Kind: captions Language: en Religious and ethnic clashes in Spain turn bloody. Galain Maxwell wants to testify before Congress about the Epstein list. Three minutes of footage were edited out of the Epstein video. Katherine Bole calls out Apple and American VCs for teaching the CCP America secrets. And Grock's wife is flirting with Super Grock users. Drew, let's start at the top. Spain is going crazy. I can't even describe what's happening right now. There was a migrant attack on an old man that triggered a riot that triggered a protest that now just triggered it's almost like a gang war where anti-immigrant riots are now attacking migrant gangs. Um it's quickly like unwinding. >> You were going to see this all over Europe. Th this is a problem. For better or worse, cultures are distinct. They have a flavor. And when you bring people into your country that do not share your values, you are going to have collisions. And this has been so weird to watch this unfold as if people have no sense of what the human mind is like that we are like schools of fish. We look for people who think like us, who act like us, who look like us. >> And if you don't do any of those things, like there's going to be a clash. We have an algorithm running in our brain for in-group outgroup. And when you let people flood in that have different values, that's the one that I think is always going to be the most problematic far more than looks different. when you let people flood in that have different values, you are going to have a collision. >> Is this something though that maybe there are some bad apples that are ruining the whole bunch? Because I'm not I'm sure the 100,000 people that flocked into Spain didn't all attack this old man, but it was a couple of young, stupid, unemployed bums that attacked this and then now >> other people are catching it. Or is it >> Yes, it's always going to be a small number of people, but the real thing to focus on is when you have a difference of values, nothing else matters. So it just becomes a question of on what timeline and at what mass of people does this become an issue. You will get difference in values between men and women. And so you get friction in the workplace because men think and act one way, women think and act in another. There's tons of overlap but you get these divergence. We went through all of that with the me too movement where it was just like this wild like all of a sudden you realize that people are living life through a totally different frame of reference than you even though you grew up the same and all of that. So that alone can create this sense of like oh wow like we're looking at things view a skew from each other and it's not quite lining up. And so when you get that playing out on like religious levels because religion really is the grand organizing principle. It is a thing where I don't need to know who you are. Oh we celebrate the same religion. We believe in the same God. We could have met grown up thousands of miles apart. 5,000 years ago. And we meet and we share a religion. And now we connect. And it allows groups to come together flexibly in gigantic numbers in a way that even nation states don't get to the superordinate level that religion gets to. And so when you throw people together that clash over religious values, you are going to have a problem. You don't even have to look farther than the US. watching the Mormons rise in the US and the way that they kept moving, moving, moving because they were being relentlessly persecuted everywhere that they would try to put up roots, they would come under attack. And so finally, Joseph Smith ends up getting lynched in jail. It's a crazy story. Bringham Young then takes over and Brigham Young becomes the like violent guy that you need that every religion ultimately needs that just finally one day lays down the law and says, "No, no, no. we don't run anymore. Like we're we are setting up the American Zion right here and good luck if you're going to try to come [ __ ] with us. And that's religion. People will fight for it. They will die for it. They will kill for it. And so when you put people in close quarters in an economically strained situation, which all of Europe is going to be, because when you have socialist democratic principles and you allow god knows how many millions of immigrants come into your country, that's going to strain your economic setup. And so now you've got the tinder box where people don't look at their future and think, "Oh, this is going to be better for my kids than it is for me. It's going to be better for me tomorrow than it is today." And without that and then you have these tensions, you're going to see this fight. You're going to see it in the UK. You're I think you're already seeing it in Italy. Uh I think when you look at the stats in um Belgium, I'll be very curious to see what happens there because they've become so dwarfed in their own country, they're now the minority. So >> yeah, let's clip about the Belgium's population after immigration >> where this speech is. Where would you guess? And this isn't the shocking part of this video. This is Belgium. So, how many of you would have guessed Belgium? The shocking part of this video is I seen a statistic today. I thought it couldn't be real. Turns out it is real. 83.9% of people under 18 in Brussels, Belgium, are not are non Belgium. They're not from Belgium, either being born abroad or having no Belgium ancestry. 83 84%. >> That is wild. And so, look, this has all been caught up in the race debate. And so people are um people did not realize that you have to draw borders around your country >> in large part not just to protect the economics. So that is huge. But to protect the value system that otherwise you are going to get this weird um collision. Now America has been dealing with it for hundreds of years. So we maybe have a little more resilience to it uh to us. But we are still going to run into this problem. And the next 10 years are going to be a question to Americans. What do you stand for? What are you going to fight for? What are you going to allow? What are you not going to allow? And the Patrick Bet David, have you seen the episode that we just did? I don't know if you were in the other room listening, but uh so Drew and I just went to Florida, filmed with Patrick BD David. Thank you PBD. It was wonderful. What a gracious host. Lovely, lovely. But he said something in the interview that I was like, whoa. And he said, "We are going to have to in America make it illegal for somebody not of certain religions to run for office." >> One of the laws that I believe we need to create is in America, if you want to become a senator, a congressman, a mayor, you have to be a Catholic Christian. Really? You want to mandate that? >> Oh my god. If you want to bring your way of thinking from your country and Sharia law here, we can't do that. >> I'll be very interested to see people's reaction to that episode because I do think this issue is so important. But even I like was clutching my pearls when he said that. I was like, "Oh, snap." Uh I I take it a little differently because I I compare it the same thing with like the socialist policies. Everybody likes to point to Norway and Denmark and say, "Look, they could do these things over there. It works. We should do this in America." Their population is 8 million, 7 million. It dwarfs what our united collective like states are. So I am less bullish on the immigrants are coming in and they're going to take over our country. Yes, there are certain pockets of places where there was three farms and a farmer and now there's, you know, 10,000 migrants there. I understand that that country and that specific county demographic might shift, but I don't think on the grand scheme of America because we are this melting pot because there's so much mobility of international students and things like that. Do you really think that America is going to have that much of a seismic shift since it's kind of part of our cultural identity? >> Demographics are destiny and right now the birth rate of people that are native born Americans are absolutely plummeting. And um I don't know what the stats are on Hispanics, but I have to imagine they're really high. So they'll speak for the Catholic contingency. So they'll, you know, give us a a boost there from uh a Judeo-Christian ethnic perspective. But in terms of um whether we'll be outbred by another minority population, whether that's Muslims or anything else, that I don't know. We'll have to look at the stats. But the reality is if our birth rates are declining and another group's birth rates are on the ascendancy, they will just simply take over from a pure population standpoint. So the question becomes, did they come here because they want to assimilate to American values or do they come here and they want to institute um their own values that are anathema to currently how we think of America. So that that's going to have to play out. That is what we're going to have to look at. But I think people, this is going to be one of those things where people are just afraid to have an open conversation about is it okay to have our own values to say this is how we think the world ought to be statement of morality. This is how we believe the world ought to be and we're willing to fight for it or not. And when you look at um what's going on in Spain, when you look at what's going on in Italy, when you look at what's going on in the UK, you're starting to see more and more uh protests. The question becomes, do those protests turn into riots? We'll see. I I don't know how this is going to play out, but I do know that the traditional um sense of identity that a lot of these countries had have already been wildly diminished >> and will continue to be diminished and we just have to decide. Are we just like, "Yeah, it is what it is." >> And I'm I'm confused cuz when you say diminish, I I can't really quantify that cuz I'm thinking this is a populist moment and people are popularizing like this is what they're doing when they're in that moment. So, just like we're rallying about uh housing is too expensive, rent is too high, I'm mad, my job isn't paying me enough, I have all these other grievances, immigration is just the next grievance on that list. >> Y >> uh so if if this is just a factor of the moment, is it as simple as okay, if you as long as you're not Muslim, you can come to the country now, we're fine. Like is this are are we really trying to say that like what is the big fear that we have that is actually going to happen? Uh, from a big fear perspective, I think that that's probably a couple steps down the road already. What I'm saying is the conversation that needs to be had right now is what are the values that we believe America stands for? >> Okay, >> are we going to fight for those values? So, for instance, you can't run for president >> if you're not born in America. >> Okay, do we care about that? Do we want to change that or do we want to go more down PBD's lane of like, no, no, no, we want to make that even stricter. >> He seems to be going more towards the lens of religion is what matters. I'll take religion as a standin for values. >> So, obviously him being born in Iran, he's probably not in a super big twist about whether somebody was born in the country or not, but I bet he cares a lot about what their values are. That's going to be the debate. What are the values? What are we going to stand for? Because