"Bill Ackman Is A Jerk!" - Sliwa BLASTS Billionaire As Mamdani SURGES In NYC Mayoral Race
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Bill Ackman says Curtis Sliwa must drop out of the New York City mayoral race or Aamir Mamdani will be the next mayor. What does that have to do with politics? And what does it mean for the rest of the candidates
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Bill Ackman says Curtis Sliwa must drop out of the New York City race
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If you got the clip, $10 billion, man, here's what he had to say.
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This is what it looks like right now from the poly market with Sliwa in.
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So, in other words, Cuomo is 9xing Sliwa, okay?
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Which means, like, he is nine times ahead of Sliwa.
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This is Curtis responding to Bill Ackman's calls for him to drop out of the race.
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However, I think it is clear to New Yorkers who are against Mamdani
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that you and Cuomo are splitting the anti-Mamdani vote.
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Are you okay, if Mamdani wins, that you, so to speak, contributed to that?
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Here's a guy who goes up to Newport, Rhode Island, and thinks he's a professional tennis player.
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He lives in Chaparco, the whitest suburb of America, where even the lawn jockeys are white.
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He has been wrong every step of the way with the billionaires.
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So, let's say people come to the conclusion, if somehow I lose, and we know Andrew Cuomo's lost.
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And how dare you, people who know nothing about politics, suggest that everybody who's going to vote for me is suddenly going to be reborn.
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He told conservatives and Republicans in 2014, if you're a conservative and you believe in right to life and the Second Amendment, you have no place in New York.
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This is the result of the Democrats' self-destruction.
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Now he's basically saying, I can't win without Slewa votes.
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Why don't you spend your money and think, he's got millions from the billionaires.
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But for me to drop out, I represent a major party line.
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I have people running under me, council people, judges.
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Well, this is a pretty logical takedown of the situation.
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And he's incensed that he would, you know, be asked to drop out and sacrifice himself for somebody he regards to be a mortal political enemy.
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But there's a point that he does make there at the end.
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He said, look, there's a lot of judges and people that are behind me that are supporting me because we're trying to get conservative judges and conservative assemblymen and get something in there.
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But I also understand that, you know, beyond it being the mortal enemy, you know, the notion – and I don't like the way the question was phrased.
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Do you think you're responsible for Mandami if you don't drop out?
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And so I think that's the wrong angle of the question because it's not going to be Curtis Sliwa's fault.
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You know, it's the freaking voters voted for it.
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And I look at Curtis there and he's like, wait a minute.
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You can't make it my part because I won't drop out to help you, a mortal enemy that I've been campaigning against all my life.
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Now, logically, does it make sense for what Bill Ackman says?
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But they got – was it, Pat, barely three weeks to the election?
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If Sliwa will drop out and there could be a surge of understanding of the position of Andrew Cuomo and he can present the guy that I think he is underneath and do a better job of presenting that guy to the voters, I think you're going to close this up.
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But Sliwa was kind of giving you a history lesson.
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Tom, Tom always does this to me, Pat, so I'm going to do it back to him, Tom.
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Now, if Andrew Cuomo's at 5.3, if Curtis drops out and he gets that .7, that's going to put him where, Tom?
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What he's asking you is if it's a very fair question, but this is confusing to the average voter.
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But, Tom, if Sliwa drops out, where does Cuomo's odds go to from 5.3%?
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I think his odds go up, but right now this is showing that barring some crazy thing, there's a 93% chance with three weeks to go,
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that the 53%, 57% that Mondame has is going to get him there.
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I think Cuomo would end up here like 40, 42, maybe, of vote.
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That's a big, Tom, that's, what I'm saying is the same day.
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But I don't think, I think, I think there's time.
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There's only three weeks left, but there's time.
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But does it seem like Sliwa, with that interview, with that attitude, he ain't, he's not doing anything that anybody else wants to do.
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You can't wait till fourth quarter, two minutes left to be like, okay, now we're going to do what we know that we should have done from the beginning.
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Yeah, and he's being asked the question, do you think you're responsible for his victory?
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By the way, by the way, nothing about what Curtis said is wrong.
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Nothing about what he said is wrong, but also he doesn't stand a chance.
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And going after Bill Ackman's tennis game, I don't care what Bill Ackman's tennis game is.
