Valuetainment - August 21, 2025


＂Dumbest Way To Go Viral＂ - Joy Reid's CRAZY Claim Elvis' Nickname Is RACIST


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In this episode, the guys discuss the controversy surrounding Joy Reid's comments about Elvis Presley and whether or not she is a racist or not. They also discuss Jillian Michaels and her comments about slavery and white supremacy.

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00:00:00.000 I want to go to the story of Joy Reid and Elvis Presley.
00:00:02.500 This one just really is, I don't understand it.
00:00:05.420 I don't understand, you know, to go after something like this.
00:00:10.640 It's almost like she wakes up in the morning saying,
00:00:12.700 how can I be viral for the dumbest idea ever?
00:00:16.460 And thinking, guess what?
00:00:17.820 I'm irrelevant.
00:00:18.640 They're talking about me and not realizing this is definitely not the way of doing it.
00:00:24.120 But maybe she thinks she is.
00:00:25.980 So Joy Reid launches finger-jabbing rant against Elvis. 1.00
00:00:30.000 And says nicknaming him the king was racist.
00:00:33.900 I don't even want to go through this.
00:00:35.380 Rob, do you want to just play this clip and let the audience see it?
00:00:37.560 Go for it.
00:00:38.440 They can't fix the history they did.
00:00:41.040 Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell. 0.99
00:00:47.040 But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian.
00:00:49.820 They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.
00:00:51.260 They got PragerU.
00:00:52.280 They can lie about the history to the children.
00:00:53.980 They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
00:00:59.300 Like, we black folk gave y'all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll.
00:01:04.820 They couldn't even invent that.
00:01:06.300 But they have to call a white man the king because they couldn't make rock and roll. 0.62
00:01:11.240 So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.
00:01:17.900 Who, her? 0.59
00:01:19.740 Oh, my God.
00:01:22.180 Yeah.
00:01:22.940 Look at her hat. 0.99
00:01:23.680 By the way, just look at her hat. 1.00
00:01:25.220 The fact that her true colors.
00:01:26.860 Remember, she was on MS Now.
00:01:29.480 I'm sorry.
00:01:29.860 It was MSNBC.
00:01:31.060 Let's see if they changed soon.
00:01:32.120 The FDT hat.
00:01:33.980 It's like that's your true colors.
00:01:36.180 That's a political activist talking her crap. 1.00
00:01:38.240 And, like, I don't understand.
00:01:40.700 Like, how you nailed it.
00:01:42.100 How do you wake up in the morning and that's what you're talking about?
00:01:45.500 That's what it's talking about.
00:01:46.480 Mind you, it's 2025.
00:01:48.380 And people like Joy Reid, Pat, that's all they want to keep bringing up is racism and slavery.
00:01:53.900 And, guys, we're not trying to erase history.
00:01:56.340 It's history.
00:01:57.280 It happened.
00:01:58.320 Okay?
00:01:59.000 What year was it, Adam?
00:02:00.520 What was the height?
00:02:01.640 Of what?
00:02:02.360 Of slavery.
00:02:04.420 I mean, the Civil War was 1861.
00:02:06.420 You had 60s and then guess what?
00:02:08.460 Like, think about it.
00:02:09.940 Slavery was abolished when?
00:02:12.120 Yeah, when Abraham Lincoln in the North won 1865.
00:02:15.020 Okay, so listen.
00:02:15.040 We've made.
00:02:15.840 It happened.
00:02:16.440 So when you hear.
00:02:16.940 It happened.
00:02:17.620 But when you hear people like this.
00:02:18.780 It's almost as if.
00:02:19.880 When you hear white supremacy and white this and racism and slavery.
00:02:24.480 It's as if it was yesterday.
00:02:26.540 Okay?
00:02:26.920 It's been done for a long time.
00:02:28.560 We're nowhere near where the hell we used to be.
00:02:30.920 Okay?
00:02:31.800 I hate that attitude.
00:02:33.200 It's divisive.
00:02:34.140 It makes people want to hate.
00:02:35.080 It just keeps reminding you of shit that happened in the past.
00:02:38.860 I'm not saying forget it, but can we move on?
00:02:40.740 Did you guys see the Jillian Michaels clip on CNN?
00:02:43.240 How's our girl doing?
00:02:43.980 When she said 2%.
00:02:45.980 Oh, they lost their minds?
00:02:47.460 Have you seen this?
00:02:47.980 They lost their minds.
00:02:48.520 Rob, can you go to this clip with Jillian Michaels?
00:02:50.380 Jillian Michaels, again, same thing.
