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Urban City News Report: Cardi B Headlines, Global Protests, Climate Warnings, Trump’s Order, and Local Community Uplift

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Major Takeaways

Cardi B headlines for a major cause while balancing public scrutiny and fan reactions.
International protests in the Philippines, U.S. climate reports, and Trump’s executive order dominate global and national news.
Local U.S. initiatives highlight support for minority-owned businesses, healthcare challenges, and community festivals

Urban City News Report: Cardi B Headlines, Global Protests, Climate Warnings, Trump’s Order, and Local Community Uplift

Urban City Fam, what’s your thoughts on Cardi B’s choices and what’s your favorite Cardi B era? Are you excited to see her headline for this cause or do you see her clock on the wall? Drop your thoughts and tag us at Urban City Podcast. Also, model Karlie Kloss and husband Joshua Kushner welcomed their third child, a baby girl named Rae Florence, sharing an endearing picture on social media. Urban City Fam, how do you balance privacy and joy with public life? Do you think it’s smart to still be sharing pictures of your children online in this AI age, especially if you’re a celebrity? Share your own concerns or parenting stories and tag us at Urban City Podcast.

As we broaden our scope globally, international news outlets reveal that mass demonstrations are spreading across the Philippines, particularly Black Friday walkouts in Manila. Citizens are demanding transparency and accountability amid allegations of corruption and misuse of infrastructure funds. And the World Health Organization’s updated international health regulations have officially come into effect worldwide, strengthening international cooperation for public health emergencies after lessons learned from COVID-19.

Back here in the United States, national news reports show that Nevada has reached a settlement with RealPage, accused of enabling illegal coordination on rental pricing. The company must now use anonymized and delayed data to avoid manipulating markets. Urban City Fam, do you believe tech tools in real estate help or harm renters? Share your experiences and tag us at Urban City Podcast.

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine states that the scientific evidence for climate change is beyond scientific dispute. It emphasizes that the U.S. is already seeing worsening impacts, wildfires, extreme weather, etc., and warns that current climate extremes will soon become the norm unless emission cuts are accelerated. Urban City Fam, what are you doing to lower your carbon footprint and how can you lower emissions in general? What can you cut back on? Every little bit helps.

Share your thoughts and tag us at Urban City Podcast. And yesterday, September 22, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order labeling Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The order directs federal agencies to increase investigations and prosecutions tied to individuals associated with Antifa.

Critics argue the move may chill free speech and protest rights. Also, President Trump is scheduled to soon meet Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer as the deadline for government funding looms. Talks include ACA and Medicaid debates.

Urban City Fam, do you believe Trump made the right move this time or is this just another attack on free speech? Also, which government services do you feel must be protected most if a shutdown occurs? Tell us and tag us at Urban City Podcast. In state news, our focus today is Kentucky. The city of Louisville is launching a 20 million dollar program for tech grants and incubators to support Black and Latino-owned small businesses, closing the digital divide and fueling entrepreneurship.

And in eastern Kentucky’s coal counties, rural clinics are still struggling with staffing shortages and transportation barriers. Telehealth is expanding, but broadband gaps remain a serious obstacle. Now, Kindred, it’s time to see what kind of fun is waiting to be had this weekend.

You and the kids might enjoy the Florida Panhandle Seafood and Music Festival. It starts Friday in Panama City Beach, Florida and runs September 26th through 28th, 2025. It’s a seaside festival with live music, seafood vendors, family rides, and local art booths all along the beach strand.

Want something to do without the kiddos? Check out the Portland Moonlight Market, held Saturday, September 27th, 2025 in downtown Portland, Oregon. Experience Portland’s streets lit up with craft cocktails, artisan stalls, food trucks, live DJs, plus after-hours shopping. And if you’re near Nashville, Tennessee, drop in this weekend at the Nashville Main Street Festival, held September 27th through 28th, 2025.

It’s a community-driven festival with live bands, street food, art vendors, and a vibrant night market atmosphere. Urban City Fam, which event feels more like your vibe? Seafood on the beach in Florida, a moonlit market in Oregon, or the Nashville Main Street Festival in Tennessee? If you go, share your picks and tag us at Urban City Podcast. We may feature your highlights.

Kindred, before we close, let’s step back for a moment. For the past couple of weeks, our nation has been rocked by disturbing news at what seems like a non-stop basis at times. The investigation into a Delta State University student found hanging and another male found hanging elsewhere in the state of Mississippi has community members and public figures like Ben Crump and Colin Kaepernick demanding transparency and justice.

These deaths, pointing to historical echoes of lynchings across America and especially in Mississippi, can’t be ignored and will not be allowed to be swept under the rug without a full investigation and second autopsy. At the same time, attacks on the First Amendment are raising alarms. Reports surfaced of Donald Trump pushing Jimmy Kimmel off the air, Disney and ABC along with others threatening to cancel other shows, and then people rushing to cancel Disney Plus and other subscriptions, even crashing Disney’s website with a flood of cancellation inquiries.

So now the bigwigs are said to be restarting Kimmel’s program run today. Critics are demanding to fight against these efforts to intimidate free press voices and control narratives, and I applaud them. Meanwhile, some political operatives stir talk of division even further among the people and civil war attempts to distract from what many see as the real issue, whether Trump himself should be recalled through impeachment.

Let’s be clear, the record is long, but here are just five key things Donald Trump has done that stands out as undeniable grounds for impeachment. Inciting the January 6th insurrection and failing to protect Congress. Pressuring election officials in Georgia to find votes to overturn results.

Obstructing justice by refusing subpoenas and destroying records. Profiting from the presidency by steering taxpayer funds to Trump properties. And endangering national security by mishandling classified documents.

Urban city fam, remember every attempt to divide, distract, and silence is designed to keep us from accountability, security, and a stable democracy. Stay vigilant, analytical, and informed. Now, Kendrick, regardless of today’s report coming to a close, remember that every headline here is more than just news.

It’s a signal that progress is happening, that challenges are being met, and that each of us has a role to play in shaping tomorrow. From celebrity moments to happenings abroad to national news and ground-level stories in our states, this and every Urban City News Report is produced to remind us that resilience, creativity, unity, and action are always viable aids to longevity that depart no further from us than one perspective away. This concludes today’s Urban City News Report.

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This Month in Real Estate Investing August 2025 (Fraud, Power, Closure, Collapse, and Blood!)

Antonio Holman — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:25:15 +0000

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3 Major Takeaways:

Economic uncertainty and a weakening dollar are prompting experts to advise investors to move capital into hard assets like real estate, gold, and Bitcoin, while cautioning against over-leverage.
Major news events, such as the shooting of a Blackstone executive, can trigger short-term market spooks and redemption requests, highlighting the fragility of investor confidence.
The rise of AI is creating both disruption and opportunity in commercial real estate, with tech hubs like San Francisco seeing a surge in leasing, but also posing new due diligence challenges for investors.

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go to accelerate capital.com. Uh, in this episode, we’re going to be breaking

down a variety of real estate investing news items, including Blackstone executive shot, fund fallout, Trump

order opens 401ks to crypto and real estate, and Ray Dallio warns against

real estate in current economy. Uh, don’t forget if you’re watching live on YouTube, you can share your thoughts and

questions during the show and we can answer those. Uh, let’s go ahead and start the show.

Heat. Heat.

[Music]

All right. Today we’ve got Dave Foster jumping in

as a a repeat guest. Uh Scott Royal Smith and we may have Eric Burns hopping

in a little bit later. Um Dave, you want to start out and just let people know your background in investing? what types

of investing you focus on, then Scott can jump in. So, I either did something really right

or really, really wrong if you’ve invited me back. I don’t know which, but uh yeah, you know, I am an addin

infected real estate junkie and that’s really sums it up. I’ve dabbled in

everything. But 25 years ago, I had an aha moment and I realized that while

it’s true that you make your money in real estate when you buy, the old

mantra, right, that actually the most important thing is how much you keep at

the end. And that’s when I started diving into tax code usage, in

particular the 1031 exchange, and started spending my life using 1031

exchanges for my benefit and for the benefit of clients, helping them keep tax dollars working for themselves. So,

I do real estate. I live real estate, but I’m also a nerdish little accountant who uh likes to keep money in our

pockets instead of giving it to the government. Awesome. Thanks, Scott.

Yeah. Uh, yeah. So, my name is Scott Royal Smith. I’m actually an attorney and real estate investor. I, uh, bought

my first, uh, business and piece of real estate when I was actually in law school. It was a transmission auto repair shop, which I rehab the building

and the business and flipped it to graduate from law school without debt and continued to invest in real estate

as I was working as an attorney. Um, made enough money doing that that I like had a soft retirement and then figured

out that there was a whole bunch of other problems with wealth. around how do you do more advanced work with taxes,

scaling your real estate, how to automate that with teams, and that’s my company now, Royal Legal Solutions,

which is a fractional family office for people making over 300K a year as household income.

Fantastic. Cool. And people can reach out to you guys at the end of the show. We’ll have you share how they can

contact you. Um, thanks again for coming back, guys. This is going to be awesome.

Let’s dive into the news. Uh from the Texas Tribune, Texas Senate approves

bill to protect Texans from real estate fraudsters. Um said they’re you’re talking about

requiring county clerks to verify information, which you’d think that they already would have been doing,

right? Why would we ever think that it’s important to identify who’s recording a

deed? I don’t know. Yeah. for something as big as a real estate transaction.

That’s crazy. Yeah, this is one of those things where someone jumped up and said, “Hey, there

ought to be a law.” Which is right. There ought to be something. The problem is every time you say there ought to be

a law, then you find another reason to create another law on top of it. Um

something that could be solved very easily, right? With an ID. Yeah,

I think like so like to take it as like pointing counterpoint on it, right? Is like I think everybody agrees, right,

that we would say well we want transactions to be like safe and secure. Now the question is is is like is we

already have criminal penalties on the books though it’s already fraud. It’s already criminal to like to to create a

fraudulent instrument, right? So then the question in my mind says well what are we going to gather by creating like

additional criminal penalties for something right? So like why why do we

need it? Like is it um I think a lot of times I the one thing

that bothers me is a lot of times when we start creating like legislation to be able to say we’re going to create legislation to increase penalties but

it’s actually not going to solve the problem any better. So what did we actually get is we actually ended up like as a misdirection that happens. He

says, “We actually don’t know how to what we’re going to do to, you know, whatever this underlying problem is. So,

we’re just going to do something and that’ll make all the people that are upset about it happy.” But it didn’t

actually fix anything. Yeah. And that’s like the most annoying part of government. I’m a limited government guy. So, like creating more laws to fix

stuff for me, I’m offended. I’m like, “Well, is it really going to do anything?” Well, because every time you create a law, there’s going to be people that are

going to be finding ways around that. So, if we already have enforcement in place, why not just use that? By the

way, as you guys know, this is going through Florida now that there’s a move to make a Florida realtor’s license a

statutory ID for a regular transa

what do you mean? What does that mean? The Florida driver’s license or the Florida the Florida realtor’s license is

going to count as a legal ID. Oh, like your driver’s license, you can

substitute it. The reason is not everybody in Florida has a driver’s license.

[Applause] Yeah. [Laughter]

Well, that’s interesting. I don’t know. I don’t know where all this ID like any ID stuff will really go. typically

whenever you create more restrictions like if you create like voter identification that was like how was

like the was the big the GOP stuff it’s like we want more voter ID right and it’s always pushed upon the fact that

it’s like well if we have more identification more barriers people have to go through we’re going to have more security right but anytime you increase

security you also displace people that are good actors but don’t meet the

security requirements right so even so in these kinds of things you’ll I think when if you anytime you I don’t know

here like how much of a difference that’s going to make for you know I having people have ID for recording

deeds and whatnot. Um but it does add like an extra piece now that everybody’s going to have to do a closing and that

means that there’s extra stuff that has to get checked. So, you know, there’s it’s a small thing, but um I mean,

particularly with people that are like low income or like elderly people that are trying to like navigate the system,

uh otherwise, the more things that they have to do to be able to do the transaction, the more difficult it

makes, right? For all of us that are like smart, capable like business people or whatever, it’s not going to be a problem, right? But you start like a lot

of things like is there impacts on the fringes that we should be concerned about to like create another law to then

have more penalties in place when we already have laws that have penalties for that kind of behavior. You know, why would we take extra steps

to disenfranchise people?

Call me a lawyer and a debater, but you know stand. That’s a stand I’ll take on that point. Yeah.

All right, let’s go to the next one from United States real estate investor. Manhattan executive shot dead $53

billion Blackstone fund faces fallout shock. So this the one we highlighted at

the beginning. So Blackstone’s executive Wesley Leatner

um was shot. I guess it said the shooter Shane

Tamura, a former football player with documented mental illness, cited NFL

related trauma as his motive, which it’s like that’s not a motive, right? Like

it’s he might have some issues going on, but that doesn’t relate to like why he

shot this guy. So that’s kind of weird. But like in the article they’re talking

about the investors all getting a little spooked and

um redemption requests get trying to get their money back out is uh becoming a

problem because of that. Do you think like they all just get spooked because the like you know

leadership different leadership right? Yeah. Yeah. No one’s steering the ship.