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And he says he's not a, you know, he doesn't have the, you know, when has he been right?
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And he was willing, Curtis, for him to step aside and go and defend Trump, even though he was a liberal donor for many, many years.
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He ended up being right on going on Trump's side.
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He was right about the Ivy League colleges who wouldn't protect the Jewish students.
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The conversation would be a level-headed person needs to have a call with Sliwa that Sliwa respects to say,
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what job do you think you would be able to have positive, direct impact with if you got that job?
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What would be the job that you feel like you could have positive impact with?
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A level-headed person needs to have that conversation.
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And by the way, don't forget, there's one more debate coming up.
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I'm going to be watching that debate myself, and I'm hoping that Andrew Cuomo comes out and connects with people.
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I mean, this is a guy, you know, the toughest part about being Andrew Cuomo is the following.
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It's like, look, you already know what happened with the old folks' homes during COVID.
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You know everything and anything that they want to talk about.
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There's so many shots that they can take at him.
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There's a lot of pressure on him because I bet the one person he's talking to a lot when he's private by himself,
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you know who I believe he's talking to a lot right now when he's by himself?
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What's the ultimate compliment to a father when your son wants to be like you?
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Whether you like the guy or not, it's a different story.
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Cuomo wanted those Amazon 25,000 jobs at $150,000 coming to New York City.
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Cuomo wants the economy in New York to be better.
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Yes, we probably are not on the same tab politically on a lot of different things.
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So the guy that he's smiling with, guys, is the same guy the FBI named as an unindicted
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Over 1,000 injured, and this is who he's posing with.
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Last week, he was talking shit, sorry for my language, about Cuomo and never going to mosque.
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You're there with a freaking guy that was a co-conspirator that killed
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six freaking American New Yorkers and 1,000 other injured, okay?
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He actually called homosexuality a disease, and he preached about punishment under Islamic
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Every New Yorker out there, I want that to sink in.
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If you're a real New Yorker, and you're out there, and you're like, okay, and you nailed
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Yeah, Cuomo effed up with the nursing homes and all that other stuff.
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You don't even know what you guys are getting into right now.
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This is, that right there sums up his entire freaking campaign.
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He's letting everybody know, I'm cool with all these guys.
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And guess what's going to happen to New York City?
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So who do you think has a richer history that would be willing to do almost anything for
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But I tell you, Cuomo's got to show up on Wednesday.
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In a way, you've got to talk to this, not this.
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We go here and then, you know, a couple other things that need to happen as well between
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But that's a different, I don't want to announce it publicly.
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Well, you know, you asked the question about who loves New York City more, Zoran Mondani or
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I would say he actually loves New York City more.
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So if I'm Curtis Sliwa, I'm putting myself in his shoes, this whole situation right here about
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him dropping out of the race, you mean to tell me, I start this race, I'm a nobody, I've
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never finished anywhere near the top of a mayoral race, all of a sudden, this guardian
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angel turned this do-gooder in the city, you want me to drop out of the race now after
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Because he's the type of person that actually probably cares more about the city than your
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So, you know, you see someone like John Fetterman these days saying, yeah, I'm a Democrat, but
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I care more about my country than I do my party.
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I think Curtis Sliwa should get the message where he should care more about his city than
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I believe that Zoran Mondani has this billion-dollar smile, and it is very effective and is very
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The problem is with this billion-dollar smile, it's going to cost you probably $10 billion of
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all the people that are moving out of New York City.
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And the whole concept that this guy, this communist, Islamist, Mondani, that this is
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just sort of like some bug, I can't believe that they're voting for this.
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So in my opinion, New York City is in a whole bunch of mess right now.
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And unless Andrew Cuomo can somehow resonate with the hearts and minds of the young people
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in New York City, Zoran Mondani will be your mayor.
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I love your point, and I'll give you this last shot because I think it goes right with
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Who said, I will revive the economy, I will rebuild the armed forces, and I will provide
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strong leadership if you'll just make me your prime minister, if you'll just do that for
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He had run this fascist newspaper and he was hidden.
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And when it came into plain sight and he started, he hired a secret police started killing people
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And I'm not saying Mondavi's going to start killing people.
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I'm saying when you don't know enough about who you're voting for, you're putting yourself
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You know what I think, PBD, you bring up a good point.
