
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So anyway, the two of them come to Fiji. We have a meeting. We agree. Then he doesn't talk to me for three weeks. I'm like, well, something's wrong. He finally calls me up and says, Tony, I don't know what to do. And I went to the board meeting and said, I shouldn't participate in this board meeting. I'm going to go off with Tony Robbins, start this business.
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And one of the founders of Amway who's since passed, I got him and there was no zoom in those days, got a satellite link. He was having a heart transplant and said, you're going to leave me in this situation. He didn't like the kids. He loved the founders. He goes, I don't know what to do. I said, brother, you've got to stay there. I mean, I'm disappointed. Obviously, we've got to stay.
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He goes, it's not fair to you. I said, it doesn't matter if it's not fair. You've got to stay there. And so then he said, well, when the founder dies, we can become partners. I said, oh, great. I'm going to root for the founder to die to make this happen.
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So long story shortened, he finally came to me and said he's still alive, but if we take one of his kids, we can be partnered with them, not in network marketing. We can build this set of nutritional companies together, and we'll have – a billion six worth of resources here to help make that happen.
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But what I didn't know is that the co-founder, one of the children there, we thought he was a billionaire. He represented himself a billionaire and signed the deal. He had not inherited any money at that point. He only had $5 million to his name. And we went and purchased Twin Labs and several other companies. And then what happened was overnight, Twin Labs had a lawsuit, several things occurred.
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And we found out these guys had no resources whatsoever from Amway. And so I had to figure out what to do, how to turn things around, because you've signed a deal called joint and several. You probably know what that means. Back then, I didn't know that meant that I'm not on for one fourth of this. I'm on the hit for all of it if I have the most money, and I did. So I went through that process.
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But guess what? The way you become great in life and in business is by crossing the threshold of your comfort zones, right? I mean, think of it as there's a threshold of control. When you're young, your threshold control is I can handle anything within this circle of influence. But as out here, it's kind of tough.
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But if you get enough challenges, hopefully you break through and you solve all those problems and now all these problems are solved. That's how you grow, right? So I had to solve a $50,000 problem one time to stay in business or go bankrupt. Now I got to solve $125 million process. And it made me grow.
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That's how you get to multi-billions, because you learn how to deal with thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions. So it was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I never made the mistake again. Joined several mistakes. And also, you can't bet on one of your partners. You've got to know who all your partners are.
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So every experience I've ever had, I found was...
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Private investigator on every single person I go do business with, if I want to do a partnership with on every aspect of their life, and I offer them to do the same with me. So it's clear who we are and who we're dealing with. That's number one. Are you serious? I'm dead serious. I got multi-billion dollar enterprise. And you tell me.
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And by the way, whatever the PI brings back, I bring it to you and say. Oh, I love that. I bring it to you and say, this may be bullshit. This is what they found. This is sick. Tell me what you think. And so that has saved me so.
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But it tells a little about your personality too, right? But the same thing that they did with you is what I do is like, I bring it to you. I don't judge you. I say, look, this is what they found. If there's anything that's BS here, let's talk about it.
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We tell them beforehand, are you open for it? Because it's what we'd like to do. If there's something you want to tell us, tell us now. And if something comes up, we're happy to chat with you about it.
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It depends on the depth that you're going to go, right? So it depends on the person.
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More importantly, it'll save you years. You can get back the money. You can't get back the time.
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And as long as you're willing to do it too. You can do it on me too, right? No problem. Go for it.
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That's very kind. That's wonderful. I'm so glad I touched you so much. Well, it looks like you made the right choice on the insurance because you did quite well selling your business. That's awesome.
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The story you told is not a complete story. What's missing is the time which they've been looking for him. His mother's not spoken to him in almost a year and a half. They've been trying to find him. The injury that he had. Also, what he was like in college. What actually happened after he went to prep school to college. Where he became radicalized. It's very obvious, right? He hated capitalism.
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He was able to hate capitalism. Think about this. Because he never went through the process of having to earn. Everything was given to him. So... he had everything he could ever dream of. So capitalism looks ugly to someone who's never trying to do it. There's these levels of spiritual development that you may be familiar with that Dr. Graves created back in the 60s.
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When it looked like the world was coming apart, he actually saw a pattern in humanity as a whole. And he saw a pattern in our evolution of our spiritual development, not religious development, but spiritual development. And he saw it as an evolution of caring. Like we all start out caring about ourselves.
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You say as a baby loving, as long as you give them what they want, otherwise they scream, right? So there's these stages and they develop colors. I learned this from Nelson Mandela. It was one of the things they used to turn South Africa around so they wouldn't look at somebody and go, they're a white person. No, are they red? Are they blue? Are they at these color combinations?
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Because there were technical words for them. But I'll just give you an example. Survival is beige. It's like your stimulus response. That's not most humans, right? The first stage of development is purple. Purple is tribal. Tribal is like you look for protection from the tribe. There's many gods and they're very intense and you gotta make sure you honor them.
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Think of what a tribal environment is. But there are tribal environments in sports where guys wear the same socks or jockstrap when they're on a run to keep it on going. They're thinking that there's this thing I've got to do to be able to keep this magic, right? The next level is we evolve as we exhaust a level.
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So above purple is now red, where you're like, I don't want to just be in a position where other people tell me what to do. I'm the god. I'm the king. I'm going to make it happen. That's the warlord. That's the rock star that tears up the hotel because he can, and people come pay everybody off, right? That's a two-year-old, the terrible twos, where it's like, no, I'm in charge.
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This is how it's going to be. We all develop these stages. Past red, why do we leave red? Well, the warrior eventually finds there might be a bigger warrior, a more intense warrior. They're getting older. And how can I have significance in my life, the thing I want, Well, I need to have significance they have her after. So we go to blue. Blue is right, wrong, good, bad, religious, or the army.
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The rules are very clear. You do this and this and this, you get a gold star. This and this, this, you go to heaven. You do this, you go to hell. It's very black and white. And people that live in that consciousness make all decisions like this. And you'll begin to recognize these. People evolve out of blue eventually because they're like, you know, I'm tired of someone else telling me how it is.
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I don't know the Pope is going to tell me. I want to test it. You move to orange. That's science. That's business. That's where you say, I'm going to test it and figure out what's right. Orange people say, you know what? It's not a hierarchy someone else telling me. I'm going to test and find what really works. That's science and business. That's most of middle business America. There's green.