Yeah. Right. Or or somebody else is steering the ship. They they don’t know what’s

Oh, wait. Uh oh, that was a woman. Antonio says, “Besley is a woman with a

typically male’s name.” Interesting.

You know, I think um I don’t want to make too much of a link of it, but the

United Healthcare incident of a few months ago, you know, very very similar. You’ve got a high level executive

who is murdered and there’s there’s a practical aspect and

then there’s the the overarching theme. The practical aspect is look what look

what happened to United Healthcare over the last three months. They’ve come back pretty nicely. Um which just goes to

show that if you’re a multi-billion dollar company, honestly one executive

is not going to make the company. Yeah, good point. But the overarching theme here though is why is this

starting to happen? And I just kind of wonder, I don’t know, Scott, there seems to be a growing divide. You’ve you

already started talking about it in terms of ID and disenfranchisement,

but if people are starting to feel disenfranchised and unable to affect their own lives,

are they reaching out in anger? And these are the kind of things that start to happen. And if so, how do we how do

we prevent it before it becomes an epidemic?

Yeah, I don’t know. I mean, I think I think there is like a disenfranch disenfranchisement that’s happens, but

it’s like um you know, what does it mean when the populace starts killing off the

oligarchs? Exactly. Like that’s that’s like what we’re starting to see, right? is and we and

what do we we get for it as news is saying like all these people are crazy, right? But what if they’re actually not

so crazy, right? Like it’s easy if you’re the people that are like the ones that are trying to tell like craft the

narrative about what it is to just be like, “Oh, these are just like random outliers of like crazy people that are targeting, but it’s like these are

strange people to target, right?” Like, but you’re just targeting like the high-profile ones. I think that to me

that’s the the bigger underly I mean one of the bigger like underlying points of what we’re starting to see a lot now in

the United States is what are we actually really finding out right is we’re finding out is that wages are stagnant inflation is actually much

higher than anybody is actually talking about all you got to do is walk to Walmart or go to McDonald’s and see that your dollar drink is now a $150 inside

of like a year right and and then you start looking at that say well the wages aren’t going up

and nobody’s there’s no real like relief on any of that front so now all of a sudden you know, we’re actually the

majority of America now is like much poorer and we have other and then there’s ma massive problems that are

happening where like the United States had a slip in its credit rating globally is now having problems being able to

maintain itself as a world reserve currency. So the the ability to be able to essentially tax the world by being a

world reserve currency and channel all that money to us is also going away. Um, and I think people are actually, you

know, they might not know about all of those downstream economic impacts, right? But what they are feeling is I

think is like a sense of hopelessness that they actually can really change anything anymore. And then that’s where

you get this kind of behavior of who can you blame? Well, who can you go after? And it’s like, well, the only people to go after are

corporations. Whoever whoever I identify as the head of the corporation seems to be the ones that people are like, if I

attack that person, then that’s the person that makes the most quote unquote sense to go after as the one that is

responsible. Yeah. Sometimes it’s people with manifestos

and absolutely we could call them the crazies. But I think what we’re starting to see

are the upsurgence of those people who are

feeling it inside their homes. Whether they’ve been denied health care, whether

they’ve had a home foreclosed, whether they feel out of control. And none of

this behavior is right. But what do you do when you feel absolutely hopeless and

powerless and you controlling the narrative? That was

a great phrase because that’s exactly what it is. We are putting these people

the 1% on a pedestal and they’re controlling the narrative.

So if you don’t have any control, you’re going to go after who does, aren’t you?

Yep. And somehow we’ve got to bring our nation back to where it’s a

nation of finding solutions rather than seeking exits. I guess you know

just uh this just in I guess he was aiming to shoot NFL officials in the

same building and so this was just a byproduct. So he wasn’t some no one

was after him. But it makes you think though like Blackstone, you know, they’re kind of

the big bad, you know, fund affecting real estate um

buying up single family homes, turning them into rentals. Um they used to have

a rent to own program um through home partners, which is kind of a direct

competitor with what I do. They actually just backed out of the the market at the beginning beginning easy for me to say

beginning of the year. Um I’ve got some speculations about why um I know there

was a lot of upset people with that specific program. Um there’s whole

Facebook group uh targeting them and they’re unhappy been kicked out of their

homes or whatever. A guy or a woman like this could be a target, you know. So,

you know, we’re aren’t going to solve the healthc care crisis today. But if this really was a situation of CTE, then

again, that’s a neglected health issue. Yeah. And if people can’t get good healthcare,

what are you going to do, right? Yeah. I just saw Anthem uh was shutting down like most of their

programs in Colorado where I am. They were leaving a couple. So, somebody’s

going to get affected by that. Yeah. And I’d be careful about like looking at what people are using as

defense points for like what truth is. Right? When we talk about like a CTE for example, that’s a criminal defense thing

that I’d raise like as an attorney to say like my client’s client’s crazy because he got knocked on the head too many times. So you can’t really hold him

as accountable for shooting all of those people, right? But the the reality might be really different, right? About

where’s the truth? What’s what’s actually like happening, right? You know, well then how do we know that?

Yeah. You can’t you who who’s going to know that that’s actually whatever it is, right? It’s obviously something a lawyer made up, you know, and that then

that they run with. But it’s um, you know, there’s there it’s it’s

interesting, you know, because like with highlighting withdrawals without something that somebody who’s as powerful as Blackstone to have a huge

amount of withdrawals happening like that, like it makes me wonder about if there’s like some type of like systematic fragility inside of like the

REIT pieces anyway, right? To say like, well, it’s just one guy. We all know

corporations hot swap people out. You know, is it just a short-term spook because you had a lot of faith in the

one guy even or is it, you know, some type of other other issue that’s, you

know, um, you know, causing people to, uh, you know, spook like that? But, you know, who knows? No, that’s a great point because one

thing we do know is that as you get later into a real estate market, your REITs struggle to continue to perform as

well as they have early. So there could very well have been a bunch of people dissatisfied

with the earnings at this part of the market cycle. So what are they going to do? Look for an excuse to exit.

Yeah. You know the sky’s is falling. Let me help. Yeah. Yeah. Could just be timing, not just that executive, right? And Blackstone’s

huge. They’re in all sorts of stuff. Real estate and Blackstone like some of the one of the

most powerful entities like in the country. Yeah. In the world. Yeah. Yeah. And like definitely like in the

world, right? Like Yeah. They’re like in charge. Yeah. Stuff, you know, really if we go off air in five seconds, we’ll

know. Yeah. So, yeah. I think I like Dave’s

point to that, though. It’s like maybe it’s just an excuse to exit and it actually doesn’t mean much besides just another example of people trying to find

a reason to weasel out. Yep. Yeah. Let’s go to our next one. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Feds charge

Milwaukee businessman with securities violations, defrauding investors.

Um, Joseph Nantoma allegedly defrauded investors through

three companies that raised 1.9 million from 30 individuals,

including nine in Wisconsin. Let’s see. Um, he allegedly spent at least 80% of

investor funds on personal expenses. Uh there’s that’s that’s not good. Um and

then he misrepresented here’s the big one. He misrepresented his portfolio

claiming 23 million in assets while the ownership records only showed like a

million. So he was he was defrauding them for sure. And it

makes me wonder, it says many of the victims were members of the Nigerian American community.

Um, and his last name, Nantom.

He was he’s from Africa somewhere. Um, but I’m wondering if he’s like defraing his own people, right? Like that’s

that’s not nice. It’s not nice to defraud anybody, but his own countrymen maybe. I don’t know.

Um I suppose if you’re trying to gain confidence, that’s where you’re going to

go is to people who know you the best. Yeah, that’s the easiest route. Um you know, my initial reaction just

wants to be this is another case of it’s easy to say there ought to be a law,

but the law already exists. And the real question in my mind is if you’re what

about these investors? What level of due diligence were they doing?

Yep. It’s awfully easy to to give money to someone because you don’t want to go

through the due diligence and then something happens that’s a bad event and

it’s not your fault. And I mean, if the guy’s living high on the hog and doing all that stuff, yeah,

throw the book at him. But there’s ways to do that. Yeah. But people should also take some

personal responsibility. If it’s all in one little area, how many people are going to look at those houses and

wondering why the deed didn’t show his name on it or wondering how come repairs haven’t

started on this house. I mean, there’s a whole lot more to this story than it appears, but the guy was

obviously a bad actor. Yeah. Yeah. I didn’t dig into it to see if it was, you know, 506b or C

syndication. Like you said, there’s there’s rules around all that stuff. And so maybe he

wasn’t even doing that. He was doing like some kind of JV thing just where he

wasn’t, you know, under the thumb of the SEC. So

yeah, but if they’re just private investors that aren’t accredited,

of course they’re they’re not going to know the questions to ask those due diligence kind of questions, but they

should. I think like highlights a lot of too is like the um there’s just not a lot of education. I think especially

when you’re looking at minority and immigrant communities that there’s there’s not really any anybody that really reaches out and

teaches anybody about finance as much. You know, especially as something like I work with uh you know the average client

that we work with in my company is typically making somewhere between like 300k to like 1.5 million a year. And

then what I find is that they don’t actually really truly understand syndications and like limited

partnership interests, much less how to do like due diligence in that area. Like most people are actually just

throwing money at the wall with stuff that they saw for marketing and like a good sales call and a slide deck, but

they don’t have like a lot of background. And these are I mean these are people, you know, talking about like

rich white dudes, you know, and then that’s as good as they’re doing a lot of the time, right? I think like like they

probably I mean maybe it’s not in the same vein same vein of like how risky it is to just invest with your Nigerian

buddy who lives on the street that’s in your when you’re in a Nigerian community like maybe but it’s um you know that the

education isn’t there like there’s not the outreach and education on the financial side of things for people that are in that those kind of communities

and those kind of income brackets. It also doesn’t really exist all that well for the the vast scope of actually what

we would consider people that are supposed to be educated that are making these types of investments anyway. And

um you know I would I I you know if we if we had all believed that there’s

going to be troubles in the stock market like coming going forward with the way things are like shaping up on the

economic uh side of side of things that I think you’re going to end up with like a whole very potentially like a whole

problem of like the emperor has no clothes. all the like a ton of deals are going to pop because they had

assumptions not based upon like that those types of economic and financial conditions coming up and then this

question that we have here is like how could anybody have done this how could you have invested in this and we’ll be

looking at each other saying oh well I guess we all we all got got well and I’ll add a demographic to to

what you just said the youth in America as well we are not bringing up our young

people to be financially literate it and that it’s going to have just as big an

impact for decades going on. And but they’re very susceptible to I love the

dart throwing analogy, right? Every Tik Tocker and influencer that comes along has a different idea on how you can make

money or what happens when you put Mentos in Diet Coke.

And we somehow got to far the truth out and start to educate people. Yep. And actually, this is going to be

interesting because I think there’s a couple other news stories coming up that we’re going to talk about that speak to this exact thing.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. That’s our mission here, you know, with this show and our the United States real estate investor

platform is educate people. They’re not getting this kind of stuff in school.

So, we believe like you guys, it’s it’s needed. So in the chat somebody said uh

I know a Nigerian guy and he said that that country is absolutely loaded with

scammers which is a big reason he left the country. So I mean we’ve all probably gotten the Nigerian prince

emails right like they’re kind of known for for targeting us. So that guy

actually left his own country. So, you would think that these Nigerian investors would already be kind of on

the alert because they’re aware of kind of that. Yeah. I mean, that’s like getting like like hustled by your like brother-in-law

or something, though. You know, you’re like, “Oh, you know.” Yeah. You don’t you don’t think that way when it’s somebody you know.

Yeah. You know, when it’s somebody you know, you’re like, “Oh, like generally people are like this, but this guy’s

different.” You know, right? Yeah. Family. Yeah. You know, well, so this Oh, go ahead. No, no, I’m

just kidding. I like Yeah, it could be your wife. It could be anybody, you know. But I was like, I was just making like a jaded 40-year-old joke. Don’t

worry about it. He’s such a young pup.

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United States government sues Richmond Hill real estate developer for destroying Native American artifacts and

human remains. So it said that more than 80,000

artifacts were mishandled and 3,000 were lost or discarded while human remains

were misplaced or improperly treated.

I don’t know what went on there, but so I don’t hopefully Are you hearing all

the noise in the background? Yeah, a little bit. Is that Blackstone knocking on your door? Yeah.

Yeah, dude. You got the NFL? What’s up, bro? Yeah. Just put put a couple rounds to the door

and then I’m sure everybody will quiet down. Yeah.

I’m not saying it will come with other problems, but it’ll definitely get you quiet.

Oh my goodness. So, I got to tell you, I’ve got some sympathy for that developer. Yeah.

