Valuetainment - October 14, 2025


ā€œChina Has Trumpā€™s Attentionā€ - Trump ESCALATES Trade War With Bold 100% Tariff Threat


Episode Stats

Length

22 minutes

Words per Minute

201.10382

Word Count

4,494

Sentence Count

431

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Trump announces 100% tariffs on China starting on Nov. 1st. China responds with a letter to the world warning that they are going to impose large-scale export controls on virtually every product they make and some not even made by them.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Trump announces 100% tariffs, additional 100% tariff, on China beginning November 1st.
00:00:06.300 And Rob, I think you've got two clips on this.
00:00:08.260 One is the story about it, and the other one is China responding to it.
00:00:12.200 So let me go through this with the story.
00:00:14.360 So President Trump took on Truth Social, if you have the tweet, Friday, to announce that U.S. will impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China beginning November.
00:00:23.920 This announcement was made hours after a separate post from Trump in which he warned of possible new tariffs and suggested canceling a meeting with Chinese President Xi, claiming Beijing was planning sweeping exports controls on rare earth minerals.
00:00:36.800 Here's his tweet.
00:00:37.840 It's just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on trade and sending an extremely hostile letter to the world stating that they were going to effectively on November 1st impose large-scale export controls on virtually every product they make and some not even made by them.
00:00:51.800 This affects all countries without exception and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago.
00:00:56.780 It is obviously unheard of international trade and a moral disgrace in dealing with other nations based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position and speaking only for the U.S.
00:01:07.240 and not other nations who were similarly threatened start of November 1st, 2025 or sooner, depending on further actions by China.
00:01:15.500 The United States will impose 100% tariff.
00:01:17.040 And above these tariffs currently paying, November 1st, it is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have.
00:01:24.460 And the rest is history.
00:01:27.280 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:01:29.780 By the way, China responds, and here's what they said.
00:01:32.300 China isn't afraid.
00:01:34.980 Beijingers shrug off Trump's tariff threat.
00:01:38.640 Go ahead, Rob.
00:01:39.080 If the United States really wants to solve the problem through dialogue and negotiation,
00:02:06.920 we should stop applying extreme pressure.
00:02:10.160 Stop threatening to increase.
00:02:12.040 On the basis of equality and respect.
00:02:14.680 Dialogue with China.
00:02:17.080 Okay, Tom, thoughts on this story?
00:02:19.280 Well, so he brokered this incredible peace deal we were talking about, but there is a hot war, trade war going on with China.
00:02:27.780 And this is very, very, very serious.
00:02:31.380 China is not going away.
00:02:33.080 They may have capitulated or kind of, you know, just to use your phrase, they just kind of got along over the last four months.
00:02:40.400 But now it's coming back heavy.
00:02:42.080 There's a couple of things that they're doing on chips, because what do they still want?
00:02:46.640 China still wants to take over Taiwan.
00:02:49.120 And Taiwan's got a bunch of chips, and it's chips that they want to have purview over and control over the manufacturing of.
00:02:57.040 So recently, with all this, China's like, look, you're running around the world, and you're trying to do mineral deals with rare earth deals with Greenland.
00:03:07.180 You're trying to put the rare earth deal, excuse me, into the deal with Ukraine, because the United States needs rare earth.
00:03:14.400 Okay, first of all, we're going to put our thumb down on the button on these minerals and rarer things that people need to make turbines, you know, electric cars.
00:03:25.620 Trump did a deal a couple weeks ago.
00:03:27.420 I'm not crazy about the fact that now the U.S. government owns 10 percent of a lithium company, but it was all about making sure there's enough of these minerals and everything to go into it.
00:03:36.780 China sees that and sees America slowly working around the table, getting a little more independence, and they get pissed.