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Green is somebody that now says, no, the most important thing is not hierarchy. Like orange, you get hierarchy by performance. That would be like your businesses. Green is no, we're a circle. It's egalitarian. Everything's equal. We make the decision to the same. We're all together. Yeah. Well, it's socialism at its extreme, but it can just be people that are socially conscious, right?
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Who care, who they're loving. Each level of consciousness eventually bumps into its limits. Then there's yellow, where yellow is, I can use all these levels, depending upon what I need.
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Yes.
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Fair, everything equal, civil, right.
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Yellow is where you're an integrator, where you think, because if I asked you which one of these is most important, Green people say green's most important. Orange people say green people can't get anything done because they try to make a decision with a circle. We're most important. Blue people say we know the rules. You guys are violating God.
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So when you understand these distinctions, and I'm doing very fast right now. Where's the goal to be, though? Where do you want to be? Your goal should be able to integrate them all. There's an ultimate level above that, which they call turquoise, which is where you feel everything, every creature, every human. Think of it this way. We evolved from focusing on ourselves.
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to eventually, we're ethnocentric, we care about our circle. On the block, you can't just get what you want, now you gotta please the other kids to get along, right? Or other Christians, or other Jews, or other Muslims, or whatever it is. Then we evolved to, no, everyone's our customer, and we're gonna please everybody, orange. We evolved to green as we're all equal, right? We're all the same.
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When someone is at this yellow stage, they go, well, each of these have their place. Sometimes blue is the right thing. If we're in a fire and I'm in a room of 20,000 people, I'm probably going to go red to direct, get people the hell out of the building. If I'm going to go be with a friend, I'm going to be green. I'm not going to be orange negotiating. You do this, I'll do that.
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That's not a friendship. So being able to flex these helps you. And you also understand why people get in conflicts then. Because you got somebody whose whole consciousness is we're all going to be the same, and someone else is like, without hierarchy, there's no biology. Like, what's more important, the atom or the cell? Which one?
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The organ or the individual?
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The individual or the community?
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The community or the planet?
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The truth is. You're using your evaluations of them, but the truth is if you take any chain out of the middle of this, it all doesn't exist.
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Here's where this is useful. If I'm talking with you and you keep going, this is right or wrong. I was just doing this seminar the other day and this person's like, this is right, that's wrong, this is how it is. All this tension, I can see they're in blue. If they've ever been to a higher level, maybe I can get them there.
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But I'm not going to get them there by saying, kumbaya, let's all be green. They're not going to respond to it. They know what's right and what's wrong. When you know where people are, that's when you're able to start. Listen, what makes you a leader?
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The ability to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, the actions of another person, ideally with integrity if you're going to be a positive leader, right? You can only do that if you understand to influence somebody, you got to know what already influences them.
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And so I'm studying all the things that influence them, what they value, what they need, what their fears are, what their strengths are, so that I can help them continue to grow in what they want for their life, not what I think they should have for their life.
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That's a great book. But what I want to tell you with him, for example, is to think about this.
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But here's what I want you to understand. He grew up in an orange environment. Can you go back to that? Orange is fatherless achievement. Grandfather sent a millionaire. He didn't have to earn it.
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So he never went through the stages of blue and orange. He got to go straight to green, which is everything's equal. This is unfair. And by the way, green, when it's not, imagine this. You can go to purple and feel everything. But you won't stay there unless you have a foundation. It's a momentary state. So here's where he is. He never built the orange. He took it for granted. So he goes to green.
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And by the way, he never really got over his red.
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Well, think of it this way. If you thought about Vietnam, there were a lot of people that were saying, I'm not going overseas. But the ones that shot people, burned down buildings, they were red pretending they were green. Because green is socially acceptable. This kid, there are a lot of people in green that are celebrating this kid killing people. They're red. Their psychology is red.
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They're pretending they're egalitarian, but they really are. I want what I want. I want it. Wow. But it's socially acceptable. It's the same way that people do.
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Is that what it is? Game culture or a two year old. Same thing. Or a rock star. Somebody it's like it's my way or the highway. I get what I want, whether it serves you or not. So those red people say, oh, you know, the company turned out, yeah, the company may have done some terrible things. I don't know the absolute numbers. I know all the details. I don't think anybody really does.
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But then you address that in a different way. That's what a court system's for. That's what legislation's for. That's what options are for of those natures. But this person actually, just cold-blooded murder guy, who has children and kids, and he's being celebrated by people. And by the way, the guy that actually was trying to save people's lives on the subway was treated like he was a criminal.
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That's how crazy our society's become, but I think it's balancing out. It sure feels like it.
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Yeah, well, it depends on whether or not they're wanting help at that stage. Mike is an example. I was called in with Mike when he bit off all of his ear. And they brought me in to make sure he didn't do it again. And Mike was a fan of my work, but thought I was here to help his wife at the time. So I tease him about it.
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So I've been put in really interesting situations throughout my life where I'm there. But the answer to the question is people have a nature. And the best you can is to help them to maximize their nature. Didier brought me in at one point years ago. It was one night. I went down, saw him. It was one of his big parties, one of those about to start.
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And he was telling me all the things that he was frustrated with. Because you remember, this guy has been driven. We have different needs. It's another typology. We need certainty. We need uncertainty, variety, or we don't feel alive. Too much certainty, you're bored. Too much uncertainty, you freak out. We need to feel significant, like we matter, like we're important to somebody.
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We need to feel the feelings of love and connection. We need to grow. We need to contribute. These six needs. But we're not all equal. Some people value certainty the most, and they live a very different life than somebody who wants variety. They're going to jump out of a plane. This person's never going to jump out of a plane, right?
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The most valued, the top two in our culture today are significance and certainty because of social media. Trying to be significant even if you're not, change your pictures, change your story. That's why young girls get on there and they have this comparison of something that's completely false and they get depressed because it's not real.
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Well, Diddy, when you're driven by, everyone needs significance, but when it's at the top of your list, you either have to lie to yourself or have to push yourself at unbelievably intense levels because you're always comparing. If love is your driving force, you're always connecting. If certainty is driving force, you're trying to keep things the same, which of course life isn't the same.
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Significance because the social media has become the number one drive, not only in men, it usually is for men because testosterone drives that. but also for women as well. And then we want certainty. Well, the only thing that's certain is change, right? You know, that's how it works.
