Triggered - Donald Trump Jr


Bet on a Trump Rally: From Wildwood, to Wall St, to Main St, Live with Legendary Investor Scott Bessent | TRIGGERED Ep.136


Summary

On today's episode of Triggered, we are joined by Scott Besson, CEO of Key Square Group and former Chief Investment Officer at Soros Fund Management, to discuss the latest in the Michael Cohen case and why he's a perfect star witness for the prosecution. Plus, we take a deep dive into the top headlines of the day, including the latest on the Alvin Bragg and Michael Cohen cases, and why we should all be worried about what's going on in the world of finance and how the markets are affected by this election in November. Subscribe to our new show, TRIGgered, wherever you get your podcasts, to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news and discuss the biggest stories trending on the web that you can t get your fix on. Remember, you can get triggered by this show right here on my news app, MXM News, for the mainstream news without the mainstream bias. And if you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about what you think of the show and what it's doing on your favorite streaming platform! Thank you so much for being a supporter of this show, and stay tuned for more episodes like this and more! -Tune in next week's episode, when we'll have a new episode of TRIGGED with the whole family! Stay tuned for a special bonus episode where we cover the latest headlines from around the world! and much more. ! -Jon Soraya, Jon Soraya and Jon of the New York Times Magazine, and much, much more! -Jon Downey in this episode of the Wall Street Journal, and the NY Times, The New York Post, and The Hill, and so much more... . - - Jon Downey, - and much much more - we hope you like it! - Jon's new book, The Devil's Playbook - check it out! ... Jon s Got a problem? , Jon s got a problem with it? - John s got it! -- Jon s not a problem, Jon s gotta get it? - Jon s , right? ? - can't get it?? -- , or not enough? , can he s not enough ? ... Jon s gonna get it ? , and more? -- can he help it? --


Transcript

00:00:00.000 you you
00:03:17.000 you guys welcome to another huge episode of
00:03:44.000 of triggered.
00:03:45.000 We're changing things up a little bit today.
00:03:47.000 We're going to be doing a deep dive into the world of finance and how the markets are going to be affected by this election in November.
00:03:55.000 I'm going to be talking with Scott Besson.
00:03:57.000 Scott is one of the top fund managers on Wall Street.
00:04:00.000 He's the founder of Key Square Group and actually, you guys, You guys are gonna appreciate this.
00:04:06.000 Actually, used to be the Chief Investment Officer for the Soros Fund, as in George Soros.
00:04:13.000 So, uh, I'm sure he's probably under NDA about some of those things, but we can figure out what's going on with some of that investment.
00:04:19.000 So I think it's gonna be, uh, fascinating.
00:04:22.000 I think we can do a deep dive into a lot of the stuff that we're probably curious about, that rational people can't even imagine right now, given what Soros is funding out there.
00:04:30.000 So, uh, Don't worry.
00:04:32.000 Don't worry.
00:04:33.000 He's not a leftist.
00:04:34.000 This is gonna be a great show and interview and later I'll also be taking your questions live.
00:04:40.000 He has got a hard out so I'm gonna do news of the day.
00:04:42.000 We're gonna get to Scott and then I'm gonna take your questions live because there's a lot to Going on.
00:04:47.000 Obviously, you had Michael Cohen on the stand today, so I think I probably have a relatively unique perspective onto everything that's happened there and what's going on.
00:04:57.000 So, guys, make sure you're hitting that like button, share, subscribe.
00:05:02.000 Let's keep getting the message out.
00:05:03.000 The rest of Big Tech is totally stacked against us.
00:05:06.000 We have to work harder to make sure we break through all of the noise and actually grow this movement.
00:05:12.000 Remember also, folks, you can get triggered This show right here on Spotify, you can get it on Apple Podcasts, so if you miss the show here on Rumble, you can get it there.
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00:05:45.000 So I think you should definitely get that.
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00:05:52.000 Also, for all of the top headlines that we spotlight here on the show, go over to my news app, MXM News, for the mainstream news without the mainstream bias.
00:06:01.000 And with that, folks, let's get into some of these top headlines.
00:06:07.000 Alvin Bragg.
00:06:08.000 The Alvin Bragg case.
00:06:10.000 It reached the peak of absurdity today as Michael Cohen took the stand.
00:06:16.000 As a refresher, just for you who don't know who Michael Cohen is, here's CNN.
00:06:22.000 CNN!
00:06:23.000 Like, the Communist News Network explaining his, let's just call it, less-than-stellar track record with the truth.
00:06:35.000 Who's lied to Congress?
00:06:36.000 Who's lied in court?
00:06:37.000 Who's lied to the IRS?
00:06:38.000 Who's lied to the Southern District of New York?
00:06:40.000 Who lied to his banker?
00:06:42.000 You know, the entire prosecution witness team has been lied to by Michael Cohen.
00:06:47.000 Guys, seems like a wonderful star witness, okay?
00:06:51.000 This is who they're hanging their hats on.
00:06:53.000 When you've lost CNN, just so we're clear, when you've lost CNN in the witch hunt against Donald Trump, it's probably a problem, okay?
00:07:03.000 Choosing Michael Cohen to serve as a witness, not just a witness, but the star witness, is like choosing Joe Biden to jump over the hurdles in track and field at the Olympics.
00:07:14.000 Or, like hiring Keith Olbermann to be your anger management therapist.
00:07:19.000 It's not gonna work out well, even a little bit.
00:07:23.000 Cohen is uniquely qualified to tell the truth.
00:07:29.000 Just kidding.
00:07:30.000 Not even a little bit, okay?
00:07:31.000 That's what they're gonna try to tell you.
00:07:33.000 But despite literally serving prison time for lying, despite being disbarred, despite being discredited and embarrassed on a world stage over and over again, he's the star witness there.
00:07:46.000 Today, during his testimony, Cohen said that he couldn't remember how old his son is or how old he was when he started to work for the Trump Organization.
00:07:56.000 But somehow, Magically, folks, he remembers other extremely small details from decades ago.
00:08:03.000 I mean, I don't know.
00:08:04.000 If you don't remember how old your son was, you're probably not gonna remember the little details.
00:08:09.000 But hey, in the communist show trials...
00:08:13.000 What difference does it make?
00:08:15.000 He literally claimed today that he had to take out a home equity line of credit to afford a $130,000 wire transfer.
00:08:24.000 That doesn't make sense.
00:08:26.000 Cohen lived in an $8 million apartment.
00:08:28.000 I know that because I sold it to him.
00:08:31.000 Something else is going on here.
00:08:34.000 That's not normal.
00:08:35.000 Cohen also admitted to prosecutors that he would secretly record my father without his permission.
00:08:42.000 Doesn't seem like the thing a credible lawyer would do, but he only did it in this one instance, is what he says.
00:08:48.000 And then, he only did it to protect Trump.
00:08:51.000 Really?
00:08:52.000 Maybe the other recordings were probably exculpatory, so they probably just magically disappeared.
00:08:57.000 I have a feeling if you do it once, you're probably doing it more than that.
00:09:01.000 Minor details, you know.
00:09:02.000 The DA, they also lost some of the conversations between him and Stormy Daniels and the phone records.
00:09:08.000 They just magically disappeared.
00:09:11.000 That's what happens in a show trial, folks.
00:09:13.000 Here's good friend Senator J.D.
00:09:16.000 Vance, who is literally in the courtroom today.
00:09:20.000 Listen to what he has to say.
00:09:21.000 Witness so far in my couple hours in there.
00:09:24.000 First of all, Michael Cohen is the prosecution's star witness.
00:09:27.000 This guy is a convicted felon who admitted in his testimony that he secretly recorded his former employer, that he only did it once, allegedly, and that this was supposed to help Donald Trump.
00:09:39.000 Does any Reasonable, sensible person believe anything that Michael Cohen says.
00:09:44.000 I don't think that they should and I actually think that his testimony is going to hurt with any reasonable juror and hopefully we have a few of those.
00:09:51.000 I want to say two other things here very quickly.
00:09:54.000 Number one, The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a democratic political operative.
00:10:06.000 The judge inside, his daughter, is making millions of dollars Running against Donald Trump, raising money for Donald Trump's political opponents.
00:10:15.000 The number three person in the Department of Justice, Biden's Department of Justice, left to become a local prosecutor to go after Donald Trump.
00:10:23.000 And of course there's Alvin Bragg, a Soros-funded prosecutor who promised to go after Donald Trump and now is doing exactly that.
00:10:30.000 Now look, Whether you love Donald Trump, whether you like Donald Trump, or whether you're a Democrat or don't care about politics, what's going on inside that courtroom is a threat to American democracy, ladies and gentlemen.
00:10:45.000 The problems with this case run deeper than just Michael Cohen.
00:10:48.000 Even Bill Maher.
00:10:49.000 Bill Maher!
00:10:50.000 Like, not exactly a conservative, though I guess he's made a couple interesting points over the last year.
00:10:55.000 It's sort of like the arsonist calling the fire department.
00:10:58.000 But Bill Maher, of all people, did some investigative reporting this weekend.
00:11:03.000 He showed how Stormy Daniels, her story has changed rather dramatically over the years.
00:11:10.000 In other words, she lied on the witness stand.
00:11:13.000 Listen to what she had to say to him back in 2018 and juxtapose that to what she said last week on the stand.
00:11:23.000 They're not the same.
00:11:25.000 They're not even close to the point of having sex with Trump.
00:11:45.000 It is not a Me Too case.
00:11:46.000 I mean, I wasn't assaulted.
00:11:49.000 I wasn't attacked or raped or coerced or blackmailed.
00:11:53.000 They tried to shove me in the Me Too box to further their own agenda.
00:11:57.000 And first of all, I didn't want any part of that because it's not the truth and I'm not a vixen in that regard.
00:12:03.000 That's not what she's saying now.
00:12:06.000 Uh, she's talking about he was bigger and blocking the way.
00:12:10.000 It's all the Me Too buzzwords.
00:12:12.000 She said, uh, there was a power imbalance of power, for sure.
00:12:16.000 My hands were shaking so hard.
00:12:18.000 She said she blacked out.
00:12:21.000 Blacked out?
00:12:22.000 She's a porn star.
00:12:27.000 Listen, there's so much commentary I could give to that comment right now, but that's just gonna get me in trouble at, like, the family dinner table.
00:12:33.000 But, like, There's so much I could say about that.
00:12:37.000 But I mean, think about that.
00:12:38.000 So now, he's blocking the door.
00:12:41.000 You'd think they'd say that, you know, six years ago when it first started and she was doing her publicity tour and trying to, you know.
00:12:47.000 But again, when the two star witnesses are a convicted liar, a disbarred and disgruntled attorney, and a porn star who's also changing their story, you probably don't have that much of a case.
00:13:03.000 We also learned on Friday that Alvins Bragg's office tampered with evidence.
00:13:07.000 I'm shocked!
00:13:08.000 It's almost like all of these cases are doing the same thing.
00:13:12.000 I know, guys.
00:13:13.000 It's shocking.
00:13:14.000 I know.
00:13:15.000 You didn't see this one coming at all.
00:13:18.000 One of the district attorney's paralegals admitted on the stand.
00:13:21.000 On the stand!
00:13:23.000 That Bragg's office deleted three pages worth of phone calls between Stormy Daniels' lawyer Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen.
00:13:31.000 Why would they do that?
00:13:33.000 Huh?
00:13:34.000 That's strange.
00:13:35.000 It's almost like they don't want to actually know what happened in those conversations because, again, liar's gonna lie.
00:13:43.000 This is insanity.
00:13:44.000 How on earth is this not a felony?