00:03:44.940 And last week, which was not really reported a lot, actually it wasn't talked about a lot in the shadow of everything else, but they went, and they went after Qualcomm and NVIDIA, because they know that Qualcomm and NVIDIA are going to run to the White House to get help.
00:03:59.740 And now China's got this triangle of negotiations trying to put in place.
00:04:03.920 Qualcomm bought a company called Autotox.
00:04:07.060 NVIDIA bought a company called Mellanox.
00:04:09.960 And now China's saying, hang on, you buying these companies, we're concerned about antitrust.
00:04:15.420 We're concerned about too much market power.
00:04:18.060 We want to put this under review.
00:04:20.460 And, you know, meanwhile, Qualcomm and NVIDIA have permission to sell certain chips to China.
00:04:26.600 Not the really good stuff, but some of them.
00:04:29.040 So China is playing the game.
00:04:30.980 It's a chess game.
00:04:32.040 They're playing 3D chess on this, Pat.
00:04:34.380 And they're trying to get a couple U.S. companies, Qualcomm and NVIDIA, to get upset and go to the White House and say, hey, we need some help here.
00:04:41.720 And they're also trying to put pressure on things on the rare earth minerals.
00:04:45.640 China is not going away.
00:04:47.040 And all this happy talk this morning.
00:04:49.260 By the way, this is what he tweeted today.
00:04:50.660 Don't worry about China.
00:04:51.380 We'll be fine.
00:04:51.960 Highly respect the President Xi.
00:04:53.580 Just had a bad moment.
00:04:55.540 He doesn't want depression for his country, and neither do I.
00:04:58.600 The U.S. wants to help China, not hurt it, President Donald Trump.
00:05:01.960 So, in other words, China got Trump's attention.
00:05:05.040 And so he's making a statement here.
00:05:06.640 China got Trump's attention?
00:05:08.200 Yeah.
00:05:08.400 Yeah, well, on this, he's got his attention.
00:05:10.920 In the midst of everything else, he's tweeting this on this day, which I think shows that it is a hot battle, and we've got to respond, and we've got to keep it up.
00:05:20.080 I was surprised to see Trump tweeting about this this morning.
00:05:24.240 Xi doesn't have the better of Trump in this, but it shows you this is an important hot war going on the other side.
00:05:30.340 Well, listen, you hear the story.
00:05:31.380 China targets NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and a crackdown on U.S. ship and ports.
00:05:34.640 So he's going to get calls from his guys thinking, like, Mr. President, we really want to help out, and we really want to make that investment, but we've got to figure something out with China.
00:05:44.700 This is really slowing it down.
00:05:46.880 And it's kind of like what happened with the California farmers.
00:05:49.740 Remember when that happened with the California farmers where they're like, look, you know, these policies, you're getting us to lose some of the workers that we really need.
00:05:55.760 And I think you have to find a way to invest, what, $17 billion to help some of the farmers out.
00:06:01.820 What do you think about this exchange with U.S. and China, Adam?
00:06:04.720 Where are you at with that?
00:06:05.780 Well, this Adam.
00:06:08.100 My bad.
00:06:09.160 This Adam.
00:06:09.860 Good Adam.
00:06:10.840 Good Adam.
00:06:11.320 I'm going to call you Sauce.
00:06:12.640 I'm going to call him Adam.
00:06:13.260 That's fine.
00:06:13.860 Uber, Adam, and we need to know.
00:06:15.980 How much it costs to get to the airport from the studio, you can weigh in.
00:06:20.120 $23.
00:06:20.780 Okay.
00:06:21.360 But is that during peak times?
00:06:23.180 I don't know during peak times.
00:06:24.520 Okay.
00:06:25.100 I want to ask you, people.
00:06:26.300 Okay.
00:06:26.740 All right.
00:06:27.060 What were we talking about?
00:06:27.680 We can Uber lock China.
00:06:29.220 China and U.S.
00:06:30.380 What do you think is going to happen?
00:06:31.400 Governor Carolla.
