What the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Means for the U.S. Economy, Whether Tom Brady Will Un-Retireā¦Again, with Steve Forbes and Marcellus Wiley ļ½Ā Ep.Ā 511
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Former NFL star Marcellus Wiley joins The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and why the Fed should have done more to save it. Plus, the latest on Tom Brady, Colin Kaepernick, and the transgender athlete controversy in Vermont.
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We like to walk that fine line between techno-thriller
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Your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Coming up, an in-depth conversation with former NFL star
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He's just as bold when it comes to his commentary
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We're going to talk about the latest on Tom Brady.
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Colin Kaepernick hitting his own parents as racists?
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You can always count on that guy to take the high road.
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An update for you on that Vermont school that refused to have its girls play against other
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Another team in Vermont that had a transgender player on it.
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So, but first, we're going to take a look at where things stand today after the collapse
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Wall Street and bank stocks look a little more stable today, but the Consumer Price Index
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report for February showed prices remaining stubbornly high.
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And that could mean more interest rate hikes, which is in part how Silicon Valley Bank got
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And Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, you know, there's questions about whether he knows what he's
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Our next guest says he's clueless on what to do about all of this.
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He's Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media.
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Right now, I'd rather be in Montana than some other parts of the country.
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And the latest was we're expecting possibly 30 inches of snow over the next 24 hours.
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Out here with the fam when the kids are on spring break.
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And I'm glad I am because this SVP problem is pretty pernicious and very smart people are
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in deep disagreement on what is the proper course here.
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Um, we had a great debate yesterday with, uh, David Sachs and Vivek Ramaswamy on whether
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this bailout or whatever you want to call it was proper, but now we're learning more
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about the bank and there's more in-depth look in some publications.
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National Review had a good piece today talking about how these are, these are very elite
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investors who are in this SVP, SVPB for the most part, and they did not deserve a bailout
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and they knew exactly what they were getting themselves into and why should we save them
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from the consequences of their bad decision making.
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As we find out this bank was super focused on woke initiatives and for the past eight
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months or eight of the past 12 or 15 months, didn't even have a person in the risk management
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Nobody was making sure that when you kick the tires, they had air in them.
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They were more worried about is, is the seat made of vegan leather?
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Have we made sure under the hood is as green as possible?
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And so I sense a growing resentment in some corners for the fact that they were saved at
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One is in terms of, uh, the bank itself, they violated the basic rule of banking, which you
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learn in the first day in class in business school and the banking course.
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And that is miss the danger of mismatching assets and liabilities.
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Uh, as you know, deposits can be withdrawn instantly, uh, long-term assets, uh, not so
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much, they may be valuable, but the way they have a longer maturity and people want their
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Uh, they had, for example, 10 years of, uh, mortgages worth $80 billion yielding 1.8%.
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If you're going to go out long-term to get a higher yield, you better insure that, what
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So that's another gross violation of simple banking.
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If you're going out long-term, you cover yourself, you insure your, you get insurance
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So if something does go wrong, uh, you recover most of the money instantly.
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And so for over a year where the federal reserve has made very clear interest rates were going
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up, banks and others had plenty of time to, uh, get their books in order to reflect the
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new reality that a generation of, uh, zero interest rates was coming to an end.
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Uh, so the bank management is going to be rightly roasted on that.
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But the reason that one thing to keep in mind though, the reason everyone, everyone focuses
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on, uh, the, the rich people in Silicon Valley, the reason the bank did so well is it provided
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You've got better service there, better people understood what your business was better than
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The danger came, and this is where you get to the government's role in this disaster was
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when the federal reserve started to print a lot of money.
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And so in the last couple of years, the bank's deposits, uh, almost a quadruple, uh, went from
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There's no way human beings can put that much money to work productively.
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So what a normal bank would do is you buy short-term treasuries.
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Uh, they instead went out on the yield curve, as they say, uh, trying to get yield.
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And so, uh, 1.8% for 10 years, a few months ago might've looked good, but you can get, uh,
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almost a 4%, three and a half, 4% on a 10 year treasury today.
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And the idea that they're going to be able to keep any bonuses they paid for themselves,
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The other thing to keep in mind though, is that, uh, we have to examine, and I think the
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Republicans will examine is what's happening with the FDIC.
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This bank had enough assets, uh, had a very good, uh, loan, a book of loans that they could
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have sold themselves very easily or taken in a Warren Buffett or a venture capitalist
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who would put in equity, uh, shareholders would have taken a huge hit, but at least you
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And what, what did the FDIC drag its feet on finding a buyer, even though there are plenty
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around who knew, uh, the Silicon Valley bank would have been glad to pick up pieces of
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And they did the same thing with signature bank in New York.
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So the FDIC looks like was playing games in terms of, uh, bank consolidations.
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Uh, so they may have dragged their feet on that.
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So there's plenty of blame to go around, but we have to keep in mind though, is if this
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bank had actually gone down, you would have had a domino effect on the rest of the economy,
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on the banking system, innocent banks would have been dragged under, or the feds would
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have had to put up literally hundreds of billions, if not trillions to assure up the
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Cause everyone would have been withdrawing their deposits.
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I remember back in 2008, when one money fund, uh, broke the buck, so to speak, instead of
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being valued at a dollar, well, I lost a few cents cause they made the same kind of mistake
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And, uh, the whole, uh, whole, uh, money market fund industry suddenly was hit with the
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And so the fed ended up having to a backstop every, for a while, every money market fund
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to prevent a collapse going into the financial equivalent of cardiac arrest.
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So, uh, the, the, the, making sure you didn't have this, uh, hit the rest of the financial
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And the thing to keep in mind too, which is why we're not going to be like 2008 and the
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particulars is that, uh, the banking system today has more capital, more reserves than
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Why, because one of the things Vivek was saying was, okay, so we need to promise that we're
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going to guarantee people's investments, uh, or their, their deposits at their banks, more
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So the FDIC can step in now and say, God, terrible thing that happened at a Silicon Valley
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If you're at a small to midsize regional bank, we're going to, we're going to up the
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insurance that everybody has, but buy to Silicon Valley bank, right?
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We can, we can restore consumer confidence in banks, including small ones and mid ones,
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We do not have to save this bank from the consequences of its bad decision-making.
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Well, uh, you would take down then, uh, hundreds of startups that had their cash parked there.
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Cause like the argument is, and I'm not taking a position on it, but the argument is they,
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And the other argument was most of these, you point out are startups backed by VC firms.
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And so if the VC firms wanted to save these companies, they could.
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Uh, but the money is, if the money's parked at a bank that, uh, is going under, uh, that
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We're at a time when we want more startups, not fewer.
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And in terms of the bank itself, the banking system, as you know, is closely interrelated.
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And, uh, so, uh, uh, making sure of this bank, uh, failure did not, uh, ricochet to the rest
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Again, uh, the good thing they did was they wiped out the shareholders, wipe out the unsecured,
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uh, uh, debtors, uh, security holders, and, uh, management is going to get it.
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I guarantee you on the management, unlike what happened after 2008, uh, this, this management
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is going to, uh, go over the skewers and they're not going to be allowed to keep any of the
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So in terms, in terms of the bank itself, uh, if you want to, uh, the, the VCs had their
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So if the, if, if, if the bank is, uh, uh, if you can't access that cash, you've got a
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lot of, uh, startups that are going to go down at a time when we want more startups,
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So I think in terms of the, uh, the bank itself, you can, uh, do, uh, you could have, you could
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have actually, in terms of saving the bank again, there are a lot of assets there that,
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uh, other banks would have been gladly willing to buy and why the FDIC was mishandled.
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Well, wait, but you want to blame the FDIC, but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, it works
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So you want to blame the FDIC, but what about the CEO of the bank?
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Because there's a report today as a CNN saying, well, let me, let me tee it up, Steve.
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Let me see it that, um, so the, some of the employees are very angry with this CEO.
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He's now been removed, Greg Becker for making it public in the first place that they were
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facing a $2.25 billion shortfall that they needed to raise that kind of money.
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Why would he say it publicly, which in part caused the run on the bank rather than just
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raising it privately, rather than going to some other bank privately and saying, do you
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want to save Silicon Valley bank with this money?
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And, uh, so, uh, it's, as I mentioned earlier, it's both sides management made huge mistakes
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and not hedging, ensuring if they decide to go out long and try for yield.
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And in terms of, uh, the rescue last week, uh, there, again, there are plenty of people
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willing to buy that bank, but this guy, Becker and his team chose to act like a deer in the
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So, uh, they, they, they bear a large responsibility.
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Again, the bank has a lot of great assets and there've been a lot of people out there who
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Uh, just like Warren Buffett saved general electric and some other companies in 2008, uh, you
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paid a price for it, but, uh, you, you got rescued and the amount of money they needed
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to make up their equity shortfall was a peanuts compared to, uh, what, uh, what, uh, the, the
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So bank management, uh, deserves a lot of the blame.
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There was no reason why they couldn't have just quietly said to the regulators and to,
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to, uh, VCs and to other banks, we got a short-term problem.
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And there have been a plenty of people at the right price would have been quite willing
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to step in and buy and do what it took to prevent a massive failure.
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And this is where, though, it gets to what the FDIC did.
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Why didn't they try to facilitate that instead of dragging their feet?
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So there's a lot of blame to go around and ultimately, ultimately getting beyond the
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particulars of this disaster is why we're the central banks of the world and our treasury
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department for years, having a policy of no interest rates.
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And when you distort the market, we all know what happens when you have rent control.
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Larry Summers once said, rather indelicately, there are two ways to destroy a city.
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One is to bomb it and the other is to put in rent control.
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And, uh, what the central banks did after 2008 was they put in the equivalent of rent
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control and interest rates, sent them to levels that never seen before in human history.
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That's had two consequences, which is why I'm worried about the future short-term.
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A lot of countries went heavily, heavily in debt because it was free money for the politicians
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Japan, for example, has a national debt twice that proportionally as the United States.
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A lot of developing countries went, uh, uh, binging, a lot of companies that could, uh,
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borrow even solvent great companies like Apple, which has a huge cashflow ended up borrowing
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Because the money was virtually free and any interest was tax deductible.
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So, uh, they, they use it to pay dividends, buying stock and all that kind of stuff.
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And, uh, so the fed and the other banks destroyed the market.
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So it's a critical reason why we've had punk growth rates under Trump started to get, to
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Let me, I want to move the discussion forward because we only have you for a block.
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Um, so the, the, one of the reasons that the markets actually took an upturn for a
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bet yesterday was people were speculating that the feds would not issue another rate hike
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now on this, on the interest rates because of what was happening at Silicon Valley bank.
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The reports were yesterday, we lost a hundred billion dollars wiped off of us bank's value
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and what was being described as a bloodbath on wall street.
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But there was some hopeful speculation that all of this would stop, um, the fed from raising
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However, today we see inflation is basically holding steady or we're at 6% again.
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And so that's what the fed has been raising the rates to try to stop.
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And so now there's speculation, maybe it won't stop him.
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Maybe this crisis will continue because the interest rates don't seem to be budging much.
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The inflation, the inflation does not seem to be budging much.