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So most people are really unhappy today because they either have to lie to themselves or they have to admit and keep around themselves people they feel more significant than those people so they can feel important. Well, Diddy created all these businesses. He's an unbelievably talented musician and very good businessman.
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He created all this stuff, but he wanted to be the most significant, and his businesses were starting to get down, and he had so many businesses. So I came in and tried to show him that regardless of your business, you're going to be miserable as long as this is overvalued. Of course you want to be significant. You are significant.
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But demanding significance is different than becoming significant because you've contributed massively to a human being or because someone feels your love. When someone feels completely loved by you and respected by you, you tend to become significant in their life in some way, right? So it's like he wants to hit this target. He really wants to be loved.
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But like a lot of very famous people, this is the number one thing I hear in famous people, You know, I won the Academy Award, I did this whole stuff, and now they're so unhappy behind closed doors. And the conversations we have is they really wanted love, but they thought if I'm significant enough, I'll be loved. But now everybody wants something from you.
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I'm sure you experience this, I do as well, but I expect it, it's not a big deal. I love giving people what they want as much as I possibly can. If someone wants a picture, someone wants a conversation, I'm happy to do it, right? But when you're with your family, these people would say, am I with my family? The people interrupt our dinner and they come up and they just want what they want.
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They don't care. They don't even know who I am. Well, they thought by being significant, they get love. But by significant, they're just getting more demands and requests. And it makes them miserable. That's where he was at that stage. And I said to him, this is the things you'd have to make a change to do. I said, but I don't work with somebody that's not committed. So this is what it require.
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And he didn't do the things he said he would do. So I didn't take him on as a client. Now, if I took him on a client and then I found this out afterwards, the truth is I probably would have found out because it wasn't a hidden situation for anybody that was around him. So the answer to your question is it depends on where they are and what they need. I'm there to try to help wherever I am.
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I'm not there to try and take responsibility for everything the person will ever do in their life. For sure.
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But the media might try to do that, but that's the media. Like they did that to Mike. I mean, it's absurd.
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Because that's different, right? That's a business. Yes, very, very different. One was personal and the other was business. But Kanye, you know, Kanye is a very unique human being, to say the least. And the two of them have similar needs to be, you know, to do to be the best at what they are. Did he or Kanye and Kim? Yes, I understand. Okay. But I'm just saying they have similar need structures.
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Right. But they have different ways of meeting them. So you can become significant. Think about this. By working hard on anybody else and building the tallest building in town. Or you can blow up everybody else's building. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence. And now you have the tallest building. You're the significant one. You can tear other people down.
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Everyone meets their needs in different ways. So... Osama bin Laden and the policemen and firemen that gave up their lives, many of them on 9-11. They ran in the building knowing they could die. Why would they do that? Because their life was about service, contribution, and significance. But their rule to be significant was to be a hero.
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I'd be willing to sacrifice my life for a stranger to save a life. You look at a man that was one of, what, 25 children? I'm making the number up. I think it was 20 children that Osama bin Laden was one of 20 children. To get his father's attention was very, very difficult. He became significant overnight when he took his father's wealth, and he didn't do any battles.
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Well, when I look at people's lives and I say, what makes people successful? I love wickedly smart people. I love intelligence. But you and I both know there are a lot of very smart people that can't fight their way out of a paper bag. That is true. What I found is, in my own experience, is the number one ingredient is hunger.
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He brought that to Afghanistan. Boom, he went up. He developed the way to be significant as I don't need to take risks. I send other people to kill themselves. And guess what? If others kill themselves and it does damage, then I'm a significant man. You can meet your needs in positive ways or negative ways. So two things shape us. We all want the same needs.
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The difference is what are your top two? If your top thing is certainty, you're moving this direction. If your top is variety or adventure, you move in this direction. If you want significance, you're moving one direction. If you want love, you're moving another. And sometimes we have conflicts in these areas. But also, how do you get it? Do you get certainty by eating?
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Do you get certainty by doing drugs? Do you get certainty by working out hard and you feel great afterwards and you feel in control of your life? Do you get certainty by taking charge? You can meet your needs in positive ways, negative ways, or neutral ways. What I get people to see is... Change is never about willpower long-term. I got a lot of willpower. I know you do too.
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You wouldn't have done what you've done, but willpower is not enough. When you align your, your needs with something where you start saying by doing this, it makes me feel certain. And I got variety. I'm growing. Like think about your businesses. How many of your needs are met? How certain are you? You'll find a way to succeed no matter what.
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So you can go 50 hours a day in a 24-hour day if there was such a thing, and you will work incredibly hard because all your needs are met. It's not work. You're fulfilled. Now, tell me something you hate to do or you want someone else to do, you hire other people to do because you just don't want to do it.
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If somebody's got a hunger that doesn't go away, not a hunger to lose some weight for the summer. I'm talking about hunger to be more, to do more, to create more, to become something, to give something that matters. That kind of hunger that doesn't go away. That's what you see in like, I'm sure you know Richard Branson. He's a good friend, you know.
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So you got almost everything sub five, six, one, right? You're not going to have any drive to do that. No, but I can take somebody, for example, who loves the clean house and you hate to do it. And I can find out how they do it. Absolutely. Because they're certain because they've done it so much. They get variety because every time they do it, it's a new mess. It's a new person.
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They grow because they're listening to audio programs while they're doing it, audio tapes. The people that find a way to do something they love, they found a way to meet all, not always all, at least three to four of these needs. If they meet all of them, it's effortless. That's the same thing in a relationship.
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If you meet two needs in a relationship, one need in a relationship, you know the person. Two needs, they become a friend. Three needs, deep friendship. All six needs, you got to love slave. Because I've never seen anybody in a relationship, you know, I've dealt with hundreds of thousands of couples over the years, and you'll always hear the same thing. I gave her, I gave him everything.
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Everything except what they needed or they'd still be there because it takes two sides, right? And so I dig in and what you really find out, I've never heard anybody say, man, in this relationship, I feel so certain with her or him that they love me. We have so much surprise and variety. I mean, I feel like the most important person in the world.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I mean, we're so in love and connected and we're growing and we're contributing. I'm out of here. It doesn't happen that way, right? So when you understand needs, when something meets at least three of these needs, a belief, an emotion, a behavior, you become addicted to it. Whether it's a positive thing or a negative doesn't matter.
