In this episode of "Political No-Brainer," hosts Jeff Rabinowitz and Zak Zakaluk tackle the critical issues of politics, taxes, and the fast-approaching 2024 presidential election. They explore how tax policies are shaping campaign platforms and influencing voter priorities, while breaking down the key candidates' positions on economic reform. Jeff and Zak offer their perspectives on the political landscape and how tax reforms could impact everything from small businesses to middle-class families. With insightful analysis and lively debate, this episode provides a comprehensive look at the intersection of politics, taxes, and the future of American leadership.
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Politics, Taxes, and the Road to 2024 - A Political No-Brainer Episode #29
(upbeat music) - Hello world and welcome to our podcast where two pals with different viewpoints, thoughts who really don't know much of anything, fly by the seat of their pants and discuss news, politics, conspiracy theories and much, much more. One's a genius, the other's an idiot. Or are they both idiots? - Or are they both geniuses? - You be the judge, now live from beautiful central Florida, welcome to political no-brainer. You're hosts on your right and, of course, always right, it's me, Zach, and to your left and never right, it's code strippy. - Absolutely never right. Well, I could be said to her. - Baby, I don't know, sometimes I'd rather be correct than right, right? - Right, right. - Right, right. - Right, right. - Right, right, right. (laughing) - What's up, Tripparoo? - What's going on there, is that I? - My phones are too close to my audio box and it was static-ing in my ears. (laughing) Nothing, man, lots to talk about. Look, we had a great show last week. It's not been produced yet, so this will probably come out before it, so we're speaking in the future. The future. - We had some great guests. - Yes, we did, and it's gonna be a surprise. - What? - What? - Give me the way. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Pastor Joe and Lori Ann were on our show. We had some great topics, great discussions. We're gonna have them back for more stuff. I think they're gonna come back and discuss education because that's near and dear to your heart, right? - Yes, it is, very much so. - Is education a heartbeat of yours? - It is, it's tattooing on my heart. I'm just with it. (laughing) - It's a picture of you. - You're Jewish, you can't have tattoos. Then you can't be buried in a Jewish slintar. - They'll burn it off anyway. - You know this, are you getting cremated? - I think so, yeah. - Me and Lori Ann are getting cremated. - You can have all the tattoos you want if you're currently cremated. - No, we don't, look, my father died 22 years ago. I've been to his cemetery plot the day of the funeral and a year later, that was the last time I visited, because he's not there. So I've made it my sole purpose that me and my wife are gonna be cremated so the kids always have us. They have to pass us around. - I don't want them now, you get them. I'm sick of looking at them on my mantle. - They keep me in your house for weeks at a time. I do stop by by then, that's great. - Do you? - Yes. - He's not there, bro. - He's not there? - No, he's with the big guy. - You know, I feel closeness to when I'm there. That's not-- - Well, my dad's in Jersey, so it's a little bit of a walk for me to go see his cemetery plot. I don't even think my mother goes there. Her name will be on the, her name is actually on the tomb, so we just gotta put the date when she passes. If that ever happens, 'cause-- - It won't. - I don't think she will. - No, she's gonna be-- - I told her, I said you gotta live to be 120, which will make me in my 80s. (laughing) She's like, no, she said no, thank you. - I don't want to outlive my children, Zaki. - My mother said, no, thank you. - Oh, no. - My parents used to say that all the time, our goal is not to outlive you, so stop living the way you're living, you crazy lunatic. So we started off the show with a very hot topic, a very morbid topic. - Yes. - I've actually talked to a guy, we're gonna have him come out and set us up. We wanna do a trust and a will and get the burning under way, and no, obviously not till we die, but that's, we wanna set it up. We wanna set it up so we don't have to worry about it. Do you have your will? - Yes. - That's nice. We just went through a, we just went through a big, to do, I don't know if Lorraine's mom passed away a month and a half ago. - Mr. Sol. - And yeah, she's got a bless her. She's in heaven with her husband. Her and Big Chuck are hanging out with my dad, they're fishing somewhere. Well, I'm sure Susie's not fishing, I'm sure it's just a check. - Are they watching us do the show right now, you never know? - They're not, they're like, you guys are idiots, we're not watching. Jesus is like, turn it off, I don't wanna see it. No, he probably loves, he's probably one of our, he is our biggest fan. - He certainly is. - Literally. - I am half his biggest fan. - Of course, of course you are. I'm his favorite though. - Absolutely. - Just remember that. - Absolutely. - So, we had to go through the whole wheel dealing and the trust and all that and I'm not gonna go into details but they were talk of capital gains and luckily the state of Florida does not, you don't get taxed on inheritance. There's no inheritance tax in Florida. - No state tax. - Sure. - Sure. - But there's federal tax. - But, yeah, well you know what I say to the feds. It's between these fingers right here. It's this one. (laughing) I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna start my own company and just not even 1099 it or anything or whatever it's called, LLC it because I'm not gonna pay taxes anymore. I'm gonna revolt. - The tea party. - I'm gonna have a tea party in my backyard. I'm gonna have a little pool back there and throw tea bags in it and say there you go. I'm not paying your tea tax. - Paying your taxes or if you want me to just tea either. - No, it'd be nasty. (laughing) - My dogs would be playing in a problem. - I do have a Lipton Citrus sugar free tea. - Look at you. I do have, it's what's in the buckies cup this week. - I'm jealous. I bet that's vodka. (laughing) - Straight out the bottle. (laughing) Oh no, that's Jewish. I forget how to say it in Russian. Anyway, it's not, it's bubbly. - Oh yeah. - Mango and Bellini Bliss, which is like strawberry kiwi, pineapple. So it's delicious. It's very tropical. I didn't even take a sip. - Yeah, I need a big cup like that. I don't know why I didn't buy one. - But a buckies, it's $14. What am I advertising for them? They don't even pay us. We love buckies. I don't care. I'll advertise for free for them 'cause it's such a thing. It is the coolest spot on the planet. - I don't like it. - Did you get brisket when you were there? - Yes. - Was it not the best? - It was amazing. - They have these burritos in the back, breakfast burritos. So chicken, chicken, breakfast burritos, so good. - So good. It was yummy for my tummy. Anytime I drive, would I have to go to Jacksonville for work? On the way up, I hit the one in Daytona and on the way back, I hit St. Augustine. - Wow. - And my wife's like, what kind of treats did you bring us from buckies? I said, I get it. - Well, you know what I'm gonna say next, the next time you get me one of those cups. - Okay. I will. - Absolutely. - I'm gonna get you a black one. - Okay. - No. I don't know. Whatever they got on sale, get you the, you know. - Or put your pokito in there, bro, friends. (laughing) - You are. That's right. I keep saying you're more African American than a... - Camelot. - Camelot. - Camelot. (laughing) But so anyway, I was doing research on this capital gains 'cause, you know, there's talk of it and it's all the rave in the news right now 'cause your night and shining arm of Camelot is talking about unrealized capital gain tax, 25%. So I did some research on it and I think I sent you the clips, two people. My boy Daniel Q did a show on it with, I forget the guy's name, but he was really intelligent. I enjoyed listening to him. And then Pace Mobley. Mobley? Mobley? I forget how to say his name. But anyway, who if you don't know he is, he's one of the number one real estate flippers in America. Maybe the world. He's big, big, big bunny. And he broke it down. Did you watch that? How he broke it down? - I did watch down, but what he did say is, let's just, okay, so he is a big real estate flipper. He may get to that point, but in order to have that 25% gain apply, you have to be at $100 million. - No, no, no, no, no, they didn't give a number. - Well, they're putting a big figure out there at 80%. - Well, that'd be, you know, hey, fine. If it's $100 million, then I don't have nothing to worry about. - That's the figure they're talking about. - So far, I see it. - But like he was saying, if you own a piece of property, you paid a million dollars for. And they say over the next five years, it's going to increase in value. So we're just going to tax you on that. 25%, you got to come up with a 250K. - But I have to spell it at a loss. - Do you get the money back? Does the IRS go, oh, our bad, here's your money? - So this law, as far as I can tell, is going to be extremely complicated. If it's even passed, I don't think it'll ever be 25%. I think that's the figure she's putting out there. But you know how to compromise sessions go? - Of course. - And then the figure is real that the $100 million net worth is there and that the 80% monetized. So for example, when you're talking about unrealized gains, this is a classic example of why Warren Buffett sold his half his stake in Apple, because his unrealized gains were hundreds of billions of dollars. It was a huge profit he made on Apple. - I heard he made ridiculous money. - Right, so when you're talking about taxing him, even if he doesn't sell the stock, that's okay. Now, I've always made the point-- - But how do you come up with a number on unrealized capital gains if it hasn't even capital gained yet? I mean, how do they come up with this number? Oh, you bought it for a million. I think it's going to do $2 million next year. - Well, I feel like it's going to really only apply to real business, functioning business, hedge funds, Warren Buffett says he's not a hedge fund, real functioning business investment groups. They're going to file each year. So at the end of that year, where you're at with a particular stock like Apple, we're here, what happens if next year we're not here, are we going to get a credit from last year? But there will be a continued tax bill for those bigger companies that are continuing to have unrealized gains. And I don't see that being such an issue. And here's why-- You know what, here's my issue to be honest with you. I was talking to a friend of mine who's from England. And I said, if we go back and study history, 'cause I enjoy history, I've watched a bunch of different things. And we left England because of taxes. We got tired of paying taxes to the king. I get it. Taxes are important to keep the infrastructure going. You have to earn. But we pay taxes on our income. And then we're taxed on the income that we spend on food, housing, clothes, whatever it might be, unless you're from Jersey, then you don't pay tax on clothes or food. And then they tax us on that. And then, and then, and then there's more tax. Look, this may sound rather non-conservative of me, but I was actually for a flat tax. Let's hit everybody 25% across the board on their income. Nothing else. Because you're gonna get a guy who makes $100,000. He's gotta pay his 25%. You're gonna get a guy who makes $10,000. He pays his 25%. You're gonna get a guy who makes $100 million. He pays his 25%. There should be no loopholes. Businessmen should pay taxes. 