00:02:52.360 She's on there.
00:02:53.120 They're talking about what percentage of Americans own slaves.
00:02:56.380 Watch this.
00:02:57.400 And they've been trying to target her since that day till today.
00:03:01.820 Go ahead, Rob.
00:03:02.300 So we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture
00:03:07.760 to make sure it comports with dear leader and what the MAGA organization wants.
00:03:11.780 Can we address some of those things that are in there?
00:03:13.600 Because have you looked at some of the things that are being reviewed?
00:03:16.320 Yeah, slavery was a bad thing that was to talk about.
00:03:19.080 He's not whitewashing slavery.
00:03:20.640 So he's not, no, he's not.
00:03:23.820 And you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty
00:03:30.620 much what every single exhibit does.
00:03:32.800 Well, let's talk about the fact that when you-
00:03:34.140 In the United States-
00:03:34.740 Let's talk about the fact that slavery in America was-
00:03:37.400 Do you realize that only less than 2% of white Americans own slaves?
00:03:41.080 But it was a system of white supremacy.
00:03:42.460 Do you realize that slavery is thousands of years old?
00:03:45.000 Do you know who was the first race to try to end slavery?
00:03:48.540 Wait a second.
00:03:49.220 Well, what's controversial?
00:03:50.460 I'm very surprised that you're trying to litigate-
00:03:51.460 This is an extraordinary exercise in historical religion.
00:03:53.600 You can't stand it.
00:03:54.120 I'm really surprised-
00:03:54.760 Circular religionism, do you realize that-
00:03:56.000 Jillian, I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery
00:04:01.560 and who was not.
00:04:02.320 I'm not.
00:04:02.340 What I'm trying to tell you is that-
00:04:03.460 In the context of American history, in the context of American history, what are you
00:04:08.340 saying is incorrect by saying that it was white people oppressing black people?
00:04:12.680 Every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad. 0.61
00:04:17.860 And that's just not the truth.
00:04:20.900 Like, for example, every single exhibit, I have a list of every single one.
00:04:25.700 Like, people migrated from Cuba because white people bad. 0.98
00:04:29.960 Not because of past-
00:04:32.220 Yes, no, it's in there.
00:04:33.400 That's what I'm saying.
00:04:33.880 You don't actually know what's in there.
00:04:35.260 Do you know that when you walk in the front door-
00:04:36.780 Jillian, what exactly-
00:04:37.260 The first thing you see is a gay flag- 0.98
00:04:38.580 Jillian, you have a lot of stuff in front of you.
00:04:40.420 Yeah, I do because I don't-
00:04:41.640 Because here's the thing.
00:04:42.160 What exactly are you talking about?
00:04:42.900 Okay, I'll give you an example.
00:04:43.840 Yeah, please.
00:04:44.280 There's one called Change Your Game, right?
00:04:47.020 This has been an installation there.
00:04:49.820 Is gender testing fair in sports? 0.70
00:04:52.600 Does that-
00:04:53.380 And then it goes on to talk about how it's complex to do gender testing in sports.
00:04:58.420 It's not complex.
00:04:59.180 It's basic science.
00:05:00.680 That's untrue.
00:05:01.580 It's XX chromosome, XY chromosome. 0.98
00:05:04.660 That's sports.
00:05:06.200 Is it fair to have biological men competing against biological women in sports? 1.00
00:05:11.340 No.
00:05:11.860 But why is this in the Smithsonian?
00:05:14.140 So it's-
00:05:14.720 Look, it's been completely captured.
00:05:17.180 First of all-
00:05:17.860 And it's totally-
00:05:19.120 And if you notice, I'm kind of-
00:05:20.360 The part I'm surprised with is when she's going through it.
00:05:22.940 Scott Jennings is sitting there.
00:05:24.020 By the way, I don't know if you know or not.
00:05:25.180 Scott's sitting right across from her.
00:05:26.200 He's quiet.
00:05:26.900 He hasn't said a single thing.
00:05:28.140 He's letting her go.
00:05:28.720 He's letting her go.
00:05:29.660 Can you keep going, Rob, to see if he says anything at all?
00:05:32.140 Or he's letting go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:05:36.420 Keep going.
00:05:37.100 Keep going.
00:05:37.660 Keep going.
00:05:38.060 Yeah, I'm surprised Scott didn't say anything.
00:05:39.720 Because normally in a situation like this, he would have jumped in.
00:05:42.520 And maybe he's waiting for them to come to her.
00:05:44.380 And he's just kind of giving her the floor.
00:05:45.800 But the reality of it is when they broke down the numbers, and you keep going, she opened up the Pandora's box.
