Valuetainment - July 01, 2026


＂Democrats Hate Small Businesses＂ – Senate Pushing For $25 an Hour Minimum Wage


Episode Stats


Length

14 minutes

Words per minute

192.86

Word count

2,774

Sentence count

231

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged

Toxicity

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Murphy wants to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $25 an hour. Who can afford it and who can't? The poor or the middle class? Is it a good idea or not?

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Democrat Chris Murphy saying $25 minimum wage could win back Trump voters.
00:00:06.520 Is this it? Go for it.
00:00:08.360 We are here to introduce a simple piece of legislation that stands for a simple premise.
00:00:16.520 A minimum wage in the United States of America should be a living wage in the United States of America.
00:00:22.780 This is the most powerful, the most affluent, the wealthiest country in the world.
00:00:31.240 There is no reason that somebody should go to work full time in this country and not be able to pay their bills.
00:00:38.460 They didn't pay attention to them.
00:00:39.700 Is he going to get to the number, guys, or no?
00:00:42.140 In a world where we just created the first trillionaire, in a world where the top 1% of Americans...
00:00:50.660 I'll just tell you what he's going to say.
00:00:51.920 He's going to say $25 minimum wage, okay?
00:00:53.820 So he wants to go to $25 minimum wage from $7.25, 0.99
00:00:57.840 and he thinks we need to go there,
00:00:59.480 which $25 minimum wage is $50,000 a year salary
00:01:02.740 to just kind of look at the math, how it works.
00:01:05.260 And here's the problem that they don't think about
00:01:07.960 with a $25 minimum wage.
00:01:09.860 You know who can afford $25 minimum wage?
00:01:13.320 Businesses in L.A., businesses in New York City,
00:01:16.580 maybe in Chicago.
00:01:18.140 Any of the top 20 metropolitan cities,
00:01:20.500 They'll take a hit, but it's not going to be that big of a hit.
00:01:23.780 You know who's going to take a big hit?
00:01:25.640 The small business owner in Hope, Arkansas.
00:01:29.040 The small business owner in Toledo.
00:01:31.660 The small business owner in these small cities that they're trying to barely make any money
00:01:37.580 and they're paying $12 an hour, $15 an hour because it's a different cost of living.
00:01:42.720 Can you pull up a number to say, you know, what is the median income by state?
00:01:50.260 Pull up median income, median income by state.
00:01:53.800 You got it.
00:01:54.360 So let's look at the median income by state.
00:01:56.900 If we look at by state, look at this.
00:01:58.860 Okay, what is at the top, the $104,000?
00:02:01.660 It doesn't put a state next to it.
00:02:03.240 Does it put a state next to it?
00:02:04.160 I don't see a state next to that one.
00:02:05.380 I believe it's New York.
00:02:06.380 Let's just say New York, 104, 828.
00:02:08.700 What's two?
00:02:09.340 Jersey, 104.
00:02:10.220 Maryland, 102.
00:02:11.080 Hawaii, 100.
00:02:11.580 California, 99, Hampshire, 99, Washington, 98, Connecticut.
00:02:15.540 Now go to the bottom.
00:02:17.180 So New Mexico, 65.
00:02:19.180 Okay.
00:02:19.520 Louisiana, 63.
00:02:20.780 Arkansas, 62.
00:02:22.360 West Virginia, 61.
00:02:24.600 And the lowest, it doesn't say the state there for whatever reason, $59,000.
00:02:29.180 Okay.
00:02:30.000 You want to apply this.
00:02:31.860 Do you realize like it's 2X in New York versus I think that could be Mississippi.
00:02:36.680 I don't know what that state is.
00:02:38.000 It's 2X, the number.
00:02:39.220 and you just want to say, yeah, let's raise it from $7.25 to $25 an hour.
00:02:44.240 You're going to break the backs of these small business owners.
00:02:46.940 And you know who wins, by the way?
00:02:48.180 They don't understand how the math works.
00:02:50.500 Guess who can afford to pay $25 an hour?
00:02:53.340 The big companies.
00:02:54.560 You know who can't?
00:02:55.500 Small companies.
00:02:56.780 You know who should be for small business owners?
00:02:59.440 The Democrats that they say for the helping the working class people.
00:03:04.540 Every time you raise the minimum wage, big businesses are like,
00:03:07.980 man, I love me some Democrats.
00:03:10.440 Please raise the minimum wage because I can afford it.
00:03:13.520 And I'll pass it along because the product, let's just say they buy this.
00:03:16.460 Let's say we buy, say we buy 500 of these.
00:03:21.220 And so if I buy 500 of these, the guy that sells it, he'll says,
00:03:24.460 I'll sell you 500 of these.
00:03:25.700 Let's make up a number for 10 bucks a pop.
00:03:28.380 But what if I buy a thousand of these?
00:03:30.700 Oh, five bucks a pop.