'Cause businesses will help keep the world running. If you want to be a business in America and promote your product here, then you should be able to take care of the city you live in. I got no problem with paying for potholes. But quit taxing me on my house. And then there's a new tax on this and gas tax and cigarette tax and your mom's tax and everybody else's tax. - So let's take it back. There's a lot of points you made there and they're all great points. And I want it just pretty much. - They're kind of like your head. It's a great point. - So historically, if we're gonna go back historically, but not so far as the British t-tax or the t-tax or the tax revolved. - Right. - Ronald Reagan was president. I'm just gonna go back as far as Ronald Reagan. He passed one of the biggest corporate taxes in history. Up until, it was the biggest corporate tax in history. Up until the previous tax cut, we can call it the Trump tax cut. It was the Trump tax cut. It's bigger than the Ronald Reagan corporate tax. Ronald Reagan's tax was, at that time, was a time when Congress worked together for the most part. They had their various disagreements. They had their adamant disagreements. But they both came to the agreement that this tax cut that this president and all of us just passed is too big. There's not enough-- - It's too much. - Too much. - Too much. - There's not enough money coming in. So Congress created new taxes that Ronald Reagan signed into law, everyone that hit his desk, and ultimately negated the entire Ronald Reagan tax cut. Because revenue, just like you said, does have to come into Washington. It's got to. You can say, "We don't need to fund Ukraine," or you can say, "We don't need to fund Israel." You can say, "We don't need to--" - We don't need to fund the people in Congress or the Senate, to be honest with you. They should be paid minimum wage. - Great point. The people in the Congress and the Senate are like drunken sellers in an open bar. They are-- - Oh yeah, 100%. I said this 100 times, they should be like NASCAR drivers with patches on their jacket, and we're showing who they sponsor. - But essentially, they are. I mean, it's clear. If you really did look up certain websites and they're available, I can't name them right now, but there are who their donors are. There is plenty of information on who every lawmakers donor is and how much they've donated. Basically, when you look at enough of it, you realize they're all like we say, the fish thinks from the head to the tail. - But do you know there was only one politician in my lifetime that I know of that went into office, we're talking upper office, not local government, big government, only one politician that ever went into office and came out with less money. - Jesse, the mentor, is that him? - No, Trump. - Oh, well, he didn't come out with less money. He did donate his salary. He is rich. - No, he lost money when he was in there. - There's people that say he did very well on certain businesses till today. - Well, look, he's a businessman. I mean, that's the same-- - There's a lot of buildings still from his own-- - But every other politician, not every other, 99.99% walk into there knowing that in four years, six years, whatever it might be, they're gonna be very rich. - Well, somebody said to be how does the Biden's own nine houses? I don't know. I mean, I agree with-- - Well, I think they're about to get jammed up. Didn't they just find out that they've been given a $27 million from a foreign country? - Well, yes, or no, I didn't read that. So yes, I'll say yes. But I also read there's been a discussion. Did Trump receive $10 million from CC, the leader of Egypt and his attorney, General Barr, dismissed the whole investigation. They're all dirty. I mean, it's-- - Have you ever heard of a clean politician? - No. - Maybe when they start out, they have great, great thoughts and gestures that they're gonna be clean. But sooner or later, they get-- - I think Trump was that way. And I said that in the beginning, he wasn't a politician. I never agreed with a single thing he said. I thought it was foul mouth. And I said, I don't care about you. Am I already in your feelings? Not saying he hurt my feelings. But now what the reason I say is because he's really become a politician in this cycle. And this is the whole thing where we're getting into this whole, the things he's talking about, the things he's not talking about, he's become a politician. - So speaking of politicians, we'll come back to this. Let's circle back in a minute. - Yeah. - So his Vice President choice right now is JD Vance, right? - Right. - Someone told, you might have said it. - I told you. - That they're talking about RFK. - I said I heard it. - I was probably from some liberal baloney sauce. - We hear all kinds of nonsense, but-- - I was talking to a couple, I was talking to a couple of friends of mine, and they were saying that that would be the biggest mistake ever. It would be very detrimental to him to make a change unless JD Vance was found to be, you know, some horrible whatever that he had to get rid of him. But just to pull him out, and wow, I popped my pee on that one, just to pull him out to send him back to the freshman team, dude, he's in the big game, let him play. Let's use RFK for something else. - So those who said it said lots of things about it. One of the things they said is look at the harmony between, and I know you're gonna look at the harmony between Kamala and Waltz, and there is, when you see JD Vance and Trump, they're never together, and they started really seeing Trump and RFK together at certain things. This is all just rumor. For all we know, Trump's very happy with JD Vance's is running, hey, Trump has never expressed an interest in getting rid of him. This is all speculation. - Right, 100% speculation. - And that's all I said is this is what I've been hearing, but we get a lot of, this is what I've been hearing. - Did you hear that on MSNBC, when you were watching it the other night? - I read, like you said, you've acknowledged, I read all sorts of stuff. I don't watch MSNBC. I do like Rachel Maddow for her condescending tone. - Who? - Rachel Maddow. - Oh, come on. - She's funny, she's condescending, it's sort of a sensey humor about it, but I can come to my own conclusions without it. - No, you're fine. Look, you like who you like and I like who I like, right? - I don't dislike who you like. You dislike who I like. - Really? I like Trump. But you hate Kamala, I don't hate Trump. - I don't hate people. No, no, no. - I've given Trump credit for love. - I think she's steering the ship right into the iceberg. She knows it's there and she's about to sink us. - You know, they always say that whatever you are on the other side, you always say all that to the family, the keys of the family corner gonna run it in the ditch. I haven't seen any president run it in the ditch, I've only seen. - I don't know where you've been for the last three and a half years. (laughing) Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe sleeping in his Corvette down at the beach. - With the documents and the trauma. - They are. - That's 12,000. - You know, let's talk about him speaking of a disgrace. He didn't even show up at the tomb of the unknown soldier to later leave. - Because he's gonna get berated for pulling the troops out, which we've had this discussion. - I'm not berating him, I'm showing that that would have been a respectful thing to do. - All to walk into a landmine. - Do you think? I don't know. Did you hear that lady? - People are at top stop. - Did you hear that lady going off about him the other day about her son who got killed over there? - I never want to talk about a lady who sort of got killed. I got woman had every right to feel every emotion she felt. - Hold on, I was 100% behind her. - And I would have been behind her. If it would have been Trump, I'd have been behind her because either way. - I'm behind, you've lost your son in the military. I'm behind you 100. But I've made this point before where Trump doesn't share that same respect. - I saw what it was. - I saw what it was. - You showed us the other day. - You showed us the other day. - He showed up and laid the wreath. - But let me make this point. - Only president who showed up, it was him. He's not even a sitting president. That's a funny thing. I've got some super conspiracy theory friends, right? I like to go down the rabbit hole. I'm a little conspiracy theory. I like to wear the tinfoil hat. But I got some friends who think that Trump's still on power and he's running the country from the basement. - I've heard that. - And I said, "Actually, it's Obama who's in power." And Biden's got the earpiece in and Obama's telling him what to say and I'm originally, but that's just me. I just totally made that up. I don't think that really is happening. 