00:05:52.440 I love it.
00:05:53.240 She opened up the Pandora's, and they're losing their absolute mind when she opened this up. 0.80
00:05:59.060 Wait, don't say that only 2% of whites weren't slaves.
00:06:02.620 All whites were slaves back in the day. 1.00
00:06:04.160 That's what they want people to believe.
00:06:06.180 But no, it's not.
00:06:07.000 Tom, you look like you want to say something about this.
00:06:08.480 As a matter of fact, this is why people will start to freak out when you bring numbers screen to this.
00:06:15.440 I'm so glad she's doing it.
00:06:16.760 To it.
00:06:17.500 Because it's the step they don't want to talk about.
00:06:21.140 And you know what that step is?
00:06:22.400 What's that?
00:06:22.760 It's a boat trip back to northern Africa when the tribes enslaved each other, and they sold their prisoners for profit. 0.77
00:06:30.740 Slavery started with blacks enslaving and imprisoning blacks tribe by tribe in northern Africa and selling them to people that then traded them elsewhere.
00:06:45.180 That doesn't make it right.
00:06:46.740 That doesn't mean we didn't need Abe Lincoln.
00:06:48.600 We needed Abe Lincoln.
00:06:49.900 That doesn't mean we didn't need 1864, 1865 and legislation.
00:06:54.180 We needed that.
00:06:55.420 That doesn't mean we didn't need civil rights in 1968.
00:06:58.220 We needed that.
00:06:58.960 But it also means no one wants to talk about the scope of the problem because it's their blankie. 1.00
00:07:06.700 Of course.
00:07:06.880 And they can use that to keep doing things and to keep pushing things and to keep punishing and going back in retribution because their feeling is, says, reparations and retribution is forever.
00:07:20.960 I want that forever.
00:07:22.580 And I want to use it forever.
00:07:24.020 And I want to beat you with it forever.
00:07:25.660 And I want to get stuff forever.
00:07:27.360 We're not going to let it let it die.
00:07:29.960 It should never die in the pages of history incorrect or edited or change ever.
00:07:35.500 But we need to have the full story.
00:07:37.680 There was a very famous video that was a British teacher going after, and I think it was BBC, absolutely going after the newscasts and saying, you know, slavery started in northern Africa when tribes and slave tribes after wars, and they deliberately didn't kill their prisoners so they could sell them for a profit.
00:07:59.860 Of course.
00:08:00.200 This is their history, but this is their history, not our history. 0.91
00:08:01.620 It's what they wrote.
00:08:02.380 Yeah.
00:08:02.680 It's what there was there.
00:08:03.860 And so it's like, no, no, no, you're not changing history.
00:08:06.340 No, we're not.
00:08:06.800 That's the record of what was there.
00:08:08.080 They kept records of it.
00:08:09.460 They were proud of it because they conquered other people.
00:08:12.440 They were proud of conquering.
00:08:13.480 And then they sold them to, you know, to explorers and traders.
00:08:17.640 Yeah.
00:08:17.860 And so nobody wants to talk about that.
00:08:19.820 Nobody.
00:08:20.800 They want to take, remember, take a small percent, give them victimhood, make them a voting block, and then make them see bigger than everything else.
00:08:29.920 That's trans. 0.98
00:08:30.760 That's all the things you see.
00:08:32.240 That's the Democrat playbook.
00:08:33.640 We should never, ever walk away from the horrors of slavery or the need for it to be changed or the brave people or the fact that it was the Southern Republicans that had to get it through because the Southern Democrats wouldn't work for it.
00:08:47.600 That history has been changed, ladies and gentlemen.
00:08:50.160 We should never forget what happened and how it changed for the good.
00:08:53.500 But to go back the way Abby and those are trying to do it now and getting in Jillian's face when Jillian is bringing receipts. 1.00
00:09:02.120 And Rob, do you want me to do this?
00:09:03.820 I'm going to come to you.
00:09:04.940 Meanwhile, Rob, can you go up on ChatGBT and type in the following question?
00:09:09.840 Okay.
00:09:10.080 I'm going to text it to you if you can just literally type this in.
00:09:13.160 Exact question.
00:09:14.300 And I'm going to give you follow up on it.
00:09:15.780 It says, Jillian Michaels recently talked about only 2% of whites were slave owners.
00:09:20.200 Can you show where most of the white slave owners were?
00:09:22.620 What percentage was part of the South versus the North?
00:09:25.720 If you can just take that copy paste, put it in there and we'll go through it.
00:09:28.080 Go ahead.