00:13:47.000 Committed by Bragg and his minions.
00:13:50.000 Any other lawyer in the country would be disbarred.
00:13:53.000 Imagine this was my father's team?
00:13:55.000 What they would do to them?
00:13:57.000 It sure would be a problem if Team Trump did it.
00:14:01.000 Alvin Bragg also has still not explained to the jury what the alleged underlying crime actually is.
00:14:08.000 I figured that was a basic tenant Of the way our legal system is supposed to work.
00:14:14.000 It's like they're gonna wait till the final stuff is presented and then they're gonna say, well, maybe we can figure out how to back into this guilty verdict.
00:14:21.000 I mean, think about that.
00:14:22.000 They haven't even alleged what the underlying crime is.
00:14:25.000 It doesn't matter.
00:14:27.000 Even across CNN, again.
00:14:29.000 Again, like I said, you know, it wasn't an anomaly.
00:14:34.000 They're losing CNN across the board.
00:14:37.000 They were saying this.
00:14:38.000 They were saying that Michael Smirconish made the exact point earlier today, okay?
00:14:43.000 On CNN.
00:14:44.000 And he's not alone.
00:14:45.000 Fareed Zakaria also even knows what's going on.
00:14:49.000 He literally admitted that this case would not have been brought against anyone else.
00:14:55.000 Anyone other than someone named Donald Trump, this wouldn't happen.
00:14:59.000 This is Fareed Zakaria.
00:15:01.000 Not exactly a conservative.
00:15:02.000 Not even a moderate voice on CNN.
00:15:05.000 Listen to what he has to say.
00:15:08.000 ...against him, keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base who sees him as a martyr, and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believe that his prosecutors are politically motivated.
00:15:23.000 This happens to be true, in my opinion.
00:15:25.000 I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.
00:15:31.000 A majority of Americans are skeptical that Trump will be able to get a fair trial, according to a CNN poll.
00:15:38.000 But it didn't stop there, folks.
00:15:40.000 Zakaria went even further.
00:15:42.000 Basically coming clean that the election interference has failed and that voters are rejecting the insanity of Bidenomics.
00:15:50.000 They're not actually not going to believe their lying eyes.
00:15:54.000 They see what's going on and they're rebelling against Democrat stupidity, insanity, and corruption.
00:16:02.000 None of this is playing out as I thought it would.
00:16:04.000 Trump is now leading in almost all the swing states, but behind those numbers lie even more troubling details.
00:16:13.000 As someone worried about the prospects of a second Trump term, I think it's best to be honest about reality.
00:16:20.000 I understand that polls are not always accurate, but in general they have tended to underestimate Donald Trump's support, not overestimate it.
00:16:28.000 I doubt that there are many shy Biden voters in the country.
00:16:33.000 And we're seeing this, guys.
00:16:34.000 We're seeing it in poll numbers across the country.
00:16:37.000 Today, from the New York Times alone, the Siena survey, they show that Joe Biden is down in five key swing states.
00:16:44.000 In fact, in Nevada, Joe Biden is down by 13%.
00:16:47.000 I'm surprised he's not down by 100% because of this moron, but, you know, you still have to get through some of the noise.
00:16:56.000 Whether in the Nevada desert or at the Jersey Shore, Americans are making it clear they want Donald Trump.
00:17:04.000 They want to put an end to this lunacy.
00:17:06.000 They want to put America first.
00:17:09.000 They want to live in a prosperous nation.
00:17:11.000 They want their children to be able to thrive and live the American dream.
00:17:16.000 And they all understand that that will not happen under Democrat rule.
00:17:21.000 They understand that would be an impossibility under Joe Biden.
00:17:26.000 Just look at the massive turnout of nearly a hundred thousand patriots in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday to watch my father speak.
00:17:33.000 This is a rally in New Jersey, right?
00:17:36.000 This isn't Alabama or like, you know, deep red country.
00:17:39.000 This is a blue state.
00:17:41.000 At least it's supposed to be.
00:17:43.000 And yet, it's the largest Trump rally of the year.
00:17:48.000 People have had enough.
00:17:50.000 They're sick of it.
00:17:51.000 Now, rallies are great.
00:17:53.000 They feel awesome.
00:17:54.000 It's so important for people to understand you can go out there and show your support.
00:17:59.000 I think success begets success.
00:18:01.000 Other people understand you don't have to hide in the corner anymore about your support, but...
00:18:06.000 Guys, we have to turn that into actual votes.
00:18:10.000 The Democrats are going to show up with ballots.
00:18:12.000 Whether they're legitimate or not, I don't think they care.
00:18:16.000 They're going to show up with it anyway.
00:18:18.000 We have to beat the margin of fraud.
00:18:21.000 The Democrats have no shame.
00:18:23.000 They won't say, you know, we can't cheat that badly because no one's going to believe that we weren't able to roll this guy over the finish line.
00:18:30.000 They couldn't care less.
00:18:33.000 There's no decency there.
00:18:35.000 They will do what it takes to win and to hold on to power.
00:18:39.000 Joe Biden couldn't get 100 people to go out and watch a speech.
00:18:43.000 Who would want to be associated with Joe Biden?
00:18:46.000 Biden stands for open borders.
00:18:48.000 Endless wars, high inflation, a destructive economy.
00:18:53.000 He promises to raise your taxes by letting the Trump tax cuts expire.
00:18:59.000 My father will cut your taxes and not raise them.
00:19:05.000 Instead of a Biden tax hike, I'll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class, big tax cut.
00:19:16.000 You're gonna have the biggest tax cut.
00:19:21.000 The Democrats' response to this is to attack voters.
00:19:24.000 They've stopped trying to convince America that Joe Biden is a good president.
00:19:29.000 After all, Honestly, who's gonna believe that?
00:19:33.000 You'd have to be pretty stupid.
00:19:35.000 But they've just given up entirely.
00:19:37.000 It's just too big of a lie, even for them.
00:19:41.000 So, instead, they claim that voting Republican, you're somehow ending democracy.
00:19:48.000 I mean, that's quite an ironic claim.
00:19:53.000 That a vote, literally a vote for the person you want to be president would be anti-democratic.
00:19:59.000 But Morning Joe, you know, these people are imbeciles.
00:20:05.000 Watch for yourself.
00:20:06.000 So there's no mystery here.
00:20:08.000 So there is absolutely no mystery here.
00:20:10.000 So anybody that votes Republican and doesn't understand you are voting for the end of democracy.
00:20:17.000 Yes, if you vote Republican, you're voting for the end of democracy.
00:20:22.000 I mean, you know, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but it doesn't have to.
00:20:25.000 It's MSDNC, right?
00:20:26.000 That's what they do.
00:20:29.000 Remember, it's totally democratic for the party in power to be using their power, to be using their Department of Justice, to try to imprison their political enemies, to censor them, to suppress them, to place gag orders on them so that people can't defend themselves anymore.
00:20:49.000 That's totally democratic, probably according to the same morons on MSNBC, but People are voting Trump because under Joe Biden, they are poorer and they are less safe.
00:21:03.000 For example, Iran.
00:21:05.000 Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terror, just reportedly bragged that they've obtained nuclear weapons.
00:21:15.000 Now we'll wait and see what the details are, but the fact is that our adversaries are emboldened as ever under Joe Biden.
00:21:23.000 Guys, that's the nature of predation, right?
00:21:26.000 Predators pounce on the weak.
00:21:29.000 America is exuding weakness.
00:21:32.000 When you put Joe Biden on a stage, or on a flight of stairs, or at a teleprompter, what you see is utter incompetence, weakness, and stupidity.
00:21:43.000 It's feckless.
00:21:45.000 Our enemies watch it, they see it, and they act accordingly.
00:21:49.000 They are taking advantage of America right now because they know they can get away with it.
00:21:54.000 And get this, guys.
00:21:55.000 According to a local news site in Virginia, an illegal immigrant just tried to break into the Quantico Marine Corps base.
00:22:03.000 I mean...
00:22:06.000 Potomac Local reported that two men in a box truck tried to force their way onto the base earlier this month.
00:22:13.000 The Al-Ara reported one of the individuals inside the truck is a Jordanian foreign national who recently crossed the southern border into the United States, and that one of the occupants is on the U.S.
00:22:25.000 terrorist watch list.
00:22:27.000 Terrorists that have come here across our wide open porous border because of Joe Biden and Democrat policies are literally trying to take over marine bases in box trucks.
00:22:42.000 What's going to happen when they come to your neighborhoods, folks?
00:22:44.000 Because they will.
00:22:46.000 Seems like a big deal to me.
00:22:48.000 Seems like a lot more than just a local news story.
00:22:51.000 Where is the national coverage?
00:22:54.000 That's the problem.
00:22:55.000 Big tech, mainstream media, they are doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.
00:22:59.000 They are going to make sure that no one actually ever sees this.
00:23:02.000 It's why I need you guys to hit the like button.
00:23:05.000 I need you guys to pass this along.
00:23:07.000 I need you to send it to your friends so they can see it.
00:23:10.000 Because until I was doing research for this show, Digging way down the rabbit hole, I had no idea that that had actually transpired.
00:23:19.000 You would think it would be the biggest story in the world.
00:23:22.000 If it was a bunch of red hat wearing MAGA Republicans, it would be a story.
00:23:27.000 But when it's terrorist watch list individuals who come here across Joe Biden's open border, taking advantage of our ridiculous policies, Nothing to be seen here, folks.
00:23:39.000 We're just gonna hide it from you and pretend like it never happened.
00:23:42.000 They're literally trying to brainwash you.
00:23:45.000 They're manipulating you into thinking that things are alright when they are not.
00:23:49.000 We have to put an end to this insanity.
00:23:52.000 Meanwhile, folks...
00:23:53.000 At the Department of Veteran Affairs, Joe Biden is practicing racism.
00:23:58.000 Shouldn't surprise you based on his history, but the Washington Free Beacon reported today that the VA is offering race-based training programs that exclude white veterans.
00:24:10.000 These include programs meant to deal with trauma.
00:24:13.000 One VA official said that equity means realizing that treating everybody the same might not be enough.
00:24:23.000 Let me say that for you again, okay?
00:24:25.000 Equity, guys.
00:24:26.000 Equity, according to them.
00:24:27.000 This is in quotes, literally.
00:24:29.000 They're saying it out loud.
00:24:31.000 They couldn't care less.
00:24:33.000 Equity means realizing that treating everyone the same might not be enough.
00:24:40.000 It's why the DEI programs are destroying great American companies and doors are falling off, planes at Boeing and wheels are falling off, and eventually they'll be falling out of the sky, but you know, hey, equity!
00:24:51.000 Wonderful.
00:24:51.000 We will guarantee outcomes despite merit or any other things that would make any kind of sense whatsoever.
00:24:59.000 I'm pretty sure he's just describing state-sanctioned discrimination, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
00:25:05.000 But again, in this Justice Department, nothing's going to happen about that.
00:25:11.000 And lastly, guys, a few closing thoughts before we get to our interview.
00:25:18.000 I visited our good friend Peter Navarro in federal prison in Miami on Saturday morning early.
00:25:23.000 He's in good spirits.
00:25:24.000 I think they're treating him pretty well there.
00:25:26.000 They're not treating him so well in D.C.
00:25:29.000 He's in prison.
00:25:31.000 He's in prison while he's still under appeal in the presidential immunity case.
00:25:36.000 So you're under appeal, but they throw him in prison anyway, because they want you to suffer.
00:25:39.000 It's not, let's get to the result and let's see what actually happens once the legal system plays itself out.