Because the longest year of my life was the three days after my road crews dug

up a body building a road in our in one of our subdivisions. Oh.

And I the pain is real because the very first thing that happens everything’s shut down.

Mhm. And then it starts sorting out. And our project was located right on the Oregon

Trail um near a city. So it could have been anybody, anything. But the Native

American tribes get involved, the government gets involved, the FBI gets

involved, the state bureau of investigation gets involved, the local community gets involved, the

architectural um historical uh entities get involved and you are

very seriously in danger of losing all of your work and the land in that

project. It’s a real fear. Now, fortunately for us, 3 days later, the

state ar the state archaeologist came out, spent 5 minutes, and said, “Oh, yeah, it’s a settler.” How do you know?

Because there were coffin nails around the skeleton. Oh, interesting. Yeah, that was the only way to tell. So,

we knew that it had been buried in a coffin. So, it was not Native American. So, we were free to go ahead. Yeah. But

when you look at the mass of bad things and contradictory

advice and laws, how’s that developer supposed to proceed? I mean, I heard I

heard from tons of people saying, “Dude, get the bulldozer going again and make sure that never happened.”

Well, that’s equally wrong as well, isn’t it? So, he’s torn between those voices in his ear and the voices have

shut it down. Give us the land. It’s a burial ground. so mishandled

according to what laws and statutes. It’s, you know, again, it’s one of those things where I get the sentiment and we

want to preserve culture, but sometimes there’s an overount of legislation and overstep that it

provides causes real harm. Yeah. To you as the developer. Yeah. I where I got all the gray hair, every bit

of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can’t imagine like some of these big projects how much money you’re bleeding every hour, right?

But when you’re working on thin margins, it could just Yeah. You’re done. Your whole company goes up. It’s not just

that project even, right? Like interesting. Well, that that’s cool. I’m

glad Well, I’m not glad that you went through that pain, but I’m glad you had some feedback on that for the show.

Yeah, that one hit close to home. That was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, Scott, did

you want to add something to that before we take Yeah, I just I think what they should do is have some something that’s other than

the court system to be able to or some type of like streamline legislation. You know, you need some type of expedited

legislation to be able to handle um any of these type of like tribal issues, I think, with artifacts or mishandling the

remains because yeah, it’s balancing the interest, right? that you need something set aside. If you’re going to say that

like that we’re going to show the respect to the Native Americans or or to those people or any people about how

we’re going to treat like the remains and we’re going to say cool as a society we’re going to stand behind that. We’re going to offer some level of respect,

you know, to that then also make it like workable by uh creating stuff that allows us to more expeditiously like

move through the process if that pops up than saying we need a multi-year court battle, right? Um, I think it of

anything what ends up happening more often than not is that a lot of the legislation actually gets created as

like a feel-good and like of a should that we should do, but it doesn’t actually get worked on enough to make it

really functional. So, we’re we’re caught in like the place of of uh people did enough so that they

wouldn’t feel bad, but they didn’t do enough so that way it would actually work well.

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from CNBC. What the end of Energy Star could mean for commercial real estate.

Looks like there’s potential elimination of the whole Energy Star program. It’s part of the EPA budget cuts. Um, I don’t

really know anything about how that all works. Do you guys?

Well, energy start crosses across real estate um into all sorts of things, things like appliances and equipment and

stuff. There’s all energy store and much of that as well. So, it’s really all about

energy efficiency. Um, I’m wondering, I’m not that deep into it myself, but

the whole lead certification, green building, and the attempt to quantify that is

what’s going to become difficult because you’re going to have a builder now who’s going to say, “Well, my building that

I’m going to sell to you is this efficient.” And it could be the Wild West again

without standards. What does that mean from them? So, you know, again, it’s one of those

things where honestly in a very free and flexible market, it’ll sort itself out.

You know, the builders are not going to be allowed. They’re not going to sell bad buildings that are leaking energy

for very long before they’re caught. But we keep coming back to this theme of

layer upon layer of legislation and control and regulation and it’s just

sometimes it’s best to let the market go, sort the bad actors out, get rid of them.

Yeah, you hadn’t thought about that. like that they’re it’s not like they’re being

forced to implement all these things, but it’s a guideline to help them build

value into their commercial properties both for operational efficiencies as

well as when they go to sell. That’s there’s they can So why is it my responsibility

to pay taxes so you can build equity in the building that you’re going

to sell? You know, I kind of actually I mean it’s the wild west, but you got to love what

Trump’s doing. Taking percentages of a company if you know exchange for

allowing them to produce or sell in certain markets. Hey, why not? If you’re

gonna make money off of it, maybe the American people get a piece of it. No,

but to pay that kind of money for a program that was solely voluntary and

for their benefit doesn’t seem very wise. Is that what we really want? I mean I

mean to that point though, I mean I know this a little offshoot of like for for Energy Star, right? But like Dave, you brought up the point about saying like,

hey, you know, they get like a piece of the company, right? Like they got like a a chunk of it, right? And like to me

like it’s it’s it’s an interesting argument. I was a Hillsdale graduate, right? So I don’t know if you guys know about Hillsdale College, but it’s

probably one of the most conservative colleges in the United States. Like we take you go in there taking like Eastern

and Western heritage classes. You have a whole semester on just on the Constitution, political science, like

those types of things, right? And I always wonder about the fact as as it seems to me like and it’s like um you

know if you went to like libertarian and conservative you it’s tough to beat like the hard lines that Hillsdale runs right

and I was always under the impression that like the GOP and and Republican sector of like thinking was always about

like really small government right and it’s to me it’s a really a big shift

right uh because like from what D the the the line that Dave is saying like, “Hey, why not, right? Why not why not

get a piece or whatever?” Because that’s actually the opposite of what small government is. That’s actually socialism.

Absolutely. Socialism is what runs when it says the government is going to also or communism also own all of the industries.

And it’s wild to me actually to hear from my like GOP friends like in here,

right, that are like, “Oh, no. We like that that that Trump did that.” It’s like, okay, that’s really wild because I

thought you were also against these other these other ideologies about like a government that’s super controlling.

Um, and I think there’s like a big there’s like a flip that’s happening ideologically that I actually don’t know where to place about who’s going to

believe what anymore. I have no idea how to predict who what’s going to come the next thing that’s going to come out of

anybody’s mouth because it’s like scattershot to the wind of it. So I mean I guess my question to is is this the

country we really want to move forward with where the people that are making the rules and the regulatory rules are

also able to come in and tell companies that like hey you need to give give us some ownership of your company and if

they don’t agree to it then what? Well, here’s where the flame mail starts

because take that one step further and say, well, the reason why, what’s the

reason why this is all being done? Because then the more dollars channel

through the government and the few people that are controlling that, so

then they have access and the ability to direct that money as well. So, that was

a rhetorical why not, Scott. I’m with you, brother. Smaller is better. And no,

you’re right. It’s a step towards socialism. But I honestly think we need to go back. And I thought we started to

make a start on it, but it’s fizzled out. We’ve got to go back and dig out the further roots because socialism

doesn’t happen in one legislative session. Socialism happens slowly with a thousand

little cuts at a time. Um, but part of that is when someone says, back to the

Energy Star, hey, would you spend government money to create this program

so that I can sell my product for more? That’s not small government either.

Yeah. Like there’s there’s no doubt in the history of like the way that this whole system is set up right now that

corporations are able to essentially get handouts from the government that benefit the corporations. That the whole

system is predicated on this which is why the corporations actually fund all of the politicians. That’s why we have

things like the Citizen United case that allows them to do this. They actually created the legal architecture to allow

themselves to funnel money to the government and then get kickbacks inside of legislation that allows them that

basically hands them money, right? To be able to um oil companies have done this. This is now like energy and real estate

sector that we’re talking about now. It’s fundamental the way that the US economy is actually like predicated on

working. It’s why a lot of people will talk about say, “Well, we’re trying to figure out what what is really real about the way the economy works and the

way that the the political system works and says,”Well, if you scratch too far below the surface, as as Dave is getting

into, you might find out that it’s actually a corportocracy that all there ever was is like a few companies and

power holds that control most of the money that ends up flowing through to be able to get the the kickbacks that they

want to into the right spaces for their own business interests.” Right? And with that, we just entered the

matrix. Scary, isn’t it? I I don’t think it’s so far down. I

think it’s actually just one scratch below the surface. Follow the money. Because if that’s is that right, if you

just said one little rule is like, do you believe people are motivated by how much money they make in America at

whatever level of wealth they are, they seem to be pretty freaking motivated by how much money they’re going to make,

right? Say, great. And if you were in this position and you were trying to make as much money as you possibly

could, would you what would you do given this layout? And anybody would be like,

“Oh, yeah. Well, I would just give the money to this guy so he’ll give me back a bunch of money.” Like it’s not that

complicated. Yeah. And you don’t even need collusion. Like

there’s a whole thing about like people are like, “Ah, it’s like it like what about the conspiracy?” And I was like, “You don’t need like George Carlin said

it best. You don’t actually need people talking to each other to collude as long as all of their interests aligned.

You don’t need a big meeting. All you have to do is have the same playing field and everybody comes to the same

conclusion that says, “Yeah, we’ll go do that.” Yeah,

George Carlin. I know. I miss that bastard.

He He knew how to poke the bear. Yeah, dude. He was great. He was great. So, what do you guys think

about um privatizing Energy Star? I mean,

commercial real estate developers could just put some money behind a privatized

version of that if it’s benefiting them, right? I think privatize it. I don’t think you

actually need as many like nearly as many like public national good stuff,

you know, like at all. like why why why have this stuff be subsidized?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean you um yeah privatization

sometimes is a misnomer. Um look at Moody’s. Moody’s was a supposedly

private rating company but yet they were totally in bed with the investment banks

all the way up to the federal government. So they were the ones that were rating all of that junk bonds and

the mortgage back securities in 2007 as AAA. So

buyer beware or do we just maybe let the market play

out? That’s a tough one. the you know there’s like a there’s a

balance in here right Dave about like that people are actually pretty uneducated

that comes back to that doesn’t it right is that like we we live like in a a culture or society I mean I’m running

into like I mean I can’t I I keep bringing this up as to me because it’s mind-blowing about like how we cannot

assume that because people are making a lot of money or have a lot of money are successful in their careers that they

have a freaking clue about how all the other stuff works. right? That they know this segment, but

it doesn’t mean they’re actually that skilled in the rest of it, you know? So, I think the problem that we’re running

into is that you’re um people are fairly

fairly uneducated. There’s no real desire to get super educated. A lot of

everything seems to be way complicated for anybody to to stay on top of it. How do you even know what to pay attention

to? And then after all of that, like how do you even know what’s real or not even like saying like relative realness? What

about if that’s just slanted and they omitted facts, which is the majority of all of the news that we get from any any

major outlet unless you’re looking at competitive information sources about what it is and who’s doing that much

work really, right? So, I mean, there’s a there’s a place in here, too, where

it’s like, well, we need something that’s going to uh make our lives easy about not having to consume tons of

amounts of information all of the time just so that we don’t get bit. I don’t want to live like that, you know. Um,

and at the same time, you know, uh, I also don’t want it like where I got, uh,

you know, the strong hand of like government coming in to create so many like regulations and programs and whatnot that just turn out to be overly

cumbersome, i.e. the the what we just talked about with like the Native American artifacts. Right.

Right. You know, when the when the snake oil salesman rolled his wagon into town

in the 1800s, he didn’t last very long because he had to perform

in front of the people. He was living there. They knew him. Now, what did he do? Then when they wrote him out of

town, he went to another town. But at least they got to see him. That’s that

level of education. If we can look behind the curtain that far, and I don’t

know what the answer is, but Scott, you’re absolutely right, but if we can educate that much so that we can

recognize and then let the free markets do what they do, bad actors are not

going to last. But as long as they’re protected in this whole layer upon layer

of secrecy that some of which is government sponsored, what are you going to do?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, let’s go to the next

article. I’ve been waiting for this one from the Guardian. Trump signs order to

allow crypto and real estate investments in retirement plans.

You know, first of all, from the Guardian, really, we’re going to pull that as our as our source of integrity.

