Valuetainment - July 07, 2020


Episode 486： Why I Haven’t Stopped Working During The Pandemic

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Patrick Bett David Elon Musk Barry Blaustein Andrew Cuomo Snapchat
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Length

9 minutes

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Word count

1,934

Sentence count

196

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1

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In this episode, Pat McAfee talks about the need to go back to work and why it s not the right thing to do. He also talks about how important it is to take care of your family and why you should not have to work.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You know, there's an underground community right now in America, probably in the world
00:00:25.320 as well, that is thinking the same thing, but they're afraid of voicing their opinion
00:00:28.340 because of the amount of backlash they may get both publicly and privately from their
00:00:32.700 friends and family, and here's who it is.
00:00:34.820 Just recently, Elon Musk sent out a tweet saying, free America now, that caused havoc.
00:00:41.900 Thousands of people responding saying, all you care about is money, you billionaires,
00:00:46.700 you want your people to go to work so you can make all the money in the world.
00:00:50.100 You don't care about people.
00:00:52.100 That's Elon Musk.
00:00:53.100 Then you had Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, is doing a press conference, the
00:00:57.900 one he does every morning.
00:00:58.900 And one of the reporters says, people want to go back to work.
00:01:02.260 They want to go back to work.
00:01:03.260 And he's talking about, you know, they're worried about losing their jobs, losing their businesses.
00:01:06.980 He says, worse than death?
00:01:08.720 She says, equals death.
00:01:11.300 He says, equals death?
00:01:12.940 It doesn't equal death, right?
00:01:15.260 Meaning, and then he says, if you want to get a job, why don't you go work in the essential 0.73
00:01:18.140 industry?
00:01:19.140 She says, there is no jobs in the essential industry.
00:01:21.140 Says, yes, there is.
00:01:22.140 He says, you have one.
00:01:23.140 She says, I have one.
00:01:24.900 But they're not hiring today.
00:01:27.100 Meaning, low income families, they're doing better than before.
00:01:31.060 Why?
00:01:32.060 Not they're doing great, they're doing better than before because they're getting bigger
00:01:34.140 checks.
00:01:35.140 I had a guy that was here cutting my hair, 18 year old kid.
00:01:39.140 He's the son of one of my good friends who cuts my hair.
00:01:41.780 I says, how's everything?
00:01:42.780 He says, life is amazing.
00:01:44.280 I said, why is everything amazing?
00:01:45.780 He says, I'm making more money in the last week than I made in the last two months because
00:01:49.420 of these stimulus checks.
00:01:50.740 Is that how it's supposed to be?
00:01:52.220 But the poor is doing better, the rich is going to be fine, middle America is getting
00:01:55.960 their tail handed to them.
00:01:57.320 Why?
00:01:58.320 Here's why.
00:02:00.240 People send me messages and they criticize me and say, Pat, you're at the office every
00:02:03.380 day and you're posting videos on Instagram.
00:02:04.920 It's not the responsible thing to do.
00:02:06.840 You got a family.
00:02:07.940 You got this.
00:02:08.940 People follow you.
00:02:09.820 Why would you do something like this?
00:02:11.200 I've missed three days of work since they announced the economic shutdown.
00:02:15.840 When I say three days of work, I don't mean during the weekday.
00:02:18.900 I mean three Sundays of work.
00:02:21.460 One of the Sundays I missed because I spent the entire day with my son who was sick and
00:02:25.480 tired of not being able to go back to school and being around his family and his peers.
00:02:29.340 He missed it and I had to have a very serious conversation with him.
00:02:32.100 The other two days I just dedicated to my family and friends and we had a good time at
00:02:35.120 the house.
00:02:36.120 But every other day, including Saturdays and Sundays, I've been at the office every day.
00:02:40.400 Many of you will not agree with this.
00:02:41.800 Let me explain why I'm doing this.
00:02:44.960 They asked this question for me and they said, Pat, you're being irresponsible.
00:02:48.520 I said, why am I being irresponsible?