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Uh, well, uh, the federal reserve, uh, the big problem there, and that's shared by most
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economists and all other central bankers is they believe the way you fight inflation is
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by depressing an economy, uh, making people poor, trying to increase unemployment.
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Uh, the way, uh, the, the definition of inflation is when you lower the value of your dollar,
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in this case, the dollar, lower the value of your currency, usually by creating too much
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So you don't, and back in the seventies and early eighties, we went through repeated recessions
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What finally conquered the inflation was not a bad recession was when after the 81, 82 recession,
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uh, the federal reserve started to stabilize the value of the dollar relatively instead
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And then we had a government that was cutting taxes, doing deregulation and allowing the
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They're piling on regulations, doing everything they can to throw a sand into the gears of the
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economy, even though they say they want it to grow, they're doing everything possible
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And, uh, you have a federal reserve that totally misunderstands inflation.
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Inflation is not, there's something in economics called the Phillips curve.
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It's a theory that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that you want lower inflation, you
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If you want lower unemployment, you have to have higher inflation experience shows that's
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absolute nonsense, but at the federal reserve, it's wholly writ.
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So, uh, they may back off on, uh, trashing the economy, uh, this round, but, uh, that if
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they go back at it, we're going to have a troubled economy.
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I don't know whether the economic theologians will ever call it a recession, but people are
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And because a lot of companies and some banks, uh, got addicted to low interest rates because
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You saw in Britain, their pension funds had a disaster in the fall because they were trying
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to reach for yield and, uh, when rates went up, oopsie daisy, the government in effect
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And so, uh, what you're going to see here, a lot of companies, uh, uh, that, uh, depended
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on free money are going to get in trouble in the next few months.
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So the federal reserve does not know how to find the beginning of something, not the end.
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Let me switch gears and tell you that we just got this breaking news in, um, the collapse
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of Silicon Valley bank is now under investigation by the justice department.
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Uh, they are in the early stages of investigating it.
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Fox news confirming the wall street journal first reported this morning saying the sec is
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also investigating in particular, the government probes will look into stock sales that the
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bank's financial officers made days before the bank collapsed.
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We were told by some reporting that those were automated, um, you know, pre-scheduled sales
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of stock by the executives, but they made millions off of them.
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Um, so the justice department will look into whether there was fraud, whether there was
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other, um, there were other misdeeds, but that leads me to another question I have, which
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is in much in the same way we had, uh, Arthur Anderson collapse after Enron went down, right?
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Because it was, uh, the accounting firm for Enron and had given it all these clean bills
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So KPMG, as it turns out, another big accounting firm, 14 days before it collapsed, gave the
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They signed off on the audit and they're saying, oh, well, we weren't looking at current day.
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You know, the audit looks back on the previous 2022 year, but that doesn't save it.
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It's also supposed to be looking at whether there was anything in between the close of that
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year and the current issuance of the audit report that would change the clean bill of
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health that it's offering that it's not going to be able to save itself by saying, oh, we
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were only looking backward and we didn't, you know, look up to present day.
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So how can our accounting firms get it so wrong?
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I would be remiss if I didn't mention Forbes, Forbes also a magazine, not you, um, put Silicon
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Valley bank on its annual list of America's best banks just weeks before regulators, regulators
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seized control. You are not KPMG, but why, why wasn't this seen, you know, by KPMG, by
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you guys, by more people who are supposed to raise the alarm?
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Well, on, uh, on, uh, the, our, our, our side, KPG can explain themselves, but on our
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side, we took numbers, the latest numbers, which was the end of the third quarter and
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use nine metrics. And there was nothing in those publicly disclosed metrics that had the
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huge mismatch between the liabilities and assets. That's something that should have been
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known internally and certainly by the auditors, but the public information was not there,
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which is why stock analysts, uh, didn't see that, that kind of problem. But the thing
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is, yes, have those investigations of management and the accountants, but also don't let the
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FDIC and the federal reserve off the hook. Uh, the FDIC is in the business of, uh, making
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sure that when a bank, a big bank gets in trouble, uh, that you contain the trouble, that
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you sell the assets, uh, usually there are assets there that can be sold. And, uh, with the Silicon
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Valley bank, there are plenty of assets. And, uh, why wasn't that done? Why did the FDIC drag it
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to switch? So, uh, let's have a thorough investigation, a 360 degree investigation,
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not just saying bad man. Do you, do you feel like you, you, like the magazine, perhaps the
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investigator there, the KPMD, do you feel like you were actively misled by the company?
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No. Well, uh, we, we, we took the numbers that were there and, uh, the numbers, uh, the number,
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the public, those numbers, uh, don't give you, uh, in terms of, uh, the, the assets, terms of, uh,
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what they have in terms of, uh, hedging and things like that. So, uh, the bank itself, probably, uh,
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what the bank has to answer for is they, they knew for a year interest rates were going up.
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So if they wanted to go out in the yield curve, uh, why did they go so far and why didn't they
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hedge and why, when they got in trouble? Yeah. And why didn't, and why didn't they, uh, when they
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got in trouble, why didn't they seek a buyer? There are plenty of, uh, funds out there, plenty
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of banks willing to buy distressed assets to get the deal. Okay. Here's the other question. Um,
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why, why should I believe that the consumers are not going to wind up funding this bailout? You
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know, they say that, Oh, the, the government's going to pay for it. Basically they're saying
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they're going to go into this bank insurance fund and they're going to use that money to pay to,
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to, for the, this bank and paying back these depositors, their money. And then they say,
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don't worry, we're going to refill that special insurance fund by a quote, special assessment
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that we will issue on the banks. So the big bad banks are going to pay for this. Well,
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where do the big bad banks get their money? Hmm. Let me think. Oh, for me, from us.
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That's why, for example, when they talk about, uh, uh, hitting, uh, businesses, uh, for taxes,
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where do the businesses get the taxes from? They get it from, uh, workers, shareholders,
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and big, big time from customers. It doesn't grow on trees. So the government is dissembling here
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saying it's not going to, it's going to be costless. Yes. FDIC has some cash, but that was to
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cover $250,000 of liabilities, not the unlimited liabilities that we have here. So in terms of,
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uh, though paying for it again, if you have a proper sale of, uh, the assets of those two big
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banks, a lot of that will be covered by a proper sale. Again, this is stuff that we've done before
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going back to the 1980s, 1970s, when we started to have a rash of bank failures and what to do and
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what not to do. So they've ignored the lessons of the past and what you do in a situation like this,
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making it more costly and, uh, uh, creating a unnecessary panic. This could have been done
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quietly. That's very interesting because the headlines today, I think it was in Politico or
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about how president Biden saved the banking industry. And you're saying, hold on because
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these government administrators and agencies like the FDIC blew it. There were real opportunities to
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sell this bank, to save some of the assets, to sit, to stop this price tag from going, uh, the way it
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has. And they, they were asleep at the switch and incompetent. Uh, I think, uh, it's, uh, also
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ideology played a role. A lot of people in this administration, uh, think, uh, big is bad. And so,
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uh, they took us, uh, uh, real hard. They, they really did not want a big bank coming in and buying,
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uh, another big bank. Uh, and, uh, they also, I think like the ideas of getting their claws on a
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bank, which they have right now. I remember, uh, back in, uh, uh, after 2008, when Barack Obama
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became president and the government forced banks to take out a bailout, uh, a lot of them were happy
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for it, but some banks did not want the bailout, but were forced to do it. And, uh, Obama was a very
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reluctant to have the banks repay, uh, that money because he liked the idea of government to having a,
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a piece of them and controlling them for political purposes. Eventually they had to, uh, unwind TARP
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as they called it. But, uh, we have that same socialist mentality here. Again, the FDIC, uh, when
00:24:25.460
they, as soon as they learned this bank was in trouble, would have been very easy given the assets
00:24:29.720
this bank had to, uh, liquidate or find a seller for those assets and avoid the kind of panic we have.
00:24:36.920
So the government played a big role in the panic and, uh, we're seeing it play out now, but remember
00:24:42.340
the banking system is all is good shape, but there are a lot of companies out there and entities
00:24:47.040
that got, uh, are going to get caught up because the fact they had a generation of no interest rates,
00:24:53.480
zero interest rates. Yeah. Right. Which is a government imposed decision and so on. Yeah.
00:24:58.760
I mean, don't believe the political headline in other words. Um, okay. Last but not least,
00:25:03.380
you were in the news personally this week because our friends, Carol Markowitz and Bethany Mandel
00:25:09.200
have a new book out called, uh, Stolen Youth, not to be confused with the documentary that's
00:25:16.420
online right now about Sarah Lawrence university, two separate things. Stolen Youth, the subtitle is
00:25:20.800
how radicals are erasing and indoctrinating a generation. And you were at the book launch party,
00:25:25.440
which is nice. Glad to hear you went and supported the ladies or our friends as well. And what happened
00:25:30.900
to you? Uh, what happened was, uh, I was talking to a Bethany about the subject and suddenly there was
00:25:38.400
this racket as a protester came in, a woman screaming about, uh, black lives matter. Lord
00:25:45.060
knows what else. Another protester came in, knocked the books over. We were near the book display. Uh,
00:25:50.980
they threw a drink our way. Fortunately, uh, the glass didn't hit anybody. Uh, Bethany got wet. I got
00:25:57.360
wet and, uh, she had to change her dress because, uh, she got soaked and, uh, fortunately I was wearing a
00:26:03.180
dark suit. So, uh, uh, no, no visible harm there. But, uh, the fact that these, uh, protesters came
00:26:09.860
in and screamed absolutely incoherently, uh, underscored the whole theme of the book that we're
00:26:16.120
in an era where a lot of people, a lot of these, uh, people, uh, exhibit, uh, intolerance and
00:26:22.800
ignorance and a proneness to, uh, uh, even to violence. Fortunately, no one was injured, uh, but
00:26:29.080
they came in to disrupt this reception for a new book. And fortunately, no one was really hurt.
00:26:34.860
So it's unbelievable. You're 75 years old. This is, you're just trying to support somebody in the
00:26:39.480
sale of their book. Like this is not what you should be subjected to or what anybody should
00:26:43.060
have to deal with. I think it was Bethany who spoke out and said, um, they, these people are
00:26:48.680
exactly what our readers don't want our kids turning into their kids turning into. Um, and that woke
00:26:55.460
is poisoning young brains. It's why they wrote the book. It's why I think ultimately woke ism
00:27:00.640
will fail. You've spoken out against it as well. Do you agree? Do you think it's on the
00:27:05.480
way down Steve, or do you think it's as strong as it's been over the past few years?
00:27:10.760
No, I think what you've seen is it's still strong, but the counter forces are a gathering force.
00:27:15.820
You might say you see it in the school choice movement where several States now put an educational
00:27:21.080
savings accounts where the parents will control the money, not the school bureaucracies. You see
00:27:26.720
a lot of parents coming together and starting to affect their own schools and their living rooms
00:27:30.800
or renting a classroom. A woman I met at that reception is doing that with a group of mothers
00:27:36.340
rented a classroom to do instruction for their kids. They couldn't stand the wokeness in the schools.