Scott, you deal with with the retirement accounts all the time. What do you think about that? Well, we were already able to do

investments in crypto and real estate with inside of 401ks, self-creed. Yeah. Yeah. With like solo 401ks and stuff

like that, right? And like people we’ve we set those up all the time for people to be able to manage those types of

investments directly on real estate, invest in REITs, do whatever they want to, you know, push money into crypto. So, you know, here like um you know,

what does this what does this really change, right? I think it makes it really where it’s like people it uh more

likely what this is actually really allowing to happen is that the financial advisors that are dealing with people are going to be able to recommend those

assets, right? And that’s huge, you know, and and that’ll make a monster difference, right? And

how they’re going to uh I think that that’s where you’ll end up like a ton of asset flow. I mean,

honestly, like I’ve ever since the more the one thing I know is you got more cash flowing into it, a direction that

increases market prices, right? simple like supply and demand. So, I mean, whatever my under underlying feelings

are about certain asset classes, sometimes I just like don’t care. I’m just like, that’s great. I’m gonna buy a

bunch of Bitcoin and Ethereum because they’re top three on crypto if we have

this much money that’ll likely be flowing into that sector. That sounds awesome. Especially when we like look at

underlying fundamentals like uh that the dollar slipping as like the world reserve currency, right? which tells us

like the weakening dollar uh is actually going to be a big a big problem for

people as like a storehouse of wealth. Like the according to some projections when you look at a combined like they

look at a combined inflation plus the dollar weakening and and this is I’m

talking about like today right where we’re saying like that’s about an 8% loss of value of how strong your dollar

is in terms of purchasing power inside of a year. We haven’t even hit what’s gonna happen when all of the Trump’s

tariffs kick in. When when all of the tariff stuff actually really starts to come into sway here in the next few months, like you

can clip me out for this is like my grand prediction. You’re going to have people freaking out about like what is

actually happening the price of goods and then and then where are people going to go to, right? If they see the

weakening dollar as a storehouse of value, then all of a sudden they’re say, “Well, I’m gonna store my money inside

of crypto because crypto isn’t gonna have the same type of weakening dollar issue

that we’re having on that front because it’s not just inflation. It’s also the relative purchasing power of the dollar

internationally.” And that’s a piece that I don’t think anybody is talking about. That is really the big one.

There’s a lot. Oh, go ahead, Dave. Well, I was just going to say the we are

Scott’s absolutely right. We’ve always had the ability to invest in these assets in certain qualified retirement

accounts. Those typical requirement accounts, I’m going to venture out on a limb and make

a generalization, were held and opened by more

sophisticated investors. folks that had an understanding of what

was possible. Then they reached out to learn how to do it and then they performed it. All this bill is going to

do is open the door for who? The unsophisticated

to invest in things they don’t understand. And yeah, I love my financial advisor. I

love financial adviserss. But always recognize they advise because

they get paid. And my worry, my absolute fear is that we

are going to see a nation’s generational wealth disappear

because of bad advice from financial advisors putting people into things that

they shouldn’t be in either because they’re paid or because they don’t understand them. Right? And let me take that one more

step. And the other bad event is going to be that when that happens, all of

those unsophisticated investors are going to say, “Well, it wasn’t my fault.

That advisor should have advised me.” And then we’re going to see the lawsuit start to happen. Which was why all of

this framework of the sophisticated and accredited investor came about

because that’s going to start to happen. Well, when that happens, what’s Fidelity going to do and all the other big firms?

They’re going to reign in their salesman. They’re going to say, “You are not allowed.” So, I really kind of

question whether this is going to do anything. So, you think like a Fidelity will kind of self-pol like they’re

they’re brand new financial planners might be like limited like, “Okay, you

guys don’t know what you’re doing. Maybe they’ll have specialists that do know more about crypto or real estate.

Well, even even now they’ve all got senior analyst teams. Sure. You’re not allowed to recommend something inside a firm unless that’s

been vetted by their analyst. So, right there, there’s already a limiting factor on that. Will they try

to expand that? Sure. But I think they’re going to be incredibly slow and incredibly conservative because the

potential backlash from remember it’s not that long ago how

many people started suing for predatory mortgage issues. So this is the this has the

potential to be the exact same thing. You should not have allowed me to invest in that.

Now yeah this is interesting.

Uh it was it one of our investors in one of our real estate deals, rent

own investing deals came to me. He was a friend of mine and he’s got a whole team financial

planners. And when I said, “Hey, I’ve got this opportunity. You want to invest?” He’s like, “Well, let me It

sounds great, but let me run it by my financial planner team.” And I was like, “Well, that’s that’s going to get killed

because they they can’t recommend real estate and they don’t make money off of it.” So then he came back and then his

like, “Yeah, they they’re all about it.” They said, “Go for it.” But also, they

as financial planners, they can’t re couldn’t recommend real estate, but they

are investors themselves. They get the power of it. And they had done some deals with my friend. And so he had

enough money where like they’re still making their money and they said go for it. So he’s he’s been my our biggest

investor actually multiple deals. So this well living in the world at the 1031

exchange. This happens all the time. Someone’s getting ready to sell a piece of property and there’s a substantial

tax bill. Well, they can save that tax and add that to their return if they

want doing a 1031 exchange, but they’ll talk to their financial advisor. They’ll say, “Not just sell it

and pay the tax. I can make you more in the market.” Yeah. Of course.

All of the money. They have their motivations, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You probably deal with

that all the time, huh? Interesting.

Uh, anything else you guys wanted to add to that before we go to our next?

I’m good on that one. All right, cool. From BuzzFeed via Yahoo Finance, this

frustrated real estate agents rant about the real cause of the housing crisis is

so spoton. Zachary Faustst, Delaware agent, turned

a viral Tik Tok voice, delivered a fiery rant about the housing

crisis. arguing that decades of policy shifts, Wall Street power, and institutional investors have overpriced

ordinary Americans out of home home ownership. Um, I guess I I didn’t watch that video,

but it sounds like you really did go on a rant. Um,

I mean, I feel like it’s like you’re I’m I’m curious about like actually like what’s like what’s really happening with

with this, right? because you find that there’s the major institutional buyers are the ones that are scooping up like

all of the housing and making it where it’s now unaffordable, right? So, it’s so they’re they’re buying up huge

tranches of underlying assets. You got to ask yourself like why, right? Like what why why and a lot of it

seems to have to do with some of the the potentially some of the tax advantages that they get from owning the real

estate are really attractive to them. Um, and but the the flip side of it is

by if you have institutional investors that are scooping up a lot of those houses too, it also helps stabilize what

would otherwise potentially be like a distressed housing market, right? Like that the institutional investors are

actually able are paying higher prices than the alternative which would be like what the younger people could afford. So

what does that actually equate to is that you have an artificially inflated housing price.

So the net result of that is actually you have the appearance of a stronger economy

because you actually you end up having because of what’s happening there. Right? So you know there’s there’s something to be

said for that too is like what is the interplay you know that is that’s really going on behind the scenes here between big corporations and governments um

potentially all laden around like tax benefits. The government says, “Cool, we’ll kick we’ll create this tax

incentive so you corporations will then come through and then buy up all of the housing so that way it’ll give us

appearance of a stronger economy because if we look like we have a weaker economy, our administration isn’t doing

so good.” And so we want that kind of stability. [Music] But on a on a micro level though, all of

those same benefits are available to Main Street.

Yep. They’re available to mom and pop that have two rentals. And actually, I

think we’re seeing a lot of that percentage. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but a a much larger

percentage than you would think are investors with fewer than 50 homes. Yeah, I actually looked that up because

I’d heard that before. So, yeah. um 27% of the homes sold in Q1 were to

investors, but when you break it down, um 20% are mom and pop main street

investors, like you said, have just a couple only two to two to 4% are the

institutional investors. So, it’s it’s not the black rocks that are just like taking over, you know, that’s a pretty

small percentage. Yeah. And and here’s why. because there’s always going to be a a a come and go, a give and take. We

give the tax benefits now, but when they sell, those tax benefits are recaptured.

And when those are recaptured, that’s going to generate. And so throughout, I’ve seen this in the aircraft industry as well. If the accountants get involved

and they say, “We need to stop owning assets. Let’s lease the planes.” and

somebody else says, “Fine, I’ll buy the planes and I’ll lease them to you.” And a few years later, those same

accountants say, “We need more tax writeoffs. Let’s start buying the planes instead of leasing them.” It’s going to

be ineb flow there. But what interested me about this guy, and I didn’t listen

to it, I just read the transcript. But no, a lot of what he’s complaining about is

stuff that just happens in a market. And if you’re not prepared, you can’t take

advantage of it. There was a huge complaint. He said, “People can’t afford to buy a house without co-ousing.”

And I don’t know about you guys, I’m the old guy in the in the room, but 40 years ago, if we if I wanted to buy a house

coming out of college, I had to take a roommate. Sure. That just is what it is. All of a

sudden, we’ve created a a narrative where everybody deserves their own house. No, you work your way up to it.

You get a roommate in rent. You get three roommates. You kick them out. You buy a house. You get paying roommates.

There are ways that you can build yourself up in this economy. Complaining

about them and ranting about them isn’t one of them. Yeah.

I wonder if like what it is that everybody’s really complaining about though is actually like something they feel but not something they’re thinking

about. I think what because to like elaborate on that like I I think what people are actually feeling is like why

is my you got everybody’s like grandpa and they’re like and it’s like oh grandpa you’re a bluecollar worker and

you could buy a house and raise a family and all all these other young people today there are saying like nope that’s

not possible I can’t buy a house and raise a family until when is everybody

able to make enough money so they can actually go do that you know if you if you start crunching through like how

much have real wages effective to prices? Have those actually really gone up in the last 30 years? Or has

everybody actually systematically been getting poorer? And that was what they’re really reacting to is this this

thing that’s happening that says like, well, it looked like in the past everybody was able to go do this stuff,

buy a house, have a have a job, and raise a family. And those opportunities don’t look like they’re really there and

and anymore in that same way, right? where it used to be like, of course, everybody’s going to be able to do that.

And now it’s almost nobody that’s younger seems to be able to do that. I’m speaking in gross generalities of

course, but and all I’m really trying to do is just like I don’t is just point like the finger at saying like you know

this can be about um something that’s not logical but that that that’s felt

around what used to be available and how like they seems to be a lot among the

young people that they like think that a lot of us us and people that are older than us really what we did is we skewed

everything to try to make us rich or maybe this is even the boomers more than it is us. That’s as cool that like they

made it great, but then there’s no more opportunity for the rest of us. I appreciate you saying the boomers and

us,

you know, but you’re right though, perceived versus reality. It doesn’t matter which it is, it’s

still felt. And there is a huge there is a vast

income gap that has definitely gotten worse and gotten worse and we exacerbate

it with every Tik Tok that goes out. We emphasize that

have the fundamentals really changed? Is it no longer? See, I don’t know. The old

guy in me says there’s still ways to do it. And I see young people doing it, but it

takes sacrifice. It takes hard work. And honestly, Instagram isn’t going to show the hard

work that it takes to do something. So, I’m real sympathetic, too, Scott. I

don’t know how much of it’s real, how much of it’s felt, but I know it or is is perceived, but it’s definitely felt.

But does that come back to education again? That’s the theme of today’s show

is can we produce education that helps people transition so they can become

successful on their own? Or are we simply going to follow the public education system which was designed to

create good factory workers?

Yeah, we like designed a system of education to create good factory workers and then we shipped off all of our factory workers out to the rest of the

world. Oh my gosh, that’s right. The whole school bell thing,

the whole alarm at every hour that was to train them so that they would know

when their shift was over. Oh. Mhm. I mean, there was a lot of deliberateness that went into this and

now you’re right, we don’t have any more of those jobs. Yeah. Those like jobs don’t exist anymore, you know? So,

and like where is the the ability to be like solid like you know this this idea

that we can then like take all these kids and then make entrepreneurs about them that they’re going to figure stuff out. I I work with people every day and

like some of like the business coaching staffs that I work with and these are like smart smart people work really hard

struggling like you wouldn’t freaking believe trying to figure out how to make a business work so that way they can make more money then they can break out

of the wage because they might be able to say cool I can make 50 to $60,000 a year making 2530 bucks an hour right

which is uh the majority of people are in like that bracket of under $30 an

hour and under and how much they get paid Right. So like but at those kinds

of wages, if you look at where are people at in terms of real wages, could they actually afford any of the assets

to be able to make the life that we think is the good life, which in America is typically saying nuclear family, own

your home, have a car? Like how can I get there? Because that’s what our idea of like essentially a good life is,

right? Well, can you actually do that on the average wages anymore for for most people? No. Okay. Well, how about

building a business? Building a business is absolutely lights out and difficult compared to what these people know how

to do and create coming out of the education system that exists because of all of like the research and the

execution and organization, all these skills that never got taught to them, right? They’re out there having to

figure it out on their own. And so I think that we’re in a lot of places we’re in a bad bad space because you end

up with unskilled people that aren’t skilled enough to actually go create new opportunities, which is actually what

I’d really love for them to be able to go do, right? And you have an education system that’s antiquated that doesn’t

serve what the reality is inside of the economic marketplace anymore. And then

you’ve and then on top of that like you have like the amount of wages that trickle down from the top 1% who have

whose weight you know where all the money is is flying to the top of the pyramid that money doesn’t like make it

back down to the the people at the bottom. Like since like 1979 I was just doing some quick just to pull out some

quick numbers but if we looked at like how things have grown since like 1979 the top 1% real wages and real earnings

have increased over 138%. And for the wages for the bottom 90%. So

like 90% of the country real wages since 1979 has only grown 15%.