00:02:50.460 Because you're going to work every day.
00:02:51.460 I said, that's what I'm doing every day.
00:02:53.200 You don't have to do this.
00:02:54.200 This is what I chose to do this.
00:02:55.200 Yeah, but it's not the responsible thing to do.
00:02:57.020 Don't you see what's going on around the world?
00:02:58.520 I said, you know, I see this in a different way than you do.
00:03:01.460 How do you see this?
00:03:02.460 I said, let me explain to you how I see this.
00:03:05.120 One time a woman and I were talking.
00:03:07.300 This is a very respectful woman, someone you would know.
00:03:09.860 She gets up and she tells me, she says, you know what's the closest thing men will ever
00:03:13.020 experience that's to giving birth?
00:03:14.860 I said, what do you mean?
00:03:15.960 You know what's the closest thing men will ever experience to the pain of a woman given 0.99
00:03:20.620 birth?
00:03:21.700 I said, what is it?
00:03:22.700 I said, starting a business.
00:03:24.200 I said, what do you mean by that?
00:03:26.580 She says, I've given birth to two kids and I've started a company.
00:03:31.660 Giving birth was so painful, so painful when I went through it.
00:03:35.580 Running a company was extremely painful and it lasted a few years.
00:03:39.920 I said, so what's your point with this?
00:03:41.540 He says, it's the closest pain I had.
00:03:43.540 The agitation, the running out of money, the trying to keep people, the employees leaving
00:03:48.260 you, customers being taken away from you by the competitors, sleepless nights, arguments
00:03:52.600 with your husband, your wife trying to keep your face together, your emotions together,
00:03:56.140 trying to be a parent and cook and eat and exercise and make sure your mom and dad are
00:04:01.820 good and your finances aren't good and you're meeting with the doctor and you're dropping
00:04:05.100 off your kids at school and you're picking them up and you're doing homework and you're
00:04:08.540 trying to be a good parent and you're trying to be a good spouse, all of that and I'm about
00:04:12.520 to run out of money starting my business.
00:04:14.780 She said, it's the closest thing to having a baby when you have a startup.
00:04:18.660 You see, a lot of people who've never started a business before, they just look at business
00:04:24.520 owners and small business owners and they say, look at these guys.
00:04:27.060 All they care about is money.
00:04:28.980 All they want to do is the rich lifestyle.
00:04:32.600 Starting a business to me is like having a baby, except it's my baby.
00:04:37.660 I have three kids, Patrick, Dylan, and Senna.
00:04:41.080 I take a bullet for them.
00:04:43.020 But I also have a baby that I started that's a company. 0.98
00:04:45.660 It's a very important thing to me.
00:04:47.280 Why?
00:04:48.280 We put everything into this company.
00:04:49.720 Do you know for who?
00:04:50.900 For Patrick, Dylan, and Senna.
00:04:53.980 This is giving them three the life that they have today.
00:04:57.480 For somebody to tell me you can't go to work, I'll pay a thousand dollar fine every day
00:05:01.040 for me not to go to work.
00:05:03.100 I'm not telling you for you to do this.
00:05:04.180 Let me be responsible.
00:05:05.920 You may say that's not the right decision you're making.
00:05:08.340 I'm making my decision.
00:05:10.020 Here's why.
00:05:11.020 We look at a lot of this data with people dying.
00:05:14.160 This many people died.
00:05:15.160 That many people died.
00:05:16.160 This many deaths.
00:05:17.160 This many cases.
00:05:18.160 I get it.
00:05:19.160 Believe me.
00:05:20.160 Anybody who loses a loved one that is gonna sit there and say, oh, it's just a normal
00:05:24.840 thing to go through.
00:05:25.900 I have empathy.
00:05:26.900 I have compassion for all of them.
00:05:28.840 I am in the insurance industry and one of the toughest calls I ever liked getting is
00:05:34.220 when the client called me telling me they died and they're sending me a death certificate.
00:05:39.100 And I would get these stories of people that were our agents.
00:05:41.540 I can't stand those calls.
00:05:44.020 Can't stand those calls.
00:05:45.340 I've had to make many of those calls.
00:05:46.800 I can't stand them.
00:05:48.580 I don't like them.
00:05:49.580 And we have a decent sized agency, which means this has happened many, many times with our
00:05:52.860 agents.
00:05:53.860 I don't like to see the mother's face or the father's face or the husband's face and they're 0.97