00:25:45.000 It's important though, that we show our support for the people who've been wrongly persecuted by the Biden administration's witch hunt against conservatives, against MAGA, against people who are American first, Peter did nothing wrong.
00:25:59.000 He was the architect of our China policy.
00:26:01.000 He was tough in our trade practices.
00:26:04.000 That helped us grow our economy and put our enemies in their place.
00:26:08.000 I understand that's a cardinal sin in Washington, which is why they're going to go after him this way.
00:26:12.000 His only crime was being an effective advocate for America First policies.
00:26:17.000 But, you know, I went down there early on Saturday morning, despite being, I guess, I was 48 hours out of my knee surgery.
00:26:23.000 But again, I think it's so critical that the people who are fighters, that they understand that we are with them.
00:26:29.000 You know, send them letters, do whatever you can.
00:26:32.000 You know, he's got a couple more months left in there, even though he's under appeal.
00:26:35.000 So he could be found totally innocent, but guess what?
00:26:37.000 You don't get those four months of your life back.
00:26:40.000 So it's really important.
00:26:42.000 We got to do the same across the board for those who've been persecuted against us.
00:26:45.000 So I guess it's also a reminder of why we need authentic America First candidates up and down the ballot in November to end this madness once and for all.
00:26:55.000 So if you're watching this from West Virginia, make sure to get out there tomorrow and vote for Patrick Morrissey for governor.
00:27:02.000 He's a great patriot.
00:27:03.000 He's the MAGA candidate.
00:27:05.000 He's the attorney general that was fighting all the Biden lawfare and weaponization.
00:27:10.000 He's going to be a great candidate.
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00:30:08.000 With that, guys, joining me now, founder of the Key Square Group, Scott Bessett.
00:30:13.000 Scott, good to have you, man.
00:30:14.000 How are you?
00:30:18.000 Oh.
00:30:19.000 You on mute?
00:30:22.000 There we go.
00:30:22.000 Thanks for having me.
00:30:23.000 It's all good.
00:30:24.000 It happens.
00:30:25.000 I do that about four days a week, so it's all good, man.
00:30:28.000 How you doing?
00:30:29.000 Good, good.
00:30:31.000 Here in your old hometown?
00:30:34.000 Yeah, it actually almost looks similar to my view.
00:30:37.000 It sort of looks like Central Park heading north, so I guess I was probably a little east of you there, but a similar view to my office.
00:30:45.000 Well, you know, 27 stories up, it's nice.
00:30:48.000 Down in the street, it's kind of falling apart.
00:30:51.000 Yeah.
00:30:51.000 You know, I noticed that it's sad.
00:30:52.000 I was there, uh, you know, last week, just, you know, kind of quick in and out.
00:30:57.000 And you're right.
00:30:58.000 It does not, it does not feel the same.
00:31:00.000 It's gotten to the point where I was walking around.
00:31:02.000 I'm like, you know what?
00:31:02.000 I grew up there with my whole life.
00:31:04.000 And if you told me I couldn't come back, perhaps the only thing I'd miss is the food.
00:31:07.000 Otherwise I'd be like, you know what?
00:31:08.000 You can have it.
00:31:10.000 Yeah.
00:31:10.000 I'm with you.
00:31:12.000 So Scott, you've talked about the stock market.
00:31:14.000 One of the things that's perhaps the anomaly is that I see the stock market, I see where it is, and I'm like, it doesn't make any sense to me.
00:31:21.000 And you've actually said that the stock market's done so well because of my father's dominance over Joe Biden in the polls.
00:31:28.000 Corporate America thinks like, okay, hey, we're gonna have a chance to actually survive this.
00:31:32.000 Can you get into the details of that?
00:31:34.000 Because again, where the market is relative to what I see, Across the country, sort of the pain, the suffering, inflation, what interest rates are doing to people.
00:31:43.000 It doesn't seem to jive or make all that much sense.
00:31:47.000 Right.
00:31:47.000 So, Don, let's go backwards from there.
00:31:51.000 When you said, you know, the pain and what you're seeing is, you know, with the Biden economy, what's really happening is this great, I call it the great bifurcation.
00:32:02.000 And we've got a two-tier economy and the top 20% have never done so well.
00:32:08.000 And, you know, I'm talking about wage earners, asset earners, and the bottom 50% are just getting schmeisted.
00:32:16.000 And, you know, it's the opposite of when your father was president.
00:32:20.000 You know, when your father was president, capital did well, labor did well.
00:32:24.000 The bottom 50% of wage earners had, you know, real wage gains.
00:32:29.000 They had real household net worth increases.
00:32:33.000 The top end did just fine, but in the Biden economy, the top end does great, big companies do great, but the lower half and small business is doing terrible.
00:32:48.000 And when I call this the Trump stock market rally, it's based on two different factors.
00:32:55.000 One is the market focusing on November 5th, And President Trump's policies being restored when he wins, and the Trump tax cuts being extended or made permanent, energy independence, light touch regulation, and some semblance of order overseas.
00:33:18.000 But the other thing that's equally important is the Biden apparatus is now panicked.
00:33:25.000 And I tell you that completely inappropriate speech that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave in Arizona on Friday, saying that democracy was at risk.
00:33:37.000 You know, she is panicked that Biden is behind.
00:33:42.000 And so she is flooding the zone with liquidity.
00:33:45.000 She's shortened the US debt profile.
00:33:47.000 She's adding short term risk to try to get her guy, you know, to.
00:33:54.000 ...hobble across the finish line on November 5th.
00:33:58.000 You know, bad for the country, but short-term good for the stock market.
00:34:02.000 So, you know, we're in the nirvana portion right now.
00:34:06.000 So, markets focusing on Trump pro-growth policies, and then the Biden economic apparatus just pumping in, you know, anything at all costs to try to get him across the line.
00:34:20.000 So, you know, I'm reading about, you know, Joe Biden, he wants to let the Trump tax cuts expire and then raise capital gains tax to 44.6%.
00:34:27.000 I mean, it seems sort of scary.
00:34:30.000 I mean, what effect would that have long term, but also what effect would that have You know, in the next year, I mean, I think if that's coming, hey, if that's coming next year, I mean, do people just sort of, you know, dump all their stocks, take the sort of realized gains right now at a lower long-term capital gains rate, rather than risk that?
00:34:51.000 Does that happen practically?
00:34:53.000 What do you think goes on with all of that?
00:34:55.000 Yeah, no, look, I think that you framed it really well, is I think the market would be in for a shock.
00:35:08.000 I'm sure you remember better than anyone.
00:35:10.000 In November 2016, with your dad's surprise—it didn't surprise me, but surprised the pundits, Uh, the pollsters, uh, you know, when is the market initially crashed on election night and then took off because it realized we were going to have the most pro business president maybe ever, but certainly the, uh, in a hundred years, I, I think we could get the opposite of that.
00:35:40.000 I think the market would go down and just stay down in the event of a Biden win.
00:35:46.000 And to your point, it would be the largest tax increase in history if the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Act isn't renewed.
00:35:53.000 in history if the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Act isn't renewed.
00:36:00.000 And this is already with, you know, there's not much gas left in the tank, as you said,
00:36:08.000 is we're running these gigantic budget deficits.
00:36:11.000 We're running a 7% peacetime budget deficit.
00:36:15.000 Never done it before.
00:36:17.000 It's 7%, not a war, not a recession, and this is so fiscally imprudent.
00:36:27.000 They're doing anything to try to help Biden and, you know, these crazy policies.
00:36:33.000 So, you know, I think that, you know, we could have real market drama, you know, November, December, if Biden wins.
00:36:45.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, because you sit there and you're like, hey, you don't want to react like that.
00:36:48.000 You want to sort of long term hold, you know, I'm a real estate guy, right?
00:36:52.000 So I'm holding differently.
00:36:53.000 By the way, the inflation sort of works well for me, because that's what happens to those kinds of assets.
00:36:59.000 Even if it's sort of, you know, Perhaps only nominal not not real because the inflation gets you in other ways But it is scary to think about that because like why would anyone invest in anything if if you're your capital?
00:37:12.000 Why would you take a risk?
00:37:14.000 If your potential gains especially for holding long term are going to be so penal You know and if that's coming the people who have those sort of let's call it gains in place But but I've been holding I could see them dumping everything, and that works fine for a person who's able to trade that way, but people who have 401ks, people who are tied into the markets, people who have long-term pensions, those pension funds aren't going to liquidate, but I could see that being a serious problem for a lot of that sort of unfunded pension liability, etc., that's out there in the country for blue-collar, hard-working Americans.
00:37:49.000 Well, you know, you know, just just for starters, we'd get, you know, an immediate 10 or 15% sell off just based on the corporate tax rate dropping and, you know, interest rate, excuse me, tax rates going up, earnings going down.
00:38:03.000 So, you know, that's just for starters.
00:38:06.000 And then, you know, there's all the regulatory uncertainty.
00:38:09.000 And I'm not going to put words in your mouth, but I think you agree with me that whichever candidate wins in November, he has a mandate.
00:38:21.000 For Trump 2.0, everything that your dad's been put through, when he goes across the finish line and wins on November 5th, he will have a mandate.
00:38:32.000 But if somehow Joe Biden is the winner, he will have a mandate for super progressive policies that the majority of the country doesn't want, and bad economically.
00:38:47.000 But, you know, he's going to double down on him.
00:38:50.000 Joe Biden win will be proof that, you know, fiscal irresponsibility, high regulation, you know, this Green New Deal, which is just going to, you know, a giveaway and doesn't help production, unfettered immigration.
00:39:05.000 They're going to double down and the market will not like that.
00:39:10.000 And, you know, add in, you know, as you said, the globally, Uh, you know, everything that's going on is whether it's China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela is, you know, they're all going to take it as they all clear symbol or they all clear sign to keep doing more of what they're doing.
00:39:33.000 Yeah, no, it's scary.
00:39:36.000 And I mean, I think it puts our long-term prosperity at incredible risk.
00:39:40.000 I'm curious, you know, just because I keep seeing it today, what do you make of some of these, the meme stocks like GameStop and, you know, people doubling back down into all of that?
00:39:51.000 Is that just noise?
00:39:52.000 You know, what are your thoughts behind it?
00:39:54.000 Why now?
00:39:56.000 And again, after everything we've seen, how is that going and what do you make of it?
00:40:01.000 Yeah, what I make of it is the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell keeps saying he's going to cut interest rates because financial conditions may be tight.
00:40:10.000 When you get speculation like this, this is not a sign that financial conditions are tight.
00:40:17.000 It's a sign that they're too easy.
00:40:20.000 There's a ton of speculation.
00:40:25.000 It just tells me that there's a lot of liquidity out there, and people are willing to kind of shoot the moon in an effort to try to stay ahead.
00:40:41.000 I came to the conclusion over the weekend that Biden is lost on the economic issues.
00:40:47.000 The American people will never trust this administration, I believe, to handle The economy, given the great inflation that happened, given what's happened to interest rates with mortgages, people under 40 despondent that they're never going to be able to own a home.
00:41:06.000 And look, I think it's a combination of policy is not too tight and people are desperate.
00:41:14.000 They want to shoot the moon.
00:41:17.000 If you make 65% in GameStop in a day, maybe you can buy your starter house.
00:41:23.000 It's interesting.
00:41:24.000 Yeah, no, I guess that's what it's just, it's the ultimate gambling.
00:41:27.000 And you sort of want to see these guys win, but I see it also with a lot of the conservative stocks, you know, the few that are out there, whether it's, you know, again, you know, Public Square or Rumble or, you know, probably, you know, DJT.
00:41:39.000 I'm not allowed to talk about that because I'm on the board, but like, You see sort of a lot of almost artificial short selling trying to prevent those guys from being able to succeed.