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No, no, no. But I like the way— I'm just trying to give you insights. No, I totally get it. So I want you to know for that young man, just going back to him for a second, he never built the infrastructure to be orange. He or his family? No, his family built it.
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Yes, he was very—there's zero question that he did not earn all the way through that. Did you ever read the book Ultimate Gift, Jim Stovall? No, not that one, no.
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Yeah. But the point is, so he went straight to green and then he's really red because he's undeveloped. And then he probably got both in school and then the problem in his back aggravated it all. And then he wanted... Listen to this. He's not a significant person now. His back hurts. He can't operate. He can't do the martial arts. He can't do these things. There's someone to blame.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And then he fixated, and people get fixated. How much of that blame is our educational system? Pardon me?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I'm not here to blame anything, but we both know that in the current educational system, at least Ivy League schools, there's this whole mindset of trigger warnings, this whole mindset of if someone doesn't agree with you, this whole idea of what is moral and what is not. I mean, I don't know what happened to sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
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Richard is 74 years old, and he has the same hunger as he did when he was 16, starting virgin in a crypt. You know what I mean? That's there. Anybody who has that component that's alive in them is going to succeed. And hunger, though, usually comes from not having things so well.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Like words are now violence. You know, if you ask Chris Rock, he'd say, if you think words are violence, no one has slapped the shit out of you on national television, right? He's like, words are not violence. I mean, but, but, but so now you hear some people like AOC saying, well, you know, they think denial is a form of violence. No, violence is violence. That is horrible. It's terrible.
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Because they've been trained to believe this, and they haven't had enough life experience yet, so they expect life to be the way they've been trained. And life is not that way, as you and I both know.
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Well, I think as parents, but I think most parents are so overwhelmed and they don't even know what to do. They're barely keeping their head above water. So to try to figure out what's going on with their kid, they don't know how, that's the sad part. So now we've given the government the ability to educate our kids and we can see what kind of job they've done. It's horrific.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
You go to Chicago or places like that and you've got 70% of the people that can't read and write at even a junior high school level. And so we're not preparing people anymore for this process. So the system has to change. And then we have universities now where there's one, it's supposed to be a place where you go and explore all kinds of thoughts.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But most of the professors, as you know, in most of these universities are extremely liberal. I'm not saying you shouldn't be liberal, but we need all points of view. I'm an independent personally. I voted on both sides of the aisle. Most of my life, I work with people on both sides of the aisle.
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But I think you've got to be able to have both sides that you understand so you can pick what makes sense to you.
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No, not with Betsy, no.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Of course. And I've already reached out on the mental health side and a couple of things.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I mean, I come from an environment where I had four different fathers, and the common denominator I thought at that stage was lack of money because we had no money for food. But, you know, someone was interviewing me the other day. I just announced, you know, I started out early on when I was 11 years old. I had people come to my house on Thanksgiving. We had no money and no food, no food.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Well, I think we got there by trying to get efficient with the process of managing human beings that aren't managing through their life. We went to therapists originally, and then psychiatrists, not psychologists, became driven by basically the pharma business. I mean, it's pretty obvious what's there now. So, for example, on the cover of Newsweek two years ago,
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
There's an article, and I actually brought it here just in case you hadn't seen it. See, I think I have it in here anyway. I threw it in here. But the cover of it says, talks about how SSRIs, which is the drugs that we use for depression, they don't work. I left it on the helicopter.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
It says on the cover, 42 million Americans doing it, and meta-studies now show that a sugar pill is just as effective as SSRIs, and they don't have the downsides. Is this one? Yep. Hooked on hype. Hooked on hype. Yeah. There you go. As it say there, antidepressants work no better than sugar pills for most of the 43 million Americans who take them. We know that as a fact now.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
It's two years later and we're still giving this mass number of human beings on this earth these drugs that don't change anything. They just basically make them so they're numb. So remember I talked to you about those three decisions that you focus on? Let's do something with your audience that's practical for them right now because we're talking these highfalutin ideas.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Let's do something pragmatic. So we don't experience life. We experience life we focus on. Meaning what's wrong is always available, so it's what's right. Whatever you focus on, you feel, even if it's not true. If you imagine something horrible is going to happen, you feel it. You're in your body, right? So focus equals feeling.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Focus equals reality to the individual, even though it's a reality in actuality. We decide, every moment we're deciding what to focus on, but most of us don't decide consciously. It's based on habit. So we're not in control, but we can consciously choose what to focus on. When we decide what to focus on, our brain has to come up with a meaning.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Like we said, the end of the beginning, loving me or dissing me, whatever the case may be. And that affects your emotions, which decides the third decision. What am I going to do? Let's start with focus. Let's take three patterns of focus for your audience. If I asked you, and I think I know with you, it'd be pretty simple, but which of these do you tend to spend more time in?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
We had crackers and peanut butter. That's what we would have had. But, you know, Thanksgiving, I was having a big feast. So it really makes it pretty daunting. And my parents were saying things to each other that you can never take back. And I have a younger brother, five years younger, younger sister, seven years younger. And I'm trying to make sure they don't hear this.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Do you tend to focus more on what you have or what's missing?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
That's right. And when I ask most audiences that I have, I have 20,000 people in the stadium, the majority of them are achievers and the majority of them focus on what's missing. Now, since COVID, during COVID, almost everybody was focused on what's missing because many things were taken from them. So now I want you to think about this.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
If you constantly focus on what's missing, it'll make you keep pushing, but it's very hard to sustain deep levels of happiness because you're all focused on what's missing. And so you're an overachiever, so you can still stack those enough to still feel good. But for most people, they go, it's missing. I'm missing the love of my life. I'm missing this. I'm missing that.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
That puts them in a state of frustration, anger, sadness, or ultimately depression. Now let's take a second one. Do you tend to focus more? I'm sure I know what the answer on this one is. Do you have more on what you can or can't control? All of us focus on both things, right? But which one do you focus more on, can or can't control?
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And you know what that produces? Anxiety, fear, frustration, high stress, anger, right? Yep. Third question, which, and by the way, most people in my events tend to focus on what they can control 100%. That's why they come. They come because they want to take control. They want more skills. They're hungry to driven, right? But the average person, boy, I can't control.