00:06:32.540 You think who has the leverage?
00:06:35.340 I guess maybe that's the question.
00:06:36.340 Okay.
00:06:36.540 I think what Trump, okay, all these relationships metastasize.
00:06:43.220 They just, we let them go.
00:06:45.700 Like the Ferrari in the yard.
00:06:47.600 You know, we just, and I think Trump showed up and he goes, we got to fix a lot of this
00:06:52.520 stuff.
00:06:53.400 And the problem is, is to fix a lot of this stuff to reset them.
00:06:58.780 We need to re-break some bones and reset it.
00:07:01.820 It's like, it's painful.
00:07:03.060 It's not easy.
00:07:03.960 You know what I mean?
00:07:04.600 Like someone just goes, it's not going to be that clean.
00:07:08.460 It might, it's not going to be that neat.
00:07:10.260 It might not be that fast, but we need to fix a bunch of stuff.
00:07:13.700 And fixing the bunch of stuff means that there's going to be a rehab, but we still needed the
00:07:19.640 surgery to be done.
00:07:21.200 And we were sort of just walking with a limp, kind of going, I can get along.
00:07:25.920 And we're like, nope, we're going down.
00:07:28.040 We're doing surgery.
00:07:29.320 You're going to be down for a while.
00:07:30.860 But then when we come back, you're not going to have a limp.
00:07:33.840 And so we're being unfair to Trump or not we, but a lot of us go, what?
00:07:39.600 We can't go down for three months or whatever.
00:07:41.600 It's like, that's the process that we need to undertake to not walk with the limp.
00:07:46.560 Or we can just get Kamala Harris or Biden in there and we'll just walk for a limp with
00:07:50.920 a limp in perpetuity.
00:07:53.680 And slur.
00:07:54.640 And slur.
00:07:55.540 That's what we're, that's what we're doing right now.
00:07:57.940 So no one wants to hear about it at the beginning, but it needs to be done.
00:08:04.640 And, you know, the relationship with China is lopsided, especially them stealing, you
00:08:09.660 know, our technology, everything, you know, chips, golf clubs, whatever.
00:08:13.780 They've been ripping us off for a long time, but we're dependent on them with all their
00:08:19.380 Amazon junk, which is essentially free and gets shipped the next day.
00:08:23.560 But it's, we're going to have to re-break the bones and the patient's going to be down.
00:08:28.160 For a little bit and then we'll rehab and then we won't walk with a limp.
00:08:32.580 Adam.
00:08:34.140 Sauce.
00:08:34.860 Yeah.
00:08:35.080 Well, you asked the question, who has the leverage right now?
00:08:38.320 Trump or China, United States or China?
00:08:39.860 I would say that short term, United States has it.
00:08:42.600 Trump has it.
00:08:43.240 But long term, you know, China's going to play the waiting game.
00:08:46.480 You know, Trump right now is going at rapid pace.
00:08:49.540 You know, he came up with Operation Warp Speed.
00:08:51.620 He's going at triple warp speed right now.
00:08:53.920 You know, he has exactly three years until he's out of office.
00:08:56.460 He just landed in Egypt right now.
00:08:57.720 Bingo, bingo.
00:08:58.440 He's doing it.
00:08:58.960 He's doing his thing.
00:09:00.060 So here's a couple of stats I just want to show you.
00:09:01.960 This is why it's sort of like incumbent to understand what's going on.
00:09:05.660 The countries that trust their government the most, if you can show this, Rob, number
00:09:10.800 one on the list is Saudi Arabia.
00:09:13.380 Number two is China.
00:09:14.540 Because they don't have freedom of press, they don't have freedom of anything, you're
00:09:17.860 going to do what the government says.
00:09:18.800 So China, the people of China, trust what the CCP is doing.
00:09:23.160 Now, if you extrapolate that and go back to that chart, Rob, if you don't mind.
00:09:25.560 Oh, they're going to get killed.
