Valuetainment - June 24, 2025


“Reza Pahlavi Is NOT A Closer” - Critics SLAM Crown Prince As Future Leader Of Post-Khamenei Iran


Episode Stats

Length

26 minutes

Words per Minute

201.2788

Word Count

5,404

Sentence Count

472

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

In this episode, we discuss the latest in the Iran crisis, including the latest tweet from the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the potential replacements for him. We also discuss the $95 billion stolen from the Iranian people, and whether or not this is true.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The president comes out and says that a discussion about regime change, I don't know if you saw this, Rob, if you have the clip, he starts talking about regime change.
00:00:10.960 There's nothing wrong with regime change.
00:00:13.080 Trump floats Iran's regime change, even as the true impact of U.S. strikes is far from clear.
00:00:22.880 Here's what he says.
00:00:23.540 Let me read this to you.
00:00:24.460 And then, Rob, if you can pull up the clip from Reza Pahlavi when he comes out and posts a video about what he wants to be doing, this is it.
00:00:31.380 It's not politically correct to use the term regime change, but if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?
00:00:43.920 Mega.
00:00:44.500 Make Iran great again.
00:00:47.360 It doesn't sound as good as MAGA.
00:00:49.640 I'm willing to bet sometimes if you say YouTube may even flag and give you a strike because it sounds like a different word.
00:00:54.860 So it's M as mom, I as India, G-A, make Iran great again.
00:01:01.320 While these talks were happening, so now everybody fears.
00:01:04.560 Everyone's saying, oh, my God, what's going to be happening?
00:01:06.000 So on one end, Khamenei is sitting there saying, all of a sudden, if I'm older, if I don't know what to do, he puts out a tweet, Rob, if you can go to Twitter, if you don't mind.
00:01:16.500 I know I directed you this way, but if you can go to Twitter, go to my Twitter account if you could.
00:01:20.540 There's a tweet that he puts up.
00:01:22.220 Go back one if you could.
00:01:23.500 Right there.
00:01:23.900 So he tweets out and says, those who know the Iranian people, zoom in a little bit specifically on his tweet, zoom in a little bit on that one.
00:01:31.580 Yeah.
00:01:32.100 Those who know the Iranian people and their history know that the Iranian nation isn't a nation that surrenders.
00:01:40.480 Okay?
00:01:40.740 So he's trying to inspire 17.2 million views, exciting stuff.
00:01:45.220 Oh, my God, we're not going to back them from nobody.
00:01:47.460 And then if you go back one, then, there you go.
00:01:51.640 And then I repeat his tweet, and I say, those who know the Iranian people and their history know that you robbed $95 billion from the people.
00:01:59.320 Their network, family network.
00:02:00.680 If you can go validate this in a minute, we will.
00:02:02.520 Now, a lot of people on the bottom put Grok and say, is this true?
00:02:16.380 So, Rob, if you can go down on the bottom on the comment section, just click on the tweet and go in the comment section.
00:02:21.020 Somebody that says, Grok, is this true or not?
00:02:23.180 Go on the first one.
00:02:24.060 Okay?
00:02:24.220 Go on the first one.
00:02:25.280 Grok will respond.
00:02:26.380 Can you provide common?
00:02:27.940 No, go, go, go.
00:02:28.820 Can you provide?
00:02:30.840 Okay.
00:02:31.200 So, this is not a guy that's supportive of what I'm doing, right?
00:02:34.060 He doesn't like the fact that I'm in business.
00:02:36.420 That indicates 81% of Iranians in Iran reject the regime.
00:02:40.560 The 81% figure likely comes from a 2021 Gammon survey where 81% of 158,000 respondents in Iran rejected the Islamic Republic.
00:02:51.580 Weird.
00:02:51.940 Okay?
00:02:52.100 When you're hearing that.
00:02:53.240 So, now, Rob, if you can go back, do me a favor.
00:02:55.820 Copy, paste that tweet.
00:02:56.440 So, that's a yes.
00:02:57.360 That's a yes.
00:02:58.420 Copy, paste.
00:02:59.040 Okay.
00:02:59.380 Can you go back to my tweet, Rob?
00:03:01.380 No, the one that I put.
00:03:02.660 Copy, paste that, and go and put that in chatGBT if you could.
00:03:06.960 Just go put that in chatGBT.
00:03:08.380 Is this true?
00:03:09.460 Okay?
00:03:10.220 And type in, is this true?