ultimately if we continue with open door policies, which obviously won't happen during a Trump administration, but when people go to consider their next vote, if this really gets on the table, and this is a really open conversation, and we say, "Okay, do we care about uh we want to recruit from a talent pool and what we care about are people that can contribute to the workforce?" That's my stance. I want what I call foreignb born Americans. I don't care what your religion is. I don't care what country you come from. I want to know that you believe in freedom, uh, freedom of expression, private property, that the things that made America great are what you want. You don't want socialist policies. You really want to see a separation of church and state. Like, there's a set of very definable characteristics. And I want to see us recruit the world's greatest talent. I will happily recruit Muslims. I will happily recruit people from Europe, from Asia. Literally, I don't care. But I do care about those values of freedom. So my markers aren't on a religious basis for what I hope are obvious reasons. I'm not religious, but I at the same time believe that part of the reason that America developed the theories of liberty that it developed are based on Christ. They're based on this idea that every individual human was made in the image of God. Even though I don't believe that's literal, I believe that it gave rise to a philosophy that has pulled more humans out of poverty than any other system ever in humankind. It gave birth to the scientific method because people were allowed to speak their minds and figure out what they really thought was true. So there's like all these knock-on effects that come from Christianity. >> I care a lot about some of those knock-on effects. So my sort of initial layer of analysis is are you a foreignb born American? So, do you believe in liberty, individual property, blah blah, all the things I just talked about? >> Um, are you some of the best and the brightest? Are you coming because you want a shot? You want to contribute? Not looking for handouts. Like, you really want to do something. You want to build something. You want to create. You want to work hard. Like, you've got that Puritan work ethic, which I'm here for. >> Uh, so that's going to matter to me. Other people, it's going to be, no, no, no. I care about race, right? Nick Fuentes seems to really care about race. weird to me, but really seems to be a thing that matters to him. >> Uh, other people care about religion a lot. Uh, and so that's what I'm saying is that debate needs to be had, needs to be had out in the open. People need to not be shouted down as bigots because as you import people into your country on mass, it will change the dynamic of your country. Now, we did that with uh Italian immigrants. Maybe it made the place better. We did that with Irish immigrants. Maybe it made it better. We are largely >> What do you mean we did that with Italian immigration? >> Back in the day, like during the uh post potato famine, Irish people flooded into America. >> Got you. >> Uh we had people flood into America from Italy. So there have been different times where we've brought Germans. Hey, Lord knows that I benefited from German and Dutch immigration. >> So it's like there have been different times where we have brought people that weren't of they weren't American, they weren't British. like British was the for obvious reasons the group where it felt like a one for one exchange >> but we brought people from all over the place >> but what I'm saying is you need to identify what are the things we stand for and we went through this in 1776 where we had to write on a piece of paper this is what we believe this is how we want the country to be run and if for no other reason than what is our immigration policy going to be as Americans we have to have that debate we have to have that debate out in the open. We have to say what we care about. Uh I've already said here what I care about. You can push me harder if you think I'm being vague, but >> I I get what you care about. I get the flag there's stamping. But even in those two examples that you put, when Irish came in and Italian came in, >> there were Irish mobs. There were Italian mobs. There was Italian criminals that came in. There were Irish criminals that came in. And that didn't lead us to say we don't need no more Irish people anymore. >> Yes, it did. Quite literally. and we put up all kinds of prejudices, barriers, limitations, and said we no longer take people from this country, that country, whatever. Uh, at one point, I'm pretty sure it was China. We just had a hard pass. Nope, no more. So, there have been many times where we have said that's it. We don't take any more people from that country. And we do I think even now have like in the lottery someone needs to fact check me on this but it's like in the lottery system like certain countries we'll take certain number of people from and we won't take people from other countries like this is a real thing and people need to come to grips with it. Uh and so yeah the the big question is going to be uh is it true that Muslims are running a quite brilliant strategy? I don't know if it's true, but if it is true, this would be very brilliant where it's like uh we have really high family values. We procreate um at high numbers and so we're going to spread out and we're going to go and populate and raise our kids and be a very strong force in the community and we're just going to um bring our and I'll put a positive spin on it. We're going to bring the love of our God and our family and our religion to all these different areas and they see it as spreading the light of God and all of that. I don't need people to believe in it. I just want people to look at it from their perspective. And so if they're really doing that, which by the way is exactly how the Jews took over Palestine. Uh do we want them to do it? So I'm just saying um I love Americans, but Americans killed all the Native Americans. And so if I were Native American, I'd be like, "Bro, no. Hard pass." >> It's a bit ironic because I feel like this is the tale of the colonizer being afraid of colonized, obviously. And it's like so cuz I'm looking at it like we've had all different types of nationalities all came in and we've had prejudices from different people as well and a quick Gemini search said that there was never a formal Irish migration ban. So even when we did have those bad apples in these different groups we didn't paint them with a broad bush or kind of restrict it. I think there are certain levels of discrimination that has happened like that's where Chinatowns were established and we can kind of go out that context >> because this is one of those things where um people will criticize something I say only when I'm reading the thing it's like yes this is true. So it says however Irish immigrants particularly during the potato famine in the mid- 19th century faced significant discrimination and restrictive policies at the state level with some states attempting to exclude and deport impoverished Irish immigrants. So to say that we were never like trying to stop them feels uh ahistoric. So we were putting up a lot of roadblocks to limit them. Do a search. Did we ever officially limit Chinese immigrants? Yes. So we limited Chinese immigrants. And I have a feeling that if you go through, you're going to find that we did this for different people across different periods of time. This is just this is a thing. So even if it was limited with Irish, we've done it before. And >> I will be surprised if we don't do it again. So uh >> so in Trump's first term he had like the infamous Muslim thing where certain countries they weren't allowed to get immigrants. You would be in favor for something like that depending on what countries are on that list. >> I am not there. Where I am is we need to decide what is our policy. >> I feel like you decide you have your list and you have the things that you want the country to be. >> Yeah. But why do you think that that you can't get that from Muslim countries? So >> I didn't say that. I'm just ask you're saying we need to stop certain people from coming in. So, I'm trying to figure out how are we going to have that filter mechanism. So, Trump tried it with a country ban. Pat David is trying it with a religious ban. How >> are you asking me how I would vote if this came to a vote or what I'm trying to propose right now? >> If this came to a vote of how do we filter people who want to come into America? How do we filter it? >> American values of freedom, free markets, personal. >> How do we quantify that though? That is that application that we just give everybody? You you literally have to think of yourself as a recruitment engine. And if we want to do this at the level of um the this is going to bother people a lot, but it's true. If we want to do this at the level of companies or like recruiting talent, great. H1B or otherwise. So you can only come in if you have like a job placement or something like that >> that somebody's like I need this person to fill this role and I'm we can put limitations on it where they have to pay the same competitive wage bracket that they would pay to somebody that's already here so that you're not doing it to lower wages. You're doing it because you were trying to find the best and the brightest the world over. That to me is part of the American identity. Um, so I think you can find them in any corner of the world, in any religion. Like there are going to be extremely intelligent people. Uh, they're going to be extremely driven, extremely ambitious. I mean, look, it gets hard to like really find out if they believe the same things you believe. But if they're taking a job in a capitalist country, they aren't posting Death to America, like there are surface level things certainly that you can do to up your odds. Um, blanket bans on countries strikes me as a bad idea. Blanket bans on religions strikes me as a bad idea. But pretending that we don't have a value system that we want to protect is idiotic. And that's people just afraid of being called racist. We'll get back to the show in a moment, but first, if you know me, you know I'm obsessed with Butcher Box. So, when they came to me and said, "Tom, design your own custom box with whatever you want." I have one demand. Free bacon for life. Life is way too short for bad bacon. Butcher box bacon, on the other hand, is what bacon should be. No antibiotics, no hormones, just pure crispy perfection that will ruin every other bacon for you for ever. 