00:09:26.880 Yeah, of course.
00:09:27.680 You see what the United States says.
00:09:28.820 Word 40%.
00:09:29.520 Who took the poll?
00:09:31.080 This is Rob, scroll out, buddy.
00:09:34.420 This is...
00:09:35.280 The Tista.
00:09:35.660 The Tista.
00:09:36.580 So United States trusts our government 40%.
00:09:38.640 But in this case, Trump really doesn't care because he's not running for re-election.
00:09:42.500 This is something I think you used the word, Adam, would you use the word that he's...
00:09:45.120 Metastasized.
00:09:46.940 Was it metastasized?
00:09:48.020 You said earlier about Trump is not exactly...
00:09:50.160 So the point is the people of China are just like, they're going to go along.
00:09:52.460 Now, if you go to the next thing over there, I think it's from Tista as well.
00:09:55.840 It's how unfree is the press.
00:10:00.240 The least freest country in the world that covers the press is China.
00:10:04.440 So China is going to tell the people of China, this is what's going on.
00:10:08.580 Trust us.
00:10:09.620 This is what we're doing.
00:10:10.660 And they're not going to say anything about it.
00:10:12.120 They're just going to go along with it.
00:10:13.740 So in America, we're going to have people, tariffs, what's going on?
00:10:16.540 You can't do this.
00:10:17.780 All these things that's going on.
00:10:19.020 China's going like this.
00:10:19.980 They're just going fast.
00:10:21.040 They're going with speed.
00:10:22.600 But Trump's going to come in and basically, what do you say, pull the brakes on this car right here.
00:10:26.820 But over the next three years, I think the United States is going to have to leverage.
00:10:31.000 But long term, we're going to have to deal with China and the strength of obviously their economy.
00:10:36.380 Does this deal get done before 2026 is here?
00:10:39.220 Not if China has anything to say with it because they're willing to go through some pain and put their people through pain.
00:10:44.180 Well, let me ask you this.
00:10:45.340 Wait, this deal, this chip thing or this deal, a bigger overall tariff?
00:10:49.800 I think the 100% tariff will come back and we'll get something done on chips.
00:10:56.020 But China's going to get some concessions for itself.
00:11:00.440 And so they'll be part of the deal.
00:11:02.560 But do you think the tariff deal will be done done before the end of the year?
00:11:06.540 I do not think the tariff deal will be done done.
00:11:08.540 But I think the 100% will come off and they'll reconcile what they're doing with the chips.
00:11:11.740 Those are two different things, though.
00:11:13.500 Trump has given so many temporary 25% on Mexico, 50% on Canada.
00:11:17.600 He does this and then removes it.
00:11:19.520 And he says November 1st.
00:11:20.640 And you've got two weeks.
00:11:22.020 If you don't buy then, he does this all the time.
00:11:24.340 No, we won't have a master deal.
00:11:25.780 If you're she right now, you know that Trump has three years left to get stuff done.
00:11:29.800 You see what he's doing all around the world.
00:11:31.140 How do you maneuver if you're someone like she?
00:11:32.740 I tell you, the one thing about the great negotiators like Trump is they find,
00:11:41.800 like they were talking about yesterday, we went to this one park, the kids are playing.
00:11:46.280 And they kept using this phrase.
00:11:48.920 And I don't know what the phrase was.
00:11:50.120 It's a phrase kids, you know, Riz and all this other stuff.
00:11:52.260 No, it's a phrase they were using on how to get under the skin of the lady that was moderating the dodgeball game.
00:11:59.120 There was a word they used.
00:12:00.500 Okay, Rob, is there a phrase for it?
00:12:02.240 Like on how to get under their nerves.
00:12:05.000 What I heard in the second.
00:12:06.280 What is it?
00:12:07.140 Did they say?
00:12:07.920 What is it?
00:12:08.200 Rage baiting.
00:12:09.120 Is that what they said?