00:03:12.580 Is this true?
00:03:13.920 Okay?
00:03:14.320 Put that in there.
00:03:16.400 And let's see what it says here.
00:03:18.800 Okay?
00:03:19.600 Statement.
00:03:20.140 Mass executions, 1988.
00:03:21.960 True.
00:03:22.360 After a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1988, Iranian authorities executed between 2,800 to 5,000 political prisoners, mostly members of the leftist or opposition group, without due legal process.
00:03:35.180 Okay.
00:03:35.740 Let's see if the $95 billion is correct.
00:03:37.880 Can you go a little bit lower to see if the $95 billion?
00:03:39.640 The $95 billion, the $95 billion figure is estimated total assets controlled by the Supreme Leader Network, Satad, amassed by the family.
00:03:47.400 While many view this misappropriation, this is an article by Reuters, Reuters that said this.
00:03:51.980 And in chatGBT says 81%.
00:03:53.560 So while this is going on, Khomeini comes out and he says, well, we've got to figure out a way for us to have a solution.
00:04:01.040 So what does he do?
00:04:02.160 He's already trying to name his successor.
00:04:05.640 Rob, I don't know if you have that clip for the successor.
00:04:08.100 It's on page 8.
00:04:09.820 Iran's supreme leader reportedly names potential successors in the event that he dies.
00:04:15.600 Is this the one, Rob?
00:04:16.420 Yes.
00:04:16.680 It's a news clip talking about some of the potential successors.
00:04:19.160 Go for it.
00:04:19.540 Play this clip.
00:04:20.140 Iranian leadership is swiftly making preparations for a wide range of outcomes.
00:04:25.380 This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the country's military carried out attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites.
00:04:31.720 Reports suggest Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has instructed his nation's assembly of experts, the clerical body responsible for appointing the supreme leader.
00:04:39.720 How long is this video, Rob?
00:04:41.440 Two minutes.
00:04:41.960 Oh, stop it, Rob.
00:04:42.820 We can pause it right there.
00:04:43.940 One of the guys he is talking about is his own son.
00:04:46.700 So if you can go online and type in Khamenei son successor, Khamenei son successor.
00:04:54.040 If you type that, you'll see now they want to keep it within the family, nepotism, which, you know, it's nothing that they don't do in other countries.
00:05:00.180 So I'm not going to sit there and say they're the only ones that are doing it.
00:05:02.900 But he's talking about possibly his own son replacing him.
00:05:07.100 Now, right there, Khamenei picks possible successor amid war.
00:05:10.960 Son, he names three people.
00:05:13.700 Zoom in a little bit.
00:05:14.600 Son, Majaduah not among them.
00:05:16.520 Go a little bit lower, Rob, if you could.
00:05:18.280 One of the names that was coming up.
00:05:21.440 This is one of them.
00:05:24.960 There's other articles that are saying he's wanting his son to replace him.
00:05:28.180 Here's the reality of it.
00:05:29.180 While this is going on, Reza Pahlavi comes out and puts out this video.
00:05:34.700 If you have Reza Pahlavi's video, here's what he puts out.
00:05:37.960 Because this is what 7% of Iranians would like to see him go back to Iran.
00:05:42.160 Go ahead and play this clip, Rob.
00:05:43.120 That I am establishing a formal channel for military, security, and police personnel
00:05:50.700 to reach out directly to me, my team, and our expanding operation.
00:05:57.940 This is a secure platform to efficiently manage the growing volume of inbound politicians
00:06:03.900 Which speech is this, Rob?
00:06:05.780 This is where he calls for the Ayatollah to step down.
00:06:08.900 And seek him to join our movement.
00:06:13.120 For those patriotic members of our armed forces, the time is now to join the nation.
00:06:20.620 If you do, I will make sure your service to Iran is not forgotten and is celebrated.
00:06:29.120 This is not the one, Rob.
00:06:31.080 There's another one where he just straight up gets up there and says,
00:06:34.800 Can we, if you are willing to step down now, there's a,
00:06:40.980 I mean, you just have to go to his channel.
00:06:43.200 Going after Khomeini, because you know what?
00:06:45.400 That's basically saying, hey, I'm going to open up a channel.
00:06:48.180 All you, anybody that wants to get away from Khomeini, any colonels,
00:06:51.920 anybody in the military, whatever, I'm going to open up a channel, come to me,
00:06:56.040 which is kind of dangerous, because who knows who the hell is going to be coming over there
00:07:00.380 to maybe even sabotage him, which that, even that statement alone sounded like, you know,
00:07:06.580 sounded like somebody else.