00:41:48.000 You saw that sort of in the original GameStop, right?
00:41:51.000 The big guys took on the little guys.
00:41:53.000 Ultimately, it's a waiting game.
00:41:54.000 They had billions that they could sort of wait it out.
00:41:56.000 And, you know, ultimately, you know, what do you see there?
00:42:00.000 Because it does feel like if I look at some of these, you know, the few conservative stocks that are out there listed, You look at revenues, you look at earnings, you look at everything, you compare that to another stock that's out there that's, you know, let's call it more progressive, and their valuations are so much more.
00:42:17.000 They don't have that same negativity around it.
00:42:20.000 Is there a reason for that?
00:42:22.000 Look, I, you know, I think there's a general bent in terms of mainstream media reporting is, you know, I can talk about DJT and, you know, I would say that the media coverage is definitely biased is, you know, there are all these other growth stocks that are supposed to be, you know, these incredible Silicon Valley darlings that don't make money for 2, 3, 4, 5 years and then they come out swinging on DJT's revenues or projections, and it's not balanced coverage.
00:42:59.000 So you used to be chief investment officer for the Soros Fund.
00:43:03.000 I know in the live chat, I get that a lot.
00:43:05.000 Obviously, it's someone who's funding a lot of stuff that certainly my following doesn't understand, doesn't believe in.
00:43:12.000 It seems like you're a conservative guy as well, so I'm curious what that was like and perhaps what was he like?
00:43:21.000 Yeah, it is.
00:43:22.000 Look, that George Soros is one of the world's greatest investors.
00:43:28.000 And unfortunately for our side, he applied that to, you know, politics.
00:43:34.000 And I feel like myself included, a lot of us got caught flat footed.
00:43:40.000 And look, you know, George is strategic.
00:43:43.000 He is ruthless and he is persistent, and he just kept trying until he worked out this formula, whether it was with the district attorneys or all these dark money groups.
00:44:01.000 Everyone asks me, why am I coming out now into politics?
00:44:08.000 One, I see what's happening with Bidenomics, or as I call it, Bidenitis, and the economy.
00:44:16.000 And two, I've seen it from the inside, and I know how that machine works.
00:44:23.000 And, you know, I want to use my resources to try to do the same thing for our side.
00:44:30.000 But, you know, we've got to catch up.
00:44:33.000 We've got to be mindful that this could happen at any time.
00:44:37.000 And, you know, I think we're seeing groups like Moms for Liberty who have pushed back in a similar fashion and using similar tactics.
00:44:47.000 So, you know, I think that our side just has to be as strategic, as ruthless, as smart and well-funded.
00:44:55.000 Yeah.
00:44:55.000 And listen, for those watching in the live chat, you know, obviously you're going to be under, you know, NDA, there's only so much you could say, but what do you think sort of drives that worldview?
00:45:04.000 You know, when you have someone, It feels like they're trying to create chaos.
00:45:10.000 It's not, you know, about liberty or fairness.
00:45:13.000 I mean, you know, defund the police, let criminals out, make sure that, you know, rapists and murderers are released immediately.
00:45:19.000 What drives that sort of worldview?
00:45:22.000 I mean, I think Elon basically said he just hates humanity.
00:45:25.000 I don't know if you agree or not, but, you know, as someone who spent, you know, a lot of time in the area, you know, what's the upside for that?
00:45:32.000 I mean, you know, he has children or a child, I guess, and, you know, What's gonna happen, I guess, are they just powerful enough that they can have armed guards and live behind walls that they don't actually have to ever see the pain that's ultimately inflicted into the places where these policies, you know, are put into effect?
00:45:52.000 Yeah, look, I think in general a lot of people at a certain level become very detached and, as you said, move around kind of like heads of state with security and armed guards.
00:46:07.000 And George Orwell had this great saying, you know, it's an idea so stupid only an intellectual could believe it.
00:46:15.000 Um, so, um, you know, I can't say much more than that, but I, you know, some, some of these things that, you know, it just, it boggles, it boggles the mind that anyone, you know, would think this would work.
00:46:31.000 One of my favorite books is the Stanford Hoover Institute intellectual Thomas Sowell.
00:46:39.000 He has a book called The Vision of the Anointed.
00:46:42.000 And I like his phraseology, the anointed, and there's certain people in the world who just think that they know better.
00:46:50.000 It's this elite attitude, whether it's in COVID and foreign policy.
00:46:57.000 These are the same people who think that they can dictate military policy to Israel, that Israel doesn't know how to fight their own war, that It's just a stream of endless sort of crisis response and failure, and there's rarely any accountability.
00:47:20.000 And Don, I think the real word is accountability.
00:47:26.000 You and I, we're business people.
00:47:29.000 We have accountability.
00:47:30.000 At the end of the day, the politicians are accountable to the American people, but there's a whole group of, whether it's policymakers, the donors to these organizations, and there's no accountability.
00:47:46.000 Yeah, I mean, listen, I think the best example I saw, I guess, you know, video clips over the weekend where Biden's economic advisor, I think his name's Jared Bernstein, he was literally getting mocked for totally stumbling over, you know, if you're in that position, you're an economic advisor to the President of the United States.
00:48:03.000 I mean, he just totally botched a basic question on how money works.
00:48:10.000 How much of these issues are actual policy, and how much are personnel?
00:48:16.000 Are they just sort of like, hey, he was a bundler and he raised us a lot of money.
00:48:20.000 It's sort of like, you know, Anthony Blinken became Secretary of State because he's the guy that corralled the 51 intelligence officers to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, even though anyone with a brain realized it wasn't.
00:48:33.000 You know, are they just putting incompetence in these positions?
00:48:36.000 Because like, Man, I don't do anything like that, and I feel like I would have done a significantly better job answering that question.
00:48:44.000 I mean, just basic economics, he just didn't even seem to understand it.
00:48:49.000 And yet, this is someone who wields a lot of power in this economy, in this White House, and to not have a basic understanding of these things seems truly scary.
00:49:02.000 Yeah, look, it was a shocking interview, and there's a lot about it that I found shocking.
00:49:08.000 He was asked a question on modern monetary theory, and look, if someone had asked me that question, I would have said, look, MMT, as it's known, is neither modern, nor monetary, nor theory.
00:49:22.000 It's the idea of just Uncontrolled spending has been around forever.
00:49:29.000 It's not monetary.
00:49:30.000 It's fiscal.
00:49:32.000 It's the government spending, and it's not a theory.
00:49:34.000 The Biden administration did it.
00:49:37.000 They ran big deficits.
00:49:39.000 The central bank, the Federal Reserve bought the bonds.
00:49:43.000 And, you know, so it's, you know, I would call it ancient fiscal practice.
00:49:49.000 And this this is why we've got this.
00:49:52.000 This is why we had this great inflation that the American people have never recovered from.
00:49:58.000 Yeah, how do you assess, you know, speaking of some of these policies, again, you know, when we're talking meme stocks, you know, I can hear the printers whirring in the background, you know, printing more money, but how do you assess Jerome Powell's performance?
00:50:11.000 Do you think he's ever going to lower interest rates before November to try to sort of help Joe Biden get across the finish line?
00:50:18.000 I feel like they're playing so many, you know, short-term games, you know, eventually you have to pay the piper, But they don't really care as long as they get what they want.
00:50:27.000 They'll deal with it later.
00:50:27.000 They'll print more money to get out of it.
00:50:29.000 You know, it doesn't matter what that does to America, our purchasing power, or anything.
00:50:34.000 You know, what do you think's going on there and what would you do differently?
00:50:38.000 Yeah, well, first of all, the Federal Reserve or central banks, their greatest resource is credibility.
00:50:49.000 People have to believe that you are inflation fighters and your local population, global population, and we've seen that the.
00:51:03.000 Biggest or second largest, first, second, depending on the day, largest holder of U.S.
00:51:08.000 debt.
00:51:10.000 The Chinese government is diversifying into gold and ordinary U.S.
00:51:16.000 citizens are diversifying into gold.
00:51:18.000 You know, Costco is selling between 100 million, 200 million dollars of gold bars a day.
00:51:24.000 So, you know, you've got this incredibly sophisticated investor, the Chinese government, and then you've got ordinary Americans who've lost confidence.
00:51:34.000 And I have a contrary view about what Jerome Powell's doing, is I actually think he may have done in President Biden by trying to help him too much.
00:51:48.000 Interesting.
00:51:49.000 Again, if you do it too much and too soon, you actually reap the negative side of the pot.
00:51:54.000 You may get the little bump in the short term, but you actually may get the negative while people are still awake and before the election.
00:52:02.000 Exactly.
00:52:02.000 And that's what happened is, you know, I had an editorial on Fox Digital last week, basically called Jerome Powell ate the marshmallow, which, you know, the famous marshmallow test is for children.
00:52:14.000 And are they able to exercise self-control?
00:52:19.000 And, you know, postpone gratification.
00:52:23.000 And, you know, I actually think that the Fed, having lost a tremendous amount of credibility, fell to the American people in 2021, did one of the fastest interest rate hiking cycles in history.
00:52:36.000 And so we cruise into late fall of 23.
00:52:41.000 Inflation was dropping, but economic growth was flattening out.
00:52:47.000 And Jerome Powell walked out of the FOMC meetings in November and December.
00:52:54.000 The FOMC statements were very anodyne, very middle of the road, but he goosed the economic conditions, goosed the stock market, loosened financial conditions, so the economy took off again, but so did inflation.
00:53:10.000 So now, you know, inflation this spring has been quite high.
00:53:15.000 I actually think if he hadn't done that, probably he could be cutting interest rates now.
00:53:19.000 And, you know, it's back to my earlier point that by loosening financial conditions, who benefits from that?
00:53:26.000 It's the top 20% and the bottom 50% is the getting run over.
00:53:33.000 So, you know, in Biden's America, you either own assets or you have debt.
00:53:40.000 And if you own assets, you know, Jay Powell, And Janet Yellen are pumping up asset prices and like this unstable equilibrium or you have debt and the interest rates are high and we've now seen the credit card delinquencies of 30 days just hit a record.
00:54:00.000 They're three and a half percent of all credit cards are now delinquent.
00:54:05.000 That is the highest that they have recorded since they started keeping the statistics in 2012.
00:54:10.000 It's appalling.
00:54:12.000 Yeah, I saw a stat the other, it was like 43% of small businesses aren't going to make rent this month.
00:54:17.000 Like, that's, I mean, how?
00:54:20.000 I mean, that's not sustainable.
00:54:21.000 I mean, that's not, that's not like something that goes away one month or just by, by luck.
00:54:25.000 I mean, that, that, that's a serious problem.
00:54:27.000 I mean, I love the analogy of, you know, ate, ate the marshmallow because, you know, for those of you who don't know, it's sort of the, you put a kid there, you give them a marshmallow, it was like $10,000 and you, you know, they choose the instant gratification of the marshmallow.
00:54:38.000 I've used it as an example in my memes of why we don't let children decide what gender
00:54:44.000 they're going to be at three years old and mutilate their bodies, but I guess the same
00:54:48.000 thing applies and that's what's going on right now.
00:54:51.000 We're doing the quick fixes for the instant gratification, but what it does to us in the
00:54:57.000 long run is truly scary.
00:55:01.000 And we're already seeing that play out before the election, which, you know, I guess good for us, but it becomes a much larger problem to try to fix because the more you do this, the further down the hole you go, the harder it is to get out.
00:55:14.000 Yeah, and look, there are all these kind of spurious stories of whether President Trump would fire the Chair Powell and all this.