00:27:41.000
And you have a one presidential candidate, certainly a governor to Santa's of Florida. He'll be
00:27:46.200
announcing, I think in the next couple of months, uh, making this, uh, making this an issue. The
00:27:51.320
American people do not want their kids indoctrinated and, uh, made fearful and hateful. And so, uh, yes,
00:27:57.980
the Wokies will fight hard and, uh, but they were now going to be in a rear guard action instead of
00:28:03.120
on offense. Uh, the forces of a good are marshaling. And, uh, I think ultimately, uh, common sense will
00:28:10.220
prevail. Hmm. From your lips to God's ears. We actually have an update for folks on that involving
00:28:15.980
Robin D'Angelo, who seems kind of depressed and we'll explain why Steve, I'm glad you're okay.
00:28:22.140
And, uh, thanks so much for being here and for supporting. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you.
00:28:26.560
All the best. We're going to be back next with Marcellus Wiley on everything, including the
00:28:31.320
breaking news, uh, with Michael Irvin. Have you heard what's happening with him? This woman claims
00:28:36.340
that he kind of attacked her at, um, a Renaissance and he denied it and said, this is like an old fashioned
00:28:43.360
lynching. And now he's putting out the videotape. It's breaking right now. We'll be back with that.
00:28:52.380
Is Tom Brady preparing to unretire again? The rumor mill is in full swing on that. Plus we're
00:28:59.460
watching breaking news right now where former NFL player, Michael Irvin is holding a news conference
00:29:06.100
on his $100 million lawsuit. It stems from a brief run-in he had with a hotel employee shortly before
00:29:13.040
the Superbowl. Irvin has denied wrongdoing and we expect him to release the surveillance video of
00:29:18.400
the encounter at any moment. We've been waiting for this. He's been waiting for it and finally got his
00:29:22.980
hands on it. He's not happy with the hotel chain or his accuser. Joining me now to get into all of it
00:29:28.340
is Marcellus Wiley. He's host of the more to it podcast and former NFL star. Of course, Marcellus,
00:29:35.860
welcome to the show. Hey, how's it going, Megan? All's great. Oh, it's going great with me too.
00:29:41.400
Thanks so much for being here. So this is kind of crazy. What's happening with Marcellus Wiley,
00:29:46.320
Marcellus Wiley, what's happening with Michael Irvin. Hey, I'm about to say, what did I do?
00:29:49.600
You did nothing. You're good. And Michael Irvin may be good too. I don't know. So the way this got
00:29:57.260
started was right before the Superbowl. He was doing commentary on the air. He was at, I think
00:30:02.080
it was a Renaissance, which is a subsidiary of Marriott and some hotel employee claimed he had
00:30:08.140
grabbed her arm and said some inappropriate things to her while very drunk. And, uh, you know, some
00:30:13.600
kind of R rated stuff. And that was kind of it. Um, but it's turned into this massive deal where the
00:30:20.200
hotel reported him to the NFL. He was saying, this is a bunch of BS. I was drunk. I don't really
00:30:27.180
remember the whole encounter exactly, but I definitely did not sexually assault anybody.
00:30:31.520
And, um, then they said, give us the video. There's video to give us the video. He filed
00:30:37.440
a lawsuit. The court said to Marriott, give him the damn video. And Marriott didn't. And,
00:30:43.400
and Marcus's lawyers were saying, this is you blatantly violated the court order. Like give
00:30:47.860
the man the video of if you're so sure he assaulted a woman, let's see it. And so finally they were
00:30:54.280
forced to do it. He's now gotten his hands on it and we're about to see it. He's holding a press
00:30:59.320
conference right now. What the heck do you think is going on? Cause the news today, I think was that
00:31:04.200
he just, yeah, he just dropped the $100 million lawsuit against Marriott. Um, and we don't know
00:31:11.360
exactly why, cause it was a defamation lawsuit. Uh, but he, he may refile it because it was, I don't
00:31:16.920
know, maybe he just doesn't like the way he styled the claim. So I'm not sure what's going on,
00:31:20.140
but what do you make of it? Cause you know him. Um, well I'm no lawyer, but I play one on my
00:31:26.020
podcast. So let me play it right now. Um, uh, your timeline is pretty accurate. Uh, they dismissed
00:31:33.020
the lawsuit, but moved it to Arizona. Um, so he's still going to sue Marriott. Um, I don't know what
00:31:40.700
we're going to see on this video. There have been videos shown on the internet before. Now you got to
00:31:47.100
take this beat by beat to kind of really get a great understanding. This is not a character
00:31:50.920
conversation about Michael Irvin. Uh, why? Because there was a complaint made about him about an
00:31:57.600
instance. So we have to really focus in and be in a vacuum of this moment. What is this lady
00:32:04.140
complaining about? Well, the video doesn't support what she is claiming because the only video I've
00:32:10.420
seen is a really brief encounter in a public place. That only thing you can take from the body
00:32:16.860
language is that it was nice. It was pleasant and it was quick. Now, if there was something orally
00:32:24.480
verbally said in that moment, well, we're going to need to videotape with audio because other than
00:32:30.100
that, what I've seen, there's nothing that's going to make that complaint actually stand in a court of
00:32:35.740
law. But we all know our judicial system is supposed to start with innocent till proven guilty,
00:32:42.220
but we know in the court of public opinion, it's just the damn opposite. As soon as there's an
00:32:47.680
accusation, you're guilty until you're proven innocent. So the burden is really on the young
00:32:53.040
lady to actually have her complaint, have merit right now. I don't know where that can go.
00:32:59.280
Your imagination could take you a lot of places. Did Michael Irvin walk past this lady and say
00:33:03.780
something inappropriate? Maybe, maybe not. Does she have proof of that? Because if she doesn't have
00:33:08.280
proof of that, he did not say that in a court of law. So right now I'm just looking for the proof.
00:33:13.040
Maybe this video is different than what I've seen, but so far by numerous witnesses and the videos I
00:33:19.020
have seen, it's going to be a very difficult case for her to win the complaint.
00:33:23.940
This is what, they just released an information packet moments ago, Irvin's team, his lawyers,
00:33:30.060
to people like us, members of the media to say, here's what to watch for when you see the tape.
00:33:35.220
They say, where is she going? The complaining employee appears from the bottom left of the
00:33:40.360
screen, walks all the way around the lobby to cut back into the bar where she starts the
00:33:45.060
conversation with Michael. There was no reason for her to go that way. They're saying she sought him
00:33:49.720
out. They say, watch her body language. She is not offended. They say, as she leaves the bar with
00:33:54.900
the other employee, she's not shaken, but the man seems very upset. The male employee in the bar
00:34:02.380
claps as the complaining employee starts talking with Michael lingers in the bar,
00:34:08.060
leering at the complaining employee throughout most of her conversation with Michael. He talks
00:34:12.660
to a man in a gray shirt who seems to be security personnel. He waits for the conversation to end.
00:34:17.020
He intercepts the complaining employee, points at her sharply and appears to chastise her as they
00:34:22.400
walk off screen. What is his relationship to this employee, the employees at the hotel? He seems to be a
00:34:28.540
manager. The security guard in the gray shirt lingers during the entire interaction. The employee
00:34:33.380
who wants to take a picture with Michael and then watch Michael's body language and the manner of
00:34:39.340
speech with the complaining employee and compare with his interactions with everyone else in the
00:34:44.600
video, they're saying that nothing happened, that this is being unfairly targeted. He's being unfairly
00:34:50.800
targeted here. Yeah. I mean, look, I haven't been in this exact situation and circumstance, but I've
00:34:57.520
been around this. It sounded like what I just heard and I need to see it and I need to read it again. But
00:35:03.680
let me just give you a little conjecture. It sounded like there could be these things at play. Like the
00:35:09.620
young lady came to Michael Irvin and maybe have a relationship with this man that they're talking
00:35:15.000
about. And she came in strong, came in hot, flirting with Michael, whatever it may be. Michael's not
00:35:20.580
stupid. He can read the room knowing that those two together, maybe not for everyone's understanding
00:35:26.780
that they're together, but Michael could fill it out. So Michael's like, I'm good. And that guy gets
00:35:31.520
mad because his girl stepped out of bounds trying to catch a pass from Michael Irvin. Right. So it sounds
00:35:37.980
like it could be some of that. It sounds like some little love triangle where Michael had no love for
00:35:42.380
neither one of these people, but they were consumed and really intoxicated by his fame and
00:35:48.060
celebrity. I don't know. I need to see the video. But right now, if you ask me to hit the early gavel,
00:35:53.100
it sounds like she stepped out of bounds, didn't like that. The shame of that moment made her
00:35:58.680
file a complaint. And this guy also getting upset, probably urged her to file that complaint because
00:36:05.600
there's no way I did that on my own volition. That's the other thing. That's one of the questions.
00:36:09.940
Who actually filed the complaint? Was it her or was it him? Was it somebody else who allegedly
00:36:16.680
witnessed it? Marriott, their version of it is Michael was visibly intoxicated. He initiated the
00:36:22.580
encounter. So there's a divergence there. Says he flagged down the woman, asked her about her job,
00:36:28.320
said he found her attractive, introduced himself. She explained she was not an NFL fan, didn't know who
00:36:33.460
he was. He said, look me up on the Internet. The claim is that it escalated into aggressive flirtation,
00:36:38.620
unwanted physical contact and a graphic proposition. He shook her hand. He touched her
00:36:44.040
arm, quote, without her consent. I mean, that's ridiculous. That's like an arm. I don't we've
00:36:48.320
gotten to the point where like an arm is now a sexual assault. Yeah. A handshake is now assault
00:36:54.140
because you touched my palm. I'm like, come on. Where does it become an assault? Like when you go past
00:36:58.280
the hand to like the elbow now, you've crossed into sexual assault territory. How about the bicep
00:37:04.280
or the forearm? Where does that fall on the scale? But unreal. Yeah. He asked whether she knew anything
00:37:10.520
about having, forgive me, quote, a big black man inside of her and she was taken aback. She thought
00:37:16.620
it was inappropriate. Then he attempted to grab her hand again. Sorry if he brought up bad memories for
00:37:21.340
her. These are in quotation marks in their motion. And then two hotel workers apparently approached and
00:37:26.740
attempted to intervene. However, he he produced two hotel workers that say that's all BS. That's not
00:37:33.640
what happened at all. And I don't know whether the surveillance tape we're going to see has audio.
00:37:38.420
Typically, it would not. Yeah. Look, he say she say of it all. That's the toughest part about any
00:37:45.680
sexual assault, legitimate or not. It's just how do you get into those intimate moments, those intimate
00:37:51.380
conversations and actually get details and actually get recordings, actually get facts. It's very
00:37:58.100
difficult because obviously you're going to have opposing sides, opposing stories, opposing versions.
00:38:04.640
Right now, one of my superpowers I've been able to possess, I think, in my life is I'm extremely
00:38:10.040
patient. So I'm not the one that needs to know everything right now. I usually play to the back.
00:38:15.780
I wait for everything to develop. And then I pick which of the three lanes I'm a travel his story,
00:38:22.780
her story or the truth. And usually it's a combination of those two. It could be ninety nine
00:38:28.060
and one percent, but somehow, some way it always figures itself out. But I hate when I hear the
00:38:34.540
details of the assault in this description when it's just normal activity. Like when it starts off,
00:38:41.180
he was intoxicated. That's not illegal to be intoxicated. It's OK to be intoxicated based
00:38:46.540
when you're going to your room. I think that's the place you should be going to if you're intoxicated.