Right? So you end up with this also this other piece that’s happening where most of the wealth is getting consolidated up

into the top which I don’t think is actually mind-blowingly uh wild thing to say of what we how most people generally

believe things are happening. And what you’re getting is this level of frustration that’s happening with the

younger people that are actually saying, I think what they’re trying to tell us in these videos is we don’t believe

there’s a way out. I don’t have the education to be successful in what you’re doing. I don’t believe that if I just go work and I work hard and I do

the right things that I’m actually going to get to where I want to. So, how can you possibly tell me that I shouldn’t have this dystopian view of what’s going

on? Well, and it’s hopelessness. That’s the word. They’re hopeless. They feel

hopeless. But the solution to hopelessness is never to simply commiserate and say, “You’re right.” The

rant does nothing. Instead, let’s rant about solutions to

that. I love business coaching that you’re starting to develop, Scott. Let’s start

teaching people. Let’s not talk about how bad it is in a crazy rant. Let’s

work with people. Let’s find ways to give them hope. On a one-on-one scale, dude, I’m with

you, right? I’m over here preaching the gospel about let’s get after it. Let’s go create the lives that we want and whatnot, right?

It’s like, of course, of course we need to be doing that, right? But it’s I think it’s the only point I was I was

trying to get as is like it’s um it’s I don’t even know exactly what the

right analogy for this is, but you know you’re you’re whatever is the course of

action that you’re going to recommend that somebody take if that’s their belief system and worldview.

You’re asking them to take actions based upon a faith that they have and whoever is telling it to them that life is

actually going to get better if they do it. The perception of their worldview though is bleak and stark and it looks

like it’s systemically like that right. So most of the time what ends up

happening is that people say I actually don’t believe any of what you would say is the normal course of what you think

is a reasonable solution to this hard work. Do your research. put your nose to the grindstoneone and then you’re going

to make it. I say, I don’t really believe the reality of that. Like a lot of people try that and maybe I’ve tried

that and it actually doesn’t work that way for me and I can’t um can’t actually get there. And I and the the end result

of that I think is where you have more and more people that are trying to do like home run stuff like I’ll just

become an influencer. And it’s like every time I hear somebody talk to me about that I was like back in my day

that was everybody trying to say like I’m just trying to figure out this rap game. Oh my god, I’m gonna become I’m gonna become a rapper. That’s my vision

for the future because every other course of action seemed unbelievably dark, right? And you only had this one

kind of fantasy land that you could play in. And I if you talk to the kids these days that are like in the that 18 16 to

25 age bracket when you talk or even younger if you go down to the middle school and you talk to the teachers that are down there I’ve been reading

articles on this recently that everybody in those age brackets all believe they’re going to make $200,000 a year

and they’re all going to do it by being a Tik Tok influencer or Instagram or or YouTube influencer. There’s zero

connection to how the real world actually like functions and any ability to think that the real world, the quote

unquote real world is ever going to give you what it is you’re really looking for. Well, I’m going to say it’s because the

real world is not that they’re exposed to is not the real world. They’re

exposed to a media that is very narrowly biased and is only promoting. We talked

about this at the very beginning, didn’t we, James? Nobody loves good news. So, what are we going to promote on

media? The bad stuff that’s happening. So, okay. I totally

Scott, you sound so cheated and I’m so cheated. I’m right with you.

But I would say the one thing if I could if I could do it would be to grab

anybody that I can and shut the phone off for a day and just talk as

individuals because I don’t think the rants are going to help. You can complain all you

want, but the idea is let’s sit down together and let’s see if we can find a

way. Whether that’s in a coffee shop, in a classroom, in some other form of

alternative education, but it’s face-toface talk that’s going to give people hope.

Yeah, I agree. I I think Dave, I think you’re 100% right. I think at this point with where

things are looking at, the only thing that I found that works at all is actually one-on-one and small group

mentorship with people. It comes down to like all of us having to take care of ourselves. Absolutely.

And then just be like, great, the system is so big and so intertwined at this

point. I don’t know actually how we even correct course on it. It looks like the way things are playing out are actually

just how they play out. And they play out really differently than how anybody ever thought they would play out, right?

when everybody voted or whenever they did whatever, right? So, all of us are really bad at predicting the future.

We’re terrible at it, right? So, like the only thing that really exists in my mind and to to Dave’s point here is

saying like uh the only thing that’s actually really ever true is that like I as an individual can then go sit with

some other a few other people and help them and for the sake of just saying like that’s actually the best I’m going

to be able to do. like pick up the starfish that washed up on the shore and chuck it back into the ocean even though

there’s a million of them and just be like cool that’s just what I’m gonna do. And I think, you know, people talk a lot

about like the the patriarchy and like white men, you know, and as like here’s all like the power and advantages that

like white men have. And I and I can sit with them and I say, “Look, I 100% agree with you. As a white, well educated man,

I am blessed with tons of advantages inside of like this country and system.” And with that, I accept a small amount

of responsibility for myself. Not that I put it on anybody else, but for myself, I accept a small amount of that responsibility and say, “Well, it’s my

job then to give back because I’ve actually been blessed with being able to be in an advantageous position. I wasn’t

I wasn’t born in a dis an extremely disadvantageous position. I had my own challenges, right? But like I can feel

that like inside of myself and say, “Cool, we should get back.” So, I’d encourage, you know, to Dave’s point, I

think we all have an opportunity to be able to say, “Great, who can I extend

mentorship to and and the circle of influence that I have and say, that’s what I can actually do

and that’s what’s actually real.” Here, love that. Yep. Yep.

That was good. Uh, let’s keep things moving and go to our next article from

Fox 2, KTVU. office vacancies down in San Francisco. Gold rush for commercial real estate

says um vacancies fell below 35%

um a return back to preandemic levels. So

looking good. And they say um part of that is driven by tech companies uh

cleaner streets in San Francisco because guess they’re cleaning them up. and a surge of AI firms. So that makes sense,

right? Like a tech heavy area just taking it to the next level

with AI. So So here’s my question. Do you think that this news bit is a trailing or a leading

indicator of what’s happening in the do economy? Because we’re hearing on the street

there’s a.com bubble everywhere, right? Mhm. But we’re seeing it not play out in

terms of staffing levels and on-site work levels within that industry. So, is

San Francisco showing us what’s going to happen or is San Francisco doing that while the

emperor has no clothes? [Music]

Yeah. I don’t I mean it’s a it’s a I don’t know man like I like it is is

talking about in the article here too that a lot of this is is uh because of like AI firms that are driving like this

the surge in leasing right and like boost in foot traffic. Yeah. So like there could be like a

boost in in foot traffic just because of like tourism and events and um I mean AI

firms blowing up could be could be great but it also could be um you know burst

just like we had do bubbles bursting up but you like I I think it also

referenced in here too that you’re only seeing that this surge is actually happening where we have like high-tech

infrastructure. So legacy and old infrastructure is uh you know not

getting the the benefit of that. I would say it’s a to Dave’s point I would say

it’s a I think it’s a leading indicator of how you’ll see more and more commercial buildings that will be

needing to uh outfit for high like much higher tech infrastructure to be uh

leasable in the future. um as we have growing needs for

um what essentially is going to be like I guess the same model that we’re starting to see play out in San Francisco that will likely eventually

trickle out to all of the other uh tech cities across the US. Yeah, they’ll just be doing it without

an Energy Star rating. How will we ever survive without that?

You know, you know, it’s beautiful. you you see these things and it just reminds you

that real estate is absolutely cyclical. I can’t time when it’s going to happen,

but I can tell you exactly what’s going to happen. And this is something that’s come around. San Francisco exited and

followed that guy named Elon to Austin and now it’s coming back. And every

sector’s got its time and its place. And I think my takeaway from that article is

we’re starting to see transition in commercial real estate and sectors. And I love your thoughts, Scott, about

finding purpose purposable buildings that can be upgraded to accommodate the

increasing powerful tech structure that they’ll need. That that could be the next value

ad project sector. I mean, we got to think that um we’re

going to need to get hopefully we can actually get really serious about that like as a country. You have like China,

for example, as has significantly outpaced us and their ability for energy infrastructure as well as AI computing,

right? So, they’re they seem to be on the fundamentals of things. They seem to be pretty far ahead of us there. So, we

really need to uh take it seriously. Uh hopefully we can get um focused you know

on that you know like like a AI should be I mean should be displacing much of

like the existent and the establishment uh media um power in our country. Um and

you know you start looking at you know what are what are what are things going to happen that are going to be able to increase like our efficiencies around

even like going to McDonald’s. I had a friend of mine that owns like a bunch of McDonald’s franchises and he let go. he had 55 employees and he let go of 50 of

them went with like this with the installation of the AI architecture that

he was able to to put in place. So, so it’s it’s it’s massively disrupting

and unless we get really serious about embracing how disrupting it’s going to be uh and putting the infrastructure in

place to do that, it it will only mean the more we resist that that other

countries will like outpace us that are more ruthless about saying we’re going to eat the pain. You know, we need to

eat the pain of change.

I’d be interested to see what he did with that McDonald’s franchise. I know they put kiosks in a lot of

these, you know, but as far as AI be interesting to

Yeah, you can there even like AI like and machine ready food prep. I mean,

it’s like it’s wild. It’s so much more than just even the order taking stuff that’s going on right now. Yeah. So like a way a lot of the stuff

is scaling is that it seems to be that AI actually isn’t it’s not fully displacing workforces. What it is is

like it’s saying like we’re going to take like the top 10% of your workforce and we’ll make them superhuman to the extent that it can displace the rest of

your workforce that actually was less efficient and less effective. Right? So hypothetically, what you

should be able to do is have people more focus into their zone of genius. So that

way they fit into that top 10% and then those people are then greater empowered

by AI tools. But it’s never fully AI. AI is only scaling in the capabilities like

of a person that’s providing oversight because the AIs are actually kind of crazy right now. They do like they’ll

just make up facts, make up citations. They’ll make up So, you actually need human oversight in there to to

check and verify. Yeah. I actually got a call the other day from a potential client saying, “I

read this on Chat GPT.” And I said, “Well, it’s wrong.” Well, but it was on

Chat GPT. And I actually went and traced it back and found the source article

that had written that. Anytime all you’re doing is accumulating

a body of information, there’s still going to be the opportunity for fallacies inside of that. It’s going to

get better, but we have to realize it’s not the be all end all now. And we’ve

all seen the robots, the robot fail videos. Those are kind of fun.

Yeah, those are those are pretty good. I I actually think it’s worse than that, though, too, Dave. I think it’s it’s worse than um like a aggregation of data

being put into chat GBT. My understanding of um you know if you look

at like the most recent release that what they specifically like highlighted in the most recent release is what they

would call is like um they have several different terms they’ll use for it but it’s what they’ll essentially say is that it’s AI hallucinations.

So the AI will actually hallucinate data and will hallucinate sources and and

we’ll actually mischaracterize information, right? So what that means is that it’s not just aggregated data

that’s being pulled together and maybe the source is wrong. There’s whole opportunities in here for AI to actually

the AI systems to actually just fabricate information that fills the narrative that the AI is trying to

create. And it so it’s uh it’s much much worse and everybody who I’m talking to

like you Dave will site chat GPT as if it’s a source right

yes so until we can get to a place and this this problem I think is one that we’re going to actually have as an

increasingly difficult problem because what we should be running into is that chat GBT is hallucinating information.

So we’d say well cool now we can’t really believe our AI structures. Now we say cool well well how can we

actually get back to the source material knowing if the source material itself was actually accurate even if I did look

at the source because now images videos and content are now also being produced

by like AI systems so now I’m shaky about even if I did the thing that we’re

saying is the good thing to do how will I even know that that information is is accurate and true and cont like was an

article or research generated contemporaneously with the events that I can even rely on it. And what I see

happening right now is we’re actually starting to see this more and more um with with assets, but also with just

pure information that we’re now starting to encode information into blockchains.

And it’s only because the information is encoded into a blockchain that we can know that it’s actually true. So what

that looks like is saying that like you you see this in like um intellectual property uh cases right now inside of

the law but we’ll start seeing this more and more as it’s becoming more expansive as it says well how do you know this

image was actually your image and he says well because I encoded into the blockchain five years ago otherwise we’d

have no idea about how to corroborate in a in a digital era that image when it

was created etc because all of that could have been fabricated except for the fact that it’s located on on a

blockchain. So contracts, assets, and information we should all expect to be

uh all blockchain related moving forward and to actually say we have reliable information. So the the um just to bring

it all back full circle. Yeah. Well, you guys went to college when Wikipedia

was specifically prohibited as a source for papers, right?

Oh, I didn’t realize that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You could never, if you’re writing a scholarly paper, you

could not use Wikipedia as a source. I think we’ve just evolved to the next

transition. People are saying you can’t trust Chat Gyt. Now, I don’t know that you can trust Wikipedia still anymore,

but there’s evolutions and we just have to keep our eyes on those. That’s really

interesting about blockchain for intellectual property that

even even real estate and everything like that. Like I think you’ll actually eventually you’ll start to see all of everything everything will shift to

blockchain uh chain transactions with smart contracts like over time, right? So that

we’re still trying to figure out like how to make all of that happen. Um but I think it’s going to be really disruptive.