00:09:28.340 And just Tom, I love that you're saying that nobody is saying I'm saying they're they're acting as if we're going to forget.
00:09:34.460 No, nobody forgets.
00:09:35.740 It was a horrible part of our history, but it is our history.
00:09:38.140 But it drives me crazy is people like that with the attitude that America was built on slavery.
00:09:42.580 Okay.
00:09:42.920 The truth of the matter is America took a very small percentage when it came down to it.
00:09:48.540 Okay.
00:09:48.880 Out of the 12 million Africans that were shipped across the Atlantic, guess how many came to the United States?
00:09:55.120 Less than 400,000.
00:09:56.600 Okay.
00:09:56.840 You know where the majority went to?
00:09:58.200 Four to five million went to the Brazil and the Caribbean islands.
00:10:02.100 Okay.
00:10:02.560 Correct.
00:10:02.980 So to act like you talk about numbers scream, how much more screaming?
00:10:06.920 And again, horrible, horrible history part.
00:10:09.220 But that victim, that whole like like it's happening, still happening, that white supremacy, that slavery.
00:10:15.040 It's like, move on.
00:10:16.260 My favorite, my favorite interview, Pat, was with Don Lamont and he was with Morgan Freeman.
00:10:22.460 And he goes, so you mean to tell me that slavery goes, how do you fix it?
00:10:25.820 He goes, stop talking about it.
00:10:27.320 He goes, you're a black man.
00:10:28.520 I'm a black man.
00:10:29.380 Look at us right now.
00:10:30.700 Look, look where we are.
00:10:31.740 He goes, who's holding you back?
00:10:33.100 He goes, you find that thing that you want and you go get it.
00:10:35.480 That's that non-victimhood mentality.
00:10:37.360 Rob, you have that one little clip?
00:10:38.880 Yes.
00:10:39.680 It's like, it was such a beautiful moment.
00:10:41.500 He's like, what excuse?
00:10:42.760 Yeah, this is it.
00:10:43.240 Can you play it?
00:10:44.680 It's a part in wealth distribution or either a mindset that you can't or cannot.
00:10:48.260 Today?
00:10:48.820 Yeah.
00:10:49.200 No.
00:10:50.020 You don't?
00:10:50.480 No.
00:10:50.940 I don't.
00:10:51.740 I don't.
00:10:52.600 Hey, you and I, we're proof.
00:10:54.780 Why would race have anything to do with it?
00:10:56.460 Put your mind to what you want to do and go for that.
00:10:58.220 Amen.
00:10:58.620 It's kind of like religion to me.
00:11:02.720 It's a good excuse for not getting there.
00:11:04.600 Yeah.
00:11:04.980 You know, I said, and it's probably getting me in trouble, but I said to some of my colleagues
00:11:09.680 recently, I know that it's an issue, but I've been, it seems like every single day on
00:11:14.800 television I'm talking about race and it's because of the news cycle, it's in the news,
00:11:18.440 but sometimes I get so tired of talking about it.
00:11:20.500 Oh, no, you're not.
00:11:20.820 Oh, no, he doesn't.
00:11:21.700 No, you're not.
00:11:22.020 I want to just go, this is over.
00:11:23.420 Can we move on?
00:11:24.340 And if you talk about it, it exists.
00:11:26.240 Right.
00:11:27.260 Yeah.
00:11:27.580 It's not like it exists and we refuse to talk about it.
00:11:30.440 So let's come back to this.
00:11:31.240 Yeah.
00:11:31.360 Yeah.
00:11:31.520 Yeah.
00:11:31.800 Great.
00:11:32.360 Can you do me a favor?
00:11:32.940 Go to that chat, GBT, what the question is.
00:11:34.860 Okay.
00:11:35.060 So here we go.
00:11:36.000 Good question.
00:11:36.660 Julie Meyers collect that only small minority Americans own slaves about 1.5 to 2% of population
00:11:40.840 1860 and then if you go a little bit lower, the U.S. population 31, enslaved people 4
00:11:45.420 million, white slaveholders 385, 8 million families, that's 1.5 to 2% overall.
00:11:50.480 Okay.
00:11:50.620 So that part's accurate.
00:11:51.540 Now let's continue.
00:11:52.220 South versus North.
00:11:53.440 Almost all slave owners, holders were concentrated in the South, about 25 to 33% of white families
00:11:58.740 in the South owned slaves.
00:12:00.280 This varied by state, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia.
00:12:03.320 Ownership was highly unequal.
00:12:04.980 So Northern states by 1804, all Northern states had enacted gradual emancipation laws by 1804.