00:03:32.300 What if I buy 10,000 of these?
00:03:34.120 Oh, 350 a pop.
00:03:35.380 What if I buy a hundred thousand of these?
00:03:37.980 $1.80 a pop.
00:03:39.880 So who can afford $100,000 of these?
00:03:42.080 Walmart.
00:03:43.460 The guy that's running a small little shop says, I can only buy 88 of them.
00:03:48.540 Well, that's $12 a pop.
00:03:50.360 And you want to raise the minimum wage on that guy?
00:03:54.420 You hate small businesses. 0.98
00:03:56.500 Democrats hate small businesses.
00:03:58.660 They literally do.
00:04:00.180 You hate small business owners.
00:04:02.000 You love big business.
00:04:03.740 Democrats indirectly love big businesses.
00:04:06.920 They just love protecting these big businesses.
00:04:09.100 Don't you just love protecting the big businesses?
00:04:12.080 That's who can afford it.
00:04:14.060 It's basic economics.
00:04:15.460 It's not complicated stuff here that we're talking about.
00:04:18.920 Go try to order 10 of these and see how much a custom one of these costs for 10.
00:04:23.340 Then go order $100,000.
00:04:24.620 Test it for yourself.
00:04:25.500 See how much the difference the price is.
00:04:27.820 It's amazing how much they save.
00:04:29.340 So I think, Tom, this is a terrible idea for small business owners.
00:04:32.580 But the question then becomes, should the minimum wage stay at $7.25, or should they raise the national minimum wage?
00:04:39.220 Should it just be left alone and let the market decide?
00:04:41.720 What's your position with this, Tom?
00:04:43.120 I've always felt that the market should decide, because if no one is willing to work for a certain wage, no one will take that job.
00:04:52.680 And that's the market forces.
00:04:54.740 Should there be some sort of a floor?
00:04:56.580 I don't know.
00:04:57.040 As soon as you put a floor in, now you give the government a knob, and they're going to turn it.
00:05:01.080 I think the unintended consequence here, they don't really realize what's going on.
00:05:06.300 On day one, right today, right now, Vinny, you know what a Big Mac average in America is?
00:05:11.480 $6.12.
00:05:12.880 Just the Big Mac, not the meal.
00:05:14.600 The meal.
00:05:14.900 Just the Big Mac.
00:05:15.860 And the average wage at McDonald's, in small markets, it's $10 to $12 an hour from the guys first starting.
00:05:23.220 And somebody's been there a little while.
00:05:24.680 And in larger market, it's $13 to $14.
00:05:26.980 So it's $12.20.
00:05:28.840 The average wage at McDonald's, Pat, is $12.20.
00:05:31.780 And the Big Mac is $6.12.
00:05:33.820 If I raise the minimum wage to $25, I go from $12.20 to $25.
00:05:39.100 That's exactly doubling.
00:05:40.440 The Big Mac now will cost $12.42 by my math.
00:05:45.640 And that's just on labor costs.
00:05:47.260 That's just on labor costs.
00:05:48.740 And so I don't think they understand.
00:05:51.260 And when they tried to – you know what they did?
00:05:53.040 When they tried to move the minimum wage to New York – I've talked about this before.
00:05:56.280 And I think it was Bloomberg that did it.
00:05:58.420 it accelerated the big business, McDonald's, investing in kiosks
00:06:04.020 so you could go in and order and eliminated jobs
00:06:06.440 that some high school kid could have had.
00:06:08.580 So it's exactly what Pat's talking about.
00:06:10.540 You love the big businesses.
00:06:11.820 They'll find a way out.
00:06:12.880 They'll do it.
00:06:13.700 The small businesses and the small workers and the teenagers
00:06:16.260 and people that are actually trying to do things,
00:06:18.500 you think you're helping them, but you're not.
00:06:21.380 Visit BetMDM Casino and check out the newest exclusive,
00:06:25.160 the Price is Right fortune pick.
00:06:26.820 Bet MGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly.
00:06:30.100 19 plus to wager.
00:06:31.420 Ontario only.
00:06:32.500 Please play responsibly.
00:06:33.740 If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you,
00:06:36.840 please contact Connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor.
00:06:42.880 Free of charge.
00:06:43.840 Bet MGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario.
00:06:50.020 Adam.
00:06:50.920 This guy, Chris Murphy, and I'm sure he's a nice guy,
00:06:53.940 is absolutely weak on everything.
00:06:58.000 I don't know if you saw this.
00:06:58.900 He was actually on Meet the Press this weekend.
00:07:02.160 When you said that you brought his name up,
00:07:03.460 I actually didn't hear about this $25 minimum wage thing.
00:07:06.840 I went and saw him on MSNBC.
00:07:09.040 By the way, this guy Ryan Nobles,
00:07:10.260 whoever filled in for Kristen Walker, did a great job.
00:07:13.460 And he kept asking him,
00:07:17.140 should Americans have an ID in order to vote?