'Cause I think O'Bizzle would have done a better job than has gone on. To me, those people who say that Trump's still on power, the same people who probably say that Hillary's been executed like Guantanamo and Biden's been executed. These are all fill-ins and I'm like, stop it. Come on. - Weekend at Bernie's. - Come on, son. Well, how would Joe might be the weekend at Bernie's? I mean, is he still on? - I don't know. - I see him laying on the beach the other day and he didn't look too moving himself. - So I talked about the story when I was younger. They were talking about the bunker. - The bunker. - The bunker in their imagination was drilled in the core of the side of the mountain. - No, no, no, no, no, let me correct you on that, actually. I had to think about what you were talking about. In the mountains in Colorado, there is a top, super, top secret military place. Now, is that where the president goes? I don't know. - We don't know, but it's a luxury resource. - We were there, we weren't allowed to go inside, so I cannot tell you what it looked like inside. But my cousins lived there and you could see it. You could see the mouth of the cave up in the mountains and I mean, it was cool. I mean, that was like, I wanted to go sneak in, but then I thought- - I would love to, too. - I would have been executed in Guantanamo Bay, you know? But is that where, and they do have a, probably a bomb-proof shelter somewhere in Washington in the basement or something, in case there is an attack on the country. But I've also been told that if there is an attack, they 86 them from DC get them on Air Force One and he just flies around. They don't ever know where he is. 'Cause that's what they did during 9/11. - So that's what I'm saying about conspiracy theories, is, you know, the luxury resort was the theory, with pools and pool of Nevada boys. - That was like, did you see that movie? Abandon boys. - Mere mere mere mere mere. - What the heck was that movie? Oh, with John Cusack and it was, they were trying to get on those big arcs to save the last remaining humans 'cause the big waves were coming and these arcs were up in the mountains and oh my gosh, why can't I think of this? - I wish I would've saw them. - I'll have to send it to you. I'll send you, you know what? I got my phone right here. But yeah, I mean, look, we don't know. Who knows what this guy is. - No, I'm a conspiracy theorist about 9/11. I'm a strong consumer. I mean, the president read a kids book for nine minutes. And I've always said, just looking at the president's regular schedule, there's never been nine minutes allocated to the president's time to do anything like that. - Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, you know how I feel with 9/11, so. - I feel like, you know, there's a lot of reason to believe there's a lot of issues with that story. I feel like, you know, not just conspiracy thinking, how did these pilots train to fly a plane but never land and nobody saw that as a signal, as an issue, as a worry, as something, you know? - Right, right, right, right, right, right. What about, oh, the movie was called 2012. - Oh, I don't know what's that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll send you a link. - I mean, what would you say if you were a pilot, if you were the instructor of the, if you were a pilot, you were an instructor. You got a guy, 'cause I'm not worried about landing. Wouldn't you say, what do you mean? What the hell is wrong? - Be like, listen here, Akbar. - Are you John F. Kennedy Jr.? (laughs) - His name was Akbar, wasn't he? I'm sorry, that's- - I mean, that was rude that you John F. Kennedy Jr., but the Kennedy's have minutes to piss me off this one. - Oh, 'cause your boy switched teams? - Well, you know, I told you Trump two defections come all up 200 defections, so. And that's- - Dude, they are coming over in droves, especially, especially with some of the stuff she's saying a lot of smart business people. I'm not talking about the typical left wing, you know, die hard, they're not made, they ain't switching, but these are business people who might've been borderline are probably going, I want nothing to do with that. - Well, here, again, conspiracy theater and not- - Elon Musk, R.K., Tulsi Gabbard. - Elon Musk was never on the side of Kamala Harris. The only reason they ever say it R.K. may have been is 'cause he's a Kennedy, so you assume he's a Democrat. That did not- - You know, you could've said that about Schwarzenegger and 'cause he was married to a Kennedy. - He read for COVID as a Republican- - He was a Republican, right? - He, how did he, how did he pull that off? - The Republican governor of Thailand went- - How did they pull off that when he was married to a Kennedy? No, Schwarzenegger was married to a Kennedy. - I know. - So how did they pull that off? - Right, are you a Shriver? - Yes, they're still married as far as I know. - No. - They're not married? - He got the main pregnant. - I don't know. I was not- - It's funny now, it looks like his dad. - I was not there, I could not tell you. - I heard they split up, they're living apart. - I don't know. Oh good, I've got something I needed, perfect. So I sent you that link, check out 2012. It's an interesting far-fetched movie. If you remember back, wow, that was 10 years ago. Or no, even farther, 12 years ago, 2012. Everybody thought the world was gonna end. Remember the Mayan calendar ended at 2012? And they're like, that's it, the world's just gonna stop. It won't happen anymore. - It was a date, there was a date. - I'm like, how is it just gonna step down? Does it make any sense? - There was a date. - Yeah, the world's gonna end, it's just gonna. - I thought it was a date and time. - I don't remember, just like Y2K. - I don't remember where I was. I wish I did remember where I was. - Well it would've been, you would've been sleeping 'cause you're never out past 10 p.m. - No, in 2000, that was 24 years ago. - Oh. - I was here in Florida, flat everyday. I was probably working, running a bar or something, I don't know. - Me too. - I hated working, New Year's Eve. - I don't like that either. - 'Cause all the amateurs are out on the street. - I work 'em every year. - I was actually in 2000, oh, I remember I was working for Full Sail. I remember 'cause I had to drive people down to downtown Disney for the big shindig there, some celebrities. I had to take 'em down in the big suburban limo they had and do some bodyguard work. Now I remember, okay, now I remember where it was and guess what? I got in the truck after midnight and it started. I guess Y2K didn't happen. I guess every computer didn't crash. - You were awake, I had my doubts. - I had very, very, very, my mind was full of doubts. You know, when I hear that stuff, I, so I wanna believe some of the things I hear, but 99.9% of the time, I'm like, that's a bunch of hogwash. - Well, I'm a firm believer that conspiracy theories are very real, it's just not the grandiose ones they talk about. So here's one I see that is real. Why is it, again, we talked about Warren Buffett a minute ago, selling half his shares of Apple at this enormous profit. And then two weeks later is when Kamala Harris talks about taxing on realized gains. - Well, that's just like if you watch some of these conspiracy theories on 9/11, you see the guy took out a couple of months before 9/11 happened a massive, massive insurance policy against terrorism on the Twin Towers. - And then they were talking about how there was this debacle. Is it one event or two? Is it one building or two? And somehow his policy addressed it full speed ahead that it's two separate events and they're covering on both buildings. - What about the third building? There was three that fell. - I feel like the Twin Towers was the questionable is it one building or two? Was it one event or two? But somehow- - Well, I'm still trying to figure out how building seven fell when it was nowhere near it and all of a sudden it just blew up and fell. - But you said you sent me that video or it looks like it was detonated. - Yeah, oh yeah. If you go onto YouTube and look up the video, loose change. - But even the time- - If you're a good conspiracy theorist like myself and as I am convincing my half-black friend here that, 'cause he's from Africa, yo? - Oh, I said you're talking about me. - I am talking about you. - Oh, I am, I'm from Africa. Northern Africa. - How was it? Egypt is beautiful. - Have you been? - Oh, I see pictures. - My answer went back in the '60s. I saw the pyramids and all of the sphinx, sphinx. But anyway, if you watch that, as I'm trying to flip in Trippy over here there'll be a good conspiracy theorist. You'll, there'll be a lot of questions. I'm just telling you. There's a lot of unanswered questions. Like, where's the plane that hit the Pentagon? And how did a 747 jet get that low to the ground and drive straight right into the building at that high speed? It's not possible. The down draft, they said it would have sucked into the ground and slammed it in the ground. It was a missile. - It's even one of the- - They have video of it that it's a missile. - One was my, one was my question was, how did they come up with the diagnosis so quick that it was the plane fuel that went down the elevator, chef, and that's what, I mean, that was like- - And I have heard, I have heard- - I have heard theory. - I have heard scientists and mineralologists. I don't know if that's the right word. People who work with metal, you know, metalheads. I've heard them say there's no way that the flames got high enough to belt the building. No way. - Well, they're saying the fuel went down to the elevator, chef, which I just, it doesn't make any sense. - No. - The biggest thing, and I don't care when anybody says that I'm fixating on one point, but the biggest thing is when you look at a president's schedule, there's never been nine minutes of reading time to a kids, you read for two or three minutes, they're shocking to all the presidents there, and you carry on with your day's business. It's that simple. You create a few teachers and you're out of the building. This guy literally- - And in my opinion- - He's not reading this kid's