00:12:11.920 By 1860, slavery was virtually extinct in the North, not the South.
00:12:16.340 Okay.
00:12:16.640 So now here's the next question I want you to ask.
00:12:18.920 I want you to ask, were most of the South Democrats, that's all I want you to ask, were
00:12:25.760 most of the South Democrats?
00:12:28.380 Okay.
00:12:29.340 Yes.
00:12:29.780 Yes.
00:12:30.620 This is Chad, GBT.
00:12:32.020 This isn't Grok, owned by X.
00:12:35.880 Weird.
00:12:36.500 Ilan.
00:12:37.000 This is Chad, GBT.
00:12:38.080 Overwhelmingly.
00:12:38.440 Let me read it to you.
00:12:39.460 Go ahead.
00:12:39.700 Yes.
00:12:40.160 The South in the 1800s was overwhelmingly Democrat.
00:12:45.380 Southern politics before and during Civil War, the Democratic Party was dominant across
00:12:48.700 the South.
00:12:49.040 Democrats on the South were the party of slavery and state rights.
00:12:51.920 They defended the institution of slavery as essential to their agricultural economy.
00:12:55.360 By contrast, the Republican Party, founded in 1854, was based in the North and opposed
00:12:59.620 the expansion of slavery into new territories.
00:13:02.580 The opposition has triggered Southern succession after Lincoln, a Republican, was elected in
00:13:08.280 1860.
00:13:08.880 In the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln got almost no votes in the South.
00:13:13.560 Wow.
00:13:14.000 Southern states mostly voted for Southern Democrats, John C. Breckinridge, or Constitutional Unionist
00:13:20.560 John Bell.
00:13:21.100 After the Civil War, during the Reconstruction, Republicans briefly gained influence on the
00:13:25.680 South, thanks to the freedom of Norton carpetbaggers. 1.00
00:13:28.660 But this ended by the 1870s.
00:13:30.720 The South then became the solid South, voting almost exclusively Democrat for the next 80 years.
00:13:37.440 The Democratic Party in the South was deeply tied to segregation and Jim Crow law.
00:13:41.880 So, I mean, this is the part where Jillian kind of goes in, not on Fox, on CNN, boom, drops 1.00
00:13:48.640 the bomb.
00:13:49.180 Yep.
00:13:49.860 And then what happens?
00:13:51.320 By the way, you want to talk about the amount of hit pieces she's going to get?
00:13:54.820 It's just the beginning.
00:13:55.900 She's going to get so many more hit pieces of people coming after her, trying to defame
00:13:59.800 her, say whatever they want to say about her.
00:14:01.380 But good for her for doing that and showing the receipts afterwards, because even a Chad 1.00
00:14:06.980 GBT that some would say is more left-leaning defended the argument of what Jillian 0.96
00:14:11.860 presented, Adam.
00:14:12.780 Yeah, I used to be obsessed with the Civil War.
00:14:15.660 If you looked at it, when I was a kid, I saw a movie called Glory.
00:14:19.080 And if you've never seen the movie Glory, oh my God, you talked about Morgan Freeman.
00:14:23.820 He was actually in that movie, Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes.
00:14:28.660 What a freaking movie.
00:14:29.980 I watched his movie, I think I was like nine or ten years old.
00:14:32.780 I was like, what is this all about in America, right?
00:14:37.700 And it was just so shocking and so crazy and just such an emotional roller coaster.
00:14:44.020 And you're like, this happened here in America?
00:14:46.560 Oh my, I'm a kid.
00:14:47.940 And it was so interesting.
00:14:48.880 If you came into my bedroom when I was a kid, I had Pamela Anderson posters, a life-size
00:14:53.260 cutout of Isaiah Thomas basketball, and the Glory poster talking about the North versus
00:14:58.700 South Civil War, very weird sort of dichotomy going on there.
00:15:02.680 But here's what I understood about the Civil War.
00:15:05.020 You know, racism, America, what's going on here?
00:15:07.700 Jillian Michaels, great point about only 2% of Americans or even the Confederacy owned 1.00
00:15:12.780 slaves.
00:15:13.860 Flip it.
00:15:14.900 Do you know how many Union soldiers fought to free the slaves?
00:15:20.360 Two million soldiers.
00:15:22.000 Wow.
00:15:22.120 Do you know how many Union soldiers died, white people died to free the African-American
00:15:28.700 slaves?
00:15:29.400 400,000 to 500,000 deaths to free the slaves.
00:15:34.540 So, Joy Reid, spare the racist drama because it was white people that died to free black
00:15:42.720 people from crappy white people that wanted to run and operate their business in the South.