00:07:07.980 It sounded very robotic.
00:07:09.300 I thought Fox had a 45 second clip.
00:07:10.580 It's a 45 second clip.
00:07:11.780 I'll find it.
00:07:12.400 Tom, you keep going.
00:07:13.380 So your thoughts on this, I'm going to find this clip and send it to Rob.
00:07:15.520 Go for it.
00:07:16.620 Tom.
00:07:17.360 Well, what I think is this is not definitive, right?
00:07:21.720 You're coming out and saying, I think it's time for you to step down.
00:07:24.320 I think it's time for you to step down.
00:07:25.900 It's like my dad saying, I think it's time for you to clean your room.
00:07:28.580 It's, it's weak.
00:07:29.680 It should be a full throated response.
00:07:32.020 And it says, you have outlasted your, your evil.
00:07:36.460 You've been, you've been able to be here this long.
00:07:38.880 You should be out of here.
00:07:40.620 The people of Iran, the leader, and that leader is me.
00:07:43.700 And I'm going to do ABC.
00:07:45.440 It's like, make America great again.
00:07:47.220 They said, what do you mean?
00:07:47.760 Make America great again.
00:07:48.760 I'm going to have jobs down here.
00:07:50.440 Inflation comes down.
00:07:51.560 Jobs come back.
00:07:52.720 Economic prosperity goes up.
00:07:54.020 It was very fast.
00:07:55.200 Where is he?
00:07:56.220 You know what I mean, Pat?
00:07:57.000 Normally leaders that like Trump that came back have like one, two, three or one, two.
00:08:01.800 This is what we're going to do.
00:08:02.740 Here's what he said.
00:08:03.240 And he kind of meanders a little bit on me.
00:08:05.160 Here's what I, here's, here's what he said.
00:08:06.400 I just want you to watch this.
00:08:07.580 And, uh, uh, you, you do the main thing when you see something like this is, does Khamenei
00:08:13.240 take this seriously?
00:08:14.180 Do Iranians take this seriously?
00:08:15.920 Does the world take this seriously?
00:08:17.260 Go ahead and play this clip, Rob.
00:08:18.280 So today I have a direct message for Ali Khamenei.
00:08:23.560 Do you step down?
00:08:25.940 And if you do, you will receive a fair trial and due process of law, which is more than
00:08:34.540 you have ever given any Iranian.
00:08:36.940 Okay.
00:08:39.840 Can I, can I get, yeah, I don't, me coming from an iPad.
00:08:43.400 Oh, my, my, my, just, I don't believe.
00:08:45.900 We hear you.
00:08:46.760 You, you understand?
00:08:47.540 I don't believe like, first of all, if you're speaking to somebody like that, I just directly
00:08:53.420 say like you've planned it.
00:08:54.800 He doesn't look like he even prepared.
00:08:56.720 And I don't believe, I don't believe that threat.
00:08:59.140 I don't believe it.
00:09:00.260 Yeah.
00:09:00.480 So when you, when you, when you hear that, you see that Adam, what are your thoughts when
00:09:04.340 you're seeing what's going on right now with Iran, you know, uh, regime change, the president
00:09:08.840 said there's a possibility of regime change.
00:09:10.540 A lot of people are saying, well, this was all planned.
00:09:12.980 They knew this was going to happen.
00:09:14.380 This is exactly what they wanted to do.
00:09:15.980 It's not like it's a, it's the picture of a perfect playbook.
00:09:18.920 First you do this, then you do that.
00:09:20.180 Then you deflect, then it's regime change, then you place someone there who is your
00:09:24.160 candidate to place in Iran, to bring back, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
00:09:27.920 And you make the second calling of the puppet and all this other stuff.
00:09:31.260 So Rob, if you can, I'm going to send you a clip of what Rudy Giuliani said about Reza
00:09:35.080 Pallavi that I want to respond to that as well.
00:09:36.620 But Adam, your thoughts on this before we, uh, before I share some of my thoughts.
00:09:40.820 So everyone's on the internet talking, everyone's talking about what's going on.
00:09:44.200 Let's start with first principles.
00:09:45.620 What is the most logical explanation of what is happening?
00:09:50.180 First and foremost, I would argue that more than anything, the Iranian people want to
00:09:56.040 be free.
00:09:57.280 So you just gave a stat that what 81% of people want to do away with the Ayatollah.