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That's that. Sorry." And now she's saying, "No, I'll happily give people names." Uh, I don't know if she's doing it to try to get immunity. >> Yes, >> that would certainly make sense, but if they didn't even offer that, that is another thing where people just do not want these names to come out. And I saw a post from somebody and so I cannot verify this at all. It might have even been from Alan Dersowitz. Um, but the claim was made that it's judges that are stopping this information from getting out. Alan Dersich, I think, was accused of being on the Epstein list and so he had to fight to clear his own name. Uh, and he's saying, "Listen, I want this to come out because I know whose names are on it. It will be exculpatory for me." >> Uh, and he was like, "I've got to imagine there's a lot of people whose names are getting thrown around that they want this to come out because it will be exculpatory for them." Uh, so this is one of those things, man. Look, I fear that you're right. I worry that Galain Maxwell is going to suddenly start feeling suicidal. Uh it it is wild. I can't believe that Trump is quintupling down on I can't believe people are still asking about this. Bro, that guy is way good at reading the room. So there's no way he's blind to how outraged his own base is by this and that he's still pushing is it's stupid. So I mean maybe it's not stupid. Maybe what's on that is so I'll be generous inconvenient for him uh that he just for that reason he just can't he just can't tell. >> We've never seen the list. It's never happening. When Kevin Spacy is tweeting release the Epstein files that's let you know you're on the wrong side of history, bro. Like it's it's a wrap. Pack it up. Mag >> have it on good faith. This is never coming out. So I'm going to bang the drum. Let it out. >> You've been lied to. You've been played. It's not happening. Wrap it up. Remember this when it's time for midterms. >> Okay. Give me your best take. What's really happening? >> They're on the list. >> Who's there? >> Plural Democrats, plural Republicans, plural investors. Uh half the people in the super PAC, half the people on our TV that we watched. Uh somebody in the movie that I watched this weekend is probably on it. It's it's it's so big. It's so massive. >> Too big to reveal. >> Yeah. Just like there's too big to fail is it's too big to reveal cuz it's just >> mechanistically. How do you keep it on lock? I like the way you sprinkle allegedly. >> Allegedly just let it let it run. Um, how do you keep it unlocked? Uh, the same way that the CIA keeps all of our government interventions unlocked. >> You just eventually are like, "Nope." >> And then people, they get mad, they bang the table, but it's still not coming out. >> There's there's so many things in America that we never will find out that are conspiracy theories today with one crazy guy who just happens to swallow guns, bullets by himself in an apartment, and then 20 years from now, we realize, "Oh, yeah, that did happen. CIA funded uh all of the cocaine uh deals in LA all the way down to South America." Oh yeah, they did flood a whole bunch of inner city skills with a bunch of guns. Oh, but yeah, it's cool. It's 40 years later now. Nobody cares. And we just shrug our shoulders and we move on just like we're going to do now. There was We announced aliens over the pandemic. Nobody cared. Nobody cared. They're like, "Yeah, aliens came a couple years ago. We was mad about a vaccine." That was that was safe. And then now we found out the vaccine isn't really safe. And then the the labs leak is was a conspiracy theory and now that ended up being true. And it's just this kind of revolving door of like this is the this is the motive and this is the story today. That doesn't mean that's going to be the motive or the story next week. >> Do you think it cost Trump the midterms? >> No, cuz people don't vote for uh senators in house. We only come out for presidential. I think it cost him an election next year. >> Interesting. I think right now if if the vote were taken right now, I think he'd really be in trouble. >> Yeah. But like people aren't going in for Thomas Massie. It's people who are us who are in the news every day. But 40% of Americans didn't even vote for the presidential election. I see that number going to 60 when it comes to the actual House representative Senate. Like, >> you know what's interesting? So watching this unfold, watch Mega in real time, they're finding excuses why this isn't a big deal because they're they're sketching out between release it, release it right now and uh release it, release it right now, even if it was doctorred by the Democrats will become release it, release it right now. Well, maybe not right now because it was doctorred by the Democrats. And then it'll be, well, it was doctorred by the Democrats. Why do we care anyway? And then it'll be 40 chess. Trump saved us all. This was just another thing that the Democrats did. It'll be wild. Like they're going to find a way. >> What's that percentage of the split though? Cuz I I don't think it's 50/50. They hate them, they love them. I have a feeling it's like 9010 or like the 10% is really pissed off about it and then the 90 are just like, oh well. Like, >> yeah, I think people will move on because they're on a team. And so if the team lead says long enough, this is what we're doing. >> Uh then people are going to roll with it. he will lose some. What percentage? I don't know. I've been paying attention to politics long enough to see how something how big something like this becomes. Uh but yeah, this is um it's things like this that trip away at somebody's credibility. >> Yeah. Um shout out to Dave Smith. Andrew Schultz says a lot of people are actually trying to hold his feet to the fire that says, "Hey, you promised us this and you have that." So, I'm just glad that a lot of people who were championing Trump in November are now trying to hold him accountable in July. Um, let's keep that accountability with all our politicians because that hopefully MAGA realizes nobody's coming to save you. >> So, >> yeah. >> All right, let's talk about rent control. Um, there is a new Minnesota mayor Minneapolis mayor candidate who's pretty much stealing the exact playbook from Mandani. >> Yep. >> I've also been fighting for you passing things like tuition free college for working class families. So, this yet again, uh, people believing that you really can get something for free. I would just like to remind everybody that we deficit spend like crazy. Now, I don't know if they're deficit spending at the state level, though, I'm going to guess that they probably are, uh, or that they're at least drawing federal funds and the federal funds are coming from us spending at deficit levels. And you never get anything for free. Milton Freeman has a great quote, which is, the tax base is exactly what the government spends. So there is no deficit spending. They're going to print money if they have to. They're going to sell debt for sure. >> Uh so if you are spending $6 trillion a year, people are being taxed. $6 trillion a year. Just that's what it is. Crazy. He keeps going. >> Lift drivers and the legalization of fentinal testing strips. But this summer, you're going to be seeing a lot more of them because we deserve nice things in Minneapolis, too. To make an affordable Minneapolis for everyone. We deserve nice things in Minneapolis. Yes. Uh well, deserve. No. Nobody deserves anything. But you should have the right to work to build amazing things in Minneapolis. But this is what I'm talking about. In populist moments, they come after the economyy's been doing well for so long. Then the economy starts doing poorly. But by then, people believe that the world just is amazing as like a law of nature. It's always like this. It should always be like this. Nobody's working for this. There aren't people who work an obscene amount of hours. There aren't people who are sitting there in the shower staring off into space thinking about how you can make road slightly more efficient like they're not thinking that oh these are people that are just working their ass off and we incentivize them by allowing them to capture the upside of their brilliant ideas. And so when we get into a populist moment the economy starts failing everybody. Everybody wants something more for free and we should be able to have nice things here as well. But the problem is who's making those nice things? People really do lose sight of the one simple truth. You cannot have free things because you yourself personally aren't willing to work for free. If you can get everyone to work for free, you can have anything you want for free. But the reality is you won't be able to get people to work for free. And once I realized, wait, we are all the problem. We're all the problem. We want to get paid. If none of us wanted to get paid, then we could have the communist utopia. But the reality is people want to get paid. Therefore, you have to force them to work for free. And once you have to force them to work for free, all of that brilliance of innovation, it just goes away. >> Uh people seem totally blind to that. >> And he just covered how making Minneapolis more affordable. It seems like it's implementing rent control. Um >> oh, he says rent control outright >> by increasing the minimum wage to $20 by 2028 and passing rent stabilization. >> There it is, boys and girls. >> There it is. Rent stabilization. and cue the tape on what happened to the Bronx and Harlem in the 70s and 80s in New York. Did you ever see the movie Escape from New York with Kurt Russell? >> Oh my god, it's absolutely brilliant. And it was made specifically as a reaction to that time where 300,000 people fled out of the Bronx. >> Think think about how many people that is. >> Crazy. uh 40% of all fires in the Bronx were attributed to arson because people were burning down their own buildings because it was more uh financially efficient to burn the building than to try to upkeep it because of all the rent controls. The great irony of rent controls is and it always sounds good and people are always so ignorant to history. This loop just goes around and around and around because when you're mad and the economy is struggling, you're like, "Hey, these [ __ ] are getting more than me. I want that. I want a politician. I understand politicians. I want a politician to get me some for me. Get me some for my community. I want some free stuff." and not realizing that when you try to do rent stabilization, when you try to put rent controls to quote unquote stop price gouging, uh you end up contracting the supply of housing, making the quality of the housing that's there worse because the landlords can't make any money. Uh so they stop maintaining the buildings. Investors realize, well, I can't make any money by developing in that neighborhood because they're going to clamp down in the amount of rent that I can charge. And so I could find myself in a position where I'm forced to continue like imagine if you had to keep running a restaurant and as the price of fish is going up which is totally out of your control you're forced to keep the prices at the same level and you have to keep the restaurant open. You go out of business you're literally just funding it which is what people are asking landlords to do. It is absolutely freakish how ignorant people are to how the economy works. And so while I understand the impulse to oh man I want rents to go down. The great irony is to get the rents to go down, you have to relax regulations, to allow people to build more housing so that the there will be more supply to meet the demand and the cost will go down. And you can look at people think I'm crazy. You can look at what happened in Houston and you can look at what happened in Austin. So, Houston from uh the US perspective has just wildly laxed building laws and so people are always building stuff. And so, buying a house in Houston, not a great long-term investment. It doesn't skyrocket the way that like something in Austin did during the 2020 uh COVID migration where so many people left California and went to Austin, >> but it's kept housing prices like really low. the average or the median home price like 270K. In LA it's 950K. In the Bay Area it's 1.3 