book for nine minutes, no one else can read it to him. - And in my opinion, man, I'm popping today. Where's my thing? Anyway, in my opinion, I don't know how the security works for the president. I've never been a Secret Service guy, but I would think if the country's under attack, they would have grabbed him and he'd have been gone. - Yeah. - But he sat and read the book. But then again, Trump got shot the other day and he just waved at everybody. What's up? - No, they hauled his ass out of there. They were- - He should have been out of there a lot quicker. - I- - In my personal opinion. - They, do you know, you know what a heads rolled? And I want to say that's a clear sign. - Oh my gosh, did you watch her in Congress? Just get crucial- - But that was a clear sign for her. - My partisanship that still rains true in America. I mean, it was both Democrats and Republicans grilling her equally that she is not the person for the job. - Hence why I am anti-DEI. (laughs) - I explain DEI to you, right? So let's go over DEI real quick. My brief understanding of it. DEI is an employer's option. The federal government does opt. Trump was president for four years. This is where I say Trump has become a candidate versus the last time. Suddenly now he's fascinated with DEI. But he wasn't fascinated with the idea of diversity, inclusion and- - But do you see every company that goes to this DEI thing is just floundering? - They may be floundering for the- - People are walking away in droves. - But Trump in the grandiose statements he made, why didn't he address it in his presidency? Why is he addressing it? He didn't do his- - I don't have, I'm not inside Trump's mind. (laughs) - It's called political opportunity. - It'd be an interesting place. - Oh no, I don't want to be there. - I would do it. - He lives in my head rank free. I don't need to be in his head. - He does. - He lives in all you liberals' heads rent free. It's balls. - No, not at all, it's amazing. - It's amazing, what is that? - It's amazing. - It's amazing. - It's amazing. - No, but I'll admit though, sometimes I let Kamala's cackle live in my head. Look, I told Lori and I said, I'm sorry, I love you more than anything else, but if you laugh like that, we wouldn't even be. We wouldn't have gone past our first date. - Well, you know, it is- - But when I saw her face, I was a believer. (laughs) - It is working. They say, you know, thanks for bringing back the joy. I mean, Trump isn't down here. He really, he's- - I don't know. I mean, every thing I see him at, with 35, 40,000 people, everybody seems pretty happy. - Those 35, 40,000, the same, whatever- - Are they the same ones? They fall around all over the country in Phillips. - No one, everything's true. - Are they like the Grateful Dead? You know, they just fall around all the time. - Yeah, yeah. - You know, if you've ever invited a dead head over your house, they're still there. (laughs) - I went to high school with some dead heads, you know? I had a very good friend from grade school who grew up and became a dead head. And he followed, he sold T-shirts and did the whole stick. I don't know what else he sold to be on tour, but he toured all around America with him. And I'm like, bro, look. - He got the job. - I'm a diehard, you know, a diehard Van Halen fan. I ain't following them. Anyway. - I mean, I like Van Halen. I wouldn't saw anything when I'm not following. - Right, that's what I'm saying. - I like AC DC. That was my thing when I was a kid and I saw him at the garden two, three times. And I'm not following. - I saw them in 1980. Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Was it six or seven? They did the Monsters of Rock where it was AC DC, the Scorpions, Van Halen. The guy who just died was his name, not Great White. Oh, no, Don Doc and he didn't die. Great White died. It was a whole bunch of bands. It was awesome. Monsters of Rock, Giant Stadium. And I saw AC DC. - Oh, yeah, how many? - S-C-D-C. - That was awesome. - They were awesome. You know, they're like this big. We little guys. They're from the land down there and they're wee little guys. - I just started rolling stones. Man, that was fun. - How was that dude? - Look, Mick Jagger's what, 90? - No, 80 something. - But still, I hope to be able to get out of my chair when I'm 60. - It was amazing. It was amazing. His show was amazing. - He still runs around like a lunatic. - He done it, switches his shirt. He wears four pounds and he sweats like a paleo. - He does. And Keith Richards has done more drugs than anybody else. And he's still-- - Keith Richards, another one. - You know, when God created the Earth, Satan was like, "Who is that?" And he's like, "Just leave him alone." It's Keith Richards, he's fine. - Yeah, I mean, that's fine. - He was here before everything was created, so he's gonna stay. - He'll be around for him. - You would have thought, look, I mean, God bless him. He's done some serious things, but him and Aussie, you would have thought they would, how did they outlive Michael Jackson and Prince and all those other people? And here's the two, two biggest former addicts on the planet next to maybe Nikki Six from Motley Crew, who, and they're still alive. It's, I don't know, I don't even know how it's possible. - Well, I know Michael Jackson, you know, he was getting out of anesthesia and injecting him just to sleep, all right. - Dude, but the problem was they gave him fentanyl for what I understand or something like that. - They gave him money. - They gave him what? - Isn't it called a cadium? - Cat, K, special K, is that what? No, I don't think, I think it was fentanyl. - Was it? - I don't know. But yeah, I mean, good Lord, I don't mean, and he still plays like a rock star. - Oh yeah, Mick Jagger? Yeah. - No, no. - And he probably did too, we saw him too, ah-hoo. - Keith Richards. - Keith Richards. - Yeah, so why do we have rock stars who are in better shape can run a stadium like Mad Men and rock out houses for a year straight, and we can't even have people in the White House know even know where they are. - You see Jerry Jones the other day talking about it, they said that you're getting too old to be the GM and he said no one can, you never saw that quote? - No. He's, ah, look, Jerry Jones. - Well, he's not the GM, he owns it. He's the owner. Or does his kid own it? - Yeah, I try to. - Does his kid own it and he's the GM now? - I don't know who owns it, they say he's the owner of the GM. - When I was with the Cowboys, Jerry was the man. There was, his son was still little, so I don't think he had anything to do with it, but I don't remember if he was the general. I know the problem with Jerry Jones is, and I shouldn't say it this way, but he's a very involved owner, and sometimes he-- - Right, and I thought he'd be fast, you know? - That's all the coaches, what to do, and they're like, dude, just let me coach. You run the stadium, bro. - You see him on the sideline, he's always-- - But I'll let you in a little secret about him, right? It didn't matter what you did. If you worked for the Cowboys organization, he knew your name. - Well, he's-- - I passed him in the hallway when I first started with him, and I passed him in the hallway, and I said, hey, Mr. Jones, how you doing? He's like, Zach, I'm doing good, thanks for saying hi. I was like, how the, does he know my name, you know? It's pretty cool. - That was nice, huh? - But I will also let you in that there's a, there's a university here in Florida called Full Sail, and the, I don't remember, he's not, I don't remember if he was one of the owners, but even Gary Jones, he's the president, or, you know, he's high up there. And if you go to Full Sail, I don't know if he does it anymore, obviously, 'cause they're giant now, but when I work there, I moved to Florida to go to Full Sail, and I ended up working there. And when he did the, they called it the, oh, it was the weekend when all the parents and students would come, it was like an open house, and they could take tours and do that. Anyway, he would do a sitting with everybody in the live room, the arena. It was a small arena, but anyway, and he would ask everybody their name through the whole thing, whether there was 200 people there, or 50 or 75, whatever the amount of people there are, he'd ask everybody their name. He'd go back and say everyone's name. He'd memorize everybody's name. It was the most amazing thing I ever saw. - I can't even do that. - I don't even know my own name half the time. - Everybody's buddy in town to me. - That's, dude, that's a car thing right there, a car and restaurant, everybody's buddy. Hey, buddy. - Buddy, what's up, buddy? - I don't remember anybody's name, so I just call everybody buddy. My wife laughs 'cause she knows my shtick, so if she hears me say, she's, I'll be like, "Hey, this is my buddy," and Lori, I'll be like, "Oh, I'm Lori, and what's your name?" 