00:15:48.340 So, it's so easy to be like, slavery, racist, you know, you know, the least, the word that
00:15:55.600 has the least meaning to it today is racism.
00:15:58.220 Yeah, it's true.
00:15:59.180 You're racist, you're racist.
00:16:00.600 Okay, now what?
00:16:01.400 I'm racist.
00:16:01.960 Okay, now what?
00:16:02.500 Can you show the poll?
00:16:03.360 Can you show the last three polls?
00:16:04.720 Can you show all three polls or no when you run on the podcast?
00:16:07.960 Or does it just show the recent one?
00:16:09.280 It'll just show the recent one.
00:16:10.480 Okay, so go to the recent one.
00:16:12.380 Think about how our audience is today.
00:16:15.020 Before you pull it up, Rob, I hope they don't see.
00:16:16.880 Don't look, guys.
00:16:17.460 Don't look.
00:16:17.840 Okay.
00:16:18.340 Tom, don't look, Tom.
00:16:19.560 So, the poll is, is Joy Reid right that whites calling Elvis King is racist?
00:16:26.620 What percentage of our audience do you think said yes?
00:16:29.920 Of our audience?
00:16:31.460 No, our audience, 10%.
00:16:34.060 You looked at it.
00:16:34.940 I swear to God, I didn't.
00:16:36.360 Okay.
00:16:36.900 Tom, what do you think it is?
00:16:37.520 You didn't put it up.
00:16:38.300 I think it would be like 17%, 20%.
00:16:41.340 10%.
00:16:41.840 And we would look at that and say, oh, my God.
00:16:43.600 So, Adam's right again, Tom.
00:16:44.720 10% said that he is racist, right?
00:16:48.220 With the poem.
00:16:48.640 By the way, 5,000 people voted for this.
00:16:50.600 By the way, he didn't call himself the king.
00:16:52.460 People called him the king.
00:16:53.460 Damn, right.
00:16:53.960 Oh, by the way, James Brown is the godfather of the soul.
00:16:56.440 Oh, now we're racist because he's the godfather.
00:16:58.120 But I want to do this, guys.
00:16:59.700 Guys, if there's a clip that I'll be with my kids.
00:17:03.820 Vinny, I've showed it to you as well.
00:17:05.480 If I've showed, Rob, do you have this clip or not with Elvis?
00:17:08.280 If there's a clip, I'll send you the last performance, specifically the one I like.
00:17:11.860 Yeah, this one right here.
00:17:12.800 So, this is a couple months before he dies.
00:17:15.520 This is the first time ever he performs Unchained Melody publicly.
00:17:19.500 The world hasn't seen this song.
00:17:21.100 It's coming out in two weeks.
00:17:22.980 He, you can tell, he's either inebriated, he's either on drugs.
00:17:26.380 He is not doing well.
00:17:28.120 Until he opens his mouth.
00:17:30.620 And you realize the magic of this guy, no matter how drunk he was, no matter what was in his body.
00:17:36.480 He's still, just watch this.
00:17:37.960 And you tell me if you would call this guy king or not.
00:17:40.560 Go ahead, Rob.
00:17:42.600 This is a song that I just recorded.
00:17:44.900 It's an old song called Unchained Melody.
00:17:47.620 I have to play the piano, so it'll take just a second.
00:17:51.820 I don't know all the chords.
00:17:53.140 Breathing, heavy.
00:17:54.040 If you hear me, I'll get my fingers caught.
00:17:55.960 I'll put him in the keys back here.
00:17:59.000 Not doing well.
00:17:59.700 Look how big he was.
00:18:00.860 Wow.
00:18:01.500 Now, Charlie, you're going to make it your mind, son.
00:18:05.120 You're going to hold the microphone, put the scarf on, hold the ring, show him with the right keys.
00:18:11.280 Got it?
00:18:12.280 Breathing heavy.
00:18:12.940 Well, watch.
00:18:14.800 There's a reason why they call him king.
00:18:17.500 And never performed internationally because of his manager.
00:18:20.960 Yeah, that's right.
00:18:21.700 Think about that.
00:18:22.060 I just recorded it and I don't know.
00:18:23.800 Listen to the way he talks.
00:18:26.260 Is it out?
00:18:27.700 Two weeks.
00:18:28.560 About two weeks.
00:18:29.240 Two weeks to be out.
00:18:30.520 This song's been in so many movies.
00:18:32.720 Ghosts.
00:18:33.220 Ghosts.
00:18:33.580 Brace for impact.
00:18:34.640 Sit down.
00:18:35.460 You'll see why.