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And this knock comes to the door. And I opened the door and there's this tall guy holding two giant bags of groceries. And then on the floor, on the ground, he had this uncooked frozen turkey in a pan that he'd obviously carried up there first. And he said, is your father home? And I'm like, just one moment, right? And so I run to get my dad. They're screaming at each other. I said...
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And that's why so many people, we have so much mental health problems because kids now think the whole world's going to end in 12 years because the ecology is going to fall apart, which is a total lie. We all know it's a lie. But when you believe that, I don't even want to have a kid. I can't do anything. Total anxiety. So now how do you treat that? Well, I'll give you one more.
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Do you tend to focus on the past, the present, or the future? We all do all three. Where do you spend more time? For me?
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I know. Yeah. And that makes you successful because you can anticipate. Most achievers focus on the future. The happiest people focus on the present. I agree. I totally agree. So the key is flexibility. If you focus on the past, you can't change it. Unless you're focused on something wonderful, which most people don't, that's not where you want to spend your time. So watch this.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I'll ask a room of 20,000 people, stadium, and I'll say, okay, how many of you in this room, we've gone through these three, how many know somebody that takes antidepressants and they're still depressed? 90% of the room raises their hand. Do you know somebody who does that? Many. Many. How is that possible? Because the drug does not change anything.
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What changed my life was finding that part that's inside of all of us that will not give up.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
All it does is numb you and has massive side effects, including suicidal thoughts. On the other hand, what is really going on? What's going on is they're constantly focused on what they can't control. They're constantly focused on what's missing. They tend to focus more on the past or a future that they think they can't control. And it puts them there.
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Until you change the cause, that doesn't go away. So watch this. During COVID, we had the most expansive mental health challenges ever. We had the most overdoses, the most abuse of alcohol and drugs that we've ever seen in the history of this country. People were trapped. They didn't know what to do. They had the worst thoughts. Everything seemed like it's going to be forever, and they're there.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Stanford comes to me and says, we had two professors that came through your Date with Destiny program. Both were clinically depressed. And now they don't have any symptoms of depression. They're not taking any drugs. How is this possible? So I start to explain what we do where people, they change their own values, rules.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
They change it so that it's easy to feel good, hard to feel bad, where they're in control instead of reacting to the environment, right? It's a six-day immersion process that changes your conditioning. You do it. I don't tell you what to do. You do it. I show you how. And they go, well, do you have any data on the results of this?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I said, well, yeah, I got hundreds of thousands of graduates and letters. And they said, no, like scientific data. I said, no, but if you want to do a study, let's do it. They said, we'd love to study depression. I said, great. I said, tell me what the base is. Like right now, current treatments, what's the average? Well, meta studies, you won't believe this,
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Money Studies, Patrick, show that 60% of the people that get treatment with drugs and or therapy, 60% make zero improvement for depression. 40% improved. The average improvement, according to meta studies, is 50%. So they're half as depressed as they were. They still feel terrible. Now, some people get well, but very few.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Most stay on medication for years and years and years and side effects of that. I said, that'd be easy to beat with a placebo, in my opinion. He goes, yeah, maybe right. I said, I guarantee we'll build that. I say, I guarantee you'll do the measurement. And I said, but what's the best that's ever happened? What's the best result in the history of psychiatry? It was a John Hopkins six years ago.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
They took people and put them for 30 days on psilocybin, magic mushrooms and cognitive therapy. I said, 30 days of mushrooms and therapy. I mean, you got to get a change out of that. They said, Tony, it's the most powerful change we've ever seen. Six weeks after the month of this treatment, 54% of people had no symptoms whatsoever. Depression. There's nothing like in the history of psychiatry.
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the door's for you. He goes, you answered. I said, I answered. He has to speak to you. Who is it? I don't know. And I'm just as a little boy, right? 11 years old, just like waiting to see his face thing. It's going to be the happiest moment in our lives. And my dad opened the door and he was not a happy man. He said, we don't take charity. And he just went to slam the door in the guy's face.
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I said, our target is to beat that. I think we will, but that sounds probably like hyperbole when you hear it, but I think you'll see we're changing the cause. So it should be much better than that. Let's see. They set up the study. They mirrored the example of the opposite group. Like they did for the group in Johns Hopkins. We had six days, no drugs, no individual therapy.
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And at the end, they followed up with them six weeks later. 93% of the people had zero symptoms whatsoever of depression. The 7% were left made significant improvements. And 17% came in with suicidal ideation. And not one person had suicidal ideation at the end of six days. That's it. They followed up a year later. 71% decrease in negative emotions. 52% increase in positive emotions.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Stanford's saying now they have two other studies they're doing now. A year-long study on engagement in business, because engagement equals EBITDA, as you know, right? So the changes that you can make are amazing. Now, how do we make those changes? They're like, how is this possible? They followed me for three years. They put this device on me. It's a $50,000 device that measures everything.
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They took my blood at every break. They took my saliva. They checked your hormonal balance, and here's what they found. They've done this with Tom Brady, our mutual friend. They've done it with some of the top teams that win over and over again, like the Lightning, the hockey team. And they measured something and found something interesting.
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The teams that win again and again are able to deal with stress in a unique way because Tom Brady's down by 10 points. It's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and he comes back to win. In two minutes left, how does he do it? His testosterone surges to just gigantic levels. Now, testosterone gives you unbelievable focus and drive, and it makes you remember everything.
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If I said, where were you on 9-11? Everyone remembers where they were. 8-11, you don't remember anything. The difference is information without emotion is not maintained. But that level of intensity, you retain it. That's why a year later, people are still shifted. But secondly, usually when you get testosterone, you get a lot of cortisol. That's the stress hormone.
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For these people, their testosterone surges, the cortisol drops through the floor. So all they have is this centered focus power that doesn't hold them back. Every time I get on stage, I go into that biochemical, they call it the championship biochemistry, but here's what's really interesting. Then they started measuring my audience. They did it live, and then when COVID happened,
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Imagine this, my whole thing is doing events all over the earth, Australia, London, everywhere we go, stadiums full of people. And in March of 2020, the governor of California calls and says, guess what? Sorry, you can put a hundred people in the stadium. I'm like, no, no, no, no. 14,000 people, no. All right, we're going to Vegas. They'll never shut down Vegas.