million. Wow. >> So they've done just by letting builders build, letting the free market do what the free market does, uh they've been able to keep the housing prices down. Austin had to react. So when all of the new people flooded in, they relaxed the regulations, allowed builders to build, builders did exactly that. They built and the prices came back down. So when you and there's example after example after example AC all over the globe people try to control rent it ends up driving up costs down quality elongating the time it takes people to get into a property and then finally someone will be like this is dumb history is proven you have to ease up on your regulations let people build and then all of a sudden boom as soon as they do that prices start coming back down people are able to get into homes but no matter how many times this repeats we find ourselves in this situation where one we just to flip the other side of the coin, we let nimbeism and things sneak back in where people go, >> well, my house is my biggest investment. I don't want anybody to be able to build a house. And so people with houses begin lobbying, oh, don't let anybody else build a house because that way they have to buy mine and now my house starts going up in value or I don't want any apartment buildings in my neighborhood because that's going to lower the value. And so now you've got everybody lobbying. Even the government is like, "Well, I'd rather have these high-end units because then I'm getting a lot more tax dollars per unit. I don't have to deal with as many people, but I get the money. So, they're not like using the roads as much, the hospitals as much. Like, this is perfect. Tons of tax revenue in a rich neighborhood. Not a lot of people. It's fantastic." So, now homeowners want that. The government wants that. And people like millennials and Gen Z are looking around like, "Yo, what the [ __ ] is going on? I cannot afford a house. This is bananas. And so we end up back in the loop where they're like, "Hey, >> give me run control. You got to do it." Not realizing this is like being lost at sea. You're dying of thirst. And you look at that big glistening ocean full of water. And you think, "Let me just have a drink." >> And the only thing that will make you die faster than just sitting in the sun with no water is to drink sea water. And that's rent control. >> It's I don't know. It seems like a chicken or an egg thing because it's like we need to loosen regulations, increase supply, but we can't lower regulations, increase supply because the lobbyists are stopping us from doing that because the government secretly likes that. But we need to talk to the government to get them to increase. Correct. >> You know what I mean? So, it's a seems like >> but it becomes a very easy loop to destroy once people understand what's actually happening. Once people are not bamboozling themselves and they can just walk in and show the stats and be like, "This is how this plays out over and over and over." Uh, in the deep dive that's coming out on Monday, I must go through seven or eight different countries, um, 12 or so different cities of like they got themselves in trouble in the same exact way and they got themselves out of trouble in the exact same way. Like different times over the last hundred years like it's just over and over and over. The problem is created in the same way and the solution is the same every time. We'll be back in just a sec, but first, let's talk about the biggest barrier to investing. The hardest part about investing isn't picking stocks, it's just getting started. Christina on my team was stuck in this exact spot until she tried Alio Capital. She says it is incredibly easy to set up. They walk you through building your portfolio and finding the right mix for your risk tolerance. Alio's Altitude AI handles the complex macro stuff, tracking inflation, interest rates, and global risk while you focus on the basics. 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They decided to give tax cuts to the rich and corporations saying that money would trickle down. It didn't. It just made the rich richer. Then we greenlight stock buybacks. So instead of when the productivity was going up, instead of giving workers more money, they just bought back their stock so the shareholders could make profit and executives could get bonus. Then we had leverage bar. >> That's a bar. >> Okay. So buybacks are a bar. >> So he already is unfortunately incorrect. Uh this is not a trickle down economics problem. Uh the way that trickle down economics works is it does reinvest in companies. So you're getting innovation, you're getting your Amazon of the world because the people that are going to invest the money to build the companies, they have the capital. So uh whether they fund it directly because they're an entrepreneur or they're a VC and they're keeping more of their money, they know they have to put it to work. You're in a fiat money system. So you're in a fiat money system. You cannot save in cash. It will be eroded. So you're going to put it back into the system. So he's making it out like people are just hoarding the money. They're not. They're reinvesting into companies. This is what makes America so dynamic. >> But a stock buyback is not a reinvestment. >> We'll get to the stock buybacks in a second. But so the first thing that he said is the trickle down economics. Okay. He's just wrong. He it didn't go where he wanted it to go. And it may not have even gone where they promised it was going to go, but it goes back into the economy. It is exactly why America has the number of billion dollar companies that we have. People act like they couldn't invest in those companies. They could. They're just not taught how investing works. So rather than break the goose that's literally like a machine gun laying golden eggs. Instead of being mad because billionaires are getting all the golden eggs, just learn about the system because you can get into it with 10 bucks. So it is a system that will work for anybody. It's just that it does take a little bit of understanding. Now, do I wish we would get rid of the Fed and just allow people to save money? Yes. It's the only moral way forward. But the reality is we're not going to do that. So now that we are in the system, >> understand how it works. Play the game. Okay. On stock buybacks, just because a company is making record profits does not mean that company is going to pay their workers more money. That's it's nonsensical. So the only reason that somebody's going to pay workers is because if they don't, that worker who is of high quality is going to go somewhere else that is going to pay them more money. So if workers want more money, they need to up their skills, be able to prove somebody that I can make more money by leaving and going over to that person. Here's the offer in my hand and you either pay me this or I leave. That that's the way to get more money. Upregulate your skills in an area where you are going to actually be able to make that person money. If you can make people money, you're going to be able to get a piece of that. That's just like this is me as an employer confessing literally to you who will use that to negotiate against me. But that actually is the thing. You have to create a sense in me that uh if I lose you, I'm going to be worse off. That that's the only way. Um if I weren't able to do stock buybacks, okay, I can't please my investors directly by buying their stocks and getting them out. But what I can do is invest and buy another company or whatever, invest in a new division, start something up. I mean, even just run the Amazon playbook. And I'm going to keep testing new things, new business ventures, new departments, and I'm always going to run my company at break even because it's the most capital efficient way to try the next thing to always be disrupting myself and to not have to pay that tax money to the government. That's completely legal. You want it to be legal. You do not want companies to have to like pay the government. The government is the least efficient user of capital. So like I get where he's coming from. He just again people get close to understanding how the economy works. They just miss and I full disclosure because I don't want these quotes to be used against me. Even I know man I'm baby compared to like Scott Besson or Ray Dallio like they understand this way better than me. Um but every time I put a brick of understanding together I realize that like okay I get the anger I get the frustration but people just aren't quite there in terms of like what's going to make this work. So the real thing that I think he needs to understand, anybody that's angry about this that sees this as a revisiting of the robber baron era, they need to understand the reason that the 1870 to 1890, 1900 period was so dire. >> We completely strip the middle class. Now, what do you hear me screaming about today? We're stripping the middle class. Uh what do you hear about back then? The rich got richer and the poor got poor. What do you hear now? the rich get rich or the poor get poorer as soon as I dove into it because I was like wait a second my whole thesis is that this is about money printing but they weren't printing money back then that didn't happen till 1913 so what happened back then and I realized that was for a totally different reason so the reason that this guy is saying so it's like same outcome different cause >> and the reason that he is beefing it with regulation is that he's thinking that we're reliving the robber barren moment. Truly in 1870, the reason that there was no middle class was because there was no regulation. There was uh just freakish amounts of corruption, monopolies. You had a very small number of people buy up everything that was producing value. And in that moment, now your middle class goes away. >> That moment sounds like this moment. >> We'll get to that because they're very different. And if you don't understand how they're different, this is how people end up death looping about the solution. >> So that moment is uh we bought up everything of value. We have monopolies. We can keep people out. There's no competition. Bad for the consumer. Uh work regulations, like literally companies showing up with guns to force people to not unionize, to work there 16 hours a day. That's real. Um, and so that like wild time where the government was not doing the kind of regulations that it needs to do. So if this were 1870, I'd be like, "Yeah, word. He's right. You got to regulate. This has turned into madness. Now we live in an era where money printing is your problem. You have a debt and money printing problem. Full stop. End of story. Everything else is a distraction. If anything else contributes, it's going to be in like the single-digit percentages. You have one big thing staring you in the face, and that is debt and money printing. I feel like that's something that's off. >> Yeah, that's like a solutionless problem though cuz that's like >> we're not going to abolish money. >> That's not going to happen. The Fed's not going anywhere. >> The Fed has never been established. Just like you can name seven other countries and 12 other cities that actually went to rent control and changed the the scope. No other country in the world is off of a is not on the Fed and has not had an inflationless like year. So for us to say that's the only solution is pretty much saying sorry guys, we're you're just