00:10:03.920 That might be incredibly low.
00:10:06.340 How many protesters do you see around the world calling for the death of the Iranian regime?
00:10:11.380 Everyone says online, this war is not against the people of Iran.
00:10:15.860 It's against the IRGC.
00:10:18.160 How many times have you used the, heard those acronyms?
00:10:21.120 In my opinion, this is going to be the second and the final Ayatollah to run Iran.
00:10:28.660 This gentleman is 86 years old, 86 years young.
00:10:33.160 He's almost as old as Tom, whose birthday it is.
00:10:36.000 Joking Tom.
00:10:36.580 But I don't know how much longer he's going to be with us.
00:10:40.700 There's no indication that if and when a new supreme leader is called to the catapult,
00:10:48.780 that the Iranian people will accept it.
00:10:51.280 In my opinion, this is the last and final Ayatollah to run Iran.
00:10:56.500 Yeah.
00:10:57.040 Very interesting to say something like that.
00:10:59.260 Here's what Rudy Giuliani said.
00:11:00.880 Rudy Giuliani yesterday comes out and says the following.
00:11:04.520 Now, here's the thing.
00:11:06.000 If you think about it, when is the last time you heard us even say anything about Giuliani?
00:11:11.100 It's been very quiet.
00:11:12.560 It's not been something that we've talked about.
00:11:14.460 It's not been something that, you know, we, you know, he's not been on the radar for too long.
00:11:19.940 Rob, if you're on his exorcist one, okay, perfect.
00:11:22.220 Reza Pallavi is the son of the Shah who was a brutal, hated dictator.
00:11:26.660 He offers nothing but a return to his father's corrupted dictatorship.
00:11:29.940 For decades, the Savak, his father's secret police persecuted, tortured, and murdered Iranians.
00:11:36.900 Rob, can you go on his ex, please?
00:11:39.120 Exactly what he's saying there, because I want to see the commentary of what people are saying under Rudy Giuliani's.
00:11:45.140 Here's the reality of it.
00:11:46.220 People sit there on the left, right, and center are critical of Reza Pallavi's father, you know, of what he did.
00:11:55.320 And you just go to the comment section right there, Rob.
00:11:57.220 I'd like to see what some of the people are saying to this tweet here.
00:11:59.820 And yet, despite all that, we're still infinitely better than the current regime.
00:12:04.020 True.
00:12:04.300 Keep going lower.
00:12:05.760 I don't know if this will come kind of, but I've never heard him disawas Savak, which makes me suspicious.
00:12:11.260 Why would we even be commenting on this?
00:12:13.120 The Iranian people should pick who is best to lead them, and hopefully they make the right choice.
00:12:17.500 Interesting take.
00:12:18.380 But then who?
00:12:19.400 When the regime falls, it is best replaced with a preferable leader, instead of doing a government project like this in Iraq.
00:12:25.680 He was not hated.
00:12:26.620 Please just stop.
00:12:27.500 You go down the comment section, a lot of people don't agree with him.
00:12:31.360 The father, King Reza Pallavi, changed the entire thing in Iran.
00:12:36.340 It was a complete different situation what he did in Iran.
00:12:39.120 Having said that, this is the one thing I want everybody to be thinking about.
00:12:42.880 If we are talking about a regime change in Iran, let's just say you do want to have a regime change in Iran.
00:12:48.820 What would work?
00:12:49.780 What would be the right way to go about this?
00:12:52.320 You know, I could come out with a 20-point plan on what we could do to change Iran in a heartbeat.
00:12:57.140 It wouldn't be a challenge.
00:12:58.380 I think the way to look at it, and if the Iranian people are watching this, is the following.
00:13:02.140 Muhammad Reza Pallavi, the son of Muhammad Reza Pallavi, is a kind man, is a nice man, is a smart man.
00:13:13.020 He could be a historian because he knows the history very well.
00:13:15.860 He speaks English.
00:13:16.740 He speaks Farsi fluently, French fluently.
00:13:19.380 He can do an interview in French and fluently have a conversation with anybody that wants to talk to him in French.
00:13:25.120 He has that element in place.
00:13:28.600 However, what the biggest challenge, I'm getting hit up left and right from Iranian influentials around the world, and this is what they're asking me.
00:13:35.800 Pat, this is another opportunity.
00:13:37.740 Isn't this great?
00:13:38.520 It looks like he's going to come back, and he's going to do this, and he's going to do that.
00:13:42.380 Here's the biggest problem that Iranians have, and you're not going to like me saying this to you.