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And the guy had, you know, leaned in slightly. So it hit his shoulder and bounced off. And that made my dad even more frustrated. And he said, sir, sir. I said, I'm just the delivery guy. You know, Everybody has tough times and somebody knows you're having tough times and they want you to have a great Thanksgiving with your family. And my father said, we don't take charity and went to do it again.
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A week before Vegas, they shut down Vegas. We're going to Texas. The governor says he's not going to bend. Texas is its own country. Two weeks out of that, 14,000 people shut down. We're going to do this in movie theaters. So let us put 10 people in the movie theater. We'll get 14 at a movie theaters. They can go locally. They'll have a big screen, big speakers, all this stuff.
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And they shut down the movie theaters. So I was like, how am I going to help people? It's like, I'm going to have to do something I never thought would be possible. I'm going to do this in their homes. I'm used to a stadium, rock and roll. We go 12 hours and people wouldn't sit for a three hour movie and they're out of their mind. Well, people that got dragged, they're out of their mind.
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How do I do that in their house? How do I do that if we're starting here at 10 a.m. and Palm Beach and I'm projecting and I got 193 countries, which is how we do it now. And I got guys in Australia that it's already midnight and they're going to go from midnight to one in the afternoon for four days and nights. And we lose 2% of the people on average, to give you an idea.
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I didn't believe that was possible. But they measured the people overseas. I created this way to do it, a studio. I can tell you the details anytime you want. But the bottom line is the engagement is so large, they sent people around the world and did their blood in real time, did their saliva. And they all, it looks like music. They start out and then they start mirroring me.
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You know, mirror neurons? They literally go into the same state of testosterone and the drop-off of cortisol, and that's why it sticks. It's a change in the conditioning in their nervous system. It's not just thoughts they thought, and that's why it's retained a year later with continued impact. So we have a scientific process. I've always known what it is, but now science is duplicating it.
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Now, here's what's interesting. That study was published last year in the Journal of Psychiatry, one of the top journals around. How many phone calls do you think I've gotten from anybody in that community? How many? Zero.
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Not a single one. There's no profit. But now with Bobby, you know, and Bobby gets so misaligned, I'm sure you know. I mean, Bobby just wants to have food that doesn't have chemicals that create cancer. He wants to make sure that if you're going to have a vaccine, that it's actually tested and safe. So, you know, I helped connect Bobby.
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I was one of the people that got him with Trump because I'm an independent. I just, I knew he wasn't going to win. He actually wanted me to be his VP. We spent the first month before anybody else. And I didn't choose to go that route because I don't want to be on one side or the other. I've always been to help people on both sides.
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I'd had interest. We spent a month talking about it. But in the end, I felt like it would make me one side or the other. I want to serve everyone. So I don't want to be a politician. In the future, you're not touching politics. I doubt it. I won't shut out anything. No, because you might change your opinion about something. But right now, that doesn't feel like it.
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But I want to support people on both sides of the aisle, like I always have, the right people on both sides of the aisle. So I connected him because the other side wasn't open. So it's like, if this guy wins.
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I didn't speak to him. He went and spoke to him. He tried to. He went to them. Well, you invited both of them, right? I think you did invite both of them to use my facilities. Right, to use the facility. I remember.
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Yeah.
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But the bottom line is, like, I'm not here to tell people who to vote for. I didn't say, here's who you should vote for. I brought both people. It's never been your style. It's just not – I don't think I'm – I'm not some celebrity telling you what to do. I'm here for you to do what's right, vote, and for you to educate yourself.
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And this time the guy, because he leaned in, his foot now got there and his foot hit the door and it bounced open. My dad's getting madder. And then the guy saw my father and, and saw me and he said something. I thought my father was going to punch him in the face. He said, sir, he said, don't make your family suffer because of your ego.
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And I'll do anything I can so you understand both sides on your terms, not my terms, right? But I brought him together with Bobby because – by Bobby with him because Trump really wanted to make a difference in this area. I mean, he made it clear he did. And so now he is. And now you've got Bhattacharya at the NIH and you've got Dr. Martin McCary who's at FDA. The squat is unbelievable. Yeah.
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And Dr. Oz, who's my friend as well, is going to run Medicare and Medicaid. You have all the guys that were being attacked who were telling the truth are now going to be in charge. So I think we're going to see a real shift.
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I've known him for about 25 years. He's not like my buddy. I've been hanging out with him or anything.
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Oh, yeah, and he spoke in my events. I gave him his first big event. He came in Philadelphia. He thought he was coming to speak to 400 people. I thought it was a big group. And we had 12,000 people. And he couldn't believe it. It was the first big crowd he did. And he wrote about it in his book, actually. It was like the first time. Now that's like his basic fundamental thing to doing.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
He loves it the most. But I watched him. His big piece of advice there was get a prenup. That was the first piece of advice he gave when he got up. He would say something like that.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
No, I do more than that. But I do a lot of them more where I'm not having to travel as much because I have my daughter. So I do a lot of them that are digital events.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Yeah, I do Palm Beach Convention Center. And some people go now because now we're no longer in that environment. So they'll do it online, some people, and other people come.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Gosh, I do probably, I have about 125 days a year versus maybe 150 versus it used to be.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And I can still see the veins on the side of my father's face. I mean, neck. I thought for sure he was going to punch him. And he took the food, didn't say anything, threw it on the table and slammed the door and never said thank you. And I tell you that story because it changed my life. Because I believe there's, I didn't know it then. I figured out later because I had to.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Well, as I said, when COVID happened, I had to figure out how to serve people. And I thought, they're stuck at home. Let me eliminate every obstacle they have. It's travel. It's money. It's time. So I don't want to just do like an hour someplace. But I want to do something in their home. So I built this studio with 20-foot high ceilings, 25-foot high ceilings. And I built 20-foot high LED screens.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And I did 0.67 highest resolution, built it all around, built this software so that people can use their phone instead of clapping. So if one person does it, you barely hear it. But when 25,000, it goes crazy. And then I said, I'm going to go do a free seminar for three days where I'm going to give them the tools right at the beginning of the year here in January to change their life.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Because everybody in the beginning of the year, we have this artificial thing, new year, new life. It feels good. It's totally made up, but it's nice. It gives you momentum potentially. But what most people do is set some New Year's resolutions and they're broken by the 1st of February. So what we do is have people create a path. So it's about two and a half, three hours every day for three days.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
It's coming up on January 30th, 31st, and February 1st. It's my last, I've done four of them roles. It's my last one I'm doing. There's no charge for it whatsoever. It's not partially free. It's totally free. You can attend from any country in the world and you can bring it, you can do it at home. You can do your office with your coworkers. You can do it at home with your family or friends.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
But at the end of three days, you're going to have a path for this year and you're going to know what stopped you in the past. Like, what do you really want? What's gotten in the way? Has it been certain fears and we're going to get rid of them? Has it been some limiting beliefs or stories? Is there a skill you're missing? Is there a habit that's getting in the way?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And then you're going to put together your plan and then we're going to help you create momentum. And then you're also part of a community. You know, we started the first year with 300,000 people. The second was 800,000. Last year was 1.1 million people from 193 countries. Every country in the world.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Imagine it'd be 20 stadiums full of people for three days in a row that are going and changing their life. And then... Every night, there's no charge for it, but my charge is you got to do some homework here. So I know you're doing it. And then they put it on Facebook or they put it on other pieces. And I go and watch them, the videos. I mean, I'm up all night long.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, seeing people make these gigantic changes. You know, a woman who was watching on a phone. She'd been kicked out of her house sleeping in her car. And everybody's helped her out. And now she's got two different jobs. She's doing what she loves.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
A guy that just got out of prison, couldn't see his daughter, you know, because he was so intense before. Now he's back with his daughter. A guy that was having trouble in his business. Now he's growing his business to $50 million. Was doing $3 million just three years ago. All from just this one event. So if you want to go, you go to timetorisesummit.com.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And just get yourself registered and come and attend. And we'd love to be able to serve you. And we're going to just this time for this year. Okay, Rob, can you put the link below as well?