'Cause she knows I don't know their name. - I don't know, money's-- - Nope, I barely recognize your name. - Matter of fact, who are I? Who am I doing this part for? - I put you in my phone as I get confused 'cause you have three names in my phone. (laughing) The Great Baboo. - The Great Baboo Coach Trippie. - Or Jeff Rabbidowitz. - Jeff Rabbidowitz. - Jeff Rabbiles think of steam. That's funny. So, let's circle back to unrealized capital gain. Do you think that this is only gonna affect a certain echelons of Americans, or is this gonna impact anybody who's in any kind of making money, whether it's stock market, real estate, whatever? - No, I think that's-- - I haven't studied enough, so that's why I'm axing. - I heard that that was 100 million, and you had to be in 80% liquid, is what I heard the figures were. What I do think on top of that is, not only shouldn't affect lower, I think it shouldn't affect lower income earners. I also think that the real capital gains tax modification needs to be, if you make under $400,000 a year, you shouldn't have to pay capital gains. So, let's give an example. - Yeah, but what happens if you make under 400,000 like we do, 'cause you know, we're poor. But imagine if we make that, and we do a really good investment in that year, we get a nice chunk of change back. They're gonna jack us. - No, well, it should be at that, you know, if you don't pay anything until you get to that 400. So, let's just use a real life example. Let's just say, hypothetically, you flip a house, you make 400 grand, and that's your entire income for you, you're a family man, you got four kids, you pay your income tax, but not these jacked up capital gains tax, because that really, what happens now is, so let's say that's the law, let's say it's not because it's not, so when it's not what happens, and it's not, so let's say what happens. You do earn, you have a stock, you bought a dollar a share, it's Amazon, you sell your thousand shares for a hundred dollars a share. - Yeah. - You made up, you made, what is it, $99,000? You know what happens? You don't get a tax return that year, you owe to IRS money. - Right. - The tax return you've been counting on every year, your family man, you're waiting on that for five thousand. - Right. - You're not kidding. So, it not only discourages you from investing, it screws you. - Well, it also, we had this discussion I think a couple of weeks ago, and I don't know if we did it on the show, but I got my regular paycheck, and then I got my bonus, 'cause I hit my quarterly bonus. - Right. - It was a good quarter, right? It boosted me up into a higher tax bracket where I paid almost, what, 45% tax. - Right. - It was too much. - It's too much. - It was too much. I mean, like, now will I get lucky and get that back at the end of the year? I sure hope so, but I was expecting that paycheck, and I got my paycheck, and I was just like, what, dude? First of all, don't give me the paychecks together. Give me separate paychecks, and give me my money. - I'm calling J.G. Wentworth, 'cause I want my money. - So now let's take it back, another not. So let's take it back to the Trump tax cut. Let's start, let's go back to that for a minute. So that was a trillion and a half million, 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut for corporate America. - Sure. - What's a tax cut for individuals now? - But he was also bringing businesses back to America. So that's why I think why there was, there was an underlying reason for that. - I survived. I haven't seen any businesses come back to America, and the idea-- - He made Ford come back, they were in Mexico. - Ford is still building cars in Mexico. - They weren't, they were not, when he was in office. - They are still that until today, they've never shut down that particular tax. - And he told them that anything that comes across the border, he's gonna tax higher tax rates. - That's called a tariff, and that many people say is destructive to the economy, which is here and are there. But here's my point. Let's say, okay, some businesses came back. The trillion and a half dollar tax cut for corporate America was permanent. The part of the tax cut that applied to the middle class was temporary, and it's expiring. And people said, oh, I'm not paying all this more taxes? No, it's because that part of the tax cut has been expiring over the course of Biden's turf, which is fine, I'm not protecting Biden for this point of the section, for this section. What I'm saying is, rather than all along, rather than giving, 'cause the premise of the tax cut was, we need to be in line with the Western world. Rest of the world is at about a 15% tax rate. We're at a 22% tax rate. When that tax cut that brought the corporate America tax rate to 15% didn't factor in all the loopholes that corporate America has for all the different various businesses, real estate tech. Corporate America has never paid a 15% tax rate. - I'm sorry, I don't know if you can hear my dog barking. - He's adorable. - See him right there? - Oh, he can't hear him. - No, the UPS man walked up and he's going nuts. Come on, Prince. - I see him, but I don't hear him. - Come on, Prince. I can hear all my dogs barking. That's good, you can't hear him on the microphone. That's good, awesome. Lay down, Prince, be good. - So I would just like to see a tax cut for individuals rather than a tax corporate America. - Right, I got no problem with that. And I've discussed this with you. I think we should, I have not been unsold on the flat tax. I think we should have a flat tax and everything else just go away. So tax me 25% but don't tax me on anything else. You're going to get your money. - Well, the issue with that is who gets the money? Because you know, when you talk about say no other tax, well, sales tax goes to the state, income tax goes to the feds. If the state has a state income tax, then that state income tax goes to the state. But Florida-- - Well, you should say that 'cause I thought it was the craziest thing when I moved to Florida that I didn't have to do state income tax. - You don't have to do state income tax. - 'Cause you know, in Jersey, we did. But if you were to implement that 25% tax, Florida would ultimately have to implement the state tax. - What if they did 25% and did 12.5 to state and 12.5 to government? - I don't see that happening. - I don't either. I think it's a fairy tale and that's why we live in the land of Never Never Land. But you know, I think that it'd be a great idea. - It would be something to think about, but-- - And then like when I grew up in Jersey, if there was a pair of jeans on the counter for 1995, that's all you paid, 1995. Down here, I gotta do my income tax in my head. All right, 6%, oh wait, I'm in Osceola County. So it's 7.25. You know, I gotta figure it out. I have a $20 bill, I'm not buying them jeans. - It's too much. - It's too much. 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Well, they don't. - I don't know. But let me tell you what, I've got an eye doctor's appointment. I'm getting new glasses, my spectacles are destroyed. I've dropped them, things kicked them across the pavement. They're scratched up. Terrible, terrible. - Terrible, terrible. - I found these new, this is not a sponsor or anything, but I found these new glasses I'm gonna get there by, the frames are by Ray band. - Oh. - They're AI, they have a camera, a video recorder in it. - He told me about that. - You can hear your phone, you can hear your phone, it's no ear pieces, nothing, it's just a pair of glasses. You can look at something and go, I don't, it's not Surrey and it's not Alexa. I don't know who, what the name of the Ray band person is, but you say, hey, Cletus, what am I looking at? You were looking at milk for 297 a gallon. Tells you right there. - Really? - Yeah, I'm getting them. - What, are you gonna tell me about that? - I'll be recording whatever I want. 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And we're gonna sit and pick his brain and you can get all sorts of political with him because he's definitely not an idiot. - This is great. What is he gonna be? - I gotta reach out to him. I gotta reach out to both of them. The other guy's was away and he went to the Olympics, actually, and then he went on a tour of Europe. So when he gets back in the town, I'm gonna get him on. We're gonna get a lot of guests. I wanna get that some more political people. Go ahead, bud. - I found you. I told you about the cards I'm gonna order them. We just gotta get everything we talked about. - Oh, he's chasing a shadow under the desk. I'm trying to figure out what he's doing. - And we talked about the cards that I'm gonna reach out to guests soon. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta get lots of people on. I'd love to chat with anybody. If you have interest in our show and like to be on it, then send us an email at trippiansactshow@gmail.com. - Go go over that thing. - Trippians, T-R-I-P-P-I. And, or is it A-N-D? I gotta look our email up. - N, N, I can tell you. - Is it? - So star from the top. T-R-I-P-P-I. - There it is, T-R, so it actually looks like trippin'. Trippin'? - Trippin'. - T-R-P-P-T-R-I-P-P-I-N-Zack-Z-A-K-Show@gmail.com. Send us an email. We'd love to see what you wanna talk about. That's how we found that guy from Connecticut who was our first guest. - He'd like to have him back too. I don't know if he's watchin'. - I'd love to, I gotta reach out to him. No, when Lori Ann was our first guest, wasn't she? - Yes, sir. - She's the best. She's the best. - No, we can't do this, we can't-- - We got Pastor Joe, we have Lori Ann on three times. We've had her on three times. - He shows. - She's the best. - Absolutely. - Why don't we have your wife? She can tell us about-- - She loves a guy in the new leader of Argentina. - She does, and he's Trump 2.0. - I was a chainsaw. - He's Trump 2.0. I would love to hear, you know, and I don't say this in a joking way. Your wife immigrated here from Argentina. I would love to hear her thoughts on some of the border issues that are going on and other stuff. - I've asked her, but she's shy. - I know. - She's for you. - No, Jeffy, no, Jeffy. We'll not do it. I could see her. I could see her right now. Your wife's the best, she's so excitable, I love it. - Yeah, she's-- - She's always excited. I remember when we used to visit her at the restaurant, she'd get all excited. When you guys come see me at the restaurant. - Oh, yeah, that was great. We used to go there when I was gone. We were just married. Just kidding. - Yeah, yeah. I was at your wedding. - Walked there twice a week, three times a week. - I brought one of my friends to your wedding. 'Cause I was single, and I was not wanting to be alone. I wasn't one of those guys going to a wedding by myself. - No, I remember. I don't even remember. Who was in your-- Did you have a big bridal party? - No, not really. - How come I wasn't your best-- Oh, your brother was your best man, wasn't he? - My brother was-- - Louis was, right? - No, Michael. - Oh, Michael, was Louis in your wedding? - No, no, he wasn't. - He was there, though. - I just, Michael and my wife's sister, we didn't have a big wedding. - What about your other sister? - No, she, no, she wasn't in the wedding. - But she was at the wedding. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, the good old days. That was 20 something years ago. - 21 now going on 21. You are an old man. - I am an old man. - 60. - I've been only married for 13 years, so that makes me want my mid-30s. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear 33 images of you. - You got married when I was 21? 