00:13:46.540 And I'm talking straight to all the Iranian people around the world, that love and support Reza Pallavi as much as I love him and his family and what they did for Iran.
00:13:56.700 This is not a number one person.
00:13:59.680 He's not.
00:14:00.740 It's the same thing I said about DeSantis.
00:14:03.020 DeSantis is very good for his state.
00:14:04.960 He's a phenomenal governor.
00:14:06.140 We proudly live in Florida, but he's not a Trump.
00:14:09.520 There's Trump, then there's DeSantis.
00:14:11.980 DeSantis later on could develop into something like that, but we need a Trump.
00:14:15.600 Reza Pallavi has had 46 years to do something for Iran to go back to being free.
00:14:22.200 Hasn't happened.
00:14:23.340 Forty-six years.
00:14:25.140 Every five to ten years, Iranians have had a chance to topple the current regime.
00:14:29.080 Hasn't happened.
00:14:30.380 Every five to ten years you've had an opportunity.
00:14:32.700 Hasn't happened.
00:14:33.640 You can't teach tough leadership.
00:14:36.420 If it was all about knowing the history, having the right last name, if it was all about speaking different languages,
00:14:42.600 every day a new professor would be the leader of some kind of a country.
00:14:46.300 That's not how this works.
00:14:47.800 Tough leadership requires for somebody, when you look at the camera and you deliver a message, for somebody to believe them.
00:14:53.160 People believe Reagan.
00:14:55.320 People believe when Putin speaks.
00:14:58.040 People believe when Trump speaks.
00:14:59.940 People believe when certain leaders speak.
00:15:01.860 You believe them when they speak.
00:15:04.080 There's a certain level of conviction that you want to do.
00:15:06.860 Your eyes don't lie.
00:15:08.680 The way Iran ought to look at this moving forward is in the following way.
00:15:12.360 Iran needs to cut everything up and be a startup.
00:15:15.220 Look at it as a startup.
00:15:16.860 Bring in new founding fathers who help write a new constitution that Iran is built on.
00:15:23.060 That's what the mindset needs to be.
00:15:24.920 And those individuals, I think he needs to be one of the founding fathers of the new movement of Iran.
00:15:30.480 That could be a Benjamin Rush.
00:15:31.700 If you know the history of Iran, the history of the U.S. founding fathers, Benjamin Rush, a lot of people would say, was the man when it came down to becoming one of the founding fathers.
00:15:41.180 The man was brilliant.
00:15:42.220 He knew the history.
00:15:43.360 He had such a strong background.
00:15:44.760 He played a role.
00:15:45.380 He may have been the smartest guy in the room.
00:15:47.200 A lot of people could have said.
00:15:48.500 Never became a president.
00:15:49.880 But you go ask the founding fathers what role he played.
00:15:52.260 He played a very important role.
00:15:53.660 Who became the president?
00:15:54.880 George Washington became the president.
00:15:56.720 What other founding fathers ended up becoming president?
00:15:58.600 Tom, if I'm not mistaken, the first three were all founding fathers, right?
00:16:01.700 Thomas Jefferson's number three.
00:16:03.060 I think Adams is two.
00:16:04.480 Washington is one, right?
00:16:06.120 And you start going.
00:16:07.680 You're like, okay, there's that history there.
00:16:09.200 If Iran's going to go through this, you need brains for economy.
00:16:13.120 You need brains for military.
00:16:14.380 You need brains for history.
00:16:15.520 You need brains for law.
00:16:16.840 You need brains on how to write a constitution.
00:16:18.500 You need brains for how to put certain law and order in place where things change.
00:16:22.580 You need brains on how to fix the educational system.
00:16:25.140 You need all of those things to go out there.
00:16:28.880 We need somebody at the top as a leader to make it happen.
00:16:31.120 And I know the Iranian people don't want to hear this.
00:16:32.940 And they keep saying things like this.
00:16:34.100 They'll say the following, Vinny.
00:16:35.420 They'll say stuff like, what's the alternative?
00:16:38.360 What's the alternative?
00:16:39.480 Go find them.
00:16:40.580 Wake them up.
00:16:41.440 Bring somebody from Iran.
00:16:43.220 Wake them up.
00:16:44.180 Bring someone that you support.
00:16:45.740 Whatever the values and principles are.
00:16:47.560 Maybe it's somebody when Khomeini was living in France, they went and brought Khomeini from
00:16:51.840 France to Iran.