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Yes, please.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
My father left our family about two weeks after that. And to me, that was, he had four fathers, but he's the one who adopted me. He's the one whose name I carry. He's the one I love the most, quite frankly, had the most time with. It's the most inspirational for me, but he left. And why do you leave? Because there's three decisions we make every moment of our lives.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
What a cool thing.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Oh, that's ridiculous.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I don't need it. I mean, you're so kind to do that. It's beyond kind. I don't need it.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Because I have my underwater. Yeah, I have a.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
No, that is unbelievably generous. In my home, I actually got into playing, as I shared with you, playing sports. And one of them that I started playing was I was really playing racquetball, and I got into squash. And it's like I have this big home, and I'm like – You can't build a squash court here. And I said, yes, we can. We're going to go down. I said, you can't go down.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
The water's on this side, the intercoastal, and the ocean's on this side. It's below the water table. And I said, have you ever been to Atlantis? Have you ever been to Scripps? I said, we'll build it. They go, they'll never get approved. I said, the people here in this town are my fans. We'll get it approved. We thought it'd take a year and a half. It took three years.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
So we have 8,000 square feet underground of... Bowling alleys and basketball and all this stuff for my kids and grandkids. And I actually was going to an auction, and then I was in a seminar, so I couldn't complete it. And I had an auction for one of the suits like this. So that's why I was admiring it. That is so crazy. Well, it's yours now.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful that you're out there. I'm grateful that you tell the truth. So very few people are willing to tell the truth. Everybody's trying to position themselves. And one of the things I really respect about you is that, as well as, it's one thing to talk a good game, but you and I both have lived it.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And when you produce results and you speak, there's a different conviction than something you read about or heard about. And so I really honor you. PBD. Thank you. Thank you.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I really respect you, and I look forward to our friendship growing.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
The first decision we're making is what are we going to focus on? Right now, there's millions of things we could focus on. People listening could be focused on what they're doing, what we're saying, whether it matters or not, you know, a million things, right? But we only focus on a small band of things. And whatever we focus on, we experience in life.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And so the first decision, what to focus on, I know what he focused on. He focused on that he had not fed his family because he kept saying it. But then the second decision you make, as soon as you focus on something, is you give it a meaning. Is this the end of the beginning? If you think it's the end of a relationship, you're going to behave very different than the beginning.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I had huge drive because I just wanted to be more. I didn't want to settle. I looked at our family and all the pain that I saw my mother go through and we would go through and I was like, I'm not going to have a future like that. I'm going to find some way to do more. You're not one of the best. You're the best in your space. I'm here to help the people that are interested.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
Is this person dissing me? Are they challenging me? Are they coaching me? Are they actually loving me? Whatever meaning you create produces emotion, and those emotions control your third decision, which is, what are you going to do? And I tell you that because he focused on didn't feed his family. The worst part was the meaning. The meaning for him was, you know, I'm worthless.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And he decided to leave our family. That day I had a very different experience. I focused on there was food. What a concept. But then secondly, the meaning is what changed my life. It's why I'm sitting here right now. The meaning I got was... wow, strangers care. My father always said, you know, we grew up in an environment on the other side of the tracks, quite literally.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And, you know, I thought it was a wealthy community. It was a lower middle-class community, but compared to us, they were wealthy. And my dad would always say, no one cares. And it's like, I had evidence that, that someone cared so much and they didn't even want credit. They fed my family. And so it's like, if strangers care about me and my family, I'm gonna care about strangers.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And I made a decision right then at 11 years old, I'm gonna feed people when I get older. And so when I was 17, I fed two families and it was so emotionally rewarding. Then I went to four and eight, then I got to a million, then I got to 4 million, 2 million from my foundation, 2 million from me.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
And then in the last 10 years, about eight years or 12, 10 years ago, I started, it took me eight years. I said, I'm gonna provide a billion meals here in the United States. And we did that in eight years, I'm proud to be. 100 million meals a year I did through Feeding America as my partner. And all that came, to answer your question, because of the turmoil, as you described it.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
In other words, I said to someone the other day, I don't know. We're not only fed a billion, but now, because of the war in Ukraine, most people are unaware of it. The news doesn't even talk about it. But that's the breadbasket for most of Africa. So there are 11 nations that are on the realm or on the edge of famine. And then, you know, we need, obviously, fertilizer.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
50% of the world's food comes from fertilizer. The WF doesn't want people to use it, but we need it. And because of the war, most of it comes from Russia. So the price has gone through the roof. So normally there's 80 million people a year that are on the verge of starvation. This year it's 350 million. And so I decided, I met with the head of the food program for the UN.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
It was a gentleman here that was Unbelievable. And what he'd done, he won the, what I said, the Nobel Prize two years ago for feeding people. So he and I joined together and created 100 billion meals. I said, how many do we need to bridge the gap? He said about 70 billion. I said, let's do 100 billion meals in 10 years. I did a billion. I wasn't a billionaire when I started.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
I said, so I've grown, obviously, to make that happen. But all we need is 99 people like me and we can do this, right? And so we went out to do it and we announced a few days ago, we had 30 billion meals already in the first two years. Most people thought it would be totally impossible. So we're going to make that happen. But here's what I wanted you to get.