00:12:10.200 Rage baiting?
00:12:10.920 Yeah, rage baiting.
00:12:11.880 It's like, oh, we're just rage baiting, Kurt.
00:12:14.060 I'm like, what the hell is rage baiting?
00:12:15.740 It's like when you try to see if you can get under someone's skin.
00:12:17.920 It's like gaslighting almost.
00:12:18.960 Yeah, if you can get under someone's skin that's older than you.
00:12:21.900 And Antico's like, well, you do this sometime in school as well.
00:12:25.260 You know, you get in trouble.
00:12:26.220 It's like, I'm just rage baiting.
00:12:27.380 Rage baiting, right?
00:12:28.560 I think Trump's the ultimate rage baiter.
00:12:30.780 Okay?
00:12:31.040 Of course.
00:12:31.420 So I think Trump's got to sit there.
00:12:33.740 Let me tell you, here's my prediction.
00:12:35.220 In the next four weeks, you're going to hear Trump send the most ridiculous tweet with a threat of something that's going to do because he knows it's going to annoy and upset Xi.
00:12:48.940 And I don't know what it's going to be.
00:12:51.200 Okay?
00:12:51.540 I have no idea what it's going to be.
00:12:54.280 I don't know.
00:12:55.080 He's right now sitting there doing opposition research on steroids.
00:12:59.920 He's got his Harvard guys doing opposition research.
00:13:02.280 He's got his guy that went to the biggest university in China doing opposition research.
00:13:06.700 He's got the spies from China that flipped that are supporters of ours to do opposition research to see how they can get under Xi's skin.
00:13:13.640 They're doing that nonstop.
00:13:15.180 And you're going to see a tweet that's going to come out.
00:13:17.100 They're going to be like, wait, what did Trump just say?
00:13:19.720 Like, you know when Musk sent that tweet out saying, wait till the Epstein files really come out.
00:13:24.340 And it was like, Cash Patel's on Rogan's like, well, I'm sitting this one out, right?
00:13:28.060 Like, you're going to see something like that come out, and it'll be a very, veryā€”
00:13:35.100 How ugly could it be, people?
00:13:37.020 Ugly enough.
00:13:38.020 She's gay.
00:13:38.740 Everybody knows this.
00:13:39.880 No, sorry.
00:13:40.540 If 75 million iPhones were being made in China, a lot of them that are now going to India, that's a lot of business you took away from them.
00:13:49.160 So I think he's going to go and press, you know, put salt on the wound that hurts, and he's just going to go on like this.
00:13:57.360 He's going to grab two buckets.
00:13:58.920 Bam!
00:13:59.300 He's going to go like this.
00:14:00.240 I think that's what he's going to do.
00:14:01.860 But that scares me.
00:14:02.480 And I don'tā€”it does.
00:14:03.760 Because I don't want COVID-20 to come out of a lab again.
00:14:07.180 What do you mean lab, bro?
00:14:08.760 Yeah, a lab that we own.
00:14:09.880 Wet market bats.
00:14:11.040 Guys, the Chinaman ate a bat, Vinny.
00:14:13.380 Everyone knows that.
00:14:13.900 I'll fall asleep on them.
00:14:14.800 I'll fall asleep on that guy.
00:14:15.840 What I'm saying to you is you're talking about the great rage-baiting, you know, commander-in-chief is what he is, as the younger generation would say.
00:14:26.340 I think that's what he's going to do because he's right now.
00:14:28.760 He did the same thing with Netanyahu.
00:14:30.900 He's up there saying, yeah, we're thinking about building some nice properties here and taking over Gaza under control of U.S.
00:14:37.860 And who knows?
00:14:39.200 Maybe we build some hotels.
00:14:40.460 And Bibi goes, what the fuck?
00:14:42.640 We didn't talk about that.
00:14:44.880 I don't know.
00:14:45.320 I think something could happen there because you know when Trump needs this thing to be done?