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And I think this is something that a lot of people, if you can remove your ego, he called
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I know that Andrew Cuomo has been sort of reconsidering what he should be doing.
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There should be a sit down with the people who actually love New York City, whether it's
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Cuomo, whether it's Sliwa, whether it's Ackman, whoever it is, bring in a Ruli Giuliani, whatever
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it is, and have a conversation of, guys, how can we actually make New York City great again?
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And let me know how that's working out for the UK.
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Yeah, it's crazy you're saying that, because you know what movie I just watched over the
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I watched Truth and Treason, which is an Angel Studio movie.
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No, I can't even describe to you what happened at the end of the movie.
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Me and Tico are sitting there watching this with my dad.
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My dad had to walk up like 75 steps because the theater we went into, I felt like I was
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We had to get this lady to get up because she was an E.
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I'm like, I would replace it with your E, but she went to E.
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This guy at 17 years old called out Hitler, and he was the youngest guy who stood up against
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Hitler, and in court, in front of the judge, he calls out the judge because he was the
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guy that was handing out the pamphlets, these red pamphlets, these red pamphlets.
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No, for telling him, because he got access to a radio, and you couldn't hear what was
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going on outside of Germany because that controlled the radio, so the people couldn't find out
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what's going on, similar to what's going on in China, Cuba, a couple other places.
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They cannot believe it's a 16-year-old kid doing this.
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And they're like, there's no way in the world you're doing this.
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And then you know what happens when he's in front of the judge?
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By the way, every actor crushed it, and I knew none of the actors.
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He was the youngest kid to be killed at 17 years old.
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Because one of his friends that he played with was a Jew.
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The moral of the story is, right now, America's going through some funny stuff.
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Especially younger kids that are on social media.
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By the way, take your kids and go watch this movie with your kids.
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But I will go back to watch it again with some...
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If you want to go back, I'm going to go with you on Tico.
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He doesn't give it a new movie to watch it now?
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I'm telling you, this just came out a couple days ago.
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Hey, PBD, I'm not saying this movie, but we've done multiple movies as a company.
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But the whole thing with New York is, so many people in New York City don't know.
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We'll see what's going to happen in New York City.
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I'm definitely going to be watching a podcast, watching a debate.
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I hope it's not none of those shitty NBC debates where they're not going to let them talk.
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And I'm convinced most people are going to screw it up.
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Most people are not going to have the right plans in place.
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Most people are going to wink it going into 2026.
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And my biggest suggestion to you is whatever you're doing, do not wink going into 2026.
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Whether you're an individual employee, you have a family, wife, and kids, and family, you've got big plans for your family, you want to do something special for them, you're an independent contractor, you're a business owner, you're a government employee, whatever it may be.
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If there's ever been a year to fully be locked in for a great business plan, it's 25 going into 26.
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Rates are going to probably lower three more times in 2026.
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And a lot of people are going to have a lot of success in 2026.
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However, on December 12th, every year, I do a one-day webinar for business planning.
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One is by Ernie, whose business plan is purely based on emotion.
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The other one is Larry, whose business plan is purely based off of logic.
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You tell me, if you were an investor, who you would invest in, Ernie or Larry?
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You're excited, but how are you actually going to do it?
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I'm telling you, it's going to make billions and billions of dollars.
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I'm just telling you, we're going to dominate the marketplace.
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I share this idea with multiple people in my family.
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Even my grandmother's actually deaf in one year.
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It's promising, but how are you going to present it to investors?
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Actually, Patrick, the market data suggests a 1.7 probability of scale, assuming favorable
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Actually, Patrick, that's where I wear the glasses.
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I really don't have good vision, but I ran 47 simulations, and none of them support anything
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that you were talking about earlier about gut feelings and anything like that.
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Do you have the right people around you on the team?
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I trust a self-spread sheet more than I trust people.
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So, the truth is we just saw all emotion, Ernie, and we just saw all logic, Larry, right?
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So, we're going to put the link below, Rob, for people to go ahead and get registered.
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Ernie was fantastic, but I kind of like Larry more.
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Larry, to me, was a little nerdy, exciting guy to be around.
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Rob, what's the website to get registered for, for people that are just listening here?
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The link is also in the description and pinned to the chat.
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