00:18:36.140 I'm going to cry.
00:18:36.920 It's going to make you sit down.
00:18:38.520 I'm telling you.
00:18:39.320 You're going to have the chills all over your body.
00:18:40.780 I'm going to stay quiet and just listen.
00:18:43.960 How do you like it so far?
00:18:44.640 How do you like it so far?
00:18:48.120 Listen.
00:18:49.740 Listen.
00:18:50.840 Oh, my God.
00:18:56.820 Oh, my love.
00:19:00.900 Oh, my God.
00:19:02.220 My darling.
00:19:04.600 I've hungered for your touch.
00:19:09.420 Alone.
00:19:10.780 No auto-tune.
00:19:14.360 Wow.
00:19:14.680 No auto-tune.
00:19:15.520 Time goes by so slowly.
00:19:25.740 And time can do so much.
00:19:30.360 Are you still mine?
00:19:34.320 I need your love.
00:19:39.900 I need your love.
00:19:42.700 I need your love.
00:19:50.020 God.
00:19:50.840 To the sea.
00:20:06.220 To the sea.
00:20:07.420 Watch.
00:20:08.300 Lonely rivers cry, wait for me, wait for me.
00:20:23.880 Mr. King.
00:20:25.160 I'll be coming home, wait for me, my love, my darling.
00:20:39.820 I've hungered for your touch.
00:20:43.740 You can pause it right there, Rob.
00:20:51.080 Listen, I can listen to this.
00:20:52.380 The ending, though, when he goes all in.
00:20:54.640 Yeah.
00:20:55.060 I mean, listen, there's a reason why they called this guy the king.
00:20:58.440 He was asked about his political views.
00:21:00.440 Look what he said.
00:21:01.120 This is what he had to say when they asked him about his political views.
00:21:03.320 Go ahead, Rob.
00:21:03.780 Mr. Presley, what is your opinion of war protesters, and would you today refuse to be drafted?
00:21:11.920 Honey, I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself.
00:21:16.000 I'm just an entertainer, and I do what I'm saying.
00:21:19.040 You think other entertainers should also keep their views to themselves?
00:21:22.640 No.
00:21:23.340 That's their business.
00:21:24.240 No, it's their business.
00:21:24.880 It's just who I am.
00:21:25.720 Remember, he joined the military.
00:21:26.780 He served in the U.S. Army.
00:21:28.340 Yeah, but when his career was taken off, he was like, I'm going to go serve.
00:21:31.860 This guy loved America.
00:21:32.420 Yeah, he did, Rob.
00:21:32.880 Let me tell you, he loved America, and guess what?
00:21:35.600 If they called him the king and a market wanted to call him a king, good for him that they called him.
00:21:39.900 If the man want to be called king, we'll call him king.
00:21:42.680 You want to be called Clay?
00:21:43.280 We'll call him Clay.
00:21:44.080 So, anyways.
00:21:45.000 By the way, just how you're saying that Elvis loved America, I don't think this is a shocking statement.
00:21:49.460 I actually don't think that Joy Reid loves America.
00:21:51.580 No, she doesn't.
00:21:52.340 I think she actually hates America. 1.00
00:21:54.320 Yep.
00:21:54.620 Bitter, angry.
00:21:54.900 She can go back to wherever her family came from. 0.70
00:21:58.620 Do you guys know what day today is?
00:21:59.780 Does anybody know what day today is?
00:22:00.800 Today happens to be the National Lemonade Day, okay?
00:22:03.560 Today.
00:22:04.060 It's actually the National Lemonade Day, okay?
00:22:07.500 So, when you think about the National Lemonade Day, we launched this campaign a few months ago.
00:22:13.160 If you remember, Rob, if you can go to it, it was the Zested Forward Lemon Box, which ended up becoming a hit.
00:22:20.900 And we got so many awesome stories and testimonies.
00:22:23.880 The other day, I was reading all the reviews at the bottom of what stories people were saying and the reaction they got from folks.
00:22:28.840 It's absolutely awesome.
00:22:30.200 I'm going to read this to you.
00:22:31.020 Imagine someone's having a bad day.
00:22:33.080 Things are not going the way they wanted.
00:22:34.780 This box shows up.
00:22:36.120 Valuetainment.
00:22:36.920 They open it up and there's a message there, okay, an inspirational message there that they hear.
00:22:42.520 And then outside of the inspirational message, there's a few items.
00:22:46.640 A Zested Forward hat, Future Looks Bright hat, a few other items.
00:22:51.220 And it's a way.
00:22:52.660 What is that audio, Rob?