00:14:49.860 By the end of Q1 of 2026.
00:14:52.340 You know why?
00:14:53.240 Because 4th of July, he has to be on stage, given that stage speech, 250-year anniversary, with the most ridiculous, the UFC fight at the White House, World Cup here.
00:15:05.720 He needs China's deal.
00:15:08.460 He needs the China deal to be done by the end of Q1.
00:15:12.380 Going down that list.
00:15:13.420 Rob, did you see the one fighter I gave you the video of from, like, four weeks ago?
00:15:17.820 Do you have that clip?
00:15:18.520 You know which one I'm talking about?
00:15:19.640 It's perfectly safe.
00:15:20.440 Do you remember that one or no, Rob?
00:15:22.340 I don't.
00:15:23.200 Remember that one fighter I had that I was, like, a perfect candidate for UFC?
00:15:28.080 I'll try to find it.
00:15:29.300 Listen, there's rumors right now.
00:15:31.740 Have you heard about the rumors they're talking about for fighting?
00:15:34.140 No, totally.
00:15:34.620 Have you seen this?
00:15:35.820 That possibly Pereira, what's Pereira's first name?
00:15:39.420 Is that Alex?
00:15:40.220 Alex Pereira.
00:15:41.220 Yeah, that he may be fighting John Jones.
00:15:44.680 Maybe.
00:15:45.140 No.
00:15:45.640 Fighting John Jones.
00:15:47.040 Dana said that'll never, ever happen.
00:15:49.960 Yeah, there you go.
00:15:50.980 I was right.
00:15:51.560 It's a potential John Jones-Alec Pereira super fight.
00:15:54.300 Oh, man.
00:15:54.920 John Jones would destroy him.
00:15:55.620 At light, heavy, or heavy?
00:15:57.700 Who knows?
00:15:58.380 Maybe it's going to be a BMF type of a category because one of them has to step down and the
00:16:03.280 other one has to step up, which is-
00:16:06.260 Pereira's in crazy shape.
00:16:08.200 Respect to Pereira.
00:16:09.160 He's great.
00:16:09.880 John Jones is the GOAT.
00:16:11.320 Yeah, but he hasn't fought since when?
00:16:12.820 Doesn't matter.
00:16:13.460 The GOAT's GOAT.
00:16:14.220 I mean, you can't say it doesn't matter what UFC in your body.
00:16:16.980 I mean, go ahead.
00:16:17.300 When John Jones shows up here, you tell him about his face.
00:16:19.360 Let me tell you guys.
00:16:20.260 To me, I think this is great.
00:16:22.500 Dana White's a total bullshit.
00:16:23.500 Dana White, I think in an interview, he said, I'm glad John Jones sent that, but even if
00:16:31.180 they paid a billion dollars, I would never do it.
00:16:33.240 I'd like to see this guy get into the fight.
00:16:34.940 Rob, if you have this clip, this is like such an impressive-
00:16:37.300 Oh, that's my boy.
00:16:38.060 I love this guy.
00:16:39.240 I love this guy.
00:16:39.920 Look at this guy.
00:16:40.560 Dude.
00:16:40.760 Please.
00:16:41.200 Go ahead.
00:16:41.540 He's killing it.
00:16:42.040 Him against Conor.
00:16:43.020 Oh.
00:16:43.440 Look at this.
00:16:44.320 That's my boy.
00:16:44.900 Show it to me.
00:16:45.280 Boom.
00:16:46.280 I see you, Joe.
00:16:47.640 Bro, none of his kicks go past your knees.
00:16:49.920 They don't go higher than your knees.
00:16:51.380 Four-inch vertical lead.
00:16:52.440 You know he has five cats.
00:16:54.060 Vinny, it's easy to make fun of him.
00:16:55.740 He's at least in the arena.
00:16:56.940 You are not.
00:16:58.600 He's in the arena.