00:05:56.740 looking at me like, you know, I don't want that experience, but it's part of life.
00:06:01.200 There was a book written back in 1982 by Barry Bluestone.
00:06:05.380 I think the book is called Corporate Flight.
00:06:08.160 And it gives us data with the cause of unemployment to the number of deaths, people dying, death.
00:06:15.400 And he says per 1% of unemployment, 37,000 people die.
00:06:20.260 What do you mean?
00:06:21.320 When unemployment goes higher, 1%, 2%, 3%, cause of it is 37,000 people dying.
00:06:27.180 Why?
00:06:28.180 Well, suicide, stress, heart attack, not paying bills, stressed out, arguing with your wife,
00:06:34.840 arguing with your kids, feeling guilty.
00:06:36.620 A man not making money is not a good thing. 0.95
00:06:39.140 Man wants to produce and make money.
00:06:40.740 He feels better about himself.
00:06:42.180 He stops having these negative thoughts because he's being useful, his life is worthy.
00:06:47.420 There's a reason to want to live because you're part of a team, you're part of a company, you're
00:06:50.780 creating some special.
00:06:52.120 There's some significant about your life.
00:06:54.180 You are contributing to society.
00:06:57.020 And every time unemployment goes higher, it's 37,000, 37,000.
00:07:00.880 So let's just say unemployment goes up 6%.
00:07:03.640 What's 6% times 37,000?
00:07:06.120 220,000 people?
00:07:08.120 Coronavirus, you can put the numbers right next to it.
00:07:10.120 It's about the same number.
00:07:11.520 Let's just say it gets to that number.
00:07:12.560 Right now it's around 60,000, 70,000 people.
00:07:15.000 So this whole topic about this virus and this whole topic about everything we're talking about,
00:07:20.120 I am not here to say let everybody go back to work.
00:07:24.360 Sweden never shut the whole thing down.
00:07:26.060 They just said we're not going to do places where it's over 50 people and here's the options
00:07:30.680 that people have, certain people staying home, businesses opened up, restaurants, bars, but
00:07:35.020 not big functions, not big events, and they've gone about their business.
00:07:38.860 Their economy hasn't taken a big hit.
00:07:40.800 30 million unemployment?
00:07:42.120 30 million?
00:07:44.140 That doesn't include how many businesses went out of business while all these bigger companies
00:07:48.400 are being bailed out and the middle America people are getting their tails handed to them?
00:07:53.060 That's okay with?
00:07:54.060 No, I'm not okay with that.
00:07:55.060 So again, I didn't tell you you're going to like my message here today.
00:07:57.580 I don't think you're going to agree with my message here today.
00:08:00.180 But some tells me there's some of you guys out there that are sitting saying, I don't
00:08:04.140 know, Pat, I kind of relate, but I'm scared, man.
00:08:06.840 I'm scared.
00:08:07.840 What do I do?
00:08:08.840 What do I tell my mom?
00:08:09.840 What do I tell my wife?
00:08:10.840 What do I tell my husband?
00:08:11.840 They all disagree with me.
00:08:12.840 I get it.
00:08:13.840 I'm not telling you to do anything.
00:08:14.840 I'm just telling you what I'm doing.
00:08:16.840 And I know you're not alone.
00:08:17.840 There's a lot of us that have babies, our businesses that we built, that we love, and
00:08:23.100 we did it for a couple of basic reasons.
00:08:25.720 We did it for our families.
00:08:27.960 We did it to make our parents proud.
00:08:29.920 We did it to support our kids and we did it because we wanted to feel useful.
00:08:34.280 We wanted to feel significant to build something special with the community of people that
00:08:38.640 took the risk to build your business with you.
00:08:42.380 To those of you, I respect you.
00:08:44.480 Having said that, this is what I'm doing.
00:08:46.480 I'm not telling you to do anything, but this is what I'm doing.
00:08:48.800 But I kind of agree with Elon Musk.
00:08:51.740 I hope they free America now.
00:08:55.060 Thanks, everybody, for listening.
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00:09:04.500 And if you have any questions for me that you may have, you can always find me on Snapchat,
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00:09:10.000 Just search my name, Patrick David.
00:09:12.320 And I actually do respond back when you snap me or send me a message on Instagram.
00:09:17.040 With that being said, have a great day today.
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