13 years, yeah, there you go. - 34. - My wife's a cougar, she married a younger man. Now I'm just kidding, I'm actually older than her, so. - You're older? - Yeah, 11 months. - I'm quite a bit older than my wife, four or five years. Holy cow, is it raining outside? Sounds like it's pouring. - Oh. - Welcome to Florida Afternoons. - Oh, we're far, far away. - Far, far away? Yes, you are on the other side of the county. Oh, we're in the county. You're actually in another county. - I'm always used to do this show in a park. - Remember that night we did it? There was pouring rain in the tin roof and we were getting soaked. (laughs) - Tin hat, tin hat. - Oh, I had a tin foil hat on, didn't I? Yep, there it is, there's thunder. There it is, it's raining. - You're far, far away from me. - I'm on a good 40 minutes, right? - Yeah, I told you this. - Well, as the crow flies, I'm sure, I'm closer, but there's no straight shot to your joint. - Always. - 'Cause you gotta go around Lake Apopka. - Yeah, you gotta go around the, I'm even the judge. - I either gotta go down for 29 and cut over 50 or I gotta go around Astatula. I like Astatula. They got that little school in the middle of Astatula and a cop sits there all the time. - Yeah, that's great. - Lake Gemrode or whatever it is, he will ding you up in a minute. - I just paid 180 on a red light taking the kids to swimming. - Well, you must've went through Orlando. - It was Orlando. - Yep. - I drive. - I think they're the only town left with red light cameras. - I drive. - Oh, do they? I know, well, that's Orlando. - Family, yeah, Orlando, family. - Well, you know, Apopka, they voted 'em unconstitutional. - Here it is. - Because you're supposed to be able to confront your, the person who gives you a ticket. I can't think of the word. Where's my English teacher wife when I need her? - You're issuing officer. - No, you're supposed to be able to confront your persecutor, I guess. - Prosecute. - Prosecutor? No, it's not a prosecutor. - I'm not, you're not being persecuted. - Yeah, I'm being persecuted. You give me a ticket for 180 dollars. I'm fighting somebody. I got one. I got dinged up on 50 in Kirkman. - So I heard how far? - Well, Kirkman, if you go straight across Kirkman, it turns into, I was just there yesterday. Anyway, but that's a red light camera. And I was like, oh, it's yellow. I'm going, yep, take it in the mail. I'm like, you suck. - So I'm saying I got ticket. - I stop, you don't stop. That's your problem. You don't even pay attention. - You're like the worst driver ever. - I have to admit, I'm a terrible driver. - I'm an awesome driver, especially on the curve. Excellent driver. - I drive better drunk. - Here's a sad note. When I used to drink and kids don't do this, this is bad. I've been sober now 17 years and smoke free for 20. When I used to drink when I was a kid, my friends would always make me drive 'cause I drove better drunk 'cause I was safer. - I think I drive better drunk. I'm not driving drunk, huh? - My parents didn't buy into that. They're like, you're getting a good day of life. Out of all my friends, well, I shouldn't say all my friends, but a lot of my friends got DUI's. I was the only one who didn't. That's 'cause I knew all the cops. - I never got pulled over. - I remember me and my friend, Billy Boy, were sitting up at the 7-11 one night and one of the Hillsborough cops pulls in and he's like, what are you guys doing here? Eating a hot dog, chilling. It's like, you guys are drunk. Like, I don't know what you're talking about. He's like, I'll give you a ride home. He gave us a ride home. - I was wearing the Tays. - Yeah, those were the Tays. - I told you now. - Now they just sit and wait 'til we got in our car and drove away and light us up. You're going to the Clink. - I had a neighbor, they had it in for him. - I know you told me about that person. It was his wife, right? - Well, that's who they caught, but they had it in for the whole family, especially the child. Child was a bad kid. - Why were they all drunkards? - They were, but the child had issues. He was a wise man. - And look, I'd be the first one to say I am drunk driving is not smart. - No. - No, it's not smart at all. We were dumb, but 30-something years ago, the world was a little different. And I lived out in the country. So what was I going to hit a tree or a deer? - I lived right here in Orlando, but they used to have drive-through liquor stores. They used to hand you the liquor at a can of soda. You'd mix it right there before me. - Right there, yeah. They had that when I went to, every time I go to Cape Hatteris, North Carolina, see how I slipped in my Southern draw right there in North Carolina. Anyway, they got this place called the Brew-Thru. Every time I go, I get a shirt 'cause I thought it was the coolest place. I'm like, how you got a garage? You just drive it and they load all the beer in your car and you just keep on going. And then you could buy a cocktail while you're sitting there and have a drink. - We used to buy it from spires. - Spires. - The secret of seven is the little bottle. Drink a little of the Sprite port, a whole secret of seven and be on our way. - My cousin and I used to drink. You remember wine coolers? - Yeah. - They used to sell them in a two-liter bottle. It was a green two-liter bottle. It looked like a seven-up bottle. You cut the label off or a mellow yellow. It looked like that. You cut the label off when you drive around drinking that all night. - No, I can see that. - Get hammered. We were stupid. We were dumb. We were not smart children. - No. - Thank God. Thank God for my mother who prayed for me 'cause she kept me alive. I should be here. - That's what she did. Since you wore out the carpet. - She wore out the carpet. He's like, I got to replace the carpet every five years 'cause of you, you schmuck. (laughing) He says, your mother walks around the room and prays all night long. It is what it is. And now my kids have a good praying mother. - Yes. And grandma prays for him too. - Oh, you know, I always joke when my mom gets to heaven, there's the fourth chair. There's the father, the son, the Holy Spirit, my mother. She got her own little throne up there. - She's gonna have it, but she ain't going nowhere. - She'd be like, listen here, Jesus. I gotta tell you a thing or two. (laughing) - She don't want to know where it's. - To be like, Jesus, Marie's picking on me again. (laughing) - You know what's funny is, and we've gone off topic a little bit. My mother used to belong to this women's group. National, or actually it's worldwide, it's called a GLOW. A GLOW international. It's a women's group, a Christian women's organization. And she's had, you don't know much, but there's, with the five-fold ministry, there's pastor, preacher, teacher, evangelist, apostle, and my mom has gotten the mantle of all of them. She was, her last mantle they gave her was the apostle. So I call her apostle, Marie, all the time, she gets very upset. She's like, she goes, it's not a title. It's a gift. - It's a gift. - It's a gift. - It's a recognition. - No, no, it's a gift. It's a gift you're given from. - Well, I gotcha, I gotcha, yeah. - Like me, I have the gift of breathing every day. Thank you, God. (laughing) - Especially after that brain surgery. - Yes, my wife told me the doctor told him. It was in the wrapper. It was like, brand new. It was like, still had a new brain smell. (laughing) - Brand new. It's like a car, brand new. - Brain transplant. - He's like, here's the window sticker. - The brain transplant. Now you're the genius. - Oh, I got you a brain, sir. Oh yeah, what did it say? Abbey something, Abbey normal, I don't know. (laughing) - You ever watched Dr. Frankenstein, or young Frankenstein, or Mel Brooks? He's one of your people. - He's Jewish? - Yeah, you never heard of Mel Brooks, blazing saddles. - Oh, right, right. - You heard of why did you think? - Young Frankenstein, history of the world part two? One, one part one. There was never a part two. - Yeah, jokes is Jewish. - Brooks, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to high school with a kid named John Brooks. He was not Jewish though. - He was in Jewish. - No, he was a, he became a Buddhist. He studied religions very much. He was very much into studying religions, and he thought Buddhism was the best. Unfortunately, he passed away, but. - Oh, that's sad. - Yeah, you know. - Oh yeah. - He passed away at high school. - Oh, man, dude. I don't know, it must have been something in the water in New Jersey, 'cause I got a lot of people who died up there. - Yeah. I'm north of the school newspaper. It's not for obituary, Holmes. I don't know what the hell they're doing. - No, we got Facebook now. We're like, "Dude, you died, yeah, you know." - I look at my Facebook, the high school. I haven't done it in a while, but I don't, I hear in there to say somebody died, but I usually don't know. - You're in high school here in Florida, right? - No, I graduated high school in New York. I came here later. - In Long Island? - In Long Island. - Is Long Island really New York? I mean, is it really? - It's kind of the same shit. - I mean, I don't know. I thought Manhattan. You think in New York, you think I'm Manhattan. - My wife loved Manhattan. We stayed. - Brooklyn, the Bronx, Yankas. - How could you like any of that? - Brooklyn was the best. When I was a kid, my grandparents lived in Brooklyn, my grandfather used to have street parties. It was the best. - That's true. - We used to have such a good, oh, such a good time. I love it. - If you lived in Staten Island, you could stop by John Guardian Street on the street. - Staten Island. That's the garbage dump of Jersey and New York. - They say, there's some big body houses there now. - Yeah, yeah. I also hear that some of the best Italian food is in Staten Island. - I've heard that. - I cannot confirm her tonight, but I had cousins who lived in Staten Island. I also had cousins who lived in Long Island. My cousin's owned a furniture store in Long Island. - Really? - Yeah. - That's a booming business. - Back in the day, my parents bought their furniture there. - That's good business. - We weren't allowed to sit on it. You know, back in the day, your mom wouldn't let you sit on certain furniture in the house. - Or they had plastic. - My cousin, Jimmy, his mom, the living room upstairs, I don't