00:38:50.860
The only thing I know Michael Irvin did that was wrong is that interview right after it when he said,
00:38:56.220
I don't remember what happened. I was intoxicated. Someone should have got to him really early.
00:39:02.680
You know this from just watching any crime show that you're not supposed to say anything,
00:39:07.480
even if you think it is actually supporting your case, because in a court of law, it will be used
00:39:12.400
against him. So now that undermines a lot of the things he will say because he's already been on
00:39:17.620
record saying he was intoxicated and didn't remember. Yeah. If she's saying, well, I remember
00:39:22.200
it clearly. And he's on the other side saying, well, I don't remember it. That's not good for him.
00:39:25.980
Let's talk about like blowing these things up. You know, I, I have been inappropriately approached by
00:39:33.300
more guys than I would care to remember, especially when I was younger. How does it become a federal
00:39:40.720
case? Like whatever, some drunken fool. Let's say her version is true. And he got drunk and said the
00:39:46.020
inappropriate stuff I just read. Okay. You move on. He, he didn't push it. She moved on. She was fine.
00:39:52.860
They say the hotel reported this to the NFL because the NFL had just requested Marriott to notify it.
00:39:59.720
Should any issues of all arise involving any employees of the NFL booked at the property?
00:40:04.660
Well, why, why is that necessary? Somebody gets drunk and says something stupid and they got to
00:40:08.800
call their employer. You got to get them in trouble with their boss. This that's called being human.
00:40:13.760
It's not great. If he did it, he probably could have solved it with a, Hey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:40:17.960
I was a drunken fool. And you were like, no problem. How does this get escalated in national news?
00:40:22.460
And then now he's in trouble. And that was a federal lawsuit by him against them. Like it's spun out of
00:40:27.580
control. Yeah. Um, yes. And no, let me say the yes and no, because I love to bring perspective to
00:40:35.140
things like this. Um, every day I speed past the speed limit. Like if I see 35, if I'm going 35,
00:40:43.060
I feel like I'm going slow, right? I'm on the freeway 55. I feel like I'm going slow every day.
00:40:48.400
I speed past the speed limit. Now by law, I can actually get pulled over and ticketed, but I don't,
00:40:54.860
but when I do it's all of a sudden out of time and place where I say, well, I did something that
00:41:01.040
wasn't necessarily right, but I do it all the time or it happens all the time. Why are you tripping
00:41:06.980
right now, officer? And I think there is some of that in parallel to this because it is inappropriate.
00:41:13.120
Look, I went to college and if she went to college, trust me, she's hurt worse and walk right past it.
00:41:18.800
She's done worse probably, or receive worse in terms of treatment and walk right past it. You can't go to
00:41:24.460
college and not hear crazier things than that at the local pub. That said, that wasn't right.
00:41:30.420
What happened at the local pub, but we all just get desensitized because that's the way it goes.
00:41:34.860
I don't know what Michael Irvin said, but if he said these things, then there's a conversation to
00:41:41.060
be had about those were inappropriate. I'm in the, I'm in a school of thought that I would just walk
00:41:47.760
past it. I don't stop for ignorance. I just keep it pushing. If it's really not a complete violation,
00:41:53.180
especially physically to me, mentally, I could block that out. However, that doesn't mean I'm
00:41:58.480
not standing on the right ground. She may be standing on right ground and then it's becoming
00:42:02.620
an ambulance chase. You know how it goes. I got into a car accident. One time I had a Rolls Royce
00:42:07.180
got into a car accident. I swear, I swear. It felt like two feathers touching like, and the person,
00:42:14.940
the person gets out the car and looks and realizes it's a Rolls Royce, literally tried to get back in
00:42:22.760
the car and grab their neck. I was like, Oh my God, that's what we do in here. And I wasn't filming
00:42:27.580
it. So then it became their word versus my word. I think I had to pay a little more than the average
00:42:32.940
Joe, but they tried to get me. They got bumped like this. And then they're like, Hey, Hey, Oh, Oh,
00:42:38.800
you know? And I was just sitting there like, that's what happens. Michael Irvin, whatever that
00:42:43.240
may be in conversation, you got to keep yourself a great distance from people because sometimes
00:42:50.060
this will can occur. That is a very good point. I mean, he's a famous guy. He was a huge NFL player
00:42:56.080
and people do know him. I don't know whether this woman did or not, but you know, it's right before
00:42:59.840
the Superbowl. All these big stars are in town. You could put two and two together.
00:43:03.540
I love the fact that she's at the Superbowl drinking at night and like, Oh, my line is
00:43:12.640
going to be, I don't know anybody in the NFL and I don't like football.
00:43:15.460
Like she was an employee. She was the drinker. But when I was in law school, similar thing
00:43:23.680
happened to me where I had the smallest little car accident. It was nothing. It was a fender
00:43:28.020
bender. If that. And, um, I, I like none of us had any money. The woman who, who I had
00:43:33.500
the accident with it had no money and I had no money. Um, and so she, whatever, we're going to
00:43:38.820
walk away. It was $500, the damage to her car. I did cause it allegedly. And, uh, allegedly I
00:43:44.760
rear-ended her car, but it was a nothing. So I was, it was going to be 500 bucks like to fix her
00:43:49.780
fender. And then she found out I was in law school. So she thought, Oh, there's going to be money.
00:43:54.740
Like she's going to get like soon. And, um, but, but I didn't have insurance because I was poor.
00:44:00.900
I wasn't yet rich. So there was no pot of money to tap into. And then her lawyer dropped her and
00:44:06.140
the lawsuit magically went away. But same thing when she found out I was in law school and she
00:44:10.360
found a lawyer, she filed a lawsuit against me. And suddenly this fender bender, which was a
00:44:13.780
nothing turned into. And I quote severe and permanent cervical neck strain. And they thought
00:44:21.840
you lost it against me, which they then had to drop when they realized I wasn't insured.
00:44:25.900
Oh, that's so good. Look, not to torture this example, but I got another story that's even
00:44:29.880
better. And it's on the other end of the spectrum. So once again, I guess I was a bad
00:44:34.100
driver when I had this Rolls Royce, I'm getting off the freeway off ramp. And I looked left because
00:44:39.520
I'm turning right to make sure no cars are coming. And I didn't look right. Cause I just
00:44:44.560
assumed no one was there because it's a freeway off ramp, but it was a person walking and I'm be
00:44:49.140
real. It was a, it was a homeless person and I barely bumped him, but I did bump him and he hit
00:44:55.480
the hood. He said, Hey, and I was like, I'm sorry. And immediately I'm like, he's homeless. So
00:45:00.340
I'm not trying to get anything in trouble. I get out the car. I'm like, you okay. He's like,
00:45:04.800
yeah, yeah. He's like, I'm fine, but you got to watch where you're going. And he's like,
00:45:08.900
can you give me some money? And I'm like, this guy's not going to sue me. This guy doesn't even
00:45:13.020
going to get information. And I empty my pockets. I think I had like $500 on me or something. Empty
00:45:18.040
my pockets. We settled that lawsuit right there for $500. But this was just a flip example of someone
00:45:24.860
that that could have been someone else. And then really tried to make him way more than it was.
00:45:29.440
This guy was like, look, you didn't hurt me, but pay attention. And I gave him $500 just for the
00:45:34.700
inconvenience and the little bruise he may have had. So I've been there in many ways.
00:45:39.760
Yeah. You know how it is. In our litigious society, whether they think you're a star or not,
00:45:45.340
I'm sure all of our listeners right now are like, yup, me too. They've had a situation where
00:45:49.580
somebody decided there might be gold at the end of that rainbow, went after them over BS lawsuits.
00:45:54.880
This is the downside of the American litigation system. Wait, do we have time to play the video?
00:45:58.460
We just got it. Oh, wow. My team. There we go. All right. Yeah, let's play it. We got it. It just
00:46:05.160
came in. Michael Irvin's hotel video surveillance. Hard to see. There's no audio. I don't know what
00:46:11.840
the hell I'm seeing. I need circles. I need, I need X marks the spot. We're going to see the girl on
00:46:17.080
the right. Michael, I, Michael has a jacket. Are they talking now? Seem to be talking. I don't see
00:46:26.680
anything. I, my, my view is not very good. I confess that the audience can't see my mind.
00:46:35.700
They're talking to men are sort of meandering around. I don't see any physical. Celebrity
00:46:42.720
hovering right there. Yeah. Celebrity hovering, right? Somebody's like, Hey, that's Michael Irvin.
00:46:48.360
Nothing. I don't see him grabbing her, but he admits. Space between them. Constant space between
00:46:54.280
them. Does not look like a sexual assault. I can certainly say that. He's gesturing or she's
00:46:59.320
gesturing. There's no sex. There's no contact. It's kind of tough. No, I don't even see the elbow
00:47:06.460
thing here, Marcellus. I see nothing. Oh, she did the lean back. The lean back is always like,
00:47:10.880
Oh, that was funny, but not really. So that means, uh, I'm liking you. Oh, is that a handout?
00:47:18.180
It could be. There's not a grab. I can't, I can't see it very well. I'm not learning anything
00:47:25.240
from this video. Nothing at all. Like I told you, that's a straight B. She put, she put her Mac in.
00:47:31.400
Oh, the elbow. He leaned, he leaned forward there. I could see him being a little drunk from the way
00:47:37.240
he's, uh, standing. I do. Who the hell knows? Total speculation. I have no idea. It looks a
00:47:41.660
little unsteady. Oh my goodness. It keeps going. But at this point, if you're an employee, don't
00:47:47.240
you just say, I got to go. My boss is there. I'm not sure. Like there's so many ways to get out of
00:47:51.600
it. Yeah. She's doing a lot right now. And now the guys are there. Yeah. Now the two other guys are
00:47:58.040
coming over, but no, they're not like coming over to intervene. They're just sort of lingering.
00:48:01.220
And then she walks away. Well, I mean, I'm sorry, but that looked like much to do about
00:48:06.920
nothing to me. Like move on. It's a nothing. My God, if I could list for you, the things
00:48:11.160
that have been said to me, especially during my college years, it would make what he said
00:48:14.320
look like a P like a G rated Disney film. If that's the salt, we're all going to jail.
00:48:21.000
Exactly. I think I've assaulted people too. All right. Mark, Marcella, stand by. He stays
00:48:25.640
with us for the rest of the show. And we will be right back with Tom Brady and also latest
00:48:31.220
Just to continue the discussion we were just having, I just wanted to mention one thing.