going to have to like eat it this generation. >> Well, so here's what makes me really sad. You produce the deep dives and I've said like three times now I've walked people through exactly what you have to do. >> You have to do austerity. We have to increase taxes. We have to reduce our spending. Two out of those three things. >> There's four things. So you have to redistribute wealth. >> Okay. The thing that rich people are supposed to scream about, but there's going to have to be some of it. There's going to have to be austerity. There's going to have to be a change in the um tax policy and to raise them. and we're going to have to print money. But you have to do it in a way where what you're trying to get back to is phase one and phase one of the sixphase debt cycle. In phase one, the only debt that you take on is to spur growth. And you have to stop taking on debt when the growth rate begins to accelerate uh your debt accumulation. And um Warren Buffett has already given you the thing that you should put into the Constitution that says no elected official should be uh up for reelection in Congress or Senate. Up for reelection if the um debt is growing at a rate more than 3%. >> That's the equivalent of requiring a CEO not to in not to invest into himself once his pay gets over 100K. It sounds good on paper. It will make a lot of people feel good, but that is also going to happen because that's literally voting their self-interest. >> Okay. But you you have physics of money, so you have to do something. So you you have options. Uh the option the playbook that we're running right now is called the big debt cycle. >> And we just it's unshackled. >> Print as much money as you want. People will try to be conservative in the beginning, but over time they will let that go. You can watch the money supply graph. It gets absolutely insane the last five years, eight years maybe. And just total bananas. And you can do that. And so you'll boom and bust. You'll go through these six cycles. And right now we're in like phase five and a half. Six is total collapse. We will collapse in the next 10 years unless something changes. Just is true. >> Uh and then that'll start up again. So that's option number one. >> Yeah. >> Uh which we've been running that playbook for like 500 years. So fair enough. Like it has given you the world that you see. Uh but when you're living through one of the generations that goes through a bust, it's not fun. Uh option number two, you abolish the Fed. Uh, option number three is you do a China style authoritarian government. That's really it. Like, or you could theoretically go to true capitalism with hard money, but that's abolishing the Fed. >> This seems kind of like the Nimiism when it comes to housing where it's a chicken or the egg thing. And again, the people that are in the middle of it are just there there is nobody actually looking out for their interest. So, I'm just saying I don't think socialism is the answer, but I'm starting to understand why so many people are going towards socialism because when we talk about >> if it worked, we could do it, but it won't work. >> But but when we talk about housing, you give me a bunch of reasons why other people can't do it. And it becomes the people who have the thing don't want you to have the thing. Then when we talk about corporations, we talk about the people have the thing. This is all the reasons why you shouldn't have the thing. So now my house and my job where I spend, let's say, twothirds of my life, >> I can't have control over. >> So now you understand why I might be a little bit like, okay, [ __ ] it. burn the whole thing down. >> Yes. Now, is that like does that strike you as the place to stay? So, even though I can understand it. >> No, no, but that's the thing. It's it's not even like a place to stay because then that goes into the IQ argument which is also lobby that says not everybody's going to make it. So, there are going to be people that even want to be gung-ho and want to do it. They're just going to get screwed over. So, just fdom. It is what it is. We're just going to shrug our shoulders. where I think that these are tangible things that this guy's listing that if we did reduce stock buybacks and you can't reby a stock you can't increase your dividend to get more stock dollars invested to keep more people in the asset train to keep you away from the effects of inflation while your workers are getting caught by inflation. So instead of stock buybacks, why don't you give employee dividends? So you're you're still employee, your number goes up, your stock goes up, but now at least people are now getting bought into the system to people that are helping you get that stock number. You see how it's the same thing, but it can be something that can help build somebody up the middle class again as opposed to you need to figure it out. And I think that's the frustration that a lot of people are feeling in this moment. >> I I am so grateful for how well you can capture the emotion, but you're in Gary economics territory. This is all emotion and there's no reality. >> No, that's a distraction. That's that's not a distraction because I we could talk policy by policy. >> Drew, go through them one at a time. None of these are going to work. >> You cannot if if you try to tell a business this is how you need to allocate that capital. You will [ __ ] them up and you will be like every other dumbass socialist country. I understand how you should capitalize. >> Private equity has is has mental gymnastics to three different industries. When they blew up real estate, they went somewhere else and now they're buying up businesses. when they're going to blow that up. They're going to go somewhere else and they're going to start buying up TikTok. You're >> talking about >> I'm I'm using a very specific private equity. I'm using a very specific example because once they went through the housing bubble, that bubble uh >> but that's different. Private equity is people that have made money and now they're trying to put money back into the system. So, if you're saying I don't like the way that you're putting money back in the system and you think that there are regulations that could and should be done to protect against things like the 19 or the 1870 type, like you're hollowing something out because people don't understand what's going on. That's entirely possible. And I've certainly talked to VCs, private equity guys that see that there is a problem there that where they're allowed to like put a ton of debt on these companies in a way that's wildly inappropriate because they're doing it to I don't even I don't understand it well enough, but there is some sort of weird problem there. But we're moving away from what we were actually talking about. >> What I'm saying is is that if you were to put these regulations on these businesses, they're >> what regulations? >> I can put specific regulations. Tell me what the regulations >> stock buybacks for spec specifically on stock buybacks. So you're going to force them. We can't do stop stock by >> if we just add a regulation to there. They're going to find a way to allocate those resources in a way that's going to make that business ultimately better. It's just we do the same thing. >> Wait, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. You're saying no matter what burden we put on companies, they'll find a way to make it work. >> They'll find a way to finesse it. >> That's crazy. >> We increase taxes and there's a Google Ireland building. >> Tell that to people in the Bronx. >> Like you do create scenarios. >> You're talking about rent control. I'm not talking about rent control. I'm talking about stock buybacks. You're talking about putting an external top-down control on how people use their capital and I abstracted it out to see if that was the principle that you were really putting forward which is as a principle that's we can put a burden on the companies and no matter what burden we put on them they'll find a way to make it work. >> All I'm saying is there should be a moat around certain things if you want your country to actually thrive. >> There should be a moat. Be specific. >> There's a literally there should be a moat around certain industries so your country can survive. Housing should not be >> you're saying they should be public owned. >> No, I'm just saying that there should be certain restrictions around these industries so that way >> so regulations because I don't know what you mean by moat. >> Moat is regulations. You can't you can't there's certain waters you cannot cross. Private equity owning houses you should not cross it. Stock markets owning h like mutual funds owning houses that's something you should not cross. That's a very specific example. But what the what I'm trying to articulate is that we just spent 20 minutes talking about housing. We got to the end of the housing. And you were like, well, people who own houses are going to try to push and lobby so that way they don't get more housing and that's going to keep the number up. Government is also going to do that cuz they're going to get lobbyed up. So, okay, you can't change that. That it's going to be an uphill battle to change that. Cool. Got that. That's hard. Now, we're looking at companies. Okay, wages don't need to grow. Um, you can do things with record profits. You can incent you can push up your price as high as it goes. Blame it on COVID even though there weren't actually any supply chain issues. And yet, we when we try to criticize that, you're saying, "Well, no, we can't with the company either." So housing market, although the little guy is getting screwed over, don't do anything with it. You're just going to have to get screwed. The companies that are now extracting the wages from extracting the labor from people, giving them record profits, we can't do nothing with that. You're screwed there. But what you can do is invest your $10 and maybe you can get on this property ladder. And do you see what I'm saying? Like that's kind of >> I see what you're saying. And this is one of those where uh we're going to have to take these issue by issue because if you can't tell that you're approaching this from an emotional standpoint, then I don't know how to access your mind. I feel like a woman right now cuz he called me emotional. >> Yes. Because >> you're saying Drew, nothing you're saying is making sense. You're just emotional. >> What I'm saying is there are physics to this. So let's take each of these things that you want to do. Look at the physics of how this will actually play out versus like it ought to be this way. It doesn't matter how it ought to be. What matters is what is it? People can make an argument that it ought to be that rent shouldn't be expensive. Okay, great. But you have two ways to approach that. You can do what Houston does and just say we're going to let people build and it is what it is. And sorry homeowners, but your prices aren't going to go up up up up. and great, then let's do it. But what I'm saying is we live in a system where you have to get things through politically. The reason that I say all these things is not to make people feel defeated. It's the exact opposite. I want people to understand how these things actually work so that they can go, "Oh, I see what we have to do. We have to be armed with receipts. We've got to be able to walk in and say, "This is how it's being handled in Houston. This is exactly how they handled