00:07:19.840 And the way that he just spinelessly wiggled his way around the answer and the shout out to the host pressing him.
00:07:28.360 So are you saying that we don't need IDs?
00:07:30.620 You just saw him like it was like Gavin Newsom, like weak minded, just no backbone.
00:07:36.980 What's my point with this? He's using this twenty five dollar thing as a complete distraction.
00:07:41.580 By the way, what's the highest minimum wage in the country?
00:07:44.280 And I think it's seventeen dollars in California and Washington.
00:07:47.620 So there's no state that even has a $25 minimum wage.
00:07:50.380 In his state of Connecticut, I think it's $16.
00:07:52.800 So he's using this as a distraction.
00:07:54.660 All they have is look at Trump, look at Trump, look at Trump.
00:07:57.840 And then when they try to reverse it and say, well, now it's on you, buddy.
00:08:01.060 What do you want to do with the SAVE Act?
00:08:02.740 Nope, $25 minimum wage. 0.78
00:08:04.420 It's a complete distraction.
00:08:05.820 And at the end of the day, this weak, feckless Democratic establishment is getting cannibalized by the DSA.
00:08:12.520 And you're going to lose your job to an even lefter person than you, buddy.
00:08:15.780 Good luck out there.
00:08:16.340 figure out can you that's the big point and they're gonna lose their jobs to the the harder
00:08:20.180 left the core democrats i'm sorry i'm very sorry to interrupt you it's all good uh the core 0.98
00:08:25.700 democrats are useful idiots as the even more lefties show up and are gonna run the party 0.98
00:08:32.720 exactly tom i'm sitting here and i'm here i'm hearing the story after story after story him 1.00
00:08:38.460 commenting and then you commenting name me something that the democratic party is doing
00:08:44.260 positive pat give me a give me something that would make me change my mind like how elon musk
00:08:49.640 change his mind and and became more conservative can you give me one thing no and i'm being i'm
00:08:53.980 being dead serious give me something sell me try to make me become a democrat seriously tell me
00:08:59.320 this pen no i'm dead being a being a conservative how would you they're they're gone they're done
00:09:05.440 adam because you used to be a democrat like the bill clinton democrats and all that that's gone
00:09:09.900 What the heck happened?
00:09:11.500 Do you want me to attempt to answer that?
00:09:14.080 My answer is, you know, they famously said that the MAGA sort of lost its way from the old establishment.
00:09:20.960 And then the counter argument is, well, the Democratic Party has lost their mind.
00:09:24.480 And in my opinion, it's this.
00:09:26.100 Their entire identity was framed that anti-Trump, anti-Trump, anti-Trump.
00:09:30.120 They had no unifying message.
00:09:31.640 And you can see it in the approval ratings.
00:09:33.160 Nobody likes Democrats. 0.72
00:09:34.480 Democrats are not cool.
00:09:35.800 Democrats used to be the cool party.
00:09:37.540 So here's my point.
00:09:38.240 the democratic socialists have said you know what we need to actually run on something we're going
00:09:43.820 to run on open borders we're going to run on transiting your kids we're going to run on wealth
00:09:46.680 taxes at least we stand for something now what they stand for is certifiably insane and completely 0.68
00:09:52.360 anti-american and they are actually proudly anti-american but at least they stand for
00:09:56.780 something you know they say if you stand for nothing you'll fall for anything the democratic
00:10:00.200 establishment stands for nothing and that's why they're getting overtaken as tom just said
00:10:05.300 by the DSA, because at least the DSA stands for something.
00:10:09.200 July 1st, 6 p.m., Fatherhood, a webinar-free webinar.
00:10:13.020 If you haven't yet registered, go do it.
00:10:14.680 It's just the last chance for you.
00:10:15.760 Once we do it, it's out.
00:10:17.280 There's going to be a lot of resources. 1.00
00:10:19.200 Wives, get your husbands registered.
00:10:21.320 Gentlemen, as busy as you are, fathers, get on this thing.
00:10:24.600 And some of you guys that don't even have kids,
00:10:26.060 you'll have an edge over everybody else.
00:10:28.000 We need strong fathers for today's economy.
00:10:30.000 Go to VT webinar to register for that.
00:10:33.140 But we have a big announcement today.
00:10:34.380 We have a massive announcement today, and here's what the announcement is.
00:10:38.060 What weekend is this?
00:10:39.240 What's this weekend coming up?
00:10:40.480 This is July 4th weekend.
00:10:41.780 Fourth of July.
00:10:42.920 So guess what we're doing for 4th of July.
00:10:45.500 We only are going to do this twice a year, okay?