I we can’t stop like the the the power of the technology will start to push things fast enough where you should

expect huge amounts of displacement. Yeah. Um, Antonio put in the chat, quote

from a gal at uh, OpenAI, GPT5 has been trained to recognize when a task can’t

be finished, avoid speculation, and can explain limitations more clearly, which

reduces unsupported claims compared to our prior models. So, yeah, they’ll they’ll continue to do

that, right? But I think that that because it’s a law a language based like model on the way that it’s like set up,

I think you’ll fundamentally have these kinds of problems. I don’t know if they’ll be able to totally eliminate them at any point.

Yeah. Yeah. But that’s what they say. It’s like we can reduce unsupported claims compared to the prior models. Like can’t

absolutely eliminate them. No. Anchors in the dam, you know.

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magic. Okay, back to the show. Our final

section from Yahoo Sports. Show Otani

agent sued after allegedly sabotaging $240 million real estate project in

Hawaii. This is Los Angeles Dodgers star Show, I guess. Yeah, that’s how you say

it. Otani and his agent Nez Balleo are facing a lawsuit from developer Kevin

Hayes and broker Tomokco Matsu Mooto uh who

claimed they were forced out of a $240 million Hawaii luxury project due to

escalating demands and alleged threats from Belo. So, they were using his

celebrity to um I guess attract investors is my uh my

take on that. And then they try to push him out. Is that what you guys read out of that?

He’s a heck of a ball player. That’s where I stop.

Yeah. I don’t have a clue what’s going on there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, if you’re like

investing around celebrities, like what do you expect, you know? Yeah. What does what does he have

anything to do with the real estate, right? Just a face, right? Yeah. I mean, he’s just out there trying to play ball and live his life, man. So,

yeah. Well, let’s go to our next one from Business Insider. Why hedge fund icon

Ray Dallio says he shouldn’t invest in real estate in this economy. He said he’s warning investors to stay

away, citing high interest rates, heavy taxation, and the illquid illi liquidity

of property assets. We already know that that’s part of real

estate. Um, sometimes that’s the best part of real estate

because you can’t access the candy box.

I don’t know. You know, there’s been several really, really prominent

big players that have all said that same thing. You should never own a house. And

I’m not even going to mention who they are, we know. But it’s funny how every one of those people still invest in real

estate. Yeah. And I guess my take on this, one of my

mentors a long time ago said reminded me that there’s only two

classes of people that have always ruled the world. And the first one is the banker and the second is the landowner.

Mhm. And you want to be one or the other. And in my mind, there is never a bad time to

own real estate. There’s only bad ways to buy real estate.

in bad ways to bad timing to do it. But I

if all you do in America is buy a house and rent out the basement and raise your

family in the front in the top story and then sell that and take that profit

tax-free and do that four or five times in your life, you will have made a very

good living. And that’s what the tax code lets you do. No, at the very least,

um, heavy taxation, I don’t know, last time I looked, real estate taxes, they’re going up

marginally, but there’s also a new movement on the horizon, and Florida is leading that to reduce real estate

taxation at the state level and turn it more into a consumption

tax that’s more equitable for who’s doing it. I don’t know. I just when somebody says don’t do this I always

look at their motives and say why are you telling me that? Yeah. So he advises hedging portfolios,

diverse diversifying assets, and allocating up to 15% in gold or Bitcoin,

I’d say. And also real estate, like yeah, diversify. Sure, get into all

those, but don’t just eliminate real estate. Would you agree?

I mean, I think like you like owning more real stuff is what I always tell people. like try to get to something

that’s going to be like own more real things like that you own more real things that provide value that you don’t ever have

to be forced into selling, you know, like the it’s the

it’s probably not even the people that are like even, you know, us or the people are listening to this that like would need to hear that message, you know, because like it it’s so many of

the people that have so much of their wealth like tied up into the stock market and it’s like, well, what

you you have like a super inflated stock market because everybody has all of their, you know, 401ks and their

retirement plans are invested inside index funds, right? So, they have so much money that’s pushed inside of index

funds and into direct investment into markets. Those kinds of capital flows mean that you end up with um it’s just

the economic pressure of having that much uh dollar, you know, flow into those markets. And I mean with uh I’d

say if you can get your money I’d advise everybody to get your money out of uh soft markets and start owning more like

hard stuff like gold bitcoin. Agree with uh Mr. Dalio there, right? So things

like Conan like getting finding the right buy on real estate that like cash flows especially in uh you know class

like B properties you know stuff that’s kind of weather economic you know issues like that that’s a great thing to have

as well too but owning directly owning more real stuff uh that’s outside of

just fictitious market numbers. Absolutely. And take that one step further. I think the real issue

that’s hampering people buying real estate today, it’s said time after time after time, interest rates are too high.

Well, what if that’s the barrier? Find ways to buy real estate with less

leverage. I went through the 2008 crisis

with a bunch of clients. We just call it the bad time. None of them who were not

leveraged too high. None of them that did not have to sell real estate to

survive went out of business. No. And today they’re worth multiples over

what they were. Those who were overleveraged all went out of business. No.

Every one of them. And that’s the lesson for us there. What happens though,

further to your point, um, Scott, is that it’s easy to invest in those index

funds because I can just do it with my cash. So, the cash goes in and it sits. So,

I’m not really tempted unless I got a margin account or something to get too crazy with it. With real estate,

there is the leverage component that’s there. And you got to manage that. You got to be respectful and fearful of it.

But I don’t think it has to stop you. Yeah. Right. Leverage is a beautiful thing and

it can turn on you, right? Just know what you’re getting into, right?

Yeah. I mean like so I mean with those people I’m usually recommending for people saying like try to see if you can get your debt like below 50%.

Like if if your real estate if you can get that then you can pretty much weather any storm as long as you can get like your debt low enough. and that this

is like an opportunity to say is I think you can make a bunch of money if you’re buying things like you’re buying Bitcoin, Ethereum, and like what are

your your top three like on your crypto? I think those are gonna like go up. I think gold is going to go up as the

dollar weakens too. Like we just know things that are like are happening and are going to happen. They’re not reversing course and like a a short-term

like whiplash. And then get your if you buy real estate, but try to see if you can buy stuff that where you’re going to

have a really light a really low debt service ratio, which means not having a lot of debt. And if you’re at 50% or

lower in their total amount of debt that you’re holding on a piece of property, you’re very likely going to be okay about not getting pinched. Um like as

Dave Dave was saying about saying, “I have to liquidate because and sell because I just can’t cover the debt debt

payments.” So

all right, our next one from Hogan Lobls. President Trump revokes executive order

on competition, rejects Biden administration’s whole of government approach to antitrust enforcement. It’s

a mouthful. Um Biden’s order had tasked multiple federal agents agencies. O man, I cannot

talk today. Multiple federal agencies with over 70 initiatives targeting

corporate consolidation across industries aiming to protect workers, consumers, and innovation.

And then they announced a new quote America first antirust unquote

philosophy emphasizing deregulation, market freedom, and targeted targeted

remedies. Yeah, help me. I can’t talk today.

My goodness. Um,

any thoughts on that?

Wow. At the same time, we’ll do that in exchange for you

selling a percentage of your company to the government. You just

with any legislation, I think it was Warren Buffett that said this, with any government legislation or initiative,

it’s going to be good for some and bad for some. And what you have to do is figure out who it’s good for and become

one of those people. Yeah, it’s a it’s a beautiful thing to say,

you know, but the question is is like to which people is it helping like right now, you know, like how do I be how do I

do that? Like what is my path to being able to be one of those people that this type of deregulation helps? Like I can’t

foresee that. Like this is a handful of like handful of people at the top. I think these types of actions like to me

like are who who actually are they helping right now? I don’t think it’s deregulation at all.

I think that’s a misnomer. I think that’s smoking mirrors. I think that in opening the markets up

they’re actually regulating them more heavily just on different levels.

Oh, I see. I thought doing is like allowing more deals to happen to like allow companies to consolidate that

otherwise wouldn’t be able to because of a regulation. Well, I think that’s what they’re doing, but I think

more regulation inside of that. In other words, that’s coming at a price and what

we don’t know is what price the federal government is charging for that. Does that make sense?

We don’t know what price the government’s charging to allow them to merge, right? You know, Trump’s Trump’s

promoting this as this big beautiful deregulation bill, right?

But I think that it’s actually just changing the regulation into something

that’s more fitting to what he wants to see. I just don’t know what that is yet.

Okay. See, I understand these things as saying there’s let laws either make it more restrictive or less restrictive for

businesses to be able to operate and that we say before you weren’t able to do this thing and then say well now you

are to that that’s generally what is referred to as deregulation is that there was it only couldn’t it only could

not have happened because there was a law that said they couldn’t do it and so now they’re able to do it which

means it has to be a deregulation. It’s things like percentage of business, right? It’s cross-pollinated boards of

directors. It’s all of those kinds of things that I think Trump was is eliminating in all those executive

orders. But let’s say we allow a cross-pollinated board of directors over

the percentage that normally would have been allowed. What does that create? I’m just looking further down the road

saying what does that create that actually gives the federal government the opportunity to create more draconian

control of the economy because they’re consolidating the economy.

I don’t know. I’m wellian you at this point. No, I mean that that’s funny because I didn’t expect I didn’t expect

you to take that turn with it, Dave, because like the that I would say like fundamentally,

right, you have it’s a consolidation of power issue, right, that we say like the more we allow companies to consolidate

with each other. Now more power more economic power is held into fewer hands

because that’s more power goes up to like the top of like that’s controlling more, right? So that actually supports

like an oligarchical system and to saying that’s how corportocracies actually gain more power and that the

people that own the stuff are consolidating power and that that

Yeah. And so you end up you end up with like a little bit of a um you know

that’s where the where I was getting I was looking to get to say is like you that those types of deregulations only

serve to be able to consolidate power into fewer hands and that fundamentally

is that the problem we think we’re having is the problems that we think we’re having in this country is because

that there’s not enough power into a few people’s hands. Oh I’m totally with you on that.

Absolutely. What I’m saying is I think the the the illustration used of all of these rules exist to funnel power to the

top. I’m just saying I’m not sure I trust

the title of this bill to really mean that it’s truly going to deregulate. Dude, I’m as li I bleed as

libertarian red as you could imagine. But I’m just not sure that this quote

deregulation isn’t just a fancy quiet way of still

funing power and control to the top. Just a different top.

Yeah. Which which top? I mean which top? Exactly. Which top is getting more power? I mean it I it seems to me I mean I don’t know

if you guys have a hot take on this or whatever but it seems to me like if we look at what are the moves that that

Trump has uh made or this administration I know know it’s necessarily all Trump right but at least in the administration

that like what we is that you see consolidation of power inside of both

areas that Trump is consolidating like a ton of political power um and exerting

much bigger uh reaches inside of like what is the executive authority which is i.e. Why is there so many court

cases is because he’s pushing on like what are the limits of the executive authority that he can um use to uh

expand the power of the executive and that also it’s who are the you know what

is the other leg of the stool right is it’s the people that have the money right the oligarchs still have power and

so I think you probably have a you have both hands like washing the other the

oligarchs will say we will support you and you doing what you want to do like over here, Mr. President. But we need

you to make it where we’re going to be able to do the type of work that we’re going to try that we want to do over

here that’s going to allow us to consolidate more power and make more money and control more of the monopoly and that there is no real adversarial

relationship. It’s actually like a small club where people are cutting deals with each other. Yeah. And I don’t disagree with with

doing this. Um cuz I I think we are really honestly if if we I think we

should be in in a nation where if you want to create a law you got to get rid of two just you know that’s really where I come

from. But I’m just concerned that this is really more about smoke and mirrors and a consolidation of power in a

different vein. And the laws of unintended consequences

could I just I don’t know where it’s where it could come from,

but these are the kinds of things we should approach very trepidiously.

Yeah. Yeah.

Good stuff, guys. You guys are awesome. Let’s hit our last article before the

extra fun one from Yale Insights. Doge’s lease cancellations are already hitting

the commercial real estate market. Says, um, Doge triggered the largest

wave of federal lease cancellations in US history. Um, once considered among

the safest investments, government leases are now viewed as risky after

Doge terminated hundreds of contracts. Said in Washington DC alone could lose

$575 million in property value and 50 million in tax revenue over five years.

So, are are you guys in commercial real estate in any capacity?

