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DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick are joined by comedian Bryan Callen as they cover the DOGE dividend checks, Trump upsetting Zelenskyy with calls for a Ukranian election, and Jair Bolsonaro being charged in a poisioning plot of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.-------🖥️ REGISTER FOR THE MINNECT CIRCLES ECONOMY: https://bit.ly/4hVTkPK📺 VOTE ON TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS:https://bit.ly/4gXLioq👕 GET THE LATEST VT MERCH:https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY":https://bit.ly/41rtEV4📰 VTNEWS.AI: https://bit.ly/3OExClZ🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/4g57zR2🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS:https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and special guest of this episode?
All right, so it's great to be with you guys here. Episode 549, we just got back from Brazil, and one of our favorite people in the world is on the podcast today. He's kind of a big deal, very famous. He said he wanted to make sure we knew about this when we came here. He's fantastic to be around on camera, off camera. Brian Callen, it's great to have you back.
It's good to be here, my brother. My home away from home.
Every time he comes, it gets a little bit more suited. This is a suit for him. He's got a three-piece suit on. For him, that's a three-piece suit. It is. By the next, I think, seven podcasts from now, he may have like a nice suit. I want to wear a vest. I want the whole thing, bro.
Every time I see you, a little part of me dies. I got to start dressing better. I need bespoke shoes with a patina sheen. And I want my suits tailored to my body.
We're going to introduce you to this company called Stefano Ricci, and then we'll get you.
Just to be able to say, this is Stefano Ricci.
Yeah.
And I'll say Stefano. Stefano. This is Stefano Ricci. Why? What's the problem?
You need to see Julian. Technically, I've been corrected.
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Chapter 2: What are the DOGE dividend checks?
Chapter 3: How does Trump plan to influence Ukraine's elections?
Because I'm going to come to you first. Because I'm thinking about this. Because we should pay it off.
One million percent. So I like where you went, by the way. You went straight to a person taking candy. Hey, we're getting a big return. Let's buy Xbox. Let's buy video games. No, no, no. Let's pay off the debt. Pay off the debt. Yes, you're thinking the right way, Tom. Yeah.
Well, I think this is a great idea. And unlike the government that was sending us relief checks during COVID, and some people were getting checks that didn't really need them or deserve them, you notice what they said here. To all taxpaying units, married filing jointly, $5,000. Individual, $5,000. And they were very specific about it in the follow-up.
And I think this is a great idea because it sends a message to America. This was your money. And it's coming back to you because we found out where it went and we're going to rebate you. It's a message to America. People say it's buying votes. No, it's not. He's in his second term. People say, oh, you're trying to stimulate the economy because.
You're not going to have double Social Security checks going out to people, and those double checks can't buy goods and services. So we're in a risk of recession if too much – because that's one of the arguments, right? We could have a recession if Doge finds a lot of money that we're flowing illicitly to citizens running scams, and all of a sudden that money stops buying plane tickets.
Disneyland, booze, all these things. That's a tricky argument. It's a very tricky argument, but it's an argument that's being made. Yeah. No, you could cause a recession. You know, let people commit fraud. And I look at it and say, wait a minute. I think this is a positive message for the American. The second part I look at is I'm ready for Chapter 2, and I don't think we can debate it.
We can suppose. But Chapter 2 is going to be, okay, what are some long-term –
deficit to get closer to a balanced budget and what is the long-term now pay down that debt and we got an awful lot of oil and we're about to be the number one oil producer in the world if we aren't already we are based on a projected reserve basis and we could be just having extraction taxes on our own oil and that tax goes back to paying down our debt
There's a lot of ways it could go in there to paying it down. But to your first question, Pat, I love this. It sends the right message to America. It was your money. It was wasteful. And here's some coming back to you.
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Chapter 4: What are the charges against Bolsonaro and their implications?
I said, so it wasn't reserved. No, she's on the phone acting like she can't hear. I said, before I leave, did you just hear what your boss said? The boss says what he says to her. Oh no, I was trying to sit you whatever. I said, no, no. And then Jennifer comes. No, you know, Jennifer is very chill. No, you told us that table was reserved. That table's not reserved. Anybody can sit there.
And then she said, well, I apologize. Guess what? She reminds me of employees that work at the DMV.
Oh, yeah.
Because some people that have that power, they just want to use it.
Yeah, that's right.
The fact that they're firing all these people in the government that treat our customers like shit, let's see how you make it in a free market enterprise. Let's see how you do. By the way, flip side, we go to this restaurant called the French Steak whatever.
Dirty French. Dirty French. In Miami. In Miami.
Brickle. Waiter comes. Francisco was a basketball player. Came to the States at 16 years old. He was going to be an NBA player at 16 years old. Mexican falls in love. Incredible service. When I tell you royal treatment, I cannot even tell you how they treated us over there.
From the guy at the front on Valentine's that had a red jacket on, from the guy that kept bringing us the drinks, from the lady that would bring us all this stuff. Francisco got a 10. He said, Patrick, can you please give me some love? Francisco, you were amazing. I went to the bathroom. There was a whole thing that said a girl had left a message. I heart Adam.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding the Social Security fraud?
Yeah, so anyways, for me, it's about the pride. Look, they're going to make a lot of money. The game's a great game, and they deserve to make a lot of money because the teams are making a lot of money. But the NBA product absolutely sucks. All in all, you know what the message is? Tonight, Canada, U.S., Boston. Tonight, Canada-US-Boston.
8 p.m. Eastern? My show at the Miami Improv. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Well, I mean, cocky's fun, but Brian Callen for an hour? No, no, forgive me. Do you believe in miracles? You know what I'm saying? Brian Callen is performing at the Miami Improv. How dare we even compare USA against Canada? Maybe you'll come out. Maybe you'll come out, for God's sake. Are you performing tonight?
Tonight, two shows tomorrow, two shows Saturday. Take your pick. I roll out the red carpet. You come to the green room. We laugh. We hug.
Do I get free water?
You get free water. You get to laugh hard for at least an hour and seven minutes.
You've never seen me work. Just to clarify, the game, the first game was in Montreal, and they were booing, and Trudeau was in the audience, you know, alpha male Trudeau.
Did you know, I'm almost in my mind thinking about finding a way to go to Boston tonight to be at that game. I want to go to this game. I'm just thinking, I haven't been in the freaking country for four days.
It's going to be, it's tonight at 8 p.m. Boston's going to be crazy. Didn't you take Dylan to the game seven of the Stanley Cup when they won the Florida? Too loud for him.
It was the loudest game I've been in my entire life. The only thing that comes closer is the Kentucky Derby. If you've never been to the Derby, have you ever been to the Derby in your life or no? Let me tell you.
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