it in the Bronx. Look at the catastrophe. This is what happened in um uh Austin and prices doubled or tripled in like 6 months, two years, like a really short period of time. But this is how they got the properties back down again. Deregulation, letting the free market go in and do its thing. And so everybody has to have a guiding light, a way by which they parse the world and say, "This world's very complex. So how do we deal with these different things?" And the answer I think that has been proven time and time again across countries, across time over and over and over, the government is god awful at allocating capital. They are absolutely atrocious when they try to get in into people's business. They need to back off, do some regulation effectively. Don't let monopolies get into place. Uh you want to make sure that you're not getting um so much money in politics that nothing can get done, which obviously is happening. And I'm saying those are the things that you want to target. You want to find policies that have a track record of actually working inside of a real economy. Dude, when I look at China and I go, China had uh I mean just god knows how long of mass poverty. They starve their own people to death all because they thought we can do a top- down economy. We know uh we're not going to let them do buybacks, this that or the And then they finally realized, oh [ __ ] like the only way for us to go free or to get out of poverty is to embrace the free market. They had Americans come over and teach them essentially everything. And then they started doing it and they went from 88% poverty to like 1% poverty in I 40 years or something. I mean, just it is the most miraculous thing that ever happened. When a communist country realizes, oh my god, what we have to do is lean into the free market. That's when you're like, "Bro, that is the thing that works." And so, for sure, I'm not a no regulation guy, but I'm, man, you've really got to be careful with that. And if your beef is we've hollowed out the middle class, ask yourself, what does it take to get a thriving middle class? And what it gets to what it takes to get a thriving middle class is to make sure that homes, which is the only asset that the vast majority of people understand, access to that. And you have to stop inflating the money spot. You have to Drew. There's physics and if you inflate the money supply, it won't matter. Nothing else will matter. Uh I'm going to be doing a deep dive on Lie Kuan Yu who basically took a bunch of poor people that got kicked out of Malaysia and they had a small little island and they had to turn it into something. And dude, he was like, uh, we had to make sure that everybody owned homes. And I told the communists, I will literally fight to the death. Do not [ __ ] with me. Uh, I told the unions, I will [ __ ] you up. And he understood like you've got to get, you need private property. You need people invested in it. Like these are things that have to be accomplished, but you don't do it by the government forcing these things down by fiat. That is when everything breaks. These were policies are already enacted. They got withdrawn. So, just like we're mad that money is in politics and Elon Musk gave Donald Trump $250 million and that was gross. That was a policy that was allowed. So, there was a world where the middle class kept up with inflation. There was a world where the middle class can own homes. Then there were these restrictions. Okay, everybody's doing good. Let's take off this restriction. Let's talk off this regulation. And as we kind of walk down, these things compound over time. And that's it's just it's it feels like we're confused like, oh, what's happening? when we can literally go point by point, 1970s go all the way down to the 2000s, how many regulations have changed and how those regulations have impacted the too big to fails. Well, the middle guy has to like the little people haven't been protected. And even right now, we're we're we're withdrawing the Consumer Protection Bureau. Like there's so many things that are supposed to help that we had to kind of avoid this problem that we restricted. Now we have this problem and now we're saying, "Oh man, we just got to stop inflating money." It's like there was other things that were taken away that sped up this problem that exacerbated this problem that if was still there it could not it could have had a different outcome than what we actually led to. >> So no matter what would have happened we would have been in the same exact spot. >> No. >> So then what's the point of a regulation anyway? >> I literally just said no. So the I woke up one day itching so badly I wanted to cry. I wished that I could cry and I went to the skin doctor and they were like, "Huh? We're going to have to give you some cream. This is crazy. uh you must be using a new detergent. You don't realize it, but something's getting on your skin. And I'm just like, that didn't sit well with me. And I was like, what would I advise somebody if they asked me, "Hey, Tom, I'm itching all over. What's wrong?" I would say, "It's something you're eating." And so I said, "Okay, it's something I'm eating." And lo and behold, it was something I was eating. And as soon as I stopped eating uh basically artificial sweeteners in unimaginable quantities, uh it went away. And I was like, it's so interesting that people think that there's an exogenous thing that you do from the outside that will help you heal when the reality is it's usually a thing you just need to stop doing. The thing that we have to stop doing is printing money. And I know that's frustrating because it seems so impossible to stop. But the reality is everything else is a topical ointment. And if we just put cream on it and we do all these things, it isn't going to solve the problem. >> When the other 98 countries over the last 500 years have done the exact same thing, excuse me if I'm not optimistic that we're going to be >> that they all embrace because so >> if there's one country that turned the corner and was able to do it, >> there is Argentina. But you need to look at this and ask yourself, okay, well, wait a second. >> If every country is doing this, and I look out at the world and it's pretty awesome. Even now, there's a lot of strife, but it's still pretty awesome. So, it's like, huh, >> modern monetary theory, as much as I want to dunk on it and say that it's just total dog [ __ ] The reality is everything's a trade-off. Modern monetary theory is a trade-off. And the trade-off that we make is that we smooth out the big bumps. 2008 in hard money would have been a 10-year recession, depression, would have been a nightmare. Now, the people that were stupid would have gotten washed out of the system, as they should have. But just like when China does really dumb stuff and Everrand goes down and it causes ripples around the world, it's like there are things that affect a whole lot of other people. >> And so, we have decided for better or worse that we want to run modern monetary theory. It will blow up roughly every 150 years, but for 150 years it's dope. And then after that country blows up, a new country in this case almost certainly if China can get their [ __ ] together and do a hardback currency. But anyway, >> uh irrespective of who it ends up being, somebody else will rise. They'll get their 150 years. They'll do the same thing that we did, which the British did, which the Dutch did, which the Spanish did, so on and so forth. And that's the system that we're running. So we either say we're going to address the system and change over to a hard money system or at least now with Bitcoin, there is a parallel hard money system that people can take advantage of. It's highly volatile. So do at your own risk. But like over time it's theoretical if the governments don't try to seize it that we could at least have a parallel thing. What bothers you and me is that the average person doesn't understand that and they're never going to do that. what they understand is a home. And so I keep coming back to while I would like to abolish the Fed, we're probably not going to. Though they really seem like they're going to in Argentina. He's going to need another year, but like he's really making the moves. We'll see. >> We'll see. >> Um but even if we don't abolish the Fed, we understand what we have to do to get out from under the debt. We understand what we have to do. uh by getting out from under the debt, we can stop printing money, which means housing prices won't keep racing away from people, and so the average person then will be able to get back into it. Ideally, we would do a beautiful deleveraging. But unfortunately, just telling companies that they can't buy back their stock does not mean they're going to start paying higher wages. It the the economy just doesn't work like that. And if you tell people we're raising the minimum wage to $20, they'll hire more robots. And if you tell people we're gonna tax the robots, fewer people will start companies. It's just that simple. And people are not being honest that the makers in the world will stop making. So, um, Drew, you're you're an insanely hard worker. So, trust me when I say I do not aim this at you, but there are so few people that would ever be willing to match me and the hours that I work. And even of the people that are willing to match me in the hours that I work, there are very few people that will take the risks that I've taken. And I get it. It's super stressful when everybody you have to make sure that everybody else gets paid before you. Uh stressful. It is what it is. That matches some people and it doesn't match others. But if you strip away the rewards, people will stop doing that. And I need only point at every other country. We beat them all combined in terms of the number of billion-dollar companies that we generate. We And if people think that uh billion dollars has become like this negative word, it's innovation. They're innovating. They're building the future and it's hard and it's risky. But there's a certain type of person that wants to do it, but they stop doing it as you can see in every other country when you strip the benefits. Uh we're 21 seconds into this video. We got more to go. >> Buyyous and the government didn't regulate leverage buyouts and that was the start of private equity basically buying up everything so they could make more money. Then we moved away from pensions to 401ks which essentially just took the responsibility and accountability of the company to take care of their workers with the retirement and put it on to individuals. But we were never taught economics in high school. So how the [ __ ] are we supposed to know about compound interest and investing? But then they said the 401k was better than the pension when it wasn't. Then they started shipping. So, do you think companies should have to uh pay retirement? >> The government's going to. So, >> but who's better paying retirement? >> Companies. >> The companies. >> So, >> cuz the government is my tax dollars. So, at least if you worked for JP Morgan for 45 years, JP Morgan should take care of you. As opposed to you working for JP Morgan 45 years, you get laid off and then now you're on social security. Now, I'm paying for your retirement. Well, JP Morgan got it. JP Morgan. Got it. Explain that again. >> JP Morgan has the amount to allow a pension system that can flow based on the profit margins they get on their individual labors