think I ever stepped foot in it. Nobody was allowed out there. It was not, I think that was maybe the viewing room or something. I don't know what the heck it was for, but you weren't allowed to go there. We were too dirty. We were filthy little children. - We used to have it upstairs with a black and white TV and that's where we were allowed to watch TV. - Well, they had a basement. See, where we lived, we had basements and they had a basement and it was a fully furnished, like, you know, turned into a rec room and had the, you know, the carpet you could spill on it would just, you know, you could easily clean it up and they had their video games down there and their toys and, you know, that's where the kids lived. - We didn't have a basement. We had the little upstairs room. - In my house, we had a basement, but it wasn't finished, but it had, you know, you go down there. There was, we had the ping pong table down there and the workout stuff and my dad had his desk down there. His office was down there, but it wasn't finished. He never finished the basement. So it was like that cement wall and, you know. - Yeah. - But they had stuff down there. There was refrigerator down there. My mom had all our canned goods down there and, you know, and it was huge. But when I was a little kid, I was scared to go down there 'cause, you know, that's where the boogeyman lived. My dad had me convinced there was witches who lived in our woods. I used to take the trash can down and my driveway was like 100 feet long, 100 yard. It was like a football field. Excuse me. And halfway down, he shut the light off. Dude, you see me, I would start running like, I think I got you to do sprints. You were doing sprints. Every Tuesday, I had to take the garbage down. Man, he made me run. - Man, that's mean. - I was scared. I was scared of the dark. And then I realized as I got older, there's ain't nothing now. I ain't scared. - No, but you were at 28 when you realized. - I was 45. No, and then, but see what the, here was the big setup and I knew it. And I knew it. I could run it up the driveway and I knew my dad was hiding somewhere. - And then scared you, right? - Oh, scared the crap out of me. And then laugh, just laugh. He just walk away laughing. I'd be on the ground. Jesus, I'm dying. He'd be laughing. - And he'd do it again next week. - Every time. And I think I know where he was hiding. I could creep up. And that's where I think I learned not to be scared of the dark because I learned how to see in the dark and I would creep up and try and find him. He'd still get me, but. - Oh yeah. - And then when I worked for the sheriff's department, we'd have to go through certain buildings. We'd have to check him on the night shift. The county buildings. And we would set each other up. Like there was one where they did the academy and they had the drag dummy in there. And we would have put the drag dummy in different spots. So you come around the corner and it looks like a guy sitting there. - We had worked in a hotel one time. They had like a paper, cardboard, a mannequin. Like, you know, sometimes put your arm around like standing next to somebody famous. - Sure. - And this woman came down crying. She was a. - Scared the crap out of her? - That she was scared to death. She said there was ghost up there. (laughs) Well, we would do the tours of the buildings and we wouldn't turn the lights on because you can see better once your eyes acclimate to the dark, at least me. - Not me. - No, well, you can't see when it's bright out. (laughs) And you would acclimate to the dark and you actually wanted to be able to see better in the dark anyway. So I would ever, we had the big old flashlight, the big mag lights. I never used mine. I knew, I would learn the building and I could walk in the dark through it. I tripped over a homeless person once. They were hiding in the bathroom sleeping. I tripped over him. He almost got. He almost got sent to Jesus. (laughs) Then he went to jail for breaking in, but they would do that on purpose. They'd break it in the winter. So they have three hot, three hots in a car. - Yeah. We had a giant hotel. It was a giant hotel. And they, just like you said, the homeless people, but they would literally walk into one. But we would catch them. We would find them. It was a big convention center and the same, but it was all well built. - Where? Down on I Drive? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - And the higher regency on I Drive, it was huge. - Not the regency. - But yeah. - Was it the Rosie and then it became the Hyatt? - No, it was the Peabody. - The Peabody, that's right. That's where the ducks were, right? - Yeah, that's where the ducks were. But there was this one lady, somehow she got home. She got a whole of a Macy's bag and she looked like a guest. And she got home in weeks. - That's awesome. - Then they caught on, but I knew for a fact, 'cause I would see her late at night. I worked overnight. It's for weeks, I would see her in there. I knew. - Did you ever see that movie with Tom Hanks where he lived in an airport? He was from a different country and he couldn't go to customs. And so he lived in the airport. - I did. - I heard that was a true story. I don't know if that could really happen though. Is it true that-- - I just kind of got to a war and it was no longer a country. - Right, but are airports international areas? - Parts of it. - I don't know how it's rooted. That's like where Snowden was. It was in a small part of the Russian airport that was like a no man's land. So nobody could go get him. Do you remember that? Remember Edward Snowden? - No. - Edward Snowden stole three laptops full of top secret information. And he's wanted by America and he was gonna go to jail forever. So he flew all over the world and nobody would grab him a place to stay. So he wound up in Russia and he was in one hallway in the Russian airport for about three or four months. Finally Putin said, "You can come over here." But that was that one part of the airport that it was like a no man's land. It was sleeping in that one area. You look his story up. His name is Edward Snowden. It's not the whole airport though. - I'll check it out. - It was the airport. - Did you ever work at the airport? - Yeah, for the highest. - Oh, I worked at the Marriott but it wasn't in the airport. We were outside the airport. - And mine was in the airport. - Yeah, I remember. I worked at Chili's, actually my first restaurant I worked at was Chili's in the airport. I didn't work there, thank God. - It was Host Marriott. It wasn't Brinkers. - Hi, the airport was busy. - Of course. Of course. - Planes get delayed or canceled. They gotta put them up. - And they raise the raise. - We were always busy too in the Marriott. We were also the- - That was the satellite hotel. It was an airport hotel, but we were literally- - But we were called Marriott Airport. - Right, but we were- - And we were actually the hotel for the Virgin Atlantic crew. - So they would stay there? - 'Cause they had to sleep do 24 hours before they could fly back. - Right. Why make this kind of was an airport? - And they would get polluted. - This time- - I mean, literally, literally, I would pile these girls on the bell cart and roll 'em up to their- - They couldn't have room? - Yeah, they were just, I'm like, good lord. And the pilots were just as bad. But they did that the first night and then the next day they'd all out by the pool all day and sober up and the next day they were ready to go. - A lot. - Yep. - I met a pilot that's been a pilot for 40 years. So he said 40 years ago, not so many people were traveling. He would literally take his plane to wherever and he'd be in the airport hotel and a hotel for three weeks at a time. - Oh wow. Well, my uncle was a pilot. My uncle was a pilot for Continental. He was a captain. And his flight was from Dulles to Paris. Spent 24 hours there, fly back. That was his week. - Every other day. - Yep, that was it. No, no. He would do the flight there and the flight back and then he's off till the next week. - Oh, Mike's. - Yeah, captains make big loot too. - Yeah, yeah, it's you. - And this is funny. Now I was talking to a friend of mine who's a pilot, actually one of my customers is a pilot for Southwest. And he's like, nowadays we just get the plane to where we're up and we set everything and we can just walk around. - Yeah, bro, yeah. They go to sleep. - He's like someone stays there to watch to make sure that you take a nap or whatever. But yeah, he goes, if it's a really long crew, long flight, you'll have another crew, you get the plane up and going, swap out, they fly, you take a nap and then you guys switch out. - Right. That's kind of cool. - Yeah. - It's not soft. - I don't know, I don't want to fly. I don't like flying. - No problem. - DEI, look at, you know, DEI, they did that with Alaskan Airlines, Doris flying off. I mean, come on. That's the Boeing units, only Boeing. - Was it just Boeing? - Yeah. Now Boeing's got this astronaut stuck in space for another fun of months. - I know, they're stuck. How are they going to get back? Are they going to send a space shuttle up to get them? - Oh, SpaceX is going to send up a show. - Oh, so Elon's going to save the day. - Hey, that's my boy. - He contracted, he got to contract. - Is he actually the richest man in the world right now? - Yes. - Nice. - I'd like to be his-- - Jeff Bezos is, they go back and forth. - Jeff Bezos is like Dr. Ewell. (laughing) - Jeff Bezos. - That's less than deep due to him. - Yeah, whatever. - He'll put some cars no more. - I heard, and we'll get out, you know what, we could save it for another show, but I'm going to do a synopsis real quick that these battery, 100% battery powered cars are actually very, very bad. People are getting sick from them 'cause of the radiation. - I wouldn't be surprised. I don't think there's-- - They get in the cancer. - Every time something, you know, that could dates back to remember the answer. - And your girl is not supporting electric cars anymore. - Why, she's not my girl first of all, but so here's the thing about electric cars, a little history. The reason Tesla took off was because people are fascinated with the idea of electric or the environment. It's 'cause Teslas are fun to try. I don't