00:48:38.460
Michael Irvin did suffer pain as a result of this allegation. He was kicked out. He wasn't
00:48:43.040
allowed to do his job for the NFL over the Super Bowl. He sent home. And that's why he
00:48:47.360
was so mad. And this is like sort of, you know, the punishment comes before the crime's
00:48:50.580
even been investigated. So it's BS and we do need answers. And the NFL needs to seriously
00:48:55.000
revisit. It's, you know, make sure your hall monitor, everybody who works for us and run
00:48:59.360
in and tell us, like if something escalates to the point where a civil lawsuit's been
00:49:02.800
filed or a criminal complaint is made. That's one thing. None of that happened here. It was
00:49:06.760
basically just like an unfortunate encounter that got blown up. Okay. That's that. Is
00:49:11.560
something similar happening to Tiger Woods? This is kind of interesting. I saw the headline
00:49:17.500
about him looking for it in my pack. You can't find my page. Um, but Tiger Woods got accused
00:49:22.380
by an ex-girlfriend. He's been with this woman for years of allegedly sexually assaulting
00:49:27.580
him. However, she didn't make it. She didn't, she didn't expand. She just checked a box on
00:49:34.220
a federal lawsuit sort of complaint form that said, is sexual abuse involved in this? And
00:49:38.900
she said, yes, without expanding on it. And she's going after him, even though she's signed
00:49:44.160
an arbitration agreement with Tiger, which I guess he makes all of his girlfriends. It's sad,
00:49:49.100
but you kind of have to, if you're this famous and this rich sign a non-disclosure and an arbitration
00:49:53.840
agreement, um, to, in order to come into Tiger's life. So she did that reportedly. And now she's
00:50:00.160
gone public. She's filed a public litigation in which she's including that claim I mentioned
00:50:04.220
and trying to come after him. And his team is fighting back saying, number one, you agree to
00:50:08.720
arbitrate. Number two, you sued his trust, not him to try to get around this arbitration agreement,
00:50:13.420
which, you know, is with him because you want the public to see these allegations. You're trying
00:50:18.200
to shame him into, into paying you something. And number three, they're saying, you're a psycho.
00:50:23.940
You, you, you're the problem. This is just a breakup that you're upset about. You're a jilted
00:50:31.020
lover who's now trying to drag his name through the mud because, you know, he's got a history
00:50:34.480
that will be used against him. And indeed, that's kind of how it's played out in the press where all
00:50:39.360
the headlines were like, Tiger does it again without any proof to substantiate that.
00:50:45.120
It's a tough play. Um, the parties involved, the toughest thing about this is the details.
00:50:52.100
Obviously that's where the devil lies. And in this situation, when you hear it from 30,000 feet
00:50:57.520
up, you're like, ah, there's two places you go. You're like, here we go, Tiger. You can't get right
00:51:02.840
with the ladies. Again, we've known that all your indiscretions have involved relationships,
00:51:07.960
right? That's what we're into again. Or you also look at Tiger as now a sympathetic figure and you're
00:51:14.160
like, oh man, he may be a victim of his own success, a prisoner of his own success. And this
00:51:19.820
is what comes with the territory. Um, it's interesting. When I read the story initially,
00:51:27.120
Tiger Woods was breaking up with his girlfriend, took her to the airport on a trip that they booked
00:51:33.360
for her by herself, which to me already a strike one. Like when I've never been in a relationship
00:51:38.760
where my partner says, Hey, I'm booking you on a trip solo to go somewhere by yourself. And I'm
00:51:44.940
going to take you to the airport. And then when she gets to the airport, they're like, don't ever
00:51:48.660
come back. And we changed the locks. That's how it initially hit. Now they say the number one reason
00:51:54.180
for false accusation on any thing, on any scope, any level is shame. So when that hits the newswire,
00:52:02.100
imagine you're this young lady, you just got, you broke up with Tiger Woods. That's already kind of
00:52:05.940
devastating. Life's going to be different. Let's just say that. I don't give a damn how much money
00:52:09.440
you got. Life's going to be different than being with Tiger Woods. And then you're like trying to
00:52:14.860
find your comfort zone, trying to get your footing back. And everyone is clowning you, shaming you.
00:52:20.640
Dog, look how Tiger Woods broke up with you. In that place, do you make something up? Or in that
00:52:26.560
place, do you actually go back to all the things that you forgave him of? That now you're like,
00:52:32.180
you know what? Forgiveness is out the window because you embarrass me. A lot of times that's
00:52:37.500
where we end up. In this situation, look, Tiger Woods needs to just stay single, man, and mingle.
00:52:45.520
Like, I think Tiger needs to be Tiger. No more cage, Tiger. No more, okay, I'm trying to be
00:52:51.300
domesticated, Tiger. Tiger, just be who you are. And if that's the one who loves the ladies, you're
00:52:56.680
not the first to do it. It's okay. Now, I heard one thing about this was interesting, that they had a
00:53:04.060
clause that she thought that they would stay together five years post-breakup because she
00:53:10.520
provided valuable services. Whenever you break up with someone and their response or what they hang
00:53:17.120
their hat on is not love or emotions or they miss you, it's valuable services. It lets you know we
00:53:24.640
already was in a transactional relationship and this thing had no chance of ever working out.
00:53:30.020
I don't know the inner workings of that relationship, but it looks a lot weird and weirder when you hear
00:53:36.200
every single detail that makes you say, Tiger, stay away from the ladies right now, unless you guys have
00:53:45.000
But doesn't it, like, you were in the NFL for how many years?
00:53:51.360
Ten years. Okay, so go Bills. And I know you're with Chargers and others from Dallas.
00:53:56.280
But Bills, I'm from the state of New York and Syracuse in particular, so yes, go Bills.
00:54:00.860
I got to imagine when you were playing there, you had to worry a little bit about somebody doing
00:54:08.180
this kind of thing to you, you know? Like, I've talked on the air before about I've heard
00:54:12.380
on, like, some superstar baseball players whose names you would know and make the extreme measures
00:54:16.920
they have to go to to make sure that a young woman coming over to their house at night doesn't turn
00:54:22.380
around and say, I was raped. Something terrible happened. You know, you're a target. The bigger star you
00:54:28.460
become, especially professional athletes, I got to imagine it's a concern. It's got to be a scary
00:54:37.340
Oh, absolutely. There's an anxiety that comes with every encounter, male and female. Let's just be
00:54:43.080
real. Every dude you meet, you're like, is he a groupie dude? Is he going to just be a yes man?
00:54:48.300
Is this dude really trying to come in here and be the homie? Or is he just trying to get all the
00:54:52.580
perks that come with being around me, which includes other ladies, you know? You draft off of everybody
00:54:57.920
that wants me. And then you just sit there and start having fun and poaching off of that. Yeah.
00:55:03.080
That's the man conversation to another man, let alone to a lady when you're always vulnerable,
00:55:08.760
no matter what was said, no matter what was written, as in this Tiger Woods situation,
00:55:14.100
doesn't matter because it can come down to a single moment of he say versus she say. So I had that
00:55:22.220
anxiety. And one of the things that actually protected me was my upbringing, was my background.
00:55:28.880
A lot of women would bring it up and I would echo it because they brought it up. They were like,
00:55:33.660
oh, so you're from Compton or you're from the hood. And I was like, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Your
00:55:38.080
family was gangster. And they were all in the streets. I said, some of them. And then they were
00:55:41.920
like, wow, that's crazy. Let me hear some stories. I give them a couple. Next thing you know,
00:55:45.860
they're kind of scared to mess with me because they know I'm connected to that life and that
00:55:50.160
lifestyle. And I'm not like overtly, but yeah, I'm a phone call away from making this life different
00:55:55.960
for everybody, including me. So I'm like laughing. And that actually made people scared straight.
00:56:01.600
Like even my boys, some of them are like, dog, don't mess with Wiley. Why? Because Wiley know folks.
00:56:05.980
And then it's almost like in the movies when you know someone knows a soprano, you know, you're like,
00:56:10.700
uh-oh. So I never had to worry, but I had anxiety. Like I'm going to get caught up in some situations
00:56:18.480
and it's her word versus mine. So the way to do it is just like how you play sports. You actually
00:56:23.280
got a game plan. You actually got to call the right place. And there are no guarantees. No matter where
00:56:28.620
you go, no matter who you meet, no matter what you do, you're still vulnerable to a woman's word.
00:56:35.440
And I think a lot of men know that, especially men of celebrity.
00:56:39.640
It's scary. I mean, it's scary just for me as the mother of two boys who, you know, in 10 years
00:56:45.780
are going to be going off to college. And the system in college is so weighted against the boys,
00:56:51.400
the young men who get accused. Like as somebody, listen, I understand there are a lot of actual
00:56:55.520
victims out there and the pendulum used to be against them entirely. But we've overcorrected
00:56:59.820
to now where we're throwing the boys under the bus without much investigation. And you have to be
00:57:03.680
very wary of it. I don't know what to tell them. I know you've got four kids. Like,
00:57:07.060
what do you tell the kids? What do you, what do you tell the boys about how we're not celebrities
00:57:12.300
about how to make sure this doesn't happen? Well, it's nothing you can say that's going to cover
00:57:18.280
all ground, all the basis. It's just impossible because the circumstance is not just based on
00:57:24.860
the objective parts that we can discuss. It's based on who we're talking about. I don't know this young
00:57:30.020
lady. I haven't met this young lady. Matter of fact, you haven't met this young lady yet.
00:57:33.440
My son is seven, so it's a little early for the conversation, but we will have to have it.
00:57:38.400
And in that moment, I've been in every single predicament, it seems, that can exist in celebrity
00:57:45.060
and these kinds of relationships. And it always comes down, just like in football,
00:57:51.360
you have the best play, the best players, everything's in your favor, but it still depends
00:57:56.480
on what you do in that moment of truth. When that ball is hiked, what are they doing and what are you
00:58:02.900
doing? I almost look at it the same way when I talk about relationships. Oh, we had the best night
00:58:07.880
ever. We had drinks. Oh, dinner was lovely. After that, we went back to my place. Oh, it was amazing.
00:58:15.480
We played our favorite songs. We danced in the twilight. Yes. Yes. All that sounds great. It
00:58:20.440
sounds poetic. It sounds fairytale. And then it can go different. It can go complete 180. She could
00:58:28.620
say something happened that did happen or didn't happen. You could do something different than the
00:58:33.620
gentleman and the nice fellow you were for the last few hours. All I say to my kids already in my head
00:58:40.920
is when that time comes, you're going to have to read that moment because you got to put yourself
00:58:46.200
in the best position, but you also got to read that moment. Never get lost in that moment because
00:58:50.960
you can lose it all. Well, I love what you said before about, you know, part of his like upbringing
00:58:55.500
and just also parenting. Like, you know, if you're raising smart, well-informed kids who are reasonable
00:59:02.280
and exposed to a lot, hopefully they develop that good sixth sense. They understand when they're in
00:59:08.180
danger, you know, and danger can take many forms. They have the good judgment to pick
00:59:12.320
mates or potential mates, even if it's for a night, but ideally, you know, ideally there won't be too
00:59:17.480
many of those. Ideally, it's more of like a love situation where you really trust this person.
00:59:21.960
You're like, that's all, that's all baked into the cake when it comes to good decision-making.