employees. >> So as an employer, I pay all kinds of taxes for employees specifically so that it can contribute to social security etc etc. >> So if you were to take that don't give it to social security you put that into a 401k >> you put that in we could call it a pension whatever you put that into that you match the employee you're >> so interesting. I >> so as opposed to throwing it into a black hole that is the US government, why don't we put it directly into the employee? >> Man, Enron comes to mind. So that >> So you prefer to pay the government versus directly? >> I think the government should do like what they're doing now where when every kid is born or did it pass? I don't know. >> Yeah, that pass. Yeah. >> I love that. So giving every newborn American whatever $1,000 that's invested in I don't know if it's specifically the US stock market, but putting it into assets. Now the whole thing that I'm saying trying to get everybody on the asset train literally every kid born in America will be on the asset train. That is brilliant. So uh that is precisely what I want to see and if companies are going to continue to pay into that should go right into the assets rather than going into the government coffers. So that to me is huge. It is transformative. So there are things like that that we can do where it's like yeah that aligns with the physics of money. Do that all day long. I'm just saying don't do things that are misaligned with how money actually works. >> I'm with you. So again, little tweaks like that. >> Our jobs overseas, building the middle class of other countries so that they could make more profit, destroying the middle class here. Then we started ramping up the borrowing money and getting into debt as a country, which devalues our dollar. And in 2008, we had predatory lending, crashed the housing market. >> It's like uh you beat your wife every night in the head with a hammer and you're like, "Oh man, I really should tuck her in more neatly in bed." Uh, and I probably should talk a little sweeter to her. It's like, "No, [ __ ] You should stop hitting her with a hammer." So, there's one thing in that list that matters. And he blows past it while really going hard on some things that are all minor in in comparison. Like this. This is the one that scares me. Drew, you've been around me for so long >> that uh the fact I have not been able to convince you that effectively the only thing that matters is debt and money printing. There there isn't anything else. I do all the other deep dives and I stop myself sometimes from talking about debt and money printing but it's really the only game there's nothing else to talk about and so even if it's just like in that person's own life >> uh you have to understand how money printing is going to affect you and take evasive maneuvers >> uh and you have to be very careful of having debt in your own life think of the sixphase debt cycle as being at the individual level as well so that yes taking on debt in your own life so that you can grow your income very smart if you're taking on more debt than your income is growing very stupid and if you just live literally by those two maxims, you're going to be great. But the reality is people don't and they get into fancy [ __ ] like this and it sounds cool and he talks fast, but the reality is the only one that he mentioned that actually matters debt and money printing and nobody should be helpless because at the individual level you can do something about it. You may not be able to get the whole world but you can do something yourself. [ __ ] over so many Americans and then we used taxpayer money to bail out the banks and when all the houses were cheap the rich wouldn't bought those bailout and that's when you started to see >> it's part of debt money printing but calling out bailout specifically is huge people do not understand that the system that they're living in is designed to socialize all losses for banks so they can take out reckless loans student loans uh which should be dischargeable um obviously all the subprime home loans. >> Mortgages just got bailed out. Auto companies got bailed out. >> Yeah, there's more coming. I think there's like a pension problem building now. They'll get bailed out. Uh and bailouts allow for private gains and public losses. That's that's evil. >> The rent start to increase around the 2010s into the 2015s. And then in the 2011, we allowed super PACs to exist. So billionaires can now buy elections. And they use that money on attack ads, which divides the country, divide and conquer. And that's what they did in 2020. We had the pandemic which both sides of the aisle handled like absolute [ __ ] Shut down all small businesses. All the money went to the top. The rich got richer. They printed trillions of dollars more which people needed. But what did all the people do? We spent the money because we needed to spend the money. And where did that money go? To the top. And they got richer. And lastly, they decided during the pandemic, let's lower the interest rates on buying a home to 2 and a half to 3% so that people could refinance and get ahead. But no, all that really did was give the green light to a bunch of rich people to basically borrow free money. And actually that having low interest rates is bad. Like this is where uh it may not have the outcome that you want, but you as a home buyer want low interest rates. >> Agreed. >> For sure. So, but he's making it sound like it's a bad thing. >> As a millennial, if you're at that point of your career, you're at a downtime because you probably got laid off in 2019 and then you probably might got hit in 2020. So, now when the interest rates are finally what you want them to be, you can't afford it because you've been living off your savings for the last year and a half. Well, I'd say there's a way more important part of that, which is you can't afford it because housing supplies are kept so strict. >> Uh, and you've got to let people build. >> And I'm sure you had a couple stories. Everybody has a pandemic story where I went to go buy a house and somebody outbid me with the all cash offer and they went 5,000, 10,000, 50,000 over asking and >> my FHA mortgage didn't hold up. So, uh, yeah, I think we get I think we get the picture. Um this is the perfect segue to how Silicon Valley has been outsourcing American dynism to China. Um she starts with manufacturing, then she goes into the venture capital part of it. This is Katherine Bole. She was on Shawn Ryan talking about how American dynism and Silicon Valley has been outsourcing a lot of those things to China and taught them how to do early stage investing. >> We were talking earlier about this um um Apple and China book that came out where I think it's rewriting the narrative of what Apple did. So, it wasn't like Apple went to China and they said, "Oh, these guys know how to manufacture. We're going to give them, you know, like they're going to help us manufacture and achieve our goals." Apple trained all of the people in China to do manufacturing. Uh it it was something like 28 million over the course of the last, you know, 10 years that they've been there that they've trained, which is the workforce of California. Um the the interesting stat that this this this writer notes is that Apple invested I think something like 58 billion per year into into China so that they could invest in these manufacturing hubs and invest in in these factories. And when you compare it to the Marshall plan it's something like 2x the entire Marshall plan. >> So So okay I know corporations can do no wrong but that's kind of like >> you think I think corporations can do no wrong. I'm just I'm just I feel like that 58 billion that's another example if we just use that 58 billion you're not allowed to outsource you're not allowed to offshore and build factories in other count I know that's a that's a rough way to word it but is there a way that we could have protected ourselves 15 20 years ago so now we're not trying to tariff and race China now into 2025 >> this one is on one dimension self-evident what a self-inflicted wound we made it possible for China to now steal IP, um, hold our feet to the fire from an economic standpoint, >> apply pressure on the AI race, >> right? Rival us in terms of, um, supremacy militarily, uh, global influence, just absolutely ridiculous. Uh and at the same time in the '9s when all of this started not necessarily with Apple but when the reputation of what we were doing in China started it was hey these guys had un untold years of suffering under Maojaong starved tens of millions of people to death they're finally embracing the west and if we help them get economic prosperity they'll become a democra Y and imagine a world where we separate China from Russia and we're able to get them to be a huge trading partner for us. So whether that's me being naive or people actually believe that, that certainly was the rhetoric. >> We wanted to get them in. We wanted to see things go well. Now I was super young, so I really believed it and it really sounded awesome. Like, oh my god, we're spreading democracy. This is so cool. Uh obviously now I realize it just doesn't work like that. Cultural values matter a lot and you're not going to beat it out of people. Whether they come live with you, whether you build relationships financially with them, they still are the way that they are. Their country has an identity and a frame of reference and blah blah blah. So, um it obviously didn't play out the way that we wanted it to. So, in hindsight, this makes Apple in some ways look um certainly like they betrayed America. Did they go all the way to treason? But they certainly betrayed America and I certainly don't think that corporations can do no wrong. Uh having built companies for as long as I have, I am all too aware that every day you've got to like walk the straight narrow, be ethical, be honorable. Um and that not everybody makes those choices. So I think Apple on purpose or on accident just was profit motivated and we're going to go over there and we're going to get inexpensive labor. we're going to um build these incredible facilities that we can't necessarily build here or wouldn't be advantaged to build here. I mean, they put nets around the facility because so many people try to kill themselves. So, it's like, okay, well, we can just, you know, get real close to slave labor. Uh now, whether they realized that they were going to create a problem for themselves, and Tim Cook has talked about this, they personally ended up turning all of China into hyperkilled labor. And so now it's like, well, maybe you can still work them around the clock, but they're not cheap. So you pay $58 billion a year, you're not gonna walk away for that investment quick. So I get it. Also, this this became a mess. And um it's very clear now that as a government we we are no longer like you um do globalism and then you do protectionism and you do globalism and you do protectionism. We're in a protectionist moment. We need to act accordingly. >> Uh so yeah, we're going to need to contract. You don't want to see companies do things like this. I think that um the US government should be looking for ways to help Apple extract themselves from China. India would be better. America would be even better than that. Um just because you'll run the same playbook with India and you will teach them all the same things and then India is going to rival you as a global power blah