00:16:59.600 Dude.
00:16:59.980 Putting himself on the, look at this guy.
00:17:01.520 He just has a cross.
00:17:02.100 He just has a cross tattoo on his chest.
00:17:03.240 Is he the first time I ever saw that guy?
00:17:04.560 Yeah.
00:17:04.880 Oh, he kills it.
00:17:05.480 His videos are amazing.
00:17:06.360 Yeah.
00:17:06.920 I loved it.
00:17:07.540 That was funny as hell.
00:17:08.820 All right.
00:17:09.080 Let's get to it.
00:17:09.540 Is that Katie Porter?
00:17:11.440 Katie Pataty.
00:17:13.020 Katie Pataty.
00:17:13.780 Katie Porter needs a husband like that.
00:17:15.320 I mean, they do.
00:17:16.140 Every time we do the Vol Conference, if you've attended, you know this.
00:17:19.100 I stand up and I speak for probably 45 hours is what I do at the Vol Conference.
00:17:25.020 And I love it.
00:17:25.700 I love being around the guys.
00:17:26.720 I love it.
00:17:27.460 But I wear the Ferragamo shoes when I do this.
00:17:30.760 Or I wear some kind of dress shoes.
00:17:33.460 Eventually, for the last 25 years, I've always been on stage walking.
00:17:36.720 I'm like, you know what?
00:17:37.380 I'm sick and tired of it.
00:17:38.560 I want a shoe that I'm comfortable wearing.
00:17:41.300 And here's what I love.
00:17:42.560 I don't like shoes that are so heavy.
00:17:44.480 That's a dumbbell.
00:17:45.080 You can use it as a weapon.
00:17:46.280 I don't want that.
00:17:46.940 Like the Xenia, you carry it, I have so many of them, but they're so heavy.
00:17:50.000 Like you can literally curl the Xenia down, you know, the shoes, and you'll get a pump
00:17:53.580 within 30 reps.
00:17:54.660 And I wanted the combination of the Hoka, the On Cloud, the Super Foam, because there's
00:18:00.000 a big thing going on right now with the Super Foam where the bottom of the shoe, you wear
00:18:04.000 it, you know which ones I'm talking about, the On Cloud or the Hokas, right?
00:18:06.340 They're so comfortable.
00:18:07.320 And I said, what if we take luxury and then combine it with the Super Comfort, what would
00:18:13.080 that look like?
00:18:14.100 And let's build it in Italy.
00:18:15.400 So what do we do?
00:18:16.240 We went to Italy, we designed the shoe in Florida, we made the shoe in Italy in five
00:18:21.460 of the factories.
00:18:23.020 We went back in Fort God knows how many times.
00:18:25.100 And by the way, the shoes we're about to launch and introduce to you right now, where you're
00:18:28.580 going to see the video for the first time.
00:18:30.240 I've been wearing those shoes for the last 22 days straight.
00:18:33.840 I'm wearing them right now.
00:18:34.760 I literally wear it with suits.
00:18:36.460 I wore it yesterday when we went to lunch.
00:18:38.440 I wear it every single day.
00:18:39.880 It's the most comfortable shoes I have, yet it's authentic Italian leather.
00:18:44.400 Rob, if you don't mind playing the video, go for it.
00:18:46.880 Here's the video of the latest shoe, the FLBs.
00:18:49.120 When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort, function, and luxury, we had the choice
00:18:56.200 to make it fast, we had the choice to make it cheap.
00:18:59.680 We chose neither.
00:19:01.200 Instead, we chose Toscanero.
00:19:03.560 We chose true Italian craftsmanship.
00:19:06.120 Each pair touched by 50 skilled hands.
00:19:08.980 We chose patience, spending two years perfecting every detail, and we chose the finest quality
00:19:14.480 at every step, introducing the Future Looks Bright collection.
00:19:20.000 Not rushed, not disposable, not ordinary.