00:59:27.460
It is, it is. And even that's not foolproof. You could be with somebody for months. You could be
00:59:32.460
with somebody, I've been with people for years. And as soon as you break up, oh, another version of that
00:59:37.380
person comes out, especially if you're the one doing the breaking up, right? Like we've all been
00:59:41.240
go to divorce court. Like, just listen to those people in there. You're like, are these enemies
00:59:47.200
rivals? No, these are people who just got divorced. We're married for 20 years. We're together, have
00:59:52.820
four kids. And you're like, that's coming out of their mouths. Yes, that is exactly what I'm talking
00:59:59.020
about. So I'm just a person that I don't have that unconditional trust for these situations. I just
01:00:06.000
don't, I don't lose myself in the moments. And still you find yourself victim to like, oh,
01:00:11.540
Marcellus was mean last night. Mean what? Oh, you hear what he said? And even those are kind of
01:00:18.280
little indicators of what can be. I tell people all the time, one of the Wiley-isms I love
01:00:23.420
is that the universe whispers before it yells. And the universe will just give you hints. If you want
01:00:31.020
to know about something or somebody, listen to them. They'll tell them themselves. But the problem
01:00:36.440
is when you're in love, infatuated, you're rooting for something to happen or somebody to be something
01:00:42.440
you think they are. You skip past those steps. You run those stop signs. You're emotionally clouded
01:00:49.100
from even hearing what they're saying. And then to your point, you got to trust your intuition.
01:00:56.520
And I know we're not schooled to do that, but I remember reading this study that said that your
01:01:02.300
intuition compared to your cognitive thought is 6 million times faster in response. What does that
01:01:10.640
mean in layman's terms? When you're walking down the street and you just feel something, trust,
01:01:16.140
you felt something. Not, oh, don't think it away or I'll think it and be like, oh, that's nothing,
01:01:21.880
nothing. You felt something. And so the energy of this world is always transferring and transmitting.
01:01:28.080
And I'm a person that really reads into those wavelengths. You're not going to catch me
01:01:32.440
slipping. And if you do, okay, I got to get up from that fall down and then respond.
01:01:38.580
Yeah. Love and sexual attraction can be such a confusing film over your intuition, right?
01:01:47.020
Intuition, right? So it's like a man maybe with a woman who could potentially hurt him or make a
01:01:51.480
false allegation. You might not know it, might look past some of the sort of, what's it? Stage four.
01:02:02.640
Stage four glommer or stalker. What is it? Clinger. Stage four clinger.
01:02:07.080
Could be like you overlook that. Or on the women's side, I've seen this with women of abuse who they fall
01:02:14.000
in love. The guy's amazing. And the guy doesn't punch you in the face on the first abuse. He
01:02:19.680
starts alienating you from your friends. He starts controlling your bank account. He starts tracking
01:02:23.820
your phone. He starts objecting to you making independent decisions about your life. Like the
01:02:28.620
siphoning off of you from all the people who actually care about you and looking out for you
01:02:33.000
starts slowly and builds up. And these women overlook it. Oh, we're in love. Oh, it's fine. Oh,
01:02:38.260
he just wants to be with me. Oh, he's just a little jealous. And then boom,
01:02:41.700
that's when you get it and your support system's gone because you haven't listened to that sixth
01:02:47.240
sense. The film of sexual attraction or love has confused that strong sixth sense.
01:02:53.380
Yes, exactly. Like you don't put the frog in the boiling water. It'll just hop back out, right?
01:02:58.420
You put it in room temperature water and slowly heat it up. And that's the example that they use
01:03:03.620
a lot of times for these situations. I've been there and I've been there. I just,
01:03:08.580
I've been on dates when I literally was looking and not hearing anything. I was like, she is so
01:03:14.740
fine. So beautiful. And then meanwhile, she was telling me, look, I like the party. I don't believe
01:03:21.000
in monogamy. I don't like to cook. I don't like kids. Like I'm just hearing all the stuff that I
01:03:27.320
like. And I'm just like, whatever. Look at her. And then you wake up from that spell as soon as
01:03:33.620
something overtly happens or you just wear off of that spell. You're like, wait a minute. Who are
01:03:38.840
you for real? Happens a lot with athletes. They get, they retire. And then all of a sudden it's
01:03:43.620
time to meet your wife again. Cause you're not on the road. You're not busy. You're now it's time
01:03:48.920
to meet who you married 10 years ago. And I swear it feels like 50% or more. They get divorced in
01:03:54.420
like six months. Soon as they got to meet each other again. Well, okay. That leads me to Tom Brady.
01:03:58.620
So we're, we're going through all the sports news, Tom Brady. I don't know whether this
01:04:03.720
is true, but there is some discussion in the sports arena of him unretiring and possibly
01:04:11.600
going to play for Miami. Uh, and there's been speculation on this. Some, some, uh, like
01:04:17.620
journalists in sports world and others have spoken out saying it's a good bet. I'll say, uh,
01:04:22.980
let's see Scott Zolak, former NFL quarterback who has spent more than 10 years on the Patriots
01:04:28.860
radio team said he believes not only will Brady return, but the most likely place is Miami.
01:04:34.500
He told NBC sports, Boston, Brady may go to Miami. I think that's in play. The possibility
01:04:39.100
of him coming out of retirement is 100% in play. That's what he says. Um, sportscasters,
01:04:45.360
Rich Eisen and Colin Cowhart both said they also believe this could happen. He's officially
01:04:50.940
a free agent as of tomorrow. So any team could contact him about playing. And, um, Zolak went
01:04:57.740
on to say, I know that Brady's handlers have moved to Miami and that he's supposedly looking
01:05:03.480
at private schools there for his kids. Now the dolphins already have Tua Taglo Viola. He's
01:05:10.900
the guy who got the concussions. I'm sorry if I butchered that last name. Um, but of course
01:05:15.840
there's a question about whether Tua is going to, you know, be there for the longterm given
01:05:18.960
all the injuries. And this would be unbelievable. One thing for the record, uh, they spoke with
01:05:23.380
Gronk, uh, you know, his longtime teammate and Gronk said, uh, he's done playing. Tom
01:05:28.760
is definitely totally done playing. I have no inside information, but I'm basing it off
01:05:32.500
of his retirement announcement. I think all this is nonsense. What do you think?
01:05:37.940
Um, I think that we need to first just applaud Tom Brady for not only at this age 45, having
01:05:46.020
the opportunity to still play and the leverage to command this much attention and interest
01:05:52.520
if he's still going to play, that's amazing. Yes, exactly. Like, and then have a 300 plus
01:05:59.520
million dollar job waiting on you as a Fox broadcaster. Let's just be real about this.
01:06:04.280
Like compare that to our realities, right? I'm a former player. I played a decade and a couple
01:06:10.860
things retire you from the game. One, you just can't play as well as you want to like,
01:06:17.500
that's literally, I think the starting point when you realize your better days are certainly
01:06:22.140
behind you than in front of you, then it's time to start thinking retirement. Another thing
01:06:26.800
that retires you is what's out of your control. The politics at play, we drafted someone who's
01:06:33.060
almost as good as you, but they're 21 and cheap. Well, guess what? The politics at play,
01:06:38.080
you get released and everyone runs that same. They run that same understanding. Like, look,
01:06:43.840
every team is going to look for the younger, cheaper version. You find yourself on the outside.
01:06:48.320
Tom Brady's not in that conversation. Tom Brady still can play well going forward. He can still
01:06:55.280
lead a team going forward, but last year wasn't his best year. And he knows that does he want to go
01:07:00.800
out that way. It's a very emotional decision to make to retire. That's why he's unretired before.
01:07:08.040
That's why I think he's going to unretire again. Why not? It is a child's game you're playing.
01:07:14.780
You play it till you can't play it anymore. The saying in the locker room is you ball till you fall.
01:07:20.700
And Tom Brady hasn't fallen yet. He's still in place to command a starting job wherever he decides to go.
01:07:28.640
So that guy has opportunities. He has leverage. The only thing that's making you give it up maybe is
01:07:34.740
the process. Maybe it's the preparation. But Giselle divorced to Tom Brady moves to Miami. Tom Brady,
01:07:42.880
if he's smart, moves right there because his kids are there. And now they have the co-parenting
01:07:48.800
situation locked up. And then I can play for the local team. Like, what do I have to lose? My legacy
01:07:54.960
is solidified. No one cares about Jordan's wizard years. No one's going to care about Brady's dolphin
01:08:01.380
years if they don't go well. So it's a no-brainer to me if he can make it happen in terms of the
01:08:08.440
contract and in terms of making sure that no one else can take him from that situation. He can land
01:08:13.760
directly with the Miami Dolphins. I think everyone's correct. Where there's smoke, there's fire. He's
01:08:18.840
going to be a dolphin. That's fascinating and riveting. And I do think the divorce makes it
01:08:24.240
more likely, of course, because she didn't want him to keep playing. And, you know, reportedly that
01:08:28.080
factored into their divorce. Now he's a free man. He's about to be a free agent. He can do what he
01:08:33.480
wants. But just help me understand, because I was never a big athlete. I don't I feel like you'd be
01:08:39.500
tired. Maybe you'd want to get your 300 million from Fox just to do the commentary now and not have a
01:08:47.140
bunch of big guys trying to knock you down every weekend. And, you know, the aches and pains get
01:08:50.980
tougher as you're in your mid-40s versus when you're in your mid-20s. Like, what is it about
01:08:55.980
this game that he cannot walk away from? Yeah, we all have our vices. And one thing about athletics,
01:09:04.140
I remember I was in Barbados or something in the cab driver. He was like, oh, you're an American
01:09:08.700
football player. I was like, yeah, yeah. He was like, big guy. Yeah. He was like, he said, you know,
01:09:13.180
what's most amazing about pro athletes? I was like, nah. He's like, you do something for a living
01:09:18.700
that every single person on this planet tried to do at least once. And I was like, what do you mean?
01:09:27.060
He's like, everyone has grabbed the ball. Everyone has kicked the ball. Everyone has closed their eyes
01:09:32.340
and said, OK, I'm going to make the championship shot and open their eyes and swish. Everyone's
01:09:37.500
trying to be an athlete. He's like, I don't know other professions where every single person
01:09:42.980
try to at least do it. And I was like, that's interesting. He said, and you made it. Now,
01:09:48.140
why do I say that? Not only did Tom Brady make it, he's the damn goat. Like all of those people,
01:09:55.600
billions and billions of people who have tried to pick up a ball with their pops, their moms,
01:09:59.780
to the ones who make it pro to, oh, you're considered the greatest of all time. Excuse me,
01:10:06.540
if I don't ever want this dream to end. And that's what he's going through right now.
01:10:11.220
Now, you're playing a child's game at 45 years old, getting paid handsomely. Why would you stop
01:10:18.360
that? I wouldn't stop it. And he's a quarterback. So that's the most protected position that gets
01:10:24.980
the most love from not only the team and support, but also from the fans and from the business of
01:10:31.780
the NFL. They get paid the most, they get touched the least, and they get the most love.
01:10:36.400
Um, sorry, y'all don't live like me. And sorry, if I keep going through this roller coaster of
01:10:42.260
retiring and un-retiring, but I'm really not trying to let that scenario go.
01:10:46.480
Wow. You remember when somebody paid, it wasn't like $85,000 for a vial of sand
01:10:50.820
from the beach where he announced the retirement. It was some insane number. If he, if he un-retires,
01:10:58.020
I hope they wrote that clause in there, but I hope they didn't use Tiger Woods as lawyer because
01:11:03.680
then that clause wouldn't mean anything in the court of law.
01:11:07.020
What do you think? Here's the last question on Tom Brady. Do you think if, is there any chance?