00:16:52.760 Khomeini wasn't living in Iran.
00:16:54.440 Khomeini was in France for 15 years.
00:16:56.160 They brought him back and they said, we think you're the guy that needs to be the leader
00:16:59.140 here, but there needs to be somebody that can close the deal.
00:17:02.900 Let me explain what I mean by closing the deal.
00:17:05.860 President Trump, 2024.
00:17:08.440 How many people you think could have handled what they did to him in 2023?
00:17:14.460 E.G.
00:17:14.900 Carroll, all the, your property is now worth $250 million.
00:17:19.600 It's an $18 million property, Mar-a-Lago.
00:17:21.740 That was sold for $20 million, like 60 years ago, you know, no, you know, give or take,
00:17:26.880 whatever the timeline is that he had to go through that every day.
00:17:30.080 He's at court.
00:17:30.780 They're embarrassing him.
00:17:32.300 Letitia James, the other lady that, you know, when they asked the question, did you
00:17:35.740 have sexual affairs with this woman?
00:17:37.000 And what does he say?
00:17:37.820 Oh, let me think about it.
00:17:38.740 Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, no.
00:17:40.400 Do you remember that?
00:17:41.420 Every day they're trying to mock him.
00:17:43.460 Who do you think could have closed the deal outside of him?
00:17:47.380 Who else?
00:17:48.060 You think Reza Pallavi is going to be able to close the deal?
00:17:50.860 Like, close the deal.
00:17:53.160 Sweet man, smart man needs to be part of the transition, need to be one of the founding
00:17:56.720 fathers if Iran does go through the next thing.
00:18:00.020 But if he is who he claims he is, he needs to be in a room with 50 other strong influencers
00:18:06.340 to be able to make this happen collectively.
00:18:08.580 That needs to take place.
00:18:10.200 Some of the people that have connections to many different countries, many different
00:18:12.900 industries, that leadership, that needs to happen.
00:18:15.480 If it doesn't happen, every 10 years, you're going to be like, oh, we're making a comeback.
00:18:19.040 Oh, we're making a comeback.
00:18:20.380 Oh, he's 84 years old.
00:18:21.980 It's too late.
00:18:22.540 Now what?
00:18:23.660 Now Khomeini's and Khomeini's have all these decades of being able to control Iran into
00:18:27.600 whatever it is today.
00:18:28.780 But to me, the biggest thing Iran needs right now is a closer.
00:18:32.360 I'm not convinced he's a closer to close the deal.
00:18:36.020 Stop being so romantic about your candidates.
00:18:39.540 There is these fantasies people have with their candidates.
00:18:42.100 Oh my God.
00:18:43.020 You know, it's going to be so great.
00:18:44.780 RFK, romanticize because we're going to have another John F. Kennedy.
00:18:48.500 No, but he played a very important role with his job that he has under Trump right now.
00:18:52.440 So I think there's a very important role he plays.
00:18:54.680 I'm not convinced he's the guy that's going to be closing the deal.
00:18:57.300 So for all the Iranian people that are hoping for regime change, hey, you don't have a lot
00:19:01.400 of time.
00:19:03.020 The window's going to close like this.
00:19:05.540 When do you think there's going to be another opportunity like this?
00:19:07.620 I am 46 years old.
00:19:08.760 I've been outside of Iran since 1989.
00:19:12.480 That's how many years?
00:19:13.420 36 years.
00:19:14.640 This is the closest Iran's ever gotten since 1989 for regime change.
00:19:19.300 Let me say this again, Iranian people.
00:19:21.340 Since 1989, when we left Germany, when we left Iran, went to Germany at a refugee camp and
00:19:27.020 we camped here in November 20, 1990.
00:19:28.960 From that day till today, there's never been a time more closer than today for Iranian people
00:19:36.020 who want a regime change.
00:19:37.360 They want the rule of Khamenei and others to leave.
00:19:40.000 You've never, ever been closer than you are today.
00:19:44.700 What you do with it is truly on you.
00:19:46.800 I would love for the people to choose somebody like you're hearing all this stuff.
00:19:50.480 But the reality of it is you need a closer.
00:19:53.520 Someone that's going to close a deal.
00:19:55.320 I'm not convinced RP is a closer.
00:19:57.380 Tom, thoughts?
00:19:58.400 I think you're exactly right.
00:20:00.180 In the United States, we romanticize this.
00:20:02.440 There were people, you know, I used to go to RNC meetings and go, you know, check in
00:20:07.280 on things and then talk to people that had influence.