00:55:24.000 I can tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I'd be coming after him because in trying to help, because his thinking is so linear and we live in a non-linear world, he's actually hurt his election chances, which I find very amusing.
00:55:44.000 What do you think, you know, with everything going on, not obviously central bank related, but as it relates to, you know, cryptocurrency and everything happening there?
00:55:53.000 Obviously, you know, we're sort of against the central bank stuff, because I think it defeats everything that those who believe in crypto are probably about, which is exactly why the government wants to, you know, do it.
00:56:02.000 But what about, you know, crypto in general?
00:56:05.000 What do you see happening in those markets?
00:56:06.000 What do you think the future of that is?
00:56:08.000 I know there's gonna be a lot of people curious, sort of in the live chat about that.
00:56:13.000 Yeah, look, I think it's super exciting.
00:56:16.000 I live in the Bahamas part of the year.
00:56:20.000 I sussed out Sam Bankman Freed pretty early on as being a fraud and was happy to see him get sentenced.
00:56:32.000 I didn't think the sentence was high enough.
00:56:35.000 And look, I think the interesting thing about crypto Several fold is one is the technology associated with it.
00:56:46.000 Two is anytime you have competition, it should make the incumbent better.
00:56:52.000 You know, a good incumbent gets better because of competition.
00:56:56.000 So if the US Treasury, the US dollar, if we have to improve our policies because money is coming out of the dollar into gold into crypto, Then, you know, that is a standard that we have to compete against as opposed to not having competition.
00:57:14.000 And thirdly, I think the great thing about crypto is it's getting a whole generation excited about free markets.
00:57:22.000 Crypto is the ultimate free market.
00:57:25.000 And, you know, could it be a govern better?
00:57:28.000 Perhaps, but we really need to put in some durable, long-term solutions to helping people invest in crypto because it's not going anywhere.
00:57:42.000 I like that, actually.
00:57:43.000 It's the ultimate sort of free market.
00:57:45.000 In a time where a lot of those free markets seem to be at risk or on the table, or I guess if you took the libertarian approach, so heavily taxed or regulated that are they actually free, even if they're Well, you know, it's that, but it's also, look, I am sympathetic to the millennial generation that they've had a bad ride so far with what is called capitalism.
00:58:17.000 Maybe they live through the dot-com bust.
00:58:20.000 You know, if they're a little younger, that they had the great financial crisis and then COVID and the great inflation.
00:58:26.000 And, you know, the surveys show that there is a lack of confidence in the free market and capitalism.
00:58:35.000 And, you know, my message to them is always, you know, you haven't seen real capitalism.
00:58:41.000 You've seen crony capitalism.
00:58:43.000 You've seen poor regulation and that, you know, Crypto is getting people and this generation excited about the possibilities, and that's how we keep capital and the capital markets going in the United States.
00:58:58.000 And I think it's fantastic.
00:59:01.000 My 14-year-old trades these coins that I've never even heard of, and he loves it.
00:59:07.000 Yeah.
00:59:08.000 Listen, hey, and that education process, again, perhaps as long as you're not betting the farm or the house on something like that, just that education process.
00:59:16.000 I know my son's sort of fascinated in some of this stuff as well, and it's a learning experience before, you know, Before a lot of people would be doing that.
00:59:24.000 And I think that that's so important to learn at an early age, because you make your mistakes when it's small, you learn it, understand it and allows you to succeed later.
00:59:33.000 And so I guess maybe I know you have a hard out in a couple of minutes, but I'd like to ask, you know, with that these days, you know, what does it take to be a successful fund manager?
00:59:42.000 What separates the good from the bad in 2024?
00:59:46.000 Yeah, look, I think it's the same as it's always been, is thinking about the long term, paying attention to the short term, and the main thing for me is being able to separate reality from noise.
01:00:05.000 is, and I'm fortunate to have going into the election, everyone tells me, oh, like Trump 2.0 is gonna be chaos,
01:00:14.000 it's gonna be this, it's gonna be that.
01:00:16.000 And I'm like, no, I wrote to my investors and said, I think there's a chance that Trump 2.0
01:00:23.000 could be the opposite of chaos.
01:00:25.000 I think it could be smooth functioning.
01:00:29.000 Maybe we could go back to the roaring 20s.
01:00:32.000 And so what I really think being successful is, is sitting down, not listening to.
01:00:40.000 Yeah, you know, the prevalent.
01:00:43.000 Kind of themes of the day and having a real well reason data driven view and, um, I'm hopeful that the U.S.
01:00:59.000 will continue to do well, but I also think the rest of the world could do well.
01:01:05.000 Japan's doing great.
01:01:07.000 I think that Europe, hopefully within a year we have the end of Russia-Ukraine war, and I think Europe could really do well.
01:01:23.000 Depending on what happens on November 5th, I think that the U.S.
01:01:28.000 could do great.
01:01:30.000 We could have roaring 20s again, but for me, for our team, we just sort through data.
01:01:37.000 We decide, okay, this is what people are saying, and does it make any sense?
01:01:45.000 Well, Scott, thank you so much.
01:01:46.000 I really appreciate you doing this, taking the time, you know, different worldview, different kind of interview in terms of the finance side of things.
01:01:53.000 Where can people find you so they can follow you, they can check out what you're doing?
01:01:57.000 You know, I know that there's sort of a general discontent that there's so many people in your world that just, you know, don't believe in any of the policies that, you know, certainly my following does.
01:02:05.000 So I'm sure they'd love to check you out and see what you're doing.
01:02:08.000 Yeah, so I'd love to hear from them.
01:02:11.000 So it's ir at keysq.com.
01:02:16.000 That's a central email for our firm, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
01:02:24.000 Love to come back, and I really enjoyed this.
01:02:27.000 And again, I am, you know, I'm optimistic.
01:02:32.000 I am, you know, the news now is, you know, it's kind of multi-crisis all the time, but markets live in the future and hopefully January 21, 2025, you know, markets will start anchoring on that.
01:02:52.000 Well, I really appreciate the time, man.
01:02:54.000 Thank you very much.
01:02:55.000 Great talking to you.
01:02:56.000 And with that, guys, check that out.
01:02:58.000 Follow Scott where you can.
01:02:59.000 And we're going to go do... I'm going to do some Q&A now, because I know people are probably curious about that from the financial side.
01:03:06.000 Scott's going to be certainly more qualified than me to answer those questions, obviously.
01:03:10.000 Also, if you're on Locals, I'll go over there live simultaneously now.
01:03:16.000 So, you know, if you do the AMAs after the show, Uh, the regular one, you know, I'll do this here, but I'll, you know, it's sometimes a little hard to follow the live chat because so many people are, you know, on it and asking questions.
01:03:28.000 So if you're on Locals, go over to there.
01:03:29.000 You'll be able to stream it simultaneously, but you'll be able to get your questions in.
01:03:34.000 Uh, yeah, let me see both of them, guys.
01:03:37.000 Thank you.
01:03:37.000 Perfect.
01:03:38.000 Uh, and, you know, and I'll watch that.
01:03:40.000 So, you know, any questions about that?
01:03:43.000 Any thoughts on the, you know, the Cohen testimony and all that?
01:03:46.000 Uh, you know, nonsense.
01:03:48.000 Also, oh, before I get there, just make sure you guys are liking, sharing, subscribing, okay?
01:03:52.000 I don't tell you guys to do that enough.
01:03:54.000 Uh, I probably should a little bit more.
01:03:56.000 There's always a little bit of a, uh...
01:03:59.000 You know, there's a discrepancy between how many people are watching live and how many people are liking it, and that's not just the trolls.
01:04:05.000 So, you know, take the effort to do that.
01:04:08.000 Also, don't forget later on to, you know, I know Scott had sort of, you know, mentioned Gold, so text Don Jr.
01:04:14.000 to 989898 to learn about putting your 401k or existing IRAs into an IRA in Gold with the Birch Group and our sponsors.
01:04:22.000 Again, Don Jr.
01:04:23.000 to 989898.
01:04:25.000 They'll give you the information.
01:04:27.000 You can read about it.
01:04:28.000 They'll take you through it.
01:04:29.000 They'll answer your questions.
01:04:30.000 If anything, just go out there and educate yourselves so you know.
01:04:35.000 I like that.
01:04:37.000 It's not too late to be red-pilled.
01:04:38.000 That's for sure, guys.
01:04:39.000 I mean, it's going to be in November, though.
01:04:42.000 If you don't get red-pilled by November, we're all in serious trouble.
01:04:48.000 So, OrangemanGood, love your book.
01:04:50.000 Are you working on another book?
01:04:52.000 So it's interesting.
01:04:53.000 So, you know, in the old like, hey, you don't like it, build your own.
01:04:56.000 I literally built a publishing company.
01:04:59.000 We're actually publishing Peter Navarro's book right now.
01:05:03.000 You know, I've done Carrie Lake and Marjorie Taylor Greene and like a lot of the people in the movement that literally can't get another liberal publisher to do it.
01:05:12.000 You know, it's, you know, they always say, oh, you don't You don't like it?
01:05:15.000 Go build your own.
01:05:16.000 So guys like me, actually go do that.
01:05:18.000 MXM News, the news app, subscribe to that.
01:05:22.000 MXM, like minute by minute.
01:05:23.000 MXM News, check that out so you can get the news that I'm seeing.
01:05:29.000 It's what I base the show on.
01:05:31.000 You can sort of select what you want to see, how you get it.
01:05:33.000 We give you both sides.
01:05:34.000 We were debanked, deplatformed, all that stuff.
01:05:36.000 So they say build your own, but then they throw up every roadblock imaginable.
01:05:40.000 They don't actually mean it, but when guys like, You know, me take that time and the effort to make sure that you can see it.
01:05:46.000 It's awesome if you guys can support those kind of things.
01:05:48.000 So I actually started a group called Winning Team Publishing.
01:05:51.000 So I was actually gonna work on a... I was starting to work on a book on government waste.
01:05:55.000 And the problem is I just... I had another book and this and the campaign and I...
01:06:00.000 So, I will get to that eventually, because I have two books out.
01:06:03.000 I wrote Triggered, you know, I guess in 17, sort of right after the election, the story of the election, plus sort of my political leanings.
01:06:11.000 You know, that became a New York Times number one bestseller.
01:06:15.000 I did another second book that I started publishing myself, because I was like, why am I giving all this sort of to a publisher that probably hates my guts and all of this stuff?
01:06:23.000 I started my publishing company, did my second book, would have also been a number one bestseller, but the New York Times number one bestseller list no longer looked at it because it wasn't from one of the big houses, even though I said, hey, here's my Shopify account.
01:06:35.000 You can look at all of the information and see for yourself that it's legit and real.
01:06:39.000 Uh, didn't matter.
01:06:40.000 You know, they don't want you to succeed.
01:06:41.000 Uh, yeah.
01:06:42.000 So I started winning team publishing that, you know, part of, I'm putting out Peter Navarro's book.
01:06:47.000 Uh, you can get that at NumagaDeal.com.
01:06:51.000 If you want to check that out, help support Peter.
01:06:53.000 This is the one I spoke about with him, uh, right the day before he went into prison.
01:06:58.000 Um, you know about the plan, uh, you know for this election and what would be the plan under the the second trump term Uh, so the long sorry long-winded answer to your question.
01:07:09.000 Will I write another book?
01:07:10.000 Yes, i've got two bestsellers already, but i've been publishing other people's bestsellers and uh trying to make sure that we get all of that word out so I will get to it.
01:07:18.000 I've actually really enjoyed the process of doing that and uh, so it's been great, but you know, there's a A lot going on.
01:07:28.000 A lot going on.