00:22:54.180 Is that Adam?
00:22:55.160 You?
00:22:55.380 Okay, so I want to read some of these stories to you of people who use this and send it to others and what their experience was from the people that received it.
00:23:05.940 So here's one.
00:23:07.080 Hello.
00:23:07.500 Yes, yes, yes.
00:23:08.700 Amazingly, Zest helped me surprise.
00:23:11.480 Helped me to surprise gentleman who has everything and more for his 90th birthday.
00:23:15.700 That's awesome.
00:23:16.640 He was looking and listening to Patrick.
00:23:18.540 Never seen anything like that.
00:23:19.980 Whispered.
00:23:20.740 Great idea.
00:23:21.940 Touched the heart.
00:23:23.280 Me too.
00:23:23.780 Thank you.
00:23:25.560 My appreciation is going out to you, Lilia.
00:23:28.580 Okay, so that's one right there.
00:23:29.820 Next one.
00:23:30.680 My sister-in-law is going through chemotherapy.
00:23:33.300 She was very surprised and blessed by the gift.
00:23:35.760 Thank you for thinking of such a lovely gesture.
00:23:38.100 God bless you.
00:23:39.200 Here's another one from Eric Stewart.
00:23:41.940 My customer is going through some hard times with business and family.
00:23:45.400 The VT Lemon Box put a smile on his face with a heartfelt thank you.
00:23:49.360 Great idea, guys.
00:23:50.160 I can go on and on and on with these stories.
00:23:52.060 Folks, if you know a friend or family that's going through challenging times, go to VTMerch.com, place the order, zest it forward to somebody, make someone's day.
00:24:01.020 Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't receiving the gift.
00:24:04.620 Sometimes the best feeling in the world isn't you getting the promotion, isn't you getting all of that.
00:24:08.060 Sometimes it's just doing it for somebody else.
00:24:09.500 So if you want to start your day, you know, for me, anytime I was having a bad day in sales the last 25 years, the first thing I would do when I would go through a lot of rejections, I would call five of my clients or five of my guys, and I would tell them how amazing that I would find a way to make somebody else's day.
00:24:23.600 Then my spirits would come up.
00:24:25.060 Then I would perform and go out there and, you know, make my calls and meet with my clients that I needed to.
00:24:29.340 So if you want to be able to do that for somebody else, send this to someone.
00:24:32.920 Not only will you bless someone's day, but it's going to come back and do the same thing to you.
00:24:36.360 So that's one.
00:24:36.960 Number two, August 27th, I want to remind you guys of what's happening here on the campus.
00:24:42.300 August 27th, we're giving private tours of the entire campus.
00:24:47.280 Right now we're building a soccer field here.
00:24:49.400 Literally we're building a futsal field here, one of the biggest futsal fields in all of the state of Florida that's being built right behind me as we speak.
00:24:56.180 Every time people come and see our campus, they're like, we had no idea you guys had nearly 200 employees and you guys are doing all this stuff.
00:25:01.540 Yes, this is what we do.
00:25:02.720 Really?
00:25:03.200 Yes.
00:25:03.920 So if you're somebody that wants to come and get a private tour of what we're doing here at Valuetainment, line holding, all you need to do is have a ticket that you bought to go to the Valk Conference.
00:25:15.360 So if you're somebody that's going to the Valk Conference, if you get a general ticket, you can come here to network in the hangar.
00:25:20.720 There'll be a lot of surprises there.
00:25:22.240 But if you're somebody that gets a platinum or an executive, our guys will give you a tour of the entire operation.
00:25:27.860 Obviously, no cameras when you come to the executive floor.
00:25:30.160 And if you get a founder and a CEO ticket sold out, but if you get a founder ticket, and even if you're an existing CEO ticket holder, you come through, I'm going to give you the tour of the entire property multiple times with all the other people that are coming down.
00:25:41.880 We've already had hundreds of people that have registered.
00:25:45.240 This is limited to a certain amount of people because we're going to have security all over the place.
00:25:49.260 If you want to go out there and get registered, get yourself a ticket.
00:25:51.900 Rob, how does somebody register to put their names on the list?
00:25:54.420 I'm putting the link in the description right now, and it'll also be pinned in the chat.
00:25:57.600 Okay, perfect.
00:25:58.420 So he's going to put in the link in the description, and it'll be in the chat.
00:26:01.380 So those two things.
00:26:02.660 Either make someone's day or get yourself a ticket to go to the Valk Conference.
00:26:06.420 Come and get a tour of the office here and network with nearly 400 other people that will be here as well.
00:26:11.160 It'll be a fun time.
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