00:20:09.840 But I always used to select individual leaders that I was going to support and look at it
00:20:15.980 from that way.
00:20:16.620 And everybody was talking themselves into believing.
00:20:19.520 Jeb Bush is a guy.
00:20:20.660 Here we are.
00:20:21.200 Another Jeb Bush.
00:20:21.980 Oh, look, he's got diversity in his family.
00:20:24.720 Look at his wife.
00:20:25.560 Look at everything like this.
00:20:26.660 And it was like, wait a minute, this guy's uninspiring, number one.
00:20:29.500 And number two, what's his plan?
00:20:31.180 What does he passionately want to do?
00:20:32.760 There was nothing there.
00:20:33.860 But man, the Republican Party, this would be a layup.
00:20:36.580 We'll have all the support of everybody else.
00:20:37.820 $140 million they won.
00:20:39.580 $140 million.
00:20:40.720 That's how many people got into the room together and had, you know, brown water and talked themselves
00:20:48.000 into believing that Jeb was our guy.
00:20:49.640 This happens all the time in government where the successor is not the guy.
00:20:55.280 And I just think right now they're just, he's trying to force a little bit.
00:20:59.720 He doesn't feel like he's at the microphone with his own passion and desire.
00:21:04.920 It feels like he's under a kind of obligation and duty.
00:21:08.040 And if you're just there under obligation and duty, that is not what it's going to take
00:21:12.700 in the middle of what's going on on the world stage.
00:21:15.980 You've got an opportunity.
00:21:17.900 You know, they used to criticize the United States for a thing that they said, oh, you're
00:21:20.580 just out there nation building.
00:21:21.820 But it's really the CIA, the United Fruit Company, terrassing around Central America,
00:21:26.300 overthrowing, you know, perfectly legitimate democratic governments.
00:21:30.160 And, but there was other people that talked about nation building.
00:21:33.440 Nation building was about enabling.
00:21:35.160 Nation building was supporting nation buildings there.
00:21:37.580 This is an opportunity for Iran to come back in a democratic way.
00:21:42.760 Not that there's not warts there.
00:21:44.200 Not that there's not things going on there.
00:21:45.700 This is an opportunity for Iran to come back.
00:21:48.280 Like, and just, just, can I say something to come to you?
00:21:50.700 Yeah, yeah, go ahead, go for it.
00:21:51.240 Tom, you said something yesterday that was very important.
00:21:53.880 You ever seen the movie Alexander the Great with Angelina, is Angelina Jolie in that movie?
00:21:58.300 Who's the mother?
00:21:59.360 Colin Farrell's in it?
00:22:00.260 Colin Farrell, but who's the mother of Angelina Jolie?
00:22:02.700 Who's the mother of Angelina Jolie in that movie Alexander Robb?
00:22:07.260 Is it, is it, yeah, Angelina Jolie was the mother of Alexander the Great.
00:22:10.500 That was right.
00:22:10.820 So, so there is this fantasy with a son to outdo, like, you know, yeah.
00:22:18.420 But in this case, Angelina Jolie, the mother, Olympias, you know, had a fall on out with Alexander's father, right?
00:22:24.260 There was a big fall on out there.
00:22:25.740 So she wanted her son to do what?
00:22:27.700 To outdo the father.
00:22:29.880 Because now she's like, I've divorced your father.
00:22:32.220 I've got nothing to do with him.
00:22:33.320 The best revenge would be you with my blood on my side of the family to outdo him.
00:22:37.700 That's right.
00:22:38.060 That mothers want their sons to do very well.
00:22:41.120 And there's an element of mothers that if the father and the son had a feud that I don't believe in you, get your act to get serious.
00:22:48.200 Mothers want the son to prove a point to the father that the son was better.
00:22:52.060 Not in a bad way.
00:22:53.320 It's in a very natural, loving way, right?
00:22:56.440 But sometimes the son privately is like, mom, don't give me that pressure.
00:22:59.800 I don't want this job.
00:23:01.180 Who are the only two athletes you said in baseball that did better than their fathers?
00:23:04.040 Oh, that did that love the game and set world-breaking statistics.
00:23:09.900 King Griffey Jr. and Barry Bonds.
00:23:11.880 You know what both of them had in common?
00:23:13.280 Love of the game.
00:23:13.940 They love the game.
00:23:14.780 I don't know if there's a love of the game here.
00:23:16.060 Go ahead, Vinny.