01:07:30.000 Win-win-win Trump.
01:07:30.000 How's your knee, Don Jr.?
01:07:32.000 May we know what happened.
01:07:34.000 Get well soon.
01:07:34.000 We love you.
01:07:35.000 Well, thank you, win-win-win Trump.
01:07:37.000 Probably a fan.
01:07:39.000 That's either a fan handle or a serious troll, one or the other.
01:07:43.000 But the knee's doing well, actually.
01:07:45.000 I mean, I'm walking at times almost without a limp.
01:07:48.000 For those of you who don't know, I literally had knee surgery less than a week ago.
01:07:51.000 I guess it was last Tuesday evening I got out of the operating room.
01:07:56.000 So Field Ethos, my outdoor publication, I was with them in the UK doing a collaboration with Rigby,
01:08:04.000 the classic British gun maker, sort of really cool like a feather in our cap
01:08:09.000 to work with a 250 year old British gun maker with this sort of like brash, unapologetic,
01:08:14.000 masculine sort of adventure lifestyle magazine that I do, Field Ethos.
01:08:17.000 And we were over there and I was literally walking.
01:08:19.000 We went like roe deer hunting, stalking and whatever, but I was literally walking on a road
01:08:25.000 and I felt a snap.
01:08:27.000 It didn't fall, didn't slip, whatever it was, but I felt a snap.
01:08:29.000 And I guess, uh, I was a rower in college and I must have done some damage to my knee.
01:08:34.000 And, uh, literally my meniscus just popped.
01:08:37.000 Uh, the placa, another thing under the kneecap, sort of rolled in under the kneecap.
01:08:41.000 And so it was like walking with a...
01:08:43.000 A pebble in your joint.
01:08:46.000 So it went from being 100% fine, and I was, you know, a couple days before that, I was like, you know, squatting 300 pounds, no problems, and literally one step and just pop, snap.
01:08:57.000 I have a good buddy that's a top orthopedic surgeon.
01:09:02.000 In the country, does a bunch of, you know, great athletes and all that stuff.
01:09:05.000 And he was like, he got me in, you know, I got home.
01:09:07.000 I was in the UK.
01:09:08.000 I got home.
01:09:09.000 I went to Formula One, could barely walk.
01:09:11.000 I think I told you guys about that one with my father, Miami.
01:09:14.000 That was a Sunday.
01:09:16.000 Monday at 9 a.m., I was in an MRI.
01:09:18.000 Tuesday at 3, I was on the operating table, and less than five days out, whatever it is, I'm pretty much... I don't think I could run, but I'm walking without too much of a limp even right now.
01:09:31.000 So, coming along well.
01:09:32.000 I can't go too crazy on it.
01:09:35.000 That's not easy for me.
01:09:37.000 I usually go pretty hard.
01:09:39.000 I'm pretty hard on myself, whether it's working out, whether it's just, you know, traveling and whatever.
01:09:44.000 So, I mean, yeah, 24 hours out of surgery.
01:09:46.000 I was in Toronto speaking at For Rumble, you know, up there, had a great event there on Friday.
01:09:51.000 So, yeah, it's a mess, but no, it's coming along well.
01:09:57.000 Haven't had to take the painkillers.
01:09:58.000 They'd call me Hunter Biden if I was, so I'm just, you know, eat some of the pain, just deal with it.
01:10:03.000 And it's, yeah, it's a problem.
01:10:06.000 Wiz jimmies, you've busted all sorts of bones, nine motorcycle accidents, go slow and recover good.
01:10:11.000 Yes, by the way, good advice, like I have, I'm the similar guy, like I have, I've broken every major bone in my body.
01:10:19.000 Probably well over a thousand stitches, severed tendons, torn ACs, 15 pins in a plate in my ankle, like I'm a mess.
01:10:25.000 I'm the guy that's hoping for like medical, like orthopedic You know, medicine to catch up to like my early onset arthritis from what we call a misspent youth in terms of just having an underdeveloped sense of self-preservation.
01:10:39.000 So yeah, do the stuff, do the PT.
01:10:42.000 This one's an interesting one.
01:10:42.000 They're like, there's not really a PT protocol.
01:10:44.000 He's like, you know, just get on a bike and start, you know, going light.
01:10:47.000 They're like, come in and we'll take the stitches out on Wednesday.
01:10:49.000 I was like, I'll take the stitches out myself.
01:10:51.000 There's no reason for me to come in.
01:10:52.000 I'll deal with that on my own.
01:10:54.000 I've done that a thousand times.
01:10:56.000 But yeah, you do, For anyone who gets hurt, you do the PT.
01:11:02.000 It's totally worth it.
01:11:05.000 ANNMC7.
01:11:07.000 God provide Don Jr.
01:11:08.000 with a quick and complete recovery.
01:11:10.000 Thank you.
01:11:10.000 Appreciate it.
01:11:11.000 Just Peachy Superman.
01:11:12.000 I don't know about that, but... USA Now and... okay.
01:11:18.000 What they have done, why so many broken bones.
01:11:21.000 So, like I said, growing up, sort of, you know, it's why, like, I sort of have, like, an adventure lifestyle magazine.
01:11:27.000 I'm that guy that, like, try everything, jump off mountains with parachutes, try a mixed diver, licensed airplane pilot, free diver.
01:11:35.000 Like, I just, I love sort of adventure, and I do think that whatever, like, when they were handing out, like, a sense of self-preservation, I skipped it, and so, You know, whether it was mountain bikes or whitewater kayaking or whatever, you know, motorcycles and motocross like I just did all of that stuff growing up as a kid.
01:11:51.000 I was blessed to be able to do it and you know, so you know when you're the guy that's like, I'll go first.
01:11:57.000 I'll go break trail.
01:11:58.000 I'll see if it can be done.
01:11:59.000 It's like eventually that catches up to you, you know, so you combine the sports with a little bit of a Otherwise misspent youth, and yeah, you do a little bit of damage.
01:12:10.000 Steph71, glad to hear the news going good.
01:12:13.000 You maintain well in Canada.
01:12:15.000 That was a good Rumble show.
01:12:17.000 It sucks getting old.
01:12:18.000 Yes, it does.
01:12:20.000 Honestly, like, I think there's not an aspect in my life now that probably isn't better a little bit older.
01:12:25.000 Like, I feel like, you know, at 46, like, probably not even pro- not even peaked yet.
01:12:30.000 Like, except The part about getting old that sucks is waking up sore every damn day.
01:12:37.000 That part sucks.
01:12:38.000 The part I miss most about youth is not waking up sore.
01:12:42.000 So, you know, that's a good one.
01:12:44.000 Shooting this Saturday as a form of PT.
01:12:49.000 Let me see, this Saturday.
01:12:51.000 I don't know.
01:12:52.000 If I'm around, George, make something happen.
01:12:54.000 If you're gonna be up in the area, let me know.
01:12:56.000 I'll see what I can pull off.
01:12:58.000 I know I got to start traveling again, campaign trail and a bunch of other stuff and probably go see DJT in court next week.
01:13:05.000 Just, you know, not that I can help with anything, but just, you know, there's this, you know, show of force, sign of support, no different than sort of, you know, me going down to visit Peter Navarro in prison on Saturday.
01:13:17.000 Still in crutches then, but, you know, we just got to, we got to be out there and we got to stand up against the tyranny that we're seeing transpire.
01:13:26.000 Dapper Dave, you're thinking if dad picks JD Vance, then he can negotiate with the governor of Ohio to pick Vivek to serve as senator.
01:13:33.000 He's from Ohio.
01:13:35.000 That's actually a great idea.
01:13:35.000 I mean, listen, everyone, it's no secret that I'd love JD to be VP.
01:13:42.000 I think while they're holding my father up in a courtroom and they're going to continue to try to do so for You know, months on end, you need someone who can take the fight to the lunatics.
01:13:50.000 And you watch him on CNN, you watch him take out these reporters and just, you know, make a mockery of them.
01:13:56.000 You know, they don't... Well, you said that, you know, elections were rigged.
01:14:00.000 It's like, yeah, because they are.
01:14:01.000 Like, not, you know, we don't have to agree with their narrative just because they pretend that they know what they're talking about because they don't.
01:14:07.000 So I love a JD out there as a fighter.
01:14:10.000 I think we need that.
01:14:11.000 If DJT's in a courtroom, you let him go out and start doing those things.
01:14:15.000 So I'm all for sort of picking a VP early.
01:14:18.000 By the way, JD is gonna be on the show on Thursday.
01:14:21.000 So...
01:14:21.000 For those of you who either love JD or want to learn more about him, JD's gonna be on Triggered on Thursday, so you're going to want to see that one.
01:14:31.000 I'm sure he will bring the heat because he always does.
01:14:34.000 Just, you know, someone who's become a very good friend, incredible background, I mean, you know.
01:14:39.000 He wrote the book, Hillbilly Algae, about sort of his childhood in Appalachia and growing up about as poor as it gets and just crushing it.
01:14:47.000 I mean, this is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the top future people in the America First movement, already is probably our strongest advocate in the United States Senate by a long shot.
01:15:00.000 So he'll be great.
01:15:04.000 Diane Marie, Byron Donaldson, good pick too.
01:15:07.000 Byron's a great guy, good friend, tough guy.
01:15:10.000 Listen, there's a lot of good choices.
01:15:13.000 You know, I see, you know, JD's ability on TV and just smacking these guys down as though, I mean, it's like, it's like Trump level.
01:15:21.000 So I think that'd be great.
01:15:23.000 You guys will see for yourself on Thursday.
01:15:25.000 If you tune in, you know, make sure to check that out.
01:15:29.000 I'm sorry you're convinced J.D.
01:15:30.000 Vance is it.
01:15:32.000 Okay, Steph, yeah.
01:15:33.000 Listen, I don't know that he's it.
01:15:35.000 I mean, he'd be my pick, but that's not up for me.
01:15:38.000 There's a lot of other considerations.
01:15:39.000 I'm sure my father takes what I say quite seriously.
01:15:43.000 He knows I'm out there.
01:15:43.000 He knows I'm on the ground.
01:15:44.000 He knows I probably spend more time on the ground than just about anyone.
01:15:49.000 Yeah, but there's a lot of other considerations that go into these things.
01:15:53.000 Yep, J.D.' 's also a vet.
01:15:55.000 Incredible background, he gets it.
01:15:58.000 So yeah, but yeah, make sure to tune in on Thursday or, you know, download the Rumble app so you can get a notification when we go live, triggered on Thursday.
01:16:05.000 It will be live with JD Vance.
01:16:07.000 Should be a great show.
01:16:09.000 And for those of you who don't know him, that'll be great.
01:16:14.000 They say Burgum is a great pick for VP.
01:16:16.000 He has the running business aspect of that position.
01:16:19.000 Listen, Doug Brigham's a great guy.
01:16:20.000 I like him a lot.
01:16:22.000 Definitely successful businessman.
01:16:23.000 JD too.
01:16:24.000 Both actually kind of come from actually, surprisingly enough, you know, a tech background.
01:16:29.000 Sort of interesting, you know, a couple conservatives from that.
01:16:32.000 So, that's someone who I've gotten to know.
01:16:35.000 I did events for him years ago even, but like, I've gotten to know more in the last, you know, six months.
01:16:40.000 So, you know, I like Doug a lot as well.
01:16:44.000 Let's see.
01:16:46.000 Thoughts on New York pretty much validating the use of fraudulent mail-in ballots.
01:16:50.000 New York Republicans won five seats in 2022, giving them control of the House.
01:16:55.000 You lose those seats, you might lose the House.
01:16:57.000 That's going to be a problem this election.