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“BIGGEST MISTAKE Of My Career” - Tony Robbins $125 Million Loss, Trump Relationship & NLP Secrets
If I was a well-fed child, do you think I'd be working this hard? I know, you know, I'm proud to be a good human being. I believe I'm a good human being, but I don't think I would have that same drive. So I think hunger often comes, not always, often comes from having gone through enough pain. Like I've suffered enough. I don't want somebody else to suffer.
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Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
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Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
I can't skip. It's Daily Mail, so we're pulling straight from their website.
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Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
Five seconds. Fifteen, but yet close.
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Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
2016, March of 2016. Okay.
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“Poilievre Is Afraid!” – Maxime Bernier: The Truth About Trudeau, Carney & Canada’s PM Election | PBD Podcast | Ep . 564
2015.
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“Poilievre Is Afraid!” – Maxime Bernier: The Truth About Trudeau, Carney & Canada’s PM Election | PBD Podcast | Ep . 564
250,000.
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“Poilievre Is Afraid!” – Maxime Bernier: The Truth About Trudeau, Carney & Canada’s PM Election | PBD Podcast | Ep . 564
Sie haben es gerade herausgefunden. Das ist eine Schicht, die zeigt, dass von 2001 bis 2021, in 20 Jahren, die muslimische Bevölkerung in Kanada mehr als doppelt ist, von 2,0% bis 4,9% auf der ganzen Welt. Wie war das mit dem Krimi in Kanada? Ich bin interessiert.
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“Poilievre Is Afraid!” – Maxime Bernier: The Truth About Trudeau, Carney & Canada’s PM Election | PBD Podcast | Ep . 564
2015.
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“Poilievre Is Afraid!” – Maxime Bernier: The Truth About Trudeau, Carney & Canada’s PM Election | PBD Podcast | Ep . 564
Yep, it says up in the top corner, March 20th.
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“Poilievre Is Afraid!” – Maxime Bernier: The Truth About Trudeau, Carney & Canada’s PM Election | PBD Podcast | Ep . 564
338.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
The debates. When we did the debate watch party.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
So I have a full news article, but it's about four minutes long. I also have this clip of DeSantis. It's about ten seconds long, where he talks about the raises for law enforcement officers.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
This is footage of the shooter on the campus.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
This is students hiding in a classroom as police are going around banging on the doors. The students didn't know whether or not to answer the door, so they hid and opened up their cameras.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
Kalahasi-Polizeichief.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
Nein, gib mir eine.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
5.78.
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China ATTACKS U.S., FSU Campus HORROR & Kilmar Abrego-Garcia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 578 | LIVE @ The Boardroom
This is the door being opened from the inside.
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"Khomeini Became A MONSTER" - Islamic Revolutionary Guard Founder CONFESSES How They Destroyed Iran | PBD Podcast | Ep. 548
77, 78?
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"Khomeini Became A MONSTER" - Islamic Revolutionary Guard Founder CONFESSES How They Destroyed Iran | PBD Podcast | Ep. 548
Mika Brzezinski.
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"I'll Submit Him" – Ilia Topuria CALLS OUT Islam Makhachev, OPENS UP On Putin & Russia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 566
Yeah.
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"I'll Submit Him" – Ilia Topuria CALLS OUT Islam Makhachev, OPENS UP On Putin & Russia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 566
Go for it. He said, you know what, I want to go up to 155 pounds, fight the number one contender, and then if he wins that, then he fights Islam. I think that's good, brother. I think he deserves. I think if you move up and you beat somebody like Dustin Poirier or Charles Oliveira, He's next. Why not? Because there is nobody. So you don't think right now Ilya deserves a shot at 155 pounds?
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"I'll Submit Him" – Ilia Topuria CALLS OUT Islam Makhachev, OPENS UP On Putin & Russia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 566
Without fighting in 155? Without? No, I don't think. Because Islam already gives chance. And people talk bad about, like, oh, he fight two time with Volkanovski. But the UFC pushed this fight. And this fight was good in first fight. But why Islam have to give three time chance for 145 champion? Why? It's not fair for 155 pounds. Right, right.
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"I'll Submit Him" – Ilia Topuria CALLS OUT Islam Makhachev, OPENS UP On Putin & Russia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 566
I like Charles, but I think so too. I think Ilya can beat him.
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"I'll Submit Him" – Ilia Topuria CALLS OUT Islam Makhachev, OPENS UP On Putin & Russia | PBD Podcast | Ep. 566
Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point?
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"They Stole My Patents" - Terrence Howard RAGES On Tech Theft, Science Clash & Marvel Drama | PBD Podcast | Ep. 571
That's just how many, according to ChatGPT.
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"They Stole My Patents" - Terrence Howard RAGES On Tech Theft, Science Clash & Marvel Drama | PBD Podcast | Ep. 571
Do you have it, Rob? Yep, the necessity. And what would you like me to ask ChatGP to?
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"They Stole My Patents" - Terrence Howard RAGES On Tech Theft, Science Clash & Marvel Drama | PBD Podcast | Ep. 571
I can do that. It only allows you to upload 10 at a time. That's the biggest problem.
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"They Stole My Patents" - Terrence Howard RAGES On Tech Theft, Science Clash & Marvel Drama | PBD Podcast | Ep. 571
Yeah, I'm at about 21 different documents.
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"They Stole My Patents" - Terrence Howard RAGES On Tech Theft, Science Clash & Marvel Drama | PBD Podcast | Ep. 571
$10 million up front.
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"They Stole My Patents" - Terrence Howard RAGES On Tech Theft, Science Clash & Marvel Drama | PBD Podcast | Ep. 571
To Robert Downey Jr. as well as back-end deals tied to the film's performance. And then for the third one, a salary of $10 million with total earnings reportedly reaching $50 million, which include profit participation. Man.