00:19:24.360 Rather intentional, luxurious, timeless.
00:19:32.220 Boom.
00:19:33.140 There you go.
00:19:34.020 Designed in Florida, 100% made in Italy.
00:19:36.860 50 hands touch each shoe that was made.
00:19:39.740 And here's what's unique about it.
00:19:41.020 I want to kind of show this to everybody that knows this, and I've worn pretty much every
00:19:44.660 one of these shoes.
00:19:45.440 So, if you compare this, the Italian leather, of course, it's made in Italy.
00:19:50.120 It's not assembled, made in China, assembled in Italy, 100% made in Italy, assembled in
00:19:54.600 Italy.
00:19:55.320 It's FLBs, Berlutis, which are 1840, Fergamos are 895, Zennias are 1190, and Gucci's are 950.
00:20:02.700 Leather premium lining, all of them except for Gucci.
00:20:05.340 Laceless feature, it's the FLBs, the Berlutis, you have laces, Fergamos laceless, and then
00:20:11.920 you have also the Zennias, and then the Gucci's have the laces.
00:20:14.280 I don't want to wake up in the morning, put laces on.
00:20:15.860 I want to get out the house.
00:20:16.600 Took me three seconds to put my shoes on today.
00:20:19.440 Craftsman, five different Italian factories all made this shoe.
00:20:23.380 Berlutis are the same as us, as well as FLB.
00:20:25.760 But the only shoe, these trainers, the only one in the world today, according to the factories
00:20:30.640 that told me this, in Italy, that has the Super Foam, the only one that has the same
00:20:35.560 Super Foam used in the Iron Clouds and the Hocus, it's the FLBs, and they're officially
00:20:40.880 out, and you can place the order.
00:20:42.700 Here's a challenge.
00:20:43.860 We only have 1,000 of these pairs.
00:20:46.600 And when you say 1,000 of these pairs, they start from size, I believe, is it 8?
00:20:50.760 It goes 8, 9, 10, 10 1ā„2, 11, 11 1ā„2, 12, 13.
00:20:55.840 Those are the sizes that we have.
00:20:57.300 And the shoes that you can get today, the colors, you have access to, Rob, if you can
00:21:01.700 go back there, you can have access to those browns, which is absolutely beautiful.
00:21:05.540 And by the way, the brown on the bottom, the stitching on the side is a left stitching.
00:21:09.680 If you can change the picture, and on the bottom, it says the future looks bright.
00:21:13.740 Look at the white lines on the side.
00:21:16.940 It's beautiful.
00:21:17.780 The only ones we have right now that you can get sent out today are the black and the
00:21:22.340 browns.
00:21:22.820 If you do want the white to pre-order, I would highly recommend you do so.
00:21:26.840 They're going to come out the second week of December.
00:21:29.000 So the white and the navy blue comes out the second week of December.
00:21:32.220 The browns and the blacks are available.
00:21:34.980 If you believe the future looks bright as much as we do, go place the order.
00:21:39.020 There's nothing like sitting in the boardroom with your trainers, and you put your feet
00:21:42.900 over your knee, and people look at the bottom of your shoe and it says, future looks bright.
00:21:46.500 That's how you get deals done.
00:21:47.620 All right.
00:21:47.960 So they're out.
00:21:48.560 I'm excited to announce it, and I'm very happy for people to go sport it.
00:21:52.220 When you get them, take pictures, send it our way.
00:21:54.380 We're going to show all these shoes, all the pictures that are being taken.
00:21:56.840 I already got a bunch of them sent to me on Instagram.
00:21:58.700 Go to vtmerch.com.
00:22:00.060 Place your order.
00:22:00.940 It's all over the website.
00:22:02.100 Maybe buy it for your husband.
00:22:03.460 Buy it for your brother.
00:22:04.500 Buy it for your coworkers.
00:22:05.800 Buy it for your best salespeople if you want to let them know the future looks bright.
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