01:16:59.000 Yeah, well listen, that's why, you know, that's why we're campaigning in New Jersey.
01:17:03.000 Right?
01:17:03.000 You got to win those seats.
01:17:05.000 It's not just about the presidency.
01:17:06.000 You're not going to see anything.
01:17:07.000 You may not win a state for the presidency, but if you can pick up some of those House seats, you know, they're doing the gerrymandering thing in New York.
01:17:13.000 They're trying to pull all those wins away from conservatives.
01:17:15.000 Like, that's what you have to deal with.
01:17:16.000 That's the problem.
01:17:17.000 I mean, you know, there's a lot of things we'd like to do, but we also got to live in the real world and understand how these things go, how they happen.
01:17:25.000 And we got to play that game back.
01:17:27.000 So we can't just say, hey, you know, maybe you don't win New Jersey.
01:17:29.000 Maybe you do.
01:17:30.000 Maybe it's on the table.
01:17:31.000 It could be.
01:17:31.000 I mean, man, based on those crowds, maybe it is.
01:17:34.000 But again, we have to convert those ballots, that enthusiasm into actual ballots, right?
01:17:40.000 The Democrats are going to show up with ballots, whether they're harvested, whether they're illegal, whether they're from people who no longer live there or died years ago.
01:17:48.000 You know, they're going to show up with ballots.
01:17:50.000 We got to do the same thing.
01:17:56.000 For better or worse, we'll have to do it legally because that's what we do.
01:18:00.000 They do not prescribe to that, in my opinion, even a little bit.
01:18:04.000 They don't care.
01:18:05.000 There's no pretense of honesty or objectivity.
01:18:09.000 So, you know, but we got to do what we can and we got to overwhelm the system.
01:18:12.000 As I've said, sort of, we have to beat the margin of fraud.
01:18:15.000 We don't have to win by one vote.
01:18:16.000 We have to beat the margin of fraud and the fraud is going to be significant.
01:18:20.000 They are up and running.
01:18:21.000 They are funded incredibly.
01:18:22.000 You know, you heard from someone who used to work for George Soros just earlier in the show, like, you know, there's a lot of money, a lot of, you know, whether it's unfounded or insane, the ideology is there and they're going to keep putting billions behind it.
01:18:36.000 It's crazy.
01:18:40.000 Are all of you older Trump kids close with Barron?
01:18:44.000 Listen, there's a huge age difference, right?
01:18:45.000 I think so.
01:18:46.000 Barron's much closer to, like, my kid's age.
01:18:49.000 So, you know, he'll play with, like, my son a lot or hang out with, like, my son, uh, you know, much more, right?
01:18:54.000 So he just turned 18.
01:18:55.000 My son's 15.
01:18:56.000 Like, that's three years.
01:18:57.000 I'm 46.
01:18:58.000 It's a...
01:19:00.000 It's a pretty significant difference.
01:19:02.000 That gets a little tighter as you get older, but he just turned 18.
01:19:05.000 Last week, you saw the talk probably about, you know, him.
01:19:08.000 I guess the campaign put every sort of eligible Trump family member in as a delegate in Florida, where we all live.
01:19:14.000 And, you know, you could see, oh, Barron's gonna be a delegate, isn't he?
01:19:17.000 And you could just see the left like, excellent.
01:19:20.000 Now, he's 18.
01:19:21.000 He may be a child, but, you know, we're gonna go after him now.
01:19:24.000 Oh, now it's open season!
01:19:25.000 He's getting political.
01:19:26.000 So, uh, it seems like, you know, Melania may have put a stop to that one and just, you know, let a kid be a kid.
01:19:32.000 But you could see the left salivating.
01:19:34.000 Remember, Hunter Biden is a 50-something-year-old child.
01:19:38.000 He cannot be touched.
01:19:40.000 But Baron, because he was going to serve as a delegate to be able to, you know, sort of an honorary position.
01:19:44.000 There's not even much of it.
01:19:45.000 But you could see the left salivating, like, oh, it's open season.
01:19:48.000 He's political now.
01:19:49.000 We can go get him.
01:19:52.000 It's pretty crazy and pretty disgusting.
01:19:56.000 So I think Melania probably intelligently put an end to that, because I can only imagine what What the jackals the hyenas in the mainstream media would try to do to an 18 year old kid I don't think he's done anything wrong, but I you know who the hell knows what they'd come up with So probably a probably a smart move.
01:20:15.000 I saw the internet ablaze the other day.
01:20:16.000 Oh, it's great He's gonna be in the game like I was like, I don't know if that's the greatest idea ever That's uh, you know only because I understand just how depraved and evil our media is Would it be a good idea for DJT to be interviewed by Russell Brand?
01:20:32.000 I don't know.
01:20:32.000 Listen, Russell's an interesting guy.
01:20:35.000 I got to know him through Rumble.
01:20:37.000 Hung out with him when the Rumble office opening.
01:20:39.000 I know he's actually going to be over here.
01:20:41.000 I think it's like next week, right?
01:20:42.000 Or the next two weeks.
01:20:44.000 Something like that.
01:20:44.000 He's going to be over here for like a little while.
01:20:46.000 I think he's going to be on the west coast of Florida.
01:20:48.000 But I know I was talking with Chris Pawlowski at the Rumble event that we did on Friday in Toronto.
01:20:55.000 As I hobbled around there on my crutches, but I know he said he was gonna be in town in the next couple of weeks and so I'll probably head over there hang out with those guys.
01:21:06.000 Maybe we'll do something Maybe we get something going on with my father or not again It's sort of tied up in court, and it's not so easy right like they basically took out you know the work week For his ability to actually, you know, be out there.
01:21:21.000 Obviously, very intentionally.
01:21:23.000 But, you know, that's sort of the game.
01:21:25.000 So, I think Russell's an interesting guy.
01:21:29.000 Like, I love the free speech platform.
01:21:31.000 I love that he, you know, I hate that he's going through it.
01:21:34.000 But I love that he's finally maybe seen just how, again, depraved the left is.
01:21:38.000 All of a sudden, right?
01:21:38.000 He was married to Katy Perry.
01:21:39.000 Probably one of the biggest stars, perhaps.
01:21:42.000 in the world ever and you know that was fine and the second he starts questioning the narrative all of a sudden he's you know a predator and you know like from 35 years ago it's like he wasn't predator like two years ago and he was like one of the most famous people in the world but now now he is it's You see him doing it over and over again.
01:21:59.000 It's literally the Trump playbook and they use it and they run it and they weaponize it against everyone.
01:22:03.000 one. G man 111 111 111 I guess you're putting up Peter Navarro's information
01:22:08.000 in there as it relates to you know, for those of you who want to send them
01:22:10.000 letters of support, etc. I saw that just now in the live chat. I think that's
01:22:15.000 right. I didn't see it enough. But you know, maybe what we can do is we can
01:22:19.000 find it and we can post it in the you know, underneath the stream.
01:22:23.000 So for those of you who want to, you know, reach out and support a great patriot, you can do that.
01:22:31.000 Let's see.
01:22:31.000 Oh, send letters, cards, or prayers to Peter Navarro.
01:22:35.000 Why don't we check to make sure that's right?
01:22:36.000 It looks right.
01:22:39.000 But thank you very much for posting that.
01:22:40.000 I think he'd really appreciate it.
01:22:42.000 I know when I, you know, I spent 90 minutes with him or so on Saturday morning early, you know, he loved that.
01:22:47.000 I mean, you know, first day they're like, hey, come get your mail, but go bring a, bring a bag.
01:22:53.000 I mean, thousands of letters of support.
01:22:54.000 So it's, it's great.
01:22:57.000 And so, yeah, we'll, we'll post that up here, you know, under the, you know, under the, maybe not in the chat because it's gonna be hard to, you put it under the, yeah.
01:23:08.000 Under the description on the episode.
01:23:10.000 So for those of you who want to send them a letter of support or anything like that, do that.
01:23:16.000 Let's see.
01:23:18.000 PT is totally worth it.
01:23:19.000 Yeah, we're back to the knee, 100%.
01:23:21.000 I'm a big believer, the guys I know who have not done well, and by the way, my dad's very anti, if you don't have to get cut, don't get cut.
01:23:28.000 I didn't have a choice.
01:23:30.000 I could barely walk.
01:23:30.000 There were a couple other times I was going to get cut, whether it's for separated shoulder, torn AC, severed bicep tendon, where I was gonna do something, and they were like, hey, try it out.
01:23:40.000 I actually went to a D.O., I guess...
01:23:47.000 It's almost like an MD that's also a chiropractor.
01:23:51.000 Orthoscope.
01:23:52.000 What the hell's the O?
01:23:55.000 But anyway.
01:23:57.000 Like a chiropractor that's also a licensed doctor.
01:23:59.000 It's a DO.
01:24:01.000 Osteopathic doctor, I guess is the official term.
01:24:06.000 And a couple times I was gonna get my shoulder fixed and the guy was like, I don't think it's your shoulder.
01:24:10.000 And even the surgeons were like, hey, we think we can fix it, but we think it could be this, it could be that, it could be that.
01:24:15.000 Well, that's like 33%, so we're gonna, like, remove, you know, a bicep tendon and try to put it onto a different spot to free up some whatever, like, it's... And the guy's like, I think it's coming from your neck.
01:24:25.000 He snapped me around, like, twice, and within, like, a week, I was literally lifting overhead, and I was, like, saved myself, you know, nine months of recovery and a surgery.
01:24:32.000 So, uh, if I can avoid getting cut, I usually will, but yes, if you do have to get cut, uh, do the PT.
01:24:41.000 Um... Do the PT.
01:24:43.000 Uh, ooh.
01:24:45.000 Diana Marie, neck fusion surgery coming next month.
01:24:47.000 That can't be fun.
01:24:48.000 And as someone who's got, like I said, neck and, you know, it comes back every, you know, every couple of months, or just sleeping on planes and stuff when I'm traveling a lot.
01:24:57.000 And it's like, it's literally neck pain, but it manifests for me as like shoulder pain.
01:25:01.000 So my, when my shoulder gets all weird, it's actually my neck, but it doesn't feel like it, it feels like it's my shoulder.
01:25:05.000 And so I gotta, you know, so yeah, do the PT, put in that time.
01:25:10.000 And for me, you know, Try to stay in shape, try to stay strong.
01:25:15.000 You know, never know when the zombie apocalypse is coming or whatever the hell else they throw at you.
01:25:18.000 So, uh, you know, I train hard to kick ass at life.
01:25:22.000 But, but with that and years of it, uh, it ends up with some problems.
01:25:27.000 So yeah, you got to take care of yourself, uh, as well.
01:25:30.000 Yeah, no, I know.
01:25:31.000 Dio's not a chiropractor, but they do some of that with a little bit of different training.
01:25:36.000 It's more equal to an MD under a different thing.
01:25:41.000 So it's a little bit different.
01:25:45.000 But yeah, he'll snap me around like a chiropractor, but he's an osteopathic doctor.
01:25:51.000 And man, my guy down here in Florida literally has like, It changed my life like it's it's huge so I'm a I'm a huge believer uh in Dio and it's it's it's not just sort of uh you know you know cutting for for the sake of cutting and stuff like that and again my friends that are you know the guy that did my knee he's a good friend of mine but like you know if I gotta get cut you get cut and you know but he's not one of those guys that's gonna convince you that
01:26:17.000 You know, hey, everything needs a surgery, right?
01:26:19.000 When you're a hammer, everything's a nail.
01:26:21.000 Especially in our medical system, but that's why it's nice to have friends like that.
01:26:24.000 They'll give you the honest opinion, not just say, yeah, surgery will probably fix that and we'll make a couple bucks and whatever.