00:23:16.440 And I'm not that versed on all this, but I mean, we've met the guy.
00:23:20.580 We've hung out with the guy.
00:23:21.740 With something like this, as a leader, you cannot be on the fence.
00:23:25.380 You have to not only want to do it, Pat.
00:23:27.780 It's a must do it, and I just don't feel that vibe.
00:23:31.700 And you mentioned something about time-wise.
00:23:33.620 How long do you think the United States and Israel is going to give them?
00:23:37.060 Because if you think about it, Khomeini could easily, with Mossad and us and our intelligence,
00:23:42.220 he could have been dead a while ago.
00:23:44.480 When Trump made that post where he's like, hey, we know where you are, and we can take you out when we're out.
00:23:48.640 They're giving the Iranian people grace to figure this out, but the clock is ticking.
00:23:53.780 I just don't think, my, Vincent O'Shaughnessy opinion, that's not the guy.
00:23:57.840 But the Iranian people, they've got to step up.
00:23:59.780 Because, Adam, what did you guys say?
00:24:00.840 81% of the people are pro the regime change, but 20% doesn't.
00:24:07.480 That's of 92 million.
00:24:08.960 That's almost 20 million.
00:24:10.340 That's 18.4 million people are still like, no, this guy, this Khomeini guy, is who we want.
00:24:17.880 But it has to happen.
00:24:19.160 They've got to step up.
00:24:20.560 When it comes down to merge, especially with all the timing that we have going on.
00:24:23.340 Look, if you ever wonder why we don't do sponsorships, because our own companies are putting us in a position with the customers.
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00:24:55.620 Eventually, we will bring some partnerships in based on criterias that we're creating with them.
00:25:01.080 But until then, we're loving what's happening right now with the podcast, the media company, everything that we're doing.
00:25:06.380 So today, we have some limited merch that just came in today.
00:25:10.420 And talk about the timing.
00:25:11.400 But we've been waiting for this for four months.
00:25:13.980 We have these new USA flags that literally just came in.
00:25:18.000 We have the black one that came in here, USA hat on the back.
00:25:22.160 It says, future looks bright.
00:25:23.340 We have the other USA one with the stars that are on it with future looks bright on the side.
00:25:27.620 And on the back, it says, valetainment.
00:25:29.020 This one is sick for 4th of July.
00:25:30.960 This is the kind of hat you would want to sport on 4th of July.
00:25:33.600 I like the black one, and I like this one here.
00:25:36.360 This one's not going to last a long time.
00:25:37.780 This is black and gold.
00:25:39.940 USA is gold.
00:25:41.560 Limited?
00:25:42.520 Look at this.
00:25:43.160 USA is gold right there.
00:25:44.160 Oh, snap.
00:25:44.500 And it's numbered.
00:25:45.360 Oh, it's a good hat.
00:25:45.740 This is limited edition out of 250 with the American flag on the side, valetainment logo on the side.
00:25:51.600 And on the back, it says, future looks bright.
00:25:53.580 It's out of 250.
00:25:54.480 You know what happens with these numbered ones?
00:25:56.420 They don't last a long time.
00:25:57.900 I think the last one lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes.
00:26:00.700 They go in no time.
00:26:01.820 If you like the limited supply stuff that we have, some people buy it and put it on eBay, and they flip them.
00:26:06.960 We can't stop them from doing that.
00:26:08.700 So if you don't buy it, you can only get these on eBay.
00:26:10.540 But those of you that love our limited supply material that we have, go buy this.
00:26:14.760 They have a shirt that goes with it as well, Rob.
00:26:16.500 If you can go on the shirt one that we have right there, the gold shirt.
00:26:19.280 Can you click on it real quick so we can zoom in?
00:26:21.280 Look at that.
00:26:22.200 USA golden.
00:26:23.000 And on the back, it says, future looks bright.
00:26:25.960 And then go to the hat as well so we can see some of the pictures of the hat, Rob.
00:26:28.820 These are all numbered.
00:26:29.840 Keep going, keep going, keep going.
00:26:31.880 And Rob...
00:26:32.200 Yeah, look at that stitching.
00:26:33.180 Glitter and everything.
00:26:34.080 Oh, this is awesome.
00:26:35.360 Anyways, go to vtmerch.com to place your order.
00:26:38.020 Is that a new shirt as well for 4th of July?
00:26:39.880 This is a new shirt that's even coming out.
00:26:40.980 I don't know if we have that on the website or not, but I'm sure when we do, we'll market that as well.
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