Yeah, I do some self- storage stuff and like apartments. I do like apartments and self storage. Okay. But no, like commercial uh like

office buildings stuff like it. Yeah, I like I didn’t see this

one coming though. I don’t think anybody did. But I think like what this story to me is um only really interesting to the

extent that it’s it’s really getting at to the fundamental points about saying like we can’t you can’t rely on anything

that you thought was like bulletproof anymore regarding the government because the government uh is like wild carding

stuff a lot, you know, like they’re just yoloing their way through like how they’re going to manage things without

what whatever the unintended consequences are. um that seem to be around like uh short-term like political

points, right? Like who the hell gives an a about anything that Doge did. They didn’t save enough money for it to

actually matter when you can say like how much debt that we have that we take on all the time anyway. Them going

through all of this stuff as like an exercise causes a lot of like downstream like instability and that that and it’s

not even like one thing, right? Like I’m not trying to be like a Doge hater or or like any of um you know or like a Trump

administration hater or any of that, right? What I am focused on is saying like what allows us to be able to have

stability in markets, right? And the more uh unpredictable

things are in terms of governments, the less stability you end up having. So

this is a great example of how like a government interaction can um intervention that departs from like a

long history of how it normally operates like disrupts a market. Um you have the other things I was talking about earlier

around like how the you know the US is like downgraded by by credit agencies.

you have people that are having loss of confidence in the US dollar, which means really like a a loss of confidence in

like US leadership, right? And where where US leadership is um you know

guiding guiding the world and for them to to pivot off of that and you have more isolationism having on the US front

which actually means that the world is actually creating relationships with each other that is actually just leaving

the United States out will eventually leave the US behind. when you it’s not one thing that erodess every people’s

confidence, right? It’s like it’s a death by a thousand cuts, right? And that’s what this article to

me about what happens here on the real estate front is just another slice at

people saying like, you know what, I’m really just actually not confident. And one thing we know for sure is that if

people start losing confidence and the things they’re going to do with their money is actually when they start to

hoard money. And that will actually make economies collapse. If people start to hoard their

cash and not spend it, it’s called the velocity of money. And when velocity of money goes down, you have major economic

uh problems that are going to happen. If you combine the problem of people hoarding onto their money with a dollar

that is eroding both from inflation but as well as a weakening dollar uh in

comparison to like global currencies for their ability to acquire global goods on top of the increase in tariffs. Now you

have a massive problem because the problem you’re going to run into is that people not can’t afford to

buy the things they want to buy. They’re scared to do anything with the money that they do have and they’ve lost

confidence in what to do next. Yeah. At all. And so this can be like a recipe for uh what could be systemic problems.

And that’s why like over and over again I’m like you need to take your money, take it now, get out of dollars, get into hard assets. Uh and uh because the

world is is actually in a pretty pretty shaky uh situation. So it’s a good time

to to hunker down a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Going back to that Ray Dallio

stance, I I have a lot of respect for him. I’m surprised he says just like no real estate. He’s smart enough to know

that it’s a hard asset. It’s got value. I think a lot of this stuff too is we got to take it tongue and cheek about

what any of these guys are saying is because like a statement like that, like no real estate’s stupid. Like that’s

something dumb people say, right? In the financial and investment world. To ever say a whole asset class is no good

really is just an incredibly unsophisticated view. Do we really believe Radalio has that kind of a view

about real estate? Or is it just the way that marketing messages have to get told to be able to tell a story? And so we

have to be smart about what we know to be true and then listening to other people and say, how does that inform

what I know is more likely true versus saying that soand so is right based upon an article.

Yeah. or the headline for an article which was just the clickbait that got you there. You’re absolutely right. The

context is anytime we go into an asset just as

people and we invest, we expect that to last forever. We want

it to last forever because why? Investing,

underwriting, vetting, figuring out where to place our money takes work. And

so anytime we go into it, we want that to be the best and lasting thing. I

heard this in 2005 all the time. The market has changed. It’s never going to

be the same. It’s never coming down. Because they wanted to believe that

because it was an easy way to invest in real estate. Here we are 20 years later.

Guess what? All I’m seeing is that this article, the do thing, it all just

illustrates that no matter what it is, investing in anything is cyclical.

It will have highs, it will have lows, it will have good times, I’m sorry, better times to invest in, better times

to exit. And if you’re simply throwing your money at the dart board and then

saying that’s it, it’s going to be good forever. you’re going to be sadly mistaken. I mean, and I’m sitting here

thinking, okay, my wheels are turning. If a chunk of Washington DC, which is

very close to all those seats of power, is going to be vacant, Scott, James,

let’s go grab a couple old post office plants and let’s upgrade them

and let’s turn them into AI research facilities. There’s going to be opportunities

that’ll come. There’s always losers. There’s always winners.

Yeah. That’s why you can never say like just no real estate, right? Exactly. All right. Yeah.

All right. Let’s go to our fun news item. Final news item. CNET. 11 things

you shouldn’t use chat GPT for and why you’ll regret it.

Yeah, this one is like one of those um things that it’s I think like going back to some of the stuff we were actually

talking about earlier. But my viewpoint on this is like of course in line with the article about you know um

uh not relying on it especially for like legal, medical or financial things and saying like okay this was going to tell

you. I I actually like to uh talk to people now about just saying like just assume that that anything you’re getting

off an AI is wrong, right? But it can help you get to the 80% of rightness,

you know, from there you need to take it over and like do the work to get it from like 80%

to like 100, but never to assume that it like never look at it as if it’s right,

you You know that I think that gets us to a big a big trap that people are wanting to be lazy and right and that

never works. You know, it can get you fast having you know it’ll expedite your research

but it’s not your research. Yeah. If it’s a matter of the heart or

relationship, don’t touch it. Relationships are supposed to be messy

and inconvenient and chatbt will never help you get to

that kind of level. Yeah. It’s like posting on like Reddit. It’s like, “Am I overreacting?”

There’s there’s like threads inside of like Reddit where it’s like, “Am I overreacting to like XYZ thing like my partner did?” And the first in there is

like a detailed like point by point about why you should break up. It will like the Reddit community will always

tell you about why you should leave your wife or like opposite, right? And like in chat GBT, what I found is that it’s

always trying to be my best friend. It’s trying to like promote engagement by always trying to tell me that I’m right and I’m brilliant and here’s all the

reasons why this is a good idea and blah blah blah. I even saw like on the South Park episode that like the episode three

that just aired, they even had one in there too that was like, “Tell me about how to make a salad out of French

fries.” And I was like, “That’s a that’s a brilliant idea. What a fusion of a concept. This brings like the savoriness

with the healthiness that everybody’s actually looking for. They’re like, “Oh my god.” And and it’s like, it really is

like that. Like no matter what you tell it, its job is to make you actually enjoy interacting with it. Its job is

not actually to help you get any better, right? Like that’s it. It’s it’s like

food. Like the restaurant’s job isn’t to make you healthy. The restaurant’s job is to make you addicted to the food. The

fact that you’re fat actually has is nothing that anybody cares about except for you. That was nobody else’s job.

Their job was actually just to get you to eat the food. Chad GD’s job is just to get you to continue to use it.

Good point. Interesting times with AI.

But I do say like with that though is that I find a ton of value using AI and helping me just get um throw a bunch of

crap up on the wall. Oh yeah. Like I’m looking for 10. My wife is pissed off at me. What are 10 things that I could do that would help her um

get unmad at me so that way I can get laid tonight. It’s going to be brilliant at that. It’ll give you at least 10 things. You pick two of them. It might

work, you know, which is a heck off better than your buddy who’s over there being like, “I don’t know, dude. Why don’t you just crack a beer and hang out

in the garage and let it blow over?” you know, it’s relative forms of like what advice are you gonna go to? And so for

those things, I’m like, probably Chad GBT might be better. Yeah. You know, I tend to think that

these things just make us lazy. You know, I literally got a text from my

son the other day who lives with me. We text because that’s more convenient, right? Want to go to a movie tonight?

Father, I appreciate our relationship so much. I’ve looked at my calendar and

unfortunately I will not be able to join you. Please feel free to reach out to me again in the future if my calendar is

more conducive. Yes, I busted him on it. Did you use chat GPT for that? Maybe.

That’s awesome. Was our relationship enhanced? I think not. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

That’s awesome. Oh my goodness. Well guys, that covers the news portion

of the show for this month. Um, I’d like to thank our sponsors,

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And of course, thanks to you guys, our awesome guests. Great to have you both back. Uh Dave Foster, Scott Royal Smith.

Um why don’t you let people know how they can connect with you? We’ll start with

Dave. Best way to hook up with us is simply go to the1031investor.com.

All things 1031 exchange if you’re interested in not paying tax on real estate transactions.

Beautiful. Yeah, you can reach out uh to me and my company at royallegalssolutions.com

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You always follow the money. That’s what I always say, you always follow the money. This is follow the money with Mitch Moss and Pauly Howard on v-cin.

Here we go. It is follow the money on v-cin, v-sports betting network. Mitch Moss, Pauly Howard with you live in downtown Las Vegas from the Circa Resort and Casino.

Pop the champagne bottles, baby. NFL is back. Somebody with a premature pop right before the show started.

A little too excited. That would be my on-air partner here. I got champagne all over the desk.

I didn’t even open it. The thing shot right up. Almost took my eye out.

Come on, put it up. We made it. Can we call somebody in here to clean up a mess on aisle 5, please? Champagne goes all over.

You’re a big champagne guy, by the way. Yeah. I can’t do it.

Instant headache. Yeah, Paul loves it, too. That’s a good observation.

Good call. I get a headache every time. Every time.

It’s automatic. Yeah, damn right. But it feels great to have it back.

On the program today, Fantasy Football Hall of Famer, Paul Charchian. Going to have him for a couple of segments. And how about Phil Helmuth making his follow-the-money debut a little bit later on, Paulie? I dodge bullets, baby.

He is part of the Fade Us Sports podcast. Now with the V-Cin Network, a podcast that we have here available wherever you get your podcasts. I heard Mike Matasawan, one of his co-hosts on the podcast on last night with V-Cin Primetime.

Oh, my God. He just admitted to flat out being a total degenerate when it comes to sports betting. I want to know what Phil’s like.

He also was talking trash about Phil. Yeah. He said he only plays favorites.

He said that Phil has like 10 favorites already in pocket for this week. Wow. So I want to see if Phil’s going to talk smack back at Mike.

All right. It’s here, Batman. Have you done anything with this game at all tonight yet? Oh, I got a lot.

More action than John Wick movie, baby. Anything additionally to what you had in pocket yesterday? Well, I thought John Hansen has a great article up on V-Cin.com and put me on some more props. John with an excellent breakdown on several props.

I know I’m going to ride with you on Lamb over. I thought Sal Powell was excellent yesterday on Devante Smith, made a strong case for Smith over, and also to get him involved, and he expects a big year from Smith. Then John Hansen comes over the top saying Iberfus, second most cover three coverage last year with the Bears, and he thinks Smith is going to benefit from that and go off and get high 50s, low 60s as well.

Also, he thinks it’s free money with Williams over receiving yards. Devante, the Cowboys running back, he’s going to be on the field most of the time, and if the guy can’t get 13 yards receiving, he likes his receptions over as well. And Turd Ferguson, a deep cut.

So the last time we saw the Eagles, they played an unbelievable game, dismantled and destroyed and embarrassed Mahomes. Two garbage touchdowns at the end, misleading score. But prior to that, they could not contain the tight end in the two playoff games, and especially the NFC Championship.

Urtz had 16 targets and 11 catches in that game, and the duo in L.A., Higby got hurt, then Parkinson came in. So if you take those two games, they had 20 for 167 and three scores. Ferguson has a low number for yards tonight.

I wouldn’t put you off any time touchdown as well, but he’s got several props and a terrific write-up on bsim.com, and he put me on some more, and then, of course, we’ll get nuts with the kicking props coming up later. Sure. Well, I can expand on that here in a little bit as well.

I did all the deep digging that you need on Brandon Aubrey, the amazing kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, comparing him to Jake Elliott tonight, his counterpart for the Eagles. That is coming up in a little bit. Did you know that Jalen Hurts has scored Philadelphia’s first touchdown of the game 19 times in the last three years? Strong.

Did it six times last year. Barkley also did it six times last year. I had to play the Glenn and Quincy prop, too, then.

Under one and a half? Under one and a half, shortest touchdown. I think we will get at least a couple of attempts tonight with the touch push. It’s who they are.

It’s what they do. So we could absolutely see that. Hurts is plus 285 in that neighborhood to score Philly’s first touchdown of the game tonight.

That’s a very low number. And of course, because of his history, he and Barkley are, I mean, almost unbettable in my opinion. But also, did you know that Saquon Barkley did not score a touchdown against Dallas last year? In the first game, he had 14 for 66 on the ground.

One catch, 12 yards, no touchdowns. Blowout. They both were right.

Dak did not play in either game. And in the last game against Dallas, he had 31 carries for 167 yards, two catches for two yards, and no touchdowns in that game. In that game, Smith had 120 in two scores.

Yes. Another reason for Smith over tonight. Barkley, you might be able to find a better number.

I was looking at plus 140 earlier today to not score in the game tonight. Because he’s so high on the yes, books are going to start to offer the no on more of these guys. So, I thought that was interesting.