01:26:31.000 So yeah, my guy's just an awesome, awesome guy.
01:26:34.000 Maga Patriot, I will not give you his name.
01:26:36.000 I don't know if he needs the shit that he'd get for that.
01:26:41.000 But a super great doctor, super good friend.
01:26:43.000 And man, like I said, I haven't even had to take the painkillers, you know, even the day of the surgery.
01:26:49.000 So whatever he did, it feels great.
01:26:51.000 Like I'm walking without a limp, you know, five days out right now.
01:26:55.000 And again, I probably push myself a little too hard because that is what I do.
01:27:02.000 But it's pretty good.
01:27:05.000 Hunter's physical therapy is hookers and cocaine.
01:27:07.000 That's fair.
01:27:08.000 Tough, but fair.
01:27:09.000 Any thoughts on Sarah Sanders?
01:27:11.000 I like Sarah a lot.
01:27:12.000 I think Sarah's great.
01:27:14.000 She's a good friend.
01:27:15.000 She was very helpful to my father.
01:27:17.000 She took a lot of heat, you know, for that.
01:27:20.000 So yeah, no, I like Sarah a lot.
01:27:23.000 Let's see.
01:27:24.000 Never knew G.J.T.
01:27:26.000 not use the phrase swamp until May.
01:27:29.000 Swamp is God creating life in a life-giving environment.
01:27:31.000 Yeah, except for the D.C.
01:27:32.000 swamp.
01:27:32.000 The D.C.
01:27:33.000 swamp is undefeated and none of it's good.
01:27:36.000 Regular swamps, great.
01:27:37.000 I love it.
01:27:38.000 But yeah, the D.C.
01:27:39.000 swamp, yes, while a swamp may be a life, you know, beginning area, I know the swamps down here in Florida, you know, the Everglades, like, it's the genesis of a lot of life and so much.
01:27:50.000 But yeah, the D.C.
01:27:51.000 swamp is definitely different than that.
01:27:54.000 Rotator cuff surgery.
01:27:56.000 Would not wish that on your worst enemy.
01:27:58.000 Yeah, no, it's brutal.
01:27:59.000 Yeah, I tore my rotator cuff, separated my AC in a motocross crash 15 years ago.
01:28:06.000 And it's like, that's literally the one that still gets me, even though, like, you know, there's just times it's like, can't lift overhead, can't do this.
01:28:14.000 And that's where the DO, you know, snapping, it was, like I said, injury was shoulder, but it's like, It comes from the neck and when he when he fixes my neck, the shoulder clears up and it's like literally I go from like being able to do nothing to lifting overhead and you know full range of motion and everything that sort of sort of amazing.
01:28:33.000 We defeat the Swamp by changing the moral landscape.
01:28:35.000 I hope that's right.
01:28:37.000 I hope that's right.
01:28:38.000 I think sometimes, you know, we do the morality thing and we lose, you know, fighting an unrealistic battle, because while that may be right and great, if the other side's not playing by the same rules, you know, sometimes we give up a lot in that fight.
01:28:54.000 We can be our own worst enemies in a lot of that.
01:28:56.000 So, you know, you don't know.
01:29:01.000 Oh my god, I might be getting PTSD from hearing in his injuries.
01:29:04.000 Yeah, I had a lot of both in both my legs, my right ankle twice, my left ankle once I have 15 pins and a plate I think in my right ankle, both my wrists, shoulder, separated AC torn rotator cuff.
01:29:21.000 Obviously, you know, fingers, knuckles from like Fighting you know a Muay Thai and all that stuff growing up
01:29:28.000 and All of that stuff, you know fractured fractured other stuff
01:29:33.000 higher up and worse, too But yeah now I've done it all probably I'd say well north
01:29:38.000 of a thousand stitches Like I said a lot of fun misspent youth very underdeveloped
01:29:45.000 sense of self-preservation And I'm hoping that medical technology catches up to my
01:29:51.000 injuries and my early onset arthritis because otherwise It's gonna hurt a lot.
01:29:56.000 So, let's see.
01:30:01.000 You're really gonna hurt at 80.
01:30:02.000 I know, it's gonna be a disaster, man.
01:30:05.000 I hurt at 46.
01:30:07.000 But, you know, like I said, I try to stay in shape.
01:30:09.000 I try to stay strong.
01:30:10.000 I believe in that.
01:30:11.000 I think that's just, you know, a fundamental thing.
01:30:15.000 You know, I try to be pretty religious about trying to, you know, hit a sauna and a cold plunge and do all those things as well.
01:30:23.000 You heard walking Evel Knievel.
01:30:25.000 Yeah, without any of the cool stuff.
01:30:26.000 Like I did, I did like mini Evel Knievel shit that like, ended up hurting me a lot anyway.
01:30:33.000 So, you know, definitely nothing as legendary as Evel Knievel, but probably a lot of the same issues.
01:30:43.000 Let's see, take Ivermectin.
01:30:45.000 Yeah, listen, I'm a believer in all that stuff, so it's like, you know, I'd much rather take that than a lot of the other crap they'd, you know, give us.
01:30:53.000 But no, you know, one of the things I've been working on, a buddy of mine who's sort of a world-class You know, bodybuilder and lifter, but, you know, because of that has, you know, done a lot of, you know, injuries and damage to himself.
01:31:06.000 Jason Poston, he told me from my shoulder also to start taking some of the peptide stuff.
01:31:10.000 And I've started playing with that and like, you know, BPC-157 and like, and I'm like, come on.
01:31:16.000 Like, yeah, I took the pills for a while.
01:31:17.000 Didn't really notice anything with the pills.
01:31:19.000 Started taking the injectable peptides and literally in like four days, I was like, Jesus, like it was, it was great.
01:31:29.000 It was great.
01:31:30.000 So I mean, as that technology improves, and then I have other friends that swear by, you know, they've done some of the, you know, where they spin the white blood cells and inject that back, like, you know, some of the stuff that they won't even, you know, they won't let you do it in America, not because the technology is there or because it's ineffective, but because, you know, Big Pharma has a much more expensive and a much more permanent way to lock in an annuity for themselves than actually fixing it, right?
01:31:58.000 There's no money in the cure, there's money in maintenance in keeping you in there.
01:32:02.000 So, yeah, peptides work, mitral barrier, or just testosterone.
01:32:09.000 Yeah, okay, so when I hit 40, I was like, man, I felt sluggish.
01:32:12.000 It was like, you know, after I think the 18 cycle or whatever it was in midterms, I was on the road so much, I just felt sluggish and I was like, I tried to, I couldn't do it.
01:32:21.000 I guess, I felt like I'd come down so much, but I still had like an 840, 860, whatever it was, testosterone level.
01:32:28.000 But I'd felt like I'd come down so much, they're like, well, we can try you in like a quarter dose of what it was.
01:32:33.000 And like, literally, Kim was like, you got to get off that stuff.
01:32:35.000 Like, you're literally, I could not talk to people.
01:32:38.000 I wanted to just like fight everything.
01:32:39.000 It was, it was...
01:32:41.000 So, by the way, I'm a believer.
01:32:43.000 I know guys that do it.
01:32:44.000 Perhaps I gotta, you know, figure out how to regulate that one well.
01:32:48.000 I guess luckily for me, I still produce enough sort of natural that I, you know, I know other guys my age.
01:32:54.000 Some of them big jack dudes that were like 120, 200, like really, really low levels.
01:33:00.000 And, you know, as we're figuring out that and, you know, the balance of that.
01:33:02.000 But I tried a very minor dose of that for like two months and literally it was like... Like...
01:33:10.000 I felt great, basically, if I wasn't around anyone.
01:33:14.000 If I was around people, I just wanted to constantly kill people.
01:33:17.000 It was not, you know... Metaphorically speaking, I know that, you know, this Biden DOJ will lock me up for the crime of having thought about jokingly killing someone, so I don't want to say that too carefully, and it's gonna be like... The hell was that movie?
01:33:31.000 Like, The Adjustment Bureau, or... You know, where they start throwing you in jail for the crimes that you thought about possibly committing?
01:33:38.000 Minority report.
01:33:39.000 That's the one.
01:33:40.000 Minority report.
01:33:41.000 Yeah, so they'd start doing that.
01:33:44.000 So yeah, that could be a rough one.
01:33:47.000 So yeah, no, I imagine there will be a there'll be a time I got to do that more fully.
01:33:53.000 And I think I should I've met him a bunch of times with Dana White at UFC.
01:34:03.000 Yeah, I got to just get into the details.
01:34:05.000 And I do the full blood work and everything like that.
01:34:07.000 And I'm pretty solid across the board other than I have high cholesterol.
01:34:10.000 But that's like, I've always when I was a D1 rower in college, I had a 34 resting heart rate with like, you know, 500 cholesterol.
01:34:17.000 So I'm just You know, I'm that guy.
01:34:20.000 But no, I'm a believer in all that stuff.
01:34:22.000 I may not be there yet on the testosterone, or I gotta figure out how to do it where I'm just not, like, just mean and angry.
01:34:29.000 If you think I'm mean and angry on a regular basis, if you saw me on this, it was, like, next level.
01:34:33.000 Even I was like, holy crap, man, you gotta calm the hell down.
01:34:37.000 So, let's see.
01:34:39.000 You'd like Tulsi just for the Kamala debate?
01:34:41.000 I want Tucker just for the Kamala debate, but Tulsi I think would do a great job as well.
01:34:45.000 And so would JD in that one.
01:34:48.000 I mean, you know, that's sort of like, you know, Mike Tyson fighting a toddler,
01:34:52.000 but like, it would be pretty amazing.
01:34:55.000 You lost 45 pounds on keto.
01:34:58.000 I like keto, but man, I can't do it.
01:35:00.000 It's like, and I felt like the first time I did keto, it worked really well for me.
01:35:05.000 The second time, not as much.
01:35:07.000 My problem is I do something, I get to where I want and I go back to eating like shit.
01:35:10.000 And like, for me, it's 99% diet.
01:35:13.000 I can lift as much as I want.
01:35:14.000 It doesn't matter.
01:35:15.000 Like, I'm very gut-fat right now, but I'm also probably quite strong other than the knee issue.
01:35:21.000 But like I said, I was probably squatting 300 a week ago before my knee.
01:35:26.000 So, you know, for a 46-year-old dude, that's whatever, like...
01:35:29.000 You know felt pretty solid You know, I don't know what you know, my bench is max and stuff is because of the shoulder I try to take a little bit more easy There but like I feel relatively strong for my age deadlifting over four but Yeah, it's I probably got to stop even thinking about maxing because it doesn't really do all that much for me Let's see Do I have the same testosterones as Michelle?
01:35:55.000 I assume that's Big Mike.
01:35:58.000 I'd like to believe so, but I see some of the photos, I'm saying, I'm not so sure.
01:36:02.000 I'm not so sure.
01:36:03.000 I've been blessed to, been able to maintain, I guess, relatively high levels this late in life, but yeah, who knows?
01:36:13.000 Jesus Christ.
01:36:15.000 Some of the pictures getting posted right now on the Locals Live channel.
01:36:22.000 You people need Jesus.
01:36:25.000 Let's see.
01:36:26.000 Nothing after 6 p.m.
01:36:27.000 Cut out carbs.
01:36:29.000 Weed lowers testosterone.
01:36:30.000 That's not really a problem for me.
01:36:31.000 That's not my thing.
01:36:34.000 I don't have a problem with it, actually.
01:36:36.000 If more people who had drinking problems smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
01:36:41.000 But it's just never been my thing.
01:36:46.000 All right.
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