00:10:48.380 And it gets hot every time we do this, and let me tell you what it is.
00:10:52.780 Twice a year, we do something where you get a chance to compete to be on a podcast.
00:10:59.140 Last time we did this, we had a friend that got on who was with Tesla for eight years.
00:11:05.160 And we had an incredible, and I mean an incredible time with him here.
00:11:09.100 So let me tell you what we're doing for 4th of July.
00:11:11.340 First of all, if you can go to the website to show what we're doing special for 4th of July,
00:11:15.500 on the main one that says 4th of July, if we have that on the website,
00:11:19.440 it should be right on the cupboard when you go to it.
00:11:22.420 It says Celebrate 250 Years.
00:11:24.080 If you go to the Celebrate 250 Years on the site, it should be the first one.
00:11:30.040 No, if you go on the website, the homepage should say Celebrate 250.
00:11:34.080 There you go.
00:11:34.620 Go to Shop to Sale.
00:11:36.220 Click on that.
00:11:37.260 Here's what we're doing.
00:11:38.380 First 200 people that place an order, as of right now,
00:11:42.000 you're getting this golden value tainment water bottle that comes.
00:11:45.300 And what do they call this thing here?
00:11:46.520 It's a – what do you call these things?
00:11:48.940 A Yeti?
00:11:49.420 They used to call them Yetis or coolers.
00:11:51.680 Okay, so it's a water cooler you can drink.
00:11:53.400 when you go into the gym, but it's the golden.
00:11:55.060 We only got 200 of these.
00:11:56.600 First 200, you're getting this sent to you.
00:11:58.400 Number two, the value plus last season's items
00:12:01.400 that you can go buy items as low as $15, $10,
00:12:04.300 70% off this weekend, 4th of July.
00:12:07.480 Then on top of that, hats.
00:12:09.260 Buy any hat.
00:12:10.060 You have a bunch of options on second hat, 50% off.
00:12:12.960 And then on top of that, courses.
00:12:15.300 Typically, all our bundles together,
00:12:17.340 the value of all the bundles together,
00:12:18.840 $7,000, $8,000.
00:12:20.060 This weekend, buy the five bundles,
00:12:21.800 art of public speaking, advanced business strategy, whether it's PBD sales system,
00:12:26.300 business planning, all of that, five combined, $1,000 just this weekend for 4th of July.
00:12:31.960 And then aside from that, the first 50 people that place an order over $1,000,
00:12:36.580 we're going to FaceTime you.
00:12:38.200 We do this every year, and it's exciting when we do it.
00:12:40.900 The next time we do this will be Christmas time.
00:12:43.100 First 50 people place an order over $1,000, we're giving you a FaceTime call.
00:12:47.060 Normally when we do this, it's very good conversations.
00:12:49.680 And last but not least, anybody that places an order over $2,000,
00:12:53.340 you enter in a raffle to make an appearance on the PBD podcast.
00:12:56.640 The night before we take you to dinner at Casa D'Angelo,
00:12:59.720 we sit down, we laugh our asses off, we prepare for the podcast.
00:13:03.200 Then the next day, you're sitting right here with us, with everybody else,
00:13:06.380 and you are all over the place in all the clips, everything that we do.
00:13:09.420 You're literally having a conversation with the boys.
00:13:11.860 And when you come here, I personally will give you a tour of the office space.
00:13:14.500 So, again, first 200 buyers, boom, you get one of these.
00:13:17.640 You got the $1,000, first $50, FaceTime call from us, $2,000 home team.
00:13:24.780 Buy a hat, get second 50% off, and you got a bunch of other things to take.
00:13:27.780 We got a bunch of new shirts, new gears, new hats that's on there as well.
00:13:31.300 So go to vtmerch.com to place your order.
00:13:35.480 I cannot wait to see you or have a FaceTime with you
00:13:38.200 or see you guys represent the Future Looks Bright brand
00:13:41.500 or Faith Over Fear all over the world.
00:13:43.580 If you enjoyed this video, you want to watch more videos like this, click here.
00:13:46.180 And if you want to watch the entire podcast, click here.
00:13:54.260 Frozen lasagna, medium power, 15 minutes.
00:13:58.140 Sounds like Ojo time.
00:14:00.040 Let's play.
00:14:01.060 Feel the fun with Play Ojo, the online casino with all the latest slot and live casino games.
00:14:06.240 What you win is yours to keep with no wagering requirements, instant payouts, and no minimum withdrawals.
00:14:11.940 Hey, I just won.
00:14:13.280 Woo-hoo!
00:14:13.880 Feel the fun.
00:14:14.960 Play Ojo.
00:14:16.180 Honey, forget about the lasagna.
00:14:17.660 Let's celebrate.
00:14:18.600 19 plus Ontario only.
00:14:19.340 Please play responsibly.
00:14:19.840 Concerned about your gambling or that of someone close to you?
00:14:20.880 Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connexontario.ca.