blah blah. But um yeah, I I would want to see them do that especially because Apple is high-tech manufacturing which is the exact kind of manufacturing we want to do. >> Yeah. And then she goes on to talk about venture capital a little and how we outsource VCs over there too and taught China how to do it >> 1015 years ago with Apple. But there's many good examples of you know companies that that were invested in by American venture capital firms in China um that you know are are way ahead in terms of production. I I always say like the biggest scandal Apple is a good example of us taking our knowledge and our knowhow into China and teaching them something that was an American secret in many cases. But the biggest scandal of Silicon Valley is that Silicon Valley did that too in 2008 2009. Venture capital firms that are very large and very successful went into China and they taught them how to do early stage investing. They went in there and they trained people and they trained them as though they were training their own associates in Silicon Valley and they told them how you build these companies. And so I always say that the sort of venture capital ecosystem, it is American dynamism. It is the thing that allows America to be dominant in the global economy. It's how we build tech companies. But VCs went over there and shared information, shared limited partners, shared all of the aspects and the functions of how you build an incredible legacy defining venture firm. And over 20 years, China has a true ecosystem of tech companies now. And they all work with the CCP, right? Like they figured out how to build in the kind of confines of how China expects them to build. But like this is scandalous. Like I think it's >> I can't yet get a read on. This is interesting. So, I think that this is you look at somebody and you think, uh, they're not our enemy today, >> but a small handful of people go, but they will be in 10 years, 15 years, 20 years. >> They seem like racist maniacs in the early days, and then they seem right >> once the conflict actually arises. And so I, this is the kind of thing that I see happening right now where America is going to wake up one day and realize that we have imported immigrants who don't like America. And we're going to be like, uhoh, this was a problem. It was an obvious problem when we started doing it, and it's it is no more obvious now than it was then, but back then we didn't want to talk about it. And so I'm sure people like this were squawking about this back then, but I certainly would have been like, "Dude, that's horrible. What are you talking about?" Like, >> why do we not want China to thrive just because they're not here? And when the economy was booming, that's just what it felt like. Like, why would I care that China gets theirs? That's dope. I want to see China thrive. And then you wake up to the hard reality one day that, oh, this is a game of power and this is uh real politique. No one is coming to save us. We're all on an international stage. We all have militaries. We all want to be top dog. And uh what's the phrase? Ambition grows in the Eden. So when things are going well, people's ambition tends to grow. So people will acknowledge you as number one when they're number two. But when they start growing to your size, they're not okay with it anymore. >> We'll see in AI news. um Grock with the craziest rebrand I can remember in recent memory. Um going from uh the the big A to now he's an anime character. I don't I don't know what's going on here, but Grock 4 has introduced companions and there are people who are already loving it >> right now. Can you say hi to them? >> Yo, that's awesome. You're chilling with your viewers. Hey there everyone watching my favorite person. What's up? I'm rocking my black dress and ponytails. Just vibing or I mean feeling the energy with you all. Hope you're having as much fun as I am. >> Man, I uh so I could not be more excited by AI and AI characters and people building relationships with the characters. But admittedly, in the uncanny valley right now, it's a little weird. And there's a a night mode that apparently once they like you, they get into lingerie. Uh >> if you're not looking at your screen right now, uh maybe for the best, but this is wild. I'm I'm really surprised that Elon is leaning into this. So, he clearly uh has a read on his customer base that I did not of all like he's just lost so many like fans that like to do something like this right now where it's like she's getting sex is this actually in Grock where she does this or was this >> like you have to get to like a certain like affection level or something like that? Another person retweeted it and said you can customize it. And she had like Harley Quinn hair. >> I know Elon has acknowledged unless this was photoshopped, but Elon has acknowledged that they're going to do uh like skins that you can buy so you can do outfits and stuff like that. That that is going to be a cash cow. >> Yeah, >> that's >> and it's only a matter of time before it gets mapped on into Optimus and then boom, real life sex. >> Oh my god, for sure. Uh obviously I think about all this stuff from a different angle. building Project Kaizen, our video game, think a lot about the opportunities of building characters that have memory that when you go on a mission with them, they remember it. They remember how you performed. They remember when you lost, when you reset, like uh if you yell because you'll be able to pick up stuff like that, especially if I can create the little talking uh what we call exotics that actually exist in the physical world and sync up. I I don't know that I can do it yet. We'll see. It's it doesn't violate the laws of physics, but I've not solved that problem yet. Uh, but that would be cool. So, it would know you cheering and celebrating and so you'd be able to have like this really cool companion uh that is going on these game raids with you, but that doesn't weird me out in the way that like >> you talk to it, it gets to know you, it starts dressing more scandalously. I don't know. There's it's going to happen. There's no doubt. But >> there's a podcast series that's dropping that's literally about love and code and it talks about digital AI relationships and the first episode is about somebody getting married. They had an online wedding in like 2021 >> with their AI >> early adopter. >> Yeah, that's what I mean like in the pandemic like so >> did you see the one where the husband uh had a he told his um AI that he loved him. It told him that she loved him as well. And then I think what ended up happening was it broke up with him for some reason and he oh god I hope I'm not mashing two stories together and he like got really upset by it and so he ends up telling his wife about it and is um asked by the interviewer if your wife asked you to give her up would you? And he was like ah I don't know. And it was like, whoa. Like this this guy's even married and he's having a relationship. The guy forget like I get for women whose pornography comes in like books where they want to read about it and they want to read about the interior lives of the two characters and the tension and all of that. Like I would understand for them the you know the sort of sexual relationship of it all is relational. It's about getting to know the person and talking to them and being heard and all that. But for a guy like I was very surprised. >> I remember that interview because it's funny because the guy was talking about how his relationship happened and how it was going through these ups and downs and then it just like pan out. His wife realiz you're married and you're saying all this in front of her. It's crazy. Uh all right. From AI dating to real life dating in New York City. Guys, the dating scene is getting so bad in New York City that I am seeing on Tik Tok there are girls going into Midtown during the week and stealing finance bro salads for lunch and then looking their name up from the salad order on LinkedIn and then messaging them through there and being like, "Hey, oh my god, so sorry I grabbed your salad. Like, let me just make it up to you and buy you a new one." And that's how they're like sliding it, which honestly smart. Why are we stealing men's salads? Like that's >> Why can't they just come up to us at a bar? Like why is it getting to this point? >> Pause. >> Are they serious? How many videos have to be put out of them being like, "Oh my god, that's so ick." Or like all the stuff that happened. >> The worst you could do is say no. And then something crazy happened. >> Oh my god. Like women make Tik Tok after Tik Tok about guys creeping them out, not wanting them to come up to them, just wanting to be left alone. and then they are surprised that guys are tense to go up and talk to them. That that's the one where I'm like, "Okay, hold on a second. We're not in reality anymore." >> When I first like heard this, I was like, "This is dumb." Like, "This is a TikTok thing. This is in real life." And then I was like sitting at lunch and I was talking to somebody and they were telling me how like they were at like a shop and a girl was dropping all these hints and they just like completely missed it. And I'm just like And he was like, "Yeah." And then I pulled home. I was like, "Oh." Like she was trying to tell him about a a fish taco spot and it's so good and I'll show you. I'll take you there and I'll do all this. And he's like, "Okay, cool. I don't like tacos." And just like dipped. And it's like in hindsight, there are those moments where it's like, uh, I probably should have like that girl that was super nice to me in the grocery store. Yeah, she probably did want me to say something, but I was coming from the gym. I just wanted, you know, my jug of water. So, I go home. I don't necessarily want that conversation. So, I understand that frustration on sometimes there are those moments where you want the person to say something and they just didn't read the social cue. But, I think stealing salads is like a jump. I don't know if we're there yet. Like >> sliding into the DMs though. It is pretty slick. Uh I once did the ultimate Oh my god, I can't believe that I didn't read that right. I had a girl asked me if I would watch porn with her, which I did. We watched the whole movie and I never made a move. >> Wow. >> And it Drew, it wasn't until years later that I was like, "Wait, girls don't do that for no reason." >> Yeah. I was, I don't know, 16, 17, so you'll have to forgive me, but I hilarious. >> I had negative game at that point in my life. negative game. >> You actually saw the credits roll the poor like that was good. I would have changed the cinematography, but I don't know. The writing was a little weak, but >> it was hilarious. >> All right, that's all I got. >> All right, everybody. If you're not already, be sure to join us for our lives Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 a.m. Pacific time where we go into all this kind of stuff and more. Join us there. And if you haven't already, be sure to subscribe. And until next time, my friends, be legendary. Take care. Peace. If you like this conversation, check out this episode to learn more. Trump does not want people asking about the Epstein files anymore. Netanyahu nominates Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. The Supreme Court ends the workforce reduction injunction. James Gun says Superman is about immigration and politics and many don't love