care, that doesn't matter. My friend drove one, he actually, Daniel, he's very good with Pace mobile. He's very good friends with Pace mobile, the guy out that I sent to the video on. - Yeah. - And he was out at an event at Pace's house in Montana, and Pace is like, "Yeah, just take the Tesla, go for a ride." And Daniel said, "The whole time he was worried driving, the whole time he was worried about the battery dying." He's like, "Are we going to ride?" - Well, if you think like that, and you're not going to have, I mean, that's like saying if I get on a roller coaster, I'm worried about it flying off the track. But the people were saying that, loved to trot of cars and had a lot of torque. - Oh, he said it was fast as balls. I mean, it just got out of the dance. - And that's the, people don't realize, they think that's the mistake Ford made, even though the Ford F-150's best-selling electric truck, it's the best-selling truck. - So F-150 is the number one selling truck. - Selling truck. - A full-size truck, 1500. What is it? - Right, for 30 years now, 35 years. - Whatever, there's three quarter, no, quarter time. - Half, there half, there it's up. - No, there's quarter, half, three quarter. - You're right, right. - 15, 150, 250, 350. - Right. - Yeah. - Yeah, actually. - And they're aluminum, and they're aluminum now. - I got a problem with that. - They're expensive to fix. - I can crush aluminum with my hands. - Not that truck. - I'll do it, I ain't scared. I'm not buying it for it, so it doesn't matter. - Listen. - I'm buying, I'm actually buying the number one full-size diesel. - He told me, you have to post a picture of it, wasn't it? - When I get it, I'll post it next to it like this. - You're gonna buy it in three weeks, but you're not gonna get it for three months. - I don't know, we gotta figure that out. I gotta talk to the guy. I might have to shop at a different store if he can't get his act together. - I don't know if anybody can. They're not... - No. - They're out there. - They are. - But there's certain, I have certain stipulations. I'm looking for a certain color. - Well, right. - And I want a certain style, and anyway. I only buy one color of vehicle, period. - I'm a little, I'm a little snooty. - I'm not just, I don't, I never agreed with people saying, "Oh, we'll give you $500 if you take this one." No, no, you keep you $500. I want the color I want, I want the truck I want. - Well, that's like, Lorraine has made it perfectly clear when she gets her Bronco. This is exactly what I want in this book. - Right. - Yeah. - I'm gonna look at that $500 that we spent in the grocery store. I'm gonna have that truck for the next six years. - I will personally say, look, I want the blue truck, but look, if they can't find it, I'll take any color other than white or silver. White to me looks like a work truck, commercial truck, you know, and silver, that's what my cars are. I don't want silver. - And you saw my truck, that's the only color I've got. - Yeah, gray, you like gray. - I like green. - 'Cause you're gloomy. - My car's like-- - You look great 'cause you're gloomy. You're gloomy. - Are you gonna teach him how to drive, or what? - My wife, she only drives with my wife. - You only drive with you? - Huh? - Why won't he drive with you? - He doesn't like driving my truck. - Really? - Yeah. - But your wife drives a truck. - It's an SUV, he likes it. - All right. - Whatever. What are you gonna get 'em? - That's huge too. - You gonna buy 'em a little Honda? - Yeah. - Are you? - Probably yes, the one actually-- - I thought you wanted to get a little Camry, or a little Corolla. You gotta keep it in the Toyota definitely. - That's one of the other. He, I'm sure he's gonna throw our kids like the Civics. - I know. - That's all the options. That's all the options. - I know. - He asked me about my Tesla right now. - He stopped. - I'd be like, "Son, are you on drugs?" - No. - How about new? - We literally have a Tesla dealership down here in Claremont, which is-- - I've never seen a Tesla. There was one in Longwood. - I have-- - Where's the one in Claremont? - By Costos. - I was in Claremont the other day. We went to the floors and decor store. - That's where it is. - There's a Tesla dealer there? - Right there. - Oh, I didn't see it. - A little bit up to 50. - We're too busy looking at floors and decor. - Chores and decor. - That's where we live. - See, girl, past Costco, you went to floors and decorers and if you went up a little further, it would be a Tesla. - I was paying attention to my GPS, so I knew where I was. 'Cause 50 has grown so much. Like, I used to know 50 like the back of my hand and now I'm like, "Oh, where did this come from? "Who is this? What is that?" - Oh, and Costco first opened me, my wife had terrorized. We thought we'd never be able to get off the turnpike again, but it's all just Costco open. - What's the big mall over there by the Buffalo Wild Wings on 27? Is that Costco? - Yes. - Well, the Buffalo Wild Wings. - No, BJ, BJ. - Oh, you're a Buffalo Wild Wings, BJ. - Okay. - We go to BJ. - Did we meet there one time and have lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings? - Yes, yes, yes. - That's BJ's. - Oh, okay. - I like Costco. - I'm the Costco fan. - I'm a Costco fan. - I'm a fan. I'm not gonna drive that far to get a few things on again. - I don't buy it. - Well, the one closest to us is Altamon. We don't ever go there. So we're not even doing our membership. We might get Sam's, 'cause we got a Sam's club close to us. - I got BJ's. It's good enough. The few things we get, we get. - We don't have BJ's near us. The closest BJ's to me is in Sanford. - Yeah, that's where it is. Yeah, you're right. - That's right. - I don't even, and I went to BJ's once and I was like, if you've been a Costco member and then you go to BJ's, you're like, "What?" - No, I'm the first to agree. Costco's is better, but one. When I lived in Texas, they had a Sam's club attached to a super Walmart. It was like a mall. And then across the street was a place called Buds. And Bud was Mr. Walton's, Bill Walton's brother. And Buds was like the discount scratch and dent place. And that was like what the Walmart has become now. That's what that was. But when I lived in Texas, they had Sam's club attached to a Walmart and it was huge. - I could bet. - It was the best, the best. My wife, my ex-wife would spend so much money in there. - Now your wife spends money at Amazon. - But she doesn't like to go shopping. I love shopping. She's not a shopper. - I hate shopping. - I love it. Send me to the store. I was a mall rat when I was a kid, so. - Well, we were too, but now I don't like it. - I love it. I don't like malls. I don't know enough about the stores that are in malls. I mean, when I was a kid, it was Spencer's. You always had to go to Spencer's. And then there was JCPenney Sears in the food court and Sears and Macy's. And I remember when, was it Sears and Robux? That's what it was called, Sears and Starbucks. - We used to go there all the time. - And then, oh, Macy's used to be called Bamburgers. 'Cause my mom had a Bamburgers credit card and then it became Macy's. And it was the old credit cards where they used the knuckle busters on it, you know? - Right. - Yeah. - I was a kid with plenty of appliance business. We used to do that. - Yeah. Look, my dad bought all his tools. His whole kitchen was done from Sears 'cause he was 100% loyal to them. - But they were replacing for free if they broke up. - Yeah, my parents had a refrigerator. It was 40 years in the freaking house. Maybe not that long, but it was a long time. We grew up with this refrigerator. It had a little sticker on it from Sears that said, "Specially made for the Zackalock family." - That's neat. - I was like, "You know how I roll." - Hell yeah. - Anyway, all right. So, let's wrap it up. - Let's do that. Remember the next one? - We've talked enough. People are bored. I think they're sleeping. - Who's sleeping? - People watching us. - People watching us? No, no, they're weak. Keep them entertained. Wake up, little baby. - We keep them entertained. That probably will pop. - Yeah, no, no, no. No, no, but we had a good chat. I mean, you know, if Camilla wants to do this, Carmella, Camilla, Camelot, whatever her name is, I'm not sure. I think, look, if she tries to really push this 25% tax, I don't understand it enough to say I'm a pro at it, but I think she's gonna really push a lot of people away. If it's $100 million to start the 80% liquidity, it doesn't concern me. - No, it will in a couple of months, but you know. - Right. - Not right now, not right now. - I'm okay, I'll adapt. - Oh, we'll figure it out then. And I'm not gonna spend $100 million. - I got a great account. - I keep it in my bank. I keep it in my shorts under the bid. - My shorts. - My shorts. So listen, guys, check out Zachsworld226.com. Gotbackup.com. Check it out, tell me what you think. Join it, whatever, $9.97, it's 10 bucks. It's less than a freaking drink at Starbucks. - Ha ha, that's true. - I don't go to Starbucks, but I've been there a couple of times. My son goes there, I'm on the phone with him talking to my granddaughter. And I hear him pull up the Starbucks. He's like, can I get a mocha choker, latte, half cap, double cap, cup of BS? I'm like, what did you just order? - I don't know, but I need to just hand off. - And then I'll say, can I have your man card because you, my friend, no, no, it's just long. - That's it. - I have my cup of coffee in the morning. I actually drink this new mushroom coffee. Ooh, maybe we'll get them to sponsor us. I love it, it's very good. - Oh, who is that, Dutch brothers? - No, no, no, no. No, the mushroom coffee is called daily dose. - Daily dose. - It's very good for you. And it's half the caffeine, that regular coffee. But it's not even caffeine. It's the power from the mushroom. So you stay level all day. You don't have the caffeine spike and then crash by three o'clock, I'm ready to take a nap. - Nice. - Good stuff. - Sounds good. - I'm doing an ad for him and they're not even sponsoring us. - An ad sponsor. - A bunch of hooligans. But listen, guys, thanks for watching. Thanks for putting up with our shenanigans. Hopefully we'll have a nice guest next week. 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