01:11:12.220
Cause I know you saw, you made some tweet about like, we've all stalked our exes online. Like it
01:11:17.560
just sort of checked them out after it's over. And that's gotta be somewhat painful. Even for Tom Brady,
01:11:24.340
who can probably get any woman who's single and straight in America. Um, because Giselle is on
01:11:31.940
this crazy modeling tour. She's like, get it on again. Like she was been on the sidelines for too
01:11:36.700
long and she's done this ad campaign we're showing here for a rezo where she's got the, I mean the
01:11:42.600
body, this woman has had two children. She's just a freak of nature. I just, I don't understand how
01:11:47.100
this happens to a woman. Um, but good for her. And she had another thing. She was down at Carnival and
01:11:52.780
she looked amazing. And she's had a cause she was on the cover of, uh, Vogue Italia. I could go on.
01:11:57.940
I don't know. Do you think there's still hope for those two?
01:12:02.060
Um, hope for those two without knowing Giselle at all. And I know Tom Brady, but I don't know him
01:12:09.580
like that. Um, I think this is a time for them to breathe and really take in their success. So what
01:12:17.340
happens is if you get married too early and I have two friends that are recently divorced because
01:12:22.960
they got married really early, you don't really get to check your identity box fully. Right. And
01:12:29.520
so you're always curious of how would life be without the, the significant other, without the
01:12:36.120
handcuffs, if you want to call them that. Right. What would it look like if I had complete freedom?
01:12:40.880
Now I always tell them, trust me, it's not going to be as good as you think. It is false advertisement
01:12:45.920
out there in them streets. You go to the local club and bars and hang out. You're going to find
01:12:51.300
out quickly. Things look great, but all things were syrup ain't pancakes. And I'm like, it is not
01:12:56.820
that fresh out there. So they find out the hard way, but you got to find out. I always give this
01:13:02.340
example. You go to six flags, right? You're waiting on the rollercoaster. It's a three hour wait.
01:13:07.100
And you're like, Oh God, but I heard this is the best rollercoaster in the world. Okay. I got to do it.
01:13:11.500
And you're sitting there in line, line, you get close to the front and people are starting to get
01:13:15.800
off saying, Oh, that ride sucked. I would have never waited that long. Oh, that ride sucked.
01:13:20.500
Would you get out of line? Not a single soul in this world, right? I got to figure that out and
01:13:26.120
find out for myself. So that's what happens with people. People don't care what you said. Oh,
01:13:31.560
that's what happened to you. Oh, that's how your experience was. Let me go find out. So Giselle's
01:13:36.300
going to find out. Are these single men out here? Are they really checking for me? Am I checking for
01:13:41.300
them and vice versa with Tom Brady? I think the experience will be better for Tom than it will
01:13:46.280
be for Giselle. Why? Because Tom Brady is still doing football. He's still in football. He's going
01:13:52.300
to unretire if he wants to. He's still in that zone. He's still going to be a broadcaster in football.
01:13:58.620
Giselle is modeling. That's great, but she modeled forever and she's still going to model forever.
01:14:03.940
But in the same scope, she's used to that. Tom Brady's not only a football player who's now
01:14:10.700
single. Lord, that was a beautiful place to be. And he could be a broadcaster single. And then he's
01:14:18.360
already known what it felt like married and single. I just think Tom Brady is going to have a greater
01:14:23.960
fun time being single than Giselle. And then you know how the kid dynamic plays with a mother
01:14:29.800
different than a father. We'll see how it goes down, but I don't think they're looking
01:14:33.860
at each other right now. I think they're looking at who I can be without this other person always
01:14:38.260
around me. I mean, I think their biggest challenge is, as I say, he has, okay, he's the most eligible
01:14:43.380
bachelor now, but, and I'm sure there are many women who are like me, me, me, me. But I feel like
01:14:48.840
there'd be so much pressure to follow Giselle or to follow Tom Brady for that matter, as the new love
01:14:55.180
interest of one of those people. Like part of the problem they have is that they've already been
01:14:59.700
married to the top, top, like the most beautiful, the most successful, you know, they're going to
01:15:03.620
have to go for something alternative, like the smartest or the, I don't know, the biggest risk
01:15:08.780
taker, like a Richard Branson, you know, or I don't just something totally unexpected that,
01:15:14.360
because, you know, you've already been at a plus plus. Yeah, that's interesting. I just saw Tom Brady,
01:15:19.820
what was it a week ago at the bones Jones fight in Vegas. And look, there's a line around the world for
01:15:26.780
both of those people, like Tom and Giselle are fine the way they are. And they could just say,
01:15:32.560
your turn, your turn, your turn, right? No one feels sorry for them. But when it comes to being
01:15:37.660
authentic in this world today, you just got to take whatever that you want in terms of package.
01:15:43.300
And some people let's be real, don't want authentic. They want someone that, Hey, this is a business
01:15:49.200
relationship, you know, marriage outside of inheritance is the number two transition of
01:15:56.680
wealth in our country. Like either you're going to get it from mama or daddy, or you're going to get
01:16:00.640
it from who you marry. That's number two. So maybe they're looking for another rich, successful,
01:16:05.720
wealthy person. That's just nice enough. You never know, or they want the guy or girl next door,
01:16:10.480
but they got options and that's all we want in life options.
01:16:13.760
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I, I don't know Tom Brady, but we, we, I've seen him on vacation a few times
01:16:20.080
and literally every single friend I have is like, could you introduce me? Could you do? I'm like,
01:16:23.700
I don't know. No, but yes, there's, there's definitely interest. Um, okay. Let, let, let's,
01:16:29.800
uh, let's shift gears. I'm going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and I got
01:16:32.580
to talk to you about what's happening. Cause I know you got daughters big into sports, what's happening
01:16:36.400
in women's sports. And in particular, we're going to kick it off with a discussion about women's
01:16:41.040
weightlifting as we pick it up with Marcellus Wiley on the backside of a quick, quick break.
01:16:45.220
Don't go away. Marcellus, um, I know you've spoken out about, uh, transgender women, meaning
01:16:52.800
biological men who want to live their lives as women, um, infiltrating or taking over or participating
01:17:00.460
in actual women's sports. And, um, it's happening more and more. We, we talked last week about this
01:17:07.100
school in Vermont that to its credit actually spoke up against this. And, uh, it's a Vermont
01:17:12.460
Christian school. And what they did was, um, it's called mid Vermont Christian school. They said in
01:17:19.160
the state basketball playoffs, we are not going to play against a team that has a transgender student.
01:17:24.660
We're not sending our biological girls to play against a team that has a biological boy on it.
01:17:29.320
It's not safe and it's not fair. And we don't care that it's the state playoffs. We're not going to do
01:17:34.280
it. And, uh, the Vermont law requires this to be allowed. So now there have been penalties.
01:17:42.480
They are prohibited from participating in any future tournaments. The Vermont principals association
01:17:49.300
has ruled that they can't do the future tournaments and no one from the school, any sport at the school
01:17:56.600
is now banned from all state tournaments, not even just basketball, because they took this position
01:18:02.140
about playing against a biological boy. They were, and they said, we're looking out for our students.
01:18:08.420
Basketball in particular is physical. It's, it's not like even swimming, which is still controversial,
01:18:15.020
but like, you don't just swim in your own lean. Nobody touches you. It's, it's physical. So let's
01:18:20.520
start with that and then I'll get the power lifting.
01:18:22.280
Yeah. Um, my stance is very clear on this. Um, boys play with boys, girls play with girls
01:18:31.060
and transgenders. If you want to participate, should play with transgenders. Um, just like
01:18:35.860
we see in competitions where there's a special Olympics category and they're able to compete
01:18:40.980
against themselves as well. Um, and this is not a social conversation. It's not a conversation
01:18:47.040
about identity. This is about biology. This is about bodies. Um, and in sports, we've already
01:18:54.960
been able to differentiate between men and women's sports. And it's weird. Let's get deeper on this
01:19:02.520
first. When there's men and there are women participating, actually there are opportunities
01:19:10.040
for women to play with the men, but there are no opportunities where the men could play with the
01:19:15.100
women. If you think about it, like in those competitions. So it's funny, we say male and
01:19:20.000
female sports. What we really should say is female sports and open. Like if you can compete with the
01:19:25.780
men, go ahead. But in this situation, what, what came to life was, um, conversations, uh, what would
01:19:33.740
I do with my daughters? And I have three daughters and I said, I wouldn't allow them to compete against
01:19:39.180
a transgender. And it's not out of disrespect to a transgender. Yes. Your best friend could be a
01:19:44.480
transgender. But in a competition where we're actually trying to measure your physical body
01:19:49.900
and your strength and endurance and conditioning, et cetera, there's no way because it's not a level
01:19:55.280
playing field. And I can dive into the weeds of why, but it's not only unfair, but it's not right.
01:20:04.460
I am a man and I know what I possess in terms of strength and I, and capacity. And no matter what I do
01:20:12.620
the transition from being a man, my complete body won't make that transition. You could say the
01:20:19.220
hormones, you could say some parts of the anatomy, but not a complete transition to a woman. I could
01:20:24.740
not give birth. Like the point is to keep it simple because I do respect them as people. I just don't
01:20:32.880
want them to compete against my daughters as an athlete, just like I wouldn't compete against my
01:20:38.620
daughters as an athlete right now. There was a professional football league and I'm 48 years
01:20:44.480
old and I got one knee and no hips. It feels like some days I literally will make the pro bowl in the
01:20:49.580
women's league. And people were like, Oh, you think, let me tell you what I possess. I possess a capacity
01:20:56.120
that is just greater than a woman in terms of the physical metrics. You can take it to any sport.
01:21:04.020
The longest drive average in golf. It's like 40 yard difference for men to women. Oh really? Yes.
01:21:11.940
Even in golf. Now you want to talk about physical sports or combat sports. Oh, it gets greater in
01:21:18.780
extremes. So I just looked at the conversation simply and try to address it. It's weird that we're in a
01:21:25.000
place in our society that stating the obvious is controversial. Like I'm like, I'm not trying to be
01:21:32.560
controversial. I'm just telling you, there's a reason why we have that. My son is seven.
01:21:37.920
We had a four-year-old boy play on our team last year. Every one of those seven-year-old boys
01:21:45.880
was protecting that four-year-old because they knew he couldn't do what they could do.
01:21:50.860
And that's the same thing when you get into this conversation deeper, you know, what you are capable
01:21:56.840
of doing is a different capacity than those you're competing against. So your heart and your VO2
01:22:05.280
capacity, greater as a man than it is, larger as a man than it is for a woman. I can go down the
01:22:11.800
laundry list. So I really want to keep it simple so I don't demonize transgenders. I am not
01:22:17.640
disrespecting you. I'm just saying male sports, female sports, transgender sports. Let's play ball.