But again, the main guys for the first touchdown for the Eagles last year, Barkley hurt six times each, Brown three times. If you go back, Philly cashed, this is last year, the first touchdown in every game from Week 14 to the Super Bowl. They scored the first touchdown in 16 out of 21 games they played.

In playoffs included, obviously. Dallas scored the first touchdown only six out of 17 regular season games. But again, you wipe away Dak from half the slate, that’s going to be a problem.

He is minus 170 to throw a pick. You believe that? Yes. The thought is… This is Winston territory.

His attempts for the game tonight is a high 30. It’s all right there for us. You figured that he’s going to be slinging it around so much.

Eagles have the lead, Cowboys play in catch-up, horrible Dallas defense. We think, can’t run the ball. I don’t see how he doesn’t get the 250 yards passing.

I just… He’s got to get that as far as I’m concerned. And then plus the history, when the champs or home team open up the season, I got him a 16-4 straight up run. Hasn’t been great ATS, but they win the game.

So, it’s interesting that there’s no talk of repeat. This is a different year. They won’t be on the field when they unveil the banner.

Sirianni and company saying all the right things. AJ Brown, we moved on. We were the champs, okay, different year.

Let’s go get them. Let’s take out the Cowboys here. And this is… So, I got him a 16-4 run.

And as you pointed out, both games were a blowout last year. No problem with Philadelphia. Is there something to this angle? I was watching a preview earlier today from the DGN Weekly on X. Does a really good job.

Cool dude, too. I met him out here in Las Vegas before. Lives on the East Coast, I believe in New York.

He thinks that based on Schottenheimer being the head coach, and you go back and look at his history as an OC with the Seahawks, what did they like to do more than anything else? Establish the run. Early and often. They couldn’t stand him there.

And even a guy like Chris Carson had a career high back 7-8 years ago now with more than 1,200 yards rushing. I like Chris Carson quite a bit. He only lasted a little bit because of neck injuries in the NFL.

But is there an angle there where we’re going to be frustrated tonight watching the game because Schottenheimer, again, that’s what he does. That’s his MO. We’re going to try to establish the run, keep the running game going, even if they’re really good defensively at slowing us down in this game tonight, and we see heavy running behind Javonte Williams trying to lead like this Dallas Cowboys ground game.

I could see that being an angle because of Schottenheimer. Yeah, could be. Now, I think the bigger question is, what was the whole talk the first month of the season? These kickers are too good.

And 50 yards was automatic. That was your talk, yeah. We’ve got to narrow the goalpost, right? It’s not fair.

And Boswell was 6-for-6 in the Week 1 game, and guys are hitting from 55, like, no problem. So Big Mike didn’t care. He would trot that guy out from 60 like it was a layup.

And most of the time, he made them. So that’s my big takeaway, and what’s Schottenheimer going to do? Does he realize he might have the best kicker of all time and just say, 4-7, 4-6? I’m trying a 55-yard field goal. And he was 14-17 last year from 50-plus.

I think one was blocked. He hit from 65, 60, 58, 57, and 55. So again, nothing’s a lock.

But I love these bets where every Cowboy game, it’s $1.20 for the Cowboys to make the longest field goal. It’s actually, Paul, you know what? The number moved in our favor. It’s even money.

Are you kidding? No, I have to bet that. Yeah. It’s got to be a bet.

In 2023, he was 10-of-10 from 50-plus. Hit from 60, 58, and 55. Plus, you have all the issues of, I don’t trust a Philly kicker.

I have numbers on that. Yeah. Now, last year, Jake Elliott was 1-of-7, 50-yards-plus.

His longest field goal on the year was exactly 50 yards. If you go back to 2023, he was much better. 7-of-8 from 50-plus, but his longest was 61.

And I looked at every single game log from a season ago. I mean, it’s from Week 1 to Week 6 before the bye. This is the longest field goal made by Aubrey in each game.

57, 52, 65, 60, 55, and 50. He was only outkicked for the longest made field goal in the game five times on the year. The first time was Week 18, and then it happened four times from Week 12 to Week 18.

But other than that, he absolutely… Also, backup quarterback, sure. That’s exactly right. And they weren’t scoring as many points in some of these games, so he didn’t have the opportunities to do so.

But even money… That’s one of those things where if I lose, fine, I lose. But even money on him to have the longest field goal of the game has to be a bet, in my opinion. Excellent.

Both teams to make a 33-yard field goal is also even money. So welcome back, primetime games. I know you’re kicking props, and all the props are available.

A low number here at Circa. Defensive or special teams touchdown, no minus 260. It’s $3 in the game tomorrow.

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Send them in, we’ll put you on. Mitch tweeted this out a while back. When was this? In Alaska, halibut fishing with the Fu Manchu? I want to say 20 years ago this month.

Is it? No, August. So, yeah. It was 20 years ago, though.

Right. That bad boy is 104 pounds right there. It took me 15 minutes to reel it in.

Really? One of the best days of my entire life. Is that right? Oh, my God. Alaska, I went up there twice back-to-back years.

I had 78 degrees every day. I could not tell you how awesome it was. Oh, you caught some nice weather.

Oh, unbelievably. You could not have gone better. When I was there, it was like in the 60s.

We went floating the Kenai River all day one day. It’s God’s country. Anyway, do you like the handlebar mustache on that guy? Yes, God.

A lot of people love that. That is something. Yeah? That’s not a knife.

This is a knife. This is my cousin in Alaska, Mikey. Here’s a halibut for you.

That’s a big boy. Look at the size of that thing. It’s as big as he is.

No kidding. What does that weigh? Do you have any idea? He’s a bouncer at the Bush Company. Oh, he lives up there.

Yes, it’s my cousin. Was he working up there when I went up there 20 years ago? Yeah. I probably saw him.

Sure, they’ve lived there forever. The dad works for American Airlines, and they get the money from the pipeline. What is it called? Pipeline, yeah.

Wow. They put it into Google or something? Apple? I don’t know. That would be a dream job.

In the summers only, if you could live up there and go fishing or be a fishing guy every day, it doesn’t get any better. Oh, I thought you said working at the Bush Company. Well, that would be the weekend highlight, yeah.

Excellent. That talent, by the way, you would never guess it. I’m telling you.

You get up there. I know. It’s unreal.

Yeah. Okay. I’ll take your word for it.

I believe you. We got a dog video. Always got to sneak a dog video in.

At the gate. Coming in. Look at this.

He’s got it all figured out. He’s climbing all the way up the gate. Easy peasy.

What? No problem. Look at that. Just skate.

And they go, no. He’s got it. He had it the whole time.

Yeah, not a problem. Halfway down the other side, face first. That is serious.

He’s climbing like a human. No problem. Spider-Man.

What a job by this dog. And just flips over there as well. You know, Bailey, the beagle we had with Megabuck, she would just jump on the gate as well.

Which, you know, half that size. It’s like you could scratch your belly. But to her, it was worth the punishment.

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We can’t get our mail in Philadelphia, evidently. Tons of tweets in the first segment saying, guys, very windy in the area right now. Gusset at 25 miles an hour.

Oh, it hasn’t bothered me. No. Not with this guy.

This guy’s got the biggest leg of all time. And Kevin Roth tweeted out, well, I think this goes like last night. He was saying that wind should be like 10 miles an hour around game time.

Should not be a problem. He was also expecting a little bit of rain maybe in the game. But you’re right.

I mean, he’s got a cannon for a leg. Those things go. He can kick a 50-yarder in a hurricane.

Who made the 70-yarder? Little? In the preseason? Jacksonville. Yeah. Good job.

Because after that happened, Caesars put up. Will that happen? It opened 20 to 1. It’s now 10. 10 to 1. Will there be a 70-yard field goal? What would you lay on the no? Would you lay? Well, we have an attempt.

Who’s going to try a 70-yard field goal in a game? You know what? That lunatic Kiffin did it once with sea bass. He wasn’t even close. Well, that was a 76-yarder.

I know. He wanted to get fired. That’s why he did it.

You know, think about this. At the time, Sebastian Janikowski had probably the best leg we’ve ever seen. Yeah.

Modern day. Yeah. These guys blow him out of the water.

Aubrey is one of a kind here that we’re talking about. I can’t remember who it was. I was watching one priest.

Was it? Might have been Sly. The guy came out from 50. Yeah, 50, 80.

Hit the net. It was a preseason game. Yeah, because we had a 63-yarder this year as well in the preseason.

Because Sly, I think, made a 61-yarder, and he did not have the longest field goal of the night. The 63-yarder actually beat him. That’s when I said, I got to get off this longest field goal made under 64-and-a-half this year.

So here’s an update on the red zone, and I predicted this yesterday on the show. My comparison or my analogy was going to be, look, I mean, they’re not going to completely come in and say, hey guys, now we’re going to go away for three minutes, and you’re not going to see any football action on the red zone. My prediction was it was going to be the playthrough method when you’re watching golf.

So they keep it in a double box, but the golf goes to one of the corners of the TV, and then the commercial’s on the other side of the TV, and the commercial has the odds, the audio on it. You can then keep watching the game or the golf playthrough with no audio. That’s evidently what they’re going to do.

For an office sports, had this information earlier today, there will be four 15-second ads in the seven-plus hours of red zone in week one. There will not be full ad breaks where the football action disappears. Instead, the ads will run in a double box format with ad audio playing in the NFL with the red zone while that continues in the other box.

So they’re not going to completely destroy it that way. And I’ve told people before that I think the red zone could be improved anyway. Big time.

I want to see more double boxes, triple quad boxes. Go quad box. Sure.

Why not go quad box, especially at the late games? I totally agree. Especially when you have a week where there are only three late games, and they do that to us all the time. Put them all up at the same exact time.

And they would also pretend, hey, let’s go live to Heinz Field. Uh-oh, we have some action here. they lie to you.

Come on. It happened six minutes ago. We all know this.

We have phones. We’re watching elsewhere. It’s not real time.

Yes. But they would also stay on the same game for far too long. Yep.

But first of all, like is red zone as big as we think it might be? Or do people actually just say, now I’m watching my team or I’m watching the game with the audio that I have the biggest bet on that day. Like, I don’t, because we’re so close to this. I don’t know how other people.

Well, assume the sport. Yeah. As I recall, uh, you know, if you had the direct TV, when you had the package, you could have the game mix and every game would be on that channel, which is great.

That’s to me, the best just have it up there and you’ve got eight games on all on one screen. Um, but now with the job, YouTube’s done and you can put your own four together. Uh, good, good, good question.

I still think it’s popular and it can be improved, but I would think you have to have it, especially if you’re a better and you just love the sport and with the fantasy implications, right? Because they show you every touchdown. Yeah. This is from, uh, our buddy niche.

He’s been watching red zone since he had direct TV goes back several years. Now with Verizon commercials or not, what choice do I have? They know it. They know I’m going to watch.

If you have the package, you can then do the multi-view and have multiple screens up. If you have two TVs at, you know, in one setting, you can have four on this TV and four other on the other, because they let you build your own multi view experiences now on YouTube TV, which is great. Um, this is from Gary on X. He’s already pot committed for the red zone.

If it becomes a dumpster fire, I think it will, then I’m out. I see. I don’t, I don’t think adding the ads like this is going to destroy it.

I really don’t. And that was kind of my first takeaway yesterday when I heard it, I just, I’m curious if they’re open to making it better than what it was. Do you watch the, I don’t know.

I can’t remember what it’s called, but MLB network does it a lot. And they did last year, the game mix, whatever they called it. And there would be a guy in the studio like Hanson.

And he’d just talk about the games and all the highlights. And he’d have, they’d have three games on at the same time. And then they’d, they’d walk the dog.

Yeah. They’d zip around. Right.

That’s what they should do. But a lot of times you’re right. They don’t do it.

And especially the late, if there’s a marquee late game, don’t horrendous. Oh, I totally agree. There’s gonna be four games going on.

You’re only going to see that one. That’s it. I have a major problem with that.

Just to me, it’s just put three up there at the same time and, and show the touchdowns. And well, here’s the thing too, is that, I mean, again, being a little bit too close to the sun, here’s where we broadcast from every, every day, the biggest and best sports book in the world. And we have, you know, multiple awesome venues to watch sports and go check it out.

And it’s not a problem. How about the people that don’t live in Las Vegas or they want to go to bars. And this has been something that took off in a big time way with Mike Palm several years ago.

Yes. Right. You go somewhere for games.

This Mark, my words, this will happen tonight, tomorrow, and definitely on Sunday across the country. You’re going to get to your local watering hole and say, hold on a second here. I got 15 bets.

I have four fantasy teams. Why is Fox news on? Why is the weather channel on? Can we get the games on here, please? And the people like it’s called, they call it here. Mike Palm, Derek Stevens, active content management.

And it’s a, it’s a major failure across the country. And I guarantee it’s going to be again this weekend. Yep.

This total open 46 and a half. No, I know Dallas has a, has supposed to have a horrible defense and they were awful last year, but again, people bet what they want to see totals up to 48 and a half. Yeah.

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