01:22:24.820
Mm-hmm. Amen. And on the powerlifting, it's so obvious. This is another one where it, no,
01:22:32.120
you're not going to hurt somebody because you're not powerlifting against them exactly. But that's
01:22:38.080
all about strength, right? It's like, that's the area in particular where men have an obvious natural
01:22:44.300
advantage over women. National Review has this great piece up where they spoke with this athlete
01:22:50.160
in Canada. And it's not just Canada. I'll tell you what's happening in Canada, but it's happening
01:22:54.240
in the United States because we just covered a court ruling that went against the biological
01:22:57.580
women. Transgender athlete named Christine Bainton. She says, this is from the National
01:23:04.540
Review piece, she had no idea she'd been beaten by a man at the 2019 British Columbia Powerlifting
01:23:09.580
Association Fall Classic until she heard the winner accept the first place trophy. It was a man's voice.
01:23:14.520
I said, what's going on here? Turned out it was this transgender woman named Anne Andres, who's a man
01:23:22.700
who is allowed to compete against the women, get this, without any restrictions under the Canadian
01:23:29.280
Powerlifting Union's trans competition policy. This person, Anne, doesn't have to take hormones,
01:23:36.000
doesn't even have to declare that Anne is trans. Anne can just enter the women's competition
01:23:43.520
without saying anything about the fact that Anne has lived all of Anne's life as a man, has a penis,
01:23:48.860
hasn't done a thing about her testosterone, Anne's testosterone, and go for it. Crush everybody.
01:23:55.460
Good on you. That's the Canadian rule. And Anne has been crushing and has been earning medals and
01:24:01.560
setting records. And it just happened here in the United States, where in Minnesota, they ruled
01:24:08.020
that USA Powerlifting must allow transgender athletes to compete in the women's division.
01:24:15.940
Too bad if you don't like it. And can I just say, one of the reasons why now they're protesting up in
01:24:22.000
Canada, it takes a lot to make the Canadians protest. You know, it's like, it's not really there.
01:24:29.720
Yeah. They're nice. Like, they usually go along to get along.
01:24:32.100
But one of the reasons is that this powerlifter, Anne Andres, is kind of an asshole.
01:24:38.940
Kind of rubbing it in their faces. Here's a little sample of Anne.
01:24:48.080
Why is women's bench so bad? I mean, not compared to me. We all know that I'm a training freak,
01:24:56.000
so that doesn't count. And no, we're not talking about Mackenzie Lee. She's got little T-Rex arms and
01:25:01.820
she's like 400 pounds of chest muscle, apparently. I mean, standard bench in powerlifting competition
01:25:10.520
for women. I literally don't understand why it's so bad. My son, he weighs 45 pounds. His max bench is
01:25:19.900
like 33. I'm legit seeing some women in competition who are doing something like 50 pounds. And I just don't
01:25:31.400
Oh, my God. Just to correct what I said, Christine is not trans. Christine is a biological woman who got beaten
01:25:36.980
by a trans person named Anne, who we just showed. But she can't understand. Anne can't understand why women are so bad.
01:25:42.200
Yeah, that is rubbing it in their face. It's unfortunate, too, because we all understand
01:25:50.140
those restrictions, just like a man understands I can't give birth to a child. Like, you know,
01:25:56.100
you just say, all right, that's what comes with my gender. And it's not to slight women and it's not
01:26:02.320
to slight men. It's just the way it is. You know, two things. Let me start here because the list is
01:26:08.600
forever. But let's start here. Florence Griffith Joyner, Flojo, right? Fastest woman to ever exist,
01:26:18.580
right? 10, 4, 900 meters. Fastest woman ever. There's 8 billion people on the planet right now
01:26:26.020
and more than half are women. Now, let's just go through the math of entire nation, society,
01:26:32.640
history of the world. Billions and billions of people. The fastest woman ever is probably 12th
01:26:43.000
place in the California high school championships right now. There's high schoolers that will beat
01:26:49.020
the fastest woman that ever existed. Now, let's take it to a personal conversation.
01:26:54.620
Boys. Your boys. Yes. High school boys. High school boys. 14 year olds will beat the fastest
01:27:00.440
woman that was ever created. Think about that. All right. Let's get it personal. Let's take it home
01:27:06.220
because there's two things from this. One, I had a conversation with a woman who was on the Mount
01:27:12.780
Rushmore of the WNBA, one of the best basketball players ever. Don't want to say her name because
01:27:18.020
this is a controversial conversation. But I said, damn, you so good. Could you play in the NBA?
01:27:25.540
And she looked at me like I was the dumbest person alive. And literally is like, hell no,
01:27:30.540
they're too big, too fast, too strong. Are you kidding me? She's literally top four
01:27:37.440
WNBA player ever and was like, there's not a chance that she could have played in the NBA.
01:27:44.340
Not a chance, she told me privately. Now, why everyone was like, why are you so emotional and
01:27:51.460
adamant about this, Marcellus? And they thought I had no experience with it. They just thought I was
01:27:57.140
just being a talking head. Google 2017, Connecticut, Glastonbury High School. Now, my daughter went to
01:28:06.100
that school and had to be in competition, her classmates and herself, with a transgender who
01:28:14.020
went and set 15 records and won like 50, it was two of them, won 55 championships between the two.
01:28:24.060
Something absurd. This really demolished the record books and took all the medals and scholarship
01:28:30.220
opportunities from naturally born women. I don't know why we want to make this conversation more
01:28:37.400
difficult than it is. It's pretty obvious that a man possesses power and strength that is going to
01:28:43.680
be greater than a woman on average, and certainly on the extremes. We need to respect that like we
01:28:49.380
respect other things and keep the gender roles and lines bold and distinguished.
01:28:55.300
Hmm. I totally agree with you. Thank you for saying it out loud. I know it's always risky when,
01:29:00.660
you know, a well-known person takes those positions you've taken them before, but
01:29:04.040
it's insane and we're going to lose this fight unless more people speak out.
01:29:09.060
So this woman you spoke of cannot make it into the male NBA and Colin Kaepernick cannot make it into
01:29:16.060
the NFL since he was bounced out in 2016. He wouldn't stand for the national anthem, the whole bit.
01:29:22.260
Colin Kaepernick is out now. There's a graphic novel about his life and it dovetails on something
01:29:29.520
he put in. It was, I was at the HBO show. It was like a movie online. We had to watch this whole
01:29:34.200
thing. I watched the whole series about his life and he has used this platform in his book in the
01:29:39.700
same way he used his, uh, his, his special about his life, which is to bash his parents who adopted
01:29:45.880
him. Uh, he's mixed race and his parents are white. His adoptive parents are white. So
01:29:52.260
he decided to use this opportunity to bash his parents as racists because they made a remark about
01:29:58.280
his hair. When he was a kid, here is a sample of what he said in Sot 6.
01:30:03.300
I know my parents love me, but there were still very problematic things that
01:30:09.300
I went through. I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home and how
01:30:15.820
we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated. He took cues from
01:30:22.340
his icon, basketball star Allen Iverson, who he said wore his blackness like a suit of armor and
01:30:29.200
teenage Kaepernick wanted cornrows to match. He's getting what roles? His mom asked.
01:30:34.080
Oh, your hair is not professional. Oh, you look like a little thug.
01:30:38.220
Your mom said that to you. Yeah. And those become spaces where it's like, okay,
01:30:44.160
how do I navigate this situation now? But it also is informed why I have my hair long today.
01:30:49.900
Okay. So what do you make of Colin Kaepernick using his fame, his microphone, his pages,
01:31:00.040
Yeah. Um, I think let's just give it context. Uh, no country, uh, great, like actually integrates
01:31:11.780
race and culture to the extent that America does on this planet. Like we mix race and culture so often
01:31:19.700
that it's easy to conflate things. Um, and in this situation, I think he's conflating racism
01:31:25.740
with actual association with identity. I give it to you like this. I grew up in LA and we know what
01:31:36.500
symbols are supposed to do. Symbols are supposed to tell the masses what you represent. If you look
01:31:43.240
through the history of civilization, especially in yesteryears, they use symbols because they didn't
01:31:49.340
have the information to transmit or the means to transmit it often. And it's clearly as they
01:31:55.900
desired. So they would put symbols up. Right. And that was a broadcast signal to everyone.
01:32:02.760
Well, Colin Kaepernick doesn't understand what I was able to learn really young in this world
01:32:07.260
is that you can symbolize something to show you associate with it. And it's not based on race.
01:32:13.680
So Ice Cube famously said this in the mid and late eighties when the LA Raiders were here. Right.
01:32:20.840
And Ice Cube NWA wanted to be known as a gangster because that was going to help them sell albums
01:32:26.300
and sell their image. Their persona was gangster. Right. So they said, I wear a Raider hat,
01:32:31.980
t-shirt and khakis. And do you know, everybody who wanted to act gangsta in the neighborhood and
01:32:38.780
across this country was starting to wear Raider hats, t-shirts and khakis. Okay. You take it from
01:32:45.100
there. Will Smith and Fresh Prince. Oh, I want to be preppy. I want to be the guy that looks like a
01:32:50.100
dancer. High top fade, a little flower shirt, cross colored pants. Point being, we all know that there
01:32:57.620
are things that you can look like and represent something that is identified as that. My parents
01:33:04.720
knew growing up where I grew up that there was a look to a gangster. They knew Raider hat, t-shirt
01:33:10.580
khakis. They also knew sagging. They also knew some of the hairstyles or some of the clothes we wore
01:33:16.160
pendletons meant you look gangster. My parents are black and my parents reprimanded me many a times
01:33:24.380
for looking like a gangster, just like Colin Kaepernick's parents was trying to say he looked
01:33:30.320
like a thug. What were thugs trying to wear? Their representation. Corn Rolls was one of them.
01:33:36.680
They also had their uniforms as well. Jail suits. I've seen it all. And it doesn't come from the
01:33:43.440
origins of race. It comes from the origins of association. And people wanted you to keep
01:33:50.060
distance from those associations. You want to look like a nerd? That's not racial. Get a pocket
01:33:56.600
protector, right? Pull your pants up. Play the Urkel role. And all of a sudden you're a nerd.
01:34:02.820
If a white person calls you a nerd and a black person calls you a nerd, it's just they're calling
01:34:07.120
you a nerd. It's not racism. So I think he just got caught up in the conflation because he had white
01:34:12.980
parents. That shows the issues he's had with his identity because he doesn't know the source. He
01:34:19.000
doesn't know the origins of their spirit because he always looks at their color. But if he were in my
01:34:25.900
house, in my family, and I walked in with Corn Rolls, my family would have said the exact same
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thing. What are you doing? You're trying to look like a thug. And it's okay. We can let down some of
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these borders. We can let down some of these walls that are really trying to exclude us from
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conversations where we can learn, oh, that was a conflation. But instead, we want to be polarizing
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and we want to talk at each other instead of with each other.
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No, it's not dissimilar from my mom stopping me when I was young from going out of the house in a
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super short skirt saying, you look like a hooker. It's not because she thinks all women are hookers
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or she's got anything against hookers in particular, but she doesn't want me to look like one. She
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doesn't want me to be one. And that doesn't make her anti-woman. It just makes her a mother who cares
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about the associations and the path ahead. It's great to hear a voice of reason, Marcellus. There's
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so much we didn't get to, but we'll pick it up again. I hope you come back. I'd love to get into
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Absolutely. I love it and appreciate you. And it's great to be on your podcast and keep killing it,
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Thank you. Right back at you. All the best. Marcellus Wiley. What a pleasure. Thank you.
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